Terradive (G2)

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Terradive is a Decepticon Skyscorcher from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Guess what? He's evil and doesn't like Autobots.

Terradive doesn't think much beyond "follow orders" and "shoot Autobots". He's all about brute force, mostly there to be pointed in the right direction and let loose on enemies.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel Generation 2 comic

Well that's odd.

Terradive and the other Skyscorchers aided Megatron and Starscream against Optimus Prime and the Dinobots in a battle on an unidentified rocky planet. He was shot by Snarl, whose blast revealed Terradive's face (?!) under his visor glass. War Without End!

Fleetway Generation 2 comic

Terradive was part of Bludgeon's forces sent to Earth to smash stuff as a ploy to draw out Optimus Prime. War Without End When Megatron appeared to take back Decepticon leadership, Tornado retrieved Hawk and Terradive, who were attacking a squad of Autobots, so they could tackle Megatron.

Things didn't go too well for Terradive then. When the Dinobots arrived, Snarl shot Terradive down. He was presumably taken prisoner by the Autobots afterwards. War Zone

Regeneration One

When raiding the Pax Cybertronia Decommissioning Depot in Kalis with Afterburner, Windrazor and Eagle Eye, Terradive apparently tripped "every alarm in the place", leading to a siege with Ultra Magnus's Cybertronian Civil Defense. As Eagle Eye prepared to rig one of the Warbirds' detonator caps to detonate and cover their escape they were surprised by three Insecticons, who burst in under orders from Soundwave to make "martyrs" of the Skyscorchers. Terradive was killed by Venom's, uh, venom. Loose Ends, Part 1

Wings Universe

Terradive was part of the "second generation" of Transformers created on Earth at the Cyberfactory. Although born without a faction, he soon chose one anyways and joined Clench's Decepticon Syndicate alongside many others. Generation 2: Redux

2005 IDW continuity

Terradive served under the command of Turmoil when their second-in-command Deadlock abandoned his post. Drift #1

Legends comic

In the year 2038, Terradive was a member of the Decepticon faction led by Galvatron II. They attacked the planet Beast to steal its energy and became aware of the power of the Three Wise Ones' Gems. Terradive and the G-2 Decepticon jets strafed the Monsterbots and their Legends World allies so that Galvatron's Nemesis could begin harvesting power. However, the Legends Beast Warriors assumed their Transformer bodies and wreaked havoc on board Nemesis, bringing down the ship. The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3 Galvatron seized the Gem of Fire and attempted to wield it against his enemies, but the Monsterbots and local Beastformers proved better able to harness the Gems' power. Galvatron, Terradive, and the Decepticons were forced to retreat from Beast. Grotusque Chapter

The entity calling itself Unicron Neo attacked the Decepticons on Chaar. Terradive watched on as Galvatron was beaten and forced to flee into the past. He and the other Decepticons were pressed into attacking the Autobots on Zone at Unicron Neo's command. LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One

Toys

The Transformers

• Terradive (Skyscorcher, 1993)

• Accessories: Radar array/rifle
• Known designers: Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Sait (concept artist)

The Transformers Terradive transforms into a Ling-Temco-Vought A-7E Corsair II jet. His undercarriage radar becomes a hand-held non-firing blaster weapon for robot mode.

He was originally sold in the European market in 1993 as part of the "transitional" line that used the Generation 2 insignias, but lacked the new subline name.

This toy is gang-molded with Eagle Eye.

This mold was planned for use by Takara as the Block Town Autobot character Terradive, but that entire line was scrapped.

• More information on Terradive at TFU.info

Generation 2

• Terradive (Decepticon Jet, 1993) / Terradive (Skyscorcher, 1994)

• Accessories: Radar array/rifle

Released in the United States in 1993, Generation 2 Terradive is identical to the concurrent European "Generation 1" Terradive toy. He was re-released in the European Generation 2 line the following year.

Notes

• For reasons unknown, Terradive was sold under the same English name in both Europe and North America whereas the other Skyscorchers all received different names on opposite sides of the Atlantic. To boot, Takara had ultimately-unrealised plans to release an Autobot character named Terradive in the Japanese market!
• A piece of internal documentation containing an unfinished version of Terradive's cardback once turned up on eBay, evidently from the collection of a former Hasbro employee. This mockup shows that Terradive once had the preproduction name of "Terraswoop".
• Terradive's colour scheme nearly inspired the Universe multi-pack incarnation of the Mini-Con Gunbarrel, but this did not come to fruition.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Terradive (テラダイブ Teradaibu)
• Dutch: Nightmare
• French: Nightmare (Europe)
• Italian: Drake