Cicadacon

2020-11-27T19:48:15Z

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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|215px|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|When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?]]
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}}
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====''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}}
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====''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}}
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===''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 (BWU)|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}}

===2005 IDW 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)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]], and was summarily blasted in the back by [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]]. {{storylink|The Dead Come Home, Part 1 (of 2)|The Dead Come Home, Part 1}}
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==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]''
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===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 (toyline)|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]''
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==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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