Skyhammer (G1)

Skyhammer is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

"Uh, guys? You're crowding me a bit here..."

Skyhammer is the very model of the ideal Autobot warrior. He's a courageous defender of the weak, a tenacious and clever warrior, and an unflappable optimist. It's too bad he's also an inconsiderate, overbearing jerk. He can't offer advice to anyone without delivering a long lecture in the most condescending tone possible—using himself, of course, as an example to strive towards. He's so grating and unpleasant that his fellow Autobots are reluctant to follow his orders—even when he's right, which he usually is.

Fiction

Transformers Comic-Magazin

Skyhammer saw action during the arrival of a bizarre, unexplained, cross-time/space portal. He attempted to secure it from the Decepticons but found himself mobbed by the Air Strike Patrol, and was sent flying back a million years in time to the Andromeda Nebula! The Transformers' Grand Hour: Headmaster of the Dimensions

Shockingly, when he resurfaced, he was reported to be a Decepticon Ultra Pretender! What happened in the intervening million years? Transformers in Action: "By their Blasters you shall know them ...!"

Classics

That's right, I'm referred to as "Skyhammer's pilot" in this story. Thanks a lot!

In 2012, Skyhammer was stationed with several other Pretenders in Japan within... himself under the leadership of Metalhawk. He was present one day when Rad reported from the Ironworks base in Oregon about a foiled attack by Gigatron and his Decepticons. Soon thereafter, due to the actions of an evil Ultra Magnus from another dimension, a rift of space time opened over Earth, causing catastrophes worldwide. Skyhammer assisted his peers in evacuating a city block by beaming up hundreds of humans inside himself. Invasion

Shortly after their Earth survived the catastrophe by transporting into the negative polarity universe, it also started to come alive. Calling itself "Gaea", the Earth mysteriously transported the entire human population to another Earth in another universe. For reasons unknown, Skyhammer and his Pretender companions were displaced with them. The Future Buried...

Skyhammer and his allies set out to uncover the mysteries of their new Earth; while all the cities and animals on this planet were the same as their old one, no humans appeared to have called this world home prior to their arrival. Skyhammer was stationed in Germany to seek out leads there. Assembly

Regeneration One

Twenty-odd years after the end of hostilities between the Autobots and the Decepticons, Skyhammer fell victim to Scorponok's Gene Key. Natural Selection, Part Three

Skyhammer later joined Blades, Dogfight, Doubleheader, Cloudraker, Crossblades, Jetfire, and the Aerialbots in taking to the sky and opening fire on the Warworld when the Decepticons attacked. Destiny, Part Four Destiny, Part Five

Commercial appearances

DEATH FROM ABOVE!

Above the rocky plains of an unknown battlefield, Skyhammer pursued the ruffian Roadblock. Flying above in his outer Pretender shell, he strafed the Decepticon, who emerged from his own outer shell and returned fire. Mega and Ultra Pretenders commercial

Games

Transformers Legends

Skyhammer was assigned to Pipes's team, guarding some researchers at a coastal town when they were attacked by Overbite and Nautilator. The B-Team Part Deux

Toys

The Transformers

These feet were so not built for walkin'.

• Skyhammer (Ultra Pretender, 1989)

• Accessories: wing laser, 2 missiles
• Known designers: Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

As an Ultra Pretender, The Transformers Skyhammer's toy includes a transforming inner robot, a transforming humanoid inner shell, and a non-transforming "flying fortress" outer shell. The inner robot transforms into a Cybertronic car. Like most Pretender robots, it is fairly simplistic. The car's top-mounted gun becomes the robot's hand-held weapon. The humanoid inner shell transforms to a hoverjet/landspeeder. In human mode, the shell can enclose the inner robot; in vehicle form, the robot can sit in its open cockpit to act as a pilot. In human form, the shell has a flip-down visor. Both robot and inner shell fit inside the second shell, a large Cybertronic flying fortress. The inner robot can man the turret emplacement on the dorsal area of the flying fortress, while the large double cannons on the bow can pivot in a wide arc.

Catalogs showed Skyhammer as being colored blue-and-red instead of gold-and-red. This presumed change between prototype and actual toy has led to Skyhammer being known to suffer badly from Gold Plastic Syndrome—the inner robot body and feet, inner shell feet and guns, and the entire bottom half of the outer shell are all susceptible.

Amusingly, Skyhammer is lying on his back when he is stored in his humanoid shell, and the shell is also lying on its back when it is stored inside the flying fortress shell.

No version of this mold or character was released in Japan.

• More information on Skyhammer at TFU.info

Notes

Foreign names

• French: Enclume (France, "Anvil"), Aérochoc (Canada, "Aerial Impact")