Slipstream (WFC)

The name or term "Slipstream" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Slipstream (disambiguation).

Slipstream is a Decepticon from the Aligned continuity family.

Sorry, Blackarachnia, but you've just lost Default Evil Girl status.

Slipstream is a female Decepticon who fought on Cybertron during the early days of the Autobot/Decepticon war. She is a Seeker who specializes in sarcasm and stinging insults hidden behind a thin veneer of humor. Starscream finds her relatively unreadable.

Fiction

Aligned novels

While she was not mentioned by name, she was most likely at the battle with Omega Supreme, as only three of Starscream's Air Commanders survived the battle. Exodus

Slipstream was one of the Seekers who served on the bridge crew of the Nemesis alongside Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp. Although she remained true to the ideal that Seekers stick together, that didn't mean she respected Starscream any more than he deserved.

When the Decepticons eventually tracked down the Ark on the planet Junkion, Slipstream was part of the aerial strike on the Autobots as they attempted to repair their ship. Later, she returned to the Nemesis as Megatron attempted to use the ship's tractor beam to pull forth the mythical Requiem Blaster from Junkion's core. They attempted to graft the Blaster to the Nemesis's hull. The only problem was Optimus Prime hopped aboard the craft right at the base of the Requiem Blaster. Megatron dispatched Slipstream and the Seekers to knock Prime loose before he caused any more trouble, but their efforts to avoid hitting the Blaster itself made it a perfect shield for Optimus on the hull. Slipstream and Optimus Prime soon fought hand-to-hand, and Prime eventually sent an invitation to Megatron by blasting Slipstream into unconsciousness... and causing her to land right on the window screen of the ship's bridge.

As Megatron learned the location of the AllSpark and prepped the Nemesis for departure, Starscream remarked that Slipstream had not returned to the ship after suffering her injuries in battle with Prime and the Autobots. Megatron merely shrugged, and the Decepticons apparently left Slipstream behind on Junkion, just as it was being torn apart. Exiles

Despite this, Slipstream was briefly referenced as one of the Decepticons on Aquatron, after the confrontation with the Quintessons. Retribution

TransTech

Definitely not cheating.

Slipstream arrived in the multiversal hub known as Axiom Nexus under unknown circumstances, her universal stream of origin a mystery to even the Transcendent Technomorphs. Regardless, something about her caused all those she met to sense something undefinably different about her. Slipstream found her place in Axiom Nexus society as a spy for hire, selling her skills to the crime bosses of the city's criminal underworld and making good use of her EMP and cloaking abilities. TFSS Slipstream bio card

Slipstream was engaged in a game of cards when Hero Prime and Beast Prime turned up looking for one of her opponents, Depth Charge. Invasion: Epilogue

IDW Robots in Disguise comic

Razorgrille mentioned Slipstream as a crime boss on Cybertron. Robots in Disguise #4

Games

I am too gritty for your teal.

Transformers: War for Cybertron (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)

Voice actor: Jessica Straus (English), Alina Kamińska (Polish), Laëtitia Lefebvre (French)

Slipstream does not appear in the War for Cybertron storyline campaign. However, completing the Decepticon campaign will allow the player to use Slipstream in Escalation mode, and her chassis, labeled 'Stalker', for customizing an online multiplayer Decepticon Scientist character. Her abilities in Escalation are Cloak and Shockwave.

Transformers: War for Cybertron

Transformers: Rise Of the Dark Spark (3DS)

Voice actor: ?

Rise of the Dark Spark

Transformers: Battle Tactics

Slipstream participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of her! She was a Super Rare character who could be recruited after collecting 450 units of Cybermetal, 155 units of Transmetal, 90 exclusive cores, and 7 cores of this character. Transformers: Battle Tactics

Toys

Timelines

• Slipstream (Deluxe Class, 2013)

• FSS1 number: 2
• Accessories: 2 missile pods

The second toy sent out in the first year of the Transformers Collectors' Club's "Transformers Figure Subscription Service", Slipstream is a new-head retooling of Prime: First Edition Starscream, transforming into a jet resembling a General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon. She comes with two "Alternating Gyro-Power Nullifier" missile pod accessories that can either attach onto tabs on the underside of her wings, or onto the rear wings on her arms in robot mode. Additionally, she has a 5mm peg hole that goes through each arm, which become the sides of her jet mode tail. This allows accessories with the same size peg to be used in either mode.

Her instructions give her robot mode the slightly-hunched posture of Starscream, but there is an "official" mis-transformation. Fun Pub's images of Slipstream show that her back should be kept straight, with her forearms left unextended (which gives her some funky elbow articulation) and, for a little extra difference, her knee-spikes left folded against her shins.

This mold was differently retooled to make Prime Skywarp and Thundercracker.

• More information on Slipstream at TFU.info

Notes

• Slipstream's AGP (Alternating Gyro-Power) Nullifier weapons are a very clunky nod to the 1988 Nullifier G.I. Joe figure, who drove the AGP (Anti-Gravity Pod).
• Her toy's bio is fairly careful to not explicitly label her as Prime Slipstream, but does make thinly-veiled meta-references to her being out of place thanks to the Aligned continuity being... "separate" from the rest of the Transformers multiverse. This was later explained as a result of the Uniend Cluster being previously separate from the rest of the multiverse until the Dark Spark opened it up to the rest of the multiverse.
• Slipstream's jet model, along with Starscream's, is reused in Fall of Cybertron as various generic Seekers, easily identifiable during the attack on the Autobot transport.

See also

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Versions of Slipstream have appeared in other continuity families, including:

• Slipstream, the female clone of Starscream from Animated.
• Slipstream, the Decepticon from Generation 1.
• Slipstream, the Decepticon from Cyberverse.

For more information, see Slipstream (disambiguation).