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 IDW Publishing or Fun Publications books 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. First (and Second) in Flight

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?

Later, Jetfire was asked by his brother to take a picture of him in front of the captured Blitzwing for the "Femme-bots back home". When they were asked to work on a "Sub-space guidance gyro stabilizer", they could not get it to work, and when they tried to find a replacement, they could not, and stated that it was missing. They later witnessed Prowl get a telling off from Sentinel Prime, after he accused him of working with someone else to capture fugitive Decepticons, which Sentinel denied. When Prowl followed Sentinel to the Tigatron Stadium, Jazz brought Jetfire, Jetstorm, and Optimus Prime as backup, and when Sentinel was captured by Ramjet, Jetfire & Jetstorm combined into Safeguard in order to help get their commander back from Deceptcon clutches.Five Servos of Doom

When Wasp went on a cyco-rampage through the city, Jetfire, along with Jetstorm, Sentinel, Optimus Prime, and Bumblebee, went after him, and when Wasp was abducted by Swoop, Jetfire, along with Jetstorm, tried, and failed, to stop Swoop from getting away with Wasp. Sentinel then commanded them to launch an electromagnetic "grapple", with which they hauled Sentinel all the way to Dinobot Island. Upon arriving on Dinobot Island (and dropping Sentinel head-first into the sand), Jetfire, along with Jetstorm, were assigned to distract the Dinobots in order for Sentinel to be able to gain entrance to Blackarachnia's base. While Jetstorm dealt with Grimlock and Snarl, Jetfire dealt with Swoop, who he ended up blazing in flames (off-screen). When Waspinator was overloading with transwarp energy, Jetfire & Jetstorm helped get a weakened Sentinel Prime to safety. Later, Jetfire, along with Jetstorm, proceeded to taunt Sentinel about his hatred of both Earth, and organics, but were told to "Get their sorry shells aboard [The Steelhaven] double-time!"Predacons Rising

Later, when the Elite Guard Flagship was about to head through a storm cloud, Jetfire was commanded to watch the ship's energon readings, to make sure the ship didn't run out of power. When the Decepticons managed to break into the bridge of the ship, Swindle easily managed to capture the twins in an energy bubble using a stasis-suspension ray. When Optimus Prime eventually managed to transwarp onto the ship, after getting an encrypted message from Senitnel over the emergency-sub frequency, He, along with Jetstorm, Sentinel, and Jazz, were freed from the stasis-cuffs the Decepticons slapped on them. Later, after Lugnut managed to P.O.K.E. a hole in the ship, Jetfire & Jetstorm combined into Safeguard's jet-mode in order to combat the Decepticons in space. Once Blitzwing had managed to capture Sentinel, Optimus convinced both Jetfire & Jetstorm to surrender, as Prime assured them "It's gonna be alright". Jetfire, along with Jetstorm, Optimus, & Sentinel, were later placed into the decontamination chamber, which Optimus had commanded Jazz to rewire into a freezing unit, which the Decepticons had planned to use to freeze all of them. Then, it was revealed when the Decepticons were frozen, and the Autobots weren't, that Optimus had used Cybertronian-Optical code to tell Jazz not only to rewire the decontamination chamber, but wire it to freeze people outside of it, not inside. Decepticon Air

When Ratchet & Fanzone were transwarped to Cybertron, Jetfire, along with Jetstorm, Sentinel ,and Jazz found them outside of Maccadam's Old Oil House. When a Decepticon-controlled Omega Supreme appeared over Cybertron, Sentinel ordered that Ratchet and Fanzone be brought back to the Metroplex, and Jetfire, along with Jetstorm, proceeded to apprehend Ratchet. Once Sentinel had made the suggestion of firing on Omega Supreme, and Ratchet retailiated by threatening him, Jetfire & Jetstorm were ordered to arrest both Ratchet & Fanzone, but ultimately were knocked out of the way by Ratchet when Fanzone sneezed, which frightnened both Jetfire & Jetstorm alike. Jetfire & Jetstorm were then ordered to divert all energon to Fortress Maximus, as a battle preparation, incase Megatron attacked. When Shockwave got away with Arcee and boarded Omega Supreme, Jetfire & Jetstorm were ordered to fire on the "over-sized Autobot", but Omega Supreme transwarped away. Jetfire, along with Jetstorm, later witnessed Sentinel get a telling-off from Alpha Trion, and witnessed Ratchet & Fanzone commit "Intergalactic-Grand-Theft" by taking the Magnus Hammer back to Earth with them This Is Why I Hate Machines

Safeguard toy bio

In the comic included with the toy, Jetfire and Jetstorm are not clones, but already exist as refinery bots. They are upgraded into Elite Guard warriors. Rise of Safeguard

Jetfire and Jetstorm are clones created by the Autobots from techniques learned from Starscream.

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.

In a clever touch, both feet are sculpted on the back to look like fists(to make the toy more symmetrical), but only one of them actually can become an arm.

Both Jetfire and Jetstorm can flip open their cockpits. Nice. Pointless, but nice.

The set comes with a bonus comic book, "Rise of Safeguard", which details the creation of the twins. For some reason, the comic included in the box contradicts their bio printed on the box.

• More information on Jetfire at TFU.info

• Jetfire (Deluxe, 2010)
  • Japanese ID number: TA-21

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.)

• Perceptor's dialogue in the "Rise of Safeguard" comic implies that Jetfire and Jetstorm were split from one protoform, possibly making Safeguard their true form. Such a theory is supported by Safeguard's being unnaturally intelligent for a combiner, and his possessing of his own alternate mode.