Kicker Jones
Kicker is a human character in the Unicron Trilogy.
Chad 'Kicker' Jones is the son of Dr. Brian Jones and Miranda Jones. During the war over Energon and the Powerlinx Battles, Kicker accompanied the Autobots on many of their missions, even fighting Decepticons and Terrorcons by utilizing a high-tech battlesuit developed by his father. He is usually partnered with the young Autobot Ironhide.
Kicker is brash and headstrong, always ready to leap before he looks. He harbours some resentment towards his father due the elder Jones' misuse of his son's ability to detect Energon deposits. Nevertheless, he still cares about his family, especially his younger sister, Sally, and will fight to protect them. He is in a long-distance relationship with Misha, a young scientist stationed on a research outpost in Plain City.
Fiction
Animated continuity
Energon
Voice actor: Brad Swaile (US), Daisuke Kishio (Japan), Masumi Asano (Young Kicker, Japan)
Soon after the end of the Unicron Battles, Optimus Prime returned to Cybertron to lead the new Autobot-Decepticon alliance. With it came contact and diplomatic ties to Earth's governments, who sent a small delegation of humans to visit the Transformer homeworld.
The Autobots transported them aboard their flagship, the Axalon, and among the occupants were their friends Rad White, Carlos Lopez and Alexis, as well as Dr. Brian Jones, humanity's foremost expert on the newly discovered ore, energon. He brought along his young son, Chad (nicknamed Kicker), who was very afraid of this strange, metal world and its towering giant robot inhabitants. While his father was busy, Kicker ran away, hiding in a long-ruined part of Cybertron. This led Optimus Prime to search for him, warning that the areas was strictly off-limits.
While trying to escape the Autobot leader, Kicker accidently fell down a long shaft and was suddenly saved by a mysterious glowing entity who later revealed himself to be Primus. Primus was facinated by the human child, and declared that he would unleash Kicker's full potential. Primus' gift to Kicker was an unusual ability to detect energon, manifesting itself as an eerie glowing of his hair, and this power was exploited by his father. Dr. Jones dragged the young Kicker from planet to planet, wherever they expected to find energon. Over time, due to his experiences on Cybertron, this mysterious power, as well as his father's often casual indifference to his son's well-being and wishes, led Kicker to greatly resent his father and the Transformers.
Dreamwave comics continuity
Energon
Toys
Superlink
- Kicker (2004)
- Japanese ID number: SL-14
- The first Kicker toy was based upon Takara's 2003 Microman body. As such, it was super-posable, able to assume a wide variety of poses. He was armed with a small, non-transforming version of the Energon Saber.
- STD Grand Convoy and Kicker (2004)
- Japanese ID number: SS-03
- This limited-edition version was released with a Deluxe-size toy of Grand Convoy (Optimus Prime). The major differences are that parts of Kicker's body armour is constructed with vacuum metalised plastic, and the set featured an exclusive chromed Megatron Sword.
Energon
- Energon Kicker with High Wire (Deluxe, 2004)
- Hasbro's release of Kicker was an all-new sculpt, based around the 3'3/4 inch 2003 G.I. Joe Venom Vs Valor body design. He comes packed with a G.I. Joe scaled (though slightly oversized) version of High Wire, also an all-new sculpt. Unusually, Kicker has a Spark crystal located on his backpack.
