First Aid (G1)

First Aid (ファーストエイド Fāsuto Eido) is the member of the emergency Autobots called Protectobots. He is a doctor and presumably became substitute medic for Ratchet who passed away. He transforms into a Toyota Hiace ambulance and forms the left arm of Defensor. First Aid is a pacifist like Groove but manages to fight despite conflict in mind. He hates to see any machine, whether living or non-living, suffer even the slightest. His kind-hearted nature doesn't exclude the injured Decepticons either. This makes First Aid & Blades near polar opposites, especially when the latter chooses to brutalize the Decepticons, which the former feels ill about. First Aid eventually understands that suffering won't stop if the Autobots don't fight & win, thus struggles on. This fortunately motivates him to work harder to assure his comrades' well-being as well as survival, for which many Autobots (including his teammates) greatly appreciate.
==Biography==
When the Insecticons attacked an inhabited city on Earth, Optimus Prime called upon the Protectobots to evacuate the civilians caught in the crossfire. First Aid helped an injured man discovered by Streetwise. Later, as Earth's orbit was diverted to the Sun by the Combaticons, First Aid brought civilians to a meat locker that Groove and Streetwise had commandeered to help the humans cool down.
First Aid, as part of Defensor, was the arm that wielded the rifle which totally blew up Bruticus. Afterwards, he was with the Protectobots when they saved some window-washers from a burning skyscraper. Later still, First Aid and the other Protectobots were ordered to help defend Autobot Headquarters from a Decepticon attack. They merged into Defensor and activated his useless force field, which almost immediately deactivated, allowing the Decepticons to blast Defensor back into his component parts.
First Aid's most prominent role was in the episode "The Ultimate Weapon". In that episode, he and the Protectobots stop violence among humans in the Netherlands, and the Autobots join them in battling the Decepticons. He later returned to Metroplex with an injured Blades to repair him. It turned out the Decepticon attack was a diversion for the Combaticon Swindle to infiltrate Metroplex and steal his transformation cog. Due to his pacifism, First Aid attempted to stop him without fighting, but was unsuccessful. Feeling guilty, he resigned from the Autobots and went into seclusion. Meanwhile, the Decepticons used Metroplex's cog to revive Trypticon. To prevent the Decepticons from gaining the advantage, the Autobots managed to steal Trypticon's cog for Metroplex. However, due to the incompatibility of the cogs, both robots began to experience major glitches as they fought. Hot Spot had no choice but to track First Aid down and try to convince him to rejoin the Autobots. Being the only Autobot to understand Metroplex's systems, he agreed and returned to repair Metroplex. This allowed Metroplex to defeat Trypticon yet again, and First Aid rejoined the Autobots with renewed confidence.
===Marvel Comics===
First Aid was first seen in the UK-exclusive story "Second Generation", as part of a vision of the future experienced by Optimus Prime and Buster Witwicky. He and the other Protectobots went to investigate a damaged power plant and ran into the Stunticons, combining into Defensor to battle Menasor.
He made his first full appearance in US Issue #24, where he and the other Protectobots accompanied Optimus Prime to Energy Futures Industries, which was being raided by Megatron and the Combaticons. It was agreed the two sides would fight each other in virtual reality, with the leader of the losers being destroyed. First Aid was paired with Streetwise on patrol, defeating Brawl and Swindle with the aid of some living vines. However, Optimus Prime ultimately conceded defeat and was destroyed. In Issue #27, First Aid consoled Ratchet over being unable to repair him and helped tend the wounded after human criminal the Mechanic turned the Ark's defences on the Autobots. In "Wanted: Galvatron - Dead or Alive", First Aid was on patrol with Bumblebee when he was shunted into limbo for a time by the arrival of the time-travelling bounty hunter Death's Head.
First Aid reappeared in Issue #32, when new Autobot commander Grimlock sent him and the other Protectobots to track down the deserters Blaster and Goldbug. They found them at the same time as both the Combaticons and the human robot-hunting team RAAT. The Protectobots ended up fighting with the Combaticons, allowing RAAT to slip away with the disabled Throttlebots as captives. Although Blaster helped them defeat the Combaticons, First Aid and the others followed their orders and arrested him. En route back to the Ark, they were again ambushed by the Combaticons and this time came off worse. Blaster ended up defeating Bruticus and saving a group of human children, prompting Hot Spot to let him go. First Aid was apparently left behind on Earth when Grimlock took the Ark off planet: He was shown on board in the next issue, but the issue is notorious for featuring Autobots who shouldn't be present.
First Aid's only subsequent appearance was in the UK annual text story "Prime Bomb", failing to stop the Combaticons from either raiding a military base or stealing a copy of Optimus Prime's personality disc. He is mentioned as being deactivated in "The Greatest Gift of All", when Optimus Prime considers reviving him with a fragment of the Creation Matrix.
==Abilities & Weapons According to Transformers: More than Meets the Eye profile books & 1986 The Transformers Universe series==
==== Primary function: Doctor ====
====Abilities====
* His ambulance mode can travel at a maximum speed of 110 mph (~ 177 km/h) for 500 miles (~ 805 km).
[TFU's profile claims his maximum speed is 140 mph (~ 225 km/h) with the same range.]
* First Aid is incredibly intelligent & proficient in medicine, maintenance, Transformer physiology & repair, electronics. He also has above average endurance.
* In robot mode, each of his fingers has a viariable-level laser generator. They can be used as laser scalpels for precision surgery.
* He serves as one of the limbs (mostly the left arm) for the gestalt form of the team - Defensor.
* In some occasions, he combines with his teammates (abeit Hot Spot), Heatrock & Skyfeather to form a special gestalt known as Gaia Guardian. Said combiner's components can also combine with Hot Spot to form an even stronger one known as God Guardian.
==== Arsenal: First Aid has above average firepower====
* First Aid's ambulance mode can deploy a twin-barreled decrystallizer cannon. The cannon can undermine the basic crystalline structure of most metals to weaken them and make them prone to damage.
* In robot mode, he wields a photon pistol that can shoot intense beams of lights with the equivalent brightness of 5,000 watt lightbulbs. Such effect can even blind some Transformers with the most heavily shielded optical sensors.
* Additionally, the aforementioned build-in laser generators in his fingers can concertrate the energy enough to shoot high-temperature laser blasts through his fists.
====Weaknesses====
* First Aid tends to be distracted due to him being overly cautious.
* Presumably due to his primary function, his strength & speed are below average.
* The decrystallizer cannon makes him prone to electrical system breakdown, which brings him problems including complete immobilization.
==Trivia==
*He is similar to LifeLine from G.I. Joe:
**Both are medics of their respective teams (Autobots and G.I. Joe)
**Both are strict pacifists.
**Their pacifism has put their teams in danger or at a disadvantage at times.
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