Elite Guard (Transformers)
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The Elite Guard are a fictonal group of Transformers (usually Autobots) who appear in Transformers fiction. They first appeared in the Transformers Animated television series.

Transformers Animated

The Autobot hierarchy is based around the Elite Guard, which includes both an officer's academy and a boot camp. In this series, "Prime" is used to refer to an officer's rank within the Elite Guard that has no special attachment to the Matrix or Allspark, and does not imply leadership over the Autobots. Instead, the term "Magnus" is used for the highest rank within the Elite Guard, possibly equal to that of "Supreme Commander". The Elite Guard's base is called "Fortress Maximus
Fortress Maximus
Fortress Maximus is the name of several fictional characters from several of the various Transformers universes. Fortress Maximus appeared in the season 4 finale of the US Transformers animated series voiced by Stephen Keener. He was one of the stars of the Japanese Transformers: Headmasters...

", a tower (resembling the central tower of the G1 version's city mode) that can transform into a cannon.

Blurr

Blurr (John Moschitta, Jr.
John Moschitta, Jr.
John Moschitta Jr. is a spokesperson and performer best known for his rapid speech delivery. He appeared in over 100 commercials as "The Micro Machines Man" as well as an award winning 1981 ad for FedEx....

) is a member of Cybertron Intelligence who first appears as mysterious blue race car that can best Bumblebee in speed even with his turbo boosters. It is suspected to be a Decepticon by Bumblebee, but is found to be actually controlled by Master Disaster with an All-Spark fragment remote control to fix his races. At the time, it was not known whether there was a driver driving the car, but when the Blue Racer was free from Master Disaster’s control, it helped stop Blitzwing’s pursuit of Bumblebee and Sari. In "A Bridge Too Close" Pt. 1, Blurr takes on his robot mode for the first time when it came to rescuing Bulkhead. Upon this discovery by Bumblebee and the other Autobots on Earth, Blurr reveals himself to be a member of the Cybertron Elite Guard's who was sent to keep an eye on them and monitor Megatron's activities. He was eventually sucked into the Decepticon spacebridge with Skywarp and Thundercracker (two of Starscream's clones). He immediately races to Cybertron to inform Longarm of the Decepticon spy on Cybertron, but came crushed into a cube by Shockwave and has an oblivious Cliffjumper threwed him away into the garbage cockpit when it turns out Longarm was that spy.

Jazz

Jazz (Phil LaMarr
Phil LaMarr
Phillip "Phil" LaMarr is an American actor, comedian and voice actor. One of the original cast members on the sketch comedy series MADtv, he is also known for his small, but memorable role as Marvin in Pulp Fiction...

) is an Autobot with a sports car
Sports car
A sports car is a small, usually two seat, two door automobile designed for high speed driving and maneuverability....

 vehicle mode. He is the second-in-command of the Cybertron Elite Guard and a skilled ninja-bot, trained by Yoketron and honored by a bust in his dojo. Jazz is fascinated with Earth's culture and is the most easy-going member of the Elite Guard. In the third season, he returns to Earth with Sentinel and the Jet twins to hunt down Wasp, and they end up staying to hunt down Decepticons. Jazz later leaves Sentinel to join up with Optimus' group.

Sentinel Prime

Sentinel Prime (Townsend Coleman
Townsend Coleman
Townsend Coleman is an American voice actor who performed in many animated series and TV commercials beginning in the early 1980s...

) is a hot-headed and swaggering Autobot Officer and member of the Cybertron Elite Guard, who shares a mutual enmity with Optimus Prime, stemming from a botched joint expedition in the past. He despises robots who are of a lower rank than him. He wields an Energon shield and lance. His Cybertronian alt-mode is a Cybertronian Truck. On Earth, he takes the disguise of a Snowplow
Snowplow
A snowplow is a device intended for mounting on a vehicle, used for removing snow and ice from outdoor surfaces, typically those serving transportation purposes...

Truck. Along with having a problem with Optimus, he also has a fear of organics. It was later revealed in "Autoboot Camp" that he was a drill instructor and went by Sentinel Minor during Bumblebee's flashback. When Sentinel, Jazz, Jetfire, and Jetstorm return to Earth to hunt down Wasp, they end up staying to hunt down the Earth-based Decepticons. In "Five Servos of Doom", it is revealed that Sentinel was secretly dealing with Lockdown to capture them. After Blackarachnia and Waspinator disappear, Sentinel Prime returns to Cybertron with the captured Decepticons to become the new Magnus, and though the Decepticons break free, Optimus and the Elite Guard are able to subdue all but Lugnut and Swindle, who escape.

Ultra Magnus

Ultra Magnus (Jeff Bennett
Jeff Bennett
Jeffrey Glenn "Jeff" Bennett is an American voice actor and musician, listed "among the top names in the voice-over field", best known as the voice of Johnny Bravo in the series of the same name...

) is the Supreme Commander of the Autobots and member of the Cybertron Elite Guard. He and the Cybertron Elite Guard came to Earth to look for the Allspark. After a fragment of the Allspark was found, Ultra Magnus started to believe Optimus Prime's story. Later, when Shockwave's identity was about to be exposed, he brutally attacked Ultra Magnus and took the Magnus Hammer. On Earth, he transforms into a Cybertronian truck, later a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck
Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck
The Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck series is a range of eight-wheel drive diesel-powered off-road capable trucks, used by the US military. Formally described as "Truck, Cargo: 10-Ton, 8x8", it has been nicknamed the "Dragon Wagon". HEMTT trucks first went into service with the U.S...

 and wields a hammer capable of calling down lightning. He is also one of the melee-bots honored by a bust in Yoketron's dojo.

Warpath

Warpath is a homage to the Generation 1 character. He is a member of the Autobot Elite Guard. Warpath has a cannon on his chest, a homage to his original Generation 1 character. He has a very grumpy personality. He is shown to be a larger Autobot, much like Bulkhead
Bulkhead (Transformers)
Bulkhead is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. All incarnations of Bulkhead are Autobots and are green in color. He was introduced in Transformers: Energon as a Mega Vehicle and later redebuted in Transformers: Animated as a completely new character...

. Like his G1 counterpart, he utters words like "Bam" and "Pow", but they do not dominate his speech patterns.

Animated series

Warpath first appears in a flashback in the episode "The Five Servos of Doom." Warpath was responsible for bringing Prowl
Prowl (Transformers)
Prowl is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers series. "Prowl" is one of the most re-used American names in the assorted Transformers series, and its use has become almost synonymous with Autobots who possess a police car alternate mode...

 to Master Yoketron's dojo. He informed Master Yoketron that Prowl wasn't exactly willing to learn at first and that he should take him to the stockade.

Warpath appears in a flashback to the end of the Great War in the episode "TransWarped", where he was depicted as being wounded.

He appears in the present day in "Decepticon Air", among a crowd of Autobots celebrating Sentinel Prime
Sentinel Prime
Sentinel Prime is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers series. First mention of Sentinel Prime was in issue #65 of the US Marvel Comics Transformers series, where he was mentioned to hold the Autobot Matrix of Leadership before Optimus Prime. Sentinel Prime has since...

's capture of several Decepticons.

Warpath is also among the cheering crowd when Optimus Prime returns to Cybertron with Decepticon captives in "Endgame Part II."

Toys

  • Animated Jetfire and Jetstorm set (2008)
A gift set that includes Deluxe Jetfire and Jetstorm. Both figures transform into Cybertronian jets and can combine to form either a super jet mode or the gestalt Safeguard.

  • Animated Set G Safeguard (TA-21 Jetfire and TA-22 Jetstorm) (Takara Tomy) (2010)
The 2010 Japan release version by Takara Tomy
Takara Tomy
is a Japanese toy, children's merchandise and entertainment company created from the March 2006 merger of two companies:  Tomy and long-time rival, Takara...

. On this version, Jetfire sports a metallic silver finish, while Jetstorm has blue chrome parts.

Wings of Honor

A second incarnation of the Elite Guard was introduced in the pages of Fun Publications comic book Transformers: Timelines story "Wings of Honor". This story told the origin of the Autobot Elite Guard in the early days of the Generation 1 story.

Delta Seeker

Delta Seeker is the name of a fictional character
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...

 from the various Transformers universes
Transformers universes
is an entertainment franchise. It began with the Hasbro Transformers toy line, centered on two factions of warring alien robots which are called the Autobots and the Decepticons...

.

A member of the Cyberjet Battalion, Delta Seeker was friends with X-Gunner before the latter defected to the Decepticons. Has a number of abilities, including teleportation, and his weapon is called the Arm Gauntlet.

Delta Seeker was a minor background character appearing in Fun Publications
Fun Publications
Fun Publications is a publishing company that runs the Transformers Collectors Club and G.I. Joe Collectors Club under licensefrom Hasbro. Besides releasing comics, Fun Publications releases exclusive toys and runs conventions for their clubs....

 fiction Gone Too Far, a text-based story set on Transtech
Transtech
Transtech is an unreleased line of toys under the Transformers umbrella.-History:After the Beast Machines line ended, Hasbro planned a follow-up series called Transtech. The Transtech concept was a line intended to take Transformers to their most futuristic looking bodies and more plausible designs...

 Cybertron
Cybertron
Cybertron is a fictional planet, the homeworld of the Transformers in the various fictional incarnations of the metaseries and toyline by Hasbro. In the Japanese series, the planet is referred to as "Cybertron" pronounced as セイバートロン Seibātoron...

.

When most of the members of the Autobot Elite Guard confronted Bruticus they were nearly wiped out, with Bruticus killing most of the Guard. Dion was able to blind Bruticus, forcing it to separate into the Combaticons, but the Combaticons finished off most of the remaining Guard, including Metalhawk, who was killed by Onslaught. This left only Dion alive, buried in the rubble, and Thunderclash's team, which was off planet at the time.

Ironfist

Ironfist is a high ranking Autobot who likes big guns. His biography portrays him as strong and silent.

In IDW comics Ironfist is depicted as a gushing fanboy of the Wreckers.

In Fun Publications he is depicted as being an member of the Autobot Elite Guard under the command of Metalhawk. He calls his teammate Over-Run and Dion
Dion (Transformers)
Dion is a fictional character from the Transformers series. He is a dock worker from the planet Cybertron and good friend to Orion Pax, who would later become the legendary Autobot leader Optimus Prime.- Animated series :...

 by the nicknames Runny and Sailor.

Ironfist had a full page biography in issue #36 of the Transformers Collectors Club magazine.

Landshark

Landshark is able to transform his auxiliary battle platform into a hydraulic booster pack which wields two power claws. This feature also gives him the ability to cling onto or climb almost any structure. According to his official biography he once fought a deadly Narliphant.

Ranger

Ranger shares a mold with the Hasbro
Hasbro
Hasbro is a multinational toy and boardgame company from the United States of America. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States...

 Autobot Joyride and his Powermaster partner Hotwire
Hotwire
Hotwire or hot wire can mean one of several things:* Hotwiring, a method of starting a car without a key* Hotwire.com, an Internet-based travel agency* Hotwire * Hot Wire * Hot Wire...

, however he is a completely different character than the one portrayed by Hasbro.

Ranger is a Canadian park ranger who discovered a strange rock in the same mountain Lightfoot's father found the ore he made a prototype car out of. He was contacted by Godmaster Ginrai
Ginrai
Ginrai, occasionally spelled Jinrai and also known as both Super Ginrai and God Ginrai, and later rebuilt as Victory Leo, is a fictional character from the animated series Transformers: Super-God Masterforce and its toy line, one of the Transformers series exclusive to Japan...

, Pretenders Metalhawk and Lander and the Autobot Headmaster Juniors who suspected the rock was a Transector. He was given a set of Master Bracers by Ginrai and became a Godmaster when they were attacked by the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors and Godmasters.

In the Transformers: Zone
Transformers: Zone
is a one-shot OVA exclusive to Japan in the fictional Transformers universe.-Development:Originally intended to be a full TV series, Transformers: Zone was forced to become direct-length direct-to-video due to less than expected toy sales. The series was canceled after just one episode at 25 minutes...

animation the Autobot Godmasters were seen among other high-ranking Autobots (such as Road Caesar, Grand Maximus, Metalhawk, Landcross, and Lander) when Dai Atlas is sworn-in by Victory Saber as the new Supreme Commander of the Autobot forces.

When most of the members of the Autobot Elite Guard confronted Bruticus they were nearly wiped out, with Bruticus killing most of the Guard. Dion was able to blind Bruticus, forcing it to separate into the Combaticons, but the Combaticons finished off most of the remaining Guard, including Metalhawk, who was killed by Onslaught. This left only Dion alive, buried in the rubble, and Thunderclash's team, which was off planet at the time.

Wireless Automated Sales Person

In the mirror universe of Shattered Glass WASP (Wireless Automated Sales Person) is a sentient hologram of an Autobot (and seeingly a member of the Elite Guard) who does commercials.

Wasp makes an appearance in a commercial in the Around Cybertron comic strip #6. He appears as Rook does a story about the death of Megatron.

Although no toy for this version WASP was made, his appearance is identical to the Animated Elite Guard Bumblebee toy.

IDW Publishing

Ironfist appears in the Last Stand of the Wreckers comic by IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...

 where he is depicted as a fan of the Wreckers.

Fun Publications

Landshark was a member of the crew of the Autobot ship Eight Track under the command of Thunderclash.

In The Coming Storm Kup is ordered by Landshark to move some boxes with the Autobot Elite Guard logo on them.

The Elite Guard Alpha Team and Strike Team did battle against a horde of ferrovorous bugs in one of Cybertron's city-states. Magnum then ordered the Strike Team to escort the Alpha Team to Space Port Bravo for their next mission. The Strike Team then reported to Magnum and Sentinel Major, who introduced them to the new Elite Guard Special-Ops Team, also called the Combaticons.

While on patrol Onslaught told Metalhawk the story of how his Elite Guard team captured Thunderwing
Thunderwing
Thunderwing is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers series. Introduced in 1989, he was a major villain in the Marvel Comics Transformers series. Although Thunderwing was created after the US Transformers television series ended, the character of Black Shadow did appear in...

. Metalhawk then told Onslaught about how his team captured Blue Bacchus. The teams of Elite Guardsmen then came across a Decepticon who was separated from his group. Brawl was able to get the location of a Decepticon base from the captive before he went offline. The Guard teams fround the base and were able to kill Shadowcaster, the base's leader. Metalhawk's team reported to Magnum, but the Combaticons stayed to investigate, Onslaught thinking their victory was too easy. They were captured by Decepticons.

Metalhawk and his Strike Team were searching for Decepticons when they ran into a crazy "empty" who ranted about the coming of the "brute". They received a distress signal from Sentinel Major ordering all Elite Guard units to return base. When Metalhawk's team arrived at the base Ricochet told them of a Decepticon attack. Among the attackers are the Combaticions, but when Sentinel Major orders them to surrender, they combine into Bruticus and crush Sentinel Major.

When most of the members of the Autobot Elite Guard confronted Bruticus they were nearly wiped out, with Bruticus killing most of the Guard. Dion was able to blind Bruticus, forcing it to separate into the Combaticons, but the Combaticons finished off most of the remaining Guard, including Metalhawk, who was killed by Onslaught. This left only Dion buried alive, buried in the rubble, and Thunderclash's team, which was off planet at the time.

Thunderclash's Elite Guard squad reported to Magnum after the Combaticons killed most of the Guard. They attempted to show the Council that the Elite Guard was still functional, but arrived just as Optimus Prime was appointed the new commander of the Autobots.

Toys

  • Generation 2 Lightformers Ironfist (1992)
A new mold that comes with a Lightformers weapon.

  • Generation 1 Godmaster Ranger (2001)
This toy was a redeco of the Autobot Joyride.

  • Robot Masters Basic Delta Seeker (2004)
His toy is a recolor of the mold originally used for the Generation 2 Cyberjet Skyjack.
Although never sold officially sold in the United States, a Chinese-made knockoff of Delta Seeker and X-Gunner was sold at discount stores in the US in 2007. This toy was recolored white where the original was greenish grey.

  • Timelines Ultra Landshark (2009)
A redeco of Energon Landmine, this toy is a Botcon
BotCon
BotCon, briefly known as "The Official Transformers Collectors' Convention" , is an annual convention for Transformers fans and collectors. BotCon has been held annually since 1994...

exclusive.
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