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Mini-Cons are a subspecies (or culture) of small-sized Cybertronian-like beings commonly found on Cybertron, though they also inhabit a variety of other colony worlds such as Prion and Gigantion.

Biology[]

Anatomy[]

Mini-Cons share a similar biology to other Cybertronians, especially Micromasters and Mini-Cassettes. However, Mini-Cons are naturally diminutive and overflow with energy. Mini-Cons are generally humanoid, though different types of animalistic robot modes also exist.

Powers and abilities[]

Mini-Cons chare many of the same abilities as other Cybertronians.

Most Mini-Cons possess the ability to impart a portion of this power on larger Cybertronians, granting them extra abilities or greatly increasing their strength through a process known as Powerlinxing. These mystical abilities are often connected to the influence of various godly beings.

Culture and society[]

Mini-Con insignia

The Mini-Con insignia

Mini-Cons share a similar culture as other Cybertronians. Regardless of their origins, a Mini-Con's abilities make them useful allies and valuable partners—valuable to the point where different factions have come into conflict over these deceptively powerful beings.

Religion[]

Mini-Cons are associated with either Micronus Prime, the Last Autobot, or even Unicron.

Gallery[]

Autobot Mini-Cons[]

Street Action Mini-Con Team[]

Extreme Competition Team[]

City Stealth Team[]

Stealth Augmentation Team[]

Decepticon Mini-Cons[]

Mini-Con Assault Team[]

Gigantion Mini-Cons[]

Recon Mini-Con Team[]

Giant Planet Mini-Con Team[]

Steel Reinforcement Team[]

X-Dimension Mini-Cons[]

Urban Protection Team[]

Animatronian Mini-Cons[]

Combatronian Mini-Cons[]

Dinobot Mini-Cons[]

Mini-Con Headmasters[]

Mini-Con Combiners[]

TransTech Mini-Cons[]

Miscellaneous[]

Rouge Team[]

Notes[]

  • The Mini-Cons are generally inhabitants of Cybertron in any Transformers media they appear in with a few exceptions. For example, the Cybertron franchise features Mini-Cons from each of the prominent Cybertronian colonies whereas the 2005 IDW continuity refers to them as inhabitants of Prion.
  • Several Mini-Con teams were not established till 2015, when the Facebook edition of Ask Vector Prime established repurposed the Exdimension Mini-Cons as new characters utilizing their Japanese names.
  • According to Hirofumi Ichikawa, the original idea for the Omnicons and Terrorcons by the design departments of both Hasbro and Takara was for them to be evolved Mini-Cons. Transformers: Super Cross, a scrapped early proposal for what would eventually become Transformers: Energon, tied this evolution to Unicron's energy mutating captive Autobots, Decepticons, and Mini-Cons alike into new forms.
    • By the time Energon entered early development, Takara's marketing department (i.e. the only people from Takara ever directly talking to We've Inc.) completely ignored this idea. Henceforth, the final cartoon established its own backstory for the Omnicons and Terrorcons. When Ichikawa found out about that, he never bothered trying to link his Linkage comic and the Superlink cartoon.
    • A remnant of this concept may have persisted into Dreamwave's short-lived Transformers: Energon comic. Issue #19 shows the Omnicons living in the former Mini-Con villages, while Over-Run describes them as the product of an "evolutionary step". However, it is not outright established that they are evolved Mini-Cons.
  • Several Mini-Con character share similar designs across multiple continuities. For example, Knockdown appeared in the Transformers: Cybertron toyline as an Animatronian Mini-Con and the Generation 1-inspired Classics as a Dinobot Mini-Con.
  • Mini-Cons were slated to appear in a Gulliver's Travels-inspired episode of the ultimately unproduced fourth season of Transformers: Animated titled "Land of the Mini-Cons", in which a transwarp mishap would dumped Bumblebee on a planet populated by Mini-Cons that would have worshipped him as a god.
    • When the season's story was reworked at Hasbro's request for the show to have parallels to the live-action film series, Mini-Cons were given a larger role as guards who nominally ran Trypticon Prison before being reprogrammed to serve Megatron and brought to Earth after he teleported the prison complex to Earth in the movie-length season premiere "Trail of Megatron".
    • In the episode pitch "Gremlins in the Gears", the Mini-Cons of Kaon would have run amuck in Detroit by disassembling Autobots and other machinery they come across. The crisis would have prompted Ratchet and Captain Fanzone to team up to stop the renegade Mini-Cons.
  • Soundwave's Transformers Hall of Fame bio and Transformers Roleplaying Game both classify the Mini-Cassettes as Mini-Cons.
    • The latter also describes Fistfight as a Mini-Con, even though he is typically an Action Master partner. This is because the game rules unliterally apply the term to pretty every smaller-than-normal Cybertronian featured.
  • The Mini-Con Assault Team are exclusively portrayed as Mini-Cons in the Generations: Thrilling 30 toyline and Transformers: Legends mobile game, being alternatively portrayed as Ammonites in the 2005 IDW continuity.
  • In Beast Wars: Uprising, many Mini-Cons with vehicular alternate modes are reinterpreted as either Micromasters or Targetmasters. This is probably a reference to how the line between the aforementioned concepts has blurred substantially over the years.
    • Likewise, Mini-Cons with bestial alternate modes are portrayed in this continuity as full-sized Maximals or Predacons.
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