Vehicon

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The term Vehicon refers to a character or group of characters in the Transformers franchise.

History

Generation 1

Animated series

Introduced in Beast Machines, the Vehicons were originally featured as armies of identical, Spark-less drones obedient to Megatron in his dictatorship over Cybertron. They were meant to embody a return to technological purity, as well as Megatron's new vision of a "pure" Cybertron ruled over by a single intelligence: his own. His drones-created from the stolen forms of Cybertronians whose Sparks had been extracted-proceeded to hunt down the few survivors of his transformation-freezing virus, and eventually ambushed Optimus Primal's crew of Maximals upon their arrival. Silverbolt and Rhinox were captured, but the other four escaped and were eventually reformatted by the Oracle. Despite vastly outnumbering their prey, the Vehicon drones proved to be no match for the creativity and cunning of their individually minded opponents.

As such, Megatron took three of his captive Sparks and reprogrammed them, placing them in larger versions of the three breeds of drones he had created to create his Vehicon generals: Tankor, Jetstorm, and Thrust.