Editing Darkwing (G1)

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:''Darkwing is a [[Decepticon]] [[Powermaster]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]. He is sometimes called '''Darkwind'''.''

[[Image:Darkwing boxart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Fun fact: the Panavia Tornado actually is a terror that flaps in the night]]''
'''Darkwing''' has just as dim a view of existence as his partner [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]], he's simply more proactive about it. After all, he figures if everything is pointless, depressing, and inevitably leads to a life of painful and ceaseless suffering ''anyway'', he might at least make sure others are getting it a lot worse than he is. You can always count on Darkwing to attempt to make a bad situation worse for everyone involved, and to complain about it all loudly while he's at it. He's [[Binary-bonding|binary-bonded]] to the hot-headed [[Nebulos|Nebulan]] thief [[Throttle (G1)|Throttle]].

He can combine with his fellow Powermaster Dreadwind to form the superjet [[Dreadwing (G1)|Dreadwing]].  


:''French-Canadian name'': '''Ailenoire''' 

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
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[[Image:Dreadwinddarkwingpeoplepower.jpg|left|200px|thumb|It's guy love between two guys.]]
Darkwing and [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] were Decepticon mercenaries, affiliated with no army or unit full-time. For their own reasons, however, they were interested in finding the location of [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] and his crew of Decepticon warriors. Tracking the group to the planet [[Nebulos]], Darkwing demanded the Nebulans give them the information on Scorponok's whereabouts. When they refused, Darkwing and Dreadwind began a campaign of terror on the planet that only stopped due to precautions the Nebulans had taken to poison their fuel supplies, a measure of foresight to prevent Transformers from returning to their world after the last war. Darkwing and Dreadwind froze up, becoming little more than a curiosity and tourist attraction in an open square.

Their luck changed thanks to a jealous and vindictive scientist named [[Hi-Test]], who had worked on the fuel-tainting process but received none of the glory. Working with a thief named [[Throttle (G1)|Throttle]], Hi-Test stole information from his former boss [[Hi-Q]], and used it to create a new form of bio-mechanical engineering called the [[Powermaster]] Process, which would cybernetically enable him and Throttle to [[Binary bonding|binary bond]] with the Decepticons, becoming their engines to restore their ability to move and intake energy. Reaching an agreement with the Nebulans, Darkwing agreed to become binary bonded to Throttle, and the new Decepticon Powermasters began ransacking Nebulos once again. Their antics were eventually stopped only when a group of Autobots arrived on Nebulos, and underwent the same binary bonding procedure with Hi-Q and his staff. Darkwing, Dreadwind and their partners were driven off of Nebulos. {{storylink|People Power!}}

Next, they took up a job as middlemen and "robot-spotters" for the [[Mecannibal|Mecannibals]]. Because [[Master Mouth]] and his brood lived off of eating robots, Darkwing and Dreadwind posed as mere jets, allowing Hi-Test and Throttle to act as the primary partners in their dealings. After their ruse was uncovered by [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] and the Autobot [[Pretender|Pretenders]], however, the Powermasters found themselves on the run from their former bosses. {{storylink|Recipe for Disaster!}}

[[Image:Dreadwinddarkwingunicron.jpg|right|150px|thumb|And when I say, "I love you Dread," it's not what it implies.]]

Returning to Cybertron, they took a job working for deposed Decepticon leader [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], who hired them to retrieve a special cargo from Earth: the deactivated body of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. ''Or maybe, NOT so deactivated. Upon arriving at Starscream's crash-landing site in South America, Darkwing and Dreadwind found him still up and about. The power of the [[Underbase]] was maintaining a bare minimum of functioning, but enough to make him dangerous. After the Decepticons were trounced, Hi-Test and Throttle managed to siphon the Underbase power directly from Starscream's corpse, taking his dead body off-line while giving them enough power to recharge their partners and make it back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Race with the Devil}}'' Megatron planned to use Starscream as an unthinking instrument of destruction, but things just never go as planned. After Starscream was disabled and Megatron vanished in the explosion of his tower, Darkwing and Dreadwind found themselves out of work again. {{storylink|Skin Deep}}

''The two wandered rather aimlessly after that. They apparently spent quite a bit of time over-energizing at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]. {{storylink|Out to Lunch!}}''

When [[Primus]] gathered all his children to do battle with Unicron on Cybertron, Darkwing marked this solemn occasion by guffawing loudly at something Dreadwind was telling him and thus pissing off several Autobots. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} Despite this frivolity, when the battle began Darkwing and Dreadwind were front and center. They joined the Autobots [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] and [[Cloudburst]] in taking the fight right into Unicron's face, and Darkwing was quite eager to bash him up. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}} After the planet-eater was destroyed, Darkwing and Dreadwind joined up with the Decepticons under [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s command. They were responsible for killing off their old sparring partner [[Getaway]] on the planet [[Klo]]. Neither were seen for the rest of the battle, but they presumably went into exile with the rest of the Decepticons after the return of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] turned the tide on that planet. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

{{note|Several UK Annual stories depict Darkwing and Dreadwind as working for different Decepticon groups on Earth, but the continuity of these stories is difficult to wrangle. In one story they work for Scorponok, along with the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. This could only have happened after Scorponok took full control of the Decepticons of Earth after the [[Underbase Saga]] but, while the Combaticons were not destroyed on-panel by Starscream, it is generally believed that all non-organic enhanced Transformers were disabled. {{storylink|Prime Bomb!}} A story from the next year's annual starred the two Powermasters alongside the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]], so it could only have taken place before the Underbase Saga, but also the [[Targetmaster]] [[Quake (G1)|Quake]], who was on Cybertron under the [[Triumverate]]'s command at that time. {{storylink|Dreadwing Down!}} While some creative massaging of the facts could put these stories in continuity, it's probably best to consider Darkwing and Dreadwind officially unaffiliated with any army until after the war with [[Unicron]]. Their sudden appearances among the various Autobots and Decepticons summoned by Primus does indicate they were on either Earth or Cybertron immediately prior, though. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} }}

====Generation 2====
[[Image:Darkwing-surrenderordie.jpg|left|thumb|150px|The first toy [[repurposing]]?]]
Darkwing was badly damaged while defending his commander [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] against the returning [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|The Power and the Glory}} After resuming leadership of the Decepticons, Megatron had Darkwing rebuilt in [[Dreadwing (G2)|a much larger and more powerful form]]. Darkwing made his debut with the new body by obliterating the inoffensive [[Rheanimum]] miners of [[Tykos]]. {{storylink|New Dawn}}

====''Classics''====
{{note|The Classics comic takes place after the end of the original Marvel Comic, but in a [[splinter timeline]] that does not include the events of the Marvel UK-exclusive stories or ''Generation 2''.}}
After the Decepticons' defeat on Klo, Darkwing and Dreadwind retreated with Bludgeon to the corners of the galaxy, where the Decepticons regrouped. Fifteen years later, Dreadwind had left Darkwing behind to join [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]]'s team, and Dreadwind complained about it constantly. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}
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===Dreamwave comics continuity===
Darkwing and Dreadwind were members of the [[Predacon (War Within)|Predacon]] faction during the Dark Ages, working under the command of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. Poor saps. {{storylink|The War Within: The Age of Wrath}}

===IDW comics continuity===
[[Image:Stormbringer2 NebulosDecepticons1.jpg|left|200px|thumb|"Launchpad, Megavolt's on the loose!"]]
A few hundred years ago, Darkwing and Dreadwind were part of the last "big push" for control of Cybertron. Shortly after the Battle of [[Thunderhead Pass]], they were led into battle by [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] and the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blaster}}

Darkwing was commander of the Decepticon Infiltration Unit on [[Nebulos]], alongside his partner Dreadwind and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], [[Skullcruncher]], [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] and [[Roadgrabber]]. Their infiltration was apparently still in the early stages when the rogue Decepticon juggernaut known as Thunderwing came crashing down on the planet. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2}} Darkwing sent most of his troops into battle, knowing the show of resistance was futile but necessary to convince Megatron later that they fought for their territory. Still, he and Dreadwind remained and participated in the fight, but quickly departed after the last of their comrades was deactivated. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 3}}
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==Commercial appearances==
Dreadwind and Darkwing show up in several [[commercial]]s:
[[Image:Dreadwinddarkwingcommercials.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Hello, hello, hello!]]

* They appeared first, of course, in commercials for the [[Powermaster|Powermasters]]. This footage was chopped up and used in several different-but-similar Powermasters commercials, and focused on the new [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], the non-Prime Autobot and Decepticon Powermasters, or their [[People Power!|appearance in Marvel Comics]].
* They appeared again in the animated introduction to the first Pretenders commercial. The narration claims that a series of defeats forces the Autobots to develop Pretender technology, and as the Pretenders rise from their operating tables, Dreadwind and Darkwing break in and approach them. (The Pretenders are considerably smaller than Dreadwind and Darkwing, lending evidence to the idea that the commercials' Pretenders are human-sized.)  
* Later, they're the victims of the new [[Micromaster|Micromasters]]. Optimus Prime unleashes an army of Micromasters upon a Decepticon base, they slip past [[Piranacon|the guard]], and once inside they crawl up both Dreadwind and Darkwing and overwhelm them.
* Footage from the first commercial, depicting Dreadwind and Darkwing in vehicle mode chasing [[Getaway]] and [[Joyride (Autobot)|Joyride]] in vehicle mode, was used at the beginning of the commercial for the [[Triggerbot|Triggerbots]] and [[Triggercon|Triggercons]]. This animation seemed to be meant to represent these other toys. Don't pay too close attention, kids!

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Darkwing''' (Powermaster, 1988)
**''Accessories'': "Throttle" Powermaster engine, left &amp; right laser guns

: Darkwing transforms into a Panavia Tornado GR1 fighter jet. He is locked in this mode until his packed-in partner Throttle is placed into the engine socket on his back (or until you push down the relevant buttons in said socket). Once "unlocked", he can also form the back half of the "Dreadwing" super-jet.

: This mold was used to make the [[Godmaster]] [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Darkwing/darkwing.htm More information on Darkwing at TFU.info]''

===Generation 2===
*'''Dreadwing''' (Decepticon, 1994)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TRF-10''' 
**''Accessories:'' 12 missiles

: Dreadwing transforms into a "flying wing" style stealth bomber with an under-slung six-missile Gatling cannon. He can also transform into a treaded "tank" mode. In jet form, he can combine with his packed-in partner [[Smokescreen (G2)|Smokescreen's]] jet mode to make a complete aircraft.

: The same mold is used by [[BB]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Dreadwind (RID)|Dreadwind]], and [[Gigant Bomb]]. The mold was also intended to be used for [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] in ''Generation 2'', but was never released. 

: Although the ''[[Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' [[Dreadwing (G2)|Dreadwing]] toy was [[repurposing|repurposed]] as Darkwing's upgraded form in the Marvel comics, the toy's American and Japanese bios leave pretty wide open the possibility of this Dreadwing being a [[Dreadwing (G2)|separate character]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1994/Decepticon/Dreadwing/dreadwing.htm More information on Dreadwing at TFU.info]''

===Universe (2008)===
====Generation 1 Series====
[[Image:UniverseDarkwindToy.jpg|thumb|right|300px|thumb|Proof that photoshop dreams do come true.]]
*'''Darkwind''' (Ultra Class 2009)
**''Accessories:'' "Kinetic Blaster" launcher, projectile

: Darkwind (renamed from Darkwing apparently due to [[trademark]] reasons) is an extensive redeco of the [[Size class|Ultra Class]] ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] toy. He and his casemate [[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]] are "stealth" [[exclusive]] to Toys "R" Us, meaning he appeared in stores before [[Hasbro]] bothered to tell anybody about it.  

:Darkwind  transforms into a (fictional) FB-129 supersonic fighter-bomber. As an Ultra-scale toy, he comes with various light and sound [[Gimmick|gimmicks]] (exactly the same ones as ''Universe'' [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] and Silverbolt), including a machine gun type sound when one presses the big blue button on the fuselage, and different classic transformation sound effects depending on whether he is being transformed from vehicle mode or vice versa.

: This mold was also used to make [[Skyjack|Skyfall]].

:Both Darkwind and Countdown advertised Hasbro's included battery brand, [[Powrfuel]].
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==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Darkwing/darkwing.htm Darkwing at TFU.info]
* [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&amp;char=Darkwing Darkwing's Universe profile at NTFA.net]
* [http://www.transformers-universe.com/popup.php?img=content/images/galerie/pics/43/4313_Darkwing_DreamwaveProfile.jpg Darkwing's MTMTE profile at Transformers-universe.com]


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