Prowl (Transformers) - Transformers Animated

Transformers Animated

Unlike most previous Autobots who used the name Prowl, who mostly became police cars, this character's earth alternate mode is a police motorcycle. On Cybertron, Prowl's alternate mode resembled a motorcycle but was longer and seemingly backwards. Despite the difference in appearance, Prowl's antenna on his forehead is similar to that of his G1 predecessor. Prowl appears in the Transformers Animated series in 2007-2008 as a skilled ninja. Prowl is very self-reliant, and often makes decisions without consulting his commander: Optimus Prime. However, he does care for the other Autobots and the creatures on Earth, but does not show that he does very often.

He is a master of Circuit-Su: the Cybertronian-based form of martial arts. He can project a holographic driver in vehicle mode as well as multiple holographic projections of himself during battle. Prowl is an expert in camouflaging himself. He can turn virtually any object into a weapon, but carries a pair of shuriken, too. He also has keener senses than the other Autobots. He has a retractable face plate which he sometimes uses in combat. Prowl has jets on his shoulders he can use to assist him in leaps or so seemingly fly for short distances, particularly useful in low gravity situations. It is also revealed in "Home Is Where the Spark Is" that Prowl is talented at playing Twister. He can also turn his legs into wheels to move quickly in robot mode over flat surfaces. His appearance in armor from the episode "A Fistful of Energon" makes him look like a samurai; in vehicle mode with his armor as a sidecar, he looks exactly like Kamen Rider Kaixa's Side Basshar His armor grants him increased strength, agility, and power, jump jet boosters, a sonic staff and arm shields among its powers. While he discarded the suit after realizing how it easily tempted him, Prowl takes full possession of another version of the armor as of "Five Servos Of Doom", along with the helmet of his mentor Yoketron.

Prowl is very reserved in nature, but does care for his teammates. Even when they think he's gone totally insane or vice-versa. Still even his reserved nature doesn't stop him from making an occasional joke or accusation. Like his fellow Cyber-Ninja Jazz, Prowl is fascinated by human culture and the simple, yet complex nuances of organic life. In "Human Error" Parts One and Two, Prowl's human form is basically the driver he projects in vehicle mode, a forty year old Caucasian male. He is the first to break Soundwave's control, and pretends to remain under the mind control during the final battle, possibly to test Sari. At the end, when Sari realizes that Prowl could've been helping her, she scolds him with "you, you big faker." Prowl responds with "I wasn't just faking."

According to art director Derrick J. Wyatt the early designs for Prowl had him colors more like Generation 1 Prowl, but they wanted to move him away from the white colors, since Ratchet was also primarily white. Instead, they used colors inspired by the motorcycles in CHiPs television series.