Phoenix is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers

Transformers

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 series. He was one of the stars of the anime series Transformers: Masterforce where he was voiced by Masato Hirano. He shouldn't be confused with American Transformers character Cloudburst

Cloudburst (Transformers)

Cloudburst is a fictional character from the Transformers series. He turns into a jet and has a shell that looked like an armored human. He shouldn't be confused with Phoenix, a Japanese Transformer who shares the same toy.-Transformers: Generation 1:...

, who looks nearly identical to Phoenix.

Transformers: Generation 1

Phoenix's main role is to question signals and communications received and solve them. He is very proud with his use of the Snake Rod weapon, and uses it well in his aerial attacks. His final attack is the "The Cloud Ray Car" where he brandishes the Snake Rod when airborne to cause a jet-stream to destroy the enemy. Even though he’s an excellent engineer, when too many communications are received at once, he can become easily confused. In his human guise he works in a German airport as a communications engineer. He also lectures fellow Autobot members on his code-breaking hobby.

Animated series

Phoenix was a regular character featured in the early episodes of the Japanese exclusive series Transformers: Super-God Masterforce

Transformers: Super-God Masterforce

is the title of a Japanese Transformers line of toys and anime series that ran from April 12, 1988 to March 7, 1989 for 42 episodes. On July 3, 2006 the series was released on DVD in the UK, and it was aired on AnimeCentral in the UK a few years later....

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Eight thousand years ago, a starship containing the Autobot Pretenders Metalhawk

Metalhawk

Metalhawk is a fictional character, a Transformer robot in the Japanese Masterforce series.-Transformers: Generation 1:Metalhawk transforms into a jet, and has a human Pretender shell. In robot mode his left hand could retract and launch knock-out gas. His weapons include a Jet Rifle, Titanium...

, Lander

Lander (Transformers)

-Transformers: Generation 1:As a ground tank, Lander can reach speeds exceeding 400 km/h. In his human guise he is an automovive planner from New York. He is skilled at land attacks and is the physically strongest Autobot Pretender...

, Diver and Phoenix pursued the Decepticon Pretenders Blood, Dauros and Gilmer to Neolithic

Neolithic

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-era Earth, where they crashed. Using their Pretender abilities, the Autobots adopted the form of humans - not using simple external shells like in the American fiction, but actually transforming the very structure of their bodies into an organic

Organism

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 equivalent, shrinking down to normal human size to hide in plain sight among burgeoning humanity. The Decepticon Pretenders, on the other hand, adopted the forms of monstrous creatures, becoming feared as demons by early man. After many battles, the Autobots succeeded in defeating their enemies and sealing them away for thousands of years — Blood in the pyramids of Egypt

Egypt

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, Gilmer in the ruins of Atlantis

Atlantis

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, and Dauros beneath the Nazca Lines

Nazca Lines

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 in Peru

Peru

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Liberated in the near future by the mysterious Decepticon god, Devil Z, the three Pretenders entered his service, and immediately began to draw the Autobot Pretenders out of hiding, before turning their attention to a series of plans of acquiring energy and disrupting one of the three Chokoon Powers on Earth. After a string of failures, Devil Z supplanted them with his more powerful Godmaster

Powermasters

Powermasters were a sub-group within the Transformers toyline in 1988. They were defined by the inclusion of a miniature figure which "unlocked the secret of the transformation"—in other words, the toy could not transform from vehicle mode to robot mode unless the figure was transformed into engine...

minions, and although they would often participate in missions, their standing was downgraded and their regularity of appearance on the battlefield diminished. Eventually, they generally only served to supply comic relief, and departed Earth with the other surviving Decepticons when Devil Z was destroyed.

Toys

• Generation 1 Pretender Phoenix (1988)

Although portrayed a s a different character, the toys for Cloudburst and Phoenix were identical.