Team Stunticon

Team Stunticon is aDecepticonsubgroup from theAnimatedcontinuity family.

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Team Stunticonis a traveling "stunt convoy" made up of five Decepticons who were reformatted intoAutobotshells in order to infiltrate the Autobot-heldCybertron.

Their membership includes:

• The Motor Master,the pompous, loudmouthed "leader"
• Breakdown,the neurotic walking bad-luck magnet
• Dead End,the endlessly depressed and depressing "robo-goth"
• Drag Strip,the ticking time-bomb of anger
• Wildrider,the "director" and pyrotechnics expert

Toxitronworks with the Stunticons, but is not strictly considered a member.^{[citation needed]}

Fiction

Animatedcartoon continuity

Shortly afterMegatron's defeat and imprisonment, Team Stunticon was chosen to infiltrate theAutobotsand free their leader. Reformatted into Autobot shells byOil SlickandScalpel,Toxitron's toy bioand joined by one of their cloning experiments, Toxitron, they snuck onto Cybertron posing as an Autobot "Stunt Convoy". They set up shop inKaon,with their first big performance at the oldDecepticon Gladiatorial Arena,whichjust coincidentallywas right next toTrypticon Prison,where Megatron and his top warriors were being held.

Sentinel Magnuswas thrilled to have the stunt show, since it would give him some "bread and circuses" cred with the populace, plus the chance to rub "his" victory in Megatron's face. The show featured Drag Strip as a (reluctant) damsel in distress, hounded by "Decepticons" Dead End, Breakdown and The Motor Master, who would be forced to flee at the sight of Sentinel Magnus, with Toxitron playing the clown (a role that came naturally), delighting Sentinel all the more for the dig atOptimus Prime.As they set up, the Stunticons raided body modification shops, weapon caches, and mining equipment storage units. At the show's opening night, they were set to blow a big hole in Trypticon Prison, free Megatron, and atomize a whole lot of Autobots!

It might have succeeded if not for the intervention of cop-botsSideswipeandCheetor,who were investigating the mod thefts. They interrupted one of the rehearsals and searched the stadium, but only found harmless stage props. Shortly after, the Stunticons raidedIronfist's weapons lab. Toxitron was too slow to escape, and was caught by Sideswipe and Cheetor. But as they were unable to make the charges stick (and the addled clone was frustrating their interrogation techniques with his sheer denseness), they were forced to let him go. This was part of another plan, though; Optimus Prime, doing his own investigation into the Stunticons, had arranged for Toxitron's "release" so he could take his place and spy on the Stunt Convoy up close.

After contacting their commanderStrika,the Stunticons set up for opening night, finishing the tunnel underground and laying atonof explosives set to crack Trypticon "wider thanGrandus's exhaust port ". The show opened to a full stadium, but Sideswipe and Cheetor had figured out their scheme and rushed into the middle of things to stop them. The Stunticons made use of their stolen mods, quickly overpowering the two cop-bots... until the arrival of" Toxitron ", who plowed through the supports for a giant ramp and sent it crashing down on the Decepticons. Optimus revealed himself, plus played back a holographic recording of the Stunticons' conversation with Strika.

Though he was damaged, The Motor Master wasn't down yet, and grabbed Sideswipe as a hostage, threatening to kill him and blow the explosives cache if the Decepticon prisoners were not freed. But Sideswipe grabbed The Motor Master's nearby rocket-axe and sent them both flying backwards into a wall, forcing the detonator out of the Decepticon's hand and knocking him cold.

The Stunticons and Toxitron were quickly locked away in Trypticon, right next to their boss.The Stunti-Con Job