Red Wing (G1)
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- Red Wing is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Red Wing is a Seeker. He has a "devil may care" attitude and some powerful guns, so what more do you need? Sadly, he's probably not the partner of Falcon.
Fiction
Wings Universe
Red Wing was part of a joint Autobot/Decepticon assault on the Cybertronian clone army. In the ensuing battle, Red Wing was shot in the back by Skywarp. Termination
Kre-O online manga
Red Wing was among Bludgeon's troops as they discovered the Red Bucket. Treasure Competition! Defeat with Block Power!
TransTech
Red Wing was one of many Offworlders in Axiom Nexus's Under City. Red Wing was part of a crowd in Seeker-Shinai that C-81 attempted to disperse through intimidation. Unfortunately, all the Seekers present were too stunned to see a "Megatron" in Axiom Nexus to budge. Cybertron's Most Wanted
2005 IDW continuity
Red Wing was one of the Decepticons who joined Needlenose and Brawl for Galvatron's ill-fated assault on Shanghai, China. Once Upon a Time on Earth
Games
Transformers Legends
When the Decepticons used Chronogon portals to send the Aerialbots back in time, Red Wing took part in an operation to try and prevent Orion Pax's recreation as Optimus Prime. Golden Age
Toys
Generations
- Decepticon Red Wing (Voyager Class, 2019)
- ID number: WFC-GS02
- Accessories: 2 "HPI Null-Ray Laser Launchers"
- A Generations Selects accompaniment to Siege, "Decepticon Red Wing" is a redeco of Thundercracker, himself a head retool of Starscream with the same smirk of the former. He transforms from a heavily G1-inspired robot to a Cybertronian "tetrajet" based on the Seekers' appearance in "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1" and back, though the jet mode has the robot legs sticking out from the undercarriage. Red Wing includes two "HPI Null-Ray Laser Launchers," which can mount on his upper arms, or under the wings in jet mode.
- Fitting with the rest of Siege, Red Wing has 5 mm posts on his biceps, forearms, shins, under his feet (thrusters), and wings. The 3 mm pegs on his shins, forearms, left bicep, and the tips of his Null-Rays can accommodate effects parts sold separately. Like the rest of Siege, his robot mode focuses on articulation, with double-jointed elbows, knees that bend at nearly 180 degrees, ankle rockers, and waist articulation, being notable articulation points for a Seeker toy. Being a rather heavy shellformer, Red Wing can be separated into both a wingless robot mode and a nearly complete tetrajet easily, via a friction hinge.
- Red Wing received an early limited release from Hasbro Asia on June 1, 2019, ahead of being released as a Target REDcard exclusive in the United States.
Notes
- Red Wing owes his entire existence to a series of miscommunications between Hasbro, TakaraTomy, e-HOBBY, and Fun Publications, coupled with a slight coloring error: FunPub's original plans for the BotCon 2013 exclusive toys were to have a souvenir three-pack featuring redecos of Classics Starscream with color schemes based on the "welcoming committee" from the Generation 1 cartoon's first episode. However, at the time, FunPub had just entered a partnership with e-HOBBY in Japan, and since e-HOBBY were the ones who had originally turned the generic orange Seeker into an actual character and given him the name "Sunstorm", and e-HOBBY had plans to release their own Sunstorm redeco of the mold, FunPub decided to exclude Sunstorm from the set, and instead replace him with a new character named "Hotlink" (at that time, the purple Seeker would have been named "Nacelle") that would have sported a more red-ish orange color scheme, with the BotCon 2013 exclusive comic intended to feature both Sunstorm and "Hotlink". However, TakaraTomy subsequently denied e-HOBBY the permission to release their version of Sunstorm, because according to their information, Hasbro themselves were planning to release a new Sunstorm toy. After a while, FunPub realized that Takara might have very well been referring to their own (since shelved) BotCon exclusive figure... so they eventually decided to go ahead and change the figure to be included in the set back to Sunstorm, while the name "Hotlink" was reassigned to the purple Seeker (the name "Nacelle" was later given to yet another Seeker). Because that change was made at the last moment, the comic still ended up featuring both the more yellow-ish orange Sunstorm and the more red-ish orange Seeker... however, in the final printed comic, that latter Seeker ended up looking very red and not much orange due to the lighting effects and contrast with the background.[1][2] Following the convention, one fan kept persistently inquiring about the identity of the mysterious "red" Seeker both online and offline, and thus Fun Publications finally ended up naming the character "Red Wing" via Twitter. Prior to this, Pete Sinclair wasn't even aware (or at least feigned ignorance) of his existence in "Termination" due to his extremely minor role and the number of other Seekers present within the story.
- Red Wing subsequently received his first bit of characterization when he was given a short bio by the Transformers Legends mobile game.
- Kre-O Red Wing is made from existing Kre-O parts, like all non-toy robot Kreons in these comics. As per usual, he uses the Seeker Kreon parts consisting of the Starscream helmet, jet wings, and Seeker arm rifles.
- In the Japanese dub of Cyberverse, Thrust (who thus far is not a Conehead) is named as "Red Wing".
Foreign names
- Mandarin: Hóng Yì (Taiwan, 紅翼, "Red Wing")
