Scrounge (G1)


 * Scrounge is an Autobot in the Generation 1 continuity family.



Scrounge is the most awesome character ever. He transforms into a wheel.

He has a special arm. There is no other like it.

He is a lot like Bumblebee, in that he is relatively small, weak, and over-eager to prove himself to the other Autobots, he's a passable spy thanks to the fact that he has a special arm (There is no other like it) specially designed for surveillance. Unlike Bumblebee, with his eagerness to please and general excitability he has a habit of imagining any little bit of info he stumbles across into a huge and vital revelation that will change the course of the war.

The Autobots have heard him cry turbofox a few too many times, and so treat any info he uncovers with a good helping of doubt. Even his friend and partner Blaster tends to treat him as a useless, tag-a-long loser.

Marvel Comics continuity


When Scrounge actually turned up a lead on really important information (the location of the Ark ship that was lost millions of years ago with most of Cybertron's finest aboard), no one paid attention. And so in another bid to prove himself by sneaking into Darkmount and spying on the Decepticons, he wound up captured, disarmed (literally), and thrown without a second thought into the smelting pool.

Blaster belatedly came to save his little buddy, who was tragically little more than a melting torso by that point. Scrounge died a heroic death getting the Autobots the info, making them realize they misjudged him, and leaving Blaster with a whole lot of angst, anger, and guilt to work through by killing as many Decepticons as he's able and generally being a hardass.

IDW comics continuity
Before the war began, Scrounge could be found scrounging for trash in the deepest, darkest slums of Cybertron. He still has a special arm. How many others are like it is unknown at this point.

Trivia

 * Scrounge has a "special arm" with two fingers that pick up sound and video. He claims there is no other like it.  However, in the Classics story Games of Deception, Elita One had a similar setup.  Should have registered that patent, Scrounge.