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Lockdown is the main antagonist of the "Earth" campaign of the 2014 video game, Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, which takes place in an alternate continuity to the live-action films by Michael Bay. He is an unaligned mercenary who has been supplying weapons and technology to both Autobots and Decepticons to profit from their war. Lockdown seeks to use the Dark Spark to restart the war when the Autobots defeated the Decepticons.
He is voiced by Gregg Burger.
Personality[]
Lockdown is a being loyal only to money itself, in which he would happily provide services to either Autobots or Decepticons, depending on who pays the most. However Lockdown does have a noticeable preference to the Decepticons as they were his biggest customers since they lack the same qualms that he does, gleeful to bring Drift, a Decepticon defector, back to the Decepticons. But even then, Lockdown is willing to go behind the Decepticons' backs for his own gain, such as withholding the Matrix of Leadership from Megatron so that the war continues. His greed is to such major degrees, Lockdown would shrug off the life of any casualties on war just so he can make a profit, as seen when he knowingly dooms the Earth and enabling the Decepticons' genocidal agenda so as long as they become regular customers.
Biography[]
Lockdown is a Cybertronian bounty hunter unaligned with the Autobots and Decepticons during the Great War, seeing more profit in helping both sides for a price. Throughout his career, Lockdown has made money primarily from the Decepticons with repeated deals from their leader, Megatron himself. However, when the Autobots eventually defeated the Decepticons to save the Earth, ending the Great War, Lockdown was unhappy with the loss of his revenue stream. Upon being informed about the Dark Spark's eventual arrival on a city on Earth, Lockdown initiates a full-scale invasion with his army, laying siege while its populace had thankfully evacuated beforehand. Optimus, Drift and Bumblebee arrive to confront Lockdown and stop him from claiming the Dark Spark, but Lockdown sees no profit on just handing the artifact, merging the dark relic to his very chest. Now more powerful than ever, Lockdown uses his power to freeze the Autobots.
Setting his base at a military facility deep in the cannons, when Drift, a former Decepticon who later defected to the Autobots, infiltrates his base alongside Bumblebee, Lockdown has him captured. Looking forward to returning him to Megatron, Lockdown has him tortured by his men to force Bumblebee's location. However Bumblebee eventually infiltrates the chamber to rescue Drift. So Lockdown initiates a trap to have him and Bumblebee killed, however Grimlock later arrives to save them, decimating what all Lockdown brought to him. But Lockdown eventually escapes for a destructive invasion on another Earth city where he was building a Time Portal.
Using the Dark Spark to power the device, Lockdown announces his plans to use the portals to bring back the Decepticons before they were slain by the Autobots. When Optimus objects due to how the Decepticons will destroy the Earth, Lockdown makes it clear he is allowing this to happen without hesitation if it means restarting the Great War and make a profit. Lockdown then plots to hand Optimus to Megatron, while keeping the Matrix of Leadership for himself to ensure the war continues. However, Optimus destroys the Time Portal, defeats Lockdown, and Drift cuts off the Dark Spark, sending it to fly across time & space. Lockdown snarls that this is not finished and retreats.
Trivia[]
- Lockdown is voiced by Gregg Burger, who is known as the original voice of Grimlock in the Generation One TV series.
- Unlike in the film who is a rogue selling his services to Cemetery Wind, Lockdown has an army of mercenaries on his own, with Stringer being one of his minions, while in the film, he is a KSI creation serving Galvatron.
