Berserker

Berserker is a Decepticon from The Last Knight portion of the movie continuity family.

You can lift 600 pounds? Well I lift up MASTODONS! Huss! Huss!

Possibly the most homicidal Decepticon of all, Berserker is a seething ball of destructive energy, his lust for violence constant and irrepressible. Anyone and anything that gets in his way is torn to shreds, leading his allies and enemies alike to give him as wide a berth as possible.

By some miracle, the humans captured Berserker after he left countless bodies in his wake with their flesh sucked dry.^[1] He has been constantly struggling against his restraints, spitting out the most graphic threats imaginable, which have led to stronger restraints, which make Berserker even angrier... and the cycle continues. Naturally, Megatron wants this antisocial and impulsive maniac back in his ranks, but even he knows it's a tall order.

Fiction

The Last Knight film

Voice actor: uncredited (English), Haruo Yamagishi (Japanese), Zhang Yaohan (Chinese), Alessandro Messina (Italian), Esteban Desco (Latin-American Spanish)

Guess he didn't put his glasses on.

Berserker was among the Decepticons in T.R.F.'s custody. When T.R.F. was negotiating with Megatron, Megatron requested Berserker be one of the Decepticons released from custody to be part of his "crew". Berserker showed his violent temper when his mouth guard was released and he loudly threatened to drink the blood of his human captors. T.R.F. declined the request, claiming Berserker was far too dangerous to be released and that Megatron knew full well that his request was unreasonable. Megatron seemed to care little about the denial and merely settled on Onslaught instead. The Last Knight

Toys

The Last Knight

My Earthen mode is like a truck! BERSERKER!
Would you like some blow stuff up! BERSERKER!
My toy for you is twenty buck! BERSERKER!
Would you like some making truck! BERSERKER!!
(Did he just say 'making truck'?)

• Decepticon Berserker (Deluxe Class, 2017)

• Japanese release date: 2017-04-29
• Japanese ID number: TLK-03
• Accessories: 2 spiked weapons
• Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro)

Part of the first wave of The Last Knight Premier Edition Deluxe Class figures, Berserker changes from a Chevrolet Suburban to robot and back. He includes a pair of spiked weapons which he can hold via 5 mm post. They can hang off of his back panel by the small hooks on the handles, and store in the undercarriage of his vehicle mode. His hands also have two thumbs on opposite sides, which is awesome.

The vehicle mode kibble on his forearms is not affixed to him and merely pegs into sculpted slots on his arms. This leads to a somewhat weak hold and the kibble parts falling off during conversion. In vehicle mode, several of the tabs meant to hold the outer body together don't fit well, resulting in large gaps. The panels that form the back of the vehicle, in particular, have a tendency to pop out due to excessive pressure. It's best if you start at the front with the panels that tab into his hips and work your way backwards.

Berserker was the most commonly-found shelfwarmer of the first wave of his line, often filling entire pegs with unsold figures. Despite this, he eventually saw re-release as part of the fourth wave of Premier Edition Deluxes.

He was extensively retooled into Studio Series Crowbar and (strangely) Crankcase.

"Even if you force back what was lost, it still won't be the way it was."

• Decepticon Berserker (1-Step Turbo Changer, 2017)

• Japanese release date: 2017-07-15
• Japanese ID number: TLK-18

Released in the second wave of 1-Step Turbo-Changers, Berserker changes from an armored pick-up truck of fictitious origin to a robot when his spoiler and hood are folded upward. He has articulated shoulders and 5 mm compatible ports in his fists. Like all The Last Knight 1-Step Changers, he has a faction symbol hidden in UV-reactive paint to make him interact with the "Cyberfire" gimmick of Mega Turbo Changer Dragonstorm.

• Decepticon Berserker (Tiny Turbo Changer, 2017)

• Series: 2
• Bag code: C

Released in Series 2 of Tiny Turbo Changers, Berserker changes from a robot to a pick-up truck reminiscent of his 1-Step Turbo Changers toy. He features articulated shoulders and his hands can grip Cyberverse weapons and other 3 mm compatible posts.

This mold is also used to make Movie Edition Crankcase.

He's really more into tearing your limbs off with his bare hands anyway.

• Megatron & Decepticon Berserker (Mission to Cybertron 2-pack, 2017)

This Berserker is a redeco of Prime Legion Class Breakdown, transforming from robot into an armored car. The figure retains the 3 mm sockets to attach Cyberverse-scale weapons, but even though the official promotional images depict him with a black recolor of Breakdown's blaster (the plastic tray inside the packaging is even shaped specifically to accommodate it), the final product does not actually include said weapon.

This figure was only available in a two-pack with Megatron, unchanged from the standard Last Knight Legion Class figure, under the Autobots Unite subline imprint. This set was intended to be exclusive to Walmart stores in the United States, but although it was stocked by the Walmart US online store, it supposedly never actually made it to brick and mortar Walmart stores, instead ending up at US discount retailers, primarily Ross stores. Internationally, it was available in Hong Kong (possibly as a non-exclusive general retail release), at Walmart's subsidiary Asda in the United Kingdom, as a Prisma exclusive in Finland, and as a Walmart exclusive in Mexico. It was also listed at the websites of Dutch retailers Bart Smit and Intertoys (owned by the same parent company), but again, it's unsure if it was ever actually released in the Netherlands.

This sculpt was also used to make Fallback.

Notes

Anytime.

• Berserker was initially planned to use the robot design created by Ben Procter for Overload, with concept art produced under the designation "Bezerker".^[2] Berserker's final design reuses Crankcase's model, sporting a new color scheme that originated as part of a set of "anarchist" recolors of the Dreads, sporting crossed-through Autobot and Decepticon insignia. This concept art used Crankcase's preproduction name of "Dreadwind", perhaps indicating that the character may have been intended to be Crankcase at some point.^[3][4]
• Despite his very limited screen-time (8.39 seconds, all of which he spends locked in restraints), he received more toy representation than some of the more prominent Decepticons in the film–including Nitro Zeus, Onslaught, Dreadbot, and Mohawk, the latter three not receiving toys or merchandise at all during the time of The Last Knight's franchise.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Berserker (バーサーカー Bāsākā)
• Korean: Berserker (버서커 Beoseokeo)
• Mandarin: Kuángzhànshì (Taiwan, 狂戰士, "Berserker"), Kuángbàozhě (China, 狂暴者, "Berserker")

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