Windrazor (G2)

This subject of this article goes by multiple names that apply to other articles as well. See Windrazor (disambiguation), Tornado.

Windrazor is a Decepticon Skyscorcher from the Generation 1 continuity family.

I clocked you at three miles above the speed limit. Prepare to die.

Windrazor (aka Tornado) leads the Skyscorchers, a team of Decepticon jets. He holds the goal of Autobot annihilation above all else, including the lives of himself and his teammates. This single-minded ideal fuels his sick genius in battle.

Fiction

Marvel Generation 2 comic

Windrazor and the other Skyscorchers aided Megatron and Starscream against Optimus Prime and the Dinobots in a battle on an unidentified rocky planet. War Without End!

The Skyscorchers only appeared in vehicle mode, miscolored, on a gatefold pin-up included in the holofoil variant of issue #1. They do not appear in the North American Generation 2 stories themselves.

Fleetway Generation 2 comic

Meet the new boss.

Tornado was part of Bludgeon's team who went to Earth to lure out Optimus Prime. After blowing the living crap out of a lot of buildings, he landed to tell Bludgeon that he and his troops were running low on fuel. But before Bludgeon could give the command to withdraw and refuel, Tornado was promptly blasted by their intended target, Optimus Prime. War Without End

It apparently wasn't a critical blow, since he was able to fly away and gather up Hawk and Terradive, calling them away so they could tackle a new target; Megatron, who had appeared to take out both Optimus Prime and Bludgeon. He attacked Megatron, and from there it's unknown how he fared. It's possible he was taken prisoner by the Autobots along with several other Decepticons. War Zone

Wings Universe

Windrazor was part of the "second generation" of Transformers created on Earth at the Cyberfactory. Although born without a faction, he soon chose one anyways and joined Clench's Decepticon Syndicate alongside many others. Generation 2: Redux

2005 IDW continuity

Windrazor served under the command of Turmoil when their second-in-command Deadlock abandoned his post. Drift #1

Regeneration One

Caught trying to steal Warbird missiles with cobalt-60 warheads from the Pax Cybertronia Decommissioning Depot in Kalis, Windrazor, Afterburner, Terradive, and Eagle Eye were besieged by the Cybertronian Civil Defense under the command of Ultra Magnus. While trying to rig one of the warheads' detonator caps to detonate and cover their escape, the Skyscorchers fell under attack by three Insecticons, acting on Soundwave's orders to make "martyrs" of them. Windrazor never even saw Chop Shop coming. Loose Ends, Part 1

Legends comic

Tornado was present with Galvatron II and his G-2 Decepticon faction when they attacked the planet Beast. LG-EX Grotusque

Toys

The Transformers

• Tornado (Skyscorcher, 1993)

• Accessories: Radar array/rifle
• Known designers: Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

The Transformers Tornado transforms into a General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet. His undercarriage radar becomes a hand-held non-firing blaster weapon for robot mode.

He was sold in the European market in 1993 as part of the "transitional" line that used the Generation 2 insignias, but lacked the new subline name.

This toy is gang-molded with Afterburner.

This mold was planned for use by Takara as Sky Tornado, but the entire Block Town line was scrapped.

• More information on Windrazor at TFU.info

Generation 2

• Windrazor (Decepticon Jet, 1993) / Tornado (Skyscorcher, 1994)

• Accessories: Radar array/rifle

Released in the United States in 1993, Generation 2 Windrazor is identical to the concurrent European "Generation 1" Tornado toy.

Tornado was re-released in the European Generation 2 line the following year.

Notes

One whirlwind that will never be reaped.

• A piece of internal documentation containing an unfinished version of Windrazor's cardback once turned up on eBay, evidently from the collection of a former Hasbro employee. This mockup shows that Windrazor once had the preproduction name of "Whirlwind".
• Though Windrazor was never released in Japan, he did gain a Japanese name via a BotCon Japan 1997 exclusive poster, which featured bios for all of the new Generation 2 characters released in the U.S. who weren't part of the Japanese line: the Axelerators, the Skyscorchers, Rotor Force, four of the Go-Bots, and the Color Changers.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Sky Tornado (スカイトーネード Sukai Tōnēdo), Windrazor (ウィンドレーザー Windorēzā)
• Dutch: Vulcano
• French: Vulcano (Europe), Tornade (Canada, Generation 2)
• Italian: Diablo