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Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)

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{{episode
|series=BWtoon
|ep=29
|image=Coming of the Fuzors 2 Predacons sunset.jpg
|caption=Let the battle begin!
|title="Coming of the Fuzors" (Part 2)
|production company=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|airdate=[[November 9]], 1997
|written by=[[Bob Forward]]
|directed by=[[Cal Shumiatcher]]
|animation studio=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|continuity=[[Beast Wars continuity]]
}}
'''The outnumbered Maximals must defend their base from a Predacon assault while Rhinox takes a dangerous journey.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Coming of the Fuzors 2 Dinobot Rattrap.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Powerlinxing gone horribly wrong]]
[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]], and [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] attempt to hold off six Predacons some distance from their base, to allow [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] to complete his mission to travel through the [[Allspark|Matrix]]. When [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] orders them to take no survivors, [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] protests, saying they should let the Maximals surrender, only to be struck by the irate Predacon commander. When Silverbolt is perplexed by their resistance, Megatron realizes that they are keeping them from their base. He orders [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] and Silverbolt to head to the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]''. Cheetor takes to the air, and Rattrap converts to vehicle mode, ordering Dinobot to hop on and provide cover fire (disgusting the former Predacon).

[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], however, is using the psychic link to force [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] to search for information on the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden]] [[Golden Disk (Vok)|Disks]]. While she searches through the files, she discovers something of importance, but refuses to show Tarantulas. When Tarantulas is rendered unconscious by a boulder, Blackarachnia downloads the information, then destroys the computer, claiming that it was boobytrapped.

[[File:Coming of the Fuzors 2 Silverbolt staff.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|No organic lifeforms were harmed in the making of this episode. Several Cybertronian lifeforms were.]]
Reaching the ''Axalon'', Silverbolt is shot down by the [[autogun]]s, and captured by the Maximals. Dinobot prepares to destroy him, but Rattrap and Cheetor prevent him, instead taking him in to repair him. Rhinox, who has finished, tells the Maximals they must hold the Predacons off for a little while longer. Inside the ''Axalon'', a charge hits the device Rhinox was connected to, heading to a [[stasis pod]] with a [[blank]] [[protoform]]. Outside, the shields fail under the fire, and the Maximals engage—to discover that they are out of ammo. The Predacons seriously injure the Maximals.

[[File:Coming of the Fuzors 2 Optimus Primal.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|"Check out my new pec-implants. I only had to sell my old body to get 'em."]]
Having waited a long time for their victory, the Predacons approach, prepared to deliver the killing blow. Before they can finish the Maximals off, there is an explosion in the hull of the ''Axalon''. When the smoke clears, the Maximals and Predacons alike are shocked to see the cause of the explosion—[[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]. The Predacons attempt to destroy him, but Primal, now with his own [[Transmetal]] body, causes the Predacons to scatter. Primal takes to the air, dispatching the rest of the Predacons. Megatron attempts to kill Primal, but Silverbolt knocks Megatron off a cliff, defecting to the Maximals.

After the battle and some repairs, Primal inquires as to how the new bodies do with absorbing energon. Rhinox remarks that all the energon within the area either detonated or was converted to [[Energon cube]]s, so it isn't really a problem right now. They'll have to wait for [[Tigatron]] and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]]'s report on the rest of the planet. In the meantime, Primal remarks that he has to put his house in order, such as get to know the new additions, and remove Rattrap's personal effects from his quarters.

[[File:Coming of the Fuzors 2 Blackarachnia.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|She's got a twinkle in her eye.]]
At the [[Darksyde (BW)|Predacon base]], Blackarachnia tells Megatron that Dinobot stole the Disks and destroyed the computers. Megatron and Tarantulas ask if anything from the back ups can be recovered, and when Blackarachnia reveals that it was totally destroyed, Megatron smashes Tarantulas into the wall in rage. Megatron then declares that the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] has entered a new phase, while, unseen, binary code flashes across Blackarachnia's eyes.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s
|c1=
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (4)
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] (5)
*[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] (6)
*[[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] (8)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (10)
*[[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] (12)

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s
|c2=
*[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] (1)
*[[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (2)
*[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] (3)
*[[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] (7)
*[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (9)
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (11)
}}

==Quotes==
"Prepare for a full attack!" 
"What? We outnumber them more than two to one." 
"Yes..." 
"We have twice their firepower." 
"Yes..." 
"We should give them a chance to surrender!" 
"Mmm...''no''." [''bashes him aside'']
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Silverbolt''' have a tactical disagreement.

"Uhm, does it have to be quick? Cause after we cripple 'em, I'd kinda like to enjoy their ''sufferin''' for a while. 
"I like how you think Quickstrike, but business before pleasure." 
:—'''Quickstrike''' and '''Megatron''' being on the same page.

"To think, that a warrior must become a... a ''rat'' patrol." 
:—'''Dinobot''' on having to ride Rattrap.

"Eh, we would've been here sooner if Dinobutt wasn't such a porker." 
"The vilest ride of my life!"
:—'''Rattrap''' and '''Dinobot'''

"Bahhh! Maximal sentiment! Oh, I must've been defective to defect."
:—'''Dinobot'''

"Am I back?" 
"Well, the machine said so. Oh, but you had me worried for a second. Where'd ya go, anyway?" 
"Where all are one." 
"Oh, where all are– what?!"
:—'''Rhinox''' and '''Rattrap'''

"Comes... the dawn." 
"And...''[Dinobot's arm falls off]''...our doom."
:—'''Rhinox''' and '''Dinobot'''

"Move out, Predacons; we've waited a long time for this. Yeeeess...let us be close enough to ''enjoy'' it."
:-'''Megatron''' prepares to finish the Maximals in the most overly dramatic way possible: point-blank execution.

"Well, that's just ''prime''!"
:-First line of the new Transmetal '''Optimus Primal'''.

''(Silverbolt knocks Megatron off a cliff)'' 
"Consider that my resignation from the Predacons, Megatron! ''(to Primal)'' I know now that my place was always with the Maximals. May I join you?" 
"Well...I like your résumé."
:—'''Silverbolt''' and '''Optimus Primal'''

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
*When Megatron opens fire on the Maximals the second time in this episode, his middle, ring, and pinky "fingers" are shown clipping through his cannon.
*While in pursuit of Rattrap and Dinobot, Megatron transforms from his beast mode in mid-flight and continues to attack from the air, yet his VTOL engines are inactive on his back rather than deployed. In the same scene, his tail cannon is on the wrong arm.
*Before the Maximals begin getting hammered by the Preds, Rhinox is on top of Rattrap, with him either clipping through Rattrap's rear wheel, or the wheel has no interior.
*As Rattrap is hanging off the device he pulls Rhinox out of, his left pectoral is all messed up. The com-link is missing and it appears almost inside out. The error lasts for the full scene too, at least until a cut.

===Continuity errors===
* Tarantulas and Waspinator arrive again mid-battle, despite having already arrived at the end of the previous episode.
** Tarantulas and Waspinator are also seen at the very beginning when the Predacons first open fire, despite only arriving (again) later. Megatron's line "Excellent! Reinforcements have arrived" only makes the continuity error all the more glaring.
* Silverbolt claims that the Predacons outnumber the Maximals "more than two to one". As there are only six Predacons present, the odds are exactly two to one.
* Waspinator and Silverbolt take off for the Maximal base twice, clearly going over the Maximals' heads a second time after the commercial break; the Maximals then reassert the danger of the situation in different phrasing than before. Presumably such a flagrant "error" is a sly stylistic reference to older cartoons which would often repeat actions between acts and episodes, sometimes in [[Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2|contradictory ways]].
* Funny things happen with ammunition:
** Dinobot says his weapon is depleted, despite clearly having ammunition bandoleers crisscrossed over his torso. The weapon gets fired more times before the episode ends, anyway.
** The Predacons have a seemingly limitless amount of ammunition, while the Maximals exhaust their supply in a questionably short period. Rhinox in particular should have fully loaded weapons when he enters the fight. This was almost certainly an intentional choice by the writers, to fit the episode's thematic homage to spaghetti western serials.
* An earlier script revision called for the elevator into the Maximal base to be destroyed during the fight, giving Primal a more practical reason to blow a hole in the side of his own base.<ref>[http://bwtf.com/bw/tvshow/episodes/seasontwo/cotftwo/cotftwoscript.pdf "Coming of the Fuzors" (Part 2) script at Benson Yee's site]</ref> Oh well, maybe the big guy was in a hurry.
* Also, how can Cheetor's laser weapon even run out of ammo? (Unless he was just out of energy.)

===Transformers references===
[[File:Rubber ducky cotf2.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|How many Starscreams are there on this planet, anyway?]]
* While Blackarachnia is searching through Megatron's stuff, a gray model of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s head is in the pile. (It's too small to be the real thing, given that Beast Warriors are shown later in the series to be much smaller than Generation 1 characters.)
* Other items in the pile include a model Supermarine Spitfire, a model helicopter, a number of books, the [[wikipedia:Holy Grail|Holy Grail]], three identical spiky planets, a model rocket, a pocket-watch, and a [[Rubber Ducky|rubber ducky]].
* During one of Rhinox's trips through the [[Allspark|Matrix]], near the end of the episode, the [[Autobot]] [[Matrix of Leadership]] is seen floating.
* When Rattrap asks where Rhinox went, he describes the Matrix as "[['Til all are one|where all are one]]".
* Rattrap filled Optimus's quarters with his things, despite the latter's warning not to do so in "[[Other Voices, Part 2|Other Voices]]".

===Real-world references===
*''[[wikipedia:The Rat Patrol|The Rat Patrol]]'' was a 1960s TV show about a group of Allied soldiers fighting Rommel's Afrika Corps on the North African front during World War II.
* This episode continues the Spaghetti Western film references, especially when Optimus fights Inferno.
*After Rattrap throws a rock in the air as an example of what would happen if they moved away from the cover of the boulder, it's blasted into a tiny pebble and hits the ground. All three Maximals' "eyes" then pop out of their heads towards the rock in the fashion of the eyeball gag in classic Tex Avery cartoons.

===Trivia===
* Blackarachnia's theft of the Golden Disk data would have consequences carrying through the remainder of the series.
* Though neither admits it, it seems likely that both Tarantulas and Megatron see through Blackarachnia's sleight-of-hand with the backup data tracks. Blackarachnia tells Megatron that the computer was destroyed by Dinobot... after telling Tarantulas that it was destroyed because it was booby trapped. Tarantulas says nothing to contradict this lie to Megatron, and later interrogates her when the chance presents itself in "[[Bad Spark]]". Megatron likewise guesses the truth and attempts to strong-arm the data from her in "[[The Agenda (Part III)]]".
* Speaking of Inferno, there were plans to have him be a reborn version of Megatron,<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/bc8e54e9165e0823?hl=en&q=inferno+megatron 1997 Bob Forward interview on ATT]</ref> but those plans obviously never came to be. This abandoned plot was hinted when the two flyers crash into one another, and recover only to find their heads on the wrong bodies, which Inferno found hilarious. Megatron was capable of using Inferno's body during this mix-up to punch Inferno's head.
* As of the end of this episode, four of the eight members of Primal's team have spent time as Predacons, one way or another. Dinobot was originally a Predacon, but left [[Beast Wars (Part 1)|in the first episode]], Rattrap briefly defected in "[[Double Jeopardy]]" as part of an infiltration, Rhinox was forcibly converted (and subsequently restored) in "[[Dark Designs]]", and Silverbolt was duped into joining Megatron's side in [[Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)|the previous episode]].
* In the Canadian broadcasts of this episode Tarantulas calls Blackarachnia "Widow" rather than "Witch".
*After the Maximals run out of ammo and the Predacons launch a full gunfire barrage, Dinobot stands up roaring at them, only to get shot in the crotch by Waspinator (You can hear his weapon go off right beforehand), bending over slightly and groaning from the pain.
* Rhinox reported that all the unstable Energon in the area was either destroyed or converted to stable [[Energon cube]]s by the [[quantum surge]]. They were waiting for a report from Tigatron and Airazor regarding the status of the rest of the planet regarding unstable Energon. Tigatron and Airazor would be abducted by aliens<ref>[[Other Visits (Part 1)]]</ref> before being able to file that report.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Nouveaux Arrivants - 2e partie'''" ("New Arrivals - 2nd Part")

:*''Title:'' "'''Fuzors 2'''"

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Lo sbarco - Parte 2'''" ("The Landing - Part 2")

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Yomigaere Convoy'''" (よみがえれコンボイ, "Convoy Reborn")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 20]] [[1999]]
::*The opening firefight is hilarious, as a running gag in the Japanese dub sees all characters shout meaningless noises whenever they fire their weapons. With all the rapid cuts, it's just a bunch of characters manically screaming gibberish at each other.
::*Likewise hilarious, Silverbolt's habit of screaming English language phrases comes into play when Primal is resurrected and goes lumbering through the Axalon. When Silverbolt awakens and sees Primal, he screams a ridiculous-sounding "''WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?''"
::*In a genuinely funny bit of adlibbing, as Silverbolt kicks Megatron off the cliff, Megatron screams, "''What is thiiiis!?''" Silverbolt then calls down to him, "I don't want to be a Predacon anymore!" Megatron courteously replies as he plummets, "''Oh, I seeeeeee!''" Then, after Silverbolt tells Primal that he wants to join the Maximals, Megatron screams, "''How long have I been falliiiiiiiing?''"

'''Malaysian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fuzor Baru 2'''" (New Fuzors Part 2)

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''A Chegada dos Fuzores Parte 2'''" ("The Coming of the Fuzors Part 2")

'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''La Llegada de los Fuzors (Parte 2)'''" ("The Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)")

:*''Title:'' "'''Los Recién Llegados Segunda Parte'''" ("The Newcomers Second Part")

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Series 2 / Volume 1 ([[wikipedia:Siren Visual|Siren Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars'' — Optimus Lives! ([[Alliance Atlantis]]) 
[[File:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''Robots-Bêtes'' — L'Empreinte D'Optimus (Alliance Atlantis) — French audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers: Metals'' — Convoy Reborn ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2001 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Volume 5 ([[Universal]])
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2000 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers: Metals'' — DVD Box 1 (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2004 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete Second Season ([[Rhino Entertainment|Rhinomation]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Season 2 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers: Beast Wars'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Beast Wars episodes]]

Rampage (BW)

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:''Rampage is a [[Maximal]] or [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:RampageBW-Legends.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|I ate his spark with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.]]
'''Rampage''' (also known as '''Protoform X''') is the awful result of scientific experimentation gone awry. He is a serial killer and cannibal, with an immortal [[spark]] that ensures his twisted brand of horror and misery will live on as long as he does (forever, presumably). Rampage detects and draws strength from the emotions of others, literally feeding on the pain and suffering he causes. As an unwilling conscript of the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], he is contemptuous (at best) of the rest of his team, typically bored and uncooperative on missions, and he frequently sneaks off for his own purposes to try to relieve his boredom in the most cruel and horrible ways possible.

{{bigquote|Is that fear you are feeling, Maximal? Yes... my spark, it feeds on terror. Let it grow! Let it consume your circuitry! Feel it, yes, feel it! Feel the fear!|Rampage|"[[Bad Spark]]"}}

{{TOCclear}}

==Fiction==
===Toy Bio===
[[File:Rampage-backofthebox.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|Despite the terror claws, not a gangsta.]]
If Rampage's titanic size, armor plating and psychopathic tendencies weren't horrifying enough, he is also capable of generating tidal waves, inducing earthquakes and triggering landslides with his "terror claws", while his ever-dreaded [[galva-conductor]]s allow him to unleash deadly electrical discharges. With this immense arsenal available to him, he prefers to use his gatling cannon as a way to finish off his opponents. {{storylink|Rampage (BW)#Toys|Rampage toy bio}}
{{-}}

===Cartoon Continuity===
====Dawn of Future's Past====
[[File:Protoformxcargo.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|The Maximals should consider making their scandalous super-secret projects a little smaller.]]
While preparing for a deep-space exploration mission, the Maximal crew of the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' stopped for a few weeks at a space station. Here, [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] helped acquire a mysterious complement to their cargo, a very large [[protoform]] branded with an X. The ''Axalon'' was ordered to dispose of "Protoform X" on a barren moon somewhere in the [[Alpha Quadrant]]. However, before its captain, [[Optimus Primal]], was able to explain the circumstances fully to his crew, they were suddenly under even newer orders to pursue a stolen [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] ship, the ''[[Darksyde]]''. Subsequently, the ''Axalon'' followed the ''Darksyde'' through a [[transwarp]] portal and crash-landed on a mysterious planet. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past|Dawn of Future's Past}}
{{-}}

====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Campbell Lane]] (English), [[Nobuyuki Hiyama]] (Japanese)|[[Gilberto Baroli]] (Portuguese), [[Alfonso Mellado]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Stefano Albertini]] (Italian)}}
[[File:BWRampage Badspark thepast.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|This is a great way to work out.]]
Protoform X was a [[Maximal]] experiment to recreate [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s mutant, immortal [[spark]]. Though arguably successful in this regard, the creation was unstable. {{storylink|Bad Spark}} In point of fact, he was criminally insane. He was held at [[Colony Omicron]] but soon escaped, killing all of its inhabitants save a lone security officer, [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]]. After four stellar cycles of chasing the killer, Depth Charge finally captured him and brought him back to Cybertron {{storylink|Deep Metal}} - but not before Protoform X destroyed [[Starbase Rugby]] and ''devoured'' an unknown number of the inhabitants. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}} Rather than destroy him, [[Maximal Elder]]s had Protoform X placed into a [[stasis pod]] aboard an exploration vessel, the ''Axalon''. They instructed its commander, [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], to dump him on some barren world in deep space.

Protoform X was among the stasis pods jettisoned by Optimus when the ''Axalon'' was damaged by [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron's]] Predacons, and only fell out of orbit far into the Beast Wars. Battle near his stasis pod shocked him into activation, and he promptly set out to terrorize all nearby Transformers, rending [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] limb from limb and stalking [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] and [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]]. (All right, whose bright idea was it to allow the homicidal maniac to keep his weapons!?) X seemed unstoppable at first, but when one of Silverbolt's missiles jammed his tank treads as he climbed up a mountainside, he lost his grip and tumbled down the rock face in pieces.

[[File:CodeofHero Rampage tankmode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.45|Attack my weak point for massive damage.]]
As Protoform X lay immobilized, Megatron arrived and, using a blade of pure [[energon]], removed a portion of his indestructible spark. Megatron then had him brought back to the Predacon base and repaired. When X attempted to turn his weapons on his "savior", Megatron revealed that he held half of X's spark in a special cage lined with energon crystals, allowing him to torture the beast at will. Megatron thus welcomed him into the Predacon fold, dubbing him "Rampage". {{storylink|Bad Spark}}

Rampage made no secret of his hatred for his new "master", anticipating the arrival of Maximal reinforcements from Cybertron, and the demise Megatron would surely receive as a result. Megatron had other plans in motion, using Rampage's weaponry to destroy a mountain, proving that the future recorded on the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]] was mutable. Rampage's services were further pressed into use when the Predacons assaulted a valley full of [[protohuman]]s, however his contribution came to an end when [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] forcibly inserted [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] into his main gun with predictable results. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

{{quote|None shall hurt you now. Come with me, come. I will protect you... I am your friend. Your only friend.|Rampage convinces Transmutate to follow him, "[[Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate]]"}}

[[File:Transmutate Rampage.jpg|upright=1.55|thumb|left|'If you guys don't cut it out, I'm taking my Transmutate and going home!"]]
Though a violent sociopath, Rampage was not without compassion. After an attempt by him to regain his spark fragment failed, Rampage encountered a twisted protoform which he dubbed [[Transmutate (character)|Transmutate]]. He quickly befriended it and attempted to have it inducted into the Predacons. Though Megatron ordered the creature destroyed, Rampage persevered with trying to make it a useful addition to the Predacon forces. He became possessive enough to viciously fight with [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] over it. When Transmutate was killed by this fight, Rampage bellowed in grief. {{storylink|Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate}}

Rampage was a major component of the assault on the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' when it appeared as though the Maximals were going to receive reinforcements from Cybertron. The Predacons were driven off by an invisible force — the cloaked [[Transwarp cruiser]] flown by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. The cruiser would later be a part of a strike on the Predacon base, during which Rampage unleashed a barrage of missiles on it. Ravage judged the attack "impressive", and responded by using the ship's weapons to blow Rampage to pieces. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}} Rampage, of course, survived to lead yet another attack on the ''Axalon''. [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] rode triumphantly into battle on back of Rampage's tank mode... until an auto-gun knocked him off, and Rampage uncaringly drove straight over him. The battle ended when [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] took out the Transwarp cruiser — Rampage managed to outrun the crashing ship and laughed in triumph... only for the still-armed missile on top of the ship to launch in his face. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

At Megatron's call to arms, a badly-charred Rampage managed to pull himself together and began trying to pull the ''Axalon'' from its perch, with the aid of a large number of [[arachnoid]]s. He finally met his match in battle when the newly reformatted Optimus Primal attacked him. The huge Maximal leader simply shoved him aside, but Rampage had the last laugh as his deflected missile sent the Maximal base plunging into the lake. Cackling, Rampage disappeared into the lake after it. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}

[[File:Changing Guard Rampage Depthcharge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.34|Oh, BABY!]]
Later, Depth Charge arrived on prehistoric Earth with the single-minded goal of destroying Rampage. Rampage was beside himself with joy, eager for revenge on his old "playmate". Depth Charge's loss at Colony Omicron had embittered him, and Rampage used this emotional wound to torment the Maximal. In the end, Depth Charge got the upper hand, and may well have ended the feud then and there, but for the intervention of Quickstrike, which allowed Rampage to sneak away and destroy Depth Charge's ship. {{storylink|Deep Metal|Deep Metal}} Rampage soon met his old enemy again when Rattrap descended to the bottom of the lake to retrieve the [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]] module from the wreckage of the ''Axalon''. Depth Charge had the upper hand in the battle, but Rampage escaped death when [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] argued with Depth Charge over his commitment to the Maximals. {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}

When Megatron created [[Dinobot II]], he used Rampage's spark fragment to form the core of the new Predacon, who likewise retained the ability torture Rampage into continued loyalty with it. Naturally, Rampage was filled with fury and disgust at sharing his spark with a '[[Relatives|half brother]]'. Dinobot was able to use the spark fragment to keep Rampage in line, and the two "brothers" took part in the interrogation of Depth Charge after the [[Transmetal driver]] went missing. When they were attacked by a [[Cheetor (BW)|strange feral beast]], Rampage and Dinobot inadvertently blasted each other. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}}

[[File:MasterBlaster-Rampagestomp.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|"I'd just like to thank all the little people I had to step on to get here."]]
Rampage would go on to have a second clash with Silverbolt, targeting him when he was filled with grief and rage over Blackarachnia's death; he'd have killed him easily if Blackarachnia hadn't suddenly become alive again and beaten him up. {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}} He almost got his revenge when Megatron deliberately gave Blackarachnia to him, and was clearly having fun torturing her before she was able to overpower him. {{storylink|Master Blaster}} Following [[Tigerhawk]]'s destruction of the Predacon base, Rampage and Dinobot were blown away by one strike from the [[Vok]] emissary. {{storylink|Other Victories}}

[[File:Nemesis1-Rampage.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|THERE CAN BE ONLY...NONE!]]
While Megatron was retrieving the submerged [[Decepticon]] craft ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', Depth Charge met Rampage in battle one last time on the ocean floor. At the battle's climax, Rampage allowed Depth Charge to kill him with a shard of raw Energon, resulting in a fantastic explosion which destroyed both. Rampage won even in death, laughing maniacally in triumph as Depth Charge made the final, stabbing blow. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}
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====3H comics====
Soon after Megatron acquired his dragon body, a temporal disruption drew the attention of both the Maximals and Predacons to a remote canyon, where Rampage and his fellow Predacons met their foes. The Maximals were losing, having been fought into a corner, when suddenly the battle was interrupted. The [[Dark Essence]]—the life force of [[Unicron]]—had possessed the newcomer [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]], the source of the temporal disruption. Rampage and the others were immobilized by Unicron's psionic force blasts, and the merged creature advanced on the Maximals. {{storylink|Herald, Covenant, Schism, Paradox|Paradox}}

These events would soon be retroactively erased from Rampage's timeline with the efforts of the legendary [[Covenant]]. {{storylink|Terminus (issue)|Terminus}}
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====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
[[File:BWGatherRampage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
{{Note|These events take place "in-between" scenes of the episode [[Changing of the Guard]].}}
Megatron tasked Rampage and Inferno to oversee Tarantulas's instalment of the Sentinel components within the Predacon base. Rampage complained he always got all the dirty jobs in response. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 3|The Gathering #3}}
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===''Beast Wars Metals'' comic===
[[File:Bwmetalsmanga rampage.jpg|left|thumb]]
The twisted product of a Maximal experiment to create an immortal spark, Rampage was born a vampiric monster of incredible regenerative capability who consumed the sparks of others. Sealed away within a stasis pod, he was loaded onto a Maximal vessel for disposal, but partway into the voyage, he escaped and slaughtered the crew, causing the ship to crash on the planet [[Earth#Notes|Energoa]]. The crash drew the attention of Optimus Primal's Maximals, who were stranded on the planet fighting the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] at the time, and they investigated the ship, which had become submerged in the ocean. Rampage attacked Rattrap and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] just as they discovered his empty pod, eating Rattrap's tail and almost consuming Airazor, before Primal arrived and freed her by severing Rampage's arm. Regrowing the limb, Rampage engaged Primal, seizing him with his abdomen-mouth and forcing him to hack his own arm off to escape. Primal tried a desperate ploy to take the monster down, stuffing a demolition charge in his head and allowing Rampage to eat it; Primal survived by shifting to beast mode, and though it momentarily seemed the gambit had succeeded, Rampage burst out of the waters in crab mode, grabbed Primal, and dragged him off into the ocean. Using the ship's still-functioning weaponry, Rattrap and Airazor detonated an underwater volcano beneath the pair, creating a shockwave that Primal was then able to ride with his hoverboard, carrying Rampage out of the water and into the air. Primal then lopped off his remaining arm to escape Rampage's grip, disengaged his board, and jammed it into the monster's mouth, leaving it to carry Rampage up into space, stranding him in Energoa's orbit. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 2|Beast Wars Metals #2}}

Some time later, when the Predacon leader Megatron fused himself with his [[Megatron (G1)|Decepticon predecessor]] to upgrade himself, the energy discharge from the fusion targeted Rampage, still floating in orbit, and blew him to bits. The sparks of his victims were released from his body, and used by Megatron to reanimate several of his fallen Predacon warriors. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 5|Beast Wars Metals #5}}
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===Beast Wars: Uprising===
[[File:AloneTogetherP-Rampage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Hello, Clarice..."]]
On [[Primax 209.0 Gamma|an alternate Cybertron]], the selfish, aging combatants of its eternal civil war sought immortality through various means. The first was through creating the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s to fight on in their name, and the second was to become literally immortal. Scientists managed to create an inextinguishable [[spark]] that mimicked the properties of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s lifeforce, but the result was a creature who was consumed with hate and power and an undying taste for violence. Appalled, the scientists locked "Protoform X" away, hoping the [[Builders of Cybertron]] would never discover him. Instead, inevitably, Protoform X burst free, leaving piles of tortured bodies in his wake. This outburst inspired the name "Rampage," and the creature was bested only by the bounty hunter [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], who brought him to justice. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 55|Rampage's club magazine profile}}

Rampage was being held in the [[Ferromax Detention Center]] when he was witness to [[Dinobot (BW)|Dynobot]]'s jailbreak. He sensed great sorrow and fury in [[Transmutate (character)|one of Dynobot's rescuers]], and as she left with Dynobot and the others, Rampage encouraged her from his cell to embrace these feelings. {{storylink|Alone Together: Prologue}} Eventually he was flushed out of the airlock of a spaceship and crashed down on the dwarf planet [[LGC-8803]]. Regenerating, he began to hallucinate, but was convinced he was not alone. He followed what appeared to be tracks {{storylink|Alone Together: Paranoia}} and eventually found Trans-Mutate, who'd also been stranded there. {{storylink|Alone Together: Perception}}

By that point he was so low on energy he collapsed mid-speech, and she had to help him by providing power from the [[navicomp]] she'd salvaged. While still debating how to survive, they came under attack from [[Bruton]] and [[Medusa]]. Despite Rampage putting up a decent fight, he and Trans-Mutate were rendered unconscious and presented to [[Lord Imperious Delirious]]. {{storylink|Alone Together: Kindred}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (PS)===
[[File:BWTMPS1 rampage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
{{voiceactor|[[Campbell Lane]] (English)}}
Rampage participated in an extensive one-on-one beatdown involving nearly every active participant of the Beast Wars. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)}}
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===''Transformers Legends''===
When [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] discovered a [[stasis pod|pod]] marked with a giant X in the middle of an impact crater, it quickly became an item of interest to the Predacons as well. As the pod unleashed Rampage, everyone was tossed away. The continuing battle drew the attention of [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], who was seeking revenge for Rampage's previous slaughter of his friends. Together, the Beast Warriors dealt Rampage a mortal blow, just as [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] arrived. The dying Rampage accepted a life-saving portion of Megatron's [[Spark]], only to find that he was now bound to Megatron's will. {{storylink|When Sparks Fly}}

==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BW Rampage toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|upright=1.67|A [[Seafood Louis]] eater's worst nightmare.]]
*'''Rampage''' (Ultra Transmetal, [[1998]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-41'''
**''Accessories:'' Spring-loaded triple barrel missile launcher, 3 missiles and 1 rifle

:Rampage transforms into a Transmetal king crab, featuring fully articulated crab legs and pincers that can open, close and be posed in a variety of angles through the use of ratcheting joints. His triple-barreled Gatling missile launcher is stored on the underside of the beast mode. As a Transmetal, Rampage has a third "vehicle" mode, transforming rather elaborately into a tank with rubber treads that unfold from inside his claws and fit over a road wheel network formed from his crab legs that allows them to really roll. His missile launcher flips out to face forward for this mode, and rolling the figure forward spins its wheel, rotating the launcher and auto-firing any or all of its three missiles.

:In robot mode, Rampage is an imposingly large figure with a decent level of articulation due to his ball joints, but because he wears most of his beast mode as a sort of backpack, he is quite back-heavy (his cartoon model would even move his crab legs from their cumbersome position on his forearms to his shoulder pads). In addition to his missile launcher, he is armed with a small laser rifle and can hold both weapons in his hands. The small rifle and the launcher's three missiles can store inside his claws while he is in his alternate modes. The figure was first released with orange paint applications on his head and chest, but a [[Variant#Running changes|running change]] recolored these silver, giving his head more show-accurate look; curiously, it took about fifteen years before this variant was widely known about.<ref>http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/92142-a-tale-of-three-rampages/</ref>

:The Japanese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Metals|Beast Wars Metals]]'' release of the figure features noticeably different colors, replacing the orange details and gradient on his robot mode face, chest and limbs with silver, and more clearly delineating the "X" on his crab carapace by painting it purple. Most impressively, the robot head and limbs are changed from opaque orangey-red to translucent blood-red plastic.

:This toy was later [[redeco]]ed into the [[BotCon 2000]]-[[exclusive]] [[Shokaract]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Predacon/Rampage/rampage.htm More information on Rampage at TFU.info]''
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===''Timelines''===
[[File:Timelinestoy-ProtoformX.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Would you believe this isn't me?/ That what you get isn't what you see?]]
*'''Rampage''' (Deluxe, [[2014]])
**''Accessories'': cannon

:A new-head retool of [[Megatron (WFC)#Prime: First Edition|First Edition Megatron]], he was the [[2014]] [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] free figure, mailed to new or returning club members who got their registration in before the deadline. Rampage transforms from robot into hovering tank mode. He comes with a cannon, which can either be held with his hands in robot mode, or peg onto his jet mode by folding the handle in and pegging it behind his exposed, peeking head, or peg onto his right forearm.

:This version of the mold was also used for [[BotCon 2014]] [[Shokaract|Hunter]].
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==Notes==
*According to the series background materials published in the ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'' guidebook, Rampage's body was supposed to have been constructed out of leftover G1-era [[Reproduction|technology]] seen in the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] due to the lack of know-how for [[protoform]] technology. How this jibes with his status as "Protoform X" is anyone's guess.
*Rampage's taunt about Starbase Rugby in "Nemesis" ("like you had no time for Starbase Rugby? You had friends there! As I recall, tasty ones, too.") implies he destroyed it ''because'' Depth Charge had friends there.
*Some fans are split on how to interpret Rampage's death; he is clearly shown to let go of the energon shard that killed him prior to being stabbed with it, to which Depth Charge reacted in surprise. Because of this, some fans feel this means Rampage, knowing he couldn't win the struggle, allowed himself to be impaled in order to end his torturous existence (and laughing in the giddy euphoria of oblivion), while others believe he deliberately let go to test whether or not Depth Charge would go through with his threat of ending his life, his laughter instead being taken as solace in the knowledge that Depth Charge's obsession with him had successfully corrupted him into the same kind of monster he wanted to kill, as well as knowing that Depth Charge's success at killing him would get Depth Charge killed as well. Alternatively, Rampage could just be '''batshit insane'''. It's also possible that while Rampage's physical form was destroyed, he knew that his spark was immortal, leaving him alive but without a body.
*No explanation is ever given for why energon suddenly kills Rampage, even though Megatron's been poking his spark with it ever since he appeared. Although the fact the energon was unstable may have had something to do with it, or the degree it was stabbed into the spark.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Rampage''' (ランページ ''Ranpēji'')
*''French:'' '''Furibo''' (Canada)
*''Italian:'' '''Granchior'''
*''Mandarin:'' '''Mó Hsìeh''' (Taiwan, 魔蟹, "Demon Crab"), '''Ace''' (Protoform X, Taiwan, 艾斯 ''Aì Ssū'')
*''Polish'': '''Pieniacz''' ("Litigant")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Violência''' (Brazil, "Violence")
*''Spanish:'' '''Rampante''' (America, "Rampant")

==References==
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[[Category:Beast Wars Maximals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Point One Percenters]]
[[Category:Timelines characters]]
[[Category:Transmetals]]
[[Category:Triple Changers]]

Rampage (BW)

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:''Rampage is a [[Maximal]] or [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:RampageBW-Legends.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|I ate his spark with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.]]
'''Rampage''' (also known as '''Protoform X''') is the awful result of scientific experimentation gone awry. He is a serial killer and cannibal, with an immortal [[spark]] that ensures his twisted brand of horror and misery will live on as long as he does (forever, presumably). Rampage detects and draws strength from the emotions of others, literally feeding on the pain and suffering he causes. As an unwilling conscript of the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], he is contemptuous (at best) of the rest of his team, typically bored and uncooperative on missions, and he frequently sneaks off for his own purposes to try to relieve his boredom in the most cruel and horrible ways possible.

{{bigquote|Is that fear you are feeling, Maximal? Yes... my spark, it feeds on terror. Let it grow! Let it consume your circuitry! Feel it, yes, feel it! Feel the fear!|Rampage|"[[Bad Spark]]"}}

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==Fiction==
===Toy Bio===
[[File:Rampage-backofthebox.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|Despite the terror claws, not a gangsta.]]
If Rampage's titanic size, armor plating and psychopathic tendencies weren't horrifying enough, he is also capable of generating tidal waves, inducing earthquakes and triggering landslides with his "terror claws", while his ever-dreaded [[galva-conductor]]s allow him to unleash deadly electrical discharges. With this immense arsenal available to him, he prefers to use his gatling cannon as a way to finish off his opponents. {{storylink|Rampage (BW)#Toys|Rampage toy bio}}
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===Cartoon Continuity===
====Dawn of Future's Past====
[[File:Protoformxcargo.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|The Maximals should consider making their scandalous super-secret projects a little smaller.]]
While preparing for a deep-space exploration mission, the Maximal crew of the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' stopped for a few weeks at a space station. Here, [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] helped acquire a mysterious complement to their cargo, a very large [[protoform]] branded with an X. The ''Axalon'' was ordered to dispose of "Protoform X" on a barren moon somewhere in the [[Alpha Quadrant]]. However, before its captain, [[Optimus Primal]], was able to explain the circumstances fully to his crew, they were suddenly under even newer orders to pursue a stolen [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] ship, the ''[[Darksyde]]''. Subsequently, the ''Axalon'' followed the ''Darksyde'' through a [[transwarp]] portal and crash-landed on a mysterious planet. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past|Dawn of Future's Past}}
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====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Campbell Lane]] (English), [[Nobuyuki Hiyama]] (Japanese)|[[Gilberto Baroli]] (Portuguese), [[Alfonso Mellado]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Stefano Albertini]] (Italian)}}
[[File:BWRampage Badspark thepast.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|This is a great way to work out.]]
Protoform X was a [[Maximal]] experiment to recreate [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s mutant, immortal [[spark]]. Though arguably successful in this regard, the creation was unstable. {{storylink|Bad Spark}} In point of fact, he was criminally insane. He was held at [[Colony Omicron]] but soon escaped, killing all of its inhabitants save a lone security officer, [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]]. After four stellar cycles of chasing the killer, Depth Charge finally captured him and brought him back to Cybertron {{storylink|Deep Metal}} - but not before Protoform X destroyed [[Starbase Rugby]] and ''devoured'' an unknown number of the inhabitants. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}} Rather than destroy him, [[Maximal Elder]]s had Protoform X placed into a [[stasis pod]] aboard an exploration vessel, the ''Axalon''. They instructed its commander, [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], to dump him on some barren world in deep space.

Protoform X was among the stasis pods jettisoned by Optimus when the ''Axalon'' was damaged by [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron's]] Predacons, and only fell out of orbit far into the Beast Wars. Battle near his stasis pod shocked him into activation, and he promptly set out to terrorize all nearby Transformers, rending [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] limb from limb and stalking [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] and [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]]. (All right, whose bright idea was it to allow the homicidal maniac to keep his weapons!?) X seemed unstoppable at first, but when one of Silverbolt's missiles jammed his tank treads as he climbed up a mountainside, he lost his grip and tumbled down the rock face in pieces.

[[File:CodeofHero Rampage tankmode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.45|Attack my weak point for massive damage.]]
As Protoform X lay immobilized, Megatron arrived and, using a blade of pure [[energon]], removed a portion of his indestructible spark. Megatron then had him brought back to the Predacon base and repaired. When X attempted to turn his weapons on his "savior", Megatron revealed that he held half of X's spark in a special cage lined with energon crystals, allowing him to torture the beast at will. Megatron thus welcomed him into the Predacon fold, dubbing him "Rampage". {{storylink|Bad Spark}}

Rampage made no secret of his hatred for his new "master", anticipating the arrival of Maximal reinforcements from Cybertron, and the demise Megatron would surely receive as a result. Megatron had other plans in motion, using Rampage's weaponry to destroy a mountain, proving that the future recorded on the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]] was mutable. Rampage's services were further pressed into use when the Predacons assaulted a valley full of [[protohuman]]s, however his contribution came to an end when [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] forcibly inserted [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] into his main gun with predictable results. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

{{quote|None shall hurt you now. Come with me, come. I will protect you... I am your friend. Your only friend.|Rampage convinces Transmutate to follow him, "[[Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate]]"}}

[[File:Transmutate Rampage.jpg|upright=1.55|thumb|left|'If you guys don't cut it out, I'm taking my Transmutate and going home!"]]
Though a violent sociopath, Rampage was not without compassion. After an attempt by him to regain his spark fragment failed, Rampage encountered a twisted protoform which he dubbed [[Transmutate (character)|Transmutate]]. He quickly befriended it and attempted to have it inducted into the Predacons. Though Megatron ordered the creature destroyed, Rampage persevered with trying to make it a useful addition to the Predacon forces. He became possessive enough to viciously fight with [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] over it. When Transmutate was killed by this fight, Rampage bellowed in grief. {{storylink|Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate}}

Rampage was a major component of the assault on the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' when it appeared as though the Maximals were going to receive reinforcements from Cybertron. The Predacons were driven off by an invisible force — the cloaked [[Transwarp cruiser]] flown by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. The cruiser would later be a part of a strike on the Predacon base, during which Rampage unleashed a barrage of missiles on it. Ravage judged the attack "impressive", and responded by using the ship's weapons to blow Rampage to pieces. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}} Rampage, of course, survived to lead yet another attack on the ''Axalon''. [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] rode triumphantly into battle on back of Rampage's tank mode... until an auto-gun knocked him off, and Rampage uncaringly drove straight over him. The battle ended when [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] took out the Transwarp cruiser — Rampage managed to outrun the crashing ship and laughed in triumph... only for the still-armed missile on top of the ship to launch in his face. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

At Megatron's call to arms, a badly-charred Rampage managed to pull himself together and began trying to pull the ''Axalon'' from its perch, with the aid of a large number of [[arachnoid]]s. He finally met his match in battle when the newly reformatted Optimus Primal attacked him. The huge Maximal leader simply shoved him aside, but Rampage had the last laugh as his deflected missile sent the Maximal base plunging into the lake. Cackling, Rampage disappeared into the lake after it. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}

[[File:Changing Guard Rampage Depthcharge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.34|Oh, BABY!]]
Later, Depth Charge arrived on prehistoric Earth with the single-minded goal of destroying Rampage. Rampage was beside himself with joy, eager for revenge on his old "playmate". Depth Charge's loss at Colony Omicron had embittered him, and Rampage used this emotional wound to torment the Maximal. In the end, Depth Charge got the upper hand, and may well have ended the feud then and there, but for the intervention of Quickstrike, which allowed Rampage to sneak away and destroy Depth Charge's ship. {{storylink|Deep Metal|Deep Metal}} Rampage soon met his old enemy again when Rattrap descended to the bottom of the lake to retrieve the [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]] module from the wreckage of the ''Axalon''. Depth Charge had the upper hand in the battle, but Rampage escaped death when [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] argued with Depth Charge over his commitment to the Maximals. {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}

When Megatron created [[Dinobot II]], he used Rampage's spark fragment to form the core of the new Predacon, who likewise retained the ability torture Rampage into continued loyalty with it. Naturally, Rampage was filled with fury and disgust at sharing his spark with a '[[Relatives|half brother]]'. Dinobot was able to use the spark fragment to keep Rampage in line, and the two "brothers" took part in the interrogation of Depth Charge after the [[Transmetal driver]] went missing. When they were attacked by a [[Cheetor (BW)|strange feral beast]], Rampage and Dinobot inadvertently blasted each other. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}}

[[File:MasterBlaster-Rampagestomp.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|"I'd just like to thank all the little people I had to step on to get here."]]
Rampage would go on to have a second clash with Silverbolt, targeting him when he was filled with grief and rage over Blackarachnia's death; he'd have killed him easily if Blackarachnia hadn't suddenly become alive again and beaten him up. {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}} He almost got his revenge when Megatron deliberately gave Blackarachnia to him, and was clearly having fun torturing her before she was able to overpower him. {{storylink|Master Blaster}} Following [[Tigerhawk]]'s destruction of the Predacon base, Rampage and Dinobot were blown away by one strike from the [[Vok]] emissary. {{storylink|Other Victories}}

[[File:Nemesis1-Rampage.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|THERE CAN BE ONLY...NONE!]]
While Megatron was retrieving the submerged [[Decepticon]] craft ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', Depth Charge met Rampage in battle one last time on the ocean floor. At the battle's climax, Rampage allowed Depth Charge to kill him with a shard of raw Energon, resulting in a fantastic explosion which destroyed both. Rampage won even in death, laughing maniacally in triumph as Depth Charge made the final, stabbing blow. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}
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====3H comics====
Soon after Megatron acquired his dragon body, a temporal disruption drew the attention of both the Maximals and Predacons to a remote canyon, where Rampage and his fellow Predacons met their foes. The Maximals were losing, having been fought into a corner, when suddenly the battle was interrupted. The [[Dark Essence]]—the life force of [[Unicron]]—had possessed the newcomer [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]], the source of the temporal disruption. Rampage and the others were immobilized by Unicron's psionic force blasts, and the merged creature advanced on the Maximals. {{storylink|Herald, Covenant, Schism, Paradox|Paradox}}

These events would soon be retroactively erased from Rampage's timeline with the efforts of the legendary [[Covenant]]. {{storylink|Terminus (issue)|Terminus}}
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====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
[[File:BWGatherRampage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
{{Note|These events take place "in-between" scenes of the episode [[Changing of the Guard]].}}
Megatron tasked Rampage and Inferno to oversee Tarantulas's instalment of the Sentinel components within the Predacon base. Rampage complained he always got all the dirty jobs in response. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 3|The Gathering #3}}
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===''Beast Wars Metals'' comic===
[[File:Bwmetalsmanga rampage.jpg|left|thumb]]
The twisted product of a Maximal experiment to create an immortal spark, Rampage was born a vampiric monster of incredible regenerative capability who consumed the sparks of others. Sealed away within a stasis pod, he was loaded onto a Maximal vessel for disposal, but partway into the voyage, he escaped and slaughtered the crew, causing the ship to crash on the planet [[Earth#Notes|Energoa]]. The crash drew the attention of Optimus Primal's Maximals, who were stranded on the planet fighting the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] at the time, and they investigated the ship, which had become submerged in the ocean. Rampage attacked Rattrap and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] just as they discovered his empty pod, eating Rattrap's tail and almost consuming Airazor, before Primal arrived and freed her by severing Rampage's arm. Regrowing the limb, Rampage engaged Primal, seizing him with his abdomen-mouth and forcing him to hack his own arm off to escape. Primal tried a desperate ploy to take the monster down, stuffing a demolition charge in his head and allowing Rampage to eat it; Primal survived by shifting to beast mode, and though it momentarily seemed the gambit had succeeded, Rampage burst out of the waters in crab mode, grabbed Primal, and dragged him off into the ocean. Using the ship's still-functioning weaponry, Rattrap and Airazor detonated an underwater volcano beneath the pair, creating a shockwave that Primal was then able to ride with his hoverboard, carrying Rampage out of the water and into the air. Primal then lopped off his remaining arm to escape Rampage's grip, disengaged his board, and jammed it into the monster's mouth, leaving it to carry Rampage up into space, stranding him in Energoa's orbit. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 2|Beast Wars Metals #2}}

Some time later, when the Predacon leader Megatron fused himself with his [[Megatron (G1)|Decepticon predecessor]] to upgrade himself, the energy discharge from the fusion targeted Rampage, still floating in orbit, and blew him to bits. The sparks of his victims were released from his body, and used by Megatron to reanimate several of his fallen Predacon warriors. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 5|Beast Wars Metals #5}}
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===Beast Wars: Uprising===
[[File:AloneTogetherP-Rampage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Hello, Clarice..."]]
On [[Primax 209.0 Gamma|an alternate Cybertron]], the selfish, aging combatants of its eternal civil war sought immortality through various means. The first was through creating the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s to fight on in their name, and the second was to become literally immortal. Scientists managed to create an inextinguishable [[spark]] that mimicked the properties of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s lifeforce, but the result was a creature who was consumed with hate and power and an undying taste for violence. Appalled, the scientists locked "Protoform X" away, hoping the [[Builders of Cybertron]] would never discover him. Instead, inevitably, Protoform X burst free, leaving piles of tortured bodies in his wake. This outburst inspired the name "Rampage," and the creature was bested only by the bounty hunter [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], who brought him to justice. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 55|Rampage's club magazine profile}}

Rampage was being held in the [[Ferromax Detention Center]] when he was witness to [[Dinobot (BW)|Dynobot]]'s jailbreak. He sensed great sorrow and fury in [[Transmutate (character)|one of Dynobot's rescuers]], and as she left with Dynobot and the others, Rampage encouraged her from his cell to embrace these feelings. {{storylink|Alone Together: Prologue}} Eventually he was flushed out of the airlock of a spaceship and crashed down on the dwarf planet [[LGC-8803]]. Regenerating, he began to hallucinate, but was convinced he was not alone. He followed what appeared to be tracks {{storylink|Alone Together: Paranoia}} and eventually found Trans-Mutate, who'd also been stranded there. {{storylink|Alone Together: Perception}}

By that point he was so low on energy he collapsed mid-speech, and she had to help him by providing power from the [[navicomp]] she'd salvaged. While still debating how to survive, they came under attack from [[Bruton]] and [[Medusa]]. Despite Rampage putting up a decent fight, he and Trans-Mutate were rendered unconscious and presented to [[Lord Imperious Delirious]]. {{storylink|Alone Together: Kindred}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (PS)===
[[File:BWTMPS1 rampage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
{{voiceactor|[[Campbell Lane]] (English)}}
Rampage participated in an extensive one-on-one beatdown involving nearly every active participant of the Beast Wars. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)}}
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===''Transformers Legends''===
When [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] discovered a [[stasis pod|pod]] marked with a giant X in the middle of an impact crater, it quickly became an item of interest to the Predacons as well. As the pod unleashed Rampage, everyone was tossed away. The continuing battle drew the attention of [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], who was seeking revenge for Rampage's previous slaughter of his friends. Together, the Beast Warriors dealt Rampage a mortal blow, just as [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] arrived. The dying Rampage accepted a life-saving portion of Megatron's [[Spark]], only to find that he was now bound to Megatron's will. {{storylink|When Sparks Fly}}

==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BW Rampage toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|upright=1.67|A [[Seafood Louis]] eater's worst nightmare.]]
*'''Rampage''' (Ultra Transmetal, [[1998]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-41'''
**''Accessories:'' Spring-loaded triple barrel missile launcher, 3 missiles and 1 rifle

:Rampage transforms into a Transmetal king crab, featuring fully articulated crab legs and pincers that can open, close and be posed in a variety of angles through the use of ratcheting joints. His triple-barreled Gatling missile launcher is stored on the underside of the beast mode. As a Transmetal, Rampage has a third "vehicle" mode, transforming rather elaborately into a tank with rubber treads that unfold from inside his claws and fit over a road wheel network formed from his crab legs that allows them to really roll. His missile launcher flips out to face forward for this mode, and rolling the figure forward spins its wheel, rotating the launcher and auto-firing any or all of its three missiles.

:In robot mode, Rampage is an imposingly large figure with a decent level of articulation due to his ball joints, but because he wears most of his beast mode as a sort of backpack, he is quite back-heavy (his cartoon model would even move his crab legs from their cumbersome position on his forearms to his shoulder pads). In addition to his missile launcher, he is armed with a small laser rifle and can hold both weapons in his hands. The small rifle and the launcher's three missiles can store inside his claws while he is in his alternate modes. The figure was first released with orange paint applications on his head and chest, but a [[Variant#Running changes|running change]] recolored these silver, giving his head more show-accurate look; curiously, it took about fifteen years before this variant was widely known about.<ref>http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/92142-a-tale-of-three-rampages/</ref>

:The Japanese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Metals|Beast Wars Metals]]'' release of the figure features noticeably different colors, replacing the orange details and gradient on his robot mode face, chest and limbs with silver, and more clearly delineating the "X" on his crab carapace by painting it purple. Most impressively, the robot head and limbs are changed from opaque orangey-red to translucent blood-red plastic.

:This toy was later [[redeco]]ed into the [[BotCon 2000]]-[[exclusive]] [[Shokaract]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Predacon/Rampage/rampage.htm More information on Rampage at TFU.info]''
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===''Timelines''===
[[File:Timelinestoy-ProtoformX.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Would you believe this isn't me?/ That what you get isn't what you see?]]
*'''Rampage''' (Deluxe, [[2014]])
**''Accessories'': cannon

:A new-head retool of [[Megatron (WFC)#Prime: First Edition|First Edition Megatron]], he was the [[2014]] [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] free figure, mailed to new or returning club members who got their registration in before the deadline. Rampage transforms from robot into hovering tank mode. He comes with a cannon, which can either be held with his hands in robot mode, or peg onto his jet mode by folding the handle in and pegging it behind his exposed, peeking head, or peg onto his right forearm.

:This version of the mold was also used for [[BotCon 2014]] [[Shokaract|Hunter]].
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==Notes==
*According to the series background materials published in the ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'' guidebook, Rampage's body was supposed to have been constructed out of leftover G1-era [[Reproduction|technology]] seen in the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] due to the lack of know-how for [[protoform]] technology. How this jibes with his status as "Protoform X" is anyone's guess.
*Rampage's taunt about Starbase Rugby in "Nemesis" ("like you had no time for Starbase Rugby? You had friends there! As I recall, tasty ones, too.") implies he destroyed it ''because'' Depth Charge had friends there.
*Some fans are split on how to interpret Rampage's death; he is clearly shown to let go of the energon shard that killed him prior to being stabbed with it, to which Depth Charge reacted in surprise. Because of this, some fans feel this means Rampage, knowing he couldn't win the struggle, allowed himself to be impaled in order to end his torturous existence (and laughing in the giddy euphoria of oblivion), while others believe he deliberately let go to test whether or not Depth Charge would go through with his threat of ending his life, his laughter instead being taken as solace in the knowledge that Depth Charge's obsession with him had successfully corrupted him into the same kind of monster he wanted to kill, as well as knowing that Depth Charge's success at killing Rampage would bring about his own death as well. Alternatively, Rampage could just be '''batshit insane'''. It's also possible that while Rampage's physical form was destroyed, he knew that his spark was immortal, leaving him alive but without a body.
*No explanation is ever given for why energon suddenly kills Rampage, even though Megatron's been poking his spark with it ever since he appeared. Although the fact the energon was unstable may have had something to do with it, or the degree it was stabbed into the spark.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Rampage''' (ランページ ''Ranpēji'')
*''French:'' '''Furibo''' (Canada)
*''Italian:'' '''Granchior'''
*''Mandarin:'' '''Mó Hsìeh''' (Taiwan, 魔蟹, "Demon Crab"), '''Ace''' (Protoform X, Taiwan, 艾斯 ''Aì Ssū'')
*''Polish'': '''Pieniacz''' ("Litigant")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Violência''' (Brazil, "Violence")
*''Spanish:'' '''Rampante''' (America, "Rampant")

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Beast Wars Maximals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Point One Percenters]]
[[Category:Timelines characters]]
[[Category:Transmetals]]
[[Category:Triple Changers]]

Units of length

2013-06-19T01:34:45Z

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[[Transformer]]s, being extraterrestrials, are often overheard stating measurements in units that are unfamiliar to [[Human|humans]]. Following is a list of '''units of length''' that Cybertronians have been observed using.

==Specific unit definitions==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!width="25%"|Name
!width="25%"|Distance
!width="50%"|Description
|-
|'''Hic'''||~kilometer||First mentioned in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel]] story "[[The Magnificent Six!]]", three hics was the distance between the town of [[Yuss]] and [[Fort Scyk]]. ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac]]'' defines a hic as 1024 mechanometers, or about one kilometer.
|-
|'''Kil'''||???||[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] noted an energy trace to be located fifty-two kils underneath Cybertron's surface in "[[Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1]]".
|-
|'''Kix'''||???||While difficult to make out the letters, it seems [[Fusion]] measured the distance between him and some Decepticon jets in kix in "[[And There Shall Come...a Leader!]]".
|-
|'''Klep'''||???||[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] defined the location of a utility tunnel as six hundred kleps down in "[[Homecoming (issue)|Homecoming]]".
|-
|'''Klik'''||~kilometer||Referenced in Beast Wars episodes ''[[The_Web]]'' and ''[[Fallen_Comrades]]''.
|-
|'''Mechanometer'''||~meter||In the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 episode]] "[[City of Steel]]", [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] declared [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s head was within ten mechanometers when they approached its location. ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac]]'' defines a mechanometer as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/268,435,456 of a [[Units of time|nanoklik]], or about a meter.
|-
|'''Megamile'''||???||The bridge to [[Great Dome|Iacon]], for example, was approximately a megamile away from the city according to [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 episode]] "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]".
|-
|'''Microquad'''||???||In the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|''Beast Wars'' episode]] "[[The Web]]", [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] made contact with HQ through the new, experimental comlink when he was at a distance of over five microquads away, which meant a good result.
|-
|'''''Solar rek'''''||''???''||''Mentioned in the unofficial story "[[Alignment]]".''
|-
|'''Vun'''||~hectometer?||Mentioned in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel]] story "[[The Magnificent Six!]]", the shockwave from a nuclear explosion blew the Autobots into the air the last few vuns to beyond [[Yuss]]'s limits.
|}

[[Category:Measurements]]

Units of length

2013-06-19T01:33:25Z

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[[Transformer]]s, being extraterrestrials, are often overheard stating measurements in units that are unfamiliar to [[Human|humans]]. Following is a list of '''units of length''' that Cybertronians have been observed using.

==Specific unit definitions==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!width="25%"|Name
!width="25%"|Distance
!width="50%"|Description
|-
|'''Hic'''||~kilometer||First mentioned in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel]] story "[[The Magnificent Six!]]", three hics was the distance between the town of [[Yuss]] and [[Fort Scyk]]. ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac]]'' defines a hic as 1024 mechanometers, or about one kilometer.
|-
|'''Kil'''||???||[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] noted an energy trace to be located fifty-two kils underneath Cybertron's surface in "[[Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1]]".
|-
|'''Kix'''||???||While difficult to make out the letters, it seems [[Fusion]] measured the distance between him and some Decepticon jets in kix in "[[And There Shall Come...a Leader!]]".
|-
|'''Klep'''||???||[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] defined the location of a utility tunnel as six hundred kleps down in "[[Homecoming (issue)|Homecoming]]".
|-
|'''Klik'''||~kilometer||Referenced in Beast Wars episodes ''[[The_Web]]'' and ''[[Fallen_Comrade]]''.
|-
|'''Mechanometer'''||~meter||In the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 episode]] "[[City of Steel]]", [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] declared [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s head was within ten mechanometers when they approached its location. ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac]]'' defines a mechanometer as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/268,435,456 of a [[Units of time|nanoklik]], or about a meter.
|-
|'''Megamile'''||???||The bridge to [[Great Dome|Iacon]], for example, was approximately a megamile away from the city according to [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 episode]] "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]".
|-
|'''Microquad'''||???||In the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|''Beast Wars'' episode]] "[[The Web]]", [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] made contact with HQ through the new, experimental comlink when he was at a distance of over five microquads away, which meant a good result.
|-
|'''''Solar rek'''''||''???''||''Mentioned in the unofficial story "[[Alignment]]".''
|-
|'''Vun'''||~hectometer?||Mentioned in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel]] story "[[The Magnificent Six!]]", the shockwave from a nuclear explosion blew the Autobots into the air the last few vuns to beyond [[Yuss]]'s limits.
|}

[[Category:Measurements]]

The Trigger, Part 1

2013-06-19T01:27:10Z

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{{episode
|series=BWtoon
|ep=16
|series2=BWJtoon
|ep2=13
|prev2=The Spark
|next2=The Trigger, Part 2
|image=The Trigger Tigatron island.jpg
|caption=
|title="The Trigger" Part 1
|production company= [[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|airdate=[[November 18]], 1996
|written by= [[Bob Forward]]
|directed by= [[J. Falconer]]
|animation studio= [[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|continuity= [[Beast Wars continuity]]
|packaged with=[[Megatron (BW)/toys#Beast Wars Telemocha Series|DX Megatron]]
}}

'''Tigatron discovers a flying island with amazing alien power, but the Predacons are after it as well.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:The Trigger Terrorsaur.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Who has got the creepiest smile? Terrorsaur or that weird-looking Bullet Bill?]]
An earthquake on a snowy mountainside raises questions from the nearby [[Tigatron]], on his way to file his weekly report with the rest of the [[Maximal]]s. [[Rattrap]] answers Tigatron's call, and as soon as Tigatron mentions that he hasn't seen any [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] activity, [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] and [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] attack, their attacks causing Tigatron's communication console to collapse upon him as Rattrap listens. [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] heads out to rescue his comrade.

Tigatron, pushing the console off himself, continues to fight against his airborne assailants. A missile from Terrorsaur is detonated by a shot from Waspinator, tearing the ground into pieces and dropping Tigatron into a cloudy chasm. But when the two fliers follow Tigatron into the cloud to gather his remains as trophies, they are blasted by something unseen.

[[Image:The Trigger Terrorsaur waspinator.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Battered and bruised.]]
Primal eventually arrives at the site of the battle, and using Tigatron's communication console, radios to the [[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]] that Tigatron is missing, possibly destroyed.

[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]], spying on the Predacon base, witnesses Waspinator and Terrorsaur return in poor condition. The two goons report to [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] what happened to them after they followed Tigatron.

Inside of the cloud Tigatron fell into, the two Predacons discovered Tigatron had landed on a massive [[Brigadoon|flying island]]. While trying to finish Tigatron, the two were blasted away by energy beams from a strange tower in the center of the island. Megatron sends the team of [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] and [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] to claim the island in the name of the Predacons.

[[Image:The Trigger Tigatron beast.jpg|left|200px|thumb|These trees all look so unrealistic.]]
Airazor reports to the Maximals her observation of the two Predacons, who were in much worse condition than they should be had they won the battle against Tigatron, which means the tiger could still be alive. [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] rushes in to follow up her report with news that Blackarachnia and Scorponok are leaving the Predacon base. Airazor is sent to follow the two.

In Beast Mode, Tigatron explores the island he's discovered, and is amazed at the flora and fauna on the isolated paradise. But, after passing a rock with strange markings, the island reveals some strange defenses against his presence. Tigatron decides to play it safe for the rest of his time in the strange area.

[[Image:The Trigger Tigatron bee.jpg|right|200px|thumb|If you want order in Gotham, Batman must take off his mask and turn himself in. Oh, and every day he doesn't, people will die, starting tonight.]]
Outside of the cloud, Blackarachnia and Scorponok find the island. Scorponok explores the island with one of his [[cyberbee]]s, until Tigatron snatches the bee out of the air. The deceptive nature of the cloud confirmed, Blackarachnia fires a line into the cloud to board the island. As the line retracts, pulling up the two arachnids, Scorponok sees Airazor in pursuit. Using one of his rockets, he blasts her out of the sky. After Scorponok dodges the island's response to his attack, Blackarachnia resolves to take control of the island for herself.

Tigatron aids Airazor and explains to her that he reprogrammed the cyber bee to carry a message back to the Axalon. Soon, Primal recovers the bee and receives the message explaining how if the island's weapon is commandeered by either side, it would ensure victory….
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==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s|c1=
* [[Tigatron]] (1)
* [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (4)
* [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] (5)
* [[Rattrap]] (6)
* [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (7)
* [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] (8)
* [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (9)

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]|c2=
* [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (2)
* [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (3)
* [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (10)
* [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] (11)
* [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (12)
}}

==Quotes==
"Waspinator love victims that are punctual!"
:—'''Waspinator''' is happy to see Tigatron.

"Waspinator wants his heeeeead!" 
"It's mine, bug face!"
:—'''Waspinator''' and '''Terrorsaur''' fighting over whatever's left of Tigatron.

"Either the grunge look is coming back, or those two ran into something hot."
:—'''Airazor''' on spying Terrorsaur and Waspinator after their encounter with the flying island.

'''Optimus Primal:''' Good thing you didn't just blast this bee. 
'''Cheetor:''' Well I would've but it was carrying one of Airazor's feathers. 
'''Rattrap:''' 'Sides...he missed. 
'''Cheetor:''' Yeah, that too. 
'''Optimus Primal:''' Prime.
:—The Maximals receiving the Cyber Bee.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
*It seems to take a very, VERY long time for the transmission tower to fall on Tigatron. There is at least a 20 second break between the Maximals losing his transmission and Optimus taking off to find him, after which Tigatron is still screaming as the tower ''finally'' falls on him.
**It's possible that the moment the tower fell on Tigatron is when his comlink cuts off at the Axalon and was shown again on location (after we see Optimus taking off) just so the audience could see it for themselves.
*When Terrorsaur transforms during his flashback, his shoulder cannons float above him as he transforms, then reattach when he turns to robot mode.
*The trail of tiger footprints in the snow is a nice touch, but then Tigatron transforms and he's not leaving footprints anymore. The snow effects in general are rather inconsistent, only leaving impressions when absolutely necessary.
*When Terrorsaur and Waspinator fly into the cloud, the sounds of the resulting battle are different from the ones heard during the former's flashback. Most notably, Terrorsaur is heard screeching before the island's beam weapon fires.

===Real-world references===
*Rattrap answers Tigatron's call with the phrase [[wikipedia:What's New Pussycat?|What's new, pussycat?]] This is actually the second time this phrase is used. The first was in [[The_Spark]] when Rhinox greets Cheetor during his dream sequence.
*Airazor, spying on a damaged Terrorsaur and Waspinator, quips that "The [[wikipedia:Grunge|grunge]] look must have come back."

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''L'île Volante - 1re partie'''" ("The Flying Island - Part 1")

:*''Title:'' "'''Île Volante 1'''" ("Flying Island 1")

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Il grilletto - Parte 1'''" ("The Trigger - Part 1")

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ukishima no Death Match Zenpen'''" (浮島のデスマッチ前編, "Floating Island Death Match Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 31|31 December]] [[1997]]

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''O Gatilho Parte 1'''" ("The Trigger Part 1")

'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''El Detonante Primera Parte'''" ("The Explosive First Part")

===Trivia===
*Early in the episode, Rhinox observes that one of the moons is lighter than it should be. Perhaps this could be foreshadowing? A hollow celestial body? Call Dr. [[Lucy Suzuki]]!
*There is a model submarine on Rattrap's station.
*Terrorsaur's suspicions about the nature of the "cloud" may be due to [[Power Surge| previous experience with abnormal landforms on the planet]].
*The idea of a tropical area surviving amongst otherwise inhospitable coldness is [[Savage Land| a concept used elsewhere in Transformers]].

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars'' — Warning from Space ([[Alliance Atlantis|Alliance Video]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''Robots-Bêtes'' — Alert Dans L'Espace (Alliance Video) — French audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Floating Island Deathmatch ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars'' / ''Robots-Bêtes'' Three pack (Alliance Video) — Available in English or French audio. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2001 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Beginning: Vol. 3 ([[Universal]])
;Laserdisc
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Predacon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2000 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete First Season ([[Rhino Entertainment|Rhinomation]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 2005 — ''Beast Wars'' — Classic Episodes: Volume 3 — The Battle Rages On! ([[Alliance Atlantis]]) — English and French audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 2005 — ''Beast Wars'' — The Complete First Season (Alliance Atlantis) — English and French audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Season 1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers: Beast Wars'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)

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[[Category:Beast Wars episodes]]
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Possession

2013-06-10T08:28:56Z

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{{episode
|series=BWtoon
|ep=21
|image=Starscream ghost BW.jpg
|caption="Look, I'm a ghost, okay? Quit being such a jerk."
|title="Possession"
|production company=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|airdate=[[February 3]], [[1997]]
|packaged with=[[Waspinator (BW)#Beast Wars 10th Anniversary|Waspinator]], [[Megatron (BW)/toys#Beast Wars 10th Anniversary|Optimus Primal vs. Megatron]], [[Motorarm (BWII)#Beast Wars Telemocha Series|Motorarm]]
|written by=[[Ian Weir]]
|directed by=[[Owen Hurley]]
|animation studio=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|continuity=[[Beast Wars continuity]]
}}
'''Waspinator finds himself possessed by none other than the original Decepticon traitor, Starscream!'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Possession Waspinator.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Haunter used Hypnosis!]]
A violent storm rages, causing significant damage and knocking out power to both the [[Axalon (BW)|Maximal]] and [[Darksyde|Predacon bases]]. While the [[Maximal]]s stash their extra ammo deeper in their ship's hold to prevent undue accidents, [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] attempts to get one of the Predacon base's computer consoles online...only to be greeted by a ghostly, shrill voice from it. A power surge hits the bug-bot soon afterwards, and when the other Predacons begin to wonder what has happened to him, in he comes, announcing his return "at long last" in the same eerie voice.

The voice belongs to [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], Air Commander of the [[Decepticon]] forces and [[second-in-command]] to the original [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], whose [[spark]] had been tumbling through time and space for an unknown number of years before settling within Waspinator. As he puts it, he was destroyed defending [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from the Chaos Bringer [[Unicron]], but his [[spark]] endured. As a show of his good faith, he pledges his loyalty to the Predacon [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]], revealing vital information about the state of the Maximal base due to the storm, intelligence Megatron could use to plan a sneak attack. Intrigued by the idea, Megatron accepts Starscream into his ranks.

[[Image:Possession Megatron victorious.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"B-3" "BINGO!!!"]]
The next day, as the Maximals are making repairs to their base, they are suddenly attacked by the Preds, and Starscream's intel proves very useful in catching them off-guard. In the ensuing firefight, [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] is injured and the Decepticon Air Commander flies rings round [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], forcing the Maximals to abandon ship and regroup outside. Happy with their victory, Megatron puts Starscream in charge of holding the ''Axalon'', with Scorponok and [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] under his command, while the rest of the Predacons return to their base, in case the Maximals decide to go for a sneak attack of their own. However, despite being pleased with Starscream's help, Megatron warns [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] in private to watch their new ally closely. Once they're alone, though, Blackarachnia shows off her knack for history by correctly pointing out to Starscream that he was [[The Transformers: The Movie|murdered by Galvatron after he betrayed the Decepticon commander]]. She's willing to keep this a secret, though, if she's let in on his real plans: to destabilize Megatron's control and rule both factions.

Deep in the forest, as the Maximals recover, Optimus Primal voices his confusion and concern over Waspinator's new personality. He isn't entirely convinced Waspinator is possessed by the spark of Starscream, but as the [[Maximal Elder]]s had long since sealed the Decepticon's records, they're not able to confirm or deny it, either. Fortunately, Dinobot's as much of a military history buff as Blackarachnia is, commenting on how ''Webster's Cybertronian Dictionary'' has pretty much replaced all definitions of "traitor" with Starscream's name.

[[Image:Possession Starscream point.jpg|left|200px|thumb|I want YOU for Predacon Army]]
Realizing Starscream's tendencies, Optimus Primal leads the Maximals in returning to the ''Axalon'' and calling Starscream out to announce their surrender, citing the need to use the ship's [[CR chamber]] to repair Dinobot's (now exaggerated) wounds. Feeling generous, the Decepticon Air Commander allows Optimus and Dinobot to come on board, but as predictably as night follows day, betrays them and strips Optimus of his weapons and locks him up in the hold as soon as he steps on deck. With their leader now his prisoner, Starscream orders the other Maximals to attack the Predacon base, over the token objections of Scorponok, who is then blasted away by Starscream and Blackarachnia. They comply, and the trap is set.

[[Image:Possession Starscream gunpoint.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I'm azzz mad azzz hell, and I'm not going to take thizzz anymore!]]
Unbeknown to the Air Commander, he's been duped by the oldest trick in the book; by allowing himself to be betrayed, Optimus Primal has put himself and Dinobot in the perfect position to retake their base, which they do in a dazzling display that forces Starscream and Blackarachnia to retreat back to Predacon territory. Upon hearing of the Maximal attack that is ordered by Starscream, Megatron angrily swears to finish both Starscream and Blackarachnia off to himself. Optimus pursues and manages to best the Decepticon in an aerial dogfight, leaving him grovelling at the Maximal's feet...until Blackarachnia shows up, prompting Starscream to plead for her aid, believing they can still complete their coup. No dice; this new generation is much less gullible than [[Autobot|their]] [[Decepticon|ancestors]], and Blackarachnia has skillfully pulled off a double-cross on the double-crosser, igniting a small energon cache underneath Starscream to "exorcise" the Decepticon's spark from Waspinator's body.

At the end of the day, Megatron gets done fixing the back-to-normal Waspinator as Blackarachnia explains her betrayal; if she hadn't done it, she maintains, she wouldn't have been able to sniff out Starscream's true motives. Megatron reluctantly accepts this excuse, but warns her that it still doesn't invoke confidence in her loyalties. Back at the ''Axalon'', the Maximals are finishing up repairs of their own...everyone but Cheetor, who's slacking off with a bout of stargazing, quipping "Twinkle, twinkle, little Starscream," as the camera pans up to beyond the planet's orbit, showing Starscream's spark screaming mech fluid-drenched vengeance on all within the Beast Wars as he drifts away into the void.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s
|c1=
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (2)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (3)
*[[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] (4)
*[[Rattrap]] (8)
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] (13)
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (14)
*[[Tigatron]] (15)

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s
|c2=
*[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (5)
*[[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (6)
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (7)
*[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] (9)
*[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] (10)
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (11)

|c4=
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (1)
* [[Unicron]] (12)
}}

==Quotes==
"What is this? Program does not respond! Waspinator does not understand!" 
"I'll bet Waspinator seldom does! But try not to let it depress you, bug-face."
:—'''Waspinator''', about to be possessed by '''Starscream'''

"Starscream, perhaps the centuries of weightlessness have taken a toll on your neurological circuitry."
:—'''Megatron''' seems to forget that free-floating sparks don't ''have'' circuitry.

"Lie still! And GROAN, for cryin' out loud! You're supposed to be half-dead!" 
"If you don't shut up, vermin, you will be my role model!"
:—'''Rattrap''' and '''Dinobot'''. 'Nuff said.

"You're nothin' but a schemin' snake in the grass!" 
"Ehh, flattery will get you flattened, vermin."
:—'''Rattrap''' and '''Starscream'''

"Ugh! Starscream and Blackarachnia! I'll have both their treacherous hides! Yeeessss...I'll-I'll melt them down and use them for aluminum siding! Oh, yes, indeed!"
:—'''Megatron''' finally learning of Starscream's traitorous nature. Odd...

"Oh, Waspinator has a headache in his ''whole'' body."
:-'''Waspinator''' despite not having his attached to his body.

"I'll be back! Even if it takes a thousand years, I'LL BE REVENGED ON YOU ALL!"
:—'''Starscream''', as he drifts through space

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
* When Megatron "checks up" on Waspinator, his dino head inexplicably switches from his right hand to his left hand.
* Unicron's "ring" is not connected to his body.
* When Starscream points to the unguarded side of the ''Axalon'', he seems to have a finger pointing on both sides of his hand, as though the animators were unsure of which hand he was using to point at the screen. (From the looks of the previous scenes, it should be his left hand.)
* As Starscream weaves around Cheetor's gunfire during the battle in the ''Axalon'', he is missing the yellow details on the outside of his mouth.
* When the Maximals come to "surrender", as Optimus talks to Starscream, his head is hideously deformed, with the sides stretched down to the base of his neck, and his head sitting far too high. Additionally his mouth doesn't move while he's speaking. ''Argh...''
* When Starscream/Waspinator is standing on top of the ''Axalon'' and instructing the Maximals to attack the Predacon base, his right foot clips straight through one of the autocannons. A few moments later when he blasts Scorponok, he's standing nowhere near the cannon.

===Continuity errors===
* Looking at the intro sequence with Starscream's spark, he clearly touches down somewhere in the southwest United States, apparently Arizona. The terrain and creatures in ''Beast Wars'' suggest that it takes place in Africa and the presence of the standing stones, though not necessarily Stonehenge, suggest Britain. On the other hand, it makes sense, since "[[The Agenda (Part III)]]" puts the ''Axalon'' and the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] within commuting distance. It's not too wild to assume that it kept commuting for an unknown distance even after touching down either.

* While free-floating sparks are usually depicted as spheres, Starscream's spark has the twiddly bits which are usually only present to attach a spark to a protoform. Then again, it has been stated that Starscream's spark is not normal, so this may have been a conscious alteration?

* Megatron knew a great deal about Cybertronian history, yet apparently did not know the real nature of Starscream and his demise. However, Megatron might have been playing dumb to lure Starscream into being bolder with his actions. On the other hand, both the Predacon and Maximal Elders had a large portion of his records sealed ''due'' to his history. Then again, Megatron DID tell Scorponok to watch Starscream...
** On that same note, both Blackarachnia and Dinobot knew about Starscream, even though Primal stated that his records were sealed. It's possible that the records were sealed only to the Maximals (as Primal notes it was the Maximal Elders who sealed them), but given what we'll learn of the state of Maximal/Predacon relations on Cybertron and the Maximal Elders' dirty little secrets, that explanation is rather hard to believe.

* Despite being born from a Maximal Protoform, Blackarachnia refers to the Decepticons as "our" (the Predacons') ancestors. On the other hand, this is neither the first nor the last time she will identify herself as a Predacon, shunning her Maximal origin.

* Starscream apparently imprisons Optimus in shackles that he can break out of in about five seconds flat. However, in the episode commentary on [[Madman Entertainment]]'s ''Beast Wars Season 1'' DVDs, story editor [[Bob Forward]] states that Primal originally had a very complex way of breaking free involving tools and the dexterity of his beast mode appendages, but the animators changed this to just him "busting out", possibly due to time and monetary constraints.

* Blackarachnia states that Starscream met his demise at the hands of Galvatron presumably meaning right after the battle for Autobot City in 2005. However, in the Season 3 episode "Ghost in the Machine", Starscream tricks Unicron into giving him a new body. He is last seen tumbling into space after suffering another non-lethal blast from Galvatron's cannon one last time.

* [[Optimal Situation|Future]] [[Master Blaster|episodes]] will show that a Maximal or Predacon body containing two sparks (their own and one from an Autobot or Decepticon) undergoes dramatic changes, taking on a new, larger appearance and gaining incredible might. Waspinator, however, undergoes only minor physical changes and gains no obvious power apart from somewhat enhanced speed.
** Megatron does infer that the "power" of the second spark has an effect on this, but this also seems strange, as Starscream's spark, due to its immortality, would be presumably better than the average. On the other hand, Starscream's spark will be described as "mutant" in [[Bad Spark|a later episode]], so perhaps this prevents the dramatic changes seen in other characters. (From an out-of-universe perspective, the producers likely forgot this instance when the other mergings occurred.)

===Transformers references===
* Obviously, Starscream himself firmly ties ''Beast Wars'' to established Generation 1 history, though you could argue that Waspinator thinking he was [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] already did this.

* Starscream's spark—or "ghost", as it was then called—possesses several Decepticons (including [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], and [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]) in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 episodes]] "[[Starscream's Ghost]]" and "[[Ghost in the Machine]]". His actions [[Atari Hitotonari|don't stop]] [[Teletraan 15|there]].

* One of the Predacon insignias on the side of Waspinator's cranium changes into a Decepticon insignia while Starscream's spark is inhabiting his superstructure.

* And of course, Starscream's fate was from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

* Starscream's head is white and his face is blue, making him resemble his appearance in [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel Comics]] instead of his [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]] [[character model]].

===Real-world references===
* [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] says "Hasta la vista, Starscream", paraphrasing a famous line from the film ''[[wikipedia:Terminator 2: Judgment Day|Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]''.

* As he flies away immediately after saying this, Optimus Primal is seen wearing a pair of sunglasses, aping (ahem) Arnold Schwarzenegger's trademark look from the movie.

* Rhinox's line "It's tramplin' time" could be an homage to "It's clobberin' time!", the catchphrase of the [[Thing]] of the [[Fantastic Four]].

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Possession'''"

:*''Title:'' "'''Possession'''" (Canada)

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Il traditore'''" ("The Traitor")

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fujimi no Sutāsukurīmu'''" (不死身のスタースクリーム, "The Immortal Starscream")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 18|18 February]] [[1998]]

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Possessão'''" ("Possession")

'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Posesión'''" ("Possession")

===Trivia===
* [[Doug Parker]] performs both [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (standing in for the late [[Chris Latta]]), and the very Starscreamy [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]]. In fact, Parker's Starscream is basically Terrosaur with a metallic distortion a la G1 Soundwave. Perhaps Starscream should have possessed Terrorsaur instead — of course, nobody would notice the difference.
* According to fan consultant [[Ben Yee]] and story editor Bob Forward on the Madman DVD commentary track, the original idea for this episode was to have the spark of an Autobot possess one of the characters. This idea was abandoned early on because a model of Starscream had already been made for "[[The Web]]". Besides, Starscream had the experience.
* Also according to Forward, the angles used for Waspinator (when he is possessed by Starscream) are much more "heroic" than normal (views from slightly below him, extreme closeups, etc.), to reflect Starscream's personality.
* Apart from the Decepticon insignia on his head, Waspinator's only physical change when possessed is the addition of a yellow stripe along the upper edges of his "mandibles", similar to their inner edges.
* Additionally, Yee provided all of the original Starscream's [[Tech Spec]] [[bio]]graphies to writer Ian Weir as a reference for Starscream's character and personality. Yee was pleased that Weir incorporated Starscream's original "[[Air Commander]]" [[function]] as the character's rank and title.
* This is the [[Victory (episode)|second time]] Optimus airlifts an injured Dinobot out of a battlefield, only for Terrorsaur to get in the way. This time, however, Terrorsaur doesn't get a chance to fire before Optimus punches him out of the way.
* After Blackarachnia convinces Starscream to take her on as his protege, as they're walking away Starscream's hand is at her shoulder but then starts moving down towards her um... butt. Perv.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars'' — Warning from Space ([[Alliance Atlantis|Alliance Video]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''Robots-Bêtes'' — Alert Dans L'Espace (Alliance Video) — French audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Starscream's Invulnerability ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars'' / ''Robots-Bêtes'' Three pack (Alliance Video) — Available in English or French audio. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2001 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Beginning: Vol. 4 ([[Universal]])
;Laserdisc
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Predacon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2000 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete First Season ([[Rhino Entertainment|Rhinomation]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 2005 — ''Beast Wars'' — Classic Episodes: Volume 3 — The Battle Rages On! ([[Alliance Atlantis]]) — English and French audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 2005 — ''Beast Wars'' — The Complete First Season (Alliance Atlantis) — English and French audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Season 1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers: Beast Wars'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)

[[Category:Beast Wars episodes]]
[[Category:Beast Wars 10th Anniversary]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Telemocha Series]]
[[Category:Pack-in material]]

Possession

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Call of the Wild

2013-06-10T08:18:18Z

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{{episode
|series=BWtoon
|ep=19
|image=Call of the Wild Optimus scope.jpg
|caption=Scopes munky trial?
|title="Call of the Wild"
|production company=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|airdate=[[January 7]], 1997
|written by=[[Bob Forward]]
|directed by=[[Jonathan Goodwill]]
|animation studio=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|continuity=[[Beast Wars continuity]]
}}
'''The Predacons steal the rectifier coil from the Maximal base, which causes the Maximals to revert into a more feral state.'''

==Synopsis==
A cheetah enthusiastically chases some antelopes, when the ground around it breaks up and it is sent falling into hot lava. Before the cat gets burned, the sequence ends, revealed to be a dream of [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]'s. Cheetor awakens from his nightmare in time to hear the alarms triggered by a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] assault. As the other [[Maximal]]s prepare [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] drags Cheetor outside to battle.

[[Image:Call of the Wild Waspinator Terrorsaur.jpg|left|200px|thumb|What do we do about the slime?]]
[[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Primal]] exits the Maximals' control room via the roof hatch, but is unable to prevent [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] and [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] from grabbing a piece of Maximal hardware off the roof and retreating with the other Predacons. A well-placed rocket from [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] prevents Primal from chasing the fliers. [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] is just able to catch the Maximal leader before he crashes into the ground, but lowering Primal after taking a hit from Terrorsaur seriously taxes Airazor's systems. On the upside, the Predacons are no longer attacking.

Inside the base, recuperating, the Maximals suddenly feel the harmful effects of [[energon]] build-up. [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] explains that without the [[rectifier coil]] the Predacons stole, the Maximals will have to stay in Beast Mode. Meanwhile, the Predacons, after an uncharacteristically successful mission, enjoy a hearty laugh together.

[[Image:Call of the Wild Rhinox Optimus Rattrap.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Maximals look on as [[Michael Bay]] attempts to direct a scene.]]
Days later, Rhinox interrupts a dream Primal has (of being a real ape) to mention that Predacons are still haunting the local area. [[Rattrap]] suffers frustration from his Beast Mode's diminutive size and limb length. Primal and Rattrap almost get into a fight with each other, their minds suffering from bestial traits leaking into their personalities, but Rhinox lays down the line. Once the Preds leave, the Maximals take some much-needed rest.

[[Image:Call of the Wild Hunt.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Shhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet. We'ah hunting Maxies. Heheheheheh.]]
In his dreams, Primal is tormented by eyes glowing in the dark, Dinobot dreams of hunting surprisingly tiny hadrosaurs, and Rattrap dreams of rat stuff. The dreams overpower their respective dreamers, and the Maximals awaken, trapped in the mindsets of the creatures whose forms they wear. The animals all eventually exit [[Axalon (BW)|their base]]. Their foes' intellects gone, Megatron and the Predacons begin their hunt.

Airazor exits the [[CR chamber]] to meet [[Tigatron]] in the empty Maximal base. Tigatron resolves to reform his Maximal companions before they're killed, while Airazor has her own mission. She heads to the unoccupied [[Darksyde|Predacon base]], deftly dodging the automated defenses. Inside, the rectifier coil is under no protection she can't destroy.

[[Image:Call of the Wild Optimus Megatron.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Peter Jackson likely watched this episode.]]
In the jungle, Tigatron comes to face the feral Cheetor and Rhinox. The two follow him for reasons their animal minds don't comprehend. Next Tigatron recruits the primal Optimus into his party, and finally Dinobot and Rattrap. His friends gathered, Tigatron speaks to the dormant minds of his friends. He explains how the schism that exists between the Maximals' two modes is a side effect of a programming block, and as long as that program exists, the animal and Maximal identities will never reach cohesion. Now embracing the beasts within, the restored Maximals are ready to "Slag some bot!"

Primal swings Megatron off of his throne as the two Maximal cats tackle the two Predacon goons who were carrying their leader. Dinobot's raptor mode conquers [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]. Rhinox knocks over a tree to ground the Predacon fliers, and a ratball special puts Rattrap into position to pump gunfire into Terrorsaur. After the Predacons start to feel the effects of energon build-up, Megatron orders a retreat.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s|c1=
* [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (1)
* [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] (4)
* [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (5)
* [[Rattrap]] (6)
* [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] (7)
* [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (12)
* [[Tigatron]] (14)

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]|c2=
* [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]](2)
* [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] (3)
* [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (8)
* [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (9)
* [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (10)
* [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (11)
* [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] (13)
}}

==Quotes==
"Man, I swear them polka-dots go clear through to the brain."
:—'''Rattrap''' on Cheetor.

"Trouble with the neighbours again."
:—'''Airazor''' spots the ''Axalon'' under attack.

"Predacons, fall back!" 
"Now he tells me!"
:—'''Megatron''''s order comes a wee bit too late to save '''Tarantulas'''.

"Waspinator love it when prey cannot shoot back"
:-'''Waspinator''' in a rare moment of having the upper hand...it won't last.

"Hunting from the air with automatic weapons—now ''that's'' a sport!"
:—'''Terrorsaur'''

"She stoops to conquer!"
:—'''Airazor''' shows some wit.

"Rat...robot. Rat...robot. I'm a robot ''and'' a rat! Yeahh, I ''like'' it!" 
"Hrmf, I do not see why."
:—'''Rattrap''' and '''Dinobot'''

==Other notes==
===Continuity errors===
* In one of the bigger continuity errors in ''Beast Wars''—because it is actually in the spoken dialogue and not a result of [[Code of Hero|careless animation]] or [[Transmutate (episode)|time-filling sound edits]]—Megatron says his plan is contingent on his research of Maximal programming, and Tigatron later confirms the existence of this specifically Maximal weakness. So ''why is Dinobot affected at all?''

===Other errors===
* In his beast dream, Dinobot—supposedly experiencing the instincts of his beast mode, Asia's ''[[wikipedia:velociraptor|Velociraptor]]''—dreams of chasing what appears to be a ''[[wikipedia:parasaurolophus|Parasaurolophus]]'', which only lived in the Americas and which furthermore is portrayed as far too small. Since the creature is never actually named, it may be taken as representing a different dinosaur species as-yet-undiscovered.

===Real-world references===
* The episode was likely named after [[wikipedia:Jack London|Jack London's]] 1903 novel ''[[wikipedia:The Call of the Wild|The Call of the Wild]]''.
* Airazor's "she stoops to conquer" line is a ''double'' reference: first, and most obviously, to 1773 play ''[[wikipedia:She Stoops to Conquer|She Stoops to Conquer]]'', and secondly to a ''stoop'', which is the dive of a bird of prey. [[Ben Yee|Some people]] do not get it.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Chassez le Naturel'''" ("Hunt the Natural")

:*''Title:'' "'''Appel Sauvage'''" ("Savage Calling")

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Il richiamo della foresta'''" ("The Call of the Wild")

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Yomigaere Beast Power!'''" (よみがえれビーストパワー!, "Revive, Beast Power!")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 4|4 February]] [[1998]]

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Instinto Selvagem'''" ("Wild Instinct")

'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''El Llamado de la Bestia'''" (America, "The Call of the Beast")

===Trivia===
* This episode marks the only use of Megatron's right arm-mounted missile launcher, which fires from the same port the laser beam emanates from. What is with Transformers and the one-use weapons?
* When Optimus is dreaming in his quarters, the plant that Dinobot left for him at the end of "[[Gorilla Warfare]]" is still seen next to his bed.
* This episode explores many themes that several of the same characters would later explore in ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]''. The idea of the Maximals taking on more bestial personalities because of their beast modes is used in the episode "[[Forbidden Fruit]]". A similar concept would have been touched on in the unproduced ''Beast Wars'' episode "[[A Greater Ape]]".
* When the Maximal computer announces that the Predacons are withdrawing from the area, text in the Maximal version of the Cybertronix [[Cybertronian languages|language]] scrolls by the bottom of the screen, and more text flashes in blue in the middle of the screen. The blue flashing text reads "area clear", and the text on the bottom reads "its been a long time since ive had sweet thistle pie".
* In Cheetor's dream, the cheetah falls into a pit of lava. [[Aftermath|Foreshadowing]] the death of a certain [[Scorponok (BW)|couple]] of [[Terrorsaur (BW)|characters]], perhaps?
* When Megatron "suggests" to his troops to laugh with him, Blackarachnia is the only one who refuses to pay him that courtesy. Clearly, Dinobot is not the only who's got some bearings of chrome steel.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Resurrected Beast Power ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2001 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Beginning: Vol. 3 ([[Universal]])
;Laserdisc
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Predacon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2000 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete First Season ([[Rhino Entertainment|Rhinomation]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 2005 — ''Beast Wars'' — Classic Episodes: Volume 3 — The Battle Rages On! ([[Alliance Atlantis]]) — English and French audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 2005 — ''Beast Wars'' — The Complete First Season (Alliance Atlantis) — English and French audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Season 1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers: Beast Wars'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)

[[Category:Beast Wars episodes]]

Call of the Wild

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Rampage (BW)

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{{disambig3|Rampage}}
:''Rampage is a [[Transmetal]] [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Triple Changer]] from the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:BWRampage Badspark.jpg|right|400px|thumb|I ate his spark with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.]]
'''Rampage''' (also known as '''Protoform X''') is the awful result of scientific experimentation gone awry. He is a serial killer and cannibal, with an immortal [[spark]] that ensures his twisted brand of horror and misery will live on as long as he does (forever, presumably). Rampage detects and draws strength from the emotions of others, literally feeding on the pain and suffering he causes. As an unwilling conscript of the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], he is contemptuous (at best) of the rest of his team, typically bored and uncooperative on missions, and he frequently sneaks off for his own purposes to try to relieve his boredom in the most cruel and horrible ways possible.

{{bigquote|Is that fear you are feeling, Maximal? Yes... my spark, it feeds on terror. Let it grow! Let it consume your circuitry! Feel it, yes, feel it! Feel the fear!|Rampage|"[[Bad Spark]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Toy Bio===
If Rampage's titanic size and psychopathic tendencies weren't horrifying enough, he is also capable of generating tidal waves, inducing earthquakes, triggering landslides and unleashing deadly electrical discharges. With this immense arsenal available to him, he prefers to use his gatling cannon as a way to finish off his opponents. {{storylink|Rampage (BW)#Toys|Rampage toy bio}}

===Cartoon Continuity===
====Dawn of Future's Past====
[[Image:Protoformxcargo.jpg|left|200px|thumb|The Maximals should consider making their scandalous super-secret projects a little smaller.]]
While preparing for a deep-space exploration mission, the Maximal crew of the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' stopped for a few weeks at a space station. Here, [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] helped acquire a mysterious complement to their cargo, a very large [[protoform]] branded with an X. The ''Axalon'' was ordered to dispose of "Protoform X" on a barren moon somewhere in the [[Alpha Quadrant]]. However, before its captain, [[Optimus Primal]], was able to explain the circumstances fully to his crew, they were suddenly under even newer orders to pursue a stolen [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] ship, the ''[[Darksyde]]''. Subsequently, the ''Axalon'' followed the ''Darksyde'' through a [[transwarp]] portal and crash-landed on a mysterious planet. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past|Dawn of Future's Past}}
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====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Campbell Lane]] (English), [[Nobuyuki Hiyama]] (Japanese), [[Gilberto Baroli]] (Portuguese), [[Alfonso Mellado]] (Latin American Spanish)

[[Image:BWRampage Badspark thepast.jpg|right|200px|thumb|This is a great way to work out.]]
Protoform X was a [[Maximal]] experiment to recreate [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s mutant, immortal [[spark]]. Though arguably successful in this regard, the creation was unstable. {{storylink|Bad Spark}} In point of fact, he was criminally insane. He destroyed [[Colony Omicron]], killing all of its inhabitants save a lone security officer, [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], who eventually tracked him down and captured him - but not before Protoform X destroyed [[Starbase Rugby]] and ''devoured'' an unknown number of the inhabitants. {{storylink|Deep Metal}} The [[Maximal Elder|Maximal Elders]] had Protoform X placed into a [[stasis pod]] aboard an exploration vessel, the ''Axalon''. They instructed its commander, Optimus Primal, to dump him on some barren world in deep space.

Protoform X was among the stasis pods jettisoned by Optimus when the ''Axalon'' was damaged by [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron's]] Predacons, and only fell out of orbit far into the Beast Wars. Battle near his stasis pod shocked him into activation, and he promptly set out to terrorize all nearby Transformers, rending [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] limb from limb and stalking [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] and [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]]. (All right, whose bright idea was it to allow the homicidal maniac to keep his weapons!?) X seemed unstoppable at first, but when one of Silverbolt's missiles jammed his tank treads as he climbed up a mountainside, he lost his grip and tumbled down the rock face in pieces.

[[Image:CodeofHero Rampage tankmode.jpg|thumb|left|260px|Attack my weak point for massive damage.]]
As Protoform X lay immobilized, Megatron arrived and, using a blade of pure [[energon]], removed a portion of his indestructible spark. Megatron then had him brought back to the Predacon base and repaired. When X attempted to turn his weapons on his "savior", Megatron revealed that he held half of X's spark in a special cage lined with energon crystals, allowing him to torture the beast at will. Megatron thus welcomed him into the Predacon fold, dubbing him "Rampage". {{storylink|Bad Spark}}

Rampage made no secret of his hatred for his new "master", anticipating the arrival of Maximal reinforcements from Cybertron, and the demise Megatron would surely receive as a result. Megatron had other plans in motion, using Rampage's weaponry to destroy a mountain, proving that the future recorded on the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]] was mutable. Rampage's services were further pressed into use when the Predacons assaulted a valley full of [[protohuman]]s, however his contribution came to an end when [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] forcibly inserted [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] into his main gun with predictable results. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

{{quote|None shall hurt you now. Come with me, come. I will protect you... I am your friend. Your only friend.|Rampage convinces Transmutate to follow him, "[[Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate]]"}}

[[Image:BWTransmutate Rampage mourning.jpg|right|280px|thumb|"Alas, poor Transmutate..."]]

Though a violent sociopath, Rampage was not without compassion. After an attempt by him to regain his spark fragment failed, Rampage encountered a twisted protoform which he dubbed [[Transmutate (character)|Transmutate]]. He quickly befriended it and attempted to have it inducted into the Predacons. Though Megatron ordered the creature destroyed, Rampage persevered with trying to make it a useful addition to the Predacon forces. He became possessive enough to viciously fight with [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] over it. When Transmutate was killed by this fight, Rampage bellowed in grief. {{storylink|Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate}}

Rampage was a major component of the assault on the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' when it appeared as though the Maximals were going to receive reinforcements from Cybertron. The Predacons were driven off by an invisible force — the cloaked [[Transwarp cruiser]] flown by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. The cruiser would later be a part of a strike on the Predacon base, during which Rampage unleashed a barrage of missiles on it. Ravage judged the attack "impressive", and responded by using the ship's weapons to blow Rampage to pieces. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}} Rampage, of course, survived to lead yet another attack on the ''Axalon''. [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] rode triumphantly into battle on back of Rampage's tank mode... until an auto-gun knocked him off, and Rampage uncaringly drove straight over him. The battle ended when [[Rattrap]] took out the Transwarp cruiser — Rampage managed to outrun the crashing ship and laughed in triumph... only for the still-armed missile on top of the ship to launch in his face. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

At Megatron's call to arms, a badly-charred Rampage managed to pull himself together and began trying to pull the ''Axalon'' from its perch, with the aid of a large number of [[arachnoid]]s. He finally met his match in battle when the newly-reformatted Optimus Primal attacked him. The huge Maximal leader simply shoved him aside, but Rampage had the last laugh as his deflected missile sent the Maximal base plunging into the lake. Cackling, Rampage disappeared into the lake after it. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}

[[Image:Changing Guard Rampage Depthcharge.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Oh, BABY!]]
Later, Depth Charge arrived on prehistoric Earth with the single-minded goal of destroying Rampage. Rampage was beside himself with joy, eager for revenge on his old "playmate". Depth Charge's loss at Colony Omicron had embittered him, and Rampage used this emotional wound to torment the Maximal. In the end, Depth Charge got the upper hand, and may well have ended the feud then and there, but for the intervention of Quickstrike, which allowed Rampage to sneak away and destroy Depth Charge's ship. {{storylink|Deep Metal|Deep Metal}} Rampage soon met his old enemy again when Rattrap descended to the bottom of the lake to retrieve the [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]] module from the wreckage of the ''Axalon''. Depth Charge had the upper hand in the battle, but Rampage escaped death when [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] argued with Depth Charge over his commitment to the Maximals. {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}

When Megatron created [[Dinobot II]], he used Rampage's spark fragment to form the core of the new Predacon, who likewise retained the ability torture Rampage into continued loyalty with it. Naturally, Rampage was filled with fury and disgust at sharing his spark with a '[[Relatives|half brother]]'. Dinobot was able to use the spark fragment to keep Rampage in line, and the two "brothers" took part in the interrogation of Depth Charge after the [[Transmetal driver]] went missing. When they were attacked by a [[Cheetor (BW)|strange feral beast]], Rampage and Dinobot inadvertently blasted each other. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}}

[[Image:BWNemesisPt1 DepthCharge Rampage.jpg|right|250px|thumb|THERE CAN BE ONLY...NONE!]]
Rampage would go on to have a second clash with Silverbolt, targeting him when he was filled with grief and rage over Blackarachnia's death; he'd have killed him easily if Blackarachnia hadn't suddenly become alive again and beaten him up. {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}} He almost got his revenge when Megatron deliberately gave Blackarachnia to him, and was clearly having fun torturing her before she was able to overpower him. {{storylink|Master Blaster}} Following [[Tigerhawk]]'s destruction of the Predacon base, Rampage and Dinobot were blown away by one strike from the [[Vok]] emissary. {{storylink|Other Victories}}

While Megatron was retrieving the submerged [[Decepticon]] craft ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', Depth Charge met Rampage in battle one last time on the ocean floor. At the battle's climax, Rampage allowed Depth Charge to kill him with a shard of raw Energon, resulting in a fantastic explosion which destroyed both. Rampage won even in death, laughing maniacally in triumph as Depth Charge made the final, stabbing blow. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}
{{--}}

====3H comics====
Soon after Megatron acquired his dragon body, a temporal disruption drew the attention of both the Maximals and Predacons to a remote canyon, where Rampage and his fellow Predacons met their foes. The Maximals were losing, having been fought into a corner, when suddenly the battle was interrupted. The [[Dark Essence]]—the life force of [[Unicron]]—had possessed the newcomer [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]], the source of the temporal disruption. Rampage and the others were immobilized by Unicron's psionic force blasts, and the merged creature advanced on the Maximals. {{storylink|Herald, Covenant, Schism, Paradox|Paradox}}

These events would soon be retroactively erased from Rampage's timeline with the efforts of the legendary [[Covenant]]. {{storylink|Terminus (issue)|Terminus}}

===''Beast Wars Metals'' comic===
He's a Frankenstein's monster-like thing.
He ate Primal's head. It's okay, Primal had a spare.
One more thing. The head Rampage ate had a bomb in its mouth. Idiot.

==Games==
===''Transformers Beast Wars: Transmetals'' video game===
{{Note|Rampage is only a playable character in the Playstation version of this game.}}
{{note|This game takes place in an alternate version of the second season of the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]] cartoon.}}
Rampage participated in an extensive one-on-one beatdown involving nearly every active participant of the Beast Wars. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals}}
{{-}}

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[Image:BW Rampage toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A [[Seafood Louis]] eater's worst nightmare.]]
*'''Rampage''' (Ultra Transmetal, 1998)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-41'''
**''Accessories:'' Spring-loaded triple barrel missile launcher, 3 missiles and 1 rifle

:Rampage transforms into a Transmetal king crab with a tank mode that includes rubber treads. In beast mode, he features fully articulated crab legs and pincers that can open, close and be posed in a variety of angles through the use of ratcheting joints. His triple-barreled Gatling missile launcher is stored on the underside of the beast mode, with its barrels flipping to the front during vehicle mode. In this tank mode, the crab legs fit together to form a road wheel network for Rampage's rubber treads to fit over so he can roll upon them. Rolling the tank activates the wheel in the missile launcher, firing any or all of the three missiles that can store in it.

:In robot mode, Rampage is an imposingly large figure with a decent level of articulation due to his ball joints, but because he wears most of his beast mode as a sort of backpack, he is quite back-heavy. His (very) small laser rifle and his triple-barreled launcher can be held in both of his hands. There were two releases of the toy, one with face colors accurate with the show and another with an orange colored face (seen to the right).

:The location of four of the crab legs in the show is not accurate to the toy; the show has the legs on the shoulder pads, whereas the toy situates the legs on Rampage's arms (which mean they are rather cumbersome).

[[Image:Rampage-backofthebox.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Despite the terror claws, not a gangsta.]]
:Back-of-the-box art for Rampage gives technical designations to some of his robot mode parts; they include "terror claws", armor plating, and the ever-dreaded [[Galva-conductor|galva-conductors]].

:The Japanese version features noticeably different colors, including a more extensive use of silver deco on the robot chest and head, a deeper and more intense red "X" on the crab carapace, and most impressively, the robot head and limbs are now made from translucent blood-red plastic instead of opaque orange.

: This toy was later [[Redeco|redecoed]] into the [[BotCon 2000]]-[[exclusive]] [[Shokaract]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Predacon/Rampage/rampage.htm More information on Rampage at TFU.info]''

{{--}}

==Notes==
* According to the series background materials published in the ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'' guidebook, Rampage's body was supposed to have been constructed out of leftover G1-era [[Reproduction|technology]] seen in the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] due to the lack of know-how for [[protoform]] technology. How this jibes with his status as "Protoform X" is anyone's guess.
* In some episodes, Rampage's robot-mode mouth is animated as an actual hole in his face; in others the external mouthplates are shown to be in front of a greenish solid construct that looks like an extension of his eyes.
* Some fans are split on how to interpret Rampage's death; he is clearly shown to let go of the energon shard that killed him prior to being stabbed with it, to which Depth Charge reacted in surprise.
** Because of this, some fans feel this means Rampage, knowing he couldn't win the struggle, allowed himself to be impaled in order to end his torturous existence (and laughing in the giddy euphoria of oblivion).
** Others believe he deliberately let go to test whether or not Depth Charge would go through with his threat of ending his life, his laughter instead being taken as solace in the knowledge that Depth Charge's obsession with him had a)successfully corrupted him into the same kind of monster he wanted to kill, and b)would lead to Depth Charge's own demise as well.
** It's also possible that while Rampage's physical form was destroyed, he knew that his spark was immortal, leaving him alive but without a body.
** There is also the likelihood that Rampage could just be '''batshit insane'''.
* No explanation is ever given for why energon suddenly kills Rampage, even though Megatron's been poking his spark with it ever since he appeared. Although the fact the energon was unstable may have had something to do with it.
** Also, the difference between the splitting (and subsequent torturing) of Rampage's spark, and Depth Charge's fateful blow may be seen to be the same as the difference between surgery and hacking at someone with a sword.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Rampage''' (ランページ ''Ranpēji'')
*''French:'' '''Furibo''' (Canada)
*''Italian:'' '''Granchior'''
*''Mandarin:'' '''Mó Hsìeh''' (Taiwan, 魔蟹, "Demon Crab"), '''Ace''' (Protoform X, Taiwan, 艾斯 ''Aì Ssū'')
*''Polish'': '''Pieniacz''' ("Litigant")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Violência''' (Brazil, "Violence")
*''Spanish:'' '''Rampante''' (America, "Rampant")

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Rampage (BW)

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:''Rampage is a [[Transmetal]] [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Triple Changer]] from the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:BWRampage Badspark.jpg|right|400px|thumb|I ate his spark with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.]]
'''Rampage''' (also known as '''Protoform X''') is the awful result of scientific experimentation gone awry. He is a serial killer and cannibal, with an immortal [[spark]] that ensures his twisted brand of horror and misery will live on as long as he does (forever, presumably). Rampage detects and draws strength from the emotions of others, literally feeding on the pain and suffering he causes. As an unwilling conscript of the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], he is contemptuous (at best) of the rest of his team, typically bored and uncooperative on missions, and he frequently sneaks off for his own purposes to try to relieve his boredom in the most cruel and horrible ways possible.

{{bigquote|Is that fear you are feeling, Maximal? Yes... my spark, it feeds on terror. Let it grow! Let it consume your circuitry! Feel it, yes, feel it! Feel the fear!|Rampage|"[[Bad Spark]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Toy Bio===
If Rampage's titanic size and psychopathic tendencies weren't horrifying enough, he is also capable of generating tidal waves, inducing earthquakes, triggering landslides and unleashing deadly electrical discharges. With this immense arsenal available to him, he prefers to use his gatling cannon as a way to finish off his opponents. {{storylink|Rampage (BW)#Toys|Rampage toy bio}}

===Cartoon Continuity===
====Dawn of Future's Past====
[[Image:Protoformxcargo.jpg|left|200px|thumb|The Maximals should consider making their scandalous super-secret projects a little smaller.]]
While preparing for a deep-space exploration mission, the Maximal crew of the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' stopped for a few weeks at a space station. Here, [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] helped acquire a mysterious complement to their cargo, a very large [[protoform]] branded with an X. The ''Axalon'' was ordered to dispose of "Protoform X" on a barren moon somewhere in the [[Alpha Quadrant]]. However, before its captain, [[Optimus Primal]], was able to explain the circumstances fully to his crew, they were suddenly under even newer orders to pursue a stolen [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] ship, the ''[[Darksyde]]''. Subsequently, the ''Axalon'' followed the ''Darksyde'' through a [[transwarp]] portal and crash-landed on a mysterious planet. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past|Dawn of Future's Past}}
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====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Campbell Lane]] (English), [[Nobuyuki Hiyama]] (Japanese), [[Gilberto Baroli]] (Portuguese), [[Alfonso Mellado]] (Latin American Spanish)

[[Image:BWRampage Badspark thepast.jpg|right|200px|thumb|This is a great way to work out.]]
Protoform X was a [[Maximal]] experiment to recreate [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s mutant, immortal [[spark]]. Though arguably successful in this regard, the creation was unstable. {{storylink|Bad Spark}} In point of fact, he was criminally insane. He destroyed [[Colony Omicron]], killing all of its inhabitants save a lone security officer, [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], who eventually tracked him down and captured him - but not before Protoform X destroyed [[Starbase Rugby]] and ''devoured'' an unknown number of the inhabitants. {{storylink|Deep Metal}} The [[Maximal Elder|Maximal Elders]] had Protoform X placed into a [[stasis pod]] aboard an exploration vessel, the ''Axalon''. They instructed its commander, Optimus Primal, to dump him on some barren world in deep space.

Protoform X was among the stasis pods jettisoned by Optimus when the ''Axalon'' was damaged by [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron's]] Predacons, and only fell out of orbit far into the Beast Wars. Battle near his stasis pod shocked him into activation, and he promptly set out to terrorize all nearby Transformers, rending [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] limb from limb and stalking [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] and [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]]. (All right, whose bright idea was it to allow the homicidal maniac to keep his weapons!?) X seemed unstoppable at first, but when one of Silverbolt's missiles jammed his tank treads as he climbed up a mountainside, he lost his grip and tumbled down the rock face in pieces.

[[Image:CodeofHero Rampage tankmode.jpg|thumb|left|260px|Attack my weak point for massive damage.]]
As Protoform X lay immobilized, Megatron arrived and, using a blade of pure [[energon]], removed a portion of his indestructible spark. Megatron then had him brought back to the Predacon base and repaired. When X attempted to turn his weapons on his "savior", Megatron revealed that he held half of X's spark in a special cage lined with energon crystals, allowing him to torture the beast at will. Megatron thus welcomed him into the Predacon fold, dubbing him "Rampage". {{storylink|Bad Spark}}

Rampage made no secret of his hatred for his new "master", anticipating the arrival of Maximal reinforcements from Cybertron, and the demise Megatron would surely receive as a result. Megatron had other plans in motion, using Rampage's weaponry to destroy a mountain, proving that the future recorded on the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]] was mutable. Rampage's services were further pressed into use when the Predacons assaulted a valley full of [[protohuman]]s, however his contribution came to an end when [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] forcibly inserted [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] into his main gun with predictable results. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

{{quote|None shall hurt you now. Come with me, come. I will protect you... I am your friend. Your only friend.|Rampage convinces Transmutate to follow him, "[[Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate]]"}}

[[Image:BWTransmutate Rampage mourning.jpg|right|280px|thumb|"Alas, poor Transmutate..."]]

Though a violent sociopath, Rampage was not without compassion. After an attempt by him to regain his spark fragment failed, Rampage encountered a twisted protoform which he dubbed [[Transmutate (character)|Transmutate]]. He quickly befriended it and attempted to have it inducted into the Predacons. Though Megatron ordered the creature destroyed, Rampage persevered with trying to make it a useful addition to the Predacon forces. He became possessive enough to viciously fight with [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] over it. When Transmutate was killed by this fight, Rampage bellowed in grief. {{storylink|Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate}}

Rampage was a major component of the assault on the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' when it appeared as though the Maximals were going to receive reinforcements from Cybertron. The Predacons were driven off by an invisible force — the cloaked [[Transwarp cruiser]] flown by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. The cruiser would later be a part of a strike on the Predacon base, during which Rampage unleashed a barrage of missiles on it. Ravage judged the attack "impressive", and responded by using the ship's weapons to blow Rampage to pieces. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}} Rampage, of course, survived to lead yet another attack on the ''Axalon''. [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] rode triumphantly into battle on back of Rampage's tank mode... until an auto-gun knocked him off, and Rampage uncaringly drove straight over him. The battle ended when [[Rattrap]] took out the Transwarp cruiser — Rampage managed to outrun the crashing ship and laughed in triumph... only for the still-armed missile on top of the ship to launch in his face. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

At Megatron's call to arms, a badly-charred Rampage managed to pull himself together and began trying to pull the ''Axalon'' from its perch, with the aid of a large number of [[arachnoid]]s. He finally met his match in battle when the newly-reformatted Optimus Primal attacked him. The huge Maximal leader simply shoved him aside, but Rampage had the last laugh as his deflected missile sent the Maximal base plunging into the lake. Cackling, Rampage disappeared into the lake after it. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}

[[Image:Changing Guard Rampage Depthcharge.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Oh, BABY!]]
Later, Depth Charge arrived on prehistoric Earth with the single-minded goal of destroying Rampage. Rampage was beside himself with joy, eager for revenge on his old "playmate". Depth Charge's loss at Colony Omicron had embittered him, and Rampage used this emotional wound to torment the Maximal. In the end, Depth Charge got the upper hand, and may well have ended the feud then and there, but for the intervention of Quickstrike, which allowed Rampage to sneak away and destroy Depth Charge's ship. {{storylink|Deep Metal|Deep Metal}} Rampage soon met his old enemy again when Rattrap descended to the bottom of the lake to retrieve the [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]] module from the wreckage of the ''Axalon''. Depth Charge had the upper hand in the battle, but Rampage escaped death when [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] argued with Depth Charge over his commitment to the Maximals. {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}

When Megatron created [[Dinobot II]], he used Rampage's spark fragment to form the core of the new Predacon, who likewise retained the ability torture Rampage into continued loyalty with it. Naturally, Rampage was filled with fury and disgust at sharing his spark with a '[[Relatives|half brother]]'. Dinobot was able to use the spark fragment to keep Rampage in line, and the two "brothers" took part in the interrogation of Depth Charge after the [[Transmetal driver]] went missing. When they were attacked by a [[Cheetor (BW)|strange feral beast]], Rampage and Dinobot inadvertently blasted each other. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}}

[[Image:BWNemesisPt1 DepthCharge Rampage.jpg|right|250px|thumb|THERE CAN BE ONLY...NONE!]]
Rampage would go on to have a second clash with Silverbolt, targeting him when he was filled with grief and rage over Blackarachnia's death; he'd have killed him easily if Blackarachnia hadn't suddenly become alive again and beaten him up. {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}} He almost got his revenge when Megatron deliberately gave Blackarachnia to him, and was clearly having fun torturing her before she was able to overpower him. {{storylink|Master Blaster}} Following [[Tigerhawk]]'s destruction of the Predacon base, Rampage and Dinobot were blown away by one strike from the [[Vok]] emissary. {{storylink|Other Victories}}

While Megatron was retrieving the submerged [[Decepticon]] craft ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', Depth Charge met Rampage in battle one last time on the ocean floor. At the battle's climax, Rampage allowed Depth Charge to kill him with a shard of raw Energon, resulting in a fantastic explosion which destroyed both. Rampage won even in death, laughing maniacally in triumph as Depth Charge made the final, stabbing blow. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}
{{--}}

====3H comics====
Soon after Megatron acquired his dragon body, a temporal disruption drew the attention of both the Maximals and Predacons to a remote canyon, where Rampage and his fellow Predacons met their foes. The Maximals were losing, having been fought into a corner, when suddenly the battle was interrupted. The [[Dark Essence]]—the life force of [[Unicron]]—had possessed the newcomer [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]], the source of the temporal disruption. Rampage and the others were immobilized by Unicron's psionic force blasts, and the merged creature advanced on the Maximals. {{storylink|Herald, Covenant, Schism, Paradox|Paradox}}

These events would soon be retroactively erased from Rampage's timeline with the efforts of the legendary [[Covenant]]. {{storylink|Terminus (issue)|Terminus}}

===''Beast Wars Metals'' comic===
He's a Frankenstein's monster-like thing.
He ate Primal's head. It's okay, Primal had a spare.
One more thing. The head Rampage ate had a bomb in its mouth. Idiot.

==Games==
===''Transformers Beast Wars: Transmetals'' video game===
{{Note|Rampage is only a playable character in the Playstation version of this game.}}
{{note|This game takes place in an alternate version of the second season of the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]] cartoon.}}
Rampage participated in an extensive one-on-one beatdown involving nearly every active participant of the Beast Wars. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals}}
{{-}}

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[Image:BW Rampage toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A [[Seafood Louis]] eater's worst nightmare.]]
*'''Rampage''' (Ultra Transmetal, 1998)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-41'''
**''Accessories:'' Spring-loaded triple barrel missile launcher, 3 missiles and 1 rifle

:Rampage transforms into a Transmetal king crab with a tank mode that includes rubber treads. In beast mode, he features fully articulated crab legs and pincers that can open, close and be posed in a variety of angles through the use of ratcheting joints. His triple-barreled Gatling missile launcher is stored on the underside of the beast mode, with its barrels flipping to the front during vehicle mode. In this tank mode, the crab legs fit together to form a road wheel network for Rampage's rubber treads to fit over so he can roll upon them. Rolling the tank activates the wheel in the missile launcher, firing any or all of the three missiles that can store in it.

:In robot mode, Rampage is an imposingly large figure with a decent level of articulation due to his ball joints, but because he wears most of his beast mode as a sort of backpack, he is quite back-heavy. His (very) small laser rifle and his triple-barreled launcher can be held in both of his hands. There were two releases of the toy, one with face colors accurate with the show and another with an orange colored face (seen to the right).

:The location of four of the crab legs in the show is not accurate to the toy; the show has the legs on the shoulder pads, whereas the toy situates the legs on Rampage's arms (which mean they are rather cumbersome).

[[Image:Rampage-backofthebox.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Despite the terror claws, not a gangsta.]]
:Back-of-the-box art for Rampage gives technical designations to some of his robot mode parts; they include "terror claws", armor plating, and the ever-dreaded [[Galva-conductor|galva-conductors]].

:The Japanese version features noticeably different colors, including a more extensive use of silver deco on the robot chest and head, a deeper and more intense red "X" on the crab carapace, and most impressively, the robot head and limbs are now made from translucent blood-red plastic instead of opaque orange.

: This toy was later [[Redeco|redecoed]] into the [[BotCon 2000]]-[[exclusive]] [[Shokaract]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Predacon/Rampage/rampage.htm More information on Rampage at TFU.info]''

{{--}}

==Notes==
* According to the series background materials published in the ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'' guidebook, Rampage's body was supposed to have been constructed out of leftover G1-era [[Reproduction|technology]] seen in the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] due to the lack of know-how for [[protoform]] technology. How this jibes with his status as "Protoform X" is anyone's guess.
* In some episodes, Rampage's robot-mode mouth is animated as an actual hole in his face; in others the external mouthplates are shown to be in front of a greenish solid construct that looks like an extension of his eyes.
* Some fans are split on how to interpret Rampage's death; he is clearly shown to let go of the energon shard that killed him prior to being stabbed with it, to which Depth Charge reacted in surprise.
** Because of this, some fans feel this means Rampage, knowing he couldn't win the struggle, allowed himself to be impaled in order to end his torturous existence (and laughing in the giddy euphoria of oblivion).
** Others believe he deliberately let go to test whether or not Depth Charge would go through with his threat of ending his life, his laughter instead being taken as solace in the knowledge that Depth Charge's obsession with him had a)successfully corrupted him into the same kind of monster he wanted to kill, and b)would lead to Depth Charge's own demise as well.
** It's also likely that Rampage could just be '''batshit insane'''.
** It's also possible that while Rampage's physical form was destroyed, he knew that his spark was immortal, leaving him alive but without a body.
* No explanation is ever given for why energon suddenly kills Rampage, even though Megatron's been poking his spark with it ever since he appeared. Although the fact the energon was unstable may have had something to do with it.
** Also, the difference between the splitting (and subsequent torturing) of Rampage's spark, and Depth Charge's fateful blow may be seen to be the same as the difference between surgery and hacking at someone with a sword.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Rampage''' (ランページ ''Ranpēji'')
*''French:'' '''Furibo''' (Canada)
*''Italian:'' '''Granchior'''
*''Mandarin:'' '''Mó Hsìeh''' (Taiwan, 魔蟹, "Demon Crab"), '''Ace''' (Protoform X, Taiwan, 艾斯 ''Aì Ssū'')
*''Polish'': '''Pieniacz''' ("Litigant")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Violência''' (Brazil, "Violence")
*''Spanish:'' '''Rampante''' (America, "Rampant")

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Power Surge (episode)

2011-06-16T01:15:49Z

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{{episode
|series=BW
|ep=6
|image=Power Surge Terrorsaur pointing.jpg
|caption=Uncle Terror wants '''YOU'''.
|title="Power Surge"
|airdate= [[September 25]], 1996
|production company=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|written by=[[Larry DiTillio]]
|directed by=[[Nicholas Kendall]]
|animation studio=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|continuity= [[Beast Wars continuity]]
|packaged with=[[Waspinator (BW)#Beast Wars Telemocha Series|Waspeeter]]
}}

'''Terrorsaur discovers a cache of energon on a floating mountain that gives him enough power to overthrow Megatron.'''

:''French title:'' '''L'Énergie d'Énergon''' ("The Energy of Energon")
:''French-Canadian title:'' '''Surcharge''' ("Overcharge")
:''Japanese title:'' 空中山脈大爆破 (''Kūchū Sanmyaku Dai Bakuha'', "The Aerial Mountain Explodes")
:''Latin-American title:'' '''Descarga de Energía'''
:''Italian title:'' '''Sete di potere per i Biocombat''' ("Thirst for power for the Biocombats")
:''Brazilian title:'' '''Surto de Energia''' ("Power Surge")

==Synopsis==
A wild and free bird majestically soars through the air, experiencing the wonders of aviation as it feels the wind flow around its proud wings. The bird explores its domain with a grace and sincerity and deliciousness. The lattermost attribute is of interest to a hungry Terrorsaur, who quickly swallows the bird as a snack.

[[Image:Power Surge Floating mountain.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Maybe it's made of very light rock?]]
Terrorsaur discovers a [[flying mountain|massive mountain elevated into the sky]]—defying gravity. Flying closer, he discovers the mountain houses an incredible cache of [[Energon (fuel)|energon]]. To check the energon's stability, he transforms into his robot mode, at the risk of having raw energon radiation harm his circuits. When he tries to take a sample for study, bolts of pure energy surge though him, greatly enhancing his abilities. Naturally, the first thing the overcharged [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] does is fly back to his base to overthrow Megatron. Luckily, Cheetor also finds the airborne crag, and watches Terrorsaur leaving at top speeds.

[[Image:Power Surge Megatron down.jpg|right|200px|thumb|They just don't make Megatrons like they used to.]]
Outside of the [[Darksyde|Predacons' crashed ship]], Megatron shows his troops some newly installed territorial defenses. Terrorsaur arrives, and flowing with power, immediately announces that he's taking over the Predacons. Megatron obviously disagrees, and the two fight, but the pumped-up Terrorsaur easily blasts Megatron over the edge of a cliff, where he lands in pieces. With the remaining Predacons under his control, Terrorsaur announces the [[Maximals]] are his next target. Cheetor, having followed Terrorsaur from the floating mountain, perceives the new developments as bad news.

Before he can lead the final battle against the Maximals, Terrorsaur finds his new charge has a short life and he must return to the floating mountain to reinvigorate himself. Tarantulas follows in secret, eager to steal the source of Terrorsaur's new capabilities. Scorponok is left alone with Waspinator, so the two begin to re-assemble and repair Megatron.

Cheetor rushes back to the Maximal base and scrambles onto the bridge, where he spits out an incoherent sequence of words vaguely relating to the current crisis. Giving explanations a second try, Cheetor explains the story thus far to his fellow Maximals. Rhinox concludes that the floating mountain isn't totally scientifically impossible, given enough energon. Primal and Rattrap prepare to destroy the entire island.

[[Image:Power Surge Terrorsaur Primal.jpg|left|200px|thumb|The Gutbuster Workout doesn't prove to be quite what Primal thought.]]
A weakened Terrorsaur flaps back to the island; on the ground, Tarantulas climbs a webline up to the suspended formation. Optimus and his cargo, Rattrap, arrive moments later. The two watch Terrorsaur re-charge his systems. To give Rattrap time to plant the explosives, Primal engages Terrorsaur in an airborne chase. Primal swiftly dodges most of what Terrorsaur fires, but eventually is hit by his [[Optic weaponry|optic blasts]]. He lands to deliver the finishing blast to Primal, who is now trapped in his beast mode thanks to energon buildup. But before a final shot can be fired, Terrorsaur's energon enhancements run out again, and he is forced to go for another recharge, promising to return to finish Optimus.

[[Image:Power Surge Optimus Rattrap jump.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Fly my pretties!]]
Rattrap meanwhile, has been tussling with Tarantulas, the two of them staying in their Beast Modes as they wrestle. With a toss of mud, Rattrap blinds Tarantulas and the spider blindly runs off the side of the mountain to the ground far, far below. Rattrap is passed by the flapping Terrorsaur, and concludes that Primal must have lost their bout. Terrorsaur, meanwhile, discovers the timed charges Rattrap left, and flees in panic without recharging.

The explosives detonate, causing the energon crystals to collapse and explode. Before the ground loses form, Optimus arrives to carry Rattrap away from annihilation. With his ratty companion, Primal swan dives off the exploding alp and somehow the two survive thanks to Primal grabbing onto a tree.

Terrorsaur, no longer having the island's resources to rely on, returns home to meet a very, very angry Megatron.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s|c1=
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (2)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (7)
*[[Rattrap]] (8)
*[[Optimus Primal]] (9)

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]|c2=
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (1)
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (3)
*[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] (4)
*[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (5)
*[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] (6)
}}

==Quotes==
"Terrorsaur, you treacherous worm. I'll finish you forever!"
:—'''Megatron''''s famous last words.

"Well?" 
"Well what?" 
"If you're second in command, what is your command?" 
"..."
:—'''Waspinator''' and '''Scorponok'''. Be patient, Waspinator.

"You cannot win, vermin! I am your SUPERIOR!" 
"Stick it in your command module, eight-eyes!"
:-'''Tarantulas''' earns himself a dose of '''Rattrap'''.

"You do know... that was crazy." 
"Eh, sometimes crazy works. By the way, you did good up there!" 
"Eh, you weren't so bad yourself. But, er...don't tell anybody I said so!"
:—'''Rattrap''' witnesses '''Optimus Primal''' coin his motto.

'''Terrorsaur''': "Blast those Maximals! They destroyed my power! But at least I got rid of Megatron." 
''[Megatron emerges from the Predacon base, fully repaired]'' 
'''Megatron''': "Well, well. Look who's ''BACK''." 
'''Terrorsaur''': "Help."
:—'''Megatron''' greets a depowered—and very scared—'''Terrorsaur'''.

==Notes==
===Animation or technical glitches===
* Tarantulas shoots a line up to the floating mountain and begins scurrying up it—yet the mountain is revolving. What is his line anchored to?
===Transformers references===
* Terrorsaur eating the bird in the beginning of the episode may be alluding to his on-package [[bio]], where it is said that he "ingests entire flocks of birds by flying opened mouthed through their flight pattern." He apparently didn't have much of an appetite in this case.
* When Optimus Primal and Rattrap are flying to the mountain, Rattrap complains that if he wanted to fly, he'd have chosen a [[Optimus Primal/toys| bat]] as an altmode.

===Trivia===
* Megatron's line "I thought you already learned your lesson about challenging me, Terrorsaur" suggests that this isn't the first time Terrorsaur has tried to openly seize leadership of the Predacons. Some possibilities are that this episode was meant to be set after 'Double Jeopardy' (the absence of the Predacon [[Autogun]]s in that episode would seem to reinforce that), that Megatron has found out about the attempted coup in 'Equal Measures', or simply that Terrorsaur did something before the series started (possibly an early attempt when he was first recruited?).
* The Predacon Autoguns are introduced in this episode.
* Rattrap plays holographic cards. According to the [[Cybertronix]] text, he's playing old maid.
* Dinobot is mentioned but does not appear.
* Tarantulas's interest in the floating mountain's Energon is the first glimpse at his treacherous nature.
* After Terrorsaur informs the rest of the Predacons that "Megatron is scrap" he adds Megatron's practically patented "Yeess".
* When charging on the unstable energon, Terrorsaur appears to flicker in and out of existence. That can't be good.
* When indicating where he saw the floating mountain, Cheetor points to a location in North America.
* A 'Con that wants to overthrow his leader? Where have we seen [[Starscream (G1)|this]] before? (In a twist on the usual formula, ''none'' of the 'Cons take his coup seriously and happily bring Megatron back when he's not looking.)
*When Terrorsaur sees the newly repaired Megatron, his entire body changes from red to white in complete terror.
*This is the only episode in the entire series where Waspinator has actual dialogue and doesn't get damaged in some way, shape or form.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Convoy Disappeared ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2001 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Beginning: Vol. 1 ([[Universal]]) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Volume 2 ([[Rhino Entertainment|Rhinomation]])
;Laserdisc
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Maximal Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2000 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Volume 1 ([[Rhino Entertainment|Rhinomation]]) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete First Season (Rhinomation) 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 2005 — ''Beast Wars'' — Classic Episodes — Where the Beasties Began! ([[Alliance Atlantis]]) — English and French audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 2005 — ''Beast Wars'' — The Complete First Season (Alliance Atlantis) — English and French audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Season 1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers: Beast Wars'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)

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