Originally Posted by
iamirondude
was there ever a decepticon equivilent of the wreckers and if so who were they
Kind of.
There was the Mayhem attack squad. They were meant to be the Decepticons version of the Wreckers. I think their first appearance was when they were to team up with the Wreckers to take down megs and Galvatron in a UK story (but I'm likely wrong here, it may not have been their first appearance).
The team of Carnivac, Catilla, Chop Shop, Venom, Battletrap and Flywheels was decimated in the battle, and in the end the survivors (Catilla dn Carnivac) merged with the Wreckers, Inferno, broadside and skids to form the survivors.
Because of their turning, the decepticons made a second squad with Needlenose, Bludgeon, Stranglehold, Spinster and Octopunch, who had to hunt the former members down.
It was the Mayhem Attack Squad pretenders fighting Grimlock, Jazz adn co in the centre of Cyberton that re-awakened Primus...
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I do think he becomes one - he's happy to follow Springer's orders during Time Wars and afterwards, and that blurb from #221 definitely clinches it. It's just that there's no explicit point in a story at which he goes from Xaaron's voice of reason in the "Cybertonian Autobots' advance surveillance unit" who doesn't count himself as a Wrecker, to being accepted amongst the Wreckers.
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) None of them were invented characters like Impactor or Rack 'n' Ruin. Although Catilla's inclusion started off kinda funny because the toy is an Autobot, but he was originally a Decepticon member of the Mayhems and remained so throughout the Time Wars. But after he joined the Survivors, Catilla did defect and switch allegiance to the Autobots (whereas his good friend Carnivac remained a Decepticon how was simply allied with Autobots (much like how Blackarachnia became a Maximal-allied Predacon in Beast Wars)).
