Scalpel (Animated)
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- Scalpel is a Decepticon from the Animated continuity family.
Doctor Scalpel is equal parts medic, engineer, and butcher. While he is not as skilled as his Autobot counterpart Perceptor, he makes up for it with a complete lack of ethics. Scalpel excels at taking things apart, whether they be Autobot, organic, or even his fellow Decepticons. This becomes troublesome as his enthusiasm for dissecting things is far greater than his ability to reassemble them once he's done.
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Fiction
Animated cartoon continuity
After the Great War, Megatron enlisted Scalpel to clone the Autobot's greatest scientific mind, Perceptor, in order to turn the intellect that won the war against the Autobots. Despite Starscream's insistence that copying the Autobot scientist's design schematics would not be enough to turn defeat into victory, Megatron allowed the project to continue. Ultimately, Starscream had the right idea all along, as the end result was complete failure at achieving the goals it was created for.
Scalpel inspected the enigmatic Cyclonus in order to determine his origins, discovering he was from the future. The AllSpark Almanac II He also spent a dozen solar cycles repairing Mindwipe. The AllSpark Almanac Addendum
However, the setback regarding Magnificus did not deter the Decepticons' cloning program. Teaming up with Oil Slick, Scalpel continued on to make Toxitron and Nemesis Prime from Optimus Prime.[1][2] He also helped Oil Slick with operating some new Cosmic Rust-related weaponry. The Complete AllSpark Almanac
In time, Scalpel and Oil Slick would utilize their expertise in the cloning industry to reformat Team Stunticon into Autobot shells for an infiltration mission. Following the Stunticons' failure to rescue the imprisoned Megatron from Trypticon Prison, Scalpel joined the new Team Chaar for their first strike against Cybertron itself. The Stunti-Con Job
TransTech
On the day of the Waruder invasion, Scalpel was one of countless Offworlders who inhabited Axiom Nexus's Under City. Cybertron's Most Wanted
Legends comic
Scalpel remodeled Slipstream's body to incorporate two transdimensional gyro-rotors she'd acquired from Swindle. Bonus Edition Vol. 16 While recounting this event to Rattrap, Slipstream explained that Scalpel had also remodeled her face to look younger. LG-16 Slipstream Sequel
Notes
- Scalpel's design was originally created as a piece of fan art of the Revenge of the Fallen character by Derrick J. Wyatt before it would find its way into use as a legitimate character model in The AllSpark Almanac II.[3]
- Derrick Wyatt confirmed on his blog that Scalpel turns into a microscope.[4]
