Vortex

Vortex (ヴォルテックス, Borutēkusu) isn't much of a fighter. Instead, what Autobots fear is being caught in his magnetic grapples. Once they are in his clutches, Vortex will execute a series of terrifying maneuvers that leave his victims scared oilless, shortly before dropping them to the planet surface, shellshocked, to their deaths. Along with the other Combaticons, he can form as the left arm of Bruticus.

Appearance & Biography

 * Voice actor: Dave Boat (English), Not Known (Japanese)

Vortex is the interrogator of the Combaticons. Even his fellow Decepticons are disgusted by his advanced techniques for extracting information from prisoners. Vortex takes advantage of his flight mode by surveying the battlefield and blasting any Autobots who find their way into his weapon's scope.

His veichle mode is a Cybertronian Helicopter which can also configurate itself into a Cybertronian Jet when he needs some more speed. He has no Earth veichle mode, since he and the other Combaticons chose to stay behind, and continue the battles on Cybertron.

Friends/Allies

 * Decepticons
 * Megatron
 * Shockwave
 * Soundwave
 * Combaticons
 * Onslaught
 * Brawl
 * Blast Off
 * Swindle

Neutral

 * Starscream

Enemies

 * Autobots
 * Scraplets
 * Unicron

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
When the Autobots came into possession of a large amount of energon, Starscream tasked the Combaticons with diverting the transport by destroying a bridge. Vortex and Blast Off were sent to clear a short cut to allow Brawl to take a drop ship through. Blast Off went through first, drawing out Autobot mines for Vortex to destroy. Once they got through the ruins, the Autobots closed some huge shutters, so Blast Off went ahead, leaving Vortex behind to fight all the Autobots by himself. Vortex eventually reached the bridge and helped out Brawl when it turned out the shielding on the bridge supports was too much for his artillery mode to handle. After the pair took out the side supports, Brawl blasted a hole in the center support so Vortex could head in and destroy it with a detpak. Once Swindle brought the transport to a halt, the Combaticons combined into Bruticus and smashed through the rest of its defenses. Unfortunately the damage they did resulted in the transport crashing. Starscream was not very pleased at all and had them all arrested.

Vortex and the other Combaticons were later freed once Megatron was resurrected and retook his leadership. They were aboard the Nemesis as it pursued the Ark and Vortex took part in the assault on the Autobot ship's engines as part of Bruticus. The giant took out many Autobots before he was taken down by the combined efforts of Jazz and the Aerialbots before floating free of the Ark.