Blaster (G1)
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- Blaster is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Blaster loves all Earth music, especially good, hard, LOUD rock 'n' roll. He can be found at the forefront of any situation in which he's involved, be it getting down and truly hopping to town, or kicking butt and taking names—both of which he does well, and both of which have led him into conflict with authority at times. Blaster marches to his own beat, whether it's a pounding bassline or pounding Decepticon skulls, and he's not shy when it comes to sharing his feelings about either! He maintains a shared enmity with his Decepticon counterpart Soundwave, with whom he shares his powers over all forms of sound, and is often backed up by a team of his own Autobot Mini-Cassettes to match Soundwave's mini-minions on the battlefield.
Fiction
Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Blaster was a fun-loving, hip and happening robot. Loud and energetic, he was quick to immerse himself in Earth culture, and was happy to share his choice of rockin' tunes with anyone, whether they really wanted to hear them or not—a trait that got him in trouble as often as it saved him and his Autobot allies. Developing a rivalry with his Decepticon opposite number, Soundwave, Blaster gained a cassette army of his own so he could fight Soundwave on equal footing, and he and little buddies were instrumental in ensuring reinforcements arrived in time to save Autobot City when it was besieged in 2005. Following this, Blaster was assigned command of the city, where his jive-talking jingles and jams saw the Autobots through crises like the attack of Trypticon. Blaster's duties also took him to a variety of battlefields that were stranger than many other Transformers would experience, including millions of years into the past, into another dimension ruled by magic, and—a particular favorite of his—the musical planet of Eurythma.
In some timelines which spin off from this one, Blaster joined the Interplanetary Personnel Exchange Program under the new name Broadblast (ブロードブラスト Burōdoburasuto), and after perishing in a one-on-one battle with Soundwave, was reconstructed by the super-science of the planet Master as Twincast (ツインキャスト Tsuinkyasuto).
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel The Transformers comics
Blaster was a rather grim, brooding, rebellious, badass who hated Decepticons with a passion, whose reputation as one of the best fighters the Autobots had was blemished by his vocal problems with authority figures. Part of Perceptor's Autobot resistance cell on Cybertron, he often disagreed with his superior's orders, especially after his friend Scrounge failed to make a rendezvous with him in the Dead End, and Blaster wanted to hunt for him. Although his fellow freedom fighters rallied behind him at first, the discovery that Scrounge had been taken to the Decepticon stronghold in Polyhex changed their minds, and Blaster went in alone. Captured by the forces of Lord Straxus, Blaster was sentenced to the smelting pool, where he discovered the half-melted Scrounge, who clung to life just long enough to pass on to Blaster the data he had obtained, so that this death would not be in vain. Blaster was then saved from the pit by his comrades, and he claimed revenge for Scrounge by ripping out the pipes that fed the pool and blasting their Decepticon pursuers with molten slag.
Scrounge's information brought new hope to the Autobot resistance, as it revealed that Optimus Prime and the Autobots on the Ark were still alive and well after four million years, fighting on a planet called Earth. The Smelting Pool! The Decepticons set about building a space bridge to this planet, and Blaster spied on the tests in his alternate mode, gathering the information they needed to launch an attack. After planting fission bombs on the bridge, Blaster personally battled Straxus, tricking the Decepticon leader into damaging the portal before kicking him through it and apparently destroying him. Blaster and the rest of his Autobot allies were trapped on the Earth side of the bridge as it faded out. The Bridge to Nowhere! ...The Harder They Die! Though Megatron and his troops spotted the Autobots upon their materialization on Earth, the Decepticons were distracted by a more pressing mission at the time, and left without attacking the new arrivals. Command Performances!
Blaster and his men were attacked by the government anti-robot task force RAAT and its super-powered agent Circuit Breaker almost immediately upon arrival; unfamiliar with Earth customs, Blaster's group first tried to communicate with RAAT's vehicles, leaving the humans an opening to blindside the Autobots with "electric snow" missiles. Circuit Breaker then delivered a powerful electric blast, short-circuiting the group. Heavy Traffic! Blaster and the others were disassembled, with their heads getting mounted on the wall of RAAT's headquarters. Aerialbots over America! To deal with the threat of the Battlechargers, Blaster and the Autobots agreed to allow Circuit Breaker to jury-rig their bodies together into a giant exo-suit she would use to take the two Decepticons down, in exchange for their being rebuilt and released. Decepticon Graffiti!
Blaster's team followed their fellow RAAT captive Skids back to the Ark, but along the way, their guide vanished, displaced to Limbo by the appearance of the future Decepticon, Galvatron. Unwisely deciding to engage the Decepticon, Blaster tried hitting him with a blast of sonics, which sundered Galvatron's tenuous hold on sanity and only made him even more dangerous. Fortunately, the arrival of the Dinobots saved him, and he decided to try the tactic again while Galvatron was distracted. It almost worked this time, but Galvatron hurled a discarded sword in Blaster's direction, and he was only rescued from impalement by Swoop. Blaster was soon knocked unconscious, and didn't witness Galvatron being driven off by the present-day Decepticons. Fallen Angel Blaster's team continued on their way to the Ark, and arrived just as the Autobots were preparing to hold a funeral for Optimus Prime. Blaster quietly questioned their decision to bury Prime rather than fire his body into space, but it proved a moot point when the Autobot leader turned out to not actually be dead, returning in the midst of the ceremony. Resurrection!
When Optimus Prime died for real soon after, Blaster got on the comm to pass the grim news on to Superion, ordering him to break off his present engagement with the anti-terrorist team G.I. Joe and return to the Ark. Power Struggle After watching as Ratchet tried and failed to rebuild the Autobot leader, Blaster attended Prime's funeral, where his body was sent into space on a funeral bier. Funeral for a Friend! Blaster gave a speech to mark Prime's passing, Ashes, Ashes... then returned to the Ark with the Autobots, only to be attacked by the ship's own defense systems, co-opted by the human criminal, the Mechanic. Perceptor had to stop Blaster from damaging the ship until the situation could be brought under control. Funeral for a Friend! No sooner had that been dealt with than Blaster detected a fleet of human aircraft heading for the Ark, which the Autobots proceeded to intercept on the assumption of hostile intent. After a brief battle, the human revealed themselves to agents of Cobra, who requested the Autobots' help in stopping the Decepticons from destroying the planet using Power Station Alpha. Ashes, Ashes... Suspecting the highly advanced Alpha could potentially be a sentient technological lifeform, Blaster opposed destroying it outright, and remained at the Ark to co-ordinate a combined Autobot/G.I. Joe/Cobra attack on the Decepticons to free Alpha from their control. The Joes and Cobra surreptitiously had Alpha destroyed to remove its threat, infuriating Blaster and leading him to wonder if any humans could be trusted. ...All Fall Down!
Turning to the matter of finding a new leader of the Autobots, Blaster and several other high-ranking Autobots were in the process of a holding a vote when the massive Decepticon battle station Trypticon attacked, and Blaster was shot down when he attempted to rush the giant. Dinobot leader Grimlock proceeded to secure victory over Trypticon, convincing Blaster and the other Autobots to appoint him the Autobots' new commander. King of the Hill! Unfortunately, Grimlock soon gave Blaster cause to regret his decision with increasingly hostile leadership methods and a callous disregard for human safety. Paired with Goldbug, whose more naturally upbeat personality provided the Boy Wonder to his Batman, Blaster was charged with locating the Mechanic, but disobeyed orders and entered into alliance with some local human law enforcement to prevent the officers from being killed by the advanced Cybertronian weapons the criminal had stolen from the Ark. Playing the fool, Detective Greco carried Blaster into the Mechanic's hideout in tape-deck mode, where the Autobot used his electro scrambler to disable all the villain's weapons. Alas, the Mechanic escaped, and, realizing that Grimlock would not tolerate the news of their failure and their human alliances, Blaster and Goldbug elected to go AWOL. Mechanical Difficulties!
Rather than lay low, Blaster and Goldbug decided to take their fight to the Decepticons, and quickly tracked down the Autobots' human ally G.B. Blackrock in hope that he could provide them with both fuel and some hot tips on current 'Con activity. Following Blackrock's info, the two Autobots found a crashed Decepticon ship, and befriended the scientist Charlie Fong in order to bypass the military blocked surrounding it. Upon approaching the crash-site, they ran afoul of the Decepticon Triple Changers. As Blaster took on all three of the villains at once, he discovered they were ravaged with Scraplets, which soon infected him as well. Goldbug withdrew to seek a cure, but Blaster believed he had left him to die and swore vengeance against the little 'bot. Crater Critters Hooking up with the Throttlebots and human scientist Charlie Fong, Goldbug discovered that water could destroy the Scraplets, and surprised Blaster by returning to save him. Blaster refused to allow himself to be cured if it meant that the Decepticons would live as well, but when the Scraplets merged into a giant, Goldbug had no choice, and sprayed them all. A cured but furious Blaster smashed the water tank over the Scraplet-monster, killing it, then calmed down enough to apologize to Goldbug for doubting him. The Cure!
Taking some time out of their life on the road to watch human television, Blaster, Goldbug and the Throttlebots happened upon a news report about the discovery of Ultra Magnus and Galvatron, entombed in lava within the volcano, Mount Verona. Discovering that Soundwave and the Combaticons were going to blow up the mountain to destroy them both, Blaster used his sonic powers to block Soundwave's detonation signal, preventing the bombs the Combaticons placed from going off. Ladies' Night Once they had evaded the pursuing Combaticons, Blaster and company found themselves in a scuffle with RAAT in California, and hid out in Big Steve Ludwig's used car lot. Unfortunately, their battle made the evening news and finally alerted Grimlock to their AWOL status, prompting him to brand them traitors and send the Protectobots to hunt them down. The car lot quickly turned into a three-way battleground between the Combaticons, Protectobots and RAAT, and despite Blaster's help in the battle, the Protectobots surrounded and apprehended him at the fight's end. Used Autobots
Trapped in tape deck mode by a mode lock, Blaster was helpless to aid the Protectobots when the Combaticons returned. Groove sped off and stashed Blaster away in a drainage pipe for retrieval after the battle's end, where he latter was found by four human children. It took some convincing, but Blaster eventually talked the younglings to remove his mode lock. Despite once more being able to transform, Blaster was still no match for Bruticus, who had managed to fell Defensor in the meantime. Blaster was forced to rely on the children to put on a good show, and "proved" he was no longer loyal to the Autobots by making the Decepticon believe he shot one of them dead. The dimwitted colossus fooled, Blaster circled around him and collapsed an electrical tower onto Bruticus, knocking him offline. Realizing that Blaster was far nobler than Grimlock, Hot Spot allowed him to go free upon his recovery. In turn, Blaster rewarded the children for their help by taking them on a trip into space aboard the mode-locked Blast Off. Unfortunately, they were accosted in mid-flight by the now-airborne Ark. Child's Play The humans tossed Blaster out an airlock so he could avoid capture by Grimlock's forces. While Grimlock was occupied trying to stop Wheeljack and Sky Lynx from interfering in his attempted execution of the kids, Blaster rode a telecommunications satellite back to the Ark, where he his fellow Autobots, all sick of Grimlock's leadership, begged him to take over as leader. However, he was forced to surrender to his former commander in order to secure the kids' safety. Spacehikers!
Imprisoned by Grimlock, Blaster was strapped to a variable voltage harness for some time as punishment for his desertion and disobedience. When Fortress Maximus and his Autobots arrived and Grimlock challenged him to a duel, Goldbug talked Blaster into taking the injured Fortress Maximus's place to get even with Grimlock once and for all. They proceeded to battle on the surface of Earth's moon, but their duel was interrupted by a Decepticon attack, and Blaster pointed out that their feud had put all Autobots in danger. Grimlock agreed to call their duel a draw and declared a truce with Blaster as they fended off the Decepticons side by side. Totaled!
With Optimus Prime's subsequent return both to life and to command of the Autobots, the faction's in-fighting issues ceased and more important matters could be dealt with—namely, rescuing their human ally Buster Witwicky from the Decepticons' baffling new desert island resort. Tasked with investigating, Blaster was loaded into a capsule in tape deck mode and dropped from the orbiting Ark into the Witwicky family garden, where he asked Buster's girlfriend Jesse to sneak him into "Club Con". The pair were able to steal a pair of captive Autobot cassettes—Grand Slam and Raindance—from the Decepticons, but this aroused the ire of the Seacons, and Blaster, unable to battle them effectively due to the human holidaymakers occupying the island, was forced to ditch the tapes in the ocean to break off the fight. Although forced to withdraw without Buster, Blaster and Jessie had learned something important: the tapes held data on a mysterious Cybertronian object heading for Earth. Club Con! The eruption of the "Time Wars" briefly tabled this mystery, but Blaster had no real role in that conflict, as he, Optimus Prime, and several other Autobots were temporarily displaced into Limbo to make room for a team of Autobots arriving from the future. Time Wars
A search of the waters where "Club Con" used to be proved fruitless, as the Decepticons quickly moved on after Blaster's incursion. Blaster berated himself for his "incompetence," which allowed the Decepticons to slip beyond their reach once more, though Optimus assured him they would track down their enemies in due course. Cold War! Soon after, the Autobots were drawn to the Arctic, where a Decepticon ambush awaited them. The warring factions struck a temporary truce when they learned that Starscream had orchestrated the confrontation in order to distract everyone else from his own goals. The approaching object Blaster had learned about earlier, revealed to be the Cybertronian database known as the Underbase, would endow Starscream with godlike powers were he to absorb all of its cosmic energies. Though the Autobot/Decepticon alliance interrupted Starscream's absorption of the Underbase's power, the portion he did manage to take into himself was enough to grant him near-invincibility. Blaster joined Ratbat in co-ordinating a battalion of Autobots and Decepticons in defense of New York City against Starscream's worldwide rampage, and was the last to fall, shot dead atop the Brooklyn Bridge, like all those who attempted to stand against the cosmically powered villain. Dark Star
Blaster's body was put into storage on the Ark, defying all of Ratchet's attempts to repair it, The Man in the Machine! Guess Who the Mecannibals Are Having for Dinner? to the extent that the medic started to have nightmares about him and various other deactivated Autobots reviving as zombies to kill him for his failures. Ratchet's nightmares came true for a short while, when the Decepticon Sports Car Patrol managed to infiltrate the Ark and took control of the damaged Autobots' bodies to torment him. When this failed to make Ratchet snap completely, the Decepticons' plan was abandoned and Blaster was shut down once more. Back from the Dead
A few years later, Grimlock succeeded where Ratchet had failed by using the miracle fuel Nucleon to revive the damaged Autobots, with Blaster being one of the first back on his feet. Arriving on Cybertron in the nick of time aboard the Ark, Blaster took part in and survived the battle with Unicron. On the Edge of Extinction! In the aftermath, Prowl had Blaster run a check on the strange seismic activity Cybertron was suffering from, Still Life! with disastrous results: It turned out Cybertron was tearing itself apart without the binding life-force of Primus to sustain it. A meeting was called, with Blaster sharing the news to all present. Exodus!
The Decepticons fled Cybertron, leaving the Autobots to die with their homeworld. Blaster found Prowl wandering about outside, and cautioned his fellow Autobot to take shelter, as Cybertron's gradual self-destruction made the outdoors dangerous. His warning was met with laughter; Prowl had given up on living altogether, seeing no escape from the planet's death-throes. The pair were then surprised by Grimlock, who had foreseen the Decepticons' treachery and secured alternate transportation! A Savage Circle The Autobots followed the Decepticons to the planet Klo, only to be caught in an ambush upon arrival. Only five stragglers managed to escape this surprise attack: Blaster, Grimlock, Kup, Slag, and Prowl. Despite their best attempts to lose their pursuers, the Autobots found themselves hounded by a hunting party. Blaster took a blast in the shoulder from Quake, but persevered nonetheless. His group miraculously defeated the hunting party, and doubled back for a final stand against Bludgeon's forces. Upon arrival, they found a resurrected Optimus Prime already turning the tide of battle thanks to a new ally, the Last Autobot. Blaster was last seen shooting the head off Snapdragon as the Decepticons were driven off into exile. Uh oh. End of the Road!
The Big Broadcast of 2006
In an alternate version of 2006, Blaster went with a group of Autobots to Junkion to investigate strange happenings there. When they arrived, they discovered a chaotic scene where aliens from many worlds, including the Decepticons, were all engaged in a deadly battle with one another. Blaster detected a signal he suspected was hypnotizing all the combatants into this aggressive behavior. He and Ultra Magnus came up with a plan where Omega Supreme would fly Blaster into the air, while Blaster would broadcast soothing music. The plan succeeded in calming all those affected by the signal. The Big Broadcast of 2006
Marvel UK future timelines
In the future of 2008, Blaster was present at Autobot City when the Quintesson Trident ships attacked. He attempted to transform Autobot City himself, but was stopped cold by General Ghyrik. He was deactivated in the battle that followed and his body strung up on the outer parapets as a warning to any Autobots who came to liberate the city. Although Blaster was inactive, his cassettes were not, and this fact gave Hot Rod and Arcee an edge when they began battling their way through the Quintesson occupants. Space Pirates!
Blaster was seen briefly in 2009 at the start of the Time Wars, but did not end up joining Rodimus Prime on his mission into the past (see above). Time Wars After Galvatron was destroyed back in 1989 and the time line rebooted itself, Blaster was still among the Autobots stationed at Autobot City. He responded to Kup's emergency signal when the Autobots crash landed on Earth after a crazed Rodimus Prime turned against them. Shadow of Evil Upon his arrival however, Kup urged the other Autobots to hold their fire; he had deduced that it was Unicron acting through Rodimus, as the dark god had been imprisoned within the Matrix at a pervious date. Blaster and the other reinforcements stood back as Kup managed to rip the sacred talisman out of Rodimus's chest, severing Unicron's connection to him. White Fire
Letters page
The relaxed and jovial Blaster of "yet another alternate future" was turned into an Action Master and somehow arrived on 1990s Earth, where he took a job answering letters for Marvel UK. #300's Darn 'n' Blast He had to recuperate in an acclimatisation unit as a result and a nameless human at the Marvel offices took it upon themselves to answer a letter about being an Action Master, copying the back of a toy box and claiming that was the origin of nucleon. Don't trust it, kids! The real answer comes from an upcoming story, kids! #303's Darn 'n' Blast#300's Darn 'n' Blast
When Dreadwind refused to accept he'd been replaced as letters host and barricaded his office, Blaster, new host of Darn 'n' Blast, took up a temporary office next door. Dreadwind kept banging on the wall to distract him. #300's Transformation The kids of 1990 Britain duly wrote to Blaster with rap and cool lingo, dude. #300's Darn 'n' Blast
Unlike Grimlock, he felt guilty about using the variable voltage harness to punish Marvel UK staff for bad work. Following a suggestion by a sadistic fan, he instead began tormenting people with hours of The Church and Cliff Richard. #308 Darn 'n' Blast It
During Blaster's run we learned he had a brother named Toaster#310's letters page and a sister called Karmen #316's letters page, and about sports like the Iacon 5000 and Cybertron's football divisions (Primus League and Premier League). His team are the non-league no-hopers Throttlebot Wanderers #316's letters page and he lamented how badly they'd been fouled by Combaticon Hove Albion, ruining their chances of a cup win. #320's letters page
He was unable to make a reader's birthday party due to the battle against Unicron. #326's letters page
Combat Colin
After Colin managed to defeat all of his recurring villains at once, he grew a bit too big for his boots and announced that he was going to boot out the Transformers and take over the rest of the comic. Overhearing this, Blaster was forced to remind him of his place as a back-up strip character. Combat Colin issue 300
Another Time & Place
Blaster was part of the rescue unit who infiltrated Hydrus Four to defeat the Decepticons and rescue the Dinobots. He personally helped disarm and defeat Fangry. Another Time & Place
Transformers Comic-Magazin
Blaster and the Autobots defended the launch of a new space flight by human scientists. Transformers in Action: The Countdown to a New Space Age!
Classics
Decades later in 2012, Blaster was stationed with several other Autobots in Canada within the Ark II. He was present one day when Rad reported from the Ironworks base in Oregon about a foiled attack by Gigatron and his Decepticons. Invasion
Blaster and his partners Stripes, Tigatron, Cheetor, Sundor, and Blockrock subsequently teamed up with negative polarity Ravage. Recordicons #12
Some time later on negative Cybertron, Blaster and Straxus compared notes on their mirror universes, such as the evil Straxus. Falling into Place
Regeneration One
Sometime around 2007, Blaster was amongst those Transformers suffering ill effects from the infusion of Nucleon into their systems. It had apparently made him hyper-sensitive to noise and he was kept at the Nursery. Natural Selection, Part One He, along with Huffer, Inferno, and Silverbolt were eventually given new Nucleon-free bodies at the Garage. Going against Prowl's orders that they should not get involved in the growing conflict with Soundwave's Neo-Decepticons, Blaster began monitoring the old Decepticon comm-line subfrequencies and discovered that Soundwave was indeed responsible for keeping Cybertron's population aggressive through an irritant subsonic signal. Alerted to Blaster's hacking, Soundwave dispatched Carnivac, Snarler, and Roadblock—the Mayhem Attack Squad—to eliminate him, but the four former Nucleon patients used some quick thinking to subdue the Decepticons and report the signal to Autobot command. Destiny, Part Two
Beatle-based pop vs. New Romantic,
History will decide.
As the Decepticon invasion/uprising under Soundwave and Bludgeon began, Blaster tracked down Soundwave on the battlefield for a "battle of the bands". Destiny, Part Four Soundwave attempted to defeat Blaster with finesse, using a variety of sonic tricks and frequencies to disorient his Autobot counterpart. To win, Blaster abandoned skill for brute force, and unleashed a sonic onslaught that overwhelmed Soundwave and brought him to his end. Destiny, Part Five
Blaster reintegrated into the Autobot forces, joining the bridge crew of Rodimus Prime's command vessel Priam during the attack on the Hub Network. Unfortunately, the superior numbers and firepower of Jhiaxus and his Cybertronians forced the Autobots to surrender. The War to End All Wars, Part 3 They escaped captivity thanks to the ever-insubordinate Wreckers staging their own attack on the Hub, and Blaster joined the crew as they made their way back to Cybertron to face an even greater menace. The War to End All Wars, Part 4 The Anti-Matrix had consumed the population of Cybertron, transforming them into shadow-leeches. Blaster and the remaining Autobots forces secured the space bridge network to Earth and Nebulos while Rodimus Prime confronted the creature in Zero Space, bringing an end to its machinations. On Nebulos, Blaster joined Ultra Magnus's troops in finishing off Galvatron once and for all. With their link to the multiverse and Primus himself permanently cut off, Blaster and the other remaining Transformers abandoned Cybertron, eventually growing old and dying. The War to End All Wars, Part 5
Sticker Adventures books
Blaster and the Autobots protected the humans from a revenge attack by Galvatron and the Decepticons.Galvatron Attacks
Marvel Storybooks continuity
Blaster received a message from Decepticon headquarters and conveyed it to Optimus Prime; the Decepticons had taken Sunstreaker hostage, and were demanding the Autobots' surrender. The Autobots sent out a party to rescue their captured comrade, but the attempt failed. Afterwards, Blaster once more relayed a message from Megatron to Optimus; the Decepticon leader threatened to destroy all four captured Autobots and rebuild them into Decepticons if Optimus did not surrender before morning. The Autobots' Secret Weapon
Attack of the Insecticons
Blaster was witness to Ironhide testing the Sun-Pak, a device of Sparkplug's invention that would solve the Autobot's energy problems. When the Decepticons discovered of the device's existence, many possible adventures ensued. Most notably, after a failed attempt on Optimus's part to eliminate Starscream, who was leading the Decepticon's raid, Sparkplug is kidnapped by the Decepticons and Blaster is entrusted alongside Bumblebee and Buster with Sparkplug's rescue, while the rest of the Autobots are forced back to base in order to recharge. The trio is instructed to contact Autobot headquarters as soon as they come to know the Decepticons' location. Blaster was the one who managed to track down Starscream and Sparkplug, using his abilities to detect one of Starscream's transmissions. Blaster traces the transmission to a museum in the suburbs, and he and Buster sneak into the building while Blaster is camouflaged in tape-player mode. Hiding in one of the museum's planes until after-hours, at which point Starscream and Bombshell reveal they will use a Cerebro-shell to make Sparkplug compliant to their wills, Blaster and Buster debate whether to contact Megatron, and offer a recording made by Blaster earlier proving that Starscream is a Decepticon traitor in exchange for Sparkplug's release, or to fetch Bumblebee and take on the Decepticons personally.
If it is decided to try and parlay with Megatron, omitting any mention of the Sun-Pak in their story, Megatron appears attentive at first, but demands that the Autobots fulfill their half of the trade before he takes action. If Blaster and Buster accept, Megatron arrives at the museum, and forces Starscream back to Decepticon base to be reprogrammed after releasing Sparkplug. If they insist to have Megatron release Sparkplug from Decepticon custody first, Blaster and Buster are powerless to stop Sparkplug from becoming a mind-controlled slave.
If Blaster and Buster decide to fetch Bumblebee, the trio quickly formulate a plan to rescue Sparkplug. Using his Electro-Scramblers at a key moment, Blaster causes Starscream to be the recipient of the Cerebro-Shell instead of Sparkplug, and then convinces the now easily influenced Decepticon to release Sparkplug and hold back Bombshell while Sparkplug, Buster, Blaster and Bumblebee happily ride back to Autobot headquarters.
Attack of the Insecticons
Milton Bradley mini-comic
Blaster was among the Autobots under Jetfire's command who launched in the ark to clear a path through an asteroid belt. When the Decepticons attacked the ship, Jetfire sent it crashing into Earth, knocking everyone aboard offline. Four million years later, they were repaired when the ship's systems were reactivated by a volcanic eruption. In the Transformers
Transformers in 3-D
When Hot Rod and Blurr returned from Tau-Ursa with a strange recording, Blaster was able to play it. The recording revealed the existence of the Destructons, Logicons, and the location of Metascan Alpha, the Logicons' storehouse of Energon. At Optimus Prime's command, Blaster contacted Ultra Magnus at Metroplex on Earth to pass the information along. The War Against the Destructons, Chapter 1 of 3
Beast Wars Metals comic
Blaster took orders from Optimus Prime as the Ark launched. Beast Wars Metals #5
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
Around 6.5 million years ago, Blaster was one of the high-ranking Autobots who helped Ultra Magnus reunify their fractured faction at the end of the Dark Ages, suggesting that he may have been in charge of one of the various splinter groups that formed during those troubled times. Over the next half-a-million years, the reunited Autobots worked to usher in a new Golden Age, and were finally poised to sign a peace treaty with the Decepticons and Ultracons until the long-missing Megatron returned to Cybertron, launching an attack in the middle of the treaty ceremony with his new Aerospace Extermination Squadron. The Age of Wrath With this new army, Megatron ushered in an Age of Internment, capturing nearly the entire Autobot army and putting them to work as slaves, extracting the very core of Cybertron itself. Blaster managed to evade capture, however, and together with Perceptor, assembled a small rebel cell hiding out in the subterranean chambers of Iacon Command. The Age of Wrath Pt.2
Seeking to capture one of Megatron's drones in order to learn more about Megatron's new clone technology, Blaster oversaw his unit on the mission from a distance, using his abilities to jam any emergency transmissions while Nightbeat and several other Autobots engaged the drone in battle long enough to attach an inhibitor claw, immobilizing it. The Age of Wrath Pt.3
Blaster and his team used an ancient map of Cybertron's depths to infiltrate Megatron's slave camp, only for them to be discovered by Megatron himself. The Age of Wrath Pt.4 Blaster battled Megatron one-on-one, managing to use his sonic powers to briefly gain the upper hand, before losing a leg to the Decepticon leader. The sudden return of Grimlock, believed to have died during Megatron's first attack, gave the wounded Blaster the chance he needed to free the Autobot prisoners by deactivating their inhibitor claws. The Age of Wrath Pt.5 Blaster was badly damaged, losing a leg in his fight against Megatron. Perceptor, meanwhile, used the data gleaned from studying the captured drone to deactivate the neural network linking the entire squadron, ending the Age of Internment. The Age of Wrath Pt.6
Blaster remained on Cybertron when the Ark and the Nemesis left four million years ago, and eventually entered stasis along with the rest of the planet when it finally ran out of energy during the Great Shutdown. The planet was reawakened by Shockwave in roughly the Earth year 1000 BC, and the Autobots and Decepticons put aside their differences to begin rebuilding their world.
In the year 2003, when Shockwave's forces brought Optimus Prime and the crew of the Ark back to Cybertron to be tried as war criminals, double agents inside the United Cybertronian force delivered Prime and his crew to Blaster and the others at their headquarters in the Wastelands. With the help of Cybertron's greatest hero, the resistance movement began an open insurrection against Shockwave's loyal Decepticon forces and the Guardian robots under his control. Countdown to Extinction Shockwave's regime fell, and the Autobots resumed command of Cybertron. Revelation
Transformers/G.I. Joe
In the year 1985, Blaster and Perceptor hastily took off for Earth in an starship poorly-suited for interstellar travel. Upon arrival, they unsurprisingly crashed, landing in the forests of Oregon near Mount St. Hilary. Their deactivated bodies were found by the forces of Cobra and bundled up to be airlifted out, but a G.I. Joe team led by Flint soon intervened. Blowtorch knocked the chopper carrying their bodies out of the air with his flamethrower, and Barbecue extinguished the flames before the two Autobots could be consumed by the blaze. Blaster and Perceptor's bodies were then taken back to G.I. Joe headquarters. Targets of Opportunity
Hearts of Steel
Blaster and his fellow Autobots fought the Decepticons on Earth in the distant past until an incoming ice age threatened to deactivate all the Transformers. Both sides went into hiding underground until the danger had passed, remaining in stasis until the mid-19th century. When they woke up, the war against the Decepticons started anew, though Blaster was not seen getting involved. Hearts of Steel #1
The Beast Within
Blaster participated in a savage battle against the Decepticons, though he did not fare too well, already laying defeated on the battleground during the conflict's early stages.The Beast Within
2005 IDW continuity
- First appearance: Stormbringer #1
Blaster was constructed cold. Arm the Lonely Before the war, he was a reporter for the Iaconian Newsfeed Service, and reported live from the Nova Plaza after an assassination attempt on Nominus Prime. Chaos Theory #2 He took a brief respite from reporting to work for security control for Sentinel Prime's government. Megatron Origin #2
When the Decepticon dictatorship of Cybertron began, Blaster used his bad experiences with state-censored media to set up the Nexis, a pirate news broadcast that dared speak the truth about the new government. Breakdown and Wildrider attempted to assassinate him, but were defeated by Optimus Prime who asked for Blaster's help to hack the Iaconian Newsfeed Service's headquarters and send a rallying call for additional support against the Decepticon tyranny. Broadcast After his efforts had led to the Decepticons being overthrown and replaced with Optimus Prime's Autobot government, Blaster went back to legal news broadcasting. From the Nexis, he reported on the disastrous explosion of the Toraxxis mega-refinery and interviewed Dai Atlas about the mass exodus triggered by its destruction. Fallout During the exodus he interviewed some of the disgruntled Cybertronians stranded at Starsreach Spaceport, annoying Prowl's Autobots who thought the media attention just served to make things worse. Massacre
and blow your minds with my sexy voice and out-of-sight sounds!
In the wake of the exodus and Trypticon's rampage in Harmonex, Blaster reported that the Conclave of Representatives was refusing to disclose how many Cybertronians had left the planet and that Harmonex had been closed off, calling the government's intentions into question once more. Primacy #1
With the war going into full swing, Blaster joined Optimus Prime's Autobots, and initially served as a soldier who was present at a victory celebration after the Autobots halted a major Decepticon energon convoy four million years ago. The Iron Age Eventually, however, he returned to his broadcasting roots and became a patriotic radio personality, broadcasting propaganda across the galaxy to rally the Autobot forces as they struggled on the war's many battlefronts. Known as "The Voice" for his widespread positive influence, Blaster became the target of a Decepticon assassination attempt, this time to prevent him from making an important broadcast on the eve of a major Autobot offensive. Although the assassin failed, Blaster's wounded body was ejected into space, and he was believed dead by his faction.
Some time later, Blaster was found by a passing trawler and delivered home, where it was revealed that he had to have been attacked by an Autobot. In an effort to flush the traitor out, Blaster went back on the air. The attempt worked, and his would-be killer was revealed: Beachcomber, forced into the act by a mind-controlling cerebro-shell implanted by Bombshell at the direction of Soundwave. However, he was able to resist when Blaster used his greatest weapon: his voice. As a damaged Beachcomber was brought in for repairs, Blaster swore he'd find Soundwave and that the last thing he'd ever hear would be... the Voice. Spotlight: Blaster
In the year that followed the defeat of Nova Prime, Blaster was among the Autobots captured by the Decepticon Turmoil, but was soon rescued by a team led by Kup. All the other prisoners were members of the Wreckers, suggesting Blaster may have joined the team at some point. Spotlight: Drift Blaster remained with Kup's team, and was serving as the communications officer for his ship, the Trion, when a simultaneous galaxy-wide uprising was staged by the Decepticons. Distress signals came pouring in, but all went silent in short order, save for one from Hot Rod, so the crew of the Trion went to save the turbo-revvin' young punk from Bludgeon and Monstructor. The day was saved by Perceptor, although Blaster disapproved of the scientist's transformation into a warrior, saying he had "defiled himself". Lost & Found
Blaster and the others harried the Decepticon fleet until they were baited into an ambush above Cybertron. There, the ship was shot down and forced to crash-land on the assumed uninhabitable world. Banding together to survive, they eventually encountered Optimus Prime's unit, only to find him incapacitated, the Matrix having been seized by Megatron. All Hail Megatron #5 Blaster mingled with the other Autobots for a while, All Hail Megatron #6 before warning Kup about an incoming swarm attack that forced them to relocate. All Hail Megatron #8
With morale still dwindling, Blaster attempted to put his famous voice to work by trying to break up a fight between Hot Rod and Bumblebee by injecting some reason, but was interrupted by Sideswipe telling them they all deserved to die. All Hail Megatron #9 The Autobots were eventually saved when Omega Supreme decimated the swarm and carried them all to Earth, where they attacked Megatron and his troops. Blaster was ordered to block the Decepticons' communications, allowing the arrival of Omega Supreme to take them completely by surprise. All Hail Megatron #10 All Hail Megatron #11 He survived the great battle. All Hail Megatron #12
Blaster remained on Earth with the other Autobots for the next three years, as they regathered their forces. Streetwise radioed in to Blaster when Prowl got himself nabbed by Skywatch, an event which led to the death of Ironhide and the resignation of Optimus Prime. ...For All Mankind Autobot leadership was split between Bumblebee and Hot Rod, and Blaster stayed with Bumblebee's group, which went on to form an alliance with Gordon Horiuchi of Skywatch. Blaster was among the Autobots who captured Frenzy and other Decepticons for their new allies. The Hanging Sword Unfortunately, Horiuchi betrayed the Autobots and forced them to hunt one of their own kind, Blurr. Bumblebee managed to get free from Horiuchi's control, and so Blaster and the others stayed behind to cover for him as he sought a solution for their problems. The Impossible Knot They pretended to be making plans to hunt down Hot Rod while Bumblebee recovered the control tech Skywatch was using to keep them in line. The Gift Horse Bumblebee was successful, and Blaster was later present when Bumblebee unveiled his new, more powerful form, to better serve as Autobot leader. Wings of Wax
Following the end of the war, Blaster was one of the Autobots who joined the crew of the Lost Light in search of the mythical Knights of Cybertron Hangers On and was one of the first people to use Swerve's, being part of the grand secret opening. No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases Much later, when the newly arrived Fortress Maximus was on a rampage around the ship, Blaster hacked a security camera so the crew could see what he was doing when he holed himself up in Rung's office. Interiors He was later instructed by Ultra Magnus to patch him in with Rodimus after the latter and some other crewmembers had been teleported to Theophany. You, Me, and Other Revelations Blaster was among those invited to Rewind's first attempt to awaken Rung from his coma with a storytelling session, but it didn't go so well thanks to Siren's volume. An Intimate Beheading
One of Blaster's duties on the Lost Light was to repair the long-range subspace communicator so that the crew could contact Cybertron, and he was annoyed all the while by Swerve who wanted to be the first to send a message. He thought he fixed it, but the message still couldn't get through as Swerve had the wrong hailing frequency. Cybertronian Homesick Blues Not that it would have mattered much, as Blaster went on to say that any attempt made with the subspace communicator to reach Cybertron met with failure. Signal to Noise Blaster reported to Rodimus when the Lost Light was contacted by the Vis Vitalis and Thunderclash. Little Victories The subspace communicator still wasn't working properly, but this didn't stop Pipes from leaving a message for Hubcap with Blaster while he was busy clearing a path through an asteroid belt with unwanted help from Whirl. Under Cold Blue Stars
Following the disappearance of an injured Ultra Magnus, Blaster used security footage to find out where he had gone, eventually leading the Lost Light to the lost moon Luna 1. Rodimus led a team to its surface, leaving Blaster and Fortress Maximus in charge, but they lost contact with the away team when the ship was attacked by Legislators who blocked their transmissions. The Fecund Moon Blaster took a blast to the chest early in the battle and had to be protected by Maximus, House of Ámbus and the crew was ultimately overwhelmed by the Legislators. The Divided Self To make matters worse, when the insane Chief Justice Tyrest activated his universal killswitch to eradicate the Transformers who were "constructed cold", Blaster was one of those affected. Arm the Lonely
Following the Tyrest crisis, Blaster was one of the dozens of Autobots who helped clean and fix up the devastated bar so that Swerve could reopen it. No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases
Blaster was present on bridge when Ultra Magnus made the decision to search for Metroplex. Winners & Losers The crew tracked the Titan to the oceans of Hydrophena where they were attacked by Ammonites, Into the Abyss prompting Blaster to participate in the underwater battle. The Dead Are Not Enough Upon finding Metroplex, they used his space bridge to return the Lost Light to Cybertron, where they were reunited with the other Autobots. Finis Temporis Once the Necrotitan plaguing Cybertron was defeated, Blaster celebrated alongside the rest of the population. The Becoming He went on to attend the trial of Megatron at Raskol Arena. Words Hang in the Air
Blaster continued to serve aboard the Lost Light as it departed again under the command of a new captain—a reformed Megatron. Towards Peace Alongside the rest of the crew he evacuated the ship when it began mysteriously dematerializing piece by piece. Predestination: A Beginner's Guide Stuck on board the Rodpod alongside 20 other others, he took a message from Rodimus on the Leading Light to rendezvous at Ofsted XVII. All original crew members then began disappearing one by one as well, Blaster among them. Twenty Plus One Fortunately, the new crew managed to reverse the quantum irregularity, and Blaster and the others quickly returned. The Road Not Taken
On a quantum-duplicated Lost Light, its version of Blaster was executed along with the rest of the crew, save their Rewind. He was forced to transform into vehicle mode to keep his transformation cog fresh, which was harvested from his body by the DJD. His corpse was found among a large collection of bodies in a room by Riptide. slaughterhouse
Blaster gathered with most of the crew to hear Rodimus announce their rendezvous with the Vis Vitalis for the dying Thunderclash's "pre-wake". The Sensuous Frame He later served as DJ for a dance party in Swerve's and accepted a song request from Tailgate. The Frail Gaze After a life-size holomatter projection of Earth appeared to be tailing the Lost Light, Blaster attempted to make radio contact with it, only to hear a "catchy" song being played back to them. The One Where They Go to Earth When Getaway set up his mutiny, Blaster agreed to be part of it. He 'discovered' the source of a signal that would lure Megatron, Rodimus, and their 'loyalists' off the Light, and later stood with Getaway in a broadcast to emphasize how the crew had turned on their captains. How Bright Their Frail Deeds
During a team meeting regarding the Warren, Blaster interrupted to report a distress signal came in from Frayus, but was stunned when Getaway told him to respond that they couldn't assist. As Getaway and Thunderclash argued, Blaster and his teammates were horrified when a transmission from Rodimus revealed that Getaway had not only abandoned Rodimus's men to the mercies of the Galactic Council, but to the Decepticon Justice Division. With the command structure threatening to breakdown, Getaway had the mnemosurgeon Sunder reprogram the memories of Blaster and the rest of the crew. They were coerced into believing that Rodimus and the others left of their own free will, abandoning the rest of the crew to find Cyberutopia faster on their own. Filling in the Blanks
As the use of the Warren drew the Lost Light closer to Cyberutopia, Blaster was instructed by Getaway to change their course so that they could make a rendezvous with their new Head of Security. Soon after, Blaster happily reported to Getaway that they had finally arrived at Cyberutopia. Journey's End
Everything collapsed, however, when they reached Cyberutopia. The promised land turned out to be a sham, and the Lost Light came under attack by the Grand Architect and his Phantom Fleet of Worldsweepers. Desperate to save his own skin, Getaway made a deal with the Architect to spare him in exchange for his help against Rodimus, who Getaway swore would try to stop the Grand Architect's plans. To that end, the Architect's ally Scorponok was allowed to subject Blaster and the other Autobots to a Sparkeater virus, changing them into zombie-like minions with acid vomit, a thirst for sparks, and no will of their own. Lūstrāre
When Rodimus and the others did arrive on Cyberutopia, Blaster was dispatched with the first wave of Sparkeaters along with Hoist, Perceptor, Hound and Mainframe to "greet" their friends. You Are Here Blaster and the Sparkeaters threatened Rodimus and his growing collection of allies as they opposed the Grand Architect's forces. A Dance Before Dying Eventually, First Aid discovered a form of concussive medicine that would transmit a kinetic program code to eliminate the Sparkeater virus. Blaster and the others were incapacitated, but seemingly cured of their infection. Lūstrāre After Rodimus reclaimed the Lost Light, he had Blaster and his ailing crew brought aboard for Ratchet and First Aid to continue treating as they confronted the Grand Architect. Farsickness
After the crisis was over, Blaster joined the rest of the crew for one last "victory lap" aboard the Lost Light. As the crew prepared to quantum jump home, the science team proposed the risky gamble of recreating the malfunctioning launch, thereby quantum duplicating themselves before then shunting the duplicates into a parallel universe to ensure that the Lost Light's adventures would never truly end. Rodimus put the notion to a vote, and the crew agreed to attempt it.
After returning to Cybertron and years in the future, Blaster was one of the attendees at Ratchet's funeral. He led the grieving Hound away after the service had concluded.
Unaware to everyone, in some distant corner of the multiverse, the duplicate Lost Light with its version of Blaster had successfully materialized. Blaster excitedly reported that the navigation computers had no idea where they were, and everyone got ready to set sail for an infinity of new adventures. How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2
TransTech
- Voice actor: Buster Jones (English)
Bee in the City 2: Electric Bugaloo
Kre-O online manga
Blaster was seemingly escorting Lumina at the inauguration of Autobot City, as he was holding her hand. Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!
Some time later, when Soundwave tried to use his clones to brainwash humans, Blaster arrived alongside Optimus and Jazz to stop him. Blaster turned to tape deck mode to help the Autobots in the battle of opposing sounds, and later (in a different blue coloration) played music at the ensuing hanami. Soundwave's Trap? Stop Operation Brainwash Humanity!
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe
Blaster was a freedom fighter on a Decepticon-controlled Cybertron. He was one of the many thorns in Megatron's side that continuously evaded capture.
Enraged that the once great Imhotep Rodimus was one of the many Autobots that had succumbed to Megatron's will, Blaster set out to confront his fellow Autobot at the planet's north pole. There, he berated and blasted Rodimus for his fall from grace. Rodimus retaliated and during the firefight, G.I.Rockets began to rain down around them. One of the rockets' blasts caused debris to fall atop of Blaster, knocking him out. Rather than allow his friend to be captured by the Decepticons, Rodimus abandoned his post and hauled Blaster away. Form Follows Function Rodimus brought Blaster to Ratchet for repairs before seizing leadership of the Autobots from Grimlock. Everybody Hates Metroplex
During the combined Autobot-Joe attack on the Decepticon army, Wheeljack had Blaster deactivate Trypticon's force shield by using his altmode to emit a sonic signal imbued with the shield's codes. Blaster then joined the battle by releasing his Recordobots against Sixshot. Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12
Beast Wars: Uprising
Eject lamented that all the great and famous Cybertronians, including his mentor Blaster, were long gone by the time Cybertron was controlled by the Builder Assembly. Broken Windshields
Titans Return marketing material
When the Titan Masters joined the Autobot-Decepticon war, Blaster was partnered with the Titan Master Twin Cast, the bot with the universe's most advanced cryptographic abilities. Titans Return Twin Cast/Blaster toy bio On the planet Caminus, Blaster, Stripes, and Rewind pursued Skullsmasher, Grax, and Rot-Gut through the streets. They were ultimately forced to break off when Rot-Gut and Skullsmasher combined, allowing Skullsmasher to deploy a cloud of armor-eating rust and make good their escape. Blaster was later seen fighting off Soundwave's all-out attack on Cybertron. Titans Return: The Power of the Titan Masters
Win If You Dare
Blaster was playing music outside the crashed Ark when Bumblebee returned from a test drive, part of Ratchet's experimental "music therapy" program. Win If You Dare
2019 IDW continuity
- First appearance: Transformers #17
Blaster worked with Playback and Wavelength at the Titan Net primary hub in Iacon. When members of The Rise hacked their network to upload a powerful data-bomb, Blaster and his crew found that the virus left them unable to awaken any of the dormant Titans in Cybertron's orbit, and powerless to prevent the rogue Titan Vigilem from approaching the Winged Moon. With no other options, Blaster contacted Lightbright and her Titan Lodestar, who had only recently returned from beyond Cybertronian space and hadn't yet linked with the Titan Net, and ordered her to stop Vigilem by any means necessary.The Change In Your Nature Part Five
Despite their best efforts, the pair weren't able to stop Vigilem from severing the great Tether that connected the Winged Moon to Cybertron. Blaster and his crew did their best to re-establish a link with the Titans; despite receiving assistance from Glyph, Tap-Out, and Steeljaw Tremors they weren't able to repair the Titan Net before Megatron staged a coup, overthrew the Senate, and killed Sentinel Prime. When Orion Pax inherited the Matrix to become Optimus Prime, Blaster attended his first speech. War World: Awakenings Not long afterwards, the triumphant Decepticons moved to seize control of Iacon's infrastructure by planting loyalists in positions of power, and as a result Mindwipe, Bitstream, and Sparkstalker took control of the Titan Net building and ousted Blaster and his crew. Hunt
Blaster followed Optimus Prime and his followers when they abandoned Iacon entirely and decamped to Crystal City. There, Blaster received a proper Autobot insignia as part of a ceremony commemorating the rebirth of the Autobot faction. Sea of Rust I However, when the Decepticons turned their sights on Crystal City, Blaster and a number of other scientists and engineers retreated to Darkmount. Radical Time There, Blaster helped Glyph and Highbrow engineer a data-bomb that would disrupt the Insecticon neural network long enough for Termagax to transmit new instructions to the swarming Insecticon clones and call off their rampage. End of Time
Precursor World
A Warrior of the Seven Lights resembling Twincast was a member of the Blue Order of the Primus Vanguard. When the traitorous Straxus twins unleashed a rage virus to destroy the corps from within, he was slain in the ensuing brawl. Vanguard leader Primus later loaded the Warrior's lingering sparks into his Golden Noah in an attempt to ferry their souls to the next world. God Neptune comic 1 Unfortunately, this did not work. Finale
Transformers Go! Go!
Blaster was freestyling with the other Autobots when he encountered his old foe Soundwave. Jazz came up with the idea of having the equally matched rivals settle their differences through a rap battle, where they eventually admitted their grudging respect for one another. However, the two soon went back to brawling when each accused the other of screwing up their conciliatory high five. Go! Go! issue 13
One evening, Blaster invited Bumblebee to come outside and play, but Bumblebee had too much homework to do. Go! Go! issue 14 Blaster and Eject took part in a snowball fight until Wheeljack's snowball-throwing robot went haywire. Jazz and Blaster provided covering fire so that Bumblebee could close the distance and switch off the machine, and that night the Autobots used the excess snow to construct an igloo where they could relax. Go! Go! issue 18
Energon Universe
During a battle on Cybertron, Blaster was shot in the chest. Transformers #5
Commercial appearances
- Blaster allowed himself to be found by Rumble in his radio mode. The device caught Rumble's eye, and he decided to bring Blaster back to the Decepticons' headquarters. Soundwave wasn't as easily duped, and recognized Blaster as an Autobot intruder immediately upon seeing him. Blaster then had to contend with fending off Ravage and Laserbeak. Blaster commercial
- When Starscream led a squad of Decepticons on an attack on the Autobots' launch site, Blaster informed Ultra Magnus that Optimus was off-planet, and so couldn't come to their aid. He stayed behind as Ultra Magnus carried several Autobots into battle to counter-attack. Ultra Magnus commercial
- Blaster, Cosmos, and Perceptor had a dance-off against Soundwave, Rumble, and Frenzy. Blaster VS Soundwave 2013
Games
Transformers G1: Awakening
Blaster was among the Autobots who left Cybertron aboard the Ark, and spent four million years in stasis after it was shot down over Earth by the Decepticons. Though Ratchet soon had him fixed up, the Autobots lacked the energon that he needed to get operational. They had gathered enough by the time the Autobots were preparing to assault the Decepticon fortress on Cybertron to free their enslaved fellows, and Blaster took part in the operation to take out the fortress's main power plants. Transformers G1: Awakening
Transformers Legends
When the Decepticons seemed to be having a run of luck, Blaster and Prowl found this pattern so suspicious that they teamed up with Nightbeat to investigate. They eventually uncovered Soundwave's infiltration and sent the Decepticon and his tapes packing. Covert Operations Concerned that the Decepticons might be after the technology at a scientific facility, Blaster and his tapes infiltrated the base only to find that Soundwave was already concealed inside and after the tech. Espionage Returning from a charity event, Blaster, Windcharger and Cliffjumper received a distress signal from a nearby human military base. Leading the charge, Blaster found a Decepticon raiding party scouring the base for the MacGuffin Generator. The Autobots fought the Decepticons to a stalemate until the evil robots managed to acquire the device. It proved more volatile than they expected however, and Blaster and his team helped rebuild the base after the Decepticons were blown away by the generator. Raiding Party
Blaster was among the Autobots who fought the Decepticons after they joined forces with the Quintessons. Five Faces of Darkness: Part 2
Angry Birds Transformers
On an Eggspark-altered Piggy Island, Blaster found himself fused with Bubbles of the Flock, turning them into an Autobird that transforms into a van-like thing. Bubbles-Blaster launches a rapid-fire stream of sonic blasts that pack incredible punch and have a wide "splash damage" range, especially when paired up with his cassette partners.
| Accessory | Body Part | Rarity | Cost | Base Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosanna | Head | Epic | 5 Epic Crystals + 60,000 Coins | +20% Explosive Force | |
| Headphones | Head | Uncommon | 5 Uncommon Crystals + 8,000 Coins | +10% Damage | |
| Baseball Cap | Head | Common | 5 Common Crystals + 2,500 Coins | +10% Vehicle Time | |
| Santa Hat | Head | Uncommon | 5 Uncommon Crystals + 8,000 Coins | +10% Defense | Holiday Event exclusive |
| Festive Deely Bopper | Head | Rare | 5 Rare Crystals + 20,000 Coins | +20% Damage | Holiday Event exclusive |
| Snowman | Head | Rare | 5 Rare Crystals + 20,000 Coins | +20% Damage | Holiday Event exclusive |
| Lion Hat | Head | Epic | 5 Epic Crystals + 60,000 Coins | +16% Defense | Chinese New Year exclusive |
| Stripes | Chest | Epic | 5 Epic Crystals + 60,000 Coins | +40% Faster Reload | |
| Sundor | Arms | Rare | 5 Rare Crystals + 20,000 Coins | +20% Damage |
Blaster is also an "Accessory" character, giving Autobirds he's attached to an increase to their EMP Rounds (probably due to his groovy, well-tuned personality). This bonus can be increased with level upgrades, won from random-prize Crates or in the "Shockwave's Tower" mini-game.
He can be unlocked by purchasing him with Gems in the Barracks, with Tokens during specific Challenge Events, or won from Crates and Shockwave's Tower. Angry Birds Transformers
| Autobird | Body Part | Gem Cost | Base Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blurr | Arms | 650 | EMP Rounds |
Transformers: Battle Tactics
Two can Play! Sic' em!
Don't know how much longer we can hold out.
We're all going to look like burnt-out toaster ovens.
Blaster participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Epic character who first appeared in the "Sonic Clash" event, and could be recruited by collecting 500 units of Cybermetal, 250 units of Transmetal,100 event cores, and 50 cores of this character. Transformers: Battle Tactics
Transformers: Frontiers
Transformers: Earth Wars
Loud, proud and in-your-face, Blaster has a zest for life and an unquenchable appetite for action. The louder and more intense it gets, the more it sparks his circuits. The opposite of sneaky, he prefers to make his presence known, literally assaulting his enemies with sound and fury. But his special passion is good old fashioned rock 'n' roll, and his ability to monitor multiple frequencies and channels has exposed him to a wide variety of music. Blaster Bio
Blaster was in contact with Ironhide and Jetfire after the latter two and an ally raided a Decepticon outpost. Blaster suggested it would be great if they upgraded the HQ. Transformers: Earth Wars
Blaster then helped out in the many other battles that the Autobots participated in.
- Class:: Special (Deployer)
- Lowest Star Rating: 2 stars
- Weapons: Blaster uses a standard issue Photon blaster used by Jetfire and the Aerobots.
- Ability: Deploy Minions: Deploy Eject, Rewind, Steeljaw, and Ramhorn to attack targets! All have unique attacks.
- Cost: 3 ability points +3 for reuses.
Blaster at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki
Blaster is one of two characters that has a unique ending victory pose, in which Blaster has a chance to perform a handstand, and then start break dancing.
Transformers: Forged to Fight
In a surprising twist, Blaster isn't a clone of Soundwave, instead having his own unique animations and abilities. He fights using buffed-up energy attacks and his cassette allies, and, when awakened, can heal himself when struck with the enemy's ranged laser attacks.
Transformers Roleplaying Game
Blaster was head of Autobot communications and a master of sonic warfare. In his off-time, he was something of a party animal, and this laid-back approach to life has bled back into his career as a soldier. Transformers Roleplaying Game bonus material
Blaster and his Mini-Cassettes were deployed to an abandoned railyard in Colorado to guard a shipment of energon cubes while Rollbar and Mirage drew the attention of the Decepticons. However, their ruse failed; the Decepticons tracked the Union Pacific train back to its point of origin, and in the ensuing battle Astrotrain and his comrades defeated Blaster and stole the energon. The Great Energon Robbery
Toys
Merchandise
Notes
- Blaster had the preliminary names of Pulse[1] and Blastbox.[2]
- Blaster began life as the Micro Change "Radi-Casse Robo" ("radio-cassette", you see), which was actually a functional AM radio. Though this feature was gutted from Blaster when he was released as part of the Transformers toyline, the original toy's power switch (on his right leg), earphone jack (on the back of his left leg) and tuning dial (on his chest) still remain, now as moulded, non-moving details. Even the toy's electro-scrambler gun is designed to serve as storage for the mono earphone which came with the toy, with the plug inserting into the stock, the cord winding around it, and the earphone itself tucking into the hole in the gun's main body. It was not the toy itself which was the radio; rather, the radio was a small "micro-cassette" which plugged into the toy's internal wiring when inserted into its chest, allowing it to play through the speakers in its legs in either mode. As the electronic equipment in the chest meant that the figure could not hold normal Micro Change cassettes there, it featured a compartment on its back which could hold a single tape instead. This compartment could still be found on some early releases of Blaster, though it was often mistaken by fans as a vestigial battery compartment, which was actually originally located in the toy's right leg.
- Blaster's finalized character model was apparently not available to artist Don Perlin when he first drew Blaster in the Marvel Comic. While the final model—used in the Generation 1 cartoon, the UK Marvel comics and G.I. Joe and the Transformers—gives Blaster a set of individual eyes, Perlin's interpretation of the toy reference material he had to work with saw him draw Blaster with a goggled visor. Perlin's visored head design would be used throughout the Marvel run, until the last few issues, when UK artists who had taken over drawing the book rendered Blaster with his finalized model's head. Grimlock rationalized this discrepancy early on in the letters page of UK issue #118 by explaining that Blaster's visor is retractable, and used to shield his especially delicate optical sensors from sunlight. Less explainable was Nel Yomtov's color choice for the comic version of Blaster: a red forehead and yellow face, a combination never used on a toy or in the cartoon.
- IDW Publishing tried for a hybridized look, giving Blaster an odd-looking "moustache" that was promptly discarded from his design after his introductory Spotlight issue.
- In an odd quirk of design, Blaster's character model breaks the row of buttons on his abdomen up into three buttons in robot mode, but four in alternate mode. It's a product of the way his toy is made: it's got three separate button-chunks, like his robot mode model, but the centre chunk is two buttons sculpted together, so he's actually got four, like his alternate mode model. This was most evident in the cartoon; in the comic, as you can see from some of the pictures above, they'd often basically draw as many as they felt like.
- Blaster hosted the Marvel UK comic's letters page for the final 33 issues (from issue #300 to issue #332), to tie in with his Action Master toy. Here, the letters page was dubbed "Darn 'n' Blast", replacing Dreadwind's "Dread Tidings", despite Dreadwind's holing himself up in the Marvel offices. The Decepticon finally left after a visit by three Christmas spirits, one of whom took on the appearance of Blaster. Dreadwind's Xmas! Blaster complained that Dreadwind had decorated the office in all purple and orange with a solitary picture of a dog with sad eyes. His characterization in the letters page is more in line with his fun-loving, hip and happening self from the cartoon than the rather grim, brooding, rebellious badass seen in the comics. He arrived on the letters page in advance of his resurrection in the comics itself, which did not occur until issue #321. He was explicitly identified as being a non-transformer Action Master, though his partner Flight Pack did not appear.
- According to Blaster himself on the UK letters page, he has two siblings: Toaster and Karmen. And then there's Bluster, his retroactively-created and less-seen brother.
- Since the release of Universe Blaster, there seems to be an attempt on the part of tech spec writers to balance Marvel's dark and brooding portrayal of Blaster with the rock 'n' roll loving version from the original US cartoon. The Universe write-up has Blaster organizing resistance cells with Perceptor (with NO mention of his musical interests), recalling the storyline in US comic #17-18. The 2010 San Diego Comic Convention release of the figure not only mentions Blaster's love of music ("Any music, from Cybertronian magna marches to down and dirty D.C. hardcore"), it references "his hatred of the Decepticons", because "the war they started killed the music scene (and most of the musicians) on Cybertron"—combining Blaster's varying personalities from these two continuities into one.
- This also means Blaster is a fan of Bad Brains and Minor Threat. That rules so hard.
Foreign names
Blaster
- Japanese: Broadcast (ブロードキャスト Burōdokyasuto), Broadblast (ブロードブラスト Burōdoburasuto), Blaster (ブラスター Burasutā)
- English: Billy (Omni Productions dub),
- Czech: Reprák (Supermax dub, "Speaker")
- French: Tempo (Canada)
- Hungarian: Össztűz ("Bombardment"), Lőmester ("Demolitions-Expert", alternate name used occasionally in the Marvel comics)
- Italian: Radiorobot, Audiobot (The Headmasters)
- Portuguese: Rajada (Portugal comic, "Gust"), Dinamitador (Brazil comic)
- Spanish: Bill (America, The Headmasters), Plato (America, The Headmasters)
- Chinese: Lùyīnjī (China, 录音机, "Recorder"), Shuāng Lǚdài (The Headmasters, 双履带, "Double Pedrail")
Twincast
- Japanese: Twincast (ツインキャスト Tsuinkyasto)
- English: Blaster (Omni Productions dub)
- Italian: Digital
- Spanish: Platon
References
- Featured articles
- Character stubs missing fiction
- Character stubs missing video games
- Action Masters
- Autobirds
- Beast Wars: Uprising Autobots
- Blue Order
- Classics Autobots
- Combat Colin characters
- Communications specialists
- Dreamwave Generation 1 Autobots
- Generation 1 Autobots
- Go! Go! Autobots
- IDW (2005) Autobots
- IDW (2019) Autobots
- Kre-O Autobots
- Kreons
- Letters page answerers
- Lost Light crew
- Marvel Generation 1 Autobots
- Regeneration One Autobots
- TransTech Autobots
- Zombies
