Blades (G1)
- Blades is an Autobot and a Protectobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Blades will never be the Autobot poster child. He's a dirty, underhanded street brawler at heart and proud of it. The fact that his alternate mode and function as air support can keep him at a distance from combat infuriates him. Blades would rather use his rotors to gut a Decepticon from antenna to tailpipe than to fly. When he fights he wants to feel his enemies fuel spraying across his steel skin. Blades does his job, and does it darn well, but if there's a way to get his hands dirty in the process you can bet your processor he'll find it.
Blades combines with his fellow Protectobots to form Defensor.
- Japanese name: Blaze
- French-Canadian name: Hélicopto
- Italian name: Rasor
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Generation 1
- (Note: Events in italics occurred only in the Marvel UK books.)
Streetwise and the other Protectobots were created on Earth by Wheeljack and the Autobots after they stole a recording of Devastator's combiner transformation sequence and modified it (and after Optimus Prime and Buster Witwicky shared a Matrix-induced vision of the future with the Special Teams in it).
Shortly after the Protectobots were given life by the Matrix, Optimus and Wheeljack learned of a cerebro-shell implanted in Prime which had allowed Megatron to tap into the Matrix and eavesdrop on their conversations. Reversing the signal, the Autobots learned of a Decepticon plot to steal the energy-converting hydrothermocline. Taking the Protectobots with him for the mission, Optimus moved to intervene on Megatron and his Combaticons' plans.
At the industrial site, a human named Ethan Zachary broke a stand-off between the two forces by suggesting they battle for the hydrothermocline in a virtual game program he had created, so that nothing of value to either side would be damaged in the melee. With their consent, Zachary uploaded Optimus, Megatron, and the two Special Teams into his computer game environment called Multi-World. Blades was teamed with Groove, and they maneuvered through an area called the Cloud-Steppes, where cities floated on clouds and absurdly long walkways were supported underneath them. The Combaticon flyers cut loose one of the walkways, sending the ground-bound Groove and a group of Cloud-Steppers flailing and falling. Against his better judgement, Blades caught the falling humanoids instead of saving his teammate. This proved to be a good idea, as the Cloud-Steppers unleashed their patented cloud-in-a-knapsack trick to blind the Combaticons until Groove shot them down.
Dreamwave Continuity
Blades stuck with his team after the official status down grade of the special teams. During the Protectobots battle against Devastator in the Tagan heights, it was Blades who got the most dangerous assignment of distracting the rampaging Ultracon while his team disabled him. He didn't stand a chance against Bludgeon however, and got soundly trounced.
Generation 2
Some years later, Blades was working with a team of Autobot "firestormers" under Grimlock's command, when they first discovered the Liege Maximo's Cybertronian empire.
Animated continuity
Toys
Generation 1
Unreleased
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