Mirage

Transforms from race car to robot and back!

AUTOBOT: MIRAGE

FUNCTION: SPY
"Who and what I am I hide from the enemy."

MIRAGE is not thrilled about being an Autobot freedom fighter. Prefers hunting turbofoxes on Cybertron with his high-priced friends. Effective fighter, more effective intelligence gatherer. Electrodisrupter can cast illusions altering his physical placement and appearance for up to 6 minutes. Expert marksman with armor-piercing rocket-dart hunting rifle. Unsure of Autobot cause...can't fully be trusted.

• Strength: 6
• Intelligence: 9
• Speed: 7
• Endurance: 5
• Rank: 7
• Courage: 5
• Firepower: 6
• Skill: 10

Like Jazz, Wheeljack and Smokescreen, Mirage's detailed sticker job was because he was based on an actual racecar: the Ford JS11 car which won three Formula 1 races for Liger Gitanes, which can be seen at http://f1records.narod.ru/teams/ligier.html -- note the very similar coloring job, with only the name noticably changed ("Gitanes" to "Citanes").

Mirage, on the cartoon, mainly used his abovementioned holographic abilities to make himself invisible. Presumably this took a phenomenal amount of power, because he never really used it when he needed to avoid getting shot. Of all the "race cars" in the Autobot lineup, he's the only one that actually was one (a Formula 1 racer) instead of just an expensive sports car.

Mirage

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Jobs' Notation: SET > OP IN [DEX] > OP TOE [DEL]

To perform a mirage, you need to get a basic rhythm down: set, step, catch. Off a toe set slightly towards you, quickly jump back and plant both feet, then jump sideways, with your support leg extended forward, so it passes over the bag. Your right foot will be trailing along the ground as you jump. Then, as you bring the support leg down, bring the setting leg up and scoop it for the delay.

Mi`rage" (?), n. [F., fr. mirer to look at carefully, to aim, se mirer to look at one's self in a glass, to reflect, to be reflected, LL. mirare to look at. See Mirror.]

An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage.

By the mirage uplifted the land floats vague in the ether,
Ships and the shadows of ships hang in the motionless air.
Longfellow.

© Webster 1913.