Wheelie (Transformers)

In the fictional universe of the Transformers series, Wheelie is an Autobot. The character was first introduced in Transformers: The Movie and later appeared in the Transformers: Generation One television show.

Wheelie is introduced roughly half-way through the movie as an unknown Autobot youth watching from the shadows as Hot Rod and Kup are dragged away to the court of the Quintessons. He meets up with the Dinobots and leads them to the courtroom just in time to save the two Autobots from becoming Sharkticon lunches. After the Sharkticons start chasing the Quintessons, Wheelie offers the Autobots his ship if they will take him with them when they leave Quintessa.

After the movie, Wheelie is reduced mainly to bit-part roles in the third and fourth seasons, but he does occassionally get a more important role.

A young Autobot, Wheelie's function is listed as "Survivalist" (pretty much a given, cosidering he's spent who knows how many years trapped on Quintessa.) He despises the Quintessons and their Sharkticon minions, but only fights when he has no other alternative (no doubt a survivalist trait). Wheelie's transformation is a futuristic, one-person car.

The official theory as to his origin is that he was the sole survivor of an Autobot colonisation ship which crashed on Quintessa, but a more complex theory occassionally surfaces which states that he was an Autobot exile who landed on Quintessa by mistake.

Wheelie, like many Transfomers in the various cartoon series, suffers from a speech defect. Wheelie occassionally speaks in third-person, but more noticable is that he has a high-pitched voice and always speaks in rhyme. This has earned him the dubious honour of being the most hated Transformer on the show (an ugly toy didn't help).

Quotes:

"Friends find, look behind."

"You look wrong way, you fool I say."

"Picture you got, now fool you not!"

"You get ship if I get trip."

"Give stare over there!"

"What Wheelie wanna know, why we not think this up long ago?"