Skyquake
- Skyquake is a Decepticon in the Generation 1 continuity family.
Skyquake is the leader of the Predators with a complete and utter hatred for anybody who even barely dips into the side of good. In battle, Skyquake is a cold, calculating destroyer, attributes which also even apply to his contempt for the Autobots. When he locks together with the smaller Predators under his command, he magnifies his long-range supersight abilities and enables him instant communication with the minds of his underlings.
Alternate European name: Crash
Fiction
Catalogue comic
During a Decepticon Predator attack on the Autobot base, Skyquake gazed into his Supersight as he was about to join the battle. Suddenly, into his Supersight view looms a menacing shape that strikes terror even into his hardened heart...
Presumably, Thunderclash and Skyquake fought after this.
Toys
Generation 1
- Skyquake (Predator, 1992)
- Skyquake transforms into a large bomber jet, its model pretty much made-up but based (loosely) on an SR-71 Blackbird recon plane. His primary gimmick is the "Megavisor", a periscope system that the smaller Predator jets can attach to, showing thier slides. Skyquake himself also has a built-in slide, showing the unmade Autobot Turbomaster Hyperdrive. Each wing also contains a "carpet bombing" gimmick, a rolling drum that drops the Predator-style missiles. He also has a standard Predator hand-held missile launcher, which mounts under his jet mode.
- Skyquake was later redecoed to make Machine Wars Starscream and Universe King Atlas.
Trivia
- Skyquake might be the physical model for Operation Combination's unseen Decepticon leader Scrash.
