Wreck-Gar is an Autobot-allied Junkion from the Generation 1 franchise.
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Wreck-Gar is the leader of the Junkions, a tribe (or possibly race) of junk-robot Transformers who call the planet Junk "home sweet home". Like all Junkions, Wreck-Gar's speech is a hodge-podge mish-mash of phrases taken from Earth broadcasting, especially television, which has become the focal point of Junkion culture. He is generally suspicious of strangers, but once he considers you a friend, he's a steadfast and selfless individual. He oversees his people's daily activities of "sorting" through their planet's collection of scrap, though what basis they use to sort the material has yet to be identified. He seems to have some sort of relationship with a Junkion lady named Nancy.
In battle, Wreck-Gar is easy to knock down, but near-impossible to keep down, thanks to the very unique physiology of the Junkions. He tends to lose pieces easily when he takes damage, but he can repair that damage with lightning speed, and it's possible that even if he's reduced to a pile of parts it's only a short time before he's back on his feet again swinging his axe. This rapid-healing ability reaches almost instantaneous speed on his home planet of Junk, or anywhere he can get his hands on scrap metal. Many would-be conquerors have mistaken the Junkions for harmless idiots. Most of them are currently scattered across the rusted surface of Junk.
Fiction
Animated Continuity
Voice actors: Eric Idle, Tony Pope (US); x (Japan)
Marvel Comics Continuity
Blackthorn Comics Continuity
Dreamwave Comics Continuity
Wreck-Gar found the chassis of the near-dead Megatron lfoating in psace, where it had been abandonned by Starscream while on a supply run. Wreck-Gar brought Megatron back on-line, and even salvaged several Air Warrior drone bodies from the surface of Junk for him so he could reclaim his position ad leader of the Decepticons. For his efforts, Megatron stabbed Wreck-Gar through the chest.
(Note: Dreamwave declared bankruptcy before many of its plot threads could be resolved. Due to the Junkions' rapid-repair, very-hard-to-kill physiology, it seems unlikly that Wreck-Gar was a fatality.)
Legends Anthology
"Collect and Save" by Tim Waggoner
When the Recyclons arrived on Junk, intending to convert the planet into energon for their overseers the Harvest Lords, Wreck-Gar apprached the leader Salvage, and got two blaster bolts in the chest. After a near-instantaneous repair job, Wreck-Gar called out his fellows and swarmed the Recyclons, severely damaging them and forcing them to retreat to their ship the Reclamation and lift off.
Salvage returned to the planet's surface, leaving the Reclamation in orbit, in order to make peace with Wreck-Gar. But it was all a ruse; Salavge slapped a device on Wreck-Gar, a more powerful version of the Junkion leader's own decelerator laser, preventing him from attacking or calling his people while the orbiting Recyclons fired a beam from the Prime Processing Unit to convert the planet to energon from space. However, Wreck-Gar proved even stronger than Salvage expected, and he called the Junkions to fire a tractor beam at the Reclamation, sending it crashing into Junk seconds before the Prime Processing Unit activated, causing the ship to explode. Salvage himself lived only a few seconds more than his fellows, as the Junkions closed in on him immediately afterwards.
Toys
Awesomest MyClone EVER
Generation 1
Wreck-Gar's only toy transforms into a Cybertornic "junk" motorcycle, and is noteworthy for being one of the earliest uses of ball-and-socket joints in the Transformers toy line. The original toy commercial portrayed him as a Decepticon, presumably to keep with the theme of the movie and not spoil a surprise... even though the toy was always labelled and packaged as an Autobot.
For nearly 20 years, Wreck-Gar was the only Junkion toy, until the creation of the E-Hobby exclusive Detritus.
Merchandise
A plastic "super deformed" mini-figurine of Wreck-Gar was created as part of the second wave of MyClone Transformers in Japan. These toys could be disassembled and their parts mixed-and-matched thanks to a generic base body.
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