Blades is the name of a fictional character in the various Transformers universes.

Transformers: Generation 1 (1986)

Blades is one of The Protectobots who are an emergency, search and rescue team of five Autobots in the Transformers toyline. They transform into civilian service and emergency vehicles and combine to form the "combiner" Defensor.

A "rough and tough" warrior who prefers close combat with his enemies. Often at odds with the other, more peace-loving, Protectobots.

Animated series

The Protectabots first appeared in the second season of the animated series with no origin given.

The Protectobots were last seen supporting Ultra Magnus in a last ditch effort to stop Galvatron in the fourth season. It is assumed that they were restored along with Ultra Magnus when the Golden Age of Cybertron was ushered in.

Marvel Comics

While he was a minor background character in the U.S. stories, Blades played a very prominent role in the U.K. Transformers/Action Force crossover story "Ancient Relics", where he was sent to London by Grimlock to find Blaster and Goldbug, only to run into the Action Force - and Megatron!

Dreamwave Productions

The Protectobots are featured in their Cybertronian forms in the second installment of the War Within comic series. In this chapter of Transformer history (which takes place long before contact with Earth), the Protectobots are a vigilante squad of peacekeepers. While loosely affiliated with the Autobots, they are a splinter group (as are most other special teams).

In issue #2 of the third Generation One series, titled "Black Sunshine", the Protectabots were ordered by Prowl to inventigate the energy anomoly created by Sunstorm excaping Shockwave's abandoned secret lab. When they arrived they discovered the hole left in the roof by Sunstorm and the deactivated Battlechargers Runabout and Runamuck. Streetwise reported back to Prowl as First Aid repaired the Decepticons.

Toys

Blades toy

• Transformers: Generation 1 Blades (1986)

Blades was redecoed as the Autobot Fly-Up in 1992, part of the Guard City set.

• Transformers: Generation 2 Blades (unreleased)

Prototypes of redecos of all the Protectabots were released for the Transformers: Generation 2 toy line, but they never made it to general release. The few that were produced are considered highly collectable.

• Transformers: Energon Quickstrike

A homage to Blades was the Autobot Quickstrike from the Transformers: Energon toy line.

• Transformers: Universe Micromaster Ro-Tor

Although a Micromaster combiner named Defensor was released in the Transformers: Universe line, it lacked any counterpart to Blades. When the Micromaster Superion combiner was released in the Universe line it had a helicopter on the team, which was painted to resemble Blades, but due to Trademark restrictions, Hasbro named it Ro-Tor, the name of a former Decepticon helicopter.

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