Skyfall (G1)

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

Skyfall is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Skyfall can transform into anything, especially a jerk.

Skyfall is an up-and-coming Autobot weapons engineer. He has an effusive and enthusiastic personality, always heaping praise on those around him and telling them things they already know, in a way that doesn't seem suspicious at all. Whenever his friends reach a major success, Skyfall is always there to join in the celebration (and glory), and wouldn't you know it, whenever his rivals fail, things just seem to work out to Skyfall's benefit too. What a lucky bot he is! One day, Skyfall will accomplish great things--you'll see! Oh, you'll see.

Skyfall can sometimes get lost in fantasies of his future glorious adventures, and it falls to his nagging (but intensely loyal) Targetmaster partner Top-Heavy to bring him back down to reality and make him focus on his job.

Fiction

IDW comics continuity

"We're not going to make it!"
"Shut up, SHUT UP!"

Skyfall was a weapons-designer and a rival of Ironfist. Ironfist designed Optimus Prime's signature laser rifle, but the Autobot commander mistakenly believed it was Skyfall's work. Of course, it was only out of respect for Prime's image that Skyfall never corrected that misconception. Yeah. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4

After a particularly harsh argument with Ironfist during these early stages of the war, Skyfall--feeling he had to prove himself to the war effort--volunteered to take part in an advance patrol, which was then captured by Decepticons and endured 100 years of captivity in the infamous Grindcore penal colony. Upon Skyfall's rescue, Ironfist strongly advocated for him to become one of the engineers at the Kimia design facility. There, working side by side, the two became fast friends.... except for the teensy little detail about how Skyfall now secretly hated Ironfist and would stoop to any depth of depravity in order to exact revenge upon him. After Ironfist had developed the fearsome chemical weapon known as Gideon's Glue, he himself was so shocked by its virulence that he attempted to destroy the entire stockpile of his creation--but Skyfall found out about it, and leaked critical information to the Decepticons who then used it in the massacre at Babu Yar. Skyfall then manipulated the subsequent Autobot investigation of the incident to direct suspicion towards Ironfist.

But Skyfall would soon be under official scrutiny too, when his further development of "black phosphex" (which he swore had been his idea from the beginning and that Ironfist had stolen from him) led to severe weapons malfunctions in the field. High Command forcibly transferred Skyfall out of weapons design and into the penal system, working as a guard on Garrus-9. While there, he took out some of his frustrations on the helpless prisoners under his care.Bullets He was among the personnel attempting to defend the G-9 penitentiary from Banzaitron's assault. Spotlight: Arcee

Once again Ironfist intervened on his "friend"'s behalf, bringing him back to the Kimia engineering corps so he could enjoy Skyfall's company... which often took the form of passive-aggressive backhanded compliments about Ironfist's temperament during ethics investigations and the repetitiveness of many of his entries in the "Wreckers: Declassified" series. At some point, Ironfist promised his good buddy Skyfall that he could have Ironfist's lab if anything ever happened to him. Wasting little time, Skyfall tampered with one of Ironfist's cerebro-guns, insuring it would automatically fire when held at a certain angle and thus dooming Ironfist to a slow death by creeping brain-bullet. A subsequent investigation by Brainstorm revealed the sabotage of the gun, but Ironfist kept this a secret, maintaining a charade of friendship with Skyfall but all the while formulating a plan for revenge from beyond the grave.

After Ironfist departed for his own mission to Garrus-9, Skyfall took possession of that precious, long-sought lab. But Skyfall's true personality soon shone through: he was arrogant and dismissive enough to repeatedly ditch the requests of Xaaron's investigative committee, and as punishment the authorities repossessed all the weapon tech that the lab had housed. Skyfall had barely absorbed this setback when he found himself receiving a recorded message from Ironfist--who had just died at that moment. Revisiting all the strange coincidences that had accompanied Skyfall's career over the years, Ironfist had uploaded an automatic message and broadcast timer into his brain-bullet's internal computer, and revealed the proof of all of Skyfall's crimes to every fan who was following "Fisitron"'s datafeeds.

Skyfall soon found himself barricaded inside his lab with an angry mob of Autobot troopers banging on the door, as Ironfist laid out one condemnation after another. Knowing he would never survive among his former victims on Garrus-9, Skyfall happened across the one remaining weapon in the lab--Ironfist's last secret sample of Gideon's Glue--and drank it, killing himself.Bullets

Skyfall is not yet an Action Master in IDW continuity.

Toys

Generation 1

Gun-DAMMIT! ...Sorry.

• Skyfall with Top-Heavy (Action Master, 1990)
  • Accessories: Top-Heavy partner, "Cloudburst cannon"

Skyfall is an Action Master, and as such does not transform (which, given what it says in his toy bio, is more than a little ironic), though his design shows hints of a vehicle mode, likely a Cybertronic jet fighter similar in style to early Pretender robots such as Cloudburst, given the cockpit and vehicle details on his back. He is compatible with any Action Master weapon or vehicle. He came with his rhino-partner Top-Heavy.

• More information on Skyfall at TFU.info

Notes

• Skyfall's toy bio contains the line: "Can change into anything from a construction crane to a can opener, then into a weapon in less time than it takes to plug in a phone jack." This could be a typo given its startling nature and its minor clash with the next sentence, which calls him a "former jet fighter." Removing the first "into" and the ", then" would create a new meaning that jibes very well with his weapons-engineer function. On the other hand, it says what it says, and Simon Furman has stated that if the Action Master storyline in the comics had continued, he planned to have Nucleon affect individual Transformers in lots of strange and different ways. It is possible that Skyfall's super-transformational abilities could have been a result of this.

Yow, that's primary.

• Skyfall's color went through several alterations before production; his catalog photography shows him in different red and white colors.

File:Skyfall boxback.jpg

This, less primary.

• The 1990 boxback art features Skyfall in an even more different color scheme, blue and green. It's possible he was mistaken for Gutcruncher.

• Skyfall's design seems to be strongly inspired by the Japanese Gundam robot line, with maybe a little Generation 1 Seeker mixed in.