Mudflap (Autobot)

Mudflap was an Autobot and the brother of Skids. Mudflap was noisy and hyperactive, not unlike his brother. However, despite their annoying personalities, they deduced they worked best as a team, which is also the worst thing for the Autobots, who would have had to put up with two bickering hyperactive siblings when not fighting the threat of the Decepticons.

History[]

Revenge of the Fallen film[]

The twins were first into action for N.E.S.T.s mission to Shanghai, slowly trundling through the city streets in their ice-cream truck mode and taunting Decepticons in the area to show themselves. Two Decepticons soon did: Demolishor and Sideways. At NEST's orders, the twins went after the smaller foe and, working with Arcee, managed to herd him into an alleyway. However, their slow, ungainly choice of alternate mode left them unable to keep up with Sideways. While Arcee leapt through a building to pursue the Decepticon, the twins tried to go around the building to catch him. However, the twins inadvertently split apart from one another when they rounded the corner too sharply, thus taking them out of the chase. Mudflap took the blame for the crash, but Skids still berated (and smacked) Mudflap for his failure. Upon arrival to Diego Garcia and NEST headquarters, the twins were given new, individual alternate forms to make sure another incident like that never happened. Mudflap wanted the Chevy Beat as a vehicle form, but after a brief wrestling match with his brother, he was relegated to the form of the Chevrolet Trax.

Later, the twins, along with the other NEST-allied Autobots, were dispatched to look for Sam Witwicky when Decepticons were detected heading towards his college. After Optimus Prime was killed by Megatron, the twins helped the Autobot force fight off the Decepticon leader and Starscream, allowing Sam, Leo Spitz, Mikaela Banes and Bumblebee to make good their escape. Skids and Mudflap met up with Bumblebee and the humans, and together they fled to a remote location. After the twins teased Leo for a while for his panic attack, Sam inquired whether one of them could interpret the Cybertronic symbols with which he had become obsessed. The twins claimed that they couldn't read the ancient Language of the Primes and weren't much into reading, anyway.

.With the help of the Decepticon Wheelie and former Sector Seven agent Seymour Simmons, the group made their way to the Smithsonian, where the humans reactivated the venerable ex-Decepticon Jetfire. He teleported them all to Egypt before telling them the tale of the original Primes, the Star Harvester, which had the potential to destroy all life on Earth, and finally, the Matrix of Leadership, the key to activating the harvester and possibly the only thing that could bring Optimus Prime back to life. When the Matrix could not be found at the ruins of Petra, Mudflap questioned why they where helping Sam, wondering what they had done for the Autobots. Skids pointed out that Sam had killed Megatron, but Mudflap said the point was moot since Megatron was now back. After calling each other "scared" and "ugly" the two began to fight with one another. After damaging the structure and nearly crushing the humans, Bumblebee picked the twins up, bashed them together, and threw them out the door. However, their bickering created a hole in the wall where the Tomb of the Primes lay, and with it, the Matrix.

Making their way back to the Pyramids where NEST waited with Optimus Prime's body, the group came under attack by Starscream. Mudflap, Skids, Leo and Simmons acted as a decoy to lure the Decepticons away from Sam and Mikaela. Unfortunately, they attracted the attention of the Constructicons, who combined into Devastator and attacked by vacuuming up loose objects such as sand, cars, and Mudflap. Hanging on for dear life inside the monster's mouth, he tried to use his "kung-fu grip", but was sucked further inside, losing his shoulder guards in the process. As Skids mourned the loss of his twin, Simmons realized that the safest place to be was directly under the giant. But he had survived being vacuumed up by Devastator, and to escape he had blasted a hole through its head. To buy the humans time to escape, Skids clambered up Devastator's right forepaw to assist Mudflap. Skids threw a cable to Mudflap, who grabbed it and swung off Devastator's head onto his arm. However, once they had landed, Mudflap accidentally shot Skids in the face, knocking them off. At Megatron's command, Devastator continued onto the Great Pyramid of Giza. Mudflap and Skids were not seen in Egypt after this.

Dark of the Moon film[]

Skids and Mudflap were originally scripted to feature in Dark of the Moon, but their appearances were cut from the finished film, save for this very brief shot.

Mudflap and Skids could be spotted in vehicle mode at the end of an Autobot convoy as the team rolled into the hangar of NEST's Washington, D.C. base.

It could be possible that Skids and Mudflap entered the Xantium and after splashing down into the Atlantic Ocean went to Cuba, that's why they didn't participate in the Battle of Chicago.

Age of Extinction film[]

Five years after the Battle of Chicago, Mudflap was not listed as "deceased", by the CIA taskforce, Cemetery Wind.[2]

The Last Knight film[]

Mudflap came back to home after the resurrection of Cybertron.

Alternate Timeline Fates[]

Toy bios[]

Young and eager, Mudflap idolized Optimus Prime and the other great Autobot heroes. He and Skids went to Earth solely in the hope of joining up with their idols, and it was a dream come true for them![3] In an early mission, however, they found themselves used as guinea pigs for experimental combination technology; trying to stay combined in their gestalt vehicle mode took up more of their focus than fighting Decepticons!

Skids believes himself to be the "smart one" of the twins, mostly because he is slightly less hyperactive than Mudflap.[4] However, he must have impressed the Autobots as later, he was assigned to help Sideswipe take down an empowered Fearswoop![5] Normally, his role was to create diversions.[6]

During Sideways's sojourn into the Autobot camp, Skids and Mudflap became suspicious and reverted to their old ice cream truck form to keep track of him. Having discovered Sideways's treachery, they planned to prove their worth by defeating him on their own![7]

Mudflap eventually started hanging out with Seymour Simmons, because his bravery that seemed stupid struck a chord with the 'bot![8]

While his daredevil stunts have appeared brainless, the energetic Mudflap remained a true Autobot by being courageous, loyal to the end, and ready to take on the baddest Decepticons yet.[9] While he has quickly become a veteran Autobot soldier, there are days he cannot believe he is battling Decepticons shoulder-to-shoulder with Prime. Even though his enemies have to wait years before they can fear him, Mudflap continues to show the courage and enthusiasm of a distinguished Autobot.[10]

Apparently in this timeline, Mudflap was killed by Sentinel Prime in 2012, just like in the early script. Because in the future, not one of his toys came out.

Weapons[]

Radial Arm Gun

Gallery[]

To see more images go to: Mudflap/Gallery

Trivia[]

He along with his heroic twin brother Skids were removed from later Transformers live action films because they were both considered to be offensive and as well as highly offensive to all people and all didn't fit in with all inclusive modern human sensibilities, ironically in next movies they put stereotypes in Decepticons like Barricade or Nitro Zeus.