Thundercracker (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity

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Even his profile art is just a repaint.

Thundercracker. The blue jet guy who since 1984 is neither treacherous nor a teleporter.

Marvel The Transformers comics

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Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.
Thundercracker is the one that is not Skywarp.

Thundercracker 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 Ark crashed on Earth, Thundercracker lay dormant for four million years until the Transformers awoke in 1984, at which point he was given the new alternate mode of an Earth jet. Soon after their revival, Thundercracker joined his fellow Decepticon fliers in battling the Autobots at a drive-in movie theater, but he and Starscream were sent packing when they got a taste of Cliffjumper's glass gas. The Transformers Thundercracker then participated in the Decepticon strike on the Harrison Nuclear Power Plant, heralding the assault with one of his ear-splitting sonic booms. After the villains constructed a base of operations from stolen portions of the power plant, they learned that the Autobots' new human ally Sparkplug Witwicky had developed a conversion process that would allow Earth fuels to be used by the Transformers. Thundercracker took part in the attack on Sparkplug's auto repair shop, and although he didn't fare too well in the battle, being blinded by one of Sideswipe's flares, the skirmish ended with the successful abduction of the human. Power Play!

Thundercracker is the jet.

While Sparkplug was put to work brewing his conversion formula for the Decepticons, Thundercracker, Starscream, and Skywarp were dispatched to England to investigate a Cybertronian signal that they soon discovered was emanating from an spaceship that had crashed there centuries before. Reports of this mission are contradictory; one account had Thundercracker seriously wounded by a bomb from Bluestreak during an early attack on the Autobots, but another stated that Thundercracker crashed to the ground after his sensors were scrambled by the Autobot Mirage, and still another identified him as the killer of the craft's occupant, the Man of Iron. Man of Iron Returning to America, the three jets were then unleashed upon the human military forces who attempted a hopeless attack on the Decepticons' base. The Autobots soon joined the fray, but while Thundercracker 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, Thundercracker teamed up with Skywarp to capture the Decepticon Air Commander. 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! That 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, Thundercracker helped transport energy gathered from a Decepticon raid on Boulder Dam Decepticon Dam-Busters! and joined Skywarp in making a strafing run on Autobot spies Jazz and Sunstreaker as they attempted to scout the Decepticons' base. 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

Thundercracker is the one whose sonic boom is bringing the mountain down around the Autobots.

Refuelled with fuel created through Sparkplug's conversion formula, Thundercracker was one of the first Decepticons to enter what promised to be the final battle with the Autobots, jetting into their volcano headquarters and using his sonic booms to bring parts of the mountain down around them. Little did Thundercracker and his fellows know, Sparkplug had poisoned the formula, causing them all to collapse at the climax of fight. The Last Stand Decepticon logician Shockwave then took command of the crippled Decepticon forces and the Ark shortly thereafter and nursed Thundercracker and his comrades back to full health. The New Order They all swore loyalty to Shockwave after he defeated Megatron in combat. The Worse of Two Evils!

Thundercracker is the one facing away from us.

Following the disappearance of both Megatron and Shockwave, the Decepticons fell under Soundwave's leadership, and Thundercracker aided in his plan to capture Bumblebee for use as bait in a trap for Optimus Prime. Though Thundercracker's initial sonic attack disoriented Prime, the Autobot leader soon overpowered all three Decepticon jets. Crisis of Command! Breaking away from Soundwave, Thundercracker 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, then charged the trio with using a power siphon to convert sound energy from a Brick Springhorn concert into more cubes. They were bested in the attempt by the Autobots. Rock and Roll-Out!

Thundercracker is the one whose firepower accounted for many more.

The scattered Decepticon forces were then re-integrated when Thundercracker, his fellow jets, and Shockwave were brought to the new base the returned Megatron had established in Wyoming. The Bridge to Nowhere! Back together, they all staged a petty attack on a human settlement, during which they found their circuits affected by the personality-reversing PARD. To a Power Unknown! At Megatron's command, Thundercracker 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, Thundercracker included, and their bodies were imprisoned in stasis by the Autobots. Command Performances! Thundercracker's imprisonment did not last too long, however; a malfunction in Starscream's stasis capsule allowed him to escape, and before fleeing the Ark, he set Thundercracker and Frenzy's capsules to revive them. Awakening to find themselves in a nearly-empty Ark, the confused pair wandered back to the Decepticon base, which they found to be just as deserted, save for an ill-tempered Shockwave. Before the three could take stock of the situation, they were temporarily mass-displaced to the interdimensional realm of Limbo when Hot Rod, Kup and Blurr time-jumped from 2006. Target: 2006 During their brief stay in this strange twilight realm, the three Decepticons—along with Optimus Prime, Prowl, and Ratchet— were drawn into a conflict between the peaceful Cloran and the forces of the evil Zenag, which was ultimately revealed to be only an illusion created by Limbo's native parasites. Distant Thunder!

Thundercracker, Skywarp, 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. Danny was disabused of this notion when Skywarp seized him 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. One of the Autobots accidentally fired into the stack of energon cubes, and Thundercracker and Skywarp escaped back to the Decepticon fortress in the confusion caused by the ensuing explosion. The Return of the Transformers

The only time you can tell him and Skywarp apart in the US continuity is right before they die. Ouch.
Thundercracker never awoke in the American stories, although an anomalous account in "...All Fall Down!" 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. In truth, his deactivated body remained captive within the Ark for years, and was not rescued until the events of "Totaled!", when Ratbat's forces saved all the Decepticons aboard the craft. "...All Fall Down!" is not part of UK continuity, and when "Totaled!" was reprinted in the UK, Thundercracker's name was erased from the artwork.

Years later, Thundercracker was serving under the new leader of the Earth-based Decepticons, Ratbat. He was part of the large platoon of Decepticons that assumed battle stations in response to the approach of rival Decepticon leader Scorponok's faction upon their iceberg base. Though both groups tentatively tried to unite at first, Scorponok and Ratbat's troops were eventually manipulated into battling one another by Starscream. Cold War! Ratbat and Scorponok soon had to put their difference aside and join their forces with the Autobots to combat the Underbase-powered Starscream; Thundercracker and Skywarp confronted Starscream in Tokyo, but their former flying partner destroyed them with a wave of his cosmically empowered hand. Dark Star

Marvel Generation 2 comic

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Thundercracker is the one giving bothersome insects a taste of his sonk-

Thundercracker had been reactivated by the time Megatron returned to resume leadership of the Decepticons, and participated in a major offensive against Earth's human population, destroying military jets with his sonic booms and putting up with Starscream's chattering. Tales of Earth Part Three When Optimus Prime intervened and tried to convince Megatron to join forces with him against the greater threat of Jhiaxus's Advanced-Decepticons, the Decepticon leader responded by beating Prime near-death. Thundercracker looked on as his commander pilfered Matrix energy from Prime's chest before sounding a retreat, the means of bringing a new Decepticon army now in their possession. The Gathering Darkness

The Decepticons subsequently raided the planet Tykos, where Megatron ordered Starscream and Thundercracker to begin loading stolen canisters of the planets Rheanimum gas. Thundercracker was happy to oblige, but Starscream silently mocked his obsequence. New Dawn

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. The Autobots were almost defeated, until Thundercracker and the rest of the Decepticon army arrrived to help. For Thundercracker's part, he and the rest of the Decepticons' fliers aided the Aerialbots in the skies above the battlefield. Escalation!

Classics

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Thundercracker is the one you regretted not going to BotCon to get.
Classics continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.

His body recovered from Tokyo by Megatron, Thundercracker was restored to life and upgraded using Seeker schematics designed by Shockwave. Unable to bring himself to serve among Megatron's Earth-based Decepticons alongside Starscream, the bot who had killed him, Thundercracker contemplated abandoning the war all together, but ultimately decided to join Bludgeon's space-based Decepticon faction, along with his fellow fliers Dirge and Thrust. Though the hatred he bore Starscream was without question, against his better nature, Thundercracker did occasionally find himself feeling nostlagic for the old days when he, Starscream, and Skywarp fought side-by-side. Classics Thundercracker's bio

Thundercracker soon fell victim to a mind-controlling cerebro-shell, which placed him under the control of Bug Bite alongside several other unfortunate Decepticons (including Weirdwolf, whose odd manner of speech Thundercracker found extremely frustrating). Bug Bite brought his thralls to Earth, deliberately allowing Megatron's Decepticons to detect their arrival; when Starscream, Skywarp, and Ramjet approached them, Thundercracker and the others were puppeteered into firing more cerebro-shells at them, allowing Bug Bite to take control of them as well. Bug Bite used his small army in an attempt to control Megatron, but interference courtesy of a team of Autobots led by Ultra Magnus resulted in Thundercracker and the others all being freed him from his influence. Games of Deception

Subsequently, Thundercracker was apparently willing to put aside his animosity towards Starscream in order to serve under his glorious leader once more. When Megatron staged an attack on Bludgeon, he placed Thundercracker in command of one of the three warships. At Fight's End

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.
Yes, that's him on the left. I mean, right.

Following his demise at Starscream's hands, Thundercracker was resurrected as part of Megatron's zombie army of "Ex-Bots" and put to work conquering the Earth. As Buster and Jesse attempted to escape the slaughter, Thundercracker hunted them down; they evaded his fire and took cover in a car wash, where Ratbat found and exterminated them. Less Than Zero

In 2012, when the Wreckers Sandstorm, Springer, and Whirl attempted to rescue the captive Kup from Megatron, Skywarp teleported himself and Thundercracker onto the scene to ambush the Autobots. He entered a dogfight with Sandstorm, who managed to evade the Decepticon's targeting system by flying about erratically. Loose Ends, Part 4 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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