Cy-gar

Clearly, it's Outback's thumb.

A cy-gar is a device used to deliver a dose of its contents to a Cybertronian through the mouth. Millions of cycles ago, they were used to deliver a poison willingly consumed by the user because of some perceived benefit.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

To suppress Kup's flashbacks of slagging everyone on Tsiehshi, Kup was given a cy-gar that fed him a synthetic version of the planet's Ore-8 energy. Perceptor, who helped develop the special cy-gar, was assigned to Kup's unit with a supply of cy-gars to provide to Kup when needed. Everything in Its Right Place

When Commander Daniel Witwicky asked him what was with his "cigar", he inquired as to what a cigar was. All Hail Megatron #12

After his recovery from the Dead Universe and Gorlam Prime, Kup was supposedly cured of his condition and no longer required the cy-gars to maintain his sanity.

Recordicons

Police commissioner Garboil used a cy-gar. Recordicons #5

Wings Universe

Tap-Out used a cy-garette as a part of a disguise for an undercover mission. They functioned by interfacing with nodes in the mouth to temporarily boost a Cybertronian's processing power, but were dangerous due to their addictive properties and the fact that many of them contained viruses. A Team Effort

Animated cartoon

Kup was often seen with a cy-gar, as was Erector, The AllSpark Almanac II along with his clone Skipjack. The Complete AllSpark Almanac

Live-action film series

Age of Extinction film

Hound was seldom seen without a cy-gar. Angered by Joshua Joyce's disparaging comment about him, Hound flicked the man in the head with his cy-gar. During the final battle in Hong Kong, Hound was able to use it as a small one-shot gun to kill a Two Head. However, it ended up being his last weapon before he ran out of ammo. Age of Extinction

The Last Knight film

As Cade Yeager called his daughter, Hound knocked Sharp-T off of the roof using his cy-gar. The Last Knight

Masterpiece toy bios

Exhaust developed a cy-garette chain-smoking habit. Masterpice Exhaust toy bio

Ask Vector Prime

The Spacewarp of Aurex 006.0 Kappa enjoyed chomping on a cy-gar. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/17

Swindle, Swindle and Swindle had cy-gars from the Zull of the Xobitor Cluster for sale. Swindle's Spiel 2015/10/04

Beast Wars: Uprising

MaxCop Wolfang had a cy-garette habit. He originally began using them to manage his overly-sensitive olfactory sensors, but eventually just became a regular addict, almost constantly using one. Trigger Warnings

Notes

• The Cy-gar is an obvious Cybertronian equivalent to a human-made Cigar. Springer notes Kup's use of a Cy-gar as "retrograde poison", plausibly equalling the use of a Cy-gar by a Cybertronian to a human using a Cigar to smoke Tobacco. It's unknown what sort of substance would typically be used in a Cy-gar as opposed to the synthetic radiation exhibited thus far, though it feels plausible to assume it is used for something similar to Narcotic-based sensations. Club-exclusive fiction would depict cy-garettes as stimulants with nasty side-effects as a more direct analogue.
• When Casey Coller was reading Shane McCarthy's script for "Spotlight: Blurr", the artist visualized Kup taking after the wartime comic book hero Sgt. Rock.^[1] Because this was awesome, Kup was introduced in All Hail Megatron chomping on a cigar-like object. An in-fiction explanation was later retconned for it by Nick Roche in the All Hail Megatron Coda story, "Everything in its Right Place".

Foreign names

• Japanese: cy-gar (シーガー shīgā)

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