Silverbolt (WFC)
| The name or term "Silverbolt" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Silverbolt (disambiguation). |
- Silverbolt is an Autobot from the War for Cybertron portion of the Prime continuity family.
Silverbolt is a brave Autobot. Who else would command the Aerialbots despite his fear of heights? He cares more for his friends than himself, and as a true believer in the Autobot cause, he would gladly sacrifice himself to protect them.
Games
Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)
- Voice actor: Patrick Seitz (English)
As Cybertron was dying, Optimus Prime ordered an evacuation of all Autobot cities. However, Megatron had a colossal weapon that blasted the ships holding the Autobots who defied him by escaping. Prime sent for Silverbolt, Jetfire, and Air Raid to take Megatron's battle station offline. After getting into the relay station, and disabling the safety locks, the Autobots managed to find the coolant room, where Silverbolt suggested blasting everything. Shooting through wave after wave of Decepticons, Air Raid was impressed with his leader not entirely sucking at the job. Silverbolt was not amused.
The Autobots then destroyed the station's coolant pump, and Silverbolt ordered the squad to navigate towards the control room, showing utter devotion to the task at hand. In the room, the controls were blocked off and Megatron projected an image of himself, taunting the Autobots, Jetfire in particular. Silverbolt was surprised that they knew each other, and after a war of words, Megatron sent in his Decepticon troops. Though the Autobots were outnumbered, Silverbolt swore he'd fight to his last spark, and the opposition was no match. Silverbolt then flushed the coolant tanks and the Autobots went through the tunnels, which were coming apart quickly. After overhearing a Decepticon commander talk about Megatron's plans for Trypticon, Silverbolt's squad destroyed his troops and flew to the nerve centre, where they deactivated the beam's pulse regulator and after stalling waves of Decepticons, the beam reached 110% and blew sky-high.
However, Megatron had backup systems, and sent more Decepticons. Silverbolt commanded his team to blow the weapon up from the inside, and flew inside to the energy conduit, where Optimus contacted him, telling him to disable the gun immediately. Silverbolt had no clear plan, but still swore to prevent the Autobot deaths. The gun taunted the Autobots, revealing its true identity as the Cybertronian Trypticon. As they dispatched the Decepticons and flew in further, the situation became more and more dire, and Air Raid suggested the destruction of Trypticon's conversion cog, changing him to his original mode. Jetfire was skeptical, but Silverbolt encouraged the idea, as anything was better than a gigantic talking space gun/battle station. Alas, the cog was destroyed, and Trypticon transformed into his beastly robot mode, falling towards Cybertron. Silverbolt ordered for the team to destroy Trypticon's jetpacks, and when they were eliminated, Silverbolt allowed gravity to do the rest.
Sure enough, Trypticon crashed on Cybertron, and Optimus, Ironhide and Bumblebee went to investigate. Silverbolt told Optimus that he was arriving, and even gave them advice on how to defeat Trypticon. The Autobots took Silverbolt's advice, and just after damaging his weapon systems, Silverbolt's squad arrived and tried to help out, but all three flying Autobots were blasted by the beast and shot down.
Silverbolt and his teammates got better in time to witness Optimus's post-victory speech and stayed on Cybertron continuing the fight against Megatron, and would be among the future crew members of the Ark when the Autobots' time came to leave their home. Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)
Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)
- Voice actor: Patrick Seitz (English)
