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Big Convoy Unit
Big Convoy (ビッグコンボイ biggu konboi)
Big Convoy
Function: Supreme Commander
Beast Mode: Woolly Mammoth
Voiced by: Junichi Inoue, Gregg Berger (The Hot Rod script reading)
"All for one and one for all."
The main character of Beast Wars Neo, Big Convoy is an astoundingly powerful warrior but prefers being alone, heading onto battlefields by himself. He wields the Big Cannon, which can blitz enemies with a single shot. On orders from Vector Sigma, Big Convoy has been appointed as an instructor to a group of young warriors where's he's pulled into the quest of stopping the revival of Unicron.- Adaptation Name Change: In Uprising, he goes by Slammoth, a name previously mentioned in the Fan Built Combiner poll, alongside Quakebreak and the winning Victorion.
- Age Insecurity: During the final clipshow, the cadets bring up who's the oldest of their unit, when Big Convoy hears his name mentioned he becomes suprisingly defensive that he's not that older than them.
- Big Good: Of Beast Wars Neo and one of its main characters.
- BFG: The Big Cannon is Big Convoy's weapon of choice. It's almost as big as him and it's devastating; only the likes of Magmatron could remain functional after even an indirect blast.
- A Father to His Men: As much as he wants to flatten the recruits he has to look after; he grows to care for them. And with each lesson in warfare, he imparts on his recruits, Big Convoy learns a lesson about friendship and teamwork.
- Gentle Giant: It’s in the name.
- Hero of Another Story: In the IDW continuity, events sort-of like Neo occurred before the events of the comics, but the full details aren't given.
- Honorable Elephant: Well, mammoth, but still.
- Ineffectual Loner: Averted. He was just fine on his own, though his superiors disagreed with him.
- I Work Alone: Big Convoy was really anti-social before Beast Wars Neo. Because of this, the Convoy Council ordered him to train a crew of unruly recruits to curb his psychotically anti-social behavior. Funnily enough, it worked! Downplayed however, as at the end of the series he returns to operating solo but is open to cooperating with others.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While it takes every ounce of restraint Big Convoy can muster not to throttle the recruits he's tasked with looking after, deep down, he kinda-sorta likes them. Or he's getting there, anyway.
- The Leader: Reluctantly of the Gung-Ho Maximals.
- The Mentor: He's assigned to the mentor a team of young recruits by the supercomputer Vector Sigma, despite both his lone wolf attitude and belief he's a poor fit for the role he comes into the role.
- One-Man Army: Within the Maximal ranks he's known as "The One-Man Army", a solitary Supreme Commander who can do the work of a whole battalion all on his lonesome.
- Tank Goodness: Big Convoy (or his toy at least) has a third mode known as "Mammoth Tank," which is just his beast mode with the Big Cannon folded out. His Ascending alt-mode, since he's no longer a mammoth, is a spider-tank.
- Wave-Motion Gun: By inserting his Energon Matrix into the cannon, Big Convoy can transform it into the Matrix Buster. Fueled by this link to the supercomputer Vector Sigma, this weapon is so powerful that it destroyed freaking UNICRON!
- The Worf Effect: Ascending has him be one of the first victims of Shokaract's ascension, to show just how dangerous he is.
Longrack (ロングラック rongurakku)
Longrack
Function: Deputy Commander
Beast Mode: Giraffe
Voiced by: Jun Uemoto
"If you do not think before you act, do not act at all."
A young Maximal who Big Convoy names as his lieutenant.- Expy: His Uprising incarnation takes on several traits of Arnold Rimmer, only slightly more likeable.
- Extendable Arms: His toy's primary gimmick is his extendable right arm ending in his "Crush Arm".
- Foil: To later addition to their unit Mach Kick. Longrack is serious and by the book but immature and in experienced while Mach Kick is hot-blooded and easy going but an experienced warrior and second in command.
- Genial Giraffe: His Beast Mode.
- Mythology Gag: If ever he's depicted with a non-beast mode, it'll be the same as Cybertron Longrack.
- Number Two: Big Convoy appoints him as second in command of their unit. He stands down in the final episodes for personal reasons.
Colada (コラーダ korāda)
Colada
Function: Ground Trooper
Beast Mode: Cobra
Voiced by: Makoto Ueki
"I have no time for patience!"
Colada is a lone wolf Maximal cobra who appears in the Beast Wars Neo cartoon, later joining up with Big Convoy's Maximal crew.- Breath Weapon: Has this both in the Neo anime and in his toy when he is in beast mode. On the toy it works as a water squirter, but in the anime it is fire breath.
- Cowboy: Colada looks and acts like a cowboy, given his hat and weapon; bonus points for being a cobra.
- Fatal Flaw: Colada's insistence on going it alone, as well as his pathological inability to make friends, is often than not his undoing on the battlefield.
- Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon: Colada's third mode is a gun emplacement that can be manned by other Transformers.
- Headbutting Heroes: With Break, at first.
- I Work Alone: Yep. Colada has never been a team player from the day he was put online. The character bios for the 06 comics say he left the Maximal army after Neo to become a solo operative.
- Jerkass: He's not the nicest bot around and is at odds with his fellow Maximals for being a jerk and lack of a team player, and yet he's one of the good guys.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Inverted — personality quirks notwithstanding.
- Strong and Skilled: Much to the chagrin of his associates, Colada's skills in combat often back up his attitude.
- What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Inverted. His beast mode is a cobra — the sort of alternate form you'd expect of a Predacon.
Stampy (スタンピー sutanpī)
Stampy
Function: Reconnaissance
Beast Mode: Rabbit
Voiced by: Mika Ishibashi
"A strategic retreat is better than a tactical defeat."
A young skittish Maximal.
- Adaptation Personality Change: In the Ascending comic, he's give a more hyperactive, battle-eager personality making him almost the complete opposite of his original characterization.
- Characterization Marches On: In the early episodes Stampy's first response to danger was to run but in later episodes, he stands firm by his comrades.
- Cowardly Lion: With the emphasis more on coward than lion. But he will fight if there is absolutely no other option left available, even taking on Magmatron to try and save his comrades (he doesn't win, but he tries).
- Killer Rabbit: Zigzagged. Stampy's more of a Plucky Comic Relief given his cowardice, but he's still a fighting robot, and his twin blades, formed by his rabbit mode's ears, are diamond-sharp — even if he's unwilling to fight himself, he can be quite dangerous when transformed into his "scissors" mode and wielded by another Maximal.
- Righteous Rabbit: A kind and tender Maximal warrior that goes with a rabbit alternate mode.
- Sensor Character: As rabbit he naturally has amazing hearing in both Robot and Beast Modes and is stated to have the greatest sensory range of the Gung Ho crew and is often the one in charge of locating Anglomois capsules.
Break (ブレイク bureiku)
Break
Function: Polar Operative
Beast Mode: Emperor Penguin
Voiced by: Junko Takeuchi
"The light of my spark will dispel the darkness of evil."
A Maximal recruit that appears in the Beast Wars Neo cartoon who wants to be the best.- Adaptation Species Change: In the 2006 Beast Wars comics, his beast mode was changed from an emperor penguin to a rockhopper penguin, explained as him acquiring a new Beast mode.
- Cloudcuckoolander: His Uprising incarnation is treated as a weirdo by other proto-formers thanks to his choice of alt-mode, and his tendency to speak in hashtags.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Break is a good bot and companion by all means. But his gung-ho personality and inability to accept anything less than identical pep from his peers make him more than a little obnoxious.
- Headbutting Heroes: With Colada, at least at first.
- Hidden Depths: Break loves bathing in ice water and is quite tidy.
- An Ice Person: Amazingly strong in coldness, Break gives full play to his abilities on frigid worlds. In Beast Wars Neo, when the crew arrives on planet Solid, he's happy to find out that Solid is a cold, frozen wasteland.
- I Just Want to Be Badass: Being a recruit, he currently resides at the bottom of the food chain, but his ambitions lay at the very top, and he's determined to be Supreme Commander someday.
- Leader Wannabe: With designs on being a leader, he tends to presumptuously act like a leader, which stifles the sub-commander Longrack and can even irritate the Supreme Commander Big Convoy.
- The Pollyanna: Bot got electric tortured by the Predacons and was barely phased.
- Those Two Guys: With Stampy.
- Toilet Humor: Due to the design of his gun mode, it does look an awful lot like he's shooting out of his behind. Ascending even has Apache razz him about this.
Heinrad (ハインラッド hainraddo)
Heinrad
Function: Dimensional Explorer
Beast Mode: Tanuki
Voiced by: Yoji Ietomi
"Time waits for no 'bot...except me."
A lazy Maximal with the ability to stop time.- Drama-Preserving Handicap: Needless to say, his "Time Freeze" could make battles go much easier for his team, unfortunately, it takes a while to recharge between uses.
- Expy: His characterisation in TransTech is based on David Tennant's Tenth Doctor.
- Foreshadowing: If you rewatch certain episodes of Neo, the reveal that he's an agent of Vector Sigma is subtly hinted from early on.
- Older Than They Look: During the finale battle with Unicron, Heinrad reveals he's actually older than Big Convoy.
- Really 700 Years Old: During the final episodes of Neo he reveals he's actually older than Big Convoy. We aren't given an exact number but claims he is old enough to call Vector Sigma a friend.
- Tanuki: His beast mode. His toy references the animal's drunken reputation in folklore coming with a sake bottle and a box of I.O.Us that become his robot mode's gun.
- Time Master: Possesses the power to freeze time.
Mach Kick (マッハキック mahha kikku)
Mach Kick
Function: Express Courier
Beast Mode: Horse
Voiced by: Teruaki Ogawa
"There are no speed limits on the road to victory."
- Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag: Granted, Beast Wars media has always occasionally dippped into funny animal territory, but it's usually left to animals that can stand on their hind limbs to some extent. Mach Kick, however spends all of his debut episode, and a few after, in Beast Mode standing, walking or running on his hind legs, even holding objects with his forehooves. This is notable as other quadrupedal characters like Longrack never do this.
- Cool Horse: His Beast Mode
- Extendable Arms: His right "Elastic Hand/Crusher".
- Foil: To Longrack. Longrack is the acting liutenant of Big Convoy's unit serious and by the book but has little field experience. Mach Kick however, is loud and hothead but is an experienced warrior and second in command.
- Hero-Worshipper: He greatly admires Big Convoy after witnessing him single-handedly win the battle that wiped out his unit, to the point of tracking him down and begging to join his team of cadets just for the chance to serve under him.
- He has a similar reaction to Lio Convoy, causing Stampy to call him out as a fanboy of "Legendary Warriors" in general.
- Hidden Depths: It's important to remember that despite his free-spirited, over-eager personality Mach Kick is an experienced warrior and the former lieutenant of the Thoroughbred Corps. Signs of this are shown by him quickly figuring out how the computer systems of Arachide operate with a few quick observations and thinking with better tactics than the less experienced Lieutenant Longrack.
- Number Two: He was second-in-command of the Thoroughbred Corps until it was wiped out and becomes second-in-command of Big Convoy's unit in the last few episodes when Long Rack steps down for personal reasons.
- Rearing Horse: His stock pose after transforming to Beast Mode.
- Sixth Ranger: To Big Convoy’s unit.
- Sole Survivor: Of the Thoroughbred Corps.
- Survivor Guilt: While he doesn't normally show any signs, he's hinted to have this due to the above tropes. In his second episode, the computer of Arachide creates a hologram of his former superior Strada claiming to have survived the battle that wiped out their unit and wanting to rebuild it with him at his side. Mach Kick, despite being pretty wise to the computer's tricks for the majority of the episode, almost eagerly accepts this at face value until Longrack snaps him out of it.
Others
Rockbuster (ロックバスター rokkubasutā)
Rockbuster
Function: Guerilla Fighter
Beast Mode: Fiddler Crab
Voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama
"Depend on yourself and you will never have anyone else to blame for failure."
- Giant Enemy Crab: Subverted: he turns into a pretty big crab but is a Maximal. Though he is a palette swap of a Pred.
- I Work Alone: The acceptation being his former partner Big Convoy whom he wished to team up again.
- Palette Swap: Averted, if compared to the video-pack in version of Razorclaw.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Big Convoy, but their solitary natures means they drifted apart though they remain on good terms.
Randy (ランディー randī)
Randy
Function: Shock Trooper
Beast Mode: Boar
Voiced by: Kohei Kowada
"Let's get serious."
An infantry soldier who ironically is poor with others, leading him to be assigned to protect a planet inhabited by rare animals.
- Aerith and Bob: Randy is an unusually normal name for a Maximal, like Kirk and Rodney.
- The Aloner: Tends to stick to himself, mainly because he's not terribly good with other people.
- Berserk Button: He hates curvey things, this extends to tunnels, rock formations and fellow Maximal, Colada.
- Epic Fail: Randy's toy is made of material susceptible to Gold Plastic Syndrome. In short, the plastic decomposes over time until it shatters and/or crumbles with little effort. While not the only Transformers toy to suffer from this, he is one of the most notorious, since his entire transformation is spring-loaded, and he's made entirely out of gold plastic.
- Full-Boar Action: His Beast Mode.
- Palette Swap: Of Razorbeast.
Sharp Edge (シャープエッジ shāpu ejji)
Sharp Edge
Function: Deep Sea Assault
Beast Mode: Sawshark
Voiced by: Hideki Konda
"Too much thinking results in too little action."
- Blood Knight: Sharp Edge likes fighting, but is worried what he'll do in peacetime.
- Chainsaw Good: Ascending depicts him as having one in his Cybertronian form.
- Did I Just Say That Outloud?: A running gag in his spotlight episode, he's been training on his own for so long that he often speaks his mind aloud without realising it.
- Head Swap: He’s one of Cybershark, in both modes.
- Threatening Shark: He turns into a sawshark.
Bump (バンプ banpu)
Bump
Function: Physicist
Beast Mode: Armadillo
Voiced by: Eiji Takemoto
"The secrets of the universe reveal themselves to those who open their minds."
A Maximal who's exceedingly reserved of character, but is a genius inventor.- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: In Neo he wears glasses in Beast Mode.
- Adaptational Nationality: Bump's IDW incarnation hails from the Cybertron colony world of Eukaris, rather than his Beast Wars Neo incarnation, who's a regular Maximal from Cybertron.
- Best Friend: With Gimlet in the IDW comics.
- Crisis of Faith: Bump's IDW incarnation goes through one regarding the Thirteen and their lineage, secretly wondering if perhaps the Primes were just ordinary 'bots like any other.
- Defector from Decadence: Bump was responsible for many of the Maximal army's greatest weapons. He eventually left when he grew tired of being limited to constructing machines of war.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: His Beast Wars Neo incarnation believes only in science and considers Cybertronian religions and beliefs to be nothing more than over-hyped fairy tales. Despite them... you know... actually being real.
- Gadgeteer Genius: As stated above he's responsible for most Maximal weaponry before going off on his own. He now works on commission and only on projects that catch his interest.
- Hidden Depths: He's quite frugal with his pay and invests it all right back into his studies.
- Hikikomori: The only time Bump is really happy is when he's retreated into his own shell, where he can perform all the experiments he wants without the distractions of others. Though quiet and oftentimes shy, Bump is still good-natured and respectful.
- Palette Swap: Of Armordillo.
- Quick Draw: Bump displays a lightning-fast draw-and-fire technique with the weapons at his hips.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: Bump's Beast Wars Neo incarnation wears glasses in his beast mode; it's as adorable as it sounds.
Survive (サバイブ sabaibu)
Survive
Function: Assault Commander
Beast Mode: Black Bear
Voiced by: Yoshikazu Nagano
"Fall in line or fall-out."
- Bears Are Bad News: Unless you're a Predacon, inverted.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Just like Polar Claw. Seems to run in the mold?
- Drone Deployer: Has a repaint of Batscout called True One.
- The Mentor: To Big Convoy.
- Palette Swap: He's one of Polar Claw.
Strada (ストラーダ sutorāda)
Strada
Function: Captain
Beast Mode: Horse
Voiced by: Satoshi Tsuruoka
Captain of the Thoroughbred Corps and Mach Kick's original superior officer.- Cool Horse: He's only seen in robot mode but clearly has a horse head on his chest.
- Death by Origin Story: For Mach Kick, having died with the rest of his unit at the battle of the opeining of the show.
- Toyless Toyline Character: Being both an original creation of the Neo anime and a minor character it's unlikely he'll ever get one.
Predacons
Magmatron Unit
Magmatron (マグマトロン magumatoron)
Magmatron
Function: Emperor of Destruction
Beast Modes: Quetzalcoatlus; Giganotosaurus; Elasmosaurus; Chimera
Voiced by: Show Ryuzanji
- Artistic License – Paleontology: It's frequently said in his bios that he turns into three dinosaurs. Nuh-uh. One part of him turns into a dinosaur (A giganotosaurus, specifically) while the other two turn into a plesiosaur and pterodactyl, respectively. His Sourcebook profile manages to claim they "have only loose connections to actual reptilian lifeforms".
- Benevolent Boss: He's incredibly tolerant of his troops and their antics. Unlike Megatron, he doesn't take his anger out on his troops with harsh physical abuse even when they fail to carry out his orders, as even indulges DNAVI's quirk of constantly changing her name and apologizes to "Saberback" note for resorting to electric torture to confirm his identity. He loses this trait after the Blentrons appear and he learns their end goal willing to sacrifice his entire unit without a hesitation.
- Meanwhile, his Uprising incarnation is such a stand-up guy Rampage likes him.
- Big Bad: Of Beast Wars Neo. And of IDW's comics.
- Combining Mecha: Having a mitotic spark (being able to separate into more than one part while still being a single Transformer) means Magmatron can split himself into three beasts modes; a Quetzalcoatlus (Skysaurus), a Giganotosaurs (Landsaurus), and an Elasmosaurus (Seasaurus), respectively. All three can also combine together to form a chimera-like creature called the Magmasaurus.
- Cool Sword: It looks like it's made out of bone.
- Heel–Face Turn: Turns up in the Beast Machines toyline as a member of the Dinobots.
- Land, Sea, Sky: His three beast modes, Landsaurus, Seasaurus and Skysaurus, allow him to traverse all three environments.
- Never Found the Body: Wreckers Magmatron disappeared, last being seen holding off the Dweller. By the time the other Dinobots got back, all they found was his sword...
- Omnicidal Maniac: His manga iteration just wanted to kill every living thing he found.
- Perpetual Smiler: In Beast Wars Neo, just like his predecessor Galvatron.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: His Landsaurus component is dark purple while his Seasaurus component is pale green.
- Villain Respect: He states that Razorbeast deserves a hero's memorial for his actions at the end of the Ascending comic.
Guiledart (ガイルダート gairudāto)
Guiledart
Function: Staff Officer
Beast Mode: Triceratops
Voiced by: Holly Kaneko
- Badass Bandolier: Has a design that looks like one on his chest.
- The Dragon: To Magmatron.
- Faking the Dead: His third mode is basically him pretending to be a decaying carcass complete with exposed ribs.
- Mighty Glacier: As might be expected of a Triceratops, he's pretty slow but amazingly tough.
- Only Sane Man: Of the Dinosaur crew during the Unicron arc, Magmatron had become obsessed with preventing the monster planet's resurrection and the rest of the crew wanted to join forces with latter to survive. He was the only one who realised how badly both lines of thinking were which led him to foiling his teammate's attempts and letting the Maximals face Unicron on Cybertron.
- Temper-Ceratops: Turns into one, but he’s fairly mellow himself.
- Undying Loyalty: His depiction in Beast Wars Neo at least until Magmatron's obession began clouding his judgement. His IDW profile portrays him as the exact opposite.
- Villain Respect: Saluted the Gung-Ho as it left for Cybertron for the final battle with Unicron.
Saberback (セイバーバック seibābakku)
Saberback
Function: Camouflage Warrior
Beast Mode: Stegosaurus
Voiced by: Kazuki Yao
- Dirty Coward: There's a reason he likes mussing with magic, and it's so he doesn't have to fight folk up front.
- Fake Wizardry: He claims to be capable of performing acts of magic, though no one believes him. Amusingly, a mistranslation in an early fan sub took his claims literally and this influenced some official western media's depictions of him.
- Planimal: His trap mode.
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Has a cow skull like decoration on his robot mode's chest.
- Tough Armored Dinosaur: A Stegosaurus, for him.
Sling (スリング suringu)
Sling
Function: Shock Trooper
Beast Mode: Dimetrodon
Voiced by: Monster Maezuka
- Bear Trap: In Beast Mode he can open his sail to act as one desplaying this in the first episode of Neo.
- Dumb Muscle: Sling actually is as stupid as he looks.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: His fellow Predacons hate him. Really, really hate him.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: His "Sling Shield".
- Planimal: His trap mode.
- You Don't Look Like You: In the Neo anime, his alt-mode, a Dimetrodon, is drawn to look more like a sort of Dinosaur, even walking on two legs.
Dead End (デッドエンド deddo endo)
Dead End
Function: Demolitions
Beast Mode: Ammonite
Voiced by: Seiji Mizutani
- Ax-Crazy: Dead End's favorite thing in life is killing - as much as possible. Played with, in that when off the job he's not particularly violent at all. In fact, he tends to be quiet and reclusive.
- Gender Flip: In Beast Wars: Uprising, Dead End is female.
Archadis (アルカディス arukadisu)
Archadis
Function: Air Supremacy Soldier
Beast Mode: Archaeopteryx
Voiced by: Ren Tamura
- Feathered Fiend: Archadis turns onto a Archaeopteryx, and is an unimaginable jerkass, even by typical Predacon standards.
- The Rival: To Guildarts for the position of second-In-command.
- Sixth Ranger: To Magmatron's Predacons.
Others
Hydra (ハイドラー haidorā)
Hydra
Function: Bombardier
Beast Mode: Pteranodon
Voiced by: Ryu Naito
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Hydra's gotten very lonely with his solo assignment on a backwards planet in the middle of nowhere, so whenever anyone shows up, he tries to make friends. And it creeps his visitors out.
- Palette Swap: He's a repaint of Terrorsaur.
- Power of the Sun: According to his Sourcebook profile, Hydra's wings can absorb solar energy.
- The Resenter: Towards Guiledart, who he blames for his terrible assignment to point of shooting him on sight while ignoring his warnings of two Maximals.
Crazybolt (クレイジーボルト kureijīboruto)
Crazybolt
Function: Independent Infiltrator
Beast Mode: Frilled-Neck Lizard
Voiced by: Kei Majima
- The Friend Nobody Likes: The other Predacons on Magmatron's crew can't stand him, regarding him as a sleazy low-life.
- Palette Swap: He's a redeco of Iguanus.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Turns into a frilled-neck lizard, and he's a Predacon.
- Those Two Guys: The only person who can stand him is his partner Bazooka.
Hardhead (ハードヘッド hādoheddo)
Hardhead
Function: Ground Forces Commander
Beast Mode: Pachycephalosaurus
Voiced by: Masami Iwasaki
- Adaptational Intelligence: IDW's comics claim he is not spectacularly dumb at all. Uprising runs with that concept for a while.
- Co-Dragons: IDW's comics make him one of Shockaract's heralds. Not the greatest choice ever, there.
- The Ditz: Thinking is not Hardhead's forte. At all.
- Dumb Muscle: Serves this function; at least he’s handy with a sword.
- Headbutting Pachy: As implied by the name, he uses his head in dinosaur mode to smash things.
- Head Swap: Of Dinobot, in both modes.
- Informed Species: Supposedly turns into a Pachycephalosaurus. One that looks amazingly like a velociraptor, on account of Hardhead being a remold of Dinobot.
- Too Dumb to Live: In the manga, he commits seppuku after bungling a mission, and killing Hydra by mistake.
Bazooka (バズーカ bazūka)
Bazooka
Function: Fortress Guard
Beast Mode: Ankylosaurus
Voiced by: Hajime Komada
- I Gave My Word: Bazooka will keep his word no matter what. Problem is, he expects other Predacons to do the same, which... yeah.
- Tough Armored Dinosaur: Turns into an ankylosaurus. He’s a basic class figure in the toyline, however.
Killer Punch (キラーパンチ kirā panchi)
Killer Punch
Function: Intelligence Officer
Beast Mode: Styracosaurus
Voiced by: Yasuhiro Miyata
- Conspiracy Theorist: IDW Killer Punch has apparently spent too much time on the Cybertronian internet, and his head is now full of nutball theories. Some of them could be kind of plausible... and then there's the other ones, like Ultra Magnus having been a Decepticon agent.
- Entertainingly Wrong: Despite being an intelligence officer his information is far from accurate. Example, he thought Survive and Big Convoy hated each other and tried to convince the former that the latter was spreading rumours about him. In realty, Survive and Big Convoy hold each other in high regard as teacher and student respectively and said teacher knows his former cadet well enough to immediately know that's a lie.
- Head Swap: Of Guiledart, in both modes.
- Properly Paranoid: His Uprising version spent cycles tearing the Dinosaur apart because he thought there was a stowaway onboard, but he never found anything. Actually, Dead-End had smuggled a Sharkticon aboard, but KP didn't find this out before he died. Similarly, his paranoia means he never trusts Synapse, and allows him to broadcast proof of his murderous plot to Magmatron before he's killed.
Blentrons
In General
The Blentrons are a mysterious and powerful trio of transformers with monstrous chimeric Beast Modes. The three attacked both the Gung Ho Maximals and Dinosaur Predacons to acquire their collections of Angolmois Capsules for the goal of resurrecting their master, Unicron.
- Healing Factor: No matter what the Maximals and Predacons do to them, they heal in a matter of seconds.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: All three of them are a fusion of two beasts in one.
- Ratorata: A lionfish with the enlarged body of a hornet
- Elphaorpha: The body and tusks of an elephant with the head, fin, and tail of an orca.
- Drancron: A lizard with dragonfly wings.
- Undying Loyalty: The three are reveal to be servants of Unicron and are fanatically loyal to him.
Drancron (ドランクロン dorankuron)
Drancron
Function: Execution Ninja
Beast Mode: Lizard/Dragonfly Hybrid
Voiced by: Shinji Uchida
- Palette Swap: Of Sky Shadow.
- Reforged into a Minion: His IDW self started off as a disillusioned Decepticon, before Unicron found him.
- Shear Menace: Dran Cutter. One of his two pairs of insect wings in beast mode doubles as a pair of enormous scissors in robot mode and are capable of slicing through material with ease.
Elphaorpha (エルファオルファ erufaorufa)
Elphaorpha
Function: Destruction Ninja
Beast Mode: Elephant/Orca Hybrid
Voiced by: Yoshinobu Kaneko
- Acid Attack: Killer Shooter and Melt Bath.
- Berserk Button: Do not touch his tusks. Ever.
- Dumb Muscle: Why Unicron even chose him in the first place, in the IDW continuity. Averted however, in that he's just as dangerous as his comrades.
- Mix-and-Match Critter: His beast mode is half elephant, half orca whale.
- Palette Swap: Of Torca.
- Reforged into a Minion: IDW Elephorca was a random Maximal dockworker until Unicron chose him at random.
Latolata (ラートラータ rātorāta)
Latolata
Function: Assassination Ninja
Beast Mode: Lionfish/Hornet Hybrid
Voiced by: Nobuyuki Saito
- Giant Flyer: One of the distinctions IDW makes between him and Injector is that Rary is much bigger.
- Gonk: Injector wasn't exactly pretty looking himself, but the IDW comics manage to go the extra mile and make Rary even more unsightly to look at once he gets his beast mode.
- Mix-and-Match Critter: Part-lionfish, part-bee, all ugly as sin.
- Palette Swap: Just barely one for Injector. Lampshaded in IDW's comics when the Predacons notice this.
- Reforged into a Minion: Averted, unlike his teammates, Latolata was a Unicron cultist who joined of his own free will.
- Spike Shooter: Poison Arrow.
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Viewer Name Confusion: For years, fans had assumed that his name was romanized as "Rartorata", and this spelling would be used in his appearance in IDW's comics. However, his toy's bio specifies the lionfish half of his design to be based on the Luna lionfish, whose scientific name is ''Pterois lunulata", which is most likely the intended romanization.
The Ultimate Evil (Spoilers Beware)
