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| The name or term "Terence" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Terence (disambiguation). |
Terence is a very big bird! He's the kind of fellow that doesn't need to say much for his friends to get his meaning... which is good, because he is known for keeping his beak shut. He says so much with just a STARE... okay, he says everything with a STARE. Stoic, loyal, and unflinching in the face of danger, Terence brings some much-needed muscle to the Flock in their ongoing feud against the Bad Piggies.
It seems only natural then that such a taciturn, grumpy bird would take on the forms of some of the most similarly-disposed Autobots thanks to EggSpark energy: Heatwave the Fire-Bot, Sentinel Prime, Ratchet, Hound and Ironhide.
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After the Bad Piggies had stolen a batch of the Flock's eggs, Terence accompanied his fellow birds on a raid to retrieve them. Chuck managed to foul up Red's attack plan, causing the Bad Piggies' building to collapse on top of the flock while King Pig and his minions escaped. Despite being buried in rubble, Terence managed to emerge unscathed by virtue of being... well, Terence. As the other birds began to argue over their failure to recapture their eggs, the Blues flew off to try and take on the Pigs on their own. Upon noticing this, Terence and the others began to look for their companions, though Terence found it to be a waste of time. The Blues soon found them, and informed the rest of the Flock that a mysterious "EggSpark" was transforming the Bad Piggies into much more formidable "Deceptihogs." Angry Birds Transformers #1
By the time Terence and most of the Flock came upon the EggSpark, it had already transformed Hal and Chuck into "Grimlock Bird" and "Bumblebee Bird" respectively. The Birds puzzled over their friends' new forms, especially their strange new appendages. Terence was the one to point out that the appendages were called "arms and legs." Despite initial misgivings, the rest of the birds were convinced to touch the EggSpark themselves to be granted robotic bodies of their own. Upon becoming "Heatwave Bird," Terence felt an instant need to exposit about himself and his new personality. On Optimus Prime Bird's order, Heatwave Bird and the rest of the Autobirds transformed and rolled out into action. They soon caught up to the Deceptihogs, which led to a confrontation with the mischievous pigs. Heatwave Birds faced off against Galvatron Pig, defeating him by standing steadfast while his opponent rammed into him. The battle came to an abrupt end when the Flock's eggs, having been previously exposed to the EggSpark, sprouted mechanical arms and legs, multiplied, and proved themselves to be extremely hostile. Age of Eggstinction!
The two factions agreed to join forces in order to take on this new threat, and Heatwave Bird hurled himself into the fray alongside his friends and foes to take on the Eggbots. The battle did not go well, and the EggBots' rampage threatened to destroy the whole of Piggy Island. The joint Autobird-Decepticon alliance changed tactics, and Heatwave Bird was tasked with capturing an Eggbot to study it. But Galvatron Pig, assigned to the same group as Heatwave Bird, proved himself too volatile to follow orders, and began blasting away at the eggs. Intent on stopping him once more, Heatwave Bird challenged Galvatron Pig to a one-on-one match. He lost the confrontation when he attempted to transform, and accidentally assumed the form of a "dancing plant" novelty toy instead of his truck mode. Galvatron Pig charged into him at full speed, sending Heatwave Bird clear over the horizon. Luckily, Heatwave Bird landed in the sling of a giant slingshot, and was hurled back to his point of origin. Assuming his correct alternate form in mid-flight, Heatwave Bird landed fender-first atop of Galvatron Pig, and knocked him out. As he regained his bearings, Heatwave Bird had to contend with Soundwave Pig's treachery, as the Deceptihog stood back and allowed a battalion of Eggbots to surround Heatwave Bird. Heatwave Bird managed to defeat the lot by himself, and brought the rest of his team back, along with a captured Eggbot, to Optimus Prime Bird. Revenge of the Fowlin'!
As the Autobirds and Deceptihogs scrutinized the captured Eggbot, they found themselves pressed for time as the EggSpark's influence continued to spread chaos across Piggy Island. Deducing that they simply needed to separate the EggSpark from the island to stop the land's ongoing metamorphosis, they charged into battle once more in a mad dash to reach the artifact. Heatwave Bird proved himself to work well alongside Soundwave Pig in the battle that ensued. As the 'bots reached the EggSpark, they found themselves betrayed by Starscream Pig, who coveted the EggSpark's power for himself. Though Heatwave Bird attempted to stop the traitor, he was knocked aside once again by Galvatron Pig, taking him out of the fight. The Autobirds nevertheless managed to catapult the EggSpark off-planet, and everyone was restored to their original forms. As the Flock reflected on the day's events, Terence opted to join Bomb and Bubbles in listening to Hal play his banjo. Hard Boiled
Heatwave Bird would always arrive first on the scene when another Autobird's engine overheated, ready to use his fire truck mode to rescue them! Robot Birds in Disguise
Heatwave the Fire-Bot Bird was attacked by Starscream Pig. The Autobird heard the Deceptihog swooping down at the last astro-second, and used his ladder to knock his opponent out of the sky! He later participated in a great big clash against the Deceptihogs in the middle of a desert. The Autobirds came out victorious thanks their superior battle tactics and strength! Deceptihogs Versus Autobirds
Heatwave Bird was part of a raid on the Deceptihogs' headquarters after those big jerks had stolen the EggSpark. He, Optimus Prime Bird and Jazz Bird burst in to find... The Deceptihogs using the EggSpark as a dance light as they had a crazy dance party. It was all very silly. Deceptihogs' Revenge
Heatwave Bird was relaxing in his hammock, nursing a pineapple drink when Bumblebee Bird came up to him, asking for some help dealing with some Flying Pigbots. Heatwave Bird was uninterested... until a stray shot destroyed the little umbrella in his drink. He took out all of the Deceptihogs with a single shot before returning to nursing his drink. Best Buddies
Heatwave Bird and Bumblebee Bird were driving along when... HEY! Someone recorded over the rest of this VHS tape with some game footage! Meet Bluestreak and Prowl!
Terence in all his forms is slow. He moves slow, shoots slow, even his vehicle mode is slow. But he can take more punishment than most any other member of the Autobirds and Deceptihogs, shrugging off laser blasts, missiles, and even Walking Mortar Tower lava-balls and falling Monoliths easily. However, it's easy to rely on his durability too much and not notice how much life has been chipped away.
The first version of Terence has a very slow attack, but daaang does it pack a wallop. Terence fires off a blast into the sky, and a few painfully long seconds later, a bar of light descends and carves through whatever's underneath it. With a few level-ups, this beam is a force of pure obliteration: blocks, pigs, Mortar Towers... gone. Solid gone. The only problem is the long wait time before it connects, but interestingly, between the time the attack launches and lands, you can actually change the target as you like, and it doesn't stop if you transform. Unlocking him also allows access to Spark Run.
This weapon, however, makes him terrible at shooting down missiles. It's the luckiest of luck to do so. You're better off equipping him with the Electroblast or Shieldor Energonicon to stop as many as possible, though a decently-timed partner call-in can work as well.
As Sentinel Prime, Terence looks ridiculously close to Heatwave, so much so Chuck decided "screw it" and gave Sentinel black accents, earning Chuck a STARE.
Sentinel-Terence's weapon functions almost identically to Heatwave's, except it generates two additional beams that auto-targets other block towers. If there are three structures, and the two outer ones are closer and farther to you than the middle one, the beams will all generally land on the structures. This is a tad unreliable though, as the beams aren't sentient, so presumably Sentinel Prime has bad aim. These extra beams don't pack nearly the punch of the primary aimed beam however, which is itself less powerful than Heatwave's single beam. Still, the aimed beam is more than enough to obliterate a Walking Mortar Tower in most instances.
Sentinel retains Heatwave's uselessness against missiles, so get a decent Energonicon to compensate.
Ratchet actually adds a bit of speed to Terence. Sure, his foot speed is only marginally quicker, but his attacks? Hoo boy. Once something is targeted, Ratchet launches a thin beam of energy into the sky, which quickly drops down into the target, tearing through anything in between. This attack actually works better with a dragging back-and-forth motion across multiple targets, which rains down blazing electric death from above. This also makes him the first Terence-bot who can reliably shoot down missiles. As with Grimlock Bird, the attack will overheat and lock up if used too much too frequently, but thankfully cools down when not in use.
Unfortunately, Terence in all his forms remains absolutely awful against Boss Pig and Unicron Pig. His beam seems to have a hard time connecting, leaving you to try and just shoot down missiles the entire run.
Ratchet was made available in the "Medic!" Challenge Event, the only character to unlock during the Event (and his Accessories, of course).He and all of the other Challenge Event unlockables were also made available in the "2-Year Celebration" Event. On day five of this Event, the game offered the purchasable "Ratchet Bundle" for $29.99, which contained his Stranglehold accessory (or 1000 tokens), 600 Gems, and Ratchet (or 5000 tokens).
Terence-as-Hound may take his unique visual cues from the original Hound, but his fighting ability is far more in line with his heavily-armed live-action namesake. He combines the previous Terences' attacks into an absolutely devastating combo of an instant-hit laser strike (which sends any Piggie it doesn't pop spinning madly in place) with two larger beams that instantly rain down next to it, doing an unbelievable amount of damage in a mere second. The larger beams only appear once per attack, so quick swipes and taps work best. And with a very short cooldown period, Terence-Hound is unquestionably the best block buster of all the Terences.
Hound was first available in the mid-December Challenge Event simply called "Hound". He could be bought for 10000 Tokens, with bonus score from Pigs and holiday smashables. Or purchased with real money as usual. Or he can be pulled as a legendary prize from gold crates.
Terence as Ironhide may or may not do well, seeing as how Terence also plays the part of Sentinel Prime. He seems to mimic his murderer as well, firing three beams from above. However, they fire much faster and come in from a diagonal angle, which may or may not work out destroying blocks.
And remember, like Heatwave and Sentinel Prime, get one of the starter Energonicons to disable missiles for him or he's doomed.
Specialist Ratchet is of high importance to the Autobirds: the hunt for the Eggspark is on, and no Autobird has repair skills much like Ratchet does. He joins a small squad in this delicate mission, hoping to find and safely transport the creator of his mechanical body. Unfortunaly, danger lurks everywhere in the shadows, and so does Captain Starscream...
His weapon is some kind of merge of original Ratchet’s and Ironhide’s weapon: a thin instant hit beam from above and one or two diagonal thick beams that rain down on other non-targeted structures.
The Clash of the Titans has concluded, and both sides of the war find themselves needing to make a new move. As Special Officer Skywarp teleports around in the sky, the Autobirds appoint a Special Officer of their own to scout the rubble of the Giants. Special Officer Hound may not turn the tide in this war, but he will do anything to keep his brethren out of harm's way.
His weapon is pretty much the exact same as his original. Yep.
The Deceptihogs have retaken Nightbird! The Autobirds send in thier Security Officer Ironhide to combat this new threat. Muscle vs. Ninja: which warrior will gain the upper hand?
Victory to the Autobirds at last! The Deceptihogs are cornered and, in a desperate attempt at gaining the upper hand once more, send in Starscream, re-energized with the power of Neon. With this victory in hand, though, the Autobirds take a break from the battle in favor of care and morale. Using the new Energon variant Neon that his brave leader brought with, Ratchet tends to the wounded. As the hours pass however, Neon Starscream poses more and more of a threat. It becomes apparent that Neon Ratchet might not have as much time as previously thought...
As is custom to Energon based characters, Neon Ratchet is weaker to attacks, while simultaneously being able to heal up by collecting Energon cubes on the field.
Hound has gained the power of Neon to hopefully bring victory against Neon Bludgeon
As an Energon character he takes damage more easily but can also heal from Energon Cubes (also having a glitch where he uses Reds voice lines instead)
