Mudslinger (G1)

Mudslinger is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

"Everybody says they don't like me, but who do they all come to in election season?"

Mudslinger doesn't respond well to even friendly criticism. He's got a chip on his shoulder bigger than his monster tires, and a need to prove his toughness to the world. Unfortunately, this tends to be in the form of breaking cover and charging headlong into battle when the Off Road Patrol is supposed to be keeping covert. Highjump is particularly annoyed by this unprofessional and dangerous behavior, and Powertrain’s careful attempts to talk to Mudslinger about it have yet to yield any positive result. It’s especially frustrating for the team since Mudslinger is actually very good at camouflage when he puts his mind to it.^[1]

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel The Transformers comics

Alongside the rest of the Off Road Patrol, Mudslinger was summoned to Earth by Optimus Prime to serve as reinforcements for the Autobots stationed on the planet. He was as rebellious as the rest of 'em, immediately explaining that the only reason they even came was to get some action. For their first mission, the Off Road Patrol was sent to investigate some supposed "monsters" in the swamps of New Jersey, and Mudslinger soon stumbled upon the Decepticons Skullgrin and Iguanus. Not fearing the larger Transformers one bit, he leapt into action and saved Cecilia Santiago from their grasp. After he was joined by his teammates, Mudslinger wrecked the weather-control device Skullgrin was guarding, but unfortunately the forces of nature were too far along to stop. Luckily, the Race Car Patrol were able to stop the Decepticons from collecting the storm's energies in the Big Apple, foiling their plot utterly. After the mission's completion, the Micromasters regrouped at the base of the Empire State Building, where Optimus offered to pick them up, so they could avoid any trouble from the local law enforcement agents. The Micromasters refused Optimus's help, preferring to instead act as an independent unit and deal with such matters their own way. King Con!

Both the Race Car Patrol and the Off Road Patrol decided to stay and live in New York City afterwards. During their stay, the Micromasters began fighting human crime. At one point, Mudslinger served as a prison transport for Tailspin to throw crooks into. The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship!

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Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Legends comic

Mudslinger was among the Micromasters who founded the planet Micro under the leadership of Hot Rod. Tailgate/G1 Mini-Con Chapter He stood by Hot Rod when he tried to convince Blurr to become a Micromaster. Bonus Edition Vol. 25

Zone story pages

When Victory Saber initiated the "Zone Project", the Off Road Patrol helped rebuild planet Micro into the new and improved planet Zone. To counter this threat, Violengiguar began conquering worlds to build his own Decepticon Zone. All the Micromaster teams, including the Off Road Patrol, were then mobilized to patrol the galaxy, specifically planets where their special abilities would be most useful. Early on, the Off Road Patrol were sent to scout a rocky, mountainous planet. Zone Part 1

Later, King Poseidon and Trypticon were sent to conquer the aquatic world of Wall. The Off Road Patrol engaged them in battle and with the help of Commanders Overload, Erector, Missile Bull, and Skywave, they emerged triumphant. Zone Part 3

When the Powered Masters flew off to the Tenth Planet for their showdown with Violengiguar, all the Micromaster teams took command of Zone and vowed to keep it safe in their Commander's absence. Zone Part 10

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Have you really thought that through, son?

Created after the launch of the Ark in a joint venture by the Autobots and Decepticons, Mudslinger could be seen hanging out in Little Iacon with his fellow Micromasters. He was getting a tattoo from Road Hugger. The Gray Race Later, he was present during an attack of the Insecticons on the Micromasters. Recipe for Hate Finally, Mudslinger partook in a march of the Micromasters to end a battle between Autobots and Decepticons. Victims of the Revolution

2005 IDW continuity

Mudslinger and his fellow Micromasters ambushed Nightbeat and Hardhead when they visited Gorlam Prime. Spotlight: Hardhead

TransTech

A version of Mudslinger and the rest of the Off Road Patrol found themselves in Axiom Nexus. Along with a few other Mudslingers, they joined the Sub-Metro Amateur League Lobbing competition, but were defeated by the Mighty Mechanics, a team composed of bots named “Fixit”, in the championship. Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/28

2019 IDW continuity

Mudslinger was recruited by Hound to provide security on a procession leading organic civilians away from war-torn Iacon. On the way, he was amused to learn from Nautica that there was such a word as "ambidextrous", and that organics typically weren't. Their procession was attacked the Decepticon Guard, and later independently by the voracious Insecticons. Escape Part Two Despite these attacks, they managed to make their way to Darkmount with only mild casualties. Escape Part Three A refugee camp was set up outside Darkmount while transportation off-world was being prepared. Before they could escape, however, a full swarm of Insecticon clones arrived to feed. Escape Part Four Mudslinger fought alongside the other security forces to save what lives they could. Escape Part Five

Commercial appearances

Mudslinger was among the many Autobot Micromasters unleashed by Optimus Prime that managed to infiltrate the Decepticons' lair and muck up the place. Micromaster Patrols commercial

Toys

The Transformers

• Off Road Patrol (Micromaster Patrol, 1988/1990)

• Takara ID number: C-335

Released in the sixth year of Hasbro's US Transformers toyline (fifth year in European markets), Mudslinger transforms into a blue pickup truck of undetermined model with oversized "monster" tires. Mudslinger is gang-molded with his teammate Powertrain, sharing the same plastic colors.

He was only available in a four-pack with his teammates Highjump, Powertrain, and Tote.

Together with the Air Strike Patrol and the Race Car Patrol, the Off Road Patrol was released by Hasbro in late 1988 (basically, a case of "next year product" being released at the end of the old year), in packaging that differed from the "proper" 1989 Micromasters' redesigned packaging (silver cards and boxes featuring an all-new "Transformers" logo) by retaining a variation of the faction-specific color-coded gradient background on the card and featuring a unique "Micro Transformers" title in a variation of the old, pre-1989 "Transformers" logo. This same basic packaging design was also used for Canada (albeit bilingual English/French) and parts of Europe (bilingual French/Dutch, and Italian-only packaging distributed by GiG). However, a variant of sorts featuring the later 1989 packaging design also exists, and was released (in English-only packaging) in the United Kingdom, where it was sold at Woolworth's stores.

The "Off Road Patrol Team" was sold in Japan a year later as part of Takara's Zone portion of the Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers series, with no notable changes from their Hasbro releases.

This sculpt was also redecoed into Greasepit and Glasspit.

• More information on Mudslinger at TFU.info

Merchandise

Transformers Trading Card Game

• Private Mudslinger, Special Ops-Infiltration (2019)
  • Wave 3: War for Cybertron: Siege I
  • Rarity: CT
  • Card Number: T16/T48
  • Stars: 5

Private Mudslinger, Special Ops-Infiltration is one of forty-eight double-sided character cards available in Wave 3 of the Transformers Trading Card Game, War for Cybertron: Siege I. In order to represent Mudslinger's size as a Micromaster, Private Mudslinger, Special Ops-Infiltration is the size of a battle card, about half the size of a normal character card.

Notes

• Leaked product listings for the Thrilling 30 subline of Generations included a "Brawn & Mudslinger", suggesting that a new toy of Mudslinger was in the works prior to cancelation.^[2]

Foreign names

• Japanese: Footdemo (フットデモ Futtodemo)
• French: Garde-Boue (Canada, "Fender")
• Italian: Nembo

References