Wheeljack is not a front-line fighter, not when he doesn't have to be. Never has been. His forte is in engineering - designing and producing the offensive and defensive means to keep his companions safe, alive, and able to fight those who seek to take their lives or their freedom from them. For the majority of his very long life and even up to the moment of his death "back home", that had been the Decepticons . . . but the need to fight, to stand for himself, for those around him, for things bigger than any of them, is something he's come to understand is universal in ways he's still learning to fully appreciate.

He's not a great hand-to-hand fighter, and he's no sniper either, but he's brought out an array of devices, shields, and ranged weapons - both from the Warehouse and from his own personal stock of projects and inventions - that people are welcome to take and use. And you better believe that he'll be putting them to use himself as well!