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Getaway is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
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Getaway is an escape artist without compare. He's cool-headed and logical under even the craziest, most dire circumstances and that lets him figure his way out of even the trickiest surprise or sneak attack. His reputation for cool-headed escapes is legendary, dating all the way back to the infamous Armornecking Incident on Cybertron. His Nebulan Powermaster partner is Rev.

Getaway has an escape kit concealed within a hidden compartment in his heel that he can reach even when bound.<ref>Seen in "Prime Bomb!"</ref>

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel The Transformers comics

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.
Getaway will not stand for being miscolored! ...okay, yes, he will.

Getaway was part of the skeleton crew situated on board the Steelhaven when Goldbug appropriated the ship to go to Nebulos in hopes of reviving Optimus Prime. Totaled! They made contact with a friend of the old Nebulan Headmaster leader Galen named Hi-Q, but found that Nebulans had developed an acceptable level of robo-phobia after the Transformers nearly decimated their civilization last time. Hi-Q had led a research project which detonated a bomb in the atmosphere, spreading a molecular revisioning agent that converted all fuel supplies on Nebulos into a type poisonous to Transformer life. The poisoning passed the "acid test" when a pair of Decepticon vagabonds named Darkwing and Dreadwind came to Nebulos looking for Scorponok's army, and ended up poisoning themselves on local fuel and being rendered inert. Unfortunately, a jealous assistant named Hi-Test stole and modified a new form of bio-mechanical engineering, enabling him and his partner Throttle to binary-bond with the Decepticons and restore them to functionality, bringing Nebulos once more under Decepticon attack.

"Now, I will disarm the missiles with both hands tied behind my back..."

Hearing this story, Getaway and his fellow Autobots attempted to stop the Decepticons, but proved a poor match for these new Powermaster warriors in their weakened condition. Hi-Q and his staff came to respect the Autobots for their devotion to repairing their fallen leader and determination to protect the very people intent on poisoning them if they stayed on Nebulos. They chose to undergo the same Powermaster Process that Hi-Test did, and Getaway was binary-bonded to Rev, one of Hi-Q's aides. Through this transformation, the Autobots succeeded in restoring Prime to functionality and driving the Decepticons off of Nebulos. Their new Nebulan partners chose to return to Earth alongside Getaway, Prime and the others. People Power!

Getaway and the Powermasters briefly encountered the Cosmic Carnival during their trek back to Earth space. The Cosmic Carnival They arrived on Earth during Christmas time. Itching for action while Prime gathered his thoughts, Getaway led the Powermasters to investigate suspected Decepticon activity in the town of Border Flats. Instead they discovered the Autobot Advance Surveillance Unit had made a mess of the town while trying to join in on the festivities.Cold Comfort and Joy!

As they reunited with the Autobots aboard the Ark, Getaway fought against the crazed Deathbringer empowered by the Creation Matrix. Deathbringer He also defended the Ark against an attack by the borderline deranged Thunderwing.Assault on the Ark! In another battle, Getaway and the Powermasters fought with the Seacons on the ocean floor to recover a power cell.Dreadwing Down!

When the Decepticon Air Strike Patrol attacked MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Getaway questioned the need for Autobot involvement. Limited resources and personnel meant the Ark would be virtually unguarded if they ventured down to Earth. Nevertheless, Prime insisted. Back from the Dead Getaway's words proved prophetic, however, as it quickly became apparent that the Decepticon Micromasters had lured the Autobots away from the Ark deliberately. The Resurrection Gambit! Optimus Prime ordered a full Autobot retreat back to the shuttle while he remained behind as a rear guard. Reluctantly, Getaway and the others complied, even when Hot Rod broke ranks to remain behind with Prime. All the Familiar Faces! Back aboard the Ark, Getaway tried to throttle information out of Blackjack, the Micromaster who rigged the Ark with explosives, only to discover the countdown had already begun and was irreversible. Ratchet managed to rig a portal to transport the explosives to Cybertron, but seemingly at the cost of his own life.Skin Deep

Getaway was captured by the Decepticons aboard Scorponok's orbiting spacecraft where both he and Rev were imprisoned in energy manacles and thrown in the brig. Getaway, who had added a credit card (probably a Blackrock card) to his escape kit after hearing stories about humans using them to open locks, used the card to block one of the Energy Bars, which were tuned to fry metal, not plastic. Contorting his body, he hooked his shoulder wing through the gap he had created and touched the controls to shut off the beams.

Getaway retrieved the floppy disk the Decepticons had stolen and attempted to convince the A.B.C. missile computer not to launch a Decepticon smart bomb, unsuccessfully, before stealing an escape pod and returning to Earth. Though Getaway did not realize it at the time, his actions would indirectly save Optimus Prime's life. Prime Bomb!

After Starscream came back, revived as a Pretender and joined the ranks of Scorponok's Decepticons, he (mistakenly) thought every other Con thought him of a loser and relic—while in truth they were terrified of his power. Going on a stroll, he stumbled into an Autobot scout party composed of Getaway, Chainclaw and Cloudburst. Scared, the Autobots proposed to leave peacefully, but the angry Starscream (thinking the Bots meant he wasn't worth fighting) attacked them. After seeing his comrades quickly dispatched, Getaway fled, stating "Gotta... get away!" But he did NOT get away this time. Fallen Star!

"I'm Getaway, not Crosshairs!"

After the Autobots lost the Creation Matrix during Thunderwing's destruction, All Fall Down Getaway and his fellow Powermasters were part of a team that retrieved the Classic Pretenders from VsQs. Thereafter, the Autobots pursued recreational exploits to get their minds off the imminent threat of Unicron. During this period, an unhappy Slapdash lost a game of Fullstasis to Getaway. Eye of the Storm When the grotesque fusion of Megatron and Ratchet began rampaging aboard the Ark, Optimus Prime was reluctant to harm the creature that was half his oldest friend. As more Autobots were injured by the entity, however, Kup became fed up with Prime's hesitation and demanded he deal with the problem, permanently, or else he would invoke the Crisis Act and forcibly remove Optimus from command. A quick glance at the Autobots present, Getaway among them, confirmed that Kup's threat wasn't an idle one. The Pri¢e of Life!

Despite the growing mistrust in Optimus Prime's leadership, Getaway and the Autobots agreed to his unconditional surrender to Scorponok and the Decepticons, in the interests of establishing a united front against Unicron. Surrender! As the war moved back to Cybertron, Getaway and the Autobots battled a squad of Unicron cultists. The Void!

Getaway was among the last Autobots standing during the Decepticons' assault on Klo. He was eventually trapped in a box canyon, and took a direct hit from Dreadwing, which blew him up but good. Presumably, he would have almost immediately have been revived by the Last Autobot. End of the Road!

At an unknown point in the war on Earth, the Triggerbot Backstreet went AWOL after blowing a planned ambush. Joyride and Getaway were among the Autobot patrols who attempted to track him down. Trigger-Happy!

In an alternate future of 2009, Getaway was one of seven surviving Autobots on Earth, possibly in the universe. Alongside Guzzle and Chainclaw, he sacrificed his life to delay Scourge and Cyclonus, keeping them busy so that his comrades could infiltrate the Decepticon base. Rhythms of Darkness!

Marvel UK future timelines
"A-anything for a running gag, Simon! Urk-"

Getaway was seen among the Autobots in 2009, after the Time Wars altered the flow of history to make the Autobots the losers of the war for Cybertron. Limping their way back to Autobot City on Earth, the Autobots were sabotaged by one of their own and crashlanded on the planet. Hard. Those that survived then had to face Rodimus Prime, who had been driven mad by the evil essence of Unicron growing inside him. Getaway's smoldering corpse was seen among the ruins of the ship, although whether he died in the crash or was exterminated by his own leader is unclear. Shadow of Evil

Earthforce
These stories do not fit into the normal Marvel continuity. See Earthforce for details.

Getaway was among the "new age" Autobots who attended Optimus Prime's meeting with Grimlock and the Dinobots about their more brutal methods. When Grimlock threatened to quit the Autobots, Prime seemed all too willing to let him, and the two of them actually came to blows. After about ten minutes, though, Getaway and Swoop decided the fight was probably a "draw". Having apparently beaten some sense into each other, Optimus Prime agreed to allow Grimlock his autonomy, to lead "Earthforce" while he and the Ark's crew took off for space. Break-Away!

Transformers Comic-Magazin

Getaway was among the Autobots monitoring the Decepticons from a distance when Megatron made peaceful gestures to Humanity in New York City. The Autobots returned to the Ark and discovered that a statue of Snaptrap that the Decepticons had gifted to New York was actually Snaptrap in disguise. Snaptrap went on a rampage and the Decepticons used this distraction to attack various other targets. Prime led the Autobots to narrowly defeat this menace. The Troy Principle Those events were recorded on a videotape that was later found and watched by Autobots on Cybertron after a nuclear disaster in Kalis. In Memory of Earth

In 1973, Powermaster Optimus Prime - A Robot, a Hero Getaway attended a meeting in which Optimus Prime lectured the Autobots on the basics of their mission and existence, and applauded Slapdash's call for a one-world Autobot government. He reminded his fellow Autobots that they were loners and weren't as committed to their cause as the Decepticons. Later, the Decepticons attacked an oil tanker, and Getaway helped in the rescue effort. A Big Day for Powermaster Optimus Prime Those events would later be observed via log recording by Autobots in the year 2008. Powermaster Optimus Prime - A Robot, a Hero

The characteristics of Getaway and the other Powermaster Autobots were reviewed by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in a simulation watched by Goldbug.Memories of Bumblebee


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Regeneration One

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During the invasion of the Hub Network, Getaway and a team of Autobots comprising Beachcomber, Sky High, Jazz and Skids aboard the Lancer Two were shot down by Jhiaxus's forces when they revealed their full defensive power. The War to End All Wars, Part 3


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Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Where we're going, we don't need roads.

Getaway acted as bait for the Autobot resistance's attempt to capture a drone from Megatron's Aerospace Extermination Squadron. He led a trio of drones to Nova Cronum, where they were ambushed by Nightbeat's squad of Autobots. The Age of Wrath #2 After two had been destroyed, the surviving drone appeared to shut itself down before suddenly reactivating and augmenting itself with upgraded weaponry. Getaway was the first to go down, but managed to attach the inhibitor claw onto the drone just as it was preparing to execute Slapdash. The Age of Wrath #3

Dreamwave declared bankruptcy before the final result of their mission could be told.


IDW Generation 1 continuity

Bomp. When you—bomp—say something funny or clever or bomp, that's what I do. You hate it. You say it's patronising. Which it is. Which is why I do it.{{#if:|{{{quote2}}}}}{{#if:Getaway|Getaway{{#if:|, {{{3}}}|}}|}}
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"We were to be airdropped into a virtual hell on Earth in order to engage in a life-or-death offensive to locate and retrieve the Commissioner's lost keys."

Getaway of the Corcapsia Incursion was constructed cold during the Great War. A "Made To Order" soldier, he was brought online by Autobot High Command from a stockpile of frozen sparks originally harvested from the Matrix back during the days of Nova Prime. Along with the rest of his unit, Getaway was 'born' and educated shortly before he was to be deployed on Corcapsia. According to Getaway, a few seconds after his education he was airdropped into a battlefield and, as his brain hadn't properly grasped his primary function, he panicked and ran away from Megatron. The Lopsided Triangle A little-known fact is he's shown signs of possible Matrix affinity. Twenty Plus One

Stuck in a trench with three complainers. Getaway is planning his escape even as we speak.

Shortly after Thunderwing's first apocalyptic assault, the besieged Autobots prepared for the big push against their positions by the Decepticons. The injured Getaway was in a trench alongside Kup, Broadside, and Huffer, waiting for Blaster's morale-boosting broadcast to the Autobot forces, a transmission that never came. Spotlight: Blaster

Getaway joined the Diplomatic Corps, which was actually just a front for Autobot Special Operations. Answering to Prowl and partnered with Skids, Getaway embarked on a mission to investigate Chief Justice Tyrest. Getaway and Skids shadowed Tyrest for years, always staying one step behind to avoid suspicion from Ultra Magnus. Getaway would claim that he and Skids had an in-joke where he'd "bomp" the guy on the chin after being patronising. When some of Tyrest's...shadier dealings came to Prowl's attention, he ordered Getaway and Skids to hunt the Chief Justice down and shoot him with a "thought bullet" that would implant the impulse to resign from his position. After they tracked Tyrest to his secret staging ground- Luna 1, Skids successfully made the shot.

Se-cret... Aaaaa-gent 'Bots!

However, Tyrest's mind had already been damaged and the thought bullet did nothing more than alert him to the Autobot duo's presence. While Skids managed to escape Luna 1, Getaway was captured and imprisoned by Tyrest's Legislators. He spent months alternately being ranted over by the Chief Justice or tortured on the VVH by Tyrest's new enforcer, Star Saber. Eventually, Getaway got a full picture of what Tyrest was planning. The only reason Getaway was not executed was because Tyrest felt the information he possessed was too valuable. Arm the Lonely

They say that first impressions are always the hardest to forget.

Finally, the crew of the Lost Light happened upon Luna 1, and Getaway and Skids were reunited in one of Tyrest's prisoner cells. The Divided Self Skids had followed protocol after escaping, wiping his own memories, and thus was unable to recognize his old partner. Getaway filled in the blanks related to Skids' memory problems and told Rodimus of Tyrest's "universal killswitch"- a horrific device that would terminate any Transformers that were constructed cold. Getaway then proceeded to cobble together the means to escape from various items donated by the other Autobots in the cell, and the group headed off to confront Tyrest. Unfortunately, the Chief Justice had managed to reverse-engineer a "weapon of mass-suggestion" from the thought bullet that was used on him, paralyzed the Autobots with it, and activated the killswitch. Having been constructed cold himself, Getaway spasmed in agony on the ground as the killswitch began its lethal work. Arm the Lonely

Fortunately, Tyrest's plans were foiled and the killswitch deactivated- saving Getaway's life, among others. This Calamitous Life The next day, Rodimus and Getaway ventured back to the initial spark "hot spot" the Lost Light crew had discovered upon first landing on Luna-1, only to discover it had gone dark and would not reignite. Getaway then accompanied Rodimus to Tyrest's control room, where Perceptor had managed to establish contact with Cybertron. The Sound of Breaking Glass

You say that now, but just wait...

After Ultra Magnus had been left in charge of the Lost Light, he and Getaway were summoned by Brainstorm to one of its shuttle bays. On the way there, Getaway asked how Magnus was handling leadership and the two lightly discussed Magnus' attempts to "soften his image" amongst the crew through his use of more informal language. After arriving at the shuttle bay, they beheld the severed tip of Metroplex's thumb, which had been previously stored there and was now levitating and pressing against the inside of the ship's hull. Getaway was awed by the very fact that they even had a piece of Metroplex aboard, let alone what it was currently doing. Going from what Tyrest had once upon a time told Getaway about Titans being interconnected, Brainstorm theorized that Metroplex was somehow communicating with them and nudging the Lost Light in a certain direction. Winners & Losers

With the ship parked at the bottom of an alien sea and under attack from Ammonites, Getaway joined a group heading for something called the Rodpod, and was flabbergasted to find Rodpod was a shuttle designed after Rodimus's head. While being pursued by Ammonites, the Autobots discovered they had flown into Metroplex's eye socket. Into the Abyss While Getaway was still trying to deal with the fact that they were inside a head inside a head, Brainstorm discovered traces of admium in the water and had Getaway ring Swerve, though he just got Swerve's answering service. They also found a drydock, but some exploration of Metroplex's interior just led them in a circle. They arrived back at the Rodpod in time for it to explode courtesy of an Ammonite. No Exit

Swerve eventually returned Getaway's call with an urgent message to evacuate the area on account of the swarm of Ammonites heading their way. After an attempt to interrogate the bomber Ammonite which ended with the questionee exploding, the group of Autobots encountered Nautica and Chromia The Dead Are Not Enough and Getaway defused the tension by pointing out the two newcomers was an Autobot. He, Whirl, and Skids engaged the Ammonites who subsequently poured in while the others went to meet Windblade. Burning Bright Unfortunately when Metroplex teleported back to Cybertron, the Ammonites came too, so the trio still had their hands full, at least until Metroplex's immune system abruptly came back online and the Ammonites all perished. Finis Temporis Getaway and Skids later hung out in Swerve's, at least until the proprietor almost messed himself over Blurr being in the bar, and Getaway hastily excused himself. The Becoming When billions of Ammonites invaded, Getaway joined in the defense of Cybertron as Bumblebee led a team to face Shockwave, the mastermind behind the whole affair. Black Planet

Megatron being given a suspended sentence and allowed the Autobrand made Getaway unhappy. So unhappy, he stayed on the Lost Light and plotted with Atomizer and Whirl to set up new captain Megatron to "attack" an Autobot and metaphorically hang himself. The Lopsided Triangle The first attempt failed Towards Peace so the escapologist hit on a new plan: he'd groom a patsy to, eventually, attack Megatron and be killed. The Lopsided Triangle

Getaway wears a literal shadow to aid in literary foreshadowing.

Naive little Tailgate fit the bill. The Lopsided Triangle Getaway sought him out, bigging up the little fellow's heroics on Luna-1 and saying it was Prime worthy. When Tailgate admitted he had tried to lie about being a Golden Age hero before, Getaway sympathized and brought up his own less-than-illustrious career before joining the Diplomatic Corps, before giving Tailgate an affectionate "bomp" on the chin. (Did he notice Cyclonus storming out of the bar in disapproval?)

All of this was interrupted when the spaceship began to vanish and they found themselves drifting in space on the Rodpod. Predestination: A Beginner's Guide Then the crew of the Rodpod also began to vanish and the Autobots tried to work out what was causing it. Getaway admitted to being a M.T.O. in case that was the cause but it turned out that only original crewmembers were vanishing. This left Getaway as part of the remaining crew, who proceeded to stumble upon a destroyed Lost Light. Twenty Plus One They split up to investigate and Getaway and Skids, together again, searched the wreckage. En route, they talked about their issues with Megatron and that they worried they would stop hating him because his death toll was too big to process. Things took a macabre turn when they caught up with Riptide and found a huge pile of mutilated corpses of their fellow crewmembers, corpses that indicated the Decepticon Justice Division had been through. slaughterhouse It luckily (well, not for this crew) turned out that these were quantum duplicates of the original crew, and they were able to get the original Lost Light back. The Road Not Taken

When you're out in a club
And you see a Tailgate
DO THE CREEP!
(Haaaa!)

Getaway arranged to go fishing for Legislator parts in the oil lake with Tailgate (50 points for a head!) but they met up for drinks first. After listening to a slight fabrication of Tailgate's recent time travel escapades, Getaway just happened to accidentally mention that Cyclonus had called him a "simple-minded" coward behind his back for being scared on his deathbed. He was totally against that and Cyclonus's problems! Don't worry Tailgate, another drink would help (oh hush that you don't want anymore) and oh don't mention to Cyclonus that I told you this, eh? Our Steps Will Always Rhyme

Brainstorm, Getaway, and Skids invaded Nautica's room to show off teach her practical skills (escaping chains in his case) only to find she would rather read a psychological treatise by Froid. When Nautica said Rung had implied he ghostwrote it "just now", Getaway passive-aggressively insulted Rung as boring and tried to "bomp" his way out of it when Skids objected. It was just a joke, Skids, geez! They patched it up when they went to Thunderclash's pre-wake on the Vis Vitalis i.e. to a huge dance party, where both of them hit on Firestar.

Later, a fatigued Getaway was found resting by Nightbeat and both of them found a panicked, screaming Ravage. They pursued him to the ship's morgue out of curiosity and Getaway found the warm corpse of Countdown. After accidentally using one of Brainstorm's devices that exposed cloaking fields, they discovered some strange technorganic parasites on the corpses and on Getaway's face, which started burning as soon as noticed. That's when strange alien creatures attacked! The Sensuous Frame The pair managed to fight them off for a time, until Nightbeat realized that the aliens were personality ticks feeding off of Getaway's natural charisma. After Rodimus and Megatron accidentally took care of the entire infestation, Getaway joined the rest of the crew for a disco party. Naturally, Getaway took the opportunity to go dancing with Tailgate, much to Cyclonus's chagrin. The Frail Gaze Getaway later went along on the trip to the Necrobot's planet, spending the ride there chatting with Tailgate. The Not Knowing

Getaway put the final stages of his anti-Megatron plan in motion one night at "Visages"; after recounting the story of his birth and teaching Tailgate some chirolinguistics, Getaway offered Tailgate a gift: a pair of clip-on mnemosurgery needles. Although Tailgate was surprised- as he'd never asked for a pair—Getaway changed the subject by telling him that he'd been setting up the ancient bond of the Conjunx Ritus—the first step of becoming a Conjunx Endura. In order to finish the ceremony Getaway told Tailgate that he would need to prove his commitment with a spectacular demonstration of his love. Getaway requested that Tailgate use the mnemo-needles to reprogram the sleeping Megatron's mind; the needles were fakes, but Getaway knew that Megatron would immediately flip out and kill the little guy. To ensure that Tailgate wouldn't survive, Getaway also gave Tailgate a dud 'Ravage detector', knowing that Ravage would alert Megatron to the intrusion. Getaway later met with Whirl and Atomizer after Whirl started having second thoughts about the plan. However, Tailgate had already set off to do the deed, and Atomizer shot Whirl with Getaway's old nudge gun to keep him from squealing. The Lopsided Triangle

However, Whirl was able to send out one last warning to Cyclonus before his memory was lost and Cyclonus subsequently foiled Getaway's plan. After Chromedome used his mnemosurgery skills to find out who put Tailgate up to it, Ultra Magnus arrested both Getaway and Atomizer. Speak, Memory: Part 1 During the rogue memosurgeon Sunder's attack on the Lost Light, Tailgate discovered Getaway locked away in the ship's brig, the escape artist's arms, legs, jaw and voicebox having been removed to prevent any possible escape. Speak, Memory! (Part 2)

Commercial appearances

  • Getaway, Slapdash and Joyride were shocked to discover that the Decepticons had developped Powermaster technology as well when they encountered Dreadwind and Darkwing while out for a drive. The three Autobots used their Nebulan partners to transform to robot mode and fight back. They were soon joined by Optimus Prime and his own partner, Hi-Q who provided additional firepower against the Decepticons. Powermasters commercial
  • During a battle on the Moon, Getaway mistook Quickswitch for a Decepticon. He was quickly corrected by another Autobot, and Quickswitch made use of his many modes to help the Autobots overpower the Decepticons. Quickswitch commercial

Games

Transformers Legends

During a battle eons ago, Getaway, Slapdash and Joyride were defeated and almost killed by Dreadwind and Darkwing. They were only saved from certain doom when Optimus Prime arrived and drove both of the Decepticons off. Many years later on Earth, the three Autobots encountered Dreadwind and Darkwing again, and this time they weren't so lucky. End of the Road

Toys

Generation 1

I want to Getaway, I want to flyyyyy away...
Getaway transforms into a racing-modified white Mazda RX-7 FC3S. Plasma-Shell shotgun can be plugged onto the vehicle roof for storage via 5mm post. Attaching Rev (or any other Powermaster unit) into the Powermaster socket on the vehicle's hood unlocks Getaway's transformation sequence into robot mode, though one can unlock the transformation simply by pressing down on the panel without Rev. Getaway's robot mode is mostly static for a relatively large toy, with articulation restricted to his arms.
This toy was sold in Japan as Lightfoot.


Notes

"Hey! I'm no Bay-former!"
  • An homage to Getaway, Breakaway, was released as a Wal-Mart exclusive as a late part of the live-action movie toyline. Its name was intended to be "Getaway," but the trademark could not be secured. The redeco was originally intended to be this Getaway, and part of the 2008 Universe toyline.
  • Getaway appears briefly in the commercial for Quickswitch. He confuses Quickswitch for a Decepticon attacker and tells... somebody... to destroy him, before an off-camera voice points out that Quickswitch is actually an Autobot. Way to be judgmental, Getaway.
  • When asked why Getaway was killed so often in his stories, Simon Furman commented that with a name like Getaway it would be funny if he did not get away.
  • For some reason Getaway's character model in the Marvel UK and US features a mouth and a reasonably prominent chin. His toy and IDW appearances feature a faceplate (as does his Japanese cartoon counterpart Lightfoot). His Universe homage (see above) goes without a faceplate.
  • Getaway's IDW incarnation is written with a New Zealand accent.<ref>James Roberts on Getaway's nationality on Twitter</ref>

Foreign names

  • French: Fugitif (Canada)

References

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