Chumley is a human from the cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Lord Chumley: British freak

Lord Chumley is a vengeful big-game hunter who uses advanced (and extremely goofy) technology to stalk and bag the most dangerous and exotic creatures on the planet. He is tended to by the elderly Dinsmore.

He's also one royal pain in the diode.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Voice actor: Peter Renaday (English), Toshiro Ishii (Japanese), Georges Atlas (European French)

Lord Chumley's huge-ass trophy room, with experimental (tiny) jet at right. Sure beats collecting stamps! Or Transformers action figures.

Lord Chumley shot down an experimental Soviet jet piloted by Oktober Guard One, sparking an international incident when the USSR blamed America for the theft. Both nations placed their armed forces on full alert, and a special session of the UN Security Council was called to discuss the escalating tensions.

Chumley, however, had his eye on a far greater prize: the head of the ultimate prey, the Autobot Optimus Prime.

Didn't Palisades use to make this?

Using the "tribal instincts" theory he had devised from his Kibolaroo studies, Chumley managed to capture several of Prime's teammates using wildly implausible traps, and then invited Prime to come rescue them from some very easily escapable torments. Prime responded, traversing a "carefully researched" booby-trapped mock-up of Cybertron. Who knew Cybertron had Hojoni?

The Decepticons, having caught wind of Chumley's successful capture of multiple Autobots, sent the Triple Changers Astrotrain and Blitzwing to negotiate with Chumley. However, the two ended up falling for some of the traps Prime didn't, and shooting Prime in the back when Chumley's giant robotic scorpion seemed to have the upper hand against Optimus. Infuriated, Chumley chained up the Decepticons to deal with them later while he continued his attempts to capture Prime when he recovered.

Prime was soon entrapped by Chumley's "greatest creation," a giant robotic black widow spider, but not for long. When Prime reached Chumley's castle and started chasing Chumley, the hunter freed his Decepticon prisoners to fight for him; instead, they tried to squish Chumley. The two were denied revenge by the appearance of the now-free Autobots and flew away, leaving Chumley to the Autobots' mercies.

Prime returned the stolen jet to the USSR, with Chumley tied to its nose like a hunting trophy. The crisis came to an end. Prime Target

Story of Binaltech

In 2005, Lord Chumley was a member of the Concurrence, an organization dedicated to ridding Earth of all Transformers. They allied with the Decepticons to disrupt the human-Autobot alliance and aided in the theft of some Autobot bodyframes. Expose All of Evil's Designs!

Unite Warriors

Chumley visited the Combaticons' arms trading market, where he considered buying something from Swindle. Shopping at the Dark Bazaar!

Notes

• Minus the British accent, Chumley's character is heavily based off General Zaroff from The Most Dangerous Game.
• "Chumley" is how the name "Cholmondeley" (of Old English origin) is pronounced.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Chumley-kyō (チャムリー卿 Chamurī-kyō, "Lord Chumley")