First Aid (G1)

The name or term "First Aid" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see First Aid (disambiguation).

First Aid is an Autobot Protectobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

First Aid is one of the most empathic and compassionate beings you'll ever meet. He cares deeply about all living things. Heck, he even cares deeply about the "pain" of inanimate objects. A broken or malfunctioning can-opener will earn just as much sympathy and attention as a fellow Autobot. Otherwise, First Aid is a soft-spoken and sometimes overly cautious sort (especially when it comes to the well-being of a fellow Autobot). Still, all the Autobots know he will work long and hard to do his best for them and that their well-being matters to him more than anything, and those are quite comforting thoughts.

First Aid combines with his fellow Protectobots to form Defensor, Gaia Guardian, or God Guardian.

“	Where there's life, there's hope.	”
—First Aid, "Funeral for a Friend!"

Contents 1 Fiction 1.1 Generation 1 cartoon continuity 1.1.1 The Transformers cartoon 1.1.2 Japanese cartoon continuity 1.1.2.1 Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers story pages 1.1.2.2 Scramble City 1.1.2.3 The Headmasters cartoon 1.1.2.4 Unite Warriors 1.1.2.5 Wars comics 1.1.3 TV Magazine comic continuity 1.1.3.1 Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers comic 1.1.3.2 The Great Transformer War 1.1.4 Wings Universe 1.1.5 Ask Vector Prime 1.2 Marvel Comics continuity 1.2.1 Marvel The Transformers comics 1.2.2 Transformers Comic-Magazin 1.2.3 Marvel Generation 2 comic 1.2.4 Regeneration One 1.2.5 Timelines 1.3 The Special Teams 1.4 Transformers in 3-D 1.5 Toy pack-in material 1.6 Dreamwave Generation One continuity 1.7 2005 IDW continuity 1.8 Kre-O online comic 1.9 Ask Vector Prime 1.10 Beast Wars: Uprising 1.11 Combiner Wars cartoon 1.12 2019 IDW continuity 2 Commercial appearances 3 Games 3.1 Transformers Legends 3.2 Transformers: Battle Tactics 3.3 Transformers: Earth Wars 3.4 Transformers Roleplaying Game 4 Toys 4.1 The Transformers 4.2 Generation 2 4.3 Universe (2003) 4.4 Bot Shots 4.5 Kre-O 4.6 Transformers (2014) 4.7 Combiner Wars 4.8 Unite Warriors 5 Merchandise 5.1 Transformers Gum 5.2 G Guardian 5.3 Transformers Character Card 6 Notes 6.1 Foreign names 7 Gallery 8 References

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

Voice actor: Michael Bell (English), Kenyū Horiuchi (Japanese), Massimo Corizza (Italian), Michael Rüth (German, "The Ultimate Weapon" & "The Big Broadcast of 2006"), Wolfgang Mascher (German, "Surprise Party"), Franz Rudnick (German, "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1"), Christoph Jablonka (German, Generation 2 dub of "The Ultimate Weapon"), Albert Augier (European French, "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1"), Unknown (European French, "Surprise Party"), Lauro Fabiano (Brazilian Portuguese)

First Aid was an avowed pacifist. When the Insecticons attacked an inhabited city on Earth, Optimus Prime called upon the Protectobots to evacuate the civilians caught in the crossfire. First Aid helped an injured man discovered by Streetwise. Later, as Earth's orbit was diverted to the Sun by the Combaticons, First Aid brought civilians to a meat locker that Groove and Streetwise had commandeered to help the humans cool down. The Revenge of Bruticus

First Aid, as part of Defensor, was the arm that wielded the rifle which totally blew up Bruticus. Afterwards, he was with the Protectobots when they saved some window-washers from a burning skyscraper. Later still, First Aid and the other Protectobots were ordered to help defend Autobot Headquarters from a Decepticon attack. They merged into Defensor and activated his useless force field, which almost immediately deactivated, allowing the Decepticons to blast Defensor back into his component parts. B.O.T.

In the year 2005, First Aid was among the Autobots stationed at Metroplex when the Autobot city came under attack from Trypticon. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5 Later, in 2006, he was on Cybertron for the planet's first peace conference. He participated in a surprise birthday party for Daniel Witwicky along with Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Warpath, Groove and Wheelie. The Combaticons then attacked a nearby shuttle bay, hoping to scrap the ships which would be used to ferry delegates to the conference. First Aid happily blasted away at the Combaticons. After the battle, First Aid was tending to a serious wound Magnus suffered on his back, when he used his own body to shield Wheelie from a Decepticon attack. When attention turned to the damaged shuttle, Ultra Magnus insisted First Aid repair the ship first and deal with his injuries later. Guess he forgot First Aid was a doctor, not a mechanic! (Ol' Ratchet sure wouldn't have taken no lip—he would have disconnected the patient's vocal processor first.) Surprise Party

First Aid and the Protectobots were part of the Autobot unit that travelled to the planet Eurythma, forming Defensor to battle Decepticons there. Carnage in C-Minor Later, when Superion took heavy fire over the Planet of Junk, Sky Lynx brought him back to Cybertron for repairs. First Aid arrived and began patching up the super-robot. The Big Broadcast of 2006

When the Autobots were asked to help the Dutch authorities deal with French rebels, First Aid bemoaned the whole situation, wondering why humans were always fighting amongst themselves. After the human aggressors were dispersed, a Decepticon sneak attack knocked Blades out of the sky, and First Aid carried him back to Metroplex for repairs. No sooner was the operation complete than an intruder alert within the city drew the medic's attention, and he found the Decepticon Swindle stealing Metroplex's transformation cog. First Aid attempted to talk the Combaticon into handing the cog over, but Swindle laughed in his face, and was easily able make off with his loot because First Aid's pacifism meant that he refused to fight back. Despite Rodimus Prime's attempts to convince First Aid that they didn't expect him to compromise his beliefs, the medic felt he was a liability to the Autobots and left, taking up residence in a junk yard and helping its custodian NUL-A chug down some oil and repair some refrigerators. In time, First Aid was approached by Hot Spot, who brought dire news that the immobilized Metroplex was under attack from Trypticon. Only the skilled First Aid could properly align Metroplex's new transforming cog, and the medic was convinced to lend his aid. While Trypticon and the half-transformed Metroplex fought it out, First Aid bravely entered the Autobot giant and re-aligned the cog, allowing the Autobot city to transform fully and defeat Trypticon. The Ultimate Weapon

When Jessica Morgan was injured in a Decepticon attack on her father's laboratory, First Aid was summoned to transport her to County General Hospital. First Aid helped to restore the paralyzed Jessica's ability to walk with an exo-skeleton, but his efforts were met only with hatred from her father, who loathed the Transformers. Subsequently, when news reached the Autobots that Optimus Prime's body was being kept at Morgan's lab, First Aid and the Protectobots were part of the battle unit that returned there, merged as Defensor. Like most present, they succumbed to the madness of the Hate Plague. The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1

In 2007, First Aid and the Protectobots were among those who defended Cybertron against a major Decepticon attack, only to fall before the power of the new Decepticon _targetmasters. The Rebirth, Part 3 Some time later, at Tommy Kennedy's birthday, First Aid, among other Autobots, presented to the human boy a cake. Season 5: Surprise Party

Japanese cartoon continuity

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers story pages

First Aid and the other Protectobots made their dramatic debut when they formed Defensor to defeat both Menasor and Devastator. Story page #12

Scramble City

First Aid and the Protectobots participated in the Scramble City project under Ultra Magnus's direction, working towards the construction of Metroplex. After the Decepticons uncovered their secret building site, the Protectobots rode into battle alongside the newly completed Metroplex. First Aid and his comrades arrived and formed Defensor just in time to act as the harbinger of Metroplex and his really big gun. Scramble City: Mobilization

The Headmasters cartoon

Voice actor: Masaharu Satō (Japanese)

In 2011, Galvatron attacked Cybertron looking to take control of Vector Sigma. First Aid and the Protectobots were active in Cybertron's defense as Defensor during the assault, Four Warriors Come out of the Sky The Mystery of Planet Master after which they were reassigned to Earth to help keep the Decepticons busy while Hot Rod and the Headmasters searched for the missing Matrix of Leadership. On a security sweep, the Protectobots ran across their old nemeses, the Combaticons, and the two teams quickly combined to battle as Bruticus and Defensor. Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime

When Galvatron made another strike on Cybertron, this time to steal the super-metal Cybertonuron, First Aid and the Protectobots assembled before the space bridge on Earth to be transported into battle. As he helped defend the planet, First Aid was seen delivering a mighty kick to the face of... er, his fellow Autobot Tracks. Seeking out the Combaticons on the battlefield, the Protectobots soon formed Defensor and fought once more with Bruticus. Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1 For at least part of the battle, the two teams disassembled again for man-to-man combat. Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2

First Aid and the Protectobots were dispatched to Peru with the Trainbots when a volcano erupted, leaving a mountainside village in dire peril. Their rescue mission was blocked first by the Predacons, who Shouki and the Trainbots stepped in to occupy, then by the Decepticon Headmasters. True to his devout pacifism, First Aid was not seen engaging in battle until the Protectobots formed Defensor. In the combined form, however, the team were vulnerable to Mindwipe's paralysis ray, which was strong enough to force First Aid and the Protectobots apart and leave them completely immobilized. The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts

First Aid and the Protectobots were part of a strike team that flew to the moon to disrupt Scorponok's gathering of Decepticons. They immediately formed Defensor upon entering the battle. Return of the Immortal Emperor Later, when the Autobots' attempts to provide energy aid to the planet Sandra were disrupted by the Decepticons, First Aid and the Protectobots fought back against the enemy, and formed Defensor to counter Devastator on the battlefield. SOS from Planet Sandra

After the death of Ultra Magnus, the Autobots were desperately trying to pick up the slack during Sixshot's campaign of destruction around the globe. First Aid and the Protectobots assembled as Defensor to go out and confront Sixshot at one of the attack sites, but they apparently didn't fare too well. The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg When the Decepticons seemingly abandoned Earth, First Aid and the Protectobots assisted Spike in ridding the planet of all traces of their departed foes, starting with the Decepticons' abandoned Earth base. Combined as Defensor, the team joined Raiden and Computron in obliterating the base. Miraculous Warriors, _targetmasters (Part 1)

Following a lengthy period of inactivity, the Decepticons renewed their attacks on Earth. With Fortress still off in space, Spike Witwicky dispatched First Aid and the Protectobots to Canberra, Australia to confronted Bruticus at one of Scorponok's new Death Towers. As Defensor, the Protectobots were beaten severely by Bruticus, and First Aid was even knocked out of the arm socket. Using Scramble Power, Defensor switched Streetwise up to his shoulder and reattached First Aid as a leg, still carrying his fireball cannon. Despite this cunning(?) trick, Defensor was defeated by Bruticus. The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 1) As part of Defensor, First Aid participated in the Autobots' final battle with Scorponok's Decepticons at the North Pole. He lent his energies to the Headmasters' Head Formation to revitalize Fortress Maximus at the critical moment. The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)

Unite Warriors

In 2021 when his old friend NUL-A's birthday came around, First Aid got the other Protectobots to play a baseball game in his honor. Today Is First Aid's Close Friend NUL-A's Birthday!

Wars comics

First Aid was stationed at Scramble City while it was under reconstruction after an attack from Metrotitan. When Metrotitan and the Decepticons attacked again, the reborn Metroplex transformed and First Aid helped Superion man one of Metroplex's cannons. With Metroplex's firepower, the Decepticons were sent retreating. Metrowars

TV Magazine comic continuity

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers comic

When the Decepticon combiners attacked a baseball stadium in Japan, the Protectobots and Aerialbots raced to the rescue. After attending to the blaze created by Menasor's destruction, First Aid and his team combined into Defensor. However, Defensor's central component was damaged battling Bruticus; with Hot Spot out of action, the Protectobots could not maintain their super-robot form. Getting an idea, the Autobots' human friend Kenji told Superion to shoot out the legs of the Decepticon super-robots. With their legs damaged, Menasor and Bruticus were left open for First Aid and the other small Protectobots to link up as their new legs, taking over the Decepticons' locomotion, sending them out to sea. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #5

Later, the Constructicons were paving over a natural island paradise, and the Autobots sent a rescue party to save the wildlife and their friends on the island. Due to the medical needs of the mission, First Aid replaced Slingshot with the Aerialbots to form Superion. Even linked together, First Aid and the Aerialbots were outclassed against both Devastator and Trypticon, until Hound generated a hologram of Metroplex to distract the dino-base Decepticon, sending him over a cliff. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #6

The Great Transformer War

In 2010, Galvatron kidnapped the scientist Dalton in order to upgrade his combiner warriors. First Aid and the Protectobots joined forces with the Aerialbots to rescue Dalton from inside Trypticon. Superion was heavily damaged in the first strike run, however, and Hot Spot needed time in his repair bay mode to bring the Aerialbots back to fighting strength. While Blades snuck into Trypticon alone to rescue Dalton, First Aid, Streetwise and Groove defended Hot Spot against both Menasor and Bruticus. They held out long enough for the Aerialbots to be revived. After the Aerialbots distracted the Decepticons, Blades completed his mission and the Autobots rolled out for Scramble City with Dalton in tow. The Great Transformer War #1

Wings Universe

After Cybertron entered its new Golden Age, the war between the Autobots and Decepticons still raged in space and on Earth. First Aid perished along with most of the rest of Defensor in battle with their nemesis, Menasor. Only Streetwise and Breakdown survived. Generation 2: Redux

Ask Vector Prime

The Protectobots once lived on the colony world of Archon, but as the colony slowly began to fail they succumbed to stasis lock. They remained that way until Omega Supreme chanced across the ruins of the planet and brought them back to Earth. The only way to revive them was through an energon infusion; the Aerialbots volunteered for the process. The Protectobots made a complete recovery and then some: the transfusion had given them the ability to combine! Optimus Prime gave them their own headquarters in Central City, hoping that city life would help them acclimatize to life on Earth while also providing the metropolis with an extra degree of protection. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/21

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel The Transformers comics

When their human ally Buster Witwicky began suffering from a series of troubling dreams, the Autobots peered inside his mind in an attempt to understand. There, they saw a vision of a team of new robots, the Protectobots—First Aid among them—being ordered to guard the Pullen Power Plant against Decepticon attack. Attacked by the Stunticons and Combaticons, the team did the incredible, merging their bodies to become Defensor. Realizing that they were being sent a message about the future of Transformer evolution by the Creation Matrix itself, the Autobots determined to make this vision a reality and set about building the new robots they had seen. Second Generation! The Special Teams Have Arrived

Having learned of a Decepticon plot to acquire the human-made hydrothermocline, Optimus Prime brought the Protectobots with him to Energy Futures Industries in order to guard the device. After Megatron and the Combaticons arrived ready for a fight, the Transformers allowed themselves to be convinced of a better solution by Ethan Zachary, an employee of EFI. Zachary would upload their minds into a video simulation program known as Multi-World, allowing the Transformers to do battle without damaging the hydrothermocline or the surrounding area. Inside the game world, First Aid and Streetwise were exploring Vineland when their path was blocked by a web of thick vines. First Aid wanted to blast through, but Streetwise thought better of it and merely lifted the vines out of their way. They were caught off-guard by the Combaticons Brawl and Swindle, but were then miraculously saved by the living vines they had refrained from destroying moments ago. First Aid then used his decrystallizer cannon on the Decepticons, making them brittle enough for Streetwise to shatter with a burst from his compressed air cannon. Ultimately, Optimus Prime declared himself the loser, and so First Aid and the other Protectobots watched their leader detonate before their eyes. Afterdeath! Gone but Not Forgotten! These events were observed by the time travelling Dicet Alpha-zero. The Quest!

First Aid later attempted to console a despondent Ratchet after the death of Optimus Prime, teaching him that it was best to worry more about the patients he could save rather than the patients he could not. Returning to the Ark after attending Prime's funeral, First Aid and the other Autobots came under attack from the vessel's defense systems, control of which had been seized by the human criminal The Mechanic. Ratchet defeated the human, and he and First Aid tended to the wounded. Funeral for a Friend!

When the freelance peacekeeping agent Death's Head travelled back in time from the future, First Aid was temporarily mass-displaced to Limbo to make room for the bounty hunter right before Bumblebee's eyes. Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!

After Blaster and Goldbug abandoned the Autobots due to their disagreements with Grimlock's leadership, Grimlock tasked the Protectobots with finding the deserters and returning them to the Ark. First Aid and the others found them (and the Throttlebots) hiding at Big Steve's Used Cars, where the Combaticons had already arrived. As the two teams battled each other, individually First Aid squared off with Brawl, and both sides were so blinded by their battle that they didn't notice RAAT making away with Goldbug and the Throttlebots. With the Combaticons deterred, however, the Protectobots still had Blaster to bring back to Grimlock... for trial and execution. Used Autobots

Blaster was mode-locked into stereo mode, clamped to Groove, and also carried inside First Aid for travel back to the Ark, but the Protectobots met up with the Combaticons again within a sprawling trainyard. After the Combaticons merged into Bruticus and laid into First Aid and the others, they were forced to set Blaster aside and merge into Defensor to counter. Blaster, released from mode-lock by some errant children, came to Defensor's rescue, and ultimately First Aid and the others decided Blaster shouldn't stand trial, and he was set free. Child's Play After First Aid returned to the Ark, the humans were recaptured and Grimlock ordered them to be executed. First Aid and the other Autobots were upset, though they didn't know Grimlock was bluffing in order to draw Blaster into his custody. They begged Blaster to usurp leadership of the Autobots, but Blaster was forced to surrender himself in order to assure the children's safety. Spacehikers! Totaled!

Following Optimus Prime's return to life, First Aid and the Protectobots were assigned to guard the backup copy of the floppy disk that had enabled his resurrection, stored at an Alternate Reality, Inc. warehouse. Alerted to Combaticon activity at Rutter U.S. Military Base, the team was relieved by the Autobot Powermasters so they could go and deal with their old rivals. Unfortunately, they were too late to stop the Combaticons' theft of military technology; worse yet, upon their return to the warehouse, they discovered that the Decepticon Powermasters had stolen the disk in their absence. Combining into Defensor, they tried to stop the villains from escaping, but a barrage of fire from the underhanded Combaticons knocked the giant over. With the villains gone, Defensor split back into his components, and First Aid tended to the Autobot Powermasters' wounds. Prime Bomb!

First Aid and several other Autobots helped Blaster train. Club Con! Soon after, First Aid was among the Transformers deactivated in the battle with the Underbase-powered Starscream and was put in a life support capsule. A couple of years later, Optimus Prime briefly considered using a Matrix fragment to revive him after Ratchet's disappearance. The Greatest Gift of All!

Transformers Comic-Magazin

At the raw oil harbor of Rotterdam, First Aid and the other Protectobots combined into Defensor to battle Menasor. Ultimately, the Decepticons would retreat, as Powermaster Optimus Prime had predicted! Transformers in Action: He Who Laughs Last ...

Marvel Generation 2 comic

When Optimus Prime and Grimlock discovered the threat of the Cybertronians, they called in Autobots scattered across the galaxy, including First Aid. And, when Grimlock chose to disobey Prime's directives and make a tactical first strike against Jhiaxus's ships, First Aid went with him. They were quickly found out and captured, though, leaving it to Optimus to bail them out of trouble. Devices and Desires!

Sometime later, First Aid was working with a science team alongside Perceptor and Wheeljack. They attempted to find out what had devastated the population of J'asik, down to the cellular level. Samples taken from the bodies helped the team identify the killer, known as the Swarm, as an offshoot of the Cybertronian race. Swarm

Regeneration One

In 2012 First Aid travelled to a devastated Earth with Optimus Prime and a group of other Autobots to confront Megatron. After fighting his way through Megatron's lobotomised zombie army, the medic attended to Kup and injected him with an anti-toxin that would hopefully regress the Scraplet infection the captive Wrecker had been infected with. When he was sufficiently recovered, Kup took First Aid's gun and used it to kill Ratchet, in turn killing Megatron through the link he and the doctor shared. Loose Ends, Part 5 In the aftermath, First Aid delivered a casualty report to Optimus Prime. Natural Selection, Part One

Following the foiling of Scorponok's Gene Key scheme, First Aid sat in on a meeting of Autobot high command to discuss the lingering after-effects on Cybertronian society of the Decepticon warmonger's plan. Destiny, Part One This was soon followed by an attack on Iacon by Soundwave's Neo-Decepticons, which was put down by a team of Autobots led by Blaster; in the aftermath, First Aid tended Silverbolt's wounds. Destiny, Part Two

First Aid was on hand to help treat the wounded after Bludgeon's Warworld attacked Cybertron, and was seen carrying such an unfortunate on a stretcher with help from Wheeljack. The War to End All Wars, Part 1 Soon after, when Jhiaxus and his Primum Fugae caused havoc, First Aid repaired Jetfire's injuries. The War to End All Wars, Part 2

Timelines

At some point during the war against the Cybertronian Empire, First Aid developed GPS, preventing him from properly combining. On Optimus Prime's orders, First Aid and Fixit conducted a full-body spark transplant on a dying Ratchet, transferring him to a new body. Ratchet's new body came equipped with combination technology, allowing him to take First Aid's place as Defensor's limb. Customization class G2 Ratchet bio

The Special Teams

Optimus Prime assigned First Aid and the other Protectobots to defend the Pullen Power Plant, where they combined into Defensor to battle Menasor and Bruticus. Thankfully, Superion arrived to even the odds, and ultimately the Decepticons were repelled. The Special Teams

Transformers in 3-D

Following Optimus Prime's resurrection, First Aid and Hoist bugged him to come in for a full checkup, which Hot Rod believed was just their way of saying that it was good to have the Autobot leader back. The checkup was interrupted by an alarm, which First Aid announced indicated a Decepticon attack. He took part in the effort to repel Sixshot's forces, only for them to retreat on their own, when Prime realised it was just a diversion while Galvatron attacked the Energon plant. The War Against the Destructons, Chapter 1 of 3

Toy pack-in material

When the Decepticons stole the Creation Matrix, Ratchet First Aid built an army of Autobot decoys to distract the Decepticons while the real Autobots attempted to retrieve their missing artifact. Start Your Own Decoy Collection

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Following the disappearance of Optimus Prime and Megatron in a space bridge accident, the Autobots and Decepticons splintered into multiple separate factions. In compliance with the Crisis Intervention Accord, First Aid and the other Protectobots declared themselves unaligned to any of the groups, and elected to continue operating as an independent team, rather than go their separate ways. When word reached them that the Constructicons had broken the accord by siding with the Ultracons, however, First Aid and his comrades knew that they had to take a stand themselves, and decided to aid the Wreckers in battle against the Decepticon giant. Escalation When Defensor began prioritizing Devastator's destruction over preventing collateral damage, Wreckers leader Springer had to talk the Protectobots into separating, after which they were able to use their individual smarts to bring the Constructicon combiner down: First Aid had Hot Spot lift him up on his ladder so he could plug a power cable into a port on Devastator's body, overloading Devastator and forcing him to separate. In the battle's aftermath, First Aid thanked Springer for talking them down, realizing they still had a lot to learn about their combined self. Devastation The team subsequently returned to their home base to analyze what had gone wrong with their combination, though First Aid had to convince Hot Spot to let it go when he started to become obsessive. But just as the Protectobots were preparing to take some downtime, they were attacked by the Chaos Trinity, who kidnapped Hot Spot for use in The Fallen's scheme. In the scuffle, First Aid was taken out by teammate Streetwise, who had been hypnotized by Mindwipe. Confrontation

Roughly 6.5 million years later, the Protectobots battled Menasor as Defensor when the Stunticons escaped from a penal facility... and lost, big time. Passive Aggression Soon after, the team aided in the Autobot insurrection against Shockwave's rule of Cybertron. Revelation After the Autobots regained power, First Aid and the Protectobots searched Shockwave's clone lab, finding Runabout and Runamuck barely alive, having been attacked by an unknown assailant. First Aid was seen administering medical help to the heavily damaged Battlechargers. Black Sunshine

2005 IDW continuity

• First Appearance: Spotlight: Jazz; Bullets (modern era, text); Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #4 (on panel)

First Aid was born forged. This Calamitous Life

In the early days of the war, First Aid was part of an extraction team who located the damaged pair of Jazz and Tracks following their skirmish with the Predacons. He performed initial repairs on both of them, bringing Tracks back online. Spotlight: Jazz About four million years ago, he was seen chatting with his comrades Brawn and Cosmos during a victory celebration. The Iron Age

First Aid was eventually assigned to Delphi, an Autobot emergency medical facility on Messatine. Like any emergency room, Delphi experienced brief flurries of activity followed by long cycles of nothing but routine patient care and waiting for the next disaster. While passing the time First Aid became an avid subscriber to Wreckers: Declassified, the adventures of the Autobots' most elite strike team compiled by their unofficial biographer, Fisitron. He often found himself reading (and re-reading) Datalog 113: Showdown at Pova whenever his work lagged. Five years into his tour at Delphi, while attending a medical conference on the Kimia Facility, First Aid had his own brush with the Wreckers when their leader Springer approached him with a rather unique request. Springer had a mole deep within the Decepticon Justice Division known only as Agent 113, who had a highly unusual means of delivering messages to his Autobot contacts: In battle, he would shoot a fellow Autobot with pinpoint accuracy through the right "eye" of their faction symbol with a bullet containing a data-chip with his report inside. First Aid was one of several medics secretly recruited by Springer to always be on the lookout for Agent 113's calling card. First Aid eagerly accepted the "secret mission" and checked over the insignia of every patient that came through his emergency room doors from then on. Not the subtlest of Autobots, First Aid developed a reputation for being fixated on insignias, and was even referred to Autobot psycho-analyst Rung, who diagnosed him with "obsessive compulsive tendencies" that forced First Aid's boss Ambulon to demote him to nurse. But First Aid's attention to his secret duty paid off: one night after the Surge, when he was giving the once over to Dogfight's recon team after a skirmish with the DJD, First Aid finally discovered one of Agent 113's bullets. The encoded information he delivered to Springer led to the Wreckers' ill-fated mission on Garrus-9. Bullets

When the Red Rust virus broke out in Delphi, First Aid, Ambulon, and Pharma's efforts to treat it seemed to be in vain, forcing First Aid to call for help by transmitting the facility's patient survival statistics through the subspace network once used to distribute the Wreckers: Declassified datalogs. This attracted the attention of Ratchet, who brought Drift and Pipes to Delphi where First Aid told them about the outbreak. Using "jump-starting", a new method of spark resuscitation he had invented himself, he later used his own spark to revitalize a comatose Fortress Maximus just in time to save the others from a pair of Genericons believed to have spread the virus. Life After the Big Bang After Fortress Maximus killed the Genericons, it was discovered that Pharma was the culprit behind the virus, a fact that First Aid had long suspected. In the chaos that followed, First Aid took charge to save the patients around him. After Pharma was defeated and Ratchet used the villain's vaccine to cure Delphi of its virus, First Aid returned to the Lost Light with Ratchet. Ratchet promised to promote the nurse to Chief Medical Officer in place of himself after witnessing his actions. How Ratchet Got His Hands Back To First Aid's silent annoyance, however, Ratchet showed no signs of relinquishing the title any time soon, leaving him Chief Medical Officer-in-training. Little Victories

While visiting the ship's bar, First Aid was asked by Ambulon to keep his fellow medic's embarrassing alt-mode a secret, though the request was in vain as Swerve promptly triggered Ambulon's transformation anyway. No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases First Aid was repairing a dismembered Dipstick when he and much of the crew were frozen in place by one of Brainstorm's experimental weapons. The Reluctant Specialist After Fortress Maximus went on a small shooting spree inside the Lost Light, First Aid helped Ratchet treat the victims. He failed to notice the pattern Ratchet saw in them: they all resembled Overlord. Interiors That escapade concluded with Swerve accidentally shooting Rung in the head; First Aid, Ambulon, and Ratchet were instrumental in saving Rung's life Rules of Disengagement and First Aid took the lead on his aftercare, helping him re-learn how to distinguish people from their surroundings. Signal to Noise

First Aid was among the crew members that had been shrunken by Brainstorm's mass-displacement cannon and sent to destroy some Nanocons inside Ultra Magnus that had been mysteriously revived. First Aid was resized after the Nanocons were destroyed and attended Tailgate's Autobot Initiation Ceremony and asked Whirl what he had graffitied inside Ultra Magnus' body but the ceremony began before Whirl could make a full answer. First Aid then told Skids that Ambulon was handling some offline crew members that had suddenly came back to life. You, Me, and Other Revelations After the situation was handled, First Aid joined a few Autobots for movie night in Rewind's hab-suite where they watched "Proteus's Promise". Who's Afraid of the DJD?

When someone tried to kill Red Alert, First Aid and Ambulon went to work fixing him up. In the process, First Aid discovered the truth, Patternism that Red Alert's injuries were self-inflicted, though Rodimus didn't take the news well. An Intimate Beheading

Following the return of the Leading Light from Temptoria, First Aid tended to the rapidly-fading Rewind and talked Chromedome into giving the small Autobot a jumpstart. Unfortunately he had to break the news that it hadn't worked. As it turned out, Whirl also had a compatible spark, and First Aid successfully carried out the procedure with him. Before & After First Aid later helped Tailgate throw an "alt mode party" in an attempt to get Rung to transform, and appeared in one of Rewind's documentaries to explain how the Vis Vitalis worked. Little Victories When Overlord was let loose on the Lost Light and stabbed Ultra Magnus through the spark, First Aid rushed to his aid but sadly recognized the injury to be fatal. Under Cold Blue Stars

When Ultra Magnus's body got up and floated away under mysterious circumstances, First Aid gathered with the rest of the crew to gawp at a huge portal the Lost Light had followed Magnus's trail to. The Fecund Moon After the ship went through the portal, First Aid and Ambulon were in the medbay when the Legislators invaded the Lost Light. House of Ambus Alas, the ship was soon overrun, and both 'bots found themselves teleported to Pharma's new lab on Luna 1. First Aid had to witness Ambulon being horrifically sawn in half, lengthwise as part of a twisted competition between Ratchet and Pharma. The Divided Self When Ratchet refused the younger medic's help, First Aid was infuriated by his attitude and accused him of being unable to let go of his reputation as "best medic" out of a belief that no one else could ever match his expertise. While Ratchet then revealed that the reason he couldn't help was that Ambulon was already dead, he saw the truth in First Aid's words and promised to officially hand over the title of Chief Medical Officer once they'd caught Pharma. First Aid, however, saw no reason to show the corrupt medic any mercy. Arm the Lonely

First Aid was soon able to confront Pharma, and was enraged that rather than show remorse for his murders of patients or Ambulon, the rogue medic was amused by what he'd done. When he went so far as to laugh at Ambulon's death, the younger medic snapped and executed him on the spot, then realized what he'd done and broke down. He was comforted by Rung, but on returning to the Lost Light he shut himself in and refused to talk to anyone. This Calamitous Life The crew eventually convinced him to come out and perform an autopsy on a the corpse of a mysterious second Rodimus, hoping some work would help rehabilitate him. First Aid deduced from the body's innermost energon that it was an alternate Rodimus and not some kind of copy. Predestination: A Beginner's Guide

As it transpired, the second Rodimus was a quantum duplicate, which began the slow quantum erasure of the Lost Light and its crew. First Aid abandoned ship, but soon, his shuttle disappeared around him, as did crewmates Trailcutter and Mainframe—only Bluestreak and First Aid were left, floating in space, because they weren't members of the ship's original crew. Once the situation had been put to rights, everyone reappeared, and First Aid's group set down on the planet Ofsted XVII for a momentary breather. First Aid went off to explore the area, and found a gravely-wounded Transformer of unclear affiliation in a nearby lecture theatre. A quick examination proved he was a Decepticon, but First Aid kept this fact from his crewmates as he called upon them to donate some of their innermost energon to help the 'bot survive. Recognizing the 'bots true allegiance, Mainframe and Bluestreak refused; Trailcutter agreed, but just as he was about to start the process, First Aid recognized the mantra the delirious patient was chanting as the motto of the Decepticon Justice Division. Refusing to heal one of those monsters under any circumstances, First Aid tried to talk Trailcutter out of helping him, to no avail—and unfortunately, First Aid's fears proved true as the 'bot, Vos, attacked Trailcutter as soon as he had been re-powered. While Trailcutter protected himself with his forcefield, First Aid sped off to get the others, but when they returned, they were horrified to discover that Trailcutter had trapped a second, hidden DJD member, Kaon, inside his field with him, who had torn him to pieces. Births, Deaths, and Interventions The remaining trio tried to escape in their shuttle, but it was blown up before it could take off as a parting gesture from the DJD. Fortunately, First Aid and his friends survived. The Custom-Made Now

After Ratchet had several crewmembers tested for "super-scraplets", First Aid recognized it as a complete fabrication and an excuse for the senior doctor to talk to his friends in private. As it turned out, Ratchet had been tying up some loose ends before leaving the Lost Light: when First Aid next came to see him, all he found was a method of contacting him and a note officially promoting First Aid to Chief Medical Officer. Our Steps Will Always Rhyme

When the Lost Light met with the Vis Vitalis for a pre-wake party for the near-death Thunderclash, First Aid and Minimus Ambus met with Vis Vitalis chief medical officer Velocity. While Velocity showed Minimus the supposed map to Cyberutopia that Thunderclash had drawn on the wall, First Aid examined Thunderclash. To First Aid's surprise, however, Thunderclash was not dying of his old war wound, which had miraculously been healed six months prior. As Velocity could not come up with any information about the "passing healer", First Aid opened up Thunderclash's trailer to examine, finding it empty. Then, Thunderclash started manipulating his own systems to make the life sign monitor display a message: "You're all blind, you're all dead". They then heard a knocking coming from his trailer. The Sensuous Frame First Aid, Minimus, and Velocity came under attack by strange creatures. Firestar and Skystriker arrived in response to the noise only for the creatures to tear Skystriker to shreds. In an act of supreme heroism, Thunderclash himself transformed to hold the creatures off. The group from the medbay then fled with others to the danceroom. There, it was determined that the beasts were personality ticks, picked up by the Camien crewmembers from Marasma. They had healed Thunderclash's wound so that they could continue feeding on his charisma and were now visible because their perception-based cloaking was down. Just as all hope seemed lost, the ticks suddenly all died, having overdosed on Rodimus and Megatron's combined charisma. First Aid later attended a party to celebrate the day's successes at Swerve's aboard the Lost Light. The Frail Gaze

Some time later, when Mirage was due to return to Cybertron to represent the Lost Light in the first meeting between Cybertron and Caminus, First Aid chose to come with as his acting doctor, worried about the "visions" his patient had been experiencing. The Possible Light As he was accepting a goodbye present from Tailgate and setting Velocity up to take care of things during his absence, a comatose Swerve was brought before First Aid, but he was unable to locate the problem without surgery and the patient was much too weak to survive being opened up. He had to leave before the other crew members solved the mystery, but on learning from Velocity that the injury had been in Swerve's shoulder and seeing an old picture of him with an insignia on that same shoulder, First Aid realized the damage must have be caused by one of Agent 113's data bullets and asked Velocity to retrieve it. The One Where They Go to Earth They were accompanied by Hot Spot, Streetwise, Groove, and Blades: their mission to protect Mirage led to Streetwise jokingly dubbing the group the "Protectobots". The Possible Light

On arrival, they came with Mirage as he sought out Optimus Prime, leading to their getting caught up in a combiner duel between Superion and Prowl's Devastator. Starscream recognized the Protectobots as another potential combiner for his side and, before First Aid could protest that they weren't even a proper team, used the Enigma of Combination to merge them into Defensor, who bested Devastator soon after coming online. Mistakes and Mayhem Optimus Prime found it worrying that none of Defensor's components had reverted to their normal forms since becoming a combiner; Prowl noted that it was difficult for combiner teams to stay separate for long. You, Me, and the Universe Once the whole Caminus mess was over, First Aid and the others managed to separate and left Cybertron to return to the Lost Light. The Transgressors

Some time later, Red Alert misremembered First Aid queuing to join the crew of the Lost Light alongside other incongruous characters, such as Ambulon, Ironfist, and Bumblebee. Last Light

The shuttle eventually caught up with the Lost Light, making a violent (yet smart) crash landing into shuttlebay four. As First Aid crawled out of the shuttle, a security team headed by Powerflash aimed their weapons at him before Getaway diffused the tension, offering some evasive statements to explain the ship's radio silence and the change in command before he directed First Aid to take Blades to the med-bay. While there, the two discussed their missing crewmates and possible theories on what had happened before he ran a Spark check, noting the large drop in the total number of Sparks and one behind a large, locked door. Attempting to cut through it, Getaway popped in and merrily unlocked it, revealing the comatose Thunderclash. After some disturbing gallows humour, First Aid demanded Getaway tell him what had happened to Rodimus and Megatron. Getaway claimed that Team Rodimus had abandoned ship, believing they could make better progress without the larger crew, before insisting First Aid speak to Hoist about Thunderclash. First Aid found the substitute medic in "Visages" where he caught up with the crew over several overpriced drinks and learned of the many changes aboard ship.

His suspicions mounting, First Aid called a meeting for the Protectobots and Mirage in the abandoned Swerve's, noting that twenty-five members of the crew were unaccounted for. As they traded theories and accusations, Mirage and First Aid referenced being asked by Getaway and Atomizer if they would support a mutiny against Megatron, a conversation First Aid confessed to regretting. Riptide took that as his cue to enter and revealed the truth behind the mutiny and Thunderclash's condition. Getaway's inner circle then entered and the escapeologist revealed that Thunderclash was in a memory loop. Streetwise then found the lights, revealing the horrific sight of brain modules still attached to their spinal columns, pocked with teeth-marks and suspended in engex. A running firefight soon broke out as the Protectobots scrambled back to their shuttle to notify Optimus Prime. The group managed to board a shuttle before it was struck by a proton missile and towed in with a tractor beam, after which they were all placed in a memory loop. Full Circle First Aid had a narrow brush with death when Getaway ordered Atomizer to shoot one of the Protectobots, but was spared when he chose Rook instead. Awakened from his memory loop by Riptide, he and the Protectobots stormed the shuttle bay as Defensor after taking a detour to retrieve Ambulon's corpse as a substitute leg for the combiner. However, Defensor was soon cut down and the Protectobots gunned to pieces by Getaway's "new hire", Star Saber. First Aid, seemingly the sole surviving Protectobot, only escaped his second brush with death and escaped aboard a shuttle with Thunderclash and Riptide thanks to Atomizer having a change of heart and jumping Star Saber. Journey's End

After escaping from the Lost Light, First Aid and the other escapees found a distress signal from Grimlock, adrift in space, and took him on their shuttle to Troja Major. There, the motley crew bought a new ship from Wipe-Out, capable of quantum jumping. Tracking the Lost Light via hidden homing beacon, First Aid's ragtag group found the ship on Mederi, just in time to save Team Rodimus and the Scavengers from hungry sparkeaters made from the Lost Light's remaining crew. After he and his group explained how they got to Mederi, First Aid brought Rodimus up to speed on the grisly crimes Getaway had committed during his self-appointed tenure as captain. While Rodimus took a team aboard Wipe-Out's ship to reclaim the Lost Light, the rest of the group barricaded themselves in Mederi's Ward Zero to try and cure the crew. A Dance Before Dying Hacking the patient files, First Aid learned of concussive medicine, essentially punching the sparkeaters back to health. After the crew had been brought inside for treatment, the organic telepaths began counting down from 1000, at which a point a massive tear opened in nearby space. Lūstrāre

With the Lost Light reclaimed, the group loaded the crew and the organics aboard but failed to escape the gravity of the rift, emerging in the Benzene Cluster, the region now populated by five duplicates of Cybertron. Exploring the surface of one, the crew was taken prisoner by the Grand Architect's forces. When Froid and Sunder were thrown in, they explained that the Architect sought to use the God Gun to banish a great threat into another universe. When the Gun fired, it opened a portal through which Megatron's Last Light sailed through, Farsickness followed by the Cybertron of the Functionist Universe, now transformed into a robot mode in the likeness of Primus.

As the Architect's and the Functionists' fleets came to blows, Megatron freed most of the prisoners, bringing them aboard the Last Light where First Aid diagnosed Drift with a zero point. Though First Aid only asked for a medical bay, Megatron, having gained skills as a medic, quickly healed the Autobot. The Return of the King

After Rodimus' group reunited with the others, and revealed that Rung was the true Primus, the Magnificence announced that Rung should make duplicates of the Matrix of Leadership to exploit Rossum's Trinity on the false Primus. Since this plan would kill all the innocents on Cybertron, the group began brainstorming an alternative, First Aid chiming in that exploiting the hot spots would be akin to exploiting a nervous system. The Unremembering Sacrificially, Rung produced twelve Matrices, one for each hot spot. Given one and escorted by Crankcase, First Aid was sent to open it at the Pious Pools, managing to do so after being rallied by Rodimus. A Spark among Embers

New Cybertron, as it came to be known, was soon visited by Prowl, who decided to decommission the Lost Light so its quantum engines could be used to double the planet's energon reserves but allowed the crew the luxury of a victory lap. Before jumping back home, however, the crew decided to recreate the quantum explosion that marked the beginning of their voyage in the hopes that they could once again duplicate themselves, so that their adventures would never end. Although the crew of the Lost Light would never truly know if their experiment worked, their duplicates did indeed materialize in an alternate universe, eager to continue their adventures.

In the primary universe, First Aid listened to Ultra Magnus's celebratory toast before the ship was torn apart, later going off with Brainstorm but promising to keep in touch with Anode and Lug. Centuries later, First Aid attended Ratchet's funeral with his fellow Protectobots, sadly lamenting how he could have prevented the his friend's fatal spark burnout had he diagnosed it sooner. How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2

Kre-O online comic

After being injured in a fight while protecting humans, First Aid doubted his effectiveness in combat. Hot Spot tried to cheer him up by insisting on how valuable First Aid was to the Protectobots. Sure enough, First Aid soon had the opportunity to lead the Protectobots in a search for Swindle and Metroplex's stolen transforming cog. In the aftermath of a battle between Bruticus and Defensor, First Aid remained true to himself by even treating the injured Combaticons. Bad at Fighting? Rescue Team Protectobots, Dispatch!

Ask Vector Prime

First Aid was presumably present as part of Defensor during the Battle for Sherman Dam in Primax 096.0 Beta. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06

Beast Wars: Uprising

Following the example of Hot Rod, First Aid and the rest of the Protectobots downsized into Micromasters in order to conserve fuel on an energy-starved post-Great War Cybertron.

After a break-in into the Forever Vaults left one of its guards, Cop-Tur, injured but alive, he was placed under the care of First Aid and Fixit in Micropolis. Cop-Tur's condition baffled both doctors, as unbeknownst to them, he had been infected by the G-Virus: an artificial plague that would replicate the process that had turned Megatron into Galvatron. Either Fixit or First Aid was blasted by their patient after he had undergone his transformation. Micro-Aggressions

Combiner Wars cartoon

First Aid was among the Autobot troops who bore witness to a pivotal duel between Optimus Prime and Megatron, one meant to end the war before the never-ending arms race between the two factions spiralled further out of control. Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Optimus Prime

2019 IDW continuity

At some point, First Aid posed in a group photo with many Cybertronians, including Blast Off. Open Comms

Commercial appearances

• First Aid and the rest of the Protectobots rushed the Decepticon fortress Trypticon, undaunted by its enormous size. When Trypticon assumed its battle station mode, the Protectobots merged into Defensor to better fight back. Defensor and Trypticon commercial
• First Aid and the Protectobots received a message from Optimus Prime alerting them that Menasor was wreaking havoc in a human city, and that the threat was "bigger than ever." The Protectobots combined into Defensor to better combat the Decepticon. Transformers Generations: Combiner Wars commercials

Games

Transformers Legends

During a Decepticon attack on a major human city, Ratchet, Inferno and the Protectobots launched rescue operations. Unfortunately their efforts were hampered by Thundercracker and Dirge, who unleashed all manner of sonic attacks on them. To the Rescue

Transformers: Battle Tactics

First Aid participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character available as reward in the "Defensor Safeguard" event. Transformers: Battle Tactics

Transformers: Earth Wars

First Aid volunteered to head to Project Nova research site and check its status. He reported that everything was calm, but then he spotted Spectro sneaking through the back door of the facility. Not waiting for backup, he went after him to investigate. Reflector was running toward him and shoved him aside, and First Aid also proceeded to evacuate when he heard a noise, and his transmission was severed. Project Supernova

With First Aid missing, Optimus gave Smokescreen, who was also at the research site, the task to find him. Bit of a Longshot

First Aid reestablished commmunications, but he was in circuit shock, leaking lubricants, and exposed to the Nova Core's exotic particles. He harnessed his medi-bots to shield him so he could repair himself faster. Optimus also told him to keep his head low while Smokescreen was in battle with Brake-Neck. Battle Hardened

Fully repaired, he helped in the evacuation and protection of the humans from the site, but couldn't let them out of his sight while Brake-Neck was around. He sent his two medi-bots to secure the Nova Core. As they were making their way back, Reflector yanked it from their grasps and took the core for themselves, but Spyglass accidentally dropped the core into water. First Aid convinced the trio to help him shield the core or else everyone would die. Afterwards, he headed out with Smokescreen. Big Bang!

When First Aid arrived, Hot Spot was glad to see another Protectobot on Earth. Ratchet and Wheeljack also affirmed their medical assistance. Just then Wheeljack's unstable plasma caster exploded, which Bumblebee thought was a Decepticon diversion. First Aid told him not to worry and lead him to the lab.

At some point Bumblebee asked about First Aid's red medi-bots. He explained his Shield Drones were Build Bots he found in an abandoned base, and refitted with shielding tech and reprogrammed to prevent Autobots from being hurt in the first place. That said, he resumed Bumblebee's dentist appointment, with Hot Spot next.

First Aid was fixing a part in a struggling patient when Ratchet reminded him he could turn his Energon mixer off before fixing it, but First Aid considered it cruel. They turned their attention to another patient in stasis mode who had sustained beam laser damage and mortar shrapnel. Ratchet stated the vulgar reality of war stripped of pomp and ceremony, but First Aid was optimistic; where there's life, there's hope.

• Class: Medic
• Lowest Star Rating: 2 star
• Weapons: First Aid uses a medi-gun that shoots out health bombs, instead of one continuous stream. His Medibots both use healing beams and provide 40-45% resistant shields.
• Ability: Deploy Medibots - Deploys 2 Medibots, each with an ability to shield friendly bots blocking 40/45% of incoming damage.
  • Cost: 4 ability points +2 cost increase.

First Aid at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki

Transformers Roleplaying Game

First Aid was the Protectobot medic. The Enigma of Combination

Toys

The Transformers

• First Aid (Protectobot, 1986–87, 1992)
  • Team ID number: P4
  • Japanese ID number: C-75
  • Accessories: "Photon pistol", "dual-barrelled decrystallizer cannon", cannon connector

First Aid transforms into a Datsun Vanette C120 ambulance (distinguishable from the Nissan version by its twin headlamps), model year 1980 or later. As a small, simple toy, there are some significant compromises in the appearance of the vehicle to facilitate transformation, such as the rather visible hinge joints for the front end and the big gap in the back of the ambulance to facilitate his knee joint. In vehicle mode, First Aid can be equipped with his large decrystallizer cannon via a connector piece that plugs into the 5mm peg hole on his rear, while in robot mode, he is armed with a small photon pistol. The card instructions for this toy incorrectly show Groove's photon pistol instead of First Aid's weapon. Similarly, Streetwise's connector is shown instead of the connector for First Aid's decrystallizer cannon.

First Aid combines with his fellow Protectobots to form Defensor, taking the nominal position of left arm. As a Scramble City-style robot, however, he can form any limb for the robot, and can interact with all other combiner teams built with the same design.

The initial release of First Aid had a die-cast metal chest, but like several other 1986 toys, later releases replaced this with red plastic. In 1987, he came packaged with a random Autobot Decoy.

This mold was redecoed as Safety from the Guard City giftset in the Operation Combination toyline.

• More information on First Aid at TFU.info

• Defensor (giftset, 1986)
  • Japanese ID number: C-76
  • Accessories: Photon pistol, dual-barrelled decrystallizer cannon, cannon connector

All five Protectobots were made available in many markets as a complete giftset as well as on individual cards/boxes. It is unknown which versions of the toys are in the multipack, metal parts or plastic.

In 1988, GiG also re-released the Defensor set in Italy, with five random "Exogini Transformers" (Decoys) added.

• More information on Defensor at TFU.info

• First Aid (1991)
  • Accessories: "Photon pistol", "dual-barrelled decrystallizer cannon", cannon connector

First Aid and the other Protectobots were re-released in 1991 as part of the European-market Classics line.

Generation 2

• First Aid (Protectobot, unreleased)
  • Team ID number: P2
  • Accessories: "Photon pistol", "dual-barrelled decrystallizer cannon", cannon connector

The Protectobots were to be released as part of the second wave of combiners in Generation 2. However, this entire wave was ultimately canceled for unknown reasons. First Aid was to be off-white with seafoam-green robot chest, swirly metallic gold robot parts and a different rescue/ambulance deco. Vanishingly few samples—less than a dozen—of this item made their way outside Hasbro, including some on-card samples, which give him the unit number "P2".

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

Universe (2003)

• First Aid (Micromaster Protectobot, 2004)
  • Accessories: Defensor right foot

An exclusive to Kay-Bee stores, First Aid is mostly-identical to the Micromaster version of Sireen, transforming into an ambulance of undetermined model. The only difference between the two is that First Aid has gray-plastic thighs whereas Sireen has black. He can also form any other part of the combined Defensor robot, but he's extremely awkward at best as anything other than a leg; his normal placement is as the right leg.

The toy's larger connector socket is approximately 5mm wide, making First Aid compatible with Powerlinx ports.

• More information on First Aid at TFU.info

Bot Shots

• Protectobots (Multi-pack, 2013?)
  • Number: T0??

• Known designers: Andrew Scribner (deco artist)

• • • Fist strength:
    • Blaster strength: 487
    • Sword strength:

A redeco of Bot Shots Autobot Ratchet, "Protectobot First Aid" automatically transforms from emergency-response SUV to robot when a sharp impact is applied to his front end. He was to be sold in a five-pack with Protectobot Hot Spot, Protectobot Blades, Protectobot Groove and Protectobot Streetsmart, but this never saw release.

Many of his parts originally came from Ironhide and were also used for Super Bot Dirt Boss, Blitz Shot Autobot Hound and Swindle.

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

Kre-O

• Defensor (Micro-Changer Combiner, 2013)
  • Set number: A4474
  • Pieces: 85
  • Accessories: Pistol

• Known designers: Ed Masiello (Hasbro)

First Aid comes as part of the Defensor Micro-Changer combiner set alongside Blades, Hot Spot, and Streetsmart, and can be rebuilt from his robot mode into an ambulance. He can also contribute his bricks to form Defensor. His helmet was originally created for Soundwave (can you tell?) and his gun used to be Bumblebee's.

• More information on First Aid at TFU.info

Transformers (2014)

• Protectobots Emergency Response (Three-pack, 2014)

Transformers "Protectobot First Aid" is a minor redeco of Prime: Robots in Disguise Deluxe Class Autobot Ratchet, with altered paint applications (now predominantly blue) and a lighter shade of gray plastic. He also has a "dramatic head reveal" gimmick, with his robot mode head being spring-loaded to pop up once his "backpack" is pulled down. He features 5 mm peg-holes for his hands, a pair on his front bumpers/shins, and a pair on his vehicle roof.

First Aid also comes with a pair of battle blades that can mount/be held via 5mm post, and his hands can be swung down at the wrist to give the appearance of the blades sprouting out of his wrists. The blades can mount into the peg-holes on his front bumper, creating a battle mode, and the blades can store on tabs underneath his vehicle.

First Aid is only available in three-pack with Protectobot Streetsmart and Protectobot Groove, which was released as a Toys"R"Us exclusive in Hasbro's Asian markets, while in the United States, it was officially an Amazon exclusive that was later also stocked by other online retailers such as BigBadToyStore for a hefty markup.

This mold was retooled into BotCon 2014 Cannonball.

• More information on 2014 First Aid at TFU.info

Combiner Wars

• Protectobot First Aid (Deluxe Class, 2015)
  • 4 of 5: Defensor
  • Accessories: Axe, double-barrelled gun/fist/foot

• Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro)

Released as part of the Combiner Wars subline imprint of Generations, First Aid is an extensive retool of Combiner Wars Decepticon Offroad. He transforms into either an Advanced Life Support (ALS) vehicle that most closely resembles a Terrier LT-79, or a limb for any combiner in the same subline or any Unite Warriors Voyager class figure or into one of Legends Godbomber's legs, although he officially forms the right leg of Defensor. He has a tab on the roof of his vehicle mode that fits into a slot on his fist/foot accessory, allowing it to serve as a gun. He is the only Deluxe Class Protectobot whose instructions actually show him using the gun in this manner. While the front hood/windshields are needed to be folded as kneecaps for his leg mode, the piece also had a tendency to dislodge if he collides to Hot Spot's (or his redecoes/retools) protruding foot while the legs are being swiveled in his standing position, unless the leg joints are bent down to lessen the problem.

First Aid comes with a copy of "Combiner Wars #12" (actually The Transformers #36). In Canada, Latin America, and Europe, the comic is omitted and replaced with a collector card featuring the figure's package art.

As a part of the third and fourth wave promotion in Hasbro's Asian markets, a free sticker sheet for the Protectobots and Optimus Maximus was given out when purchasing any four Deluxe Class toys from those waves. As such, First Aid was given Generation 1 toy-esque stickers for the owner to apply if they wanted.^[1]

The original version of this mold was also used to make TFSS Grabuge and Unite Warriors Zombie War Breakdown, and was differently retooled into Combiner Wars Ironhide and Trailbreaker.

• More information on Combiner Wars First Aid at TFU.info

Combiner Wars mold: Offroad

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Unite Warriors

• Guardian (giftset, December 12, 2015)
  • ID number: UW-03
  • English name: Defensor
  • Accessories: Axe, double-barrelled gun/fist/foot

Takara's iteration of Combiner Wars Defensor is sold in a gift set including the five original Protectobots, with Groove (as a new Deluxe-sized mold) included instead of Rook. First Aid features deco changes that evoke his original toy, such as a triangle symbol and thin red stripe alongside his vehicle mode side and an Autobot insignia on his left foot, and a painted rear window absent on the Hasbro release.

Unite Warriors Guardian was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive, rather than as a regular release. Preorders were open from May 25 to July 6, and it was shipped in December 2015.

Combiner Wars mold: Offroad

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Merchandise

Transformers Gum

• Groove and First Aid (1987)
  • Accessories: Photon pistol, dual-barrelled decrystallizer cannon

Released in the fourth wave of Kabaya's Transformers Gum line of candy toys, this incarnation of First Aid is a snap-together model kit constructed of white, red and black plastic. Available only in a two-pack with Groove (and a stick of gum), First Aid has no paint applications, but features some stickers for decoration. He retains all the features and functionality of his larger toy, and combines with the other Transformers Gum Protectobots, all available in the same wave, to form Defensor.

• More information on Transformers Gum First Aid at a Japanese fan blog

G Guardian

• First Aid (Candy toy, 2012)
  • ID number: 2
  • Accessories: Photon pistol

First Aid is a snap-together candy toy model kit produced by Kabaya for their G Guardian series, coming in an individual box packed with a stick of (chalky) gum. Made up of red and white plastic with lots of stickers for detail, he can combine with his five wave-mates to form Gaia Guardian, able to become either an arm or a leg for the super-robot in the style of his Generation 1 figure. Similarly, he can also combine in the traditional manner with G Guardian Groove, Streetwise & Blades and Kabaya's 2012 Transformers Gum Hot Spot to form Defensor. G Guardian Heatrock and Skyfeather attach to Defensor to create God Guardian.

Like most of his G Guardian teammates, First Aid manages to avoid the partforming that's commonly associated with Kabaya kits, being able to fully transform from robot to ambulance and back without requiring any disassembly.

• More information on the G Guardian Protectobots at a Japanese blog

Transformers Character Card

• Guardian & Bruticus Set (December, 2023)
  • ID number: 71 & 72

Released as part of the tenth wave of the e-HOBBY exclusive Transformers Character Card series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of "Guardian" (with his components Blades, First Aid, Hot Spot, Groove, and Streetwise) and Bruticus (with his components Blast Off, Vortex, Onslaught, Swindle and Brawl) along with character profiles and tech specs.

• Translation of Defensor's Transformers Character Card

Notes

• First Aid is often characterized broadly in the fandom as a pacifist, but this attribute was only demonstrated in the original cartoon—his fellow Protectobot Groove was indicated to be the pacifist Protectobot in the original Tech Spec profiles. In First Aid's other appearances, he seems to have little problem fighting his enemies. His Dreamwave More than Meets the Eye profile attempts to reconcile these characterizations by stating that he agrees with Groove's pacifism but has overcome his reluctance to fight.
• Although the Protectobots in the Marvel comics are assumed to have been built on Earth (explicitly so in the Marvel UK comics), his advice in "Afterdeath!" to Ratchet after Optimus Prime's death sounds like words of experience.
• In the Italian dub, First Aid speaks with a cadence resembling an ambulance siren.
• For First Aid's IDW continuity debut in More than Meets the Eye #4, Alex Milne somewhat merged First Aid's toy and cartoon designs.^[2]

Foreign names

• Japanese: First Aid (ファーストエイド Fāsuto Eido)
• French: Ambulo (Canada)
• Italian: Sirena
• Mandarin: Jíjiùyuán (急救员, "First Responder")
• Portuguese: Primeiro Socorro (Portugal Comic)
• Russian: Verstak (Верстак, "Joiner's Bench"), Sanitar (Санитар, "Male Nurse")
• Polish: Pierwsza Pomoc (TM Semic Comic, "First Aid")

Gallery

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  Unused Generation 2 packaging art

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  Dreamwave The War Within Cybertronian design

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  IDW robot mode concept art

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  Earth Wars Generation 2-themed skin

References