Dreadwind (G1)

2008-02-24T08:28:12Z

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{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Decepticon|the Robots in Disguise/Universe Decepticon|Dreadwind (RID)}}

:''Dreadwind is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Dreadwindboxart.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''*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 [[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.

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

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
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[[Image:Dreadwinddarkwingpeoplepower.jpg|left|thumb|200px|[[Nel Yomtov]]'s pallette 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 Dreadwing 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|thumb|100px|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|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 headquarters, 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 innebriated 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!}}

Dreadwind and Darkwing were present during the battle with [[Unicron]]. {{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]], 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! (Marvel US comic)|End of the Road!}}

====="Dread Tidings" Marvel UK letters page=====
[[Image:Dreadtidings.jpg|left|thumb|150px|He hates your letters.]] Dreadwind and Hi-Test answered the 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|thumb|100px|This was [[retcon]]ned, 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, but when Grimlock was freed by a rescue team, the Decepticon was shot by Grimlock using [[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====
[[Image:Dreadwindgod.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Nonsense. You're ''adorable''.]]

{{note|The ''Classics'' continuity-branch ignores both the Marvel UK material and ''[[Generation 2]]''.}}

After the battle on Klo, Dreadwind stayed under the command of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], who in turn assigned Dreadwind to [[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}}
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===IDW comics continuity===
[[Image:Dreadwindstormbringer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Someone remembered Nebulos doesn't have F-16s.]]

Dreadwind was a part of Darkwing's Infiltration unit on Nebulos when the planet was ravaged by a resurrected, supernaturally-powerful [[Thunderwing (G1)|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}}

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:Dreadwindtoyg1.jpg|thumb|right|thumb|250px|It's like if a Seeker were a ''good'' toy. Except that they are... and this one isn't...]]
*'''Dreadwind''' (Powermaster, 1988)
**''Accessories'': "Hi-Test" Powermaster engine, left & right "Lasers"

: Dreadwind transforms into a [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#F-16 Fighting Falcon|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 ''[[Masterforce]]'' [[Hydra and Buster|Buster]].

===Timelines===
*'''Games of Deception''' (Multi-pack, 2007)
**''Accessories'': 2-part double-rifle, 2 spring-loaded missile launchers, 2 missiles, jet booster backpack

[[Image:Classics_Dreadwind_Toy.jpg|left|thumb|Dreadwind hates how everyone mistakes him for Jetfire.]]

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

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==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Dreadwind/dreadwind.htm Dreadwind at TFU.info]

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

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