Skydive (Predator)
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- Skydive is a Decepticon Predator from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Skydive is the Predators' resident scientific advisor, and loves studying the science of warfare. He's cold, calculating, and so vindictive that even his fellow Predators don't fully trust him.
Fiction
Predator Air Attack!
As the Turbomaster Flash raced back to his base to warn of an impending Decepticon attack, Skydive and the other aerial Predators followed behind, allowing the unwitting Autobot to show them the way to their target. Predator Air Attack!
IDW comics continuity
 Plot details for Devisive follow. |
Skydive served under the command of Turmoil when their second-in-command Deadlock abandoned his post. Drift #1 Until this moment, he and Drift were considered friends.
Many years later, after the war was seemingly over, Skydive was murdered on Cybertron under mysterious circumstances during a shift of his new "waste reclamation" job. Dirge found his body, and Prowl began an investigation into Skydive's death, but Dirge's mind had been sabotaged by a cerebro shell from revealing the culprit. Prowl mistook him for the Aerialbot of the same name. Twice. Devisive
Toys
Generation 1
- Skydive (Predator, 1992)
- Accessories: Missile launcher, 3 missiles
- Skydive transforms in to a Northrop YF-23 Black Widow II fighter jet, and is equipped with a standard Predator missile launcher, usable in both modes; mounted on his underside in jet mode, or as a hand-held blaster in robot mode. Each wing has a peg to mount his remaining missiles.
- As a Predator, he features a Megavisor gimmick that lets him attach to Skyquake and Stalker, showing an image through those toys' viewfinders. Skydive's slide shows an image of all four smaller Turbomasters in car mode: Boss, Flash, Hurricane and Scorch.
- This toy was also available in Japan as the character Dark Jet.
Notes
- Skydive's packaging art was recolored to serve as the art for Machine Wars Skywarp and Thundercracker.
Foreign names
- French: Hyena
- Italian: Pyton
