Deluge (G2) - Transformers Wiki
The name or term "Deluge" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Deluge (disambiguation).
- Deluge is a Decepticon Color Changer from the Generation 2 portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Deluge is a fully qualified mad scientist, equipped with all the intelligence, skills, and egotistic depravity that such a position requires. He may or may not have a mad cackling laugh or a Siamese cat, but his chinplate does perhaps resemble a goatee.
He is officially a scientific consultant, but prefers to shun the mundane workaday world and spend his days plotting Evil Schemes and designing Doomsday Weapons. His preferred instruments of destruction are not the tried and true missiles or energy weapons other Transformers use, no no. An evil genius must maintain his image, you know. Deluge would rather tear apart his enemies with high-pressure fluid jets. How delightfully eccentric of him.
If he ever meets that Autobot do-gooder who shares his name, Deluge will probably use his powers to see that he is torn apart, limb from limb, but not until he reveals his secret, secret plan! HAhaHaHAEha!
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Fiction
2005 IDW continuity
- First appearance: All Hail Megatron #7
A member of the scientific class, the perceived under-appreciation he and his colleagues were receiving enticed Deluge to join the nascent Decepticon movement. After joining, he found a kindred spirit in Jetfire with the two developing a close friendship. What It's Really Like However, when Jetfire was found to be associating with the police, Deluge joined in assaulting him, only to cheese it when a pair of lights shined on them. The Next Day, and the Next The next day, Deluge got drunk when Jetfire tracked him down. Apologizing for his earlier behaviour, the two friends had a philosophical discussion about helping their species before deciding to get even more drunk. What It's Really Like
Job satisfaction!
Circa 2007, Deluge was part of the project to weaponize Cybertron's natural Insecticon swarm. Though the project managed to create three sentient Insecticons, starting with Bombshell, it spawned three thousand feral clones as a side effect. By this point in his life, Deluge had developed a habit of giggling mid-sentence, the weirdo.
A year later, he escorted many Autobots to Cybertron via a portal and with only one other Decepticon, so the instant the portal went down they were trapped on the planet with their very angry "prisoners". All Hail Megatron #7 Deluge and Dirge were soon abandoned by the Autobots and the scientist was killed by the Insecticon swarm. Stick Together
In 2018, when interviewed by Thundercracker on what the Decepticons had meant to him, Dirge had few kind words to say, citing having to watch Deluge be torn apart by his own creations as when he'd lost faith in the cause. Starscream: The Movie
Wings Universe
Sure, I'm a mad scientist, but I also moonlight as a common thug.
When a strange Autobot visitor and his Quintesson companion wandered into the wrong part of Cybertron, Deluge joined Jetstorm and the Battlechargers in intimidating the pair. Unfortunately for Deluge and the other Decepticons, their foe was way, way more powerful than they suspected and they were left defeated in a pile. The Coming Storm: Part 1
Deluge and Jetstorm later returned to Earth and hooked up with Clench and his Decepticon Syndicate. They battled against Aquafend and Gobots at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland when the forestonite gas escaped and mutated their CNA. Generation 2: Redux
Beast Wars: Uprising
In the Beast Wars: Uprising continuity, Deluge the Autobot and Deluge the Decepticon are one and the same.
Deluge was an Autobot scientist, working on defensive measures. At some point he defected, and fought alongside the likes of the Predacons. He witnessed the many bots who sacrificed themselves against Unicron, mostly to no avail, and began to research Point One Percenters. Many subjects died due to his experimentation. He was close when peace was imposed by the Human Confederacy and had to abandon his research, for a time. But when Predacons and Maximals emerged, he resumed his research, lest they some day be needed. Once again he had many horrible failures, but this time succeeded in creating Protoform X and Trans-Mutate. The Inexorable March
The Human Confederacy was aware of Deluge's reputation as a scientist. Chak figured that if anyone would be able to take Doctor Ōgaki's work on superstring resonance fatlines and apply to them Cybertronian tech, it'd be him or Spanner. Intersectionality
A year after the end of the Grand Uprising, the elderly and decrepit Deluge continued his work, now experimenting on some Vehicon drones. Protoform X, now calling himself Rampage, tracked Deluge down to ask him why. Deluge explained himself, and pointed to the Vehicon Apocalypse as justification for his actions. Rampage was not impressed; he murdered his 'father' and destroyed his research. Deluge thanked him for the quick death he was granted. The Inexorable March
Deluge was present with Galvatron II and his G-2 Decepticon faction when they attacked the planet Beast. Grotusque Chapter
Transformers '84
Deluge was one of the Decepticon scientists who was working on Project Dreadnought when Counterpunch entered the control hub for Shockwave. Secrets & Lies #1
Commercial appearances
Deluge dueled with Drench on Cybertron. Color Changers commercial
Games
Shockwave and Deluge were dispatched to rein in the Constructicons when the team started getting friendly with the Autobots. The Master Builders
Transformers: Earth Wars
- Class: Special
- Lowest Star Rating: 2 star
- Highest Star Rating: 5 star
- Ability: Scientific Superiority: A chosen ally is made invisible for 2.00 seconds. Every 2 seconds during this, enemies nearby the chosen bot will be hacked for 2 seconds
Toys
The Transformers
- Deluge (Aquaspeeder, 1993)
- Accessories: Double water cannon
- Known designers: Andy Couzens (Hasbro), Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)
Beast Wars: Uprising repurposed this Deluge as also being the Decepticon one.
- Deluge transforms into a Mazda 787B Le Mans-style race car. As an Aquaspeeder, he has a double-barreled water-cannon that uses a plastic bellows to store water, which is usable in both vehicle and robot modes. His hood/chest changes from dark green to a milky-white with temperature changes, but faster in cold or warm water.
- Deluge was only available in various European markets during the two-year "transitional" period marking the changeover from the original toyline to Generation 2; in the original line's final year (1993), the toys were given redesigned Autobot and Decepticon symbols, but it wasn't until 1994 that "Generation 2" appeared on the packaging.
- This mold was redecoed to make the US Color Changer Drench. It was also used as the basis for the non-toy Shattered Glass Drench.
Generation 2
- Deluge (Color Change, 1993)
- Accessories: Spoiler-blower/water-cannon
- Known designers: Andy Couzens (Hasbro), Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)
- A redeco of the European Autobot Aquaspeeder Speedstream, Deluge transforms into a Formula 1-style race car, seemingly based on the Williams FW14. His front half is covered in temperature-sensitive paint, going pale white if hit with warm water (or if he just gets warm by other methods). His weapon is a single-barreled water pistol formed from his car-mode spoiler/engine. He also has stickers on each side of the driver's seat that read "M. Edminson".
- There is a tooling variation of this toy. Some have a water-cannon with the spoiler attached by a single bar, with a wider, shorter bellows attached to a raised base. Other versions use a two-peg connector for the spoiler with a thinner, taller bellows, and the attachment "base" is missing. It is unknown which version of the toy came first, and to complicate the issue, Speedstream's cannon uses a two-peg/thin-bellows setup, but has a (slightly different) raised attachment base.
- Deluge (Aquaspeeder, 1994)
- Accessories: Double water cannon
- This release is identical to the original European Autobot Le Mans toy above, only this time in packaging specifically branded Generation 2.
Notes
- Like all the Color Changers, American Generation 2 Deluge is a hodgepodge of various elements of two different European-market Aquaspeeders, as well as one of the European-market Stormtroopers: His toy is redecoed from European Aquaspeeder Speedstream, his name comes from European Aquaspeeder Deluge, and his bio and motto both come from European Stormtrooper Hydradread.
- E. J. Su gave Deluge a deliberate redesign for his appearance in The Transformers: All Hail Megatron.[1]
Foreign names
- Japanese: Deluge (デリュージ Deryūji)