Piranacon

Crashing onto the scene in 1988's The Transformers #49 — brought to life by writer Bob Budiansky and artist José Delbo — Piranacon is a Copper Age Decepticon presence whose very name conjures something fearsome lurking beneath the surface. This Marvel Comics creation shares the battlefield with titans like Megatron, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Jazz, and Blurr, which tells you everything about the high-stakes company this character keeps. Preserved across The Transformers and the Transformers Compendium, Piranacon's catalog footprint may be compact, but any character who debuted alongside that legendary roster and has endured in reprints across nearly four decades has clearly left a mark worth discovering.