Tap-Out (Animated)

Tap-Out is anAutobotfrom theTransformers Animatedcontinuity family.

We're never getting this toy, are we?

During theGreat War,Tap-Outwas trained to be a boxer bySensei Yoketron.He is close friends withGlyphand, as a result, loathes her douchebag exVolks.^[1]

Fiction

Animatedcartoon

A holographic bust of Tap-Out sat in Yoketron's chambers, alongside those of other star pupils.Five Servos of Doom

Tap-Out was among the crowd welcoming homeSentinel "Magnus"and cheering on the capture of severalDecepticonprisoners.Decepticon AirHe was later going about his daily business whenCaptain Fanzonewas accidentallytranswarpedtoCybertron.He and a large group of other Autobots peered down to examine the small creature, but then promptly fled when they realized they were looking at ahuman.This Is Why I Hate Machines

Tap-Out was among the Autobots gawking at the chaos caused byCheetor's arrest ofRansackandCrumplezone.Moving ViolationsHe later attended theStunt Convoy's show inKaon.The Stunti-Con Job

Notes

• Tap-Out'scharacter modelwas seen in an image fromDerrick J. Wyatt'sblog.The image, posted on April 1, showed various characters who would and would not appear in the rest of Season Three. Score one for Tap-Out!
• Tap-Out's bust is rendered more or less unreadable in the actual episode thanks to the camera distance and the blur effect of the flashback. The confirmation that that's who it is comes from Mr. Wyatt.
• Tap-Out wears the65356-9292-346body-type,the sameprotoformmold as many others. Unlike them, however, he was reformatted into it after theGreat War.
• Bill Forsterwrote Tap-Out, Volks, and Glyph's bios, and linked them by writing "like they were having some high-school drama". Forster also admitted that Tap-Out's downgraded body was to get around Derrick Wyatt saying the body-type was post-war when the cartoon showed Tap-Out's head at the wartime dojo: "Jim[Sorenson] said maybe he downgraded his body. Derrick signed off on it and there we go "^[2]

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