Silver (AB)

Silver is an Autobird from Angry Birds Transformers.

It's no use!

The prank-playing peregrine Silver is a fairly new addition to the Flock, a bird who was actually raised by the Bad Piggies! But now that she's been returned to her feathered brethren, she's up for knocking the pigs around (even if she feels a little bit bad for the hapless Minion Pigs. A very little bit).

Thanks to the AllSpark landing on Piggy Island, Silver has become Windblade Bird, granted the fast-flying powers of the Autobot Windblade. As the first Autobird who can fly (at least, without needing to be hurled from a slingshot), Silver's ready to clean up the island and take on the Eggbot army!

But look out for both Energon Windblade and Cybertronian leader Elita One.

Games

Angry Birds Transformers

Voice actor: Kiti Kokkonen (Finnish)

As Windblade

• Squad: Valkyries
• Mission Type: Investigator
• Unlock Type: Challenge Event (4000-6000 Tokens)

Windblade Bird is a "speedster" character, not as blindingly fast as Bumblebee but on-par with the likes of Jazz or Starscream. She fires anti-gravity electric bolts in rapid succession (with a suitable-for-her-species low swoop to their flight) that are not terribly strong individually, but move with incredible speed and sends single targets flying seconds after impact, plus she has a short reload time. Objects in the far distance may need to be aimed with a "press and hold" technique, as the low arc of the blasts might hit the ground if left to the auto-aim.

Windblade could only be unlocked as a playable character through timed Challenge Events. The first was "Enter the Silverbird", and is one of the common characters to appear in several subsequent events.

As Energon Windblade

Have fun being alone!

• Squad: Energized
• Mission Type: Investigator
• Unlock Type: Challenge Event (10000 Tokens)

Windblades gets an Energon upgrade and a significantly upgraded weapon. She fires three electric bolts at once that have more splash damage. Equipping her sword accessories is a real game-changer, as it grants her EMP projectiles that can stun all non-boss enemies!

She first appeared in the first event going into September 2017, "Energized".

As Elita One

A little preview of Elita's Power of the Primes incarnation. No, really, this predated the toy reveal.

• Squad: Femme Fatale
• Mission Type: Investigator
• Unlock Type: Challenge Event prize (10000 Tokens)

Elita One brings the nonstop barrage of blaster bolts to the Autobird team. Her weapon is similar to Thundercracker and Energon Starscream, a rapid-fire machinegun of weak bolts that nonetheless add up damage quickly, with no reloading or overheating. She adds a new trick to this though, with the bullets having a ricochet effect that can devastate close arrangements of blocks or Pigs! This weapon is best employed by dragging the crosshair around to keep up the assault rather than tapping.

She was first made available via "Legendary" Crates (aka "loot box arglebargle"), then as the main prize in the "Elita One" Challenge Event in late January 2018. She was also available through a number of in-app-purchase offers... but oddly, these asked for Gems rather than real money! Prices ranged from 500 to 5000 Gems, and always included Elita, the Pistol Accessory, and a certain amount of Spark; the higher the Gem cost, the more Sparks you bought.

Notes

• Silver and Windblade are both recent major female additions to their overwhelmingly-male casts. Windblade of course hit in late 2014 as the result of a fan-vote, where Silver was the big addition to the Flock in 2015's Angry Birds 2. Both characters can also trace their lineage to their current teams, but were raised elsewhere. Windblade hails from the Cybertronian colony world of Caminus, while Silver hatched from a stolen egg and was raised by Pigs.
• Despite being an Autobird, Windblade Bird used to use Deceptihog Materials to upgrade. A nod to Silver's Piggy upbringing?
• Windblade Bird also re-uses a few Minion-Pig-as-jet-characters animations, notably her "eager anticipation" idle when waiting inside Astrotrain for the score tallies.
• Unlike the other characters, Windblade Bird and Elita One Bird do not undergo any physical changes when upgraded.
• As of a March 2017 update, Windblade's thanking animations have been partially swapped: When Windblade thanks other buddies, both Autobirds and Deceptihogs treat her as a Deceptihog! But she's treated as normal when other bots thank Windblade.
• Silver is also sometimes portrayed as Red's girlfriend (as in The Angry Birds Movie 2), just as Elita-One is often portrayed as Optimus Prime's lover/girlfriend.