Ratchet
Grumbles at every patient, yet can fix almost anything — from punctured armour to a damaged spark.
Where he comes from
Cybertron. A medic since before the war, who treated workers and soldiers alike.
Story
Ratchet is the Autobots' chief medical officer. He grumbles at every patient, argues with Optimus and complains about a lack of tools, yet no wounded soldier has ever gone without his help.
In Transformers: Prime Ratchet becomes the heart of the base — scientist, engineer and mentor — who eventually learns to respect the humans he at first wanted nothing to do with.
Classifier: traits & abilities
- Faction
- Autobots
- Role
- Chief medical officer, engineer
- Alt-modes
- Ambulance, search-and-rescue vehicle
- Weapons
- Rarely fights; saws and arm blasters in the films
- Abilities
- Repairing complex systems, spark surgery, diagnostics
- Strengths
- Knowledge, precision, devotion to patients
- Weaknesses
- Limited combat training, sharp tongue
- Personality
- Grumpy, caring, experienced
- Key relationships
- Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Wheeljack
- First appearance
- 1984
- Voice (G1)
- Don Messick
Filmography
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1984–1987 | The Transformers (G1) |
| 1986 | The Transformers: The Movie |
| 2007 | Transformers |
| 2007–2009 | Transformers: Animated |
| 2009 | Revenge of the Fallen |
| 2010–2013 | Transformers: Prime |
| 2011 | Dark of the Moon |
| 2014 | Age of Extinction |
Main screen appearances; not an exhaustive list.
Fan prequel: «The Nameless Patient»
An original story by this site. Not part of the official canon.
In the first month of the war a soldier with no insignia was carried into Ratchet's clinic. The armour was so burnt it was impossible to tell whether he was Autobot or Decepticon.
The assistants demanded they find out whose side he was on first. Ratchet replied that a spark doesn't care what colour the paint is, and worked on him all night.
In the morning the patient opened his eyes, looked at the emblems on the walls and left in silence as soon as he could stand. Ratchet never learned whom he had saved. But ever since, a sign hangs over the door of every clinic he runs: "We heal here. Questions later."
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