Slipstream (G1)
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- Slipstream is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The only thing sharper than Slipstream's acerbic tongue is her keen mind—whether as a soldier or a spy-for-hire, she gets that job done and always keep her true agenda shielded. Sometimes she's known to be a clone of Starscream; in other times and places, nobody knows where she comes from at all. Who is Slipstream? Someone fast, deadly, and able to shield her energy signature is all you need to know.
Slipstream keeps herself a blank slate, but she's certainly got Starscream's legendarily volcanic temperament!
Fiction
Transformers: All Spark
When Megatron returned from a previous defeat, Slipstream was among his new troops. Looming Threat
Games
Transformers Legends
Slipstream and Flamewar were tasked with hunting down and capturing Elita One's squadron of Female Autobots that was attacking Decepticon bases. They succeeded at stopping the Autobots. Fatal Furies Secretly allying herself with the Quintessons, Slipstream entered the Galactic Games in an effort to disrupt the spirit of cooperation the games represented between the Autobots and their allies. She was eventually found out and stopped by Drift and Cosmos. The Galactic Games
Transformers: Frontiers
Transformers: Earth Wars
When Megatron was moping over Octopunch's failure on Aquatron, Slipstream suggested that he shouldn't send out his most incompentent, "rusty" soldiers next time, which he didn't take too well. And she didn't mean the Contructicons. Megatron then threatens to compress his troops into crystals if they didn't find more Ocean Amethysts for Shockwave's reseach. Slipstream made a remark on how "effective" his typical brute force solution was.Shark Bait Event
- Class: Aerial
- Lowest Star Rating: 1 star
- Weapons: Slipstream fires her null rays at a target from short range.
- Ability: Fusion Bomb - Drop a fusion bomb on the target. If the target is destroyed within 20 seconds, the bomb explodes dealing massive damage to adjacent targets.
- Cost: 3 ability points + 3 for reuses.
Toys
Legends
- Legends Slipstream is a retool of Generations Windblade with a new head, chest, and forearms based on her cartoon design. She transforms into a jet with tilting, spinning VTOL fans and fold in front landing gear. She features new arm-mounted weapons instead of Windblade's sword and scabbard. She was packaged with volume 16 of the Legends Bonus Edition comic.
- This mold was also redecoed into BotCon 2016 souvenir Airazor, and served as the basis of the non-toy Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation of Stiletto.
Notes
- Legends and Earth Wars used different bios: the former having her as a quick-to-rage Starscream clone à la Animated, the latter as a mysterious enigma spy, drawing on her Aligned counterpart's Timelines profile (which was rather circumstance-specific; see her page for details). We've bashed them together until they fit.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Slipstream (スリップストリーム Surippusutorīmu)
- Mandarin: Huá Liú (滑流, "Slipstream")
