Victorion

Victorion is an Autobot Combiner from the Combiner Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

All I wanna do
Is see you turn into
A giant woman (a giant WOOOman)

Victorion was created after the Torchbearers—a team of explorers who seek ancient Cybertronian artifacts—were accidentally exposed to the energies of the Enigma of Combination. As all six of her components are devout followers of the Mistress of Flame, the religious head of Caminus, Victorion gets a leeeeeeetle bit tetchy when someone threatens sacred relics. And by "tetchy" we mean "summons the wrath of god upon their heads". Between her whirling blade weapons, gravity-control powers, and the ability to fly under her own power, the collection of Rust Renegades is more than capable of some righteous smiting.

The strong discipline and sense of unity among the Torchbearers, combined with their natural deference to Pyra Magna, means Victorion is one of the most mentally stable Combiners. In ways she is much like Pyra, with the others contributing numerous smaller personality tics to ensure the whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts.

Victorion is formed from:

• Pyra Magna (torso)
• Jumpstream (left arm)
• Dust Up (right arm)
• Stormclash (left leg)
• Skyburst (right leg)
• Rust Dust (chestplate)

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

First appearance: Combiner Hunters #1

"Specific! Intelligent! Accurate! Faultless! Elegant! Controlled! Surgical! Graceful! And powerful! But yes, occasionally, I am known to smash."

When Arcee stole the Enigma of Combination and fled to the Rust Sea, she ran across the Torchbearers. During a standoff between the team, Windblade and Chromia, Arcee threatened to destroy the artifact, only for Rust Dust to make a grab for it, activating the Enigma and fusing the Torchbearers into Victorion.

The gestalt focused its energies on protecting the artifact of its birth... by trying to obliterate Arcee. Windblade and Chromia saved her, unwilling to let anyone die. Victorion proved more than a match for the three physically, but Windblade was ultimately able to talk sense to Victorion, reminding her of the Torchbearers' devotion to Solus Prime, who created rather than destroyed. Accepting that honoring the legacy of the Primes must also include not engaging in unnecessary destruction, Victorion separated into her component individuals, much to Arcee's shock. An Uneventful Night

I will fight for the place where I'm free! To live together and exist as me!

She later confronted Optimus Prime, after a brief scuffle with him as her component Torchbearers. After combining, Optimus stated that he didn't think Caminus had combiners. Victorion replied that it didn't—that she was something new, then turned the conversation towards Optimus, asking him what he was. He told her that he had come to ask her opinion on the subject. She then pinned him to the ground with her gravity control powers, and demanded that he tell her what he knew about the Matrix of Light. Struggling to move, he recounted the legend of its creation and ended with his stated belief that it was technology, nothing more. Victorion sarcastically responded that this was the universe they lived in—where one carrying the holiest of objects on the planet didn't even believe in its divinity.

Asking him how many had died during his carrying of the Matrix, he solemnly replied that too many had, and that death and war were the legacy of the Primes. She then told him that on Caminus, everyone learns the names of all the Primes, save for those of two: "The Fallen" and "The Arisen". Her components left Caminus, and The Mistress's service, because of the latter's belief that she knew who The Arisen was—sacrilege to the combiner. Victorion claimed that the Matrix rightfully belonged to her, as a disciple of Solus Prime, and she said she would one day possess it. Until then, however, she decided to use her talents as a builder to build up Optimus. Lagrange

Victorion later accompanied Optimus and her fellow combiner, Superion, to help put down the Decepticon takeover of the Spacebridge. She used her gravity powers to end the clash between Windblade and Dreadwing, and greeted Chromia and Windblade. She then went through the spacebridge to Earth, with Optimus, Sterling, Aileron, Sunstreaker, Bob, Chromia, Ironhide, and Wheeljack to stop Galvatron's takeover of the planet. Perihelion

"Hey Steven, want to see something cool?"

Victorion took part in the pitched battle that ensued after Optimus Prime forcefully annexed Earth into the Council of Worlds, using her gravity powers to take down some of the Predacons. With the Decepticons weakened thanks to Garrison Blackrock's mindbomb, the Autobots pushed the advantage, routing the Decepticons and the People's Liberation Army Mecha Force. When Optimus's forces extracted their wounded back to Cybertron through the spacebridge, Victorion and Superion covered the retreat. Once Upon a Time on Earth

After Aileron struck out on her own and aggressively arrived at the White House, Victorion carried Optimus Prime and Sunstreaker to the White House lawn in order to defuse the situation. Victorion used her gravity powers to warp a satellite blast intended for Optimus Prime, then warped the light around the Autobots, turning them invisible and allowing them to escape. Edge of the Earth

"You like that, little man?!"

During the preparation for the attack on Galvatron and his Decepticon followers, Victorion questioned the Autobots' alliance with Soundwave and his Decepticons, as they didn't have a very deified view of the title of "Prime". After they began the attack, underneath the Indian Ocean, Victorion and Superion held their own quite well against the EDC's clone combiners. In response, Galvatron used the power of the Onyx Code version of the Enigma of Combination to merge a handful of his troops into the combiner Galvatronus! The Decepticon gestalt immediately grappled with Victorion, landing a punch on her before Galvatron used the Enigma again to forcibly separate her into her component Torchbearers, weakening the team. It's Beginning To And Back Again The Torchbearers were able to pull themselves back together during the subsequent cleanup effort, and formed Victorion to interfere with an EDC strafing run. On Jetfire's orders, she used her gravity powers to safely extract the Autobots and their prisoners.White Heat

Some months later, Victorion, Optimus Prime, and Soundwave travelled to Oregon to the besieged Jazz and Arcee, who had been targeted by attack from G.I.Joe. Believing the Transformers to be behind the destabilization of Ore-13, the Joes weren't inclined to talk things out; in the ensuing fight, Soundwave lauched an electromagnetic pulse to disrupt the human technology, and Victorion caught and safely set down the planes that had been knocked out of the air by the attack to prove their goodwill. Then, a mysterious silver alien intervened and began slaughtering the Joes, so Optimus ordered his troops to pursue the mechanical interloper. Victorion used her gravitational powers to airlift her Cybertronian allies away. Concorde Hymn When that situation had been dealt with, Victorion returned to standing guard outside Autobot City with Jazz and Arcee, O Ship of State but failed to notice Snake-Eyes sneaking into their base. The New Colossus

"I ain't exactly a deck of cards here."

When the Transformer-hunting taskforce M.A.S.K. arrived to besiege Metrotitan, Victorion moved to take down the humans and their shapeshifting vehicles, but was left unprepared for a massive onslaught of Dire Wraiths that arrived to help their benefactor Miles Mayhem. The New Colossus The Camien combiner soon recovered and leapt back into the action when the villainous Baron Karza showed up and merged with the Wraiths into a titanic new form. As the only member of the battle capable of fighting Karza on her own terms, Victorion slugged it out with the Baron, but split into her components after he revealed his ability to summon more Wraiths from within his body. Valley Forge

"Don't bother putting your socks back on, 'cause I'm about to knock 'em off again!"

The Torchbearers combined into Victorion once again when the Junkions made planetfall on Earth, providing backup for Optimus as he met with Wreck-Gar and Rum-Maj. A Lonely Pillar on the Plain When the Junkions launched a surprise attack on the assembled Autobots and their human guests, the Torchbearer deployed Victorion once more, using her gravity powers to tear her oncoming foes to bits. Future Glories Lost Following Optimus Prime's decision to willingly lay down arms and negotiate with the Junkions once more, she watched impassively as Optimus unveiled the Matrix of Leadership. Feel Safe Without Regrets

When Onyx Prime and Liege Maximo returned to Cybertron, Metrotitan opened a spacebridge back home and opened fire on Nemesis. In retaliation, the evil Titan fired a beam directly through his brother's torso, crippling him. The Ground As the crew took stock of their situation, they were approached by the Prime of Lies and his Maximal army. Though the Torchbearers were willing to engage the beasts, Arcee convinced them that their power would be put to better use against the approaching Devastator. The Hallowing

The Constructicon combiner however managed to push through the Camien's gravity manipulation prompting Victorion to summon her sword and switch to melee combat. Endless Forever In short order however, it was revealed that there was a sample of the gravity manipulating Ore-4 aboard Nemesis, its effects interfering with Victorion's abilities. When Arcee shattered the crystal, Victorion's full powers were restored which she demonstrated by unleashing a gravity wave powerful enough to rip Devastator to atoms. Unforgivable

"That all you got? You think that's enough to beat—"

When Unicron attacked Cybertron, Elita One drafted the Torchbearers into her service, intending for Victorion to breach the Chaos Bringer's surface and unleash her gravitational powers from within the monster, killing him. Though the combiner was brought near Unicron, she ultimately opted to attack Bludgeon's Worldsweeper once it opened fire on Carcer. Within the craft, the deranged Decepticon revealed he'd been anticipating this and unleashed Monstructor whose animalistic fury overwhelmed Victorion before he fatally tore Stormclash from the combined whole, causing the combiner to break apart. Our Finest

"This is Victorion, back together, and I'm never going down at the hands at the likes of you!"

Victorion would live again, however: when the battle against Unicron spilled over to Earth, the energies unleashed by Superion's reformation and Soundwave's activation of the Enigma of Combination prompted Pyra Magna to desperately reform Victorion in the hopes of stopping Monstructor. The Torchbearers were thus joined by Slide, who took Stormclash's place as Victorion's new left leg. Together with Superion, the two combiners were able to tag-team Monstructor, with Victorion delivering the finishing blow by ramming her fist through Monstructor's head.

As Unicron perished, his body collapsing into a black hole, Victorion was teleported to Mount Rushmore with the other heroes and mused that Optimus had sacrificed his life to vanquish the threat. Ceremony

Prime Wars Trilogy cartoons

Voice actor: Anna Akana (Combiner Wars, English), Kari Wahlgren (Titans Return, Power of the Primes, English)

Where did we go? What'd we do?
I think we made something entirely new

Following the disbanding of the Autobot and Decepticon factions, Victorion stepped forth to lead her people towards unity and peace, and proclaimed herself savior of the galaxy. Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Victorion Upon sensing the Enigma of Combination was in danger, Victorion flew to Cybertron and faced off against Devastator. The fight didn't last long, as Starscream soon made his move and became "The Ultimate Combiner" by using her, Devastator, and the corpses of Menasor and Computron to upgrade himself. A War of Giants After Starscream was defeated, Windblade gave the Enigma to Victorion, claiming that such an artifact belongs with them. Destruction's Dawn

Victorion assisted in the reconstruction efforts following the end of the Combiner Wars. Aftermath and Rebirth When Trypticon attacked, she and the other Combiners were recruited by the Mistress of Flame to search for Fortress Maximus. Our Heroes Respond They eventually found Maximus in a frozen wasteland, The Fight Begins and while the Titan himself was inactive, his weapons were still functional. Learning this, Victorion ordered Computron to fire all Maximus's missiles at Trypticon, believing Metroplex's attempts to stop him were a lost cause and that they would need to save Cybertron. Overlord and Emissary When Megatron arrived at Fortress Maximus seeking Victorion's insight on religious matters and revealing the Mistress had perished, Victorion assumed him responsible and ordered the Combiners to attack. Megatron held his own in battle until Windblade arrived and the fight stopped long enough for Megatron to explain. Seeking revenge on Overlord, Victorion used the Enigma to fuse with the other Combiners, turning herself into Ultimate Victorion and teleporting back to Metroplex City. Desperate Actions There, she engaged Trypticon, but found herself quickly overwhelmed by the Titan. Run for Our Lives Before Trypticon could finish her, she was saved by the arrival of Optimus Prime, but she was still too damaged to continue and separated from the other Combiners. Undeterred, she charged back into battle alongside the others, damaging Trypticon by firing an energon spike into an energon main. In Good Hands She attempted to attack him again after he was weakened in battle with Fortress Maximus, but Trypticon sensed the Enigma in her possession and swallowed it - and her - whole. Consumed Both were eventually released thanks to Perceptor's plan, but when she tried to reclaim the Enigma and Matrix of Leadership, Megatronus created a flame barrier that burned off her arm and damaged her sword, leaving her powerless to stop the ancient Transformer from killing Optimus and escaping with the relics. Though she maintained distrust of him, she agreed to aid Megatron in stopping Megatronus's plan. All Things Must Pass

Some of our actions were a bit regrettable.

Megatron led Victorion, Windblade and Perceptor to Primal Swamp in search of the Requiem Blaster, though she continued to assert herself as the true leader of the group. Their search was interrupted by the arrival of the Dinobots, who attacked them for associating with Megatron. Victorion struggled against Snarl and Sludge before finally forcing them off, only for the Dinobots to combine into Volcanicus. The Swamp Still refusing to ask for Megatron's aid, Victorion ordered Perceptor to distract Volcanicus so she and Windblade could attempt a sneak attack, but it failed. Things were further complicated by the arrival of Predaking, who demanded the Enigma of Combination. Volcanicus Predaking savagely beat Victorion and held her in his grasp until Windblade and Perceptor tricked him into releasing her. She picked up Perceptor and they all made a run for it, with Predaking and Volcanicus close behind. Their chase came to a stop when they found Megatron entering a strange dome. Without Warning Victorion continued to insist she didn't have the Enigma, but Predaking refused to believe her and attacked the party. As he was about to strike her, Megatron returned with the Requiem Blaster and convinced Predaking to leave them alone. Primal Following a series of coordinates, Victorion and the others eventually traveled to the Athenaeum Sanctorum, the library of the gods. Victorion was overwhelmed, her faith having finally been rewarded, but she was taken by surprise as Rodimus Cron restrained her. Before she could begin to fight back, Rodimus decapitated her, killing her instantly. Athenaeum Sanctorum As the dust settled, the others mourned her loss, as well as that of her Torchbearer components. Consequences

Of Masters and Mayhem

Victorion was one of many on Cybertron who attempted to stand against Thunder Mayhem. She failed. Lively Pursuit

Games

Transformers: Earth Wars

"We don't have to fight... you're outnumbered!"

Victorion can be formed once all 3 to 4 star Rust Renegades have been collected.

• Class - Combiner
• Abilities:
  • Blade Dash - Dash to a target and slash it for heavy damage
  • Kinetic Barrier - Spin your blade, reflecting 75% of all damage dealt to you and dealing damage to nearby enemies
  • Noble Sacrifice - Deal heavy damage and disable enemies over a large area while losing 20% of your max Health. If this ability kills you, disable the entire enemy base for 10 seconds
• Cooldown: 15 seconds to 20 seconds.

Victorion at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki

Transformers Roleplaying Game

Victorion the combined form of the Torchbearers, a powerful combiner who could use her gravity control powers to fly. The discipline and unity of her components made her uniquely stable and intelligent compared to many of her fellows. The Enigma of Combination

Toys

Combiner Wars

I can see you hate the way we intermingle
But I think you're just mad 'cause you're single

• Victorion (Collection Pack, 2016)
  • Accessories: Left & right hands, 2 feet, buildable broadsword

• Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro), Shogo Hasui (TakaraTomy), You (initial concept)

Part of the Combiner Wars series, Victorion is made up of Voyager Class Pyra Magna as the torso, with Rust Dust forming her chest, and Dust Up, Stormclash, Skyburst, and Jumpstream each forming a limb. Pyra Magna has been retooled from Hot Spot to give Victorion a new head. Victorion also features a more muted green compared to the way early stock photos depicted her, as said photos utilized hand-painted prototypes.

Victorion's official configuration per the instructions places the copter-twins Skyburst and Stormclash as her legs—but due to the nature of the Combiner Wars theme, all of her limbs are interchangeable. Unlike earlier Combiner Wars gestalts, Victorion uses dedicated hand and foot parts, rather than the "hand/foot/gun" parts that come with the rest of the limb-bots in the series. This is because her components aren't sold separately, resulting in a reduced need for flexibility in the hand/foot-part department. Victorion's broadsword is the combined mode of her components' weapons, with the base of the sword resembling the Lightning Bug from the original cartoon episode "Cosmic Rust".

The instructions for Victorion, all of the respective fictional appearances, and official artwork of the character (including the piece used on the packaging) depict Rust Dust's chestplate mode as sitting upright (motorcycle windshield at the top, wheel at the bottom), as opposed to Groove's upside down orientation. However, due to the way the Groove and Hot Spot molds are designed to combine, the only two points of friction holding Rust Dust on in the "official" Victorion configuration, are the 5 mm posts on Rust Dust's arms, leading to the chestplate outright falling off at the drop of a hat. The windshield of the motorcycle also partially obscures Victorion's face in this configuration too. Our photography pictured to the right depicts Rust Dust's chestplate mode in the Defensor/Groove configuration—the way the molds were intended to connect.

Every one of Victorion's components has Cybertronic tampographs in her vehicle mode, which read:

IF CYBERTRON BE YOUR HOME (Pyra Magna)

FAR AWAY NEVER ROAM (Rust Dust)

HEAR MY MESSAGE LISTEN AND FEAR (Skyburst)

DANGER COMES THE END IS NEAR (Stormclash)

JUST LIKE US YOU SOON WILL RUST (Dust Up)

ALL SHALL BE TURNED TO DUST (Jumpstream)

This is another callback to "Cosmic Rust": the warning message left by victims of the titular plague on their colony world.

Victorion was only available as a box set including a poster and a collector card based on her packaging art, one of several so-called "Collection Packs" that were "online exclusives" in the United States, available from online retailers such as Hasbro Toy Shop, Amazon, and BigBadToyStore as well as the online stores of "big box" retailers such as Toys"R"Us, Walmart, Target, and Kmart. In Hasbro's Asian markets such as Singapore and Taiwan, the set was available at general retail. In Australia, it was sold at Toys"R"Us stores, whereas in Canada, was both sold at Toys"R"Us stores and available via Amazon Canada. In the United Kingdom, it was available via the UK Toys"R"Us website (but never sold in stores), whereas in Spain, it was available via the Spanish subsidiaries of Amazon and Carrefour, as well as the department store chain El Corte Inglés, supposedly also only available online.

This set, including the new individual head sculpts but without Rust Dust, was redecoed to make Unite Warriors Megatronia.

Notes

Victorion's reveal image from USAToday

• Victorion was the result of the 2015 Fan Built Combiner polls. Fan-voting determined:
  • Her gender
  • Her name
  • The molds used
  • Her color scheme
  • Her special power (Gravity control)
  • Her origin ("Rust Sea" won, so while the components are from Caminus, Victorion proper was "born" in the Rust Sea in-fiction.)
  • Her "rival" (Galvatronus won, and on his first formation in IDW continuity, he immediately grapples with Victorion.)
  • Her attitude ("doesn't take instruction well" won, and yeah, upon first forming, she's kind of a loose cannon until Windblade talks her down.)
• Though she is the first female "traditional", Scramble City-style Combiner, the honor of first Combiner to be referred to as female goes to Heavy Metal, a Unicron Trilogy 3-bot Mini-Con Combiner.
• In her first fictional appearance, she is drawn without any obvious integration of Rust Dust, who forms her "chest armor" in toy form. Similarly, in his first appearance in IDW continuity, Defensor is also drawn without his chest armor component, Groove. Given that Pyra Magna is a retool of Hot Spot, both of whom form the torsos of their respective Combiners, it seems an odd omission to make twice.

• Occasionally, Victorion is drawn with a mouthplate and non-visored eyes rather than the exposed mouth and visored eyes the final toy has. This seems to be based on one of the earlier designs for Victorion, as seen in a clip from Hasbro's "Designer Desk" video for Victorion on YouTube.
• Victorion is one of the largest Transformers action figures to have heel struts. She also has hands that are much smaller than any other Combiner Wars Combiner, even without the knuckle-guns that other figures have. They're close to the size of original G1 Combiner toy hands.
• If you think about it, it's rather fitting that the fandom gets to have influence on a character who literally comprises disparate personalities.
• According to Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #3, Victorion has a variable height of approximately 150 feet and a variable weight of approximately 1500 tons.^[1]

Foreign names

• Japanese: Victorion (ヴィクトリオン Vikutorion)
• Mandarin: Kǎixuán Nǚshén (China, 凯旋女神, "Goddess of Victory")

References

External links

• "Female Transformers Come to the Fore" at USAToday.com