Blackjack is the name of a fictional character in the various Transformers universes.
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Transformers: Generation 1
| Transformers character | |
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| Blackjack | |
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| 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.
Marvel Comics
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.
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.
IDW Publishing
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.
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.
