Another Grimlock coming at you for the year. This is based off the characters design from the 2005 IDW Transformer comics, which is actually my favorite Grimlock design. While IDW’s 2005 series has some rather “questionable” quality in writing, Grimlock’s story is a new take on the character. This version of the character is a actually an Autobot war criminal, whose team of “Dynobots” have committed a number of war crimes that violate Autobot law as they feel they are only Autobots capbable of doing “what needs to be done” to win the war.

Grimlock himself is even put at odds with his own team when he sets off a trap against Shockwave that buries his own team. Despite his rather cruel tatics, Grimlock cares very much for his team even when he considers abandoning them. He even turns himself over for his crimes and agrees to take the full blame for the teams’ actions in exchange for his teammates freedom!