Comettor (Armada)

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Comettor is an Autobot-allied Mini-Con from the Armada portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

Comettor 64 or Atari? Which one can I play Multi-World on?

Comettor suffers heavily from wanderlust. He hates staying in one place for any length of time, and loves exploring, especially the astronomical wonders found in the vastness of space. There's nothing he'd rather do than journey through the stars with his spacefaring partner Jetfire, cataloging deep-space phenomena... but the war with the Decepticons tends to keep Jetfire—and therefore Comettor—stuck planetside. This often sends the inquisitive Mini-Con into a deep personal funk, much to Jetfire's dismay. Comettor tries not to let it affect his performance, and it usually doesn't... but Jetfire knows that it's eating him up inside, and does what he can to help his friend through it.^[1]

Fiction

Armada cartoon

Comettor became associated with the Autobots on Earth at an unknown point. He partnered with Jetfire and accompanied him to Mars in search of the latest Mini-Con they detected. Despite this, Comettor actually spent most of his time hunting down Jetfire's erstwhile partner, Starscream, than finding the Mini-Con. Mars

After Optimus Prime's death, Comettor was one of a group of Mini-Cons who confronted the angst-ridden Hot Shot, forcing the young 'bot to try to come to terms with the loss of his leader. Remorse

Dreamwave Armada comic

Comettor was among the Mini-Cons who ended up living on the Moon after escaping from Cybertron. The Decepticons eventually followed them there and attacked their fortress, but Comettor reported that the invaders were driven off by the base's defenses. Armada #9 The Decepticons eventually made their way inside, however, and the Mini-Cons were forced to abandon the base. Comettor boarded an escape pod alongside the Street Speed Mini-Con Team and Inferno, but all of them were left in protective "sleep mode" when the pod crashed in Alaska. Fire & Ice

After the pod was retrieved by the Autobots, Comettor joined several other Mini-Cons on a mission to locate Over-Run's null-reality pods so that they could rescue Optimus Prime from another dimension. Worlds Collide, Part 2 of 4 After making their way to the Decepticon base at Silver Ridge, they hid from three Heralds of Unicron who emerged from a space bridge. Worlds Collide, Part 3 of 4 They eventually found the null-reality pods, and Comettor volunteered to pilot one of them, stating that exploring new frontiers was just up his alley. He traversed dimensions alongside Over-Run and Sparkplug, and arrived on a devastated Cybertron where Optimus Prime and Jetfire were waiting. After the two Autobots combined, Comettor powerlinked with them, providing them with enough power to travel back to their home dimension. He also changed colors in the process, due to being energized by Over-Run's Mini-Con Matrix. Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4

Alerted to the presence of Unicron, Comettor returned to Cybertron to fight against the planet eater. During the battle, he powerlinked with Jetfire to add some extra strength to his and Optimus Prime's combination. The End

Panini Armada comic

In the early stages of the war, Comettor was among the Mini-Cons who supported Dualor's plan to kill Megatron by luring him to the Autobot headquarters and blowing it up. Counter-Strike!

Toys

Armada

• Jetfire with Comettor (Giga-Con, 2003)

• Takara ID number: MC-09
• Takara release date: June 26, 2003
• Known designers: Aaron Archer (Hasbro), Hironori Kobayashi (Takara), Marcelo Matere (packaging artist)

Available only with Armada Ultra-sized Jetfire, Comettor transforms into a six-wheeled Cybertronic moon buggy with top-mounted blaster. As a Mini-Con, he has a "Powerlinx" socket on his vehicle-mode underside which allows him to attach to any toy with a "Powerlinx" style 5 mm post; some toys have special Powerlinx posts that activate/unlock gimmicks when a Mini-Con is attached.

He also has a third configuration, forming a front landing strut and under-nose cannon for Jetfire's shuttle mode.

The Takara Legend of the Microns release of "Sonar" has some slight plastic-hue changes from the Hasbro release, most notably the reds are a bit darker and more magenta-hued, but nothing major.

This mold was also used to make Starcatcher.

• More information on Comettor at TFU.info

• Powerlinx Jetfire with Powerlinx Comettor (Giga-Con Class, 2003)

• Takara release date: October 9, 2003

The Powerlinx redeco of Comettor makes him largely white with a deeper red. Like before, he was only available with his partner Powerlinx Jetfire.

Powerlinx Jetfire was not part of Takara's normal retail Legends of the Microns line, but was released in Japan as a "USA Edition" toy, in Hasbro packaging with Japanese-language stickers for legal information, as a Toys"R"Us exclusive.

• More information on Powerlinx Comettor at TFU.info

• Battle for the Matrix (Multi-pack, 2003)

Part of a Kmart exclusive multi-pack released on Black Friday, this version of Comettor is unchanged from the original release.

This set also includes a gold Optimus Prime with unchanged-from-normal-release versions of Sparkplug, Jetfire, the Adventure Mini-Con Team and —oddly enough— Longarm.

• Kinpika Jetfire (Giga-Con, 2003)

A single gold-chromed version of Jetfire and Comettor was a lottery prize in Japan, which could be entered through a number of stores (which stores, exactly, is unknown), with the drawing for the winner held in December of 2003.

This version of Jetfire retained all of his electronics, and could still combine with Super Base Optimus; a singular gold-chromed Super Base Optimus was given away as a lottery prize in August that year. If you own them, please never combine the two of them ever again.

Built to Rule!

• Jetfire with Comettor (2003)

From the smaller-sized Jetfire Built to Rule! sets, this version of Comettor is rebuilt from a brick that sorta resembles the original toy's vehicle mode, to a brick that has the original toy's robot-mode head. Whee!

• More information on Built to Rule! Comettor at TFU.info

Universe (2003)

• Spacewarp (Ultra Class, 2004?)

Universe Spacewarp was an unproduced redeco of Armada Ultra-sized Jetfire, slated to come with a redeco of Comettor and the Space Mini-Con Team. Judging from Universe Ramjet and Sunstorm each being packaged with four redecoed Mini-Cons whose names were unchanged, Comettor would presumably have retained his name, albeit with a faction switch to Decepticon.

This set was initially intended as a Toys"R"Us exclusive but was shelved because no retail chain ultimately ended up wanting to carry it. Spacewarp was among several proposed exclusives that were ultimately put into retail limbo during the waning of the Universe line.

In 2007, the Spacewarp concept was modified and revived as Timelines Astrotrain, one of the first exclusives available for purchase from the Transformers Collectors' Club. Nearly identical to the canceled Universe version of Comettor, Astrotrain's Mini-Con partner was named Starcatcher.

In 2015, this unproduced deco became the basis of the separate character Foldspace.

Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Notes

• Throughout both Dreamwave's comics and his profile in Panini's Armada #9, Comettor's name was consistently misspelled "Commetor".

Foreign names

• Japanese: Sonar (ソナー Sonā)
• Korean: Sonar (소나 Sona)

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