Slugbug was an unpopular door-kicker on Cybertron, whose altmode was a hydralic battering ram. When Slugbug got transferred to Earth, his teammates were anxious to get rid of him. Unwisely he asked their advice for choosing an altmode, and they told him about a vehicle company that assisted evil Nazis during WWII (Volkswagon), and a local creature known for its hard armored natural shell (a beetle). By the time Slugbug realized that a Volkswagon Beetle was not the fearsome war machine he'd been led to believe, it was too late, and he was stuck in the body of a minibot...