Thundercracker

Thundercracker roared onto the scene in 1994's Transformers: Generation 2 #6, brought to life by the legendary Simon Furman and artist Derek Yaniger right at the dawn of the Modern Age. This Marvel-published Transformer has kept some of the most iconic company in the franchise — sharing pages with heavy-hitters like Megatron, Optimus Prime, Starscream, and Soundwave — placing him squarely in the thick of the Generation 2 saga's high-stakes action. Though his catalog footprint is compact, his appearances in Transformers: Generation 2 and the Transformers Compendium make him a genuine piece of '90s Transformers history worth tracking down for any serious collector of the era.