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The Deadly Fuel Shortage Later, Thundercracker was one of the many Decepticons who defended the Decepticons' stronghold when an Autobot convoy mobilized against them. He and the rest of the Decepticons were defeated when the Autobots managed to turn the Decepticons' own Molecular transfer device against them. Summertime Coloring Book. When the Decepticons duped the Autobots into abandoning their base with a phoney message from Cybertron, they were themselves then tricked when the Autobots created a fake message of their own.

Fleeing the captured Autobot base under the mistaken belief it was about to be attacked by Martians, Thundercracker and Starscream once again wound up in the vise-like grip of Huffer. A Message From Outer Space In another case of history repeating itself, Thundercracker was once again ordered by Megatron to patrol every inch of the Earth in order to search for the ideal location for a Decepticon factory.

Then Megatron claimed the forest they were already in would be the ideal location for said factory, and Thundercracker didn't go anywhere.

Thundercracker helped Megatron tear the place up, until the Autobots arrived, and the Decepticons were forced to flee after a brief battle.

Forest Rescue Mission. Thundercracker asked Soundwave, Ravage and Rumble to join him in a plot that would put an end to the Autobots once and for all.

He led his fellow Decepticons to a scrap yard, where he showed them a car compactor. The four of them then built a fake rest stop which concealed the car compactor beneath its benign exterior. They managed to trap and crush Gears, only for Mirage, Ratchet and Sideswipe to show up instantly afterwards. Thundercracker's circuits were jammed in mid-air by Mirage, sending him plummeting down.

The Autobot Smasher! This character article is a stub and is missing information on their fictional appearances. You can help Transformers Wiki by expanding it. Thundercracker was part of the ambush party that boarded the Ark during the Cretaceous period, which led to Optimus Prime crashing his ship in a volcano and shutting everyone on board offline. The Decepticons then raided a nearby nuclear power to gain the additional power necessary to destroy the Autobots.

The Decepticons and the Autobots battled afterwards, but with the Decepticons running low on fuel once more, the evil robots were forced to retreat. Battle for Cybertron. During the final heat of the race, Thundercracker attacked Cliffjumper just as the Autobot was leaving the starting line. Thundercracker planed to blow Cliffjumper to bits, but he did not expect Hound to jump in the way of his projectiles. Thundercracker did not stick around after his botched attempt on the race.

The Great Car Rally. The morning after a fierce battle against the Autobots, as both sides were in the process of recovering, Thundercracker and his fellow Decepticon suddenly appeared in the skies over the Autobots' headquarters. Their mission was to draw the Autobots' attentions in order to prevent them from learning about an attempt by Blitzwing to steal oil nearby, but Optimus Prime realized that he and the Autobots were being distracted when he noticed the Decepticons didn't have the energy to fire their own weapons.

Decepticon Hijack. Thundercracker was present when Megatron threatened his troops into coming up with a battle plan for him. Insecticon Attack! Under Starscream 's leadership, Thundercracker and Skywarp attacked a solar plant. After Starscream was hit by Optimus, Thundercracker asked if he was still functional. The trio retreated after Megatron furiously ordered them to withdraw lest they damage the solar reactor.

They rendezvoused with the rest of Megatron's forces a mile away, and Thundercracker admitted they had been wrong to follow Starscream's orders. Megatron let him and Skywarp take part in the subsequent attack on the solar plant.

Sun Raid Listen 'n Fun. In one possible scenario, where Megatron and his troops had tracked down Sparkplug to a cave in the mountains, Thundercracker was amongst the Decepticons present, ready to pounce on the human. Then a small squadron of Autobots arrived to rescue Sparkplug. In the event that Megatron was destroyed by Swoop, Thundercracker, along with the rest of the Decepticons, were easily defeated by the Autobots.

In the event that Swoop retreated, Thundercracker was amongst the Decepticons who remained at the cave instead of pursuing the Dinobot. Thundercracker stood next to Megatron in a military formation, along with Buzzsaw, Ransack, Shockwave, Frenzy and Skywarp, while Megatron delivered his sanction to the Autobots in the cave; "Prepare to die!

The battle that ensued lasted for two full days before the Decepticons were ready to move in for the kill. In the event that Swoop returned in time with reinforcements, Thundercracker and the rest of the Decepticons were forced to retreat. In another possible scenario, Thundercracker was likely part of a large Decepticon army that Megatron led once the Autobots had been lured out in the open farmland. Thundercracker didn't perform any feats of note in the ensuing battle, save for being blasted out of the sky Optimus in a scenario where the Autobot leader and Jazz made for a mad dash towards a bridge for cover.

In this scenario, the Autobots were victorious. Battle Drive. When Starscream learned that the Autobots had in their possession an energy device called the Sun-Pak, he planned to steal the device for himself, and gathered a posse of Decepticons to accomplish this task, with Thundercracker among the chosen.

If Starscream's plan lead to the Autobots concentrating their fire upon him, causing the Decepticon jet to beg for mercy, Thundercracker would react differently depending on the Optimus Prime's retort. If the Autobots accepted Starscream's surrender, Thundercracker would decry Starscream as a coward and terminate his superior officer himself.

He would nonetheless thereafter acknowledge Starscream's surrender, and leave the Autobots to their own devices. If the Autobots ignored Starscream's surrender, Thundercracker would prove to be Starscream's salvation instead, as one of his sonic booms would provide Starscream the opening he needed to kidnap Sparkplug and then hastily retreat.

Attack of the Insecticons. Thundercracker acted as an advance scout for the Decepticons. In the event that Megatron's plot to destroy Center City with an artificial earthquake was successful, Thundercracker was sent ahead to make sure there were no survivors at ground zero.

Thundercracker was part of a Decepticon deployment stationed in a desert base. The Decepticons plotted to lure the Autobots in a trap through the use of an anti-gravity beam. If the Autobots bypassed the anti-gravity field, Thundercracker was part of the squad that intercepted the Autobot convoy headed for the Decepticon base.

Desert Flight. In a possible scenario, Thundercracker was one of the many Decepticons present at the water supply facility, about to poison it when the Autobots arrived on-scene. In one possible scenario that followed, he was shot down by the Autobots, creating his own grave in the charred earth bellow.

Decepticon Poison. In one possible scenario, Thundercracker was one of the Decepticons who was to keep a crowd of humans cornered while Galvatron used a " Brain Drain device " to drain their intelligence. As the Decepticons arrived at the open-air concert they had targeted, Thundercracker was caught off-guard by a small group of Autobots. A blast caught his wing, ripping it off and sending him tumbling to the ground. Project Brain Drain. The mysterious Machine Wars were a tumultuous time for Thundercracker.

At long last he was convinced of and committed to the truth of the Decepticon cause, but Thundercracker now ironically found himself in open rebellion against Megatron's leadership of the faction. It is unknown what events led to his reversal of heart about the Decepticons and his being branded a "Rebel Warrior. During the Quintesson invasion of Cybertron less than three months after the Great Transformation , a team of Sharkticons led by Overseer Rexian came upon a non-reformatted section of Cybertron.

There, they found themselves surrounded by a group of eight fully-mechanical Cybertronians, who alleged that they were Decepticon prisoners freed by the upheaval to their homeworld. With their sparks now in random bodies and their former identities thus unclear, one claimed that he was really Thundercracker—something that the others angrily contested, each claiming that they were really Thundercracker.

The group agreed that the one who was able to smash the most Sharkticons must have been the real Thundercracker, and they set about tearing Rexian's forces apart. Wreckers: Finale Part II. Thundercracker was one of the first Decepticons recruited by Megatron, part of his "inner circle" with standing high enough that he was among those who stood at the Decepticon leader's side as he delivered speeches to his burgeoning army in the early days of war.

The Route of All Evil. Some time into the war, on the eve of the appointment of the Autobots' new Prime , Thundercracker and Skywarp were charged with massacring a building's worth of pesky neutrals in Altihex. The War Within 1 Some time later, he was sent to destroy an Autobot base in Sector Zero-Six alongside Skywarp and Starscream , but on the way Starscream leaked the plan to Grimlock in an attempt to bait him into joining the Decepticons. It didn't exactly work out like that: when the Seekers arrived, Grimlock had evacuated the base and planted a bomb to greet them.

The War Within Preview Once Skywarp was done berating Starscream for being an idiot, he and Thundercracker returned to base without him. The War Within 3. When Megatron and Optimus Prime were granted a vision of the future by the Matrix of Leadership , Thundercracker was among the Transformers they saw battling on Earth.

The War Within 5 In the years that followed this vision, the two leaders disappeared, heralding the beginning of the Dark Ages. During this time Thundercracker served under Shockwave , and was one of the troops sent to the Well of All Sparks to put a stop to The Fallen 's plans. Thundercracker was one of several Decepticon invaders who attacked the Ark when it left Cybertron to search for energon on other planets, and wound up entombed within the vessel for four million years when it crashed on Earth.

More than Meets the Eye 8 He was reactivated in with the rest of the Transformers, and fought at Megatron's side until the Decepticons were ultimately defeated in Thundercracker and the other Decepticons were loaded aboard the spacecraft Ark II with the intent that they be returned to Cybertron, but the vessel had been sabotaged and exploded mid-flight. Scheming arms dealer Adam "Lazarus" Rook , recovered the bodies of Thundercracker and the other Decepticons, and spent the next several years reprogramming them in order to sell them to foreign powers.

Prime Directive 5. In , in a demonstration of the Transformers' power for a group of prospective clients, Lazarus had Thundercracker participate in an attack on the Arctic division of the Smitco Oil Refinery. Prime Directive 2 Everything went wrong for Lazarus soon after, however, when Megatron succeeded in breaking free of his control, then liberated his Decepticon subordinates.

Megatron began a plan to cyberform the Earth with a metallic virus, and to pass the time during the preparations, Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp busied themselves by tearing apart the Autobot Mini Vehicle team. Prime Directive 3 Once the virus was deployed, the Decepticons launched an attack on San Francisco in which Thundercracker took part, joining his fellow fliers in a bombing run on the Autobot giant Superion , forcing the combiner to split into his component Aerialbots.

Prime Directive 4 The Decepticons triumphed over the Autobots, and Thundercracker stood watch over their defeated foes while Megatron tried to persuade Optimus Prime to help the Decepticons conquer Earth. Prime Directive 5 Ultimately, though, the Decepticons' plans were foiled thanks to human interference, and the sacrifice of Superion. Prime Directive 6. When the Decepticons were left leaderless after Megatron was abducted by the mysterious aliens known as the Keepers , Thundercracker, oddly enough, turned to weapons smuggling, working with Mexican arms dealers south of the border.

He was moored at Atahulpa Aeropuerto de Mesa Verde , getting his cargo hold loaded with guns, when Prowl and Bumblebee sieged the tiny airport. As his human allies scattered, Thundercracker transformed and engaged the Autobots with his drone missile launchers.

One of the guided projectiles nearly blasted Prowl in the back, but Bumblebee knocked it off course The resulting explosion was catastrophic, and threw the Autobots for a loop.

Thundercracker was prepared to finish off Prowl when the renegade Dinobot Grimlock arrived on the scene. Fresh for battle, Grimlock easily defeated Thundercracker, battering him from head to toe before knocking him into the airport terminal. Recovering from his injuries, Thundercracker joined up with Starscream and his forces in Las Vegas renamed "New Centurion" by Starscream following his takeover of the city.

He got another chance at Prowl and Bumblebee while fighting on the Strip, but the Autobots were better prepared this time and Thundercracker was brought down by Prowl's wire-guided missiles and crashed in front of Caesar's Palace. He revived in time to join Soundwave in double-teaming Grimlock, who had also come in the assault on Las Vegas. Unfortunately, Thundercracker once again fell before the Dinobot's superior might after only a few blows.

He stayed under Starscream's command after Megatron returned, remaining in Las Vegas while the former Decepticon leader and those loyal to him quit the city. This only led to Thundercracker being captured with the rest of Starscream's Decepticons when their leader was killed by the Keepers and reanimated as a host body for their awesome power. Thundercracker, Skywarp and the others were trapped beneath a massive energy field, like mice in a cage to the god-like aliens.

The Constructicons eventually dug a tunnel to freedom, and Thundercracker's group of Decepticons reunited with Megatron, working with the Autobots against the Keepers.

Thundercracker joined Laserbeak and the Autobot Wheeljack on air patrol during the fight with the Keepers, strafing the aliens and their puppets, Bluestreak and Starscream. He survived the battle with the Keepers not to mention the nuclear missile launched by the American government thanks to Optimus Prime super-charging the Matrix with a pool of newly discovered energon. Thundercracker began working for Megatron again, and was present in the Nevada desert when the Autobots and Decepticons confronted the United States military.

Thanks to their airborne tactics, Thundercracker and Skywarp did significant injury to the troops and survived the deconstructionite assault virtually unscathed. When the Decepticons clashed with the Autobots over a crashed Autobot vessel discovered in the Arctic, Thundercracker took a beating from Mirage.

This battle was soon interrupted by the arrival of Shockwave and his army of Triple Changers , who had come from Cybertron to bring the planet's errant sons home. He quickly disposed of Megatron and demanded that Thundercracker and the others submit to him. New World Order The Decepticons somewhat begrudgingly assented to return to Cybertron, but upon arrival Thundercracker and Skywarp were amazed at what Shockwave had accomplished in their absence.

While relaxing in an energon bath, they debated how to proceed; Thundercracker believed it would not be long before Shockwave demanded they pledge themselves to his cause, but Skywarp didn't care much, advocating they do what they always did and pick the side with the biggest guns. Brothers' Burden Their tune soon changed, however, when Shockwave's dark schemes were uncovered by Optimus Prime; the two Seekers tried to shut the blast door to the command centre before the Autobot leader could make it through, but they failed, and Prime forced Shockwave's location from them.

Countdown to Extinction Thundercracker and Skywarp then both played possum to avoid fighting further. Starscream passed them on his way to the shuttle bay, intending to escape the planet and return to Earth, and he ordered Thundercracker and Skywarp to accompany him. They complied, and helped him load up the inactive Combaticons aboard a shuttle they hijacked. Back on Earth, the Decepticons made it back to the Nemesis and set about scavenging parts to restore the ship to working order.

Black Sunshine To this end, they attacked the Ark. Thundercracker was part of Starscream's initial salvo against the Autobot base, a decoy to be deliberately taken prisoner in order to draw out the remaining Autobots where the newly reformatted Combaticons could get at them.

Night of the Combaticons After decimating the Autobots' ranks, Bruticus freed the fallen Decepticons, and they were about ready to terminate their opponents when the awe-inspiring clone known as Sunstorm emerged from fold-space, looking to have words with Starscream. Sunstorm's "purifying light" induced an energon overload in the Decepticons' systems, knocking them into stasis lock. Black Sunshine Skywarp and the others remained Autobot prisoners until Starscream negotiated a deal for their release in exchange for his aid against Sunstorm.

They were only given half-power, though, and had to stumble out of the Autobot camp in an extremely weakened condition. Thundercracker was one of the many Transformers found dormant aboard the Ark by Cobra , who reprogrammed the alien robots to serve them. After rebuilding Thundercracker and Skywarp into Rattler planes, Cobra sent them to attack a peace ceremony at Washington, D. Joe vs. Eventually, the Decepticons were freed from Cobra's control, and Thundercracker and Skywarp started fighting against the newly freed Autobots.

During an all-out offensive against the Autobots, Thundercracker attempted to take down Grimlock by himself, only to have his head crushed for his troubles. The Beast Within It's not quite clear if this killed Thundercracker; soon afterward, The Beast slaughtered most of the Decepticons, and Thundercracker's corpse could be seen lying amongst the monstrosity's victims, but his dead body was in jet mode, suggesting that perhaps he'd survived Grimlock's ministrations and met his end at The Beast's hands while in vehicle form.

The Beast Within Part 2, Consequences. A chance to be part of the exciting world of underground gladiator games turned into a life Thundercracker never wanted. Though the terrorism and insurgency of the Decepticons gave him pause, a belief in the rhetoric that founded the faction, and the sense of brotherhood and belonging he gained from being a Seeker, saw Thundercracker remain a loyal Decepticon for millions of years.

He served as part of Starscream 's infiltration unit on Earth, but when Megatron laid waste to the planet, it was more than Thundercracker could bear. He believed the Decepticons had strayed too far from their original goals, and turned against his leader, saving the Autobots and the city of New York from a nuclear strike.

Cast out by his fellows, he threw his lot in with Earth, embracing the planet as a new home and celebrating the ability of its people to grow and change in ways that Transformers struggle to. Today, his love of humanity and their arts has evolved into a desire to become a screenwriter, but love for his dog Buster always comes first. Thundercracker watched " Snakes on a Plane " with Thrust and Skywarp. All three Decepticons were pretty freaked out by the premise of the film.

Later, he got squeamish when a human baby almost touched him. Lil Formers. Thundercracker accompanied Starscream, Skywarp, Ramjet, and a mind-controlled Jetfire in raiding a power plant. Flaming mad, they went after the kid, who was being sped to safety by Sunstreaker. The jets were able to catch up to them when Prowl pulled Sunstreaker over for speeding, but once he understood the situation, the 'cop-bot helped his fellow Autobot send the Decepticons packing.

Thundercracker participated in an infiltration of BotCon to track down next year's toy designs, and use them to conquer the Autobots once and for all! Mini Mayhem! When Optimus Prime recounted a story of the Transformers' homeworld of Cybertron, Thundercracker could be seen flying through the planet's skies in his original Cybertronian alternate modes.

As Prime's story continued, he was joined by Skywarp. I Am Optimus Prime. A Thundercracker from an unknown universal stream was one of the Questors gathered by Megatron. Granted a portion of the hyperdimensional powers that his leader had obtained from the monstrous Hytherion , Thundercracker was given a new body with a Timaeus drive that granted him the ability to travel through dimensions, and an assortment of new weaponry, among them a "Power Zap" that let him drain energy from other machines, including his enemies, and a Nova Concussion Generator that allowed him to create the functional equivalent of sonic booms in the vacuum of space.

He was less than pleased with his new sports car alternate mode, however; having always considered his ability to fly one of things that put him above most other lifeforms, Thundercracker saw his new ground-bound form something of an ironic humiliation.

Further, these assorted upgrades did nothing to dispel his doubts about the Decepticon cause. Alternity Thundercracker Sonic Blue profile. Thundercracker's doubts came to the fore when Megatron succeeded in his plan to seize control of the two-dimensional lifeforms known as the Planicrons. Observing Megatron's manipulation of these beings from their base on the magical planet of Menonia , Thundercracker felt for the strange creatures as swathes of them were slain in service of Megatron's ambition.

Just then, Starscream made another of his characteristic power plays, using a magical tablet to take control of the Planicrons from Megatron—but Megatron simply killed Starscream, and gave the tablet to Thundercracker to hold. Thundercracker set the tablet down, unable to find it himself to do anything to help the Planicrons Although confused as to whether or not he was responsible, Thundercracker felt no fear when a furious Megatron rounded on him.

Rather, he informed his leader that he did not deserve such power, and immediately fled, covering his escape with a Nova Concussion blast. Subsequently, the liberated Planicrons joined forces with the Alternity and the Binaltech Transformers of the BT World , and succeeded in obliterating Megatron.

In the wake of Megatron's defeat, a guilty Thundercracker returned to Menonia to survey the damage done to the planet, where he received a message from the Planicrons thanking him for helping them. Although Thundercracker took some consolation in their words, the ghostly form of the deceased Starscream the appeared to tell him he would never truly be forgiven. Thundercracker gave a poor score to Bumblebee 's awesome dance performance, and a great score to Starscream's terrible performance.

Bot Stars. Thundercracker was among the minions who passed Megatron his presents during the holiday season. A Gift For Megatron. Thundercracker helped Megatron get back into shape after a string of humiliating defeats by standing on top of him while the Decepticon leader did some push-ups, and holding on to his weights while he did some reps. Megatron's Revenge. Not long after the Transformers' awakening on Earth, Thundercracker and Starscream engaged the Autobots in battle in a desert canyon, keeping them busy while the other Decepticon raided a nearby power plant.

The Fated Rival, Once Again Some time later, after the Decepticons had seized control of a human city and constructed a space bridge, Thundercracker stood alongside his fellow jets and Devastator to defend the bridge against the Autobots' newest warriors, the Dinobots.

Thundercracker was sent hurtling off into the distance by the shockwaves that resulted when Grimlock managed to topple Devastator, but was back in action in time to help direct the Insecticons that Shockwave then sent through the space bridge to keep the Autobots occupied. Revenge He then came under fire from human military in the city, and was eventually overpowered by their barrage. Great Aspirations.

The Story of Quiz! Thundercracker was one of many undesirables cast out of Cloud World 's Metropolis for seeking to use the super-robot SARA 's power over space and time for his own ends. Exiled to the lawless Underground , he and these other malcontents banded together under Megatron , who gave them the name "Decepticons" and led them in an attack on Metropolis to take SARA for themselves. Thundercracker worked in concert with Starscream to lay waste to the sector of the city they had been charged with attacking as part of the Decepticons' simultaneous, citywide assault, but Starscream then left him to mop up so he could swagger off and report their success to Megatron.

Thundercracker fought alongside Deadlock during one of the Decepticons' many campaigns across the multiverse. Decepticon Jaeger Deadlock.

Thundercracker was part of a group of Decepticons who attacked an Autobot shuttle in a failed attempt to steal the AllSpark. Angry Birds Transformers 1. Aided by a number of Cobra troops, Thundercracker guarded the temple constructed by Megatron on Primus 's face.

He detected the arrival of a group of Autobots and Joes , and entered a firefight with them. Expelled from the Garden. They were part of a crowd in Seeker-Shinai that C attempted to disperse through intimidation.

Unfortunately, all the Seekers present were too stunned to see a "Megatron" in Axiom Nexus to budge. Cybertron's Most Wanted.

Thundercracker followed Megatron to Earth in pursuit of the Allspark. His specialty amongst the Seekers was maneuverability. He participated in a large battle against the Autobots in a human settlement. The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe. He was enhanced by forestonite. Ask Vector Prime. The Mistress of Flame ordered Thundercracker and the other members of the Elite Air Resistance Squadron to attack Trypticon , but they were all completely overwhelmed by the Titan. Our Heroes Respond. When the two Titans reached Cygnus Seven , the Decepticons attacked, the battle sending Maximus hurtling into the planet and causing everyone to fall into stasis lock.

Eventually, the Federation moved onto Cygnus Seven with a survey team accidentally rousing Maximus's autonomic systems. By random chance, the repair beam first struck Megatron who proceeded to revive the other Decepticons and lead an attack on the surface. Prime's Directive, Part Two Thundercracker joined his fellow Seekers in attacking the mining colony before the Decepticons were scared away by a photon torpedo barrage from the USS Enterprise.

When the group retreated to a nearby moon, they found Trypticon being swarmed by Kuri 's Klingons. Prime's Directive, Part One. As Megatron negotiated with the aliens , Thundercracker conducted a patrol before the alliance was cemented and he joined Starscream in re-attacking Cygnus Seven. Prime's Directive, Part Two When the group cornered Optimus and prepared to execute him, Fortress Maximus burst out of the moon, sending the Seekers scattering. Prime's Directive, Part Three When the two Titans began brawling, Starscream used the distraction to steal away a cache of dilithium so he could conquer a planet.

When Megatron took notice of this, he ordered the battle ended, having Trypticon beam all the Decepticons aboard so they could pursue the traitor. Prime's Directive, Part Four. Though the organics had donned Cybertronian-scaled mechas , the Seekers' air superiority proved an advantage in the fight before Soundwave crippled their foes via audio disruptor waves. Unfortunately for the Decepticons, the Klingons were deaf to the frequency that Soundwave used, allowing them to call in a warbird fleet that defeated the invaders.

During the war for Cybertron, Thundercracker was stationed at a Decepticon science installation located in Ankmor Park. Thundercracker was aiding his fellow scientist Shockwave in extracting the Sparks of the Decepticons Rumble and Frenzy in order to put them in Laser core containment chambers, which would then allow them to permanently switch between different bodies.

Thundercracker started the experiment, and, in a flash of light, Rumble and Frenzy were transferred into their new bodies. As the two smaller 'cons bickered over whether Shockwave had gotten their colors right, two Autobots burst into the lab, one of them demanding that the Decepticons leave his lab.

Thundercracker released Rumble and Frenzy to backup Shockwave and himself. However, the Autobot Wheeljack revealed that years ago he had lined his lab with explosives and unstable energon. Unable to use weapons, Thundercracker and his allies engaged their foes in hand-to-hand combat. After losing Rumble and Frenzy, Shockwave and Thundercracker decided to retreat instead of risking Wheeljack setting off the explosives he had rigged in his lab, never realizing that the Wrecker had been bluffing.

Thundercracker and Shockwave would reconvene with Rumble and Frenzy at Kaon , where Soundwave demanded that they return the two to their original bodies. Unreliable Narratives. Thundercracker served with Skywarp, Jetfire , and the former Sky Commander Starscream on a dilapidated orbital research station that once experimented on the powerful, but highly dangerous Dark Energon. This made it a target for the leader of the Decepticons, Megatron , who wished to restart Dark Energon production in his plans to revitalise Cybertron.

Megatron attacked the station and fought his way into the laboratory, and despite Starscream's attempts to destroy the remaining Dark Energon, Megatron withstood its destructive power and bent it to his will. His survival intrigued Starscream, who offered to serve Megatron in exchange for learning how to manipulate Dark Energon himself; Thundercracker and Skywarp fell into line.

Jetfire declared them traitors and left to warn Zeta Prime. Thundercracker and Skywarp were prepared to give chase, but Megatron allowed the Autobot to leave, as he wished Zeta Prime to know his demise was coming. However, the Decepticon commander scoffed at the idea of being given what he could simply take from Starscream, until the one-time Sky Commander revealed that there was very little Dark Energon left on the research station, but he knew how to manufacture more, and that the ancient, long-forgotten Energon Bridge needed to be reactivated before they could do so.

Thundercracker, Starscream and Skywarp were sent the cliffs of Kaon , where they could make their way into the underground. Thundercracker commented with wonder that he had never travelled this far into Cybertron before, for which Skywarp labelled him as being boring as always.

As they entered an underground energon reservoir, Thundercracker warned his teammates to avoid touching the flowing streams and waterfalls of crude energon, as in that state is was extremely volatile; Skywarp once again mocked his companion's thoughtfulness. Making their way out of the reservoir, the three fliers faced their first serious challenge when an Autobot cruiser appeared in a canyon they needed to travel through.

The trio crippled the cruiser's weapons system, fought their way past the Aerialbot squadron it launched, and moved into the ship. Defeating the ship's defenders, they then destroyed it by placing a detpack on the ship's power core. While Starscream and Skywarp busied themselves with glory hogging and relishing the battle against the Autobots, Thundercracker tried to keep them alive, using his Energon repair ray to heal their wounds.

Deeper in the core, they encountered strange creatures the likes of which Thundercracker had never seen before. Eventually, they found themselves before the mechanism needed to restart the Energon Bridge, but Thundercracker's scans detected something very unusual about the machine.

Starscream, tired of Thundercracker's readings and sensors, pushed his way past and injected Dark Energon into it without waiting for more information. Perhaps he should have listened to Thundercracker, as the machine activated its defense systems, revealing itself to be the Energon Bridge Guardian. The three Decepticons were forced to fight a desperate battle where the Sentinel threw heat-seeking fireballs at them, activated powerful energy beams and turned the floor into lava.

Exploiting the machine's cooling down period, they were eventually victorious, and barely escaped with their lives when the Dark Energon infected the facility and reactivated the Energon Bridge, which sent its energon bouncing along satellites to Megatron's Dark Energon facility. Thundercracker remarked his amazement at this Y'know, TC, it's all well and good for you to be thoughtful and careful, but when Skywarp beats you to the punch in stating the blindly obvious, you might want to speed it up.

Shortly after the defeat of Zeta Prime, Iacon 's guardian Omega Supreme gave chase to Megatron, though based on Megatron's attitude it was hard to tell exactly who was chasing whom at times. At one point, Megatron even ordered Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker to attack the behemoth, if only to provide a distraction.

The three apparently eluded him after drawing his fire, however, as after Omega had cornered Megatron's team at an Autobot anti-aircraft terrace or, depending on who you talk to, when Megatron tricked him into attacking them there , Omega's armour was breached by Megatron using the heavy guns, and Starscream led Skywarp and Thundercracker in shooting down the mighty Autobot, forcing him to crash land in a sub-level below. After Megatron defeated Omega Supreme on the ground and forced him to open the Omega Gate , Thundercracker and the others watched as Megatron achieved his plan to infect Cybertron's core with Dark Energon.

Transformers: War for Cybertron. Thundercracker served under Megatron loyally during the final days of the war.

He followed Megatron into battle against the titanic Autobot Omega Supreme, but not without expressing his numbing fear of the giant first. Thundercracker and Skywarp begin to taunt Barricade, due to his inability to fly. Later, Megatron watches three Autobot ships make their way to escape position, and orders Thundercracker and Skywarp to plant homing beacons on each one.

Thundercracker rockets through the debris field, taking out Aerialbots and using the larger pieces of debris as landing points.