Sky High (Pretender)
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Sky High is an Autobot in the Generation 1 continuity.
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The great barbarian, Sky High, titanic muscles straining under the effort of days in combat against the endless armies of orcs and trolls that guarded the castle of the Dark Lord Skullgrin, raises his massive scythe, and swings it in a sweeping arc that shatters the dark gate to splinters. He turns in triumph and calls the party members behind him, "Come! Brave Landmine, sword-wielder. Wise Cloudburst, master of magic. Stoic Waverider, traveller of the depths. The keep of our enemy lies before us! The day has come at last! Let the Brotherhood of Primus enter here, and victory shall be ours!”
...and so the battle continues in the never-ending world of adventure that Sky High lives out in his imagination. Those who don’t know the hulking, powerful Pretender (great barbarian hero, space adventurer, dashing spy take your pick) assume that his quietness and spacey erratic behavior result from his being all brawn and no brains. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sky High is as smart as he is strong, but to escape from the harsh reality of war the imaginative Pretender (Warrior of Primus), an extreme introvert, has fashioned his own fantasy world of high adventure in his mind, where he is the great hero of an epic story. So involved and immersed is Sky High in his fantasy world that he works everything that happens around him into his imaginary adventures. Sky High blatantly and purposefully ignores reality in favor of his dreams, thankfully he is intelligent and imaginative enough that he usually has no problem working his actual situation and orders (quests) into his ongoing daydream.
Sky High, along with being very intelligent and imaginative, is also stronger, faster, and more durable than the average Transformer even without his Pretender shell (Battle Armor of the Hawk perhaps) which boosts his strength immensely (+5). In his shell he swings a sonic scythe (elf-forged weapon) that breaks molecular bonds, has access to leg mounted energy beams that can blind opponents (Spell of Blinding), and wears a utility belt with rocket boosters (Enchanted Belt of Flight) that enables him to fly. In robot mode he wields a cerebro-scrambling gun (Wand of Confusion) which he can also use when he transforms (shape-changes) to helicopter mode (a hawk).
Fiction
Sky High has never done anything of interest, anywhere, ever. He's barely even stood around in the background. Sad but true. Maybe he and Skyfall should form a "criminally underused" club.
Toy
- Sky High (Pretender, 1988)
Sky High with a mostly red Hawk-themed Pretender shell. His inner robot transforms into a cybertronic helicopter, and the rotor blades forms his scythe melee weapon.
Trivia
- Sky High's toy has one of the most contridictory tech spec/bio combos around. It describes him as a brick dumb muscle head, but then gives him an impressive intelligence stat of 8 and a motto about "imagination unlocking the keys of reality". Dreamwave's MTMTE profile book did a fairly clever job of making that all actually work together by cooking up the expanded bio above.
