Razorclaw (Cybertron)

Razorclaw is a Decepticon-allied Mini-Con from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy.

Know that I am Razorclaw... without claws. But I can become a razor.

A member of the Sky Attack Mini-Con Team, Razorclaw vastly prefers getting in close and strafing his targets with machinegun fire rather than using bombs from afar. This way he can see the devastation and carnage up close and personal; nothing gets his internal processors going like destroying a city's cultural institutions, watching civilization burn and crumble. He is a savage barbarian who lives to crush his enemies, drive them before him, and hear the lamentations of the survivors.

As such, he has become the personal target of the Air Defense Team's Steamhammer. Where Razorclaw relishes death and destruction, Steamhammer abhors it. The two have clashed many times as Steamhammer attempts to prevent further destruction and loss of life at Razorclaw's hands.

Fiction

Cybertron comic

Razorclaw was part of an army of insurgent Mini-Cons plotting to destroy a Mini-Con colony on one of Cybertron's moons. He bore witness to Unicron, the insurgents' secret ally, turning on them and killing everyone around him. Revelations Part 5

Toys

Cybertron

• Razorclaw vs Steamhammer (Mini-Con 2-pack, 2005)

Released as part of the first wave of Cybertron Mini-Con 2-packs, Razorclaw is a redeco of Thunderwing from the Armada Air Military Mini-Con Team, transforming into a "flying wing" stealth fighter. He has a third weapon mode, becoming a spinning blade that uses the toy's Powerlinx socket as a swivel-point. He was available in a two-pack with the Autobot Mini-Con Steamhammer.

This mold was also used to make Seeker and Twirl, and slightly retooled into Ichibi.

• More information on Razorclaw at TFU.info

• Evac with Bonus Mini-Cons (Multi-pack, 2005)

Steamhammer and Razorclaw were added to the Voyager-class toy Evac as a Target-exclusive bonus pack for the cost of a normal Voyager. All of the toys are the same as their individual releases.

Notes

• Razorclaw's official bio actually contains the line "he lives to crush his enemies, drive them before him, and hear the lamentations of the survivors". This is a near-direct lift from a line from the movie Conan the Barbarian, when Conan is asked "what is the best in life?"
• When the Mini-Con two-packs were premiered at the 2005 San Diego Comic-Con, the Sky Attack Team used the remolded Caliber Micron versions of the molds with additional 5 mm pegs. However, the final retail versions used the original, pegless versions.