Quickstrike (BM)

Quickstrike is a Maximal from the Beast Machines portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Quickstrike kinda creeps the other Maximals out. There's no question that he's devoted to the cause, using his smarts and stealth skills to maximum effect against the Vehicons... but he almost always works alone in the shadows. The only other Maximal he's willing to work with on a mission is Blackarachnia, and frankly, they don't even like each other.

Despite his "silent hunter" schtick, Quickstrike loves music.

Fiction

3H comics

Quickstrike took part in the battle against the Quintesson forces one week after the reformatting of Cybertron into a technorganic world. Cheetor saved his butt. Wreckers: Finale Part II

A year later, Quickstrike was part of the crowd who gathered to welcome a group of Autobots back to Cybertron. Rook shoved him out of the way in order to get at the front of the crowd. Abduction

Wings Universe

Quickstrike joined Primal Prime's Wreckers. Apelinq's personal logs, 2014/06/18

2005 IDW continuity

Quickstrike was one of Onyx Prime's Maximals. After his master invaded Cybertron and felled Metrotitan, Quickstrike was sent out of the Nemesis under Liege Maximo's command to root out the Titan's companions. The Hallowing

Toys

Beast Machines

• Quickstrike (Basic, 2000)

• Known designers: Yuichiro Hira (TakaraTomy)

Part of the second wave of Beast Machines Basics, Quickstrike transforms into a technorganic wolf, and features an opening jaw. In robot mode, his left arm hides a translucent spring-loaded blade that deploys when a button on the arm is pressed. The robot mode also has an undocumented feature: the tail-blade extending from the back of his head is on a limited swivel joint and has his eyes molded into the front, which means moving the tail back and forth moves his eyes in a side-to-side sneaky-scanning manner.

His spark crystal is hidden inside his torso in both modes, mainly visible only during transformation.

• More information on Quickstrike at TFU.info

• Obsidian / Quickstrike (2-pack, 2000)

Quickstrike was also available in a two-pack with the Vehicon Obsidian. Both toys are actually on their original individual cards, but packed within a thick cardboard backing with "Beast Machines 2 Pack" printed on it.

Among other outlets, these were sold at the now-defunct toy chain ToyCo, which was similar to KB Toys and appeared in several of the "Mills" family of shopping centers, like Arizona Mills or Ontario Mills, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Notes

• Quickstrike had the pre-release name of "Wolfgang".^[1]

References