Sky Shadow (Energon)
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| The name or term "Sky Shadow" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Sky Shadow (disambiguation). |
- Sky Shadow is an Autobot from the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Sky Shadow is one of the five Air Team robots who make up the mighty super robot Superion Maximus. Did he know about his Decepticon namesake from the legendary Beast Wars, or was this Sky Shadow, a warrior from times long past, himself the inspiration for the Beast Warrior or even was he a Decepticon once? The answer is lost to all outside the Allspark.
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Fiction
Energon cartoon
When the current Decepticon leader Megatron discovered a hidden chamber and four ancient, towering guardians, he destroyed one of the Autobot guardians, reactivating the ones that remained and revealing the Super Energon pool they had been guarding for countless years. Ambition Superion Maximus awoke to find his brother dead, with the Decepticon leader claiming the Super Energon for himself, absorbing its power to become Galvatron. Superion tried to stop him to no avail, so he split up into the Air Team and escaped, with Bruticus Maximus and Constructicon Maximus in hot pursuit. Wishes
During a virtual training match between the Autobots and Decepticons, Sky Shadow was part of Storm Jet's Air Team, fighting the Destruction Team and the Construction Team. The Autobots combined into Superion Maximus to take on both Bruticus Maximus and Constructicon Maximus, but were eventually defeated. Distribution
Superion Maximus flew in his component vehicle modes as the Autobots made their way through the maze-like routes beneath Cybertron's surface. The Omega Train
Sky Shadow and the Air Team had their revenge against the Destruction and Construction teams during a final show down with the treacherous Decepticon combiners. Bruticus Maximus and Constructicon Maximus double teamed Superion Maximus, who held his own, managing to briefly fend off Bruticus before crushing Constructicon's spark. However, Bruticus Maximus recovered and destroyed Sky Shadow and the other three Superion limbs, leaving Storm Jet alone. Spark
Toys
Energon
- Superion (Multi-pack, 2004)
- ID number: SC-26
- Release date: September 30, 2004
- Accessories: Energon shield/double-cannon, Autobot energon star
- Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro), Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy)
- Takara's Super Link Sling shares a mold with his teammate Skydive, transforming into a red and black A-10 Thunderbolt II. In jet mode, his robot head's adjustable "goggles" visor acts as an under-slung (non-firing) double-gun pod.
- Sling can form an arm or leg to any Energon-style "Powerlinx Combiner" super robot, though his nominal placement is as the right leg to Superion. In limb mode his shield/cannon weapon forms either a foot or a weird two-thumbed padde-fingered hand.
- All five members of Superion were only available in the Takara Super Link line as part of a complete super-robot multi-pack, released in the sixteenth wave of toys.
- This mold was also used to make Fun Publications Transformers Collectors' Club-exclusive Cybertron Skyfall; the 2008 Universe toyline's Superion components Skydive and Fireflight, as well as the identical Target-exclusive Revenge of the Fallen Superion components Skydive and Fireflight
- Sky Shadow (Energon Class, 2004)
- Team ID number: A2
- Accessories: Energon shield/double-cannon, Autobot energon chip
- Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro), Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy), Marcelo Matere (packaging artist)
- The Hasbro release of Sky Shadow was sold on an individual card, in the sixth wave of Energon "Energon Class" (aka "Basic") toys, the first wave to feature the combiner components.
- Sky Shadow has several deco changes from Takara's Sling; most notably he uses metallic silver paint rather than the Takara version's matte gray, and his his clear-blue plastic is a lighter shade. Most Sky Shadows also have the gear-shaped "Powerlinx" symbol on the right-side wing, a detail Sling lacks... but the initial release of Sky Shadow lacks this tampograph, added in later waves. Whoops!
Notes
- Sky Shadow is the only member of the Air Team who wasn't re-released in rebranded Universe packaging for discount-chain sale.
- It has been suggested by fans that the name "Sky Shadow" would be better applied to his teammate Treadshot, whose coloration is much darker overall. Switching names would also give the nonsensical "Treadshot" meaning, as it would then be applied to an A-10, known colloquially as a "Tankbuster".
Foreign names
- Japanese: Sling (スリング Suringu)
