Falcon (G1)
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- Falcon is a Decepticon Predator from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Falcon is arguably the leader of the Predators. He's really really evil. So evil you don't even know, dude. His hatred of the Turbomasters is what drives him to such depths.
He's evil.
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Fiction
Predator Air Attack!
Falcon was for some reason under the command of Skydive during their attack on the Autobot Turbomaster base. He didn't seem to mind, though, and rained death on his Autobot targets. Predator Air Attack!
Wings Universe
Nine million years ago, Falcon was a servant of Deathsaurus, one of the Decepticon Warlords active at the dawn of the Great War. He assembled a report on the Elite Guard Special Ops Team for Deathsaurus after their agent Flipsides reported on the incident at Median. Flames of Yesterday After capturing these "Combaticons" in the field, Falcon and Vanquish held them prisoner in Deathsaurus's lair until the warlord was ready to meet with them. As part of Deathsaurus's psychological ploy against the Autobots, Falcon feigned that it was all a big misunderstanding, that the Combaticons were meant to be treated as honored guests, not prisoners. The Coming Storm: Part 4
Falcon frequently served as Deathsaurus's representative among the Decepticon War Council meetings. Except for Megatron's vassal Shockwave, Falcon was the only non-Warlord who attended the meetings. Deathsaurus valued the insight into his fellow Warlords that Falcon's attendance brought him, but clearly viewed Megatron as his primary rival for total control over the Decepticons. After Megatron conscripted the Constructicons and Photons into his service and stopped sending any representative to the Council, Deathsaurus decided to cut his losses. The unwitting Falcon was sent into the next meeting with a powerful bomb disguised as a holo-message from Deathsaurus himself. The resulting explosion killed the five remaining Warlords besides Deathsaurus and Megatron, along with the pitifully loyal Falcon. A Team Effort
2005 IDW continuity
Falcon served under the command of Turmoil when their second-in-command Deadlock abandoned his post. Turmoil ordered his ship's crew to track the escape pod Deadlock had fled on, but Falcon reported that Deadlock had initiated the ship's emergency system protocols, disabling its computers for some time. Drift #1
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
The Multiforce fought the Predators in the Skomiloch Territories after they were displaced from their native time by a dimensional shock. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/01
Toys
The Transformers
- Falcon (Small Predator, 1992)
- Accessories: Missile launcher, 3 missiles
- Known designers: Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy)
- Released in the eighth year of the European-market Transformers toyline (the final one to use the original faction symbols), Predator Falcon transforms into a Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk stealth jet. Like all Predators, he comes with a "generic" gold-plastic spring-loaded missile launcher and three small missiles that would so not pass U.S. choke tests. The underside of his plane mode has the Megavisor gimmick, that, when attached to the larger Predators Skyquake or Stalker, pushes down a "targeting" slide visible through the larger Transformer's viewfinder; Falcon's shows the Turbomasters Boss and Hurricane.
- Due to a combination of design and Gold Plastic Syndrome, the Predator launchers are quite delicate. It's best never to load one of the launchers while it is in the hand of a Predator—the post is most likely to just snap right off. The trigger is also likely to snap off due to relying on on the plastic bending as opposed to being hinged.
- This mold was also available in Japan as the Jet Corps member Shadow Jet; while the core toys are identical, the two releases have slightly-different missiles which are broadly the same but have ton of molding detail differences.
Notes
- Falcon's leadership of the Predators is questionable. Both he and Skyquake have Tech Spec Ranks of 10, but Falcon is the one with "Leader" as a Function... but "Skyquake" has "Air Commandant", and the Predators only have one ground vehicle among them. Hm. The European line at the time was pretty liberal in handing out high ranks and "Leader" Functions, so who knows. When the Predators appeared in Last Stand of the Wreckers, Skyquake was depicted as their leader while Falcon was nowhere to be seen.
- Falcon's box art was recolored and used for the Machine Wars versions of Megatron and Megaplex.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Falcon (ファルコン Farukon)
- French: Faucon (Canada, "Falcon")
- Italian: Falcon (Italy)
