Al-badur

Al-badur is a Quintesson from the cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Look out, he's going to reconcile the Quintesson and Primus origins!

Al-badur, Second Triarch of the Fifth Cybertronian Section, is an ancient Quintesson who was banished into another dimension (planet) by his comrades for being a criminal. The exact nature of his crime was questioning the will of his superiors.

He got off light, though. After all, they could have fed him to the Sharkticons.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

After the Autobots discovered the secret chamber in Planetary Corridor CB-311-B4, Rewind examined the hieroglyphics and learned that the room was used by the Quintessons to banish their criminals to other dimensions. The writings on the wall said that Al-badur was banished to an ice world. Madman's Paradise

3H comics

After a crippling betrayal on Akalo, Primal Prime led his Wreckers to a distant, icy world to where the Oracle had guided him for further assistance. The Wreckers were surprised to find Al-badur there, and though Rodimus and Arcee were immediately suspicious of the Quintesson, Primal Prime allowed him to explain himself.

Al-badur detailed at length the history of Quintessons on Cybertron and how this history intertwined with Primus, the origin of the Transformers, and Vector Sigma. It was then that Primal Prime and Apelinq realized that the Oracle, which sent the Wreckers on their original quest, was none other than a shell program the Quintessons had installed on Vector Sigma millions of years ago to control it.

This epiphany shocked the group to their core, but soon the group was under attack by Sharkticons. Who sent them was unknown, though they seemed to be after Al-badur. Reluctantly, the Wreckers fought back the Sharkticon army to protect the annoying little scientist. Despite several complaints, Al-badur was escorted by the Wreckers off the planet in the hopes that he could shed light on other mysteries, such as the importance of their target artifact, the Divine Light. Disclosure

Realizing the Oracle's primary goal had been to rid Cybertron of possible defenders, the Wreckers turned their ship around and proceeded full speed back home. They arrived just as the Quintesson invasion of Cybertron was entering full swing. Al-badur warned them, however, that the Quintessons' plans were ultimately predictable and pedestrian. Whatever machinations Cryotek was unfolding with the Divine Light beneath the surface should be their true focus.

Sure enough, Cryotek evolved into a god-like being through Primus's divine power, and only a similar transformation merging Apelinq and Primal Prime into Sentinel Maximus gave the Wreckers a guardian capable of fighting him off. At Al-badur's direction, Sentinel Maximus led the Predacon crime boss into a Quintesson "execution chamber". In fact, the treacherous squid was planning to rid himself of them all. The room was actually a banishing chamber, the same used against him by his own brethren millennia ago. Al-badur commanded the Wreckers to hold Cryotek in place, so that he could trigger the room's containment fields around them, sending all the Cybertronians through a portal to Primus knew where. Vague memories of an earlier Autobot adventure alerted Arcee to the Quintesson's treachery fast enough for her to get everyone but Sentinel Maximus and Cryotek off the platform in time.

With the containment field preventing any attempts of rescue by the Wreckers, Al-badur cackled with glee as his prey tried valiantly to keep from being sucked into the portal. His mirth was cut short, however, by the arrival of Ramulus. The Maximal goat gave in to a long-running desire and belted the Quintesson with all his might, sending the scientist through the field and helplessly down through the portal. On the other side, Al-badur's form broke down and disintegrated within the void. Wreckers: Finale Part II