Falcon (G1)

The name or term "Falcon" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Falcon (disambiguation).

Falcon is a Decepticon Predator from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Yippie-kay-yay-ay, MISTER FALCON.

Falcon is arguably the leader of the Predators. He's really really evil. So evil you don't even know, dude. His hatred of the Turbomasters is what drives him to such depths.

He's evil.

French-Canadian name: Faucon

Fiction

Toy catalogue comic

Falcon PUNCH Shot!

Falcon was for some reason under the command of Skydive during their attack on the Autobot Turbomaster base. He didn't seem to mind, though, and rained death on his Autobot targets.

IDW comics continuity

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Falcon served under the command of Turmoil when their second-in-command Deadlock abandoned his post. Turmoil ordered his ship's crew to track the escape pod Deadlock had fled on, but Falcon reported that Deadlock had initiated the ship's emergency system protocols, disabling its computers for some time. Drift issue 1

Toys

Generation 1

Not Captain Falcon

• Falcon (Small Predator, 1992)
  • Accessories: Missile launcher, 3 missiles

Falcon transforms into a Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk stealth jet. Like all Predators, he comes with a "generic" gold-plastic spring-loaded missile launcher and three small missiles (that would so not pass US choke tests). The underside of his plane mode has the Megavisor gimmick, that, when attached to the larger Predators Skyquake or Stalker, pushes down a "targeting" slide visible through the larger Transformer's viewfinder.

This mold was also available, without changes, in Japan as the character Shadow Jet.

• More information on Falcon at TFU.info

Notes

• Falcon's leadership of the Predators is questionable. Both he and Skyquake have tech spec Ranks of 10, but Falcon is the one with "Leader" as a Function... but "Skyquake" has "Air Commandant", and the Predators only have one ground vehicle among them. Hm. The European line at the time was pretty liberal in handing out high ranks and "Leader" Functions, so who knows. When the Predators appeared in Last Stand of the Wreckers, Skyquake was depicted as their leader while Falcon was nowhere to be seen.
• Falcon's box art was recolored and used for the Machine Wars versions of Megatron and Megaplex.