- The Scavengers are a ragtag bunch from the 2005 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
- Imagine if you will, the cream of the Decepticon crop. The Scavengers are not those Decepticons—according to Tarn's analysis of Banzai-Tron's files, they are in fact the six worst Decepticons in history.
Still, they've survived when countless others have died. That's got to count for something.
The individual members of the team are:
- Krok, the leader and obsessive-compulsive 'con searching for his squad;
- Crankcase, who's missing a big chunk of his head;
- Flywheels, who's found Primus and can't tell a lie without transforming;
- Misfire, who got his name from an incident involving a "misunderstanding and a dozen dead Decepticons";
- Spinister, an idiot savant with an itchy trigger finger;
- and Fulcrum, a convicted coward.
After a series of wacky adventures, Nickel, former medic for the Decepticon Justice Division, winds up taking the deceased Flywheels' spot (being assured by Krok that it's "demotion-proof").
They travel the galaxy in the Weak Anthropic Principle and have currently taken the mentally damaged Autobot powerhouse Grimlock into their care... for totally altruistic and not even remotely self-serving reasons. Really.