Jetfire (Movie)

Jetfire is a Decepticon and later an Autobot from the movie continuity family.

"Ah. I look out there at all you wonderful guys and I say to myself, 'What I wouldn't give to be 20 million years younger... and a woman'."

Jetfire was a living legend both in the air and on the battlefield in his day. Sadly, his day has long since passed. His body went south years back. His bunny is dead on the wheel. He's got rust in places he didn't even know he had. Basically, Jetfire's old! An ancient Decepticon Seeker, Jetfire was around long before the war broke out, and unlike many, came to see his "comrades" for what they were. This caused him to defect to the Autobots, something virtually unheard of. As a consequence, Jetfire never managed to fully obtain the trust of the others back in the day.^[1]

He's still a fine asset, powerful and able to activate a space bridge to teleport across great distances. This is slightly offset by the fact he's so old. After years without a proper source of energon, he's practically falling apart. His processor gave up the ghost millennia ago. These days he has a hard enough time remembering his name, and he's lucky if his teleporting puts him on the right planet. It makes him a bit crotchety and also leaves him with the nagging feeling he's forgotten something important.

Fiction

Revenge of the Fallen film

Voice actor: Mark Ryan (English), Kenji Nomura (Japanese), Han Tongsheng (Chinese), Engelbert von Nordhausen (German), Idzi Dutkiewicz Sánchez (Latin American-Spanish), Franco Zucca (Italian), Patrick Béthune (European French), Benoît Rousseau (Canadian French), Márcio Simões (Portuguese), Nüvit Candaner (Turkish)

Jetfire was one of the Seekers dispatched by The Fallen to locate the Matrix of Leadership after the Dynasty of Primes hid it on Earth. However, Jetfire and the other Seekers were unable to locate the Tomb that the Primes had forged. The only clue they could find was a riddle: "When dawn alights the Dagger's tip, Three Kings will reveal the Doorway". Eventually, the Fallen abandoned the Seekers and they were forced to go into stasis lock out of a lack of energon.

"How are ya, sir?"
"Hawaii? Goddamn it, Bill! I'm supposed to be in California!"

For many years, a dormant Jetfire had hidden in his alternate mode at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, until Seymour Simmons, Sam Witwicky, Mikaela Banes, Leo Spitz and Wheelie broke in with a small fragment of the AllSpark. It was only after the AllSpark shard hit Jetfire that they bothered to check which side he was on. The sight of the Decepticon insignia sent the humans scrambling for cover, but the surge of energy awoke him. Confused at the "hideous mausoleum" he was held in, Jetfire decided to head outside to get a better handle on where he was. After his attempts at overriding and shooting the doors failed, Jetfire smashed them aside, then wandered about the planes outside, damaging a few. When the humans tried to talk to him, he initially claimed that he couldn't deal with them, as he had a mission, but did ask what planet he was (he wasn't too fond of the name "Earth", feeling it might as well be called "Dirt"). Jetfire inquired on the state of the civil war, and revealed that he had defected to the Autobots (it's an intensely personal decision). This led the smaller Wheelie to defect to a human female he dubbed "warrior goddess". After the human Sam asked what he was saying, Jetfire, still confused, pounded the ground and shouted that he had a lot of issues regarding his mother, and that his father was the first wheel, who did not transform but performed his functions with honor and dignity. At which point a parachute stored in him suddenly popped open, bringing him down. Sam then tried to explain what was going on.

"Every time I give an order, it gets screwed up! Plan a reception, wrong hors d'oeuvres! Appoint an ambassador, he leaves the country!"

When Sam was finished carving Cybertronian symbols on the ground, he mentioned Megatron and The Fallen. Jetfire ranted that The Fallen was the original Decepticon and had left him on Earth to rust. The symbols were a part of Jetfire's mission, and they jogged his memory banks enough to convince him to open a space bridge, teleporting the entire group (including Bumblebee, the twins, and Wheelie) to Egypt. Thankful that he had managed to stay on the planet, Jetfire then told them the story of the Dynasty of Primes and The Fallen, Cybertron's first contact with Earth, the Star Harvester which could destroy a Sun and convert it to energon, and the Matrix of Leadership needed to activate it, hidden on Earth. He revealed that only a Prime could defeat The Fallen, but he believed that none were left. Sam told him of Optimus Prime; this caught the ancient Seeker's interest, revealing eagerness in the Prime's whereabouts, but became distraught to hear of Prime's death. Sam then wondered if the Matrix could restore Optimus to life. Jetfire said it was not the Matrix's intended use, but that the power within was unlike any known. Sadly, this was all Jetfire could do for the group, and after telling them of the riddle, he urged them to hurry off and find the Tomb of the Primes.

"I mean, one minute you're in bed with a knockout gal... or guy. And the next, you're a compost heap. Doesn't that bother any of you? Because it scares the living piss outta me!"

During the final battle around the Great Pyramid of Giza (which contained the Star Harvester), Jetfire arrived and attempted to "stick" the landing, which didn't go quite as he planned. He immediately decided to "show how they brought the pain in my day", using his axe to slice Mixmaster across the chest and decapitate the Constructicon. He was critically wounded by a surprise attack from Scorponok and although he managed to crush the Decepticon's head, the injury was fatal. Fortunately, Jetfire was treated to one last wonder, as Sam Witwicky used the Matrix to resurrect Optimus. Jetfire was overjoyed of the moment, hardly believing that he was seeing a living Prime. Unfortunately, The Fallen teleported in and attacked, damaging Optimus and stealing the Matrix, placing it in the harvester. As he lay dying, Jetfire, who felt that during his entire life he'd never done a thing worth doing, offered his parts to Optimus Prime, saying that they would give him "a power like you've never known". Telling Optimus to fulfill his destiny, Jetfire ripped out his own spark and died.

"God, I love a good funeral!"

Jetfire's sacrifice was not in vain: within moments of his death, Ratchet instructed Jolt to begin a full transplant of the rocket thrusters and weapons systems onto Optimus. Now equipped with Jetfire's powerful weapons and engines, Optimus broke through a blockade of debris The Fallen had telekinetically erected around the Pyramid and destroyed the Star Harvester before it could be used against the Earth's Sun. Prime then faced the Fallen and Megatron, using his afterburners to send Megatron flying through some ruins. During the battle, The Fallen pulled off the left afterburner and used it to strike Prime in the face, but Optimus ultimately triumphed and ripped out the Fallen's spark core, killing the treacherous Prime. After the battle, Optimus quickly detached Jetfire's parts. Revenge of the Fallen

Revenge of the Fallen novel adaptation

Immediately after arriving in Egypt, Jetfire was attacked by Ransack. Calling Jetfire a traitor, the smaller Seeker fired a single shot which bounced off his target, and Jetfire promptly stomped Ransack to death, muttering how he'd never liked that guy. Revenge of the Fallen (novel)

IDW comics

"You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions, and I was shot down in every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life."

In the distant past, the AllSpark Cube created a race of powerful, trans-dimensional beings as the first inhabitants of Cybertron. The Cube gave these beings mighty powers, as well as terraforming their world, but it was not limitless, and gradually became depleted. The first beings learned that the AllSpark's power could be replenished by harvesting the energy of stars, but they were unable to locate new stars to suit their purposes, despite their amazing ability to travel between dimensions. Once again, the Cube came to the rescue, creating a race of workers who had the ability to change their shape.

Jetfire was among the very first of these new beings, a "Seeker" with the ability to travel across the vastness of space in search of new suns. Once located, he would lead others and his masters back to it so a harvester could be constructed to drain the energy of these stars, thus replenishing the AllSpark. Defiance #4

"Jetfire?"
"No you're not. I've seen him on TV. He's an older fellow. My height."

Jetfire served directly under the Prime who would become The Fallen, finding for him various stars to harvest, believing he was serving the Dynasty of Primes as a whole, rather than The Fallen's machinations in specific. Over time, The Fallen began to open up to Jetfire, his most loyal and capable Seeker, and told him that the Dynasty no longer served Cybertron's best interests. Jetfire had unwittingly sacrificed a populated star system under The Fallen's misdirection, and became confused.

Still, Jetfire continued to work with The Fallen, despite his doubts. His master and a small army of Constructicon drones had fashioned a new, secret faction called the Decepticons with the intention of eventually subverting the Dynasty. Jetfire followed them to a desert on a small blue planet to build another star harvester when primitive life made itself known. The Dynasty arrived soon thereafter to put an end to The Fallen's betrayal. Jetfire realized too late that he was on the wrong side, and so The Fallen warped Jetfire and the other "underlings" into orbit so that the Primes could face each other alone. As they fell planetward, Jetfire fought the Constructicons, and was eventually victorious, but with a price. He crashed from orbit into the Earth and laid dormant for thousands of years. Tales of the Fallen #3 Tales of the Fallen #4

"In exactly five hours and 17 minutes, we hit the enemy toast. Wait, coast?? That'll take a little more planning. But it doesn't matter."

After he awoke, Jetfire began wandering the Earth Tales of the Fallen #3 periodically adopting new alternate modes to remain hidden. In 1898, while disguised as a portion of the United States Navy vessel the USS Maine, Jetfire sensed energy similar to the Fallen's, and broke away from the wooden housing that formed the rest of his alternate mode (inadvertently leading his human crew to believe they had been attacked, thereby initiating the Spanish-American War) that he might settle the score. Tracking the signal to the Arctic, he instead found a near-comatose robot bearing the Decepticon mark instead. Upon discovering that he was not The Fallen, but someone Jetfire had never heard of named Megatron, the Seeker just punched him and turned to leave. At this point, Jetfire realized he had an audience: a group of humans who had been studying Megatron, and who reacted to Jetfire's presence by shooting at him. Jetfire promptly seized his attacker and hurled him to his death, while the other humans used explosives to crack the ice sheets and send Jetfire plummeting into the frigid depths. Original

"It seems like only yesterday I was strafing so many of your homes. Here I am today, begging you not to make such good cars."

At the bottom of the ocean, Jetfire discovered a subterranean cave network in which he took refuge. Sensing a familiar energy source somewhere on the planet, the Seeker began to seek... but he was growing progressively low on power, and it took him fifteen years of crawling about underground before he could track the signal to its source. Along the way, he was confronted by strange, inhuman beasts that inhabited the caves, and slew all those that dared attack him. Finally, in 1913, addled and sluggish from lack of energy, he found the source of the signal: the AllSpark itself, which was in the process of being excavated by the same humans he had met in the Arctic! Fending off another attack on his person, Jetfire reached for the cube, inadvertently triggering a discharge of Energon from it that brought several surrounding machines to life, and overloaded his systems. To expend the excess energy, Jetfire promptly teleported via space bridge to parts unknown. Irreplaceable

"I don't have a clue what you're talkin' about, Phil. Not a fracking clue. I have a shell fragment the size of a fist in my head. Pork Chop Hill, 1953."

Jetfire next surfaced in 1944, in the form of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, when he was captured by Nazi scientists during World War II and imprisoned in a cryo-chamber in Castle Neuschwanstein. The Nazis studied his body and mind, reverse-engineering transforming tank-mecha from his systems and prising a map of the cave system from his memory. When Sector Seven—the government organization which had grown out of that original group of humans Jetfire had fought in the Arctic—got wind of the new Nazi technology, they dispatched a unit led by William Simmons to find and destroy Jetfire. Simmons was the only survivor of the team, and made it into Castle Neuschwanstein before being confronted by the Nazis' ultimate creation, the Panzer-Giganten, which he tried to destroy by throwing a satchel of explosives at it. The explosives instead struck Jetfire's chamber, freeing the Seeker from his confinement, and he proceeded to stop the Panzer-Giganten by tearing out of its human components. Demanding to know how humans could do something so hideous to their own kind, Jetfire was told by Simmons that it was not his doing, and that he believed his bomb would have killed them all, prompting Jetfire to inquire why he valued his life so little. Simmons retorted that he did value his life, but valued freedom more, something that gave Jetfire pause, reminding him of his reasons for turning on The Fallen millennia before. Seeing a kinship in Simmons and in humanity that he had not felt before, he silently destroyed the castle and everyone in it, then flew Simmons to an Allied outpost before disappearing once more. Weapon

"Looks like the upper hand is on the other foot!"

Jetfire's experience with Simmons deeply affected him, and he evidently shadowed the man and his organization over the following five years, taking the form of a Lockheed U-2 spy plane. In 1954, he was present when sabotage at Sector Seven's Arctic base left Simmons and a small crew trapped with a rapidly-thawing Megatron. Walter Simmons called for liquid nitrogen bombs to be dropped on the complex, at which point Jetfire swooped to intervene, transforming and shielding the younger Simmons' wife Anne and Philip Nolan from the freezing blast. When Jetfire sadly informed Walter that he had been unable to save William, Walter could only ask why he had done anything at all. Jetfire explained that William's nobility had driven him to atone for past sins: before departing, Jetfire told him that he was no longer the creature Walter had met in those caves half a century before... and Walter did not have to be either. Frozen Over the next few years, Jetfire decided to defect to the Autobots, wanting to put his former Decepticon life behind him.

By 1964, Jetfire adopted the vehicle mode of a Lockheed A-12 owned by Sector Seven agent Heath Donovan. Remaining in vehicle mode, Jetfire delivered Bumblebee and P.R.O.G.R.A.M.M.E. agents David Reeve and Diana Lux to a castle used by modern Decepticons as a secret base. En route, Lux had the impression that the jet was alive, only to brush it off as imagination to Jetfire's relief. Energon Is Forever

"My skin's made of asbestos. Tanning parlor accident at Dien Bien Phu."

At some point in the latter half of the twentieth century, Jetfire was wandering in a desert when an SR-71 Blackbird crashed into him and exploded. Amidst the chaos, he took its form. Tales of the Fallen #3

Toy bios

Sickened by the war, the Decepticon Jetfire left Cybertron and went into hiding on Earth. When the war came to Earth and woke him up, Jetfire he decided to rejoin the fight on the side of the Autobots and use his might to bring his former comrades to justice. Photon Missile Jetfire

Titan Magazines

Jetfire harkens from a time when warriors stood by a code of honour. He was first sent to Earth by the Fallen, and believed he was working in the best interests of Cybertron, and so was a little upset to find the Fallen was actually an evil bastard. After seeing the Fallen imprison the other Primes, Jetfire went into hiding. In 1998, he took advantage of the SR-71 being retired to hole up in the National Air and Space Museum as a permanent resident.

At some point, he found himself at odds with the Decepticons' credo and switched sides. When is not clear. Jetfire profile

Unite for the Universe manga

Following his death, Jetfire's remains were attached to Optimus Prime once more as part of Project: Unite, a joint NEST/Autobot project that would give Optimus Prime permanent access to the jet-powered form he'd used in Egypt. Prime first utilized the parts in battle with a group of Decepticons in the Hida Mountains, The Secret of Project: Unite then used them to fly to Greece where the Autobots had discovered Starscream's base. On the Road of Destruction After foiling an attempt by Starscream to use Project: Unite for himself, Prime had the project canceled. The Strongest Weapon

Games

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - The Game

"We'll settle this the old navy way: first guy to die, loses!"

Voice actor: Clive Revill (English), Philippe Dumond (French)

Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC

Autobot campaign

Jetfire had been dormant for years in the Smithsonian Museum, but that changed after Sam Witwicky got a tip from Agent Simmons about his location, and that he would know where the Tomb of the Twelve was. Sam woke Jetfire up, and got the sort-of-cryptic clue "When dawn alights the Dagger's tip, Three Kings will reveal the Doorway". After that, Jetfire transported Sam to Cairo via space bridge to look for the Tomb, and the Autobots followed.

In Cairo, Jetfire assisted Optimus Prime in battle against Starscream and Megatron. The battle went in the Autobots' favor, but Megatron was able to stab Jetfire through the back, mortally wounding him. Afterwards, a dying Jetfire asked Prime to take his parts, and shortly after, Optimus was wearing a new combat suit with winged rocket thrusters. Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)

Decepticon campaign

Starscream was sent to destroy the Smithsonian Museum, where Jetfire laid dormant. He succeeded, but it was too late: both Jetfire and Sam Witwicky had already left for Cairo through a space bridge.

In Cairo, Jetfire battled Megatron alongside Bumblebee. He was killed. Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)

Wii/PS2

Voice actor: Clive Revill (English)

Jetfire was hiding in a museum at one point, until Starscream found and captured him with some drones. Starscream reported to The Fallen that he had found Jetfire.

Jetfire was kept in the Decepticon base. After the Decepticons captured Bumblebee, Jetfire went to rescue him. Bumblebee thought he was an enemy, but Jetfire explained to Bumblebee that he defected to the Autobots at one point in the war and about the Fallen's plans. Later he showed Bumblebee some escape pods, and they witnessed the battle with Optimus Prime and Megatron. Jetfire put Prime in one of the escape pods, and he left to spy on Megatron and Starscream.

After the two Decepticons got an artifact, Jetfire chased after them but Megatron shot at him. Jetfire followed them by tracking Energon radiation. Meanwhile, Starscream found Optimus and attempted to kill him, but Jetfire took the shot that was meant for Optimus. Later he combined with Optimus Prime. Revenge of the Fallen (Wii/PS2)

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Transformers Autobots/Decepticons

In Autobots, Jetfire appears after you beat Starscream. The seeker doesn't appear again until after you beat Megatron. He doesn't get turned into a corpse backpack, and is standing silently next to Optimus Prime. Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots/Decepticons

Revenge of the Fallen (mobile game)

Jetfire was an old friend of Optimus Prime's who defected from the Decepticons when The Fallen changed the Decepticon cause from rebellion to conquest. He ended up on Earth in Egypt, where he was soundly defeated by Devastator. Before he fell unconscious, he told Bumblebee that Optimus should salvage his parts in order to gain the power needed to defeat Megatron. While he was unconscious, Optimus did just that, terminating Jetfire's life. Revenge of the Fallen (Glu)

Toys

Revenge of the Fallen

Legends Class toys

"Many of you are wondering what's wrong with my pants. Well they started running short on materials right before they got to the knees. So don't give me any shit."

• Jetfire (Legends Class, 2009)

• Japanese ID number: EZ-05
• Known designers: Andrew Scribner (deco artist)

"Have they no respect for the dead?!"

Legends class Revenge of the Fallen Jetfire transforms from a tiny SR-71 Blackbird spy plane to a sort of hunchback robot. In a bit of character design accuracy, his left arm has a cane. For some reason, his pair of hands had a 1.5mm compatible holes.

The upper fuselage of the plane mode has a thin rectangular peg to slot into the back of Legends class Optimus Prime to recreate the powered up mode at the end of the movie. There are no instructions on the packaging making mention of this, but they're hardly needed, as it's as simple as plugging him on and folding his wings backwards.

A possible variant nearly identical knockoff of the toy has surfaced on several Chinese online shops, so buyers beware! Differences include the red deco on his eyes has changed into a simple dot, the red striping is slightly thicker and more opaque, the scratched Decepticon insignia had smaller scratches and eyes, and the leg joints are the same black plastic color utilized for the Kmart exclusive War for the Skies 4-pack below. It doesn't help that the copyright underneath his upper legs from the genuine mold is retained on this knockoff.

• More information on Legends Jetfire at TFU.info

"Be careful, man! Ever since D-Day, 1944, this plate in my head has been sensitive."

• War for the Skies (Legends Class multipack, 2009)

Available only as part of the Kmart-exclusive "War for the Skies" Legends battlepack, this release of Legends class Jetfire is a grey and black redeco - essentially inverting the colors of the regular toy, give or take a few paint operations.

He comes with the Legends-class figures Autobot Blades, Thundercracker and Spinister.

• More information on War for the Skies Jetfire at TFU.info

Voyager Class toys

Use your friends wisely.

• Jet Power Optimus Prime (Voyager Class, 2010)

• Japanese ID number: UA-01
• Accessories: 2 rifle/smokestack-fuel tank assemblies, 2 missiles, Sword, Jetfire armour parts

Jetfire appears in this set as snap-on armour parts for a redeco of Voyager-Class Optimus Prime. Obviously, the armour fits onto Optimus Prime's robot mode to form the Jet Power Optimus combination, but when removed, can be assembled into a gun platform, or can be fitted to Optimus' vehicle mode as some sort of rocket booster, or individually display it as long you're fine with Jetfire's "alt-mode" being a weird piece of flying chunk. Optimus Prime himself has been redecoed similarly to Buster Optimus Prime, in that he has an extensive, movie-accurate paint scheme.

Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Leader Class toys

"Of course I'm all right! Why, what have you heard??"

• Jetfire (Leader Class, 2009)

• Japanese ID number: RA-13
• Accessories: Front landing gear/walking stick, rotary cannon missile launcher, projectile, back panel/cannon
• Known designers: Takashi Kunihiro (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

Jetfire transforms into an SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, quite possibly the largest alternate mode yet for the Leader class price point. Unfortunately, the vehicle mode he has chosen means that he also has one of the largest amounts of underside robot kibble ever, with his bulky robot mode parts being blatantly visible underneath his sleek jet mode parts.

For accessories, he comes with a spring-loaded, missile-launching rotary cannon which can be mounted underneath his cockpit or onto his left forearm, and his front landing gear becomes a walking stick that he can hold with his jointed hands.

Jetfire features several electronic lights and sounds; in jet mode, pushing the button on his back activates a "swooshing" noise. Pressing the tab on Jetfire's chest turns on the lights in his chest and head, and activates his moving Mech Alive gears and head, accompanied by Jetfire announcing: "Jetfire's mah name!". The European version has the clip abbreviated to "Jetfire" (humorously, due to the way that the original clip is trimmed, the end of the word is cut off, so it sounds like "Jetfi-"). Unlike previous ROTF Leader Class toys, this is not the version sold in the UK. In contrast to the film, where the character speaks with a Yorkshire accent, the toy is positively Scottish.

Despite the back of the package showing two lights within Jetfire's torso, he only has one light, in his left side, while the other socket that would normally house the light is replaced with a button that emits Jetfire's transformation noise when the toy is transformed.

Amusingly, the two jet kibble panels above his head like to pop off their ball joint sockets during transformation. It makes him a little more screen accurate, after all...

The remarkably small text written under the cockpit windows reads, "LT. COL. BRAWLEY WARNING THIS AIRCRAFT CONTAINS A SEAT CONTAINING AN EXPLOSIVE CHARGE SEE MAINTENANCE MANUAL BEFORE REMOVING."

Jetfire died to become a power mushroom. There have been worse fates.

As seen in the movie, he can combine with Leader Class Optimus Prime to form Prime's powered-up mode, albeit at the cost of Optimus Prime's leg articulation. During combination, the (difficult to open) panel on Jetfire's back is removed, revealing on his rear (beside the "swooshing noise" button) a new button that triggers a mechanical stomp sound. The panel itself is transformed and combined with his walking stick to form a skinny-barreled, less slender, and somewhat-inaccurate version of the cannon that Optimus wielded in his combined form.

A few inaccuracies are present in the combination instructions: for instance, while the instructions say to position the cockpit halves behind Prime's shoulders, they actually are meant to sit on top of them (as seen to the left), and feature small grooves into which the small silver triangular prongs lock. In addition, while Optimus' rear cab sections are shown as being folded out like rectangular wings in the instructions, it appears they are intended to sit flat against the sides of the portion of Jetfire that connects to Prime's back. Jetfire has two tabs that sit directly above the panels when folded back which better support the weight of Jetfire. Along with back panels, the struts on which Jetfire's engines are mounted on also pivot back to allow exactly enough space for the folded cab panels to fit.

• More information on Leader Jetfire at TFU.info

"My eyes are ceramic. Caught a bazooka round at Little Big Horn. Or was it Okinawa? The one without the Indians."

• Jetpower Optimus Prime (Leader Class 2-pack, 2009)

• Accessories: Front landing gear/walking stick, rotary cannon missile launcher, projectile, back panel/cannon

When Optimus plays Black Ops, he doesn't just call in the Blackbird. He equips the Blackbird.

This TakaraTomy Asian market exclusive Leader class two pack consists of a redecoed Jetfire and an altered Buster Optimus Prime. Jetfire has a more subtle, more movie-accurate colour scheme, replacing his white and gunmetal blue parts with gunmetal brown. Buster Optimus Prime has the faceplated head of the first release of Revenge of the Fallen Leader Class Optimus Prime instead of the new head sculpted for Buster Optimus Prime, and prop vehicle-accurate blue pin striping instead of CGI-accurate white.

In mid 2010, this set was released in Australia. In early 2011, it was released in the Philippines. In late 2011, this set was re-released in Dark of the Moon packaging.

Fast Action Battlers

NOBODY MOVE... I dropped me cane...

• Photon Missile Jetfire (Fast Action Battler, 2009)

• Accessories: "Photon Missile" projectile

Fast Action Battlers Jetfire is a simplified, roughly Deluxe-sized toy of Jetfire. In vehicle mode, he transforms into a sort of cute, super-deformed SR-71 Blackbird jet. As with most Transformers toy jets, he has a fair bit of undercarriage junk from his robot mode, though not to the extent of the Leader class toy. In robot mode he has a reasonably accurate depiction of Jetfire's design, though his right arm ends in a spring-loaded projectile launcher shaped like a rotary cannon.

• More information on Photon Missile Jetfire at TFU.info

Mega Power Bots

Jetfire is just a business suit at this point.

• Jetpower Optimus Prime (Mega Power Bot, 2009)

Mega Power Bots Jetpower Optimus Prime represents the Autobot leader in his combined form with Jetfire. Designed for younger children, he is a large, bulky, non-transforming figure with limited articulation. Pressing the Autobot insignias on his chest and arm plays various sound effects and cause blue lights to flash in his head and gun.

As a Mega Power Bot, Optimus features what his package claims to be a transformation: his wings can flip up to become his "flight mode".

Robot Replicas

With genuine simulated robo-bursitis!

• Jetfire (Robot Replica, 2009)

• Accessories: Cane

Robot Replicas Jetfire is a non-transformable, intended-to-be-accurate representation of his CGI model from the film. He is highly posable, and not much else. Due to his unusually large head and shortened neck, he appears based on the promotional art seen at the very top of this page, whose head and neck are severely foreshortened.

• More information on Robot Replica Jetfire at TFU.info

Transformers (2010)

"Morale around here has been shot to hell! Just look at it out there! Quiet. Not hardly a man moving! Roy? ROY! I went to school with that man. Just not the same. Been ignoring me all day."

• The Victory of The Fallen (Legends 5-pack, 2010)

• Known designers: Andrew Scribner (deco artist)

Jetfire is a redeco of his Legends-class toy with light blue arms, hips, and knees. He comes bundled in a Kmart-exclusive pack with redecos of Legends Class The Fallen, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Starscream.

To date, this is the only Hasbro release of this figure that acknowledges the combining feature between Jetfire and Optimus Prime.

• More information on Victory of The Fallen Jetfire at TFU.info

• Jetfire (EZ Collection, 2010)

Released as part of the 5th Volume of the EZ Collection line, this Jetfire is a very slight redeco of the Legends Class figure, featuring a darker shade on the unpaintable parts, so as to be used with the similarly-repainted Legends Optimus Prime figure to form the Optimus' powered up combination.

EZ Collection Real

• Jetfire (Real Color Ver), (2011)

• Jetfire (Metallic Color Ver.) (2011)

Released as part of the blindpacked EZ Collection Real by TakaraTomy's "TakaraTomy A.R.T.S", this Jetfire is a redeco of the first Legends Class figure. Like his EZ Collection Real brethren, Jetfire comes with two different variants: The "Real Color" features a flat shade on the plastic colors and paint, while the "Metallic Color" features metallic paint and plastic instead.

Dark of the Moon

• Jetpower Optimus Prime (Leader Class 2-pack, 2011)

• Accessories: Front landing gear/walking stick, rotary cannon missile launcher, projectile, back panel/cannon

A re-release of the Jetpower Optimus Prime two-pack, this time in Dark of the Moon-branded packaging. Both toys are unchanged.

Movie The Best

• Jetfire (Leader Class, 2018-03-24)

• ID Number: MB-16
• Accessories Front landing gear/walking stick, rotary cannon missile launcher, projectile, back panel/cannon

Movie The Best Jetfire is a redeco of the Leader Class figure, featuring plastic color and deco changes to make him screen-accurate. He also features new voices for his voicebox, recorded by Kenji Nomura himself.

Studio Series

Once a power 'shroom, always a power 'shroom.

”I’ve been so patient!!!”

• Jetfire (Leader Class, 2019)

• Movie: Revenge of the Fallen
• Hasbro ID number: 35
• TakaraTomy ID number: SS-26
• TakaraTomy release date: March 23, 2019
• Accessories: Cane, battle axe, Optimus abdominal replacement piece, 2 cannon barrel halves, "Pyramid Desert Battle" backdrop (1st version)
• Known designers: Yūya Ōnishi (TakaraTomy)

Released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Revenge of the Fallen, Studio Series Jetfire is a Leader-sized mold accurate to his appearance in Revenge of the Fallen, transforming into a licensed SR-71 Blackbird. He comes with his cane and battle axe, along with a cardboard backdrop display depicting Operation: Firestorm. The cane doubles as his front landing gear. The axe can store on tabs on his robot back wing kibble, and underneath the jet mode.

He can combine with the second Studio Series Optimus Prime figure to form "Jetwing Optimus Prime"... although that Optimus figure is based on the character's appearance in the original Transformers film. What's more, Jetfire comes with a duplicate abdominal piece for that same Optimus figure, with a metallic red deco. Presumably, it's meant to be swapped onto Optimus' Dark of the Moon-based Leader Class figure, allowing him to combine, but it's color-matched to Optimus' first release, an actually Revenge of the Fallen-based figure that... lacks the necessary tooling to combine with Jetfire. D'oh!

Unlike the original Leader-class toy, Jetfire splits into separate components to combine with Optimus, just like in the movie! Five of these components form the boots, shoulder pads, and wings for Jetwing Optimus Prime, while Jetfire's upper body forms a big freakin' gun! Two gunmetal pieces used to form the barrel of this cannon are stored on the underside of the wings and plug into the slots where the front of the jet is disconnected from. However, as this gun is roughly a third of Jetfire's mass, it is too heavy for Prime to lift up unassisted. Fortunately, there is a 3 mm port under Jetfire's head, allowing a figure stand (not included) to support the weight of the gun. While the Hasbro release's instructions do not tell you how to form the gun, the TakaraTomy instructions show how. The latter's instructions also mention one other feature not shown in Hasbro's instructions: the abdominal replacement piece can be stored in a cavity right behind Jetfire's chest. It should also be noted that the small flip-out tabs on Prime's grill are used to fasten the jet engines to his back securely; this is pointed out but somewhat unclear in the instructions of both versions. Care must be taken when combining him with Optimus, as it can place much stress on the hinges that Prime’s grills are connected to.

In combined mode, the cane folds up and attaches to the large tab on Optimus' left arm, resembling the smaller on-screen gun. The axe can store on the wings/backpack, utilizing the tab used by the gray gun barrel pieces.

A rather severe issue was found on some copies of Jetfire: the pinned hinge connecting the central black strut to Jetfire's chest can break, permanently separating the torso from the rest of the body.

Jetfire's box is noticeably thicker than that of other Studio leaders. The CG renders on the sides of the packaging still use the concept art version of the character, while the one used on the front has a new render with the correct design. The Hasbro instructions amusingly mislabel Jetfire as a Voyager class figure.

Parts of Jetfire's fuselage were reused on Collaborative Ultimate X-Spanse.

Merchandise

3D Battle-Card Game

• Jetfire (3D Battle Card, 2007)

It's growing tiresome to see this deco being slapped on a toy and declared "Jetfire". Storm Jet was a new character and he was cool.

A 38-point "Uncommon" piece from the 3D Battle-Card Game, Jetfire is composed of punch-out parts from two different cards that can be reconfigured to make a robot or a fighter jet. He uses the same parts layout as Movie Dreadwing, Starscream and Thundercracker, and "Energon Wars" Classic Starscream, Skywarp and Ramjet.

While the prototypes shown on the 3D Battle Card site, as in the image seen to the right, resemble the original toyline's Jetfire toy, both the preview pack and production run versions are based more on the original cartoon Skyfire/Classics Jetfire body with live-action movie stylization.

Burger King

• Ultimate Prime (2009)

This small statuette of Optimus comes with a Blackbird plane representing Jetfire's alternate mode. The plane splits in two, and the two parts can be clipped onto Optimus to replicate the climax to Revenge of the Fallen. The front section of the plane has a black Optimus face which sits in front of Optimus' own face.

• More information on Burger King Jetfire at TFU.info

Basic Fun

"...I think I'm wearing your pants."

• Articulated keychain (2009)

Produced by Basic Fun, this keychain is a likeness of Power Up Optimus Prime's robot mode with articulated arms, legs, head, waist, and a keyring sticking out of his ass.

Robot Heroes

Kinda morbid, really.

• Battle of the Fallen (Multi-pack, 2009)

• Known designers: Marcelo Matere (concept artist)

This Robot Heroes box set of figures comes with The Fallen, Megatron in tank mode, Jetpower Optimus Prime, and Ironhide in truck mode.

RPMs - Robot Powered Machines

Jetfire forgot to tell Hasbro he's claustrophobic.

• Jetfire (R.P.M. Mini-Vehicle, 2010)

• Series: Metal Heroes
• Number: 02 of 08

Robot Powered Machines Jetfire is a die-cast Blackbird with wheels. It can stand up to reveal a sculpted image of Jetfire's robot mode, and the wings are jointed so that it fits into the package better. The wheels feature through-axle construction, allowing the toy to roll well on flat surfaces.

"Put Robinowitz in a plane. Have him fly in circles until we return."

"Looks like aircraft at 12 o'clock."
"Really? 12 o'clock? Well, that gives us about... 25 minutes. Think I'll step out for a burger."

• Jetfire VS Megatron (two-pack, 2010)

• Series: Battle Series 2
• Number: 02 of 08

This two-pack contains a metallic purple redeco of RPM Megatron and... a barely-changed Jetfire. It lacks some red detailing, and changes the tail Autobot symbol to silver.

Unusually, the back of the packaging features a significantly different deco for the toy, with brighter silver and more red. Though this particular redeco was seen at Toy Fair 2010, it was never released anywhere.

As part of the final wave of RPMs, Battle Series 2 did not get released through normal retail outlets in the United States, instead showing up for sale first in Canada, Asia and Europe. Later, though, it would show up in the US though Toys"R"Us Express mall stores and discount chains like Ross and TJ Maxx.

Speed Stars

"Then we'll fly them over here! Their families too! We'll teach them to skate. Do I have to think of everything?"

• Jetfire (Mini-Vehicle, 2010)

• Series: Metal Heroes
• Number: 02 of 08

Jetfire was also made available in Speed Stars, the follow-up to Robot Powered Machines. This version has a different color layout from the RPM release, and is less detailed in its paint operations.

"You risked the lives of some damn fine civilizations! That's MY job!!"

• Jetfire VS Megatron (two-pack, 2010)

• Series: Battle Series 2
• Number: 02 of 08

Battle Series 2 was released normally in the United States under the Speed Stars banner, though with various changes. Jetfire's colors are similar to his original RPM toy.

Prime 1 Studio

• Jetpower Optimus Prime (2018)

• Movie: Revenge of the Fallen
• ID number: MMTFM-21 / 21EX (exclusive)

• • Accessories: Base, alternate head, The Fallen's spark (exclusive), The Fallen's Staff (exclusive)

Prime 1 Studio Museum Masterline Jetpower Optimus Prime is a massive statue perfectly recreating Optimus Prime's combined form with Jetfire from the end of Revenge of the Fallen.

He features LED lights on his eyes, cannon, afterburners and base, and comes with a masked and a maskless head. The exclusive version also comes with The Fallen's spark and Command Staff.

The standard version is limited to 1200 pieces while the exclusive version is limited to 500 pieces.

Threezero

• Jetfire (DLX Scale, 2021)

• Accessories: Cannon, machine gun, alternate hands, head parts for DLX Optimus Prime

Threezero DLX Jetfire can combine with Revenge of the Fallen DLX Optimus Prime to form "Jetpower Optimus Prime".

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Notes

• While all the fictions agree that Jetfire was a Decepticon Seeker who defected and has been stuck on Earth for a long time, none agree on when and why he came to Earth, when and why he defected, or how long he snoozed. Random, confused mythos divergence? Now that's '80s nostalgia!
• Jetfire's head was redesigned so Industrial Light & Magic could animate a smirk on the character. This early, mouthless head was still used for the toy designs and promotional art though.^[2]
• Jetfire's ancient Cybertronian vehicle mode as seen in IDW Publishing's Defiance #4 bears more than a passing similarity to the starship Axalon from Beast Wars.
• Jetfire was briefly active during the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to one of his comments in the Revenge of the Fallen video game. This might explain his current alternate mode in the movie.
• According to an extended bio unlocked on the Hunt for the Decepticons website by a code on "The Victory of The Fallen" toy's box, Jetfire's body is filled with mysterious, powerful technology lost to the Autobots for centuries, which explains why it gave Optimus the boost he needed to defeat The Fallen.
• Jetfire's model was tweaked and used for one of the elderly transformers in The Last Knight, referred to as "Lieutenant" in the credits.
• Jetfire's combination with Optimus Prime is likely a callback to the Armada version of the character, and his ability to combine with the Autobot leader, except this time he's dead and forms armor with a jetpack for Prime, instead of alive and just a pair of trousers with a chestplate.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Jetfire (ジェットファイアー Jettofaiā)
• Mandarin: Tiān Huǒ (天火, "Sky Fire")
• Hungarian: Röptűz ("Flyfire")

References

External links

• 3D Battle Card Game at Wizards of the Coast
• Jetfire at TFU.info