Defcon (Transformers)
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[edit] Transformers: Generation 1 (1985)
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| Defcon | |
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| Affiliation | Autobot  |
| Sub-Group | None |
| Function | Bounty Hunter |
| Partner | Sleezardo |
| Motto | "I am a bounty hunter searching for Decepticons who must be brought to justice." |
| Alternate Modes | Cybertronian Spacecraft |
| Series | Transformers: Generation 1 |
| Voiced by | John Stephenson (English) |
Defcon (or Devcon) is an Autobot bounty hunter. His first and only appearance was in the Season 2 episode entitled, "The Gambler". In this episode, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Perceptor, Inferno and Smokescreen are returning Earth on a toy ship they comandeered in a previous episode. An alien being named Bosch, captures the ship and attempts to place the Autobots in stasis. He succesfully freezes the Autobots, except for Smokescreen who breaks free. In order to save his friends, Smokescreen agrees to cooperate with the alien and use his gambling skills to win some energon at the casino planet of Monicus.
The Autobots are shrunk and sold to Lord Gyconi (a promoter from the town Sheoul) as collateral for obtaining some energon chips to play with. The conditions were that Smokescreen and Bosch were to have the money paid back (along with the interest) in just one hour or the Autobots would be forced to fight in his arena. Smokescreen ends up losing the money, forcing him to come up with an alternative to rescuing his comrades.
Smokescreen meets Defcon in a local tavern. Defcon explained that he travelled to Monicus in order to bring the Decepticons Dirge, Ramjet and Astrotrain to justice. Defcon offers to help Smokescreen free the Autobots. He and Smokescreen track down Lord Gyconi and the Decepticons and engage them in a fire fight. Lord Gyconi's assistant, Sleezardo, having been rescued by Defcon earlier, betrays Gyconi allowing Defcon, Smokescreen and Bosch to defeat the Decepticons. Smokescreen asks Defcon to return to Earth, but he declines, opting to pursue the fleeing Decepticons instead (with Sleezardo as his partner).
Defcon's whereabouts are currently unknown. Some fans speculate that he may have been killed, as Sleezardo was once again seen in Season 3, parterning with a Skuxxoid in a plot to destroy the Autobots with anti-electrons in "Grimlock's New Brain."
