Thrust was a major antagonist in Transformers Armada.
In his characterisation, he was a Decepticon tactician who served as Megatron's top general and military advisor. While excellent at composing strategies, Thrust struggles at improvising when they are interfered with. Considering himself the brightest Decepticon around, Thrust speaks arrogantly to everyone around him. Underneath his pompous exterior, however, Thrust is a cowardly backstabber.
In the comic book version of Armada, Thrust is instead a loyal cowboy-like Decepticon not unlike Quickstrike from Beast Wars.
He was voiced by Colin Murdock in English, who also voiced Quickstrike and Scorponok in Transformers Energon, provided the English dub for Canaletto in Oban Star Racers, and Vertex in Rollbots. He is voiced by Kōji Yusa in Japanese.
History[]
Thrust was mentioned in Linkup to be a excellent tactician who orchestrated Decepticon victories on the planets Vector, Orga, and Duke.
Soon enough Thrust joined Megatron on Earth, in Tactician, picking his Mini-Con partner, Inferno, from among the other Mini-Cons the Decepticons had locked up in the closet. Thrust concocted a plan to eliminate Optimus Prime by luring the Autobots with a fake Mini-Con signal. While the Decepticons kept the trapped Autobots under constant fire, Megatron singled out Optimus, separating him from his men and the Skyboom Shield. However, Jetfire, Optimus's second-in-command, arrived and threw off Thrust's plans.
In Linkup, Thrust devised a plan both to steal the Skyboom Shield and to destroy Jetfire in revenge. Thrust lured Jetfire to an area above the ocean where he, Starscream, Cyclonus, the Air Military Mini-Con Team, and the Air Defense Mini-Con Team attacked the Autobot. Though they underestimated Jetfire's reluctance to attack Mini-Cons, Thrust's force soon proved to be overwhelming. When the other Autobots appeared on a nearby island to assist Jetfire, Megatron led a small attack intent on stealing the Skyboom Shield. After goating at his victory, Thrust ordered Starscream to finish Jetfire off. However, Optimus warped to Jetfire's location and Powerlinxed with him, allowing him to defeat the Decepticons. Thrust was amused by the new change and said the war had gotten more interesting.
Thrust discussed why the Autobots had the advantage with Megatron, in Detection, reckoning the Autobots worked as a team better than the Decepticons. Despite Megatron's angry reaction, threatening to slice with the Star Saber, Thrust told him he believed the Decepticons suffered lack of unity, implying Sideways was responsible. Sideways, realising Thrust was a threat, convinced Demolishor that Thrust was a traitor, which Thrust himself anticipated. He had Starscream tail Sideways when he made his report to his true leader. Megatron then allowed Thrust to take on Sideways himself, and the two battled for a while, with Thrust using Inferno' invisibility powers to his advantage. Thrust would have destroyed Sideways if he did not use his trans-phase mode to reveal his otherworldly abilities, and he fled.
In the two-parter Awakening/Desperate, Thrust summoned Tidal Wave to Earth to aid Megatron's forces. During a beachside battle with Autobot forces, Tidal Wave arrived in the ocean. After a moment of pointing out Tidal Wave's capabilities, Thrust ordered Tidal Wave to open fire on the Autobots. Tidal Wave kept the Autobots under constant pressure until Hot Shot and Blurr dove down underneath Tidal Wave and attacked his underbelly. Tidal Wave sank, much to Thrust's consternation. His confidence was restored when Tidal Wave emerged from the water in robot mode and began to attack the Autobots again. Tidal Wave swiftly changed the tide of battle for the Decepticons, even being a match for Jet Optimus. Thrust did reserve the final blow to Optimus for Megatron and had Tidal Wave combine with the Decepticon leader, and Megatron successfully separated Optimus from Jetfire. However, the Space Mini-Con Team appeared and combined to form the Requiem Blaster. Thrust immediately moved to take the powerful weapon, but Optimus kicked him away and used the Blaster to slow his descent and land safely. With the Requiem Blaster in Optimus's hands, Megatron ordered a retreat.
At some point, Thrust formed an alliance with Sideways unknown to the Decepticons. They hatched a plan to plant doubts in Starscream's head about his allegiance to the Autobots. Thrust fought against Starscream and convinced him to side with him with the opportunity to destroy Megatron when the time is right. Starscream is hesistant but eventually gives in and steals the Skyboom Shield from the Autobot and head back to the Decepticons. Thrust is working on a powerful superweapon called the Hydra Cannon, a powerful ship with enough power to destroy a planet using the Mini-Cons who forms the Star Saber, Requiem Blaster and the Skyboom Shield. The ship left the moon. The Hydra Cannon destroys a comet and Megatron orders the Autobot Base on Earth destroyed. When the superpowen is about to fire, Optimus Prime sacrificed himself to save the Earth.
During the Decepticon's journey back to Cybertron, they turn around to destroy the remaining Autobots and the Mini-Cons revived Optimus Prime. Megatron become Galvatron after an incident with Nemesis Prime. Thrust is gleeful when a black hole destroys many Decepticon ships and said the plan is working and laughs madly much to Starscream's confusion and dismay. The Mini-Cons stop the black hole. Its revealed that Thrust is working for Unicron. When Hot Shot come to Galvatron to convince him to join forces with Optimus Prime, The tactician steals the Requiem Blaster and Skyboom Shield and escapes with Starscream chasing him. The former Decepticon meet up with Sideways one of Cybertron's moons.
Personality[]
Thrust initially came off as an arrogant yet serious and intelligent Decepticon loyal to Megatron. He is widely regarded as a brilliant strategist and tactician, and viewed himself as the most intelligent of the Decepticons. Although Thrust was intelligent, he was not as smart as he thought he was. Regardless of his ego, Thrust is still very dangerous as his plans nearly succeeded several times during the show. Thrust was a highly skilled manipulator and deceiver, as shown when he manipulated Starscream to return to the Decepticons.
Despite his loyalty, Thrust was as power-hungry as he was arrogant. After allying himself with Sideways, he becomes increasingly megalomaniacal and bloodthirsty. Eventually he betrays his fellow Decepticons and proudly declares Unicron his true master. After this, Thrust's narcissism and appetite for power and domination consumed him to the point of near insanity. He saw himself as Unicron's new right-hand and the universe was his. At one point he even cheered Unicron on as he prepared to attack Thrust's own homeworld of Cybertron, laughing and encouraging him to destroy the entire planet.
When confronted by Galvatron, Thrust said he wasn't afraid now that he was with Unicron and that he would rule the entire universe, while also demeaning Galvatron and his fellow Decepticons. However, after getting caught in a crusher, Thrust immediately took back everything he said, begging Galvatron to save him. Galvatron refused, giving Thrust the choice of either being shot or getting out on his own. Thrust continued to beg and, ultimately, was crushed by Unicron.
Ultimately, Thrust is best described as a cunning, ruthless, manipulative, sly, intelligent, arrogant, conniving, cowardly, backstabbing, and opportunistic power-hungry narcissist and megalomaniac.
Quotes[]
| “ | Any of you ladies going to do any work today, or are you just going to stand around chatting with one another? | „ |
| ~ Thrust ordering Decepticons around |
| “ | He's so difficult sometimes. | „ |
| ~ Thrust about Megatron's obsession with control |
| “ | I wonder what's clogging up his tailpipe. Boy, those Autobots sure are a moody bunch. | „ |
| “ | Oh boy, here we go again. | „ |
| “ | Look! Your guardian star is very bright tonight, sir. I believe it might actually swallow up every other star around it! This must surely be a sign you'll crush the Autobots, conquer the universe and lead the Decepticons back to planet Cybertron! | „ |
| “ | I can't wait till Unicron blast you to pieces and i'll scatter your dust all over the universe! | „ |
| ~ Thrust before falling in Unicron's shoulder joint |
| “ | Galvatron! You can't just leave me here! Please! | „ |
| ~ Thrust's last words before suffering an ironic death yet fitting punishment for his treachery. |
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- This incarnation of Thrust is more intelligent than his G1 counterpart, and his eventual treachery is somewhat reminiscent of Starscream's traditional characterisation.
- His boastful, but cowardly personality does match with the original, however.
- Thrust did get a "Powerlinx" recolour, which resemble his G1 colours. However, he never receives this upgrade in the show.
- The Movieverse Thrust's seen in Bumblebee use Armada Thrust's green colour scheme.
- A common fan theory is that Thrust would go onto be reincarnated as Scorponok in Transformers Energon. This is because it was revealed (in a non dubbed episode) that Scorponok is only a copy of the original, who was made with a spark of a "wandering Decepticon", and Thrust is the only one whose spark would be present at that time.
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