Bruton

Bruton is aDestructonfrom theGeneration 1 continuity family.

(Bruton is the tallest alien standing in the back.)

Bruton,a member of theDestructons,is a massive, hulking beast. Possessed of great strength and little apparent brain power, he wields the gigantic, spikedConfusion Club.After eons of imprisonment, he is eager to get to back to smashing things with it.^[1]

Fiction

The Transformers in 3-D

METAL!!! \m/

In the misty past, the Destructons were defeated by theLogiconsand sealed within a dimensional barrier. Bruton appears to have spent most of his time throwing himself against the barrier which sealed them in. Eventually, twoAndegeanscientists stumbled on the barrier and, when they fell under attack from someKalkarsoldiers, were tricked into releasing the Destructons. Bruton wasted no time in using his club on the soldiers, andLord Imperious Deliriousfinished off the last of the scientists. Annoyed by the yammering Logicon warning beacon, Bruton picked it up and tossed it into space.

The message made its way into the hands of theAutobots,who sent teams out to locateMetascan Alpha,home of the Logicons. One of these teams, led byUltra Magnus,reached a remote world only to find it under Destructon attack. The Autobots attacked the four Destructons, and Bruton knockedRepugnusandGrotusqueflying with his club. Realising they were outclassed, the Autobots retreated back to one of the world's moon with the Destructons in pursuit. There the Destructons encounteredCyclonusand theTerrorconsand attacked them too. Bruton destroyed their ship with one blow of his Confusion Club. With little other choice, the Autobot and Decepticons formed a truce, ready to fight the Destructons.The War Against the Destructons, Chapter 1 of 3

Beast Wars: Uprising

Bruton was constructed by theLunartixwho used him and his immense strength as manual labor. Lord Imperious Delirious liberated him from his servitude, and rebuilt him to be a Destructon.Delirious

After she crashed onLGC-8803,Trans-Mutatewas spied on by Bruton.PerceptionOnce she encounteredRampage,Bruton andMedusaattacked. Though Bruton was sent flying by a mighty blow from Rampage, he soon recovered and rendered his foe unconscious. The two Destructons presented their prey to Lord Imperious Delirious, who was unimpressed.Kindred

After apologizing for his treatment of the pair, Bruton served themenergonwhile Lord Imperious explained the Destructons and invited the two Cybertronians to join them. When it looked like the pair were going to turn him down, Bruton and the other Destructons lurked in the background to prevent their escape.DeliriousThe pair proved resistant to the Delirious Fire, so Bruton moved in to attack, only to promptly have a hole blown through him by Rampage. Lord Imperious Delirious later connected Bruton and Medusa up to thenavicomphe'd stolen, intending to use its reformatting protocols on them.Clarity

Bruton gained transformation abilities, although he could only apparently convert into a spiked ball resembling a naval mine. When the crew of theDinosaurarrived on Metascan Omega in response to a distress call by Trans-Mutate, Bruton and the Destructons were waiting for them. They drove the proto-formers away from their shuttle while Imperious attempted to hack into the flight systems for his own purposes. Once theDinosaurcrew hooked up with Rampage and Trans-Mutate, however, they managed a small victory over the Destructons. Bruton's physical body was destroyed while the security specialist,Hard Head,managed to activate the lockdown protocols keeping the Destructons from using the ship.

Undeterred, Lord Imperious Delirious used his technical expertise to murder Hard Head, then incorporate Bruton's programming into the shell of the Predacon's body. He intended to use Bruton to override the lockdown protocols once the procedure was complete. The Cybertronians rallied one last time, however, and so Delirious left Bruton behind to delay them while he escaped in the shuttle. Rampage brought down the shuttle, though, and Lord Imperious Delirious was seemingly killed in the crash.

TheDinosaurhad been experiencing its own problems, and crash as well, reforming into city mode to become a new Cybertronian colony on Metascan Omega. With nowhere else to go, Bruton became a resident of the new Dinosaur City, working as a laborer to help the Cybertronians establish their new home.Intersectionality

Ask Vector Prime

InAurex 404.11 Kappa,Vector Prime's Autobots dealt with many threats including the Destructons.Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/12

Notes

• At theBotCon 2014retrospective panel, it was revealed byPete Sinclairthat there were two Bruton figures planned as exclusives with both being categorized in the "what we almost got" group. The proposals included using theGenerations: Fall of CybertronGrimlockandPrime: First EditionBulkheadmolds (both Voyager Class). To explain why they did not get produced, Pete Sinclair asked the audience how many of them knew who Bruton was, with only one person raising their hand, thus demonstrating the character's obscurity as the reason.^[2]

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