History SelfDemonstrating / Waspinator

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: In [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated that ozzer cartoon]], Wazzzp wazzz a good bot! Everyone elzzze hurt him! Frame him up for being a traitor! But then Bumble-bot and Bulk-bot said that I wazzz alwayzzz mean to them, and that even if I weren't a traitor, I wazzz never a good bot! NEVER A GOOD BOT?! WAZZZPINATOR SHOW THEM!!! WILL HAVE REVENGE!!! But show ended before ozzer Wazzzpinator could carry it out.

''[[SelfDemonstrating/BeastWarsMegatron Waspinator! Get your groveling skid plate out here! The Maximals are attacking the base! Do not disobey my orders! Yessssss.]]''

* DemonicPossession: Stupid [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Starscream}} Decepticon spark]] do thizzz to Wazzzpinator. If Wazzzpinator ever getzzz hizzzz handzzz on him--ohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoh! ''If he ever gets his hands on who? Don't think I can't take you over again you incompetent wretch!''

* GrandTheftMe: [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Starscream}} Decepticon jet-bot]] steal Wazzzpinator'zzz body! Wazzzpinator had bad headache. Ohhhhh.

* DemonicPossession: Stupid [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Starscream}} Decepticon jet-robot]] do thizzz to Wazzzpinator. If Wazzzpinator ever getzzz hizzzz handzzz on him--ohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoh! ''If he ever gets his hands on who? Don't think I can't take you over again you incompetent wretch!''

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: In [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated that ozzer cartoon]], Wazzzp wazzz a good bot! Everyone elzzze hurt him! Frame him up for being a traitor! But then Bumble-bot and Bulk-bot said that I wazzz alwayzzz mean to them, and that even if I weren't a traitor, I wazzz never a good bot! NEVER A GOOD BOT?! WAZZZPINATOR SHOW THEM!!! WILL HAVE REVENGE!!! But show ended before other Wazzzpinator could carry it out.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: In [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated that ozzer cartoon]], Wazzzp wazzz a good bot! Everyone elzzze hurt him! Frame him up for being a traitor! But then Bumble-bot and Bulk-bot said that I wazzz alwayzzz mean to them, and that even if I weren't a traitor, I wazzz never a good bot! NEVER A GOOD BOT?! WAZZZPINATOR SHOW THEM!!! WILL HAVE REVENGE!!!

* IronButtMonkey: Wazzzpinator alwazzz get blown up, but it become too common for Wazzpzinator to worry about.

* DrivenToVillainy: Wazzzpinator from [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated that ozzzer cartoon]] was good bot! But Bumblebot said Wazzzp was a Decepticon spy! Put him in stockade! Made him mad! Wazzzp wanted revenge! Autobots wanted to put Wazzzp back into stockade even though Wazzzp wazzz innocent! Wazzzp ran to spider lady! Spider lady [[FalseFriend acted like friend!]] Made Wazzzp Wazzzpinator! [[PainfulTransformation It hurt!]] Then Spider lady said she wazzz uzzzing Wazzzpinator! So why do you think Wazzzpinator went bad here? Blame Shockwave for creating the mezzz in the firzzzt place.

* DrivenToVillainy: Wazzzpinator from [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated that ozzzer cartoon]] was good bot! But Bumblebot said Wazzzp was a Decepticon spy! Put him in stockade! Made him mad! Wazzzp wanted revenge! Autobots wanted to put Wazzzp back into stockade even though Wazzzp wazzz innocent! Wazzzp ran to spider lady! Spider lady [[FalseFriend acted like friend!]] Made Wazzzp Wazzzpinator! [[PainfulTransformation It hurt!]] Then Spider lady said she wazzz uzzzing Wazzzpinator! So why do you think Wazzzpinator went bad here? Blame Shockwave for creating the mezz in the firzzzt place.

* DrivenToVillainy: Wazzzpinator from [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated that ozzzer cartoon]] was good bot! But Bumblebot said Wazzzp was a Decepticon spy! Put him in stockade! Made him mad! Wazzzp wanted revenge! Autobots wanted to put Wazzzp back into stockade even though Wazzzp wazzz innocent! Wazzzp ran to spider lady! Spider lady [[FalseFriend acted like friend!]] Made Wazzzp Wazzzpinator! [[PainfulTransformation It hurt!]] Then Spider lady said she wazzz uzzzing Wazzzpinator! So why do you think Wazzzpinator went bad here?

* ThrowTheDogABone: Doggie-bot got beat by Wazzzpinator. Thrice! Wazzzpinator, rulezzzzzz! [[spoiler: Then, Wazzzpinator get to be happy at last]].

* AdaptationalWimp: [[AllThereInTheManual Wazzpinator'zzz toy]], said Wazzpinator [[ColdSniper great sharpzzzhot ]] and [[TheDreaded feared]] by Maximalzzzz, especially when Wazzzpinator get Transmetal form! But what do [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars cartoon]] do? Make Wazzzpinator [[TheChewToy chew toy]]!

* LosingYourHead: Wazzzpinator alwayzzz lozzze head. Sometimezzz thatzzz all thatzzz left.

''(Wazzzpinator say read like Scott [=McNeil=], or Creator/TomKenny!)''

--> '''Waspinator:''' Waspinator having good day! Not get shot at once! ''(Is immediately shot)''

* TheStarscream: Wazzzpinator not above helping Wazzzpinator. Wazzpinator wantzzz power. [[BorrowedCatchphrase Yezzzzzz]] Hehehehehehehe--ohohohohohohohoohoh! ''[[SelfDemonstrating/{{Starscream}} And rightfully so! After all, who else would dare to accomplish such brilliant schemes as I, the TropeNamer himself! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH]]'' Ohhhhh. Wazzpinator hazzz splitting headache!

[[ThisIsGonnaSuck Wazzpinator not going to like thizzzz]]. So read Wazzzpinator'zzz tropes until Wazzzpinator gets back. Probably in piecezzzz.

* VillainDecay: At the start of the series, he's mildly competent in a fight. It doesn't last past the pilot.
* VillainousFriendship: Implied to have one with Terrorsaur; Terrorsaur is the only Predacon to drag Waspinator back to base for repairs, and is the only being in the universe to treat him with a modicum of respect.

* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler: Wazzpinator lozze worship. Then Wazzpinator becomezzz slave to Megatron. Wazzzpinator wazzz fine with thizzz. Then Wazzzpinator lozze it again! Ohhhh. Thizzz why Wazzpinator's voice [[WesternAnimation/BeastMachines no like that show.]] At least Wazzzpinator thinkzzz]].

* AdaptationalWimp: [[AllThereInTheManual In the toyline]], Waspinator is described as a [[ColdSniper ruthless and highly competent warrior]] who's [[TheDreaded dreaded]] by the Maximals. He got even more frightening when he got his Transmetal upgrade. The cartoon version of Waspinator is completely ineffectual and always gets blasted down.
* AdaptedOut: He does not appear in the 1997 ''VideoGame/BeastWarsTransformers'' video game.
* AffablyEvil: Of the PunchClockVillain variety. His moments of breaking the fourth wall are often him lamenting his ButtMonkey[=/=]ChewToy status to the audience.

* BeingEvilSucks: His tenure as a Predacon results in him receiving countless humiliating defeats and injuries and nothing but scorn and abuse from his colleagues. [[spoiler:He has enough in the finale and quits.]]

* BreakoutCharacter: It is impossible to talk about "Beast Wars" without bring him or Dinobot up. His popularity made him not only survive the series, but be honored in the Hall of Fame

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In his earliest appearances, it seemed his intended characterization was a cold, robotic killer (playing up the "-inator" part of his name), based on his clipped, terse dialogue and competence in battle. This whole idea was dropped fairly quickly, and his speech patterns shifted from "terse" to "YouNoTakeCandle."
* TheChewToy: By the time season 2 rolls around, barely an episode goes by where Waspinator doesn't get hurt in some painful, yet amusing fashion.
* CosmicPlaything: The universe just flat-out hates Waspinator, and the poor guy knows it. [[spoiler:It says a lot that he winds up viewing getting his spark ripped out and used to power a Vehicon General, shown to be an AndIMustScream situation for everyone who befell the same fate, is something he views as an ''improvement'' to his life.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Waspinator actually has a pretty good aim, and has done things like shoot down Optimus Primal, shoot Dinobot's rotating blade out of his hand, get a sneak attack on Tigatron, and, most notable of all, defeat Silverbolt ''three times''. It's just that bad things tend to happen to him ''first''...or sometimes immediately after he shoots (for instance, the propeller blade disarm resulted in Dinobot landing on him, then jamming him into the barrel of Rampage's cannon).
* CuddleBug: In "Victory", when the Predacons start arguing while hiding out in close quarters, Tarantulas angrily complains Waspinator keeps cuddling him like a stuffed animal. Notably, Waspinator doesn't even bother to deny this.
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:In the finale, he quits the Predacons after having enough of being TheChewToy.]]
-->'''Waspinator:''' [[spoiler:Waspinator sick of being evil! Sick of being Predacon! And Waspinator ''especially'' sick of ''[[TheChewToy getting blown to scrap all the time]]''! So, Waspinator ''QUIT!'']]
* DemonicPossession: Courtesy of Starscream in the appropriately titled "Possession". It ends about as well for Waspinator as anything else does.
-->'''Waspinator''': ''[in pieces]'' Ooh, Waspinator has a headache in his ''whole body''.
* {{Determinator}}: Not just in his name- it takes a special kind of determination to keep going when the universe seems to have it out for you, but Waspinator is one determined 'bot. [[spoiler:Given that, it should come as no surprise that he's the only member of the ''Darksyde'''s crew to survive the Beast Era, outliving even ''Megatron''.]]
-->'''Waspinator:''' Waspinator... never... surrender!
** Taken to another level in ''Beast Machines'', where it isis revealed that [[spoiler:Waspinator, without a spaceship, flew ''by himself across galaxies'' from Earth to Cybertron. Something which, due to the distance involved, '''took several centuries to do''']]. Just damn!
* TheDitz: Not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. His eccentric manner of speech doesn't help. At the same time, he's still [[OnlySaneMan noticeably more self-aware]] than Scorponok, Terrorsaur, Inferno, and Quickstrike. Which [[SurroundedByIdiots says something about the quality of lackeys]] the Predacons had to work with.
* EyeBeams: He does have these but rarely uses them in combat, preferring to rely on his other weapons instead.
* TheFatalist: Waspinator is well aware his lot in life is to be TheChewToy, and has reluctantly accepted it.
* FriendlySniper: He has good aim and isn't totally insane, even being somewhat affable at times.
* GlassCannon: Despite his ButtMonkey status, Waspinator has a pretty high hit rate. He just gets blown up before he gets the chance to fire.
* GrandTheftMe: He got hijacked by the spark of G1 Starscream in the episode, "Possession".
* GroinAttack: On the receiving end when the Maximals are prevented from using guns during a cease-fire. Rattrap fights ''dirty''.
* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler:''Beast Wars'' ends with him leaving the Predacons and winding up worshipped by a tribe of primitive humans, declaring that he was happy at last. ''Beast Machines'' shows that he was kicked out by them sometime afterwards and he flew back to Cybertron, which took several centuries; when he finally got back, Megatron extracted his spark and brainwashed him into serving as the Vehicon general Thrust. Waspinator is actually pretty happy with this, since he doesn't get blown up anymore, but even this doesn't last and at the end of the series he winds up reformatted into a tiny wasp. The last we see of him is him ranting to Rattrap about how much of a CosmicPlaything he is.]]
* HarmlessVillain: Played with. He's a pretty good shot, but he's the universe's personal CosmicPlaything and fails at almost everything he does.

* TheIgor: He serves this role to Megatron during the creation of Dinobot II.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He rarely succeeds and quite often just gets blown to pieces. This is part of why the fandom loves Waspinator.
* IronButtMonkey: Waspinator routinely takes damage that would kill almost any other Transformer as a running gag. Expanded universe material claims his spark is abnormally small and located in his head, expanding the concept of “non fatal” injuries to the hilarious extremes we see in the show.
* LosingYourHead: He gets blown into pieces, regularly. In many cases, his body is so mangled that his talking (well, bitterly complaining) head is the only recognizable part of left.
* LyricalDissonance: When he was inducted into the Transformer Hall of Fame, they played ''The Touch''. It's an uplifting song about how no matter what, you're kicking ass and taking names. It's set to scenes of Waspinator getting unceremoniously blasted to scrap.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:He gets sick of all the abuse he takes and abandons the Predacons at the end of ''Beast Wars''.]]
* TheNicknamer: Except for Megatron and Optimus, all the other characters have nicknames from him such as "ant-bot" (Inferno) and "two-head" (Quickstrike). Megatron got one in the penultimate episode ("dragon-bot"). Given Megatron only gets his nickname when Waspinator resigns as a Predacon, it seems that Waspinator uses his nicknames in a derogatory fashion.

* OnlySaneMan: Scorpion-bot [[UndyingLoyalty kizzz-up]], Spider-botzzz [[MadScientist crazy]] [[TheCamp traitorzzz]], flying Dino-bot [[TheStarscream traitor]], Dinobot [[HeelFaceTurn bigger traitor]], snake/scorpion-bot [[{{Jerkass}} mean]], crab-bot [[TheBrute mad]], and ant-bot [[AxCrazy even madder]]! That why Wazzzpinator hazzz actual senzzze.