Sky Garry (G1)

2022-06-09T16:02:15Z

Attackbrocodile: Minor edit to Notes section regarding Deathgarrygun. Statement of 'individual units merging' was inaccurate, as only one becomes Cyber Deathgarrygun.

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{{disambig2|the ''Return of Convoy'' Autobot|the ''Animated'' Autobot cyber-ninja|Sky Garry (Animated)}}
:''Sky Garry is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Return of Convoy (franchise)|Return of Convoy]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:SkyGarryBoxArt1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Damn it Garry!]]
'''Sky Garry''' (スカイギャリー ''Sukai Gyarī'') is [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Star Convoy]]'s right-hand man. He has a great respect for the legendary Autobot Supreme Commander and was the one who brought Star Convoy back from the dead. Kinda creepy.

His special attack is his "Mystery Circle Punch", which is really just a regular punch, but don't tell anybody that. He can combine with Star Convoy and [[Grandus (G1)|Grandus]] in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] to perform the [[Triple Combination Battlestar Attack]].

His [[Micromaster]] partner is [[Shotbomber]].

==Fiction==
===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Battlestars'' manga and story pages====
Encountering an advance group of [[Dark Nova]]'s [[Galaman]] warriors sent from an asteroid, Sky Garry dispatched them with his "Mystery Circle Punch".

[[File:GarryGalaman1.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Bad touch!]]
To counter the threat of Dark Nova, the Autobots formed an elite sub-group known as the [[Battlestars]]. Their mission was to revive [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] so that he might thwart Dark Nova. Sky Garry received the [[Zodiac]] from [[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]] and was inaugurated as temporary Autobot Supreme Commander, at least until Prime was back on his feet again. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars Part 1}}

Sky Garry then enlisted the youthful rookie, [[Sixliner]] into the Battlestars after watching an impressive battle between him and a horde of energy-plundering Galaman warriors. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars Part 2}}

Aware of the mission of the Battlestars, Dark Nova stole Optimus Prime's body and cloned it as the evil [[False Convoy]]. Sky Garry and [[Grandus (G1)|Grandus]] managed to defeat False Convoy before he could kill Sixliner. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars Part 3}} After False Convoy's defeat, Sky Garry rescued the fallen Supreme Commander's corpse from the [[Novaroid]] forces on planet [[Lucifer]]. Using the power of the Zodiac, Sky Garry brought Optimus Prime back to life and upgraded him into Star Convoy. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars Part 4}}

Later, Sky Garry was stuck out in space battling the remaining Novaroid and Galaman soldiers around planet Lucifer. He was concerned about Star Convoy and Sixliner facing [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Super Megatron]] alone on [[Earth]], frustrated he couldn't be there to help. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (manga)|The Battlestars special}}

[[File:SkyGarry1.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Sky Garry, Star Convoy and Grandus inside Star Giant's tummy.]]
Sky Garry eventually joined the other Battlestars in a space battle against Super Megatron and his [[Galaman|Great Galaman]] warriors. Combining into the [[Triple Combination Battlestar Attack]], they shot Super Megatron to pieces. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars Part 7}}

Dark Nova then revealed himself and upgraded Super Megatron into Ultra Megatron. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars Part 8}} Then after that, the Decepticon Emperor merged with Ultra Megatron to become the [[Dark Nova|Star Giant]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars Part 9}} Sky Garry and the other Battlestars traveled into Star Giant's stomach and took the behemoth apart from the inside-out, narrowly escaping just as their foe exploded and died. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars Part 10}}

====''Legends'' comic====
During a recap of [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s life story, [[Waspinator (BW)#Transformers Legends comic|Waspinator]] mentioned the time he became the Star Giant and fought against Sky Garry and the Battlestars. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 13|Bonus Edition Vol. 13}}

When Dark Nova stole the body of Optimus Prime, he did so right under the nose of Prime's loyal guard, [[Roller (G1)|Roller]]. Sky Garry and Grandus allowed Roller to join the Battlestars and help them in their mission to reform False Convoy and stop Dark Nova. Roller was destroyed fighting [[Novaroid]]s to divert enemy forces from the other Battlestars. When Sky Garry used to Zodiac to revive the Supreme Commander as Star Convoy, he placed the body of Roller next to the Prime, letting him be incorporated into the new leader's form. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 5: LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part Two|LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part Two}}

In 2038, Sky Garry and the Battlestars were stationed on [[Micro|Zone]]. They opposed the new Dark Nova and his agents like [[Violengiguar]] and [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]]. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 4: LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One|LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One}}

===3H comics===
Sky Garry in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] served as the shuttle that the Autobots (sans [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] and [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]]) used to escape a horde of [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbirds]]. {{storylink|Departure}}

===''Wings Universe''===
[[File:HtF-SkyGarryfightspirates.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|left]]
Sky Garry was hanging out at the [[Galadria Space Bridge Outpost]] in the [[Delta Prysmos Sector]] when a [[Tidal Wave (G1)|pirate ship]] appeared overhead and dropped a bomb on him and several other passersby. {{storylink|Hoist the Flag}}
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==Toys==
===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''===
{{anchor|Return of Convoy}}
[[File:ROC-toy SkyGarry.jpg|thumb|upright=2|The one Transformer you're more likely to own a [[knockoff]] of than the real deal.]]
*'''Sky Garry''' (Autobot, [[1991]])
**''ID number:'' '''C-360'''
**''Accessories:'' Two guns, ramp, platform, Micro Trailer #0

:Released in the ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#1991 (Return of Convoy)|Return of Convoy]]'' part of the [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)|original Takara ''Transformers'' toyline]], Sky Garry transforms into a Cybertronic starship with landing skids. His canopy can open up and seat a [[Micromaster]] or two, though not securely so they rattle around. His middle section is expandable, allowing him to carry up to three [[Micro Trailer]]s, though he only comes with one. He has holes and pegs to secure the Trailers' sides, plus a catch in the center to grip the raised square on the trailers' top. Pulling his halves out from the trailers and pressing the orange button in the center of his expanded section (aka the robot groin) releases the catch and drops the trailers.

:He also has a third tower mode, using the gray platform on his back as a battle station midway up. In this mode, Sky Garry is ''supposed'' to attach Micro Trailers at his sides via the [[5 mm post]]s on his arms, plugging the Trailers to them with the holes midway down the Trailers' sides. Bizarrely though, these pegs were beveled into uselessness, which is even wierder given Sky Garry is the ''only '' toy meant to attach the Trailers via those holes. He also has a standard Micromaster ramp connector and ramp piece (using the same mold as [[Skyhopper#Toys|Skyhopper]]'s [[Helicopter]] and [[Groundshaker (G1)#Toys|Groundshaker]]'s [[ATV]]), which lets him connect to any other ramp-compatible toy, such as Micromaster bases... though the point the ramp attaches to on him is a sheer vertical wall so its usefulness is... debatable.

:Sky Garry comes with his Micro Transformer partner [[Shotbomber]] and a black Micro Trailer.

:Sky Garry's sticker sheet includes multiple optional stickers: four Autobot symbols on white backdrops, and four black circles with yellow stars. The latter are marked as special stickers to denote whoever you attach them to is a member of the [[Battlestars]]. This set comes from an era where most of the Takara releases use laminated paper decals with notoriously weak adhesive, which makes the smaller decals (like the small black squares on his shoulders) very, very likely to fall off and get lost.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1991/Cybertron/SkyGarry/skygarry.htm More information on Sky Garry at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
[[File:DeathGarrygun.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|Not Fire Guts Sky Garry.]]
*According to ''[[Transformers Generations (guidebook)|Transformers Generations Deluxe]]'', '''Star Garry''' was a pre-production name for the character.
*Both Sky Garry and Grandus have special attacks relating to things considered "mysterious". In Sky Garry's case, the "mystery circle" of his "Mystery Circle Punch" is the Japanese term for "crop circle". What this was actually supposed to connote is uncertain, but as far as it is known, the attack does not utilize wheat in any way.
*Sky Garry's mold was [[redeco]]ed into the evil "Deathgarrygun" (デスギャリガン ''Desugyarigan'') mecha for [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''Brave of Gold Goldran'' series. This version came with three [[Micro Trailer]]s, but all of the launching mechanisms were removed from them. This was just one of several late-series ''Transformers'' molds recycled for a [[Brave (franchise)|Brave]] toyline. In the show itself, the mecha is considerably larger than the rest of the cast, and the face had a mouthplate. It was also mass-produced by the series' antagonistic faction, the Walzac Republic Empire. During the final battle, one of the units is transformed into a much larger and more demonic-looking form, Cyber Deathgarrygun. The Deathgarrygun toy would later become fairly easy to obtain thanks to its reissue by [[Sonokong]] in South Korea. [http://sak2-2.tok2.com/home/transrave/brave_series/gold09_deathgarrygun.html Deathgarrygun toy gallery at a Japanese fansite.]
*The word "Garry" isn't an English word, prompting fans to wonder what it's supposed to mean. Sadly, in the end, no one really knows...
**One theory is that Sky Garry's name is a misspelling of "Sky Carry". There is some support for this theory: First, the difference in Japanese between the katakana for the "Ca" sound and for the "Ga" sound is just one diacritical mark. Second, "Garry" is a commonly used suffix in Japanese names for transforming robots that transport ("carry") other robots or vehicles. The criticism of this theory is that while bad transliterations (i.e. the word is spelled right in Japanese, just converted to English wrong) are fairly common in Japanese names, katakana misspellings of the Japanese words are much less common. Thus, it seems somewhat unlikely that decades of Japanese robots using the name "Garry" are simply misspelling it.
**Another theory is that Garry is short for "Garrison". The support for this theory is that Japanese versions of English words are often shortened versions, such as the Japanese word "Ice" used for "Ice Cream". However, "Garrison" seems like a poorer description than "Carry" for the transportation robots that are generally named "Garry" in Japan.
**The most obscure theory is that Garry is a mistransliteration of {{w|Galley}}, which is a type of ancient war ship. The advantage that this theory has over the "Carry" theory is that "Galley" and "Garry" have the same Japanese katakana spelling. This means that it would be a bad transliteration, like "Minelba" vs. "Minerva", which is much more common than an incorrect katakana spelling. However, like the "Garrison" theory, "Galley" is criticized for not being as good a descriptor of the transportation robots (both ground and air types) that are named "Garry".
*In the mid to late-1990s, Sky Garry was one of the most commonly [[Knockoff|bootlegged]] Transformers, appearing in several different sizes. Most of them were carded and of poor quality. The carded ones are notable for their extra chrome pieces and separating legs. There was also a bootleg Sky Garry in box packaging from another manufacturer, which saw release at Toys"R"Us in the mid-1990s under the name "Convert-A-Bot Cybertron FX-7". This bootleg was of surprisingly high quality and included his Microtrailer but with the Growl mold rather than Shotbomber's.

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