Blackjack (Transformers)

Blackjack is the name of a fictional character in the various Transformers universes.

Transformers: Generation 1

Transformers character
name =Blackjack


caption =
affiliation =Decepticon
subgroup =Micromaster
Sports Car Patrol
function =Advance Assault
partner =Detour, Hyperdrive and Road Hugger
motto ="The road to victory is paved with Autobot wrecks!"
alternatemodes =Car
series =
voiceby =Blackjack is a Micromaster Decepticon car. [ [http://www.seibertron.com/database/character.php?view=&char_id=290 Blackjack (Decepticon Micromaster Sports Car Patrol, Transformers G1) ] ] He is devious and brave, more a schemer than a combatant. He has a top speed of 400mph.

Marvel Comics

Blackjack first appeared in the Marvel Transformers issue #56 where Megatron sent the Sports Car Patrol to trick the Autobot medic Ratchet into following them and being captured for Megatron plot to bring back Starscream as a Pretender.

Blackjack last appeared in issue #59, where he was sent to put an explosive on board the Ark, but he was captured by Blurr, Kup and Getaway.

Dreamwave Productions

Blackjack appeared in issue #2 of the "Micromasters" limited series as well as getting a full page biography in the "More Than Meets The Eye" series.

IDW Publishing

Blackjack appeared in the Transformers: Spotlight #2, which starred the Autobot Nightbeat. The story focuses on Nightbeat's investigation of the first Ark thousands of years before. This leads him to a trader offering to sell him the original flight recorder from the Ark. The trader's subsequent murder leads Nightbeat to a gigantic metallic underground sea, where he is ambushed by an unfamiliar group of Transformers (The Micromaster Sports Car Patrol) and captured. A shadowy figure (implied to be Galvatron) oversees the implantation of a device in his brain, and then wipes his mind.

Blackjack was among the Micromasters who appeared in "Spotlight: Hardhead" who attacked Nightbeat and Hardhead on the planet Gorlam Prime.

Toys

*Generation 1 Blackjack (1989):A Micromaster. He was redecoed into the Takara exclusive Autobot Micromaster Black Heat.

*Transformers 3D Battle-Card Game Blackjack (2007):Produced by Wizards of the Coast, wave 2 of their Transformers 3D Battle-Card Game included a Blackjack card, who was a redeco of Classic Bumblebee from wave 2.

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