Oil Slick (Animated)
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- Oil Slick is a Decepticon from the Animated continuity family.
Oil Slick's fighting style is based on vehicular combat—meaning he tries to destroy the Autobots while they're still in vehicle mode, knowing that if they're smashed up on the outside, they're smashed up on the inside. Beyond this, Oil Slick is a talented chemist specializing in weaponized compounds, such as the Reverse Evolution virus or Cosmic Rust. He is, in his own words, "slagging good", although at times he is too eager in trying out new concoctions.
Among his arsenal are a dizzying array of chemical weapons that will weaken his opponents both physically and mentally—magnifying his prey's personal fears to dissolve their will while his acids dissolve their bodies—at which point Oil Slick is ready to trash them. His robot mode features a retractable dome to protect his pretty face from what he unleashes.
In addition to his vehicular combat abilities, Oil Slick is skilled in Circuit-Su, having (possibly) trained with Prowl.
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Fiction
Animated cartoon
- Voice actor: Phil LaMarr (English), Atsushi Imaruoka (Japanese), Vincent Violette (French), José Carlos Guerra (Brazilian Portuguese)
Oil Slick claimed to have trained in Circuit-Su with Prowl, but Cyclonus later regarded this as a lie. The AllSpark Almanac II
During the Great Wars, Oil Slick led an assault on the Hydrax Plateau, using his new "Cosmic Rust" cyber-oxidant chemical weapon on Autobot and Decepticon alike. However, he hadn't adjusted for wind shifts, and ended up getting a dose of it himself.
Severely weakened, he was found by the Autobot medic Ratchet, who was looking for survivors of the attack. Ratchet's conscience wouldn't let him leave a life that could be saved, even that of a Decepticon. After trading some verbal barbs with Ratchet and appealing to his scientific nature, Oil Slick convinced the Autobot to use his repair tools with the chemicals Slick had stored away to create a batch of antidote. Under Oil Slick's instructions, Ratchet successfully created a batch of the cure... and as soon as it was applied, Oil Slick immediately hit Ratchet with a dose of Cosmic Rust and stole the remaining antidote. Gloating, Oil Slick revealed that the chemical weapon was his doing all along, and that the lives of the Decepticons who also fell to it were meaningless to him.
His overconfidence got the better of him, though, as he failed to notice that Ratchet had used his magnetism ability to steal the antidote back as Oil Slick drove away... enough to cure Ratchet and still have some left over for the Autobot scientists to analyze and replicate, nullifying the threat of Cosmic Rust. 'Bots of Science Bots of Science
Following Megatron's disappearance, Oil Slick made the foolish mistake of sharing the idea that perhaps Megatron was dead to Lugnut and was given a proper throttling for it. A Few Loose Strands
Countless years later, after the war had been decided in the Autobots' favor, Oil Slick was part of Strika's Team Chaar band of Decepticons. Called out of hiding by Megatron to storm a space bridge node, his group of Decepticons battled a team of Autobots led by Rodimus Prime. Oil Slick stopped Ironhide and Brawn in their tracks with actual oil slicks before encountering Rodimus himself. Dismissing Rodimus Prime's skills and throwing down a container of Cosmic Rust, Oil Slick quickly disposed of him. Team Chaar was still near the hub when the Elite Guard's ship approached, but Oil Slick and the others were ordered elsewhere. TransWarped
Oil Slick was apparently part of a Decepticon attack force which descended upon Detroit to menace the Autobots as the planet Cybertron was brought into Earth's orbit... but the whole thing turned out to have been an illusion programmed in Soundwave's virtual world, but it is uncertain how Soundwave came to the decision to integrate a simulation of him into the program, as he had never physically encountered him. Human Error, Part I
Teaming up with Scalpel, Oil Slick created Toxitron and Nemesis Prime using design specs taken from from Optimus Prime.[1][2] He also received some new Cosmic Rust-related weaponry designed by Scalpel. The Complete AllSpark Almanac
Oil Slick and Scalpel later reformatted Team Stunticon into Autobot shells for an infiltration mission. Following the Stunticons' failure to rescue the imprisoned Megatron from Trypticon Prison, Oil Slick joined a revamped Team Chaar for their first strike against Cybertron itself by attacking an Energon farm. The Stunti-Con Job
If Cyclonus was to be believed, Oil Slick will die at the hands of Galvatron. The AllSpark Almanac II
The Cool comic
Oil Slick joined the rest of Team Chaar, led by Cyclonus, as they secretly observed Team Athenia's battle against a Rock Lord. The Cool Extra #2
Ask Vector Prime
Swindle, Swindle and Swindle counted a couple of Oil Slicks among their best customers. Swindle's Spiel
Toys
Animated
- Oil Slick (Deluxe, 2008)
- Takara ID number: TA-42
- Takara release date: October 2nd, 2010
- Accessories: Chain-weapon canister, storage canister
- Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro), Marcelo Matere (packaging artist)
- Released in the third wave of Animated Deluxes, Oil Slick transforms into a spiky low-riding motorcycle of absolutely made-up model. A motorcycle with a friggin' goat skull for the cowling. How Metal. One of the barrels strapped to his cycle mode splits open to become a hand-held flail weapon using a short, silver plastic chain, as opposed to the longer, real metal one seen in the promotional photos. The ends of the barrel which anchor the chain can pop off the ends of the body for other swing-at-enemies options. However, this barrel does not click together very well when closed, and so can fall open easily. The other barrel is actually a canister with a flip-open top that can (in theory) contain rare chemical liquids. It'll probably leak tho.
- He has a third "Vehicle Attack Mode" which basically consists of him doing a push-up on his wheels, more of a "mid-transformation" mode than anything else. It's not very stable at all.
- The later Takara release of Oil Slick, in the ninth wave of their Animated line in 2010, has some minor changes from the Hasbro release. The most immediately-noticeable is that his legs and gauntlets have been given a pale metallic green paint overlay. Also, the Hasbro version's black Decepticon sigil in robot mode has been replaced with a white-bordered purple sigil.
- According to designer Eric Siebenaler, one of the original ideas for Oil Slick was for his bubble dome and his chemical canister to contain a sort of green slime. This idea was dropped over concerns that it would leak during transportation, and when Hasbro investigated just having plain water in his dome, they decided against this due to the fact that the quality and safety of water used in China could not be guaranteed.[3]
- Toxic Oil Slick (Deluxe,
2009)
- Accessories: Chain-weapon canister, storage canister
- A redeco shown at BotCon 2009 and leaked via Walmart stock photos, this Oil Slick redeco seems to have been made to make his colors more like that of his show model, while still retaining an Earth mode. An oddity in the stock photo is the use of the longer, metal chain, as opposed to the short plastic one used in the original.
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Notes
- Oil Slick is an original Eric Siebenaler design that was never intended to be in the show,[4] but upon finding out about it, the Animated cartoon crew said they would have worked him in had they been told about it. As such, Oil Slick was given a highlight story in The Arrival #3. He has also had an animation model made by Irineo Maramba[5] and was made a member of Strika's team for the cartoon.
- Oil Slick's odd four-wheeled cycle design is borrowed from the Dodge Tomahawk concept motorcycle. This implies that he goes really damn fast.
- Although Lockdown is responsible for the current state of Ratchet's broken forehead chevron, Oil Slick actually did it before him, courtesy of a wicked roundhouse kick. Judging by the pre-existing crack on the chevron, it had already been broken at least once before that. Apparently, Ratchet decided the third time's a charm.
- Oil Slick's comic appearance is an amalgam of his box art and cartoon appearance; he has the deep gold and green coloration of his toy, but the arms, head, and glowing dome of his cartoon.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Oil Slick (オイルスリック Oiru Surikku)
References
- ↑ Toxitron's bio
- ↑ Nemesis Prime's bio
- ↑ "On the topic of Oil Slick, he said that it was originally intended to have slime in the second barrel (the one with the lid, not the chain weapon), and slime in the bucket over his head. When that didn't work (potential for leaking during transport from China was the issue), they looked at having water in the bucket over his head, but found out that it is 'not a good idea to have anything from China with water in it', in case it gets consumed by a child (seems that the water from China isn't the healthiest in the world). In the end, the toy was left without anything, but like Animated Swoop's weapon or Universe Galvatron, the original features are still there."—griffin, Ozformers, "Animated Promo weekend with Designer Eric Siebenaler", 2008/11/10
- ↑ BotCon 2008
- ↑ "Let's see, of the Rodimus and Strika teams Irineo did Hotshot, Brawn, Cyclonus and Oil Slick, and I did the rest."—Derrick J. Wyatt, A Delightful Tedium, 2008/12/10
