Ironclad

Ironclad is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Ironclad is an Autobot engineer with a talent for body modifications, skilled enough to earn him a place on the Wreckers. In combat, he fights defensively, making use of his impressively large fist.

Fiction

TransTech

Ironclad was a boxer on Axiom Nexus. He once matched against Star Upper, a bout that Ironclad lost despite his ironclad (ah-heh) defense and massive fist. Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/04

Of Masters and Mayhem

Ironclad was an architectural and engineering genius who worked with the Wreckers for a time. His work even impressed the Technobots when he recommended an upgrade to their combining process. With body modifications all around, Ironclad would have joined the Technobots and linked with a more energy-efficient Afterburner to create a new arm. His design was ultimately rejected, but the idea was used to incorporate Scrounge and Cybaxx instead, adding the full knowledge of the Underbase to Computron's databanks.

Later, after the razing of Cybertron by Thunder Mayhem, Impactor retained his late comrade's design schematics. He used this information to upgrade himself and Bluestreak with combiner remodels intended for Ironclad and Lightspeed, and incorporate them into the new Wreckage combiner. Lively Pursuit

Notes

• Ironclad is based on an earlier Hasbro plan for Combiner Wars multi-pack Computron, who was initially intended to incorporate a redeco of Deluxe Class Rook—using the pre-tooled Brawl head glimpsed in Another Light—as "Ironclad", a trademark-friendly renaming of Ironfist.^[1] This plan was ultimately abandoned as TakaraTomy developed a Deluxe Class Groove tooling that could be used for a Deluxe Class Afterburner arm figure. The prose story "Lively Pursuit" describes Ironclad as combining in arm mode with an "energy-efficient" Afterburner for arm mode, presumably the Legends Class Groove mold. The story also makes mention of the separate individual "Fisitron", who is instead inspired by IDW's take on the character.^[2]
• Ironclad being portrayed as a boxer in Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter is another nod to the Rook mold, which famously can plug its Combiner fist accessory into his 5 mm arm port as a giant "Hulk hand".

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