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'''Skyhammer''' is the very model of the ideal Autobot warrior. He's a courageous defender of the weak, a tenacious and clever warrior, and an unflappable optimist. It's too bad he's also an inconsiderate, overbearing jerk. He can't offer advice to anyone without delivering a long lecture in the most condescending tone possible—using himself, of course, as an example to strive towards. He's so grating and unpleasant that his fellow Autobots are reluctant to follow his orders—even when he's right, which he usually is. | '''Skyhammer''' is the very model of the ideal Autobot warrior. He's a courageous defender of the weak, a tenacious and clever warrior, and an unflappable optimist. It's too bad he's also an inconsiderate, overbearing jerk. He can't offer advice to anyone without delivering a long lecture in the most condescending tone possible—using himself, of course, as an example to strive towards. He's so grating and unpleasant that his fellow Autobots are reluctant to follow his orders—even when he's right, which he usually is. | ||
==Commercial appearances== | ==Fiction== | ||
===Commercial appearances=== | |||
Above the rocky plains of an unknown battlefield, Skyhammer pursued the ruffian [[Roadblock (G1)|Roadblock]]. Flying above in his outer Pretender shell, he strafed the Decepticon, who emerged from his own outer shell and returned fire. {{storylink|Commercial|Mega and Ultra Pretender commercial}} | Above the rocky plains of an unknown battlefield, Skyhammer pursued the ruffian [[Roadblock (G1)|Roadblock]]. Flying above in his outer Pretender shell, he strafed the Decepticon, who emerged from his own outer shell and returned fire. {{storylink|Commercial|Mega and Ultra Pretender commercial}} | ||
===Transformers Comic-Magazin=== | |||
Skyhammer saw action during the arrival of a bizarre, unexplained, cross-time/space portal. He attempted to secure it from the Decepticons but found himself mobbed by the [[Air Strike Patrol]], and was sent flying back a million years in time in the Andromeda galaxy! {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 9|The Transformers' Grand Hour: Headmaster of the Dimensions}} | |||
Shockingly, when he resurfaced he was reported to be a ''Decepticon'' Ultra Pretender! What happened in the intervening million years...? {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 12|Transformers in Action: "By their Blasters you shall know them ...!"}} | |||
==Toys== | ==Toys== | ||
Revision as of 18:49, 2 September 2011
| The name or term "Skyhammer" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Skyhammer (disambiguation). |
- Skyhammer is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Skyhammer is the very model of the ideal Autobot warrior. He's a courageous defender of the weak, a tenacious and clever warrior, and an unflappable optimist. It's too bad he's also an inconsiderate, overbearing jerk. He can't offer advice to anyone without delivering a long lecture in the most condescending tone possible—using himself, of course, as an example to strive towards. He's so grating and unpleasant that his fellow Autobots are reluctant to follow his orders—even when he's right, which he usually is.
Fiction
Commercial appearances
Above the rocky plains of an unknown battlefield, Skyhammer pursued the ruffian Roadblock. Flying above in his outer Pretender shell, he strafed the Decepticon, who emerged from his own outer shell and returned fire. Mega and Ultra Pretender commercial
Transformers Comic-Magazin
Skyhammer saw action during the arrival of a bizarre, unexplained, cross-time/space portal. He attempted to secure it from the Decepticons but found himself mobbed by the Air Strike Patrol, and was sent flying back a million years in time in the Andromeda galaxy! The Transformers' Grand Hour: Headmaster of the Dimensions
Shockingly, when he resurfaced he was reported to be a Decepticon Ultra Pretender! What happened in the intervening million years...? Transformers in Action: "By their Blasters you shall know them ...!"
Toys
Generation 1
- Skyhammer (Ultra Pretender, 1989)
- Accessories: Gun, missiles (2)
- As an Ultra Pretender, Skyhammer's toy includes a transforming inner robot, a transforming humanoid inner shell, and a non-transforming "flying fortress" outer shell. The inner robot transforms into a Cybertronic car. Like most Pretender robots, it is fairly simplistic. The car's top-mounted gun becomes the robot's hand-held weapon. The humanoid inner shell transforms to a hoverjet/landspeeder. In human mode, the shell can enclose the inner robot; in vehicle form, the robot can sit in its open cockpit to act as a pilot. In human form, the shell has a flip-down visor. Both robot and inner shell fit inside the second shell, a large Cybertronic flying fortress. The inner robot can man the turret emplacement on the dorsal area of the flying fortress, while the large double cannons on the bow can pivot in a wide arc.
- Catalogs showed Skyhammer as being colored blue-and-red instead of gold-and-red. This presumed change between prototype and actual toy has led to Skyhammer being known to suffer from Gold Plastic Syndrome.
- Interestingly, Skyhammer is lying on his back when he is stored in his humanoid shell, and the shell is also lying on its back when it is stored inside the flying fortress shell.
