Characters / Beast Wars Expanded Universe

Index: Maximals | Predacons | Others | Expanded Universe | Beast Wars Neo

Characters added to Beast Wars in the comics and/or the Japan-exclusive animes, in addition to the toylines. See the main Characters index here.

Maximals

Air Hammer

Function: Aerial Reconnaissance

Beast Mode: Hawk/Hammerhead Shark Hybrid

"If you see me, you've already lost."

A Maximal of few words, he's a Fuzor with a Hawk and Hammerhead Shark Beast Mode. His aerodynamic structure helps Air Hammer to be equally dexterous in water as in the air.

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• Beware the Quiet Ones: He hardly says anything but uses his razor-sharp jaw for locking onto the limbs of enemy Predacons.
• Mix-and-Match Critter: His beast mode is half hawk, half hammerhead shark.
• Noble Bird of Prey: He's part Hawk and is a noble warrior like every other Maximal.
• The Quiet One: He's a bot of few words, preferring to let his skills do the talking.
• Super-Senses: Sight and Smell. He has the eyesight of a hawk and has the ability to sniff out a Predacon from miles away.
• Threatening Shark: Where his enemies are concerned, at least.
• What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Inverted. His beast mode is half hammerhead shark — and he's a Maximal.
• You Are Already Dead: His quote above. By the time an enemy sees him, they're finished.

Airraptor

Function: Surveillance, Sharpshooter

Beast Mode: Archaeopteryx

"When the enemy is in my sights, the target is still perfection."

• Palette Swap: He's a redeco of Archadis.

Apache

Function: Deputy Commander

Alt/Beast Modes: Mandrill; Artillery Cannon

Voiced by: Sanryo Odaka

"Discipline and loyalty equal strength."

Second-in-command of Lio Convoy's Maximals during the Beast Wars II anime. A short-tempered, no-nonsense sort of officer, Apache demands nothing but the best from his troops... and even more from himself.

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• Butt-Monkey: He almost got himself killed, accidentally caused Lio to go missing after trying to save him, and almost got left behind by his fellow Maximals. And this is in the first episode!
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Despite being Lio Convoy's second-in-command, none of his fellow Maximals pay him any mind, save for Lio himself.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Apache's weakness. He takes failure hard and tends to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders; if something goes wrong, it's all his fault.
• I Owe You My Life: Years ago, before the events of the story, Apache and Lio Convoy were Maximal trainess. During a live-fire exercise, their commander ordered the group to leave behind any fallen comrades who had washed out of the program. Unfortunately, Apache was one of these bots. But rather than leave him behind, Lio Convoy, despite running low on energy himself, shared what he had with Apache. The two of them, weakened, supported one another through the final leg of the exercise. Both warriors made it to the checkpoint, and neither washed out.
• It's All My Fault: As stated above, everytime Apache screws up he takes it hard.
  • One notable screw-up was when Apache was on a collision course with a massive planetoid ship in the first episode. Lio Convoy ended up having to save him, and the resulting explosion caused Apache's ship to hurl through space while Convoy himself vanished. Afterward, Apache drowned his sorrows in cheap oil.
• Maniac Monkeys: Transforms into a baboon.
• Number Two: He's Lio Convoy's second in-command.
• Palette Swap: A very, very slight repaint of B'Boom. IDW's comics give him a slightly different build to distinguish them.
• Secret Weapon: His artillery cannon mode, referred to as his "Angry Combat Mode". Apache first used it in the sixth episode against Mantis, firing a powerful blast of energy that sent the Insectron through walls of stone. The downside is that he can't remember his time as a cannon.
• Undying Loyalty: To Lio Convoy, who saved him when they were trainees in Training from Hell. See I Owe You My Life.

Apelinq

Function: Squadron Commander

Beast Mode: Gorilla

"Download this!"

• Fusion Dance: Merges with Primal Prime to become Sentinel Maximus.
• Genius Bruiser: He prefers to outwit his opponents rather than just beat them with brute force.
• Intelligent Primate: His alt mode is a gorilla and one of the smartest the Maximals have to offer.
• Palette Swap: A red, white and green recolor of Transmetal Optimus Primal.

Apexus

Beast Mode: Tiger

"I will beat the rage of the vicious tiger into you!"

Arcee

Function: Valkyrie

Beast Mode: Black Widow Spider

"Looks are always deceiving."

Voiced by: Susan Blu

• Achilles in His Tent: She's spent the entire time since before the Pax in a depressed funk.
• There Are No Therapists: After Daniel's death, she fell into depression. After becoming a Maximal, she took up living in a cave, far from any contact.

Armordillo

Function: Desert Combat

Beast Mode: Armadillo

"Be patient and victory will come to you."

A master mechanic and explosives expert who carts a vast array of tools and devices around beneath his heavily armored shell.

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• Absurdly Long Wait: As per his bio quote above. Armordillo is known to build brilliantly elaborate traps and then wait silently and patiently for days or weeks on end until a Predacon steps right into it.
• Epic Flail: One of his beast mode limbs turns into a flail.
• Gadgeteer Genius: This guy is seemingly Beast Wars's answer to Generation One Wheeljack.
• Hidden Weapons: As stated above, he keeps a vast array of tools and devices inside his heavily armored shell, which includes his own hidden laser weapon that does devastating damage.
• Innate Night Vision: He has an impressive optic array that allows him to battle at night in the desert.
• Necessary Drawback: The trade-off to having a heavy, bullet-proof shell on Armordillo's back with dozens of weapons stored inside is that it hampers his speed.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: His back bears the burden of a built-in suit of armor that is virtually impenetrable to the point where enemy artillery bounces off like pebbles.

Bantor

Function: Jungle Warrior, Demolitions Expert

Beast Mode: Tiger/Mandrill Hybrid

"Patience may be a virtue, but a punch-up is pure delight."

A Maximal Fuzor who relishes in the boosts in power that his animal fusion gives him. He is a natural warrior in total flux with the ways of combat.

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• The Berserker: Normally, he's a nice, mellow guy... but sometimes he just goes ape. No pun intended.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: In IDW's Beast Wars: The Ascending, he was apparently crushed alongside Manta Ray by Drancron when he rolled over them.
• Demolitions Expert: Bantor is a disciplined warrior with a tactical mind and a keen understanding of guerilla warfare—useful traits to have when you're a demolitions specialist.
• Fatal Flaw: Bantor is his own Achilles heel. His level head and intricate tactics can all go out the window at a moment's notice, which can land him in trouble.
• Jack of All Trades: His combined tiger and mandrill traits allow him to be extremely versatile in battle.
• Lured into a Trap: Bantor stalks his prey slowly and silently through the jungle and into a carefully planned ambush. By that time, his Predacon victim has already walked right into one of his cleverly-disguised snares or explosive booby-traps.
• Maniac Monkeys: His mandrill half. Being closely related to baboons, his mandrill instincts can take control and send him into a feral berserker state.
• Megaton Punch: His arms have "hyper-reflex" musculature, meaning one punch from him is usually enough to put anyone down.
• Mix-and-Match Critter: His beast mode is half tiger, half mandrill.
• Panthera Awesome: His tiger half.
• Stealth Expert: Bantor can traverse deep into Predacon territory and escape undetected.

Battle Unicorn

Function: Scout Warrior

Beast Mode: Unicorn

"What the enemy does not see can definitely hurt them!"

• The Cameo: Had a small one alongside Mach Kick during My Little Pony/Transformers about to race Rainbow Dash.
• Unicorn: Yes, it's in his name and he turns into a transmetal unicorn.

B'Boom

Function: Guerilla Warfare Specialist

Alt/Beast Modes: Mandrill; Artillery Cannon

"Show me the wall...I'll bang my head against it."

B'Boom is one of the fiercest and most unpredictable of the Maximals. A heavy-hitting bot that turns into a metallic-blue organic mandrill, B'Boom is an expert in guerilla warfare.

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• Ascended Extra: B'Boom gets a larger role in Beast Wars: Uprising, becoming one of its main characters.
• Death from Above: B'Boom is fiercest while in mega artillery attack mode. A state in which his arsenal is as fully loaded and functional as a battle emplacement.
• Entertainingly Wrong: About Razorbeast in the IDW comics. The reader knows that Razorbeast's spark signature "still screams Predacon" due to his former status as an undercover agent back on Cybertron. Being born on prehistoric Earth, B'Boom doesn't have much to go on.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: B'Boom's volcanic temper can end up turned toward his fellow Maximals, but B'Boom knows what side he is on.
• The Heart: In Beast Wars: Uprising, he becomes the heart of the Resistance with his enthusiasm and optimism. It tanks hard by the time of Derailment due to all the lives lost during the Vehicon Apocalypse, but Hot Rod pulls him out of it.
• Leeroy Jenkins: B'Boom's is a ball of barely-contained energy and rage that loves nothing more than plowing into a battle head-first.
• Maniac Monkeys: A mandrill, which is known for its explosive temper and ferocity when fighting or defending itself from predators.
• Pet the Dog: In IDW's Beast Wars: The Ascending, B'Boom comforts Optimus Minor after being forced to put down Razorbeast from hurting anyone else.

Bighorn

Function: Shock Trooper

Beast Mode: Bison

Voiced by: Masami Iwasaki

"The path to peace is littered with Predacon wreckage."

A powerful and headstrong Maximal, Bighorn is another member of Lio Convoy's crew appearing in the Beast Wars II cartoon. Despite being a bot with a short temper, he's still got a good spark inside him and wishes for a peaceful and free galaxy.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: His Uprising incarnation is unpleasant.
• Artistic License – Biology: The third episode of the cartoon makes reference to the popular myth that bulls charge at the sight of the color red. That's not true, bulls can't distinguish red; they simply charge at the movement. The cape used in a bullfight is actually red in order to mask the blood splatter as the animal is finally killed. Because of this, some could argue that the reason why bulls get so angry isn't due to the color red. Rather it's because people keep aggravating them, such as trying to ride them.
• Berserk Button: Normally, he's a calm, sensitive sort of guy... unless he sees red, at which point he goes into a massive rage.
• Brutish Bulls: He turns into a bull.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: So much so that it became a plot point in the third episode of the Beast Wars II cartoon, fittingly titled Bighorn's Rage.
• Hidden Depths: He's a Blood Knight, but he also likes sitting down in a quiet field and writing poetry.
• Hopeless Suitor: He's got a major crush on Scylla, who couldn't care less about him.
• Palette Swap: He's Bonecrusher, with red replacing the grey parts. His Uprising incarnation is a repaint of Prime Bulkhead.
• Secret Weapon: Bighorn has the ability to launch a devastating missile from his mouth. He used this in the third episode of the cartoon, sending Megastorm in his tank mode flying. The downside is that his tail has to be pulled in order to do so, and he can't pull it himself, requiring someone else to do it.
• Shock and Awe: Bighorn's well... horns can extended and summon lightning from the sky to rain down on enemies.
• Use Your Head: As his alt-mode is a bison, he tends to ram things a lot. His robot mode head's also pretty tough. Most mechs are down for the count after he headbutts them.

Bigmos

Function: Insectron Commander

Beast Modes: Mosquito; Antlion

Voiced by: Takeshi Watanabe

"Don't do anything I wouldn't."

Leader of the Insectron forces who became sick of the ceaseless wars plaguing Cybertron and encouraged his comrades to find peace by wandering the universe. That is until they landed on Gaia and become involved in the events of Beast Wars II.

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• Achilles' Heel: His wings are pretty sensitive to gunfire.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Bigmos takes the form of an organic mosquito and an antlion. The latter is called "Mode 3".
• Defector from Decadence: Bigmos was once a mercenary who fought for the Maximals. Afterward, he became sick of the wars plaguing Cybertron and encouraged his comrades to find peace by wandering the universe.
• Honor Before Reason: If an enemy spares him, he'll feel honor-bound to repay the obligation.
• The Leader: Bigmos is the war-weary leader of the Insectrons, a group of Maximals with insect beast modes that left Cybertron to pursue a peaceful existence.
• Meaningful Name: The "mos" (モス) in "Bigmos" is likely derived from the English word "mosquito".
• Palette Swap: Of Transquito.
• The Rival: To Autostinger, leader of the Autorollers who became indebted to him after a particularly messy battlefield encounter on the planet Dross.
• Technical Pacifist: True to his philosophy of pacifism, Bigmos prefers to fight with non-lethal methods. He'll deliver warning shots to scare enemies away or punish them without killing them.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Bigmos has a weakness for tomato juice, given he's also part mosquito that's expected.

Bluebolt

Function: Universal Weaponizer

Beast Mode: Bluebird

• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: A bright blue falcon.
• Noble Bird of Prey: They turns into a blue-feathered falcon.
• Undying Loyalty: They have an unwavering faith in their Maximal leaders.

Bonecrusher

Function: First-Strike Infantry

Beast Mode: Buffalo

"Three heads are better than one: headfirst, headlong, headstrong."

A stubborn and strong Maximal who loves to battle Predacons, Bonecrusher charges into battle with head and horns that are super-reinforced to withstand any impact.

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• Collateral Damage: Bonecrusher can charge through forest, rock, defensive emplacements, enemies, bunkers, more rock, more forest, more enemies, more rock, and so on, sometimes ending up nearly 30 miles behind enemy lines without realizing it.
• Blood Knight: Like a living locomotive with a one-track mind, all he wants to do is fight, fight, fight, pounding his enemies into cyber scrap; thankfully, he's one of the good guys.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: His personality has two settings—calm and crazed—and he knows just one strategy: charge.
• Hidden Weapons: Bonecrusher can fire a hidden missile inside of his mouth.
• In Name Only: Bonecrusher has no relation to the G1 Constructicon of the same name.
• The Juggernaut: Bonecrusher is understandably a last-ditch soldier and held in reserve; one of his unstoppable charges can turn the tide of a battle.
• Leeroy Jenkins: This Maximal is brave as he is stubborn. Despite the urging of his commanders, Bonecrusher can't overcome his urge to engage the enemy violently.
• Use Your Head: His favorite attack strategy is to stun opponents with a dizzying head-butt.

CatSCAN

Function: Medic

Beast Mode: Tiger

• Palette Swap: He's a redeco of Beast Machines Deluxe-class Night Slash Cheetor.
• Panthera Awesome: He turns into a red tiger.

Claw Jaw

Function: Underwater Attack

Beast Mode: Squid

"Run silent, run deep."

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• Beak Attack: After draining an enemy of their Energon, Claw Jaw finishes them off with the sharp fangs in his beak, tearing them to pieces.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Claw Jaw's "squiddy-ness" sometimes weirds out his fellow Maximals, but they can't argue with his results.
• Giant Squid: Claw Jaw's beast mode is a squid.
• Life Drain: The suckers on his eight arms can drain the Energon right out of a robot and into Claw Jaw.
• Logical Weakness: Being a squid that excels in the water, Claw Jaw isn't fast nor agile on land.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Like Tigatron before him, Claw Jaw's beast form took over his higher mental functions. Even after getting back to normal, his hunting style resembles that of a squid.
• Stealthy Cephalopod: Claw Jaw thoroughly explores the underwater terrain he inhabits, giving him a vast knowledge of hood hiding places to wait for his prey.
• Tentacled Terror: Claw Jaw utilizes his tentacles to trap victims in an unbreakable grip.
• Underwater Base: Claw Jaw made himself an undersea lair in the deepest and coldest part of Earth's seas, protecting it from any Predacons that get too close.
• What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: One of the few non-Palette Swap inversions alongside Colada, Cybershark, and Air Hammer.

Convobat

Function: General

Beast Mode: Bat

Crow Convoy

Function: Fleet Commander

Beast Mode: Crow

Cybershark

Function: Tracker; Ocean Attack (Transmetal 2)

Beast Mode: Hammerhead Shark; Great White Shark (Transmetal 2)

^{Click here to see his Transmetal 2 form}

"The Ocean Depths conceal all intentions."

"One cannot cross a sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

A Maximal who is a skilled tracker and expert in undersea combat, Cybershark hunts the pirate Seacons for centuries.

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• All-Loving Hero: The planets that Cybershark has visited all talk of the legends of his heroism, kindness, and gregarious nature.
• Arch-Enemy: Cybershark is the archenemy of the pirate band, the Seacons, and have been hunting them for centuries.
• Came Back Strong: After getting damaged in battle, Cybershark's spark was transferred to a blank Protoform and exposed to the Transmetal 2 driver. His new body gave him a great white shark beast mode, with faster speeds and weapons.
• Chest Blaster: Can fire his beast mode hammerhead or torpedoes from his chest.
• Depending on the Artist: Are the sharp teeth in his robot mode his real mouth or does he have a normal mouth inside it? The IDW comics portray it as the latter◊, while everywhere else it's the former.
• Infectious Enthusiasm: The enthusiasm that defines him is infectious and raises the spirits of everyone around him.
• I Work Alone: Though dedicated to the Maximal cause and quite adept at rallying others to join the fight, Cybershark is more of a lone adventurer than a team player. Ironically this often puts him at odds with his commander, the likewise independent Depth Charge.
• Lack of Empathy: His Uprising incarnation has absolutely no problem sacrificing as many 'bots as are needed for The Cause. Even the Jerkass Bighorn is slightly sorry about using Buzzclaw as a patsy.
• Marked Bullet: Cybershark's sense of humor has led him to paint smiling shark faces on his torpedoes.
• Scarily Competent Tracker: To aid Cybershark in his underwater territory, Cybershark has acute hearing and a finely tuned sense of smell.
• Swashbuckler: Cybershark is a swashbuckler at heart, and every planet he visits is a new place for adventure.
• Threatening Shark: Where his enemies are concerned.
• What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Inverted. His beast mode is a hammerhead shark (he’s a great white as a Transmetal 2) — and he's a Maximal.

Dark Amber Leo Prime

Beast Mode: Lion

Deployers (Dillo, Mol, Rav)

Function: Forward Observor (Dillo), Demolitions (Mol), Aerial Recon (Rav)

Beast Mode: Armadillo (Dillo), Mole (Mol), Raven (Rav)

Dillo

Mol

Rav

Dinotron

Function: Ground Infantry

Beast Mode: Pachycephalosaurus

"Never let down your defenses..."

• Palette Swap: He's a green redeco of Hardhead, who is also a retool of Dinobot.

Diver

Function: Field Defense

Beast Mode: Frog

Voiced by: Kenji Nakano

A cowardly Maximal who is more used in non-combat-based tasks.

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• Amphibian at Large: His beast mode is a giant frog.
• Cowardly Lion: Diver is not very brave, and kind of lazy besides.
• Those Two Guys: Tends to hang out most with Tasmania Kid, who drags him into numerous schemes that more often than not, get them into trouble.

DJ

Function: Jointron Sonic Operative

Beast Mode: Cicada

Voiced by: Ryo Naito

"Let's rock!"

DJ is the eldest of the three Jointron brothers that appear in the Beast Wars II cartoon. He's just as dumb as the rest of his brothers.

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• The Alcoholic: DJ is a big drinker; he has a habit of guzzling too much oil, getting piss drunk, and then literally pissing himself when he tries to fly in cicada mode.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: IDW DJ is apparently easily distracted by music, even in the middle of fights.
• Big Brother Mentor: Hilariously subverted. You would assume that being the oldest member of the Jointrons, DJ would be their most mature member. Nope, he's just as stupid as the rest of them. But that doesn't stop Motorarm and Gimlet from looking to him for guidance.
• Beware the Silly Ones: DJ may be a drunk idiot, but that doesn't mean he can't hold his own in a fight.
• Combining Mecha: He forms Tripledacus with his brothers Gimlet and Motorarm.
• Dual Wielding: DJ's weapons of choice are the sound-emitting swords that he stores in his wings.
• Gale-Force Sound: DJ's particularly fond of sonic attacks, mostly due to his love of music and being a loud individual in general.
• Glory Hound: A problem for all three Jointrons. They really want to beat up Predacons, but their general stupidity means their plans for going about this are terrible.
• Leader Forms the Head: As the leader of the Jointrons, he forms the torso of Tripledacus.
• Named Weapons: DJ's dual sword weapons are called the Seven-Year Swords (dubbed as such because that's how long it took to tune them in-universe).
• Shown Their Work: He urinates while flying. While gross, this is what cicadas actually do.
• The Smart One: The strategist of the Jointrons. This isn't saying much.

Dracodon

Beast Mode: Dracorex

• Dem Bones: Dracodon turns into a skeletal Dracorex.
• Palette Swap: Of Kingdom Vertebreak, in fluorescent green.

Dragoyell

Beast Mode: Dragon

Drill Nuts

Function: Underground engineer

Beast Mode: Boll weavil

Voiced by: Yuji Kishi

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• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Like any proper mad scientist, Drill Nuts may get distracted by his inventions, especially if they're malfunctioning.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: He turns into a boll weavil.
• Inventional Wisdom: He likes inventing things, but they're not terribly sensible inventions. Like the boomerang bomb.
• Palette Swap: Of Drill Bit.
• The Rival: Like all the Insectrons, he's got a rivalry with one of the Autorollers, in his case Autojetter.
• This Is a Drill: His right arm is a large drill.

Escargon

Beast Mode: Snail

• Gender Bender: He can use his Love-Love Lancer to change the gender of those he pokes with it, referencing how snails are hermaphrodites.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Doesn't have a toy yet and his only appearances so far are TransTech and Beast Wars: Uprising.

Geckobot

Function: Aerial Combat Specialist

Beast Mode: Dragon

"I will blind you with my brilliance!"

• Non-Indicative Name: He turns into a flying dragon-like lizard, not a gecko.

Gimlet

Function: Polar Operative

Beast Mode: Lobster

Voiced by: Takeshi Maeda

Gimlet is the youngest of the Jointrons. He appears in the Beast Wars II cartoon alongside his brothers; he's dumb as the rest of them.

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• The Alcoholic: Gimlet loves to drink, but he's not as bad as DJ.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Gimlet is the youngest of the Jointron trio and the dancing fool of the family.
• Body-Count Competition: Gimlet is surprisingly competitive on the battlefield, keeping track of the Predacons he's taken down and tallying them like points.
• Combining Mecha: He forms Tripledacus with his brothers Gimlet and DJ, specifically the legs.
• Collateral Damage: Due to Gimlet's claws being really big they end up hitting everyone and everything around him, making him a destructive force in confined spaces.
• The Fool: Of the Jointron brothers, which given they're all idiots is saying something.
• Happy Dance: Gimlet loves to dance, and he will be dancing long after his brothers are dead drunk from drinking.
• Mundane Utility: Gimlet loves to shake his lobster claws like maracas.
• Power Pincers: Being a giant lobster, Gimlet can use his giant claws to clobber other bots.
• Verbal Tic: His Beast Wars II tends to repeat lots of Gratuitous Spanish, particularly "mucha" and "muchacho".

Gredator

Beast Mode: Wolf

"Hear the howl of victory!"

• Dark Is Not Evil: He might be colored black and red but he's an heroic Maximal.
• Noble Wolf: He's a Maximal who's also in harmony with nature.
• Palette Swap: Of Classics Overbite.

Grimlock

Function: Attack Trooper

Beast Mode: Raptor

"Me Grimlock, king of beasts."

The original Dinobot leader Grimlock, now taking the form of a large white raptor.

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• Close-Range Combatant: Grimlock relies on his brute strength and reinforced armored plating in robot mode, fighting barehanded despite having two weapons for his robot mode. His unwillingness to use said weapons make him the second favorite in a firefight.
• Determinator: It takes Magmatron some time to knock him down, and he even admits he's only stayed standing as long as he has out of stubbornness.
• Expy: Averted. The IDW comics, and even his toy bio note, establish him as the Generation 1 Dinobot. The TFCC "Beast Wars Shattered Glass" comic series makes use of this concept.
• Fatal Flaw: The years after the Great War haven't dulled Grimlock's arrogance.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be rowdy and abrasive after all these years, but he's still good deep down.
• Palette Swap: The Beast Wars toy is pretty much this to Dinobot, but the IDW comics give him traits that aren't quite present on the original Dinobot, making Beast Wars Grimlock and Dinobot easier to distinguish outside of verbal communicative ability.
• Properly Paranoid: Downplayed. In IDW's Beast Wars: The Ascending, Grimlock doesn't trust Ravage during the final battle, given how Ravage was a Decepticon and Grimlock an Autobot, that's not surprising.
  Ravage: Surely, Grimlock, you don't doubt I'll be doing my part?
  Grimlock: Once a Decpticon... always a Decepticon!
• Not a Morning Person: He basically says this when he appears in the IDW comics. He's just woken up and needs to get the anger out of his system. Good thing there's some Butt-Monkies around to take the punishment.
• Raptor Attack: He now turns into an oversized raptor.
• Verbal Tic: It's him Grimlock after all.

Grizzly-1/Barbearian

Function: Berzerker

Beast Mode: Grizzly Bear

"Sometimes crazy works."^note Yes, it's the phrase spoken twice by Optimal Primal in the cartoon.

A Maximal who could turn into, you guessed it, a grizzly bear. Grizzly-1 is a legend in the Beast Wars, going missing during a mission to the artic before being reawoken and returning to battlelines. He forms a team with his robotic bat partner Nightshriek.

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• Bears Are Bad News: Unless you're a Predacon, inverted.
• The Berserker: The toxins inside Grizzly-1's mutant head increase his ferocity to an astounding level; in this state, he's called Barbearian. To display his destructive power most effectively, he commits himself to solo actions of guerilla warfare, demolitions, and front-line combat.
• The Chosen Many: According to Ask Vector Prime, he's a Matrix Templar.
• Convenient Coma: Grizzly-1 went missing during a mission to the artic on Earth. For a while, he was in stasis lock until he broke free from his icy prison.
• Equippable Ally: Nightshriek can transform into a sonic pistol to scramble an opponent's brain circuits.
• Head Swap: By switching between his mutant head, which receives the toxin and hormones, and his rational robot head, Grizzly-1 retains perfect control over the wild "Barbearian" within him.
• La Résistance: In Beast Wars: Uprising, Grizzly-1's a member of the Resistance, a group of Maximals and Predacons fighting against the tyrannical rule of the Builders of Cybertron.
• Living Legend: Grizzly-1 gained early fame during the Beast wars, eventually regarded as a hero and a living legend.
• Palette Swap: Of Polar Claw.
• Poisonous Person: Due to compositional flaws in his organic structure, Grizzly-1 secretes a toxin that induces extreme agitation and confusion.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: The moment Grizzly-1 becomes Barbearian, Nightshriek is the first to disappear and doesn't come back out until he's normal again.

Hammerstrike

Function: Tracker, Ocean Attack

Beast Mode: Hammerhead Shark

"The ocean depths conceal all intentions."

Ikard

Function: Space recconaissance

Beast Mode: Squid

Voiced by: Ryo Naito

• Palette Swap: Of Scuba.
• Robo Family: He's Scuba's cousin in the Beast War II anime. In IDW's continuity, he's his brother instead.
• Tentacled Terror: He turns into a squid, same as Scuba.

Ironhide

Beast Mode: Elephant

"Slow is as slow does."

• Blow You Away: He can generate gale force winds with his elephant-mode ears.
• Combining Mecha: With Silverbolt and Prowl, to form Magnaboss.
• Cool Old Guy: The versions that are the original Ironhide, at least.
• Expy: While the toy bio only covers Magnaboss's profile, the IDW Beast Wars Sourcebook establishes Ironhide as the Generation One Autobot in a new Maximal body. The TFCC "Beast Wars Shattered Glass" comic series makes use of this concept. Beast Wars: Uprising plays it straight, he is a separate individual (spelled Iron Hide).
• Honorable Elephant: He turns into an elephant.
• Older and Wiser: IDW version has him still be the original Ironhide, just now severely mellowed from old age.

Jawbreaker

Function: Close-Combat Specialist

Beast Mode: Hyena

"Laugh and the world laughs with you; howl and you howl alone."

• Adapted Out: Every other character from the main toyline showed up in IDW's "The Gathering" except this guy.
• Blood Knight: Loves to fight, especially when the odds are against him.
• Close-Range Combatant: His function and specialty, preferring to fight like a brawler.
• Heinous Hyena: Averted, he is a Maximal.
• The Hyena: Unsurprising given his beast mode, he's a humorous Maximal who laughs even while charging into battle.
• Sad Clown: Has a grim outlook on life, which he masks with Gallows Humour.

K-9

Function: Guard Duty

Beast Mode: German shepherd

"Loyalty means nothing unless it is based upon self-sacrifice."

• Anachronistic Animal: His beast mode is a German Shepherd, a species created in 1899 by man selectively breeding dogs in Germany. This raises a few questions when he appears in the IDW Beast Wars comics — set on prehistoric Earth.
• Palette Swap: Downplayed. K-9's action figure is a recolour and retooling of Wolfang's.

Labrat

Function: Intelligence officer

Beast Mode: Transmetal rat

• Canon Foreigner: First appeared in Beast Wars: Uprising.
• Decomposite Character: His design is a repaint of Transmetal Rattrap.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He'll work for anyone who'll hire him, not caring about things like ideology or consequences. It's just his job. However, as a consequence, he might be willing to turn if he's given a better offer.

Legend Convoy

Beast Mode: Reindeer/Caribou

Voiced by: Venus Terzo (The Hot Rod script reading)

• Adaptation Name Change: In Uprising, she is referred to as Legend Majora.
• The Ghost: She's never seen on-page.
• The Marvelous Deer: She's the very first known cervid transformer.

Lio Convoy

Function: Supreme Commander

Beast Mode: White Lion

Voiced by: Hozumi Gouda, Masayuki Katō (Robotmasters), David Kaye (The Hot Rod script reading)

The Maximal Commander of Beast Wars II and the most famous character from the Beast Era's Japanese exclusive media.

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• Back for the Finale: Returns to life at the end of Neo to help Big Convoy stop Unicron.
• BFS: His Legends toy comes with one, called the Ancient Sword. Uprising has it as a remade version of the Solipsistic Staff.
• Big Good: Of Beast Wars II.
• Breakout Character: Easily the most popular and famous character from the Japanese side of the Beast Era.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He beat up a version of Unicron and turned his corpse into a suit.
• Dimensional Traveler: After the end of II, he went on a journey across universes.
• Dub Name Change: Sometimes, he's Leo Prime.
• Expy: He's a physical clone of Optimus Prime. Character-wise, he's a little different.
• Great White Feline: Lio Convoy is the leader of the Maximals and his alt mode is a white lion with a golden mane.
• King of Beasts: Played With. He's the Maximal leader of Beast Wars II, with a lion Beast Mode and at the end of Neo Vector Sigma appoints him as Grand Convoy, one of the supreme leaders of the Maximals.
• Large and in Charge: In the IDW comics, he's huge by Maximal standards, towering over damn near everyone.
• Panthera Awesome: His alt mode is a huge white lion.
• Super Mode: By combining the power of his Energon Matrix with that of Optimus Primal, he becomes the gold and white Flash Lio Convoy.
• Underestimating Badassery: Says Magmatron is the real threat while Beast Megatron is a loose cannon. Justified, he had no idea of the scope of Beast Meg's plans.

Lio Junior

Function: Warrior

Beast Mode: Lion

Voiced by: Yumiko Kobayashi

• Adaptational Name Change: In Uprising, he's called Lio Minor and has no known relationship to Lio Convoy.
• Adaptational Wimp: Lio Junior has all manner of groovy powers. Lio Minor is just a guy.
• Combining Mecha: Forms Magnaboss II with Skywarp and Santon.
• Fusion Dance: He and Lio Convoy merge into a green lion.
• Made of Evil: ... sort of. He's partially made from Angolmois, the life-force of Unicron.
• Oblivious Adoption: Raised by the white lion of Gaea. Lio only realized there was something up when he could transform while his "parent" couldn't.
• Panthera Awesome: He turns into a lion.
• Really Was Born Yesterday: Acts like a stroppy kid, which in fairness he is.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Junior would just like Lio Convoy's approval.

Longhorn

Function: Warrior

Beast Mode: Bull

"If you're strong enough, there are no precedents."

• Brutish Bulls: He turns into a bull, although he is a Warrior Poet instead of just a brute.
• Meaningful Name: He does have some long horns.

Magnaboss

Function: Combat Leader

"May wisdom nourish my spirit and courage guide my sword."

• BFS
• Combining Mecha: The original version is one of Prowl, Ironhide, and Silverbolt. The 2016 version, using Combiner Wars molds, adds Tigertron and Unit 3.
• Composite Character: His Uprising incarnation is a mix of himself and the Beast Wars II version (due to a mix of the One-Steve Limit and Decomposite Character).
• Deadpan Snarker: In the TFCC Beast Wars "Shattered Glass" comic series:
  God Neptune: Five of us, three of you- I like those odds!
  Magnaboss: Very clever. With five brains, you can actually count!

Magnaboss II

Function: Gestalt warrior

Voiced by: Yumiko Kobayashi

"Accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope."

• Combining Mecha: Of Lio Junior, Skywarp and Santon, with the later two adding their wisdom and maturity to Junior's raw power.
• One-Steve Limit: In the IDW continuity, this Magnaboss took his name from the original version as inspiration.
• Palette Swap: Averted. Aside from several paint applications, both Magnaboss's are virtually identical.

Mantis

Function: Ninja

Beast mode: Praying Mantis

Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi

• Ax-Crazy: It does not take a lot to set Mantis off, at which point he tries to kill everything in arm's range.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Turns into a man-sized praying mantis.
• Depending on the Writer: Beast Wars Sourcebook gives him a more light-hearted personality closer to the other Insectrons, completely unlike his personality in Beast Wars II.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: His name is a pretty good indicator of what he turns into.
• Jerkass Has a Point: When the Autorollers tried to force Bigmos to assist them by playing on his debts, Mantis said he should ignore it and focus on the here and now. Bigmos eventually used this to work his way out of his predicament.
• Palette Swap: Of Manterror.
• Slaying Mantis: He turns into a mantis, and generally is a crazy maniac. Even his fellow Insectrons aren't necessarily safe.

Motorarm

Function: Sumo Wrestler

Beast Mode: Rhinoceros beetle

Voiced by: Daisuke Ishikawa

• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Motorarm turns into a giant rhino beetle.
• Big Eater: Motorarm's goal in life, such as it is, is stuffing his face.
• Combining Mecha: He forms Tripledacus with DJ and Gimlet.
• Idiot Hero: None of the Tripledacus team are renowned for their intellect. Motorarm is no exception.
• Nightmare Face: As a result of being a repaint of Ramhorn, he's got a very unsettling-looking face on him. Beast Wars II doesn't even try making it look less terrifying.

Nightglider

Function: Intelligence operative

Beast Mode: Transmetal 2 flying squirrel

"Tell your friends a lie. If they keep it secret, then tell them the truth."

• The Paranoiac: Nightglider is very slow to trust, even among those he's known for years.

Night Viper

Function: Recon Specialist

Beast Mode: Cobra

"I'm very good at what I do - maybe too good!"

• Snakes Are Sinister: Subverted. He's a Maximal cobra and like Colada he's a good guy.

Noctorro

Function: Airborne Warrior

Beast Mode: Brahman Bull/Bat Hybrid

"Knowing the right thing to do and not doing it shows lack of courage, principles or both."

• Anachronistic Animal: His beast mode is half Brahman bull, another human-bred species which came into being around the early 1900s. Like K-9, he appears in the IDW Beast Wars comics — set on ancient Earth.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: Proudly fights without any weaponry, relying only on his natural strength.
• Lightning Bruiser: Has the speed and flight of a bat combined with the might of a raging bull.
• Mix-and-Match Critter: His beast mode is half bat, half Brahman bull.
• Punny Name: On "nocturnal" and "toro" (a synonym for bull).

Optimus Minor

Function: Ground Commando

Beast Mode: Transmetal 2 Monkey.

"Monkey see, monkey grab."

• One-Steve Limit: He's got no relationship with Optimus Prime or Optimus Primal, except in the comedic Legends Manga where he is the latter's son.
• Silly Simian: Turns into a chimpanzee.
• Wall Crawl: His chimp mode can cling to most surfaces.

Orcanoch

Beast Mode: Orca

"Vigilance is the hallmark of a good defence."

• Genius Loci: Orcanoch serves as a living, moving base of operations for other Maximals.
• Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Orcanoch was born when a Sentinel unit was installed into a crashed alien spaceship. The system bonded with the ship's own operating system and came alive.
• Never Found the Body: Sunk in combat, Orcanoch's body was never found.

Packrat

Function: Thief

Beast Mode: Rat

Voiced by: Scott McNeil (Visitations script reading)

"A thief is only as good as his reputation."

• Killed Off for Real: In the Wreckers comic, Cyclonus murders him when he betrays the team.
• Palette Swap: Of Rattrap. The blue recolour of Transmetal Rattrap was even repurposed as Packrat for the 3H comics.
• Punch-Clock Villain: His Uprising incarnation is willing to work for anyone who's got the money. This included Predacons.

Panther

Beast Mode: Panther

"The best place to hide something is where everyone can see it."

• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He turns into a panther, just as his name implies.
• Panthera Awesome: He turns into a panther.

Polar Claw

Function: Infantry Battle Commander

Beast Mode: Polar Bear

"Peace is maintained through the preparation for war."

• Bears Are Bad News: Unless you're a Predacon (as Spittor finds out in the IDW comics), inverted.
• Beary Friendly: A Maximal who believes peace is maintainable via the preparation for war. The Sourcebook does show a somewhat nastier side to him.
• Blood Knight: In The Ascending, he gets frustrated not being able to fight the Blentrons himself while they're airborne.
• Drone Deployer: Can launch a flying drone called Batscout that's formed from part of his beast mode's front leg.

Powerhug

Function: Judo Expert

Beast Mode: Pillbug

Voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama

• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The Sourcebook gives him a angsty backstory involving the Autorollers destroying his school and killing his students.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Turns into a giant pillbug.
• Honor Before Reason: In the first fight between the Maximals and the Insectrons, Powerhug faced down Bighorn, but every time he knocked his opponent down, he'd wait for him to get back up rather than press his advantage, one of the clues that something was amiss.
• I Know Kung Fu: Powerhug fights using judo skills.
• Killer Bear Hug: As the name implies, he perform a crushing "hug" on his enemies, based on one of the features from his toy.
• Palette Swap: Of Retrax, in blue.
• The Rival: With Autocrusher.

Primal Prime

Function: Prime of Justice

Alt/Beast Modes: Ape; Jet; Armored Transport

"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."

• Fusion Dance: Combines with Apelinq to become Sentinel Maximus.
• Palette Swap: Of Optimal Optimus, just in red.

Prowl / Magnaboss!Prowl

Beast Mode: Lion

"Chaos is just the state before order."

• Combining Mecha: Forms Magnaboss with Ironhide and Silverolt.
• Expy: While the toy bio only covers Magnaboss's profile, the IDW Beast Wars Sourcebook establishes Prowl as the Generation One Autobot in a new Maximal body. The TFCC "Beast Wars Shattered Glass" comic series makes use of this concept.
• Panthera Awesome: Turns into a lion.

Prowl II

Function: Military Strategist

Beast Mode: Owl

"Logic provides the structure to be filled by the soul of creativity."

• Achilles' Heel: His wings are a weak spot of his.
• Continuity Snarl: His Beast Wars Sourcebook profile makes him one. To put it simply - he's treated as being a reborn version of a clone of Prowl from Binaltech. All well and good, except Binaltech's story is incompatible with IDW's Beast Wars stuff. It took until 2015 and Ask Vector Prime before the whole shebang got an explanation: He is the clone of Prowl, with a bit of Chip Chase's mind and personality infused into the mix, made in an attempt to save Chip's life, which didn't entirely work until the Maximals came along.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In the IDW comics, he dies getting Snarl close to Shokaract, being blasted out of the sky for his troubles.
• Mythology Gag: Is noted to use acid pellets to attack, a famous attribute of cartoon Prowl.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted; he shares the same name with Prowl.
• The Owl-Knowing One: An intelligent and logical 'bot who transforms into an owl.

Quickstrike

Function: Recconaissance/Warrior

Beast Mode: Wolf

"Robots with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."

• One-Steve Limit: He has nothing to do with the Predacon of the same name.

Ramulus

Function: Scout, Survivalist

Beast Mode: Transmetal 2 Ibex

"Onwards...and upwards."

• Deadpan Snarker: Quite frequently, especially towards Optimus Primal for leaving his stasis pod behind on Earth.
• Expy: His face, retractable wrist blades, short temper, and attitude are similar to Wolverine.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Though the Sourcebook says otherwise. Pretty much everything else ignores this.
• Jerkass: Usually because of the excuse he was left in his Stasis Pod too long,and has developed issues because of it. Or just because he is a jerk.
• Use Your Head: He turns into an ibex and likes butting folk.

Rapticon

Function: Guerilla Combat Specialist

Beast Mode: Velociraptor

"I have no true enemies, because no one will stand against me!"

• Palette Swap: Of Transmetal Dinobot.
• Smug Super: Rapticon is quite strong, and intelligent, and worse, he knows this.

Razorbeast

Function: Infantry

Beast Mode: Warthog

"Watch for my hidden depths. They'll be your downfall."

Razorbeast is a stubborn infantry fighter with great strength and tenacity befitting a warthog. He will keep struggling and fighting ferociously against all odds, no matter how hopeless the situation.

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• Brainwashed and Crazy: In the IDW comics, he is injected with Angolmois by Ratortata and is transformed into a feral beast that attacks everyone in sight. He manages to rein it in temporarily and channel it into going after the Blentrons, but after they are defeated, he starts to lose control again and has to be put down.
• Breakout Character: Razorbeast, who had little-to-no background beyond his toy bio note (or his toy's appearance in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, where Will notes "I've been looking for Razorbeast since, like, October!"), is the main protagonist of the IDW comics series.
• Deadpan Snarker: In the IDW comics, he is depicted as a gigantic smartass.
  Ravage: Where... are... they?
  Razorbeast: Safe. Can't have you interacting with Megatron's happy little band and getting the timeline in even more of a tangle, now can we?
  Ravage: Tell me.
  Razorbeast: Please?
• Full-Boar Action: Turns into a warthog, and is very fond of ramming people.
• Guile Hero: In the IDW comics, where he is a spy who is very talented at manipulating and outsmarting his enemies.
• The Hero Dies: Killed at the end of the IDW comics.
• The Infiltration: In The Gathering, he poses as a Predacon under Magmatron's command while secretly working for Lio Convoy. He ends up sabotaging Magmatron's plan so that some of the protoforms on prehistoric Earth remain Maximals.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the IDW comics. He’s stern and snarky but kindhearted and cares deeply for those under his command.
• Red Is Heroic: A Maximal with red coloring.

Rhino

Beast Mode: Rhinoceros

"The greatest darkness is the one created by ignorance."

• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Rhino is very firm in his belief in Primus, and occasionally has been able to do things that should be flat-out impossible, apparently due to channelling Him.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He turns into a rhinoceros, just as his name implies.

Santon

Function: Medic

Beast Mode: African Elephant

Voiced by: Hiroaki Harakawa

• Combining Mecha: Forms Magnaboss II with Skywarp and Lio Junior.
• Honorable Elephant: He turns into an elephant.
• Ki Attacks: His “Qidansho” (Ki bullet cannons) on his back seem to fire these.
• The Medic: He studies the work of great medics such as Ratchet and hopes to find a galactic medical corp one day.
• The Mentor: To Lio Junior along with Skywarp.

Scissor Boy

Function: Strategist

Beast Mode: Earwig

Voiced by: Norihisa Mori

• The Baby of the Bunch: Scissor Boy is the youngest of the Insectrons.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: His beast mode is an earwig.

Scuba

Beast Mode: Squid

Voiced by: Yuji Kishi

• The Aloner: Scuba tends to keep to himself a lot of the time.
• Chick Magnet: Both the Seacon Syclla and the android Artemis have crushes on him.
• Palette Swap: Just barely a repaint of Claw Jaw.
• Robo Family: With Ikard, his cousin, and one of the few people he can get along with.

Silverbolt II / Magnaboss!Silverbolt

Beast Mode: Bald Eagle

"On a wing and a prayer."

• Expy: While the toy bio only covers Magnaboss's profile, the IDW Beast Wars Sourcebook establishes Silverbolt as the Aerialbot leader in a new Maximal body. The TFCC "Beast Wars Shattered Glass" comic series makes use of this concept. Meanwhile, Beast Wars: Uprising makes him a separate individual.
• Noble Bird of Prey: Turns into an eagle and is a wise Maximal elder.
• One-Steve Limit: He isn't the same guy as that other Silverbolt.

Skydive

Function: Aerial Combat Specialist

Beast Mode: Quetzalcoatlus

• Terror-dactyl: He turns into a technorganic Quetzalcoatlus.

Skywarp

Function: Sonic Speed Instructor

Beast Mode: Bald Eagle

Voiced by: Mantaro Iwao

• Combining Mecha: He and Santon merge with Lio Junior to form Magnaboss.
• The Mentor: To Lio Junior along with Santon.
• Noble Bird of Prey: His Beast Mode.

Snarl

Function: Surprise Attack

Beast Mode: Tasmanian Devil

"Now you see me, now you don't."

• Invisibility: He has a cloaking field he uses to infiltrate Predacon strong holds.

Snarl (Beast Machines)

Function: Strategic Specialist

Beast Mode: Lion

"They won't even see it coming!"

• The Chosen Many: Is sometimes a Matrix Templar.
• Dark Is Not Evil: His color scheme is black, red and gold but he's a Maximal.
• One-Steve Limit: Has the exact same name as the Tasmanian Devil Maximal.

Sonar

Function: Aerial Reconnaissance

Beast Mode: Bat

"Listen to others only when they say what you want to hear."

• Bat Out of Hell: Averted, she’s a Maximal.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Sonar tends to react violently to slights.

Star Upper

Beast Mode: Kangaroo

• Boxing Kangaroo: He's a Boxing Battler and his gloves remain even in kangaroo mode.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Doesn't have a toy yet due to being an Official Fan-Submitted Content and has only been a background character in Beast Wars Neo and a playable fighter in the Game Boy color fighting game.

Stiletto

Beast Mode: Cybertronian DeathEagle

• Ascended Extra: First appeared in a one-off Fun Club publication about Airazor's past. Uprising gives her A Day in the Limelight, and then makes her a main character.
• Combat Stilettos: Her Uprising body has some wedge heels on her. But that's not how she got her name.
• Noble Bird of Prey: After taking a beast mode, she turns into a Cybertronian DeathEagle.
• Meaningful Name: She is very good with knives. Or anything sharp and pointy.
• Palette Swap: Her Uprising self's first body is a repaint of Windblade.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Since she came into existence several years after Beast Wars ended. Even then, no later toylines have taken her in.

Stinkbomb

Function: Psychological Warfare

Beast Mode: Skunk

"Nine-tenths of the battle is fought within the imagination."

• Smelly Skunk: Well yeah, his name is Stinkbomb, so his beast mode is fitting.

Striker

Function: Ground Combat Specialist

Beast Mode: Stegosaurus

"When I get you in my clutches, you're gonna need crutches!"

• Palette Swap: Of Saberback.

T-Wrecks

Function: Dinobot Commander

Beast Mode: Tyrannosaurus Rex

"The quickest way of ending a war is to win it!"

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• Palette Swap: Of Beast Megatron.
• Red Is Heroic: Primarily red in his beast mode, but a generally great guy.

Tasmania Kid

Beast Mode: Tasmanian Devil

Voiced by: Katashi Ishizuka

• Half the Man He Used to Be: In The Ascending, Shokaract tears him in half as an introduction. Even time travel doesn't save Kid from this fate.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Tasmania Kid wants to be heroic and important and cool, now, without having to do all that "learning" stuff.
• Kid-Appeal Character: The most youthful and childlike member of Lio Convoy's team. "Kid" is even in the name.
• Those Two Guys: With his teammate Diver.

Terranotron

Function: Aerial Combat Specialist

Beast Mode: Pteranodon

"The future of Cybertron resides in the skies."

• Palette Swap: Of Transmetal Terrorsaur.

Tonbot

Function: Forced Reconnaissance

Beast Mode: Dragonfly

Voiced by: Kenichiro Tanabe

• Big Creepy-Crawlies: He turns into a dragonfly.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": He baffled Starscream by taking time out mid-fight to beg Lio Convoy to sign his autograph book.
• The Rival: With Autojetter.

Torca

Function: Infantry General

Beast Mode: Elephant/Orca Hybrid

"I lead from the back."

• The Big Guy: The powerhouse of the Maximals in the IDW comics.
• Heroic Dolphin: As a Fuzor, he’s half-orca.
• Honorable Elephant: The other half of his Fuzor self is an elephant, and he’s a heroic powerhouse.
• Informed Species: The "orca" part of him is very un-orca-like, having a mouth with two huge rabbit-like buck teeth and a long floppy pointed tongue and his tail looks like the club end of a squid's capture tentacle than the flukes of an orca. The only part that looks even remotely orca is his dorsal fin.
• Mix-and-Match Critter: His beast mode is half elephant, half orca.

Triceradon

Function: Frontline Combat

Beast Mode: Triceratops

"It's better to have stood your ground and lost than never to have stood at all."

• The Lancer: Second in command for T-Wrecks just like Slug is this for Grimlock.
• Palette Swap: Of Guiledart.

Tricranius

Beast Mode: Triceratops

• Dem Bones: He turns into a Triceratops skeleton.
• Toyline-Exclusive Character: As with the other Fossilizers, Tricranius made no appearance in the Kingdom animated series.

Tripledacus

Function: Combination Giant

Voiced by: Ryo Naito

"Tyranny cannot topple those who stand united against it."

• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: As a combiner, Tripledacus would be a walking juggernaut, an unstoppable force no foe could defeat... if his component parts weren't the Jointron brothers. He's more likely to get distracted by a rhythm than try and stomp anyone.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: Seems to owe his name to Takara's reps misunderstanding how Tripredacus was pronounced.
• Palette Swap: Of Tripredacus.
• Take That!: According to the Beast Wars Sourcebook, the Jointrons chose the name as a jab at the Tripredacus Council. It's never been indicated the Council even know they exist.

Ultra Mammoth

Function: Maximal Commander

Beast Mode: Woolly Mammoth

• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: He's a metallic blue wooly mammoth.
• Palette Swap: Of Big Convoy.

Under-3

Beast Mode: Lion's head

"Others say I have a big head. I say that Primus super-sized my sensors."

• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Dawn of the Predacus gives him a grim backstory of being the lone survivor of his entire unit.
• Adaptational Name Change: His Uprising incarnation is called "Lionhead".
• Combining Mecha: Dawn of Predacus and Uprising both have him become part of Magnaboss.

Windrazor

Function: Spark Stalker

Beast Mode: Wolf/Falcon hybrid

"Wisdom is the perfect complement to recklessness."

• The Berserker: The Cub's main advantage in a fight was going into a rage and rushing his enemy. Not so useful if they knew their way around that, like the Veteran did.
• Blood Knight: The Cub was born into a world ruled by the omnicidal Shokaract, and was made for war and bloodshed. He likes it, he's good at it.
• Double Consciousness: Since he's a merger of an Autobot and a Predacon, Windrazor has had some difficulty in this area.
• Fusion Dance: How he came into being, one between a 'bot called The Veteran (or Swoop, as he used to be known) and a Predacon called The Cub.
• Legacy Character: For Swoop of the Dinobots.
• Make an Example of Them: The Cub was brutally mutilated by Cataclysm for failing to kill the Veteran, partly because they were related. The Cub's failure made Cataclysm look bad, so he had to make An Example in order to show everyone he wasn't so weak (and slowly so as not to make either of them look bad).
• Mix-and-Match Critter: His beast mode is half wolf, half eagle.
• Multiple-Choice Past: Sometimes the Cub was a Maximal, sometimes a Predacon.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: "The Cub" and "The Veteran", his two components. While the Veteran is heavily implied to be Swoop the Dinobot, the Cub has never given any indication he has a name.
• Palette Swap: Of Fuzor!Silverbolt.
• Uriah Gambit: The Cub was sent to assassinate the Veteran, with the person who chose him (Antagony) knowing full well he'd fail, solely to make Cataclysm look bad.

Wingfinger

Beast Mode: Pteranodon

• Dem Bones: Like all Fossilizers, Wingfinger's beast mode is an animated skeleton.
• Dual Wielding: The ends of Wingfinger's wings become swords in robot mode.
• Equippable Ally: As a Fossilizer, Wingfinger turns into weapons for other Cybertronians to use.
• Meaningful Name: "Wing finger" is the literal translation of "Pteranodon".
• Toyline-Exclusive Character: As with the other Fossilizers, Wingfinger made no appearance in the Kingdom animated series.

Wolfang

Function: Infantry

Beast Mode: Wolf

"We are but parts of a whole."

• Dropped a Bridge on Him: After being a major character in the IDW comics, he dies abruptly when Shokaract blasts him to bits at the end of The Ascending.
• I Work Alone: On the contrary, he is no lone wolf. Tigatron, who ended up replacing Wolfang as the first "new" character to join the U.S. cast, played this trope very straight.
• The Lancer: To Razorbeast in the IDW comics.
• Noble Wolf: His beast mode.

Predacons

Antagony

Function: Chemical Warfare

Beast Mode: Ant

Voiced by: Susan Blu (Visitations script reading)

"Prepare for Armageddon."

• Acid Attack: She can spit highly powerful acid at foes in her beast mode.
• Ant Assault: A dangerously nigh-invulnerable and sadistic Predacon who transforms into an ant.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: She turns into a giant ant.
• Dark Action Girl: An evil, powerful and deadly female herald of Shokaract.
• Depending on the Artist: In fiction, she has had a literal interpretation of her recolored Inferno toy head, a scary-looking human-like head (complete with a nose, which Inferno lacks), or a prettier human-like head with "goggles".
• The Dragon: For Shokaract. And she's exceedingly good at her job.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Her armor is indestructible and makes her immune to pain.
• Palette Swap: Of Inferno. Her fictional portrayals have a tendency to make her look a little different by feminizing her appearance.
• The Rival: With Cataclysm, another herald of Shokaract, who does just slightly better than her.
• Sadist: Enjoys inflicting pain, possibly because she can't feel it herself.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only identified female working for Shokaract.

Arachnid

Beast Mode: Spider

• Big Creepy-Crawlies: A giant-sized spider. And by "giant-sized" we mean "mobile battle station" big.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He turns into a spider, just as his name implies.
• Sadist: Apparently Tarantulas had a hand in Arachnid's design, and some of his personality got into the mix, resulting in a giant spider that likes to toy with its food.

Autocrusher

Function: Land Guard

Alt Mode: Payloader

Voiced by: Hitoshi Bifu

• The All-Solving Hammer: As the name suggests, Autocrusher tends to solve everything via brute force.
• The Rival: To Power Hug.

Autojetter

Function: Aerial Guard

Alt Mode: F/A-18 fighter jet

Voiced by: Kohei Kowada

• The Baby of the Bunch: Autojetter is the youngest of the Rollers, and accordingly loud, brash and stupid.
• Gas Mask Mook: His face, appropriate for a guy who turns into a jet, looks like a pilot's oxygen mask.
• The Rival: All the Autorollers have rivalries with the Insectrons, and Autojetter has ones with Tonbot and Drill Nuts... albeit in his case, the motivations are kind of stupid. With Tonbot, it's just because the guy turns into a dragonfly, and with Drill Nuts, it's because he's a nerd.

Autolauncher

Function: Shock Troop Guard

Alt Mode: Armored personnel carrier

Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi and Masami Iwasaki

• Keet: He's an extremely enthusiastic one, is Autolauncher. The other Rollers like to use this as a distraction.
• More Dakka: His idea on how to outfight Mantis is launch as many discs at the guy's face and hope that'll do it. (And, y'know, that Mantis won't tear him to pieces first.)

Autostinger

Function: Guard Captain

Alt Mode: Dump truck

Voiced by: Tadashi Miyazawa

• Friendly Enemies: Autostinger doesn't even have anything against the Insectrons as such. They just happen to be working on opposing sides.
• The Rival: With Scissor Boy, due to opposing philosophies.
• Work Off the Debt: Why he's with Galvatron in the first place. He owes the big pink his life, and Galvatron's holding him to that.

BB / Max-B

Function: Bombardier; Bodyguard Captain

Alt/Beast Mode: Stealth Bomber, Transmetal Dog

Voiced by: Takeshi Watanabe, Brian Dobson (Intimidation Game script reading)

• Beware of Vicious Dog: His Beast Mode as Max-B
• Dark and Troubled Past: His Sourcebook profile claims he can only say "Rodger" thanks to time at a Maximal internment camp.
• Gender Flip: In Uprising, Max-B is female.
• One-Word Vocabulary: "Rodger" tends to be all he says.

Beetle

Beast Mode: Stag beetle

• Big Creepy-Crawlies: The hint is in the name... except Beetle is tiny even by Maximal and Predacon standards.
• Mind Probe: Has a "mind drill" in his beetle mode.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Beetle is only with the Predacons because he's given free reign to torture people. If the Maximals let him, he'd gladly sign up for them.
• Torture Technician: Beetle doesn't care about the information he gets. What he's after is the sweet joy of torturing people.

Buzz Saw

Function: Aerial Surveillance

Beast Mode: Wasp

Voiced by: Paul Dobson (Intimidation Game script reading)

• Beware My Stinger Tail: His wasp mode stinger is diamond-tipped.
• Dirty Coward: Buzz Saw keeps to the skies so he can avoid tough fights.
• Fragile Speedster: Theoretically, he's capable of reaching escape velocity in beast mode, but if he went that fast he'd put a strain on his body, so he generally doesn't.
• Expy: Of the original Decepticon Buzzsaw: a bot who built up a reputation as a skilled, dangerous fighter to mask the fact that he's a massive coward.
• Heel–Face Turn: According to his toy bio, the Beast Machines Maximal Buzzsaw is the same character saved from Megatron's virus by Rattrap, and now fights alongside the Maximals.
• Living Legend: Other Predacons live in awe of Buzz Saw, the legendarily aloof fighter, unaware he's actually a complete wuss who's hiding from pain.
• Palette Swap: Of Waspinator. However, the Japanese CGI art and IDW comics depict him with the mold's more generic robot head, as opposed to the mutant head adapted for Waspinator's show model.

Buzzclaw

Function: Saboteur, Quick Attack Specialist

Beast Mode: Mantis/Lizard

• Beneath the Mask: He pretends to be a proud, arrogant warrior. He's actually a mess of neuroses and self-loathing.
• A Day in the Limelight: The Beast Wars: Uprising story "Head Games" gives him the starring role. It doesn't end well for him.
• Deadpan Snarker: In the IDW comics, he has his moments of snark.
• Hollywood Acid: He can vomit acid on enemies. Buzzclaw just doesn't use it much because, even if it wasn't gross, it's not terribly effective.
• I Work Alone: Buzzclaw tends to work on his own because he thinks teammates will be silently casting judgement on him.
• Karmic Death: In the IDW comics, he is melted by Ratortata’s acidic vomit, an ability which he was able to use.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: He carries a shield which can absorb energy.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: Part-lizard, part-mantis.
• The Paranoiac: Is convinced all the other Predacons are watching and judging him. They probably couldn't care less about him.

Cataclysm

Function: Robotic Jungle Patrol

Beast Mode: Cheetah

• Cats Are Mean: A cheetah, and a willing servant of the utterly insane Shokaract.
• The Mole: He infiltrated the anti-Shokaract resistance, worked his way up, and led several thousand troops into an ambush where they were slaughtered.
• Palette Swap: Of Cheetor, in green and purple.
• The Rival: He and Antagony despise one another, and spend a lot of time in one-upmanship which has included spirited attempts at killing one another.
• Robo Family: The Cub is his fission-brother.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Time travel is about the only thing that unsettles him. Antagony exploits it to sabotage him. When he accidentally gets thrown into a time machine with Windrazor, he's momentarily rattled, but his bloodthirst allows him to override this and go on the attack.

Chromebite

Beast Mode: Tyrannosaurus Rex

"The light of honor heralds shining destruction!"

Cicadacon

Beast Mode: Cicada

• Combining Mecha: With Ramhorn and Sea Clamp, to form Tripredacus.
• Expanded Universe: While he and the other two members of the Tripredacus Council appeared in the show, they never travelled to Earth and/or took on beast modes.

Coelagon

Function: Pirate Advisor

Beast Mode: Coelecanth

Voiced by: Tadashi Miyazawa

• Brainwashed and Crazy: As with all the Seacons, he ends up brainwashed by the Nemesis.
• Combining Mecha: He combines with the other Seacon Pirates to form God Neptune.

Cryotek

Function: Criminal Overlord

Alt/Beast Mode: Transmetal 2 Dragon

Voiced by: Brad Venable (Theft of the Golden Disk)

Megatron's former mentor and boss. He masterminded the theft of the Golden Disc only to be betrayed by his protégé.

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• Blue Means Cold: A blue Palette Swap of Transmetal 2 Megatron with ice powers.
• Genius Bruiser: Huge and powerful, as well as a brilliant engineer.
• An Ice Person: His dragon head has ice breath.
• Palette Swap: He is a blue and purple version of Megatron's Transmetal 2 body.

Dirge / Dirgegun

Functions: Aerial Officer; Aerial Captain

Alt/Beast Mode: Dassault Rafale fighter jet (As Dirge); Cyborg Bee (As Dirgegun)

Voiced by: Eiji Takemoto

• Lazy Bum
• Those Two Guys: With Thrust
• Took a Level in Badass: Subverted, when he becomes Dirgegun and becomes a Cyborg Beast. He's still a hopeless scmhuck.
• Wicked Wasp: As Dirgegun, his alt mode is a partially mechanical giant wasp... but he's still not terribly threatening.

Double Punch

Function: Killer Elite

Beast Mode: Scorpion

"Assassination—that is what most dramatically changes the fate of the world."

A former Decepticon Action Master Elite turned assassin.

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• Beware My Stinger Tail: Since he turns into a scorpion.
• Invisibility: His body has a stealth mode that ensures his targets never see him coming.
• Palette Swap: A red and black version of Scorponok.

Drill Bit

Function: Infantry

Beast Mode: Boll Weevil

• Ambition Is Evil: Like many Predacons, he wants to be in charge. Unlike them, he'd rather do so patiently, than via backstabbing.
• Butt-Monkey: In the IDW comics.
• The Dragon: He's Magmatron's right-hand man in The Gathering.
• This Is a Drill: Has diamond-tipped, titanium-alloy destruction drill he uses both for combat and for digging tunnels.
• Tunnel King: He digs throughs a series of tunnels underground that go as deep as the Earth's core.

Flytrap

Alt Mode: Triffid

• Botanical Abomination: A humanoid man-eating plant whose alt mode is just as monstrous as it implies.
• Man-Eating Plant: Triffids are flesh-eating plants and Flytrap turns into one.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Like Manticon and Rage, a toy based on a triffid was tossed around as a possible new toy that never materialized, and so far he only has appeared in Ask Vector Prime.

Fractyl

Function: Geochemist

Beast Mode: Pteranodon

Voiced by: Doug Parker (Visitations script reading)

"The power of this planet is our salvation and our curse."

• Gadgeteer Genius: Fractyl's scientific smarts are the only reason other Preds give him time of day, instead of stuffing his head down the nearest toilet.
• Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: Fractyl's bullied by other Predacons for his love of geology. Bafflingly, he still tries to gain their respect.
• Minion with an F in Evil: Would much, much rather be studying geology than fighting. It does raise the question of why he's even a Predacon in the first place.
• Non-Action Guy: He's a pretty lousy fighter.
• Palette Swap: Of Terrorsaur.
• Token Heroic Orc: A rare Predacon who is just genuinely nice. In continuities where he's a reprogrammed, his allegiance makes some sort of sense, but ones where he was apparently just born a Pred? Yeah.
• Took a Level in Badass: In the 3H continuity, thanks to shennanigans, he gets a Transmetal upgrade.

Galvatron

Function: Emperor of Destruction

Alt/Beast Modes: Dragon, Drill Tank

Voiced by: Tetsuo Komura

• The Alcoholic: Guy likes his booze. Unfortunately, he's also a mean drunk.
• Big Bad: Of Beast Wars II.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Uprising Galvatron. While probably a threat on his own, he never gets to do anything, and is overshadowed by the Vehicons. Even the best he can muster is three washed-up cyberdroids.
• Dragons Are Demonic: His main alternate mode is a salmon-colored dragon.
• Drill Tank: His secondary alternate mode.
• Expy: As the name suggests, he's based on the original purple-people blaster. Averted with Beast Wars: Uprising, where he's a reincarnation of the Big G.
• The Juggernaut: The first time he wakes up, the Maximals are utterly unable to stop him. It's only because of Megastorm's treachery that he's thwarted at all.
• Killed Off for Real: At the end of Beast Wars II. In the IDW comics, apparently something similar happened before the story began.
• Orcus on His Throne: Either due to being stuck in lava, or unconscious, or because he's completely wasted. And, as it turns out, because he's actually playing for time while his ship makes its way to Earth.
• Perpetual Smiler
• Real Men Wear Pink: He's the Big Bad of his series, a terrifying threat, and bright pink.
• Robo Family: His brother is Megastorm.
• Wicked Cultured: He quotes Sun Tzu at one point, in a time where humanity is long missing (presumed alive).
• Worthy Opponent: Feels as much about Lio Convoy and Lio Junior, and is tetchy at Gigastorm when he doesn't show them any respect.

Gnashteeth

Beast Mode: Tyrannosaurus Rex

"There is nothing that cannot be destroyed with my own two arms!"

God Neptune

Function: Sea Pirate

Voiced by: Kazuhiko Nishimatsu

• BFS: The Neptune Sword, which can heat up to five thousand degrees celcius.
• Combining Mecha: The combined form of the Seacon pirates

Halfshell

Function: Pirate Chief

Beast Mode: Tortoise

Voiced by: Kazuhiko Nishimatsu

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Like all the Seacons, he ends up brainwashed by the Nemesis, until Magnaboss knocks God Neptune senseless.
• Combining Mecha: With the rest of the Seacon Pirates
• Honor Before Reason: Lio Convoy offered the Pirates the opportunity to leave Gaea peacefully, with all the energy they'd need. Even though the whole reason they were trying to leave was they were just fed up of losing, Halfshell still refused the offer on his honor as a pirate.
• Leader Forms the Head: He's in charge of the Seacons, and forms God Neptune's torso and head.
• Only in It for the Money: Halfshell's driving concern is how he's going to make money.
• Worthy Opponent: Develops a rivalry with Lio Convoy, seeking a chance to face him in a duel.

Iguanus

Function: Demolitions; Artillery Expert (Transmetal 2)

Beast Mode: Frilled Lizard

• The Dragon: To Magmatron in the IDW Comics.
• Lightning Bruiser: Iguanus can run over 100 KPH in his "iguana" mode, and he gets a speed boost on becoming a Transmetal 2.
• Non-Indicative Name: Transforms into a lizard, but not an Iguana.
• Took a Level in Badass: One of the few Preds to get a Transmetal 2 upgrade.

Injector

Function: Air Commander

Beast Mode: Lionfish/Hornet Hybrid

A fast and dangerous flyer who possesses a heightened sense of vanity in spite of his hideous appearance.

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• Cerebus Retcon: Beast Wars Sourcebook retcons his unabashed vanity into the Inferiority Superiority Complex below.
• Gonk: He looks every bit as ugly as he is poisonous. The blurb wasn't lying when it said "He's got a face only a Predacon could love." He thinks he's quite beautiful, however.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: According to the Sourcebook, he pretends to love his new form in order to save face in front of the other Predacons, but is secretly horrified at what he's become.
• Mix-and-Match Critter: Half-lionfish, half-bee. All incredibly ugly.
• Poisonous Person: Injector has both the stinger of a hornet and the poisonous spines of a lionfish.

Insecticon

Function: Surveillance

Beast Mode: Stag beetle

Ironlunge

Beast Mode: Triceratops

"Tremble mightily! The land belongs to me!"

Jai-Alai

Beast Mode: Praying Mantis

Jetstorm

Function: Sky Patrol

Beast Mode: Dragonfly

A sadistic Predacon with a massive superiority complex.

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• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Turns into a dragonfly.
• Non-Indicative Name: Nothing remotely jet-like or stormy about him. Evidently he was originally going to be named "Dragonfire".

Lazorbeak

Function: Aerial Attacks

Beast Mode: Pteranodon

• Dirty Coward: Much like his namesake, the original Laserbeak, Lazorbeak tends to turn chicken when faced with a legitimate fight. Coupled with his motto being identical to the original Laserbeak's, theres a theory that he might actually BE the original, still alive and kicking long after the Great War. To date, however, no Beast Wars media has ever gone with this.
• Palette Swap: He's a repaint of Terrorsaur.
• Taking You with Me: In the IDW comics, he and Spittor die when they kill Ratortata and Drancron with a massive explosion.

Manta Ray

Beast Mode: Manta Ray

• Depending on the Writer: The original toy Manta Ray had no faction insignia. Her first bio in a Japan-exclusive book made her a Predacon. IDW's Sourcebook followed suit. Uprising made her a Maximal (as part of making her an homage to Depth Charge), and the 2021 Beast Wars series followed suit.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Manta Ray turns into a manta ray.
• Gender Flip: Manta Ray's original bio used male pronouns. Every version since has been female.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Manta Ray's job requires her to spend long times in the ocean, alone. She's started talking to herself a lot, which other Preds figure is because she's been alone too long.
• Poisonous Person: Sometimes, she can give off a toxic gas.

Manterror

Function: Quick-Attack Specialist

Beast Mode: Praying Mantis

"To face me is to face defeat!"

A fast and powerful Predacon warrior.

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• Big Creepy-Crawlies: A giant praying mantis.
• Deadly Disc: His ion discs, launched from his claws, spin like sawblades and can easily slice through Maximal armor.
• Green and Mean: A bright lime green, and a ruthlessly sadistic maniac.
• Obfuscating Disability: Pretends to be awkward and ungainly until his targets get up close, at which point he quickly and viciously tears them to shreds.
• Slasher Smile: Has a near-permanent sinister smile on his face.
• Slaying Mantis: His beast mode of choice.
• Spell My Name with a "The": In Beast Wars: Uprising, Manterror is referred to as "the Man Terror". Mainly by himself, mostly.

Manticon

Beast Mode: Manticore

• Our Manticores Are Spinier: He transforms into a manticore, although his tail is not spiny.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Like Rage and Flytrap, Manticon was merely a concept tossed around for a new toy that never materialized and who only got more characterization at Ask Vector Prime.

Megalligator

Function: Commander

Beast Mode: Alligator

• Never Smile at a Crocodile: Turns into an alligator and is a Predacon.

Megastorm / Gigastorm

Function: Duke of Destruction (Megastorm), Grand Duke of Destruction (Gigastorm)

Alt Mode: Armoured Tank, Giant Tyrannosaurus Rex

Voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama

• Easily Forgiven: Despite the several attempts to remove or just kill his brother, Galvatron keeps him around rather than taking a more permanent solution.
• Evil Gloating: Tries doing this when it looks like the Lios have snuffed it. Galvatron tells him to stop it.
• Kaiju: As Gigastorm, his transformation having been influenced by feelings of envy toward his bro's dragon mode and thoughts about dinosaurs.
• Leeroy Jenkins: On turning into Gigastorm, he becomes prone to trying to rush off into battle against Galvatron's orders.
• Palette Swap: As Megastorm, he's a very mild recolor of G2 Megatron, replacing the purple with olive.
• Robo Family: Galvatron's younger brother.
• The Starscream: When Galvatron's out of action for a while, Megastorm develops a fondness for command, and starts thinking of ways to get rid of his brother. Galvatron knows about this, but keeps him alive out of familial loyalty.
• Tank Goodness: As Megastorm, he turns into a tank.

NAVI-Ko

Beast Mode: Dolphin

Voiced by: Ryōka Yuzuki

• Character Blog: Has one in the form of a Twitter account made to promote the 2014 Transformers Expo.
• Palette Swap: A recolor of Cyberverse Airachnid, minus the rotors.

Onyx Primal

Function: Predacon Assassin

Beast Mode: Bat

Voiced by: Garry Chalk (Visitations script reading)

• Continuity Snarl: Is he Maximal or Predacon? Depends who you ask.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Uprising Onyx is willing to take Tarantulas at his word. Creepy, cackling lunatic Tarantulas.
• Palette Swap: Of the original Optimus Primal design.
• Shout-Out: He acts kind of like Batman. When voiced during a BotCon reading, he sounded like Jackie Gleason.

Overbite

Beast Mode: Shark

Paleotrex

Beast Mode: Tyrannosaurus Rex

• Canon Immigrant: He and fellow Kingdom Predacon Vertebreak were the first new Predacons in any Western Transformers toyline since Beast Wars proper.
• Creepy Long Fingers: His robot mode hands are oversized, on account of being his beast mode feet, and on Creepily Long Arms to boot.
• Dem Bones: Based around the concept, and turns into a skeletonised T-Rex.
• Dragon Knight: Well, Dinosaur Knight, really, but his unmasqued face is designed like a knight's helmet.
• Equippable Ally: As a Fossilizer, he splits apart into weapons other characters can use.
• Mythology Gag: His skull-face resembles the skull flail that came with the original Ultra Class Optimus Primal.
• Nightmare Face: His skull-face with glowing red eyes.
• Toyline-Exclusive Character: Hasn’t shown up in any media aside from his toy.

Powerpinch

Function: Infantry

Beast Mode: Earwig

• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He has a low attention span, and will often not sit still long enough to listen to orders.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: He's colored bright green and orange.
• Shear Menace: Uses his beast mode’s pincers this way.

Psycho-Orb

Function: Inspection

Beast Mode: Armadillo

• Canon Foreigner: Introduced in the Japanese exclusive Robot Masters toyline.
• Epic Flail: One of his weapons is a flail attached to his beast mode foot.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: The only difference toy-wise between him and Armordillo is he comes with a shield.
• Made of Iron: He's temperature resistant up to six thousand degrees celcius, in addition to an already sturdy shell.
• Palette Swap: A repaint of Armordillo.

Ractonite

Beast Mode: Styracosaurus

• Dem Bones: As with the other Fossilizers, Ractonite turns into a skeletal dinosaur.
• Dragon Knight: As with Paleotrex, Ractonite's robot mode is designed to look like a medieval knight, which would explain the name.
• Equippable Ally: As a Fossilizer, Ractonite splits into weapons other Cybertronians can use.

Ram Horn

Beast Mode: Japanese Rhinoceros beetle

• Commander Contrarian: Ram Horn is both stubborn and contrary as hell. Whatever his fellow councillors suggest, he'll immediately take the opposite view. Fortunately, Sea Clamp and Cicadacon know how to play this to their advantage.
• Expanded Universe: While he and the other two members of the Tripredacus Council appeared in the show, they never travelled to Earth and/or took on beast modes.
• Expy: Averted. Despite Beast Wars being part of the G1 continuity family, this Ram Horn has nothing in common with his Autobot namesake, other than his apparent lack of subtlety.
• Smarter Than You Look: Ram Horn's stubbornness is often mistaken for pig-headed stupidity. This is a mistake.

Razorclaw

Function: Undercover Attack

Beast Mode: Fiddler Crab

• Ambition Is Evil: Razorclaw, like many Predacons, wants to be in charge instead of the big boss. However, his way is more patient than most. Rather than backstabbing, frontstabbing or weaseling, his plan is to just wait. And wait. ... and wait.
• Expy: Despite Beast Wars being part of the G1 continuity family, this Razorclaw has no connection to his Decepticon namesake and is simply a Decepticon descendant. He does, hoever, share his ancestor's endless patience, going so far as to wait motionless for days just to ambush a passing Maximal.
• Giant Enemy Crab
• Weaksauce Weakness: His claws are susceptible to rusting. Not good when your alt-mode requires you to spend large amounts of time underwater.

Reptix

Beast Mode: Wolf

"Those who cannot fly have no right to live!"

Retrax

Function: Desert Demolitions

Beast Mode: Pillbug

• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Have you ever seen a green pillbug?
• Be the Ball: The pillbug's natural ability.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: He turns into a giant pillbug.
• Butt-Monkey: Spends most of his panel time in the IDW comics getting beaten up by whoever he’s fighting.
• Crazy-Prepared: Before a fight, he'll dig a dozen escape routes.
• Dirty Coward: At the first sign of trouble, he'll curl up and run for it.
• Punny Name: Because he retracts into a ball.

Rotorbolt

Function: Air Operative

Alt Mode: Twin-Rotor Assault Helicopter

• Palette Swap: Of the Vehicon Obsidian. Though no toys of him were released, the Universe release of Obsidian had a similar enough paintjob for people to use him as a surrogate Rotorbolt.
• Token Heroic Orc: Actually quite nice for a Predacon.
• With Catlike Tread: In helicopter mode, he's utterly silent. In robot mode... his rotors make so much noise it's almost impossible to hear your own thoughts. Rotorbolt's only response is to get indignant, rather than just get around by walking. It's not his fault!

Sandstorm

Function: Covert Ops Commander

Beast Mode: Scorpion

• Beware My Stinger Tail
• A Father to His Men: He will do anything for his troops.
• Noble Demon: He's very honourable, for a Predacon, so noble he almost comes across as a Maximal. Justified since he's actually one of the Convenant.
• Palette Swap: He's a grey/brownish and orange redeco of Scorponok
• Power Pincers: Has two pincers for hands. He's had to adjust his fighting styles to compensate.
• Time Abyss: As one of the Covenant, he's older than Cybertron itself.

Scarem

Function: Ground Commando

Beast Mode: Transmetal 2 Scarab

• Energy Absorption: Scarem can absorb pretty much any ambient energy, and then turn it into a small Wave-Motion Gun in his beast mode.
• Reforged into a Minion: IDW Scarem is one of many Maximal protoforms who was reprogrammed into being a Predacon. Unlike some, he's supremely pissed about this.
• The Resenter: Unable to truly fight off the shell programming, and with no way of getting rid of it, Scarem takes out his anger on anyone who gets in his way.

Scavenger

Function: Infantry Commander, Psychological Warfare (Sourcebook)

Alt Modes: Fire Ant, Drill Tank

• Ant Assault: A terrifying Transmetal Predacon ant armed with drills, who likes ambushing Maximals from out of nowhere, and is capable of subjecting foes to their worst fears.
• Drill Tank: His third mode is a twin-drilled tank, which he loves using to surprise opponents from below.
• Retcon: Beast Wars Sourcebook changes his function from Infantry Commander (Inferno's function) to Psychological Warfare, presumably to better differentiate the two characters.
• Supernatural Fear Inducer: He has created viruses that make those infected hallucinate their worst fears and nightmares.
• This Is a Drill: Each drill is an arm-mounted weapon in robot mode.

Scourge

Function: Special Operations Combatant

Beast Mode: Locust

"A plague upon all their houses!"

Voiced by: Brian Orms (Intimidation Game script reading)

A loathsome and disgusting Predacon who specializes in germ warfare.

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• Adaptation Name Change: In Uprising, to avoid hitting the One-Steve Limit, he's renamed "Skurge", though thanks to an error he's also just Scourge (later explained as him trying to ape the original, G1 Scourge).
• Gonk: So positively hideous, his ugliness rivals Injector's own. At least Scourge isn't vain about his appearance.
• Non-Standard Character Design: His overall design is an exaggeration of the Transmetal 2 aesthetic. The heavy asymmetry and clashing colors grant him a patchy and disfigured appearance, more so than other Transformers who underwent the same upgrade.
• Plaguemaster: Germinates his own deadly bacteria, which not even his fellow Predacons are safe from, since he uses them as unwilling test subjects for his new viruses.

Scylla

Function: Pirate Scheme Soldier

Beast Mode: Squid

Voiced by: Miwa Matsumoto

• Abhorrent Admirer: A psychopathic sea pirate is not Scuba's idea of a good romantic partner. Doesn't stop Scylla trying to get her tentacles around him.
• Adaptational Badass: Her Uprising version is not a ditz, but a leading and competent member of the Resistance. She also comes with a cool eyepatch, yar!
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Exposure to the Nemesis turns Scylla and all the other Seacons into loyal servants of Galvatron, until Magnaboss knocked them out.
• Combining Mecha: Forms God Neptune with the Seacon Pirates, when she doesn't wander off to do her own thing.
• Pirate Girl: In that she is a pirate who is a girl, but through II she's more interested in chasing after Scuba than assisting her fellows in honest pirating.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only female Predacon in II. Also, for a long while, the only female combiner in Transformers.
• Talk Like a Pirate: Her Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation be possessed of a right piratical accent, yars and all. Hey, she is a Seacon Pirate.
• Tentacled Terror: She turns into a tentacled monster thing.
• Vanity Is Feminine: Scylla will smash anything she thinks is trying to be more beautiful than her.

Sea Clamp

Beast Mode: Lobster

• Expanded Universe: While he and the other two members of the Tripredacus Council appeared in the show, they never travelled to Earth and/or took on beast modes.
• Giant Enemy Crab: Or in his case, giant enemy lobster.
• Mighty Glacier: Sea Clamp is powerful, but very slow. The only way to escape his claws is outrun him, which at least is easy enough.
• Punny Name: "Seaclamp" references the C-Clamp tool.
• The Quiet One: Sea Clamp tends to say very little, letting Cicadacon generally deal with Ram Horn's... Ram Horn-ishness.

Sea Phantom

Function: Pirate Sneak Attacker

Beast Mode: Shark with limbs

Voiced by: Hiroaki Ichinowatari

• Brainwashed and Crazy: As with all the other Seacons, he's brainwashed by coming near the Nemesis.
• Combining Mecha: A component of King Poseidon.
• Dumb Muscle: Violent and brutish. He likes nothing more than a good fight.

Shadow Panther

Function: Disguise Soldier

Beast Mode: Black panther

• Expy: Of Ravage.
• False Friend: Shadow Panther likes to pretend he's a Maximal, lure in targets and then kill them.
• Mysterious Past: His Uprising incarnation. Nobody's quite sure what his deal is, with some saying he's a downsized Decepticon, some saying he's some kind of alien agent. He's not saying.
• Palette Swap: He's a repaint of Cheetor, in black. His current appearance in the War for Cybertron toyline differentiates them by replacing the show-accurate Cheetor head with his old toy's mutant head design.
• Panthera Awesome: Supposedly a panther. A panther that looks astoundingly like a cheetah.
• Red Baron: Known as the "Black Bullet".
• Weaksauce Weakness: Shadow Panther's only drawback is that, like Ravage, he's sensitive to bright lights.

Shokaract

Function: Universal Warlord

Beast Mode: King crab

"The universe exists to serve me."

• Driven to Suicide: In the IDW comics, he kills himself after realizing he was a pawn of Unicron out of sheer spite, knowing it would ruin his plans.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Once, he was a nameless hunter. Then he found the essence of Unicron, and ushered in an age of nightmares and mass-extinctions, nearly wiping out the Maximals.
• Giant Enemy Crab: His beast mode is a ludicrously oversized king crab.
• Godhood Seeker: In the IDW comics, his goal is to ascend to godhood by consuming Angolmois Energy.
• Hero Killer: When he appears, someone will die. They might not stay dead, though.
• Large Ham: Like you wouldn't believe.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His name is the Cybertronian equivalent of "Armageddon".
• Nigh-Invulnerable
• Palette Swap: Of Rampage.
• Unwitting Pawn: In IDW's comics, he's played like a fiddle by Unicron.

Skelivore

Beast Mode: T-Rex

• Dragon Knight: Like Paleotrex, he's got a knightlike design to his unmasked face.
• Equippable Ally: As a Fossilizer, he can turn into weapons for others to wield.
• Palette Swap: A translucent purple version of Paleotrex.
• Toyline-Exclusive Character: Despite being sold in the boxset for War for Cybertron: Kingdom, he doesn't make an appearance in the show proper.

Sky Shadow

Function: Camouflage Expert

Beast Mode: Lizard/Dragonfly Hybrid

• Faux Affably Evil: His toy bio depicts him as being a charismatic statesman and leader on the surface. Beneath that is someone who loathes his fellow comrades and secretly wants to rule the Predacons with his own "more imaginative techniques."
• Mix-and-Match Critter: Part-lizard, part-dragonfly.
• Power Pincers: In the same vein as Transquito. However, Sky Shadow's are slightly smaller and situated on his right robot mode hand.
• The Starscream: What his toy bio implies, though he evidently hides it a lot better than the Trope Namer.

Skywasp

Function: Air Warrior

Beast Mode: Wasp

• Drone Deployer: He was assigned with the drone NAVI-Q so that she could keep him in line, but her mind got scrambled due to his teleportation powers, making her just as willing to pull pranks as her partner.
• Expy: Pretty much G1 Skywarp as a Predacon.
• Jerkass: He uses his mighty teleportation powers to play cruel pranks on Maximals and Predacons alike.
• Mythology Gag: A palette swap of Waspinator in the colors of the unreleased Horrorcon Waspinator toy.

Snapper

Function: Infiltration

Beast Mode: Snapping Turtle

• Jerkass: And that's a nice way of describing him. Snapper hates everyone and everything, and will take it out on anyone who walks by. It's his anger at being Reforged into a Minion.
• Speedy Snail: His rocket thrusters allow him to move shockingly fast for a turtle.

Spittor

Function: Surprise Attack; Amphibious Warrior (Transmetal 2)

Beast Mode: Poison Arrow Frog

• Amphibian Assault: Goes for a poison arrow frog for his beast mode and is a Predacon.
• Amphibian at Large: Transforms into a giant poison arrow frog (which are especially tiny frogs).
• Butt-Monkey: In the IDW comics, though to a lesser degree than Drill Bit.
• Epic Flail: As a Transmetal 2, wields a flail.
• In a Single Bound: He can leap 300 meters in either mode. As a Transmetal 2, he can leap 500 meters.
• The Napoleon: By Predacon standards, he's small. He's also bad tempered, prone to picking fights with other, bigger Predacons, to prove his mettle. However, this also means he won't back down during an actual fight.
• Poisonous Person: Secretes fluids that can drive people nuts.
• Shock and Awe: As a Transmetal 2, he can zap people.
• Taking You with Me: In the IDW comics, he and Lazorbeak are killed by an explosion while in the process of killing Drancron and Ratortata.
• Took a Level in Badass: Spittor gets a Transmetal 2 upgrade, but in some cases, it's still not enough to make him a credible threat.

Starscream / Hellscream

Function: Aerial Commander; General Chief of Staff

Beast Mode: Jet, Shark

Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi

• Co-Dragons: In The Ascending, he's one of Shokaract's four heralds.
• Didn't See That Coming: He tried tricking Megastorm into exposing himself to a massive amount of Angolmois, presuming it'd kill him. He was more than a little surprised when it made him far stronger.
• The Starscream: Well, he does share the name with the Trope Namer. He settles for trying to usurp Megastorm to become Galvatron's new second-in-command.
• Threatening Shark: As Hellscream, he turns into a cybernetic shark.

Terragator

Function: Swamp Warrior

Beast Mode: Turtle/Alligator Hybrid

• Mix-and-Match Critter: Half-alligator, half turtle.
• The Pig-Pen: His Sourcebook profile states his job makes him filthy, and on his off-hours he goes and finds more filth to roll around in.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: He's got fully red eyes in both forms. Because being an alligator just wasn't enough, it has to be one that looks positively demonic.
• Shout-Out: His robot mode design looks uncannily like a Terminator (which would explain the name. And the red eyes).
• Spikes of Villainy: His shell, which doubles as a shield in robot mode, is covered in spikes.

Terrormander

Function: Pirate Torpedo Bomber

Beast Mode: Manta Ray

Voiced by: Hitoshi Bifu

• The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest of the Seacon Pirates, and therefore the one stuck with the most demeaning tasks. This doesn't do much to fill Terrormander with a sense of pride in his job.
• Lazy Bum: Often found slacking off, which doesn't help his standing with Halfshell.

Thrust / Thrustor

Function: Aerial Officer; Survivalist

Alt/Beast Mode: F-22 Raptor Jet, Velociraptor

Voiced by: Junji Sanechika

• Raptor Attack: Once he becomes Thrustor.
• Those Two Guys: With Dirge / Dirgegun.

Transquito

Function: Air Assault and Reconnaissance

Beast Mode: Mosquito

An incredibly obnoxious Predacon tracker.

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• Hated by All: Everyone despises him, fellow Predacons included.
• Insect Gender-Bender: Is a male Predacon who appears to have the alt mode of a female mosquito (the sexual dimorphism is pretty subtle).
• Mosquito Miscreants: He checks almost every box of the stereotype by not just being evil, but an obnoxious pest to the point where he's despised by enemy and ally alike.
• Power Pincers: His attack mode has an absolutely gargantuan pair of these.
• Super Spit: His primary weapons are virus missiles, of which he fires from his mouth. Notably, for the toy at least, the back end of the missile completes the mosquito mode's proboscis.
• Troll: Much like an actual mosquito, he is very annoying. He also takes pleasure in ticking everyone off, even his fellow Predacons.

Tripredacus

Function: Battle Master

• Combining Mecha: Of Cicadacon, Ram Horn and Sea Clamp.
• Evil Counterpart: To Magnaboss being a three part combiner formed by his faction's leaders.
• The Juggernaut: As a mix of the council's worst aspects, Tripredacus is a single-minded engine of pure destruction.

Untite

Beast Mode: Hyena

• Heinous Hyena: Unlike Jawbreaker, Untite is a ruthless scavenger who devours other Cybertronians.
• Palette Swap: He's a purple and orange redeco of Jawbreaker.
• Scavengers Are Scum: He represents the worst stereotypes about hyenas.
• Toyless Toyline Character: He hasn't received a toy.

Vertebreak

Beast Mode: Dracorex

• Canon Immigrant: Along with Paleotrex, Vert's the first new Predacon introduced in a western Transformers toyline since Beast Wars ended.
• Combat Pragmatist: Being tiny and slight, Vertebreak has to resort to fighting dirty to compensate.
• Dem Bones: Looks like a living skeleton in both modes, though her robot mode doesn't go to quite the same lengths as her pal Paleotrex.
• Toyline-Exclusive Character: Hasn’t shown up in any fiction.

Vice Grip

Function: Reconnaissance

Beast Mode: Earwing

Voiced by: Scott McNeil (Visitations script reading)

• Palette Swap: Of Powerpinch
• Shock and Awe: He can zap enemies with his pincers in robot mode.

Waspscream

• Arc Welding: The Ask Vector Prime facebook page eventually mixed this version of Waspinator / Starscream with the timeline of Universe Obsidian and Tankor.
• Demonic Possession: An alternate Waspinator permanently possessed by Starscream. The two occasionally bicker.
• Evil Versus Evil: Starscream's initial plan was go back to Cybertron and take on the Tripredacus Council with his ragtag band of thugs. Megatron had other ideas.
• Heel–Face Turn: While not exactly good by any metric, Starscream is still better than Megatron in full-on A God Am I mode, or the genocidal Obsidian and Tankor. Once those wars were over, he joined with what remained of the Maximals and the Mutants to rebuild Cybertron.
• Lightning Bruiser: Especially once they become a transmetal, capable of flying at Mach 3.
• Morphic Resonance: Starscream managed to influence his and Waspinator's transmetalization, so Waspinator gained a third jet form like Starscream's.
• Taught by Experience: Thanks to his first time losing to the Maximals, Starscream's second go-around allowed him to stop them, and kill them. Then he turned on Megatron himself.

Wolfang (Telemocha)

Beast Mode: Wolf

• The Aloner: Wolfang's the only 'new' character from the Beast Wars Telemocha line, which otherwise consists of re-issues of show characters in more screen-accurate decos.
• Noble Demon: A loyal Predacon, through and through, but not a treacherous, underhanded bastard like some. His Uprising version is an odd one, being a spy in the Maximal police, but not a corrupt one (something even most of the other Maximals can't say).
• Same Character, But Different: Averted. This Wolfang is considered a separate character from his Maximal namesake, known as 'Howlinger' in Japan.
• Super-Senses: According to Uprising, he's got an incredibly powerful sense of smell. Not something you necessarily want when working homicide, so he takes cygarettes to try and block it out.

Mutants

The Mutants, aka the Mutant Beasts, are a powerful group of Transformers who've lost their robot modes but can instead transform between two beast modes. Though they still retain their original heads from their robot modes, albeit hidden. The Mutants are led by Icebird and seek to create a purely organic existence. The Mutants are mainly neutral and will attack any Predacons on sight but tolerate and ally with the Maximals as a necessary component of their goals.

Icebird

Function: Mutant Beast Commander

Beast Modes: Snow Owl/Polar Bear

"He who fights with monsters should take care lest he becomes a monster."

The Sage-like leader of the Mutants, Icebird is very wise and powerful. He lost his robot mode long ago and instead gained two beast modes, transforming from a snow owl to a polar bear.

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• Bears Are Bad News: One of his modes is a polar bear and any Predacon foolish enough to get close will get torn apart.
• The Determinator: He perseveres in his mission to ascend to a completely organic existence, despite it being compounded by the difficulties of working with the disparate group of personalities that make up the Mutants.
• The Dreaded: Not even Beast Wars Megatron wants to mess with him.
• He Who Fights Monsters: His bio quote in the Sourcebook sums up this trope quite nicely.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Icebird still retains his original robot mode head, it's just hidden underneath the head of his polar bear alt-mode.
• Ominous Owl: His other alt-mode is a snowy owl which reflects the wiser part of his personality.
• Pet the Dog: In the 3H Comics's Transformers: The Wreckers after the defeat of the Quintesson Judge Heirodyus he helps lead the newly-freed Sharkticons to a brighter future alongside Poison Bite.
• Superpower Lottery: Can communicate telepathically, become invisible, read minds, and shut down machinery at will.
• The Resenter: To himself after he lost his robot mode.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the 3H Comics's Transformers: The Wreckers he calls Primal out for not going far enough against Megatron and his Vehicons, going so far as to attack him. Tigatron thankfully separates them before they could do any damage to each other.

Poison Bite

Function: Special Operations

Beast Modes: Scorpion/Barracuda

"A strong spark ought to bear the calamities and not flee them."

• Beware My Stinger Tail: His scorpion mode.
• The Fatalist
• Fiendish Fish: One of his alt modes is a red barracuda.

Razor Claw

Function: Warrior

Beast Modes: Velociraptor/Wolverine

"Greater dooms win greater destinies!"

• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: His other alt mode is a green wolverine.
• The Artifact: The mutant head on his toy is one of the Mutants' origins as Animorphs Transformers toys- it's pretty clearly an Andalite head.
• Raptor Attack: Turns into a velociraptor.

Soundwave

Function: Warrior

Beast Modes: Bat/Crocodile

"From the sky to the sea, they will fear and respect me."

• Bat Out of Hell:
• Expy: Despite the name, he's not G1 Soundwave. The IDW Beast Wars Sourcebook suggests it might be him, but no one in the fanbase chooses to believe it.
• Irony: One of the first products released for Beast Wars was a two pack of Optimus Primal and Megatron, who transformed into a bat and a crocodile, respectively. Soundwave, one of the last Beast Wars toys, has those two animals as his beast modes. (Pure coincidence, since he started life as an Animorphs toy, but still.)
• Never Smile at a Crocodile: One of his beast modes is a crocodile.

Blentrons

Razorclaw (Universe)

Beast Mode: Tiger/Falcon Hybrid

• Alternate Self: An alternate and utterly evil version of Tigerhawk.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It does not take a lot to make him angry. Other generals of Unicron tread lightly around him, for fear of setting him off.
• Large Ham: His introduction in Universe issue 1 is a memorable bit of Furman ham. Know that he is Razorclaw! Know that his universe is not yours, and while he may resemble Tigerhawk, Razorclaw is not he!
• Mix-and-Match Critter: Part tiger, part eagle.
• Physical God: Razorclaw still has his Vok-given powers, which allow him to cause natural disasters.
• Point of Divergence: In his universe, Silverbolt's stasis pod crash landed on the far side of Earth, giving Megatron enough of an advantage to kill the Maximals. Tigertron and Airrazor survived, but still got abducted, and turned into Tigerhawk, who was sent back to kill the Predacons. Which he did. Unfortunately by then Megs had already absorbed G1 Megatron's Spark, and reality went bye-bye. Unicron snatched him up and took him on as a herald.
• That Man Is Dead: Know that while he may resemble Tigerhawk, he is not.

Others

Artemis

Voiced by: Chieko Higuchi

An android who lives in Gaia's moon and comments on the events of Beast Wars II

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• Back for the Finale: Appears at the party at the end of Neo.
• Greek Chorus: Her role in Beast Wars II along with Moon.
• Meaningful Name: Named after the Greek lunar goddess.
• Robot Girl: Looks mostly human, as a sign she’s not really Cybertronian.
• Token Human: The closest thing to it in the series, though she is a Robot Girl.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Also almost got one in the Masterpiece series.
• The Watcher: This ultimately costs her the ability to see Moon in the IDW series.

Black Lio Convoy

Beast Mode: Lion

Voiced by: Hozumi Gouda

A dark clone of Lio Convoy made by an abandoned copying machine found on Gaia.

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• Badass Adorable: Thanks to the art style of the anime, while he is evil and dangerous, in his beast mode he actually looks... well, cute.
• Dark Is Evil: An entirely black clone of Lio, but arrogant and evil.
• I Have Many Names: Copy Convoy, Black Lio Convoy, Lio Convoy Black Version, and Nemesis Leo Prime.
• Insane Troll Logic: Insists he's the real Lio Convoy, while planning to replace him.
• Kill and Replace: Copy Convoy's plan was to do this first to Lio, then to all the other Maximals.
• No Ontological Inertia: The destruction of the machine that made him causes him to fade out of existence.
• Paint It Black: An exact physical copy of the Maximal supreme commander, just entirely in black and very dark grey. Copy Convoy was, in fact, the first entirely black repaint in TF history.

Moon

Function: Celestial Observer

Beast Mode: Rabbit

Voiced by: Junko Takeuchi

"Between peace and chaos lies the courage to act."

A robot rabbit who is meant to be Artemis' assistant but more often annoys her with his antics.

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• Adapted Out: In “Uprising”, he is implied to be fictional.
• Adaptation Species Change: The original Beast Wars II version was a human-made robot. Some versions have their point of origin changed, with his IDW G1 continuity version being a Cybertronian-born.
• Adaptational Villainy: In “Last Bot Standing”, he’s made into a flesh-eating, sadistic monster. He’s also a Predacon in the Game Boy Color fighting game.
• Back for the Finale: Appears at the party at the end of Neo.
• Greek Chorus: Shares this role with Artemis.
• Kid-Appeal Character: Even more than Tasmania Kid
• Moon Rabbit: He is a huge reference to this trope.
• Non-Standard Character Design: His beast mode is far more cartoony than the other characters, and his robot mode is simpler.
• Those Two Guys: Serves as a Greek Chorus for the events of II with Artemis, who usually clobbers him for being an idiot.
• Verbal Tic: Ends his sentances with "Moon".
• The Watcher: Much like the Trope Namer, he did try to intervene and aid the Maximals but they couldn't see or hear him making his efforts moot.

NAVI

Voiced by: Haruhi Terada (Yukikaze), Maki Miyamae (Gung Ho)

A series of on board A.I.s with varying personalities installed in Maximal spaces ships, such as the Yukikaze and the Gung Ho. Though can have some limited mobility and independence thanks to Ambulatory Units created by the Maximal Skywarp.

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• Benevolent A.I.: They're effectively the anime Maximals' answer to the Teletran computers of Generation One.
• Fun with Acronyms: NAVI is short for Navigational-type Computer.

DNAVI

Voiced by: Maki Miyamae

The NAVI AI installed in the Predacon ship The Dinosaur.

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• Evil Counterpart: To the NAVI A.I.s.
• Fun with Acronyms: Her full name is Devil Navigational-type Computer.
• I Have Many Names: A running gag in Neo, almost every episode she has a new name and refuses to be of any use to the Predacons, including Magamatron, unless she is referred to by it.
• Shout-Out: All her many names are famous historical women.

Rage

Beast Mode: Jellyfish

• Adaptational Ugliness: Her original manga self looked like your typical anime princess. Her Uprising incarnation is based on an unreleased jellyfish Transformer, and looks significantly less cute.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Uprising Rage dubs herself a queen after going rogue. While initially no-one bothers acknowledging her claim, she manages to carve out her own territory and holds it through the entirety of the Uprising, fighting off the Vehicons when they attack.

The Skriix

Ferocious aliens who attack Maximal and Predacon alike in the 1996 game.

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• Always Chaotic Evil: Though they don’t appear particularly sapient, they still mercilessly attack Cybertronians.
• Fantastic Racism: The ones that appear at the end of Uprising shoot down a pair of Cybertronian ships for daring to contaminate a planet they'd already claimed with their techno-organic presence.

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