Team Chaar

Team Chaar is a Decepticon subgroup from the Transformers Animated continuity family.

"I like adventure!"
"I like romance!"
"I love great jokes!"
"Animal dance!"

Team Chaar is an elite squad of Decepticons stationed on the planet Chaar.

The original team includes

• Strika, the leader
• Blackout, the muscle
• Cyclonus, the space warrior
• Oil Slick, the chemical warfare expert
• Spittor, the disgusting thing

After Megatron's capture, Team Chaar was re-organized. Strika and Oil Slick remained, but the rest of the roster was filled by

• Blot, a different disgusting thing
• Mindwipe, the hypnotist
• Sky-Byte, the warrior-poet
• Scalpel, Oil Slick's leetle friend

Fiction

Animated cartoon

Team Chaar 2: Electric Boogaloo

Team Chaar battled Rodimus Prime's crew, handily beating them and taking control of space bridge 687-030. Strika contacted Shockwave, the Decepticons' secret agent on Cybertron, with news of their success, but Shockwave commanded the team stay put until they received word from Megatron to invade. This proved to be a bad move, as Ultra Magnus subsequently had the entire space bridge nexus shut down to prevent the Decepticons from using them.

The team remained at the captured bridge, awaiting the word to proceed. When the Elite Guard flagship finally arrived in response to Rodimus's SOS, Strika relished the chance to battle them... but was ordered to retreat by Megatron. Reluctantly, the five Decepticons retreated. TransWarped

Team Chaar, sans Blackout and Cyclonus, appeared as part of a large Decepticon force attacking Detroit... but the whole thing turned out to have been an illusion programmed in Soundwave's virtual world. Human Error, Part I

After Team Stunticon failed in their plan to free Megatron from Trypticon Prison, Strika led the new Team Chaar in an assault on Cybertron itself, starting with the quiet little energon farm that cop-bot Sideswipe had just retired to. The Stunti-Con Job

The Cool

Unleashing a Rock Lord on the unsuspecting Team Athenia (who were guarding a space bridge), Cyclonus observed the resulting battle through a pair of binoculars. Noting how the Autobots defeated the Rock Lord, Cyclonus concluded that the red bowman was the biggest threat. Scouting now complete, Cyclonus told the rest of Team Chaar that the "hunt" was ready to begin. The Cool Extra #2

Notes

• Though the new Team Chaar as seen in "The Stunti-Con Job" is not explicitly called by that name in the comic proper, it is in the original script description, plus Strika calls the team by name in the live script reading of the comic story from BotCon 2011.