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:''Bantor is a [[Maximal]] of the [[Beast Wars (franchise)|Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''<br />
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[[Image:Bantor-bw-packageart.jpg|right|250px|thumb|One arm has its own arm, and the other is coming out of a mandrill's mouth.]]<br />
'''Bantor''' is a strange robot. Most of the time he's meticulous, patient and stealthy. He's a mêlée-warrior by preference, quite adept at carefully planned ambushes and stalking his prey slowly and silently through the jungle. Yet occasionally and without warning his careful stony patience just shatters and he bursts into a loud, uncontrolled, wild frenzy, becoming a berserker who'll attack anything in reach until he can regain control. <br />
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Other than mêlée-combat, his specialties are demolitions, explosive traps, and snares. <br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===Toy Bio===<br />
Bantor serves under [[Optimus Primal|Optimal Optimus]], and is his leader's first choice for recon and demolition missions.{{storylink|Bantor#Toys|Bantor bio}}<br />
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===''Universe'' comics===<br />
After the [[Maximal High Council]] returned to power following the [[Great Reformatting]], Bantor was shown to be one of its members. It is unknown whether he served on the Council prior to this. {{storylink|Homecoming (issue)|Homecoming}}<br />
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===IDW Beast Wars comics===<br />
[[Image:IDW Bantor.jpg|left|200px|thumb|With a name like that, I bet he makes Bluestreak seem quiet.]]<br />
Bantor was one of the [[protoforms]] jettisoned from the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' on prehistoric [[Earth]]. He was activated and put in [[chronal phase]] by [[Razorbeast]] at [[Magmatron]]'s request, but was protected from Magmatron's Predacon shell-program by Razorbeast's viral code. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}<br />
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Soon after awakening, he joined up with [[K-9]], [[Noctorro]], [[Stinkbomb]], [[Armordillo]], and [[Torca]]. During their journey to meet up with Razorbeast, Torca got stuck in some mud, and Bantor and the others helped free him. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 2|The Gathering #2}} After following Razorbeast's signal for days, and picking up more Maximals along the way, Bantor and the rest rushed into battle against Magmatron's Predacons, where he plucked the wings of [[Scourge (BW)|Scourge]]. The Maximals won that altercation, and awaited rescue from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 4|The Gathering #4}}<br />
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Subsequent battles were not favorable for Bantor. A later Predacon assault led by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] left many Maximals and Predacons injured. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}} When [[Lio Convoy]] arrived to take as many soldiers as possible back to Cybertron, Ravage discovered the threat of [[Shokaract]], and there wasn't enough room on Lio's ship to take everyone back. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}} Bantor was one of the Transformers who had to stay behind. The arrival of the [[Blendtron]]s only made things worse. After [[Cybershark]] convinced everyone to help Razorbeast, everyone entered the fray. It appears that Bantor and [[Manta Ray (BW)|Manta Ray]] were crushed to death by [[Drancron]]. They would not go unavenged. [[Lazorbeak]] and [[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]] saw to that. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}<br />
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===Transformers Prime===<br />
In "Operation: Bumblebee Part Two," when Ratchet is coming out of surgical stasis, he mentions Bantor in what appears to be stasis-induced gibberish. "He was all mandrill until I put the tiger in his tank."<br />
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==Toys==<br />
===Beast Wars===<br />
*'''Bantor''' (Basic Fuzor, 1998)<br />
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:Bantor's beast mode is a combination of mandrill and tiger. He has a spring-loaded punching gimmick in his right arm in robot mode, and as such has a spring-loaded sorta-biting-sorta-ramming gimmick in beast mode.<br />
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::*''[http://tfu.info/1998/Maximal/Bantor/bantor.htm More information on Bantor at TFU.info]''<br />
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