Warthog is a recurring vehicle in the Twisted Metal series, and is one of the 13 original vehicles. Warthog has always had strong armor and poor speed in almost all installments of the Twisted Metal series.

The drivers of Warthog have been mostly those who have served in the armed forces through most of the Twisted Metal franchise except in Twisted Metal: Black.

In most appearances, Warthog is depicted as a US Army Humvee, however in Black and the 2012 game, Warthog is depicted as a station wagon strapped on top of tank treads.

Contents 1 Twisted Metal 2 Twisted Metal 2 3 Twisted Metal 3 4 Twisted Metal 4 4.1 Driver 4.2 Vehicle 5 Twisted Metal: Black 6 Twisted Metal: Small Brawl 6.1 Driver 6.2 Vehicle 7 Twisted Metal: Head-On 7.1 Character Info 8 Twisted Metal: Lost 9 Twisted Metal (2012) 10 Trivia

Twisted MetalEdit

Vehicle: AM General HMMWV / Warthog

Slower than most of this year's competitors, but with a mean special weapon and a tons of armor, it doesn't need to be fast.

Driver: Commander Mason

Commander Mason is working for the U.S. government. He's hoping Calypso can help him retrieve an item so powerful it could destroy the world!

Vehicle Type: Humvee

Special Weapon: 3/5

• XQJ-37 Hornets: Nail an enemy with all 3 of these homing missiles for some major damage!

Shoots out three homing missiles that if they reunite together, deals a great amount of damage.

Speed: 1/5

Handling: 2/5

Armor: 4/5

License Plate: UESUVA (U.S of A)

Twisted Metal 2Edit

Vehicle: AM General HMMWV / Warthog

Driver: Captain Rogers

Vehicle Type: Humvee

Handling: Sluggish

Armor: 4/5

Special Weapon: 3/5

• Patriot Missiles: A cluster of powerful missiles that home in on the nearest enemy. The longer the missiles are in the air, the more powerful they become. However, if you are too far away from a target missiles will harmlessly crash into the environment.

Speed: 2/5

License Plate: LUKET MYHED (Look At My Head)

Twisted Metal 3Edit

Vehicle: AM General HMMWV / Warthog

Driver: Captain Rogers

Vehicle Type: Humvee

Handling: Sluggish

Armor: 4/5

Special Weapon: 3/5

• Patriot Missiles: Three missiles that swarm their target like killer bees.

Speed: 2/5

The driver of Warthog in TM3 is Captain Rogers, Who has entered Calypso's contest to get a head to match the body that he got in last year's competition.

Twisted Metal 4Edit

DriverEdit

Name: General Warthog

Demeanor: Twisted

• "I commanded an army once. It was a great army. Now computers are in command of all this circuitry and firepower. Ha! Well I'm from the old days! Where wars were fought not calculated. I'll have an army yet that will have no losses, no fear and no equal!"

VehicleEdit

Type: WW1 Tank

Handling: 1/5

Armor: 4/5

Speed: 2/5

Special Weapon: 4/5

• Ion Pad: General Warthog plants a marker/target which initializes an ion satellite and later activates a powerful ion blast.

Info and Ending:

Twisted Metal: BlackEdit

Twisted Metal: Black was the first time in the series where Warthog's driver wasn't in the military. The vehicle is a set of tank treads with the body of a station wagon chained on top, rather than a Humvee.

Vehicle: Chevrolet Cavalier Wagon 'Warthog'

Driver: Cage

Vehicle Type: Stationwagon with Tank

Control: 4/10

Speed: 5/10

Armor: 9/10

Special Weapon: 7/10

• Tank Trample

• Flame Thrower: Once you have an enemy in your sight, press the Fire button to release a huge stream of flames from Warthog's cannon. Most effective while being aimed directly towards a single opponent; it can also be used to engulf a large group of opponents in fire.

Not much is known about Cage, but as hinted from his loading screen quotes and ending movie, he wishes that Calypso can remove the part of his body that makes him engulfed in sadness every time he kills a human. Calypso grants his wish, and as a bonus, he slices Cage's hands off and replaces them with blades. Cage now wishes to go toe-to-toe with Needles Kane, the driver of Sweet Tooth.

Twisted Metal: Small BrawlEdit

This little soldier is tired of being picked on by Calypso. After one last trip into the school trash can, he decided he's had enough. If it's a war Calypso wants, then it's a war Calypso's gonna get!

DriverEdit

Name: Warthog

VehicleEdit

Warthog fires off a barrage of 3 red, white, and blue homing missiles.

Vehicle Type: Off-road Assault Vehicle

Armor: 2/10

Acceleration: 7/10

Top Speed: 6/10

Handling: 7/10

Special: Special involves 3 missiles that lock on the closest player.

This incarnation of Warthog is nontraditional, as his acceleration, speed, and handling are juiced up. However, his armor was drained heavily.

Ending:

Twisted Metal: Head-OnEdit

Warthog is driven by Colonel Hall who wants to have an ultimate weapon to kill all the evil-doers in the world.

Character InfoEdit

Colonel Hall wanted to be a military man since he was a little kid. Right from the start he excelled at all forms of combat, and tactics came naturally to him. The army has sent him to compete in Twisted Metal wish for an ultimate weapon. When he wins, Colonel Hall wishes for an ultimate weapon; something that will enable him to easily take out all the evil-doers of the world.

Special: Patriot Missiles

Shoots 3 homing missiles (the smoke is Red, White and Blue).

Colonel Hall wishes to get an ultimate weapon to eradicate all evil-doers in the world. When he approaches Calypso in his Stronghold, he remarks that he hates the so called "SCUM" of the earth, and Calypso, being the generous man, gives him a Glock pistol. Colonel Hall then remarks, "THIS is my ultimate weapon?!" Calypso, not wanting to displease this greedy contestant, snaps his fingers, turning the Glock into an alien raygun. Hall salutes Calypso, then runs off to a drug cartel in Brazil. Colonel Hall then murders the drug lords that keep the teenagers prisoner. But as it turns out, the kids actually liked the drug lords, so they pull out pistols and murder Colonel Hall.

Ending:

Twisted Metal: LostEdit

Driver: Cage

Warthog reappeared in Twisted Metal: Lost, looking the same as it did in Twisted Metal: Black. His character info states that he attempted to become a greater killer than Sweet Tooth, who chopped off his legs and arms but kept him alive. It's a mystery how he can still drive.

Twisted Metal (2012)Edit

Warthog is a returning vehicle in Twisted Metal (2012) and is nearly identical to the version from Twisted Metal: Black.

Its primary special attack "Super Crush", lets you lift up on your rear treads and allows you to drive over opponents, literally crushing them. The secondary special "Crowd Controller" also lifts up on your rear treads as you charge up the fire button (R2) and slams on the ground, sending out a frontal-cone shockwave that can knock back enemies caught in the blast radius.

Warthog is unlocked by attaining a gold medal in every event in the Story Mode on Twisted difficulty (the hardest difficulty). This unlocks the vehicle for use in both single player and multiplayer.

Warthog has the second most hit points in the Twisted Metal (2012), with 300 HP, behind Juggernaut with 400, and ahead Darkside with 280.

Be cautious when using Warthog's specials as both will expose a weak spot underneath the chassis (the glowing red square). All attacks fired here will inflict two times the damage.

The in-game selection screen lists Warthog's secondary special as "Mega Gun Turret", where in fact, the vehicle has no such special.

TriviaEdit

• In Twisted Metal: Black, the Warthog vehicle has nothing to do with the other Warthog vehicles. It was actually going to be named White Knight.
• Warthog is one of the only vehicles to have been featured in all of the Twisted Metal games, the others being Mr. Grimm and Sweet Tooth.
• In Twisted Metal 2, Warthog appears to have 6 wheels in the ending cut scene, the way Warthog in Twisted Metal does. However, the vehicle in the game has only 4 wheels.
• In Twisted Metal: Small Brawl, Warthog is statistically different, having poor armor and decent speed.
• In Twisted Metal: Black, during Warthog's ending cut scene when Warhawk explodes, you can see that the vehicle on the building below is Axel, not Warthog.
• In the original Twisted Metal, Warthog's license plate reads "UESUVA," which is based on the phrase "U S of A," which is a variation on USA, the abbreviation of United States of America. In Twisted Metal 2, its license plate reads "LUKETMYHED" (Look at my head), a foreshadowing to the vehicle's ending cutscene.

v - d - e Vehicles
Twisted Metal
Sweet Tooth - Yellow Jacket - Darkside - Thumper - Outlaw - Mr. Grimm - Warthog - Crimson Fury - Pit Viper - Hammerhead - Spectre - Roadkill - Minion
Twisted Metal 2
Grasshopper - Twister - Axel - Mr. Slam - Shadow - Dark Tooth
Twisted Metal III
Auger - Club Kid - Firestarter - Flower Power - Primeval
Twisted Metal 4
Orbital - Pizza Boy - Quatro - Goggle Eyes - Meter Maid - Trash Man - The Joneses - Drag Queen - Rob Zombie - Micro Blast - Moon Buggy - RC Car - Crusher
Twisted Metal: Black
Brimstone - Crazy 8 - Junkyard Dog - Manslaughter - Tanker - Warhawk
Twisted Metal: Small Brawl
Mime - Trapper - Piecemeal
Twisted Metal: Head-On
ATV - Cousin Eddy - Tower Tooth
Twisted Metal: Lost
12-Pak - Gold Tooth
Twisted Metal (2012)
Death Warrant - Juggernaut - Kamikaze - Meat Wagon - Reaper - Road Boat - Talon - Vermin - Slayer - Iron Maiden - Sweet Tooth's Carnival of Carnage