Wheeljack Kunai

This article is about the Aligned character. For the Generation 1 character, see Kunai.

Wheeljack Kunai is an Autobot Mini-Con from the Japanese Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.

'Jack the knife.

The Arms Micron Wheeljack Kunai (ホイルジャッククナイ Hoirujakku Kunai), has taken the form of the Autobot hero Wheeljack.

Toys

Prime

• Wheeljack Kunai (Gacha Arms Micron, 2012)

• Energon Crystal: HP Cure

Part of the third wave of TakaraTomy's Gacha Arms Microns, Wheeljack Kunai is an Arms Micron figure that transforms from a robot resembling Wheeljack's robot mode into a kunai-style dagger. It is compatible with the Arms Micron weapon system via numerous 5 mm posts and holes, enabling the weapon mode to be combined with other Arms Microns to assemble bigger and more ridiculous weapons.

• Wheeljack Kunai MX (Gacha Arms Micron, 2013)

• ID number: 6
• Energon Crystal: HP Cure

At the very tail-end of Prime, all twelve Gacha molds were re-released all in one go as a "Special Edition" wave through the capsule machines. The Autobots were cast in clear-blue "Matrix Power Up!" forms, retaining their normal paint operations, though the eyes have changed from blue to red (making the toy highly evocative of Slicer) . Wheeljack Kunai's red and black paint has an added metal-flake sheen not present in the original.

Notes

• Typical kunai (苦無) have a hoop at the end of the handle, which Wheeljack Kunai lacks. The term does fit with Prime Wheeljack's portrayal as a samurai in the Japanese dub, except the weapon is more associated with ninjas.
• Wheeljack Kunai and the other Arms Microns with robot modes resembling larger show-cast characters are considered separate characters by this wiki on the grounds that for years, the only fiction we have on them is the over-arcing backstory of the Arms Microns: non-living weapons were exposed to special Earth energon and turned into living miniature robots. Obviously, being a new form for Wheeljack doesn't really work with this. Earth Wars eventually went with this, depicting someone who looks like Wheeljack but isn’t him.

Wheeljack Kunai Combinations

Named combination weapons including Wheeljack Kunai:

• Supernova Lance