Falcon (G1)
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- Falcon is a Decepticon Predator from the Generation 1 continuity family.
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.
Fiction
Toy catalogue comic
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.
Wings of Honor
Nine million years ago, Falcon was a servant of Deathsaurus, one of the Decepticon Warlords active at the dawn of the Great War. He assembled a report on the Elite Guard Special Ops Team for Deathsaurus after their agent Flipsides reported on the incident at Median. Flames of Yesterday After capturing these "Combaticons" in the field, Falcon and Vanquish held them prisoner in Deathsaurus's lair until the warlord was ready to meet with them. As part of Deathsaurus's psychological ploy against the Autobots, Falcon feigned that it was all a big misunderstanding, that the Combaticons were meant to be treated as honored guests, not prisoners. Riiiiiight. The Coming Storm: Part 4
Falcon frequently served as Deathsaurus's representative among the Decepticon War Council meetings. Except for Megatron's vassal Shockwave, Falcon was the only non-Warlord who attended the meetings. Deathsaurus valued the insight into his fellow Warlords that Falcon's attendance brought him, but clearly viewed Megatron as his primary rival for total control over the Decepticons. After Megatron conscripted the Constructicons and Photons into his service and stopped sending any representative to the Council, Deathsaurus decided to cut his losses. The unwitting Falcon was sent into the next meeting with a powerful bomb disguised as a holo-message from Deathsaurus himself. The resulting explosion killed the five remaining Warlords besides Deathsaurus and Megatron, along with the pitifully loyal Falcon. A Team Effort
IDW comics continuity
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
- 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.
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.
Foreign names
- French-Canadian: Faucon
