Skywarp (Movie)

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

Skywarp is a Decepticon from the Revenge of the Fallen franchise in the live-action film continuity family.

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Skywarp isn't like most of the other Decepticons. He cares not for power, conquest, or battle. Knowledge is the one goal he has in his life. Others can fight the war themselves, as he is far more comfortable in the solitude of the workspace provided by Megatron. For the generous gift of peace and near unlimited time to research, he develops countless experimental weapons and tools for the Decepticons. Although a scientist, Skywarp is far from unarmed, and is equipped with many weapons that are both insanely powerful and nearly impossible to describe. It is known that Skywarp would have been the second in command for the Decepticons, but since he chose to not participate in the war, Starscream was next in line.

Fiction

Titan Magazines Transformers movie comics

The following events occur in the Star Screams timeline.

Skywarp and Starscream are old colleagues in the Seekers and Starscream would like to reunite with him. #9's Star Screams

IDW Transformers movie comics

Many years ago, Skywarp was a member of Cybertron's Defense Force under the command of Protector Megatron. When a mysterious relic was uncovered, aliens from the Eshems Nebula attacked, leveling much of the city of Metrotitan. Skywarp was among the forces deployed to defend their home. Defiance issue 1 Following this outrageous attack on their sovereignty, Megatron used this to declare a military dictatorship and led the flight-capable soldiers in a bloody counterattack on the aliens. Defiance issue 2

Skywarp then joined Starscream and the other Decepticons to capture Optimus. When Optimus Prime thwarted Megatron's plans to capture him, Megatron declared them traitors and civil war erupted across Cybertron. Skywarp joined Megatron's Decepticon faction. Defiance issue 3

Titan Magazines Revenge of the Fallen comics

They would never guess from looking at this comic panel that Devastator can't walk on two legs!

Skywarp had been captured by NEST in some unknown conflict, but escaped their jail in South Africa when Bludgeon staged his great escape. Skywarp joined his breakaway Decepticon paramilitary. Inside Out

His first task was to supervise the reconstruction of the critically damaged Devastator. The job was going well at a remote site in the mountains of British Columbia, hidden from sight by an artificial cloud bank, until the Autobot Stratosphere stumbled across Skywarp's crew while on a routine patrol. When the Autobot Hotshot made a frontal attack on the construction site, Skywarp easily dodged his shots and easily took him down with a single well-placed kick. While standing over him to deliver a kill shot, however, Skywarp miscalculated something important and was clobbered by one of Statosphere's wings when the Autobot rolled himself over. With Skywarp dazed for a moment, Stratosphere was able to radio in a request for an air-strike to NEST, but Skywarp deemed them more lambs to the slaughter, touting his aerial superiority as he transformed to jet mode and came swooping back around for an attack. Stratosphere opted for a craftier tactic and turned the device generating the cloud bank around, blinding Skywarp with a faceful of vapor and causing him to crash. The NEST air-strike arrived soon after, and it was unclear if Skywarp was able to get away before the blast swept across the area. Head in the Clouds

Remember kids, lighting farts is never a good idea.

An unkown amount of time later, Skywarp was sent to meet the Autobot Blazemaster and invite the hot-headed psycho to join the Decepticons, proving himself to be quite the chatty chappy. Despite the Autobot's refusal, Skywarp told him to just live with the fact that he had all the credentials to be a murderous villain. Turn and Burn

Unite for the Universe

When Starscream used the Unite process to power himself up and take command of the Decepticons, Megatron moved in to stop the usurper, but since he wasn't an idiot, he had backup standing by. This proved to be a smart move, as Optimus Prime and a squad of Autobots moved in to not only stop Starscream but to keep Megatron from learning the secrets of Unite himself. While the two leaders tussled, Skywarp, Hailstorm, Insecticon, and Terradive moved in to handle the other Autobots. When Starscream attacked them for interfering, Skywarp glibly announced that they had orders to return fire as necessary. They all retreated when Starscream was neutralized and the Unite components fried beyond recovery by Ratchet. The Strongest Weapon

Toys

Revenge of the Fallen

He'd push Starscream down some stairs, if his fingers didn't explode everytime he pushed him.

• Skywarp (Voyager, 2009)
  • Accessories: 6 missiles

Skywarp is a Walmart exclusive redeco of Thundercracker, who was a retool of the original Voyager-class Starscream toy with a new head. Cast in black and purple plastic homaging the Generation 1 Skywarp, he transforms into a Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor fighter jet. As with Starscream, this vehicle mode is ridiculously inaccurate. Pushing the fighter along a smooth surface causes the barrels of his gigantic spring-loaded Gatling missile launchers to rotate and fire their projectiles, which can also be stored in the black flip-up braces on the launchers.

During transformation, pushing up upon the canopy fuselage piece activates Skywarp's Automorphing gimmick which pushes certain panels, wings and stabilizers out of the torso. In robot mode, his projectile missiles are sculpted to vaguely resemble fingers, should users choose to keep them loaded while Skywarp is in robot mode.

The original mold of this toy was also used to make Revenge of the Fallen Ramjet.

• More information on Skywarp at TFU.info

Dark of the Moon

• Skywarp (MechTech Deluxe, August 2011)
  • Japanese ID number: DD10
  • Accessories: 2 MechTech Guns/Swords

Dark of the Moon Skywarp is a redeco of Dark of the Moon MechTech Deluxe Starscream. His incredibly flexible arms have joints at the shoulder, in the middle of the upper arm, elbow, and wrist, allowing them to neatly fold up for transformation, as well as scratch his own back. His two guns combine to form a double bladed weapon that's way taller than he is. He is also one of the few Deluxe figures to have a MechTech weapon that can remain locked in both modes.

This mold was also used to make Dark of the Moon Thundercracker.