Mini-Con


 * Mini-Cons are a faction/type of Transformers. They exist in both the Unicron Trilogy and in the Classics portion of the Generation 1 continuity family



Mini-Cons are a race of small Transformers capable of powerlinking with a larger Transformer and to impart extra abilities or greatly increase their strength. They share some of their history with the planet Gigantion and may have links to the cosmic origins of Transformers. In some timelines they are creations of Unicron. Their minds are very similar to those of human children.

Japanese term: Micron  ''French-Canadian/Spanish term: Minimodus

Universe: The Wreckers comics
Ramulus mentions the existence of Mini-Cons.

Animated continuity
Unicron created the Mini-Cons to be mindless tools, sent to Cybertron as an agitating element to the Transformers' civil war. The power-enhancing "smart tools" would be unleashed upon the populace, who would snap them up, bond with them, and the war would only get bloodier, as Unicron drank in the negative psychic energies from the death and destruction. Once he'd gathered the power he needed, the Mini-Cons would turn on their supposed masters, incapacitating them, and Unicron would fully awaken to devour the planet and all Transformers on it, eliminating his biggest obstacle to devouring all of existance.

But through a strange warp in space and time, three human children from the future -Rad, Carlos and Alexis- were sent to the Mini-Cons' birthing chamber on Cybertron just seconds before the small robots emerged from their pods. As the Mini-Cons had been designed to form mental bonds with other life forms, when Rad touched the Mini-Con who he knew from the future as High Wire, High Wire apparently formed his bond then, with Rad... and through the Mini-Cons' shared "soul dimension", the Linkage, sentience and free will spread throughout the Mini-Cons, forming "souls", and crippling Unicron's plans drastically.

Dreamwave comics continuity
Mini-Cons are a 3rd race of Transformer, mostly living in designated sectors to to themselves, which left the open to attack when Megatron led his Decepticons on capture raids. Mini-Cons are capable of adding their power (disproportionate to their size) to a Transformer with whom they Powerlinx. Mini-Cons are also capable of tapping an extradimensional energy source of unknown origin, but are wary of doing this, and most have inhibitors installed to prevent this from happening.

Over-Run, a Mini-Con refugee from another dimension led Cybertron's collected Mini-Cons in tapping that dimension's energies and channeling them into an attack on Unicron which left him stranded on the far fringes of space. After Unicron's defeat, Most Mini-Cons re-established their villages in the Mini-Con sector. When Unicron appeared again 10 years later, no one went to fetch the Mini-Cons to battle Unicron again, so it seems likely the Mini-Cons connection to their extradimensional power source was severed.

There is no indication that Mini-Cons are related to Unicron in Dreamwave continuity.

Toys
''This section talks about toys representing Mini-Cons in general. For toys representing specific Mini-Cons, see their individual pages.''

Attacktix

 * Mini-Con (Booster, 2006)
 * The first assortment of Transformers Attacktix figures included a "generic" Mini-Con, based on Skyboom. Mini-Con carries a launcher which fires a standard missile.