Frenzy (Movie)


 * Frenzy is a Decepticon from the Movie continuity family.



Frenzy is small, sneaky and... likes to keep up on current events. He's a hyper-articulated, hyper-active, sentient evil alien shape-changing robot from outer space that turns into various small electronics devices, depending on the situation at hand, and has a penchant for pantsing people. But he doesn't shrink (because that would be unrealistic), so he's quite a good contortionist. He's not that tough without his head, and he loses it frequently. In short, he's a creepy little abomination, with an irritating habit of reading over people's shoulders and jibbering at lightning speeds in his own tongue (not that we could understand him if he was talking slowly, but you get the idea).

He is neither red nor blue. Despite being a Decepticon, his optics are blue, rather than being red.


 * Working names: Boombot (first), Soundwave (second), Soundbyte (third)

Ghosts of Yesterday novel
Frenzy is the smallest member of the Nemesis' crew. He likes to sneak-attack from behind Autobots while they're concentrating on his larger teammates. He doesn't fare well in this particular battle but is presumably repaired at some future point.

Transformers the Game
When Barricade arrived in Tranquility, Starscream informed him that Frenzy had information they needed. When Barricade attempted to link up with him, he discovered that Frenzy had been captured by some armed humans. Frenzy was held captive in a small SUV (which seemed virtually indestructible) but Barricade eventually rescued him. Barricade later relayed to Starscream that Frenzy had discovered a lead on the All Spark...an artifact in the possession of a human named Sam.

Later, he served as Starscream's intelligence liason when the Decepticon's Acting-Commander was searching for Brawl and Bonecrusher, jabbering away in his own language.

Transformers (2007) film

 * Voice actor: Reno Wilson (English)



A skittering little spaz, Frenzy smuggled himself aboard Air Force One disguised as a CD player boom-box. He made his way to the lower decks, carried by an unsuspecting flight attendant who was on a vital mission to the storage area to "rustle up some Ding-Dongs" for the President. Once left alone, he got into the server area, and began to simultaneously hack the national database and upload a virus, re-attempting the hack that Blackout had tried at the SOCCENT Base in Qatar earlier. This attempt was discovered by government agent Maggie Madsen, and the defense network was shut down in order to halt the hack. Frenzy was pissed, but he got the virus uploaded, which would later shut down global communications, and got a little bit of info on what he was looking for.

He was discovered by Secret Service agents, who he quickly dispatched with his machineguns and disc-blade launcher before hiding away in boombox form again. When Air Force One landed, he escaped through the landing gear, slipping into the awaiting Decepticon Barricade. After flipping the military the bird and complaining about how the "insects" shot at him, he informed Barricade of his new discovery: a man called Archibald Witwicky who had suspiciously displayed knowledge of Cybetronian writing. After a quick web-search using Barricade's on-board police department laptop, Frenzy determined their next target... a human called "LadiesMan217".

When Barricade was forced to go to robot mode in order to handle Bumblebee, he released Frenzy to chase the humans the Autobot was guarding. Frenzy managed to tackle his primary target and even managed to get his pants off him (kinky!), but the other human attacked him with a power saw she'd found and cut his head off. To add insult to injury, Sam punted the Decepticon's head away. It was actually to Frenzy's benefit, however, as he landed not too far from Mikaela's purse, which had spilled when Bumblebee had dumped them out earlier. Still alive and ambulatory despite losing most of his body mass, he speared and scanned Mikaela's cell phone, changed his form to match it, and hid out in her purse.

Frenzy stayed hidden, watching the activities of the humans and Autobots until they were taken to Hoover Dam. Frenzy slipped away then... and fell off the side of the dam, landing painfully at the bottom. This did allow him to sneak into the secret Sector Seven operations hangar deep within the dam, where both the AllSpark and Megatron had been kept for nearly a hundred years. He tapped into the AllSpark's power to restore his body, and sent a signal to Starscream, telling him that their prizes were here. As Starscream mobilized all the Decepticons on Earth, Frenzy went and killed a few technicians, letting him screw with the cryo-stasis machines that kept Megatron entombed, while Starscream destroyed the powerlines outside, allowing the Decepticon leader to escape.

When Agent Simmons, Secretary Keller, Maggie and Glen Whitmann ran to an ancient storage room to try and get a Morse Code message to the Air Force via shortwave radio, Frenzy followed. While Glen jury-rigged outdated machinery to send the messages, Simmons and Keller tried to shoot the diminutive Decepticon. Frenzy made it into the room via the air ducts, and sent a series of flying blades at the humans. One, however, ricocheted madly across the room, and took out most of Frenzy's head. With a muttered "oh shit", Frenzy collapsed.


 * (Note: How fatal this actually was to Frenzy is up for debate. Though presumably his remains would have been gathered up by remaining Sector Seven personnel and disposed of with the other defeated Decepticons, he is not seen again after the storeroom attack. Creepy little bastard could still be out there with the other un-accounted-for Decepticons Barricade and Scorponok, skittering away like mad.)

Transformers (2007)

 * Barricade (Deluxe, 2007)
 * Japanese ID number: MD-02


 * Included with the larger Deluxe Barricade is a very out-of-scale Frenzy (putting him somewhere around 7 feet tall) that folds up to become the larger 'Con's grill in both vehicle and robot mode. It is barely poseable and falls over as easily as Generation 1 Ravage.


 * Bumblebee vs. Barricade: First Encounter (Deluxe Multi-pack, 2007)


 * This Wal-Mart exclusive deluxe package comes with an unaltered Bumblebee, Barricade and, by extension, Frenzy.


 * Recon Barricade (Deluxe, 2007)


 * Frenzy is blue! Coming with the Barricade redeco, Frenzy similarly gets a new color scheme.


 * Disc Launch Decepticon Frenzy (Fast Action Battler, 2007)


 * Like most of the Fast Action Battler toys, this one is fairly inaccurate to the CGI model due to actually having to turn into something (which the CGI model was not designed to do). It does, however, feature a launching disk that ejects from its chest as a pressure-launched projectile. This version of Frenzy transforms into a two-speaker stereo CD/cassette/radio.


 * Decepticon Frenzy (Robot Replicas, 2007)


 * The Robot Replicas non-Transforming action figure of Frenzy is considerably closer to the movie's CGI model. It features a second set of arms with his machine gun extensions that can be swapped with his normal ones.

Merchandise

 * Autobot Jazz vs Decepticon Frenzy (Robot Heroes, 2007)


 * Released with Robot Heroes Jazz, this version of Frenzy is the most adorably goofy razor blade death robot you ever saw.


 * (Note: As of this update, this item has not been released.)

Trivia

 * Frenzy is the only Decepticon in the movie whose whole robot mode was created as a real physical puppet for filming, used in certain shots aboard Air Force One. (They did make the lower half of frozen Megatron as a set piece, plus Scorponok's head and tail, but that's not quite the same thing.) He and Bumblebee are the only Transformers in the film to have full-body robot mode props.




 * According to his profile card, Frenzy weighs 110 kilograms (242.5 pounds). How much of that mass would be discernible to a human lifting his stereo mode is unclear.


 * Frenzy transforms into a real on-the-market GPX portable stereo... in the movie, at least. You know you want one.  (His Fast Action Battler toy does not, and he's depicted in some storybooks as a more boxy made-up model.)


 * Frenzy (or at very least, a robot who looked just liked him) was most certainly NOT in a cage in the back of the Sector Seven Mobile Command Unit. You were seeing things.  It was swamp gas.  No wait, a weather balloon.  But DEFINITELY not a robot alien from outer space.


 * To someone who is an old-time G1 fan but has never seen the movie toyline before, Frenzy could easily be mistaken for the great Soundwave (G1), seeing as his name was never stated in the film.


 * The hardcover Movie Guide written by Simon Furman describes Frenzy as "quiet" and "not very talkative". Wonder what his definition of chatty is?


 * Frenzy is the only Decepticon with blue optic lighting, though all of his toys paint them red.


 * Frenzy along with his counterpart Barricade are the only Decepticons that if you were walking down A street would ACTUALLY blend into a civillian Background