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<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Convoy-final1024.jpg|right|350px|thumb|For Decepticons, this is what Judgment Day will look like.]]<br /> The name '''Optimus Prime''' has been assigned to several different characters:<br /> *'''1984''' _ [[Decepticon Optimus Prime]], Tthe roger version of the Decepticon Roger Commander from Generation 1.<br /> *'''1984''' — [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], the original version of the Autobot Commander from [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys]]. In [[A Prime Problem|an episode of the television series]], he had a [[Optimus Prime clone|clone]].<br /> <br /> *'''2000''' — [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]], the Autobot commander fire truck from ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''.<br /> <br /> *'''2002''' — [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], Autobot Commander truck from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] series. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys]].<br /> <br /> *'''2003''' — [[Optimus Prime (Worlds Collide)|Optimus Prime]], an Autobot commander killed by Unicron and sent into another dimension during the [[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic]]'s &quot;[[Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4|Worlds Collide]]&quot; storyline.<br /> <br /> *'''2004''' — [[Optimus Prime (Universe Spychanger)|Optimus Prime]] is a [[Spy Changer]] from the ''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' series.<br /> <br /> *'''2004''' — [[Optimus Prime (Balancing Act)|Optimus Prime]], whose corpse was cloned and tortured by Unicron to create [[Nemesis Prime (Universe 2003)|Nemesis Prime]], is from the 2003 ''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' series.<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots and last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]] from the [[live-action film series]] continuity. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys]].<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], a younger and less experienced leader of an Autobot squadron from the ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' continuity.<br /> <br /> *'''2008''' — [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]], the despotic leader of the evil Autobots in the &quot;[[Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]&quot; alternate universe.<br /> <br /> *'''2008''' — [[Optimus Prime (TransTech)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] Autobots.<br /> <br /> *'''2010''' — [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots in the ''[[Transformers: Prime|Prime]]'' continuity.<br /> <br /> <br /> Optimus Prime is not to be confused with:<br /> <br /> *'''1988''' — [[Ginrai]], a [[Godmaster]] who uses a [[Transtector]] body originally intended for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimash Prime]], heroic leader of the [[Autotot|Autotots]].<br /> <br /> *[[Optimus (disambiguation)|Other uses of the name &quot;Optimus&quot;]]<br /> <br /> *[[Prime (disambiguation)|Other uses of the name &quot;Prime&quot;]]<br /> <br /> <br /> Additionally, Optimus Prime is not to be confused with the real-life persons:<br /> <br /> * [http://www.facebook.com/#!/MR0ptimusPrime?ref=profile Mr. Optimus Prime], a well-known Transfan and National Guardsman who legally changed his name to Optimus Prime.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{disambig}}</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Optimus_Prime_(disambiguation)&diff=477678 2010-07-12T21:42:43Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Convoy-final1024.jpg|right|350px|thumb|For Decepticons, this is what Judgment Day will look like.]]<br /> The name '''Optimus Prime''' has been assigned to several different characters:<br /> *'''1984''' _ [[Decepticon Optimus Prime]], the version roger of the Decepticon Roger Commander from [[Generation 1]]<br /> *'''1984''' — [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], the original version of the Autobot Commander from [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys]]. In [[A Prime Problem|an episode of the television series]], he had a [[Optimus Prime clone|clone]].<br /> <br /> *'''2000''' — [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]], the Autobot commander fire truck from ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''.<br /> <br /> *'''2002''' — [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], Autobot Commander truck from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] series. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys]].<br /> <br /> *'''2003''' — [[Optimus Prime (Worlds Collide)|Optimus Prime]], an Autobot commander killed by Unicron and sent into another dimension during the [[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic]]'s &quot;[[Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4|Worlds Collide]]&quot; storyline.<br /> <br /> *'''2004''' — [[Optimus Prime (Universe Spychanger)|Optimus Prime]] is a [[Spy Changer]] from the ''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' series.<br /> <br /> *'''2004''' — [[Optimus Prime (Balancing Act)|Optimus Prime]], whose corpse was cloned and tortured by Unicron to create [[Nemesis Prime (Universe 2003)|Nemesis Prime]], is from the 2003 ''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' series.<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots and last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]] from the [[live-action film series]] continuity. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys]].<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], a younger and less experienced leader of an Autobot squadron from the ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' continuity.<br /> <br /> *'''2008''' — [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]], the despotic leader of the evil Autobots in the &quot;[[Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]&quot; alternate universe.<br /> <br /> *'''2008''' — [[Optimus Prime (TransTech)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] Autobots.<br /> <br /> *'''2010''' — [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots in the ''[[Transformers: Prime|Prime]]'' continuity.<br /> <br /> <br /> Optimus Prime is not to be confused with:<br /> <br /> *'''1988''' — [[Ginrai]], a [[Godmaster]] who uses a [[Transtector]] body originally intended for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimash Prime]], heroic leader of the [[Autotot|Autotots]].<br /> <br /> *[[Optimus (disambiguation)|Other uses of the name &quot;Optimus&quot;]]<br /> <br /> *[[Prime (disambiguation)|Other uses of the name &quot;Prime&quot;]]<br /> <br /> <br /> Additionally, Optimus Prime is not to be confused with the real-life persons:<br /> <br /> * [http://www.facebook.com/#!/MR0ptimusPrime?ref=profile Mr. Optimus Prime], a well-known Transfan and National Guardsman who legally changed his name to Optimus Prime.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{disambig}}</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Optimus_Prime_(disambiguation)&diff=477656 2010-07-12T21:21:19Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Convoy-final1024.jpg|right|350px|thumb|For Decepticons, this is what Judgment Day will look like.]]<br /> The name '''Optimus Prime''' has been assigned to several different characters:<br /> *'''1984''' _ [[Decepticon Optimus Prime]], the roger version of the Decepticon Roger Commander from [[Generation 1]] <br /> *'''1984''' — [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], the original version of the Autobot Commander from [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys]]. In [[A Prime Problem|an episode of the television series]], he had a [[Optimus Prime clone|clone]].<br /> <br /> *'''2000''' — [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]], the Autobot commander fire truck from ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''.<br /> <br /> *'''2002''' — [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], Autobot Commander truck from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] series. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys]].<br /> <br /> *'''2003''' — [[Optimus Prime (Worlds Collide)|Optimus Prime]], an Autobot commander killed by Unicron and sent into another dimension during the [[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic]]'s &quot;[[Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4|Worlds Collide]]&quot; storyline.<br /> <br /> *'''2004''' — [[Optimus Prime (Universe Spychanger)|Optimus Prime]] is a [[Spy Changer]] from the ''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' series.<br /> <br /> *'''2004''' — [[Optimus Prime (Balancing Act)|Optimus Prime]], whose corpse was cloned and tortured by Unicron to create [[Nemesis Prime (Universe 2003)|Nemesis Prime]], is from the 2003 ''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' series.<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots and last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]] from the [[live-action film series]] continuity. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys]].<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], a younger and less experienced leader of an Autobot squadron from the ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' continuity.<br /> <br /> *'''2008''' — [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]], the despotic leader of the evil Autobots in the &quot;[[Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]&quot; alternate universe.<br /> <br /> *'''2008''' — [[Optimus Prime (TransTech)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] Autobots.<br /> <br /> *'''2010''' — [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots in the ''[[Transformers: Prime|Prime]]'' continuity.<br /> <br /> <br /> Optimus Prime is not to be confused with:<br /> <br /> *'''1988''' — [[Ginrai]], a [[Godmaster]] who uses a [[Transtector]] body originally intended for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimash Prime]], heroic leader of the [[Autotot|Autotots]].<br /> <br /> *[[Optimus (disambiguation)|Other uses of the name &quot;Optimus&quot;]]<br /> <br /> *[[Prime (disambiguation)|Other uses of the name &quot;Prime&quot;]]<br /> <br /> <br /> Additionally, Optimus Prime is not to be confused with the real-life persons:<br /> <br /> * [http://www.facebook.com/#!/MR0ptimusPrime?ref=profile Mr. Optimus Prime], a well-known Transfan and National Guardsman who legally changed his name to Optimus Prime.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{disambig}}</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Optimus_Prime_(disambiguation)&diff=477651 2010-07-12T21:10:06Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Convoy-final1024.jpg|right|350px|thumb|For Decepticons, this is what Judgment Day will look like.]]<br /> The name '''Optimus Prime''' has been assigned to several different characters:<br /> *'''1984''' _ [[Optimus Prime]], the stupid version of the Decepticon Roger Commander from [[Generation 1]]<br /> *'''1984''' — [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], the original version of the Autobot Commander from [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys]]. In [[A Prime Problem|an episode of the television series]], he had a [[Optimus Prime clone|clone]].<br /> <br /> *'''2000''' — [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]], the Autobot commander fire truck from ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''.<br /> <br /> *'''2002''' — [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], Autobot Commander truck from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] series. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys]].<br /> <br /> *'''2003''' — [[Optimus Prime (Worlds Collide)|Optimus Prime]], an Autobot commander killed by Unicron and sent into another dimension during the [[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic]]'s &quot;[[Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4|Worlds Collide]]&quot; storyline.<br /> <br /> *'''2004''' — [[Optimus Prime (Universe Spychanger)|Optimus Prime]] is a [[Spy Changer]] from the ''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' series.<br /> <br /> *'''2004''' — [[Optimus Prime (Balancing Act)|Optimus Prime]], whose corpse was cloned and tortured by Unicron to create [[Nemesis Prime (Universe 2003)|Nemesis Prime]], is from the 2003 ''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' series.<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots and last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]] from the [[live-action film series]] continuity. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys]].<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], a younger and less experienced leader of an Autobot squadron from the ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' continuity.<br /> <br /> *'''2008''' — [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]], the despotic leader of the evil Autobots in the &quot;[[Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]&quot; alternate universe.<br /> <br /> *'''2008''' — [[Optimus Prime (TransTech)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] Autobots.<br /> <br /> *'''2010''' — [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots in the ''[[Transformers: Prime|Prime]]'' continuity.<br /> <br /> <br /> Optimus Prime is not to be confused with:<br /> <br /> *'''1988''' — [[Ginrai]], a [[Godmaster]] who uses a [[Transtector]] body originally intended for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimash Prime]], heroic leader of the [[Autotot|Autotots]].<br /> <br /> *[[Optimus (disambiguation)|Other uses of the name &quot;Optimus&quot;]]<br /> <br /> *[[Prime (disambiguation)|Other uses of the name &quot;Prime&quot;]]<br /> <br /> <br /> Additionally, Optimus Prime is not to be confused with the real-life persons:<br /> <br /> * [http://www.facebook.com/#!/MR0ptimusPrime?ref=profile Mr. Optimus Prime], a well-known Transfan and National Guardsman who legally changed his name to Optimus Prime.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{disambig}}</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Optimus_Prime_(disambiguation)&diff=477647 2010-07-12T21:04:09Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Convoy-final1024.jpg|right|350px|thumb|For Decepticons, this is what Judgment Day will look like.]]<br /> The name '''Optimus Prime''' has been assigned to several different characters:<br /> *'''1984''' _ [[Decepticon Optimus Prime|Optimus Prime]] the stupid [[Decepticon]].<br /> *'''1984''' — [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], the original version of the Autobot Commander from [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys]]. In [[A Prime Problem|an episode of the television series]], he had a [[Optimus Prime clone|clone]].<br /> <br /> *'''2000''' — [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]], the Autobot commander fire truck from ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''.<br /> <br /> *'''2002''' — [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], Autobot Commander truck from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] series. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys]].<br /> <br /> *'''2003''' — [[Optimus Prime (Worlds Collide)|Optimus Prime]], an Autobot commander killed by Unicron and sent into another dimension during the [[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic]]'s &quot;[[Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4|Worlds Collide]]&quot; storyline.<br /> <br /> *'''2004''' — [[Optimus Prime (Universe Spychanger)|Optimus Prime]] is a [[Spy Changer]] from the ''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' series.<br /> <br /> *'''2004''' — [[Optimus Prime (Balancing Act)|Optimus Prime]], whose corpse was cloned and tortured by Unicron to create [[Nemesis Prime (Universe 2003)|Nemesis Prime]], is from the 2003 ''[[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' series.<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots and last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]] from the [[live-action film series]] continuity. For toys of this character, see [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys]].<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], a younger and less experienced leader of an Autobot squadron from the ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' continuity.<br /> <br /> *'''2008''' — [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]], the despotic leader of the evil Autobots in the &quot;[[Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]&quot; alternate universe.<br /> <br /> *'''2008''' — [[Optimus Prime (TransTech)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] Autobots.<br /> <br /> *'''2010''' — [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots in the ''[[Transformers: Prime|Prime]]'' continuity.<br /> <br /> <br /> Optimus Prime is not to be confused with:<br /> <br /> *'''1988''' — [[Ginrai]], a [[Godmaster]] who uses a [[Transtector]] body originally intended for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> *'''2007''' — [[Optimash Prime]], heroic leader of the [[Autotot|Autotots]].<br /> <br /> *[[Optimus (disambiguation)|Other uses of the name &quot;Optimus&quot;]]<br /> <br /> *[[Prime (disambiguation)|Other uses of the name &quot;Prime&quot;]]<br /> <br /> <br /> Additionally, Optimus Prime is not to be confused with the real-life persons:<br /> <br /> * [http://www.facebook.com/#!/MR0ptimusPrime?ref=profile Mr. Optimus Prime], a well-known Transfan and National Guardsman who legally changed his name to Optimus Prime.<br /> <br /> <br /> {{disambig}}</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Optimus_Prime_(G1)&diff=475193 2010-07-07T18:34:58Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|autobot|autobotg2|hofsilver}}<br /> {{disambig3|Optimus Prime}}<br /> {{suite}}<br /> :''Optimus Prime is the leader of the [[Autobot]]s from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> His Partner is [[Octane]]<br /> [[Image:Optimusg1.jpg|right|350px|thumb|I'm that guy everyone remembers. No, not the [[Soundwave (G1)|tape guy]], the other guy.]]<br /> '''Optimus Prime''' is the awe-inspiring [[Prime (rank)|leader]] of the [[Autobot]] forces. Originally a mere civilian, he was chosen by the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] to command, the first in a number of heavy burdens he has been forced to bear. Another is his bringing of the Transformers' conflict to Earth. The complete opposite of his mortal enemy [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], every casualty, [[human]] or [[Transformer|Cybertronian]], weighs heavily on his [[spark]]. He does not show this side to his soldiers, and he never succumbs to despair. The Autobots need a decisive, charismatic leader, and that is what he gives them. It was that leadership which turned the tide of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. <br /> <br /> On the battlefield, there are few who rival Optimus Prime's prowess. He is easily the strongest of any Autobot his [[Scale|size]], and his [[ion blaster]] and his [[energon-axe]] are deadly weapons. He would sacrifice his life to protect his fellow Autobots or those under their care, and [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|does so on a regular basis]]. His compassion for other sentient beings is his only real weakness, and one the Decepticons have taken advantage of time and again... though it's also the source of his strength!<br /> <br /> Prime carries within him the [[Matrix of Leadership]].<br /> <br /> Before being rebuilt into a [[Powermaster]] his robot mode split into three components:<br /> <br /> *A sentient robot module, the [[Brain Center]].<br /> *A wheeled drone module known as [[Roller]].<br /> *A [[Combat Deck]].<br /> <br /> Although Optimus Prime can function as three independent modules, injury to any one module is felt by the other two.<br /> <br /> {{bigquote|Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.|Optimus Prime's most common [[bio]] quote}}<br /> <br /> :''Japanese name:'' '''Convoy''' (コンボイ)<br /> :''Japanese name (Laser Rod):'' '''Battle Convoy'''<br /> :''French-Canadian &amp; Czech name:'' '''Optimus Primus'''<br /> :''Hungarian name (The Movie):'' '''Optimusz Fővezér''' / '''Optimusz Prájm''' (&quot;Optimus Chief&quot;)<br /> :''Italian name:'' '''Commander'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Portugal comics):'' '''Optimus Supremo''' (&quot;Optimus Supreme&quot;)<br /> :''Portuguese name (Brazil cartoon):'' '''Líder Optimus''' (&quot;Leader Optimus&quot;), sometimes Optimus Prime<br /> :''Portuguese name (Brazil comics):'' '''Supremus Absolutus'''<br /> :''Taiwanese name:'' '''Tīh-ghŭ''' (鐵牛, literally &quot;Iron Ox&quot; or &quot;Iron Bull&quot;, a kind of vehicle in early days and rural area)<br /> :''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Jr-tsūn''' (至尊, &quot;Prime&quot;)<br /> :''Cantonese name:'' '''O Baak Man''' (柯柏文)<br /> :''Chinese name (China):'' '''Qing Tian Zhu''' (擎天柱, &quot;Pillar that Supports the Sky&quot;)<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> {{main|Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}<br /> [[Image:CommandPerformances-Autobotsattack.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Don't worry, the multiple crises of conscience come soon enough.]]<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime was a gladiator champion for [[Iacon (city-state)|Iacon]] before quickly working his way up the Autobot ranks once [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] started the war. Four million years ago, when Decepticons attacked the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], he personally chose to crash it onto [[Earth]], a decision that caused him much remorse when the war restarted on Earth in the modern day. <br /> <br /> Though Optimus allowed himself to be destroyed when he betrayed his own moral code while playing a video game, a copy of his mind survived on a [[floppy disk]]. Years later, he was restored as a [[Powermaster]], binary bonded to the [[Nebulos|Nebulan]], [[Hi-Q]]. Optimus Prime slowly earned the respect of Decepticon leader [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], mourned the loss of his friend [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and ultimately sacrificed everything to defeat [[Unicron]]. Though Optimus died again, his mind persisted in Hi-Q, and the [[Last Autobot]] was able to restore him as an [[Action Master]] in time to bring a temporary end to the war. <br /> <br /> In [[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|one universe]], Optimus Prime went on to battle [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], his [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]], and the [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]]. In [[Classics (2006)|another]], fifteen years of peace passed before Megatron rose again. <br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===S.T.A.R.S. pack-in flyers===<br /> [[Image:PackIn RodimusPrimeRemembers Inside2.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The fury of the &quot;Road Warriors&quot;... and Cosmos.]]<br /> The Autobots were outnumbered and outgunned on Earth from the start, though Optimus was confident (and correct) that reinforcements from Cybertron would arrive. {{storylink|Reinforcements from Cybertron!}} <br /> <br /> However, the situation was still so desperate that Optimus not only decided to recruit human allies {{storylink|The battle is far from over!}}, but aggressively tried to recruit and ''deputise'' human children, including giving them the power to co-ordinate Autobot teams in battles. He wouldn't even make a final move on the Decepticons until he had enough child soldiers on his side. {{storylink|Earthlings: THE S.T.A.R.S. need your help now!}} {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} In at least one case, this likely led to the ''death'' of a small boy at Decepticon hands. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}<br /> <br /> Optimus later led a convoy in search for a building site for [[Autobot City]], which ran into a Decepticon ambush. {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} He sent off several Autobots to get help, knowing this was the only chance of victory. {{storylink|Transformers Combat Data}} Those several Autobots were seen again, but Prime... wasn't.<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===<br /> {{main|Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Mtmte2_shermandam.jpg|left|250px|thumb|He had this ax once. It was very memorable.]]<br /> <br /> Before the war, Optimus Prime was originally '''Orion Pax''', a young dock worker with a girlfriend named [[Elita One|Ariel]]. But as the war began, Megatron destroyed them both, and [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] rebuilt them into more powerful warriors. <br /> <br /> Four million years ago, Optimus Prime ended a Decepticon attack on the Ark by directing it towards prehistoric Earth. When both factions reawakened in 1984, Optimus Prime and the Autobots fought the Decepticons on numerous occasions until 2005. During an attack on [[Autobot City]] on Earth, Prime fell in battle against Megatron and passed the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. <br /> <br /> Optimus Prime eventually returned, once as a [[zombie]], and again when he was rebuilt by the [[Quintesson]]s to stop the spread of the [[Hate Plague]]. <br /> <br /> The details between these events differ between universes. Sometimes Optimus Prime merged with [[Vector Sigma]] soon after defeating the Hate Plague, and returned much, much later as Star Convoy. Sometimes Optimus Prime partnered up with [[Marissa Faireborn]] to receive upgrades through mutual [[kiss]]ing. Sometimes... look, he did a lot of weird stuff, okay?<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Kid Stuff Talking Story Books===<br /> :''Voice actor:'' Unknown<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime is a &quot;metallic nemesis&quot;. Megatron said so.<br /> <br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> <br /> ===Big Looker Story Books===<br /> [[Image:KidsPrime1.jpg|right|150px|thumb|And the fluffy kitten played with that yarn all gosh-darn night.]]<br /> <br /> When a two-part race was being held with a massive supply of oil and gasoline as the prize, both the Decepticons and the Autobots badly wanted to win it. Megatron entered the race by hiding himself inside a hollowed-out car and harassed [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] all throughout the contest. When Prime discovered the car was being driven by his arch foe, he swiftly pulled a telephone pole out from the ground and used it to bash the mortal hell out of the cheating Decepticon. Thanks to Prime's violent intervention, Cliffjumper was able to win the race. Afterward, Optimus Prime celebrated the Minibot's victory with a gargantuan smile as all the Decepticons starved to death. {{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}<br /> <br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Ladybird Books continuity===<br /> :''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Marinker]] (English)<br /> <br /> [[Image: Ladybird_prime_transforms.jpg|left|thumb|250px|The ghost of Optimus Prime possesses...himself?]]<br /> Upon witnessing the incredible power of a lightning storm for the first time, Optimus Prime had Sparkplug Witwicky explain the phenomenon to him. Intrigued by the potential of lightning, Prime put [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] and [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] to work finding a way to harness its energy, so they could use it to aid in the rebuilding of their spaceship. Huffer constructed a giant lightning rod, and Optimus Prime and the Autobots gathered to watch its first test. They were shocked, however, when a fleet of battered, damaged Decepticons flew out of the mountain housing the antenna and off into the night. The evil robots had attempted to discover the device's secrets and been seriously electrocuted! Once the lightning rod had been checked, Prime vowed to make the lightning-harnessing technology the Autobots' gift to Earth once they had left the planet. {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}<br /> <br /> When the Decepticons tried to take control of a solar energy station, Prime sent Roller in to investigate. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}} Later, Prime sent [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] to spy on the Decepticons' latest misdeeds, and the Autobots discovered that they were having trouble with the ion drive of their starship. Prime led the Autobots in an attack on the mine the Decepticons were using to test their propulsion system and routed Megatron's force. {{storylink|Autobots Fight Back}}<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime grew concerned when [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] picked up a communication from [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] that indicated the Decepticons had grown interested in a mysterious structure near a human village. Prime and a team of Autobots headed out to investigate, and they battled the Decepticons over the structure, which turned out to be a harmless windmill. {{storylink|Laserbeak's Fury}} <br /> <br /> [[Image:Ladybird_powermaster_prime.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Invisible keyboard solo!]]<br /> <br /> At some point, Optimus Prime disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] arrived from Cybertron to take his place as Autobot commander. {{storylink|Galvatron's Air Attack}} Prime eventually returned many centuries later, now sporting a [[Powermaster]] body, and rejoined the Transformers' war after it had moved from Earth to the alien planet of [[Nebulos]].<br /> <br /> When [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] was captured by the Decepticon leader [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], Optimus Prime agreed to surrender himself to ensure his fellow Autobot's safety. Naturally, though, Prime did not expect Scorponok to hold up his end of the bargain, and he had [[Hosehead]] and [[Fizzle]] rescue Highbrow while he allowed himself to be imprisoned. Their mission successful, Hosehead and Fizzle then sprang Prime from his cell, and the team beat a hasty retreat. {{storylink|Autobot Hostage}} <br /> <br /> After weeks of Decepticon silence, Optimus Prime decided to get proactive and sent out patrols all over the planet to try and flush the villains out. None of the patrols reported back with any success, however, and Prime realized that there was one area of the planet that his troops had deliberately ignored: the mysterious &quot;[[Nebulos Triangle]]&quot;. [[Quickswitch]], [[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] and [[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]] were sent into the Triangle, and they did indeed discover and foil the Decepticon plot going on in the area. {{storylink|Decepticons Underground}}<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers in 3-D''===<br /> Not long after his resurrection, Optimus was alerted by [[Monitorus]] to an attack on [[Tau-Ursa]]. Optimus's impending speech was interrupted by a Decepticon attack led by [[Sixshot]]. Prime soon discovered that the attack was a diversion, while Galvatron tried out his [[Nullification Cannon]] on Cybertron's Energon supplies. Optimus rushed to the Energon plant, but, after clouting [[Slugslinger (G1)|Slugslinger]] so hard that the Decepticon was left dangling over a precipice, Prime's morals forced him to rescue the Decepticon instead of stopping Galvatron from getting away.<br /> <br /> Although Cybertron's Energon stocks were destroyed, the Autobots discovered a recording pointing to the [[Logicon]] planet [[Metascan Alpha]], which had Energon in abundance. Optimus ordered Hot Rod and Ultra Magnus to take a team each to find the planet. The Autobots discovered they were being spied on by the Decepticon [[Clone (subgroup)|Clone]]s, and Optimus swore that Galvatron could pay. He led a team to the derelict space destroyer which the Decepticons were using for a base and fought their leader one-on-one. As he was about to destroy the Nullification Cannon, [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] took a swing at him which connected instead with the Cannon, obliterating it. Optimus was helped away from the destruction by [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] and [[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]]. {{storylink|The War Against the Destructons, Chapter 1 of 3}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformer PD Type'' comic===<br /> <br /> [[Image:PDtype-Matrixattack.jpg|left|thumb|250px|This is the highlight of this entire page.]]<br /> <br /> When a horde of time-displaced Decepticons joined forces to hunt down the five [[Blackball]]s, a super energy source, Optimus Prime gathered a team of time-displaced Autobots to help stop them.<br /> <br /> In one encounter with his arch-foe [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], they reenacted their epic struggle from the [[Battle of Autobot City]]. However, this time around, Prime avoided dying by launching his &quot;Matrix Attack&quot;...''literally'' launching the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] from his chest, bonking Megatron on the head. {{storylink|Transformer PD Type##1 &quot;You're Great! Optimus Prime!&quot;|You're Great! Optimus Prime!}}<br /> <br /> Later, Optimus Prime and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] concocted a cunning strategy. They disguised a round, black cartoon explosive as a Blackball and gave it to [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. Starscream promptly brought it to Megatron, where it blew both of them up. Optimus and Magnus were astounded their plan actually worked. {{storylink|Transformer PD Type##3 &quot;Don't Cry! Megatron!!&quot;|Don't Cry! Megatron!!}}<br /> <br /> In one of his less impressive moments, after running out of ammo during a battle with [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]], Optimus Prime ordered his fellow Autobots to improvise and hurl everything that wasn't nailed down at their enemy. This included the Blackball, unfortunately. Catching it, Deathsaurus began to fantasize about his inevitable galactic conquest, all the while being pelted with rocks and litter. Frustrated, Deathsaurus accidentally hurled the Blackball back to the Autobots in a fit of rage. {{storylink|Transformer PD Type##4 &quot;Good Job! Deathsaurus!!&quot;|Good Job! Deathsaurus!!}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Comic Bom Bom G-2'' comic===<br /> [[Image:G2Hero.jpg|right|200px|thumb|GAH, HE'S LOOKING AT ME!]]<br /> In the year 199X, the Decepticons had learned of a powerful new energy source known as [[forestonite]] which just happened to be located (surprise surprise) on [[Earth]]. Megatron sent his trio of [[Cyberjet]]s to Earth first to draw out the enemy Autobots. The Cyberjets made quick work of [[Electro]] but were soon halted by the appearance of Optimus Prime.<br /> <br /> Megatron then entered the fray and fired his Black Hole Burn attack from his fusion cannon, narrowly missing Optimus Prime but vaporizing [[Hooligan (G2)|Hooligan]] in the process. Prime fought fiercely but Megatron began to take the upper-hand in battle.<br /> <br /> However, Prime was encouraged to keep fighting by the cheers of a human boy named [[Junpei]]. Megatron, surprised at Prime's resilience, attempted to finish his foe off with his Tornado Axe attack. Prime countered with his Double Wheel-Torque Mega-Ton, which trumped Megatron's attack and injured the Decepticon badly. Megatron teleported back to his ship and left Earth's atmosphere, vowing to return.<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime addressed Junpei, asking if the boy was injured. Junpei revealed he was alright but presented concern about the Decepticons returning to Earth. Optimus Prime swore that the Autobots would remain on Earth until the threat of the Decepticons was finished and asked for Junpei's help in making that future a reality. {{storylink|The New Battle!!}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===<br /> ====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====<br /> [[Image:G1Prime BWMegs.jpg|left|180px|thumb|You have to get up preeeeetty early in the timestream to beat Optimus Prime!]]<br /> <br /> The [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] raged on prehistoric Earth, eventually leading to the discovery of the buried Ark sometime after its crash on prehistoric Earth. [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], following [[Megatron (G1)|his namesake's]] instructions in a desperate gambit, decided to attempt to change history by killing Prime, who was still lying in the Ark in [[stasis lock]]. Megatron hoped that this would result in the Decepticons winning the Great War and eventually [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] control of Cybertron. Megatron unleashed a full-power weapon blast at Optimus Prime's face, near-fatally injuring him. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}} However, [[Optimus Primal]] proceeded to take Prime's spark into his body to protect it from surgical trauma while his injuries were repaired. The subsequent power increase caused by Prime's spark's connection to the Matrix mutated Primal into a large, [[Transmetal]] &quot;Optimal Optimus&quot; form. Then, with the repairs complete, Prime's spark was restored, and he briefly activated before sinking back into normal stasis. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}<br /> <br /> Sometime after the Autobots and Decepticons awoke in the 1980s, the original Megatron gained access to one of Earth's ''Voyager'' spacecraft and inscribed a message on the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|disk]] on board. In the event that he lost the War, Megatron left instructions for the descendants of the Decepticons to use [[transwarp]] technology to travel to Prehistoric Earth, locate the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], and change history by killing Optimus Prime. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}<br /> <br /> ====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====<br /> [[Image:Sparkwar2_Optimus_hologram_primal.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]<br /> :''Voice actor'': [[Garry Chalk]] (English), [[Tilo Schmitz]] (German)<br /> <br /> An enormous [[Optimus Prime memorial|statue]] of Optimus Prime, bearing two [[Golden Disk (disambiguation)|Golden Disks]], could be seen on Cybertron in front of the Hall of Archives. The statue was subsequently blown to pieces by the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon forces]]. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}} Later, Megatron beamed a hologram of Optimus Prime down to the ruins of [[Iacon (city-state)|Iacon]] to confront [[Optimus Primal]]. Primal mistook the hologram for the real thing and shared with it the code for the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]]. Megatron quickly revealed his ruse. Primal explained to his Maximals that he knew the image was fake, but he needed the location of the missing [[spark]]s from Megatron's mind. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Writer [[Bob Skir]] claims that neither the statue nor the golden disks in its hands were mentioned in the script. However, he suggested that they were either the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|disks]] from the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, or that Optimus won them in the 2,395,989th Annual Cybertronian spelling bee.&lt;ref&gt;[http://bigbot.com/beast-machines-transformers-bob-skir/Beast-Machines-FAQ/Tue_12_Oct_1999.html Q&amp;A from Bigbot's &quot;bobskir.com&quot;]&lt;/ref&gt; We're betting on the latter.}}<br /> <br /> ====3H comics====<br /> [[Image:Sparkholderprimevaldawn.jpg|left|190px|thumb|&quot;Oh, I also have this in me now, too.&quot;]]<br /> <br /> After the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], Optimus Prime disappeared with other legends into the mysterious location on Cybertron dubbed [[J'nwan]]. When the warlord [[Shokaract]], powered by [[Unicron]]'s [[Dark Essence]], traveled into the past to secure his own future, a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] named [[Sandstorm (BW)|Sandstorm]] traversed the confusing mists of J'nwan to seek out its occupants to help. Sandstorm prevailed and brought Optimus, Megatron, Soundwave, and Grimlock with him to prehistoric Earth during the time of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] where a battle with Shokaract had already begun. When Sandstorm (secretly Scorpius) and the rest of the [[Covenant]] arrived to vanquish the Dark Essence and defeat Shokaract, Optimus Prime and the others escaped through portals as that timeline was paradoxed from existence. {{storylink|Terminus}}<br /> <br /> After the Beast Wars had ended and the Maximals and Predacons that survived it had headed home, the Vok entered the Ark and removed the Matrix of Leadership from an unconscious Optimus Prime. They used it to create [[Primal Prime]], and then gave the Matrix to their new creation. {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 1}}<br /> <br /> {{note|In the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon, Prime's spark was shown to be contained in a Matrix-like vessel. In [[Universe (2003 comic)|Primeval Dawn]], that vessel was shown to be merely a container for his spark, and the actual Matrix was hidden underneath. ''Primeval Dawn'' was never completed, but presumably the Matrix was returned to Optimus Prime's body before Primal Prime returned to Cybertron.}}<br /> <br /> As the [[Universe war|Universe conflict]] began, [[Optimus Primal]] was shown a myriad of Transformers from across all timelines that he could choose to recruit into his [[Child of Primus|Children of Primus]] in the battle against the [[Minion of Unicron|Minions of Unicron]]. One such possibility was a Transformer who was either [[Thunder Clash]] or Optimus Prime, but, regardless, Primal chose [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] and [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox instead]]. <br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars Metals'' comic===<br /> [[Image:CheetasManga1.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Cheetor, that's Prime's Spark, not a toy.]]<br /> Optimus Prime was blasted into pieces by Dragon Megatron. Fortunately, his spark remained perfectly intact—in the remains of his [[Optimal Situation|Matrix-shaped spark chamber]]. Megatron was going to destroy Prime's spark, but [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (now in his Transmetal body) saved it. Prime's spark was eventually swallowed by Optimus Primal, who was upgraded into Optimal Optimus by doing so.<br /> <br /> After Megatron was killed by Optimal Optimus, Primal and his crew said it would be troublesome to fix Optimus Prime's body.<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> {{cleanup|November 2009|Needs storylinks to relevant issues or whatever these came from.}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===<br /> When Bumblebee, Hound and Spike brought a badly-damaged Starscream back to the Ark, Optimus struggled with the ethical implications of allowing Wheeljack and Ratchet to mess with the Decepticon's logic circuits, but gave them the go ahead. Starscream proved to be amnesic, and Optimus was able to take the opportunity to help him as much as possible, even physically preventing Megatron from retrieving his former lieutenant when Starscream opted to stay with the Autobots. Though Starscream left as soon as he regained his memory, Prime reflected that they'd learned that maybe it was possible to reason with a Decepticon. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}<br /> <br /> After passing the Matrix to Ultra Magnus and expiring in the aftermath of the [[battle of Autobot City]], Optimus Prime found himself in [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]. There he encountered Optimus Primal and another [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] from a [[Unicron Trilogy|different universe]]. Together, the four of them overcame the other Optimus Prime's doubts about his leadership, before returning to their respective time lines. {{storylink|Prime Spark}}<br /> <br /> {{note|The following takes place in a version of Dreamwave comic continuity}}<br /> While the Autobots were boarding the Ark, Optimus voiced his lack of confidence in his leadership, before welcoming aboard [[Geosensus]], who was incapable of transforming to robot mode. Four million years later, Prime and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] found the Ark was under attack and defended it with deadly force. In examining the wreckage of the attackers, they realised that the robot Optimus had destroyed was not a Decepticon but Geosensus, who had forced himself to transform in an attempt to fight off the Decepticons. Though Prime was willing to take the rap, Prowl insisted on covering up the mistake to protect Optimus's image as a leader. {{storylink|Parts}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave comics continuity===<br /> {{picsneeded}}<br /> [[Image:Optronix optimus.jpg|left|180px|thumb|What? OPTRONIX is evolving!]]<br /> Optimus Prime started life as '''Optronix''' (Orion to his friends&lt;ref&gt;The [[Keepers Trilogy]] novels set in Dreamwave continuity&lt;/ref&gt;), a data archivist. After taking note of a battle in which the Autobot leader [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] had been defeated by Megatron, he was summoned to the council of elders and informed that the Matrix had chosen him to be the next leader of the Autobots. He received the Matrix of Leadership shortly thereafter, gaining a powerful new body in the process. After dispatching a Decepticon assassination squad sent to, well, assassinate him, he ordered the Autobots to prepare to evacuate Cybertron, intending to leave the Decepticons to their own devices. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1}}<br /> <br /> As he and Prowl discussed the wisdom of evacuating, a huge explosion obliterated the [[Forum of Enlightenment]]. Optimus led a team there, realising that the destruction was a message from Megatron. Leaving his team, he ventured underground, encountering [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]], who blasted him into a pit. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2}} Exploring the underground, Prime had a strange vision of a transparent version of himself, which warned that he must grasp Cybertron's significance. Then he was attacked by [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s, whom he was able to easily best. As Optimus encountered [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] in person for the first time, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] blasted the bridge they were standing on, plunging them into yet another chasm. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3}} Recovering, Prime heard another disembodied voice telling him about Cybertron. Before he could look for a way out, Megatron found him, and informed him about the true nature of the Matrix. This spurred Optimus to fight back, but before long, Megatron took control of the battle, smashing his fist into Prime's chest to get at the Matrix. A blaze of light enveloped the pair, who found themselves abruptly on 20th century [[Earth]]. {{storylink|The War Within issue 4}}<br /> <br /> As Megatron explained that the Matrix was giving them a vision of the future, they witnessed themselves battling on [[Sherman Dam]]. The nature of their surroundings established, Megatron resumed the scheduled beating, but a series of setting shifts ended with Optimus reunited with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. Grimlock handed Prime a sword and suggested he finish Megatron for good. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5}} Optimus found Megatron again, engaging him in combat and announcing that he was playing the game by Megatron's rules now — without mercy. A short time later, he joined the other Autobots in attacking the Decepticons who were trying to use Cybertron's giant engines. Grimlock was finally impressed with Prime. They arrived back at [[Iacon (city-state)|Iacon]] to find it destroyed, but Optimus announced they were no longer evacuating the planet and threw away the [[Golden Disk (council)|Golden Disk]] full of the knowledge of his predecessors which the council had given him, saying he would choose his own course. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6}}<br /> <br /> Some time into his role as leader, Optimus Prime disappeared in a [[space bridge]] explosion along with Megatron, {{storylink|Fragmentation}} but returned some time later, having spent a period of time on [[Quintessa]].<br /> <br /> {{note|Due to the closure of Dreamwave, Optimus's return to Cybertron was never depicted.}}<br /> <br /> Following the awakening of the Transformers on Earth, the Autobots protected the planet from the Decepticons. Over the next fifteen years, the Autobots befriended the humans, particularly the [[Witwicky|Witwicky family]]. The Autobots finally allied with humankind and eventually defeated the Decepticons at the turn of the century. They planned to return to Cybertron aboard the newly constructed ''[[Ark II]]'', along with [[Magnificent Seven|seven humans]], including Witwicky patriarch [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]]. Before the ship departed, Prime gave a piece of the Matrix to [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], Sparkplug's son and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]'s closest human friend. But the ship was destroyed as part of a military conspiracy to take control of the Transformers.<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime's body was hauled out of the Arctic Ocean by the US military. While a terrorist organization run by the enigmatic [[Lazarus]] was able to seize control of several of the other Transformers that fell back to Earth, the military worked unsuccessfully to reactivate Prime. They eventually called in Spike Witwicky. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1}} Spike was forced by the project chief, General [[Robert Hallo]], to use the piece of the Matrix to reactivate Prime. Functional again, Prime used the Matrix to reactivate more of his fallen comrades. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2}}<br /> <br /> The Autobots helped repair a [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] site which the Lazarus-controlled Transformers had attacked. Optimus had no answer for Spikes accusation that the Transformers' presence on Earth was responsible for the destruction. When Megatron's activities at Lazarus's base were spotted by the military, Optimus insisted on the Autobots going in without backup. They discovered Megatron in the middle of a plan to reformat Earth into a new Cybertron using a [[cyber-virus]]. Optimus rejected Megatron's suggestion he should just let it happen, but while the two factions fought, the human military unleashed [[Operation Clean-Up]], dropping a bomb on them. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3}}<br /> <br /> The energy of the explosion absorbed by the virus, the Autobots dug themselves out and set about recovering their fellows whom Megatron had used to power the cyber-virus in its early stages. [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] passed on a message from Megatron — there was a surprise in store for the Autobot leader. Optimus and some Autobots including [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] sped to [[San Francisco]], where Megatron had unleashed [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. As Prime battled Megatron, he took time to save three humans who were threatened by falling debris, only for the humans to turn on him. The defeat of Superion turned the tide of the battle against the Autobots. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4}}<br /> <br /> Never one to give up, Optimus managed to down Devastator in return, only to find himself at Megatron's mercy. The Decepticon leader pointed out to him the humans' self-obsessed behavior in the face of the devastation, suggesting the fleshlings were worthless, and the Autobots should join the Decepticons in wiping them out. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5}} The heroic actions of a team of firefighters and other humans proved to Optimus that the humans were worth saving, and the Autobots delivered a smackdown on the Decepticons. The fight was interrupted by the news that a nuclear missile was inbound, and despite Prime's protests, Superion sacrificed himself intercepting it. Prime recovered from the shock wave to find that the Decepticons had fled. He appealed to Grimlock to return to the Autobot ranks, an offer turned down by the Dinobot. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6}}<br /> <br /> Following this, Prime began to experience subconscious urgings, leading both the Autobots and the Decepticons to the Arctic Circle, where Shockwave arrived to greet them—and arrest them as war criminals. Shockwave had succeeded in ending the war on Cybertron, and brought a team of [[Triple Changer]]s to apprehend them. As Optimus stared down [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]'s cannon barrel, he was saved by Grimlock, though he subsequently had to order a retreat. Prowl convinced him to let a small team stay as recon while the others returned to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and discussed the change in situation. {{storylink|New World Order}} Though Optimus was puzzled by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] having fallen in with Shockwave, he had little other choice, and surrendered to Magnus. Despite being bound, he took the first opportunity he got to make his feelings clear. Prime and those of his Autobots who had also surrendered were put on a shuttle back to Cybertron, where Shockwave planned to have them deactivated. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}}<br /> <br /> Stewing in a cell, Optimus blamed himself for their predicament, but he and the Autobots were soon rescued by [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] and [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]]. Sandstorm and Optimus traveled through Cybertron's underground slave trails, only to find themselves ambushed by [[Runabout]], who swiftly killed Sandstorm, and then the Decepticon was attacked by a [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]], which lunged at Prime. {{storylink|Cold War}} Prime recovered to find himself in the care of a group of Autobot rebels including [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]. They revealed to Optimus that Shockwave had been transmitting subliminal signals to increase Transformer aggression. {{storylink|Passive Aggression}}<br /> <br /> Optimus was able to rally Autobot factions from across Cybertron to the cause and launch an all-out attack on Shockwave's fortress. Shown the image of Shockwave blasting Ultra Magnus, Optimus charged in to confront the Decepticon, only to be overpowered and the Matrix ripped from his chest in order to activate Vector Sigma. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}} Stalling, Prime listened as Shockwave recounted the history of Cybertron, and eventually Ultra Magnus arrived, having recovered, to attack and defeat Shockwave. Prime and Grimlock helped him escape from the fortress as it crumbled to the ground. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}} The injuries Prime took in this conflict necessitated a prolonged restoration period in stasis. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}}<br /> <br /> {{note|...which turned out to be the remainder of Dreamwave's existence. Bummer.}}<br /> <br /> ===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===<br /> [[Image:GIJoevsTFcobraprime.jpg|right|275px|thumb|G.1. Joe—the real universal hero!]]<br /> In the early stages of the war, Optimus Prime was an archivist, watching the battles from afar and keeping records of them. This all changed when the [[Matrix of Leadership]] chose him to lead the Autobots in battle. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 2|The Art of War #2}} Shortly after he ascended to Primehood, [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] tried to kill him, but failed. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2|Black Horizon, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Several Autobots and Decepticons, including Optimus Prime, were reformatted into will-less war machines under the control of [[Cobra]]. During an initial attack on a human peace conference, Cobra's remote control of Optimus (whom they had nicknamed &quot;HISS-14&quot;) mysteriously failed. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue #1}} Later at Cobra's [[Cobra Island|island headquarters]] in the Caribbean, Cobra scientists pulled Optimus apart to find out what was impeding their commands. As this analysis took place, Optimus reverse hacked into Cobra computers until they shut him down in a panic. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}} Despite this, Prime sent a viral message out to hundreds of email addresses that included the coordinates of Cobra's base. The message was intercepted by [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] who teamed up with Wheeljack and Bumblebee. After Wheeljack broke the remote control over the Transformers, Prime went after [[Cobra Commander]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #3}} More than a bit frightened of a giant robot gunning for him, the human released Megatron, who was trapped in gun model. Megatron transformed and fought Prime to a standstill until other Autobots came to back him up. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}}<br /> <br /> Although he was weak and low on [[Energon (fuel)|energon]], Prime made a last-ditch effort to save the day when he rammed through the wall of Megatron's energon-producing lab. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}} After a quick recharge, Optimus single-handedly smashed the Decepticons, pounded Megatron to the ground, and ripped his [[fusion cannon]] off his arm. Prime then teamed up with the Joes and used Megatron's cannon to shoot down the [[SPS Satellite]] that had gone rogue and was destroying the island.<br /> <br /> With the battle over, Prime and the Autobots boarded a new ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' ship built by G.I. Joe and returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:GIJoevstfIIprime1930s.jpg|left|275px|thumb|Retro Convoy: TRANSFORM!!!]]<br /> On a Cybertron dominated by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and the Decepticons, Optimus Prime and the Autobots took on the roles of resistance fighters. Cobra experimentation transported a contingent of Cobras and G.I. Joes to Cybertron and destabilized [[Teletran 3]], which led to the computer sending several Transformers to [[Earth]] across different time periods. When Optimus Prime saw Jazz get zapped by Teletran 3, he leapt to rescue his soldier, only to be transported away as well. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #1}} A team made up of Joes and Cobra agents were sent back and found Optimus Prime and the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] in 1930s-era Chicago, disguised as period cars and trucks. The Stunticons chased Prime and the Joes around the city until everything was wrapped up with bullets, a collapsed bridge and some dynamite. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}}<br /> <br /> After the Transformers and humans were returned to present-day Cybertron and the Decepticons were vanquished by the recently-arrived [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], Prime made an agreement with the Joes to destroy the technology that started the whole mess in order to protect Earth. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4}}<br /> <br /> On Cybertron, Optimus Prime kicked back to do a little bit of paperwork and reminisce. With Shockwave defeated, Cybertron was enjoying a new era of peace. He was interrupted by Hot Rod, who reported that a group of &quot;pesky humans with their peashooters&quot; were giving an Autobot team on Earth a hard time. Prime suspected Cobra's involvement and counseled Hot Rod not to be so dismissive of the humans. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1|The Art of War #1}} When the team returned to Cybertron and mysteriously vanished in the [[Gladiator Zone]], Prime was prepared to go search for them, but was convinced by Hot Rod to stay behind and organize a peace ceremony. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 2|The Art of War #2}}<br /> <br /> Later, at the peace celebration, Prime was watching a procession of Autobots when Decepticons attacked. Optimus ordered [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] into action but the huge Autobot was quickly overcome by [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], [[Piranacon (G1)|Piranacon]] and [[Predaking]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} Prime hopped into the fray, saved a [[Optimus Prime's rescuee|civilian]] from getting smushed by the falling Omega, rode [[Sixshot]] into Piranacon's face, smashed [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] into the ground, and carried a [[Optimus Prime's rescuee|wounded civilian]] out of danger. <br /> <br /> [[Image:Primevsserpentor.jpg|right|175px|thumb|Serpent O.R. soon realized that &quot;This I command!&quot; doesn't work on Optimus Prime.]] <br /> Menasor cut off Prime's escape and handed him the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio, who confronted Prime with a hologram of [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] The new Decepticon leader carried Megatron's memories and information downloaded from Soundwave, from which he learned of the Matrix of Leadership. Serpent O.R. offered Optimus a trade: hostages and peace if he handed over the Matrix. Optimus agreed. <br /> <br /> In his stronghold, Serpent O.R. questioned Prime about his own worthiness to carry the Matrix, but Optimus broke free of his chains and aggressively ordered him to surrender. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}} A group of Decepticons broke in and nearly took Prime apart, but not before Serpent O.R. took the Matrix for himself and changed into the massive Serpentor Prime. The Matrix showed Serpentor Prime the error of his ways but as he was about to commit suicide Cobra Commander tripped a device and took over Serpentor Prime's body. Moments before he crushed Arcee, a severely damaged Optimus Prime threw Hawk toward the Matrix but warned the human not to touch the artifact. Hawk did so anyway and through a quasi-mystical transfer of power Serpentor Prime was vanquished. <br /> <br /> Later repaired by a female nursebot, Optimus went back to finishing his paperwork. A leader's job is never done. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}<br /> <br /> Sensing a new, yet old, danger to planet Earth, Prime elected to send himself to earth on an investigation, and gave Hot Rod a glare when the young Autobot accused his leader of taking an unnecessary risk to atone for the death of a [[Bumblebee (G1)|close friend]].<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime landed in the Himalayan Mountains with G.I. Joes [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] and [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]]. As they searched the area, the trio was attacked by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] in his [[Pretender]] shell. Prime whacked him with his [[energon-axe]] and in return Bludgeon bearhugged him and coated him in metal-eating slime. Hawk, still carrying power from the Matrix, helped Prime break free. Optimus then shot his way into the hidden kingdom of [[Cobra-La]].<br /> <br /> While they wandered through the tunnels, the Joes and Prime found cave paintings that described the last visit to Earth by the planet-eating god [[Unicron]]. They were attacked again by Bludgeon and Cobra-La minions, but were led away by a ragged [[Joe Colton]], prisoner of Cobra-La for the last 25 years. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2|Black Horizon, Part 1}} Bludgeon managed to find them again and during a second battle Prime tore open the Pretender's shell, revealing Bludgeon's robot form inside. Bludgeon tripped and dangled dangerously over a chasm, but rather than let Optimus Prime save him, Bludgeon forced Prime to drop him to his death laughing all the way down.<br /> <br /> The Joes discovered a cavern where the people of Cobra-La were growing [[metal-eating spore]]s as a last defense against Unicron. Flint and [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] took a load of the spores into space just as Unicron appeared in Earth orbit. Prime, Hawk and Colton headed deeper into Cobra-La to rescue [[Firewall]] and kick butt. Prime was tackled and pinned by a giant bug creature, but made a dramatic recovery and tossed the bug aside. He then took the machine-hating Cobra-La leader [[Golobulus]] to task with a single punch. Flint and Cosmos released the spores, which devoured Unicron from the inside and defeated the giant Transformer before he could harm [[Earth]].<br /> <br /> With the threat of Unicron gone, Prime relaxed with [[Eject]] and Firewall by watching some reality TV, and sighed at the banality. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2|Black Horizon, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===<br /> Optimus Prime and his troops lay deactivated on the [[Fera Islands]] for three million years until [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] stumbled upon them one day in 1939. {{storylink|The Line}} The Autobots were reactivated by a [[Sky Spy|repair drone]] and given new disguises, with Optimus Prime being reformatted into an unknown [[World War II]]-era human vehicle. He explained to [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] who they were, and learned that [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s Decepticons had been reactivated a year prior, and were currently wreaking havoc on [[Europe]] along with [[Cobra]]. While hesitant at first, Optimus Prime soon joined G.I. Joe in their mission to destroy Cobra and the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformed}} After commanding the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] to get the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] out of the way, Prime advanced across the Fera Islands, but met resistance in the form of [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}}<br /> <br /> As the Autobots were having trouble with Rumble, Optimus Prime told them try to use his earthquakes to their advantage, which led to the end of the Decepticon. Prime subsequently ordered the Aerialbots to [[Superion (G1)|combine]] and save Grimlock and [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] from falling off a cliff. {{storylink|Wolves}} As they got closer to the Cobra [[Terrordrome]], however, Prime started regretting getting the Autobots involved with the humans' war. He offered to carry G.I. Joe across the water separating them from the Terrordrome, but told them that Autobots only fight if they have no choice, and they had no reason to fight anymore. Moments later, he saw that Cobra were using innocent prisoners as human shields, and Duke added that anyone who Cobra ''didn't'' enslave, they murdered. Filled with righteous anger, Optimus Prime ordered his troops to roll out. {{storylink|Trenches}}<br /> <br /> Shortly after reaching the other shore and taking out [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], Prime witnessed the gigantic [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] bust out of the Terrordrome and attack everything around him. With Superion gone, Prime knew that there was only one way to stop this rampaging monster, and ordered his Autobots to evacuate the humans while he went looking for the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. He soon found that [[Snake-Eyes]] was in possession of the artifact, but was under attack from Megatron. Prime attacked Megatron, keeping him at bay while telling Snake-Eyes that destroying the Matrix would kill Bruticus. The ninja complied, only to learn that Optimus had left something out of the story: smashing the Matrix would kill ''all'' the Transformers, including Prime himself. Looking at the Autobot leader's body, the Joes knew that Prime had been aware of this, and had deemed it a necessary sacrifice to save the humans. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}<br /> <br /> Decades later, in 1986, Duke showed [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] and [[Spirit]] footage from the battle of the Fera Islands, including Optimus Prime's fight with Megatron. {{storylink|Targets of Opportunity}}<br /> <br /> === IDW comics continuity ===<br /> {{ongoing}}<br /> [[Image:MO3 EOOPAT funeral.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Helloooo cameo.]]<br /> In the very beginnings of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s civil war, Optimus was one of several Transformers who gathered for the funeral of the slain [[Fastback]] and [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]]. He stood solemnly with his arm around his [[Elita One|girlfriend]], next to his [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|white clone]] and [[Alpha Trion (G1)|a guy with a beard]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:SpotlightBlurr-Optimus.jpg|left|thumb|200px|There's something missing...]]<br /> <br /> Galvanized by the death of Sentinel Prime, Optimus joined the Autobot forces under Sentinel's successor, [[Zeta Prime]], and was assigned to a unit commanded by the veteran [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]. During his tour of duty, his unit intercepted a message reporting a planned attempt on the Prime's life. He approached former racer [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] as a reliable means of getting the news to Zeta Prime in a hurry. The former celebrity balked, but ultimately the young soldier helped Blurr find what really drove him to race, and thus recruited him to the Autobot cause. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}}<br /> <br /> An undisclosed amount of time later, Optimus became Optimus Prime. While reviewing his new troops, he came upon a defiant old veteran called Ironhide, who thought of Prime as a wet-behind-the-audio-receptors upstart. Optimus was intrigued by this old coot and asked Ironhide to teach him about the ways of war—and Ironhide did just that. Everything he threw at Optimus, Optimus took and learnt. All his hard comments were taken in. But one day, Optimus, having gained much wisdom since meeting Ironhide, decided to go against Ironhide's counsel, heading east instead of west. This turned out to be a good idea, as [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] had been waiting in the west to ambush the Autobot forces. Later still, Ironhide and Optimus got a bit unlucky and ended up dangling off a cliff with Ironhide missing a leg. They were eventually rescued. As time went on, Ironhide developed a respect and awe for his protege. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13}}<br /> <br /> Four million years ago, Optimus Prime led a strike team to prevent the Decepticons from overtaking the latest in a series of Cybertronian cities. Leaving Prowl to hold the line, Optimus and Ironhide went after a convoy of Decepticons bring fresh energon to the enemy troops. Fighting their way through [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and the Mini-Cassettes, the Autobot duo held [[Octane|Tankor]] and his soldiers at gunpoint, threatening to blow them and their energon cargo to kingdom come unless they surrendered. Tankor chose the better part of valor, and Optimus captured five Decepticons without firing a single shot. <br /> <br /> At a party celebrating their win, Optimus Prime politely declined Prowl's request for him to address the troops, reasoning that the Autobots needed some R&amp;R, not the usual &quot;destiny and honor&quot; speech. He conversed quietly with [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and Ironhide afterwards, privately confiding in them that he foresaw the war going on without end. The Decepticons were a philosophy, an idea...and you cannot beat an idea, only change it somehow. Despite his sad reservations, Optimus took the time to mingle among his soldiers, and listen to their tales of glory. He was saved from an assassination attempt by Ironhide, his ever vigilant bodyguard, whose devotion to his leader led him to throw himself in the path of [[Axer|the assassin]]'s blast. {{storylink|The Iron Age}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:IDWOptimus.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Freedom is the right of all sentient and heavily-armed beings.]]<br /> <br /> Over the course of the war, Optimus Prime commanded the Autobot armed forces spread across the galaxy from the [[Autobot Orbital Command Hub]]. He was directly involved in the cataclysm ([[IDW timeline|just under 450 years ago]]) that reduced [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to a dead husk, fighting alongside [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] in an attempt to stop [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]'s rampage. Their efforts were futile, and they only survived due to Cybertron itself swallowing Thunderwing at [[Thunderhead Pass]]. Megatron was unconvinced that Thunderwing was dead, and he advocated that Cybertron be destroyed to better insure that the mad Decepticon was forever destroyed. Optimus Prime refused and threatened to stop any effort that Megatron attempted. Megatron agreed to spare the planet, but warned Prime that anything which happened afterward was on his head. <br /> <br /> In the present, Prime received a pulsewave from [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], who was stationed under [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]'s team on Earth, saying that the Decepticon infiltration cell under [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] had broken their infiltration methods and enacted [[Infiltration protocol|siege mode]] prematurely. Soon afterward, the Autobot science vessel ''[[Calabi-Yau]]'' sent a distress signal from above Thunderhead Pass, and he ordered the [[Wrecker]]s to withdraw from [[Varas Centralus]] and meet him on Cybertron. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2|Stormbringer #2}} Thunderwing had been restored by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and his followers, and though the Wreckers made short work of them, the real fight would be met with Thunderwing. After the Wreckers, [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] and [[Centurion droid]]s were unable to destroy the monster, Prime took to the field, firing massive amounts of energy at Thunderwing, forcing it to exhaust its last reserves of [[Ultra-Energon]] and, ultimately, its life. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 4|Stormbringer #4}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:IDWPrime Earth.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Don't crush the cameraman!]]<br /> [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] discovered information in Bludgeon's files about the mysterious new form of Energon found on [[Earth]]. Linking it to the pulsewave transmission from Ironhide, Prime diverted his spacecraft to Earth and called [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] in to assist him. {{storylink|Spotlight: Nightbeat}}. Shortly after arrival, and having undergone alteration so that he could disguise himself as an Earth truck, he slowly began to realize how unusual the situation Prowl's unit had found itself in was. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}} Not only had the Decepticons broken their own infiltration protocols over what Starscream had dubbed [[Ultra-Energon|Ore-13]], but after attempting to recover what appeared to be [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]'s remains, it was also evident that some of the planet's native sentient lifeforms—[[human]]s—posed a threat possibly equal to that of their old enemies. {{storylink|Escalation issue 2|Escalation #2}}<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime, now fully filled-in on Earth's happenings, decided that they needed reinforcements. He called Nightbeat, [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], and [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] to come when they could. When Prowl pointed out that Megatron, in his new gun-based Earth mode, was in the breakaway Soviet state of [[Brasnya]] stirring up trouble, Prime ordered them into action.<br /> <br /> [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] almost got the drop on Prime, but [[Roller]] was right behind him and took out Blitzwing with a single shot. Megatron returned to his full-size robot mode and disagreed with the quality of Prime's tea and crumpets. At last, the two rivals were going to go at it.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Escalation5 Primedies enlightning.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Rule of thumb, Megs—if he don't turn gray, he's A-OK.]]<br /> The fight went well at first, with Prime blowing Megatron's [[fusion cannon]] clean off. Megatron, however, tireless thanks to Ore-13, prevailed, almost beating Prime into [[stasis lock]]. {{storylink|Escalation issue 5|Escalation #5}}<br /> <br /> However, Prime transferred his consciousness into his trailer, leading Megatron to believe him dead. Realizing that Ore-13 was the same as Ultra-Energon, Prime returned to his body in time to save his forces from the relentless Megatron, blasting him point blank in the face and dealing enough damage to the Decepticon leader to drain his power reserves, just as he did against Thunderwing. The victory was narrow, however, leaving Optimus with the daunting task of fending off an increasing enemy force without his last ace in the hole. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6|Escalation #6}}<br /> <br /> This near-death experience had left Prime somewhat unsettled. While his consciousness was in [[infraspace]] downloading to his trailer, he sensed a presence of dread—the visage of his long-missing predecessor, [[Nova Prime]]. Looking for answers, Optimus Prime left Earth temporarily to seek an audience with [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] for answers. Once there, he found out about Nova's beliefs of how Transformers were a superior race and should remake the universe in their image, and he faced down the rampaging [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]], a legacy of Nova's tenure locked away by Omega Supreme. Then he gave his &quot;you shouldn't have done that&quot; speech to Omega, handed Monstructor's limbs over to Jetfire's team, and went on to have angst-ridden introspection about himself and the tarnished legacy of the [[Prime (rank)|Prime lineage]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Optimus Prime}}<br /> <br /> After returning to Earth, Nightbeat discovered that a human group was aware of the base's location and recommended to Prime that they move the ''[[Ark-19]]''. As preparations were underway, Prime received a message from [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] saying that Thunderwing had been stolen. [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], eager to search for Sunstreaker, suggested that they be reassigned to Earth, and Prime agreed. However, the thrashing that Prime gave Megatron had so embarrassed the Decepticon leader that he ordered in the Decepticons' living weapon, [[Sixshot]]. While moving the ''Ark-19'', Prime and the others came under fire by Sixshot, who severely damaged their ship. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1|Devastation #1}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Devastation4 PrimeSixshot hyperbole.jpg|left|180px|thumb|&quot;And THAT'S for killing my brother in another timeline!&quot;]]<br /> Ordering [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] to get [[Jimmy Pink]] and [[Verity Carlo]] to safety, Optimus then instructed Nightbeat to upload all of ''Ark-19''&lt;nowiki&gt;'&lt;/nowiki&gt;s data to ''[[Ark-32]]'' and for Prowl to activate the self-destruct sequence. {{storylink|Devastation issue 2|Devastation #2}} When ''Ark-19'' exploded, it was assumed that Optimus was on board, but all was good at the end when he appeared with [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and the others, ready to take on Sixshot. {{storylink|Devastation issue 3|Devastation #3}} Optimus and the Autobots held Sixshot at bay, but the U.S. military ordered an air strike to destroy the alien robots. The battle was a stalemate, as Sixshot had to return to the Decepticons while the Autobots [[orbital jump]]ed just in time to avoid destruction. {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}} On ''Ark-32'', after a conversation with Jetfire, Prime informed Prowl that they needed to retrieve [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], Hot Rod and Ironhide, and leave Earth to see to another crisis. The secure facility on [[Garrus-9]] had been breached, and Prime and company needed to make sure that some of the &quot;recent inmates&quot; there didn't end up &quot;in enemy hands&quot;. {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation #5}} Before leaving Earth, Optimus Prime redirected Hound's unit to rendezvous with ''Ark-32'' at Garrus-9, and he told Hound to impress upon Sideswipe the importance of their mission and how he didn't leave Earth or Sunstreaker behind lightly. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation #6}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:DarknessPrimes.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Think he can go one series without having a near-death experience?]]<br /> Optimus Prime and Prowl met with [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and Jetfire on Garrus-9 and discussed the prisoners' breakout and how a surviving Decepticon had been tortured. Maximus and Jetfire gave each other a guilty glance. Prime left Maximus in charge and returned with Prowl to the ''Ark-32''. Meanwhile, [[Dead Universe]] resident [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] attacked Hound's crew, but they received help from Ultra Magnus and drove Cyclonus to escape to [[Corata-Vaz]]. There, he activated the [[Nega-Core]] and fought with Magnus and Hound's crew, who had followed him. In desperation, Cyclonus activated the Nega-Core's guardian—Thunderwing. Using the distraction, Cyclonus escaped, but Magnus sent another tracker after him. All this was reported to Optimus Prime on the ''Ark-32'', who recognized that this had something to do with his infraspace encounter in Brasnya. Prime ordered Jetfire to summon the Wreckers to find out what Thunderwing was guarding. {{storylink|Spotlight: Cyclonus}}<br /> <br /> The prison soon came under attack from Nova Prime. Rather than watch his soldiers be slaughtered by the undead monster, Optimus Prime ordered a retreat and faced Nova alone. Announcing his new title of Nemesis Prime, Optimus's predecessor explained the nature of the [[Darkness (G1)|Darkness]] before unleashing a portion on the Autobot leader. Shattered, Prime collapsed onto his hands and knees as Nemesis loomed. {{storylink|Spotlight: Doubledealer}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:OptimusdeadNemesis.jpg|left|200px|thumb|&quot;Optimus! I've come to help y—oh. Sorted, then?&quot;]]<br /> <br /> Unexpectedly for Nemesis Prime, the Darkness seemed to be more interested in the younger Prime and sought to be passed onto Optimus. Nemesis wasn't about to let go of the power he commanded, and he savagely attacked Optimus Prime, whose attempts at reason fell on deaf ears. Just as Nemesis Prime seemed victorious, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] attacked the fallen Prime from behind, killing him. Nemesis's death allowed the Darkness finally to enter Optimus, who tried to fight against its evil to no avail. Galvatron offered the Autobot a choice: kill himself by plunging into the [[Solar pool]], or pass on the Darkness to Galvatron, who had coveted it for so long. Optimus seemed to do so willingly, but just as he passed on the Darkness, he threw the surprised Galvatron into the solar pool. As Optimus gazed upon the dead body of Nemesis, he told himself he could not mourn the elder Prime's death, as Nova had truly died long ago. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:AHMPrimecritical.jpg|right|250px|thumb|So he's dying. [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|This shouldn't be a problem by now]].]]<br /> A year later, Optimus Prime combined his Autobot squad with another squad. Having received word of a supposed Decepticon power struggle, Prime led the Autobots to a location where Starscream's &quot;group&quot; was, only to be ambushed by a unified Decepticon force. Though they managed to turn the tide briefly, Devastator's appearance made the difference, enabling Megatron to rip the Matrix of Leadership from Prime's chest. Prime was dealt another blow (mentally) when the Autobots were told that they'd been sold out by a traitor in their ranks (who was later revealed to be [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]). {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} The Autobots were led to a space bridge, where Prime, who was the last to go, used his remaining energy to destroy the machine. Unfortunately, this heroic act left Prime in critical condition. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}} With this defeat, the Autobots were forced to leave Earth to the Decepticons. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1|All Hail Megatron #1}}<br /> <br /> After Prime's unit met up with Kup's unit, and after dealing with the Swarm and Sideswipe's sacrifice to save them, Ratchet and Wheeljack managed to use energon from the ''Trion'' to bring Prime back online in time to smooth over an Autobot argument. As the others excitedly welcomed him back, Prime made a speech about how he was proud of them and that he wanted to win the war. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}}. After the Autobots recovered and prepared for a final stand against the Swarm, Prime had a brief chat with Ironhide (during which Ironhide admitted to hating him secretly at first sight at the start of the Great War), then prepared for the Swarm's onslaught. When they came, the Autobots fought back, but they were quickly outnumbered by the thousands. Thankfully, Omega Supreme arrived and saved them from certain doom. After Omega briefly told them about his arrival, Prime ordered him to transform and transport the Autobots back to Earth. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}<br /> <br /> Arriving at [[New York City]] while the Decepticons were fending off attacks by a European air squad, Optimus and the Autobots began to engage the Decepticons again. After a bit of fighting, and with the threat of Devasator, Optimus ordered Omega Supreme to take Devastator away from the city and fight him elsewhere. Optimus Prime encountered Megatron, and the two engaged in a bit of viewpoint bantering, mostly about the way their war was now changing and the fact that the humans Prime had &quot;sworn to protect&quot; were about to drop a nuclear bomb on the city. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:AHM-13 Prime mouth.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Optimus will overenergize on this stuff, then wake up the next morning in a CR chamber full of ice with his robo-kidneys missing.]]<br /> <br /> After that, they engaged in a fierce battle while trading more banter. At first, Megatron took the advantage, but just as he was about to leave with the Decepticons and take the Matrix with him, a shot from [[Shockwave (G1)|an experimental weapon made from a Transformer]] fired by [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|a brave human]] hit him it the face. Seizing the opportunity, Optimus grabbed Megatron's fusion cannon and slammed it against Megatron's head, bringing him down in defeat. Before Optimus could truly finish him off, however, Starscream intervened and, after exchanging words, took off with Megatron and the Matrix. Prime's decision to go after them or save New York from nuclear devastation was rendered moot when Thundercracker, who had grown disenchanted with the way the Decepticons went after the humans, blew up the bomb at the cost of his own life (thanks to an angry Skywarp). The war over for the moment, Prime met with Spike Witwicky, thanked him for helping the Autobots out, and asked if there was some way to help the humans in return. However, Spike responded that they had brought their war to Earth, so any chance of human-Transformer relations was now long gone. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}<br /> <br /> Later, in an abandoned cave supposedly somewhere within NY's ruins, Optimus heard Ironhide's resignation from the Autobot forces. Respecting Ironhide too much, he did not argue, but after some energon and a little flashback, Optimus convinced Ironhide to stay. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Ongoing Issue 1-Optimus Surrenders.jpg|right|thumb|200px|His attempt to start a Mexican wave was not going down well.]]<br /> <br /> Three years later, Prime was still insisting the Autobots remain on Earth despite minimal Decepticon activity and the development of human technology capable of fending off Cybertronian. Hot Rod, already frustrated by the capture of Prowl, snapped and accused Prime of allowing both his guilt at the events of three years ago and his need to protect something to trap the Autobots on a world that didn't want them anymore. Optimus was left nearly speechless, forcing him to allow Hot Rod to lead a risky mission to free Prowl. In order to put some of his fears to rest, Ironhide went along to keep the more emotional 'bots in check. This mission ended with the freeing of Prowl, at the cost of Ironhide's life.<br /> <br /> The loss of Ironhide forced Optimus to re-examine his actions of the past years. Concluding he had been the wrong, leading the Autobots down a self-destructive path, Prime resigned his post as Autobot leader and handed himself into the humans. {{storylink|...For All Mankind}}<br /> <br /> Optimus was brought to the Skywatch base and put into transformation stasis. However, he was shortly freed as Spike Witwicky decided they needed to talk. {{storylink|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}} Spike attempted to have a conversation with Optimus and get him some help, but Optimus stonewalled him, saying that he was captured, at their mercy and therefore not allowed to be treated nicely. He refused to talk any further and was moved into a holding cell. Later, [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] were brought into Skywatch captivity. Spike explained that although Prime didn't want any help, he'd want to help his troops, and so should talk with Spike. {{storylink|A Rude Awakening}}<br /> <br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{Storylink|Enemies of the System}} {{storylink|Earthworks}}<br /> <br /> {{note|The events of ''Spotlight: Mirage'' possibly take place in an alternate/unknown continuity.}}<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime commanded one of the last remaining pockets of Autobot resistance, hiding out in the [[Pegasus Star Cluster]]. While awaiting the arrival of Bumblebee's team, he and Hound tried to work out how to convert the [[Zodiac|Zodiac Energy]] for their consumption. &quot;Bumblebee's&quot; arrival proved to be their downfall, as it was really the self-serving mercenary [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], who destroyed the bunker security systems, allowing the Decepticons inside. Optimus Prime refused to surrender during the ensuing struggle, until Mirage used the critically injured Jetfire as a hostage, forcing Prime to back down. When Megatron betrayed Mirage's word and ordered the execution of the Autobots, Optimus Prime tried to reason with the mercenary, appealing to his former friendship with Hound...until Mirage killed Hound in defiance. Furious, Optimus Prime broke free of his captors and tackled Mirage into the Zodiac Energy chamber. {{storylink|Spotlight: Mirage}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Hearts of Steel''===<br /> [[Image:HeartsofSteel_1_Prime_Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|200px|&quot;I keep telling you Bumblebee, the Dinobots will never accept you into their clique!&quot;]]<br /> <br /> The Autobots and the Decepticons came to [[Earth|a distant world]] in the grip of an ice age. Assuming alternate modes based upon the [[Dinosaur|dominant (though doomed) indigenous creatures]] of this planet, they continued their ancient, unending war. However, the Autobots, with their energy levels dangerously low, withdrew from combat as the world grew colder. They sought refuge in a deep cavern and entered [[stasis lock]], awaiting the day when surface conditions changed to better suit their operation. Millions of years later, Bumblebee was awoken by the hammering of humans working on a rail line. He briefly considered awakening Optimus Prime, but thought better of it. After discovering the world had changed significantly, Ratchet thought there was no reason to awaken Prime. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1}} When Bumblebee discovered the Decepticons were once again active on this world, Ratchet and Prowl agreed that the Autobots must intervene, but again decided out of rousing Optimus from his slumber. {{Storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2|Hearts of Steel #2}}<br /> <br /> {{Note|Optimus Prime appears very briefly in the first few pages, in his &quot;Ice Age Wars&quot; body (we only see him in robot mode, but his altmode is a brachiosaurus&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=d5d311674e796c81d010d26ac751389b&amp;showtopic=10074&amp;st=20&amp;p=266183&amp;#entry266183 Allspark forums post] by [[Guido Guidi]], August 15th, 2006&lt;/ref&gt;. He spends most of the story in stasis lock. [[:Image:Opthos.jpg|Unused concept art]] depicts him as transforming into a locomotive engine.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Music Label''===<br /> <br /> In the year 2007, the Autobots discovered that the Decepticon communications officer [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] was attempting to control the minds of humans through hypnotic music broadcast through a series of tiny clones of himself. Optimus Prime upgraded his trailer with a huge pair of speakers, and proceeded to drive around, broadcasting a counter-frequency that undid the villain's brainwashing. {{storylink|Music Label}}<br /> <br /> {{note|The [[Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)|2007 Takara timeline]] placed the events of the ''[[Music Label]]'' storyline in the [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Generation 1 cartoon continuity]], but Optimus Prime's role in the story is therefore made impossible, as he was dead in that universe in 2007. However, given the way the timeline is unhelpfully laid out, it's not impossible that this adventure may take place not in the mainstream timeline, but in the branched-off parallel dimension of the ''[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Binaltech|Binaltech]]'' storyline, where Optimus did not die.}}<br /> <br /> ===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in comics===<br /> <br /> {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}} {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 4}} {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 7}} {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 11}}<br /> <br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> <br /> ===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===<br /> <br /> When the legendary [[Energon Cube]] was lost to the reaches of space, Optimus Prime led a small team of Autobots in pursuit of it. The giant energy source crashed on Earth in the Japanese town of [[Hoshinochō]], where it shattered into fragments that were scattered far and wide. Prime and the other Autobots set up a subterranean base below the Cube's impact crater and began their search for the shards, taking the forms of local vehicles to hide their activities. Despite their attempts at remaining unseen, glimpses of the Autobots only magnified the reputation the crash of the Cube (believed by humans to be a meteor) had given Hoshinochō: that of a hotbed of rumored alien and UFO activity, Japan's answer to [[United States of America|America]]'s Roswell. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}<br /> <br /> The Autobots gained a human ally in their quest when they befriended Doctor [[Osamu Kihara]] of the Governmental Special Diplomatic Agency, who provided more assistance than they could have imagined when his son, [[Akira Kihara|Akira]], was discovered to be a &quot;[[Booster]]&quot;, one of many legendary beings born with the ability to control and detect the energies of the Energon Cube. Alas, the Decepticons had followed Prime's Autobots to Earth, and [[Megatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Megatron]] sought the boy's powers for his own. To protect Optimus Prime and himself, Akira unleashed the full extent of his powers, driving Megatron back, but causing his body to burn out and disintegrate. Prime was wracked with guilt over what had occurred, and it would haunt him afterward. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}<br /> <br /> Eleven years after their arrival on Earth, Prime and the Autobots made a new human ally in [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]] when he stumbled into the midst of a battle between Prime's team and [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Starscream]] and [[Ramjet (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Ramjet]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} When Megatron joined the fight soon after, he held [[Bumblebee (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Bumblebee]] and Wataru hostage, daring Prime to make a move against him. Prime opened fire, but Megatron merely used the defeated Starscream for a shield, then turned his cannon on the younger duo. Prime unleashed his [[ion blaster]] and apparently deflected the blast with a shot of his own, saving Bumblebee and Wataru and prompting the Decepticons to retreat. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}}<br /> <br /> Prime invited Wataru to visit the Autobots' subterranean base, and he gave the boy a personal tour as he carried the injured Bumblebee to the infirmary. Telling him the story of the Energon Cube and the Autobots' coming to Earth, Prime showed Wataru the large chunk of the cube that they had managed to recover. He then turned his attention to repairing Bumblebee's wounds, and as such, did not notice Wataru reaching out to touch the cube sliver. A bizarre energy discharge resulted that not only showed the Autobots images of [[Generation 1 (franchise)|another time and place]], but also healed both Autobots' wounds. Prime dived at Wataru and hauled him away from the shard, returning things to normal, but leaving Prime with grave concerns over what the strange occurrence might mean. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}<br /> <br /> When Starscream attacked a power plant with the aid of his brainwashed ally, [[Jetfire (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Skyfire]], Prime carried [[Grimlock (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Grimlock]] to the scene of the battle on the back of his truck mode. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} During the conflict that followed, Prime's suspicions about Wataru were confirmed when the boy manifested a barrier to protect himself and Bumblebee and to help Skyfire overcome the influence of Starscream's mind-controlling helmet. Wataru was a Booster as well! {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} His past experiences naturally made Prime hesitant to put Wataru's power to use, but Osamu Kihara made the point that Wataru's power was invaluable for hunting down shards of the Energon Cube. Prime and Wataru headed out to investigate a local relic that Kihara suspected was a cube shard, and Wataru's powers soon confirmed the doctor's findings. Just as Prime was about to report back to Kihara, however, Megatron struck, demanding that Prime hand over both the shard and Wataru. Prime attempted to feign ignorance of Wataru's powers, but Megatron ignored his bluff and encouraged him to hand the boy over, lest he cost ''another'' Booster their life. Driven into a rage by the stinging barb, Prime violently attacked Megatron with his energon-axe, but as the duel raged, Megatron continued to question Prime's beliefs and his attitude. Unable to deny Megatron's accusation that he had hoped to use Wataru's power to defeat him, Prime lost his concentration and was taken down by the Decepticon leader. Despite what he had learned about a previous Booster dying, Wataru stayed true to Optimus and activated his powers, healing the Autobot's wounds and powering up his energon-axe into a huge sword. Summoning all his energy, Prime took down Megatron with one almighty slash, then collapsed into [[stasis lock]]. {{storylink|Optimus Prime's Secret}} <br /> <br /> Prime was brought back to the Autobot base for treatment, but the Decepticons exploited the Autobots' lack of manpower and struck again before Prime recovered. With his men taking a pummeling, the unconscious Prime had a vision of Akira, who spurred him on to awaken and rejoin the battle. With another power boost from Wataru, Prime unleashed a super-charged shot from his ion blaster that took down the fleeing Decepticons. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|Creation! The New Emperor of Destruction!!}} {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} {{storylink|Revenge (issue)|Revenge}} {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_convoy_boxart.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]<br /> In 2007, the Optimus Prime of [[universal stream]] Primax 109.0 Beta encountered a mysterious messenger from another world: [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|another incarnation of himself]] from a parallel dimension who left him with a warning. Two years hence, Megatron would bring the terrifying super-dimensional lifeform known as the &quot;Beast of Time&quot;, [[Hytherion]], into their dimension to destroy Earth. The only thing that could battle Hytherion was the power of the super-evolved multi-dimensional race of Cybertronians known as the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]]. Prime agreed that when the danger appeared, he would join the Alternity in the fight.<br /> <br /> Sure enough, in 2009, when Hytherion's colossal claw-marks appeared on planets throughout the solar system, Prime's other-dimensional incarnation returned, bringing with him a &quot;Vibrant Red&quot; Vector 109 [[auto-avatar]] with which Prime fused. In that instant, he was reborn as part of the Alternity, a manifold being who encompassed all the different incarnations of Optimus Prime through the multiverse at once. Prime reached his hands heavenward and peeled back the layers of reality, exposing the gargantuan fanged maw of Hytherion looming above the Autobots. {{storylink|From Here to Alternity}}<br /> <br /> Optimus battled alongside the Alternity to fend off the beast, when unexpectedly, [[Megatron (G1)#Alternity|Megatron]] overwrote the beast's higher functions with his own. At first, it seemed that Hytherion had been killed, but a newly empowered Megatron (in two bodies) appeared and declared that, now possessing a power that rivaled the Alternity's, he challenged his opponents to take him on or see the multiverse itself burn. {{storylink|To Mega Therion}}<br /> <br /> As battles between numerous different Primes and Megatrons erupted quite literally all across time and space, another member of the Convoy Corps was later seen battling [[Starscream (G1)#Alternity|Starscream]], who had been empowered by Megatron to serve as leader of his [[Questor]]s. This Prime was so surprised by Starscream's uncharacteristic sports car alternate mode that he left himself open for a blast from Starscream's Retroactive Nullifer cannon, which erased him from the timestream. As he faded out of existence, Prime responded to Starscream's taunts about the death of the Alternity by telling him that they were already well aware of their prophesied end and were well prepared. {{storylink|Foreshadows}}<br /> {{note|Alternity beings are both individuals and a collective of separate entities. More fiction about Optimus Prime's Alternity collective can be found [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|here]].}}<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ===''Robot Heroes'' comic===<br /> [[Image:IDW I am Optimus Prime battle.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|I Am Optimus Prime (Robot Heroes)|I Am Optimus Prime}}<br /> <br /> ===&quot;Universe&quot; cartoon===<br /> : ''Voice actor:'' [[Ron Hayden]] (English)<br /> [[Image:Actionblast1matrix.jpg|left|thumb|250px]]<br /> Optimus Prime narrated the events of what happened before the Ark crashed on Earth. He became the new leader of a long line of Autobot leaders via the discovery of the Matrix. On their quest for more Energon, the Autobots were chased by Decepticons to the planet known as Earth and crashed on it. When they emerged from the Ark, Optimus Prime scanned his truck altmode, stating that the war would not end on Earth. {{Storylink|Action Blast 1}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:FfE Optimus Prime Cyclonus.JPG|right|thumb|250px]]<br /> Both Optimus Prime and Bumblebee raced down a street in an unknown desert while having an argument about Energon. He ordered Bumblebee to scan the surroundings to find the location where the Decepticons were hiding, and to be careful for possible scouts. When Bumblebee noted what the Decepticons were doing, Prime speculated that they might be planning to convert the energy into Energon, and ordered Bumblebee to create a diversion. While Bumblebee and Cyclonus fought, Prime made a surprise attack and took out Cyclonus with his Ion-axe, before turning his attention to Megatron. When both Decepticons fled, Prime told Bumblebee they'd done a good job (in front of a burning Gas station), and both Autobots got back on the move. {{storylink|Fight for Energon}}<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ==Commercial appearances==<br /> Optimus Prime has appeared in more [[Commercial|television commercials]] than any other Transformer... just as with everything else. He has been voiced by Peter Cullen in every animation segment in which he's had a speaking role.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Toycommercial-firstPrime.jpg|right|thumb|My wheels don't disappear!]]<br /> <br /> * He was one of the featured characters in the first ever appearance of the Transformers anywhere, an advertisement for the first issue of [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|the Generation 1 comic]]. He arrives in the midst of a desert battle as the Decepticons attacked a power plant on Earth, driving to back up his troops in defending it. He strikes a rather iconic pose as he transforms and fires, which would be replicated and copied numerous times in the early years of the franchise. This first commercial used nonfinal versions of the characters' [[character model]]s; Optimus Prime, for example, still had wheels on his legs. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9-7RjhFzpM]<br /> <br /> * In a commercial for the [[Triple Changer]]s, Optimus confronts Astrotrain on a desert battlefield, but the Triple-Changer escapes under fire from other Autobots. Shortly afterward, Prime uses Perceptor's microscope mode to examine a fragment of Decepticon battle armor. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WssZjIsUIU]<br /> <br /> * Prime and Jazz are shown fighting Megatron in the desert in an ad for the 1985 cars, whom he summons to help out with the battle. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WssZjIsUIU]<br /> <br /> * Prime narrates two commercials around the time of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', describing the action as [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] battles [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]], and [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] take on the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-10pud7DY] <br /> <br /> [[Image:Toycommercial-PowermasterOptimusPrime.jpg|right|thumb|An integral part of Powermaster Prime's transformation is Joyride shooting lightning bolts through his pointed finger.]]<br /> <br /> * Prime was prominently featured in the ad for the first comic issue featuring the [[Powermaster]]s. On the rocky plains where practically every Transformer battle ever seems to happen, Prime arrives in his Powermaster body to back up three of his troops against Dreadwind and Darkwing. He's shown combining with [[Hi-Q]] and transforming, attacking with his trailer's battle station mode, then combining with the trailer to continue the attack. Who wins? Find out in [[People Power!|Marvel Comics]]! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voX_KNNxNCI]<br /> <br /> [[Image:OptimusQuickswitchCommercial.jpg|right|thumb|Optimus Prime is so giving, he even gives other Transformers time in his commercials.]]<br /> <br /> * Prime also features briefly in [[Quickswitch]]'s ad; in a battle on the moon, Quickswitch transforms to gun mode and is wielded by Powermaster Optimus Prime.<br /> <br /> * An abbreviated ad for Powermaster Prime uses footage from both the Marvel Comic and Quickswitch commercials.<br /> <br /> * Prime's Powermaster body shows up yet again in the [[Classic Pretender|Pretender Classic]]s ad. He comes under attack in the darkened streets of the city, prompting the narrator to explain that he needs the greatest Transformers ever! Prime then welcomes back Bumblebee and Jazz in their Pretender forms. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mahbq-FnSPY]<br /> <br /> * Powermaster Prime and [[Piranacon (G1)|Piranacon]] are the representatives from each faction that [[Doubledealer]] doublecrosses! Everyone wonders who that guy is that Prime's talking to... He looks kinda suspicious!<br /> <br /> * Optimus features prominently in the first [[Action Master]] commercial; he's shown surrounded by a circle of his troops, and challenges them to give up their transforming powers to become faster, stronger, more alive! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeNf3jQ1zdw]<br /> <br /> * A stock intro was used for several Micromaster commercials, with Optimus opening his fist to reveal a Micromaster city within.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Hotrodpatrolcommercial.jpg|right|thumb|Prime wants to know if they can transform, because he sure can't!]]<br /> <br /> * A similar sequence in another Micromaster ad has Prime opening his fist to find the [[Hot Rod Patrol]] inside. He and Jazz check them out, and Optimus wonders if they can transform. <br /> <br /> * In an ad for the Micromaster micro bases, a battle rages outside an Autobot base, and Prime watches impassively as Bumblebee and Jazz pull two [[Interstellar shuttle|captured]] [[Attack Copter|vehicles]] into the base. Prime is the first to notice that the vehicles are transforming and shooting things. <br /> <br /> * Prime and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] are the stars of the first ''[[Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' commercial, animated with [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]]. Prime is shown driving down a road in his ''Generation 2'' colored truck mode. He rocket-launches up into the air to transform, then has a brutal fight with Ramjet. Despite getting a hole blasted in his chest, he wins the fight and fires his gun into the air in triumph. Non-speaking.<br /> <br /> * Prime also is shown briefly in a commercial for the new Megatron tank toy. He transforms and finds his head in a target crosshairs. In the subsequent toy segment, Prime's toy is shown getting completely trashed by that of Megatron. Non-speaking.<br /> <br /> * And finally, Prime got his own rap segment. He's shown in his Combat toy body, waiting for Megatron as he attacks a human subdivision. Prime converts to robot form, blows up Megatron's weapon at point blank range, and slugs it out with him. Apparently emerging victorious, is next shown sitting next to an identical truck, which the live-action kid mistakes for the real thing. The real Prime then transforms and picks up the kid, inspecting the human with his cold, lifeless, flashing red optics. Prime is once again voiced by Peter Cullen in this commercial.<br /> <br /> Prime also appeared in commercials for ''Transformers'' products other than the toys themselves...<br /> <br /> * In the ad for [[Coleco]]'s [[Power Cycle]], Optimus Prime shoots ''at'' a child riding the title cycle, but misses. This footage is recycled from the advertisement for the comic.<br /> <br /> * Prime delivers a load of shoes to schoolchildren in a South American ad for [[Bata]]'s licensed ''Transformers'' footwear.<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Games==<br /> ===''Transformers: Call of the Future''===<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|Transformers: Call of the Future}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game===<br /> [[Image:ROTF_360PS3_PC_G1OptimusPrime_DLC.jpg|thumb|200px|]]<br /> :''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]]<br /> ====Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC====<br /> {{Note|On [[August 27]], [[2009]], Optimus Prime was one of a handful of downloadable characters in a DLC pack for Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3.}}<br /> {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Revenge of the Fallen}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> {{main|Optimus Prime (G1)/toys}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> :''Main article: [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise]]''<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> * According to [[Bob Budiansky]], longtime comics writer [[Denny O'Neil]] named Optimus Prime prior to Budiansky being brought on to the ''Transformers'' project.<br /> <br /> * Optimus Prime's Japanese name is &quot;Convoy&quot;, which is named after his original name &quot;Battle Convoy&quot; in the [[Diaclone]] toyline, because the name &quot;Optimus Prime&quot; is difficult for Japanese kids to remember and pronounce. &lt;ref&gt;'''Figure-Oh''' No. 114&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> *According to an early ''[[Transformers Universe (Marvel comic)|Universe]]''-style profile published in ''[[The Transformers Comic Magazine]]'', Optimus Prime's &quot;official&quot; nicknames were at one point considered to be &quot;Autobot Commander&quot;, &quot;Chief&quot;, &quot;Big Boss&quot; and &quot;Roller&quot;. As far as it is known, no piece of fiction has ever purposely addressed him using these nicknames, though it's a fair bet he's been called &quot;chief&quot; at least once or twice anyway.<br /> <br /> * He [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|allegedly]] hates the music of [[wikipedia:Mötley_Crüe|Mötley Crüe]].<br /> <br /> * According to the staff of ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', Optimus Prime became a space explorer in the [[Beast Era]].&lt;ref&gt;[[Beast Wars Universe]] ISBN 978-4766938005&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Image:Optimusprime-mom.jpg|right|125px|thumb|Prime's mom knows how to write in cursive.]]<br /> * By the time Optimus Prime appeared in ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'', his 3D model from ''Beast Wars'' had apparently been lost, leading the animators to use a faceplated Optimus Primal head as a quick replacement to save time and budget.<br /> <br /> * Aside from occasionally having Alpha Trion as a father figure, Optimus Prime may have a mother! In an advertisement for [[Pepsi Convoy]] that shows him in a refrigerator (along with [[Destron Pizza]]), a note attached to a nearby piece of Tupperware reads:<br /> <br /> :''Dear Convoy''<br /> :''Warm it before you eat''<br /> :''Mom''<br /> <br /> :Although the ad itself is for Pepsi Convoy, he is a separate character, and it can be assumed that the note was left for Convoy/Optimus Prime himself.<br /> <br /> * The first wave of Dreamwave posters in 2001 identified Optimus Prime as [http://www.comicden.com/merch/posters.htm &quot;Captimus Primus&quot;], which is tantalizingly close to making some sort of sense.<br /> <br /> * According to EJ Su, Optimus Prime's [[Holomatter|Holomatter avatar]] is modeled after [[wikipedia:Ulysses_S._Grant|Ulysses S. Grant]].&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.protodepot.com/archive/2007_11_01_archive.html Idea: Holomatter Projection]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> * As of [[All Hail Megatron issue 13|All Hail Megatron #13]], Optimus has a mouth underneath that [[faceplate]] of his.<br /> <br /> * This Optimus Prime, along with the original [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] makes a cameo appearance as one of the four elders who began the [[Space Bridge]] project in the ''[[Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' episode [[Balance]].<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;char=Optimus_Prime Optimus Prime's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br /> <br /> * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;char=Optimus_Prime_PM Powermaster Optimus Prime's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br /> <br /> == Footnotes ==<br /> &lt;references /&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Category:Action Masters]]<br /> [[Category:Alternators]]<br /> [[Category:Alternity characters]]<br /> [[Category:Attacktix]]<br /> [[Category:Autobots]]<br /> [[Category:Autobot leaders]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Wars characters]]<br /> [[Category:Classics characters]]<br /> [[Category:Combiners]]<br /> [[Category:Convention exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:E-Hobby]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 2 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Ghosts]]<br /> [[Category:Go-Bots]]<br /> [[Category:Headmasters characters]]<br /> [[Category:Henkei! 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William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Optimus_Prime_(G1)&diff=474900 2010-07-07T01:09:46Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|autobot|autobotg2|hofsilver}}<br /> {{disambig3|Optimus Prime}}<br /> {{suite}}<br /> :''Optimus Prime is the leader of the [[Autob<br /> [[Image:Optimusg1.jpg|right|350px|thumb|I'm that guy everyone remembers. No, not the [[Soundwave (G1)|tape guy]], the other guy.]] His Partner is [[Octane]]<br /> '''Optimus Prime''' is the awe-inspiring [[Prime (rank)|leader]] of the [[Autobot]] forces. Originally a mere civilian, he was chosen by the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] to command, the first in a number of heavy burdens he has been forced to bear. Another is his bringing of the Transformers' conflict to Earth. The complete opposite of his mortal enemy [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], every casualty, [[human]] or [[Transformer|Cybertronian]], weighs heavily on his [[spark]]. He does not show this side to his soldiers, and he never succumbs to despair. The Autobots need a decisive, charismatic leader, and that is what he gives them. It was that leadership which turned the tide of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. <br /> <br /> On the battlefield, there are few who rival Optimus Prime's prowess. He is easily the strongest of any Autobot his [[Scale|size]], and his [[ion blaster]] and his [[energon-axe]] are deadly weapons. He would sacrifice his life to protect his fellow Autobots or those under their care, and [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|does so on a regular basis]]. His compassion for other sentient beings is his only real weakness, and one the Decepticons have taken advantage of time and again... though it's also the source of his strength!<br /> <br /> Prime carries within him the [[Matrix of Leadership]].<br /> <br /> Before being rebuilt into a [[Powermaster]] his robot mode split into three components:<br /> <br /> *A sentient robot module, the [[Brain Center]].<br /> *A wheeled drone module known as [[Roller]].<br /> *A [[Combat Deck]].<br /> <br /> Although Optimus Prime can function as three independent modules, injury to any one module is felt by the other two.<br /> <br /> {{bigquote|Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.|Optimus Prime's most common [[bio]] quote}}<br /> <br /> :''Japanese name:'' '''Convoy''' (コンボイ)<br /> :''Japanese name (Laser Rod):'' '''Battle Convoy'''<br /> :''French-Canadian &amp; Czech name:'' '''Optimus Primus'''<br /> :''Hungarian name (The Movie):'' '''Optimusz Fővezér''' / '''Optimusz Prájm''' (&quot;Optimus Chief&quot;)<br /> :''Italian name:'' '''Commander'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Portugal comics):'' '''Optimus Supremo''' (&quot;Optimus Supreme&quot;)<br /> :''Portuguese name (Brazil cartoon):'' '''Líder Optimus''' (&quot;Leader Optimus&quot;), sometimes Optimus Prime<br /> :''Portuguese name (Brazil comics):'' '''Supremus Absolutus'''<br /> :''Taiwanese name:'' '''Tīh-ghŭ''' (鐵牛, literally &quot;Iron Ox&quot; or &quot;Iron Bull&quot;, a kind of vehicle in early days and rural area)<br /> :''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Jr-tsūn''' (至尊, &quot;Prime&quot;)<br /> :''Cantonese name:'' '''O Baak Man''' (柯柏文)<br /> :''Chinese name (China):'' '''Qing Tian Zhu''' (擎天柱, &quot;Pillar that Supports the Sky&quot;)<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> {{main|Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}<br /> [[Image:CommandPerformances-Autobotsattack.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Don't worry, the multiple crises of conscience come soon enough.]]<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime was a gladiator champion for [[Iacon (city-state)|Iacon]] before quickly working his way up the Autobot ranks once [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] started the war. Four million years ago, when Decepticons attacked the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], he personally chose to crash it onto [[Earth]], a decision that caused him much remorse when the war restarted on Earth in the modern day. <br /> <br /> Though Optimus allowed himself to be destroyed when he betrayed his own moral code while playing a video game, a copy of his mind survived on a [[floppy disk]]. Years later, he was restored as a [[Powermaster]], binary bonded to the [[Nebulos|Nebulan]], [[Hi-Q]]. Optimus Prime slowly earned the respect of Decepticon leader [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], mourned the loss of his friend [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and ultimately sacrificed everything to defeat [[Unicron]]. Though Optimus died again, his mind persisted in Hi-Q, and the [[Last Autobot]] was able to restore him as an [[Action Master]] in time to bring a temporary end to the war. <br /> <br /> In [[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|one universe]], Optimus Prime went on to battle [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], his [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]], and the [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]]. In [[Classics (2006)|another]], fifteen years of peace passed before Megatron rose again. <br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===S.T.A.R.S. pack-in flyers===<br /> [[Image:PackIn RodimusPrimeRemembers Inside2.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The fury of the &quot;Road Warriors&quot;... and Cosmos.]]<br /> The Autobots were outnumbered and outgunned on Earth from the start, though Optimus was confident (and correct) that reinforcements from Cybertron would arrive. {{storylink|Reinforcements from Cybertron!}} <br /> <br /> However, the situation was still so desperate that Optimus not only decided to recruit human allies {{storylink|The battle is far from over!}}, but aggressively tried to recruit and ''deputise'' human children, including giving them the power to co-ordinate Autobot teams in battles. He wouldn't even make a final move on the Decepticons until he had enough child soldiers on his side. {{storylink|Earthlings: THE S.T.A.R.S. need your help now!}} {{storylink|Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?}} In at least one case, this likely led to the ''death'' of a small boy at Decepticon hands. {{storylink|Can one boy, alone, hold back the evil Decepticons?}}<br /> <br /> Optimus later led a convoy in search for a building site for [[Autobot City]], which ran into a Decepticon ambush. {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}} He sent off several Autobots to get help, knowing this was the only chance of victory. {{storylink|Transformers Combat Data}} Those several Autobots were seen again, but Prime... wasn't.<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===<br /> {{main|Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Mtmte2_shermandam.jpg|left|250px|thumb|He had this ax once. It was very memorable.]]<br /> <br /> Before the war, Optimus Prime was originally '''Orion Pax''', a young dock worker with a girlfriend named [[Elita One|Ariel]]. But as the war began, Megatron destroyed them both, and [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] rebuilt them into more powerful warriors. <br /> <br /> Four million years ago, Optimus Prime ended a Decepticon attack on the Ark by directing it towards prehistoric Earth. When both factions reawakened in 1984, Optimus Prime and the Autobots fought the Decepticons on numerous occasions until 2005. During an attack on [[Autobot City]] on Earth, Prime fell in battle against Megatron and passed the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. <br /> <br /> Optimus Prime eventually returned, once as a [[zombie]], and again when he was rebuilt by the [[Quintesson]]s to stop the spread of the [[Hate Plague]]. <br /> <br /> The details between these events differ between universes. Sometimes Optimus Prime merged with [[Vector Sigma]] soon after defeating the Hate Plague, and returned much, much later as Star Convoy. Sometimes Optimus Prime partnered up with [[Marissa Faireborn]] to receive upgrades through mutual [[kiss]]ing. Sometimes... look, he did a lot of weird stuff, okay?<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Kid Stuff Talking Story Books===<br /> :''Voice actor:'' Unknown<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime is a &quot;metallic nemesis&quot;. Megatron said so.<br /> <br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> <br /> ===Big Looker Story Books===<br /> [[Image:KidsPrime1.jpg|right|150px|thumb|And the fluffy kitten played with that yarn all gosh-darn night.]]<br /> <br /> When a two-part race was being held with a massive supply of oil and gasoline as the prize, both the Decepticons and the Autobots badly wanted to win it. Megatron entered the race by hiding himself inside a hollowed-out car and harassed [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] all throughout the contest. When Prime discovered the car was being driven by his arch foe, he swiftly pulled a telephone pole out from the ground and used it to bash the mortal hell out of the cheating Decepticon. Thanks to Prime's violent intervention, Cliffjumper was able to win the race. Afterward, Optimus Prime celebrated the Minibot's victory with a gargantuan smile as all the Decepticons starved to death. {{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}<br /> <br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Ladybird Books continuity===<br /> :''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Marinker]] (English)<br /> <br /> [[Image: Ladybird_prime_transforms.jpg|left|thumb|250px|The ghost of Optimus Prime possesses...himself?]]<br /> Upon witnessing the incredible power of a lightning storm for the first time, Optimus Prime had Sparkplug Witwicky explain the phenomenon to him. Intrigued by the potential of lightning, Prime put [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] and [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] to work finding a way to harness its energy, so they could use it to aid in the rebuilding of their spaceship. Huffer constructed a giant lightning rod, and Optimus Prime and the Autobots gathered to watch its first test. They were shocked, however, when a fleet of battered, damaged Decepticons flew out of the mountain housing the antenna and off into the night. The evil robots had attempted to discover the device's secrets and been seriously electrocuted! Once the lightning rod had been checked, Prime vowed to make the lightning-harnessing technology the Autobots' gift to Earth once they had left the planet. {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}<br /> <br /> When the Decepticons tried to take control of a solar energy station, Prime sent Roller in to investigate. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}} Later, Prime sent [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] to spy on the Decepticons' latest misdeeds, and the Autobots discovered that they were having trouble with the ion drive of their starship. Prime led the Autobots in an attack on the mine the Decepticons were using to test their propulsion system and routed Megatron's force. {{storylink|Autobots Fight Back}}<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime grew concerned when [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] picked up a communication from [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] that indicated the Decepticons had grown interested in a mysterious structure near a human village. Prime and a team of Autobots headed out to investigate, and they battled the Decepticons over the structure, which turned out to be a harmless windmill. {{storylink|Laserbeak's Fury}} <br /> <br /> [[Image:Ladybird_powermaster_prime.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Invisible keyboard solo!]]<br /> <br /> At some point, Optimus Prime disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] arrived from Cybertron to take his place as Autobot commander. {{storylink|Galvatron's Air Attack}} Prime eventually returned many centuries later, now sporting a [[Powermaster]] body, and rejoined the Transformers' war after it had moved from Earth to the alien planet of [[Nebulos]].<br /> <br /> When [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] was captured by the Decepticon leader [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], Optimus Prime agreed to surrender himself to ensure his fellow Autobot's safety. Naturally, though, Prime did not expect Scorponok to hold up his end of the bargain, and he had [[Hosehead]] and [[Fizzle]] rescue Highbrow while he allowed himself to be imprisoned. Their mission successful, Hosehead and Fizzle then sprang Prime from his cell, and the team beat a hasty retreat. {{storylink|Autobot Hostage}} <br /> <br /> After weeks of Decepticon silence, Optimus Prime decided to get proactive and sent out patrols all over the planet to try and flush the villains out. None of the patrols reported back with any success, however, and Prime realized that there was one area of the planet that his troops had deliberately ignored: the mysterious &quot;[[Nebulos Triangle]]&quot;. [[Quickswitch]], [[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] and [[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]] were sent into the Triangle, and they did indeed discover and foil the Decepticon plot going on in the area. {{storylink|Decepticons Underground}}<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers in 3-D''===<br /> Not long after his resurrection, Optimus was alerted by [[Monitorus]] to an attack on [[Tau-Ursa]]. Optimus's impending speech was interrupted by a Decepticon attack led by [[Sixshot]]. Prime soon discovered that the attack was a diversion, while Galvatron tried out his [[Nullification Cannon]] on Cybertron's Energon supplies. Optimus rushed to the Energon plant, but, after clouting [[Slugslinger (G1)|Slugslinger]] so hard that the Decepticon was left dangling over a precipice, Prime's morals forced him to rescue the Decepticon instead of stopping Galvatron from getting away.<br /> <br /> Although Cybertron's Energon stocks were destroyed, the Autobots discovered a recording pointing to the [[Logicon]] planet [[Metascan Alpha]], which had Energon in abundance. Optimus ordered Hot Rod and Ultra Magnus to take a team each to find the planet. The Autobots discovered they were being spied on by the Decepticon [[Clone (subgroup)|Clone]]s, and Optimus swore that Galvatron could pay. He led a team to the derelict space destroyer which the Decepticons were using for a base and fought their leader one-on-one. As he was about to destroy the Nullification Cannon, [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] took a swing at him which connected instead with the Cannon, obliterating it. Optimus was helped away from the destruction by [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] and [[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]]. {{storylink|The War Against the Destructons, Chapter 1 of 3}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformer PD Type'' comic===<br /> <br /> [[Image:PDtype-Matrixattack.jpg|left|thumb|250px|This is the highlight of this entire page.]]<br /> <br /> When a horde of time-displaced Decepticons joined forces to hunt down the five [[Blackball]]s, a super energy source, Optimus Prime gathered a team of time-displaced Autobots to help stop them.<br /> <br /> In one encounter with his arch-foe [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], they reenacted their epic struggle from the [[Battle of Autobot City]]. However, this time around, Prime avoided dying by launching his &quot;Matrix Attack&quot;...''literally'' launching the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] from his chest, bonking Megatron on the head. {{storylink|Transformer PD Type##1 &quot;You're Great! Optimus Prime!&quot;|You're Great! Optimus Prime!}}<br /> <br /> Later, Optimus Prime and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] concocted a cunning strategy. They disguised a round, black cartoon explosive as a Blackball and gave it to [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. Starscream promptly brought it to Megatron, where it blew both of them up. Optimus and Magnus were astounded their plan actually worked. {{storylink|Transformer PD Type##3 &quot;Don't Cry! Megatron!!&quot;|Don't Cry! Megatron!!}}<br /> <br /> In one of his less impressive moments, after running out of ammo during a battle with [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]], Optimus Prime ordered his fellow Autobots to improvise and hurl everything that wasn't nailed down at their enemy. This included the Blackball, unfortunately. Catching it, Deathsaurus began to fantasize about his inevitable galactic conquest, all the while being pelted with rocks and litter. Frustrated, Deathsaurus accidentally hurled the Blackball back to the Autobots in a fit of rage. {{storylink|Transformer PD Type##4 &quot;Good Job! Deathsaurus!!&quot;|Good Job! Deathsaurus!!}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Comic Bom Bom G-2'' comic===<br /> [[Image:G2Hero.jpg|right|200px|thumb|GAH, HE'S LOOKING AT ME!]]<br /> In the year 199X, the Decepticons had learned of a powerful new energy source known as [[forestonite]] which just happened to be located (surprise surprise) on [[Earth]]. Megatron sent his trio of [[Cyberjet]]s to Earth first to draw out the enemy Autobots. The Cyberjets made quick work of [[Electro]] but were soon halted by the appearance of Optimus Prime.<br /> <br /> Megatron then entered the fray and fired his Black Hole Burn attack from his fusion cannon, narrowly missing Optimus Prime but vaporizing [[Hooligan (G2)|Hooligan]] in the process. Prime fought fiercely but Megatron began to take the upper-hand in battle.<br /> <br /> However, Prime was encouraged to keep fighting by the cheers of a human boy named [[Junpei]]. Megatron, surprised at Prime's resilience, attempted to finish his foe off with his Tornado Axe attack. Prime countered with his Double Wheel-Torque Mega-Ton, which trumped Megatron's attack and injured the Decepticon badly. Megatron teleported back to his ship and left Earth's atmosphere, vowing to return.<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime addressed Junpei, asking if the boy was injured. Junpei revealed he was alright but presented concern about the Decepticons returning to Earth. Optimus Prime swore that the Autobots would remain on Earth until the threat of the Decepticons was finished and asked for Junpei's help in making that future a reality. {{storylink|The New Battle!!}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===<br /> ====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====<br /> [[Image:G1Prime BWMegs.jpg|left|180px|thumb|You have to get up preeeeetty early in the timestream to beat Optimus Prime!]]<br /> <br /> The [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] raged on prehistoric Earth, eventually leading to the discovery of the buried Ark sometime after its crash on prehistoric Earth. [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], following [[Megatron (G1)|his namesake's]] instructions in a desperate gambit, decided to attempt to change history by killing Prime, who was still lying in the Ark in [[stasis lock]]. Megatron hoped that this would result in the Decepticons winning the Great War and eventually [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] control of Cybertron. Megatron unleashed a full-power weapon blast at Optimus Prime's face, near-fatally injuring him. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}} However, [[Optimus Primal]] proceeded to take Prime's spark into his body to protect it from surgical trauma while his injuries were repaired. The subsequent power increase caused by Prime's spark's connection to the Matrix mutated Primal into a large, [[Transmetal]] &quot;Optimal Optimus&quot; form. Then, with the repairs complete, Prime's spark was restored, and he briefly activated before sinking back into normal stasis. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}<br /> <br /> Sometime after the Autobots and Decepticons awoke in the 1980s, the original Megatron gained access to one of Earth's ''Voyager'' spacecraft and inscribed a message on the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|disk]] on board. In the event that he lost the War, Megatron left instructions for the descendants of the Decepticons to use [[transwarp]] technology to travel to Prehistoric Earth, locate the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], and change history by killing Optimus Prime. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}<br /> <br /> ====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====<br /> [[Image:Sparkwar2_Optimus_hologram_primal.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]<br /> :''Voice actor'': [[Garry Chalk]] (English), [[Tilo Schmitz]] (German)<br /> <br /> An enormous [[Optimus Prime memorial|statue]] of Optimus Prime, bearing two [[Golden Disk (disambiguation)|Golden Disks]], could be seen on Cybertron in front of the Hall of Archives. The statue was subsequently blown to pieces by the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon forces]]. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}} Later, Megatron beamed a hologram of Optimus Prime down to the ruins of [[Iacon (city-state)|Iacon]] to confront [[Optimus Primal]]. Primal mistook the hologram for the real thing and shared with it the code for the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]]. Megatron quickly revealed his ruse. Primal explained to his Maximals that he knew the image was fake, but he needed the location of the missing [[spark]]s from Megatron's mind. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Writer [[Bob Skir]] claims that neither the statue nor the golden disks in its hands were mentioned in the script. However, he suggested that they were either the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|disks]] from the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, or that Optimus won them in the 2,395,989th Annual Cybertronian spelling bee.&lt;ref&gt;[http://bigbot.com/beast-machines-transformers-bob-skir/Beast-Machines-FAQ/Tue_12_Oct_1999.html Q&amp;A from Bigbot's &quot;bobskir.com&quot;]&lt;/ref&gt; We're betting on the latter.}}<br /> <br /> ====3H comics====<br /> [[Image:Sparkholderprimevaldawn.jpg|left|190px|thumb|&quot;Oh, I also have this in me now, too.&quot;]]<br /> <br /> After the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], Optimus Prime disappeared with other legends into the mysterious location on Cybertron dubbed [[J'nwan]]. When the warlord [[Shokaract]], powered by [[Unicron]]'s [[Dark Essence]], traveled into the past to secure his own future, a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] named [[Sandstorm (BW)|Sandstorm]] traversed the confusing mists of J'nwan to seek out its occupants to help. Sandstorm prevailed and brought Optimus, Megatron, Soundwave, and Grimlock with him to prehistoric Earth during the time of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] where a battle with Shokaract had already begun. When Sandstorm (secretly Scorpius) and the rest of the [[Covenant]] arrived to vanquish the Dark Essence and defeat Shokaract, Optimus Prime and the others escaped through portals as that timeline was paradoxed from existence. {{storylink|Terminus}}<br /> <br /> After the Beast Wars had ended and the Maximals and Predacons that survived it had headed home, the Vok entered the Ark and removed the Matrix of Leadership from an unconscious Optimus Prime. They used it to create [[Primal Prime]], and then gave the Matrix to their new creation. {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 1}}<br /> <br /> {{note|In the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon, Prime's spark was shown to be contained in a Matrix-like vessel. In [[Universe (2003 comic)|Primeval Dawn]], that vessel was shown to be merely a container for his spark, and the actual Matrix was hidden underneath. ''Primeval Dawn'' was never completed, but presumably the Matrix was returned to Optimus Prime's body before Primal Prime returned to Cybertron.}}<br /> <br /> As the [[Universe war|Universe conflict]] began, [[Optimus Primal]] was shown a myriad of Transformers from across all timelines that he could choose to recruit into his [[Child of Primus|Children of Primus]] in the battle against the [[Minion of Unicron|Minions of Unicron]]. One such possibility was a Transformer who was either [[Thunder Clash]] or Optimus Prime, but, regardless, Primal chose [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] and [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox instead]]. <br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars Metals'' comic===<br /> [[Image:CheetasManga1.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Cheetor, that's Prime's Spark, not a toy.]]<br /> Optimus Prime was blasted into pieces by Dragon Megatron. Fortunately, his spark remained perfectly intact—in the remains of his [[Optimal Situation|Matrix-shaped spark chamber]]. Megatron was going to destroy Prime's spark, but [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (now in his Transmetal body) saved it. Prime's spark was eventually swallowed by Optimus Primal, who was upgraded into Optimal Optimus by doing so.<br /> <br /> After Megatron was killed by Optimal Optimus, Primal and his crew said it would be troublesome to fix Optimus Prime's body.<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> {{cleanup|November 2009|Needs storylinks to relevant issues or whatever these came from.}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===<br /> When Bumblebee, Hound and Spike brought a badly-damaged Starscream back to the Ark, Optimus struggled with the ethical implications of allowing Wheeljack and Ratchet to mess with the Decepticon's logic circuits, but gave them the go ahead. Starscream proved to be amnesic, and Optimus was able to take the opportunity to help him as much as possible, even physically preventing Megatron from retrieving his former lieutenant when Starscream opted to stay with the Autobots. Though Starscream left as soon as he regained his memory, Prime reflected that they'd learned that maybe it was possible to reason with a Decepticon. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}<br /> <br /> After passing the Matrix to Ultra Magnus and expiring in the aftermath of the [[battle of Autobot City]], Optimus Prime found himself in [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]. There he encountered Optimus Primal and another [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] from a [[Unicron Trilogy|different universe]]. Together, the four of them overcame the other Optimus Prime's doubts about his leadership, before returning to their respective time lines. {{storylink|Prime Spark}}<br /> <br /> {{note|The following takes place in a version of Dreamwave comic continuity}}<br /> While the Autobots were boarding the Ark, Optimus voiced his lack of confidence in his leadership, before welcoming aboard [[Geosensus]], who was incapable of transforming to robot mode. Four million years later, Prime and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] found the Ark was under attack and defended it with deadly force. In examining the wreckage of the attackers, they realised that the robot Optimus had destroyed was not a Decepticon but Geosensus, who had forced himself to transform in an attempt to fight off the Decepticons. Though Prime was willing to take the rap, Prowl insisted on covering up the mistake to protect Optimus's image as a leader. {{storylink|Parts}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave comics continuity===<br /> {{picsneeded}}<br /> [[Image:Optronix optimus.jpg|left|180px|thumb|What? OPTRONIX is evolving!]]<br /> Optimus Prime started life as '''Optronix''' (Orion to his friends&lt;ref&gt;The [[Keepers Trilogy]] novels set in Dreamwave continuity&lt;/ref&gt;), a data archivist. After taking note of a battle in which the Autobot leader [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] had been defeated by Megatron, he was summoned to the council of elders and informed that the Matrix had chosen him to be the next leader of the Autobots. He received the Matrix of Leadership shortly thereafter, gaining a powerful new body in the process. After dispatching a Decepticon assassination squad sent to, well, assassinate him, he ordered the Autobots to prepare to evacuate Cybertron, intending to leave the Decepticons to their own devices. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1}}<br /> <br /> As he and Prowl discussed the wisdom of evacuating, a huge explosion obliterated the [[Forum of Enlightenment]]. Optimus led a team there, realising that the destruction was a message from Megatron. Leaving his team, he ventured underground, encountering [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]], who blasted him into a pit. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2}} Exploring the underground, Prime had a strange vision of a transparent version of himself, which warned that he must grasp Cybertron's significance. Then he was attacked by [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s, whom he was able to easily best. As Optimus encountered [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] in person for the first time, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] blasted the bridge they were standing on, plunging them into yet another chasm. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3}} Recovering, Prime heard another disembodied voice telling him about Cybertron. Before he could look for a way out, Megatron found him, and informed him about the true nature of the Matrix. This spurred Optimus to fight back, but before long, Megatron took control of the battle, smashing his fist into Prime's chest to get at the Matrix. A blaze of light enveloped the pair, who found themselves abruptly on 20th century [[Earth]]. {{storylink|The War Within issue 4}}<br /> <br /> As Megatron explained that the Matrix was giving them a vision of the future, they witnessed themselves battling on [[Sherman Dam]]. The nature of their surroundings established, Megatron resumed the scheduled beating, but a series of setting shifts ended with Optimus reunited with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. Grimlock handed Prime a sword and suggested he finish Megatron for good. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5}} Optimus found Megatron again, engaging him in combat and announcing that he was playing the game by Megatron's rules now — without mercy. A short time later, he joined the other Autobots in attacking the Decepticons who were trying to use Cybertron's giant engines. Grimlock was finally impressed with Prime. They arrived back at [[Iacon (city-state)|Iacon]] to find it destroyed, but Optimus announced they were no longer evacuating the planet and threw away the [[Golden Disk (council)|Golden Disk]] full of the knowledge of his predecessors which the council had given him, saying he would choose his own course. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6}}<br /> <br /> Some time into his role as leader, Optimus Prime disappeared in a [[space bridge]] explosion along with Megatron, {{storylink|Fragmentation}} but returned some time later, having spent a period of time on [[Quintessa]].<br /> <br /> {{note|Due to the closure of Dreamwave, Optimus's return to Cybertron was never depicted.}}<br /> <br /> Following the awakening of the Transformers on Earth, the Autobots protected the planet from the Decepticons. Over the next fifteen years, the Autobots befriended the humans, particularly the [[Witwicky|Witwicky family]]. The Autobots finally allied with humankind and eventually defeated the Decepticons at the turn of the century. They planned to return to Cybertron aboard the newly constructed ''[[Ark II]]'', along with [[Magnificent Seven|seven humans]], including Witwicky patriarch [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]]. Before the ship departed, Prime gave a piece of the Matrix to [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], Sparkplug's son and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]'s closest human friend. But the ship was destroyed as part of a military conspiracy to take control of the Transformers.<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime's body was hauled out of the Arctic Ocean by the US military. While a terrorist organization run by the enigmatic [[Lazarus]] was able to seize control of several of the other Transformers that fell back to Earth, the military worked unsuccessfully to reactivate Prime. They eventually called in Spike Witwicky. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1}} Spike was forced by the project chief, General [[Robert Hallo]], to use the piece of the Matrix to reactivate Prime. Functional again, Prime used the Matrix to reactivate more of his fallen comrades. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2}}<br /> <br /> The Autobots helped repair a [[Smitco Oil Refinery]] site which the Lazarus-controlled Transformers had attacked. Optimus had no answer for Spikes accusation that the Transformers' presence on Earth was responsible for the destruction. When Megatron's activities at Lazarus's base were spotted by the military, Optimus insisted on the Autobots going in without backup. They discovered Megatron in the middle of a plan to reformat Earth into a new Cybertron using a [[cyber-virus]]. Optimus rejected Megatron's suggestion he should just let it happen, but while the two factions fought, the human military unleashed [[Operation Clean-Up]], dropping a bomb on them. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3}}<br /> <br /> The energy of the explosion absorbed by the virus, the Autobots dug themselves out and set about recovering their fellows whom Megatron had used to power the cyber-virus in its early stages. [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] passed on a message from Megatron — there was a surprise in store for the Autobot leader. Optimus and some Autobots including [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] sped to [[San Francisco]], where Megatron had unleashed [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. As Prime battled Megatron, he took time to save three humans who were threatened by falling debris, only for the humans to turn on him. The defeat of Superion turned the tide of the battle against the Autobots. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4}}<br /> <br /> Never one to give up, Optimus managed to down Devastator in return, only to find himself at Megatron's mercy. The Decepticon leader pointed out to him the humans' self-obsessed behavior in the face of the devastation, suggesting the fleshlings were worthless, and the Autobots should join the Decepticons in wiping them out. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5}} The heroic actions of a team of firefighters and other humans proved to Optimus that the humans were worth saving, and the Autobots delivered a smackdown on the Decepticons. The fight was interrupted by the news that a nuclear missile was inbound, and despite Prime's protests, Superion sacrificed himself intercepting it. Prime recovered from the shock wave to find that the Decepticons had fled. He appealed to Grimlock to return to the Autobot ranks, an offer turned down by the Dinobot. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6}}<br /> <br /> Following this, Prime began to experience subconscious urgings, leading both the Autobots and the Decepticons to the Arctic Circle, where Shockwave arrived to greet them—and arrest them as war criminals. Shockwave had succeeded in ending the war on Cybertron, and brought a team of [[Triple Changer]]s to apprehend them. As Optimus stared down [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]'s cannon barrel, he was saved by Grimlock, though he subsequently had to order a retreat. Prowl convinced him to let a small team stay as recon while the others returned to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and discussed the change in situation. {{storylink|New World Order}} Though Optimus was puzzled by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] having fallen in with Shockwave, he had little other choice, and surrendered to Magnus. Despite being bound, he took the first opportunity he got to make his feelings clear. Prime and those of his Autobots who had also surrendered were put on a shuttle back to Cybertron, where Shockwave planned to have them deactivated. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}}<br /> <br /> Stewing in a cell, Optimus blamed himself for their predicament, but he and the Autobots were soon rescued by [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] and [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]]. Sandstorm and Optimus traveled through Cybertron's underground slave trails, only to find themselves ambushed by [[Runabout]], who swiftly killed Sandstorm, and then the Decepticon was attacked by a [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]], which lunged at Prime. {{storylink|Cold War}} Prime recovered to find himself in the care of a group of Autobot rebels including [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]. They revealed to Optimus that Shockwave had been transmitting subliminal signals to increase Transformer aggression. {{storylink|Passive Aggression}}<br /> <br /> Optimus was able to rally Autobot factions from across Cybertron to the cause and launch an all-out attack on Shockwave's fortress. Shown the image of Shockwave blasting Ultra Magnus, Optimus charged in to confront the Decepticon, only to be overpowered and the Matrix ripped from his chest in order to activate Vector Sigma. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}} Stalling, Prime listened as Shockwave recounted the history of Cybertron, and eventually Ultra Magnus arrived, having recovered, to attack and defeat Shockwave. Prime and Grimlock helped him escape from the fortress as it crumbled to the ground. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}} The injuries Prime took in this conflict necessitated a prolonged restoration period in stasis. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}}<br /> <br /> {{note|...which turned out to be the remainder of Dreamwave's existence. Bummer.}}<br /> <br /> ===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===<br /> [[Image:GIJoevsTFcobraprime.jpg|right|275px|thumb|G.1. Joe—the real universal hero!]]<br /> In the early stages of the war, Optimus Prime was an archivist, watching the battles from afar and keeping records of them. This all changed when the [[Matrix of Leadership]] chose him to lead the Autobots in battle. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 2|The Art of War #2}} Shortly after he ascended to Primehood, [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] tried to kill him, but failed. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2|Black Horizon, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Several Autobots and Decepticons, including Optimus Prime, were reformatted into will-less war machines under the control of [[Cobra]]. During an initial attack on a human peace conference, Cobra's remote control of Optimus (whom they had nicknamed &quot;HISS-14&quot;) mysteriously failed. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue #1}} Later at Cobra's [[Cobra Island|island headquarters]] in the Caribbean, Cobra scientists pulled Optimus apart to find out what was impeding their commands. As this analysis took place, Optimus reverse hacked into Cobra computers until they shut him down in a panic. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}} Despite this, Prime sent a viral message out to hundreds of email addresses that included the coordinates of Cobra's base. The message was intercepted by [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] who teamed up with Wheeljack and Bumblebee. After Wheeljack broke the remote control over the Transformers, Prime went after [[Cobra Commander]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #3}} More than a bit frightened of a giant robot gunning for him, the human released Megatron, who was trapped in gun model. Megatron transformed and fought Prime to a standstill until other Autobots came to back him up. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}}<br /> <br /> Although he was weak and low on [[Energon (fuel)|energon]], Prime made a last-ditch effort to save the day when he rammed through the wall of Megatron's energon-producing lab. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}} After a quick recharge, Optimus single-handedly smashed the Decepticons, pounded Megatron to the ground, and ripped his [[fusion cannon]] off his arm. Prime then teamed up with the Joes and used Megatron's cannon to shoot down the [[SPS Satellite]] that had gone rogue and was destroying the island.<br /> <br /> With the battle over, Prime and the Autobots boarded a new ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' ship built by G.I. Joe and returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:GIJoevstfIIprime1930s.jpg|left|275px|thumb|Retro Convoy: TRANSFORM!!!]]<br /> On a Cybertron dominated by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and the Decepticons, Optimus Prime and the Autobots took on the roles of resistance fighters. Cobra experimentation transported a contingent of Cobras and G.I. Joes to Cybertron and destabilized [[Teletran 3]], which led to the computer sending several Transformers to [[Earth]] across different time periods. When Optimus Prime saw Jazz get zapped by Teletran 3, he leapt to rescue his soldier, only to be transported away as well. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #1}} A team made up of Joes and Cobra agents were sent back and found Optimus Prime and the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] in 1930s-era Chicago, disguised as period cars and trucks. The Stunticons chased Prime and the Joes around the city until everything was wrapped up with bullets, a collapsed bridge and some dynamite. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}}<br /> <br /> After the Transformers and humans were returned to present-day Cybertron and the Decepticons were vanquished by the recently-arrived [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], Prime made an agreement with the Joes to destroy the technology that started the whole mess in order to protect Earth. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4}}<br /> <br /> On Cybertron, Optimus Prime kicked back to do a little bit of paperwork and reminisce. With Shockwave defeated, Cybertron was enjoying a new era of peace. He was interrupted by Hot Rod, who reported that a group of &quot;pesky humans with their peashooters&quot; were giving an Autobot team on Earth a hard time. Prime suspected Cobra's involvement and counseled Hot Rod not to be so dismissive of the humans. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1|The Art of War #1}} When the team returned to Cybertron and mysteriously vanished in the [[Gladiator Zone]], Prime was prepared to go search for them, but was convinced by Hot Rod to stay behind and organize a peace ceremony. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 2|The Art of War #2}}<br /> <br /> Later, at the peace celebration, Prime was watching a procession of Autobots when Decepticons attacked. Optimus ordered [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] into action but the huge Autobot was quickly overcome by [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], [[Piranacon (G1)|Piranacon]] and [[Predaking]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} Prime hopped into the fray, saved a [[Optimus Prime's rescuee|civilian]] from getting smushed by the falling Omega, rode [[Sixshot]] into Piranacon's face, smashed [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] into the ground, and carried a [[Optimus Prime's rescuee|wounded civilian]] out of danger. <br /> <br /> [[Image:Primevsserpentor.jpg|right|175px|thumb|Serpent O.R. soon realized that &quot;This I command!&quot; doesn't work on Optimus Prime.]] <br /> Menasor cut off Prime's escape and handed him the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio, who confronted Prime with a hologram of [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] The new Decepticon leader carried Megatron's memories and information downloaded from Soundwave, from which he learned of the Matrix of Leadership. Serpent O.R. offered Optimus a trade: hostages and peace if he handed over the Matrix. Optimus agreed. <br /> <br /> In his stronghold, Serpent O.R. questioned Prime about his own worthiness to carry the Matrix, but Optimus broke free of his chains and aggressively ordered him to surrender. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}} A group of Decepticons broke in and nearly took Prime apart, but not before Serpent O.R. took the Matrix for himself and changed into the massive Serpentor Prime. The Matrix showed Serpentor Prime the error of his ways but as he was about to commit suicide Cobra Commander tripped a device and took over Serpentor Prime's body. Moments before he crushed Arcee, a severely damaged Optimus Prime threw Hawk toward the Matrix but warned the human not to touch the artifact. Hawk did so anyway and through a quasi-mystical transfer of power Serpentor Prime was vanquished. <br /> <br /> Later repaired by a female nursebot, Optimus went back to finishing his paperwork. A leader's job is never done. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}<br /> <br /> Sensing a new, yet old, danger to planet Earth, Prime elected to send himself to earth on an investigation, and gave Hot Rod a glare when the young Autobot accused his leader of taking an unnecessary risk to atone for the death of a [[Bumblebee (G1)|close friend]].<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime landed in the Himalayan Mountains with G.I. Joes [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] and [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]]. As they searched the area, the trio was attacked by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] in his [[Pretender]] shell. Prime whacked him with his [[energon-axe]] and in return Bludgeon bearhugged him and coated him in metal-eating slime. Hawk, still carrying power from the Matrix, helped Prime break free. Optimus then shot his way into the hidden kingdom of [[Cobra-La]].<br /> <br /> While they wandered through the tunnels, the Joes and Prime found cave paintings that described the last visit to Earth by the planet-eating god [[Unicron]]. They were attacked again by Bludgeon and Cobra-La minions, but were led away by a ragged [[Joe Colton]], prisoner of Cobra-La for the last 25 years. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2|Black Horizon, Part 1}} Bludgeon managed to find them again and during a second battle Prime tore open the Pretender's shell, revealing Bludgeon's robot form inside. Bludgeon tripped and dangled dangerously over a chasm, but rather than let Optimus Prime save him, Bludgeon forced Prime to drop him to his death laughing all the way down.<br /> <br /> The Joes discovered a cavern where the people of Cobra-La were growing [[metal-eating spore]]s as a last defense against Unicron. Flint and [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] took a load of the spores into space just as Unicron appeared in Earth orbit. Prime, Hawk and Colton headed deeper into Cobra-La to rescue [[Firewall]] and kick butt. Prime was tackled and pinned by a giant bug creature, but made a dramatic recovery and tossed the bug aside. He then took the machine-hating Cobra-La leader [[Golobulus]] to task with a single punch. Flint and Cosmos released the spores, which devoured Unicron from the inside and defeated the giant Transformer before he could harm [[Earth]].<br /> <br /> With the threat of Unicron gone, Prime relaxed with [[Eject]] and Firewall by watching some reality TV, and sighed at the banality. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2|Black Horizon, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===<br /> Optimus Prime and his troops lay deactivated on the [[Fera Islands]] for three million years until [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] stumbled upon them one day in 1939. {{storylink|The Line}} The Autobots were reactivated by a [[Sky Spy|repair drone]] and given new disguises, with Optimus Prime being reformatted into an unknown [[World War II]]-era human vehicle. He explained to [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] who they were, and learned that [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s Decepticons had been reactivated a year prior, and were currently wreaking havoc on [[Europe]] along with [[Cobra]]. While hesitant at first, Optimus Prime soon joined G.I. Joe in their mission to destroy Cobra and the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformed}} After commanding the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] to get the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] out of the way, Prime advanced across the Fera Islands, but met resistance in the form of [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}}<br /> <br /> As the Autobots were having trouble with Rumble, Optimus Prime told them try to use his earthquakes to their advantage, which led to the end of the Decepticon. Prime subsequently ordered the Aerialbots to [[Superion (G1)|combine]] and save Grimlock and [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] from falling off a cliff. {{storylink|Wolves}} As they got closer to the Cobra [[Terrordrome]], however, Prime started regretting getting the Autobots involved with the humans' war. He offered to carry G.I. Joe across the water separating them from the Terrordrome, but told them that Autobots only fight if they have no choice, and they had no reason to fight anymore. Moments later, he saw that Cobra were using innocent prisoners as human shields, and Duke added that anyone who Cobra ''didn't'' enslave, they murdered. Filled with righteous anger, Optimus Prime ordered his troops to roll out. {{storylink|Trenches}}<br /> <br /> Shortly after reaching the other shore and taking out [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], Prime witnessed the gigantic [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] bust out of the Terrordrome and attack everything around him. With Superion gone, Prime knew that there was only one way to stop this rampaging monster, and ordered his Autobots to evacuate the humans while he went looking for the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. He soon found that [[Snake-Eyes]] was in possession of the artifact, but was under attack from Megatron. Prime attacked Megatron, keeping him at bay while telling Snake-Eyes that destroying the Matrix would kill Bruticus. The ninja complied, only to learn that Optimus had left something out of the story: smashing the Matrix would kill ''all'' the Transformers, including Prime himself. Looking at the Autobot leader's body, the Joes knew that Prime had been aware of this, and had deemed it a necessary sacrifice to save the humans. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}<br /> <br /> Decades later, in 1986, Duke showed [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] and [[Spirit]] footage from the battle of the Fera Islands, including Optimus Prime's fight with Megatron. {{storylink|Targets of Opportunity}}<br /> <br /> === IDW comics continuity ===<br /> {{ongoing}}<br /> [[Image:MO3 EOOPAT funeral.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Helloooo cameo.]]<br /> In the very beginnings of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s civil war, Optimus was one of several Transformers who gathered for the funeral of the slain [[Fastback]] and [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]]. He stood solemnly with his arm around his [[Elita One|girlfriend]], next to his [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|white clone]] and [[Alpha Trion (G1)|a guy with a beard]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:SpotlightBlurr-Optimus.jpg|left|thumb|200px|There's something missing...]]<br /> <br /> Galvanized by the death of Sentinel Prime, Optimus joined the Autobot forces under Sentinel's successor, [[Zeta Prime]], and was assigned to a unit commanded by the veteran [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]. During his tour of duty, his unit intercepted a message reporting a planned attempt on the Prime's life. He approached former racer [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] as a reliable means of getting the news to Zeta Prime in a hurry. The former celebrity balked, but ultimately the young soldier helped Blurr find what really drove him to race, and thus recruited him to the Autobot cause. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}}<br /> <br /> An undisclosed amount of time later, Optimus became Optimus Prime. While reviewing his new troops, he came upon a defiant old veteran called Ironhide, who thought of Prime as a wet-behind-the-audio-receptors upstart. Optimus was intrigued by this old coot and asked Ironhide to teach him about the ways of war—and Ironhide did just that. Everything he threw at Optimus, Optimus took and learnt. All his hard comments were taken in. But one day, Optimus, having gained much wisdom since meeting Ironhide, decided to go against Ironhide's counsel, heading east instead of west. This turned out to be a good idea, as [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] had been waiting in the west to ambush the Autobot forces. Later still, Ironhide and Optimus got a bit unlucky and ended up dangling off a cliff with Ironhide missing a leg. They were eventually rescued. As time went on, Ironhide developed a respect and awe for his protege. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13}}<br /> <br /> Four million years ago, Optimus Prime led a strike team to prevent the Decepticons from overtaking the latest in a series of Cybertronian cities. Leaving Prowl to hold the line, Optimus and Ironhide went after a convoy of Decepticons bring fresh energon to the enemy troops. Fighting their way through [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and the Mini-Cassettes, the Autobot duo held [[Octane|Tankor]] and his soldiers at gunpoint, threatening to blow them and their energon cargo to kingdom come unless they surrendered. Tankor chose the better part of valor, and Optimus captured five Decepticons without firing a single shot. <br /> <br /> At a party celebrating their win, Optimus Prime politely declined Prowl's request for him to address the troops, reasoning that the Autobots needed some R&amp;R, not the usual &quot;destiny and honor&quot; speech. He conversed quietly with [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and Ironhide afterwards, privately confiding in them that he foresaw the war going on without end. The Decepticons were a philosophy, an idea...and you cannot beat an idea, only change it somehow. Despite his sad reservations, Optimus took the time to mingle among his soldiers, and listen to their tales of glory. He was saved from an assassination attempt by Ironhide, his ever vigilant bodyguard, whose devotion to his leader led him to throw himself in the path of [[Axer|the assassin]]'s blast. {{storylink|The Iron Age}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:IDWOptimus.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Freedom is the right of all sentient and heavily-armed beings.]]<br /> <br /> Over the course of the war, Optimus Prime commanded the Autobot armed forces spread across the galaxy from the [[Autobot Orbital Command Hub]]. He was directly involved in the cataclysm ([[IDW timeline|just under 450 years ago]]) that reduced [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to a dead husk, fighting alongside [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] in an attempt to stop [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]'s rampage. Their efforts were futile, and they only survived due to Cybertron itself swallowing Thunderwing at [[Thunderhead Pass]]. Megatron was unconvinced that Thunderwing was dead, and he advocated that Cybertron be destroyed to better insure that the mad Decepticon was forever destroyed. Optimus Prime refused and threatened to stop any effort that Megatron attempted. Megatron agreed to spare the planet, but warned Prime that anything which happened afterward was on his head. <br /> <br /> In the present, Prime received a pulsewave from [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], who was stationed under [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]'s team on Earth, saying that the Decepticon infiltration cell under [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] had broken their infiltration methods and enacted [[Infiltration protocol|siege mode]] prematurely. Soon afterward, the Autobot science vessel ''[[Calabi-Yau]]'' sent a distress signal from above Thunderhead Pass, and he ordered the [[Wrecker]]s to withdraw from [[Varas Centralus]] and meet him on Cybertron. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2|Stormbringer #2}} Thunderwing had been restored by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and his followers, and though the Wreckers made short work of them, the real fight would be met with Thunderwing. After the Wreckers, [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] and [[Centurion droid]]s were unable to destroy the monster, Prime took to the field, firing massive amounts of energy at Thunderwing, forcing it to exhaust its last reserves of [[Ultra-Energon]] and, ultimately, its life. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 4|Stormbringer #4}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:IDWPrime Earth.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Don't crush the cameraman!]]<br /> [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] discovered information in Bludgeon's files about the mysterious new form of Energon found on [[Earth]]. Linking it to the pulsewave transmission from Ironhide, Prime diverted his spacecraft to Earth and called [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] in to assist him. {{storylink|Spotlight: Nightbeat}}. Shortly after arrival, and having undergone alteration so that he could disguise himself as an Earth truck, he slowly began to realize how unusual the situation Prowl's unit had found itself in was. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}} Not only had the Decepticons broken their own infiltration protocols over what Starscream had dubbed [[Ultra-Energon|Ore-13]], but after attempting to recover what appeared to be [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]'s remains, it was also evident that some of the planet's native sentient lifeforms—[[human]]s—posed a threat possibly equal to that of their old enemies. {{storylink|Escalation issue 2|Escalation #2}}<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime, now fully filled-in on Earth's happenings, decided that they needed reinforcements. He called Nightbeat, [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], and [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] to come when they could. When Prowl pointed out that Megatron, in his new gun-based Earth mode, was in the breakaway Soviet state of [[Brasnya]] stirring up trouble, Prime ordered them into action.<br /> <br /> [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] almost got the drop on Prime, but [[Roller]] was right behind him and took out Blitzwing with a single shot. Megatron returned to his full-size robot mode and disagreed with the quality of Prime's tea and crumpets. At last, the two rivals were going to go at it.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Escalation5 Primedies enlightning.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Rule of thumb, Megs—if he don't turn gray, he's A-OK.]]<br /> The fight went well at first, with Prime blowing Megatron's [[fusion cannon]] clean off. Megatron, however, tireless thanks to Ore-13, prevailed, almost beating Prime into [[stasis lock]]. {{storylink|Escalation issue 5|Escalation #5}}<br /> <br /> However, Prime transferred his consciousness into his trailer, leading Megatron to believe him dead. Realizing that Ore-13 was the same as Ultra-Energon, Prime returned to his body in time to save his forces from the relentless Megatron, blasting him point blank in the face and dealing enough damage to the Decepticon leader to drain his power reserves, just as he did against Thunderwing. The victory was narrow, however, leaving Optimus with the daunting task of fending off an increasing enemy force without his last ace in the hole. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6|Escalation #6}}<br /> <br /> This near-death experience had left Prime somewhat unsettled. While his consciousness was in [[infraspace]] downloading to his trailer, he sensed a presence of dread—the visage of his long-missing predecessor, [[Nova Prime]]. Looking for answers, Optimus Prime left Earth temporarily to seek an audience with [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] for answers. Once there, he found out about Nova's beliefs of how Transformers were a superior race and should remake the universe in their image, and he faced down the rampaging [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]], a legacy of Nova's tenure locked away by Omega Supreme. Then he gave his &quot;you shouldn't have done that&quot; speech to Omega, handed Monstructor's limbs over to Jetfire's team, and went on to have angst-ridden introspection about himself and the tarnished legacy of the [[Prime (rank)|Prime lineage]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Optimus Prime}}<br /> <br /> After returning to Earth, Nightbeat discovered that a human group was aware of the base's location and recommended to Prime that they move the ''[[Ark-19]]''. As preparations were underway, Prime received a message from [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] saying that Thunderwing had been stolen. [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], eager to search for Sunstreaker, suggested that they be reassigned to Earth, and Prime agreed. However, the thrashing that Prime gave Megatron had so embarrassed the Decepticon leader that he ordered in the Decepticons' living weapon, [[Sixshot]]. While moving the ''Ark-19'', Prime and the others came under fire by Sixshot, who severely damaged their ship. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1|Devastation #1}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Devastation4 PrimeSixshot hyperbole.jpg|left|180px|thumb|&quot;And THAT'S for killing my brother in another timeline!&quot;]]<br /> Ordering [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] to get [[Jimmy Pink]] and [[Verity Carlo]] to safety, Optimus then instructed Nightbeat to upload all of ''Ark-19''&lt;nowiki&gt;'&lt;/nowiki&gt;s data to ''[[Ark-32]]'' and for Prowl to activate the self-destruct sequence. {{storylink|Devastation issue 2|Devastation #2}} When ''Ark-19'' exploded, it was assumed that Optimus was on board, but all was good at the end when he appeared with [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and the others, ready to take on Sixshot. {{storylink|Devastation issue 3|Devastation #3}} Optimus and the Autobots held Sixshot at bay, but the U.S. military ordered an air strike to destroy the alien robots. The battle was a stalemate, as Sixshot had to return to the Decepticons while the Autobots [[orbital jump]]ed just in time to avoid destruction. {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}} On ''Ark-32'', after a conversation with Jetfire, Prime informed Prowl that they needed to retrieve [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], Hot Rod and Ironhide, and leave Earth to see to another crisis. The secure facility on [[Garrus-9]] had been breached, and Prime and company needed to make sure that some of the &quot;recent inmates&quot; there didn't end up &quot;in enemy hands&quot;. {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation #5}} Before leaving Earth, Optimus Prime redirected Hound's unit to rendezvous with ''Ark-32'' at Garrus-9, and he told Hound to impress upon Sideswipe the importance of their mission and how he didn't leave Earth or Sunstreaker behind lightly. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation #6}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:DarknessPrimes.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Think he can go one series without having a near-death experience?]]<br /> Optimus Prime and Prowl met with [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and Jetfire on Garrus-9 and discussed the prisoners' breakout and how a surviving Decepticon had been tortured. Maximus and Jetfire gave each other a guilty glance. Prime left Maximus in charge and returned with Prowl to the ''Ark-32''. Meanwhile, [[Dead Universe]] resident [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] attacked Hound's crew, but they received help from Ultra Magnus and drove Cyclonus to escape to [[Corata-Vaz]]. There, he activated the [[Nega-Core]] and fought with Magnus and Hound's crew, who had followed him. In desperation, Cyclonus activated the Nega-Core's guardian—Thunderwing. Using the distraction, Cyclonus escaped, but Magnus sent another tracker after him. All this was reported to Optimus Prime on the ''Ark-32'', who recognized that this had something to do with his infraspace encounter in Brasnya. Prime ordered Jetfire to summon the Wreckers to find out what Thunderwing was guarding. {{storylink|Spotlight: Cyclonus}}<br /> <br /> The prison soon came under attack from Nova Prime. Rather than watch his soldiers be slaughtered by the undead monster, Optimus Prime ordered a retreat and faced Nova alone. Announcing his new title of Nemesis Prime, Optimus's predecessor explained the nature of the [[Darkness (G1)|Darkness]] before unleashing a portion on the Autobot leader. Shattered, Prime collapsed onto his hands and knees as Nemesis loomed. {{storylink|Spotlight: Doubledealer}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:OptimusdeadNemesis.jpg|left|200px|thumb|&quot;Optimus! I've come to help y—oh. Sorted, then?&quot;]]<br /> <br /> Unexpectedly for Nemesis Prime, the Darkness seemed to be more interested in the younger Prime and sought to be passed onto Optimus. Nemesis wasn't about to let go of the power he commanded, and he savagely attacked Optimus Prime, whose attempts at reason fell on deaf ears. Just as Nemesis Prime seemed victorious, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] attacked the fallen Prime from behind, killing him. Nemesis's death allowed the Darkness finally to enter Optimus, who tried to fight against its evil to no avail. Galvatron offered the Autobot a choice: kill himself by plunging into the [[Solar pool]], or pass on the Darkness to Galvatron, who had coveted it for so long. Optimus seemed to do so willingly, but just as he passed on the Darkness, he threw the surprised Galvatron into the solar pool. As Optimus gazed upon the dead body of Nemesis, he told himself he could not mourn the elder Prime's death, as Nova had truly died long ago. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:AHMPrimecritical.jpg|right|250px|thumb|So he's dying. [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|This shouldn't be a problem by now]].]]<br /> A year later, Optimus Prime combined his Autobot squad with another squad. Having received word of a supposed Decepticon power struggle, Prime led the Autobots to a location where Starscream's &quot;group&quot; was, only to be ambushed by a unified Decepticon force. Though they managed to turn the tide briefly, Devastator's appearance made the difference, enabling Megatron to rip the Matrix of Leadership from Prime's chest. Prime was dealt another blow (mentally) when the Autobots were told that they'd been sold out by a traitor in their ranks (who was later revealed to be [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]). {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} The Autobots were led to a space bridge, where Prime, who was the last to go, used his remaining energy to destroy the machine. Unfortunately, this heroic act left Prime in critical condition. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}} With this defeat, the Autobots were forced to leave Earth to the Decepticons. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1|All Hail Megatron #1}}<br /> <br /> After Prime's unit met up with Kup's unit, and after dealing with the Swarm and Sideswipe's sacrifice to save them, Ratchet and Wheeljack managed to use energon from the ''Trion'' to bring Prime back online in time to smooth over an Autobot argument. As the others excitedly welcomed him back, Prime made a speech about how he was proud of them and that he wanted to win the war. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}}. After the Autobots recovered and prepared for a final stand against the Swarm, Prime had a brief chat with Ironhide (during which Ironhide admitted to hating him secretly at first sight at the start of the Great War), then prepared for the Swarm's onslaught. When they came, the Autobots fought back, but they were quickly outnumbered by the thousands. Thankfully, Omega Supreme arrived and saved them from certain doom. After Omega briefly told them about his arrival, Prime ordered him to transform and transport the Autobots back to Earth. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}<br /> <br /> Arriving at [[New York City]] while the Decepticons were fending off attacks by a European air squad, Optimus and the Autobots began to engage the Decepticons again. After a bit of fighting, and with the threat of Devasator, Optimus ordered Omega Supreme to take Devastator away from the city and fight him elsewhere. Optimus Prime encountered Megatron, and the two engaged in a bit of viewpoint bantering, mostly about the way their war was now changing and the fact that the humans Prime had &quot;sworn to protect&quot; were about to drop a nuclear bomb on the city. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:AHM-13 Prime mouth.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Optimus will overenergize on this stuff, then wake up the next morning in a CR chamber full of ice with his robo-kidneys missing.]]<br /> <br /> After that, they engaged in a fierce battle while trading more banter. At first, Megatron took the advantage, but just as he was about to leave with the Decepticons and take the Matrix with him, a shot from [[Shockwave (G1)|an experimental weapon made from a Transformer]] fired by [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|a brave human]] hit him it the face. Seizing the opportunity, Optimus grabbed Megatron's fusion cannon and slammed it against Megatron's head, bringing him down in defeat. Before Optimus could truly finish him off, however, Starscream intervened and, after exchanging words, took off with Megatron and the Matrix. Prime's decision to go after them or save New York from nuclear devastation was rendered moot when Thundercracker, who had grown disenchanted with the way the Decepticons went after the humans, blew up the bomb at the cost of his own life (thanks to an angry Skywarp). The war over for the moment, Prime met with Spike Witwicky, thanked him for helping the Autobots out, and asked if there was some way to help the humans in return. However, Spike responded that they had brought their war to Earth, so any chance of human-Transformer relations was now long gone. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}<br /> <br /> Later, in an abandoned cave supposedly somewhere within NY's ruins, Optimus heard Ironhide's resignation from the Autobot forces. Respecting Ironhide too much, he did not argue, but after some energon and a little flashback, Optimus convinced Ironhide to stay. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Ongoing Issue 1-Optimus Surrenders.jpg|right|thumb|200px|His attempt to start a Mexican wave was not going down well.]]<br /> <br /> Three years later, Prime was still insisting the Autobots remain on Earth despite minimal Decepticon activity and the development of human technology capable of fending off Cybertronian. Hot Rod, already frustrated by the capture of Prowl, snapped and accused Prime of allowing both his guilt at the events of three years ago and his need to protect something to trap the Autobots on a world that didn't want them anymore. Optimus was left nearly speechless, forcing him to allow Hot Rod to lead a risky mission to free Prowl. In order to put some of his fears to rest, Ironhide went along to keep the more emotional 'bots in check. This mission ended with the freeing of Prowl, at the cost of Ironhide's life.<br /> <br /> The loss of Ironhide forced Optimus to re-examine his actions of the past years. Concluding he had been the wrong, leading the Autobots down a self-destructive path, Prime resigned his post as Autobot leader and handed himself into the humans. {{storylink|...For All Mankind}}<br /> <br /> Optimus was brought to the Skywatch base and put into transformation stasis. However, he was shortly freed as Spike Witwicky decided they needed to talk. {{storylink|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}} Spike attempted to have a conversation with Optimus and get him some help, but Optimus stonewalled him, saying that he was captured, at their mercy and therefore not allowed to be treated nicely. He refused to talk any further and was moved into a holding cell. Later, [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] were brought into Skywatch captivity. Spike explained that although Prime didn't want any help, he'd want to help his troops, and so should talk with Spike. {{storylink|A Rude Awakening}}<br /> <br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{Storylink|Enemies of the System}} {{storylink|Earthworks}}<br /> <br /> {{note|The events of ''Spotlight: Mirage'' possibly take place in an alternate/unknown continuity.}}<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime commanded one of the last remaining pockets of Autobot resistance, hiding out in the [[Pegasus Star Cluster]]. While awaiting the arrival of Bumblebee's team, he and Hound tried to work out how to convert the [[Zodiac|Zodiac Energy]] for their consumption. &quot;Bumblebee's&quot; arrival proved to be their downfall, as it was really the self-serving mercenary [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], who destroyed the bunker security systems, allowing the Decepticons inside. Optimus Prime refused to surrender during the ensuing struggle, until Mirage used the critically injured Jetfire as a hostage, forcing Prime to back down. When Megatron betrayed Mirage's word and ordered the execution of the Autobots, Optimus Prime tried to reason with the mercenary, appealing to his former friendship with Hound...until Mirage killed Hound in defiance. Furious, Optimus Prime broke free of his captors and tackled Mirage into the Zodiac Energy chamber. {{storylink|Spotlight: Mirage}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Hearts of Steel''===<br /> [[Image:HeartsofSteel_1_Prime_Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|200px|&quot;I keep telling you Bumblebee, the Dinobots will never accept you into their clique!&quot;]]<br /> <br /> The Autobots and the Decepticons came to [[Earth|a distant world]] in the grip of an ice age. Assuming alternate modes based upon the [[Dinosaur|dominant (though doomed) indigenous creatures]] of this planet, they continued their ancient, unending war. However, the Autobots, with their energy levels dangerously low, withdrew from combat as the world grew colder. They sought refuge in a deep cavern and entered [[stasis lock]], awaiting the day when surface conditions changed to better suit their operation. Millions of years later, Bumblebee was awoken by the hammering of humans working on a rail line. He briefly considered awakening Optimus Prime, but thought better of it. After discovering the world had changed significantly, Ratchet thought there was no reason to awaken Prime. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1}} When Bumblebee discovered the Decepticons were once again active on this world, Ratchet and Prowl agreed that the Autobots must intervene, but again decided out of rousing Optimus from his slumber. {{Storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2|Hearts of Steel #2}}<br /> <br /> {{Note|Optimus Prime appears very briefly in the first few pages, in his &quot;Ice Age Wars&quot; body (we only see him in robot mode, but his altmode is a brachiosaurus&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=d5d311674e796c81d010d26ac751389b&amp;showtopic=10074&amp;st=20&amp;p=266183&amp;#entry266183 Allspark forums post] by [[Guido Guidi]], August 15th, 2006&lt;/ref&gt;. He spends most of the story in stasis lock. [[:Image:Opthos.jpg|Unused concept art]] depicts him as transforming into a locomotive engine.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Music Label''===<br /> <br /> In the year 2007, the Autobots discovered that the Decepticon communications officer [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] was attempting to control the minds of humans through hypnotic music broadcast through a series of tiny clones of himself. Optimus Prime upgraded his trailer with a huge pair of speakers, and proceeded to drive around, broadcasting a counter-frequency that undid the villain's brainwashing. {{storylink|Music Label}}<br /> <br /> {{note|The [[Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)|2007 Takara timeline]] placed the events of the ''[[Music Label]]'' storyline in the [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Generation 1 cartoon continuity]], but Optimus Prime's role in the story is therefore made impossible, as he was dead in that universe in 2007. However, given the way the timeline is unhelpfully laid out, it's not impossible that this adventure may take place not in the mainstream timeline, but in the branched-off parallel dimension of the ''[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Binaltech|Binaltech]]'' storyline, where Optimus did not die.}}<br /> <br /> ===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in comics===<br /> <br /> {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}} {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 4}} {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 7}} {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 11}}<br /> <br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> <br /> ===''Henkei! Henkei!'' Bun Bun manga===<br /> <br /> When the legendary [[Energon Cube]] was lost to the reaches of space, Optimus Prime led a small team of Autobots in pursuit of it. The giant energy source crashed on Earth in the Japanese town of [[Hoshinochō]], where it shattered into fragments that were scattered far and wide. Prime and the other Autobots set up a subterranean base below the Cube's impact crater and began their search for the shards, taking the forms of local vehicles to hide their activities. Despite their attempts at remaining unseen, glimpses of the Autobots only magnified the reputation the crash of the Cube (believed by humans to be a meteor) had given Hoshinochō: that of a hotbed of rumored alien and UFO activity, Japan's answer to [[United States of America|America]]'s Roswell. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}<br /> <br /> The Autobots gained a human ally in their quest when they befriended Doctor [[Osamu Kihara]] of the Governmental Special Diplomatic Agency, who provided more assistance than they could have imagined when his son, [[Akira Kihara|Akira]], was discovered to be a &quot;[[Booster]]&quot;, one of many legendary beings born with the ability to control and detect the energies of the Energon Cube. Alas, the Decepticons had followed Prime's Autobots to Earth, and [[Megatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Megatron]] sought the boy's powers for his own. To protect Optimus Prime and himself, Akira unleashed the full extent of his powers, driving Megatron back, but causing his body to burn out and disintegrate. Prime was wracked with guilt over what had occurred, and it would haunt him afterward. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}<br /> <br /> Eleven years after their arrival on Earth, Prime and the Autobots made a new human ally in [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]] when he stumbled into the midst of a battle between Prime's team and [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Starscream]] and [[Ramjet (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Ramjet]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} When Megatron joined the fight soon after, he held [[Bumblebee (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Bumblebee]] and Wataru hostage, daring Prime to make a move against him. Prime opened fire, but Megatron merely used the defeated Starscream for a shield, then turned his cannon on the younger duo. Prime unleashed his [[ion blaster]] and apparently deflected the blast with a shot of his own, saving Bumblebee and Wataru and prompting the Decepticons to retreat. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}}<br /> <br /> Prime invited Wataru to visit the Autobots' subterranean base, and he gave the boy a personal tour as he carried the injured Bumblebee to the infirmary. Telling him the story of the Energon Cube and the Autobots' coming to Earth, Prime showed Wataru the large chunk of the cube that they had managed to recover. He then turned his attention to repairing Bumblebee's wounds, and as such, did not notice Wataru reaching out to touch the cube sliver. A bizarre energy discharge resulted that not only showed the Autobots images of [[Generation 1 (franchise)|another time and place]], but also healed both Autobots' wounds. Prime dived at Wataru and hauled him away from the shard, returning things to normal, but leaving Prime with grave concerns over what the strange occurrence might mean. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}<br /> <br /> When Starscream attacked a power plant with the aid of his brainwashed ally, [[Jetfire (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Skyfire]], Prime carried [[Grimlock (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Grimlock]] to the scene of the battle on the back of his truck mode. {{storylink|The Enemy from the Arctic}} During the conflict that followed, Prime's suspicions about Wataru were confirmed when the boy manifested a barrier to protect himself and Bumblebee and to help Skyfire overcome the influence of Starscream's mind-controlling helmet. Wataru was a Booster as well! {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} His past experiences naturally made Prime hesitant to put Wataru's power to use, but Osamu Kihara made the point that Wataru's power was invaluable for hunting down shards of the Energon Cube. Prime and Wataru headed out to investigate a local relic that Kihara suspected was a cube shard, and Wataru's powers soon confirmed the doctor's findings. Just as Prime was about to report back to Kihara, however, Megatron struck, demanding that Prime hand over both the shard and Wataru. Prime attempted to feign ignorance of Wataru's powers, but Megatron ignored his bluff and encouraged him to hand the boy over, lest he cost ''another'' Booster their life. Driven into a rage by the stinging barb, Prime violently attacked Megatron with his energon-axe, but as the duel raged, Megatron continued to question Prime's beliefs and his attitude. Unable to deny Megatron's accusation that he had hoped to use Wataru's power to defeat him, Prime lost his concentration and was taken down by the Decepticon leader. Despite what he had learned about a previous Booster dying, Wataru stayed true to Optimus and activated his powers, healing the Autobot's wounds and powering up his energon-axe into a huge sword. Summoning all his energy, Prime took down Megatron with one almighty slash, then collapsed into [[stasis lock]]. {{storylink|Optimus Prime's Secret}} <br /> <br /> Prime was brought back to the Autobot base for treatment, but the Decepticons exploited the Autobots' lack of manpower and struck again before Prime recovered. With his men taking a pummeling, the unconscious Prime had a vision of Akira, who spurred him on to awaken and rejoin the battle. With another power boost from Wataru, Prime unleashed a super-charged shot from his ion blaster that took down the fleeing Decepticons. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|Creation! The New Emperor of Destruction!!}} {{storylink|The Threat of Galvatron}} {{storylink|Revenge (issue)|Revenge}} {{storylink|A Nightmare, Once Again}} {{storylink|To the Sea of Stars}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_convoy_boxart.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]<br /> In 2007, the Optimus Prime of [[universal stream]] Primax 109.0 Beta encountered a mysterious messenger from another world: [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|another incarnation of himself]] from a parallel dimension who left him with a warning. Two years hence, Megatron would bring the terrifying super-dimensional lifeform known as the &quot;Beast of Time&quot;, [[Hytherion]], into their dimension to destroy Earth. The only thing that could battle Hytherion was the power of the super-evolved multi-dimensional race of Cybertronians known as the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]]. Prime agreed that when the danger appeared, he would join the Alternity in the fight.<br /> <br /> Sure enough, in 2009, when Hytherion's colossal claw-marks appeared on planets throughout the solar system, Prime's other-dimensional incarnation returned, bringing with him a &quot;Vibrant Red&quot; Vector 109 [[auto-avatar]] with which Prime fused. In that instant, he was reborn as part of the Alternity, a manifold being who encompassed all the different incarnations of Optimus Prime through the multiverse at once. Prime reached his hands heavenward and peeled back the layers of reality, exposing the gargantuan fanged maw of Hytherion looming above the Autobots. {{storylink|From Here to Alternity}}<br /> <br /> Optimus battled alongside the Alternity to fend off the beast, when unexpectedly, [[Megatron (G1)#Alternity|Megatron]] overwrote the beast's higher functions with his own. At first, it seemed that Hytherion had been killed, but a newly empowered Megatron (in two bodies) appeared and declared that, now possessing a power that rivaled the Alternity's, he challenged his opponents to take him on or see the multiverse itself burn. {{storylink|To Mega Therion}}<br /> <br /> As battles between numerous different Primes and Megatrons erupted quite literally all across time and space, another member of the Convoy Corps was later seen battling [[Starscream (G1)#Alternity|Starscream]], who had been empowered by Megatron to serve as leader of his [[Questor]]s. This Prime was so surprised by Starscream's uncharacteristic sports car alternate mode that he left himself open for a blast from Starscream's Retroactive Nullifer cannon, which erased him from the timestream. As he faded out of existence, Prime responded to Starscream's taunts about the death of the Alternity by telling him that they were already well aware of their prophesied end and were well prepared. {{storylink|Foreshadows}}<br /> {{note|Alternity beings are both individuals and a collective of separate entities. More fiction about Optimus Prime's Alternity collective can be found [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|here]].}}<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ===''Robot Heroes'' comic===<br /> [[Image:IDW I am Optimus Prime battle.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|I Am Optimus Prime (Robot Heroes)|I Am Optimus Prime}}<br /> <br /> ===&quot;Universe&quot; cartoon===<br /> : ''Voice actor:'' [[Ron Hayden]] (English)<br /> [[Image:Actionblast1matrix.jpg|left|thumb|250px]]<br /> Optimus Prime narrated the events of what happened before the Ark crashed on Earth. He became the new leader of a long line of Autobot leaders via the discovery of the Matrix. On their quest for more Energon, the Autobots were chased by Decepticons to the planet known as Earth and crashed on it. When they emerged from the Ark, Optimus Prime scanned his truck altmode, stating that the war would not end on Earth. {{Storylink|Action Blast 1}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:FfE Optimus Prime Cyclonus.JPG|right|thumb|250px]]<br /> Both Optimus Prime and Bumblebee raced down a street in an unknown desert while having an argument about Energon. He ordered Bumblebee to scan the surroundings to find the location where the Decepticons were hiding, and to be careful for possible scouts. When Bumblebee noted what the Decepticons were doing, Prime speculated that they might be planning to convert the energy into Energon, and ordered Bumblebee to create a diversion. While Bumblebee and Cyclonus fought, Prime made a surprise attack and took out Cyclonus with his Ion-axe, before turning his attention to Megatron. When both Decepticons fled, Prime told Bumblebee they'd done a good job (in front of a burning Gas station), and both Autobots got back on the move. {{storylink|Fight for Energon}}<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ==Commercial appearances==<br /> Optimus Prime has appeared in more [[Commercial|television commercials]] than any other Transformer... just as with everything else. He has been voiced by Peter Cullen in every animation segment in which he's had a speaking role.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Toycommercial-firstPrime.jpg|right|thumb|My wheels don't disappear!]]<br /> <br /> * He was one of the featured characters in the first ever appearance of the Transformers anywhere, an advertisement for the first issue of [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|the Generation 1 comic]]. He arrives in the midst of a desert battle as the Decepticons attacked a power plant on Earth, driving to back up his troops in defending it. He strikes a rather iconic pose as he transforms and fires, which would be replicated and copied numerous times in the early years of the franchise. This first commercial used nonfinal versions of the characters' [[character model]]s; Optimus Prime, for example, still had wheels on his legs. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9-7RjhFzpM]<br /> <br /> * In a commercial for the [[Triple Changer]]s, Optimus confronts Astrotrain on a desert battlefield, but the Triple-Changer escapes under fire from other Autobots. Shortly afterward, Prime uses Perceptor's microscope mode to examine a fragment of Decepticon battle armor. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WssZjIsUIU]<br /> <br /> * Prime and Jazz are shown fighting Megatron in the desert in an ad for the 1985 cars, whom he summons to help out with the battle. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WssZjIsUIU]<br /> <br /> * Prime narrates two commercials around the time of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', describing the action as [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] battles [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]], and [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] take on the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-10pud7DY] <br /> <br /> [[Image:Toycommercial-PowermasterOptimusPrime.jpg|right|thumb|An integral part of Powermaster Prime's transformation is Joyride shooting lightning bolts through his pointed finger.]]<br /> <br /> * Prime was prominently featured in the ad for the first comic issue featuring the [[Powermaster]]s. On the rocky plains where practically every Transformer battle ever seems to happen, Prime arrives in his Powermaster body to back up three of his troops against Dreadwind and Darkwing. He's shown combining with [[Hi-Q]] and transforming, attacking with his trailer's battle station mode, then combining with the trailer to continue the attack. Who wins? Find out in [[People Power!|Marvel Comics]]! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voX_KNNxNCI]<br /> <br /> [[Image:OptimusQuickswitchCommercial.jpg|right|thumb|Optimus Prime is so giving, he even gives other Transformers time in his commercials.]]<br /> <br /> * Prime also features briefly in [[Quickswitch]]'s ad; in a battle on the moon, Quickswitch transforms to gun mode and is wielded by Powermaster Optimus Prime.<br /> <br /> * An abbreviated ad for Powermaster Prime uses footage from both the Marvel Comic and Quickswitch commercials.<br /> <br /> * Prime's Powermaster body shows up yet again in the [[Classic Pretender|Pretender Classic]]s ad. He comes under attack in the darkened streets of the city, prompting the narrator to explain that he needs the greatest Transformers ever! Prime then welcomes back Bumblebee and Jazz in their Pretender forms. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mahbq-FnSPY]<br /> <br /> * Powermaster Prime and [[Piranacon (G1)|Piranacon]] are the representatives from each faction that [[Doubledealer]] doublecrosses! Everyone wonders who that guy is that Prime's talking to... He looks kinda suspicious!<br /> <br /> * Optimus features prominently in the first [[Action Master]] commercial; he's shown surrounded by a circle of his troops, and challenges them to give up their transforming powers to become faster, stronger, more alive! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeNf3jQ1zdw]<br /> <br /> * A stock intro was used for several Micromaster commercials, with Optimus opening his fist to reveal a Micromaster city within.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Hotrodpatrolcommercial.jpg|right|thumb|Prime wants to know if they can transform, because he sure can't!]]<br /> <br /> * A similar sequence in another Micromaster ad has Prime opening his fist to find the [[Hot Rod Patrol]] inside. He and Jazz check them out, and Optimus wonders if they can transform. <br /> <br /> * In an ad for the Micromaster micro bases, a battle rages outside an Autobot base, and Prime watches impassively as Bumblebee and Jazz pull two [[Interstellar shuttle|captured]] [[Attack Copter|vehicles]] into the base. Prime is the first to notice that the vehicles are transforming and shooting things. <br /> <br /> * Prime and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] are the stars of the first ''[[Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' commercial, animated with [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]]. Prime is shown driving down a road in his ''Generation 2'' colored truck mode. He rocket-launches up into the air to transform, then has a brutal fight with Ramjet. Despite getting a hole blasted in his chest, he wins the fight and fires his gun into the air in triumph. Non-speaking.<br /> <br /> * Prime also is shown briefly in a commercial for the new Megatron tank toy. He transforms and finds his head in a target crosshairs. In the subsequent toy segment, Prime's toy is shown getting completely trashed by that of Megatron. Non-speaking.<br /> <br /> * And finally, Prime got his own rap segment. He's shown in his Combat toy body, waiting for Megatron as he attacks a human subdivision. Prime converts to robot form, blows up Megatron's weapon at point blank range, and slugs it out with him. Apparently emerging victorious, is next shown sitting next to an identical truck, which the live-action kid mistakes for the real thing. The real Prime then transforms and picks up the kid, inspecting the human with his cold, lifeless, flashing red optics. Prime is once again voiced by Peter Cullen in this commercial.<br /> <br /> Prime also appeared in commercials for ''Transformers'' products other than the toys themselves...<br /> <br /> * In the ad for [[Coleco]]'s [[Power Cycle]], Optimus Prime shoots ''at'' a child riding the title cycle, but misses. This footage is recycled from the advertisement for the comic.<br /> <br /> * Prime delivers a load of shoes to schoolchildren in a South American ad for [[Bata]]'s licensed ''Transformers'' footwear.<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Games==<br /> ===''Transformers: Call of the Future''===<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|Transformers: Call of the Future}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game===<br /> [[Image:ROTF_360PS3_PC_G1OptimusPrime_DLC.jpg|thumb|200px|]]<br /> :''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]]<br /> ====Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC====<br /> {{Note|On [[August 27]], [[2009]], Optimus Prime was one of a handful of downloadable characters in a DLC pack for Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3.}}<br /> {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Revenge of the Fallen}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> {{main|Optimus Prime (G1)/toys}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> :''Main article: [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise]]''<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> * According to [[Bob Budiansky]], longtime comics writer [[Denny O'Neil]] named Optimus Prime prior to Budiansky being brought on to the ''Transformers'' project.<br /> <br /> * Optimus Prime's Japanese name is &quot;Convoy&quot;, which is named after his original name &quot;Battle Convoy&quot; in the [[Diaclone]] toyline, because the name &quot;Optimus Prime&quot; is difficult for Japanese kids to remember and pronounce. &lt;ref&gt;'''Figure-Oh''' No. 114&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> *According to an early ''[[Transformers Universe (Marvel comic)|Universe]]''-style profile published in ''[[The Transformers Comic Magazine]]'', Optimus Prime's &quot;official&quot; nicknames were at one point considered to be &quot;Autobot Commander&quot;, &quot;Chief&quot;, &quot;Big Boss&quot; and &quot;Roller&quot;. As far as it is known, no piece of fiction has ever purposely addressed him using these nicknames, though it's a fair bet he's been called &quot;chief&quot; at least once or twice anyway.<br /> <br /> * He [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|allegedly]] hates the music of [[wikipedia:Mötley_Crüe|Mötley Crüe]].<br /> <br /> * According to the staff of ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', Optimus Prime became a space explorer in the [[Beast Era]].&lt;ref&gt;[[Beast Wars Universe]] ISBN 978-4766938005&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Image:Optimusprime-mom.jpg|right|125px|thumb|Prime's mom knows how to write in cursive.]]<br /> * By the time Optimus Prime appeared in ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'', his 3D model from ''Beast Wars'' had apparently been lost, leading the animators to use a faceplated Optimus Primal head as a quick replacement to save time and budget.<br /> <br /> * Aside from occasionally having Alpha Trion as a father figure, Optimus Prime may have a mother! In an advertisement for [[Pepsi Convoy]] that shows him in a refrigerator (along with [[Destron Pizza]]), a note attached to a nearby piece of Tupperware reads:<br /> <br /> :''Dear Convoy''<br /> :''Warm it before you eat''<br /> :''Mom''<br /> <br /> :Although the ad itself is for Pepsi Convoy, he is a separate character, and it can be assumed that the note was left for Convoy/Optimus Prime himself.<br /> <br /> * The first wave of Dreamwave posters in 2001 identified Optimus Prime as [http://www.comicden.com/merch/posters.htm &quot;Captimus Primus&quot;], which is tantalizingly close to making some sort of sense.<br /> <br /> * According to EJ Su, Optimus Prime's [[Holomatter|Holomatter avatar]] is modeled after [[wikipedia:Ulysses_S._Grant|Ulysses S. Grant]].&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.protodepot.com/archive/2007_11_01_archive.html Idea: Holomatter Projection]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> * As of [[All Hail Megatron issue 13|All Hail Megatron #13]], Optimus has a mouth underneath that [[faceplate]] of his.<br /> <br /> * This Optimus Prime, along with the original [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] makes a cameo appearance as one of the four elders who began the [[Space Bridge]] project in the ''[[Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' episode [[Balance]].<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;char=Optimus_Prime Optimus Prime's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br /> <br /> * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;char=Optimus_Prime_PM Powermaster Optimus Prime's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br /> <br /> == Footnotes ==<br /> &lt;references /&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Category:Action Masters]]<br /> [[Category:Alternators]]<br /> [[Category:Alternity characters]]<br /> [[Category:Attacktix]]<br /> [[Category:Autobots]]<br /> [[Category:Autobot leaders]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Wars characters]]<br /> [[Category:Classics characters]]<br /> [[Category:Combiners]]<br /> [[Category:Convention exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:E-Hobby]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 2 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Ghosts]]<br /> [[Category:Go-Bots]]<br /> [[Category:Headmasters characters]]<br /> [[Category:Henkei! 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William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Skywarp_(G1)&diff=474898 2010-07-07T01:07:32Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticon|decepticong2|wreckers}}<br /> {{disambig3|Skywarp}}<br /> :''Skywarp is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarp1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp, Decepticon Stair-Pusher-Downer]]<br /> [[Teleportation]] is a dangerous tool in the hands of a capable adversary. Thankfully for the [[Autobot|Autobots]], '''Skywarp''' is the Decepticon who possesses that ability. Skywarp's not so bright, so without supervision he's worthless as a warrior. He mostly uses his teleportation power for immature pranks on both friend and foe. He takes a charmingly puerile angle at thuggery, so his pranks are well-received amongst his Decepticon peers (excepting the victim, of course). <br /> <br /> Because, come on, a surprise push down a staircase is ''hilarious''.<br /> His Partner is [[Acid Storm]]<br /> {{quote|Don't think. Just do.|Skywarp's life motto|[[Megatron Origin issue 4|''Megatron Origin'' #4]]}}<br /> <br /> :''French-Canadian name'': '''Fraudeur''' (&quot;Cheater&quot; or &quot;Evader&quot; or &quot;Smuggler&quot;)<br /> :''Hungarian name'': '''Égretörő''' (&quot;Sky-springer&quot;)<br /> :''Italian name'': '''Corvo''' (&quot;Crow&quot;)<br /> :''Japanese name'': '''Warp'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Portugal comics)'': '''Espião Celeste'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Brazil comics)'': '''Viajante''' (&quot;Traveller&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Tīen Wān''' (天彎, &quot;Sky Warp&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (China):'' '''Nao Fan Tian''' (鬧翻天, &quot;Extreme Ruckus&quot;)<br /> :''Russian TV dub name:'' '''Deformer'''<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> ====Generation 1====<br /> {{noteukonly}}<br /> [[Image:Introdump decepticons marvelus01.jpg|left|300px|thumb|You can tell Skywarp apart from Thundercracker in the Marvel Comics by, uh.... let us get back to you on that.]]<br /> Skywarp was one of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron's]] troops who attacked the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] during its mission to clear a path for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] through an asteroid field. He was deactivated when it crashed on [[Earth]], and he lay dormant for four million years. When he and his fellow Decepticons awoke, Skywarp was given a new [[Alternate mode|altmode]], that of an Earth jet. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} He aided the Decepticons in their building of their new base constructed of parts from [[Harrison Nuclear Power Plant]] and joined in their attack on [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s auto repair shop. After the successful abduction of Sparkplug Witwicky, Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] defended their base from [[Autobot|Autobots]], though [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Spider-Man]] were able to sneak through and rescue Sparkplug. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}<br /> <br /> ''When Starscream fired upon his teammate [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] for eavesdropping on his plot to overthrow Megatron, Skywarp and the other Decepticons sought deadly revenge on the Decepticon [[Air Commander]]. {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}} Though Starscream escaped, the Decepticons soon regrouped to attack the Ark, but their battle was ended prematurely when [[Auntie]], the Ark's computer system, magnetized the walls, immobilizing both factions. {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}} On another occasion, he and Thundercracker made a strafing run on two Autobot spies, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. Jazz was deafened and blasted off the road, but Sunstreaker led them into a human military zone, prompting Megatron to call them back to base. {{storylink|Perchance to Dream}}'' Skywarp also traveled with the Decepticons to the [[United Kingdom]], where he and his teammates attempted to learn about a mysterious Autobot rescue ship buried under a castle. An initial attack on the Autobots left Skywarp seriously wounded by a bomb from [[Bluestreak]]. {{storylink|Man of Iron (story)|Man of Iron}}<br /> <br /> Though Sparkplug Witwicky was able to devise a way for the Decepticons to convert Earth fuel into a usable substance, he also poisoned the result, so Skywarp and his fellow Decepticons were immobilized at the climax of their would-be final battle with the Autobots. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} The Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] took command of the Decepticons and the Ark shortly thereafter and nursed Skywarp and his comrades back to full health. Skywarp may have helped Shockwave attempt to capture and brainwash [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] into a Decepticon, or it may have been Thundercracker without red stripes. It's hard to tell. {{storylink|Plight of the Bumblebee!}}<br /> <br /> He served the Decepticon cause up until he was deactivated while battling [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and placed in prison stasis at Autobot headquarters. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Target_2006_fake_Starscream_dies.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nope. Guess again.]]<br /> ''When [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] traveled back from the year 2006 to build a super-weapon to destroy [[Unicron]], Skywarp was a key player in the defeat of the mad Decepticon. Sorta.'' <br /> <br /> ''The Autobots took Skywarp out of stasis, painted him to look like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], and sent him stumbling toward Galvatron with a tape-recorder of Starscream's voice on his back. Galvatron, still sore about Starscream tossing him out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] during his Megatron days, shot and presumably killed Skywarp. Galvatron then realized that if he killed Starscream in the past then there'd be no way he could have killed Starscream in the future (never mind that killing Skywarp now opens up that whole issue of [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus' identity]]). Believing he was in an alternate past and thus nothing he did there would affect his personal timeline, Galvatron hurried back to his proper time. Way to take one for the team, Skywarp. {{storylink|Target: 2006}}''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpgoofyteleportation.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Upon close inspection, Skywarp's teleportation power is merely a goofy loop-de-loop.]]<br /> During a massive battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth's moon, Skywarp and the other Decepticons held in stasis aboard the Ark were liberated by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and subsequently brought back online. {{storylink|Totaled!}} During the first Decepticon Civil War, Skywarp battled with [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s Decepticons against [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons. Skywarp surprised [[Bugly]] with his teleportation powers and blasted him, temporarily stunning him. However, Bugly successfully returned fire, striking where he guessed Skywarp would next teleport. {{storylink|Cold War!}} Skywarp was repaired in time to face an [[Underbase]]-powered Starscream in [[Tokyo]], but both he and Thundercracker were destroyed by their former flying partner. {{storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Generation 2''====<br /> Optimus Prime, learning of the Decepticons' attacks on Earth, traveled there alone not to fight them but to talk Megatron out of it. Prime was really surprised to learn that this was a really stupid idea, and as Megatron tore Prime apart and severed the Matrix from his body, Skywarp stood by with other Decepticons and watched. He and the rest of the Decepticons retreated with the Matrix when the Autobots showed up to save Prime. {{storylink|The Gathering Darkness}}<br /> <br /> The Autobots and the Decepticons had just agreed to make an alliance against the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]], but the Decepticons disagreed about aiding other planets' people. When the Autobots went alone to fight the Cybertronians, they almost were defeated, until Skywarp (yes, this article is about him) suddenly warped into the battle, followed by the rest of the Decepticon army, to aid the Autobots. <br /> <br /> And you just know he mocked the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] he saved. ''Relentlessly.'' {{storylink|Escalation!}}<br /> <br /> ====''Classics''====<br /> {{note|Classics is a [[splinter timeline]] from the Marvel US continuity that does not include events from either ''Generation 2'' or the Marvel UK issues.}}<br /> His broken body rescued from [[Tokyo]], Skywarp was rebuilt using Shockwave's upgraded [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] schematics. He was told that it was Starscream, driven mad with the power of the [[Underbase]], who did him in. Skywarp's okay with that. After all, the traitor's going to have to let down his guard sometime. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 14|''Classic'' Skywarp's profile}}<br /> <br /> After the appearance of the mysterious crossdimensional Decepticon [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], Skywarp and the other rebuilt Decepticons under Megatron's command traveled to [[South America]] to investigate an equally mysterious power source that seemed to share traits with Landquake. En route, they were attacked by [[Walter Barnett]]'s [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNT]] squad. {{storylink|Crossing Over, Part 2}} Skywarp managed to shake off these interlopers just before Optimus Prime and his Autobots arrived in search of this same power source, and a new battle between the factions began in the jungles surrounding the power source. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 3}} As the battle escalated, Skywarp and Starscream fought [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] across the skies, {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 5}} but ultimately, Megatron was forced to call for a withdrawal. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 6}}<br /> <br /> With his nosecone still battered from the fight, Skywarp came with Starscream and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] to investigate what [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] and his crew were doing on Earth. He was happy to see that Thundercracker was among them, but less so when his old buddy shot a [[cerebro-shell]] at him, forcing him to follow Bug Bite's commands. Skywarp and the others were sent to assassinate Megatron, but were soon freed from Bug Bite's control due to Autobot interference. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===<br /> ====''The Transformers'' cartoon====<br /> :''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese), [[Jacques Ferrière]] (French)<br /> <br /> [[Image:Tetrajet seekers.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Cybertron alt-mode (left). The early Decepticons promoted geometry.]]<br /> In the early days of the Decepticon rebellion, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] both faced the powerful protectors of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] cities, the [[Guardian Robots]]. Even millions of years later, the powerful Guardians struck fear into Skywarp's spark. {{storylink|War Dawn}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of the elite Decepticons that served [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] on Cybertron four million years ago. Skywarp and his fellow Seekers came across the Autobots [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] pilfering [[conductor|energy conductors]], and tried to eliminate the Auto-jerks. Once Wheeljack broke through their defenses, Skywarp and Thundercracker transformed to their tetrajet modes and followed the Autobots. They managed to get a good shot in against Bumblebee, but soon both Autobots escaped termination by taking the chase underground. Skywarp later joined Megatron in attacking and boarding the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot ship]] on their search for energy. After crash-landing on Earth, the Decepticons and Autobots laid dormant for four million years, until volcanic activity stirred the ship's computer back to life. Skywarp was the first of the ship's Transformers to be reformatted and awakened by [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], in the form of an Earthen F-15 fighter jet. Once active, Skywarp immediately dragged his master Megatron's body into the reformatting rays of the Ark's computer, and soon all the Decepticons were revived. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Since the Decepticons were so badly short-staffed during their early days on Earth, Skywarp was usually involved in whatever crazy plot for universal domination Megatron was hatching. This included attacks on an off-shore oil rig, [[Sherman Dam]] and the [[Ruby Crystal Mines of Burma|ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. On the last raid, Skywarp and Thundercracker caught a pair of snoops -- Bumblebee and the human, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. They were knocking the little Autobot around for fun, and pondering how to giftwrap him for Megatron, when an explosion caused the mine to cave in around them. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} When the Decepticons escaped the Burma operation with a cache of energon cubes, Skywarp requested permission from Megatron to teleport in order to scare off Autobot pursuers. Teleporting behind the strangely airborne duo of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Bluestreak]], Skywarp pasted the ornery old Autobot with a heat-seeking missile, knocking him out of the sky that he probably shouldn't have been able to fly around in anyway. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:TransporttoOblivion Skywarp Prowl punchy.jpg|left|180px|thumb|&quot;[[Bumblebee (G1)|Punch-buggy yellow]]!&quot;]]<br /> When [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] was caught spying on the Decepticons' new [[Space Bridge]], Skywarp and Starscream captured him for Megatron. After Bumblebee was reprogrammed to led the Autobots into a trap, Skywarp biffed [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] from behind, causing him to fall down in an almost pushing-down-stairs-like fashion. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} After the Decepticons acquired the [[antimatter]] formula, they were en route to the Ark when [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] intercepted them, practicing their jet judo maneuvers. Skywarp was being thrown off-course by Sideswipe's antics until Starscream knocked the Autobot warrior loose. During the battle, Megatron charged himself up with the Decepticons' new toy, and transformed into an &quot;anti-matter gun&quot; to obliterate the Autobots. After Starscream had his turn with the gun, Skywarp got ready to blow some Autobots away too. Before he could start, however, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] attacked his leg with a jackhammer. He scooped up the puny fleshling and was about to blast him with the anti-matter gun (and, incidentally, probably blow his own hand off in the process) when [[Chip Chase]] attached a computer override device invented by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], which allowed Teletraan I to take brief control of his body. Skywarp started firing Megatron's anti-matter power at the other Decepticons, overheating the unstable power supply and forcing the Decepticons to retreat. {{storylink|Roll for It}} <br /> <br /> {{bigquote|You little fool... You're no match for Skywarp!|Skywarp announces his superiority to a kid in a wheelchair.|&quot;[[Roll for It]]&quot;}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was later part of a Decepticon raid on a factory, apparently in a very playful mood with his teleporting power. First he 'ported behind some human guards to taunt them before making them scatter with laser fire. Then, when Thundercracker blased open some power lines to begin filling his energon cubes, Skywarp &quot;cut in line&quot; by teleporting between Thundercracker and the energy to fill his own cube first. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] showed up to stop them, Skywarp fired a heat-seeking missile at him, only for Prime to deflect it with a punch. The Autobot was eventually defeated, and Skywarp ran off with some [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}} <br /> <br /> When the Decepticons began draining heat energy out of Earth's core using a crystal shaft in the Arctic, Skywarp got a bit bored at the lack of real action. He was in the middle of taunting Rumble when the two of them accidentally caused a miniature avalanche in one of the caves. By sheer happenstance, this led to the Decepticons recovering the long-lost [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] from an icy tomb. Skywarp helped perform repairs on the giant flier, though it was probably better for all concerned if somebody with actual knowledge had performed these repairs. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}} <br /> <br /> During a battle at [[Great Falls]] hydroelectric power facility, the newly-constructed [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] arrived to rescue the beleagured Autobots, who had been captured by the Decepticons. Skywarp foolishly attempted to beat the flamethrowing [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] with a mere pair of heat-seeking missiles, and ended up being grabbed out of the air by the mighty jaws of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], who chomped on his wing and threw Skywarp into his fellow Megatron loyalist [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Soon afterwards, during an operation in [[Peru]], Skywarp got to be Megatron's favorite Seeker for the day after Starscream and Thundercracker stole poor-quality steel for their latest super-weapon. He had fun taunting the egotistic 'Screamer when Megatron called him to battle, leaving the other Seekers behind on mere guard duty. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}} Later, Skywarp helped Megatron steal a giant meteor, although its unstable power proved too dangerous to use for energon cubes. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was in a playful mood during the Decepticons' raid of a solar power plant in [[India]], cracking wise and hoping to play a game of catch...with the rajah as the ball. He had even more fun in a quick free-for-all with the Autobots, a distraction so that the Decepticons could kidnap one of the Autobots' fleshling friends as a guinea pig for [[Doctor Arkeville]]'s mind-control experiments. Skywarp enjoyed himself so much, he got in a fight with Starscream on the way back to headquarters about how ''brilliant'' Megatron's plan was. Thundercracker had to jump out of the way while the two of them roughhoused in the elevator. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} Thanks in part to Arkeville's [[hypno-chip]] slaves, the Decepticons were able to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, creating massive environmental disturbances that produced millions of energon cubes. What's more, transporting energon to Cybertron was now just a short flight away. Unfortunately, the devastation was greater than Megatron had anticipated. While Skywarp was on a return flight from Cybertron, a tidal wave broke off the access tower to the Decepticons' undersea base, flooding it. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Skywarp was present at the final battle before the Autobots knocked Cybertron out of orbit, and fled when Megatron abandoned his troops to escape with the energon cubes. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} With Megatron seemingly destroyed as his star cruiser exploded with the cubes on-board, the Decepticons were left rudderless. While working on repairs for their undersea base, tempers flared as Skywarp picked a fight with his favorite target, Rumble, and his pint-sized partner, [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. Skywarp bit off more than he could chew, however, as Frenzy's surprising strength overcame Skywarp as he tried to crush the mini-cassette beneath his heel. Thundercracker and Soundwave started to get involved in the fracas too, but Megatron soon arrived to put his house back in order. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Changegearsskywarp.jpg|thumb|200px|left|What you see when he pushes you down the stairs.]]Like all Decepticons, Skywarp provided his [[power chip rectifier]] to Megatron for his single combat with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}} When the Decepticons attacked another rocket base, Skywarp and Thundercracker attempted to double-team Optimus Prime, but only succeeded in destroying the very rockets they came to plunder. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Later, the Decepticons attacked a mining camp to lure the Autobots out into the open, and Skywarp stood guard over the humans being used as bait. After they used the opportunity to kidnap [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] for his special circuit board, Skywarp later helped fill the energon cubes from Megatron's [[Solar Needle]]. {{storylink|Changing Gears}} As the Decepticons took over New York to create the city of New Cybertron, Skywarp was seen loading cars into [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]'s drum for reconstruction. He and Thundercracker were later damaged after trying to take some potshots at Optimus Prime, only to miss and crash straight through a building in the process. {{storylink|City of Steel}} He also served in a later assault on the Ark, distracting the Autobots long enough for Megatron to sneak inside and mess with their [[recharging chamber]]s. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}<br /> <br /> Rather stoic in recent weeks, Skywarp was back to his cheery but malicious self when he and Starscream went after some [[electro-cell]]s at the [[Experimental Energy Research Laboratory]]. While breaking through the roof of the installation, Skywarp merrily remarked on the joy of opening presents. During a fight with the Autobot named [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], one of Skywarp's insignia was ripped off, and later planted to help turn the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Traitor}} During a battle with the Autobots over the [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]], Skywarp unleashed his new toy: a [[bouncer bomb]]. This weapon ricocheted through the trees, explosively bouncing from one side of the battlefield to another. Unfortunately, the Decepticons were also subject to its &quot;friendly fire&quot; until Megatron shot the blasted thing down. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp's teleportation power did come in useful when he was needed to sneak up on the Autobots with the [[Transfixatron]]. One quick zap and they were all frozen in vehicle mode. However, he failed to zap ALL the Autobots, which ultimately led to the undoing of Megatron's scheme. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} Skywarp was present during the Decepticon alliance with [[Sub-Atlantica]], and was part of their attack on Washington D.C. He and Thundercracker strafed the Autobots while in battle on the Great Lawn. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} When the Decepticons stole the ninja robot [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]], Skywarp used his grapples to pull the roof off of the demonstration ampitheater, allowing Starscream and Thundercracker to swoop in and grab the robot. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and his flying buddies once attempted to triple-team Optimus Prime in battle, but failed to do more than provide Optimus with a chance to toss a good quip. Strangely, Skywarp was later seen throwing what looking like a standard pineapple grenade at the Autobots. It was effective enough, but looked as out of place as an AK or a tommygun in Transformer hands. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} When the Decepticons made yet another attempt at harnessing some sort of power from the Earth's core, Skywarp defended their drilling operation from the Autobots. He and the Seekers attempted to bomb the Autobots from the air, but a scattering of explosive missiles from [[Bluestreak]]'s shoulder launchers took them out of the fight. {{storylink|The Core}}<br /> <br /> During the assault on Iron Mountain, Skywarp was briefly taken over by [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s [[cerebro-shell]]s during a tiff between Megatron and the Insecticons. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}} He also joined the Decepticon expedition to [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], to loot and plunder its various sources of energy. Skywarp was eager to do battle with the Dinobots when they arrived to defend their new home...which just goes to show Skywarp's kinda stupid. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} When the Autobots eventually arrived to help drive the Decepticons off of Dinobot Island, they were aided by a band of dinosaurs themselves, prodded onwards by [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. Skywarp and Thundercracker found their lasers ineffective against the charging brutes, and were forced to retreat with the rest of their army. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> During some aerial dogfighting with the Autobot ace, [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], Skywarp took a nasty hit to the wing. He must have managed to limp back to base, because he was present for Megatron's interrogation of the Constructicons a short while later. {{storylink|The Master Builders}} When the Decepticons went after [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s latest super-weapon, the [[Negavator]], Skywarp and the Seekers strafed the Autobot convoy in a box canyon. Their efforts were blocked by [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]'s disruptor beams and magnetic smoke, which left the Seekers unable to see or navigate in any way. Skywarp and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] ended up in a three-way collision with each other and a canyon wall. {{storylink|Auto Berserk}} Once, the Decepticons were pre-emptively celebrating the destruction of the Autobots after Megatron acquired the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. They got over-energized on energon cubes and passed out in the desert. Five'll get you ten, whoever passed out closest to Skywarp woke up with a [[Scraplet]] drawn on their face in permanent marker. {{storylink|Microbots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was a participant in the ultimate prank against the Autobots. Using Autobot costumes left over from last Halloween, Skywarp and some others raided an oil refinery for fuel, only to be driven off when the &quot;heroic&quot; Decepticons arrived to stop the &quot;evil&quot; Autobots. The entire scene was filmed by [[Shawn Berger]] and used to smear the Autobots' good name so severely that they were forced to abandon Earth entirely in a rocket cruiser. Ha HA! {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} The fleshlings didn't appreciate the joke when they found out the punchline, but Skywarp and the Decepticons were too busy enslaving [[Central City (G1)|Central City]] to care. As bad luck would have it, though, the Autobots managed to make their way back to Earth, and drive off the Decepticon occupation. Killjoys. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> When the Decepticons set up a temporary base of operations at the airport, Optimus Prime sent in the Dinobots to clear them out. Skywarp and the other jets were caught off-guard initially, but the Decepticons had learned from previous encounters that the Dinobots were more vulnerable in their robot modes. By feigning defeat, Skywarp and the others lured the Dinobots into a false sense of security, and they transformed back to robot mode. Skywarp and Megatron then unleashed a barrage of energy, igniting the jumbo jets on the tarmac and causing the Dinobots tremendous damage. The Decepticons finally scored a decent victory against the Dinos, and they owed it all to a dirty underhanded sneak attack. It was a good day to be Skywarp. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Like most of the Decepticons, Skywarp was rendered temporarily invulnerable due to exposure to [[electrum]]. Invincibility didn't make him any better a prison guard, though, as even [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] was able to overpower him and escape from the Decepticons' undersea headquarters. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} Skywarp was seen delivering the Insecticons' share of the energon harvested from their clones using Megatron's energon transference process. Since the meager three cubes the Insecticons got were a small pittance compared to how many were actually being generated, Skywarp was surely snickering to himself as he handed them over. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}} When the Space Bridge materialized in the middle of a baseball stadium, Skywarp and Soundwave got into a friendly game of catch...with flesh-creatures as the ball. Then the Autobots had to show up and ruin their fun. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}}<br /> <br /> Later on, Skywarp and the Seekers kidnapped a group of Earth's world leaders, but ran into the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s during their getaway. Skywarp nearly nailed [[Slingshot]] with a loop-the-loop, coming down on him from above, but was shot down by [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]. {{storylink|War Dawn}} One day, Skywarp and Thundercracker were guarding the Space Bridge when Starscream arrived. After showing them his authorization (which looked suspiciously like a null ray rifle), they allowed Starscream to travel to Cybertron. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}} At Megatron's command, Skywarp travelled to [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] headquarters to check up on their progress in the latest Decepticon scheme. At Megatron's command, Skywarp landed at the empty base. At Megatron's command, he began to follow the mysterious trail of loose Combaticon parts leading out of the canyon. You gotta wonder what Skywarp is capable of without constant supervision...{{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}<br /> <br /> In 2005, Skywarp was part of a massive [[Battle of Autobot City|Decepticon attack]] on [[Autobot City]] on Earth. He was badly damaged during the battle, but managed to escape with the rest of his comrades aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. However, en route to Cybertron he was tossed out into space with other badly damaged Decepticons so that the rest would be able to make it home. Skywarp's body was gathered by [[Unicron]] and, among others, used to make [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s new warriors. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Skywarp arguably became either [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] or [[Cyclonus's Armada]], the identical warrior who was never seen again. Either way, Skywarp effectively ceased existing.}}<br /> <br /> ====Japanese cartoon continuity====<br /> {{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as described above. The Japanese continuity then proceeds to insert several additional stories into the timeline, as follows.}}<br /> <br /> =====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic=====<br /> <br /> Under orders from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], Skywarp accompanied [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] in an energy raid on [[Tokyo]]. Things were going well, as they enjoyed bombing pedestrians and children while screaming their demands for energy to the Heavens, at least until [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a unit of Autobot vehicles arrived. Though their victory seemed assured when they unleashed [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] on their foes, their strategy was undone when the Autobots drove up a ramp at top speed, transformed to vehicle mode and punched everybody in the face. Skywarp was forced to retreat. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 1|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp later took part in an all-out assault on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] in [[Arizona]]. The attack was nothing more than a diversion so [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] could go do unspecified ''stuff'' in Japan and the Decepticons were eventually defeated and driven off. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 2|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2}}<br /> <br /> =====Full Throttle Scramble Power!=====<br /> As Megatron bragged to [[Toru]] that the Decepticons would strip Earth of all its resources, Skywarp (or Thundercracker) was shown attacking a power plant. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}<br /> <br /> =====''The Stargate Battles''=====<br /> Skywarp participated in Megatron's first attempted takover of the [[Warp Gate|Trigger]], bursting out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] alongside the other Seekers. {{storylink|First Contact}}<br /> <br /> =====''Robot Masters'' online comic=====<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)#Issue 13|And Then}}<br /> <br /> ===''Universe''===<br /> <br /> In [[2005]], when [[Unicron]] rebuilt Skywarp into [[Cyclonus's Armada]], Skywarp was also reprogrammed to obey Cyclonus. Even later, when Skywarp's original personality reasserted itself, that mental link remained. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Though no reason is stated in-story as to how or why or when Skywarp got this new body between the Great War and the [[Beast Era]], ''Wreckers'' plotter [[Glen Hallit]] noted that Skywarp's body was based on a mass-production body type of its day, similar to Generation 1's [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]].}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Wreckersskywarpcyclonus.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Looks like Cyclonus was Bombshell. Neener neener.]]<br /> <br /> After the Decepticons lost the Great War and [[Maximal|Maximals]] and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] claimed [[Cybertron (planet)|the planet]], [[Megatron (BW)|another Megatron]] subjugated nearly every Transformer alive with a transformation-lock virus and an army of [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]. Skywarp was one of the handful of Transformers who had slipped through Megatron's fingers, and eventually he and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] joined up with the legendary strike team, the [[Wrecker|Wreckers]]. Given a mission by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], the Wreckers fought through an army of Vehicons (Cyclonus, Skywarp, and [[Rotorbolt (Universe)|Rotorbolt]] took care of the [[Spy Streak]] drones) to steal an Autobot shuttle in order to get off-planet. {{storylink|Departure}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp served as the shuttle's pilot, which served as a point of contention when the bounty hunter [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] stowed away on board, who didn't like that the Wreckers apparently now included Decepticons and Predacons among their ranks. As the shuttle approached the [[Archa system]], their given destination, Skywarp detected the homing beacon of the ''[[Sojourner's Passage]]'', an exploration ship that was lost centuries ago. Since the Autobot shuttle had been damaged en route, once it had landed on [[Archa Nine]], Skywarp helped repair it while others searched the surface. While Skywarp was occupied with this, Cyclonus revealed himself as a traitor, stealing the [[Divine Light]], a mysterious artifact the Wreckers were sent by the Oracle to find. {{storylink|Betrayal}} <br /> <br /> [[Image:Disclosure-Skywarphonor.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Heh.]]<br /> <br /> Though it's likely Skywarp didn't really care, the rest of the Wreckers were dealt a blow to morale after this betrayal. Regardless, the Wreckers set off for a new destination given by the Oracle, a desolate ice planet on which a search team found an exiled [[Quintesson]] scientist named [[Al-Badur]]. While Al-Badur was explaining the meaning of the Divine Light, an army of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] attacked both the search team and Skywarp and the others back at the shuttle. Skywarp was able to easily destroy their attackers. The search team returned to the shuttle, and Primal Prime told Skywarp that he'd be taking direction from the Quintesson. Al-Badur asked Skywarp what compelled him to join this team of Autobots and Maximals; Skywarp told him it involved &quot;returning a favor&quot; and &quot;Decepticon honor,&quot; things he wouldn't understand. {{storylink|Disclosure}} <br /> <br /> {{note|In the unpublished script to ''[[The Wreckers: Finale Part 1|The Wreckers'' #4]], after receiving an encrypted message, Skywarp flew the Wreckers back to Cybertron as quickly as possible. [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] and his Quintesson partners had invaded. But on arrival to Cybertron, the Quintessons' attacks were so thick that they kept the shuttle from being able to land. Primal Prime ordered a few of the Wreckers off the ship to join the troops below, while Rodimus, Skywarp, and the remainder were to land elsewhere.}}<br /> <br /> In the aftermath of Cyclonus's betrayal, the other Wreckers were understandably wary of Skywarp, though the Decepticon claimed he had no part or knowledge of his fellow Decepticon's actions. While circling overhead Cybertron, the Wreckers' shuttle was critically hit. Rodimus told everyone else to evacuate while he kept the ship level, but Skywarp chose this moment to strike. He knocked Rodimus away and told [[Tap-Out (G1)|Tap-Out]] to help everyone else disembark; the Decepticon was going to guide the shuttle down. When it landed, taking out a large portion of the Sharkticon invading forces in a fantastic explosion, the Wreckers were shocked. Skywarp had sacrificed his life for them? As Rodimus began to give a regretful eulogy for the untrusted Decepticon, Skywarp appeared behind them, laughing about his sweet maneuver. He had, of course, used his warping power to leave the ship at the last moment. &quot;Did you see that? I think I managed to shove the forward nacelle antennae right through the Quint Overseer!&quot; Everyone grumbled.<br /> <br /> As their group joined the battle against Cryotek and Cyclonus within Cybertron, it seemed Skywarp may not have been so forthright after all. He violently silenced the overbearing Ramulus (muttering that he was surprised no one thanked him) and took his place at Cyclonus's side. Rodimus was understandably confused and hurt, but Skywarp told the Autobot that he'd more than paid him back recently and he no longer owed the Wreckers anything. Cyclonus laughed, and told the Wreckers of his mental link to Skywarp. But Skywarp muttered, having &quot;always ''hated'' that,&quot; and attacked Cyclonus. He reappeared at the Wreckers' side again, noting that he'd only harmed Ramulus to get in Cyclonus' good graces long enough to deal the blow. <br /> <br /> [[Image:Revelations-Skywarppunched.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Unfortunately, Unicron has no stairs.]]<br /> <br /> {{quote|I'll settle with the zoo crew later. But ''you''... I ''never'' liked you. Even when you were a [[Bombshell (G1)|''bug'']] I hated your stinkin' circuits. Like I said, only [[Megatron (G1)|''one'' guy]] ever bossed ''me'' around, and it sure as slag ain't ''you.''}}<br /> <br /> But Cyclonus had scores of Sharkticons at his disposal, and they quickly filled the chamber. Rodimus wanted to throttle Skywarp for what he'd done to Ramulus, but Skywarp shrewdly pointed out that they had bigger problems at the moment. But in the middle of the battle, a strange surge of energy passed through the subterranean chamber, flowing through Tap-Out and Skywarp, causing both to disappear in a flash of light. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and Tap-Out had been abducted by Unicron and, under undisclosed circumstances, Skywarp joined [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]]'s [[Minions of Unicron]] during the [[Universe war|Universe conflict]]. During the final battle within the [[Pit]], he was defeated by [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave comics continuity===<br /> {{notekeepers}}<br /> In the early days of the war, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were sent to blow up a building full of pesky [[neutral]]s in [[Altihex]]. He took a second to wonder if it was the right thing to do—not because it was morally wrong or anything, but because it was ''too easy''. Thundercracker didn't have much input, so Skywarp just went &quot;Sure, why not,&quot; and murdered the neutrals. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1}} Some time later, the two came with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he tried to sway [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] into joining the Decepticons. Skywarp tried to stop Starscream from spilling the beans about the Seekers' next mission at [[Sector Zero-Six]], but was told to shut up. When the trio later carried out said mission, they found that Grimlock had evacuated the area and placed a bomb to welcome them. Skywarp barely had time to teleport himself and his comrades away before the place went up in flames. {{storylink|The War Within Preview}} When Starscream decided to blame Megatron for what happened, Skywarp snapped and pointed out that it was all ''his'' fault for ''telling the enemy about their mission'', then took off with Thundercracker. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Following the sudden disappearance of Megatron, the Decepticons split into several splinter groups, but Skywarp stayed with the main faction under the command of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. He participated in an attack on the minions of [[The Fallen]] in [[Protihex]], where his teleporting power enabled him to get the best of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and gun him down. {{storylink|Conflagration}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of several Decepticon invaders on board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed into [[Earth]] four million years ago while the Autobot ship was clearing an asteroid in the path of Cybertron. <br /> <br /> In 2002, he was one of the Transformers who survived the disastrous launch of the sabotaged ''[[Ark II]]'' and were later captured and reprogrammed by arms dealer [[Lazarus|Adam &quot;Lazarus&quot; Rook]], who intended to rent out the services of the enslaved robots to various terrorist groups. After Megatron reactivated himself, he freed his Decepticon subordinates in order to put forward his plans to infect Earth with a metallic virus of doom. To pass the time while this happened, Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp busied themselves by tearing apart the Autobot Minicar team. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp later participated in Megatron's attack on [[San Francisco]], where he followed Starscream's orders to maintain formation and drop cluster bombs on the Autobot giant [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], forcing the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] to split into their separate robot forms. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp presumably stood watch over the defeated Autobots while Megatron tried to persuade [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to help the Decepticons conquer Earth. After some human firefighters distracted the Decepticons long enough for Optimus Prime to free the Autobots, Skywarp was presumably beaten up and escaped when Superion sacrificed himself to stop a nuclear missile launched by rogue US General [[Robert Hallo]]. <br /> <br /> ''When Megatron was kidnapped by the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] and Decepticon leadership was up for grabs, Skywarp began acting more serious and ambitious than his regular &quot;lunatic prankster&quot; persona would suggest. One of the few Decepticons who aggressively refused to follow Starscream in Megatron's absence, Skywarp teamed up with the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio in an attempt to seize power for himself. He lured Starscream into leaving his new kingdom in [[Las Vegas]] and travelling to Hoover Dam. Once there, Skywarp challenged Starscream directly for leadership of the Decepticons. He failed miserably, however; Starscream dealt Skywarp severe damage using his [[Null-ray|null bolts]] at close range, then tossed his former wingman over the falls. Skywarp was in [[stasis lock]] for some time thereafter, and he begrudgingly chose to serve under Starscream after his repair cycle aboard the ''Nemesis'' was completed. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''<br /> <br /> ''When [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and his private army of humans attacked Las Vegas, along with [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Skywarp was among the Decepticons who charged out to meet them in battle along the Strip. As Thundercracker and Soundwave kept the rampaging [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]'s attention, Skywarp prepared a delicious, underhanded sneak attack. Diving at Grimlock at full speed, Skywarp planned on unleashing his heat-seeking missiles at near point-blank range for maximum devastation. Luckily for Grimlock, the little Autobot Bumblebee was willing to sacrifice his functionality in order to keep the more powerful Autobot warrior in play and took the full impact of the missiles at the last second. Enraged, Grimlock struck Skywarp with enough force to send him flying miles away into the desert and out of the fight for the immediate future. ''<br /> <br /> ''Curiously, Skywarp chose NOT to leave Las Vegas with Megatron once the former Decepticon leader returned to Earth. Damaged after his time with the Keepers, Megatron lost a fight with Starscream and was forced to relinquish his leadership to the Aerospace Commander. Still, Megatron refused to serve under Starscream, and he led a revolt of several Decepticons into exile. For whatever reason, Skywarp remained at Starscream's side until the Keepers attacked, possessing Starscream as a host body and caging the rest of the Decepticons still in Las Vegas inside a dome of impenetrable energy. Skywarp assumed command of the remaining Decepticons in Starscream's absence and directed the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] into not attacking the dome directly as [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], but digging beneath the energy field to forge a tunnel they could exit through. He also made contact with Megatron's forces outside the city and agreed to wait patiently until the time was right for all the Transformers to assault the Keepers as one. ''<br /> <br /> ''When the time came, Skywarp &quot;allowed&quot; his Decepticons to join forces with Megatron's, because it was the only &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. During the fight, he blasted the [[Bluestreak]]-Keeper with an explosive gamma radiation blast. The attack was effective, but proved moot when the Bluestreak-Keeper fused with the Starscream-Keeper, creating one massive and deformed robotic god figure. In the end, it was Optimus Prime and the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] which finally ended the war with the Keepers, diverting the force of a nuclear missile launched by the American government. In the aftermath, Starscream's scrap was salvaged and rebuilt, but Megatron chose to make Skywarp his new second-in-command for a time, mostly just to piss Starscream off. Still, Skywarp certainly saw it as the most &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. {{storylink|Annihilation}}''<br /> <br /> ''In Washington D.C., Megatron and the Decepticons stormed the White House to show their displeasure to the [[President of the United States|President]] for trying to wipe them out with a nuclear strike. Megatron assigned Skywarp to deal with the SWAT teams in the streets, then sent him into the skies to join Starscream in shooting down the air support called in by the military. Final tally—Starscream: 12, Skywarp: 5. Sometime later, Skywarp was present in the Nevada desert when the Autobots and Decepticons confronted the United States military. Thanks to their airborne tactics, Thundercracker and Skywarp did significant injury to the troops and survived the [[deconstructionite]] assault virtually unscathed. After the Keepers were finally defeated and Starscream had been restored to his normal, irascible self, Megatron chose to restore the status quo and replaced Skywarp with Starscream as his second-in-command yet again. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''<br /> <br /> {{note|Although it's hard to see how, the author(s) of the Keepers Trilogy may have confused Skywarp with Shockwave, or at least combined their roles and personalities into one character. Throughout the trilogy, Skywarp made repeated references to the &quot;logical&quot; course of action, and once made an oblique reference to his gift over the electromagnetic spectrum. Whether there was actual confusion involved, or if the pick-up writer [[David Cian]] was forcing Skywarp to fit a role once Dreamwave's comics made using Shockwave off-limits, is unknown.}}<br /> <br /> When Shockwave arrived on Earth with his new army, he quickly disposed of Megatron and demanded loyalty from Skywarp and the others. Somewhat begrudgingly, they assented and accompanied him back to Cybertron. Back on their home planet, Skywarp and Thundercracker were amazed at what Shockwave had accomplished in their absence and were planning to sign on for the duration. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} After getting run down and beaten up by Optimus Prime on his way to Shockwave, though, the Seekers took an offer from Starscream and Soundwave to abandon the rising conflict on Cybertron and return to Earth for some good ol' fashioned looting. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}<br /> <br /> On Earth, Skywarp was part of Starscream's initial salvo against the Ark, a decoy to be deliberately taken prisoner in order to draw out the remaining Autobots where the newly reformatted [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] could get at them. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} After decimating the Autobots' ranks, [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] freed the fallen Decepticons, and they were about ready to terminate their opponents when the awe-inspiring clone known as [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] emerged from fold-space, looking to have words with Starscream. Sunstorm's &quot;purifying light&quot; induced an energon overload in their systems, knocking them into stasis lock. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}} Skywarp and the others remained Autobot prisoners until Starscream negotiated a deal for their release in exchange for his aid against Sunstorm. {{storylink|Skyfire (issue)|Skyfire}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp fell back under Megatron's command once the former leader arrived on Earth and forced Starscream back under his thumb. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers'' comics===<br /> [[Image:GIJoevsTF1_Seeker.jpg|left|thumb|200px|]]<br /> Skywarp was one of the Transformers reprogrammed to serve the terrorist organization [[Cobra]] and was, along with Thundercracker, rebuilt to transform into a [[Rattler]] aircraft in the process. Their first mission was to show off Cobra's power by assaulting a peace ceremony in [[Washington, D.C.]], and either Skywarp or Thundercracker was the first to reveal his robot mode to the shocked [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] before wrecking [[Ace]]'s jet with a single punch. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1}}<br /> <br /> When [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] undid Cobra's reprogramming of the Transformers, Skywarp waited on the runway in Rattler mode until [[Major Bludd]], unaware of the plane's true identity, decided to use him as his ticket off [[Cobra Island]]. After causing Bludd some stress by refusing to start his engines, Skywarp revealed himself and told him that he'd rather walk, then transformed, crushing the human to death with his moving innards in the process. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4}} He then joined Thundercracker in fighting [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], who had also been freed from Cobra's control. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5}} Unfortunately, the two Seekers were later caught in the [[SPS Satellite]]'s rain of energy beams and deactivated. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6}}<br /> <br /> {{note|As Skywarp's coloration is identical to Thundercracker's in this series, it's possible that it was actually Thundercracker who killed Major Bludd. However, it feels more like something Skywarp would do.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave ''Transformers/G.I. Joe'' comics===<br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons revived by [[Cobra]] in 1938. He may have been one of the Seekers driven back by the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] in the battle of the [[Fera Islands]]. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}} During the Autobots' attack on the [[Terrordrome]], Skywarp was lounging about when he overheard some Cobra troopers talking dirt about the Decepticons. Picking one of the humans up, Skywarp suggested that he be a little grateful that the Decepticons were helping them conquer their filthy mudball of a planet. Before he could finish insulting them, however, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] burst out of the ground and beat him up. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===<br /> Skywarp and Thundercracker were at the end of a berating from Megatron when the news came in that Starscream had badly injured himself in a rock-climbing accident. Skywarp probably even helped look for Starscream. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}<br /> <br /> Enraged at [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] for selling off Decepticon weapons on the black market, Megatron commanded Skywarp to bring the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] in — in pieces of necessary. {{storylink|Two for the Price of One}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW comics continuity===<br /> {{ongoing}}<br /> Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] were early recruits for [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], helping sow terror across Cybertron and kidnap Senator [[Decimus]] just prior to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] and founding of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3}} At one point he was part of a squad intent on assassinating [[Zeta Prime]], but the plan was thwarted when [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] warned the Autobot leader (tackling Skywarp in the back on the way). {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Infiltration5 Skywarptotalled.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Skywarp learns what happens when he pushes Megatron down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> In the modern era, Skywarp is part of a Decepticon infiltration unit that has operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, working to destabilize Earth's governing organizations and create global anarchy. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 3}} His alternate form is an [[wikipedia:F-22_Raptor|F-22 Raptor]] fighter jet, and his main job seems to be using his teleporting powers to transport his comrades to places.<br /> <br /> Starscream assigned him and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] to destroy all traces of the [[Nebraska]] operation, but after demolishing the abandoned Nebraska command bunker, he was severely damaged by Megatron, who, unfortunately for Skywarp, had been inside at the time. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5}} Megatron was apparently not one to hold grudges, and he soon had Skywarp repaired and functioning again, under the understanding that there would be no further second chances. {{storylink|Escalation issue 1}} While on a mission to destabilize Middle Eastern energy supplies, Skywarp confessed to Thundercracker that he believed Megatron had it in for all of them, especially himself, though his fellow Decepticon pointed out the fact that Megatron did have him repaired. {{storylink|Escalation issue 2}} Skywarp participated in the operation at [[Brasnya]] where he injured [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and evacuated Megatron before the Autobots could destroy him. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> When [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] began his coup, he first contacted Skywarp in an effort to get a viable ally. Skywarp thought it was a big load of crap, but said that if Ramjet could get some results in one day, they'd talk. However, Skywarp did mention that he always &quot;bets on the leader.&quot; This turned out to be a prudent decision. {{storylink|Spotlight: Ramjet}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the concerned Decepticons who feared that Megatron had lost all sense of reason when he deployed [[Sixshot]] on Earth. They conspired to bring Starscream back into the fold to talk some sense into their leader. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1}} Emboldened by Starscream's lone stand against the Reapers, the Decepticons attacked and eventually the alien invaders, with Skywarp participating in the destruction of their starship. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> About a year later, Megatron had somehow regained Skywarp's confidence, and Skywarp assured Thundercracker that Megatron knew what he was doing when he created [[Insecticon swarm|three thousand twisted perversions of their own race]]. The Decepticons later lured Optimus Prime and his troops into a trap and utterly crushed them, with Skywarp ripping [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]'s arm clean off. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7}} They proceeded to conquer [[New York City]]. During that attack, Skywarp got to make stuff go boom and kill a lotta folks, and it was the best day out ever. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1}}<br /> <br /> After taking out several military helicopters, Skywarp was assigned to accompany Soundwave, Hook and Astrotrain as they took Frenzy to deal with a large ground force. [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] voiced his doubt that the tiny Decepticon had a chance against such a huge number of enemies, but Skywarp, enjoying a chance for a dig at the new guy, simply told him to make sure he kept his distance. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 2}} All the fun of smashing things and killing millions of people soon soured though, as Skywarp started clashing with the [[Insecticon (G1)|uppity Insecticons]] and getting lonely now Thundercracker was being mopey and Starscream wasn't around much. Even mindlessly killing eight million people in [[China]] couldn't perk him up. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6}}<br /> <br /> [[image:AHM12 Betrayer.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A rare moment of Skywarp just killing someone instead of pushing them down the stairs.]]<br /> <br /> When the Autobots eventually returned to Earth, Skywarp battled them in the ruins of New York City. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11}} He grabbed [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and took to the sky, asking the old timer why he wasn't [[Spotlight: Kup|insane]] anymore. Kup responded by calling Skywarp a &quot;mouthy punk&quot; and shooting him in the gut, causing him to to drop the Autobot. The Decepticons fled when Megatron was defeated, but Skywarp came back when he noticed that Thundercracker had diverted the nuke that Megatron had arranged to be dropped on New York. Furious at his fellow Seeker's betrayal, he ignored Thundercracker's arguments and shot him point blank in the face. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12}}<br /> <br /> [[Image: Bumblebee 1 Skywarp's Stash.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Up the Arsenal!]]<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons left behind when the others fled Earth. Unlike [[Swindle (G1)|some]], however, he was in no rush to get off the planet; instead he came up with the idea to steal and stockpile human weapons for Megatron's eventual return. He attacked the technology corporations [[Dynomic]] and [[Allodyne Logic Systems]] for information on their advanced technology, which in turn attacted the attention of [[Skywatch]]. Some two years after the Decepticons' defeat in New York, Skywarp had filled at least one whole garage with missiles and bombs. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} In addition to his vast collection of anti-human weapons, he also worked to create a weapon capable of crippling all the Autobots on the planet. Skywarp beamed signals into space in order to report his progress to Megatron, who he really hoped would be back soon. {{storylink|The Impossible Knot}}<br /> <br /> While the Autobots worked on finding a way to disable the kill-switch badges that the rogue Skywatch Colonel [[Gordon Horiuchi]] had provided them, Skywarp attacked Skywatch's Phillips base to gain access to information to track down the kill-switch control board. Arriving at Skywatch researcher [[Sanjay Bharwaney]]'s home {{storylink|The Gift Horse}}, Skywarp moved in for the kill, but was foiled by the timely intervention of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], who saved Bharwaney and his daughter [[Serena Bharwaney|Serena]]. Skywarp chased them into an industrial area, and as he hunted, he ranted about how Megatron would be returning here to take his rightful place as ruler of the galaxy, with Skywarp at his side, and once he had the control board, all the Autobots would fall into line under the Decepticon banner, making Skywarp a hero. Just when it seemed Skywarp would get his hands on Bumblebee and the control board, Skywatch operative [[Daniel Klonowski]] intervened, firing a weapon powerful enough to damage Bumblebee. Injured but undeterred, Skywarp managed to corner the Autobot, offering to let him go in exchange for the control board as a &quot;professional courtesy&quot;. His confidence turned to panic when Bumblebee steeled himself to activate the control board, the little Autobot declaring that unlike Skywarp, he has friends who would fix him. The electro-magnetic pulse from the control board seriously damaged both transformers, but it is unknown what became of Skywarp. As Skywatch representatives were in the area, it is likely that he was taken into custody. {{storylink|Wings of Wax}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Hearts of Steel''===<br /> Skywarp was one of the Decepticons who woke up on mid-19th century Earth, where he took on the form of a spiky airplane with three propellers. In the Decepticons' desert headquarters, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] told him about the plans to conquer Earth, and ordered him to fly ahead of the [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], leading the way towards [[New York City]]. Skywarp was concerned that the Autobots might interfere, but Starscream assured him their enemies had not yet awoken. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2}}<br /> <br /> {{note|There's no evidence in the story that Skywarp actually ''did'' fly ahead of the Astrotrain, but if it's true, he may have survived the Decepticon defeat unharmed.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> Skywarp serves under [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] as one of his Decepticon soldiers, battling [[Optimus Primal]]'s many Autobot allies in what might possibly have been an inter-universe battle. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_boxart.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Someone pushes HIM down a flight of stairs for once. Payback's a bitch.]]<br /> <br /> A Skywarp from an unspecified [[universal stream]] was selected by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|Megatron]] to become part of his [[Questor]] forces. Granted a portion of the hyperdimensional powers that his leader had obtained from the monstrous [[Hytherion]], Skywarp was given a new body with an uncharacteristic sports car alternate mode, a [[Timaeus drive]] that granted him the ability to travel through dimensions, and a massively enhanced teleportation power that actually allowed him to warp the fabric of space and time around him. About the only thing that didn't change was his characteristic lack of intelligence and initiative; coupled with the brain-bending complexities of higher-dimensional life and battle, this meant that Skywarp was left still relying on Megatron's specific orders for and when to use his powers.<br /> <br /> Skywarp proved his worth when he succeeded in his mission to scour the year 2010 all across the dimensions for a trace of the two-dimensional world of the [[Planicron]]s. Precisely what Megatron needed the Planicrons for, Skywarp didn't know, but he recalled a rumor among the Questors that they were key to the destruction of the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]], and smirked with excitement to himself as he informed Megatron of his discovery. {{storylink|Hunt for the Planicrons}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Commercial appearances==<br /> Skywarp's history of [[commercial]] appearances includes:<br /> <br /> * The very first Transformers animation, a commercial for [[The Transformers (issue)|Issue #1]] of Marvel's ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' comic book. On Earth, he flies across the desert with Starscream and Thundercracker to attack a power plant.<br /> <br /> * He is briefly seen battling in the desert against Hot Rod, Kup and Blurr, until Cyclonus and Scourge (!!) swoop in to counterattack. <br /> <br /> * Skywarp attacks an Autobot power station along with Thrust and Starscream in a commercial for Ultra Magnus.<br /> <br /> * He can be very briefly glimpsed swooping into battle alongside Galvatron (!!) on Earth in a subsequent commercial for [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and Galvatron.<br /> <br /> [[Image:LiveActionJazz-Skywarp01.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I bet he spiked the punch.]]<br /> <br /> * Along with his original Seeker wingmates, he gets barreled over by the Dinobots in a commercial for the Predacons.<br /> <br /> * A commercial for Transformers reflective iron-on patches advertised the &quot;[[Prizes in Disguise]]&quot; competition. When the [[iron-on patch]] was used, it was possible to find instead an instant win ticket for a Transformers voice changer (of the [[Enemy]] variety)—or to have a party with &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers! Among the &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers shown were [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and Skywarp. In all likelihood, you did not party with them.<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> [[Image:G1-toy SkywarpCommSeries.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Commemorative Series retooled Skywarp. Robot mode... that&amp;#39;s okay. Jet? Not so much.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Decepticon Jet, 1984/1985/2001/2003/2008)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''23'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 wings (left &amp;amp; right), 2 rudders (left &amp;amp; right), 2 tailfins (left &amp;amp; right), 2 fists (left &amp; right), front landing gear<br /> <br /> : The only 1984 [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] with a deco not used previously in [[Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' line, Skywarp transforms into an [[wikipedia:F-15_Eagle|F-15 Eagle]] fighter jet, sharing his mold with his teammates [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. Many parts need to be removed completely for transformation from robot to jet and back, which nowadays is considered a major drawback of the toy. It is rare to find it complete, as neither mode can hold all the pieces required. There are a few minor mold variations of this toy (common for the first two years of ''Transformers'', really), the most immediately noticeable being that early versions did not have visible &quot;clip-tabs&quot; on the inner face of the gauntlets.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Redeco.jpg|Early Hasbro stock photos of Skywarp]] show him with a plastic purple nosecone. This was changed to a soft, black rubber nosecone when the toy was actually released. However, a [http://tfarchive.com/toys/articles/toypics/mex_skywarp.jpg Mexican variant] retained the purple plastic nosecone. The same stock photos also show him with purple launchers with black triggers and muzzle rings, black feet, black shins, black outer arm panels, purple horizontal stabilizers, and both sets of purple missiles. These stock photos were also later used to promote Takara's 2001 reissue.<br /> <br /> : In 2001, Skywarp was given a short-run reissue (limited to only 1,000 pieces) by Takara as a convention-[[exclusive]] item, bundled together with Thundercracker as &quot;[[Collector's Edition]]&quot; Set C. The toy would later be more extensively released in 2003 as part of [[Hasbro]]'s [[Commemorative Series]] series IV, though due to US [[For safety reasons|toy-safety regulations]], his missiles were made extra-long since his spring-loaded launchers were now fully-functional.<br /> <br /> : In August, 2008, Skywarp was released with Thundercracker as number 11 in Takara's [[Transformers Encore]] line. For this release Skywarp's Decepticon symbols were painted and his purple stickers were changed to a much bluer shade of purple. Curiously, Skywarp's wing stripes in this release are factory-applied stickers, instead of the [[tampograph]]s on his two-pack buddy.<br /> <br /> : This mold was [[Redeco|redecoed]] into [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and retooled to make [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]].<br /> <br /> :For some reason, the stats on Skywarp's, Starscream's and Thundercracker's [[tech specs]] were switched around. Skywarp's box was given Starscream's numbers, which explains his high intelligence and rank. The actual specs intended for this toy, but accidentally given to Thundercracker, are presented here. Hasbro's Commemorative Series Skywarp reissue had his bio rewritten to explain his higher stats.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Machine Wars===<br /> [[Image:MWSkywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|After his near-fatal encounter with the Invert Colors function.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Basic, 1997)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 rifle halves<br /> : Sharing a mold once again with [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], Skywarp transforms into a white [[wikipedia:Rafale|Dassault Rafale]] fighter jet with spring-loaded one-step transformation from jet to robot. The two halves of his rifle store in his lower legs. Like all ''[[Machine Wars]]'' toys, Skywarp was an [[exclusive]] to Kay-Bee stores and related stores like Toy Liquidators.<br /> <br /> : This mold is also used by ''[[Beast Wars II (toyline)|Beast Wars II]]'' [[Dirge (BWII)|Dirge]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Skyfire (RID)|Skyfire]], ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' [[Wingstun]] and ''[[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]]'' [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]].<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Machine Wars'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Universe (2003)===<br /> [[Image:TFU03-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Like [[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]], except he can fly.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2003)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missiles<br /> <br /> :''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] in his Generation 1 colors. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter jet, armed with two spring-loaded projectile launchers that can fire orange &quot;energon&quot; bolts. These launchers end up in his arms in robot mode. He has a third robot mode that collapses the legs around the cockpit (oh hush), with flip-out panels revealing an extra pair of thrusters. His [[spark]] crystal, revealed by flipping the purple hatch on his back, has a Decepticon [[insignia]] [[tampograph]]ed on top of it.<br /> <br /> :Skywarp was also used to make ''Beast Machines'' [[Sonic Attack Jet]], ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Storm Jet (RID)|Storm Jet]], and ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Universe Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Smallest Transforming Transformers===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2003)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''GTF X-1'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' Skywarp was a very small-scale simplification of the original Generation 1 Seeker toy, retaining most of its functionality and accessories, except for his long null-rays. Skywarp was one of two [[Chase figure|chase figures]] from the first wave of the line.<br /> <br /> : This mold was redecoed from Starscream, then re-redecoed into Thundercracker, and finally retooled to make Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/SmallestSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> ===Robot Masters===<br /> [[Image:RMSkywarp toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Now with the proper articulation for down-stair-pushing.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp &amp;amp; Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, 2005)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;<br /> <br /> : ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from the same series, a smaller yet more advanced version of the original toy, adding more articulation and reducing the amount of [[Partformer|part-forming]] required. He was available only in a two-pack with Thundercracker, which also came with a Decepticon sigil pin and chromed missile pods. This set was the very last product released in the ''Robot Masters'' line and wasn't even strictly sold in a box from that series; instead, it used an [[e-Hobby]] ''Generation 1'' reissue box, with a small ''Robot Masters'' sticker in the corner tab noting its origin from the front.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Robot Masters'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Classics (2006)===<br /> [[Image:Class06-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ultra Magnus isn&amp;#39;t pictured because he was just pushed-well, you know.]]<br /> * '''Ultra Magnus vs Skywarp: Battle For Autobot City''' (Multi-pack, 2006)<br /> **''Accessories:'' Left &amp;amp; right missile launchers, 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' Skywarp is a slight retool of the ''Classics'' Starscream mold, transforming into an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-15 Eagle fighter jet]], though with a canopy like that of an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-14 Tomcat]]. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode and can attach under his wings in vehicle mode. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he also features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]]. <br /> <br /> : Skywarp was slightly [[Retool|retooled]] from the earlier Starscream figures. The retool is present in the jet intake area. The slope of his shoulders was decreased from Starscream's, and a rectangle added to the vertical area, making the number now five instead of four. This retooled version was used for all subsequent releases of the mold: ''Classics'' [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], as well as [[Acid Storm]] from ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]''. At the end of ''Classics'' Starscream's production run, he too used this version of the mold.<br /> <br /> : He was only available as part of a Target stores [[exclusive]] two-pack with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. The set's price was $19.99, despite including both a Voyager-class and Deluxe-class mold in it, which was approximately $30 worth of toys if they'd been sold separately. He was also available in Woolworth stores throughout the United Kingdom.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Classics Skywarp toy.jpg|Stock photos of ''Classics'' Skywarp]] showed a more detailed color scheme than the actual released figure. Much like ''Classics'' Ultra Magnus, the changes were most likely due to an overabundance of [[Paint operation]]s. This more detailed version was shown at [[BotCon 2006]] and at least one sample found its way to a collector's hands. The sample also used the original Starscream mold, and not the retooled version used for every version of the mold since and even including Starscream.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Classics'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Masterpiece===<br /> [[Image:MP-6 Skywarp.jpg|200px|thumb|Takara finally remembered what colors the Seekers are supposed to be.]]<br /> * '''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-6''' <br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 AIM missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot, Megatron Gun clasp, display stand<br /> <br /> : ''[[Masterpiece]]'' Skywarp was released in Japan in September of 2007. He is a redeco of the Masterpiece Starscream mold in black, gray, silver, and purple, though the purple and silver are more minimal than usual. Skywarp is able to switch between a minimally retooled stoic face and a new snarly face, retooled from Starscream's previous smirk. The tiny [[Doctor Arkeville]] pilot figurine (this time molded black) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> [[Image:MPSkywarp stickers.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Sadly, no stair-pusher sticker.]]<br /> : The sticker sheet includes Skywarp-esque stripes, as well as several whimsical squadron markings.<br /> <br /> :The second pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp (released in October 2008) features an assembly error: his left and right pectorals are flipped. This misassembly does not affect transformation at all, and is really only noticeable when compared to prior Masterpiece Seekers. The September 2007 pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp is assembled correctly. Masterpiece Thundercracker is misassembled as well.<br /> <br /> :It is a common misconception that the stoic face on Takara's Masterpiece Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker are the same, when all of them are in fact different sculpts.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Attacktix===<br /> *'''Skywarp'''<br /> <br /> : Skywarp was among the planned ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' game pieces that were showed at some conventions, but went unreleased as the line was canceled. He was to be a [[retool]] of sorts of the similarly unreleased ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], using the same weapon and base but a brand new jet mold. Skywarp would've been able to detach from his base and fly on a string, enabling him to get better shots of opposing pieces. Any other details about his role in the game are unknown.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> ===Titanium Series===<br /> [[Image:Titanium-toy WWSkywarp.JPG|right|300px|thumb|]]<br /> *'''War Within Skywarp''' (San Diego Comic-Con 2008 exclusive)<br /> <br /> : [[Titanium Series]] ''[[War Within (toyline)|War Within]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of Thundercracker, transforming into a Cybertronian &quot;tetrajet&quot; as reimagined by [[Don Figueroa]]. As with all 6-inch Titanium Cybertron Heroes, he is constructed mostly of fully painted die-cast metal. He was available only at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] after the Titanium line had already been cancelled, and also Hasbro Toy Shop's booth at [[wikipedia:San_Diego_Comic-Con|San Diego Comic-Con]] 2008.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''War Within'' Starscream, Sunstorm and Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/SDCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Titanium'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Henkei! Henkei!===<br /> [[Image:Henkei Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp grabbed the wrong launchers.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2008)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skywarp is a [[Toy Hobby Market]] exclusive redeco of ''Henkei! Henkei!'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Skywarp and his fellow [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were opened for pre-order on [[May 22]]nd through [[June 20]], and mailed out in September 2008.<br /> <br /> :Soon after release, there were numerous complaints from both Japanese and Western collectors about the poor quality control for both Thundercracker and Skywarp. Skywarp's most common fault was missing paint for one of his shoulders. Some reported both toys suffering misassembly issues such as having two left or two right thighs.<br /> <br /> :Several minor changes were made to this mold for this release. The holes for his missile launchers in his arms were widened, as were the launcher's insertion pegs. The wing's missile launcher insertion points were lengthened and are now curved at the end. The last rectangle on his air intakes, was further modified from the [[Classics (2006)|Classics]] version this time the bottom most rectangle goes completely across the air intake's surface rather than just the center. ''Henkei'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Generation 1 Series|Starscream]] also saw most of these changes.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Universe (2008)===<br /> [[Image:Universe2008-toy_MasterpieceSkywarp.jpg|thumb|right|300px|]]<br /> *'''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2009)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine, gun clip, two-piece display stand <br /> : A [[Wal-Mart]] exclusive redeco of the original Masterpiece Starscream mold. Just like Starscream, Skywarp is able to switch between two different faces. This release uses the Starscream's stoic and smirking alternate faces rather than the Takara Masterpiece Skywarp's newly-tooled stoic and snarling faces. Hasbro designer [[Joe_Kyde|Joe Kyde]] felt the alternate snarling face did not fit Skywarp's prankster personality, so he went with the Starscream smirk face instead when designing the deco for Hasbro's release. As a result of gang molding, Skywarp also uses Starscream's stoic face, the decision being the difference between Skywarp and Starscream's stoic face was negligible enough not to make a significant difference. The toy also features a more G1 toy styled deco rather than cartoon-based, particularly in the yellow eye color and wing stripes. His purple more closely matches that of the original toy than the purple used on the Takara version, and features a lighter flat black, like the original toy, instead of Takara's darker glossy black. The Hasbro version replaces some of the dark gray of the Takara version with a dark silver, removes the arm and chest striping, but adds additional red detailing, while removing some as well. Much like Hasbro's Starscream, he does not feature any of the warning or slogan tampographs, but features tampographed striping, Decepticon symbols, and some additional paint details not present on the Takara version.<br /> : The tiny Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine (molded in black with no paint applications) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime and a stand (featuring Skywarp's name) with a support beam for jet or robot mode. <br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Mortal minds cannot even comprehend the four-dimensional hyperstairs he can push you down.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp Witch Purple Pearl''' ([[May 29|5/29]]/2010)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''A-04'''<br /> <br /> :Skywarp is a [[retool]] of the simultaneously released ''[[Alternity (franchise)|Alternity]]'' Starscream with a new head, transforming into a licensed 1:32 scale [[wikipedia:Mitsuoka_Orochi|Mitsuoka Orochi]]. Like the other toys in the line, he will feature [[die-cast]] metal parts and rubber tires, as well as an opening hood, trunk and doors. In car mode, small wings can be flipped out from under Skywarp's rear wheels, giving him the appearance of a flying car. <br /> <br /> :This mold, with Skywarp's head, was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]].<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Decoy===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (1986)<br /> ** ''Decoy ID number:'' '''33'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Decoy]]'' Skywarp is a tiny, purple, soft-rubber figurine randomly packed with smaller toys at the time. To differentiate him from Starscream and Thundercracker, Skywarp is sculpted holding his arms above his head in a cheering pose.<br /> <br /> : Like all Decepticon Decoys, Skywarp was also available in red for a limited time. This release is considerably rarer than the regular purple one.<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Lucky Draw figure, 2001)<br /> <br /> : ''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' Skywarp is a non-transforming action figure [[redeco]]ed from ''SCF'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Limited to 200 pieces, he was only available as the second place prize in a [[Lucky Draw]] contest held in conjunction with the first edition of ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' (with the &quot;[[Starscream (G1)/toys#SecretStarscream|Secret Starscream]]&quot; toy as the first place prize). Due to the bankruptcy of the ''Transformers: Generations'' publisher, [[Keibunsha]], it is unknown whether the Japanese version of Skywarp was ever actually sent out or not.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''Super Collection Figure'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' (see below) Starscream, Thundercracker, [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and the [[Air Warrior]]s.<br /> <br /> ===Heroes of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2002)<br /> <br /> : When the ''Super Collection Figure'' line was brought to the US as ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', Skywarp was widely released as part of the first wave. Unlike ''SCF'', ''HOC'' figures were composed of transparent red plastic that was mostly painted over, giving them [[light-piping|&quot;light-up&quot; eyes]].<br /> <br /> * '''Decepticon''' (2003)<br /> <br /> : Same as the American version above, but part of an [[OTFCC 2003]]-exclusive six-pack of figures which also included Starscream, Thundercracker, and three [[Air Warrior]]s. It featured a more metallic paint job from the normal release and slightly different paint details.{{fact}}<br /> <br /> ===Legends of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2004, unreleased)<br /> <br /> [[Image:OTFCCSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Doesn't so much teleport as not exist in the first place.]]<br /> <br /> : A redeco of ''Mega Super Figure Collection'' G1 Starscream (minus the extra coronation accessories, open-palm hands, and the hand wielding Megatron in gun mode), Skywarp was to be among the first of the fan club exclusives offered by [[The Official Transformers Collectors Convention|OTFCC]] as well as the first in their ''Legends of Cybertron'' line. The figure was delayed and never saw a full release due to [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]] losing the license to run the official Transformers fan club. At least a couple of sample versions were produced.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Palisades===<br /> [[Image:PalisadesSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Decepticon on a stick! Get yer Decepticon on a stick!]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Palisades, 2005)<br /> <br /> :A ''SmallBluePlanet''-exclusive redeco of the Starscream statue, Skywarp is a six inch tall polystone statue with articulated head and arms. He can stand normally or use a stand to take on a &quot;hovering&quot; pose. Skywarp was limited to 300 pieces, and sculpted by [[3L Creation Group]] from a design by [[George Tremarco]].<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker and the Ghost of Starscream.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Robot Heroes===<br /> [[Image:Robot Hero Skywarp.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Clearly just after shoving Starscream down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> * '''Decepticon Sneak Attack''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : Skywarp is one of the five exclusive figures in Wal-Mart's &quot;Decepticon Sneak Attack&quot; set, alongside [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], [[Mirage (G1)|holographic Mirage]] and &quot;Supermetal Finish&quot; versions of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. He's a black and purple redeco of Starscream, yes. His left hand's for pushing you down stairs, his right fist's for pumping the air in victory. Sweet, sweet stair-based victory.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : A 25-point &quot;uncommon&quot; character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s &quot;Energon Wars&quot; expansion, Skywarp &quot;transforms&quot; into a black and purple jet. He uses the same parts layout as [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]].<br /> <br /> ==Trivia==<br /> * Skywarp's one-line characterization in the original Transformers [[production bible]] was &quot;sneaky but dumb&quot;. Hee hee. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#034] In a more peculiar note, his longer write-up in the production bible noted that he was colored olive drab. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#038] This error isn't as unusual as one might first think, as Skywarp was the only first-year jet whose colors didn't originate in ''[[Diaclone]]''—thus, they simply may not have been decided upon when the production bible was written.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpatron.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Skywarp really DID need close supervision.]]<br /> * In a possible fit of madness, a triple changer was proposed that would switch between Skywarp (possibly mistaken for Starscream), [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and Skywarp's jet mode.<br /> <br /> * Character bios written by unknown persons for the Australian (Madman) DVD release of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' definitely claim that [[Cyclonus (G1)|Skywarp became Cyclonus]]. Basically, nobody considers that weighty &quot;evidence&quot;.<br /> <br /> * Skywarp is the only Seeker with wing stripes that are not red.<br /> <br /> * For such a popular character, Skywarp doesn't DO much of anything in the original show.<br /> <br /> * [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Machine_Wars|Despite]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Classics_.282006.29|many]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Heroes_of_Cybertron|releases]], [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Titanium_Series|Skywarp]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Henkei.21_Henkei.21|is]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Universe_.282008.29|usually]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Robot_Heroes|an]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Generation_1_2|exclusive.]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;amp;char=Skywarp Skywarp's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Alternity characters]]<br /> [[Category:Attacktix]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Machines characters]]<br /> [[Category:Classics characters]]<br /> [[Category:Convention exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 2 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Henkei! Henkei! characters]]<br /> [[Category:Machine Wars characters]]<br /> [[Category:Robot Heroes]]<br /> [[Category:3D Battle-Cards]]<br /> [[Category:Robot Masters characters]]<br /> [[Category:Seekers]]<br /> [[Category:Target exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Universe characters]]<br /> [[Category:Wal-Mart exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Wreckers]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Skywarp_(G1)&diff=474897 2010-07-07T01:05:30Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticon|decepticong2|wreckers}}<br /> {{disambig3|Skywarp}}<br /> :''Skywarp is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarp1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp, Decepticon Stair-Pusher-Downer]]<br /> [[Teleportation]] is a dangerous tool in the hands of a capable adversary. Thankfully for the [[Autobot|Autobots]], '''Skywarp''' is the Decepticon who possesses that ability. Skywarp's not so bright, so without supervision he's worthless as a warrior. He mostly uses his teleportation power for immature pranks on both friend and foe. He takes a charmingly puerile angle at thuggery, so his pranks are well-received amongst his Decepticon peers (excepting the victim, of course). <br /> <br /> Because, come on, a surprise push down a staircase is ''hilarious''.<br /> His Partner is [[Sunstorm]]<br /> {{quote|Don't think. Just do.|Skywarp's life motto|[[Megatron Origin issue 4|''Megatron Origin'' #4]]}}<br /> <br /> :''French-Canadian name'': '''Fraudeur''' (&quot;Cheater&quot; or &quot;Evader&quot; or &quot;Smuggler&quot;)<br /> :''Hungarian name'': '''Égretörő''' (&quot;Sky-springer&quot;)<br /> :''Italian name'': '''Corvo''' (&quot;Crow&quot;)<br /> :''Japanese name'': '''Warp'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Portugal comics)'': '''Espião Celeste'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Brazil comics)'': '''Viajante''' (&quot;Traveller&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Tīen Wān''' (天彎, &quot;Sky Warp&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (China):'' '''Nao Fan Tian''' (鬧翻天, &quot;Extreme Ruckus&quot;)<br /> :''Russian TV dub name:'' '''Deformer'''<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> ====Generation 1====<br /> {{noteukonly}}<br /> [[Image:Introdump decepticons marvelus01.jpg|left|300px|thumb|You can tell Skywarp apart from Thundercracker in the Marvel Comics by, uh.... let us get back to you on that.]]<br /> Skywarp was one of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron's]] troops who attacked the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] during its mission to clear a path for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] through an asteroid field. He was deactivated when it crashed on [[Earth]], and he lay dormant for four million years. When he and his fellow Decepticons awoke, Skywarp was given a new [[Alternate mode|altmode]], that of an Earth jet. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} He aided the Decepticons in their building of their new base constructed of parts from [[Harrison Nuclear Power Plant]] and joined in their attack on [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s auto repair shop. After the successful abduction of Sparkplug Witwicky, Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] defended their base from [[Autobot|Autobots]], though [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Spider-Man]] were able to sneak through and rescue Sparkplug. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}<br /> <br /> ''When Starscream fired upon his teammate [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] for eavesdropping on his plot to overthrow Megatron, Skywarp and the other Decepticons sought deadly revenge on the Decepticon [[Air Commander]]. {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}} Though Starscream escaped, the Decepticons soon regrouped to attack the Ark, but their battle was ended prematurely when [[Auntie]], the Ark's computer system, magnetized the walls, immobilizing both factions. {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}} On another occasion, he and Thundercracker made a strafing run on two Autobot spies, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. Jazz was deafened and blasted off the road, but Sunstreaker led them into a human military zone, prompting Megatron to call them back to base. {{storylink|Perchance to Dream}}'' Skywarp also traveled with the Decepticons to the [[United Kingdom]], where he and his teammates attempted to learn about a mysterious Autobot rescue ship buried under a castle. An initial attack on the Autobots left Skywarp seriously wounded by a bomb from [[Bluestreak]]. {{storylink|Man of Iron (story)|Man of Iron}}<br /> <br /> Though Sparkplug Witwicky was able to devise a way for the Decepticons to convert Earth fuel into a usable substance, he also poisoned the result, so Skywarp and his fellow Decepticons were immobilized at the climax of their would-be final battle with the Autobots. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} The Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] took command of the Decepticons and the Ark shortly thereafter and nursed Skywarp and his comrades back to full health. Skywarp may have helped Shockwave attempt to capture and brainwash [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] into a Decepticon, or it may have been Thundercracker without red stripes. It's hard to tell. {{storylink|Plight of the Bumblebee!}}<br /> <br /> He served the Decepticon cause up until he was deactivated while battling [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and placed in prison stasis at Autobot headquarters. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Target_2006_fake_Starscream_dies.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nope. Guess again.]]<br /> ''When [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] traveled back from the year 2006 to build a super-weapon to destroy [[Unicron]], Skywarp was a key player in the defeat of the mad Decepticon. Sorta.'' <br /> <br /> ''The Autobots took Skywarp out of stasis, painted him to look like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], and sent him stumbling toward Galvatron with a tape-recorder of Starscream's voice on his back. Galvatron, still sore about Starscream tossing him out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] during his Megatron days, shot and presumably killed Skywarp. Galvatron then realized that if he killed Starscream in the past then there'd be no way he could have killed Starscream in the future (never mind that killing Skywarp now opens up that whole issue of [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus' identity]]). Believing he was in an alternate past and thus nothing he did there would affect his personal timeline, Galvatron hurried back to his proper time. Way to take one for the team, Skywarp. {{storylink|Target: 2006}}''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpgoofyteleportation.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Upon close inspection, Skywarp's teleportation power is merely a goofy loop-de-loop.]]<br /> During a massive battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth's moon, Skywarp and the other Decepticons held in stasis aboard the Ark were liberated by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and subsequently brought back online. {{storylink|Totaled!}} During the first Decepticon Civil War, Skywarp battled with [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s Decepticons against [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons. Skywarp surprised [[Bugly]] with his teleportation powers and blasted him, temporarily stunning him. However, Bugly successfully returned fire, striking where he guessed Skywarp would next teleport. {{storylink|Cold War!}} Skywarp was repaired in time to face an [[Underbase]]-powered Starscream in [[Tokyo]], but both he and Thundercracker were destroyed by their former flying partner. {{storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Generation 2''====<br /> Optimus Prime, learning of the Decepticons' attacks on Earth, traveled there alone not to fight them but to talk Megatron out of it. Prime was really surprised to learn that this was a really stupid idea, and as Megatron tore Prime apart and severed the Matrix from his body, Skywarp stood by with other Decepticons and watched. He and the rest of the Decepticons retreated with the Matrix when the Autobots showed up to save Prime. {{storylink|The Gathering Darkness}}<br /> <br /> The Autobots and the Decepticons had just agreed to make an alliance against the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]], but the Decepticons disagreed about aiding other planets' people. When the Autobots went alone to fight the Cybertronians, they almost were defeated, until Skywarp (yes, this article is about him) suddenly warped into the battle, followed by the rest of the Decepticon army, to aid the Autobots. <br /> <br /> And you just know he mocked the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] he saved. ''Relentlessly.'' {{storylink|Escalation!}}<br /> <br /> ====''Classics''====<br /> {{note|Classics is a [[splinter timeline]] from the Marvel US continuity that does not include events from either ''Generation 2'' or the Marvel UK issues.}}<br /> His broken body rescued from [[Tokyo]], Skywarp was rebuilt using Shockwave's upgraded [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] schematics. He was told that it was Starscream, driven mad with the power of the [[Underbase]], who did him in. Skywarp's okay with that. After all, the traitor's going to have to let down his guard sometime. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 14|''Classic'' Skywarp's profile}}<br /> <br /> After the appearance of the mysterious crossdimensional Decepticon [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], Skywarp and the other rebuilt Decepticons under Megatron's command traveled to [[South America]] to investigate an equally mysterious power source that seemed to share traits with Landquake. En route, they were attacked by [[Walter Barnett]]'s [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNT]] squad. {{storylink|Crossing Over, Part 2}} Skywarp managed to shake off these interlopers just before Optimus Prime and his Autobots arrived in search of this same power source, and a new battle between the factions began in the jungles surrounding the power source. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 3}} As the battle escalated, Skywarp and Starscream fought [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] across the skies, {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 5}} but ultimately, Megatron was forced to call for a withdrawal. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 6}}<br /> <br /> With his nosecone still battered from the fight, Skywarp came with Starscream and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] to investigate what [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] and his crew were doing on Earth. He was happy to see that Thundercracker was among them, but less so when his old buddy shot a [[cerebro-shell]] at him, forcing him to follow Bug Bite's commands. Skywarp and the others were sent to assassinate Megatron, but were soon freed from Bug Bite's control due to Autobot interference. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===<br /> ====''The Transformers'' cartoon====<br /> :''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese), [[Jacques Ferrière]] (French)<br /> <br /> [[Image:Tetrajet seekers.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Cybertron alt-mode (left). The early Decepticons promoted geometry.]]<br /> In the early days of the Decepticon rebellion, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] both faced the powerful protectors of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] cities, the [[Guardian Robots]]. Even millions of years later, the powerful Guardians struck fear into Skywarp's spark. {{storylink|War Dawn}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of the elite Decepticons that served [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] on Cybertron four million years ago. Skywarp and his fellow Seekers came across the Autobots [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] pilfering [[conductor|energy conductors]], and tried to eliminate the Auto-jerks. Once Wheeljack broke through their defenses, Skywarp and Thundercracker transformed to their tetrajet modes and followed the Autobots. They managed to get a good shot in against Bumblebee, but soon both Autobots escaped termination by taking the chase underground. Skywarp later joined Megatron in attacking and boarding the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot ship]] on their search for energy. After crash-landing on Earth, the Decepticons and Autobots laid dormant for four million years, until volcanic activity stirred the ship's computer back to life. Skywarp was the first of the ship's Transformers to be reformatted and awakened by [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], in the form of an Earthen F-15 fighter jet. Once active, Skywarp immediately dragged his master Megatron's body into the reformatting rays of the Ark's computer, and soon all the Decepticons were revived. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Since the Decepticons were so badly short-staffed during their early days on Earth, Skywarp was usually involved in whatever crazy plot for universal domination Megatron was hatching. This included attacks on an off-shore oil rig, [[Sherman Dam]] and the [[Ruby Crystal Mines of Burma|ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. On the last raid, Skywarp and Thundercracker caught a pair of snoops -- Bumblebee and the human, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. They were knocking the little Autobot around for fun, and pondering how to giftwrap him for Megatron, when an explosion caused the mine to cave in around them. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} When the Decepticons escaped the Burma operation with a cache of energon cubes, Skywarp requested permission from Megatron to teleport in order to scare off Autobot pursuers. Teleporting behind the strangely airborne duo of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Bluestreak]], Skywarp pasted the ornery old Autobot with a heat-seeking missile, knocking him out of the sky that he probably shouldn't have been able to fly around in anyway. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:TransporttoOblivion Skywarp Prowl punchy.jpg|left|180px|thumb|&quot;[[Bumblebee (G1)|Punch-buggy yellow]]!&quot;]]<br /> When [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] was caught spying on the Decepticons' new [[Space Bridge]], Skywarp and Starscream captured him for Megatron. After Bumblebee was reprogrammed to led the Autobots into a trap, Skywarp biffed [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] from behind, causing him to fall down in an almost pushing-down-stairs-like fashion. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} After the Decepticons acquired the [[antimatter]] formula, they were en route to the Ark when [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] intercepted them, practicing their jet judo maneuvers. Skywarp was being thrown off-course by Sideswipe's antics until Starscream knocked the Autobot warrior loose. During the battle, Megatron charged himself up with the Decepticons' new toy, and transformed into an &quot;anti-matter gun&quot; to obliterate the Autobots. After Starscream had his turn with the gun, Skywarp got ready to blow some Autobots away too. Before he could start, however, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] attacked his leg with a jackhammer. He scooped up the puny fleshling and was about to blast him with the anti-matter gun (and, incidentally, probably blow his own hand off in the process) when [[Chip Chase]] attached a computer override device invented by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], which allowed Teletraan I to take brief control of his body. Skywarp started firing Megatron's anti-matter power at the other Decepticons, overheating the unstable power supply and forcing the Decepticons to retreat. {{storylink|Roll for It}} <br /> <br /> {{bigquote|You little fool... You're no match for Skywarp!|Skywarp announces his superiority to a kid in a wheelchair.|&quot;[[Roll for It]]&quot;}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was later part of a Decepticon raid on a factory, apparently in a very playful mood with his teleporting power. First he 'ported behind some human guards to taunt them before making them scatter with laser fire. Then, when Thundercracker blased open some power lines to begin filling his energon cubes, Skywarp &quot;cut in line&quot; by teleporting between Thundercracker and the energy to fill his own cube first. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] showed up to stop them, Skywarp fired a heat-seeking missile at him, only for Prime to deflect it with a punch. The Autobot was eventually defeated, and Skywarp ran off with some [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}} <br /> <br /> When the Decepticons began draining heat energy out of Earth's core using a crystal shaft in the Arctic, Skywarp got a bit bored at the lack of real action. He was in the middle of taunting Rumble when the two of them accidentally caused a miniature avalanche in one of the caves. By sheer happenstance, this led to the Decepticons recovering the long-lost [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] from an icy tomb. Skywarp helped perform repairs on the giant flier, though it was probably better for all concerned if somebody with actual knowledge had performed these repairs. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}} <br /> <br /> During a battle at [[Great Falls]] hydroelectric power facility, the newly-constructed [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] arrived to rescue the beleagured Autobots, who had been captured by the Decepticons. Skywarp foolishly attempted to beat the flamethrowing [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] with a mere pair of heat-seeking missiles, and ended up being grabbed out of the air by the mighty jaws of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], who chomped on his wing and threw Skywarp into his fellow Megatron loyalist [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Soon afterwards, during an operation in [[Peru]], Skywarp got to be Megatron's favorite Seeker for the day after Starscream and Thundercracker stole poor-quality steel for their latest super-weapon. He had fun taunting the egotistic 'Screamer when Megatron called him to battle, leaving the other Seekers behind on mere guard duty. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}} Later, Skywarp helped Megatron steal a giant meteor, although its unstable power proved too dangerous to use for energon cubes. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was in a playful mood during the Decepticons' raid of a solar power plant in [[India]], cracking wise and hoping to play a game of catch...with the rajah as the ball. He had even more fun in a quick free-for-all with the Autobots, a distraction so that the Decepticons could kidnap one of the Autobots' fleshling friends as a guinea pig for [[Doctor Arkeville]]'s mind-control experiments. Skywarp enjoyed himself so much, he got in a fight with Starscream on the way back to headquarters about how ''brilliant'' Megatron's plan was. Thundercracker had to jump out of the way while the two of them roughhoused in the elevator. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} Thanks in part to Arkeville's [[hypno-chip]] slaves, the Decepticons were able to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, creating massive environmental disturbances that produced millions of energon cubes. What's more, transporting energon to Cybertron was now just a short flight away. Unfortunately, the devastation was greater than Megatron had anticipated. While Skywarp was on a return flight from Cybertron, a tidal wave broke off the access tower to the Decepticons' undersea base, flooding it. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Skywarp was present at the final battle before the Autobots knocked Cybertron out of orbit, and fled when Megatron abandoned his troops to escape with the energon cubes. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} With Megatron seemingly destroyed as his star cruiser exploded with the cubes on-board, the Decepticons were left rudderless. While working on repairs for their undersea base, tempers flared as Skywarp picked a fight with his favorite target, Rumble, and his pint-sized partner, [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. Skywarp bit off more than he could chew, however, as Frenzy's surprising strength overcame Skywarp as he tried to crush the mini-cassette beneath his heel. Thundercracker and Soundwave started to get involved in the fracas too, but Megatron soon arrived to put his house back in order. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Changegearsskywarp.jpg|thumb|200px|left|What you see when he pushes you down the stairs.]]Like all Decepticons, Skywarp provided his [[power chip rectifier]] to Megatron for his single combat with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}} When the Decepticons attacked another rocket base, Skywarp and Thundercracker attempted to double-team Optimus Prime, but only succeeded in destroying the very rockets they came to plunder. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Later, the Decepticons attacked a mining camp to lure the Autobots out into the open, and Skywarp stood guard over the humans being used as bait. After they used the opportunity to kidnap [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] for his special circuit board, Skywarp later helped fill the energon cubes from Megatron's [[Solar Needle]]. {{storylink|Changing Gears}} As the Decepticons took over New York to create the city of New Cybertron, Skywarp was seen loading cars into [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]'s drum for reconstruction. He and Thundercracker were later damaged after trying to take some potshots at Optimus Prime, only to miss and crash straight through a building in the process. {{storylink|City of Steel}} He also served in a later assault on the Ark, distracting the Autobots long enough for Megatron to sneak inside and mess with their [[recharging chamber]]s. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}<br /> <br /> Rather stoic in recent weeks, Skywarp was back to his cheery but malicious self when he and Starscream went after some [[electro-cell]]s at the [[Experimental Energy Research Laboratory]]. While breaking through the roof of the installation, Skywarp merrily remarked on the joy of opening presents. During a fight with the Autobot named [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], one of Skywarp's insignia was ripped off, and later planted to help turn the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Traitor}} During a battle with the Autobots over the [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]], Skywarp unleashed his new toy: a [[bouncer bomb]]. This weapon ricocheted through the trees, explosively bouncing from one side of the battlefield to another. Unfortunately, the Decepticons were also subject to its &quot;friendly fire&quot; until Megatron shot the blasted thing down. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp's teleportation power did come in useful when he was needed to sneak up on the Autobots with the [[Transfixatron]]. One quick zap and they were all frozen in vehicle mode. However, he failed to zap ALL the Autobots, which ultimately led to the undoing of Megatron's scheme. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} Skywarp was present during the Decepticon alliance with [[Sub-Atlantica]], and was part of their attack on Washington D.C. He and Thundercracker strafed the Autobots while in battle on the Great Lawn. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} When the Decepticons stole the ninja robot [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]], Skywarp used his grapples to pull the roof off of the demonstration ampitheater, allowing Starscream and Thundercracker to swoop in and grab the robot. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and his flying buddies once attempted to triple-team Optimus Prime in battle, but failed to do more than provide Optimus with a chance to toss a good quip. Strangely, Skywarp was later seen throwing what looking like a standard pineapple grenade at the Autobots. It was effective enough, but looked as out of place as an AK or a tommygun in Transformer hands. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} When the Decepticons made yet another attempt at harnessing some sort of power from the Earth's core, Skywarp defended their drilling operation from the Autobots. He and the Seekers attempted to bomb the Autobots from the air, but a scattering of explosive missiles from [[Bluestreak]]'s shoulder launchers took them out of the fight. {{storylink|The Core}}<br /> <br /> During the assault on Iron Mountain, Skywarp was briefly taken over by [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s [[cerebro-shell]]s during a tiff between Megatron and the Insecticons. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}} He also joined the Decepticon expedition to [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], to loot and plunder its various sources of energy. Skywarp was eager to do battle with the Dinobots when they arrived to defend their new home...which just goes to show Skywarp's kinda stupid. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} When the Autobots eventually arrived to help drive the Decepticons off of Dinobot Island, they were aided by a band of dinosaurs themselves, prodded onwards by [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. Skywarp and Thundercracker found their lasers ineffective against the charging brutes, and were forced to retreat with the rest of their army. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> During some aerial dogfighting with the Autobot ace, [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], Skywarp took a nasty hit to the wing. He must have managed to limp back to base, because he was present for Megatron's interrogation of the Constructicons a short while later. {{storylink|The Master Builders}} When the Decepticons went after [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s latest super-weapon, the [[Negavator]], Skywarp and the Seekers strafed the Autobot convoy in a box canyon. Their efforts were blocked by [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]'s disruptor beams and magnetic smoke, which left the Seekers unable to see or navigate in any way. Skywarp and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] ended up in a three-way collision with each other and a canyon wall. {{storylink|Auto Berserk}} Once, the Decepticons were pre-emptively celebrating the destruction of the Autobots after Megatron acquired the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. They got over-energized on energon cubes and passed out in the desert. Five'll get you ten, whoever passed out closest to Skywarp woke up with a [[Scraplet]] drawn on their face in permanent marker. {{storylink|Microbots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was a participant in the ultimate prank against the Autobots. Using Autobot costumes left over from last Halloween, Skywarp and some others raided an oil refinery for fuel, only to be driven off when the &quot;heroic&quot; Decepticons arrived to stop the &quot;evil&quot; Autobots. The entire scene was filmed by [[Shawn Berger]] and used to smear the Autobots' good name so severely that they were forced to abandon Earth entirely in a rocket cruiser. Ha HA! {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} The fleshlings didn't appreciate the joke when they found out the punchline, but Skywarp and the Decepticons were too busy enslaving [[Central City (G1)|Central City]] to care. As bad luck would have it, though, the Autobots managed to make their way back to Earth, and drive off the Decepticon occupation. Killjoys. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> When the Decepticons set up a temporary base of operations at the airport, Optimus Prime sent in the Dinobots to clear them out. Skywarp and the other jets were caught off-guard initially, but the Decepticons had learned from previous encounters that the Dinobots were more vulnerable in their robot modes. By feigning defeat, Skywarp and the others lured the Dinobots into a false sense of security, and they transformed back to robot mode. Skywarp and Megatron then unleashed a barrage of energy, igniting the jumbo jets on the tarmac and causing the Dinobots tremendous damage. The Decepticons finally scored a decent victory against the Dinos, and they owed it all to a dirty underhanded sneak attack. It was a good day to be Skywarp. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Like most of the Decepticons, Skywarp was rendered temporarily invulnerable due to exposure to [[electrum]]. Invincibility didn't make him any better a prison guard, though, as even [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] was able to overpower him and escape from the Decepticons' undersea headquarters. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} Skywarp was seen delivering the Insecticons' share of the energon harvested from their clones using Megatron's energon transference process. Since the meager three cubes the Insecticons got were a small pittance compared to how many were actually being generated, Skywarp was surely snickering to himself as he handed them over. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}} When the Space Bridge materialized in the middle of a baseball stadium, Skywarp and Soundwave got into a friendly game of catch...with flesh-creatures as the ball. Then the Autobots had to show up and ruin their fun. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}}<br /> <br /> Later on, Skywarp and the Seekers kidnapped a group of Earth's world leaders, but ran into the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s during their getaway. Skywarp nearly nailed [[Slingshot]] with a loop-the-loop, coming down on him from above, but was shot down by [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]. {{storylink|War Dawn}} One day, Skywarp and Thundercracker were guarding the Space Bridge when Starscream arrived. After showing them his authorization (which looked suspiciously like a null ray rifle), they allowed Starscream to travel to Cybertron. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}} At Megatron's command, Skywarp travelled to [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] headquarters to check up on their progress in the latest Decepticon scheme. At Megatron's command, Skywarp landed at the empty base. At Megatron's command, he began to follow the mysterious trail of loose Combaticon parts leading out of the canyon. You gotta wonder what Skywarp is capable of without constant supervision...{{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}<br /> <br /> In 2005, Skywarp was part of a massive [[Battle of Autobot City|Decepticon attack]] on [[Autobot City]] on Earth. He was badly damaged during the battle, but managed to escape with the rest of his comrades aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. However, en route to Cybertron he was tossed out into space with other badly damaged Decepticons so that the rest would be able to make it home. Skywarp's body was gathered by [[Unicron]] and, among others, used to make [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s new warriors. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Skywarp arguably became either [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] or [[Cyclonus's Armada]], the identical warrior who was never seen again. Either way, Skywarp effectively ceased existing.}}<br /> <br /> ====Japanese cartoon continuity====<br /> {{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as described above. The Japanese continuity then proceeds to insert several additional stories into the timeline, as follows.}}<br /> <br /> =====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic=====<br /> <br /> Under orders from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], Skywarp accompanied [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] in an energy raid on [[Tokyo]]. Things were going well, as they enjoyed bombing pedestrians and children while screaming their demands for energy to the Heavens, at least until [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a unit of Autobot vehicles arrived. Though their victory seemed assured when they unleashed [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] on their foes, their strategy was undone when the Autobots drove up a ramp at top speed, transformed to vehicle mode and punched everybody in the face. Skywarp was forced to retreat. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 1|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp later took part in an all-out assault on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] in [[Arizona]]. The attack was nothing more than a diversion so [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] could go do unspecified ''stuff'' in Japan and the Decepticons were eventually defeated and driven off. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 2|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2}}<br /> <br /> =====Full Throttle Scramble Power!=====<br /> As Megatron bragged to [[Toru]] that the Decepticons would strip Earth of all its resources, Skywarp (or Thundercracker) was shown attacking a power plant. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}<br /> <br /> =====''The Stargate Battles''=====<br /> Skywarp participated in Megatron's first attempted takover of the [[Warp Gate|Trigger]], bursting out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] alongside the other Seekers. {{storylink|First Contact}}<br /> <br /> =====''Robot Masters'' online comic=====<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)#Issue 13|And Then}}<br /> <br /> ===''Universe''===<br /> <br /> In [[2005]], when [[Unicron]] rebuilt Skywarp into [[Cyclonus's Armada]], Skywarp was also reprogrammed to obey Cyclonus. Even later, when Skywarp's original personality reasserted itself, that mental link remained. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Though no reason is stated in-story as to how or why or when Skywarp got this new body between the Great War and the [[Beast Era]], ''Wreckers'' plotter [[Glen Hallit]] noted that Skywarp's body was based on a mass-production body type of its day, similar to Generation 1's [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]].}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Wreckersskywarpcyclonus.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Looks like Cyclonus was Bombshell. Neener neener.]]<br /> <br /> After the Decepticons lost the Great War and [[Maximal|Maximals]] and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] claimed [[Cybertron (planet)|the planet]], [[Megatron (BW)|another Megatron]] subjugated nearly every Transformer alive with a transformation-lock virus and an army of [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]. Skywarp was one of the handful of Transformers who had slipped through Megatron's fingers, and eventually he and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] joined up with the legendary strike team, the [[Wrecker|Wreckers]]. Given a mission by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], the Wreckers fought through an army of Vehicons (Cyclonus, Skywarp, and [[Rotorbolt (Universe)|Rotorbolt]] took care of the [[Spy Streak]] drones) to steal an Autobot shuttle in order to get off-planet. {{storylink|Departure}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp served as the shuttle's pilot, which served as a point of contention when the bounty hunter [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] stowed away on board, who didn't like that the Wreckers apparently now included Decepticons and Predacons among their ranks. As the shuttle approached the [[Archa system]], their given destination, Skywarp detected the homing beacon of the ''[[Sojourner's Passage]]'', an exploration ship that was lost centuries ago. Since the Autobot shuttle had been damaged en route, once it had landed on [[Archa Nine]], Skywarp helped repair it while others searched the surface. While Skywarp was occupied with this, Cyclonus revealed himself as a traitor, stealing the [[Divine Light]], a mysterious artifact the Wreckers were sent by the Oracle to find. {{storylink|Betrayal}} <br /> <br /> [[Image:Disclosure-Skywarphonor.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Heh.]]<br /> <br /> Though it's likely Skywarp didn't really care, the rest of the Wreckers were dealt a blow to morale after this betrayal. Regardless, the Wreckers set off for a new destination given by the Oracle, a desolate ice planet on which a search team found an exiled [[Quintesson]] scientist named [[Al-Badur]]. While Al-Badur was explaining the meaning of the Divine Light, an army of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] attacked both the search team and Skywarp and the others back at the shuttle. Skywarp was able to easily destroy their attackers. The search team returned to the shuttle, and Primal Prime told Skywarp that he'd be taking direction from the Quintesson. Al-Badur asked Skywarp what compelled him to join this team of Autobots and Maximals; Skywarp told him it involved &quot;returning a favor&quot; and &quot;Decepticon honor,&quot; things he wouldn't understand. {{storylink|Disclosure}} <br /> <br /> {{note|In the unpublished script to ''[[The Wreckers: Finale Part 1|The Wreckers'' #4]], after receiving an encrypted message, Skywarp flew the Wreckers back to Cybertron as quickly as possible. [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] and his Quintesson partners had invaded. But on arrival to Cybertron, the Quintessons' attacks were so thick that they kept the shuttle from being able to land. Primal Prime ordered a few of the Wreckers off the ship to join the troops below, while Rodimus, Skywarp, and the remainder were to land elsewhere.}}<br /> <br /> In the aftermath of Cyclonus's betrayal, the other Wreckers were understandably wary of Skywarp, though the Decepticon claimed he had no part or knowledge of his fellow Decepticon's actions. While circling overhead Cybertron, the Wreckers' shuttle was critically hit. Rodimus told everyone else to evacuate while he kept the ship level, but Skywarp chose this moment to strike. He knocked Rodimus away and told [[Tap-Out (G1)|Tap-Out]] to help everyone else disembark; the Decepticon was going to guide the shuttle down. When it landed, taking out a large portion of the Sharkticon invading forces in a fantastic explosion, the Wreckers were shocked. Skywarp had sacrificed his life for them? As Rodimus began to give a regretful eulogy for the untrusted Decepticon, Skywarp appeared behind them, laughing about his sweet maneuver. He had, of course, used his warping power to leave the ship at the last moment. &quot;Did you see that? I think I managed to shove the forward nacelle antennae right through the Quint Overseer!&quot; Everyone grumbled.<br /> <br /> As their group joined the battle against Cryotek and Cyclonus within Cybertron, it seemed Skywarp may not have been so forthright after all. He violently silenced the overbearing Ramulus (muttering that he was surprised no one thanked him) and took his place at Cyclonus's side. Rodimus was understandably confused and hurt, but Skywarp told the Autobot that he'd more than paid him back recently and he no longer owed the Wreckers anything. Cyclonus laughed, and told the Wreckers of his mental link to Skywarp. But Skywarp muttered, having &quot;always ''hated'' that,&quot; and attacked Cyclonus. He reappeared at the Wreckers' side again, noting that he'd only harmed Ramulus to get in Cyclonus' good graces long enough to deal the blow. <br /> <br /> [[Image:Revelations-Skywarppunched.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Unfortunately, Unicron has no stairs.]]<br /> <br /> {{quote|I'll settle with the zoo crew later. But ''you''... I ''never'' liked you. Even when you were a [[Bombshell (G1)|''bug'']] I hated your stinkin' circuits. Like I said, only [[Megatron (G1)|''one'' guy]] ever bossed ''me'' around, and it sure as slag ain't ''you.''}}<br /> <br /> But Cyclonus had scores of Sharkticons at his disposal, and they quickly filled the chamber. Rodimus wanted to throttle Skywarp for what he'd done to Ramulus, but Skywarp shrewdly pointed out that they had bigger problems at the moment. But in the middle of the battle, a strange surge of energy passed through the subterranean chamber, flowing through Tap-Out and Skywarp, causing both to disappear in a flash of light. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and Tap-Out had been abducted by Unicron and, under undisclosed circumstances, Skywarp joined [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]]'s [[Minions of Unicron]] during the [[Universe war|Universe conflict]]. During the final battle within the [[Pit]], he was defeated by [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave comics continuity===<br /> {{notekeepers}}<br /> In the early days of the war, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were sent to blow up a building full of pesky [[neutral]]s in [[Altihex]]. He took a second to wonder if it was the right thing to do—not because it was morally wrong or anything, but because it was ''too easy''. Thundercracker didn't have much input, so Skywarp just went &quot;Sure, why not,&quot; and murdered the neutrals. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1}} Some time later, the two came with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he tried to sway [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] into joining the Decepticons. Skywarp tried to stop Starscream from spilling the beans about the Seekers' next mission at [[Sector Zero-Six]], but was told to shut up. When the trio later carried out said mission, they found that Grimlock had evacuated the area and placed a bomb to welcome them. Skywarp barely had time to teleport himself and his comrades away before the place went up in flames. {{storylink|The War Within Preview}} When Starscream decided to blame Megatron for what happened, Skywarp snapped and pointed out that it was all ''his'' fault for ''telling the enemy about their mission'', then took off with Thundercracker. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Following the sudden disappearance of Megatron, the Decepticons split into several splinter groups, but Skywarp stayed with the main faction under the command of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. He participated in an attack on the minions of [[The Fallen]] in [[Protihex]], where his teleporting power enabled him to get the best of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and gun him down. {{storylink|Conflagration}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of several Decepticon invaders on board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed into [[Earth]] four million years ago while the Autobot ship was clearing an asteroid in the path of Cybertron. <br /> <br /> In 2002, he was one of the Transformers who survived the disastrous launch of the sabotaged ''[[Ark II]]'' and were later captured and reprogrammed by arms dealer [[Lazarus|Adam &quot;Lazarus&quot; Rook]], who intended to rent out the services of the enslaved robots to various terrorist groups. After Megatron reactivated himself, he freed his Decepticon subordinates in order to put forward his plans to infect Earth with a metallic virus of doom. To pass the time while this happened, Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp busied themselves by tearing apart the Autobot Minicar team. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp later participated in Megatron's attack on [[San Francisco]], where he followed Starscream's orders to maintain formation and drop cluster bombs on the Autobot giant [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], forcing the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] to split into their separate robot forms. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp presumably stood watch over the defeated Autobots while Megatron tried to persuade [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to help the Decepticons conquer Earth. After some human firefighters distracted the Decepticons long enough for Optimus Prime to free the Autobots, Skywarp was presumably beaten up and escaped when Superion sacrificed himself to stop a nuclear missile launched by rogue US General [[Robert Hallo]]. <br /> <br /> ''When Megatron was kidnapped by the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] and Decepticon leadership was up for grabs, Skywarp began acting more serious and ambitious than his regular &quot;lunatic prankster&quot; persona would suggest. One of the few Decepticons who aggressively refused to follow Starscream in Megatron's absence, Skywarp teamed up with the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio in an attempt to seize power for himself. He lured Starscream into leaving his new kingdom in [[Las Vegas]] and travelling to Hoover Dam. Once there, Skywarp challenged Starscream directly for leadership of the Decepticons. He failed miserably, however; Starscream dealt Skywarp severe damage using his [[Null-ray|null bolts]] at close range, then tossed his former wingman over the falls. Skywarp was in [[stasis lock]] for some time thereafter, and he begrudgingly chose to serve under Starscream after his repair cycle aboard the ''Nemesis'' was completed. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''<br /> <br /> ''When [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and his private army of humans attacked Las Vegas, along with [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Skywarp was among the Decepticons who charged out to meet them in battle along the Strip. As Thundercracker and Soundwave kept the rampaging [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]'s attention, Skywarp prepared a delicious, underhanded sneak attack. Diving at Grimlock at full speed, Skywarp planned on unleashing his heat-seeking missiles at near point-blank range for maximum devastation. Luckily for Grimlock, the little Autobot Bumblebee was willing to sacrifice his functionality in order to keep the more powerful Autobot warrior in play and took the full impact of the missiles at the last second. Enraged, Grimlock struck Skywarp with enough force to send him flying miles away into the desert and out of the fight for the immediate future. ''<br /> <br /> ''Curiously, Skywarp chose NOT to leave Las Vegas with Megatron once the former Decepticon leader returned to Earth. Damaged after his time with the Keepers, Megatron lost a fight with Starscream and was forced to relinquish his leadership to the Aerospace Commander. Still, Megatron refused to serve under Starscream, and he led a revolt of several Decepticons into exile. For whatever reason, Skywarp remained at Starscream's side until the Keepers attacked, possessing Starscream as a host body and caging the rest of the Decepticons still in Las Vegas inside a dome of impenetrable energy. Skywarp assumed command of the remaining Decepticons in Starscream's absence and directed the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] into not attacking the dome directly as [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], but digging beneath the energy field to forge a tunnel they could exit through. He also made contact with Megatron's forces outside the city and agreed to wait patiently until the time was right for all the Transformers to assault the Keepers as one. ''<br /> <br /> ''When the time came, Skywarp &quot;allowed&quot; his Decepticons to join forces with Megatron's, because it was the only &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. During the fight, he blasted the [[Bluestreak]]-Keeper with an explosive gamma radiation blast. The attack was effective, but proved moot when the Bluestreak-Keeper fused with the Starscream-Keeper, creating one massive and deformed robotic god figure. In the end, it was Optimus Prime and the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] which finally ended the war with the Keepers, diverting the force of a nuclear missile launched by the American government. In the aftermath, Starscream's scrap was salvaged and rebuilt, but Megatron chose to make Skywarp his new second-in-command for a time, mostly just to piss Starscream off. Still, Skywarp certainly saw it as the most &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. {{storylink|Annihilation}}''<br /> <br /> ''In Washington D.C., Megatron and the Decepticons stormed the White House to show their displeasure to the [[President of the United States|President]] for trying to wipe them out with a nuclear strike. Megatron assigned Skywarp to deal with the SWAT teams in the streets, then sent him into the skies to join Starscream in shooting down the air support called in by the military. Final tally—Starscream: 12, Skywarp: 5. Sometime later, Skywarp was present in the Nevada desert when the Autobots and Decepticons confronted the United States military. Thanks to their airborne tactics, Thundercracker and Skywarp did significant injury to the troops and survived the [[deconstructionite]] assault virtually unscathed. After the Keepers were finally defeated and Starscream had been restored to his normal, irascible self, Megatron chose to restore the status quo and replaced Skywarp with Starscream as his second-in-command yet again. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''<br /> <br /> {{note|Although it's hard to see how, the author(s) of the Keepers Trilogy may have confused Skywarp with Shockwave, or at least combined their roles and personalities into one character. Throughout the trilogy, Skywarp made repeated references to the &quot;logical&quot; course of action, and once made an oblique reference to his gift over the electromagnetic spectrum. Whether there was actual confusion involved, or if the pick-up writer [[David Cian]] was forcing Skywarp to fit a role once Dreamwave's comics made using Shockwave off-limits, is unknown.}}<br /> <br /> When Shockwave arrived on Earth with his new army, he quickly disposed of Megatron and demanded loyalty from Skywarp and the others. Somewhat begrudgingly, they assented and accompanied him back to Cybertron. Back on their home planet, Skywarp and Thundercracker were amazed at what Shockwave had accomplished in their absence and were planning to sign on for the duration. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} After getting run down and beaten up by Optimus Prime on his way to Shockwave, though, the Seekers took an offer from Starscream and Soundwave to abandon the rising conflict on Cybertron and return to Earth for some good ol' fashioned looting. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}<br /> <br /> On Earth, Skywarp was part of Starscream's initial salvo against the Ark, a decoy to be deliberately taken prisoner in order to draw out the remaining Autobots where the newly reformatted [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] could get at them. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} After decimating the Autobots' ranks, [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] freed the fallen Decepticons, and they were about ready to terminate their opponents when the awe-inspiring clone known as [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] emerged from fold-space, looking to have words with Starscream. Sunstorm's &quot;purifying light&quot; induced an energon overload in their systems, knocking them into stasis lock. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}} Skywarp and the others remained Autobot prisoners until Starscream negotiated a deal for their release in exchange for his aid against Sunstorm. {{storylink|Skyfire (issue)|Skyfire}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp fell back under Megatron's command once the former leader arrived on Earth and forced Starscream back under his thumb. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers'' comics===<br /> [[Image:GIJoevsTF1_Seeker.jpg|left|thumb|200px|]]<br /> Skywarp was one of the Transformers reprogrammed to serve the terrorist organization [[Cobra]] and was, along with Thundercracker, rebuilt to transform into a [[Rattler]] aircraft in the process. Their first mission was to show off Cobra's power by assaulting a peace ceremony in [[Washington, D.C.]], and either Skywarp or Thundercracker was the first to reveal his robot mode to the shocked [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] before wrecking [[Ace]]'s jet with a single punch. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1}}<br /> <br /> When [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] undid Cobra's reprogramming of the Transformers, Skywarp waited on the runway in Rattler mode until [[Major Bludd]], unaware of the plane's true identity, decided to use him as his ticket off [[Cobra Island]]. After causing Bludd some stress by refusing to start his engines, Skywarp revealed himself and told him that he'd rather walk, then transformed, crushing the human to death with his moving innards in the process. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4}} He then joined Thundercracker in fighting [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], who had also been freed from Cobra's control. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5}} Unfortunately, the two Seekers were later caught in the [[SPS Satellite]]'s rain of energy beams and deactivated. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6}}<br /> <br /> {{note|As Skywarp's coloration is identical to Thundercracker's in this series, it's possible that it was actually Thundercracker who killed Major Bludd. However, it feels more like something Skywarp would do.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave ''Transformers/G.I. Joe'' comics===<br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons revived by [[Cobra]] in 1938. He may have been one of the Seekers driven back by the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] in the battle of the [[Fera Islands]]. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}} During the Autobots' attack on the [[Terrordrome]], Skywarp was lounging about when he overheard some Cobra troopers talking dirt about the Decepticons. Picking one of the humans up, Skywarp suggested that he be a little grateful that the Decepticons were helping them conquer their filthy mudball of a planet. Before he could finish insulting them, however, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] burst out of the ground and beat him up. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===<br /> Skywarp and Thundercracker were at the end of a berating from Megatron when the news came in that Starscream had badly injured himself in a rock-climbing accident. Skywarp probably even helped look for Starscream. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}<br /> <br /> Enraged at [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] for selling off Decepticon weapons on the black market, Megatron commanded Skywarp to bring the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] in — in pieces of necessary. {{storylink|Two for the Price of One}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW comics continuity===<br /> {{ongoing}}<br /> Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] were early recruits for [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], helping sow terror across Cybertron and kidnap Senator [[Decimus]] just prior to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] and founding of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3}} At one point he was part of a squad intent on assassinating [[Zeta Prime]], but the plan was thwarted when [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] warned the Autobot leader (tackling Skywarp in the back on the way). {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Infiltration5 Skywarptotalled.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Skywarp learns what happens when he pushes Megatron down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> In the modern era, Skywarp is part of a Decepticon infiltration unit that has operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, working to destabilize Earth's governing organizations and create global anarchy. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 3}} His alternate form is an [[wikipedia:F-22_Raptor|F-22 Raptor]] fighter jet, and his main job seems to be using his teleporting powers to transport his comrades to places.<br /> <br /> Starscream assigned him and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] to destroy all traces of the [[Nebraska]] operation, but after demolishing the abandoned Nebraska command bunker, he was severely damaged by Megatron, who, unfortunately for Skywarp, had been inside at the time. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5}} Megatron was apparently not one to hold grudges, and he soon had Skywarp repaired and functioning again, under the understanding that there would be no further second chances. {{storylink|Escalation issue 1}} While on a mission to destabilize Middle Eastern energy supplies, Skywarp confessed to Thundercracker that he believed Megatron had it in for all of them, especially himself, though his fellow Decepticon pointed out the fact that Megatron did have him repaired. {{storylink|Escalation issue 2}} Skywarp participated in the operation at [[Brasnya]] where he injured [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and evacuated Megatron before the Autobots could destroy him. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> When [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] began his coup, he first contacted Skywarp in an effort to get a viable ally. Skywarp thought it was a big load of crap, but said that if Ramjet could get some results in one day, they'd talk. However, Skywarp did mention that he always &quot;bets on the leader.&quot; This turned out to be a prudent decision. {{storylink|Spotlight: Ramjet}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the concerned Decepticons who feared that Megatron had lost all sense of reason when he deployed [[Sixshot]] on Earth. They conspired to bring Starscream back into the fold to talk some sense into their leader. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1}} Emboldened by Starscream's lone stand against the Reapers, the Decepticons attacked and eventually the alien invaders, with Skywarp participating in the destruction of their starship. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> About a year later, Megatron had somehow regained Skywarp's confidence, and Skywarp assured Thundercracker that Megatron knew what he was doing when he created [[Insecticon swarm|three thousand twisted perversions of their own race]]. The Decepticons later lured Optimus Prime and his troops into a trap and utterly crushed them, with Skywarp ripping [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]'s arm clean off. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7}} They proceeded to conquer [[New York City]]. During that attack, Skywarp got to make stuff go boom and kill a lotta folks, and it was the best day out ever. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1}}<br /> <br /> After taking out several military helicopters, Skywarp was assigned to accompany Soundwave, Hook and Astrotrain as they took Frenzy to deal with a large ground force. [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] voiced his doubt that the tiny Decepticon had a chance against such a huge number of enemies, but Skywarp, enjoying a chance for a dig at the new guy, simply told him to make sure he kept his distance. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 2}} All the fun of smashing things and killing millions of people soon soured though, as Skywarp started clashing with the [[Insecticon (G1)|uppity Insecticons]] and getting lonely now Thundercracker was being mopey and Starscream wasn't around much. Even mindlessly killing eight million people in [[China]] couldn't perk him up. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6}}<br /> <br /> [[image:AHM12 Betrayer.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A rare moment of Skywarp just killing someone instead of pushing them down the stairs.]]<br /> <br /> When the Autobots eventually returned to Earth, Skywarp battled them in the ruins of New York City. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11}} He grabbed [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and took to the sky, asking the old timer why he wasn't [[Spotlight: Kup|insane]] anymore. Kup responded by calling Skywarp a &quot;mouthy punk&quot; and shooting him in the gut, causing him to to drop the Autobot. The Decepticons fled when Megatron was defeated, but Skywarp came back when he noticed that Thundercracker had diverted the nuke that Megatron had arranged to be dropped on New York. Furious at his fellow Seeker's betrayal, he ignored Thundercracker's arguments and shot him point blank in the face. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12}}<br /> <br /> [[Image: Bumblebee 1 Skywarp's Stash.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Up the Arsenal!]]<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons left behind when the others fled Earth. Unlike [[Swindle (G1)|some]], however, he was in no rush to get off the planet; instead he came up with the idea to steal and stockpile human weapons for Megatron's eventual return. He attacked the technology corporations [[Dynomic]] and [[Allodyne Logic Systems]] for information on their advanced technology, which in turn attacted the attention of [[Skywatch]]. Some two years after the Decepticons' defeat in New York, Skywarp had filled at least one whole garage with missiles and bombs. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} In addition to his vast collection of anti-human weapons, he also worked to create a weapon capable of crippling all the Autobots on the planet. Skywarp beamed signals into space in order to report his progress to Megatron, who he really hoped would be back soon. {{storylink|The Impossible Knot}}<br /> <br /> While the Autobots worked on finding a way to disable the kill-switch badges that the rogue Skywatch Colonel [[Gordon Horiuchi]] had provided them, Skywarp attacked Skywatch's Phillips base to gain access to information to track down the kill-switch control board. Arriving at Skywatch researcher [[Sanjay Bharwaney]]'s home {{storylink|The Gift Horse}}, Skywarp moved in for the kill, but was foiled by the timely intervention of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], who saved Bharwaney and his daughter [[Serena Bharwaney|Serena]]. Skywarp chased them into an industrial area, and as he hunted, he ranted about how Megatron would be returning here to take his rightful place as ruler of the galaxy, with Skywarp at his side, and once he had the control board, all the Autobots would fall into line under the Decepticon banner, making Skywarp a hero. Just when it seemed Skywarp would get his hands on Bumblebee and the control board, Skywatch operative [[Daniel Klonowski]] intervened, firing a weapon powerful enough to damage Bumblebee. Injured but undeterred, Skywarp managed to corner the Autobot, offering to let him go in exchange for the control board as a &quot;professional courtesy&quot;. His confidence turned to panic when Bumblebee steeled himself to activate the control board, the little Autobot declaring that unlike Skywarp, he has friends who would fix him. The electro-magnetic pulse from the control board seriously damaged both transformers, but it is unknown what became of Skywarp. As Skywatch representatives were in the area, it is likely that he was taken into custody. {{storylink|Wings of Wax}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Hearts of Steel''===<br /> Skywarp was one of the Decepticons who woke up on mid-19th century Earth, where he took on the form of a spiky airplane with three propellers. In the Decepticons' desert headquarters, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] told him about the plans to conquer Earth, and ordered him to fly ahead of the [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], leading the way towards [[New York City]]. Skywarp was concerned that the Autobots might interfere, but Starscream assured him their enemies had not yet awoken. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2}}<br /> <br /> {{note|There's no evidence in the story that Skywarp actually ''did'' fly ahead of the Astrotrain, but if it's true, he may have survived the Decepticon defeat unharmed.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> Skywarp serves under [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] as one of his Decepticon soldiers, battling [[Optimus Primal]]'s many Autobot allies in what might possibly have been an inter-universe battle. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_boxart.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Someone pushes HIM down a flight of stairs for once. Payback's a bitch.]]<br /> <br /> A Skywarp from an unspecified [[universal stream]] was selected by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|Megatron]] to become part of his [[Questor]] forces. Granted a portion of the hyperdimensional powers that his leader had obtained from the monstrous [[Hytherion]], Skywarp was given a new body with an uncharacteristic sports car alternate mode, a [[Timaeus drive]] that granted him the ability to travel through dimensions, and a massively enhanced teleportation power that actually allowed him to warp the fabric of space and time around him. About the only thing that didn't change was his characteristic lack of intelligence and initiative; coupled with the brain-bending complexities of higher-dimensional life and battle, this meant that Skywarp was left still relying on Megatron's specific orders for and when to use his powers.<br /> <br /> Skywarp proved his worth when he succeeded in his mission to scour the year 2010 all across the dimensions for a trace of the two-dimensional world of the [[Planicron]]s. Precisely what Megatron needed the Planicrons for, Skywarp didn't know, but he recalled a rumor among the Questors that they were key to the destruction of the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]], and smirked with excitement to himself as he informed Megatron of his discovery. {{storylink|Hunt for the Planicrons}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Commercial appearances==<br /> Skywarp's history of [[commercial]] appearances includes:<br /> <br /> * The very first Transformers animation, a commercial for [[The Transformers (issue)|Issue #1]] of Marvel's ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' comic book. On Earth, he flies across the desert with Starscream and Thundercracker to attack a power plant.<br /> <br /> * He is briefly seen battling in the desert against Hot Rod, Kup and Blurr, until Cyclonus and Scourge (!!) swoop in to counterattack. <br /> <br /> * Skywarp attacks an Autobot power station along with Thrust and Starscream in a commercial for Ultra Magnus.<br /> <br /> * He can be very briefly glimpsed swooping into battle alongside Galvatron (!!) on Earth in a subsequent commercial for [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and Galvatron.<br /> <br /> [[Image:LiveActionJazz-Skywarp01.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I bet he spiked the punch.]]<br /> <br /> * Along with his original Seeker wingmates, he gets barreled over by the Dinobots in a commercial for the Predacons.<br /> <br /> * A commercial for Transformers reflective iron-on patches advertised the &quot;[[Prizes in Disguise]]&quot; competition. When the [[iron-on patch]] was used, it was possible to find instead an instant win ticket for a Transformers voice changer (of the [[Enemy]] variety)—or to have a party with &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers! Among the &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers shown were [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and Skywarp. In all likelihood, you did not party with them.<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> [[Image:G1-toy SkywarpCommSeries.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Commemorative Series retooled Skywarp. Robot mode... that&amp;#39;s okay. Jet? Not so much.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Decepticon Jet, 1984/1985/2001/2003/2008)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''23'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 wings (left &amp;amp; right), 2 rudders (left &amp;amp; right), 2 tailfins (left &amp;amp; right), 2 fists (left &amp; right), front landing gear<br /> <br /> : The only 1984 [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] with a deco not used previously in [[Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' line, Skywarp transforms into an [[wikipedia:F-15_Eagle|F-15 Eagle]] fighter jet, sharing his mold with his teammates [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. Many parts need to be removed completely for transformation from robot to jet and back, which nowadays is considered a major drawback of the toy. It is rare to find it complete, as neither mode can hold all the pieces required. There are a few minor mold variations of this toy (common for the first two years of ''Transformers'', really), the most immediately noticeable being that early versions did not have visible &quot;clip-tabs&quot; on the inner face of the gauntlets.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Redeco.jpg|Early Hasbro stock photos of Skywarp]] show him with a plastic purple nosecone. This was changed to a soft, black rubber nosecone when the toy was actually released. However, a [http://tfarchive.com/toys/articles/toypics/mex_skywarp.jpg Mexican variant] retained the purple plastic nosecone. The same stock photos also show him with purple launchers with black triggers and muzzle rings, black feet, black shins, black outer arm panels, purple horizontal stabilizers, and both sets of purple missiles. These stock photos were also later used to promote Takara's 2001 reissue.<br /> <br /> : In 2001, Skywarp was given a short-run reissue (limited to only 1,000 pieces) by Takara as a convention-[[exclusive]] item, bundled together with Thundercracker as &quot;[[Collector's Edition]]&quot; Set C. The toy would later be more extensively released in 2003 as part of [[Hasbro]]'s [[Commemorative Series]] series IV, though due to US [[For safety reasons|toy-safety regulations]], his missiles were made extra-long since his spring-loaded launchers were now fully-functional.<br /> <br /> : In August, 2008, Skywarp was released with Thundercracker as number 11 in Takara's [[Transformers Encore]] line. For this release Skywarp's Decepticon symbols were painted and his purple stickers were changed to a much bluer shade of purple. Curiously, Skywarp's wing stripes in this release are factory-applied stickers, instead of the [[tampograph]]s on his two-pack buddy.<br /> <br /> : This mold was [[Redeco|redecoed]] into [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and retooled to make [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]].<br /> <br /> :For some reason, the stats on Skywarp's, Starscream's and Thundercracker's [[tech specs]] were switched around. Skywarp's box was given Starscream's numbers, which explains his high intelligence and rank. The actual specs intended for this toy, but accidentally given to Thundercracker, are presented here. Hasbro's Commemorative Series Skywarp reissue had his bio rewritten to explain his higher stats.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Machine Wars===<br /> [[Image:MWSkywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|After his near-fatal encounter with the Invert Colors function.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Basic, 1997)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 rifle halves<br /> : Sharing a mold once again with [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], Skywarp transforms into a white [[wikipedia:Rafale|Dassault Rafale]] fighter jet with spring-loaded one-step transformation from jet to robot. The two halves of his rifle store in his lower legs. Like all ''[[Machine Wars]]'' toys, Skywarp was an [[exclusive]] to Kay-Bee stores and related stores like Toy Liquidators.<br /> <br /> : This mold is also used by ''[[Beast Wars II (toyline)|Beast Wars II]]'' [[Dirge (BWII)|Dirge]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Skyfire (RID)|Skyfire]], ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' [[Wingstun]] and ''[[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]]'' [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]].<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Machine Wars'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Universe (2003)===<br /> [[Image:TFU03-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Like [[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]], except he can fly.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2003)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missiles<br /> <br /> :''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] in his Generation 1 colors. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter jet, armed with two spring-loaded projectile launchers that can fire orange &quot;energon&quot; bolts. These launchers end up in his arms in robot mode. He has a third robot mode that collapses the legs around the cockpit (oh hush), with flip-out panels revealing an extra pair of thrusters. His [[spark]] crystal, revealed by flipping the purple hatch on his back, has a Decepticon [[insignia]] [[tampograph]]ed on top of it.<br /> <br /> :Skywarp was also used to make ''Beast Machines'' [[Sonic Attack Jet]], ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Storm Jet (RID)|Storm Jet]], and ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Universe Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Smallest Transforming Transformers===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2003)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''GTF X-1'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' Skywarp was a very small-scale simplification of the original Generation 1 Seeker toy, retaining most of its functionality and accessories, except for his long null-rays. Skywarp was one of two [[Chase figure|chase figures]] from the first wave of the line.<br /> <br /> : This mold was redecoed from Starscream, then re-redecoed into Thundercracker, and finally retooled to make Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/SmallestSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> ===Robot Masters===<br /> [[Image:RMSkywarp toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Now with the proper articulation for down-stair-pushing.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp &amp;amp; Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, 2005)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;<br /> <br /> : ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from the same series, a smaller yet more advanced version of the original toy, adding more articulation and reducing the amount of [[Partformer|part-forming]] required. He was available only in a two-pack with Thundercracker, which also came with a Decepticon sigil pin and chromed missile pods. This set was the very last product released in the ''Robot Masters'' line and wasn't even strictly sold in a box from that series; instead, it used an [[e-Hobby]] ''Generation 1'' reissue box, with a small ''Robot Masters'' sticker in the corner tab noting its origin from the front.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Robot Masters'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Classics (2006)===<br /> [[Image:Class06-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ultra Magnus isn&amp;#39;t pictured because he was just pushed-well, you know.]]<br /> * '''Ultra Magnus vs Skywarp: Battle For Autobot City''' (Multi-pack, 2006)<br /> **''Accessories:'' Left &amp;amp; right missile launchers, 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' Skywarp is a slight retool of the ''Classics'' Starscream mold, transforming into an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-15 Eagle fighter jet]], though with a canopy like that of an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-14 Tomcat]]. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode and can attach under his wings in vehicle mode. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he also features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]]. <br /> <br /> : Skywarp was slightly [[Retool|retooled]] from the earlier Starscream figures. The retool is present in the jet intake area. The slope of his shoulders was decreased from Starscream's, and a rectangle added to the vertical area, making the number now five instead of four. This retooled version was used for all subsequent releases of the mold: ''Classics'' [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], as well as [[Acid Storm]] from ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]''. At the end of ''Classics'' Starscream's production run, he too used this version of the mold.<br /> <br /> : He was only available as part of a Target stores [[exclusive]] two-pack with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. The set's price was $19.99, despite including both a Voyager-class and Deluxe-class mold in it, which was approximately $30 worth of toys if they'd been sold separately. He was also available in Woolworth stores throughout the United Kingdom.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Classics Skywarp toy.jpg|Stock photos of ''Classics'' Skywarp]] showed a more detailed color scheme than the actual released figure. Much like ''Classics'' Ultra Magnus, the changes were most likely due to an overabundance of [[Paint operation]]s. This more detailed version was shown at [[BotCon 2006]] and at least one sample found its way to a collector's hands. The sample also used the original Starscream mold, and not the retooled version used for every version of the mold since and even including Starscream.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Classics'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Masterpiece===<br /> [[Image:MP-6 Skywarp.jpg|200px|thumb|Takara finally remembered what colors the Seekers are supposed to be.]]<br /> * '''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-6''' <br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 AIM missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot, Megatron Gun clasp, display stand<br /> <br /> : ''[[Masterpiece]]'' Skywarp was released in Japan in September of 2007. He is a redeco of the Masterpiece Starscream mold in black, gray, silver, and purple, though the purple and silver are more minimal than usual. Skywarp is able to switch between a minimally retooled stoic face and a new snarly face, retooled from Starscream's previous smirk. The tiny [[Doctor Arkeville]] pilot figurine (this time molded black) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> [[Image:MPSkywarp stickers.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Sadly, no stair-pusher sticker.]]<br /> : The sticker sheet includes Skywarp-esque stripes, as well as several whimsical squadron markings.<br /> <br /> :The second pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp (released in October 2008) features an assembly error: his left and right pectorals are flipped. This misassembly does not affect transformation at all, and is really only noticeable when compared to prior Masterpiece Seekers. The September 2007 pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp is assembled correctly. Masterpiece Thundercracker is misassembled as well.<br /> <br /> :It is a common misconception that the stoic face on Takara's Masterpiece Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker are the same, when all of them are in fact different sculpts.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Attacktix===<br /> *'''Skywarp'''<br /> <br /> : Skywarp was among the planned ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' game pieces that were showed at some conventions, but went unreleased as the line was canceled. He was to be a [[retool]] of sorts of the similarly unreleased ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], using the same weapon and base but a brand new jet mold. Skywarp would've been able to detach from his base and fly on a string, enabling him to get better shots of opposing pieces. Any other details about his role in the game are unknown.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> ===Titanium Series===<br /> [[Image:Titanium-toy WWSkywarp.JPG|right|300px|thumb|]]<br /> *'''War Within Skywarp''' (San Diego Comic-Con 2008 exclusive)<br /> <br /> : [[Titanium Series]] ''[[War Within (toyline)|War Within]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of Thundercracker, transforming into a Cybertronian &quot;tetrajet&quot; as reimagined by [[Don Figueroa]]. As with all 6-inch Titanium Cybertron Heroes, he is constructed mostly of fully painted die-cast metal. He was available only at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] after the Titanium line had already been cancelled, and also Hasbro Toy Shop's booth at [[wikipedia:San_Diego_Comic-Con|San Diego Comic-Con]] 2008.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''War Within'' Starscream, Sunstorm and Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/SDCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Titanium'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Henkei! Henkei!===<br /> [[Image:Henkei Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp grabbed the wrong launchers.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2008)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skywarp is a [[Toy Hobby Market]] exclusive redeco of ''Henkei! Henkei!'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Skywarp and his fellow [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were opened for pre-order on [[May 22]]nd through [[June 20]], and mailed out in September 2008.<br /> <br /> :Soon after release, there were numerous complaints from both Japanese and Western collectors about the poor quality control for both Thundercracker and Skywarp. Skywarp's most common fault was missing paint for one of his shoulders. Some reported both toys suffering misassembly issues such as having two left or two right thighs.<br /> <br /> :Several minor changes were made to this mold for this release. The holes for his missile launchers in his arms were widened, as were the launcher's insertion pegs. The wing's missile launcher insertion points were lengthened and are now curved at the end. The last rectangle on his air intakes, was further modified from the [[Classics (2006)|Classics]] version this time the bottom most rectangle goes completely across the air intake's surface rather than just the center. ''Henkei'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Generation 1 Series|Starscream]] also saw most of these changes.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Universe (2008)===<br /> [[Image:Universe2008-toy_MasterpieceSkywarp.jpg|thumb|right|300px|]]<br /> *'''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2009)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine, gun clip, two-piece display stand <br /> : A [[Wal-Mart]] exclusive redeco of the original Masterpiece Starscream mold. Just like Starscream, Skywarp is able to switch between two different faces. This release uses the Starscream's stoic and smirking alternate faces rather than the Takara Masterpiece Skywarp's newly-tooled stoic and snarling faces. Hasbro designer [[Joe_Kyde|Joe Kyde]] felt the alternate snarling face did not fit Skywarp's prankster personality, so he went with the Starscream smirk face instead when designing the deco for Hasbro's release. As a result of gang molding, Skywarp also uses Starscream's stoic face, the decision being the difference between Skywarp and Starscream's stoic face was negligible enough not to make a significant difference. The toy also features a more G1 toy styled deco rather than cartoon-based, particularly in the yellow eye color and wing stripes. His purple more closely matches that of the original toy than the purple used on the Takara version, and features a lighter flat black, like the original toy, instead of Takara's darker glossy black. The Hasbro version replaces some of the dark gray of the Takara version with a dark silver, removes the arm and chest striping, but adds additional red detailing, while removing some as well. Much like Hasbro's Starscream, he does not feature any of the warning or slogan tampographs, but features tampographed striping, Decepticon symbols, and some additional paint details not present on the Takara version.<br /> : The tiny Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine (molded in black with no paint applications) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime and a stand (featuring Skywarp's name) with a support beam for jet or robot mode. <br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Mortal minds cannot even comprehend the four-dimensional hyperstairs he can push you down.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp Witch Purple Pearl''' ([[May 29|5/29]]/2010)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''A-04'''<br /> <br /> :Skywarp is a [[retool]] of the simultaneously released ''[[Alternity (franchise)|Alternity]]'' Starscream with a new head, transforming into a licensed 1:32 scale [[wikipedia:Mitsuoka_Orochi|Mitsuoka Orochi]]. Like the other toys in the line, he will feature [[die-cast]] metal parts and rubber tires, as well as an opening hood, trunk and doors. In car mode, small wings can be flipped out from under Skywarp's rear wheels, giving him the appearance of a flying car. <br /> <br /> :This mold, with Skywarp's head, was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]].<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Decoy===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (1986)<br /> ** ''Decoy ID number:'' '''33'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Decoy]]'' Skywarp is a tiny, purple, soft-rubber figurine randomly packed with smaller toys at the time. To differentiate him from Starscream and Thundercracker, Skywarp is sculpted holding his arms above his head in a cheering pose.<br /> <br /> : Like all Decepticon Decoys, Skywarp was also available in red for a limited time. This release is considerably rarer than the regular purple one.<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Lucky Draw figure, 2001)<br /> <br /> : ''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' Skywarp is a non-transforming action figure [[redeco]]ed from ''SCF'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Limited to 200 pieces, he was only available as the second place prize in a [[Lucky Draw]] contest held in conjunction with the first edition of ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' (with the &quot;[[Starscream (G1)/toys#SecretStarscream|Secret Starscream]]&quot; toy as the first place prize). Due to the bankruptcy of the ''Transformers: Generations'' publisher, [[Keibunsha]], it is unknown whether the Japanese version of Skywarp was ever actually sent out or not.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''Super Collection Figure'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' (see below) Starscream, Thundercracker, [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and the [[Air Warrior]]s.<br /> <br /> ===Heroes of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2002)<br /> <br /> : When the ''Super Collection Figure'' line was brought to the US as ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', Skywarp was widely released as part of the first wave. Unlike ''SCF'', ''HOC'' figures were composed of transparent red plastic that was mostly painted over, giving them [[light-piping|&quot;light-up&quot; eyes]].<br /> <br /> * '''Decepticon''' (2003)<br /> <br /> : Same as the American version above, but part of an [[OTFCC 2003]]-exclusive six-pack of figures which also included Starscream, Thundercracker, and three [[Air Warrior]]s. It featured a more metallic paint job from the normal release and slightly different paint details.{{fact}}<br /> <br /> ===Legends of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2004, unreleased)<br /> <br /> [[Image:OTFCCSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Doesn't so much teleport as not exist in the first place.]]<br /> <br /> : A redeco of ''Mega Super Figure Collection'' G1 Starscream (minus the extra coronation accessories, open-palm hands, and the hand wielding Megatron in gun mode), Skywarp was to be among the first of the fan club exclusives offered by [[The Official Transformers Collectors Convention|OTFCC]] as well as the first in their ''Legends of Cybertron'' line. The figure was delayed and never saw a full release due to [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]] losing the license to run the official Transformers fan club. At least a couple of sample versions were produced.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Palisades===<br /> [[Image:PalisadesSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Decepticon on a stick! Get yer Decepticon on a stick!]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Palisades, 2005)<br /> <br /> :A ''SmallBluePlanet''-exclusive redeco of the Starscream statue, Skywarp is a six inch tall polystone statue with articulated head and arms. He can stand normally or use a stand to take on a &quot;hovering&quot; pose. Skywarp was limited to 300 pieces, and sculpted by [[3L Creation Group]] from a design by [[George Tremarco]].<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker and the Ghost of Starscream.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Robot Heroes===<br /> [[Image:Robot Hero Skywarp.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Clearly just after shoving Starscream down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> * '''Decepticon Sneak Attack''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : Skywarp is one of the five exclusive figures in Wal-Mart's &quot;Decepticon Sneak Attack&quot; set, alongside [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], [[Mirage (G1)|holographic Mirage]] and &quot;Supermetal Finish&quot; versions of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. He's a black and purple redeco of Starscream, yes. His left hand's for pushing you down stairs, his right fist's for pumping the air in victory. Sweet, sweet stair-based victory.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : A 25-point &quot;uncommon&quot; character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s &quot;Energon Wars&quot; expansion, Skywarp &quot;transforms&quot; into a black and purple jet. He uses the same parts layout as [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]].<br /> <br /> ==Trivia==<br /> * Skywarp's one-line characterization in the original Transformers [[production bible]] was &quot;sneaky but dumb&quot;. Hee hee. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#034] In a more peculiar note, his longer write-up in the production bible noted that he was colored olive drab. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#038] This error isn't as unusual as one might first think, as Skywarp was the only first-year jet whose colors didn't originate in ''[[Diaclone]]''—thus, they simply may not have been decided upon when the production bible was written.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpatron.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Skywarp really DID need close supervision.]]<br /> * In a possible fit of madness, a triple changer was proposed that would switch between Skywarp (possibly mistaken for Starscream), [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and Skywarp's jet mode.<br /> <br /> * Character bios written by unknown persons for the Australian (Madman) DVD release of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' definitely claim that [[Cyclonus (G1)|Skywarp became Cyclonus]]. Basically, nobody considers that weighty &quot;evidence&quot;.<br /> <br /> * Skywarp is the only Seeker with wing stripes that are not red.<br /> <br /> * For such a popular character, Skywarp doesn't DO much of anything in the original show.<br /> <br /> * [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Machine_Wars|Despite]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Classics_.282006.29|many]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Heroes_of_Cybertron|releases]], [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Titanium_Series|Skywarp]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Henkei.21_Henkei.21|is]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Universe_.282008.29|usually]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Robot_Heroes|an]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Generation_1_2|exclusive.]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;amp;char=Skywarp Skywarp's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Alternity characters]]<br /> [[Category:Attacktix]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Machines characters]]<br /> [[Category:Classics characters]]<br /> [[Category:Convention exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 2 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Henkei! Henkei! characters]]<br /> [[Category:Machine Wars characters]]<br /> [[Category:Robot Heroes]]<br /> [[Category:3D Battle-Cards]]<br /> [[Category:Robot Masters characters]]<br /> [[Category:Seekers]]<br /> [[Category:Target exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Universe characters]]<br /> [[Category:Wal-Mart exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Wreckers]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Skywarp_(G1)&diff=474815 2010-07-06T21:03:10Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticon|decepticong2|wreckers}}<br /> {{disambig3|Skywarp}}<br /> :''Skywarp is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[Teleportation]] is a dangerous tool in the hands of a capable adversary. Thankfully for the [[Autobot|Autobots]], '''Skywarp''' is the Decepticon who possesses that ability. Skywarp's not so bright, so without supervision he's worthless as a warrior. He mostly uses his teleportation power for immature pranks on both friend and foe. He takes a charmingly puerile angle at thuggery, so his pranks are well-received amongst his Decepticon peers (excepting the victim, of course). <br /> His Partner is [[Acid Storm]].<br /> Because, come on, a surprise push down a staircase is ''hilarious''.<br /> <br /> {{quote|Don't think. Just do.|Skywarp's life motto|[[Megatron Origin issue 4|''Megatron Origin'' #4]]}}<br /> <br /> :''French-Canadian name'': '''Fraudeur''' (&quot;Cheater&quot; or &quot;Evader&quot; or &quot;Smuggler&quot;)<br /> :''Hungarian name'': '''Égretörő''' (&quot;Sky-springer&quot;)<br /> :''Italian name'': '''Corvo''' (&quot;Crow&quot;)<br /> :''Japanese name'': '''Warp'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Portugal comics)'': '''Espião Celeste'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Brazil comics)'': '''Viajante''' (&quot;Traveller&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Tīen Wān''' (天彎, &quot;Sky Warp&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (China):'' '''Nao Fan Tian''' (鬧翻天, &quot;Extreme Ruckus&quot;)<br /> :''Russian TV dub name:'' '''Deformer'''<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> ====Generation 1====<br /> {{noteukonly}}<br /> [[Image:Introdump decepticons marvelus01.jpg|left|300px|thumb|You can tell Skywarp apart from Thundercracker in the Marvel Comics by, uh.... let us get back to you on that.]]<br /> Skywarp was one of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron's]] troops who attacked the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] during its mission to clear a path for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] through an asteroid field. He was deactivated when it crashed on [[Earth]], and he lay dormant for four million years. When he and his fellow Decepticons awoke, Skywarp was given a new [[Alternate mode|altmode]], that of an Earth jet. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} He aided the Decepticons in their building of their new base constructed of parts from [[Harrison Nuclear Power Plant]] and joined in their attack on [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s auto repair shop. After the successful abduction of Sparkplug Witwicky, Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] defended their base from [[Autobot|Autobots]], though [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Spider-Man]] were able to sneak through and rescue Sparkplug. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}<br /> <br /> ''When Starscream fired upon his teammate [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] for eavesdropping on his plot to overthrow Megatron, Skywarp and the other Decepticons sought deadly revenge on the Decepticon [[Air Commander]]. {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}} Though Starscream escaped, the Decepticons soon regrouped to attack the Ark, but their battle was ended prematurely when [[Auntie]], the Ark's computer system, magnetized the walls, immobilizing both factions. {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}} On another occasion, he and Thundercracker made a strafing run on two Autobot spies, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. Jazz was deafened and blasted off the road, but Sunstreaker led them into a human military zone, prompting Megatron to call them back to base. {{storylink|Perchance to Dream}}'' Skywarp also traveled with the Decepticons to the [[United Kingdom]], where he and his teammates attempted to learn about a mysterious Autobot rescue ship buried under a castle. An initial attack on the Autobots left Skywarp seriously wounded by a bomb from [[Bluestreak]]. {{storylink|Man of Iron (story)|Man of Iron}}<br /> <br /> Though Sparkplug Witwicky was able to devise a way for the Decepticons to convert Earth fuel into a usable substance, he also poisoned the result, so Skywarp and his fellow Decepticons were immobilized at the climax of their would-be final battle with the Autobots. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} The Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] took command of the Decepticons and the Ark shortly thereafter and nursed Skywarp and his comrades back to full health. Skywarp may have helped Shockwave attempt to capture and brainwash [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] into a Decepticon, or it may have been Thundercracker without red stripes. It's hard to tell. {{storylink|Plight of the Bumblebee!}}<br /> <br /> He served the Decepticon cause up until he was deactivated while battling [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and placed in prison stasis at Autobot headquarters. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Target_2006_fake_Starscream_dies.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nope. Guess again.]]<br /> ''When [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] traveled back from the year 2006 to build a super-weapon to destroy [[Unicron]], Skywarp was a key player in the defeat of the mad Decepticon. Sorta.'' <br /> <br /> ''The Autobots took Skywarp out of stasis, painted him to look like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], and sent him stumbling toward Galvatron with a tape-recorder of Starscream's voice on his back. Galvatron, still sore about Starscream tossing him out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] during his Megatron days, shot and presumably killed Skywarp. Galvatron then realized that if he killed Starscream in the past then there'd be no way he could have killed Starscream in the future (never mind that killing Skywarp now opens up that whole issue of [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus' identity]]). Believing he was in an alternate past and thus nothing he did there would affect his personal timeline, Galvatron hurried back to his proper time. Way to take one for the team, Skywarp. {{storylink|Target: 2006}}''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpgoofyteleportation.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Upon close inspection, Skywarp's teleportation power is merely a goofy loop-de-loop.]]<br /> During a massive battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth's moon, Skywarp and the other Decepticons held in stasis aboard the Ark were liberated by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and subsequently brought back online. {{storylink|Totaled!}} During the first Decepticon Civil War, Skywarp battled with [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s Decepticons against [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons. Skywarp surprised [[Bugly]] with his teleportation powers and blasted him, temporarily stunning him. However, Bugly successfully returned fire, striking where he guessed Skywarp would next teleport. {{storylink|Cold War!}} Skywarp was repaired in time to face an [[Underbase]]-powered Starscream in [[Tokyo]], but both he and Thundercracker were destroyed by their former flying partner. {{storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Generation 2''====<br /> Optimus Prime, learning of the Decepticons' attacks on Earth, traveled there alone not to fight them but to talk Megatron out of it. Prime was really surprised to learn that this was a really stupid idea, and as Megatron tore Prime apart and severed the Matrix from his body, Skywarp stood by with other Decepticons and watched. He and the rest of the Decepticons retreated with the Matrix when the Autobots showed up to save Prime. {{storylink|The Gathering Darkness}}<br /> <br /> The Autobots and the Decepticons had just agreed to make an alliance against the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]], but the Decepticons disagreed about aiding other planets' people. When the Autobots went alone to fight the Cybertronians, they almost were defeated, until Skywarp (yes, this article is about him) suddenly warped into the battle, followed by the rest of the Decepticon army, to aid the Autobots. <br /> <br /> And you just know he mocked the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] he saved. ''Relentlessly.'' {{storylink|Escalation!}}<br /> <br /> ====''Classics''====<br /> {{note|Classics is a [[splinter timeline]] from the Marvel US continuity that does not include events from either ''Generation 2'' or the Marvel UK issues.}}<br /> His broken body rescued from [[Tokyo]], Skywarp was rebuilt using Shockwave's upgraded [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] schematics. He was told that it was Starscream, driven mad with the power of the [[Underbase]], who did him in. Skywarp's okay with that. After all, the traitor's going to have to let down his guard sometime. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 14|''Classic'' Skywarp's profile}}<br /> <br /> After the appearance of the mysterious crossdimensional Decepticon [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], Skywarp and the other rebuilt Decepticons under Megatron's command traveled to [[South America]] to investigate an equally mysterious power source that seemed to share traits with Landquake. En route, they were attacked by [[Walter Barnett]]'s [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNT]] squad. {{storylink|Crossing Over, Part 2}} Skywarp managed to shake off these interlopers just before Optimus Prime and his Autobots arrived in search of this same power source, and a new battle between the factions began in the jungles surrounding the power source. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 3}} As the battle escalated, Skywarp and Starscream fought [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] across the skies, {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 5}} but ultimately, Megatron was forced to call for a withdrawal. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 6}}<br /> <br /> With his nosecone still battered from the fight, Skywarp came with Starscream and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] to investigate what [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] and his crew were doing on Earth. He was happy to see that Thundercracker was among them, but less so when his old buddy shot a [[cerebro-shell]] at him, forcing him to follow Bug Bite's commands. Skywarp and the others were sent to assassinate Megatron, but were soon freed from Bug Bite's control due to Autobot interference. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===<br /> ====''The Transformers'' cartoon====<br /> :''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese), [[Jacques Ferrière]] (French)<br /> <br /> [[Image:Tetrajet seekers.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Cybertron alt-mode (left). The early Decepticons promoted geometry.]]<br /> In the early days of the Decepticon rebellion, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] both faced the powerful protectors of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] cities, the [[Guardian Robots]]. Even millions of years later, the powerful Guardians struck fear into Skywarp's spark. {{storylink|War Dawn}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of the elite Decepticons that served [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] on Cybertron four million years ago. Skywarp and his fellow Seekers came across the Autobots [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] pilfering [[conductor|energy conductors]], and tried to eliminate the Auto-jerks. Once Wheeljack broke through their defenses, Skywarp and Thundercracker transformed to their tetrajet modes and followed the Autobots. They managed to get a good shot in against Bumblebee, but soon both Autobots escaped termination by taking the chase underground. Skywarp later joined Megatron in attacking and boarding the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot ship]] on their search for energy. After crash-landing on Earth, the Decepticons and Autobots laid dormant for four million years, until volcanic activity stirred the ship's computer back to life. Skywarp was the first of the ship's Transformers to be reformatted and awakened by [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], in the form of an Earthen F-15 fighter jet. Once active, Skywarp immediately dragged his master Megatron's body into the reformatting rays of the Ark's computer, and soon all the Decepticons were revived. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Since the Decepticons were so badly short-staffed during their early days on Earth, Skywarp was usually involved in whatever crazy plot for universal domination Megatron was hatching. This included attacks on an off-shore oil rig, [[Sherman Dam]] and the [[Ruby Crystal Mines of Burma|ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. On the last raid, Skywarp and Thundercracker caught a pair of snoops -- Bumblebee and the human, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. They were knocking the little Autobot around for fun, and pondering how to giftwrap him for Megatron, when an explosion caused the mine to cave in around them. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} When the Decepticons escaped the Burma operation with a cache of energon cubes, Skywarp requested permission from Megatron to teleport in order to scare off Autobot pursuers. Teleporting behind the strangely airborne duo of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Bluestreak]], Skywarp pasted the ornery old Autobot with a heat-seeking missile, knocking him out of the sky that he probably shouldn't have been able to fly around in anyway. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:TransporttoOblivion Skywarp Prowl punchy.jpg|left|180px|thumb|&quot;[[Bumblebee (G1)|Punch-buggy yellow]]!&quot;]]<br /> When [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] was caught spying on the Decepticons' new [[Space Bridge]], Skywarp and Starscream captured him for Megatron. After Bumblebee was reprogrammed to led the Autobots into a trap, Skywarp biffed [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] from behind, causing him to fall down in an almost pushing-down-stairs-like fashion. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} After the Decepticons acquired the [[antimatter]] formula, they were en route to the Ark when [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] intercepted them, practicing their jet judo maneuvers. Skywarp was being thrown off-course by Sideswipe's antics until Starscream knocked the Autobot warrior loose. During the battle, Megatron charged himself up with the Decepticons' new toy, and transformed into an &quot;anti-matter gun&quot; to obliterate the Autobots. After Starscream had his turn with the gun, Skywarp got ready to blow some Autobots away too. Before he could start, however, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] attacked his leg with a jackhammer. He scooped up the puny fleshling and was about to blast him with the anti-matter gun (and, incidentally, probably blow his own hand off in the process) when [[Chip Chase]] attached a computer override device invented by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], which allowed Teletraan I to take brief control of his body. Skywarp started firing Megatron's anti-matter power at the other Decepticons, overheating the unstable power supply and forcing the Decepticons to retreat. {{storylink|Roll for It}} <br /> <br /> {{bigquote|You little fool... You're no match for Skywarp!|Skywarp announces his superiority to a kid in a wheelchair.|&quot;[[Roll for It]]&quot;}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was later part of a Decepticon raid on a factory, apparently in a very playful mood with his teleporting power. First he 'ported behind some human guards to taunt them before making them scatter with laser fire. Then, when Thundercracker blased open some power lines to begin filling his energon cubes, Skywarp &quot;cut in line&quot; by teleporting between Thundercracker and the energy to fill his own cube first. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] showed up to stop them, Skywarp fired a heat-seeking missile at him, only for Prime to deflect it with a punch. The Autobot was eventually defeated, and Skywarp ran off with some [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}} <br /> <br /> When the Decepticons began draining heat energy out of Earth's core using a crystal shaft in the Arctic, Skywarp got a bit bored at the lack of real action. He was in the middle of taunting Rumble when the two of them accidentally caused a miniature avalanche in one of the caves. By sheer happenstance, this led to the Decepticons recovering the long-lost [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] from an icy tomb. Skywarp helped perform repairs on the giant flier, though it was probably better for all concerned if somebody with actual knowledge had performed these repairs. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}} <br /> <br /> During a battle at [[Great Falls]] hydroelectric power facility, the newly-constructed [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] arrived to rescue the beleagured Autobots, who had been captured by the Decepticons. Skywarp foolishly attempted to beat the flamethrowing [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] with a mere pair of heat-seeking missiles, and ended up being grabbed out of the air by the mighty jaws of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], who chomped on his wing and threw Skywarp into his fellow Megatron loyalist [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Soon afterwards, during an operation in [[Peru]], Skywarp got to be Megatron's favorite Seeker for the day after Starscream and Thundercracker stole poor-quality steel for their latest super-weapon. He had fun taunting the egotistic 'Screamer when Megatron called him to battle, leaving the other Seekers behind on mere guard duty. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}} Later, Skywarp helped Megatron steal a giant meteor, although its unstable power proved too dangerous to use for energon cubes. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was in a playful mood during the Decepticons' raid of a solar power plant in [[India]], cracking wise and hoping to play a game of catch...with the rajah as the ball. He had even more fun in a quick free-for-all with the Autobots, a distraction so that the Decepticons could kidnap one of the Autobots' fleshling friends as a guinea pig for [[Doctor Arkeville]]'s mind-control experiments. Skywarp enjoyed himself so much, he got in a fight with Starscream on the way back to headquarters about how ''brilliant'' Megatron's plan was. Thundercracker had to jump out of the way while the two of them roughhoused in the elevator. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} Thanks in part to Arkeville's [[hypno-chip]] slaves, the Decepticons were able to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, creating massive environmental disturbances that produced millions of energon cubes. What's more, transporting energon to Cybertron was now just a short flight away. Unfortunately, the devastation was greater than Megatron had anticipated. While Skywarp was on a return flight from Cybertron, a tidal wave broke off the access tower to the Decepticons' undersea base, flooding it. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Skywarp was present at the final battle before the Autobots knocked Cybertron out of orbit, and fled when Megatron abandoned his troops to escape with the energon cubes. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} With Megatron seemingly destroyed as his star cruiser exploded with the cubes on-board, the Decepticons were left rudderless. While working on repairs for their undersea base, tempers flared as Skywarp picked a fight with his favorite target, Rumble, and his pint-sized partner, [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. Skywarp bit off more than he could chew, however, as Frenzy's surprising strength overcame Skywarp as he tried to crush the mini-cassette beneath his heel. Thundercracker and Soundwave started to get involved in the fracas too, but Megatron soon arrived to put his house back in order. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Changegearsskywarp.jpg|thumb|200px|left|What you see when he pushes you down the stairs.]]Like all Decepticons, Skywarp provided his [[power chip rectifier]] to Megatron for his single combat with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}} When the Decepticons attacked another rocket base, Skywarp and Thundercracker attempted to double-team Optimus Prime, but only succeeded in destroying the very rockets they came to plunder. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Later, the Decepticons attacked a mining camp to lure the Autobots out into the open, and Skywarp stood guard over the humans being used as bait. After they used the opportunity to kidnap [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] for his special circuit board, Skywarp later helped fill the energon cubes from Megatron's [[Solar Needle]]. {{storylink|Changing Gears}} As the Decepticons took over New York to create the city of New Cybertron, Skywarp was seen loading cars into [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]'s drum for reconstruction. He and Thundercracker were later damaged after trying to take some potshots at Optimus Prime, only to miss and crash straight through a building in the process. {{storylink|City of Steel}} He also served in a later assault on the Ark, distracting the Autobots long enough for Megatron to sneak inside and mess with their [[recharging chamber]]s. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}<br /> <br /> Rather stoic in recent weeks, Skywarp was back to his cheery but malicious self when he and Starscream went after some [[electro-cell]]s at the [[Experimental Energy Research Laboratory]]. While breaking through the roof of the installation, Skywarp merrily remarked on the joy of opening presents. During a fight with the Autobot named [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], one of Skywarp's insignia was ripped off, and later planted to help turn the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Traitor}} During a battle with the Autobots over the [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]], Skywarp unleashed his new toy: a [[bouncer bomb]]. This weapon ricocheted through the trees, explosively bouncing from one side of the battlefield to another. Unfortunately, the Decepticons were also subject to its &quot;friendly fire&quot; until Megatron shot the blasted thing down. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp's teleportation power did come in useful when he was needed to sneak up on the Autobots with the [[Transfixatron]]. One quick zap and they were all frozen in vehicle mode. However, he failed to zap ALL the Autobots, which ultimately led to the undoing of Megatron's scheme. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} Skywarp was present during the Decepticon alliance with [[Sub-Atlantica]], and was part of their attack on Washington D.C. He and Thundercracker strafed the Autobots while in battle on the Great Lawn. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} When the Decepticons stole the ninja robot [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]], Skywarp used his grapples to pull the roof off of the demonstration ampitheater, allowing Starscream and Thundercracker to swoop in and grab the robot. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and his flying buddies once attempted to triple-team Optimus Prime in battle, but failed to do more than provide Optimus with a chance to toss a good quip. Strangely, Skywarp was later seen throwing what looking like a standard pineapple grenade at the Autobots. It was effective enough, but looked as out of place as an AK or a tommygun in Transformer hands. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} When the Decepticons made yet another attempt at harnessing some sort of power from the Earth's core, Skywarp defended their drilling operation from the Autobots. He and the Seekers attempted to bomb the Autobots from the air, but a scattering of explosive missiles from [[Bluestreak]]'s shoulder launchers took them out of the fight. {{storylink|The Core}}<br /> <br /> During the assault on Iron Mountain, Skywarp was briefly taken over by [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s [[cerebro-shell]]s during a tiff between Megatron and the Insecticons. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}} He also joined the Decepticon expedition to [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], to loot and plunder its various sources of energy. Skywarp was eager to do battle with the Dinobots when they arrived to defend their new home...which just goes to show Skywarp's kinda stupid. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} When the Autobots eventually arrived to help drive the Decepticons off of Dinobot Island, they were aided by a band of dinosaurs themselves, prodded onwards by [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. Skywarp and Thundercracker found their lasers ineffective against the charging brutes, and were forced to retreat with the rest of their army. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> During some aerial dogfighting with the Autobot ace, [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], Skywarp took a nasty hit to the wing. He must have managed to limp back to base, because he was present for Megatron's interrogation of the Constructicons a short while later. {{storylink|The Master Builders}} When the Decepticons went after [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s latest super-weapon, the [[Negavator]], Skywarp and the Seekers strafed the Autobot convoy in a box canyon. Their efforts were blocked by [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]'s disruptor beams and magnetic smoke, which left the Seekers unable to see or navigate in any way. Skywarp and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] ended up in a three-way collision with each other and a canyon wall. {{storylink|Auto Berserk}} Once, the Decepticons were pre-emptively celebrating the destruction of the Autobots after Megatron acquired the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. They got over-energized on energon cubes and passed out in the desert. Five'll get you ten, whoever passed out closest to Skywarp woke up with a [[Scraplet]] drawn on their face in permanent marker. {{storylink|Microbots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was a participant in the ultimate prank against the Autobots. Using Autobot costumes left over from last Halloween, Skywarp and some others raided an oil refinery for fuel, only to be driven off when the &quot;heroic&quot; Decepticons arrived to stop the &quot;evil&quot; Autobots. The entire scene was filmed by [[Shawn Berger]] and used to smear the Autobots' good name so severely that they were forced to abandon Earth entirely in a rocket cruiser. Ha HA! {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} The fleshlings didn't appreciate the joke when they found out the punchline, but Skywarp and the Decepticons were too busy enslaving [[Central City (G1)|Central City]] to care. As bad luck would have it, though, the Autobots managed to make their way back to Earth, and drive off the Decepticon occupation. Killjoys. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> When the Decepticons set up a temporary base of operations at the airport, Optimus Prime sent in the Dinobots to clear them out. Skywarp and the other jets were caught off-guard initially, but the Decepticons had learned from previous encounters that the Dinobots were more vulnerable in their robot modes. By feigning defeat, Skywarp and the others lured the Dinobots into a false sense of security, and they transformed back to robot mode. Skywarp and Megatron then unleashed a barrage of energy, igniting the jumbo jets on the tarmac and causing the Dinobots tremendous damage. The Decepticons finally scored a decent victory against the Dinos, and they owed it all to a dirty underhanded sneak attack. It was a good day to be Skywarp. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Like most of the Decepticons, Skywarp was rendered temporarily invulnerable due to exposure to [[electrum]]. Invincibility didn't make him any better a prison guard, though, as even [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] was able to overpower him and escape from the Decepticons' undersea headquarters. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} Skywarp was seen delivering the Insecticons' share of the energon harvested from their clones using Megatron's energon transference process. Since the meager three cubes the Insecticons got were a small pittance compared to how many were actually being generated, Skywarp was surely snickering to himself as he handed them over. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}} When the Space Bridge materialized in the middle of a baseball stadium, Skywarp and Soundwave got into a friendly game of catch...with flesh-creatures as the ball. Then the Autobots had to show up and ruin their fun. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}}<br /> <br /> Later on, Skywarp and the Seekers kidnapped a group of Earth's world leaders, but ran into the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s during their getaway. Skywarp nearly nailed [[Slingshot]] with a loop-the-loop, coming down on him from above, but was shot down by [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]. {{storylink|War Dawn}} One day, Skywarp and Thundercracker were guarding the Space Bridge when Starscream arrived. After showing them his authorization (which looked suspiciously like a null ray rifle), they allowed Starscream to travel to Cybertron. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}} At Megatron's command, Skywarp travelled to [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] headquarters to check up on their progress in the latest Decepticon scheme. At Megatron's command, Skywarp landed at the empty base. At Megatron's command, he began to follow the mysterious trail of loose Combaticon parts leading out of the canyon. You gotta wonder what Skywarp is capable of without constant supervision...{{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}<br /> <br /> In 2005, Skywarp was part of a massive [[Battle of Autobot City|Decepticon attack]] on [[Autobot City]] on Earth. He was badly damaged during the battle, but managed to escape with the rest of his comrades aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. However, en route to Cybertron he was tossed out into space with other badly damaged Decepticons so that the rest would be able to make it home. Skywarp's body was gathered by [[Unicron]] and, among others, used to make [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s new warriors. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Skywarp arguably became either [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] or [[Cyclonus's Armada]], the identical warrior who was never seen again. Either way, Skywarp effectively ceased existing.}}<br /> <br /> ====Japanese cartoon continuity====<br /> {{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as described above. The Japanese continuity then proceeds to insert several additional stories into the timeline, as follows.}}<br /> <br /> =====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic=====<br /> <br /> Under orders from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], Skywarp accompanied [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] in an energy raid on [[Tokyo]]. Things were going well, as they enjoyed bombing pedestrians and children while screaming their demands for energy to the Heavens, at least until [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a unit of Autobot vehicles arrived. Though their victory seemed assured when they unleashed [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] on their foes, their strategy was undone when the Autobots drove up a ramp at top speed, transformed to vehicle mode and punched everybody in the face. Skywarp was forced to retreat. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 1|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp later took part in an all-out assault on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] in [[Arizona]]. The attack was nothing more than a diversion so [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] could go do unspecified ''stuff'' in Japan and the Decepticons were eventually defeated and driven off. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 2|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2}}<br /> <br /> =====Full Throttle Scramble Power!=====<br /> As Megatron bragged to [[Toru]] that the Decepticons would strip Earth of all its resources, Skywarp (or Thundercracker) was shown attacking a power plant. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}<br /> <br /> =====''The Stargate Battles''=====<br /> Skywarp participated in Megatron's first attempted takover of the [[Warp Gate|Trigger]], bursting out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] alongside the other Seekers. {{storylink|First Contact}}<br /> <br /> =====''Robot Masters'' online comic=====<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)#Issue 13|And Then}}<br /> <br /> ===''Universe''===<br /> <br /> In [[2005]], when [[Unicron]] rebuilt Skywarp into [[Cyclonus's Armada]], Skywarp was also reprogrammed to obey Cyclonus. Even later, when Skywarp's original personality reasserted itself, that mental link remained. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Though no reason is stated in-story as to how or why or when Skywarp got this new body between the Great War and the [[Beast Era]], ''Wreckers'' plotter [[Glen Hallit]] noted that Skywarp's body was based on a mass-production body type of its day, similar to Generation 1's [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]].}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Wreckersskywarpcyclonus.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Looks like Cyclonus was Bombshell. Neener neener.]]<br /> <br /> After the Decepticons lost the Great War and [[Maximal|Maximals]] and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] claimed [[Cybertron (planet)|the planet]], [[Megatron (BW)|another Megatron]] subjugated nearly every Transformer alive with a transformation-lock virus and an army of [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]. Skywarp was one of the handful of Transformers who had slipped through Megatron's fingers, and eventually he and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] joined up with the legendary strike team, the [[Wrecker|Wreckers]]. Given a mission by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], the Wreckers fought through an army of Vehicons (Cyclonus, Skywarp, and [[Rotorbolt (Universe)|Rotorbolt]] took care of the [[Spy Streak]] drones) to steal an Autobot shuttle in order to get off-planet. {{storylink|Departure}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp served as the shuttle's pilot, which served as a point of contention when the bounty hunter [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] stowed away on board, who didn't like that the Wreckers apparently now included Decepticons and Predacons among their ranks. As the shuttle approached the [[Archa system]], their given destination, Skywarp detected the homing beacon of the ''[[Sojourner's Passage]]'', an exploration ship that was lost centuries ago. Since the Autobot shuttle had been damaged en route, once it had landed on [[Archa Nine]], Skywarp helped repair it while others searched the surface. While Skywarp was occupied with this, Cyclonus revealed himself as a traitor, stealing the [[Divine Light]], a mysterious artifact the Wreckers were sent by the Oracle to find. {{storylink|Betrayal}} <br /> <br /> [[Image:Disclosure-Skywarphonor.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Heh.]]<br /> <br /> Though it's likely Skywarp didn't really care, the rest of the Wreckers were dealt a blow to morale after this betrayal. Regardless, the Wreckers set off for a new destination given by the Oracle, a desolate ice planet on which a search team found an exiled [[Quintesson]] scientist named [[Al-Badur]]. While Al-Badur was explaining the meaning of the Divine Light, an army of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] attacked both the search team and Skywarp and the others back at the shuttle. Skywarp was able to easily destroy their attackers. The search team returned to the shuttle, and Primal Prime told Skywarp that he'd be taking direction from the Quintesson. Al-Badur asked Skywarp what compelled him to join this team of Autobots and Maximals; Skywarp told him it involved &quot;returning a favor&quot; and &quot;Decepticon honor,&quot; things he wouldn't understand. {{storylink|Disclosure}} <br /> <br /> {{note|In the unpublished script to ''[[The Wreckers: Finale Part 1|The Wreckers'' #4]], after receiving an encrypted message, Skywarp flew the Wreckers back to Cybertron as quickly as possible. [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] and his Quintesson partners had invaded. But on arrival to Cybertron, the Quintessons' attacks were so thick that they kept the shuttle from being able to land. Primal Prime ordered a few of the Wreckers off the ship to join the troops below, while Rodimus, Skywarp, and the remainder were to land elsewhere.}}<br /> <br /> In the aftermath of Cyclonus's betrayal, the other Wreckers were understandably wary of Skywarp, though the Decepticon claimed he had no part or knowledge of his fellow Decepticon's actions. While circling overhead Cybertron, the Wreckers' shuttle was critically hit. Rodimus told everyone else to evacuate while he kept the ship level, but Skywarp chose this moment to strike. He knocked Rodimus away and told [[Tap-Out (G1)|Tap-Out]] to help everyone else disembark; the Decepticon was going to guide the shuttle down. When it landed, taking out a large portion of the Sharkticon invading forces in a fantastic explosion, the Wreckers were shocked. Skywarp had sacrificed his life for them? As Rodimus began to give a regretful eulogy for the untrusted Decepticon, Skywarp appeared behind them, laughing about his sweet maneuver. He had, of course, used his warping power to leave the ship at the last moment. &quot;Did you see that? I think I managed to shove the forward nacelle antennae right through the Quint Overseer!&quot; Everyone grumbled.<br /> <br /> As their group joined the battle against Cryotek and Cyclonus within Cybertron, it seemed Skywarp may not have been so forthright after all. He violently silenced the overbearing Ramulus (muttering that he was surprised no one thanked him) and took his place at Cyclonus's side. Rodimus was understandably confused and hurt, but Skywarp told the Autobot that he'd more than paid him back recently and he no longer owed the Wreckers anything. Cyclonus laughed, and told the Wreckers of his mental link to Skywarp. But Skywarp muttered, having &quot;always ''hated'' that,&quot; and attacked Cyclonus. He reappeared at the Wreckers' side again, noting that he'd only harmed Ramulus to get in Cyclonus' good graces long enough to deal the blow. <br /> <br /> [[Image:Revelations-Skywarppunched.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Unfortunately, Unicron has no stairs.]]<br /> <br /> {{quote|I'll settle with the zoo crew later. But ''you''... I ''never'' liked you. Even when you were a [[Bombshell (G1)|''bug'']] I hated your stinkin' circuits. Like I said, only [[Megatron (G1)|''one'' guy]] ever bossed ''me'' around, and it sure as slag ain't ''you.''}}<br /> <br /> But Cyclonus had scores of Sharkticons at his disposal, and they quickly filled the chamber. Rodimus wanted to throttle Skywarp for what he'd done to Ramulus, but Skywarp shrewdly pointed out that they had bigger problems at the moment. But in the middle of the battle, a strange surge of energy passed through the subterranean chamber, flowing through Tap-Out and Skywarp, causing both to disappear in a flash of light. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and Tap-Out had been abducted by Unicron and, under undisclosed circumstances, Skywarp joined [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]]'s [[Minions of Unicron]] during the [[Universe war|Universe conflict]]. During the final battle within the [[Pit]], he was defeated by [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave comics continuity===<br /> {{notekeepers}}<br /> In the early days of the war, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were sent to blow up a building full of pesky [[neutral]]s in [[Altihex]]. He took a second to wonder if it was the right thing to do—not because it was morally wrong or anything, but because it was ''too easy''. Thundercracker didn't have much input, so Skywarp just went &quot;Sure, why not,&quot; and murdered the neutrals. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1}} Some time later, the two came with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he tried to sway [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] into joining the Decepticons. Skywarp tried to stop Starscream from spilling the beans about the Seekers' next mission at [[Sector Zero-Six]], but was told to shut up. When the trio later carried out said mission, they found that Grimlock had evacuated the area and placed a bomb to welcome them. Skywarp barely had time to teleport himself and his comrades away before the place went up in flames. {{storylink|The War Within Preview}} When Starscream decided to blame Megatron for what happened, Skywarp snapped and pointed out that it was all ''his'' fault for ''telling the enemy about their mission'', then took off with Thundercracker. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Following the sudden disappearance of Megatron, the Decepticons split into several splinter groups, but Skywarp stayed with the main faction under the command of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. He participated in an attack on the minions of [[The Fallen]] in [[Protihex]], where his teleporting power enabled him to get the best of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and gun him down. {{storylink|Conflagration}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of several Decepticon invaders on board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed into [[Earth]] four million years ago while the Autobot ship was clearing an asteroid in the path of Cybertron. <br /> <br /> In 2002, he was one of the Transformers who survived the disastrous launch of the sabotaged ''[[Ark II]]'' and were later captured and reprogrammed by arms dealer [[Lazarus|Adam &quot;Lazarus&quot; Rook]], who intended to rent out the services of the enslaved robots to various terrorist groups. After Megatron reactivated himself, he freed his Decepticon subordinates in order to put forward his plans to infect Earth with a metallic virus of doom. To pass the time while this happened, Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp busied themselves by tearing apart the Autobot Minicar team. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp later participated in Megatron's attack on [[San Francisco]], where he followed Starscream's orders to maintain formation and drop cluster bombs on the Autobot giant [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], forcing the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] to split into their separate robot forms. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp presumably stood watch over the defeated Autobots while Megatron tried to persuade [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to help the Decepticons conquer Earth. After some human firefighters distracted the Decepticons long enough for Optimus Prime to free the Autobots, Skywarp was presumably beaten up and escaped when Superion sacrificed himself to stop a nuclear missile launched by rogue US General [[Robert Hallo]]. <br /> <br /> ''When Megatron was kidnapped by the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] and Decepticon leadership was up for grabs, Skywarp began acting more serious and ambitious than his regular &quot;lunatic prankster&quot; persona would suggest. One of the few Decepticons who aggressively refused to follow Starscream in Megatron's absence, Skywarp teamed up with the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio in an attempt to seize power for himself. He lured Starscream into leaving his new kingdom in [[Las Vegas]] and travelling to Hoover Dam. Once there, Skywarp challenged Starscream directly for leadership of the Decepticons. He failed miserably, however; Starscream dealt Skywarp severe damage using his [[Null-ray|null bolts]] at close range, then tossed his former wingman over the falls. Skywarp was in [[stasis lock]] for some time thereafter, and he begrudgingly chose to serve under Starscream after his repair cycle aboard the ''Nemesis'' was completed. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''<br /> <br /> ''When [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and his private army of humans attacked Las Vegas, along with [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Skywarp was among the Decepticons who charged out to meet them in battle along the Strip. As Thundercracker and Soundwave kept the rampaging [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]'s attention, Skywarp prepared a delicious, underhanded sneak attack. Diving at Grimlock at full speed, Skywarp planned on unleashing his heat-seeking missiles at near point-blank range for maximum devastation. Luckily for Grimlock, the little Autobot Bumblebee was willing to sacrifice his functionality in order to keep the more powerful Autobot warrior in play and took the full impact of the missiles at the last second. Enraged, Grimlock struck Skywarp with enough force to send him flying miles away into the desert and out of the fight for the immediate future. ''<br /> <br /> ''Curiously, Skywarp chose NOT to leave Las Vegas with Megatron once the former Decepticon leader returned to Earth. Damaged after his time with the Keepers, Megatron lost a fight with Starscream and was forced to relinquish his leadership to the Aerospace Commander. Still, Megatron refused to serve under Starscream, and he led a revolt of several Decepticons into exile. For whatever reason, Skywarp remained at Starscream's side until the Keepers attacked, possessing Starscream as a host body and caging the rest of the Decepticons still in Las Vegas inside a dome of impenetrable energy. Skywarp assumed command of the remaining Decepticons in Starscream's absence and directed the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] into not attacking the dome directly as [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], but digging beneath the energy field to forge a tunnel they could exit through. He also made contact with Megatron's forces outside the city and agreed to wait patiently until the time was right for all the Transformers to assault the Keepers as one. ''<br /> <br /> ''When the time came, Skywarp &quot;allowed&quot; his Decepticons to join forces with Megatron's, because it was the only &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. During the fight, he blasted the [[Bluestreak]]-Keeper with an explosive gamma radiation blast. The attack was effective, but proved moot when the Bluestreak-Keeper fused with the Starscream-Keeper, creating one massive and deformed robotic god figure. In the end, it was Optimus Prime and the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] which finally ended the war with the Keepers, diverting the force of a nuclear missile launched by the American government. In the aftermath, Starscream's scrap was salvaged and rebuilt, but Megatron chose to make Skywarp his new second-in-command for a time, mostly just to piss Starscream off. Still, Skywarp certainly saw it as the most &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. {{storylink|Annihilation}}''<br /> <br /> ''In Washington D.C., Megatron and the Decepticons stormed the White House to show their displeasure to the [[President of the United States|President]] for trying to wipe them out with a nuclear strike. Megatron assigned Skywarp to deal with the SWAT teams in the streets, then sent him into the skies to join Starscream in shooting down the air support called in by the military. Final tally—Starscream: 12, Skywarp: 5. Sometime later, Skywarp was present in the Nevada desert when the Autobots and Decepticons confronted the United States military. Thanks to their airborne tactics, Thundercracker and Skywarp did significant injury to the troops and survived the [[deconstructionite]] assault virtually unscathed. After the Keepers were finally defeated and Starscream had been restored to his normal, irascible self, Megatron chose to restore the status quo and replaced Skywarp with Starscream as his second-in-command yet again. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''<br /> <br /> {{note|Although it's hard to see how, the author(s) of the Keepers Trilogy may have confused Skywarp with Shockwave, or at least combined their roles and personalities into one character. Throughout the trilogy, Skywarp made repeated references to the &quot;logical&quot; course of action, and once made an oblique reference to his gift over the electromagnetic spectrum. Whether there was actual confusion involved, or if the pick-up writer [[David Cian]] was forcing Skywarp to fit a role once Dreamwave's comics made using Shockwave off-limits, is unknown.}}<br /> <br /> When Shockwave arrived on Earth with his new army, he quickly disposed of Megatron and demanded loyalty from Skywarp and the others. Somewhat begrudgingly, they assented and accompanied him back to Cybertron. Back on their home planet, Skywarp and Thundercracker were amazed at what Shockwave had accomplished in their absence and were planning to sign on for the duration. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} After getting run down and beaten up by Optimus Prime on his way to Shockwave, though, the Seekers took an offer from Starscream and Soundwave to abandon the rising conflict on Cybertron and return to Earth for some good ol' fashioned looting. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}<br /> <br /> On Earth, Skywarp was part of Starscream's initial salvo against the Ark, a decoy to be deliberately taken prisoner in order to draw out the remaining Autobots where the newly reformatted [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] could get at them. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} After decimating the Autobots' ranks, [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] freed the fallen Decepticons, and they were about ready to terminate their opponents when the awe-inspiring clone known as [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] emerged from fold-space, looking to have words with Starscream. Sunstorm's &quot;purifying light&quot; induced an energon overload in their systems, knocking them into stasis lock. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}} Skywarp and the others remained Autobot prisoners until Starscream negotiated a deal for their release in exchange for his aid against Sunstorm. {{storylink|Skyfire (issue)|Skyfire}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp fell back under Megatron's command once the former leader arrived on Earth and forced Starscream back under his thumb. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers'' comics===<br /> [[Image:GIJoevsTF1_Seeker.jpg|left|thumb|200px|]]<br /> Skywarp was one of the Transformers reprogrammed to serve the terrorist organization [[Cobra]] and was, along with Thundercracker, rebuilt to transform into a [[Rattler]] aircraft in the process. Their first mission was to show off Cobra's power by assaulting a peace ceremony in [[Washington, D.C.]], and either Skywarp or Thundercracker was the first to reveal his robot mode to the shocked [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] before wrecking [[Ace]]'s jet with a single punch. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1}}<br /> <br /> When [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] undid Cobra's reprogramming of the Transformers, Skywarp waited on the runway in Rattler mode until [[Major Bludd]], unaware of the plane's true identity, decided to use him as his ticket off [[Cobra Island]]. After causing Bludd some stress by refusing to start his engines, Skywarp revealed himself and told him that he'd rather walk, then transformed, crushing the human to death with his moving innards in the process. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4}} He then joined Thundercracker in fighting [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], who had also been freed from Cobra's control. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5}} Unfortunately, the two Seekers were later caught in the [[SPS Satellite]]'s rain of energy beams and deactivated. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6}}<br /> <br /> {{note|As Skywarp's coloration is identical to Thundercracker's in this series, it's possible that it was actually Thundercracker who killed Major Bludd. However, it feels more like something Skywarp would do.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave ''Transformers/G.I. Joe'' comics===<br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons revived by [[Cobra]] in 1938. He may have been one of the Seekers driven back by the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] in the battle of the [[Fera Islands]]. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}} During the Autobots' attack on the [[Terrordrome]], Skywarp was lounging about when he overheard some Cobra troopers talking dirt about the Decepticons. Picking one of the humans up, Skywarp suggested that he be a little grateful that the Decepticons were helping them conquer their filthy mudball of a planet. Before he could finish insulting them, however, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] burst out of the ground and beat him up. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===<br /> Skywarp and Thundercracker were at the end of a berating from Megatron when the news came in that Starscream had badly injured himself in a rock-climbing accident. Skywarp probably even helped look for Starscream. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}<br /> <br /> Enraged at [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] for selling off Decepticon weapons on the black market, Megatron commanded Skywarp to bring the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] in — in pieces of necessary. {{storylink|Two for the Price of One}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW comics continuity===<br /> {{ongoing}}<br /> Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] were early recruits for [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], helping sow terror across Cybertron and kidnap Senator [[Decimus]] just prior to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] and founding of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3}} At one point he was part of a squad intent on assassinating [[Zeta Prime]], but the plan was thwarted when [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] warned the Autobot leader (tackling Skywarp in the back on the way). {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Infiltration5 Skywarptotalled.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Skywarp learns what happens when he pushes Megatron down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> In the modern era, Skywarp is part of a Decepticon infiltration unit that has operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, working to destabilize Earth's governing organizations and create global anarchy. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 3}} His alternate form is an [[wikipedia:F-22_Raptor|F-22 Raptor]] fighter jet, and his main job seems to be using his teleporting powers to transport his comrades to places.<br /> <br /> Starscream assigned him and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] to destroy all traces of the [[Nebraska]] operation, but after demolishing the abandoned Nebraska command bunker, he was severely damaged by Megatron, who, unfortunately for Skywarp, had been inside at the time. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5}} Megatron was apparently not one to hold grudges, and he soon had Skywarp repaired and functioning again, under the understanding that there would be no further second chances. {{storylink|Escalation issue 1}} While on a mission to destabilize Middle Eastern energy supplies, Skywarp confessed to Thundercracker that he believed Megatron had it in for all of them, especially himself, though his fellow Decepticon pointed out the fact that Megatron did have him repaired. {{storylink|Escalation issue 2}} Skywarp participated in the operation at [[Brasnya]] where he injured [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and evacuated Megatron before the Autobots could destroy him. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> When [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] began his coup, he first contacted Skywarp in an effort to get a viable ally. Skywarp thought it was a big load of crap, but said that if Ramjet could get some results in one day, they'd talk. However, Skywarp did mention that he always &quot;bets on the leader.&quot; This turned out to be a prudent decision. {{storylink|Spotlight: Ramjet}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the concerned Decepticons who feared that Megatron had lost all sense of reason when he deployed [[Sixshot]] on Earth. They conspired to bring Starscream back into the fold to talk some sense into their leader. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1}} Emboldened by Starscream's lone stand against the Reapers, the Decepticons attacked and eventually the alien invaders, with Skywarp participating in the destruction of their starship. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> About a year later, Megatron had somehow regained Skywarp's confidence, and Skywarp assured Thundercracker that Megatron knew what he was doing when he created [[Insecticon swarm|three thousand twisted perversions of their own race]]. The Decepticons later lured Optimus Prime and his troops into a trap and utterly crushed them, with Skywarp ripping [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]'s arm clean off. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7}} They proceeded to conquer [[New York City]]. During that attack, Skywarp got to make stuff go boom and kill a lotta folks, and it was the best day out ever. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1}}<br /> <br /> After taking out several military helicopters, Skywarp was assigned to accompany Soundwave, Hook and Astrotrain as they took Frenzy to deal with a large ground force. [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] voiced his doubt that the tiny Decepticon had a chance against such a huge number of enemies, but Skywarp, enjoying a chance for a dig at the new guy, simply told him to make sure he kept his distance. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 2}} All the fun of smashing things and killing millions of people soon soured though, as Skywarp started clashing with the [[Insecticon (G1)|uppity Insecticons]] and getting lonely now Thundercracker was being mopey and Starscream wasn't around much. Even mindlessly killing eight million people in [[China]] couldn't perk him up. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6}}<br /> <br /> [[image:AHM12 Betrayer.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A rare moment of Skywarp just killing someone instead of pushing them down the stairs.]]<br /> <br /> When the Autobots eventually returned to Earth, Skywarp battled them in the ruins of New York City. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11}} He grabbed [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and took to the sky, asking the old timer why he wasn't [[Spotlight: Kup|insane]] anymore. Kup responded by calling Skywarp a &quot;mouthy punk&quot; and shooting him in the gut, causing him to to drop the Autobot. The Decepticons fled when Megatron was defeated, but Skywarp came back when he noticed that Thundercracker had diverted the nuke that Megatron had arranged to be dropped on New York. Furious at his fellow Seeker's betrayal, he ignored Thundercracker's arguments and shot him point blank in the face. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12}}<br /> <br /> [[Image: Bumblebee 1 Skywarp's Stash.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Up the Arsenal!]]<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons left behind when the others fled Earth. Unlike [[Swindle (G1)|some]], however, he was in no rush to get off the planet; instead he came up with the idea to steal and stockpile human weapons for Megatron's eventual return. He attacked the technology corporations [[Dynomic]] and [[Allodyne Logic Systems]] for information on their advanced technology, which in turn attacted the attention of [[Skywatch]]. Some two years after the Decepticons' defeat in New York, Skywarp had filled at least one whole garage with missiles and bombs. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} In addition to his vast collection of anti-human weapons, he also worked to create a weapon capable of crippling all the Autobots on the planet. Skywarp beamed signals into space in order to report his progress to Megatron, who he really hoped would be back soon. {{storylink|The Impossible Knot}}<br /> <br /> While the Autobots worked on finding a way to disable the kill-switch badges that the rogue Skywatch Colonel [[Gordon Horiuchi]] had provided them, Skywarp attacked Skywatch's Phillips base to gain access to information to track down the kill-switch control board. Arriving at Skywatch researcher [[Sanjay Bharwaney]]'s home {{storylink|The Gift Horse}}, Skywarp moved in for the kill, but was foiled by the timely intervention of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], who saved Bharwaney and his daughter [[Serena Bharwaney|Serena]]. Skywarp chased them into an industrial area, and as he hunted, he ranted about how Megatron would be returning here to take his rightful place as ruler of the galaxy, with Skywarp at his side, and once he had the control board, all the Autobots would fall into line under the Decepticon banner, making Skywarp a hero. Just when it seemed Skywarp would get his hands on Bumblebee and the control board, Skywatch operative [[Daniel Klonowski]] intervened, firing a weapon powerful enough to damage Bumblebee. Injured but undeterred, Skywarp managed to corner the Autobot, offering to let him go in exchange for the control board as a &quot;professional courtesy&quot;. His confidence turned to panic when Bumblebee steeled himself to activate the control board, the little Autobot declaring that unlike Skywarp, he has friends who would fix him. The electro-magnetic pulse from the control board seriously damaged both transformers, but it is unknown what became of Skywarp. As Skywatch representatives were in the area, it is likely that he was taken into custody. {{storylink|Wings of Wax}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Hearts of Steel''===<br /> Skywarp was one of the Decepticons who woke up on mid-19th century Earth, where he took on the form of a spiky airplane with three propellers. In the Decepticons' desert headquarters, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] told him about the plans to conquer Earth, and ordered him to fly ahead of the [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], leading the way towards [[New York City]]. Skywarp was concerned that the Autobots might interfere, but Starscream assured him their enemies had not yet awoken. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2}}<br /> <br /> {{note|There's no evidence in the story that Skywarp actually ''did'' fly ahead of the Astrotrain, but if it's true, he may have survived the Decepticon defeat unharmed.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> Skywarp serves under [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] as one of his Decepticon soldiers, battling [[Optimus Primal]]'s many Autobot allies in what might possibly have been an inter-universe battle. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_boxart.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Someone pushes HIM down a flight of stairs for once. Payback's a bitch.]]<br /> <br /> A Skywarp from an unspecified [[universal stream]] was selected by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|Megatron]] to become part of his [[Questor]] forces. Granted a portion of the hyperdimensional powers that his leader had obtained from the monstrous [[Hytherion]], Skywarp was given a new body with an uncharacteristic sports car alternate mode, a [[Timaeus drive]] that granted him the ability to travel through dimensions, and a massively enhanced teleportation power that actually allowed him to warp the fabric of space and time around him. About the only thing that didn't change was his characteristic lack of intelligence and initiative; coupled with the brain-bending complexities of higher-dimensional life and battle, this meant that Skywarp was left still relying on Megatron's specific orders for and when to use his powers.<br /> <br /> Skywarp proved his worth when he succeeded in his mission to scour the year 2010 all across the dimensions for a trace of the two-dimensional world of the [[Planicron]]s. Precisely what Megatron needed the Planicrons for, Skywarp didn't know, but he recalled a rumor among the Questors that they were key to the destruction of the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]], and smirked with excitement to himself as he informed Megatron of his discovery. {{storylink|Hunt for the Planicrons}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Commercial appearances==<br /> Skywarp's history of [[commercial]] appearances includes:<br /> <br /> * The very first Transformers animation, a commercial for [[The Transformers (issue)|Issue #1]] of Marvel's ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' comic book. On Earth, he flies across the desert with Starscream and Thundercracker to attack a power plant.<br /> <br /> * He is briefly seen battling in the desert against Hot Rod, Kup and Blurr, until Cyclonus and Scourge (!!) swoop in to counterattack. <br /> <br /> * Skywarp attacks an Autobot power station along with Thrust and Starscream in a commercial for Ultra Magnus.<br /> <br /> * He can be very briefly glimpsed swooping into battle alongside Galvatron (!!) on Earth in a subsequent commercial for [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and Galvatron.<br /> <br /> [[Image:LiveActionJazz-Skywarp01.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I bet he spiked the punch.]]<br /> <br /> * Along with his original Seeker wingmates, he gets barreled over by the Dinobots in a commercial for the Predacons.<br /> <br /> * A commercial for Transformers reflective iron-on patches advertised the &quot;[[Prizes in Disguise]]&quot; competition. When the [[iron-on patch]] was used, it was possible to find instead an instant win ticket for a Transformers voice changer (of the [[Enemy]] variety)—or to have a party with &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers! Among the &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers shown were [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and Skywarp. In all likelihood, you did not party with them.<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> [[Image:G1-toy SkywarpCommSeries.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Commemorative Series retooled Skywarp. Robot mode... that&amp;#39;s okay. Jet? Not so much.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Decepticon Jet, 1984/1985/2001/2003/2008)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''23'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 wings (left &amp;amp; right), 2 rudders (left &amp;amp; right), 2 tailfins (left &amp;amp; right), 2 fists (left &amp; right), front landing gear<br /> <br /> : The only 1984 [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] with a deco not used previously in [[Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' line, Skywarp transforms into an [[wikipedia:F-15_Eagle|F-15 Eagle]] fighter jet, sharing his mold with his teammates [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. Many parts need to be removed completely for transformation from robot to jet and back, which nowadays is considered a major drawback of the toy. It is rare to find it complete, as neither mode can hold all the pieces required. There are a few minor mold variations of this toy (common for the first two years of ''Transformers'', really), the most immediately noticeable being that early versions did not have visible &quot;clip-tabs&quot; on the inner face of the gauntlets.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Redeco.jpg|Early Hasbro stock photos of Skywarp]] show him with a plastic purple nosecone. This was changed to a soft, black rubber nosecone when the toy was actually released. However, a [http://tfarchive.com/toys/articles/toypics/mex_skywarp.jpg Mexican variant] retained the purple plastic nosecone. The same stock photos also show him with purple launchers with black triggers and muzzle rings, black feet, black shins, black outer arm panels, purple horizontal stabilizers, and both sets of purple missiles. These stock photos were also later used to promote Takara's 2001 reissue.<br /> <br /> : In 2001, Skywarp was given a short-run reissue (limited to only 1,000 pieces) by Takara as a convention-[[exclusive]] item, bundled together with Thundercracker as &quot;[[Collector's Edition]]&quot; Set C. The toy would later be more extensively released in 2003 as part of [[Hasbro]]'s [[Commemorative Series]] series IV, though due to US [[For safety reasons|toy-safety regulations]], his missiles were made extra-long since his spring-loaded launchers were now fully-functional.<br /> <br /> : In August, 2008, Skywarp was released with Thundercracker as number 11 in Takara's [[Transformers Encore]] line. For this release Skywarp's Decepticon symbols were painted and his purple stickers were changed to a much bluer shade of purple. Curiously, Skywarp's wing stripes in this release are factory-applied stickers, instead of the [[tampograph]]s on his two-pack buddy.<br /> <br /> : This mold was [[Redeco|redecoed]] into [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and retooled to make [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]].<br /> <br /> :For some reason, the stats on Skywarp's, Starscream's and Thundercracker's [[tech specs]] were switched around. Skywarp's box was given Starscream's numbers, which explains his high intelligence and rank. The actual specs intended for this toy, but accidentally given to Thundercracker, are presented here. Hasbro's Commemorative Series Skywarp reissue had his bio rewritten to explain his higher stats.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Machine Wars===<br /> [[Image:MWSkywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|After his near-fatal encounter with the Invert Colors function.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Basic, 1997)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 rifle halves<br /> : Sharing a mold once again with [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], Skywarp transforms into a white [[wikipedia:Rafale|Dassault Rafale]] fighter jet with spring-loaded one-step transformation from jet to robot. The two halves of his rifle store in his lower legs. Like all ''[[Machine Wars]]'' toys, Skywarp was an [[exclusive]] to Kay-Bee stores and related stores like Toy Liquidators.<br /> <br /> : This mold is also used by ''[[Beast Wars II (toyline)|Beast Wars II]]'' [[Dirge (BWII)|Dirge]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Skyfire (RID)|Skyfire]], ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' [[Wingstun]] and ''[[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]]'' [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]].<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Machine Wars'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Universe (2003)===<br /> [[Image:TFU03-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Like [[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]], except he can fly.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2003)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missiles<br /> <br /> :''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] in his Generation 1 colors. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter jet, armed with two spring-loaded projectile launchers that can fire orange &quot;energon&quot; bolts. These launchers end up in his arms in robot mode. He has a third robot mode that collapses the legs around the cockpit (oh hush), with flip-out panels revealing an extra pair of thrusters. His [[spark]] crystal, revealed by flipping the purple hatch on his back, has a Decepticon [[insignia]] [[tampograph]]ed on top of it.<br /> <br /> :Skywarp was also used to make ''Beast Machines'' [[Sonic Attack Jet]], ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Storm Jet (RID)|Storm Jet]], and ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Universe Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Smallest Transforming Transformers===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2003)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''GTF X-1'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' Skywarp was a very small-scale simplification of the original Generation 1 Seeker toy, retaining most of its functionality and accessories, except for his long null-rays. Skywarp was one of two [[Chase figure|chase figures]] from the first wave of the line.<br /> <br /> : This mold was redecoed from Starscream, then re-redecoed into Thundercracker, and finally retooled to make Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/SmallestSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> ===Robot Masters===<br /> [[Image:RMSkywarp toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Now with the proper articulation for down-stair-pushing.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp &amp;amp; Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, 2005)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;<br /> <br /> : ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from the same series, a smaller yet more advanced version of the original toy, adding more articulation and reducing the amount of [[Partformer|part-forming]] required. He was available only in a two-pack with Thundercracker, which also came with a Decepticon sigil pin and chromed missile pods. This set was the very last product released in the ''Robot Masters'' line and wasn't even strictly sold in a box from that series; instead, it used an [[e-Hobby]] ''Generation 1'' reissue box, with a small ''Robot Masters'' sticker in the corner tab noting its origin from the front.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Robot Masters'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Classics (2006)===<br /> [[Image:Class06-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ultra Magnus isn&amp;#39;t pictured because he was just pushed-well, you know.]]<br /> * '''Ultra Magnus vs Skywarp: Battle For Autobot City''' (Multi-pack, 2006)<br /> **''Accessories:'' Left &amp;amp; right missile launchers, 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' Skywarp is a slight retool of the ''Classics'' Starscream mold, transforming into an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-15 Eagle fighter jet]], though with a canopy like that of an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-14 Tomcat]]. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode and can attach under his wings in vehicle mode. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he also features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]]. <br /> <br /> : Skywarp was slightly [[Retool|retooled]] from the earlier Starscream figures. The retool is present in the jet intake area. The slope of his shoulders was decreased from Starscream's, and a rectangle added to the vertical area, making the number now five instead of four. This retooled version was used for all subsequent releases of the mold: ''Classics'' [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], as well as [[Acid Storm]] from ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]''. At the end of ''Classics'' Starscream's production run, he too used this version of the mold.<br /> <br /> : He was only available as part of a Target stores [[exclusive]] two-pack with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. The set's price was $19.99, despite including both a Voyager-class and Deluxe-class mold in it, which was approximately $30 worth of toys if they'd been sold separately. He was also available in Woolworth stores throughout the United Kingdom.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Classics Skywarp toy.jpg|Stock photos of ''Classics'' Skywarp]] showed a more detailed color scheme than the actual released figure. Much like ''Classics'' Ultra Magnus, the changes were most likely due to an overabundance of [[Paint operation]]s. This more detailed version was shown at [[BotCon 2006]] and at least one sample found its way to a collector's hands. The sample also used the original Starscream mold, and not the retooled version used for every version of the mold since and even including Starscream.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Classics'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Masterpiece===<br /> [[Image:MP-6 Skywarp.jpg|200px|thumb|Takara finally remembered what colors the Seekers are supposed to be.]]<br /> * '''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-6''' <br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 AIM missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot, Megatron Gun clasp, display stand<br /> <br /> : ''[[Masterpiece]]'' Skywarp was released in Japan in September of 2007. He is a redeco of the Masterpiece Starscream mold in black, gray, silver, and purple, though the purple and silver are more minimal than usual. Skywarp is able to switch between a minimally retooled stoic face and a new snarly face, retooled from Starscream's previous smirk. The tiny [[Doctor Arkeville]] pilot figurine (this time molded black) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> [[Image:MPSkywarp stickers.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Sadly, no stair-pusher sticker.]]<br /> : The sticker sheet includes Skywarp-esque stripes, as well as several whimsical squadron markings.<br /> <br /> :The second pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp (released in October 2008) features an assembly error: his left and right pectorals are flipped. This misassembly does not affect transformation at all, and is really only noticeable when compared to prior Masterpiece Seekers. The September 2007 pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp is assembled correctly. Masterpiece Thundercracker is misassembled as well.<br /> <br /> :It is a common misconception that the stoic face on Takara's Masterpiece Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker are the same, when all of them are in fact different sculpts.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Attacktix===<br /> *'''Skywarp'''<br /> <br /> : Skywarp was among the planned ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' game pieces that were showed at some conventions, but went unreleased as the line was canceled. He was to be a [[retool]] of sorts of the similarly unreleased ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], using the same weapon and base but a brand new jet mold. Skywarp would've been able to detach from his base and fly on a string, enabling him to get better shots of opposing pieces. Any other details about his role in the game are unknown.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> ===Titanium Series===<br /> [[Image:Titanium-toy WWSkywarp.JPG|right|300px|thumb|]]<br /> *'''War Within Skywarp''' (San Diego Comic-Con 2008 exclusive)<br /> <br /> : [[Titanium Series]] ''[[War Within (toyline)|War Within]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of Thundercracker, transforming into a Cybertronian &quot;tetrajet&quot; as reimagined by [[Don Figueroa]]. As with all 6-inch Titanium Cybertron Heroes, he is constructed mostly of fully painted die-cast metal. He was available only at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] after the Titanium line had already been cancelled, and also Hasbro Toy Shop's booth at [[wikipedia:San_Diego_Comic-Con|San Diego Comic-Con]] 2008.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''War Within'' Starscream, Sunstorm and Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/SDCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Titanium'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Henkei! Henkei!===<br /> [[Image:Henkei Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp grabbed the wrong launchers.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2008)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skywarp is a [[Toy Hobby Market]] exclusive redeco of ''Henkei! Henkei!'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Skywarp and his fellow [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were opened for pre-order on [[May 22]]nd through [[June 20]], and mailed out in September 2008.<br /> <br /> :Soon after release, there were numerous complaints from both Japanese and Western collectors about the poor quality control for both Thundercracker and Skywarp. Skywarp's most common fault was missing paint for one of his shoulders. Some reported both toys suffering misassembly issues such as having two left or two right thighs.<br /> <br /> :Several minor changes were made to this mold for this release. The holes for his missile launchers in his arms were widened, as were the launcher's insertion pegs. The wing's missile launcher insertion points were lengthened and are now curved at the end. The last rectangle on his air intakes, was further modified from the [[Classics (2006)|Classics]] version this time the bottom most rectangle goes completely across the air intake's surface rather than just the center. ''Henkei'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Generation 1 Series|Starscream]] also saw most of these changes.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Universe (2008)===<br /> [[Image:Universe2008-toy_MasterpieceSkywarp.jpg|thumb|right|300px|]]<br /> *'''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2009)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine, gun clip, two-piece display stand <br /> : A [[Wal-Mart]] exclusive redeco of the original Masterpiece Starscream mold. Just like Starscream, Skywarp is able to switch between two different faces. This release uses the Starscream's stoic and smirking alternate faces rather than the Takara Masterpiece Skywarp's newly-tooled stoic and snarling faces. Hasbro designer [[Joe_Kyde|Joe Kyde]] felt the alternate snarling face did not fit Skywarp's prankster personality, so he went with the Starscream smirk face instead when designing the deco for Hasbro's release. As a result of gang molding, Skywarp also uses Starscream's stoic face, the decision being the difference between Skywarp and Starscream's stoic face was negligible enough not to make a significant difference. The toy also features a more G1 toy styled deco rather than cartoon-based, particularly in the yellow eye color and wing stripes. His purple more closely matches that of the original toy than the purple used on the Takara version, and features a lighter flat black, like the original toy, instead of Takara's darker glossy black. The Hasbro version replaces some of the dark gray of the Takara version with a dark silver, removes the arm and chest striping, but adds additional red detailing, while removing some as well. Much like Hasbro's Starscream, he does not feature any of the warning or slogan tampographs, but features tampographed striping, Decepticon symbols, and some additional paint details not present on the Takara version.<br /> : The tiny Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine (molded in black with no paint applications) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime and a stand (featuring Skywarp's name) with a support beam for jet or robot mode. <br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Mortal minds cannot even comprehend the four-dimensional hyperstairs he can push you down.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp Witch Purple Pearl''' ([[May 29|5/29]]/2010)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''A-04'''<br /> <br /> :Skywarp is a [[retool]] of the simultaneously released ''[[Alternity (franchise)|Alternity]]'' Starscream with a new head, transforming into a licensed 1:32 scale [[wikipedia:Mitsuoka_Orochi|Mitsuoka Orochi]]. Like the other toys in the line, he will feature [[die-cast]] metal parts and rubber tires, as well as an opening hood, trunk and doors. In car mode, small wings can be flipped out from under Skywarp's rear wheels, giving him the appearance of a flying car. <br /> <br /> :This mold, with Skywarp's head, was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]].<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Decoy===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (1986)<br /> ** ''Decoy ID number:'' '''33'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Decoy]]'' Skywarp is a tiny, purple, soft-rubber figurine randomly packed with smaller toys at the time. To differentiate him from Starscream and Thundercracker, Skywarp is sculpted holding his arms above his head in a cheering pose.<br /> <br /> : Like all Decepticon Decoys, Skywarp was also available in red for a limited time. This release is considerably rarer than the regular purple one.<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Lucky Draw figure, 2001)<br /> <br /> : ''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' Skywarp is a non-transforming action figure [[redeco]]ed from ''SCF'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Limited to 200 pieces, he was only available as the second place prize in a [[Lucky Draw]] contest held in conjunction with the first edition of ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' (with the &quot;[[Starscream (G1)/toys#SecretStarscream|Secret Starscream]]&quot; toy as the first place prize). Due to the bankruptcy of the ''Transformers: Generations'' publisher, [[Keibunsha]], it is unknown whether the Japanese version of Skywarp was ever actually sent out or not.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''Super Collection Figure'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' (see below) Starscream, Thundercracker, [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and the [[Air Warrior]]s.<br /> <br /> ===Heroes of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2002)<br /> <br /> : When the ''Super Collection Figure'' line was brought to the US as ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', Skywarp was widely released as part of the first wave. Unlike ''SCF'', ''HOC'' figures were composed of transparent red plastic that was mostly painted over, giving them [[light-piping|&quot;light-up&quot; eyes]].<br /> <br /> * '''Decepticon''' (2003)<br /> <br /> : Same as the American version above, but part of an [[OTFCC 2003]]-exclusive six-pack of figures which also included Starscream, Thundercracker, and three [[Air Warrior]]s. It featured a more metallic paint job from the normal release and slightly different paint details.{{fact}}<br /> <br /> ===Legends of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2004, unreleased)<br /> <br /> [[Image:OTFCCSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Doesn't so much teleport as not exist in the first place.]]<br /> <br /> : A redeco of ''Mega Super Figure Collection'' G1 Starscream (minus the extra coronation accessories, open-palm hands, and the hand wielding Megatron in gun mode), Skywarp was to be among the first of the fan club exclusives offered by [[The Official Transformers Collectors Convention|OTFCC]] as well as the first in their ''Legends of Cybertron'' line. The figure was delayed and never saw a full release due to [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]] losing the license to run the official Transformers fan club. At least a couple of sample versions were produced.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Palisades===<br /> [[Image:PalisadesSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Decepticon on a stick! Get yer Decepticon on a stick!]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Palisades, 2005)<br /> <br /> :A ''SmallBluePlanet''-exclusive redeco of the Starscream statue, Skywarp is a six inch tall polystone statue with articulated head and arms. He can stand normally or use a stand to take on a &quot;hovering&quot; pose. Skywarp was limited to 300 pieces, and sculpted by [[3L Creation Group]] from a design by [[George Tremarco]].<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker and the Ghost of Starscream.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Robot Heroes===<br /> [[Image:Robot Hero Skywarp.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Clearly just after shoving Starscream down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> * '''Decepticon Sneak Attack''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : Skywarp is one of the five exclusive figures in Wal-Mart's &quot;Decepticon Sneak Attack&quot; set, alongside [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], [[Mirage (G1)|holographic Mirage]] and &quot;Supermetal Finish&quot; versions of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. He's a black and purple redeco of Starscream, yes. His left hand's for pushing you down stairs, his right fist's for pumping the air in victory. Sweet, sweet stair-based victory.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : A 25-point &quot;uncommon&quot; character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s &quot;Energon Wars&quot; expansion, Skywarp &quot;transforms&quot; into a black and purple jet. He uses the same parts layout as [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]].<br /> <br /> ==Trivia==<br /> * Skywarp's one-line characterization in the original Transformers [[production bible]] was &quot;sneaky but dumb&quot;. Hee hee. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#034] In a more peculiar note, his longer write-up in the production bible noted that he was colored olive drab. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#038] This error isn't as unusual as one might first think, as Skywarp was the only first-year jet whose colors didn't originate in ''[[Diaclone]]''—thus, they simply may not have been decided upon when the production bible was written.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpatron.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Skywarp really DID need close supervision.]]<br /> * In a possible fit of madness, a triple changer was proposed that would switch between Skywarp (possibly mistaken for Starscream), [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and Skywarp's jet mode.<br /> <br /> * Character bios written by unknown persons for the Australian (Madman) DVD release of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' definitely claim that [[Cyclonus (G1)|Skywarp became Cyclonus]]. Basically, nobody considers that weighty &quot;evidence&quot;.<br /> <br /> * Skywarp is the only Seeker with wing stripes that are not red.<br /> <br /> * For such a popular character, Skywarp doesn't DO much of anything in the original show.<br /> <br /> * [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Machine_Wars|Despite]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Classics_.282006.29|many]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Heroes_of_Cybertron|releases]], [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Titanium_Series|Skywarp]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Henkei.21_Henkei.21|is]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Universe_.282008.29|usually]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Robot_Heroes|an]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Generation_1_2|exclusive.]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;amp;char=Skywarp Skywarp's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Alternity characters]]<br /> [[Category:Attacktix]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Machines characters]]<br /> [[Category:Classics characters]]<br /> [[Category:Convention exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 2 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Henkei! 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William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Skywarp_(G1)&diff=474814 2010-07-06T21:02:12Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticon|decepticong2|wreckers}}<br /> {{disambig3|Skywarp}}<br /> :''Skywarp is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> His Partner is [[Acid Storm]]<br /> [[Teleportation]] is a dangerous tool in the hands of a capable adversary. Thankfully for the [[Autobot|Autobots]], '''Skywarp''' is the Decepticon who possesses that ability. Skywarp's not so bright, so without supervision he's worthless as a warrior. He mostly uses his teleportation power for immature pranks on both friend and foe. He takes a charmingly puerile angle at thuggery, so his pranks are well-received amongst his Decepticon peers (excepting the victim, of course). <br /> <br /> Because, come on, a surprise push down a staircase is ''hilarious''.<br /> <br /> {{quote|Don't think. Just do.|Skywarp's life motto|[[Megatron Origin issue 4|''Megatron Origin'' #4]]}}<br /> <br /> :''French-Canadian name'': '''Fraudeur''' (&quot;Cheater&quot; or &quot;Evader&quot; or &quot;Smuggler&quot;)<br /> :''Hungarian name'': '''Égretörő''' (&quot;Sky-springer&quot;)<br /> :''Italian name'': '''Corvo''' (&quot;Crow&quot;)<br /> :''Japanese name'': '''Warp'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Portugal comics)'': '''Espião Celeste'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Brazil comics)'': '''Viajante''' (&quot;Traveller&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Tīen Wān''' (天彎, &quot;Sky Warp&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (China):'' '''Nao Fan Tian''' (鬧翻天, &quot;Extreme Ruckus&quot;)<br /> :''Russian TV dub name:'' '''Deformer'''<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> ====Generation 1====<br /> {{noteukonly}}<br /> [[Image:Introdump decepticons marvelus01.jpg|left|300px|thumb|You can tell Skywarp apart from Thundercracker in the Marvel Comics by, uh.... let us get back to you on that.]]<br /> Skywarp was one of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron's]] troops who attacked the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] during its mission to clear a path for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] through an asteroid field. He was deactivated when it crashed on [[Earth]], and he lay dormant for four million years. When he and his fellow Decepticons awoke, Skywarp was given a new [[Alternate mode|altmode]], that of an Earth jet. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} He aided the Decepticons in their building of their new base constructed of parts from [[Harrison Nuclear Power Plant]] and joined in their attack on [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s auto repair shop. After the successful abduction of Sparkplug Witwicky, Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] defended their base from [[Autobot|Autobots]], though [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Spider-Man]] were able to sneak through and rescue Sparkplug. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}<br /> <br /> ''When Starscream fired upon his teammate [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] for eavesdropping on his plot to overthrow Megatron, Skywarp and the other Decepticons sought deadly revenge on the Decepticon [[Air Commander]]. {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}} Though Starscream escaped, the Decepticons soon regrouped to attack the Ark, but their battle was ended prematurely when [[Auntie]], the Ark's computer system, magnetized the walls, immobilizing both factions. {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}} On another occasion, he and Thundercracker made a strafing run on two Autobot spies, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. Jazz was deafened and blasted off the road, but Sunstreaker led them into a human military zone, prompting Megatron to call them back to base. {{storylink|Perchance to Dream}}'' Skywarp also traveled with the Decepticons to the [[United Kingdom]], where he and his teammates attempted to learn about a mysterious Autobot rescue ship buried under a castle. An initial attack on the Autobots left Skywarp seriously wounded by a bomb from [[Bluestreak]]. {{storylink|Man of Iron (story)|Man of Iron}}<br /> <br /> Though Sparkplug Witwicky was able to devise a way for the Decepticons to convert Earth fuel into a usable substance, he also poisoned the result, so Skywarp and his fellow Decepticons were immobilized at the climax of their would-be final battle with the Autobots. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} The Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] took command of the Decepticons and the Ark shortly thereafter and nursed Skywarp and his comrades back to full health. Skywarp may have helped Shockwave attempt to capture and brainwash [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] into a Decepticon, or it may have been Thundercracker without red stripes. It's hard to tell. {{storylink|Plight of the Bumblebee!}}<br /> <br /> He served the Decepticon cause up until he was deactivated while battling [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and placed in prison stasis at Autobot headquarters. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Target_2006_fake_Starscream_dies.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nope. Guess again.]]<br /> ''When [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] traveled back from the year 2006 to build a super-weapon to destroy [[Unicron]], Skywarp was a key player in the defeat of the mad Decepticon. Sorta.'' <br /> <br /> ''The Autobots took Skywarp out of stasis, painted him to look like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], and sent him stumbling toward Galvatron with a tape-recorder of Starscream's voice on his back. Galvatron, still sore about Starscream tossing him out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] during his Megatron days, shot and presumably killed Skywarp. Galvatron then realized that if he killed Starscream in the past then there'd be no way he could have killed Starscream in the future (never mind that killing Skywarp now opens up that whole issue of [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus' identity]]). Believing he was in an alternate past and thus nothing he did there would affect his personal timeline, Galvatron hurried back to his proper time. Way to take one for the team, Skywarp. {{storylink|Target: 2006}}''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpgoofyteleportation.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Upon close inspection, Skywarp's teleportation power is merely a goofy loop-de-loop.]]<br /> During a massive battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth's moon, Skywarp and the other Decepticons held in stasis aboard the Ark were liberated by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and subsequently brought back online. {{storylink|Totaled!}} During the first Decepticon Civil War, Skywarp battled with [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s Decepticons against [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons. Skywarp surprised [[Bugly]] with his teleportation powers and blasted him, temporarily stunning him. However, Bugly successfully returned fire, striking where he guessed Skywarp would next teleport. {{storylink|Cold War!}} Skywarp was repaired in time to face an [[Underbase]]-powered Starscream in [[Tokyo]], but both he and Thundercracker were destroyed by their former flying partner. {{storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Generation 2''====<br /> Optimus Prime, learning of the Decepticons' attacks on Earth, traveled there alone not to fight them but to talk Megatron out of it. Prime was really surprised to learn that this was a really stupid idea, and as Megatron tore Prime apart and severed the Matrix from his body, Skywarp stood by with other Decepticons and watched. He and the rest of the Decepticons retreated with the Matrix when the Autobots showed up to save Prime. {{storylink|The Gathering Darkness}}<br /> <br /> The Autobots and the Decepticons had just agreed to make an alliance against the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]], but the Decepticons disagreed about aiding other planets' people. When the Autobots went alone to fight the Cybertronians, they almost were defeated, until Skywarp (yes, this article is about him) suddenly warped into the battle, followed by the rest of the Decepticon army, to aid the Autobots. <br /> <br /> And you just know he mocked the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] he saved. ''Relentlessly.'' {{storylink|Escalation!}}<br /> <br /> ====''Classics''====<br /> {{note|Classics is a [[splinter timeline]] from the Marvel US continuity that does not include events from either ''Generation 2'' or the Marvel UK issues.}}<br /> His broken body rescued from [[Tokyo]], Skywarp was rebuilt using Shockwave's upgraded [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] schematics. He was told that it was Starscream, driven mad with the power of the [[Underbase]], who did him in. Skywarp's okay with that. After all, the traitor's going to have to let down his guard sometime. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 14|''Classic'' Skywarp's profile}}<br /> <br /> After the appearance of the mysterious crossdimensional Decepticon [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], Skywarp and the other rebuilt Decepticons under Megatron's command traveled to [[South America]] to investigate an equally mysterious power source that seemed to share traits with Landquake. En route, they were attacked by [[Walter Barnett]]'s [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNT]] squad. {{storylink|Crossing Over, Part 2}} Skywarp managed to shake off these interlopers just before Optimus Prime and his Autobots arrived in search of this same power source, and a new battle between the factions began in the jungles surrounding the power source. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 3}} As the battle escalated, Skywarp and Starscream fought [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] across the skies, {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 5}} but ultimately, Megatron was forced to call for a withdrawal. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 6}}<br /> <br /> With his nosecone still battered from the fight, Skywarp came with Starscream and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] to investigate what [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] and his crew were doing on Earth. He was happy to see that Thundercracker was among them, but less so when his old buddy shot a [[cerebro-shell]] at him, forcing him to follow Bug Bite's commands. Skywarp and the others were sent to assassinate Megatron, but were soon freed from Bug Bite's control due to Autobot interference. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===<br /> ====''The Transformers'' cartoon====<br /> :''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese), [[Jacques Ferrière]] (French)<br /> <br /> [[Image:Tetrajet seekers.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Cybertron alt-mode (left). The early Decepticons promoted geometry.]]<br /> In the early days of the Decepticon rebellion, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] both faced the powerful protectors of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] cities, the [[Guardian Robots]]. Even millions of years later, the powerful Guardians struck fear into Skywarp's spark. {{storylink|War Dawn}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of the elite Decepticons that served [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] on Cybertron four million years ago. Skywarp and his fellow Seekers came across the Autobots [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] pilfering [[conductor|energy conductors]], and tried to eliminate the Auto-jerks. Once Wheeljack broke through their defenses, Skywarp and Thundercracker transformed to their tetrajet modes and followed the Autobots. They managed to get a good shot in against Bumblebee, but soon both Autobots escaped termination by taking the chase underground. Skywarp later joined Megatron in attacking and boarding the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot ship]] on their search for energy. After crash-landing on Earth, the Decepticons and Autobots laid dormant for four million years, until volcanic activity stirred the ship's computer back to life. Skywarp was the first of the ship's Transformers to be reformatted and awakened by [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], in the form of an Earthen F-15 fighter jet. Once active, Skywarp immediately dragged his master Megatron's body into the reformatting rays of the Ark's computer, and soon all the Decepticons were revived. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Since the Decepticons were so badly short-staffed during their early days on Earth, Skywarp was usually involved in whatever crazy plot for universal domination Megatron was hatching. This included attacks on an off-shore oil rig, [[Sherman Dam]] and the [[Ruby Crystal Mines of Burma|ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. On the last raid, Skywarp and Thundercracker caught a pair of snoops -- Bumblebee and the human, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. They were knocking the little Autobot around for fun, and pondering how to giftwrap him for Megatron, when an explosion caused the mine to cave in around them. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} When the Decepticons escaped the Burma operation with a cache of energon cubes, Skywarp requested permission from Megatron to teleport in order to scare off Autobot pursuers. Teleporting behind the strangely airborne duo of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Bluestreak]], Skywarp pasted the ornery old Autobot with a heat-seeking missile, knocking him out of the sky that he probably shouldn't have been able to fly around in anyway. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:TransporttoOblivion Skywarp Prowl punchy.jpg|left|180px|thumb|&quot;[[Bumblebee (G1)|Punch-buggy yellow]]!&quot;]]<br /> When [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] was caught spying on the Decepticons' new [[Space Bridge]], Skywarp and Starscream captured him for Megatron. After Bumblebee was reprogrammed to led the Autobots into a trap, Skywarp biffed [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] from behind, causing him to fall down in an almost pushing-down-stairs-like fashion. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} After the Decepticons acquired the [[antimatter]] formula, they were en route to the Ark when [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] intercepted them, practicing their jet judo maneuvers. Skywarp was being thrown off-course by Sideswipe's antics until Starscream knocked the Autobot warrior loose. During the battle, Megatron charged himself up with the Decepticons' new toy, and transformed into an &quot;anti-matter gun&quot; to obliterate the Autobots. After Starscream had his turn with the gun, Skywarp got ready to blow some Autobots away too. Before he could start, however, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] attacked his leg with a jackhammer. He scooped up the puny fleshling and was about to blast him with the anti-matter gun (and, incidentally, probably blow his own hand off in the process) when [[Chip Chase]] attached a computer override device invented by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], which allowed Teletraan I to take brief control of his body. Skywarp started firing Megatron's anti-matter power at the other Decepticons, overheating the unstable power supply and forcing the Decepticons to retreat. {{storylink|Roll for It}} <br /> <br /> {{bigquote|You little fool... You're no match for Skywarp!|Skywarp announces his superiority to a kid in a wheelchair.|&quot;[[Roll for It]]&quot;}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was later part of a Decepticon raid on a factory, apparently in a very playful mood with his teleporting power. First he 'ported behind some human guards to taunt them before making them scatter with laser fire. Then, when Thundercracker blased open some power lines to begin filling his energon cubes, Skywarp &quot;cut in line&quot; by teleporting between Thundercracker and the energy to fill his own cube first. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] showed up to stop them, Skywarp fired a heat-seeking missile at him, only for Prime to deflect it with a punch. The Autobot was eventually defeated, and Skywarp ran off with some [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}} <br /> <br /> When the Decepticons began draining heat energy out of Earth's core using a crystal shaft in the Arctic, Skywarp got a bit bored at the lack of real action. He was in the middle of taunting Rumble when the two of them accidentally caused a miniature avalanche in one of the caves. By sheer happenstance, this led to the Decepticons recovering the long-lost [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] from an icy tomb. Skywarp helped perform repairs on the giant flier, though it was probably better for all concerned if somebody with actual knowledge had performed these repairs. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}} <br /> <br /> During a battle at [[Great Falls]] hydroelectric power facility, the newly-constructed [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] arrived to rescue the beleagured Autobots, who had been captured by the Decepticons. Skywarp foolishly attempted to beat the flamethrowing [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] with a mere pair of heat-seeking missiles, and ended up being grabbed out of the air by the mighty jaws of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], who chomped on his wing and threw Skywarp into his fellow Megatron loyalist [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Soon afterwards, during an operation in [[Peru]], Skywarp got to be Megatron's favorite Seeker for the day after Starscream and Thundercracker stole poor-quality steel for their latest super-weapon. He had fun taunting the egotistic 'Screamer when Megatron called him to battle, leaving the other Seekers behind on mere guard duty. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}} Later, Skywarp helped Megatron steal a giant meteor, although its unstable power proved too dangerous to use for energon cubes. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was in a playful mood during the Decepticons' raid of a solar power plant in [[India]], cracking wise and hoping to play a game of catch...with the rajah as the ball. He had even more fun in a quick free-for-all with the Autobots, a distraction so that the Decepticons could kidnap one of the Autobots' fleshling friends as a guinea pig for [[Doctor Arkeville]]'s mind-control experiments. Skywarp enjoyed himself so much, he got in a fight with Starscream on the way back to headquarters about how ''brilliant'' Megatron's plan was. Thundercracker had to jump out of the way while the two of them roughhoused in the elevator. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} Thanks in part to Arkeville's [[hypno-chip]] slaves, the Decepticons were able to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, creating massive environmental disturbances that produced millions of energon cubes. What's more, transporting energon to Cybertron was now just a short flight away. Unfortunately, the devastation was greater than Megatron had anticipated. While Skywarp was on a return flight from Cybertron, a tidal wave broke off the access tower to the Decepticons' undersea base, flooding it. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Skywarp was present at the final battle before the Autobots knocked Cybertron out of orbit, and fled when Megatron abandoned his troops to escape with the energon cubes. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} With Megatron seemingly destroyed as his star cruiser exploded with the cubes on-board, the Decepticons were left rudderless. While working on repairs for their undersea base, tempers flared as Skywarp picked a fight with his favorite target, Rumble, and his pint-sized partner, [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. Skywarp bit off more than he could chew, however, as Frenzy's surprising strength overcame Skywarp as he tried to crush the mini-cassette beneath his heel. Thundercracker and Soundwave started to get involved in the fracas too, but Megatron soon arrived to put his house back in order. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Changegearsskywarp.jpg|thumb|200px|left|What you see when he pushes you down the stairs.]]Like all Decepticons, Skywarp provided his [[power chip rectifier]] to Megatron for his single combat with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}} When the Decepticons attacked another rocket base, Skywarp and Thundercracker attempted to double-team Optimus Prime, but only succeeded in destroying the very rockets they came to plunder. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Later, the Decepticons attacked a mining camp to lure the Autobots out into the open, and Skywarp stood guard over the humans being used as bait. After they used the opportunity to kidnap [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] for his special circuit board, Skywarp later helped fill the energon cubes from Megatron's [[Solar Needle]]. {{storylink|Changing Gears}} As the Decepticons took over New York to create the city of New Cybertron, Skywarp was seen loading cars into [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]'s drum for reconstruction. He and Thundercracker were later damaged after trying to take some potshots at Optimus Prime, only to miss and crash straight through a building in the process. {{storylink|City of Steel}} He also served in a later assault on the Ark, distracting the Autobots long enough for Megatron to sneak inside and mess with their [[recharging chamber]]s. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}<br /> <br /> Rather stoic in recent weeks, Skywarp was back to his cheery but malicious self when he and Starscream went after some [[electro-cell]]s at the [[Experimental Energy Research Laboratory]]. While breaking through the roof of the installation, Skywarp merrily remarked on the joy of opening presents. During a fight with the Autobot named [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], one of Skywarp's insignia was ripped off, and later planted to help turn the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Traitor}} During a battle with the Autobots over the [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]], Skywarp unleashed his new toy: a [[bouncer bomb]]. This weapon ricocheted through the trees, explosively bouncing from one side of the battlefield to another. Unfortunately, the Decepticons were also subject to its &quot;friendly fire&quot; until Megatron shot the blasted thing down. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp's teleportation power did come in useful when he was needed to sneak up on the Autobots with the [[Transfixatron]]. One quick zap and they were all frozen in vehicle mode. However, he failed to zap ALL the Autobots, which ultimately led to the undoing of Megatron's scheme. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} Skywarp was present during the Decepticon alliance with [[Sub-Atlantica]], and was part of their attack on Washington D.C. He and Thundercracker strafed the Autobots while in battle on the Great Lawn. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} When the Decepticons stole the ninja robot [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]], Skywarp used his grapples to pull the roof off of the demonstration ampitheater, allowing Starscream and Thundercracker to swoop in and grab the robot. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and his flying buddies once attempted to triple-team Optimus Prime in battle, but failed to do more than provide Optimus with a chance to toss a good quip. Strangely, Skywarp was later seen throwing what looking like a standard pineapple grenade at the Autobots. It was effective enough, but looked as out of place as an AK or a tommygun in Transformer hands. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} When the Decepticons made yet another attempt at harnessing some sort of power from the Earth's core, Skywarp defended their drilling operation from the Autobots. He and the Seekers attempted to bomb the Autobots from the air, but a scattering of explosive missiles from [[Bluestreak]]'s shoulder launchers took them out of the fight. {{storylink|The Core}}<br /> <br /> During the assault on Iron Mountain, Skywarp was briefly taken over by [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s [[cerebro-shell]]s during a tiff between Megatron and the Insecticons. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}} He also joined the Decepticon expedition to [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], to loot and plunder its various sources of energy. Skywarp was eager to do battle with the Dinobots when they arrived to defend their new home...which just goes to show Skywarp's kinda stupid. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} When the Autobots eventually arrived to help drive the Decepticons off of Dinobot Island, they were aided by a band of dinosaurs themselves, prodded onwards by [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. Skywarp and Thundercracker found their lasers ineffective against the charging brutes, and were forced to retreat with the rest of their army. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> During some aerial dogfighting with the Autobot ace, [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], Skywarp took a nasty hit to the wing. He must have managed to limp back to base, because he was present for Megatron's interrogation of the Constructicons a short while later. {{storylink|The Master Builders}} When the Decepticons went after [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s latest super-weapon, the [[Negavator]], Skywarp and the Seekers strafed the Autobot convoy in a box canyon. Their efforts were blocked by [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]'s disruptor beams and magnetic smoke, which left the Seekers unable to see or navigate in any way. Skywarp and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] ended up in a three-way collision with each other and a canyon wall. {{storylink|Auto Berserk}} Once, the Decepticons were pre-emptively celebrating the destruction of the Autobots after Megatron acquired the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. They got over-energized on energon cubes and passed out in the desert. Five'll get you ten, whoever passed out closest to Skywarp woke up with a [[Scraplet]] drawn on their face in permanent marker. {{storylink|Microbots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was a participant in the ultimate prank against the Autobots. Using Autobot costumes left over from last Halloween, Skywarp and some others raided an oil refinery for fuel, only to be driven off when the &quot;heroic&quot; Decepticons arrived to stop the &quot;evil&quot; Autobots. The entire scene was filmed by [[Shawn Berger]] and used to smear the Autobots' good name so severely that they were forced to abandon Earth entirely in a rocket cruiser. Ha HA! {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} The fleshlings didn't appreciate the joke when they found out the punchline, but Skywarp and the Decepticons were too busy enslaving [[Central City (G1)|Central City]] to care. As bad luck would have it, though, the Autobots managed to make their way back to Earth, and drive off the Decepticon occupation. Killjoys. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> When the Decepticons set up a temporary base of operations at the airport, Optimus Prime sent in the Dinobots to clear them out. Skywarp and the other jets were caught off-guard initially, but the Decepticons had learned from previous encounters that the Dinobots were more vulnerable in their robot modes. By feigning defeat, Skywarp and the others lured the Dinobots into a false sense of security, and they transformed back to robot mode. Skywarp and Megatron then unleashed a barrage of energy, igniting the jumbo jets on the tarmac and causing the Dinobots tremendous damage. The Decepticons finally scored a decent victory against the Dinos, and they owed it all to a dirty underhanded sneak attack. It was a good day to be Skywarp. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Like most of the Decepticons, Skywarp was rendered temporarily invulnerable due to exposure to [[electrum]]. Invincibility didn't make him any better a prison guard, though, as even [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] was able to overpower him and escape from the Decepticons' undersea headquarters. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} Skywarp was seen delivering the Insecticons' share of the energon harvested from their clones using Megatron's energon transference process. Since the meager three cubes the Insecticons got were a small pittance compared to how many were actually being generated, Skywarp was surely snickering to himself as he handed them over. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}} When the Space Bridge materialized in the middle of a baseball stadium, Skywarp and Soundwave got into a friendly game of catch...with flesh-creatures as the ball. Then the Autobots had to show up and ruin their fun. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}}<br /> <br /> Later on, Skywarp and the Seekers kidnapped a group of Earth's world leaders, but ran into the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s during their getaway. Skywarp nearly nailed [[Slingshot]] with a loop-the-loop, coming down on him from above, but was shot down by [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]. {{storylink|War Dawn}} One day, Skywarp and Thundercracker were guarding the Space Bridge when Starscream arrived. After showing them his authorization (which looked suspiciously like a null ray rifle), they allowed Starscream to travel to Cybertron. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}} At Megatron's command, Skywarp travelled to [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] headquarters to check up on their progress in the latest Decepticon scheme. At Megatron's command, Skywarp landed at the empty base. At Megatron's command, he began to follow the mysterious trail of loose Combaticon parts leading out of the canyon. You gotta wonder what Skywarp is capable of without constant supervision...{{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}<br /> <br /> In 2005, Skywarp was part of a massive [[Battle of Autobot City|Decepticon attack]] on [[Autobot City]] on Earth. He was badly damaged during the battle, but managed to escape with the rest of his comrades aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. However, en route to Cybertron he was tossed out into space with other badly damaged Decepticons so that the rest would be able to make it home. Skywarp's body was gathered by [[Unicron]] and, among others, used to make [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s new warriors. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Skywarp arguably became either [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] or [[Cyclonus's Armada]], the identical warrior who was never seen again. Either way, Skywarp effectively ceased existing.}}<br /> <br /> ====Japanese cartoon continuity====<br /> {{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as described above. The Japanese continuity then proceeds to insert several additional stories into the timeline, as follows.}}<br /> <br /> =====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic=====<br /> <br /> Under orders from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], Skywarp accompanied [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] in an energy raid on [[Tokyo]]. Things were going well, as they enjoyed bombing pedestrians and children while screaming their demands for energy to the Heavens, at least until [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a unit of Autobot vehicles arrived. Though their victory seemed assured when they unleashed [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] on their foes, their strategy was undone when the Autobots drove up a ramp at top speed, transformed to vehicle mode and punched everybody in the face. Skywarp was forced to retreat. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 1|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp later took part in an all-out assault on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] in [[Arizona]]. The attack was nothing more than a diversion so [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] could go do unspecified ''stuff'' in Japan and the Decepticons were eventually defeated and driven off. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 2|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2}}<br /> <br /> =====Full Throttle Scramble Power!=====<br /> As Megatron bragged to [[Toru]] that the Decepticons would strip Earth of all its resources, Skywarp (or Thundercracker) was shown attacking a power plant. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}<br /> <br /> =====''The Stargate Battles''=====<br /> Skywarp participated in Megatron's first attempted takover of the [[Warp Gate|Trigger]], bursting out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] alongside the other Seekers. {{storylink|First Contact}}<br /> <br /> =====''Robot Masters'' online comic=====<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)#Issue 13|And Then}}<br /> <br /> ===''Universe''===<br /> <br /> In [[2005]], when [[Unicron]] rebuilt Skywarp into [[Cyclonus's Armada]], Skywarp was also reprogrammed to obey Cyclonus. Even later, when Skywarp's original personality reasserted itself, that mental link remained. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Though no reason is stated in-story as to how or why or when Skywarp got this new body between the Great War and the [[Beast Era]], ''Wreckers'' plotter [[Glen Hallit]] noted that Skywarp's body was based on a mass-production body type of its day, similar to Generation 1's [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]].}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Wreckersskywarpcyclonus.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Looks like Cyclonus was Bombshell. Neener neener.]]<br /> <br /> After the Decepticons lost the Great War and [[Maximal|Maximals]] and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] claimed [[Cybertron (planet)|the planet]], [[Megatron (BW)|another Megatron]] subjugated nearly every Transformer alive with a transformation-lock virus and an army of [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]. Skywarp was one of the handful of Transformers who had slipped through Megatron's fingers, and eventually he and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] joined up with the legendary strike team, the [[Wrecker|Wreckers]]. Given a mission by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], the Wreckers fought through an army of Vehicons (Cyclonus, Skywarp, and [[Rotorbolt (Universe)|Rotorbolt]] took care of the [[Spy Streak]] drones) to steal an Autobot shuttle in order to get off-planet. {{storylink|Departure}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp served as the shuttle's pilot, which served as a point of contention when the bounty hunter [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] stowed away on board, who didn't like that the Wreckers apparently now included Decepticons and Predacons among their ranks. As the shuttle approached the [[Archa system]], their given destination, Skywarp detected the homing beacon of the ''[[Sojourner's Passage]]'', an exploration ship that was lost centuries ago. Since the Autobot shuttle had been damaged en route, once it had landed on [[Archa Nine]], Skywarp helped repair it while others searched the surface. While Skywarp was occupied with this, Cyclonus revealed himself as a traitor, stealing the [[Divine Light]], a mysterious artifact the Wreckers were sent by the Oracle to find. {{storylink|Betrayal}} <br /> <br /> [[Image:Disclosure-Skywarphonor.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Heh.]]<br /> <br /> Though it's likely Skywarp didn't really care, the rest of the Wreckers were dealt a blow to morale after this betrayal. Regardless, the Wreckers set off for a new destination given by the Oracle, a desolate ice planet on which a search team found an exiled [[Quintesson]] scientist named [[Al-Badur]]. While Al-Badur was explaining the meaning of the Divine Light, an army of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] attacked both the search team and Skywarp and the others back at the shuttle. Skywarp was able to easily destroy their attackers. The search team returned to the shuttle, and Primal Prime told Skywarp that he'd be taking direction from the Quintesson. Al-Badur asked Skywarp what compelled him to join this team of Autobots and Maximals; Skywarp told him it involved &quot;returning a favor&quot; and &quot;Decepticon honor,&quot; things he wouldn't understand. {{storylink|Disclosure}} <br /> <br /> {{note|In the unpublished script to ''[[The Wreckers: Finale Part 1|The Wreckers'' #4]], after receiving an encrypted message, Skywarp flew the Wreckers back to Cybertron as quickly as possible. [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] and his Quintesson partners had invaded. But on arrival to Cybertron, the Quintessons' attacks were so thick that they kept the shuttle from being able to land. Primal Prime ordered a few of the Wreckers off the ship to join the troops below, while Rodimus, Skywarp, and the remainder were to land elsewhere.}}<br /> <br /> In the aftermath of Cyclonus's betrayal, the other Wreckers were understandably wary of Skywarp, though the Decepticon claimed he had no part or knowledge of his fellow Decepticon's actions. While circling overhead Cybertron, the Wreckers' shuttle was critically hit. Rodimus told everyone else to evacuate while he kept the ship level, but Skywarp chose this moment to strike. He knocked Rodimus away and told [[Tap-Out (G1)|Tap-Out]] to help everyone else disembark; the Decepticon was going to guide the shuttle down. When it landed, taking out a large portion of the Sharkticon invading forces in a fantastic explosion, the Wreckers were shocked. Skywarp had sacrificed his life for them? As Rodimus began to give a regretful eulogy for the untrusted Decepticon, Skywarp appeared behind them, laughing about his sweet maneuver. He had, of course, used his warping power to leave the ship at the last moment. &quot;Did you see that? I think I managed to shove the forward nacelle antennae right through the Quint Overseer!&quot; Everyone grumbled.<br /> <br /> As their group joined the battle against Cryotek and Cyclonus within Cybertron, it seemed Skywarp may not have been so forthright after all. He violently silenced the overbearing Ramulus (muttering that he was surprised no one thanked him) and took his place at Cyclonus's side. Rodimus was understandably confused and hurt, but Skywarp told the Autobot that he'd more than paid him back recently and he no longer owed the Wreckers anything. Cyclonus laughed, and told the Wreckers of his mental link to Skywarp. But Skywarp muttered, having &quot;always ''hated'' that,&quot; and attacked Cyclonus. He reappeared at the Wreckers' side again, noting that he'd only harmed Ramulus to get in Cyclonus' good graces long enough to deal the blow. <br /> <br /> [[Image:Revelations-Skywarppunched.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Unfortunately, Unicron has no stairs.]]<br /> <br /> {{quote|I'll settle with the zoo crew later. But ''you''... I ''never'' liked you. Even when you were a [[Bombshell (G1)|''bug'']] I hated your stinkin' circuits. Like I said, only [[Megatron (G1)|''one'' guy]] ever bossed ''me'' around, and it sure as slag ain't ''you.''}}<br /> <br /> But Cyclonus had scores of Sharkticons at his disposal, and they quickly filled the chamber. Rodimus wanted to throttle Skywarp for what he'd done to Ramulus, but Skywarp shrewdly pointed out that they had bigger problems at the moment. But in the middle of the battle, a strange surge of energy passed through the subterranean chamber, flowing through Tap-Out and Skywarp, causing both to disappear in a flash of light. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and Tap-Out had been abducted by Unicron and, under undisclosed circumstances, Skywarp joined [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]]'s [[Minions of Unicron]] during the [[Universe war|Universe conflict]]. During the final battle within the [[Pit]], he was defeated by [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave comics continuity===<br /> {{notekeepers}}<br /> In the early days of the war, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were sent to blow up a building full of pesky [[neutral]]s in [[Altihex]]. He took a second to wonder if it was the right thing to do—not because it was morally wrong or anything, but because it was ''too easy''. Thundercracker didn't have much input, so Skywarp just went &quot;Sure, why not,&quot; and murdered the neutrals. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1}} Some time later, the two came with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he tried to sway [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] into joining the Decepticons. Skywarp tried to stop Starscream from spilling the beans about the Seekers' next mission at [[Sector Zero-Six]], but was told to shut up. When the trio later carried out said mission, they found that Grimlock had evacuated the area and placed a bomb to welcome them. Skywarp barely had time to teleport himself and his comrades away before the place went up in flames. {{storylink|The War Within Preview}} When Starscream decided to blame Megatron for what happened, Skywarp snapped and pointed out that it was all ''his'' fault for ''telling the enemy about their mission'', then took off with Thundercracker. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Following the sudden disappearance of Megatron, the Decepticons split into several splinter groups, but Skywarp stayed with the main faction under the command of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. He participated in an attack on the minions of [[The Fallen]] in [[Protihex]], where his teleporting power enabled him to get the best of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and gun him down. {{storylink|Conflagration}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of several Decepticon invaders on board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed into [[Earth]] four million years ago while the Autobot ship was clearing an asteroid in the path of Cybertron. <br /> <br /> In 2002, he was one of the Transformers who survived the disastrous launch of the sabotaged ''[[Ark II]]'' and were later captured and reprogrammed by arms dealer [[Lazarus|Adam &quot;Lazarus&quot; Rook]], who intended to rent out the services of the enslaved robots to various terrorist groups. After Megatron reactivated himself, he freed his Decepticon subordinates in order to put forward his plans to infect Earth with a metallic virus of doom. To pass the time while this happened, Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp busied themselves by tearing apart the Autobot Minicar team. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp later participated in Megatron's attack on [[San Francisco]], where he followed Starscream's orders to maintain formation and drop cluster bombs on the Autobot giant [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], forcing the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] to split into their separate robot forms. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp presumably stood watch over the defeated Autobots while Megatron tried to persuade [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to help the Decepticons conquer Earth. After some human firefighters distracted the Decepticons long enough for Optimus Prime to free the Autobots, Skywarp was presumably beaten up and escaped when Superion sacrificed himself to stop a nuclear missile launched by rogue US General [[Robert Hallo]]. <br /> <br /> ''When Megatron was kidnapped by the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] and Decepticon leadership was up for grabs, Skywarp began acting more serious and ambitious than his regular &quot;lunatic prankster&quot; persona would suggest. One of the few Decepticons who aggressively refused to follow Starscream in Megatron's absence, Skywarp teamed up with the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio in an attempt to seize power for himself. He lured Starscream into leaving his new kingdom in [[Las Vegas]] and travelling to Hoover Dam. Once there, Skywarp challenged Starscream directly for leadership of the Decepticons. He failed miserably, however; Starscream dealt Skywarp severe damage using his [[Null-ray|null bolts]] at close range, then tossed his former wingman over the falls. Skywarp was in [[stasis lock]] for some time thereafter, and he begrudgingly chose to serve under Starscream after his repair cycle aboard the ''Nemesis'' was completed. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''<br /> <br /> ''When [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and his private army of humans attacked Las Vegas, along with [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Skywarp was among the Decepticons who charged out to meet them in battle along the Strip. As Thundercracker and Soundwave kept the rampaging [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]'s attention, Skywarp prepared a delicious, underhanded sneak attack. Diving at Grimlock at full speed, Skywarp planned on unleashing his heat-seeking missiles at near point-blank range for maximum devastation. Luckily for Grimlock, the little Autobot Bumblebee was willing to sacrifice his functionality in order to keep the more powerful Autobot warrior in play and took the full impact of the missiles at the last second. Enraged, Grimlock struck Skywarp with enough force to send him flying miles away into the desert and out of the fight for the immediate future. ''<br /> <br /> ''Curiously, Skywarp chose NOT to leave Las Vegas with Megatron once the former Decepticon leader returned to Earth. Damaged after his time with the Keepers, Megatron lost a fight with Starscream and was forced to relinquish his leadership to the Aerospace Commander. Still, Megatron refused to serve under Starscream, and he led a revolt of several Decepticons into exile. For whatever reason, Skywarp remained at Starscream's side until the Keepers attacked, possessing Starscream as a host body and caging the rest of the Decepticons still in Las Vegas inside a dome of impenetrable energy. Skywarp assumed command of the remaining Decepticons in Starscream's absence and directed the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] into not attacking the dome directly as [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], but digging beneath the energy field to forge a tunnel they could exit through. He also made contact with Megatron's forces outside the city and agreed to wait patiently until the time was right for all the Transformers to assault the Keepers as one. ''<br /> <br /> ''When the time came, Skywarp &quot;allowed&quot; his Decepticons to join forces with Megatron's, because it was the only &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. During the fight, he blasted the [[Bluestreak]]-Keeper with an explosive gamma radiation blast. The attack was effective, but proved moot when the Bluestreak-Keeper fused with the Starscream-Keeper, creating one massive and deformed robotic god figure. In the end, it was Optimus Prime and the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] which finally ended the war with the Keepers, diverting the force of a nuclear missile launched by the American government. In the aftermath, Starscream's scrap was salvaged and rebuilt, but Megatron chose to make Skywarp his new second-in-command for a time, mostly just to piss Starscream off. Still, Skywarp certainly saw it as the most &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. {{storylink|Annihilation}}''<br /> <br /> ''In Washington D.C., Megatron and the Decepticons stormed the White House to show their displeasure to the [[President of the United States|President]] for trying to wipe them out with a nuclear strike. Megatron assigned Skywarp to deal with the SWAT teams in the streets, then sent him into the skies to join Starscream in shooting down the air support called in by the military. Final tally—Starscream: 12, Skywarp: 5. Sometime later, Skywarp was present in the Nevada desert when the Autobots and Decepticons confronted the United States military. Thanks to their airborne tactics, Thundercracker and Skywarp did significant injury to the troops and survived the [[deconstructionite]] assault virtually unscathed. After the Keepers were finally defeated and Starscream had been restored to his normal, irascible self, Megatron chose to restore the status quo and replaced Skywarp with Starscream as his second-in-command yet again. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''<br /> <br /> {{note|Although it's hard to see how, the author(s) of the Keepers Trilogy may have confused Skywarp with Shockwave, or at least combined their roles and personalities into one character. Throughout the trilogy, Skywarp made repeated references to the &quot;logical&quot; course of action, and once made an oblique reference to his gift over the electromagnetic spectrum. Whether there was actual confusion involved, or if the pick-up writer [[David Cian]] was forcing Skywarp to fit a role once Dreamwave's comics made using Shockwave off-limits, is unknown.}}<br /> <br /> When Shockwave arrived on Earth with his new army, he quickly disposed of Megatron and demanded loyalty from Skywarp and the others. Somewhat begrudgingly, they assented and accompanied him back to Cybertron. Back on their home planet, Skywarp and Thundercracker were amazed at what Shockwave had accomplished in their absence and were planning to sign on for the duration. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} After getting run down and beaten up by Optimus Prime on his way to Shockwave, though, the Seekers took an offer from Starscream and Soundwave to abandon the rising conflict on Cybertron and return to Earth for some good ol' fashioned looting. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}<br /> <br /> On Earth, Skywarp was part of Starscream's initial salvo against the Ark, a decoy to be deliberately taken prisoner in order to draw out the remaining Autobots where the newly reformatted [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] could get at them. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} After decimating the Autobots' ranks, [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] freed the fallen Decepticons, and they were about ready to terminate their opponents when the awe-inspiring clone known as [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] emerged from fold-space, looking to have words with Starscream. Sunstorm's &quot;purifying light&quot; induced an energon overload in their systems, knocking them into stasis lock. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}} Skywarp and the others remained Autobot prisoners until Starscream negotiated a deal for their release in exchange for his aid against Sunstorm. {{storylink|Skyfire (issue)|Skyfire}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp fell back under Megatron's command once the former leader arrived on Earth and forced Starscream back under his thumb. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers'' comics===<br /> [[Image:GIJoevsTF1_Seeker.jpg|left|thumb|200px|]]<br /> Skywarp was one of the Transformers reprogrammed to serve the terrorist organization [[Cobra]] and was, along with Thundercracker, rebuilt to transform into a [[Rattler]] aircraft in the process. Their first mission was to show off Cobra's power by assaulting a peace ceremony in [[Washington, D.C.]], and either Skywarp or Thundercracker was the first to reveal his robot mode to the shocked [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] before wrecking [[Ace]]'s jet with a single punch. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1}}<br /> <br /> When [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] undid Cobra's reprogramming of the Transformers, Skywarp waited on the runway in Rattler mode until [[Major Bludd]], unaware of the plane's true identity, decided to use him as his ticket off [[Cobra Island]]. After causing Bludd some stress by refusing to start his engines, Skywarp revealed himself and told him that he'd rather walk, then transformed, crushing the human to death with his moving innards in the process. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4}} He then joined Thundercracker in fighting [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], who had also been freed from Cobra's control. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5}} Unfortunately, the two Seekers were later caught in the [[SPS Satellite]]'s rain of energy beams and deactivated. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6}}<br /> <br /> {{note|As Skywarp's coloration is identical to Thundercracker's in this series, it's possible that it was actually Thundercracker who killed Major Bludd. However, it feels more like something Skywarp would do.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave ''Transformers/G.I. Joe'' comics===<br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons revived by [[Cobra]] in 1938. He may have been one of the Seekers driven back by the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] in the battle of the [[Fera Islands]]. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}} During the Autobots' attack on the [[Terrordrome]], Skywarp was lounging about when he overheard some Cobra troopers talking dirt about the Decepticons. Picking one of the humans up, Skywarp suggested that he be a little grateful that the Decepticons were helping them conquer their filthy mudball of a planet. Before he could finish insulting them, however, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] burst out of the ground and beat him up. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===<br /> Skywarp and Thundercracker were at the end of a berating from Megatron when the news came in that Starscream had badly injured himself in a rock-climbing accident. Skywarp probably even helped look for Starscream. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}<br /> <br /> Enraged at [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] for selling off Decepticon weapons on the black market, Megatron commanded Skywarp to bring the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] in — in pieces of necessary. {{storylink|Two for the Price of One}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW comics continuity===<br /> {{ongoing}}<br /> Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] were early recruits for [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], helping sow terror across Cybertron and kidnap Senator [[Decimus]] just prior to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] and founding of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3}} At one point he was part of a squad intent on assassinating [[Zeta Prime]], but the plan was thwarted when [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] warned the Autobot leader (tackling Skywarp in the back on the way). {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Infiltration5 Skywarptotalled.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Skywarp learns what happens when he pushes Megatron down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> In the modern era, Skywarp is part of a Decepticon infiltration unit that has operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, working to destabilize Earth's governing organizations and create global anarchy. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 3}} His alternate form is an [[wikipedia:F-22_Raptor|F-22 Raptor]] fighter jet, and his main job seems to be using his teleporting powers to transport his comrades to places.<br /> <br /> Starscream assigned him and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] to destroy all traces of the [[Nebraska]] operation, but after demolishing the abandoned Nebraska command bunker, he was severely damaged by Megatron, who, unfortunately for Skywarp, had been inside at the time. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5}} Megatron was apparently not one to hold grudges, and he soon had Skywarp repaired and functioning again, under the understanding that there would be no further second chances. {{storylink|Escalation issue 1}} While on a mission to destabilize Middle Eastern energy supplies, Skywarp confessed to Thundercracker that he believed Megatron had it in for all of them, especially himself, though his fellow Decepticon pointed out the fact that Megatron did have him repaired. {{storylink|Escalation issue 2}} Skywarp participated in the operation at [[Brasnya]] where he injured [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and evacuated Megatron before the Autobots could destroy him. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> When [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] began his coup, he first contacted Skywarp in an effort to get a viable ally. Skywarp thought it was a big load of crap, but said that if Ramjet could get some results in one day, they'd talk. However, Skywarp did mention that he always &quot;bets on the leader.&quot; This turned out to be a prudent decision. {{storylink|Spotlight: Ramjet}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the concerned Decepticons who feared that Megatron had lost all sense of reason when he deployed [[Sixshot]] on Earth. They conspired to bring Starscream back into the fold to talk some sense into their leader. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1}} Emboldened by Starscream's lone stand against the Reapers, the Decepticons attacked and eventually the alien invaders, with Skywarp participating in the destruction of their starship. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> About a year later, Megatron had somehow regained Skywarp's confidence, and Skywarp assured Thundercracker that Megatron knew what he was doing when he created [[Insecticon swarm|three thousand twisted perversions of their own race]]. The Decepticons later lured Optimus Prime and his troops into a trap and utterly crushed them, with Skywarp ripping [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]'s arm clean off. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7}} They proceeded to conquer [[New York City]]. During that attack, Skywarp got to make stuff go boom and kill a lotta folks, and it was the best day out ever. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1}}<br /> <br /> After taking out several military helicopters, Skywarp was assigned to accompany Soundwave, Hook and Astrotrain as they took Frenzy to deal with a large ground force. [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] voiced his doubt that the tiny Decepticon had a chance against such a huge number of enemies, but Skywarp, enjoying a chance for a dig at the new guy, simply told him to make sure he kept his distance. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 2}} All the fun of smashing things and killing millions of people soon soured though, as Skywarp started clashing with the [[Insecticon (G1)|uppity Insecticons]] and getting lonely now Thundercracker was being mopey and Starscream wasn't around much. Even mindlessly killing eight million people in [[China]] couldn't perk him up. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6}}<br /> <br /> [[image:AHM12 Betrayer.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A rare moment of Skywarp just killing someone instead of pushing them down the stairs.]]<br /> <br /> When the Autobots eventually returned to Earth, Skywarp battled them in the ruins of New York City. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11}} He grabbed [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and took to the sky, asking the old timer why he wasn't [[Spotlight: Kup|insane]] anymore. Kup responded by calling Skywarp a &quot;mouthy punk&quot; and shooting him in the gut, causing him to to drop the Autobot. The Decepticons fled when Megatron was defeated, but Skywarp came back when he noticed that Thundercracker had diverted the nuke that Megatron had arranged to be dropped on New York. Furious at his fellow Seeker's betrayal, he ignored Thundercracker's arguments and shot him point blank in the face. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12}}<br /> <br /> [[Image: Bumblebee 1 Skywarp's Stash.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Up the Arsenal!]]<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons left behind when the others fled Earth. Unlike [[Swindle (G1)|some]], however, he was in no rush to get off the planet; instead he came up with the idea to steal and stockpile human weapons for Megatron's eventual return. He attacked the technology corporations [[Dynomic]] and [[Allodyne Logic Systems]] for information on their advanced technology, which in turn attacted the attention of [[Skywatch]]. Some two years after the Decepticons' defeat in New York, Skywarp had filled at least one whole garage with missiles and bombs. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} In addition to his vast collection of anti-human weapons, he also worked to create a weapon capable of crippling all the Autobots on the planet. Skywarp beamed signals into space in order to report his progress to Megatron, who he really hoped would be back soon. {{storylink|The Impossible Knot}}<br /> <br /> While the Autobots worked on finding a way to disable the kill-switch badges that the rogue Skywatch Colonel [[Gordon Horiuchi]] had provided them, Skywarp attacked Skywatch's Phillips base to gain access to information to track down the kill-switch control board. Arriving at Skywatch researcher [[Sanjay Bharwaney]]'s home {{storylink|The Gift Horse}}, Skywarp moved in for the kill, but was foiled by the timely intervention of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], who saved Bharwaney and his daughter [[Serena Bharwaney|Serena]]. Skywarp chased them into an industrial area, and as he hunted, he ranted about how Megatron would be returning here to take his rightful place as ruler of the galaxy, with Skywarp at his side, and once he had the control board, all the Autobots would fall into line under the Decepticon banner, making Skywarp a hero. Just when it seemed Skywarp would get his hands on Bumblebee and the control board, Skywatch operative [[Daniel Klonowski]] intervened, firing a weapon powerful enough to damage Bumblebee. Injured but undeterred, Skywarp managed to corner the Autobot, offering to let him go in exchange for the control board as a &quot;professional courtesy&quot;. His confidence turned to panic when Bumblebee steeled himself to activate the control board, the little Autobot declaring that unlike Skywarp, he has friends who would fix him. The electro-magnetic pulse from the control board seriously damaged both transformers, but it is unknown what became of Skywarp. As Skywatch representatives were in the area, it is likely that he was taken into custody. {{storylink|Wings of Wax}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Hearts of Steel''===<br /> Skywarp was one of the Decepticons who woke up on mid-19th century Earth, where he took on the form of a spiky airplane with three propellers. In the Decepticons' desert headquarters, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] told him about the plans to conquer Earth, and ordered him to fly ahead of the [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], leading the way towards [[New York City]]. Skywarp was concerned that the Autobots might interfere, but Starscream assured him their enemies had not yet awoken. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2}}<br /> <br /> {{note|There's no evidence in the story that Skywarp actually ''did'' fly ahead of the Astrotrain, but if it's true, he may have survived the Decepticon defeat unharmed.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> Skywarp serves under [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] as one of his Decepticon soldiers, battling [[Optimus Primal]]'s many Autobot allies in what might possibly have been an inter-universe battle. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_boxart.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Someone pushes HIM down a flight of stairs for once. Payback's a bitch.]]<br /> <br /> A Skywarp from an unspecified [[universal stream]] was selected by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|Megatron]] to become part of his [[Questor]] forces. Granted a portion of the hyperdimensional powers that his leader had obtained from the monstrous [[Hytherion]], Skywarp was given a new body with an uncharacteristic sports car alternate mode, a [[Timaeus drive]] that granted him the ability to travel through dimensions, and a massively enhanced teleportation power that actually allowed him to warp the fabric of space and time around him. About the only thing that didn't change was his characteristic lack of intelligence and initiative; coupled with the brain-bending complexities of higher-dimensional life and battle, this meant that Skywarp was left still relying on Megatron's specific orders for and when to use his powers.<br /> <br /> Skywarp proved his worth when he succeeded in his mission to scour the year 2010 all across the dimensions for a trace of the two-dimensional world of the [[Planicron]]s. Precisely what Megatron needed the Planicrons for, Skywarp didn't know, but he recalled a rumor among the Questors that they were key to the destruction of the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]], and smirked with excitement to himself as he informed Megatron of his discovery. {{storylink|Hunt for the Planicrons}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Commercial appearances==<br /> Skywarp's history of [[commercial]] appearances includes:<br /> <br /> * The very first Transformers animation, a commercial for [[The Transformers (issue)|Issue #1]] of Marvel's ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' comic book. On Earth, he flies across the desert with Starscream and Thundercracker to attack a power plant.<br /> <br /> * He is briefly seen battling in the desert against Hot Rod, Kup and Blurr, until Cyclonus and Scourge (!!) swoop in to counterattack. <br /> <br /> * Skywarp attacks an Autobot power station along with Thrust and Starscream in a commercial for Ultra Magnus.<br /> <br /> * He can be very briefly glimpsed swooping into battle alongside Galvatron (!!) on Earth in a subsequent commercial for [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and Galvatron.<br /> <br /> [[Image:LiveActionJazz-Skywarp01.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I bet he spiked the punch.]]<br /> <br /> * Along with his original Seeker wingmates, he gets barreled over by the Dinobots in a commercial for the Predacons.<br /> <br /> * A commercial for Transformers reflective iron-on patches advertised the &quot;[[Prizes in Disguise]]&quot; competition. When the [[iron-on patch]] was used, it was possible to find instead an instant win ticket for a Transformers voice changer (of the [[Enemy]] variety)—or to have a party with &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers! Among the &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers shown were [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and Skywarp. In all likelihood, you did not party with them.<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> [[Image:G1-toy SkywarpCommSeries.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Commemorative Series retooled Skywarp. Robot mode... that&amp;#39;s okay. Jet? Not so much.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Decepticon Jet, 1984/1985/2001/2003/2008)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''23'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 wings (left &amp;amp; right), 2 rudders (left &amp;amp; right), 2 tailfins (left &amp;amp; right), 2 fists (left &amp; right), front landing gear<br /> <br /> : The only 1984 [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] with a deco not used previously in [[Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' line, Skywarp transforms into an [[wikipedia:F-15_Eagle|F-15 Eagle]] fighter jet, sharing his mold with his teammates [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. Many parts need to be removed completely for transformation from robot to jet and back, which nowadays is considered a major drawback of the toy. It is rare to find it complete, as neither mode can hold all the pieces required. There are a few minor mold variations of this toy (common for the first two years of ''Transformers'', really), the most immediately noticeable being that early versions did not have visible &quot;clip-tabs&quot; on the inner face of the gauntlets.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Redeco.jpg|Early Hasbro stock photos of Skywarp]] show him with a plastic purple nosecone. This was changed to a soft, black rubber nosecone when the toy was actually released. However, a [http://tfarchive.com/toys/articles/toypics/mex_skywarp.jpg Mexican variant] retained the purple plastic nosecone. The same stock photos also show him with purple launchers with black triggers and muzzle rings, black feet, black shins, black outer arm panels, purple horizontal stabilizers, and both sets of purple missiles. These stock photos were also later used to promote Takara's 2001 reissue.<br /> <br /> : In 2001, Skywarp was given a short-run reissue (limited to only 1,000 pieces) by Takara as a convention-[[exclusive]] item, bundled together with Thundercracker as &quot;[[Collector's Edition]]&quot; Set C. The toy would later be more extensively released in 2003 as part of [[Hasbro]]'s [[Commemorative Series]] series IV, though due to US [[For safety reasons|toy-safety regulations]], his missiles were made extra-long since his spring-loaded launchers were now fully-functional.<br /> <br /> : In August, 2008, Skywarp was released with Thundercracker as number 11 in Takara's [[Transformers Encore]] line. For this release Skywarp's Decepticon symbols were painted and his purple stickers were changed to a much bluer shade of purple. Curiously, Skywarp's wing stripes in this release are factory-applied stickers, instead of the [[tampograph]]s on his two-pack buddy.<br /> <br /> : This mold was [[Redeco|redecoed]] into [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and retooled to make [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]].<br /> <br /> :For some reason, the stats on Skywarp's, Starscream's and Thundercracker's [[tech specs]] were switched around. Skywarp's box was given Starscream's numbers, which explains his high intelligence and rank. The actual specs intended for this toy, but accidentally given to Thundercracker, are presented here. Hasbro's Commemorative Series Skywarp reissue had his bio rewritten to explain his higher stats.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Machine Wars===<br /> [[Image:MWSkywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|After his near-fatal encounter with the Invert Colors function.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Basic, 1997)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 rifle halves<br /> : Sharing a mold once again with [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], Skywarp transforms into a white [[wikipedia:Rafale|Dassault Rafale]] fighter jet with spring-loaded one-step transformation from jet to robot. The two halves of his rifle store in his lower legs. Like all ''[[Machine Wars]]'' toys, Skywarp was an [[exclusive]] to Kay-Bee stores and related stores like Toy Liquidators.<br /> <br /> : This mold is also used by ''[[Beast Wars II (toyline)|Beast Wars II]]'' [[Dirge (BWII)|Dirge]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Skyfire (RID)|Skyfire]], ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' [[Wingstun]] and ''[[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]]'' [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]].<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Machine Wars'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Universe (2003)===<br /> [[Image:TFU03-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Like [[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]], except he can fly.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2003)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missiles<br /> <br /> :''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] in his Generation 1 colors. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter jet, armed with two spring-loaded projectile launchers that can fire orange &quot;energon&quot; bolts. These launchers end up in his arms in robot mode. He has a third robot mode that collapses the legs around the cockpit (oh hush), with flip-out panels revealing an extra pair of thrusters. His [[spark]] crystal, revealed by flipping the purple hatch on his back, has a Decepticon [[insignia]] [[tampograph]]ed on top of it.<br /> <br /> :Skywarp was also used to make ''Beast Machines'' [[Sonic Attack Jet]], ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Storm Jet (RID)|Storm Jet]], and ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Universe Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Smallest Transforming Transformers===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2003)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''GTF X-1'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' Skywarp was a very small-scale simplification of the original Generation 1 Seeker toy, retaining most of its functionality and accessories, except for his long null-rays. Skywarp was one of two [[Chase figure|chase figures]] from the first wave of the line.<br /> <br /> : This mold was redecoed from Starscream, then re-redecoed into Thundercracker, and finally retooled to make Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/SmallestSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> ===Robot Masters===<br /> [[Image:RMSkywarp toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Now with the proper articulation for down-stair-pushing.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp &amp;amp; Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, 2005)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;<br /> <br /> : ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from the same series, a smaller yet more advanced version of the original toy, adding more articulation and reducing the amount of [[Partformer|part-forming]] required. He was available only in a two-pack with Thundercracker, which also came with a Decepticon sigil pin and chromed missile pods. This set was the very last product released in the ''Robot Masters'' line and wasn't even strictly sold in a box from that series; instead, it used an [[e-Hobby]] ''Generation 1'' reissue box, with a small ''Robot Masters'' sticker in the corner tab noting its origin from the front.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Robot Masters'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Classics (2006)===<br /> [[Image:Class06-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ultra Magnus isn&amp;#39;t pictured because he was just pushed-well, you know.]]<br /> * '''Ultra Magnus vs Skywarp: Battle For Autobot City''' (Multi-pack, 2006)<br /> **''Accessories:'' Left &amp;amp; right missile launchers, 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' Skywarp is a slight retool of the ''Classics'' Starscream mold, transforming into an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-15 Eagle fighter jet]], though with a canopy like that of an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-14 Tomcat]]. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode and can attach under his wings in vehicle mode. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he also features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]]. <br /> <br /> : Skywarp was slightly [[Retool|retooled]] from the earlier Starscream figures. The retool is present in the jet intake area. The slope of his shoulders was decreased from Starscream's, and a rectangle added to the vertical area, making the number now five instead of four. This retooled version was used for all subsequent releases of the mold: ''Classics'' [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], as well as [[Acid Storm]] from ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]''. At the end of ''Classics'' Starscream's production run, he too used this version of the mold.<br /> <br /> : He was only available as part of a Target stores [[exclusive]] two-pack with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. The set's price was $19.99, despite including both a Voyager-class and Deluxe-class mold in it, which was approximately $30 worth of toys if they'd been sold separately. He was also available in Woolworth stores throughout the United Kingdom.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Classics Skywarp toy.jpg|Stock photos of ''Classics'' Skywarp]] showed a more detailed color scheme than the actual released figure. Much like ''Classics'' Ultra Magnus, the changes were most likely due to an overabundance of [[Paint operation]]s. This more detailed version was shown at [[BotCon 2006]] and at least one sample found its way to a collector's hands. The sample also used the original Starscream mold, and not the retooled version used for every version of the mold since and even including Starscream.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Classics'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Masterpiece===<br /> [[Image:MP-6 Skywarp.jpg|200px|thumb|Takara finally remembered what colors the Seekers are supposed to be.]]<br /> * '''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-6''' <br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 AIM missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot, Megatron Gun clasp, display stand<br /> <br /> : ''[[Masterpiece]]'' Skywarp was released in Japan in September of 2007. He is a redeco of the Masterpiece Starscream mold in black, gray, silver, and purple, though the purple and silver are more minimal than usual. Skywarp is able to switch between a minimally retooled stoic face and a new snarly face, retooled from Starscream's previous smirk. The tiny [[Doctor Arkeville]] pilot figurine (this time molded black) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> [[Image:MPSkywarp stickers.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Sadly, no stair-pusher sticker.]]<br /> : The sticker sheet includes Skywarp-esque stripes, as well as several whimsical squadron markings.<br /> <br /> :The second pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp (released in October 2008) features an assembly error: his left and right pectorals are flipped. This misassembly does not affect transformation at all, and is really only noticeable when compared to prior Masterpiece Seekers. The September 2007 pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp is assembled correctly. Masterpiece Thundercracker is misassembled as well.<br /> <br /> :It is a common misconception that the stoic face on Takara's Masterpiece Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker are the same, when all of them are in fact different sculpts.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Attacktix===<br /> *'''Skywarp'''<br /> <br /> : Skywarp was among the planned ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' game pieces that were showed at some conventions, but went unreleased as the line was canceled. He was to be a [[retool]] of sorts of the similarly unreleased ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], using the same weapon and base but a brand new jet mold. Skywarp would've been able to detach from his base and fly on a string, enabling him to get better shots of opposing pieces. Any other details about his role in the game are unknown.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> ===Titanium Series===<br /> [[Image:Titanium-toy WWSkywarp.JPG|right|300px|thumb|]]<br /> *'''War Within Skywarp''' (San Diego Comic-Con 2008 exclusive)<br /> <br /> : [[Titanium Series]] ''[[War Within (toyline)|War Within]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of Thundercracker, transforming into a Cybertronian &quot;tetrajet&quot; as reimagined by [[Don Figueroa]]. As with all 6-inch Titanium Cybertron Heroes, he is constructed mostly of fully painted die-cast metal. He was available only at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] after the Titanium line had already been cancelled, and also Hasbro Toy Shop's booth at [[wikipedia:San_Diego_Comic-Con|San Diego Comic-Con]] 2008.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''War Within'' Starscream, Sunstorm and Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/SDCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Titanium'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Henkei! Henkei!===<br /> [[Image:Henkei Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp grabbed the wrong launchers.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2008)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skywarp is a [[Toy Hobby Market]] exclusive redeco of ''Henkei! Henkei!'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Skywarp and his fellow [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were opened for pre-order on [[May 22]]nd through [[June 20]], and mailed out in September 2008.<br /> <br /> :Soon after release, there were numerous complaints from both Japanese and Western collectors about the poor quality control for both Thundercracker and Skywarp. Skywarp's most common fault was missing paint for one of his shoulders. Some reported both toys suffering misassembly issues such as having two left or two right thighs.<br /> <br /> :Several minor changes were made to this mold for this release. The holes for his missile launchers in his arms were widened, as were the launcher's insertion pegs. The wing's missile launcher insertion points were lengthened and are now curved at the end. The last rectangle on his air intakes, was further modified from the [[Classics (2006)|Classics]] version this time the bottom most rectangle goes completely across the air intake's surface rather than just the center. ''Henkei'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Generation 1 Series|Starscream]] also saw most of these changes.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Universe (2008)===<br /> [[Image:Universe2008-toy_MasterpieceSkywarp.jpg|thumb|right|300px|]]<br /> *'''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2009)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine, gun clip, two-piece display stand <br /> : A [[Wal-Mart]] exclusive redeco of the original Masterpiece Starscream mold. Just like Starscream, Skywarp is able to switch between two different faces. This release uses the Starscream's stoic and smirking alternate faces rather than the Takara Masterpiece Skywarp's newly-tooled stoic and snarling faces. Hasbro designer [[Joe_Kyde|Joe Kyde]] felt the alternate snarling face did not fit Skywarp's prankster personality, so he went with the Starscream smirk face instead when designing the deco for Hasbro's release. As a result of gang molding, Skywarp also uses Starscream's stoic face, the decision being the difference between Skywarp and Starscream's stoic face was negligible enough not to make a significant difference. The toy also features a more G1 toy styled deco rather than cartoon-based, particularly in the yellow eye color and wing stripes. His purple more closely matches that of the original toy than the purple used on the Takara version, and features a lighter flat black, like the original toy, instead of Takara's darker glossy black. The Hasbro version replaces some of the dark gray of the Takara version with a dark silver, removes the arm and chest striping, but adds additional red detailing, while removing some as well. Much like Hasbro's Starscream, he does not feature any of the warning or slogan tampographs, but features tampographed striping, Decepticon symbols, and some additional paint details not present on the Takara version.<br /> : The tiny Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine (molded in black with no paint applications) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime and a stand (featuring Skywarp's name) with a support beam for jet or robot mode. <br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Mortal minds cannot even comprehend the four-dimensional hyperstairs he can push you down.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp Witch Purple Pearl''' ([[May 29|5/29]]/2010)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''A-04'''<br /> <br /> :Skywarp is a [[retool]] of the simultaneously released ''[[Alternity (franchise)|Alternity]]'' Starscream with a new head, transforming into a licensed 1:32 scale [[wikipedia:Mitsuoka_Orochi|Mitsuoka Orochi]]. Like the other toys in the line, he will feature [[die-cast]] metal parts and rubber tires, as well as an opening hood, trunk and doors. In car mode, small wings can be flipped out from under Skywarp's rear wheels, giving him the appearance of a flying car. <br /> <br /> :This mold, with Skywarp's head, was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]].<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Decoy===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (1986)<br /> ** ''Decoy ID number:'' '''33'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Decoy]]'' Skywarp is a tiny, purple, soft-rubber figurine randomly packed with smaller toys at the time. To differentiate him from Starscream and Thundercracker, Skywarp is sculpted holding his arms above his head in a cheering pose.<br /> <br /> : Like all Decepticon Decoys, Skywarp was also available in red for a limited time. This release is considerably rarer than the regular purple one.<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Lucky Draw figure, 2001)<br /> <br /> : ''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' Skywarp is a non-transforming action figure [[redeco]]ed from ''SCF'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Limited to 200 pieces, he was only available as the second place prize in a [[Lucky Draw]] contest held in conjunction with the first edition of ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' (with the &quot;[[Starscream (G1)/toys#SecretStarscream|Secret Starscream]]&quot; toy as the first place prize). Due to the bankruptcy of the ''Transformers: Generations'' publisher, [[Keibunsha]], it is unknown whether the Japanese version of Skywarp was ever actually sent out or not.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''Super Collection Figure'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' (see below) Starscream, Thundercracker, [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and the [[Air Warrior]]s.<br /> <br /> ===Heroes of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2002)<br /> <br /> : When the ''Super Collection Figure'' line was brought to the US as ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', Skywarp was widely released as part of the first wave. Unlike ''SCF'', ''HOC'' figures were composed of transparent red plastic that was mostly painted over, giving them [[light-piping|&quot;light-up&quot; eyes]].<br /> <br /> * '''Decepticon''' (2003)<br /> <br /> : Same as the American version above, but part of an [[OTFCC 2003]]-exclusive six-pack of figures which also included Starscream, Thundercracker, and three [[Air Warrior]]s. It featured a more metallic paint job from the normal release and slightly different paint details.{{fact}}<br /> <br /> ===Legends of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2004, unreleased)<br /> <br /> [[Image:OTFCCSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Doesn't so much teleport as not exist in the first place.]]<br /> <br /> : A redeco of ''Mega Super Figure Collection'' G1 Starscream (minus the extra coronation accessories, open-palm hands, and the hand wielding Megatron in gun mode), Skywarp was to be among the first of the fan club exclusives offered by [[The Official Transformers Collectors Convention|OTFCC]] as well as the first in their ''Legends of Cybertron'' line. The figure was delayed and never saw a full release due to [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]] losing the license to run the official Transformers fan club. At least a couple of sample versions were produced.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Palisades===<br /> [[Image:PalisadesSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Decepticon on a stick! Get yer Decepticon on a stick!]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Palisades, 2005)<br /> <br /> :A ''SmallBluePlanet''-exclusive redeco of the Starscream statue, Skywarp is a six inch tall polystone statue with articulated head and arms. He can stand normally or use a stand to take on a &quot;hovering&quot; pose. Skywarp was limited to 300 pieces, and sculpted by [[3L Creation Group]] from a design by [[George Tremarco]].<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker and the Ghost of Starscream.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Robot Heroes===<br /> [[Image:Robot Hero Skywarp.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Clearly just after shoving Starscream down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> * '''Decepticon Sneak Attack''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : Skywarp is one of the five exclusive figures in Wal-Mart's &quot;Decepticon Sneak Attack&quot; set, alongside [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], [[Mirage (G1)|holographic Mirage]] and &quot;Supermetal Finish&quot; versions of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. He's a black and purple redeco of Starscream, yes. His left hand's for pushing you down stairs, his right fist's for pumping the air in victory. Sweet, sweet stair-based victory.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : A 25-point &quot;uncommon&quot; character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s &quot;Energon Wars&quot; expansion, Skywarp &quot;transforms&quot; into a black and purple jet. He uses the same parts layout as [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]].<br /> <br /> ==Trivia==<br /> * Skywarp's one-line characterization in the original Transformers [[production bible]] was &quot;sneaky but dumb&quot;. Hee hee. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#034] In a more peculiar note, his longer write-up in the production bible noted that he was colored olive drab. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#038] This error isn't as unusual as one might first think, as Skywarp was the only first-year jet whose colors didn't originate in ''[[Diaclone]]''—thus, they simply may not have been decided upon when the production bible was written.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpatron.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Skywarp really DID need close supervision.]]<br /> * In a possible fit of madness, a triple changer was proposed that would switch between Skywarp (possibly mistaken for Starscream), [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and Skywarp's jet mode.<br /> <br /> * Character bios written by unknown persons for the Australian (Madman) DVD release of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' definitely claim that [[Cyclonus (G1)|Skywarp became Cyclonus]]. Basically, nobody considers that weighty &quot;evidence&quot;.<br /> <br /> * Skywarp is the only Seeker with wing stripes that are not red.<br /> <br /> * For such a popular character, Skywarp doesn't DO much of anything in the original show.<br /> <br /> * [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Machine_Wars|Despite]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Classics_.282006.29|many]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Heroes_of_Cybertron|releases]], [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Titanium_Series|Skywarp]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Henkei.21_Henkei.21|is]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Universe_.282008.29|usually]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Robot_Heroes|an]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Generation_1_2|exclusive.]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;amp;char=Skywarp Skywarp's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Alternity characters]]<br /> [[Category:Attacktix]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Machines characters]]<br /> [[Category:Classics characters]]<br /> [[Category:Convention exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 2 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Henkei! 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William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Skywarp_(G1)&diff=474809 2010-07-06T20:59:17Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticon|decepticong2|wreckers}}<br /> {{disambig3|Skywarp}}<br /> :''Skywarp is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarp1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp, Decepticon Stair-Pusher-Downer]]<br /> [[Teleportation]] is a dangerous tool in the hands of a capable adversary. Thankfully for the [[Autobot|Autobots]], '''Skywarp''' is the Decepticon who possesses that ability. Skywarp's not so bright, so without supervision he's worthless as a warrior. He mostly uses his teleportation power for immature pranks on both friend and foe. He takes a charmingly puerile angle at thuggery, so his pranks are well-received amongst his Decepticon peers (excepting the victim, of course). <br /> <br /> Because, come on, a surprise push down a staircase is ''hilarious''.<br /> <br /> {{quote|Don't think. Just do.|Skywarp's life motto|[[Megatron Origin issue 4|''Megatron Origin'' #4]]}}<br /> <br /> :''French-Canadian name'': '''Fraudeur''' (&quot;Cheater&quot; or &quot;Evader&quot; or &quot;Smuggler&quot;)<br /> :''Hungarian name'': '''Égretörő''' (&quot;Sky-springer&quot;)<br /> :''Italian name'': '''Corvo''' (&quot;Crow&quot;)<br /> :''Japanese name'': '''Warp'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Portugal comics)'': '''Espião Celeste'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Brazil comics)'': '''Viajante''' (&quot;Traveller&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Tīen Wān''' (天彎, &quot;Sky Warp&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (China):'' '''Nao Fan Tian''' (鬧翻天, &quot;Extreme Ruckus&quot;)<br /> :''Russian TV dub name:'' '''Deformer'''<br /> His Partner is [[G1 Thundercracker]]<br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> ====Generation 1====<br /> {{noteukonly}}<br /> [[Image:Introdump decepticons marvelus01.jpg|left|300px|thumb|You can tell Skywarp apart from Thundercracker in the Marvel Comics by, uh.... let us get back to you on that.]]<br /> Skywarp was one of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron's]] troops who attacked the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] during its mission to clear a path for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] through an asteroid field. He was deactivated when it crashed on [[Earth]], and he lay dormant for four million years. When he and his fellow Decepticons awoke, Skywarp was given a new [[Alternate mode|altmode]], that of an Earth jet. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} He aided the Decepticons in their building of their new base constructed of parts from [[Harrison Nuclear Power Plant]] and joined in their attack on [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s auto repair shop. After the successful abduction of Sparkplug Witwicky, Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] defended their base from [[Autobot|Autobots]], though [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Spider-Man]] were able to sneak through and rescue Sparkplug. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}<br /> <br /> ''When Starscream fired upon his teammate [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] for eavesdropping on his plot to overthrow Megatron, Skywarp and the other Decepticons sought deadly revenge on the Decepticon [[Air Commander]]. {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}} Though Starscream escaped, the Decepticons soon regrouped to attack the Ark, but their battle was ended prematurely when [[Auntie]], the Ark's computer system, magnetized the walls, immobilizing both factions. {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}} On another occasion, he and Thundercracker made a strafing run on two Autobot spies, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. Jazz was deafened and blasted off the road, but Sunstreaker led them into a human military zone, prompting Megatron to call them back to base. {{storylink|Perchance to Dream}}'' Skywarp also traveled with the Decepticons to the [[United Kingdom]], where he and his teammates attempted to learn about a mysterious Autobot rescue ship buried under a castle. An initial attack on the Autobots left Skywarp seriously wounded by a bomb from [[Bluestreak]]. {{storylink|Man of Iron (story)|Man of Iron}}<br /> <br /> Though Sparkplug Witwicky was able to devise a way for the Decepticons to convert Earth fuel into a usable substance, he also poisoned the result, so Skywarp and his fellow Decepticons were immobilized at the climax of their would-be final battle with the Autobots. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} The Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] took command of the Decepticons and the Ark shortly thereafter and nursed Skywarp and his comrades back to full health. Skywarp may have helped Shockwave attempt to capture and brainwash [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] into a Decepticon, or it may have been Thundercracker without red stripes. It's hard to tell. {{storylink|Plight of the Bumblebee!}}<br /> <br /> He served the Decepticon cause up until he was deactivated while battling [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and placed in prison stasis at Autobot headquarters. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Target_2006_fake_Starscream_dies.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nope. Guess again.]]<br /> ''When [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] traveled back from the year 2006 to build a super-weapon to destroy [[Unicron]], Skywarp was a key player in the defeat of the mad Decepticon. Sorta.'' <br /> <br /> ''The Autobots took Skywarp out of stasis, painted him to look like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], and sent him stumbling toward Galvatron with a tape-recorder of Starscream's voice on his back. Galvatron, still sore about Starscream tossing him out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] during his Megatron days, shot and presumably killed Skywarp. Galvatron then realized that if he killed Starscream in the past then there'd be no way he could have killed Starscream in the future (never mind that killing Skywarp now opens up that whole issue of [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus' identity]]). Believing he was in an alternate past and thus nothing he did there would affect his personal timeline, Galvatron hurried back to his proper time. Way to take one for the team, Skywarp. {{storylink|Target: 2006}}''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpgoofyteleportation.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Upon close inspection, Skywarp's teleportation power is merely a goofy loop-de-loop.]]<br /> During a massive battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth's moon, Skywarp and the other Decepticons held in stasis aboard the Ark were liberated by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and subsequently brought back online. {{storylink|Totaled!}} During the first Decepticon Civil War, Skywarp battled with [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s Decepticons against [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons. Skywarp surprised [[Bugly]] with his teleportation powers and blasted him, temporarily stunning him. However, Bugly successfully returned fire, striking where he guessed Skywarp would next teleport. {{storylink|Cold War!}} Skywarp was repaired in time to face an [[Underbase]]-powered Starscream in [[Tokyo]], but both he and Thundercracker were destroyed by their former flying partner. {{storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Generation 2''====<br /> Optimus Prime, learning of the Decepticons' attacks on Earth, traveled there alone not to fight them but to talk Megatron out of it. Prime was really surprised to learn that this was a really stupid idea, and as Megatron tore Prime apart and severed the Matrix from his body, Skywarp stood by with other Decepticons and watched. He and the rest of the Decepticons retreated with the Matrix when the Autobots showed up to save Prime. {{storylink|The Gathering Darkness}}<br /> <br /> The Autobots and the Decepticons had just agreed to make an alliance against the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]], but the Decepticons disagreed about aiding other planets' people. When the Autobots went alone to fight the Cybertronians, they almost were defeated, until Skywarp (yes, this article is about him) suddenly warped into the battle, followed by the rest of the Decepticon army, to aid the Autobots. <br /> <br /> And you just know he mocked the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] he saved. ''Relentlessly.'' {{storylink|Escalation!}}<br /> <br /> ====''Classics''====<br /> {{note|Classics is a [[splinter timeline]] from the Marvel US continuity that does not include events from either ''Generation 2'' or the Marvel UK issues.}}<br /> His broken body rescued from [[Tokyo]], Skywarp was rebuilt using Shockwave's upgraded [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] schematics. He was told that it was Starscream, driven mad with the power of the [[Underbase]], who did him in. Skywarp's okay with that. After all, the traitor's going to have to let down his guard sometime. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 14|''Classic'' Skywarp's profile}}<br /> <br /> After the appearance of the mysterious crossdimensional Decepticon [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], Skywarp and the other rebuilt Decepticons under Megatron's command traveled to [[South America]] to investigate an equally mysterious power source that seemed to share traits with Landquake. En route, they were attacked by [[Walter Barnett]]'s [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNT]] squad. {{storylink|Crossing Over, Part 2}} Skywarp managed to shake off these interlopers just before Optimus Prime and his Autobots arrived in search of this same power source, and a new battle between the factions began in the jungles surrounding the power source. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 3}} As the battle escalated, Skywarp and Starscream fought [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] across the skies, {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 5}} but ultimately, Megatron was forced to call for a withdrawal. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 6}}<br /> <br /> With his nosecone still battered from the fight, Skywarp came with Starscream and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] to investigate what [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] and his crew were doing on Earth. He was happy to see that Thundercracker was among them, but less so when his old buddy shot a [[cerebro-shell]] at him, forcing him to follow Bug Bite's commands. Skywarp and the others were sent to assassinate Megatron, but were soon freed from Bug Bite's control due to Autobot interference. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===<br /> ====''The Transformers'' cartoon====<br /> :''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese), [[Jacques Ferrière]] (French)<br /> <br /> [[Image:Tetrajet seekers.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Cybertron alt-mode (left). The early Decepticons promoted geometry.]]<br /> In the early days of the Decepticon rebellion, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] both faced the powerful protectors of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] cities, the [[Guardian Robots]]. Even millions of years later, the powerful Guardians struck fear into Skywarp's spark. {{storylink|War Dawn}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of the elite Decepticons that served [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] on Cybertron four million years ago. Skywarp and his fellow Seekers came across the Autobots [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] pilfering [[conductor|energy conductors]], and tried to eliminate the Auto-jerks. Once Wheeljack broke through their defenses, Skywarp and Thundercracker transformed to their tetrajet modes and followed the Autobots. They managed to get a good shot in against Bumblebee, but soon both Autobots escaped termination by taking the chase underground. Skywarp later joined Megatron in attacking and boarding the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot ship]] on their search for energy. After crash-landing on Earth, the Decepticons and Autobots laid dormant for four million years, until volcanic activity stirred the ship's computer back to life. Skywarp was the first of the ship's Transformers to be reformatted and awakened by [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], in the form of an Earthen F-15 fighter jet. Once active, Skywarp immediately dragged his master Megatron's body into the reformatting rays of the Ark's computer, and soon all the Decepticons were revived. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Since the Decepticons were so badly short-staffed during their early days on Earth, Skywarp was usually involved in whatever crazy plot for universal domination Megatron was hatching. This included attacks on an off-shore oil rig, [[Sherman Dam]] and the [[Ruby Crystal Mines of Burma|ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. On the last raid, Skywarp and Thundercracker caught a pair of snoops -- Bumblebee and the human, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. They were knocking the little Autobot around for fun, and pondering how to giftwrap him for Megatron, when an explosion caused the mine to cave in around them. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} When the Decepticons escaped the Burma operation with a cache of energon cubes, Skywarp requested permission from Megatron to teleport in order to scare off Autobot pursuers. Teleporting behind the strangely airborne duo of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Bluestreak]], Skywarp pasted the ornery old Autobot with a heat-seeking missile, knocking him out of the sky that he probably shouldn't have been able to fly around in anyway. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:TransporttoOblivion Skywarp Prowl punchy.jpg|left|180px|thumb|&quot;[[Bumblebee (G1)|Punch-buggy yellow]]!&quot;]]<br /> When [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] was caught spying on the Decepticons' new [[Space Bridge]], Skywarp and Starscream captured him for Megatron. After Bumblebee was reprogrammed to led the Autobots into a trap, Skywarp biffed [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] from behind, causing him to fall down in an almost pushing-down-stairs-like fashion. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} After the Decepticons acquired the [[antimatter]] formula, they were en route to the Ark when [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] intercepted them, practicing their jet judo maneuvers. Skywarp was being thrown off-course by Sideswipe's antics until Starscream knocked the Autobot warrior loose. During the battle, Megatron charged himself up with the Decepticons' new toy, and transformed into an &quot;anti-matter gun&quot; to obliterate the Autobots. After Starscream had his turn with the gun, Skywarp got ready to blow some Autobots away too. Before he could start, however, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] attacked his leg with a jackhammer. He scooped up the puny fleshling and was about to blast him with the anti-matter gun (and, incidentally, probably blow his own hand off in the process) when [[Chip Chase]] attached a computer override device invented by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], which allowed Teletraan I to take brief control of his body. Skywarp started firing Megatron's anti-matter power at the other Decepticons, overheating the unstable power supply and forcing the Decepticons to retreat. {{storylink|Roll for It}} <br /> <br /> {{bigquote|You little fool... You're no match for Skywarp!|Skywarp announces his superiority to a kid in a wheelchair.|&quot;[[Roll for It]]&quot;}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was later part of a Decepticon raid on a factory, apparently in a very playful mood with his teleporting power. First he 'ported behind some human guards to taunt them before making them scatter with laser fire. Then, when Thundercracker blased open some power lines to begin filling his energon cubes, Skywarp &quot;cut in line&quot; by teleporting between Thundercracker and the energy to fill his own cube first. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] showed up to stop them, Skywarp fired a heat-seeking missile at him, only for Prime to deflect it with a punch. The Autobot was eventually defeated, and Skywarp ran off with some [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}} <br /> <br /> When the Decepticons began draining heat energy out of Earth's core using a crystal shaft in the Arctic, Skywarp got a bit bored at the lack of real action. He was in the middle of taunting Rumble when the two of them accidentally caused a miniature avalanche in one of the caves. By sheer happenstance, this led to the Decepticons recovering the long-lost [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] from an icy tomb. Skywarp helped perform repairs on the giant flier, though it was probably better for all concerned if somebody with actual knowledge had performed these repairs. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}} <br /> <br /> During a battle at [[Great Falls]] hydroelectric power facility, the newly-constructed [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] arrived to rescue the beleagured Autobots, who had been captured by the Decepticons. Skywarp foolishly attempted to beat the flamethrowing [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] with a mere pair of heat-seeking missiles, and ended up being grabbed out of the air by the mighty jaws of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], who chomped on his wing and threw Skywarp into his fellow Megatron loyalist [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Soon afterwards, during an operation in [[Peru]], Skywarp got to be Megatron's favorite Seeker for the day after Starscream and Thundercracker stole poor-quality steel for their latest super-weapon. He had fun taunting the egotistic 'Screamer when Megatron called him to battle, leaving the other Seekers behind on mere guard duty. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}} Later, Skywarp helped Megatron steal a giant meteor, although its unstable power proved too dangerous to use for energon cubes. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was in a playful mood during the Decepticons' raid of a solar power plant in [[India]], cracking wise and hoping to play a game of catch...with the rajah as the ball. He had even more fun in a quick free-for-all with the Autobots, a distraction so that the Decepticons could kidnap one of the Autobots' fleshling friends as a guinea pig for [[Doctor Arkeville]]'s mind-control experiments. Skywarp enjoyed himself so much, he got in a fight with Starscream on the way back to headquarters about how ''brilliant'' Megatron's plan was. Thundercracker had to jump out of the way while the two of them roughhoused in the elevator. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} Thanks in part to Arkeville's [[hypno-chip]] slaves, the Decepticons were able to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, creating massive environmental disturbances that produced millions of energon cubes. What's more, transporting energon to Cybertron was now just a short flight away. Unfortunately, the devastation was greater than Megatron had anticipated. While Skywarp was on a return flight from Cybertron, a tidal wave broke off the access tower to the Decepticons' undersea base, flooding it. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Skywarp was present at the final battle before the Autobots knocked Cybertron out of orbit, and fled when Megatron abandoned his troops to escape with the energon cubes. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} With Megatron seemingly destroyed as his star cruiser exploded with the cubes on-board, the Decepticons were left rudderless. While working on repairs for their undersea base, tempers flared as Skywarp picked a fight with his favorite target, Rumble, and his pint-sized partner, [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. Skywarp bit off more than he could chew, however, as Frenzy's surprising strength overcame Skywarp as he tried to crush the mini-cassette beneath his heel. Thundercracker and Soundwave started to get involved in the fracas too, but Megatron soon arrived to put his house back in order. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Changegearsskywarp.jpg|thumb|200px|left|What you see when he pushes you down the stairs.]]Like all Decepticons, Skywarp provided his [[power chip rectifier]] to Megatron for his single combat with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}} When the Decepticons attacked another rocket base, Skywarp and Thundercracker attempted to double-team Optimus Prime, but only succeeded in destroying the very rockets they came to plunder. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Later, the Decepticons attacked a mining camp to lure the Autobots out into the open, and Skywarp stood guard over the humans being used as bait. After they used the opportunity to kidnap [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] for his special circuit board, Skywarp later helped fill the energon cubes from Megatron's [[Solar Needle]]. {{storylink|Changing Gears}} As the Decepticons took over New York to create the city of New Cybertron, Skywarp was seen loading cars into [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]'s drum for reconstruction. He and Thundercracker were later damaged after trying to take some potshots at Optimus Prime, only to miss and crash straight through a building in the process. {{storylink|City of Steel}} He also served in a later assault on the Ark, distracting the Autobots long enough for Megatron to sneak inside and mess with their [[recharging chamber]]s. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}<br /> <br /> Rather stoic in recent weeks, Skywarp was back to his cheery but malicious self when he and Starscream went after some [[electro-cell]]s at the [[Experimental Energy Research Laboratory]]. While breaking through the roof of the installation, Skywarp merrily remarked on the joy of opening presents. During a fight with the Autobot named [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], one of Skywarp's insignia was ripped off, and later planted to help turn the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Traitor}} During a battle with the Autobots over the [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]], Skywarp unleashed his new toy: a [[bouncer bomb]]. This weapon ricocheted through the trees, explosively bouncing from one side of the battlefield to another. Unfortunately, the Decepticons were also subject to its &quot;friendly fire&quot; until Megatron shot the blasted thing down. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp's teleportation power did come in useful when he was needed to sneak up on the Autobots with the [[Transfixatron]]. One quick zap and they were all frozen in vehicle mode. However, he failed to zap ALL the Autobots, which ultimately led to the undoing of Megatron's scheme. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} Skywarp was present during the Decepticon alliance with [[Sub-Atlantica]], and was part of their attack on Washington D.C. He and Thundercracker strafed the Autobots while in battle on the Great Lawn. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} When the Decepticons stole the ninja robot [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]], Skywarp used his grapples to pull the roof off of the demonstration ampitheater, allowing Starscream and Thundercracker to swoop in and grab the robot. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and his flying buddies once attempted to triple-team Optimus Prime in battle, but failed to do more than provide Optimus with a chance to toss a good quip. Strangely, Skywarp was later seen throwing what looking like a standard pineapple grenade at the Autobots. It was effective enough, but looked as out of place as an AK or a tommygun in Transformer hands. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} When the Decepticons made yet another attempt at harnessing some sort of power from the Earth's core, Skywarp defended their drilling operation from the Autobots. He and the Seekers attempted to bomb the Autobots from the air, but a scattering of explosive missiles from [[Bluestreak]]'s shoulder launchers took them out of the fight. {{storylink|The Core}}<br /> <br /> During the assault on Iron Mountain, Skywarp was briefly taken over by [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s [[cerebro-shell]]s during a tiff between Megatron and the Insecticons. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}} He also joined the Decepticon expedition to [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], to loot and plunder its various sources of energy. Skywarp was eager to do battle with the Dinobots when they arrived to defend their new home...which just goes to show Skywarp's kinda stupid. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} When the Autobots eventually arrived to help drive the Decepticons off of Dinobot Island, they were aided by a band of dinosaurs themselves, prodded onwards by [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. Skywarp and Thundercracker found their lasers ineffective against the charging brutes, and were forced to retreat with the rest of their army. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> During some aerial dogfighting with the Autobot ace, [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], Skywarp took a nasty hit to the wing. He must have managed to limp back to base, because he was present for Megatron's interrogation of the Constructicons a short while later. {{storylink|The Master Builders}} When the Decepticons went after [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s latest super-weapon, the [[Negavator]], Skywarp and the Seekers strafed the Autobot convoy in a box canyon. Their efforts were blocked by [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]'s disruptor beams and magnetic smoke, which left the Seekers unable to see or navigate in any way. Skywarp and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] ended up in a three-way collision with each other and a canyon wall. {{storylink|Auto Berserk}} Once, the Decepticons were pre-emptively celebrating the destruction of the Autobots after Megatron acquired the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. They got over-energized on energon cubes and passed out in the desert. Five'll get you ten, whoever passed out closest to Skywarp woke up with a [[Scraplet]] drawn on their face in permanent marker. {{storylink|Microbots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was a participant in the ultimate prank against the Autobots. Using Autobot costumes left over from last Halloween, Skywarp and some others raided an oil refinery for fuel, only to be driven off when the &quot;heroic&quot; Decepticons arrived to stop the &quot;evil&quot; Autobots. The entire scene was filmed by [[Shawn Berger]] and used to smear the Autobots' good name so severely that they were forced to abandon Earth entirely in a rocket cruiser. Ha HA! {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} The fleshlings didn't appreciate the joke when they found out the punchline, but Skywarp and the Decepticons were too busy enslaving [[Central City (G1)|Central City]] to care. As bad luck would have it, though, the Autobots managed to make their way back to Earth, and drive off the Decepticon occupation. Killjoys. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> When the Decepticons set up a temporary base of operations at the airport, Optimus Prime sent in the Dinobots to clear them out. Skywarp and the other jets were caught off-guard initially, but the Decepticons had learned from previous encounters that the Dinobots were more vulnerable in their robot modes. By feigning defeat, Skywarp and the others lured the Dinobots into a false sense of security, and they transformed back to robot mode. Skywarp and Megatron then unleashed a barrage of energy, igniting the jumbo jets on the tarmac and causing the Dinobots tremendous damage. The Decepticons finally scored a decent victory against the Dinos, and they owed it all to a dirty underhanded sneak attack. It was a good day to be Skywarp. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Like most of the Decepticons, Skywarp was rendered temporarily invulnerable due to exposure to [[electrum]]. Invincibility didn't make him any better a prison guard, though, as even [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] was able to overpower him and escape from the Decepticons' undersea headquarters. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} Skywarp was seen delivering the Insecticons' share of the energon harvested from their clones using Megatron's energon transference process. Since the meager three cubes the Insecticons got were a small pittance compared to how many were actually being generated, Skywarp was surely snickering to himself as he handed them over. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}} When the Space Bridge materialized in the middle of a baseball stadium, Skywarp and Soundwave got into a friendly game of catch...with flesh-creatures as the ball. Then the Autobots had to show up and ruin their fun. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}}<br /> <br /> Later on, Skywarp and the Seekers kidnapped a group of Earth's world leaders, but ran into the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s during their getaway. Skywarp nearly nailed [[Slingshot]] with a loop-the-loop, coming down on him from above, but was shot down by [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]. {{storylink|War Dawn}} One day, Skywarp and Thundercracker were guarding the Space Bridge when Starscream arrived. After showing them his authorization (which looked suspiciously like a null ray rifle), they allowed Starscream to travel to Cybertron. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}} At Megatron's command, Skywarp travelled to [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] headquarters to check up on their progress in the latest Decepticon scheme. At Megatron's command, Skywarp landed at the empty base. At Megatron's command, he began to follow the mysterious trail of loose Combaticon parts leading out of the canyon. You gotta wonder what Skywarp is capable of without constant supervision...{{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}<br /> <br /> In 2005, Skywarp was part of a massive [[Battle of Autobot City|Decepticon attack]] on [[Autobot City]] on Earth. He was badly damaged during the battle, but managed to escape with the rest of his comrades aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. However, en route to Cybertron he was tossed out into space with other badly damaged Decepticons so that the rest would be able to make it home. Skywarp's body was gathered by [[Unicron]] and, among others, used to make [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s new warriors. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Skywarp arguably became either [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] or [[Cyclonus's Armada]], the identical warrior who was never seen again. Either way, Skywarp effectively ceased existing.}}<br /> <br /> ====Japanese cartoon continuity====<br /> {{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as described above. The Japanese continuity then proceeds to insert several additional stories into the timeline, as follows.}}<br /> <br /> =====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic=====<br /> <br /> Under orders from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], Skywarp accompanied [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] in an energy raid on [[Tokyo]]. Things were going well, as they enjoyed bombing pedestrians and children while screaming their demands for energy to the Heavens, at least until [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a unit of Autobot vehicles arrived. Though their victory seemed assured when they unleashed [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] on their foes, their strategy was undone when the Autobots drove up a ramp at top speed, transformed to vehicle mode and punched everybody in the face. Skywarp was forced to retreat. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 1|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp later took part in an all-out assault on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] in [[Arizona]]. The attack was nothing more than a diversion so [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] could go do unspecified ''stuff'' in Japan and the Decepticons were eventually defeated and driven off. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 2|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2}}<br /> <br /> =====Full Throttle Scramble Power!=====<br /> As Megatron bragged to [[Toru]] that the Decepticons would strip Earth of all its resources, Skywarp (or Thundercracker) was shown attacking a power plant. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}<br /> <br /> =====''The Stargate Battles''=====<br /> Skywarp participated in Megatron's first attempted takover of the [[Warp Gate|Trigger]], bursting out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] alongside the other Seekers. {{storylink|First Contact}}<br /> <br /> =====''Robot Masters'' online comic=====<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)#Issue 13|And Then}}<br /> <br /> ===''Universe''===<br /> <br /> In [[2005]], when [[Unicron]] rebuilt Skywarp into [[Cyclonus's Armada]], Skywarp was also reprogrammed to obey Cyclonus. Even later, when Skywarp's original personality reasserted itself, that mental link remained. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Though no reason is stated in-story as to how or why or when Skywarp got this new body between the Great War and the [[Beast Era]], ''Wreckers'' plotter [[Glen Hallit]] noted that Skywarp's body was based on a mass-production body type of its day, similar to Generation 1's [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]].}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Wreckersskywarpcyclonus.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Looks like Cyclonus was Bombshell. Neener neener.]]<br /> <br /> After the Decepticons lost the Great War and [[Maximal|Maximals]] and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] claimed [[Cybertron (planet)|the planet]], [[Megatron (BW)|another Megatron]] subjugated nearly every Transformer alive with a transformation-lock virus and an army of [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]. Skywarp was one of the handful of Transformers who had slipped through Megatron's fingers, and eventually he and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] joined up with the legendary strike team, the [[Wrecker|Wreckers]]. Given a mission by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], the Wreckers fought through an army of Vehicons (Cyclonus, Skywarp, and [[Rotorbolt (Universe)|Rotorbolt]] took care of the [[Spy Streak]] drones) to steal an Autobot shuttle in order to get off-planet. {{storylink|Departure}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp served as the shuttle's pilot, which served as a point of contention when the bounty hunter [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] stowed away on board, who didn't like that the Wreckers apparently now included Decepticons and Predacons among their ranks. As the shuttle approached the [[Archa system]], their given destination, Skywarp detected the homing beacon of the ''[[Sojourner's Passage]]'', an exploration ship that was lost centuries ago. Since the Autobot shuttle had been damaged en route, once it had landed on [[Archa Nine]], Skywarp helped repair it while others searched the surface. While Skywarp was occupied with this, Cyclonus revealed himself as a traitor, stealing the [[Divine Light]], a mysterious artifact the Wreckers were sent by the Oracle to find. {{storylink|Betrayal}} <br /> <br /> [[Image:Disclosure-Skywarphonor.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Heh.]]<br /> <br /> Though it's likely Skywarp didn't really care, the rest of the Wreckers were dealt a blow to morale after this betrayal. Regardless, the Wreckers set off for a new destination given by the Oracle, a desolate ice planet on which a search team found an exiled [[Quintesson]] scientist named [[Al-Badur]]. While Al-Badur was explaining the meaning of the Divine Light, an army of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] attacked both the search team and Skywarp and the others back at the shuttle. Skywarp was able to easily destroy their attackers. The search team returned to the shuttle, and Primal Prime told Skywarp that he'd be taking direction from the Quintesson. Al-Badur asked Skywarp what compelled him to join this team of Autobots and Maximals; Skywarp told him it involved &quot;returning a favor&quot; and &quot;Decepticon honor,&quot; things he wouldn't understand. {{storylink|Disclosure}} <br /> <br /> {{note|In the unpublished script to ''[[The Wreckers: Finale Part 1|The Wreckers'' #4]], after receiving an encrypted message, Skywarp flew the Wreckers back to Cybertron as quickly as possible. [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] and his Quintesson partners had invaded. But on arrival to Cybertron, the Quintessons' attacks were so thick that they kept the shuttle from being able to land. Primal Prime ordered a few of the Wreckers off the ship to join the troops below, while Rodimus, Skywarp, and the remainder were to land elsewhere.}}<br /> <br /> In the aftermath of Cyclonus's betrayal, the other Wreckers were understandably wary of Skywarp, though the Decepticon claimed he had no part or knowledge of his fellow Decepticon's actions. While circling overhead Cybertron, the Wreckers' shuttle was critically hit. Rodimus told everyone else to evacuate while he kept the ship level, but Skywarp chose this moment to strike. He knocked Rodimus away and told [[Tap-Out (G1)|Tap-Out]] to help everyone else disembark; the Decepticon was going to guide the shuttle down. When it landed, taking out a large portion of the Sharkticon invading forces in a fantastic explosion, the Wreckers were shocked. Skywarp had sacrificed his life for them? As Rodimus began to give a regretful eulogy for the untrusted Decepticon, Skywarp appeared behind them, laughing about his sweet maneuver. He had, of course, used his warping power to leave the ship at the last moment. &quot;Did you see that? I think I managed to shove the forward nacelle antennae right through the Quint Overseer!&quot; Everyone grumbled.<br /> <br /> As their group joined the battle against Cryotek and Cyclonus within Cybertron, it seemed Skywarp may not have been so forthright after all. He violently silenced the overbearing Ramulus (muttering that he was surprised no one thanked him) and took his place at Cyclonus's side. Rodimus was understandably confused and hurt, but Skywarp told the Autobot that he'd more than paid him back recently and he no longer owed the Wreckers anything. Cyclonus laughed, and told the Wreckers of his mental link to Skywarp. But Skywarp muttered, having &quot;always ''hated'' that,&quot; and attacked Cyclonus. He reappeared at the Wreckers' side again, noting that he'd only harmed Ramulus to get in Cyclonus' good graces long enough to deal the blow. <br /> <br /> [[Image:Revelations-Skywarppunched.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Unfortunately, Unicron has no stairs.]]<br /> <br /> {{quote|I'll settle with the zoo crew later. But ''you''... I ''never'' liked you. Even when you were a [[Bombshell (G1)|''bug'']] I hated your stinkin' circuits. Like I said, only [[Megatron (G1)|''one'' guy]] ever bossed ''me'' around, and it sure as slag ain't ''you.''}}<br /> <br /> But Cyclonus had scores of Sharkticons at his disposal, and they quickly filled the chamber. Rodimus wanted to throttle Skywarp for what he'd done to Ramulus, but Skywarp shrewdly pointed out that they had bigger problems at the moment. But in the middle of the battle, a strange surge of energy passed through the subterranean chamber, flowing through Tap-Out and Skywarp, causing both to disappear in a flash of light. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and Tap-Out had been abducted by Unicron and, under undisclosed circumstances, Skywarp joined [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]]'s [[Minions of Unicron]] during the [[Universe war|Universe conflict]]. During the final battle within the [[Pit]], he was defeated by [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave comics continuity===<br /> {{notekeepers}}<br /> In the early days of the war, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were sent to blow up a building full of pesky [[neutral]]s in [[Altihex]]. He took a second to wonder if it was the right thing to do—not because it was morally wrong or anything, but because it was ''too easy''. Thundercracker didn't have much input, so Skywarp just went &quot;Sure, why not,&quot; and murdered the neutrals. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1}} Some time later, the two came with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he tried to sway [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] into joining the Decepticons. Skywarp tried to stop Starscream from spilling the beans about the Seekers' next mission at [[Sector Zero-Six]], but was told to shut up. When the trio later carried out said mission, they found that Grimlock had evacuated the area and placed a bomb to welcome them. Skywarp barely had time to teleport himself and his comrades away before the place went up in flames. {{storylink|The War Within Preview}} When Starscream decided to blame Megatron for what happened, Skywarp snapped and pointed out that it was all ''his'' fault for ''telling the enemy about their mission'', then took off with Thundercracker. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Following the sudden disappearance of Megatron, the Decepticons split into several splinter groups, but Skywarp stayed with the main faction under the command of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. He participated in an attack on the minions of [[The Fallen]] in [[Protihex]], where his teleporting power enabled him to get the best of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and gun him down. {{storylink|Conflagration}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of several Decepticon invaders on board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed into [[Earth]] four million years ago while the Autobot ship was clearing an asteroid in the path of Cybertron. <br /> <br /> In 2002, he was one of the Transformers who survived the disastrous launch of the sabotaged ''[[Ark II]]'' and were later captured and reprogrammed by arms dealer [[Lazarus|Adam &quot;Lazarus&quot; Rook]], who intended to rent out the services of the enslaved robots to various terrorist groups. After Megatron reactivated himself, he freed his Decepticon subordinates in order to put forward his plans to infect Earth with a metallic virus of doom. To pass the time while this happened, Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp busied themselves by tearing apart the Autobot Minicar team. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp later participated in Megatron's attack on [[San Francisco]], where he followed Starscream's orders to maintain formation and drop cluster bombs on the Autobot giant [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], forcing the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] to split into their separate robot forms. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp presumably stood watch over the defeated Autobots while Megatron tried to persuade [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to help the Decepticons conquer Earth. After some human firefighters distracted the Decepticons long enough for Optimus Prime to free the Autobots, Skywarp was presumably beaten up and escaped when Superion sacrificed himself to stop a nuclear missile launched by rogue US General [[Robert Hallo]]. <br /> <br /> ''When Megatron was kidnapped by the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] and Decepticon leadership was up for grabs, Skywarp began acting more serious and ambitious than his regular &quot;lunatic prankster&quot; persona would suggest. One of the few Decepticons who aggressively refused to follow Starscream in Megatron's absence, Skywarp teamed up with the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio in an attempt to seize power for himself. He lured Starscream into leaving his new kingdom in [[Las Vegas]] and travelling to Hoover Dam. Once there, Skywarp challenged Starscream directly for leadership of the Decepticons. He failed miserably, however; Starscream dealt Skywarp severe damage using his [[Null-ray|null bolts]] at close range, then tossed his former wingman over the falls. Skywarp was in [[stasis lock]] for some time thereafter, and he begrudgingly chose to serve under Starscream after his repair cycle aboard the ''Nemesis'' was completed. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''<br /> <br /> ''When [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and his private army of humans attacked Las Vegas, along with [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Skywarp was among the Decepticons who charged out to meet them in battle along the Strip. As Thundercracker and Soundwave kept the rampaging [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]'s attention, Skywarp prepared a delicious, underhanded sneak attack. Diving at Grimlock at full speed, Skywarp planned on unleashing his heat-seeking missiles at near point-blank range for maximum devastation. Luckily for Grimlock, the little Autobot Bumblebee was willing to sacrifice his functionality in order to keep the more powerful Autobot warrior in play and took the full impact of the missiles at the last second. Enraged, Grimlock struck Skywarp with enough force to send him flying miles away into the desert and out of the fight for the immediate future. ''<br /> <br /> ''Curiously, Skywarp chose NOT to leave Las Vegas with Megatron once the former Decepticon leader returned to Earth. Damaged after his time with the Keepers, Megatron lost a fight with Starscream and was forced to relinquish his leadership to the Aerospace Commander. Still, Megatron refused to serve under Starscream, and he led a revolt of several Decepticons into exile. For whatever reason, Skywarp remained at Starscream's side until the Keepers attacked, possessing Starscream as a host body and caging the rest of the Decepticons still in Las Vegas inside a dome of impenetrable energy. Skywarp assumed command of the remaining Decepticons in Starscream's absence and directed the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] into not attacking the dome directly as [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], but digging beneath the energy field to forge a tunnel they could exit through. He also made contact with Megatron's forces outside the city and agreed to wait patiently until the time was right for all the Transformers to assault the Keepers as one. ''<br /> <br /> ''When the time came, Skywarp &quot;allowed&quot; his Decepticons to join forces with Megatron's, because it was the only &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. During the fight, he blasted the [[Bluestreak]]-Keeper with an explosive gamma radiation blast. The attack was effective, but proved moot when the Bluestreak-Keeper fused with the Starscream-Keeper, creating one massive and deformed robotic god figure. In the end, it was Optimus Prime and the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] which finally ended the war with the Keepers, diverting the force of a nuclear missile launched by the American government. In the aftermath, Starscream's scrap was salvaged and rebuilt, but Megatron chose to make Skywarp his new second-in-command for a time, mostly just to piss Starscream off. Still, Skywarp certainly saw it as the most &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. {{storylink|Annihilation}}''<br /> <br /> ''In Washington D.C., Megatron and the Decepticons stormed the White House to show their displeasure to the [[President of the United States|President]] for trying to wipe them out with a nuclear strike. Megatron assigned Skywarp to deal with the SWAT teams in the streets, then sent him into the skies to join Starscream in shooting down the air support called in by the military. Final tally—Starscream: 12, Skywarp: 5. Sometime later, Skywarp was present in the Nevada desert when the Autobots and Decepticons confronted the United States military. Thanks to their airborne tactics, Thundercracker and Skywarp did significant injury to the troops and survived the [[deconstructionite]] assault virtually unscathed. After the Keepers were finally defeated and Starscream had been restored to his normal, irascible self, Megatron chose to restore the status quo and replaced Skywarp with Starscream as his second-in-command yet again. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''<br /> <br /> {{note|Although it's hard to see how, the author(s) of the Keepers Trilogy may have confused Skywarp with Shockwave, or at least combined their roles and personalities into one character. Throughout the trilogy, Skywarp made repeated references to the &quot;logical&quot; course of action, and once made an oblique reference to his gift over the electromagnetic spectrum. Whether there was actual confusion involved, or if the pick-up writer [[David Cian]] was forcing Skywarp to fit a role once Dreamwave's comics made using Shockwave off-limits, is unknown.}}<br /> <br /> When Shockwave arrived on Earth with his new army, he quickly disposed of Megatron and demanded loyalty from Skywarp and the others. Somewhat begrudgingly, they assented and accompanied him back to Cybertron. Back on their home planet, Skywarp and Thundercracker were amazed at what Shockwave had accomplished in their absence and were planning to sign on for the duration. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} After getting run down and beaten up by Optimus Prime on his way to Shockwave, though, the Seekers took an offer from Starscream and Soundwave to abandon the rising conflict on Cybertron and return to Earth for some good ol' fashioned looting. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}<br /> <br /> On Earth, Skywarp was part of Starscream's initial salvo against the Ark, a decoy to be deliberately taken prisoner in order to draw out the remaining Autobots where the newly reformatted [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] could get at them. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} After decimating the Autobots' ranks, [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] freed the fallen Decepticons, and they were about ready to terminate their opponents when the awe-inspiring clone known as [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] emerged from fold-space, looking to have words with Starscream. Sunstorm's &quot;purifying light&quot; induced an energon overload in their systems, knocking them into stasis lock. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}} Skywarp and the others remained Autobot prisoners until Starscream negotiated a deal for their release in exchange for his aid against Sunstorm. {{storylink|Skyfire (issue)|Skyfire}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp fell back under Megatron's command once the former leader arrived on Earth and forced Starscream back under his thumb. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers'' comics===<br /> [[Image:GIJoevsTF1_Seeker.jpg|left|thumb|200px|]]<br /> Skywarp was one of the Transformers reprogrammed to serve the terrorist organization [[Cobra]] and was, along with Thundercracker, rebuilt to transform into a [[Rattler]] aircraft in the process. Their first mission was to show off Cobra's power by assaulting a peace ceremony in [[Washington, D.C.]], and either Skywarp or Thundercracker was the first to reveal his robot mode to the shocked [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] before wrecking [[Ace]]'s jet with a single punch. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1}}<br /> <br /> When [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] undid Cobra's reprogramming of the Transformers, Skywarp waited on the runway in Rattler mode until [[Major Bludd]], unaware of the plane's true identity, decided to use him as his ticket off [[Cobra Island]]. After causing Bludd some stress by refusing to start his engines, Skywarp revealed himself and told him that he'd rather walk, then transformed, crushing the human to death with his moving innards in the process. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4}} He then joined Thundercracker in fighting [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], who had also been freed from Cobra's control. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5}} Unfortunately, the two Seekers were later caught in the [[SPS Satellite]]'s rain of energy beams and deactivated. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6}}<br /> <br /> {{note|As Skywarp's coloration is identical to Thundercracker's in this series, it's possible that it was actually Thundercracker who killed Major Bludd. However, it feels more like something Skywarp would do.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave ''Transformers/G.I. Joe'' comics===<br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons revived by [[Cobra]] in 1938. He may have been one of the Seekers driven back by the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] in the battle of the [[Fera Islands]]. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}} During the Autobots' attack on the [[Terrordrome]], Skywarp was lounging about when he overheard some Cobra troopers talking dirt about the Decepticons. Picking one of the humans up, Skywarp suggested that he be a little grateful that the Decepticons were helping them conquer their filthy mudball of a planet. Before he could finish insulting them, however, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] burst out of the ground and beat him up. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===<br /> Skywarp and Thundercracker were at the end of a berating from Megatron when the news came in that Starscream had badly injured himself in a rock-climbing accident. Skywarp probably even helped look for Starscream. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}<br /> <br /> Enraged at [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] for selling off Decepticon weapons on the black market, Megatron commanded Skywarp to bring the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] in — in pieces of necessary. {{storylink|Two for the Price of One}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW comics continuity===<br /> {{ongoing}}<br /> Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] were early recruits for [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], helping sow terror across Cybertron and kidnap Senator [[Decimus]] just prior to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] and founding of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3}} At one point he was part of a squad intent on assassinating [[Zeta Prime]], but the plan was thwarted when [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] warned the Autobot leader (tackling Skywarp in the back on the way). {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Infiltration5 Skywarptotalled.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Skywarp learns what happens when he pushes Megatron down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> In the modern era, Skywarp is part of a Decepticon infiltration unit that has operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, working to destabilize Earth's governing organizations and create global anarchy. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 3}} His alternate form is an [[wikipedia:F-22_Raptor|F-22 Raptor]] fighter jet, and his main job seems to be using his teleporting powers to transport his comrades to places.<br /> <br /> Starscream assigned him and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] to destroy all traces of the [[Nebraska]] operation, but after demolishing the abandoned Nebraska command bunker, he was severely damaged by Megatron, who, unfortunately for Skywarp, had been inside at the time. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5}} Megatron was apparently not one to hold grudges, and he soon had Skywarp repaired and functioning again, under the understanding that there would be no further second chances. {{storylink|Escalation issue 1}} While on a mission to destabilize Middle Eastern energy supplies, Skywarp confessed to Thundercracker that he believed Megatron had it in for all of them, especially himself, though his fellow Decepticon pointed out the fact that Megatron did have him repaired. {{storylink|Escalation issue 2}} Skywarp participated in the operation at [[Brasnya]] where he injured [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and evacuated Megatron before the Autobots could destroy him. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> When [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] began his coup, he first contacted Skywarp in an effort to get a viable ally. Skywarp thought it was a big load of crap, but said that if Ramjet could get some results in one day, they'd talk. However, Skywarp did mention that he always &quot;bets on the leader.&quot; This turned out to be a prudent decision. {{storylink|Spotlight: Ramjet}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the concerned Decepticons who feared that Megatron had lost all sense of reason when he deployed [[Sixshot]] on Earth. They conspired to bring Starscream back into the fold to talk some sense into their leader. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1}} Emboldened by Starscream's lone stand against the Reapers, the Decepticons attacked and eventually the alien invaders, with Skywarp participating in the destruction of their starship. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> About a year later, Megatron had somehow regained Skywarp's confidence, and Skywarp assured Thundercracker that Megatron knew what he was doing when he created [[Insecticon swarm|three thousand twisted perversions of their own race]]. The Decepticons later lured Optimus Prime and his troops into a trap and utterly crushed them, with Skywarp ripping [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]'s arm clean off. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7}} They proceeded to conquer [[New York City]]. During that attack, Skywarp got to make stuff go boom and kill a lotta folks, and it was the best day out ever. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1}}<br /> <br /> After taking out several military helicopters, Skywarp was assigned to accompany Soundwave, Hook and Astrotrain as they took Frenzy to deal with a large ground force. [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] voiced his doubt that the tiny Decepticon had a chance against such a huge number of enemies, but Skywarp, enjoying a chance for a dig at the new guy, simply told him to make sure he kept his distance. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 2}} All the fun of smashing things and killing millions of people soon soured though, as Skywarp started clashing with the [[Insecticon (G1)|uppity Insecticons]] and getting lonely now Thundercracker was being mopey and Starscream wasn't around much. Even mindlessly killing eight million people in [[China]] couldn't perk him up. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6}}<br /> <br /> [[image:AHM12 Betrayer.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A rare moment of Skywarp just killing someone instead of pushing them down the stairs.]]<br /> <br /> When the Autobots eventually returned to Earth, Skywarp battled them in the ruins of New York City. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11}} He grabbed [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and took to the sky, asking the old timer why he wasn't [[Spotlight: Kup|insane]] anymore. Kup responded by calling Skywarp a &quot;mouthy punk&quot; and shooting him in the gut, causing him to to drop the Autobot. The Decepticons fled when Megatron was defeated, but Skywarp came back when he noticed that Thundercracker had diverted the nuke that Megatron had arranged to be dropped on New York. Furious at his fellow Seeker's betrayal, he ignored Thundercracker's arguments and shot him point blank in the face. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12}}<br /> <br /> [[Image: Bumblebee 1 Skywarp's Stash.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Up the Arsenal!]]<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons left behind when the others fled Earth. Unlike [[Swindle (G1)|some]], however, he was in no rush to get off the planet; instead he came up with the idea to steal and stockpile human weapons for Megatron's eventual return. He attacked the technology corporations [[Dynomic]] and [[Allodyne Logic Systems]] for information on their advanced technology, which in turn attacted the attention of [[Skywatch]]. Some two years after the Decepticons' defeat in New York, Skywarp had filled at least one whole garage with missiles and bombs. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} In addition to his vast collection of anti-human weapons, he also worked to create a weapon capable of crippling all the Autobots on the planet. Skywarp beamed signals into space in order to report his progress to Megatron, who he really hoped would be back soon. {{storylink|The Impossible Knot}}<br /> <br /> While the Autobots worked on finding a way to disable the kill-switch badges that the rogue Skywatch Colonel [[Gordon Horiuchi]] had provided them, Skywarp attacked Skywatch's Phillips base to gain access to information to track down the kill-switch control board. Arriving at Skywatch researcher [[Sanjay Bharwaney]]'s home {{storylink|The Gift Horse}}, Skywarp moved in for the kill, but was foiled by the timely intervention of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], who saved Bharwaney and his daughter [[Serena Bharwaney|Serena]]. Skywarp chased them into an industrial area, and as he hunted, he ranted about how Megatron would be returning here to take his rightful place as ruler of the galaxy, with Skywarp at his side, and once he had the control board, all the Autobots would fall into line under the Decepticon banner, making Skywarp a hero. Just when it seemed Skywarp would get his hands on Bumblebee and the control board, Skywatch operative [[Daniel Klonowski]] intervened, firing a weapon powerful enough to damage Bumblebee. Injured but undeterred, Skywarp managed to corner the Autobot, offering to let him go in exchange for the control board as a &quot;professional courtesy&quot;. His confidence turned to panic when Bumblebee steeled himself to activate the control board, the little Autobot declaring that unlike Skywarp, he has friends who would fix him. The electro-magnetic pulse from the control board seriously damaged both transformers, but it is unknown what became of Skywarp. As Skywatch representatives were in the area, it is likely that he was taken into custody. {{storylink|Wings of Wax}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Hearts of Steel''===<br /> Skywarp was one of the Decepticons who woke up on mid-19th century Earth, where he took on the form of a spiky airplane with three propellers. In the Decepticons' desert headquarters, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] told him about the plans to conquer Earth, and ordered him to fly ahead of the [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], leading the way towards [[New York City]]. Skywarp was concerned that the Autobots might interfere, but Starscream assured him their enemies had not yet awoken. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2}}<br /> <br /> {{note|There's no evidence in the story that Skywarp actually ''did'' fly ahead of the Astrotrain, but if it's true, he may have survived the Decepticon defeat unharmed.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> Skywarp serves under [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] as one of his Decepticon soldiers, battling [[Optimus Primal]]'s many Autobot allies in what might possibly have been an inter-universe battle. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_boxart.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Someone pushes HIM down a flight of stairs for once. Payback's a bitch.]]<br /> <br /> A Skywarp from an unspecified [[universal stream]] was selected by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|Megatron]] to become part of his [[Questor]] forces. Granted a portion of the hyperdimensional powers that his leader had obtained from the monstrous [[Hytherion]], Skywarp was given a new body with an uncharacteristic sports car alternate mode, a [[Timaeus drive]] that granted him the ability to travel through dimensions, and a massively enhanced teleportation power that actually allowed him to warp the fabric of space and time around him. About the only thing that didn't change was his characteristic lack of intelligence and initiative; coupled with the brain-bending complexities of higher-dimensional life and battle, this meant that Skywarp was left still relying on Megatron's specific orders for and when to use his powers.<br /> <br /> Skywarp proved his worth when he succeeded in his mission to scour the year 2010 all across the dimensions for a trace of the two-dimensional world of the [[Planicron]]s. Precisely what Megatron needed the Planicrons for, Skywarp didn't know, but he recalled a rumor among the Questors that they were key to the destruction of the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]], and smirked with excitement to himself as he informed Megatron of his discovery. {{storylink|Hunt for the Planicrons}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Commercial appearances==<br /> Skywarp's history of [[commercial]] appearances includes:<br /> <br /> * The very first Transformers animation, a commercial for [[The Transformers (issue)|Issue #1]] of Marvel's ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' comic book. On Earth, he flies across the desert with Starscream and Thundercracker to attack a power plant.<br /> <br /> * He is briefly seen battling in the desert against Hot Rod, Kup and Blurr, until Cyclonus and Scourge (!!) swoop in to counterattack. <br /> <br /> * Skywarp attacks an Autobot power station along with Thrust and Starscream in a commercial for Ultra Magnus.<br /> <br /> * He can be very briefly glimpsed swooping into battle alongside Galvatron (!!) on Earth in a subsequent commercial for [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and Galvatron.<br /> <br /> [[Image:LiveActionJazz-Skywarp01.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I bet he spiked the punch.]]<br /> <br /> * Along with his original Seeker wingmates, he gets barreled over by the Dinobots in a commercial for the Predacons.<br /> <br /> * A commercial for Transformers reflective iron-on patches advertised the &quot;[[Prizes in Disguise]]&quot; competition. When the [[iron-on patch]] was used, it was possible to find instead an instant win ticket for a Transformers voice changer (of the [[Enemy]] variety)—or to have a party with &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers! Among the &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers shown were [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and Skywarp. In all likelihood, you did not party with them.<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> [[Image:G1-toy SkywarpCommSeries.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Commemorative Series retooled Skywarp. Robot mode... that&amp;#39;s okay. Jet? Not so much.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Decepticon Jet, 1984/1985/2001/2003/2008)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''23'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 wings (left &amp;amp; right), 2 rudders (left &amp;amp; right), 2 tailfins (left &amp;amp; right), 2 fists (left &amp; right), front landing gear<br /> <br /> : The only 1984 [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] with a deco not used previously in [[Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' line, Skywarp transforms into an [[wikipedia:F-15_Eagle|F-15 Eagle]] fighter jet, sharing his mold with his teammates [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. Many parts need to be removed completely for transformation from robot to jet and back, which nowadays is considered a major drawback of the toy. It is rare to find it complete, as neither mode can hold all the pieces required. There are a few minor mold variations of this toy (common for the first two years of ''Transformers'', really), the most immediately noticeable being that early versions did not have visible &quot;clip-tabs&quot; on the inner face of the gauntlets.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Redeco.jpg|Early Hasbro stock photos of Skywarp]] show him with a plastic purple nosecone. This was changed to a soft, black rubber nosecone when the toy was actually released. However, a [http://tfarchive.com/toys/articles/toypics/mex_skywarp.jpg Mexican variant] retained the purple plastic nosecone. The same stock photos also show him with purple launchers with black triggers and muzzle rings, black feet, black shins, black outer arm panels, purple horizontal stabilizers, and both sets of purple missiles. These stock photos were also later used to promote Takara's 2001 reissue.<br /> <br /> : In 2001, Skywarp was given a short-run reissue (limited to only 1,000 pieces) by Takara as a convention-[[exclusive]] item, bundled together with Thundercracker as &quot;[[Collector's Edition]]&quot; Set C. The toy would later be more extensively released in 2003 as part of [[Hasbro]]'s [[Commemorative Series]] series IV, though due to US [[For safety reasons|toy-safety regulations]], his missiles were made extra-long since his spring-loaded launchers were now fully-functional.<br /> <br /> : In August, 2008, Skywarp was released with Thundercracker as number 11 in Takara's [[Transformers Encore]] line. For this release Skywarp's Decepticon symbols were painted and his purple stickers were changed to a much bluer shade of purple. Curiously, Skywarp's wing stripes in this release are factory-applied stickers, instead of the [[tampograph]]s on his two-pack buddy.<br /> <br /> : This mold was [[Redeco|redecoed]] into [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and retooled to make [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]].<br /> <br /> :For some reason, the stats on Skywarp's, Starscream's and Thundercracker's [[tech specs]] were switched around. Skywarp's box was given Starscream's numbers, which explains his high intelligence and rank. The actual specs intended for this toy, but accidentally given to Thundercracker, are presented here. Hasbro's Commemorative Series Skywarp reissue had his bio rewritten to explain his higher stats.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Machine Wars===<br /> [[Image:MWSkywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|After his near-fatal encounter with the Invert Colors function.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Basic, 1997)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 rifle halves<br /> : Sharing a mold once again with [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], Skywarp transforms into a white [[wikipedia:Rafale|Dassault Rafale]] fighter jet with spring-loaded one-step transformation from jet to robot. The two halves of his rifle store in his lower legs. Like all ''[[Machine Wars]]'' toys, Skywarp was an [[exclusive]] to Kay-Bee stores and related stores like Toy Liquidators.<br /> <br /> : This mold is also used by ''[[Beast Wars II (toyline)|Beast Wars II]]'' [[Dirge (BWII)|Dirge]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Skyfire (RID)|Skyfire]], ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' [[Wingstun]] and ''[[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]]'' [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]].<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Machine Wars'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Universe (2003)===<br /> [[Image:TFU03-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Like [[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]], except he can fly.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2003)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missiles<br /> <br /> :''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] in his Generation 1 colors. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter jet, armed with two spring-loaded projectile launchers that can fire orange &quot;energon&quot; bolts. These launchers end up in his arms in robot mode. He has a third robot mode that collapses the legs around the cockpit (oh hush), with flip-out panels revealing an extra pair of thrusters. His [[spark]] crystal, revealed by flipping the purple hatch on his back, has a Decepticon [[insignia]] [[tampograph]]ed on top of it.<br /> <br /> :Skywarp was also used to make ''Beast Machines'' [[Sonic Attack Jet]], ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Storm Jet (RID)|Storm Jet]], and ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Universe Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Smallest Transforming Transformers===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2003)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''GTF X-1'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' Skywarp was a very small-scale simplification of the original Generation 1 Seeker toy, retaining most of its functionality and accessories, except for his long null-rays. Skywarp was one of two [[Chase figure|chase figures]] from the first wave of the line.<br /> <br /> : This mold was redecoed from Starscream, then re-redecoed into Thundercracker, and finally retooled to make Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/SmallestSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> ===Robot Masters===<br /> [[Image:RMSkywarp toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Now with the proper articulation for down-stair-pushing.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp &amp;amp; Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, 2005)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;<br /> <br /> : ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from the same series, a smaller yet more advanced version of the original toy, adding more articulation and reducing the amount of [[Partformer|part-forming]] required. He was available only in a two-pack with Thundercracker, which also came with a Decepticon sigil pin and chromed missile pods. This set was the very last product released in the ''Robot Masters'' line and wasn't even strictly sold in a box from that series; instead, it used an [[e-Hobby]] ''Generation 1'' reissue box, with a small ''Robot Masters'' sticker in the corner tab noting its origin from the front.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Robot Masters'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Classics (2006)===<br /> [[Image:Class06-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ultra Magnus isn&amp;#39;t pictured because he was just pushed-well, you know.]]<br /> * '''Ultra Magnus vs Skywarp: Battle For Autobot City''' (Multi-pack, 2006)<br /> **''Accessories:'' Left &amp;amp; right missile launchers, 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' Skywarp is a slight retool of the ''Classics'' Starscream mold, transforming into an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-15 Eagle fighter jet]], though with a canopy like that of an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-14 Tomcat]]. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode and can attach under his wings in vehicle mode. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he also features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]]. <br /> <br /> : Skywarp was slightly [[Retool|retooled]] from the earlier Starscream figures. The retool is present in the jet intake area. The slope of his shoulders was decreased from Starscream's, and a rectangle added to the vertical area, making the number now five instead of four. This retooled version was used for all subsequent releases of the mold: ''Classics'' [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], as well as [[Acid Storm]] from ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]''. At the end of ''Classics'' Starscream's production run, he too used this version of the mold.<br /> <br /> : He was only available as part of a Target stores [[exclusive]] two-pack with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. The set's price was $19.99, despite including both a Voyager-class and Deluxe-class mold in it, which was approximately $30 worth of toys if they'd been sold separately. He was also available in Woolworth stores throughout the United Kingdom.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Classics Skywarp toy.jpg|Stock photos of ''Classics'' Skywarp]] showed a more detailed color scheme than the actual released figure. Much like ''Classics'' Ultra Magnus, the changes were most likely due to an overabundance of [[Paint operation]]s. This more detailed version was shown at [[BotCon 2006]] and at least one sample found its way to a collector's hands. The sample also used the original Starscream mold, and not the retooled version used for every version of the mold since and even including Starscream.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Classics'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Masterpiece===<br /> [[Image:MP-6 Skywarp.jpg|200px|thumb|Takara finally remembered what colors the Seekers are supposed to be.]]<br /> * '''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-6''' <br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 AIM missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot, Megatron Gun clasp, display stand<br /> <br /> : ''[[Masterpiece]]'' Skywarp was released in Japan in September of 2007. He is a redeco of the Masterpiece Starscream mold in black, gray, silver, and purple, though the purple and silver are more minimal than usual. Skywarp is able to switch between a minimally retooled stoic face and a new snarly face, retooled from Starscream's previous smirk. The tiny [[Doctor Arkeville]] pilot figurine (this time molded black) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> [[Image:MPSkywarp stickers.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Sadly, no stair-pusher sticker.]]<br /> : The sticker sheet includes Skywarp-esque stripes, as well as several whimsical squadron markings.<br /> <br /> :The second pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp (released in October 2008) features an assembly error: his left and right pectorals are flipped. This misassembly does not affect transformation at all, and is really only noticeable when compared to prior Masterpiece Seekers. The September 2007 pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp is assembled correctly. Masterpiece Thundercracker is misassembled as well.<br /> <br /> :It is a common misconception that the stoic face on Takara's Masterpiece Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker are the same, when all of them are in fact different sculpts.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Attacktix===<br /> *'''Skywarp'''<br /> <br /> : Skywarp was among the planned ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' game pieces that were showed at some conventions, but went unreleased as the line was canceled. He was to be a [[retool]] of sorts of the similarly unreleased ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], using the same weapon and base but a brand new jet mold. Skywarp would've been able to detach from his base and fly on a string, enabling him to get better shots of opposing pieces. Any other details about his role in the game are unknown.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> ===Titanium Series===<br /> [[Image:Titanium-toy WWSkywarp.JPG|right|300px|thumb|]]<br /> *'''War Within Skywarp''' (San Diego Comic-Con 2008 exclusive)<br /> <br /> : [[Titanium Series]] ''[[War Within (toyline)|War Within]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of Thundercracker, transforming into a Cybertronian &quot;tetrajet&quot; as reimagined by [[Don Figueroa]]. As with all 6-inch Titanium Cybertron Heroes, he is constructed mostly of fully painted die-cast metal. He was available only at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] after the Titanium line had already been cancelled, and also Hasbro Toy Shop's booth at [[wikipedia:San_Diego_Comic-Con|San Diego Comic-Con]] 2008.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''War Within'' Starscream, Sunstorm and Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/SDCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Titanium'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Henkei! Henkei!===<br /> [[Image:Henkei Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp grabbed the wrong launchers.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2008)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skywarp is a [[Toy Hobby Market]] exclusive redeco of ''Henkei! Henkei!'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Skywarp and his fellow [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were opened for pre-order on [[May 22]]nd through [[June 20]], and mailed out in September 2008.<br /> <br /> :Soon after release, there were numerous complaints from both Japanese and Western collectors about the poor quality control for both Thundercracker and Skywarp. Skywarp's most common fault was missing paint for one of his shoulders. Some reported both toys suffering misassembly issues such as having two left or two right thighs.<br /> <br /> :Several minor changes were made to this mold for this release. The holes for his missile launchers in his arms were widened, as were the launcher's insertion pegs. The wing's missile launcher insertion points were lengthened and are now curved at the end. The last rectangle on his air intakes, was further modified from the [[Classics (2006)|Classics]] version this time the bottom most rectangle goes completely across the air intake's surface rather than just the center. ''Henkei'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Generation 1 Series|Starscream]] also saw most of these changes.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Universe (2008)===<br /> [[Image:Universe2008-toy_MasterpieceSkywarp.jpg|thumb|right|300px|]]<br /> *'''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2009)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine, gun clip, two-piece display stand <br /> : A [[Wal-Mart]] exclusive redeco of the original Masterpiece Starscream mold. Just like Starscream, Skywarp is able to switch between two different faces. This release uses the Starscream's stoic and smirking alternate faces rather than the Takara Masterpiece Skywarp's newly-tooled stoic and snarling faces. Hasbro designer [[Joe_Kyde|Joe Kyde]] felt the alternate snarling face did not fit Skywarp's prankster personality, so he went with the Starscream smirk face instead when designing the deco for Hasbro's release. As a result of gang molding, Skywarp also uses Starscream's stoic face, the decision being the difference between Skywarp and Starscream's stoic face was negligible enough not to make a significant difference. The toy also features a more G1 toy styled deco rather than cartoon-based, particularly in the yellow eye color and wing stripes. His purple more closely matches that of the original toy than the purple used on the Takara version, and features a lighter flat black, like the original toy, instead of Takara's darker glossy black. The Hasbro version replaces some of the dark gray of the Takara version with a dark silver, removes the arm and chest striping, but adds additional red detailing, while removing some as well. Much like Hasbro's Starscream, he does not feature any of the warning or slogan tampographs, but features tampographed striping, Decepticon symbols, and some additional paint details not present on the Takara version.<br /> : The tiny Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine (molded in black with no paint applications) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime and a stand (featuring Skywarp's name) with a support beam for jet or robot mode. <br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Mortal minds cannot even comprehend the four-dimensional hyperstairs he can push you down.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp Witch Purple Pearl''' ([[May 29|5/29]]/2010)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''A-04'''<br /> <br /> :Skywarp is a [[retool]] of the simultaneously released ''[[Alternity (franchise)|Alternity]]'' Starscream with a new head, transforming into a licensed 1:32 scale [[wikipedia:Mitsuoka_Orochi|Mitsuoka Orochi]]. Like the other toys in the line, he will feature [[die-cast]] metal parts and rubber tires, as well as an opening hood, trunk and doors. In car mode, small wings can be flipped out from under Skywarp's rear wheels, giving him the appearance of a flying car. <br /> <br /> :This mold, with Skywarp's head, was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]].<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Decoy===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (1986)<br /> ** ''Decoy ID number:'' '''33'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Decoy]]'' Skywarp is a tiny, purple, soft-rubber figurine randomly packed with smaller toys at the time. To differentiate him from Starscream and Thundercracker, Skywarp is sculpted holding his arms above his head in a cheering pose.<br /> <br /> : Like all Decepticon Decoys, Skywarp was also available in red for a limited time. This release is considerably rarer than the regular purple one.<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Lucky Draw figure, 2001)<br /> <br /> : ''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' Skywarp is a non-transforming action figure [[redeco]]ed from ''SCF'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Limited to 200 pieces, he was only available as the second place prize in a [[Lucky Draw]] contest held in conjunction with the first edition of ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' (with the &quot;[[Starscream (G1)/toys#SecretStarscream|Secret Starscream]]&quot; toy as the first place prize). Due to the bankruptcy of the ''Transformers: Generations'' publisher, [[Keibunsha]], it is unknown whether the Japanese version of Skywarp was ever actually sent out or not.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''Super Collection Figure'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' (see below) Starscream, Thundercracker, [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and the [[Air Warrior]]s.<br /> <br /> ===Heroes of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2002)<br /> <br /> : When the ''Super Collection Figure'' line was brought to the US as ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', Skywarp was widely released as part of the first wave. Unlike ''SCF'', ''HOC'' figures were composed of transparent red plastic that was mostly painted over, giving them [[light-piping|&quot;light-up&quot; eyes]].<br /> <br /> * '''Decepticon''' (2003)<br /> <br /> : Same as the American version above, but part of an [[OTFCC 2003]]-exclusive six-pack of figures which also included Starscream, Thundercracker, and three [[Air Warrior]]s. It featured a more metallic paint job from the normal release and slightly different paint details.{{fact}}<br /> <br /> ===Legends of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2004, unreleased)<br /> <br /> [[Image:OTFCCSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Doesn't so much teleport as not exist in the first place.]]<br /> <br /> : A redeco of ''Mega Super Figure Collection'' G1 Starscream (minus the extra coronation accessories, open-palm hands, and the hand wielding Megatron in gun mode), Skywarp was to be among the first of the fan club exclusives offered by [[The Official Transformers Collectors Convention|OTFCC]] as well as the first in their ''Legends of Cybertron'' line. The figure was delayed and never saw a full release due to [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]] losing the license to run the official Transformers fan club. At least a couple of sample versions were produced.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Palisades===<br /> [[Image:PalisadesSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Decepticon on a stick! Get yer Decepticon on a stick!]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Palisades, 2005)<br /> <br /> :A ''SmallBluePlanet''-exclusive redeco of the Starscream statue, Skywarp is a six inch tall polystone statue with articulated head and arms. He can stand normally or use a stand to take on a &quot;hovering&quot; pose. Skywarp was limited to 300 pieces, and sculpted by [[3L Creation Group]] from a design by [[George Tremarco]].<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker and the Ghost of Starscream.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Robot Heroes===<br /> [[Image:Robot Hero Skywarp.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Clearly just after shoving Starscream down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> * '''Decepticon Sneak Attack''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : Skywarp is one of the five exclusive figures in Wal-Mart's &quot;Decepticon Sneak Attack&quot; set, alongside [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], [[Mirage (G1)|holographic Mirage]] and &quot;Supermetal Finish&quot; versions of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. He's a black and purple redeco of Starscream, yes. His left hand's for pushing you down stairs, his right fist's for pumping the air in victory. Sweet, sweet stair-based victory.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : A 25-point &quot;uncommon&quot; character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s &quot;Energon Wars&quot; expansion, Skywarp &quot;transforms&quot; into a black and purple jet. He uses the same parts layout as [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]].<br /> <br /> ==Trivia==<br /> * Skywarp's one-line characterization in the original Transformers [[production bible]] was &quot;sneaky but dumb&quot;. Hee hee. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#034] In a more peculiar note, his longer write-up in the production bible noted that he was colored olive drab. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#038] This error isn't as unusual as one might first think, as Skywarp was the only first-year jet whose colors didn't originate in ''[[Diaclone]]''—thus, they simply may not have been decided upon when the production bible was written.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpatron.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Skywarp really DID need close supervision.]]<br /> * In a possible fit of madness, a triple changer was proposed that would switch between Skywarp (possibly mistaken for Starscream), [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and Skywarp's jet mode.<br /> <br /> * Character bios written by unknown persons for the Australian (Madman) DVD release of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' definitely claim that [[Cyclonus (G1)|Skywarp became Cyclonus]]. Basically, nobody considers that weighty &quot;evidence&quot;.<br /> <br /> * Skywarp is the only Seeker with wing stripes that are not red.<br /> <br /> * For such a popular character, Skywarp doesn't DO much of anything in the original show.<br /> <br /> * [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Machine_Wars|Despite]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Classics_.282006.29|many]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Heroes_of_Cybertron|releases]], [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Titanium_Series|Skywarp]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Henkei.21_Henkei.21|is]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Universe_.282008.29|usually]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Robot_Heroes|an]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Generation_1_2|exclusive.]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;amp;char=Skywarp Skywarp's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Alternity characters]]<br /> [[Category:Attacktix]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Machines characters]]<br /> [[Category:Classics characters]]<br /> [[Category:Convention exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 2 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Henkei! Henkei! characters]]<br /> [[Category:Machine Wars characters]]<br /> [[Category:Robot Heroes]]<br /> [[Category:3D Battle-Cards]]<br /> [[Category:Robot Masters characters]]<br /> [[Category:Seekers]]<br /> [[Category:Target exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Universe characters]]<br /> [[Category:Wal-Mart exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Wreckers]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Skywarp_(G1)&diff=474808 2010-07-06T20:58:08Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticon|decepticong2|wreckers}}<br /> {{disambig3|Skywarp}}<br /> :''Skywarp is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarp1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp, Decepticon Stair-Pusher-Downer]]<br /> [[Teleportation]] is a dangerous tool in the hands of a capable adversary. Thankfully for the [[Autobot|Autobots]], '''Skywarp''' is the Decepticon who possesses that ability. Skywarp's not so bright, so without supervision he's worthless as a warrior. He mostly uses his teleportation power for immature pranks on both friend and foe. He takes a charmingly puerile angle at thuggery, so his pranks are well-received amongst his Decepticon peers (excepting the victim, of course). <br /> <br /> Because, come on, a surprise push down a staircase is ''hilarious''.<br /> <br /> {{quote|Don't think. Just do.|Skywarp's life motto|[[Megatron Origin issue 4|''Megatron Origin'' #4]]}}<br /> <br /> :''French-Canadian name'': '''Fraudeur''' (&quot;Cheater&quot; or &quot;Evader&quot; or &quot;Smuggler&quot;)<br /> :''Hungarian name'': '''Égretörő''' (&quot;Sky-springer&quot;)<br /> :''Italian name'': '''Corvo''' (&quot;Crow&quot;)<br /> :''Japanese name'': '''Warp'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Portugal comics)'': '''Espião Celeste'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Brazil comics)'': '''Viajante''' (&quot;Traveller&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Tīen Wān''' (天彎, &quot;Sky Warp&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (China):'' '''Nao Fan Tian''' (鬧翻天, &quot;Extreme Ruckus&quot;)<br /> :''Russian TV dub name:'' '''Deformer'''<br /> His Partner is [[Thundercracker]]<br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> ====Generation 1====<br /> {{noteukonly}}<br /> [[Image:Introdump decepticons marvelus01.jpg|left|300px|thumb|You can tell Skywarp apart from Thundercracker in the Marvel Comics by, uh.... let us get back to you on that.]]<br /> Skywarp was one of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron's]] troops who attacked the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] during its mission to clear a path for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] through an asteroid field. He was deactivated when it crashed on [[Earth]], and he lay dormant for four million years. When he and his fellow Decepticons awoke, Skywarp was given a new [[Alternate mode|altmode]], that of an Earth jet. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} He aided the Decepticons in their building of their new base constructed of parts from [[Harrison Nuclear Power Plant]] and joined in their attack on [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s auto repair shop. After the successful abduction of Sparkplug Witwicky, Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] defended their base from [[Autobot|Autobots]], though [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Spider-Man]] were able to sneak through and rescue Sparkplug. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}<br /> <br /> ''When Starscream fired upon his teammate [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] for eavesdropping on his plot to overthrow Megatron, Skywarp and the other Decepticons sought deadly revenge on the Decepticon [[Air Commander]]. {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}} Though Starscream escaped, the Decepticons soon regrouped to attack the Ark, but their battle was ended prematurely when [[Auntie]], the Ark's computer system, magnetized the walls, immobilizing both factions. {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}} On another occasion, he and Thundercracker made a strafing run on two Autobot spies, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. Jazz was deafened and blasted off the road, but Sunstreaker led them into a human military zone, prompting Megatron to call them back to base. {{storylink|Perchance to Dream}}'' Skywarp also traveled with the Decepticons to the [[United Kingdom]], where he and his teammates attempted to learn about a mysterious Autobot rescue ship buried under a castle. An initial attack on the Autobots left Skywarp seriously wounded by a bomb from [[Bluestreak]]. {{storylink|Man of Iron (story)|Man of Iron}}<br /> <br /> Though Sparkplug Witwicky was able to devise a way for the Decepticons to convert Earth fuel into a usable substance, he also poisoned the result, so Skywarp and his fellow Decepticons were immobilized at the climax of their would-be final battle with the Autobots. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} The Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] took command of the Decepticons and the Ark shortly thereafter and nursed Skywarp and his comrades back to full health. Skywarp may have helped Shockwave attempt to capture and brainwash [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] into a Decepticon, or it may have been Thundercracker without red stripes. It's hard to tell. {{storylink|Plight of the Bumblebee!}}<br /> <br /> He served the Decepticon cause up until he was deactivated while battling [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and placed in prison stasis at Autobot headquarters. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Target_2006_fake_Starscream_dies.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nope. Guess again.]]<br /> ''When [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] traveled back from the year 2006 to build a super-weapon to destroy [[Unicron]], Skywarp was a key player in the defeat of the mad Decepticon. Sorta.'' <br /> <br /> ''The Autobots took Skywarp out of stasis, painted him to look like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], and sent him stumbling toward Galvatron with a tape-recorder of Starscream's voice on his back. Galvatron, still sore about Starscream tossing him out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] during his Megatron days, shot and presumably killed Skywarp. Galvatron then realized that if he killed Starscream in the past then there'd be no way he could have killed Starscream in the future (never mind that killing Skywarp now opens up that whole issue of [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus' identity]]). Believing he was in an alternate past and thus nothing he did there would affect his personal timeline, Galvatron hurried back to his proper time. Way to take one for the team, Skywarp. {{storylink|Target: 2006}}''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpgoofyteleportation.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Upon close inspection, Skywarp's teleportation power is merely a goofy loop-de-loop.]]<br /> During a massive battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth's moon, Skywarp and the other Decepticons held in stasis aboard the Ark were liberated by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and subsequently brought back online. {{storylink|Totaled!}} During the first Decepticon Civil War, Skywarp battled with [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s Decepticons against [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons. Skywarp surprised [[Bugly]] with his teleportation powers and blasted him, temporarily stunning him. However, Bugly successfully returned fire, striking where he guessed Skywarp would next teleport. {{storylink|Cold War!}} Skywarp was repaired in time to face an [[Underbase]]-powered Starscream in [[Tokyo]], but both he and Thundercracker were destroyed by their former flying partner. {{storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Generation 2''====<br /> Optimus Prime, learning of the Decepticons' attacks on Earth, traveled there alone not to fight them but to talk Megatron out of it. Prime was really surprised to learn that this was a really stupid idea, and as Megatron tore Prime apart and severed the Matrix from his body, Skywarp stood by with other Decepticons and watched. He and the rest of the Decepticons retreated with the Matrix when the Autobots showed up to save Prime. {{storylink|The Gathering Darkness}}<br /> <br /> The Autobots and the Decepticons had just agreed to make an alliance against the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]], but the Decepticons disagreed about aiding other planets' people. When the Autobots went alone to fight the Cybertronians, they almost were defeated, until Skywarp (yes, this article is about him) suddenly warped into the battle, followed by the rest of the Decepticon army, to aid the Autobots. <br /> <br /> And you just know he mocked the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] he saved. ''Relentlessly.'' {{storylink|Escalation!}}<br /> <br /> ====''Classics''====<br /> {{note|Classics is a [[splinter timeline]] from the Marvel US continuity that does not include events from either ''Generation 2'' or the Marvel UK issues.}}<br /> His broken body rescued from [[Tokyo]], Skywarp was rebuilt using Shockwave's upgraded [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] schematics. He was told that it was Starscream, driven mad with the power of the [[Underbase]], who did him in. Skywarp's okay with that. After all, the traitor's going to have to let down his guard sometime. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 14|''Classic'' Skywarp's profile}}<br /> <br /> After the appearance of the mysterious crossdimensional Decepticon [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], Skywarp and the other rebuilt Decepticons under Megatron's command traveled to [[South America]] to investigate an equally mysterious power source that seemed to share traits with Landquake. En route, they were attacked by [[Walter Barnett]]'s [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNT]] squad. {{storylink|Crossing Over, Part 2}} Skywarp managed to shake off these interlopers just before Optimus Prime and his Autobots arrived in search of this same power source, and a new battle between the factions began in the jungles surrounding the power source. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 3}} As the battle escalated, Skywarp and Starscream fought [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] across the skies, {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 5}} but ultimately, Megatron was forced to call for a withdrawal. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 6}}<br /> <br /> With his nosecone still battered from the fight, Skywarp came with Starscream and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] to investigate what [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] and his crew were doing on Earth. He was happy to see that Thundercracker was among them, but less so when his old buddy shot a [[cerebro-shell]] at him, forcing him to follow Bug Bite's commands. Skywarp and the others were sent to assassinate Megatron, but were soon freed from Bug Bite's control due to Autobot interference. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===<br /> ====''The Transformers'' cartoon====<br /> :''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese), [[Jacques Ferrière]] (French)<br /> <br /> [[Image:Tetrajet seekers.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Cybertron alt-mode (left). The early Decepticons promoted geometry.]]<br /> In the early days of the Decepticon rebellion, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] both faced the powerful protectors of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] cities, the [[Guardian Robots]]. Even millions of years later, the powerful Guardians struck fear into Skywarp's spark. {{storylink|War Dawn}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of the elite Decepticons that served [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] on Cybertron four million years ago. Skywarp and his fellow Seekers came across the Autobots [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] pilfering [[conductor|energy conductors]], and tried to eliminate the Auto-jerks. Once Wheeljack broke through their defenses, Skywarp and Thundercracker transformed to their tetrajet modes and followed the Autobots. They managed to get a good shot in against Bumblebee, but soon both Autobots escaped termination by taking the chase underground. Skywarp later joined Megatron in attacking and boarding the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot ship]] on their search for energy. After crash-landing on Earth, the Decepticons and Autobots laid dormant for four million years, until volcanic activity stirred the ship's computer back to life. Skywarp was the first of the ship's Transformers to be reformatted and awakened by [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], in the form of an Earthen F-15 fighter jet. Once active, Skywarp immediately dragged his master Megatron's body into the reformatting rays of the Ark's computer, and soon all the Decepticons were revived. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Since the Decepticons were so badly short-staffed during their early days on Earth, Skywarp was usually involved in whatever crazy plot for universal domination Megatron was hatching. This included attacks on an off-shore oil rig, [[Sherman Dam]] and the [[Ruby Crystal Mines of Burma|ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. On the last raid, Skywarp and Thundercracker caught a pair of snoops -- Bumblebee and the human, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. They were knocking the little Autobot around for fun, and pondering how to giftwrap him for Megatron, when an explosion caused the mine to cave in around them. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} When the Decepticons escaped the Burma operation with a cache of energon cubes, Skywarp requested permission from Megatron to teleport in order to scare off Autobot pursuers. Teleporting behind the strangely airborne duo of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Bluestreak]], Skywarp pasted the ornery old Autobot with a heat-seeking missile, knocking him out of the sky that he probably shouldn't have been able to fly around in anyway. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:TransporttoOblivion Skywarp Prowl punchy.jpg|left|180px|thumb|&quot;[[Bumblebee (G1)|Punch-buggy yellow]]!&quot;]]<br /> When [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] was caught spying on the Decepticons' new [[Space Bridge]], Skywarp and Starscream captured him for Megatron. After Bumblebee was reprogrammed to led the Autobots into a trap, Skywarp biffed [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] from behind, causing him to fall down in an almost pushing-down-stairs-like fashion. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} After the Decepticons acquired the [[antimatter]] formula, they were en route to the Ark when [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] intercepted them, practicing their jet judo maneuvers. Skywarp was being thrown off-course by Sideswipe's antics until Starscream knocked the Autobot warrior loose. During the battle, Megatron charged himself up with the Decepticons' new toy, and transformed into an &quot;anti-matter gun&quot; to obliterate the Autobots. After Starscream had his turn with the gun, Skywarp got ready to blow some Autobots away too. Before he could start, however, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] attacked his leg with a jackhammer. He scooped up the puny fleshling and was about to blast him with the anti-matter gun (and, incidentally, probably blow his own hand off in the process) when [[Chip Chase]] attached a computer override device invented by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], which allowed Teletraan I to take brief control of his body. Skywarp started firing Megatron's anti-matter power at the other Decepticons, overheating the unstable power supply and forcing the Decepticons to retreat. {{storylink|Roll for It}} <br /> <br /> {{bigquote|You little fool... You're no match for Skywarp!|Skywarp announces his superiority to a kid in a wheelchair.|&quot;[[Roll for It]]&quot;}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was later part of a Decepticon raid on a factory, apparently in a very playful mood with his teleporting power. First he 'ported behind some human guards to taunt them before making them scatter with laser fire. Then, when Thundercracker blased open some power lines to begin filling his energon cubes, Skywarp &quot;cut in line&quot; by teleporting between Thundercracker and the energy to fill his own cube first. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] showed up to stop them, Skywarp fired a heat-seeking missile at him, only for Prime to deflect it with a punch. The Autobot was eventually defeated, and Skywarp ran off with some [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}} <br /> <br /> When the Decepticons began draining heat energy out of Earth's core using a crystal shaft in the Arctic, Skywarp got a bit bored at the lack of real action. He was in the middle of taunting Rumble when the two of them accidentally caused a miniature avalanche in one of the caves. By sheer happenstance, this led to the Decepticons recovering the long-lost [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] from an icy tomb. Skywarp helped perform repairs on the giant flier, though it was probably better for all concerned if somebody with actual knowledge had performed these repairs. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}} <br /> <br /> During a battle at [[Great Falls]] hydroelectric power facility, the newly-constructed [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] arrived to rescue the beleagured Autobots, who had been captured by the Decepticons. Skywarp foolishly attempted to beat the flamethrowing [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] with a mere pair of heat-seeking missiles, and ended up being grabbed out of the air by the mighty jaws of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], who chomped on his wing and threw Skywarp into his fellow Megatron loyalist [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Soon afterwards, during an operation in [[Peru]], Skywarp got to be Megatron's favorite Seeker for the day after Starscream and Thundercracker stole poor-quality steel for their latest super-weapon. He had fun taunting the egotistic 'Screamer when Megatron called him to battle, leaving the other Seekers behind on mere guard duty. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}} Later, Skywarp helped Megatron steal a giant meteor, although its unstable power proved too dangerous to use for energon cubes. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was in a playful mood during the Decepticons' raid of a solar power plant in [[India]], cracking wise and hoping to play a game of catch...with the rajah as the ball. He had even more fun in a quick free-for-all with the Autobots, a distraction so that the Decepticons could kidnap one of the Autobots' fleshling friends as a guinea pig for [[Doctor Arkeville]]'s mind-control experiments. Skywarp enjoyed himself so much, he got in a fight with Starscream on the way back to headquarters about how ''brilliant'' Megatron's plan was. Thundercracker had to jump out of the way while the two of them roughhoused in the elevator. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} Thanks in part to Arkeville's [[hypno-chip]] slaves, the Decepticons were able to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, creating massive environmental disturbances that produced millions of energon cubes. What's more, transporting energon to Cybertron was now just a short flight away. Unfortunately, the devastation was greater than Megatron had anticipated. While Skywarp was on a return flight from Cybertron, a tidal wave broke off the access tower to the Decepticons' undersea base, flooding it. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Skywarp was present at the final battle before the Autobots knocked Cybertron out of orbit, and fled when Megatron abandoned his troops to escape with the energon cubes. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} With Megatron seemingly destroyed as his star cruiser exploded with the cubes on-board, the Decepticons were left rudderless. While working on repairs for their undersea base, tempers flared as Skywarp picked a fight with his favorite target, Rumble, and his pint-sized partner, [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. Skywarp bit off more than he could chew, however, as Frenzy's surprising strength overcame Skywarp as he tried to crush the mini-cassette beneath his heel. Thundercracker and Soundwave started to get involved in the fracas too, but Megatron soon arrived to put his house back in order. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Changegearsskywarp.jpg|thumb|200px|left|What you see when he pushes you down the stairs.]]Like all Decepticons, Skywarp provided his [[power chip rectifier]] to Megatron for his single combat with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}} When the Decepticons attacked another rocket base, Skywarp and Thundercracker attempted to double-team Optimus Prime, but only succeeded in destroying the very rockets they came to plunder. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Later, the Decepticons attacked a mining camp to lure the Autobots out into the open, and Skywarp stood guard over the humans being used as bait. After they used the opportunity to kidnap [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] for his special circuit board, Skywarp later helped fill the energon cubes from Megatron's [[Solar Needle]]. {{storylink|Changing Gears}} As the Decepticons took over New York to create the city of New Cybertron, Skywarp was seen loading cars into [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]'s drum for reconstruction. He and Thundercracker were later damaged after trying to take some potshots at Optimus Prime, only to miss and crash straight through a building in the process. {{storylink|City of Steel}} He also served in a later assault on the Ark, distracting the Autobots long enough for Megatron to sneak inside and mess with their [[recharging chamber]]s. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}<br /> <br /> Rather stoic in recent weeks, Skywarp was back to his cheery but malicious self when he and Starscream went after some [[electro-cell]]s at the [[Experimental Energy Research Laboratory]]. While breaking through the roof of the installation, Skywarp merrily remarked on the joy of opening presents. During a fight with the Autobot named [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], one of Skywarp's insignia was ripped off, and later planted to help turn the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Traitor}} During a battle with the Autobots over the [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]], Skywarp unleashed his new toy: a [[bouncer bomb]]. This weapon ricocheted through the trees, explosively bouncing from one side of the battlefield to another. Unfortunately, the Decepticons were also subject to its &quot;friendly fire&quot; until Megatron shot the blasted thing down. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp's teleportation power did come in useful when he was needed to sneak up on the Autobots with the [[Transfixatron]]. One quick zap and they were all frozen in vehicle mode. However, he failed to zap ALL the Autobots, which ultimately led to the undoing of Megatron's scheme. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} Skywarp was present during the Decepticon alliance with [[Sub-Atlantica]], and was part of their attack on Washington D.C. He and Thundercracker strafed the Autobots while in battle on the Great Lawn. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} When the Decepticons stole the ninja robot [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]], Skywarp used his grapples to pull the roof off of the demonstration ampitheater, allowing Starscream and Thundercracker to swoop in and grab the robot. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and his flying buddies once attempted to triple-team Optimus Prime in battle, but failed to do more than provide Optimus with a chance to toss a good quip. Strangely, Skywarp was later seen throwing what looking like a standard pineapple grenade at the Autobots. It was effective enough, but looked as out of place as an AK or a tommygun in Transformer hands. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} When the Decepticons made yet another attempt at harnessing some sort of power from the Earth's core, Skywarp defended their drilling operation from the Autobots. He and the Seekers attempted to bomb the Autobots from the air, but a scattering of explosive missiles from [[Bluestreak]]'s shoulder launchers took them out of the fight. {{storylink|The Core}}<br /> <br /> During the assault on Iron Mountain, Skywarp was briefly taken over by [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s [[cerebro-shell]]s during a tiff between Megatron and the Insecticons. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}} He also joined the Decepticon expedition to [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], to loot and plunder its various sources of energy. Skywarp was eager to do battle with the Dinobots when they arrived to defend their new home...which just goes to show Skywarp's kinda stupid. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} When the Autobots eventually arrived to help drive the Decepticons off of Dinobot Island, they were aided by a band of dinosaurs themselves, prodded onwards by [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. Skywarp and Thundercracker found their lasers ineffective against the charging brutes, and were forced to retreat with the rest of their army. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> During some aerial dogfighting with the Autobot ace, [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], Skywarp took a nasty hit to the wing. He must have managed to limp back to base, because he was present for Megatron's interrogation of the Constructicons a short while later. {{storylink|The Master Builders}} When the Decepticons went after [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s latest super-weapon, the [[Negavator]], Skywarp and the Seekers strafed the Autobot convoy in a box canyon. Their efforts were blocked by [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]'s disruptor beams and magnetic smoke, which left the Seekers unable to see or navigate in any way. Skywarp and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] ended up in a three-way collision with each other and a canyon wall. {{storylink|Auto Berserk}} Once, the Decepticons were pre-emptively celebrating the destruction of the Autobots after Megatron acquired the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. They got over-energized on energon cubes and passed out in the desert. Five'll get you ten, whoever passed out closest to Skywarp woke up with a [[Scraplet]] drawn on their face in permanent marker. {{storylink|Microbots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was a participant in the ultimate prank against the Autobots. Using Autobot costumes left over from last Halloween, Skywarp and some others raided an oil refinery for fuel, only to be driven off when the &quot;heroic&quot; Decepticons arrived to stop the &quot;evil&quot; Autobots. The entire scene was filmed by [[Shawn Berger]] and used to smear the Autobots' good name so severely that they were forced to abandon Earth entirely in a rocket cruiser. Ha HA! {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} The fleshlings didn't appreciate the joke when they found out the punchline, but Skywarp and the Decepticons were too busy enslaving [[Central City (G1)|Central City]] to care. As bad luck would have it, though, the Autobots managed to make their way back to Earth, and drive off the Decepticon occupation. Killjoys. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> When the Decepticons set up a temporary base of operations at the airport, Optimus Prime sent in the Dinobots to clear them out. Skywarp and the other jets were caught off-guard initially, but the Decepticons had learned from previous encounters that the Dinobots were more vulnerable in their robot modes. By feigning defeat, Skywarp and the others lured the Dinobots into a false sense of security, and they transformed back to robot mode. Skywarp and Megatron then unleashed a barrage of energy, igniting the jumbo jets on the tarmac and causing the Dinobots tremendous damage. The Decepticons finally scored a decent victory against the Dinos, and they owed it all to a dirty underhanded sneak attack. It was a good day to be Skywarp. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Like most of the Decepticons, Skywarp was rendered temporarily invulnerable due to exposure to [[electrum]]. Invincibility didn't make him any better a prison guard, though, as even [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] was able to overpower him and escape from the Decepticons' undersea headquarters. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} Skywarp was seen delivering the Insecticons' share of the energon harvested from their clones using Megatron's energon transference process. Since the meager three cubes the Insecticons got were a small pittance compared to how many were actually being generated, Skywarp was surely snickering to himself as he handed them over. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}} When the Space Bridge materialized in the middle of a baseball stadium, Skywarp and Soundwave got into a friendly game of catch...with flesh-creatures as the ball. Then the Autobots had to show up and ruin their fun. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}}<br /> <br /> Later on, Skywarp and the Seekers kidnapped a group of Earth's world leaders, but ran into the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s during their getaway. Skywarp nearly nailed [[Slingshot]] with a loop-the-loop, coming down on him from above, but was shot down by [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]. {{storylink|War Dawn}} One day, Skywarp and Thundercracker were guarding the Space Bridge when Starscream arrived. After showing them his authorization (which looked suspiciously like a null ray rifle), they allowed Starscream to travel to Cybertron. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}} At Megatron's command, Skywarp travelled to [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] headquarters to check up on their progress in the latest Decepticon scheme. At Megatron's command, Skywarp landed at the empty base. At Megatron's command, he began to follow the mysterious trail of loose Combaticon parts leading out of the canyon. You gotta wonder what Skywarp is capable of without constant supervision...{{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}<br /> <br /> In 2005, Skywarp was part of a massive [[Battle of Autobot City|Decepticon attack]] on [[Autobot City]] on Earth. He was badly damaged during the battle, but managed to escape with the rest of his comrades aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. However, en route to Cybertron he was tossed out into space with other badly damaged Decepticons so that the rest would be able to make it home. Skywarp's body was gathered by [[Unicron]] and, among others, used to make [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s new warriors. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Skywarp arguably became either [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] or [[Cyclonus's Armada]], the identical warrior who was never seen again. Either way, Skywarp effectively ceased existing.}}<br /> <br /> ====Japanese cartoon continuity====<br /> {{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as described above. The Japanese continuity then proceeds to insert several additional stories into the timeline, as follows.}}<br /> <br /> =====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic=====<br /> <br /> Under orders from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], Skywarp accompanied [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] in an energy raid on [[Tokyo]]. Things were going well, as they enjoyed bombing pedestrians and children while screaming their demands for energy to the Heavens, at least until [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a unit of Autobot vehicles arrived. Though their victory seemed assured when they unleashed [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] on their foes, their strategy was undone when the Autobots drove up a ramp at top speed, transformed to vehicle mode and punched everybody in the face. Skywarp was forced to retreat. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 1|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp later took part in an all-out assault on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] in [[Arizona]]. The attack was nothing more than a diversion so [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] could go do unspecified ''stuff'' in Japan and the Decepticons were eventually defeated and driven off. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 2|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2}}<br /> <br /> =====Full Throttle Scramble Power!=====<br /> As Megatron bragged to [[Toru]] that the Decepticons would strip Earth of all its resources, Skywarp (or Thundercracker) was shown attacking a power plant. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}<br /> <br /> =====''The Stargate Battles''=====<br /> Skywarp participated in Megatron's first attempted takover of the [[Warp Gate|Trigger]], bursting out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] alongside the other Seekers. {{storylink|First Contact}}<br /> <br /> =====''Robot Masters'' online comic=====<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)#Issue 13|And Then}}<br /> <br /> ===''Universe''===<br /> <br /> In [[2005]], when [[Unicron]] rebuilt Skywarp into [[Cyclonus's Armada]], Skywarp was also reprogrammed to obey Cyclonus. Even later, when Skywarp's original personality reasserted itself, that mental link remained. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Though no reason is stated in-story as to how or why or when Skywarp got this new body between the Great War and the [[Beast Era]], ''Wreckers'' plotter [[Glen Hallit]] noted that Skywarp's body was based on a mass-production body type of its day, similar to Generation 1's [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]].}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Wreckersskywarpcyclonus.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Looks like Cyclonus was Bombshell. Neener neener.]]<br /> <br /> After the Decepticons lost the Great War and [[Maximal|Maximals]] and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] claimed [[Cybertron (planet)|the planet]], [[Megatron (BW)|another Megatron]] subjugated nearly every Transformer alive with a transformation-lock virus and an army of [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]. Skywarp was one of the handful of Transformers who had slipped through Megatron's fingers, and eventually he and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] joined up with the legendary strike team, the [[Wrecker|Wreckers]]. Given a mission by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], the Wreckers fought through an army of Vehicons (Cyclonus, Skywarp, and [[Rotorbolt (Universe)|Rotorbolt]] took care of the [[Spy Streak]] drones) to steal an Autobot shuttle in order to get off-planet. {{storylink|Departure}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp served as the shuttle's pilot, which served as a point of contention when the bounty hunter [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] stowed away on board, who didn't like that the Wreckers apparently now included Decepticons and Predacons among their ranks. As the shuttle approached the [[Archa system]], their given destination, Skywarp detected the homing beacon of the ''[[Sojourner's Passage]]'', an exploration ship that was lost centuries ago. Since the Autobot shuttle had been damaged en route, once it had landed on [[Archa Nine]], Skywarp helped repair it while others searched the surface. While Skywarp was occupied with this, Cyclonus revealed himself as a traitor, stealing the [[Divine Light]], a mysterious artifact the Wreckers were sent by the Oracle to find. {{storylink|Betrayal}} <br /> <br /> [[Image:Disclosure-Skywarphonor.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Heh.]]<br /> <br /> Though it's likely Skywarp didn't really care, the rest of the Wreckers were dealt a blow to morale after this betrayal. Regardless, the Wreckers set off for a new destination given by the Oracle, a desolate ice planet on which a search team found an exiled [[Quintesson]] scientist named [[Al-Badur]]. While Al-Badur was explaining the meaning of the Divine Light, an army of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] attacked both the search team and Skywarp and the others back at the shuttle. Skywarp was able to easily destroy their attackers. The search team returned to the shuttle, and Primal Prime told Skywarp that he'd be taking direction from the Quintesson. Al-Badur asked Skywarp what compelled him to join this team of Autobots and Maximals; Skywarp told him it involved &quot;returning a favor&quot; and &quot;Decepticon honor,&quot; things he wouldn't understand. {{storylink|Disclosure}} <br /> <br /> {{note|In the unpublished script to ''[[The Wreckers: Finale Part 1|The Wreckers'' #4]], after receiving an encrypted message, Skywarp flew the Wreckers back to Cybertron as quickly as possible. [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] and his Quintesson partners had invaded. But on arrival to Cybertron, the Quintessons' attacks were so thick that they kept the shuttle from being able to land. Primal Prime ordered a few of the Wreckers off the ship to join the troops below, while Rodimus, Skywarp, and the remainder were to land elsewhere.}}<br /> <br /> In the aftermath of Cyclonus's betrayal, the other Wreckers were understandably wary of Skywarp, though the Decepticon claimed he had no part or knowledge of his fellow Decepticon's actions. While circling overhead Cybertron, the Wreckers' shuttle was critically hit. Rodimus told everyone else to evacuate while he kept the ship level, but Skywarp chose this moment to strike. He knocked Rodimus away and told [[Tap-Out (G1)|Tap-Out]] to help everyone else disembark; the Decepticon was going to guide the shuttle down. When it landed, taking out a large portion of the Sharkticon invading forces in a fantastic explosion, the Wreckers were shocked. Skywarp had sacrificed his life for them? As Rodimus began to give a regretful eulogy for the untrusted Decepticon, Skywarp appeared behind them, laughing about his sweet maneuver. He had, of course, used his warping power to leave the ship at the last moment. &quot;Did you see that? I think I managed to shove the forward nacelle antennae right through the Quint Overseer!&quot; Everyone grumbled.<br /> <br /> As their group joined the battle against Cryotek and Cyclonus within Cybertron, it seemed Skywarp may not have been so forthright after all. He violently silenced the overbearing Ramulus (muttering that he was surprised no one thanked him) and took his place at Cyclonus's side. Rodimus was understandably confused and hurt, but Skywarp told the Autobot that he'd more than paid him back recently and he no longer owed the Wreckers anything. Cyclonus laughed, and told the Wreckers of his mental link to Skywarp. But Skywarp muttered, having &quot;always ''hated'' that,&quot; and attacked Cyclonus. He reappeared at the Wreckers' side again, noting that he'd only harmed Ramulus to get in Cyclonus' good graces long enough to deal the blow. <br /> <br /> [[Image:Revelations-Skywarppunched.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Unfortunately, Unicron has no stairs.]]<br /> <br /> {{quote|I'll settle with the zoo crew later. But ''you''... I ''never'' liked you. Even when you were a [[Bombshell (G1)|''bug'']] I hated your stinkin' circuits. Like I said, only [[Megatron (G1)|''one'' guy]] ever bossed ''me'' around, and it sure as slag ain't ''you.''}}<br /> <br /> But Cyclonus had scores of Sharkticons at his disposal, and they quickly filled the chamber. Rodimus wanted to throttle Skywarp for what he'd done to Ramulus, but Skywarp shrewdly pointed out that they had bigger problems at the moment. But in the middle of the battle, a strange surge of energy passed through the subterranean chamber, flowing through Tap-Out and Skywarp, causing both to disappear in a flash of light. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and Tap-Out had been abducted by Unicron and, under undisclosed circumstances, Skywarp joined [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]]'s [[Minions of Unicron]] during the [[Universe war|Universe conflict]]. During the final battle within the [[Pit]], he was defeated by [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave comics continuity===<br /> {{notekeepers}}<br /> In the early days of the war, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were sent to blow up a building full of pesky [[neutral]]s in [[Altihex]]. He took a second to wonder if it was the right thing to do—not because it was morally wrong or anything, but because it was ''too easy''. Thundercracker didn't have much input, so Skywarp just went &quot;Sure, why not,&quot; and murdered the neutrals. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1}} Some time later, the two came with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he tried to sway [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] into joining the Decepticons. Skywarp tried to stop Starscream from spilling the beans about the Seekers' next mission at [[Sector Zero-Six]], but was told to shut up. When the trio later carried out said mission, they found that Grimlock had evacuated the area and placed a bomb to welcome them. Skywarp barely had time to teleport himself and his comrades away before the place went up in flames. {{storylink|The War Within Preview}} When Starscream decided to blame Megatron for what happened, Skywarp snapped and pointed out that it was all ''his'' fault for ''telling the enemy about their mission'', then took off with Thundercracker. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Following the sudden disappearance of Megatron, the Decepticons split into several splinter groups, but Skywarp stayed with the main faction under the command of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. He participated in an attack on the minions of [[The Fallen]] in [[Protihex]], where his teleporting power enabled him to get the best of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and gun him down. {{storylink|Conflagration}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of several Decepticon invaders on board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed into [[Earth]] four million years ago while the Autobot ship was clearing an asteroid in the path of Cybertron. <br /> <br /> In 2002, he was one of the Transformers who survived the disastrous launch of the sabotaged ''[[Ark II]]'' and were later captured and reprogrammed by arms dealer [[Lazarus|Adam &quot;Lazarus&quot; Rook]], who intended to rent out the services of the enslaved robots to various terrorist groups. After Megatron reactivated himself, he freed his Decepticon subordinates in order to put forward his plans to infect Earth with a metallic virus of doom. To pass the time while this happened, Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp busied themselves by tearing apart the Autobot Minicar team. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp later participated in Megatron's attack on [[San Francisco]], where he followed Starscream's orders to maintain formation and drop cluster bombs on the Autobot giant [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], forcing the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] to split into their separate robot forms. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp presumably stood watch over the defeated Autobots while Megatron tried to persuade [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to help the Decepticons conquer Earth. After some human firefighters distracted the Decepticons long enough for Optimus Prime to free the Autobots, Skywarp was presumably beaten up and escaped when Superion sacrificed himself to stop a nuclear missile launched by rogue US General [[Robert Hallo]]. <br /> <br /> ''When Megatron was kidnapped by the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] and Decepticon leadership was up for grabs, Skywarp began acting more serious and ambitious than his regular &quot;lunatic prankster&quot; persona would suggest. One of the few Decepticons who aggressively refused to follow Starscream in Megatron's absence, Skywarp teamed up with the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio in an attempt to seize power for himself. He lured Starscream into leaving his new kingdom in [[Las Vegas]] and travelling to Hoover Dam. Once there, Skywarp challenged Starscream directly for leadership of the Decepticons. He failed miserably, however; Starscream dealt Skywarp severe damage using his [[Null-ray|null bolts]] at close range, then tossed his former wingman over the falls. Skywarp was in [[stasis lock]] for some time thereafter, and he begrudgingly chose to serve under Starscream after his repair cycle aboard the ''Nemesis'' was completed. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''<br /> <br /> ''When [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and his private army of humans attacked Las Vegas, along with [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Skywarp was among the Decepticons who charged out to meet them in battle along the Strip. As Thundercracker and Soundwave kept the rampaging [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]'s attention, Skywarp prepared a delicious, underhanded sneak attack. Diving at Grimlock at full speed, Skywarp planned on unleashing his heat-seeking missiles at near point-blank range for maximum devastation. Luckily for Grimlock, the little Autobot Bumblebee was willing to sacrifice his functionality in order to keep the more powerful Autobot warrior in play and took the full impact of the missiles at the last second. Enraged, Grimlock struck Skywarp with enough force to send him flying miles away into the desert and out of the fight for the immediate future. ''<br /> <br /> ''Curiously, Skywarp chose NOT to leave Las Vegas with Megatron once the former Decepticon leader returned to Earth. Damaged after his time with the Keepers, Megatron lost a fight with Starscream and was forced to relinquish his leadership to the Aerospace Commander. Still, Megatron refused to serve under Starscream, and he led a revolt of several Decepticons into exile. For whatever reason, Skywarp remained at Starscream's side until the Keepers attacked, possessing Starscream as a host body and caging the rest of the Decepticons still in Las Vegas inside a dome of impenetrable energy. Skywarp assumed command of the remaining Decepticons in Starscream's absence and directed the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] into not attacking the dome directly as [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], but digging beneath the energy field to forge a tunnel they could exit through. He also made contact with Megatron's forces outside the city and agreed to wait patiently until the time was right for all the Transformers to assault the Keepers as one. ''<br /> <br /> ''When the time came, Skywarp &quot;allowed&quot; his Decepticons to join forces with Megatron's, because it was the only &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. During the fight, he blasted the [[Bluestreak]]-Keeper with an explosive gamma radiation blast. The attack was effective, but proved moot when the Bluestreak-Keeper fused with the Starscream-Keeper, creating one massive and deformed robotic god figure. In the end, it was Optimus Prime and the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] which finally ended the war with the Keepers, diverting the force of a nuclear missile launched by the American government. In the aftermath, Starscream's scrap was salvaged and rebuilt, but Megatron chose to make Skywarp his new second-in-command for a time, mostly just to piss Starscream off. Still, Skywarp certainly saw it as the most &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. {{storylink|Annihilation}}''<br /> <br /> ''In Washington D.C., Megatron and the Decepticons stormed the White House to show their displeasure to the [[President of the United States|President]] for trying to wipe them out with a nuclear strike. Megatron assigned Skywarp to deal with the SWAT teams in the streets, then sent him into the skies to join Starscream in shooting down the air support called in by the military. Final tally—Starscream: 12, Skywarp: 5. Sometime later, Skywarp was present in the Nevada desert when the Autobots and Decepticons confronted the United States military. Thanks to their airborne tactics, Thundercracker and Skywarp did significant injury to the troops and survived the [[deconstructionite]] assault virtually unscathed. After the Keepers were finally defeated and Starscream had been restored to his normal, irascible self, Megatron chose to restore the status quo and replaced Skywarp with Starscream as his second-in-command yet again. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''<br /> <br /> {{note|Although it's hard to see how, the author(s) of the Keepers Trilogy may have confused Skywarp with Shockwave, or at least combined their roles and personalities into one character. Throughout the trilogy, Skywarp made repeated references to the &quot;logical&quot; course of action, and once made an oblique reference to his gift over the electromagnetic spectrum. Whether there was actual confusion involved, or if the pick-up writer [[David Cian]] was forcing Skywarp to fit a role once Dreamwave's comics made using Shockwave off-limits, is unknown.}}<br /> <br /> When Shockwave arrived on Earth with his new army, he quickly disposed of Megatron and demanded loyalty from Skywarp and the others. Somewhat begrudgingly, they assented and accompanied him back to Cybertron. Back on their home planet, Skywarp and Thundercracker were amazed at what Shockwave had accomplished in their absence and were planning to sign on for the duration. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} After getting run down and beaten up by Optimus Prime on his way to Shockwave, though, the Seekers took an offer from Starscream and Soundwave to abandon the rising conflict on Cybertron and return to Earth for some good ol' fashioned looting. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}<br /> <br /> On Earth, Skywarp was part of Starscream's initial salvo against the Ark, a decoy to be deliberately taken prisoner in order to draw out the remaining Autobots where the newly reformatted [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] could get at them. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} After decimating the Autobots' ranks, [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] freed the fallen Decepticons, and they were about ready to terminate their opponents when the awe-inspiring clone known as [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] emerged from fold-space, looking to have words with Starscream. Sunstorm's &quot;purifying light&quot; induced an energon overload in their systems, knocking them into stasis lock. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}} Skywarp and the others remained Autobot prisoners until Starscream negotiated a deal for their release in exchange for his aid against Sunstorm. {{storylink|Skyfire (issue)|Skyfire}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp fell back under Megatron's command once the former leader arrived on Earth and forced Starscream back under his thumb. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers'' comics===<br /> [[Image:GIJoevsTF1_Seeker.jpg|left|thumb|200px|]]<br /> Skywarp was one of the Transformers reprogrammed to serve the terrorist organization [[Cobra]] and was, along with Thundercracker, rebuilt to transform into a [[Rattler]] aircraft in the process. Their first mission was to show off Cobra's power by assaulting a peace ceremony in [[Washington, D.C.]], and either Skywarp or Thundercracker was the first to reveal his robot mode to the shocked [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] before wrecking [[Ace]]'s jet with a single punch. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1}}<br /> <br /> When [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] undid Cobra's reprogramming of the Transformers, Skywarp waited on the runway in Rattler mode until [[Major Bludd]], unaware of the plane's true identity, decided to use him as his ticket off [[Cobra Island]]. After causing Bludd some stress by refusing to start his engines, Skywarp revealed himself and told him that he'd rather walk, then transformed, crushing the human to death with his moving innards in the process. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4}} He then joined Thundercracker in fighting [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], who had also been freed from Cobra's control. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5}} Unfortunately, the two Seekers were later caught in the [[SPS Satellite]]'s rain of energy beams and deactivated. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6}}<br /> <br /> {{note|As Skywarp's coloration is identical to Thundercracker's in this series, it's possible that it was actually Thundercracker who killed Major Bludd. However, it feels more like something Skywarp would do.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave ''Transformers/G.I. Joe'' comics===<br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons revived by [[Cobra]] in 1938. He may have been one of the Seekers driven back by the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] in the battle of the [[Fera Islands]]. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}} During the Autobots' attack on the [[Terrordrome]], Skywarp was lounging about when he overheard some Cobra troopers talking dirt about the Decepticons. Picking one of the humans up, Skywarp suggested that he be a little grateful that the Decepticons were helping them conquer their filthy mudball of a planet. Before he could finish insulting them, however, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] burst out of the ground and beat him up. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===<br /> Skywarp and Thundercracker were at the end of a berating from Megatron when the news came in that Starscream had badly injured himself in a rock-climbing accident. Skywarp probably even helped look for Starscream. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}<br /> <br /> Enraged at [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] for selling off Decepticon weapons on the black market, Megatron commanded Skywarp to bring the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] in — in pieces of necessary. {{storylink|Two for the Price of One}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW comics continuity===<br /> {{ongoing}}<br /> Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] were early recruits for [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], helping sow terror across Cybertron and kidnap Senator [[Decimus]] just prior to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] and founding of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3}} At one point he was part of a squad intent on assassinating [[Zeta Prime]], but the plan was thwarted when [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] warned the Autobot leader (tackling Skywarp in the back on the way). {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Infiltration5 Skywarptotalled.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Skywarp learns what happens when he pushes Megatron down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> In the modern era, Skywarp is part of a Decepticon infiltration unit that has operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, working to destabilize Earth's governing organizations and create global anarchy. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 3}} His alternate form is an [[wikipedia:F-22_Raptor|F-22 Raptor]] fighter jet, and his main job seems to be using his teleporting powers to transport his comrades to places.<br /> <br /> Starscream assigned him and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] to destroy all traces of the [[Nebraska]] operation, but after demolishing the abandoned Nebraska command bunker, he was severely damaged by Megatron, who, unfortunately for Skywarp, had been inside at the time. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5}} Megatron was apparently not one to hold grudges, and he soon had Skywarp repaired and functioning again, under the understanding that there would be no further second chances. {{storylink|Escalation issue 1}} While on a mission to destabilize Middle Eastern energy supplies, Skywarp confessed to Thundercracker that he believed Megatron had it in for all of them, especially himself, though his fellow Decepticon pointed out the fact that Megatron did have him repaired. {{storylink|Escalation issue 2}} Skywarp participated in the operation at [[Brasnya]] where he injured [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and evacuated Megatron before the Autobots could destroy him. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> When [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] began his coup, he first contacted Skywarp in an effort to get a viable ally. Skywarp thought it was a big load of crap, but said that if Ramjet could get some results in one day, they'd talk. However, Skywarp did mention that he always &quot;bets on the leader.&quot; This turned out to be a prudent decision. {{storylink|Spotlight: Ramjet}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the concerned Decepticons who feared that Megatron had lost all sense of reason when he deployed [[Sixshot]] on Earth. They conspired to bring Starscream back into the fold to talk some sense into their leader. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1}} Emboldened by Starscream's lone stand against the Reapers, the Decepticons attacked and eventually the alien invaders, with Skywarp participating in the destruction of their starship. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> About a year later, Megatron had somehow regained Skywarp's confidence, and Skywarp assured Thundercracker that Megatron knew what he was doing when he created [[Insecticon swarm|three thousand twisted perversions of their own race]]. The Decepticons later lured Optimus Prime and his troops into a trap and utterly crushed them, with Skywarp ripping [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]'s arm clean off. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7}} They proceeded to conquer [[New York City]]. During that attack, Skywarp got to make stuff go boom and kill a lotta folks, and it was the best day out ever. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1}}<br /> <br /> After taking out several military helicopters, Skywarp was assigned to accompany Soundwave, Hook and Astrotrain as they took Frenzy to deal with a large ground force. [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] voiced his doubt that the tiny Decepticon had a chance against such a huge number of enemies, but Skywarp, enjoying a chance for a dig at the new guy, simply told him to make sure he kept his distance. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 2}} All the fun of smashing things and killing millions of people soon soured though, as Skywarp started clashing with the [[Insecticon (G1)|uppity Insecticons]] and getting lonely now Thundercracker was being mopey and Starscream wasn't around much. Even mindlessly killing eight million people in [[China]] couldn't perk him up. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6}}<br /> <br /> [[image:AHM12 Betrayer.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A rare moment of Skywarp just killing someone instead of pushing them down the stairs.]]<br /> <br /> When the Autobots eventually returned to Earth, Skywarp battled them in the ruins of New York City. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11}} He grabbed [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and took to the sky, asking the old timer why he wasn't [[Spotlight: Kup|insane]] anymore. Kup responded by calling Skywarp a &quot;mouthy punk&quot; and shooting him in the gut, causing him to to drop the Autobot. The Decepticons fled when Megatron was defeated, but Skywarp came back when he noticed that Thundercracker had diverted the nuke that Megatron had arranged to be dropped on New York. Furious at his fellow Seeker's betrayal, he ignored Thundercracker's arguments and shot him point blank in the face. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12}}<br /> <br /> [[Image: Bumblebee 1 Skywarp's Stash.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Up the Arsenal!]]<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons left behind when the others fled Earth. Unlike [[Swindle (G1)|some]], however, he was in no rush to get off the planet; instead he came up with the idea to steal and stockpile human weapons for Megatron's eventual return. He attacked the technology corporations [[Dynomic]] and [[Allodyne Logic Systems]] for information on their advanced technology, which in turn attacted the attention of [[Skywatch]]. Some two years after the Decepticons' defeat in New York, Skywarp had filled at least one whole garage with missiles and bombs. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} In addition to his vast collection of anti-human weapons, he also worked to create a weapon capable of crippling all the Autobots on the planet. Skywarp beamed signals into space in order to report his progress to Megatron, who he really hoped would be back soon. {{storylink|The Impossible Knot}}<br /> <br /> While the Autobots worked on finding a way to disable the kill-switch badges that the rogue Skywatch Colonel [[Gordon Horiuchi]] had provided them, Skywarp attacked Skywatch's Phillips base to gain access to information to track down the kill-switch control board. Arriving at Skywatch researcher [[Sanjay Bharwaney]]'s home {{storylink|The Gift Horse}}, Skywarp moved in for the kill, but was foiled by the timely intervention of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], who saved Bharwaney and his daughter [[Serena Bharwaney|Serena]]. Skywarp chased them into an industrial area, and as he hunted, he ranted about how Megatron would be returning here to take his rightful place as ruler of the galaxy, with Skywarp at his side, and once he had the control board, all the Autobots would fall into line under the Decepticon banner, making Skywarp a hero. Just when it seemed Skywarp would get his hands on Bumblebee and the control board, Skywatch operative [[Daniel Klonowski]] intervened, firing a weapon powerful enough to damage Bumblebee. Injured but undeterred, Skywarp managed to corner the Autobot, offering to let him go in exchange for the control board as a &quot;professional courtesy&quot;. His confidence turned to panic when Bumblebee steeled himself to activate the control board, the little Autobot declaring that unlike Skywarp, he has friends who would fix him. The electro-magnetic pulse from the control board seriously damaged both transformers, but it is unknown what became of Skywarp. As Skywatch representatives were in the area, it is likely that he was taken into custody. {{storylink|Wings of Wax}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Hearts of Steel''===<br /> Skywarp was one of the Decepticons who woke up on mid-19th century Earth, where he took on the form of a spiky airplane with three propellers. In the Decepticons' desert headquarters, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] told him about the plans to conquer Earth, and ordered him to fly ahead of the [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], leading the way towards [[New York City]]. Skywarp was concerned that the Autobots might interfere, but Starscream assured him their enemies had not yet awoken. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2}}<br /> <br /> {{note|There's no evidence in the story that Skywarp actually ''did'' fly ahead of the Astrotrain, but if it's true, he may have survived the Decepticon defeat unharmed.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> Skywarp serves under [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] as one of his Decepticon soldiers, battling [[Optimus Primal]]'s many Autobot allies in what might possibly have been an inter-universe battle. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_boxart.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Someone pushes HIM down a flight of stairs for once. Payback's a bitch.]]<br /> <br /> A Skywarp from an unspecified [[universal stream]] was selected by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|Megatron]] to become part of his [[Questor]] forces. Granted a portion of the hyperdimensional powers that his leader had obtained from the monstrous [[Hytherion]], Skywarp was given a new body with an uncharacteristic sports car alternate mode, a [[Timaeus drive]] that granted him the ability to travel through dimensions, and a massively enhanced teleportation power that actually allowed him to warp the fabric of space and time around him. About the only thing that didn't change was his characteristic lack of intelligence and initiative; coupled with the brain-bending complexities of higher-dimensional life and battle, this meant that Skywarp was left still relying on Megatron's specific orders for and when to use his powers.<br /> <br /> Skywarp proved his worth when he succeeded in his mission to scour the year 2010 all across the dimensions for a trace of the two-dimensional world of the [[Planicron]]s. Precisely what Megatron needed the Planicrons for, Skywarp didn't know, but he recalled a rumor among the Questors that they were key to the destruction of the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]], and smirked with excitement to himself as he informed Megatron of his discovery. {{storylink|Hunt for the Planicrons}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Commercial appearances==<br /> Skywarp's history of [[commercial]] appearances includes:<br /> <br /> * The very first Transformers animation, a commercial for [[The Transformers (issue)|Issue #1]] of Marvel's ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' comic book. On Earth, he flies across the desert with Starscream and Thundercracker to attack a power plant.<br /> <br /> * He is briefly seen battling in the desert against Hot Rod, Kup and Blurr, until Cyclonus and Scourge (!!) swoop in to counterattack. <br /> <br /> * Skywarp attacks an Autobot power station along with Thrust and Starscream in a commercial for Ultra Magnus.<br /> <br /> * He can be very briefly glimpsed swooping into battle alongside Galvatron (!!) on Earth in a subsequent commercial for [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and Galvatron.<br /> <br /> [[Image:LiveActionJazz-Skywarp01.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I bet he spiked the punch.]]<br /> <br /> * Along with his original Seeker wingmates, he gets barreled over by the Dinobots in a commercial for the Predacons.<br /> <br /> * A commercial for Transformers reflective iron-on patches advertised the &quot;[[Prizes in Disguise]]&quot; competition. When the [[iron-on patch]] was used, it was possible to find instead an instant win ticket for a Transformers voice changer (of the [[Enemy]] variety)—or to have a party with &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers! Among the &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers shown were [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and Skywarp. In all likelihood, you did not party with them.<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> [[Image:G1-toy SkywarpCommSeries.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Commemorative Series retooled Skywarp. Robot mode... that&amp;#39;s okay. Jet? Not so much.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Decepticon Jet, 1984/1985/2001/2003/2008)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''23'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 wings (left &amp;amp; right), 2 rudders (left &amp;amp; right), 2 tailfins (left &amp;amp; right), 2 fists (left &amp; right), front landing gear<br /> <br /> : The only 1984 [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] with a deco not used previously in [[Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' line, Skywarp transforms into an [[wikipedia:F-15_Eagle|F-15 Eagle]] fighter jet, sharing his mold with his teammates [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. Many parts need to be removed completely for transformation from robot to jet and back, which nowadays is considered a major drawback of the toy. It is rare to find it complete, as neither mode can hold all the pieces required. There are a few minor mold variations of this toy (common for the first two years of ''Transformers'', really), the most immediately noticeable being that early versions did not have visible &quot;clip-tabs&quot; on the inner face of the gauntlets.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Redeco.jpg|Early Hasbro stock photos of Skywarp]] show him with a plastic purple nosecone. This was changed to a soft, black rubber nosecone when the toy was actually released. However, a [http://tfarchive.com/toys/articles/toypics/mex_skywarp.jpg Mexican variant] retained the purple plastic nosecone. The same stock photos also show him with purple launchers with black triggers and muzzle rings, black feet, black shins, black outer arm panels, purple horizontal stabilizers, and both sets of purple missiles. These stock photos were also later used to promote Takara's 2001 reissue.<br /> <br /> : In 2001, Skywarp was given a short-run reissue (limited to only 1,000 pieces) by Takara as a convention-[[exclusive]] item, bundled together with Thundercracker as &quot;[[Collector's Edition]]&quot; Set C. The toy would later be more extensively released in 2003 as part of [[Hasbro]]'s [[Commemorative Series]] series IV, though due to US [[For safety reasons|toy-safety regulations]], his missiles were made extra-long since his spring-loaded launchers were now fully-functional.<br /> <br /> : In August, 2008, Skywarp was released with Thundercracker as number 11 in Takara's [[Transformers Encore]] line. For this release Skywarp's Decepticon symbols were painted and his purple stickers were changed to a much bluer shade of purple. Curiously, Skywarp's wing stripes in this release are factory-applied stickers, instead of the [[tampograph]]s on his two-pack buddy.<br /> <br /> : This mold was [[Redeco|redecoed]] into [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and retooled to make [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]].<br /> <br /> :For some reason, the stats on Skywarp's, Starscream's and Thundercracker's [[tech specs]] were switched around. Skywarp's box was given Starscream's numbers, which explains his high intelligence and rank. The actual specs intended for this toy, but accidentally given to Thundercracker, are presented here. Hasbro's Commemorative Series Skywarp reissue had his bio rewritten to explain his higher stats.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Machine Wars===<br /> [[Image:MWSkywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|After his near-fatal encounter with the Invert Colors function.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Basic, 1997)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 rifle halves<br /> : Sharing a mold once again with [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], Skywarp transforms into a white [[wikipedia:Rafale|Dassault Rafale]] fighter jet with spring-loaded one-step transformation from jet to robot. The two halves of his rifle store in his lower legs. Like all ''[[Machine Wars]]'' toys, Skywarp was an [[exclusive]] to Kay-Bee stores and related stores like Toy Liquidators.<br /> <br /> : This mold is also used by ''[[Beast Wars II (toyline)|Beast Wars II]]'' [[Dirge (BWII)|Dirge]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Skyfire (RID)|Skyfire]], ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' [[Wingstun]] and ''[[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]]'' [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]].<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Machine Wars'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Universe (2003)===<br /> [[Image:TFU03-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Like [[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]], except he can fly.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2003)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missiles<br /> <br /> :''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] in his Generation 1 colors. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter jet, armed with two spring-loaded projectile launchers that can fire orange &quot;energon&quot; bolts. These launchers end up in his arms in robot mode. He has a third robot mode that collapses the legs around the cockpit (oh hush), with flip-out panels revealing an extra pair of thrusters. His [[spark]] crystal, revealed by flipping the purple hatch on his back, has a Decepticon [[insignia]] [[tampograph]]ed on top of it.<br /> <br /> :Skywarp was also used to make ''Beast Machines'' [[Sonic Attack Jet]], ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Storm Jet (RID)|Storm Jet]], and ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Universe Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Smallest Transforming Transformers===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2003)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''GTF X-1'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' Skywarp was a very small-scale simplification of the original Generation 1 Seeker toy, retaining most of its functionality and accessories, except for his long null-rays. Skywarp was one of two [[Chase figure|chase figures]] from the first wave of the line.<br /> <br /> : This mold was redecoed from Starscream, then re-redecoed into Thundercracker, and finally retooled to make Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/SmallestSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> ===Robot Masters===<br /> [[Image:RMSkywarp toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Now with the proper articulation for down-stair-pushing.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp &amp;amp; Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, 2005)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;<br /> <br /> : ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from the same series, a smaller yet more advanced version of the original toy, adding more articulation and reducing the amount of [[Partformer|part-forming]] required. He was available only in a two-pack with Thundercracker, which also came with a Decepticon sigil pin and chromed missile pods. This set was the very last product released in the ''Robot Masters'' line and wasn't even strictly sold in a box from that series; instead, it used an [[e-Hobby]] ''Generation 1'' reissue box, with a small ''Robot Masters'' sticker in the corner tab noting its origin from the front.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Robot Masters'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Classics (2006)===<br /> [[Image:Class06-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ultra Magnus isn&amp;#39;t pictured because he was just pushed-well, you know.]]<br /> * '''Ultra Magnus vs Skywarp: Battle For Autobot City''' (Multi-pack, 2006)<br /> **''Accessories:'' Left &amp;amp; right missile launchers, 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' Skywarp is a slight retool of the ''Classics'' Starscream mold, transforming into an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-15 Eagle fighter jet]], though with a canopy like that of an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-14 Tomcat]]. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode and can attach under his wings in vehicle mode. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he also features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]]. <br /> <br /> : Skywarp was slightly [[Retool|retooled]] from the earlier Starscream figures. The retool is present in the jet intake area. The slope of his shoulders was decreased from Starscream's, and a rectangle added to the vertical area, making the number now five instead of four. This retooled version was used for all subsequent releases of the mold: ''Classics'' [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], as well as [[Acid Storm]] from ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]''. At the end of ''Classics'' Starscream's production run, he too used this version of the mold.<br /> <br /> : He was only available as part of a Target stores [[exclusive]] two-pack with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. The set's price was $19.99, despite including both a Voyager-class and Deluxe-class mold in it, which was approximately $30 worth of toys if they'd been sold separately. He was also available in Woolworth stores throughout the United Kingdom.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Classics Skywarp toy.jpg|Stock photos of ''Classics'' Skywarp]] showed a more detailed color scheme than the actual released figure. Much like ''Classics'' Ultra Magnus, the changes were most likely due to an overabundance of [[Paint operation]]s. This more detailed version was shown at [[BotCon 2006]] and at least one sample found its way to a collector's hands. The sample also used the original Starscream mold, and not the retooled version used for every version of the mold since and even including Starscream.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Classics'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Masterpiece===<br /> [[Image:MP-6 Skywarp.jpg|200px|thumb|Takara finally remembered what colors the Seekers are supposed to be.]]<br /> * '''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-6''' <br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 AIM missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot, Megatron Gun clasp, display stand<br /> <br /> : ''[[Masterpiece]]'' Skywarp was released in Japan in September of 2007. He is a redeco of the Masterpiece Starscream mold in black, gray, silver, and purple, though the purple and silver are more minimal than usual. Skywarp is able to switch between a minimally retooled stoic face and a new snarly face, retooled from Starscream's previous smirk. The tiny [[Doctor Arkeville]] pilot figurine (this time molded black) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> [[Image:MPSkywarp stickers.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Sadly, no stair-pusher sticker.]]<br /> : The sticker sheet includes Skywarp-esque stripes, as well as several whimsical squadron markings.<br /> <br /> :The second pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp (released in October 2008) features an assembly error: his left and right pectorals are flipped. This misassembly does not affect transformation at all, and is really only noticeable when compared to prior Masterpiece Seekers. The September 2007 pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp is assembled correctly. Masterpiece Thundercracker is misassembled as well.<br /> <br /> :It is a common misconception that the stoic face on Takara's Masterpiece Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker are the same, when all of them are in fact different sculpts.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Attacktix===<br /> *'''Skywarp'''<br /> <br /> : Skywarp was among the planned ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' game pieces that were showed at some conventions, but went unreleased as the line was canceled. He was to be a [[retool]] of sorts of the similarly unreleased ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], using the same weapon and base but a brand new jet mold. Skywarp would've been able to detach from his base and fly on a string, enabling him to get better shots of opposing pieces. Any other details about his role in the game are unknown.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> ===Titanium Series===<br /> [[Image:Titanium-toy WWSkywarp.JPG|right|300px|thumb|]]<br /> *'''War Within Skywarp''' (San Diego Comic-Con 2008 exclusive)<br /> <br /> : [[Titanium Series]] ''[[War Within (toyline)|War Within]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of Thundercracker, transforming into a Cybertronian &quot;tetrajet&quot; as reimagined by [[Don Figueroa]]. As with all 6-inch Titanium Cybertron Heroes, he is constructed mostly of fully painted die-cast metal. He was available only at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] after the Titanium line had already been cancelled, and also Hasbro Toy Shop's booth at [[wikipedia:San_Diego_Comic-Con|San Diego Comic-Con]] 2008.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''War Within'' Starscream, Sunstorm and Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/SDCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Titanium'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Henkei! Henkei!===<br /> [[Image:Henkei Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp grabbed the wrong launchers.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2008)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skywarp is a [[Toy Hobby Market]] exclusive redeco of ''Henkei! Henkei!'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Skywarp and his fellow [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were opened for pre-order on [[May 22]]nd through [[June 20]], and mailed out in September 2008.<br /> <br /> :Soon after release, there were numerous complaints from both Japanese and Western collectors about the poor quality control for both Thundercracker and Skywarp. Skywarp's most common fault was missing paint for one of his shoulders. Some reported both toys suffering misassembly issues such as having two left or two right thighs.<br /> <br /> :Several minor changes were made to this mold for this release. The holes for his missile launchers in his arms were widened, as were the launcher's insertion pegs. The wing's missile launcher insertion points were lengthened and are now curved at the end. The last rectangle on his air intakes, was further modified from the [[Classics (2006)|Classics]] version this time the bottom most rectangle goes completely across the air intake's surface rather than just the center. ''Henkei'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Generation 1 Series|Starscream]] also saw most of these changes.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Universe (2008)===<br /> [[Image:Universe2008-toy_MasterpieceSkywarp.jpg|thumb|right|300px|]]<br /> *'''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2009)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine, gun clip, two-piece display stand <br /> : A [[Wal-Mart]] exclusive redeco of the original Masterpiece Starscream mold. Just like Starscream, Skywarp is able to switch between two different faces. This release uses the Starscream's stoic and smirking alternate faces rather than the Takara Masterpiece Skywarp's newly-tooled stoic and snarling faces. Hasbro designer [[Joe_Kyde|Joe Kyde]] felt the alternate snarling face did not fit Skywarp's prankster personality, so he went with the Starscream smirk face instead when designing the deco for Hasbro's release. As a result of gang molding, Skywarp also uses Starscream's stoic face, the decision being the difference between Skywarp and Starscream's stoic face was negligible enough not to make a significant difference. The toy also features a more G1 toy styled deco rather than cartoon-based, particularly in the yellow eye color and wing stripes. His purple more closely matches that of the original toy than the purple used on the Takara version, and features a lighter flat black, like the original toy, instead of Takara's darker glossy black. The Hasbro version replaces some of the dark gray of the Takara version with a dark silver, removes the arm and chest striping, but adds additional red detailing, while removing some as well. Much like Hasbro's Starscream, he does not feature any of the warning or slogan tampographs, but features tampographed striping, Decepticon symbols, and some additional paint details not present on the Takara version.<br /> : The tiny Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine (molded in black with no paint applications) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime and a stand (featuring Skywarp's name) with a support beam for jet or robot mode. <br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Mortal minds cannot even comprehend the four-dimensional hyperstairs he can push you down.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp Witch Purple Pearl''' ([[May 29|5/29]]/2010)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''A-04'''<br /> <br /> :Skywarp is a [[retool]] of the simultaneously released ''[[Alternity (franchise)|Alternity]]'' Starscream with a new head, transforming into a licensed 1:32 scale [[wikipedia:Mitsuoka_Orochi|Mitsuoka Orochi]]. Like the other toys in the line, he will feature [[die-cast]] metal parts and rubber tires, as well as an opening hood, trunk and doors. In car mode, small wings can be flipped out from under Skywarp's rear wheels, giving him the appearance of a flying car. <br /> <br /> :This mold, with Skywarp's head, was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]].<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Decoy===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (1986)<br /> ** ''Decoy ID number:'' '''33'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Decoy]]'' Skywarp is a tiny, purple, soft-rubber figurine randomly packed with smaller toys at the time. To differentiate him from Starscream and Thundercracker, Skywarp is sculpted holding his arms above his head in a cheering pose.<br /> <br /> : Like all Decepticon Decoys, Skywarp was also available in red for a limited time. This release is considerably rarer than the regular purple one.<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Lucky Draw figure, 2001)<br /> <br /> : ''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' Skywarp is a non-transforming action figure [[redeco]]ed from ''SCF'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Limited to 200 pieces, he was only available as the second place prize in a [[Lucky Draw]] contest held in conjunction with the first edition of ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' (with the &quot;[[Starscream (G1)/toys#SecretStarscream|Secret Starscream]]&quot; toy as the first place prize). Due to the bankruptcy of the ''Transformers: Generations'' publisher, [[Keibunsha]], it is unknown whether the Japanese version of Skywarp was ever actually sent out or not.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''Super Collection Figure'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' (see below) Starscream, Thundercracker, [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and the [[Air Warrior]]s.<br /> <br /> ===Heroes of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2002)<br /> <br /> : When the ''Super Collection Figure'' line was brought to the US as ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', Skywarp was widely released as part of the first wave. Unlike ''SCF'', ''HOC'' figures were composed of transparent red plastic that was mostly painted over, giving them [[light-piping|&quot;light-up&quot; eyes]].<br /> <br /> * '''Decepticon''' (2003)<br /> <br /> : Same as the American version above, but part of an [[OTFCC 2003]]-exclusive six-pack of figures which also included Starscream, Thundercracker, and three [[Air Warrior]]s. It featured a more metallic paint job from the normal release and slightly different paint details.{{fact}}<br /> <br /> ===Legends of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2004, unreleased)<br /> <br /> [[Image:OTFCCSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Doesn't so much teleport as not exist in the first place.]]<br /> <br /> : A redeco of ''Mega Super Figure Collection'' G1 Starscream (minus the extra coronation accessories, open-palm hands, and the hand wielding Megatron in gun mode), Skywarp was to be among the first of the fan club exclusives offered by [[The Official Transformers Collectors Convention|OTFCC]] as well as the first in their ''Legends of Cybertron'' line. The figure was delayed and never saw a full release due to [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]] losing the license to run the official Transformers fan club. At least a couple of sample versions were produced.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Palisades===<br /> [[Image:PalisadesSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Decepticon on a stick! Get yer Decepticon on a stick!]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Palisades, 2005)<br /> <br /> :A ''SmallBluePlanet''-exclusive redeco of the Starscream statue, Skywarp is a six inch tall polystone statue with articulated head and arms. He can stand normally or use a stand to take on a &quot;hovering&quot; pose. Skywarp was limited to 300 pieces, and sculpted by [[3L Creation Group]] from a design by [[George Tremarco]].<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker and the Ghost of Starscream.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Robot Heroes===<br /> [[Image:Robot Hero Skywarp.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Clearly just after shoving Starscream down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> * '''Decepticon Sneak Attack''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : Skywarp is one of the five exclusive figures in Wal-Mart's &quot;Decepticon Sneak Attack&quot; set, alongside [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], [[Mirage (G1)|holographic Mirage]] and &quot;Supermetal Finish&quot; versions of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. He's a black and purple redeco of Starscream, yes. His left hand's for pushing you down stairs, his right fist's for pumping the air in victory. Sweet, sweet stair-based victory.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : A 25-point &quot;uncommon&quot; character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s &quot;Energon Wars&quot; expansion, Skywarp &quot;transforms&quot; into a black and purple jet. He uses the same parts layout as [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]].<br /> <br /> ==Trivia==<br /> * Skywarp's one-line characterization in the original Transformers [[production bible]] was &quot;sneaky but dumb&quot;. Hee hee. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#034] In a more peculiar note, his longer write-up in the production bible noted that he was colored olive drab. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#038] This error isn't as unusual as one might first think, as Skywarp was the only first-year jet whose colors didn't originate in ''[[Diaclone]]''—thus, they simply may not have been decided upon when the production bible was written.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpatron.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Skywarp really DID need close supervision.]]<br /> * In a possible fit of madness, a triple changer was proposed that would switch between Skywarp (possibly mistaken for Starscream), [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and Skywarp's jet mode.<br /> <br /> * Character bios written by unknown persons for the Australian (Madman) DVD release of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' definitely claim that [[Cyclonus (G1)|Skywarp became Cyclonus]]. Basically, nobody considers that weighty &quot;evidence&quot;.<br /> <br /> * Skywarp is the only Seeker with wing stripes that are not red.<br /> <br /> * For such a popular character, Skywarp doesn't DO much of anything in the original show.<br /> <br /> * [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Machine_Wars|Despite]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Classics_.282006.29|many]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Heroes_of_Cybertron|releases]], [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Titanium_Series|Skywarp]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Henkei.21_Henkei.21|is]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Universe_.282008.29|usually]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Robot_Heroes|an]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Generation_1_2|exclusive.]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;amp;char=Skywarp Skywarp's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Alternity characters]]<br /> [[Category:Attacktix]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Machines characters]]<br /> [[Category:Classics characters]]<br /> [[Category:Convention exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 2 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Henkei! Henkei! characters]]<br /> [[Category:Machine Wars characters]]<br /> [[Category:Robot Heroes]]<br /> [[Category:3D Battle-Cards]]<br /> [[Category:Robot Masters characters]]<br /> [[Category:Seekers]]<br /> [[Category:Target exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Universe characters]]<br /> [[Category:Wal-Mart exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Wreckers]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Skywarp_(G1)&diff=474807 2010-07-06T20:56:30Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticon|decepticong2|wreckers}}<br /> {{disambig3|Skywarp}}<br /> :''Skywarp is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarp1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp, Decepticon Stair-Pusher-Downer]]<br /> [[Teleportation]] is a dangerous tool in the hands of a capable adversary. Thankfully for the [[Autobot|Autobots]], '''Skywarp''' is the Decepticon who possesses that ability. Skywarp's not so bright, so without supervision he's worthless as a warrior. He mostly uses his teleportation power for immature pranks on both friend and foe. He takes a charmingly puerile angle at thuggery, so his pranks are well-received amongst his Decepticon peers (excepting the victim, of course). <br /> <br /> Because, come on, a surprise push down a staircase is ''hilarious''.<br /> <br /> {{quote|Don't think. Just do.|Skywarp's life motto|[[Megatron Origin issue 4|''Megatron Origin'' #4]]}}<br /> <br /> :''French-Canadian name'': '''Fraudeur''' (&quot;Cheater&quot; or &quot;Evader&quot; or &quot;Smuggler&quot;)<br /> :''Hungarian name'': '''Égretörő''' (&quot;Sky-springer&quot;)<br /> :''Italian name'': '''Corvo''' (&quot;Crow&quot;)<br /> :''Japanese name'': '''Warp'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Portugal comics)'': '''Espião Celeste'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Brazil comics)'': '''Viajante''' (&quot;Traveller&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Tīen Wān''' (天彎, &quot;Sky Warp&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (China):'' '''Nao Fan Tian''' (鬧翻天, &quot;Extreme Ruckus&quot;)<br /> :''Russian TV dub name:'' '''Deformer'''<br /> His Partner is [[Acid Storm]]<br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> ====Generation 1====<br /> {{noteukonly}}<br /> [[Image:Introdump decepticons marvelus01.jpg|left|300px|thumb|You can tell Skywarp apart from Thundercracker in the Marvel Comics by, uh.... let us get back to you on that.]]<br /> Skywarp was one of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron's]] troops who attacked the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] during its mission to clear a path for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] through an asteroid field. He was deactivated when it crashed on [[Earth]], and he lay dormant for four million years. When he and his fellow Decepticons awoke, Skywarp was given a new [[Alternate mode|altmode]], that of an Earth jet. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} He aided the Decepticons in their building of their new base constructed of parts from [[Harrison Nuclear Power Plant]] and joined in their attack on [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s auto repair shop. After the successful abduction of Sparkplug Witwicky, Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] defended their base from [[Autobot|Autobots]], though [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Spider-Man]] were able to sneak through and rescue Sparkplug. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}<br /> <br /> ''When Starscream fired upon his teammate [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] for eavesdropping on his plot to overthrow Megatron, Skywarp and the other Decepticons sought deadly revenge on the Decepticon [[Air Commander]]. {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}} Though Starscream escaped, the Decepticons soon regrouped to attack the Ark, but their battle was ended prematurely when [[Auntie]], the Ark's computer system, magnetized the walls, immobilizing both factions. {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}} On another occasion, he and Thundercracker made a strafing run on two Autobot spies, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. Jazz was deafened and blasted off the road, but Sunstreaker led them into a human military zone, prompting Megatron to call them back to base. {{storylink|Perchance to Dream}}'' Skywarp also traveled with the Decepticons to the [[United Kingdom]], where he and his teammates attempted to learn about a mysterious Autobot rescue ship buried under a castle. An initial attack on the Autobots left Skywarp seriously wounded by a bomb from [[Bluestreak]]. {{storylink|Man of Iron (story)|Man of Iron}}<br /> <br /> Though Sparkplug Witwicky was able to devise a way for the Decepticons to convert Earth fuel into a usable substance, he also poisoned the result, so Skywarp and his fellow Decepticons were immobilized at the climax of their would-be final battle with the Autobots. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} The Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] took command of the Decepticons and the Ark shortly thereafter and nursed Skywarp and his comrades back to full health. Skywarp may have helped Shockwave attempt to capture and brainwash [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] into a Decepticon, or it may have been Thundercracker without red stripes. It's hard to tell. {{storylink|Plight of the Bumblebee!}}<br /> <br /> He served the Decepticon cause up until he was deactivated while battling [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and placed in prison stasis at Autobot headquarters. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Target_2006_fake_Starscream_dies.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nope. Guess again.]]<br /> ''When [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] traveled back from the year 2006 to build a super-weapon to destroy [[Unicron]], Skywarp was a key player in the defeat of the mad Decepticon. Sorta.'' <br /> <br /> ''The Autobots took Skywarp out of stasis, painted him to look like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], and sent him stumbling toward Galvatron with a tape-recorder of Starscream's voice on his back. Galvatron, still sore about Starscream tossing him out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] during his Megatron days, shot and presumably killed Skywarp. Galvatron then realized that if he killed Starscream in the past then there'd be no way he could have killed Starscream in the future (never mind that killing Skywarp now opens up that whole issue of [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus' identity]]). Believing he was in an alternate past and thus nothing he did there would affect his personal timeline, Galvatron hurried back to his proper time. Way to take one for the team, Skywarp. {{storylink|Target: 2006}}''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpgoofyteleportation.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Upon close inspection, Skywarp's teleportation power is merely a goofy loop-de-loop.]]<br /> During a massive battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth's moon, Skywarp and the other Decepticons held in stasis aboard the Ark were liberated by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and subsequently brought back online. {{storylink|Totaled!}} During the first Decepticon Civil War, Skywarp battled with [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s Decepticons against [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons. Skywarp surprised [[Bugly]] with his teleportation powers and blasted him, temporarily stunning him. However, Bugly successfully returned fire, striking where he guessed Skywarp would next teleport. {{storylink|Cold War!}} Skywarp was repaired in time to face an [[Underbase]]-powered Starscream in [[Tokyo]], but both he and Thundercracker were destroyed by their former flying partner. {{storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Generation 2''====<br /> Optimus Prime, learning of the Decepticons' attacks on Earth, traveled there alone not to fight them but to talk Megatron out of it. Prime was really surprised to learn that this was a really stupid idea, and as Megatron tore Prime apart and severed the Matrix from his body, Skywarp stood by with other Decepticons and watched. He and the rest of the Decepticons retreated with the Matrix when the Autobots showed up to save Prime. {{storylink|The Gathering Darkness}}<br /> <br /> The Autobots and the Decepticons had just agreed to make an alliance against the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]], but the Decepticons disagreed about aiding other planets' people. When the Autobots went alone to fight the Cybertronians, they almost were defeated, until Skywarp (yes, this article is about him) suddenly warped into the battle, followed by the rest of the Decepticon army, to aid the Autobots. <br /> <br /> And you just know he mocked the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] he saved. ''Relentlessly.'' {{storylink|Escalation!}}<br /> <br /> ====''Classics''====<br /> {{note|Classics is a [[splinter timeline]] from the Marvel US continuity that does not include events from either ''Generation 2'' or the Marvel UK issues.}}<br /> His broken body rescued from [[Tokyo]], Skywarp was rebuilt using Shockwave's upgraded [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] schematics. He was told that it was Starscream, driven mad with the power of the [[Underbase]], who did him in. Skywarp's okay with that. After all, the traitor's going to have to let down his guard sometime. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 14|''Classic'' Skywarp's profile}}<br /> <br /> After the appearance of the mysterious crossdimensional Decepticon [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], Skywarp and the other rebuilt Decepticons under Megatron's command traveled to [[South America]] to investigate an equally mysterious power source that seemed to share traits with Landquake. En route, they were attacked by [[Walter Barnett]]'s [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNT]] squad. {{storylink|Crossing Over, Part 2}} Skywarp managed to shake off these interlopers just before Optimus Prime and his Autobots arrived in search of this same power source, and a new battle between the factions began in the jungles surrounding the power source. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 3}} As the battle escalated, Skywarp and Starscream fought [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] across the skies, {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 5}} but ultimately, Megatron was forced to call for a withdrawal. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 6}}<br /> <br /> With his nosecone still battered from the fight, Skywarp came with Starscream and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] to investigate what [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] and his crew were doing on Earth. He was happy to see that Thundercracker was among them, but less so when his old buddy shot a [[cerebro-shell]] at him, forcing him to follow Bug Bite's commands. Skywarp and the others were sent to assassinate Megatron, but were soon freed from Bug Bite's control due to Autobot interference. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===<br /> ====''The Transformers'' cartoon====<br /> :''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese), [[Jacques Ferrière]] (French)<br /> <br /> [[Image:Tetrajet seekers.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Cybertron alt-mode (left). The early Decepticons promoted geometry.]]<br /> In the early days of the Decepticon rebellion, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] both faced the powerful protectors of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] cities, the [[Guardian Robots]]. Even millions of years later, the powerful Guardians struck fear into Skywarp's spark. {{storylink|War Dawn}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of the elite Decepticons that served [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] on Cybertron four million years ago. Skywarp and his fellow Seekers came across the Autobots [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] pilfering [[conductor|energy conductors]], and tried to eliminate the Auto-jerks. Once Wheeljack broke through their defenses, Skywarp and Thundercracker transformed to their tetrajet modes and followed the Autobots. They managed to get a good shot in against Bumblebee, but soon both Autobots escaped termination by taking the chase underground. Skywarp later joined Megatron in attacking and boarding the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot ship]] on their search for energy. After crash-landing on Earth, the Decepticons and Autobots laid dormant for four million years, until volcanic activity stirred the ship's computer back to life. Skywarp was the first of the ship's Transformers to be reformatted and awakened by [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], in the form of an Earthen F-15 fighter jet. Once active, Skywarp immediately dragged his master Megatron's body into the reformatting rays of the Ark's computer, and soon all the Decepticons were revived. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Since the Decepticons were so badly short-staffed during their early days on Earth, Skywarp was usually involved in whatever crazy plot for universal domination Megatron was hatching. This included attacks on an off-shore oil rig, [[Sherman Dam]] and the [[Ruby Crystal Mines of Burma|ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. On the last raid, Skywarp and Thundercracker caught a pair of snoops -- Bumblebee and the human, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. They were knocking the little Autobot around for fun, and pondering how to giftwrap him for Megatron, when an explosion caused the mine to cave in around them. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} When the Decepticons escaped the Burma operation with a cache of energon cubes, Skywarp requested permission from Megatron to teleport in order to scare off Autobot pursuers. Teleporting behind the strangely airborne duo of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Bluestreak]], Skywarp pasted the ornery old Autobot with a heat-seeking missile, knocking him out of the sky that he probably shouldn't have been able to fly around in anyway. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:TransporttoOblivion Skywarp Prowl punchy.jpg|left|180px|thumb|&quot;[[Bumblebee (G1)|Punch-buggy yellow]]!&quot;]]<br /> When [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] was caught spying on the Decepticons' new [[Space Bridge]], Skywarp and Starscream captured him for Megatron. After Bumblebee was reprogrammed to led the Autobots into a trap, Skywarp biffed [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] from behind, causing him to fall down in an almost pushing-down-stairs-like fashion. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} After the Decepticons acquired the [[antimatter]] formula, they were en route to the Ark when [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] intercepted them, practicing their jet judo maneuvers. Skywarp was being thrown off-course by Sideswipe's antics until Starscream knocked the Autobot warrior loose. During the battle, Megatron charged himself up with the Decepticons' new toy, and transformed into an &quot;anti-matter gun&quot; to obliterate the Autobots. After Starscream had his turn with the gun, Skywarp got ready to blow some Autobots away too. Before he could start, however, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] attacked his leg with a jackhammer. He scooped up the puny fleshling and was about to blast him with the anti-matter gun (and, incidentally, probably blow his own hand off in the process) when [[Chip Chase]] attached a computer override device invented by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], which allowed Teletraan I to take brief control of his body. Skywarp started firing Megatron's anti-matter power at the other Decepticons, overheating the unstable power supply and forcing the Decepticons to retreat. {{storylink|Roll for It}} <br /> <br /> {{bigquote|You little fool... You're no match for Skywarp!|Skywarp announces his superiority to a kid in a wheelchair.|&quot;[[Roll for It]]&quot;}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was later part of a Decepticon raid on a factory, apparently in a very playful mood with his teleporting power. First he 'ported behind some human guards to taunt them before making them scatter with laser fire. Then, when Thundercracker blased open some power lines to begin filling his energon cubes, Skywarp &quot;cut in line&quot; by teleporting between Thundercracker and the energy to fill his own cube first. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] showed up to stop them, Skywarp fired a heat-seeking missile at him, only for Prime to deflect it with a punch. The Autobot was eventually defeated, and Skywarp ran off with some [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}} <br /> <br /> When the Decepticons began draining heat energy out of Earth's core using a crystal shaft in the Arctic, Skywarp got a bit bored at the lack of real action. He was in the middle of taunting Rumble when the two of them accidentally caused a miniature avalanche in one of the caves. By sheer happenstance, this led to the Decepticons recovering the long-lost [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] from an icy tomb. Skywarp helped perform repairs on the giant flier, though it was probably better for all concerned if somebody with actual knowledge had performed these repairs. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}} <br /> <br /> During a battle at [[Great Falls]] hydroelectric power facility, the newly-constructed [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] arrived to rescue the beleagured Autobots, who had been captured by the Decepticons. Skywarp foolishly attempted to beat the flamethrowing [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] with a mere pair of heat-seeking missiles, and ended up being grabbed out of the air by the mighty jaws of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], who chomped on his wing and threw Skywarp into his fellow Megatron loyalist [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Soon afterwards, during an operation in [[Peru]], Skywarp got to be Megatron's favorite Seeker for the day after Starscream and Thundercracker stole poor-quality steel for their latest super-weapon. He had fun taunting the egotistic 'Screamer when Megatron called him to battle, leaving the other Seekers behind on mere guard duty. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}} Later, Skywarp helped Megatron steal a giant meteor, although its unstable power proved too dangerous to use for energon cubes. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was in a playful mood during the Decepticons' raid of a solar power plant in [[India]], cracking wise and hoping to play a game of catch...with the rajah as the ball. He had even more fun in a quick free-for-all with the Autobots, a distraction so that the Decepticons could kidnap one of the Autobots' fleshling friends as a guinea pig for [[Doctor Arkeville]]'s mind-control experiments. Skywarp enjoyed himself so much, he got in a fight with Starscream on the way back to headquarters about how ''brilliant'' Megatron's plan was. Thundercracker had to jump out of the way while the two of them roughhoused in the elevator. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} Thanks in part to Arkeville's [[hypno-chip]] slaves, the Decepticons were able to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, creating massive environmental disturbances that produced millions of energon cubes. What's more, transporting energon to Cybertron was now just a short flight away. Unfortunately, the devastation was greater than Megatron had anticipated. While Skywarp was on a return flight from Cybertron, a tidal wave broke off the access tower to the Decepticons' undersea base, flooding it. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Skywarp was present at the final battle before the Autobots knocked Cybertron out of orbit, and fled when Megatron abandoned his troops to escape with the energon cubes. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} With Megatron seemingly destroyed as his star cruiser exploded with the cubes on-board, the Decepticons were left rudderless. While working on repairs for their undersea base, tempers flared as Skywarp picked a fight with his favorite target, Rumble, and his pint-sized partner, [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. Skywarp bit off more than he could chew, however, as Frenzy's surprising strength overcame Skywarp as he tried to crush the mini-cassette beneath his heel. Thundercracker and Soundwave started to get involved in the fracas too, but Megatron soon arrived to put his house back in order. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Changegearsskywarp.jpg|thumb|200px|left|What you see when he pushes you down the stairs.]]Like all Decepticons, Skywarp provided his [[power chip rectifier]] to Megatron for his single combat with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}} When the Decepticons attacked another rocket base, Skywarp and Thundercracker attempted to double-team Optimus Prime, but only succeeded in destroying the very rockets they came to plunder. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Later, the Decepticons attacked a mining camp to lure the Autobots out into the open, and Skywarp stood guard over the humans being used as bait. After they used the opportunity to kidnap [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] for his special circuit board, Skywarp later helped fill the energon cubes from Megatron's [[Solar Needle]]. {{storylink|Changing Gears}} As the Decepticons took over New York to create the city of New Cybertron, Skywarp was seen loading cars into [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]'s drum for reconstruction. He and Thundercracker were later damaged after trying to take some potshots at Optimus Prime, only to miss and crash straight through a building in the process. {{storylink|City of Steel}} He also served in a later assault on the Ark, distracting the Autobots long enough for Megatron to sneak inside and mess with their [[recharging chamber]]s. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}<br /> <br /> Rather stoic in recent weeks, Skywarp was back to his cheery but malicious self when he and Starscream went after some [[electro-cell]]s at the [[Experimental Energy Research Laboratory]]. While breaking through the roof of the installation, Skywarp merrily remarked on the joy of opening presents. During a fight with the Autobot named [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], one of Skywarp's insignia was ripped off, and later planted to help turn the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Traitor}} During a battle with the Autobots over the [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]], Skywarp unleashed his new toy: a [[bouncer bomb]]. This weapon ricocheted through the trees, explosively bouncing from one side of the battlefield to another. Unfortunately, the Decepticons were also subject to its &quot;friendly fire&quot; until Megatron shot the blasted thing down. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp's teleportation power did come in useful when he was needed to sneak up on the Autobots with the [[Transfixatron]]. One quick zap and they were all frozen in vehicle mode. However, he failed to zap ALL the Autobots, which ultimately led to the undoing of Megatron's scheme. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} Skywarp was present during the Decepticon alliance with [[Sub-Atlantica]], and was part of their attack on Washington D.C. He and Thundercracker strafed the Autobots while in battle on the Great Lawn. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} When the Decepticons stole the ninja robot [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]], Skywarp used his grapples to pull the roof off of the demonstration ampitheater, allowing Starscream and Thundercracker to swoop in and grab the robot. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and his flying buddies once attempted to triple-team Optimus Prime in battle, but failed to do more than provide Optimus with a chance to toss a good quip. Strangely, Skywarp was later seen throwing what looking like a standard pineapple grenade at the Autobots. It was effective enough, but looked as out of place as an AK or a tommygun in Transformer hands. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} When the Decepticons made yet another attempt at harnessing some sort of power from the Earth's core, Skywarp defended their drilling operation from the Autobots. He and the Seekers attempted to bomb the Autobots from the air, but a scattering of explosive missiles from [[Bluestreak]]'s shoulder launchers took them out of the fight. {{storylink|The Core}}<br /> <br /> During the assault on Iron Mountain, Skywarp was briefly taken over by [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s [[cerebro-shell]]s during a tiff between Megatron and the Insecticons. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}} He also joined the Decepticon expedition to [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], to loot and plunder its various sources of energy. Skywarp was eager to do battle with the Dinobots when they arrived to defend their new home...which just goes to show Skywarp's kinda stupid. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} When the Autobots eventually arrived to help drive the Decepticons off of Dinobot Island, they were aided by a band of dinosaurs themselves, prodded onwards by [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. Skywarp and Thundercracker found their lasers ineffective against the charging brutes, and were forced to retreat with the rest of their army. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> During some aerial dogfighting with the Autobot ace, [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], Skywarp took a nasty hit to the wing. He must have managed to limp back to base, because he was present for Megatron's interrogation of the Constructicons a short while later. {{storylink|The Master Builders}} When the Decepticons went after [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s latest super-weapon, the [[Negavator]], Skywarp and the Seekers strafed the Autobot convoy in a box canyon. Their efforts were blocked by [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]'s disruptor beams and magnetic smoke, which left the Seekers unable to see or navigate in any way. Skywarp and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] ended up in a three-way collision with each other and a canyon wall. {{storylink|Auto Berserk}} Once, the Decepticons were pre-emptively celebrating the destruction of the Autobots after Megatron acquired the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. They got over-energized on energon cubes and passed out in the desert. Five'll get you ten, whoever passed out closest to Skywarp woke up with a [[Scraplet]] drawn on their face in permanent marker. {{storylink|Microbots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was a participant in the ultimate prank against the Autobots. Using Autobot costumes left over from last Halloween, Skywarp and some others raided an oil refinery for fuel, only to be driven off when the &quot;heroic&quot; Decepticons arrived to stop the &quot;evil&quot; Autobots. The entire scene was filmed by [[Shawn Berger]] and used to smear the Autobots' good name so severely that they were forced to abandon Earth entirely in a rocket cruiser. Ha HA! {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} The fleshlings didn't appreciate the joke when they found out the punchline, but Skywarp and the Decepticons were too busy enslaving [[Central City (G1)|Central City]] to care. As bad luck would have it, though, the Autobots managed to make their way back to Earth, and drive off the Decepticon occupation. Killjoys. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> When the Decepticons set up a temporary base of operations at the airport, Optimus Prime sent in the Dinobots to clear them out. Skywarp and the other jets were caught off-guard initially, but the Decepticons had learned from previous encounters that the Dinobots were more vulnerable in their robot modes. By feigning defeat, Skywarp and the others lured the Dinobots into a false sense of security, and they transformed back to robot mode. Skywarp and Megatron then unleashed a barrage of energy, igniting the jumbo jets on the tarmac and causing the Dinobots tremendous damage. The Decepticons finally scored a decent victory against the Dinos, and they owed it all to a dirty underhanded sneak attack. It was a good day to be Skywarp. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Like most of the Decepticons, Skywarp was rendered temporarily invulnerable due to exposure to [[electrum]]. Invincibility didn't make him any better a prison guard, though, as even [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] was able to overpower him and escape from the Decepticons' undersea headquarters. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} Skywarp was seen delivering the Insecticons' share of the energon harvested from their clones using Megatron's energon transference process. Since the meager three cubes the Insecticons got were a small pittance compared to how many were actually being generated, Skywarp was surely snickering to himself as he handed them over. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}} When the Space Bridge materialized in the middle of a baseball stadium, Skywarp and Soundwave got into a friendly game of catch...with flesh-creatures as the ball. Then the Autobots had to show up and ruin their fun. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}}<br /> <br /> Later on, Skywarp and the Seekers kidnapped a group of Earth's world leaders, but ran into the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s during their getaway. Skywarp nearly nailed [[Slingshot]] with a loop-the-loop, coming down on him from above, but was shot down by [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]. {{storylink|War Dawn}} One day, Skywarp and Thundercracker were guarding the Space Bridge when Starscream arrived. After showing them his authorization (which looked suspiciously like a null ray rifle), they allowed Starscream to travel to Cybertron. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}} At Megatron's command, Skywarp travelled to [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] headquarters to check up on their progress in the latest Decepticon scheme. At Megatron's command, Skywarp landed at the empty base. At Megatron's command, he began to follow the mysterious trail of loose Combaticon parts leading out of the canyon. You gotta wonder what Skywarp is capable of without constant supervision...{{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}<br /> <br /> In 2005, Skywarp was part of a massive [[Battle of Autobot City|Decepticon attack]] on [[Autobot City]] on Earth. He was badly damaged during the battle, but managed to escape with the rest of his comrades aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. However, en route to Cybertron he was tossed out into space with other badly damaged Decepticons so that the rest would be able to make it home. Skywarp's body was gathered by [[Unicron]] and, among others, used to make [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s new warriors. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Skywarp arguably became either [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] or [[Cyclonus's Armada]], the identical warrior who was never seen again. Either way, Skywarp effectively ceased existing.}}<br /> <br /> ====Japanese cartoon continuity====<br /> {{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as described above. The Japanese continuity then proceeds to insert several additional stories into the timeline, as follows.}}<br /> <br /> =====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic=====<br /> <br /> Under orders from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], Skywarp accompanied [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] in an energy raid on [[Tokyo]]. Things were going well, as they enjoyed bombing pedestrians and children while screaming their demands for energy to the Heavens, at least until [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a unit of Autobot vehicles arrived. Though their victory seemed assured when they unleashed [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] on their foes, their strategy was undone when the Autobots drove up a ramp at top speed, transformed to vehicle mode and punched everybody in the face. Skywarp was forced to retreat. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 1|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp later took part in an all-out assault on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] in [[Arizona]]. The attack was nothing more than a diversion so [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] could go do unspecified ''stuff'' in Japan and the Decepticons were eventually defeated and driven off. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 2|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2}}<br /> <br /> =====Full Throttle Scramble Power!=====<br /> As Megatron bragged to [[Toru]] that the Decepticons would strip Earth of all its resources, Skywarp (or Thundercracker) was shown attacking a power plant. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}<br /> <br /> =====''The Stargate Battles''=====<br /> Skywarp participated in Megatron's first attempted takover of the [[Warp Gate|Trigger]], bursting out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] alongside the other Seekers. {{storylink|First Contact}}<br /> <br /> =====''Robot Masters'' online comic=====<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)#Issue 13|And Then}}<br /> <br /> ===''Universe''===<br /> <br /> In [[2005]], when [[Unicron]] rebuilt Skywarp into [[Cyclonus's Armada]], Skywarp was also reprogrammed to obey Cyclonus. Even later, when Skywarp's original personality reasserted itself, that mental link remained. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Though no reason is stated in-story as to how or why or when Skywarp got this new body between the Great War and the [[Beast Era]], ''Wreckers'' plotter [[Glen Hallit]] noted that Skywarp's body was based on a mass-production body type of its day, similar to Generation 1's [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]].}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Wreckersskywarpcyclonus.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Looks like Cyclonus was Bombshell. Neener neener.]]<br /> <br /> After the Decepticons lost the Great War and [[Maximal|Maximals]] and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] claimed [[Cybertron (planet)|the planet]], [[Megatron (BW)|another Megatron]] subjugated nearly every Transformer alive with a transformation-lock virus and an army of [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]. Skywarp was one of the handful of Transformers who had slipped through Megatron's fingers, and eventually he and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] joined up with the legendary strike team, the [[Wrecker|Wreckers]]. Given a mission by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], the Wreckers fought through an army of Vehicons (Cyclonus, Skywarp, and [[Rotorbolt (Universe)|Rotorbolt]] took care of the [[Spy Streak]] drones) to steal an Autobot shuttle in order to get off-planet. {{storylink|Departure}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp served as the shuttle's pilot, which served as a point of contention when the bounty hunter [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] stowed away on board, who didn't like that the Wreckers apparently now included Decepticons and Predacons among their ranks. As the shuttle approached the [[Archa system]], their given destination, Skywarp detected the homing beacon of the ''[[Sojourner's Passage]]'', an exploration ship that was lost centuries ago. Since the Autobot shuttle had been damaged en route, once it had landed on [[Archa Nine]], Skywarp helped repair it while others searched the surface. While Skywarp was occupied with this, Cyclonus revealed himself as a traitor, stealing the [[Divine Light]], a mysterious artifact the Wreckers were sent by the Oracle to find. {{storylink|Betrayal}} <br /> <br /> [[Image:Disclosure-Skywarphonor.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Heh.]]<br /> <br /> Though it's likely Skywarp didn't really care, the rest of the Wreckers were dealt a blow to morale after this betrayal. Regardless, the Wreckers set off for a new destination given by the Oracle, a desolate ice planet on which a search team found an exiled [[Quintesson]] scientist named [[Al-Badur]]. While Al-Badur was explaining the meaning of the Divine Light, an army of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] attacked both the search team and Skywarp and the others back at the shuttle. Skywarp was able to easily destroy their attackers. The search team returned to the shuttle, and Primal Prime told Skywarp that he'd be taking direction from the Quintesson. Al-Badur asked Skywarp what compelled him to join this team of Autobots and Maximals; Skywarp told him it involved &quot;returning a favor&quot; and &quot;Decepticon honor,&quot; things he wouldn't understand. {{storylink|Disclosure}} <br /> <br /> {{note|In the unpublished script to ''[[The Wreckers: Finale Part 1|The Wreckers'' #4]], after receiving an encrypted message, Skywarp flew the Wreckers back to Cybertron as quickly as possible. [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] and his Quintesson partners had invaded. But on arrival to Cybertron, the Quintessons' attacks were so thick that they kept the shuttle from being able to land. Primal Prime ordered a few of the Wreckers off the ship to join the troops below, while Rodimus, Skywarp, and the remainder were to land elsewhere.}}<br /> <br /> In the aftermath of Cyclonus's betrayal, the other Wreckers were understandably wary of Skywarp, though the Decepticon claimed he had no part or knowledge of his fellow Decepticon's actions. While circling overhead Cybertron, the Wreckers' shuttle was critically hit. Rodimus told everyone else to evacuate while he kept the ship level, but Skywarp chose this moment to strike. He knocked Rodimus away and told [[Tap-Out (G1)|Tap-Out]] to help everyone else disembark; the Decepticon was going to guide the shuttle down. When it landed, taking out a large portion of the Sharkticon invading forces in a fantastic explosion, the Wreckers were shocked. Skywarp had sacrificed his life for them? As Rodimus began to give a regretful eulogy for the untrusted Decepticon, Skywarp appeared behind them, laughing about his sweet maneuver. He had, of course, used his warping power to leave the ship at the last moment. &quot;Did you see that? I think I managed to shove the forward nacelle antennae right through the Quint Overseer!&quot; Everyone grumbled.<br /> <br /> As their group joined the battle against Cryotek and Cyclonus within Cybertron, it seemed Skywarp may not have been so forthright after all. He violently silenced the overbearing Ramulus (muttering that he was surprised no one thanked him) and took his place at Cyclonus's side. Rodimus was understandably confused and hurt, but Skywarp told the Autobot that he'd more than paid him back recently and he no longer owed the Wreckers anything. Cyclonus laughed, and told the Wreckers of his mental link to Skywarp. But Skywarp muttered, having &quot;always ''hated'' that,&quot; and attacked Cyclonus. He reappeared at the Wreckers' side again, noting that he'd only harmed Ramulus to get in Cyclonus' good graces long enough to deal the blow. <br /> <br /> [[Image:Revelations-Skywarppunched.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Unfortunately, Unicron has no stairs.]]<br /> <br /> {{quote|I'll settle with the zoo crew later. But ''you''... I ''never'' liked you. Even when you were a [[Bombshell (G1)|''bug'']] I hated your stinkin' circuits. Like I said, only [[Megatron (G1)|''one'' guy]] ever bossed ''me'' around, and it sure as slag ain't ''you.''}}<br /> <br /> But Cyclonus had scores of Sharkticons at his disposal, and they quickly filled the chamber. Rodimus wanted to throttle Skywarp for what he'd done to Ramulus, but Skywarp shrewdly pointed out that they had bigger problems at the moment. But in the middle of the battle, a strange surge of energy passed through the subterranean chamber, flowing through Tap-Out and Skywarp, causing both to disappear in a flash of light. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and Tap-Out had been abducted by Unicron and, under undisclosed circumstances, Skywarp joined [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]]'s [[Minions of Unicron]] during the [[Universe war|Universe conflict]]. During the final battle within the [[Pit]], he was defeated by [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave comics continuity===<br /> {{notekeepers}}<br /> In the early days of the war, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were sent to blow up a building full of pesky [[neutral]]s in [[Altihex]]. He took a second to wonder if it was the right thing to do—not because it was morally wrong or anything, but because it was ''too easy''. Thundercracker didn't have much input, so Skywarp just went &quot;Sure, why not,&quot; and murdered the neutrals. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1}} Some time later, the two came with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he tried to sway [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] into joining the Decepticons. Skywarp tried to stop Starscream from spilling the beans about the Seekers' next mission at [[Sector Zero-Six]], but was told to shut up. When the trio later carried out said mission, they found that Grimlock had evacuated the area and placed a bomb to welcome them. Skywarp barely had time to teleport himself and his comrades away before the place went up in flames. {{storylink|The War Within Preview}} When Starscream decided to blame Megatron for what happened, Skywarp snapped and pointed out that it was all ''his'' fault for ''telling the enemy about their mission'', then took off with Thundercracker. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Following the sudden disappearance of Megatron, the Decepticons split into several splinter groups, but Skywarp stayed with the main faction under the command of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. He participated in an attack on the minions of [[The Fallen]] in [[Protihex]], where his teleporting power enabled him to get the best of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and gun him down. {{storylink|Conflagration}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of several Decepticon invaders on board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed into [[Earth]] four million years ago while the Autobot ship was clearing an asteroid in the path of Cybertron. <br /> <br /> In 2002, he was one of the Transformers who survived the disastrous launch of the sabotaged ''[[Ark II]]'' and were later captured and reprogrammed by arms dealer [[Lazarus|Adam &quot;Lazarus&quot; Rook]], who intended to rent out the services of the enslaved robots to various terrorist groups. After Megatron reactivated himself, he freed his Decepticon subordinates in order to put forward his plans to infect Earth with a metallic virus of doom. To pass the time while this happened, Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp busied themselves by tearing apart the Autobot Minicar team. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp later participated in Megatron's attack on [[San Francisco]], where he followed Starscream's orders to maintain formation and drop cluster bombs on the Autobot giant [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], forcing the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] to split into their separate robot forms. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp presumably stood watch over the defeated Autobots while Megatron tried to persuade [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to help the Decepticons conquer Earth. After some human firefighters distracted the Decepticons long enough for Optimus Prime to free the Autobots, Skywarp was presumably beaten up and escaped when Superion sacrificed himself to stop a nuclear missile launched by rogue US General [[Robert Hallo]]. <br /> <br /> ''When Megatron was kidnapped by the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] and Decepticon leadership was up for grabs, Skywarp began acting more serious and ambitious than his regular &quot;lunatic prankster&quot; persona would suggest. One of the few Decepticons who aggressively refused to follow Starscream in Megatron's absence, Skywarp teamed up with the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio in an attempt to seize power for himself. He lured Starscream into leaving his new kingdom in [[Las Vegas]] and travelling to Hoover Dam. Once there, Skywarp challenged Starscream directly for leadership of the Decepticons. He failed miserably, however; Starscream dealt Skywarp severe damage using his [[Null-ray|null bolts]] at close range, then tossed his former wingman over the falls. Skywarp was in [[stasis lock]] for some time thereafter, and he begrudgingly chose to serve under Starscream after his repair cycle aboard the ''Nemesis'' was completed. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''<br /> <br /> ''When [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and his private army of humans attacked Las Vegas, along with [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Skywarp was among the Decepticons who charged out to meet them in battle along the Strip. As Thundercracker and Soundwave kept the rampaging [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]'s attention, Skywarp prepared a delicious, underhanded sneak attack. Diving at Grimlock at full speed, Skywarp planned on unleashing his heat-seeking missiles at near point-blank range for maximum devastation. Luckily for Grimlock, the little Autobot Bumblebee was willing to sacrifice his functionality in order to keep the more powerful Autobot warrior in play and took the full impact of the missiles at the last second. Enraged, Grimlock struck Skywarp with enough force to send him flying miles away into the desert and out of the fight for the immediate future. ''<br /> <br /> ''Curiously, Skywarp chose NOT to leave Las Vegas with Megatron once the former Decepticon leader returned to Earth. Damaged after his time with the Keepers, Megatron lost a fight with Starscream and was forced to relinquish his leadership to the Aerospace Commander. Still, Megatron refused to serve under Starscream, and he led a revolt of several Decepticons into exile. For whatever reason, Skywarp remained at Starscream's side until the Keepers attacked, possessing Starscream as a host body and caging the rest of the Decepticons still in Las Vegas inside a dome of impenetrable energy. Skywarp assumed command of the remaining Decepticons in Starscream's absence and directed the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] into not attacking the dome directly as [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], but digging beneath the energy field to forge a tunnel they could exit through. He also made contact with Megatron's forces outside the city and agreed to wait patiently until the time was right for all the Transformers to assault the Keepers as one. ''<br /> <br /> ''When the time came, Skywarp &quot;allowed&quot; his Decepticons to join forces with Megatron's, because it was the only &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. During the fight, he blasted the [[Bluestreak]]-Keeper with an explosive gamma radiation blast. The attack was effective, but proved moot when the Bluestreak-Keeper fused with the Starscream-Keeper, creating one massive and deformed robotic god figure. In the end, it was Optimus Prime and the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] which finally ended the war with the Keepers, diverting the force of a nuclear missile launched by the American government. In the aftermath, Starscream's scrap was salvaged and rebuilt, but Megatron chose to make Skywarp his new second-in-command for a time, mostly just to piss Starscream off. Still, Skywarp certainly saw it as the most &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. {{storylink|Annihilation}}''<br /> <br /> ''In Washington D.C., Megatron and the Decepticons stormed the White House to show their displeasure to the [[President of the United States|President]] for trying to wipe them out with a nuclear strike. Megatron assigned Skywarp to deal with the SWAT teams in the streets, then sent him into the skies to join Starscream in shooting down the air support called in by the military. Final tally—Starscream: 12, Skywarp: 5. Sometime later, Skywarp was present in the Nevada desert when the Autobots and Decepticons confronted the United States military. Thanks to their airborne tactics, Thundercracker and Skywarp did significant injury to the troops and survived the [[deconstructionite]] assault virtually unscathed. After the Keepers were finally defeated and Starscream had been restored to his normal, irascible self, Megatron chose to restore the status quo and replaced Skywarp with Starscream as his second-in-command yet again. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''<br /> <br /> {{note|Although it's hard to see how, the author(s) of the Keepers Trilogy may have confused Skywarp with Shockwave, or at least combined their roles and personalities into one character. Throughout the trilogy, Skywarp made repeated references to the &quot;logical&quot; course of action, and once made an oblique reference to his gift over the electromagnetic spectrum. Whether there was actual confusion involved, or if the pick-up writer [[David Cian]] was forcing Skywarp to fit a role once Dreamwave's comics made using Shockwave off-limits, is unknown.}}<br /> <br /> When Shockwave arrived on Earth with his new army, he quickly disposed of Megatron and demanded loyalty from Skywarp and the others. Somewhat begrudgingly, they assented and accompanied him back to Cybertron. Back on their home planet, Skywarp and Thundercracker were amazed at what Shockwave had accomplished in their absence and were planning to sign on for the duration. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} After getting run down and beaten up by Optimus Prime on his way to Shockwave, though, the Seekers took an offer from Starscream and Soundwave to abandon the rising conflict on Cybertron and return to Earth for some good ol' fashioned looting. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}<br /> <br /> On Earth, Skywarp was part of Starscream's initial salvo against the Ark, a decoy to be deliberately taken prisoner in order to draw out the remaining Autobots where the newly reformatted [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] could get at them. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} After decimating the Autobots' ranks, [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] freed the fallen Decepticons, and they were about ready to terminate their opponents when the awe-inspiring clone known as [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] emerged from fold-space, looking to have words with Starscream. Sunstorm's &quot;purifying light&quot; induced an energon overload in their systems, knocking them into stasis lock. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}} Skywarp and the others remained Autobot prisoners until Starscream negotiated a deal for their release in exchange for his aid against Sunstorm. {{storylink|Skyfire (issue)|Skyfire}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp fell back under Megatron's command once the former leader arrived on Earth and forced Starscream back under his thumb. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers'' comics===<br /> [[Image:GIJoevsTF1_Seeker.jpg|left|thumb|200px|]]<br /> Skywarp was one of the Transformers reprogrammed to serve the terrorist organization [[Cobra]] and was, along with Thundercracker, rebuilt to transform into a [[Rattler]] aircraft in the process. Their first mission was to show off Cobra's power by assaulting a peace ceremony in [[Washington, D.C.]], and either Skywarp or Thundercracker was the first to reveal his robot mode to the shocked [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] before wrecking [[Ace]]'s jet with a single punch. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1}}<br /> <br /> When [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] undid Cobra's reprogramming of the Transformers, Skywarp waited on the runway in Rattler mode until [[Major Bludd]], unaware of the plane's true identity, decided to use him as his ticket off [[Cobra Island]]. After causing Bludd some stress by refusing to start his engines, Skywarp revealed himself and told him that he'd rather walk, then transformed, crushing the human to death with his moving innards in the process. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4}} He then joined Thundercracker in fighting [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], who had also been freed from Cobra's control. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5}} Unfortunately, the two Seekers were later caught in the [[SPS Satellite]]'s rain of energy beams and deactivated. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6}}<br /> <br /> {{note|As Skywarp's coloration is identical to Thundercracker's in this series, it's possible that it was actually Thundercracker who killed Major Bludd. However, it feels more like something Skywarp would do.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave ''Transformers/G.I. Joe'' comics===<br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons revived by [[Cobra]] in 1938. He may have been one of the Seekers driven back by the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] in the battle of the [[Fera Islands]]. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}} During the Autobots' attack on the [[Terrordrome]], Skywarp was lounging about when he overheard some Cobra troopers talking dirt about the Decepticons. Picking one of the humans up, Skywarp suggested that he be a little grateful that the Decepticons were helping them conquer their filthy mudball of a planet. Before he could finish insulting them, however, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] burst out of the ground and beat him up. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===<br /> Skywarp and Thundercracker were at the end of a berating from Megatron when the news came in that Starscream had badly injured himself in a rock-climbing accident. Skywarp probably even helped look for Starscream. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}<br /> <br /> Enraged at [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] for selling off Decepticon weapons on the black market, Megatron commanded Skywarp to bring the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] in — in pieces of necessary. {{storylink|Two for the Price of One}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW comics continuity===<br /> {{ongoing}}<br /> Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] were early recruits for [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], helping sow terror across Cybertron and kidnap Senator [[Decimus]] just prior to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] and founding of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3}} At one point he was part of a squad intent on assassinating [[Zeta Prime]], but the plan was thwarted when [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] warned the Autobot leader (tackling Skywarp in the back on the way). {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Infiltration5 Skywarptotalled.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Skywarp learns what happens when he pushes Megatron down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> In the modern era, Skywarp is part of a Decepticon infiltration unit that has operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, working to destabilize Earth's governing organizations and create global anarchy. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 3}} His alternate form is an [[wikipedia:F-22_Raptor|F-22 Raptor]] fighter jet, and his main job seems to be using his teleporting powers to transport his comrades to places.<br /> <br /> Starscream assigned him and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] to destroy all traces of the [[Nebraska]] operation, but after demolishing the abandoned Nebraska command bunker, he was severely damaged by Megatron, who, unfortunately for Skywarp, had been inside at the time. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5}} Megatron was apparently not one to hold grudges, and he soon had Skywarp repaired and functioning again, under the understanding that there would be no further second chances. {{storylink|Escalation issue 1}} While on a mission to destabilize Middle Eastern energy supplies, Skywarp confessed to Thundercracker that he believed Megatron had it in for all of them, especially himself, though his fellow Decepticon pointed out the fact that Megatron did have him repaired. {{storylink|Escalation issue 2}} Skywarp participated in the operation at [[Brasnya]] where he injured [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and evacuated Megatron before the Autobots could destroy him. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> When [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] began his coup, he first contacted Skywarp in an effort to get a viable ally. Skywarp thought it was a big load of crap, but said that if Ramjet could get some results in one day, they'd talk. However, Skywarp did mention that he always &quot;bets on the leader.&quot; This turned out to be a prudent decision. {{storylink|Spotlight: Ramjet}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the concerned Decepticons who feared that Megatron had lost all sense of reason when he deployed [[Sixshot]] on Earth. They conspired to bring Starscream back into the fold to talk some sense into their leader. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1}} Emboldened by Starscream's lone stand against the Reapers, the Decepticons attacked and eventually the alien invaders, with Skywarp participating in the destruction of their starship. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> About a year later, Megatron had somehow regained Skywarp's confidence, and Skywarp assured Thundercracker that Megatron knew what he was doing when he created [[Insecticon swarm|three thousand twisted perversions of their own race]]. The Decepticons later lured Optimus Prime and his troops into a trap and utterly crushed them, with Skywarp ripping [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]'s arm clean off. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7}} They proceeded to conquer [[New York City]]. During that attack, Skywarp got to make stuff go boom and kill a lotta folks, and it was the best day out ever. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1}}<br /> <br /> After taking out several military helicopters, Skywarp was assigned to accompany Soundwave, Hook and Astrotrain as they took Frenzy to deal with a large ground force. [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] voiced his doubt that the tiny Decepticon had a chance against such a huge number of enemies, but Skywarp, enjoying a chance for a dig at the new guy, simply told him to make sure he kept his distance. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 2}} All the fun of smashing things and killing millions of people soon soured though, as Skywarp started clashing with the [[Insecticon (G1)|uppity Insecticons]] and getting lonely now Thundercracker was being mopey and Starscream wasn't around much. Even mindlessly killing eight million people in [[China]] couldn't perk him up. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6}}<br /> <br /> [[image:AHM12 Betrayer.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A rare moment of Skywarp just killing someone instead of pushing them down the stairs.]]<br /> <br /> When the Autobots eventually returned to Earth, Skywarp battled them in the ruins of New York City. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11}} He grabbed [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and took to the sky, asking the old timer why he wasn't [[Spotlight: Kup|insane]] anymore. Kup responded by calling Skywarp a &quot;mouthy punk&quot; and shooting him in the gut, causing him to to drop the Autobot. The Decepticons fled when Megatron was defeated, but Skywarp came back when he noticed that Thundercracker had diverted the nuke that Megatron had arranged to be dropped on New York. Furious at his fellow Seeker's betrayal, he ignored Thundercracker's arguments and shot him point blank in the face. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12}}<br /> <br /> [[Image: Bumblebee 1 Skywarp's Stash.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Up the Arsenal!]]<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons left behind when the others fled Earth. Unlike [[Swindle (G1)|some]], however, he was in no rush to get off the planet; instead he came up with the idea to steal and stockpile human weapons for Megatron's eventual return. He attacked the technology corporations [[Dynomic]] and [[Allodyne Logic Systems]] for information on their advanced technology, which in turn attacted the attention of [[Skywatch]]. Some two years after the Decepticons' defeat in New York, Skywarp had filled at least one whole garage with missiles and bombs. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} In addition to his vast collection of anti-human weapons, he also worked to create a weapon capable of crippling all the Autobots on the planet. Skywarp beamed signals into space in order to report his progress to Megatron, who he really hoped would be back soon. {{storylink|The Impossible Knot}}<br /> <br /> While the Autobots worked on finding a way to disable the kill-switch badges that the rogue Skywatch Colonel [[Gordon Horiuchi]] had provided them, Skywarp attacked Skywatch's Phillips base to gain access to information to track down the kill-switch control board. Arriving at Skywatch researcher [[Sanjay Bharwaney]]'s home {{storylink|The Gift Horse}}, Skywarp moved in for the kill, but was foiled by the timely intervention of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], who saved Bharwaney and his daughter [[Serena Bharwaney|Serena]]. Skywarp chased them into an industrial area, and as he hunted, he ranted about how Megatron would be returning here to take his rightful place as ruler of the galaxy, with Skywarp at his side, and once he had the control board, all the Autobots would fall into line under the Decepticon banner, making Skywarp a hero. Just when it seemed Skywarp would get his hands on Bumblebee and the control board, Skywatch operative [[Daniel Klonowski]] intervened, firing a weapon powerful enough to damage Bumblebee. Injured but undeterred, Skywarp managed to corner the Autobot, offering to let him go in exchange for the control board as a &quot;professional courtesy&quot;. His confidence turned to panic when Bumblebee steeled himself to activate the control board, the little Autobot declaring that unlike Skywarp, he has friends who would fix him. The electro-magnetic pulse from the control board seriously damaged both transformers, but it is unknown what became of Skywarp. As Skywatch representatives were in the area, it is likely that he was taken into custody. {{storylink|Wings of Wax}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Hearts of Steel''===<br /> Skywarp was one of the Decepticons who woke up on mid-19th century Earth, where he took on the form of a spiky airplane with three propellers. In the Decepticons' desert headquarters, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] told him about the plans to conquer Earth, and ordered him to fly ahead of the [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], leading the way towards [[New York City]]. Skywarp was concerned that the Autobots might interfere, but Starscream assured him their enemies had not yet awoken. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2}}<br /> <br /> {{note|There's no evidence in the story that Skywarp actually ''did'' fly ahead of the Astrotrain, but if it's true, he may have survived the Decepticon defeat unharmed.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> Skywarp serves under [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] as one of his Decepticon soldiers, battling [[Optimus Primal]]'s many Autobot allies in what might possibly have been an inter-universe battle. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_boxart.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Someone pushes HIM down a flight of stairs for once. Payback's a bitch.]]<br /> <br /> A Skywarp from an unspecified [[universal stream]] was selected by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|Megatron]] to become part of his [[Questor]] forces. Granted a portion of the hyperdimensional powers that his leader had obtained from the monstrous [[Hytherion]], Skywarp was given a new body with an uncharacteristic sports car alternate mode, a [[Timaeus drive]] that granted him the ability to travel through dimensions, and a massively enhanced teleportation power that actually allowed him to warp the fabric of space and time around him. About the only thing that didn't change was his characteristic lack of intelligence and initiative; coupled with the brain-bending complexities of higher-dimensional life and battle, this meant that Skywarp was left still relying on Megatron's specific orders for and when to use his powers.<br /> <br /> Skywarp proved his worth when he succeeded in his mission to scour the year 2010 all across the dimensions for a trace of the two-dimensional world of the [[Planicron]]s. Precisely what Megatron needed the Planicrons for, Skywarp didn't know, but he recalled a rumor among the Questors that they were key to the destruction of the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]], and smirked with excitement to himself as he informed Megatron of his discovery. {{storylink|Hunt for the Planicrons}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Commercial appearances==<br /> Skywarp's history of [[commercial]] appearances includes:<br /> <br /> * The very first Transformers animation, a commercial for [[The Transformers (issue)|Issue #1]] of Marvel's ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' comic book. On Earth, he flies across the desert with Starscream and Thundercracker to attack a power plant.<br /> <br /> * He is briefly seen battling in the desert against Hot Rod, Kup and Blurr, until Cyclonus and Scourge (!!) swoop in to counterattack. <br /> <br /> * Skywarp attacks an Autobot power station along with Thrust and Starscream in a commercial for Ultra Magnus.<br /> <br /> * He can be very briefly glimpsed swooping into battle alongside Galvatron (!!) on Earth in a subsequent commercial for [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and Galvatron.<br /> <br /> [[Image:LiveActionJazz-Skywarp01.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I bet he spiked the punch.]]<br /> <br /> * Along with his original Seeker wingmates, he gets barreled over by the Dinobots in a commercial for the Predacons.<br /> <br /> * A commercial for Transformers reflective iron-on patches advertised the &quot;[[Prizes in Disguise]]&quot; competition. When the [[iron-on patch]] was used, it was possible to find instead an instant win ticket for a Transformers voice changer (of the [[Enemy]] variety)—or to have a party with &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers! Among the &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers shown were [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and Skywarp. In all likelihood, you did not party with them.<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> [[Image:G1-toy SkywarpCommSeries.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Commemorative Series retooled Skywarp. Robot mode... that&amp;#39;s okay. Jet? Not so much.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Decepticon Jet, 1984/1985/2001/2003/2008)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''23'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 wings (left &amp;amp; right), 2 rudders (left &amp;amp; right), 2 tailfins (left &amp;amp; right), 2 fists (left &amp; right), front landing gear<br /> <br /> : The only 1984 [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] with a deco not used previously in [[Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' line, Skywarp transforms into an [[wikipedia:F-15_Eagle|F-15 Eagle]] fighter jet, sharing his mold with his teammates [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. Many parts need to be removed completely for transformation from robot to jet and back, which nowadays is considered a major drawback of the toy. It is rare to find it complete, as neither mode can hold all the pieces required. There are a few minor mold variations of this toy (common for the first two years of ''Transformers'', really), the most immediately noticeable being that early versions did not have visible &quot;clip-tabs&quot; on the inner face of the gauntlets.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Redeco.jpg|Early Hasbro stock photos of Skywarp]] show him with a plastic purple nosecone. This was changed to a soft, black rubber nosecone when the toy was actually released. However, a [http://tfarchive.com/toys/articles/toypics/mex_skywarp.jpg Mexican variant] retained the purple plastic nosecone. The same stock photos also show him with purple launchers with black triggers and muzzle rings, black feet, black shins, black outer arm panels, purple horizontal stabilizers, and both sets of purple missiles. These stock photos were also later used to promote Takara's 2001 reissue.<br /> <br /> : In 2001, Skywarp was given a short-run reissue (limited to only 1,000 pieces) by Takara as a convention-[[exclusive]] item, bundled together with Thundercracker as &quot;[[Collector's Edition]]&quot; Set C. The toy would later be more extensively released in 2003 as part of [[Hasbro]]'s [[Commemorative Series]] series IV, though due to US [[For safety reasons|toy-safety regulations]], his missiles were made extra-long since his spring-loaded launchers were now fully-functional.<br /> <br /> : In August, 2008, Skywarp was released with Thundercracker as number 11 in Takara's [[Transformers Encore]] line. For this release Skywarp's Decepticon symbols were painted and his purple stickers were changed to a much bluer shade of purple. Curiously, Skywarp's wing stripes in this release are factory-applied stickers, instead of the [[tampograph]]s on his two-pack buddy.<br /> <br /> : This mold was [[Redeco|redecoed]] into [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and retooled to make [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]].<br /> <br /> :For some reason, the stats on Skywarp's, Starscream's and Thundercracker's [[tech specs]] were switched around. Skywarp's box was given Starscream's numbers, which explains his high intelligence and rank. The actual specs intended for this toy, but accidentally given to Thundercracker, are presented here. Hasbro's Commemorative Series Skywarp reissue had his bio rewritten to explain his higher stats.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Machine Wars===<br /> [[Image:MWSkywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|After his near-fatal encounter with the Invert Colors function.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Basic, 1997)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 rifle halves<br /> : Sharing a mold once again with [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], Skywarp transforms into a white [[wikipedia:Rafale|Dassault Rafale]] fighter jet with spring-loaded one-step transformation from jet to robot. The two halves of his rifle store in his lower legs. Like all ''[[Machine Wars]]'' toys, Skywarp was an [[exclusive]] to Kay-Bee stores and related stores like Toy Liquidators.<br /> <br /> : This mold is also used by ''[[Beast Wars II (toyline)|Beast Wars II]]'' [[Dirge (BWII)|Dirge]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Skyfire (RID)|Skyfire]], ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' [[Wingstun]] and ''[[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]]'' [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]].<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Machine Wars'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Universe (2003)===<br /> [[Image:TFU03-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Like [[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]], except he can fly.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2003)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missiles<br /> <br /> :''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] in his Generation 1 colors. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter jet, armed with two spring-loaded projectile launchers that can fire orange &quot;energon&quot; bolts. These launchers end up in his arms in robot mode. He has a third robot mode that collapses the legs around the cockpit (oh hush), with flip-out panels revealing an extra pair of thrusters. His [[spark]] crystal, revealed by flipping the purple hatch on his back, has a Decepticon [[insignia]] [[tampograph]]ed on top of it.<br /> <br /> :Skywarp was also used to make ''Beast Machines'' [[Sonic Attack Jet]], ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Storm Jet (RID)|Storm Jet]], and ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Universe Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Smallest Transforming Transformers===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2003)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''GTF X-1'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' Skywarp was a very small-scale simplification of the original Generation 1 Seeker toy, retaining most of its functionality and accessories, except for his long null-rays. Skywarp was one of two [[Chase figure|chase figures]] from the first wave of the line.<br /> <br /> : This mold was redecoed from Starscream, then re-redecoed into Thundercracker, and finally retooled to make Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/SmallestSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> ===Robot Masters===<br /> [[Image:RMSkywarp toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Now with the proper articulation for down-stair-pushing.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp &amp;amp; Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, 2005)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;<br /> <br /> : ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from the same series, a smaller yet more advanced version of the original toy, adding more articulation and reducing the amount of [[Partformer|part-forming]] required. He was available only in a two-pack with Thundercracker, which also came with a Decepticon sigil pin and chromed missile pods. This set was the very last product released in the ''Robot Masters'' line and wasn't even strictly sold in a box from that series; instead, it used an [[e-Hobby]] ''Generation 1'' reissue box, with a small ''Robot Masters'' sticker in the corner tab noting its origin from the front.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Robot Masters'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Classics (2006)===<br /> [[Image:Class06-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ultra Magnus isn&amp;#39;t pictured because he was just pushed-well, you know.]]<br /> * '''Ultra Magnus vs Skywarp: Battle For Autobot City''' (Multi-pack, 2006)<br /> **''Accessories:'' Left &amp;amp; right missile launchers, 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' Skywarp is a slight retool of the ''Classics'' Starscream mold, transforming into an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-15 Eagle fighter jet]], though with a canopy like that of an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-14 Tomcat]]. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode and can attach under his wings in vehicle mode. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he also features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]]. <br /> <br /> : Skywarp was slightly [[Retool|retooled]] from the earlier Starscream figures. The retool is present in the jet intake area. The slope of his shoulders was decreased from Starscream's, and a rectangle added to the vertical area, making the number now five instead of four. This retooled version was used for all subsequent releases of the mold: ''Classics'' [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], as well as [[Acid Storm]] from ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]''. At the end of ''Classics'' Starscream's production run, he too used this version of the mold.<br /> <br /> : He was only available as part of a Target stores [[exclusive]] two-pack with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. The set's price was $19.99, despite including both a Voyager-class and Deluxe-class mold in it, which was approximately $30 worth of toys if they'd been sold separately. He was also available in Woolworth stores throughout the United Kingdom.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Classics Skywarp toy.jpg|Stock photos of ''Classics'' Skywarp]] showed a more detailed color scheme than the actual released figure. Much like ''Classics'' Ultra Magnus, the changes were most likely due to an overabundance of [[Paint operation]]s. This more detailed version was shown at [[BotCon 2006]] and at least one sample found its way to a collector's hands. The sample also used the original Starscream mold, and not the retooled version used for every version of the mold since and even including Starscream.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Classics'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Masterpiece===<br /> [[Image:MP-6 Skywarp.jpg|200px|thumb|Takara finally remembered what colors the Seekers are supposed to be.]]<br /> * '''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-6''' <br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 AIM missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot, Megatron Gun clasp, display stand<br /> <br /> : ''[[Masterpiece]]'' Skywarp was released in Japan in September of 2007. He is a redeco of the Masterpiece Starscream mold in black, gray, silver, and purple, though the purple and silver are more minimal than usual. Skywarp is able to switch between a minimally retooled stoic face and a new snarly face, retooled from Starscream's previous smirk. The tiny [[Doctor Arkeville]] pilot figurine (this time molded black) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> [[Image:MPSkywarp stickers.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Sadly, no stair-pusher sticker.]]<br /> : The sticker sheet includes Skywarp-esque stripes, as well as several whimsical squadron markings.<br /> <br /> :The second pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp (released in October 2008) features an assembly error: his left and right pectorals are flipped. This misassembly does not affect transformation at all, and is really only noticeable when compared to prior Masterpiece Seekers. The September 2007 pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp is assembled correctly. Masterpiece Thundercracker is misassembled as well.<br /> <br /> :It is a common misconception that the stoic face on Takara's Masterpiece Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker are the same, when all of them are in fact different sculpts.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Attacktix===<br /> *'''Skywarp'''<br /> <br /> : Skywarp was among the planned ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' game pieces that were showed at some conventions, but went unreleased as the line was canceled. He was to be a [[retool]] of sorts of the similarly unreleased ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], using the same weapon and base but a brand new jet mold. Skywarp would've been able to detach from his base and fly on a string, enabling him to get better shots of opposing pieces. Any other details about his role in the game are unknown.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> ===Titanium Series===<br /> [[Image:Titanium-toy WWSkywarp.JPG|right|300px|thumb|]]<br /> *'''War Within Skywarp''' (San Diego Comic-Con 2008 exclusive)<br /> <br /> : [[Titanium Series]] ''[[War Within (toyline)|War Within]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of Thundercracker, transforming into a Cybertronian &quot;tetrajet&quot; as reimagined by [[Don Figueroa]]. As with all 6-inch Titanium Cybertron Heroes, he is constructed mostly of fully painted die-cast metal. He was available only at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] after the Titanium line had already been cancelled, and also Hasbro Toy Shop's booth at [[wikipedia:San_Diego_Comic-Con|San Diego Comic-Con]] 2008.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''War Within'' Starscream, Sunstorm and Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/SDCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Titanium'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Henkei! Henkei!===<br /> [[Image:Henkei Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp grabbed the wrong launchers.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2008)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skywarp is a [[Toy Hobby Market]] exclusive redeco of ''Henkei! Henkei!'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Skywarp and his fellow [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were opened for pre-order on [[May 22]]nd through [[June 20]], and mailed out in September 2008.<br /> <br /> :Soon after release, there were numerous complaints from both Japanese and Western collectors about the poor quality control for both Thundercracker and Skywarp. Skywarp's most common fault was missing paint for one of his shoulders. Some reported both toys suffering misassembly issues such as having two left or two right thighs.<br /> <br /> :Several minor changes were made to this mold for this release. The holes for his missile launchers in his arms were widened, as were the launcher's insertion pegs. The wing's missile launcher insertion points were lengthened and are now curved at the end. The last rectangle on his air intakes, was further modified from the [[Classics (2006)|Classics]] version this time the bottom most rectangle goes completely across the air intake's surface rather than just the center. ''Henkei'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Generation 1 Series|Starscream]] also saw most of these changes.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Universe (2008)===<br /> [[Image:Universe2008-toy_MasterpieceSkywarp.jpg|thumb|right|300px|]]<br /> *'''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2009)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine, gun clip, two-piece display stand <br /> : A [[Wal-Mart]] exclusive redeco of the original Masterpiece Starscream mold. Just like Starscream, Skywarp is able to switch between two different faces. This release uses the Starscream's stoic and smirking alternate faces rather than the Takara Masterpiece Skywarp's newly-tooled stoic and snarling faces. Hasbro designer [[Joe_Kyde|Joe Kyde]] felt the alternate snarling face did not fit Skywarp's prankster personality, so he went with the Starscream smirk face instead when designing the deco for Hasbro's release. As a result of gang molding, Skywarp also uses Starscream's stoic face, the decision being the difference between Skywarp and Starscream's stoic face was negligible enough not to make a significant difference. The toy also features a more G1 toy styled deco rather than cartoon-based, particularly in the yellow eye color and wing stripes. His purple more closely matches that of the original toy than the purple used on the Takara version, and features a lighter flat black, like the original toy, instead of Takara's darker glossy black. The Hasbro version replaces some of the dark gray of the Takara version with a dark silver, removes the arm and chest striping, but adds additional red detailing, while removing some as well. Much like Hasbro's Starscream, he does not feature any of the warning or slogan tampographs, but features tampographed striping, Decepticon symbols, and some additional paint details not present on the Takara version.<br /> : The tiny Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine (molded in black with no paint applications) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime and a stand (featuring Skywarp's name) with a support beam for jet or robot mode. <br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Mortal minds cannot even comprehend the four-dimensional hyperstairs he can push you down.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp Witch Purple Pearl''' ([[May 29|5/29]]/2010)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''A-04'''<br /> <br /> :Skywarp is a [[retool]] of the simultaneously released ''[[Alternity (franchise)|Alternity]]'' Starscream with a new head, transforming into a licensed 1:32 scale [[wikipedia:Mitsuoka_Orochi|Mitsuoka Orochi]]. Like the other toys in the line, he will feature [[die-cast]] metal parts and rubber tires, as well as an opening hood, trunk and doors. In car mode, small wings can be flipped out from under Skywarp's rear wheels, giving him the appearance of a flying car. <br /> <br /> :This mold, with Skywarp's head, was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]].<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Decoy===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (1986)<br /> ** ''Decoy ID number:'' '''33'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Decoy]]'' Skywarp is a tiny, purple, soft-rubber figurine randomly packed with smaller toys at the time. To differentiate him from Starscream and Thundercracker, Skywarp is sculpted holding his arms above his head in a cheering pose.<br /> <br /> : Like all Decepticon Decoys, Skywarp was also available in red for a limited time. This release is considerably rarer than the regular purple one.<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Lucky Draw figure, 2001)<br /> <br /> : ''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' Skywarp is a non-transforming action figure [[redeco]]ed from ''SCF'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Limited to 200 pieces, he was only available as the second place prize in a [[Lucky Draw]] contest held in conjunction with the first edition of ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' (with the &quot;[[Starscream (G1)/toys#SecretStarscream|Secret Starscream]]&quot; toy as the first place prize). Due to the bankruptcy of the ''Transformers: Generations'' publisher, [[Keibunsha]], it is unknown whether the Japanese version of Skywarp was ever actually sent out or not.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''Super Collection Figure'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' (see below) Starscream, Thundercracker, [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and the [[Air Warrior]]s.<br /> <br /> ===Heroes of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2002)<br /> <br /> : When the ''Super Collection Figure'' line was brought to the US as ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', Skywarp was widely released as part of the first wave. Unlike ''SCF'', ''HOC'' figures were composed of transparent red plastic that was mostly painted over, giving them [[light-piping|&quot;light-up&quot; eyes]].<br /> <br /> * '''Decepticon''' (2003)<br /> <br /> : Same as the American version above, but part of an [[OTFCC 2003]]-exclusive six-pack of figures which also included Starscream, Thundercracker, and three [[Air Warrior]]s. It featured a more metallic paint job from the normal release and slightly different paint details.{{fact}}<br /> <br /> ===Legends of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2004, unreleased)<br /> <br /> [[Image:OTFCCSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Doesn't so much teleport as not exist in the first place.]]<br /> <br /> : A redeco of ''Mega Super Figure Collection'' G1 Starscream (minus the extra coronation accessories, open-palm hands, and the hand wielding Megatron in gun mode), Skywarp was to be among the first of the fan club exclusives offered by [[The Official Transformers Collectors Convention|OTFCC]] as well as the first in their ''Legends of Cybertron'' line. The figure was delayed and never saw a full release due to [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]] losing the license to run the official Transformers fan club. At least a couple of sample versions were produced.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Palisades===<br /> [[Image:PalisadesSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Decepticon on a stick! Get yer Decepticon on a stick!]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Palisades, 2005)<br /> <br /> :A ''SmallBluePlanet''-exclusive redeco of the Starscream statue, Skywarp is a six inch tall polystone statue with articulated head and arms. He can stand normally or use a stand to take on a &quot;hovering&quot; pose. Skywarp was limited to 300 pieces, and sculpted by [[3L Creation Group]] from a design by [[George Tremarco]].<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker and the Ghost of Starscream.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Robot Heroes===<br /> [[Image:Robot Hero Skywarp.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Clearly just after shoving Starscream down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> * '''Decepticon Sneak Attack''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : Skywarp is one of the five exclusive figures in Wal-Mart's &quot;Decepticon Sneak Attack&quot; set, alongside [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], [[Mirage (G1)|holographic Mirage]] and &quot;Supermetal Finish&quot; versions of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. He's a black and purple redeco of Starscream, yes. His left hand's for pushing you down stairs, his right fist's for pumping the air in victory. Sweet, sweet stair-based victory.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : A 25-point &quot;uncommon&quot; character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s &quot;Energon Wars&quot; expansion, Skywarp &quot;transforms&quot; into a black and purple jet. He uses the same parts layout as [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]].<br /> <br /> ==Trivia==<br /> * Skywarp's one-line characterization in the original Transformers [[production bible]] was &quot;sneaky but dumb&quot;. Hee hee. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#034] In a more peculiar note, his longer write-up in the production bible noted that he was colored olive drab. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#038] This error isn't as unusual as one might first think, as Skywarp was the only first-year jet whose colors didn't originate in ''[[Diaclone]]''—thus, they simply may not have been decided upon when the production bible was written.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpatron.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Skywarp really DID need close supervision.]]<br /> * In a possible fit of madness, a triple changer was proposed that would switch between Skywarp (possibly mistaken for Starscream), [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and Skywarp's jet mode.<br /> <br /> * Character bios written by unknown persons for the Australian (Madman) DVD release of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' definitely claim that [[Cyclonus (G1)|Skywarp became Cyclonus]]. Basically, nobody considers that weighty &quot;evidence&quot;.<br /> <br /> * Skywarp is the only Seeker with wing stripes that are not red.<br /> <br /> * For such a popular character, Skywarp doesn't DO much of anything in the original show.<br /> <br /> * [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Machine_Wars|Despite]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Classics_.282006.29|many]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Heroes_of_Cybertron|releases]], [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Titanium_Series|Skywarp]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Henkei.21_Henkei.21|is]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Universe_.282008.29|usually]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Robot_Heroes|an]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Generation_1_2|exclusive.]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;amp;char=Skywarp Skywarp's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Alternity characters]]<br /> [[Category:Attacktix]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Machines characters]]<br /> [[Category:Classics characters]]<br /> [[Category:Convention exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 2 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Henkei! 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William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Skywarp_(G1)&diff=474806 2010-07-06T20:56:17Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticon|decepticong2|wreckers}}<br /> {{disambig3|Skywarp}}<br /> :''Skywarp is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarp1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp, Decepticon Stair-Pusher-Downer]]<br /> [[Teleportation]] is a dangerous tool in the hands of a capable adversary. Thankfully for the [[Autobot|Autobots]], '''Skywarp''' is the Decepticon who possesses that ability. Skywarp's not so bright, so without supervision he's worthless as a warrior. He mostly uses his teleportation power for immature pranks on both friend and foe. He takes a charmingly puerile angle at thuggery, so his pranks are well-received amongst his Decepticon peers (excepting the victim, of course). <br /> <br /> Because, come on, a surprise push down a staircase is ''hilarious''.<br /> <br /> {{quote|Don't think. Just do.|Skywarp's life motto|[[Megatron Origin issue 4|''Megatron Origin'' #4]]}}<br /> <br /> :''French-Canadian name'': '''Fraudeur''' (&quot;Cheater&quot; or &quot;Evader&quot; or &quot;Smuggler&quot;)<br /> :''Hungarian name'': '''Égretörő''' (&quot;Sky-springer&quot;)<br /> :''Italian name'': '''Corvo''' (&quot;Crow&quot;)<br /> :''Japanese name'': '''Warp'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Portugal comics)'': '''Espião Celeste'''<br /> :''Portuguese name (Brazil comics)'': '''Viajante''' (&quot;Traveller&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (Taiwan):'' '''Tīen Wān''' (天彎, &quot;Sky Warp&quot;)<br /> :''Chinese name (China):'' '''Nao Fan Tian''' (鬧翻天, &quot;Extreme Ruckus&quot;)<br /> :''Russian TV dub name:'' '''Deformer'''<br /> His Partner is [[Acid Storm]<br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> ====Generation 1====<br /> {{noteukonly}}<br /> [[Image:Introdump decepticons marvelus01.jpg|left|300px|thumb|You can tell Skywarp apart from Thundercracker in the Marvel Comics by, uh.... let us get back to you on that.]]<br /> Skywarp was one of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron's]] troops who attacked the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] during its mission to clear a path for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] through an asteroid field. He was deactivated when it crashed on [[Earth]], and he lay dormant for four million years. When he and his fellow Decepticons awoke, Skywarp was given a new [[Alternate mode|altmode]], that of an Earth jet. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} He aided the Decepticons in their building of their new base constructed of parts from [[Harrison Nuclear Power Plant]] and joined in their attack on [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s auto repair shop. After the successful abduction of Sparkplug Witwicky, Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] defended their base from [[Autobot|Autobots]], though [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] and [[Spider-Man]] were able to sneak through and rescue Sparkplug. {{storylink|Prisoner of War!}}<br /> <br /> ''When Starscream fired upon his teammate [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] for eavesdropping on his plot to overthrow Megatron, Skywarp and the other Decepticons sought deadly revenge on the Decepticon [[Air Commander]]. {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}} Though Starscream escaped, the Decepticons soon regrouped to attack the Ark, but their battle was ended prematurely when [[Auntie]], the Ark's computer system, magnetized the walls, immobilizing both factions. {{storylink|Raiders of the Last Ark}} On another occasion, he and Thundercracker made a strafing run on two Autobot spies, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. Jazz was deafened and blasted off the road, but Sunstreaker led them into a human military zone, prompting Megatron to call them back to base. {{storylink|Perchance to Dream}}'' Skywarp also traveled with the Decepticons to the [[United Kingdom]], where he and his teammates attempted to learn about a mysterious Autobot rescue ship buried under a castle. An initial attack on the Autobots left Skywarp seriously wounded by a bomb from [[Bluestreak]]. {{storylink|Man of Iron (story)|Man of Iron}}<br /> <br /> Though Sparkplug Witwicky was able to devise a way for the Decepticons to convert Earth fuel into a usable substance, he also poisoned the result, so Skywarp and his fellow Decepticons were immobilized at the climax of their would-be final battle with the Autobots. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} The Decepticon [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] took command of the Decepticons and the Ark shortly thereafter and nursed Skywarp and his comrades back to full health. Skywarp may have helped Shockwave attempt to capture and brainwash [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] into a Decepticon, or it may have been Thundercracker without red stripes. It's hard to tell. {{storylink|Plight of the Bumblebee!}}<br /> <br /> He served the Decepticon cause up until he was deactivated while battling [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and placed in prison stasis at Autobot headquarters. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Target_2006_fake_Starscream_dies.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nope. Guess again.]]<br /> ''When [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] traveled back from the year 2006 to build a super-weapon to destroy [[Unicron]], Skywarp was a key player in the defeat of the mad Decepticon. Sorta.'' <br /> <br /> ''The Autobots took Skywarp out of stasis, painted him to look like [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], and sent him stumbling toward Galvatron with a tape-recorder of Starscream's voice on his back. Galvatron, still sore about Starscream tossing him out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] during his Megatron days, shot and presumably killed Skywarp. Galvatron then realized that if he killed Starscream in the past then there'd be no way he could have killed Starscream in the future (never mind that killing Skywarp now opens up that whole issue of [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus' identity]]). Believing he was in an alternate past and thus nothing he did there would affect his personal timeline, Galvatron hurried back to his proper time. Way to take one for the team, Skywarp. {{storylink|Target: 2006}}''<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpgoofyteleportation.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Upon close inspection, Skywarp's teleportation power is merely a goofy loop-de-loop.]]<br /> During a massive battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth's moon, Skywarp and the other Decepticons held in stasis aboard the Ark were liberated by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and subsequently brought back online. {{storylink|Totaled!}} During the first Decepticon Civil War, Skywarp battled with [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s Decepticons against [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s Decepticons. Skywarp surprised [[Bugly]] with his teleportation powers and blasted him, temporarily stunning him. However, Bugly successfully returned fire, striking where he guessed Skywarp would next teleport. {{storylink|Cold War!}} Skywarp was repaired in time to face an [[Underbase]]-powered Starscream in [[Tokyo]], but both he and Thundercracker were destroyed by their former flying partner. {{storylink|Dark Star (issue)|Dark Star}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Generation 2''====<br /> Optimus Prime, learning of the Decepticons' attacks on Earth, traveled there alone not to fight them but to talk Megatron out of it. Prime was really surprised to learn that this was a really stupid idea, and as Megatron tore Prime apart and severed the Matrix from his body, Skywarp stood by with other Decepticons and watched. He and the rest of the Decepticons retreated with the Matrix when the Autobots showed up to save Prime. {{storylink|The Gathering Darkness}}<br /> <br /> The Autobots and the Decepticons had just agreed to make an alliance against the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]], but the Decepticons disagreed about aiding other planets' people. When the Autobots went alone to fight the Cybertronians, they almost were defeated, until Skywarp (yes, this article is about him) suddenly warped into the battle, followed by the rest of the Decepticon army, to aid the Autobots. <br /> <br /> And you just know he mocked the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] he saved. ''Relentlessly.'' {{storylink|Escalation!}}<br /> <br /> ====''Classics''====<br /> {{note|Classics is a [[splinter timeline]] from the Marvel US continuity that does not include events from either ''Generation 2'' or the Marvel UK issues.}}<br /> His broken body rescued from [[Tokyo]], Skywarp was rebuilt using Shockwave's upgraded [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] schematics. He was told that it was Starscream, driven mad with the power of the [[Underbase]], who did him in. Skywarp's okay with that. After all, the traitor's going to have to let down his guard sometime. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 14|''Classic'' Skywarp's profile}}<br /> <br /> After the appearance of the mysterious crossdimensional Decepticon [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], Skywarp and the other rebuilt Decepticons under Megatron's command traveled to [[South America]] to investigate an equally mysterious power source that seemed to share traits with Landquake. En route, they were attacked by [[Walter Barnett]]'s [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNT]] squad. {{storylink|Crossing Over, Part 2}} Skywarp managed to shake off these interlopers just before Optimus Prime and his Autobots arrived in search of this same power source, and a new battle between the factions began in the jungles surrounding the power source. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 3}} As the battle escalated, Skywarp and Starscream fought [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] across the skies, {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 5}} but ultimately, Megatron was forced to call for a withdrawal. {{storylink|Crossing Over: Part 6}}<br /> <br /> With his nosecone still battered from the fight, Skywarp came with Starscream and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] to investigate what [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] and his crew were doing on Earth. He was happy to see that Thundercracker was among them, but less so when his old buddy shot a [[cerebro-shell]] at him, forcing him to follow Bug Bite's commands. Skywarp and the others were sent to assassinate Megatron, but were soon freed from Bug Bite's control due to Autobot interference. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===<br /> ====''The Transformers'' cartoon====<br /> :''Voice actor:'' [[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Masashi Ebara]] (Japanese), [[Jacques Ferrière]] (French)<br /> <br /> [[Image:Tetrajet seekers.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Cybertron alt-mode (left). The early Decepticons promoted geometry.]]<br /> In the early days of the Decepticon rebellion, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] both faced the powerful protectors of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] cities, the [[Guardian Robots]]. Even millions of years later, the powerful Guardians struck fear into Skywarp's spark. {{storylink|War Dawn}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of the elite Decepticons that served [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] on Cybertron four million years ago. Skywarp and his fellow Seekers came across the Autobots [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] pilfering [[conductor|energy conductors]], and tried to eliminate the Auto-jerks. Once Wheeljack broke through their defenses, Skywarp and Thundercracker transformed to their tetrajet modes and followed the Autobots. They managed to get a good shot in against Bumblebee, but soon both Autobots escaped termination by taking the chase underground. Skywarp later joined Megatron in attacking and boarding the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot ship]] on their search for energy. After crash-landing on Earth, the Decepticons and Autobots laid dormant for four million years, until volcanic activity stirred the ship's computer back to life. Skywarp was the first of the ship's Transformers to be reformatted and awakened by [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], in the form of an Earthen F-15 fighter jet. Once active, Skywarp immediately dragged his master Megatron's body into the reformatting rays of the Ark's computer, and soon all the Decepticons were revived. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Since the Decepticons were so badly short-staffed during their early days on Earth, Skywarp was usually involved in whatever crazy plot for universal domination Megatron was hatching. This included attacks on an off-shore oil rig, [[Sherman Dam]] and the [[Ruby Crystal Mines of Burma|ruby crystal mines of Burma]]. On the last raid, Skywarp and Thundercracker caught a pair of snoops -- Bumblebee and the human, [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. They were knocking the little Autobot around for fun, and pondering how to giftwrap him for Megatron, when an explosion caused the mine to cave in around them. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} When the Decepticons escaped the Burma operation with a cache of energon cubes, Skywarp requested permission from Megatron to teleport in order to scare off Autobot pursuers. Teleporting behind the strangely airborne duo of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Bluestreak]], Skywarp pasted the ornery old Autobot with a heat-seeking missile, knocking him out of the sky that he probably shouldn't have been able to fly around in anyway. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:TransporttoOblivion Skywarp Prowl punchy.jpg|left|180px|thumb|&quot;[[Bumblebee (G1)|Punch-buggy yellow]]!&quot;]]<br /> When [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] was caught spying on the Decepticons' new [[Space Bridge]], Skywarp and Starscream captured him for Megatron. After Bumblebee was reprogrammed to led the Autobots into a trap, Skywarp biffed [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] from behind, causing him to fall down in an almost pushing-down-stairs-like fashion. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} After the Decepticons acquired the [[antimatter]] formula, they were en route to the Ark when [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] intercepted them, practicing their jet judo maneuvers. Skywarp was being thrown off-course by Sideswipe's antics until Starscream knocked the Autobot warrior loose. During the battle, Megatron charged himself up with the Decepticons' new toy, and transformed into an &quot;anti-matter gun&quot; to obliterate the Autobots. After Starscream had his turn with the gun, Skywarp got ready to blow some Autobots away too. Before he could start, however, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] attacked his leg with a jackhammer. He scooped up the puny fleshling and was about to blast him with the anti-matter gun (and, incidentally, probably blow his own hand off in the process) when [[Chip Chase]] attached a computer override device invented by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], which allowed Teletraan I to take brief control of his body. Skywarp started firing Megatron's anti-matter power at the other Decepticons, overheating the unstable power supply and forcing the Decepticons to retreat. {{storylink|Roll for It}} <br /> <br /> {{bigquote|You little fool... You're no match for Skywarp!|Skywarp announces his superiority to a kid in a wheelchair.|&quot;[[Roll for It]]&quot;}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was later part of a Decepticon raid on a factory, apparently in a very playful mood with his teleporting power. First he 'ported behind some human guards to taunt them before making them scatter with laser fire. Then, when Thundercracker blased open some power lines to begin filling his energon cubes, Skywarp &quot;cut in line&quot; by teleporting between Thundercracker and the energy to fill his own cube first. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] showed up to stop them, Skywarp fired a heat-seeking missile at him, only for Prime to deflect it with a punch. The Autobot was eventually defeated, and Skywarp ran off with some [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}} <br /> <br /> When the Decepticons began draining heat energy out of Earth's core using a crystal shaft in the Arctic, Skywarp got a bit bored at the lack of real action. He was in the middle of taunting Rumble when the two of them accidentally caused a miniature avalanche in one of the caves. By sheer happenstance, this led to the Decepticons recovering the long-lost [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] from an icy tomb. Skywarp helped perform repairs on the giant flier, though it was probably better for all concerned if somebody with actual knowledge had performed these repairs. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}} <br /> <br /> During a battle at [[Great Falls]] hydroelectric power facility, the newly-constructed [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] arrived to rescue the beleagured Autobots, who had been captured by the Decepticons. Skywarp foolishly attempted to beat the flamethrowing [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] with a mere pair of heat-seeking missiles, and ended up being grabbed out of the air by the mighty jaws of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], who chomped on his wing and threw Skywarp into his fellow Megatron loyalist [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Soon afterwards, during an operation in [[Peru]], Skywarp got to be Megatron's favorite Seeker for the day after Starscream and Thundercracker stole poor-quality steel for their latest super-weapon. He had fun taunting the egotistic 'Screamer when Megatron called him to battle, leaving the other Seekers behind on mere guard duty. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}} Later, Skywarp helped Megatron steal a giant meteor, although its unstable power proved too dangerous to use for energon cubes. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was in a playful mood during the Decepticons' raid of a solar power plant in [[India]], cracking wise and hoping to play a game of catch...with the rajah as the ball. He had even more fun in a quick free-for-all with the Autobots, a distraction so that the Decepticons could kidnap one of the Autobots' fleshling friends as a guinea pig for [[Doctor Arkeville]]'s mind-control experiments. Skywarp enjoyed himself so much, he got in a fight with Starscream on the way back to headquarters about how ''brilliant'' Megatron's plan was. Thundercracker had to jump out of the way while the two of them roughhoused in the elevator. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} Thanks in part to Arkeville's [[hypno-chip]] slaves, the Decepticons were able to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, creating massive environmental disturbances that produced millions of energon cubes. What's more, transporting energon to Cybertron was now just a short flight away. Unfortunately, the devastation was greater than Megatron had anticipated. While Skywarp was on a return flight from Cybertron, a tidal wave broke off the access tower to the Decepticons' undersea base, flooding it. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Skywarp was present at the final battle before the Autobots knocked Cybertron out of orbit, and fled when Megatron abandoned his troops to escape with the energon cubes. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} With Megatron seemingly destroyed as his star cruiser exploded with the cubes on-board, the Decepticons were left rudderless. While working on repairs for their undersea base, tempers flared as Skywarp picked a fight with his favorite target, Rumble, and his pint-sized partner, [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. Skywarp bit off more than he could chew, however, as Frenzy's surprising strength overcame Skywarp as he tried to crush the mini-cassette beneath his heel. Thundercracker and Soundwave started to get involved in the fracas too, but Megatron soon arrived to put his house back in order. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Changegearsskywarp.jpg|thumb|200px|left|What you see when he pushes you down the stairs.]]Like all Decepticons, Skywarp provided his [[power chip rectifier]] to Megatron for his single combat with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}} When the Decepticons attacked another rocket base, Skywarp and Thundercracker attempted to double-team Optimus Prime, but only succeeded in destroying the very rockets they came to plunder. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Later, the Decepticons attacked a mining camp to lure the Autobots out into the open, and Skywarp stood guard over the humans being used as bait. After they used the opportunity to kidnap [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] for his special circuit board, Skywarp later helped fill the energon cubes from Megatron's [[Solar Needle]]. {{storylink|Changing Gears}} As the Decepticons took over New York to create the city of New Cybertron, Skywarp was seen loading cars into [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]'s drum for reconstruction. He and Thundercracker were later damaged after trying to take some potshots at Optimus Prime, only to miss and crash straight through a building in the process. {{storylink|City of Steel}} He also served in a later assault on the Ark, distracting the Autobots long enough for Megatron to sneak inside and mess with their [[recharging chamber]]s. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}<br /> <br /> Rather stoic in recent weeks, Skywarp was back to his cheery but malicious self when he and Starscream went after some [[electro-cell]]s at the [[Experimental Energy Research Laboratory]]. While breaking through the roof of the installation, Skywarp merrily remarked on the joy of opening presents. During a fight with the Autobot named [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], one of Skywarp's insignia was ripped off, and later planted to help turn the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Traitor}} During a battle with the Autobots over the [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]], Skywarp unleashed his new toy: a [[bouncer bomb]]. This weapon ricocheted through the trees, explosively bouncing from one side of the battlefield to another. Unfortunately, the Decepticons were also subject to its &quot;friendly fire&quot; until Megatron shot the blasted thing down. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp's teleportation power did come in useful when he was needed to sneak up on the Autobots with the [[Transfixatron]]. One quick zap and they were all frozen in vehicle mode. However, he failed to zap ALL the Autobots, which ultimately led to the undoing of Megatron's scheme. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} Skywarp was present during the Decepticon alliance with [[Sub-Atlantica]], and was part of their attack on Washington D.C. He and Thundercracker strafed the Autobots while in battle on the Great Lawn. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} When the Decepticons stole the ninja robot [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]], Skywarp used his grapples to pull the roof off of the demonstration ampitheater, allowing Starscream and Thundercracker to swoop in and grab the robot. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and his flying buddies once attempted to triple-team Optimus Prime in battle, but failed to do more than provide Optimus with a chance to toss a good quip. Strangely, Skywarp was later seen throwing what looking like a standard pineapple grenade at the Autobots. It was effective enough, but looked as out of place as an AK or a tommygun in Transformer hands. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} When the Decepticons made yet another attempt at harnessing some sort of power from the Earth's core, Skywarp defended their drilling operation from the Autobots. He and the Seekers attempted to bomb the Autobots from the air, but a scattering of explosive missiles from [[Bluestreak]]'s shoulder launchers took them out of the fight. {{storylink|The Core}}<br /> <br /> During the assault on Iron Mountain, Skywarp was briefly taken over by [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s [[cerebro-shell]]s during a tiff between Megatron and the Insecticons. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}} He also joined the Decepticon expedition to [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], to loot and plunder its various sources of energy. Skywarp was eager to do battle with the Dinobots when they arrived to defend their new home...which just goes to show Skywarp's kinda stupid. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} When the Autobots eventually arrived to help drive the Decepticons off of Dinobot Island, they were aided by a band of dinosaurs themselves, prodded onwards by [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. Skywarp and Thundercracker found their lasers ineffective against the charging brutes, and were forced to retreat with the rest of their army. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> During some aerial dogfighting with the Autobot ace, [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], Skywarp took a nasty hit to the wing. He must have managed to limp back to base, because he was present for Megatron's interrogation of the Constructicons a short while later. {{storylink|The Master Builders}} When the Decepticons went after [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s latest super-weapon, the [[Negavator]], Skywarp and the Seekers strafed the Autobot convoy in a box canyon. Their efforts were blocked by [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]'s disruptor beams and magnetic smoke, which left the Seekers unable to see or navigate in any way. Skywarp and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] ended up in a three-way collision with each other and a canyon wall. {{storylink|Auto Berserk}} Once, the Decepticons were pre-emptively celebrating the destruction of the Autobots after Megatron acquired the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. They got over-energized on energon cubes and passed out in the desert. Five'll get you ten, whoever passed out closest to Skywarp woke up with a [[Scraplet]] drawn on their face in permanent marker. {{storylink|Microbots}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was a participant in the ultimate prank against the Autobots. Using Autobot costumes left over from last Halloween, Skywarp and some others raided an oil refinery for fuel, only to be driven off when the &quot;heroic&quot; Decepticons arrived to stop the &quot;evil&quot; Autobots. The entire scene was filmed by [[Shawn Berger]] and used to smear the Autobots' good name so severely that they were forced to abandon Earth entirely in a rocket cruiser. Ha HA! {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} The fleshlings didn't appreciate the joke when they found out the punchline, but Skywarp and the Decepticons were too busy enslaving [[Central City (G1)|Central City]] to care. As bad luck would have it, though, the Autobots managed to make their way back to Earth, and drive off the Decepticon occupation. Killjoys. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}<br /> <br /> When the Decepticons set up a temporary base of operations at the airport, Optimus Prime sent in the Dinobots to clear them out. Skywarp and the other jets were caught off-guard initially, but the Decepticons had learned from previous encounters that the Dinobots were more vulnerable in their robot modes. By feigning defeat, Skywarp and the others lured the Dinobots into a false sense of security, and they transformed back to robot mode. Skywarp and Megatron then unleashed a barrage of energy, igniting the jumbo jets on the tarmac and causing the Dinobots tremendous damage. The Decepticons finally scored a decent victory against the Dinos, and they owed it all to a dirty underhanded sneak attack. It was a good day to be Skywarp. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}}<br /> <br /> Like most of the Decepticons, Skywarp was rendered temporarily invulnerable due to exposure to [[electrum]]. Invincibility didn't make him any better a prison guard, though, as even [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] was able to overpower him and escape from the Decepticons' undersea headquarters. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} Skywarp was seen delivering the Insecticons' share of the energon harvested from their clones using Megatron's energon transference process. Since the meager three cubes the Insecticons got were a small pittance compared to how many were actually being generated, Skywarp was surely snickering to himself as he handed them over. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}} When the Space Bridge materialized in the middle of a baseball stadium, Skywarp and Soundwave got into a friendly game of catch...with flesh-creatures as the ball. Then the Autobots had to show up and ruin their fun. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}}<br /> <br /> Later on, Skywarp and the Seekers kidnapped a group of Earth's world leaders, but ran into the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s during their getaway. Skywarp nearly nailed [[Slingshot]] with a loop-the-loop, coming down on him from above, but was shot down by [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]]. {{storylink|War Dawn}} One day, Skywarp and Thundercracker were guarding the Space Bridge when Starscream arrived. After showing them his authorization (which looked suspiciously like a null ray rifle), they allowed Starscream to travel to Cybertron. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}} At Megatron's command, Skywarp travelled to [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] headquarters to check up on their progress in the latest Decepticon scheme. At Megatron's command, Skywarp landed at the empty base. At Megatron's command, he began to follow the mysterious trail of loose Combaticon parts leading out of the canyon. You gotta wonder what Skywarp is capable of without constant supervision...{{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}<br /> <br /> In 2005, Skywarp was part of a massive [[Battle of Autobot City|Decepticon attack]] on [[Autobot City]] on Earth. He was badly damaged during the battle, but managed to escape with the rest of his comrades aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. However, en route to Cybertron he was tossed out into space with other badly damaged Decepticons so that the rest would be able to make it home. Skywarp's body was gathered by [[Unicron]] and, among others, used to make [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s new warriors. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Skywarp arguably became either [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] or [[Cyclonus's Armada]], the identical warrior who was never seen again. Either way, Skywarp effectively ceased existing.}}<br /> <br /> ====Japanese cartoon continuity====<br /> {{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as described above. The Japanese continuity then proceeds to insert several additional stories into the timeline, as follows.}}<br /> <br /> =====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic=====<br /> <br /> Under orders from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], Skywarp accompanied [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] in an energy raid on [[Tokyo]]. Things were going well, as they enjoyed bombing pedestrians and children while screaming their demands for energy to the Heavens, at least until [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and a unit of Autobot vehicles arrived. Though their victory seemed assured when they unleashed [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] on their foes, their strategy was undone when the Autobots drove up a ramp at top speed, transformed to vehicle mode and punched everybody in the face. Skywarp was forced to retreat. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 1|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp later took part in an all-out assault on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] in [[Arizona]]. The attack was nothing more than a diversion so [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] could go do unspecified ''stuff'' in Japan and the Decepticons were eventually defeated and driven off. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 2|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2}}<br /> <br /> =====Full Throttle Scramble Power!=====<br /> As Megatron bragged to [[Toru]] that the Decepticons would strip Earth of all its resources, Skywarp (or Thundercracker) was shown attacking a power plant. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}<br /> <br /> =====''The Stargate Battles''=====<br /> Skywarp participated in Megatron's first attempted takover of the [[Warp Gate|Trigger]], bursting out of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] alongside the other Seekers. {{storylink|First Contact}}<br /> <br /> =====''Robot Masters'' online comic=====<br /> {{charstubfiction}}<br /> {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)#Issue 13|And Then}}<br /> <br /> ===''Universe''===<br /> <br /> In [[2005]], when [[Unicron]] rebuilt Skywarp into [[Cyclonus's Armada]], Skywarp was also reprogrammed to obey Cyclonus. Even later, when Skywarp's original personality reasserted itself, that mental link remained. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> {{note|Though no reason is stated in-story as to how or why or when Skywarp got this new body between the Great War and the [[Beast Era]], ''Wreckers'' plotter [[Glen Hallit]] noted that Skywarp's body was based on a mass-production body type of its day, similar to Generation 1's [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]].}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Wreckersskywarpcyclonus.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Looks like Cyclonus was Bombshell. Neener neener.]]<br /> <br /> After the Decepticons lost the Great War and [[Maximal|Maximals]] and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] claimed [[Cybertron (planet)|the planet]], [[Megatron (BW)|another Megatron]] subjugated nearly every Transformer alive with a transformation-lock virus and an army of [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]. Skywarp was one of the handful of Transformers who had slipped through Megatron's fingers, and eventually he and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] joined up with the legendary strike team, the [[Wrecker|Wreckers]]. Given a mission by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], the Wreckers fought through an army of Vehicons (Cyclonus, Skywarp, and [[Rotorbolt (Universe)|Rotorbolt]] took care of the [[Spy Streak]] drones) to steal an Autobot shuttle in order to get off-planet. {{storylink|Departure}} <br /> <br /> Skywarp served as the shuttle's pilot, which served as a point of contention when the bounty hunter [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] stowed away on board, who didn't like that the Wreckers apparently now included Decepticons and Predacons among their ranks. As the shuttle approached the [[Archa system]], their given destination, Skywarp detected the homing beacon of the ''[[Sojourner's Passage]]'', an exploration ship that was lost centuries ago. Since the Autobot shuttle had been damaged en route, once it had landed on [[Archa Nine]], Skywarp helped repair it while others searched the surface. While Skywarp was occupied with this, Cyclonus revealed himself as a traitor, stealing the [[Divine Light]], a mysterious artifact the Wreckers were sent by the Oracle to find. {{storylink|Betrayal}} <br /> <br /> [[Image:Disclosure-Skywarphonor.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Heh.]]<br /> <br /> Though it's likely Skywarp didn't really care, the rest of the Wreckers were dealt a blow to morale after this betrayal. Regardless, the Wreckers set off for a new destination given by the Oracle, a desolate ice planet on which a search team found an exiled [[Quintesson]] scientist named [[Al-Badur]]. While Al-Badur was explaining the meaning of the Divine Light, an army of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] attacked both the search team and Skywarp and the others back at the shuttle. Skywarp was able to easily destroy their attackers. The search team returned to the shuttle, and Primal Prime told Skywarp that he'd be taking direction from the Quintesson. Al-Badur asked Skywarp what compelled him to join this team of Autobots and Maximals; Skywarp told him it involved &quot;returning a favor&quot; and &quot;Decepticon honor,&quot; things he wouldn't understand. {{storylink|Disclosure}} <br /> <br /> {{note|In the unpublished script to ''[[The Wreckers: Finale Part 1|The Wreckers'' #4]], after receiving an encrypted message, Skywarp flew the Wreckers back to Cybertron as quickly as possible. [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] and his Quintesson partners had invaded. But on arrival to Cybertron, the Quintessons' attacks were so thick that they kept the shuttle from being able to land. Primal Prime ordered a few of the Wreckers off the ship to join the troops below, while Rodimus, Skywarp, and the remainder were to land elsewhere.}}<br /> <br /> In the aftermath of Cyclonus's betrayal, the other Wreckers were understandably wary of Skywarp, though the Decepticon claimed he had no part or knowledge of his fellow Decepticon's actions. While circling overhead Cybertron, the Wreckers' shuttle was critically hit. Rodimus told everyone else to evacuate while he kept the ship level, but Skywarp chose this moment to strike. He knocked Rodimus away and told [[Tap-Out (G1)|Tap-Out]] to help everyone else disembark; the Decepticon was going to guide the shuttle down. When it landed, taking out a large portion of the Sharkticon invading forces in a fantastic explosion, the Wreckers were shocked. Skywarp had sacrificed his life for them? As Rodimus began to give a regretful eulogy for the untrusted Decepticon, Skywarp appeared behind them, laughing about his sweet maneuver. He had, of course, used his warping power to leave the ship at the last moment. &quot;Did you see that? I think I managed to shove the forward nacelle antennae right through the Quint Overseer!&quot; Everyone grumbled.<br /> <br /> As their group joined the battle against Cryotek and Cyclonus within Cybertron, it seemed Skywarp may not have been so forthright after all. He violently silenced the overbearing Ramulus (muttering that he was surprised no one thanked him) and took his place at Cyclonus's side. Rodimus was understandably confused and hurt, but Skywarp told the Autobot that he'd more than paid him back recently and he no longer owed the Wreckers anything. Cyclonus laughed, and told the Wreckers of his mental link to Skywarp. But Skywarp muttered, having &quot;always ''hated'' that,&quot; and attacked Cyclonus. He reappeared at the Wreckers' side again, noting that he'd only harmed Ramulus to get in Cyclonus' good graces long enough to deal the blow. <br /> <br /> [[Image:Revelations-Skywarppunched.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Unfortunately, Unicron has no stairs.]]<br /> <br /> {{quote|I'll settle with the zoo crew later. But ''you''... I ''never'' liked you. Even when you were a [[Bombshell (G1)|''bug'']] I hated your stinkin' circuits. Like I said, only [[Megatron (G1)|''one'' guy]] ever bossed ''me'' around, and it sure as slag ain't ''you.''}}<br /> <br /> But Cyclonus had scores of Sharkticons at his disposal, and they quickly filled the chamber. Rodimus wanted to throttle Skywarp for what he'd done to Ramulus, but Skywarp shrewdly pointed out that they had bigger problems at the moment. But in the middle of the battle, a strange surge of energy passed through the subterranean chamber, flowing through Tap-Out and Skywarp, causing both to disappear in a flash of light. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp and Tap-Out had been abducted by Unicron and, under undisclosed circumstances, Skywarp joined [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]]'s [[Minions of Unicron]] during the [[Universe war|Universe conflict]]. During the final battle within the [[Pit]], he was defeated by [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave comics continuity===<br /> {{notekeepers}}<br /> In the early days of the war, Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were sent to blow up a building full of pesky [[neutral]]s in [[Altihex]]. He took a second to wonder if it was the right thing to do—not because it was morally wrong or anything, but because it was ''too easy''. Thundercracker didn't have much input, so Skywarp just went &quot;Sure, why not,&quot; and murdered the neutrals. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1}} Some time later, the two came with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he tried to sway [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] into joining the Decepticons. Skywarp tried to stop Starscream from spilling the beans about the Seekers' next mission at [[Sector Zero-Six]], but was told to shut up. When the trio later carried out said mission, they found that Grimlock had evacuated the area and placed a bomb to welcome them. Skywarp barely had time to teleport himself and his comrades away before the place went up in flames. {{storylink|The War Within Preview}} When Starscream decided to blame Megatron for what happened, Skywarp snapped and pointed out that it was all ''his'' fault for ''telling the enemy about their mission'', then took off with Thundercracker. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Following the sudden disappearance of Megatron, the Decepticons split into several splinter groups, but Skywarp stayed with the main faction under the command of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. He participated in an attack on the minions of [[The Fallen]] in [[Protihex]], where his teleporting power enabled him to get the best of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and gun him down. {{storylink|Conflagration}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was one of several Decepticon invaders on board the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed into [[Earth]] four million years ago while the Autobot ship was clearing an asteroid in the path of Cybertron. <br /> <br /> In 2002, he was one of the Transformers who survived the disastrous launch of the sabotaged ''[[Ark II]]'' and were later captured and reprogrammed by arms dealer [[Lazarus|Adam &quot;Lazarus&quot; Rook]], who intended to rent out the services of the enslaved robots to various terrorist groups. After Megatron reactivated himself, he freed his Decepticon subordinates in order to put forward his plans to infect Earth with a metallic virus of doom. To pass the time while this happened, Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp busied themselves by tearing apart the Autobot Minicar team. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp later participated in Megatron's attack on [[San Francisco]], where he followed Starscream's orders to maintain formation and drop cluster bombs on the Autobot giant [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], forcing the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] to split into their separate robot forms. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp presumably stood watch over the defeated Autobots while Megatron tried to persuade [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to help the Decepticons conquer Earth. After some human firefighters distracted the Decepticons long enough for Optimus Prime to free the Autobots, Skywarp was presumably beaten up and escaped when Superion sacrificed himself to stop a nuclear missile launched by rogue US General [[Robert Hallo]]. <br /> <br /> ''When Megatron was kidnapped by the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]] and Decepticon leadership was up for grabs, Skywarp began acting more serious and ambitious than his regular &quot;lunatic prankster&quot; persona would suggest. One of the few Decepticons who aggressively refused to follow Starscream in Megatron's absence, Skywarp teamed up with the [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio in an attempt to seize power for himself. He lured Starscream into leaving his new kingdom in [[Las Vegas]] and travelling to Hoover Dam. Once there, Skywarp challenged Starscream directly for leadership of the Decepticons. He failed miserably, however; Starscream dealt Skywarp severe damage using his [[Null-ray|null bolts]] at close range, then tossed his former wingman over the falls. Skywarp was in [[stasis lock]] for some time thereafter, and he begrudgingly chose to serve under Starscream after his repair cycle aboard the ''Nemesis'' was completed. {{storylink|Hardwired}}''<br /> <br /> ''When [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and his private army of humans attacked Las Vegas, along with [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Skywarp was among the Decepticons who charged out to meet them in battle along the Strip. As Thundercracker and Soundwave kept the rampaging [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]'s attention, Skywarp prepared a delicious, underhanded sneak attack. Diving at Grimlock at full speed, Skywarp planned on unleashing his heat-seeking missiles at near point-blank range for maximum devastation. Luckily for Grimlock, the little Autobot Bumblebee was willing to sacrifice his functionality in order to keep the more powerful Autobot warrior in play and took the full impact of the missiles at the last second. Enraged, Grimlock struck Skywarp with enough force to send him flying miles away into the desert and out of the fight for the immediate future. ''<br /> <br /> ''Curiously, Skywarp chose NOT to leave Las Vegas with Megatron once the former Decepticon leader returned to Earth. Damaged after his time with the Keepers, Megatron lost a fight with Starscream and was forced to relinquish his leadership to the Aerospace Commander. Still, Megatron refused to serve under Starscream, and he led a revolt of several Decepticons into exile. For whatever reason, Skywarp remained at Starscream's side until the Keepers attacked, possessing Starscream as a host body and caging the rest of the Decepticons still in Las Vegas inside a dome of impenetrable energy. Skywarp assumed command of the remaining Decepticons in Starscream's absence and directed the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] into not attacking the dome directly as [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], but digging beneath the energy field to forge a tunnel they could exit through. He also made contact with Megatron's forces outside the city and agreed to wait patiently until the time was right for all the Transformers to assault the Keepers as one. ''<br /> <br /> ''When the time came, Skywarp &quot;allowed&quot; his Decepticons to join forces with Megatron's, because it was the only &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. During the fight, he blasted the [[Bluestreak]]-Keeper with an explosive gamma radiation blast. The attack was effective, but proved moot when the Bluestreak-Keeper fused with the Starscream-Keeper, creating one massive and deformed robotic god figure. In the end, it was Optimus Prime and the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] which finally ended the war with the Keepers, diverting the force of a nuclear missile launched by the American government. In the aftermath, Starscream's scrap was salvaged and rebuilt, but Megatron chose to make Skywarp his new second-in-command for a time, mostly just to piss Starscream off. Still, Skywarp certainly saw it as the most &quot;logical&quot; thing to do. {{storylink|Annihilation}}''<br /> <br /> ''In Washington D.C., Megatron and the Decepticons stormed the White House to show their displeasure to the [[President of the United States|President]] for trying to wipe them out with a nuclear strike. Megatron assigned Skywarp to deal with the SWAT teams in the streets, then sent him into the skies to join Starscream in shooting down the air support called in by the military. Final tally—Starscream: 12, Skywarp: 5. Sometime later, Skywarp was present in the Nevada desert when the Autobots and Decepticons confronted the United States military. Thanks to their airborne tactics, Thundercracker and Skywarp did significant injury to the troops and survived the [[deconstructionite]] assault virtually unscathed. After the Keepers were finally defeated and Starscream had been restored to his normal, irascible self, Megatron chose to restore the status quo and replaced Skywarp with Starscream as his second-in-command yet again. {{storylink|Fusion (novel)|Fusion}}''<br /> <br /> {{note|Although it's hard to see how, the author(s) of the Keepers Trilogy may have confused Skywarp with Shockwave, or at least combined their roles and personalities into one character. Throughout the trilogy, Skywarp made repeated references to the &quot;logical&quot; course of action, and once made an oblique reference to his gift over the electromagnetic spectrum. Whether there was actual confusion involved, or if the pick-up writer [[David Cian]] was forcing Skywarp to fit a role once Dreamwave's comics made using Shockwave off-limits, is unknown.}}<br /> <br /> When Shockwave arrived on Earth with his new army, he quickly disposed of Megatron and demanded loyalty from Skywarp and the others. Somewhat begrudgingly, they assented and accompanied him back to Cybertron. Back on their home planet, Skywarp and Thundercracker were amazed at what Shockwave had accomplished in their absence and were planning to sign on for the duration. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} After getting run down and beaten up by Optimus Prime on his way to Shockwave, though, the Seekers took an offer from Starscream and Soundwave to abandon the rising conflict on Cybertron and return to Earth for some good ol' fashioned looting. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}<br /> <br /> On Earth, Skywarp was part of Starscream's initial salvo against the Ark, a decoy to be deliberately taken prisoner in order to draw out the remaining Autobots where the newly reformatted [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] could get at them. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} After decimating the Autobots' ranks, [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] freed the fallen Decepticons, and they were about ready to terminate their opponents when the awe-inspiring clone known as [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] emerged from fold-space, looking to have words with Starscream. Sunstorm's &quot;purifying light&quot; induced an energon overload in their systems, knocking them into stasis lock. {{storylink|Black Sunshine}} Skywarp and the others remained Autobot prisoners until Starscream negotiated a deal for their release in exchange for his aid against Sunstorm. {{storylink|Skyfire (issue)|Skyfire}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp fell back under Megatron's command once the former leader arrived on Earth and forced Starscream back under his thumb. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Devil's Due ''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers'' comics===<br /> [[Image:GIJoevsTF1_Seeker.jpg|left|thumb|200px|]]<br /> Skywarp was one of the Transformers reprogrammed to serve the terrorist organization [[Cobra]] and was, along with Thundercracker, rebuilt to transform into a [[Rattler]] aircraft in the process. Their first mission was to show off Cobra's power by assaulting a peace ceremony in [[Washington, D.C.]], and either Skywarp or Thundercracker was the first to reveal his robot mode to the shocked [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] before wrecking [[Ace]]'s jet with a single punch. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1}}<br /> <br /> When [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] undid Cobra's reprogramming of the Transformers, Skywarp waited on the runway in Rattler mode until [[Major Bludd]], unaware of the plane's true identity, decided to use him as his ticket off [[Cobra Island]]. After causing Bludd some stress by refusing to start his engines, Skywarp revealed himself and told him that he'd rather walk, then transformed, crushing the human to death with his moving innards in the process. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4}} He then joined Thundercracker in fighting [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], who had also been freed from Cobra's control. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5}} Unfortunately, the two Seekers were later caught in the [[SPS Satellite]]'s rain of energy beams and deactivated. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6}}<br /> <br /> {{note|As Skywarp's coloration is identical to Thundercracker's in this series, it's possible that it was actually Thundercracker who killed Major Bludd. However, it feels more like something Skywarp would do.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave ''Transformers/G.I. Joe'' comics===<br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons revived by [[Cobra]] in 1938. He may have been one of the Seekers driven back by the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] in the battle of the [[Fera Islands]]. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}} During the Autobots' attack on the [[Terrordrome]], Skywarp was lounging about when he overheard some Cobra troopers talking dirt about the Decepticons. Picking one of the humans up, Skywarp suggested that he be a little grateful that the Decepticons were helping them conquer their filthy mudball of a planet. Before he could finish insulting them, however, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] burst out of the ground and beat him up. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===<br /> Skywarp and Thundercracker were at the end of a berating from Megatron when the news came in that Starscream had badly injured himself in a rock-climbing accident. Skywarp probably even helped look for Starscream. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}<br /> <br /> Enraged at [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] for selling off Decepticon weapons on the black market, Megatron commanded Skywarp to bring the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] in — in pieces of necessary. {{storylink|Two for the Price of One}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW comics continuity===<br /> {{ongoing}}<br /> Skywarp, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] were early recruits for [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], helping sow terror across Cybertron and kidnap Senator [[Decimus]] just prior to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] and founding of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3}} At one point he was part of a squad intent on assassinating [[Zeta Prime]], but the plan was thwarted when [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] warned the Autobot leader (tackling Skywarp in the back on the way). {{storylink|Spotlight: Blurr}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Infiltration5 Skywarptotalled.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Skywarp learns what happens when he pushes Megatron down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> In the modern era, Skywarp is part of a Decepticon infiltration unit that has operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, working to destabilize Earth's governing organizations and create global anarchy. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 3}} His alternate form is an [[wikipedia:F-22_Raptor|F-22 Raptor]] fighter jet, and his main job seems to be using his teleporting powers to transport his comrades to places.<br /> <br /> Starscream assigned him and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] to destroy all traces of the [[Nebraska]] operation, but after demolishing the abandoned Nebraska command bunker, he was severely damaged by Megatron, who, unfortunately for Skywarp, had been inside at the time. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5}} Megatron was apparently not one to hold grudges, and he soon had Skywarp repaired and functioning again, under the understanding that there would be no further second chances. {{storylink|Escalation issue 1}} While on a mission to destabilize Middle Eastern energy supplies, Skywarp confessed to Thundercracker that he believed Megatron had it in for all of them, especially himself, though his fellow Decepticon pointed out the fact that Megatron did have him repaired. {{storylink|Escalation issue 2}} Skywarp participated in the operation at [[Brasnya]] where he injured [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and evacuated Megatron before the Autobots could destroy him. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> When [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] began his coup, he first contacted Skywarp in an effort to get a viable ally. Skywarp thought it was a big load of crap, but said that if Ramjet could get some results in one day, they'd talk. However, Skywarp did mention that he always &quot;bets on the leader.&quot; This turned out to be a prudent decision. {{storylink|Spotlight: Ramjet}}<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the concerned Decepticons who feared that Megatron had lost all sense of reason when he deployed [[Sixshot]] on Earth. They conspired to bring Starscream back into the fold to talk some sense into their leader. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1}} Emboldened by Starscream's lone stand against the Reapers, the Decepticons attacked and eventually the alien invaders, with Skywarp participating in the destruction of their starship. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6}}<br /> <br /> About a year later, Megatron had somehow regained Skywarp's confidence, and Skywarp assured Thundercracker that Megatron knew what he was doing when he created [[Insecticon swarm|three thousand twisted perversions of their own race]]. The Decepticons later lured Optimus Prime and his troops into a trap and utterly crushed them, with Skywarp ripping [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]'s arm clean off. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7}} They proceeded to conquer [[New York City]]. During that attack, Skywarp got to make stuff go boom and kill a lotta folks, and it was the best day out ever. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1}}<br /> <br /> After taking out several military helicopters, Skywarp was assigned to accompany Soundwave, Hook and Astrotrain as they took Frenzy to deal with a large ground force. [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] voiced his doubt that the tiny Decepticon had a chance against such a huge number of enemies, but Skywarp, enjoying a chance for a dig at the new guy, simply told him to make sure he kept his distance. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 2}} All the fun of smashing things and killing millions of people soon soured though, as Skywarp started clashing with the [[Insecticon (G1)|uppity Insecticons]] and getting lonely now Thundercracker was being mopey and Starscream wasn't around much. Even mindlessly killing eight million people in [[China]] couldn't perk him up. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6}}<br /> <br /> [[image:AHM12 Betrayer.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A rare moment of Skywarp just killing someone instead of pushing them down the stairs.]]<br /> <br /> When the Autobots eventually returned to Earth, Skywarp battled them in the ruins of New York City. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11}} He grabbed [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and took to the sky, asking the old timer why he wasn't [[Spotlight: Kup|insane]] anymore. Kup responded by calling Skywarp a &quot;mouthy punk&quot; and shooting him in the gut, causing him to to drop the Autobot. The Decepticons fled when Megatron was defeated, but Skywarp came back when he noticed that Thundercracker had diverted the nuke that Megatron had arranged to be dropped on New York. Furious at his fellow Seeker's betrayal, he ignored Thundercracker's arguments and shot him point blank in the face. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12}}<br /> <br /> [[Image: Bumblebee 1 Skywarp's Stash.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Up the Arsenal!]]<br /> <br /> Skywarp was among the Decepticons left behind when the others fled Earth. Unlike [[Swindle (G1)|some]], however, he was in no rush to get off the planet; instead he came up with the idea to steal and stockpile human weapons for Megatron's eventual return. He attacked the technology corporations [[Dynomic]] and [[Allodyne Logic Systems]] for information on their advanced technology, which in turn attacted the attention of [[Skywatch]]. Some two years after the Decepticons' defeat in New York, Skywarp had filled at least one whole garage with missiles and bombs. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} In addition to his vast collection of anti-human weapons, he also worked to create a weapon capable of crippling all the Autobots on the planet. Skywarp beamed signals into space in order to report his progress to Megatron, who he really hoped would be back soon. {{storylink|The Impossible Knot}}<br /> <br /> While the Autobots worked on finding a way to disable the kill-switch badges that the rogue Skywatch Colonel [[Gordon Horiuchi]] had provided them, Skywarp attacked Skywatch's Phillips base to gain access to information to track down the kill-switch control board. Arriving at Skywatch researcher [[Sanjay Bharwaney]]'s home {{storylink|The Gift Horse}}, Skywarp moved in for the kill, but was foiled by the timely intervention of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], who saved Bharwaney and his daughter [[Serena Bharwaney|Serena]]. Skywarp chased them into an industrial area, and as he hunted, he ranted about how Megatron would be returning here to take his rightful place as ruler of the galaxy, with Skywarp at his side, and once he had the control board, all the Autobots would fall into line under the Decepticon banner, making Skywarp a hero. Just when it seemed Skywarp would get his hands on Bumblebee and the control board, Skywatch operative [[Daniel Klonowski]] intervened, firing a weapon powerful enough to damage Bumblebee. Injured but undeterred, Skywarp managed to corner the Autobot, offering to let him go in exchange for the control board as a &quot;professional courtesy&quot;. His confidence turned to panic when Bumblebee steeled himself to activate the control board, the little Autobot declaring that unlike Skywarp, he has friends who would fix him. The electro-magnetic pulse from the control board seriously damaged both transformers, but it is unknown what became of Skywarp. As Skywatch representatives were in the area, it is likely that he was taken into custody. {{storylink|Wings of Wax}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Hearts of Steel''===<br /> Skywarp was one of the Decepticons who woke up on mid-19th century Earth, where he took on the form of a spiky airplane with three propellers. In the Decepticons' desert headquarters, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] told him about the plans to conquer Earth, and ordered him to fly ahead of the [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], leading the way towards [[New York City]]. Skywarp was concerned that the Autobots might interfere, but Starscream assured him their enemies had not yet awoken. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2}}<br /> <br /> {{note|There's no evidence in the story that Skywarp actually ''did'' fly ahead of the Astrotrain, but if it's true, he may have survived the Decepticon defeat unharmed.}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> Skywarp serves under [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] as one of his Decepticon soldiers, battling [[Optimus Primal]]'s many Autobot allies in what might possibly have been an inter-universe battle. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_boxart.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Someone pushes HIM down a flight of stairs for once. Payback's a bitch.]]<br /> <br /> A Skywarp from an unspecified [[universal stream]] was selected by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|Megatron]] to become part of his [[Questor]] forces. Granted a portion of the hyperdimensional powers that his leader had obtained from the monstrous [[Hytherion]], Skywarp was given a new body with an uncharacteristic sports car alternate mode, a [[Timaeus drive]] that granted him the ability to travel through dimensions, and a massively enhanced teleportation power that actually allowed him to warp the fabric of space and time around him. About the only thing that didn't change was his characteristic lack of intelligence and initiative; coupled with the brain-bending complexities of higher-dimensional life and battle, this meant that Skywarp was left still relying on Megatron's specific orders for and when to use his powers.<br /> <br /> Skywarp proved his worth when he succeeded in his mission to scour the year 2010 all across the dimensions for a trace of the two-dimensional world of the [[Planicron]]s. Precisely what Megatron needed the Planicrons for, Skywarp didn't know, but he recalled a rumor among the Questors that they were key to the destruction of the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]], and smirked with excitement to himself as he informed Megatron of his discovery. {{storylink|Hunt for the Planicrons}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Commercial appearances==<br /> Skywarp's history of [[commercial]] appearances includes:<br /> <br /> * The very first Transformers animation, a commercial for [[The Transformers (issue)|Issue #1]] of Marvel's ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' comic book. On Earth, he flies across the desert with Starscream and Thundercracker to attack a power plant.<br /> <br /> * He is briefly seen battling in the desert against Hot Rod, Kup and Blurr, until Cyclonus and Scourge (!!) swoop in to counterattack. <br /> <br /> * Skywarp attacks an Autobot power station along with Thrust and Starscream in a commercial for Ultra Magnus.<br /> <br /> * He can be very briefly glimpsed swooping into battle alongside Galvatron (!!) on Earth in a subsequent commercial for [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and Galvatron.<br /> <br /> [[Image:LiveActionJazz-Skywarp01.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I bet he spiked the punch.]]<br /> <br /> * Along with his original Seeker wingmates, he gets barreled over by the Dinobots in a commercial for the Predacons.<br /> <br /> * A commercial for Transformers reflective iron-on patches advertised the &quot;[[Prizes in Disguise]]&quot; competition. When the [[iron-on patch]] was used, it was possible to find instead an instant win ticket for a Transformers voice changer (of the [[Enemy]] variety)—or to have a party with &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers! Among the &quot;life-size&quot; Transformers shown were [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and Skywarp. In all likelihood, you did not party with them.<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> [[Image:G1-toy SkywarpCommSeries.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Commemorative Series retooled Skywarp. Robot mode... that&amp;#39;s okay. Jet? Not so much.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Decepticon Jet, 1984/1985/2001/2003/2008)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''23'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 wings (left &amp;amp; right), 2 rudders (left &amp;amp; right), 2 tailfins (left &amp;amp; right), 2 fists (left &amp; right), front landing gear<br /> <br /> : The only 1984 [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] with a deco not used previously in [[Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' line, Skywarp transforms into an [[wikipedia:F-15_Eagle|F-15 Eagle]] fighter jet, sharing his mold with his teammates [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. Many parts need to be removed completely for transformation from robot to jet and back, which nowadays is considered a major drawback of the toy. It is rare to find it complete, as neither mode can hold all the pieces required. There are a few minor mold variations of this toy (common for the first two years of ''Transformers'', really), the most immediately noticeable being that early versions did not have visible &quot;clip-tabs&quot; on the inner face of the gauntlets.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Redeco.jpg|Early Hasbro stock photos of Skywarp]] show him with a plastic purple nosecone. This was changed to a soft, black rubber nosecone when the toy was actually released. However, a [http://tfarchive.com/toys/articles/toypics/mex_skywarp.jpg Mexican variant] retained the purple plastic nosecone. The same stock photos also show him with purple launchers with black triggers and muzzle rings, black feet, black shins, black outer arm panels, purple horizontal stabilizers, and both sets of purple missiles. These stock photos were also later used to promote Takara's 2001 reissue.<br /> <br /> : In 2001, Skywarp was given a short-run reissue (limited to only 1,000 pieces) by Takara as a convention-[[exclusive]] item, bundled together with Thundercracker as &quot;[[Collector's Edition]]&quot; Set C. The toy would later be more extensively released in 2003 as part of [[Hasbro]]'s [[Commemorative Series]] series IV, though due to US [[For safety reasons|toy-safety regulations]], his missiles were made extra-long since his spring-loaded launchers were now fully-functional.<br /> <br /> : In August, 2008, Skywarp was released with Thundercracker as number 11 in Takara's [[Transformers Encore]] line. For this release Skywarp's Decepticon symbols were painted and his purple stickers were changed to a much bluer shade of purple. Curiously, Skywarp's wing stripes in this release are factory-applied stickers, instead of the [[tampograph]]s on his two-pack buddy.<br /> <br /> : This mold was [[Redeco|redecoed]] into [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and retooled to make [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]].<br /> <br /> :For some reason, the stats on Skywarp's, Starscream's and Thundercracker's [[tech specs]] were switched around. Skywarp's box was given Starscream's numbers, which explains his high intelligence and rank. The actual specs intended for this toy, but accidentally given to Thundercracker, are presented here. Hasbro's Commemorative Series Skywarp reissue had his bio rewritten to explain his higher stats.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Machine Wars===<br /> [[Image:MWSkywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|After his near-fatal encounter with the Invert Colors function.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Basic, 1997)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 rifle halves<br /> : Sharing a mold once again with [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], Skywarp transforms into a white [[wikipedia:Rafale|Dassault Rafale]] fighter jet with spring-loaded one-step transformation from jet to robot. The two halves of his rifle store in his lower legs. Like all ''[[Machine Wars]]'' toys, Skywarp was an [[exclusive]] to Kay-Bee stores and related stores like Toy Liquidators.<br /> <br /> : This mold is also used by ''[[Beast Wars II (toyline)|Beast Wars II]]'' [[Dirge (BWII)|Dirge]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Skyfire (RID)|Skyfire]], ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' [[Wingstun]] and ''[[Timelines (fiction)|Timelines]]'' [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]].<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Machine Wars'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Universe (2003)===<br /> [[Image:TFU03-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Like [[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]], except he can fly.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2003)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missiles<br /> <br /> :''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of ''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] in his Generation 1 colors. He transforms into a Cybertronic fighter jet, armed with two spring-loaded projectile launchers that can fire orange &quot;energon&quot; bolts. These launchers end up in his arms in robot mode. He has a third robot mode that collapses the legs around the cockpit (oh hush), with flip-out panels revealing an extra pair of thrusters. His [[spark]] crystal, revealed by flipping the purple hatch on his back, has a Decepticon [[insignia]] [[tampograph]]ed on top of it.<br /> <br /> :Skywarp was also used to make ''Beast Machines'' [[Sonic Attack Jet]], ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Storm Jet (RID)|Storm Jet]], and ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm More information on Universe Skywarp at TFU.info]''<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Smallest Transforming Transformers===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2003)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''GTF X-1'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Smallest Transforming Transformers]]'' Skywarp was a very small-scale simplification of the original Generation 1 Seeker toy, retaining most of its functionality and accessories, except for his long null-rays. Skywarp was one of two [[Chase figure|chase figures]] from the first wave of the line.<br /> <br /> : This mold was redecoed from Starscream, then re-redecoed into Thundercracker, and finally retooled to make Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/SmallestSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Smallest Transforming Transformers'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> ===Robot Masters===<br /> [[Image:RMSkywarp toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Now with the proper articulation for down-stair-pushing.]]<br /> * '''Skywarp &amp;amp; Thundercracker''' (Multi-pack, 2005)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;<br /> <br /> : ''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from the same series, a smaller yet more advanced version of the original toy, adding more articulation and reducing the amount of [[Partformer|part-forming]] required. He was available only in a two-pack with Thundercracker, which also came with a Decepticon sigil pin and chromed missile pods. This set was the very last product released in the ''Robot Masters'' line and wasn't even strictly sold in a box from that series; instead, it used an [[e-Hobby]] ''Generation 1'' reissue box, with a small ''Robot Masters'' sticker in the corner tab noting its origin from the front.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Robot Masters'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Classics (2006)===<br /> [[Image:Class06-toy Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ultra Magnus isn&amp;#39;t pictured because he was just pushed-well, you know.]]<br /> * '''Ultra Magnus vs Skywarp: Battle For Autobot City''' (Multi-pack, 2006)<br /> **''Accessories:'' Left &amp;amp; right missile launchers, 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' Skywarp is a slight retool of the ''Classics'' Starscream mold, transforming into an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-15 Eagle fighter jet]], though with a canopy like that of an [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|F-14 Tomcat]]. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode and can attach under his wings in vehicle mode. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he also features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]]. <br /> <br /> : Skywarp was slightly [[Retool|retooled]] from the earlier Starscream figures. The retool is present in the jet intake area. The slope of his shoulders was decreased from Starscream's, and a rectangle added to the vertical area, making the number now five instead of four. This retooled version was used for all subsequent releases of the mold: ''Classics'' [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], as well as [[Acid Storm]] from ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]''. At the end of ''Classics'' Starscream's production run, he too used this version of the mold.<br /> <br /> : He was only available as part of a Target stores [[exclusive]] two-pack with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. The set's price was $19.99, despite including both a Voyager-class and Deluxe-class mold in it, which was approximately $30 worth of toys if they'd been sold separately. He was also available in Woolworth stores throughout the United Kingdom.<br /> <br /> : [[:Image:Classics Skywarp toy.jpg|Stock photos of ''Classics'' Skywarp]] showed a more detailed color scheme than the actual released figure. Much like ''Classics'' Ultra Magnus, the changes were most likely due to an overabundance of [[Paint operation]]s. This more detailed version was shown at [[BotCon 2006]] and at least one sample found its way to a collector's hands. The sample also used the original Starscream mold, and not the retooled version used for every version of the mold since and even including Starscream.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Classics'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Masterpiece===<br /> [[Image:MP-6 Skywarp.jpg|200px|thumb|Takara finally remembered what colors the Seekers are supposed to be.]]<br /> * '''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-6''' <br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 AIM missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot, Megatron Gun clasp, display stand<br /> <br /> : ''[[Masterpiece]]'' Skywarp was released in Japan in September of 2007. He is a redeco of the Masterpiece Starscream mold in black, gray, silver, and purple, though the purple and silver are more minimal than usual. Skywarp is able to switch between a minimally retooled stoic face and a new snarly face, retooled from Starscream's previous smirk. The tiny [[Doctor Arkeville]] pilot figurine (this time molded black) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime]].<br /> <br /> [[Image:MPSkywarp stickers.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Sadly, no stair-pusher sticker.]]<br /> : The sticker sheet includes Skywarp-esque stripes, as well as several whimsical squadron markings.<br /> <br /> :The second pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp (released in October 2008) features an assembly error: his left and right pectorals are flipped. This misassembly does not affect transformation at all, and is really only noticeable when compared to prior Masterpiece Seekers. The September 2007 pressing of Masterpiece Skywarp is assembled correctly. Masterpiece Thundercracker is misassembled as well.<br /> <br /> :It is a common misconception that the stoic face on Takara's Masterpiece Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker are the same, when all of them are in fact different sculpts.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Destron/Skywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Attacktix===<br /> *'''Skywarp'''<br /> <br /> : Skywarp was among the planned ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' game pieces that were showed at some conventions, but went unreleased as the line was canceled. He was to be a [[retool]] of sorts of the similarly unreleased ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]], using the same weapon and base but a brand new jet mold. Skywarp would've been able to detach from his base and fly on a string, enabling him to get better shots of opposing pieces. Any other details about his role in the game are unknown.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> ===Titanium Series===<br /> [[Image:Titanium-toy WWSkywarp.JPG|right|300px|thumb|]]<br /> *'''War Within Skywarp''' (San Diego Comic-Con 2008 exclusive)<br /> <br /> : [[Titanium Series]] ''[[War Within (toyline)|War Within]]'' Skywarp is a redeco of Thundercracker, transforming into a Cybertronian &quot;tetrajet&quot; as reimagined by [[Don Figueroa]]. As with all 6-inch Titanium Cybertron Heroes, he is constructed mostly of fully painted die-cast metal. He was available only at [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] after the Titanium line had already been cancelled, and also Hasbro Toy Shop's booth at [[wikipedia:San_Diego_Comic-Con|San Diego Comic-Con]] 2008.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''War Within'' Starscream, Sunstorm and Thrust.<br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/SDCCSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Titanium'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Henkei! Henkei!===<br /> [[Image:Henkei Skywarp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Skywarp grabbed the wrong launchers.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (Deluxe, 2008)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 missile launchers (left and right), 2 missiles<br /> <br /> : ''[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Skywarp is a [[Toy Hobby Market]] exclusive redeco of ''Henkei! Henkei!'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Skywarp and his fellow [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] were opened for pre-order on [[May 22]]nd through [[June 20]], and mailed out in September 2008.<br /> <br /> :Soon after release, there were numerous complaints from both Japanese and Western collectors about the poor quality control for both Thundercracker and Skywarp. Skywarp's most common fault was missing paint for one of his shoulders. Some reported both toys suffering misassembly issues such as having two left or two right thighs.<br /> <br /> :Several minor changes were made to this mold for this release. The holes for his missile launchers in his arms were widened, as were the launcher's insertion pegs. The wing's missile launcher insertion points were lengthened and are now curved at the end. The last rectangle on his air intakes, was further modified from the [[Classics (2006)|Classics]] version this time the bottom most rectangle goes completely across the air intake's surface rather than just the center. ''Henkei'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Generation 1 Series|Starscream]] also saw most of these changes.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Universe (2008)===<br /> [[Image:Universe2008-toy_MasterpieceSkywarp.jpg|thumb|right|300px|]]<br /> *'''Masterpiece Skywarp''' (2009)<br /> **''Accessories:'' 2 &quot;Machine Guns&quot;, 2 missile racks, Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine, gun clip, two-piece display stand <br /> : A [[Wal-Mart]] exclusive redeco of the original Masterpiece Starscream mold. Just like Starscream, Skywarp is able to switch between two different faces. This release uses the Starscream's stoic and smirking alternate faces rather than the Takara Masterpiece Skywarp's newly-tooled stoic and snarling faces. Hasbro designer [[Joe_Kyde|Joe Kyde]] felt the alternate snarling face did not fit Skywarp's prankster personality, so he went with the Starscream smirk face instead when designing the deco for Hasbro's release. As a result of gang molding, Skywarp also uses Starscream's stoic face, the decision being the difference between Skywarp and Starscream's stoic face was negligible enough not to make a significant difference. The toy also features a more G1 toy styled deco rather than cartoon-based, particularly in the yellow eye color and wing stripes. His purple more closely matches that of the original toy than the purple used on the Takara version, and features a lighter flat black, like the original toy, instead of Takara's darker glossy black. The Hasbro version replaces some of the dark gray of the Takara version with a dark silver, removes the arm and chest striping, but adds additional red detailing, while removing some as well. Much like Hasbro's Starscream, he does not feature any of the warning or slogan tampographs, but features tampographed striping, Decepticon symbols, and some additional paint details not present on the Takara version.<br /> : The tiny Doctor Arkeville pilot figurine (molded in black with no paint applications) is also included, as well as a clasp for jet-mode Skywarp to hold the gun-mode Megatron that came with Masterpiece Convoy/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime and a stand (featuring Skywarp's name) with a support beam for jet or robot mode. <br /> <br /> ::*[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/MPSkywarp/skywarp.htm ''More information on ''Masterpiece'' Skywarp at TFU.info'']<br /> <br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Alternity===<br /> [[Image:Alternity_skywarp_toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Mortal minds cannot even comprehend the four-dimensional hyperstairs he can push you down.]]<br /> *'''Skywarp Witch Purple Pearl''' ([[May 29|5/29]]/2010)<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''A-04'''<br /> <br /> :Skywarp is a [[retool]] of the simultaneously released ''[[Alternity (franchise)|Alternity]]'' Starscream with a new head, transforming into a licensed 1:32 scale [[wikipedia:Mitsuoka_Orochi|Mitsuoka Orochi]]. Like the other toys in the line, he will feature [[die-cast]] metal parts and rubber tires, as well as an opening hood, trunk and doors. In car mode, small wings can be flipped out from under Skywarp's rear wheels, giving him the appearance of a flying car. <br /> <br /> :This mold, with Skywarp's head, was also used to make [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]].<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Decoy===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (1986)<br /> ** ''Decoy ID number:'' '''33'''<br /> <br /> : ''[[Decoy]]'' Skywarp is a tiny, purple, soft-rubber figurine randomly packed with smaller toys at the time. To differentiate him from Starscream and Thundercracker, Skywarp is sculpted holding his arms above his head in a cheering pose.<br /> <br /> : Like all Decepticon Decoys, Skywarp was also available in red for a limited time. This release is considerably rarer than the regular purple one.<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Lucky Draw figure, 2001)<br /> <br /> : ''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' Skywarp is a non-transforming action figure [[redeco]]ed from ''SCF'' [[Starscream (G1)/toys|Starscream]]. Limited to 200 pieces, he was only available as the second place prize in a [[Lucky Draw]] contest held in conjunction with the first edition of ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' (with the &quot;[[Starscream (G1)/toys#SecretStarscream|Secret Starscream]]&quot; toy as the first place prize). Due to the bankruptcy of the ''Transformers: Generations'' publisher, [[Keibunsha]], it is unknown whether the Japanese version of Skywarp was ever actually sent out or not.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make ''Super Collection Figure'' [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' (see below) Starscream, Thundercracker, [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] and the [[Air Warrior]]s.<br /> <br /> ===Heroes of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2002)<br /> <br /> : When the ''Super Collection Figure'' line was brought to the US as ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', Skywarp was widely released as part of the first wave. Unlike ''SCF'', ''HOC'' figures were composed of transparent red plastic that was mostly painted over, giving them [[light-piping|&quot;light-up&quot; eyes]].<br /> <br /> * '''Decepticon''' (2003)<br /> <br /> : Same as the American version above, but part of an [[OTFCC 2003]]-exclusive six-pack of figures which also included Starscream, Thundercracker, and three [[Air Warrior]]s. It featured a more metallic paint job from the normal release and slightly different paint details.{{fact}}<br /> <br /> ===Legends of Cybertron===<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (2004, unreleased)<br /> <br /> [[Image:OTFCCSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Doesn't so much teleport as not exist in the first place.]]<br /> <br /> : A redeco of ''Mega Super Figure Collection'' G1 Starscream (minus the extra coronation accessories, open-palm hands, and the hand wielding Megatron in gun mode), Skywarp was to be among the first of the fan club exclusives offered by [[The Official Transformers Collectors Convention|OTFCC]] as well as the first in their ''Legends of Cybertron'' line. The figure was delayed and never saw a full release due to [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]] losing the license to run the official Transformers fan club. At least a couple of sample versions were produced.<br /> <br /> {{canceledtoy}}<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Palisades===<br /> [[Image:PalisadesSkywarp.jpg|thumb|Decepticon on a stick! Get yer Decepticon on a stick!]]<br /> * '''Skywarp''' (Palisades, 2005)<br /> <br /> :A ''SmallBluePlanet''-exclusive redeco of the Starscream statue, Skywarp is a six inch tall polystone statue with articulated head and arms. He can stand normally or use a stand to take on a &quot;hovering&quot; pose. Skywarp was limited to 300 pieces, and sculpted by [[3L Creation Group]] from a design by [[George Tremarco]].<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker and the Ghost of Starscream.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Robot Heroes===<br /> [[Image:Robot Hero Skywarp.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Clearly just after shoving Starscream down a flight of stairs.]]<br /> * '''Decepticon Sneak Attack''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : Skywarp is one of the five exclusive figures in Wal-Mart's &quot;Decepticon Sneak Attack&quot; set, alongside [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], [[Mirage (G1)|holographic Mirage]] and &quot;Supermetal Finish&quot; versions of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. He's a black and purple redeco of Starscream, yes. His left hand's for pushing you down stairs, his right fist's for pumping the air in victory. Sweet, sweet stair-based victory.<br /> <br /> : This mold was also used to make Thundercracker.<br /> <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===3D Battle-Card Game===<br /> *'''Skywarp''' (2007)<br /> <br /> : A 25-point &quot;uncommon&quot; character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s &quot;Energon Wars&quot; expansion, Skywarp &quot;transforms&quot; into a black and purple jet. He uses the same parts layout as [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]].<br /> <br /> ==Trivia==<br /> * Skywarp's one-line characterization in the original Transformers [[production bible]] was &quot;sneaky but dumb&quot;. Hee hee. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#034] In a more peculiar note, his longer write-up in the production bible noted that he was colored olive drab. [http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#038] This error isn't as unusual as one might first think, as Skywarp was the only first-year jet whose colors didn't originate in ''[[Diaclone]]''—thus, they simply may not have been decided upon when the production bible was written.<br /> <br /> [[Image:Skywarpatron.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Skywarp really DID need close supervision.]]<br /> * In a possible fit of madness, a triple changer was proposed that would switch between Skywarp (possibly mistaken for Starscream), [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], and Skywarp's jet mode.<br /> <br /> * Character bios written by unknown persons for the Australian (Madman) DVD release of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' definitely claim that [[Cyclonus (G1)|Skywarp became Cyclonus]]. Basically, nobody considers that weighty &quot;evidence&quot;.<br /> <br /> * Skywarp is the only Seeker with wing stripes that are not red.<br /> <br /> * For such a popular character, Skywarp doesn't DO much of anything in the original show.<br /> <br /> * [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Machine_Wars|Despite]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Classics_.282006.29|many]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Heroes_of_Cybertron|releases]], [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Titanium_Series|Skywarp]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Henkei.21_Henkei.21|is]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Universe_.282008.29|usually]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Robot_Heroes|an]] [[Skywarp_%28G1%29#Generation_1_2|exclusive.]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;amp;char=Skywarp Skywarp's Universe profile at NTFA.net]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Alternity characters]]<br /> [[Category:Attacktix]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Machines characters]]<br /> [[Category:Classics characters]]<br /> [[Category:Convention exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 2 characters]]<br /> [[Category:Henkei! Henkei! characters]]<br /> [[Category:Machine Wars characters]]<br /> [[Category:Robot Heroes]]<br /> [[Category:3D Battle-Cards]]<br /> [[Category:Robot Masters characters]]<br /> [[Category:Seekers]]<br /> [[Category:Target exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Universe characters]]<br /> [[Category:Wal-Mart exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Wreckers]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Ruination_(ROTF)&diff=469655 2010-06-27T18:05:32Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticonfilm}}<br /> {{disambig2|the Decepticon from [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]|the Decepticon [[combiner]] from [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|RID]]|Ruination (RID)}}<br /> :''Ruination is a Decepticon from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> {{faceless}}<br /> <br /> '''Ruination''' is an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. He was among several Decepticons who found their way to [[Earth]] in answer to a call from [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]. His form is very similar to the Decepticon [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]. <br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===''The Veiled Threat'' prequel novel===<br /> <br /> A [[NEST]] unit that was investigating a Decepticon sighting in Peru was ambushed on a narrow mountain road by Ruination and [[Blademaster]]. During the brief but intense fire-fight that followed, Blademaster was critically injured and fell from the mountain road hundreds of meters to the jungle below. Ruination broke off his attack to retrieve his partner and went off to heal his wounds. {{storylink|The Veiled Threat}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category: Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category: Prose-only characters]]<br /> [[Category: Revenge of the Fallen characters]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Ruination_(ROTF)&diff=469652 2010-06-27T18:04:50Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticonfilm}}<br /> {{disambig2|the Decepticon from [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]|the Decepticon [[combiner]] from [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|RID]]|Ruination (RID)}}<br /> :''Ruination is a Decepticon Commando from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> {{faceless}}<br /> <br /> '''Ruination''' is an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. He was among several Decepticons who found their way to [[Earth]] in answer to a call from [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]. His form is very similar to the Decepticon [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]. <br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===''The Veiled Threat'' prequel novel===<br /> <br /> A [[NEST]] unit that was investigating a Decepticon sighting in Peru was ambushed on a narrow mountain road by Ruination and [[Blademaster]]. During the brief but intense fire-fight that followed, Blademaster was critically injured and fell from the mountain road hundreds of meters to the jungle below. Ruination broke off his attack to retrieve his partner and went off to heal his wounds. {{storylink|The Veiled Threat}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category: Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category: Prose-only characters]]<br /> [[Category: Revenge of the Fallen characters]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Ruination_(ROTF)&diff=469651 2010-06-27T18:03:46Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|autobotfilm}}<br /> {{disambig2|the Decepticon from [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]|the Decepticon [[combiner]] from [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|RID]]|Ruination (RID)}}<br /> :''Ruination is a Autobot Commando from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> {{faceless}}<br /> <br /> '''Ruination''' is an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. He was among several Decepticons who found their way to [[Earth]] in answer to a call from [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]. His form is very similar to the Decepticon [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]. <br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===''The Veiled Threat'' prequel novel===<br /> <br /> A [[NEST]] unit that was investigating a Decepticon sighting in Peru was ambushed on a narrow mountain road by Ruination and [[Blademaster]]. During the brief but intense fire-fight that followed, Blademaster was critically injured and fell from the mountain road hundreds of meters to the jungle below. Ruination broke off his attack to retrieve his partner and went off to heal his wounds. {{storylink|The Veiled Threat}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category: Autobots]]<br /> [[Category: Prose-only characters]]<br /> [[Category: Revenge of the Fallen characters]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Ruination_(ROTF)&diff=469649 2010-06-27T18:02:16Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticonfilm}}<br /> {{disambig2|the Decepticon from [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]|the Decepticon [[combiner]] from [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|RID]]|Ruination (RID)}}<br /> :''Ruination is a Decepticon Commando from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> {{faceless}}<br /> <br /> '''Ruination''' is an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. He was among several Decepticons who found their way to [[Earth]] in answer to a call from [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]. His form is very similar to the Decepticon [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]. <br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===''The Veiled Threat'' prequel novel===<br /> <br /> A [[NEST]] unit that was investigating a Decepticon sighting in Peru was ambushed on a narrow mountain road by Ruination and [[Blademaster]]. During the brief but intense fire-fight that followed, Blademaster was critically injured and fell from the mountain road hundreds of meters to the jungle below. Ruination broke off his attack to retrieve his partner and went off to heal his wounds. {{storylink|The Veiled Threat}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category: Autobots]]<br /> [[Category: Prose-only characters]]<br /> [[Category: Revenge of the Fallen characters]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Ruination_(ROTF)&diff=469647 2010-06-27T18:01:09Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|autobotfilm}}<br /> {{disambig2|the Decepticon from [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]|the Decepticon [[combiner]] from [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|RID]]|Ruination (RID)}}<br /> :''Ruination is a Autobot from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> {{faceless}}<br /> <br /> '''Ruination''' is an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. He was among several Decepticons who found their way to [[Earth]] in answer to a call from [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]. His form is very similar to the Decepticon [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]. <br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===''The Veiled Threat'' prequel novel===<br /> <br /> A [[NEST]] unit that was investigating a Decepticon sighting in Peru was ambushed on a narrow mountain road by Ruination and [[Blademaster]]. During the brief but intense fire-fight that followed, Blademaster was critically injured and fell from the mountain road hundreds of meters to the jungle below. Ruination broke off his attack to retrieve his partner and went off to heal his wounds. {{storylink|The Veiled Threat}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category: Autobots]]<br /> [[Category: Prose-only characters]]<br /> [[Category: Revenge of the Fallen characters]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Ruination_(ROTF)&diff=469646 2010-06-27T18:00:43Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|autobotfilm}}<br /> {{disambig2|the Decepticon from [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]|the Decepticon [[combiner]] from [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|RID]]|Ruination (RID)}}<br /> :''Ruination is a Autobot from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> {{faceless}}<br /> <br /> '''Ruination''' is an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. He was among several Decepticons who found their way to [[Earth]] in answer to a call from [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]. His form is very similar to the Decepticon [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]. <br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===''The Veiled Threat'' prequel novel===<br /> <br /> A [[NEST]] unit that was investigating a Decepticon sighting in Peru was ambushed on a narrow mountain road by Ruination and [[Blademaster]]. During the brief but intense fire-fight that followed, Blademaster was critically injured and fell from the mountain road hundreds of meters to the jungle below. Ruination broke off his attack to retrieve his partner and went off to heal his wounds. {{storylink|The Veiled Threat}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category: Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category: Prose-only characters]]<br /> [[Category: Revenge of the Fallen characters]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=File:ROTF_BruticusMaximus_boxart.jpg&diff=466189 2010-06-18T20:51:23Z

<p>William: uploaded a new version of &quot;Image:ROTF BruticusMaximus boxart.jpg&quot;: Ruination (Bruticus Maximus)</p> <hr /> <div>[[Bruticus Maximus (ROTF)|Bruticus Maximus]]'s head as seen on his toy packaging. Artist unknown.<br /> <br /> {{c}} [[Hasbro]], 2009<br /> {{hastak}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Revenge of the Fallen packaging art]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Ruination_(ROTF)&diff=466188 2010-06-18T20:50:26Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticonfilm}}<br /> {{disambig2|the Decepticon from [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]|the Decepticon [[combiner]] from [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|RID]]|Ruination (RID)}}<br /> :''Ruination is a Decepticon from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> {{faceless}} [[Image:ROTF_BruticusMaximus_boxart]]<br /> <br /> '''Ruination''' is an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. He was among several Decepticons who found their way to [[Earth]] in answer to a call from [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]. His form is very similar to the Decepticon [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]. <br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===''The Veiled Threat'' prequel novel===<br /> <br /> A [[NEST]] unit that was investigating a Decepticon sighting in Peru was ambushed on a narrow mountain road by Ruination and [[Blademaster]]. During the brief but intense fire-fight that followed, Blademaster was critically injured and fell from the mountain road hundreds of meters to the jungle below. Ruination broke off his attack to retrieve his partner and went off to heal his wounds. {{storylink|The Veiled Threat}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category: Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category: Prose-only characters]]<br /> [[Category: Revenge of the Fallen characters]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=File:Gentei-darkskyfire-toy.jpg&diff=464101 2010-06-11T03:09:05Z

<p>William: uploaded a new version of &quot;Image:Gentei-darkskyfire-toy.jpg&quot;: Decepticon Henkei Jetfire From Henkei! Henkei!</p> <hr /> <div>TakaraTomy stock photo of ''[[Henkei! Henkei! (toyline)|Gentei! Gentei!]]'' [[Jetfire (G1)#Henkei! Henkei!|Dark Skyfire]] toy. From [http://www.toyhobby.jp/commodity_param/ctc/2/shc/0/cmc/4904810376705/ ToyHobby Market].<br /> <br /> {{C}} 2009 TakaraTomy<br /> {{stock}}</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Landcross_(G1)&diff=459796 2010-05-24T01:11:29Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|autobot}}<br /> {{disambig2|the heroic combiner from ''Victory''|his evil counterpart from &quot;Shattered Glass&quot;|Landcross (SG)}}<br /> :''Landcross is an [[Autobot]] [[combiner]] from the [[Victory (english)|Victory]] and [[Micromaster Collection]] portions of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> [[Image:Landcross.jpg|right|250px|thumb|&quot;SkyMenorah&quot; didn't pass legal.]]<br /> '''Landcross''' is the combined form of all three [[Multiforce|Multiforce]] warriors, making him the combined form of all six Multiforce warriors.<br /> <br /> Landcross is composed of:<br /> <br /> *[[Wingwaver]] (the combined form of [[Wing]] and [[Waver]])<br /> *[[Dashtacker]] (the combined form of [[Dash (Victory)|Dash]] and [[Tacker]])<br /> *[[Machtackle]] (the combined form of [[Mach]] and [[Tackle]])<br /> <br /> His main purpose is to be beaten up to show how strong an enemy is.<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Cartoon continuity===<br /> ====''Victory'' cartoon====<br /> :''Voice actor: [[Masashi Hironaka|Masashi Hironaka]] (Japan)''<br /> <br /> When the Decepticons attempted to steal an energy plant, the Multiforce arrived to repel them. Wishing to prove themselves capable warriors, they elected not to contact [[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]], and instead combined into Landcross to combat [[Dinoking]].<br /> <br /> Things were looking grim when, thanks to an SOS sent by [[Jean Minakaze]], Star Saber and the [[Brainmaster]]s arrived. Landcross and Star Saber jointly fought off Dinoking, and Star Saber admonished Landcross not to be so reckless. {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}}<br /> <br /> Later, with an injury sustained by [[Blacker]] leaving the [[Brainmaster]]s unable to form [[Road Caesar]]{{storylink|Battle Up of Wrath!!}}, the Multiforce journeyed to [[Antarctica]] to counter a Decepticon attack on an UN scientific survey. They formed Landcross and fought [[Liokaiser]] alongside [[Galaxy Shuttle]], but got their skidplates whupped. Fortunately, Star Saber was able to arrive in time to turn the tide.{{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}}.<br /> <br /> Landcross was later beaten up by Dinoking in America, but was saved by [[Victory Leo]] {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}. When [[Deathsaurus]] launched his final attack on Earth, Landcross managed to blow up one of the asteroids fired from the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]], but was badly injured in the resulting explosion. After the war, he was assigned to [[Vega Sector]] and given the rank of governor.{{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}.<br /> <br /> ====''Zone'' cartoon====<br /> Landcross was seen among other high-ranking Autobots (such as [[Road Caesar]], [[Grand Maximus]], [[Metalhawk]], [[Lander]], and the Autobot [[Godmaster]]s) when [[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]] was sworn-in by [[Star Saber (Victory)|Victory Saber]] as the new [[Supreme Commander]] of the Autobot forces.<br /> <br /> ====Micromaster Collection====<br /> After falling through a dimensional rift while testing their new stealth modes, the Multiforce combined into Landcross to fight [[Sixwing|Berserker Sixwing]]. They kicked his butt.<br /> <br /> ===''Victory'' manga===<br /> <br /> The Multiforce was summoned to Earth by Star Saber and battled Dinoking as Landcross. After defeating Dinoking, Landcross separated in order to swarm Deathsaurus with superior numbers. {{storylink|Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber!}}<br /> <br /> On their next mission, the Multiforce were unable to best Deathsaurus while combined as Landcross. Even the arrival of Road Caesaar and Star Saber didn't tip the balance of power in their favor. Only after [[Solon]] accidentally distracted Deathsaurus were the Autobots able to get the upper hand. {{storylink|Great Turn-Around! Star Saber}}<br /> <br /> Sometime later, Landcross and Road Caesar arrived too late for battle, as Victory Saber had already moved down all the Decepticons in his path. {{storylink|The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!}} Landcross also fought against the Decepticon space base in the final battle when it was raining meteors down upon Earth. {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Victory===<br /> [[Image:Landcross toy.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Not Captain Planet, we swear.]]<br /> *'''Landcross''' (1989)<br /> ** ''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-319'''<br /> :The original version of Landcross was available both as a giftset and separately as Wingwaver, Dashtacker, and Machtackle, although the individual robots were never sold separately. In addition to transforming separately into robot and vehicle modes and combining into Landcross, the six toys could also be combined in two-robot pairs, with one robot forming the head, upper torso, and arms and the other forming the lower torso and legs. The six robots' guns could be combined into a single large weapon.<br /> <br /> ===Micromaster Collection===<br /> * '''Landcross''' (Micromaster, 2003) <br /> <br /> :In 2004, the entire Multiforce was re-released as part of the Micromaster Collection (despite having never previously been considered Micromasters), in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box. For this release, all of the decals from the original version were replaced with paint applications. Landcross could only be assembled by buying all six components individually; he was never offered as a complete set. <br /> <br /> :In every case of twelve Multiforce &quot;Micromasters,&quot; two of them were solid-black-plastic &quot;stealth mode&quot; variations. All six toys were available in this manner, and could be combined into a black &quot;stealth mode&quot; Landcross.<br /> <br /> ==Trivia==<br /> *While the relationship between the ''Micromaster Collection'' versions of [[Sixliner]], [[Sixturbo]], [[Sixwing]], [[Sixbuilder]], and [[Sixtrain]] and their counterparts in ''[[Operation Combination (franchise)|Operation Combination]]'' (or ''[[Return of Convoy (franchise)|Return of Convoy]]'' in the case of Sixliner) is unclear, the ''Micromaster Collection'' Multiforce are explicitly the same as the ''Victory'' Multiforce, and thus the ''Micromaster Collection'' Landcross is the same character as the ''Victory'' Landcross.<br /> *Oddly enough, only half of ''Land''cross's components transform into land vehicles.<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Cybertron/Landcross/landcross.htm Landcross at TFU.info]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Combined forms]]<br /> [[Category:Multiforce]]</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=457279 2010-05-16T02:24:38Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100px;line-height:100px;font-weight:900;&quot;&gt;THE FUNNY STAYS.&lt;/span&gt;<br /> -The Management<br /> <br /> __TOC__<br /> <br /> &lt;span style=&quot;font-size:2em&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Please use this talk page for discussion about the [[Main Page]].<br /> <br /> To discuss site-wide policies, please visit [[Transformers Wiki Talk:Community Portal|the Community Portal talk page]].&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Archives==<br /> *[[Talk:Main_Page/Archive1|Archive1]]<br /> *[[Talk:Main_Page/Archive2|Archive2]]<br /> *[[Talk:Main_Page/Archive3|Archive3]]<br /> *[[Talk:Main_Page/Archive4|Archive4]]<br /> <br /> ==WHA'PPEN?==<br /> <br /> So...what on Earth has happened to the TFWiki? Also, for some reason the old Wikia seems to have gained all of the articles that are now missing from here. (Such as the Season 3 animated stuff)<br /> :Seems to me that we've reverted to a June 2008 version of the database which could be really bad news. Some of my articles [[Macabre]] for example are at the old site but not here, which would make sense since I wrote it in September 2008 before we moved here. I don't even have a login here anymore - Emvee :( [[Special:Contributions/77.102.92.218|77.102.92.218]] 19:31, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::Looks like our brain-damaged friend is back again.<br /> :::There's some more info on the [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=51208&amp;view=findpost&amp;p=1155749 wiki thread in the Allspark forums]. Looks like an upgrade handled very very sloppily. I'm hoping once they restore the old database it'll overwrite the changes made in the interim, seeing as how our favorite Idiot Vandal With No Life is on a rampage. (Sigh.) Wiping out his stupid crap in one go would be priceless. (This is Jeysie, BTW.) --[[Special:Contributions/72.79.219.120|72.79.219.120]] 19:41, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::Thank Primus. I was worried someone had hacked in and deleted the database. The thought of 6 months work lost filled me with dread. --abates 19:46, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::::Ditto. Dread all round here too. Good to know it's in hand. --Emvee [[Special:Contributions/77.102.92.218|77.102.92.218]] 19:48, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::::You know... assuming it does get overwritten so we don't have to worry about undoing it, watching our pet vandal complain about how the wiki malfunctioning prevents him from vandalizing properly is one of the most morbidly hilarious things I've seen in a while. -Jeysie --[[Special:Contributions/72.79.219.120|72.79.219.120]] 20:07, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::::::Don't I know it, I was just having a laugh at that with the other half :) --Emvee [[Special:Contributions/77.102.92.218|77.102.92.218]] 20:16, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::::You know, there are some benefits about this. On the one hand, people don't have to worry about being spoiled about TransWarped. On the other, we get to see Assaulthead self-destruct in rage as he can't vandalize the wiki. However, there is one concern: What if they can't retrieve the lost information? -- (SFH) [[Special:Contributions/67.164.210.225|67.164.210.225]] 20:11, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::::I'm assuming that Bookworm made a database backup before he started work. Should be fairly simple to upload it again. Which means this conversation never happened. --Emvee [[Special:Contributions/77.102.92.218|77.102.92.218]] 20:16, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::::I've decided I don't want to think about what happens if he didn't. (Realistically about all we could do is a crapload of trawling through Google's cache, but even then we'd pretty much be seriously hosed.) --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.219.120|72.79.219.120]] 20:18, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::::I didn't spot this thread until right after emailing Suki and Walky (one knows the code well, the other is right by the servers) about the situation (though I figure they already know), as I thought it might have been Assaulthead showing a heretofore hidden hacking genius. (Hey, if Bulkhead can be a space bridge genius...) I hope to heck we don't lose all those months of work. Someone really needs to work on that update process... --Apcog [[Special:Contributions/99.158.0.251|99.158.0.251]] 20:21, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::::It would be a real pain if all that work was lost. I hope it's not. How long would it take to get everything back up again? --Tribor<br /> <br /> Guys, stop worrying and check out the community portal talk page. That's been restored and its last post was only a couple of days ago. Unless that's the ''only'' page on the enitire wiki that was backed-up, the most that could maybe have been lost is a couple of days' worth. (Okay, as soon as I wrote this, that page got fucked up, too.) The main thing to think about is first-time visitors seeing the site like this. - Magnus Maximus<br /> :I just find it sad that the only person who can log in (with multiple usernames, it seems) is the guy with the (so imaginative) gift for profanity. --Emvee [[Special:Contributions/77.102.92.218|77.102.92.218]] 20:49, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::That's only because he keeps making new accounts every time he shows up, since we keep blocking the old ones.--Apcog [[Special:Contributions/72.48.68.223|72.48.68.223]] 00:15, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> What worries me, is... why is the database even that far back? Even if we somehow lost everything, we should at least be stuck in how the wiki looked when we first arrived, but we've been rolled almost three months before that. (The last edits in the histories all seem to be mid-June 2008, but didn't we move here in mid-September 2008?) --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.219.120|72.79.219.120]] 21:02, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> : Yeah, but IIRC we moved in with an older backup and ended up losing a little bit of stuff? -hx [[Special:Contributions/24.30.97.198|24.30.97.198]] 21:14, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::Only a few weeks at most, though, IIRC, not three months' worth. (Not that it really matters if we did lose everything, it just makes me even more worried that this backup/upgrade wasn't done right.) --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.219.120|72.79.219.120]] 21:24, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> :::I just don't uderstand why there wasn't a working failsafe in case something like this happened. I mean come on have you ever heard of an SD card or floppy disk? --E-Bot<br /> Somebody set up us the bomb. --Interrobang 21:26, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> Straight up! I agree, it dosesn't make any sense Dawg. Yo but you know i'm still concerned if something like this could happen again, and if the damage could much more worse than it is now. --The Man 21:19, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::There had been discussion for several months about creating a proper back-up system.<br /> ::::No one really thought it was important. *eyeroll* -[[Special:Contributions/207.224.69.82|207.224.69.82]] 23:00, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::::I had a look at the page for exporting the database a week or so ago but couldn't work out how to make it give me any data. I kinda wish I'd stuck at it now. Oh well, I'm just hanging out for some sort of official word on what's happening now... --abates 23:09, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::::Who are we gonna get the offical word from? Admin? I've only been able to track two. This is what really gets me though, I've put more work into this wiki in the past four months than any other time. But I'm kinda doubting that this entire thing was Assualthead, even though his fancy with profanity is some kind of wonderment. I hate worrying because it's like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but doesn't get you anywhere.--AWT88--[[Special:Contributions/98.19.92.58|98.19.92.58]] 23:25, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::::Walky just [http://shortpacked.livejournal.com/481400.html blogged] on the matter.<br /> ::::::It looks like our host decided to spontaneously upgrade our software without warning or asking us first, forgot to make a database backup while doing so, things got corrupted and now he's slapped in the database we had during transition just to get things working while he digs through the backup archives to find the most up-to-date regular update.<br /> ::::::(I am not relaxing until this update is in-hand. That's the kind of flim-flam answer I usually associate with &quot;oops it's all gone&quot; unless I'm informed somethign is going to happen AHEAD of time.) -Derik<br /> :::::::OK, I have [http://www.aldenbates.com/allpages.txt here] a list of all content pages on the Wiki from roughly 4 days ago. I am thinking of writing something to request and save the Google cache of every damn one of them tonight. Actually converting them to Wiki format and restoring them is another matter. --abates 00:34, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::::::Google Cache is passable - I tried a few links that I was able to access and they were about at least a week to three weeks off. --lonegamer78 [[Special:Contributions/76.95.138.16|76.95.138.16]] 00:44, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::::::::If you can automate such a thing, I'd say go for it, Abates, just in case. The TV Tropes folks saved their own wiki from a crash with Google's cache, so while it'll be a crapton of work, it'll still be way better than starting over after losing 9 months of work. And if it turns out we didn't need it because Idiot Server guy gets things running again, well... just a little time wasted, then. --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.218.38|72.79.218.38]] 01:21, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::::::::Hrm, as I more or less expected, Google throttled me. I'm not sure of a better way to get the cache pages though. :/ --abates 02:26, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> <br /> The not-entirely-ultrahorrific news is that the Google cache of every page I've tested for is from March 9th. So at least there IS a record of really everything we've done here; we've only &quot;lost&quot; TransWarped and one or two comic issues. <br /> <br /> But for fuck's sake we have to get this nailed down SOON. <br /> <br /> First question: is it possible for Google to make a cache of the current lobotomized pages? How long will they rely on their March 9th cache of, say, Kup, before they make a new image of it based on the piece of shit Bookworm reverted us to? Can we ask them to STOP updating? <br /> <br /> And does this current incarnation of TFWiki still have the quarter-million implanted redirects to Wikia in it? 'Cos if it does, fuck, we're better off pulling the plug on the site altogether and only putting it back when it's presentable. '''Thylacine 2000''' --[[Special:Contributions/74.73.131.210|74.73.131.210]] 11:03, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> :Agreed. There is absolutely no reason for the site to be up right now. We're begging Google to overwrite their old cache. '''Chip''' [[Special:Contributions/161.203.16.1|161.203.16.1]] 11:39, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> ===Another thing comin'===<br /> Okay, people, look here. I don't know jack from shit about databases and backups and servers and whatnot, but what I do know is this:<br /> <br /> ''This is a fucking catastrophe.''<br /> <br /> In the very best possible scenario, we've had a site that's been down all freakin' day. That's if we're very, very lucky, apparently. This is also a site that goes down every single night at 1:10am central time, and stays down from several minutes up to an hour. Every. Single. Night. Like clockwork. This is a known issue and in 6 months, nothing has been done about it.<br /> <br /> That's if we're lucky. If we're ''not'' lucky, and I'm seeing no reason to think we are, then we've lost ''eight months of work'', all thanks to some bizarre software update that... does what? Was it even necessary? Was something broken here? Was that whole thing where the site appeared to be working, was that just me hallucinating?<br /> <br /> Furthermore, if this required taking down the whole site, ''why on god's green earth was a full backup not made immediately beforehand???''<br /> <br /> Daily outages for 6 months, lost backups, no backups before software updates, and a site that's now rudderless. We were supposed to make a clean, sharp, snazzy break from Wikia, show that we'd be better off on our own and didn't need them. At the moment, we instead look like ''idiots'' who can't hack it. <br /> <br /> We HAVE advertising money, yes? It is time to find a ''professional'' site host, and PAY THEM for their services so we can in turn get reliable hosting. The free charity hosting thing was very nice, but it seems we've gotten what we paid for. -- repowers, not freakin' signed in.<br /> <br /> : Yeah, seriously, what was the server guy ''thinking''? The way this should have been done:<br /> #Ask us first.<br /> #Give at least a week's scheduled warning once we gave permission. (I mean... premiere of the first big TF info in a while kind of is a ''really'' bad time to be doing this sort of thing...)<br /> #Put the wiki in locked-down Maintenance Mode.<br /> #Backup the wiki.<br /> #Upgrade.<br /> #Test it out.<br /> #Unlock the wiki.<br /> <br /> :...I'm with you, there's gotta be some webhost we can pay that's better than this silliness. (I'd recommend Dreamhost, but admittedly, while they're more reliable than these folks, I still wouldn't offer it up for more than simple hobby sites.) --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.222.241|72.79.222.241]] 23:51, 15 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> :Yeah, this was the ''one reservation'' I had against ditching Wikia - that entrusting our work to some random host would be riskier than a company that does nothing ''but'' wikis. Every time I mentioned it, I was either patted on the head or ignored. Maybe NOW the danger will be taken more seriously. - Jackpot [[Special:Contributions/216.231.37.133|216.231.37.133]] 00:53, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::In all fairness, this wasn't &quot;some random host.&quot; This would be &quot;the guy Walky pays to host Blank Label, where his livelihood resides.&quot; --Rosicrucian --[[Special:Contributions/67.232.209.132|67.232.209.132]] 01:15, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::Not just Walky, but all the other people on BLC. Near as I can tell, this kind of thing has ''never happened'' with the BLC servers before. '''M Sipher'''--[[Special:Contributions/75.177.130.173|75.177.130.173]] 05:38, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::And the problem is that Wikia was unreliable too, in entirely different ways. If we'd stayed with them the wiki might be up... but they'd also be randomly breaking things by upgrading without our permission, and screwing around with our content. Personally, I wish we simply had a webhost where we were allowed to do our own backups/upgrades... --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.218.38|72.79.218.38]] 01:21, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::Well, we had no real reason to suspect this would happen. Walkypedia has been on this same server, with the same hosting and same maintenance guy for years (albeit it's not a wiki of anywhere near this scale). Bookworm had, previously, seemed to have his act together. We just have to hope that he gets it back up, and that he's properly chastised by this.--Rosicrucian, [[Special:Contributions/67.232.209.132|67.232.209.132]] 01:24, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::::It's just that... personally, I'm dismayed we were trusting an &quot;outside&quot; IT person to maintain our site anyway. I had thought Suki and Derik were handling things. I mean, If I'm going to host something on my own webspace from a webhost, I'm of the &quot;Take my money, give me webspace, keep the space online, and let me handle the rest&quot; mentality. Or at the very least, not do anything to my site unless I authorize it and I'm there watching... --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.218.38|72.79.218.38]] 01:30, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> I beleve that we must do everything in our power to restore the wiki post-hast. Otherwise we will fall behind so far it may set us back weeks even months just to get caught up again. And if I might add that if anyone copied any of the articales we can use that information help fix the problem. I know it sounds complcated but we have to try. To me this not just a wiki it stands for everything Transfomers are. --D.J.Sky 03:35 15 March (2009)<br /> :Ruined FOREVER, you mean? - Magnus Maximus 04:39, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> <br /> Aw, jesus, I was ''really'' hoping that when I woke up, this would all have been a dream or something. - - McFeely [[Special:Contributions/78.32.44.57|78.32.44.57]] 06:27, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> :That's exactly what I was hoping McFreely, but sadly it wasn't. I was hoping the site would be back up by now and we'd have four days of work to recreate, but no, it's still down. I mean ''come on'', the half-ass guys over at the wikia have almost everything we've put up in the past four days (not to our quality but still). I don't know guys... I hope it'll be back up by the time I get home from work tonight and might pull an all nighter trying to do what I can.--AWT88--[[Special:Contributions/98.19.92.58|98.19.92.58]] 10:53, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> ::It's really a bad nightmare. Oww... I have same feeling with Chris. --(TX55) [[Special:Contributions/61.229.26.192|61.229.26.192]] 11:42, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> ===Damage control===<br /> Figured there should be a link here to the discussion Rob started on how to go about fixing all of this: [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Damage Control Central]] - '''Jackpot''' [[Special:Contributions/216.231.37.133|216.231.37.133]] 13:52, 16 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> ==ROTF countdown==<br /> I can't remember, but was our ROTF countdown thing automated or did somebody have to manually change the number of days left? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 09:04, 21 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> :&lt;nowiki&gt;*blink*&lt;/nowiki&gt; Yeah, it used to be a countdown in wikicode. *yoinks the countdown back onto the page from the history and feels sheepish for not noticing it got overwritten* --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 09:15, 21 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::Thank you kindly. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 09:17, 21 March 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::It's showing 101 days again, which is where it was stuck after the crash. --[[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] 00:00, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::OOps, shall fix. Thanks for the heads up! -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 00:19, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> == Derik's revamp. ==<br /> <br /> Looked and worked awesome when you showed me the sample, even better now that it's in proper layout. Kudos, man.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&lt;sup&gt;Talk&lt;/sup&gt;]] 01:00, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> :Not sure what else was done, but the image banner at the top looks all huge and pixelated now in Firefox on my iMac. This may or may not stem from the revamp.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 03:16, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::It looks mostly spiffilicious, but there's something off on the Continuities/Categories paddings, as the longer titles (External Properties, Full Series Info, and About Continuities) wrap into double lines for me, where they didn't before. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 07:14, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::Doesn't happen for me at 1024, haven't tried it at other resolutions. I did notice that the &quot;Full Series Info&quot; anchor link on the Continuities box is now broken.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&lt;sup&gt;Talk&lt;/sup&gt;]] 18:56, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::I've had a chance to look at it on the PC at home, and the banner image looks fine there. The Continuities &amp; Categories titles look fine to me, no line wrapping. Go figure. The anchor link for Full Series Info is indeed messed up, though.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 20:22, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::::Mrr, maybe it's my font size. I don't know why it's suddenly weird, though, it was fine before.<br /> :::::As for the &quot;Full Series Info&quot;, that, and &quot;anyone can edit&quot; and &quot;add to!&quot; in the disambig were all in-page anchor links to various feature boxes' IDs. If Derik changed or forgot to add the IDs on the feature boxes, either that needs to be fixed, or the links need to be fixed. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 22:20, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> They have ID's-- but not names. (I think 1 or two of the ID's might've changed, I didn't think they were used.) Are you referring to anchors, or...? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 22:48, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> :Yup, anchors. The link in question goes to Main_Page#series for example.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&lt;sup&gt;Talk&lt;/sup&gt;]] 22:52, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::The anchors work-- they're set using the id= in the main page text. I apparently changed the &quot;#editing&quot; anchor to &quot;#editing-tips&quot; to make it consistent with the rest of the ID's used on the page. I didn't realize anything actually ''used'' it. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 23:12, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::And yet, I click on that link, and it's no-go.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&lt;sup&gt;Talk&lt;/sup&gt;]] 23:17, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::Ah. ''Now'' it works. Go figure.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&lt;sup&gt;Talk&lt;/sup&gt;]] 13:52, 6 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> I like the ''idea'' of the autosizing banner, but as mentioned previously, it looks really pixel-y and...well, bad. (Never mind that the Decepticon banner has some sort of smudge in the middle of the &quot;K&quot;.) I'm looking at it in IE7 at a resolution of 1280x1024, meaning the banner image itself shows up at 1007 pixels wide. But it looks really junky until I shrink the window down so that the image is below 800 pixels. --[[User:Salt-Man Z|Salt-Man Z]] 16:43, 8 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> == Server Slowdown? ==<br /> <br /> Still getting some major lag at various times, and not just at the &quot;standard&quot; time of midnight Central Time or so. For at least a couple of hours this afternoon, the wiki was taking too long to respond, delivering server time-out errors, or else generating a blank page. Frankly, until I was able to see it properly again just now, I was worried we had a repeat performance on our hands. I believe Suki/Scout said she was making regular back-ups, which is good. Is this periodic bog-down going to be SOP until/unless we move again, or is Bookworm gonna do something about it?--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 20:27, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> :I noticed that there were zero edits from 13:45–18:56 this afternoon. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 20:42, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::Yep, the site was pretty much unreachable for about 5 hours there, along with Blank Label Comics' site. I was beginning to wonder if the server had died completely.<br /> ::The favicon seems to have stopped working for me too, though I can't work out why. The image is still there... --[[User:Abates|abates]] 22:27, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::Five ''hours''? Yeesh. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 22:49, 5 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::And no one who knows why has shown up here to explain or communicated the reason to anyone who posts here yet. Lovely. Favicon's still working for me, at least.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 00:54, 6 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::::I called Bookworm in the middle of it to get him to kick the server in the nuts, but I only got his voicemail. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 01:14, 6 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::::Peachy. My confidence is soaring now. Well, at least we know someone here has tried to get his attention.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 14:40, 6 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> ==Been Out for a While==<br /> <br /> I figured this would be the best place to do this. First and formost, I'd like to apologize to everyone on the Wiki for not helping in probably our biggest time of need. I have been unable to have internet access for the past few weeks, because the damn hospital wouldn't let me have a computer (and maybe only being able to use one arm on a laptop is pretty damn hard), which means I have been unable to update or edit anything. Hell, today was the first time I was on my Facebook or Myspace for weeks, have finally caught up on Lil'formers and ShortPacked as well.<br /> <br /> Anyways, let me explain about these ramblings. Two or three days after the crash--on my way to work--I had some fucking dumbass in a riced Toyota run a red light and T-bone the side of my truck in my door and messed me up pretty good (he fucked himself up as bad as his car) and put me in the hospital. I was pretty damn lucky though, dislocated my shoulder and elbow, factured my forearm and wrist, broke three of my fingers; all on my left arm (and I'm a lefty), cracked four ribs and bruised them too, fractured my tibia and broke my ankle. My right side was farely untouched but still got bruised, oh, and my seatbelt cut into my neck (I've had worse cuts and scars before). This is all probably a bit too much but I figured I needed to explain why I haven't been on here until after everything was fixed.<br /> <br /> I do have a few questions now though. 1) I can't log in under my name so do I have to set up a new one? 2) Was everything completely blanked when it came to users (i.e. Page Watch, Contribs., etc.) or can we retrieve that? I guess that's all the questions I can think of right now. Any responses, obviously write on the talk page, or hit me on my IP address Talk Page.--'''AWT88'''--[[Special:Contributions/98.19.92.58|98.19.92.58]] 23:10, 20 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> :Wow, that sucks. I'm glad to hear you're recovering though!<br /> :And no, the user accounts were completely scragged. You'll have to re-register. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 00:10, 21 April 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> <br /> ==ROTF==<br /> <br /> Shouldn't the newest thing be the Veiled Threat instead of Defiance #4? --[[Special:Contributions/206.253.51.107|206.253.51.107]] 09:26, 10 May 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> == Could not connect ==<br /> <br /> Was anyone else unable to connect to tfwiki for the last four hours? Are we still having server problems, then?[[User:KrytenKoro|KrytenKoro]] 14:09, 16 May 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> I was ''finally'' able to get back on the site after about 6 hours, and noticed there had been ''only one edit in the past 6 hours''. What gives? Has the site been down the entire time, or has everyone been busy at BOTCON?--[[User:AWT88|AWT88]] 23:38, 29 May 2009 (EDT)<br /> :It's definitely been down all that time for me, at least. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 00:48, 30 May 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::That was downright painful. :( --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:18, 30 May 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::Indeed, its getting to where I see why Wikia is still running, since its actually up half the time[[Special:Contributions/76.240.201.195|76.240.201.195]] 11:56, 4 June 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> == Dinoforce ==<br /> <br /> For some reason, all of the Dinoforce articles show up twice in the Turncoats category. This doesn't happen with any other article in there, so I think maybe it's a facet of that little accented u in their names. They appear to not just be copies of the same article, though, since the talk page for one was the talk page for the other. I'm not sure if this is an in-joke or not, though, so could someone familiar with the articles please address this?[[User:KrytenKoro|KrytenKoro]] 19:52, 7 June 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> == Remaining the Fallen? ==<br /> <br /> Do we have a lineup of potential Featured Articles for August? I vote for [[Sector Seven]], unless we think it would be a good idea to keep it as-is until the movie leaves theaters..... --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 12:16, 2 August 2009 (EDT)<br /> :Siph suggested [[Micromaster Collection]] a week or two back. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 12:57, 2 August 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> :Do we have any featured-level G.I.Joe related articles? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:31, 2 August 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::Not especially... even the complete ones look kind of... limp. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 16:44, 2 August 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::I think a G.I.Joe article is a good idea...to bad in don't know nearly enough about the show to lap at least one of the articles a feature...--[[User:Sunjumper|Sunjumper]] 16:54, 2 August 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::So, are we going to switch to Micromaster Collection after all? If that doesn't work for some reason, I could also suggest &quot;Shattered Glass&quot; [[Alpha Trion (SG)|Alpha Trion]] or [[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]] for further potential quirkiness. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 01:59, 5 August 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::::I suggest [[Marissa Faireborn]] to go with our G.I. Joe theme. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 22:21, 6 August 2009 (EDT)<br /> ::::::I second Marissa (and note that it's usually Walky who changes the featured article, and he's on the road which is probably why it hasn't changed. Also, I want to slap an &quot;anatomy doesn't work that way&quot; tag on the current tower ad). --[[User:Abates|abates]] 22:27, 6 August 2009 (EDT)<br /> :::::::Yeah, I'll third the Marissa idea (and not just because I did that article up recently!). We're already a week into August, so I'll just change it now before I head out to work. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 06:05, 7 August 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> ==September FA?==<br /> So.... [[Micromaster Collection]]? --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 02:34, 30 August 2009 (EDT)<br /> :I'm down with that. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 02:45, 30 August 2009 (EDT)<br /> :Anyone wanna put that up? I will tomorrow morning if not! :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 09:09, 4 September 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> == DVD field guide ==<br /> <br /> Actually, with the column width wouldn't this fit easily in the featured series box?--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&lt;sup&gt;Talk&lt;/sup&gt;]] 18:57, 22 October 2009 (EDT)<br /> :Maybe, although I think it needs to stay in a nicely prominent spot somewhere and not get &quot;lost&quot;. There's already so much info jammed in the Featured Series box already. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 19:22, 22 October 2009 (EDT)<br /> <br /> == Reception in all fiction ==<br /> <br /> Just an idea, why not add a reception section to all main fiction pages (comics and series) ala the Animated/UT pages [[User:Eire]] 20,07 Nov 2 09 (UTC)<br /> :I tend to cringe at these, as they're tough to write, inevitably biased, and magnets for vandalism.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&lt;sup&gt;Talk&lt;/sup&gt;]] 15:12, 2 November 2009 (EST)<br /> ::I kinda agree. Though I DID really enjoy the UT ones (those articles in general were good reads for me, since I missed most of those shows). I think only in cases where the response was very particularly notable should we dip into such opinionated waters. Otherwise, yeah, they're kinda huge moron/troll/vandal bait. --[[User:ZacWilliam|ZacWilliam]] 15:31, 2 November 2009 (EST)<br /> :::That would be my concern as well. If a series had a particularly notable and uniform reception, then it might be worth a write-up. Otherwise, what is there to say? I worry about echo-chamber effects as well. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 15:40, 2 November 2009 (EST)<br /> ::::To be honest, don't we already have some sort of reception section in most of the articles? Beast Wars has the infamous [[Trukk not munky]] reactions and so forth, and Beast Machines has the fandom's dim views on it. Is there any section which already doesn't have some sort of fandom reaction on it? -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 16:02, 2 November 2009 (EST)<br /> <br /> ==Slight reorganization?==<br /> Should we move &quot;Editing Tips&quot; to the left column? The &quot;This Day in History&quot; and &quot;Schedule&quot; boxes are gonna pretty much be longer and longer as time goes on. This is just going to push &quot;Editing&quot; even further down, leaving lots of whitespace. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 18:45, 8 November 2009 (EST)<br /> :I'd been thinking of that myself. Although I was thinking more of breaking up the list into two sections and just having it sit the full width of the page.<br /> :We could instead or also trim the Featured Series box back down, and/or combine the Categories and Continuities boxes, which I'd also been considering. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 19:04, 8 November 2009 (EST)<br /> ::How about making the &quot;This Day&quot; and &quot;Schedule&quot; boxes like the &quot;Series&quot; - show a few highlights, click for full listing. On the other hand, &quot;Editing Tips&quot; seems like something that should go in or near the &quot;Toolbox&quot;. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 20:06, 8 November 2009 (EST) (forgot to log in at first)<br /> :::I don't like the idea of condensing either list. Who dictates what's more important? Hell, half the point is to provide more and more jumping-off points to things people might not have thought about normally from the main page. I think simply moving &quot;editing&quot; will suffice. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 20:12, 8 November 2009 (EST)<br /> ::::I can see the point about who decides what's important, but surely it is not necessary to have something in the &quot;Schedule&quot; two and a half years beforehand (premiere of TF3). Showing ~ one month's worth on the main page would probably be enough. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 20:23, 8 November 2009 (EST)<br /> :::::It's not like anything that far in advance is going to be announced often. Hell, TF3 is about it, and oh joy, you're saving one line. And no, I don't think one month is enough, because honestly, the Schedule tends to get forgotten, and events end up still on there weeks after they were done. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 21:04, 8 November 2009 (EST)<br /> <br /> == Little slow ==<br /> <br /> So, what exactly are the differences between tfwiki and transformerswikia? And why the split and stuff?[[User:Hida Atarasi|Hida Atarasi]] 04:07, 17 December 2009 (EST)<br /> :See the [[Transformers Wiki:Community Portal/Complaints|complaints]] page as to why we moved. TFWiki is run on an independent server and has almost all of the people who used to edit on th wikia. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:34, 17 December 2009 (EST)<br /> <br /> == Just wondering ==<br /> <br /> Why is it important to list the advertisements in comic books? I really can't see why?--[[User:LesterX|LesterX]] 20:27, 22 December 2009 (EST)<br /> :Why not? --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 20:46, 22 December 2009 (EST)<br /> ::Sometimes they have little blurbs, &quot;This guy is cool because...&quot; They are official info, no? Which characters get the marketing monies and whatsuch. Plus they are usually so condensed, they can represent the character in a waaaay left field manner, kinda like eating condensed soup w/o the cans of water. You get the familiar taste, but in a &quot;-choke-, come again?&quot; manner.[[User:Hida Atarasi|Hida Atarasi]] 20:57, 14 February 2010 (EST)<br /> <br /> ==Sidebar==<br /> Sidebar is FUBAR in Internet Explorer. See [http://obscuretf.com/TFWikiIESideBar.jpg here], ignoring the swath of stuff cut out from the middle because I didn't feel like printscreening it. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 15:33, 13 January 2010 (EST)<br /> :Looking at it... it seems to be some kind of problem with the float on the sidebar. Whether it's due to IE not properly squishing and/or scrollbar-ing the main content section to ensure it fits (the way FF and Opera do), or something wrong with the float declaration itself, I'm not sure, though. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 15:47, 13 January 2010 (EST)<br /> ::In my case, the sidebar's font seemed to have shrunk on the main page but it looks normal when I'm elsewhere. [http://img63.imageshack.us/i/tfwikimainpage.jpg/ Main page] and [http://img685.imageshack.us/i/tfwikisamplebluestreak.jpg/ random page] (okay, Bluestreak's) for comparison. And I'm using Firefox 3.5.7. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 16:16, 13 January 2010 (EST)<br /> :::I get the same result as Lonegamer with Firefox 3.5.5 and IE 8.0.6001.18865. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 16:22, 13 January 2010 (EST)<br /> :::Using IE and yeah, sidebar's hiding way the hell down there somewhere. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 16:30, 13 January 2010 (EST)<br /> ::::Unfortunately, I suspect this likely is something that can only be fixed by someone with access to the site's CSS/HTML, rather than by wikicode. What's the standard method for summoning Suki or Derik? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 16:41, 13 January 2010 (EST)<br /> :::::That should be fixed now... --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:35, 13 January 2010 (EST)<br /> :::::I can be summoned by a virgin sacrifice or AIM... like it says on my userpage. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:43, 13 January 2010 (EST)<br /> ::::::Ah, that explains it. I don't have AIM or any virgins I'm willing to sacrifice... --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:50, 13 January 2010 (EST)<br /> ::::::Yay, it's normal! --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 20:58, 13 January 2010 (EST)<br /> <br /> == New WFC TFWiki logo image? ==<br /> IMHO, we totally need to add [http://www.gamestop.com/gs/images/bonus/Transformers_Cybertron_bonusLG.jpg a logo of this pic] to our rotation. (I'd do it myself, except I don't have our logo bit to add to it...) --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 11:37, 9 February 2010 (EST)<br /> :And I am now content. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 10:22, 10 February 2010 (EST)<br /> <br /> == Kudos ==<br /> <br /> I'd like to take a nanoclick to say that out of all the various wikis save Wikipedia Prime, and often including Wikipedia Prime, funny or no funny, THIS WIKI HAS IT'S $#!+ TOGETHER. Other Wiki's have about as many users in all as we have SERIOUS/DEDICATED users. ... Does TFWIKI have a fanfare/praise page?[[User:Hida Atarasi|Hida Atarasi]] 21:08, 14 February 2010 (EST)<br /> <br /> == Extremely weird... ==<br /> <br /> When I try to set the size of Image:DiacloneSkids.jpg to 300px, it comes out as Image:G1SkyLynx toy.jpg[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 23:05, 28 February 2010 (EST)<br /> [[Image:DiacloneSkids.jpg|thumb|right|300px|See?]]<br /> : Can't say I'm seeing that. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 23:21, 28 February 2010 (EST)<br /> ::Okay, just my computer then. Still weird. It ONLY does it at 300px, not 299, not 301, JUST 300. Guess it's telling me to log off. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 23:25, 28 February 2010 (EST)<br /> :::Okay, now it's back to normal. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 10:05, 1 March 2010 (EST)<br /> {{-}}<br /> ::::Sounds like an image cacheing issue. Those usually fix themselves in a few hours.<br /> ::::(OTOH, I've seen a few instances when a certain resolution's thumbnail is permanently screwed up.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 21:40, 9 May 2010 (EDT)<br /> <br /> == Possible Tweaks... ==<br /> <br /> So, I decided I wanted to try and make our Main Page a little less &quot;unbroken sea of text&quot; if I could. I basically consolidated Continuities/Categories into one, as well as merging Editing Tips/Holy Grails into one along with a resurrected &quot;Improvement Drive&quot; idea. I also added in some headers and logos to break things up, and trimmed down the Series list to show just the major fiction. Check it out here: [[User:Jeysie/Main Page]] and give thoughts? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 20:11, 9 May 2010 (EDT)<br /> :I like the consolidated &quot;Improvement Drive&quot; box and really like the separation of months in the Schedule. On the other hand, I like using logos in theory, but I'm not so sure about how it works in execution. Particularly I'm wary about the logos of the Japan-exclusive series. Having something on our front page that most of our readers can't read seems, well, unideal. Putting the titles under the logos in plain text would fix that, but that'd seem kind of gratuitous under the English logos. I also ''really'' don't like the use of the logo of the first series in a continuity to represent the entire thing in the Continuities box. It makes it look like the one series is the entire continuity, which also makes it look like an unnecessary overlap with the Series box. I think it'd be better to just leave the continuities as text, since it's clearer that way. -- [[User:HotAndCold|HotAndCold]] 22:56, 9 May 2010 (EDT)<br /> ::Yeah, using the Armada logo for the whole Unicron Trilogy is the most glaring part to me. If only there was an official UT logo! It's a shame, cause I think it looks a lot better with the logos there. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:29, 10 May 2010 (EDT)<br /> :::If anyone has any ideas on what logos to use in the continuities box, I'm all up for it. Maybe if someone wants to mock up custom graphics?<br /> :::If we want things to be more generic, I could use [[:Image:TheTransformers Logo.jpg|this logo for Generation 1]], and we could create a logo with the &quot;Beast Wars&quot; edited out. UT is still tricky, though... even if we edit out the series name, it looks close to RID then. Meh.<br /> :::We could always switch back to text, of course... just saying, if anyone has alternative ideas.<br /> :::As for the Japanese series, that occurred to me as well, but I'd really like to switch to the logos in that section, and anyone who hovers over the logos does get the English series name in the link.<br /> :::But if there happens to be any English logos for those series available, we could upload them and go with those. Alternatively, my first inclination was to remove those series altogether and just stick with the major major TF fiction, but I didn't want cries of being biased or anything. :P --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 07:19, 10 May 2010 (EDT)<br /> ::::I'm not sure what the continuities listing brings to the table that the series listing isn't already doing. I'd just give a link to the continuity family page and keep the full series list link. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 11:01, 10 May 2010 (EDT)<br /> :::::Well, the continuity families have been part of our main page since pretty much forever, so if you want to remove them, that's a wider discussion than with just me, I'm afraid.<br /> :::::(Though if I had to cast a vote, personally I prefer to keep them, as continuity families are important to our wiki's structure and yet not necessarily an intuitive concept to the new reader. Especially since the dedicated continuity family pages we link to are ''not'' directly analogous to the individual series.)<br /> :::::But in any case, I tweaked them to be plain text links. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 18:56, 13 May 2010 (EDT)<br /> ::::::It still seems to me that Continuity Family and Franchise are terms that should be covered in the series box. And throwing the names of the continuity families at the reader before the term is defined for them seems counter intuitive. But, as you said, some of my concerns go beyond what you are doing here. I generally like what you've done. If it goes through perhaps a discussion of my points could follow. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 19:27, 13 May 2010 (EDT)<br /> <br /> :I like it conceptually, but I'd say the subheader bars inside each box will need to be a bit smaller.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&lt;sup&gt;Talk&lt;/sup&gt;]] 00:49, 10 May 2010 (EDT)<br /> ::Smaller in what sense? The font is the same size as the regular text, just bolded. I could shrink the font, though it'll be a little weird having the header smaller than the actual text... or did you mean less padding and/or deeper margins? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 07:19, 10 May 2010 (EDT)<br /> :::In the sense that each bar is graphically more or less as prominent as the box they're a part of. They're the same height, the background is just as dark, etc. It ends up being visually pretty busy.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&lt;sup&gt;Talk&lt;/sup&gt;]] 11:08, 10 May 2010 (EDT)<br /> ::::Ah, OK. I tried doing some tweaks to make them a bit smaller and lighter; is that more what you had in mind? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 18:56, 13 May 2010 (EDT)<br /> <br /> Ruination Is a Decepticon from Robots in Disguise.</div>

William https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Swindle_(ROTF)&diff=456902 2010-05-15T06:15:27Z

<p>William: </p> <hr /> <div>It's too bad some of these Combaticon guys (Swindle, Brawl, Vortex, Blast Off, Onslaught) couldn't be merged with their 2007 counterparts. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 14:56, 30 May 2009 (EDT)</div>

William