Rewind

The name or term Rewind refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Rewind (disambiguation).

• Name: Rewind
• Faction: Autobot
• Species: Transformer
• Function: ARCHIVIST
• Division: Infantry
• Sub-Group: Bot-Tapes
• Type: FC

“

Too much information is never enough.

”

Rewind is the Autobot trivia expert. His memory banks have an amazing capacity to process and store data that is of virtually no use to anyone. Ask him what is the ratio of carbon to ditryllium atoms in laser pistol polish or what is the capitol of New Jersey and he'll answer without hesitation. But ask him something important, like what is the recommended way of disarming a photon-cannon drone, and he'll probably be of no help at all. Still, sometimes his knowledge of arcane facts proves to be an immense help, and Rewind is much appreciated by his fellow Autobots for it. They just wish that he would turn his attention away from encyclopedia collections and toward the war with the Decepticons more often. (By the way, the answers to the above questions are: 3,623 to 1; Telemark VI on the planet Ganzvort, Trenton on the planet Earth; and tell him his fusion line is unplugged.)

Rewind's internal light-matrix data storage system enables him to record and store an almost infinite amount of data. His recall from memory of any individual datum is virtually instantaneous. He can also release some of the light energy and turn himself into a blinding beacon. In robot mode, he uses an adhesion rifle, which shoots a quick-drying stream of glue that unbreakably bonds metal to whatever it touches.

Rewind sometimes suffers from severe cerebro-circuitry overloads, what Earthlings would call "headaches," when he attempts to absorb too much data too quickly. He is incapacitated and helpless when this happens, and he can take hours, even days to recover. He's even been known to blow out some circuitry, which usually requires major repairs.

micro-cassette mode

History

Canonical/Pre-MUX/Theme History:

Rewind came from Lower Petrohex. Before transferring to Earth, Rewind transformed into a Cybertronian data slug. Did You Know that Rewind...

• Was among the Autobots who left Cybertron aboard the Ark, and spent four million years in stasis after it was shot down over Earth by the Decepticons?
• Was forced to remain inside Blaster until enough energy could be gathered to repair Blaster sufficiently for them to return to combat?
• Eventually was able to return to combat, shortly before the Autobots returned to Cybertron to assault the Decepticon fortress in an attempt to free the enslaved Autobots there?

MUX History:

Rewind

Rewind serves Blaster in Autobot City.

Gallery

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Alternate Universes

Apocalypse World

In the Apocalypse World alternative future, Rewind was tortured and killed by Soundwave.

Decepticon World universe

In the Decepticon World universe, Rewind was killed by Divebomb during the Autobots' escape from Cybertron.

Decepticon World logs

• 2013 November - "Escape to Nebulos" - Megatron and Shockwave attempt to stop the Autobots once and for all as Bumblebee and Springer lead a wounded, ragtag bunch to the Space Bridge. 

Logs / Posts

2021

Feb 16 - I'm not sure what this is but...

Rewind appears on screen, looking a little perplexed. "Ah..hey guys. I..." He stops and looks off screen, "I guess I'm supposed to submit this report on behalf of F...." He looks off screen again and says to the off screen figure, "B-but how will they know its yours?.......okay, okay, sure, anything you want." He looks back to the camera, "The following is a science division report submitted on behalf of......well, I guess Anonymous."

What follows is twenty three pages about crystal electrical patterns, possible thought processes, and emotional conjecture about the singing crystals of Harmonex/New Harmonex.

Players

This character is available for application. He was temped for the Decepticon World TP by Double0snake in 2016.

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References

• Who's Who in the Transformers Universe

Shattered Glass

In the Shattered Glass universe, Rewind is an archivist who travelled to Earth with the Ark to chronicle the Autobot takeover of the planet. However, since Jetfire’s return, he has been commandeered to be the Autobot XO’s personal scribe.