Jetfire was an ancient and valiant Autobot, who was originally a servant of The Fallen as a Decepticon. But eventually he defected to the Autobots' side after realizing the scale of the death and destruction The Fallen would bring.
History[]
A SR-71 Blackbird was hidden in the Smithsonian. Wheelie told Sam that Jetfire was like "The chairman of the board". They used AllSpark Power in the Blackbird, causing it to transform, it was known as Jetfire, he didn't take to kindly to his situation, saying that Earth was a horrible name for a planet and that it might as well be called Planet "Dirt". He opened a space bridge and teleported the group to Egypt, where he told the group about the Star Harvester and the Matrix of Leadership. He later joined the Battle of Egypt. He proved his combat skill when he decapitated Mixmaster. He was gravely wounded during a surprise attack from Scorponok, but he crushed the small Decepticon's head, muttering that he was "too old for this crap".
He witnessing Optimus's resurrection, by said "Living Prime, I don't believed it". Unfortunately, the Matrix was stolen by The Fallen to activates Star Harvester. Jetfire gave Optimus Prime advice to take his parts for their combination, so that Optimus can have a "power he never knows", and after he told Prime to fulfill his destiny, he sacrificed himself by taking his spark out, and he collapsed, dead, allowing Jolt, upon Ratchet's orders, used his electric whips to combine Jetfire's pieces to Optimus in order to help him defeat The Fallen, ending The Fallen's threats once and for all. Following aftermath final battle of Egypt, Optimus discarded the Jetfire's armor.
Legacy
Jetfire's left-over armor spare parts samples eventually was taken and used by Que, to creates the Optimus Prime's flight gear device equipment in the third sequel.
IDW Comics[]
In the distant past, the AllSpark Cube created a race of powerful, trans-dimensional beings as the first inhabitants of Cybertron. The Cube gave these beings mighty powers, as well as terraforming their world, but it was not limitless, and gradually became depleted. The first beings learned that the AllSpark's power could be replenished by harvesting the energy of stars, but they were unable to locate new stars to suit their purposes, despite their amazing ability to travel between dimensions. Once again, the Cube came to the rescue, creating a race of workers who had the ability to change their shape.
Jetfire was among the very first of these new beings, a "Seeker" with the ability to travel across the vastness of space in search of new suns. Once located, he would lead others and his masters back to it so a harvester could be constructed to drain the energy of these stars, thus replenishing the AllSpark.
Jetfire served directly under the Prime who would become The Fallen, finding for him various stars to harvest, believing he was serving the Dynasty of Primes as a whole, rather than The Fallen's machinations in specific. Over time, The Fallen began to open up to Jetfire, his most loyal and capable Seeker, and told him that the Dynasty no longer served Cybertron's best interests. Jetfire had unwittingly sacrificed a populated star system under The Fallen's misdirection, and became confused.
Still, Jetfire continued to work with The Fallen, despite his doubts. His master and a small army of Constructicon drones had fashioned a new, secret faction called the Decepticons with the intention of eventually subverting the Dynasty. Jetfire followed them to a desert on a small blue planet to build another star harvester when primitive life made itself known. The Dynasty arrived soon thereafter to put an end to The Fallen's betrayal. Jetfire realized too late that he was on the wrong side, and so The Fallen warped Jetfire and the other "underlings" into orbit so that the Primes could face each other alone. As they fell planetward, Jetfire fought the Constructicons, and was eventually victorious, but with a price. He crashed from orbit into the Earth and laid dormant for thousands of years.
After he awoke, Jetfire began wandering the Earth periodically adopting new alternate modes to remain hidden. In 1898, while disguised as a portion of the United States Navy vessel the USS Maine, Jetfire sensed energy similar to the Fallen's, and broke away from the wooden housing that formed the rest of his alternate mode (inadvertently leading his human crew to believe they had been attacked, thereby initiating the Spanish-American War) that he might settle the score. Tracking the signal to the Arctic, he instead found a near-comatose robot bearing the Decepticon mark instead. Upon discovering that he was not The Fallen, but someone Jetfire had never heard of named Megatron, the Seeker just punched him and turned to leave. At this point, Jetfire realized he had an audience: a group of humans who had been studying Megatron, and who reacted to Jetfire's presence by shooting at him. Jetfire promptly seized his attacker and hurled him to his death, while the other humans used explosives to crack the ice sheets and send Jetfire plummeting into the frigid depths.
At the bottom of the ocean, Jetfire discovered a subterranean cave network in which he took refuge. Sensing a familiar energy source somewhere on the planet, the Seeker began to seek... but he was growing progressively low on power, and it took him fifteen years of crawling about underground before he could track the signal to its source. Along the way, he was confronted by strange, inhuman beasts that inhabited the caves, and slew all those that dared attack him. Finally, in 1913, addled and sluggish from lack of energy, he found the source of the signal: the AllSpark itself, which was in the process of being excavated by the same humans he had met in the Arctic! Fending off another attack on his person, Jetfire reached for the cube, inadvertently triggering a discharge of Energon from it that brought several surrounding machines to life, and overloaded his systems. To expend the excess energy, Jetfire promptly teleported via space bridge to parts unknown.
Jetfire next surfaced in 1944, in the form of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, when he was captured by Nazi scientists during World War II and imprisoned in a cryo-chamber in Castle Neuschwanstein. The Nazis studied his body and mind, reverse-engineering transforming tank-mecha from his systems and prizing a map of the cave system from his memory. When Sector Seven—the government organization which had grown out of that original group of humans Jetfire had fought in the Arctic—got wind of the new Nazi technology, they dispatched a unit led by William Simmons to find and destroy Jetfire. Simmons was the only survivor of the team, and made it into Castle Neuschwanstein before being confronted by the Nazis' ultimate creation, the Panzer-Giganten, which he tried to destroy by throwing a satchel of explosives at it. The explosives instead struck Jetfire's chamber, freeing the Seeker from his confinement, and he proceeded to stop the Panzer-Giganten by tearing out of its human components. Demanding to know how humans could do something so hideous to their own kind, Jetfire was told by Simmons that it was not his doing, and that he believed his bomb would have killed them all, prompting Jetfire to inquire why he valued his life so little. Simmons retorted that he did value his life, but valued freedom more, something that gave Jetfire pause, reminding him of his reasons for turning on The Fallen millennia before. Seeing a kinship in Simmons and in humanity that he had not felt before, he silently destroyed the castle and everyone in it, then flew Simmons to an Allied outpost before disappearing once more.
Jetfire's experience with Simmons deeply affected him, and he evidently shadowed the man and his organization over the following five years, taking the form of a Lockheed U-2 spy plane. In 1954, he was present when sabotage at Sector Seven's Arctic base left Simmons and a small crew trapped with a rapidly-thawing Megatron. Walter Simmons called for liquid nitrogen bombs to be dropped on the complex, at which point Jetfire swooped to intervene, transforming and shielding the younger Simmons' wife Anne and Philip Nolan from the freezing blast. When Jetfire sadly informed Walter that he had been unable to save William, Walter could only ask why he had done anything at all. Jetfire explained that William's nobility had driven him to atone for past sins: before departing, Jetfire told him that he was no longer the creature Walter had met in those caves half a century before... and Walter did not have to be either. Over the next few years, Jetfire decided to defect to the Autobots, wanting to put his former Decepticon life behind him.
By 1964, Jetfire adopted the vehicle mode of a Lockheed A-12 owned by Sector Seven agent Heath Donovan. Remaining in vehicle mode, Jetfire delivered Bumblebee and P.R.O.G.R.A.M.M.E. agents David Reeve and Diana Lux to a castle used by modern Decepticons as a secret base. En route, Lux had the impression that the jet was alive, only to brush it off as imagination to Jetfire's relief.
At some point in the latter half of the twentieth century, Jetfire was wandering in a desert when an SR-71 Blackbird crashed into him and exploded. Amidst the chaos, he took its form.
Friends and Enemies[]
Friends[]
Enemies[]
Abilities[]
- Space Bridge Formation: Jetfire mentioned the Space Bridge by name shortly before he did a really half-assed job of throwing himself and the rest of the heroes halfway across the world to Egypt, wrecking Sam's hand in the process (Jetfire wasn't entirely sure they were still on the right planet). The even-more-ancient but significantly less senile Fallen, one of the original Primes, shows a similar ability where he teleports across short distances, seeming to use it as a form of flight. Revenge of the Fallen
Weapons[]
- Axe
- Heavy laser machine gun (Revenge of the Fallen: The Game)
- Charged shell cannon (Revenge of the Fallen: The Game)
- Missiles (both in true form and alt mode)
Galllery[]
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