Wheeljack
His inventions are brilliant — and occasionally explode. He is the one who built the Dinobots.
Where he comes from
Cybertron. An engineer and inventor from the science labs.
Story
Wheeljack is the Autobots' genius inventor. His devices can turn the tide of battle, but they explode in the lab just as often. He is the one who built the Dinobots, hoping for invincible warriors — and getting unruly ones.
In Transformers: Prime Wheeljack is completely different: a cocky fighter from the elite Wreckers who prefers swords to test tubes. The contrast shows how differently continuities can see the same heroes.
Classifier: traits & abilities
- Faction
- Autobots
- Role
- Engineer, inventor; a Wrecker warrior in Prime
- Alt-modes
- Rally sports car
- Weapons
- Gyro-grenades, his own experimental devices; twin swords in Prime
- Abilities
- Building technology, improvised repairs, creating new robotic life
- Strengths
- Inventiveness, optimism
- Weaknesses
- Risky experiments that often get out of hand
- Personality
- Enthusiastic, curious, a little reckless
- Key relationships
- Ratchet, the Dinobots, Optimus Prime
- First appearance
- 1984
- Voice (G1)
- Chris Latta
Filmography
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1984–1987 | The Transformers (G1) |
| 1986 | The Transformers: The Movie |
| 2010–2013 | Transformers: Prime |
| 2011 | Dark of the Moon (as "Que") |
Main screen appearances; not an exhaustive list.
Fan prequel: «Explosion Number One Hundred»
An original story by this site. Not part of the official canon.
A chart hangs in Wheeljack's lab. It has ninety-nine rows, and each ends with one word: "Exploded."
Colleagues joked that his lab should be moved outside the city. Wheeljack didn't mind. He recorded every blast in detail: what went wrong, what he learned, what he'd try next.
The hundredth entry was different. A small engine built from the debris of earlier failures hummed steadily — and didn't explode. Years later the Dinobots' armour would run on it. "Ninety-nine failures aren't a flop," Wheeljack told his students. "They're ninety-nine lessons that cost me nothing but my eyebrows."
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