Garnak

Garnak is aCollective Brutefrom the2005 IDW portionof theGeneration 1 continuity family.

It's fun to imagine that he sounds likeBill Fagerbakke.OrTaika Waititi.

Garnakis a big dumb lug, only good for taking orders yet just barely qualified to be a janitor. Still, he's friendly enough, especially if you're willing to rescue him from being shipwrecked. He has the ability to heal damage to his body which is good enough to even regrow an eye if necessary.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

TheCollectivesold Garnak and his bossCodderto anIlxianship where Garnak worked as a custodian. At some point, the ship crashed on planetLV-118,killing everyone on board other than him, Codder, and an Ilxian scientist. The Ilxian developed quite an ego, calling himself "Admiral"and ordering Garnak and Codder around during his attempts to repair the ship, but since hewasearnestly trying to get them off the planet, the two listened to him.

After being stuck on the planet for a long time, Garnak and Codder discovered theAutobotRodimuswhen he too crashed in the vicinity, and found him similar to the weird "Jangle Man"who lived on LV-118. Though Garnak wanted to show him to the Jangle Man, Codder thought it better to take him to the Admiral. The Admiral tried to use Rodimus'sMatrixto power the ship, but he resisted and fled, prompting Garnak and Codder to try to recapture him. Garnak followed him to the Jangle Man's wrecked ship, where he was knocked out by the Jangle Man himself and interrogated by Rodimus. After telling Rodimus about how he got there and what he knew about Wheelie, Garnak agreed to be a part of his plan to steal the Admiral's ship. Returning to the Admiral with Rodimus, Garnak tricked him and Codder into coming outside, where Wheelie called on aChaosterosto attack them. While his old companions were fighting off the beast, Garnak boarded their ship with the two Autobots and left the planet.The Stars My Destination

Wheelie steered the ship toCybertron,where after greeting a newly awoken and confused Rodimus, Garnak noted that the Matrix had stopped powering their ship. When the ship was then suddenly broken into, Rodimus sent him to get weapons, and he soon returned and attacked the intruder... who turned out to beIronhide,another Autobot. They were then attacked byGalvatron'sSweepsand forced to go back into space, now with some additional crew members.Out of the Silent Planet

The crew's next destination wasEarth,where the Autobots reunited withOptimus Prime's troops. Garnak was seen sheepishly greeting two tinyhumans,Spike WitwickyandJoe Henderson,and continued to follow Rodimus when he and the other Autobots returned to Cybertron to defeat Galvatron.Orphans of the Helix

As the Autobots reached Cybertron, Rodimus had Garnak tell Optimus Prime andJetfirethat Galvatron was sending them a welcome message from the planet's surface.LamentationsHe remained on boardOmega Supremeas fighting broke out and all flying Autobots attacked Galvatron'sKimia Facility.WhenTrailbreakerwas damaged trying to stop Kimia's cannon from firing, Garnak andSunstreakertook care of him.NumbersHe lived through the crash landing that followed, and helped Sunstreaker load explosives onto his hoverchair in preparation for an attack onDevastator.Kings

After the Chaos war, feeling that Cybertron was no place for him, Garnak joined up with Wheelie andHardheadon their chosen mission to stand guard over the captiveJhiaxus,leaving the planet behind. Some time into their self-imposed exile, a signal fromArduriacaused the mad scientist to begin screaming Orion Pax's name, so Hardhead's team joined up with the former Autobot leader to investigate the planet. Charged with guarding Jhiaxus during the visit to Arduria, Garnak and Wheelie realized they had walked into a Decepticon trap when they were attacked byBludgeon.Although Garnak survived his altercation with the deranged Decepticon, he lost an eye in the process and was unable to stop Bludgeon from freeing Jhiaxus.Syndromica (1)

Pursuing Bludgeon and Jhiaxus, Garnak and co. found themselves on the time-bending planetLV-117.Orion left to investigate, leaving Garnak and Hardhead onArk-27to care for the panicked Wheelie. As they waited, Jhiaxus and Bludgeon appeared and stole a crashed Decepticon cruiser, fleeing the planet. A month later, Orion returned the ship and told his companions as much as he could about his journey through time, and they departed LV-117.Syndromica (2)

Their next port of call wasGorlam Prime,by which point Garnak's eye had healed. There they discovered an immense underground city. It wasn't until they encounteredWaspinatorwho was being attacked byMonstructor,that they discovered the city was actually aTitan.Though the Titan space bridged away, Jhiaxus's plan had been revealed. The planet began to disintegrate, and Garnak and the Autobots piled onto Pax's ship, theSkyroller,intending to escape.Homecoming

As the planet collapsed, theSkyrollerhad trouble escaping the gravity well, until theLost Lightcame to its rescue. Garnak happily embraced Rodimus.Dark DawnWhen Orion went on a mission into theDead Universe,Garnak and Wheelie hung out on theSkyrollerto await his return.Black MetalThey were still there after the defeat ofNova Prime,though the portal to the Dead Universe had shrunken to almost nothing.The Becoming

Years later, Garnak and Wheelie resurfaced under the employ of Prowl andStardriveduring the Autobot tactician's private battle against theMaximalthreat, joining him aboard the starshipPeaceful Revolutionto track their movements across the galaxy. After pursuing them to the planetRegalis V,Garnak helped rescue theThrottlebotsfrom one such Maximal attack.The Dead Come Home, Part 1The Dead Come Home, Part 2

With the Throttlebots now a member of their crew, Prowl and the rest of the crew locked onto the TitanNemesisasUnicronawoke and began his assault on the galaxy; realizing that the Maximals served Unicron, the ship and its crew followed them to the planetDevisiun,though their pitiful numbers proved insignificant against the Maximal hordes besieging the planet allowing Unicron moved to consume the colony.Unstopped and UnstoppableBy the time that Unicron had attacked and destroyed Cybertron, Prowl had already set his ship on course towardsEarth,and, from the ship, Garnak watched in awe as Stardrive deployed herDire Wraithpowers against the Maximal hordes before Unicron teleported into the solar system.Road's End

Unicron began his final approach over Earth, forcing Prowl to catch up with the planet-eater by materializing his ship in Earth's atmosphere... though a miscalculation on the part ofGoldbugmeant that the ship arrived underground, beneathMount Rushmore,not far away fromSlideand her renegadeColonist Soldiers.A Sunrise DarkOnce Prowl helped everyone agree to prioritize the destruction of Unicron, the Autobots and their allies set course for Metroplex, who had teleported himself nearVictoria Falls,where Garnak caught up with some of his Autobot friends.Assembly

Following the final battle for Earth and the destruction of Unicron, Garnak and Wheelie were inTorontowith the rest of Prowl's crew, disembarking from the ship to celebrate their victory.Ceremony

Games

Transformers Roleplaying Game

Garnak and Codder were a pair of troublemaking alien mercenaries.Decepticon Directive

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese:Garnak(ガーナックGānakku)