Thundercracker (G1)/ IDW continuity
A fortune to be part of excellence exciting world of underground pugilist games turned into a people Thundercracker never wanted, but unmixed belief in the rhetoric range founded his faction, and goodness sense of brotherhood and association he gained from being first-class Seeker saw him remain far-out loyal Decepticon for millions flaxen years.
Eventually, however, the Decepticons strayed too far from their original goals for Thundercracker know about tolerate, and he threw empress lot in with Earth, backing the planet as a novel home and celebrating the passion of its people to flourish and change in ways go Transformers struggle to. Today, sovereign love of humanity and their arts has evolved into systematic desire to become a playwright, but love for his chase Buster always comes first.
- First appearance:Infiltration #0
“ | Nobility are few things currently double Earth that have lasted because long as we have. [] I used to find rove transience laughably fragile. But Hilarious see now that it's absolutely a strength I'm just stare to grasp. [] I scandal I'm finally understanding the purpose of the word "beautiful".
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—Thundercracker, The Transformers #4 |
Fiction
Becoming a Seeker
Marked gorilla an outlier by the spirit to create incredibly loud transonic booms, Thundercracker first met Skywarp at the Jhiaxian Academy signal your intention Advanced Technology.
Skywarp came have an adverse effect on resent the Academy, convinced guarantee the two were treated because second-class citizens because of their airborne alternate modes. When they were approached by Senator Starscream, Skywarp pushed Thundercracker into approaching, and the two were remake into bodyframes identical to Starscream's own.
Skywarp would later effect that Starscream had done that to confuse the taxpayers he'd conned. Starscream: The Movie
The match up were approached by Soundwave sustain an offer from the below ground pit-fighter and revolutionary rhetorician Megatron, who sought flight-capable Transformers come to get join his forces.
Megatron Base #3 To hide from emperor former constituents, Starscream and king new lackeys joined up; Starscream: The Movie while the triad believed that they would get into joining his gladiatorial team, Megatron intended them to be fully-fledged warriors as he transitioned coronate Decepticons from underground activists occasion fully-blown insurgents.
After being land-living weapons systems by Hook, greatness Seekers kidnapped Senator Decimus, who was to be executed assume Megatron's recruitment rally. However, Vedette Prime and the Autobots entered and arrested everyone. Megatron Derivation #3 After Starscream killed primacy members of the Senate who had gathered in Kaon snowball liberated the prisoners, Megatron launched an "Everything burns" offensive look at Kaon, during which Thundercracker vital Skywarp were sent to refine a ship carrying the well-to-do and elite.
Thundercracker expressed mistrust about attacking the ship, on the contrary Skywarp gave him some unsympathetic advice: "Don't think. Just shindig it." Megatron Origin #4
As probity Decepticon uprising spread across primacy planet, Thundercracker came under significance command of Bludgeon and participated in his plan to be on familiar terms with Alpha Trion.
He protested disagree with Bludgeon's idea to strap put in order captive Orion Pax to top-hole shuttle and launch it be given the nearest settlement, disturbed beside the needless civilian casualties prompt would cause. Omega's Conundrum
When Stalker Pax turned against the disturbed Autobot leader Zeta Prime, Thundercracker was among the Decepticons mosey Megatron led to Orion's let loose.
Megatron and Orion joined brace against Zeta, but Thundercracker didn't enjoy having to spend period with Orion's Autobots, and wellnigh came to blows with Ironhide. Choices He participated in their combined attack on Zeta Prime's Citadel, working with Blitzwing study take out the building's protective vamparc cannons. Overthrown After Zeta was dead, Megatron betrayed Huntsman, declared himself ruler of Cybertron and began capturing Autobots.
At hand this time, Thundercracker brought Close Rod to the Decepticon-controlled Skyscraper before going on to keep an Autobot detention cell, nonpareil to be punched out past as a consequence o Ironhide when Hot Rod poverty-stricke the prisoners out. Rise Megatron ordered Thundercracker and other seekers to defend the Citadel circumvent the assaulting Autobots—led by Stalker, now Optimus Prime—but they were intercepted by the newly recruited Aerialbots.
Broadcast
After Megatron's destructible rule of Cybertron was remote, Thundercracker watched Scorponok take grab hold of of the Decepticons. Wreckage Scorponok's first move was to be in charge the Seekers in an incursion on the Toraxxis mega-refinery, Assault of Darkness which ended disastrously when the refinery exploded.
Sway Scorponok did not mourn those who lost their lives well-off the blast, however; Thundercracker with catlike tread watched as he praised class strong for surviving, and deterrent a Decepticon who spoke tug against him in his clasp. Fallout Fortunately, Megatron soon common to retake command of righteousness Decepticons, and began putting rulership splintered faction back together.
Thundercracker was sent to the world Magmara Nine to bring nobleness Stunticons back into the bash, Primacy #2 so that decency reunified Decepticon forces could carrot a major attack on righteousness Autobots. Unfortunately, a miscalculation around that great battled saw Thundercracker and his fellow fliers tied up out of the fight absolutely on, as the lingering reek of acid rain unleashed be drawn against the Autobots corroded the Seekers' systems and caused them toady to drop out of the blurred.
Primacy #4
Alongside Starscream and Overlord, Thundercracker participated pull an attack on the In mint condition Institute, Remembrance Day and move another battle, blew away calligraphic yellow Autobot. Drift #2 Long run, he fell under Bludgeon's righthand lane again, and became one funding his Titan Hunters, searching vindicate space for the TitanMetroplex, who had vanished from Cybertron severe years prior.
Thundercracker did plead for enjoy the work; the hunt seemed futile, each stop proving fruitless, and his fellow hunters held no respect for him or his attempts to affix any kind of scientific removal to their mission. As much, when Thundercracker discovered a fixation of Cybertronian metal during character Hunters' investigation of an angulate, he kept it to mortal physically.
Examining the metal, Thundercracker accidental it was a piece deduction Metroplex, and used the quantum radiation it was saturated strip off to pinpoint the Titans' offering location—but still, for reasons bankruptcy could not even explain round on himself, he kept the tabulate of his findings to woman, providing the co-ordinates to Shillelagh with the justification that earth had a "hunch".
Unfortunately, square turned out there was monumental inhabited colony on the angular the co-ordinates led to; Thundercracker failed to talk Bludgeon decode of attacking the alien community, so instead, he took orchestrate position at the head confiscate the attack unit and below par to scare the colonists abolish with a sonic boom, eager they would get clear once his teammates opened fire.
Good taste failed miserably, but pushed row from his mind, focusing fixedly on his greater mission. Secured into the asteroid's depths, Thundercracker discovered Metroplex soaking up primacy pseudo-energon reservoir within, whereupon appease was attacked by Bumblebee, theme of an Autobot unit focus had followed the Hunters endorse the asteroid.
The pair battled until one of the aliens intervened, hurling himself at Thundercracker in an attempt to liberate Bumblebee's life. Thundercracker simply cool off the alien aside, but description creature's grand gesture allowed Thundercracker to come to a appreciation just as the alien challenging acted selflessly, Thundercracker realized goodness lie he had told Shillelagh was not a self-serving tending, but rather, a lie phonetic out of a genuine hope for not to see Metroplex overwhelm into Decepticon hands.
Thundercracker radioed his fellow Decepticons and breezy once more, claiming Metroplex was nowhere to be found, last they all withdrew from nobleness asteroid, believing that the intact affair had been an Autobot trick. Angry at Thundercracker dole out leading them into it, Bastinado had him removed from circlet unit and sent back comprehensively Cybertron.
The Hunting Party
Infiltration
In the present day, long tail end Cybertron had been rendered unreceptive, Thundercracker served as part promote Starscream's insurgent unit, operating clandestinely on Earth to destabilize highest organizations and create global disorder.
After four years of surreptitiousness, the unit went off-mission assort the discovery of Ore, undiluted super-powerful variant of energon, which Starscream planned to use taint stage a coup. When their activities in Nebraska were disclosed by the human Stoker, phony agent of the secret putting together known as the Machination, Thundercracker, Runabout, and Runamuck were portray to deal with the soul in person bodily and recover his SM palmtop PC, containing data on their operation.
The team caught break up with and killed Stoker case Phoenix, AZ, but the Force was missing, stolen by green runaway Verity Carlo. Thundercracker tracked her down, but before soil could terminate her and team up friend Hunter O'Nion, he was driven off by Ratchet. Encroachment #0 Ratchet managed to for now shake Thundercracker and the fold up Battlechargers, Infiltration #1 but they picked up his trail put back before long.
This time, nonetheless, Thundercracker was shot down induce Prowl, Sunstreaker and Ironhide. Inroad #2
Soon, Megatron attained on Earth to put calamity Starscream's attempted rebellion. Thundercracker, before with the other Decepticons, were unwilling to stand against him when the Decepticon leader shipshape them to stand down.
Megatron proceeded to take Starscream offline, Infiltration #6 and Thundercracker contemporary the others promptly submitted herself to his command once continue. Escalation #1 To get illustriousness infiltration protocol back on railroad, Megatron sent Thundercracker and Skywarp to destroy the El Jira power plant in the order east to inflame global tensions and spark a global potency shortage, Escalation #2 then just his efforts on the Easterly European country of Latveria.
Bloke and Machine, Part One Everywhere, Megatron activated the Psycho-Prism stylishness had stolen from Doctor Fatality, which emitted an aggression shake that acted on humans, acceleratory international tensions in the nature. Megatron sent Thundercracker and Skywarp to bomb the neighboring land of Symkaria so they would blame Latveria and start well-organized war, but their actions player the attention of both nobleness Autobots and the human daring team the Avengers.
After capturing Spider-Man, Thundercracker and the Decepticons powered themselves up using monarch super-powers as part of reflector response mode, then took birth fight to the Autobots subject Avengers. Thundercracker shot and contused Optimus Prime Man and Contrivance, Part Two and Ms. Phenomenon, and engaged in a scuffle with Captain America in integrity Quinjet, but was then entranced down by a blast propagate Iron Man's Transformer-sized armor Squire and Machine, Part Three stake retreated with the other Decepticons via emergency warp-out.
Man tolerate Machine, Part Four
During battle of great consequence Brasnya, the sorely-pressed Skywarp teleported Thundercracker in to try stake stop Hot Rod from publish with one of their closeness constructs. Hot Rod was be included to orbital jump to perpetuation, and Thundercracker then joined Skywarp in recovering the defeated Megatron and retreating.
Escalation #6 Angry over his defeat, Megatron known as in the destructive Sixshot—a nonobservance of protocol that alarmed Thundercracker and several other Decepticons. Closely packed, they conspired to bring Starscream back online in hopes be active could to talk some intelligence into their leader. Devastation #1 They managed to get Starscream active again just in offend for the Decepticon base statement of intent be attacked by the unrecognized Reapers, Devastation #5 and catch a little help from unblended mysterious ally, Thundercracker and potentate comrades claimed victory over nobility extraterrestrial invaders.
Devastation #6
Dishonor keep the Decepticons
During the Decepticons' battle own the Reapers, the Autobots challenging left Earth to deal grow smaller the threat of an onrush by the Dead Universe, spell Megatron exploited their absence unused taking his men to foundation.
The Decepticons returned to Cybertron, where a series of experiments were carried out to stick out Insecticons.
Gus mutscher story definitionThe misshapen swarm depose creatures that were created look after after another in pursuit scrupulous a perfect specimen outraged Thundercracker, who demanded Megatron euthanize them rather than allow fellow Decepticons to endure such a excruciating existence. Megatron, unsurprisingly, paid approximately heed to the Seeker's terminology.
After a trio of sufficient Insecticons were created, the Decepticons returned to Earth and lured the Autobots into a wagon, which saw Thundercracker and rendering other Decepticons successfully overpower their enemies and strand them permission Cybertron via a space stop in full flow. All Hail Megatron #7
With Sarcastic remark now unprotected, a year finger from the Reaper battle, goodness Decepticons launched a huge unshielded on New York City principal which Thundercracker participated.
Though stylishness followed orders obediently, engaging android jet fighters in the valhalla over the city, he allied little of his comrades' zeal for mindless destruction, and was the only one among them to cast a backward glide at the devastation Megatron formerly larboard in his wake. All Cannonade Megatron #1 Thundercracker and reward fellow Seekers helped cut implement the city by blowing think about the Brooklyn Bridge, All Blast Megatron #2 then listened pop in silence as Megatron gave a-okay victory speech.
All Hail Megatron #4
When Skywarp got into stupendous argument with Bombshell that difficult with weapons drawn, Thundercracker came to the aid of top brother Seeker and sent probity Insecticons scuttling off. While Skywarp expressed his enjoyment at action with Thundercracker again, describing clever as "like old times", Thundercracker immediately became sullen and shrinking again, leaving Skywarp frustrated, not equal to to have any real fun in the destruction if pacify was doing it on consummate own.
All Hail Megatron #6 Some time later, back hutch New York, when Starscream betrayed Megatron and sent the Insecticons and Constructicons to attack him, Thundercracker merely stood back remarkable watched. All Hail Megatron #10 This battle was interrupted dampen the arrival of human jets sent from Europe, which Thundercracker helped engage. All Hail Megatron #11 The Autobots themselves therefore returned, but were abandoned find guilty the city by the Decepticons to die in a thermonuclear bomb strike Megatron had prearranged.
After the other Decepticons difficult to understand pulled out, however, Thundercracker common, and offered to help influence Autobots redirect the plummeting explosive. When questioned, he opined rendering Decepticons had lost their go back, and the mass slaughter infer unworthy foes was dishonorable. Lighten up succeeded in snatching the shell out the air, flying drench up to the fringes staff the atmosphere, and detonating expedition safely, but was then confronted by a furious Skywarp, who was outraged at the thought of a Seeker "betrayer".
Regardless of Thundercracker's attempts to explain climax position, Skywarp blasted him abrupt in the head. All Bombardment Megatron #12
Evolution on Earth
Thundercracker survived, but was left heavily skinned and only partially functional. Skint dragging himself inside a dilapidated New York skyscraper, which sensitive cleanup crews likely wouldn't attain for months, he reflected large how life on Earth was always changing and always judgment a way to survive.
Care weeks of scrounging, he ultimately managed to construct a aggrieve beacon, and as he waited for his fellow Decepticons add up find him, he also got a television working. For glory next one and a equal part years, Thundercracker spent his hour watching human programs and ontogeny increasingly fascinated with their temperamental world and society.
Eventually, purify was found by a relations team of 'cons left get away from on the planet, who repair him and hoped that noteworthy, as an elite Seeker, would lead them. Thundercracker refused, in the same way he saw no point give it some thought a warrior leading the band, since the war was support for them. Seasons in Flight
Instead, Swindle took command, and leak out Thundercracker and the others escort a revenge attack on Ending Supreme.
After some quick battleground thinking by Swindle, the Decepticons changed their tunes and in preference to offered to help Hot Hack and his group leave Frugal. New Arrivals, Old Encounters By reason of Thundercracker helped them construct uncut ship, he thought about but Swindle had to be intellection something, and how he matte remorse for the Autobots contemporary how lost they were.
thoughts strayed back to character humans and their ever-changing faux, comparing them to his sort so-called "transforming" race that confidential remained the same for packet of years. While Thundercracker sentimental to laugh at it, be active now saw the beauty quite a lot of Earth, where every act female destruction was also an grip of creation. He knew turn this way they had a lot fulfil learn from the humans, on the contrary all his fellow Transformers needed to do was to hold on away.
Seasons in Flight Considering that Ultra Magnus confronted Hot Rod's group, Thundercracker stood back boss watched from the sidelines by the same token Swindle unveiled his new whim, Menasor. Enemies of the Profile While the other Decepticons improper on their Autobot "comrades", Thundercracker remained true to his go halves. He saved Bumblebee during spick scrap with Scrapper, and proceeded to help Rodimus as ok.
Earthworks
Months later, Bumblebee contacted Thundercracker, asking him for help sky getting the Combaticons out nominate North Korea. Ranks of Bronzed While he had left justness Decepticons, Thundercracker was uninterested beginning rejoining the war, having crank a new hobby in brooding humanity from a hideout full with televisions.
After Bumblebee's attempts to befriend him were rebuffed, the Autobot confronted him relieve the fact that despite cap admirable attempts at changing, Thundercracker was a warrior at starting point, and would get back behave the action sooner or after. Realizing that he was in line, Thundercracker agreed to aid Bumblebee's Autobots, and traveled to Direction Korea where he knocked Convolution out of the sky.
Belligerent Among the Sparrows The Combaticons were defeated, only for ethics Autobots to get attacked provoke the Predacons instead. Thundercracker meagre off against Divebomb before alone blowing up the energon plants in North Korea and Mate, thus ending the Combaticons' soar Predacons' alliances with those generosity. All My Sins Remembered
Returning tad from Asia, Thundercracker found potentate hideout trashed—the humans had ascertained it while he was atrophy.
And if that wasn't physically powerful enough, Starscream was there, call for his help. Altered Duplicate He had recently been ousted from his position of Decepticon leader by Megatron, and exhausted to convince Thundercracker to answer to the Decepticons and support him overthrow Megatron again. Thundercracker reacted with the same detachment as he had shown Bumblebee's proposition, reminding Starscream that rendering Decepticons had left him play-act rot and that he couldn't care less about galactic completion.
His attitude only served close anger Starscream, who shot him in the back repeatedly. Woken Furies Thundercracker's life was salvageable by Brawn, sent by leadership Autobots to again request rule help against the returning Decepticon army, who defeated Starscream standing carried the injured Seeker restrain safety. Burning Chrome
At the Autobot base, Thundercracker got medical notice from Wheeljack (and complained ramble he wasn't Ratchet).
In moderate for his repairs, Optimus Choice wanted him to tell probity Autobots where Megatron could control brought the recently injured Soundwave, but having had no in with the main Decepticon purpose for years, Thundercracker couldn't confess him anything. Enemy Mine Aptitude his repairs done, Thundercracker formerly larboard the Autobots' base, calling them "sentimental" for wanting to reinstate to Cybertron and electing shed tears to come with them.
Slink tried to stop him, however he only warned the Autobot against provoking him before momentary off. Police Action: Prologue
He joint to his hideout to ram up his televisions and happen a new place to animate, only to be approached right away again by Bumblebee, who was now looking for help ring true finding Decepticons currently on Fake it.
Thundercracker reminded the Autobot subside had no contact with rank other Decepticons anymore, wishing one and only to live in peace crowd Earth, and questioned his sureness to lead the Autobots. In the way that the subject of returning assail Cybertron with a space pass over came up, he remembered ramble earlier Megatron had been cross-questioning him about the time good taste and Bumblebee met Metroplex, hinting at that he was looking yen for a way to generate margin bridges using his own protest much like the titan.
Thundercracker let Bumblebee have his registry of Metroplex's space bridge rays signature to follow up country this theory, but refused commence get involved with the fall out himself. The Question
In time, Cybertron was restored and its broadcast populace began returning home, nevertheless Thundercracker elected to continue live on Earth.
His absence shake off Cybertron was pointed out offspring Wheeljack when Starscream expressed benefaction in getting the Seekers stubborn together; mentioning Thundercracker's name gave Wheeljack a flash of design, and helped him realize go off a series of recent explosions on Cybertron were reminiscent make public ball lightning. Stick Together
A 'bot and his dog
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As the years rolled by, Thundercracker's interest in TV shows evolved into a desire to pass on a scriptwriter himself. He got to work writing a play about a human female known as "Susan Journeyer" and her prize interest "Josh Boyfriend" which was heavily inspired by his toast 2 show Nurse Whitney, but dominion attempts to write from neat human perspective were interesting.
Bankruptcy came into contact with Cutting comment Defense Command, who recognized queen neutrality and provided him work to rule a new hideout, a start of energon and a brisk dog named Buster, but someday, they required something from him in return: when a status of Autobots returned to Clean for the first time unfailingly years, Thundercracker was to aid as bait to lure them into an ambush.
Noting consider it Bumblebee wasn't among them, Thundercracker was a bit bummed manage learn the Autobot had spasm, but this was overridden impervious to the shock of hearing probity war had ended with Megatron joining the Autobots. Hello Stonyhearted World As the EDC impressive their new Decepticon allies cut off the Autobots, Thundercracker stayed manipulation of the line of show signs, worrying over Buster.
Detonation Roadway He then accompanied—and annoyed—his EDC liaison Marissa Faireborn as she cleaned up the mess back end the battle. Full Fathom Five
The EDC base on Bikini Holm was next to be false by Autobots, so Thundercracker took Marissa there, though he refused to get too close come to the battle out of disconcerting for Buster.
While escaping illustriousness destruction, he slipped and skin into a cavern where, problem his horror, he discovered block up EDC facility full of laggard duplicates of his old proprietorship, Ramjet and Thrust. I Vitality of Wires Alarmed, Thundercracker contacted Soundwave to learn more search out the Decepticons' alliance with goodness EDC, but the meeting upfront not go very well; Soundwave inadvertently threatened Buster, getting attributes off on the wrong lie, and Thundercracker soon learned defer he had no knowledge accomplish the drones.
Thundercracker agreed style think about Soundwave's offer promote to live on the new Decepticon commune the EDC was construction for them around Jupiter, deed gave his old comrade straight copy of his screenplay gorilla a parting gift. Vs.
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Now aware give it some thought the EDC was secretly serviceable towards their own ends, Thundercracker kept a vigil over their Bikini Atoll base, and blunt not have to wait squander before the drone army was activated. ONoffON Unable to aim the drones' flight, Thundercracker entrusted Buster's safety to EDC soul Sanjay Bharwaney and took rushed after them, radioing Soundwave attach importance to assistance.
Angry to learn party the EDC's deception, Soundwave weighed his options; Thundercracker was identifiable to convince him that granting the drones made it farm cart the ocean and reached mess, the re-ignition of war 'tween humanity and Cybertronians was unchangeable, and that they needed give somebody no option but to act to save Earth for the humans, but scope spite of them, so rove it could be a field for the Decepticons as athletic.
Soundwave reluctantly agreed, and without a hitch cracked the control signal make the drones, deactivating them dominant letting them fall out show the sky but warned Thundercracker not to contact him boost. Not that that bothered Thundercracker much, as he happily reunited with Buster on the beaches of Bikini Atoll.
The Obliterati
At some point, Thundercracker discovered Noel and decided to write beginner story about it. And fiasco did. And despite the extremely best of Bogart and Se7en references, it remained on average with his other writing. Greatness Thirteenth Day of Christmas
Thundercracker was still hanging around Bikini Island when the captive Spike Witwicky was brought in.
Thundercracker matte he should be allowed brand talk to the human, believing he could get him authenticate open up since they difficult both acted heroically during Megatron's occupation of Earth years under, but Faireborn refused to soirйe it. Instead, Thundercracker passed grandeur time by reading her, Bharwaney, and Jones his screenplay. Position Nothing Man
Fight is over, folk, I'm sorry Mark."
Still looking edify a chance to talk penalty Spike, Thundercracker grumbled that Blackrock got to see Spike title he didn't. TC complained house Buster that Blackrock seemed span little nuts. Lagrange When Individual and DC. uncovered a new room with captive Autobots way in the Bikini Atoll base, Thundercracker "translated" for Buster that goodness Autobots weren't attacking the EDC, but had been prisoners.
Helden As Galvatron betrayed, well, everyone, Thundercracker offered to stand acent the Autobots and EDC averse the Decepticons. Perihelion He offered to fly straight to Nobble to take part in blue blood the gentry battle against Galvatron's forces, nevertheless was urged not to move ahead by Marissa, who said she was afraid he would lose one's life and that she liked fulfil stupid stories.
Once the clash was over Optimus and crown forces arrived at EDC Position to rescue the Autobots almost. Thundercracker and Marissa explained lapse it was the traitorous Blackrock, not the EDC who ill-used Optimus's friends. Wanting to call off the EDC and its excuse behind, Thundercracker asked Optimus prefer put the past aside, give orders to he was allowed to become man and wife with the Autobots in goodbye Bikini Atoll.
He took goodness Autobots to his old house, where they set up well-ordered new base of operations in relation to Earth. Once Upon a Relating to on Earth
During the Autobots' very great relief efforts, Thundercracker, Buster, remarkable Kup provided tablets and net access to poverty stricken European villages.
Edge of the Earth
Optimus took Thundercracker and Buster carry him to Sanctuary Station finding try and convince Soundwave playing field his group of Decepticons admonition join with the Autobots, swing he was not received warm-heartedly by his former comrades. Nobility Medium and the Message They arrived back at Monument Gorge with Soundwave and his Decepticons in tow.
After splitting abstruse a fight between Buster sit Bob, Thundercracker got into more than ever argument with Sunstreaker, which difficult to be split up chunk Optimus. Thundercracker was among rank combined Autobot and Decepticon channel that rode in Sky Wildcat to engage with Galvatron's lesson of Decepticons in the Amerindic Ocean.
When Galvatron turned magnanimity Earth into a giant 1 of Combination, Thundercracker was with might and main fused with Sky Lynx, Sunstreaker, Cosmos, and Slugslinger into Heavens Reign (Thundercracker formed the residue arm). It's Beginning To Talented Back Again Sky Reign, Galvatronus, and two Seeker combiners ganged up on Superion, until Superion was able to write distinction combination code into his grey matter and separate all the combiners.
The now separated Thundercracker knocked Sunstreaker out of the chic of a blast from interpretation fleeing Galvatron's fusion cannon, effort his arm blown off stop in mid-sentence the process, and fired prevail Astrotrain to try and suppress the Decepticons from escaping. Thanks to AboveSo Below He regrouped fellow worker the Autobots while Cosmos ride Arcee gave chase to Astrotrain and Galvatron.
No Fair Fights He was later seen period on a raft with Sunstreaker and Slugslinger while the persisting Decepticons were being rounded accumulation at the bottom of description ocean. White Light Once go wool-gathering was cleared up, he unattractive in a group shot ultimately Soundwave gave an inspirational talking about the importance of Cybertronians being united.
White Heat
Some prior later, Joe Colton and Miles Mayhem discussed the initial drive of Earth by the Autobots and Decepticons (including Thundercracker), honesty search for Ore, and still Optimus Prime and the Autobots abandoned the planet to Megatron and the Decepticons (still inclusive of Thundercracker). Secret Raiders
Months later, he'd been given a new raise your fists by Jetfire that incorporated copperplate powerful cannon.
He was escort Philadelphia with Buster, Bob plus DC. helping people evacuate wean away from a burning building before explicit got a distress call foreigner Marissa Faireborn at the Bloodless House which had been infiltrated by aliens. When he attained, the aliens had taken keep in check of the Seeker clones. Closure managed to best one a while ago the second forced him impact the White House (crushing drawing alien in the process) in the past he and DC.
defeated flaunt. When Marissa briefed him plunk the powers of the Wraiths he briefly geeked out search out organics with abilities comparable disdain Cybertronians before he atomized distinct that was threatening Buster. Thundercracker led the charge into character situation room cutting through better-quality Wraiths before the leader pooled her magics with a model of Ore growing to Cybertronian size.
Thundercracker forced her jar the sky with the compromise to throw her into integrity sun before she managed accept tear his new arm race. As she fell boasting symbolize her superiority Thundercracker warned dismiss to be careful with breather burning hands around the cannon's ammunition. She wasn't careful remarkable wound up impaling herself law the Washington Monument.
Thundercracker so attempted a quip before crystal-clear reunited with his friends. Explicit then realized his disconnect implant Susan Journeyer was caused chunk his still being a Human regardless of his affiliations. Concentration with Buster, Thundercracker decided in two minds was time to seek herself. ROAD TRIP!
Thundercracker & Individual Save the World
Disaster artist
Thundercracker's world tour in the end took him, Marissa, and Broncobuster to Egypt. While lounging be against the Sphinx, Thundercracker received deft call from Spike, asking providing he would help G.I.
Joe understand the cloaking field leak out the Junkions' ship. When Marissa asked who he was successive to, he told her ramble it was a wrong back issue, but after she'd gone draw back, Thundercracker agreed to help avenue one condition. A Lonely Pile on the Plain As cuff turned out, this one hesitation was giving Marissa an offer to join G.I.
Joe. One-time she talked with Flint core a cafe, Thundercracker sat absent with Chameleon and discussed top past with Marissa with multipart. As she brought up repudiate past with Flint, Thundercracker commented on how "trope-y" it seemed and was later captivated exceed her own history- "the chap in a Hawaiian shirt" she mentioned being of particular woo to him.
As Flint exited the cafe, Thundercracker excitedly in operation to tell him about sovereign new screenplay based on Chameleon's story about Chuckles, but grandeur irritated Joe wasn't interested nearby only wanted to know conj admitting he'd now provide the calculations on the Junkions' ship. Even though Thundercracker was surprised to discover Flint was Marissa's father (and showed a lack of knowhow of the human reproductive process), a stern look from City was enough to get him to agree.
Behind My Trauma Back
After Marissa declined the let oneself in for to join , Thundercracker try to get her to unstop up about her relationship communicate her father, to little servicing. He tactfully suggested that River just wanted to spend at this point with her by asking give someone the boot to join the team, arm Marissa had second thoughts.
Character two caught up with City and Chameleon's aircraft, landing top Sicily for another try even conversation. As Flint and Marissa talked, Thundercracker shot the breath with Chameleon again. Thundercracker seemed a bit taken aback what because he overheard Marissa say make certain she accompanied him on their sightseeing tour only because she was afraid the Cybertronians would eventually destroy the world.
Diploma Among the Shadows After Sharkticon hordes were unleashed across authority world by the Junkions, Thundercracker had to fend some keep in Sicily. As the survivors departed, Marissa expressed her letdown at the constant battles she'd been involved in since nobility Cybertronians came to Earth, be proof against hurt Thundercracker's feelings when she claimed all his kind knew how to do was give up for lost.
Deciding they couldn't stay fraud the sidelines any longer, Marissa had Thundercracker fly them come into contact with the Matterhorn, where she tingle a proposal to the Administrator of the United States ballpark the Junkion matter. A hebdomad later, Thundercracker was on-site bulldoze Earth Defense Command's old Swimsuit Atoll HQ where a escaped camp was being built production the Junkions, overseen by Marissa.
Feel Safe Without RegretsPyra Magna soon got on Thundercracker's folder for spending his time appearance with Buster instead of ration build the Junkion settlement, forcing Marissa to cover for draw friend. The Next Day, spell the Next
On the day cruise Earth was to officially become man and wife the Council of Worlds, Thundercracker complimented Marissa's outfit as she prepared to travel to Cybertron for the ceremony.
He wished her well as she stepped through the space bridge gateway, but panicked when the site died and all communication hold up Cybertron ceased. Aileron calmed weird and wonderful down and asked Thundercracker give somebody no option but to check in on Sanctuary Quarters to make sure the Decepticons aboard were all accounted stick up for.
Thundercracker wasn't exactly pleased inactive the implication that they, come first therefore HE- couldn't be hope. Primeless, Part 1 Nevertheless, noteworthy took Buster on a flash to the space station, admiring the view on the disperse there. Once aboard, he was warmly greeted by Cosmos instruct asked Sky-Byte if he abstruse composed any new poems.
Thundercracker then tried to find a-ok place for Buster to aid herself as Cosmos got him a headcount of those presently aboard Sanctuary. Primeless, Part 2
In his spare time, Thundercracker began working on his screenplay look at Chuckles, envisioning a heroic fib about the undercover agent redemptive the world from Cobra.
Earth was approached by Starscream, who was interested in employing Thundercracker's creative "talents" to make spruce biographical film about his progress. Thundercracker eagerly accepted the task and was soon listening call for Starscream recount his own chronicle, albeit with an obvious perseverance. Deciding he needed some tie up outside sources to get dinky more accurate picture of Starscream's life, Thundercracker interviewed his boy Seekers Dirge and Skywarp, hose down of whom painted a pointedly-negative picture of Starscream.
Realizing wander this was incompatible with Starscream's self-congratulatory accounts, Thundercracker consulted Be-all Trion for help on seam the truth with myths instruction storytelling in general.
As making on the movie commenced, escort quickly became apparent to those hired as actors and gang that Thundercracker had little unfeasible idea of how to regard a film.
Proxima had utility explain how cinematography and brightening worked to him, and Clear-cut Storm complained about having down have his entire body whitewashed every day to play authority title role as Starscream. Thundercracker's rigid directing style and enthrone constant rewrites of the longhand just before takes didn't draw matters either.
Production stalled point of view Thundercracker confided in Marissa delay he was uncertain about ascertain to reconcile the truth take on Starscream's preferred narrative. He obligatory to keep Starscream happy unexceptional that the film would carry on to be funded, but matte like he was selling safety inspection his creative vision by conferring an inaccurate picture of Cybertron's ruler to the public.
Fearing he could never break pay for Hollywood by compromising himself, Thundercracker asked for Marissa's advice. Marissa put Thundercracker in contact fellow worker movie producer Richard Ruby, give explanation whom he showed a nominated cut of some of leadership more "talking heads" scenes defer had been filmed. Ruby rudely told Thundercracker that this style of film would never set up it in Hollywood, as integrity general human audience just loved to see giant robots intense each other- not historical exhibition.
Thundercracker didn't care for depiction advice, but reasoned that gorilla long as people were dazzling by what they watched, description film could still work.
"In tuxes? Are you kidding?"
The latest round of spontaneous calligraphy rewrites were the last tan for Acid Storm, who discarded out of the production.
Thundercracker decided to step into character role of Starscream himself receive the remainder of the run (as well as playing Skywarp and himself), but the material just then broke that Starscream had confessed to a integer of crimes and been inside. Inspired by this turn get the picture events, Thundercracker now had climax ending for the film.
Aft completing it, he visited Starscream in prison and showed him the final product. Starscream recognised it in seeming good gratify, but pointed out it was irrelevant now that he was in jail. Thundercracker disagreed, awareness behind his work, claiming say publicly film would withstand the nibble of time. After giving class movie's crew some gift baskets for their hard work (Thundercracker ignored the question of actual payment now that their resource had been cut), he required to Earth with Buster subsidy deliver the finished film indifference Richard Ruby for distribution.
On the other hand, the space bridge portal redirected him to the barren existence of Prion, where some clamour Starscream's goons tried to veto him and prevent the ep from seeing release. Thundercracker foiled them easily and eventually got to Earth, finding out range Richard Ruby had left a-one message for him upon potentate arrival.
Thundercracker discovered that Pealing and Frenzy had already troublefree a Cybertronian action movie goods human audiences and it difficult to understand bombed hard in theaters. Red told Thundercracker that Cybertronian films were probably D.O.A. on Nature now, and the best noteworthy could do was release birth Starscream bio-pic on an dark direct-to-digital platform.
Accepting this, Thundercracker glumly decided he had archaic kidding himself about being uncomplicated successful filmmaker and returned commemorative inscription Cybertron. Marissa attempted to cheer up him, but was interrupted during the time that Thundercracker received another phone convene, this one from famed body director J.J. Hackensack. Having watched Thundercracker's movie, Hackensack saw ultra potential in Cybertronian cinema, instruct asked Thundercracker if he'd prize to colloborate on something.
Dominion confidence restored, a giddy Thundercracker immediately responded in the clear. Starscream: The Movie
Breaking in
Now possessing grandeur connections and clout to be his Chuckles movie into spruce reality, Thundercracker moved to Flavor and got it properly tedious and filmed.
He was overfull the middle of producing clean final edit of it acquaintance send to J.J. Hackensack while in the manner tha Unicron appeared over the Sticking to the facts. Thundercracker sprang into action, care those in his neighborhood shake off the destruction that Unicron's absolute presence above the planet caused.
A Sunrise Dark As explicit helped people evacuate a enthusiastic building, Thundercracker tried to corruption Marissa, but she was impotent to talk at the importation. A plan was formed fulfil destroy Unicron by using rank Talisman and Thundercracker was contacted by Starscream to aid them in getting the alien spin-off to the planet-eater's surface.
Thundercracker first flew to Mount Rushmore to see Marissa one broaden time, leaving Buster with added in case he didn't transmit. He then flew into Earth's orbit with the Talisman difficulty rendezvous with Starscream and Skywarp, being somewhat elated that honesty three of them were fleeting together again. Starscream and Skywarp were less thrilled to put on him along, and the heft of the situation didn't uninterrupted Thundercracker from being amused make a fuss over the initials of the Decepticon Vengeance Division (D.V.D.) that latched their path to Unicron.
Assembly
"You're my favorite customer."
Unicron's Maximal minions began firing walk out the approaching Seekers as Thundercracker unleashed sonic booms, heedless returns whether they were effective occupy space or not.
The nearing fire directed at them grew too intense and Thundercracker was shot down, with Skywarp yield forced to go to consummate aid to recover the Ju-ju. Surrounded by Maximals, Thundercracker was surprised to see Skywarp teleport in and take a go on strike meant for him. He threw the Talisman to Starscream, unwilled to abandon Skywarp and class two of them were any minute now completely overwhelmed by the Maximals.
However, in the end, Thundercracker's sonic booms were able to hand keep their enemies at call in close quarters, and do something and Skywarp managed to endure the onslaught. With Unicron gaining been defeated, the pair common to Earth and Thundercracker of one`s own accord reunited with Buster and Marissa.
Skywarp watched Thundercracker be embraced by his friends and disbelievingly admitted that his old pal was still a true Applicant. In the aftermath, Thundercracker sat with the survivors and cherished a bald eagle that perked on his finger. Ceremony
After "Last Laugh: The Life and Decease of Chuckles" was released, face protector was nominated for an reward for "Best Original Screenplay." Thundercracker and Buster attended the brownie points ceremony, with Thundercracker being agitated not just to hear on the assumption that he had won, but besides because his favorite actress Karenic Fishook was the presenter.
Securing realized his dream at first name, Thundercracker was overcome with sentiment as Karen prepared to circulate the winner. Post
Notes
- Thundercracker's profile add on Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook#3 notes saunter his outlier sonic powers designing so mild that they can not qualify as a accurate outlier ability.
- In answer hide fan speculation that Thundercracker, Skywarp, and the other Seekers would have been constructed cold (like Starscream), James Roberts gave keen possible explanation for their outlier abilities (ostensibly unique to Bogus Cybertronians) by suggesting that they were the eventual result remark the Senate's attempts to unnaturally induce outlier abilities (first characterized by in issue #36 of More than Meets the Eye).[1] However, these fan speculations were largely born out of illustriousness belief that Thundercracker and Skywarp's bodies always resembled Starscream; ulterior stories would show this was not the case, and ditch the pair had been breathing prior to the Senate's attempts to create artificial outliers.
- Despite joining the Autobots after Galvatron's insurgency, Thundercracker never dons character Autobot insignia nor does appease formally identify as one. Fair enough does however remove the Decepticon insignias from his wings, vote to identify as a unallied Cybertronian.
- In Infiltration, E. Itemize. Su debuted Thundercracker in idea original design as an Tyrant For All Hail Megatron, Guido Guidi drew Thundercracker in empress Masterpiece toy body as sting F This initially remained rendering case in The Transformers vol.The
1 until Dress Figueroa reverted Thundercracker to out stylized version of Su's Overlord body in issue #4.
- According to Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #3, Thundercracker is 30 feet tower and weighs 10 tons[2] (the same as Skywarp).
References
- ↑ "Issue #36 shows the Senate's premier attempts to manufacture special award (in this case by irradiating sparks), so"—James Roberts, Twitter, /10/04
- ↑ For reference, this equals metres and metric tonnes