Jetfire is an Autobot from the Generation 1 series. He is also known as Skyfire.
Function: Autobot Air Taxi
Jetfire is a bot of science, literally. Not only is his mind dedicated towards scientific pursuits, but his body is a testament to the technology he studies so intensely. (Some would say "religiously," but not in his presence.) Every inch of his chassis is cutting-edge and kept up-to-date. However, he does not have the trust of his teammates; it was not so long ago that he was a Decepticon. Jetfire is compassionate, so some Autobots feel that he could be soft on their enemies or, even worse, he may turn on them after realizing his "cold calculations" swing the other way.
Jetfire would find their misconceptions about science appalling. After all, is not science just the pursuit of truth? And truth, he maintains, walks hand-in-hand with liberty.
French-Canadian name: Bolide
Fiction
Animated continuity
Voice actor: Gregg Berger (US), Osamu Saka (Japan)
(In the G1 Cartoon Jetfire went by the name Skyfire. This was altered from the toy, as was his appearance in nearly all media, due to liscensing issues with the Robotech/Macross design he was based on.)
Millions of years ago on Cybertron, Skyfire and Starscream were good friends and fellow scientists. On a mission of exploration to prehistoric Earth Skyfire was lost in a storm and burried beneath the arctic ice. Starscream searched long and hard, but there was no sign of his comrade. He returned home.
Later the Decepticons found and revived Skyfire who joined them due to his past friendship with Starscream. When his compasion for humans led to his disobeying orders, Starscream, who had changed much in the intervening millenia, turned on his friend. Skyfire left the Decepticons and joined the Autobots, sacrificing himself again to be burried beneath the ice to stop the Decepticon's plans.
The Autobots would later dig him up when ever they needed an airborn taxi-service.
Marvel Comics continuity
See & Read Video
He went on a lot of suicide missions.
Generation 2 manga
(While in the US continuity, G2 Jetfire was the same character as G1 Jetfire/Skyfire, the same would not appear to be the case in Japan. In Japan, the G1 character was called "Skyfire" in both toy and cartoon form. This "Jetfire" which appears in the G2 manga would appear to be a different character.)
At one point, Megatron kidnapped the Autobot Laser Rod, Electro. While Megatron attempted to persuade Electro into joining the Decepticons, Jetfire infiltrated the headquarters. Busting-in at full-force, Jetfire took the Decepticons by surprise and managed to successfully rescue his fellow Autobot.
Dreamwave Comics continuity
Jetfire was a scientest on Cybertron. He and Omega Supreme were sent out into space to search for the Ark. When they arrived at Earth, though, they were attacked by Scourge. Jetfire disabled him with their ship's EMP, but when he went outside to identify his assailant he was caught in an avalanche and buried in ice. Millions of years later he was found by Starscream and stored aboard the Nemesis, still encased in a block of ice. When the zealot Sunstorm arrived on Earth, Jetfire was freed from his icy prison to stop him. Ultimately, he realized that Sunstorm's internal fusion reactor was about to go critical, and flew him up into space where he could explode without risk to the Earth. Jetfire was completely annihilated in the explosion.
IDW Comics continuity
Jetfire serves as the main hero in Stormbringer. Him and the Technobots traveled to Cybertron in the Calabi-Yau to investigate a strange Energon , to discover the storm has hit. He is based off of Classics Jetfire.
Toys
Generation 1
- Jetfire
- A Takatoku VF-1S Super Valkyrie box set was repainted, repackaged, and released with an Autobot symbol (and some minor retooling of the nose cone) and named Jetfire.
Generation 2
- Jetfire
- Japanese ID number: TRF-16
- Jetfire was released in Generation 2 as one of the Autobot Cyberjets, a redeco of the Decepticon Hooligan. Interestingly enough, his toy has Decepticon faction symbol stickers, despite being released as an Autobot.
(Note: R-Blade's expanded bio in the Robot Masters sourcebook specifically mentions Jetfire as the leader of the Autobot Cyberjets, even though no mention of this is made in Jetfire's Generation 2 bio.)
Titanium
- Jetfire
Classics
- Jetfire
- Classics Jetfire is supposed to be Stormbringer Jetfire. Buy now. 'Nuff said.
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