Brawn (Transformers)

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Brawn is the name of several characters in the fictional Transformers universe.

Generation One

Transformers Character
Brawn (Gong)
Affiliation	Autobot (Cybertron)
Subgroup	Mini-bots
Function	Demolitions
Motto	"Might over microchips."
Alternate mode(s)	Land Rover Defender 4x4
Series	G1 Cartoon, Marvel Comics, Dreamwave Comics, IDW Comics
Voiced by	Corey Burton (English) Yutaka Shimaka (Japanese)

Brawn (Gong in Japan, Bruto in France and Cammello in Italy) is one of the strongest Autobots in the Transformers television and comic series based on the popular toy line produced by Takara and Hasbro. His vehicle mode is a Land Rover Defender 4x4. Brawn has not had a mass market release toy for several years and the character has not been featured in the modern Transformers Universe.

The original toy that became Brawn was originally released by Takara in 1983 as part of the Micro Change subset of the Japanese Microman line. He was released in the US in 1984 by Hasbro.

Note: The character of Brawn shouldn't be confused with the character of X-Brawn, an Autobot from .

Brawn sees Earth, and any unknown place, as a hostile environment. However, this is what pleases Brawn the most as he enjoys missions involving the dangerous unknown. He is described as “strong, rugged, agile” and the most “macho” of all his Autobot companions. Brawn is the second strongest Autobot being capable of lifting just under 200,000 Earth pounds.

Brawn Toy

The toy of Brawn was recolored into Jipe, and remolded into Outback. He was later released as a keychain in original and special black colors.

Animated Series

Brawn was one of the Autobots on the Ark when it crashed into Earth four million years ago. He featured prominently in the series and was involved in many of the Autobot and Decepticon conflicts spanning the first two seasons of the The Transformers television series.

In , set in the Earth year 2005, Brawn was assigned to Moonbase One along with several first season Autobots. He was later assigned to make a special supply run to Autobot City on Earth. During the shuttle mission, Decepticon forces invaded the shuttle and killed all aboard, including Brawn.

Brawn's death is controversial among fans since the character is seemingly killed in a single shot to the shoulder (the exit wound, however, leaves a gaping, smoking hole in Brawn's back). This has led to an ongoing debate on whether the character is truly dead or not, mostly fueled by the character's appearance in the post-movie episode, Carnage in C-Minor (almost certainly animation error). The episode shows Brawn, a miscoloured Huffer and Bonecrusher fighting together against a machine built by Galvatron.

Marvel Comics

Brawn was one of the original Autobot Transformers, making his first appearance in Issue #1 of the original Marvel Comics Transformers series. In the initial four issue limited series produced by Marvel, Brawn was part of Prime’s elite crew that crash landed on Earth. Throughout most of the series, Brawn remained more of a background character after the initial four issue arc. He was part of the Autobot team lead by Goldbug to defeat the Underbase powered Starscream in San Francisco. Brawn, along with the other Autobots, was deactivated by Starscream. [See Issue #50 of “The Transformers”]

Brawn and several other Autobots were restored using Nucleon by the Autobot Grimlock just before Unicron attacked Cybertron. [See Issue #75 of ‘’The Transformers’’]. Brawn participated in the battle, but was not seen again in the concluding issues of the original series.

Just before lauch of the Marvel Generation 2 comic, Brawn made a brief return to active duty as part of the Autobot reinforcements on Earth responding to Megatron’s alliance with Cobra forces. Brawn was killed by Megatron in the conflict as his body was atomized, never again to return to the pages of Marvel continuity - although he would continue in the Transformers: Universe comics (see below).

Dreamwave Comics

In the 21st century re-imagining of the Generation One continuity by Dreamwave Productions, Brawn started out as a soldier on Cybertron at the dawn of the Autobot and Decepticon civil war.

When Autobot leader Sentinel Prime was killed by Decepticon leader Megatron, a new Autobot leader, Optimus Prime, was chosen. Optimus ordered the evacuation of Cybertron by the Autobots, and Brawn was among those who reluctantly prepared for the evacuation (Transformers: War Within #2).

When Megatron and Optimus Prime disappeared in an accident with a space bridge, the Autobot and Decepticon forces splintered into smaller factions. Brawn stayed with the Autobots under the leadership of Prowl.

Learning that the Decepticons were testing a new mobile command base at the Praetorus Wharf, Prowl lead Cliffjumper, Brawn, Jazz, Skids and Sideswipe to investigate. What they discovered was Trypticon (Transformers: The War Within - The Dark Ages #3).

Six million years ago, Ultra Magnus united the Autobot factions and lead them to victory over Decepticons and Ultracons. Megatron returned to Cybertron in command of the clone forces of the Aerospace Extermination Squadron and took over Cybertron. Brawn was among the Autobots enslaved and forced to labor tunneling into Cybertron's core (Transformers: War Within - The Age of Wrath #2).

Brawn was among the Autobots who followed Optimus Prime on his mission on board the Ark and crash landed on Earth.

In 1984, when the Ark's computer re-activated, it reformatted Brawn as in the form of an Earth truck.

Following the awakening of the Transformers on Earth, the Autobots allied with humankind and eventually defeated the Decepticons at the turn of the century. Following the "Ark II Tragedy", Lazarus was able to seize control of several of the Transformers that fell back to Earth, including Brawn. He was later rescued by Optimus Prime and rebuilt by Jazz’s unit. He was part of a small task force lead by Jazz assigned to stop the spread of Megatron’s deadly metal virus in the Canadian Northwest territories.

Following the liberation of Cybertron from Shockwave’s rule, Brawn was assigned to help reinforce Jazz’s team on Earth. Brawn objected to Bumblebee’s leadership of the mission, stating that he “was no Prime”. Brawn eventually accepted Bumblebee’s responsibility of command and helped to capture the Decepticons that were deactivated by Sunstorm.

Devil's Due Comics

In this reimagining of the Generation One story, the Ark was discovered by the terrorist Cobra orginization, and all the Transformers inside were reformatted into Cobra vehicles remotely controlled by the Televipers. In this storyline Brawn turned into a Cobra Flight Pod.

Concept art for Universe Brawn.

The character of Brawn appeared in the Transformers: Universe comics as one of the Transformers captured by Unicron, and they even showed how he was taken from the pages of the Marvel comics just before he was killed by Megatron.

There was an unreleased version of Brawn, done as a remold of Strongarm, but painted to look like that Brawn with a remolded head and weapons, but it was never released. Presumable this would have been Brawn after he was upgraded in the Universe series.

The mold was instead merely repainted for the Transformers: Timelines toys.

External links

• [tfu.info's entry] on the original toy, which also contains links to other toy incarnations of Brawn.
• [RPG write-up for Brawn in the Champions RPG.] by Mathew R. Ignash.

 

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