Sky Lynx (G1)
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- Sky Lynx is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Sky Lynx is the unbelievably talented, unsurpassably skilled, and altogether magnificent robot behind most of the greatest, most adventurous, and most daring moments in all of Autobot history. At least, if you ask Sky Lynx, that is. Not that he isn't a skilled, fast, powerful warrior and an expert flyer, and well deserving of his rank as Lieutenant Commander. He most certainly is all those things, he's just rather a bit too eager to tell you about it. At length. Springer has nicknamed him "Commander Modesty."
Fiction
Marvel Comics
The Mecannibals, no doubt through some unfair deception, managed to capture the magnificent Sky Lynx. While they did admit to his wondrousness, they unfortunately recognized him as wondrously tasty. Luckily, Landmine and Cloudburst happened upon the impending banquet, and assisted in Sky Lynx's escape. Guess Who the Mecannibals are Having for Dinner?
Animated Continuity
- Voice actor: Aron Kincaid (USA), Kōji Totani (Japan)
Sky Lynx made his fantastic debut when he selflessly risked his own life to save three vastly inferior specimens. Shortly after this, his peerless battle prowess was needed to fight off some ruffians. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5
When the Autobots investigated into the destruction of a provincial human law enforcement space station, Sky Lynx deigned to flawlessly transport a doddering old fool, that imbecile and his friends to the filthy planet Goo. During the course of this investigation, Sky Lynx was forced to save his comrades from several inferior opponents, including a pale imitation of himself, a mere hooligan, and those ruffians he encountered earlier on Io. Did they not learn their last painful lesson in humility? Chaos
Upon the discovery of dinosaur transform static at the scene of Fort Knox's apparent theft, Sky Lynx was forced to endure a humiliating trial in Metroplex's ill-concieved kangaroo court, merely because, as that unrefined, multi-gunned cowboy put it, Sky Lynx had dinosaur electrons in his body. Be that as it may, did he have to be lumped together with such unsuitable company when he could be effortlessly tracking down and bringing the real culprit to justice? Thief in the Night
Later still, during a skirmish on Earth's Moon, superior forces arrived to save the Autobots in the form of Sky Lynx, though the brutish Trypticon dared challenge him. However, before Sky Lynx could deliver what would have likely been a stunning finishing blow, the other vulgars were spirited drawn away from the battle by a voice in the distance. For some reason, his magnificence was included in this motley crew and was even forced to voyage with them to the far reaches of space, a sojurn they surely could not have made themsleves without Sky Lynx's intellect and sense of direction, thus Sky Lynx took command of the group. However, upon landing, some fool had the audacity to call him Primitive! Can you imagine? Call of the Primitives
Sky Lynx's unquestioned skills were called into play yet again when Rodimus Prime required a Quintesson during the Hate Plague crisis. With his customary flair and talent, not to mention amazing speed, Sky Lynx located and retrieved one, who subsequently restored Optimus Prime to life. Jolly good show! The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1
Dreamwave comics continuity
Sky Lynx found himself embarassingly captured by the Decepticons under that small and irritating little flyboy and his band of merry miscreants, as, of all things, a punching bag for their training! Far be it for him to refuse combat, but did these fools not realize they were up against the mighty Sky Lynx, even with the Decepticon energy dampners in effect? Sportingly, the Autobot lieutenant commander warned Starscream that it was hardly a fair match, which the Decepticon, for some reason, misinterpreted to mean that it was not fair to Sky Lynx.
Taking advantage of Starscream's gross overconfidence, Sky Lynx tipped the scales further in his favour by splitting in half into his seperate Lynx and dinosaur modes, then soundly thrashing the pitiful Combaticons before the shocked Starscream reactivated the enermy dampners.
Naturally, Sky Lynx's personal punching bag Predaking only appeared after his magnificence was offline, which is just typical, really. The Route of All Evil
Toys
Generation 1
- Sky Lynx (Motorized Space Shuttle, 1986)
- Sky Lynx transforms from a space shuttle with under-slung cargo pod into a large beast-like... thing. His shuttle and pod portions can split up; the shuttle grows legs to become a large long-necked flying dinosaur thing, while the cargo pod grows a head and tail to become a "lynx"-like thing. The cargo pod section has a battery-powered motor that rolls him along in cargo mode, and activates a slow, ungainly walking action in lynx/lower-body mode. The shuttle also has an opening "cargo bay", though there is no room to store anything in it. Even though it fails to fully capture his magnificentness, it is still the apex of toy technology.
Unusually for a toy of his size, he has no other accessories packaged with him.
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