Slugfest (SG)

Slugfest is a heroic Dinocon Mini-Cassette from the Shattered Glass continuity family.

Slugfest thinks highly of himself, but relies on his larger allies to take care of him. He's thankful for the neural upgrades Starscream gave him and the other Dinocons, but he's still quite slow.

Fiction

Fun Publications Shattered Glass continuity

Slugfest scattered after Wheeljack's disastrous attack on Optimus Prime. Cliffjumper and Sideswipe tracked him down in an effort to keep the Dinobots out of the Autobots' hands. After a brief battle with Goryu, who was protecting Slugfest, the Decepticons added both Dinobots to their roster via restraining bolts and brain upgrades.

Slugfest was pleased with his new masters, but was relieved when Grimlock arrived to escort the captured Dinobots to a secret place. Dungeons & Dinobots

Starscream was worried when he didn't find Slugfest and Overkill in the Dinocon pens where they should have been. After a few moments of frantic searching, he discovered two octaltrack data cartridges. Starscream was taken aback when the cartridges transformed into the missing Dinocons. Upon further examination, Starscream and Bombshell discovered that all of the captured-and-reprogrammed Dinobots suddenly had embers and the ability to transform.

Soundwave took Slugfest and Overkill along with his usual complement of Recordicons when he boarded the Nemesis. Do Over

They eventually made their way to the Earth of another dimension. There, they were tasked with repairing the planet's electronics network, which had gotten ravaged in its journey to the Decepticons' native universe. Despite Slugfest's most earnest attempts to help in the procedure, he only managed to make the task more difficult for Soundwave. The group then came under attack from Blaster and his own menagerie of cassettes. Slugfest held his own against Ramhorn until another new arrival, Solarbot forced Blaster to retreat with a brilliant display of power. Solar Requiem

Hey, get this, Slugfest thought the six Ember-less bots Solarbot was looking for were cyborg alien invaders, what a putz! He was also barred from the Dancitron dance club, as the maître d' "drew the line" at stegosauruses. Sunrise

Recordicons

Slugfest am too cool to get dead by phone vote!

When Batbot was captured by Blackcat, Slugfest burst triumphantly through the wall to save the masked crime fighter. This somehow worked because "Slugfest am coolest." Recordicons #15 Slugfest was the drummer in Tape-Filled Idiots. Recordicons #25

Toys

Shattered Glass

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• SG Soundwave vs SG Blaster (Multi-pack, 2013)

• ID number: VSE
• Accessories: left & right vibro-cannons, cassette case

Shattered Glass "SG Slugfest" is a redeco of the original Slugfest toy, transforming from robotic Stegosaurus to a microcassette. In cassette form he can fit into the tape compartments of any iteration of the original Soundwave and Blaster molds (and a few other toys of those characters to boot). He can be completed with stickers from a bonus sticker sheet, which includea a "DINOCON" logo and a restraining bolt.

He was only available in an e-HOBBY exclusive box set, with SG Soundwave, SG Ratbat, SG Blaster, SG Rewind, SG Ramhorn, and Solarbot, as well as the 12-page "Solar Requiem" comic. This set was imported by Fun Publications as part of a Shattered Glass-themed "exclusive exchange", with e-Hobby importing the BotCon 2012 "Invasion" box set for Japanese collectors.

• More information on Slugfest at TFU.info

Notes

• Slugfest is modeled on the original Slugfest toy, but perhaps with Grand Slam's colors. Overkill, however, is not depicted in tandem with Raindance's colors.
• Slugfest's appearance in Recordicons is, of course, based on Robin as a foil to Ratbat's Batman.
• After obtaining an ember in "Do Over", Slugfest goes from G1 Dinobot-style "caveman speak" to speaking normally. Subsequent appearances would ignore this, reverting him to Dinobot-style speech.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Slugfest (スラッグフェスト Suraggufesuto)