Runamuck (G1)

This article is about the Generation 1 Decepticon Runamuck. For Runamuck (Unicron Trilogy), see Runamuck(UT).

Runamuck is a Decepticon in the Generation 1 continuity.

Runamuck likes to make things explode, heh heh, and loves a good wreck. He has been known to wander around junkyards, fascinated by the carnage of twisted metal and shattered glass. This only makes him want to blow more enemies into heaps of slag. Heh heh, slag. He does not consider it beneath him to indulge in petty acts of vandalism, and thinks a good insult sprayed on a clean wall is a Decepticon victory.

As a Battlecharger, he's well-equipped to do it. He'll speed up crowded highways at his 180 MPH top speed (at which he can go up to 600 miles), smashing everything in his path, without regard to his fenders. Then he transforms into robot mode (in less than half a second) to use his prized tool of wholesale destruction - a friction rifle.

This terrible weapon does little damage, but it leaves a field around his target that enhances molecular heating from friction. With the slightest move, a catastrophic buildup of thermal energy bursts his foe asunder in a shower of burned metal fragments and smoke. The field wears off in five minutes, if the target is able to stay absolutely still for that long. Usually they just end up as a big mess. Runamuck loves a big mess, heh heh.

Runamuck is also equipped with short-range rocket boosters to help him jump over obstacles, but strangely enough, he is terrified of heights.

French-Canadian name: Furioso

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 Comics

Runamuck is part of a Decepticon insurgent cell that has operated covertly on Earth for at least four years, working to destabilise Earth's governing organisations and create global anarchy.

Toys

Generation 1

Runamuck's toy, which was retooled into Runabout, is an autotransformer similar to the later Throttlebots.

External Links

• http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Runamuck/runamuck.htm Runamuck at TFU.info]