LEADFOOT
ALLEGIANCE: AUTOBOT
SUB-GROUP: ROTOR FORCE
FUNCTION: RAPID DEFENSE STRATEGIST
FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS: GENERATION 2 #7
"The sleek shall inherit the
Earth."
Profile: Nothing in the known universe
can faze Leadfoot. The more high-pressure a given situation, the more likely
Leadfoot is to assure his allies that he's got everything handled. His confidence
in his own abilities is boundless; he operates with the same unshakable composure
planning new defensive measures as he does infiltrating Decepticon base camps
during high-speed raids. His overconfidence sometimes works to his advantage,
frightening even some of the strongest Decepticons who believe that his firepower
is as fearsome as he claims. What many of them don't realize is that Leadfoot
has a particularly strong self-preservation instinct; one good counterassault
is usually all it takes to motivate him into a calm, collected retreat.
Abilities: As a race car, Leadfoot
maintains a cruising speed of 180 mph. He is capable of short bursts of speed,
propelling up up to 390 mph for seconds at a time, but this is highly
energy-consumptive. In this mode he is equipped with alloy-sensitive,
laser-guided circuitry specially designed to seek out enemy radar and scanning
systems, defusing them and enabling him to race into battle virtually undetected.
He is armed with a devastating "rotoprop" weapon that launches a series of
spinning, razor-sharp rotor propellors into the air that travel at 50 mph.
He uses the same rotor launcher as an arm-mounted weapon in robot form, affording
him better aim and enabling him to destroy Decepticons in
milliseconds.
Weaknesses: Aside from his
aforementioned tendency to abandon missions, Leadfoot also lacks strength
in robot mode, relying heavily on his weaponry during most combat
situations. |