Name: Skywarp
Allegiance: Decepticons
Function: Warrior
Sub-group: Seeker
Timeline: Generation 1
Strike when the enemy isn't looking.
Profile:
Skywarp is considered to be one of the sneakiest Decepticons, and has the potential to be their deadliest assassin - if only he were smart and focused enough to fully apply his talents. Skywarp is an outlier - a Cybertronian who possesses unique, exotic talents. In Skywarp's case, he is capable of short-range teleportation which he employs to devastating effect when the mood takes him, appearing suddenly in the midst of peaceful Autobot bases to rain down terror and destruction. In theory, Skywarp could use this ability to eliminate the entirety of Autobot command in the middle of their recharge cycles, but this has never occurred to Skywarp. He's a thug, pure and simple, who prefers to use his incredible abilities for brutal and destructive acts. Skywarp simply isn't intelligent or creative enough to think of ways to employ his powers to their full effect; worse, he has an incredibly short attention span, jumping from one cruel act to another. Skywarp squanders his abilities, wasting them on cruel pranks (such as shoving someone down a flight of stairs) rather than meaningfully advancing the Decepticon cause. The fact many Decepticons laugh at Skywarp's pranks and commend him for terrifying Autobots only reinforces Skywarp's habits, giving him no motivation to develop his skills or improve himself.
Jet mode:
Toys of Transformers Generation 1 Skywarp
Transformers Robot Masters Skywarp
The Robot Masters versions of the Seeker trio are interesting oddities. They were some of the first toys to truly recreate the original animation models and try to translate that design into toy form, and the results are mixed. While they look great (for the time), as toys they aren't amazing. They have limited poseability, and the strangely mismatched panels in jet mode look odd. They're oddities and they've been completely superseded by the superior Classics and Earthrise versions in the mainlines, and the variety of Masterpiece level designs available for those with higher levels of disposeable income.
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Transformers Robot Masters toys in my collection.
