Splashdown

ALLEGIANCE: AUTOBOT
SUB-GROUP(S): PRETENDER
FUNCTION: NAVAL COMMANDER
“Outflank your enemy and you won't have to outgun him.”

First Appearance: Transformers 163
Significant Appearances: Transformers 163, Annual 1989

Splashdown is a wind-torn veteran, not yet ready to give up. Continually feels like he has to prove his worth when compared against younger, more advanced Autobots. Lives hard and fights even harder. Ready to take unnecessary risks and plunge himself into battle. Jumped at the chance to become a Pretender, thinking of it as a way to upgrade himself with new technology and rank himself on a par with his peers. Splashdown is not one to look back, preferring to talk future strategy rather than retreading old war stories. Friendly but misunderstood. Can be too intense to converse with as he boasts more than he listens.

Abilities: Splashdown is constructed with low-density alloys resistant to most extremes and his equally at home floating on any liquid, whether water, mercury or hot-lead. Outer shell armed with long-range, armour-piercing harpoon gun and electro-sword. Robot and hovercraft modes armed with photon blaster. Outer shell composed of high-density armour impervious to corrosive liquids and strong enough to withstand underwater depths of over 9,000 metres. Transforms to hovercraft with maximum speed of 340 km/h.

Weaknesses: When outside his shell, Splashdown's lightweight frame is extremely fragile and unsuitable for short-range and hand-to-hand combat.