Lightning Bug - Transformers Wiki
"For slag's sake, Lord Megatron, let it go!"
"NEVER!"
The Lightning Bug is a strange device that looks vaguely like a giant beetle on an altar; when the wings are moved into the proper position, it fires lightning bolt-like blasts of heat energy from its antennae.
Megatron took any excuse he could to hump it.
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Fiction
The Transformers cartoon
The Lightning Bug was found on the dead Autobot colony of Antilla by a small group of Decepticons in the year 1985 who took it back to Earth with them.
While leaving the planet, Megatron was struck by a meteor carrying Cosmic Rust spores. When Perceptor was abducted for his scientific expertise, he determined that the heat from the Lightning Bug was accelerating the spread of the disease. After Megatron refused to destroy the weapon, Perceptor correctly theorized that corrostop could cure the disease. After claiming the chemical, Megatron infected Perceptor with the disease and sent him back to the Autobots, using the Lightning Bug to quickly enhance the spread before he settled in to sadistically watch his foes crumble.
When the reprieve allowed the Autobots to find a way to produce more corrostop after harvesting some from the Statue of Liberty, Megatron ordered the Decepticons to destroy the Statue, giving the Lightning Bug to Menasor. When Menasor prepared to turn the Lighting Bug on the infected Autobots, the arrival of the uninfected Aerialbots caused him to drop the weapon. When the Aerialbots combined into Superion, the two combiners began a brawl for the weapon, the Autobot managing to destroy the Lightning Bug after separating Menasor. Unwilling to engage the combiner without Menasor or the Lighting Bug, Megatron ordered a retreat. Cosmic Rust
Wings Universe
In a conversation about ancient weapons, Swindle brought up the Lightning Bug and noted that people would pay top dollar for it. Over-Run didn't believe Swindle. Flames of Yesterday
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Megatron found the Lightning Bug on an old Autobot colony world and stole it, unaware that he and his men had been infected with Cosmic Rust. Cosmic Rust
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Foreign names
- Japanese: Laser Hotaru (レーザーホタル Rēzā Hotaru, "Laser Firefly")