After Sunstorm ordered the Decepticons to retreat, Thundercracker grabbed an unconscious Strongarm, before fleeing. The Worse of Two Evils! When Starscream fired upon his teammate Ravage for eavesdropping on his plot to overthrow Megatron, Thundercracker teamed up with Skywarp to capture the Decepticon Air Commander. While he expired in the vacuum of space, this was not entirely the end of Thundercracker's story: his corpse was used by the monster planet Unicron, who had just recreated Megatron as Galvatron, to create Scourge The Transformers: The Movie, The Decepticons had the decorum to set up a marker for the "deceased" Thundercracker in their crypt on Cybertron. Crisis of Command! 1. He, Skywarp, and Starscream took on Lio Convoy during the fight, but the Autobots ultimately triumphed. Volcanicus comic 1, At the dawn of the war, as Devastator breached Iacon's walls, Thundercracker was there with the rest of Megatron's forces. Rendered invulnerable by a coat of electrum, Thundercracker took part in the mission to topple Omega Supreme, but when he and Skywarp went to go retrieve another captive Autobot, Beachcomber, from his cell at the base, the tricky Autobot geologist managed to knock them both out. Thundercracker's sonic booms. One of the Autobots accidentally fired into the stack of energon cubes, and Thundercracker and Skywarp escaped back to the Decepticon fortress in the confusion caused by the ensuing explosion. Then the Autobots showed up, and the two factions began their battle aboard the space station. Thundercracker never uses his sonic boom powers in the Generation 1 cartoon (the script for " Fire on the Mountain " called for him to make a "thunder noise", but the sound effect was absent from the finished episode). Those Who Resist After destroying the Seeker's ship to escape, the space-time energies faded away, and their bodies returned to normal. They succeeded in bombing pedestrians and children until Optimus Prime and a unit of Autobot vehicles arrived. He looks down in contempt on those who cannot leave the ground - he considers them lesser beings. Sonic Boom: A rare and powerful yet dangerous ability that allowed him to unleash powerful blast in knocking his enemies off. Coming at you this time with my First SONIC ON CRACK Video!! In 2006, Octane would seek refuge in the crypt, and apologised to the marker for trying to hide behind it. The two of them refused to let anybody through without proper authorization, but soon decided that Starscream's gun aimed directly into their faces was authorization enough. over whether or not Megatron would prevail over the rebellious Triple Changers and Devastator. Thundercracker is not fully convinced of Destrons' cause; on a subconscious level he has some strong doubts. The Autobots were poised to leave Earth in accordance with the agreement they had made with their enemies, until they learned of Megatron's illegal enhancements; overpowered by the Autobot counterattack, Thundercracker and his comrades were sent toppling into a crevice filled with lava. Quest for Survival When Astrotrain declared himself leader of the Decepticons, Thundercracker snarked at the idea, and it certainly didn't help when Astrotrain's "troops" got themselves in a mess. When Starscream and the Combaticons returned to threaten Earth and Cybertron, Thundercracker was part of the allied Autobot-Decepticon group who headed to Cybertron to stop their plot. The Seekers (Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker) and Soundwave steal and carry off hundreds of tons of machinery The Arrival He arrived at the rendzvous point, watching over Strongarm and Ironhide. That battle was ended prematurely when Auntie, the Ark's computer system, magnetized the walls, immobilizing both factions. !Been watching alot of Thats 70s show lately sooo theres that in here! According to Thundercracker, he was often not very successful. After the villains constructed a base of operations from stolen portions of the power plant, they learned that the Autobots' new human ally Sparkplug Witwicky had developed a conversion process that would allow Earth fuels to be used by the Transformers. Feigning illness, Verity had left the bus before Runabout and Runamu… Thundercracker looked on as his commander pilfered Matrix energy from Prime's chest before sounding a retreat, the means of bringing a new Decepticon army now in their possession. He is further able to […] Unbeknownst to Thundercracker, Megatron was putting a complicated plan into motion that involved clones of Prime and Starscream; as such, he was surprised to hear "Starscream" announce for everybody to hold their fire, given that had an Autobot right in his hands. Maybe we can say he can hit stuff at mach speeds, and not feel the pain? The Transformers Thundercracker then participated in the Decepticon strike on the Harrison Nuclear Power Plant, heralding the assault with one of his ear-splitting sonic booms. Pretty cool ROM Hack. As they escaped, they were contacted by the still-living Megatron, and Thundercracker happily put himself back under his true leader's command. Though Megatron had them escape rather than face the other Autobots who soon turned up, Thundercracker was soon back on the battlefield when the Decepticons attacked the demoralized Autobots outside their own headquarters at sunset that day, though he was immediately clobbered by Huffer as soon as he landed. Bug Bite used his small army in an attempt to control Megatron, but interference courtesy of a team of Autobots led by Ultra Magnus resulted in Thundercracker and the others all being freed him from his influence. Thundercracker was aiding his fellow scientist Shockwave in extracting the Sparks of the Decepticons Rumble and Frenzy in order to put them in Laser corecontainm… Transport to Oblivion Starscream declared himself leader in Megatron's absence, and Thundercracker and Soundwave attacked a hydroelectric power plant alongside him, despite Thundercracker's lack of confidence in his leadership abilities. Able to fly very fast at low altitudes, skimming across treetops and dodging obstacles with death-defying accuracy. Shockwave returned to help them make their getaway, then charged the trio with using a power siphon to convert sound energy from a Brick Springhorn concert into more cubes. Thundercracker never uses his sonic boom powers in the Generation 1 cartoon (the script for "Fire on the Mountain" called for him to make a "thunder noise", but the sound effect was absent from the finished episode). Command Performances! Attack of the Autobots Thundercracker tried to fend off Optimus Prime when he came seeking to retrieve electro-cells the Decepticon had stolen, Traitor and was among the party who came to steal Wheeljack's Immobilizer. now is my chance! Before the three could take stock of the situation, they were temporarily mass-displaced to the interdimensional realm of Limbo when Hot Rod, Kup and Blurr time-jumped from 2006. After an abortive attempt to team up with the invaders, Thundercracker and the other Decepticons instead formed an alliance with the Autobots and helped see off the Martians; when Cliffjumper observed that Megatron was taking all the credit for the success of their team-up, Thundercracker rolled his eyes and remarked that it was "a thing". Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1, Thundercracker later took part in an all-out assault on Autobot Headquarters in Arizona. Though Thundercracker's initial sonic attack disoriented Prime, the Autobot leader soon overpowered all three Decepticon jets. Also, he can fly in either jet or robot mode. Even at low altitudes and speeds, he is able to force super-compressed air pulses through his engine intakes, giving him a burst of acceleration and generating a focused sonic boom that can shatter reinforced glass and deafen unprotected audio receptors. They were interrupted in this endeavour by Danny Phillips, who had encountered Transformers before and believed that they were all as good as the Autobots. Man of Iron Returning to America, the three jets were then unleashed upon the human military forces who attempted a hopeless attack on the Decepticons' base. b) Sonic Boom Generator: Thundercracker… The blue jet guy who since 1984 is neither treacherous nor a teleporter. S.O.S. Broadcasting on TV! Unable to bring himself to serve among Megatron's Earth-based Decepticons alongside Starscream, the bot who had killed him, Thundercracker contemplated abandoning the war all together, but ultimately decided to join Bludgeon's space-based Decepticon faction, along with his fellow fliers Dirge and Thrust. Thundercracker was one of Megatron's troops who attacked the Ark during its mission to clear a path for Cybertron through an asteroid field. Opposed by the Autobots again, Thundercracker bashed the charging Cliffjumper with a pillar from the building, but when the energon cubes they were making were destroyed, they fled. Also armed with deafening sonic boom blaster. Nevertheless, when Starscream explained his plan to fight "Optimus Prime", Thundercracker went along with it and was the one who announced the start of the match. The Autobots and the Decepticons later forged an alliance against the Cybertronian Empire, but the Decepticons initially declined to help when the Autobots went to the planet Ethos to battle a Cybertronian raiding party there. Dinobot Island, Part 2, Thundercracker and the other jets took a few shots at the Autobots when they were caught in a ravine, but were foiled when Smokescreen used his eponymous ability to blind them. Thundercracker then rendered Ironhide unconscious by using his sonic boom power. The scattered Decepticon forces were then re-integrated when Thundercracker, his fellow jets, and Shockwave were brought to the new base the returned Megatron had established in Wyoming. He was part of the large platoon of Decepticons that assumed battle stations in response to the approach of rival Decepticon leader Scorponok's faction upon their iceberg base. They immediately stated beating them up, but unbeknownst to the two jets, the pair had planted a bomb in the mines which promptly went off and buried them all. No sooner had they discovered that the new arrivals were actually Autobots than they were alerted by Shockwave to a full-scale Autobot attack on their base. After history blipped again to include both Decepticons and Renegades, Thundercracker was replaced by Spoons as the high-ranking villain thrown out of Astrotrain. The Last Stand Decepticon logician Shockwave then took command of the crippled Decepticon forces and the Ark shortly thereafter and nursed Thundercracker and his comrades back to full health. His body recovered from Tokyo by Megatron, Thundercracker was restored to life and upgraded using Seeker schematics designed by Shockwave. Inadvertently liberated by the Junkion Scrapheap, the Decepticons' remained in this flux-state for a period of time; in Scourge's case, he was partially reverted to being Thundercracker. They proceeded to abduct young genius Chip Chase and brought him to the laboratory where the other Decepticons were waiting, where they extracted an antimatter formula from his brain. The jets shot at the Autobots, but Chip Chase took control of the injured Prowl and had him unleash a spectacular assault forcing Starscream's squad to escape. The Revenge of Bruticus Soon after, he took part attacking Autobot Headquarters and Defensor. Unique Feature: Frequency modulated sonic booms THUNDERCRACKER was so named because of his unique sonic abilities. Awakening to find themselves in a nearly-empty Ark, the confused pair wandered back to the Decepticon base, which they found to be just as deserted, save for an ill-tempered Shockwave. He and the other Decepticon fliers fended off a squad of fighter jets that attempted to liberate the city, but soon, they were overwhelmed by the Autobots, who had returned from their banishment. War Dawn, Thundercracker was one of Megatron's elite warriors, participating in the attack on the Autobot spacecraft and joining the rest of the Earth-bound Transformers in their several-million-year nap under an inactive volcano. He awoke when the rest of the Decepticons did, and took part in their attempts to gather energon and escape the planet Earth, which he loathed for being too "flat". Unaware of the cause of their breakdown, they went on an energy raid to get some fresh energon; met in battle by the similarly impaired Autobots, Thundercracker was able to easily shoot Mirage when the Autobot's invisibility power failed to work. Believing that this meant the Ark was undefended, Megatron had his unit attack it instead, only for them to run afoul of the Ark's powerful new guardian, Omega Supreme. Thundercracker and Skywarp were guarding a space bridge when Starscream flew in and requested to go to Cybertron. Breaking away from Soundwave, Thundercracker and his fellow jets returned to the Blackrock oil rig, but soon found their makeshift base surrounded by government forces, leaving them trapped for weeks. TFC-A01, Later (multiversally speaking), in a parallel timeline that had diverged from this one, Thundercracker, Skywarp, and Blitzwing were observing humanity's construction of an orbital space bridge on Megatron's orders when they were suddenly attacked by the Starscream from Cloud World. Under Megatron's command, Thundercracker did battle with the Autobots using machine guns, cruise missiles, and sonic booms. Also armed with deafening sonic boom blaster. Compared to the original MP-03 Starscream, Thundercracker is essentially the same size and shape – the differences are really in the details. They were recalled back to Cybertron when Unicron ate Moonbase One. A weapon that isn't a weapon as Mythbusters proved. Later, he and the other Decepticons boarded a rocket they intended to take back to Cybertron, but the Autobots damaged the fuel tanks and forced them to jump ship. Alternate Mode - Like Starscream and Skywarp, Thundercracker transforms into an F-15 Eagle fighter. They were met by an Autobot contingent led by Optimus Prime and a firefight ensued. Soon after their revival, Thundercracker joined his fellow Decepticon fliers in battling the Autobots at a drive-in movie theater, but he and Starscream were sent packing when they got a taste of Cliffjumper's glass gas. Robot Mode: This Thundercracker design is based off the modern day take on the Seekers developed by artist Guido Guidi. Heavy Metal War, Thundercracker survived his fall with the rest of his group, and later joined in attacks on Air Force rocket bases, and the hunt for Autobot X. Autobot Spike During the Decepticons' solar needle scheme in Africa, he was sent flying into a tree by a kick from Ratchet, and was subsequently the first to beat retreat when the needle threatened to destroy the sun. Changing Gears When the Decepticons took over New York City, Thundercracker was part of an aerial strike force that bombarded the Autobots as they attempted to recover Optimus Prime's stolen right arm from the Decepticons' fortress. Less Than Zero, In 2012, when the Wreckers Sandstorm, Springer, and Whirl attempted to rescue the captive Kup from Megatron, Skywarp teleported himself and Thundercracker onto the scene to ambush the Autobots. In the early days of the Decepticon rebellion, Thundercracker and Skywarp both faced the powerful protectors of Cybertron's cities, the Guardian robots. While Sparkplug was put to work brewing his conversion formula for the Decepticons, Thundercracker, Starscream, and Skywarp were dispatched to England to investigate a Cybertronian signal that they soon discovered was emanating from an spaceship that had crashed there centuries before. His tech spec was similar to his original G1 bio in that Thundercracker believed in the Decepticon cause, still possessed of a fierce independent streak. The Ultimate Doom, Part 3 Megatron subsequently disappeared for a short time when the Autobots blew up his shuttle craft. Enter the Nightbird, Thundercracker, Skywarp, and Starscream all tried taking on Optimus Prime together when the Autobots were investigating a mysterious new energy source in a crevice, but all three were taken down by the Autobot leader.
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