Shutdown

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## Shutdown

### Affiliation

* Angelitron's Forces
* Rooster Chicken Force

## Physical Appearance

### Vehicle Type

BR Class 42 "Warship" diesel-hydraulic locomotive

### Eye Color

Green

**Shutdown** is a ruthless Trainsformer mercenary and bounty who had affiliated himself with Ernie the Giant Chicken, Stan Smith, and Empress Angelitron to hunt down all Trainsformers on Earth, including Thomas. He was also tasked to plant a Pod to wipe out humanity.

## Bio

Upon arriving on Earth to proceed in completing his mission, Shutdown had, at some point, interacted with Ernie the Giant Chicken and Stan Smith and learned of his purpose of eliminating all Trainsformers from Earth. The three would form a partnership and a mutual respect, forming a deal that Shutdown would assist Ernie and Stan's CIA unit into hunting down Trainbots being provided unlimited access to Earth's resources, in exchange for locating Thomas. He finds Socket, and asks him where is Thomas, and when Socket did not tell, Shutdown simply kills him by ripping out his spark.

Later on, Ernie and Stan meet up with Shutdown to discuss their partnership. Shutdown, however, is unimpressed with Ernie and Stan and confronts them over the lack of his and their unit's attempts to capture Thomas before questioning their partnership, with Stan attempting to ensure Shutdown about their joint-quest for achieving their purposes. Afterwards, Ernie suspiciously questions Shutdown over his motives for capturing Thomas and goes on to ask his true intentions, only for Shutdown to respond by warning Ernie and Stan about how they're supposed to settle their partnership, blaming Ernie, Stan, and their mercenaries for causing Thomas to escape across the world.

When Thomas' location is discovered, Ernie and Stan send their personal henchman Sideshow Bob, Bobby Briggs, and Daphne Blake alongside their mercenaries to confront Thomas before warning Shutdown about this. Shutdown gets himself into position where he shoots down the farm of the Griffin and Eeveelution family after witnessing Thomas and his newly allies, including Brian Griffin, fleeing. Shutdown gives chase and catches up with Thomas, but is unable to apprehend him when Thomas fights back. Shutdown then uses one of his grenades to target Thomas' new allies, but is only successful in killing Brian's brother Vinny, while the others flee with Thomas.

After reuniting with the other Trainbots and a few of our heroes, Thomas gradually begins to learn of Shutdown's presence and his friendship with Ernie and Stan, whom Thomas vows to personally kill for their cause against the Trainsformers. As the story goes on, Shutdown unknowingly gets word of Thomas fighting Galvatrain in a rendezvous location and proceeds to intervene their confrontation by heading there and shooting down Thomas. As Galvatrain flees, Shutdown approaches Thomas and reveals his true purposes towards him, revealing his affiliation with the True Train Prime in the process. After capturing Thomas aboard his ship, Shutdown heads down to meet with Sideshow Bob, Bobby Briggs, and Daphne Blake and their henchmen to honor his deal with Ernie and Stan by giving them the Pod, a bomb that will turn the city into Trainsformium, the mineral that all Trainsformers are made of. He then leaves them to depart before preparing to launch out into space, but he discovers that the Trainbots, alongside Brian, have come to rescue Thomas and sends his hunting party to dispose of them, which is unsuccessful, allowing the Trainbots and a most of our heroes to rescue Thomas and for all of them to quickly escape Shutdown's ship just as it takes off.

Having discovered this, and also finding out that Thomas had freed his Kaiju Bots captives as well, Shutdown furiously returns to Earth with the intention of hunting down Thomas and reclaiming his Kiaju Bots by any means necessary. He gets word from Ernie about Thomas' current position in Tokyo, Japan, and proceeds to active his magnetic weapon under his ship to recapture Thomas and the Kaiju Bots. He almost succeeds after leveling Tokyo and nearly killing the Trainbots (having outmaneuvered Galvatrain's Deceptitrain army and the remainder of Rooster Chicken Force's forces, including Sideshow Bob, Bobby Briggs, and Daphne Blake), but Thomas manages to destroy the weapon and heads off to confront Shutdown, who disengages from his ship and engages Thomas in a one-on-one brawl. During the battle, Thomas gains the upper hand until he notices that Brian is held up at gunpoint by Ernie. Thomas is forced to save Brian by killing Ernie before resuming his fight with Shutdown, who uses this distraction to overpower Thomas and impale him against the wall with his sword. After disgracing Thomas for betraying his kind over Brian, Shutdown is attacked by Brian before getting fought by Percy, James, and Rosie. He easily defeats the three before battling Brian, his family, the guys, and our heroes going on to dispose what remains of his sanity when he declares his intention to kill everyone. While Brian's wife Sylveon and her brothers and sisters free Thomas, Shutdown corners Brian and prepares to finish him off. Before he can kill Brian, however, Thomas reclaims his sword and surprises Shutdown by impaling his spark before slicing him in half, killing the villainous bounty hunter, and avenging Vinny and all the Trainbots he had killed.

Shorty afterwards, Thomas escapes with Brian, his family, and everyone else after using Shutdown's final grenade to destroy Galvatrain's remaining henchmen, which ultimately eradicates Shutdown's deceased body into ashes alongside Ernie's.

### Personality

Answering only to his enigmatic "Empress", Shutdown holds himself above the Trainbot/Deceptitrain war and sees both sides as squabbling children that he has to rein in personally. He doesn't think much of other civilized species across the galaxy (particularly humans), though he isn't above working with them if it suits him. He even seems to despise his own race based on his view of the war being childish. Despite admitting that Shutdown doesn't care about Ernie the Giant Chicken and Stan Smith's reasons for hunting his fellow Trainsformers, he and the Agents have a mutual respect for strangely each other close to friendship.

## Physical Appearance

Shutdown is

When in train form, Shutdown transforms into a AC4400CW.

## Main Weaponry

* High powered Face gun
* Spark gun
* Rocket launchers
* 2 Hooks
* Laser Blaster
* Sword

## Trivia

* Shutdown makes his first appearance in *Trainbots: Prelude to Extinction*.