Ravage is a supporting antagonist in the Transformers film series. He served as a supporting antagonist in the 2009 film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
He is a Decepticon and one of Soundwave's pets who has one glowing red eye, two pointy ears on the back of his head, a razor-sharp mane, and a claw on the tip of his tail. His physiology is vaguely cougar-like.
His vocal sound effects were provided by Frank Welker who also played Megatron in the same series as well as his counterparts in the G1 Cartoon and the Aligened Countnuity, Soundwave in the G1 cartoon, the live-action films and the Aligned continuity, the Kandarian Demon in The Evil Dead, Dr. Viper in S.W.A.T. Kats, the Red Death in How to Train Your Dragon and Unicron (while possessing Megatron) in Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising.
Appearances[]
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen[]
When Soundwave learns of the location of the AllSpark shard, he ejects Ravage to find and retrieve it. Ravage makes it to Diego Garcia and deploys his microcons to get it while he holds off the NEST forces. Ravage successfully gets the AllSpark shard and meets up with the Constructicons who use it to revive Megatron.
Meanwhile in Egypt, Ravage searches for Sam during the final battle. As Bumblebee fights Rampage, Ravage jumps on his back to help his fellow Decepticon, but the Autobot grabs his tail, strips his entire upper body from his spine, and proceeds to beat Rampage to death with his other half.
IDW Comics[]
While Ravage was considered dead within the movies themselves, he would be revived in IDW Publishing's comics.
Tales of the Fallen[]
Nefarious[]
Shortly after, Soundwave, disturbed by Ravage's reactivation, dispatched a quartet of minions (Buzzsaw, Rumble, Beastbox and Ratbat) to investigate. This soon erupted into a conflict with cleanup crews and Autobot reinforcements, which prompted Soundwave to intervene. Although the battle resulted in several casualties on both sides, Ravage was undisturbed. While the other Decepticons retreated, Buzzsaw stuck around to tend to Ravage. Buzzsaw managed to get Ravage operational, and the pair burst out of the ruins of the petrochemical plant, surprising an NSA team which was investigating the disaster zone. Soundwave ordered Ravage to find a quiet location. There Soundwave rendezvoused with him in order to give him a scan. Ravage subsequently accompanied Soundwave in going to the aid of a Decepticon team in Wendover, under attack by Autobot forces, where he attacked Ironhide and was thrown aside.
Following Soundwave's capture by the Autobots, Ravage took part in a rescue mission, however, when he was about to free Soundwave, Ingrid overrode his higher functions, and Ravage fled. Ravage returned to his new masters, the Initiative, however Soundwave tracked him and mounted an unsuccessful attack on the Initiative base. Nefarious #4 Soundwave returned, having teamed up with Autobot forces, to assault the base. He was able to regain control of Ravage and had his minion unleash Reedman in an attempt to stop Carter Newell from destroying all Transformer life on Earth.
Rising Storm[]
After the defeat of the Initiative, Ravage returned to the Decepticon fold and spent some time at their base in Namibia. Soundwave later sent Ravage and his other minions to attack Arcee, Chromia and Elita-One when they discovered the cage holding Shockwave's "pet". The battle ended with the Autobots setting off a massive bomb, possibly killing Ravage.
Transformers: The Ride[]
Ravage appears as the first Transformer in the Universal Studios Hollywood and Singapore 3D ride Transformers: The Ride, where he debuts trying to steal the AllSpark (kept inside a glass cylinder) and he is able to escape the humans who are firing upon him, resembling the scene in Revenge of the Fallen where he was attacking human military firing at him.
He then jumps onto EVAC, with the riders inside directly seeing him. He jumps onto the top of EVAC (giving the effect of being shaken) before Bumblebee crashes out of the wall to wrestle with Ravage. Bumblebee succeeds in snapping Ravage, killing him and taking away the AllSpark. However, Decepticon Sideways shows up behind Bumblebee who tries to grab the All Spark but is punched and chased away by EVAC and Bumblebee.
Trivia[]
- The Fallen, Scorponok, Ravage, and Shockwave are the only Decepticons whom never have an alt-mode in the actual movie. But their alt-mode do exist in their various toyline series.
- Opposing his G1-cartoon counterpart, these Ravage only had one eye, while his animal motif based on cougar rather than black panther.
- With Ravage having the ability to create Reedman, he is the only minion of Soundwave able to create minion subordinates.
- Despite having a red/orange eye in the movie, all of Ravage's toys and merchandise had a purple one until his Legends figure and the Sea Attack Ravage redeco.
See Also[]
- Ravage Clones - clones of Ravage who appears as enemy in arcade game.
- Ravage - his other self in new timelines.
