The Driller was Shockwave's deadly pet, and was a very dangerous opponent. The Drillers are the largest subterranean lifeforms native to the planet Cybertron.
They are beasts of burden, mainly used for mining jobs. However, the one owned by Shockwave is bred specifically for militaristic use and is considerably larger than a typical member of its species.
History[]
Transformers: Dark of the Moon Videogame[]
Shockwave along with Driller were cryogenically frozen in a secret Decepticon base. Optimus whom awakened in base, ordering Ratchet to deactivated the chamber. However, it accidentally awakened the Driller. Sensing the danger that pose threats to its master, Driller attacking Optimus with its tentacles, one of its tentacles was used for protecting Shockwave from incoming attacks.
After a long fight which was also futile for Optimus due to Driller's tentacles continuing to regenerate, Shockwave was finally awakens. Shockwave face off with Optimus, forced the Drillers to backseat by its owner. However, when Jetwing Optimus Prime just about to finished Shockwave, Driller's arrived with its tentacles cover its master which take their opportunity to escaped. In Africa, Megatron orders Shockwave and Driller to retrieve important object that was located in Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon[]
Shockwave and Driller carry out their task given by Megatron, by taking an important object in Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located at Moon base. Driller easily ambushed some astronaut that entering in Chernobyl, retrieved it the item with its tentacles. On Earth, Driller intercepts Optimus Prime in his alt mode, causing Optimus to be thrown and change to his robot form. A battle ensued, Optimus charged his weapon then cut one of the tentacles with his sword, caused the important object to fall to ground. Shockwave emerged from one of the Driller's cockpit, before orders the creatures to retreat.
When the great war in Chicago occurred, Shockwave sent Driller to destroy many buildings causing many buildings to collapse. Knowing that human will defeat Shockwave by using other tactics, Shockwave orders Driller to devour one of the buildings in hopes of killing the intruders atop the building. Jetwing Optimus Prime arrived to save the people in building, where he immediately flew with his flight gear by shooting one of the tentacles, before finally killing it by tremendous attacks. Causing both its head and body collapses, fell underground killing the creature.
Transformers: Age of Extinction[]
Five years after the Battle of Chicago, the Driller was listed as "deceased" by the CIA taskforce, Cemetery Wind.
Weapons[]
- Cutter
- Tentacles
Trivia[]
- Driller was called " Colossus " in Dark of the Moon concept art.
- In the movie novelization, Driller is the one whom killed Que in Chicago not Barricade.
- Attinger's playing card of the Driller was revealed in a prop auction for the Transformers film series held in 2019.
- In The Last Knight there's concept art featuring two Drillers team up with Grimlock against TRF.
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