Fastball Special
You've heard of the "superhero landing," but the "Fastball Special" is the superhero launching! It involves the larger member of a team picking up and throwing a smaller teammate into action. As Transformers tend to have a greater variance in relative size compared to humans, it's a pretty easy move for them to pull off.
Fiction
Animated cartoon
To rescue Sari Sumdac when she fell from a skyscraper, Bumblebee had Bulkhead hurl him into the sky, allowing him to catch the girl and cushion her fall. Along Came a Spider
Bulkhead later replicated the maneuver with Prowl as part of the Autobots' Omega Formation, throwing him at Blitzwing. Sari, No One's Home
Prime cartoon
When confronting their rivals Breakdown and Airachnid, Bulkhead and Arcee executed this move, with Bulkhead hurling Arcee in an arc toward the villains, so she could rain firepower down on them as she descended. Metal Attraction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Orion Pax and Windcharger once inverted the traditional maneuver, with the smaller Windcharger using his magnetic powers to levitate and hurl the much larger Orion through a Functionist Council monitoring station. All Our Parlous Yesterdays
The more traditional variant was seen being used by Gigatron and Drift, the former throwing the latter to a raised platform. Empire of Stone #4 Kup also performed the move with his human friend Action Man as a way of getting the human inside the San Francisco skyscraper headquarters of I.R.O.N.. This is the only know human/Transformer execution of the move, only made possible by Action Man's protective forcefield. Strange Visitors
Robots in Disguise cartoon
Grimlock improvised the move with an unsuspecting Sideswipe, instructing him to "make two fists" then flinging him through the air with his tail, straight into the Insecticon Razorhorn with enough force to knock the villain out for the count. The success of the move prompted Grimlock to do it again only a short time later, this time with Bumblebee, who he hurled at the flying Starscream. Worthy
