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.
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
When Lio Junior got it in his head to jump into a pit of Angolmois energy and hope for a power-up, Santon and Skywarp raced to stop him. They warned Lio Junior that his pure Angolmois energy might not react well with the corrupted Angolmois affected by Nemesis. At the same pit, Starscream and BB fell into the Angolmois and emerged as corrupted Cyborg Beasts. Hellscream and Max B proved to be formidable opponents, even holding their own against Skywarp's team in their Magnaboss form. The End of Starscream After laughing off a kidnapping attempt by Dirge and Thrust, Skywarp and his friends encounter a more serious threat when the duo Angolmois-evolved into Dirgegun and Thrustor. They found Scuba frozen solid in a block of ice by Thruster's Trasher Horn. Santon and Skywarp stayed behind to help Scuba while Lio Junior raced to warn Lio Convoy. The Lio Convoy Assassination Plot
After being dispatched to secure the site of a mysterious falling object, Santon and Skywarp grew upset with Lio Junior's constant grandstanding. They felt he was focused more on his own ego and proving himself than on their mission to preserve peace in the universe. The object turned out to be a powerful teleport gate, able to summoned warriors from anywhere in space and time using the command key. When the Predacons arrived and stole the key, Lio Junior rashly engaged in battle. Santon and Skywarp actually refused to combine with him as Magnaboss in this fight due to their distaste for his methods. As a result, Tasmania Kid was seriously injured by Hellscream.
Although the Maximals secured the command key, a rift had grown between Lio Junior and the others. He stalked off on his own, and later seemingly joined the Predacons of his own will. Several Maximals were quick to call him traitor, but the injured Tasmania Kid told everyone Lio Junior was merely trying to prove himself worthy of their trust. By the time Lio Junior broke free from the Predacons' cells, Santon and Skywarp were already there to greet him. They formed Magnaboss to drive off the Cyborg Beasts, but suffered a serious injury in the process. As the Predacons had summoned Majin Zarak, Magnaboss used his dwindling energy to summon Optimus Primal for their side. After the defeat of Majin Zarak, Santon and Skywarp made amends with Lio Junior and the trio was inseparable once more. Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!
With Nemesis on the way, the Maximals needed to prevent the Angolmois energy from becoming unstable. Skywarp and the Maximals used freeze devices to cool the substance and keep it from getting too volatile. Tripledacus attempted to block the Angolmois geysers with a massive iceberg block, and so Lio Junior and Skywarp ran interference for him against the Cyborg Beasts. The Magnaboss trio later joined forces to help drive off the remaining Predacons. The Great Angolmois Freezing Tactic
During a major operation to destroy Nemesis with an Angolmois-powered artillery cannon, Magnaboss was given the key role of getting the cannon into position while the other Maximals diverted the Predacons with decoys. At the Angolmois volcano, Magnaboss was powering up the cannon when Galvatron and Gigastorm arrived to stop him. Skywarp and Santon separated from Magnaboss in order to delay the villains, giving Lio Junior enough time to fire the weapon. Unfortunately, the Angolmois energy was too much for the cannon and it overloaded before striking Nemesis. 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!!
Beast Wars II comic
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.
- 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
- 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)
