Afterburner (G1)


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

Afterburner hates authority, hates being given orders, and is generally a seething cauldron of anger. Even innocuous remarks from teammates can send him into a furious rampage. In battle he’s ruthless and relentless, giving him the greatest outlet for his rage. Somehow, he can get his temper under control long enough to form the giant Computron with his fellow Technobots, and it doesn’t affect the combiner’s mental processes.

''French-Canadian name: Post-Pyro Italian name: Radarbot 

Animated continuity
The Technobots were created by Grimlock as a countermeasure to the new Decepticon Terrorcons, using the heightened intelligence he (Grimlock) had gained through an accident. Once their bodies had been built, Grimlock transferred his powerful intellect into them, returning to his original intelligence settings.

Later stationed in Autobot City on Earth, the Technobots helped EDC captain Marissa Fairborne track down a Quintesson base within the solar system, with the help (and occasional hindrance) of the smuggler Dirk Manus.

The Technobots were present for the attack on Autobot City where the Decepticons stole the key to the plasma energy chamber.

Marvel Comics continuity
Afterburner was one of the Autobots who left Cyberton aboard the Steelhaven in order to start a new life away from war (maybe he was feeling sick that day). But the Decepticons followed them to their new home on Nebulos. Afterburner and the other Technobots repelled a Terrorcon attack on the resort city Splendora before all of the Transformers left Nebulos.

When Starscream took control of the powers of the Underbase, Afterburner was part of the joint Autobot/Decepticon force that challenged him in the city of Beunos Aires, and one of Starscream’s many, many victims.

Headmasters manga
The Technobots, created with the help of the human scientist Dalton, faced off against the Terrorcon Abominus, but it was a trap set by Galvatron. Forcing Abominus to split into his components, the individual Terrorcons spat a mind-controlling substance at Computron. Before Galvatron could get far with his new warrior, Spike Witwicky came to the Technobot’s rescue in an exo-suit, firing a beam into Computron’s eyes that removed the mind-controlling effect.

Generation 1

 * Afterburner (Small Technobot, 1987)
 * Japanese ID number: C-'


 * Afterburner transforms into an orange and white Cybertronic motorcycle, with add-on (non-firing) missile launcher and cannon accessories. He combines with Lightspeed, Nosecone, Scattershot and Strafe to form the giant robot Computron. As with most of the Generation 1 team combiners, he uses the “Scramble City” style of combination, enabling him to form the arm or leg of any combiner combination. He as available both separately and in a gift set with the other four Technobots