Metalhawk
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Metalhawk is a fictional character, a Transformer robot in the Japanese Masterforce series.
[edit] Transformers: Generation 1
| Transformers Character | |
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| Metalhawk | |
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| Affiliation | Autobot (Cybertron) |
| Sub-Group | Pretenders |
| Function | Space Commander |
| Alternate mode(s) | Cybertronian Jet |
| Series | Transformers: Generation 1 |
| Voiced by | Katsuji Mori (Japanese) |
Metalhawk transforms into a jet, and has a human Pretender shell. In robot mode his left hand could retract and launch knock-out gas. His weapons include a Jet Rifle, Titanium Saber. In jet mode he can travel from Earth to the Moon and back in 15 minutes.
He is the leader of the Cybertron Pretenders and Headmaster Juniors . Metalhawk is known as "Hawk" when in his human guise. Unlike most other Pretender figures, he was available only in Japan.
[edit] Animated series
Eight thousand years ago, a starship containing the Autobot (Cybertron) Pretenders Metalhawk, Landmine (Lander), Waverider (Diver) and Cloudburst (Phoenix) pursued the Decepticon (Destron) Pretenders Bomb-Burst (Blood), Skullgrin (Dauros) and Submarauder (Gilmer) to neolithic-era Earth, where they crashed. Using their Pretender abilities, the Autobots adopted the form of humans - not using simple external shells like in the American fiction, but actually transforming the very structure of their bodies into an organic equivalent, shrinking down to normal human size to hide in plain sight among burgeoning humanity. The Decepticon Pretenders, on the other hand, adopted the forms of monstrous creatures, becoming feared as demons by early man. After many battles, the Autobots succeeded in defeating their enemies and sealing them away - Bomb-Burst in the pyramids of Egypt, Submarauder in the ruins of Atlantis, and Skullgrin beneath the Nazca Lines in Peru - for thousands of years.
Liberated in the near future by the mysterious Decepticon god, Devil Z, the three Pretenders entered his service, and immediately began to draw the Autobot Pretenders out of hiding, before turning their attention to a series of plans to acquire energy and to disrupt one of the three Chokoon Powers on Earth. [1]
Ginrai successfully located Lightfoot, Ranger and Road King, and recruited them to the Autobot side, after which the Autobot Pretender leader, Metalhawk, stepped down as Commander and requested that Ginrai take his place. After some deliberation, Ginrai accepted.
