Blurr (Animated)

Blurr is an Autobot from the Animated continuity family.

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Blurr is a bot of action. And words. A lot of words. A lot of words said at high speed.

An intelligence agent in the Cybertron Elite Guard, Blurr tends to barrel ahead with whatever he's doing and simply expects everyone else to keep pace... be it on a mission or in simple conversation. His motor-mouth and penchant for tangents tend to leave others in the dust, forcing them to ask him to repeat things.

Fiction

Cartoon continuity

Animated cartoon

Voice actor: John Moschitta (English), Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese), Gerald Schaale (German), Davide Garbolino (Italian), Yuri Chesman (Portuguese), Luis Rojas (Latin-American Spanish, seasons 1 and 2), Javier Rodríguez Castellanos (Latin-American Spanish, season 3), Iñaki Baliño (Castilian Spanish), Juha Paananen (Finnish), Frédéric Popovic (French)

Unknown to Bumblebee, Blurr is secretly his older brother, Rex, who ran away from home years ago!

Blurr was present at Autobot Memorial Plaza in Iacon, as Sentinel Prime delivered the eulogy on Optimus Prime's supposedly fallen crew. Dispatches

After Optimus Prime's crew was discovered to be alive on Earth, Autobot High Command, unable to monitor the situation themselves, assigned Blurr to covertly monitor Prime's crew and Decepticon activity on the planet. A Bridge Too Close, Part I Under unknown circumstances, Blurr crossed paths with Master Disaster, overseer of the Street Demon races. Via an AllSpark fragment lodged in a remote control, Master Disaster was able to enthral the Autobot, locking him in vehicle mode and using him as a ringer in the races. Blurr's speed and aggressive tactics proved impossible to beat, the Elite Guardsman even outpacing a turbo booster using Bumblebee.

When the AllSpark Key detected the AllSpark fragment, Sari stole the remote control to investigate it. Breaking open the remote broke its control over Blurr. When Blitzwing was about to attack Bumblebee, Blurr charged off a bridge and played a mid-air game of chicken with Blitzwing, causing the Decepticon to veer off and crash into a skyscraper. Later that night, Bumblebee was on the roof of the Autobots' factory base when he spotted Blurr driving down a nearby highway past the building. Bee called out a thank you, but Blurr gave no response. Velocity

There was a time when he wouldn't speak. Now he won't shut up.

After a decacycle of covert surveillance, Blurr intercepted a transmission between Megatron and a double agent on Cybertron revealing that Bulkhead was the best space bridge technician in the entire galaxy, and would thus be a _target for kidnapping. Blurr sped off to try to stop Megatron, but was instead stopped by Bumblebee. The yellow bot chased him around for a while, until he finally knocked Blurr off the road. This angered Blurr, so he transformed into robot mode, introduced himself and his mission, and gave Bumblebee the chewing out of a lifetime, all in about thirty seconds. Bumblebee missed everything he said past the first sentence.

Later, at the Autobot base, Blurr again introduced himself and explained his mission, this time to the entire Autobot crew, minus the abducted Bulkhead. They still had trouble understanding him, but were able to make out the fact that Bulkhead was an expert and that Isaac Sumdac had aided Megatron in building a space bridge.

Blurr led Bumblebee, Optimus, and Prowl to Megatron's base. They had a brief encounter with Blitzwing and Lugnut, whom Blurr quickly bound in stasis cuffs. After watching, Bumblebee reluctantly admitted that he was no longer the fastest thing on wheels. When the Autobots managed to reach the activating space bridge, the Constructicons got the drop on them, Scrapper holding Blurr before Starscream and his clones broke into the mine. A Bridge Too Close, Part I

After escaping from Scrapper, Blurr stasis-cuffed the coward Starscream. In his moment of inattention, Blurr was slammed into by the Egomaniac Starscream, absorbing the Coward and Blurr into his cement overcoat and sending them all tumbling into the space bridge. Bulkhead attempted to recall them, but as the _targeting coordinates of the bridge were never set, they could have been sent anywhere in the galaxy. A Bridge Too Close, Part II

Remember, always recycle your used intelligence agents.

Winding up on a planetoid near Saturn, Blurr, after enduring the Coward's whining, suggested that the Decepticons firing their null-rays at alternating frequencies to dissolve the cement. After the Egomaniac did just that, Blurr bolted off. After failing to raise High Command, Blurr channelled his speed and ran all the way back to Cybertron to warn his superiors.

Arriving at the Emirate Xaaron Spacebridge Nexus, Blurr informed Longarm Prime that the true spy in the Autobot ranks was Shockwave and a voice print cross-reference would reveal his disguise to the Autobots. After confirming that he hadn't revealed this to anyone else, Blurr was attacked by Longarm Prime, Shockwave himself. Dodging Shockwave's firepower, Blurr fled into service tunnels only for the Decepticon to remotely seal the corridors. Trapped, Blurr was crushed between two closing walls.

Longarm later handed off the blue cube that remained to an unwitting Cliffjumper, requesting he dispose of the "sensitive material". Cliffjumper then opened the incinerator and placed Blurr's remains inside the chute. TransWarped The Blurr cube lay dormant at the bottom of the compactor chute until Sari Sumdac took a field trip to The Metroplex and stumbled down the same chute.

Her residual AllSpark energy revived him, though he was still an immobile cube. When she also inadvertently unleashed a Decepticon weapon from the Great War, Kremzeek, she was able to tap into his speed to reach Fortress Maximus ahead of the creature and save the day. The Return of Blurr Cliffjumper took the Blurr-cube with him to the Stunticons' show, The Stunti-Con Job before Optimus Prime and Jazz used the AllSpark Matrix to restore Blurr's body. The Return of Blurr

Legends comic

Restored, Blurr went to confront his would-be killer in his cell while Slipstream and her co-conspirators looked on. Epiloge

The Cool comic

At the battle for the Decepticon Space Bridge, Blurr joined his fellow speed warrior, Bumblebee, in taking down Blitzwing and Lugnut. They used their speed to first confuse their opponents, then slapped them with some stasis cuffs. As the Decepticons fell over, paralyzed, the pair of Autobots speedsters skipped off while merrily whistling. The Cool Episode 7

Toys

Animated

Spritle and Chim-Chim sold separately.
(Hasbro version pictured)

• Blurr (Deluxe, 2008 / 2010)

• Takara ID number: TA-30
• Takara release date: July 24, 2010
• Accessories: Telescoping grill energy saw
• Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro), Shogo Hasui (TakaraTomy)

Part of the fifth wave of Hasbro's Animated Deluxes, Blurr transforms into a sleek futuristic race car. A button on his hood deploys an energy saw weapon; the entire assembly detaches for robot mode, where it can double as a shield, or clip onto his back for storage. Due to his leg design, the very middle of Blurr's rear wheels are the only parts that roll, while the sides do not. These parts stick out a hair, though, so his mobility in vehicle mode is unhindered. His feet can swivel and have ball-jointed toes and heels, which lets him easily pull off running poses, if you can see him doing that sort of thing.

The fin on the top of his head is molded in bendy rubber, which is fortunate, as it'd probably snap off really easily if it wasn't. There's also softer rubber on the tips of his shoulders, so that you don't poke your eye out, and with a Transformer like Blurr, you need a few precautions like that.

TakaraTomy released Blurr in the sixth wave of their Animated toyline years later. This version uses a much lighter shade of blue for the soft-plastic parts, as well as a richer, more vibrant metallic blue paint where the Hasbro Blurr has darker desaturated blue.

This toy was retooled into Animated Cheetor.

• More information on Blurr at TFU.info

• Vortex Blurr (Deluxe, 2010)

• Accessories: Telescoping grill energy saw
• Known designers: Marcelo Matere (packaging artist)

A primarily black redeco of Blurr, presumably in reference to his space-run from the cartoon. It ultimately went unreleased. Pity. Looks slick.

Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Notes

• At the BotCon 2008 Cartoon Network panel, it was revealed that Blurr's design has a few small homages to Transtech Cheetor, mainly the "hollow" wheels in his legs.
• Aside from the obvious homage aspect, Blurr also has the same voice actor as his Generation 1 inspiration, though Moschitta's speed-speech skill is given a different twist, namely that he no longer repeats himself.
• Character designer Derrick J. Wyatt put Blurr's "still-beating spark" in the animation model for the compacted cube.^[1] However, this more detailed model was never used, and Blurr's spark was not shown in the episode. His life-or-death status is thus left ambiguous in the episode (though Wyatt contended that characters are not really dead until they turn black and white^[2]). Of course, he was still dumped into an incinerator... at least, that's what Cliffjumper was told to do, but in "The Stunti-Con Job", Cliffjumper was seen still holding Blurr's cubed form. The Botcon 2015 script reading—aptly titled "The Return of Blurr"—confirmed his survival.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Blurr (ブラー Burā)

References

1. ↑ http://derrickjwyatt.blogspot.com/2009/03/turn-back-now-spoilers-ahead.html
2. ↑ "Yeah. Only when they are black and white are they completely dead."—Derrick J. Wyatt, Twitter, 2009/04/11