Dreadwind (G1)

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:''Dreadwind is a [[Decepticon]] [[Powermaster]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Dreadwindboxart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|*blam blam blam* Why does no one like me? *blam blam blam*]]
''"As ominous as a storm cloud and as chilling as a winter breeze."'' Not everyone could make [[Dead End (G1)| Dead End]] look fun by comparison, but '''Dreadwind''' manages just that. After all, Dead End just depresses himself, but Dreadwind manages to export the feeling to everyone around him. Like a bad case of [[Scraplet]]s, Dreadwind's gloom is contagious and there's no mood so positive that he can't kill it within moments of entering the room. Mournful and doom-laden at the best of times, Decepticons avoid him socially and [[Autobot|Autobots]] avoid him on the battlefield, leaving Dreadwind wracked with loneliness and despair.

He tends to think that he has no friends, but the truth is that he couldn't have a more perfect match than his partner [[Darkwing]], and the two are fairly inseparable. He gets along less well with his binary-bonded [[Nebulan]] [[Powermaster]] partner [[Hi-Test]], a villainous, overachieving perfectionist who tries to bully Dreadwind into enjoying their evil acts.

Dreadwind has an exceptionally primitive nervous system, rendering him immune to most pain except, ironically, existential pain.<ref>Dreadwind's nervous system is too primitive for the [[variable voltage harness]], from ''[[Dread Tidings]]'' #231</ref>

:''French-Canadian name'': '''Terreur'''

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
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[[Image:Dreadwinddarkwingpeoplepower.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Nel Yomtov's palette didn't include teal.]]
Dreadwind and Darkwing came to [[Nebulos]] in search of [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok's]] group of Decepticons, but they had by then moved on to [[Earth]]. Furthermore, they were warned by the scientist [[Hi-Q]] that if they stayed on Nebulos, they would perish, as the Nebulans had poisoned their world's entire fuel supply to prevent another war with the Transformers from occurring. Dreadwind and Darkwing ignored this request, and eventually they lanquished on the brink of permanent shutdown.

Hi-Q's jealous protege, [[Hi-Test]], and his accomplice [[Throttle (G1)|Throttle]] offered Dreadwind and his partner salvation, by way of [[Powermaster]] technology stolen from Hi-Q. The dying Decepticon duo reluctantly agreed, and, restored, they began destroying Nebulos once again. Hi-Q and his scientists were forced to undergo the Powermaster process themselves, [[binary bonding]] with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a few others. Ultimately, Dreadwind and Darkwing were forced off Nebulos. {{storylink|People Power!}}

Dreadwind, Darkwing, and their Powermaster partners eventually found themselves working for the [[Mecannibal]]s at [[Grand Central Space Station]], wrangling not only clients, but robots for the Mecannibals to devour. They discovered that two of their clients, [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]] and [[Cloudburst]], were actually robots disguised as humans, and turned them in to their hungry bosses. {{storylink|Guess Who the Mecannibals Are Having for Dinner?}} The Autobots-in-disguise made a savory deal with the Mecannibals, and so Dreadwind and Darkwing followed them to [[Femax]]. In the process, however, they were not only beaten up by [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], but Hi-Test and Throttle's ship was discovered to be Dreadwind and Darkwing, robots themselves. Cloudburst and Landmine snitched, and the Mecannibals angrily chased the pair and their Powermaster Partners across the cosmos. {{storylink|Recipe for Disaster!}}

[[Image:Dreadwinddarkwingunicron.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Seriously, they're inseparable.]]
After losing the Mecannibals, Dreadwind and Darkwing were recruited in secret by [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] to bring him the corpse of the [[Underbase]]-destroyed [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. ''They found him in southern [[Peru]], where his zombie body stalked the Earth, somehow animated past death by the remainder of the Underbase's energies. They successfully retrieved the corpse, despite a tangle with the [[Triggerbot]]s and archaeologist [[Susan Hoffman]]. {{storylink|Race with the Devil}}'' The corpse was delivered to Megatron on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], who had recently abducted the Autobot medical officer [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] to exhort him into rebuilding Starscream using [[Pretender]] technology. {{storylink|The Resurrection Gambit!}} But Ratchet doublecrossed Megatron, unleashing his own Pretender army, and the battle, involving Dreadwind, Darkwing, the Pretender Classics, and the [[Micromaster]] [[Sports Car Patrol]], spread outside [[Megatron's base]], moments before the headquarters detonated with Ratchet and Megatron still inside. {{storylink|Skin Deep}} ''Feeling like losers, Dreadwind and Darkwing chose to drink away their sorrows at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]. The Mecannibals followed them to the pub, eating their way past [[Rocky]], the bouncer. The Mecannibals immediately began tearing up the joint, with the pair of inebriated Decepticons blissfully unaware of the chaos around them. Luckily, [[Quickswitch]] was present and leapt into action. After a brief skirmish, Quickswitch used his tunneling mode to bury the Mecannibals alive deep underground.'' {{storylink|Out to Lunch!}}

The two were summoned by [[Primus]] to face [[Unicron]], though Dreadwind spent the speech telling funny anecdotes to Darkwing, annoying everyone around them. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} When the Chaos Bringer attacked, Dreadwind realised that attacking would likely mean they'd die a horrible death but didn't seem ''too'' bothered about that. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}} Though they survived, the pair was even more mopey than usual, and on their way to a joint Autobot/Decepticon conference to discuss the imminent demise of their homeworld, Dreadwind was hit on the noggin by a large piece of falling debris. {{storylink|Exodus!}} Dreadwind was shaken, but survived to escape Cybertron on a starship with several other Decepticons led by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], stranding the Autobots behind to die. Finally, when the Autobots managed to follow the Decepticons to [[Klo]], the Decepticons ambushed them upon their arrival. Dreadwind and Darkwing, combined as [[Dreadwing (G1)|Dreadwing]], picked off some of the last remaining Autobots, including [[Getaway]]. However, their victory was halted by the divine intervention of the [[Last Autobot]], and the wounded remnants of the Decepticon army fled Klo to parts unknown. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

====="Dread Tidings" Marvel UK letters page=====
[[Image:Dreadtidings.jpg|left|150px|thumb|He hates your letters.]] Dreadwind and Hi-Test answered the [[Dread Tidings|Transformers fanmail]] for, like, forever! When his time came, he refused to leave, and holed himself up in the Marvel offices. He was finally evicted by [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] who complained that Dreadwind had decorated the office in all purple and orange with a solitary picture of a dog with sad eyes.
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=====''Another Time and Place''=====
[[Image:Dreadwindatap.jpg|right|150px|thumb|This was retconned, but Dreadwind probably complains about it anyway.]]

{{note|"Another Time and Place," the last original Marvel Generation 1 material printed, was soon invalidated by the events of the ''Generation 2'' comics... which Dreadwind did not actually appear in at all.}}

Dreadwind was among Bludgeon's decimated Decepticon forces when they followed [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and his [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] to [[Hydrus Four]], hoping to steal the power of [[Nucleon]] for themselves. Dreadwind helped ambush the rogue Dinobots, using a device called a [[Holocaust Trigger]] to unleash discordant light and sound, overwhelming their equilibrium. When Grimlock was freed by a rescue team hours later, however, Dreadwind walked in at just the wrong time and was shot by Grimlock using [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase's]] concussion blaster. He and the remnants of the Decepticon army under Bludgeon were defeated. {{storylink|Another Time and Place}}
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====Classics====
{{note|The ''Classics'' continuity-branch ignores both the Marvel UK material and ''[[Generation 2]]''.}}
[[Image:Dreadwindgod.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Nonsense. You're adorable.]]
After the battle on Klo, Dreadwind stayed under the command of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], who in turn assigned Dreadwind to [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]]'s subcommand. At some point, [[Hi-Test]] was disarmed (no, really) by [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], a turn of events that Dreadwind suspects Hi-Test was fine with, so long as his death meant they didn't have to continue being partners. Dreadwind, like [[Weirdwolf]], was subsequently rebuilt by Bug Bite in order to accomodate the loss of their [[Nebulan]]s. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}

After the disastrous battle with [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], Dreadwind escaped with the critically-damaged Weirdwolf and the apparently-dead Bug Bite, bringing them both back to their ship. Dreadwind stuffed Weirdwolf into a [[CR chamber]], then sat down and moped. When [[GoBots (G1)|a group of extradimensional visitors]] arrived looking for Bug Bite, Dreadwind glumly assumed they were some of Megatron's crew out to kill him. When that turned out not to be the case, and the "dead" Bug Bite turned out to be very much alive, he grumped a lot while being largely ignored. {{storylink|Withered Hope}}
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===IDW comics continuity===
[[Image:Dreadwindstormbringer.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Someone remembered Nebulos doesn't have F-16s.]]
After the Battle at Thunderhead Pass where the supernaturally-powerful [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] vanished, Darkwing and Dreadwind were seen working with [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]], advancing on the Autobots' position on Cybertron shortly before the planet was declared completely uninhabitable. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blaster}}

Hundreds of years later, Dreadwind was a part of Darkwing's Infiltration unit on Nebulos when the planet was ravaged by a resurrected Thunderwing. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2}} Darkwing ordered Dreadwind and the other Decepticons under his command to try to stop Thunderwing before he blew up the planet, which would ruin their long-reaching plans to harvest its natural resources, but all but Dreadwind, Darkwing, and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] were annihilated. They fled the planet, fearful of Megatron's reaction to their failure. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 3}}

A few years later, after Megatron was defeated on Earth, Dreadwing and Darkwing were among the Decepticons who had heard the (self-proclaimed) Decepticon leader [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s rallying call and gathered on a desolate asteroid that was now their new headquarters. However, with the lack of resources, poor morale and Starscream's weak leadership, the Decepticons largely collapsed into anarchy and resorted to cannibalism with not enough energon to go around. Dreadwind took more than his fair share of energon and was hunted down by [[Shrapnel]], [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]], [[Needlenose]] and [[Pounce]]. He tried to blame the theft on his now-absent brother Darkwing, and attacked his pursuers, but was ultimately killed and his parts cannibalised. {{Storylink|The Transformers issue 7}}
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==Commercial appearances==
Dreadwind and Darkwing show up in several [[commercial]]s:

[[Image:Dreadwinddarkwingcommercials.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Hello, hello, hello!]]
* They appeared first, of course, in commercials for the [[Powermaster|Powermasters]]. This footage was chopped up and used in several different-but-similar Powermasters commercials, and focused on the new [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], the non-Prime Autobot and Decepticon Powermasters, or their [[People Power!|appearance in Marvel Comics]].
* They appeared again in the animated introduction to the first Pretenders commercial. The narration claims that a series of defeats forces the Autobots to develop Pretender technology, and as the Pretenders rise from their operating tables, Dreadwind and Darkwing break in and approach them. (The Pretenders are considerably smaller than Dreadwind and Darkwing, lending evidence to the idea that the commercials' Pretenders are human-sized.)
* Later, they're the victims of the new [[Micromaster]]s. Optimus Prime unleashes an army of Micromasters upon a Decepticon base, they slip past [[Piranacon (G1)|the guard]], and once inside they crawl up both Dreadwind and Darkwing and overwhelm them.
* Footage from the first commercial, depicting Dreadwind and Darkwing in vehicle mode chasing [[Getaway]] and [[Joyride (Autobot)|Joyride]] in vehicle mode, was used at the beginning of the commercial for the [[Triggerbot]]s and [[Triggercon]]s. This animation seemed to be meant to represent these other toys. Don't pay too close attention, kids!
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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:Dreadwindtoyg1.jpg|right|250px|thumb|It's like if a Seeker were a good toy.]]
*'''Dreadwind''' (Powermaster, 1988)
**''Accessories'': "Hi-Test" Powermaster engine, left & right "Lasers"

: Dreadwind transforms into a [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon jet]]. In order to transform back into robot mode, a [[Powermaster]] engine—like his pack-in partner Hi-Test—must be plugged into his back, unlocking the wings and a few other bits. Once he has an engine attached, his jet mode can also combine with Darkwing's to form the [[Dreadwing (G1)|Dreadwing]] super-jet. He also comes with two non-firing handguns that can be held separately, or combined into a large double-barreled weapon.

: This mold was used to make ''[[Super-God Masterforce (toyline)|Super-God Masterforce]]'' [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Dreadwind/dreadwind.htm More information on Dreadwind at TFU.info]''

===Timelines===
[[Image:Classics Dreadwind Toy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Dreadwind hates how everyone mistakes him for Jetfire.]]
*'''Games of Deception''' (Multi-pack, 2007)
**''Accessories'': 2-part double-rifle, 2 spring-loaded missile launchers, 2 missiles, jet booster backpack

: A [[retool]] of ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], Dreadwind is part of the ''Classics''-themed [[BotCon 2007]] box set, along with [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]], [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. His inner robot head has been [[retool]]ed to resemble his original toy's head.

: Like Jetfire, Dreadwind comes with a number of removable accessories, including a booster pack, two arm-mounted missile launchers, two missiles, and a helmet. The toy's add-on booster pack has flip-out reveal cannons. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]].

: There were 1500 ''Classics'' Dreadwind figures produced.

: This mold (without retooling) was also used to make ''[[Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Tread Bolt]].

: There is a fanmode where u can combine him with his classics counterpart, Darkwing.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Decepticon/BCDreadwind/dreadwind.htm More information on ''Classics'' Dreadwind at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
*According to the [[Letters page (Marvel UK)| letters page]] in the Marvel UK issue #254, "[[White Fire]]", Dreadwind stands 42 feet tall. In the letter page of issue #195, he states that he is 4,060,342 years old in 1988. The letter pages for issue #248 and #299 would confirm his approximate age.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Dreadwind Dreadwind's Universe profile at NTFA.net]

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Dreadwing (G1)

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:''Dreadwing is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:DreadwingG1-issue52.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Jets are the perfect vehicles for space.]]
'''Dreadwing''' is the [[Combiner|combined mode]] of the [[Decepticon]] [[Powermaster|Powermasters]] [[Darkwing|Darkwing ]] and [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel comics continuity===
{{noteukonly}}
[[Goldbug (G1)|Goldbug]], [[Slapdash]], [[Joyride (Autobot)|Joyride]], and [[Getaway]] travelled to [[Nebulos]] to find appropriate facilities to rebuild [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. However, Dreadwing had arrived much earlier and was terrorizing the planet with its [[Powermaster]]-fueled might. {{storylink|People Power!}}

[[Image:Dreadwing g1.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Just rude, really.]]
At the notoriously robophobic [[Grand Central Space Station]], Dreadwing (erroneously called "Darkwind") remained in vehicle mode and doesn't speak, to avoid attracting hostile attention. Dreadwing assisted Hi-Test and Throttle in their scheme of capturing robots to deliver to the [[Mecannibal]]s, including [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]] and [[Cloudburst]]. {{storylink|Guess Who the Mecannibals Are Having for Dinner?}}

Later, Dreadwing and the Nebulans attacked those selfsame Autobot [[Pretender|Pretenders]] as they traveled from [[Femax]] back to the Station, but they were surprised and defeated by [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]. They ended up on the run from the Mecannibals when the Autobots spilled the beans about Dreadwing being a pair of (presumably tasty) robots. {{storylink|Recipe for Disaster!}}

''[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] and [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] were in pursuit Dreadwing when they accidentally shot him down over the ocean. Their mission was to recover a power cell that Throttle had stole, but now it will have to be recovered from under the water. Dreadwing remained disabled while the Autobots took the power cell and left.'''
{{storylink|Dreadwing Down!}}

Some time after, Dreadwing destroyed the Autobot Getaway on [[Klo]], almost flying into a cliff in the process. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Darkwing''' and '''Dreadwind''' (sold separately, 1988)

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==Notes==
* In "[[Dreadwing Down!]]", Dreadwind and Darkwing speak to one another as individuals while in Dreadwing form, indicating that their minds do not merge as it does in other combiners.

* There is a fanmode to combine their classics and botcon conterparts.

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