Terrorcon (Prime)
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Born from dead Transformers infused with Dark Energon, the Terrorcons are Megatron's greatest asset—an undead army under his thrall. Each is powerful and relentless in its own right; en masse, their persistence and Dark Energon they radiate can sap the strength of their Autobot prey until they can pull it down and tear it apart. Thankfully, they are not invulnerable. Energy blasts of sufficient force can deter them, though the best method is to use bladed weapons to slice them to pieces—the smaller the better—as the Dark Energon charge cannot sustain itself within the smaller, disparate components. Simply slicing them in half doesn't seem to be sufficient, though the method of irradiation may be a factor: The one case known to be prodigiously active despite total bisection was the product of a direct implantation of crystallized Dark Energon; all others to date have been created by absorbing energies emitted over a wide area by a shattered crystal. Unlike other Cybertronians, Terrorcons possess a unique anti-spark that can even survive the destruction of their physical body.
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Fiction
Prime cartoon
- Voice actor: Frank Welker (English)
After Cliffjumper was killed after a battle against the Vehicons, his body was saved by Starscream for use in experiments. When Megatron returned, he wished to test the then-theoretical property of Dark Energon to revive the dead. It worked, to an extent. Cliffjumper was reborn as a screaming beast, and he promptly destroyed two Vehicons before leaping at Megatron. Megatron commented that the creature before him was no longer an Autobot and sliced the Terrorcon Cliffjumper in half with his claw. The half with the head remained alive, and it attacked Arcee when she tried to rescue it. Darkness Rising, Part 2
Megatron realized the potential for brutal, undead warriors from the encounter with Cliffjumper and decided to use the Dark Energon more extensively. When Optimus Prime realized that the substance they were dealing with was Dark Energon, he and Ratchet put two and two together and realized Megatron was up to something, that something being raising the dead. Eons ago, there had been a war on Earth after the smuggling of Energon to the planet. Since Cybertronian bodies do not decompose, there were some still buried in the ground. Megatron appeared to Optimus Prime and Ratchet in a large canyon and threw a chunk of Dark Energon into the ground, which promptly began to glow bright purple, as did Megatron himself. The ground opened up, and undead robots crawled out from the cracks, brandishing the same deadly weapons they'd carried in the previous war. Darkness Rising, Part 3 Despite being outnumbered, Optimus and Ratchet were able to dispose of the Terrorcon horde after a great deal of time but, only to be informed by Megatron that this was merely the prelude to his main event. That event, they soon discovered, was raising the countless dead on Cybertron itself. Darkness Rising, Part 4
Unfortunately for the Autobots, Megatron was already a step ahead of them in implementing his plan, since he already had a working space bridge and a ship to get to it. The Autobots used their GroundBridge to reach the space bridge, but failed to stop Megatron from throwing his supply of Dark Energon through, raising the entire deceased population of Cybertron. Before the Terrorcons could pass through the bridge, the Autobots managed to reverse the power flow, causing the bridge to explode, taking the zombies and Megatron with it. Darkness Rising, Part 5 Megatron inside Bumblebee's body would however return to that same site, passing over deceased Terrorcons to retrieve the Dark Energon shard used to create them to revive himself. Out of His Head
Starscream later used a shard to attempt to revive the slain Skyquake. While he successfully raised the mighty Decepticon, due to a series of unexpected events the revenant Skyquake was left trapped in an alternate dimension. Shadowzone Megatron would find out about Skyquake's Terrorcon transformation from Soundwave and tried to terminate Starscream in a mine for it. Rock Bottom Skyquake's brother Dreadwing would also find out about Skyquake's Terrorcon transformation and attempt to kill Starscream for it. Regeneration
The addition of Dark Energon to Knock Out's Synthetic Energon formula turned Cylas into a new form of Terrorcon which craved energon. His bite passed on the infection, causing a brief plague in the Decepticon Vehicons, the only way of destroying them was a shot to the spark. Starscream and Knock Out attempted to handle the plague themselves but Megatron would soon find out. The plague was quelled by the Decepticons but at the cost of over half the Vehicons being destroyed. Airachnid, however, was freed from her stasis lock imprisonment and infected by Cylas before she killed him but she was space bridged to Cybertron's moons. Airachnid presumably spread the plague to the Insecticons she fed upon. Thirst
Aiming to destroy Primus, Unicron raised an army of Terrorcons from the many remains at a Predacon burial ground. The horde marched to the Well of All Sparks soon facing the Autobots in the Nemesis and the Predacons Predaking, Skylynx, and Darksteel. The Terrorcon horde headed into the Well, almost reaching the core before Unicron's anti-spark was trapped and the Terrorcons all disintegrated. Predacons Rising
Games
Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense
Whenever the Autobots failed to prevent Vehicons from entering a Dark Energon mine, they would emerge from the mine as Terrorcons, and were much more difficult to vanquish before they ultimately escaped the battlefield. Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense
Vector Sigma Bot Builder
Under unknown circumstances, the process of creating a bot can be corrupted by Dark Energon resulting in a Terrorcon that must be destroyed. Vector Sigma Bot Builder
Transformers Universe
Packs of Terrorcons sometimes showed up to menace both Autobots and Decepticons in High Grand and Central City, sometimes ambushing squads of Vehicons or Autotroopers. They were often accompanied by bulky Gladiators and the very powerful Reckoners. After killing them, their anti-sparks could be collected for further research.
On October the 10th 2014, several artworks were available to download on the official site.[1] One of them included what appears to be a Terrorcon combiner.
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
Optimus ordered a lot of Autobot Soldiers to make a stand, and to keep the Decepticons away from the Dark Spark. After that, most of the Autobot army tried to stop Shockwave from taking the Dark Spark to Kolkular. Things went wrong, as Shockwave, along with the Combaticons, not only murdered a lot of Autobots but also took Cliffjumper as a prisoner. After that, Optimus, along with Jazz, infiltrated Kolkular to retrieve the Dark Spark and rescue Cliffjumper. When Cliffjumper was rescued, Optimus ordered Jazz to leave with Cliffjumper before going to face Megatron himself. Once Optimus reached the Dark Spark's room, he noticed that were a lot of dead Autobot soldiers. To his horror, Megatron revived them with the Dark Spark's power and Dark Energon, turning them into zombies loyal to him. Megatron, now using the Dark Spark to increase his power, joined his new troops in their fight against Optimus. Whenever Megatron begins to recharge the Dark Spark, Optimus starts destroying the charging towers. Optimus is also forced to destroy the undead Autobot soldiers. In a last ditch effort, Optimus and Megatron begin to unleash the power of the Matrix of Leadership and the Dark Spark, respectively. Eventually, the power of the Matrix overpowers the Dark Spark, causing it to eject itself out of Megatron and launch itself into space. Rise of the Dark Spark (console)
Toys
Prime
- This version of the undead Dark Energon infused Cliffjumper is available only in the Japanese Prime toyline, and was released in the second assortment. "Terrorcon" Cliffjumper is a translucent-purple and opaque-brown redeco and retooling of the "First Edition" Terrorcon Cliffjumper mold, with several added Mini-Con mounting points on his vehicle mode trunk and hood. He features flip-out triple-barreled blasters in each of his arms that can be swung out to replace his hands. He does have wrist articulation, but the plastic panels on the outer sides of his arms tend to get in the way, meaning his wrists can only easily rotate up to 90 degrees.
- As with the other toys in the Japanese Prime line, much of the toy is unpainted, and relies on decals to add color detail, including the windscreens, with a pair of unused Decepticon insignia stickers also being included. He comes with his Arms Micron partner, Jida.
- Early stock photography showed Terrorcon Cliffjumper as being primarily opaque blue-purple plastic.
- Rust In Peace Terrorcon Cliffjumper (Deluxe, 2012)
- Accessories: Dark Energon shard, "embedded" Dark Energon shard
- A San Diego Comic-Con 2012 exclusive, "Rust In Peace" Terrorcon Cliffjumper is a much more extensively-decoed and premium-packaged version of the "Terrorcon Cliffjumper" retool of the "First Edition" Cliffjumper mold, which was originally canceled worldwide, but was eventually released as an Asian market and Toys"R"Us exclusive. Whew! His paint operations have been expanded from the original retail plans to give him more battle damage deco. He comes with two Dark Energon accessories; a long shard of the stuff, and a shorter, more rubbery one ending in an "energy splash" that can grasp around the edges of his chest to represent, well, him being stabbed with Dark Energon to bring him back to "life."
- He comes in a special case shaped like Cliffjumper's zombified head, which itself comes inside a box with Cliffjumper's chest printed on the front. Gruesome!
- Terrorcon Bumblebee (Deluxe, 2012-08-10)
- Meant to represent Bumblebee turned into a vicious monster after being infused with Dark Energon, "Terrorcon Bumblebee" is the Arms Micron Bee molding done in black, gray, and clear-purple. Rather than his nominal Arms Micron partner, B.B., he instead comes with Terrorcon Zori, a clear-purple version of Soundwave's Micron partner. This set was available as an Ion stores exclusive in Japan.
- Decepticon Set (EZ Collection 6-pack, 2012-11-24)
- ID number: EZ-SP2
- Accessories: Battle blade
- Exclusive to the TakaraTomy series, Terrorcon Cliffjumper is a translucent-purple redeco of his Cyberverse toy. He was only available in a TakaraTomy six-pack with Megatron, the Vehicon, Breakdown, Starscream, and Knock Out.
First Edition
That you got cold feet!
- Terrorcon Cliffjumper (Deluxe, 2012)
- ID number: 005
- Accessories: Stand
- Part of the second wave of Prime: First Edition toys, Terrorcon Cliffjumper is a redeco and retooling of First Edition Cliffjumper, with purple translucent parts, a new, bashed-up head, and "Dark Energon" battle-damage paint operations.
- His stock photography incorrectly depicts him with silver-painted wheel rims.
- The second wave of First Edition toys was initially only released in the Asian market in mid-2012. Terrorcon Cliffjumper was noticeably absent in this particular release, and was believed to be canceled. (TakaraTomy would then do their own drastically different interpretation of the toy, see above.) In late 2012, Wave 2 was finally released in its entirety in Hasbro's Asian markets, and Toys"R"Us picked up these toys, along with most of the First Edition line, as part of a huge block of US market exclusives for the holiday season.
Notes
- The term Terrorcon is first used in "Loose Cannons" when Arcee is describing Skyquake's revival.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Terrorcon (テラーコン Terākon)
- Mandarin: Xíng Shī Zǒu Ròu (China, 行尸走肉, "Walking Dead")
- Brazilian Portuguese: Terrorcron
