Sky Shadow (Cybertron)

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

You can't see me!

_{This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.}

Sky Shadow is a Predacon/Decepticon from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family. Or possibly the Beast Wars. Or both. Who the hell knows.

Sky Shadow is a figure of Decepticon legend, known for his mastery of stealth and concealment. Ruthless and treacherous, he earned a spot among Megatron's most trusted lieutenants. Sky Shadow distinguished himself on a mission to Earth during the Beast Wars, where his strategic and tactical leadership was instrumental in fighting the Maximals. However, he apparently never returned.

Eons later, the Autobot Jetfire would use his name while operating undercover as a Decepticon.

Fiction

Cybertron toy bios

Growing weary of what he felt was a passive role as commander of the Earth-stationed Autobots, Jetfire decided to go undercover. He scoured the Axalon archives for a Decepticon identity to assume, and he deemed the treacherous Sky Shadow suitably ironic. The choice worked well, allowing him to quietly slip into the background of Decepticon life. Few Decepticons suspected "Sky Shadow"'s secret, as they were often too busy scrapping and plotting against each other to care about the silent new face in their midst. Meanwhile, "Sky Shadow" unobtrusively gathered data and formulated his plans to strike his unwitting enemies when victory would be assured.

Notes

• Sky Shadow only exists in Hasbro's marketing, and his connection to the previously-established Beast Wars character is likely a casual nod to the fans with little regard for continuity. But taken seriously, it presents some problems, since the Beast Wars are supposed to be in an entirely different continuity family. There are two basic possibilities: Either the Unicron Trilogy contains its own event called the "Beast Wars," or there's been some dimension-hopping. The former idea is supported by the Transformers Legends anthology story Fire in the Dark, though that book has its own canonicity issues. The latter idea, on the other hand, does have precedent in this universe, and where the Unicron Singularity is concerned, all things are possible.
• Just to make matters more ambiguous, several of the names involved in Sky Shadow's history exist both in the Unicron Trilogy and in the Beast-Era fiction. And Energon had an Autobot Sky Shadow.