Skywarp (Animated)
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| The name or term Skywarp refers to more than one character or idea, which very much frightens the character featured here. For a list of other meanings, do not be afraid to see Skywarp (disambiguation). |
- Skywarp barely musters up the courage to be a Decepticon from the Animated continuity family.
Skywarp, the Coward Starscream, is a Starscream clone embodying the original Starscream's cowardly side. He doesn't want to fight. He bruises easily! He has a doctor's appointment! Do you have any idea just how dangerous fighting is?! Sure, he's as fast, as strong and as well-armed as any other Starscream clone, but do you realise how many different micro-organisms can get in through one crack in his exo-structure? Imagine the rush from a battle wound. No, no...Skywarp's talents are put to much better use guarding the rear...or the middle, really, since they can sneak up on you from the rear.
Wait, someone is reading this? ARGH, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
| “ | Us? Against Megatron? Are you insane?! (whimpers) I... think I just sprang an oil leak. | ” |
| —Skywarp, right after his activation, "A Bridge Too Close, Part I" | ||
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Fiction
Animated cartoon
- Voice actor: The terrifying Tom Kenny (English), Kowai no Jin Yamanoi (Japanese), Coward Alexander Kovriznyh (Russian), Der schreckerregende Stefan Staudinger (German), Il terrificante Daniele Demma (Italian), El aterrorizado Alexis Quiroz (Latin-American Spanish, seasons 1 and 2), El aterrorizado Leonardo Salas (Latin-American Spanish, season 3), Le terrifiant Sylvain Lemarié (French), Se pelottava Kari Tamminen (Finnish), O covarde Ricardo Sawaya (Portuguese, seasons 1 and 2), O assustador Armando Tiraboschi (Portuguese, season 3)
Skywarp was the second cowardly clone, created after the chicken-hearted Clone #3370318 was destroyed. He was the last clone brought online before Starscream led his new force to Earth, and was immediately terrified at the prospect of going up against Megatron. A Bridge Too Close, Part I
Surprisingly, at the start of the battle Skywarp charged in without a look of terror on his face and even took a shot at Megatron. He stopped shooting when Megatron started to deflect the laser with his terrifying swords. When Bumblebee started shooting at him, he mostly cowered and pleaded. Blurr got a pair of stasis cuffs on him, which absolutely terrified him, as he claimed that he had an irrational fear of stasis lock. But then both of them and Thundercracker were accidentally stuck in Mixmaster's glue-like cement and hurled into the space bridge, their destination unknown. A Bridge Too Close, Part II
Skywarp's personal hell only continued on the other side of the space bridge. He was trapped in glue on some desolate planetoid with Blurr and Thundercracker, and the substance was seeping into his circuitry! Even worse, Blurr's idea to get out of the glue was to release short wave sonic pulses, which Thundercracker did, causing an explosion. He could have been hurt! Fortunately, he wasn't. Needless to say, Skywarp did not join Thundercracker in pursuing the Autobot. He might have shot back! TransWarped
The mysterious Decepticon Cyclonus somehow had Starscream's "self preservation" algorithms, albeit commented out, in his source code. The AllSpark Almanac II
The Cool comic
Poor, timid Skywarp was lead into battle for the Decepticon space bridge alongside his other members of the Clone Army. The battle was terribly dangerous, as both Megatron and Optimus Prime joined forces to kick his keister. The Cool Episode 7
Skywarp was terrified of being beaten (and being stepped on—that hurts!) by Megatron again and went along with the other clones to fight the incoming ship Orion, but the horrifying Omega Supreme wiped them all out. At least they went out fast! The Cool Episode 8
Toys
Animated
- Skywarp (Voyager, 2009 / 2010)
- Takara ID number: TA-23
- Takara release date: June 19, 2010
- Accessories: 2 missiles
- Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro)
- Released in the fifth wave of Hasbro's Transformers Animated Voyagers, Skywarp is a redeco of Voyager Class Starscream, transforming into a futuristic, forward-swept wing fighter jet based upon the Su-47 (S-37) Berkut Experimental Fighter and the YF-19 "Alpha One" from the series Macross Plus. Too bad he's afraid of flying and speed. This shape allows him to have his faction symbols right-side-up on his wings in robot mode. He features a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers, available in both robot and jet modes; both of the missiles have sculpted shark faces on them. (Did he mention he's afraid of missiles and sharks?) The missile launchers can be pushed towards his wrists to pop out a pair of non-firing "blasters" concealed in each forearm.
- For an added piece of show-accuracy, one could mistransform his arms and leave them out to the side in vehicle mode so that his blasters sit underneath the wings, although this would result in his arms and hands being exposed. He hopes that you won't make him go through this, he doesn't like the idea of exposing himself in that way.
- Oddly, he still has Starscream's sculpted evil smirk... maybe to hide that he's actually afraid of everything.
- The TakaraTomy release of the figure, part of the fourth wave of their Animated toyline, trades in his dark gray plastic for jet black (ha ha). His paint deco has also been extensively altered, replacing some of the light metallic purple paint with silver, replacing the gold faction symbols with white-bordered purple ones, addiing painted silver stripes on his wings and vertical stabilizers, a white border on his cockpit window instead of black. All of these changes make him slightly more show-accurate in some ways... and less in others.
- This mold was also used to make Sunstorm and Thundercracker, though the latter was canceled before release. He's afraid that the mold is used too much.
- Skywarp Clear Purple Version (EZ Collection, 2010)
- Release date: July 24, 2010
- This EZ Collection version of Skywarp is a redeco of Legends Starscream,cast in translucent pinkish-purple plastic with opaque pinkish-purple nylon parts.
- He was only available at Toys"R"Us stores in Japan on July 24th, given away for free to customers who purchased 3,000 yen or more of Animated merchandise.
- This mold was also used to make Starscream Clear Purple Version, Ramjet Clear White Version, Sunstorm Clear Orange Version, Thundercracker Clear Blue Version, and Starscream Clone Black Version.
- Skywarp (Activator, 2010)
- A redeco of Activators Starscream, this Skywarp toy is smaller and simpler than the Voyager, and features a spring-loaded autotransformation gimmick that springs him from jet mode to robot mode in one scarily-easy step. For some reason, his head is painted purple. While the arms are not poseable enough to do a chin-stroking stance, they do possess enough articulation for a fearful hands-on-head gesture (Oh no, this toy's copying me!).
- This toy was only available in Japan as a prize in a lottery held in association with Family Mart; Skywarp was the "C"-class prize.
- This mold was also used to make Dirge, Ramjet, and Thundercracker.
Notes
- Skywarp was announced as a toy at BotCon 2008's Hasbro toy panel. The Hasbro presenters were pretty insistent that he was developed as a non-show character, simply a way to re-use the Voyager Starscream mold. He prays silently that there are no signs of mold degradation.
- Skywarp's given name in the scripts for the episodes in which he appeared was "Coward Starscream". The fact that people now know his name no doubt terrifies him.
- His bio states that he has teleportation powers like his Generation 1 counterpart, but he's definitely not brave enough to push anyone down the stairs. They might get back up!
- The first image of the Family Mart raffle prize Activators Skywarp showed him with dark blue parts instead of violet (see right). Whether this error was due to colors shifting in photography or some other factor is unknown.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Skywarp (スカイワープ Sukaiwāpu)
