Shadow Striker (G1)
| The name or term "Shadow Striker" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Shadow Striker (disambiguation). |
- Shadow Striker is an Decepticon from the 2019 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
A tough and competent warrior-slash-middle manager, Shadow Striker brooks no nonsense from anyone, whether it's her impulsive compatriot Flamewar or her commanding officer Sixshot. Indeed, the Ascenticon commander has discovered—much to his chagrin—that his usual methods of leading through intimidation have little effect on her... and that she's just as likely to deliver some intensely painful retribution if he pushes her too far.
Fiction
2019 IDW continuity
- First appearance: Transformers issue #8
A member of the terrorist group known as the Rise, Shadow Striker was one of a number of "Risers" who had abandoned Cybertronian society and decamped to a secluded bunker underneath Iacon's Memorial Crater. One evening, the neutral hermit Cyclonus inadvertently discovered evidence of their presence, and Shadow Striker supervised Flamewar as the younger Ascenticon investigated the disturbed wiring. After Flamewar bumped into Cyclonus, Shadow Striker was forced to drop her cover and join the fight, but, despite wounding him with a rocket launcher, was unable to stop Cyclonus from blasting off towards Iacon. The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two
With their presence now known to the 'bots of Security Operations, Flamewar, Shadow Striker, and Sixshot stayed behind to scuttle the base while the other members of their cell fled, and wound up battling against Chromia and Windblade when they went to investigate. Defying her commander, Shadow Striker made it clear that she wouldn't be pushed around like Flamewar, and was able to successfully rig the base to explode before she and the other two Risers made good their escape. The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three
Shadow Striker was the butt of one of Flamewar's pranks when the latter sent Barricade into Striker's private quarters after telling him the quarters were his. Barricade got the worst of THAT exchange. The Change In Your Nature Part Three Shadow Striker either didn't mind Flamewar's antics, or didn't care enough to object to them. When they were tapped by Slipstream for a mission, Flamewar got it in her head to name their ad hoc squad "Team Stream". Her incessant repetition irritated Hyperdrive and Blackjack, but Shadow Striker just remarked that, with Flamewar, this too would pass. Despite their bickering, the squad successfully seized a Titan Net subsidiary hub in order to inject a data-bomb into the network, crippling Cybertron's living orbital defenders. The Change In Your Nature Part Four This freed Skystalker to direct his Titan Vigilem in an attack on the Winged Moon. The Change In Your Nature Part Five
As part of the bigger and badder Team Stream Mark Two, Shadow Striker claimed the Winged Moon for the Decepticons. Wheeljack: Orbital Decay
Notes
- While this version of Shadow Striker isn't the first female Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family to be named this—that honor goes to the Dodge Viper Transformer from the Universe franchise—this version of the character is pretty much a straight cross-continuity transplant of the Decepticon from the Cyberverse cartoon, so we've opted to give her her own page. Whether or not she'll meet with a gruesome accident, as per her Cyberverse counterpart, is anyone's guess...
