Slingshot (Transformers)
Slingshot is a fictional character in the Transformers series. He is sometimes known as Quickslinger.
Contents
Transformers: Generation 1
Fictional biography
Animated Series
Slingshot was created with the other Aerialbots on Cybertron to counter the Stunticons in "The Key To Vector Sigma Part 2." He was rebuilt from a speed shuttle, which accounts for his bragging about being the "hottest, fastest jet you ever saw." Slingshot thinks himself too good for Earth and the Autobots as shown when he insults a dis- assembled Omega Supreme and picks a fight with Ironhide. In the early time of the Aerialbots he acted as a leader and completely ignoring Silverbolt, proceeded to lead them away. Eventually he repented and with some prompting from Silverbolt, he led the Aerialbots to a battle between the Autobots and Stunticons where he saved Optimus Prime's life. He made semi- regular appearances in the series doing such things as: befriending a boy named Hassan, getting trapped in a Blast Off caused rockslide, valiantly trying to stop the Combaticons from becoming Bruticus, leading the Aerialbots into one of Megatron's traps, searching for Perceptor when he went missing, helping rescue the Autobots from Quintessa, getting stuck on the planet of Goo, and getting shot at by brainwashed Junkions and an angry and blind Metroplex. His final appearance was in the Rebirth: Part 1. When the Decepticons arrived he and the other Aerialbots attempted to stop them. He was one of the first to be shot down by Galvatron's new "one robot army" named Sixshot.
Marvel Comics
Beachcomber, Blaster, Cosmos, Perceptor, Powerglide, Seaspray and Warpath were part of an Autobot team on Cybertron in the Earth year 1986. They battled the Decepticons led by Straxus over the Space Bridge and the Autobots were stranded on Earth (Transformers #18).
They were then captured by Circuit Breaker and her Rapid Anti-Robot Attack Team, taken to her lab and then dissected (Transformers #21-22).
Circuit Breaker then captured Autobots Air Raid, Fireflight, Silverbolt, Skids, Skydive and Slingshot. Using the parts from all the captured Autobots she created a giant Autobot with herself in control, striking a deal with them that if they would co-operate she would let them go. Circuit Breaker then used them to oppose the Decepticon Battlechargers Runabout and Runamuck who were attacking the Statue of Liberty. After defeating the Decepticons with Circuit Breaker the Autobots were released (Transformers #23).
When Starscream returns to Earth after absorbing the powers of the Underbase, Silverbolt and his Aerialbots were amongst those in New York first to attack... and also amongst the first to fall in battle.
Books
The Aerialbots appeared in the 1986 story book Galvatron's Air Attack by Ladybird Books.[1]
Dreamwave Productions
Unlike previous interpretations of the Generation 1 Slingshot, Dreamwave comics had all the Aerialbots being made on Cybertron before the Autobots came to Earth. They were one of several teams that used the combiner technology first used to create Devastator to make their own combined form.
The Aerialbots came to be among the Autobots on Earth in the 1980s and gained the forms of Earth-style jets.
Upon the awakening of Optimus Prime in Dreamwave's first Generation 1 mini-series, the Aerialbots were among the Autobots summoned by Optimus to rescue the remaining Autobots, who had been turned into mind-controlled weapons of mass destruction by a human arms dealer. During a subsequent battle with the Decepticons in San Francisco, the Aerialbots, merged into Superion, sacrificed themselves to stop an incoming nuclear missile, launched by rogue elements in the U.S. military to eradicate both factions of Cybertronians in one fell swoop.
Later, it was revealed that parts of Superion, including his head, were recovered by the faction of the U.S. government that also recovered Scourge, hinting that they were possibly trying to rebuild him.
Toys
- Generation 1 Slingshot (1986)
- Came with a gun accessory.
- Generation 2 Slingshot (1994)
- A gold redeco of the Generation 1 toy.
- Universe Generation 1 Series Scout Airazor (2009)
- The Universe Aerialbots are a redeco of the Energon Air Team in colors similar to the Generation 1 Aerialbots.[2] While most of them bear the same name as their original toys, without a trademark on the name Slingshot, his homage was renamed Airazor. This set was released in Universe packaging in some markets, while appearing in Revenge of the Fallen packaging in others.
- Combiner Wars Deluxe Quickslinger (2015)
References
- ↑ Galvatron's Air Attack. Ladybird Books. 1986. ISBN 0-7214-0988-1.
- ↑ http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/universe-superion-maximus-repaint-/13817/
