Windshear

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

Windshear is a Mini-Con from the Generation 1 continuity family (via the Generations toyline).

Windshear is the Mini-Con Assault Team's combat support. Her helicopter mode's stealth capabilities render her undetectable in combat, allowing her to sneak up on a target and strike before they even know what's happening. She can combine with Runway and Heavytread into Centuritron.

Windshear's nature varies. Incarnations of her across the multiverse include Micromasters, Mini-Cons, and Ammonites.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Windshear was only seen combined as part of Centuritron.

As Shockwave explained his role in the Dark Cybertron prophecy to Galvatron, a swarm of seventy billion Ammonites descended upon Cybertron, with Centuritron front-and-center among the throng of invaders. The Becoming

Beast Wars: Uprising

During a battle between the Micromaster Builders and the resistance, Windsheer [sic] broke away from the main battle with Lio Convoy's force and confronted intruders trying to enter Fortress Maximus. She and Bulge engaged Buzzclaw, but the Predacon took them out with a flak canister. Head Games

Games

Transformers Legends

Orion Pax arrived on the Minicons' planet during his investigations into an anomaly associated with the Dead Universe, resulting in the Assault Team taking up arms and joining the battles surrounding an ancient prophecy concerning Cybertron. Dark Cybertron

Transformers: Battle Tactics

Windshear participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of her! Transformers: Battle Tactics

Toys

Generations

And I'll form the head!

• Mini-Con Assault Team (Mini-Con, 2014)
  • Series/Number: 02 / #013
  • Japanese release date: 3-23-2014
  • Japanese ID number: TG32
  • Accessories: Minigun

Part of the eighth wave of Generations Deluxe Class toys, Thrilling 30 Windshear transforms into a green-and-black helicopter. She comes with a minigun that can peg underneath her cockpit and onto her arms via 5mm post. She comes with Heavytread and Runway, and all three can combine into the mighty Centuritron, with her weapon helping to form the combined robot's combined weapon. Unfortunately, Windshear has a design flaw in that her cockpit is attached with a joint that makes it pop off almost every time the figure is transformed or combined.

She also comes with a copy of 'Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4'.

The TakaraTomy version, part of the fourteenth wave of Japanese Generations toys, is noticeably spelled as Windsheer. She's also shinier, casting her plastics in darker, metallic shades, and featuring additional silver paint details on her toes and canopy, among other deco changes. Her stock photography erroneously depicts her being cast in the same glossy, non-metallic plastic as the Hasbro version. She lacks the comic.

• More information on Windshear at TFU.info

Notes

• The Generations toyline's ties to the Dark Cybertron comic event prompted the introduction of the Ammonites into the IDW Generation 1 continuity, an alien faction of small, green combiners, nicknamed "Minicons".

Foreign names

• Japanese: Windsheer (ウインドシアー Uindoshiā)