Airwave (Prime)
| The name or term "Airwave" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Airwave (disambiguation). |
- Airwave is an Autobot from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Watching his world die around him has been tough on Airwave. The uncompromising commander of the outpost town of Last Spark, he feels betrayed by the Autobot high command, and subscribes strongly to the theory that the ends justify the means.
Fiction
[edit]IDW Aligned comics
[edit]Airwave was one of many Autobots imprisoned by Shockwave. Although he made his escape in the chaos that followed the Dinobots' escape from the Decepticon's facility, what he saw of Grimlock and his men made a bad, bad first impression. As a consequence, he made it clear to Grimlock that his outpost of Last Spark neither desired nor would tolerate any interaction with the Dinobots. After his people started being killed by an unknown predator, however, he grudgingly agreed to Firestar's request to allow Sludge and Snarl to help investigate. Beast Hunters #1
After Sludge, Snarl and Firestar returned to Last Spark to discover that some of the bodies there had been drained of Energon before any attacks were even recorded, they realized the killer must have been someone already living in the town. Airwave, entering the crypt, scoffed at the whole idea...until Sludge suddenly realized the evidence they'd collected pointed at Airwave himself as the killer. Exposed, he struck down Firestar from behind and made his escape in jet mode, rallying the unsuspecting inhabitants of Last Spark to attack the Dinobots by falsely proclaiming them the killers. He then returned to the fight, firing indiscriminately into the crowd. Sludge was able to bring him down from the sky, but the fully-charged Airwave was more than a match for him even on the ground. Airwave declared to the battered Sludge that the planet was dying, that there was no escape, and that the only thing that mattered was who survived the longest. Just before he could deliver the coup de grace, however, he was cut in half by Firestar. Beast Hunters #2
A short time later, Snarl tossed Airwave's carcass on a Last Spark scrap pile. Beast Hunters #3
Notes
[edit]- Airwave is a little peculiarly based on Generation 1 Airwave, who is not only fairly obscure, but a Decepticon. Mairghread Scott has confirmed (at 52:04 into the linked interview) that she put Airwave in the story as a reference to the Decepticon Micromaster and that she imagined he was formerly a Decepticon in the Aligned continuity. Of course, since he has yet to be depicted as a Decepticon in official fiction, his "former" faction falls under the realm of authorial intent.
- Airwave's vehicle mode on Cybertron is a very realistically-rendered MiG-29 "Fulcrum". Huh.
