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Lio Convoy (BW)

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:''Lio Convoy is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:BWIILioConvoyColorModel.jpg|upright=2|thumb|He's no [[Leoric]].]]
As he rose through the ranks of the Maximal Space Patrol, '''Lio Convoy''' (ライオコンボイ ''Raio Konboi'', aka '''Leo Prime''') and his honest nature, selfless dedication to duty and ability to lead by example quickly caught the attention, and earned the respect, of his superior officers. Now with his own crew of loyal Maximals, Lio Convoy continues to display those qualities in the heat of desperate combat.

While on the surface he appears to be a tough, exacting, career-military sort of robot, any Maximal who has served under him knows that there's a smile behind his face-plate and a gentleness at the core of his [[spark]]. Though he yearns for a universe forever at peace, Lio Convoy takes to the battlefield with precision, strength and cunning. He believes that combat, more than anything else, reveals an enemy's true character and it has been through combat that Lio Convoy has made both his bitterest rivals and most enduring friendships.

Though compassionate by nature, Lio Convoy stumbles when it comes to expressing anything outside the perimeters of gruff military rhetoric. This attitude has strained his relationship with his "son", [[Lio Junior]], who wants only to obtain the approval of his "father".

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars II'' toy catalog===
[[File:PrimalLioConvoyCatalog01.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Beast Thumb Wars]]

As Lio Convoy advanced through the ranks of the Maximal Space Patrol, his progress was observed by an impressed [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]. When the time finally came, Primal chose him as his successor for his strength and bravery (though he felt he could be too straightforward, at times). Lio Convoy happily shook Primal's hand and promised not to let his predecessor down. {{storylink|Catalog#Beast Wars II|''Beast Wars II'' catalog}}
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===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' cartoon====
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{{voiceactor|[[Hozumi Gōda]] (Japanese)|[[Jung Goo Lee]] (Korean)}}

[[File:Lioconvoy preformat.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|"TRUKK NOT LYON!"]]
During his training period, the Maximal known as Convoy worked alongside another recruit named [[Apache]]. In an extreme conditions test, the instructors told recruits to leave those who fell behind where they lay, and focus on their own success. When Apache dropped from exhaustion, however, Convoy, shared his energy with Apache so that they could both continue on together. Convoy's act of kindness earned him a loyal friend for life. {{storylink|Mystery of the Ancient Ruins}}

Receiving a mysterious SOS signal from within an asteroid field, Maximal Supreme Commander Convoy investigated alongside his deputy, Apache. Entering the field in small one-man reconnaissance crafts, the pair discovered that the signal was coming from a small planetoid that suddenly began bearing down on them in a collision course. Realising that the whole affair had been a trap laid by the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] Emperor [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]], Convoy sprang into action and opened fire on the planetoid, which exploded dramatically. {{storylink|The New Forces Arrive!|The New Forces Arrive!}} While the blast hurled Apache to safety, however, Convoy took the brunt of the explosion and was cast into the depths of the cosmos, eventually crash landing on the planet [[Gaia]]. When he regained consciousness, his body had already been weakened and corroded by the hazardous atmosphere of the planet, and he would surely have died had not a white lion come upon his prone form. The lion carried Convoy to a cave brimming with the power of [[Angolmois Energy]], which restored and revitalized Convoy. Convoy then scanned the lion's form for use as a [[beast mode]] to protect him from Gaia's atmosphere, and redubbed himself "Lio Convoy".

As coincidence would have it, Galvatron and his Predacons had also come to Gaia to harness its Angolmois Energy, and Lio Convoy's unit had followed them, but wound up on the losing end of the battle that resulted. Staying in lion mode the whole time, Lio Convoy bounded onto the scene and freed his troops from the energy web that was paralyzing them, then led them back to the crashed wreck of their ship, the ''[[Yukikaze (BW)|Yukikaze]]'', where he revealed his identity to them (although Apache had already figured it out). Stranded on Gaia, the team dedicated themselves to stopping Galvatron's evil plans for the Angolmois Energy. {{storylink|White Lion, Run!|White Lion, Run!}}

At Lio Convoy's direction, the Maximals searched the area for signs of the ''Galvaburg II''. Once [[Megastorm]] was drawn out into the open by [[Diver (BW)|Diver]], Lio Convoy and Apache arrived to support their team in battle. Lio Convoy told [[Bighorn]] to stand down so the team could fight as a unit, but the enraged buffalo could not be restrained. Lio Convoy allowed his trooper to stand alone against Megastorm as he wished, only providing support when [[Starscream (BW)|Starscream]] and [[BB]] intervened on the fight. {{storylink|Bighorn's Rage}}

Soon after, Lio Convoy became concerned when [[Tasmania Kid]] reported in from patrol that he had found something, but went off on his own without waiting for the team. Convoy led the Maximals to the site of Kid's last transmission, where he, Apache and Bighorn were caught in Starscream's trap. Lio Convoy drew Starscream's attention while Diver and [[Scuba]] infiltrated the lake base and disabled the force field containing them. Once all the Maximals escaped the exploding base, Lio Convoy instructed Kid to thank the Tasmanian devil that helped him in his ordeal. {{storylink|The Lake Trap}}

When Megastorm unleashed a swarm of fortress building robots, the mere six Maximals were outmatched and couldn't keep up with destroying all the drones. Matters didn't improve when Galvatron awoke for the first time since landing on Gaia, freshly empowered by Angolmois Energy. Lio Convoy used his lion-agility to divert Galvatron's drill tank mode up a mountain pass towards the mouth of a volcano, but an unexpected leg sprain ended the game of cat-and-juggernaut. Luckily, Scuba was there to save Lio Convoy by triggering a geyser of water under Galvatron, flipping him over.

The Maximals hoped to rid themselves of Galvatron by burying his prone form in a rockslide, but Galvatron emerged in his ''third'' form, an enormous dragon. The dragon chased Lio Convoy and his men into the mouth of the volcano. Unable to stop him directly, Lio Convoy directed the Maximals to shoot out the ledge Galvatron was standing on, in hopes of dropping him into the volcano itself. The Maximals' firepower was not enough, but the ambitious Megastorm saw their plan and covertly fired his cannon as well, sending Galvatron falling into the lava flow. {{storylink|Galvatron Revived}}

The Maximals detected energy readings coming from the Southern Continent, they took two short-range ships down south as a temporary mobile base of operations. When the readings centered on a set of ancient ruins, Lio Convoy went out to investigate and took Apache with him for support. The two came under fire from Starscream and BB, who carpet-bombed the forest to destroy the Maximals. Apache fell behind again, and Lio Convoy carried him to safety beneath the protection of the ruins. Apache's old sense of inadequacy from their training days had flared up, but Convoy brushed it aside as Apache had inadvertently led them to the secret entrance of the ruins.

[[File:BW2_ep6_ConvoyStare.jpeg|thumb|]]Inside the pyramid, Lio Convoy and Apache were separated by a trap door. Convoy followed Apache down the trick shaft and found him a captive of the ornery [[Insectron]], [[Mantis]]. Lio Convoy was forced to fight the territorial Mantis, and fared poorly against Mantis's disc attacks and scythe blades. As Mantis pummeled Lio Convoy on the ground, however, Apache's determination led him to break free of his restraints and unleash a third mode as a weapons platform, discharging raw energy that literally brought the house down. As Mantis fell into a crevice, Lio Convoy leapt to his aid and caught the falling warrior. Mantis was confused by this act of sacrifice, and Lio Convoy insisted it was because they ''weren't'' enemies. Grumbling, Mantis shook himself free and used his wings to fly away on his own. Reuniting with their fellow Maximals, Lio Convoy thanked Apache for his aid, and chuckled at the fact that Apache apparently suffered amnesia from the act, making his secret third mode a secret even from him.{{storylink|Mystery of the Ancient Ruins}}

With the [[Insectron]]s as a new potential threat, Lio Convoy cautioned the Maximals not to make enemies of the Insectrons unnecessarily. As a result, he sent out teams of two to locate the Insectrons, and ordered his men not to fire on them, but engage in dialogue. Kid and Lio Convoy were nearby when Bighorn and Apache were attacked by the Insectrons [[Bigmos]] and [[Tonbot]], who had been fed false information on the Maximals by Starscream. They tried to stop the fighting when they arrived, but Starscream and BB opened fire on both parties to avoid any peaceful dialogue. The Maximals warned the Insectrons of the incoming missiles, and threw their own bodies on top of their opponents' delicate insect modes for protection. Confused by the act of self-sacrifice, Bigmos and Tonbot departed without further conflict. {{storylink|The Insect Corps Arrive}}

Lio Convoy maintained that the Insectrons were potential allies, not enemies. Having been on the receiving end of their missiles, Bighorn couldn't understand Lio Convoy's thinking. As the only Maximal who had personally battled an Insectron, Mantis, Lio Convoy could not explain his reasoning, but the way they fought made it seem as if the Insectrons were not truly evil. Soon after, Bighorn and several Maximals were tricked into another fight with the Insectrons by the Predacons. Lio Convoy, Apache and Scuba saved their friends from an opportunistic Predacon attack after the Maximals were low on energy. Afterwards, Bighorn told Lio Convoy his own impression after fighting [[Powerhug (BW)|Powerhug]] was the same as Convoy's, and the Insectrons' fighting style was not that of a malevolent group. {{storylink|Friend or Foe? The Insect Robos}}

Lio Convoy and the Maximals came to the aid of Tasmania Kid, who had discovered a plot by Starscream to undermine the Insectrons with spiked oil. Tensions increased as Galvatron emerged from his slumber, out of control after imbibing on the same oil. Luckily, bonds were forged in the heat of battle as Bigmos and his Insectrons joined forces with Lio Convoy and the Maximals against Galvatron. Bigmos lured Galvatron into position for Lio Convoy to fire a volley of missiles straight down the dragon's throat, ending his threat for the moment. In the aftermath, the Maximals and Insectrons talked out their differences for the first time. Although Bigmos refused to join the fight against the Predacons full-time, preferring to live in peace, Lio Convoy offered his hand in friendship and the feuding between the two groups ceased. {{storylink|The Strongest Tag Team?}}

Their alliance was tested when Bigmos was forced to honor an old debt to [[Autostinger]] of the Predacons, stepping aside while the [[Autoroller (BW)|Autoroller]]s fought the Maximals. Still, he saved Autostinger from a barrage of Lio Convoy's missiles, negating the debt. Lio Convoy and Apache attended a duel between Bigmos and Autostinger, but it was interrupted by Predacon missile fire, leaving issues between the various factions unresolved. {{storylink|Autorollers Roll Out!}}

When NAVI reported Kid and [[Scissor Boy]] were approaching the base with the Autorollers, Lio Convoy correctly deduced their friends had been captured, and were trying to lead the Predacons into an ambush. Lio Convoy and the Maximals intercepted the Autorollers, freeing their friends after a fight with Megastorm and his mercenaries. {{storylink|Danger! Scissor Boy}} Lio Convoy and the Maximals were later called in by Scuba to join forces with the Autorollers, as Galvatron had gone on a rampage while engorged on Angolmois Energy. Lio Convoy acted as bait to lure Galvatron into position, opening his massive jaws to take in a concentrated spray of Angolmois Energy. They overfed Galvatron with the energy until his bloated form nearly exploded from within, rendering him harmless. {{storylink|Galvatron Rampages}}

When the Predacons launched a massive offensive on the Southern Continent, Lio Convoy led the Maximals and teamed up with the Insectrons to foil their plans once again. {{storylink|Predacon General Offensive!}}

The Maximals were soon met by a trio called the [[Jointron]]s, who arrived on Gaia's Eastern continent and demonstrated their powerful [[Tripledacus]] combination. Thinking they could take on the entire Predacon army by themselves, the Jointrons flew into battle, followed by Bighorn, Diver, and Kid, who were worried the Jointrons would take all the credit for a victory, or possibly get themselves killed. As the dust settled, Apache looked to Lio Convoy for a response, and the commander sighed (''deeply'') before acknowledging they should follow and keep the younger Maximals out of trouble. Apache and Lio Convoy soon joined Scuba in helping Tripledacus escape the ''Galvaburg II'' when he bit off more than he could chew. {{storylink|The Combined Giant, Tripledacus}}

While Lio Convoy and most of the Maximals were out on patrol, the Jointrons took over one of the base ships and turned off the cloaking field, hoping to lure the Predacons in and defeat them. Lio Convoy spotted the signal flare they launched, and radioed in to hear Apache and Diver were being overwhelmed by the Jointrons' antics. By the time he arrived back at base, however, Lio Convoy saw that the Autorollers had taken the ship hostage by training their missiles on the exterior fuel tanks. Luckily, the Jointrons came outside and distracted the Autorollers with oil, allowing Lio Convoy to take them down without destroying the ship. As the Jointrons held a celebration in their own honor to celebrate capturing some Predacons, however, the enemy escaped and everyone was right back where they started. {{storylink|The Festive Jointrons}}

While the Maximals were searching for the latest Predacon fortress, the Jointrons were exposed to a bacteria bomb that robbed them of their power. Lio Convoy and the other Maximals saved the Jointrons by posing as the massive Jointron II. They compensated for Kid and Diver's exposure to the bacteria by sharing energy between one another, in a proud display of teamwork. {{storylink|A Fearsome Combination Plan?}}

The Jointrons caused more chaos when they stole one of the base ships to approach a Predacon fortress from the air. Lio Convoy and the Maximals followed them in the second ship, but were rammed out of the sky by the Jointrons' poor piloting. The Predacons were engaged in an operation to kidnap the Jointrons and study their combination transformation. While the other Maximals worked to recover the kidnapped Jointron brothers, Lio Convoy and Apache made short work of the Autorollers back at the fortress, and the installation was soon destroyed. {{storylink|Who Is the Leader!?}}

One day, Tasmania Kid found a [[Copy Machine]] that scanned objects to create three-dimensional duplicates of the subject. Believing the Machine's abilities could help bolster the Maximals' ranks, Kid shined the Machine's ray on Lio Convoy, creating "[[Black Lio Convoy|Copy Convoy]]". Unfortunately, the machine only created ''evil'' copies. Copy Convoy declared himself the original and began to fight Lio Convoy. Lio Convoy initially engaged his copy alone, but soon realized they were so evenly matched the two fighters would battle without victory until they completely ran out of energy. Copy Convoy sent running by the watching Maximals, but soon returned to the ''Yukikaze'' and asked the other Maximals to come outside and meet him in peace. The Maximals didn't fully trust the copy, but didn't know how to deal with him since Copy Convoy knew everything Lio Convoy did. Luckily, Lio Convoy saw an advantage in that. Diver had made his own modifications to the defense network surrounding the ''Yukikaze's'' waterfall, without consulting Lio Convoy on the details. Lio Convoy sent Diver out to activate the [[Niagara Base]], and Copy Convoy was taken by surprise. He and the Copy Machine were soon destroyed by the Maximals. {{storylink|The Black Lio Convoy}}

Alerted to a new arrival on Gaia, Lio Convoy and the Maximals traveled to the Sea Continent and discovered a [[Photon sailer|pirate ship from space]]. The Maximals were soon confronted by [[Halfshell]], captain of the [[Seacon (BW)|Space Pirate Seacons]] who intended to plunder the world of Angolmois Energy. Lio Convoy had the idea of flipping the snapping turtle on his back, rendering him helpless, but Halfshell's beast mode was designed to counter that strategy, turning him into the Big Wheel Cutter that rampaged over the hills. Matters only deteriorated further when Halfshell called his crew and formed the colossal [[God Neptune]]. Outmatched by the combiner's sheer power, Lio Convoy directed Diver and Scuba to seize control of the deserted pirate ship while the land-based Maximals kept God Neptune busy. The distraction worked, as God Neptune chased after his stolen ship, only to get caught in a detonation of Angolmois Energy rigged by the Maximals before abandoning ship. {{storylink|The Space Pirate Seacons!}}

Breaking the fourth wall juuuust a little, Lio Convoy and Galvatron called in to [[Artemis]] and [[Moon (BW)|Moon]] on the moon when they were wondering who the strongest of the Cybertronians was. Their two armies proved to be surprisingly evenly matched, and even the strength test between Lio Convoy and Galvatron themselves was ruled a tie. {{storylink|Who Is the Strongest Warrior!?}}

Although he knew the Seacons intended to plunder Gaia's Angolmois Energy, Lio Convoy felt the Seacons were not inherently evil, and could possibly be reasoned with just as the Maximals did with the Insectrons. He ordered his men not to confront or antagonize the Seacons until they knew for sure. And so, by the end of the day, Lio Convoy and Apache arrived as the cavalry to help Bighorn and the others escape from battle with the Seacons and God Neptune, because Lio Convoy's men are spectacularly bad at following orders and staying out of trouble. {{storylink|The Tentacular Scuba}}

When Megastorm and the Seacons teamed up, each of the Maximals was lured to a separate location by an Angolmois Energy signal transmitter. Since there were only five Seacons, no one was around to greet Lio Convoy when he located his transmitter, except for an easily flummoxed Dirge and Thrust. The comedy duo had been instructed by Megastorm to blow hidden bombs inside each of the transmitters when the Maximals got within range, but Lio Convoy startled them into dropping and damaging the trigger device. Not sensing any threat whatsoever from those two, Lio Convoy calmly examined the transmitter before sauntering over to question the Predacons. They panicked and flew away setting off the bomb in the process and completely failing to kill Lio Convoy. {{storylink|Megastorm's Reckoning}}

Tasmania Kid alerted Lio Convoy when Bighorn seemingly got a love letter from Scylla, the Seacon. The other Maximals feared Bighorn was being lured into a trap, and they were right—Bighorn and Kid were set adrift on a rock when the Seacons sprang their ambush. Trapped on land, Lio Convoy used his jump jets to launch out over the water where his troops were being assaulted. Unfortunately, he was pulled underwater by Halfshell before he could reach the others. Apache rushed to join his commander, and together they held off Halfshell and [[Coelagon]] until Scuba whisked the Maximals to dry land. They were confronted by God Neptune, but fortunately the Insectrons appeared and gave the Maximals the back-up they needed. {{storylink|Showdown in the Sea}}

After receiving word of more hijinks involving Bighorn, Lio Convoy and Apache rushed to the scene and found a showdown between Tripledacus and God Neptune already in progress. They helped their Jointron comrades flush the Seacons back into the sea. {{storylink|Face the Setting Sun}}

As the Seacons prepared to leave Gaia, Lio Convoy met with Halfshell and offered to give them the energy they needed to hustle them on their way. Halfshell's pride as a pirate wouldn't let him take charity, though, and so he offered to fight Lio Convoy one-on-one battle to claim the energy if he won. Lio Convoy agreed, if Halfshell and the Seacons turned themselves in to the Maximals authorities if Convoy won. Halfshell accepted these terms, but neglected to spell out exactly who the "one-on-one" bout would be between. Lio Convoy was surprised, but ultimately unconcerned, when Halfshell arrived in "one" body as God Neptune. Lio Convoy told his fellow Maximals to step aside and let him honor the deal. Convoy used his maneuverability to stay ahead of God Neptune during the fight, and even escaped him in the sea when God Neptune tried to move the fight into his preferred element. When it appeared Lio Convoy would be victorious, however, Megastorm burst from his hiding spot and tried to gun down the Maximal commander himself. This ambush set off a chain reaction in the Angolmois Energy on the shores, ending the fight and scattering the competitors. Halfshell and the Seacons grabbed the energy cylinders Lio Convoy brought, and the Seacons soon left Gaia for good. {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWII)|The Final Battle}}

While investigating the new, unstable reactions of Angolmois Energy on the planet, Lio Convoy, Bighorn and Apache crossed paths with a powerful lion cub. They soon realized he was actually a Maximal in disguise and gave chase. Lio Convoy found the cub conversing peacefully with Diver and Tasmania Kid, but was shocked when the cub raced up to him and called him "mama"! This "[[Lio Junior]]" had taken to heart a joke by Tasmania Kid that Lio Convoy must be his parent, leaving Lio Convoy to crush the cub's expectations. Their meeting was interrupted by Galvatron, who had sensed great power of Angolmois Energy within Lio Junior, and wished to snuff it out. Lio Junior joined forces with two new Maximal arrivals named [[Santon]] and [[Skywarp (BW)|Skywarp]] to become the combination warrior, [[Magnaboss (BWII)|Magnaboss]]. {{storylink|Enter Lio Junior}}

[[File: BW II ep27 Double Lio.jpg|left|thumb|”For the last time, [[Unicron/Generation 1|he’s]] NOT getting any child support!”]]
Lio Convoy helped Magnaboss defeat Galvatron, driving him off with a serious chest wound. Lio Junior disengaged and proudly presented himself before his "papa", but Lio Convoy insisted that Lio Junior should not call him that. Back at base, Lio Convoy reviewed the data Santon and Skywarp had brought from Maximal HQ about a dangerous artificial planet called Nemesis which Galvatron had called the Gaia. It seemed Nemesis was responsible for upsetting the Angolmois Energy, and it would only get worse from that point on. With that to mull over, Lio Convoy led an official investigation into Lio Junior's origins. Scans revealed that, after first crashing on Gaia, the Angolmois Energy in the Valley of the Lions duplicated Lio Convoy's Energon Matrix, splitting it to create a separate Maximal robot lifeform. Lio Junior proudly displayed that he had an Energon Matrix in his chest just like Lio Convoy, and Convoy couldn't deny he felt a tug connecting his Matrix to the cub's. Still, he refused to acknowledge Lio Junior as his son, causing the lad to run off.

Meanwhile, Megastorm had found a way to augment his own powers with Angolmois Energy, becoming [[Megastorm|Gigastorm]]. The newly risen Gigastorm threatened Lio Junior at an volcanic pit of Angolmois Energy, which Lio Convoy sensed through their connection. Convoy raced to Lio Junior's side and saved him from falling into the pit. This one time, he agreed to acknowledge Lio Junior as his son, explaining that a father-child bond could muddy his emotions, something that could not be allowed in a Commander during times of war. Lio Convoy needed to know that Lio Junior would serve as a Maximal warrior, not as his son. Finally understanding his father's reluctance, Lio Junior agreed to fight for his ''commander'' Lio Convoy. Together, Lio Convoy directed Lio Junior (as Magnaboss) in a successful skirmish against Gigastorm, and congratulated him on his victory when they were finished. {{storylink|Megastorm Reborn}}

With Gigastorm's upgrade a very real threat to the Maximals, Lio Convoy orchestrated a coordinated strike on the Predacon. The Maximals lured Gigastorm into a box canyon, where he was surrounded by maximal gunners. They opened fire on the Archduke of Destruction and the ground beneath his feet, causing him to drop up to his neck in the earth. Lio Convoy had chosen that spot due to the veins of natural gas flowing in the area, gas which was now filling the space around Gigastorm. When enough gas had built up, the Maximals fired again, igniting the gas in a horrendous explosion designed to rid Gaia of Gigastorm once and for all. Unfortunately, the Angolmois Energy-empowered Predacon was too strong even for this attack, and shrugged off the explosion. He struggled free with the help of the Combatrons and nearly caught Lio Junior, but Lio Convoy pulled him to safety. The arrival of [[Ikard]] and the [[Tako Tank]] provided enough of a distraction that Gigastorm and the Predacons were driven off. {{storylink|The New Weapon, Tako Tank}}

After receiving a garbled SOS signal, Lio Convoy and the Maximals wondered what the Space Pirate Seacons were doing right now. {{storylink|The Artificial Planet Nemesis}}

Lio Convoy was in conference with the older Maximals when NAVI informed him Lio Junior had rushed off with the others to investigate an evil Angolmois Energy signal. Lio Convoy and the rest arrived to back-up Lio Junior and help then escape the trap Galvatron and the Autorollers had set. Lio Convoy fought Galvatron head on, but their struggle was interrupted by the feud between Galvatron and Gigastorm, bringing an abrupt end to the conflict. {{storylink|Gigastorm's Treachery}}

After Tasmania Kid was rescued from a runaway Tako Tank, Lio Convoy and the Maximals found themselves in battle with Starscream and BB. The Combatrons exhausted their weapons, only to fall into a pit of Angolmois Energy and arise in new forms called [[Starscream (BW)|Hellscream]] and [[BB|Max-B]]. These new Predacons proved to be ferocious opponents. {{storylink|The End of Starscream}} Lio Convoy was next targeted for assassination by Dirge and Thrust, who felt slighted by their fellows' recent upgrades and wanted to improve their standing in the Predacons. More bemused than anything, Lio Convoy dispatched the duo with expected ease. The second strike was more serious, however, for Dirge and Thrust had exposed themselves to Gigastorm's Angolmois Energy to become [[Dirge (BW)|Dirgegun]] and [[Thrust (BW)|Thrustor]]. Now a significant threat, the former comedy duo had the skill and power to counter all Lio Convoy's traditional attacks. The Maximal commander only survived due to the arrival of Lio Junior, and even then they only waylaid the two Predacons temporarily. {{storylink|The Lio Convoy Assassination Plot}}

[[File:Lioconvoyinemminentdomain.jpg|left|thumb|Continuity migraine.]]
At one point, an alien machine that could warp time and space crashed onto Gaia. While trying to secure the machine, Lio Junior pressed the battle against the Predacons unnecessarily. In the struggle that followed, Tasmania Kid was seriously injured protecting Lio Junior from harm. After the battle, Lio Convoy pulled Lio Junior aside and reprimanded him. He attempted to convey the difference between fighting for peace and fighting for one's self. Lio Junior was focused on his own glory, and that distraction is what got Tasmania Kid injured. Lio Junior could not see the truth in Convoy's words, and felt diminished in the eyes of his fellow soldiers and his... commander. Running off in a huff, Lio Junior was taken by Galvatron, who acquired from him the key necessary to activate the teleport gate.

The Predacons used the gate to summon the unstoppable mobile fortress, [[Majin Zarak]], and quickly trashed most of the Maximals. Lio Convoy fought through the Autorollers and dispatched Gigastorm, but could not reach Galvatron before the Emperor of Destruction unleashed Majin Zarak's bestial robot mode. Its incredible energy attacks scattered the Maximals. On the brink of consciousness, Lio Convoy was contacted by [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]], champion of the first Beast Wars, who Lio Junior had managed to retrieve from the teleport gate as well. Renewed by the presence of this legendary warrior, Lio Convoy rallied his troops to confront Galvatron and Majin Zarak.

[[File:Flashlioconvoy.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Ooh, shiny.]]

Primal and Lio Convoy teamed up to battle Majin Zarak, who turned out to be a sentient robot and not just a battle station, fighting on even after they disposed of Galvatron. Together, they combined the power of their Energon Matrices to [[Spontaneous recoloration|upgrade]] themselves into Burning Optimus Primal and '''Flash Lio Convoy''' (フラッシュライオコンボイ ''Furasshu Raio Konboi''). With Primal's enhanced strength and Lio Convoy's super speed, they weakened Majin Zarak vulnerable spot, his evil third eye. They then unleashed the power within their Matrices into a "Double Matrix Blaster" which finished off the monster. Lio Convoy congratulated Lio Junior on his valor and thanked Optimus Primal for his help before the legendary warrior returned home through the gate, and the Maximals destroyed the gate behind him. {{storylink|Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!}}

With the artificial planet Nemesis creeping ever closer to Gaia, its influence on the Angolmois Energy was ever more keenly felt. Lio Convoy enlisted the Insectrons and Jointrons for their help preparing for Nemesis's arrival. [[Drill Nuts]] in particular provided his engineering expertise to the Maximal efforts. Lio Convoy and the Maximals tried using freeze devices to cool the unstable Angolmois Energy before it upset the planet's core. The Predacons tried to oppose them, but Lio Convoy and his team turned the freeze beams on Gigastorm, limiting his threat until Tripledacus froze and sealed off the flow of Angolmois Energy with a giant iceberg. {{storylink|The Great Angolmois Freezing Tactic}}

Lio Convoy's next plan to foil the Predacons involved upgrading an artillery cannon from the Niagara Base and then feeding it with Angolmois Energy to blast Nemesis out of the sky. When Drill Nuts informed Convoy the cannon was ready, NAVI's calculations indicated they must be ready within seventy-two minutes for optimum firing position. Lio Junior begged for the job setting the cannon and, in a private meeting later, Lio Convoy impressed upon Lio Junior how important the mission was before granting his wish. To divert the Predacons, Apache led Tasmania Kid, Diver, and Bighorn in brazenly transporting a decoy cannon to the target site, while Scuba transported another decoy underwater. Their actions delayed the Cyborg Beasts, but Galvatron and Gigastorm caught the Magnaboss team with the real cannon atop the volcano firing position. The cannon overloaded on Lio Junior's pure Angolmois Energy and self-destructed before its beam reached Nemesis. Although Lio Junior was downtrodden afterwards, Lio Convoy came to the cub and told him how proud he was of him that day. {{storylink|Knock Out Nemesis}}

While discussing the looming approach of Nemesis with Apache and NAVI, Lio Convoy felt a pang in his Energon Matrix telling him that Lio Junior was in trouble. Excusing himself, Lio Convoy raced to his son's side to find Lio Junior alive and seemingly well. When Lio Junior charged and attacked him, however, is was quickly clear that all was NOT well. Lio Junior was infected with the corrupted Angolmois Energy by Galvatron, making him loyal to Predacon ideals. Matters only got worse when Santon and Skywarp tried to reign in Lio Junior by combining with him, but just forged a corrupted Magnaboss instead. As Magnaboss hesitantly prepared to lay his Magna Blade on Lio Convoy, Junior mentally spoke to Convoy through his Energon Matrix. He begged his father to kill him before Santon and Skywarp were forced to harm someone against their will. Instead, Lio Convoy used their connection to siphon the corrupted Angolmois Energy into himself, and then purge the poison from his system. Lio Junior and Magnaboss were returned to normal, and Galvatron's plan foiled. {{storylink|Lio Junior's Revolt!?}}

A mysterious UFO crashed near the Maximal base, and Lio Convoy investigated with Apache. They found an emissary robot which NAVI could communicate with in its own computer language. The robot came from the planet Mars, activated by the slow approach of Nemesis and its corrupting effect on the Angolmois Energy of Gaia. The robot relayed how its creators abandoned Gaia eons ago in order to avoid corrupting the Angolmois Energy themselves, and set up the emissary as a safeguard to prevent that corruption from ever happening. As the robot claimed it could prevent the Angolmois Energy from being misused, Lio Convoy and Apache shepherded it to the Valley of the Lions, and the mother computer terminal hidden in the ruins underneath it. Fortunes shifted dramatically, however, when Magnaboss brought word from a second android, [[Moon (BW)|Moon]] of the moon, that the emissary intended to prevent misuse of the Angolmois Energy by destroying the entire planet, crashing the moon into Gaia in a cataclysm that would stop anyone from corrupting the Angolmois Energy further! {{storylink|Emissary of the Fourth Planet}}

Lio Convoy and Apache tried to fight their way to the mother computer and stop the emissary from triggering the termination sequence, but the computer possessed restraining defenses and incredible self-repair capabilities. The Maximals could not approach the computer without being blocked by the defenses, and the defenses quickly regenerated if the Maximals tried to blast through. Still, they deduced that NAVI could shut down the termination sequence if she could enter the console, and so the power of Magnaboss and the other arriving Maximals was added to their firepower in order to overload the self-repair circuits long enough for NAVI to slip through. At first, it didn't seem as if the Maximals had enough power, but a sudden surge of energy destroyed the defenses long enough for NAVI to enter the mother computer and end the termination sequence.

Lio Convoy alone recognized that final burst of power came from Galvatron, who had followed the Maximals into the ancient caves and lent his firepower in support of saving Gaia. Lio Convoy caught up with Galvatron outside and begged an audience. The two old foes discussed their philosophical differences on peace and how it was achieved. Despite their opposing viewpoints, Lio Convoy saw the light of reason in Galvatron's actions, and offered his hand in peace so that Maximal and Predacon alike could end their war and bring peace to the universe together. After a moment's consideration, Galvatron laughed off his nemesis's weakness and opening fire on Lio Convoy. There would be no peace until Galvatron crushed the Maximals once and for all. {{storylink|The Crisis of Planet Gaia}}

With Gaia momentarily saved, the Maximals still had to deal with the threat of Nemesis. As a final solution, Lio Convoy instructed Drill Nuts and NAVI to finish cannibalizing the ''Yukikaze'' to upgrade Santon and Skywarp's ship, allowing the Maximals to leave Gaia and intercept the Nemesis before it reached the planet. It was paramount that the Predacons not intervene with the launch, so Lio Convoy had Kid and the others deliberately reveal the location of their hidden base to the Cyborg Beasts, hoping to draw Predacon attention away from the mountain caves where the launch catapult was under construction. Hellscream discovered the catapult anyway, however, forcing Drill Nuts to encourage Lio Convoy and Apache to launch as soon as possible, even if Kid's unit couldn't return in time. Lio Convoy held out as long as he could, but reluctantly agreed and began the launch. Fortunately, Magnaboss and the rest of the ''Yukikaze'' crew returned just in time to join the space mission, and Tripledacus ensured their catapult trajectory was preserved under fire from the Predacons. {{storylink|Fly Out! Planet Gaia}}

On their way to Nemesis, the Maximals were diverted by the Space Pirate Seacons, now under the control of Galvatron. The Maximal ship was forced down on an asteroid, ruining their intercept course towards Nemesis. Lio Convoy confronted Halfshell and his mates, only to find them as zombie-like soldiers to Galvatron's will. Even when the Seacons were defeated and freed from the mind control, the Maximals were still trapped. Lio Junior raised a plan provided to him by the otherwise invisible Moon to use the moon's gravity to slingshot back on course. Lio Convoy demonstrated great trust in Lio Junior, allowing him to coordinate the signal with Moon and [[Artemis]] to fire their engines for the slingshot, otherwise the Maximals would crash into the moon's surface. Lio Junior lived up to Lio Convoy's faith in him, and the Maximals were back on track to confront Nemesis. {{storylink|Revenge of the Space Pirates}}

The Maximals landed on Nemesis away from their ship, sending it off on auto-pilot to self-destruct, diverting the Predacons temporarily. NAVI guided Lio Convoy and the team to an exhaust port, which she believed would lead down to Nemesis's core. Lio Convoy's plan was to follow the port tunnels to the core of Nemesis and destroy it, taking out the entire artificial planet. All the Maximals volunteered to undertake the mission, but Lio Convoy selected only himself and Scuba to take the risk. Lio Junior balked at being overshadowed, but Lio Convoy had his reasons—as Magnaboss, Lio Junior had the great power and flight capability to protect the entrance to the tunnels from Predacon attack AND ferry the other Maximals off Nemesis to a safe distance before the explosion. Lio Junior reluctantly agreed.

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During their search for the core, Lio Convoy and Scuba crossed paths with Galvatron. Lio Convoy sent Scuba on ahead, leaving him to deal with Galvatron. The two old foes again exchanged a debate about the nature of justice. Galvatron believed that justice was whatever he who held the most power said it was, but Lio Convoy believed justice came from the spirit within an individual. Their battle (and debate) came to an end when Galvatron used his Galva-Matrix to make Nemesis begin drawing upon the Angolmois Energy of Gaia. The tunnels flooded with the destructive energy, and Lio Convoy barely protected himself with a shield generated by his Energon Matrix. Knowing the paltry shield wouldn't hold out forever, Galvatron laughed as his enemy was swept away in the flood of energy. {{storylink|Breaking into Nemesis}}

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The Energon Matrix shield could indeed only delay Lio Convoy's demise beneath the Angolmois Energy, it could not prevent it altogether. Lio Convoy's Energon Matrix called out to Lio Junior, who found his father within the tunnels inside the rapidly depleting shield. Lio Convoy told Lio Junior to forget about him and return to lead the others against Galvatron. Lio Junior refused to give up on his father, however, and linked his Energon Matrix shield to Lio Convoy's. This act of heroism not only saved Lio Convoy's life, it merged father and son. Their two Energon Matrices, which had once been one, merged again to create the '''Legendary Green Lion''' (伝説の緑のライオン ''Densetsu no Midori no Raion''). {{storylink|Legend! The Green Warrior}}

With his Matrix Typhoon and Matrix Lion Arrow attacks, the Green Lion utterly defeated Gigastorm and turned back Galvatron's unstoppable Drill Destroyer attack. Meanwhile, Scuba had completed the mission and engineered an explosion that would destroy Nemesis in a matter of minutes. Galvatron refused to accept defeat, and fled back to the Angolmois Energy's core. Lio Convoy followed behind, with his loyal son and fellow defender of justice Lio Junior by his side. The lions found Galvatron in the core, where the Emperor of Destruction began absorbing Angolmois Energy again directly, growing to tremendous size in dragon mode. By agitating the Angolmois Energy, Galvatron ensured that the Nemesis explosion now threatened Gaia as well.

Seeing no other option, Lio Convoy reasoned the Green Lion could create Matrix shields for the Angolmois Energy, countless shields that would isolate and encapsulate the energy so that it would vent more peacefully and blunt the Nemesis explosion. Lio Convoy was concerned about the potential consequences to them, but Lio Junior eagerly pronounced that protecting peace in the universe at any cost to themselves was the Maximals' reason for being. Immensely proud at the lessons Lio Junior had learned, Lio Convoy called him "my son" and accepted the name "Father" as he and Lio Junior merged once more. The Matrix Typhoon dispersed the Angolmois Energy in Nemesis and in Galvatron as well.

Despite losing all his enhanced abilities from the Angolmois Energy, Galvatron refused to surrender. With the energy safely dispersed and Nemesis about to explode, Lio Convoy saw no more reason for battle and plead with Galvatron to stop. Galvatron still contained enough Angolmois Energy in his Galva-Matrix to be a threat, however, and challenged the green Lio Convoy to one last round. Lio Convoy abhorred violence without purpose, but saw Galvatron would not stop without an honorable death by combat. With tears in his optics, the combined green Lio Convoy charged Galvatron, locking his Matrix blades to Galvatron's Scissor blades in a swordsman's stalemate. He then split back into Lio Convoy and Lio Junior, sidestepping the block and surprising Galvatron with a killing stroke with his Lion Claw straight through the Galva-Matrix, shattering it. Galvatron commended him on his blow as the Nemesis broke down all around them.[[File: BW II ep43 Lio Convoy Farewell.jpg|right|thumb]]

When the explosion finally came, Gaia was safe and Lio Convoy used the last of the Energon Matrix's power to preserve himself and his comrades from the detonation. Weakened from the exertion, Lio Convoy found himself and his comrades adrift in a wormhole created by the explosion. Lost but at peace, Lio Convoy led his soldiers, his friends, and his son towards a light in the distance, the light of the next battle for peace in the universe! {{storylink|Farewell! Lio Convoy}}

====The Maximal Brainwashing Operation====
Lio Convoy was aboard the ''[[Yukikaze (BW)|Yukikaze]]'' when it was attacked by the duo of [[Dirge (BW)|Dirge]] and [[Thrust (BW)|Thrust]]. After a short battle, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] were felled by Lio Convoy's missiles, and the shock to the two's systems made them believe they were [[Maximal]]s.

When [[Diver (BW)|Diver]] and [[Tasmania Kid]] eventually showed up after a patrol, seemingly exhausted, Lio Convoy and the other Maximals set out to assist, but were surprised when the two turned out to have been brainwashed into being Predacons! In the ensuing battle, Lio Convoy fought against [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]] and was about to meet his end when an errant shot from [[Megastorm]] impacted both forces. Weakened, Galvatron ordered a retreat and Diver and Tasmania Kid were cured of their brainwashing from the blast's shock. {{storylink|The Maximal Brainwashing Operation}}

====''Robotmasters''====
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While on Gaia, Lio Convoy came across the [[Blastizone]], which transported him to the planet's past in [[2005]], when it was called [[Earth]]. The trip left him with a bout of amnesia, which was quickly took advantage of by his discover, the nefarious [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Beast Megatron]]. Convinced of the Autobots' evil, Lio Convoy attacked [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] and [[Ginrai (robot)|Victory Leo]] as they were flying overhead. {{storylink|Lio Convoy Storms In (issue)|Lio Convoy Storms In}} The battle was fortunately put to a stop by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], and the former used his [[Matrix of Leadership]] to connect to Lio Convoy's [[Energon Matrix]] to convince him of the goodness of the Autobots. Utilizing all of their powers, the four gathered Supreme Commanders attacked the nearby Decepticons and sent them fleeing. {{storylink|Together, the 4 Great Supreme Commanders}}

One day, Lio Convoy met with [[Bound Rogue]], who had discovered a [[Copy Machine]] that could duplicate things, at the Autobot base. Intrigued by the device's capabilities, Lio Convoy agreed to be the first Autobot template for the machine, but the resulting "[[Black Lio Convoy|Lio Convoy Black Version]]" turned out to be not as well-tempered as expected... {{Storylink|The Secret of Lio Convoy Black Version's Birth!?}}

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When the Autobots took in the fallen [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Reverse Convoy]], Lio Convoy was suspicious of the strange robot and elected to remain behind when Reverse Convoy took a contingent of Autobots to [[Sherman Dam]]. {{storylink|Strategic Meeting: The Mysterious New Warrior}} Lio Convoy's suspicion would prove to be justified, as it turned out to be a trap and Reverse Convoy revealed himself to be actually Rebirth Megatron! Nevertheless, Lio Convoy was able to save his comrades from the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Dark Emperor of Destruction, Reborn}}

A decisive battle soon took place between the Autobots and the Decepticons, where Lio Convoy battled [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]], and [[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]]. The fight raged on for three days and three nights till the Autobots emerged victorious. With [[solitarium]], Lio Convoy and the other time-displaced warriors were able to return to their native eras. {{storylink|And Then}}

====''Legacy VS500 Collection Special Comic''====
Lio Convoy was a spectator for the second week of the [[Speedia 500]] on [[Velocitron]]. There, he decided to join an impromptu third iteration of the race. {{storylink|Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 3}}

====''Generations Selects Special Comic''====
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In the [[Precursor World]], Star Convoy did battle with [[King Poseidon]]. Through the power of the [[Silver Matrix]], he connected with the future Supreme Commanders he had met during the [[solitarium]] conflict, Lio Convoy, Star Saber, and Beast Convoy. With their strength feeding his own, Star Convoy healed his wounds and was revitalized. {{storylink|Seacons comic 5}}

Upon the emergence of [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron Omega]] on [[Earth]] in [[2050]], the time-displaced Lio Convoy, following the orders of the [[Primus|Vector Sigma]] of the future, arrived in the midst of battle. With the assistance of the [[Angolmois Energy]]-born [[Selector]]s, Lio Convoy attained his Legendary Green Lion form and used the righteous Angolmois Energy of the Matrix to counteract the evil Angolmois Energy within Megatron Omega. Destroying the rampaging Decepticon's body and purifying his spark, Lio Convoy sent Megatron on his way back to the [[Precursor World]] where he would turn the tides on his past self, Gold Megatron.

After humans and Selectors evacuated the planet, Lio Convoy roamed it as a green lion, creating the very legend that his past self would fulfil in the far future. {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale|Finale}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Hozumi Gōda]] (Japanese)|[[Jeong-gu Lee]] (Korean)}}

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In the wormhole created from the destruction of Nemesis, Lio Convoy would get lost in a "loophole" which went "beyond time and space", ending up on the [[Decepticon]] planet [[Dinosaur (planet)|Dinosaur]] in the distant past, just in time to see it partially consumed by [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}}

In Lio Convoy's native time, his disappearance prompted [[Vector Sigma]] and the [[Great Convoy]]s to send [[Big Convoy]] and his trainees to [[Gaia]] to find clues as to what happened to the lost Supreme Commander. They found a black box left behind by the previous Maximals that contained a recording of Lio Convoy explaining his conflict with Galvatron and the result of it being the scattering of Angolmois Capsules across space. Implored by his fellow Supreme Commander, Big Convoy decreed that his unit's mission was to gather the Angolmois Capsules for the safety of the universe. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

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While seeking out the [[Blentron]]s' base of operations, Big Convoy's unit stumbled upon a wormhole left behind by them and traversed through it to find the ravaged planet, Dinosaur. On the surface, they met a seemingly aggressive opponent who turned out to be Lio Convoy, to the amazement of the star-struck rookies. Lio Convoy explained how he came to be on the planet and emphasized the threat of Unicron, and how the Angolmois Energy was in actuality the energy drawn out of him and then sealed in Gaia. Realizing the Blentrons were trying to revive Unicron, Lio Convoy combined what little power he had in his Energon Matrix with Big Convoy's to attain the form of the Legendary Green Lion and used the light of his Matrix to show the newest generation the correct path to the Blentrons. {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}}

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The still green Lio Convoy made it back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] as Big Convoy and his troops were fighting the revived Unicron, who was using Galvatron's image for his energy form. Picking up the defeated [[Magmatron]]'s [[Magma Blade (BW)|Magma Blade]], Lio Convoy imparted some encouraging words to the other Maximals, telling them to combine their spirits with Big Convoy's Energon Matrix so that he could use the Matrix Buster on Unicron. Stalling with some swordplay, Lio Convoy stabbed Unicron in the chest, allowing Big Convoy to fire the Matrix Buster and annihilate Unicron. {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|The Final Battle}} In the aftermath, Lio Convoy returned to his normal colors and was thanked for his assistance by Big Convoy, to which the humble Lio Convoy stated that it was truly the heroic spirits of everyone who won the day. [[Vector Sigma]] quickly repaired itself from Unicron's earlier attempted possession and promoted Lio Convoy to the rank of Great Convoy, an honor which he gladly accepted. He was soon involved in the Big Convoy Unit's graduation ceremony and the Maximal-Predacon truce to rebuild Cybertron. {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}

====''Timelines''====
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As a high-ranking member of the [[Convoy Council]], Lio Convoy traveled from [[Primax 498.1 Alpha]] and passed through [[Gargent 984.08 Alpha]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14}} where, as the "Beast Sage", he helped forestall that universe's [[Cataclysm (GoBots)|Cataclysm]]. However, while his technology gave that universe's [[GoBot|natives]] more time, it was only temporary. {{storylink|Sunrise}} Lio Convoy eventually ended up in [[Nexus 208.0 Epsilon]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14}} In [[Axiom Nexus]], he was gathered by [[Optimus Prime (TransTech)|the local Optimus Prime]], along with a roster of other Optimus Primes and [[Sentinel Maximus|their kin]] in a group known as the [[Convoy (group)|Convoy]]. A multiversal cataclysm in [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|a universe]] seeded with [[Rarified Energon]] and an invasion by [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|natives from a negative polarity universe]] had called them into action. Since Matrix bearers and their doppelgangers were usually never allowed into Axiom Nexus, this was a grave threat indeed! {{storylink|Invasion Prologue}}

His name was on a list of Convoy members given by [[Cheetor (TransTech)|Commander Cheetor]] to [[Andromeda (TransTech)|Andromeda]]. The list noted that his home [[universal stream]] was Primax 498.1 Alpha and that Lio Convoy also used the moniker "Leo Prime". {{storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/21}} Leo Prime was present at a meeting of the Convoy after the turmoil caused by the [[Waruder]] invasion of Axiom Nexus. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}}

Leo Prime would eventually go on to travel to a universal stream in the [[Uniend|Uniend Cluster]]. He generated much confusion as he joined the local Autobots to defeat their Unicron with more ease than they were intended to have. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14}}

====''Prime'' and ''Masterpiece'' toy bios====
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Following the restoration of Cybertron, Lio Convoy ascended to the rank of [[Great Convoy]], and became a member of the ruling body of Cybertron. Much more time later, the era of the Great Convoys came to an end and were subsequently replaced by the [[Prime (rank)|Prime Leaders]]. Great Lio Convoy, now having changed his appearance, went with the name "Leo Prime". {{storylink|Dark Amber Leo Prime#Masterpiece|''Masterpiece'' Dark Amber Leo Prime}} After a time, Great Lio Convoy sensed the [[One Shall Rise, Part 1|awakening of Unicron]] in another dimension, and travelled across the multiverse to this world. Finding that the native Autobots and Decepticons had already dealt with the threat of Unicron, Leo Prime elected to stay on this world for a time to ensure that Unicron did not reawaken, refraining from involving himself in the combat between the native Transformers. In the body he wore in this universe, he was armed with an ancient sword that drew power straight from his Energon Matrix, though apparently unbeknownst to him, it, like the weapons of many other Transformers in this universe, was secretly an [[Arms Micron]] named [[L.P.]]. {{storylink|#primetoy|''Arms Micron'' Leo Prime bio}} Using this weapon, Leo Prime carved up the remains of one of Unicron's rock-and-earth avatars to create the [[Gaia Armor]], using the power of his Energon Matrix to sever the avatar's link to Unicron himself, but allowing it to retain the power of [[Dark Energon]]. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#PrimeUnicronPack|''Arms Micron'' Optimus Prime + Gaia Unicron bio}}

====''Legends'' comic====
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Leo Prime's interuniversal journey brought him to the [[Legends World]], one he was particularly fond of as its inhabitants had been encouraging the Maximals from afar during their battles on Gaia. He repaid them by defending their world from the [[Zamojin (species)|Zamojin]], but ended up defeated by [[Katsu Don]], who reverted him to his original body by absorbing his "[[Beast Power]]" and sent him crashing into the home of his local counterpart, [[#Legends comic 2|Lio Convoy]]. After he'd explained his circumstances, Katsu Don attacked again and Leo Prime saw the similarities between himself and Lio Convoy when the latter put himself in harm's way to protect the Legends version of Lio Junior. He induced a beast transformation in Lio Convoy, turning him into a giant robotic lion, then adopted a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] body that let him combine with Convoy and draw upon his Beast Power to defeat Katsu Don. He then remained in the Legends World in anticipation of further Zamojin attacks, living with Lio Convoy and his son. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 41|Bonus Edition Vol. 41}}

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Some time later, Leo Prime could feel that the return of the Zamojin was imminent. {{storylink|TF Legends Late Xmas Present Chapter|Late Xmas Present Chapter}} Indeed, Katsu Don reappeared and attacked the Legends World with [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], so Leo Prime confronted him alongside [[Perceptor (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Perceptor]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 65|Bonus Edition Vol. 65}} While espousing his belief that Transformers would achieve peace upon becoming one with organic life, [[Grand Maximus|Grand]] envisioned a future inhabited by Lio Convoy, Big Convoy and Optimus Primal. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Grand Maximus)|Bonus Edition Grand Maximus}}

When [[Majin Zarak]] attacked the Legends World, Leo Prime recognized his old foe and attempted to battle it alongside Lio Convoy and Optimus Primal. Upon being defeated, he realized that since he was fated to destroy Zarak in the future, the beast was effectively invincible in this era or else a time paradox would occur. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One}} Fortunately [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] hit upon the idea to defeat Majin Zarak without killing it by banishing it to another dimension. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two}} Following the destruction of the Legends World, Leo Prime evacuated alongside many of its natives to his home dimension, ending up on the planet [[Beast (planet)|Beast]] in [[2038]]. The planet was then attacked by none other than [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], confusing Leo Prime until he realized the ship wasn't built by his era's Galvatron to begin with, but had been the brainchild of [[Galvatron II|another Galvatron]] from this era. By using his power to induce beast transformation, he temporarily turned all the Legends natives into proper Transformers, allowing them to attack and take down Nemesis. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3}}

When the Legends World was restored, Lio Convoy and Lio Junior returned to their home, where they saw Leo Prime off as he left their universe. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}

====''End of G1 Universe''====
As the G1 World neared its end, Leo Prime perished and his body was brought to [[Earth]], where [[Blue Bolts (RID)|Bluebolt]] hoped to resurrect him using the remnant [[Angolmois Energy|energy]] from [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] within the planet's crust. Bluebolt was interrupted in the process by [[Untite]], who sought to consume the corpse. However, his appetite was foiled as Unicron's energy merged with Leo Prime's body to create an amalgam being—[[Dark Amber Leo Prime]]. {{storylink|Dark Amber Leo Prime (First)}}
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===''Bom Bom'' comic continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' comic====
When the rainy season rolled around, most of the Maximal troops used the foul weather as an excuse not to go out on their regular patrol, and be insubordinate towards sub-commander Apache. Lio Convoy was none-the-wiser to the situation however, as all of the troops snapped to attention whenever he came by. Their slacking off came to an end when Diver reported that the Predacons were heading their way aboard [[Galvatron Dekazura Tank|an enormous tank]]. Lio Convoy led the counter-offensive, and upon his approach was troubled, as he sensed a power-source of Angolmois Energy within the juggernaut. Lio Convoy led Tasmania Kid into an attempted infiltration of the enemy vehicle, with the Insectrons Bigmos and Tonbot helping them out in getting airborne to bypass its defenses. But Bigmos's failed to fly quickly enough to avoid Lio Convoy getting hit by a blast, and Tasmania Kid was forced to proceed alone. Thankfully, a secondary plan of bombing the tank's vulnerable underside as successful, and the dreadnought was soon sinking into a nearby river. Lio Convoy returned to the front lines and entered the tank to confront Megastorm, whom he bested in combat. In the process, Megastorm was made to accidentally trigger the tank's self-destruct mechanism. Following the tank's spectacular detonation, the overcast skies began to clear, signaling an end to the rainy season. {{storylink|Demolish the Superdreadnought Tank!}}

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During the final battle with [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]] on the artificial planet [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], Lio Convoy once again became corrupted by the [[Angolmois Energy]] that the planet had collected. The energy quickly consumed him, transforming him into Black Lio Convoy, a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]. Lio Convoy was able to use his [[Energon Matrix]] to channel the true spiritual energy of [[Gaia]] through himself, dispelling the evil influences and restoring him to a Maximal. The energy then transformed him into the [[Green Warrior]] and he was able to defeat Galvatron once and for all. {{storylink|Win the Battle of Light and Darkness!}}

After the destruction of [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], Lio Convoy and the members of his team were scattered across the time and space due to the blast of Angolmois Energy. After awaking one night in a blizzard, Lio Convoy found he was alone on an unknown planet.

Lio Convoy then wandered in the snow field alone, wondering where the other members of his team were. He then ran into a gang of rampaging animals, consisting of a Quetzalcoatlus, an Elasmosaurus, a [[Guiledart|Triceratops]], a [[Saberback|Stegosaurus]], a [[Sling (BW)|Dimetrodon]] and an [[Dead End (BW)|Ammonite]]. The gang, led by a [[Magmatron|Giganotosaurus]], attacked other animals. At first, he thought it was a hunt, but it turned out to be a massacre instead. Lio Convoy saved a dear cab and fired Lio Missiles toward the Giganotosaurus. He was surprised to find the missile didn't killed the dinosaur —in fact, the Giganotosaurus was completely unharmed. The Giganotosaurus fought back by firing missiles. When it was about to kill Lio Convoy, he was saved by a [[Big Convoy|mammoth]], who gave him and the dear cab a ride and helped them escape.

The mammoth, whose name was "Big", took Lio Convoy to a hot spring to heal his wounds. He then began to tell his story: His is the leader of a group of native wild animals. He told Lio Convoy that the Giganotosaurus's gang was a bunch of rowdies who became more vicious and killed his friends when he was absent after the mysterious "God's Stone" fell on the planet. He felt sorrow because he couldn't protect his friends. Lio Convoy asked Big to take him to the place where the "stone" fell.

Upon arriving at the cliff above the place mentioned by Big, Lio Convoy soon realized the "stone" is in fact an Angolmois Capsule. He then descended into the valley to take an examination of the capsule. The energy restored his onboard computer and gave him the time-and-space coordinates. Lio Convoy was shocked when he learned he was on a distant planet located in the [[7th Cosmos]] in a time long before he was born.

While Lio Convoy was examining the capsule, Big was wondering what he's doing in the valley before the gang came to the spot and attacked him, claiming for the "God's Stone". Though wounded, Big pushed the gang into the valley after he told Lio Convoy to get out. The impact caused the capsule to explode and the two breathed a sigh of relief. In the pit, the gang evolved in the blast of Angolmois Energy. The gang then rose out of the valley front of Lio Convoy and Big. Their leader, now named "[[Magmatron]]", thanked Big for his effort, which had made them stronger than ever before. The gang then transformed, ready to kill Big and Lio Convoy. Lio Convoy immediately transformed and fought the gang. He defeated the henchmen with ease, but Magmatron took him out with one blast.

Some time later, Lio Convoy crawled out of a thick snow layer and learned there was 90 percents of malfunctions within his body. Lio Convoy was sorry he got Big, who was mortally wounded, involved in this incident. Lio Convoy decided to use his [[Energon Matrix]] to cure Big. During the treatment, the only thought on his mind was curing Big, hoping he would carry on his will, and feeling concern about his teammates. After the action, the whereabouts of Lio Convoy was unknown. {{storylink|The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' comic====
At a certain point, the [[Unicron|Black Ball]] told Lio Convoy and his teammates' action to [[Big Convoy]] and his crew. Big Convoy felt the name "Lio Convoy" sound familiar, but he couldn't remember when he ever knew the name. {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}}

When fixing the ''[[Gung Ho]]'' on an asteroid near the planet [[Luxor]], Big Convoy asked [[NAVI (Gung Ho)|NAVI]] for information about Lio Convoy because he felt the name was familiar. NAVI gave Big Convoy the information and he learned that Lio Convoy was a rookie officer. In addition to that, they had never met each other, according to the official records. {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}}
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{{storylink|Double Cross}}
During his last breath, Big Convoy saw Lio Convoy come to take him to a place where his soul could rest in peace. {{storylink|Return to Zero}}

====''Beast Wars Metals'' comic====
The visage of Lio Convoy appeared alongside those of Big Convoy and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in a poetic montage overlooking the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] on [[Earth|Energoa]]. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 1|Beast Wars Metals #1}}

===''Robotmasters'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Masayuki Katō]] (Japanese)}}
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As [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], and [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] made a vow to protect Earth's [[solitarium]] from the Decepticons, Lio Convoy watched silently from afar. {{storylink|Fight! The Group of the Strongest Commanders!|Fight! The Group of the Strongest Commanders!}}

When [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Beast Megatron]] launched an attack on a human city, Lio Convoy aided Optimus Prime in blasting the Predacon, but otherwise remained out of sight. It wasn't until later in the battle that he introduced himself, as he delivered a powerful kick onto the Predacon leader. As the battle raged, Lio Convoy helped his fellow heroic Cybertronians in battling [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Robotmasters|Rebirth Megatron]], who had joined the battle under the guise of "Reverse Convoy" to catch his foes unawares. Lio Convoy added his own strength to Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal's “Double Convoy Tornado” to overpower a similar tornado-style attack from the Megatrons. The "Lio Typhoon Arrow" sent the villains into a retreat. Though Lio Convoy and his allies won the battle, the war raged on... {{storylink|Lio Convoy Storms In (episode)|Lio Convoy Storms In}}

===''Robotmasters'' 3D diorama manga===
When the mysterious [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Reverse Convoy]] appeared promising vital information with [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] chasing to prevent him from revealing said information, Lio Convoy and the other chased off Starscream. However, when Reverse Convoy was welcomed into the Autobots, Lio Convoy found the preceding events a little too convenient. {{storylink|Robotmasters Vol. 9}} His suspicions would prove correct when Reverse Convoy trapped some of the Autobots and sapped them of their energy. Lio Convoy came to their rescue and the Autobots' forces were bolstered by the arrival of an [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] from another universe. Uniting all of the power of five Autobot leaders, they were able to blow away the Decepticons in a Big Bang Cannon attack. {{storylink|Robotmasters Vol. 11}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
{{BW Shell Game}}
Suspicious of Magmatron even in peacetime, Lio Convoy sent Razorbeast undercover into his Predacon unit to sabotage his plans, despite not knowing exactly what Magmatron was scheming. {{storylink|Shell Game issue 1|Shell Game #1}}

===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:Lioconvoy gathering.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Hey, look, he turns into Liger Zero!]]

There is a slight otherworldliness about Commander-in-Chief Lio Convoy, a sense that he is operating on a bigger picture and serving a higher power. Upon landing on a planet, he immediately becomes in tune with its natural harmonics and becomes determined to defend that world. He has sheer belief in his pre-ordained cause, backed up by a Matrix that gives him power from the very core of Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #2}}

By the tail-end of the Great War, Lio Convoy had earned himself a place on the Autobot High Council. He was away from their base of operation when news came in that both Optimus Prime and Galvatron had fallen in combat, and so attended a meeting via holographic-projection. After rebranding themselves the "Primal Council," the group discussed their intent to broker an armistice with their enemies, in the hopes of ending the war without further bloodshed. To this end, Lio Convoy was sent out to the Eastern Iacon front of the conflict. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}} Prior to the signing of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Lio Convoy commanded a crew of Maximals who traveled to the planet [[Gaia|Gaea]] and battled [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]] and his forces. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #2}}

[[File:BWAScendLioConvoyConventional.jpg|thumb|left]]

Years later, during peace-time, the ever-vigilant Lio Convoy sat on the [[Committee for State Affairs]], but was also a member of a secret black-ops intelligence unit known as the [[Pack]]. During a conversation with [[Razorbeast]] that was officially off-the-record, he reminded his fellow Maximal that their unit didn't exist and that the [[Maximal Imperium]] didn't sanction their operations. He warned Razorbeast that if he was caught while undercover in [[Magmatron]]'s command, he would be disavowed. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}

Unfortunately, Lio Convoy believed that Magmatron was the true enemy, while [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] was just a loose cannon. (Real good job of threat assessment there.) After Razorbeast's transwarp booster-sent distress message was strengthened by Magmatron, it reached Lio Convoy, who, despite his earlier warning, mobilized the Pack at once to race to Razorbeast's rescue. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}}

While Razorbeast's Maximals were fighting the Predacons to a standstill (in no small part thanks to the powerhouses [[Torca (BW)|Torca]] and [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]), the Pack arrived and looked to turn the tide of battle quickly in the favor of all that is clean and fresh. Lio Convoy himself transformed and confronted [[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]] and some other Pred thugs, who were unimpressed by his unnervingly LARGE beast mode. Lio Convoy accepted this and whipped out his cannons. THEN they were impressed. When [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] revealed himself to the Maximals, Lio Convoy and Razorbeast were quick to turn their guns on him, right up until [[Latolata|Rartorata]] showed his ugly mug. The [[Blentron|Blendtron]] injected Razorbeast with a load of Angolmois, turning the Maximal into a raging berserker locked in beast mode. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}}

[[File:TheAscending3 ThePack.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|thumb]]
Reminding the Pack that they take care of their own and clean up their own messes, Lio Convoy engaged the enemy. Once they had subdued Razorbeast's mutated form with crude vines and stakes, Convoy discovered that his comrade was still within the monstrous beast and fighting a losing battle against the Angolmois that was corrupting his mind. Ravage informed the Maximal commander of the urgency of what Magmatron had showed him, and the Maximals prepared to board Lio Convoy's transwarp cruiser. The cruiser's takeoff was then threatened by the arrival of the other two Blendtrons. Razorbeast broke from his restraints and charged into battle against the servants of Unicron, telling Convoy to escape while he held the line. Setting the transwarp coordinates to the time and place Ravage had received from Magmatron, the cruiser emerged in the midst of [[Big Convoy]]'s battle with Shokaract. However it was shot down upon the arrival of [[Herald of Shokaract|Shokaract's Heralds]]. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}}

Luckily Lio and the rest of The Pack survived the crash and were able to join up with Big Convoy. After briefly explaining the seriousness of the situation to Big Convoy, Lio provided [[Bump]] with a sample of Angolmois so he could synthesize an antidote. After a brief spat of posturing by [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and Ravage, Lio took part in a frontal assault on Shokaract to serve as a distraction while [[Snarl (BW)|Snarl]] and [[Prowl (TM2)|Prowl]] enacted the real plan. Once Shokaract decided to call it a day after his heart to heart talk with Magmatron and in the wake of the devastating battle Lio Convoy received the antidote from Bump and started on rebuilding a devastated Cybertron... just in time for Megatron to get back from the Beast Wars and release his [[transformation virus]] on the planet. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}

===''Universe'' toy bio===
Leo Prime was a career soldier, commander of the elite Maximal black ops unit the [[Pack]]. He and his comrades traveled to wherever trouble was thickest, working undercover to foil Predacon plots. {{storylink|#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Leo Prime toy bio}}

===''Kre-O'' online comic===
[[File:Lio_Convoy_Kre-O_Character_Image.jpg‎|thumb|left|50px]]

Lio Convoy was at the newly constructed Autobot base, [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}} Later on, he was at [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]]'s {{w|Hanami}} party having a drink from [[Heinrad (BW)#Kre-O online manga|Heinrad]]. {{storylink|Soundwave's Trap? Stop Operation Brainwash Humanity!}}
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===Legends World===
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Visiting the [[Axalon Trading Company]] to discuss business with [[Optimus Primal (BW)#Transformers Legends comic|Optimus Primal]], the Lio Convoy of the [[Legends World]] found himself charmed by their office lady, [[Airazor (BW)#Transformers Legends comic|Airazor]]. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 5#The Gender Gap Part 2|The Gender Gap Part 2}}

Later, when he was out drinking sake, he was surprised by a speeding [[Arcee (G1)#Transformers Legends comic|Arcee]], who was transporting her nephew [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] to work in her car mode. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 10|Bonus Edition Vol. 10}} A gambler and a drunk, Lio Convoy lived in poverty and wasn't too eager to buy Lio Junior the ''Transformers'' toys he wanted. He tried to distract his son by making funny faces and calling it "transforming", to no avail. At another point, he gambled away his son's school lunch money at the races and was left despondent and full of regrets until Junior cheered him up. {{storylink|Lio Dad}}

[[File:LegendsComic LioConvoy mechalion.jpg|thumb|left]]
One day, [[#Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Leo Prime]] fell from the sky into the home of the Lios, who mistook him for a toy until he introduced himself and explained that the Zamojin were targeting their world. When Katsu Don tracked down Leo Prime and hurt Junior, Lio Convoy was enraged and threw a rock at the Zamojin, impressing Leo Prime who helped him [[Transformers sickness|access his inherent Transformer memories]] and turn into a lion/starship Transformer. Lio Convoy used his new body to battle Katsu Don and combine with Leo Prime, forming the body of Prime's new [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] form. After Katsu Don was driven away, Lio Convoy repurposed his starship mode as a new home for him and Junior. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 41|Bonus Edition Vol. 41}} When [[Akihabara]] was rebuilt, his "house" mode was seen to be located in a wooded area just outside the town. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Prologue}} He congratulated Junior after he'd gotten a new toy as a [[Christmas]] present. {{storylink|TF Legends Late Xmas Present Chapter|Late Xmas Present Chapter}}

When [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] summoned [[Majin Zarak]] to the Legends World, Leo Prime called in Lio Convoy and Optimus Primal to assist him in battle with the titan, but, as Majin Zarak was fated to be defeated by Leo Prime in its future, it could not be destroyed sans a time paradox. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One}} Fortunately, [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] hit upon the idea to defeat Majin Zarak without killing it by banishing it to another dimension. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two}} Following the destruction of the Legends World, Lio Convoy evacuated alongside many of his peers to Lio Convoy's home universe, ending up on the planet [[Beast (planet)|Beast]] in [[2038]]. The planet was then attacked by [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], which Leo Prime responded to by empowering Legends World refugees into becoming full-blown Transformers and Lio Convoy aided in taking own Nemesis as Leo Prime's body. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3}}

When the Legends World was restored, Lio Convoy and Lio Junior returned to their home, where they saw Leo Prime off as he left the universe. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[File:BWU Lio Convoy.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|There's gonna be a revolution.]]
The Guardian of Order Lio Convoy, holder of the [[Energon Matrix|energon matrix]], was once in the employ of the [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]], the decrepit and selfish [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s that had survived the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. Using his [[Solipsistic Staff]], he would ensure that the gladiatorial matches pitting the oppressed Maximals and Predacons against one another would always turn out as his mentor, [[Eject (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Eject]], intended them to. This allowed the status quo to remain in place, with the Builders securely ruling over the younger Cybertronians. Though Lio Convoy had resentments about his lot in life, he was otherwise steadfast in his loyalty towards The Administrator of the Games. After a chance encounter with [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Blackarachnia]], Lio Convoy had his eyes opened to the injustice of the caste-based society of Cybertron, where any Maximal or Predacon could be summoned to die in a Game or have rations cut for minor infractions of ridiculous laws. After a cathartic venture where he stood up to a couple of corrupt MCSF officers, Lio Convoy joined Blackarachnia and the resistance fighting to tear down Cybertron's tyrannical power structure. Now ready to leave his old life behind, Lio Convoy snuck a team of rebels into the 1924th Games at the [[Dodecahex]] Arena. While Blackarachnia's team seized control of [[Override (BWU)|Override]]'s broadcasting equipment, Lio Convoy assassinated [[Supersonic]], securing the attention of Cybertron. He publicly exposed the Builders' moral corruption, deeming them unworthy of ruling Cybertron and calling for a war for freedom. Thus, the Fourth Cybertronian War, the [[Grand Uprising]], began. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}}

Broadcast footage of Lio Convoy's war declaration was seen shortly thereafter by the crewmembers of the ''[[Spooky Action at a Distance]]'' and the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]''. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

Dubbed "Supreme Commander" of the Resistance by (mainly Predacon members of) his newfound followers, Lio Convoy began coordinating a variety of attacks on Builder-held territories. One particular target of interest was [[Fortress Maximus (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Fortress Maximus]], the massive Builder was also served as a prison for several high-value dissidents. However, the first raid was a disaster when Fortress Maximus used his telepathy to influence the team. The second raid failed as well, as the team was aware of Max's abilities and therefore were easily pushed into paranoia by the Builder. They ended up destroying themselves, each convinced the others were under the influence of Fortress Maximus.

For the third raid, Lio Convoy authorized an unpleasant but necessary action. Only mission-critical members were informed of Fortress Maximus's powers. A former champion of the Games, [[Buzzclaw (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Buzzclaw]], was specifically recruited for the mission but left in the dark. Buzzclaw's psychological profile painted him as an obvious target for Maximus's manipulations, leaving the team with only ''one'' member to watch out for. Furthermore, psy-tech was developed that not only sensed when Buzzclaw was turned, it also carried a neural-spike that killed the unfortunate Predacon, but also sent a feedback pulse back to Fortress Maximus through their connection, allowing the team to eliminate the Builder and complete their mission. {{storylink|Head Games}}

While overseeing several campaigns, Lio Convoy was informed by [[B'Boom]] that [[Bighorn]] had died trying to take the [[Melpomene Bridge]]. B'Boom wanted to authorize an air strike to take revenge on the [[Maximal Command Security Force|MCSF]] members responsible, Lio Convoy refused, reminding his comrade that they were fighting a war, not seeking revenge, and resources were better served elsewhere. Still, he took B'Boom aside and they shared stories about Bighorn in memorial of their fallen friend. {{storylink|Burning Bridges}}

As the war went on, the Beast Upgrade hit Cybertron. Lio took on the form of a [[cybercat]], reforging his Solipsistic Staff into a sword. Somewhere during this time, he devised ''Operation: Amputation'', a last-ditch strategy involving wiring troops up with [[K-Bomb]]s. What he didn't tell the four volunteers was that he had remote control over the bombs. Six years in, the newly formed [[Independent Predacus States]] demanded Lio have Preditron killed, and he agreed for the sake of their alliance. After all, that was what the Resistance had sprung him from Fortress Maximus ''for''. He still felt bad about it, though. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}} {{storylink|Derailment}} Elsewhere across Cybertron, various warlords were carving out their own territory. Lio made a note to deal with them after everything was over, but the Resistance was making great gains.

Then the news came out about strange "[[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s" spreading over Cybertron, violently reformatting their victims into more drones. Lio Convoy realized it was the Builder's last-ditch attempt to stop them, and it was working. His first act was to try ''Operation: Amputation'', over the objections of his war council, but even the [[K-Bombs]] were unable to stem the tide. Lio Convoy ordered all reserve forces to Petrohex, then watched as they fell to the Vehicons within .20 cycles. Bump and Psycho-Orb filled him in on just how many Cybertronians stood in the Vehicon's path; if they were all converted, their numbers would overwhelm the Resistance with ease. With surrender out of the question, Lio Convoy put out the order: the Resistance would march on Iacon that night.

Before leaving, Lio reached out to the [[Maximal Nation]] and the Independent Predacus States, asking for assistance. As the assault on Iacon began, Lio Convoy spearheaded the battle for the [[Yuss Batteries]], one of the last lines of defense before Iacon. Lio was part of the group who stormed [[Fort Qalt]]. Utilizing a secret tunnel inside the fort, Lio Convoy, Break, and [[Quillfire (BWU)|Quillfire]] managed to get the drop on the fort's commander, [[Goldbug (IDW)|Goldbug]], only to find he and Break were locked out and the Builder refused to give up the codes. Break sacrificed his life to gain them, Lio informed Scylla that the guns would be unable to target the Builder fleet.

Once the battle was over, the Builders' efforts meant taking a ship to Iacon was out of the question. The Resistance would have to walk in, all seventy-five thousand of them. Before setting out, Lio gave a rousing speech to the troops, congratulating them for doing the impossible and assuring them of their victory. Two and a half megacycles into their march on Iacon, everyone was getting a bit concerned about the total absence of anyone trying to stop them. Lio Convoy figured if ''he'' had been in charge, he'd be fighting a rearguard action, and came to the conclusion that Hot Rod had been told to do just that... and not done it.

[[File:Derailment SupremeCommanderLioConvoy.jpg|350px|left|thumb|"Behold, the quintessential devil in these matters: Lio T. Convoy, renegade and terrorist!"]]
By the time the Resistance had arrived at Iacon and scouted the area, the massed Vehicon armies were practically on their doorstep. Surrounding the [[High Council Pavilions|High Pavilion]], Lio declined to order shelling, not knowing whether that would call off the hordes or not. As his commanders went in, Lio lead the fight against the Vehicons outside, until the Assembly Bunker rose into the sky in front of him. Pissed by the display of arrogance, Lio swore to make them pay. With assistance from [[Grimwing (BWU)|Grimwing]], he reached their platform and demanded their surrender, slicing off [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s wing when the councilor mouthed off. His terms for surrender were cut short when the Assembly revealed the architect behind the Vehicons: a dark clone of Lio Convoy who called himself "[[Galva Convoy]]". Lio and his forces were surrounded by Vehicons... who betrayed their benefactors and began converting the Assembly instead. On Blackarachnia's suggestion, Lio fled.

Desperate, thanks to his big plan going belly-up, Lio came to a grim conclusion: The Vehicons had to be stopped by whatever means necessary, and if that meant he had to use the last K-bomb left to crack the entire planet like an egg, so be it. As he was arming Ro-tor, he was met by Eject and [[Riker]] aboard [[Black-Out]], who had come to him to offer a truce. Lio wasn't happy to see his old mentor, but Eject revealed where Galva Convoy had holed up - in the [[Grand Mal]], and Lio's sword, which would hide him from the sparkless Vehicons, was their way in. They had a chance, though Lio promised to square things with Eject later.

On approach to the Grand Mal, Black-Out was shot down by a glancing blow, but managed to crash through the fortress' eye. Lio was unharmed, but to his distress found Eject fatally wounded, Eject offered him some last words of encouragement before expiring; as Black-Out exploded, Lio and his Maximals made their way inside, fighting through the drones as they went until they reached the bridge, where Galva Convoy awaited. Surprisingly, Galva Convoy was happy to see his "brother", maintaining that he was merely doing Cybertron a favor by removing the evils of "free will"... and that he had merely taken the ruthlessness of the Resistance to its logical extreme. Despite Blackarachnia's attempt to shoot him, she was subdued while Galva attacked Lio, who was too drained from days of activity to properly fight back. Lio began to wonder whether his duplicate had a point, and ruminated over all the dubious decisions he'd made over the years. Galva Convoy was just following his example. So, Lio decided to change strategy.

He pretended to be convinced by Galva's words, that he wanted to help him strip Cybertron of its sparks, as he focused his spark so it would match that of his duplicate. He told Galva to bring in a drone and assimilate Blackarachnia, and when he did, Lio jumped in front of them, taking the virus for himself. A panicked Galva leapt in to try and stop the process, allowing Lio to infect ''him'' thanks to their matching sparks. Lio blacked out, though not before he saw Blackarachnia raise her gun and fire.

Fortunately, the [[cyber venom]] in her gun prevented the virus from taking Lio. He was unconscious for the next several cycles, missing the end of the apocalypse, as medics did what they could to save his life, spending a decacycle rebuilding him "from the ground up", in Blackarachnia's words. On awakening, his oldest friend filled him in on the aftermath. Wrenching himself free of his recharge slab, he told her to get on the horn to everyone she could, Maximal, Predacon, Builder or Neutral, and get them to arrange a summit before the chance passed them by. Over the next eight cycles he passed in and out of consciousness, but Blackarachnia and B'Boom managed what he asked.

[[File:Inexorable March Lio Convoy.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|Casting a long shadow over history.]]

With several more cycles of arguing and politicking, the Cybertronian Parliament was created, with a design that would make any one faction achieving a supermajority difficult. Watching their discussion, albeit via the means of an [[exo-walker]] since he hadn't fully recovered, Lio felt confident he'd made the right choice. When their first decision was to declare the war over, and that day dubbed [[Unity Day]], Lio felt a surge of hope before leaving them to their work. Two solar cycles later, Lio Convoy left Cybertron, deciding that he was too polarizing a figure to stay behind. The only witness to his departure was Blackarachnia, to whom he pondered over trying to bridge the gulf between Cybertron and Earth. {{storylink|Derailment}}

A decade after the events of the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]], Lio Convoy reappeared during a [[Vok]]-induced crisis on [[Metascan Omega]]. {{storylink|The Inexorable March}}

He did eventually return to Cybertron in some way, having some involvement in the ''Second'' Vehicon Apocalypse.

Some ten thousand years later, history remembered him for walking away from Cybertron rather than becoming a tyrant, though the details became blurred by the intervening years. The bulk of historians wrote that the great Lio Convoy was ''certainly'' not aware of all those horrible things like the G-Virus! [[Hatchet (BWU)|Some academics]] took a far less than charitable view of his activities, both rightfully noting he knew and approved of monstrous deeds along with blaming him for activities he wasn't responsible for and taking a negative view of most of his choices. One notable historian, [[Rampage (BW)#Beast Wars Uprising|Pontiff General Rampage]], would write that Lio Convoy was a truly horrible thing who created zealots and sent them to their deaths, like those poor "Protoform Ex" agents.

There were persistent rumors that, following the [[Grand Uprising|Unification War]], Lio Convoy became part Vehicon, adopting a jet mode in addition to his more familiar [[cybercat]] [[beast mode]]. He also may have become binary bonded to the [[Titan Master]] [[Moon (BW)|Moon]], sometimes known as "Mecha Usagi", but no records existed to prove it. {{storylink|Lio Convoy: Unity Through Tyranny}}
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===''Transformers Go! Go!''===
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==Games==
===''Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars''===
When the super-powerful [[Energon Quartz]] was discovered on [[Gaia]], Lio Convoy was one of the several combatants to join the brawl to take possession of it.

Lio Convoy could also partake in various other tasks, such as a mission to break a boulder to reveal an energon crystal hidden within before sundown, using a block in a mission to defend himself against various incoming projectiles, and missions to run across a pit-riddled field, sometimes involving hideously large bacteria he had to fend off.

After defeating his final opponent, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], Lio Convoy decided to seal away the Quartz forever, so that it would never fall into the hands of those who would abuse its power towards evil ends. {{storylink|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars}}

{{BW fighter ending|Lio Convoy|GBC}}

====Move list====
{{note|This move list presumes the player is facing right; when facing left, reverse the left and right inputs.}}
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan=2|'''Robot Mode'''
!colspan=2|'''Beast Mode'''
|-
|Lio Shot||↓→B
|Lio Tornado||↓←B
|-
|Lio Tooth||↓←B
|Lio Cannon||→↓→B
|-
|Lio Tempest||→↓→B
|Lio Threw||←↓→B
|-
|Lio Typhoon||←↓→B
|Sky Cannon||↓←B (in air)
|-
|Soul Impulse (super)||↓→↓← B
|Planet Burst (super)||↓→↓← B
|-
|Morphing Raid (desperation)||↓←↓→ A
|Morphing Raid (desperation)||↓←↓→ A
|}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Lio-Convoy.jpg|thumb|400px]]
Lio Convoy participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Epic character who was available in the July Daily Campaign and could be recruited by collecting 20 Alpha cores, 20 Beta cores, 20 Omega cores, and 10 cores of this character. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}

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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
Leo Prime left the Pack and traveled to Earth to deal with the situation involving [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]].{{Storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Leo Prime story}} [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] was surprised to see the Maximal commander on the planet. Leo Prime took notice that there was only three Maximals when he was expecting four. Airazor explained that [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] had gone solo. Leo Prime suggested that they go after Rattrap as they were already committed. [[Tigerhawk]] then informed Leo Prime that there was also a wildcard, as [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] was with the Decepticons and was wanting payback against Tarantulas for rusting her hands off. Leo Prime thought this could be useful and said their priority was to cut off all access to [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]]. Once the Maximals arrived, Blackarachnia had webbed up Tarantulas' Cosmic Rust Blaster. Tarantulas then activated the reservoir gates. Leo Prime commanded Tigerhawk to target the upper reaches of the cavern to stop the Cosmic Rust. Blackarachnia then stopped them as the roof was already coming down with molten rock, caused by [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]]. Leo Prime commanded all Maximals to get to safety.{{Storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Rust & Fire}} Leo Prime considered leaving the planet to rejoin the Pack but was convinced by the earthbound Maximals that he needed to stay and serve as field commander while [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimal Optimus]] was busy. {{Storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Leo Prime story}}
{{Charstubgames|{{Storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}}}

==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWII LioConvoy toy.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight...]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Lio Convoy''' (ライオコンボイ, [[1998]])}}</ul>
:*''Sonokong name'': '''Lion Convoy'''
:*''ID number'': '''C-16'''
:*''Release date'': [[1998]] [[April 23]]
:*''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers
:*''Known designers'': [[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)

: The only item in the second wave of ''Beast Wars II'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWII|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Lio Convoy is an Ultra-sized figure that transforms into an organic white lion articulated at the legs and head. Like most [[Convoy (rank)|Convoy]] or [[Optimus Prime (disambiguation)|Optimus Prime]]-type figures, Lio Convoy is loaded with weapons and [[gimmick]]s.

: In [[beast mode]], his forelegs have flip-out double-bladed "Lion Claws", which spring out when pinched together. Lio Convoy also features spring-loaded missile launchers that are hidden inside his mane. The bottom two are flipped out by lifting the bottom flap of his mane and pushing a gray trigger on either side. The top two launchers are flipped out by pushing down on the top panel of his mane. He can only store four of the six "Lio Missiles" in beast mode, but they end up sticking straight out of his mane and look ''very'' awkward. An additional gimmick requires you to unfold his four mane panels and to push on the big red peg protruding from the top to create his "Lion Typhoon" attack. The last gimmick in this mode is a button atop his head that can be pressed to open his mouth, revealing his teeth.

:In [[robot mode]], all of Lio Convoy's aforementioned gimmicks can still be utilized. His flip-out Lion Claws now act as under-slung forearm blades; his Lion Typhoon ends up on his right shoulder; his two bottom Lio Missile launchers flip-out on his forearms; his top two Lio Missile launchers flip out on his right shoulder and can also be removed to be used as hand-held weapons. Additional cartoon-only weaponry which can be replicated somewhat, with some good old imagination are the "Radar Disruption Shot" (an attack made to confuse heat-seeking missiles by firing a beam from his beast mode mouth), the "Lio Beam" (which only requires you to flip out his top launchers and leave the Lio Missiles out) and due to his tail not being able to retract like in the cartoon, it's always in a permanent "Lio Byūto" attack pose.

: Lio Convoy also features a pair of molded in thrusters on his back and the left side of his chest contains his non-removable "[[Energon Matrix]]". The inside of the door to the Matrix chamber also features his [[Maximal]] [[rubsign]], though this proves rather pointless as the outside of the door features a sliver-chromed Maximal [[insignia]] anyway.

: [[Sonokong]] also released this figure in their ''Beast-War'' toyline as "Lion Convoy". Aside from the difference in packaging, the [[South Korea|Korea]]n release of the figure is identical to the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] releases. In place of the bio cards of the Takara releases, Lion Convoy comes with two "{{w|Rock paper scissors|Jan-ken-pon}}" cards. One has an image [[:File:C-16 Lion Convoy Sonokong.jpg|reflecting the one on the box]], with scissors and the number three die roll, and the other with paper and the number four die roll, with a grass plane background.

: [[Hasbro]] also offered Lio Convoy (the Takara version) as an [[exclusive]] on its now-defunct [[Hasbro Collectors]] website in [[2000]].

: This mold was also used to make [[Black Lio Convoy#Toys|Black Lio Convoy]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Cybertron/LioConvoy/lioconvoy.htm More information on Lio Convoy at TFU.info]''
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Shijō Saidai no Taiketsu: Lio Convoy VS Galvatron''' (史上最大の対決ライオコンボイVSガルバトロン, VS pack, 1998)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''VS-16'''
:*''Release date'': [[1998]] [[May 21]]
:*''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers

: Lio Convoy was also available in the "History's Greatest Showdown" two-pack with his arch-enemy [[Galvatron (BW)#Toys|Galvatron]].

: Both toys are identical to their individual releases.

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Gold Lio Convoy''' (1998)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-16'''
:*''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers

: Released exclusively through a ''Comic Bom Bom'' Lucky Draw contest in [[August]] 1998, Lio Convoy was released in two different variants of gold; the first wave was released in a matte gold plastic, while the second wave was released in gold chrome. In total, there were 10 Gold Lio Convoys made.

::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/resources/review/beast+wars+ii/gold+lio+convoy+chrome/3574 More information on "Gold Lio Convoy" at Transformers at the Moon]''
::*''[https://www.soundwavesoblivion.com/japanesebeastwars.html More information at Soundwaves Oblivion]''

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[[File:BWII LioConvoy Flash.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Blinged out and sparkly. Who are these toys marketed to again?]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Flash Lio Convoy''' (フラッシュライオコンボイ, 1998)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-16'''
:*''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers

:The first [[redeco]] of Lio Convoy in his "Flash" color scheme, which replaces most of his secondary colors with metal-flake gold and silver.

:He was released alongside Burning Convoy to promote the ''[[Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers|Beast Wars Special]]'' film.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Cybertron/FlashLioConvoy/flashlioconvoy.htm More information on Flash Lio Convoy at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BWII-Toy_LioConvoy_GalvatronLuckyDraw.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Please help. I fell into some Kool-Aid."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Lio Convoy Galvatron Color''' (ライオコンボイガルバトロンカラー, 1998)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-16'''
:*''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers

: A ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]'' [[Lucky Draw figure|Lucky Draw]] exclusive limited to only 50 units, Galvatron Color Lio Convoy is a [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]]-themed recolor of Lio Convoy. This rare toy represents Lio as he appeared in the ''Bom Bom'' manga story when his spark was tainted by [[Angolmois Energy]].

: This toy was only made available as a prize offered through the December 1998 issue of ''Comic Bom Bom''.

::*''[http://www.luckydrawtransformers.com/toy/gallery/review/galva+lio+convoy/886/galva+lio+convoy.html More information (and a photo gallery) on Galvatron Color Lio Convoy at luckydrawtransformers.com ]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Telemaga Special Cybertron 6-piece Set''' (Multi-pack, 1999)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers

: A black, red and yellow redeco of Lio Convoy was part of a six-piece set of unique redecoes of the main Cybertron cast of ''Beast Wars II'', the grand prize in the "New Beast Warriors Contest" in the February 1999 issue of ''[[TV Magazine]]''. The details of this contest are currently unknown.
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===''Robotmasters''===
[[File:RMLioConvoy toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I'm adorable!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Lio Convoy''' (ライオコンボイ, 2005)}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''RM-22'''
:*''Release date'': [[2005]] [[March 24]]
:*''Acessories:'' 2 "Gold Fangs", 2 "Laser Tonfas", "Lio Shot"

: Part of the sixth wave of Takara's ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' toys, Lio Convoy is functionally a scaled-down version of the original figure. Though he retains most of the original Lio Convoy's articulation, he lacks the spring-loaded [[gimmick]]s such as his spinning mane and missile launchers, and is of lower sculpted detail.

: Instead of spring-loaded weapons, Lio Convoy comes with a whopping five non-firing blasters. His beast mode mane has peg-holes to attach four of the weapons, simulating his bigger toy's [[attack mode|attack beast mode]]. The smaller handgun has several mounting points on it for adding the other guns, resulting in a superweapon.

: This mold was also used to make the ''Robotmasters'' version of [[Black Lio Convoy#Robotmasters|Black Lio Convoy]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Cybertron/LioConvoy/lioconvoy.htm ''More information on ''Robotmasters'' Lio Convoy at TFU.info'']

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[[File:RMLioConvoy DVD toy.jpg|thumb|I'm unobtainable!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Lio Convoy + DVD''' (ライオコンボイ+DVD, 2005)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''RM-23'''
:*''Release date'': [[2005]] [[March 24]]
:*''Accessories'': 2 "Gold Fangs", 2 "Laser Tonfas", "Lio Shot"

: Released alongside the normal ''Robotmasters'' Lio Convoy, this more limited-edition (yet still normal retail) redeco of Lio Convoy features a shiny metallic paint deco for his red parts.

: He also comes with a DVD with the second part of the short ''Robotmasters'' CGI-animated storyline.

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Cybertron/DVDLioConvoy/lioconvoy.htm ''More information on ''Robotmasters'' Lio Convoy + DVD at TFU.info'']
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===''Classics''===
[[File:Class06-toy LeoPrime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|This toy has caused untold years of war.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Leo Prime''' (Legends Class, 2007)}}</ul>
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Leo Prime''' (Legends Class "Cybertron Collection", 2008)}}</ul>
:*''Known designers'': [[Joe Kyde]] (deco artist)

:''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Leo Prime is a redeco of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]''-series [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends of Cybertron]] [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] toy, transforming into a robotic lion (well, liger, really). He was originally part of the first wave of ''Classics'' Legends, then later re-released in a wave with—even more unusually—the ''Cybertron''-series characters [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]], [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], and [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]], all of whom (Leo Prime included) had the words "Cybertron Collection" added to the standard ''Classics'' package design.

: Leo Prime is the only figure released under the ''Classics'' toyline based on a Beast Era character.

: This mold was also used to make [[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|''Universe'' (2008)]] [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/ClassicsLeoPrime/leoprime.htm ''More information on ''Classics'' Leo Prime at TFU.info'']
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===''Universe'' (2008)===
[[File:Leoprimeuniversevoyager.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|In the same zoo as Primal Prime.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Leo Prime''' (Voyager Class, 2009)}}</ul>
:*''Series'': Beast Wars Series
:*''Accessories'': Tail/"Jungle whip," Key
{{toydesigner|[[Andrew Scribner]] (deco artist)}}

: A [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Overhaul (Cybertron)#Voyager|Leobreaker]] with a new head and [[redeco]]ed in blue and red, Leo Prime transforms into a mechanical lion. Unlike previous releases of this mold, the electronics were removed and the battery cover is riveted closed. Each forelimb/arm has a Cyber-Key-released spring-loaded "snap-out robo-shredder claw," and his tail becomes a blade-whip for robot mode. As a redeco of Leobreaker, he can still transform into a "Savage Claw Mode", becoming a massive clawed arm that can attach to the Leader-class ''Cybertron'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys#Cybertron|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Armada)/toys#Cybertron|Megatron]] toys, usable on either side of their torsos. He comes with a silver-bordered blue Jungle Planet-type Cyber Key. His packaging designates him a [[Maximal]] despite the Autobot symbol on his chest.

:The new coloration for the character probably stems from an abortive [[BotCon]] attempt to redeco the original Lio Convoy toy in the colors of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|2007 movie Optimus Prime]], with the latter's flames conceptually transferred to the lion mane.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Although I wasn't a large part of the planning, I still glimpsed behind the curtain. 2009 was... a hodgepodge. A lot of cooks, one kitchen. And eventually the Wingsverse came out of the oven. (Which was still a bit of a mash up, given its two separate timeframes)|link=https://twitter.com/JesseWittenrich/status/1159527237097578496|name=Jesse Wittenrich|site=Twitter|year=2019|month=08|day=08|(defunct=)}} {{citesocial|quote=During the hodgepodge-iest moments of the planning for the exclusives, one concept included the original Lio Convoy mold decoed up as 2007 Movie Optimus Prime. The idea was pitched by a then @Hasbro employee so it was given a high priority.|link=https://twitter.com/JesseWittenrich/status/1159527247361036288|name=Jesse Wittenrich|site=Twitter|year=2019|month=08|day=08|(defunct=)}} {{citesocial|quote=Although no mock-up - physical or digital - was created and no characterization explored, the idea of the Optimus-colored Lio Convoy dug its claws in long enough for a tool check. Sadly, this was when it was first reported that the BWII Lio Convoy tool had gone missing!|link=https://twitter.com/JesseWittenrich/status/1159527249789554690|name=Jesse Wittenrich|site=Twitter|year=2019|month=08|day=08|(defunct=)}} {{citesocial|quote=And so the BotCon 2009 set dropped the Lio Convoy idea and we ended up getting Razorclaw from Cybertron Leobreaker instead. Once a robot lion has been on the table, you need to do a robot lion! 🤣|link=https://twitter.com/JesseWittenrich/status/1159527256080945153|name=Jesse Wittenrich|site=Twitter|year=2019|month=08|day=08|(defunct=)}} {{citesocial|quote=The same year though, in what is by all hunches not a coincidence, @Hasbro released Universe Leo Prime... the Leobreaker mold in Optimus Prime colors, Prime-like head-sculpt, and an English-centric name change for Lio Convoy that first appeared on a 2007 "Classics" repaint.|link=https://twitter.com/JesseWittenrich/status/1159527263265873921|name=Jesse Wittenrich|site=Twitter|year=2019|month=08|day=08|(defunct=)}} {{citesocial|quote=The Optimus color version is not quite Movie Optimus - I've always assumed that the specific callout to that Optimus due to someone wanting to recreate the truck's flame details inside the lion's mane - but the inspiration can be interpreted.|link=https://twitter.com/JesseWittenrich/status/1159527344614313987|name=Jesse Wittenrich|site=Twitter|year=2019|month=08|day=08|(defunct=)}} {{citesocial|quote=This figure ended up as the only exploration of a red and blue Lio Convoy/Leo Prime. At the time of its release, it was met with mixed reactions.|link=https://twitter.com/JesseWittenrich/status/1159527347554590720|name=Jesse Wittenrich|site=Twitter|year=2019|month=08|day=08|(defunct=)}}</ref>

: The original version of this mold was also used to create [[Nemesis Breaker#Toys|Nemesis Breaker]] and retooled to make [[BotCon 2009]] [[Razorclaw (G1)#Timelines|Razorclaw]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Maximal/LeoPrime/leoprime.htm More information on ''Universe'' Leo Prime at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Universe2008toy-LeoPrimeTarget.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|He hangs out with Walmart's red ''Universe'' Powerglide.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Leo Prime''' (Voyager Class, 2009)}}</ul>
:*''Series'': Beast Wars Series
:*''Accessories'': Tail/"Jungle whip," Key

: A [[Target]]-[[exclusive]] [[redeco]] was produced of the first ''Universe'' Leo Prime in colors that homage Lio Convoy's original color scheme. Though he was in ''Universe'' packaging, his cross sells were for the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' Voyager Class toys [[Stratosphere#Toys|Stratosphere]], [[Grindor (ROTF)#Toys|Grindor]], and [[Long Haul (ROTF)#Toys|Long Haul]]. Leo Prime's bio and call-outs remain the same.

: This release was exclusive to Target stores in the United States.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Maximal/TargetLeoPrime/leoprime.htm More information on "Target" Leo Prime at TFU.info]''
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===''Prime''===
[[File:Primetoy-LeoPrime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|That's Law Enforcement Officer Prime to you.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Leo Prime''' (レオプライム, [[2012]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''AM-28'''
:*''Release date'': [[2012]] [[December 15]]
:*''Accessories'': Foot/blade

: Part of the tenth wave of the [[TakaraTomy]] [[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Japan|''Prime'' toyline]], Leo Prime is a [[redeco]] of Voyager Class [[Thundertron#Prime|Thundertron]], transforming into a mechanical lion. His right robot mode foot can detach to reveal a bladed "peg-leg", with the original foot converting into a claw-weapon. Leo Prime comes with his [[Arms Micron]] partner, [[L.P.#Toys|L.P.]], who transforms into a sword.

: In an erroneous holdover, the catalogue that comes with Leo Prime labels the figure "Thundertron" (サンダートロン ''Sandātoron'').

: This mold was also used to make [[Go Prime#Toys|Go Prime]] and [[BotCon 2014]] [[Cheetor (BW)/toys#BotCon2014|Knight Alpha Trizer]].
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===''Legend Commander Collection''===
[[File:LegendCommanderCollection-LioConvoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Lio Convoy. the only one that Primus does not sin when he destroys."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Lio Convoy''' (ライオコンボイ, 2014)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''LC-03'''
:*''Accessories'': 2 "Gold Fangs", 2 "Laser Tonfa", "Lio Shot"

:Part of the ''[[Legend Commander Collection]]'' sold at [[Transformers Expo]], Lio Convoy is a redeco of ''Robotmasters'' Lio Convoy. Remaining stock was sold through [[TakaraTomy Mall]].
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===''Timelines''===
[[File:TFCC-Lio-Convoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''If it is my fate, I will make up my mind, so please cut me some slack for now. Surely there will be a tomorrow, aah, after today.'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Lio Convoy''' (TCC incentive figure, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': blaster, [[Solipsistic Staff|axe]]

: The [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] member incentive figure of 2015, ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Lio Convoy is a retool of ''Thrilling 30'' Deluxe Class [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Deluxe|Orion Pax]], transforming into a truck. He comes with a blaster and axe, both of which can peg onto 5mm ports on his hands and vehicle rear sides. Although not depicted on the instructions, the blaster can also peg into the hole on the larger blade of the Energon Axe.

:Some units have [[Quality control|two left fists]].

:Lio Convoy was [[redeco]]ed into [[Nova Prime#Toys|Nova Prime]] and [[Galva Convoy#Toys|Galva Convoy]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Maximal/TFCCLioConvoy/lioconvoy.htm More information on ''Timelines'' Lio Convoy at TFU.info]''
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===''Legends''===
[[File:TF-Legends-LG41-Lio-Convoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|But can he kill Unicron in just one single shot?]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Leo Prime''' (レオプライム, [[2017]])}}
:*''ID number'': '''LG41'''
:*''Release date'': [[2017]] [[February 25]]
:*''Accessories'': Ancient Sword, Headmaster, Leo Missile gun, small gun

:''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Leo Prime is a redeco of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Voyager Class [[Alpha Trion (G1)#Generations|Alpha Trion]] using [[Infinitus#Generations|Infinitus]]'s head, and he transforms from a robot to "ancient leo" to "space carrier". He is armed with an "[[L.P.|Ancient Sword]]" (named the "[[Solipsistic Staff|Solipsistic Sword]]" in ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]''), a "Leo Missile" gun ("[[Typhoon Arrow]]" in ''Uprising'') that his Headmaster can ride in spaceship mode, and a smaller handgun that, like Infinitus, was previously included with [[Sentinel Prime (G1)#Generations|Sentinel Prime]]. As with Hasbro's ''Titans Return'' Voyager figures, pressing in his chest crystal is meant to make his head adornments, the "Great Horn", spring up to "bulk up" his head, but the switch is much weaker than Alpha Trion's and is incapable of holding the horns down for longer than a second or so.
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===''Masterpiece''===
[[File:Masterpiece MP-48-Lio Convoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Kimba really has gotten so big.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Lio Convoy (Beast Wars)''' (ライオコンボイ (ビーストウォーズ), [[2020]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''MP-48'''
:*''Release date'': [[2020]] [[February 29]]
:*''Accessories'': "[[Maximal Buster|Cybertron Buster]]", 4 "Lio Missiles", 2 "Lio Beams", "Holder Parts"

:''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' "Lio Convoy (Beast Wars)" transforms from white lion to robot and is intended to replicate his animated appearance. He is designed to scale with other ''Beast Wars''-based ''Masterpiece'' figures. Incidentally, he also scales with the Ultra-sized ''Beast Wars Neo'' [[Big Convoy#Toys|Big Convoy]].

:This toy replicates many features of the original toy, like an opening chest hatch with sculpted Matrix inside, deployable arm blades and cannons, and missiles which can be inserted into his cannons, but have no launching mechanisms. He includes his Cybertron Buster gun from the anime, as well as opening hatches on his calves which reveal articulated jet boosters. To really go the extra mile for show-accuracy, it has two slightly distinct lion heads, to better depict how in robot mode the lion head goes from furry to smooth and angular.

:Lio Convoy was planned to come with a poseable [[Artemis]] figure, but this was omitted from the final product.

:Lio Convoy was a candidate in [[TakaraTomy]]'s [[Fan polls#Masterpiece Fan's Choice|''Masterpiece'' Fan's Choice]] poll in 2013, which asked fans to determine which Autobot/Maximal leader from the franchise's then-30 year history should receive a new ''Masterpiece'' toy. He placed ninth out of eleven candidates, with only 2% of the vote, and yet here we are seven years later! Sucks to be [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]].

:Lio Convoy was released as an EB Games exclusive in Canada. Lio Convoy was later repainted into [[Dark Amber Leo Prime#Toys|Dark Amber Leo Prime]].
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:Legacy_EV_LeoPrime.jpeg|upright=1.66|thumb|Kimba's midlife crisis hit him hard.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Maximal Leo Prime''' (Voyager Class, [[2023]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Leo Prime''' (レオプライム)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TL-25'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[March 25]]
:*''Accessories'': 4 missile blasters
:*''Known designers'': [[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Shuhei Umezu]] (TakaraTomy)<ref>[https://youtu.be/vuZHDR3ZBd8 Transformers Panel] at [[Hasbro Pulse Con 2022]] Day 1 on the [[Hasbro Pulse]] YouTube channel.</ref>

:Part of the first wave of Voyagers in ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: Evolution]]'', "Maximal Leo Prime" transforms from an anime-accurate version of his robot mode (with the bottom set of abs unpainted) to a realistic white & gold lion. His left pectoral can open, revealing a chamber with a non-removable [[Energon Matrix]] that is [[Fire Blast effect]]-compatible. The [[Evo-Fusion]] gimmick consists of his lion's mane being able to flip out, revealing blasters (based on his "Lio Missiles"), and his front paws can reveal flip-out claws (based on his "Lion Claws"). The shorter blasters can store in the mane or be handheld, while the longer blasters can either peg on to the sides of the mane, the flip out panels on the forearms, or store inside the panel on Lio Convoy's back. While stored in Lio Convoy's back in robot mode, the blasters can double as the thrusters he used in the ''Beast Wars II'' cartoon, complete with Fire Blast effect parts if one so chooses. Placing the smaller blasters in the 5mm ports on the sides of his robot legs can also give him leg thrusters like in the cartoon too. Completely undocumented in the instructions, the two longer blasters can remain stored in his back panel in beast mode.

:Contrary to what Hasbro designer [[Mark Maher]] stated on his personal Instagram (link below), Leo Prime ''doesn't'' actually have the ability to perform his "Lion Typhoon" attack, as there are no rotating parts in the lion's mane, though utilizing all of the flip-out panels on the mane, one ''can'' somewhat attempt a semi-accurate, static portrayal of it. That being said, it appears Mark Maher was ''actually'' referring to Lio Convoy/Leo Prime's "Lio Missile" attack (the attack mode with all of the blasters flipped out of the mane), not the "Lion Typhoon" attack proper.

:This figure was revealed during [[Hasbro Pulse Con 2022]]. Though scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2023, its wave arrived at Hong Kong retail in early December 2022. He was later redecoed into [[Black Lio Convoy#Legacy|Nemesis Leo Prime]].

:Some copies do not have undersized Energon Matrix pegs, resulting in some blast effects not fitting snugly or even at all. This appears to be due to only the flat end of the peg being painted blue, while the sides are left bare gray.

::*[https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj_4CLXswFS/ ''Mark Maher's designer commentary on Legacy Evolution Leo Prime'']
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===''40th Selection''===
[[File:TF-40th-Selection-Lio-Convoy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Your father was a noble lion. Let me tell you about him. The story of the bravest of them all, the true King of the jungle.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Lio Convoy''' (ライオコンボイ, [[2025]])}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[2025]] [[February 22]]
:*''Accessories'': 2 guns

:''40th Selection'' Lio Convoy is a redeco and extensive retool on the ''Legacy'' Voyager above, featuring a more anime-accurate lion head and mane, allowing him to properly recreate his signature "Lion Typhoon" attack, as well as longer extendable "Lion Claws". In terms of deco, the yellow has been replaced with toy-accurate gold paint, and the bottom two "abs" of the "six pack" in his robot abdomen are now properly painted instead of left bare.
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==Merchandise==
{{anchor|bluePVC}}
*'''Beast Collection Special 10''' (PVC set, 1998)

: Two clear-blue super-deformed PVCs of Lio Convoy were included as part of a ten-piece set of PVCs. He comes in both robot mode and lion mode; the lion mode has his four mane-cannons deployed, with his entire mane/head as a separate piece that slots onto the body.

: This set was also marked as a "Clear Version Special Set", but it's unknown if there an opaque set was ever released.

: This set also includes PVCs of [[Galvatron (BW)#bluePVC|Galvatron]] in both robot and dragon modes, [[Apache#bluePVC|Apache]], [[Bighorn#bluePVC|Bighorn]], [[Scuba#bluePVC|Scuba]], [[Tasmania Kid#bluePVC|Tasmania Kid]], [[Megastorm#bluePVC|Megastorm]], and [[Starscream (BW)#bluePVC|Starscream]].
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===''Beast Wars Gum''===
*'''Lio Convoy''' (candy toy, 1997)
:A snap together model kit of Lio Convoy was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Gum|Beast Wars Gum]]'', sculpted from purple and gold plastic. He could transform from robot to beast mode by being broken down into its component parts, then rebuilt into a new mode. It came with a stick of gum.
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===''Beast Fighters''===
*'''Lio Convoy''' (candy toy, 1997)
:Kabaya's ''[[Beast Fighters]]'' Lio Convoy was a small, [[super deformed]] PVC model which was hollow inside, designed to be used as a finger-puppet. It was available in a [[Blindpacking|blindpack]] with fizzy "Ramune" candy.

===Flame Toys===
==== Furai Model ====
*'''Leo Prime''' (May 2022)
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==== Furai Action ====
*'''Leo Prime''' (May 2023)
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==Notes==
[[File:LioConcept.JPG|thumb|Concept art]]
*The concept of the leader of the heroic faction transforming into a lion may have its genesis in a planned [[retool]] of [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (then known as [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]) into [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] with a lion alternate mode.
*Lio Convoy's beast mode is probably based on the main character of the classic manga, ''{{w|Jungle Emperor Leo}}'', better known to the English speaking world as ''Kimba the White Lion''.
*Lio Convoy, like a ton of other [[Kre-O Transformers (comic)|''Kre-O'' comic]] characters, uses existing Kre-O pieces. As such, he uses the [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] helmet, the [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] lion head and mane (though they are rather smaller than normal), and a form of backpack piece to hold it on Lio Convoy's right-hand shoulder.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Lio Convoy''' (ライオコンボイ ''Raio Konboi''), '''Leo Prime''' (レオプライム ''Reo Puraimu'')
*''Korean:'' '''Lion Convoy''' (라이온콘보이 ''Raion Konboi'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Bái Shī Qíngtiānzhù''' (白狮擎天柱, "White Lion Optimus Prime")

==References==
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Nightstrike

2024-08-01T02:21:59Z

Dracodis: /* Legacy */

{{faction|decepticon|starseeker}}
:''Nightstrike is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[File:Nightstrike-TTcardart.jpg|thumb|250px|I'm Man-Bat.]]
If you met '''Nightstrike''', you might be impressed by how polite and mild-mannered he is. Of course, that's offset by his monstrous, bat-like visage. Less obvious than either of these things are his ability to use his sonic scream in order to stimulate the fear processing centers of his victims' brains, and his vampiric ability to drain them of their [[energon]]. He may tell you he's simply doing what he needs to survive, but Nightstrike will still readily drain the life out of whomever he ends up trapping in their own nightmares.

==Fiction==
===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Tom Kenny]] (English), [[Yutaka Aoyama]] (Japanese)|[[Luca Catanzaro]] (Italian), [[Christoph Banken]] (German)}}
[[File:TRID E 15 Nightstrike BM.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The [[Dracula]] to Steeljaw's Wolfman.]]
Nightstrike was interred on the prison ship ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'', until it crashed and he was released from his stasis pod. Later, he would invade the Autobots' scrapyard, where he abducted one of [[Chop Shop (RID)|Chop Shop]]'s spiders, dragging them off to his cavernous layer. Though they quickly lost both his and his victim's signal, [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and his team ''did'' discover his location. However, he was able to capture them all in short order, including the Autobots' human ally, [[Denny Clay]], who was both not affected by Nightstrike's powers ''and'' possessed no energon for Nightstrike to feed upon. Undeterred, Nightstrike plunged the rest of his captives into vivid hallucinations based on their worst fears while he prepared to feed.

[[File:TRID E 15 Nightstrike Sonic Shriek.jpg|thumb|200px|''Olly olly oxen free!'']]

Denny managed to convince Nightstrike a rescue party was on its way, allowing his son [[Russell Clay|Russell]] to free him while Nightstrike "prepared" for their arrival. However, the Decepticon returned in short order, causing both humans to run distractions while the other worked to free the Cybertronians. Ultimately, Nightstrike was defeated when the freed Autobots disabled their audio receptors, allowing [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] to dispatch him in short order. {{storylink|Even Robots Have Nightmares}}

Nightstrike's stasis pod was later taken back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] by [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], [[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]] and [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 2)}}
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==Games==
===''Nestlé Arcade''===
{{Charstubgames}}{{storylink|Nestlé Arcade}}
==Toys==
===''Legacy''===
[[File:TF-Legacy-United-Nightstrike.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|"Maybe I'll go start my own rebellion! With pirate ships! And vampires! On fire! Vampyrates!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-ss|'''Star Raider Thundertron / Star Raider Nightstrike / Infernac Universe Calcitron''' (Multipack, [[2024]])}}</ul>

: ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy United]]'' Nightstrike is a redeco of [[Skar (G1)#Generations Selects|''Generations Selects'' Skar]], transforming into a "shield". This flattened box mode is theoretically compatible with [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' Soundwave]], but in practice it is slightly too large to fit into his chest compartment without bending the clear plastic door. He can, however, attach to Soundwave and other figures as some sort of shield via [[5 mm post]]. He can also use the two slots on Thundertron's right shoulder to perch on it, like how [[Squawktalk (G1)|parrots]] are shown in pop-culture depictions of pirates. The alternate mode appears to be designed to look like a color-inverted Jolly Roger, which is hilarious.

: He was only available packaged with [[Thundertron#Legacy|Star Raider Thundertron]] and [[Calcitron#Toys|Infernac Universe Calcitron]] as part of the [[Walmart]] exclusive "Star Raider Collection". Unlike most multi-packs, Nightstrike and his box-mates are packed in an upright Leader-sized window-box that's more akin to packaging for a single figure, rather than the usual more horizontal boxes used for multiple-figure sets.

: This set went up on pre-order on Walmart's website [[July 19]], even though the set was available at Asian retail before any official acknowledgement by Hasbro..
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==Merchandise==
===''Tiny Titans''===
[[File:TinyTitans Nightstrike.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|"Releasing Control Art Restriction Systems 3...2...1. Approval of situation A recognized; commencing the Cromwell Invocation. Ability restrictions lifted for limited use until the enemy has been rendered silent."]]
*'''Nightstrike''' (Tiny Titans, 2016)
**''Series'': '''6'''
**''Number'': '''7/12'''

: Part of the sixth and final [[Blindpacking|blind-bagged]] assortment of ''[[Tiny Titans]]'', this small, soft-plastic figurine depicts Nightstrike in his not-seen-in-the-show robot mode.

: He comes with a trading card with a scan-badge for the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game]], which unlocks a random amount of Energon "currency" and a randomized bonus power-up item.

==Notes==
* Nightstrike was first seen briefly months before his episode's debut, in the first ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)#Japanese release|Transformers Adventure]]'' [[title sequence]], using footage taken directly from "[[Even Robots Have Nightmares]]".
* Nightstrike's robot mode does not appear in the ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon; the Tiny Titan was the first indication of a non-bat mode.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Nightstrike''' (ナイトストライク ''Naitosutoraiku'')

[[Category:Legacy Star Raiders]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) Decepticons]]
[[Category:Vampires]]

Legend! The Green Warrior

2022-03-06T21:08:48Z

Dracodis: /* Real world references */

{{episode
|series=beast wars ii
|ep=42
|image=BWII 42 Green Warrior.jpg
|caption=
|title="Legend! The Green Warrior"
|japanese=伝説! 緑の戦士
|romaji=Densetsu! Midori no Senshi
|production code=
|production company=[[TV Tokyo]], [[Nihon Ad Systems|NAS]], [[Ashi Productions]]
|airdate=[[January 20|20 January]] [[1999]]
|writer=[[Junki Takegami]]
|director=[[Yūnosuke Yanase]]
|animation studio= [[Ashi Productions]]
|continuity=[[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''Can Lio Junior save his father in the torrent of Angolmois Energy?'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:BW_II_ep42_Lio_Junior.jpg|thumb|left]]Running to the endangered [[Lio Convoy]], [[Lio Junior]] transforms into robot mode and enters the [[Angolmois Energy]] intake, despite the energetic surge. [[Santon]] and [[Skywarp (BW)|Skywarp]] try to give chase, but are forced back by the intense energies. [[Megastorm|Gigastorm]] looks over the Angolmois Energy absorption and cheers on his brother for potentially killing himself with the Angolmois Energy, a delusion which [[Starscream (BW)|Hellscream]] mocks.

Lio Junior walks a corridor within Nemesis, despite the streaming Angolmois Energy and runs into [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]], who claims to the worried [[Maximal]] that his "father" died after being hit by the Angolmois Energy. Lio Junior is incredulous, believing that Lio convoy would never die till he put an end to the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] menace and heads into another corridor before Galvatron stops him. The [[Emperor of Destruction]] makes another offer for Lio Junior to join him in universal conquest, but Lio Junior soundly rejects it, to Galvatron's regret.

[[File:BW_II_ep42_Galvatron.jpg|thumb|Dramatic standing around!]]On the planet's surface, the Maximals worry about both lions, and [[Diver (BW)|Diver]] hits upon the idea of using the surrounding rocks to seal the intake and allow the two some breathing room. But they're prevented from carrying out the plan by the Predacons still on the surface. A figure emerges from the intake, to [[Santon]] and [[Skywarp (BW)|Skywarp]]'s hope, but it turns out to be Galvatron! The Predacon leader explains that the Angolmois Energy blew away Lio Convoy, and Lio Junior is heading to the core, an apparent Maximal loss which excites the other Predacons. Gigastorm tries his disingenuous sycophancy, but Galvatron calls him out for his lack of compassion, courage, and loyalty to his older brother. While Lio Junior and Lio Convoy were enemies, they warranted more respect than his disappointing "successor". [[Apache]] calls on the other Maximals to not believe what Galvatron said, and they try to assist, but the Predacons use their firepower to put a stop to their attempt. Santon and Skywarp try to leap into Nemesis, but Galvatron refuses to allow them to interfere with his fortress planet.

In the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], [[Artemis]] and [[Moon (BW)|Moon]] watch the unfolding events and try the one thing they can do to help: Pray. This turns out to be effective, as Artemis comes in touch with Gaia's spirit, its life, and its lands. She glows and warns Moon that her plan will put their lives on the line; when the rabbit agrees to do so, Artemis explains that they will move the Moon between Nemesis and Gaia to stop the Angolmois Energy flow!

[[File:BW_II_ep42_Moon_Alignment.jpg|thumb|left|When the Moon blocks your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's Artemis.]]In Nemesis, Lio Junior struggles to continue his search for his father and finally collapses in exhaustion...

On the surface, Galvatron calls on the Maximals to surrender in the face of insurmountable odds, but is surprised when the flow of Angolmois Energy stops! He looks up to the sky and sees that the Moon has blocked it, which the Maximals credit to the "Goddess of Gaia". Inside the satellite, Artemis and Moon reckon with the intense heat caused by the Angolmois Energy, and the gynoid thanks her companion for being there with her. Galvatron is baffled by this series of events and infuriated at just how close he is to universal conquest...

[[File:BW_II_ep42_Energon_Shield.jpg|thumb]]With the Angolmois Energy gone, Lio Convoy wakes up Lio Junior through their [[Energon Matrix]] and the lesser lion stumbles into a chamber where he finds the core with Lio Convoy trapped within. The greater lion explains that he is being protected by a shield made by the Energon Matrix, but that the Angolmois Energy surrounding him will burn him out if the shield is broken. Lio Convoy asks Lio Junior to go back and assist the other Maximals in defeating Galvatron, but Lio Junior refuses and uses his portion of the Energon Matrix to enter the core to rescue his father.

With nobody coming up to the surface from the interior, Galvatron boasts that both lions are done with, but this turns out to be premature as a magnificent emerald-hued lion emerges from the pit in a burst of energy. The Matrices of Lio Junior and Lio Convoy have united as one, and the Legendary Green Lion has been born as was foretold! Galvatron calls on Gigastorm to prove his loyalty by attacking the strange lion, and the younger brother obliges. His attacks leave no scratch and the Green Lion responds with a Matrix Typhoon attack that soundly takes out Gigastorm! Galvatron stares down the lion as the true final battle begins...

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s|c1=
*[[Lio Junior]] (1)
*[[Santon]] (2)
*[[Skywarp (BW)|Skywarp]] (3)
*[[Lio Convoy]] (9)
*[[Diver (BW)|Diver]] (11)
*[[Apache]] (12)
*[[Bighorn]] (13)
*[[Tasmania Kid]] (14)

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s|c2=
*[[Dirge (BW)|Dirgegun]] (4)
*[[Thrust (BW)|Thrustor]] (5)
*[[BB|Max-B]] (6)
*[[Starscream (BW)|Hellscream]] (7)
*[[Megastorm|Gigastorm]] (8)
*[[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]] (10)

|c4=
*[[Artemis]] (15)
*[[Moon (BW)|Moon]] (16)

}}

==Notes==
===Transformers references===
===Real world references===
*Considering the real world esoteric origin of the word "Angolmois," the Legendary Green Lion is possibly inspired from European alchemy, wherein the green lion was a symbol representing sulfuric acid (then called "oil of vitriol" or "vitriol of Venus"), which was prized for its ability to dissolve all but the gold present in a substance.

===Trivia===

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote|japanese}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — ACT. 14 ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]])

[[Category:Beast Wars II episodes]]

Lio Convoy (BW)

2022-03-06T21:08:36Z

Dracodis: /* Notes */

{{factions|maximal|predacon|autobot|convoy}}
:''Lio Convoy is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
{{excessivesarcasm|Intro paragraph yet to be DeSpenglered}}
[[File:BWIILioConvoyColorModel.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|He's no [[Leoric]].]]
As he rose through the ranks of the Maximal Space Patrol, '''Lio Convoy''' (ライオコンボイ ''Raio Konboi'', aka '''Leo Prime''') and his honest nature, selfless dedication to duty and ability to lead by example quickly caught the attention, and earned the respect, of his superior officers. Now with his own crew of loyal Maximals, Lio Convoy continues to display those qualities in the heat of desperate combat.

While on the surface he appears to be a tough, exacting, career-military sort of robot, any Maximal who has served under him knows that there's a smile behind his face-plate and a gentleness at the core of his [[spark]]. Though he yearns for a universe forever at peace, Lio Convoy takes to the battlefield with precision, strength and cunning. He believes that combat, more than anything else, reveals an enemy's true character and it has been through combat that Lio Convoy has made both his bitterest rivals and most enduring friendships.

Though compassionate by nature, Lio Convoy stumbles when it comes to expressing anything outside the perimeters of gruff military rhetoric. This attitude has strained his relationship with his "son", [[Lio Junior]], who wants only to obtain the approval of his "father".

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars II'' toy catalog===
[[File:PrimalLioConvoyCatalog01.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Beast Thumb Wars]]

As Lio Convoy advanced through the ranks of the Maximal Space Patrol, his progress was observed by an impressed [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]. When the time finally came, Primal chose him as his successor for his strength and bravery (though he felt he could be too straightforward, at times). Lio Convoy happily shook Primal's hand and promised not to let his predecessor down. {{storylink|Catalog#Beast Wars II|''Beast Wars II'' catalog}}
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===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' cartoon====
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{{voiceactor|[[Hozumi Gōda]] (Japanese)|[[Jung Goo Lee]] (Korean)}}

[[File:Lioconvoy preformat.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|"TRUKK NOT LYON!"]]
During his training period, the Maximal known as Convoy worked alongside another recruit named Apache. In an extreme conditions test, the instructors told recruits to leave those who fell behind where they lay, and focus on their own success. When Apache dropped from exhaustion, however, Convoy, shared his energy with Apache so that they could both continue on together. Convoy's act of kindness earned him a loyal friend for life. {{storylink|Mystery of the Ancient Ruins}}

Receiving a mysterious SOS signal from within an asteroid field, Maximal Supreme Commander Convoy investigated alongside his deputy, Apache. Entering the field in small one-man reconnaissance crafts, the pair discovered that the signal was coming from a small planetoid that suddenly began bearing down on them in a collision course. Realising that the whole affair had been a trap laid by the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] Emperor [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]], Convoy sprang into action and opened fire on the planetoid, which exploded dramatically. When the Maximals were under attack in Galvaburg II, Lio Convoy attacked them in his White Lion Mode and they escaped. {{storylink|The New Forces Arrive!|The New Forces Arrive!}} While the blast hurled Apache to safety, however, Convoy took the brunt of the explosion and was cast into the depths of the cosmos, eventually crash landing on the planet [[Gaia]]. When he regained consciousness, his body had already been weakened and corroded by the hazardous atmosphere of the planet, and he would surely have died had not a white lion come upon his prone form. The lion carried Convoy to a cave brimming with the power of [[Angolmois Energy]], which restored and revitalized Convoy. Convoy then scanned the lion's form for use as a [[beast mode]] to protect him from Gaia's atmosphere, and redubbed himself "Lio Convoy".

As coincidence would have it, Galvatron and his Predacons had also come to Gaia to harness its Angolmois Energy, and Lio Convoy's unit had followed them, but wound up on the losing end of the battle that resulted. Staying in lion mode the whole time, Lio Convoy bounded onto the scene and freed his troops from the energy web that was paralyzing them, then led them back to the crashed wreck of their ship, the ''[[Yukikaze (BW)|Yukikaze]]'', where he revealed his identity to them (although Apache had already figured it out). Stranded on Gaia, the team dedicated themselves to stopping Galvatron's evil plans for the Angolmois Energy. {{storylink|White Lion, Run!|White Lion, Run!}}

At Lio Convoy's direction, the Maximals searched the area for signs of the ''Galvaburg II''. Once [[Megastorm]] was drawn out into the open by [[Diver (BW)|Diver]], Lio Convoy and Apache arrived to support their team in battle. Lio Convoy told [[Bighorn]] to stand down so the team could fight as a unit, but the enraged buffalo could not be restrained. Lio Convoy allowed his trooper to stand alone against Megastorm as he wished, only providing support when [[Starscream (BW)|Starscream]] and [[BB]] intervened on the fight. {{storylink|Bighorn's Rage}}

Soon after, Lio Convoy became concerned when [[Tasmania Kid]] reported in from patrol that he had found something, but went off on his own without waiting for the team. Convoy led the Maximals to the site of Kid's last transmission, where he, Apache and Bighorn were caught in Starscream's trap. Lio Convoy drew Starscream's attention while Diver and [[Scuba]] infiltrated the lake base and disabled the force field containing them. Once all the Maximals escaped the exploding base, Lio Convoy instructed Kid to thank the Tasmanian devil that helped him in his ordeal. {{storylink|The Lake Trap}}

When Megastorm unleashed a swarm of fortress building robots, the mere six Maximals were outmatched and couldn't keep up with destroying all the drones. Matters didn't improve when Galvatron awoke for the first time since landing on Gaia, freshly empowered by Angolmois Energy. Lio Convoy used his lion-agility to divert Galvatron's drill tank mode up a mountain pass towards the mouth of a volcano, but an unexpected leg sprain ended the game of cat-and-juggernaut. Luckily, Scuba was there to save Lio Convoy by triggering a geyser of water under Galvatron, flipping him over.

The Maximals hoped to rid themselves of Galvatron by burying his prone form in a rockslide, but Galvatron emerged in his ''third'' form, an enormous dragon. The dragon chased Lio Convoy and his men into the mouth of the volcano. Unable to stop him directly, Lio Convoy directed the Maximals to shoot out the ledge Galvatron was standing on, in hopes of dropping him into the volcano itself. The Maximals' firepower was not enough, but the ambitious Megastorm saw their plan and covertly fired his cannon as well, sending Galvatron falling into the lava flow. {{storylink|Galvatron Revived}}

The Maximals detected energy readings coming from the Southern Continent, they took two short-range ships down south as a temporary mobile base of operations. When the readings centered on a set of ancient ruins, Lio Convoy went out to investigate and took Apache with him for support. The two came under fire from Starscream and BB, who carpet-bombed the forest to destroy the Maximals. Apache fell behind again, and Lio Convoy carried him to safety beneath the protection of the ruins. Apache's old sense of inadequacy from their training days had flared up, but Convoy brushed it aside as Apache had inadvertently led them to the secret entrance of the ruins.

[[File:BW2_ep6_ConvoyStare.jpeg|thumb|]]Inside the pyramid, Lio Convoy and Apache were separated by a trap door. Convoy followed Apache down the trick shaft and found him a captive of the ornery [[Insectron]], [[Mantis]]. Lio Convoy was forced to fight the territorial Mantis, and fared poorly against Mantis's disc attacks and scythe blades. As Mantis pummeled Lio Convoy on the ground, however, Apache's determination led him to break free of his restraints and unleash a third mode as a weapons platform, discharging raw energy that literally brought the house down. As Mantis fell into a crevice, Lio Convoy leapt to his aid and caught the falling warrior. Mantis was confused by this act of sacrifice, and Lio Convoy insisted it was because they ''weren't'' enemies. Grumbling, Mantis shook himself free and used his wings to fly away on his own. Reuniting with their fellow Maximals, Lio Convoy thanked Apache for his aid, and chuckled at the fact that Apache apparently suffered amnesia from the act, making his secret third mode a secret even from him.{{storylink|Mystery of the Ancient Ruins}}

With the [[Insectron]]s as a new potential threat, Lio Convoy cautioned the Maximals not to make enemies of the Insectrons unnecessarily. As a result, he sent out teams of two to locate the Insectrons, and ordered his men not to fire on them, but engage in dialogue. Kid and Lio Convoy were nearby when Bighorn and Apache were attacked by the Insectrons [[Bigmos]] and [[Tonbot]], who had been fed false information on the Maximals by Starscream. They tried to stop the fighting when they arrived, but Starscream and BB opened fire on both parties to avoid any peaceful dialogue. The Maximals warned the Insectrons of the incoming missiles, and threw their own bodies on top of their opponents' delicate insect modes for protection. Confused by the act of self-sacrifice, Bigmos and Tonbot departed without further conflict. {{storylink|The Insect Corps Arrive}}

Lio Convoy maintained that the Insectrons were potential allies, not enemies. Having been on the receiving end of their missiles, Bighorn couldn't understand Lio Convoy's thinking. As the only Maximal who had personally battled an Insectron, Mantis, Lio Convoy could not explain his reasoning, but the way they fought made it seem as if the Insectrons were not truly evil. Soon after, Bighorn and several Maximals were tricked into another fight with the Insectrons by the Predacons. Lio Convoy, Apache and Scuba saved their friends from an opportunistic Predacon attack after the Maximals were low on energy. Afterwards, Bighorn told Lio Convoy his own impression after fighting [[Powerhug (BW)|Powerhug]] was the same as Convoy's, and the Insectrons' fighting style was not that of a malevolent group. {{storylink|Friend or Foe? The Insect Robos}}

Lio Convoy and the Maximals came to the aid of Tasmania Kid, who had discovered a plot by Starscream to undermine the Insectrons with spiked oil. Tensions increased as Galvatron emerged from his slumber, out of control after imbibing on the same oil. Luckily, bonds were forged in the heat of battle as Bigmos and his Insectrons joined forces with Lio Convoy and the Maximals against Galvatron. Bigmos lured Galvatron into position for Lio Convoy to fire a volley of missiles straight down the dragon's throat, ending his threat for the moment. In the aftermath, the Maximals and Insectrons talked out their differences for the first time. Although Bigmos refused to join the fight against the Predacons full-time, preferring to live in peace, Lio Convoy offered his hand in friendship and the feuding between the two groups ceased. {{storylink|The Strongest Tag Team?}}

Their alliance was tested when Bigmos was forced to honor an old debt to [[Autostinger]] of the Predacons, stepping aside while the [[Autoroller (BW)|Autoroller]]s fought the Maximals. Still, he saved Autostinger from a barrage of Lio Convoy's missiles, negating the debt. Lio Convoy and Apache attended a duel between Bigmos and Autostinger, but it was interrupted by Predacon missile fire, leaving issues between the various factions unresolved. {{storylink|Autorollers Roll Out!}}

When NAVI reported Kid and [[Scissor Boy]] were approaching the base with the Autorollers, Lio Convoy correctly deduced their friends had been captured, and were trying to lead the Predacons into an ambush. Lio Convoy and the Maximals intercepted the Autorollers, freeing their friends after a fight with Megastorm and his mercenaries. {{storylink|Danger! Scissor Boy}} Lio Convoy and the Maximals were later called in by Scuba to join forces with the Autorollers, as Galvatron had gone on a rampage while engorged on Angolmois Energy. Lio Convoy acted as bait to lure Galvatron into position, opening his massive jaws to take in a concentrated spray of Angolmois Energy. They overfed Galvatron with the energy until his bloated form nearly exploded from within, rendering him harmless. {{storylink|Galvatron Rampages}}

When the Predacons launched a massive offensive on the Southern Continent, Lio Convoy led the Maximals and teamed up with the Insectrons to foil their plans once again. {{storylink|Predacon General Offensive!}}

The Maximals were soon met by a trio called the [[Jointron]]s, who arrived on Gaia's Eastern continent and demonstrated their powerful [[Tripledacus]] combination. Thinking they could take on the entire Predacon army by themselves, the Jointrons flew into battle, followed by Bighorn, Diver, and Kid, who were worried the Jointrons would take all the credit for a victory, or possibly get themselves killed. As the dust settled, Apache looked to Lio Convoy for a response, and the commander sighed (''deeply'') before acknowledging they should follow and keep the younger Maximals out of trouble. Apache and Lio Convoy soon joined Scuba in helping Tripledacus escape the ''Galvaburg II'' when he bit off more than he could chew. {{storylink|The Combined Giant, Tripledacus}}

While Lio Convoy and most of the Maximals were out on patrol, the Jointrons took over one of the base ships and turned off the cloaking field, hoping to lure the Predacons in and defeat them. Lio Convoy spotted the signal flare they launched, and radioed in to hear Apache and Diver were being overwhelmed by the Jointrons' antics. By the time he arrived back at base, however, Lio Convoy saw that the Autorollers had taken the ship hostage by training their missiles on the exterior fuel tanks. Luckily, the Jointrons came outside and distracted the Autorollers with oil, allowing Lio Convoy to take them down without destroying the ship. As the Jointrons held a celebration in their own honor to celebrate capturing some Predacons, however, the enemy escaped and everyone was right back where they started. {{storylink|The Festive Jointrons}}

While the Maximals were searching for the latest Predacon fortress, the Jointrons were exposed to a bacteria bomb that robbed them of their power. Lio Convoy and the other Maximals saved the Jointrons by posing as the massive Jointron II. They compensated for Kid and Diver's exposure to the bacteria by sharing energy between one another, in a proud display of teamwork. {{storylink|A Fearsome Combination Plan?}}

The Jointrons caused more chaos when they stole one of the base ships to approach a Predacon fortress from the air. Lio Convoy and the Maximals followed them in the second ship, but were rammed out of the sky by the Jointrons' poor piloting. The Predacons were engaged in an operation to kidnap the Jointrons and study their combination transformation. While the other Maximals worked to recover the kidnapped Jointron brothers, Lio Convoy and Apache made short work of the Autorollers back at the fortress, and the installation was soon destroyed. {{storylink|Who Is the Leader!?}}

One day, Tasmania Kid found a [[Copy Machine]] that scanned objects to create three-dimensional duplicates of the subject. Believing the Machine's abilities could help bolster the Maximals' ranks, Kid shined the Machine's ray on Lio Convoy, creating "[[Black Lio Convoy|Copy Convoy]]". Unfortunately, the machine only created ''evil'' copies. Copy Convoy declared himself the original and began to fight Lio Convoy. Lio Convoy initially engaged his copy alone, but soon realized they were so evenly matched the two fighters would battle without victory until they completely ran out of energy. Copy Convoy sent running by the watching Maximals, but soon returned to the ''Yukikaze'' and asked the other Maximals to come outside and meet him in peace. The Maximals didn't fully trust the copy, but didn't know how to deal with him since Copy Convoy knew everything Lio Convoy did. Luckily, Lio Convoy saw an advantage in that. Diver had made his own modifications to the defense network surrounding the ''Yukikaze's'' waterfall, without consulting Lio Convoy on the details. Lio Convoy sent Diver out to activate the [[Niagara Base]], and Copy Convoy was taken by surprise. He and the Copy Machine were soon destroyed by the Maximals. {{storylink|The Black Lio Convoy}}

Alerted to a new arrival on Gaia, Lio Convoy and the Maximals traveled to the Sea Continent and discovered a [[Photon sailer|pirate ship from space]]. The Maximals were soon confronted by [[Halfshell]], captain of the [[Seacon (BW)|Space Pirate Seacons]] who intended to plunder the world of Angolmois Energy. Lio Convoy had the idea of flipping the snapping turtle on his back, rendering him helpless, but Halfshell's beast mode was designed to counter that strategy, turning him into the Big Wheel Cutter that rampaged over the hills. Matters only deteriorated further when Halfshell called his crew and formed the colossal [[God Neptune]]. Outmatched by the combiner's sheer power, Lio Convoy directed Diver and Scuba to seize control of the deserted pirate ship while the land-based Maximals kept God Neptune busy. The distraction worked, as God Neptune chased after his stolen ship, only to get caught in a detonation of Angolmois Energy rigged by the Maximals before abandoning ship. {{storylink|The Space Pirate Seacons!}}

Breaking the fourth wall juuuust a little, Lio Convoy and Galvatron called in to [[Artemis]] and [[Moon (BW)|Moon]] on the moon when they were wondering who the strongest of the Cybertronians was. Their two armies proved to be surprisingly evenly matched, and even the strength test between Lio Convoy and Galvatron themselves was ruled a tie. {{storylink|Who Is the Strongest Warrior!?}}

Although he knew the Seacons intended to plunder Gaia's Angolmois Energy, Lio Convoy felt the Seacons were not inherently evil, and could possibly be reasoned with just as the Maximals did with the Insectrons. He ordered his men not to confront or antagonize the Seacons until they knew for sure. And so, by the end of the day, Lio Convoy and Apache arrived as the cavalry to help Bighorn and the others escape from battle with the Seacons and God Neptune, because Lio Convoy's men are spectacularly bad at following orders and staying out of trouble. {{storylink|The Tentacular Scuba}}

When Megastorm and the Seacons teamed up, each of the Maximals was lured to a separate location by an Angolmois Energy signal transmitter. Since there were only five Seacons, no one was around to greet Lio Convoy when he located his transmitter, except for an easily flummoxed Dirge and Thrust. The comedy duo had been instructed by Megastorm to blow hidden bombs inside each of the transmitters when the Maximals got within range, but Lio Convoy startled them into dropping and damaging the trigger device. Not sensing any threat whatsoever from those two, Lio Convoy calmly examined the transmitter before sauntering over to question the Predacons. They panicked and flew away setting off the bomb in the process and completely failing to kill Lio Convoy. {{storylink|Megastorm's Reckoning}}

Tasmania Kid alerted Lio Convoy when Bighorn seemingly got a love letter from Scylla, the Seacon. The other Maximals feared Bighorn was being lured into a trap, and they were right—Bighorn and Kid were set adrift on a rock when the Seacons sprang their ambush. Trapped on land, Lio Convoy used his jump jets to launch out over the water where his troops were being assaulted. Unfortunately, he was pulled underwater by Halfshell before he could reach the others. Apache rushed to join his commander, and together they held off Halfshell and [[Coelagon]] until Scuba whisked the Maximals to dry land. They were confronted by God Neptune, but fortunately the Insectrons appeared and gave the Maximals the back-up they needed. {{storylink|Showdown in the Sea}}

After receiving word of more hijinks involving Bighorn, Lio Convoy and Apache rushed to the scene and found a showdown between Tripledacus and God Neptune already in progress. They helped their Jointron comrades flush the Seacons back into the sea. {{storylink|Face the Setting Sun}}

As the Seacons prepared to leave Gaia, Lio Convoy met with Halfshell and offered to give them the energy they needed to hustle them on their way. Halfshell's pride as a pirate wouldn't let him take charity, though, and so he offered to fight Lio Convoy one-on-one battle to claim the energy if he won. Lio Convoy agreed, if Halfshell and the Seacons turned themselves in to the Maximals authorities if Convoy won. Halfshell accepted these terms, but neglected to spell out exactly who the "one-on-one" bout would be between. Lio Convoy was surprised, but ultimately unconcerned, when Halfshell arrived in "one" body as God Neptune. Lio Convoy told his fellow Maximals to step aside and let him honor the deal. Convoy used his maneuverability to stay ahead of God Neptune during the fight, and even escaped him in the sea when God Neptune tried to move the fight into his preferred element. When it appeared Lio Convoy would be victorious, however, Megastorm burst from his hiding spot and tried to gun down the Maximal commander himself. This ambush set off a chain reaction in the Angolmois Energy on the shores, ending the fight and scattering the competitors. Halfshell and the Seacons grabbed the energy cylinders Lio Convoy brought, and the Seacons soon left Gaia for good. {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWII)|The Final Battle}}

While investigating the new, unstable reactions of Angolmois Energy on the planet, Lio Convoy, Bighorn and Apache crossed paths with a powerful lion cub. They soon realized he was actually a Maximal in disguise and gave chase. Lio Convoy found the cub conversing peacefully with Diver and Tasmania Kid, but was shocked when the cub raced up to him and called him "mama"! This "[[Lio Junior]]" had taken to heart a joke by Tasmania Kid that Lio Convoy must be his parent, leaving Lio Convoy to crush the cub's expectations. Their meeting was interrupted by Galvatron, who had sensed great power of Angolmois Energy within Lio Junior, and wished to snuff it out. Lio Junior joined forces with two new Maximal arrivals named [[Santon]] and [[Skywarp (BW)|Skywarp]] to become the combination warrior, [[Magnaboss (BWII)|Magnaboss]]. {{storylink|Enter Lio Junior}}

[[File: BW II ep27 Double Lio.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|”For the last time, [[Unicron/Generation 1|he’s]] NOT getting any child support!”]]
Lio Convoy helped Magnaboss defeat Galvatron, driving him off with a serious chest wound. Lio Junior disengaged and proudly presented himself before his "papa", but Lio Convoy insisted that Lio Junior should not call him that. Back at base, Lio Convoy reviewed the data Santon and Skywarp had brought from Maximal HQ about a dangerous artificial planet called Nemesis which Galvatron had called the Gaia. It seemed Nemesis was responsible for upsetting the Angolmois Energy, and it would only get worse from that point on. With that to mull over, Lio Convoy led an official investigation into Lio Junior's origins. Scans revealed that, after first crashing on Gaia, the Angolmois Energy in the Valley of the Lions duplicated Lio Convoy's Energon Matrix, splitting it to create a separate Maximal robot lifeform. Lio Junior proudly displayed that he had an Energon Matrix in his chest just like Lio Convoy, and Convoy couldn't deny he felt a tug connecting his Matrix to the cub's. Still, he refused to acknowledge Lio Junior as his son, causing the lad to run off.

Meanwhile, Megastorm had found a way to augment his own powers with Angolmois Energy, becoming [[Megastorm|Gigastorm]]. The newly risen Gigastorm threatened Lio Junior at an volcanic pit of Angolmois Energy, which Lio Convoy sensed through their connection. Convoy raced to Lio Junior's side and saved him from falling into the pit. This one time, he agreed to acknowledge Lio Junior as his son, explaining that a father-child bond could muddy his emotions, something that could not be allowed in a Commander during times of war. Lio Convoy needed to know that Lio Junior would serve as a Maximal warrior, not as his son. Finally understanding his father's reluctance, Lio Junior agreed to fight for his ''commander'' Lio Convoy. Together, Lio Convoy directed Lio Junior (as Magnaboss) in a successful skirmish against Gigastorm, and congratulated him on his victory when they were finished. {{storylink|Megastorm Reborn}}

With Gigastorm's upgrade a very real threat to the Maximals, Lio Convoy orchestrated a coordinated strike on the Predacon. The Maximals lured Gigastorm into a box canyon, where he was surrounded by maximal gunners. They opened fire on the Archduke of Destruction and the ground beneath his feet, causing him to drop up to his neck in the earth. Lio Convoy had chosen that spot due to the veins of natural gas flowing in the area, gas which was now filling the space around Gigastorm. When enough gas had built up, the Maximals fired again, igniting the gas in a horrendous explosion designed to rid Gaia of Gigastorm once and for all. Unfortunately, the Angolmois Energy-empowered Predacon was too strong even for this attack, and shrugged off the explosion. He struggled free with the help of the Combatrons and nearly caught Lio Junior, but Lio Convoy pulled him to safety. The arrival of [[Ikard]] and the [[Tako Tank]] provided enough of a distraction that Gigastorm and the Predacons were driven off. {{storylink|The New Weapon, Tako Tank}}

After receiving a garbled SOS signal, Lio Convoy and the Maximals wondered what the Space Pirate Seacons were doing right now. {{storylink|The Artificial Planet Nemesis}}

Lio Convoy was in conference with the older Maximals when NAVI informed him Lio Junior had rushed off with the others to investigate an evil Angolmois Energy signal. Lio Convoy and the rest arrived to back-up Lio Junior and help then escape the trap Galvatron and the Autorollers had set. Lio Convoy fought Galvatron head on, but their struggle was interrupted by the feud between Galvatron and Gigastorm, bringing an abrupt end to the conflict. {{storylink|Gigastorm's Treachery}}

After Tasmania Kid was rescued from a runaway Tako Tank, Lio Convoy and the Maximals found themselves in battle with Starscream and BB. The Combatrons exhausted their weapons, only to fall into a pit of Angolmois Energy and arise in new forms called [[Starscream (BW)|Hellscream]] and [[BB|Max-B]]. These new Predacons proved to be ferocious opponents. {{storylink|The End of Starscream}} Lio Convoy was next targeted for assassination by Dirge and Thrust, who felt slighted by their fellows' recent upgrades and wanted to improve their standing in the Predacons. More bemused than anything, Lio Convoy dispatched the duo with expected ease. The second strike was more serious, however, for Dirge and Thrust had exposed themselves to Gigastorm's Angolmois Energy to become [[Dirge (BW)|Dirgegun]] and [[Thrust (BW)|Thrustor]]. Now a significant threat, the former comedy duo had the skill and power to counter all Lio Convoy's traditional attacks. The Maximal commander only survived due to the arrival of Lio Junior, and even then they only waylaid the two Predacons temporarily. {{storylink|The Lio Convoy Assassination Plot}}

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At one point, an alien machine that could warp time and space crashed onto Gaia. While trying to secure the machine, Lio Junior pressed the battle against the Predacons unnecessarily. In the struggle that followed, Tasmania Kid was seriously injured protecting Lio Junior from harm. After the battle, Lio Convoy pulled Lio Junior aside and reprimanded him. He attempted to convey the difference between fighting for peace and fighting for one's self. Lio Junior was focused on his own glory, and that distraction is what got Tasmania Kid injured. Lio Junior could not see the truth in Convoy's words, and felt diminished in the eyes of his fellow soldiers and his...commander. Running off in a huff, Lio Junior was taken by Galvatron, who acquired from him the key necessary to activate the teleport gate.

The Predacons used the gate to summon the unstoppable mobile fortress, [[Majin Zarak]], and quickly trashed most of the Maximals. Lio Convoy fought through the Autorollers and dispatched Gigastorm, but could not reach Galvatron before the Emperor of Destruction unleashed Majin Zarak's bestial robot mode. Its incredible energy attacks scattered the Maximals. On the brink of consciousness, Lio Convoy was contacted by [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]], champion of the first Beast Wars, who Lio Junior had managed to retrieve from the teleport gate as well. Renewed by the presence of this legendary warrior, Lio Convoy rallied his troops to confront Galvatron and Majin Zarak.

[[File:Flashlioconvoy.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Ooh, shiny.]]

Primal and Lio Convoy teamed up to battle Majin Zarak, who turned out to be a sentient robot and not just a battle station, fighting on even after they disposed of Galvatron. Together, they combined the power of their Energon Matrices to [[Spontaneous recoloration|upgrade]] themselves into Burning Convoy and '''Flash Lio Convoy''' (フラッシュライオコンボイ ''Furasshu Raio Konboi''). With Primal's enhanced strength and Lio Convoy's super speed, they weakened Majin Zarak vulnerable spot, his evil third eye. They then unleashed the power within their Matrices into a "Double Matrix Blast" which finished off the monster. Lio Convoy congratulated Lio Junior on his valor and thanked Optimus Primal for his help before the legendary warrior returned home through the gate, and the Maximals destroyed the gate behind him. {{storylink|Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!}}

With the artificial planet Nemesis creeping ever closer to Gaia, its influence on the Angolmois Energy was ever more keenly felt. Lio Convoy enlisted the Insectrons and Jointrons for their help preparing for Nemesis's arrival. [[Drill Nuts]] in particular provided his engineering expertise to the Maximal efforts. Lio Convoy and the Maximals tried using freeze devices to cool the unstable Angolmois Energy before it upset the planet's core. The Predacons tried to oppose them, but Lio Convoy and his team turned the freeze beams on Gigastorm, limiting his threat until Tripledacus froze and sealed off the flow of Angolmois Energy with a giant iceberg. {{storylink|The Great Angolmois Freezing Tactic}}

Lio Convoy's next plan to foil the Predacons involved upgrading an artillery cannon from the Niagara Base and then feeding it with Angolmois Energy to blast Nemesis out of the sky. When Drill Nuts informed Convoy the cannon was ready, NAVI's calculations indicated they must be ready within seventy-two minutes for optimum firing position. Lio Junior begged for the job setting the cannon and, in a private meeting later, Lio Convoy impressed upon Lio Junior how important the mission was before granting his wish. To divert the Predacons, Apache led Tasmania Kid, Diver, and Bighorn in brazenly transporting a decoy cannon to the target site, while Scuba transported another decoy underwater. Their actions delayed the Cyborg Beasts, but Galvatron and Gigastorm caught the Magnaboss team with the real cannon atop the volcano firing position. The cannon overloaded on Lio Junior's pure Angolmois Energy and self-destructed before its beam reached Nemesis. Although Lio Junior was downtrodden afterwards, Lio Convoy came to the cub and told him how proud he was of him that day. {{storylink|Knock Out Nemesis}}

While discussing the looming approach of Nemesis with Apache and NAVI, Lio Convoy felt a pang in his Energon Matrix telling him that Lio Junior was in trouble. Excusing himself, Lio Convoy raced to his son's side to find Lio Junior alive and seemingly well. When Lio Junior charged and attacked him, however, is was quickly clear that all was NOT well. Lio Junior was infected with the corrupted Angolmois Energy by Galvatron, making him loyal to Predacon ideals. Matters only got worse when Santon and Skywarp tried to reign in Lio Junior by combining with him, but just forged a corrupted Magnaboss instead. As Magnaboss hesitantly prepared to lay his Magna Blade on Lio Convoy, Junior mentally spoke to Convoy through his Energon Matrix. He begged his father to kill him before Santon and Skywarp were forced to harm someone against their will. Instead, Lio Convoy used their connection to siphon the corrupted Angolmois Energy into himself, and then purge the poison from his system. Lio Junior and Magnaboss were returned to normal, and Galvatron's plan foiled. {{storylink|Lio Junior's Revolt!?}}

A mysterious UFO crashed near the Maximal base, and Lio Convoy investigated with Apache. They found an emissary robot which NAVI could communicate with in its own computer language. The robot came from the planet Mars, activated by the slow approach of Nemesis and its corrupting effect on the Angolmois Energy of Gaia. The robot relayed how its creators abandoned Gaia eons ago in order to avoid corrupting the Angolmois Energy themselves, and set up the emissary as a safeguard to prevent that corruption from ever happening. As the robot claimed it could prevent the Angolmois Energy from being misused, Lio Convoy and Apache shepherded it to the Valley of the Lions, and the mother computer terminal hidden in the ruins underneath it. Fortunes shifted dramatically, however, when Magnaboss brought word from a second android, [[Moon (BW)|Moon]] of the moon, that the emissary intended to prevent misuse of the Angolmois Energy by destroying the entire planet, crashing the moon into Gaia in a cataclysm that would stop anyone from corrupting the Angolmois Energy further! {{storylink|Emissary of the Fourth Planet}}

Lio Convoy and Apache tried to fight their way to the mother computer and stop the emissary from triggering the termination sequence, but the computer possessed restraining defenses and incredible self-repair capabilities. The Maximals could not approach the computer without being blocked by the defenses, and the defenses quickly regenerated if the Maximals tried to blast through. Still, they deduced that NAVI could shut down the termination sequence if she could enter the console, and so the power of Magnaboss and the other arriving Maximals was added to their firepower in order to overload the self-repair circuits long enough for NAVI to slip through. At first, it didn't seem as if the Maximals had enough power, but a sudden surge of energy destroyed the defenses long enough for NAVI to enter the mother computer and end the termination sequence.

Lio Convoy alone recognized that final burst of power came from Galvatron, who had followed the Maximals into the ancient caves and lent his firepower in support of saving Gaia. Lio Convoy caught up with Galvatron outside and begged an audience. The two old foes discussed their philosophical differences on peace and how it was achieved. Despite their opposing viewpoints, Lio Convoy saw the light of reason in Galvatron's actions, and offered his hand in peace so that Maximal and Predacon alike could end their war and bring peace to the universe together. After a moment's consideration, Galvatron laughed off his nemesis's weakness and opening fire on Lio Convoy. There would be no peace until Galvatron crushed the Maximals once and for all. {{storylink|The Crisis of Planet Gaia}}

With Gaia momentarily saved, the Maximals still had to deal with the threat of Nemesis. As a final solution, Lio Convoy instructed Drill Nuts and NAVI to finish cannibalizing the ''Yukikaze'' to upgrade Santon and Skywarp's ship, allowing the Maximals to leave Gaia and intercept the Nemesis before it reached the planet. It was paramount that the Predacons not intervene with the launch, so Lio Convoy had Kid and the others deliberately reveal the location of their hidden base to the Cyborg Beasts, hoping to draw Predacon attention away from the mountain caves where the launch catapult was under construction. Hellscream discovered the catapult anyway, however, forcing Drill Nuts to encourage Lio Convoy and Apache to launch as soon as possible, even if Kid's unit couldn't return in time. Lio Convoy held out as long as he could, but reluctantly agreed and began the launch. Fortunately, Magnaboss and the rest of the ''Yukikaze'' crew returned just in time to join the space mission, and Tripledacus ensured their catapult trajectory was preserved under fire from the Predacons. {{storylink|Fly Out! Planet Gaia}}

On their way to Nemesis, the Maximals were diverted by the Space Pirate Seacons, now under the control of Galvatron. The Maximal ship was forced down on an asteroid, ruining their intercept course towards Nemesis. Lio Convoy confronted Halfshell and his mates, only to find them as zombie-like soldiers to Galvatron's will. Even when the Seacons were defeated and freed from the mind control, the Maximals were still trapped. Lio Junior raised a plan provided to him by the otherwise invisible Moon to use the moon's gravity to slingshot back on course. Lio Convoy demonstrated great trust in Lio Junior, allowing him to coordinate the signal with Moon and [[Artemis]] to fire their engines for the slingshot, otherwise the Maximals would crash into the moon's surface. Lio Junior lived up to Lio Convoy's faith in him, and the Maximals were back on track to confront Nemesis. {{storylink|Revenge of the Space Pirates}}

The Maximals landed on Nemesis away from their ship, sending it off on auto-pilot to self-destruct, diverting the Predacons temporarily. NAVI guided Lio Convoy and the team to an exhaust port, which she believed would lead down to Nemesis's core. Lio Convoy's plan was to follow the port tunnels to the core of Nemesis and destroy it, taking out the entire artificial planet. All the Maximals volunteered to undertake the mission, but Lio Convoy selected only himself and Scuba to take the risk. Lio Junior balked at being overshadowed, but Lio Convoy had his reasons—as Magnaboss, Lio Junior had the great power and flight capability to protect the entrance to the tunnels from Predacon attack AND ferry the other Maximals off Nemesis to a safe distance before the explosion. Lio Junior reluctantly agreed.

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During their search for the core, Lio Convoy and Scuba crossed paths with Galvatron. Lio Convoy sent Scuba on ahead, leaving him to deal with Galvatron. The two old foes again exchanged a debate about the nature of justice. Galvatron believed that justice was whatever he who held the most power said it was, but Lio Convoy believed justice came from the spirit within an individual. Their battle (and debate) came to an end when Galvatron used his Galva-Matrix to make Nemesis begin drawing upon the Angolmois Energy of Gaia. The tunnels flooded with the destructive energy, and Lio Convoy barely protected himself with a shield generated by his Energon Matrix. Knowing the paltry shield wouldn't hold out forever, Galvatron laughed as his enemy was swept away in the flood of energy. {{storylink|Breaking into Nemesis}}

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The Energon Matrix shield could indeed only delay Lio Convoy's demise beneath the Angolmois Energy, it could not prevent it altogether. Lio Convoy's Energon Matrix called out to Lio Junior, who found his father within the tunnels inside the rapidly depleting shield. Lio Convoy told Lio Junior to forget about him and return to lead the others against Galvatron. Lio Junior refused to give up on his father, however, and linked his Energon Matrix shield to Lio Convoy's. This act of heroism not only saved Lio Convoy's life, it merged father and son. Their two Energon Matrices, which had once been one, merged again to create the '''Legendary Green Lion''' (伝説の緑のライオン ''Densetsu no Midori no Raion''). {{storylink|Legend! The Green Warrior}}

With his Matrix Typhoon and Matrix Lion Arrow attacks, the Green Lion utterly defeated Gigastorm and turned back Galvatron's unstoppable Drill Destroyer attack. Meanwhile, Scuba had completed the mission and engineered an explosion that would destroy Nemesis in a matter of minutes. Galvatron refused to accept defeat, and fled back to the Angolmois Energy's core. Lio Convoy followed behind, with his loyal son and fellow defender of justice Lio Junior by his side. The lions found Galvatron in the core, where the Emperor of Destruction began absorbing Angolmois Energy again directly, growing to tremendous size in dragon mode. By agitating the Angolmois Energy, Galvatron ensured that the Nemesis explosion now threatened Gaia as well.

Seeing no other option, Lio Convoy reasoned the Green Lion could create Matrix shields for the Angolmois Energy, countless shields that would isolate and encapsulate the energy so that it would vent more peacefully and blunt the Nemesis explosion. Lio Convoy was concerned about the potential consequences to them, but Lio Junior eagerly pronounced that protecting peace in the universe at any cost to themselves was the Maximals' reason for being. Immensely proud at the lessons Lio Junior had learned, Lio Convoy called him "my son" and accepted the name "Father" as he and Lio Junior merged once more. The Matrix Typhoon dispersed the Angolmois Energy in Nemesis and in Galvatron as well.

Despite losing all his enhanced abilities from the Angolmois Energy, Galvatron refused to surrender. With the energy safely dispersed and Nemesis about to explode, Lio Convoy saw no more reason for battle and plead with Galvatron to stop. Galvatron still contained enough Angolmois Energy in his Galva-Matrix to be a threat, however, and challenged the green Lio Convoy to one last round. Lio Convoy abhorred violence without purpose, but saw Galvatron would not stop without an honorable death by combat. With tears in his optics, the combined green Lio Convoy charged Galvatron, locking his Matrix blades to Galvatron's Scissor blades in a swordsman's stalemate. He then split back into Lio Convoy and Lio Junior, sidestepping the block and surprising Galvatron with a killing stroke with his Lion Claw straight through the Galva-Matrix, shattering it. Galvatron commended him on his blow as the Nemesis broke down all around them.[[File: BW II ep43 Lio Convoy Farewell.jpg|right|thumb]]

When the explosion finally came, Gaia was safe and Lio Convoy used the last of the Energon Matrix's power to preserve himself and his comrades from the detonation. Weakened from the exertion, Lio Convoy found himself and his comrades adrift in a wormhole created by the explosion. Lost but at peace, Lio Convoy led his soldiers, his friends, and his son towards a light in the distance, the light of the next battle for peace in the universe! {{storylink|Farewell! Lio Convoy}}
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====The Maximal Brainwashing Operation====
Lio Convoy was aboard the ''[[Yukikaze (BW)|Yukikaze]]'' when it was attacked by the duo of [[Dirge (BW)|Dirge]] and [[Thrust (BW)|Thrust]]. After a short battle, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] were felled by Lio Convoy's missiles, and the shock to the two's systems made them believe they were [[Maximal]]s.

When [[Diver (BW)|Diver]] and [[Tasmania Kid]] eventually showed up after a patrol, seemingly exhausted, Lio Convoy and the other Maximals set out to assist, but were surprised when the two turned out to have been brainwashed into being Predacons! In the ensuing battle, Lio Convoy fought against [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]] and was about to meet his end when an errant shot from [[Megastorm]] impacted both forces. Weakened, Galvatron ordered a retreat and Diver and Tasmania Kid were cured of their brainwashing from the blast's shock. {{storylink|The Maximal Brainwashing Operation}}

====''Robotmasters'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Masayuki Katō]] (Japanese)}}
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As [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], and [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] made a vow to protect Earth's [[Solitarium]] from the Decepticons, Lio Convoy watched silently from afar. {{storylink|Fight! The Group of the Strongest Commanders!|Fight! The Group of the Strongest Commanders!}}

When [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Beast Megatron]] launched an attack on a human city, Lio Convoy aided Optimus Prime in blasting the Predacon, but otherwise remained out of sight. It wasn't until later in the battle that he introduced himself, as he delivered a powerful kick onto the Predacon leader. As the battle raged, Lio Convoy helped his fellow heroic Cybertronians in battling [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Robotmasters|Rebirth Megatron]], who had joined the battle under the guise of "Reverse Convoy" to catch his foes unawares. Lio Convoy added his own strength to Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal's “Double Convoy Tornado” to overpower a similar tornado-style attack from the Megatrons. The "Lio Typhoon Arrow" sent the villains into a retreat. Though Lio Convoy and his allies won the battle, the war raged on... {{storylink|The Lio Convoy Typhoon Enters (episode)|The Lio Convoy Typhoon Enters}}

====''Robotmasters'' online manga====
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While on Gaia, Lio Convoy came across the [[Blastizone]], which transported him to the planet's past in [[2005]], when it was called [[Earth]]. The trip left him with a bout of amnesia, which was quickly took advantage of by his discover, the nefarious [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Beast Megatron]]. Convinced of the Autobots' evil, Lio Convoy attacked [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] and [[Ginrai (robot)|Victory Leo]] as they were flying overhead. {{storylink|The Lio Convoy Typhoon Enters (issue)|The Lio Convoy Typhoon Enters}} The battle was fortunately put to a stop by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], and the former used his [[Matrix of Leadership]] to connect to Lio Convoy's [[Energon Matrix]] to convince him of the goodness of the Autobots. Utilizing all of their powers, the four gathered Supreme Commanders attacked the nearby Decepticons and sent them fleeing. {{storylink|Together, the 4 Great Supreme Commanders}}

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When the Autobots took in the fallen [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Reverse Convoy]], Lio Convoy was suspicious of the strange robot and elected to remain behind when Reverse Convoy took a contingent of Autobots to [[Sherman Dam]]. {{storylink|Strategic Meeting: The Mysterious New Warrior}} Lio Convoy's suspicion would prove to be justified, as it turned out to be a trap and Reverse Convoy revealed himself to be actually Rebirth Megatron! Nevertheless, Lio Convoy was able to save his comrades from the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Dark Emperor of Destruction, Reborn}}

A decisive battle soon takes place between the Autobots and the Decepticons, where Lio Convoy battled [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]], and [[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]]. The fight raged on for three days and three nights till the Autobots emerged victorious. With [[solitarium]], Lio Convoy and the other time-displaced warriors were able to return to their native eras. {{storylink|And Then}}
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====''Robotmasters'' 3D diorama manga====
When the mysterious [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Reverse Convoy]] appeared promising vital information with [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] chasing to prevent him from revealing said information, Lio Convoy and the other chased off Starscream. However, when Reverse Convoy was welcomed into the Autobots, Lio Convoy found the preceding events a little too convenient. {{storylink|Robotmasters Vol. 9}} His suspicions would prove correct when Reverse Convoy trapped some of the Autobots and sapped them of their energy. Lio Convoy came to their rescue and the Autobots' forces were bolstered by the arrival of an [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] from another universe. Uniting all of the power of five Autobot leaders, they were able to blow away the Decepticons in a Big Bang Cannon attack. {{storylink|Robotmasters Vol. 11}}

====''Generations Selects Special Comic''====
In the [[Precursor World]], Star Convoy did battle with [[King Poseidon]]. Through the power of the [[Silver Matrix]], he connected with the future Supreme Commanders he had met during the [[Robotmasters|Solitarium Wars]], Lio Convoy, Star Saber, and Beast Convoy. With their strength feeding his own, Star Convoy healed his wounds and was revitalized. {{storylink|Seacons comic 5}}

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====''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Hozumi Gōda]] (Japanese)|[[Jeong-gu Lee]] (Korean)}}

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In the wormhole created from the destruction of Nemesis, Lio Convoy would get lost in a "loophole" which went "beyond time and space", ending up on the [[Decepticon]] planet [[Dinosaur (planet)|Dinosaur]] in the distant past, just in time to see it partially consumed by [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}}

In Lio Convoy's native time, his disappearance prompted [[Vector Sigma]] and the [[Convoy Council]] to send [[Big Convoy]] and his trainees to [[Gaia]] to find clues as to what happened to the lost Supreme Commander. They found a black box left behind by the previous Maximals that contained a recording of Lio Convoy explaining his conflict with Galvatron and the result of it being the scattering of Angolmois Capsules across space. Implored by his fellow Supreme Commander, Big Convoy decreed that his unit's mission was to gather the Angolmois Capsules for the safety of the universe. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

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While seeking out the [[Blentron]]s' base of operations, Big Convoy's unit stumbled upon a wormhole left behind by them and traversed through it to find the ravaged planet, Dinosaur. On the surface, they met a seemingly aggressive opponent who turned out to be Lio Convoy, to the amazement of the star-struck rookies. Lio Convoy explained how he came to be on the planet and emphasized the threat of Unicron, and how the Angolmois Energy was in actuality the energy drawn out of him and then sealed in Gaia. Realizing the Blentrons were trying to revive Unicron, Lio Convoy combined what little power he had in his Energon Matrix with Big Convoy's to attain the form of the Legendary Green Lion and used the light of his Matrix to show the newest generation the correct path to the Blentrons. {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}}

[[File:Neo35 greenwarrior.jpg|thumb|Maximals. Now flavored in mint.]]
The still green Lio Convoy made it back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] as Big Convoy and his troops were fighting the revived Unicron, who was using Galvatron's image for his energy form. Picking up the defeated [[Magmatron]]'s [[Magma Blade (BW)|Magma Blade]], Lio Convoy imparted some encouraging words to the other Maximals, telling them to combine their spirits with Big Convoy's Energon Matrix so that he could use the Matrix Buster on Unicron. Stalling with some swordplay, Lio Convoy stabbed Unicron in the chest, allowing Big Convoy to fire the Matrix Buster and annihilate Unicron. {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|The Final Battle}} In the aftermath, Lio Convoy returned to his normal colors and was thanked for his assistance by Big Convoy, to which the humble Lio Convoy stated that it was truly the heroic spirits of everyone who won the day. [[Vector Sigma]] quickly repaired itself from Unicron's earlier attempted possession and promoted Lio Convoy to the rank of Great Convoy, an honor which he gladly accepted. He was soon involved in the Big Convoy Unit's graduation ceremony and the Maximal-Predacon truce to rebuild Cybertron. {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}

====''Timelines''====
[[File:InvasionPrologue-Primes.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Don't cross Leo Prime. He transforms into a lion the size of a fire truck.]]
As a high-ranking member of the Convoy Council, Lio Convoy traveled from [[Primax 498.1 Alpha]] and passed through [[Gargent 984.08 Alpha]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14}} where, as the "Beast Sage", he helped forestall that universe's [[Cataclysm (GoBots)|Cataclysm]]. However, while his technology gave that universe's [[GoBot|natives]] more time, it was only temporary. {{storylink|Sunrise}} Lio Convoy eventually ended up in [[Nexus 208.0 Epsilon]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14}} In [[Axiom Nexus]], he was gathered by [[Optimus Prime (TransTech)|the local Optimus Prime]], along with a roster of other Optimus Primes and [[Sentinel Maximus|their kin]] in a group known as the [[Convoy (group)|Convoy]]. A multiversal cataclysm in [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|a universe]] seeded with [[Rarified Energon]] and an invasion by [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|natives from a negative polarity universe]] had called them into action. Since Matrix bearers and their doppelgangers were usually never allowed into Axiom Nexus, this was a grave threat indeed! {{storylink|Invasion Prologue}}

His name was on a list of Convoy members given by [[Cheetor (TransTech)|Commander Cheetor]] to [[Andromeda (TransTech)|Andromeda]]. The list noted that his home [[universal stream]] was Primax 498.1 Alpha and that Lio Convoy also used the moniker "Leo Prime". {{storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/21}} Leo Prime was present at a meeting of the Convoy after the turmoil caused by the [[Waruder]] invasion of Axiom Nexus. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}}

Leo Prime would eventually go on to travel to a universal stream in the [[Uniend|Uniend Cluster]]. He generated much confusion as he joined the local Autobots to defeat their Unicron with more ease than they were intended to have. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14}}
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====''Prime'' toy bios====
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Following the restoration of Cybertron, Lio Convoy ascended to the rank of [[Great Convoy]], and became a member of the ruling body of Cybertron. After a time, Great Lio Convoy sensed the [[One Shall Rise, Part 1|awakening of Unicron]] in another dimension, and travelled across the multiverse to this world. Finding that the native Autobots and Decepticons had already dealt with the threat of Unicron, Great Lio Convoy—now using the name "Leo Prime" (レオプライム ''Reo Praimu'')—elected to stay on this world for a time to ensure that Unicron did not reawaken, refraining from involving himself in the combat between the native Transformers. In the new body he wears in this universe, he is armed with an ancient sword that draws power straight from his Energon Matrix, though apparently unbeknownst to him, it, like the weapons of many other Transformers in this universe, is secretly an [[Arms Micron]] named [[L.P.]]. {{storylink|#primetoy|''Arms Micron'' Leo Prime bio}} Using this weapon, Leo Prime carved up the remains of one of Unicron's rock-and-earth avatars to create the [[Gaia Armor]], using the power of his Energon Matrix to sever the avatar's link to Unicron himself, but allowing it to retain the power of [[Dark Energon]]. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#PrimeUnicronPack|''Arms Micron'' Optimus Prime + Gaia Unicron bio}}

====''Legends'' comic====
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Leo Prime's interuniversal journey brought him to the [[Legends World]], one he was particularly fond of as its inhabitants had been encouraging the Maximals from afar during their battles on Gaia. He repaid them by defending their world from the [[Zamojin (species)|Zamojin]], but ended up defeated by [[Katsu Don]], who reverted him to his original body by absorbing his "[[Beast Power]]" and sent him crashing into the home of his local counterpart, [[#Legends comic 2|Lio Convoy]]. After he'd explained his circumstances, Katsu Don attacked again and Leo Prime saw the similarities between himself and Lio Convoy when the latter put himself in harm's way to protect the Legends version of Lio Junior. He induced a beast transformation in Lio Convoy, turning him into a giant robotic lion, then adopted a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] body that let him combine with Convoy and draw upon his Beast Power to defeat Katsu Don. He then remained in the Legends World in anticipation of further Zamojin attacks, living with Lio Convoy and his son. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 41|Bonus Edition Vol. 41}}

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Some time later, Leo Prime could feel that the return of the Zamojin was imminent. {{storylink|TF Legends Late Xmas Present Chapter|Late Xmas Present Chapter}} Indeed, Katsu Don reappeared and attacked the Legends World with [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], so Leo Prime confronted him alongside [[Perceptor (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Perceptor]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 65|Bonus Edition Vol. 65}} While espousing his belief that Transformers would achieve peace upon becoming one with organic life, [[Grand Maximus|Grand]] envisioned a future inhabited by Lio Convoy, Big Convoy and Optimus Primal. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Grand Maximus)|Bonus Edition Grand Maximus}}

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When [[Majin Zarak]] attacked the Legends World, Leo Prime recognized his old foe and attempted to battle it alongside Lio Convoy and Optimus Primal. Upon being defeated, he realized that since he was fated to destroy Zarak in the future, the beast was effectively invincible in this era or else a time paradox would occur. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One}} Fortunately [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] hit upon the idea to defeat Majin Zarak without killing it by banishing it to another dimension. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two}} Following the destruction of the Legends World, Leo Prime evacuated alongside many of its natives to his home dimension, ending up on the planet [[Beast (planet)|Beast]] in [[2038]]. The planet was then attacked by none other than [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], confusing Leo Prime until he realized the ship wasn't built by his era's Galvatron to begin with, but had been the brainchild of [[Galvatron II|another Galvatron]] from this era. By using his power to induce beast transformation, he temporarily turned all the Legends natives into proper Transformers, allowing them to attack and take down Nemesis. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3}}

When the Legends World was restored, Lio Convoy and Lio Junior returned to their home, where they saw Leo Prime off as he left their universe. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}
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===''Bom Bom'' manga continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' manga====
When the rainy season rolled around, most of the Maximal troops used the foul weather as an excuse not to go out on their regular patrol, and be insubordinate towards sub-commander Apache. Lio Convoy was none-the-wiser to the situation however, as all of the troops snapped to attention whenever he came by. Their slacking off came to an end when Diver reported that the Predacons were heading their way aboard [[Galvatron Dekazura Tank|an enormous tank]]. Lio Convoy led the counter-offensive, and upon his approach was troubled, as he sensed a power-source of Angolmois Energy within the juggernaut. Lio Convoy led Tasmania Kid into an attempted infiltration of the enemy vehicle, with the Insectrons Bigmos and Tonbot helping them out in getting airborne to bypass its defenses. But Bigmos's failed to fly quickly enough to avoid Lio Convoy getting hit by a blast, and Tasmania Kid was forced to proceed alone. Thankfully, a secondary plan of bombing the tank's vulnerable underside as successful, and the dreadnought was soon sinking into a nearby river. Lio Convoy returned to the front lines and entered the tank to confront Megastorm, whom he bested in combat. In the process, Megastorm was made to accidentally trigger the tank's self-destruct mechanism. Following the tank's spectacular detonation, the overcast skies began to clear, signaling an end to the rainy season. {{storylink|Demolish the Superdreadnought Tank!}}

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He gets [[Humanization#Intoxication|drunk]] for drinking too much [[oil]] and ends up trashing [[Apache]]'s room. {{storylink|Recover the Bonds Lost!}} {{storylink|All Hands, Make a Special Attack on the Evil Planet!}}}}

During the final battle with [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]] on the artificial planet [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], Lio Convoy once again became corrupted by the [[Angolmois Energy]] that the planet had collected. The energy quickly consumed him, transforming him into Black Lio Convoy, a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]. Lio Convoy was able to use his [[Energon Matrix]] to channel the true spiritual energy of [[Gaia]] through himself, dispelling the evil influences and restoring him to a Maximal. The energy then transformed him into the [[Green Warrior]] and he was able to defeat Galvatron once and for all. {{storylink|Win the Battle of Light and Darkness!}}

After the destruction of [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], Lio Convoy and the members of his team were scattered across the time and space due to the blast of Angolmois Energy. After awaking one night in a blizzard, Lio Convoy found he was alone on an unknown planet.

Lio Convoy then wandered in the snow field alone, wondering where the other members of his team were. He then ran into a gang of rampaging animals, consisting of a Quetzalcoatlus, an Elasmosaurus, a [[Guiledart|Triceratops]], a [[Saberback|Stegosaurus]], a [[Sling (BW)|Dimetrodon]] and an [[Dead End (BW)|Ammonite]]. The gang, led by a [[Magmatron|Giganotosaurus]], attacked other animals. At first, he thought it was a hunt, but it turned out to be a massacre instead. Lio Convoy saved a dear cab and fired Lio Missiles toward the Giganotosaurus. He was surprised to find the missile didn't killed the dinosaur —in fact, the Giganotosaurus was completely unharmed. The Giganotosaurus fought back by firing missiles. When it was about to kill Lio Convoy, he was saved by a [[Big Convoy|mammoth]], who gave him and the dear cab a ride and helped them escape.

The mammoth, whose name was "Big", took Lio Convoy to a hot spring to heal his wounds. He then began to tell his story: His is the leader of a group of native wild animals. He told Lio Convoy that the Giganotosaurus's gang was a bunch of rowdies who became more vicious and killed his friends when he was absent after the mysterious "God's Stone" fell on the planet. He felt sorrow because he couldn't protect his friends. Lio Convoy asked Big to take him to the place where the "stone" fell.

Upon arriving at the cliff above the place mentioned by Big, Lio Convoy soon realized the "stone" is in fact an Angolmois Capsule. He then descended into the valley to take an examination of the capsule. The energy restored his onboard computer and gave him the time-and-space coordinates. Lio Convoy was shocked when he learned he was on a distant planet located in the [[7th Cosmos]] in a time long before he was born.

While Lio Convoy was examining the capsule, Big was wondering what he's doing in the valley before the gang came to the spot and attacked him, claiming for the "God's Stone". Though wounded, Big pushed the gang into the valley after he told Lio Convoy to get out. The impact caused the capsule to explode and the two breathed a sigh of relief. In the pit, the gang evolved in the blast of Angolmois Energy. The gang then rose out of the valley front of Lio Convoy and Big. Their leader, now named "[[Magmatron]]", thanked Big for his effort, which had made them stronger than ever before. The gang then transformed, ready to kill Big and Lio Convoy. Lio Convoy immediately transformed and fought the gang. He defeated the henchmen with ease, but Magmatron took him out with one blast.

Some time later, Lio Convoy crawled out of a thick snow layer and learned there was 90 percents of malfunctions within his body. Lio Convoy was sorry he got Big, who was mortally wounded, involved in this incident. Lio Convoy decided to use his [[Energon Matrix]] to cure Big. During the treatment, the only thought on his mind was curing Big, hoping he would carry on his will, and feeling concern about his teammates. After the action, the whereabouts of Lio Convoy was unknown. {{storylink|The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' manga====
At a certain point, the [[Unicron|Black Ball]] told Lio Convoy and his teammates' action to [[Big Convoy]] and his crew. Big Convoy felt the name "Lio Convoy" sound familiar, but he couldn't remember when he ever knew the name. {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}}

When fixing the ''[[Gung Ho]]'' on an asteroid near the planet [[Luxor]], Big Convoy asked [[NAVI (Gung Ho)|NAVI]] for information about Lio Convoy because he felt the name was familiar. NAVI gave Big Convoy the information and he learned that Lio Convoy was a rookie officer. In addition to that, they had never met each other, according to the official records. {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}}
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During his last breath, Big Convoy saw Lio Convoy come to take him to a place where his soul could rest in peace. {{storylink|Return to Zero}}

====''Beast Wars Metals'' manga====
The visage of Lio Convoy appeared alongside those of Big Convoy and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in a poetic montage overlooking the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] on [[Earth|Energoa]]. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 1|Beast Wars Metals #1}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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Suspicious of Magmatron even in peacetime, Lio Convoy sent Razorbeast undercover into his Predacon unit to sabotage his plans, despite not knowing exactly what Magmatron was scheming. {{storylink|Shell Game issue 1|Shell Game #1}}

===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:Lioconvoy gathering.jpg|thumb|Hey, look, he turns into Liger Zero!]]
There is a slight otherworldliness about Commander-in-Chief Lio Convoy, a sense that he is operating on a bigger picture and serving a higher power. Upon landing on a planet, he immediately becomes in tune with its natural harmonics and becomes determined to defend that world. He has sheer belief in his pre-ordained cause, backed up by a Matrix that gives him power from the very core of Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|Transformers Comic #17}}

Prior to the end of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] and the signing of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Lio Convoy commanded a crew of Maximals who traveled to the planet [[Gaia|Gaea]] and battled [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]] and his forces. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #2}}

By the tail-end of the Great War, Lio Convoy had earned himself a place on the Autobot High Council. He was away from their base of operation when news came in that both Optimus Prime and Galvatron had fallen in combat, and so attended a meeting via holographic-projection. After rebranding themselves the "Primal Council," the group discussed their intent to broker an armistice with their enemies, in the hopes of ending the war without further bloodshed. To this end, Lio Convoy was sent out to the Eastern Iacon front of the conflict. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

Years later, during peace-time, the ever-vigilant Lio Convoy sat on the [[Bi-Partate Committee for State Affairs]], but was also a member of a secret black-ops intelligence unit known as the [[Pack]]. During a conversation with [[Razorbeast]] that was officially off-the-record, he reminded his fellow Maximal that their unit didn't exist and that the [[Maximal Imperium]] didn't sanction their operations. He warned Razorbeast that if he was caught while undercover in [[Magmatron]]'s command, he would be disavowed. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}

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Unfortunately, Lio Convoy believed that Magmatron was the true enemy, while [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] was just a loose cannon. (Real good job of threat assessment there.) After Razorbeast's transwarp booster-sent distress message was strengthened by Magmatron, it reached Lio Convoy, who, despite his earlier warning, mobilized the Pack at once to race to Razorbeast's rescue. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}}

While Razorbeast's Maximals were fighting the Predacons to a standstill (in no small part thanks to the powerhouses [[Torca (BW)|Torca]] and [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]), the Pack arrived and looked to turn the tide of battle quickly in the favor of all that is clean and fresh. Lio Convoy himself transformed and confronted [[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]] and some other Pred thugs, who were unimpressed by his unnervingly LARGE beast mode. Lio Convoy accepted this and whipped out his cannons. THEN they were impressed. When [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] revealed himself to the Maximals, Lio Convoy and Razorbeast were quick to turn their guns on him, right up until [[Latolata|Rartorata]] showed his ugly mug. The [[Blentron|Blendtron]] injected Razorbeast with a load of Angolmois, turning the Maximal into a raging berserker locked in beast mode. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}}

[[File:Lio V Ravage.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|[[Rumble (G1)|RUMBLE]]! WAS! [[FIRRIB|RED]]!]]
Reminding the Pack that they take care of their own and clean up their own messes, Lio Convoy engaged the enemy. Once they had subdued Razorbeast's mutated form with crude vines and stakes, Convoy discovered that his comrade was still within the monstrous beast and fighting a losing battle against the Angolmois that was corrupting his mind. Ravage informed the Maximal commander of the urgency of what Magmatron had showed him, and the Maximals prepared to board Lio Convoy's transwarp cruiser. The cruiser's takeoff was then threatened by the arrival of the other two Blendtrons. Razorbeast broke from his restraints and charged into battle against the servants of Unicron, telling Convoy to escape while he held the line. Setting the transwarp coordinates to the time and place Ravage had received from Magmatron, the cruiser emerged in the midst of [[Big Convoy]]'s battle with Shokaract. However it was shot down upon the arrival of [[Herald of Shokaract|Shokaract's Heralds]]. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}}

Luckily Lio and the rest of The Pack survived the crash and were able to join up with Big Convoy. After briefly explaining the seriousness of the situation to Big Convoy, Lio provided [[Bump]] with a sample of Angolmois so he could synthesize an antidote. After a brief spat of posturing by [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and Ravage, Lio took part in a frontal assault on Shokaract to serve as a distraction while [[Snarl (BW)|Snarl]] and [[Prowl II|Prowl]] enacted the real plan. Once Shokaract decided to call it a day after his heart to heart talk with Magmatron and in the wake of the devastating battle Lio Convoy received the antidote from Bump and started on rebuilding a devastated Cybertron... just in time for Megatron to get back from the Beast Wars and release his [[transformation virus]] on the planet. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}
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===''Universe'' toy bio===
Leo Prime was a career soldier, commander of the elite Maximal black ops unit the [[Pack]]. He and his comrades traveled to wherever trouble was thickest, working undercover to foil Predacon plots. {{storylink|#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Leo Prime toy bio}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
[[File:Lio_Convoy_Kre-O_Character_Image.jpg‎|thumb|75px]]

Lio Convoy was at the newly constructed Autobot base, [[Metroplex (Kre-O)|Metroplex]]. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}} Later on, he was at [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]]'s {{w|Hanami}} party having a drink from [[Heinrad (BW)#Kre-O online manga|Heinrad]]. {{storylink|Soundwave's Trap? Stop Operation Brainwash Humanity!}}
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===Legends World===
[[File:LegendsComic LioConvoy robot mode.jpg|thumb|125px]]
Visiting the [[Axalon Trading Company]] to discuss business with [[Optimus Primal (BW)#Transformers Legends comic|Optimus Primal]], the Lio Convoy of the [[Legends World]] found himself charmed by their office lady, [[Airazor (BW)#Transformers Legends comic|Airazor]]. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 5#The Gender Gap Part 2|The Gender Gap Part 2}}

[[File:LegendsComic LioConvoy.jpg|left|thumb]]
Later, when he was out drinking sake, he was surprised by a speeding [[Arcee (G1)#Transformers Legends comic|Arcee]], who was transporting her nephew [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] to work in her car mode. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 10|Bonus Edition Vol. 10}} A gambler and a drunk, Lio Convoy lived in poverty and wasn't too eager to buy Lio Junior the ''Transformers'' toys he wanted. He tried to distract his son by making funny faces and calling it "transforming", to no avail. At another point, he gambled away his son's school lunch money at the races and was left despondent and full of regrets until Junior cheered him up. {{storylink|Lio Dad}}

[[File:LegendsComic LioConvoy mechalion.jpg|thumb]]
One day, [[#Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Leo Prime]] fell from the sky into the home of the Lios, who mistook him for a toy until he introduced himself and explained that the Zamojin were targeting their world. When Katsu Don tracked down Leo Prime and hurt Junior, Lio Convoy was enraged and threw a rock at the Zamojin, impressing Leo Prime who helped him [[Transformers sickness|access his inherent Transformer memories]] and turn into a lion/starship Transformer. Lio Convoy used his new body to battle Katsu Don and combine with Leo Prime, forming the body of Prime's new [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] form. After Katsu Don was driven away, Lio Convoy repurposed his starship mode as a new home for him and Junior. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 41|Bonus Edition Vol. 41}} When [[Akihabara]] was rebuilt, his "house" mode was seen to be located in a wooded area just outside the town. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Prologue}} He congratulated Junior after he'd gotten a new toy as a [[Christmas]] present. {{storylink|TF Legends Late Xmas Present Chapter|Late Xmas Present Chapter}}

When [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] summoned [[Majin Zarak]] to the Legends World, Leo Prime called in Lio Convoy and Optimus Primal to assist him in battle with the titan, but, as Majin Zarak was fated to be defeated by Leo Prime in its future, it could not be destroyed sans a time paradox. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One}} Fortunately, [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] hit upon the idea to defeat Majin Zarak without killing it by banishing it to another dimension. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two}} Following the destruction of the Legends World, Lio Convoy evacuated alongside many of his peers to Lio Convoy's home universe, ending up on the planet [[Beast (planet)|Beast]] in [[2038]]. The planet was then attacked by [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], which Leo Prime responded to by empowering Legends World refugees into becoming full-blown Transformers and Lio Convoy aided in taking own Nemesis as Leo Prime's body. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3}}

When the Legends World was restored, Lio Convoy and Lio Junior returned to their home, where they saw Leo Prime off as he left the universe. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[File:BWU Lio Convoy.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|There's gonna be a revolution.]]
The Guardian of Order Lio Convoy, holder of the [[Energon Matrix|energon matrix]], was once in the employ of the [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]], the decrepit and selfish [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s that had survived the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. Using his [[Solipsistic Staff]], he would ensure that the gladiatorial matches pitting the oppressed Maximals and Predacons against one another would always turn out as his mentor, [[Eject (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Eject]], intended them to. This allowed the status quo to remain in place, with the Builders securely ruling over the younger Cybertronians. Though Lio Convoy had resentments about his lot in life, he was otherwise steadfast in his loyalty towards The Administrator of the Games. After a chance encounter with [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Blackarachnia]], Lio Convoy had his eyes opened to the injustice of the caste-based society of Cybertron, where any Maximal or Predacon could be summoned to die in a Game or have rations cut for minor infractions of ridiculous laws. After a cathartic venture where he stood up to a couple of corrupt MCSF officers, Lio Convoy joined Blackarachnia and the resistance fighting to tear down Cybertron's tyrannical power structure. Now ready to leave his old life behind, Lio Convoy snuck a team of rebels into the 1924th Games at the [[Dodecahex]] Arena. While Blackarachnia's team seized control of [[Override (BWU)|Override]]'s broadcasting equipment, Lio Convoy assassinated [[Supersonic]], securing the attention of Cybertron. He publicly exposed the Builders' moral corruption, deeming them unworthy of ruling Cybertron and calling for a war for freedom. Thus, the Fourth Cybertronian War, the [[Grand Uprising]], began. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}}

Broadcast footage of Lio Convoy's war declaration was seen shortly thereafter by the crewmembers of the ''[[Spooky Action at a Distance]]'' and the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]''. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

Dubbed "Supreme Commander" of the Resistance by (mainly Predacon members of) his newfound followers, Lio Convoy began coordinating a variety of attacks on Builder-held territories. One particular target of interest was [[Fortress Maximus (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Fortress Maximus]], the massive Builder was also served as a prison for several high-value dissidents. However, the first raid was a disaster when Fortress Maximus used his telepathy to influence the team. The second raid failed as well, as the team was aware of Max's abilities and therefore were easily pushed into paranoia by the Builder. They ended up destroying themselves, each convinced the others were under the influence of Fortress Maximus.

For the third raid, Lio Convoy authorized an unpleasant but necessary action. Only mission-critical members were informed of Fortress Maximus's powers. A former champion of the Games, [[Buzzclaw (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Buzzclaw]], was specifically recruited for the mission but left in the dark. Buzzclaw's psychological profile painted him as an obvious target for Maximus's manipulations, leaving the team with only ''one'' member to watch out for. Furthermore, psy-tech was developed that not only sensed when Buzzclaw was turned, it also carried a neural-spike that killed the unfortunate Predacon, but also sent a feedback pulse back to Fortress Maximus through their connection, allowing the team to eliminate the Builder and complete their mission. {{storylink|Head Games}}

While overseeing several campaigns, Lio Convoy was informed by [[B'Boom]] that [[Bighorn]] had died trying to take the [[Melpomene Bridge]]. B'Boom wanted to authorize an air strike to take revenge on the [[Maximal Command Security Force|MCSF]] members responsible, Lio Convoy refused, reminding his comrade that they were fighting a war, not seeking revenge, and resources were better served elsewhere. Still, he took B'Boom aside and they shared stories about Bighorn in memorial of their fallen friend. {{storylink|Burning Bridges}}

As the war went on, the Beast Upgrade hit Cybertron. Lio took on the form of a [[cybercat]], reforging his Solipsistic Staff into a sword. Somewhere during this time, he devised ''Operation: Amputation'', a last-ditch strategy involving wiring troops up with [[K-Bomb]]s. What he didn't tell the four volunteers was that he had remote control over the bombs. Six years in, the newly formed [[Independent Predacus States]] demanded Lio have Preditron killed, and he agreed for the sake of their alliance. After all, that was what the Resistance had sprung him from Fortress Maximus ''for''. He still felt bad about it, though. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}} {{storylink|Derailment}} Elsewhere across Cybertron, various warlords were carving out their own territory. Lio made a note to deal with them after everything was over, but the Resistance was making great gains.

Then the news came out about strange "[[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s" spreading over Cybertron, violently reformatting their victims into more drones. Lio Convoy realized it was the Builder's last-ditch attempt to stop them, and it was working. His first act was to try ''Operation: Amputation'', over the objections of his war council, but even the [[K-Bombs]] were unable to stem the tide. Lio Convoy ordered all reserve forces to Petrohex, then watched as they fell to the Vehicons within .20 cycles. Bump and Psycho-Orb filled him in on just how many Cybertronians stood in the Vehicon's path; if they were all converted, their numbers would overwhelm the Resistance with ease. With surrender out of the question, Lio Convoy put out the order: the Resistance would march on Iacon that night.

Before leaving, Lio reached out to the [[Maximal Nation]] and the Independent Predacus States, asking for assistance. As the assault on Iacon began, Lio Convoy spearheaded the battle for the [[Yuss Batteries]], one of the last lines of defense before Iacon. Lio was part of the group who stormed [[Fort Qalt]]. Utilizing a secret tunnel inside the fort, Lio Convoy, Break, and [[Quillfire (BWU)|Quillfire]] managed to get the drop on the fort's commander, [[Goldbug (IDW)|Goldbug]], only to find he and Break were locked out and the Builder refused to give up the codes. Break sacrificed his life to gain them, Lio informed Scylla that the guns would be unable to target the Builder fleet.

Once the battle was over, the Builders' efforts meant taking a ship to Iacon was out of the question. The Resistance would have to walk in, all seventy-five thousand of them. Before setting out, Lio gave a rousing speech to the troops, congratulating them for doing the impossible and assuring them of their victory. Two and a half megacycles into their march on Iacon, everyone was getting a bit concerned about the total absence of anyone trying to stop them. Lio Convoy figured if ''he'' had been in charge, he'd be fighting a rearguard action, and came to the conclusion that Hot Rod had been told to do just that... and not done it.

[[File:Derailment SupremeCommanderLioConvoy.jpg|350px|left|thumb|"Behold, the quintessential devil in these matters: Lio T. Convoy, renegade and terrorist!"]]
By the time the Resistance had arrived at Iacon and scouted the area, the massed Vehicon armies were practically on their doorstep. Surrounding the [[High Council Pavilions|High Pavilion]], Lio declined to order shelling, not knowing whether that would call off the hordes or not. As his commanders went in, Lio lead the fight against the Vehicons outside, until the Assembly Bunker rose into the sky in front of him. Pissed by the display of arrogance, Lio swore to make them pay. With assistance from [[Grimwing (BWU)|Grimwing]], he reached their platform and demanded their surrender, slicing off [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s wing when the councilor mouthed off. His terms for surrender were cut short when the Assembly revealed the architect behind the Vehicons: a dark clone of Lio Convoy who called himself "[[Galva Convoy]]". Lio and his forces were surrounded by Vehicons... who betrayed their benefactors and began converting the Assembly instead. On Blackarachnia's suggestion, Lio fled.

Desperate, thanks to his big plan going belly-up, Lio came to a grim conclusion: The Vehicons had to be stopped by whatever means necessary, and if that meant he had to use the last K-bomb left to crack the entire planet like an egg, so be it. As he was arming Ro-tor, he was met by Eject and [[Riker]] aboard [[Black-Out]], who had come to him to offer a truce. Lio wasn't happy to see his old mentor, but Eject revealed where Galva Convoy had holed up - in the [[Grand Mal]], and Lio's sword, which would hide him from the sparkless Vehicons, was their way in. They had a chance, though Lio promised to square things with Eject later.

On approach to the Grand Mal, Black-Out was shot down by a glancing blow, but managed to crash through the fortress' eye. Lio was unharmed, but to his distress found Eject fatally wounded, Eject offered him some last words of encouragement before expiring; as Black-Out exploded, Lio and his Maximals made their way inside, fighting through the drones as they went until they reached the bridge, where Galva Convoy awaited. Surprisingly, Galva Convoy was happy to see his "brother", maintaining that he was merely doing Cybertron a favor by removing the evils of "free will"... and that he had merely taken the ruthlessness of the Resistance to its logical extreme. Despite Blackarachnia's attempt to shoot him, she was subdued while Galva attacked Lio, who was too drained from days of activity to properly fight back. Lio began to wonder whether his duplicate had a point, and ruminated over all the dubious decisions he'd made over the years. Galva Convoy was just following his example. So, Lio decided to change strategy.

He pretended to be convinced by Galva's words, that he wanted to help him strip Cybertron of its sparks, as he focused his spark so it would match that of his duplicate. He told Galva to bring in a drone and assimilate Blackarachnia, and when he did, Lio jumped in front of them, taking the virus for himself. A panicked Galva leapt in to try and stop the process, allowing Lio to infect ''him'' thanks to their matching sparks. Lio blacked out, though not before he saw Blackarachnia raise her gun and fire.

Fortunately, the [[cyber venom]] in her gun prevented the virus from taking Lio. He was unconscious for the next several cycles, missing the end of the apocalypse, as medics did what they could to save his life, spending a decacycle rebuilding him "from the ground up", in Blackarachnia's words. On awakening, his oldest friend filled him in on the aftermath. Wrenching himself free of his recharge slab, he told her to get on the horn to everyone she could, Maximal, Predacon, Builder or Neutral, and get them to arrange a summit before the chance passed them by. Over the next eight cycles he passed in and out of consciousness, but Blackarachnia and B'Boom managed what he asked.

[[File:Inexorable March Lio Convoy.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|Casting a long shadow over history.]]

With several more cycles of arguing and politicking, the Cybertronian Parliament was created, with a design that would make any one faction achieving a supermajority difficult. Watching their discussion, albeit via the means of an [[exo-walker]] since he hadn't fully recovered, Lio felt confident he'd made the right choice. When their first decision was to declare the war over, and that day dubbed [[Unity Day]], Lio felt a surge of hope before leaving them to their work. Two solar cycles later, Lio Convoy left Cybertron, deciding that he was too polarizing a figure to stay behind. The only witness to his departure was Blackarachnia, to whom he pondered over trying to bridge the gulf between Cybertron and Earth. {{storylink|Derailment}}

A decade after the events of the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]], Lio Convoy reappeared during a [[Vok]]-induced crisis on [[Metascan Omega]]. {{storylink|The Inexorable March}}

He did eventually return to Cybertron in some way, having some involvement in the ''Second'' Vehicon Apocalypse.

Some ten thousand years later, history remembered him for walking away from Cybertron rather than becoming a tyrant, though the details became blurred by the intervening years. The bulk of historians wrote that the great Lio Convoy was ''certainly'' not aware of all those horrible things like the G-Virus! [[Hatchet (BW)|Some academics]] took a far less than charitable view of his activities, both rightfully noting he knew and approved of monstrous deeds along with blaming him for activities he wasn't responsible for and taking a negative view of most of his choices. One notable historian, [[Rampage (BW)#Beast Wars Uprising|Pontiff General Rampage]], would write that Lio Convoy was a truly horrible thing who created zealots and sent them to their deaths, like those poor "Protoform Ex" agents.

There were persistent rumors that, following the [[Grand Uprising|Unification War]], Lio Convoy became part Vehicon, adopting a jet mode in addition to his more familiar [[cybercat]] [[beast mode]]. He also may have become binary bonded to the [[Titan Master]] [[Moon (BW)|Moon]], sometimes known as "Mecha Usagi", but no records existed to prove it. {{storylink|Lio Convoy: Unity Through Tyranny}}
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==Games==
===''Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars''===
When the super-powerful [[Energon Quartz]] was discovered on [[Earth]], Lio Convoy was one of the several combatants to join the brawl to take possession of it.

Lio Convoy could also partake in various other tasks, such as a mission to break a boulder to reveal an energon crystal hidden within before sundown, using a block in a mission to defend himself against various incoming projectiles, and missions to run across a pit-riddled field, sometimes involving hideously large bacteria he had to fend off.

After defeating his final opponent, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], Lio Convoy decided to seal away the Quartz forever, so that it would never fall into the hands of those who would abuse its power towards evil ends. {{storylink|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars}}

{{note|Each character possessed an alternate ending, displayed if the game was beaten with said character. Each character has only their own ending listed on their pages, see the other characters' pages for Lio Convoy's fate in those outcomes.}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Lio-Convoy.jpg|thumb|400px]]
Lio Convoy participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Epic character who was available in the July Daily Campaign and could be recruited by collecting 20 Alpha cores, 20 Beta cores, 20 Omega cores, and 10 cores of this character. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWII LioConvoy toy.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight...]]
*'''Lio Convoy''' ([[April 23]], [[1998]])
**''ID number'': '''C-16'''
**''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers

: The only item in the second wave of ''Beast Wars II'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWII|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Lio Convoy is an Ultra-sized figure that transforms into an organic white lion articulated at the legs and head. Like most [[Convoy (rank)|Convoy]] or [[Optimus Prime (disambiguation)|Optimus Prime]]-type figures, Lio Convoy is loaded with weapons and [[gimmick]]s.

: In [[beast mode]], his forelegs have flip-out double-bladed "Lion Claws", which spring out when pinched together. Lio Convoy also features spring-loaded missile launchers that are hidden inside his mane. The bottom two are flipped out by lifting the bottom flap of his mane and pushing a gray trigger on either side. The top two launchers are flipped out by pushing down on the top panel of his mane. He can only store four of the six "Lio Missiles" in beast mode, but they end up sticking straight out of his mane and look ''very'' awkward. An additional gimmick requires you to unfold his four mane panels and to push on the big red peg protruding from the top to create his "Lion Typhoon" attack. The last gimmick in this mode is a button atop his head that can be pressed to open his mouth, revealing his teeth.

:In [[robot mode]], all of Lio Convoy's aforementioned gimmicks can still be utilized. His flip-out Lion Claws now act as under-slung forearm blades; his Lion Typhoon ends up on his right shoulder; his two bottom Lio Missile launchers flip-out on his forearms; his top two Lio Missile launchers flip out on his right shoulder and can also be removed to be used as hand-held weapons. Additional cartoon-only weaponry which can be replicated somewhat, with some good old imagination are the "Radar Disruption Shot" (an attack made to confuse heat-seeking missiles by firing a beam from his beast mode mouth), the "Lio Beam" (which only requires you to flip out his top launchers and leave the Lio Missiles out) and due to his tail not being able to retract like in the cartoon, it's always in a permanent "Lio Byūto" attack pose.

: Lio Convoy also features a pair of molded in thrusters on his back and the left side of his chest contains his non-removable "[[Energon Matrix]]". The inside of the door to the Matrix chamber also features his [[Maximal]] [[rubsign]], though this proves rather pointless as the outside of the door features a sliver-chromed Maximal [[insignia]] anyway.

: [[Sonokong]] also released this figure in their ''Beast-War'' toyline as '''Lion Convoy'''. Aside from the difference in packaging, the [[South Korea|Korea]]n release of the figure is identical to the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] releases. In place of the bio cards of the Takara releases, Lion Convoy comes with two "{{w|Rock paper scissors|Jan-ken-pon}}" cards. One has an image [[:File:C-16 Lion Convoy Sonokong.jpg|reflecting the one on the box]], with scissors and the number three die roll, and the other with paper and the number four die roll, with a grass plane background.

: [[Hasbro]] also offered Lio Convoy (the Takara version) as an [[exclusive]] on its now-defunct [[Hasbro Collectors]] website in 2000.

: This mold was also used to make [[Black Lio Convoy#Toys|Black Lio Convoy]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Cybertron/LioConvoy/lioconvoy.htm More information on Lio Convoy at TFU.info]''
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*'''History's Greatest Showdown: Lio Convoy VS Galvatron''' (VS pack, [[May 21]] 1998)
**''ID number'': '''VS-16'''
**''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers

: Lio Convoy was also available in the "History's Greatest Showdown" (史上最大の対決 ''Shijō Saidai no Taiketsu'') two-pack with his arch-enemy [[Galvatron (BW)#VS16|Galvatron]].

: Both toys are identical to their individual releases.

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[[File:Beast Wars-Black Lio Convoy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Even lions are classier in black. (''Toys"R"Us "blue claw" version pictured'')]]
*'''Black Lio Convoy''' (1998)
**''ID number'': '''C-16'''
**''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers

: A [[redeco]] of Lio Convoy, Black Lio Convoy sports the now-familiar black, silver, and teal color scheme which was later used for ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]], ''Alternators'' [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]] and many, many other "evil" Optimus Primes. There is also a variant of this toy that comes with gold claws, which is harder to find than the normal version.

: Black Lio Convoy was a [[Toys"R"Us]] [[exclusive]] and came in a Lio Convoy box with a sticker indicating that it was "Black Lio Convoy". A special [[Lucky Draw figure|Lucky Draw]] version limited to 10 pieces was also released through ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]'', which featured "BL-00" painted in white on his robo-butt.

: This toy is also used to represent the separate character of [[Black Lio Convoy]].

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*'''Gold Lio Convoy''' (1998)
**''ID number'': '''C-16'''
**''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers

:Released exclusively through a ''Comic Bom Bom'' Lucky Draw contest in [[August]] 1998, Lio Convoy was released in two different variants of gold; the first wave was released in a matte gold plastic, while the second wave was released in gold chrome. In total, there were 10 Gold Lio Convoys made.

::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/resources/review/beast+wars+ii/gold+lio+convoy+chrome/3574 More information on "Gold Galvatron" at Transformers at the Moon]''
::*''[https://www.soundwavesoblivion.com/japanesebeastwars.html More information at Soundwaves Oblivion]''

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[[File:BWII LioConvoy Flash.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Blinged out and sparkly. Who are these toys marketed to again?]]
*'''Flash Lio Convoy''' (1998)
**''ID number'': '''C-16'''
**''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers

:The first [[redeco]] of Lio Convoy in his "Flash" color scheme, which replaces most of his secondary colors with metal-flake gold and silver.

:He was released alongside Burning Convoy to promote the ''[[Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers|Beast Wars Special]]'' film.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Cybertron/FlashLioConvoy/flashlioconvoy.htm More information on Flash Lio Convoy at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BWII-Toy_LioConvoy_GalvatronLuckyDraw.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Please help. I fell into some Kool-Aid."]]
*'''Galvatron Color Lio Convoy''' (Contest prize, 1998)
**''ID number'': '''C-16'''
**''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers

: A ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]'' [[Lucky Draw figure|Lucky Draw]] exclusive limited to only 50 units, Galvatron Color Lio Convoy is a [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]]-themed recolor of Lio Convoy. This rare toy represents Lio as he appeared in the ''Bom Bom'' manga story when his spark was tainted by [[Angolmois Energy]].

: This toy was only made available as a prize offered through the December 1998 issue of ''Comic Bom Bom''.

::*''[http://www.luckydrawtransformers.com/toy/gallery/review/galva+lio+convoy/886/galva+lio+convoy.html More information (and a photo gallery) on Galvatron Color Lio Convoy at luckydrawtransformers.com ]''

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*'''Telemaga Special Cybertron 6-piece Set''' (1999)
**''Accessories'': 6 "Lio Missiles", 2 launchers

: A black, red and yellow redeco of Lio Convoy was part of a six-piece set of unique redecoes of the main Cybertron cast of ''Beast Wars II'', the grand prize in the "New Beast Warriors Contest" in the February 1999 issue of ''[[TV Magazine]]''. The details of this contest are currently unknown.

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[[File:BWtoy-Green-Lio-Convoy-prototype.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Unknown green prototype'''

:An abandoned green [[prototype]] of the ''Beast Wars'' Lio Convoy mold exists with a pretty big mystery surrounding it. It has been speculated among the fandom that the figure was intended to be released as the Green Lion form shown in "[[Legend! The Green Warrior]]" and several moments of the ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Beast Wars Neo]]'' cartoon, however; there is no proof of this. Another theory is that it was given away as an in-house gift to Takara staff members working on the Japanese ''Beast Wars'' toyline, hence its ''extremely'' limited supply, but there has been no confirmation of this either. In short: it exists and no one knows why.

:The figure itself appears to have been in the mock-up stage of development, as it mostly reuses parts from the Flash Lio Convoy toy, only replacing the transparent white plastic with transparent green instead. The figure also lacks painted details, further supporting this theory. As it stands, only two of this prototype are known to exist with one being in the possession of the owners of [http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/index.php Transformers at the Moon] and the other being owned by another fan for many years until surfacing on eBay in [[2021]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/AllsparkNews/status/1432732900483604480 Green Lio Convoy up for sale on eBay] - Allspark Twitter account</ref>

::*[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/resources/review/beast+wars+ii/green+flash+lio+convoy+/3763 ''More information on "Green Lio Convoy" at Transformers at the Moon'']
::*[https://twitter.com/transformertoys/status/1437321995327258626 ''Transformers at the Moon's post about "Green Lio Convoy" on Twitter in 2021'']
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===''Robotmasters''===
[[File:RMLioConvoy toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I'm adorable!]]
*'''Lio Convoy''' (2005)
**''ID number:'' '''RM-22'''
**''Acessories:'' 2 "Gold Fangs", 2 "Laser Tonfas", "Lio Shot"

: ''[[Robotmasters (franchise)|Robotmasters]]'' Lio Convoy is a scaled-down, simplified, all-new, Deluxe-sized Lio Convoy. Though he retains most of the original Lio Convoy's articulation, he lacks the spring-loaded [[gimmick]]s such as his spinning mane and missile launchers, and is of lower sculpted detail.

: Instead of spring-loaded weapons, Lio Convoy comes with a whopping five non-firing blasters. His beast mode mane has peg-holes to attach four of the weapons, simulating his bigger toy's [[attack mode|attack beast mode]]. The smaller handgun has several mounting points on it for adding the other guns, resulting in a superweapon.

: This mold was also used to make the ''Robotmasters'' version of [[Black Lio Convoy#Robotmasters|Black Lio Convoy]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Cybertron/LioConvoy/lioconvoy.htm ''More information on ''Robotmasters'' Lio Convoy at TFU.info'']

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[[File:RMLioConvoy DVD toy.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|I'm unobtainable!]]
*'''Lio Convoy + DVD''' (2005)
**''ID number'': '''RM-23'''
**''Acessories'': 2 "Gold Fangs", 2 "Laser Tonfas", "Lio Shot"

: This more limited-edition (yet still normal retail) redeco of Lio Convoy features a shiny metallic paint deco for his red parts. He also comes with a DVD with the second part of the short ''Robotmasters'' CGI-animated storyline.

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Cybertron/DVDLioConvoy/lioconvoy.htm ''More information on ''Robotmasters'' Lio Convoy + DVD at TFU.info'']
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===''Classics''===
[[File:Class06-toy LeoPrime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|This toy has caused untold years of war.]]
*'''Leo Prime''' (Legends Class, 2007)
*'''Leo Prime''' (Legends Class, "Cybertron Collection", 2008)

: An unusual addition to the ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' line, Leo Prime is a redeco of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]''-series [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends of Cybertron]] [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] toy, transforming into a robotic lion (well, liger, really). He was originally part of the first wave of ''Classics'' Legends, then later re-released in a wave with—even more unusually—the ''Cybertron''-series characters [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]], [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], and [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]], all of whom (Leo Prime included) had the words "Cybertron Collection" added to the standard ''Classics'' package design.

: Interestingly, this makes Leo Prime the only remake / redeco figure released under the ''Classics'' toyline that's based on a Beast Era character - though of course, one might argue his inclusion is not entirely odd since he's still technically part of the Generation 1 continuity regardless.

: This mold was also used to make [[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|''Universe'' (2008)]] [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]].

::*[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/ClassicsLeoPrime/leoprime.htm ''More information on ''Classics'' Leo Prime at TFU.info'']
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===''Universe'' (2008)===
[[File:Leoprimeuniversevoyager.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|In the same zoo as Primal Prime.]]
*'''Leo Prime''' (Voyager Class, 2009)
**''Series'': '''Beast Wars Series'''
**''Accessories'': Tail/"Jungle whip," Key

: A [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Overhaul (Cybertron)#Voyager|Leobreaker]] with a new head and [[redeco]]ed in blue and red, Leo Prime transforms into a mechanical lion. Unlike previous releases of this mold, the electronics were removed and the battery cover is riveted closed. Each forelimb/arm has a Cyber-Key-released spring-loaded "snap-out robo-shredder claw," and his tail becomes a blade-whip for robot mode. As a redeco of Leobreaker, he can still transform into a "Savage Claw Mode", becoming a massive clawed arm that can attach to the Leader-class ''Cybertron'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys#Cybertron|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Armada)/toys#Cybertron|Megatron]] toys, usable on either side of their torsos. He comes with a silver-bordered blue Jungle Planet-type Cyber Key. His packaging designates him a [[Maximal]] despite the Autobot symbol on his chest.

: The inexplicable new coloration for the character probably stems from an abortive [[BotCon]] attempt to redeco the original Lio Convoy toy in the colors of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|2007 movie Optimus Prime]], with the latter's flames conceptually transferred to the lion mane.<ref>[https://twitter.com/JesseWittenrich/status/1159527229665284098 Series of tweets by @JesseWittenrich, 8 August 2019]</ref>

: The original version of this mold was also used to create [[Nemesis Breaker#Toys|Nemesis Breaker]] and retooled to make [[BotCon 2009]] [[Razorclaw (G1)#Timelines|Razorclaw]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Maximal/LeoPrime/leoprime.htm More information on ''Universe'' Leo Prime at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Universe2008toy-LeoPrimeTarget.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|He hangs out with Walmart's red ''Universe'' Powerglide.]]
*'''Leo Prime''' (Voyager Class, 2009)
**''Series'': '''Beast Wars Series'''
**''Accessories'': Tail/"Jungle whip," Key

: A [[Target]]-[[exclusive]] [[redeco]] was produced of the first ''Universe'' Leo Prime in colors that homage Lio Convoy's original color scheme. Though he was in ''Universe'' packaging, his cross sells were for the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' Voyager Class toys [[Stratosphere#Toys|Stratosphere]], [[Grindor (ROTF)#Toys|Grindor]], and [[Long Haul (ROTF)#Toys|Long Haul]]. Leo Prime's bio and call-outs remain the same.

: This release was exclusive to Target stores in the United States.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Maximal/TargetLeoPrime/leoprime.htm More information on "Target" Leo Prime at TFU.info]''

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===''Prime''===
[[File:Primetoy-LeoPrime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|That's Law Enforcement Officer Prime to you.]]
*'''Leo Prime''' ([[December 15]], [[2012]])
**''ID number'': '''AM-28'''
**''Accessories'': Beast-leg/blade, "L.P." Arms Micron

: Part of the tenth wave of the [[TakaraTomy]] [[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Japan|''Prime'' toyline]], Leo Prime is a [[redeco]] of Voyager Class [[Thundertron#Prime|Thundertron]], transforming into a mechanical lion. His right robot mode foot can detach to reveal a bladed "peg-leg", with the original foot converting into a claw-weapon. Leo Prime comes with his [[Arms Micron]] partner, [[L.P.#Toys|L.P.]], who transforms into a sword.

: In an erroneous holdover, the catalogue that comes with Leo Prime labels the figure "Thundertron" (サンダートロン ''Sandātoron'').

: This mold was also used to make [[Go Prime#Toys|Go Prime]] and [[BotCon 2014]] [[Cheetor (BW)/toys#BotCon2014|Knight Alpha Trizer]].
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===''Legend Commander Collection''===
[[File:LegendCommanderCollection-LioConvoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Lio Convoy. the only one that Primus does not sin when he destroys."]]
*'''Lio Convoy''' (2014)
**''ID number'': '''LC-03'''
**''Accessories'': 2 "Gold Fangs", 2 "Laser Tonfa", "Lio Shot"
:Part of the ''[[Legend Commander Collection]]'' sold at [[Transformers Expo]], Lio Convoy is a redeco of ''Robotmasters'' Lio Convoy. Remaining stock was sold through [[TakaraTomy Mall]].

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===''Timelines''===
[[File:TFCC-Lio-Convoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''If it is my fate, I will make up my mind, so please cut me some slack for now. Surely there will be a tomorrow, aah, after today.'']]
*'''Lio Convoy''' (TCC incentive figure, 2015)
**''Accessories'': blaster, [[Solipsistic Staff|axe]]

: The [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] member incentive figure of 2015, ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Lio Convoy is a retool of ''Thrilling 30'' Deluxe Class [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Deluxe|Orion Pax]], transforming into a truck. He comes with a blaster and axe, both of which can peg onto 5mm ports on his hands and vehicle rear sides. Although not depicted on the instructions, the blaster can also peg into the hole on the larger blade of the Energon Axe.

:Some units have [[Quality control|two left fists]].

:Lio Convoy was [[redeco]]ed into [[Nova Prime#Toys|Nova Prime]] and [[Galva Convoy#Toys|Galva Convoy]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Maximal/TFCCLioConvoy/lioconvoy.htm More information on ''Timelines'' Lio Convoy at TFU.info]''

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===''Legends''===
[[File:TF-Legends-LG41-Lio-Convoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|But can he kill Unicron in just one single shot?]]
*'''Leo Prime''' ([[February 25]], [[2017]])
**''ID number'': '''LG41'''
**''Accessories'': Ancient Sword, Headmaster, Leo Missile gun, small gun

:''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Leo Prime is a redeco of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Voyager Class [[Alpha Trion (G1)#Generations|Alpha Trion]] using [[Infinitus#Generations|Infinitus]]'s head, and he transforms from a robot to "ancient leo" to "space carrier". He is armed with an "[[L.P.|Ancient Sword]]" (named the "[[Solipsistic Staff|Solipsistic Sword]]" in ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]''), a "Leo Missile" gun ("[[Typhoon Arrow]]" in ''Uprising'') that his Headmaster can ride in spaceship mode, and a smaller handgun that, like Infinitus, was previously included with [[Sentinel Prime (G1)#Generations|Sentinel Prime]]. As with Hasbro's ''Titans Return'' Voyager figures, pressing in his chest crystal is meant to make his head adornments, the "Great Horn", spring up to "bulk up" his head, but the switch is much weaker than Alpha Trion's and is incapable of holding the horns down for longer than a second or so.

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===''Masterpiece''===
[[File:Masterpiece MP-48-Lio Convoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Kimba really has gotten so big.]]
*'''Lio Convoy (Beast Wars)''' ([[February 29]], [[2020]])
**''ID number'': '''MP-48'''
**''Accessories'': "[[Maximal Buster|Cybertron Buster]]", 4 "Lio Missiles", 2 "Lio Beams", "Holder Parts"

:''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Lio Convoy transforms from white lion to robot and is intended to replicate his animated appearance. He is designed to scale with other ''Beast Wars''-based ''Masterpiece'' figures. Incidentally, he also scales with the Ultra-sized ''Beast Wars Neo'' [[Big Convoy#Toys|Big Convoy]].

:This toy replicates many features of the original toy, like an opening chest hatch with sculpted Matrix inside, deployable arm blades and cannons, and missiles which can be inserted into his cannons, but have no launching mechanisms. He includes his Cybertron Buster gun from the anime, as well as opening hatches on his calves which reveal articulated jet boosters.

:Lio Convoy was planned to come with a poseable [[Artemis]] figure, but this was omitted from the final product.

:Lio Convoy was released as an EB Games exclusive in Canada.
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==Merchandise==
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*'''Beast Collection Special 10''' (PVC set, 1998)

: Two clear-blue super-deformed PVCs of Lio Convoy were included as part of a ten-piece set of PVCs. He comes in both robot mode and lion mode; the lion mode has his four mane-cannons deployed, with his entire mane/head as a separate piece that slots onto the body.

: This set was also marked as a "Clear Version Special Set", but it's unknown if there an opaque set was ever released.

: This set also includes PVCs of [[Galvatron (BW)#bluePVC|Galvatron]] in both robot and dragon modes, [[Apache#bluePVC|Apache]], [[Bighorn#bluePVC|Bighorn]], [[Scuba#bluePVC|Scuba]], [[Tasmania Kid#bluePVC|Tasmania Kid]], [[Megastorm#bluePVC|Megastorm]], and [[Starscream (BW)#bluePVC|Starscream]].

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===''Beast Wars Gum''===
*'''Lio Convoy''' (candy toy, 1997)
:A snap together model kit of Lio Convoy was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Gum|Beast Wars Gum]]'', sculpted from purple and gold plastic. He could transform from robot to beast mode by being broken down into its component parts, then rebuilt into a new mode. It came with a stick of gum.
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===''Beast Fighters''===
*'''Lio Convoy''' (candy toy, 1997)
:Kabaya's ''[[Beast Fighters]]'' Lio Convoy was a small, [[super deformed]] PVC model which was hollow inside, designed to be used as a finger-puppet. It was available in a [[Blindpacking|blindpack]] with fizzy "Ramune" candy.
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===Flame Toys===
*'''Leo Prime''' (202?)

:''Furai Action'' Leo Prime is an action figure released as part of the re-launch of the ''Furai Action'' line. Unlike the previously released ''Furai Action'' Optimus Prime (IDW ver.), Leo Prime features die-cast metal parts.

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==Notes==
[[File:LioConcept.JPG|upright=1.1|thumb|Concept art]]
*The concept of the leader of the heroic faction transforming into a lion may have its genesis in a planned [[retool]] of [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (then known as [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]) into [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] with a lion alternate mode.
*Lio Convoy's beast mode is probably based on the main character of the classic manga, ''{{w|Jungle Emperor Leo}}'', better known to the English speaking world as ''Kimba the White Lion''.
*Lio Convoy, like a ton of other [[Kre-O Transformers (comic)|''Kre-O'' comic]] characters, uses existing Kre-O pieces. As such, he uses the [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] helmet, the [[Razorclaw (Kre-O)|Razorclaw]] lion head and mane (though they are rather smaller than normal), and a form of backpack piece to hold it on Lio Convoy's right-hand shoulder.
*Lio Convoy's ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' box and instructions have his "Lio Byūto" (ライオビュート ''Raio Byūto'') attack mistranslated as "Lio Viewt".
*Considering the real world esoteric origin of the word "Angolmois," the Legendary Green Lion is possibly inspired from European alchemy, wherein the green lion was a symbol representing sulfuric acid (then called "oil of vitriol" or "vitriol of Venus"), which was prized for its ability to dissolve all but the gold present in a substance.

===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''Lion Convoy''' (라이온콘보이 ''Raion Konboi'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Bái Shī Qíngtiānzhù''' (白狮擎天柱, "White Lion Optimus Prime")

==References==
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Seacon (BW)

2020-06-14T04:45:35Z

Dracodis:

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:''The Seacons are scurvy space pirates from the [[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars II]] portion of the [[Beast Era]] continuity, they is!''

[[Image:Seacons bw.jpg|right|300px|thumb|''We are the pirates who don't do anything We just stay home, and lie around And if you ask us, to do anything we'll just tell you We don't do anything!'']]
With the Jolly Roger hoisted high and the cannon fuses smoldering, the '''Space Pirate Seacons''' (宇宙海賊シーコンズ ''Uchū Kaizoku Shīkonzu'') sail the spaceways in a neverending search for plunder and power. These ferocious freebooters will gladly ally themselves with whomever proves most beneficial to their larcenous ends, be they [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] or [[Maximal]]. In reality, the Seacons typically end up doublecrossing ''everybody'', leaving them with few friends and a ''lot'' of enemies.

Their crew consists of:

* [[Halfshell]], the greedy-yet-generous leader.
* [[Scylla]], the lovesick squid of debatable beauty.
* [[Coelagon]], the eldest member and source of senile "wisdom".
* [[Terrormander]], the youthful slacker who's good in a fight but not for much else.
* [[Sea Phantom]], the gluttonous dullard with a serious case of fin-in-mouth disease.

These scallywags can combine to form [[God Neptune (BWII)|God Neptune]], a powerhouse who keeps their rivals at bay (when his limbs aren't deserting him, that is).

[[Lawbhammer]] would've been the 6th member if he didn't walk the plank.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars II'' cartoon===
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===''Beast Wars II'' manga===
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===''Beast Wars'' toy bios===
[[Cybershark]] "honed his skills while bounty hunting a rogue band of Cybertronian space pirates." {{storylink|Cybershark#TM2|Transmetal 2 Cybershark toy bio}}

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[File:BW2-toy GodNeptune.jpg|right|300px|thumb|I'm not fat, I'm big boned.]]
*'''God Neptune''' (Multi-pack, 1998)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''D-21'''
**''Accessories'': Sword, super robot head, shell-shield/chestplate, 2 foot-plates, left & right fists

: Sold only as a boxed set of five toys, God Neptune is a [[redeco]] of ''most'' of the [[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]] [[Seacon (G1)|Seacon]] team, combining [[Halfshell#Toys|Halfshell]] (torso), [[Coelagon#Toys|Coelagon]], [[Scylla#Toys|Scylla]], [[Sea Phantom#Toys|Sea Phantom]], and [[Terrormander#Toys|Terrormander]]. Since the set uses the [[Scramble City (toyline)|Scramble City]]-style of construction, the body and limbs are interchangeable with similar-build combiner teams.

: The set does ''not'' include a redeco of [[Nautilator#Toys|Nautilator]], and almost all of the weapons and gun-mode stands for the individuals are also missing.

: For unknown reasons, a great number of unboxed God Neptune sets—lacking all of their accessories, including combiner parts—ended up available on the secondary market. These went for considerably less than the "complete" releases, naturally.

: This toy was later [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as ''Classics'' [[God Neptune (BWSG)|God Neptune]] in the comic arc ''[[Beast Wars Shattered Glass]]''.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Destron/GodNeptune/godneptune.htm More information on God Neptune at TFU.info]''
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===Generations===
[[File:TF-Generations-Selects-God-Neptune.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb||''Here'' is your god now!]]
*'''God Neptune''' (Multi-pack, 2020?)
**''ID number'': '''TT-GS10'''
**''Accessories'': "Neptune Sword", "Neptune Cannon", 2 foot-plates, left & right fists
: God Neptune is a redeco of ''[[Transformers: Generations#Selects|Generations Selects]]'' [[King Poseidon]] (omitting [[Lobclaw]], of course). He is armed with a large trident-shaped "Neptune sword" and a "Neptune cannon," each formed by merging the weapons of the component Seacons. As a redeco, God Neptune shares King Poseidon's Targetmaster function, which went unadvertised due to having 5 components instead of 6.

: The God Neptune 5-pack set was announced in May 2020, for an October 2020 release. It is [[exclusive]] to [[TakaraTomy Mall]] and [[Hasbro Pulse]].
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==Notes==
*Oddly, though they are referred to as such practically everywhere else, the term "Seacon" does not appear on the team's toy packaging.

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The Extinction Event

2019-04-04T04:43:23Z

Dracodis: /* Trivia */

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|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberverse]]'' ep 16
|image=Cyberverse - The Extinction Event - Activating.jpg
|caption=''And the six-sided architect / Freethinking / Unblinking'' ''Holds the fate of all things / In the palm of his hand.''
|prev=King of the Dinosaurs
|next=Awaken Sleeping Giants
|title="The Extinction Event"
|airdate=[[December 8]], [[2018]] (Singapore) [[December 14]], 2018 (CN app/website) [[December 15]], 2018 (USA)
|production company=[[Allspark Animation]]
|writer=[[Kate Leth]]
|animation studio=[[Boulder Media Studio]]
|director=
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'''The newly formed team of Autobots must stop Shockwave from destroying all life on the planet.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Cyberverse - The Extinction Event - Shockwave Arrives.jpg|thumb|left|250px|''A fretful sky / An absent sun'' ''A distant heat / A deathly hand'']]
In [[Earth]]'s orbit, [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] orders her [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]]s to stand at attention in front of the planet's repaired [[Space Bridge]], which even now flares to life to allow [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]]'s flagship to arrive...

Meanwhile, in [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]]'s impromptu headquarters, the Autobot shows [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]], [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]] and [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] around, explaining his time on Earth and how his attempts to locate the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]'' ended in failure, resulting in him recruiting the local [[Dinosaur (dinosaur)|dinosaur]]s to help build a home for himself. The happy reunion is cut short, however, when Teletraan-X picks up something on the base's orbital scanner: a massive Decepticon ship in Earth's orbit!

Above, Shockwave dresses down Slipstream for her repeated failures: her inability to find the [[AllSpark]], the ''Ark'', and her repeated failures at capturing Bumblebee and Windblade. Eager to simplify the hunt for the AllSpark, Shockwave announces his plan: he and the Decepticons will simply eradicate ''all'' organic life on Earth. At his command, his ship splits into two; Shockwave instructs the Seekers that two of them will join him, and the others will serve with his second-in-command [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. The ships fly off to enact Shockwave's grand plan, as down below the Autobots watch helplessly as Teletraan-X explains the Decepticon plan: by shutting down the planet's geomagnetic field at each poles, the resulting radiation will result in complete extinction for all organic life on Earth.

The Autobots attempt to strategize, and though Grimlock initially suggests splitting up—even using his dinosaur mode to intimidate the other two Autobots—he eventualy agrees with Windblade and Teletraan-X's summation of their predicament: by concentrating all of their firepower to eliminate one ship at the [[Arctic|North Pole]], they'll be able to halt the process entirely. To get there, Teletraan-X commandeers a [[human]] cargo plane, though Grimlock is less than enthused at the tight squeeze the ship provides.

[[File:Cyberverse - The Extinction Event - Total Extinction.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''While the planet turns from gold to gray'' ''And gray to black'']]
At the North Pole, Shadow Striker prepares to activate the ship's [[magnetic disruptor]], blasting a beam of radiation into the ground. As Shadow Striker prepares to finish the job, however, [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] picks up an incoming hostile: none other than Windblade! Eager for vengeance, Slipstream and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] rush out and takes to the air, leaving Thundercracker alone... and, seconds later, Thundercracker picks up Bumblebee dancing on the ice to draw their attention, goading a vengeful Shadow Striker into abandoning her post and driving off to deal with her nemesis. With only [[Shockwave's drones]] for company, and his fellow Seekers felled by Windblade in a battle above the icecap, Thundercracker has to deal with an irate Shockwave when the Decepticon scientist calls to check up on their progress... only for Grimlock to sneak aboard the ship and incapacitate the young Seeker.

Despite their multi-pronged attack, Teletraan-X reports that their plan has ''failed''—the disruptor has already gone off, and Earth's geomagnetic field will fail... unwilling to give up, however, Grimlock resorts to brute force, unleashing his dino mode to smash the ship apart, tearing his way free to help Windblade against Shadow Striker and Slipstream before the ship explodes. Their objective complete, the Autobots beat a hasty retreat aboard the cargo plane; though Shadow Striker tries to board the ship, her glitchy limbs prove her undoing, leaving her facedown in the snow as the triumphant Autobots fly away.

Shadow Striker reports back to Shockwave, who informs her that although his plan has failed, he has a backup in place: a backup plan evidenced by one of his drones, who has managed to smuggle itself aboard the plane...

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|c1=
* [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] (7)
* [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] (8)
* [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] (9)

|c2=
* [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] (1)
* [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] (2)
* [[Thrust (Cyberverse)|Thrust]] (3)
* [[Acid Storm (Cyberverse)|Acid Storm]] (4)
* [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] (5)
* [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] (6)
* [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] (11)
* [[Shockwave's drones]] (12)

|c4=
* [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]] (10)
}}

==Quotes==
"Together we rebuilt the entire bridge of the ''Ark''. It was not easy. You remember the communications console, and the weapons command module? Here's a tip. Never let a ''Velociraptor'' have access to your weapons command module. And a little addition of mine we all enjoyed: the hot tub."
:—'''Grimlock'''

"You have failed to secure this planet. Or locate the Autobot ship. I am going to make it impossible to fail. Nothing will stand in our way. We will eradicate all organic life on this planet." 
"...very...''efficient''." 
"Indeed."
:—'''Shockwave''' seriously disturbs '''Slipstream''' with his logic.

'''Windblade:''' "We can't split up. We don't have the numbers." 
'''Teletraan-X:''' "If I may-" 
''<Grimlock interrupts him by transforming to dino mode>'' 
'''Grimlock:''' "''I'' AM THE NUMBERS!"

"When the civilized way fails, sometimes one has to call upon a little friend called..." 
''<Grimlock transforms to dino mode>'' 
"BRUTE FORCE!"
:—'''Grimlock'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Shockwave announced his intentions to come to Earth in "[[Siloed]]."
* Windblade mentions [[Maccadam]] having led them to Grimlock, as seen in "[[Maccadam's]]."
* Grimlock notes that the only thing the base ever detected was the asteroid responsible for ending the age of the dinosaurs, as seen in [[King of the Dinosaurs|the previous episode]].
* Where exactly Windblade got the plane from is unmentioned in the episode itself; perhaps she stole it from the abandoned airfield the Autobots visited in "[[Sabotage]]"?

===Transformers references===
* Thundercracker swears by [[The Fallen|Megatronus]].
* Grimlock's robot-to-dinosaur transformation animation is a homage to the ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' video game; in particular, his fists slamming the ground as he transforms references that continuity's [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] and his [[Hulk]]-like transformation from one mode to the other.

===Real-world references===
*The aircraft Windblade acquires is a {{w|C-130 Hercules}}, which is appropriately the most common aircraft used for resupply of polar bases, although the aircraft shown lacks the ski landing gear of the {{w|Lockheed LC-130|specalized polar-operations variant}}.

===Trivia===
*With its large, hollow midsection and short but wide profile, Shockwave's flagship resembles a Romulan D'deridex-class warbird seen in the ''Star Trek'' series. (Rather ironic, considering the Romulans' ''rejection'' of the Vulcans' adherence to logic and suppression of emotion.)

===Animation and technical errors===
*Nova Storm lacks the trim on her cockpit once again.
*The Autobots' transport plane will, in the following episode, be seen to have an insignia flag behind the cockpit that is missing in this episode.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Objectif extinction'''" ("Objective extinction")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 2]], 2018

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Shockwaves Plan'''" ("Shockwave's Plan")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[January 19]], 2019

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Kihalásra felkészülni!'''" ("Prepare for Extinction!")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 24]], 2019

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Estinzione'''" ("Extinction")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 15]], 2018

==Home video releases==
*TBA

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDbkoxMZe60 "The Extinction Event" on YouTube] (US only)

[[Category:Cyberverse episodes]]

Transformers: Mystery of Convoy

2019-03-11T05:18:15Z

Dracodis: /* Characters */

{{Disambig3|Mystery of Convoy|Mystery of Convoy|about=the game of death and suffering}}
{{nav-G1|logo=TheTransformers_Logo.jpg}}
{{videogame
|title=''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Mystery of Convoy''
|image=Mystery of Convoy video game cover.png
|caption=Ignore the racist logo in the corner!
|japanese=戦え! 超ロボット生命体トランスフォーマー　コンボイの謎
|romaji=Tatakae! Chō Robot Seimei Tai Transformer Convoy no Nazo
|developer=[[ISCO]]
|publisher=[[TakaraTomy|Takara]]
|date=[[December 5|5 December]] [[1986]] (Family Computer) [[June 10|10 June]] [[2008]] (Virtual Console)
|platform=Family Computer, Virtual Console
|rating=CERO: A
}}

'''''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Mystery of Convoy''''' is a video game developed by [[ISCO]] and distributed by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] for the [[Family Computer|Famicom]] (the Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System). The player controls [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] on his mission to find the whereabouts of the missing [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Along his quest, Ultra Magnus faces various [[Decepticon]] threats including [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]]-type infantry, floating [[Decepticon]] [[insignia]]s, the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'', the [[combiner]]s [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and a final battle against [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]].

The game was followed by ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)|The Headmasters]]''.

In 2008, ''Mystery of Convoy'' was made available on the Nintendo Wii's {{w|Virtual Console}} service in Japan, up until the service was sunset. It cost 500 Wii points, or five dollars in Human money.

==Gameplay==
[[Image:Convoynonazoscreen.png|left|180px|thumb|Ultra Magnus tries not to get his ass kicked by ''the first enemy''.]]
The game is a simple 2D platformer with the player making their way through 10 levels while under constant attack from various enemies. Killing enemies earns the player points, occasionally various power-ups such as extra defense or temporary flight, and at every 20,000 points the player is awarded with an extra life. Many of the levels are simple horizontal fields, while two are vertical and one is a frustrating labyrinth where escape depends on a very specific route through the level or else it will loop back in upon itself. At the end of each level is a boss which in almost all cases simply floats up and down on the right side of the screen while randomly firing projectiles at the player.

Ultra Magnus fights with a very short-range gun and can transform. While transforming lets him fire upwards and makes him harder to hit, it makes his forward shots arc downwards and takes away his ability to jump. Unless he's using the "B" power-up, Magnus will die from a single hit of any kind, whereas the majority of enemies require multiple hits to be destroyed.

There are also a few secrets in the game, such as special red jet enemies that appear in certain stages. If Ultra Magnus manages to kill these, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] appears and lets him skip a few levels. Another secret is the seven hidden letters that spell out "RODIMUS" which are obtained by killing certain enemies. If the player collects all seven letters by the end of the game, they are given the option of playing through the game again, this time as [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]. Rodimus Prime has a new vehicle mode sprite but his in-play robot mode is simply a recolored Ultra Magnus and the gameplay remains exactly the same as during the Magnus run.

This game is also notorious for being extremely difficult to the point of frustration thanks to dodgy hit mechanics and sluggish control in addition to the small size of the projectiles requiring very accurate aiming, the copious amount of enemies, and the lack of color making the player unable to discern important objects from each other like an enemy shot from a mountain in the background.

===Stages===
#[[Wasteland Zone]]
#[[Temple Ruins]]
#[[Time Tunnel|Time Tunnel I]]
#[[Subspace Zone]]
#[[Floating City]]
#[[Time Tunnel|Time Tunnel II]]
#[[Glacier Zone]]
#[[Time Tunnel|Time Tunnel III]]
#[[Underground Machine City]]
#[[Time Tunnel|Time Tunnel IV]]

==Characters==
{{note|This character listing is augmented by a promotional video released to hype the game. Its claims as to which established Decepticons are actually in the game as common enemies are... let's go with "dubious". Those unlikely ones are presented here in italics.}}

{{featuredcharacters
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*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]
{{!}}}

|c2=
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{{!}}-
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;Common Enemies
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]
*[[Crack (G1)|Crack]]
*''[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]''
*[[Gosupu]]
*[[Hanma]]
*[[Kabusu]]
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]]
*[[Pressure‎]]
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]]
*[[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]
*''[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]''
*''[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]''
*[[Snow Commander]]
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
*''[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]''
*[[Tabara]]
*''[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]]''

{{!}}style="background:transparent; border-right: 0px" valign="top"{{!}}
;Bosses
*[[Devilstar]]
*[[Double Devilstar]]
*[[Destron Mark]]
*[[Nemesis (G1)|Destron Boat]]
*[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]
*[[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]
{{!}}}
|nonumbering=true
}}
{{-}}

==Cheat codes==
{| border=1
|+Memory Address Cheat Codes
!Address
!Value
!Game Genie
!Effect
!Side Effect
|----
|0069
|3
|LATEPA
|Always have three lives
|----
|0053
|20
|AZIALA
|Indestructible
|Music restarts every time you are hit
|----
|0053
|40
|AGIALA
|Shot Power Up
|----
|0053
|60
|ATIALA
|Indestructible and Shot Power Up
|----
|0022
|00
|AAZAZA
|Indestructible (alternate)<ref>[http://www.gshi.org/?s=v2&sys=5&gid=5678 Transformers: Convoy no Nazo (J) - NES - Codes - GSHI]</ref>
|Freezes player select, intro, and prevents level transitions while active
|----
|000074
|01
|PAEAAAGY
|Play as Rodimus Prime
|----
|}

==Strategy guide==
{{main|Transformers (Mystery of Convoy)}}

==Notes==
[[File:MysteryOfConvoySprites.png|thumb|214px]]
* The English title on the package of the game is mistakenly labeled as "Mystery of Comvoy".
* Despite his Japanese name being in the title of the game, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] only appears in-game twice. First during the start screen, when his head explodes and reassembles as the player's sprite, and later his head reappears colored gray right at the end of level 7.
* The ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' story, "[[To Die Game!]]", [[retcon]]s this game as being part of a cross-dimensional game between the hyper-dimensional guardian [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Alternity|Optimus Prime]] and the equally powerful [[Megatron (G1)#Alternity|Megatron]], wherein Optimus had to choose one avatar (Ultra Magnus) to fight endless hordes of Decepticons empowered by Megatron.
* The events of this game were adapted into [[manga]] form twice. First by [[Ikuo Miyazoe]] in a special titled "[[Famicom How-to Manga: Transformers: Mystery of Convoy]]" and published in the December 1986 issue of ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]''. Then again, in a far more truncated strip format by [[Akira Tanizaki]] for the [[Transformers (Mystery of Convoy)|''Transformers (Mystery of Convoy)'' strategy guide]] in the ''Comic Bom Bom Winter Vacation Special: Family Computer Certain Victory Dojo'' Vol. 12, in December 1986.
* In 2014 TakaraTomy released ''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns (mobile game)|Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns]]'', a mobile game based on ''Mystery of Convoy'', to tie in with their ''[[Q-Transformers]]'' toyline. It was accompanied by a ''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns (cartoon)|Mystery of Convoy Returns]]'' cartoon in which the characters often discuss the difficulty and peculiarities of the original Famicom game.
* The [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]] plays this game at the end of the 2015 Robots in Disguise comic book's [[Robots in Disguise issue 1|issue 1]].
*This game uses a strobe effect popular in Japan at the time. Such effects have become controversial due to concern over people with photosensitive epilepsy.
*Upon starting the game, a cover of the opening melody to the “Transformers 2010” opening plays.
==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://www.pleasesavemerobots.com/scrambledcity/ Perhaps the most comprehensive ''Convoy no Nazo'' site online, with screencaps, hints, and .ROM files.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_lHEfl5oPI ''Convoy no Nazo'' commercial on YouTube]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jVBzq4ud2U Takara's promotional video for the game] (using an unfinished build with cheats running)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km9vYa2GIUI Angry Video Game Nerd's review at YouTube]
* [http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Transformers:_Convoy_no_Nazo Strategy Wiki]
* [http://archive.li/Ts6uT Game Genie codes]
* [http://legendsoflocalization.com/transformers-for-the-famicom-what-does-the-ending-say/ Translations of the game's endings]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mystery of Convoy}}
[[Category:Generation 1 video games]]

The Autobot Run

2019-02-16T07:27:42Z

Dracodis: /* Continuity errors */

{{episode
|series=G1toon
|ep=23
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=65
|prev2=A Plague of Insecticons
|next2=The Ultimate Doom, Part 1
|series3=''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (cartoon)|Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|ep3=6
|prev3=Heavy Metal War
|next3=The Core
|image=Autobotruncanttransform.jpg
|caption=Hey, look! ''Diaclone'' Sunstreaker!
|title="The Autobot Run"
|production code=#700-22
|airdate=[[October 31]], 1985
|written by=[[Donald F. Glut]]
|animation studio=[[AKOM]]
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''When the Autobots perform a race for charity, the Decepticons take the opportunity to trap them in their vehicle modes.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Transfixatron.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|A collection of character models gathers around the Decepticons' new weapon.]]

While watching a car race, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike]] and [[Chip Chase|Chip]] comment on how cool it would be to see the Autobots perform in a race as well.

Meanwhile, in an old west ghost town, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] have completed the [[Transfixatron]], a new device that will lock a [[Transformer]] in the mode they currently occupy (usually [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]]). [[Laserbeak (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Laserbeak]] arrives, informing the Decepticons about the Autobot race.

[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] complains that [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] is wasting time with the device instead of leading an attack. In response, Megatron tests the device on his whiny subordinate, and it's a success. Starscream is stuck in jet mode and begs to be released, saying he'll do whatever Megatron wants and he's too valuable to the Decepticon cause. Megatron gets bored of Starscream's pleas and frees him. Satisfied with the test, Megatron orders the Constructicons to start working on a second device whose purpose will be revealed later.

[[File:Autobotrunfinishline.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|The guy at the finish line wonders where the Hell his car went.]]

Chip and Spike suggest their race idea to the Autobots, and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] agrees, as long as it's for charity. [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] complains that it's a waste of time and a bad idea (as usual), but the Autobots decide to do it. Huffer, [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], [[Ratchet (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ratchet]], and [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]] remain to guard the [[Ark (G1)|base]].

The Autobots arrive at the track and wait at the starting line in [[robot mode]] before they compete "in the greatest automobile race in history." Some numbskull in the audience wonders aloud where their cars are. The Autobots transform, and the race is on with a whole lot of trash talk. [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Mirage]] rush ahead of the slower vehicles like [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] and [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]].

During the race, [[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]] teleports to a position over the track and uses the Transfixatron on the Autobots, who don't notice. The Autobots near the finish line, but they're kicking up so much dust it's impossible to tell who won. "The real winners are us, folks!" says the announcer.

Next up, the Autobots line up to do some stunts and make "Evel Knievel look like a kiddie car driver", according to Spike. But Sunstreaker's attempt to jump the other Autobots falls short and he has to be saved by [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]'s magnetic powers.

Before they can do anything else, the Decepticons arrive. The Autobots attempt to [[Transformation|transform]], only to find that they are all stuck in vehicle mode. Optimus orders the Autobots to ram the Decepticons, but they simply shoot out the Autobots' tires, fire rays to make their engines overheat and disable their radios. Helpless, the Autobots are herded away by the 'Cons.

[[File:Autobotrunbyeironhide.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb]]

[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] takes Spike and Chip back to the base, hoping Ratchet and Wheeljack can figure a fix for the Transfixatron ray. As usual, Huffer complains, but a massive bearhug from Brawn gets him to shut up, while Ratchet and Wheeljack get to work.

At the ghost town, Megatron forces Optimus Prime to watch his soldiers die one by one in the Constructicons' second device, a horrific crushing machine, starting with Ironhide. The Autobot leader dispatches [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] to distract Megatron, allowing Prime to ram the crusher, which frees Ironhide. [[Hound (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hound]] manages to send a signal to [[Teletraan I]], just as Ratchet and Wheeljack finish working on a device which will allow the Autobots to transform...a [[Anti-transfixation grenade|grenade]]. (Real good thinking there, guys.)

[[File:Autobotrunravageattackschip.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Dude, what are you doing? I wanted to push over the cripple.]]

Spike and the other Autobots arrive to save their comrades, but [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] dispatches [[Ravage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ravage]] to deal with them. After a game of keep-away with the grenade, Chip manages to get it close enough to release its energy, allowing the Autobots to transform to robot mode.

The Constructicons form [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], but [[Cliffjumper (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cliffjumper]] and Wheeljack fire the Transfixatron at the giant Decepticon, causing the [[Combiner]] to separate. The Decepticons retreat, and the Autobots destroy the Transfixatron.

{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Prowl (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Prowl]]
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (16)
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]] (17)
*[[Ratchet (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ratchet]] (18)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (19)
*[[Mirage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Mirage]] (20)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (21)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] (22)
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] (23)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (24)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (25)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]] (26)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sideswipe]] (27)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (28)
*[[Hound (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hound]] (29)
*[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (30)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cliffjumper]] (32)
*[[Roller (G1)|Roller]] (33)

|c2=
*[[Laserbeak (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Laserbeak]] (4)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (5)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (6)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (7)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] (8)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (9)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (10)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (11)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (12)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (13)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (14)
*[[Shockwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Shockwave]] (15)
*[[Skywarp (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Skywarp]] (31)
*[[Ravage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ravage]] (34)
*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] (35)

|c3=
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike Witwicky]] (1)
*[[Chip Chase]] (2)
}}

==Quotes==
"Transform." 
"No, Megatron. You can't mean to—" 
"What's a test without a [[guinea pigatron]]? Transform, I say!"
:—'''Megatron''' selects '''Starscream''' as the test subject for his latest device.

"Uh, probably just energy evaporation from all the speed, maybe... I hope..."
:—'''Bumblebee''' fails physics forever.

"If you're going to do what I think, Sunstreaker, you've got boom glitches in your brain garage."
:—'''Mirage'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s colorful terms for Transformer anatomy.

"I knew the racing bit was bad news, but would anyone listen to me? Oh, noooo!" 
"Stifle it, Huffer, or I'll put my footio in your audio!!"
:—'''Huffer''' being an aft and '''Brawn''' looking to kick some.

"Ironic, isn't it, Autobots, that after so many valiant battles, you will meet your end in the crushing jaws of this device so lovingly fashioned by my Constructicons."
:—'''Megatron'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s concept of irony is off.

"Hey! Where are their cars?!"
:—Someone who somehow hasn't heard of the Autobots, yet turned up to a race for them.

[[File:Autobotrun ironhide carcrusher.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb]]
"Later, guys. It's been really great knowin' ya."
:—Headed for the crushing device, '''Ironhide''' accepts his fate.

"Hey, what's that?" 
"I'd call it a TARGET!"
:—'''Thundercracker''' and '''Starscream''' spotting Roller.

"I'm transforming! I see my true beauty emerging!"
:—'''Sunstreaker''', vain as always.

"We're outnumbered!" "Let me guess: we retreat?"
:—'''Starscream''' knows '''Megatron''' all too well.

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
*This is Roller's third and final appearance.
*This is the first episode where the Transformers formally refer to themselves as ''Transformers''.
*Gadgets and powers:
**Jazz's speaker levels jump from seven to <s>eleven</s> ''eight hundred''. Or maybe he was just tuned in to an AM station.
**Megatron can shoot laser beams from his eyes, especially when he wants to scare away earth germs.
**The fact that Thundercracker's blasts are the ones to overheat the Autobots' engines indicates this was supposed to be a function of his incendiary guns. The simplified description of Thundercracker's weapons included in the series [[Production bible]] didn't explain exactly what these guns were supposed to do (per his bio, they shoot bullets containing highly-flammable material) which has resulted in them being depicted as flamethrowers in previous episodes.
**Devastator's eye beams can magnetically lift a robot into the air. He can also fire lasers from his fingertips.
**Wheeljack surveys the battlefield by using the rocket jets in his forearms, an ability mentioned in his [[bio]] appearing here for the first time in the cartoon; he previously flew ''without'' visibly using these jets in "[[S.O.S. Dinobots]]" and "[[A Plague of Insecticons]]".
*Where does the trailer go?
**When Optimus Prime transforms after the Autobots are fixed by Wheeljack's grenade, his trailer shrinks into his back rather than rolling away as usual.
[[File:AutobotRun madeup Transformer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Pre-[[Prime (rank)|Prime]] {{w|St George's Cross|version}} pictured. The Prime version features {{w|Union Jack}} wings.]]
*A bizarre robot of made-up design appears on the screen as Chip begins researching the Transfixatron's effects. It's loosely based on Prime, but with smaller chest windows, a yellow body, and white wings on his back.
*When instructing Starscream to transform out of vehicle mode, Megatron tells him to return to his "root mode". This was almost certainly the result of a typo in the script that was ''supposed'' to say "ro'''b'''ot mode", but it makes a charming amount of sense as a term.
*The idea of a [[Transfixatron|device to keep a Transformer frozen in one mode]] would be revisited over the years in other fictions, with [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]'s [[Transformation Lock Lens]], [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s [[Transformation virus|transformation lock virus]], the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]]' [[mode lock]] used on [[Blaster (G1)#Marvel Comics continuity|Blaster]], the various incarnations of the [[inhibitor claw]] and [[Spotlight: Soundwave|an experimental weapon]] created by Shockwave.
*The Autobots seem to learn from this experience; many future episodes such as "[[The Master Builders (episode)|The Master Builders]]" and "[[The Revenge of Bruticus]]" show them to be armed and dangerous in their automotive forms.

[[File:TheAutobotRun-Spideyshirt.jpg|thumb|right]]

===Real-world references===
*[[Spider-Man]] makes a cameo on a kid's T-shirt.
*''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' sound effects:
**As Megatron orders the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] to attack the Autobots, they emit the [[TIE Fighter]] engine noise when they fly over a wooded area.

===Animation and technical errors===
[[File:AutobotRun Brawn picks up Huffer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*Being one of the Season 2 [[AKOM]] episodes, "The Autobot Run" features several unusual animation models:
**Optimus Prime's "backpack" is white instead of red.
**Huffer has a white outline around his eyes.
**Gears' truck mode is mostly red instead of mostly blue.
**Megatron's gun barrel is dark gray instead of light gray.
**Laserbeak's beak is (sometimes) the same dark gray as the rest of his head.
**The "disk" on Bumblebee's back is dark gray instead of yellow. Bumblebee also has two random dark gray squares on the back of his [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]].
**Prowl is a medium gray instead of white.

Of course, AKOM found lots of less-excusable things to mess up, too:
*This episode's [[transformation]] sound effects are oddly applied, stopping and starting halfway through and even playing over the wrong transformation type (i.e., vehicle-to-robot vs. robot-to-vehicle) at times.
*Ignoring the big, paved driveway right next to him, Bumblebee arrives at the race track by ''driving across the grass''.
*That's okay, though, because as the race finishes, Chip nonchalantly turns his wheelchair and ''rolls across the grass''.
*Chip then rolls into Bumblebee, and sits in the driver seat, while still in his wheelchair. Huh?
*Appearing/disappearing Autobots:
**After a dialogue section where Huffer complains about the race idea and Optimus orders him to stay and guard the base, he is seen transforming and rolling out to the race. He is not at the race and is later back at the base. However, a number of other characters who do not roll out and are not shown at the base during the discussion turn up at the race.
*For the duration of this episode, actor [[Michael Bell]] performs Scrapper with a very different voice than normal, sounding...well, frankly, quite ''normal'', compared to Scrapper's usual hoarse rasp.
*Scrapper's faceplate doesn't move as he reports the Transfixatron's completion. In fact it doesn't move at all the whole episode.
*Coloring errors:
**Thundercracker's feet are blue instead of black, and Soundwave's eject button is blue instead of white, as they watch the completion of the Transfixatron.
**As Laserbeak enters Soundwave's chest to report, Soundwave's eyeband is colored white like his faceplate, while his forehead is colored red like his eyeband should be.
**A moment later, in jet mode, Starscream's right air intake is colored as if it extends way back into his fuselage, and has some black details that shouldn't be there; the left intake isn't colored to match. He also has extra stripes on his tail fins. In a wider-angle shot, both intakes are colored with the long length and the extra black parts.
**In the first shot of the Autobots, Ironhide's entire torso is red. In the next shot, the top of his chest is red instead of red/gray.
**The entirety of Trailbreaker's lower legs are white as he listens to Prime, instead of just the stripe down the middle. The error repeats as the Autobots stand at the race track.
**Prowl has no black detailing on his car mode as Jazz passes him. He's also his correct white color instead of the light gray that AKOM usually colors him.
**As Wheeljack flees, he fires at Starscream and Thundercracker. In the next shot, his target is a pair of Thundercrackers. One of them teleports away (indicating that it was supposed to be Skywarp.) When he re-materializes, he's colored like Starscream, but still speaks in Skywarp's voice.
**A second later, Skywarp has a yellow stripe down his back where there should be black.
**Thundercracker's "gloves" are white instead of black as he transforms above Ironhide.[[File:Autobotrungreenteletraan.jpg|thumb|Chip Chase always did have the luck of the Irish.]]
**When Chip is trying to locate the Autobots, Teletraan I is colored green instead of orange.
**Soundwave's head changes colors between shots as he destroys Hound's turret gun. (Hound manages to stay off-screen until he's in [[robot mode]] later in the episode, sidestepping the need for the animators to remember his gun is destroyed.)
**When Soundwave ejects Ravage, the inside of his chest is grey.
**When the Autobots are un-transfixed and transform into robot modes, Brawn is shown transforming with them.
**Long Haul's eyeband isn't colored red as we pan across the Constructicons prior to them combining.
**Windcharger's face is the same dark gray as his head as Ironhide threatens the Decepticons, and his mid-torso is red instead of gray. The same error repeats during the repair lineup at the end.
*In the first pan over it, the Old West "town" has no streets! Subsequent shots show it with many more buildings than the handful shown in this shot.
*Missing Seeker insigina:
**Starscream has no insignia as he watches Laserbeak report back to Megatron.
**One of Starscream's insignia disappears as he backs away from the Transfixatron. The other disappears as he transforms a second later.
**When Thundercracker turns from blasting Optimus to fire on Ironhide, he has no back wing insignias.
**He still has none as he walks off with the captive Autobots.
**Starscream's missing an insignia as he fires on Roller.
*Starscream is missing one of his wings prior to the Transfixatron test. The other wing is abnormally large. The same overlarge wing shape shows up on Thundercracker later in the episode.
*Even if Shockwave ''was'' supposed to be standing behind Megatron (see Continuity Errors below), he and Scavenger were not standing anywhere near Megatron just a shot or two earlier.
*AKOM reuses the same scrolling cloud background at least four times behind Starscream. To be fair, it would actually make sense for him to be flying in circles at this point.
*Instead of being provided by [[Neil Ross]] as usual, Bonecrusher's single line in this episode is supplied by Michael Bell, using the same nondescript "normal" voice as he uses for Scrapper. The temptation, of course, is to peg this on an animation error that mistakenly depicted Bonecrusher instead of Scrapper, but the script for the episode actually called for Bonecrusher to speak the line.
*As Skywarp transforms to robot mode over the raceway, he pulls the Transfixatron out of [[Transwarp|nowhere]], despite it being as large as he is.
*When Skywarp uses it on the Autobots, the Transfixatron beam effect is not properly animated to glow.
*Transfixed Sideswipe essentially becomes a red Sunstreaker (which would be ''[[Diaclone]]''-accurate) as he tries to transform - the [[Transformation|transformation scheme]] is Sunstreaker's, as are the details of his vehicle mode once he's in mid-transformation. He then morphs back to Sideswipe when he reverts fully back to vehicle mode.
*After the Autobots discover they're locked in vehicle mode, when Megatron laughs the other Decepticons just sort of... vibrate.
*Megatron's eye lasers are the slowest-moving lasers in the universe.
*The Seekers transform and start rolling across the race track. In the next shot, they're suddenly in the air.
*Wheeljack's ears do not flash in time with his speaking at first.
*The crusher's lights flash multiple colors as it first activates, but later they only flash white. While the lights ''could'' change colors, it really raises the question of why it needs bizarre flashing lights in the first place.
*Wheeljack and Ratchet gather around Chip at the computer two times in a row.
*As we pan across the captive Autobots at the ghost town, Wheeljack and Bumblebee are among the crowd, despite both being back at Autobot Headquarters at this point. In the same pan, two Starscreams are guarding them. Also, the ghost town has gained a couple of streets and several extra buildings.
*Maybe not an error, but definitely bizarre: Hound gets Optimus Prime's rifle sound effect as he "fires" his hologram.
*As Wheeljack explains the grenade, his ears flash, but aren't properly backlit to glow.
*As Spike and company arrive at the ghost town, Ironhide is shown arriving and transforming instead of Ratchet.
*Ironhide's tires aren't flat anymore when he falls out of the crusher's claw.
*Bumblebee has no headlights as the newly arrived Autobots transform.
*A series of shots shows the grenade's radiation as concentric circles radiating out. The center point stays in four successive shots, despite only one of them being the point where the grenade exploded.
*As the grenade does its work, a series of vehicle-mode Autobots flash into existence out of nowhere.
*Devastator's combining sequence is screwy. First Scrapper and Mixmaster are shown forming Long Haul's portion of the combiner robot in addition to their own. Long Haul then forms Devastator's upper torso, instead of the lower torso (the chest plate is green at first, then turns its correct purple.) Hook then forms a tiny part of the upper torso, including the head, and... Bonecrusher's bulldozer kibble.
*Devastator has two small eyes instead of an eyeband as he fires lasers from his hand.
*He has two large eyes as he looms over Wheeljack and Cliffjumper.
*As Cliffjumper zaps Devastator with the Transfixatron, the shot suddenly jumps to a slight close-up of Devastator from exactly the same angle as before. In the closer angle, the glowing animation effect is missing from the Transfixatron beam.
*Thundercracker is drawn with his cockpit on the bottom of his jet mode as he and the other Seekers retreat.
*The [[commercial bumper]]s for the second act break feature the [[theme song|theme music]] for ''[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'', not ''The Transformers''.

===Continuity errors===
*Why the heck are Spike and Chip watching the race from next to the grand stands, instead of, y'know, ''inside'' them?
*[[Shockwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Shockwave]] appears twice in this episode: first when Megatron is gloating about the Transfixatron, then when the Decepticons arrive at the race. Of course, it's ''possible'' that Shockwave came to [[Earth]] during this episode, but the idea of him just popping up and hanging around in the background seriously goes against the established notion that he always stays on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] as its full-time guardian.
*Why does Megatron pick up the Transfixatron to aim it at Starscream, when a moment later he can just pivot it on its base?
*The race gets started VERY quickly. Chip and Spike come up with the idea, go back to the base, tell Prime, and apparently the Autobots just show up and demand to race for charity. Granted, some time could have elapsed in between, but ''still''. The Decepticons, meanwhile, are just hanging around in this Old West ghost town.
*How does the dust at the finish line get ''ahead'' of the Autobots?
*When Chip gets Teletraan I to analyse the data on the transforming process, among the images which flash up is a picture of Megatron's crusher. What has that got to do with transforming?
*Hound can ''shoot'' a hologram? For miles? And have it land ''inside a volcano''? What the hell?
*Flying Autobots:
**Cliffjumper gets a rocket sound effect as he comes flying out of the debris.
*Is the elaborate claw/tentacle mechanism on the crusher really necessary?
*At the end of Act 2, Ironhide is a few feet away from the crusher's jaws, presumably mere seconds from being crushed. A minute or more elapses in Act 3 before Prime comes to his rescue.
*Wheeljack states that the [[Transfixatron]] will "cancel Devastator's robot mode", though one would really expect it to just transfix Devastator ''as'' Devastator. If the intention was that the Transfixatron traps Transformers in their vehicle mode rather than in their current mode, then that wasn't made clear (especially since Megatron ordered Starscream into his vehicle mode ''before'' testing it on him).
*So... did the Decepticons just leave the transfixed Constructicons sitting there in a pile? They aren't shown retreating.

===Trivia===
[[File:Chipchase.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
*This was one of twelve episodes of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original cartoon]] released as audio adventures by the [[Germany|German]] company [[Karussell|Karussell Musik und Video]].
*To catch the grenade, Chip stands up from his wheelchair. It should be noted that Chip's precise medical condition is never explained, so we have no way of knowing why he uses a wheelchair or how much use of his legs he actually has. A close inspection of the animation shows him apparently ''pushing'' himself up with his arms, but it's really not conveyed very well.
*This is one of three episodes from Season Two which were animated by [[AKOM]] (the others being "[[The Core]]" and "[[City of Steel (episode)|City of Steel]]"). They share similar art and animation styles (lots of one-point perspective action shots, scrolling backgrounds, and random zoom-ins), prominent use of the Constructicons, slightly more juvenile plots than usual, and a set of character model oddities such as Megatron's dark gray gun barrel, Optimus Prime's white backpack, and Chip Chase's blue jacket.
*AKOM also has a strange habit of showing vehicle-mode close-ups with painted artwork instead of typical flat colored cel art. Witness Gears getting shot by Soundwave, and Sideswipe and Jazz's dashboards. The same thing can be seen in "The Core", as Chip leans out of a painted Wheeljack.
*A one-time-only bit of Westernish background music, presumably culled from [[Robert J. Walsh]]'s enormous archives, plays across the opening scene in the Decepticons' ghost town.
*Stores in the ghost town: Liquor Saloon, Harrys Bakes, Sonata 3, Cows(?), Hotel, Saloon, Grain Feed, Livery, Glass (which in a visual gag is the only building in its row of three to survive the battle), and RC P&W(?).
*Signs at the race track: Grand Prix, Irel(and?), XAM, HO KY, New Year Tires, Dav-Mac, A&E O(il?), (Go?)od Year Tires, and Fenzoil Lubes. The "XAM" is very likely a reference to the animation company XAM! ("Ex-Ahern-Marshall"), who included their company initials in the background art of various 1980s animated series.<ref>[http://www.povonline.com/2003/News030103.htm#030503a] "NEWS from me: March 5, 2003"</ref>
*Megatron sure does have a sexy swagger as he walks toward the transfixatroned Autobots.
*The synopsis for "The Autobot Run" included in the series [[production bible]] reveals that the Transfixatron was originally named the "Stasitron". On its model sheet, it was misspelled "Satsitron".
*In an unfortunate [[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#Generation 1|foreshadowing]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] remarks that when they made him, they 'broke the [[mold]]'.
*Seriously, ''guinea pigatron''?!
*Wheeljack uses his wrist rockets to fly, which is one of the few times it's shown correctly.

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Wer ist der schnellste Autobot?'''" ("Who Is the Fastest Autobot?")
:*''Title (Generation 2 dub):'' "'''Die Geheimwaffe'''" ("The Secret Weapon")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 9]], [[1989]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' '''Corsa automobilistica''' ("Car Race")
:*''Title (dub 2):'' '''La corsa degli Autobots''' ("The Autobots Run")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Transform o Tomero!'''" (トランスフォームをとめろ!, "Stop the Transforming!")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 31]], [[1986]]

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Qìchērén Sǐ Lǐ Táoshēng'''" (汽车人死里逃生, "Autobots' Narrow Squeak ")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Gran'pree "Avtobot"'''" (Гран-при "Автобот", "Grand-prix "Autobot"")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
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[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1995 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Megatron Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan Carly sucks, right?]] 1999 — ''The Transformers'' — Decepticon Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 2 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 1 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2003 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Bumper Collection Special (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 2: Series 2.1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — Box-Set (3DVDs) ([[Flex Media]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 03: Stagione Due Parte Prima ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part One (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume One: 25th Anniversary Edition ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume One: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-2/synopses/700-22.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

==Footnotes==
{{Reflist|1}}

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Design flaw

2019-02-10T08:04:19Z

Dracodis: /* Breakable joints */

A '''design flaw''' is a physical problem with a [[toy]] that is either directly rooted in its design itself or the transition from a two-dimensional design to a three-dimensional object.

Generally, ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' toys are marvels of modern toy engineering. They can be [[transformation (toys)|changed]] from [[alternate mode|one form]] into another, and yet they still manage to be both great vehicle or animal toys ''and'' great action figures.

Despite that, sometimes there are problems. Because of the complexities in design, there are some common ways that toys don't work the way they were intended. Sometimes a toy's features aren't quite finished, or don't really work how they're supposed to. Some toys also have common breakage points or parts that wear down in predictably consistent ways. Sometimes the way a toy transforms can cause it to break. Sometimes toys just plain aren't what they're supposed to be. That's what design flaws are all about.

This phenomenon should not be confused with [[misassembly]] or one-off molding errors, in which toys leave the factory in a condition not in accordance with the design. Those issues should be caught in [[quality control]].

==Clearance issues==
Some toys have joints that don't work the way they are intended to. Sometimes the parts just can't go all the way, ending up with misaligned parts. Sometimes joints are even entirely useless, allowing for minimal articulation at best... because adjacent parts get in the way of the articulated part. For some reason, heads are particularly prone to this kind of problem.
*''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' [[Steamhammer (Energon)|Steamhammer]], in theory, has an articulated head, but there is absolutely no configuration where it could possibly move, because the [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] treads are in the way.
*''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] has a similar problem. The ridges on his chest (the air vents on the vehicle mode hood) hinder any rotation of the head.
*Likewise, ''[[Movie (toyline)|Movie]]'' [[Fast Action Battlers]] [[Ironhide (Movie)/toys|Ironhide]] has a head that sits on a ''ball joint'', but the only purpose it serves is allowing for the head to pop off, because the plastic parts behind the head hinder any movement.
*''Movie'' [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]] is only minimally better, with the ridges on his chest limiting the possible head articulation to a few degrees in each direction.
*''Movie'' Deluxe Class [[Payload (Movie)|Payload]] is about as bad as Swindle.
*''Movie'' Deluxe Class [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]] has the same problem with his waist. Articulation is limited to a few degrees in each direction thanks to an immovable piece of plastic on his back getting in the way.
*''Movie'' Voyager Class [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys|Autobot Ratchet]] has articulated thumbs that can't move because plastic parts of the wrists get in the way.
[[File:BH CV Hun-Gurrr Claws comparison.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|All the way, baby.]]
*[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|2008 ''Universe'']] Deluxe Class [[Ironhide (G1)/toys|Ironhide's]] head rests on a piece of plastic that can't be aligned properly with the torso because of plastic parts getting in the way of the hinge, making him incapable of looking straight forward.
*[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|ROTF]] Leader Class Optimus Prime's arm panels that form the front nose of the truck are hindered by the tanks on his arm panels when converting into vehicle mode, the tanks have to be rotated up and squeezed between the doors in order to gain clearance. This seems to be fixed with the Takara DOTM Jetwing and Striker Optimus Prime molds, as the swords are removed and allow the blade-like shoulder parts to flip the opposite way, allowing the arm panels to move farther and gain more clearance.
*[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'']] [[Sea Spray (TF 2010)|Sea Spray's]] hands can rotate about 45 degrees sideways at maximum at the wrists, because plastic parts of the forearms get in the way.
*On a more broad note, a characteristic of the [[Titanium Series]] transformable figures involved joints that bent in oddly or arbitrarily limited ways, such as 45 degrees backward at the knee, but 90 degrees ''forward''.
*Initial shipments of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime:]] [[Beast Hunters]]'' ''[[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]'' Legion Class [[Hun-Gurrr (Prime)|Hun-Gurrr]] were unable to fold the claws over all the way in both directions due to problems with the plastic tolerances. This was amended by a running change, which also affected international releases of the figure. (All subsequent releases of the sculpt came with the corrected claws.)

==Square peg, round hole==
Some toys that are designed to have parts connect to other parts by plugging a [[peg]] into a corresponding peg hole have problems due to the length, size or shape of the pegs, resulting in the parts not connecting properly. This mostly affects accessories such as weapons.
*''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime's]] [[ion blaster]] sports a peg that is supposed to plug into the hole in one of his fists. However, the weapon's handle (which has an entirely aesthetic purpose) and the forearms get into each other's way, and since the peg is too short, Optimus can't hold his weapon both tight and straight at the same time. This was fixed by a [[variant|running change]] that saw the fist holes elongated upwards, but the problem re-emerged with some [[Generation 1 reissues|reissues]] of the toy.
*''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]]'' [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] has a similar problem to Optimus Prime involving his sword. The crossguard and his dino mode front feet make it so he can only hold it upright if the flat is facing forward; the only way for him to actually swing it to use the edge is if he wields it reverse-grip.
*''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Alternators|Prowl's]] hood is designed to fold down completely flush against his chest, but cannot make it all the way because the support bar on the left steering link bracket in the hood collides with the corresponding part of the rocker panel that folds into the chest (The right bracket is essentially mirrored, but shifts the support bar a few millimeters, and as a result has no such clearance issue).
*''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' Deluxe Class [[Unicron/toys|Unicron]] isn't quite as bad... but his claw weapons' pegs were shortened some time shortly between stock photography and release, making it very difficult to plug the claws into his hands tightly.
*''[[Movie (toyline)|Movie]]'' Deluxe Class [[Brawl (Movie)#Deluxe Class|Decepticon Brawl's]] arms are connected to the torso at the shoulders by diamond-shaped pegs, but the pegs are ever so slightly too big for the corresponding peg holes, resulting in the arms having a tendency to detach from the torso at the slightest touch. This was fixed for the ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Deep Desert Brawl [[redeco]] of the sculpt.
*''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' [[Storm Jet (Energon)|Storm Jet]] and his [[redeco]]s have a problem with the peg that connects the jet nosecone to the pelvis in [[robot mode]] (the official one according to the [[instructions]]) as well as in [[Superion Maximus]] mode: The corresponding peg hole has a cavity on one side, resulting in the peg not locking in place securely. Meanwhile, a problem similar to the one with ''Movie'' Deluxe Brawl occurs with a second peg hole that can be used for an alternate (non-official, though possibly intended by the designers but ignored by the instructions), shorter robot mode for Storm Jet, where the pegs tends to pop out of the peg hole due to too much pressure.
*Deluxe Class [[Wreck-Gar (G1)#Transformers (2010)|Wreck-Gar]] from the ''[[Reveal the Shield]]'' [[subline imprint]] of the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'' toy line]] has a minor problem with the tabs that connect his torso to the shoulders, which are just a tiny bit too long, resulting in the shoulders not locking in all the way, causing a small gap. It's more evident on his left shoulder than on the right one.<ref name="shoulders">[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/reveal-the-shield/wreck-gar/2281/1/62/ Reveal the Shield Wreck-Gar with particularly poorly connecting shoulders] at Seibertron.com.</ref>
*''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (toyline)|Dark of the Moon]]'' [[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]] Commander [[Powerglide (DOTM)|Powerglide]] has diamond-shaped pegs that connect his shoulders to the torso, and a rectangular peg that connects the crotch to the rest of the torso. None of the pegs plug in tightly, resulting in a slightly unstable robot mode.
*Many, many [[Titan Masters]], especially in early waves, suffered from problems of this sort. The intended design is that the neck sockets use a clamp mechanism to hold the head in place, but a large number had clamps that simply weren't tight enough. Poor [[quality control]] shares the blame here, but even then, [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] seemed to be pretty much universally unable to keep their heads in place. Some fans have found the problem to be alleviated by altering the orientation of the Titan Master; for instance, plugging it in backwards, or even sideways.

==Strong spring, weak peg==
Some toys have metal springs that power a [[gimmick]] or help during the [[transformation]] (as part of, or similar to, an [[Automorph Technology|Automorph]] mechanism). When not deployed (i.e., the spring is under pressure), the relevant parts are usually held in place by tabs. Sometimes the pegs are slightly too small, resulting in too much plastic clearance. As a consequence, the parts in question are not held in place securely, and the mechanism is likely to be deployed unintentionally.
*This happens quite a lot with spring-powered missile launchers, resulting in the missiles being fired at the slightest touch. In some extreme cases, it's almost impossible to lock the missile in place without it being instantly fired back out.
*The [[Power Core Combiners]] are also prone to this. The limb drones use an auto-transformation mechanism that is activated by the same peg used to connect them to the torso robot. However, the transformed "limb" mode is the position that puts pressure on the spring; and due to too much plastic clearance between the connector pegs and the limbs, the drones have a tendency to transform back into their [[alternate mode]]s, detaching from the connector pegs in the process.
*''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' "[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]" [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Generations|Cybertronian Optimus Prime's]] gun can be folded up to a more "compact" form, with a spring mechanism converting it back into its primary weapon mode. The only thing that keeps the spring mechanism from deploying in the compact form is a very small plastic tab.

==Wear-based looseness==
It's perhaps unfair to include this as a ''design flaw'', but it should be touched upon. When a toy is played with frequently, the plastics or metals will wear against each other, causing the friction that keeps the joints tight to lessen. This will lead to looseness in the toy's joints. The easiest way to avoid this common malady is simply not to play with a toy. Looseness is often not much of a problem with toys kept on display. A loose-armed ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]] will look much the same as a tightly jointed Optimus Prime. However, looseness can be more of a problem for other toys, preventing them from standing or holding together in their alt mode.

Some toys are particularly prone to looseness not just due to wear but also to design. Heavy parts on weak joints are a common problem here, leading to incredibly weak joints that are loose and difficult to use how they were intended.

===Ball joints===
[[Ball joint]]s, which rely entirely on friction to work, are a common victim of wear-based looseness. This can be particularly bad for toys with ball-jointed hips, ankles or legs, making them nearly impossible to stand. Looseness in ball joints can also make it easy to lose parts, such as arms, legs, or kibble panels...oh, or heads...or, uhh...well, just about anything on a ball joint.
*Almost all of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' is afflicted with this problem. Woe to all those kids who grew up on ''Beast Wars''. Good luck having complete toys.
*''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' [[Cyberjet]]s can be nigh-impossible to stand with just a little joint wear, but it's their arms that tend to get especially floppy.
*[[Skullcruncher_(G1)#Generations|''Titans Return'' Skullsmasher]] has horribly loose balljoints for thigh joints right out of the package, making it nearly impossible for the figure to stand upright.

===Retractable thighs===
A common method of transformation in ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]]'' was for the thighs of the toy to retract into the lower legs (or, more accurately, for the lower legs to push up over the thighs) when in vehicle or [[beast mode]], then for the thighs to extend while in robot mode. It doesn't take an enormous amount of wear for the thighs to loosen, and then they won't be able to stay extended in robot mode. When that happens, you'll either have a midget version on display or you'll have to shove a wedge of paper down into the joint to increase the friction to let the thighs stay extended.

This problem can be particularly compounded when a toy has a really heavy upper body. A toy with electronics or [[die-cast]] metal in the torso will be much more likely to collapse its own knees just due to weight, time, and wear and tear on the toy.
*G1 [[combiner|Special Teams]] toys are particularly prone to this, especially the smaller [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]].
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] represents a reversal of this problem: it is quite easy to overextend his lower legs in such a way that they can never fully compress back into vehicle mode again.
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] is particularly problematic due to his heavy upper body.
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] is also prone to this problem.
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] suffers from it too - his thighs are thick slabs of die-cast, making them incredibly heavy for such parts and straining the tabs that are supposed to hold them in place for robot mode.
*''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Generation 2|Laser Optimus Prime]] has a massively heavy upper body and weak knees. It's incredibly common for him just to collapse into Midgetimus Prime.
*''[[Titanium Series]]'' [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|Soundwave]]'s entire leg assembly is made of multiple retractable components that lack the ability to lock together securely. Put a heavy die-cast metal chest on top of that and you end up with a toy that will never stand up on its own no matter how pristine it is.

==Clipping issues==
Sometimes when designing a Transformer, the designers will forget that these things have to work in 3D space. Parts will have to bend around each other or pass through the same space during transformation. Often, if you don't do steps in the right order, this will lead to parts breaking or snapping. This is particularly problematic when you give the designers the freedom of things like ball joints, where you can use their flexibility to transform the toy, leading not just to breakages but to toys that are incredibly difficult and frustrating to transform.

===Parts breaking off other parts===
Especially around late Generation 1, there were a few toys which required transforming their parts in the right order. If you didn't, you risked breaking your toy when the parts pushed against each other, causing stress or wear. This problem is a lot less common with modern Transformers, which use parts that are designed to pop off rather than simply break if the stresses are too great.
*''Generation 1'' [[Skystalker (G1)|Skystalker]]'s [[interstellar shuttle]]'s wings are known to snap quite regularly. This is particularly a problem for his ''left'' wing because of the way the base is designed. If you attempt to fold Skystalker's wing down from base mode into its shuttle position '''before''' you've folded in the grey box next to it, it's very easy to snap the wing due to the edge of the box just touching the wing. The edge of the box is even curved, giving you the visual impression that it won't be a problem. But it will be a problem, as attested to by eBay's endless supply of one-winged Skystalker bases.
*''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] has tabs in his wrists that prevent them from extending into a straight position. Unfortunately, these same tabs act as levers so that if you try to force the hands into a straight position, you will simply snap his wrists. Ouch.
*[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|2008 ''Universe'']] [[Octane|Tankor's]] head rests on a retractable section, but even when extracted all the way up, the surrounding torso still gets in the way of his head rotation, gradually chipping off plastic from the lower section of his helmet. This is ''almost'' a clearance issue as detailed above; however, the head ''can'' just barely rotate, it merely scratches off plastic in the process.

==Common breakage points==
Some toys have flimsy plastic, others have joints that are too tight, and still others have metal pieces wearing on poor plastic pieces. Whatever the case, there are often Transformers with predictable, easily identifiable breakage points. Let's have a look at a few types.

===Breakable joints===
Joints are very important to Transformers. They're required both for articulation and to allow the toy to change from one form to another. Usually, articulation isn't much of a problem, but sometimes transformation puts a massive amount of pressure on a small joint that's just not able to keep up with the strain of moving large parts of the toy from one place to another. You'll see eBay littered with toys that are victims of these sorts of joints, the same toy breaking over and over in the same place due to the stresses on a joint.
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*''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]]'' [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] is particularly bad, with his entire body rotating around a flimsy little waist joint that likes to snap. Loves to snap. Delights in snapping. Reportedly, the [[Generation 1 reissues|reissue]] of Metroplex has made this joint a little bit more robust.
*''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' [[Transmetal]] [[Megatron (BW)/toys|Megatron]] suffers from a weak plastic used in a very small, tight joint. His waist is so well known for snapping that the fandom has mistakenly thought that it was [[Gold Plastic Syndrome]]. The fact that the forces involved cause it to ratchet apart doesn't help.
*''[[Transformers: Armada (toyline)|Armada]]'' [[Megatron (Armada)/toys#Armada|Megatron's]] turret has a gearing flaw on the inside. Namely, the ratcheting joint simply...breaks, eventually. The "ratchet" is actually a ''very'' small and flimsy gear that is attached to the rotating handle. When the handle is locked in place, high stress is placed on the gear and tends to make it snap somewhere between the teeth, becoming loose or falling off to rattle around inside Megatron. It's not uncommon for the gear to break even under regular, unlocked circumstances. This affects all redecoes of the mold, as they came out in rapid succession and this particular flaw presents over time.
*All four [[Action Master Elite]] figures ([[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], [[Windmill (G1)|Windmill]], [[Turbo Master]] and [[Double Punch]]) are prone to roughly the same problem as ''Armada'' Megatron, in that the gears used to drive their gimmicks are not made of strong enough plastic to last very long. Many an Elite can be found with a half a neon plastic gear rattling around inside. To a lesser extent, this can also affect the [[Lightformer]]s and [[Trakkon]]s depending on how much play their turrets endure.
*This same problem is also usually the culprit when ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Optimus Primal/toys|Blast Punch Optimus Primal's]] gimmick ceases working correctly.
*''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]]'s leg sockets are a frequent breakage point due to the stress put on the relatively weak plastic used for them. Many Scalpels have their sockets broken ''out of the package''.
*''[[Power Core Combiners]]'' [[Mudslinger (PCC)|Mudslinger]] has an issue with the peg-and-socket swivels used on his thigh rotation. The peg is slightly too big for the socket, and the socket is made of relatively thin plastic, resulting in breakage; in some cases within hours of opening the toy.
*[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2010)]] ''[[Reveal the Shield]]'' [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] features rubber handles for his motorcycle mode that are supposed to be folded back via an [[Automorph Technology|Automorph]]-style mechanism during the transformation. However, the thick rubber is very strong, much stronger than the joints the handles are attached to. ''Not'' using the Automorph mechanism is a quick way to break the joints; but even using it can eventually result in breakage. The only somewhat safe way to avoid permanent damage to the toy is to cut off the rubber tabs that hold the handles firmly in place in vehicle mode. Cutting the nubs off has been the only consistent fix to prevent breakage, which was actually done by Hasbro for subsequent uses of the sculpt.
*The original production run of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' Deluxe Class [[Skids (G1)#Generations|Autobot Skids]] came with [[misassembly|misassembled]] hip pieces; swapping out the pieces requires caution, as the [[ball joint]]s that connect the crotch to the legs have a tendency to snap off under stress. Subsequent shipments of the figure were assembled correctly.
*Leader-class ''Generations'' [[Jetfire (G1)#Generations|Jetfire]] and his various redecos have very small hinges on the strut that forms the codpiece. These have metal pins holding them in place, and due to the corners of the adjacent parts used to make it click into place, these joints are under a lot of stress during transformation. The pins also have a tendency to shift, so that the rough texture of one end is holding both the strut and the piece it connects to at the same time, requiring extra force to move if not corrected.
*[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]] [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]]'s joint for deploying [[Superion (G1)|Superion]]'s head is susceptible to breakage, this was fixed for the [[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] version of the mold.
*[[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unnite Warrior]] [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]]'s lower front waist is susceptible to breakage, thanks to the [[Gold Plastic Syndrome#Other_notable_instances|swirly brown plastic]] and the very tight waist swivel.

===Hands with stress marks===
Some toys come with handheld weapons that are slightly too large for their hands. For "closed fist"-shaped hands with fist holes for the weapons, this isn't quite as much of a problem; it gets more problematic with the recent introduction of half-open hands with round cavities for the weapons. Sculpted finger "joints" that are aligned in a straight line are an obvious weak point:
* The hands of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' [[Bludgeon (ROTF)#Voyager|Bludgeon]] (and his redecos/retools) can be prone to stress marks and even breakage because of the size of the katana's handle, although the soft plastic used for the sword helps mitigates this somewhat. (You'll probably end up with the fingers ''gouging notches'' on the sword, instead.)
* ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]'s thumbs can snap rather easily if you insert the handle part of the traffic light/flail into his hands one too many times. Making him hold the string part only during play can prevent this, but that would leave Prowl without a secure grip on his weapon.
* ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]'s thumbs can snap right off because of the thickness of her swords's handles.
*Both ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers:]] [[Reveal the Shield]]'' "Laser" [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Transformers (2010)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Wreck-Gar (G1)#Transformers (2010)|Wreck-Gar]] are prone to showing stress marks inside their hands after having their melee weapons inserted only a few times.

===Clear plastic breakage===
Common especially for ''[[Diaclone]]''-based toys, which have hinged clear plastic parts that are very well known for snapping or breaking.
*''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]]'' [[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl's]] roof is particularly prone to this problem.
*A number of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' toys, such as Deluxe [[Optimus Primal/toys|Optimus Primal]] and [[Skydive (BM)|Skydive]], use clear plastic for tightly pinned joints. These generally break without careful use.
*[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'']] [[Prowl (RID)|Prowl's]] clear plastic car doors are mounted on ball joints. Unfortunately, clear plastic is not usually malleable enough to withstand the constant pressure and tends to break, especially if the door is accidentally dislodged from the joint.
*The joint that connects the windshield to the back of some early versions of ''[[Movie (toyline)|Movie]]'' Voyager Class [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]s were made of clear plastic, which resulted in numerous breakage issues. Later releases fixed this by changing the material of the joint to sturdier opaque plastic.
*''[[Movie (toyline)|Movie]]'' Deluxe Class [[Brawl (Movie)|Decepticon Brawl]] used clear plastic for his [[Automorph Technology|Automorph]] gears, which often tended to come broken right out of the packaging.
*The aforementioned [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'']] ''[[Reveal the Shield]]'' Deluxe Class [[Wreck-Gar (G1)#Transformers (2010)|Wreck-Gar]] figure is also prone to fractures in his helmet-horns.

===Inferior glue===
Some toys have parts attached to the rest of the toy not by pegs, screws, joints or struts, but with ''glue''. Depending on the quality of the glue, this can be an open invitation to easy breakage.
* ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Binaltech]]'' [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Alternators|Prowl's]] wing mirrors are glued onto the doors. Trying to open a door by pulling on the mirror could easily result in the mirror snapping off.
* ''[[Titanium Series]]'' [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|Prowl's]] blue windshield segments are held on with a rather peculiar rubbery glue that will expand and pop off the windshield segments in warmer climates over time. No permanent damage is done, thankfully. Poor Prowl can't catch a break.
* In a more recent case, one of the ''[[Transformers: Bumblebee (toyline)|Bumblebee]]'' Speed Series [[Bumblebee_(Movie)/toys#SpeedCamaro|Camaro Bumblebee's]] hands are somewhat prone to breakage due to lightly-applied glue.

==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Toys]]

Sea Clamp

2018-06-15T04:59:17Z

Dracodis: /* IDW Beast Wars comics */

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:''Sea Clamp is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:SeaClampBWSourcebook.jpg|300px|thumb|"Wait, I've got a better plan to catch this big red lobster man! We'll toss him in a boiling pot, and when he's done we'll butter him up!"]]
General '''Sea Clamp''' is a member of the [[Tripredacus Council]] best known for his crushing grip, both literal and metaphorical. Nothing pleases him more than watching a hapless victim struggle for relief as he squeezes the life from them with his viselike pincers, but there is equally little escape from his far-ranging schemes and plans. Stoic and silent, Sea Clamp rarely spends a word when a gesture or a "message" will serve.

He combines with his fellow council members to form [[Tripredacus]], or with them plus [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] to form [[Predacus]].

Sometimes his name is rendered '''Seaclamp'''.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
[[File:GeneralSeaclamp.jpg|150px|thumb|"Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons."]]
{{voiceactor|[[Ian James Corlett|Ian Corlett]] (English), [[Jōji Yanami]] (Japanese)}}

After the [[transwarp wavefront]] was detected entering Cybertronian space, General Sea Clamp sent agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] to track the wave back to its source, giving him the secretly-developed [[Transwarp cruiser]]. A meeting of the Tripredacus Council was then called to discuss the fact that the Transwarp wave had been matched with the energy signature of the ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]''. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
{{BW Shell Game}}
After sending Ravage out on his errand on prehistoric Earth, the Tripredacus Council tasked Magmatron with monitoring all Maximal channels, instructing him to report any communications that might show that the enemy faction had caught on to their secret plans. {{storylink|Shell Game issue 1|Shell Game #1}}

====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
[[File:BWGatherSea ClampCybertronMode.jpg|left|150px|thumb]]
After recovering his sense of identity, [[Cicadacon]] looked around for others like him, deriving Sea Clamp from experiments on [[Soundwave (G1)|one of his "fellow" Decepticons]]. His previous sense of loyalty carried over, this time aimed at the "Cybertronian" cause, and he encouraged those like [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] to follow the [[Tripredacus Council]] instead of the Decepticon cause. {{storylink|#Combiner Wars|BotCon 2016 General Sea Clamp profile card}}

Seaclamp went on to become the more serious-minded member of the Tripredacus Council. As the Great War drew to a close, Seaclamp, Ramhorn, and Cicadacon were overseeing their latest batch of test subjects being treated with transwarp energy. They found that, when applied correctly onto Cybertronian anatomy, it could reduce Cybertronians to a "quantum state", and remake them into a "purer" form. Through this process, they hoped to unite all of Cybetron into a single "race." While they discussed their insidious plans, [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] reported to the Council with startling news: both [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] had perished in combat! Though this noted a turning point in the Decepticons' conflict against the Autobots, the three generals found themselves giving the development little thought. When a [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|member of their army]] contacted them with plans to attack the demoralized Autobots, Seaclamp, Cicadacon, and Ramhorn simply ordered him to stand down; they had more important concerns to focus on.

Sending Tarantulas to deal with the upstart (as they correctly guessed he would not follow their orders) the Tripredacus Council readied to unleash a transmatter bomb onto Cybertron to reformat the entire planet all at once. But a [[Axalon (BW)|ship]] happened upon the Council's secret base within Unicron's head, and accidentally deflected the bomb with its shield. Their lair discovered and their plan forcefully postponed, the Council headed down to Cybertron, and joined together with their agents into the gestalt [[Predacus]], to put an end to the dissension in their ranks. After slaying Predaking, who had followed the upstart into battle, the Council surrendered to the Autobots on behalf of all Decepticons. The Pax Cybertronia was signed thereafter, and Seaclamp helped form a new faction, the Predacons, in this newfound peacetime. Now free of distractions, Sea Clamp and his allies could once more focus on uniting all Cybertronians, and began their trans-matter experiments anew. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

The Tripredacus Council ordered [[Magmatron]] to assure that no knowledge of the [[transwarp wavefront]] reached the Maximals. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}} When their [[Ravage (G1)|agent]] failed at his task of rounding up the rogue Megatron, the council sent Magmatron to complete the mission. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 2|The Gathering #2}}
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====''Timelines''====
[[File:DescentIntoEvil-SeaClamp.jpg|thumb|300px|Every table should have three "blow up Flamewar" buttons.]]

Sea Clamp, alongside Cicadacon and Ram Horn, was involved in an assassination plot, part of a ploy to take control of the Predacon army, and dispose of its then-current leader, [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]]. The plot was thought to have succeeded, but in truth they did not manage to extinguish Razorclaw's spark. Nonetheless, the Predacons' previous leader was forced into hiding, and while the world believed him dead, the Tripredacus Council took control of the Predacons. {{storylink|Razorclaw (G1)#Timelines|BotCon 2009 Razorclaw profile card}}

The Tripredacus Council employed [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] to check on [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]'s operation on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]]. As Flamewar reported on the apparent success of Deathsaurus's [[Virulent Clone]]s, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] hacked in the feed and informed everyone of the impeding failure built into the Clones. To rid themselves of an exposed agent, the Tripredacus Council remotely exploded [[Flamewar's ship]] with her in it. {{storylink|Descent into Evil}}

After a Predacon insurrection led by Flamewar in the guise of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] arose in the [[J'kozian sector]], the Tripredacus Council discussed it and decided to leak the insurrection's presence on [[Nibari]] to the [[Maximal]]s so they would take care of the Council's renegade problem. {{storylink|The Razor's Edge}}

====''Wings Universe''====
[[File:ACommonFoe-stasispods.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Man, blindpacking is so obnoxious.]]

Sea Clamp was one of four mysterious protoforms found by [[Sky-Byte (RID)#Wings Universe|Sky-Byte]] in the laboratory of [[Jhiaxus (G2)#Wings Universe|Jhiaxus]] while trying to save his associate's clones from the Autobots. {{storylink|A Common Foe}} Sea Clamp and his comrades pledged allegiance to the Predacons in suspiciously quick time.<ref>''Timelines'' Predacon Tarantulas bio</ref>
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
Following Cicadacon's deposition of [[Preditron]], founder of the Tripredacus Alliance, Sea Clamp and Ram Horn became senior statesmen of the government. {{storylink|Head Games}} In his absence, the new Alliance saw fit to "reinterpret" Preidtron's writings, using his philosophical musings to sow division between Maximals and Predacons. {{storylink|The Predacon Manifesto}}

When the Maximals and Predacons rose up against the ruling [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]] during the [[Grand Uprising]], the Tripredacus Alliance would follow the example of the newly-founded [[Maximal Nation]] and, from their new command post in [[Kalis]], formed their own breakaway nation in the shape of the [[Independent Predacus States]]. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}} Predacon spies would liberate [[combiner]] technology from the Maximal Nation, giving the three the ability to combine into Tripredacus. {{storylink|Derailment}}

Initially choosing to stay neutral in the war, the Alliance would eventually be approached by [[Lio Convoy]] for direct intervention against the Builders. The Tripredacus accepted—but made it a condition that Preditron, who had escaped prison and become a propaganda piece for Lio Convoy's [[Resistance]], would have to be eliminated first. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}}

Lio Convoy accepted the terms of the deal, but the public assassination attempt was cut short by the advent of the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s: a self-replicating menace that threatened to entirely overrun Resistance territory. Lio Convoy attempted to get the Alliance to join forces and make a combined push on [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]; though Ram Horn was skeptical after the Resistance had failed to eliminate Preditron as they had promised, Sea Clamp used some reverse psychology to convince Ram Horn to authorize the deployment of the [[Legion of the Inferno]] to Iacon.

The war against the Vehicons quickly took on a new dimension when the Vehicons turned on their creators and sparked the cataclysmic [[Vehicon Apocalypse]], forcing Builders, Maximals, and Predacons alike to regroup towards [[Nova Cronum]] in the hopes of destroying the [[Grand Mal]]. The three Predacons saw fit to direct their war effort from a fortified bunker, which gave Preditron the opportunity to commandeer the army as he led by example. Furious at Preditron's gall and Lio Convoy's inability to silence the threat, the three leaders opted to regain the loyalty of their forces by taking matters into their own hands and eliminating the founder of the Predacons once and for all.

As Tripredacus, the Council reached the frontlines and swiftly beat Preditron to death in an utterly one-sided defeat. The murder of Preditron enraged his friend [[Ser-Ket (BW)|Ser-Ket]], who used her [[Fire-breath|flame breath]] to bite into the combiner's legs and detonate it, blowing the monster into its components once more. Having taken the brunt of the damage, Sea Clamp was mortally wounded and soon expired from his injuries. {{Storylink|Derailment}}

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[File:BWSeaClampToyBeastMode.jpg|right|upright=2.5|thumb|ROCK LOBSTER!]]

*'''Tripredacus''' (1997)

: Sea Clamp transforms into a grayish-purple lobster. He has two blades that flip out of his claws, and a white missile launcher under his abdomen. He transforms into the legs of Tripredacus.

:This mold was recolored and released in Japan as [[Gimlet#Toys|Gimlet]].
::*''[http://tfu.info/1997/Predacon/SeaClamp/seaclamp.htm More information on Sea Clamp at TFU.info]''
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===Generations===
[[File:BotCon2016toy-SeaClamp.jpg|right|thumb|300px|He's been working on his posture.]]
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*'''Dawn of the Predacus''' ([[BotCon 2016]])
:"General Sea Clamp" is a [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]] [[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[Scattershot (G1)#Generations|Scattorshot]] (itself a heavy retool of [[Silverbolt (G1)#Generations|Silverbolt]]) with a new head based on his appearance in the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon. While very cartoon accurate, his head doesn't lend itself to easily tucking away—it actually has to be turned sideways to fit inside his torso properly. As a ''Combiner Wars'' Voyager Class figure he is able to combine with any of the Deluxe Class toys from the same subline or any ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]]'' figure, though he was intended to combine with Ravage, Tarantulas, Cicadacon, and Ramhorn to form Predacus.

:He was available along with [[Ravage (G1)/toys#BotCon2016|Ravage]], [[Tarantulas (BW)#Generations|Predacon Tarantulas]], [[Ram Horn#Generations|General Ramhorn]], and [[Cicadacon#Generations|General Cicadacon]] in the [[BotCon 2016]] boxset.

:The original version of this mold was used for [[Silverbolt (G1)#Generations|Silverbolt]] and [[Silverbolt (G1)#GenerationsG2|G2 Silverbolt]], and was [[retool]]ed differently into [[Cyclonus (G1)/toys#Generations|Cyclonus]].
::*''[http://tfu.info/2016/Predacon/BCSeaClamp/seaclamp.htm More information on BotCon Sea Clamp at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
*Sea Clamp's name is a {{W|C-clamp|horrible, horrible pun}}.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Sea Clamp''' (シークランプ ''Shī Kuranpu'')
*''French:'' '''Crampon''' (Canada, "Clamp")
*''Italian:'' '''Chela'''
*''Spanish:'' '''Almeja de Mar''' (Latin America, "Sea Clam")

==References==
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[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Predacons]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars]]
[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category:Council members]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Predacon leaders]]
[[Category:Sea specialists]]
[[Category:Timelines characters]]
[[Category:Wings Universe Predacons]]

Cicadacon

2018-06-15T02:07:53Z

Dracodis: /* IDW Beast Wars comics */

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:''Cicadacon is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:CicadaconBWSourcebook.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Mr. Never Appear in Fiction in This Body till 2017.]]
A Predacon Elder, the cruel and clever General '''Cicadacon''' is suspected of being very old indeed. His knowledge of Cybertronian history, especially military history and tactics, is encyclopedic, stretching back even to the era before the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. Some suspect he may have once had a [[Decepticon]] identity, but if this is true, no records of that identity survive. Regardless of the truth of his origin, Cicadacon uses the stories and rumors to engender fear and respect in his followers. Despite his tactical genius, Cicadacon's long-term strategy against the Maximals has become increasingly unpopular with the more [[Megatron (BW)|impatient]] [[Galvatron (BWII)|Predacon]] [[Magmatron|forces]].

He uses chopping rotor blades to spread plague-like destruction and combines with his fellow [[Tripredacus Council]] members to form [[Tripredacus]], or with them plus [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] to form [[Predacus]].

{{quote|Hope is fleeting, ''power'' is everything.|Cicadacon|"[[Derailment]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
[[File:GeneralCicadacon.jpg|200px|thumb|Haven't I seen you somewhere before?]]
{{voiceactor|[[Scott McNeil]] (English), [[Chafūrin]] (Japanese), [[Alvaro Tarcicio]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

When the [[Transwarp wavefront]] was detected entering Cybertronian space, General Cicadacon identified its energy signature as the same as that of the ''Darksyde''. He sent a signal to a Cybertron satellite, causing it to explode, thus blocking the Maximal sensors from detecting the wavefront. He then instructed agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] that if Megatron was still operating his own agenda to terminate him with extreme prejudice. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
{{BW Shell Game}}
After sending Ravage out on his errand on prehistoric Earth, the Tripredacus Council tasked Magmatron with monitoring all Maximal channels, instructing him to report any communications that might show that the enemy faction had caught on to their secret plans. {{storylink|Shell Game issue 1|Shell Game #1}}

====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
[[File:DawnOfThePredacus-Cicadacon.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
Cicadacon was one of the first Cybertronians to come online and he observed the following generations with piddling interest. An attack at the start of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] left Cicadacon on the brink of death and forced him to switch off his higher emotional functions and undergo exhausting self-repair that left him unable to remember his life beforehand. As [[Shockwave (G1)|a functionally new individual]], he joined the Decepticons. [[The Transformers: The Movie|An attack from Unicron]] in [[2005]] led to his true self being reawakened and, finding the concepts of Autobot and Decepticon reprehensible, set to work on his goals while undercover as a Decepticon. {{storylink|#Combiner Wars|BotCon 2016 General Cicadacon profile card}}

Cicadacon was of a cooler-temper than his fellow council members, and often found himself dissuading Sea Clamp and Ramhorn from tearing into each other. As the Great War drew to a close, Cicadacon and the other members of the Tripredacus Council busied themselves by experimenting with transwarp energy. They found that, when applied correctly onto Cybertronian anatomy, it could reduce their subjects to a "quantum state," and remake them into a "purer" form. Through this process, they hoped to unite all of Cybetron into a single "race." During one of their experiments, [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] reported to the Council with startling news: both [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] had perished in combat! Though this noted a turning point in the Decepticons' conflict against the Autobots, the three generals found themselves giving the development little thought. When a [[Megatron (BW)|member of their army]] contacted them with plans to attack the demoralized Autobots, Cicadacon, Sea Clamp, and Ramhorn simply ordered him to stand down; they had more important concerns to focus on.

Sending Tarantulas to deal with the upstart (as they correctly guessed he would not follow their orders) the Tripredacus Council readied to unleash a transmatter bomb onto Cybertron to reformat the entire planet all at once. But a [[Axalon (BW)|ship]] happened upon the Council's secret base within Unicron's head, and accidentally deflected the bomb with its shield. Their lair discovered and their plan forcefully postponed, the Council headed down to Cybertron, and joined together with their agents into the gestalt [[Predacus]], to put an end to the dissension in their ranks.

[[File:BWGatherCicadaconCybertronMode.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]

After slaying Predaking, who had followed the upstart into battle, the Council surrendered to the Autobots on behalf of all Decepticons. Cicadacon was one of the signers of the Pax Cybertronia, and helped form a new faction, the Predacons, in Cybertron's newfound peacetime. Now free of distractions, Cicadacon and his allies could once more focus on uniting all Cybertronians, and began their trans-matter experiments anew. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

The Tripredacus Council ordered [[Magmatron]] to assure that no knowledge of the [[transwarp wavefront]] reached the Maximals. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}} When [[Ravage (G1)|their agent]] failed at his task of rounding up the rogue Megatron, the council sent Magmatron to complete the mission. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 2|The Gathering #2}}
{{-}}

====''Timelines''====
[[File:DescentIntoEvil-TripredacusCouncil.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]

Ram Horn, alongside Cicadacon and Sea Clamp, was involved in an assassination plot, part of a ploy to take control of the Predacon army, and dispose of its then-current leader, [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]]. The plot was thought to have succeeded, but in truth they did not manage to extinguish Razorclaw's spark. Nonetheless, the Predacons' previous leader was forced into hiding, and while the world believed him dead, the Tripredacus Council took control of the Predacons. {{storylink|Razorclaw (G1)#Timelines|BotCon 2009 Razorclaw profile card}}

The Tripredacus Council employed Flamewar to check on [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]'s operation on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]]. As Flamewar reported on the apparent success of Deathsaurus's [[Virulent Clone]]s, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] hacked in the feed and informed everyone of the impeding failure built into the Clones. To rid themselves of an exposed agent, the Tripredacus Council remotely exploded [[Flamewar's ship]] with her in it. {{storylink|Descent into Evil}}

After a Predacon insurrection led by [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] in the guise of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] arose in the [[J'kozian sector]], the Tripredacus Council discussed it and decided to leak the insurrection's presence on [[Nibari]] to the [[Maximal]]s so they would take care of the Council's renegade problem. {{storylink|The Razor's Edge}}

As the crew of the ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' fled [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], Predacon secret police agent [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] was onboard decoding information from it. While his boss [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] wasn't watching, Tarantulas contacted General Cicadacon and updated him on the disk's status. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}
{{-}}

====''Wings Universe''====
[[File:ACommonFoe-stasispods.jpg|thumb|150px]]
Cicadacon was one of four mysterious protoforms found by [[Sky-Byte (RID)#Wings Universe|Sky-Byte]] in the laboratory of [[Jhiaxus (G2)#Wings Universe|Jhiaxus]] while trying to save his associate's clones from the Autobots. {{storylink|A Common Foe}} Cicadacon and his comrades pledged allegiance to the Predacons in suspiciously quick time. {{storylink|A Common Foe|''Wings Universe'' Tarantulas profile}}
{{-}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
On a dystopian postwar Cybertron, the ambitious Cicadacon staged a coup against [[Preditron]], founder of the Tripredacus Alliance, and had him interred within [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. {{storylink|Head Games}} In his absence, the new Alliance saw fit to "reinterpret" his writings, using his philosophical musings to sow division between Maximals and Predacons. {{storylink|The Predacon Manifesto}}

When the Maximals and Predacons rose up against the ruling [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]] during the [[Grand Uprising]], the Tripredacus Alliance would follow the example of the newly-founded [[Maximal Nation]] and, from their new command post in [[Kalis]], formed their own breakaway nation in the shape of the [[Independent Predacus States]]. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}} Predacon spies would liberate [[combiner]] technology from the Maximal Nation, giving the three the ability to combine into Tripredacus. {{storylink|Derailment}}

Initially choosing to stay neutral in the war, the Alliance would eventually be approached by [[Lio Convoy]] for direct intervention against the Builders. The Tripredacus accepted–but made it a condition that Preditron, who had escaped prison and become a propaganda piece for Lio Convoy's [[Resistance]], would have to be eliminated first. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}}

Lio Convoy accepted the terms of the deal, but the public assassination attempt was cut short by the advent of the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s: a self-replicating menace that threatened to entirely overrun all non-Builder territory. Lio Convoy attempted to get the Alliance to join forces and make a combined push on [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]; though Ram Horn was initially skeptical of helping the Resistance after they failed to eliminate Preditron, some reverse psychology saw all three Alliance leaders commit the [[Legion of the Inferno]] to the march on Iacon.

The war against the Vehicons quickly took on a new dimension when the Vehicons turned on their creators and sparked the cataclysmic [[Vehicon Apocalypse]], forcing Builders, Maximals, and Predacons alike to regroup towards [[Nova Cronum]] in the hopes of destroying the [[Grand Mal]]. Despite Ram Horn's protests, Cicadacon saw fit to direct the war effort from a fortified bunker rather than on the front lines–which gave Preditron the opportunity to commandeer the army as he lead by example. Furious at Preditron's gall and Lio Convoy's inability to silence the threat, the three leaders opted to regain the loyalty of their forces by taking matters into their own hands and eliminating the founder of the Predacons once and for all.

As Tripredacus, the Council reached the frontlines and swiftly beat Preditron to death in an utterly one-sided defeat. Preditron would be avenged, however, by his friend [[Ser-Ket (BW)|Ser-Ket]], who used her [[Fire-breath|flame breath]] to blow the combiner apart, forcing it to separate. Though Sea Clamp was fatally wounded in the resulting explosion, the arrogant Cicadacon remained confident in his assessment that he held all the cards... only to be fatally shot in the back by a furious Ram Horn, who had discovered through Tripredacus's gestalt mind that Cicadacon saw him as a useful idiot. {{storylink|Derailment}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:TheDeadComeHome-Cicadacon.jpg|thumb|left|100px|I hope you weren't expecting to see Tripredacus in this continuity.]]
Cicadacon was one of a number of [[beast mode]] Transformers who attacked the [[Throttlebot]]s while they were marooned on the backwater planet of [[Regalis V]]. Believing him to be a [[Decepticon]], Cicadacon was left confused at [[Goldbug (IDW)|Goldbug]]'s mention of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], and was summarily blasted in the back by [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]]. {{storylink|The Dead Come Home, Part 1 (of 2)|The Dead Come Home, Part 1}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[File:CicadaconToy.jpg|upright=2.1|thumb|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpXN8BvGp_o&feature=related BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ]]]
*'''Tripredacus''' (1997)
**''Accessories:'' Two swords

: Cicadacon transforms into a green cicada (who'da thought). The toy has twin "blades" that store on its wings. These blades become missiles for Tripredacus's weapon. Cicadacon transforms into the head and chest of Tripredacus. The toy's instructions also referred to his insect beak as a "nasal cannon", although this has not been backed up in the sourcebooks.

:This mold was recolored and released in Japan as [[DJ (BWII)|DJ]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/1997/Predacon/Cicadacon/cicadacon.htm More information on Cicadacon at TFU.info]''
{{-}}

===Generations===
[[File:BotCon2016toy-Cicadacon.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Got tired of stealing Beast Megatron's face, is trying out Skydive's for a while.]]
*'''Dawn of the Predacus''' ([[BotCon 2016]] box set)
: "Predacon General Cicadacon" is a [[redeco]] of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]] [[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)#Generations|Skydive]], who transforms from a fighter jet seemingly based on a cross between an F-16 and an F-18 to a robot that updates his original body. He can also become an arm or leg for any ''Combiner Wars'' and/or ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]]'' combiner, or into one of [[Godbomber#Legends|''Legends'' Godbomber]]'s legs, but is mainly grouped with Ravage, Tarantulas, Ramhorn, and Sea Clamp, to form [[Predacus#Generations|Predacus]].

: The existing Skydive head had deco applied based on his appearance in the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon, with insect-like patterns added to his wings.

: This mold was retooled in [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Unite Warriors|''Unite Warriors'' Ghost Starscream]].

: He was sold in the "Dawn of the Predacus" [[BotCon 2016]] boxset with [[Ravage (G1)/toys#BotCon2016|Ravage]], [[Tarantulas (BW)#Generations|Predacon Tarantulas]], [[Ram Horn#Generations|General Ramhorn]], and [[Sea Clamp#Generations|General Sea Clamp]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2016/Predacon/BCCicadacon/cicadacon.htm More information on Combiner Wars Cicadacon at TFU.info]''
{{CWSkydiveMold}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Cicatagon''' (シカタゴン ''Shikatagon'')
*''French:'' '''Cigale''' (Canada, "Cicada")
*''Italian:'' '''Cicala''' ("Cicada")
*''Spanish:'' '''Cicadacón''' (America)

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[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Predacons]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars]]
[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category:Council members]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:IDW Generation 1 Maximals]]
[[Category:Predacon leaders]]
[[Category:Timelines characters]]
[[Category:Wings Universe Predacons]]

Cicadacon

2018-06-15T02:05:39Z

Dracodis: /* IDW Beast Wars comics */

{{factions|predacon|unicron|decepticon|onyxprime}}
:''Cicadacon is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:CicadaconBWSourcebook.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Mr. Never Appear in Fiction in This Body till 2017.]]
A Predacon Elder, the cruel and clever General '''Cicadacon''' is suspected of being very old indeed. His knowledge of Cybertronian history, especially military history and tactics, is encyclopedic, stretching back even to the era before the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. Some suspect he may have once had a [[Decepticon]] identity, but if this is true, no records of that identity survive. Regardless of the truth of his origin, Cicadacon uses the stories and rumors to engender fear and respect in his followers. Despite his tactical genius, Cicadacon's long-term strategy against the Maximals has become increasingly unpopular with the more [[Megatron (BW)|impatient]] [[Galvatron (BWII)|Predacon]] [[Magmatron|forces]].

He uses chopping rotor blades to spread plague-like destruction and combines with his fellow [[Tripredacus Council]] members to form [[Tripredacus]], or with them plus [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] to form [[Predacus]].

{{quote|Hope is fleeting, ''power'' is everything.|Cicadacon|"[[Derailment]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
[[File:GeneralCicadacon.jpg|200px|thumb|Haven't I seen you somewhere before?]]
{{voiceactor|[[Scott McNeil]] (English), [[Chafūrin]] (Japanese), [[Alvaro Tarcicio]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

When the [[Transwarp wavefront]] was detected entering Cybertronian space, General Cicadacon identified its energy signature as the same as that of the ''Darksyde''. He sent a signal to a Cybertron satellite, causing it to explode, thus blocking the Maximal sensors from detecting the wavefront. He then instructed agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] that if Megatron was still operating his own agenda to terminate him with extreme prejudice. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}}

====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
{{BW Shell Game}}
After sending Ravage out on his errand on prehistoric Earth, the Tripredacus Council tasked Magmatron with monitoring all Maximal channels, instructing him to report any communications that might show that the enemy faction had caught on to their secret plans. {{storylink|Shell Game issue 1|Shell Game #1}}

====IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics====
[[File:DawnOfThePredacus-Cicadacon.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
Cicadacon was one of the first Cybertronians to come online and he observed the following generations with piddling interest. An attack at the start of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] left Cicadacon on the brink of death and forced him to switch off his higher emotional functions and undergo exhausting self-repair that left him unable to remember his life beforehand. As [[Shockwave (G1)|a functionally new individual]], he joined the Decepticons. [[The Transformers: The Movie|An attack from Unicron]] in [[2005]] led to his true self being reawakened and, finding the concepts of Autobot and Decepticon reprehensible, set to work on his goals while undercover as a Decepticon. {{storylink|#Combiner Wars|BotCon 2016 General Cicadacon profile card}}

Cicadacon was of a cooler-temper than his fellow council members, and often found himself dissuading Sea Clamp and Ramhorn from tearing into each other. As the Great War drew to a close, Cicadacon and the other members of the Tripredacus Council busied themselves by experimenting with transwarp energy. They found that, when applied correctly onto Cybertronian anatomy, it could reduce their subjects to a "quantum state," and remake them into a "purer" form. Through this process, they hoped to unite all of Cybetron into a single "race." During one of their experiments, [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] reported to the Council with startling news: both [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] had perished in combat! Though this noted a turning point in the Decepticons' conflict against the Autobots, the three generals found themselves giving the development little thought. When [[Megatron (BW)|member of their army]] contacted them with plans to attack the demoralized Autobots, Cicadacon, Sea Clamp, and Ramhorn simply ordered him to stand down; they had more important concerns to focus on.

Sending Tarantulas to deal with the upstart (as they correctly guessed he would not follow their orders) the Tripredacus Council readied to unleash a transmatter bomb onto Cybertron to reformat the entire planet all at once. But a [[Axalon (BW)|ship]] happened upon the Council's secret base within Unicron's head, and accidentally deflected the bomb with its shield. Their lair discovered and their plan forcefully postponed, the Council headed down to Cybertron, and joined together with their agents into the gestalt [[Predacus]], to put an end to the dissension in their ranks.

[[File:BWGatherCicadaconCybertronMode.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]

After slaying Predaking, who had followed the upstart into battle, the Council surrendered to the Autobots on behalf of all Decepticons. Cicadacon was one of the signers of the Pax Cybertronia, and helped form a new faction, the Predacons, in Cybertron's newfound peacetime. Now free of distractions, Cicadacon and his allies could once more focus on uniting all Cybertronians, and began their trans-matter experiments anew. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

The Tripredacus Council ordered [[Magmatron]] to assure that no knowledge of the [[transwarp wavefront]] reached the Maximals. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}} When [[Ravage (G1)|their agent]] failed at his task of rounding up the rogue Megatron, the council sent Magmatron to complete the mission. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 2|The Gathering #2}}
{{-}}

====''Timelines''====
[[File:DescentIntoEvil-TripredacusCouncil.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]

Ram Horn, alongside Cicadacon and Sea Clamp, was involved in an assassination plot, part of a ploy to take control of the Predacon army, and dispose of its then-current leader, [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]]. The plot was thought to have succeeded, but in truth they did not manage to extinguish Razorclaw's spark. Nonetheless, the Predacons' previous leader was forced into hiding, and while the world believed him dead, the Tripredacus Council took control of the Predacons. {{storylink|Razorclaw (G1)#Timelines|BotCon 2009 Razorclaw profile card}}

The Tripredacus Council employed Flamewar to check on [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]'s operation on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]]. As Flamewar reported on the apparent success of Deathsaurus's [[Virulent Clone]]s, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] hacked in the feed and informed everyone of the impeding failure built into the Clones. To rid themselves of an exposed agent, the Tripredacus Council remotely exploded [[Flamewar's ship]] with her in it. {{storylink|Descent into Evil}}

After a Predacon insurrection led by [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] in the guise of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] arose in the [[J'kozian sector]], the Tripredacus Council discussed it and decided to leak the insurrection's presence on [[Nibari]] to the [[Maximal]]s so they would take care of the Council's renegade problem. {{storylink|The Razor's Edge}}

As the crew of the ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' fled [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], Predacon secret police agent [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] was onboard decoding information from it. While his boss [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] wasn't watching, Tarantulas contacted General Cicadacon and updated him on the disk's status. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}
{{-}}

====''Wings Universe''====
[[File:ACommonFoe-stasispods.jpg|thumb|150px]]
Cicadacon was one of four mysterious protoforms found by [[Sky-Byte (RID)#Wings Universe|Sky-Byte]] in the laboratory of [[Jhiaxus (G2)#Wings Universe|Jhiaxus]] while trying to save his associate's clones from the Autobots. {{storylink|A Common Foe}} Cicadacon and his comrades pledged allegiance to the Predacons in suspiciously quick time. {{storylink|A Common Foe|''Wings Universe'' Tarantulas profile}}
{{-}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
On a dystopian postwar Cybertron, the ambitious Cicadacon staged a coup against [[Preditron]], founder of the Tripredacus Alliance, and had him interred within [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. {{storylink|Head Games}} In his absence, the new Alliance saw fit to "reinterpret" his writings, using his philosophical musings to sow division between Maximals and Predacons. {{storylink|The Predacon Manifesto}}

When the Maximals and Predacons rose up against the ruling [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]] during the [[Grand Uprising]], the Tripredacus Alliance would follow the example of the newly-founded [[Maximal Nation]] and, from their new command post in [[Kalis]], formed their own breakaway nation in the shape of the [[Independent Predacus States]]. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}} Predacon spies would liberate [[combiner]] technology from the Maximal Nation, giving the three the ability to combine into Tripredacus. {{storylink|Derailment}}

Initially choosing to stay neutral in the war, the Alliance would eventually be approached by [[Lio Convoy]] for direct intervention against the Builders. The Tripredacus accepted–but made it a condition that Preditron, who had escaped prison and become a propaganda piece for Lio Convoy's [[Resistance]], would have to be eliminated first. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}}

Lio Convoy accepted the terms of the deal, but the public assassination attempt was cut short by the advent of the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s: a self-replicating menace that threatened to entirely overrun all non-Builder territory. Lio Convoy attempted to get the Alliance to join forces and make a combined push on [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]; though Ram Horn was initially skeptical of helping the Resistance after they failed to eliminate Preditron, some reverse psychology saw all three Alliance leaders commit the [[Legion of the Inferno]] to the march on Iacon.

The war against the Vehicons quickly took on a new dimension when the Vehicons turned on their creators and sparked the cataclysmic [[Vehicon Apocalypse]], forcing Builders, Maximals, and Predacons alike to regroup towards [[Nova Cronum]] in the hopes of destroying the [[Grand Mal]]. Despite Ram Horn's protests, Cicadacon saw fit to direct the war effort from a fortified bunker rather than on the front lines–which gave Preditron the opportunity to commandeer the army as he lead by example. Furious at Preditron's gall and Lio Convoy's inability to silence the threat, the three leaders opted to regain the loyalty of their forces by taking matters into their own hands and eliminating the founder of the Predacons once and for all.

As Tripredacus, the Council reached the frontlines and swiftly beat Preditron to death in an utterly one-sided defeat. Preditron would be avenged, however, by his friend [[Ser-Ket (BW)|Ser-Ket]], who used her [[Fire-breath|flame breath]] to blow the combiner apart, forcing it to separate. Though Sea Clamp was fatally wounded in the resulting explosion, the arrogant Cicadacon remained confident in his assessment that he held all the cards... only to be fatally shot in the back by a furious Ram Horn, who had discovered through Tripredacus's gestalt mind that Cicadacon saw him as a useful idiot. {{storylink|Derailment}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:TheDeadComeHome-Cicadacon.jpg|thumb|left|100px|I hope you weren't expecting to see Tripredacus in this continuity.]]
Cicadacon was one of a number of [[beast mode]] Transformers who attacked the [[Throttlebot]]s while they were marooned on the backwater planet of [[Regalis V]]. Believing him to be a [[Decepticon]], Cicadacon was left confused at [[Goldbug (IDW)|Goldbug]]'s mention of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], and was summarily blasted in the back by [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]]. {{storylink|The Dead Come Home, Part 1 (of 2)|The Dead Come Home, Part 1}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[File:CicadaconToy.jpg|upright=2.1|thumb|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpXN8BvGp_o&feature=related BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ]]]
*'''Tripredacus''' (1997)
**''Accessories:'' Two swords

: Cicadacon transforms into a green cicada (who'da thought). The toy has twin "blades" that store on its wings. These blades become missiles for Tripredacus's weapon. Cicadacon transforms into the head and chest of Tripredacus. The toy's instructions also referred to his insect beak as a "nasal cannon", although this has not been backed up in the sourcebooks.

:This mold was recolored and released in Japan as [[DJ (BWII)|DJ]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/1997/Predacon/Cicadacon/cicadacon.htm More information on Cicadacon at TFU.info]''
{{-}}

===Generations===
[[File:BotCon2016toy-Cicadacon.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Got tired of stealing Beast Megatron's face, is trying out Skydive's for a while.]]
*'''Dawn of the Predacus''' ([[BotCon 2016]] box set)
: "Predacon General Cicadacon" is a [[redeco]] of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]] [[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)#Generations|Skydive]], who transforms from a fighter jet seemingly based on a cross between an F-16 and an F-18 to a robot that updates his original body. He can also become an arm or leg for any ''Combiner Wars'' and/or ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]]'' combiner, or into one of [[Godbomber#Legends|''Legends'' Godbomber]]'s legs, but is mainly grouped with Ravage, Tarantulas, Ramhorn, and Sea Clamp, to form [[Predacus#Generations|Predacus]].

: The existing Skydive head had deco applied based on his appearance in the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon, with insect-like patterns added to his wings.

: This mold was retooled in [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Unite Warriors|''Unite Warriors'' Ghost Starscream]].

: He was sold in the "Dawn of the Predacus" [[BotCon 2016]] boxset with [[Ravage (G1)/toys#BotCon2016|Ravage]], [[Tarantulas (BW)#Generations|Predacon Tarantulas]], [[Ram Horn#Generations|General Ramhorn]], and [[Sea Clamp#Generations|General Sea Clamp]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2016/Predacon/BCCicadacon/cicadacon.htm More information on Combiner Wars Cicadacon at TFU.info]''
{{CWSkydiveMold}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Cicatagon''' (シカタゴン ''Shikatagon'')
*''French:'' '''Cigale''' (Canada, "Cicada")
*''Italian:'' '''Cicala''' ("Cicada")
*''Spanish:'' '''Cicadacón''' (America)

[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Predacons]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars]]
[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category:Council members]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:IDW Generation 1 Maximals]]
[[Category:Predacon leaders]]
[[Category:Timelines characters]]
[[Category:Wings Universe Predacons]]

Overlord (G1)

2018-06-11T00:59:59Z

Dracodis: /* Legends */

{{faction|decepticon}}
{{Disambigm|Overlord (disambiguation)|Gigatron (disambiguation)}}
{{featured}}
:''Overlord is a [[Decepticon]] [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Overlord.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Check out these killer abs!]]
[[Autobot]]s quake in fear when '''Overlord''' (オーバーロード ''Ōbārōdo'', aka '''Gigatron''') thunders on to the battlefield. This towering warrior is an amalgamation of the deadliest [[Decepticon]] weaponry known, armed with laser blasters and grenade launchers in his stomach, and the terrifying ability to prevent the wounds he inflicts upon his opponents from healing. He is even equipped with an internal arms factory. Overlord is formed from two individual vehicles, a tank and a jet, which combine together to form his colossal [[robot mode]], a heavily-armed advance base, or a larger jet capable of space flight.

{{note|Exactly who—and even ''what''—Overlord is varies greatly from continuity to continuity, to the point that it could conceivably be argued whether or not the different incarnations represent different characters. See individual sections below for details.}}

==Fiction==
===Japanese Generation 1 continuity===
The story of the Overlord begins with the mysterious alien energy-being and self-styled Decepticon god, [[Devil Z]], who schemed to create the ultimate lifeform by merging Transformers and humans into one. Devil Z stole a collection of Transformer [[Transtector]]s from the [[G Nebula 89|G Nebula]] and brought them to Earth. Devil Z recruited two human beings, husband and wife [[Giga]] and [[Mega]], and charged them with creating an army for him. Mega and Giga were both bonded to the largest Transtector, and together, they became the terrifying Overlord, serving as Devil Z's "Ambassador of Destruction" on Earth.

In this continuity, each of Overlord's two components are piloted by Giga and Mega, and are hence known as the '''Gigatank''' and the '''Megajet'''. As deadly as his "Chōkon Daemon Blast" lasers and "Chōkon Bolt Masher" grenade launcher are, Overlord has little need for projectile weapons: as a [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]], he is capable of manipulating [[Chōkon Power]], and can even employ it to inhibit the regenerative abilities of other Godmasters.

====Ask Vector Prime====
In some versions of the history of the [[OG World|Primax 785.06 Alpha]] system, the G Nebula Transtector that became Overlord was intended to be a new body for a fallen Decepticon known as [[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/24}}

====Cartoon continuity====
=====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon=====
{{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)|[[Rik Thomas]] (English, Omni Productions dub)}}
[[File:Overlord r.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Believe it or not, this is a crane shot.]]
Giga and Mega took their Transtectors into battle for the first time after a string of failures that resulted in several of the Godmaster Transtectors falling into the hands of the [[Autobot]]s. The couple had [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] lure Autobot commander [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] into the desert, and then confronted him as Overlord, immediately proving their superiority by beating him to near-death. {{storylink|Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?}} Believing Ginrai dealt with, Overlord subsequently departed into space, {{storylink|Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!?}} taking control of a [[Weather Observatory Moon Base|weather-monitoring base]] on the [[Moon (moon)|moon]] in order to rendezvous with the approaching [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] there. Ginrai, however, proved entirely too stubborn to die, and, powered-up through his combination with the freshly-constructed [[Godbomber]] drone, soon pursued Overlord and engaged him in battle above the moon's surface. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Into the Sky!!}} During the fight, Ginrai was blindsided by BlackZarak and sent crashing down to the moon, where he found himself hunted by the two powerful Decepticons. Luckily, the Autobot battleship [[Grand Maximus]] arrived to help, and the two Decepticon tried to break off the fight an return to Earth. Ginrai and Grand vowed to stop them, and a shot from Ginrai's God Cannon sent Overlord plummeting back to the moon, forcing Giga and Mega to split into their individual Transtectors to soften their impact and save their lives. The Autobot pair managed to drive BlackZarak back to the moon as well, and the dark Decepticon insisted that Overlord return to Earth alone and inform Devil Z of the situation. Overlord refused, furious that anyone other than Devil Z would presume to give him orders, but when Ginrai and Grand returned to press their attack, he realised the damage he had sustained prevented him from carrying on the fight, and he relented. After Overlord departed for Earth, however, the outnumbered BlackZarak was then beaten by Ginrai and sent fleeing back into the depths of space. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon}}

[[File:Overlord v.jpg|205px|thumb|I'm easy come. Easy go. Little High. Little Low.]]
Incensed by this failure, Giga decided to reduce Ginrai's power level by destroying Godbomber. A desert again served as Ginrai and Overlord's battleground, as Overlord used his Chōkon Power to create a massive whirling tornado out of the shifting sands, but when he was thrown off balance by a sneaky God Punch attack, Overlord's "Chōkon Tornado" quickly backfired on him and sent him spinning off wildly through the sky. {{storylink|Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado}} Despite this setback, Overlord made another attempt to eliminate Godbomber, this time by separating him from Ginrai with an ambush in the American heartland. In their separate Transtectors, Giga and Mega wore down Ginrai until he no longer had enough Chōkon Power to animate Godbomber, but the plan was foiled when the Autobot [[Headmaster Junior]]s discovered they could combine their own energy to control Godbomber themselves. With Ginrai and Godbomber reunited, Overlord was sent packing by a blast of Chōkon Power. {{storylink|Destroy Godbomber!!}}

[[File:Overlord b.jpg|left|205px|thumb|Umm, Giga? Where are we supposed to sleep?]]
Overlord later adopted his base mode for the first time to act as a staging ground for the search for the final Godmaster. The search came to an abruptly end, however, when the Godmaster himself, [[Clouder]], sought out the Decepticons, and the villains decided to use his ability to adopt two robot forms to install him as a double agent within the Autobot ranks. {{storylink|Appearance!! The Final Godmaster}} Using information fed to them by Clouder, the Decepticons initiated a full-scale attack on the Autobots' headquarters, again using Overlord's base mode as a mobile headquarters from which the assault was masterminded. {{storylink|Secret Orders! Destroy the Autobot Base!!}} When Ginrai (who had been lured away from the base so the attack to begin) returned to aid his fellow Autobots, Overlord transformed to [[robot mode]] and again engaged him in battle, intending to keep him occupied until a [[Seacon (Masterforce)|Seacon]] force could destroy the Autobot base from within. Although defeated in combat, Overlord was still able to gloat, as Ginrai failed to realise that he was being stalled until it was too late. Furious at his own short-sightedness, Ginrai hurled Overlord and embedded him, head-first, in the side of the mountain housing the Autobot base. At that moment, the base's magma converter power core finally exploded, and Overlord was sent flying over the horizon by a jet of lava. {{storylink|Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes}}

[[File:Overlord spacejet.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Set controls to outer space, now, flying higher than ever before!]]
Soon thereafter, BlackZarak returned to Earth, and the Decepticons began "Operation M-1" to cut a swathe of devastation across the Earth. While BlackZarak tore through [[New York City|New York]], Overlord landed in the heart of [[Paris]], decimating military resistance and destroying the [[Arc de Triomphe]]. With these cities in ruins, the two Decepticons began to converge on Tokyo; while passing over China, Overlord landed on the Great Wall and broadcasted a message to the leaders of the world, warning them to surrender or witness Tokyo's destruction. Overlord then carried on his way, easily defeating [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]], [[Phoenix (Masterforce)|Phoenix]] and [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] when they attempted to block his path. Overlord and BlackZarak soon arrived in Tokyo, and with no surrender forthcoming, began razing the city. In the midst of the chaos, however, Ginrai and Grand Maximus—who had been trapped in a black hole by BlackZarak, and only just managed to escape—arrived to stop their evil deeds. During the ensuing battle, Ginrai manoeuvred himself between the two Decepticons, and dodged at the last second, causing them to blast each other. With his two most powerful warriors damaged, Devil Z called off Operation M-1, and initiated Operation M-2 {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}} which involved destroying the Earth's atmosphere from orbit with the unholy [[Death Para-Machine]]. Overlord transformed to his "space jet" mode to carry the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors into space for the operation, but naturally, the Autobots pursued their enemies, and Ginrai was able to destroy the Death Para-Machine before it caused irreparable damage to Earth. {{storylink|Crisis! The Day of Human Extinction}}

[[File:Overlord vs ginrai.jpg|left|225px|thumb|"I outrank you, Ginrai!" "You do NOT! 'God' outranks 'Overlord'!"]]
After a battle with [[Lightfoot (Masterforce)|Lightfoot]] in southern Europe, {{storylink|God Ginrai - Save Cancer!?}} Overlord tried a more underhanded tactic, capturing Autobot Headmaster Junior [[Shūta Gō]], and using him as a bargaining chip to bring Ginrai to the Decepticon base. The battle that followed was distinctly one-sided, as Ginrai was unable to fight back due to Shūta being in danger, but this suddenly took an unexpected turn when Decepticon Junior [[Cancer (Masterforce)|Cancer]] turned on his teammates and freed Shūta. Even as the shocked Overlord commanded him to stop, Ginrai got back in the fight, and flattened Overlord before escaping with Shūta and Cancer. {{storylink|God Ginrai: Showdown at the Decepticon Base}} With the information Cancer provided them, the Autobots were able to stage an all-out attack on the Decepticon base, during which Overlord again battled Ginrai. The fight came to a sudden end when Devil Z merged with BlackZarak and collapsed the Decepticon base in a failed attempt to destroy the Autobots. {{storylink|The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform}}

For a time, Devil Z's hatred of humankind had been steadily growing, and rankled with Giga and Mega, reaching a head when the alien abandoned [[Wilder (Masterforce)|Wilder]] and [[Bullhorn (Masterforce)|Bullhorn]] in the ruins of the Decepticon base, and transformed Hydra and Buster into true robots. {{storylink|Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn}} Confronting God Ginrai for one final time in the heart of the [[Grand Canyon]], Overlord vowed to fight him without weapons, battling him only through the use of his physical strength and the power of his human flesh. He didn't explain his motives to Ginrai, but Ginrai observed Overlord's refusal to draw his weapons, and fought honourably. When Grand Maximus arrived on the scene, however, he was not so concerned, and simply shot Overlord out of the sky. {{storylink|Autobots! Desperate Attack!!}}

[[File:Overlord ginrairescue.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|I get by with a little help from my ... uh, foes.]]
After the battle in the Grand Canyon, the Decepticons relocated to the Alps, and the Autobots again gave chase. Overlord was willing to engage the Autobot Godmasters, but the merged Devil Z/BlackZarak entity held him back and instead buried them under an avalanche. Meanwhile, Ginrai again defeated Hydra and Buster, and the two brothers limped back to the peak of the Matterhorn, where Devil Z turned on them for their failure. As their punishment continued, Overlord at last stood up to his emperor and attempted to stop him, only to be on the receiving end of the emperor's wrath. {{storylink|Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z}} Unexpectedly, Overlord was rescued by Ginrai, and as the Autobot leader began his final battle with BlackZarak, Giga and Mega realized that they owed him a debt of honor for saving them and finally made the decision to turn against their former master. When Overlord attempted to aid God Ginrai in his battle with BlackZarak, however, they were struck down and enveloped in a sphere of Devil Z's [[Devil Power]]. Devil Z separated Mega and Giga from their Transtectors, bringing Overlord to life as a true super-robot lifeform. As their [[Master-Brace]]s vanished from their wrists, Giga and Mega died, regretting that they could not settle their rivalry with Ginrai honourably. Alas, there was not even time to mourn, as the new, robotic Overlord lunged for Ginrai, but was tackled by Grand Maximus. Ginrai subsequently united his powers with the Headmasters Juniors to finally destroy Devil Z and BlackZarak, and at the sight of his leader being vaporized, Overlord immediately called for the Decepticons to retreat. As they fled into space, the Autobots' Transtectors were also brought to life, as Overlord's had been, by the death of Devil Z, and they headed into space in pursuit of Overlord's Decepticons. {{storylink|A Battle... and Then...}}
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=====''Transformers Legends'' comic=====
The now-living Overlord transtector and his followers joined with the Decepticon forces in space, and in [[2021]], Overlord led an attack on the [[transtector]] factory in [[G Nebula 89]], forcing [[Grand Maximus|Grand]] to send the former [[Decepticon]] [[Headmaster Junior]]s to the [[Legends World|Legends Universe]] for their safety. {{storylink|LG24 Shockwave & Cancer Prologue}} During one of his assaults, Overlord was defeated by a [[Getmaster]]-powered [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 39|Bonus Edition Vol. 39}}

=====''Victory'' cartoon=====
[[File:Decepticons in the g nebula.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Those car washes get more dangerous every year.]]
Overlord briefly led the Decepticon army before the rise to power of [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]. {{storylink|Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus's toy bio}} Following this, Overlord commanded the Sector Two Decepticon force, based in the G Nebula, where they battled the Autobots under the command of his old foe, God Ginrai. {{storylink|Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior}}
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=====''Zone'' cartoon=====
{{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)}}
[[File:OverlordZone1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Robots should not wear [[Transformer clothing#Capes|capes]].]]
Years later, when the supernatural creature known as [[Violen Jiger]] seized command of the Decepticons, his first act was to recruit nine "[[Nine Great Demon Generals|Demon Generals]]" from Decepticon history. Overlord was selected to be one of those Generals and was given new power and weaponry to make him an even greater threat than before. At Violen Jiger's instruction, Overlord was sent to the planet [[Feminia]] to wreak havoc along with [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] and [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]. Together, the three Decepticon Demon Generals destroyed the entire planet and nearly killed Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] [[Star Saber (Victory)|Victory Saber]] in the process.

Two-and-a-half months later, Overlord led Menasor, Abominus, and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] in an attack on the planet of [[Micro|Zone]], gleefully blasting [[Micromaster]]s and using his trident to slice into [[Zone Base]] to retrieve a sample of [[Energon Z]] for Decepticon use. With the Micromasters completely unable to harm the Decepticon generals, Overlord left the planet in triumph, handing the Energon Z off to the second group of Generals, who went on to attack Earth, but were stopped by Autobot [[Powered Master]] [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]]. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}

=====Wars manga=====
In the aftermath of Violen Jiger's defeat, Overlord's faction of Decepticons in G Nebula 89 tried to reorganize and desired to take control of the nebula's transtector factory to create more Decepticon soldiers. {{storylink|Train Wars: Goshooter & Shūta Gō Chapter}}
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====Manga continuity====
=====''Super-God Masterforce'' manga=====
[[File:Overlord manga.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|"I am a freak?, Not so, I am a devil!"]]

After a failed assault on planet [[Athenia]] and the defeat of [[Scramble 7]], the Decepticons returned to Earth and were met by their new commander, the mysterious Overlord. {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops}}

Giga and Mega debuted their Transtectors in an attack on a city, during which they combined into Overlord and devastated the Autobot Godmasters with their Daemon Blast and Bolt Masher weapons. Blindsided and badly damaged by the newly created God Ginrai, Overlord was goaded into pursuing the Autobot out into space, where BlackZarak was battling the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]]. As BlackZarak turned to face the approaching Ginrai, the cunning Autobot swiftly ducked out of the way, causing Overlord and BlackZarak to attack each other. Gravely wounded, Overlord returned to Earth, while BlackZarak fled back into space. {{storylink|God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!}}

Overlord's base mode was employed by the Decepticon to hold Shūta Gō and [[Cab (human)|Cab]] prisoner, when they attempted to torture the two boys into becoming members of the Decepticons. Their fellow Autobot Junior, [[Minerva (Masterforce human)|Minerva]], came to their rescue when she crashed Godbomber through Overlord's walls and freed them, after which Overlord transformed to robot mode to face the approaching Ginrai and Grand Maximus. It wasn't his best showing: after Ginrai combined with Godbomber, Grand crashed his battleship directly into Overlord's face, and God Ginrai used the Headmaster's "[[Master Blade (Masterforce)|Master Blade]]" to slice off Overlord's legs. Their Transtectors forcibly separated, the battered Giga and Mega escaped. {{storylink|The Earth Family of Good and Evil}}

[[File:Overlord aolaser.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|"Cry some more!"]]
From the top of [[Qomolangma]], Overlord rained destruction down on the world using the Decepticons' newest weapon, the [[A.O. Laser]]. When Ginrai and Godbomber arrived to stop him, Overlord turned the laser on them; they dodged, but they had failed to observe the presence of the Decepticons' newest member, the Godmaster Clouder, who reflected the laser beam back at them and knocked them out of the sky. Unfortunately for Overlord, a chance comment from Cancer insulting Clouder's falcon mode plunged the Godmaster into such a rage that he turned on his Decepticon allies and blew up the A.O. Laser in Overlord's hands. Although Ginrai had been temporarily blinded by the A.O. Laser, the Headmaster Juniors were able to serve as his eyes and point him in the right direction to unleash his "God Punch" attack, which clobbered Overlord so hard that Giga and Mega actually popped out of his chest. {{storylink|Decepticons' Great Counterattack!}}

Soon thereafter, when the Autobots were off-Earth visiting their space-based allies, BlackZarak was able to return to Earth, and he and Overlord took the opportunity to attack a city. The Autobots soon returned with, and Ginrai and Godbomber grappled with Overlord, forcing him to separate back into the Megajet and Gigatank. The two Autobots clung onto the separate Transtectors, however, refusing to let them escape, as they waited for the new weapon they had brought back from space, the [[VX Bomb]] to detonate. The explosion came seconds later, knocking Mega and Giga's Transtectors offline, but Ginrai and Godbomber survived by combining into God Ginrai. {{storylink|Live? Die?! The Desperate Super-God Combination}}

[[File:Overlord vs blackzarak.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Don't ever speak about Broly.]]
When BlackZarak attacked a city, Cancer happened to be here, and BlackZarak showed his disdain for humans by using the boy as a bargaining chip to prevent the Autobots from interfering with his deviltry. Horrified at this treatment of Cancer, Overlord viciously attacked BlackZarak, rescuing Cancer from his grip, but while they were fighting, it allowed the Autobots to take down both of them. {{storylink|Great Turn-Around! Autobots}}

In light of this act of treachery by Overlord, it was perhaps not surprising that in the midst of his next battle with Ginrai, Overlord himself was the subject of a betrayal. In an attempt to transform himself into the ultimate lifeform, Devil Z fused with BlackZarak, and then turned on Overlord and the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors, attempting to drain theirs and Ginrai's [[Chōkon Power|Jinchōkon]] and take it for his own. They were saved by the Autobot Pretenders, who blocked the Jinchōkon-absorbing beam, and Overlord decided to join with the Autobots in defeating Devil Z. Overlord joined with all the other Transformers in combining their energies into the "Perfect Transform Attack", which finally destroyed BlackZarak and Devil Z once and for all. With the alien's death, the Transformers' Transtectors were brought to life as true super-robot lifeforms, Overlord's included. Alas, Devil Z's energies had also been sustaining the lives of Giga and Mega, and his death also resulted in theirs. The now-living Overlord and Ginrai Transtectors decided to take their troops back into space, where Overlord vowed to defeat Ginrai in memory of Mega and Giga, and for the honor of the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Birth of the Super Lifeforms}}
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=====''Zone'' manga and story pages=====
[[File:Overlord zone manga.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb|Your hair is like lavender but smells like strawberries.]]
Years after the end of the [[Masterforce War]], Overlord was among the Decepticons recruited by the new Decepticon emperor Violen Jiger to become the strongest of his Nine Great Demon Generals. In addition to his new title of "Super-God General", Overlord was outfitted with new armor and weapons that made him even more dangerous than before. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 1}}

One month after the Demon Generals destroyed the planet Feminia, apparently taking the life of the Autobot Supreme Commander Victory Saber in the process, Overlord led Menasor, Bruticus and Abominus in an attack on the planet Zone, where they successfully stole a sample of the super-energy, Energon Z. When the Zone Base transformed into battle mode and opened fire on the Decepticons, Overlord called retreat, seeing no need to stay and fight when the prize was already theirs. Overlord then handed the Energon Z off to the second platoon of generals, who subsequently headed for Earth, but were defeated in battle there by the Autobot Powered Master Dai Atlas. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (manga)|Transformers: Zone}}

It wasn't long before Overlord got his own chance to go up against Dai Atlas, but the Powered Master didn't think much of this so-called "Strongest of the Generals," aiming to finish their battle in under eight seconds. Whether or not he achieved this lofty goal is unknown, but he ''did'' lay out Overlord with his powerful "Galactic Dash" attack. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 6}}

The Generals later schooled [[Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan]] and the [[Metrosquad]] in the ways of evil, making them formidable foes for the [[Powered Master]]s. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 7}}
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====''Transformers PD Type''====
[[File:Pdtype overlord.jpg|left|thumb|I'm a foot and a half taller than you, but whatever.]]
During a battle between Overlord and Super Ginrai, the Autobot Godmaster prepared to attack with Chokon Power. When he raised his hands to summon Tenchokon, however, he was struck by a bolt of lightning, causing Overlord to smirk that the weather wasn't looking too good. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##7 "Fight! Super Ginrai!"|Fight! Super Ginrai!!}}

Sitting in a field, watching the clouds float by, Overlord started to wonder what he was doing with his life and decided he needed a day off to reflect on his lot. Unfortunately, he had chosen to sit down and have this epiphany in the middle of a huge battle, and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] began shouting at him to get back up and join the fight. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##9 "Oh Overlord."|Oh, Overlord}}
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===European toy bio continuity===
[[File:Overlord vs motorvators.jpg|thumb|Collect all time-displaced toys.]]
A legend by virtue of his very existence, Overlord is the ultimate Decepticon anti-hero. Emerging to join the Transformers' war at some undetermined point in space and time, Overlord fights alone on the battlefield despite his Decepticon allegiance, a monolithic horror born of "advanced robotic engineering" whose special abilities—including the power to travel across dimensions—come from the "[[Energon figure]]s" that operate his multiple functions.

To counter the monstrous threat posed by this powerful new breed of Decepticon, the Autobots developed their own new team of warriors, the [[Motorvator]]s, emulating Overlord's Energon figure technology to make the trio a match for his awesome power.<ref>Overlord's European toy bio</ref><ref>Story blurb on Overlord and the Motorvators' packaging.</ref>
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===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
{{bigquote|A good strategist is half psychologist and half '''sadist'''. And I was the '''best'''.|Overlord|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #3]]}}
[[File:Overlords spark remembrance day.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|They're so cute when they're small.]]
Overlord was "born" on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[Moonbase Two|second moon]] 4.2 million years ago, a rare breed known as a "[[Point One Percenter]]". After its "first flash" killed the [[Frak|hapless]] [[Rushcut|miners]] who discovered it, his [[spark]] was taken by the [[Functionist Council]]'s authenticator [[Three-of-Twelve]]. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}}

[[File:MegatronOrigin2 fightcrowd1.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hey, he appeared as a rabid fan of gladiatorial combat in a crowd shot once. Wouldn't it be ''awesome'' if [[Nick Roche|someone]] built a whole character round that?]]
In the days before the [[Great War (G1)|Cybertronian civil war]], Overlord was both an avid spectator of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s gladiatorial matches {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} and a participant in the bouts, even fighting Megatron himself. Megatron would be the only opponent to ever defeat Overlord, and he did so regularly, giving Overlord a pathological fear of defeat. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} All the same, Overlord still joined Megatron's Decepticon faction upon its founding, though it was not the loftiness of the Decepticon cause that Megatron espoused which enticed him. Rather, it was the chance to have the glorious excess of the gladiator battles move beyond the arena, to encompass entire worlds. To Overlord, the ends didn't matter overly much when the ''means'' themselves were this pleasurable. As a result, his tactics developed a reputation as unsound, and his schemes as nothing more than flights of brutal whimsy. Unlike [[Scorponok (G1)|many]] [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|other]] powerful Decepticons, he had no interest in command, only in taking his slaughter to the next stage. Megatron was not convinced, however, believing the image of Overlord as simply interested in killing to be a façade, and began searching for a way to exert greater control over him.

[[File:Overlord UnuntriumInfusion RemembranceDay.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|left|Weapon O.]]

Recognizing Overlord's power, Megatron regularly sparred with him, and eventually, three million years ago, selected him to be the fourth candidate for an upgrade process that would transform him into a world-shatteringly powerful superwarrior. Rendered virtually indestructible by an infusion of [[ununtrium]] to his endoskeleton, Overlord's first action as a member of the "[[Warriors Elite]]" was to smash out of his capsule and kill the scientist who oversaw the process, [[Rossum]]. He could not, however, do the same to Megatron: the Decepticon leader had not been foolish, and had, during the upgrade process, had [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] equip Overlord with both a killswitch that could deactivate him, and infect him with an [[Achilles virus]] that caused a "tactical blindspot" preventing him from figuring out how to harm Megatron. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}} When [[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]] was captured by the Autobots and brought to the [[Institute|New Institute]] for brainwashing, Overlord saw his chance to free himself from these shackles. While ostensibly attacking the facility to rescue Soundwave, he also captured the cerebroscientist [[Trepan]], and studied the basics of [[mnemosurgery]] from him, intending to hack Shockwave's memories and learn how to deactivate his killswitch and the virus. Megatron caught wind of Overlord's scheming before he learned how to interface with others, and had Trepan killed. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} Overlord later participated in the [[Battle for Hell's Point]] alongside the other members of the Warriors Elite. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}

[[File:LastStandoftheWreckers2-teleconference.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I am not a number!]]

While embroiled in battle on [[Caldoon 4]], Overlord was called to a teleconference with [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], who announced the finalization of his [[infiltration protocol]], and that Overlord would join fellow Warriors Elite [[Sixshot]] and [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]] in being reclassified as "[[Phase Sixer]]s", called in to alien worlds to enact the doomsday scenario of the protocol's final phase. Dissatisfied with being declared a weapon that operated at someone else's whim, Overlord contested his appointment, and Megatron gave him two options: do as he was told, or refuse and have Megatron hunt him down. Overlord made his choice quickly, returning to the battle outside and dispatching every Autobot save one—[[Kup (G1)|Kup]]—who he allowed to survive so a message could be sent to Megatron: Overlord had chosen option two. He proceeded to leave Caldoon 4 to plan for Megatron's inevitable coming. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} For his treason, Overlord found his way onto the infamous [[The List|list]] of traitors maintained by the [[Decepticon Justice Division]]. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}}

Some time later, Overlord initiated a conflict with the emperor of a star system who was in possession of interstellar travel capabilities and weapons technology that rivaled his own. Finding himself overmatched, Overlord sought and secured the aid of [[Gorelock]]'s Decepticon battalion, which, at the time, was assigned to [[Spensifax B]]. The ensuing battle, according to the estimates of science officer [[Vivisector]], set the technological development of the empire back an estimated 250,000 years. {{storylink|The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Gorelock's prisoner clemency request}}

[[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-Overlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|We peed a little.]]
At the height of the [[Surge (event)|cross-galactic Decepticon uprising]], Overlord arrived at [[Garrus-9]] in the midst of the Decepticon siege of the prison, and casually murdered garrison leader [[Skyquake (G1)|Skyquake]] when he refused to turn command over to him. Intending to turn Garrus-9 into his home away from home, Overlord personally defeated warden [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and threw him to the crowd of Decepticon prisoners he had freed as a show of good faith. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Overlord was not done with Maximus, though, later imprisoning him and personally torturing him for information on the [[Aequitas]] computer hidden in the bowls of Garrus-9, and the mysterious secret of the prison that the computer had been created to hide. Maximus refused to give up the passcodes to the device's chamber even after Overlord threatened to kill an Autobot for every second that he withheld them. {{storylink|Interiors}}

[[File:Overlord-Fort-Max-Interiors.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"Do you expect me to talk?" "No, I expect you to die and be a cheap funeral".]]
During his time in command of Garrus-9, Overlord turned the prison into a huge gladiatorial arena, and had the prisoners fight for their lives with the promise that victory meant freedom. This was, of course, a lie; those who won in twelve bouts were offered the choice of facing Overlord himself or committing suicide. Overlord forced the imprisoned [[Grimlock (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Grimlock]] to watch footage both of these matches and of the sacking of the prison, possibly driving him insane. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} After a year of this, some of the Decepticons began to have doubts about their sadistic leader; [[Fearswoop (G1)|Fearswoop]] was lucky to survive when he questioned Overlord's lack of sportsmanship, but [[Wingblazer]] and his partner were not so fortunate when they let an Autobot prisoner get the better of them during a hunt, and Overlord killed them for their carelessness. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Around this time, Overlord also released Shockwave from confinement and let him leave in return for the Achilles Virus being removed. Shockwave could tell that all Overlord was doing with Garrus-9 was trying to get Megatron's attention, though Overlord denied it. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}

[[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-BoreholeKickoff.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|Better than television!]]
Two years later, Overlord and his Decepticons watched the captive Autobot [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] battle the Decepticon [[Borehole]] for his amusement. Kick-Off triumphed and was taken to Overlord's quarters {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} where he was offered the customary choice; {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last stand of the Wreckers #4}} he evidently opted to fight Overlord, given the brutalized state of his body when it was later found. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}

Not long thereafter, the Autobot strike team known as the [[Wrecker]]s arrived to liberate Garrus-9, one of their drop pods crashing into the arena chamber right in front of Overlord's feet. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} Although disappointed to discover that the new arrivals were not troops sent by Megatron, Overlord was amused by the joke made by [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] about Wreckers combining... right before he shot him through the head. The Wreckers turned down Overlord's proposal of surrender but were unable to injure him, and escaped into the prison by detonating a fuel tank to cover their withdrawal. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}

[[File:LastStandofWreckers4- OverlordSpringerReady.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|FINAL ROUND, FIGHT!]]
Regrouping with help from the Decepticon [[Snare]], who had come to believe that the Decepticons on Garrus-9 were as trapped by Overlord as the Autobots were, the Wreckers established a new mission objective: kill Overlord. They did not have to hunt him down, however, as he soon arrived to take them on. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} The fight quickly made its way to the rooftop of Garrus-9, where [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] was torn in half and used to dispatch Kup. A harpoon through the eye courtesy of [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] barely fazed Overlord, who delivered a defeat more crushing than any beating: the Autobot prisoners the Wreckers had come to liberate had all been executed on his orders already. Overlord proved able even to shrug off the massive payload of a huge chaingun-like weapon provided to Springer by [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], but after all the other Autobots around him had been dispatched, Ironfist revealed the weapon's secret: it had injected Overlord with thousands of deterrence chips, which Ironfist then remotely detonated, reducing Overlord to a flaming, yet still-functional skeleton.

[[File:LastStandoftheWreckers5-brittlebones.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|"Megatron better not show up when I'm naked!"]]
Ironfist fell unconscious, leaving only Verity to hear Overlord's wrathful ranting, as he demanded to know how he could meet a challenge from Megatron in this sorry state. Realizing this was what Overlord had longed for all along, Verity dropped the bomb: Megatron was ''dead''. Overlord was stunned by the realization that while he had dedicated every waking hour of his existence to his supposedly inevitable fight with Megatron, the Decepticon leader had never cared, and would never come. He put up no resistance when Impactor recovered, but Impactor refused to kill Overlord, for Springer's sake, and promised to take him in to face justice. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}

[[File:Overlord-Lost-Light-Interiors.jpg|thumb|First class may seem like a rip off but it has advantages over the alternatives.]]

[[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] believed that the Autobots had a moral obligation to return P.O.W.s to their natural state, so he had the Decepticon's body rebuilt. [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]], intent on learning from Overlord the secrets of the process that created the Phase Sixers, acquiesced to Bumblebee's decision in hopes it would encourage Overlord to talk, and released a cover story that claimed the villain's spark had been extracted and sealed in a [[whiteout vacuum]]. In the wake of Cybertron's rebirth following the [[Chaos (IDW)|Chaos event]], Prowl petitioned [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]] to use his mnemosurgery skills to read Overlord's memories in the hopes of creating an army of "Autobot Phase Sixers," but Chromedome refused. Learning that Chromedome was leaving Cybertron aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]'', Prowl convinced [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] to allow him to put Overlord on the Lost Light. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}} At launch, he had the [[Duobot]]s secretly load Overlord aboard the ship and instructed [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] to talk Chromedome around to his way of thinking when the time was right. As a security measure, Overlord was held within a [[slow cell]] in which time passed much more slowly. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}}

When the ''Lost Light'' launched, an accident aboard caused a massive quantum explosion, and as a result the ship was split into two identical copies — one on-course, and one off-course — each containing an identical Overlord. On the on-course Lost-Light, Rodimus died in an accident with a [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]], and Overlord's existence was never revealed to the crew. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken}} When Brainstorm — a deep-cover double agent with Decepticon ties — was contacted by his Deception handler and demanded proof of his loyalty to the Decepticon cause, the Autobot panicked and put through a call to the Decepticon Justice Division, sabotaging Overlord's slow cell so that the DJD could detect his energy signature. {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}} The DJD initially agreed to not harm the crew of the ''Lost Light'' so as to maintain his cover, {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}} but reneged when they discovered Drift aboard the ship. The DJD proceeded to slaughter the entire crew of the ''Lost Light'' {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}} before finally going to chop off Overlord's head off with a saw. Crossing Overlord's name off the list, the DJD left the shattered wreckage of the ''Lost Light'' behind in orbit of [[Ofsted XVII]]. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}}

On the off-course ''Lost Light,'' the "other" Overlord remained a prisoner of the Autobots; when a crack was cut in the cell by the stowaway Sparkeater, paranoid security director [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] began hearing noises emanating from within. After recording the noises and discovering, with aid from [[Rung (G1)|Rung]], that it was a massively-slowed down voice repeating "Kill me", {{storylink|How Ratchet Got His Hands Back}} Red Alert widened the crack and discovered the cell's occupant, {{storylink|Interiors}} but was mysteriously deactivated in an alleged suicide before he could tell anyone. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}

After Chromedome's [[Conjunx Endura|conjunx endure]] [[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rewind]] was grievously injured in battle, the possibility of losing Rewind was enough to convince Chromedome to begin visiting the slow cell to probe Overlord's mind in a series of mental interrogation sessions, gradually acclimatizing himself to the Decepticon's mental architecture. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} As a safeguard in the event of Overlord's escape, he subtly altered the Decepticon's memories so as to make him associate the phrase "[['Til all are one]]!" with defeat in combat, knowing that Rodimus would undoubtedly say this in a battle and give the Autobots a potential opening to take down the stunned Decepticon. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}}

[[File:Overlord bigfight UnderColdBlueStars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|So Overlord walks into a [[Swerve's|bar]]. Everybody dies. Painfully.]]

During the last of these sessions, however, Chromedome made a fatal mistake when he inadvertently revealed to Overlord that Megatron was still alive. Spurred back to action, Overlord used the mnemosurgery tricks he had learned from Trepan to take over their mental link and plucked the code for the slow cell from Chromedome's memories. Bursting free from his restraints, he opened the cell and sealed Chromedome in, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} then proceeded to go on a rampage through the ship, first stomping [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] to death, then attacking [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] in the medibay. The assembled crew of the ship confronted him in battle, during which Overlord stabbed [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] through the [[spark]], then turned on [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] asking him for last words. When Rodimus replied with "'til all are one," however, the phrase tripped Overlord's mnemonic trigger, allowing him to be herded back to the slow cell by Fortress Maximus so that he could be jettisoned from the ship. At the last moment, however, the plan was nearly thwarted when one of Overlord's stolen swords was lodged in the cell doors; as the only 'bot small enough to remove it, Rewind squeezed through the gap and pulled the sword free, allowing the cell to jettison but trapping himself inside with Overlord. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} Overlord gleefully began torturing the little Autobot {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}} before Chromedome, in an act of mercy, used the ship's guns to destroy the floating cell. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} Overlord's still-living but inert body was left drifting in space. {{storylink|The Gloaming}} {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}

Approximately six months later, the crew of the surviving ''Lost Light'' encountered the wreck of the quantum duplicate over Ofsted XVII following the disappearance of their own vessel. [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] discovered Overlord's headless corpse in the slow cell. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} This, combined with numerous other historical inconsistencies and the atrocities found by the others, led the Lost Lighters to figure out that they were aboard an quantum duplicate version of their ship that had been visited by the DJD. The alternate Overlord's corpse vanished with the rest of the wrecked ''Lost Light'' when the main ''Lost Light'' was restored to reality. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}.

[[File:TarnvsOverlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|And another thing, Dad told me when you were born what he really wanted as a Labrador.]]

In the meantime, the other Overlord was recovered and rebuilt by the [[Galactic Council]]. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} After a lengthy recuperation process, {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}} the Council deployed him to the [[Necroworld|homeworld]] of the [[Censere|Necrobot]] and take down Megatron, whose recent defection to the [[Autobot]]s threatened to undermine the anti-Cybertronian sentiment that the Council had spent years cultivating among its members. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} Overlord interrupted a one-sided battle between his old tormentor and the D.J.D. commander [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]]. Declaring that only he was allowed to kill Megatron, Overlord attacked Tarn, distracting both from noticing the crippled Megatron escaping on a hoverscooter. Seeing that their goals overlapped, Tarn brought Overlord in as a temporary ally.

Aboard the ''[[Peaceful Tyranny]]'', Overlord immediately began undermining Tarn's command by trying to sow doubt in the mind of [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]] while openly mocking the D.J.D. The D.J.D's image didn't benefit from a panicked [[Kaon (DJD)|Kaon]] begging Tarn to save his captured [[Dominus Ambus|"Pet"]]. Overlord watched on as Tarn decapitated Kaon and then jammed his severed head into Overlord's chest, telling him he wouldn't be mocked by such a desperate attention seeker. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}}

[[File:mtmte54 KRACK.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Admit it, you cheered a little at this.]]

When sundown came, Overlord stood with Tarn and Deathsaurus, a big smirk on his face, as they prepared to storm the Autobots. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}} After swatting Cyclonus to the floor, he gleefully sought out Chromedome and began to mock him with claims of what he'd done to Rewind, so Chromedome decked him, the first obvious sight the Autobots were charged with something. Once the charge ran out though, Megatron finally emerged to tear through the Decepticons...

...and Overlord dismissed this as just him getting a gun back. Bored and finding it easy to now shoot him down, {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}} Overlord concluded that Megatron had become a coward, and — disgusted by this change of heart — grimly told Tarn that he didn't ''need'' Megatron anymore before flying off. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}}

{{spoiler|Transformers: Requiem of the Wreckers|June 30}}

Overlord spent the next few years aimlessly wandering, bored with life, before coming in contact with the exiled mad scientist [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], stationed on [[Earth]]. The two formed a partnership; after arriving on Earth, Overlord agreed to become a test subject for Tarantulas' ever-evolving [[Chimeracon]] process. Through Tarantulas' mad science, Overlord gained a third, [[human]]-based disguise; in this guise, he was able to forge an identity for himself as "Megan Guiglione," a populist anti-Cybertronian politician aiming to sow discord throughout Earth's political systems as its inhabitants struggled to adjust to life under the [[Council of Worlds]]. Not only could "Guiglione" secure funding and resources for Tarantulas' latest plan, but Tarantulas was also fascinated by the effects that "Megan" had on the government of the United States, seeing it as a twisted social experiment.

At one rally, "Megan" was attacked by Springer, who had been temporarily brainwashed by members of [[Mayhem Attack Squad|Mayhem]] and puppeteer into annihilating the firebrand politician, but only succeeded in revealing Overlord. Overlord promptly resumed his normal robot mode and slaughtered the Mayhem operatives who attempted to engage him. Intrigued by the reappearance of Verity at this meeting, Overlord abducted her and returned to the dormant volcano where he and Tarantulas had established their base. There, Tarantulas revealed the "[[Timemaze]]," a functional [[time travel|time machine]] through which Tarantulas would send Overlord back in time, over and over, and his actions would create an infinity of new timelines for Tarantulas to play with. Overlord, however, revealed that he had no interest in being Tarantulas's lackey anymore: instead, he would use the Timemaze to travel back in time and kill Megatron, wiping him from this reality and every alternate universe that might happen to spring up. He punctuated this statement (and his partnership with Tarantulas) by shooting the spider in the back of the head.

Before he could enter the machine, however, Springer and Impactor arrived; tackling Springer, the two plummeted into the volcano's caldera, causing a landslide that temporarily separated the combatants from one another. By the time Overlord found his feet and advanced on the two Autobots, Impactor sacrificed himself by allowing Springer to fire through him, giving him the opportunity to make a break for the Timemaze with Overlord in hot pursuit. As Overlord caught up to Springer, however, the villainous Phase Sixer was paralyzed by a sonic howl from [[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]], forcing both halves of his body to involuntarily assume their [[alternate mode]]s. Taking advantage of this paralysis, Springer and Verity were able to send his jet half into the distant future, then sent his tank half plummeting into the distant past. His mind and body rent by this divide, Overlord finally died. {{storylink|Transformers: Requiem of the Wreckers|Requiem of the Wreckers}}

===''Classics''===
[[File:InvasionPrologue-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Everything's shrunk except those glorious lips.]]
Long ago, Gigatron, the Overlord, grew restless in his duties at [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], and forfeited his throne to [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]]. His psychotic craving for power led him to scour the universe, ultimately leading him to Earth.

Gigatron crash-landed in [[Japan]], where he adopted a robot form resembling a shogun and a Type 90 tank altmode. With most of Earth's Decepticons offplanet with [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], he was able to gather a small army of ten warriors, and he would infrequently clash with [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]] and his fellow Earthbound Autobots. {{storylink|#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} Once, Gigatron searched in [[Kitakyushu]] for [[Musashi Miyamoto|Musashi]]'s sword, but legends of the sword's strength were exaggerated.

Soon, Gigatron had set his sights on another potential source of power, [[Rarified Energon]]. The Autobots had been guarding it for a period of time, and had been moving it frequently to keep it out of the hands of the Decepticons. But Gigatron discovered that the Rarified Energon had been moved to [[Construction station|Ironworks]], and effortlessly battled through an army of [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNTs]] to reach the Autobot station. There, he fought Metalhawk, and he and his Decepticons were forced to retreat. {{storylink|Overlord (Masterforce)#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} {{storylink|Invasion Prologue}}

Gigatron continued to keep vigil over Ironworks, however, and when [[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] brought him news of a skirmish involving heroic Decepticons and evil Autobots, Gigatron knew it was time to strike! With this distraction, they could easily take the Rarified Energon hidden in the vaults for themselves.

[[File:Invasion-destroythem.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Gigatron's about to be really happy he got stuck on Earth.]]
Once it was discovered that the evil Autobots were also after the Rarified Energon, Gigatron refused to be out-conquered. He and the majority of his troops came to the rescue of [[Soundwave (SG)|Sir Soundwave]], who was about to get assimilated by [[Junkion (species)#Shattered Glass|Junkions]]. Aiming to show these heroic Decepticons how it's done, he set Soundwave loose and continued battling the Junkions.

What Gigatron did not know was that the evil Autobots, led by [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]], intended to warp this iteration of Earth to their own universe's Cybertron, destroying it in the process. Though Sir Soundwave was able to expand the force field surrounding the evil Autobots' machinery large enough to protect the entire planet, saving Gigatron and his troops, no one foresaw the true scale of Magnus's intentions. And so as Earth neared the [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|alternate universe]] Cybertron, its [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|entire dimension]] was destroyed behind them, leaving Gigatron and the rest of his Earth's denizens the last remnants of their universe.

Gigatron and the others were unsurprisingly distraught, so [[Straxus (SG)|the Bard of Darkmount]] recited for them a hopeful poem. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}

[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] took to perching on Overlord's arm. {{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #23|Recordicons #23}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
[[File:KreO-webcomic-5-Overlord.jpg|right|thumb|75px|He's using...the smolder.]]

Overlord was part of a massive Decepticon invasion force intended to ruin the Autobots' picnic. However, [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] plowed through them with his truck and left them scattered... and then left. Returning to the scene after.. ''ahem'', taking care of some pressing business, Optimus gathered up the still-wiped-out Kreons, bound them up on a flatbed trailer, and took them to the picnic. {{storylink|Emergency! Hurry to the Base, Optimus!}}

===''TransTech''===
A [[Duocon]] Overlord found his way to [[Axiom Nexus]], and became one of its most infamous "Parallel Killers". {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus news, 2015/06/15}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In one reality, Overlord was a Decepticon who was "genderfluid" by organic-based gender standards. The [[Arcee (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Arcee]] of Overlord's reality would mention Overlord in a lecture given in [[Axiom Nexus]] which [[Vector Prime]] attended. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/12/23}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
At the onset of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Overlord held [[Decepticon leader]]ship for a brief time, {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy–Prologue}} before he was overthrown by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}}

===''Titans Return'' marketing material===
A member of the ultra-elite [[Phase Sixer]] strike team, Overlord annihilated civilizations ready for Decepticon conquest. He was partnered with the ancient [[Titan Master]] [[Giga|Dreadnaut]], who granted his larger partner an Ion Impoder blast that could erase matter from existence. {{storylink|#Generations|''Titans Return'' Dreadnaut/Overlord packaging bio}}

===''Transformers: All Spark''===
Under the control of Giga, Overlord set up a trap by emitting a signal to lure in and destroy some Autobots, and was disappointed when only [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] showed up. He didn't do well while fighting the smaller opponents, however, and Mega ousted Giga from his position as Overlord's head to show him how it was done. Backed up by [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] and [[Octane]], Mega's Overlord nearly destroyed Bumblebee and Spike before Autobot reinforcements arrived and defeated the Decepticons, after which Overlord returned to his leader, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Looming Threat}}

===''Prime Wars Trilogy'' cartoons===
[[File:OverlordandEmissary-Overlord.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Let's bury the hatch—I say—let's bury the hatchet! But not in anyone's head, boy! "Hatchet head"! That's a joke, boy, you missed it. It went past you. You got to keep—I say—you got to keep on your toes!]]
{{voiceactor|[[Patrick Seitz]] (English)}}

Having been defeated by Megatron in the past, the only one to ever do so, Overlord sought revenge on the Decepticon leader. Promised the power to best Megatron by [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], he pledged his loyalty and uncovered the [[Matrix of Chaos]] from within the remains of [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Volcanicus (episode)|Volcanicus}} Witnessing the events of the [[Combiner Wars (event)|Combiner Wars]] from afar, he decided to get a closer look for the sake of curiosity. Upon arrival in [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex City]], he eventually found his way into the [[Primal Basilica]], where he encountered the [[Mistress of Flame]]. She attacked him, but he easily overpowered her and demanded to know where he could find Megatron. When the Mistress of Flame failed to answer, Overlord electrocuted her and departed, leaving her for dead. {{storylink|Overlord and Emissary}} Overlord later found a weakened [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and deemed him a suitable host for the Matrix of Chaos before forcibly shoving it into his chest, corrupting him and turning him into Rodimus Cron. {{storylink|At the Last Second}} Later, he and Rodimus observed the fall of [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] and the return of Megatronus from afar. {{storylink|All Things Must Pass}}

Searching for Megatron and the [[Requiem Blaster (Megatronus)|Requiem Blaster]] under Megatronus's orders, he and Rodimus attacked the Combiners. He restrained [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] until he finally confessed Megatron's whereabouts, prompting Overlord to snap his neck and head to [[Primal Swamp]]. {{storylink|Volcanicus (episode)|Volcanicus}} Upon their arrival, Overlord was enraged to not find Megatron, but he and Rodimus spotted the Dinobots and interrogated them for Megatron's next destination: the [[Athenaeum Sanctorum]]. The two picked up the trail and eventually reached the library, where Overlord spotted Megatron and lunged at him, promising to take his time in making Megatron suffer. {{storylink|Athenaeum Sanctorum (episode)|Athenaeum Sanctorum}} He attempted to electrocute Megatron into submission, but Megatron escaped with Perceptor's help. Undeterred, Overlord engaged in battle with Megatron, [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], insistent that he be the one to finish the former. However, [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] tossed the Requiem Blaster to Megatron, who charged it to fire at Overlord. {{storylink|Countdown (POTP)|Countdown}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
Overlord was part of a battle at some point, fighting alongside [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Fan Favorite}}

==Toys==
===Super-God Masterforce===
[[File:G1 overlord toy.jpg|325px|thumb|Not to be confused with Blackstar's nemesis.]]
*'''Overlord''' (Godmaster, [[1988]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-307'''
**''Accessories:'' Giga and Mega Godmaster engines, "Transtector Destroyer Cannon", three missiles, tank barrel, two ramps/shin guards, central ramp, two radar arrays, double-barreled laser, rocket launcher, car

:''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (toyline)|Masterforce]]'' Overlord consists of two vehicles, the Gigatank and the Megajet, which are able to combine together to form a [[robot mode]] or a base mode. Like any Godmaster (or [[Powermaster]]), Overlord is only able to transform when the Giga and Mega Godmaster figures are transformed into engine mode and snapped into place in the sockets on top of the vehicles. Inserting Giga into the tank splits it in half to form legs for robot mode, or alternatively, the left and right emplacements of the base (the left containing a fold-out twin cannon, the right a poseable claw arm). Fitting Mega into the jet, meanwhile, unlocks the toy's shoulder articulation for robot mode and its fold-out launchpad for base mode. Once the toy is in its hefty, 15"-tall robot mode, the figures can be removed from their sockets and fitted into two further ports hidden beneath doors on his chest, which unlock the multi-barreled "Chōkon Daemon Blast" and spring-loaded "Chōkon Bolt Masher" weapons that pop out of his stomach. One figure can also fit into the [[Roller (G1)|Roller]]-style car that comes with the set.

:There is, unfortunately, no one mode that uses all of Overlord's many accessories.

:Overlord's instructions do not feature the additional large jet mode seen in the animated series and manga, as it (like [[Sixshot]]'s "Wingwolf" mode or BlackZarak's "Dakatsu" mode) was created by the production staff after fiddling around with the toy itself. As such, it's entirely possible to put the toy in this form, although it doesn't rest evenly on a flat surface.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Destron/Overlord/overlord.htm More information on Overlord at TFU.info]''
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===Generation 1===
*'''Overlord''' ([[1991]])

:Overlord's toy was later released in Europe and Australasia with a different shade of purple plastic, in a packaging design reminiscent of the concurrently available "[[Classics (Europe)|Classics]]" figures. Diverging from previous Hasbro fiction for [[Powermaster]]s that treated the little figures that turn into their engines as [[Nebulan]]s, Overlord's companions were declared so-called "[[Energon figure|Energon mini figure]]s" instead, and the term "Powermaster" isn't mentioned at all.

===Timelines===
[[File:Timelinestoy-BC2012Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Oh my, Bludgeon, you've never looked so... ''kissable''... before...]]
*'''Invasion''' ([[BotCon 2012]] box set)
**''Accessories:'' {{w|Katana}}, {{w|Wakizashi|tanto}}
:''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' "Gigatron" ([[trademark]] reasons) is a [[redeco]]/[[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Voyager Class [[Bludgeon (ROTF)#Voyager|Bludgeon]], sporting a new head. Gigatron transforms from a Japanese {{w|Type 90 Kyū-maru|Type 90}} tank into a samurai-esque robot mode. He features a flexible plastic sword which is made out of a portion of the barrel of the tank's main gun as well as a smaller dagger. The dagger can be stored in a sheath which is revealed from inside the tank turret, and both blades can be slotted in holes provided on the robot mode's left hip guard. Additionally, the dagger's handle can fit in the base of the sword's handle, forming a double-bladed weapon. He has [[Mech Alive]] [[gimmick]]s in his thighs and turret: Sculpted cylinders in his thighs rotate whenever his lower legs are rotated, and pulling his turret open makes a sculpted "disc" at the center rotate while a scabbard for the tantō hinges over to the side and props itself up for use.

:The [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] is one of the very few Transformer tank toys with rubber components to its treads. Portions of the tread links can unlock, allowing them to hang from the robot mode, while the wheels of the treads are integrated separately into the robot mode form itself. The treads still do not function realistically; small plastic wheels on the underside of the treads help the tank mode roll, as is standard with nearly all Transformer tank toys.

:The original version of this mold was [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers]]'' [[Banzaitron (TF 2010)#Transformers (2010)|Banzaitron]], and it was differently retooled to make ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Generations|Megatron]] and ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Cloud|Megatron]].

:Gigatron was released in a box set with [[Ultra Magnus (SG)#Timelines|Ultra Magnus]], [[Tracks (SG)#Timelines|Tracks]], [[Treadshot (SG)#Timelines|Treadshot]], [[Soundwave (SG)#Timelines|Soundwave]], and [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)#Timelines|Metalhawk]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on BotCon Gigatron at TFU.info]''
{{ROTFBludgeonMold}}

===Kre-O===
{{anchor|BotCon2014}}
[[File:KreO-Toy BC14-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Far less kissable than previous Gigatrons.]]
*'''Kreon Gigatron''' (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2014)
**''Accessories'': Katana, robot sword

: "Kreon Gigatron" is based on the [[BotCon 2012]] [[#Timelines|Gigatron figure]], and can be re-built into a battle tank. His gun barrel is partially made from/stores his katana blade, just like the larger figure. He uses the [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)#Kre-O|Sentinel Prime]] helmet.

: This figure was only available as part of a [[BotCon 2014]] ''Kre-O'' six-pack, including [[Breakdown (G1)#BotCon2014|Breakdown]], [[Fractyl#Kre-O|Fractyl]], [[Landshark (G1)#Kre-O|Landshark]], [[Rattrap (BW)/toys#Kre-O|Rattrap]], and [[Rodimus (SG)#Kre-O|''Shattered Glass'' Rodimus]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/BCKre-OGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on Gigatron at TFU.info]''
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===Generations===
[[File:TitansReturn-Overlord.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.7|Hidden head nipple.]]
*'''Dreadnaut & Decepticon Overlord''' (Leader Class, 2017)
**''Accessories'': [[Giga#Generations|Dreadnaut]] Titan Master, tank barrel/gun, cockpit/shield

: Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Leader-class toys, "Decepticon Overlord" is a partial redeco of the same line's [[Black Shadow (Victory)#TitansReturn|Sky Shadow]]: the tank component is mostly a redeco with the waist slightly retooled, but the jet component is an entirely new sculpt. He retains the ability to split into both a tank and a jet simultaneously, as well as a combined base mode. In another change from Sky Shadow, the jet nosecone is now removable and can be worn as a shield on either shoulder in robot mode. It can also plug into his chest as additional armor, and the tip can be removed to make the bottom hatch more accessible.

: In homage to his original Godmaster gimmick, Overlord has two opening doors on his chest which reveal slots for the storage of two individual [[Titan Master]] or [[Prime Master]] figures (one in each pectoral) in head/spark mode. Care must be taken though, as these compartments are VERY snug and the Titan Master may get stuck inside or will not fit altogether, depending on the head sculpt. The pectoral slots are also not deep enough to allow the doors to close once a Titan Master or Prime Master has been inserted.

: His tank mode still has the clips from Sky Shadow that allow for Sky Shadow's jet component to carry it, but lacks the corresponding connector on his jet component. Instead the Jet can be mounted on top of the tank by clamping Overlord's chest doors along the Tank's cab sides, although this only loosely secures it. There is also a detail sculpted at the base of his torso (ostensibly landing gear) that can be used as a base connector like the ones in his feet.

: On some figures, the 5mm hole on his tank where his gun plugs in and the holes on his shoulders are extremely snug, which can make it difficult to remove anything that might be plugged into them. The 5mm post on his jet's nose that allows it to be used as a shield is also extremely prone to popping out, in part because of the former issue.

: Both the CG renders depicted on the back of his packaging and the official stock photos depicting a near-final sample show both the tank and the jet mode with the gun/tank barrel attached, thereby implying that he includes two weapons, one to be used for each mode, even though the figure only inlcudes one weapon. Additionally, both the CG render and the stock photo of his base mode have the section of the tank/right leg that contains a cockpit for a Titan Master flipped up, the same way Sky Shadow's base mode is also depicted in his own CG renders and stock photos, even though the instructions show the cockpit being folded down for the base mode.

: Sadly, his lips are not terribly kissable.

===Legends===
[[File:TF-Legends-LG-60-Overlord.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|One of my face-nipples only tells the truth - the other tells only lies. Which will you trust?]]
*'''Overlord''' (Leader Class, [[2018]]-[[January 27|01-27]])
**''ID number'': '''LG-60'''
**''Accessories'': Gigatank barrel/gun, [[Giga#Legends|Giga]] Headmaster, [[Mega#Legends|Mega]] Headmaster, Megajet cockpit/shield

:''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Overlord is a retool of the ''Titans Return'' Leader Class figure above, featuring a new chest with sculpted-in Godmaster engines, new doors, and a new helmet. In addition to an anime-accurate deco, Overlord also comes with new [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] figures of [[Giga#Legends|Giga]], with an anime-accurate face, and [[Mega#Legends|Mega]], with a feminine face. When using Giga as a face, his chest doors are supposed to be open and the cockpit should be attached to the arm, and is referred to as '''Overlord Giga'''. With Mega, the doors are closed and the cockpit is attached to the back, and goes by the name '''Overlord Mega'''. The [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 60|pack-in manga]] shows a combination of two Overlords called '''Overlord Tera''', but, uh, good luck with that. Promotional photography shows Overlord's feet transformed differently from the Hasbro version, placing him up on his tippy-toes so as to increase his height. This is presumably to allow him to scale better with ''Legends'' [[Ginrai (human)#Legends|Super Ginrai]]. While this does work, the front halves of the feet aren't level with the back halves, and must be adjusted at an angle to keep him standing upright, which combined with less-than-tight swivels will often having him falling over.
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==Merchandise==
===Parody Deformed===
[[File:Overlord pd model.jpg|thumb|Overlooked.]]
*'''Overlord''' ([[1990]])

:A small blue and white, non-transforming [[super deformed]] model kit of Overlord was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s "[[Parody Deformed]]" line of [[candy toy]]s. The eighth figure in the series, he came with a "[[Transformers PD Type]]" comic about himself, "Oh, Overlord", and something that could charitably be described as "chocolate".
{{-}}

===Super Collection Figure===
[[File:HOC Gigatron.jpg|thumb|I can't transform? Where's the fun in that?]]
*'''Overlord''' ([[2001]])

:A PVC figure of Overlord was part of the ''Super-God Masterforce''-centric fifth act of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]]'' series, available in both full colour and metallic silver "pewter" in an equal ratio of one each per case of twelve figures. In eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of Overlord came packaged with the right leg of the wave's "build-a-figure", BlackZarak, itself also available in full color and pewter versions.

:The colour version of his figure was later released in the fourth wave of [[Hasbro]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', under the new name of [[Gigatron (G1)#Heroes of Cybertron|Gigatron]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/HoCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on ''Super Collection Figure'' Overlord at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Destron/PewterOverlord/overlord.htm More information on pewter Overlord at TFU.info]''
{{-}}

===Transformers Gum===
[[File:KabayaDX2Overlord.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Breaking out of these plastic sprues was never a challenge - I just lacked motivation.]]
*'''Overlord''' ([[2013]])
:Overlord was released in series 2 of Kabaya's larger-sized DX gum kits. Since the original ''Masterforce'' Overlord toy could only transform by being disassembled, this particular Kabaya kit stands out from most others in terms of near-perfectly matching the transformation mechanism of its template, and can be configured into the paired Megajet-and-Gigatank vehicle modes, city mode, and a 5" tall robot mode. It also includes tiny transforming removable Mega and Giga Godmaster engines, though all of their associated spring-loaded features are no longer present.

:This kit also adds some new features to the Overlord design. There is now a gear-driven rotating platform in the city mode on which the small car can be spun around before deploying, and every accessory can now be stored in all of Overlord's modes.
{{-}}

==Notes==
*Overlord was a new [[character]] created for the 1988 Japanese ''Super God Masterforce'' series. While all his fellow Godmasters had American Powermaster counterpart characters (Ginrai had [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Lightfoot had [[Getaway]], and so forth), Overlord's counterpart came later in the form of a 1991 European and Australasian exclusive. The bio of this figure stated that he was a dimension-hopper, which leaves the door open for him being the ''Masterforce'' character who jumped dimensions into the European toy bio continuity. Overlord did not have an American counterpart until 2003, when the ''Heroes of Cybertron'' line introduced "[[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]]". However, the little-known nature of this character (existing as he did only as an obscure PVC figurine), coupled with the fact that Overlord had been around for fifteen years already, meant that the idea of a Powermaster named Gigatron who existed as a separate character from the Godmaster Overlord didn't really become widespread. Dreamwave would briefly mention "Gigatron" as the originator of the Powermaster process in their contemporary ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' profiles, but when the non-Godmaster version of the character appeared again a few years later in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' series, he was "Overlord" once more. It would not be until [[Fun Publications]] stories in [[2015]] and [[2016]] that versions of Overlord and Gigatron would be established as coexisting in the same universe.
*Early during pre-production for ''Masterforce'', Overlord was named '''Leviathan'''. This was almost certainly a name based in series creator [[Masumi Kaneda]]'s desire to sprinkle the series with assorted Biblical allegories; the name-change is fairly symptomatic of how these references wound up being downplayed to the point of near-total obfuscation in the finished show.
*Like all non-toy robot Kreons in the ''Kre-O'' manga, Overlord is made from existing ''Kre-O'' parts. He uses the [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Ironhide]] helmet, the twin-cannon backpack, a black clip-on tread with a small jet-fin plugged into each side, and the bazooka with an extra 1x1 cone on the end.
*The concept image for Kreon Gigatron used in the pack-in flier shows him with white tank-turret parts rather than the final toy's light gray.
*A proposed [[Fun Publications]] [[BotCon]] [[exclusive]] was a redeco of [[Mindwipe (ROTF)#Toys|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Mindwipe]] into "'''[[Mega]]'''bolt", a counterpart to the BotCon 2012 "'''[[Giga]]'''tron" toy.<ref>[http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc14/bc14br.html BotCon 2014 attendee report by griffin]</ref>
*In [[2015]], ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' retroactively declared Overlord to be a [[Duocon]] and to possess a [[mitotic spark]].

===Foreign names===
*''Mandarin:'' '''Bàwáng''' (China, 霸王, "Overlord"), '''Chāozài''' (China, 超载, "Overload")

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/tech-specs/Heroes-Of-Cybertron-Tech-Specs/2003-Transformers-Tech-Specs/Powermaster_Gigatron.jpg.html Powermaster Gigatron's tech-specs] at TFW2005.com

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Clobber (BWU)

2018-04-20T01:12:31Z

Dracodis: /* Generations */

{{faction|autobot}}
{{disambig2|the ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' Headmaster|the ''Titans Return'' Titan Master|Grimlock (G1)}}
:''Clobber is an [[Autobot]]-allied [[Nebulan|Nebulon]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] from the [[Beast Wars: Uprising]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:TitansReturntoy-Clobber.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.77|]]

'''Clobber''' is a member of the [[World Watcher]]s.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
When the Autobot-World Watcher alliance acquired Headmaster technology to counter the Decepticons' innovation, Clobber was one of many Nebulans who proceeded to form the head of an Autobot officer on [[Nebulos]]. {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy–Prologue}}

==Toys==
===Generations===
*'''Clobber''' (Titan Master, 2016)
**''Accessories:'' Dragon partner
{{note|The ''Titans Return'' Clobber toy doubles as a rebooted version of Generation 1 Grimlock and as the independent character Clobber.}}

:Part of the second wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' [[Titan Master]]s, Clobber is a retool of [[Squeezeplay (G1)#Generations|Crashbash]] and transforms from robot into a head compatible with any Deluxe-or-larger figure in the line. Clobber features a new head piece based on ''Generation 1'' Grimlock's animation model, with the Titan Master arm pieces serving as his "horns" as a nod to his ''Classics'' head. [[Hasbro]] stated at [[BotCon 2016]] that Clobber ''is'' Grimlock himself, leaving the reasons for his name unclear, but some kind of attempt to avoid confusion with the contemporaneous ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Grimlock (WFC)|character]] seems a likely explanation. Clobber features peg holes in his feet to allow him to stand on a variety of ''Titans Return'' figures, and is packaged with a beast accessory with three modes: a dragon for Clobber to ride, a ''T. rex'' formed by combining with Clobber, or a 5mm-compatible gun for larger figures. His new face piece was molded in black plastic, rather than gunmetal.

:As with Crashbash, Clobber's instructions feature the same error for steps 6(5)-8(7).

:The coloration of Clobber's ''T. rex'' form is likely a nod to [[Tyrannitron]], the Action Master partner of Snarl.

{{TRCrashbashMold}}

==Notes==
*Who Clobber partnered up with in ''Uprising'' is not specified, but Grimlock seems the obvious answer.

[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Nebulans]]
[[Category:Headmasters]]

Clobber (BWU)

2018-04-20T01:11:52Z

Dracodis: /* Generations */

{{faction|autobot}}
{{disambig2|the ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' Headmaster|the ''Titans Return'' Titan Master|Grimlock (G1)}}
:''Clobber is an [[Autobot]]-allied [[Nebulan|Nebulon]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] from the [[Beast Wars: Uprising]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:TitansReturntoy-Clobber.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.77|]]

'''Clobber''' is a member of the [[World Watcher]]s.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
When the Autobot-World Watcher alliance acquired Headmaster technology to counter the Decepticons' innovation, Clobber was one of many Nebulans who proceeded to form the head of an Autobot officer on [[Nebulos]]. {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy–Prologue}}

==Toys==
===Generations===
*'''Clobber''' (Titan Master, 2016)
**''Accessories:'' Dragon partner
{{note|The ''Titans Return'' Clobber toy doubles as a rebooted version of Generation 1 Grimlock and as the independent character Clobber.}}

:Part of the second wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' [[Titan Master]]s, Clobber is a retool of [[Squeezeplay (G1)#Generations|Crashbash]] and transforms from robot into a head compatible with any Deluxe-or-larger figure in the line. Clobber features a new head piece based on ''Generation 1'' Grimlock's animation model, with the Titan Master arm pieces serving as his "horns" as a nod to his ''Classics'' head. [[Hasbro]] stated at [[BotCon 2016]] that Clobber ''is'' Grimlock himself, leaving the reasons for his name unclear, but some kind of attempt to avoid confusion with the contemporaneous ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Grimlock (WFC)|character]] seems a likely explanation. Clobber features peg holes in his feet to allow him to stand on a variety of ''Titans Return'' figures, and is packaged with a beast accessory with three modes: a dragon for Clobber to ride, a ''T. rex'' formed by combining with Clobber, or a 5mm-compatible gun for larger figures. His new face piece was molded in black plastic, rather than gunmetal.

:As with Crashbash, Clobber's instructions feature the same error for steps 6(5)-8(7).
{{TRCrashbashMold}}

:The coloration of Clobber's ''T. rex'' form is likely a nod to [[Tyrannitron]], the Action Master partner of Snarl.

==Notes==
*Who Clobber partnered up with in ''Uprising'' is not specified, but Grimlock seems the obvious answer.

[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Nebulans]]
[[Category:Headmasters]]

Clobber (BWU)

2018-04-20T01:11:32Z

Dracodis: /* Generations */

{{faction|autobot}}
{{disambig2|the ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' Headmaster|the ''Titans Return'' Titan Master|Grimlock (G1)}}
:''Clobber is an [[Autobot]]-allied [[Nebulan|Nebulon]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] from the [[Beast Wars: Uprising]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:TitansReturntoy-Clobber.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.77|]]

'''Clobber''' is a member of the [[World Watcher]]s.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
When the Autobot-World Watcher alliance acquired Headmaster technology to counter the Decepticons' innovation, Clobber was one of many Nebulans who proceeded to form the head of an Autobot officer on [[Nebulos]]. {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy–Prologue}}

==Toys==
===Generations===
*'''Clobber''' (Titan Master, 2016)
**''Accessories:'' Dragon partner
{{note|The ''Titans Return'' Clobber toy doubles as a rebooted version of Generation 1 Grimlock and as the independent character Clobber.}}

:Part of the second wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' [[Titan Master]]s, Clobber is a retool of [[Squeezeplay (G1)#Generations|Crashbash]] and transforms from robot into a head compatible with any Deluxe-or-larger figure in the line. Clobber features a new head piece based on ''Generation 1'' Grimlock's animation model, with the Titan Master arm pieces serving as his "horns" as a nod to his ''Classics'' head. [[Hasbro]] stated at [[BotCon 2016]] that Clobber ''is'' Grimlock himself, leaving the reasons for his name unclear, but some kind of attempt to avoid confusion with the contemporaneous ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Grimlock (WFC)|character]] seems a likely explanation. Clobber features peg holes in his feet to allow him to stand on a variety of ''Titans Return'' figures, and is packaged with a beast accessory with three modes: a dragon for Clobber to ride, a ''T. rex'' formed by combining with Clobber, or a 5mm-compatible gun for larger figures. His new face piece was molded in black plastic, rather than gunmetal.

:As with Crashbash, Clobber's instructions feature the same error for steps 6(5)-8(7).
{{TRCrashbashMold}}

:The coloration of Clobber's T. rex form is likely a nod to [[Tyrannitron]], the Action Master partner of Snarl.

==Notes==
*Who Clobber partnered up with in ''Uprising'' is not specified, but Grimlock seems the obvious answer.

[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Nebulans]]
[[Category:Headmasters]]

Grimlock (G1)/toys

2018-04-20T01:09:38Z

Dracodis: /* Titans Return */

{{suite}}

[[File:G1 Grimlock boxart.jpg|upright=2.0|thumb|Me Grimlock have been shaking fists at uptight paleontologists since 1985.]]

Me [[Grimlock (G1)|'''Grimlock''']] have lots of toys and merchandise!
{{picsneeded|G2 toy, Decoy, Myclone}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[File:G1Grimlock toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|And the debate goes on: "Me Grimlock am greatest warrior!" "No! Me Grimlock am greatest warrior!"]]
* '''Grimlock''' (Dinobot, 1985/1986/1991/1992)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''26'''
**''Accessories:'' 'Energo' sword, twin 'stunner' laser rifle, galaxial rocket launcher, 3 rockets,
: Grimlock's toy was originally part of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' Dinosaur Robo series. When [[Hasbro]] imported the toy in 1985 for the ''Transformers'' line, its blue pelvis was changed to red, its sword was changed from chrome to flat red, the Diaclone driver mini-figure was dropped but still retained the cockpit though later releases had it permanently locked shut, and its teeth were altered [[for safety reasons]].

:The original Grimlock changes from robot into a robotic ''[[wikipedia:Tyrannosaurus|Tyrannosaurus]]'' and comes with a red [[energo weapon|energo-sword]], a black double-barreled rifle, and a rocket launcher with three silver rockets.

: Grimlock was later reissued in the European/Australian-exclusive "[[Classics (Europe)|Classics]]" series. In Japan, he and the other four Dinobots were offered as mail-away items during [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (toyline)|Operation Combination]]; Grimlock cost 2300 yen (his original retail price) and 2 [[Robot Point]]s.

::*''[http://www.transformerland.com/wiki/toy-info/transformers-g1-dinobots-grimlock/671/ Patent info, price guide, and further reading on Grimlock at Transformerland.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1985/Autobot/Grimlock/grimlock.htm More information on Generation 1 Grimlock at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Pretender Grimlock toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock have fleshy bits!]]
* '''Grimlock''' ([[Classic Pretender]], 1989)
**''Accessories:'' Pretender shell, rifle, helmet, tail/gun
: A simplified and slightly modified version of Grimlock, he transforms into a robotic ''T. rex'' whose tail becomes a handgun. He came with a large human [[Pretender]] shell with a rather knight-like armor theme, with a helmet and large cannon.

: His human shell looks a lot like [[wikipedia:Ed Asner|Ed Asner]].

{{note|Pretender Classic Grimlock's function was "Lieutenant Commander" instead of "Dinobot Commander".}}

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Autobot/Grimlock/grimlock.htm More information on Pretender Grimlock at TFU.info]''

{{-}}
[[File:GrimlockLegends toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock say cut it out.]]
* '''Grimlock''' ([[Legends (G1)|Legends]], 1989)
**''Accessories:'' Tail/gun
: A K-Mart [[exclusive]] in its Hasbro release, this version of Grimlock is simply the inner robot of his Classic Pretender form without the shell or its accessories, leaving him only his tail/gun.

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[[File:G1toy japanese legends giftset.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Hero Set''' (Multi-pack, 1989)
**''Accessories:'' Tail/gun

: In Japan, Legends Grimlock was available only in a boxed "Hero Set" with the Legends versions of [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Hero Set|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz (G1)/toys#HeroSet|Jazz]] and [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Heroset|Starscream]]. Grimlock was mostly unchanged from to the Hasbro release, but sported a silver painted face instead of Hasbro's orange painted one.

: In Italy, [[GiG]] released their own version of the Hero Set, named "Set Commandos", instead of the Classic Pretender versions of the toys. Grimlock, was renamed from "Tiran" to "Drago", originally the Italian name of [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]]. The "Set Commandos" toys were identical to the Japanese "Hero Set" versions.

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[[File:G1Grimlock ActionMaster.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Me Grimlock no longer able to transform, so me Grimlock over-compensate with really big gun.]]
* '''Grimlock''' (Action Master, 1990)
**''Accessories:'' Anti-tank cannon partner, particle beam cannon
: Part of the initial assortment of non-transforming [[Action Master]] figures, Grimlock's design combines his cartoon model with extra toy-based detailing. He came with the [[Anti-tank cannon]] "partner" machine which could be ridden by Grimlock (or any other Action Master) or unfolded via spring-loaded [[gimmick]] to form a really ''big'' hand-held "long-range mortar launcher". He is compatible with any other Action Master vehicle or weapon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1990/Autobot/Grimlock/grimlock.htm More information on Action Master Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===Generation 2===
[[File:G2GrimlockBlue.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me am Blue! Me am Blue! You could be too! ''(Blue variant pictured)'']]
[[File:TF-G2-Turquoise-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''(Turquoise variant pictured)'']]
* '''Grimlock''' (Dinobot, 1993)
**''Accessories:'' 'Energo' sword, twin 'stunner' laser rifle,
: Grimlock's original toy was [[redeco]]ed for release in ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'', this time lacking the missile launcher accessory. He was available in three different colors; the first—and rarest—in his original silver (the easiest way to spot if this is a ''Generation 2'' or original is by the "Autobot" [[tampograph]] on his leg), then in a medium turquoise-blue, and finally (and most commonly) in a dark blue.

{{note|Grimlock outranked Optimus Prime in the Generation 2 toyline! Prime had a rank of 9.}}

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1993/Autobot/Grimlock/grimlcok.htm More information on ''Generation 2'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===Beast Wars===
[[File:BWtoy-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|[[Ben Yee]] think me Grimlock look like dalmatian... :(]]
* '''Grimlock''' (Deluxe, 1997)
**''Accessories:'' Spinning slasher sword, sword
: ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' Grimlock is a [[redeco]] of [[Dinobot (BW)#Beast Wars|Dinobot]] in gray and gold with black spots, transforming into a "raptor" of some variety. His tail becomes a sword and a rotate-blade. He was slightly [[retool]]ed to have ratcheting shoulders and space for an "energon chip" [[rubsign]]. Unfortunately, Grimlock suffers from [[Gold Plastic Syndrome]].

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::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Maximal/Grimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Beast Wars'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===Alternators/Binaltech===
[[File:AlternatorsGrimlock toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock no can munch metal, but can burn rubber!]]
* '''Grimlock''' (2005)
**''Alternator ID number:'' '''9'''
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-10'''
**''Accessories:'' Engine/gun, energo-sword

: For the ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' line, Grimlock's [[alternate mode]] was changed from a dinosaur into a [[licensed vehicle alternate modes|licensed]], 1:24 scale silver [[Wikipedia:Ford Mustang|Ford Mustang]] with opening doors, hood, and trunk, a detailed interior, [[rubber tires]] and a working steering mechanism. His engine transforms into a double-barreled gun, and he also carries an orange "energo-sword" which can attach to the underside of his vehicle mode. The toy is one of the most-complained-about ''Alternators'' toys, due to its notoriously finicky transformation (with many small steps that must be performed in exactly the right order) and to several pieces which have a tendency to pop off with relatively small amounts of force. And it's a Grimlock who doesn't transform into a ''Tyrannosaurus rex.

: The main difference between Hasbro's ''Alternators'' version of the toy and the Japanese ''Binaltech'' version is that the latter has its vehicle shell partially made out of painted [[die-cast]] metal parts, whereas the ''Alternators'' version is made entirely out of plastic (not counting the rubber tires). In addition, the ''Binaltech'' version's engine/gun and the wheel's rims are [[vacuum metallizing|vacuum-metalized]], whereas they're simply painted silver for the ''Alternators'' version.

:This sculpt was retooled into ''Alternators/Binaltech'' [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Alternators/Binaltech|Wheeljack]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Autobot/AltGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Alternators'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''

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===Classics===
[[File:Grimlockclassicstoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock want to try new appearance, how me look in thigh high boots and stiletto heels?]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Deluxe, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' Missile launcher, missile, removable tail

: ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Grimlock, a gray and gold ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', is a re-imagined form of his original toy, and is notably designed to run rather than drag (theories on the ''T. rex'' having changed from "caveman adversary" to "Carl Lewis in lizard skin" since the Generation 1 incarnation).

:This mold features a few design elements likely influenced by Grimlock's Pretender toy; his bayonet blaster is an homage to his gun/blade combo weapon from said toy, and his tail detaches to become a handheld weapon as it does for the inner robot of his Pretender toy. Another similarity is the ''T. rex'''s upper-body forming the [[robot mode]] legs (though the ''T. rex'' head forms his feet this time around).

:Grimlock's bayonet blaster can be deployed in either mode and fires a clear red projectile. Both weapons can be stored on his back when not used. As with most ''Classics'' toys, Grimlock features a heat-sensitive [[rubsign]], placed on the left side of the tyrannosaurus torso/his left leg.

:A common complaint about the figure is the size of the peg being too small in relation to the peg-hole, making it impossible to lock the arms into place. The black shoulder flaps above are apparently meant to tab into these and lock the whole thing together, but the flaps are remarkably out of alignment and the tabs themselves are too short to even reach the slots. In addition, the bayonet blaster has a hair-trigger and for no apparent reason, his fist holes are a few fractions of a millimeter too small to accommodate standard 5mm peg accessories that most modern ''Transformers'' toys use.

:An unpainted ''Classics'' Grimlock was used at the [[BotCon 2007]] customization classes to create ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[Overkill (G1)#Timelines|Overkill]]. The mold was also [[redeco]]ed to make [[Grimlock (SG)#Toys|''Shattered Glass'' Grimlock]] and [[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|''Universe'' (2008)]] Overkill.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/ClassicsGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Classics'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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*'''Jetfire and Grimlock Twin Pack''' (2-pack, 2007)
**''Accessories:'' Missile launcher, missile, removable tail

:''Classics'' Grimlock was available in Asian markets in a two-pack with [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Grimlock2pack|''Classics'' Jetfire]]. Both toys are identical to their normal individual releases.

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===Titanium Series===
[[File:TitaniumWarWithin Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Me Grimlock turn into tank? Me mash brains with style!]]

*'''Grimlock''' (6" Cybertron Heroes, 2008)
**''Accessories:'' Gun, Energo-sword

:Based upon his appearance from ''[[Transformers: The War Within|The War Within]]'', this version of Grimlock transforms into a Cybertronic heavy tank. This transforming partly die-cast and plastic Grimlock was initially unreleased due to the cancellation of the ''Transformers'' series of ''Titanium'' toys at retail (the line would continue on for ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' at the three-inch scale). The toy was eventually released in the fall of 2008 as a Toys-R-Us exclusive, alongside the also-almost-unreleased War Within [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|Prowl]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/TitGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Titanium'' Cybertron Heroes Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===Henkei! Henkei!===
[[File:TakaraTomy-Henkei!Henkei!-C-03-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Witness me Grimlock, shiny and chrome!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Deluxe, 2008-[[March 13|03-13]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-03'''
**''Accessories:'' Missile launcher, missile, removable tail

: ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' Grimlock is an extensive redeco of ''Classics'' Grimlock, with generally more intricate paint detailing to make him more closely resemble the ''Generation 1'' toy. As with all ''Henkei'' toys, he lacks the heat sensitive rubsign seen on the ''Classics'' release, and instead features vacuum-metalized "chromed" plastic (in a similar [[gimmick]] to the ''Beast Wars'' [[Transmetal]]s toys). The vac-metal is used on his [[beast mode]] feet, as well as the ''Tyrannosaurus'' torso, which was, oddly enough, in Hasbro's original deco plan for ''Classics'' Grimlock.
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===Masterpiece===
[[File:Grimlock Masterpiece.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock be smaller than Prime, but me Grimlock more expensive!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-8'''
**''Accessories:'' Energo sword, twin 'stunner' lasers rifle, waiter apron, waiter bow tie, waiter tray, 7 unique waiter glasses, intelligence transfer helmet

: Released in March of 2009, ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Grimlock is based upon his original toy and cartoon model, transforming into an outdated view of the ''Tyrannosaurus'' rather than the more accurate depiction seen on ''Classics'' Grimlock. Of all the Masterpiece figures, Grimlock features both the least complex transformation, as well as the least deviation from his original toy's essential [[transformation scheme]].

: ''Masterpiece'' Grimlock features the usage of [[die-cast]] metal for his dinosaur mode's toes and an LED mounted within his right fist which illuminates both his gun's barrels and his sword. As a result of said mechanism, the only articulated part of his right hand is the thumb. Similarly his left hand is modeled much like [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|Masterpiece Starscream's]] hands with the thumb and index finger fully articulated with the remaining fingers joined together. Possibly as a show of good faith regarding the sacrificed articulation, [[TakaraTomy]] designed his alternate mode's arms to be highly poseable, featuring full articulation of the claws with the arms themselves attached to the body with ball joints.

: He features many gimmicks, including the ability to change his eye color in either mode from red to blue with the flip of a switch found at the back of his head in robot mode, and by opening the top of his head in dino mode and switching the eyes around. This allows the owner the choice of representing the use of blue in the cartoon (and his IDW alternate mode) or the use of red in most other media, including his original toy. His tail is connected to his head, and by wiggling and moving it, the head rotates at the base of the neck. Pushing down on his torso in dinosaur mode makes his legs move up higher into his body, and as a result his head will look up. His alt mode's head features jaws that snap shut at the press of a button hidden on his cheek; in addition, it also has a tiny sculpted flame thrower in its mouth, but [[for safety reasons|for your safety]], it does not actually breathe fire (boo). Besides his weapons, he also comes with a cloth apron and bow tie to go with a drinks serving tray he carried in "[[Madman's Paradise]]", as well as the device he used to transfer his super-intelligence into [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] in "[[Grimlock's New Brain]]".

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[[File:Masterpiecetoy-GrimlockKing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Best accessory ever! Me Grimlock know you know it.]]
*'''King Grimlock''' (2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-8X'''
**''Accessories:'' Energo sword, twin 'stunner' lasers rifle, crown

:King Grimlock is a redeco of the ''Masterpiece'' Grimlock with a color scheme based on his appearance in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|G1 Marvel comic]]. All of his previously flat gray surfaces are coated in silver paint, his gold chrome is more vibrant, and his previously black plastic is now a dark blue in reference to the limited color palette of the Marvel Comics issues. The colorless chrome used for his tail and arms is now a light blue chrome. He also features some different paint applications: on his dinosaur chest, inside the clear panel on his robot mode chest, and on his robot mode knees. His toes are now metallic yellow instead of metallic gray. He lacks the faceplate paint of the original Masterpiece Grimlock. His sword is also tinted orange rather than neutral clear, and the clear panel on his chest is clear dark green plastic instead of neutral clear. Curiously what were the red eyes in dinosaur mode on the original ''Masterpiece'' Grimlock are now the blue eyes on King Grimlock, and the blue eyes are now the red. The product also features the crown worn by Grimlock in the comics instead of the accessories from the cartoon, such as the waiter apron or the glasses. The [[package art]] is drawn in an homage to the early style of ''The Transformers'' published by Marvel Comics, as well as a bilingual ''[[The Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe]]'' style [[bio]] on the back of the package.

:King Grimlock was only available via [[TakaraTomy Mall|Toy Hobby Market]], the official shopping site of TakaraTomy. Pre-orders were open through [[July 31]]st through [[September 11]]th 2009, with the toy shipping out in December.

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*'''Grimlock''' (2013)
**''Accessories:'' Energo sword, twin 'stunner' lasers rifle, crown

:Another release of the Masterpiece Grimlock figure, in conjunction with [[Cybertron Con]] alongside a redeco of ''[[Henkei! Henkei!]]'' [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#CC2013|Jetfire]]. Like Hasbro's previous 2010 release, includes all the accessories from the MP-08X "King" version with the figure in traditional Grimlock colors. Packaged in minimalist black and white Chinese-themed box.

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[[File:Masterpiece-grimlock-hasbro-2014.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Me Grimlock's legs backwards! Me need [[Ratchet (G1)|doctor]] to fix Grimlock's legs!]]
*'''Masterpiece Grimlock''' (2014)
**''ID number:'' '''MP-03'''
**''Accessories:'' Dinobot Crown of Leadership, sword, twin 'stunner' laser rifle

:(Yet) another Hasbro re-release of the figure, four years after the ''Transformers (2010)'' version (see below), ''again'' available as a [[Toys"R"Us]] exclusive.

:This figure was also available as a Toys"R"Us exclusive in many international Hasbro markets such as Canada, Australia, and Europe. Unusually for a Hasbro-branded release, if purchased through Toys"R"Us in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan or mainland China, or Toys Retailing in Thailand, this figure included a Hasbro Asia "Masterpiece King Grimlock" collector coin.

:Oddly, the Hasbro stock photos display his dino-mode legs as being ''backwards''.

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===Device Label===
*'''Device Grimlock''' (Device Label, 2009)
[[File:Device Label Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Me Grimlock turn into computer-thingy ... something not right.]]
: Takara's ''[[Transformers Device Label|Device Label]]'' Grimlock transforms from a working USB laser mouse into a mechanoid raptor. He shares this mold with ''Device Label'' [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]].

: According to early [[BigBadToyStore]] solicitations, the mice were originally supposed to depict Generation 1 [[Overkill (G1)#Device Label|Overkill]] and ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' [[Dinobot (BW)#Device Label|Dinobot]].
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===Transformers (2010)===
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[[File:MPGrimlock Hasbro.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Beryllium baloney not included. Grimlock: 1. Slag: 0.]]
*'''Masterpiece Grimlock''' (2010)
**''Accessories:'' [[Dinobot Crown of Leadership]], sword, twin 'stunner' laser rifle

: [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|''Transformers'']] Grimlock is a [[Toys"R"Us]]-[[exclusive]] redeco of ''Masterpiece'' Grimlock with King Grimlock's accessories (also redecoed). His gray is darker, he features additional painted details on his thighs, biceps, and waist to mimic label stickers included on the original 1985 figure, the dark gray painted details on his robot mode toes are now gold, the dinosaur mode's toenails are now coated in a thick gold paint rather than the polished golden look of the TakaraTomy version, and the red paint used on the metal area on his crotch is a lighter shade, matching the adjacent red plastic less.

:Grimlock's teeth and claws have been slightly rounded for this release.

:The stock photography to the right is mistransformed, depicting Grimlock's beast mode claws as pointing straight down (as they are in robot mode) instead of laying flat to the ground.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Autobot/MasterpieceGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on 2010 Masterpiece Grimlock at TFU.info]''

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===Generations===
[[File:Generations fall of cybertron voyager grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Talk about monkey paw wishes—the most [[geewun]] version of this mold is on the ''Age of Extinction'' Grimlock page.]]
[[File:Generationstoy-TakaraTomy-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Voyager Class, 2012)
**''Series / number'': '''1 / #003'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''[[2013]]-[[June 29|06-29]]'''
**''Japanese ID number'': '''TG19'''
**''Accessories'': Sword, shield
{{note|''Fall of Cybertron'' [[Grimlock (WFC)#Generations|Grimlock]] was repurposed as Generation 1 Grimlock by ''Transformers Legends'' and ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]''.}}

:Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Voyager Class toys, ''[[Fall of Cybertron]]'' Grimlock transforms into a robotic ''[[Popular beast alternate modes|Tyrannosaurus rex]]''. He comes with a sword with a [[5mm post|5mm handle]] and a peg on either side of the hilt, as well as a shield which can mount via its single peg. Grimlock features 5mm ports for his hands, as well as on his forearms/lower dino legs and shoulders/dino hips. Interestingly, the hollow sides of his dinosaur arms feature [[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]-compatible [[C joint|3mm ports]].

:His main [[gimmick]]s, however, are that he has a light in his dinosaur mouth, and a chomping dinosaur jaw. When a lever behind his dino head is pulled, his mouth opens, and the light turns on, strongly illuminating his head. This gimmick can also be used in robot mode, as his dino head ends up inside his hollow chest, although it's not as effective. The [[insignia]] on his chest is the Lightning Strike Coalition variant of the Autobrand.

:The [[TakaraTomy]] version, part of the seventh wave of Japanese ''Generations'' toys, replaces his gray plastics with darker shades, coats much of his gold plastic in shiny metallic gold paint, paints his tail tip silver and his abdomen red, and features more [[Paint operation|paint details]], among other deco changes.

:This toy was [[redeco]]ed for all the other versions of ''Fall of Cybertron'' Grimlock, but was also used for ''Age of Extinction'' [[Grimlock (AOE)#Voyager Class toys|Grimlock]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/FOCGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Generations'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''

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====Platinum Edition====
[[File:Platinum-Edition-G1-Dinobots-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me talk pretty one day!]]
*'''Dinobots''' (Platinum Edition 5-pack, 2015)
**''Accessories'': Two-piece spiked maul

:Part of the ''Generations [[Transformers: Platinum Edition|Platinum Edition]]'' Dinobots 5-pack, Grimlock is a redeco and retool of [[Grimlock_(AOE)#Voyager_Class_toys|''Age of Extinction'' Voyager Class Grimlock]], sporting a Generation-1 inspired deco and a head. This release also suffers from a small degree of mold deterioration: the ''T. rex'' heels that connect with his forearms and the shoulders/''T. rex'' upper jaw halves seemed to connect loosely.

:Grimlock was bundled with Slug, Slog, Snarl, and Strafe.

: This set was initially released as a [[Toys"R"Us]] exclusive in Canada in October 2015, followed by Singapore a month later (although it's currently unknown whether it was exclusive to any particular store there or not). Much later, it became available via the Australian Toys"R"Us website (but never found in stores). In the United States, it was initally only available online via [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]] and [[BigBadToyStore]] before being found at discount chain Ross a year after its intial release in Canada.
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====Cyber Series====
[[File:Generations-Cyber-Battalion-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock having identity crisis!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Cyber Battalion, 2015)
:Part of the new ''Generations'' Cyber Battalion series, this new Voyager-sized mold of Grimlock transforms from robot to dinosaur and back. The figure has a far greater range of articulation than many other Cyber Series figure to date. A small switch on the back of his beast-mode head moves his jaw up and down.

:This version of Grimlock is a unique amalgamation of three versions of the character; the robot mode head, torso, and transformation scheme take cues from [[Grimlock_(RID 2015)#Warrior_Class|2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' Grimlock]], the coloration is borrowed from [[Grimlock (AOE)#Toys|the toys of the live-action movie Grimlock]], lastly the styling and (scientifically outdated) stance of the dinosaur mode resembles the classic G1 Grimlock look.

:Like all of the ''Cyber Series'' figures, Grimlock did not get distribution in the United States, but has been reported showing up in Asian markets and was also solicited to South America. Toy importers did stock this series in a limited capacity and they sold out quickly in 2015 and effectively disappeared at that time.

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====Titans Return====
[[File:TitansReturntoy-Clobber.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.77|Now me Grimlock can take any form me want! Tank, dragon, car, me Grimlock do it all!]]
*'''Clobber''' (Titan Master, 2016)
**''Accessories:'' Dragon partner

:Part of the second wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' [[Titan Master]]s, Clobber is a retool of [[Squeezeplay (G1)#Generations|Crashbash]] and transforms from a robot into a head compatible with any Deluxe-or-larger figure in the line. Clobber features a new head piece based on ''Generation 1'' Grimlock's animation model. [[Hasbro]] stated at [[BotCon 2016]] that Clobber ''is'' Grimlock himself, leaving the reasons for his name unclear, but some kind of attempt to avoid confusion with the contemporaneous ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Grimlock (WFC)|character]] seems a likely explanation. Clobber features peg holes in his feet to allow him to stand on a variety of ''Titans Return'' figures, and is packaged with a beast accessory with three modes: a dragon for Clobber to ride, a ''T. rex'' formed by combining with Clobber, or a 5mm-compatible gun for larger figures. His new face piece was molded in black plastic, rather than gunmetal.

:As with Crashbash, Clobber's instructions feature the same error for steps 6(5)-8(7).

:This toy also doubles as the independent ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' character [[Clobber]].

:The coloration of Clobber's ''T. rex'' form is likely a nod to [[Tyrannitron]], the Action Master partner of Snarl.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2016/Autobot/TRClobber/clobber.htm More information on ''Titans Return'' Clobber at TFU.info]''
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====Power of the Primes====
[[File:PotP Grimlock.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.77|Bandicoots! Me Grimlock can squash Bandicoots.]]
*'''Dinobot Grimlock''' (Voyager Class, 2017)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''PP-15'''
**''Japanese release date'': '''[[2018]]-[[June 30|06-30]]'''
**''Accessories'': Prime Armor/combiner feet, Dinobot Enigma

:''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' "Dinobot Grimlock" is a brand new mold which transforms into a very Generation 1-inspired, wide-hipped robotic ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. He can combine with his fellow Dinobots to form [[Volcanicus]]. Like the other Dinobots in this subline, he features translucent plastic with gold paint on the inside to give him a 'layered' look reminiscent of [[#Generation 1|his original toy]]. He also includes two pieces of Prime Armor that each can hold a [[Prime Master]] and attach to his forearms as battle claws. These also double as feet for Volcanicus. Like all the other Voyager Class figures, Grimlock includes an [[Enigma of Combination]] (dubbed the ''Dinobot Enigma''), based on a Prime Master, which can attach to him via the previously mentioned Prime Armor or on Volcanicus's chest. In Tyrannosaurus mode, he can carry an Enigma of Combination or a Prime Master ''in his mouth''.
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===Age of Extinction===
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[[File:AOEtoy-1984Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Me Grimlock feel like me once had [[Mega-Dinobot|bigger purpose in life]]...]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Evolution 2-Pack, 2014)
**'''24 OF 30'''
**''Japanese release date'': '''[[2014]]-[[August 3|08-03]]'''
**''Accessories:'' Sword

: Available only at [[Toys"R"Us|ToysЯUs]] stores in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, this ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)|Age of Extinction]]''-branded two-pack features "1984 Grimlock" in the form of a Generation 1-inspired redeco of ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' [[Grimlock (Energon)#Toys|Grimlock]]. The toy is slightly retooled to give it [[5mm post|5mm ports]] in its hands, allowing it to hold the included redeco of [[Razorclaw (G1)|Generation 1 Razorclaw]]'s sword (not pictured in stock photography). Undocumented in the instructions, he can be combined with ''Energon'' [[Swoop (Energon)#Toys|Swoop]] to form an inter-continuity version of [[Mega-Dinobot]]. As an Evolution 2-Pack, Grimlock was packaged alongside an ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)|Age of Extinction]]'' Voyager Class [[Grimlock (AOE)#TRUEvolution|Grimlock]] toy.

: The two-pack was one of the three Evolution 2-packs available as a Toys"R"Us exclusive in Japan, with no changes on the figures with an exception of the packaging, which the front box features Japanese translated versions of the English text, shrunken character renders for both Grimlocks, and a sticker on the back confirming that this was a Japanese release. The sword is also packaged on the center of the bubble, instead of hiding underneath it. This figure was also the first release of the [[Grimlock (Energon)#Toys|''Energon'' Grimlock]] mold in Japan.
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===Transformers (2014)===
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[[File:TF2014toy-SDCCGrimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Me Grimlock make the Bayformer style look ''good''!]]
*'''Dinobots Generation One 4-pack''' (Voyager, 2014)
**''Accessories:'' Mace head, mace shaft

:Available only as part of the [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] [[exclusive]] "Dinobots Generation One 4-pack" that was first made available at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] [[2014]], Grimlock transforms into a horned ''T. rex'', and features heavy use of vacuum metalization, transparent plastic and paint applications to recreate the look of the Generation 1 Grimlock toy. He includes a mace accessory, and its head, or the entire weapon, can be attached to Grimlock's dinosaur mode tail. Grimlock is packaged with [[Swoop (G1)#SDCCDinobots|Strafe]], [[Snarl (G1)#SDCCDinobots|Snarl]], and [[Slag (G1)#SDCCDinobots|Slug]], and their box unfolds into a diorama of the crashed [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] in [[Mount St. Hilary]].
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[[File:TF2014toy-LegionGrimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Me Grimlock get ''bad'' [[Beast (G1)|feelings]] about combining...]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Legion, 2014)

:Part of the Generation 1-inspired 2014 Legion Class assortment, Grimlock is a redeco of ''[[Cyberverse]]'' ''[[Beast Hunters (toyline)|Beast Hunters]]'' [[Rippersnapper (Prime)|Rippersnapper]], and transforms into a vaguely shark-like dragon, although his package art, recolored from the [[:File:MTMTE8 cvrRI.jpg|RI cover]] of [[Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|''More than Meets the Eye'' #8]], and the Hasbro website product description would have you believe that it's a mechanical ''T. rex''. Being the sixth use of the sculpt, it's starting to show instances of [[Mold#Deterioration|mold deterioration]], as several sections (such as the tabs that hold the robot mode torso together, or the parts of the beast mode neck formed by the robot mode feet) don't fit properly anymore.

:In the United States, Grimlock has thus far been found at Big Lots and Family Dollar stores. In Australia and Europe, he is available at general retail again, just like the previous [[wave]] of Legion Class figures. In 2015, he was re-released in redesigned packaging now resembling the currently released ''Combiner Wars''-era ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]''' packaging template, but replacing the name ''Generations'' with "Authentic Transformers".

:The [[stock photography|stock photo]] on the back of the packaging depicts him with ''Beast Hunters'' Cyberverse Commander Class [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#BHCyberverse|Optimus Prime]]'s sword, which is also listed as an accessory in the Hasbro website product listing for this toy. The actual toy doesn't include a weapon. Furthermore, the [[instructions]] printed on the back of the packaging of the 2014 release are completely inaccurate, as they are for an [[Grimlock (AOE)#WalmartENmold|entirely different "Grimlock" toy]]! (This was fixed for the 2015 release.) Even if the instructions ''had'' been accurate, they probably wouldn't have mentioned that Grimlock can also form a leg of [[Abominus (Prime)#Beast Hunters|Abominus]] (or a combiner of his redecoes).
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===Kre-O===
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[[File:Kre-o-grimlock-unleashed-kreon-and-dino-grimlock.jpg|250px|right|thumb]]
*'''Grimlock Unleashed''' (2014)
**''Set number'': '''A8600'''
**''Pieces'': '''333'''
**''Kreons'': [[Bumblebee (Movie)#Grimlock Unleashed|Bumblebee]], [[Galvatron (AOE)#Grimlock Unleashed|Galvatron]], Grimlock, [[Lockdown (ROTF)#Grimlock Unleashed|Lockdown]], [[Optimus Prime (Movie)#Grimlock Unleashed|Optimus Prime]]
**''Accessories'': Sword, crown

:Available only in the "Grimlock Unleashed" set, both the buildable Grimlock and the Grimlock Kreon are based on the Generation One looks of the character, despite the other Kreons on the set being based on their Age of Extinction versions. The Kreon comes with his Energo-Sword and two optional helmets, a Sideswipe-style one and a crown based on the time Grimlock led the Autobots. Unlike other Kreons, Grimlock has his faceplate printed on the figure face instead of added by the helmet.

It is incredibly posable and well-built by Kre-O standards.

: This set popped up at ToysЯUs a few short weeks after the initial product without any advance warning... and retailed for a mere $25, despite the size of the set.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2014/Autobot/Kre-OGUGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on Grimlock Unleashed Grimlock at TFU.info]''

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*'''Kreon Class of 1985''' (Kreon figure set, [[2015]])
**''Set number'': '''B5152'''
**''Voted'': Me Best Looking
**''Accessories'': Sword

:[[Kreon Class of '85]] Grimlock's deco is extra-detailed, even above the amount of the first figure. Like the rest of the set, he uses the almost-totally-[[retool]]ed 2015 style of Kreon body.

:This box set of thirty Kreons was a [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2015 [[exclusive]], with leftovers being sold on [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] online after the show.

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[[File:Kre-O-Battle-Changers-Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Time to play some foosball again.]]
* '''Grimlock''' (Battle Changers, 2015)
**''Set number'': '''B0718'''
**''Pieces'': '''82'''
**''Accessories'': Energon-Sword

:Part of the new Battle Changers series, Battle Changers Grimlock transforms from a really badly-proportioned ''T. rex'' into a robot and back without removing any parts! His appearance is reminiscent to his Generation 1 counterpart, while the deco is based on his ''Age of Extinction'' counterpart's toys. Like all of the Battle Changers, Grimlock uses a new hip piece using larger balljoints than the normal Kreons. He also comes with a weapon that, once stickers are applied, resembles the sword used by ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron |Fall of Cybertron]]'' [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]], and can be wielded by his C-joint hands.

:All of the 2015 ''Transformers [[Kre-O]]'' product was skipped by retailers in the US (at first), seeing release in Canada, Australia and various Asian markets. In late 2015, much of the line was finally released at discount in the US through TJ Maxx and Marshalls stores, including this set.

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===Hero Mashers===
[[File:HeroMashers_ElectronicGrimlock.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Me Grimlock no need robot mode! Me Grimlock king!]]

* '''Electronic Grimlock''' (Battle Upgrade, 2014)
**''Pieces: '''14'''
: Part of the first wave of Electronic Hero Mashers toys, Grimlock is a non-transforming robot ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' that is based on his ''Age of Extinction'' counterpart, but also takes some cues and the coloration from the Generation 1 version of the character. His parts can be removed and swapped out with any other Hero Mashers figure to create Transformer [http://rickandmorty.wikia.com/wiki/Cronenbergs cronenbergs]. He also includes a projectile launching gun and several smaller non-launching guns that can clip onto ports all over his body.

:He has a button on his head that activates a light-up gimmick in his mouth to give the effect of fire breath.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/HMGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Hero Mashers'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===Legends===
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[[File:TF-Legends-LG-EX-Headmaster-Set-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|WHERE IS CLOB...no, WHERE ME GRIMLOCK'S BODY GO?]]
*'''Headmaster Set''' ([[2017]]-[[February 19|02-19]])
**''ID Number'': '''LG-EX'''

:Released as a Wonder Festival 2017 exclusive, this Grimlock is a redeco of the ''Titans Return'' [[#Clobber|Clobber]] head, featuring plastic color changes and extensive paint apps to resemble his appearance in the cartoon.

:Grimlock is released along with [[Chromedome (G1)#HeadmasterSet|Chromedome]], [[Brawn (G1)/toys#Legends|Gong]], [[Hardhead (G1)#HeadmasterSet|Hardhead]], [[Flywheels#Legends|Flywheel]], and [[Brainstorm (G1)#HeadmasterSet|Brainstorm]].

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===Authentics===
[[File:Authentics_7inch_Grimlock.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|[[wikipedia:Jurassic World|"She is learning where she fits on the food chain, and I'm not sure you want her to figure that out."]]]]
*'''Dinobot Grimlock''' (7 inch, 2018)
:''[[Transformers: Authentics|Authentics]]'' "Dinobot Grimlock" is an all-new Voyager-sized toy based on his [[evergreen]] design. He transforms into a robotic ''T. rex'' in just seven steps. His "wings" and dinosaur head come detached in the packaging.
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==Merchandise==
===Decoy===
*'''Grimlock''' (Decoy, 1986)
**''Decoy ID number:''

: Coming packaged at random on carded ''Transformers toys'' during 1986, [[Decoy]] Grimlock is a red soft-rubber figure depicting him in his robot mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Decoys/Grimlock/grimlock.htm More information on Decoy Grimlock at TFU.info]''

===Super Collection Figure===
[[File:HOC Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Me Grimlock need to work out...]]
*'''Grimlock''' (March 2001)

:A three-inch-tall [[plastic|PVC]] figurine of Grimlock's dinosaur mode was available in the second wave of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]]'' line. Like all the figures in the wave, it was available as both a standard full-color figure and a clear plastic version, one of each of which was available in a standard case of twelve [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] figures. A clear plastic stand was included with the figure, along with the [[Brainwave Transfer Device]]<ref>Unnamed here, but later called as such on Takara's ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Grimlock figure.</ref> seen in the cartoon episode "[[Grimlock's New Brain]]".

:The original Grimlock PVC was re-released in September 2001 in a solid metallic color for the fourth act of the "Super Collection Figure" series, available only as a rare chase figure.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Autobot/HoCGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Super Collection Figure'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Cybertron/ClearGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on clear Grimlock at TFU.info]''

===Heroes of Cybertron===
*'''Grimlock''' (2003)

:This release used the same mold as the Takara ''Super Collection Figure'', but was cast in translucent plastic instead of the opaque plastic used in the Takara version. It was sold on a blister card rather than blindpacked, and a collector card of the character was included instead of the stand.

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===Hard Hero===
[[File:HardHero Grimlock bust.JPG|upright=0.8|thumb|'''ME GRIMLOCK DEMAND TO KNOW WHERE ME GRIMLOCK'S LEGS ARE!''']]
*'''Grimlock''' (2003)

: [[Hard Hero]]'s Grimlock is a 6.5 inches tall cold-cast porcelain bust, sculpted after his cartoon appearance (complete with blue eyes) and holding a white energo-sword in his right hand. The bust was limited to 2500 pieces, with an additional 100 being specially signed by sculptor [[Jason Ray]]. Grimlock was number 9 in Hard Hero's main series of ''Transformers'' busts.

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===MyClone===
*'''Grimlock''' (Takara, 2003)
** ''Japanese ID number:'' '''MTF015'''
** ''Accessories:'' Grey display stand

:Released in the second wave of the ''[[MyClone]]'' line of Transformers PVC figures, this [[super deformed]] Grimlock comes with a hexagonal grey display stand, which can link up with the identical stands included with other ''MyClone'' figures. His modular design allows his parts to be mixed and matched with those of any other ''MyClone'' figure, though he stands out as rather unique about the Transformers MyClones, as he's the only one in alternate mode.
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===Generation 1 Figure-Collection===

[[File:Bottlecap grimlock.JPG|thumb|Me Grimlock in black-and-white movie...me feel like [[Godzilla]]!]]

*'''Grimlock''' (2003)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-5'''
**''Accessories:'' Display base

:At only one inch in height, this Grimlock "bottlecap" figurine (so named because its display base is the size of a bottlecap) was one of fourteen blindpacked figures available in Kabaya's Transformers [[Generation 1 Figure-Collection]]. The figure was rendered in a "retro" black and white color scheme, and came with a leaflet, personalized with cartoon screen captures.
::*''[http://snakas.web.fc2.com/misc_item/kabaya_bottle.htm More information on the Generation 1 collection at Autobase Aichi]''
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===Titanium Series===
[[File:Titanium RM Grimlock.jpg|125px|thumb|Me Grimlock say boogie down!!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (3" Robot Masters, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' Gun, sword, Autobot stand

: ''[[Titanium Series]]'' Grimlock is a non-transforming, three inch die-cast metal figurine based on his toy and comic/cartoon model. He has very limited articulation, in his neck, waist and shoulders. Grimlock is posed squatting and/or dancing.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2006/Autobot/TitGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Titanium'' Robot Masters Grimlock at TFU.info]''
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===Attacktix===
*'''Grimlock''' (Booster, 2007)

[[File:Attacktix Grimlock.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Me Grimlock can't move. [[The Last Stand|Seem]] [[Blast from the Past|to]] [[Spotlight: Shockwave|happen]] [[Still Life!|a lot]].]]
:Attacktix Grimlock is depicted in his ''Tyrannosarus'' mode, and has a sculpt based heavily upon his original G1 toy. Pressing down on his back will cause his head to extend and presumably hit whatever he's facing.

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===Transformers - Mini Bust===
* '''Grimlock''' (Diamond Select, 2007)

[[File:Grimlock Mini-bust.jpg|thumb|When me Grimlock get legs back, you in ''BIG TROUBLE!'']]
: A mini-bust of Grimlock based on his appearance in the cartoon was released by Diamond Select in 2007. The figure includes the upper body of Grimlock, wielding his energo-sword, acting as if rushing into the battlefield. There is the head of his beast mode sculpted into the base of the statue.

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* '''War Within Grimlock''' (Diamond Select, 2007)

[[File:Grimlock sdcc.jpg|thumb|Me Grimlock say no fun to be exclusive all of time.]]
: War Within Grimlock was an Action Figure Xpress exclusive at the 2007 [[San Diego Comic-Con]]. He was sculpted by Chris Lee of Art Asylum and limited to 600 pieces. The sculpt features Grimlock holding his flaming sword. The front of his vehicle mode is sculpted onto the base of the bust.

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===Robot Heroes===
*'''Grimlock Vs Shockwave''' (Two Pack, 2007)

[[File:G1 RobotHeroes ShockwaveVsGrimlock.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Me Gwimwock no cutie, me king!]]
: Packed with [[Shockwave (G1)/toys|Shockwave]], ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' Grimlock is a detailed two-inch tall soft-plastic figurine with exaggerated, cartoonish proportions and an amusing "raised eyebrow" look on his face. He is sculpted holding his sword in his right hand. He has swivel joints at his shoulders and neck. He brings cuddly wuddly death.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Autobot/RHGrimlock/grimlock.htm More information on ''Robot Heroes'' Grimlock at TFU.info]''

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===3D Battle-Card Game===
[[File:3DBattleCard Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|A head to match his ego.]]
*'''Grimlock''' (2007)

: A 48-point "rare" character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s "Energon Wars" expansion, Grimlock "transforms" into a gray vague approximation of a ''T. rex''. He uses the same parts layout as [[Megatron (BW)/toys|Megatron]] and [[Cruellock]].

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===Mighty Muggs===
[[File:MightyMuggs Grimlock.jpg|thumb|Me Grimlock am huuge hit with lady-bots!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (2009)
**''Accessories:'' Energo-sword

: This [[super deformed]], non-transformable PVC figure uses the standard [[Mighty Muggs]] body template, with swivel joints in Grimlock's neck and arms. He comes with a similarly super-deformed version of his trademark energo-sword.

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===Titan Warriors===
*'''Titan Warrior 5-Pack''' (2013)
:Available at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2013, this Grimlock is a 6" PVC [[Titan Heroes|Titan Warrior]] figure (similar to Bandai's ''Ultra/Sentai/Rider Hero, Movie Monster Series'') with articulated arms. He was packed with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#Titan Warriors|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#Titan Warriors|Megatron]], [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Titan Warriors|Starscream]] and [[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#Titan Warriors|Soundwave]]. Unlike the other four, Grimlock never received an individual release.

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===EX Gōkin===
*'''Grimlock''' (2014)
**''Accessories:'' Two fists, two open hands, two gripping hands, energo-sword, stunner laser, galaxial rocket launcher, alternate head, display stand

: A 7-inch tall non-transforming Grimlock action figure was produced by [[Art Storm]] as part of their ''EX Gōkin Transformers Series'' line. He comes with a number of extra hands as well as the energo-sword, double-barreled rifle and (non-firing) rocket launcher of the original toy. While his mold and paint details are heavily based on the original Generation 1 Grimlock toy, his proportions are cartoon-based and he includes an alternate blue-eyed headsculpt based on his [[:File:Grimhead.JPG|early cartoon head]].

::*''[http://artstorm.co.jp/exgokin_transformersseries_grimlock.html More information on ''EX Gōkin'' Grimlock at Art Storm's official site]''

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===Tiny Titans===
[[File:TinyTitans-Series6-Grimlock.jpg|right|thumb|Me Grimlock say don't eat yellow lightsaber!]]
*'''Grimlock''' (Tiny Titans, 2016)
**''Series'': '''6'''
**''Number: '''10/12'''
: Part of the sixth [[Blindpacking|blind-bagged]] assortment of ''[[Tiny Titans]]'', this small, soft-plastic figurine comes with a trading card with a scan-badge for the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game]], which unlocks a random amount of Energon "currency" and a randomized bonus power-up item.
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===Magic: The Gathering===
[[File:MTG-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Tap for mana?" Me Grimlock no just tap, me smash!]]
*'''Grimlock, Dinobot Leader / Grimlock, Ferocious King''' (Hasbro and [[Wizards of the Coast|Wizards]], 2017)
: A [[HasCon 2017]] exclusive, this trading card was released as part of the "2017 ''Magic: The Gathering'' HasCon Collection" three-card promo set, alongside "Nerf War" and "Sword of Dungeons & Dragons" cards. The card is reversible, depicting Grimlock in robot mode on one side ("Dinobot Leader") and his alternate mode on the other ("Ferocious King"), with each side having different stats and abilities. Each side of the card's flavor text features a different Grimlock quote: one from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', and one from "[[Grimlock's New Brain]]". The card bears a silver border, indicating it is illegal to use in official ''Magic'' tournament play.

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==Notes==
[[File:DiacloneGrimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Me Diaclone Grimlock...kinda boring.]]
[[File:Grimlock Natural History Museum.JPG|upright=1.1|thumb|Me Grimlock '''BIG''' person, so they put Grimlock's statue in Natural History Museum!]]
[[File:G2GrimlockArtwork.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Heavy Metal Greymon.]]
* Grimlock was originally a ''[[Diaclone]]'' "Dinosaur Robo Tyrannosaurus". The only differences between this incarnation and the ''Transformers'' release is that the ''Diaclone'' version has a silver-chromed sword and a blue crotch piece rather than red, as well as coming with a green-and-black Diaclone pilot figure.
* The original ''Diaclone'' commercial for the mold that became Grimlock showed him spewing fire from his mouth. So much for truth in advertising!
* There is a Grimlock toy placed in the showcase in the dinosaur section of the [[wikipedia:Natural History Museum|Natural History Museum]] in [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]; oddly, this doesn't make him the [[Slag (G1)|only one]].
* Grimlock's function is [[Lieutenant Commander]] instead of Dinobot Commander on his Pretender Classic and Alternator toys. Lieutenant Commander is [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]]'s rank. Deal with it, egobot.
* Despite being released in three different color schemes during the ''Generation 2'' toyline, a piece of recolored card artwork—seemingly from the collection of a former [[Hasbro]] employee—has surfaced on [[eBay]] (alongside recolored artwork of [[:File:Swoop iconic.jpg|Swoop]] and [[:File:G2SludgeBoxart.jpg|Sludge]]), showing what may have been an intended fourth version of the Grimlock toy for that line. Being bright yellow with teal stripes, it certainly ''looks'' very [[neon|'90s]].
* [[T-Wrecks]] may have been intended to be a new form for Grimlock, based on the references in his tech spec bio to his ''Beast Wars'' "Attack Specialist" function and other hints. However, T-Wrecks' appearances in the [[3H Productions]] ''[[Transformers: Universe (comic)|Universe: The Wreckers]]'' comics suggest he is a new, unrelated character.
* A working name for the ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' Ford Mustang mold which ultimately ended up as Grimlock was "[[Freeway (G1)|Freeway]]", according to various early store listings.
* The [[Grimlock (Energon)|Grimlock]] toy released in the [[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|''Energon'' toyline]] was originally created by [[Hasbro]] for release as a special new-mold addition for the [[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|2003 ''Universe'' toyline]], and was intended to represent Generation 1 Grimlock. However, it wasn't and it didn't for the combination of budgetary concerns and keeping the combination gimmick (since he combines with the packed-in [[Swoop (Energon)|Swoop]] to form "[[Mega-Dinobot]]") only in the ''Energon'' toyline, which had combination as a central theme.

==References==
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[[Category:Attacktix]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Maximals]]
[[Category:Classics Autobots]]
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Minimus Ambus

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:''Minimus Ambus is an [[Autobot]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:MTMTE18 minimus ambus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|I'm here to subvert your [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]-spawned expectations.]]
'''Minimus Ambus''', true to his name, is a tiny dude. This diminutive robot has always had big dreams, however, wishing to be the kind of venerated Autobot who holds the line against evil and serves as a soldier in the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. Despite his small stature, Minimus Ambus is a type of [[Point One Percenter]]. As a "load-bearer", he has a specially-empowered [[spark]] that allows his body to survive drastic physical augmentations.

He is the spark brother of [[Dominus Ambus]], with whom he shares their [[House]]'s [[Facial hair|distinctive facial insignia]] and presumably his birthplace, [[Ambustus Minor]]. While Minimus does love his brother, he's also always felt overshadowed by Dominus's long string of accomplishments. It probably doesn't help that Minimus is usually a stiff, laconic sort, not very good at expressing what feelings he has.

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==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
{{main|Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity}}

[[File:Ambus Unveiled.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.15|I'm full of tinier mes!]]

Having devised the [[Magnus Armor]] as a way to keep the legend of the "immortal lawman" [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] alive after his passing, Chief Justice [[Tyrest (G1)|Tyrest]] selected Minimus Ambus to be the latest Autobot to wear it and serve as the duly-appointed enforcer of the [[Tyrest Accord]]. As Magnus, Minimus had many adventures, incluing hunting [[Scorponok (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Scorponok]] across the galaxy and helping co-ordinate the counterattack against the encroaching forces of the [[Dead Universe]]. Following the end of the war, he befriended the human [[Verity Carlo]] and travelled with her for a time, but when Magnus transported the [[Wrecker]]s on their disastrous mission on [[Garrus-9]], she left him to take part in the action.

Magnus rejoined the Autobots on Earth, causing ructions as he attempted to arrest [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] for working with Decepticons. After a failed assassination attempt on [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]], Magnus took command of the Earthbound Autobots as they dealt with the return of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]. When Optimus Prime took most of the group back to Cybertron to handle the threat of [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]], Magnus remained on Earth with a few other law-enforcement Autobots to investigate [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Spike Witwicky]] and his secret dealings with [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]].

When Cybertron was reborn and Rodimus declared his intentions to seek out the [[Knights of Cybertron]], Magnus signed up for the mission, becoming second-in-command of the ship ''[[Lost Light]]''. Unfortunately, an inability to deal with peacetime led him to suffer a nervous breakdown; he became increasingly obsessive-compulsive about ridiculously minor things, and made life hell for all aboard the ship. The existence of Minimus Ambus was revealed to all aboard the vessel when Magnus was critically injured by the rogue [[Decepticon]] [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]], and the recall trigger built into the Magnus armor returned his body to Tyrest on [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]]. Though healed by the lawmaker, he realized his former superior had gone insane, and helped thwart his plan to exterminate all [[reproduction|Constructed Cold]] Cybertronians. His identity now exposed to his shipmates, Minimus grappled with the fact that he felt they had lost respect for him, but with a little help from [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] and new admirer [[Ten]], he has come to accept his change in circumstance and now splits his time between wearing the Magnus Armor and publicly going without it. Regardless of who he might be underneath the armor, to his friends and crewmates, he is still, and has always been, ''the'' Ultra Magnus.
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====The Functionist Universe====
[[File:CustomMadeNow-Minimus.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|left|Sharp-looking Ambus, but can he transform?]]
In [[Functionist Universe|an alternate timeline]], Minimus never had to become Magnus and served as a soldier in the [[Primal Vanguard]]. After two million years offworld, keeping in touch with his brother Dominus by video, he finally returned home after a peace deal. He was sickened to see the oppression and casual genocide of Cybertron, and to see his brother had been made an [[empurata]] victim for speaking out, but was unsure about whether to become a full-on rebel. Minimus was not given the chance to decide as a few hours later, the Council began the "mass recall" of all memory sticks.

He drove through streets littered with Cybertronian corpses to warn Rewind and found Dominus's vocabulary had been deleted by the Functionists. Via Dominus's face, the Council taunted him that they'd replaced his optics with cameras on his flight home and he'd been unwittingly spying on his brother. {{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|The Custom-Made Now}}
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
'''Minimum''' Ambus was goalie for the [[Throttlebot Wanderers]] and a [[Cyberdroid]] from [[Master (planet)|Master]]. He was saddened by the news that Cyberdroids could not play in the [[Maximal]]/[[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Games]], instead being restricted to the Micro Division. {{Storylink|Broken Windshields}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
Various versions of Minimus Ambus across the [[multiverse]] were [[Nebulan]]s, [[Cyberdroid]]s, [[Mini-Con]]s, and [[Micromaster]]s. One Cyberdroid Minimum Ambus underwent the [[Bravemaster]] process to [[Binary bonding|binary bond]] with Ultra Magnus. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/15}}

==Toys==
===Generations===
[[File:CombinerWarsMinimusAmbus.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Judge me by my size, do you?]]
*'''Ultra Magnus''' (Leader Class, [[2015]])

:Minimus Ambus is a ''very'' small mini-figure that comes with ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Generations|Ultra Magnus]]. Despite its tiny size, it is based on his "middle" augmentation armor rather than the tiny innermost robot. In robot mode, Minimus can "pilot" the Ultra Magnus robot; he even "wears" the Magnus head like a helmet. He cannot remain inside when the "Magnus Armor" is transformed, but he can transform into a Cybertronian hovercar which can then tab into a set of three grooves on the lower level of the Ultra Magnus trailer.

:[[Andrew Griffith]] worked on the design of the figure and its "cockpit".<ref>https://twitter.com/glovestudios/status/566697537730408449</ref> Many Ultra Magnus toys feature Minimus toys with poor joint tolerances, causing his arms to pop off with minimal resistance.

:He was redecoed into ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' [[Alpha Trion (G1)#Legends|Alpha Trion]].

===Platinum Edition===
[[File:TF-Platinum-Edition-Autobot-Heroes-Minimus-Ambus.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|He was in the movie, he was just inside Ultra Magnus the whole time.]]
*'''Autobot Heroes''' (5-pack, 2016)
**''Accessories'': Springer's weapons (dual missile launcher, two missiles, rotor blades/sword), Arcee's weapons (2 swords), Kup's "laser musket" rifle/exhaust pipe, Ultra Magnus' 2 guns, Blurr's weapons (Sniper rifle, left & right pistols), Minimus Ambus figure

:Part of Hasbro's ''[[Transformers: Platinum Edition|Platinum Edition]]'' offerings for 2016 intended to commemorate the 30th anniversary of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', Minimus Ambus (who ''never appeared in the movie'', due to not having been conceived as a character until 2013) is a minor redeco of his original version that was available with ''Combiner Wars'' Leader Class Ultra Magnus. Like the white parts of the redeco of Ultra Magnus he comes with, he is cast in white plastic that is now truly ''white'', compared to the more creamy color of the original version. In addition, he features more light and dark green paint operations on his torso than the original release, both of which are considerably darker and more saturated than the original's lighter, "pearly" green paint operations.

:Ultra Magnus and Minimus Ambus were released as part of 5-pack with [[Arcee (G1)/toys#AutobotHeroes|Arcee]], [[Springer (G1)/toys#Platinum Edition|Autobot Springer]], [[Kup (G1)/toys#AutobotHeroes|Sergeant Kup]] and [[Blurr (G1)/toys#AutobotHeroes|Blurr]]. The set also included a recreation of the theatrical poster for the 1986 movie. In the United States, this set was officially a [[Target]] exclusive, but was only available via the company's website, never sold in stores. It was also released in Singapore, although it's currently unknown whether it was exclusive to any particular stores there or not. In Canada, it was available via the Canadian [[Walmart]] website but never found in sold, whereas in the United Kingdom, it was available via the UK [[Toys"R"Us]] website but again never sold in stores. In Spain, it was available via the Spanish subsidiaries of both [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]] and Carrefour, as well as the department store chain El Corte Inglés, supposedly also only available online. In Germany, it was available via retailer Real and specialty store Rappelkiste Ahlen, also only available online.
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==Notes==
*In "[[The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|The Custom-Made Now]]", Minimus is shown capable of transforming into a minesweeper while wearing his secondary augmentation layer. When ''completely'' stripped of all optional equipment however, his design appears far more human-shaped, having absolutely no kibble whatsoever, calling into question whether or not he has an alt mode. His loadbearer spark-brother Dominus Ambus's innermost robot form [[The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|DID have an alt mode]], though, so it seems likely Minimus does too.
*Minimus served in the Primal Vanguard in the Functionist timeline but it's not specified if he also served in the main timeline.
*In Latin, "minimus" means "the least, smallest" and "ambus" probably comes from the prefix "ambi-" and so would mean either "both" or "around," thus resulting in a name meaning something like "around the least" or "the smallest of both." Either way, his name contrasts starkly with "Ultra Magnus," which translates to "beyond great."

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==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Autobots]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Mini-Cons]]
[[Category:IDW Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Law enforcement]]
[[Category:Micromasters]]
[[Category:Nebulans]]
[[Category:Platinum Edition]]
[[Category:Point One Percenters]]
[[Category:Primal Vanguard]]

Minimus Ambus

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:''Minimus Ambus is an [[Autobot]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:MTMTE18 minimus ambus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|I'm here to subvert your [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]-spawned expectations.]]
'''Minimus Ambus''', true to his name, is a tiny dude. This diminutive robot has always had big dreams, however, wishing to be the kind of venerated Autobot who holds the line against evil and serves as a soldier in the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. Despite his small stature, Minimus Ambus is a type of [[Point One Percenter]]. As a "load-bearer", he has a specially-empowered [[spark]] that allows his body to survive drastic physical augmentations.

He is the spark brother of [[Dominus Ambus]], with whom he shares their [[House]]'s [[Facial hair|distinctive facial insignia]] and presumably his birthplace, [[Ambustus Minor]]. While Minimus does love his brother, he's also always felt overshadowed by Dominus's long string of accomplishments. It probably doesn't help that Minimus is usually a stiff, laconic sort, not very good at expressing what feelings he has.

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==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
{{main|Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity}}

[[File:Ambus Unveiled.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.15|I'm full of tinier mes!]]

Having devised the [[Magnus Armor]] as a way to keep the legend of the "immortal lawman" [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] alive after his passing, Chief Justice [[Tyrest (G1)|Tyrest]] selected Minimus Ambus to be the latest Autobot to wear it and serve as the duly-appointed enforcer of the [[Tyrest Accord]]. As Magnus, Minimus had many adventures, incluing hunting [[Scorponok (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Scorponok]] across the galaxy and helping co-ordinate the counterattack against the encroaching forces of the [[Dead Universe]]. Following the end of the war, he befriended the human [[Verity Carlo]] and travelled with her for a time, but when Magnus transported the [[Wrecker]]s on their disastrous mission on [[Garrus-9]], she left him to take part in the action.

Magnus rejoined the Autobots on Earth, causing ructions as he attempted to arrest [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] for working with Decepticons. After a failed assassination attempt on [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]], Magnus took command of the Earthbound Autobots as they dealt with the return of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]. When Optimus Prime took most of the group back to Cybertron to handle the threat of [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]], Magnus remained on Earth with a few other law-enforcement Autobots to investigate [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Spike Witwicky]] and his secret dealings with [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]].

When Cybertron was reborn and Rodimus declared his intentions to seek out the [[Knights of Cybertron]], Magnus signed up for the mission, becoming second-in-command of the ship ''[[Lost Light]]''. Unfortunately, an inability to deal with peacetime led him to suffer a nervous breakdown; he became increasingly obsessive-compulsive about ridiculously minor things, and made life hell for all aboard the ship. The existence of Minimus Ambus was revealed to all aboard the vessel when Magnus was critically injured by the rogue [[Decepticon]] [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]], and the recall trigger built into the Magnus armor returned his body to Tyrest on [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]]. Though healed by the lawmaker, he realized his former superior had gone insane, and helped thwart his plan to exterminate all [[reproduction|Constructed Cold]] Cybertronians. His identity now exposed to his shipmates, Minimus grappled with the fact that he felt they had lost respect for him, but with a little help from [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] and new admirer [[Ten]], he has come to accept his change in circumstance and now splits his time between wearing the Magnus Armor and publicly going without it. Regardless of who he might be underneath the armor, to his friends and crewmates, he is still, and has always been, ''the'' Ultra Magnus.
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====The Functionist Universe====
[[File:CustomMadeNow-Minimus.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|left|Sharp-looking Ambus, but can he transform?]]
In [[Functionist Universe|an alternate timeline]], Minimus never had to become Magnus and served as a soldier in the [[Primal Vanguard]]. After two million years offworld, keeping in touch with his brother Dominus by video, he finally returned home after a peace deal. He was sickened to see the oppression and casual genocide of Cybertron, and to see his brother had been made an [[empurata]] victim for speaking out, but was unsure about whether to become a full-on rebel. Minimus was not given the chance to decide as a few hours later, the Council began the "mass recall" of all memory sticks.

He drove through streets littered with Cybertronian corpses to warn Rewind and found Dominus's vocabulary had been deleted by the Functionists. Via Dominus's face, the Council taunted him that they'd replaced his optics with cameras on his flight home and he'd been unwittingly spying on his brother. {{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|The Custom-Made Now}}
{{-}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
'''Minimum''' Ambus was goalie for the [[Throttlebot Wanderers]] and a [[Cyberdroid]] from [[Master (planet)|Master]]. He was saddened by the news that Cyberdroids could not play in the [[Maximal]]/[[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Games]], instead being restricted to the Micro Division. {{Storylink|Broken Windshields}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
Various versions of Minimus Ambus across the [[multiverse]] were [[Nebulan]]s, [[Cyberdroid]]s, [[Mini-Con]]s, and [[Micromaster]]s. One Cyberdroid Minimum Ambus underwent the [[Bravemaster]] process to [[Binary bonding|binary bond]] with Ultra Magnus. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/15}}

==Toys==
===Generations===
[[File:CombinerWarsMinimusAmbus.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Judge me by my size, do you?]]
*'''Ultra Magnus''' (Leader Class, [[2015]])

:Minimus Ambus is a ''very'' small mini-figure that comes with ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Generations|Ultra Magnus]]. Despite its tiny size, it is based on his "middle" augmentation armor rather than the tiny innermost robot. In robot mode, Minimus can "pilot" the Ultra Magnus robot; he even "wears" the Magnus head like a helmet. He cannot remain inside when the "Magnus Armor" is transformed, but he can transform into a Cybertronian hovercar which can then tab into a set of three grooves on the lower level of the Ultra Magnus trailer.

:[[Andrew Griffith]] worked on the design of the figure and its "cockpit".<ref>https://twitter.com/glovestudios/status/566697537730408449</ref> Many Ultra Magnus toys feature Minimus toys with poor joint tolerances, causing his arms to pop off with minimal resistance.

:He was redecoed into ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' [[Alpha Trion (G1)#Legends|Alpha Trion]].

===Platinum Edition===
[[File:TF-Platinum-Edition-Autobot-Heroes-Minimus-Ambus.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|He was in the movie, he was just inside Ultra Magnus the whole time.]]
*'''Autobot Heroes''' (5-pack, 2016)
**''Accessories'': Springer's weapons (dual missile launcher, two missiles, rotor blades/sword), Arcee's weapons (2 swords), Kup's "laser musket" rifle/exhaust pipe, Ultra Magnus' 2 guns, Blurr's weapons (Sniper rifle, left & right pistols), Minimus Ambus figure

:Part of Hasbro's ''[[Transformers: Platinum Edition|Platinum Edition]]'' offerings for 2016 intended to commemorate the 30th anniversary of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', Minimus Ambus (who ''never appeared in the movie'', due to not having been conceived as a character until 2013) is a minor redeco of his original version that was available with ''Combiner Wars'' Leader Class Ultra Magnus. Like the white parts of the redeco of Ultra Magnus he comes with, he is cast in white plastic that is now truly ''white'', compared to the more creamy color of the original version. In addition, he features more light and dark green paint operations on his torso than the original release, both of which are considerably darker and more saturated than the original's lighter, "pearly" green paint operations.

:Ultra Magnus and Minimus Ambus were released as part of 5-pack with [[Arcee (G1)/toys#AutobotHeroes|Arcee]], [[Springer (G1)/toys#Platinum Edition|Autobot Springer]], [[Kup (G1)/toys#AutobotHeroes|Sergeant Kup]] and [[Blurr (G1)/toys#AutobotHeroes|Blurr]]. The set also included a recreation of the theatrical poster for the 1986 movie. In the United States, this set was officially a [[Target]] exclusive, but was only available via the company's website, never sold in stores. It was also released in Singapore, although it's currently unknown whether it was exclusive to any particular stores there or not. In Canada, it was available via the Canadian [[Walmart]] website but never found in sold, whereas in the United Kingdom, it was available via the UK [[Toys"R"Us]] website but again never sold in stores. In Spain, it was available via the Spanish subsidiaries of both [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]] and Carrefour, as well as the department store chain El Corte Inglés, supposedly also only available online. In Germany, it was available via retailer Real and specialty store Rappelkiste Ahlen, also only available online.
{{-}}

==Notes==
*In "[[The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|The Custom-Made Now]]", Minimus is shown capable of transforming into a minesweeper while wearing his secondary augmentation layer. When ''completely'' stripped of all optional equipment however, his design appears far more human-shaped, having absolutely no kibble whatsoever, calling into question whether or not he has an alt mode. His loadbearer spark-brother Dominus Ambus's innermost robot form [[The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|DID have an alt mode]], though, so it seems likely Minimus does too.
*Minimus served in the Primal Vanguard in the Functionist timeline but it's not specified if he also served in the main timeline.
*In Latin, "minimus" means "the least, smallest" and "ambus" probably comes from the prefix "ambi-" and so would mean either "both" or "around," thus resulting in a name meaning something like "around the least" or "the smallest of both." Either way, his name contrasts starkly with "Ultra Magnus," which translates to "beyond great."
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==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Autobots]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Mini-Cons]]
[[Category:IDW Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Law enforcement]]
[[Category:Micromasters]]
[[Category:Nebulans]]
[[Category:Platinum Edition]]
[[Category:Point One Percenters]]
[[Category:Primal Vanguard]]

Dominus Ambus

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:''Dominus Ambus is an [[Autobot]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Before&After Dominus Ambus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|''Men of action all that matters is the bottom line Grow a nice one and get ready for your time to shine'']]
Scientist, explorer, philosopher, and more, '''Dominus Ambus''' is one of pre-war Cybertron's movers and shakers. He rocks the [[Facial hair|'stache]].

His spark-brother is [[Minimus Ambus]]. The two have always had friction, especially thanks to Dominus being the accomplished 'bot-of-all-trades he is, leaving the less accomplished brother in his shadow. Not to mention the fact that while Dominus can be stiff and serious, prone to saying things like "pleasure is a distraction from the truth", he is apparently quite the talker, once he gets going.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:AtCloseOfDay-DominusAmbus.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6|He's probably really good at the foxtrot.]]

Dominus Ambus of [[Ambustus Minor]] {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} was the spark-brother of [[Minimus Ambus]]. Both were [[loadbearer]]s, a specific variety of [[Point One Percenter]]s. While Minimus transformed into a mine-sweeping vehicle, an acceptable form in [[Functionism|functionist]]-era Cybertron, Dominus was born with a [[beast mode]] — more specifically, a [[turbofox]]. Realising that this unusual shape would make him an outcast, he used his loadbearing talents to hide his innermost [[robot mode]] within an extensive suit of armor. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}}

Perhaps as a result of his situation, Dominus thus became an outspoken advocate for the rights of "lesser" Cybertronians, including the so-called "[[disposable class]]". {{storylink|Before & After}} The [[Ambus Test]], used to determine the sentience of such 'bots, was named after him; he may even have developed the test himself, but this is not known for certain. {{Storylink|Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|Into the Abyss}} Among his writings was a work called ''[[The Ascetic Cybertronian]]'', in which he wrote, "Pleasure is a distraction from pursuit of truth." {{storylink|Omega's Conundrum}} Minimus lived in the shadow of his brother's accomplishments, and although he did love him, he found it difficult to get along with Dominus at times. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} The one area in which Minimus surpassed his brother was the ability of his loadbearing spark to withstand more extensive augmentation. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}} This capability saw Minimus chosen to take on the mantle of [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]], a role he happily took on, eager to escape his brother's shadow and become his own 'bot. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

Dominus employed [[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rewind]] as a data receptacle, and forged a strong friendship with him, finding in him a source of inspiration in his crusade for the rights of others. He secretly allowed Rewind to fuel using his own premium [[energon]], instead of the cruder stuff society said he was supposed to use, {{storylink|Before & After}} and the bond between the pair eventually blossomed into love, and they became [[Conjunx Endura]]e. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} Together, they left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to search for the legendary [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]], the miracle moon that supposedly held the solution to every question. Dominus hoped to find a cure for [[cybercrosis]], but after years of searching, they returned to their homeworld empty-handed to find war had broken out. The pair signed up as [[Autobot]]s almost immediately. {{storylink|Before & After}}

[[File:MTMTE44 Agent113.jpg|thumb|right]]
At some point in the war's history, Dominus Ambus was chosen by [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] to serve as a double agent, and was tasked with infiltrating the [[Decepticon Justice Division]]. Codenamed "Agent 113", after the turbofox alternate mode being numbered 0113 in the [[Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy]], {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}} which was Prowl's idea of a clever little joke, Dominus used his loadbearer abilities to don an entirely new bodyframe with hooked hands and feet, {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} and served in the D.J.D. under the codename "[[Vos (DJD)|Vos]]." {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} So deep undercover was Dominus that not even those closest to him were aware of his mission, leaving both Rewind and Minimus to wonder where he had disappeared to. Rewind began a lifelong quest to learn his fate, {{storylink|Before & After}} while Minimus eventually came to assume his brother was dead. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

To maintain his cover with the D.J.D., Dominus developed a specific way of covertly passing information back to his handlers: he would wait until the D.J.D. found themselves in battle with Autobots, and would then shoot an Autobot squarely in the right "eye" of their [[insignia]] with a bullet containing a data chip loaded with his intel. [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] quietly recruited Autobots stationed in medical facilities around the galaxy to be on the lookout for these bullets. {{storylink|Bullets}} {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} At some point, the D.J.D. stumbled across the [[Necroworld|planet]] that was inhabited by the mythical Cybertronian known as the "[[Censere|Necrobot]]."

Of course, Dominus could not maintain his cover without participating in the D.J.D.'s brutal activities. He was in the thick of things when the group tracked down friends of [[Gripper (G1)|Gripper]]'s and murdered them (footage of which would be shown at [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s trial). {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} "Vos" took part in a battle in which the Autobot metallurgist [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] witness got an up-close look at a [[Genericon]]'s innards. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}} It was during the latter encounter that Dominus tagged Swerve with one of his message bullets, but when Swerve repaired the injury himself, he unknowingly patched over the bullet, which remained inside him for years. {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}} In this message, Agent 113 mentioned being compromised, referred to a schism within the Decepticons, relayed the coordinates of the Necrobot's planet, and left a warning not to trust [[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Brainstorm]]. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

Immediately following the [[Surge (event)|Surge]] in 2008, "Vos" and the other members of the D.J.D. learned that [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] had taken over the [[Garrus-9]] prison and set out to eliminate inmate [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]]. They discovered that Shockwave had planned for this contingency by making sure his crewmembers were also on the D.J.D's [[The List|list]] of targets, offering their lives in exchange for his; D.J.D. leader [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]] chose to ignore the request, focusing on eliminating the most wanted Decepticon. Shockwave was able to blast his radio before Tarn could kill him, and the D.J.D. retreated when Shockwave's backup arrived in the form of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and the [[Pretender Monsters|Monstructor Six]]. {{storylink|The Ties That Bind}}

During another encounter with the Autobots, Dominus was able to pass information regarding the Decepticon takeover of Garrus-9 through his usual method. Some two years later, [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] extracted the bullet containing Dominus's information about the Decepticon takeover of [[Garrus-9]]. {{storylink|Bullets}} {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}}

Dominus's fear that his deception had been discovered by the D.J.D. was correct. When he was found out, he was subjected to a form of torture known as "[[domestication]]," a process that involved lobotomization and the removal of his [[transformation cog]]. Trapped in his turbofox mode and deprived of his higher faculties, he became nothing more than a feral "Pet" that [[Kaon (DJD)|Kaon]] took a liking to. The D.J.D. spread the story that he was a wild [[sparkeater (creature)|sparkeater]] they had partially tamed. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}}

[[File:The pet whos afraid of the djd.jpg|thumb|left|What does the turbofox say?]]

As "the Pet", Dominus's leash was held by [[Helex (DJD)|Helex]] while Kaon participated in the execution of [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]]. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} Sooner after, the D.J.D. tracked their next target, the fugitive [[Fulcrum]] to the planet [[Clemency]], where Kaon unleashed the Pet on the unfortunate [[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]], who suffered numerous claw and bite wounds from the turbofox for aiding the criminal. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} Later, he participated in the DJD attack on an alternate version of the ''[[Lost Light]]'', where they killed Overlord and all but one of the Autobot crew. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} When Kaon was stricken by the effects of [[Tyrest (G1)|Tyrest]]'s [[universal killswitch]], The Pet even comforted his master. {{storylink|Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|This Calamitous Life}}

The bullet in Swerve eventually caused a rust infection that, along with a case of extreme self-neglect, ultimately threatened to kill the metallurgist. Upon learning the cause of this injury, First Aid was able to instruct [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] in the removal and retrieval of the bullet and Agent 113's message finally reached the Autobots. {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}} Much of the message had been corrupted by rust, so the Autobots could only make out portions of the message. When they arrived on the [[Necroworld]] and discovered that its custodian monitored every Cybertronian death in the galaxy, Rewind — after some soul-searching — found that the Necrobot had marked him as deceased, but also engraved his name on a monument to the "[[Disappeared]]," leading Rewind to hope that he could still be out there. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

[[File:Permanent Revolution - The Pet.jpg|thumb|right|"So you essentially turned a man into a dog."]]

After the D.J.D's murder of [[Blip]], the Pet looked on as [[Nickel]] berated the others for ruining their victim's transformation cog in the process. He was later brought to Tarn's negotiations with [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]] to join forces and kill the traitorous Megatron. {{Storylink|The Permanent Revolution}} The Pet accompanied the D.J.D. and their Decepticon allies to the [[Necroworld]], where they sprung a trap for Megatron and his comrades. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}} Scouting the area, [[Ravage (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ravage]] found the enemy base and used [[Ten]] as distraction. The Pet sped along with his master into savagely attacking the [[Legislator]], but he was eventually rescued by [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] and [[Drift (G1)|Drift]], {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 2: The Sun in Flight|The Sun in Flight}} who took the Pet hostage. Not wanting his companion harmed, Kaon told the other Decepticons to stand down, allowing the Autobots to escape with the help of Ravage and with the Pet in tow. Kaon's later blubbering about the kidnapping of his pet led Tarn to tear out his head to serve as an example of the follies of compassion. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}}

Desiring to learn the location of the D.J.D.'s ship, [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] had [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]] pry into the Pet's memories. At the same time, Rewind and Minimus Ambus discussed the latter's brother, with Minimus explaining that Dominus was a loadbearer like him. Looking up Dominus's alternate mode in the Necrobot's copy of the Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy, Rewind realized the truth at the same time as Chromedome. Speeding to Dominus and Chromedome, Rewind was faced with a choice: Chromedome could restore Dominus, but the stress would snuff out his spark. Otherwise, cutting the connection between the two would kill Dominus. Making his choice, Rewind took Drift's blade and cut Chromedome's arm, dooming his former Conjunx Endura to save his lover. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}}

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====The Functionist Universe====
[[File:CustomMadeNow-Dominus.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|Dominus has no mouth, so he must screen.]]
In [[Functionist Universe|an alternate timeline]] where the [[Functionist Council]] had slowly but surely conquered Cybertron, Dominus failed to end widespread discrimination against the disposable class and could only pull strings to get Rewind upgraded from disposable to research assistant. He also removed Rewind's obsolence chip, ensuring he couldn't be "recalled" if the Council turned on memory sticks. Ironically, one of his jobs was to better classify the "animals".

The two acted against the monstrous dictatorship both secretly and verbally, which got Dominus turned into a "[[empurata|flathead]]": his head replaced with a computer screen that was Council property, given no voice and 'talking' with text so he couldn't express himself, and his face showing propaganda pop-ups at random moments.

In an act of supreme cruelty, the Council deleted Dominus's vocabulary so he only knew the simplest of words and "love" was not among them. His screen was then used to taunt Rewind and Minimus about their impending doom. {{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|The Custom-Made Now}}
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==Notes==
*"Dominus" means "lord" or "master" in Latin, while "Ambus" likely comes from the Latin prefix "ambi-," meaning either "both" or "around." With these meanings, his name is likely meant to indicate his more accomplished status as compared to his brother Minimus.
*Members of the [[House|House Of Ambus]] all have those distinct 'taches.
*In "[[Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|Into the Abyss]]" Ultra Magnus refers to the [[Ambus Test]], a universally recognised question-set designed to detect sentience in mechanical lifeforms that was presumably named after Dominus.
*It's unclear whether the Functionist Council, or anyone else like the [[Senate]], knew that Dominus was a turbofox fella inside a suit or not in the main timeline. In the Functionist Universe, they'd have surely found out at least when they replaced his head; it could have been sooner, as it's hard not to read ordering him to classify the "animals" as a really nasty joke on the part of the Functionists.

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