Motormaster is aDecepticonStunticon from theAligned continuity family.

"I am the Motormaster, and you will obey me."

Motormaster has a very simple goal: to be the king of the road.Very simple. Some might argue "simple to the point of stupid". His ambitions don't seem to get much higher than that, and just what exactly "king of the road" entails is similarly vague. What is certain though is that it involves smashing anything in his way, smashing anything that annoys him, and just generally smashing things. And this hulking semi has the muscle to do so with ease.

The leader of theStunticons, Motormaster leads primarily through threats of violence followed by violence. His subordinates are scared oil-less of him, which is close to loyalty, but not quite. When even his considerable strength isn't enough to get the smashing done, he can combine with his lackeys to form the walking demolition derbyMenasor.

Fiction

2015Robots in Disguise cartoon

Voice actor:Travis Willingham (English),Olivier Francart (French),Gerrit Hamann (German),Róbert Bolla (Hungarian),Silvio Pandolfi (Italian),Raúl Solo (Latin-American Spanish)

"This is useless in your hands...you have moral scruples."

AfterHeatseeker founda device which could help track Cybertronian tech, he reported back to Motormaster. Though not exactly happy with the failure of Heatseeker'sassigned mission, Motormaster accepted the device, plotting to stock up on tech to help the Stunticons control the roads of Earth.King of the Hill (Part 2)Drag Strip later managed to acquire the device so that he andWildbreak could get in Motormaster's good graces.Bee Cool

Drag Strip presented aGravitic Adjuster to Motormaster that he tested on Wildbreak before Motormaster called his minion off and promptly sent him to stir up some trouble to show Autobots and humans alike that the Stunticons meant business.The Great Divide As Heatseeker, Drag Strip, Wildbreak, andSlashmark raced in theCrown City Grand Prix, Drag Strip thought about keeping the title of "Ruler of the Roads" to himself; Wildbreak replied that Motormaster would most likely run Drag Strip over, back up, and run him over again.Disordered Personalities

When his subordinate Stunticons were on a mission to clear the humans off of the roads ofStar Visitor Estates, Motormaster unexpectedly joined them, declaring that he was dissatisfied with their performance at taking over Earth's roads and, therefore, he would show them how things were donehimself.The Golden Knight

"I have too few worthy opponents. When they've gone I always miss them."

Accompanying the Stunticons on a road-claiming mission, Motormaster boasted that no vehicles on Earth were faster than the Stunticons - just in time for a maglev train to pass them. Declaring that he would not abide anything being faster than him, he ordered the Stunticons to retrieve its engine. After they were thwarted by theBee Team, he answered Drag Strip's offer of "making it up to him somehow" by declaring he hadmany ideas for how they could do so.Railroad Rage

After berating his men for their failure to date to defeat the Autobots, Motormaster revealed he'd come up with a new plan. He had the others lure the Autobots to a desert location where he first ran them down, then had the Stunticons combine with him into Menasor. Menasor headed to a nearby military base, intending to secure a satellite dish which was part of a meteor deflection system, however the Autobots succeeded in combining as well, and used the dish to knock Menasor flying.Combine and Conquer When Slashmark and Wildbreak found the Autobots' base and saw their foe taking off inOptimus Prime's ship, Motormaster saw the opportunity to mount a surprise attack in space. Though the attack didn't go as well as expected, Motormaster detected Windblade's cache on theMoon and opted to go investigate it. As they headed for the cache, Motoromaster concealed himself and ambushed the Autobots when they attacked his subordinates. He ordered his men to finish off Bumblebee's team while he went ahead, but they followed him anyway. When it turned out that the cache was protected by a defence system, Motormaster merged with his men into Menasor to break through them. Mission accomplished, the Stunticons headed back towards their ship with theplasma thermal accelerator module. On findingthe Autobots' ship parked next to theirs, Motormaster again combined with his fellows to destroy it, however the merged Autobots caught up with them, and defeated the combiner when his component parts came into conflict with each other. Motormaster and the other Stunticons were loaded intostasis pods and taken into custody by Optimus Prime.Moon Breaker

Games

Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)

"We have them now, but beware. The Autobots are never more dangerous than when the odds are against them."

Voice actor:Fred Tatasciore (English)

Motormaster was responsible for a strange signal coming from the collapsing sewers, prompting the Decepticons to investigate just what was going on down there. After watching them trash the sewer system, he decided that they were his kind of robots... but there was going to be a rumble anyway! Motormaster put up a pretty good fight, but after the Decepticons bested him, he offered his services as a terrorist to their cause.War for Cybertron — Autobots/Decepticons

Toys

Robots in Disguise (2015)

"Now then, citizens of the roads; please attend carefully!"

• Menasor (Team Combiner, 2017)
  • Accessories: Sword

Released as part of the Menasor set, Motormaster transforms from a futuristic truck (with 6 functional and 4 fake wheels) into anot-so-highly-poseable (but he can swing his arms and upper thighs up and down sideways while his lower legs can be swivelled) Warrior Class-sized robot, or into the torso of the gestalt. Motormaster also possesses a pair of a very tiny fists underneath his arm/combiner joint, mostly obstructed by panels. As a torso, Motormaster can swap arms and legs with Galvatronus, or swap only arms with Ultra Bee. Though not mentioned in the instructions, his stomach also possesses a switch to automatically flip-out Menasor's head when pressed. This can be activated with or without Motormaster's head flipping out, as long you don't mind the exposed head on Menasor's back. Though the instructions say to turn the figure back into torso mode before pressing the button, the pop-out gestalt head can stop halfway due to the narrow clearance between his shoulder panels. It's better if you activate the pop-out head first.

Motormaster features a scannable badge on his left torso, compatible with theRobots in Disguise Mobile Game. Scanning the badge temporarily unlocks Menasor as a playable character in the mobile game, and can only be scanned once per day. The CGI photos depict Motormaster having dark gray joints on the upper half of the combiner joint and his arm swivels, and the tabs on his knees are switched.

Notes

• Motormaster is playable in both the Autobot and Decepticon versions of theWar for Cybertron games for the DS. He can be used only for multiplayer, bonus missions and Arena mode in the Autobot version, and multiplayer, Arena mode, and campaign in the Decepticon version.
• In the game credits, Motormaster's name is capitalized as "MotorMaster" for reasons unknown.
• Motormaster's show model uses a standard head with a box-like protrusion behind it. This calls back to the original Generation 1 toy and differs from the box head of the Generation 1 cartoon. The toy, on the other hand, depicts him with a box head.