Renegade Decepticon



The renegade Decepticons are Decepticon political prisoners held on Cybertron. Under Megatron's orders, Shockwave had destroyed their bodies but saved their personality components, storing them in the Decepticon Detention Center.

Starscream's Brigade
It is unclear when the renegade Decepticons were imprisoned, but it quite likely was four million years or more ago. Liberation eventually came at the hands of Starscream, who had been banished from Megatron's Earth-based forces and wanted to build an army for revenge. He infiltrated the Decepticon Detention Center and sought out Cell 217, which contained a wall of countless drawers. Inside one of them were the renegade Decepticon personality components he was looking for; taking them, he shot several explosive blasts at the remaining drawers and then headed back to Earth. There, Starscream gave the renegades new bodies and called them the "Combaticons." They didn't recognize him, and his imperious attitude irked them, but their common goal of revenge against Megatron fostered a tense alliance.