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Runabout (Transformers)

Runabout/Over-Run
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Decepticon
Information
Sub-group Battlechargers
Function Shock Trooper
Rank 6
Motto "A pretty car makes an even prettier wreck." (Generation 1), "Beauty is fleeting. Especially when I’m around." (Timelines)
Alternate modes Lotus Esprit
Series Transformers: Generation 1
Transformers: Timelines
English voice actor Roger Behr
Japanese voice actor Yoku Shioya
Over-Run
Autobot
Information
Sub-group Action Masters, Elite Guard
Function Air Defense
Rank 7
Motto "I rule the skies with a heavy hand!"
Alternate modes None
Series Transformers: Generation 1
Over-Run
Mini-Con
Information
Sub-group Triple Changers
Function Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus
Motto "To understand your adversary... you must first understand yourself."
Alternate modes Jet/Gun
Series Transformers: Armada
Transformers: Universe
Over-Run/Spastic
Decepticon
Information
Sub-group Stunticons, Power Core Combiners, Scouts
Rank 7
Partner Four Stunticon drones
Alternate modes Race car
Series Transformers: Power Core Combiners

Over-Run is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers series. The third Over-Run was given that name after a controversy over his initial name, Spastic. The original character, was initially called Runabout before being renamed Over-Run due to trademark purposes.

Over-Run (originally known as Runabout) formed one half of the Battlecharger duo with Runamuck. Runabout is not the brains of the Battlechargers, but he is much calmer and certainly more articulate than Runamuck, and his presence helps keep the latter's cross-wired mind on task. That said, Runabout usually joins in with whatever mad ideas Runamuck comes up with, just to keep from being bored. Runabout is very susceptible to boredom.

In Transformers: Galaxy Force, Runabout is the Japanese name for the Decepticon called Runamuck in the U.S. He came packaged with the Autobot Longrack. He was created to be an intentional homage to the original character.

Runabout and Runamuck first appeared in the U.S. Marvel Transformers comics in issue 23 where they responded to Megatron's request to announce a challenge to Optimus Prime in a dramatic fashion. Taking him up on this, the two Battlechargers caused random mayhem, until witnessing a young boy scrawling graffiti. Inspired by the youngster, they followed him and his family throughout America, graffiting Mount Rushmore and the Washington Monument on the way. They would then encounter the Transformer hating Circuit Breaker, who attacked them and nearly killed the family the two Battlechargers had been following. Stripped of her command in RAAT, she turned to a group of Autobots she had captured led by Blaster, who agreed to let her combine them into a super-Autobot if she would let them go afterwards. They caught up with the Battlechargers as they defaced the Statue of Liberty and defeated them both, dropping their broken bodies into New York Harbor.


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