Tentakil

Tentakil is a Decepticon who debuted in the Copper Age Marvel Transformers series. A menacing, tentacled transformer, he serves among the Decepticon forces opposing the Autobots in their ongoing war.

Tentakil slithered onto the scene in 1988's The Transformers #49, a Copper Age creation from the legendary Bob Budiansky and José Delbo that dropped this unsettling Decepticon into a Marvel universe already crackling with iconic rivalries. Though catalog appearances are few, Tentakil keeps genuinely elite company — sharing pages with titans like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Soundwave, Starscream, and Grimlock, which speaks to the high-stakes corners of the Transformers universe this character inhabits. The fact that Tentakil's presence has been preserved across nearly four decades of publishing, surfacing in both The Transformers and the Transformers Compendium, makes this a rewarding find for the dedicated collector who loves hunting the deeper roster of the Cybertronian war.