Deftwing
- Deftwing is an Autobot Lightformer from the Generation 1 and Generation 2 portions of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Astute and resourceful, Deftwing can come up with brilliant defensive strategies while soaring through the skies during battle. While mainly a defensive tactician, he is no slouch on the offensive, either. He believes that every mission must destroy its target, and it's his job to see that outcome into fruition, even if he must do it himself. His vertical takeoff and landing ability allows him to quickly launch into the air, and his visible tracer rounds, coupled with his super-accuracy, ensure he does not waste a shot.
He is also known as Blue Arrow.
Fiction
Marvel UK Comics continuity
When the Decepticons attempted to turn Earth into a mobile juggernaut using giant rocket engines, the Autobots were there to stop them. Deftwing and his flying partner Jetfire joined Optimus Prime and the others in attacking Clarke's Atoll to stop Scrapper's fiendish construction. Overhearing Megatron say the rockets would fire in 20 minutes, Deftwing and Jetfire had no choice but to fly down the inside of the rocket engines, looking for something fragile to shoot. They found the engines were drawing from the plasma of the Earth's core, and disrupted the flow. The resulting explosion helped carry them to safety out of the mouth of the engines, and the Decepticons' plot was buried forever. Moving Day Planet Earth
Toys
Generation 1
- Deftwing (Lightformer, 1993)
- Available only in European markets, Deftwing transforms into a Hawker Siddeley GR.1 Harrier fighter jet. In this mode, his large Lightformer weapon stand is mounted on the aircraft's back, functioning as a booster unit as well as a weapons system, similar to Generation 1 Jetfire. This weapon uses a combination of the light-piping and gear-wheel gimmicks so that when you look through the "viewscope" and turn the wheel beneath, as the gattling cannon rotates, the view from the scope makes it look like twin beams of laser-fire are striking your selected target. The booster weapons unit has a fold-down stand to become a gun emplacement for Deftwing to man in robot mode.
Generation 2
- Deftwing (Lightformer, 1994)
- This release is identical to his 1993 release, but in Generation 2 packaging, and was on a blister card instead of in a box.
