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Maximals

From Beast Wars

Optimus, Rattrap, Cheetor and Blackarachnia can be found in the Beast Wars: Maximals character sheet.

    Nightscream 

Nightscream

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One of the only survivors of Megatron's initial attack, a distrusting and angsty Maximal who gained the beast mode of a bat after falling into a pit and inadvertently scanning the skeleton of a large, bat-like creature. He encountered the Maximals, and joined up with them to defeat Megatron and restore Cybertron after becoming technorganic like the others.


  • The Big Guy: He tends to be the most hands-on member of the team.
  • Child Soldier: After joining the Maximals.
  • Emo Teen: He whines a bit and is kind of egocentric. He even has a "hairstyle" to match.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's rather abrasive at times, but he still helps out the other Maximals and assists them in putting an end to Megatron's reign over Cybertron.
  • Mercury's Wings: His wings are situated on his ankles in robot mode.
  • Our Vampires Are Different: Nightscream can shoot his fangs at an enemy and drain the energy from them via a connecting cable.
  • Sole Survivor: As far as the Maximals know, anyway. Nightscream is the only one they find, but then they never really leave Cybertropolis, having neither the time nor the resources to search the rest of the planet.
  • Super-Scream: His power is a sonic scream.
  • Survivor's Guilt: He feels really bad that he was unable to save those who fell during Megatron's conquering of Cybertron.
  • Tagalong Kid: He's implied to be younger than the other Maximals and pretty much joins them because he tags along.

    Savage/Noble 

Savage/Noble

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Voiced By: David Kaye

A victim of Megatron's plague who somehow ended up completely organic in nature. Despite this, he can still transform, with his “default” mode being the benign wolf-like Noble, and the other half being the feral and uncontrollable dragon-like creature, Savage.


  • A Boy and His X: After Megatron's spark exits him and he loses sentience, he has this relationship with Nightscream, following him wherever he goes (often despite Nightscream and the other Maximals attempts to discourage this) and protecting him from harm.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: He turns from beast mode (upright-walking wolf) to beast mode (alligator-dragon).
  • Eyeless Face: Savage has no eyes.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrifices himself to save Nightscream's life in the third part of "Sparkwar".
  • Jekyll & Hyde: Noble is benign to a fault and Savage is uncontrollable. Initially this turns out to be an act since Noble is actually Megatron stuck in his organic half. After they split, the trope is played somewhat straight - though neither Noble nor Savage display any sentience.
  • Mix And Match Creature: Of a dragon and a wolf.
  • Mythology Gag: His beast-to-beast transformation harkens back to the "Mutants" featured in the early stages of the Beast Wars toyline.
  • Noble Wolf: Fittingly enough, the wolf aspect calls itself "noble" and is a pretty Nice Guy.
  • Redemption Demotion: A very strange case. After Megatron's spark takes over the Grand Mal his Noble/Savage body continues to live on with only a primitive animal intelligence.
  • Team Pet: After Megatron's spark leaves him, he pretty much becomes the Maximals' pet.

    Botanica 

Botanica

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Voiced By: Kathleen Barr

A Maximal who was off-world when Megatron took over, and adapted a strange plant-like alternate mode while she and her crew studied alien ecosystems. She meets up with the main cast when she receives a distress signal, and briefly goes insane after a crash before Primal reformats her and restores her sanity, after which she joins them.


  • Action Girl: Although she dislikes violence.
  • Affirmative Action Girl: She is the first female Transformer to debut in Beast Machines
  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Rattrap. The two initially don't get along, but later become an Official Couple.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: While all robot modes in Beast Machines have aspects of their beast mode, and all of the beast modes are cybernetic, she turns from humanoid plant to humanoid plant with the main differences being one has four arms. In her initial "feral" state, her four hands combined into the jaws of a two-headed Audrey II-like creature, but her reformatted alt mode was a completely new form based on an orchid.
  • The Flatwoods Monster: Her bot mode takes inspiration from this cryptid, along with the Frametown Monster iteration. Her overall body takes cues from the Flatwoods Monster, while her face is a more elegant rendition of that of the Frametown Monster.
  • Green Thumb: She helps Optimus Primal restore the plants to proper health.
  • Plant Alien: She's a Cybertronian who turns into a plant.
  • Shock and Awe: A rarely-used chain lightning attack that vaporised a swarm of tank drones in her debut.
  • Shout-Out: The planet where she got her "beast mode" comes from Mainframe Entertainment's other toyline based cartoon.
  • Technical Pacifist: Was originally a Actual Pacifist, but after she has a vision she becomes this to save Cybertron.
  • The Smart Guy: She serves as the brains of the team.
  • Toyless Toyline Character: She never received a toy, possibly due to the fact it would be too complex.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: She needs to stay in physical contact with Cybertron's surface, otherwise she will steadily grow weaker, and possibly even die.

Vehicons

    Megatron 

Megatron

    Thrust 

Thrust / Waspinator

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Voiced By: Jim Byrnes

The cold, brooding general of Megatron's cycle drones, who is absolutely fearless and turns into a motorcycle. For more information on the brainwashed spark that powers him, see Waspinator's folder here.


  • Affably Evil: Thrust can be cordial and downright polite when he’s in the mood, and, as the series goes in, develops genuine friendship with his fellow generals.
  • Amnesiac Dissonance: He's slick, brooding, and suave, the furthest thing from Waspinator.
  • And I Must Scream: Subverted. Waspinator was fully aware of what was going on, but didn't care because he enjoyed not being a Butt-Monkey so much. It's also slightly implied that he had greater control than Jetstorm and Tankor, citing his "brooding loner bit."
  • Badass Biker: Well, bike, anyway.
  • Balance, Speed, Strength Trio: The balanced one, until Season 2 when he takes up the role of the fast one.
  • Big, Thin, Short Trio: He's the shortest of the Vehicons.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Certainly brainwashed, though he was always crazy. Turns out Thrust was created from Waspinator's spark.
  • Brutal Honesty: As loyal as he is, Thrust has the ball-bearings to criticize Megatron when his master makes a mistake; he pulls no punches about telling Megatron how stupid it was to use Maximal sparks to power Tankor and Jetstorm. As he notes, Megatron should count himself lucky that Thrust didn't also betray him.
  • Butt-Monkey: For a while mid second season, it seemed as if Thrust had assumed Waspinator's old role, being bashed by everyone. Given that he is Waspinator, this was likely intentional. By the end of the series, he has regained the respect of his fellow Vehicons and is no longer bashed around. At least until the reformatting of Cybertron where Waspinator is reformatted as a technorganic wasp with Thrust's head who gets swatted away by Rattrap.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: Downplayed. He's well-aware of Megatron’s plans and how wrong it is, but he only helps because of his sense of loyalty.
  • Co-Dragons: With Jetstorm and Tankor.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He’s always ready with a snarky remark.
  • Death of Personality: Happens to him in the finale when Waspinator is reformatted into an organic body.
  • The Dragon: For part of season 2, he serves as Megatron's remaining lackey, until he brings Obsidian and Strika aboard. Even so, he manages to outlast all the other Vehicle generals in the Grand Finale.
  • Enigmatic Minion: He is suggested to have plans of his own, but it's never revealed what they are.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: He has a deep and sinister voice.
  • Foil: To Waspinator. Waspinator was a bumbling, hyperactive idiot famous for being a chew toy. Thrust on the other hand is a more stoic, competent warrior who, unlike Waspinator, is a voice of reason amongst his fellow vehicons.
  • Honor Before Reason: He doesn't care about what Megatron will do to Cybertron because of his nearly fanatical loyalty to him.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: Going from being the bumbling Waspinator to Megatron's most competent dragon.
  • Only Sane Man: While he’s fanatically loyal to Megatron, he plays the voice of reason amongst the Vehicons, which include the megalomaniacal Megatron, Obsidian and Strika, Jetstorm, and Tankor, and is usually the only one of them with a consistent grasp on reality.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Jetstorm's Red.
  • Sadist: He loves tormenting the Maximals, both physically and psychologically.
  • The Slow Path: It eventually turns out that he's Waspinator, who was rejected by the anthropods who worshiped him as a god at the end of Beast Wars and went back to Cybertron, his journey apparently taking long enough that he doesn't make it back until the series' present time.
  • Speed, Smarts and Strength: Thrust fills the "smart" role.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He’s essentially a saner Inferno, taking his place as the villain fanatically loyal to Megatron, even if it results in his death.
  • That Man Is Dead: Subverted: He's the only one of the original three not to bother with this trope at all. Waspinator loves being the cool, confident Thrust, and is more than happy to let his new persona take the lead.
  • Those Two Guys: With Jetstorm.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In contrast to his time as Waspinator, Thrust is no longer an inept fool who keeps getting blasted apart. Even when he started reverting to Waspinator's Butt-Monkey tendencies, he was still fairly competent and was essentially just overwhelmed trying to lead an entire drone army against the Maximals without any back-up.
  • Undying Loyalty: He was Megatron's faithful servant until the very end even when the latter was seemingly killed. He has nothing but hatred for any perceived traitors, especially Jetstorm/Silverbolt.
  • Villain Has a Point:
    • When Megatron criticizes Thrust's failures against the Maximals, Thrust points out that he's fighting alone against six Maximals with only increasingly ineffective drones as backup; Megatron (who notes that with Botanica's arrival, the odds against Thrust are now seven to one) accepts the argument and recognizes that the Vehicons need new blood to reclaim the upper hand, leading to Obsidian and Strika.
    • When Megatron calls Thrust's performance "no better than Tankor or Jetstorm", Thrust argues that using sparks from Optimus' friends was a mistake, advice that Megatron seems to take to heart; his next generals are warriors from Cybertron's past, and he allows them to keep their own personalities to ensure that they remain loyal.
    • After Megatron seems to be dead and Obsidian and Strika throw their lots in with the Maximals, Thrust calls them out, saying that their loyalty to Cybertron as an abstract is meaningless ("If you're loyal to everyone, can you really be loyal to anyone?"); once Megatron returns and his generals resume their service, Obsidian, accepting the wisdom in Thrust's words, even defends the cycle-bot to Megatron.
  • Villainous Friendship: He and Jetstorm initially loathe each other, but eventually begin to consider each other as friends, and Thrust winds up being the only person in the world Jetstorm doesn’t view as just a target for mockery. This develops into a bitter hatred after Jetstorm is reformatted back into Silverbolt, since he views this as Jetstorm having turned traitor.
  • Villainous Virtues: Loyalty. Thrust upholds this above all else, and despises treachery with a burning passion. He’s also perfectly willing to die for Megatron, all due to his aforementioned loyalty.

    Jetstorm 

Jetstorm / Silverbolt

Voiced By: Brian Drummond/ Scott McNeil (temporarily)
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"This is Captain Jetstorm speaking! Please, feel free to move about the tarmac and flee for your miserable little life!"

The general of Megatron's areo drones, who is completely full of himself and has a flair for witty remarks while he torments his foes, along with a slight temper. For information on the brainwashed spark that powers him, see Silverbolt's folder here.


  • Agent Peacock: Effeminate, campy, and absolutely vicious in combat. His colors are even reminiscent of a peacock.
  • Amnesiac Dissonance: He's pretty much the exact opposite of Silverbolt, with the only exception being that they're both pretty hammy.
  • Ax-Crazy: Even by Transformers villain standards, Jetstorm is completely out of his mind.
  • Badass Boast: Which doubles as an Establishing Character Moment.
    Blackarachnia: Three mindless drones. Shouldn't be a problem.
    Jetstorm: Only three problems with that little theory: One, we're not drones. Two, we're not mindless. And three, problem's my middle name.
  • Balance, Speed, Strength Trio: He fills the Speed role.
  • Big, Thin, Short Trio: He's the Thin one of the trio.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Jetstorm was created by implanting Silverbolt's spark into a Vehicon body.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: He's really proud of being evil.
  • Death of Personality: Jetstorm's personality is completely destroyed when he is turned back into Silverbolt.
  • Establishing Character Moment: His comes when he gleefully corrects Blackarachnia's assumption he, Thrust, and Tankor are mindless drones, and then declares "problem's my middle name!"
  • Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humour: Which doesn't stop him from being absolutely hysterical at times.
  • Evil Laugh: "Whoa-AH hahahahahaha!!!"
  • Foil: To Silverbolt, whose spark powers him. Silverbolt is a corny goofball with a code of honor and chivalry, as well as being extremely kind and always doing the right thing no matter the cost. Jetstorm is a hammy, arrogant jackass who embraces villainy and only looks out for himself.
  • Foreshadowing: He openly admits to finding Blackarachnia attractive, hinting that he is actually Silverbolt.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He acts friendly towards the Maximals even while trying to destroy them.
  • Hover Bot: He has no feet, and floats a short distance above the ground in robot mode.
  • Jerkass: He is extremely mean to the Maximals and behaves like an asshole to everyone, to the point even Megatron gets annoyed with it.
  • Never My Fault: Tends to blame the other generals for his own failures, though this lessens after he and Thrust become friends.
  • Large Ham: Jetstorm is many things. Subtle is not one of them.
  • Laughably Evil: Jetstorm is without a doubt, insane. But he's also loads of fun to watch.
  • Practically Joker: He's a Laughably Evil, Ax-Crazy maniac with a penchant for murder, sadism, and cracking jokes.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Thrust's Blue.
  • Something Only They Would Say: When Silverbolt's spark briefly overtakes Jetstorm, he dramatically holds Blackarachnia and calls her "dark venom of [his] heart!" She notes that there's only one person who could say something like that with a straight face.
  • Speed, Smarts and Strength: He's the fast one of the original trio.
  • That Man Is Dead: Jetstorm is actually just a shell program created by Megatron, so he "dies" when Blackarachnia reformats him into Silverbolt.
    Thrust: Jetstorm! Get your tailpipe over here! I need backup! Jetstorm!
    Silverbolt: Jetstorm's gone! And so are you!
    • Conversely, after finding out the truth, Jetstorm was emphatic that "Silverbolt had left the building!"
  • Those Two Guys: With Thrust.
  • Villainous Friendship: He develops one with Thrust after Megatron is seemingly killed, which lasts until Jetstorm is reformatted.

    Tankor 

Tankor/Rhinox

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"TANKOR PULVERIZE!"
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The dimwitted general of Megatron’s tank drones, who has immense power and follows a simple mindset of smashing and being angry at everything. For more information on the brainwashed spark that powers him, see Rhinox's folder here.


  • Amnesiac Dissonance: Rhinox is intelligent, kind, and spiritual, while Tankor is a stereotypical dimwitted brute. Tragically, his time trapped within Tankor drives Rhinox mad and results in him adopting Tankor's negative traits.
  • And I Must Scream: Rhinox says that he was trapped inside Tankor, fully aware of what was going on, but unable to reach the surface and communicate. It's implied that he was trying, given that Tankor's Hulk Speak often sounded strained.
    Rhinox: Trapped! Abandoned!
  • Anti-Villain: Before Rhinox takes over, Tankor isn't evil, he just doesn’t really comprehend his actions, and temporarily pulls a Heel–Face Turn in "Mercenary Pursuits" after realizing the full extent of Megatron's plans. He's also not as malicious as his fellow generals, and while he does take some enjoyment in hunting the Maximals, he isn't as sadistic about it as Jetstorm and Thrust can be. Once Rhinox takes over, he changes into more of a Well-Intentioned Extremist, who legitimately thinks he's doing what's right, but is absolutely merciless about it, and is implied to have been driven insane by his time trapped as Tankor or still affected by Megatron's shell program.
  • Balance, Speed, Strength Trio: Tankor, quite obviously, fills the "strength" role, being The Big Guy.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Once Rhinox resurfaces, he becomes an independent third party in the war between the Maximals and Megatron. While he had the brains and ruthless drive to be the main villain, his plans were doomed to fail. Despite his efforts to manipulate both sides in the first season's final arc, the moment he tries attacking Megatron directly, he's brought to heel by safeguards hardwired into his programming. More, Megatron actually counted on his treachery and used it to his advantage, driving home that Rhinox never truly had a shot at seizing the Big Bad throne from the series' resident Chessmaster.
  • Big, Thin, Short Trio: The Big one.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Played with. Initially, Rhinox had no control over Tankor's actions, but after taking over, he pulls a Face–Heel Turn. It's implied that his time as Tankor had corrupted Rhinox's personality, but nothing is ever explicitly stated.
  • Diabolical Mastermind: After regaining his intellect.
  • Death Equals Redemption: After his death, Rhinox acknowledges that his actions were wrong and becomes one with the Matrix.
  • Death of Personality: Tankor's personality is erased and overwritten by Rhinox's, though Tankor's programming is implied to still affect Rhinox to an extent.
  • Dumb Muscle: Subverted. Tankor is inarguably dumb and powerful, but exactly how aware or in control Rhinox is of Tankor's actions is never really clarified.
  • Foil: Rhinox was a spiritual, compassionate soul with a brilliant mind. Tankor? Well he's all muscle with little to no brains or compassion.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: Rhinox starts off as a heroic Maximal who, outside of being temporarily brainwashed by the Predacons, remains a good guy until being placed inside of Tankor. Tankor temporarily joins the Maximals in "Mercenary Pursuits", only for Megatron to wipe his memories of the event. Then Rhinox is restored to controlling his body, only to turn evil and become a third party bad guy up until he is killed, after which he becomes regretful over his actions.
  • Hulk Speak: His initial speech style has him speak in third person with limited, and very forced, vocabulary. He drops it once Rhinox's personality takes over.
    Tankor: Oh, I'm sorry. Were you happier when my vocabulary was limited to "TANKOR SMASH!"? Poetic, perhaps, yet somehow it isn't me anymore.
  • Manipulative Bastard: To the point of forcing Megatron himself to do whatever he wants, without his knowledge... until Megatron turned all the gambits to his favour.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Upon regaining his true personality, he still pretends to be a dim-witted minion.
  • Restraining Bolt: When he attempts to kill Megatron, he suffers agonising pain. Megatron gleefully points out that he placed safeguards in Tankor's wiring specifically to prevent a betrayal.
  • Right for the Wrong Reasons: Rhinox wants to kill Megatron and take over, not because Megatron is an egotistical maniac who Rhinox already has reason to kill, but for having a beast mode.
  • The Starscream: Once he regains his intellect, anyway. He would have succeeded if Megatron hadn't been smart enough to hardwire his programing to ensure that the Vehicon generals could never kill him.
  • Speed, Smarts and Strength: Tankor fills the "strength" role.
  • Tank Goodness: It's in the name.
  • That Man Is Dead: His spark is actually that of Rhinox, but he fully embraces being on Megatron's side.
  • Third-Person Person: He initially refers to himself in third person.

    Obsidian & Strika 

Obsidian & Strika

Voiced By: Paul Dobson (Obsidian), Patricia Drake (Strika)
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While they may seem dumb, Obsidian and Strika are actually quite intelligent, usually pretending to be simple-minded to throw people off. When some of Megatron’s generals were out of the picture, these two were chosen to command the Vehicon forces left without a leader.


  • Affirmative Action Girl: Strika was made a female to address the gender imbalance. The writers also introduced Botanica, a prominent character with no toy, for the same reason.
  • Anti-Villain: They don't care about Megatron or the Maximals. They serve Cybertron, and since Megatron essentially is Cybertron, they serve him. Anything else is details.
  • Awesome Personnel Carrier: Strika. She's even named after a real-life example, the Stryker.
  • Badass Bookworm: Obsidian is very intelligent and also a very powerful lackey of Megatron.
  • Balance, Speed, Strength Trio: Obsidian takes over the "balance" role from Thrust, while Strika is strength.
  • Battle Couple: They often fight together and Strika is described by Obsidian as his consort.
  • Big, Thin, Short Trio: Obsidian fills the role of the Thin one, and Strika is The Big Guy.
  • Brains and Brawn: Both are brilliant tacticians, but Strika is easily the more combat-oriented of the two. Obsidian's more of a strategist, co-ordinating drone attacks.
  • Breakout Character: The duo proved to be quite popular and were ported into many other continuities, far more than the other Vehicon Generals. Their time as Autobot leaders had them as the leads in the Botcon comic ''Termination'' and the pair appeared together as Elita One's advisors in the 2005-IDW continuity. Strika, in particular, would be adapted into Transformers: Animated and Transformers (2019) as one of Megatron's most prominent supporters.
  • Co-Dragons: They become Megatron's two most prominent minions.
  • Contrasting Replacement Character: Obsidian and Strika replace Jetstorm and Tankor as commanders of the Vehicons' air and ground forces respectively. Unlike the generals they replaced, who were converted from Maximal sparks combined with mind and personality altering shell programs, Obsidian and Strika retain their personalities and are loyal to Megatron of their own free will. They also differ from their predecessors on the individual level:
    • Jetstorm was a sadistic, hammy jokester and Card-Carrying Villain; Obsidian is much more subdued and serious-minded, as well as a genuine believer in serving Cybertron no matter who's ruling it.
    • Tankor was the very definition of Dumb Muscle, with a short fuse and a limited vocabulary; Strika is miles more intelligent, with an appreciation for beauty, a keen tactical mind, and a far more eloquent manner of speech.
  • Creepy Long Fingers: Obsidian has long, spindly, blood-red fingers that end in points.
  • The Dreaded: The Maximals are in shock to realize that their latest opponents are two of the greatest generals in Cybertronian history.
  • Evil Brits: They have British-sounding accents.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Both of them have deep voices.
  • Face–Heel Turn: According to supplementary materials, they were Autobots during the Great War.
  • Fate Worse than Death: Cheetor uses an anti-gravity platform to send both of them flying off into space.
  • Future Copter: Obsidian's basically a futuristic version of the V-22 Osprey.
  • Genius Bruiser: Strika is as intelligent as she is strong.
  • Hero Killer: They are said to have fought in Cybertron's ancient past and have implied to have killed many noble Cybertronians.
  • Hover Bot: Like Jetstorm, Obsidian is constantly hovering a few feet off the ground.
  • Hulk Speak: In their Establishing Character Moment, they use this to trick the Maximals into thinking that they're just another pair of mindless Vehicon drones.
  • Hypocrite: As Optimus rightfully points out in Obsidian and Strika's debut, Megatron devastated Cybertron, only managing to rule the planet by either killing or stealing the sparks of the rest of the population. Obsidian's claim that he and Strika defend Cybertron rings hollow when one considers their willingness to serve someone who committed such atrocities against the planet.
  • Knight Templar: They honestly believed that Megatron's intentions were right for Cybertron.
  • Multiple-Choice Past: Were they Maximals, or Predacons, or even Autobots? No media has ever been consistent on that one, though they're usually former Autobots more often than not.
  • My Country, Right or Wrong: They are both extremely loyal to Cybertron - even if the guy running it happens to be an organophobic lunatic with a God complex.
    "Megatron is Cybertron. To defend one is to defend the other."
    • Thrust calls them on it.
      Thrust: If you're loyal to everyone, can you really be loyal to anyone?
  • Not Brainwashed: Unlike the previous Vehicon generals, Obsidian and Strika didn't have shell programs placed into their new bodies to make them loyal to Megatron. They willingly chose to serve him.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: They lure Primal's team into a trap during their first appearance by pretending to be mindless drones and deceiving the Maximals into believing that they're trying to escape.
  • Pet the Dog: Obsidian made his debut by backhanding Thrust for annoying him. In "Spark of Darkness", Megatron refers to Thrust as "utterly useless", but Obsidian states that it was Thrust who reminded him and Strika where their true loyalties lie. note 
  • Pretender Diss: Obsidian mocks Optimus Primal for being an inadequate inheritor to Optimus Prime's legacy.
    Obsidian: Though he took his name from a great leader, Optimus Primal never learned the first rule of warfare: never underestimate your opponent.
  • Remember the New Guy?: Despite being well-known to the Maximals, the audience only learns about them during their debut episode.
  • Speed, Smarts and Strength: Obsidian takes over the role of the Smart one, while Strika takes on the "strength" role
  • The Strategist: They were two of the most brilliant Maximal/Autobot generals in the history of Cybertron.
  • Those Two Guys
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Obsidian is quite skinny while Strika is huge.

    Diagnostic Drone 

Diagnostic Drone

Voiced By: Christopher Gaze, and Paul Dobson
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A small, spherical drone that acted as, more or less, Megatron's butler. After the original drone is destroyed, Megatron makes use of other, less intelligent Diagnostic Drones.


  • Brainwashed: Is reprogrammed by Tankor to serve him in his vendetta against Megatron.
  • Cyber Cyclops: His eye is actually the middle one, not the two lights on the side of the "face".
  • Demonic Possession: His body comes to house Megatron's wayward spark.
    Megatron: I live! I live! I—...what kind of puny body is this?!
  • Flight: Floats around.
  • Evil Brit: Despite being Cybertronian, he has a British accent.
  • Non-Action Guy: As he has no offensive capabilities, and could probably be taken down in one shot.
  • The Soulless: Despite his intelligence and personality, it's explicitly stated that he has no spark.

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