Strafe is an Autobot warrior and a member of the Technobots sub-group. While he may be one of the nicest Transformers one would ever meet, he is prone to nervousness which, coupled with an itchy trigger-finger, can make him unapproachable. He has been known to start shooting wildly at the drop of a hat, just because someone tried to get his attention. In spite of his manic shooting sprees, Strafe is a remarkable marksman and can hit the head off a screw from two miles away with his heat-ray rifle.
History[]
The Transformers (G1 cartoon)[]
Strafe and the other Technobots first appeared in the Season 3 episode "Grimlock's New Brain". In fact, it was Grimlock - temporarily blessed with super-intelligence - who created the Technobots in the first place. While the Autobots were battling the Decepticons on the exterior of Unicron's head, Grimlock entered the Chaos-Bringer's cranium and built five new robots from various scattered parts. Shortly after Strafe was built, Unicron awoke and his internal defences activated. Strafe transformed into his jet-mode and destroyed the defence systems. Later, he proved himself in battle against the Decepticons and joined with his teammates to form Computron in order to defeat Abominus.
In the episode "Money is Everything", Strafe the other Technobots were assigned to an Earth Defense Command science unit in order to learn how to interact with humans. When reports came in from EDC headquarters of an unknown spacecraft entering the planet's atmosphere, Strafe joined Scattershot and Marissa Faireborn in investigating, and in his eagerness for some action, Strafe wound up opening fire on the craft.
Strafe was too busy watching the ship crash and congratulating himself to notice that the ship had actually been pursued by Hun-Gurr of the Terrorcons, who took both him and Scattershot down, but the pair were saved from the two-headed terror by the timely arrival of the rest of their Technobot comrades. The crashed ship's owner, unscrupulous trader Dirk Manus, agreed to lead the heroes to a hidden Quintesson base he had discovered on Titan, and Strafe, Scattershot and Lightspeed set off with him the next day. Strafe had little patience for Lightspeed's rambling on the beauty of space, but soon found himself something much worse to complain about when the team was ambushed by Abominus and sent plummeting to the moon's surface. Nosecone, Afterburner and Faireborn soon arrived to help, rescuing the group from the Sharkticons; they headed for the Quintesson base. In route, Strafe "saved" Marissa from some aggressive vines by wantonly opening fire on them.
Manus took Marissa hostage and handed them over to the Quintessons, the Technobots' injuries having left them unable to combine. However, the whole thing was a complex double-cross by Manus, eager for revenge on the Quintessons following a deal gone wrong; he used the molecular disassembler/reassembler known as the Recreator to heal Strafe and the Technobots' injuries, and they defeated Abominus and the Quintessons.
Transformers: The Headmasters[]
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Marvel Comics[]
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Marvel UK[]
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Regeneration One[]
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IDW Publishing[]
2005[]
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2019[]
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Abilities[]
- Alt-Mode - Strafe transforms into a Cybertronian "rocket-plane" that is capable of both ground and air travel. While hovering across the ground, he can achieve a maximum speed of 250 mph. In the air, his retro-rocket boosters allow him to travel up to 580 mph with a 3000 mile range.
- Ultra-maneuverability - In all his modes, Strafe exhibits lightning-fast reflexes. He can outmaneuver a heat-seeking missile and make a right turn at maximum flying speed in the space of a quarter-mile.
- Heat-ray Rifle - A thermal energy weapon with a two-mile range.
- Light-pulse Rifles - These two energy rifles can be used either in robot or vehicle mode.
- Gestalt Component - Strafe forms the left arm of Computron.