Broadside (G1)


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

Broadside is a huge loser. He's the forgotten Autobot Triple Changer who turns into an aircraft carrier and an impossibly large "jet." Broadside also happens to be terrified of heights. And gets seasick on the water. His life must suuuuuuck.

''Italian name: Mistral

Animated continuity
Voice actor: Bill Martin (US), Masashi Ebara (Japan)

Broadside had a troubled history in the animated continuity. A large Autobot spaceship that looked exactly like Broadside's jet mode appeared in Five Faces of Darkness, but was destroyed in the episode. In the following episode, The Killing Jar, a Quintesson scientist disguised his spaceship as Broadside and beckoned the Decepticon Cyclonus to come inside. For some reason, Cyclonus complied! His first confirmed appearance was in Thief In The Night, where he appeared in aircraft carrier mode. He fell on Devastator in Carnage in C-Minor, appearing in robot mode (albeit an old prototype design). In Grimlock's New Brain and The Burden Hardest to Bear, Broadside finally appeared in his correct robot mode.

Dreamwave comics continuity
According to his DW "More Than Meets the Eye" bio Broadside was magically cured of his fear of heights and seasickness when Shockwave turned him into a triple-changer, but he still likes to complain about both anyway. (So basically in the DW-verse he's a whinner instead of a loser.)

Generation 1

 * Broadside (1986)
 * Japanese ID number: C-85

Trivia

 * Broadside has the distinction of having two animated character models, one based on a prototype toy that apparently went just short of production for some reason, and one based on the actual toy. The prototype design can be seen in the 1986 box mural as well as in Carnage in C-Minor and features a head with antennae and a red humanoid face which appears to mounted on a horizontal pivot of some kind within the section of the aircraft carrier that folds back.