Defensor (G1)


 * Defensor is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.



The combined form of the five Protectobots Defensor exists specifically to safeguard human life. In many ways he feels about the human race the way a parent would their children and he would give his life away in an instant rather than let one human come to harm. Defensor is emotionally attached to humans on a level that sometimes worries his fellow Autobots. He identifies with them the same way a sheep dog would with its flock or a puppy with its human owners. As far as Defensor is concerned the humans are his "kind." Sadly the titanic robot giant's attempts at personal interaction and friendly exchanges with humans tend to fail. We humans tend to be more wary and frightened of his alien nature and great size than Defensor can understand.

Defensor's most notable ability is a powerful force field he can create within 50ft of his person, but it is very fuel consumptive and he cannot maintain it for long.


 * Japanese name: Guardian
 * Italian name: Guardian (Headmasters dub only)

Marvel Comics continuity
Optimus Prime and Megatron met at a fuel research station with the Protectobots and the Combaticons, planning to brawl over it. When Ethan Zachary suggested they uploaded themselves to the computer to battle over it safely, both sides agreed.

In the virtual world, after each individual Protectobot had taken care of a Combaticon, they combined to fight Megatron, leaving Optimus Prime safely off to the side. Defensor burned the bridge he and Megatron were standing on, letting them both 'die' in the virtual world.

Animated continuity

 * Voice actor: Chris Latta (US), Kenyu Horiuchi (Japan)

Defensor once reduced Bruticus to scrap with a single shot, dryly noting afterwards that "there's junk all over the street."

When First Aid was unable to prevent the theft of Metroplex's transformation cog, he left the Protectobots, feeling that he was useless and a liability to the rest of the Autobots. Unfortunately, this left the remaining Protectobots with the unenviable task of resuming their duties as Defensor with only one arm.

Toys

 * Defensor (1986)
 * Japanese ID number: C-76




 * Defensor is formed out of the five individual Protectobots, with Hot Spot serving as the central torso component. Unusually for Scramble City-style combiners, Defensor's head is not a separate piece, but hidden inside his fire truck ladder assembly, like Inferno. He is armed with Hot Spot's twin laser rifles. Though any of the smaller Protectobots can serve as any limb, the "correct" configuration has Blades and First Aid as arms, and Groove and Streetwise as legs.


 * Defensor's arms are very commonly mis-transformed, even in official artwork such as the box art above (in which Streetwise and First Aid have also reversed positions). The instructions (and the cartoon model) show the nose of Blades' helicopter form, and the front panel of First Aid's ambulance mode, unfolded to hang off of Defensor's shoulders (as shown at right.)  But almost as frequently, both these components are shown folded away.  First Aid's legs are often not unfolded properly as well, giving Defensor a shorter arm than he would otherwise have.


 * Defensor was available as the individual Protectobots sold separately, or as a giftset.


 * This mold was later redecoed into Guard City.