Wingblade
- Wingblade is an Autobot from the 2007 movie franchise in the live-action film continuity family.
Wingblade is second only to Ironhide in number of confirmed Decepticon kills, and that's only because Ironhide is older. When he's not hunting Decepticons, he's training in combat or working on new weapons and maintaining his equipment in preparation for combat. He even keeps a lengthy database of alternate vehicle modes to change into so he can be as efficiently deadly as possible in any form. He is meticulous about keeping not only keeping his vast arsenal in perfect working order, but keeping his body panels clean and damage-free.
However, since he spends all his spare time preparing for his next mission, his fellow Autobots are a little worried that he simply doesn't know how to live outside of the battlefield. Plus, he never has anything to say unless he's acknowledging orders. Most of Wingblade's allies are convinced that if the war ever ended, he'd simply shut down and wait for a new one to start, which Wingblade doesn't deny. But at least he's in good company.
Fiction
IDW Transformers movie comics
Many years ago, Wingblade was a member of Optimus' science division, under the overall command of Protector Megatron. After a mysterious relic was uncovered outside the Simfur temple (which coincided with an attack by aliens unknown from the Eshems Nebula) Defiance issue 1, Protector Megatron changed, seizing control of Cybertron's military and essentially declaring himself dictator. Optimus implored to the 'bots under his command to not follow Megatron into war, advice that Wingblade heeded. Defiance issue 2
Unfortunately, soon after, Megatron declared Optimus and his group "traitors" following a failed attempt to capture the scientist leader and kill his subordinates. Defiance issue 3 Forced by circumstances beyond their control, Wingblade and other scientists became soldiers in Optimus Prime's Autobot faction against Megatron's Decepticons. As the civil war reached its height, Optimus revealed his plan to allegedly capture the All Spark and somehow transport it aboard their ship, the Ark. What most of the Autobots didn't know was Optimus planned to launch the Cube into deep space, away from Megatron, to give the Autobots a fighting chance. Winglade was one of the Autobots who elected to remain behind on Cybertron. Defiance issue 4
Thousands of years later, after Megatron had been killed on Earth and the All Spark destroyed, Winglade and his friends were part of the Autobot underground resistance to Starscream and Dreadwing's rule. They were preparing to move out to Simfur on a rescue mission when Arcee returned from Mars. The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Four Wingblade, Breakaway and Strongarm moved to create diversion at the capitol of Trypticon so Arcee's team could move in. However, Dreadwing's drone forces attempted a coup, complicating the situation, so Winglade's team was instead assigned the task of deactivating the drone army via a fail safe switch in the city. The Autobots barely got out of Trypticon in time as Dreadwing's escape ship plummeted down and destroyed the once-magnificent capitol of Cybertron. The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Five
Toys
Transformers (2007)
- Wingblade (Ultra, 2008)
- Accessories: Left & right blades, 2 blade-handles, left & right spring-loaded missile launchers, 2 missiles, Autobot Cybertron-planet Key
- A Toys "R" Us exclusive alongside Jetstorm, Wingblade is a redeco of Cybertron Wing Saber, transforming into a stylized A-10 Thunderbolt. Pressing the button behind his cockpit canopy causes a machine gun sound to emit from a speaker on the bottom of the nosecone. Plugging a Cyber Planet Key (his is a clear-red Cybertron-style Autobot key with unpainted border) into the key slot behind his canopy splits the nosecone fuselage in half and exposes a cannon with a red LED. Pressing the button activates the same machine gun sound effect, this time with the red LED flashing. His wings can unfold to extend his wingspan for "super combat mode".
- Wingblade's wing-flaps detach to form swords; for Wingblade to use them, they need to be inserted into sword-handles that plug into 5mm holes in his forearms, as his hands are incompatible with the standard weapon-pegs. His removable spring-loaded missile launchers, mounted under his wings, can also be attached to those ports. His Key-activated cockpit gimmicks can also be used in robot mode, over his head, but they tend to point upward.
- Wingblade can also form a flight/weapons pack for the Cybertron Leader-class Optimus Prime mold. Of course, since that mold is not available as part of the Movie line, this feature is undocumented. His unfolding wings are part of this transformation, as is his expanding chest armor, which can be done anyway simply to give him a bit more of that "plate armor" look of the Movie bots.
Trivia
- Despite being part of the "Allspark Power" rebranding of the movie line, Wingblade (like all of the new-character store exclusives) has no "Allspark blue" on him.
- According to Joe Kyde's design notes on Hasbro's Transformers website, Wingblade's colors were intended to be the color-wheel opposites of his casemate, Jetstorm, though it was acknowledged this accidentally makes him a dim Springer homage.
- Also according to Joe Kyde, Wingblade's Autobot symbol is a special kind of chrome that is apparently hard to obtain. Of course, on this score, he could be talking crap because it's funny. It also happens to be the same kind of chrome only otherwise seen on the Cybertron Galaxy Force Optimus Prime redeco's Cyber Key, with whom Wingblade can combine.
- Wingblade's box-back shows him with a redeco of Cybertron Optimus Prime's Matrix-shaped Key, instead of the standard Cybertron-Autobot one he actually comes with.
