Jetfire (Animated)

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

Jetfire is a comrade from the Animated continuity family.

"Ready, Ronald?"
"Ready when you are, Professor Stein."

Jetfire and his twin brother Jetstorm are part of a risky Autobot Elite Guard experiment in duplicating the flight and combat abilities of the Decepticons. What the Autobots got were two incredibly rambunctious, cocky, and oddly naive robots with devastating combat power and acrobatic skill. Jetfire, true to his name, has the ability to create massive bursts of flame in both robot and jet modes. However, his accuracy and judgment as to when to use this power are questionable at best. Thankfully, he actually listens to Sentinel Prime's orders to throttle down once they get on his nerves (which is often).

The twins also have the ability to combine into a superjet, or into the robot Safeguard... modes that makes them even more physically powerful, but no less prone to acting without thinking.

Fiction

Animated cartoon

Events from the IDW comics are in italics.

Voice actor: Tom Kenny (English)

He probably thinks the "henbotway" joke is funny too.

Jetfire was a simple repair bot who, along with his brother Jetstorm, nearly died in an on-site accident. Viewed by the Elite Guard as completely expendable, Jetfire and his brother were chosen to have Decepticon coding (acquired from Starscream during his time in custody) grafted onto their Autobot shells in hopes that the pair would gain the Decepticons' flight abilities. Wheeljack, Perceptor and Red Alert did the necessary calculations and programming needed. After this, the pair's combat abilities were tested against Jazz, whom they easily defeated.

My goggles, they do nothing!

To try their combat skills against a Decepticon, Starscream's programming was scanned into a combat simulator. However, Starscream's programming overpowered the training system, and the battle became real. Starscream's strength and cunning were more than they expected; Jetfire briefly lost control of his flame throwers and began to burn up, only to be saved when Jetstorm's wind turbines put out the flames. With newfound determination, the two combined into Safeguard for the first time and destroyed the virtual Decepticon. After this performance, Jetfire and his brother were inducted into the Elite Guard. Rise of Safeguard

Later, Jetfire, along with his brother, Jazz, and Sentinel Prime, were sent by Longarm Prime to chase after the supposed Decepticon spy Wasp. The twins soon found a Wasp-disguised Bumblebee, whom Wasp intended to frame by swapping paint jobs, helmets and voices, and Jetfire was able to make at least one fireball attack before Jetstorm accidentally (and literally) blew Bumblebee away. They then were confronted by Optimus Prime and Ratchet, who mistook them for Decepticons due to their ability to fly. After a one-on-one battle with Optimus & Ratchet (with Jetstorm facing Optimus and Jetfire facing Ratchet, respectively), the two combined into Safeguard to try and gain the upper hand, only to have the brawl end when Sentinel & Jazz arrived and cleared up the misunderstanding. Then, under Sentinel's orders, the twins set out to find Wasp once more.

They later found him with Bulkhead and Prowl, who tried to convince them that Wasp had swapped places with Bumblebee, but to no avail. The twins assumed all three to be traitors and attacked them. The long battle was once again broken up by the others, who had become at least partly convinced of Bumblebee's true identity. The group quickly headed back to the Autobots' base to try and sort out the matter. During the fighting, however, Wasp had hacked into the Autobots' files on Bumblebee, allowing Wasp to know everything about him. Bulkhead decided to settle it with a game of Ninja Gladiator to determine the real Bumblebee. Jetfire and Jetstorm were so delighted by the concept of video games that they both shouted that they would play the winner. This would not happen, as Wasp revealed his true identity under the pressure. Where Is Thy Sting? Five Servos of Doom Predacons Rising

Toys

Animated

I am the god of Jetfire! And I bring you...

• Jetfire and Jetstorm (Entertainment Pack, 2008)

Available only in a twin-pack with his brother Jetstorm, Jetfire transforms into a white and orange Cybertronic wedge-shaped jet. He features pop-up "fire blades" in his robot mode armor. He can combine with his brother in both modes; in vehicle mode, they form an odd super-jet simply by docking together along their undercarriages (Yes, yes, har har, very droll), while Jetfire's robot mode forms the right half of the super robot Safeguard.

Both Jetfire and Jetstorm can flip open their cockpits. Very nice.

The set comes with a bonus comic book, "Rise of Safeguard", which details the creation of the twins.

• More information on Jetfire at TFU.info

Notes

• Both twins speak with a thick Russian accent.

CHEEKS!

• Jetfire and Jetstorm's fire/wind theme has its roots in some of the earliest concepts of Animated. Sean Galloway, who had been commissioned to do early concept work for the series, revealed several pieces of this concept art long before the "final" Derrick Wyatt-designed characters were shown. Among these images were a pair of "fire and wind" robots who have a few features that made it into the jet-twins' final designs.

• The twins' method of combination is seemingly an homage to Hyōryū and Enryū/Chōryūjin from the final installment of Takara's Brave Series, King of Braves GaoGaiGar.

• In the early stages of the toy's development, the end of the twins' combined vehicle mode is supposed to split apart and wings are supposed to slide out of the shins, so that the combined mode resembles an X-wing fighter.

• Derrick J. Wyatt had no input over Jetfire's name, as the twins were largely the work of Eric Siebenaler; Wyatt only did a "once-over" of their aesthetics to match the rest of the series near the end of their development cycle. That's the reason why Animated Jetfire does not have a more "traditional" Jetfire design. As such, Wyatt says that if he ever does an homage to the original Jetfire's design, he would gladly call the character "Skyfire". (Of course, that trademark isn't actually available to Hasbro for toys, but that doesn't matter for a TV show.)