Crosshairs (Movie)
| The name or term "Crosshairs" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Crosshairs (disambiguation). |
- Crosshairs is an Autobot from the 2007 movie franchise in the live-action film continuity family.
Some might call Autobot armorer Crosshairs overcautious. Others might call him a huge pain in the skidplate. But Crosshairs knows that he controls a vast armory that could be incredibly dangerous in the wrong hands. Thus, he sees it as his duty to protect it with his impenetrable filing system and his incessant demands for request forms - in triplicate.
Fiction
IDW Transformers Movie comics
Many years ago, Crosshairs was a member of Optimus' science division during the reign of Protector Megatron. This peaceful existence ended when a mysterious relic was discovered outside the temple of Simfur, and Megatron changed the military's mission of defending Cybertron to open conquest. He listened to Optimus' pleas for them to ignore Megatron's demand and stay out of the fighting. Defiance issue 2 During the subsequent civil war, Armorhide joined with Optimus Prime's new faction, the Autobots, and fought against Thundercracker. He was present when Optimus Prime revealed his plan to capture the All Spark, and due to the lack of space on the Ark, some Autobots would have to stay behind. Crosshairs was among those who volunteered to stay. Defiance issue 4
Crosshairs was getting ready for a raid on the temple at Simfur when Clocker returned with an unexpected guest: Arcee. Crosshairs explained the Autobots' situation to her, then invited her along for the attack. The Reign of Starscream #4
He entered the frame ax-first. That's pretty awesome.
When Dreadwing's forces betrayed Starscream at Simfur, Crosshairs, Clocker, Armorhide and Arcee created havoc by destroying the replica All Spark cube and fighting the rebel Decepticon forces. He decapitated Ramjet when the Decepticon had pinned down Armorhide and was about to deliver the killing stroke. He managed to escape with the other Autobots when Dreadwing's starship came crashing down to Trypticon, destroying the once-magnificent Decepticon city. The Reign of Starscream #5
Toys
Transformers (2007)
- Crosshairs (Scout, 2008)
- Accessories: Crane boom/rifle, spare tire halves, Autobot-type energon star
- Crosshairs is part of the "AllSpark Power" series of Target-exclusive Scout Class toys, the fourth wave of Target-exclusive Scouts. He is a redeco of the Energon series Strongarm toy, transforming into a Cybertronic jeep. He has a clear-plastic "energon" crane-boom/rifle and spare tire which can combine to form a large axe. His molded Autobot faction symbol is unpainted, while he has a Sector Seven symbol just below.
- This mold was also used to make the BotCon 2005-exclusive Fallback, and fellow live-action movie-verse exclusive Strongarm. The axe mold was separated and used for multiple Takara promotional energon weapons, as well as being released in reddish-orange with the Japanese "Wild" redeco of Energon Ironhide.
Trivia
- Crosshairs is the Autobots' armorer, who is said to go about his job very meticulously, just like his Generation 1 namesake. Except, y'know, with more giant axes.
