Jetfire (SG)

This article is about the evil Autobot. For his heroic counterpart, see Jetfire (G1). For a list of other meanings, see Jetfire (disambiguation).

Jetfire is an evil Autobot from the Shattered Glass continuity family.

We'll hold him, you deface him.

Jetfire is an evil Autobot.

Fiction

Shattered Glass

Long ago, Ultra Magnus started a coup against his brother Optimus. It ended badly, with Stepper and Jetfire holding Magnus down while Optimus Prime ripped off his face. Invasion

Jetfire became part of Rodimus Prime's crew on Earth aboard the Ark. He was eager to undermine Rodimus's authority, pointing out his cowardice and lack of leadership at every turn. He overreached himself while exploring Side Burn's secret lab, however, blundering into booby traps when Rodimus hesitated to lead the exploration team. Rodimus let Inferno extinguish Jetfire's burning body (eventually), and the jet-bot's survival was left ambiguous. Coalescence

Toys

Gentei! Gentei!

• Dark Skyfire (Voyager, 2010)
  • Japanese ID number: C-06
  • Accessories: Hydrogen-fuel Turbo Thruster Pack, two-piece rifle, 2 photon missile launchers, 2 infrared homing missiles, helmet

Gentei! Gentei! Dark Skyfire was repurposed as Jetfire in "Invasion".

Gentei! Gentei! Dark Skyfire is a Toy Hobby Market-exclusive black repaint and retool of Classics Jetfire. The primary changes to his deco are mainly for making him, uh, darker. Specifically, he's cast in glossy black and purple plastic, with painted purple details and new thin white stripes on his wings. The tips of his backpack cannons have been significantly remolded to make the barrels and stalks on which they are mounted a single, newly-jointed piece, with the result being that the cannons' bodies stick out ever so slightly from their housing. This change is likely to make the barrels more durable under the constant spring-loaded strain of being hidden, as well as allow one to pivot and deploy the cannons without sliding back the panels that are keeping them hidden, due to the fact that deploying the cannons this way with the previous tooling often resulted in the (detachable) tips of the cannons to pop out and send them flying. As with all Henkei toys, he lacks the heat-sensitive rubsign seen on the Classics release, but instead has some vacuum-metallized parts (his jetpack's exhaust nozzles).

The extent of Dark Skyfire's 'Dark' originally varied from image to image: early pre-production mockup images showed a dark matte grey similar to e-Hobby Astrotrain, whilst later images appeared gloss black with high-contrast silver details, leading to speculation that this redeco is the previously unreleased 'ghost' Classics Jetfire. Some possible hints of this remain, such as the Hasbro Classics-styled open cockpit instead of Henkei's half-painted version, as well as some entirely new paint operations, such as the added stripes on the sides of the intakes just behind his shoulders.

Pre-orders for Dark Skyfire opened up on November 12 and closed on December 11 2009, with the toys finally shipping sometime in March 2010.

• More information on Dark Skyfire at TFU.info

Notes

What's the evil opposite of Australia, anyway? France?

• Prior to "Invasion", Jetfire's only appearance was on the BotCon 2008 "One Generation Shattered" Shattered Glass lithograph, where he was presented as the Cybertron Jetfire toy in "evil" colors.