Menasor (G1)

== Marvel Comics continuity ==
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Menasor and the Stunticons were created by Megatron on Earth, using a special device that allowed him to tap into and divert the [[Creation Matrix]] force while [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] was using it to bring life to the Aerialbots. ''The Stunticons were based on a series of dream images sent by the Matrix to [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]] and Optimus Prime, and monitored by the Decepticons. In these images, Menasor battled alongside [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] against the Autobot combiners, [[Defensor]] and [[Superion (G1)|Superion]]. Menasor's personality problems handicapped him in battle, however, and Superion was able to trick him into shooting down his own partner. Outnumbered, Menasor attempted to flee, but was tossed into a pit by Superion's stress fracture cannon. {{storylink|Second Generation!}}''

Back in reality, Menasor was first formed to do battle with Superion over the Autobot named [[Skids]] and his human passenger, [[Donny Finkleberg]]. The two gladiators shattered a freeway overpass (or was it an entrance ramp...?) before engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Unfortunately for the Autobots, the ever-unhelpful robot hunter named [[Circuit Breaker]] entered the fray for [[RAAT]] and zapped Superion, temporarily overloading his circuitry and allowing Menasor to administer the coup-de-grace, courtesy of his [[cyclone gun]]. Skids and Finkleberg disappeared in the melee, though, forcing the Stunticons to disconnect and begin searching for them anew. {{storylink|Heavy Traffic!}}

''Later, Menasor attacked a [[G.B. Blackrock|Blackrock]] fuel plant, once again drawing the attention of the Aerialbots. Silverbolt and his team were forced to combine into Superion in order to battle the united Stunticons. Unfortunately for Silverbolt, this meant his teammates learned about his fear of heights due to the mental bleedover. Ashamed, he caused Superion to fight back extremely savagely against Menasor, almost injuring innocent civilians in the process. {{storylink|Perchance to Dream}}''

====Marvel UK future timelines====

''In 2008, the renegade Decepticons [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] teamed up with the freelance peacekeeping agent named [[Death's Head]] to assassinate Commander [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. Cut off from the battle by a set of blast doors, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] summoned Menasor to help him break through and deal with the traitors. The super-robot eventually succeeded, but it was too late. Shockwave was dead, and the Decepticons were forced to accept Scourge and Cyclonus as their new leaders. {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}''

===Dreamwave comics continuity===

[[Image:DreamwaveCover6.jpg|thumb|left|Shoot him before his pelvic thrust is fully realized!]]

Menasor was one of several combiner robots based on the original prototype, [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. He existed as the combined form of Motormaster's Stunticons, but was effectively forced into retirement by the [[Crisis Intervention Accords]], which outlawed the use of super-robots among the factions. {{storylink|The War Within: The Dark Ages}}

At some point in Cybertron's recent history, the Stunticons were deemed psychotic and too dangerous to function in society, and as a result were placed into perpetual stasis lock inside of a prison facility.  Later, in an attempt to create a diversion while he set his final plans in motion, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] arranged for the release of the Stunticons.  They formed into Menasor and ran amok for a while, until [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] arrived and began insulting them individually.  Unable to reconcile with this, the five Stunticons began to bicker with each other over whose fault it was that they were failing, temporarily stopping Menasor and allowing Ultra Magnus to ram the combiner in the chest, forcing him to separate into his component parts and disabling the Stunticons. {{storylink|Passive Aggression}}

===IDW publishing continuity===

After [[Drag Strip]], [[Wildrider]], and [[Motormaster]] freed their captured colleague [[Breakdown]] from Skywatch Maj. Spike Witwicky, Breakdown was fixed and modified by [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]].  Swindle now had a complete combiner team, that could merge into his brand new creation, Menasor.  When the Autobots led by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] approached the group of defecting Autobots led by [[Rodimus Prime]] to arrest them, Menasor was revealed for the first time.  

Swindle announced his plan to kill all the Autobots (both Magnus's team and Rodimus Prime's defectors), and then instructed Menasor to kill Ultra Magnus first.

Menasor proved quite destructive, though mostly to his own faction's brand new starship.  Unfortunately Swindle, while a great conman and weapons specialist is apparently not a very capable cyberneuro surgeon and left each limb with its own individual mind.  For some reason, when it came down to it, the rather self conscious limbs were less than happy about being used to guard MotorMaster's torso and split in annoyance.  After such a less than stellar showing, Ultra Magnus couldn't even lock up the team as [[Hot Rod|someone]] decided to borrow his ship.

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