Missile Run

Missile Run is a Micromaster from the Operation Combination portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

An expert in stealth missions, the sneaky Missile Run (ミサイルラン Misairu Ran) is the tactical officer of the Wing Team. Highly intelligent, he is actually better at relaying his leader Chain Gun's orders than Chain Gun is at giving them. He has a rivalry with the logic-minded D-Go of the Sixliner Team... a deadly rivalry during Missile Run's time as a Decepticon.

Fiction

Legends comic

Missile Run was among the Cyberdroids who left Cybertron and came to Earth in search for Optimus Prime and the Matrix. A dimensional shockwave mutated them, altering their forms and enabling them to transform. Tailgate/G1 Mini-Con Chapter

Micromaster

Missile Run was one of several Autobot Cyberdroids who were mutated into Decepticon Micromasters by a mysterious dimensional shockwave. After the ship crash-landed on Earth, he and his fellow Decepticons began causing trouble. A New Transformer Legend Begins!! Shortly after the arrival of Sixturbo on the Autobots' side, Missile Run and the SixWing combiners observed the Autobots attempts to fight off the mind changer virus. Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!

Missile Run was sent to infiltrate the Autobots' base and pilfer several Cyberdroid capsules in order to bolster the Decepticons' ranks. He got into the capsule storage area, but accidentally tripped the alarms, bringing Road Police into the room. He was saved by a volley of shots by Raker, who blew out the wall from outside, allowing Missile Run to join the rest of the team and combine into Sixwing. During the course of the battle, Sixwing took a blast from the Autobots' experimental Vaccine Program Gun, intended to return their original Autobot programming, but instead giving the Wing Team the power of the Berserker. Enter the Decepticon Sixwing!!

Later, Sixwing was routed by the newly arrived Sixtrain, who used his "Red Mode" power to blast him into his components. The team fled, leaving the Autobots free to examine the Decepticons' excavation site near a dormant volcano. Once the Autobots dug up a pair of metal plates of Cybertronian origin, Chain Gun called for another attack to snatch the prizes, the team once again forming Sixwing. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!

Operation Combination

Years later, Missile Run (now an Autobot once again) and the rest of the Six-team Micromasters joined Guard City and the Road Corps in defending Earth from the forces of the Decepticon High Regent Scrash. Operation Combination

None of the combiner team individuals ever actually show up as individuals, only as components of the combined robot modes.

Toys

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

• Sixwing (Micromaster Sixteam, 1992)

• ID number: TF-02

Released in the Operation Combination portion of Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline, Missile Run transforms into a Rockwell B-1B Lancer bomber. He can also form the back or chest to any of the "kibble-jet" style of Sixteam, though his nominal placement is as the chest of Sixwing.

He was available only as part of the full Sixwing gift set in Japan. The original Sixteams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find, and sell for some pretty hefty sums.

This mold was also used to make the Universe Aerialbot Air Raid.

• More information on Missile Run at TFU.info
• Missile Run toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk

Micromaster

I had the missile runs once. It was not pleasant.

• Missile Run (Micromaster, 2003)

• Sixwing ID number: 2
• Accessories: Sixwing torso

In 2003, the entire Sixwing team was redecoed as part of the third assortment of The Transformers: Micromaster toys, in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box. Missile Run becamse solid black in jet mode, with a more 1988-Decepticon-themed gray and aqua deco, and the extensive stickers of the original were dropped in favor of a single Decepticon symbol and thin red stripes at the ends of his wings.

• More information on Destron Missile Run at TFU.info
• Destron Missile Run toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk
• Translation of Missile Run's Micromaster bio by Doug Dlin

• Berserker Missile Run (Micromaster, 2003)

• Sixwing ID number: 2
• Accessories: Sixwing torso

In every case of twelve Wing Team Micromasters, two of them were solid-white-plastic "Berserker" variations with purple Autobot sigils. All six Wing Team Micromasters were available in this manner.

• More information on Berserker Missile Run at TFU.info
• Berserker Missile Run toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk

Notes

• Missile Run, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual bio information whatsoever until his Micromaster release a decade after his original Operation Combination release.