As Hot Shot struggled through his injuries and limped through the refinery to save Side Swipe, Thrust, who had been watching the confrontation, attacked the helpless Autobot. In a touch of what he perceived to be poetic justice, Wheeljack left Side Swipe restrained to the main oil tank in the middle of the blazing inferno, as he believed Hot Shot would abandon his new friend just as he allegedly did to Wheeljack on Cybertron. At that moment, the hapless Side Swipe attempted to save Hot Shot, only to be taken hostage by Wheeljack, who shot Hot Shot in the leg before daring him to save his young friend from the burning refinery. Once again, Hot Shot tried to explain what had really happened and asked for forgiveness, but the Decepticon was both unwilling to listen and had been too bitter for too long to simply let bygones be bygones. Later, as Hot Shot tried to deal with these revelations, Wheeljack challenged his friend to a showdown at an abandoned oil refinery. "This is what you get for stealing my G1 reference!" He's accompanied by his Mini-Con partner Wind Sheer, who also used to be allied with the Autobots, but followed Wheeljack over to the Decepticons. His one-track mind of revenge and destruction leads to irrationality, and failure to make educated decisions. Though his dedication is one of his greatest strengths, it is also his greatest weakness. He's a skilled soldier with many tricks up his sleeve, and his primary set of weapons are his energy batons. He mistakenly believes, though, that Hot Shot was the fault of it, who frequently tries to attempt to explain what really happened on the field of battle on that fateful day, to little avail. He now has a burning hatred for his former teammates, accurately believing them to be the cause of his abandonment. Damaged and betrayed, he was rescued by Megatron and indoctrinated into the Decepticons, and he eventually became one of their most stalwart soldiers. These beliefs were eventually crushed, however, when he was abandoned on the battlefield by his platoon. Good humored, and confident in his belief that his comrades were as good as they come, he was one of the best Autobots there were. No, long ago he was an Autobot, and a close friend of Hot Shot. Wheeljack isn't here for friends anymore, he's here to enact revenge. In the end, while it may seem like this new Wheeljack is continuing a trope, it could be a means to reinvent it once again."My vengeance will be long-winded and repetitive!" In this case, this new Wheeljack could bring a fresh yet similar personality in which the Autobot could grow from a timid hero into a confident and skilled inventor. While his attitude will be nearly unrecognizable from what came before, a missed opportunity could bring a new one. As of now, this was likely the same Autobot set to appear in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, but his change in design and vehicle has yet to be explained. Sadly, he was executed before his full potential could be shown on screen.īumblebee was the first time the character was shown with screen accuracy and survived the War of Cybertron. While Que was the team's inventor, like Wheeljack, he was much older and resembled Albert Einstein. But in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, he was repurposed into a character named Que. He was murdered in The Transformers: The Movie alongside other beloved Autobots. In the Transformers movie canon, Wheeljack never got a proper time to shine.
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