Lockdown

Lockdown is a character from the Transformers series.
== Charactah Account ==
Lockdown is a Transformer bounty hunter who was hired by Megatron to hunt down the renegade Decepticon, Drift.
Lockdown was originally a student in Yoketron's Cyber-Ninja Corps. Lockdown was Yoketron greatest until during the Great War he brought on shame to the corps and was kicked out of the corps. It is unknown what he did to cause his exile from the Cyber-Ninja Corps, however Lockdown eventually joined the Decepticons and became a Bounty Hunter.
Lockdown's first job was to was to lead a Decepticon attack on Yoketron's training center and to steal the protoforms kept in storage. During the attack, he killed Yoketron and took his helmet as a Trophy.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Q-Transformers: The Mystery of Optimus Prime Returning
* Q-Transformers: The Road to Becoming Even More Popular
=== Comics ===
* Transformers
* Transformers: Age of Extinction
* Transformers: Nefarious
* Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Unite for the Universe
=== Manga ===
* Transformers: Allspark
* Transformers Animated: The Cool
=== Movies ===
* Transformers: Age of Extinction
=== Video Games ===
* Bot Shots Battle Game!
* Transformers StrikeZone Showdown
* Transformers Ultimate Allstars
* Transformers: Age of Extinction
* Transformers: Age of Extinction - Energon Rally
* Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Autobots
* Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Decepticons
* Transformers: Earth Wars
* Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
=== Web-Animations ===
* Transformers: How to Ride Your Dinobot
* Transformers: Cyber Missions
== Trivia ==
* The head on Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Lockdown's instruction lineart is actually that of his retool, Axor. The head can be seen in much clearer detail on page 8 of the San Diego Comic-Con Hasbro Design Sketchbook, volume 2.
* Hasbro's Revenge of the Fallen website describes both Arcee and Ratchet as Lockdown's enemy on their respective pages, mirroring the relationship between their Animated counterparts.
* In reference to his Animated counterpart, Lockdown's Age of Extinction incarnation has the ability to transform his hands into various weapons, such as the famous hook, a blaster, a spark extractor device, and even his chainsaw-hand. He can also turn his head into a sniper rifle-esque cannon, lending credence to the fact that he's probably been building on himself like his original incarnation. Some concept art also showed him characteristically taking and equipping Ratchet's saw after he had terminated the Autobot.
** According to his Battle Bio, Lockdown possesses a "Supercharger" which he uses to store kinetic energy. The energy stored in this way can later be used to increase his speed and strength, which in turn allows him to move in for the kill with a burst of power.
*** The Battle Bio also states that Lockdown is equipped with a "skeletal spinal cord" that provides him with agility far beyond that of the average Cybertronian.
* Early concept art for Lockdown indicates that at one point he would have hewed closer to his original Animated design; not only would he have sported a green-and-black color scheme and a tattered "poncho", he would also have transformed into a weatherbeaten muscle car with an exposed engine block. Presumably, his alternate mode and design were altered so that Lamborghini could advertise their new sports cars.
* Two proposed Fun Publications BotCon exclusives were a redeco of Revenge of the Fallen Lockdown into "Marlboor Wheeljack" (conceived prior to Exhaust receiving his name from Takara) and a Shattered Glass version of Stranglehold using the Axor tooling (and would have had a mustache!).
* Aside from his unaligned status, there is another reason for the lack of an insignia on Lockdown's vehicle mode: the prop car used to portray him was personally owned by Mr. Bay himself.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Lockdown (ROTF) at Transformers Wiki
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