Dead End Drone

The Dead End Drone is a type of Mini-Con from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

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Dead End Drones are copies of the Mini-Con Dead End, produced in the thousands by Unicron. Non-sentient drones, Unicron's abilities allow him to coordinate thousands simultaneously, using them as a defensive system that swarms any force that would try to invade the monster planet.

Later, using schematics of the drones from Unicron's datatrax, Galvatron would use Gigantion's factories to build his own forces of Dead Ends, "commanded" by Dead End General units.^[1]

Fiction

Cartoon continuity

Armada cartoon

A plethora of Dead End Drones in globe form attacked the Decepticons invading Unicron's body. After killing everyone following Cyclonus, they caused him to almost fall into a crevasse. Demolishor saved Cyclonus, but the drones kept firing. They were eventually destroyed by Hot Shot and Side Swipe. After momentary peace, a larger group came and surrounded the invaders. Before they could fire, though, they were destroyed by Jet Optimus. Those not destroyed retreated. Alliance

Later, when Galvatron and Optimus Prime invaded Unicron's interior, another group of drones (now called Laser Pods) attacked. The combined firepower of Prime and Galvatron destroyed all of them. Union

Linkage

During Unicron's battle against the population of Cybertron, a number of Dead End Drones were seen defending him in both robot and globe forms. Several of them were cut in half by Ravenus and Twirl. Linkage Part 13

Energon comic

An army of one.

Dead End (or one of his clones) was inside the core of Unicron. What Lies Beneath, Part Three

Ask Vector Prime

Much overlap existed between the hard-coded design schematics of Unicron's sleeper agents the Egg Beasts and his Dead End antibodies. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/29

Swindle's Spiel

Swindle, Swindle and Swindle had Dead Ends among their drones in stock. One of the Swindles hinted that despite Unicronian technology being against Axiom Nexus law, he would still be willing to sell Dead Ends for the right price. Swindle's Spiel, 2015/10/05

Toys

Galaxy Force

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• Bug Drone (Micron Booster, 2005)

• Booster ID number: 2

Galaxy Force "Bug Drone" uses the same base plastic colors as the Armada Mini-Con Dead End, transforming into a "moon" with a large blaster. The Drone is distinguished by silver paint on the moon's sides that Dead End lacks, plus the "cheek" paint that's bright metallic red on Dead End is now super-dark glossy nigh-black red on the Drone.

Available only as part of the Galaxy Force-themed fourth Micron Booster assortment in Japan, Bug Drone came in a "blind-packed" box that prevented the buyer from knowing the contents of the box until it was opened.

This mold is also used by Bug General and Kranix.

• More information on Bug Drone at TFU.info

Notes

• The Dead End Drones get their only fictional robot mode appearance within the cartoon continuity in the Linkage manga.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Bug Drone (バグドローン Bagu Dorōn)

References