Spanning over 30 years, the Transformers franchise has had its fair share of
popular misconceptions throughout its history. Some have believed that there is
an uncut version of the original 1986 movie that has never been released.
Others believe that the War and Fall of Cybertron games are a part of G1 and not
part of the Aligned continuity. And now thanks to certain recent events in the
Transformers franchise some now believe that Red Bumblebee, I mean...
Cliffjumper dies all the time.
Takara's Choro-Q racer cars are Super Deformed motorized versions of licensed
cars in which a penny could be placed in the back to perform wheelies. They are
known in the US under the name Penny Racers. Taking from the success of those
toys, Takara used the size of these cars, without the pullback motors, in their sub
line of Micro Man known as Micro Change. One of these slot car style toys was a
Porsche 924 Turbo, and it was brought over into the Transformers toy line as
Cliffjumper along with other mini vehicles in 1984. One thing to take note
of with Cliffjumper's toy is that his head is attached to a panel meant to
represent the slot where a penny could be placed. Hasbro released a color
variant for both Cliffjumper and Bumblebee with their colors swapped. This
led some fans to believe that Cliffjumper was merely a remold of
Bumblebee, but that was not the case. Hasbro has stated that they did this to
make the toy line look bigger than it was. This may have played a factor in
both the comic and the cartoon when both characters have had brief instances of
being miscolored. Hasbro also released a third mold in Cliffjumper's packaging
that transformed into a Mazda Familia. For years fans referred to this toy as
Bumblejumper, combining Bumblebee and Cliffjumper's names. More on him later.
Characterized in his profile by Bob Budiansky, Cliffjumper is the headstrong
Autobot whose eagerness to jump into battle can sometimes get him into
trouble. "Let's get down there and bend some metal." "Ease off your throttle, Cliffjumper."
First introduced in the Marvel Comics, Cliffjumper was one of the Autobots
aboard the Ark when it crashed on Earth 4 million years ago. Reawakened in the
present day of 1984, he unfortunately did not appear much in the comics except for
a few battles against the Decepticons. He did make some brief appearances in the
UK exclusive stories such as the Dinobot Hunt. Throughout the rest of the comic
Cliffjumper was largely forgotten about. His final appearance was as a background
character aboard the Ark during a battle for leadership on the moon.
He wasn't even used in G2 or the Regeneration One comics. It was the cartoon
where Cliffjumper saw the most prominence. Voiced by Casey Kasem
"I'm going too! I wanna boot some Decepticon right in his Turbo Charger!"
"Easy Cliffjumper!"
Cliffjumper was always the first to jump into battle. A lot of times this
put him in situations that were a bit over his head. His glass gas gun could
take out Decepticon weaponry, and he was willing to sacrifice himself for his
teammates to knock out a forcefield to stop the Decepticons. His loyalty to the
Autobot cause sometimes made him a bit paranoid.
"Sorry guys, but it kind of looked like a Decepticon." This led him to accuse Mirage
of being a traitor. While this was initially not true, Mirage
attempted to trick the insecticons into battling with the other Decepticons. His
plan didn't work out so well and Bombshell planted a Cerebro Shell into
Mirage's head. After leading the Autobots into a trap, Mirage was injured during
the battle ratchet discovered and then removed the
cerebro shell no wonder Mirage has a pride pride one of bombshell cerebro
shows after defeating the Decepticons Cliffjumper regained his trust with
Mirage in transformers the movie Cliffjumper worked with jazz for
security on moon base 1 although the two were swallowed by Unicron he was saved
by Daniel
and then rolled out with jazz and Bumblebee as they followed Rodimus Prime
out of unicron's I he then rejoined his fellow Autobots on Cybertron under
Rodimus Prime Command in the Dreamwave comics Cliffjumper was part of a group
of Autobots attempting to stop the virus that turns organic life into metal
when shockwave arrived on earth Optimus sent prowl with a group of Autobots out
on recon when they were captured Mirage gave up without a fight and Cliffjumper
accused him of being a traitor however Mirage would later save
Cliffjumper when they battled the Decepticons on Cybertron the Dreamwave
comics are also the first to have bumble jumper up here in fiction using a new
and shorter name bumper was part of a group of Autobots led by bumblebee on a
mission to earth that attempted to stop the super powered seeker known as Sun
storm bumper also appeared in the IDW comics when he was killed on a recon
mission when Megatron first started up the Decepticons Cliffjumper also
appeared in the IDW comics mourning over bumpers death he became a weapons expert
during the war taking out Decepticons as an assassin his skills were usually
quite effective on the battlefield unfortunately Cliffjumper was killed
when Unicron attacked velocity on and the Autobots corpse was seen on the
surface of unicron's mall outside of g1 Cliffjumper has been a part of many
different Transformers series in the Unicron trilogy the name of Cliffjumper
was used for an autobot rookie scene in transformers Energon while bearing no
resemblance to his g1 self this Cliffjumper joined the Autobots
alongside downshift and bulkhead unfortunately along with many other
major mistakes made in the show Cliffjumper and downshift would
continually switch voice actors
and at times are even called by the others name
while cliffjumper's toy was recolored and renamed Beachcomber the cartoon
chose to simply make this a powered up version of Cliffjumper the first new toy
of Cliffjumper resembling his g1 appearance was in 2006 as a straight
redeco of the classics bumblebee toy this began a new trend still followed
frequently today of simply recoloring any bumblebee toy read many times
without a new head and simply calling him Cliffjumper this trend followed in
Transformers Animated where Cliffjumper had the same body type as bumble bee and
wasp he was primarily seen as part of the Autobot intelligence division on
Cybertron in the aligned continuity Cliffjumper was a playable character in
the game fall of Cybertron as he and jazz
searched through the sea of Rus to find out what happened to Grimlock and his
crew he was later seen in Transformers Prime with a brand new vehicle mode no
longer just a remould of bumblebee Cliffjumper was voiced by Dwayne the
rock Johnson Garcia the WWE and movie star was probably way too expensive to
continue as a character's voice actor as Cliffjumper was defeated by a group of
Decepticons and later killed by Starscream
Megatron then experimented on the Fallen Autobot with dark Energon turning
Cliffjumper into a mindless zombie terror calm
attacking both autobot and decepticon cliffjumper's body was ultimately
destroyed when the Decepticon base exploded while Cliffjumper did not
appear in the live-action films directed by Michael Bay he did receive like so
many times before numerous red repaints of bumblebee throughout the movie
franchise the tie-in comics published by IDW even had this Cliffjumper battle
alongside his mute counterpart while initially conceived as a prequel film
the bumblebee movie saw Cliffjumper with a more g1 styled head battling alongside
the other Autobots when Cybertron fell he escaped to the stars before he was
ambushed by the Decepticons shatter and dropkick on one of Saturn's moons
refusing to give them information the wounded Autobot was killed by dropkick
after his appearance in the bumblebee movie
many fans wondered why it seems like a trend that Cliffjumper always dies while
he did die in the IDW comics in prime and in the bubbly movie that wasn't the
case for his g1 cartoon self cliffjumper's toy was remoulded in 1986
as the autobot hubcap but neither of them appear during the third season of
the cartoon adding to this hubcap was also recolored in chrome rad in
generation 2 however hubcap didn't appear in the g2 comics either what
really happened is that Casey Kasem became offended when the show created
the character abdul-fattah T dictator of the fictional nation of car bomb eeeh
as such casey kasem quit the show and his characters had to be phased out
Cliffjumper and Bluestreak were not seen again in the cartoon while teletraan one
was destroyed by trypticon along with the ark the on-board computer was
replaced with teletraan 2 which was voiced by Frank Welker to fulfill
request as for Cliffjumper he was probably meant to be the Autobot seen
behind cup on Cybertron when torna John attack since wincharger
was killed in the movie coming full circle with his g1 toys origins
Cliffjumper received a core OQ version of his toy as part of their transformers
Q lineup of toys unfortunately like many other versions of this character
recently it is a slight remould of bumblebee with his feet still shaped
like the hood of a Volkswagen Beetle while the future of Cliffjumper might
not look promising in the live-action films there's always a possibility he
could appear in later transformers series we can only hope that this
headstrong autobot isn't just another red repaint of bumblebee and at least
give the guy his proper head well what do you think what do you make of all the
bumblebee repaints as Cliffjumper does he really die all the time and do you
think he'll make another appearance in a transformer series leave your thoughts
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