Bug Bite (GoBots)

2007-07-11T15:30:35Z

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:''Bug Bite is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]. His name is sometimes parsed as "Bugbite."''

[[Image:G1-GoBots-card.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mighty robots! Bug Bite is in the lower-right corner.]]

'''Bug Bite''' is a brilliant yet amoral scientist. He originally belonged to another dimension, specifically a robotic world which was, similarly to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], consumed by an endless civil war. This war was stopped only when the fate of not only their planet, but their entire universe was threatened by an extradimensional influence. Under the strict supervision of the Guardian [[Treds]], Bug Bite was enlisted to an allied team and sent into the dimension which threatened their own. Bug Bite took a new body and infiltrated the ranks of the [[Decepticon]]s, hoping to not only discover the source of his home universe's plight, but take calculated revenge.

:''('''Note''': Bug Bite is clearly intended to be the character ''Bug Bite'' from the [[Tonka GoBots]] line.)''

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Timelines: Games of Deception====
:''(Note: "Games of Deception" is a part of the Fun Publications [[Classics (2006)|Classics]] storyline, which takes place after a version of the Marvel Comics continuity which does not include the UK-exclusive comics or [[Generation 2]].)''

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''G1 GoBots''' (Multi-pack, 2004)
:''Japanese ID number'': '''84'''

: Bug Bite is a [[redeco]] of the [[retool]]ed Takara reissue Bumblebee, transforming into a "penny racer"-proportioned Volkswagen Beetle. He was only available in an [[e-Hobby]]-[[exclusive]] 6-pack with [[Bad Boy]], [[Path Finder]], [[Road Ranger]], [[Small Foot]] and Treds.

:Bug Bite's name does not appear in any of the final product material on the Japanese set he "originated" from; it only appeared in an early Photoshopped promotional image on the E-Hobby website. The individual toys' names were dropped when [[Takara]]'s legal department became concerned at how Bandai --the company that made the toys that would become the Tonka GoBots-- would react to the names being used, despite the minimal chance of provable trademark infringement on Takara's part.

: The original version of this mold is also used by [[Glyph]] and [[Volks]].

===Timelines===
*'''Games of Deception!''' (Multi-pack, 2007)

[[Image:Classics_Bugbite_Toy.jpg|right|thumb|200px|He's smiling because you're sitting on a bomb.]]

: Bug Bite is part of the ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]''-themed [[BotCon 2007]] box set, along with [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. Bug Bite is a white and black redeco of the ''Classics'' Bumblebee toy, transforming into a sports coup of indeterminate model. He tows a small trailer with his "[[Tidal Wave (Classics)|Tidal Wave]]" drone-unit on the back, which converts into a jet-pack to give him "flight" in robot mode. As with most ''Classics'' toys, he features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]].

: There were 1500 ''Classics'' Bug Bite figures produced.

==Merchandise==
* '''Deco Pin''' (2007)

: The first 100 people to pre-register for a BotCon 2007 Primus package also received a bonus metal pin, with But Bite's "tribal" deco on it.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Destron/BugBite/bugbite.htm E-Hobby Bug Bite on TFU.info]
*[http://www.tfu.info/Gobots/Renegades/BugBite/bugbite.htm GoBots Bug Bite on TFU.info]

[[category: Classics characters]]
[[Category: Convention exclusives]]
[[Category: Decepticons]]
[[Category: Dimension hoppers]]
[[Category: e-Hobby]]
[[Category: Generation 1 characters]]
[[Category: Timelines characters]]

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