Jetfire (G1)

This article is about the Generation 1 Autobot. For the Unicron Trilogy Autobot, see Jetfire (UT).

This article is about the Generation 1 Autobot. For the Robots in Disguise Decepticon, see Skyfire (RiD).

Jetfire is an Autobot from the Generation 1 series. He is also known as Skyfire.

Function: Autobot Air Taxi

Jetfire is a bot of science, literally. Not only is his mind dedicated towards scientific pursuits, but his body is a testament to the technology he studies so intensely. (Some would say "religiously," but not in his presence.) Every inch of his chassis is cutting-edge and kept up-to-date. However, he does not have the trust of his teammates; it was not so long ago that he was a Decepticon. Jetfire is compassionate, so some Autobots feel that he could be soft on their enemies or, even worse, he may turn on them after realizing his "cold calculations" swing the other way.

Jetfire would find their misconceptions about science appalling. After all, is not science just the pursuit of truth? And truth, he maintains, walks hand-in-hand with liberty.

French-Canadian name: Bolide

Fiction

Animated continuity

Voice actor: Gregg Berger (US), ??? (Japan)

(In the G1 Cartoon Jetfire went by the name Skyfire. This was altered from the toy, as was his appearance in nearly all media, due to liscensing issues with the Robotech/Macross design he was based on.)

Millions of years ago on Cybertron, Skyfire and Starscream (G1) were good friends and fellow scientists. On a mission of exploration to prehistoric Earth Skyfire was lost in a storm and burried beneath the arctic ice. Starscream searched long and hard, but there was no sign of his comrade. He returned home.

Later the Decepticons found and revived Skyfire who joined them due to his past friendship with Starscream. When his compasion for humans led to his disobeying orders, Starscream, who had changed much in the intervening millenia, turned on his friend. Skyfire left the Decepticons and joined the Autobots, sacrificing himself again to be burried beneath the ice to stop the Decepticon's plans.

The Autobots would later dig him up when ever they needed an airborn taxi-service.

See & Read Video

He went on a lot of suicide missions.

Toys

Generation 1

• Jetfire

A Takatoku VF-1S Super Valkyrie box set was repainted, repackaged, and released with an Autobot symbol (and some minor retooling of the nose cone) and named Jetfire.

Generation 2

• Jetfire

Japanese ID number: TRF-16

Jetfire was released in Generation 2 as one of the Autobot Cyberjets, a redeco of the Decepticon Hooligan. Interestingly enough, his toy has Decepticon faction symbol stickers, despite being released as an Autobot.

(Note: In the Robot Masters toy line, R-Blade's bio specifically mentions Jetfire as the leader of the Autobot Cyberjets, even though no mention of this is made in Jetfire's Generation 2 bio.)

Titanium

• Jetfire

Classics

• Jetfire

External Links

Jetfire at TFU.info

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.