Ramhorn is one bad-tempered tape from the Transformers series. He is part of the mini-cassette Autobot team and takes on the form of a rhinoceros.
Description[]
Ramhorn’s alternate mode is a maroon Olympus Type IV “Metal” MC60 Microcassette, in a real-life scale. The front of the cassette is detailed with stickers that fairly realistically depict the printing on a Microcassette, including the edges of the two tape reels as seen through a window, with a playback time gauge included below. Stickers were also used to represent the holes for the cassette player’s pins, but actual holes (complete with a molded-in “tooth” look) are present for the player’s drive spindles. The back of the cassette is only decorated with molded-in robot details. Ramhorn transforms by extending his well-articulated die-cast metal legs from the bottom of the cassette, rotating a tail down from the back, and rotating the head out from the side of the tape. In lion mode, he has gold-chromed eyes, as well as articulated hips, knees, and paws. He is armed with two large chrome guns with vertically prodtruding wings, that plug into the hole through his rear body.
History[]
Cartoon[]
Ramhorn first appeared in The Transformers: The Movie, when Blaster ejected him and the rest of the Autobot cassettes during the attack on Autobot City, to battle the Decepticon cassettes who were attacking Perceptor.
He continued to appear during the third season, next appearing in "Forever is a Long Time Coming", where he was part of a team who escorted Perceptor to investigate time disturbance. They discovered the Quintessons opening up a time portal and Ramhorn and the rest of the escort fell through it, ending up on Cybertron eleven million years in the past, when it was still ruled by the Quintessons. They were saved from a group of Dark Guardian robots by Beta, a member of the Autobot resistance who, with the rebellion's leader A3 (a young Alpha Trion) having disappeared the other way through the portal, recruited them for their uprising. Ramhorn was the first to charge into battle against the Dark Guardians but the group were overcome. However, they were saved by the return of A3 with a device that shut down the Guardians, and Ramhorn and the others returned to their own time.
In "Madman's Paradise", Ramhorn was part of the team that searched for the missing Grimlock and Daniel Witwicky. He and Steeljaw helped Carly locate Daniel, after which Ramhorn shattered the boulder imprisoning the dimension's true ruler, the Golden One, allowing him to defeat the Red Wizard, a Quintesson criminal.
Ramhorn was seen in "The Quintesson Journal" helping Blaster, Sky Lynx and Outback investigate a Quintesson message buoy and in "The Ultimate Weapon" charging Galvatron. He last appeared in "Call of the Primitives", where he was among the animal-form Transformers summoned by Piranacron and transported aboard Trypticon. He fell in battle with the energy-draining Tornedron, fighting alongside Ravage, but was restored when Grimlock reversed Tornedron's energy drain.
Comics[]
Ramhorn appeared in Marvel UK's post-movie story "Space Pirates" where Hot Rod and Arcee activated him, Steeljaw and Rewind to help them battle the Quintessons attacking Autobot City.
Personality and Traits[]
Ramhorn's bio painted him as extremely unruly and bad-tempered, prone to destroying anyone who violates his territory. His charge is formidable enough to knock a train off its tracks or upend an 18-wheeler with one blow.
As a member of the Autobot communications sub-group Ramhorn frequently worked with its other members - Blaster, Eject, Rewind and Steeljaw.
