Warpath

Warpath is an excitable Autobot tank, and a recurring character in the Transformers Generation One cartoon and comic. Warpath had a habit of interjecting his speech with onomatopoeia. Whether this was a programming feature or personal choice is unknown. His fellow Autobots seemed to tolerate it.
He was voiced by Alan Oppenheimer. 
==History==
Warpath appeared with no explanation for his arrival when Megatron created a remote-controlled duplicate of Optimus Prime to lead the Autobots to their doom. He did little more than get shot by a fake Starscream.
He later accompanied Optimus Prime and the Autobots to Dinobot Island, where he first demonstrated his zest for combat and unique style of speech. He also had the first of several battles with his opposite number, the Triple Changer Decepticon tank, Blitzwing.
After Grapple and Hoist teamed up with the Constructicons to build Grapple's Solar Power Tower and the pair were doublecrossed, Warpath was on the team that drove to their rescue. He started off by blowing up one of the collection units the Decepticons were using to gather the energy. Once the Constructicons formed Devastator, he tried to blast the giant, but Devastator stuck an arm into the ground and knocked him over. After the Autobots defeated Devastator, Warpath helped pick through the remains of the tower for their two comrades.
Warpath was on the team that defended the fake solar plan in Central City against the Decepticons. He, Ironhide and Smokescreen fired on Starscream in an attempt to prevent the Decepticon from taking off, and in return found themselves under fire from Thrust. After Megatron framed the Autobots, in Megatron's Master Plan, Warpath was among those who were captured by human forces outside Autobot Headquarters. A brief trial ensued, and the Autobots were put on a spaceship supplied by Shawn Berger and banished from Earth. Though the spaceship was locked on a collision course with the Sun, the Autobots managed to escape it and return to Earth, where they toppled the Decepticon regime.
He was one of several Autobots who defended the Ark when the Heart of Cybertron-powered Megatron attacked. Warpath acquitted himself well, firing several rounds at the Decepticon leader while shrugging off two direct hits from his energy bolts, but he was ultimately put out of action when Megatron blasted the ground under him, trapping Warpath.
Accompanying Perceptor and Beachcomber on a geology expedition, Warpath managed to get in some action when Blitzwing and the Coneheads staged a surprise attack. He and Blitzwing engaged in Tank Wars again, but the fighting got so furious they buried each other in sand for a while. It was anyone's game until thrust found a pool of electrum and became invincible. Even a hot and cold mix of Powerglide's thermal beam and Warpath's cryo-shells couldn't break the Decepticon warrior. Warpath was forced to reluctantly sound the retreat, tunneling through the mountainside to make their escape.
In A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court, Warpath and Hoist were chasing a small group of Decepticons led by Starscream, and ended up passing through the Dragon Mound and into 542 AD. The Autobots and Decepticons took opposite sides with a pair of warring knights, and Warpath allowed the Red Knight to ride him in joust against Wigend du Blackthorne's champions, Rumble and Ramjet. They successfully rammed Ramjet, caving in his nosecone and forcing the Decepticons to kidnap the Red Knight's daughter Nimue. Warpath led the charge against Blackthorne's castle and, with their siege tower destroyed by some of Starscream's gunpowder barrels, he and Hoist served as makeshift ladders for their allies to breach the castle walls. After thwarting Starscream's plans to rule the 6th century, they enlisted the aid of a local wizard to get back to the 20th century.
When the Morphobots took over a valley on Earth, Warpath and Ironhide did their best to blast through using a variety of shells and liquid, but Blaster's soundwaves managed to stop them. While the Autobots protected the convoy of superfuel tankers, Warpath drove point. All he did was sit there in vehicle mode the whole time. He was also at Autobot Headquarters when Powerglide reported that he'd found Jazz and Cliffjumper at the Amalgamated Water and Power Plant.
When his Autobot friends were kidnapped in Prime Target, Warpath was eager to go and kick some Decepticon hide. He was distraught when Optimus Prime went to deal with it himself. He got his time to shine when he popped up on a movie studio one day, and was hired by the director with the other Autobots to be his new stunt vehicles. Unfortunately, the work was less than glamorous as Warpath wound up with a horrible pain in his neck and then, shocked by the director's attitude, decided to call it quits. Despite this, he was willing to return for a starring role in the new picture Attack of the Alien Robots, where he was confused by the lack of real firepower, couldn't believe the reliance on special effects, and flubbed one of his lines. Warpath didn't enjoy working on the movie and went back to being a full-time Autobot soldier, cheering for Hoist when he made the same decision. 
In Masquerade, the Autobots plotted to capture the Stunticons to discover the reason behind their high-profile thefts, with Tracks and Warpath were assigned to take down Drag Strip and Dead End on a beach. Warpath quickly disabled Drag Strip with a few well-placed explosive shells, while Tracks blinded Dead End with his black beam gun. Unable to see, Dead End drove right into Warpath, who crushed the Decepticon with a single punch that went straight through his roof.
In the year 2006, Warpath watched a broadcast of the first Galactic Olympics. He commented to Bumblebee that the Autobots sure had an unusual leader in Rodimus Prime when the young Autobot dispensed with making a long, stuffy speech at the games' opening ceremony. As the Decepticons made their move on Earth, Warpath and Pipes commanded the team defending the Ark. The Autobots hid in a ravine and as Trypticon passed overhead, Warpath gave orders to fire, significantly damaging the Decepticon's rolling battle station mode. However, Trypticon quickly recovered and transformed into his massive dinosaur mode, forcing the Autobot Minicars to regroup and counter attack. Warpath fired a shell which Trypticon merely swatted away, then when the Autobot protested that he didn't believe what was happening, he was kicked for his troubles. Warpath ordered Teletraan I to activate the volcano's defensive cannons as Trypticon neared the Ark, but this had little effect on the Decepticon, who then destroyed the volcano.
Warpath attended Daniel Witwicky's surprise party, however he and the other Autobots there were called on to defend the shuttle bay against an attack by the Combaticons. He was later seen stationed at Metroplex when Scourge and Starscream's ghost came by to steal the city-bot's eyes for Unicron. Being land-bound, Warpath unfortunately missed out on most of the aerial action
===Comics===
Warpath was first seen in Issue #17 as part of an Autobot resistance cell led by Perceptor on Cybertron. Along with most of the cell, he went to assist Blaster in his attempt to rescue fellow Autobot Scrounge, who had been captured by local Decepticon leader Lord Straxus. They failed to save Scrounge but did get the information that a group of Autobots and Decepticons led by Optimus Prime and Megatron was active on Earth. The Autobots launched an attack to stop Straxus sending aid to the Earth Decepticons but were only partially successful, managing to damage the space bridge before being forced to cross it to Earth. There, they were quickly attacked by the anti-robot organisation RAAT and ended up dismantled. They were finally freed in Issue #23 after helping defeat the Battlecharger.
In the UK-exclusive story "Fallen Angel", Warpath and the others were en route to the Ark when their guide, Skids, was shunted into limbo by the arrival of Galvatron from the future. Warpath and Perceptor fired an artillery barrage at Galvatron only to be quickly blasted by him. Warpath finally made it to the Ark and joined up with the Earth Autobots in the following story, "Resurrection". In the UK annual story "Plague of the Insecticons", he accompanied Optimus Prime and Prowl to a meeting with the United States President to try and convince him of the Autobots' good intentions. However, the Insecticons then attacked in an attempt to frame the Autobots. Although the Autobots defeated them, they departed the scene rather than try to explain, believing the damage had been done.
Warpath continued to make occasional appearances among the Earth Autobots, witnessing Ratchet's attempt to revive Optimus Prime in Issue #26, destroying Trypticon's electro-scrambler in Issue #27 and seeing Grimlock threaten a group of human children in order to draw out the deserter Blaster in Issue #36. He made his last appearance in Issue #50 during the Underbase Saga, as one of the Autobots answering Buster Witwicky's distress call in the arctic. He was probably deactivated during either the battle with the Decepticons that followed or the rampage of the Underbase-powered Starscream.
==Transformers Animated==
A version of Warpath made a minor appearance in Transformers Animated, as a member of the Elite Guard, voiced by David Kaye. Warpath was very surly, and outspoken against pacifists. 
As seen in flashback in Five Servos of Doom, Warpath dragged Prowl to master Yoketron after he tried to flee the war. Warpath reckoned he should been left to rot, as he believed that those who don't fight the Decepticons are no better. Prowl tried to tell him he did not consider it his war, to which Warpath was tempted to take him on, until Yoketron told Warpath that he had it under control. Warpath left grumbling about Prowl being a "draft-dodging peacenik". 
==Aligned Universe==
==Transformers Film Series==
While he does not appear in the films, a version of Warpath features in Dark of the Moon: the Game. 
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==Gallery==
WFC-Warpath.jpg|Warpath in Transformers: War for Cybertron.
Hover-tank warpath 6691.jpg|Warpath in tank mode in Transformers: War for Cybertron.
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