Siren


 * Siren is an Autobot in the Generation One continuity family.



Siren's voice modulator goes to eleven - and stays there. Thanks to his ear-splitting upbringing in the Sonic Canyons, he operates at full volume all the time. While this may annoy his pals Nightbeat and Hosehead, it drives his partner Quig nuts. Eventually, Quig's efforts to teach Siren about the concept of an 'indoor voice' may succeed, but for now Siren doesn't really listen to him - either because he can't hear him, or because he doesn't want to.

Marvel Comics continuity
(Events from the UK-only comics are in italics.)

''Siren 'assisted' Nightbeat in investigating the death of Playback, narrowly avoid death at the hands of Thunderwing in the process. It was here that the two met Hosehead and made the partnership a trio.''

The three would later take a journey to Pz-Zazz in search of the lost Creation Matrix. They failed to find it, but DID manage to get shot in the back and captured by Thunderwing and the Mayhem Attack Squad. Siren demonstrated remarkable self-control in not talking to Thunderwing while being tortured under a mind-probe. He and his comrades eventually broke free and were instrumental in removing the threat of Thunderwing from the Ark. Some time later, he provided a needed dose of comic relief while the Robot Devil was tearing apart the body and blood of the Robot God with his bare hands.

He was eventually impaled by Bludgeon on the planet Klo. Whether the Last Autobot could resurrect Headmasters like Siren as easily as he did other fallen warriors was never confirmed.

Dreamwave comics continuity
Siren was part of Perceptor and Blaster's organized resistance to Decepticon rule during the Age of Internment. He participated in a bait-and-capture mission to disable one of the Aerospace Extermination Squadron and bring it in for study.

IDW comics continuity
Siren was stationed on the Autobot Orbital Command Hub. He was requisitioned into action on-board the Ark-17 for a mission to rescue Kup from a mysterious planet. Unfortunately, Kup had been driven mad by the planet's radiation and, believing his rescuers to be zombies, attacked them. Siren was the only one to escape alive.

Generation 1

 * Siren with Quig (Hasbro, 1988)




 * Siren transforms into a grey Mazda RX-7 with "Fire chief" decorations. The roof is hinged and can be opened to reveal an interior that his Headmaster unit, Quig, can sit inside of. His head guns can be stored on the hood while his rifle can be plugged onto the roof.


 * In robot mode, like all Headmaster toys, Siren has a flip-down panel on his chest which covers a spring-loaded mini tech spec meter which gives reads for Speed, Strength and Intelligence. The tumblers are activated when Quig (or any other Headmaster unit) is plugged into his neck socket. Quig has Siren's face plainly visible on his back because, as a smaller Headmaster toy, he lacks the flip down panel featured on larger Headmasters.


 * The same mold was redecoed Japanese Headmaster Junior Shūta Gō.

Trivia

 * Siren was originally conceived as either an upgrade or homage to Red Alert . While the robot mode was largely blue unlike Red Alert, it featured a similar head to the early Autobot. The car mode featured a near carbon copy of Red Alert's paint scheme. The Red Alert references were dropped early in the design process.


 * Not once in the original comic series is Siren shown to be a Headmaster.
 * In the comics, Nightbeat and Siren's head designs were switched by mistake, which is why Nightbeat had goggles on while Siren had eyes, in spite of it being vice versa on the toys.