Cliffjumper (WFC)

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

Cliffjumper is an Autobot from the Transformers: Prime continuity family.

Cliffjumper will take you down to the corner of Know Your Role Boulevard and Jabroni Drive and check you directly into the Smackdown Hotel!

Cliffjumper (Cliff to his chums) isn't your run-of-the-mill Autobot freedom fighter: armed with six-cylinder ion cannons, a quantum sensitive multiphase targeting system that would make Megatron jealous, and of course, the old school technique of pummeling Decepticons with his fists, Cliffjumper prefers to liven up the day with firefights while retrieving enemy intelligence. He more than lives up to his name: he'll fearlessly leap long before he bothers looking!

“	Need back up?	”
—Arcee

“	Do I ever need back up?	”
—Cliffjumper, "Darkness Rising, Part 1"

Fiction

Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron

Cliffjumper concurred with Ironhide that while Sentinel Prime was not an Autobot, he deserved to be rescued. He and Ultra Magnus's Wreckers later escorted Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Jetfire to the Well of All Sparks when they made their journey to purge Cybertron's core of Dark Energon.

Cliffjumper is only mentioned twice, and it is not even said if he boarded the Ark or stayed with the Wreckers.

Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron

Prime comics

When the Decepticons returned to their dead homeworld, Cliffjumper went in all guns blazing to investigate. The Eradicons piled onto him, grappling him until he was unconscious. He awoke to find himself in their base, which Cliffjumper commented looked like the sort of lair Starscream would design. An Eradicon said Cliffjumper would live until he was no longer useful, and asked him to decode an offworld Autobot signal. It came from none other than Optimus himself, ordering his forces to gather on a planet called Earth. Awed, Cliffjumper then turned to his interrogator and said all the decoded message simply said "Megatron smells like Unicron's armpit", making the infuriated Decepticons ordered Cliffjumper's demise, before Arcee burst in, slaughtering the Decepticons.

Trademark move: Sharpshooter

Cliffjumper tried to greet his old colleague, but she told him to be quiet, coldy informing him she had not come to rescue him, but to tap into the Decepticons' communications. Finding the coordinates of the enemy's weapons lab in Kaon, she was prepared to go by herself until Cliffjumper convinced her that Kaon was too dangerous for her stealthy ways, and that she needed his brawn to back her brain. Entering the city through its maintenance tunnels, Arcee opened a secret passage. Travelling up an ancient staircase, Cliffjumper's suspicions were confirmed when he saw Starscream overseeing the reactivation of a space bridge. Arcee wanted to destroy the device, but Cliffjumper saw it as their ticket to Earth. He distracted Starscream by going straight to him and his Eradicons, claiming he wanted to join them. Arcee activated the device, and when Starscream noticed, Cliffjumper jumped his pretense and started a fight, and jumped with Arcee into the space bridge.

Falling, Cliffjumper momentarily wondered if he was one with the AllSpark, but Arcee confirmed they had fallen onto Earth. Finding a ghost town, they scanned their alternate modes: Cliffjumper passed on a passing travel trailer—which he found too ugly—and a truck—which was too bulky—before selecting a muscle car, which Arcee found suitably noisy. He added horns on the hood of his new alternate mode as a finishing touch. Driving to find Optimus, Starscream—who had also jumped into the space bridge—attacked the duo, blasting off Arcee's arm. Cliffjumper fought Starscream and buried him under a pile of rocks, when Breakdown appeared. It seemed like the end, but Optimus and Bumblebee came and fought off the two Decepticons, before opening a Groundbridge to their base, sending Arcee for repairs. Optimus told Cliffjumper his journey was over, but a new battle was just beginning. Transformers: Prime (comic)

Prime cartoon

Voice actor: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (English)

Plot details for Darkness Rising, Part 1 follow. Spoilers have expired, you may remove this tag

Thinks he looks ornery now, you should see him later.

Three years after the last reported Decepticon activity on Earth, Cliffjumper was still marooned on the planet with his fellow Autobots. Cliffjumper was a strong-willed individual who would sometimes run afoul of human authorities, resulting in receiving multiple traffic tickets and once having a boot affixed to his tire due to a parking violation. As he chatted with his closest friend, Arcee, over the radio, Cliffjumper was admonished for his stubborn bullheadedness. He countered that Earth was so boring that sometimes he just had to stir things up.

Just as Cliffjumper noted that he was starting to miss the Decepticons, his scanners caught nearby activity. He declined Arcee's suggestion for back-up and sped off in the direction of the disturbance. He was surprised to find a wide crater full of Energon, and even more surprised to find it guarded by the Decepticons! Overwhelming Decepticon forces demanded Cliffjumper put up a ferocious fight, but ultimately, the Autobot was overcome and taken on board the Decepticons' warship and thrown in front of Starscream. The interim Decepticon commander did not respond well to Cliffjumper's irreverence, and the Autobot was stabbed through the chest. Starscream ordered his troops to clean up the body.

The remaining Earth-bound Autobots arrived on the scene too late, and Ratchet confirmed that Cliffjumper's Spark had gone offline. Finding one of Cliffjumper's horns in the dirt, Arcee took the piece of her friend to the Autobots' memorial service. The loss of Cliffjumper hit her the hardest, and she stormed off amidst their eulogies, preferring to honor Cliffjumper's memory by keeping Earth safe. Ratchet confided in Optimus Prime that as long as the Autobots protect humanity, Cliffjumper's death would not be the only tragedy. Darkness Rising, Part 1

Toldja.

Though Cliffjumper had died, his body still had uses. When Megatron wanted a corpse to test Dark Energon's resurrection powers on, Cliffjumper's corpse was used as a guinea pig. Once his torso was stabbed through by a shard of the material, Cliffjumper did spring back to life... though as a psychotic, screaming zombie that attacked anything in his path! Only being sliced in two by Megatron stopped Cliffjumper's rampage, and his two halves decorated the floor of the Decepticons' warship.

The initial Dark Energon stabbing did briefly bring Cliffjumper's spark back online, but when Ratchet's sensors picked this up, this was dismissed by Ratchet as a glitch. Regardless, Arcee wanted to investigate. After the Autobots mounted an attack on the Decepticons, Arcee found the top half of Cliffjumper strewn about, but was horrified to see the monster that he had become. Whatever this thing was, it was no longer Cliffjumper, so the zombie was left behind as the Decepticon base exploded. Darkness Rising, Part 2

Games

Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)

Voice actor: Steve Blum (English)

If Bumblebee were John Boehner.

Following the unleashing of Omega Supreme, Cliffjumper spotted a party of Decepticons preparing to assault the giant. He attempted to slow their advance with force fields and gun turrets, and when that didn't work, led them on a high-speed chase while trying to shoot them. They eventually caught up with him when he crashed into a wall and, though his spirit was still defiant, he was unable to stop them passing him. Of course, they immediately ran into Jetfire... Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)

Toys

Generations

• Cliffjumper (Deluxe, 2010)

• Accessories: handgun

Voted "Most Likely To Be Bought For Ulterior Head-Swiping Motives."

Part of the fifth wave of Generations Deluxe class toys, Cliffjumper is a red retool/redeco of Cybertronian Bumblebee with a new head, transforming into a round "Cybertronian courier mode." His toy comes with a handgun and features two wrist-mounted flip-out blades. The handgun can be stored inside his rear bumper in either robot or vehicle mode.

The instructions for Bumblebee depicted him with Cliffjumper's new head mold, thus revealing the retool before it was officially announced.