Strafe (G1)


 * Strafe is an Autobot Technobot in the Generation 1 continuity family.

Strafe is a really nice guy, one of the kindest, gentlest mechanoids you could ever hope to meet, and he's a crack shot with his heat-ray rifle, too. It's said that Strafe can burn a hole in a screw head (size not specified) from two miles away. Too bad he can't tighten up the loose screws in his own cranial module, though. He's got a case of nerves that could very well cause Red Alert to fear for his job security, and when startled he tends to SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT FIRE FIRE BANG BANG BANG KILL KILL KILL IT DEAD DEAD DEAD without stopping to aim or analyze the threat, and doesn't quit until he's shot down or runs out of heat-ray charges. Sometimes, though, all is quiet...too quiet...and he doesn't like that, either. SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT FIRE FIRE BANG BANG KILL KILL KILL...

He can combine with the other Technobots to form Computron, and seems to make a rather calm limb.

Animated continuity

 * Voice actor: ? (US), ? (Japan)

Strafe was created,like the other Technobots, by the temporarily super-intelligent Grimlock. Less than a week later, he and the other Technobots were sent to Earth to learn how to interact with humans, where they encountered the unscrupulous trader Dirk Manus and his allies, the Quintessons and Terrorcons.

Marvel Comics continuity
Strafe was part of Fortress Maximus' group of Autobots on Cybertron. When Fortress Maximus decided to leave the war and head to Nebulos, Strafe and the other Technobots agreed to follow him on his quest for peace, which would have done the high-strung fellow a world of good. Alas, the Decepticons followed the Autobots to Nebulos and brought the war with them. In the Nebulan resort city of Splendora, Strafe and the Technobots fought Abominus as the combined Computron. Though Abominus (and its component Terrorcons were defeated, Splendora lay in ruins. The Autobots and Decepticons ultimately left Nebulos for Earth.

Strafe fell bravely (and rather instantly) in the defense of Buenos Aires against the Underbase-powered Starscream.

IDW comics continuity
Strafe and the other Technobots crew the Autobot vessel Calabi-Yau, under the command of Jetfire. After landing on Cybertron, Scattershot, Lightspeed and Strafe accompany Jetfire on a reconnaissance mission and are captured by Bludgeon's group of Decepticons.

Generation 1

 * Strafe (Technobot, 1987)
 * Japanese ID number: C-87
 * Strafe turns into a futuristic flying spaceship thing, protectively colored for the red-and-white battlefields of the future, with two detachable and frequently-lost orange cannons.  (They're colored orange; they don't fire oranges, although that would have been a good way to get the endorsement of the citrus growers.)

Generation 2

 * Strafe (Cyberjet, 1995)
 * For Generation 2, Strafe was given the much less futuristic alt-mode of a Sukhoi S-37. As a redeco of the Decepticon Cyberjet Space Case, Strafe turns in to a Soviet jet with a realistic camouflage paint scheme, complete with...United States roundels.


 * This mold was also used for Universe Space Case and Robot Masters X-Gunner.

Trivia

 * Strafe's Generation 1 toy is one of the few Transformer vehicles without a clearly-defined cockpit.