Javil

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Javils are Decepticon drones from the Super-God Masterforce portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Gigan needed to put food on the table.

The Javil (ジャビル Jabiru) is one style of Decepticon Sparkdash drone. Lightweight quick-attackers, they use their "Fire Acid" breath to wreak havoc with a dual attack of corrosive acid and searing flame.

Fiction

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Super-God Masterforce cartoon

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It's time to play the music, it's time to dress up right...

As Ginrai and Road King fought BlackZarak in China, the powerful Decepticon summoned one of each of the three Sparkdash Decepticons to aid him. Although the Autobots were briefly taken aback by the arrival of the new enemies, the Sparkdash quickly proved to be as fragile as the Seacons, allowing Road King to take out the Javil with one shot. God Ginrai - Save Cancer!?

Multiple Javils were among the Sparkdash and Seacon legions that backed up the Decepticons when they staged an attack on North America from within the Grand Canyon. Shūta Gō, Cab, Minerva, and Cancer were badly outnumbered by the huge robot swarm, but help soon arrived in the form of Wilder and Bullhorn, who added enough extra firepower to wipe out the Decepticon drones. Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn

Super-God Masterforce comic

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When BlackZarak attacked a city where Cancer went to, he brought one of each Sparkdash drone to join him in the destruction he wrought. As the Sparkdash set the city aflame, the Autobot Godmasters arrived to thwart their fiery felony. Charging through a huge jet of combined flame from the Sparkdash, the Godmasters tackled the drones, and Ranger and Clouder teamed up to take down the Javil. The Great Turnabout of the Autobots

Toys

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Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

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Enjoy army-building me.
  • Javil (Sparkdash, 1988)
  • ID number: D-321
  • Known designers: Takashi Kunihiro (TakaraTomy){{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}
Released late in the Masterforce part of the original Takara Transformers line, Javil is a redeco of the Hasbro Firecon Sparkstalker, transforming into a white and red insect-monster somewhat resembling Gigan from the Godzilla series, notable for the unusual organic relief that decorates its head and limbs. In creature mode, Javil can be revved up with a small wheel in his belly, activating a friction motor that causes "cold" sparks to shoot from his mouth as the toy zips forward on its own.

Notes

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That doorknob won't know what hit it.
  • "Javil" is apparently a [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}portmanteau|{{#if:||portmanteau}}]] of the Japanese word ja'aku (evil) and, well, either "evil" or "devil", take your pick.
  • Despite the fact that the toy features a unique color scheme, when Javils appear in the Masterforce animated series, they are colored magenta like their American counterpart, Sparkstalker. Of course, they're far from being the only characters in the Masterforce cartoon with non-toy-accurate colors. Even the Masterforce toy catalog's photos use the Hasbro coloration.
  • Much like Masterforce's Seacons, the Sparkdash are never depicted in robot mode in either the cartoon or manga. The toy's package art, seen at right, is the only known "fictional" depiction of a Javil in robot mode.
  • All of the Decepticon Sparkdash molds have indentations on their beast mode legs seemingly meant for a rubsign. But both Hasbro and Takara stopped using rubsigns after 1987, so the spaces are "filled" with normal faction sigil decals.

Foreign names

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