Skilz
- Skilz is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
While Skilz is smaller than his Autobot comrades, he makes up for his size with pure bravado. Transforming into an unassuming skateboard that allows him to remain undetected in Decepticon-dominated areas, he's unafraid to challenge much larger enemies to their face just to make a point.
Fiction
Transformers/Back to the Future
Skilz was lying around in skateboard mode in the Decepticon-dominated Hill Valley of 1985 amidst a pile of rubble, where Marty McFly found him and used him to run away from a blitzing Starscream by hitching a ride on Long Haul. A blow from the Seeker knocked Marty off Skilz, almost spelling his doom before Gigawatt arrived from the future to save him. Transformers/Back to the Future #1
When Gigawatt's subsequent attempt to fight Starscream went poorly, Marty threw the skateboard at Starscream in a pitiful attempt to help, and Skilz took the opportunity to reveal himself by transforming to robot mode and kicking the Decepticon across the face. Both Skilz and Marty used Starscream's momentary distraction to board Gigawatt and head to the future of 2015, and entered Delgado Mine where the Autobots' secret base was located. There he watched as Gigawatt reported to Autobot leader Rodimus Prime about his failed mission and expounded on how the timeline came to change. Skilz was the one who deduced that Gigawatt had once been a Decepticon. Transformers/Back to the Future #2
Soon afterwards, the Autobots responded to a distress signal from Hill Valley, finding Marty's parents facing execution. When Marty rushed in to save them, Skilz scanned a hoversled and gave Marty a ride so he could turn Doctor Brown's alpha-wave ionic nullifier on the Constructicons before a blast from Starscream's null-ray sent both of them out of the sky. Recovering after Rodimus had downed Starscream, Skliz praised the power of teamwork before the Hill Valley courthouse unexpectedly assumed a towering robot mode. Transformers/Back to the Future #3
Notes
- Artist Juan Samu based Skilz's design on Grindor from the Armada toyline.[1]
- Skilz seems to employ mass shifting, as he's smaller than Marty's leg in skateboard mode but taller and bulkier than Marty in robot mode.
