Bruton

Bruton is a Destructon from the Generation 1 continuity family.

(Bruton is the tallest alien standing in the back.)

Bruton, a member of the Destructons, is a massive, hulking beast. Possessed of great strength and little apparent brain power, he wields the gigantic, spiked Confusion Club. After eons of imprisonment, he is eager to get to back to smashing things with it.^[1]

Fiction

The Transformers in 3-D

METAL!!! \m/

In the misty past, the Destructons were defeated by the Logicons and sealed within a dimensional barrier. Bruton appears to have spent most of his time throwing himself against the barrier which sealed them in. Eventually, two Andegean scientists stumbled on the barrier and, when they fell under attack from some Kalkar soldiers, were tricked into releasing the Destructons. Bruton wasted no time in using his club on the soldiers, and Lord Imperious Delirious finished off the last of the scientists. Annoyed by the yammering Logicon warning beacon, Bruton picked it up and tossed it into space.

The message made its way into the hands of the Autobots, who sent teams out to locate Metascan Alpha, home of the Logicons. One of these teams, led by Ultra Magnus, reached a remote world only to find it under Destructon attack. The Autobots attacked the four Destructons, and Bruton knocked Repugnus and Grotusque flying with his club. Realising they were outclassed, the Autobots retreated back to one of the world's moon with the Destructons in pursuit. There the Destructons encountered Cyclonus and the Terrorcons and attacked them too. Bruton destroyed their ship with one blow of his Confusion Club. With little other choice, the Autobot and Decepticons formed a truce, ready to fight the Destructons. The War Against the Destructons, Chapter 1 of 3

Beast Wars: Uprising

Bruton was constructed by the Lunartix who used him and his immense strength as manual labor. Lord Imperious Delirious liberated him from his servitude, and rebuilt him to be a Destructon. Delirious

After she crashed on LGC-8803, Trans-Mutate was spied on by Bruton. Perception Once she encountered Rampage, Bruton and Medusa attacked. Though Bruton was sent flying by a mighty blow from Rampage, he soon recovered and rendered his foe unconscious. The two Destructons presented their prey to Lord Imperious Delirious, who was unimpressed. Kindred

After apologizing for his treatment of the pair, Bruton served them energon while Lord Imperious explained the Destructons and invited the two Cybertronians to join them. When it looked like the pair were going to turn him down, Bruton and the other Destructons lurked in the background to prevent their escape. Delirious The pair proved resistant to the Delirious Fire, so Bruton moved in to attack, only to promptly have a hole blown through him by Rampage. Lord Imperious Delirious later connected Bruton and Medusa up to the navicomp he'd stolen, intending to use its reformatting protocols on them. Clarity

Bruton gained transformation abilities, although he could only apparently convert into a spiked ball resembling a naval mine. When the crew of the Dinosaur arrived on Metascan Omega in response to a distress call by Trans-Mutate, Bruton and the Destructons were waiting for them. They drove the proto-formers away from their shuttle while Imperious attempted to hack into the flight systems for his own purposes. Once the Dinosaur crew hooked up with Rampage and Trans-Mutate, however, they managed a small victory over the Destructons. Bruton's physical body was destroyed while the security specialist, Hard Head, managed to activate the lockdown protocols keeping the Destructons from using the ship.

Undeterred, Lord Imperious Delirious used his technical expertise to murder Hard Head, then incorporate Bruton's programming into the shell of the Predacon's body. He intended to use Bruton to override the lockdown protocols once the procedure was complete. The Cybertronians rallied one last time, however, and so Delirious left Bruton behind to delay them while he escaped in the shuttle. Rampage brought down the shuttle, though, and Lord Imperious Delirious was seemingly killed in the crash.

The Dinosaur had been experiencing its own problems, and crash as well, reforming into city mode to become a new Cybertronian colony on Metascan Omega. With nowhere else to go, Bruton became a resident of the new Dinosaur City, working as a laborer to help the Cybertronians establish their new home. Intersectionality

Ask Vector Prime

In Aurex 404.11 Kappa, Vector Prime's Autobots dealt with many threats including the Destructons. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/12

Notes

• At the BotCon 2014 retrospective panel, it was revealed by Pete Sinclair that there were two Bruton figures planned as exclusives with both being categorized in the "what we almost got" group. The proposals included using the Generations: Fall of Cybertron Grimlock and Prime: First Edition Bulkhead molds (both Voyager Class). To explain why they did not get produced, Pete Sinclair asked the audience how many of them knew who Bruton was, with only one person raising their hand, thus demonstrating the character's obscurity as the reason.^[2]

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