Donny Finkleberg

Debuting in 1986's The Transformers #15, Donny Finkleberg is one of Marvel's more delightfully human faces in the Transformers saga — a regular guy navigating a world suddenly overrun by giant warring robots. Created by the legendary Bob Budiansky and Don Perlin, he emerged during comics' Copper Age when the Transformers franchise was at its pop-culture peak, and his stories put him in remarkable proximity to heavy hitters like Megatron, Blaster, and Skids. With appearances collected across multiple Transformers volumes and even the Transformers Compendium, Donny is a small but genuine piece of the Marvel Transformers tapestry — the kind of underdog human character that gives the epic robot warfare its grounded, relatable heart.