Skywarp (Movie)

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Skywarp is a Decepticon from the movie continuity family.
Edward Weaponhands.

Skywarp isn't like most of the other Decepticons. He cares not for power, conquest, or battle. Knowledge is the one goal he has in his life. Others can fight the war themselves, as he is far more comfortable in the solitude of the workspace provided by Megatron. For the generous gift of peace and near unlimited time to research, he develops countless experimental weapons and tools for the Decepticons. Although a scientist, Skywarp is far from unarmed, and is equipped with many weapons that are both insanely powerful and nearly impossible to describe.<ref>Revenge of the Fallen Voyager Class Starscream package bio</ref>

Fiction

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Titan movie comics

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They would never guess from looking at this comic panel that Devastator can't walk on two legs!

Skywarp was supervising the reconstruction of the critically damaged Devastator. The job was going well at a remote site in the mountains of British Columbia, hidden from sight by an artificial cloud bank, until the Autobot Stratosphere stumbled across Skywarp's crew while on a routine patrol. When the Autobot Hotshot made a frontal attack on the construction site, Skywarp easily dodged his shots and easily took him down with a single well-placed kick. While standing over him to deliver a kill shot, however, Skywarp miscalculated something important and was clobbered by one of Stratosphere's wings when the Autobot rolled himself over. With Skywarp dazed for a moment, Stratosphere was able to radio in a request for an air-strike to NEST, but Skywarp deemed them more lambs to the slaughter, touting his aerial superiority as he transformed to jet mode and came swooping back around for an attack. Stratosphere opted for a craftier tactic and turned the device generating the cloud bank around, blinding Skywarp with a face-full of vapor and causing him to crash. The NEST air-strike arrived soon after, and Skywarp was taken into custody. Head in the Clouds However, he escaped their jail in South Africa when Bludgeon staged his great escape. Skywarp joined his breakaway Decepticon paramilitary. Inside Out

"Head in the Clouds" reads like it was meant to go before "Inside Out" despite the story being released after it: Bludgeon had nothing to do with Devastator's resurrection.
Remember kids, lighting farts is never a good idea.

An unknown amount of time later, Skywarp was sent to meet the Autobot Blazemaster and invite the hot-headed psycho to join the Decepticons, proving himself to be quite the chatty chappy. Despite the Autobot's refusal, Skywarp told him to just live with the fact that he had all the credentials to be a murderous villain. Turn and Burn

Skywarp later took part in an ambush on Autobot/NEST forces in Russia alongside Thrust. Divided Loyalties After Megatron took down Bludgeon, Skywarp was either killed or recaptured by NEST. A Short, Sharp Lesson

Letters page

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Skywarp and Starscream were old colleagues in the Seekers and Starscream wanted to reunite with him. #9's Star Screams

IDW movie comics

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Many years ago, Skywarp was a member of Cybertron's Defense Force under the command of Protector Megatron. When a mysterious relic was uncovered, aliens from the Eshems Nebula attacked, leveling much of the city of Metrotitan. Skywarp was among the forces deployed to defend their home. Defiance #1 Following this outrageous attack on their sovereignty, Megatron used this to declare a military dictatorship and led the flight-capable soldiers in a bloody counterattack on the aliens. Defiance #2

Skywarp then joined Starscream and the other Decepticons to capture Optimus. When Optimus Prime thwarted Megatron's plans to capture him, Megatron declared them traitors and civil war erupted across Cybertron. Skywarp joined Megatron's Decepticon faction. Defiance #3

Unite for the Universe

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When Starscream used the Unite process to power himself up and take command of the Decepticons, Megatron moved in to stop the usurper, but since he wasn't an idiot, he had backup standing by. This proved to be a smart move, as Optimus Prime and a squad of Autobots moved in to not only stop Starscream but to keep Megatron from learning the secrets of Unite himself. While the two leaders tussled, Skywarp, Hailstorm, Insecticon, and Terradive moved in to handle the other Autobots. When Starscream attacked them for interfering, Skywarp glibly announced that they had orders to return fire as necessary. They all retreated when Starscream was neutralized and the Unite components fried beyond recovery by Ratchet. The Strongest Weapon

Toy bios

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Skywarp is one of the fastest members of the Decepticons' air force. True to his name, he can teleport across short distances. Skywarp is also very proud that he can fly because he enjoys so looking down at the flightless Autobots. Skywarp (Deluxe)

Bumblebee film

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Looking for some stairs to push Optimus down no doubt.

Skywarp was among the Seeker hordes under the command of Shockwave. He accompanied Starscream and Thrust in an airstrike on the Autobots’ launchpad in an effort to prevent them from escaping Cybertron. While they succeeded in this task, all the Autobots save Optimus Prime managed to escape before the launchpad tower fell. Skywarp may or may not have died soon after (see Notes below). Bumblebee

Games

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Transformers: Human Alliance

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Skywarp engaged Optimus Prime and NEST during a Decepticon assault on a city in the West Coast of the United States. He briefly managed to outmaneuver the Autobot leader in battle using his teleportation powers. With the help of Jake and Vanessa, Optimus was able to defeat and kill Skywarp. Transformers: Human Alliance

Toys

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Revenge of the Fallen

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He'd push Starscream down some stairs, if his fingers didn't explode every time he tried.
  • Skywarp (Voyager Class, 2009)
  • Accessories: 6 missiles
  • Known designers: Andrew Scribner (deco artist){{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}
Revenge of the Fallen Skywarp is a Walmart exclusive redeco of Transformers Thundercracker, who was a retool of the original Voyager Class Starscream toy with a new head. Cast in black and purple plastic homaging Generation 1 Skywarp, he transforms into a [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}F-22|{{#if:Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor|Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor|F-22}}]] fighter jet. As with Starscream, this vehicle mode is ridiculously inaccurate. Pushing the fighter along a smooth surface causes the barrels of his gigantic spring-loaded Gatling missile launchers to rotate and fire their projectiles, which can also be stored in the black flip-up braces on the launchers.
During transformation, pushing up upon the canopy fuselage piece activates Skywarp's Automorphing gimmick which pushes certain panels, wings and stabilizers out of the torso. In robot mode, his projectile missiles are sculpted to vaguely resemble fingers, should users choose to keep them loaded while Skywarp is in robot mode.
The original mold of this toy was also used to make Revenge of the Fallen Ramjet.


Dark of the Moon

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Gentlemen, behold! Swords on a stick!
  • ID number: DD10
  • Accessories: 2 MechTech Guns/Swords
Dark of the Moon Skywarp is a TakaraTomy-exclusive redeco of Dark of the Moon MechTech Deluxe Starscream. His incredibly flexible arms have joints at the shoulder, in the middle of the upper arm, elbow, and wrist, allowing them to neatly fold up for transformation, as well as scratch his own back.
He comes with two MechTech weapons, with one weapon being static and the other being functional. Both weapons are double-sided, featuring a gun barrel (which looks like a machine-gun barrel) on one side and a "sword" on the other. Pushing forward the scope on the functional weapon will cause the sword weapon to extend, increasing its reach. The peg and gun barrel on the static weapon correspond to the peghole and the hole of the scope of the functional weapon, meaning his guns can combine to form a double bladed weapon that's way taller than he is. This means that he is one of the few Deluxe figures to have a MechTech weapon that can remain locked in both modes.
This mold was also used to make Dark of the Moon Thundercracker. The prototype display seen at HasCon 2017 depicts the cancelled Hasbro version, which has a different paint scheme and Thundercracker's weapons.


Studio Series

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Thew's future husband.
  • Skywarp (Voyager Class, 2024)
Studio Series Skywarp is a minor retool of Thundercracker (itself based on Starscream with Thrust's head), transforming from a robot based on his appearance in Bumblebee into a Cybertronian tetrajet in 29 steps. His headsculpt has been slightly modified, having a shorter mouthpiece with sharpened details. He uses a darker shade of light gray and more opaque cockpit compared to the previous three Bumblebee Seekers. He is also missing the paint on the sides of his feet, removing the chance of chipping them from transformation. The Decepticon symbols on his wings have been flipped upside-down; this is more accurate in vehicle mode.
Skywarp comes with a handheld cannon, two wing-mounted Null Rays evocative of his Generation 1 namesake, and a cardboard backdrop display depicting a war-torn Cybertron as it appears in the beginning of the film. The cannon has no robot mode storage but forms the underslung weaponry in vehicle mode. The Null Rays are meant to be moved to rectangular slots in vehicle mode, though they can be left in the 5mm ports.
Skywarp's instructions finally remove the erroneous step showing the arms tabbing together in vehicle mode.
All of Skywarp's promotional images (aside from his CG turnaround) inaccurately use Thundercracker's wing orientation with the wingtips down and Null Rays up. Skywarp should have his wingtips up with the Null Rays down like Starscream. Skywarp's renders and box art are also recolored from Thundercracker's, and he mostly reuses the blue seeker's paint layout for his wings.
This toy can be repurposed as any of the generic purple-and-grey Seekers featured in Bumblebee.

Merchandise

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Prime 1 Studio

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And they say this incarnation of Optimus isn't as obsessed with heads as the other one...
  • Optimus Prime Cybertron Edition (2019)
  • Movie: Bumblebee
  • ID number: MMTFM-26EX
The exclusive version of the Prime 1 Studio Museum Masterline Optimus Prime statue based on his Bumblebee movie appearance comes with the disembodied head and left arm of a purple Seeker.
This version of Optimus Prime is limited to 250 pieces.

Notes

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  • Skywarp shares many similarities with his Generation 1 counterpart, such as his purple-and-black (or grey) color scheme and sharing the same body-type as Starscream.
    • The Dark of the Moon Deluxe Class toy bio would take this a step further by portraying Skywarp with teleportation powers, though they are not shown until the Human Alliance arcade game.
  • Skywarp is never seen in robot mode in the IDW comics, only making unnamed cameo appearances as a black Cybertronian jet, though he presumably shares a body-type with Thundercracker and Starscream. A silhouetted Seeker who appears in Defiance issue 3 could possibly be Skywarp, though it could also just as easily be Thundercracker, the silhouetted nature of the robot making it impossible to tell.
  • Skywarp's appearance within the Human Alliance arcade game and Titan comics are both based on the Revenge of the Fallen Voyager figure, but with different decos from both each other and the figure itself.
  • During the Cybertron scenes of Bumblebee, Skywarp's onscreen design is used for numerous generic Seekers, such as the one Bumblebee/B-127 skysurfs into the ground. His Studio Series toy bio specifies that the "real" Skywarp is the purple-and-grey Seeker who joins Starscream in attacking the Autobots' launchpad, though several "Skywarps" can be seen afterwards, leaving Skywarp's final fate up in the air: Optimus lands on and crashes a purple tetrajet when he leaps from the launchpad, kills two more purple Seekers on the ground, and yet another one joins Soundwave and Shockwave in surrounding the Autobot leader.
  • In the opening Cybertron flashback, the Skywarp models wield a large handheld blaster, while in the second flashback, they use the integrated arm cannon as seen with the Studio Series toy.

Foreign names

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  • Japanese: Skywarp (スカイワープ Sukaiwāpu)

References

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