Perceptor (TFA)

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The name or term Perceptor refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Perceptor (disambiguation).

Perceptor is an Autobot from the Transformers Animated continuity family.

OK, no one with a cannon on their shoulder should look this wimpy.

The Cybertron Scientist. He has two alternate modes. One is a pick-up truck alternate mode and the other is a mobile laboratory complete with a huge microscope! His nerdy friends include Wheeljack and Red Alert. To make matters worse, he sounds like Stephen Hawking. That is not right.

Fiction

Animated comic

Perceptor, along with Red Alert and Wheeljack, helped to create the first flying Autobots, Jetfire and Jetstorm. He seems to be in charge of the team. The Arrival issue 6

Animated cartoon

Voice actor: PlainTalk (English)

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...I'm sorry, what? I was trying to figure out what he was saying.

Perceptor was one of the Autobots, along with Wheeljack, who created Omega Supreme during the Great War. He explained to Ratchet what it is he had to do for Omega to actually become a living, thinking Autobot instead of just a giant paper weight. TransWarped

He warned Sentinel Prime that he must come to Cybertron immediatly to deliberate why he should be the next Magnus and that he isn't "destined" to become it. He also rode on Grandus in front of a wonderful crowd of past G1 characters. Decepticon Air

He must like deliberating, because he did just that on whether or not to destroy the most powerful weapon created by Autobot kind which was full of evil bad guys. This Is Why I Hate Machines

Toys

Animated

• Perceptor

This item is currently scheduled for release, but is not yet available.

Trivia

• His head resembles Mojo Jojo's, a villain from Powerpuff Girls.

• His abdomen distinctly resembles the Autobot insignia.

• Instead of an actor, PlainTalk is used for his voice, which results in Perceptor having a robotic monotone. Looks like Soundwave has some competition.

• According to the series' writers, Perceptor's monotone voice/speech pattern is a result of deleting his own personality and capacity for emotion to create room in his processor to store more information.
  • That would be odd, considering that he displays at least two emotions (excitement when he uploads the Decepticon code into the simulator, and surprise when he loses control of it) in the comic "Rise of Safeguard". Unless that was before he deleted his personality.
  • The events of "Rise of Safeguard" occuring before he deleted his personality would be a very valid argument, if his PlainTalk voice hadn't been heard in a flashback which took place one million years before the events of that particular comic.