Jetfire (Animated)

Jetfire is a comrade from the Animated continuity family.

"Ready, Ronald?"
"Ready when you are, Professor Stein."

Jetfire and his twin brother Jetstorm are part of a risky Autobot Elite Guard experiment in duplicating the flight and combat abilities of the Decepticons. What the Autobots got were two incredibly rambunctious, cocky, and oddly naive robots with devastating combat power and acrobatic skill. Jetfire, true to his name, has the ability to create massive bursts of flame in both robot and jet modes. However, his accuracy and judgment as to when to use this power are questionable at best. Thankfully, he actually listens to Sentinel Prime's orders to throttle down once they get on his nerves (which is often).

The twins also have the ability to combine into a superjet, or into the robot Safeguard... modes that makes them even more physically powerful, but no less prone to acting without thinking.

Fiction

Animated cartoon

Voice actor: Tom Kenny (English), Laura Knapton (BotCon 2015), Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese), Igor Lott (Portuguese), Nancy Cortés (Latin American Spanish, season 3), Frédéric Popovic (French)

He probably thinks the "henbotway" joke is funny too.

Jetfire was a simple repair bot who, along with his brother Jetstorm, nearly died in an on-site accident. Viewed by the Elite Guard as completely expendable, Jetfire 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.

My goggles, they do nothing!

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, Jetfire and his brother were inducted into the Elite Guard. First (and Second) in Flight

Later, Jetfire, along with his brother, Jazz, and Sentinel Prime, were sent by Longarm Prime to chase after the supposed Decepticon spy Wasp. Pursuing their quarry to Earth, the twins soon found a Wasp-disguised Bumblebee, whom Wasp intended to frame by swapping paint jobs, helmets and voices, and Jetfire was able to make at least one fireball attack before 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 set of one-on-one battles 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. Where Is Thy Sting?

Later, Jetfire was asked by his brother to take a picture of him in front of the captured Blitzwing for the "Femme-bots back home". Sentinel Prime then asked them to work on their ship's "sub-space guidance gyro-stabilizer", but they could not get it to work, and they discovered the replacement part was missing. They later witnessed Sentinel give Prowl a telling-off for accusing him of working with someone else to capture fugitive Decepticons, which Sentinel denied. That night, Prowl followed Sentinel to the Tigatron Stadium, and Jazz brought Jetfire, Jetstorm, and Optimus Prime as backup. When Sentinel was captured by Ramjet, Jetfire & Jetstorm combined into Safeguard in order to help get their commander back from Decepticon clutches. Five Servos of Doom

Shortly afterward, Wasp went on a psycho-rampage through the city, so Jetfire, along with Jetstorm, Sentinel, Optimus Prime, and Bumblebee, went after him. During the pursuit, Jetfire and his brother tried unsuccessfully to prevent Wasp being abducted by Swoop. Sentinel then commanded them to launch an electromagnetic grapple, with which they hauled their commander all the way to Dinobot Island. Upon arriving (and dropping Sentinel head-first into the sand), Jetfire and Jetstorm were assigned to distract the Dinobots so Sentinel could gain entrance to Blackarachnia's base. While Jetstorm dealt with Grimlock and Snarl, Jetfire took on Swoop, engulfing the Dinobot in flames. When Waspinator was overloading with transwarp energy, Jetfire & Jetstorm helped get a weakened Sentinel Prime to safety. Later, Jetfire and his brother taunted Sentinel about his hatred of both Earth and organics, only to be ordered back aboard their ship. Predacons Rising

En route home, the Elite Guard flagship was about to head through a highly charged cloud of space debris, so Jetfire was commanded to watch the ship's energon readings to make sure the ship didn't run out of power. When the Decepticons managed to break into the bridge of the ship, Swindle easily managed to capture the twins in an energy bubble using a stasis-suspension ray. Thankfully, Optimus managed to transwarp onto the ship after getting an encrypted message from Sentinel, and he freed Jetfire and the rest of the Elite Guard from the stasis-cuffs the Decepticons had slapped on them. Later, after Lugnut managed to P.O.K.E. a hole in the ship, Jetfire & Jetstorm combined into Safeguard's jet-mode in order to combat the Decepticons in space. Once Blitzwing had managed to capture Sentinel, Optimus convinced both Jetfire and Jetstorm to surrender, assuring them that things would be okay. The Decepticons placed Jetfire and the others into the ship's decontamination chamber to be frozen. It turned out that Optimus had secretly commanded Jazz to rewire the chamber so everyone OUTside it was frozen. Thus the Decepticons were re-captured and Jetfire was spared an icy incarceration. Decepticon Air

When Ratchet and Fanzone were transwarped to Cybertron, Jetfire and the rest of the Elite Guard found them outside of Maccadam's Old Oil House. Then a Decepticon-controlled Omega Supreme appeared over Cybertron, and Sentinel ordered that Ratchet and Fanzone be brought back to the Metroplex, so Jetfire and his brother proceeded to apprehend Ratchet. When Ratchet threatened Sentinel for suggesting firing on Omega Supreme, Jetfire and Jetstorm were ordered to arrest both Ratchet and Fanzone, but Fanzone's sneeze scared them so badly that Ratchet was able to knock them aside. Jetfire and Jetstorm were then ordered to divert all energon to Fortress Maximus, in case Megatron attacked. When Shockwave got away with Arcee and boarded Omega Supreme, Jetfire and his brother were ordered to fire on the giant Autobot, but Omega Supreme transwarped away. Jetfire and Jetstorm later witnessed Sentinel get a telling-off from Alpha Trion and saw Ratchet and Fanzone commit "intergalactic grand theft" by taking the Magnus Hammer back to Earth with them. 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

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

The Cool comic

Heat! Trigger!

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

Jetfire then hooked back up with the rest of the Elite Guard and joined in their inquiry of Optimus Prime as to why he and his crew were still on Earth. The Cool Episode 5

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

Safeguard toy bio

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

Legends comic

Jetfire and Jetstorm 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

Toys

Animated

I am the god of Jetfire! And I bring you...

• 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 Jetstorm, Jetfire transforms into a sleek white and orange 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 "fire 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 Jetfire's robot mode forms the right 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 of them 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 Jetfire at TFU.info

• Jetfire (Deluxe, 2010)

• Takara ID number: TA-21
• Release date: June 19, 2010

Released by himself in the fourth wave of TakaraTomy's Animated toyline, this version of Jetfire has his chest and lower legs coated in metallic silver 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

• Both twins speak with a thick Eastern European accent.^[1]

CHEEKS!

• 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 homage to Hyōryū 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 and/or Russian 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 is supposed to split apart and wings are supposed to slide out of the shins, so that the combined mode resembles an X-wing fighter.^[2]
• Derrick J. Wyatt had no input over Jetfire's name, as the twins were largely the work of Eric Siebenaler; Wyatt only did a "once-over" of their aesthetics to match the rest of the series near the end of their development cycle. That's the reason why Animated Jetfire does not have a more "traditional" Jetfire design. As such, Wyatt said that if he ever did an homage to the original Jetfire's design, he would gladly call the character "Skyfire".
• Perceptor's dialogue in the "Rise of Safeguard" comic implies that Jetfire and Jetstorm were split from one protoform, possibly making Safeguard their true form. Such a theory is supported by Safeguard's being unnaturally intelligent for a combiner, and his possessing of his own alternate mode.
• In a conversation with one of his fans on a piece of fan art on his Deviantart page, Boo, who worked on the first half of the "Rise of Safeguard" comic, revealed that Jetfire and Jetstorm's original vehicle modes were similar to ATVs instead of cycles or other types of vehicles. He also said this was due to their working in the industrial sector. ^[3]
• Unnamed robots based off Jetfire and Jetstorm make cameos as generic Devisiens in Windblade vol. 2 #6.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Jetfire (ジェットファイアー Jettofaiā)

References

1. ↑ "Russian."—Derrick J. Wyatt, Twitter, 2009/06/17
2. ↑ Derrick Wyatt blog post (read comments below)
3. ↑ Jetfire Jetstorm art on The Boo's Deviantart