Arc-welder rifle

The Autobot architect Grapple carries an arc-welder rifle.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

In robot mode, Grapple used a high temperature arc-welder rifle that shot a stream of concentrated infrared energy which could slice through and/or fuse its targets. Grapple's Universe profile

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Grapple carried an arc-welder rifle that he mostly used for technical work, but which could also function as a dangerous weapon at close range. Grapple's More than Meets the Eye profile

Toys

The Transformers

• Grapple (Autobot Car, 1985)

• Accessories: left & right fists, arc-welder rifle, 3 rockets

The Transformers Grapple could be armed with a small black arc-welder rifle in robot mode.

This mold was variously retooled and redecoed to make The Transformers Inferno, e-HOBBY RoadHauler, and The Headmasters Artfire. All except Artfire—due to his Targetmaster gimmick—came with a more or less identical weapon; Inferno's is an extinguisher rifle, while RoadHauler carries a vibro-force gun.

Grapple was reissued as part of Japan's Collector's Edition series 2001 and slightly retooled and redecoed by Hasbro in 2004 for the Generation One Commemorative Series VI, though with no significant changes to the arc-welder rifle.

Masterpiece

• Grapple (February 25, 2017)

• Accessories: arc-welder rifle, 2 headpieces, 4 faces, 2 wrist barrel attachments, 2 chestplates, Solar Power Tower model, Solar Power Tower blueprint, screwdriver, shovel attachment, claw attachment, die-cast Ultra Magnus figure (Asia release)

Masterpiece Grapple came with many accessories, including a suitably upscaled arc-welder rifle, which is called out in big letters on the packaging with its own section beneath. It is, of course, very similar to the extinguisher rifles carried by Masterpiece Inferno and Artfire.