Side Burn

Side Burn

Side Burn in animated form
Autobot
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Sub-group	Car Brothers, Deluxe Vehicles, Spy Changers
Function	Speedy Knight
Rank	8
Partner	Daytonus
Motto	"Speed limit? What speed limit?"
Alternate modes	Dodge Viper
Series	Transformers: Robots in Disguise Transformers: Universe
English voice actor	Wally Wingert
Japanese voice actor	Punch UFO

Side Burn

Mini-Con
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Partner	Predacon Skid-Z
Motto	"You can't catch somethin --or someone -- you don't know."
Alternate modes	Car
Series	Transformers: Armada

Side Burn is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers franchise. The first Side Burn was one of the main character in the animated series Transformers: Robots in Disguise, voiced by Wally Wingert. He turns into a Dodge Viper. He was based on the Japanese anime character Speedbreaker, from Car Robots series. Since then other characters in Transformers have shared the name Side Burn. In 2011 a new Side Burn toy was the exclusive given for membership in the Transformers Collectors Club.

Side Burn (Speedbreaker in Japan) is the youngest and fastest of the Autobot Brothers, Side Burn rockets down highways in his Dodge Viper mode for fun, in pursuit of an enemy - or chasing after his latest flame. Because that's Side Burn's greatest weakness: the ladies. Every time he sees a little red sports car, he falls in love all over again, but can't seem to comprehend that Earth cars aren't alive. His older brothers are Prowl and X-Brawn. His Japanese name, Speedbreaker, is also used on a variant of his tech spec bio (although his picture and tech spec data retain the Side Burn name on the same package).

Side Burn debuted in the series opener "Battle Protocol", battling Darkscream and driving him off when he scratched Side Burn's paint job. Side Burn appeared regularly after this. Although a brave and loyal soldier, his lack of maturity often brought him into conflict with Optimus Prime, TAI (the Autobots' sentient computer) and especially his law-abiding brother Prowl. This rebounded when the Predacons used his love of red sports cars to capture him (using Megatron's car mode repainted red) to lure Prime into a trap. On another, he and the Autobots' human ally Koji explored some ruins - only to end up dodging Sky-Byte's missiles after it was revealed that one of the O-parts lay within.

When Prime's brother, Ultra Magnus, came to Earth and forced Prime into a combination that allowed him to share the power of the Matrix, Magnus's link to the Matrix resulted in him inadvertently channelling its energy in the midst of a battle. That energy involved Prowl, Side Burn and X-Brawn, "supercharging" them into newly colored, more powerful bodies. After a brief amount of training, Prowl and the others were soon able to control this new ability, shifting to "Supercharge Mode" when an extra power boost was needed in battle. Their supercharged modes afforded them no advantage in their final battle with Galvatron, however, as they were strung up and had their energy drained by him, until Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus merged into Omega Prime and began to defeat Galvatron at the Earth's mantle, in order to win the final battle.