Triton

Triton is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.

A guy with as much cred as you simply cannot be allowed to live.

Triton may seem innocuous enough, but underneath his broad and prominent insignia lies the spark of a Decepticon loyalist. An opportunist and schemer, this double agent is dedicated to keeping the war raging.

Triton's reputation among the Decepticons finds him forced into roles he may not be qualified for; while he's skilled at knowing the right thing to say to get the intended response, his rash actions can lead to fatal consequences.

His alternate mode may be a submarine.^[1]

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

"How the hell would I know?"

In the 25th Century, Triton infiltrated the Autobot ranks and passed secrets back to the Decepticons.

In the year 2510, after ninety years of spying, Triton was present when Rodimus Prime announced that the last remnants of the Decepticons had been destroyed. Unwilling to allow the Autobots to win the war, Triton objected to Springer being chosen as Rodimus Prime's successor and instead put forward Ultra Magnus as a potential leader; had Rodimus forgotten Magnus held the Matrix first? He encouraged the Autobots to argue and fanned the flames, and depressingly that proved to be pretty easy.

Things escalated when he and Whirl got into a fight, until Scattershot killed Roadbuster after the latter threatened Triton's life. Sandstorm, furious at Roadbuster's death, killed Triton in revenge for causing all the trouble in the first place. Triton died as the Autobots dissolved into a new civil war. The last act of the last Decepticon was to see that there would never truly be peace on Cybertron. Peace

2005 IDW continuity

Time to slap on that Autobot symbol and beat it, buddy.

Triton was Violator's second-in-command aboard the Rash Action and then the Fatal Consequence.

Triton was later forced to become part of Squadron X, a team of Decepticons which served as a brutal counterpart to the Autobots' Wreckers, when he gained notoriety for annihilating a 20-strong Autobot boarding party. Triton's Squadron X profile In Squadron X, Triton made a friend in Crosscut when the two were welded together by Springer in battle. Crosscut's Squadron X profile The Wreckers and Squadron X's rivalry came to a head on Pova, but after being dispatched in battle, he and the rest of Squadron X were rounded up in a containment unit and put in inhibitor harnesses.

According to Fisitron's Wreckers: Declassified datalogs, Triton and the other members of Squadron X were able to somehow escape their harnesses, forcing the Wreckers to execute rather than imprison them. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4 In truth, Squadron X was to be freed due to the violation of Pova's neutrality act, but Impactor killed them all instead. Last Stand of the Wreckers #5

Wings Universe

Triton was present during Squadron X's campaign against the Wreckers on Frellus IV.

Later, still as a part of Squadron X, Triton invaded Torax Prime. When the expected Wreckers reaction never came, Triton and Crosscut became tired of waiting. Macabre took care of them, privately. Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur, 2014/05/15

2019 IDW continuity

Triton was on guard in the streets of Decepticon-occupied Iacon when a group of Autobots attempted their escape from the city. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Triton (トライトン Toraiton)

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