Skyfall (G1)
| The name or term "Skyfall" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Skyfall (disambiguation). |
- Skyfall is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Skyfall is a promising young Autobot. He's very smart and an excellent engineer, and a born flier. To him, nothing in life can compare to soaring freely through the air, and even if you happen to catch him on the ground he's probably dreaming about flying. Skyfall earnestly dreams of becoming a great hero and having amazing adventures. It's usually up to his nagging (but intensely loyal) Targetmaster partner Top-Heavy to bring him back down to reality and make him focus on his job as weapons engineer.
Fiction
IDW comics continuity
 Plot details for Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4 follow. |
"Shut up, SHUT UP!"
Skyfall was a weapons-designer and a rival of Ironfist. Ironfist designed Optimus Prime's signature laser rifle, but the Autobot commander mistakenly believed it was Skyfall's work. And no one's ever bothered to correct that misconception. Jerks. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4
Skyfall was among the personnel defending the Garrus-9 penitentiary from Banzaitron's assault. Spotlight: Arcee
Toys
Generation 1
- Skyfall with Top-Heavy (Action Master, 1990)
- Accessories: Top-Heavy partner, "Cloudburst cannon"
- Skyfall is an Action Master, and as such does not transform (which, given what it says in his toy bio, is more than a little ironic), though his design shows hints of a vehicle mode, likely a Cybertronic jet fighter similar in style to early Pretender robots such as Cloudburst, given the cockpit and vehicle details on his back. He is compatible with any Action Master weapon or vehicle. He came with his rhino-partner Top-Heavy.
Notes
- Skyfall's toy bio[1] contains the line: "Can change into anything from a construction crane to a can opener, then into a weapon in less time than it takes to plug in a phone jack." This could be a typo given its startling nature and its minor clash with the next sentence, which calls him a "former jet fighter." Removing the first "into" and the ", then" would create a new meaning that jibes very well with his weapons-engineer function. On the other hand, it says what it says, and Simon Furman has stated that if the Action Master storyline in the comics had continued, he planned to have Nucleon affect individual Transformers in lots of strange and different ways. It is possible that Skyfall's super-transformational abilities could have been a result of this.
- Skyfall's color went through several alterations before production; his catalog photography shows him in different red and white colors.
- The 1990 boxback art[2] features Skyfall in an even more different color scheme, blue and green. It's possible he was mistaken for Gutcruncher.
- Skyfall's design seems to be strongly inspired by the Japanese Gundam robot line, with maybe a little Generation 1 Seeker and Jetfire mixed in.
