Bombshell

A master of mind-controlling "cerebro-shells", the twisted Bombshell plays with the minds of others as a child would a new toy, enthusiastically and recklessly. But there is nothing childlike about the gleeful malice he exposes in forcing his victims into more and more humiliating and destructive acts. Bombshell takes such sadistic joy in the destruction of his victims that even the other Decepticons can be put off, wondering if he wouldn't be just as pleased to play those same "games" with them...

His Action Master partner is Needler. He is sometimes known as Hardshell.

In Ultima, Bombshell was reformatted into a technorganic beast-former, but still retains his role as part-time Insecticon leader.