The last of the three Mega Pretenders is a Decepticon who became a major villain in the pages of the original Transformers comics. His inner robot is a pretty basic little 'bot that turns into a spacecraft. It's the outer shell, however, that's the real attention getter. It is some sort of armored alien warrior with a fearsome face that resembles a Japanese oni mask. As a Mega Pretender, this outer shell also transforms, in this case to a larger space ship. So distinctive was his outer shell design that the inner robot rarely made an appearance in the comic. Thunderwing was available in 1989. That same year, in Japan, the body became the basis of the character Black Shadow.
