Blitzwing (BB)

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

Blitzwing is a Decepticon from the Bumblebee portion of the live-action film continuity family.

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Though his nature varies between a triple changer and a Seeker, Blitzwing is just another Decepticon who holds a grudge against Bumblebee.

Fiction

Bumblebee Movie Prequel

During the Great War, Blitzwing functioned as Diabla's handler during her stint as an Autobot spy, being the one who ultimately had her return to her faction. A later encounter with the Autobot Bumblebee ended in a humiliated Blitzwing being left for dead and swearing revenge on the scout. Several thousand years later, Blitzwing made his way to Earth during the Cold War and fell under the command of Malignus.

In 1964, Blitzwing reunited with Bumblebee in London and eagerly began exacting his revenge. Unable to match the Triple Changer's strength, Bumblebee was forced to detonate a gas main and flee underground. The encounter with his thought-dead foe led to Bumblebee erroneously believing that Blitzwing was in charge of the Decepticon forces on Earth, only realizing his error when Blitzwing appeared among Malignus's troops. Energon Is Forever

Unfortunately, Malignus' master plan began going sideways when Diabla suddenly turned on the Decepticons by saving Bumblebee from a Sharkticon. With Runabout hit by Dead End and Astrotrain fleeing the battle out of disgust for Malignus' leadership. He was almost succeeded in killing her before Bumblebee tackled him, throwing off his aim and accidentally striking the nuclear warhead fired by Malignus. Blitzwing tried to use the chaos to fire at the unsuspecting Bumblebee only for P.R.O.G.R.A.M.M.E. agent David Reeve to warn his friend in time, the blast instead hitting Dead End. Using Dead End's body as a shield, Blitzwing was able to survive the base's collapse and flew off into the night, being hunted by Bumblebee for the next two decades. From Cybertron with Love

Bumblebee film

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You thought I was Starscream, BUT IT WAS I, BLITZWING!

Voice actor: David Sobolov (English)

When the Autobot scout B-127 was cornered by a brigade of Sector 7 troops led by Agent Burns, Blitzwing, in the form of an Air Force jet, took his chance to swoop in. While the humans were confused by the arrival of the Air Force, Bumblebee recognized the jet for a Decepticon and warned the humans to run. Blitzwing didn't give them the chance and bombarded Autobot and humans alike with missiles. Blitzwing then transformed to attack Bumblebee directly and mostly had the upper hand thanks to his flight capabilities, but took damage to his flight systems when the Autobot fought back.

This wasn't enough to down him, however, and the Seeker subdued the scout and dangled him over a cliff as he interrogated him about Optimus Prime's whereabouts. When the scout refused to answer and defiantly asserted that he would "never speak", an enraged Blitzwing tore his voice synthesizer out and threw him off the cliff. The Decepticon then prepared to execute the "traitor", but was taken by surprise when the Autobot tore a missile from his arm and jammed it in his chest. Blitzwing only had a moment to comprehend this and try to pull the explosive out before B-127 kicked himself away from him and fired upon the missile, detonating it and blowing him to pieces. Bumblebee

Blitzwing's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novel “Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel”.

Toys

Bumblebee

"The name's Lobo. That's L as in "Lacerate", O as in "Obliterate", B as in "disem- Bowel" and O as in, uh... Well, I guess I can use "Obliterate" twice, huh?"

• Blitzwing (Power Series, 2018)

Blitzwing is a redeco of the Megatron figure from the Energon Igniters line. The figure's head has been retooled to match the CGI design, but the choice of military-green for the tank mode makes for a rather inaccurate robot mode. As an Energon Igniter, he can interact with the Cores included with other toys in the line.

• Blitzwing (Nitro Series, 2019)

Nitro Series Blitzwing is a voyager-sized mold that transforms from robot into a different jet plane that is not the Mcdonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. He also comes with his own Igniter Core, which allows his jet to zip through smooth surfaces.

Some samples feature a newly tooled face that is reminiscent to his Animated counterpart's crazy face, which indicates a possible redeco/retool of the mold. It was unclear if this was an error or a genuine variant.

Notes

• When the first trailer for the Bumblebee movie was released, many assumed that this very Starscream-y looking Decepticon, who features many design and transformation elements lifted from the original Generation 1 Seeker bodytype and the classic red and grey/white colours of the original Starscream, was... well, Starscream. A synopsis for the film posted on the official Viacom blog even referred to the treacherous Decepticon by name—only for the synopsis to be edited within hours to remove it. Director Travis Knight then stated at San Diego Comic-Con 2018 that the Decepticon was, in fact, Blitzwing.
• Blitzwing was used as a "cover" name on concept art of Dark of the Moon Shockwave.
• Blitzwing is one of a few Transformers from the live action film series who has the ability of flight in robot mode.
• David Sobolov’s portrayal of Blitzwing is clearly doing an impression of the character’s G1 namesake. This is further backed up by voice artist Jon Bailey stating that the actors were shown compilations of characters from the original cartoon prior to their recording sessions. Radical.
• It is possible that Travis Knight believed Blitzwing to be a Seeker. This isn't too far-fetched - one of Blitzwing's alt-modes is a jet, he often travels with the Seekers in the cartoon, and his general robot mode silhouette does resemble that of a Seeker (back wings, boxy helmet, general size). This is further backed up by Knight's saying how he wanted to capture the original Seeker aesthetic in relation to Blitzwing.
• In the final movie, it isn't made clear how Blitzwing tracked Bumblebee down, or even how he got to Earth in the first place. Even Dropkick and Shatter only found out Bumblebee was there when he accidentally broadcast a tracking signal at them, and at no point do they show any awareness that there was another Decepticon on the planet at one point.