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Nightbird (G1)

2006-08-11T02:05:04Z

216.208.154.182: /* Apocrypha */

''Nightbird was [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron's]] precious cuddle-wumpus in [[Generation 1]] continuity''

[[Image:Nightbird g1.jpg|thumb|Famous Science]]
==Generation 1==
===Animated Continuity===

'''Nightbird''' was a robotic ninja warrior created by the "famous scientist" [[Doctor Fujiyama (G1)|Doctor Fujiyama]], ostensibly to show how advanced [[Human]] technology had become. The [[Decepticon]]s stole Nightbird, and [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] implanted her with an enhanced brain chip which turned the drone-like Nightbird into a true ass-kicking machine. Nightbird broke into the [[Ark]] and stole the [[Autobot]]s' [[World Energy Chip]], which contained the locations of a variety of energy sources, energy sources that the Decepticons would most assuredly use for conquest!

The Autobots were, at first, hampered by their promise to Doctor Fujiyama not to damage or destroy the ninja robot, and found themselves flustered in botched attempts to capture her. Eventually, however, they used an [[Energy_Net|Energy Net]] which drained Nightbird's power reserves and allowed the Autobots to capture her without serious damage.

Doctor Fujiyama placed Nightbird into cold storage, but apparently didn't see fit to fully deactivate her, as she seems aware of her plight and gives an angry glare as she's stored away.

===3H Wreckers Comics===
In 2025 or so Fujiyama built an entire army of Nightbird drones. [[Daniel Witwicky]] detonated an explosive to destroy them, killing himself and [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] in the process. This event caused [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] to enter a deep depression, setting the stage for her personality change as she became a Wrecker.

Presumably, the Nighbird drones were all destroyed, since they are never seen or mentioned again.

===Dreamwave===
In the Dreamwave comics, a science fiction movie ''Enter the Nightbird'' featured Nightbird kicking shiny metal robo-ass.

==Trivia==
''The Chiba Institute of Technology actually [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4263 built] a ninja robot in 2003. Martial arts is used as a benchmark of physical dexterity in robotics.''

==Apocrypha==
Various fan fiction authors have paired Nightbord with Megatron as a potential love interest, based on a few lines of dialog where Megatron declares how impressed he is of her skills. Some fans have deliberately misinterpreted these lines as cries of affection, something that Megatron has never shown being capable of (not that it comes up much in the cartoon).

It's unlikely that Megatron would regard Nightbird as a 'real' robot (IE, a Cybertronian), since she had no personality component to speak of, and showed no signs of a personality or much capability for independant thought - except the sole angry glare as she's being shoved into storage.

==External Links==
[http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4263 Ninja Robot Built to Benefit Mankind]

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Daniel Witwicky (G1)

2006-08-11T02:03:50Z

216.208.154.182: /* Generation 1 Cartoon */

[[Image:Dannigun.jpg|thumb|Give a boy a gun and you arm him for a day. Teach him how to '''make''' a gun... and the whole metaphor breaks down]]

''Daniel Witwicky is a human in [[Generation 1]] continuity.''

'''Daniel Witwicky''' is the human son of [[Spike Witwicky|Spike]] and [[Carly|Carly Witwicky]]. He is approximately 12 years of age in 2005, and was presumably born sometime between 1990 and 1993. He is the grandson of [[Sparkplug Witwicky]].

Daniel often gets into trouble, which requires either his father or the [[Autobots]] to save him.

Daniel is the [[Headmaster]] partner to [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]].

=Fiction=
===Generation 1 Cartoon===
'''Voice actor:''' [[David Mendenhall]] (US), Mayumi Tanaka → Masumi Gotō → [[Tomiko Suzuki]] (Japan)

In the year 2005, Daniel appeared to be in the care of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] at [[Metroplex (G1)|Autobot City]] while his father was preparing for an assault on the [[Decepticon]]-held planet [[Cybertron]] from [[Moonbase 1]].

Following a brutal Decepticon attack on the city (in which he was almost killed), Daniel tearfully witnessed the death of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], sobbing on the fallen commander's hand as the color left his corpse.

Escaping from a second Decepticon attack, Daniel and a group of Autobots were stranded on [[Junkion (planet)]], where Daniel donned his father's old exo-suit to weather the harsh environment. He did not get much time to enjoy the suit, as yet ''another'' Decepticon assault left [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] dead and stirred the native [[Junkion|Junkions]] into violent action. Daniel proved his worth in this battle by smacking Junkion leader [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] with an I-beam, saving a prone [[Springer (G1)|Springer]].

Hostilities with the Junkions were settled with the arrival of Hot Rod and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]], Ultra Magnus was revived, and a brief celebration was held wherein Daniel showed he could boogey down.

Daniel joined the combined Autobot-Junkion attack force in the assault on [[Unicron]]. He was on the ship that plunged into Unicron's eye, and soon became separated from the main Autobot group. As luck would have it, he ended up in Unicron's acid-based digestion center, where he was able to save his father, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] from certain death.

Daniel and the rest soon met up with the other Autobots inside of Unicron. Everything around them was exploding! And then came this [[Rodimus Prime (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] guy. Spike and Daniel hopped into his front seat, all of the Autobots drove out of Unicron's undamaged eye, ''through space'' (!), and back to Cybertron as Unicron blew up. Daniel looked on as Rodimus gave a heroic speech.

Daniel would subsequently be around to watch his father get kidnapped by [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]], witness [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s revival as a zombie, become the subject of a Quintesson dream/reality experiment, try to determine Ultra Magnus's birthday, bring a mad Quintesson wizard to justice, and steal [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s transforming cog.

Following those adventures, Daniel took on the role of "chew-toy" and was seriously injured in an attack by [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] and required extensive life support. [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] volunteered her own systems to assist in saving Daniel's life. Her head was reconfigured into an [[exo-suit]], and allowed Daniel to become Arcee's [[Headmaster]] partner.

Daniel is good friends with both [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] and [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]].

===The Headmasters===

''(The Headmasters anime ignores the events of the 3-part "The Rebirth" story arc.)''

In 2011, Daniel seemed to be regressing in maturity. He hung out with [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] a whole lot more than was probably healthy, and the two shared constant adventures. In fact, at one point, Daniel and Wheelie defeated [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] by tricking him into trying to walk a rope bridge across a deep gorge.

As the series progressed, Daniel changed from a snot-nosed little cry-baby into a responsible young man. These coming-of-age adventures included traveling alone to a robot-killing asteroid, befriending the murderous psychopath, [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]], and finally rescuing his Mom from inside a narrow crevice she had tumbled into, injuring herself.

Real men don't cry, Danny.

===The Headmasters Manga===

[[Image:DanielWheelie.jpg|left|200px|thumb|I find this picture works better WITHOUT the captions.]]

Shortly after [[Scorponok (G1)|Mega Zarak]] and the Decepticons were driven from Earth, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundblaster]] showed up and took Daniel's family hostage. Not havin' none-a that, Daniel finally snapped. He went insane and took on both [[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]] and [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] in a bare-knuckle brawl, defeating the pair of Cassette dinosaurs and leaving Soundblaster open to an attack from [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]].

===Marvel Comics===
[[Image:Danieluk.jpg|right|thumb|Sweet sixteen.]]

In 2009, the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] and the rest of the Decepticons rampaged across Earth unhindered, and Daniel and his father Spike were rescued from the carnage by [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]. Kup brought them to Autobot City, where Daniel convinced [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] that he wasn't devoting enough resources towards defending Earth.

===Universe: The Wreckers===

[[Image:Wheeliewreckers.jpg|100px|left|thumb|Making Daniel badass risks destroying reality as we know it.]] Daniel detonated an explosive to destroy a legion of [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]] drones, killing himself and [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] in the process. This event caused [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] to enter a deep depression, setting the stage for her personality change as she became a Wrecker.

===Dreamwave Generation 1===

Daniel could be seen running around his home with his father, Spike. He wears pajamas to bed.

===Coloring Books===
In ''The Lost Treasure of Cybertron'', [[Buster Witwicky]] and [[Jesse]] were portrayed as Daniel's parents. Daniel, however, looked the same as he always did.

=Toys=

===Generation 1===
*A pink [[redeco]] of [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] as Headmaster Arcee was considered by Takara at one time. Presumably Daniel would have been the Headmaster partner.

===Super Figure Collection===
*A PVC figure of Daniel in his exo-suit was released in Takara's Super Figure Collection series.

=Additional notes=
* In Japanese continuity, it is not explained why Daniel did not seem to age between the animated film, which took place in 2005, and their season three, which took place in 2010. To the contrary, in Headmasters his mental age seemed to regress.

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Spike Witwicky (G1)

2006-08-11T02:00:32Z

216.208.154.182: /* Animated continuity */

[[Image:SpikeWitwicky.jpg|thumb|right|250px|And people complain about Rad?]]

'''Spike Witwicky''' is the oldest (or only) son of [[Sparkplug Witwicky]].

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
'''Voice Actor:''' [[Corey Burton]] (US), [[Show Hayami]] → [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japan)

Spike was an adolescent woking with his father [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] on an oil rig, when the Decepticons attacked. After the Autobots rescued them, they volunteered to become their native guides to planet Earth.

Spike had many adventures with the Autobots. In the course of these adventures he met [[Carly Witwicky|Carly]] an impetuous prodigy and MIT graduate. Despite being smarter than him, older than thim (she could drive) and hotter than him, Carly displayed a noticable affection for the somewhat-dim Spike. They mated and produced [[Daniel Witwicky|offspring]].

Spike later become an ambassador or something and then a Headmaster partner to [[Cerebros|Cerebros]]. He polished up good.

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
''(Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)''

Spike Witwicky was away at college for the first few years of the Autobot/Decepticon war on Earth until he returned home to find his younger brother [[Buster_Witwicky|Buster]] kidnapped by the Decepticons. Spike soon became the binary-bond partner to the [[Headmasters|Headmaster]] [[Fortress_Maximus_(G1)|Fortress Maximus]], after Fortress Maximus' first partner, [[Galen]], was killed in a battle with the Deception [[Scorponok_(G1)|Scorponok]].

[[Image:Spikewitwicky2009.jpg|150px|right|thumb|In 2009, jheri curls return with a vengeance. Just you wait.]]
[[Image:Spikewitwickytimewars.jpg|150px|left|thumb|White jumpsuits were so 2006.]]
''In an alternate timeline in the year 2009, Decepticons had built a machine to destroy Earth while a space-time anomaly was eating entire planets. After [[Hot Rod|Rodimus Prime]] orchestrated a plan to travel twenty years back in time to the source of the anomaly, Spike Witwicky and his son Daniel accused Rodimus of shirking his responsibilities towards Earth and guilted Rodimus into allotting more troops to help destroy the Decepticons' machine.''

In another alternate timeline in the year 2009, Spike Witwicky was part of a very small Autobot/human resistance movement in a world where [[Galvatron II]]'s Decepticons controlled North America. The handful of Autobots who remained alive despaired and were on the cusp of giving up, but Spike and [[Lisa]] (who shared growing feelings for each other) guilted them into one last suicidal attack on Decepticon headquarters in New York before the rest of the world could unleash a nuclear holocaust onto America at midnight. Though there were several casualties, Spike managed to hoist an American flag on the Decepticon stronghold on live television, a symbollic measure which prompted the end of the planned nuclear strike. Before Galvatron II could respond, the Decepticon despot was abducted by [[Hook (G1) (herald)|Hook]], [[Line]], and [[Sinker]] into another timeline.

====Generation 2====
He blowed up '''good.

===Dreamwave Comics continuity===

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
* '''Fortress Maximus with Spike''' (Headmaster, 1987)
:Spike was a [[Headmaster]] figure who came with [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. Gray and blue, he transformed into [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]]' head, who then in turn became Fortress Maximus' head. Although the tech specs referred to 'the Nebulan leader, Spike', most assume it was supposed to represent the character from TV, making this the first Transformers toy of an Earth human.

===Heroes of Cybertron===
*'''Autobot Espionage Team'''
:PVC figures of Spike and [[Bumblebee]] came sold together as "Autobot Espionage Team." (At this point, Hasbro did not have the trademark rights to Bumblebee's name.) The two came packaged with HOC Fortress Maximus' right leg.

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