As a Sikorsky MH-53 Helicopter
Blackout was a powerful and violently loyal Decepticon, even a Third-in-Command to Megatron after Starscream. It was rare to not see him looming silently near Megatron, but if he was not by his masters side, he would be serving him in the field. Blackout also had a symbiotic companion named Scorponok.
History[]
Transformers (2007)[]
Blackout flew to the US SOCCENT base in Qatar. His refusal to identify himself caused the base to send two F-22's to escort him. Suspicions were further raised when one of the pilots reported the registry number 4500X, a helicopter which had been destroyed three months prior, as a result the soldiers were not sure as why it was there. With soldiers surrounding him from all sides, Blackout then revealed himself, transformed and began his attack. He made his way to the operations bunker and tore off the roof. Blackout tried to download some classified data, but was thwarted when men cut the physical hard line. Nevertheless, he resumed his rampage, killing all who defied him. When Robert Epps threw a grenade at him, Blackout became furious. He showed no mercy during the rest of the attack, and sent Scorponok to tie up any loose ends. Later, he flew to the United States, and when Starscream ordered the Decepticons to mobilize, Blackout acknowledged the order, then cried out "All hail Megatron", perhaps to tell Starscream who he really answered to. Blackout arrived at Mission City pretty late, but he was still a very vicious fighter, able to fend off attacks from Ironhide. Seeing Sam running away with the AllSpark, Blackout blocked his path, but Sam managed to evade him. Blackout's final fight took place a while after, when he harnessed his rotor blades and prepared to help Megatron fight Optimus Prime. But the military painted him with lasers and signaled the F-22 raptors to fire at him. Blackout noticed the lasers and attacked the humans, but Captain Lennox charged at him with a motorcycle and fired a sabot round into his crotch. Blackout was then pounded with fire from the F-22s. All this was too much for Blackout and he collapsed, dead.
Blackout's remains were thrown away into the Laurentian abyss.
Revenge of the Fallen[]
When Soundwave was hunting for files for the AllSpark shard, he sees many files, including the scene where it shows people throwing Megatron and Blackout into the Laurentian Abyss, until he found the file of Diego Garcia as to where the AllSpark shard was located.
There was also a transformer who looked like him.
Fates[]
Deaths[]
- Killed by everything, causing him to fall and die from energon loss.
Injuries[]
- Pinned by a grenade by Robert Epps.
- Lennox shoots him in the crotch, making him bleed.
- Pounded by F-22 Raptors, making him bleed even more, and dies.
Weapons[]
- Rotor blades (Transformers film)
- Arm Mounted Machine gun (Transformers film)
- Energy wave cannon (Transformers film)
- Chest cannon (Transformers film)
- Photon Explosive rifle (Transformers film)
- Rocket Launchers (Transformers film)
Gallery[]
To see more images go to: Blackout/Gallery
Trivia[]
- Blackout had many working names during pre-production including "Incinerator", "Grimlock", "Devastator" and at one point "Vortex" - matching with Brawl as a Combaticon.
- Blackout's head resemble Decepticon insignia.
- There's a common misconception that Blackout is the same character as a character named Grindor. In an early draft of Revenge of The Fallen there was an idea to bring Blackout back but the idea was scrapped and Grindor was born. Though the two share a similar mold, Grindor stands much taller then Blackout at 50ft and is more of a light grey color as opposed to Blackout who is a darker blue color. In a QNA with Hasbro it was asked if Blackout was present in the movie, and Hasbro responded with stating "No, that was Grindor" Confirming their different identities. Other media like the Revenge of the Fallen video game and titan comics have Grindor displayed as his own character as well.
- Blackout's role was originally meant for Soundwave. Though this was dropped and the latter would appear in the sequels, some of the element from Soundwave stuck with Blackout such as his loyalty to Megatron, feud with Starscream on some occasion, and his mini-con Scorponok.
- Though Blackout would only speak in his native cybertronian language in the Film, Transformers: Beginning motion comic and the Game adaptation would portray him speaking english, despite the latter sounding rather deep, violent, sinister, maniacal and genocidal.
- He was portrayed wielding his rotor blades weapon in other media and toys was interesting. In the movie itself, he used a smaller six-blade weapon that was clearly from his main rotor blade on the back, the game adaptation and earlier voyager class toys meanwhile would depict him detaching his black rotor blade to be used as a sword/blade, the later Studio Series leader class would use the tail rotor and finally, the Masterpiece movie figure would have the smaller six-bladed be detached from the rest of the main rotor blades.
- In the Transformers: The Game 2007, while holding onto a building, he will scratch his ass[1].