"Logic is the ultimate weapon."

Allegiance: Autobot
Function: Military Strategist

First Cartoon Appearance:
episode 1
More than Meets the Eye
part 1

First Comics Appearance:
(Marvel) Transformers #1

Profile:  He is quiet, competent, and loyal, but perhaps his most valuable trait is his almost endless patience.  Once Prowl is assigned a task, he will keep at it until it is accomplished.  He works with proven facts, not imagination or guesses.  If he has any doubts, he will radio Optimus Prime his commander, before proceeding.  He hates doubts in any form and he strives to make everything he encounters reasonable and logical.  He believes it only when he can explain it.  On a personal level he is friendly, but not too sociable.  He's a listener, not a talker, unless someone says something unreasonable.  Then he will demand an explanation.

Abilities:  Prowl has the most sophisticated logic center of the Autobots, giving him the ability to analyze any combat situation instantaneously and then advise on the optimal course of action.  For example, Prowl can observe 800 moving objects, compute their probable paths of movement, and determine the proper countermove in 0.05 seconds.  From his shoulder cannons he can shoot wire guided incendiary missiles that reach temperatures of 12,000 degrees Centigrade upon explosion.,  He also carries a semi-automatic rifle that shoots pellets filled with a highly corrosive acid.  Its range is 300 yards.

Weaknesses: His dedication to logic and reason makes Prowl particularly vulnerable to the unexpected.   Irrational and inexplicable situations can really scramble his circuits, sometimes to the point of total shutdown of  his mechano-cortex center, leaving him temporarily dysfunctional.

Other Appearances:  There were in fact a LOT of other Prowl characters in the Transformers Universe.  Although he was not a 'classic pretender' he did come back as in Action Master form in 1990.  We saw another "Prowl" in 1997 Beast Wars as part of the Magnaboss combiner team.  Since this very intriguing version of Prowl was unfortunately never written into the shows there's no way to tell if he was the G1 original brought back to life from aboard the Ark to help the Maximal battles...  Or just a completely different individual.  There was also a Transmetal 2 Owl in 1999 (likely a different individual with the same name).  Then he came back as a vewry stylish new stylish new police car in 2001, Robots In Disguise line. And in 2004 TF Energon, a cybertronian police car also with the same name.  Although there is no official evidence to support this claim, I'm going to go on a limb and state my beliefe that the Energon version is, in fact the same individual; brought back from the dead after being killed by Megatron in Transformer the MOive 

 

 

TRIVIA! This interesting piece comes from Mkbauch who works with police, noted, "Back in the early 1900's and leading into the late 1940's, police cars were "effectionatly" referred to as prowl cars, simply because that's what they did.  They prowled the streets.  It wasn't until about 1950 or so that they started calling them "patrol" cars, to improve the police public image."

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