Centurion (Marvel)
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- Centurion is an automaton from the Marvel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Centurion is a tall blue, gold, and silver robot with a cannon originally mounted on his right shoulder but later moved to the left one. He is a mindless robot, designed by humans as a piloted machine to fight the threat the Transformers posed to Earth.
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Fiction
Marvel The Transformers comics
Centurion was built by the Intelligence and Information Institute (Triple-I) as a way to battle the Transformers threat, all without telling the President of the United States that they were doing so. It required a human controller that was linked to the robot remotely from a fortified control room located below Portland, Oregon. Triple-I kidnapped Professor Morris to be the controller because of his experience controlling the Dinobot Swoop.
Centurion was activated ahead of schedule to prevent Joy Meadows from exposing Robot-Master as a fraud and embarrassing Triple-I. Morris was ordered to eliminate Joy using Centurion, but once linked to the control machine Morris forgot his orders and became blinded by battle lust. He attacked Megatron who was also looking to silence Joy.
During the battle Swoop and the Dinobots were able to rescue Joy and Centurion followed them, the sight of Swoop having snapped Morris from his madness. Morris then locked his control room so Triple-I couldn't get in,and helped the Dinobots fend off the Decepticons who were still determined to capture Joy. Triple-I swiftly destroyed all evidence that they'd created Centurion and made sure Morris would get the blame for the Portland mess, but were unaware Morris had declared war on their corrupt institution. He then caused Centurion to leave with the Dinobots. In the National Interest Centurion and the Dinobots parted after this encounter. Target: 2006
Sometime later Centurion wandered off from the Dinobots to investigate a strange meteorite impact. He discovered Galvatron who had recently traveled back in time to the twentieth century. Galvatron, temporarily disoriented, attacked and destroyed Centurion after mistaking him for Rodimus Prime in his madness. Fallen Angel
Centurion's parts were later recovered by the Dinobots and, once he became Autobot leader, Grimlock insisted that Wheeljack rebuild Centurion in preference to other Autobots more in need of repair. Wheeljack didn't think much of this and called Centurion an "ancient relic" in earshot of the latter.
The robot joined Grimlock and Blades in a mission to London to fight Megatron, where they ran into Action Force and Centurion utterly failed to save Wild Bill when Megatron blew him out of the sky. Distraught at his failure and feeling guilty that he had been repaired before other more deserving Autobots, Centurion sacrificed himself: attacking Megatron just before an air strike so that Grimlock could be pulled to safety. He and Megatron ended up fused together at the bottom of the River Thames in London after being engulfed in a massive explosion. Flint saluted Centurion as an "old soldier" rather than a relic. Ancient Relics!
His body was later raised from the Thames along with Megatron's by the human entrepreneur Richard Branson (or Mister Johnson), who was attempting to clean the river in the name of environmentalism (and publicity). The bodies were captured by the Decepticons who wanted to revive Megatron as a weapon against Galvatron. They later separated Megatron from Centurion. His fate is unknown but presumably he was destroyed. Salvage!
Centurion's destruction at Galvatron's hands was later witnessed by the time traveling Dicet Alpha-zero in his quest to learn more about the Autobot/Decepticon conflict. The Quest!
Notes
- The Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook for the 2005 IDW continuity character Centurion identifies him as an alternate reality version of this Centurion. This wiki, however, opts to give the IDW incarnation of Centurion his own article given the stark difference in characterization.
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References
- ↑ Simon Furman: "We 'assume' that's him [Morris] communicating through Centurion later in 'Ancient Relics' (though I confess it's not clear)." IDW Publishing Forum: Simon Furman Q&A Volume 2 LIVE!