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Wingblade

2016-02-28T03:06:43Z

Sgt.Streetwise96:

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{{disambig2|the film continuity Autobot|the Generation 1 Autobot created by fan poll|Windblade (G1)}}
:''Wingblade is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Movie (franchise)|2007 movie franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:ReignofStarscream5 Wingblade.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Oh yeah.]]
'''Wingblade''' is second only to [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] in number of confirmed [[Decepticon]] kills, and that's only because Ironhide is older. When he's not hunting Decepticons, he's training in combat or working on new weapons and maintaining his equipment in preparation for combat. He even keeps a lengthy database of alternate vehicle modes to change into so he can be as efficiently deadly as possible in any form. He is meticulous about keeping not only his vast arsenal in perfect working order, but scrubbing his body panels clean and retaining them damage-free.

However, since he spends all his spare time preparing for his next mission, his fellow Autobots are a little worried that he simply doesn't know how to live outside of the battlefield. Plus, he never has anything to say unless he's acknowledging orders. Most of Wingblade's allies are convinced that if the war ever ended, he'd simply shut down and wait for a new one to start, which Wingblade doesn't deny. But at least he's in [[Roadbuster (G1)|good company]].

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===
[[Image:Defiance2_Optimus_meeting.jpg|thumb|left|300px|]]
Many years ago, Wingblade was a member of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]]'s [[Science Division]], under the overall command of [[Megatron (Movie)|Protector Megatron]]. After [[The Fallen|a mysterious relic]] was uncovered outside the [[Simfur Temple]] (which coincided with an attack by [[Ejoornian|aliens]] unknown from the [[Eshems Nebula]]), {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}} Protector Megatron changed, seizing control of Cybertron's military and essentially declaring himself dictator. Optimus implored to the 'bots under his command to not follow Megatron into war, advice that Wingblade heeded. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}}

Unfortunately, soon after, Megatron declared Optimus and his group "traitors" following a failed attempt to capture the scientist leader and kill his subordinates. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}}

Forced by circumstances beyond their control, Wingblade and other scientists became soldiers in Optimus ''Prime''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Autobot faction against Megatron's Decepticons. He was present when the Autobots watched the Decepticons launch the ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]'' in search of a [[Star Harvester]]. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} As the civil war reached its height, Optimus revealed his plan to allegedly capture the [[AllSpark]] and somehow transport it aboard their ship, the ''[[Ark (Movie)|Ark]]''. What most of the Autobots didn't know was Optimus planned to launch the Cube into deep space, away from Megatron, to give the Autobots a fighting chance. Wingblade was one of the Autobots who elected to remain behind on Cybertron. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

[[Image:ReignofStarscream5_Wingblade'steam.jpg|thumb|300px|]]
Thousands of years later, after Megatron had been killed on [[Earth]] and the AllSpark destroyed, Wingblade and his friends were part of the Autobot underground resistance to [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]]'s rule. They were preparing to move out to [[Simfur]] on a rescue mission when [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] returned from [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. {{Storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 4|The Reign of Starscream #4}} Wingblade, [[Breakaway (Movie)|Breakaway]] and [[Strongarm (Movie)|Strongarm]] moved to create diversion at the capitol of [[Trypticon (Movie)|Trypticon]] so Arcee's team could move in. However, Dreadwing's drone forces attempted a coup, complicating the situation, so Wingblade's team was instead assigned the task of deactivating the drone army via a fail safe switch in the city. The Autobots barely got out of Trypticon in time as [[Nemesis (Movie)|Dreadwing's escape ship]] plummeted down and destroyed the once-magnificent capitol of Cybertron. {{Storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 5|The Reign of Starscream #5}}

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==Toys==
===Transformers (2007)===
[[Image:Movie Wingblade.jpg|right|350px|thumb|What do you mean I wasn't in the movie!?!]]
*'''Wingblade''' (Ultra, 2008)
**''Accessories'': Left & right blades, 2 blade-handles, left & right spring-loaded rocket launchers, 2 projectiles, red Autobot [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]-style [[Cyber Key]]

: A [[Toys"R"Us]] [[exclusive]] alongside [[Jetstorm (Movie)|Jetstorm]], Wingblade is a [[redeco]] of ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Wing Saber (Energon)#Cybertron|Wing Saber]], transforming into a stylized [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#A-10 Thunderbolt II|A-10 Thunderbolt]]. Pressing the button behind his cockpit canopy causes "air combat sounds" (a mini-gun sound) to emit from a speaker on the bottom of the nosecone. Plugging a Cyber Key into the key slot behind his canopy enables his "hyperdrive mode" and reveals his "heavy blaster cannons and hyperdrive ram scoop", splitting the nosecone fuselage in half and exposing a cannon with a red LED. Pressing the button activates the same machine gun sound effect, this time with the red LED flashing unobstructed. His wings can unfold to extend his wingspan for "super combat mode".

: Wingblade's wing-flaps detach to form swords; for Wingblade to use them, they need to be inserted into sword-handles that plug into 5mm holes in his forearms, as his hands are incompatible with the standard weapon-pegs. His removable spring-loaded rocket launchers, mounted under his wings, can also be attached to those ports. His Key-activated cockpit [[gimmick]] can also be used in robot mode, being mounted over his head via a supporting strut, although it points at an upward angle.

: Wingblade can also form a [[:Image:GalaxyConvoy-SonicWingbladeMode.jpg|flight/weapons pack]] for the ''Cybertron'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys#Cybertron|Leader-class Optimus Prime]] mold. Of course, since that mold is not available as part of the ''Movie'' line, this feature is undocumented. His unfolding wings are part of this transformation, as is his expanding chest armor, which can be done anyway simply to give him a bit more of that "plate armor" look of the Movie bots.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/Wingblade/wingblade.htm More information on Wingblade at TFU.info]''

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==Notes==
* Despite being part of the "Allspark Power" rebranding of the movie line, Wingblade (like all of the new-character store exclusives) has no "Allspark blue" on him.
* According to [[Joe Kyde]]'s [http://web.archive.org/web/20081014112146/http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/default.cfm?page=News/Item&newsid=4EC7EA7D-D56F-E112-46AC70D02754072E design notes on Hasbro's Transformers website], Wingblade's colors were intended to be the color-wheel opposites of his casemate, [[Jetstorm (Movie)|Jetstorm]], though it was acknowledged that this accidentally makes him a dim [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] homage.
* Also according to Joe Kyde, Wingblade's Autobot symbol is a special kind of chrome that is apparently hard to obtain. Of course, on this score, he could be talking crap because it's funny. It also happens to be the same kind of chrome only otherwise seen on the Cyber Key of ''Cybertron'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys#LeaderGalaxyForce|Galaxy Force Optimus Prime]], with whom Wingblade can combine.
* Wingblade's box-back shows him with a redeco of ''Cybertron'' Optimus Prime's [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]-shaped Key, instead of the standard Cybertron-Autobot one he actually comes with.

[[Category:Movie Autobots]]
[[Category:Toys "R" Us exclusives]]

Wingblade

2016-02-28T03:05:40Z

Sgt.Streetwise96:

{{factions|autobotfilm}}
{{disambig2|the film continuity Autobot|the Generation 1 Autobot created by fan poll|Windblade (G1)}}
:''Wingblade is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Movie (franchise)|2007 movie franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:ReignofStarscream5 Wingblade.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Oh yeah.]]
'''Wingblade''' is second only to [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] in number of confirmed [[Decepticon]] kills, and that's only because Ironhide is older. When he's not hunting Decepticons, he's training in combat or working on new weapons and maintaining his equipment in preparation for combat. He even keeps a lengthy database of alternate vehicle modes to change into so he can be as efficiently deadly as possible in any form. He is meticulous about keeping not only his vast arsenal in perfect working order, but scrubbing his body panels clean and retaining it damage-free.

However, since he spends all his spare time preparing for his next mission, his fellow Autobots are a little worried that he simply doesn't know how to live outside of the battlefield. Plus, he never has anything to say unless he's acknowledging orders. Most of Wingblade's allies are convinced that if the war ever ended, he'd simply shut down and wait for a new one to start, which Wingblade doesn't deny. But at least he's in [[Roadbuster (G1)|good company]].

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===
[[Image:Defiance2_Optimus_meeting.jpg|thumb|left|300px|]]
Many years ago, Wingblade was a member of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]]'s [[Science Division]], under the overall command of [[Megatron (Movie)|Protector Megatron]]. After [[The Fallen|a mysterious relic]] was uncovered outside the [[Simfur Temple]] (which coincided with an attack by [[Ejoornian|aliens]] unknown from the [[Eshems Nebula]]), {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}} Protector Megatron changed, seizing control of Cybertron's military and essentially declaring himself dictator. Optimus implored to the 'bots under his command to not follow Megatron into war, advice that Wingblade heeded. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}}

Unfortunately, soon after, Megatron declared Optimus and his group "traitors" following a failed attempt to capture the scientist leader and kill his subordinates. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}}

Forced by circumstances beyond their control, Wingblade and other scientists became soldiers in Optimus ''Prime''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Autobot faction against Megatron's Decepticons. He was present when the Autobots watched the Decepticons launch the ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]'' in search of a [[Star Harvester]]. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} As the civil war reached its height, Optimus revealed his plan to allegedly capture the [[AllSpark]] and somehow transport it aboard their ship, the ''[[Ark (Movie)|Ark]]''. What most of the Autobots didn't know was Optimus planned to launch the Cube into deep space, away from Megatron, to give the Autobots a fighting chance. Wingblade was one of the Autobots who elected to remain behind on Cybertron. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

[[Image:ReignofStarscream5_Wingblade'steam.jpg|thumb|300px|]]
Thousands of years later, after Megatron had been killed on [[Earth]] and the AllSpark destroyed, Wingblade and his friends were part of the Autobot underground resistance to [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]]'s rule. They were preparing to move out to [[Simfur]] on a rescue mission when [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] returned from [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. {{Storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 4|The Reign of Starscream #4}} Wingblade, [[Breakaway (Movie)|Breakaway]] and [[Strongarm (Movie)|Strongarm]] moved to create diversion at the capitol of [[Trypticon (Movie)|Trypticon]] so Arcee's team could move in. However, Dreadwing's drone forces attempted a coup, complicating the situation, so Wingblade's team was instead assigned the task of deactivating the drone army via a fail safe switch in the city. The Autobots barely got out of Trypticon in time as [[Nemesis (Movie)|Dreadwing's escape ship]] plummeted down and destroyed the once-magnificent capitol of Cybertron. {{Storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 5|The Reign of Starscream #5}}

{{-}}

==Toys==
===Transformers (2007)===
[[Image:Movie Wingblade.jpg|right|350px|thumb|What do you mean I wasn't in the movie!?!]]
*'''Wingblade''' (Ultra, 2008)
**''Accessories'': Left & right blades, 2 blade-handles, left & right spring-loaded rocket launchers, 2 projectiles, red Autobot [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]-style [[Cyber Key]]

: A [[Toys"R"Us]] [[exclusive]] alongside [[Jetstorm (Movie)|Jetstorm]], Wingblade is a [[redeco]] of ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Wing Saber (Energon)#Cybertron|Wing Saber]], transforming into a stylized [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#A-10 Thunderbolt II|A-10 Thunderbolt]]. Pressing the button behind his cockpit canopy causes "air combat sounds" (a mini-gun sound) to emit from a speaker on the bottom of the nosecone. Plugging a Cyber Key into the key slot behind his canopy enables his "hyperdrive mode" and reveals his "heavy blaster cannons and hyperdrive ram scoop", splitting the nosecone fuselage in half and exposing a cannon with a red LED. Pressing the button activates the same machine gun sound effect, this time with the red LED flashing unobstructed. His wings can unfold to extend his wingspan for "super combat mode".

: Wingblade's wing-flaps detach to form swords; for Wingblade to use them, they need to be inserted into sword-handles that plug into 5mm holes in his forearms, as his hands are incompatible with the standard weapon-pegs. His removable spring-loaded rocket launchers, mounted under his wings, can also be attached to those ports. His Key-activated cockpit [[gimmick]] can also be used in robot mode, being mounted over his head via a supporting strut, although it points at an upward angle.

: Wingblade can also form a [[:Image:GalaxyConvoy-SonicWingbladeMode.jpg|flight/weapons pack]] for the ''Cybertron'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys#Cybertron|Leader-class Optimus Prime]] mold. Of course, since that mold is not available as part of the ''Movie'' line, this feature is undocumented. His unfolding wings are part of this transformation, as is his expanding chest armor, which can be done anyway simply to give him a bit more of that "plate armor" look of the Movie bots.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/Wingblade/wingblade.htm More information on Wingblade at TFU.info]''

{{-}}

==Notes==
* Despite being part of the "Allspark Power" rebranding of the movie line, Wingblade (like all of the new-character store exclusives) has no "Allspark blue" on him.
* According to [[Joe Kyde]]'s [http://web.archive.org/web/20081014112146/http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/default.cfm?page=News/Item&newsid=4EC7EA7D-D56F-E112-46AC70D02754072E design notes on Hasbro's Transformers website], Wingblade's colors were intended to be the color-wheel opposites of his casemate, [[Jetstorm (Movie)|Jetstorm]], though it was acknowledged that this accidentally makes him a dim [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] homage.
* Also according to Joe Kyde, Wingblade's Autobot symbol is a special kind of chrome that is apparently hard to obtain. Of course, on this score, he could be talking crap because it's funny. It also happens to be the same kind of chrome only otherwise seen on the Cyber Key of ''Cybertron'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys#LeaderGalaxyForce|Galaxy Force Optimus Prime]], with whom Wingblade can combine.
* Wingblade's box-back shows him with a redeco of ''Cybertron'' Optimus Prime's [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]-shaped Key, instead of the standard Cybertron-Autobot one he actually comes with.

[[Category:Movie Autobots]]
[[Category:Toys "R" Us exclusives]]