Needlenose (Transformers)
Needlenose is a fictional character from the Transformers series. He is a Decepticon double Targetmaster who turns into a jet and was introduced in 1988.
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Transformers: Generation 1
Needlenose is a Decepticon jet and double Targetmaster.
The coolest Decepticon ever to crush an Autobot. Believes the secret to being bad is to be "BAD". Trendy. Fascinated by Earthly fads. Always tries to fit in, even when it's impossible. So busy being cool he seldom joins in battle. Teamed with Sunbeam, a solar powered beach bum who transforms into a light burst discharger and Zigzag, who transforms into a slightly-inaccurate, twin elecrtostatic overloader rifle.
Marvel Comics
Needlenose appeared in issue #229 and #239 of the UK Marvel Comics Transformers comic, but he used guns that did not appear to be his Targetmaster partners.
Needlenose appeared in the "Matrix Quest" story working for Thunderwing in issues #62-#65. He carries two guns that look like his Targetmaster partners, but they never spoke or transformed.[1]
Needlenose and his Targetmasters had a biography printed in the back of issue #64 of the US Marvel Transformers comic. [2]
Animated series
Although the animated series ended in the US before Needlenose was released, he appeared in animated form along with the Double Targetmasters in commercials for the toys. While an animated Transformers series continued in Japan at the time, the Double Targetmasters were not released in Japan, and therefore didn't make it to television there.
Condor Verlag
In a story called "By their Blasters you shall know them ...!" from Transformers Comic-Magazin issue #12 by German comic publisher Condor Verlag Optimus Prime instructs Backstreet, Bumblebee and Ruckus on how to identify Autobots from Decepticons in battle using the Ark's computer. Needlenose is one of those he displayed to the Autobots.[3]
Dreamwave Productions
Needlenose and his Targetmasters did not appear in Dreamwave comics fiction but did receive a biography in issue #4 of their Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye series.[4]
Fun Publications
Crankcase, Ruckus and Needlenose were referenced in Around Cybertron by Fun Publications where they attacked a waste depot that they mistook for an energon refinery in Axion Nexus.[5]
Needlenose and his two Targetmasters appeared in the Fun Publications story "Cheap Shots", where they were employed by Ruckus as part of the Mayhem Attack Squad against the Autobot Nightbeat.[6]
IDW Publishing
Needlenose appeared in The Transformers: Spotlight issue #11 on Blaster.
Toys
- Generation 1 Needlenose with Sunbeam and Zigzag (1988)
- Came with his two Targetmaster partners.
References
- ↑ Transformers 62 (January 1990), Marvel Comics
- ↑ Transformers 64 (March 1990), Marvel Comics
- ↑ Robert Mann (w). "By their Blasters you shall know them ...!" Transformers Comic-Magazin 12 (December 1990), Condor Verlag
- ↑ Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye 5 (September 4, 2003), Dreamwave Productions
- ↑ http://rid-nightviper.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d1wtvpz
- ↑ Forest Lee (w), Dan Khanna (p), Jake Isenberg (i). "Cheap Shots" Transformers: Timelines v2, (October 27, 2008), Fun Publications
