Skip (IDW)

Skip is a Decepticon from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Alas, poor Skip. I knew him, Ambus-io.

Skip was a Decepticon who was part of Deathsaurus's forces. His duty may have ended in death, but his usefulness didn't.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Skip was amongst the Deceptions that escaped from Garrus-9 in the company of Shockwave. Like the rest of Shockwave's companions, he was on The List, and had been intended to be handed over to the Decepticon Justice Division in exchange for the former Senator being allowed to go free, a deal Tarn rejected. The Ties That Bind Following the end of the Great War, he was under Deathsaurus' command when Deathsaurus allied with Tarn and the DJD to kill Megatron on Necroworld. The Permanent Revolution He was one of many Decepticons who were killed during the battle. Rage, Rage

Later Rodimus presented Skip's corpse as a means of getting the stranded Lost Light crew off of Necroworld, as Skip's alternate mode was a spaceship, and recent events in the Functionist Universe had demonstrated that the use of forced mass displacement would allow him to be made large enough to ferry most of the crew. When Rodimus asked for guesses as to what Skip turned into Swerve suggested that he turned into a ("purple, because Decepticon") wormhole, because suggesting he turned into a skip would be beneath even Swerve's sense of humor.

After being enlarged and manually transformed into his ship-form, the Autobots departed Necroworld aboard Skip. After Megatron Even mass-displaced, they found his alt mode's confines quite cramped, all the more so when the mass displacement started wearing off. Sardines

Notes

• A skip is a large, open-topped waste container, similar to a dumpster. All the good names really ARE taken.