Push-Button (Transformers)

From WikiAlpha
Revision as of 13:38, 14 September 2016 by Mathewignash (Talk | contribs)

Jump to: navigation, search
Transformers character
Pushbutton-toy.jpg
Generation 1 Push-Button toy
Name Push-Button
Autobot
Series Transformers: Generation 1
First appearance Transformers: Generation 1 v3 #5 "Original Sin" by Dreamwave Productions
Information
Alternate modes Self-propelled proton rifle
Gender Male
Partner Mainframe
Sub-group Targetmasters

Push-Button is a fictional character from the Transformers series. He is the Targetmaster partner of the Autobot Mainframe.

Transformers: Generation 1

Push-Button is the debugger and Targetmaster partner to the Autobot computer programmer Mainframe.

Fictional biography

A walking, talking computer terminal. Would rather attack fourth order differential equasions than Decepticons. Totally committed to his work. Views the galactic conflict as an inconvenience he must tolerate rather than a struggle in which he must participate. Is often compelled to flex his intellectual muscle, when needed. Equipped with 200,000 mega-byte capacity. His pugnatious partner, Push-Button, prefers converting to self-propelled proton rifle mode and disintegrating Decepticons over his assigned task of debugging Mainframe's various programs.

Comics

Dreamwave Productions

Mainframe and Push-Button had a biography printed in the Dreamwave Productions Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye comic. The Dreamwave biographies defines the partners of Action Masters who turn into weapons as "Targetmasters".

In "Original Sin" Push-Button serves refreshments at an Autobot meeting being run by Prowl.

TFcon comics

Mainframe and Push-Button appear in the TFcon 2014 comic story "The Dark Warrior". In this story is they reformat Shafter into a new body.[1]

Transformers: Mosaic

Push-Button appeared in the Transformers: Mosaic story "First They Came..." by Robert Lock.[2]

Toys

  • Generation 1 Mainframe with Push-Button (1990)
An original mold. Mainframe is a non-transforming Action Master with a gun accessory. Push-Button turns from a robot to a gun that combines with Mainframe's gun to form a self-propelled proton rifle.

References

  1. Daniel Arseneault (w), Archibold Simpson (p), Christine Nelson (col), Nathan Jackson (ed). "The Dark Warrior" TFcon (July 11th, 2014), TFcon
  2. http://transformers-mosaic.deviantart.com/art/FIRST-THEY-CAME-87421371?offset=0#comments

External links