Nightflight (G1)

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Nightflight is a Decepticon Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Grab his hand before he falls over the invisible railing!

Nightflight is a scavenger. As a spy, he always goes for the easy score, listening in on unguarded conversations and stealing thoughtlessly-abandoned items; as a warrior, he's always on the lookout for a cheap shot and a safe kill. Many of his fellow Decepticons consider him a coward, but Nightflight knows better. He's good at what he does, and when the higher-ups take notice, they'll put him in charge of the Air Strike Patrol.

Fiction

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Marvel Comics continuity

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Marvel The Transformers comics

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Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

Nightflight and his patrolmates were the first Decepticon Micromasters to be created after Thunderwing's scientists reverse engineered the process from the captive Autobot Battle Patrol. When the Race Car Patrol infiltrated Thunderwing's base to rescue the Battle Patrol, the Air Strike Patrol were sent out to meet them as a field-test. Roadhandler was able to trick them into thinking that a deactivated bomb he was carrying was still live, allowing his team to rush the Decepticons and beat them down. The Autobots afterwards fled with their rescued comrades. A Small War!

When Roadhandler became an overnight wrestling sensation on Earth, Scorponok requested new warriors from Cybertron to counter the Autobot Micromasters' building public adulation. The Micromaster Air Strike Patrol, including Nightflight, subsequently arrived on Earth, donated by a Decepticon on Cybertron with an unknown, mysterious identity. While Nightflight's partner Storm Cloud challenged Roadhandler in the ring, Nightflight and his other two teammates swept the skies outside, keeping Roadhandler's fan club from entering. The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship!

Hey kids: "Reactor linkage" means "robo-ass".

Unknown to Scorponok, Nightflight's secret employer was Megatron, who then sent Nightflight and his teammates on a mission to MacDill Air Force Base. En route to the base, Nightflight and Storm Cloud indulged in some showy aerobatics, nearly crashing in the process. Admonished by Whisper, they reached the base and captured the B-204 refueling plane. When the Autobots inevitably arrived, the team contacted Scorponok to tell him that they were under attack. Back from the Dead Skin Deep After a brief confrontation with Optimus Prime and the arrival of Scorponok's Decepticons, Nightflight and his teammates fled, their mission completed. The Resurrection Gambit!

Nightflight, Storm Cloud, and Tailwind came to the aid of Whisper, after he had become a freelance assassin, when he was chased into an Earthen jungle by the Autobot Rescue Patrol. The battle ended with the Autobots breaking off their pursuit in order to prevent further damage being dealt to the surrounding forest. The Greatest Gift of All!

A news team followed the Air Strike Patrol across the southern United States, where finally the group descended on an oil refinery. When they attacked, the human civilians were defended by Hector Dialonzo, a human with extraordinary powers. While on film, Nightflight and his teammates met their apparent demise at Hector's hands. Nightflight was the third to be off-lined, though the exact manner of his death is unknown. The Human Factor!

Marvel UK future timelines
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The Air Strike Patrol took Megatron's side in a Decepticon Civil War against factions led by Scorponok and Shockwave. Near the end of that war, the Patrol chased Scorponok, alone, into a human settlement. Nightflight missed an opportunity to destroy Scorponok with his missiles thanks to his teammate Tailwind's grandstanding. Scorponok maneuvered a team of Autobots into combating the Patrol for him, enabling Scorponok to escape. Aspects of Evil!

Transformers Comic-Magazin

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As the Decepticons arrived on Earth, Nightflight and the Air Strike Patrol were among the first to engage their Autobot enemies. New York — A City Sinking in Terror

When a dimension bridge opened up connecting several points in time and space, the Autobots and Decepticons fought over control of the bridge. The Air Strike Patrol engaged the Autobot Pretender, Skyhammer. The Transformers' Grand Hour: Headmaster of the Dimensions

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

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Nightflight appeared briefly among the Decepticon Micromasters when Skystalker took over the Decepticon headquarters. Victims of the Revolution

2005 IDW continuity

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Nightflight was one of the flying denizens of Gorlam Prime who accosted Hardhead and Nightbeat when they probed deeper into the planet. Spotlight: Hardhead

War for Cybertron Trilogy marketing material

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During the war for Cybertron, Nightflight was an Air Force Black Ops Raider. Siege toy packaging

Games

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Transformers Legends

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Dreadwind and the Air Strike Patrol conquered Garrus-9, though their triumph was short-lived as the Wreckers arrived a bit later and liberated it. The Wreckers

Toys

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The Transformers

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Just imagine how tiny the Tom Cruise piloting him must be!
  • Air Strike Patrol (Micromaster Patrol, 1988)
Nightflight transforms into a Grumman F-14D Tomcat fighter jet. He was only available in a complete set with his teammates Storm Cloud, Tailwind, and Whisper. Nightflight is "gang molded" with his teammate Tailwind and thus the two share plastic colors.
Together with the Off Road Patrol and the Race Car Patrol, the Air Strike Patrol was released by Hasbro in late 1988 (basically, a case of "next year product" being released at the end of the old year), in packaging that differed from the "proper" 1989 Micromasters' redesigned packaging (silver cards and boxes featuring an all-new "Transformers" logo) by retaining a variation of the faction-specific color-coded gradient background on the card and featuring a unique "Micro Transformers" title in a variation of the old, pre-1989 "Transformers" logo. This same basic packaging design was also used for Canada (albeit bilingual English/French) and parts of Europe (bilingual French/Dutch, and Italian-only packaging distributed by GiG). However, a variant of sorts featuring the later 1989 packaging design also exists, and was released (in English-only packaging) in the United Kingdom, where it was sold at Woolworth's stores.
This figure was released without changes in Japan as the Autobot Nightflight. The sculpt was also used to make Airwave and Overair.

War for Cybertron: Siege

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  • Autobots vs. Decepticons (Micromaster multi-pack, 2019)
  • ID number: WFC-S61
Siege Nightflight is a redeco of Visper, transforming into a vaguely-Cybertronic stealth jet. As part of the C.O.M.B.A.T. System, he can also form the blade of the "Dual-Edged Soundbreaker Sword" short sword when combined with his pack-in partner Slyhopper (or any other iteration of that mold). He can also go with your Decepticon Air Patrol Micromasters, if you are so inclined.
He was only available as part of a Target exclusive ten-pack of Micromasters, which includes the Autobots Ground Shaker (who uses the same mold as Nightflight), Irontread, Overair, Ricon, Road-Police, and Wheel Blaze, and the Decepticons Cratermaker, Fireline, and Slyhopper. Perhaps surprisingly, he and Overair do not share a mold.

Merchandise

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Transformers Trading Card Game

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  • Raider Nightflight, Air Strike Patrol-Spy (2019)
  • Wave 4: War for Cybertron: Siege II
  • Rarity: CT
  • Card Number: T35/T52
  • Stars: 4
Raider Nightflight, Air Strike Patrol-Spy is one of forty-eight double-sided character cards available in Wave 3 of the Transformers Trading Card Game, War for Cybertron: Siege II. In order to represent Nightflight's size as a Micromaster, Raider Nightflight, Air Strike Patrol-Spy is the size of a battle card, about half the size of a normal character card.
The card features original artwork for both modes, with Sara Pitre-Durocher doing both line-art and Alt Mode colors, and Cara Burns coloring Bot Mode.

Notes

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Foreign names

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  • French: Nocturne (Canada)
  • Italian: Meteor
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