Photon pistol
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Photon pistols are small sidearms that are that are used by both Autobots and Decepticons, and are especially popular amongst the Protectobots. Characters armed with photon pistols include:
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Fiction
Marvel The Transformers comics
In robot mode, Blades wielded a photon pistol that fired light bursts with the equivalent brightness of 5,000 watt light bulbs, Blades's Universe profile as did First Aid, First Aid's Universe profile Groove, Groove's Universe profile and Streetwise. Streetwise's Universe profile Additionally, Heater transformed into a double photon pistol, Quake's Universe profile Nightbeat carried two photon pistols alongside his plasma blaster, Nightbeat's Universe profile and Weirdwolf also had a photon pistol, though his fired high frequency energy particles. Weirdwolf's Universe profile
On Cybertron before the war, Optimus Prime intervened in a bout of gladiatorial combat between Megatron and Sunstreaker. When Megatron turned his energy axe on him, Prime drew his photon pistol. State Games
While fighting the Combaticons inside the human video game Multi-World, Groove blinded Vortex and Blast Off with a light-burst from his photon-pistol, causing them to crash into each other. Afterdeath! In a subsequent battle between the Protectobots and Combaticons at Big Steve's used car lot, Vortex was once again blinded, this time by Streetwise's photon pistol. Used Autobots
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
Blades's photon pistol fired intense beams of light Blades's More than Meets the Eye profile while First Aid's fired blinding beams of light First Aid's More than Meets the Eye profile and Groove's could temporarily blind most Transformers. Groove's More than Meets the Eye profile Distinctly, Streetwise's photon pistol was able to fire either bright flashes to disable optic sensors, or destructive beams of light. Streetwise's More than Meets the Eye profile Heater transformed into a double-barreled photon pistol Quake's More than Meets the Eye profile and Weirdwolf was armed with a photon pistol in robot mode. Weirdwolf's More than Meets the Eye profile
Toys
The Transformers
- Blades (Protectobot, 1986/1987, 1991)
- Accessories: photon pistol, left & right twin launchers
- First Aid (Protectobot, 1986/1987, 1991)
- Accessories: photon pistol, dual-barrelled decrystallizer cannon, cannon connector
- Groove (Protectobot, 1986/1987, 1991)
- Accessories: photon pistol, left & right twin vaporators
- Streetwise (Protectobot, 1986/1987, 1991)
- Accessories: photon pistol, double-mounted air-compressor cannon
- All four of the The Transformers Protectobot limbs came with a small weapon (identified as a photon pistol in their instructions and packaging bios) that could be held in robot mode.
- They were also available as a Defensor giftset, which was re-released by GiG in 1988 in Italy, with five random "Exogini Transformers" (Decoys) added, and were subsequently reissued in 1991 as part of the European/Australian Classics line. Additionally, in 1992 these molds were also used to make the Operation Combination Guard City team in Japan.
- Weirdwolf (Headmaster, 1987)
- Accessories: Monzo Headmaster unit, photon pistol, tail/thermal sword
- Weirdwolf came with a gray photon pistol that he could hold in robot mode.
- Nightbeat with Muzzle (Headmaster, 1988)
- Accessories: Muzzle Headmaster driver, seat/helmet, plasma blaster rifle, left & right photon pistols
- Nightbeat came with two small black photon pistols that could be mounted on the hood of his car mode and on the sides of his head in robot mode. In Japan, this mold was redecoed and released as Super-God Masterforce Minelba, where the photon pistols were redecoed into shock blasters.
- Quake (Targetmaster, 1988)
- According to Quake's packaging bio, Heater transforms into a double photon pistol. No version of this character or mold was released in Japan.
- Skyhammer (Ultra Pretender, 1989)
- Accessories: wing laser, 2 missiles
- The Transformers Skyhammer's wing laser (as it was labelled in his instructions) was a photon pistol he could use in robot mode, according to his packaging bio.
Notes
- The Protectobots were planned to be redecoed and released as part of Generation 2 but were ultimately cancelled. From the few production samples known to exist it appears that as with BotCon Brakedown's concussion rifle and plasma-energy blaster, their instructions refer to their accessories generically as "weapons" and they are not specifically called out in their packaging bios.
- For some reason Nightbeat's Dreamwave More than Meets the Eye profile gives him different weapons; instead of photon pistols and a plasma blaster, he is armed with laser blasters and a plasma rifle.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Wolf Gun (Weirdwolf, ウルフガン Urufu Gan)