Jetfire

Bio

Animated series

On the planet of Cybertron long before the war, Skyfire, he was called Skyfire because of Legal Reasons involving Macross, anyway, he was a scientist and an explorer working with the Decepticon, Starscream. Together they investigated our planet, this of course being before other bots would land on the planet., where to their dismay, they failed to find any kind of intelligent life. Skyfire wished to scrutinize the planet further to further continue his research, and moving in close enough to the planet a polar wind storm swept him up and buried him beneath the arctic ice near the pole. Starscream claimed to have searched for him, but would return to Cybertron alone. Many years later he would be revived by Megatron and Starscream, to join the ranks of his fellow Decepticons. The Autobots would later arrive Skyfire engaged in battle against them, but when two humans were endangered, Skyfire would spring to save them from harm. He would take the two to Megatron, not realizing what Megatron would do. Megatron then took them as prisoners, Skyfire questioned his allegiance, and after refusing to destroy an Autobot search party, Starscream attacked him. Thus, Skyfire changed his allegiance. Throughout the rest of the series, Skyfire would be a valued Autobot, though he didn’t appear often, and the other Autobots would not trust him, considering his past.

Dreamwave Productions

In Dreamwave's 21st century reimagining of the Generation 1 universe, Jetfire is presented as Starscream‘s friend before the war. Jetfire was slow to pick a side when the war broke out, but fortunately for the Autobots, he eventually sided with them. Despite the fact that he even remained with the Autobots when Optimus Prime and Megatron vanished in an early space bridge experiment and the factions splintered into smaller sub-groups, his prior hesitance and prior friendship with Starscream caused other Autobots weary of him, and this lead to mistrust . A fierce grudge was redeveloped by the other Autobot, Dinobot Grimlock against him for an unspecified incident involving a mind-controlling cerebro-shell, and was perfectly ready to believe that he had betrayed the Autobots when he arranged a meeting with current Decepticon leader Shockwave. Jetfire was among the Transformers kidnapped by the ancient Cybertronian called the Fallen, who planned to use the genetic potential in his spark to awaken Primus, but he was freed by Grimlock, putting the grudge to rest as the two would work together.

Prime and Megatron subsequently returned to Cybertron, but when they and their elite crews were lost aboard the Ark, Jetfire was part of a mission to find them, along with Omega Supreme and the Micromasters Countdown and Groundshaker. When a lead emerged in the form of a beacon from the Sol system was detected, Jetfire and Omega split off from the team (who went on to investigate Decepticon attacks on other planets) and headed off after the signal. The duo entered stasis for the lengthly trip, with Jetfire eventually awakening millions of years later as their craft approached Earth(similar to G1). Before Jetfire could bring Omega back on-line, however, their ship was attacked by Scourge and crashed in the Arctic, where shrapnel from a ship would kill a pod of whales sadly. Jetfire ejected from the ship before impact and managed to seal Scourge in a stasis pod, but an avalanche buried both of them in ice(again similar to G1).

At an ill-defined point in time, the Decepticons discovered Jetfire and would bring him back to a base. Upon returning from a trip to Cybertron with fresh plans of conquest, Starscream thawed Jetfire out to aid in repelling the maniacal Sunstorm, a clone of himself that Shockwave had created, who had gone insane from an overdose of energy. Deducing Sunstorm's clone nature, Jetfire designed a power siphon to de-energize him, and then reactivated Omega Supreme to battle him. To save his own skin from Autobot retribution, however, Starscream had a change of heart and saved Sunstorm, who led him to a mysterious underground energy reservoir that Starscream would receive similar powers from Sunstorm. Yet another double-cross, which is very characteristic of Starscream, saw Sunstorm immersed in the liquid , and it began to destroy him from within as Jetfire battled him, he chose to lead him into space as a last resort where Sunstorm exploded.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Film (2009)

Jetfire as he appears in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen