Silver (AB)

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

Silver is an Autobird from the Angry Birds Transformers continuity.

It's no use!

The prank-playing peregrine Silver is a fairly new addition to the Flock, a bird who was actually raised by the Bad Piggies! But now that she's been returned to her feathered brethren, she's up for knocking the pigs around (even if she feels a little bit bad for the hapless Minion Pigs. A very little bit).

Thanks to the Allspark landing on Piggy Island, Silver has become Windblade Bird, granted the fast-flying powers of the Autobot Windblade. As the only Autobird who can fly (at least, without needing to be hurled from a slingshot), Silver's ready to clean up the island and take on the Eggbot army!

Games

Angry Birds Transformers

As Windblade

• Squad: Valkyries
• Mission Type: Investigator
• Unlock Type: Challenge Event (4000 Tokens)

Windblade Bird could only be unlocked as a playable character through timed Challenge Events. The first was "Enter the Silverbird", which ran from March 10 through March 19, 2016, which got an encore "Second Wind" running from July 2nd through July 12, 2016. And then again in the "2-Year Celebration!" Event from October 5th through October 14th (as well as every other character available only in prior challenge Events).

Windblade Bird is a "speedster" character, not as blindingly fast as Bumblebee but on-par with the likes of Jazz or Starscream. She fires a trio of electric bolts in rapid succession (with a suitable-for-her-species low swoop to their flight) that are not terribly strong individually, but move with incredible speed, plus she has a very short reload time. Objects in the far distance may need to be aimed with a "press and hold" technique, as the low arc of the blasts might hit the ground if left to the auto-aim.

Accessory	Body Part	Gem Cost	Rating	Effect
Metroplex	Head	2000 Tokens	***	+20 Defense
Crown	Head	900	***	+10 Explosive Force
Baseball Cap	Head	25	*	+5% Transform Power
Headphones	Head	25	*	+5% Damage
Sunglasses	Face	25	*	+5% Transform Power
Trident	Arms	750 Tokens	**	+20% Vehicle Time
Swords	Back	1000 Tokens	***	Incendiary Rounds

The Accessories bought with Tokens may be purchasable with Gems outside of Challenge Events, but bluntly we got the Accessories in the Events and didn't check to see what their out-of-Event costs may or may not have been after Windblade was unlocked. Our bad.

Notes

• Silver and Windblade have some interesting similarities:
  • Both are recent major female additions to their overwhelmingly-male casts. Windblade of course hit in late 2014 as the result of a fan-vote, where Silver was the big addition to the Flock in 2015's Angry Birds 2.
  • Both are characters who can trace their lineage to their current teams, but were raised elsewhere. Windblade hails from the Cybertronian colony world of Caminus, while Silver hatched from a stolen egg and was raised by Pigs.
• Despite being an Autobird, Windblade Bird uses Deceptihog Materials to upgrade. A nod to Silver's Piggie upbringing?
• Windblade Bird also reusues a few Minion-Pig-as-jet-characters animations, notably her "eager anticipation" idle when waiting inside Astrotrain for the score tallies.
• Unlike the other characters, Windblade Bird does not undergo any physical changes when upgraded.