MorBot

MorBots are a subspecies of semi-sapient Cybertronians from the planet Earth.

Anatomy
MorBots share a similar biology to other Cybertronians, except they transform into armored assault tanks.

Powers and abilities
MorBots share many of the same abilities as other Cybertronians.

Constructed of the most advanced technology, MorBots are equipped with rocket boots and deadly weaponry such as giant cannons.

Weaknesses
MorBots share many of the same weaknesses as other Cybertronians.

Culture and society
Created by Dr. Thaddeus Morocco, the MorBots are partially autonomous Cybertronian drones, as their leader in the alternate timeline has been shown to be capable of speaking. However, none of the "main" timeline MorBots have been shown to be fully sentient until the Morocco virus uploaded Dr. Morocco's mind into the "MorBot 2.0" robot.

History
In 1939, following the arrival of the time-travelling Autobots from the future, Morocco had the robots' abilities studied, but when the tests yielded little information, he strung the robots up with electromagnets and prepared to vivisect them. The arrival of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee from the future stymied his plans.

But even as the robots and children escaped back to their future, Morocco discovered that they had accidentally left a small robot named Dither behind. Before he could examine it, however, the Rescue Bots returned to 1939, retrieving Dither. It is still possible, however, from the little information he may have been able to gather, he was still able to enginner a Morbot by 2012. Bot to the Future

After causing Doc Ezra Greene to be fired as Griffin Rock's lead scientist, Morocco sabotaged a road roller, allowing his MorBot to swoop in and save the day ahead of the Rescue Bots. The MorBot made short work of the roller, impressing Mayor H.B. Luskey, who agreed to let the MorBot enter into a competition with Chief Charlie Burn's team. Morocco engineered a fire at the dock, which the MorBot extinguished by diving into the sea and causing a giant wave. After the MorBot stopped both a runaway toy rocket and Doc Greene's solar car, the latter just before it would have squashed the mayor, Luskey was only too happy to promote Morocco to lead scientist.

The MorBot continued to rescue people, halting Mr. Harrison's runaway flight and retrieving Mister Pettypaws from a tree, though its rescue methods left something to be desired. It also guarded the laboratory and pursued Blades, Dani Burns, and Cody Burns when they tried to spy on Morocco. After Cody and Frankie Greene sneaked into the lab, they were spotted by Morocco, who sent the MorBot after them. Though carelessly knocking a grenade and causing an explosion, the MorBot pursued its quarry into Morocco's blimp. It was prevented from reaching the two children by a large door and by the time it broke through, Cody had landed the blimp. The MorBot jumped out to attack them, only to be surrounded by the Rescue Bots, who forcibly disassembled it.

Apparently, Morocco had built another MorBot, which stood aboard the bridge of Morocco's main sub, the Nemo, but rather than reactive it, Morocco had other plans. Double Villainy Doctor Morocco learned about the true nature of Griffin Rock's "rescue robots" when he sneaked into the firehouse, Changes and used the details he downloaded about the team and Optimus Prime to construct his next batch of MoroccoBots, fully functional duplicates of the Rescue Bots!

After returning to an empty firehouse from a rescue before everyone else, Blades was lured down into the bunker's caverns, captured by Morocco and replaced with a clone. After wiping Blades' memory, Morocco used the other duplicates to convince Blades of their mission, purportedly given to him by Optimus Prime, and of the "evil" Burns family. Subsequently, the Blades clone drew the other bots to a supposed cave-in, and they were switched as well.

Although the duplicates were able to fulfill the duties of the Bots they'd replaced, their human partners grew suspicious due to their brisk, literal, and unfriendly demeanor. To test their suspicions, the Burnses brought their "partners" to the EMP area at Griffin Crest. Without any objection, the robots entered, were zapped and shut down. Upon further inspection, Graham Burns was able to identify their true nature.

Doc Greene was studying the MorBot which the Rescue Bots had disassembled, keeping its head on a table in his lab much to Frankie's discomfort. Some mutant army ants were later able to reconnect the head's power supply, enabling the MorBot to reactivate and break Morocco out of jail. During his escape, the MorBot was devoured by the army ants.

The 3D printed Morocco virus was able to build a new, more advanced MorBot using items stolen from the Griffin Rock laboratory. He used the MorBot 2.0 to steal tech associated with the Scrubber Initiative, only for it to be blown up by a boobytrapped GroundBridge.

The MorBot 2.0 was soon repaired by the Scrubbers Morocco now controlled before he uploaded himself into it, effectively becoming the MorBot himself. This fusion of Morocco and MorBot ended up plunging into an undersea abyss after Morocco attempted to abduct Cody as his human partner.

Alternate history
Using technology from Dither, Morocco eventually created an army of "MorBot" automatons and took over Griffin Rock, redubbing it "Moropolis". When a team of Autobots returned from 1939, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee began trashing the Morbots, eventually wiping out all of them except the larger red MorBot that Morocco was driving.

The evil scientist drove the last MorBot after the rogue group as they headed for the Temporal Station they were using. Unfortunately, je was too late to stop them and crashed the MorBot into the time machine. The Autobots returned to 1939 to retrieve Dither, thereby erasing the Moropolis timeline.