Jetfire (Movie)
| The name or term "Jetfire" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Jetfire (disambiguation). |
- Jetfire is a Decepticon and Autobot from the Revenge of the Fallen franchise in the live-action film continuity family.
Jetfire's not what he used to be. His body went south years back. His bunny is dead on the wheel. He's got rust in places he didn't even know he had. Basically, Jetfire's old! An ancient Decepticon Seeker, Jetfire was around long before the war broke out, and unlike many, came to see his "comrades" for what they were. This caused him to defect to the Autobots, something virtually unheard of. He's a fine asset, powerful and possessing the ability to teleport across great distances. This is slightly offset by the fact he's so old, his processor gave up the ghost millennia ago. These days he has a hard enough time remembering his name. It makes him a bit crotchety and also leaves him with the nagging feeling he's forgotten something important.
Fiction
IDW Transformers movie comics
In the distant past, the All Spark Cube created a race of powerful, trans-dimensional beings as the first inhabitants of Cybertron. The Cube gave these beings mighty powers, as well as terraforming their world, but it was not limitless, and gradually became depleted. The first beings learned that the All Spark's power could be replenished by harvesting the energy of stars, but they were unable to locate new stars to suit their purposes, despite their amazing ability to travel between dimensions. Once again, the Cube came to the rescue, creating a race of workers, who had the ability to change their shape.
Jetfire was among the very first of these new beings, a "Seeker" with the ability to travel across the vastness of space in search of new suns. Once located, he would lead others and his masters back to it so a harvester could be constructed to drain the energy of these stars, thus replenishing the All Spark. Defiance issue 4 It is assumed that at some point during the civil war on Cybertron, he sided with Megatron, the new protege of Jetfire's only surviving ancient master, The Fallen.
Revenge of the Fallen movie
- Voice actor: Mark Ryan
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Toys
Revenge of the Fallen
Legends Class toys
- Jetfire (Legends class, 2009)
- Japanese ID number: EZ-05
- Legends class Revenge of the Fallen Jetfire transforms from a into a tiny SR-71 Blackbird spy plane to a sort of hunchback robot. In a bit of character design accuracy, his left arm has a cane.
- The upper fuselage of the plane mode has a thin rectangular peg to slot into the back of Optimus prime for the super mode.
Leader Class toys
- Jetfire (Leader class, 2009)
- Japanese ID number: RA-13
- Accessories: Front landing gear/walking stick, rotary cannon missile launcher, projectile
- Jetfire features electronic lights and sounds. And by sounds, we mean he talks like a Yorkshireman. Seriously.
Fast Action Battlers
- Photon Missile Jetfire (Fast Action Battler, 2009)
- Accessories: "Photon Missile" projectile
- Fast Action Battler Jetfire is a simplified, roughly Deluxe-sized toy of Jetfire. In vehicle mode, he transforms into a sort of cute, super-deformed SR-71 Blackbird jet. As with most Transformers toy jets, he has a fair bit of undercarriage junk from his robot mode, though not to the extent of the Leader class toy. In robot mode he has a reasonably accurate depiction of Jetfire's design, though his right arm ends in a spring-loaded projectile launcher shaped like a rotary cannon.
Notes
- Jetfire's ancient cybertronian vehicle mode as seen in IDW Publishing's "Defiance issue 4" bears more than a passing similarity with the starship Axalon from Beast Wars.
- Jetfire is one of the few movie Transformers to mention having a family; in fact, his father was the wheel.
