Skywarp (BW)

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

Skywarp is a Maximal from the Beast Wars II portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Recognizable as the one who does not push people down stairs.

Skywarp (スカイワープ Sukaiwāpu) isn't necessarily a stuffy stick-in-the-mud, but he's certainly not the life of the party. A decorated and dignified teacher on Cybertron, his primary interest is to mold young Maximals into the scholars and warriors of the future. As such, Skywarp was presented with perhaps his greatest challenge: the wild and rebellious Lio Junior. Together with Santon, Skywarp has made it his mission to shape the disrespectful little brat into the spitting image of Lio Convoy. Lucky for Skywarp, he's as patient as he is boring.

Skywarp's expertise resides in aerial combat and technical innovation, particularly in the field of electronics. Together with Lio Junior and Santon, he can combine to form the mighty Magnaboss.

Fiction

Cartoon continuity

Beast Wars II cartoon

Voice actor: Mantarō Iwao (Japanese)

Skywarp and his partner Santon were sent to Gaea with information about the artificial planet, Nemesis. They intended to warn Lio Convoy about Galvatron's secret weapon. On their journey, they also detected a new powerful lifeform emerging on Gaea. This lifeform, the Maximal cub Lio Junior, was created through a duplication of Lio Convoy's Energon Matrix. Upon their arrival, Santon and Skywarp found Lio Convoy and Lio Junior in battle with Galvatron. Through forced fusion, they created the combiner Magnaboss with Lio Junior, giving him an outlet for his great energies. Enter Lio Junior

After Magnaboss dispatched Galvatron, Santon and Skywarp explained their mission to Lio Convoy and told him about Nemesis. They also acted as go-betweens in the contentious relationship between Lio Convoy and Lio Junior. As Convoy and Junior patched things up, the combined Magnaboss helped Lio Convoy temporarily defeat Gigastorm, the new Angolmois-powered version of Megastorm. Megastorm Reborn Gigastorm remained a powerful foe, however, so Lio Junior and his team joined the Maximals in a new operation to eliminate him. They lured Gigastorm into an unstable area and intended to bury him in a collapsed mountain pass. Gigastorm survived their best efforts, though. The New Weapon, Tako Tank

While reviewing his machinations, Galvatron recalled Skywarp's arrival on Gaea and his first encounter with Magnaboss. The Artificial Planet Nemesis

Santon and Skywarp reviewed strategy with Lio Convoy and Apache over the upcoming threat of Nemesis. In their absence, Lio Junior detected a nearby Angolmois mining operation and led the other Maximals into an impulsive raid. Skywarp and the others were forced to join the ill-advised raid when they heard of Lio Junior's attack, and were nearly destroyed when Nemesis rained down fire from above and destroyed the base with them still inside. Still, the Maximals survived the assault, and Skywarp's team formed Magnaboss in the aftermath to battle the Predacons. Gigastorm's Treachery

The End of Starscream The Lio Convoy Assassination Plot Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger! The Great Angolmois Freezing Tactic Knock Out Nemesis Lio Junior's Revolt!? Emissary of the Fourth Planet The Crisis of Planet Gaea Fly Out! Planet Gaea Assemble, Thirty-Nine Warriors Revenge of the Space Pirates Breaking into Nemesis Legend! The Green Warrior Farewell! Lio Convoy

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

After the defeat of Unicron, Skywarp returned to Cybertron. There and as part of Magnaboss, he was witness to one of Big Convoy and Magmatron's tussles. Graduation Ceremony!!

IDW Beast Wars comics

Skywarp was an instructor in the aerial division of the Maximal Military Academy. Despite his important work, he was sent to support Lio Convoy's forces at Gaea, where he was altered by Lio Junior's spark to be able to combine with him and Santon to form Magnaboss. Beast Wars Sourcebook 4

Beast Wars: Uprising

Skywarp was on the Maximal team in a fateful match of the Games, which was interrupted by Lio Convoy's assassination of Supersonic and call for an uprising against the Builders. Broken Windshields

Toys

Beast Wars

• Skywarp (Deluxe, 1997)
  • Japanese ID number: C-27
  • Accessories: 2 "Sky Missiles", 2 "Wingaliber" swords

Skywarp is a slight repaint of the Beast Wars incarnation of Generation 1 Silverbolt, transforming into a bald eagle. The primary difference between the two toys is Skywarp's silver helmet and pink eyes over black. Each of his wings contains a spring-loaded "Sky Missile" missile launcher and a hidden "Wingaliber" (a portmanteau of "wing" and "caliber") feather-sword. He also forms the headdress, chest-armor and back to Magnaboss.

• More information on Skywarp at TFU.info

• Magnaboss (Ultra, 1997)
  • Japanese ID number: C-27
  • Accessories: 2 "Sky Missiles", 2 "Wingaliber" swords

Skywarp was also available in an Ultra-class giftset with his fellow combiners Lio Junior and Santon. There are no notable differences between the individual and giftset versions of the toys proper... though the giftset does not contain the bio/Tech Spec cards for the individuals, only for the combined mode.

Notes

"Come on, vogue!"

• While early artwork presented in TV Magazine depicted Skywarp as pretty damn feminine-looking (or at least pretty damn bishōnen-looking, it's hard to tell the two apart sometimes even when the subject is a human), Skywarp was most certainly male in the Beast Wars II TV series. Why the change was made is uncertain; possibly it had to do with toy sales much in the way that Airazor was turned male for the Japanese dub of Beast Wars.

Foreign names

• Korean: Skyhawk (스카이호크 Seukaihokeu)