Red Alert

* Robot Mode
* Vehicle Mode (Cybertron)
* Vehicle Mode (Earth)

Inferno (partner)

Team Rodimus

Red Alert is a main character in Transformers Loud that joins the main cast in Season 3. Able to transform into a decommissioned police car, he serves as a medical officer in the Autobot resistance, though he's never afraid to pick up a rifle and fight it out. He originally served as a police officer, but after a few bad experiences, he turned in his badge and took up a position in the medical/repair field. He's Sunstreaker and Sideswipe's eldest brother.

## Personality

Red Alert is the best kind of security chief one could ask for. As the eyes and ears of Autobot operations, he always makes sure to pay attention to the tiniest of details, even in the most simple of situations. He takes any measures he feels are necessary for defense purposes and will investigate anything he finds suspicious. This does cause him to have a more uptight attitude, making him think he can never let his guard down and have some fun. That said, he's not heartless. After all, since his job's to make sure his group's safe, he cares greatly for his protection, and can at least keep a decent conversation even with some of the more joking members of the resistence.

## Abilities

* Vehicle Mode

* Assault Rifle

* Shoulder Cannon

## Relationships

### Sideswipe

For some time, Red's stern, humorless attitude often got on Sideswipe's bad side, especially when he caught him in the middle of doing something really stupid.

## Notes

Red's appearance is quite unique among the Autobot cast of the series. Like many others, it is primarily meant to be based off of the police deco from his original Diaclone toy (which would later be repurposed in "proper" canon into the character of Clampdown) while mixed with the reds of his original design. However, instead of the normal white, he's been instead given him the grey he had in the majority of his appearance in the original cartoon, so as to make him that much more unique. Him being "remade" into a police car rather than an emergency rescue car actually makes way to give him a rather unique origin, making him an ex-member of the Cybertronian equivalent of the police force, though still respecting the rules and regularions the force should be enforcing similarly to how Red usually acts in canon. This even goes as far to have his Earth alt mode a decommissioned police car, much akin to the Blues Brothers' Bluesmobile. His serious attitude and role as a medical officer is obviously inspired by his other incarnations, most especially his Armada incarnation, but to tie this into his police theming, the idea of him being a disgruntled cop that turned to the medical field was conceived. His bold and fierce attitude in the past is also partially inspired by his Armada incarnation's backstory.

In most TF canon material, the only G1 material where Red and Sideswipe were actually considered brothers was the Japanese side of G1, where a story page in the October 1985 issue of *TV Magazine* explained this, as well as how Si' was slightly older than Red (which has been reversed in this series); which was possibly invented because aside from them sharing the same mold, Sunstreaker was not sold in the Japanese market outside of a special "versus" set (though the familial dynamic between the original two Lambo bros was **not** changed in the dub of the original cartoon, leading some Japanese fans to consider the three as triplets). So to sort of help with their dynamic, Red's odd couple-like double act with Inferno from the original cartoon has been partially transferred to Si' in addition to having the younger sibling jealousy Si' had with 'Streak in the IDW comics. In fact, this actually leads to the two - Inferno and Si', to be clear - forming their own little brotherly bond (much to Red's shagrin).