Jetfire (Animated)
| The name or term "Jetfire" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Jetfire (disambiguation). |
- Jetfire is an Autobot from the Animated continuity family.
"Ready when you are, Professor Stein."
Jetfire and his twin brother Jetstorm are part of a risky Autobot Elite Guard experiment in duplicating the flight and combat abilities of the Decepticons. The two also have the ability to combine into the powerful robot Safeguard.
Fiction
Animated continuity
- Voice actor: Tom Kenny (English)
Jetfire was a simple repair bot who, along with his brother Jetstorm, nearly died in an on-site accident. Viewed by the Elite Guard as completely expendable, Jetfire and his brother were chosen to have Decepticon coding (acquired from Starscream during his time in custody) grafted onto their Autobot shells in hopes that the pair would gain the Decepticons' flight abilities. Wheeljack, Perceptor and Red Alert did the necessary calculations and programming needed. After this, the pair's combat abilities were tested against Jazz, whom they easily defeated.
To try their combat skills against a Decepticon, Starscream's programming was scanned into a combat simulator. However, Starscream's programming overpowered the training system, and the battle became real. Starscream's strength and cunning were more than they expected; Jetfire briefly lost control of his flame throwers and began to burn up, only to be saved when Jetstorm's wind turbines put out the flames. With newfound determination, the two combined into Safeguard for the first time and destroyed the virtual Decepticon. After this performance, Jetfire and his brother were inducted into the Elite Guard. Rise of Safeguard
Toys
Animated
- Jetfire and Jetstorm (Entertainment Pack, 2008)
- Available only in a Voyager-class twin-pack with his brother Jetstorm, Jetfire transforms into a white and orange Cybertronic wedge-shaped jet. He features pop-up "fire blades" in his robot mode armor. He can combine with his brother in both modes; in vehicle mode, they form an odd super-jet simply by docking together along their undercarriages (Yes, yes, har har, very droll), while Jetfire's robot mode forms the right half of the super robot Safeguard.
- Both Jetfire and Jetstorm can flip open their cockpits for no reason whatsoever. Very nice.
- The set comes with a bonus comic book, Rise of Safeguard, which details the creation of the twins.
Notes
- Jetfire and Jetstorm's fire/ice theme has its roots in some of the earliest concepts of Animated. Sean Galloway, who had been commissioned to do early concept work for the series, revealed several pieces of this concept art long before the "final" Derrick Wyatt-designed characters were shown. Among these images were a pair of "fire and ice" robots who have a few features that made it into the jet-twins' final designs.
- In addition to the fire/ice theme, the twins' method of combination is an intentional homage on Wyatt's part to Hyōryū and Enryū/Chōryūjin from the final installment of Takara's Brave Series, King of Braves GaoGaiGar.
- In the early stages of the toy's development, the end of the twins' combined vehicle mode is supposed to split apart and wings are supposed to slide out of the shins, so that the combined mode resembles an X-wing fighter.[1]
