Wheeljack (Transformers Film Series)

Wheeljack (aka Que) is an inventor of The Autobots, who is a major character in Dark of the Moon.
He was voiced in Dark of the Moon by the late George Coe, and Jamie Alcroft in the semi canon video game prequel, who also voiced Victor Hoffman in Gears of War, and Otto in Minecraft: Story Mode. 
==History==
===Foundation===
As seen in the IDW prequel comic Foundation, thousands of years ago, Wheeljack was one of Sentinel Prime's followers on Cybertron. While Sentinel's other pupils held off an attack by the heretic Thetacons, Wheeljack created a device that, once linked to the AllSpark, would teleport a sun into Cybertron's solar system. The sun's energy revitalised the AllSpark, bringing life and energy back to Cybertron, and Wheeljack calmly remarked that they had saved the world. Soon after, Wheeljack stood by Sentinel Prime's side when he addressed the population on Unification Day, announcing that the world would be governed by a Science Division led by Optimus, and a Defence Force led by Megatron. Wheeljack naturally joined the Science Division.
Years later, Wheeljack, Sentinel Prime and Elita-One were at one of the division's archaeological digs when they came under attack from Megatron's forces, now rechristened "Decepticons" with the intent of seizing control of the planet. Wheeljack joined Optimus Prime in opposing the Decepticons as the Autobots.
As the war worsened, Sentinel Prime presented the Autobots with a "torch" he had invented that would end the war. Optimus's strike team would assault Simfur to activate the torch by bringing it into contact with the AllSpark, while Wheeljack stayed by Sentinel's side, awaiting its return and preparing to depart aboard the two great Arks the Autobots had built. Elita-One soon arrived with the active torch, at which point Sentinel ordered a reluctant Wheeljack to take the first Ark and collected the other Autobots from their base in Tyger Pax, while Sentinel himself took the torch and went to pick up Optimus's team aboard his own Ark. Consequently, Sentinel's Ark was apparently destroyed by the Decepticons. Optimus Prime enacted a new plan: while he kept Megatron busy, Wheeljack took the rest of the Autobots and attacked Simfur again, overwhelming the weakened Decepticons there and capturing the AllSpark. The cube was removed from the machine Wheeljack had invented, which caused Cybertron's sun to disappear.
=== Rising Storm ===
Wheeljack joined Optimus Prime on Earth at some point after 2009, alongside Mirage. The pair joined NEST, and were assigned to a unit stationed in Washington, D.C. This put them close to the action when a huge Decepticon battalion attacked Sam Witwicky's Univerity in Philadelphia, and they arrived just in time to help Bumblebee fight off the villains. Wheeljack generated a powerful force field to shield Sam and other human bystanders as they ran from the battle, and the pair helped hold the line until Optimus Prime arrived with reinforcements. Observing that the Decepticons were attempting to flee, Prime ordered Wheeljack to extend his force field in order to keep them from escaping, but before the scientist could comply, Shockwave descended onto the battlefield and grievously damaged Wheeljack with a powerful blast. Wheeljack remained just functional enough to complete his recalibration, trapping Shockwave inside his force field with the furious Optimus Prime. After Prime defeated Shockwave, Ratchet examined Wheeljack's broken body and reported that he could be repaired, though he probably wouldn't be "quite the same".
===Dark of the Moon===
Wheeljack, now nicknamed Que, assisted in the destruction of an illegal nuclear facility in the Middle East, posing as a Defense Minister's car. At NEST he supplies the other Autobots with weaponry, including a new cannon for Ironhide and introduced himself to Director Mearing. He was believed dead when the Autobot's ship is destroyed, but survives along with the others. During the battle in Chicago, he supplied Sam, Epps and their team with grapple gloves and boom sticks (which Sam later used to kill Starscream), but is captured by Soundwave, Barricade and several other Decepticons. Barricade and Soundwave decided to execute Que, Bumblebee and the three other captured Autobots and started with him. He tries to talk to the Decepticons about not killing them, but a Decepticon Protoform blasts him and Barricade finishes him off with a blast to the back which knocks his head off. 
His death is soon avenged when Bumblebee kills Soundwave, who ordered his death, and the Decepticon Protoform, who was partially responsible for Que's death, minutes later. Barricade is later attacked by several soldiers who coincidentally use boomsticks created by Que to cripple him.
===Age of Extinction===
Que is one of among Autobots that was listed as deceased by Cementary Wind.
==Alternative fate==
Despite being killed in movie and its novelization. Que was alive in both IDW Transformers Movie Comic of Dark of the Moon, and Tyran 609.23-PX Kappa timelines.
==Powers and Abilities==
*Lifespan: Being a Cybertronian, Wheeljack have been around millennia without negative effects.
*High intelligence: Being an Autobot Scientist, Wheeljack possessing incredible high intelligence mind such as creating weapons to help Sam Witwicky. Or create new offensive mode to Bumblebee, Sideswipe, and Dino by adding them stealth force experiment system.
**Weapon creations: Wheeljack can create useful weapons for his allies such as creating trailer with jetpack from Jetfire's remnant spare parts.
==Gallery==
===Images===
MovieWheeljackIDW.jpg|Wheeljack in Foundation.
DOTMQue.jpg|Que gives out his gadgets.
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===Videos===
QUE - Short Flash Transformers Series
==Trivia==
*Wheeljack's onscreen name "Que" is a nod to the famous James Bond character Q, who similarly provided his allies with equipment and gadgets. Furthermore, Que's scene in the Chicago battle, where he provides the NEST soldiers with a variety of weapons while stating their various features and functions, is lifted almost wholesale from many Bond movies. The prequel comics depict his real name as Wheeljack, indicating "Que" is just a nickname.
*An early working name for him was Steeljaw, and his head was considered to be based on Christopher Lloyd's Doc Brown from the Back to the Future movies rather than Einstein. He was also going to have a 'labcoat', formed from his alternate mode canvas roof. See: Wesley Burt DOTM concepts.Some trace of this design remains, briefly visible in the film as Prime is saying goodbye to Sam, in the form of a sort of waistcoat or carpenter's tool belt on his waist. That, of course, is in addition to the assortment of gadgets, tools, ammo and weapons attached to his waist, strapped across his chest, and hanging off his back.
*Numerous adaptations of Dark of the Moon (such as the comic Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation and Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novelization) illustrated that during the Autobot capture in Chicago, it was Mirage who was executed by Soundwave. However this was changed in the movie to Wheeljack being killed instead while Mirage survived the battle.
**The Transformers: Dark of the Moon (novelization) of the film also included a different death for the character in which he was run off the Chicago streets and into a river by the Driller, where he was torn apart by Decepticon soldiers lying in wait for him.
*The Mercedes-Benz E550 prop car used for Dark of the Moon sported a German/European Union license plate, "M IC3802", registered in the city of Munich, on the Chicago set (The design of the plate is slightly inaccurate, as there should be a space between "IC" and "3802" if it were a real German plate. Also, a German car would have a license plate on the front as well.) See: Dark of the Moon Chicago set
*His accent oscillates between an impenetrably garbled half-Scottish, half-Irish muddle and English "Received Pronunciation" all the way through the film, at times in the same sentence. He does not speak with a German accent, which some American fans seems to have concluded based simply on the fact his face does looks like Albert Einstein.
*Wheeljack looks much closer to his original counterpart in the IDW prequel comics, with his different appearance being explained due to the badly damage inflicted on him caused by Shockwave.
*His Dark of the Moon Deluxe toy was originally released in the US but was cancelled and released in Japan. 
==See Also==
*Wheeljack - his other self from new timelines
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