Actually, guys, he was based off of Hurricane, an obscure Autobot from the post-G1, pre-G2 TFs. Yup. ...DAMMIT I MISSED THE CHANCE TO MAKE A FURMANISM WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Yeaaaah... they probably should've made more in hindsight, but they didn't foresee anyone trying to screw up their operation. They kept the combiner project pretty heavily under wraps. In fact, Shockwave didn't even know it existed until he hacked their computers. Yay! Yes, let's. "And I'll form... the HEAD!" It's a nickname given to him by the Autobots. Back in the war, all anyone knew about him was that he had one eye (pretty much everything else was a bunch of rumors) so they referred to him as "The Cyclops", for lack of a better name. Welp, Ranger Silver 6 predicted the outcome of this act. Show's over, everyone go home.