Nightracer (G1)

This article is about the Decepticon that was around a long time ago. For her clone from Generation 2, see Nightracer (G2).

Nightracer is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Steady and stoic, Nightracer stands alone. She fears emotional entanglements with her fellow Decepticons will distract her from getting the job done swiftly and precisely. And her caution has seemingly bore results—she's one of the Decepticons' most skilled sharpshooters. Nightracer's aloofness and well-deserved confidence has earned her the ire of her would-be peers, mistaking her demeanor for arrogance, but the truth is she's merely pragmatic, and sees no virtue in downplaying her abilities. Of her fellow Decepticons, Nightracer cares only for Megatron, who she is unerringly loyal to.

Nightracer is sometimes paired with the Micron Shakar. Because the two were assigned to one another by Megatron himself, Shakar is the one other Decepticon Nightracer does not shun.

Fiction

Wings Universe

I'm just a placeholder image, honest.

In 2012, Jhiaxus had the Battlechargers retrieve several personality components from within Cybertron, one of which was Nightracer's. A Flash Forward, Part 2

Ask Vector Prime

Even Vector Prime admitted that he admired Nightracer's skill, if not the use she put it to. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/23

Renegade Rhetoric

One of Megatron's Renegade Decepticons, Nightracer followed her leader out of their home reality to a new reality. There, Nightracer and Crash Test raided a Sumdac Systems to acquire a pallet of Destronium. Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/05/05 With their ill-gotten supplies, the Decepticons upgraded themselves into the second generation of Go-Bots, improving upon the technology of the GoBots of Strata 22, sending the Autobots on the defensive. Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/05/12 Subsequently, Nightracer stuck with Megatron when Nemesis Prime made a play for leadership. Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/05/19

Toys

Timelines

I make a pretty good Wipe-Out too!

• Nightracer (TFSS 3.0, 2015)

Timelines Nightracer is a redeco of the Generations: Thrilling 30 Legends Class Tailgate mold, using the blues requested (but not used) for her original BotCon toy. She shipped as the "freebie" figure in Version 3.0 of the Transformers Figure Subscription Service, in the same box as Krok, the 6th and final paid figure in the service. She came packed with a similarly recolored version of Groundbuster, named Shakar, an anagram of Nightracer's creator, Raksha, who also contributed the text for Nightracer's packed-in bio card.

This toy doubles as Nightracer's clone and was repurposed as a body for Shattered Glass Tailgate. This mold was also retooled into Thrilling 30 Windcharger.

• More information on Nightracer on TFU.info

Notes

• A screencap of Nightbird from the cartoon was used to represent the original Nightracer since her head was a close fit and the art style matched the images of Soundwave and Frenzy next to her. According to Pete Sinclair and Jesse Wittenrich, the image wasn't supposed to be recognizable as Nightbird once it was obscured by Sky-Byte, but either Sky-Byte didn't cover her up in a way that would obscure her enough, or maybe we're just that good. She's not intended to be the same character as Nightbird.
• Nightracer's Timelines toy design actually first appeared as her clone in "A Common Foe". The toy profile card's characterization is presumably due to being written by Raksha, a hardcore Decepticon fan.