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'''Splashdown''' is a [[fictional character]] from the [[Transformers]] series. He is an Autobot Pretender naval commander introduced in 1988.

==Transformers Pretenders==
Splashdown is a Pretender Autobot who turns into a hovercraft. He is a navel commander, and highest ranking of the original six Autobot Pretenders.

===Fictional biography===
[[image:splashdown-boxart.jpg|left|thumb|120px|Splashdown box art]]
{{quote|A hard-living, hard-hitting, wind-torn soldier. A veteran of battles on 10,000 oceans on 1,000 worlds throughout the universe. At home on water, mercury, even liquid lead. Outer shell armed with long-range, armor-piercing harpoon gun and electro-sword. Robot and hovercraft modes armed with photon blaster. Outer shell composed of high-density armor impervious to corrosive liquids and strong enough to withstand underwater depths of over 30,000 feet. Transforms to hovercraft with maximum speed of 210 mph.}}

===Comics===
====1984 Marvel Comics====
Although not seen or mentioned directly, Splashdown was among the Autobots who joined [[Fortress Maximus]] in leaving [[Cybertron]] on the [[Steelhaven]] for the planet [[Nebulos]] (Transformers: Headmasters issue 1). Unfortunately, they were followed to Nebulos by the [[Decepticon]]s under [[Scorponok]], leading war to break out once more. Fortress Maximus's band left Nebulos for the planet [[Earth (Transformers)|Earth]], with the Decepticons in close pursuit. (Transformers: Headmasters issue 4).

[[image:autobotpretenders.jpg|left|thumb|Splashdown, Groundbreaker, Cloudburst, Landmine, Waverider and Sky High stand guard aginast Decepticon attack at Alternate Reality, Inc. in ''The Transformers'' issue 40 by Marvel Comics]]
When [[Brainstorm (Transformers)|Brainstorm]] needed subjects to duplicate a Decepticon Pretender experiment, Splashdown and five other Autobots volunteered and became the Autobot Pretenders. They fought the Decepticon Pretenders with the help of [[Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Transformers)|Goldbug]] <ref>Transformers issue 40 (1988)</ref>. They soundly defeated their Decepticon Pretender rivals.

Slashdown was seen in the background when Optimus Prime sent Landmine and Cloudburst on their mission to obtain computer chips to repair fellow Autobots in issue 52, "Guess Who The Mechannibals Are Having For Dinner?" <ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/comics/view.php?comic_id=54 Seibertron link]</ref>

''The Decepticon Pretenders [[Bomb-Burst]], [[Iguanus]] and [[Skullgrin]] were sent to steal from an oil rig in the "Gulf of New Mexico" in the 1989 UK Annual story "The Chain Gang." They were opposed and captured by the Autobot Pretenders [[Cloudburst (Transformers)|Cloudburst]], [[Landmine (Transformers)|Landmine]] and Splashdown.''

====Dreamwave Productions====
Splashdown had a biography printed in the ''Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye'' series by [[Dreamwave Productions]].

====Transformers: Mosaic====
Sky High, Splashdown and Waverider appear in the ''[[Transformers: Mosaic]]'' story "History Repeats" by [[Franco Villa]].<REF>http://transformers-mosaic.deviantart.com/art/quot-History-Repeats-quot-141850293</REF>

===Toys===
*'''''Hasbro Transformers Pretenders'' Splashdown''' (1988)
:A new mold. Turns from robot to Hovercraft. Comes with a 2-pack shell, sword, rifle, gun, helmet and belt.

*Several [https://www.shapeways.com/marketplace/games/toys/?tag=Splashdown parts for Splashdown] are available on [[Shapeways]].

{{seealso|Cicadomorpha (First Party Toys)}}

==References==
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==External links==
*http://www.tfu.info/1988/Autobot/Splashdown/splashdown.htm

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[[Category:Dreamwave Productions characters]]
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[[Category:Fictional sword fighters]]
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[[Category:Pretenders (Transformers)]]
[[Category:Transformers: Mosaic characters]]

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