Kyle Pennington

Pennington is a human from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Pennington is part of Major Spike Witwicky's Skywatch unit. He's been a soldier for twelve years and is more concerned about the safety of his fellow troops than strictly following orders.

Fiction

IDW comics continuity

Pennington's team and Campologno were sent out to capture four Autobots who were driving around out in the open. While the rest of the squad took care of Beachcomber, Hoist and Tracks, Pennington himself took aim at Blurr... who broke the sound barrier and fled at supersonic speeds before the Skywatch officer had time to react. Pennington was boggled by the Autobot's speed, but shrugged it off as his team had successfully captured the other three. Satisfied with a job well done, he called in an airship to bring the Autobots back to base. A Rude Awakening

Months later, after Skywatch and the Autobots had settled their differences, Pennington was part of the joint Skywatch-Autobot operation to stop the Combaticons in North Korea. He and Sandra oversaw the attack from their base in the US, though he got annoyed by Brawn and Silverstreak's constant bickering and told them to grow up. Sandra, on the other hand, was unhappy with how they were actively deceiving people with their plans to avert spy satellites in order for their Autobot friends to avoid detection. Pennington dismissed her worries as their strategy was necessary in order to defeat the Combaticons. International Incident Part 3: "Hawk Among the Sparrows"

Once the Autobots ended up in fighting the Predacons as well, Pennington opened up a satellite channel so that he and Bumblebee could see what was going on, but at that point Sandra refused to take their lies any further and shut off the encryption on the broadcast. As a result, the world found out about the secret Skywatch-Autobot alliance, greatly distressing Pennington. The government were unsure of how to explain it to the public, anti-Transformer riots began to blossom up outside the Skywatch base, and Pennington promised Spike that he had a lot of paperwork to go through when he got home from Korea. A week later, Pennington was in attendance when Bumblebee attempted to calm a crowd protesting outside their base with an inspiring speech. However, just when the Autobot seemed to be on the verge of winning the crowd over, a man pulled out an unusually powerful handgun and fired at Bumblebee. International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"

The would-be assassin was arrested, but everybody was shocked when they saw his weapon: Megatron, or at least an Earth-made facsimile of Megatron in his Walther P-38 pistol mode. While Brawn argued with Pennington over his decision to store "Megatron" in the base, they received news that the Skywatch aerial transport carrying Spike and the other Autobots back from Korea had been shot down by by unknown attackers. Then Maria alerted him to a television interview on Ben Simpson, an anti-Cybertronian pundit and leader of the Earth's Children movement, which may have inspired Joe Gladki to attempt to kill Bumblebee. Just when the Skywatch soldier thought things couldn't get any worse, the Decepticons suddenly attacked, intent on freeing the imprisoned comrades. Only Pennington realised what was going on, but as he made his way down to the holding cells, he was run over by the freed Dead End. Revenge of the Decepticons Part 1: "The Demolished Man"