He was then mobbed and taken down by Wheeljack, Bumblebee and various members of G. I.

Tired of Prime's pacifistic approach to protecting Earth, Grimlock was joined by several older Autobots like Prowl and Wheeljack, who had just recently been reactivated, and longed for the older, simpler days.

Optimus Prime deemed them too dangerous to use again, and had them sealed back up in the cavern, but when the majority of the Autobot force was captured by the Decepticons, Wheeljack freed them to go to their rescue.

Ginrai persisted, and the Autobots relented ; Perceptor and Wheeljack initiated the process, and God Ginrai's body was completely reconfigured into the new form of the lion-bot, Victory Leo.

The annual story " The Magnificent Six " revealed that four million years ago, Jazz was teamed with Inferno, Ironhide, Wheeljack and Sunstreaker and had been tortured by the sadistic Decepticon Megadeath in the Stanix region.

Jazz was left in charge of the Ark, with Brawn, Ratchet, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Wheeljack and Windcharger assigned to him.

Ironhide did not feature prominently in the following instalment, The Transformers: Devastation, but his wreck was rescued from a junkyard by Hot Rod, Wheeljack and Hardhead.

A short time later, however, Skyfire was recovered by Wheeljack and Sideswipe, and immediately participated in an attack on the Decepticons in Peru, where the antagonists were once again attempting to use the Earth's core energy for their own means.

Wheeljack was one of the favorite Autobots of IGN.

Wheeljack was one of the original Autobot Transformers, making his first appearance in issue 1 of the original Marvel Comics Transformers series.

In the initial four issue limited series produced by Marvel, Wheeljack was part of Prime ’ s elite crew that crash landed on Earth.

Shortly after, Wheeljack was severely injured in a Decepticon attack in issue 41.

Wheeljack met another end at the hands of the Decepticons in issue 80, but was restored by the " Last Autobot ".

In the Marvel U. K. comics, he was one of five injured Autobots who were accidentally reactivated by Galvatron when he probed their dreams looking for possible troops ; it was revealed that soon after Jetfire was given life by the Matrix, Wheeljack almost betrayed him to the Decepticons in return for technology and felt shame over this.

Wheeljack was severely damaged by the Quintessons in the six-part future arc Space Pirates.

Wheeljack, who was voiced by Chris Latta, was the first Transformer ever shown in the Generation 1 cartoon series.

Wheeljack was the primary architect of the Dinobots, although they rarely seemed to have any particular affinity for him.

In The Transformers: The Movie, set in the year 2005, Wheeljack was assigned to Autobot City on Earth.

Wheeljack was presumed killed in the invasion of Autobot City by Megatron ’ s forces, and his injured or possibly deceased body is dragged to cover by Arcee.

Wheeljack was featured in the 1985 Find Your Fate Junior book called Dinobots Strike Back by Casey Todd.

Wheeljack was a scientist turned soldier on Cybertron at the dawn of the Autobot and Decepticon civil war.

In issue # 36, Wheeljack called his old friend Sky Lynx for help in order to save a group of human kids from Grimlock.

Wheeljack, along with Perceptor and Minerva were called upon to save God Ginrai, who they converted into Victory Leo.

In " Hurt ", Wheeljack is called in when he learns that Bulkhead has been injured.

Wheeljack, along with Perceptor and Minerva were called upon to save God Ginrai, who they converted into Victory Leo.

Windcharger's body is dragged to cover by Arcee next to Wheeljack, ( who looks deceased in a similar way, their bodies not changing colour to the grey black associated with Transformers when they die ), during the Battle of Autobot City.

Although Wheeljack thought this would impress Grimlock by reducing their dependence on human help, Grimlock seemed to think the Autobots should just take what they need from the humans.

Intrigued by the creatures, and with additional knowledge supplied by Spike, Wheeljack and Ratchet created three " Dinobots "-Grimlock, Slag and Sludge.

Following Thrust through a warp gate and briefly reuniting with Alexis, Starscream entered the belly of the beast along with Hot Shot and Wheeljack, but the unlikely trio were stymied by Unicron's internal defenses and failed to stop Sideways from using the weapons to begin Unicron's reactivation.

In IDW Publishing's The Transformers: Infiltration mini-series, Jazz is part of an infiltration unit consisting of Ratchet, Ironhide, Wheeljack, Bumblebee and Sunstreaker, led by Prowl.

In the follow-up series, The Transformers: Escalation, after the supposed demise of Sunstreaker, Jazz and Wheeljack tracked down his body — only to be temporarily disabled by the advanced weaponry of the Machination ( although Jazz ' pride took more of a dent ).

In IDW Publishing's new The Transformers: Infiltration mini-series, Ironhide is part of an infiltration unit consisting of Ratchet, Wheeljack, Jazz, Bumblebee and Sunstreaker, led by Prowl.

He first disguises as Wheeljack to open the gate to Starscream's army so they can attack the autobots by their base.

He is placed in charge of reformatting Wheeljack into an Earth-vehicle mode, then later repairs Rodimus ' hand ( by replacing it with a saw-weapon ).

Wheeljack is the mechanical engineer and scientist of the Autobots in the Transformers television and comic series based on the popular toy line produced by Takara and Hasbro.

Although Wheeljack thought this would impress Grimlock by reducing their dependence on human help, Grimlock seemed to think the Autobots should just take what they need from the humans.

* Energon contains perhaps the most homages to Generation 1 Transformers in any subsequent line, with toys featuring similarities to classic figures such as Omega Supreme, Skids, Wheeljack, Galvatron and Ravage.

In issue # 32, titled " Used Autobots ", Wheeljack completed work on his Geothermal Generator, which used the heat from the volcano the Ark had crashed in to generate energon cubes.

" In the story Optimus Prime and his Autobots ( Bumblebee, Jazz and Wheeljack ) battle Megatron and his Decepticons ( Soundwave and Starscream ) when Optimus runs out of gas.

Later, Arcee, Skids, Mudflap, Sideswipe, Jolt, Wheeljack, Mirage and the Wreckers come to Earth.

In Transformers: Dark of the Moon the Autobots, now consisting of Bumblebee ( no longer Sam's guardian for an unspecified reason ), Que / Wheeljack, Sideswipe, Dino / Mirage, Ironhide, Optimus, Ratchet and the Wreckers investigate alien activity around the world and have set up Energon Detectors in all the major cities in order to detect Decepticon activity.

He also provided the voice for Wheeljack, a heroic Autobot scientist, the Autobots ' human friend Sparkplug Witwicky, and Gung Ho, a burly, rough and tumble G. I.

His body utterly shattered, even Autobot scientists Perceptor and Wheeljack were unable to restore his mobility.

Rodimus had Wheeljack reprogram Teletraan to only answer to them two.

Forming Bruticus, the Combaticons defeated Jazz, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Wheeljack and Windcharger.

Eventually they rejoined Windcharger and Wheeljack, and all rejoined Ratchet on board the Autobot ship Orion ( Transformers: Generation One vol.

He and Wheeljack managed to put Skywarp to flight, but he promised to return with reinforcements.

During the Cybertronian War's earlier years, a younger Kup served alongside Ironhide and Wheeljack under the command of Grimlock.

Optimus Prime leads Bumblebee, Drift, Kup, Prowl, Ratchet and Wheeljack in Las Vegas when a Cybertronian ship crashes containing Galvatron, Cyclonus, Scourge and an infestation of zombies from another universe.