"MA WEAPON WILL STOP DA TIME!" - Hot Rod in TLK
Hot Rod is one of the Autobots who appear in the Toyline from Dark of the Moon and makes his onscreen appearance in Transformers: The Last Knight. He is said to be brash, slightly arrogant, and a protector. He was also Bumblebee's brother-in-arms. Hot Rod becomes Rodimus Prime in a alternate Timeline where Optimus Prime was killed by Megatron.
History[]
Transformers: The Last Knight[]
Hot Rod was an Autobot warrior who had been on Earth for some time. At some point after arriving on the planet, he somehow picked up a French accent that he did not know how to get rid of, something that caused him much frustration. Along with Bumblebee, he joined the Allies in World War II; using their vehicle modes to infiltrate a Nazi convoy and attack an occupied Nazi command post. Their adventures in the war were documented and covered up by the Order of the Witwiccans, who had covertly monitored Transformer activity on Earth for centuries.
In the modern day, Hot Rod had become the primary confidant of the surviving Witwiccans, working closely with Edmund Burton and the father of University of Oxford professor Viviane Wembly. As Wembly was, in reality, the last living descendant of the ancient Merlin and thus the only one able to wield his Cybertronian staff, Hot Rod became her deep cover bodyguard, spending years disguised as her Citroen and coming to admire her. Following the disappearance of Optimus Prime and the impending awakening of Unicron, Burton tracked him down and told him the time to recruit Viviane to fulfill her destiny had come. The next day, as she prepared to leave for work, Hot Rod sprang into action, locking her in and racing through the London streets. When she broke his window in an attempt to escape, he broke cover, begging her to stop. With his true nature revealed, she mistook him for a Decepticon and grew more frantic in her escape, wondering aloud if he was "one of the famous ones". He grew angrier as she continued to try and escape, and on the way, he scanned and upgraded into a new Lamborghini Centenario vehicle mode.
He arrived with her at Burton's castle, mere seconds after the arrival of Cade Yeager and his old comrade Bumblebee. He transformed and attempted to calm the frantic Viviane, who he thought was being very difficult. After things had calmed down a bit, he formally introduced himself to Viviane, though she found understanding his accent very hard. He once again bemoaned his inability to get rid of the hated accent.
When the TRF and MI6 tracked them down and stormed the castle, Hot Rod volunteered to buy time to cover their escape, using his time bubble gun to slow down their pursuers while the group made their escape. The humans and Autobots raced to London's Royal Navy Submarine Museum in search of a working water vehicle. When they found themselves pursued by the authorities on arrival, Hot Rod volunteered to lead them away so the others could continue the search for the Staff.
He later made his way to Stonehenge and joined with the other Autobots, humans, and Guardian Knights. The returned Optimus Prime rallied them all to save Earth from Quintessa and Megatron's plan to drain Unicron, who resided within the planet, of energy to restore the recently arrived Cybertron. En route to Cybertron, he and the other Autobots were not impressed by the intimidating knights. As the battle began, he rode an Orbital Assault Carrier as they took on the airborne Decepticons.
He was eventually shot down by Infernocus but survived and joined Optimus's charge on the control chamber, congratulating Sqweeks on his destruction of the enemy gun emplacement. He was very happy to see Viviane had returned rather than flee with the TRF. As the battle raged in the unstable chamber, he used his time gun to freeze Megatron, saving Hound's life. Quintessa and Megatron were quickly defeated and his beloved Viviane retrieved the Staff. As the control center fell to Earth, he managed to save Viviane and Cade from falling to their deaths by freezing them with his gun, buying them just enough time to be grabbed and flown to safety by Optimus. He and the other Autobots managed to survive the crash of the control center and soon bid farewell to the humans as they left to return home to Cybertron.
Alternate Timeline[]
Timelines[]
In a universe where Optimus Prime died in the Battle of Chicago, Rodimus took the mantle of Prime, ultimately defeating Megatron in a struggle atop a space bridge on Cybertron.
Toybios[]
When Bumblebee clashed with Soundwave, he put together a plan to take care of the Decepticon once and for all. A plan that somehow involved Hot Rod, who was present in the area.
Weapons[]
- Time Gun
- Shotgun Blaster
- 2x WWII Routed machine guns
Toys[]
Trivia[]
- Hot Rod has three vehicle modes in whole of The Last Knight out of those he only is only seen in robot mode for both his WWII mode and Lamborghini vehicle form.