Frenzy: a Transformers Character on Speed
Frenzy from Transformers is an evil Decepticon that can
transform into a cassette. In the original series his partners are
Ravage, Buzzaw and Laserbeak. Due to changes in his coloration
in the later series he is frequently also known to be Rumble. As
for the toy goes, it's tainted indigo although in the animated series
he remains gold, black and red. On the other hand, Marvel
remained true to his original colors, leaving them untouched.
Digging a bit deeper into the animated series, Frenzy was inferior
to Rumble. He was like his sidekick, always running besides
Rumble. The legend goes that the TV series mistakenly
interchanged the color palettes for both Frenzy and Rumble, a
good reason to cause confusion between them.
In the Marvel Universe Frenzy and Rumble are featured as
brothers. Here we see a different Frenzy whose powers are
focused in sonic attacks rather than the original spinning arms.
Following the comic, Frenzy was one of the first Decepticons that
assaulted the Ark and befell on planet Earth. That's where he was
reconfigured as a cassette and proudly fought many of the early
battles versus the Autobots. However in one of these epic
encounters Frenzy was successfully deactivated by Autobot
Omega Supreme. That pretty much tallies up Frenzy's
appearance in the US comics version.
Frenzy's real death can be tracked down to the ending issue of
the G2 series (Generation 2). Things came down to an alliance
between the Autobots and Decepticons to defeat the common
enemy known as The Swarm. Frenzy's sonic energy was boosted
by Wheeljack for his attack, and although this did help slow
down The Swarm it was too much for Frenzy. He fell into pieces
due to the incontrollable amount of sonic energy that it took to
hold down the swarm.
Decepticon Frenzy the Transformer is widely known because of
his appearance in the 2007 Transformers movie. In this movie
Frenzy takes on a different transformation: a small radio that
reminds Transformers followers of Soundwave, another
Decepticon. According to the creators it was Soundwave who
was to appear in the movie, but because of the exaggerated and
sleek design of the robot they had to replace him for Frenzy's
character. Frenzy is portrayed as being a slick and quite thin
robot that is constantly in a frenetic loop. His exact transformation
is that of a silver GPX Boom Box featuring blue lights and round
shaped speakers. Around the middle of the movie Frenzy's head
falls off, but somehow he mages to survive and takes the form of
a cell phone suiting his then smaller self.
Frenzy's role is not that of being an aggressive attacker like most
of the other Decepticons in the movie. Rather he serves as a spy
and scavenger, in fact he manages to be the first one to find the
AllSpark. Curiously this frenetic robot takes much more camera
time than his allies, maybe because of his hilarious way of
speaking accelerated Cybertronian.
Michael Black is proud to be a huge Transformers fan who's written many articles about these fascinating fictional robot machines. You can check out more about Frenzy Transformers in his Transformer Decepticons website.
Image by Gadget Virtuoso
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