Slipstream (WFC)
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- Slipstream is a Decepticon from the Aligned continuity family.
Slipstream is a female Decepticon who fought on Cybertron during the early days of the Autobot/Decepticon war. She is a Seeker who specializes in sarcasm and stinging insults hidden behind a thin veneer of humor. Starscream finds her relatively unreadable.
Fiction
Aligned novels
While she was not mentioned by name, she was most likely at the battle with Omega Supreme, as only three of Starscream's Air Commanders survived the battle.Exodus
Slipstream was one of the Seekers who served on the bridge crew of the Nemesis alongside Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp. Although she remained true to the ideal that Seekers stick together, that didn't mean she respected Starscream any more than he deserved.
When the Decepticons eventually tracked down the Ark on the planet Junkion, Slipstream was part of the aerial strike on the Autobots as they attempted to repair their ship. Later, she returned to the Nemesis as Megatron attempted to use the ship's tractor beam to pull forth the mythical Requiem Blaster from Junkion's core. They attempted to graft the Blaster to the Nemesis' hull. The only problem was Optimus Prime hopped aboard the craft right at the base of the Requiem Blaster. Megatron dispatched Slipstream and the Seekers to knock Prime loose before he caused any more trouble, but their efforts to avoid hitting the Blaster itself made it a perfect shield for Optimus on the hull. Slipstream and Optimus Prime soon fought hand-to-hand, and Prime eventually sent an invitation to Megatron by blasting Slipstream into unconsciousness... and causing her to land right on the window screen of the ship's bridge.
As Megatron learned the location of the Allspark and prepped the Nemesis for departure, Starscream remarked that Slipstream had not returned to the ship after suffering her injuries in battle with Prime and the Autobots. Megatron merely shrugged, and the Decepticons apparently left Slipstream behind on Junkion, just as it was being torn apart. Her current condition is unknown. Exiles
TransTech
Slipstream is an odd case. No one, not even the Transcendent Technomorphs who brought her into the hub of the multiverse known as Axiom Nexus, knows what universe she hails from, and feel that she's different from every other Cybertronian they've ever met. She works as a spy for hire, selling her skills to the crimebosses of Axiom Nexus' nefarious criminal underworld. Her special modifications have a wide variety of abilities, including the ability to take mechanical devices (including Cybertronian) offline for a brief amount of time with an EMP generator, and has a cloaking system so advanced, even the TransTechs can't find her without using unsavory means. She stalks the dark alleyways, plotting her secret agenda that only she knows. TFSS Slipstream bio card
Slipstream was playing cards with a number of other bots in Axiom Nexus when Optimus Prime and Optimus Prime turned up looking for Depth Charge. Invasion: Epilogue
Games
Transformers: War for Cybertron (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
- Voice actor: Jessica Straus (English)
Transformers: War for Cybertron
Toys
Timelines
- Slipstream (Deluxe, 2013)
- FSS1 number: 2
- Accessories: 2 missile pods
- The second toy sent out in the first year of the Transformers Collectors' Club's "Transformers Figure Subscription Service", Slipstream is a new-head retooling of Prime "First Edition" Starscream, transforming into a jet resembling a General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon. She comes with two "Alternating Gyro-Power Nullifier" missile pod accessories that can either attach onto tabs on the underside of her wings, or onto the rear wings on her arms in robot mode. Additionally, she has a 5mm peg hole that goes through each arm, which become the sides of her jet mode tail. This allows accessories with the same size peg to be used in either mode.
- Her instructions give her robot mode the slightly-hunched posture of Starscream, but there is an "official" mis-transformation. Fun Pub's images of Slipstream show that her back should be kept straight, with her forearms left unextended (which gives her some funky elbow articulation) and, for a little extra difference, her knee-spikes left folded against her shins.
- This mold was differently retooled to make Prime Skywarp and Thundercracker.
Notes
- Slipstream's AGP (Alternating Gyro-Power) Nullifier weapons are a very clunky nod to the 1988 Nullifier G.I. Joe figure, who drove the AGP (Anti-Gravity Pod).
- Her toy's bio is fairly careful to not explicitly label her as Prime Slipstream, but does make thinly-veiled meta-references to her being out of place thanks to the Aligned continuity being... "separate" from the rest of the Transformers multiverse.
- Slipstream's jet model, along with Starscream's, is reused in Fall of Cybertron as various generic Seekers, easily identifiable during the attack on the Autobot transport.
