Jetstorm (Animated)

Jetstorm is a comrade from the Transformers Animated continuity family.

Still got the air superiority complex?

Jetstorm and his twin brother Jetfire are part of a risky Autobot Elite Guard experiment in duplicating the flight and combat abilities of the Decepticons. While the experiment gave them incredible new powers, it did absolutely nothing to blunt their hyperactive, act-without-thinking natures. Jetstorm is capable of attacking with incredible bursts of wind in both robot and jet modes, creating focused cyclones with devastating force (if somewhat questionable accuracy). Luckily, he's one of the few bots who actually listens to Sentinel Prime, and stops his attack once his commander barks out his order to do so... though usually by that time, the damage has already been done.

The twins also have the ability to combine into a superjet and the powerful robot Safeguard. Both modes greatly enhance their combat effectiveness... but not their wits, unfortunately.

Fiction

Animated cartoon continuity

Voice actor: Phil LaMarr (English), Laura Hale (BotCon 2015), Wataru Takagi (Japanese), Silas Borges (Portuguese), Nancy Cortés (Latin American Spanish, season 3), Vincent Violette (French)

He's just mad because he didn't think of the joke first.

Jetstorm was a simple repair bot who, along with his brother Jetfire, nearly died in an on-site accident. Viewed by the Elite Guard as completely expendable, Jetstorm and his brother were chosen to have Decepticon coding (acquired from Starscream during his time in custody) grafted onto their Autobot shells in hopes that the pair would gain the Decepticons' flight abilities. Wheeljack, Perceptor and Red Alert did the necessary calculations and programming needed. After this, the pair's combat abilities were tested against Jazz, whom they easily defeated.

"Boot" is a sound effect?

To try their combat skills against a Decepticon, Starscream's programming was scanned into a combat simulator. However, Starscream's programming overpowered the training system, and the battle became real. Starscream's strength and cunning were more than they expected; Jetfire briefly lost control of his flame throwers and began to burn up, only to be saved when Jetstorm's wind turbines put out the flames. With newfound determination, the two combined into Safeguard for the first time and destroyed the virtual Decepticon. After this performance, Jetstorm and his brother were inducted into the Elite Guard. First (and Second) in Flight

Later, Jetstorm, along with his brother, Jazz, and Sentinel Prime, were sent by Longarm Prime to chase after the supposed Decepticon spy Wasp. The twins soon found a Wasp-disguised Bumblebee, whom Wasp intended to frame by swapping paint jobs, helmets and voices, but Jetstorm accidentally (and literally) blew Bumblebee away. They then were confronted by Optimus Prime and Ratchet, who mistook them for Decepticons due to their ability to fly. After a one-on-one battle with Optimus & Ratchet (with Jetstorm facing Optimus and Jetfire facing Ratchet, respectively), the two combined into Safeguard to try and gain the upper hand, only to have the brawl end when Sentinel and Jazz arrived and cleared up the misunderstanding. Then, under Sentinel's orders, the twins set out to find Wasp once more.

They later found him with Bulkhead and Prowl, who tried to convince them that Wasp had swapped places with Bumblebee, but to no avail. The twins assumed all three to be traitors and attacked them. The long battle was once again broken up by the others, who had become at least partly convinced of Bumblebee's true identity. The group quickly headed back to the Autobots' base to try and sort out the matter. During the fighting, however, Wasp had hacked into the Autobots' files on Bumblebee, allowing Wasp to know everything about him. Bulkhead decided to settle it with a game of Ninja Gladiator to determine the real Bumblebee. Jetfire and Jetstorm were so delighted by the concept of video games that they both shouted that they would play the winner. This would not happen, as Wasp revealed his true identity under the pressure. He swapped the paint jobs back and was able to escape. Where Is Thy Sting?

Say cheeeeeese!

Later on, they were just as out of the loop as Jazz and Optimus when Sentinel was tracking down Decepticons, although they were considerably less cynical about the captures than the others. They did however combine to fight Ramjet when Sentinel's stupid ego-trip backfired on him. Five Servos of Doom

Jetstorm, along with Jetfire, later proceeded to assist Sentinel Prime, Optimus Prime, and Bumblebee in capturing Wasp, and when Wasp escaped, and was captured, Jetstorm, along with Jetfire, was tasked with carrying Sentinel all the way to Dinobot Island. Once on Dinobot Island, Jetstorm and Jetfire were assigned with the task of diverting the Dinobots away from the entrance to Blackarachnia's lab. Jetstorm proceeded to distract Grimlock and Snarl, while Jetfire handled Swoop. Just after they had defeated the Dinobots, Waspinator and Blackarachnia suddenly emerged from the lab, and they (Jetfire & Jetstorm) helped Sentinel get to a safe distance, before Waspinator blew up. Predacons Rising

While on the return trip to Cybertron, Sentinel decided to take the ship through a storm cloud, with Jetstorm ordered to "Maintain this heading". Unfortunately though, the electricity from the storm awakened Swindle, who, in turn, freed the rest of the captive Decepticons. Jetstorm and Jetfire eventually ended up contained in a bubble from Swindle's "Stasis-Suspension Ray", and left in a prison-cell on the Steelhaven to rot. However, Sentinel sent out a message to Optimus Prime for back-up, who managed to transwarp to the ship, and free all of the Autobots. Just then Lugnut managed to P.O.K.E a hole in the ship, causing everyone (except Jazz) to be sucked into space. Jetstorm and Jetfire then proceeded to combine into Safeguard's jet mode, and take on Lugnut. After Sentinel was captured by Blitzwing, they, along with Optimus Prime, surrendered. They were put into the decontamination chamber (which Optimus ordered Jazz to turn into a freezing unit), and as the Decepticons were about to freeze them, it was revealed that Jazz had set it so that anything outside the chamber would be frozen, and in this case, that was the Decepticons. The Elite Guard then proceeded to drop Optimus off on Earth, and Jetstorm and Jetfire witnessed Sentinel's Magnus inauguration parade. Decepticon Air

Jetstorm was later present when Sentinel Prime attempted to scold Ratchet and Captain Fanzone for seemingly breaking Cybertronian curfew (Man, Sentinel's strict) and using a Space Bridge. He then, along with Jetfire, assisted in bringing Ratchet back to the Metroplex. Jetstorm was later ordered to divert all energon to Fortress Maximus, to be used as a weapon against the Decepticon-controlled Omega Supreme. They did actually fire the weapon after Shockwave boarded the vessel with his hostage, Arcee, but the giant Autobot transwarped away. This Is Why I Hate Machines

Inside Fortress Maximus, Jetfire and Jetstorm looked on in consternation as Kremzeek attempted to turn the main guns on Iacon. Fortunately, Sari Sumdac and Arcee arrived just in time to capture the creature. The Return of Blurr

Jetstorm and Jetfire were in the audience for the Stunt Convoy's show, high-fiving each other in excitement. The Stunti-Con Job

Regeneration One

In Zero Space, as the Dark Matrix creature tortured Circuit Smasher with visions of his dead father, cracks began to appear in the membrane of infinite worlds. Through one, Jetstorm could be seen alongside Leobreaker, Gas Skunk, Blackarachnia and Starscream. The War to End All Wars, Part 5

Legends comic

Jetstorm and Jetfire attempted to apprehend Slipstream in the form of Safeguard, but were blasted apart by the Decepticon as she fled to the Legends World. Bonus Edition Vol. 16

The Cool comic

Saa, omae no tsumi o kazoero!

Together with Jetfire, Jetstorm pursued the Decepticon Blackout all the way to the Earth city of Detroit. Enthusiastic (and posing very, er, effeminately), Jetstorm proceeded to attack Blackout in robot-mode, amused that the hulking brute was too big to fight back against such small, quick opponents. Jetstorm then combined with Jetfire into Safeguard and proceeded to fight Blackout bruiser-to-bruiser. The Cool Episode 4

Jetstorm later hooked back up with the rest of the Elite Guard and joined in their inquiry as to why Optimus Prime and his crew had yet to return to Cybertron. The Cool Episode 5

Back on Cybertron, Jetstorm and his brother joined Sentinel and a throng of Autobots in welcoming the victorious Optimus Prime and his crew home. The Cool Episode Final

Toy bio

Jetfire and Jetstorm were clones created by the Autobots from techniques learned from Starscream. Safeguard toy bio

Toys

Animated

Not to be confused with JetBlue...or Blue Jet.

• Jetstorm and Jetfire (Entertainment Pack, 2008)

• Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro), Shogo Hasui (TakaraTomy)

Available in the Hasbro Transformers Animated line only in a two-piece "Entertainment Pack" with his brother Jetfire, Jetstorm transforms into a sleek blue Cybertronian jet. In jet mode, he features an opening cockpit, which is pretty useless, but a nice little touch nonetheless. In robot mode, his forearms and boots feature pop-out clear-plastic "wind blades".

He can combine with his brother in both modes; in vehicle mode, they form an odd super-jet simply by docking together along their undercarriages (yes, yes, har har, very droll), while Jetstorm's robot mode forms the left half of the super robot Safeguard.

In a clever touch, both feet are sculpted on the back to look like fists (to make the toy more symmetrical), but only one leg actually can become an arm.

The set comes with a bonus comic book, "Rise of Safeguard", which details the creation of the twins. For some reason, the comic included in the box contradicts their bio printed on the box.

• More information on Jetstorm at TFU.info

• Jetstorm (Deluxe, 2010)

• ID number: TA-22
• Release date: June 19, 2010

Released by himself in the fourth wave of TakaraTomy's Animated toyline, this version of Jetstorm has his chest and lower legs coated in metallic blue paint. On top of that, both the real and "fake" combined-mode fists are now painted metallic silver.

• Safeguard (2-pack, 2010)

• Release date: June 19, 2010

Aside from their individual releases, Jetstorm and Jetfire were also available in a two-pack. Both toys are identical to their individual releases.

Notes

I'd love to listen to some Cybertron, Wind and Fire right about now...

• Both twins speak with a pronounced Eastern European accent.^[1]
• Jetstorm's design contains numerous homages to the Beast Machines Vehicon General Jetstorm, particularly his helmet.
• Jetfire and Jetstorm's fire/wind theme has its roots in some of the earliest concepts of Animated. Sean Galloway, who had been commissioned to do early concept work for the series, revealed several pieces of this concept art long before the "final" Derrick Wyatt-designed characters were shown. Among these images were a pair of "fire and wind" robots who have a few features that made it into the jet-twins' final designs.
• The twins' method of combination is seemingly an intentional homage to Hyoryū and Enryū/Chōryūjin from the final installment of Takara's Brave series, King of Braves GaoGaiGar.
• The twins' characterization in the series was inspired by Eastern European circus acrobats. Marty Isenberg described them to Hasbro as a cross between Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd's "Two Wild and Crazy Guys" and the Hanson Brothers from Slap Shot.
• In the early stages of the toy's development, the end of the twins' combined vehicle mode was supposed to split apart and wings were supposed to slide out of the shins, so that the combined mode resembled an X-wing fighter.^[2] This does not appear in the released instructions.
• Perceptor's dialogue in the "Rise of Safeguard" comic implies that the twins were split from one protoform, possibly indicating that Safeguard is their true form.
• Jetfire and Jetstorm's original vehicle modes were designed as similar to ATVs instead of cyclebots or other types of vehicles, stated to be due to their working in the industrial sector.^[3]
• Unnamed robots based off Jetfire and Jetstorm make cameos as generic Devisiens in issue #6 of Windblade Volume 2.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Jetstorm (ジェットストーム Jettosutōmu)

References