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'''Waverider''' is a [[fictional character]] from the [[Transformers]] series. He is an Autobot Pretender navel warfare specialist introduced in 1988.

==Transformers: Generation 1==
Waverider an Autobot Pretender who specializes in naval warfare.

===Fictional biography===
{{Quote|A furious fighter and formidable adversary in battle. Prefers exploring the ocean bottom for buried treasure over warfare. Enjoys the "out-of-body" experience of working side-by-side with his humanoid shell. Without shell, transforms to aquatic sea-skimmer capable of diving to a depth of 25,000 feet! Armed for underwater combat with armored shell, energy-spear gun and a thermal broad-axe!}}

===Animated series===
Although the U.S. Transformers animated series stopped making original episodes before Waverider was brought out, his Japanese counterpart Diver appeared in the ''Masterforce'' anime series.<ref>{{cite book| title=Transformers: The Ark II |pages=98–99 |author= Jim Sorenson & Bill Forster |ISBN=978-1-60010-180-9 |publisher=IDW Publishing |date=July 22, 2008}}</ref>

Waverider appeared in animation was in early commercials for the Pretender toys.<ref>{{cite video |date=1988 |title= Pretender Transformers Commercial |url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-1daWCZTEY }}</ref>

Animation from the commercial was used in the opening credits for season 5 of the Transformers, which retold episodes of earlier seasons. Waverider appeared in them.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwR5Zr0goQ</ref>

===Comics===
====Condor Verlag====
In a story called "By their Blasters you shall know them ...!" from ''[[Transformers Comic-Magazin]]'' issue #12 by German comic publisher [[Condor Verlag]] [[Optimus Prime]] instructs [[Backstreet (Transformers)|Backstreet]], [[Bumblebee (Transformers)|Bumblebee]] and [[Ruckus (Transformers)|Ruckus]] on how to identify Autobots from Decepticons in battle using the Ark's computer. Waverider is one of those he displays to the Autobots.<ref>{{Cite comic| writer = Robert Mann| penciller = | inker =| story =By their Blasters you shall know them ...! | title =Transformers Comic-Magazin | volume = 1| issue = 12| date =December 1990 | publisher = [[Condor Verlag]]| location =}}</ref>

====Dreamwave Productions====
Waverider did not appear in any fiction from [[Dreamwave Productions]], but did get a biography in their ''Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye'' series.

====Fun Publications====
Waverider (or Diver) appeared among the various characters on [[Transtech]] [[Cybertron]] in the "Transcendent Part 4" by [[Fun Publications]].

====IDW Publishing====
[[Cloudburst (Transformers)|Cloudburst]], [[Groundbreaker]], [[Landmine (Transformers)|Landmine]] and Waverider appear in ''Spotlight: Hardhead'' investigating the [[Benzuli Expanse]] and reporting to [[Jetfire]].

====Marvel Comics====
Although not seen or mentioned directly, Waverider was among the Autobots who joined [[Fortress Maximus]] in leaving [[Cybertron]] for the planet [[Nebulos]] (Transformers: Headmasters #1). When there, he fought against the Decepticons on many occasions. Followed to Nebulos by the [[Decepticon]]s under [[Scorponok]], Fortress Maximus's band left Nebulos for the planet [[Earth (Transformers)|Earth]] (Transformers: Headmasters #4).

[[image:autobotpretenders.jpg|left|thumb|240px|Splashdown, Groundbreaker, Cloudburst, Landmine, Waverider and Sky High stand guard aginast Decepticon attack at Alternate Reality, Inc. in ''The Transformers'' #40 by Marvel Comics]]
When Brainstorm needed subjects to duplicate the Decepticon Pretender experiment, Waverider 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]] (Transformers #40).

Waverider's last appearance in the Marvel Transformers comics was in issue #75, where he was destroyed by [[Unicron]]'s optic blast.

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

===Toys===
* '''''Generation 1'' Pretender Waverider''' (1988)
:This toy was identical to the toy of [[Diver (Transformers)|Diver]] in Japan.<ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/database/character.php?view=&char_id=230 Waverider (Autobot Pretenders, Transformers G1)]</ref><ref>{{Cite book | title=The Unofficial Guide to Transformers 1980s Through 1990s Revised & Expanded 2nd Edition | last=Alvarez | first=J.E. | year=2001 | publisher=Schiffer Publishing Ltd.| ISBN=0-7643-1364-9 | page= 74}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | author = Jon & Carl Hartman | title = The Transformers: 1988 - Part 2 | journal = Lee's Action Figure News & Toy Review | volume = 1 | issue = 40 | pages = 68–69 | date = February 1996}}</ref><ref>Schroeder's Collectible Toys: Antique to Modern Guide by Sharon Huxford, Bob Huxford, 1995</ref>

{{seealso|Ankhor (Play With This Too)}}

==References==
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==External links==
*http://www.tfu.info/1988/Autobot/Waverider/waverider.htm

[[Category:1988 toys]]
[[Category:Autobots]]
[[Category:Condor Verlag characters]]
[[Category:Dreamwave Productions characters]]
[[Category:Fictional characters introduced in 1988]]
[[Category:Fictional characters with oxygen independence]]
[[Category:Fictional characters with superhuman durability]]
[[Category:Fictional characters with superhuman longevity]]
[[Category:Fictional characters with superhuman strength]]
[[Category:Fictional sailors]]
[[Category:Fictional ships]]
[[Category:Fictional undersea characters]]
[[Category:Fun Publications characters]]
[[Category:Hasbro toys]]
[[Category:IDW Publishing characters]]
[[Category:Marvel Comics characters]]
[[Category:Pretenders (Transformers)]]
[[Category:Transformers: Mosaic characters]]

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