Editing Fastball Special

You've heard of the "superhero landing," but the '''"Fastball Special"''' is the superhero ''launching!'' It involves the larger member of a team picking up and ''throwing'' a smaller teammate into action. As Transformers tend to have a greater variance in relative size compared to humans, it's a pretty easy move for them to pull off.

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
To rescue [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] when she fell from a skyscraper, [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] had [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] hurl him into the sky, allowing him to catch the girl and cushion her fall. {{storylink|Along Came a Spider}}

Bulkhead later replicated the maneuver with [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] as part of the Autobots' [[Omega Formation]], throwing him at [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]]. {{storylink|Sari, No One's Home}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
When confronting their rivals [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] and [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]], [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] executed this move, with Bulkhead hurling Arcee in an arc toward the villains, so she could rain firepower down on them as she descended. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]] and [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] once inverted the traditional maneuver, with the smaller Windcharger using his magnetic powers to levitate and hurl the much larger Orion through a [[Functionist Council]] monitoring station. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}}

The more traditional variant was seen being used by [[Megatron (RID)|Gigatron]] and [[Drift (G1)|Drift]], the former throwing the latter to a raised platform. {{storylink|Drift - Empire of Stone issue 4|Empire of Stone #4}} [[Kup (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Kup]] also performed the move with his human friend [[Action Man]] as a way of getting the human inside the [[San Francisco]] skyscraper headquarters of [[I.R.O.N.]]. This is the only know human/Transformer execution of the move, only made possible by Action Man's protective forcefield. {{storylink|Strange Visitors}}

===''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] improvised the move with an unsuspecting [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]], instructing him to "make two fists" then flinging him through the air with his tail, straight into the [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] [[Razorhorn]] with enough force to knock the villain out for the count. The success of the move prompted Grimlock to do it again only a short time later, this time with [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], who he hurled at the flying [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Worthy}} 

==Notes==
*Though it's been executed several times, this combat maneuver has never been named within Transformers media itself. The name comes from [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'s ''[[X-Men]]'' comics, in which the move was originated by [[Wolverine (superhero)|Wolverine]] and his larger teammate Colossus.

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