Icepick (G1)

Icepick is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Despite appearances, he's not Perceptor.

Icepick doesn't believe in "survival of the fittest" so much as "destruction of the obsolete." He follows the concept of planned obsolescence with the fanatical devotion of a true believer, signing up for his role in demolitions because of it and preaching to all who will listen how the destruction of today will be recycled into a newer, brighter, and more advanced Decepticon tomorrow. Icepick is as endlessly cheerful and enthusiastic a Decepticon as you'll ever find, and though his endless attempts to win new recruits through moving, heartfelt oratory have had very limited success, his superiors appreciate the limitless fervor behind them.

He can combine with his fellow Pretender Monsters to form Monstructor.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Ice, ice, bladey.

In an alternate future where the Decepticons had conquered much of Earth, Icepick and his fellow Pretender Monsters were led by Galvatron to the remains of New York City in an attempt to root out the last remaining vestiges of Autobot and human resistance. Icepick stood next to Galvatron so he seems to have gone up in the world since 2005.

When Wildfly made an offhand observation about Galvatron's insanity, Icepick threatened him with lethal retribution if he endangered the group again. After Galvatron sent them on their way, Icepick himself reflected on how Galvatron was "as loony as they come" and risking their lives on what amounted to a waste of time. He thought a bit about how he might run the Decepticon empire if he were in charge...and while doing so, absent-mindedly walked right into the tripwire of a human-made booby trap, setting off an explosion that buried him under tons of debris. Slog exited his Pretender shell to dig him out.

It appears that he survived relatively unharmed, as the silhouette of his distinctive claws was seen when the Pretender Monsters rejoined the Decepticons to defend the Decepticon Powerbase against an Autobot attack. Rhythms of Darkness!

G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers

Icepick was among a group of Decepticons who made a deal with Cobra-La, receiving power-enhancing organic shells in exchange for defending Cobra-La's underground kingdom. During Cobra-La's scheme to summon Unicron to Earth, the Pretender Monsters were sent to attack a trio of Autobots aboard the submerged Arc II. Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2 Later, they combined into Monstructor to defend Cobra-La's kingdom against surface attack by G.I. Joe, but were defeated by the Laser Squad. Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2

2005 IDW continuity

First appearance: Spotlight: Optimus Prime

Millions of years ago, Monstructor was the first gestalt, constructed from a group of six individuals. Created by Jhiaxus under the direction of Nova Prime, they were intended to be the ultimate fusion of mind and body, a vast amount of intellect combined with unparalleled strength. Unfortunately, this "Monstructor Six" were driven into insanity by the merging process and became monsters. All Good Things After Nova Prime departed Cybertron in the Ark, Omega Supreme locked them in a dimensionally displaced prison to live out the rest of their horrid existence. Eventually, they escaped and tracked down and attacked Omega Supreme, but were defeated by Optimus Prime and split apart into their individual bodies. Despite Omega Supreme's protestations about the dangers of gestalt technology falling into Decepticon hands, Prime had them taken into custody in an attempt to repair their shattered minds. Spotlight: Optimus Prime

Icepick and his comrades were incarcerated at the Garrus-9 penitentiary where Jetfire attempted to carry out Optimus Prime's orders despite Fortress Maximus's misgivings about the whole endeavour. Thanks to a tipoff from the double-agent Dealer, Banzai-Tron's Decepticon Secret Service attacked the facility and absconded with the monsters. Spotlight: Arcee

The breakout of the "Monstructor Six" eventually made its way to the Autobot Orbital Command Hub, and from there to Optimus Prime. Although Earth was currently facing the threat of Megatron and Sixshot, Prime decided that they couldn't risk allow the Decepticons to gain gestalt technology, and ordered Prowl's team to abandon Earth and head to Garrus-9. Devastation

However, the Decepticons were later attacked in turn by the minions of Jhiaxus and Nova Prime (now Nemesis Prime), who took the gestalt Transformers for the purpose of making Monstructor a guardian of a Nega-Core, a device crucial to Nemesis Prime's grand plans. The Autobot Arcee and the Decepticon survivors struck a deal to capture Monstructor. Spotlight: Hardhead They engaged Monstructor on Rotan, but Arcee left mid-battle to confront Jhiaxus. Spotlight: Sideswipe

Falling back into the hands of the Decepticons, Icepick and the others came under the command of Bludgeon. While hunting down Hot Rod, they were confronted by Kup's elite Autobot team, and combined into Monstructor to do battle with them. After Monstructor was downed by a precise shot from Perceptor, his components fled the scene with Bludgeon. Lost & Found On Gorlam Prime, Icepick and his comrades fought Orion Pax's allies again to seize possession of Ore-2, the death ore. Homecoming

Bludgeon later patched up the weak spot and went to Arduria after learning of Jhiaxus's capture and used Monstructor to distract the Autobots while Bludgeon freed Jhiaxus. The plan worked and they retreated in their separate components and continued Jhiaxus's mission of finding all of the Regenesis missiles. Syndromica (1) They eventually brought all their accumulated ore supplies back to Cybertron, in order to help Shockwave complete his ultimate machine. The Dead Are Not Enough Although they formed Monstructor and fought Devastator to a standstill while Shockwave put his plan into motion, the gestalt was ultimately smashed to bits by the Lost Light. ...And the Damage Done

The team apparently managed to escape in the chaos, as months later Starscream noted that the Monstructor Six were still at large. The World of Tomorrow

Years later, the Monstructor Six resurfaced as Bludgeon's minions once more, joining their master during Unicron's attack on Cybertron. Though they were able to combine and overpower Victorion during the battle in Cybertron's upper atmosphere, Our Finest when the battle moved to Earth, Monstructor was tag-teamed and destroyed by Victorion and Superion, killing Icepick and the other members of the team. Ceremony

Timelines

A statue of Icepick's Pretender shell was kept in the Cybertropolis Maximal Data Archive. Theft of the Golden Disk

Ask Vector Prime

Icepick was presumably present as part of Monstructor when the combiner became one of Bio Ranger Iga's Thirteen Great Demon Generals. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/27

Beast Wars: Uprising

On a fuel-starved Cybertron, Icepick was an immobile Builder who oversaw the southern city of Protihex. This all changed during the Grand Uprising when his flunky Psycho-Orb turned on him, using his psionic powers to lock Icepick and his fellow Builders out of their own computer network. Derailment

Precursor World

Icepick was among Purple Wicked Convoy's collection of monsters. When Megatron Omega and the Blue Order's Straxus twins came to the Purple Planet in an attempt to take the power of the Purple Matrix, the monsters attacked them before their master decided to ally with the three instead. God Neptune comic 1 Icepick accompanied his master and his new allies into space, where they met with God Neptune, who had stolen the remaining matrices. God Neptune comic 2

Commercial appearances

Icepick, Scowl, and Wildfly were granted Pretender shells by Starscream. After the process was complete, the three newly empowered Decepticons leaped forwards, ready to charge into battle. Pretender Monsters commercial

Toys

The Transformers

The scale doesn't quite do justice to the design concept.

• Icepick (Pretender Monster, 1989)
  • Team ID number: PM1
  • Accessories: rifle, monster shell, shell back plate, Monstructor footplate

• Known designers: Kōjin Ōno (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist, robot), Keita Amemiya (monster shell)

Released in the penultimate year of the original The Transformers toyline, Pretender Monster Icepick is a Micromaster-sized robot that transforms into a clawed bipedal monster-thing. He can also form either leg of the team's combined mode Monstructor, though his nominal placement is as the right leg.

He comes with a rubbery Pretender shell of an upright, hunchbacked monster seemingly composed of crystalline shards. The shell's solid-plastic back panel can also hold his rifle (identified as a fireball bazooka in his packaging bio) and the included Monstructor footplate. This shell, like all the Pretender Monster shells, has a nasty tendency to "sweat" an oily residue over time, plus it is possible for them to develop spotty miscoloration. While some water and a little bit of hand-soap should take care of the slime, there's not much to be done about the spots should they appear.

The inner robot mold and combiner kibble were also used to make Goryu.

• More information on Icepick at TFU.info

Notes

• In "Theft of the Golden Disk", Dinobot grabs a statue resembling Icepick's Pretender shell.
• Icepick was homaged by a version of Prime Blight decoed in Icepick's inner robot colors.

Foreign names

• French: Frigo (Canada, "Fridge")
• Hungarian: Jégcsákány ("Icepick")
• Italian: Pipistrello ("Bat")