Scourge (Transformers)

Scourge

Targetmaster Scourge by Dreamwave Productions
Decepticon
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Sub-group	Deluxe Vehicles, Sweeps, Targetmasters.
Function	Sweep Leader, Tracker
Rank	8
Partner	Cyclonus, Fracas, Galvatron, and Nightstick
Motto	"Desolation follows in my trail."
Alternate modes	Cybertronian Hovercraft/Spaceship, Ghondolah, Boeing X-48
Series	Transformers: Generation 1 Transformers: Titanium Transformers: Timelines Transformers: Generations Transformers: United
English voice actor	Stan Jones
Japanese voice actor	Masaharu Sato

Scourge

Scourge box art
Predacon
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Sub-group	Deluxe Beasts, Transmetal II
Function	Special Operations Combatant
Rank	6
Motto	"A plague upon all their houses!"
Alternate modes	Transmetal II Locust
Series	Beast Wars

Scourge/Nemesis Prime

Car Robots Black Convoy toy.
Autobot/Decepticon
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Sub-group	Convoys, Destructicons, Spy Changers
Function	Tanker Truck, Dark Commander, Decepticon Second-in Command.
Rank	9
Motto	"Vengeance is an excuse for failure. I do not seek vengeance.""
Alternate modes	Western Star 4964EX Tractor-tanker, Missile Truck
Series	Transformers: Robots in Disguise
English voice actor	Barry Stigler
Japanese voice actor	Taiten Kusunoki

Scourge

Ultra Scourge toy
Decepticon/Autobot
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Sub-group	Convoys, Legends, Ultra Beasts
Function	Dark Commander
Rank	8.5 (Hasbro), 10 (Takara)
Motto	"I protect the world with my flame! I bring peace in the name of power!"
Alternate modes	Transmetal Dragon
Series	Transformers: Cybertron
English voice actor	Trevor Devall
Japanese voice actor	Norio Wakamoto

Scourge is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers series. He first appeared as one of the central villains in the 1986 film The Transformers voiced by Stan Jones. He also regularly appeared in the animated Transformers series and Transformers comic books; since then other Transformers characters have used the name "Scourge". In 2009 a Scourge action figure was one of the exclusive available at Botcon, the annual Transformers convention.

Scourge is characterized as a merciless hunter who was created from the wreckage of Decepticons. He leads the Sweeps, a group of Decepticon hunter-trackers. His only weakness is his arrogance. He turns into a hovercraft in most incarnations, although this is usually portrayed as a space ship.

Scourge's appearances in the US Marvel Comics Transformers series were minimal - in their first appearance during the Headmasters mini-series, he and Cyclonus were presented as being ordinary, present-day Transformers under Scorponok's command, who then became Targetmasters along with the others on Nebulos. One of his most prominent actions during this period, as depicted in the UK comics, was to ambush the Autobot Headmasters in the 'Fortress of Despair' alongside the other Decepticon Targetmasters. The Decepticons captured Highbrow, planning to use him to perfect their own Headmaster process. The plan failed when Highbrow forced Scorponok to flee.

Later, Scourge appeared again within an alternate future world of 2009. Here he was a creation of Unicron, and where Cybertron had been destroyed, and Galvatron ruled Earth. He was killed in a duel with Getaway.

Across the Atlantic, however, in the United Kingdom's exclusive Transformers series, writer Simon Furman wrote about characters further in the timeline, often intersecting them with the present day through the use of time travel. In the first of such stories, Galvatron, Scourge and Cyclonus travelled back in time to 1986, from a point in the middle of the Transformers movie, as part of a plan to free themselves from Unicron's control by constructing a massive cannon that will destroy him in their home time of 2006 (the setting for the movie in the comics, based on early production material for the movie itself, before the date was amended to 2005). Scourge was shot down and captured by Megatron, who had made a deal with the Autobots to ally against the threat. Traded back to Galvatron for Jazz, Scourge and the others were finally defeated when Galvatron was duped into believing he was trapped in a temporal paradox, and returned to his own time to live out the remaining events of the movie.