Quake (Transformers)
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| Transformers character | |
 Quake Box Art |
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| Quake | |
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| Affiliation | Decepticon  |
| Sub-Group | Double Targetmasters Ultracons |
| Function | Ground Assault |
| Partner | Tiptop and Heater |
| Motto | "Nothing lasts forever... so why not destroy it now?" |
| Alternate Modes | Earth-Style Tank Cybertronian Tank |
| Series | Transformers: Generation 1 Beast Machines |
Quake is the name of a fictional character from the Transformers universes.
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[edit] Transformers: Generation 1
The first Quake figure was a Decepticon Targetmaster with two transforming weapon-partners: Tiptop and Heater. He transformed into a tank.
Quake's original Marvel "Universe" bio painted him as little more than a raging berserker, barely controllable by even his fellow Decepticons. While Quake's lust for carange and battle is an asset in a fight, even Megatron wonders if its a good idea to give Quake a gun. Quake's only weakness is his poorly designed cooling system, which is prone to shut down during battle, leaving Quake's innards to melt.
His Nebulan partners are little better. Tiptop is an embittered former strongman. Fired by his employers after injuring several other performers he joined up with the Decepticons to get revenge. Heater was a con-man and thief who joined up with the Decepticons to escape the wrath of Nebulos' law enforcement officials.
[edit] Animated series
Although the animated series ended in the U.S. before Quake was released, he appeared in animated form along with the only Double Targetmasters in commercials for the toys.
While an animated Transformers series continued in Japan at the time, the Double Targetmasters were not released in Japan, and therefore didn't make it to television there.
[edit] Marvel Comics
Quake appeared as one of Thunderwing's Decepticons during the "Matrix Quest". He wasn't referred as a Targetmaster. Quake is noted for his durability, having taken what should have been fatal damage from Unicron during the Chaos-Bringer's attack on Cybertron and lived to tell the tale. Optimus Prime ordered him to fire on Unicron's foot in order to reduce his mobility. Quake did so - and was stomped flat by the irate Chaos-Bringer. He survived and turned up in the last issue of the G1 comic as part of a hunter-killer group who ambush Grimlock's troops.
Quake popped up again, initially as one of Bludgeon's crew manning the Decepticon Warworld in Marvel's Generation 2 series. He was one of the Decepticons who attacked Earth, noting that Bludgeon "knew how to keep the troops smilin'" after ordering them to destroy everything in sight. He was either seriously injured or killed attempting to repel a boarding party of second generation Decepticons under the command of Jhiaxus.
[edit] Dreamwave Productions
Quake and his partners did not appear in Dreamwave comics fiction but did receive a full page biography in their More Than Meets The Eye series. According to the book's writers, Quake was a member of Ratbat's Ultracons.
[edit] 3H Comics
In the Botcon "Wreckers" comics, a Vehicon called Quake appears as a repaint of Tankor. He has the G1 Quake's colors and is mentioned by Megatron as having worked along his "namesake", revealing him as the original Quake rebuilt as a Vehicon.
His Spark was taken by Megatron alongside that of Blastcharge and implanted in a Vehicon body. They were then sent to take care of Primal Prime's group of Wreckers. Their first encounter in the base of Arcee was inconclusive, although Blastcharge managed to kill the Maximal Fractyl. The two then tracked the Wreckers to the crashed Autobot shuttle that had brought Optimus Primal's group back to Cybertron, with Quake leading the Vehicon attack. However the Wreckers escaped the onslaught in the shuttle, with Quake being killed by the Vok enhanced Tigatron.
Plans to release the recolored Tankor toy as Quake were never realized.
