Snowstalker

2021-07-09T04:21:34Z

LIAM: /* Beast Wars cartoon */ Just started watching beast wars, Tigatron said "Identity" circuits, not memory circuits

:''Snowstalker is an animal from the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|''Beast Wars'' cartoon portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:snowstalk.jpg|200px|thumb|She was Tigatron's "friend"... yeah right!]]
The majestic predatory cat '''Snowstalker''' once prowled the distant frozen lands and mountaintops of prehistoric [[Earth]]. Like all members of her species, she was typically a loner, but a chance encounter with the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s would change her life... and also prematurely end it.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon===
[[File:Snowstalk2.jpg|left|200px|thumb|She lives on in memory and [[fan fiction|slashfic]].]]

Snowstalker was the animal template [[scanning|scanned]] by [[Tigatron]]'s [[stasis pod]]. With his [[Circuit (circuit)|identity circuit]]s damaged, Tigatron felt like he was more animal than robot, and he chose to stay in the wild alongside Snowstalker. {{storylink|Fallen Comrades}} The two roamed and hunted together, forming a strong pair bond—[[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] was aware of how special Snowstalker was to Tigatron.

By a cruel twist of fate, in a heated battle with the Predacons an errant shot from Tigatron caused a rockslide on the mountain Snowstalker was climbing, and she was crushed to death. In his grief, Tigatron marked her final resting place with a grave marker made out of stacked stones. At the time, he swore he would never be able to bury another friend and thus could no longer participate in combat of any kind, though he soon had to reconsider. {{storylink|Law of the Jungle}}

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==Notes==
* {{w|White tiger}}s are an extremely rare product of recessive genes, and the very few individuals encountered in the wild have all inhabited humid tropical environments. Snowstalker (and thus Tigatron) may not represent a proper tiger as modern humans would envision, but, rather, another tiger-like big cat that in the subsequent four million years has gone extinct. If indeed Snowstalker is part of a contemporary species of tigers, then it is also possible that she would have been the product of inbreeding, since mating a cub with its mother can also produce white tigers.
* The Japanese dub changes the relationship between Tigatron and Snowstalker. Snowstalker is only identified as "Tiger Child" and given no gender. Instead of being an equal, Snowstalker was a youth whom Tigatron protected.
* While no toy of Snowstalker was produced, due to her being the template for Tigatron, one could [[repurposing|repurpose]] a second [[Tigatron#Beast Wars|toy of Tigatron's original beast form]] as Snowstalker by simply not transforming it.

===Foreign names===
:*'''Japanese:''' Tiger child (虎児童, ''Tora Jidou'')

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[[Category:Cats]]
[[Category:Cartoon-only characters]]

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