Aberneth the Hawk-Helmed

Aberneth the Hawk-Helmed is a human from the Transformers vs. G.I. Joe portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Good thing he got the winged helmet, so he didn't end up being called "Aberneth the Horny".

In medieval times, Aberneth the Hawk-Helmed and Thor FalkenHauser led their Viking brethren from Giant Island Jotunheim in pillaging Scottish shores. He is a distant ancestor of G.I. Joe's General Clayton Abernathy, codenamed "Hawk".

Fiction

Transformers vs. G.I. Joe

One of Aberneth and FalkenHauser's raids was on the home village of Laird Mac Cullen, who fought back but was overwhelmed by a mass of raiders and perished. In response, Cullen's younger brother killed FalkenHauser with an invention of his own making: the very first firearm. The terrified Vikings fled, but not before Aberneth had retrieved FalkenHauser's mystical warhammer. He went on to settle among the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Picts|{{#if:||Picts}}]] and give his name to the Scottish village of [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Abernethy, Perth and Kinross|{{#if:Abernethy|Abernethy|Abernethy, Perth and Kinross}}]], and his hammer became a family heirloom. Stick To Your Guns Because of Aberneth's actions, the hammer's magical powers were hidden and unknown for centuries. It eventually was inherited by General Hawk, who carried it as his "lucky tomahawk". When Hawk fell in battle against Cobra, his teammate Duke picked up the hammer, not realizing this would activate its magic because he was a descendant of FalkenHauser. The War Never Ends

Transformers vs. G.I. Joe: The Movie Adaptation

This is presented as a comic-book adaptation of a (nonexistent) film adaptation of the Transformers vs. G.I. Joe comic series, and thus is not in continuity with the above.

His thighs are precious and must be protected above all.

Aberneth was the only man to fight "alongside the old gods in their final terrible war". These apparently included Prowl and Wheeljack. One of his enemies in the war was Destro, who had "sold his soul in exchange for the magicks of the evil gods". Eventually the gods left, and the story of their war became the stuff of myth and legend. At some point in this, Destro killed Aberneth, but the hammer Aberneth had wielded survived as a relic into the modern day. It ended up in the possession of General Hawk, who used it to kill Destro by smashing the amulet on his chest. Transformers vs. G.I. Joe: The Movie Adaptation

Notes

Anything that actually makes sense of this would just be an insult.

• Before any of the above had been revealed, an early issue contained a single panel showing what appears to be an older Aberneth leading a sailing party, wearing a vaguely teched-out suit while standing over a treasure chest and holding FalkenHauser's hammer. Everyone and everything is absolutely covered in Autobot, Decepticon, G.I. Joe, and Cobra iconography. This had been preceded by Hawk talking about how a Cobra agent had tried to steal the hammer, and how he didn't understand why his family heirloom would be of any importance. While the panel was an effective teaser of revelations to come, virtually nothing in it actually got explained.
• Aberneth and FalkenHauser's co-leadership of the raid is an echo of how Hawk and Duke have both led the G.I. Joe team at different times and in different continuities.
• The movie-adaptation version of Aberneth incorporates the absent FalkenHauser's story elements, including initial possession of the hammer and being killed by Destro. His involvement in an ancient divine war was also part of FalkenHauser's backstory, which involved "a long-forgotten war of the worlds" that resulted in him being given the warhammer by grateful "metal gods". This conflation carries on into the actions of related characters: In the movie adaptation, Hawk uses the hammer to kill Destro in the same manner that FalkenHauser's descendant Duke did in the comic series.<ref>Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #13</ref>

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