The Constructicons are the Decepticon's engineers and the first Combiner team, and are major antagonists of the Transformers Generation One cartoon.
History[]
Backstory[]
The Constructicons origins are unclear. In Heavy Metal War Megatron indicates that they were built on Earth. However in The Secret of Omega Supreme, he recounted how, millions of years ago, the Constructicons were the peaceful creators of the Crystal City on Cybertron, and Omega was its guardian and their friend. However, Megatron used the Robosmasher to reprogram the Constructicons into Decepticons, then he had them demolish Crystal City.
The enraged Omega tracked the Constructicons down and tried to return them to their previous state. However, Megatron's programming could not be undone, and he had also given them the ability to merge into Devastator. As they wrestled with Omega, the Robosmasher latched onto Omega Supreme. Omega was able to fend off both his attackers, but his mental brush with the Robosmasher left him with only hate for the Constructicons, whom he pursued across the galaxy for millions of years. Furthermore in Five Faces of Darkness, Rodimus Prime took a near-death trip into the Matrix of Leadership, and saw a vision where the Constructicons were the ones responsible for creating Megatron.
Season 1[]
In Heavy Metal War, the Constructicons bolstered Megatron's forces on Earth. Scrapper designed a machine to transfer the other Decepticons' offensive powers to Megatron. While Megatron battled Optimus Prime, holding the attention of the Autobots, the Constructicons invaded the Ark to destroy Teletraan I. The Ark was protected by the Dinobots, but by merging into Devastator, they became more than a match for their prehistoric foes. The return of the other Autobots and the discovery of Megatron's deception spelled the end of the battle, however. Hound distracted Devastator with a gigantic hologram, and Optimus Prime blasted the giant at just the right spot to force the Constructicons to disengage. They and the other Decepticons were then forced into a river of lava.
Season 2[]
In The Core, the Autobots planted dominator disks on the Constructicons, which the Autobots activated when they merged into Devastator. He instantly began fighting against the Decepticons, and Autobots took him back to their base. However, Megatron was secretly aware of the whole plot, even spying on the Autobots through the Constructicons' own eyes. Meanwhile, the Constructicons helped fix the battle-damaged Autobots and accompanied them on a raid against the Decepticons, who were trying to drill into the Earth's core. During the battle, Megatron used a "control switch" to deactivate the disks, and as Devastator turned back against the Autobots, Wheeljack boosted the disks' power. This drove Devastator mad, and he began attacking everyone indiscriminately. The only thing that brought him back to sanity was the threat of the Decepticons' drill, which was seconds away from destroying the planet. He dove into the drilled hole and wrenched the bit to a standstill, saving the world.
In The Master Builders, upon learning of the Autobot Grapple's solar power tower design, Scrapper and the Constructicons pretended to have defected from the Decepticons in order to help him and Hoist construct it. But upon its completion, they turned it and the two Autobots over to Megatron. In a demonstration of Scrapper's motto, Grapple and Hoist were imprisoned in the very structure of their tower.
When Omega Supreme learned that the Constructicons were active on Earth, he arrived on the planet and joined Optimus Prime's forces, biding his time until he could face his former friends again. That chance arose in The Secret of Omega Supreme, when the Constructicons were discovered mining an asteroid, and Omega was dispatched to investigate. Ignoring Optimus Prime's orders, Omega Supreme engaged the Constructicons, and in the battle, split the asteroid in two, revealing that it incubated a monstrous alien creature, which attacked San Francisco while Omega, ignoring the plight of the city, continued to battle the Constructicons. Optimus Prime then entered the fray, convincing Omega that saving the city was more important than revenge, and forcing the Constructicons to retreat.
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The Movie[]
Twenty years later in 2005, Devastator was the Decepticons' primary weapon in the Battle of Autobot City, tearing through the defenses and walls of the city and battling the Dinobots. On the return trip to Cybertron, Bonecrusher advocated the "survival of the fittest" policy that saw many wounded Decepticons ejected from the shuttle, among them Megatron, prompting Scrapper to vote for the Constructicons as the new leaders of the Decepticons, arguing that Devastator was the most powerful robot. Hook took great offense to the notion that Soundwave would make a better leader than them. In the end, Starscream became the new leader of the Decepticons, and the Constructicons provided the music by playing horns at his coronation. Starscream, desperate to get on with the ceremony, eventually shot their horns.
Season 3[]
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