Metallikato requires "Fools!" to be spoken before most sentences.
Metallikato, owing to its heavy influence on spirituality, is believed to be the most obscurely practiced and potentially inaccessible of Cybertronian martial arts. Its teachings cull from a wide variety of other martial arts, such as Circuit-Su and Crystalocution, cumulatively emphasizing a variety of attack strategies, though bladed combat is its hallmark. Metallikato has a strict code of ethics to attune its "children" to the "One True Path" of the Ultimate Warrior, a figure of religious legend.
Known users of Metallikato[]
- Generation One Decepticon Pretender Bludgeon, the first in-fiction practitioner of Metallikato and still the most well-known.
- Rollbar of the Robots in Disguise universe also knows at least one Metallikato technique.
- Unicron Trilogy Optimus Prime has been known to employ a kick derived from the art, although the full extent of the Autobot leader's knowledge of Metallikato is unknown. He was taught this technique by Landmine.
- Transformers Animated's Jazz and Prowl are versed in the Metallikato ninja arts; the latter character has mastered the "5 Servos of Doom" technique.
- Animated Jazz trained the twins Jetfire and Jetstorm in the art of Metallikato, Circuit-Su and other martial arts.
- The "Master of Metallikato" set from Revenge of the Fallen reveals that Autobot Whirl and Decepticon Bludgeon use Metallikato.
- The Decepticon Banzaitron from the Transformers is a master of the Bladed combat style.
Notes[]
- The word "Metallikato" is Finnish. It translates to "loss of metal" in English.
- Some reports state that this art is forbidden. Another Time and Place Transformers: The Ultimate Guide Of course, they're only referring to the Generation One part.
References[]
- "End of the Road!", Marvel U.S. #80
- More Than Meets The Eye profile books, p464
- Animated episode, "The Elite Guard"