Skywarp (Movie)

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 Decepticon from the live-action film series continuity family.

Edward Weaponhands.

Skywarp isn't like most of the other Decepticons. He cares not for power, conquest, or battle. Knowledge is the one goal he has in his life. Others can fight the war themselves, as he is far more comfortable in the solitude of the workspace provided by Megatron. For the generous gift of peace and near unlimited time to research, he develops countless experimental weapons and tools for the Decepticons. Although a scientist, Skywarp is far from unarmed, and is equipped with many weapons that are both insanely powerful and nearly impossible to describe.

Fiction

Movies

The six movies are the primary component of the live-action movie continuity family. Their events should be taken as canon for all other pieces of fiction listed below, unless otherwise specified.

Bumblebee film

Looking for some stairs to push Optimus down no doubt.

Numerous robots sporting Skywarp's grey-and-purple colours were among the Seeker hordes participating in the attack on the Autobots' launchpad to prevent them from evacuating Cybertron. One was blasted by Optimus Prime; another decapitated by B-127; and another accompanied Starscream in an airstrike on the launchpad itself. Which (if any) of these was the actual Skywarp is unknown. Whether Optimus or anyone else killed him is also unknown. Bumblebee

Titan movie comics

They would never guess from looking at this comic panel that Devastator can't walk on two legs!

Skywarp was supervising the reconstruction of the critically damaged Devastator. The job was going well at a remote site in the mountains of British Columbia, hidden from sight by an artificial cloud bank, until the Autobot Stratosphere stumbled across Skywarp's crew while on a routine patrol. When the Autobot Hotshot made a frontal attack on the construction site, Skywarp easily dodged his shots and easily took him down with a single well-placed kick. While standing over him to deliver a kill shot, however, Skywarp miscalculated something important and was clobbered by one of Stratosphere's wings when the Autobot rolled himself over. With Skywarp dazed for a moment, Stratosphere was able to radio in a request for an air-strike to NEST, but Skywarp deemed them more lambs to the slaughter, touting his aerial superiority as he transformed to jet mode and came swooping back around for an attack. Stratosphere opted for a craftier tactic and turned the device generating the cloud bank around, blinding Skywarp with a face-full of vapor and causing him to crash. The NEST air-strike arrived soon after, and Skywarp was taken into custody. Head in the Clouds However, he escaped their jail in South Africa when Bludgeon staged his great escape. Skywarp joined his breakaway Decepticon paramilitary. Inside Out

"Head in the Clouds" reads like it was meant to go before "Inside Out" despite the story being released after it: Bludgeon had nothing to do with Devastator's resurrection.

Remember kids, lighting farts is never a good idea.

An unknown amount of time later, Skywarp was sent to meet the Autobot Blazemaster and invite the hot-headed psycho to join the Decepticons, proving himself to be quite the chatty chappy. Despite the Autobot's refusal, Skywarp told him to just live with the fact that he had all the credentials to be a murderous villain. Turn and Burn

Skywarp later took part in an ambush on Autobot/NEST forces in Russia alongside Thrust. Divided Loyalties After Megatron took down Bludgeon, Skywarp was either killed or recaptured by NEST. A Short, Sharp Lesson

Letters page

Skywarp and Starscream were old colleagues in the Seekers and Starscream wanted to reunite with him. #9's Star Screams

IDW movie comics

Many years ago, Skywarp was a member of Cybertron's Defense Force under the command of Protector Megatron. When a mysterious relic was uncovered, aliens from the Eshems Nebula attacked, leveling much of the city of Metrotitan. Skywarp was among the forces deployed to defend their home. Defiance #1 Following this outrageous attack on their sovereignty, Megatron used this to declare a military dictatorship and led the flight-capable soldiers in a bloody counterattack on the aliens. Defiance #2

Skywarp then joined Starscream and the other Decepticons to capture Optimus. When Optimus Prime thwarted Megatron's plans to capture him, Megatron declared them traitors and civil war erupted across Cybertron. Skywarp joined Megatron's Decepticon faction. Defiance #3

Unite for the Universe

When Starscream used the Unite process to power himself up and take command of the Decepticons, Megatron moved in to stop the usurper, but since he wasn't an idiot, he had backup standing by. This proved to be a smart move, as Optimus Prime and a squad of Autobots moved in to not only stop Starscream but to keep Megatron from learning the secrets of Unite himself. While the two leaders tussled, Skywarp, Hailstorm, Insecticon, and Terradive moved in to handle the other Autobots. When Starscream attacked them for interfering, Skywarp glibly announced that they had orders to return fire as necessary. They all retreated when Starscream was neutralized and the Unite components fried beyond recovery by Ratchet. The Strongest Weapon

Games

Transformers: Human Alliance

Skywarp engaged Optimus Prime and NEST during a Decepticon assault on a city in the West Coast of the United States. He briefly managed to outmaneuver the Autobot leader in battle using his teleportation powers. With the help of Jake and Vanessa, Optimus was able to defeat and kill Skywarp. Transformers: Human Alliance

Toys

Revenge of the Fallen

He'd push Starscream down some stairs, if his fingers didn't explode every time he tried.

• Skywarp (Voyager Class, 2009)
  • Accessories: 6 missiles

Revenge of the Fallen Skywarp is a Walmart exclusive redeco of Transformers Thundercracker, who was a retool of the original Voyager Class Starscream toy with a new head. Cast in black and purple plastic homaging Generation 1 Skywarp, he transforms into a Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor fighter jet. As with Starscream, this vehicle mode is ridiculously inaccurate. Pushing the fighter along a smooth surface causes the barrels of his gigantic spring-loaded Gatling missile launchers to rotate and fire their projectiles, which can also be stored in the black flip-up braces on the launchers.

During transformation, pushing up upon the canopy fuselage piece activates Skywarp's Automorphing gimmick which pushes certain panels, wings and stabilizers out of the torso. In robot mode, his projectile missiles are sculpted to vaguely resemble fingers, should users choose to keep them loaded while Skywarp is in robot mode.

The original mold of this toy was also used to make Revenge of the Fallen Ramjet.

• More information on Skywarp at TFU.info

Dark of the Moon

Gentlemen, behold! Swords on a stick!

• Skywarp (MechTech Deluxe Class, August 13, 2011)
  • Japanese ID number: DD10
  • Accessories: 2 MechTech Guns/Swords

Dark of the Moon Skywarp is a TakaraTomy-exclusive redeco of Dark of the Moon MechTech Deluxe Starscream. His incredibly flexible arms have joints at the shoulder, in the middle of the upper arm, elbow, and wrist, allowing them to neatly fold up for transformation, as well as scratch his own back.

He comes with two MechTech weapons, with one weapon being static and the other being functional. Both weapons are double-sided, featuring a gun barrel (which looks like a machine-gun barrel) on one side and a "sword" on the other. Pushing forward the scope on the functional weapon will cause the sword weapon to extend, increasing its reach. The peg and gun barrel on the static weapon correspond to the peghole and the hole of the scope of the functional weapon, meaning his guns can combine to form a double bladed weapon that's way taller than he is. This means that he is one of the few Deluxe figures to have a MechTech weapon that can remain locked in both modes.

This mold was also used to make Dark of the Moon Thundercracker. The prototype display seen at HasCon 2017 depicts the cancelled Hasbro version, which has a different paint scheme and Thundercracker's weapons.

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Skywarp (スカイワープ Sukaiwāpu)