Windrazor (G2)

This subject of this article goes by multiple names that apply to other articles as well. See Windrazor (disambiguation), Tornado.

Windrazor is a Decepticon Skyscorcher from the Generation 1 continuity family.

I clocked you at three miles above the speed limit. Prepare to die.

Windrazor (aka Tornado) leads the Skyscorchers, a team of Decepticon jets. He holds the goal of Autobot annihilation above all else, including the lives of himself and his teammates. This single-minded ideal fuels his sick genius in battle.

Fiction

Fleetway Generation 2 comic

Meet the new boss.

Tornado was part of Bludgeon's team who went to Earth to lure out Optimus Prime. After blowing the living crap out of a lot of buildings, he landed to tell Bludgeon that he and his troops were running low on fuel. But before Bludgeon could give the command to withdraw and refuel, Tornado was promptly blasted by their intended target, Optimus Prime. War Without End

It apparently wasn't a critical blow, since he was able to fly away and gather up Hawk and Terradive, calling them away so they could tackle a new target; Megatron, who had appeared to take out both Optimus Prime and Bludgeon. He attacked Megatron, and from there it's unknown how he fared. It's possible he was taken prisoner by the Autobots along with several other Decepticons. War Zone

Wings Universe

Windrazor was part of the "second generation" of Transformers created on Earth at the Cyberfactory. Although born without a faction, he soon chose one anyways and joined Clench's Decepticon Syndicate alongside many others. Generation 2: Redux

2005 IDW continuity

Windrazor served under the command of Turmoil when their second-in-command Deadlock abandoned his post. Drift #1

Regeneration One

Caught trying to steal Warbird missiles with cobalt-60 warheads from the Pax Cybertronia Decommissioning Depot in Kalis, Windrazor, Afterburner, Terradive, and Eagle Eye were besieged by the Cybertronian Civil Defense under the command of Ultra Magnus. While trying to rig one of the warheads' detonator caps to detonate and cover their escape, the Skyscorchers fell under attack by three Insecticons, acting on Soundwave's orders to make "martyrs" of them. Windrazor never even saw Chop Shop coming. Loose Ends, Part 1

Toys

The Transformers

• Tornado (Skyscorcher, 1993)
  • Accessories: Radar array/rifle

Tornado transforms into a General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet. His undercarriage radar becomes a hand-held non-firing blaster weapon for robot mode.

He was originally sold in the European market in 1993 as part of the "transitional" line that used the Generation 2 insignias, but lacked the new subline name. He was later released in the United States, with no notable changes beyond a new name, as part of the Generation 2 line. He was then later re-released in the European version of Generation 2 in 1994.

This toy is gang-molded with Afterburner.

• More information on Windrazor at TFU.info

Generation 2

• Windrazor/Tornado (Skyscorcher, 1993/1994)
  • Accessories: Radar array/rifle

Released in the United States in 1993, Generation 2 Windrazor is identical to the concurrent European "Generation 1" Tornado toy. Tornado was re-released in the European Generation 2 line the following year.

Block Town

• Airport Building Set (Block Town, 1996)
  • Accessories: Radar array/rifle, airport building brick set

Totally not evil now, really.

Windrazor's mold was one of several intended to be used in the post-G-2 Takara Block Town line, as an Autobot. To be redecoed in white, he was to come with the TFBT-3 Airport Building Set, a building-block airport tower that could be rebuilt into a battle station of some form. This set ultimately never came to release.

In 2005, a supposed Takara "release" schedule listed the Block Town sets among several other future items coming out. Only the Galaxy Force items on that list saw release, however (and some only as store exclusives to boot).

Given that Windrazor's Japanese name was revealed on a BotCon Japan-exclusive poster to be "Sky Tornado"–a poster that also showed Windbreaker's Japanese name as being "Carzap", which was what the Block Town Windbreaker redeco showed up as in Transformers Generations–it's likely that the Block Town Windrazor was going to be named "Sky Tornado" as well. The whole "Autobot" thing makes the issue somewhat hazy, though.

Your bargaining posture is highly dubious. Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Notes

• A piece of internal documentation containing an unfinished version of Windrazor's cardback once turned up on eBay, evidently from the collection of a former Hasbro employee. This mockup shows that Windrazor once had the preproduction name of "Whirlwind".
• Though Windrazor was never released in Japan, he did gain a Japanese name via a BotCon Japan 1997 exclusive poster, which featured bios for all of the new Generation 2 characters released in the U.S. who weren't part of the Japanese line: the Axelerators, the Skyscorchers, Rotor Force, four of the Go-Bots, and the Color Changers.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Sky Tornado (スカイトーネード Sukai Tōnēdo), Windrazor (ウインドレーザー Uindorēzā )
• Dutch: Vulcano
• French: Vulcano (Europe)
• Italian: Diablo