Thundercracker was a Seeker, and a minor antagonist of Phase 1 of IDW Publishing's Transformers series. While he was part of the Decepticons for many years, the atrocities commited by them would grow too much for Thundercracker to bear, and would leave the Decepticons, and eventually settle down on Earth.
History[]
Backstory[]
Thundercracker was marked as an outlier, a Cybertronian with a special ability, due to being able to create sonic booms. At the Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced technology, Thundercracker met Skywarp for the first time, who would resent the Academy, as he felt they looked down on as second class citizens due to their jet alternate modes. After being approached by Senator Starscream, Thundercracker was pushed into joining him, and was rebuilt into a body identical to his own. As it turned out, this was so Starscream could confuse his taxpayers.
Megatron Origin[]
Thundercracker, Starscream and Skywarp were approached by Soundwave to join Megatron the gladiator and revolutionary as fliers. While the trio believed that they would be joining his gladiatorial team, Megatron intended them to be fully-fledged warriors as he transitioned the Decepticons from underground activists to fully-blown insurgents. After being given weapons systems by Hook, the Seekers kidnapped Senator Decimus, so he could be executed at Megatron's recruitment rally. However, Sentinel Prime and the Autobots arrived and arrested everyone.
After Starscream killed the members of the Senate who had gathered in Kaon and liberated the prisoners, Megatron ordered his army to devastate Kaon, during which Thundercracker and Skywarp were sent to target a ship carrying the wealthy and elite. Thundercracker expressed reservations about attacking the ship, but Skywarp urged him to not think about it and just do it.