Electrostatic discharger rifle
The Aerialbot leader Silverbolt can fly at nearly two times the speed of sound. As he flies, he builds up an immense static charge on his body - a charge that he unleashes on his enemies with his electrostatic discharger rifle. It is especially effective during thunderstorms, during which it can blast Decepticons with 150,000 volts of electricity in a single bolt.
Silverbolt also has an internal electrostatic battery, which has the same capabilities as his rifle, discharging electricity from his nosecone in jet mode.
Fiction
Marvel The Transformers comics
In jet mode, Silverbolt had an electrostatic battery mounted on his underside that stripped electrons from air molecules and stored them so he could direct the stored charge through his nose cone as a powerful bolt of electricity. In robot mode he carried an electrostatic discharger rifle with the same capability. Silverbolt's Universe profile
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
Silverbolt's jet mode had an electrostatic battery that could store up to 150,000 volts and release it as a giant silver bolt of electricity, as could his electrostatic discharger rifle. Silverbolt's More than Meets the Eye profile Firebolt could transform into an electrostatic discharger rifle that Hot Rod could use in both modes. Targetmaster Hot Rod's More than Meets the Eye profile
Toys
The Transformers
- Silverbolt (Aerialbot, 1986, 1991)
- Accessories: electrostatic discharger rifle, blast shield chest plate, Superion's head, left & right fists, left & right foot stands, ramp, blast deflector waist plate
- The Transformers Silverbolt came with a black electrostatic discharger rifle, which had a 4 mm post to fit Silverbolt's hands, unlike the more standard 3 mm or 5 mm posts of the time. It could also be wielded by the Aerialbots' combined form Superion, and was correspondingly available in a Superion giftset. It was also reissued as part of the European/Australian Classics line and available as a mail-away offer in Japan in 1991.
Generation 2
- Silverbolt (1994)
- In Generation 2, Silverbolt's weapon was generically labelled in his instructions, but confirmed to still be an electrostatic discharger rifle in his packaging bio.
Notes
- Somehow, when Superion wields Silverbolt's electrostatic discharger rifle in the Marvel comics, it becomes a stress fracture cannon. Neat trick.
- Zigzag transforms into an electrostatic overloader rifle. Probably the same thing.
- Sparks transforms into “the niftiest electrostatic discharger rifle this side of Andromeda." Desert of Danger
