Skywarp (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity

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Skywarp: Teleporting around since 1984.

Marvel The Transformers comics

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Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.
You can tell Skywarp apart from Thundercracker in the Marvel Comics by, uh.... let us get back to you on that.

Five million years ago, Skywarp formed part of a massed Decepticon assault on Iacon. And There Shall Come...a Leader! He was one of Megatron's troops who attacked the Ark during its mission to clear a path for Cybertron through an asteroid field. Deactivated when the vessel crashed on Earth, Skywarp lay dormant for four million years until the Transformers were awoken in 1984, at which point he was given the new alternate mode of an Earth jet. Soon after their revival, Skywarp joined his fellow Decepticon fliers in battling the Autobots at a drive-in movie theater, The Transformers then followed up that victory with an attack on the Harrison Nuclear Power Plant to gather raw materials with which to build a base of operations. With the discovery that the Autobots' human Sparkplug Witwicky had developed a conversion process that would allow Earth fuels to be used by the Transformers, Skywarp took part in the attack on his repair shop that ended with the successful abduction of Sparkplug, using his jet mode to ferry around the shrunken alternate modes of his non-flight-capable allies. Power Play!

While Sparkplug was put to work brewing his conversion formula for the Decepticons, Skywarp, Thundercracker and Starscream were dispatched to England to investigate a Cybertronian signal that was discovered to be emanating from an spaceship that had crashed there centuries before. Reports of this mission are contradictory; one account had Skywarp seriously wounded by a bomb from Bluestreak during an early attack on the Autobots, but another identified him as the killer of the craft's occupant, the Man of Iron, using his teleporting ability to get the drop on the ancient mechanoid. Man of Iron

"THIS is how Jet Judo's really done, you amateurs!"

Returning to America, the three jets were then unleashed upon the human military forces who attempted a hopeless attack on the Decepticons' base; Skywarp dazzled a pilot with his teleporting powers before proudly transforming to robot mode to grant the human a look at the "true face of their destroyer". The Autobots soon joined the fray, but while Skywarp and his comrades took potshots at them, they failed to realise that Gears and Spider-Man were using the battle as cover to sneak through and rescue Sparkplug. Prisoner of War!

When Starscream fired upon his teammate Ravage for eavesdropping on his plot to overthrow Megatron, Skywarp and the other Decepticons sought deadly revenge on the Decepticon Air Commander. Starscream attempted to flee their wrath, but Skywarp and Thundercracker pursued; following Containment Manoeuvre Four-Eight, Thundercracker disoriented their quarry with a sonic boom, and Skywarp teleported into his path and shot him out of the sky. Starscream argued for a trial by combat, and the subsequent proceedings were manipulated to suggest treachery by the Autobots, prompting the Decepticons to forget his misdoings and launch a vengeful attack on the Ark. The Enemy Within! This battle was ended prematurely when Auntie, the Ark's computer system, magnetized the walls, immobilizing both factions. Raiders of the Last Ark Also around this time, Skywarp and Thundercracker happened upon Autobot spies Jazz and Sunstreaker, who had been sent to scout the Decepticons' base, and made a strafing run on them. Jazz was deafened and blasted off the road, but Sunstreaker led them into the human military encampment around the base, prompting Megatron to call them off, not wanting the humans' to interfere with his operations just yet. ...Perchance to Dream

In every Elementary School, there are Bumblebees and there are Skywarps.

Skywarp was the most severely damaged of the Decepticons from recent battles, and had to be tended to by the Decepticons' medic while the uninjured Decepticons launched their ultimately futile final attack on the Ark. The Last Stand Decepticon logician Shockwave then took command of the crippled Decepticon forces and the Ark shortly thereafter and nursed Skywarp and his comrades back to full health. Skywarp was put to work tidying up the bodies of the Autobots Shockwave had offlined, The New Order then used his jet mode to transport Soundwave, Rumble and Frenzy to the Blackrock Enterprises oil-drilling platform Shockwave had captured. The Worse of Two Evils!

Following the disappearance of both Megatron and Shockwave, the Decepticons fell under Soundwave's leadership, and Skywarp took part in his plan to capture Bumblebee for use as bait in a trap for Optimus Prime. Affronted when the cornered little Autobot tried striking out at him, Skywarp pummelled Bumblebee into unconsciousness, but was soon on the receiving end of similar treatment from Optimus himself when the attempted trap went wrong and the Autobot leader overpowered all three Decepticon jets. Crisis of Command! Soon after, when the Dinobots were running wild across America, Skywarp joined Soundwave and Scavenger in tracking down Sludge in the swamps of Littlewood, California, where they successfully subdued him and the Autobots searching for him. Arriving too late to Old River Valley, Idaho, to secure Slag, the Decepticons went ahead with their plan with just Sludge, controlling him with a sonic lance and pitting him against Grimlock in Doonstown, Canada. Skywarp reconned the area and found an oil rig for the Decepticons to steal energy from, so they left the Dinobots to cause chaos and threaten the lives of the Autobots who came seeking them. The Autobots naturally managed to disable the sonic lance and stop the rampaging Dinobots, but the unscathed Decepticons considered the whole affair a victory over the weakened Autobot ranks. Dinobot Hunt! After being left in a coma thanks to his cybo-dendrons burning out, Grimlock would dream of comprehensively defeating Skywarp and the other Decepticons before being slain in turn by Starscream. Victory!

Skywarp on KRAKK.

Breaking away from Soundwave, Skywarp and his fellow jets returned to the Blackrock oil rig, but soon found their makeshift base surrounded by government forces, leaving them trapped for weeks. Shockwave returned to help them make their getaway by providing an energon cube that Skywarp lobbed at the military craft, blasting a way through their barricade. The trio were then charged with using a power siphon to convert sound energy from a Brick Springhorn concert into more cubes, but they were bested in the attempt by the Autobots Rock and Roll-Out! Later, Skywarp helped Shockwave attempt to capture and brainwash Bumblebee into a Decepticon. Plight of the Bumblebee!

Skywarp, Thundercracker and Starscream took over a power station near the Charlton hotel on the East Coast, imprisoning the plant's workers and converting its output into energon cubes with a power siphon. They were interrupted in this endeavour by Danny Phillips, who had encountered Transformers before and believed that they were all as good as the Autobots. Shattering his illusions, Skywarp seized the boy and was about to put him in the energy cage with the others when he was interrupted by the arrival of Jetfire and the Aerialbots. Skydive opened fire on Skywarp, but missed his mark thanks to the latter's teleportation abilities. The stray shot hit the stack of energon cubes, allowing Skywarp and Thundercracker to escape back to the Decepticon fortress in the confusion caused by the ensuing explosion. The Return of the Transformers The scattered Decepticon forces were then re-integrated when Skywarp, his fellow jets, and Shockwave were brought to the new base the returned Megatron had established in Wyoming. The Bridge to Nowhere!

Nope. Guess again.

At Megatron's command, Skywarp was part of a Decepticon unit who headed out to welcome new troops who had crossed the space bridge from Cybertron. No sooner had they discovered that the new arrivals were actually Autobots than they were alerted by Shockwave to a full-scale Autobot attack on their base. Believing that this meant the Ark was undefended, Megatron had his unit attack it instead, only for them to run afoul of the Ark's powerful new guardian, Omega Supreme. The mighty Omega deactivated most of the Decepticons, Skywarp included, and their bodies were imprisoned in stasis by the Autobots. Command Performances!

The Autobots found a use for Skywarp's inert form not long thereafter, when the time-travelling Decepticon Galvatron arrived from the future to threaten them. Removing him from stasis, the Autobots painted him to look like Starscream, and sent him stumbling toward Galvatron with a tape-recorder of Starscream's voice on his back to take credit for the Autobots' destruction of Galvatron's super-weapon. Furious, Galvatron blasted the disguised Skywarp to pieces... but just as the Autobots had planned, Galvatron believed that, by causing "Starscream's" death in 1986, he had created an alternate timeline to his own, in which Starscream was not supposed to die by his hands until 2006.

Upon close inspection, Skywarp's teleportation power is merely a goofy loop-de-loop.

Concluding that anything he did in this "alternate" past" would not affect his personal timeline, Galvatron hurried back to his proper time. Way to take one for the team, Skywarp. Target: 2006

Skywarp would remain offline for several years, though an anomalous account placed him in the midst of the battle that resulted when the combined forces of the Autobots, G.I. Joe and Cobra attacked the Decepticons' island base. ...All Fall Down! Years later, 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 Constructicons and subsequently brought back online, under the command of new Decepticon Earth leader Ratbat. Totaled! During the first meeting between Ratbat's forces and those of rival Decepticon leader Scorponok, it was discovered that the former was withholding information about the legendary Underbase from the latter. The two Decepticon factions wound up coming to blows over the deceit. During the skirmish, Skywarp surprised Bugly with his teleportation powers and blasted him, temporarily stunning the Pretender. However, Bugly successfully returned fire, striking where he guessed Skywarp would next teleport. 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. Dark Star

Marvel Generation 2 comic

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I'm more of a reggae man, myself.

Skywarp had been reactivated by the time Bludgeon had taken control of the Decepticons and led them in a series of attacks on Earth. Once Megatron returned and retook command, Skywarp stood with the other Decepticons and watched as their revived leader tore Creation Matrix out of Optimus Prime's body, then they withdrew with their prize. The Gathering Darkness

The Autobots and the Decepticons later forged an alliance against the Cybertronian Empire, but the Decepticons initially declined to help when the Autobots went to the planet Ethos to battle a Cybertronian raiding party there. Tales of Earth Part Five The Autobots were almost defeated, until Skywarp suddenly warped into the battle, followed by the rest of the Decepticon army. For Skywarp's part, he and the rest of the Decepticons' fliers aided the Aerialbots in the skies above the battlefield. Escalation!

As the united Autobots and Decepticons gathered on Earth to face the approaching Swarm, Skywarp appeared among the throng of 'bots, readying their defenses. When the Swarm broke through, he was among the many firing it, and witnessed Ramjet being torn apart by the entity. A Rage in Heaven!

Classics

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Classics continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.
"I'm only going to ask you once: Where's the closest set of stairs?!"

His broken body rescued from Tokyo by Megatron, Skywarp was rebuilt using upgraded Seeker schematics designed by Shockwave, and his mind was restored from backed-up personality engrams the scientist had created. His memory was left a little spotty as a result, but when he was told that the Underbase-empowered Starscream had been responsible for killing him, he took it in stride—he couldn't be too surprised that Starscream had stabbed him in the back, and in any case, the traitor would have to let down his guard sometime. Skywarp's profile in Club magazine #14

When the mysterious crossdimensional Decepticon Landquake appeared on their world, the Decepticons interrogated him with Skywarp's gun pressed to his head the entire time. Convinced that his tales of another universe were true, Megatron ordered his bonds undone, but instructed Skywarp and Scavenger to monitor him at all times, and break his legs at any sign of treachery, which Skywarp was particularly amused at the thought of. The Decepticons subsequently 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 RUNT squad. 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. Crossing Over: Part 3 As the battle escalated, Skywarp and Starscream fought Jetfire across the skies, Crossing Over: Part 5 but ultimately, Megatron was forced to call for a withdrawal. Crossing Over: Part 6

What, no Triangle formation?

With his nosecone still battered from the fight, Skywarp came with Starscream and Ramjet to investigate what 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. Games of Deception

Regeneration One

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Regeneration One continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.

After being deactivated by the Underbase-powered Starscream, Skywarp was reactivated (and lobotomized) by Megatron years later. As part of Megatron's army of mindless "Ex-bots," he helped the Decepticon leader gain near-total control over the humans' world. Loose Ends, Part 3 He was pressed into service as part of a unit alongside Octane, Razorclaw, Skalor, Bugly, Thundercracker, Thrust, and Ratbat and charged with exterminating a convoy of escaping humans that included Buster and Jesse. Less Than Zero

In 2012, after Megatron had shot down the Wreckers' ship, Skywarp and his fellow zombies were ordered to chase down the survivors. Thanks to his teleportation ability, Skywarp got the drop on Kup, shot him in the back and returned the Autobot to Megatron. Loose Ends, Part 2

When Springer, Sandstorm, and Whirl attempted to rescue the captive Kup, Skywarp and Thundercracker were the ones to spring Megatron's ambush, with Skywarp teleporting himself and his fellow Seeker in to attack the Wreckers. Loose Ends, Part 4 He and the other zombified Cybertronians were offlined permanently once Circuit Smasher frizzle-fried the Ark's computer, Auntie. Loose Ends, Part 5 After Megatron's defeat, all of the deactivated zombies were piled into a large pit by the Autobots and obliterated from orbit. Natural Selection, Part One

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