Tiretracks
- Tiretracks is a Zapbots Cars from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Tiretracks is the silent type. Rarely seen and often in the background he is the metallic wallflower at the office holiday party. A good warrior and huge human football fan very little is known about him except it is rumored he saved Anthony's life once. As it was discovered he preferred male companionship with his alternate programming he has become an educator to those on Gearatron with his partner Tiremarks. In his downtime he is very into primitive oil painting taught to him by Anthony/Shortstop.
- Quote: "Deep down we are more like the humans."
- Transformation: Scion XB
- Weapons: Photo Gun, Hand Lasers
- Special Weapons: Sensors and Strength
- Shields: Fair 4 Hours
- Speed: 60 MPH
- Armor: Heavy 8 Inches
- Communications: Radio, CB
- Target/Tracking: Scanners, Radar
- Weakness: Uses a lot of fuel and has slow speed.
- Transformer Inspiration: Skids
- Will & Grace Inspiration: Will
- Family: Tiremarks - Companion
Fiction
Original Series
Back in Time
Tiretracks was discovered to have alternate programming that made him prefer male companionship. He was attacked but unknown Zapbot civilians which caused Botimus Prime to take action for his first major test as leader. It was discovered that Tiretracks tried to help Shortwing change his programming, but it failed, causing Shortwing to commit suicide.
Behind the Scenes
Skids was always the one 'unknown' Transformer and such I always thought he and Tracks should be the 'gay' Transformers. As such Tiretracks and Tiremarks became the first 'gay' Zapbots.
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era: 1987
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era: 1988
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era: 1990
