Name: TackleWaver
Series: Japanese Generation 1
Allegiance: Cybertron
Alternate Modes: Four Wheel Drive, Hydrofoil
A combination of the normally staid, sensible and wise Waver and the rugged, straightforward but helpful Tackle, TackleWaver is unlike either of his two components. Completely unashamed, unreserved and irresponsible, TackleWaver has a personality that none of the Multiforce members can explain or restrain. He spends most of his existence trying to befriend female Autobots, and he's rarely subtle about it, preferring to show off his physical prowess rather than displaying favourable personality traits.
Both Waver and Tackle are somewhat ashamed of the disasters that seem to occur when they merge, so both like to avoid combining wherever possible. Wing's wisdom and Tackle's eagerness to help others disappear when they merge, along with any semblance of reason.
Still officially banned from any contact with Minelba, TackleWaver shows his displeasure with Star Sabre in the same way that he expresses interest in a female - which goes down rather badly with his commander.
Str: 6 Int: 2 Spd: 7 End: 5 Rnk: 1 Cor: 10 Frp: 4 Skl: 2
So now I bet you're sitting there wondering what the hell that was all about. Basically, while mixing and matching the Multiforce members at a Transfans meet in Melbourne in 2001, I put Tackle and Waver together, with Tackle as the top half and Waver as the bottom half, Multiforce combinations are named top half first, bottom half second - so I'd created "TackleWaver". Sofaman pointed out to me the rather unfortunate double meaning this particular name combination has - and the running joke that is TackleWaver was born.
So when they discovered I was reviewing the Multiforce, both Goktimus and Charl of Lexicon encouraged me write a review of TackleWaver. Since I've already covered both Waver and Tackle, I thought a profile would be more fun (c8
There _have_ been worse names given to Transformers down the years - Windbreaker and Cement-Head spring to mind. In defence of the guy at Takara who named the Multiforce members, this set was not created for an Anglophone market, and English names are commonly used in the Japanese line, the idea being that they sound exotic, even if the kids have no idea what the names mean. It's quite possible that the guy at Takara never sat down and looked at all 30 name-pairs, anyway. Why would he? They mean nothing in Japanese, and the names that would be on the shelves were "DashTacker", "MachTackle", "WingWaver" and "Landcross" (for the giftset), not names such as DashWing or TackerMach or (heaven forbid) TackleWaver.
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