Waverider (Transformers)
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Waverider (Diver in Japan) is an Autobot Pretender in the Transformers toyline.
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[edit] Transformers: Generation 1
| Transformers character | |
 Diver in the Masterforce animated series |
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| Waverider | |
|---|---|
| Affiliation | Autobot |
| Japanese name | Diver |
| Sub-Group | Pretenders |
| Function | Naval Warfare |
| Motto | "Freedom for all starts with freedom of navigation." |
| Alternate Modes | Cybertronian Watercraft |
| Series | Transformers: Generation 1 |
| Voiced by | Yuji Mikimoto |
Waverider is billed as a furious fighter and formidable adversary in battle. He prefers exploring the ocean bottom for buried treasure over warfare. Waverider likes the advantages of being a Pretender as it gives him a sort of out-of-body experience.
Waverider transforms into a sea skimmer capable of diving to a depth of 25,000 feet. Besides his shell he carries an energy-spear gun as well as a thermal broad-axe for combat.
[edit] Animated series
Waverider was a regular character featured in the early episodes of the Japanese exclusive series Transformers: Super-God Masterforce. In this series, Waverider's human form was that of a marine biologist.
Eight thousand years ago, a starship containing the Autobot Pretenders Metalhawk, Lander, Diver and Phoenix pursued the Decepticon Pretenders Blood, Dauros and 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 for thousands of years — Blood in the pyramids of Egypt, Gilmer in the ruins of Atlantis, and Dauros beneath the Nazca Lines in Peru.
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 of acquiring energy and disrupting one of the three Chokoon Powers on Earth. After a string of failures, Devil Z supplanted them with his more powerful Godmaster minions, and although they would often participate in missions, their standing was downgraded and their regularity of appearance on the battlefield diminished. Eventually, they generally only served to supply comic relief, and departed Earth with the other surviving Decepticons when Devil Z was destroyed.
[edit] Marvel Comics
Although not seen or mentioned directly, Waverider was among the Autobots who joined Fortress Maximus in leaving Cybertron for the planet Nebulos (Transformers: Headmasters #1). When there, he fought against the Decepticons on many occasions. Followed to Nebulos by the Decepticons under Scorponok, Fortress Maximus's band left Nebulos for the planet Earth (Transformers: Headmasters #4).
When Brainstorm needed subjects to duplicate the Decepticon Pretender experiment, Waverider and five other Autobots volunteered and became the Autobot Pretenders. They fought the Decepticon Pretenders with the help of Optimus Prime and Goldbug (Transformers #40).
Waverider's last appearance in the Marvel Transformers comics was in issue 75, where he was destroyed by Unicron's optic blast.
[edit] Dreamwave Productions
Waverider did not appear in any fiction from Dreamwave Productions, but did get a one page biography in their "More Than Meets The Eye" series.
[edit] Toys
- Generation 1 Waverider (1988)
- This toy was identical to the toy of Diver in Japan. [1]
