Dreadwind
Dreadwind box art
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| Decepticon | |
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| Sub-group | BotCon Exclusives, Powermasters, Voyagers |
| Function | Air Defense |
| Rank | 6 |
| Partner | Hi-Test, Bug Bite, Thrust, Thundercracker, and Dirge |
| Motto | "Fear is a friend whose presence is felt long after he's left." (Generation 1) "We're Doomed. Not that it matters." (Timelines) |
| Alternate modes |
F-16 Fighter Jet Cybertronian Jet |
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Transformers: Generation 1 Transformers: Timelines |
| Decepticon | |
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| Information | |
| Function | High Altitude Bomber |
| Rank | 6 |
| Partner | Smokejumper |
| Motto | "Fear is the final gift I give those I destroy." |
| Alternate modes | Stealth Bomber/Tank |
| Series | Transformers: Robots in Disguise |
Robot Masters Smokesniper toy
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| Decepticon | |
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| Sub-group | Deluxe Vehicles |
| Alternate modes | Jet |
| Series | Transformers: Timelines |
Dreadwind is the name of several fictional characters from the various Transformers Transformers series.
Dreadwind was a pessimist, constantly taking the "glass is half empty" view (somewhat reminiscent of the Stunticon Dead End). The other Decepticons, bar Darkwing, avoid him, as they know he'll only depress them more. While Dreadwind does inspire dread on the battlefield, this only gets him even further down. Dreadwind transforms into an F-16 Fighting Falcon jet. His partner is the Nebulan Hi-Test. Hi-Test is the polar opposite of Dreadwind, who enjoys danger, and tries to get his partner to cheer up.
Darkwing and Dreadwind are considered highly collectable.
The peaceful planet of Nebulos had earlier been visited by the Autobots and Decepticons in Marvel Comics’ Transformers series, and when they departed, only ruin was left in their wake. To prevent such horrors from occurring again, Nebulan scientist Hi-Q detonated a bomb in the planet’s atmosphere which “poisoned” the planet’s various fuel supplies and resources – although harmless to Nebulans, the “poison” was toxic to Transformers. This was the fate which befell Dreadwind and Darkwing when they came to the planet looking for the departed Scorponok, and refueled from Nebulan resources, causing their bodies to cease functioning. Their rotting, immobile hulks soon became tourist attractions.
Meanwhile, Hi-Q’s jealous partner, Hi-Test, had vowed to outdo his contemporary, and hired criminal Throttle to steal Hi-Q’s latest fuel conversion theories, which he had dubbed the “Powermaster Process.” Using this data, Hi-Test bio-engineered his and Throttle’s bodies, and offered partnership to Dreadwind and Darkwing, who accepted; the two Nebulans transformed into engines and connected to them, supplying them with untainted energy direct from their own bodies. The Powermasters ran roughshod over the planet, but were eventually defeated by a new team of Powermasters, including Hi-Q himself, bonded with Optimus Prime, and exiled from Nebulos.
Dreadwind and Darkwing soon entered into a partnership with the robot-eating Mecannibals, hiding their own robot nature by dealing through Hi-Test and Throttle, whose job it was to find other robots for the Mecannibals to feast upon. Setting their sights upon Autobot Pretenders Landmine and Cloudburst, the Decepticons lured them into the Mecannibals clutches, but in a strange twist of fate, the Pretenders were sent to gather spices to improve their flavour. Dreadwind and Darkwing pursued them to make things difficult, but when the fact that they were robots was revealed to the Mecannibals, Landmine and Cloudburst departed while Dreadwing and Darkwind fled.
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