Rumble (Transformers)
Generation 1 Rumble box toy
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| Decepticon | |
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| Information | |
| Sub-group | Communications |
| Function | Demolitions |
| Rank | 5 |
| Partner | Ravage, Soundwave, Frenzy |
| Motto | "Destroy what's below and what's above will follow" |
| Alternate modes | Microcassette, Honda Civic Si, Headphone, Tank |
| Series |
Transformers: Generation 1 Transformers: Alternators Transformers: Music Label Transformers: Reveal the Shield Transformers: United |
| English voice actor |
Frank Welker (Television Series) Scott Whyte (Transformers: Devastation) |
| Japanese voice actor |
Ken Shiroyama (Television Series) Katsumi Suzuki ("Attack of the Autobots", "Day of the Machines") Ken Yamaguchi (The Movie) |
| Decepticon | |
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| Information | |
| Partner | Soundwave, Laserbeak |
| Alternate modes | Robotic Rhino |
| Series | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen |
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| Decepticon | |
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| Information | |
| Sub-group | Communications |
| Alternate modes | Microcassette |
| Series | Transformers: Timelines |
| Decepticon | |
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| Information | |
| Sub-group | Mini-Con |
| Partner | Soundwave, Laserbeak, Frenzy, Ravage |
| Motto | "First we crack the shell, then we crack the nuts inside!" |
| Alternate modes | Cybertronian Microcassette, Earth Boy Racer |
| Series | Transformers: War for Cybertron |
| English voice actor | Keith Silverstein |
Rumble is a fictional character in the Transformers universes. In order to trademark the name, Hasbro referred to the Alternators character as Decepticon Rumble.
The first toy for Rumble was originally released in an earlier Takara toy line called Microman. In cassette mode, the toy was able to fit inside the body of Cassetteman (who would later become Soundwave). When the line was imported to the U.S. as Transformers, the toy was released in two different colors as different characters—Rumble and Frenzy.
Rumble's colors changed over the course of Generation one, originally being red (leading to confusion as Frenzy was blue) in the original toyline and Marvel comics. The cartoon made Rumble the blue robot instead. Dreamwave comics, IDW comics, and even the recently released Alternators toy all represented Rumble as a red robot. The Japanese dub of the original Transformers series switched Rumble and Frenzy's names around so that their cartoon appearances would match the colors of their toys.
His personality in both Marvel Comics and in the animated series was described as being a basic street punk. He was always ready for action and eagerly carried out Megatron's orders. He can cause earthquakes with his piston-like arms.
According to X-Entertainment Rumble was one of the cult icons Transformers cartoon, but often people confused his toy with that of Frenzy.
Rumble's Marvel Comics appearance would use Rumble's red color scheme. Because black coloring in those days usually involved darker inking and dark blues, Rumble ended up looking like a blue robot with red limbs. The same problem happened to Skywarp, who looked almost identical to his cohort Thundercracker because of it.
According to Marvel's Transformers comics, Rumble and Frenzy are brothers. Rumble was one of the Decepticons that originally attacked the Ark and subsequently crashed to Earth. Reconfigured into the Earth mode of a microcassette, he participated in many of the early battles against the Autobots (even being defeated by a robo-suited Buster Witwicky at one point in the U.K. comics). Unfortunately, he accompanied Megatron in his raid against the Autobot base, summarily getting deactivated by Omega Supreme along with Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Frenzy and Buzzsaw. It would be a while before Rumble was seen again, being freed in U.S. issue #41.
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