Slag

Slag is the name of a fictional character in the various Transformers universes.
==Transformers: Generation 1==
Slag (Scories in Quebec, Canada, Tricex in Italy) is very tough, strong and possesses impressive firepower. In dinosaur mode, Slag can spew from his mouth a bolt of 3,000 degrees Celsius flame up to 80 feet (25 m) 2 degrees to left. He possesses enormous strength and can shatter a brick building with a single blow from his armored head. His horns can also shoot high powered lasers. In robot mode he carries a high-energy laser rifle, anenergo sword and a rocket poom.
Slag's biggest weakness is his over-aggressive behavior, which can cause problems relating with other Autobots. He is also noticed for being the only Dinobot who would dare argue with the leader Grimlock over his commands (ironically, he is usually seen as the group's second in command). He joined the Autobots in the cartoon and comics in their first year (1984), but his toy wasn't released until 1985.
===Animated Series===
Slag was created by Wheeljack and Ratchet on Earth in 1984. He was created along with Grimlock and Sludge as the original three Dinobots. It has not been explained why he or the other Dinobots were able to be fitted with personalities, which can only be found on Cybertron from Vector Sigma. Apparently there is a difference between the brain and personality in Transformers. Their brains are simple, yet still it is the personalities that make them sentient. It is evident that the addition of personalities, or "sparks" and their origin was after the fact, and was hoped that this inconsistency would be overlooked.
When brought online, the Dinobots rampaged through the Ark, causing Optimus Prime to order that the they be rendered inert, but when he and the other Autobots were captured by Megatron, which Slag and the other Dinobots were given cerebral upgrades and thus were able to rescue Optimus and the other Autobots. Shortly after, Megatron convinced the Dinobots that Optimus and the Autobots were their enemies and ordered the Dinobots to kidnap Optimus Prime. Wheeljack and Ratchet, with the help of Chip Chase, created Swoop and Snarl and the two new Dinobots were used to rescue Prime from Grimlock, Slag, and Sludge. During that battle, Optimus saved the original Dinobots' lives and they then realized that the Autobots were really their allies.
In 1985, an island with real dinosaurs was found by Powerglide and Bumblebee. Optimus decided that "Dinobot Island" would be a good place for the Dinobots to train and practice their fighting skills and avoid damage to the Ark. Moreover, they were also placed there so they could learn how to co-exist together as one group. Megatron and the Decepticons found out about the island and wanted to harvest it for all the energy it produced. The Dinobots were thrown into a tar pit, but they all survived and used real dinosaurs to help them attack Megatron.
Later, the Cybertronian Autobots and Decepticons began to malfunction because they ran out of Cybertronium, a crystalline substance only found on Cybertron. The Dinobots, having been created on Earth, were not affected and were sent to Cybertron to get some. Once there, they disappeared and Spike and Carly went to Cybertron to find them. They found Swoop, who led them to the other Dinobots that were captured and working for Shockwave. Eventually they were freed and brought the Cybertronium back so that the Autobots could be restored.
In The Transformers: The Movie, the Dinobots traveled in the shuttle with Optimus Prime towards the end of the attack on Autobot City and fought with Devastator. Slag was the Dinobot that knocked Devastator down. When Galvatron later attacked, they accompanied Kup and Hot Rod, but their shuttle was shot down on Quintessa and Kup and Hot Rod were captured by the Quintessons. On Quintessa, the Dinobots met Wheelie, led them to save the others Autobots. They took a ship to the planet of Junk and accompanied the Autobots when they attacked Unicron.
In the post-movie episode "Call of the Primitives", Slag briefly took on the leadership role of the Dinobots, when it was presumed that Grimlock was destroyed.
===Comics===
Slag was first mentioned towards the end of the initial four-issue miniseries as one of five missing members of the Autobots aboard the Ark who had been reformatted into the Dinobots to investigate a sighting of Shockwave. He made his first full appearance in Issue #8 where he was the first of the Dinobots found and reactivated by Ratchet, the only Autobot still functional, who learned the Dinobots had managed to bring a rockslide down on Shockwave but become buried in a tar pit in the process. He recruited them to help him stop Megatron.
Slag was absent from the US title for some time afterwards but his storyline was continued in the UK-exclusive story "Decepticon Dam-Busters", where he and the other Dinobots accompanied Ratchet back to the Ark and learned about Earth. They became involved in an attack by a rogue Guardian robot loaded with a nuclear bomb, who was destroyed by an apparent act of self-sacrifice from Swoop. Slag and the other Dinobots departed the Ark in the aftermath.
In "Dinobot Hunt", the Autobots discovered the Dinobots had become feral as a result of circuit degradation from the tar pit. A team comprising Jetfire, Jazz and Ironhide tracked Slag to the desert, eventually overcoming him when Jetfire shoved a spying Laserbeak into his jaws, causing a backblast.
Slag was revived just in time for his US reappearance in Issue #19, where he and the other Dinobots left Optimus Prime's command after objecting to his plan to attack the Decepticon base and then retreat with surveillance of combiner technology. In the UK story "In the National Interest", Slag and the others agreed to help Sludge assist Joy Meadows in uncovering the truth of the Transformers' war but their efforts were thwarted by the Decepticons. In "Fallen Angel", he helped fight a newly time displaced Galvatron.
In US Issue #27, Slag helped Grimlock press his claim for Autobot leadership after Optimus Prime's death, battling Trypticon. In "Grudge Match", he battled Tantrum and Headstrong alongside Sludge while saving Swoop from the Predacons. With many Autobots turning against Grimlock's indolent leadership, Slag remained loyal to him, helping him subdue renegades such as Blaster and Sky Lynx and install a court on the moon, where he was one of the few to cheer Grimlock in a duel with Blaster before all those involved had to work together to fend off a Decepticon attack.
In "Time Wars", Slag was among the troops assembled by a returned Optimus Prime to challenge Galvatron, but the mission was disrupted by the arrival of Rodimus Prime and several other Autobots from the future. As the two groups clashed, Slag went to attack Arcee but was overcome by Ultra Magnus. During the Underbase Saga in Issue #50, Slag was part of a joint Autobot-Decepticon group led by Grimlock and Scorponok who defended Tokyo from the Underbase-powered Starscream and was killed in the subsequent battle.
Slag and the other Dinobots were revived by Grimlock in Issue #70 using nucleon. Together, they took charge of the deserted Ark and revived several other Autobots to act as reinforcements in the battle with Unicron. With Grimlock becoming Autobot leader again in the aftermath, Slag joined him in battling a group of demons and pursuing the Decepticons to Klo. He was one of the few Autobots to survive an ambush and joined a returned Optimus Prime in routing the Decepticons.
The post-movie version of the character appeared in "The Legacy of Unicron", accompanying Rodimus Prime to Junk and battling the Unicron-controlled Junkions.
Slag was a regular in Marvel UK's Earthforce storyline, debuting in "Two Steps Back" where he and the other Dinobots battled Shockwave's Decepticon faction, with Slag fighting Ravage. He soon became a member of Grimlock's Autobot Earthforce, playing a practical joke on Grimlock in "Snow Joke" and fighting Stranglehold of the Mayhem Squad in "Where Wolf?". He had a featured role in "The 4,000,000 Year Itch" where it was revealed he had no emotional dampers which caused him to occasionally go into a berserker rage: On the last occasion, the other Dinobots had covered up him killing the rest of his unit and now had to stop his rampage being witnessed by a visiting Optimus Prime. He last appeared in "The Lesser Evil", helping to forcibly recruit Starscream to act as a donor for an ill Snarl and managing to personally drive off a vengeful Megatron.
==Trivia==
* Years after the G1 cartoon ended, Slag was revealed to be a swear word in United Kingdom and was later renamed to Slug.
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