Yoketron

Yoketron is an Autobot from the Transformers Animated continuity family.



Yoketron was an old Cyber-Ninja master well learned in the arts of  Circuit-Su and Metallikato. Some of his students included, Prowl, Jazz and Lockdown, Warpath is possibly hinted to being a student as well. He is the first transformer to permanently "go offline" in the Animated Continuity.

Animated cartoon

 * Voice actor: George Takei (English)



The Cyber-Ninjas mission was to protect a room full of protoforms. The protoforms were not only the future of Cybertron, but also a last ditch effort to stop the Decepticons, if Project Omega had failed. Yoketron was in charge of this task as he trained new ninja recruits. He took a chance on Prowl, who at the time, was a reckless, self-reliant bot who didn't want to fight in the Autobot-Decepticon war. He made a deal with Prowl that if he could leave Yoketron's home before he could stop him then he was free to go. Prowl was bested by Yoketron and decided to train with him.

Prowl progressed quickly under Yoketron's tutelage and became a full-fledged Cyber-Ninja. When Prowl could not do the processor-over-matter technique, Yoketron, sent Prowl on an optics quest (a vision quest) to find himself. When Prowl returns, he finds Yoketron's home in shambles, all but one of the protoforms stolen and Yoketron mortally wounded. Despite, Prowl putting his master's spark in the remaining protoform, Yoketron went offline telling Prowl that he "...must not sacrifice piece of the future to bring back the past" and the he would understand when his time comes.

1,000,000 stellar cycles later, Prowl discovers that the bounty hunter, Lockdown, a disgraced student of Yoketron, was responsible for all of what happened that day.

Trivia

 * He had the single greatest built-in weapon of all time a long-handled vacuum cleaner.


 * Yoketron, along with his students Jazz, Prowl, Lockdown and Warpath have eyes with no pupils. Ninjas don't need pupils.


 * Seriously, He dies twice.