BuggyMan

BuggyMan is a Renegade from the GoBots continuity family.

BuggyMan is a Renegade who transforms into a dune buggy. Cy-Kill considers him a competent officer, one with good judgement and an appropriate level of initiative. He likes talking in the third person and has a collection of insects, worms, and arachnids.

Fiction

Kre-O comic

BuggyMan was sent flying to the air along with Chromedome by Brawl's assault on a pile of bricks. Or he might be jumping in to kung-fu kick Brawl, it isn't explicitly clear. New Military Unit Combaticon! Bruticus, Combine!

Timelines

The Buggyman [sic] is one of the odder, and creepier, Renegades and one whom Small Foot had once flattened in a fight, but someone decided to put him in the team meant to save the whole universe from destruction anyway! With his new, stronger Transformers-emulating body and an array of icky insect drones, he was attached as navigator to the second cross-dimensional team. Sunrise What nobody knew was that he was allied to the renegade Renegade Zero: much of the Buggyman's creepy persona was a put-on, and he and Zero were plotting their own way to save the GoBot race. High Noon

When sent to a new world to meet the first team, his first act was to have to confirm he wasn't Bug Bite using a fake name.

While Admiral Man-O-War and Path Finder clashed over strategy, the Buggyman sent his drones to scout the area. Path Finder's plan of enlisting Autobot aid was given a boost when the Buggyman announced he'd located the 'bot base nearby. Sunrise He quietly gave Road Ranger a fuel leak so they'd need to stop at a place useful for his agenda and he alerted Zero about the plans. Once back on the road, he was the first one to realize the local Autobots were very different to how they should be: no spark signature at all. He stopped his team making contact with a local because of this.

Later, the team learned the Autobots they encountered were evil when they narrowly fought off Stepper! High Noon

Renegade Rhetoric

Cy-Kill considered BuggyMan a solid officer among the Renegades. He took the initiative and showed good judgment in the field. Cy-Kill often employed BuggyMan as a subcommander captaining his own Thruster during assaults. Renegade Rhetoric 2016/10/17 When the Guardians and UNECOM began working on the Space Hawk project, Cy-Kill dispatched BuggyMan to kidnap Anya Turgenova so the Renegades could Brainstorm her for the project's secrets. The Hawks of Space Part 1 BuggyMan and Crasher joined Cy-Kill in pursuit of the Master Renegade's minion, Creepy. They disabled his ship, the Dromon, and boarded it to capture the Monster GoBot. Just as the Guardians intercepted Cy-Kill's crew aboard the craft, however, they were all teleported to the other side of the galaxy by a group known as the Overseers. The GoBots were enslaved by the Overseers and affixed with special cuffs that disabled their power packs and conversion abilities. A bizarre side effect was the change to the color of their superstructures, with BuggyMan becoming an eye-popping orange.

BuggyMan and Leader-1 were assigned to work in the recycling center. Leader-1 fashioned a key from the scrap to free himself and BuggyMan, and together they collected Creepy and the other Guardians and Renegades for an alliance of convenience. The GoBots were confronted by A.N.Ubi.S., the Overseers' ultimate weapon, but they managed to defeat it. Cy-Kill forced the Overseers to use their matter-superposition ray to send the GoBots home, and the parties went their separate ways once they returned. Chains of Doom While on Axiom Nexus, musing how to integrate his new Renegades into the old guard, Cy-Kill considered BuggyMan a good and stable new partner for the obsessive Clutch. Renegade Rhetoric 2016/10/16 The Master Renegade had created a second set of Power Suits for the Renegades, but abandoned them and escaped with the ship necessary to form the Power Warrior, Grungy. Nevertheless, Doctor Go was able to recreate the central component, forming a tank unit called Nemesis. BuggyMan, Decker Decker, Block Head, and Loco used the Power Suits at Cy-Kill's direction to amplify their powers, and Cy-Kill himself controlled the tank module when they all linked up to form Nemesis.

Seeing an opportunity to disrupt the tri-planet alliance treaty being held on Quartex, Cy-Kill and the Renegades joined forces with Magmar to attack UNECOM, the Guardians, and Boulder's Rock Lords. The battle initially seemed evenly matched as Cy-Kill pitted Puzzler and Monsterous against the Power Warrior Courageous and the Fossil Lord's Fossilsaurus. He held BuggyMan and cohorts in reserve, however, unleashing his third combiner Nemesis at a key moment in the battle. The tide turned in favor of the Renegades, and Nemesis captured Leader-1 and Boulder. Combiner Wars Part 1 Unfortunately, the Guardians and humans used teamwork and Cy-Kill's own ego to drive a rift between him and his allies. The captives were rescued, and a united heroic effort was prepared for the Combiners now. BuggyMan and Nemesis were defeated, and Cy-Kill was seemingly lost forever as he plunged into boiling lava. Combiner Wars Part 2

Go-Bots comic

BuggyMan was among the Renegades who took Cy-Kill's side against Leader-1 during the Go-Bot uprising. Go-Bots #2

Go-Bots became the dominant species on Earth, building their own planet Gobotron around it. BuggyMan stayed with Cy-Kill's faction and was part of his entourage when they followed the Guardians back to the half-forgotten planet. Go-Bots #4 He joined Cy-Kill on the stolen Command Center but they had to deal with Turbo, who was on a one-man rescue mission after the Renegades kidnapped Scooter. BuggyMan did voice concerns with how Cy-Kill immediately began to act like Leader-1 once in charge of the Command Center but had little time to push for legitimate political change before Turbo—having made short work of Fitor, Tank and Loco—drove through the wall and shot most of the Renegades on the bridge, BuggyMan included. GoBots #5

Notes

• As with Bad Boy, Path Finder, and Treds, the designs of Buggyman and Man-O-War in Spatiotemporal Challengers are based on prototype versions of Generation 1 Mini Vehicles—in Buggyman's case, a red version of Beachcomber. (We're pretty sure red Beachcomber wouldn't have had Buggyman's rather toothy mouth, though.)
• 1980s GoBots materials render "BuggyMan" with camel casing, and this is the spelling used in Renegade Rhetoric. By contrast, the first two chapters of Spatiotemporal Challengers give the name as "The Buggyman" while the final two chapters render as "The Buggy Man".
• Kre-O BuggyMan, like all the other non-toy Kreons, uses existing parts in his design, including wheels on his feet and Trailcutter's helmet.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Buggyman (バギーマン Bagīman)

External links

• BuggyMan at TFU.info