Hot Shot (G1)

Hot Shot is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Why aren't I Velocitronian?

Hot Shot is an honorable warrior deft in stylish battle. Despite his secret destiny for future leadership, he still requires much advice from his senior comrades.

His partner is Jolt.

Fiction

Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga

They buried me with the rest of Armada, but I'm back anyway!

Hot Shot was dug up from the ground, stuck in stasis lock, by the Mini Vehicles, just before the buried body of Dinobot was also discovered. As Hot Shot slowly gained consciousness, Dinobot began to attack the others, until finally Hot Shot (and his Mini-Con, Jolt) faced Dinobot in battle. As Hot Shot performed stylish moves, Dinobot suggested the two battle for leadership. However, Hot Shot declined Dinobot's offer and suggested instead they team up and make peace.

Hot Shot returned with Dinobot to Autobot headquarters, where Grimlock quickly ruined Hot Shot's plan by suggesting that Grimlock and Dinobot play at battle with each other. Henkei! Henkei! volume 11

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2005 IDW continuity

Cybertronian

An alternate, dystopian timeline in which everyone is Hot Shot!

Early in the war, a familiar yellow Autobot was destroyed by Drag Strip in the front lines of battle. Drift #2

The Functionist Universe

In an altered timeline in which the war was averted, Hot Shot watched in confusion as a data slug Transformer was remotely executed by the Functionists in a mass recall. Prior to this, another robot matching Hot Shot's appearance was seen milling around in Iacon's spaceport. The Custom-Made Now

Camien

He's alive and he's in charge of important stuff. Uh oh.

An equally-familiar yellow robot named Hot Shot worked as a Cityspeaker on the planet Caminus alongside Lightbright. First Contact The two attempted to translate Caminus's warnings as Menasor and Swindle arrived on their planet to loot it for spoils. Though Caminus was helpless against Menasor, Windblade returned to Cybertron to tell Hot Shot and the other members of the Council of Voices that Superion was on his way and he was on their side. Once Menasor was defeated, the Mistress of Flame led Hot Shot and his peers to meet Optimus Prime, the last living Prime, and they all bowed before him. The Sum and Its Parts

As the two societies mingled, Hot Shot and Lightbright were interviewed by Circuit and Longtooth, and as they happily introduced themselves, they wondered if any of the Cybertronians they were meeting were also Cityspeakers. The Possible Light

Velocitronian

Yet another Hot Shot doppelganger lived on Velocitron. After Unicron devoured his homeworld, Rom and Sata glimpsed his corpse next to the dead bodies of Override and Cliffjumper. Our Darkest

Seriously, there are a lot of Hot Shots, folks.

My Little Pony/Transformers

Scootaloo befriended Hot Shot and his friends shortly after arriving on Cybertron. Later, Rubble used him as a skateboard when the group met up with Arcee and Greenlight. A Real Mother

2019 IDW continuity

Hot Shot was a member of the Wreckers, a covert operations team disguised as a traveling stunt show. They were active among and between the Cybertronian colonies after the War of the Threefold Spark. Ricochet and his partner Ricochet were the main talent in the act and they shared a competitive dynamic over which one was faster and better (both on and off camera). One of the Wreckers' broadcasts was interrupted by dissidents on Velocitron called Mayhem, who objected to the position of First Senator being picked by the outcome of the Speedia 500 race, and promised to disrupt it. Wreckers leader Thunder Clash brought the stunt show to Velocitron after that and entered the team in the race as a show of support for Velocitron (and to get close to the action to stop Mayhem). Tread & Circuits Part 1

Before the race, the Wreckers did recon of the other competitors, suspicious that Mayhem may have an inside 'bot at the Speedia. Hot Shot kept an eye on Override, but concluded she was mostly harmless. Their recon was interrupted when the Wreckers' chronicler Circuit spotted Mayhem in the city, but was sniped and critically injured. Minerva took to watching over Circuit as the other Wreckers gathered at the starting line and the Speedia 500 began. Tread & Circuits Part 2

Thunder Clash gave Ricochet and Hot Shot permission to go all out in the race. They found themselves neck-and-neck with the dirty trickster called Drag Strip. Mayhem attacked the race course, causing an avalanche which Drag Strip negotiated around. Hot Shot gave Ricochet a boost over the rubble, but they were targeted by Mayhem's Thunderblast and Slugslinger from the air. Hot Shot took a hit, but the rest of the racers caught up, leading to an all-out melee. Aileron gave Hot Shot a lift into the skies before dropping him back down on top of Slugslinger. He even had time to smile for the camera and flash the Wreckers' symbol before striking the terrorist. The remaining racers dragged themselves across the finish line, but even the arrival of Security Operations didn't stop Mayhem from escaping. Tread & Circuits Part 3

Days later, the racers gathered at the Velocitronian Senate as the winner Knock Out was sworn in as the new First Senator. Mayhem made another strike at the ceremony, and Ricochet and Hot Shot got a rematch with Thunderblast and Slugslinger. They tag-teamed the terrorists and knocked them out, but Minerva ended up being arrested under suspicion of attacking the First Senator. With Minerva incarcerated and Circuit passing away from his injuries, the Wreckers questioned whether they should go on. Although their stunt show went on hiatus, Thunder Clash tried to boost his troops' spirits by suggesting a recruitment drive for the future. Tread & Circuits Part 4

Velocitron Speedia 500 Special Comic

Hot Shot was one of many spectators for the Speedia 500 race on Velocitron. Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 2

Toys

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• Cybertron Hot Rod (2009)

• ID number: C-17
• Release date: March 12, 2009
• Accessories: 2 missile launchers, 2 flame missiles

Released in the eleventh wave of Takara's Henkei! Henkei! line, "Cybertron Hot Rod" is a redeco and retool of Universe Deluxe Class Hot Shot, using chrome for his exposed engine block. Unlike the Hasbro version which sticks relatively close to the original Hot Shot's toy color scheme, Takara's version switches the desaturated blue plastic used for the forearms and feet with gray plastic, matching the Armada cartoon colors more closely. Both the yellow and the red plastic are lighter shades than the Universe version (the red more so than the yellow), and the clear blue is darker. Almost every paint deco is a different color on the Henkei figure compared to the Universe version, and the Henkei figure has some additional paint where the Universe lacks (and vice versa). Whereas the Hasbro release's license plate sported a "JAAM" nod, the Henkei version instead features the character's name, "Hot Rod".

The Henkei version retains the missile launchers dropped from the Hasbro release, plus the rear bumper features a molded gap in it that allows it to accommodate the missile launchers as his exhaust. Both the missile launchers (minus the handles and triggers) and the exposed engine are chromed. The missile launchers can either be hand-held or mounted to his forearms. The missiles are sculpted to resemble fiery blasts, and they were originally intended by Hasbro to be tinted orange (to work with their idea of Hot Shot as a fire-type character). Instead, they are painted over clear blue on the exposed parts.

He also comes with his Mini-Con partner Jolt, who can attach to Hot Rod's car-mode back end.

Hot Rod's prototype featured transparent plastic on his side windows to match his windshield and rear window, but was replaced with painted opaque windows on the final toy.

This version of the Hot Shot mold was also used to make Timelines Dion.

Generations Selects

• Hot Shot (Deluxe Class, 2019)

• Series: War for Cybertron: Siege
• ID number: WFC-GS09
• Accessories: "W-5 Holo-Beam Refraction Blaster," "RT-10 IR Electro-Scope Launcher," ammo clip (combine to form "HD Vector-Beam Mega-Blaster")
• Known designers: AJ Piejko-Brown (packaging)

A Generations Selects special release in Siege, Hot Shot is a new head retool of Deluxe Class Autobot Hound with a paintjob homaging his Cybertron counterpart's Cybertron Defense Deluxe figure, and transforms from robot to Cybertronian jeep and back. He includes the "W-5 Holo-Beam Refraction Blaster" and "RT-10 IR Electro-Scope Launcher," which are compatible with the C.O.M.B.A.T. System, and can combine to form the "HD Vector-Beam Mega-Blaster," or can be mounted onto his shoulder. The Refraction Blaster comes with a detachable ammo clip, which can be stored in the bed of the jeep. Unlike most Selects redecoes, Hot Shot features "battle damage" paint applications on his bullbar and shins. He also has multiple hardpoints all over himself and his weapons to accommodate "Fire Blasts" from the Battle Masters assortment, which can be used to simulate blaster fire or explosions.

His vehicle mode has a sculpted winch, in the center of which is a hole. If some thread is fed through, this makes his winch somewhat functional.

Hot Shot debuted from Entertainment Earth at New York Comic Con 2019, also sold online by Hasbro Pulse in the USA and Canada. In the latter country, he was also available at EB Games stores.

Hound's package art, first seen at Summer Wonder Festival 2018,^[1] depicts Hound with a head resembling that of his Cybertron Defense Figure, foreshadowing the retool.

Notes

• For a good long time, this page was at "Hot Rod (Henkei!)", because he had never made any named Generation 1 continuity appearances in English-language fiction, and it is TFWiki's policy to use any official alternate names until that happens. "Hot Rod" is the character's Japanese name, as it was the Armada character's Japanese name, and if you were curious, that didn't conflict with the Generation 1 character Hasbro audiences know as Hot Rod because his name in Japan is "Hot Rodimus". Though it took years, Hot Shot's inclusion in the Combiner Wars storyline finally got him an English name.^[2]
• The possibility exists that the Henkei iteration is not a new character after all, since his "origin" consists of him being dug out of the ground. Could he be the Unicron Trilogy character, warped into the Henkei! Henkei! universe somehow? We'll never know...
• A Hot Shot showed up to die in Drift #2 because someone convinced artist Alex Milne to draw him as a casualty, noting that it would make David Willis mad. Milne drew him into the story based on his dislike of Armada and reasoning that the character would not be one used again in the continuity.^[3] Because it was a Generation 1-based story, the incident is documented here, rather than on Armada Hot Shot's page.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Hot Rod (ホットロッド Hotto Roddo), Hot Shot (ホットショット Hotto Shotto)
• Mandarin: Jīshè (Taiwan, 激射, "Passionate Shot")

References