Sideswipe was featured in the 1993 Transformers: Generation 2 coloring book " Decepticon Madness" by Bud Simpson. Sideswipe appeared in the 1986 story and coloring book The Lost Treasure of Cybertron by Marvel Books. Sideswipe was featured in the 1985 Transformers audio book Autobots' Lightning Strike. Sideswipe appeared in the 1984 sticker and story book Return to Cybertron written by Suzanne Weyn and published by Marvel Books. During a segment of this intense shootout, Sideswipe manages to hit Frenzy and later, after foiling a new Decepticon assault, has also a line.
#AUTOBOT MIRAGE SERIES#
Sideswipe appears in the first two episodes of the Japanese series Transformers: Headmasters, participating with Ultra Magnus, the Trainbots, and Prowl (who may have mistakenly appeared, as he was killed in The Transformers: The Movie) on a shootout against the Triple Changers, Soundwave, and Sixshot.
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In an early script for The Transformers: The Movie there was a scene planned where Sideswipe, Red Alert and Tracks hop off Ultra Magnus to attack Devastator, but they are pushed back and Red Alert is shot in the back and killed. Sideswipe reappears in Generation 2: Redux, a Botcon magazine which is set after the events of the final episode where he, along with Goldbug, Jazz, Beachcomber and Seapray battling the Decepticons in Switzerland and gained new powers and color like his G2 self by the power of Forestonite.
Sideswipe himself reversed the effects of the plot, saving the Earth. Another major role for Sideswipe was stopping the Combaticons' plot to pull the Earth into the sun, in which he and other Autobots team up with Decepticons to travel to Cybertron. With a combination of Windcharger's magnetic powers and Mirage's illusion-creating ability, the Autobots were able to appear as Menasor too, but the deception was soon revealed, though they were still able to thwart the Decepticons' plans. Penetrating the Decepticons' camp, the Autobots ran into trouble when the real Stunticons arrived, trying to prove their identities by forming Menasor. Towards the end of 1985, Sideswipe, impersonating himself as the Stunticon Breakdown, is among the team of five Autobots who disguised themselves as the Stunticons.
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Sideswipe, using his piston-like arms, helped Brawn remove the rock wall and found a cave full of dinosaur bones, the discovery of which would lead to the development of the Dinobots. When investigating tremors that were shaking the Autobot base, Ironhide's scanner found some interesting objects inside a rock wall. When antimatter-fueled Decepticons attacked the Ark on one occasion in the episode "Roll for It", Sideswipe and Sunstreaker took to the air to battle with the incoming seeker jets, in a rambunctious, if ultimately ineffective, display of " jet judo." Sideswipe and Sunstreaker often operated together. Throughout Seasons 1 and 2, Sideswipe was voiced by Michael Bell. Sideswipe loaned Optimus Prime the use of his rocket pack when the Decepticons nearly escaped from Earth with a starship full of energon. He awakened along with his fellow Transformers in 1984, with both he and his brother being reformatted into Lamborghini sports cars. Sideswipe was part of the initial crew of Autobots aboard the Ark when it crash-landed on Earth four million years ago. Dreamwave comics artist Pat Lee says his favorite Transformer is Sideswipe. In 1984 CBC's The Journal did a report on how some people considered Transformers like Sideswipe and other war toys too violent for children. Because of his jetpack, Sideswipe was one of few G1 Autobots with the ability to fly and capacity for space flight. Sideswipe transformed into a red Lamborghini Countach, while his brother, Sunstreaker, transformed into a yellow Lamborghini Countach. He is almost as skilled as his twin brother Sunstreaker in combat, but is less ruthless. Sideswipe (sometimes 'Agujero' in Mexico, Lambor in Japan, Frérot Québec, Freccia (meaning "arrow") in Italy, Csatár (meaning "striker") in Hungary) is described in his tech file as a brave but often rash warrior.