Snarl (Animated)

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:''Snarl is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:TFAnimated_Snarl.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Me Snarl think chest nose on fire."]]

'''Snarl''' is a ''Triceratops'' [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobot]]. Built quite a bit better then a tank, there's nothing he enjoys more then taking the nearest solid object and headbutting it. It's not so much the mindless desruction he likes, it's just Snarl throughly enjoys being strong, and smashing things to powder seems like the best way of expressing this. And if he needs to mix things up a little, being able to breath fire hot enough to melt a garbage truck helps.

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
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[[Image:SnarlswoopBlastfromthepast.jpg|left|thumb|200px|"[[wikipedia:Marjorine|Damn, Ken.]]"]]

Snarl, like the other two Dinobots, began life as an animatronic robot at [[Dino Drive]], where he/it was damaged by an over-enthusiastic [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]. He was upgraded with Cybertronian technology in [[Isaac Sumdac]]'s lab (with the help of [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]), and further modified by a burst of [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] energy. He then spent his time breathing fire and breaking things. He also swallowed a missile, which is just beyond cool.

He, along with [[Swoop (Animated)|Swoop]], did not [[Transformation|transform]] during the course of his early life. It is possible he didn't know he could do it until [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] discovered he could. {{storylink|Blast from the Past}}

[[Image:Anisnarlsurvivalofthefittest.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"[[Slag (slang)|Slag]] you [[Dinobots (Animated)|guys]], Me Snarl goin' home."]]

He was later forced by the villain [[Prometheus Black|Meltdown]] to guard the research facility Meltdown had commandeered on an island in Lake Erie, and to attack the Autobots [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]. Once Meltdown was trapped and unable to hurt him, he demonstrated he'd learned to transform and joined his fellow Dinobots in threatening the acid-thrower. However, before Meltdown could be hurt, Snarl's attention was diverted to [[Colossus Rhodes]] and two of Meltdown's mutants, and he and the other Dinobots had fun beating up on them instead. {{storylink|Survival of the Fittest}}

Following a sharp increase in Decepticon activity on [[Earth]], [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]], and [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] went to [[Dinobot Island]] to ask the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobot]]s to help fight the coming invasion. [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] first ordered the Dinobots to attack, and Snarl started to obey, but Prowl got them all to stop. Grimlock then insisted that the Dinobots could "destroy robots" by themselves, to which Prime retorted that the Dinobots were robots too. Grasping this concept with gusto, Snarl then started fighting Grimlock but was easily tossed aside by his leader. The three Dinobots began to tackle the robot problem... starting with the 'bot in the mirror. The Autobots left them to their task. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 1}}
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==Toys==
===Transformers Animated===
*'''Snarl''' (Deluxe, 2008)

[[Image:Snarl animated toy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Me Snarl not [[Slag (G1)|sociopath]], me just play one on tv.]]

: During transformation, his dino head becomes his chest and he ends up carrying a club. His beast mode limbs form his arms and legs, similar to how his G1 counterpart's limbs worked. According to his bio[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/animated/default.cfm?page=Bio&character=snarl], he shares [[Snarl (G1)| G1 Snarl]]'s love of smashing things with his tail, which also splits in half and goes behind his shoulders. He also has pop-out flames in his shoulderpads. {{comingsoontoy}}

==Trivia==
* Snarl was obviously designed to be the ''Animated'' incarnation of the [[Generation 1]] [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] named [[Slag (G1)|Slag]], and preproduction shots even bore that name. Hasbro [http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=76674442 holds the US trademark for "Slag" unopposed, and renewed it as recently as Xmas 2007]. As revealed by Hasbro representatives at [[BotCon 2008]], they are not using "Slag" as a product name because it is a [[Wikipedia:Slag (slang)|negative slang]] term in the United Kingdom (meaning, roughly, "slut") which might have affected toy sales.

* Snarl and [[Swoop (Animated)|Swoop]] have yet to have '''any''' lines in the cartoon.'' [[Slag (slang)|Slag]]!'' Reportedly, this is due to limitations on the number of voice actors than can be used in an episode, and the number of characters they can voice in one as well. [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] remarked at [[BotCon 2008]] that his ideal voice for Snarl would be [[Wikipedia:Louie Anderson|comedian Louie Anderson]].

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