Blackjack (Transformers)

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

1 Transformers: Generation 1
2 References

[edit] Transformers: Generation 1

Blackjack
Transformers character

Affiliation	Decepticon
Sub-Group	Micromaster Sports Car Patrol
Function	Advance Assault
Partner	Detour, Hyperdrive and Road Hugger
Motto	"The road to victory is paved with Autobot wrecks!"
Alternate Modes	Car
Series	Transformers: Generation 1

Blackjack is a Micromaster Decepticon car. ^[1] He is devious and brave, more a schemer than a combatant. He has a top speed of 400mph.

[edit] Marvel Comics

Blackjack

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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] IDW Publishing

The Sports Car Patrol

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.

[edit] 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.