Crosshairs (AOE)

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

Crosshairs is an Autobot from the Age of Extinction franchise in the live-action film continuity family.

Move over, Mario...

When the chips are down, Crosshairs is the kind of guy you'd want on your team. Or you would, if it wasn't for the fact that he's self-loving and more than a bit of a jerk. Crosshairs is a paratrooper who's a mouthful of snark with a bad attitude. He's got little respect for Optimus Prime, harboring a desire to just be on his own. Despite these vices, Crosshairs is a crack shot, who hits the ground running and makes mincemeat out of Decepticons before they even know what hit them. And if the chips are really down, he'll come through in the end.

"Welp, we looked; they're not here. Let's go!"

"What?! Hey, I'm not going anywhere without Tessa!"

"I'm unclear. What's in it for me?" Crosshairs , Age of Extinction

Fiction

Age of Extinction film

Voice actor: John DiMaggio (English), Hideaki Tezuka (Japanese), Raul Solo (Latin American Spanish), Marco Kröger (German)

Crosshairs was among the Autobots who went into hiding on Earth when Harold Attinger's Cemetery Wind began hunting down the Autobots. Crosshairs had joined up with Drift, Hound, and Bumblebee, and the group remained hidden until Optimus Prime returned to them. Crosshairs expressed joy and faith when their leader returned, saying he always believed he would, but still grumbled about the treatment of the Autobots at the hands of the humans. Crosshairs, along with Hound, immediately tried to kill Cade Yeager, Tessa Yeager, and Shane Dyson, but Optimus restrained him, explaining their part in helping protect him from Attinger. That night, Crosshairs made known his desire to strike out on his own after Drift and Bumblebee started fighting, but fell in under Optimus as the gravity of their situation began to sink in. Crosshairs learned of Leadfoot's fate, and joined in the plan for Cade and Shane to infiltrate KSI.

Crosshairs desperately tries to restore order during your typical Black Friday.

However, when Cade discovered Ratchet's deactivated head being melted down, Optimus furiously rallied the Autobots into action. Crosshairs gleefully joined in the shooting up of KSI, and was prepared to kill Joshua Joyce, but after a demoralizing speech from the human, Optimus ordered a retreat. The Autobots took to the road with their human allies, and were pursued by Galvatron and Stinger. Crosshairs was absent for the ensuing battle against Galvatron, but Optimus and Tessa were captured by Lockdown.

See? Once again our explosive personality wins the day!

The group made for Chicago, where they snuck aboard Lockdown's vessel. Crosshairs initially refused to take part in the rescue mission, asking what was in it for him, but after some aggressive negotiation from Hound, joined in the mission. Crosshairs helped sabotage some of the ship, causing the anchors to release, which the humans used to escape after rescuing Tessa. He warned Hound against messing with alien creatures on the ship, to no avail. They soon found the captured Optimus, who instructed them to detach the part of Lockdown's vessel they were on for their own personal use. Crosshairs soon commandeered an Orbital Assault Carrier, using it to pick up Bumblebee and the Humans. He flew it through the skies of Chicago, fleeing Lockdown's minions until deciding to enter the fray personally, but not before instructing Cade and Shane on how to use the OAC's weaponry. Crosshairs took on many of Lockdown's henchmen upon para-trooping into the skies, and later exited the battle and regrouped with the others.

Believes in molemen but doesn't believe his boss can take Grimlock.

Crosshairs was all too happy to leave Earth when Optimus decided they would leave permanently. He remained aboard the ship stolen from Lockdown with Drift and Optimus, but unfortunately their ride off-planet was shot down. Crashing in a nearby valley, Crosshairs decided he'd had enough of being the "underdog" and said the humans deserved what was coming for them before asking Optimus what their next move would be. Crosshairs was both astonished and annoyed that Optimus recruited the aid of the Dinobots, and retreated to the sidelines while Optimus beat some authority into Grimlock. Upon seeing Grimlock's massive dinosaur mode, he backed away in fear. The Dinobots joined up with the Autobots once Optimus "coerced" Grimlock, and Crosshairs mounted Scorn, though not without a few more grumbles about Optimus' exceptional motivational skills. Crosshairs took on many of the KSI Transformers with Scorn, and they later helped escort the Seed to safety. Lockdown's intervention threw things astray, but the battle saw the Autobots victorious. Crosshairs bid farewell to Scorn, who he had nicknamed "Spike" after the battle, and told his new friend that he'd ride with him anytime. When Optimus departed into space on his own, he ordered Crosshairs and the other remaining Autobots to protect the Yeagers from harm. Age of Extinction

Titan movie comics

Crosshairs attempts to demonstrate his new web shooters to Bumblebee.

Crosshairs arrived on Earth sometime after the Decepticon invasion of Chicago, and assisted Bumblebee and Optimus Prime on a mission to track and eliminate three Decepticon survivors in Indonesia. The Decepticons retreated but Crosshairs had placed a tracking device (which doubled as a bomb) on their boss, and tracked them to Pulau Bidadari. He requested permission to go alone, claiming a sneak attack by one bot would catch the enemy off guard; in large part, this was done to show off his skills as Crosshairs felt humans couldn’t be trusted anymore and it was just up to Autobots.

On Pulua Bidadari, he swiftly took out all three of his charges (secretly under the watchful eye of Bumblebee), making sure to mock the Decepticon he’d planted the bomb on before it went off. Optimus felt that Crosshairs was more than combat ready but that they had missed something. Crosshairs (incorrectly) reassured him otherwise. Thousand Island Fight

How to Ride a Dinobot! comic

When Optimus Prime insisted the Autobots learn how to ride Dinobots, Crosshairs and Drift quickly managed to get atop of their steeds. Warning them not to get cocky, Optimus suggested a combat drill between the two of them. Crosshairs charged Scorn towards Drift and Sludge with full force...only for the Dinobots to halt at the last moment and launch their riders into each other. But when Grimlock detected Decepticons nearby, Scorn allowed Crosshairs to ride him once again as they headed out into battle. How to Ride a Dinobot!

Cheetos comics

Crosshairs found Cheetos-Points. Cheetos/Transformers: Age of Extinction

Games

Dinobot Hunt online game

Crosshairs teamed up with Slug to destroy some Decepticon encampments, and collect some Energon along the way. Dinobot Hunt

Toys

Age of Extinction

Robots in Disguise

There goes his favorite gun.

• Crosshairs (Power Battlers, 2014)

Crosshairs transforms from Corvette to robot mode in 8 easy steps. His right arm features ball-jointed articulation, while the left arm features a "power punch" gimmick, which he shares with Power Battler Bumblebee.

• More information on Power Battler Crosshairs at TFU.info

Lost Age LA-07 Crosshairs

• Crosshairs (One Step Changers, 2014)
  • Japanese ID number: LA07

Crosshairs converts from Corvette to robot mode in one simple step, by pushing a button located on the car's windshield, via a transformation scheme he shares with his fellow One-Step Changers Lockdown and Stinger.

The TakaraTomy version (pictured right) features more paint applications, intended to make him appear more movie-accurate.

• More information on One-Step Changer Crosshairs at TFU.info

Generations

"I'm not just the Merc with a Mouth, I'm the sensation with a registration." (Hasbro Version Pictured)

Unlike the Hasbro stock photo above, Takara knows how to transform THEIR OWN TOYS. (TakaraTomy Version Pictured)

• Crosshairs (Deluxe, 2014)
  • Japanese ID number: AD06
  • Accessories: 1 machine gun, 2 pistols/sticky-bombs

Crosshairs turns into a licensed 2014 Chevrolet C7 Corvette Stingray. To replicate the duster coat he wears in the movie, his transformation involves much of the sides and roof of the vehicle mode folding up and wrapping around him, making him into a fairly egregious shellformer. But it looks awesome, so it matters not.

He comes with what his packaging refers to as as "sidearm blasters"; they are actually based on sticky-bombs featured in concept art for the character, but they can also be held as pistols and are depicted as such in all stock photography. He also comes with a single silenced submachine gun based on the pair he wielded in the movie proper, and he features storage for the blasters and SMG in his coattails (5mm ports underneath the rubber flaps) and calves, respectively.

Because his duster increases his footprint by splaying out in all directions, Crosshairs is usually mistransformed both in-package and in stock photos so he can actually fit. In actual fact, his tailgate can fold down behind his head so that it's much less conspicuous and doesn't interfere with his light-piping gimmick, and two rubber flaps concealed under the vehicle mode windows fold out and connect to his torso beneath a pair of sculpted lapels, completing the duster as opposed to simply leaving Crosshairs as a robot trapped beneath the top half of a Corvette.

The Movie Advanced Series version of Crosshairs adds several new paint applications for a more screen-accurate look...except that another stripe isn't added on the right side of the vehicle.

Crosshairs was redecoed into Age of Extinction Hot Shot.

• More information on Age of Extinction Deluxe Crosshairs at TFU.info

Don't expect him tackling a Were-Car anytime soon.

• Autobots United (Platinum Edition, 2014)
  • Accessories: 1 machine gun, 2 pistols/sticky bombs

Released as a 5-pack under the Generations line, Platinum Edition Crosshairs is a screen-accurate (even more screen-accurate than the Takara version!) redeco of AOE Crosshairs.

This time around he is cast in a paler green and includes extensive paint operations on his shoulders, thighs, toes, arms & midsection. He also finally has the striping on the right side of his vehicle mode painted though, strangely, his "3-D goggles" are unpainted.

He came in the BBTS shared exclusive "Autobots United" set along with screen-accurate redecoes of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Drift, and Hound.

Construct-Bots

• Crosshairs (Dinobot Rider, 2014)

Part of the second wave of Dinobot Riders toys, Crosshairs changes into a car and includes a small blaster accessory. He is designed to ride any larger Dinobot figure of the same line.

His nominal Dinobot partner is Scorn.

Q-Transformers

Crosshairs after discovering Burger King.

• Crosshairs (2014-12-26)
  • ID number: QT-04

Q-Transformers Crosshairs transforms from a super deformed Chevrolet Corvette C7 to a cute little robot. He comes with a code for unlocking Crosshairs as a playable character in the Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns game, though his in-game appearance is very different from the toy's, featuring the same vehicle mode but with Generation 1 Crosshairs' head and colors.

This mold was retooled into Q-Transformers Tracks.

Notes

• Crosshairs has a very similar, if not identical, voice as Dark of the Moon Leadfoot. Both characters were voiced by John DiMaggio, however when Leadfoot is seen under attack by humans in Age of Extinction, his voice sounds different than in the film he debuted in.
• Crosshairs, along with Hound, does not have any on screen transformations.
• Crosshairs (or rather the car that portrays him) went under the pre-production name "Slingshot". Interestingly enough, Crosshairs's personality, that of a somewhat self-centered braggart with a wish for command, evokes the original bearer of the name "Slingshot".

Foreign names

• Japanese: Crosshairs (クロスヘアーズ Kurosuheāzu)