Rumble
Was he red or blue? The world may never know. Seriously though it seemed the animators made a snafu and thus the eternal question was born.
The toy was a simple affair. Starting as Micro Change Microcassette Micro Micross, Rumble was released as a red robot that changed into a red microcassette. A few variations, mostly some with rub signs and the last model had plastic feet instead of metal. His file card actually follows the cartoon pretty faithfully, with his main role being demolitions plus his habit of sometime rhyming.
The comic Rumble had a less than stellar run. He showed up in quite a few issues, but he was usually little more than a grunt. He started out as red but slowly turned blue over time; then Omega Supreme blew him up.
That wasn't the end, not fully. His parts got taken by the Autobots and left on a table. Thus ends the tale of Rumble.
The cartoon was a bit kinder. Frank Welker did the voice and did it perfectly, with just the right level of cheap punk. While his voice was perfect, his role in the show wasn't much better than his comic version. Big role in the early episodes but fell by the wayside as the series continued; plus it seemed any time a Decepticon needed to have something embarrassing happen to them Rumble got picked.
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