CatSCAN

2007-04-15T22:35:29Z

71.240.77.2: /* Trivia */ spelling error on CatScan's name

:''CatSCAN is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Universe]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:CatSCAN01.jpg|thumb|250px|Please state the nature of the medical emergency.]]

Formerly a medical computer’s artificial intelligence program, '''CatSCAN''' was given a corporeal form by [[Apelinq]]. Compassionate, gentle and childlike, he struggles to understand his new existence and the universe around him. His speech and mannerisms are odd and stilted, but he's slowly learning to be an individual, with respect for all life.

Hurt one of his charges, however, and he'll demonstrate that he might not ''like'' to hurt people, but he's learned how to "wreck and rule" pretty damn quick when the situation demands it.

==Fiction==
===3H ''Wreckers'' Comics===

==Toys==
===Expanded Universe===
*'''CatSCAN''' (Deluxe, 2002)

: One of several [[BotCon 2002]] [[exclusive]]s, CatSCAN is a [[redeco]] of the ''[[Beast Machines]]'' [[Cheetor (BW)|"Night Slash" Cheetor]] mold, transforming into a robotic cheetah. Each bicep contains a spring-loaded flip-out scimitar. His chest has some weird flip-around gimmick thingy, who knows what it does. He features some glow-in-the-dark paint applications, which is rare and incredibly awesome.

==Trivia==
* The "SCAN" part of "CatSCAN" doesn't actually stand for anything, although it was originally supposed to. When asked about the issue at [[BotCon 2002]], [[Glen Hallit]] struggled to remember what it might have stood for at one point in development, and eventually recalled that it was something along the lines of "computer simulated corporeal autonomous neomaximal" - which is CSCAN. It's possible that the "at" was added to make the name pronouncable, or Glen simply neglected to remember what those letters stood for.

* CatSCAN was originally going to be called "Lifeline", a name that was preferred by Wreckers co-writer [[Rob Gerbracht]]. A remnant of this exists on the final packaging, which states that "the Lifeline Cybernetic Diagnostic Module has been activated".

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Autobot/CatSCAN/catscan.htm CatSCAN at TFU.info]
*[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/browse_frm/thread/27529a70dc11332b/cc6b8680784b1e17?lnk=st&q=neomaximal&rnum=3#cc6b8680784b1e17 ATT post with (maybe) CatSCAN's non-acronym]

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