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{{Infobox character|
name =Finback
|image =finback-box.jpg
|caption =''Generation 1'' Finback in box
|affiliation =Decepticon
|subgroup =[[Pretenders (Transformers)|Pretenders]]
|rank =7
|function =Naval assault
|partner =
|motto ="''Ashes to ashes, rust to rust.''"
|alternatemodes =Cybertronian hovercraft
|series =''[[Transformers: Generation 1]]''
|voiceby =
|gender =Male
|first ="Pretender to the Throne", ''The Transformers'' #40 by Marvel Comics
}}
'''Finback''' is a [[fictional character]] from the [[Transformers]] series introduced in 1988. He is a Decepticon Pretender.

==Transformers: Generation 1==
Finback is [[Decepticon]] [[Pretenders (Transformers)|Pretender]] naval assault specialist, released as a toy in 1988.

===Reception===
Finback's alternate tech spec biography is considered endearing.<ref>{{cite book |title=Transformers Identification and Price Guide|last=Bellemo|first=Mark|year=2007|publisher= Krause Publications|ISBN=978-0-89689-445-7|page=203}}</ref>

===Fictional biography===
{{Quote|A freezing, wretched wreck in the making. Outer shell serves as container for his loose components. Enjoys making his enemies feel worse than he does. External, pressure-sensitive shell enables him to dive to a depth of 30,000 feet. Specially- reinforced scale armor is composed of "living" mecha-organisms that regenerate spontaneously to protect inner circuitry. Equipped with metal-corroding stun rifle that ensures the enemy in a layer of thick, vicious underwater slime. Transforms to high-speed hovercraft equipped with long range sonar and scanners. Also armed with jet-propelled, armor-piercing harpoon gun.}}

===Comics===
====Dreamwave Productions====
Finback appeared in the [[Dreamwave Productions]] ''Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye'' biography series.<ref>{{Comic book reference | writer = [[Adam Patyk]], [[Brad Mick]] | penciller = [[Don Figueroa]], [[Guido Guidi]], [[Mark Brooks (comics) |Mark Brooks]], [[Makoto Ono]], [[Ke Jiang]], [[Joe Ng]], [[Sanford Greene]], [[Alex Lin]], [[Matt Kuphaldt]], [[Dan Khanna]] | title = [[List of Transformers comic book series#Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye|Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye]] | Issue = 2 | date = May 2003 | publisher = [[Dreamwave Productions]]}}</ref>

====IDW Publishing====
Finback appeared amongst [[Bludgeon (Transformers)|Bludgeon]]'s acolytes ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer]]'', as he and his followers kidnapped [[Jetfire]] and the [[Technobots]], hoping to dissect them and use their parts to replicate the same grafting process that created [[Thunderwing]], giving them their own Pretender shells. Hacking into the monster's mind Bludgeon implanted a subconscious suggestion for Thunderwing to seek out and destroy entire planets, believing their sacrifice would enable Cybertron to be reborn, before unleashing the monster on [[Nebulos]]. However, their plans were stopped by the [[Wreckers (Transformers)|Wreckers]], who took out his cult. Finback was the first to be deactivated by barrage of weapon blasts. In desperation, Bludgeon underwent the grafting process only to find out, far too late, that the shell hadn't been neuro-aligned; the psychic backlash destroyed his mind.<ref>{{Comic book reference | writer = [[Simon Furman]] | penciller = [[Don Figueroa]] | title = [[The Transformers: Stormbringer]] | Issue = 1-4 | date = July-October 2006 | publisher = [[IDW Publishing]]}}</ref>

Finback and the Decepticon Pretenders seen here have completely different robot forms to their toys and bear resemblance to the original toys' Pretender shells.

====Marvel Comics====
Finback and the other original Decepticon Pretenders were presumably with the [[Scorponok]]'s Decepticons through ''[[The Transformers: Headmasters]]'' series, but were not depicted. His first appearance was in issue 40 of the US comic in a story called "Pretender to the Throne", where [[Scorponok]] created the first six Decepticon Pretenders.<ref>{{Comic book reference | writer = [[Bob Budiansky]] | penciller = [[José Delbo]] | title = [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]] | Issue = 40 | date = May 1988 | publisher = [[Marvel Comics]]}}</ref>

Finback appeared in issue #54, "King Con!" In this story the Decepticon Pretenders were assigned to protect a power converter Scorponok was building in the meadowlands of New Jersey.

Finback continued to appear after this as one of Scorponok's troops, and last appeared in issue 75 "On the Edge of Extinction." While manning a gun platform during [[Unicron]]'s attack on [[Cybertron (Marvel Comics)|Cybertron]], the weapon overloaded and exploded, killing him.

====Transformers: Mosaic====
Finback appeared in the ''[[Transformers: Mosaic]]'' story "History Repeats" by Franco Villa.<REF>http://transformers-mosaic.deviantart.com/art/quot-History-Repeats-quot-141850293</REF>

===Toys===
*'''''Generation 1'' Pretender Finback''' (1988)
:This Decepticon Pretender came with a shell shaped like a shark-like humanoid. <ref>{{Cite book | title=The Unofficial Guide to Transformers 1980s Through 1990s Revised & Expanded 2nd Edition | last=Alvarez | first=J.E. | year=2001 | publisher=Schiffer Publishing Ltd.| ISBN=0764313649 | page= 75}}</ref><REF>{{Cite journal | author = Jon & Carl Hartman | title = The Transformers: 1988 - Part 2 | journal = Lee's Action Figure News & Toy Review | volume = 1 | issue = 40 | pages = 68–69 | date = February 1996}}</REF>

==References==
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[[Category:1988 toys]]
[[Category:Decepticons]]
[[Category:Dreamwave Productions characters]]
[[Category:Fictional characters introduced in 1988]]
[[Category:Fictional undersea characters]]
[[Category:IDW Publishing characters]]
[[Category:Marvel Comics characters]]
[[Category:Pretenders (Transformers)]]
[[Category:Transformers: Mosaic characters]]

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