Skids (G1)
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Skids is an Autobot from the Generation One universe.
Skids is a theoretician. He likes to daydream, get built into furniture, and pick up cowboy chicks.
He is noteworthy for his almost complete absence from the original television series.
Fiction
Marvel Generation 1 Comics
In the Marvel comics, Skids' earthbound alternate mode was a blue van.
One fine day, Skids had a little accident and was saved by Charlene. The naive Autobot and adventurous cowgirl had a completely innocent and slightly disturbing relationship, until Skids dropped a not-at-all figurative Ravage down a completely literal mine shaft and had a slight incident with a windshield-smashing potassium and Freudian waking dreams. After this he realized his situation with Charlene could never work out, and told her to go back to the lovelorn bagger she regularly manipulated into paying her bills, and whom she was completely uninterested in. Then he went off and was sucked into Limbo. There's no happy ending for Skids and Charlene.
Skids has a very active imagination. It's a good thing he didn't join the Ghostbusters.
Generation 1 Cartoon
Voice actors: Michael Chain, Dan Gilvezan (US), Keiichi Nanba (Japan)
Like many of the Autobots who first appeared in Season 2, the exact circumstances behind Skids joining the original group of Earth-based Autobots is not known.
Skids first appeared as part of a strike force (composed of himself, Huffer, Inferno, Tracks, and Warpath, led by Smokescreen) that was sent to stop the Insecticons from ravaging a human farm. When the strike force failed to drive off the Insecticons, Skids retreated with the rest of the team.
Although he was not depicted as participating in the battle, Skids was apparently injured in it; upon returning to Autobot Headquarters, he underwent repairs by Hoist.
As he was being repaired, Skids overheard a telecommunication between Bumblebee and Optimus Prime that confirmed Bumblebee had retrieved robotic insecticide from the planet Floron 3. Skids responded to this development quizzically.
Skids next appeared as part of a team (also consisting of Bluestreak, Prowl and Tracks) sent by Optimus Prime to investigate a football stadium that powerful bombs had been emanating from (the work of Triplechanger Blitzwing). Skids responded enthusiastically to the idea of stopping the bombs.
However, the Autobots then encountered Blitzwing's "Zone Defense", a giant highway-maze built by the Constructicons to stop intruders. As they were driving through the maze, Skids and Prowl accidentally collided with each other in vehicle mode; Skids was knocked onto his side.
Before they could transform or otherwise get out of their predicament, they were driven over by Blitzwing in tank mode, which practically reduced them to sheet metal.
After all four Autobots were defeated, Scrapper gathered their remains and constructed a throne out of them, which he then sat on.
Eventually, the four Autobots were rescued by Hoist and Smokescreen, who had Powerglide guide them through the maze from the air.
Apparently, Hoist quickly rebuilt the four of them; Skids was seen in one piece with Bluestreak, Trailbreaker and Prowl on a skyscraper helipad following a massive flood of the city they were all in, which had been accidentally caused by Astrotrain.
The four repaired Autobots (along with Trailbreaker and Ironhide) then joined Optimus Prime to watch a multi-way brawl for Decepticon leadership, which all present refrained from participating in.
Following that skirmish, Prowl opined that Optimus Prime was the greatest leader in the universe, which prompted himself, Bluestreak, Skids and Tracks to form themselves into a throne for Prime; Prime refused to sit, saying that thrones were for Decepticons - he'd rather roll.
All of them then transformed and drove off, presumably back to Autobot Headquarters.
Dreamwave Generation 1 Comics
Binaltech
Toys
Generation 1
- Skids
Skids' toy transformed into a blue Honda City Turbo with a red stripe. It did not look at all like a Tylenol. Nor did it look like many cars available at the time in the United States. Perhaps due to this, his car mode was often misinterpreted as one of the then-new minivans in Transformers fiction, despite the fact that a Honda City Turbo is a subcompact car, and as such, could theoretically be stowed in the back seat of an actual minivan.
- VS-Z Skids
- released with Buzzsaw and Sunstreaker.
- Transformer Collection Skids
- Japanese ID number: 96, TFC-03
Alternators
- Skids
- Japanese ID number: BT-16
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