Stretch

Stretch is a Decepticon from the Animated continuity family and a Renegade from the GoBots continuity family.

To Stretch, there's nothing wrong with demanding only the finest things in life, since that's exactly what he himself is. An AllSpark fragment gave life to the top-of-the-line TUX model mega-limo belonging to Porter C. Powell, and now the newly created Stretch is making good use of his former owner's wealth and personal connections in order to acquire the poshest of baubles and every last trapping of opulent glitz that reflects in his monocled gaze.

Fiction

Animated cartoon

Because those giant robots hadn't caused him enough headaches already, Porter C. Powell decided to pull some strings and buy himself an AllSpark fragment on the black market. Exactly what he intended it for is unknown, for while in transit, his car was attacked by the Angry Archer, and in the commotion, the fragment made contact with the limousine's dashboard and metamorphosed it into Stretch. The vain and status-obsessed Decepticon nearly bankrupted Powell, who had to make an uneasy alliance with his old rival Isaac Sumdac in order to solve this problem. The two lured Stretch into the Sumdac Tower space bridge, and he was gone in a flash (He'd like to think it was the most beautiful and impressive flash.)

Sumdac would later note that Stretch was now 17 quantum-string vibrational levels from their current reality. The AllSpark Almanac II Stretch had ended up on a primary Gargent reality's Gobotron, where his copy of the Powell Motorworks historical database made him quite wealthy for a time. When his money ran out, he was recruited by Loco into the Renegades. Ask Vector Prime, 30 September 2015

Stretch, Gunnyr, and Bad Boy attacked a Guardian training exercise and nearly took several hostages before Leader-1 and his veterans arrived to see them off. Rebels Without A Circuit Later, after Cy-Kill disappeared into another dimension following an accident with an experimental Anti-Phase-Displace Blaster, Stretch and the Renegades found themselves under attack by the Guardians, galvanized by Cy-Kill's absence. Stretch and Spoons were pinned down by enemy fire, but at the decisive moment, Cy-Kill returned from his interdimensional exile with new reinforcements. Clutch and Warpath rescued Stretch and Spoons, and the Renegades drove their enemies off. Opportunity Knocks Part 2

Legends comic

While on the run from the Autobots, Slipstream passed by several wanted posters, including one featuring Stretch. LG16 Slipstream

Timelines

Fleeing the Cataclysm that threatened to destroy the universe, Stretch was one of a group of GoBots who relocated to an alternate dimension (apparently either "Level 72" or "Level 77"), where he adopted a new appearance to blend in. Cultural Appropriation

Echoes and Fragments

In a hybrid universe where the GoBots and Transformers coexisted, Stretch took part in the battle of Autobot City. Echoes and Fragments

Go-Bots comic

Stretch was the personal limousine Go-Bot of T. Coriander Banks, and transported the businessman to the illegal Go-Bot gladiator fights he was hoping to persuade Turbo and Matt Hunter to join. When they refused, Stretch briefly squared up to Turbo before the pair escaped. Go-Bots #1 Later, when Banks's tinkering to produce greater levels of bloodlust in his fighters led to a full-blown Go-Bot uprising, Stretch turned on his owner, leaving Banks suspended on power lines with mortal injuries. Stretch then attacked Turbo, Scooter, Matt Hunter, and A.J. Foster, who all set him on fire with improvised Molotov cocktails containing Go-Bot fuel. Nevertheless, he was still able to fight Turbo, pounding the racing Go-Bot down into the sewers. Go-Bots #2

Notes

• As noted at both BotCon 2008 and on the DVD audio commentary for "Garbage In, Garbage Out", Powell's limousine was based on the Renegade GoBot Tux because another member of the production staff still owned one from childhood. When the idea came about to turn the limo into a Transformer for The AllSpark Almanac II, the resultant robot was named "Stretch", which was the alternate name that Tux was known by in the Challenge of the Go-Bots cartoon.
  • Artist Laurent Libessart was commissioned to create Stretch's robot mode by Jim Sorenson, and he carried on the theme by directly basing his design on Tux. Derrick J. Wyatt then made adjustments to the head design and coloration,^[1] replacing his original Tux-based face with a new one that was even more of a caricature of a high society tycoon, with a monocle and "Hollywood gap grin" to go along with his top hat.
  • Stretch's fate—being banished across dimensions, here specifically called "levels", another bit of GoBots parlance—coupled with his cartoon-derived name, seem to combine to suggest that Animated Stretch and Challenge of the GoBots Stretch could actually be one and the same character. Ask Vector Prime, also written by Sorenson, would confirm this theory while explaining why GoBots had Earth-based alternate modes hundreds of years ago.
• The story of Stretch is recounted in flashback by Powell himself and is specifically set after the events of the cartoon series, since the Autobots are said to have already returned to Cybertron. There had not previously been clear canonical evidence that AllSpark fragments remained at large on Earth after Prowl and Jazz attempted to reunite them all in "Endgame, Part II"; now we know they must not have gotten them all.
• Cy-Kill notes that he transforms into a Rolls-Royce Phantom VI limousine, a form he must have adopted at some point after he arrived on Gobotron.
• In the Go-Bots comic, a black limousine Go-Bot is referred to as "Stretch", while a white Go-Bot using the traditional Tux colors appears in a crowd shot. It is unclear if this is an error or a distinction inspired by the different names, but we opt to give them separate articles.

References

External links

• Tux on TFU.info