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====Bruticus Maximus====
One of the oldest and most iconic members of Starscream's Brigade, the Gestalt known as Bruticus Maximus is the combined form of a team of five Decepticon warriors - Onslaught, Blast Off, Vortex, Swindle and Brawl - who were once de-cerebrated on Megatron's orders under accusations of treachery. During the fall of Cybertron, Starscream personally snuck into the cerebral cortex storage unit, the infamous "Mind Prison", and rescued their brain units. Once the Slagmaker had disappeared, Starscream rebuilt the five and they swore loyalty to him as a result; despite their reputed treachery, the "Combaticons", as they call themselves, are renowned as the most loyal of Starscream's followers, something that has attracted sceptical curiosity from other Decepticons.

Although the individual Combaticons are deadly warriors in their own right, it is as Bruticus that they most shine. The Gestalt is a hulking figure the size of an Imperial [[Titan]], a juggernaut of destruction that ruins everything in his path. Adorned with thick armour and protective forcefields, and sporting a truly impressive array of weaponry, Bruticus would be a one-bot army anyway, but it is perhaps his flaws that make him truly deadly. Bruticus' component identities mesh together quite smoothly, united by a love of fighting and destruction, but this combined affinity for carnage is so strong as to overwhelm him. Bruticus appears in many aspects to be a simple-minded brute, incapable or perhaps just unwilling to listen to orders and thus limiting his tactical skills beyond being a "fire and forget" weapon.

When truly excited he goes into a rampage, singlemindedly obliterating anything not actively registered as friendly that happens across his path. Like his ally Piranahcon, he has been known to get so lost in the throes of combat that he will rampage for months at a time, stopping only after he completely exhausts himself. Starscream has sometimes had to go so far as to install a limiting device to keep Bruticus from going berserk, but his success record with this is rather spotty.