Destructor Button

The Destructor Button is a device from the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Destructor Button (or the Destructicon Button, OR the Devastator button), despite its name, does not destruct (or devastate). However, what it does do is pull all of the buildings built by the Decepticon front company, the Global Building Corporation, into the ground, trapping and keeping its occupants hostage.

Fiction

Marvel Books Generation 1 storybooks

Using the Global Building Corporation name, the Constructicons built numerous buildings all over Earth attached to the Destructor Button, including Freedom Sports Arena, the Triplet Towers, the Keyoshi Center, the Raskolnikov Hotel, and Condo City. The Autobots soon got wind of the Decepticon plot, and the Decepticons were forced to activate the 98 buildings that were built instead of the planned 100 on "Destruction day". Using the hostages in the buildings, Megatron demanded Earth's surrender, which the United Nations discussed.

The plot was thwarted by the Autobots when Mirage teleported to the Destructor Button and reversed its effects. Optimus Prime followed up Mirage's efforts by destroying the button. Battle for Earth