History Characters / TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEyeTheScavengers

* VillainProtagonist

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to the DJD, and even tells Tarn to shut up and listen to it.

* TheMentallyIll: [[spoiler: He started to suffere from delusions and bouts of anxiety after his old squad was wiped out by the Wreckers. His brushes with mental illness caused him to decide to open a mental health facility after the war ended. When the deal with Demus falls through, he settles for helping other Decepticons in the galaxy the Scavengers come across.]]

* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler: His clicker is actually the finger of a deceased squadmate. When he finally accepts his old squad's death, he plugs it into the WAP's navcomp so the Scavengers can track down and help other disenfranchised Decepticons.]]

* ShootTheShaggyDog: Though he doesn't know it yet, [[spoiler: his search for the Necrobot is one, as the Necrobot has been murdered by the DJD.]]

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Interrogates his hands, but he manages to defuse an incredibly powerful explosive charge with no problem.

* TriggerHappy: His first response to anything out of the ordinary is to shoot at it. With a very loose definition of "out of the ordinary." It's also state that he determines whether or not something is trustworthy by the sound it makes when he punches it.

* DeclarationOfProtection: [[spoiler: Makes one to the Firstborn he's now guarding in his empty chest cavity after sending the rest of the Scavengers to Garrus-9 via transmat leaving them alone on a Worldsweeper full of Architects.]]

* JerkassFacade: Adopts one when he's brought before [[spoiler: Scorponok]], pretending not to realize that the Decepticon "guards" he just tore apart were actually his friends the Scavengers, who had been caring for him for the last few years, even telling [[spoiler: Scorponok]] that being Decepticons, they got what they '''deserved'''. [[spoiler: It's actually part of a delaying tactic to allow Spinister and Nickel time to reassemble the Scavengers and allow them to get the drop on Scorponok, and to give Scorponok a chance to monologue at Grimlock about his EvilPlan.]]

** [[spoiler: After undergoing some recovery, Grimlock is perfectly capable of effortlessly annihilating dozens of bio-mechanical Treebots. Scorponok turns this against the Scavengers when he demonstrates his ability to knock out and revive Grimlock at will. He revives Grimlock as Spinister is in the middle of opening him up. All things considered, [[CurbStompBattle what follows goes about as well as you'd expect]].]]

* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: Stays behind on Scorponok's Worldsweeper after pushing the rest of the Scavengers through the transmat to Garrus-9 so he can destroy the console to prevent them from being followed, even though this leaves him (and the Firstborn he's guarding) alone on a ship full of pissed-off Architects, though because he's Grimlock, he doesn't seem overly concerned about the odds.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Issue 46 hints that he's either starting to regain his mental faculties or is hiding them for some reason.
* SanitySlippage: When last heard of before the Scavengers find him, he'd gone insane from being a "guest" of Overlord's occupation of Garrus-9. [[spoiler: Lost Light 14 demonstrates this in an extreme fashion, as an enraged Grimlock rips the Scavengers and Nickel apart.]]

* AppropriatedAppellation: "Call me Missfire - everyone does. I blame the trial."

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* AppropriatedAppellation: It's implied Misfire isn't his given name.

** [[spoiler: After being revived by Scorponok while Spinister has his hands in his chest, the already traumatised Grimlock loses it and literally rips his friends to pieces.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: While Grimlock isn't exactly the friend to all the children he's the only one of the Scavengers who would, when he was himself, make the effort to save a human from a fire. Very begrudgingly.

* TheBusCameBack: Missing since ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers Last Stand of the Wreckers]]''. It is unclear what happened to him during the interim.
** CameBackWrong: His low intelligence is a case of brain damage in this continuity - or possibly medical torture.

** [[spoiler: After Scavengers learn that Grimlock works for Scorponok, he mauls them. [[CurbStompBattle Badly]].]]
* HeelFaceTurn: It's strongly hinted that he used to be a Decepticon, only to defect for sure some currently unknown reason.
** [[spoiler: He has been actually working for Scorponok for the last several years.]]

** He's apparently caused trouble for Tarn before, based on Tarn commenting he's "forgotten how much I hated you".
** Seems he was once a Decepticon in this continuity. Fortress Maximus indicates such, and there is a panel in an early issue showing him holding both an Autobot and Decepticon badge in his hands, as if making a SadisticChoice.

* SanitySlippage: When last heard of before the Scavengers find him, he'd gone insane from being a "guest" of Overlord's occupation of Garrus-9.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Only in the sense that he's the only Autobot member.

** IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Well more friendship variant when he realized Cons4Eva was a dire-wraith but still wanted to help him.

* NoodleIncident: He's apparently caused trouble for Tarn before, based on Tarn commenting he's "forgotten how much I hated you".

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Issue 45 reveals that he used to have a pet, one so dear to him that when it died, he took up it's name to honor it.

* ShellShockedVeteran: [[spoiler: Towards the end of the war he witness his squad get wiped out by the Wreckers. It definitely left it's mark on him.]]
* SuperOCD: He obsessively holds and clicks a small device in his hand that he claims is keeping the WAP's communications suite running, thus sending a message to his old squad. He's so dead-set on doing so he continues holding and clicking it in the middle of fights. [[spoiler: Issue 46 reveals it's actually the finger of his deceased friend Radar who transformed into a satellite; clicking it transformed over time into a nervous tic for him after he began trying to use it to find his old squad.]]

* TriggerHappy: His first response to anything out of the ordinary is to shoot at it. With a very loose definition of "out of the ordinary."

* {{Badass}}: The Scavenger's plan? Point Grimlock at the DJD and pray.
** HandicappedBadass: Even without his higher brain functions, Grimlock is still capable of putting up a good fight. At first, at any rate.

* LuckyBastard: All of them, but Crankcase in particular, having survived an attack by Thunderwing, who it should be noted managed to shrug off the combined firepower of the Autobot and Decepticon armies, with nothing more than a head-wound.

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure Crankcase is grumpy and lazy, but underneath that there's a malignant cunning that the other Scavengers lack. Couple that with a surprising number of VillainousValour moments and one can see a surprising competence under the surface.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass

* AmbiguousDisorder: A delusional paranoiac who floats between acting like a child and acting like a violent mentally ill man who lashes out at inanimate objects.

* PetTheDog: He leaves behind instructions on how to repair the beast-form cybertronions that Demus lobotomized, allowing Fort Max to save them. Notably this happens shortly after his above-mentioned KickTheDog moment.

** CameBackWrong: with serious brain damage in this case.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: He's a Dinobot, who turns into a T-Rex. Doesn't apply to Decepticons.

* AnxietyEndangeredTheCat: His increasing stress and desperation to get the Scavengers to do something with their lives leads to him considering selling Grimlock to Demus and [[spoiler: getting the team in Fortress Maximus's sights by interacting with Demus.]]

* EpicFail: He's a [[{{Understatement}} really really bad shot]].

* FantasticRacism: Sees no problem with killing organics.

* WeHardlyKnewYe

** BewareTheSillyOnes

* KickTheDog: In issue 45 he seriously considers selling Grimlock to Demus in order to buy a better ship.