Tread

Tread is a Decepticon Constructicon from the Revenge of the Fallen franchise in the live-action film continuity family.

Tread and Trample are twin multi-armed excavators. They are loyal to Megatron and came to Earth with hopes of reviving their fallen leader. Tread, naturally, has a very close relationship to his twin. To a certain extent, each can tell what is happening to the other.

Fiction

The Veiled Threat

Kickback, Tread, and Trample came to Earth with the hope of reviving their leader Megatron. To complete this task, the three of them took on the forms of construction vehicles and set to work mining uranium in the Australian outback. With enough energy, they hoped to jump-start Megatron's spark.

However, NEST was able to pick up their intermittent power signature and sent a team to investigate. In the battle, Tread and Trample split up. Tread was going to keep Ironhide busy while Trample made quick work of Salvage, then the two of them could double-team the tougher Autobot. But Salvage was able to hold his own against Trample while Tread was losing ground against Ironhide. It was then that the human Kaminari Ishihara rushed onto the scene and into harm's way.

Tread took advantage of his knowledge of the Autobot's relationship to the humans and took Kami hostage hoping to negotiate his and Trample's escape. With the human in hand, Tread felt a surge of pain indicating that his twin had died. Things went from bad to worse for him when he found out the hard way that his hostage was not defenseless. Kami was able to get a point-blank shot from her EMP weapon right in Tread's face. The result was like pepper spray for humans and Tread dropped Kami. He was quickly finished off by Ironhide. The Veiled Threat

Notes

• Artist Steve Jung designed a clawed two-armed excavator for Revenge of the Fallen that went unused.[1]