Tailgate (Prime)

Tailgate is anAutobotfrom thePrimeportion of theAligned continuity family.

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Tailgateonce worked alongsideArcee.They didn't get along at first, but their fighting skills were evenly matched, and the two eventually became a powerful, nigh-unstoppable team.

And then they went and got caught, and Tailgate went and got dead. Arcee didn't take that very well.

Fiction

Primecartoon

Voice actor:Josh Keaton(English),Yuichi Ishigami(Japanese),Jan Kurbjuweit(German),Óscar Flores(Latin American Spanish),José María Carrero(Spain Spanish),Kimmo Härmä(Finnish),Frédéric Meaux(French),Márcio Marconato(Brazilian Portuguese)

Arcee should stay away fromMini Vehicles.

Tailgate was a member ofDelta Teamduring an unnamed battle. He failed to take out a sniper, forcing Arcee to enter hand-to-hand combat. As the two discussed where to rendezvous, Arcee was captured byAirachnid.Later, Tailgate was also captured and brought before the two of them. Airachnid threatened to kill Tailgate unless she was told the co-ordinates of an impending attack. After Arcee claimed she did not know them, Airachnid made good on that threat. Arcee escaped the same fate, but Tailgate's death hit herhard.Predatory

Later, Arcee found herself captive yet again, this time alongsideCliffjumper,and left to the mercies ofStarscream.After escaping the Decepticon, Cliffjumper reminded her that he knew about Tailgate (he was part of the rescue party that freed her from Airachnid's clutches), so he understood why she preferred working alone.Out of the Past

When Airachnid and Arcee later encountered each other onEarth,Airachnid would often torment her foe by bringing up what happened to Tailgate.PredatoryMetal AttractionPartnersWhile fighting with Arcee, Starscream taunted her by asking if Tailgate was "weak like Cliffjumper."Partners

Arcee would remind her teammates of how Airachnid was not the only 'Con to have taken a partner away from her.Crossfire

Arcee toldMikoa story about one of her adventures with her deceased partnerCliffjumper,and mentioned to Miko that after Tailgate's death, she closed everyone else out, becoming a loner.Out of the Past

2015Robots in Disguisecartoon

Why would you do this to me, Cyclonus?

Despite his supposed death, Tailgate was one of the Autobots blacklisted by theHigh Councilfor associating withOptimus Prime.Enemy of My Enemy

Toys

Prime

For the first time in years, he really went old school.

• Autobot Tailgate(Cyberverse Legion, 2012)

• Series/Number:2 / 014
• Accessories:"Dual Ion Blaster"
• Known designers:Joe Kyde(Hasbro)

Part of the fourth wave ofPrimeSeries 2CyberverseLegion Class toys, Autobot Tailgate is aredecoofCliffjumper,transforming into a white and blue muscle car resembling aDodge Challenger.He has3mm holesin his roof, doors and fists for mountingCyberverse-scale weapons, such as his "dual ion blaster". Though the packaging artwork features his silver horns, said horns are a metallic blue on the figure itself.

The blaster, in varying colors, was also used byCyberverseBumblebee,Arcee,Evac,Hyperspeed Wheeljack,theredecoof Bumblebee that comes with theBumblebee Battle Suitand2014TransformersProtectobot Groove.

• More information on Tailgate at TFU.info

Notes

• WhilePrimedepicts Tailgate as being a reddish-white color of Cliffjumper, the toy is instead colored white and blue like hisGeneration 1 counterpart.
  • InRobots in Disguise,Tailgate is instead depicted in a completely different body heavily inspired by Generation 1 Tailgate.

Foreign names

• Japanese:Tailgate(テイルゲートTeirugēto)