Time Warrior (G1)

This article is about devices from the Generation 1 continuity family. For multiversal adventurers, see Time Warriors (AVP).

Not actually involved in the Time Wars.

Time Warriors are wristwatches used by the Autobots and some of their human allies. That's pretty much the long and short of it. One might imagine that they could stop time or reverse time or tell you the time out loud or something. But as far as anyone knows... no.

Fiction

S.T.A.R.S. continuity

Synchronize Swatches!

The Time Warriors arrived with the reinforcements from Cybertron, and the Autobots used them to coordinate their attacks on Decepticon bases. The battle is far from over! Reinforcements from Cybertron! Earthlings: THE S.T.A.R.S. need your help now!

The Autobots also made Time Warriors available to human allies, who used them to keep track of the time during their own missions. The nature of those missions is unclear; all that is known is that they were conducted while Decepticons were absent but expected to return.

The human involvement is inferred from a blurb that conspicuously uses the second person, bringing the reader into the story as a nameless character on a mission. This would become common in S.T.A.R.S.-related fiction, where the reader is being recruited as a human ally. But this particular bit is more ambiguous because it predates the introduction of S.T.A.R.S. We retroactively apply the S.T.A.R.S. storytelling model here, but it could be interpreted differently.

Toys

Generation 1

• Time Warrior (1985)

Time Warriors are watches that look like Autobot symbols. Pressing the mouth splits the faceplate to reveal the time. That's kind of like transforming?

They were only available as a mail-away offer, advertised via various pack-in flyers.

Notes

• The Time Warriors featured an LCD screen which could display a wide range of numerical values, which periodically incremented in a fixed sequence. Although publicity material typically portrayed a value of 6:32, this was merely one of several possible displays, and was no more common or significant than any of the others.