Sharpclaw

Sharpclaw is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Clifford the big red dog.

Sharpclaw has sharp claws!

Fiction

2019 IDW continuity

Sharpclaw was one of many attendees who watched an illegal skitter race at Swindle's. Swindle's

Last Bot Standing

During the Great War, Sharpclaw and her brother Steeljaw fought for the Decepticons. As the conflict ground on, however, the eons-long stalemate left the universe drained of the energon and raw materials Cybertronians required to maintain their otherwise immortal bodies; as the Cybertronian race dwindled to the brink of extinction, Steeljaw and Sharpclaw gathered a handful of other survivors, including an aged and decrepit Wheelie, who now went by "the Veteran", and eventually discovered a new way to survive by processing organic material into "biofuel" and altering their own intake systems to handle this new substance. Last Bot Standing #2 Although biofuel proved a workable substitute for energon, the inefficient, poor-quality fuel left them perpetually tired and hungry; Last Bot Standing #4 without energon infusions or regular maintenance, their memories of the Great War grew increasingly foggy. Although Steeljaw set himself up as the nominal commander of their little unit and demanded to be referred to as such, the ever-acerbic Sharpclaw refused to indulge him. Last Bot Standing #2

After millennia of methodically working their way across a devastated universe—invading primitive planets, farming and processing the native life-forms into biofuel they'd exhausted their resources, then moving on—the group set their sights on the remote world of Donnokt. After making planetfall, Sharpclaw registered a Cybertronian lifesign far from their encampment. Assuming that their scout Nitro had gotten himself lost, Sharpclaw suggested they reactivate Override and Riotgear to find him. The two returned after sunrise, bringing with them a fuel-starved Cybertronian calling himself Rodimus. After the delirious Rodimus claimed to be a figure of some notoriety in their race's history, Sharpclaw suggested reactivating the Veteran while Steeljaw ordered Rodimus to be fitted with a new intake system so he could fuel up on his organic friend, Shib Wallkis. Last Bot Standing #2

After the Veteran confirmed Rodimus' claims, the majority of the group set out to the town of Fembrance to harvest its resources. Upon arriving, Steeljaw and Sharpclaw's enhanced olfactory sensors picked up the scent of Cybertronian technology and led them to Nitro's corpse. As a furious Steeljaw came to the realization that Rodimus had deliberately killed a member of their "family", Sharpclaw detected a second Cybertronian scent and tracked it to the Wallkis family residence, where they found a pair of energon keys and an ancient Cybertronian data pad containing a video message from Rodimus. Once she'd taken Shib's brothers Beets and Travyon hostage, Sharpclaw joined Steeljaw and the rest of her allies as they confronted the rejuvenated Rodimus. Last Bot Standing #3

From the data pad, Steeljaw and the rest of his remnant faction had learned that Donnokt contained the last source of raw energon in the universe, a particularly volatile variant that crisscrossed vast seams of the planet's crust—an unapologetic Rodimus insisted that, given free rein of the planet's resources, they'd only fall back to their destructive old ways. Sharpclaw proposed using the energon keys on themselves, hoping it would energize them enough to speed up harvesting of the crystals and refitting themselves to process energon again; before they could do so, however, their fuel-starved followers began squabbling over the keys and shattered one in the process. When Sharpclaw insisted that she and her brother share the last key, their own scuffle allowed Rodimus to kick the key out of their grasp and into Shib's hands, who promptly took off aboard her steed Sparks. While the rest of their followers formed Unstoppimus to keep Rodimus busy, the two siblings chased Shib into the town's energon mine and captured her. However, when Steeljaw ordered Sharpclaw to hand over the energon key, his sister snapped that she deserved to use the energon key and dared him to take it from her.

Steeljaw easily savaged his sister, stole the key, and used it to supercharge himself, leaving the wounded Sharpclaw to ambush Rodimus and slash him through the throat. However, as Sharpclaw brutalized the fatally wounded Autobot, the pair learned the awful truth: Rodimus had already destroyed their only biofuel refinery, leaving them with no long-term power supply to fuel their conversion back to energon. A despondent Sharpclaw tried to convince her brother to salvage whatever they could from their camp... but, with their race now functionally extinct, Steeljaw decided to die with dignity by using his blaster to ignite the entire energon seam and blow up the planet. Realising that Rodimus might've had a point, Sharpclaw suggested that they could let the people of Donnokt live... but when Steeljaw ignored her, she threw herself in front of his blaster as he fired the shot that would end the world.

After Rodimus killed Steeljaw, he scavenged the ship they'd used to travel to Donnokt and turned it into a crude, one-way orbiter. Inside, he interred the bodies of the Transformers who'd followed Steeljaw before he too shut himself down. Last Bot Standing #4

Notes

• Sharpclaw is an original character created by Nick Roche's five-year-old (at the time) daughter, imagined as a would-be Autobot and ex-friend of Robots in Disguise Steeljaw.^[1]

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