Rotorbolt (Universe)
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- Rotorbolt is a Predacon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Highly intelligent and fairly snooty, Rotorbolt is among the best when it comes to aerial reconnaissance and sneak attacks. His assault helicopter mode is near-silent in flight and almost undetectable, letting him deliver a heavy payload before anyone is even aware he's there. His flying robot mode, however, has an unfortunate physical flaw; his rotors create so much noise that Rotorbolt can barely hear over them, and others can barely hear what he's saying or much of anything in the area. This is a source of considerable embarrassment for the proud air operative, but he soldiers on.
Despite his Predacon allegiance, he does not appear to harbor any particular ill against his Autobot and Maximal teammates in the Wreckers (beyond his natural high opinion of himself and lower opinion of everyone else), though that might merely be a result of the situation that has thrown them together.
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Fiction
3H comics
Rotorbolt had somehow escaped the Vehicon armies of Megatron when the rogue took over Cybertron, joining with the new Wreckers resistance force under circumstances not yet told. He made up the Wreckers' "air support" force along with the Decepticons Cyclonus and Skywarp. Fighting through hordes of Vehicon drones, Rotorbolt made it to the ancient Autobot shuttle the Wreckers had discovered and made it off-planet. Departure
When the Wreckers landed on Archa Nine, Cyclonus assigned Rotorbolt to keep an eye on Packrat, who had recently made himself really unpopular by sacrificing the lives of several other Wreckers during a major ship malfunction. The Wreckers were worried that Packrat would try to steal the Divine Light, a crystal with unknown powers that was the center of the Akalouthans' culture.
During this surveillance on Packrat, while the other Wreckers were occupied elsewhere, Rotorbolt was attacked by Cyclonus, who ripped off his rotor blades and nailed Rotorbolt to the wall with them, then stole the Divine Light himself under orders from Cryotek. Devcon discovered the incapacitated Rotorbolt just before he slipped into stasis lock. Betrayal
Some time later, as the Wreckers' stolen ship was plummeting through Cybertron's recently technorganically-reformatted atmosphere, Arcee pulled Rotorbolt and Fractyl from the ship's life support. Though Rotorbolt was far from being fully repaired, he was wrangled into helping Arcee carry the still-comatose Fractyl down to the planet's surface. He suggested intelligent ways for the Wreckers to repel the Quintesson invasion they'd found themselves in the middle of, but Rodimus had a feeling that their talents were better needed below the planet's surface.
Arcee left Rotorbolt to watch over Fractyl's body as she joined the fight within. Rotorbolt considered shutting off Fractyl's life support; Fractyl was in pain, after all, and ending his life, releasing him to the Allspark, would be considered a kindness. However, Tigatron caught him before he did, and the Maximal used the last of his Vok powers to restore Fractyl to full health.
Not in so great shape himself, Rotorbolt didn't figure strongly into the battles that followed, showing up only as the traitor Cyclonus was about to deliver a killing blow to Rodimus. Aiming to even the score for having been shot in the back by the Decepticon, he used his rotors to shred through Cyclonus's back and blasted off his head. Rotorbolt helped Rodimus, who was clinging to life, return to the others. Rotorbolt joined in the final battle against Cryotek, and Rodimus's dying act was to help vanquish their nemesis to another dimension.
As the victorious Wreckers and their allies returned to the surface, Rotorbolt asked Botanica exactly what she saw in Rattrap. Wreckers: Finale Part II
Toys
Expanded Universe
- While a hand-painted mock-up of Rotorbolt using the Beast Machines Obsidian mold was presented at BotCon 2001 and shown on the official BotCon web site in a catalogue mock-up for the Wreckers team, no toy of Rotorbolt was ever released. The Universe Obsidian toy has a very close coloration to Rotorbolt; as such, many fans use this toy as a surrogate Rotorbolt.
- His comic model was based on the CGI model for Obsidian in the Beast Machines cartoon. At the time the Wreckers storyline was being developed, a Deluxe-level Obsidian toy was being considered for the latter part of the Beast Machines line. 3H intended to use that upcoming mold for a Rotorbolt toy, but with the termination of Beast Machines, that plan clearly couldn't be followed, since the toy in question apparently never got beyond the concept-art phase.
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