Blast Off

Blast Off is a Decepticon Combaticon who transforms into a space shuttle, serving as the aerial and orbital specialist of his team. Together with his fellow Combaticons, he forms part of the gestalt warrior Bruticus.

Few characters carry the distinction of launching a publisher's deep-dive reference work, but Blast Off debuted in Marvel's The Transformers Universe #1 in 1986 — the Copper Age compendium that gave the expanding Transformers mythos its encyclopedic backbone. Appearing across titles like The Transformers and Transformers Compendium, Blast Off has kept formidable company over nearly four decades, sharing pages with the likes of Brawl, Swindle, Wheeljack, and Blaster. With a publishing presence stretching all the way to 2025, this is a character whose roots run deep in the Marvel era of Transformers lore — a genuine piece of the original mythology worth tracking down for any serious collector of the franchise's foundational years.