Rack 'N' Ruin (also called Rack and Ruin) is a supporting character in Marvel UK's Transformers comics.
He was created by Simon Furman and Ron Smith.
Biography[]
Rack 'N' Ruin was introduced in "Target: 2006" as a member of the Autobot commando team known as the Wreckers. He consisted of two Autobots who had been welded together to save their lives, depriving them of their ability to transform into mini-jets. He took part in the preparations for Operation: Volcano, a plan to lure nine of the deadliest Decepticons into an ambush. Like the rest of the team, he was willing to go ahead with the plan without their back-up, Ultra Magnus, but ultimately the operation failed when most of the Decepticons pulled out before the trap could be sprung.
He reappeared in "The Harder They Die", where he captured Optimus Prime, newly arrived on Cybertron, after Megatron spread disinformation that he was a Decepticon spy disguised as Optimus Prime. He was involved in the later campaign against the insane Autobot scientist Flame, who was planning to activate a nuclear engine at the heart of Cybertron, ignoring the fact it would destroy the planet. Rack 'N' Ruin and the other Wreckers were first captured by Flame's zombies, then managed to infiltrate his control room, although it took an act of self-sacrifice by the zombified version of the Wreckers' late leader Impactor to shut down the reactor.
Rack 'N' Ruin then joined the rest of the Wreckers in travelling to Earth to confront the time-travelling Galvatron and his lieutenants Cyclonus and Scourge. Arriving in the middle of a human city, Rack 'N' Ruin personally confronted Galvatron, but the fight came to an end when Springer decided to lure Cyclonus and Scourge away from the city, with Rack 'N' Ruin and the others following to help him rather than staying to fight Galvatron.
Rack 'N' Ruin's last appearance was in "Time Wars", where he and the majority of the Wreckers returned to Earth to confront Galvatron again, now allied with the Decepticon Mayhem Squad and met by Sandstorm, Broadside and Inferno, who had been running surveillance. Their attack on Galvatron's base was a disaster, especially since Galvatron was backed up by Megatron. A fighting retreat ended with Roadbuster hitting Galvatron with a cannon but Rack 'N' Ruin failed to warn him in time that it was overloading. The enraged and injured Galvatron tore through the remaining Wreckers, with Rack 'N' Ruin among those killed in the rampage.
