Air Hammer is a Maximal from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Please Air Hammer, don't hurt 'em.

Air Hammer is all about speed. As at home in water as in the air he's just about the fastest creature you'll find in either realm. Combine that with the eyesight of a hawk and you've got a recon specialist without peer. Personally, however, the first impression to strike an observer would likely be one of stillness. He is a robot of few words and few unnecessary expressions or even movements, always watching and thinking but never showing what's inside, at least not until he acts quickly and decisively on it. He's not unfriendly, really, but his quiet, overly thoughtful and taciturn nature can give others that impression. Still, his actions in combat have made him quite popular with his Maximal comrades.^[1]

Fiction

3H comics

During the final battle with Shokaract, several realities converged into a single, apocalyptic timestorm. Beast Warriors from alternate realities emerged, including Air Hammer, B'Boom, Drill Bit, Transquito, Polar Claw, and unidentified others, though all of them were summarily blown to bits. Luckily for Air Hammer, the timeline bonked out of existence, making the events with Shokaract null. Terminus

Another Air Hammer was a member of the Maximal High Council after the Great Transformation. He, along with his fellow council members, disbelieved Optimus Primal when he warned them of the threat of Unicron. Homecoming

2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity

All of The Asylum's movies in one convenient death machine.

Shortly after the ratification of the Pax Cybertronia, Air Hammer was walking around on Cybertron. Dawn of the Predacus

Air Hammer was one of many protoforms held aboard the Axalon when it left Cybertron. His stasis pod had a tumultuous time, cast into orbit as the ship crashed before crashing in turn himself as the transwarp explosion shook the pods out of space. He was not reactivated during the main Beast Wars, however, but by the newly arrived Magmatron. Magmatron sought a new army of Predacons to conquer Cybertron in the presence, and rigged an activation signal to bring all the scattered pods on-line, using a remote Predacon shell program to alter the Maximals within. Air Hammer and many others were spared this fate by the Maximal turncoat in Magmatron's midst, a member of the Pack named Razorbeast.

Air Hammer was activated as a Fuzor, like several others, and quickly joined forces with his fellow flying Maximals Prowl, Night Glider, and Sonar. The Gathering #2 They united with Razorbeast's guerilla fighters, Torca's militia, and the other scattered Maximals to bust some Pred-heads. They routed Magmatron's forces and began to fortify their position, while waiting for some word from the future in response to a transwarp signal SOS Razorbeast got out. The Gathering #4

The Predacons grew more desperate as the primary Beast Wars between Optimus Primal and Megatron drew to a conclusion. They attacked Razorbeast's Maximal camp, and Air Hammer fought hard against the villains. The Ascending #1 He was engaged in some aerial dogfighting with Lazorbeak when the Pack arrived from the future. The Ascending #2 The Maximals and Predacons were forced to unite against the more dangerous threat of the Blendtrons, Heralds of Unicron. Air Hammer flew in to meet the enemy head-on...literally...as he hammerheaded Rartorata in the skull. The Ascending #3 The Pack's ship brought Air Hammer and a contingent of Maximals and Predacons back to Cybertron to confront Unicron's puppet, Shokaract. Half his flying squad was taken out by the creature's immense firepower. The Ascending #4

2005 IDW continuity

Air Hammer was born from a hot spot inside the Titan Chela, who left Cybertron to colonize Eukaris. Windblade caught a glimpse of him and Injector diving into an ocean when she was merged with Metroplex's mind. Windblade vol. 1 #4

With Eukaris a member of the Council of Worlds, Air Hammer was on Cybertron when Bruticus attacked. He was seen fleeing from the giant combiner along with several other civilians. The Line Between Us He later attended a trial for a Badgeless officer accused of killing a Decepticon. Heavy

Recordicons

Air Hammer quizzed Lazorbeak on whether any of the guys around were the original guys they shared names with. Another bargoer insisted he was the original Garboil, but Lazorbeak clarified he was actually Garboyl, and Air Hammer was left wondering if any of the old guard was still around with a new form. Recordicons #26

Beast Wars: Uprising

Air Hammer was on the Maximal team in a fateful match of the Games, which was interrupted by Lio Convoy's assassination of Supersonic and call for an uprising against the Builders. Broken Windshields Air Hammer fled the match along with the rest of his teammates. Head Games

Legends comic

Air Hammer was part of a pack of Blentrons who were searching for Angolmois Energy and attacked Blue Big Convoy and Big Junior. The villains were destroyed, but the elder Convoy was fatally wounded in the process. Bonus Edition Blue Big Convoy

Precursor World

A good deal smaller than their cousins.

A winged hammerhead shark and a lizard-mantis creature were among the native fauna of the Green Planet, tended to by Green Tender Convoy. God Neptune comic 1

Toys

Beast Wars

Theoretically the most terrifying thing imaginable. Unless he's the size of a hawk.

• Air Hammer (Basic Fuzor, 1998)

• Known designers: Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

Part of the first wave of third-year Beast Wars Basics, Air Hammer is a white and blue Fuzor: his beast mode is a chimeric combination between a hawk and a hammerhead shark. He features a spring-loaded snapping jaw which becomes his right arm in robot mode.

• More information on Air Hammer at TFU.info

Notes

Foreign names

• French: Le Marteau (Canada, "The Hammer")
• Italian: Squalo Volante ("Flying Shark")
• Spanish: Martillo Aereo ("Air Hammer")

References