Devastator (ROTF)


 * Devastator is a Decepticon from the live-action movie continuity family.



Devastator is a giant gestalt Decepticon warrior formed by the Constructicons.

His components are:
 * Scavenger (torso)
 * Overload (lower waist)
 * Rampage (left leg)
 * Long Haul (right leg)
 * Scrapper (right arm)
 * Hightower (left arm)
 * Mixmaster (head)


 * Hungarian name: Pusztító ("Destroyer")

Revenge of the Fallen film

 * Voice Actor: Frank Welker (English), Yasuyoshi Hara (Japanese)



In the Egyptian desert, the Constructicons combine into a giant robot from their alt-modes into Devastator. Devastator starts up his turbines and sucks up sand and Mudflap, who grips onto the edge of his mouth. He battles Leo, Simmons, Skids and Mudflap and is mostly victorious. He sucks up Mudflap, but Mudflap escapes, blowing up one of his optics. He nearly sucks up Simmons, but Leo saves him. He then makes his way to one of the pyramids and uses his turbines to suck the top off, revealing the Sun Harvester. Finally, Devastator is destroyed by a rail gun fired from a nearby destroyer on Simmons' orders. Oh, and he has two wrecking balls between his thighs, one of which bears a crane's hook.

Toys

 * Constructicon Devastator (Supreme, 2009)




 * Devastator's Supreme Toy is a Giftset that contains the six construction vehicles that make up his body. Unfortunately, the separate parts only have a body part mode and vehicle mode, no robot mode due to how hard it would be to engineer it and still be movie-accurate. If you want the Constructicons that have robot modes, you'll have to buy them separately. Clever.


 * Interestingly, Supreme class Devastator does not include Overload. This was mostly because adding another vehicle would drive up Devastator's already high price tag.

This Devastator toy is a 34.99 USD mockery of Devastator. He has an altmode, which is made just by turning him onto his stomach. It is totally non-show-accurate, with this green circle thingy on his chest.
 * Constructicon Devastator (Mega Power Bots, 2009)
 * Transformers RPM: Devastator Showdown (Playset, 2009)


 * Constructicon Devastator (Legends, 2009)


 * These are smallest version of Constructicons, with limited articulation and simplified transformation. Since they don't have to be as accurate to the film as bigger toys, they have vehicle modes, robot modes and can combine into Devastator.

The robots included are Overload, Scrapper, Scavenger hybrid, Mixmaster, Long Haul, Rampage and Hightower.

Merchandise

 * Devastator (Robot Heroes, 2009)

This version of Devastator is a bit bigger than typical Robot Heroes figure (standing five inches, including raised hand), but has the same articulation. Surprisingly, his left leg is coloured reddish-orange, in contrast to Supreme Devastator's yellow leg.

Trivia

 * According to his box bio, Devastator is named after terrible wind from Cybertron's equator, which can never occur on Earth. Cool.


 * The name "Devastator" was mistakenly given to Brawl in the first film. Michael Bay reported that he liked this name better, as it sounded more dangerous than Brawl.


 * The humanoid modes of the seven vehicles that make up Devastator are not seen in the film, extremely similar to the Supreme version of the toy.


 * For a long time, many people thought that Demolishor was, in fact, a part of Devastator. This was later proved wrong, as some information from novelization leaked to the web. In fact, there are two Decepticons with Terex alt-mode: Demolishor (mostly white) was killed by Autobots, while Scavenger (mostly red) forms Devastator's torso.


 * It is interesting that this may be the first Transformer to have weight problems. Devastator is, in fact, so heavy he can't move on two legs, but is forced to crawl on all fours. So far no one had such a problems, as we could see in the film The Transformers: The Movie, when Unicron was standing on top of Cybertron, instead of sinking into the... um... ground or something).
 * If the Constructicon's weight as much as their vehicles mode, Devastator would weight some 1650 tones, excluding "handozer" (see below).


 * His suction vortex resembles, somewhat, the Nemesis' tractor beam, used by Megatron against the Ark in the BW episode Nemesis Part 2. It has similar gears and blades inside, along with light behind them, though Devastator's are orange, while Nemesis' - green. However, in early CGI concepts (top of the page) Devastator was shown with green light in his mouth, so everything fits.


 * Shawn Kelly, the lead animator, stated that Devastator caused a computer to overheat and its insides to melt. Awesome.


 * It is uncertain if Devastator was actually killed. He was shot by railgun, but being composed from several robots, he might have survived, although some Constructicons might have been killed (Scavenger and Overload seem obvious), yet they can be replaced by other ones. In fact, during the close up of his face after Devastator was blown off the pyramid, his remaining optics doesn't blink out like other Transformers does upon dying. This is either a deliberate indication that he's not dead or a mistake left out by the production team, the latter being more likely.
 * Altough as we saw during Megatron's death it takes several moments for eyes to blink out, so maybe they just didn't went off onscreen, as the sceen was cut to Simmons on pyramid.


 * It seems that there are two front-loaders that combine to form Devastator. Scrapper forms Devastator's right arm, while another unnamed loader forms the left wrist and hand (combining with Hightower). The "hand loader" can be seen transforming to the left of Long Haul, then attaching to Hightower. This would mean that Devastator has eight combining robots, instead of seven (or six if going by the Supreme class). Also worth noting is that either Scrapper is significantly larger than the "hand loader", or the unnamed front-load shovel is very small (a size of Ironhide or slightly bigger).


 * Devastator has only one line, shouting his own name. Unfortunately the composition of the shot makes it look like Megatron is proclaiming his soldier's name.


 * Devastator is alarmingly endowed.


 * Devastator's only weapons were shown to be grappling hooks, which he used to climb the pyramid and the vortex generator in his mouth. But considering this massive grinder can't even destroy Mudflap, who's comparatively small for a Transformer, this makes Devastator surprisingly ill-equipped(just like the other decepticons that got K-Oed less that 20 sec). This combined with the fact that he's too heavy to make decent use of his brawn, it leaves one with the impression that he's rather useless in battle.  He is however, more heavily armed in the video game adatpation of the movie, wielding several missile launchers placed over his body, so maybe he does have some weapons, but just didn't use them on-screen.