Mainframe (Animated)

Mainframe is an Autobot from the Animated continuity family.

"Mainframe, transform and roll out!"
"...But I can't..."

Mainframe is a computational powerhouse for the Autobot Ministry of Science. Though his alt-mode is an immobile computer, his abilities to parse data and find patterns put most of his peers to shame, which earned him distinction during the Software Wars. Often he is found working on some very top-secret projects for the Cybertron Elite Guard.

Fiction

Animated cartoon

Years ago, Mainframe and Highbrow were working on the memory-wiped Arcee, trying to retrieve the Project Omega data feared lost when she was captured by Lockdown. He was present when Arcee's failsafe transmitted the hidden data to Ratchet. TransWarped

Many many many years later, he was part of the crowd cheering on the return of Sentinel "Magnus" to Cybertron and the capture of three Decepticon prisoners. Decepticon Air

Significantly less time after that, he was seen doing the same for Optimus Prime and his crew upon their victory over Megatron, this time with facial expression! Endgame, Part II

Notes

• Mainframe is an obvious homage to the Generation 1 Action Master of the same name.
• Mainframe was officially revealed in a March 09 blog post by Derrick J. Wyatt, who claimed that, like his G1 namesake, he does not transform. (Aww.) ^[1]
  • This was contradicted by the AllSpark Almanac II, which states that Mainframe transforms into (what else?) a computer mainframe. (Yay!)
• According to Wyatt's twitter feed, Mainframe "is totally in the show because Trent Troop bought me the toy at last year's Botcon." ^[2]

Foreign names

• Japanese: Mainframe (メインフレーム Meinfurēmu)

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