Searchlight (Transformers)

Searchlight is the name of two fictional character in the Transformers toy line, comics and cartoon series.

Transformers: Generation 1

A creature of the night. Cruises the Earth with the curiosity of a cat. Nothing is too insignificant or irrelevant to escape his notice. Quiet, serious; a loner. Top row of headlights equipped with stereoscopic digital video cameras, spectroscopic chemical analyzer, and radiation detector. Bottom lights can produce strobe effect, full color spectrum with blinding 10,000 watt power.

Marvel Comics

Searchlight appears in the Marvel Comics Transformers series.

Animated series

The Throttlebots are among the troops commanded by Rodimus Prime in their attempt to rescue the body of Optimus Prime from the lab of Doctor Mark Morgan. They are infected with the hate plague.

IDW Publishing

Searchlight served under Optimus Prime in the Autobot hub.

Toy

• Generation 1 Throttlebot Searchlight (1987)

A new mold. Like all Throttlebots he came with a pullback motor which could be used in either mode. The Throttlebots were among the first Transformers released in 1987 and featured pullback motors that worked in both car and robot modes.

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Transformers: Power Core Combiners

Searchlight is the most skilled at search and rescue among the Autobots.

Toys

• Power Core Combiners Searchlight with Backwind (2010)

Searchlight is an Autobot helicopter partnered with the Mini-Con Backwind. As a Power Core Combiner Scout, he can become the torso of a combined form by using four drone limbs (sold separately). His partner Backwind transforms into a gun that can mount under the front end of his helicopter mode.

Searchlight and Backwind are also repainted as the Decepticons Windburn and Beacon, respectively.

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