Crustacion

Crustacion is a Decepticon from the Robots in Disguise portion of the Aligned continuity family.

When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer: superstition ain't the way.

One of Cybertron's most wanted criminals, Crustacion would probably be the greatest thief if it weren't for his single-minded obsessiveness getting in the way. It's not just his rabid focus on protecting his loot, which sometimes reaches the point of ignoring more pressing problems. He is also incredibly superstitious, believing that luck is the overriding factor that guides his successes and failures. Thus he tends to stumble along moment-to-moment with little forethought or reflection, not noticing incredibly simple mistakes that can snowball into colossal problems, like which way he's holding his map.

It's probably a good thing that he's got ample prawn brawn to compensate for his lack of brain: his strength lets him go toe-to-toe with Dinobots, and his built-in optic blasters allows him to take potshots at his pursuers from afar.

Fiction

2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon

Voice actor: Chris Edgerly (English), Olivier Cuvellier (French)

Very superstitious, the devil's on his way.

Rid me of the problems, do all that you can.

Crustacion broke into the Treasury Building, stealing a fortune in Shanix which he took to Earth to conceal. He was apprehended in Antarctica by Windblade, who stored him in a cache along with some other supplies. Some time later, the ice thawed, freeing him from his stasis pod and he began searching for the Shanix he'd stolen. Spying a nearby human base, he spent some time searching through it for his loot, and it was here that Bee Team found him. After fighting them off, he managed to find the rest of Windblade's cache and started drilling into it with his optic blasters, however it only contained energon cubes and a grenade. The Autobots caught up with him, causing him to turn tail and lead them on a chase through an ice tunnel which terminated in a dead end, at which point he brought the tunnel down on them. His search next led him to the sea floor, where his attempts to drill downwards were interrupted by the arrival of Bumblebee, Drift and Grimlock — though the first two proved no problem, the Dinobot defeated him soundly. The Autobots later took him back to the scrapyard. Defrosted

Crustacion's Shanix were eventually found in Antarctica by humans, not far from where the Autobots battled him, and were transferred to the Crown City Natural History Museum. Shadow Raker and Drift's Mini-Cons, Jetstorm and Slipstream, who were pretending to be Decepticons, later went to the Museum to pick them up before being stopped by the Autobots. Out of the Shadows

Crustacion's stasis pod was later taken aboard Prime Force One by Optimus Prime and Drift. Moon Breaker

Notes

• Crustacion reuses Ped's character model, giving him a different head. Unlike Ped, he doesn't seem to be bothered by his own body-type and is described by Russell as a "Shrimp-Bot", as opposed to a "Bot-worm".
• The synopsis for "Defrosted" released through TV listings services referred to Crustacion as Prong, presumably an early working name for the character.