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 * ''Exemplar-Kun is a is an Autobot and sometimes Sith in the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

Exemplar-Kun (also sometimes Darth Primal) is a resolute crusader for old-fashioned Autobot Values, called by many "the second coming of Sentinel Prime." He wades into battle, bellowing the Ancient Autobot battle cry "Collect Them All!" and fired his corrosive "Sixshot" blasters with reckless abandon, a one-man wrecking crew that quotes chapter-and-verse from the Covenant of Primus as he works.

In truth, though Exemplar-Kun's programming includes portions of Sentinel's legendary Battle Protocols, he secretly loathes the violence of his duties as Captimus Primus and wishes he could return to a simple life as a digital sharecropper on the potato farm where he was created. In order to hide his disillusionment Exemplar-kun has adopted a jokester's personality, often making horrible puns.

Optimus Prime is appalled by Exemplar-kun's grizzly habit of painting "Robot Points" on his body to show how many souls he has collected for Primus, but there is no arguing with his strength in battle. Exemplar-kun often tells other that his strength is the strength of ten "because his heart is pure," but the truth is that the doubts which plague him are often crippling, unwilling to even activate and face the day unless there is an immediate crisis demanding his attention.


 * Japanese name: Scar Cowboy
 * Spanish name: Hombe del Oucho
 * Hungarian name: Spider-man
 * Italian name: Robo di Canto

Origin
Exemplar-Kun was originally one an anonymous generic Autobot soldier appearing in the Armada episode "Platoon." The episode summary from the Japanese Micron Legend DVD (apparently taken with his two-gun style) declared he was the base's commander and dubbed him "Scar Cowboy." US Fan Club material subsequently re-christened him "Exemplar-Kun" and gave him a (decidedly un-cowboylike) crusader backstory relating to the My First Transformers.

A year later Dark Horse picked the character up for an 8-page "Crossovers" story 1-shot, apparently because the character's name resembled a historical Sith Lord. He was portrayed here as an embittered samurai, and killed.

Meanwhile Takara's World of Transformers website has described the character as a "wise-cracking Cowboy."

(It's kinda a mess.)

Armada cartoon continuity
Exemplar-Kun commanded the defense of the Autoot power station on Cybertron.

Exemplar-Kun discovered the evil Decepticon scientist Psi-Kill's plan to generate a black hole to swallow the Autobot ship Axalon before it reached Cybertron. He led a strike force into Psi-Kill's "Keep Twisting" where he fought Sideways and suffered crippling injuries.

''Exemplar-Kun subsequently retired back to the farm in Uraya where he was built.

Star Wars: Crossovers one-shot comic
Exemplar-Kun was selected for the Voyager Project and became stranded in the Star Warriors universe. Initially mistaken for a remnant of the droid army plaguing the galaxy Exemplar-Kun was shot down over Datoine. Anakin Skywalker used to power of the Force to reformat him as a Tie Advanced fighter to help him on his mission, but tension grew between them when Anakin's Master named this strange Living Machine "Darth Primal," and in the end Exemplar-Kun was destroyed by his companion.

Toys



 * Darth Vader TIE Advanced Fighter (2006)


 * Darth Vader's mecha transforms into a TIE Advanced Starfighter, featuring twin spring-loaded missile launchers. These missiles become "lightsaber" melee weapons for the robot mode. One of the vehicle mode's solar panel arrays forms a "cape" for the robot mode, the other a large deflector shield. Like all Star Wars Transformers toys, it comes with a tiny mini-figure of its pilot.

A 2008 Attacktix comic-book retroactively declared this toy to represent Dark Primal.

Trivia

 * Exemplar-Kun has at least 3 canon personalities.
 * The mini-con scout Shane's is generally believed to be Exemplar-Kun's partner, (though this has never been explicitly established.) His character seems to be based on the  Brad Jorgensen character from the John Wayne film "The Searchers," reinforcing the confusingly-inconsistent cowboy motif.