Getaway

Getaway is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Magnum Foreshortening

Getaway is an escape artist without compare. He's cool-headed and logical under even the craziest, most dire circumstances and that lets him figure his way out of even the trickiest surprise or sneek attack. His reputation for cool-headed escapes is legendary, dating all the way back to the infamous Armornecking Incident on Cybertron. His Nebulan Powermaster partner is Rev.

Getaway has an escape kit concealed within a hidden compartment in his heel that he can reach even when bound.

French-Canadian name: Fugitif

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity.

Generation 1

(Note: Events in italics occurred only in the Marvel UK books.)

"Now, I will disarm the missiles with both hands tied behind my back..."

Getaway was part of the skeleton crew situated on board Steelhaven when Goldbug appropriated the ship to go to Nebulos in hopes of reviving Optimus Prime. They made contact with a friend of the old Nebulan Headmaster leader Galen named Hi-Q, but found that Nebulans had developed an acceptable level of robo-phobia after the Transformers nearly decimated their civilization last time. Hi-Q had lead a research project which detonated a bomb in the atmosphere, spreading a molecular revisioning agent that converted all fuel supplies on Nebulos into a type poisonous to Transformer life. The poisoning passed the "acid test" when a pair of Decepticon vagabonds named Darkwing and Dreadwind came to Earth looking for Scorponok's army, and ended up poisoning themselves on local fuel and being rendered inert. Unfortunately, a jealous assistant named Hi-Test stole and modified a new form of bio-mechanical engineering, enabling him and his partner Throttle to binary-bond with the Decepticons and restore them to functionality, bringing Nebulos once more under Decepticon attack.

Hearing this story, Getaway and his fellow Autobots attempted to stop the Decepticons, but proved a poor match for these new Powermaster warriors in their weakened condition. Hi-Q and his staff came to respect the Autobots for their devotion to repairing their fallen leader and determination to protect the very people intent on poisoning them if they stayed on Nebulos. They chose to undergo the same Powermaster Process that Hi-Test did, and Getaway was binary-bonded to Rev, one of Hi-Q's aides. Through this transformation, the Autobots succeeded in restoring Prime to functionality and driving the Decepticons off of Nebulos. Their new Nebulan partners chose to return to Earth alongside Getaway, Prime and the others.People Power

Getaway was captured by the Decepticons aboard Scorponok's orbiting spacecraft where both he and Rev were imprisoned in energy manacles and throw in the brig. Getaway, who had added a credit card (probably a Blackrock card) to his escape kit after hearing stories about humans using them to open locks, used the card to block one of the Energy Bars, which were tuned to fry metal, not plastic. Contorting his body, he hooked his shoulder wing through the gap he had created and touched the controls to shut off the beams.

Getaway retrieved the floppy disk the Decepticons had stolen and attempted to convince the A.B.C. missile computer not to launch a Decepticon smart bomb, unsuccessfully, before stealing an escape pod and returning to Earth. Though Getaway did not realize it at the time, His actions would indirectly save Optimus Prime's life.Prime Bomb!

Getaway was apparently killed during the Decepticons' assault on Klo, though presumably he would have almost immediately have been revived by the Last Autobot.

In an alternate future of 2009, Getaway was one of seven surviving Autobots on Earth, possibly in the universe. Alongside Guzzle and Chainclaw, he sacrificed his life to delay Scourge and Cyclonus, keeping them busy so that his comrades could infiltrate the Decepticon base.Rhythms of Darkness

Dreamwave Comics continuity

He made excellent bait. The War Within: The Age of Wrath

IDW comics continuity

Shortly after the Thunderwing's first apocalyptic assault, the besieged Autobots prepared for the big push against their positions by the Decepticons. The injured Getaway was in a trench alongside Kup, Broadside and Huffer, waiting for Blaster's morale-boosting broadcast to the Autobot forces, a transmission that never came. Spotlight: Blaster

Toys

Generation 1

• Getaway (Powermaster, 1988)
  • Accessories: Rev Powermaster unit, Plasma-Shell Shotgun

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Getaway transforms into a modified white Mazda RX-7 FC3S. For some reason the side windows are unpainted, depending on stickers for detail. His Plasma-Shell shotgun can be plugged onto the vehicle roof for storage. Attaching Rev (or any other Powermaster unit) into the Powermaster socket on the vehicle's hood unlocks Getaway's transformation sequence, though one can unlock the transformation simply by pressing down on the panel without Rev. Getaway's robot mode is mostly static for a relatively large toy, with articulation restricted to his arms.

This toy was sold in Japan as Lightfoot.

External links

• Getaway at TFU.Info

References

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.