| “ | Meltdown: I'm afraid your friend will have to wait. Prowl: Meltdown, where is Sari? Why have you taken her? Meltdown: My goal is quite simple, really. After our last encounter, I've reasoned that if a machine can change form, why not a human? Captain Fanzone: Let me get this straight: you want to create a transforming human? Meltdown: Exactly! A person capable of taking on any shape or form at will. Sadly, my experiments to date have been somewhat less than successful. On the one to the left used to be my lawyer. Luckily, I soon realized my error: adult test subjects. What I needed was a human who was still growing. Prowl: Sari... Meltdown: Who better than the daughter of my arch-rival, the bane of my existence, the simpering fool who is unworthy to lick the mud off the heels of my platform shoes—booga-looga-looga-looz—Professor Isaac Sumdac? Poetic, no? Captain Fanzone: Poetic is not exactly the word that comes to mind. You are one seriously twisted fruitcake. Meltdown: Flattery will get you nowhere, captain. In a few moments, I will administer a formula that will turn young Sari into a shape-changing wonder, or, if things go wrong, into one of them. Captain Fanzone: Get back here, you sicko! This is cruel and unusual punishment, you hear me?! |
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| ~ Meltdown revealing his plans to Prowl and Captain Fanzone. |
Prometheus Black, now known as Meltdown, is a major antagonist in the Transformers: Animated television series.
He is business rival of Isaac Sumdac that experimented on biological technology before mutating himself into an acidic creature. Blaming Sumdac for his condition, Black became known as the criminal Meltdown, who fights the Cybertronians in his search to create "organic transformers". He is easily the vilest and most ruthless human foe the Autobots ever faced.
He was voiced by Peter Stormare, who also played Gaear Grimsrud in Fargo, Dino Velvet in 8mm, The Nazi Officer in the Sabaton's "Uprising" music video and Werner Zytle in Arrow.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Experiments on many people with his biotechnology, such as his nanotech infused steroids, whose effects cause great collateral damage, like in the case of Colossus Rhodes, who left a path of destruction throughout a parking lot.
- He has a huge disdain for machines, to the point where he's xenophobic towards any living being that is a machine. This is left pretty clear by him saying "Transformers" instead of "Cybertronians".
- After accidentally mutating himself, he breaks into the Sumdac Tower, melts Isaac Sumdac's receptionist robot and tries to kill him with acid for what happened to him, even though he had nothing to do with his mutation.
- After his initial encounter with the Autobots, he decided to create humans who can transform to prove his superiority over Professor Sumdac.
- Painfully tortures the Dinobots to submission with his acid, causing the Dinobots to be willing to attack and kill their only friends, Bulkhead and Sari, just so they would stop being tortured.
- In order to create the perfect "organic transformers", he conducted experiments on his lawyer and another innocent person, but the procedure fails and the pair is left permanently mutated into mindless and horrifying abominations.
- Spitefully kidnaps Sari Sumdac, Isaac's 8 years old daughter, and tries to experiment on her despite the risk of possibly turning Sari into a horrifying mutant if the experiment failed, for which he planned to kidnap multiple other children and keep experimenting with them until one of the experiments finally succeeded.
- Following his escape from prison thanks to Blackarachnia in exchange for helping her eradicate her organic half, he ungratefully backstabs her, tortures her with electrocution and tries to eradicate her robotic half to instead mutate her into a fully organic being for his experiments. Had Meltdown succeeded, the process would have either wiped out Blackarachnia's spark (and thus killing her) or put her in a fate worse than death for the rest of her life.
- Because the Autobots and their human allies remained unaware of his survival, he managed to get off scot-free without being punished for his actions.
- While Lockdown and Megatron did give him competition, Meltdown stands out given his fewer resources, aside that he is noticeably viler than most of the human foes of the Cybertronians due to leaving his victims in fates worse than death instead of just killing them painlessly like the Decepticons do with their enemies. With this, he arguably has one of the more nightmarish crimes of the show.
- Lacks any redeeming qualities as well as a solid excuse behind his villainy, as his actions being driven by his desire to be better than Isaac Sumdac, which chalks up to petty envy and egotism, and is definitely the only human villain in the series to actually be a serious threat, having only one very minor comedic moment which not only doesn't detract from his human experimentations, but can highlight his sadism as well.
Trivia[]
- Originally, Prometheus Black and Meltdown were conceived as separate characters, with the latter being a bio-engineered human and the former his boss. Had this idea made to the final cut, it's highly likely that Black would still be considered Pure Evil, as he would still do the same things he did in the show with the addition of creating Meltdown.
- Prometheus Black is, alongside the Scientist and Dr. Meridian, one of three Pure Evil villains of the Transformers franchise to be neither human nor Cybertronian (though both he and Meridian used to be humans before mutanting into monsters).
External Links[]
- Prometheus Black on the Villains Wiki
- Prometheus Black on TFWiki
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