Odd Ball (GoBots)

For other uses, see Odd ball.

Odd Ball
GoBots character
GoBots Odd Ball toy
First appearance	"Moonstrike" by Golden Press, 1986
Created by	Tonka
Information
Species	GoBot (Golden Press) Mini-Con (Fun publications)
Occupation	Enemy Robot Monster
Abilities	Flight Shapeshifting Superhuman durability Superhuman longevity Superhuman strength
Affiliation	Instigation Mini-Con Team Renegade GoBots
Alternate mode	Monster jet

Odd Ball is a fictional character from the GoBots series. He is a Renegade GoBot introduced in 1985.

GoBots

Odd Ball is a Renegade GoBot who appeared later in the GoBots series who turns into a monster jet. Fun Publications re-wrote his character as a Mini-Con Transformer turned Renegade sympathizer.

Reception

• Wendy's GoBots review on YouTube by FastFoodToyReviews

Abilities

Odd Ball has numerous abilities because of his robotic body. He does not age, can survive in space and is super-humanly strong and tough. He can turn into a monster jet. He can fire energy blasts from his wings and hands. He can fly in monster jet mode.

Fictional biography

Neither the Guardians nor the Renegades know what Odd Ball is going to do next! This Renegade monster looks as strange as he acts. He's a strong fighter who always has a trick up his sleeve. Like his name, he's strange and always unpredictable.

Animated series

Commercials

Although Odd Ball and his companion Wendy's exclusives did not appear in the Challenge of the GoBots animated series, they did appear together in a 1985 commercial for Wendy's restaurant.

Books

Golden Press

Odd Ball appears in the 1986 Golden Press story Ambush in Space. In the story the Guardians decide to take a vacation on one of the resort planets. They take the Command Center and their first stop on a refueling planet, but after taking off their engines conk out thanks to micro dust in the fuel placed by Cy-Kill. The Command Center is drawn to the planet Fintergand by an electromagnet operated by Cy-Kill. Once forced to land Pow Wow attacks Scooter, but his attack is deflected by a boulder thrown by Sky Fly. Cop-Tur attacks Leader-1 with rust rockets, but he tricks the rockets into following him to Cy-Kill. Cy-Kill gets hit by the rockets and rusts in place. Pow Wow attempts to ram Beamer, but Beamer flies out of the way at the last moment, causing Pow Wow to hit Odd Ball instead. Breez attempts to hide from the Guardians in a crater, but Leader-1 and Sky Fly shoot him with gumbo. The Guardian GoBots then sing their victory song.

Comics

Fun Publications

Odd Ball was mentioned in the Fun Publications 2015 Ask Vector Prime Facebook series when it was hosted by Cy-Kill. It is revealed Odd Ball was a member the Instigation Mini-Con Team from the Aurex universal cluster (Unicron Trilogy) recruited by Cy-Kill as part of his Renegade army in Axiom Nexus.

Cy-Kill thinks Odd Ball unpredictable and would like to partner him with a slow and dependabl Renegade like Blockhead.

When the TransTech authorities attempted to arrest Cy-Kill he called his new Renegade troops into action. Cy-Kill ordered Gong transport the Renegades away.

In his new Facebook series Renegade Rhetoric, Cy-Kill chronicled his return to "Level 1", his home universal stream, just as the Guardians were staging an attack on Rogue Star. Cy-Kill and his Renegade recruits from Axiom Nexus joined Fitor, Spoons and Stretch in repelling an attack by Courageous, Leader-1, the Guardian Command Centers and the new Guardian Academy graduates Beamer, Guide Star and Sky Fly. During the battle Monsterous was able to best Courageous and tore though the Command Centers, but a ploy from Leader-1 tricked Cy-Kill into unleashing a massive blast which struck Monsterous, shattering the combiner into his components.

Wendy's Kids Meal

Breez and Oddball were among Cy-Kill's troops in the 1985 story "Moonstrike", a comic strip published on a Wendy's Kids Meal box.

Toys

• GoBots Odd Ball (1985)

Turns from robot to monster jet. A Wendy's restaurant exclusive.

External links

• Odd Ball review on Counter-X.net