Kickback

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"Friend is another word for fool."

Charming but cruelly clever, Kickback makes friends so he can influence them to do his bidding by digging up facts he can hold against them. Humans particularly susceptible to this Insecticon. In insect mode, Kickback can kick a hole in 1/4" steel. In robot mode, he can fly 30 mph up to 100 miles. Sub-machine gun fires 300 rounds per minute. Very vulnerable as insect and flying in high winds.

History
Kickback was among the Decepticon raiding party aboard the Ark who awoke in 1984 after millions of years stranded, comatose, on Earth. He and his fellow Insecticons had jettisoned themselves from the Ark as it crashed, landing near Indonesia, where their computer systems gave them insectoid forms as their means of disguise. Though the Insecticons and the Decepticons were often at odds with one another, Kickback and his crew nonetheless served Megatron when it suited them. In 2005, Kickback suffered heavy damage in the Battle of Autobot City, and his fellow Decepticons, led by Starscream, voted to throw him -- and others -- out of Astrotrain's airlock on the return voyage.

Kickback was among the Decepticons who encountered Unicron in deep space. As part of Megatron's bargain with the demonic planet-eater, Kickback was rebuilt into ???