Kickback - IDW

Personality:   One of the most charming, likable beings you're ever likely to meet. He collects friends the way others do energon cubes. Scratch the surface, though, and you find a manipulative blackmailer that loves digging up dirt on his new "pals" to force them to work for him. Humans are particularly likely to fall prey to his honeyed words. In insect mode his super-charged legs allow him to jump great distances and kick through solid steel, though he's vulnerable in that mode when attempting to fly through high winds. Kickback was among the newly formed Decepticons as they left Kaon's jail and began laying waste to the city-state. Millions of years later, Kickback was newly created by Deluge alongside Shrapnel, Bombshell and three thousand mindless monsters. He soon joined Megatron's forces on Earth, and helped defeat the local Autobots after they were led into a trap. As the Decepticons started conquering the mostly defenseless planet, Kickback listened to Megatron hold a speech in the ruins of New York City. The Insecticons later traveled to China and wrecked Beijing, where Skywarp started picking a fight with Bombshell. Kickback and Shrapnel came to his aid, but found themselves outclassed by Skywarp's teleportation skills and fled the scene. After returning to New York, the Insecticons were approached by Starscream, who apologized for Skywarp's behavior and told them about his ambitions for the future. When Starscream rebelled against Megatron shortly afterwards, the Insecticons joined him in attacking their former leader. Kickback attempted to jump-kick Megatron, who simply grabbed him out of mid-air and tossed him at Bombshell. The revolt was cut short by the arrival of European jets and the return of the exiled Autobots. In the ensuing battle, Kickback was swatted aside by Sideswipe wielding a broken streetlight, and the Decepticons were eventually defeated. Kickback and the others fled Earth aboard Astrotrain. Several years later, the Decepticons found themselves living on a resourceless asteroid under their great leader, Starscream. The troops were restless, and Kickback was seen picking fights with Rumble before learning that Dreadwind had been taking more fuel rations than he was entitled to. Alongside Shrapnel and Needlenose, Kickback hunted the criminal down, executed him on the spot, and scavenged his body for parts. Shockwave observed their killing of Dreadwind from a nearby building. Unsurprisingly, the run-down Decepticons were quick to abandon Starscream when Megatron returned to lead them. Megatron would later use space bridge technology built into in his new body to summon Kickback and the rest of the Decepticons to him on Cybertron. At first they did battle with the Autobots, but were soon mind-controlled by D-Void into combining with Galvatron's Sweep army and forming a huge monster.

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