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		<title>MediaWiki:A GoBox of your own!</title>
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&lt;div&gt;{{bookworm|complete}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Goboxembed.jpg|thumb|250px|]]&lt;br /&gt;
Want to embed a real, working GoBox in your message board signature? Paste this code:&lt;br /&gt;
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Sweet, huh? Yeah, it totally is. [[User:Suki Brits]] coded this thing (way to go Suki Brits), and the graphic on the right is a screencap of what they look like. Sweeet! To see one in the wild, click here.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Image templates&#039;&#039;&#039; are templates used for crediting images, adding copyright notices to images, or otherwise managing images on their image-info page.&lt;br /&gt;
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They are &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; templates used for laying out images in regular articles.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Templates]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;[[Hot Shot (Animated)|&#039;&#039;Animated&#039;&#039; Hot Shot]]&#039;s [[character model]], supplied to &#039;&#039;&#039;{{SITENAME}}&#039;&#039;&#039; by [[Derrick Wyatt]].&lt;br /&gt;
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;WikiSysop: &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Animated&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Hot Shot&amp;#039;s character model, supplied to {{sitename}} by Derrick Wyatt.

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&lt;div&gt;[[Hot Shot (Animated)|&#039;&#039;Animated&#039;&#039; Hot Shot]]&#039;s [[character model]], supplied to {{sitename}} by [[Derrick Wyatt]].&lt;br /&gt;
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;WikiSysop: &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Animated&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Hot Shot turns on his flame throwers in &amp;quot;TransWarped.&amp;quot;

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&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100px;line-height:100px;font-weight:900;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;THE FUNNY STAYS.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
-The Management&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:2em&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Please use this talk page for discussion about the [[Main Page]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==WHA&#039;PPEN?==&lt;br /&gt;
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So...what on Earth has happened to the TFWiki? Also, for some reason the old Wikia seems to have gained all of the articles that are now missing from here. (Such as the Season 3 animated stuff)&lt;br /&gt;
:Seems to me that we&#039;ve reverted to a June 2008 version of the database which could be really bad news. Some of my articles [[Macabre]] for example are at the old site but not here, which would make sense since I wrote it in September 2008 before we moved here. I don&#039;t even have a login here anymore - Emvee :( [[Special:Contributions/77.102.92.218|77.102.92.218]] 19:31, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Looks like our brain-damaged friend is back again.&lt;br /&gt;
:::There&#039;s some more info on the [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=51208&amp;amp;view=findpost&amp;amp;p=1155749 wiki thread in the Allspark forums]. Looks like an upgrade handled very very sloppily. I&#039;m hoping once they restore the old database it&#039;ll overwrite the changes made in the interim, seeing as how our favorite Idiot Vandal With No Life is on a rampage. (Sigh.) Wiping out his stupid crap in one go would be priceless. (This is Jeysie, BTW.) --[[Special:Contributions/72.79.219.120|72.79.219.120]] 19:41, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Thank Primus.  I was worried someone had hacked in and deleted the database. The thought of 6 months work lost filled me with dread. --abates 19:46, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Ditto. Dread all round here too. Good to know it&#039;s in hand. --Emvee [[Special:Contributions/77.102.92.218|77.102.92.218]] 19:48, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::You know... assuming it does get overwritten so we don&#039;t have to worry about undoing it, watching our pet vandal complain about how the wiki malfunctioning prevents him from vandalizing properly is one of the most morbidly hilarious things I&#039;ve seen in a while. -Jeysie --[[Special:Contributions/72.79.219.120|72.79.219.120]] 20:07, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::Don&#039;t I know it, I was just having a laugh at that with the other half :) --Emvee [[Special:Contributions/77.102.92.218|77.102.92.218]] 20:16, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::You know, there are some benefits about this. On the one hand, people don&#039;t have to worry about being spoiled about TransWarped. On the other, we get to see Assaulthead self-destruct in rage as he can&#039;t vandalize the wiki. However, there is one concern: What if they can&#039;t retrieve the lost information? -- (SFH) [[Special:Contributions/67.164.210.225|67.164.210.225]] 20:11, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::I&#039;m assuming that Bookworm made a database backup before he started work. Should be fairly simple to upload it again. Which means this conversation never happened. --Emvee [[Special:Contributions/77.102.92.218|77.102.92.218]] 20:16, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::I&#039;ve decided I don&#039;t want to think about what happens if he didn&#039;t. (Realistically about all we could do is a crapload of trawling through Google&#039;s cache, but even then we&#039;d pretty much be seriously hosed.) --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.219.120|72.79.219.120]] 20:18, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::I didn&#039;t spot this thread until right after emailing Suki and Walky (one knows the code well, the other is right by the servers) about the situation (though I figure they already know), as I thought it might have been Assaulthead showing a heretofore hidden hacking genius.  (Hey, if Bulkhead can be a space bridge genius...)  I hope to heck we don&#039;t lose all those months of work.  Someone really needs to work on that update process...  --Apcog [[Special:Contributions/99.158.0.251|99.158.0.251]] 20:21, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::It would be a real pain if all that work was lost. I hope it&#039;s not. How long would it take to get everything back up again? --Tribor&lt;br /&gt;
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Guys, stop worrying and check out the community portal talk page. That&#039;s been restored and its last post was only a couple of days ago. Unless that&#039;s the &#039;&#039;only&#039;&#039; page on the enitire wiki that was backed-up, the most that could maybe have been lost is a couple of days&#039; worth. (Okay, as soon as I wrote this, that page got fucked up, too.) The main thing to think about is first-time visitors seeing the site like this. - Magnus Maximus&lt;br /&gt;
:I just find it sad that the only person who can log in (with multiple usernames, it seems) is the guy with the (so imaginative) gift for profanity. --Emvee [[Special:Contributions/77.102.92.218|77.102.92.218]] 20:49, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::That&#039;s only because he keeps making new accounts every time he shows up, since we keep blocking the old ones.--Apcog [[Special:Contributions/72.48.68.223|72.48.68.223]] 00:15, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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What worries me, is... why is the database even that far back? Even if we somehow lost everything, we should at least be stuck in how the wiki looked when we first arrived, but we&#039;ve been rolled almost three months before that. (The last edits in the histories all seem to be mid-June 2008, but didn&#039;t we move here in mid-September 2008?) --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.219.120|72.79.219.120]] 21:02, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
: Yeah, but IIRC we moved in with an older backup and ended up losing a little bit of stuff?  -hx [[Special:Contributions/24.30.97.198|24.30.97.198]] 21:14, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Only a few weeks at most, though, IIRC, not three months&#039; worth. (Not that it really matters if we did lose everything, it just makes me even more worried that this backup/upgrade wasn&#039;t done right.) --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.219.120|72.79.219.120]] 21:24, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::I just don&#039;t uderstand why there wasn&#039;t a working failsafe in case something like this happened. I mean come on have you ever heard of an SD card or floppy disk? --E-Bot&lt;br /&gt;
Somebody set up us the bomb. --Interrobang 21:26, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Straight up! I agree, it dosesn&#039;t make any sense Dawg. Yo but you know i&#039;m still concerned if something like this could happen again, and if the damage could much more worse than it is now. --The Man 21:19, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::There had been discussion for several months about creating a proper back-up system.&lt;br /&gt;
::::No one really thought it was important.  *eyeroll* -[[Special:Contributions/207.224.69.82|207.224.69.82]] 23:00, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::I had a look at the page for exporting the database a week or so ago but couldn&#039;t work out how to make it give me any data.  I kinda wish I&#039;d stuck at it now.  Oh well, I&#039;m just hanging out for some sort of official word on what&#039;s happening now... --abates 23:09, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::Who are we gonna get the offical word from? Admin?  I&#039;ve only been able to track two.  This is what really gets me though, I&#039;ve put more work into this wiki in the past four months than any other time.  But I&#039;m kinda doubting that this entire thing was Assualthead, even though his fancy with profanity is some kind of wonderment.  I hate worrying because it&#039;s like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but doesn&#039;t get you anywhere.--AWT88--[[Special:Contributions/98.19.92.58|98.19.92.58]] 23:25, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::Walky just [http://shortpacked.livejournal.com/481400.html blogged] on the matter.&lt;br /&gt;
::::::It looks like our host decided to spontaneously upgrade our software without warning or asking us first, forgot to make a database backup while doing so, things got corrupted and now he&#039;s slapped in the database we had during transition just to get things working while he digs through the backup archives to find the most up-to-date regular update.&lt;br /&gt;
::::::(I am not relaxing until this update is in-hand.  That&#039;s the kind of flim-flam answer I usually associate with &amp;quot;oops it&#039;s all gone&amp;quot; unless I&#039;m informed somethign is going to happen AHEAD of time.) -Derik&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::OK, I have [http://www.aldenbates.com/allpages.txt here] a list of all content pages on the Wiki from roughly 4 days ago.  I am thinking of writing something to request and save the Google cache of every damn one of them tonight. Actually converting them to Wiki format and restoring them is another matter. --abates 00:34, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::Google Cache is passable - I tried a few links that I was able to access and they were about at least a week to three weeks off. --lonegamer78 [[Special:Contributions/76.95.138.16|76.95.138.16]] 00:44, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::If you can automate such a thing, I&#039;d say go for it, Abates, just in case. The TV Tropes folks saved their own wiki from a crash with Google&#039;s cache, so while it&#039;ll be a crapton of work, it&#039;ll still be way better than starting over after losing 9 months of work. And if it turns out we didn&#039;t need it because Idiot Server guy gets things running again, well... just a little time wasted, then. --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.218.38|72.79.218.38]] 01:21, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::Hrm, as I more or less expected, Google throttled me.  I&#039;m not sure of a better way to get the cache pages though. :/ --abates 02:26, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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The not-entirely-ultrahorrific news is that the Google cache of every page I&#039;ve tested for is from March 9th.  So at least there IS a record of really everything we&#039;ve done here; we&#039;ve only &amp;quot;lost&amp;quot; TransWarped and one or two comic issues.  &lt;br /&gt;
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But for fuck&#039;s sake we have to get this nailed down SOON.  &lt;br /&gt;
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First question:  is it possible for Google to make a cache of the current lobotomized pages?  How long will they rely on their March 9th cache of, say, Kup, before they make a new image of it based on the piece of shit Bookworm reverted us to?  Can we ask them to STOP updating?  &lt;br /&gt;
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And does this current incarnation of TFWiki still have the quarter-million implanted redirects to Wikia in it?  &#039;Cos if it does, fuck, we&#039;re better off pulling the plug on the site altogether and only putting it back when it&#039;s presentable.  &#039;&#039;&#039;Thylacine 2000&#039;&#039;&#039; --[[Special:Contributions/74.73.131.210|74.73.131.210]] 11:03, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Agreed.  There is absolutely no reason for the site to be up right now.  We&#039;re begging Google to overwrite their old cache. &#039;&#039;&#039;Chip&#039;&#039;&#039; [[Special:Contributions/161.203.16.1|161.203.16.1]] 11:39, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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===Another thing comin&#039;===&lt;br /&gt;
Okay, people, look here.  I don&#039;t know jack from shit about databases and backups and servers and whatnot, but what I do know is this:&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;This is a fucking catastrophe.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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In the very best possible scenario, we&#039;ve had a site that&#039;s been down all freakin&#039; day.  That&#039;s if we&#039;re very, very lucky, apparently.  This is also a site that goes down every single night at 1:10am central time, and stays down from several minutes up to an hour.  Every.  Single.  Night.  Like clockwork.  This is a known issue and in 6 months, nothing has been done about it.&lt;br /&gt;
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That&#039;s if we&#039;re lucky.  If we&#039;re &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; lucky, and I&#039;m seeing no reason to think we are, then we&#039;ve lost &#039;&#039;eight months of work&#039;&#039;, all thanks to some bizarre software update that... does what?  Was it even necessary?  Was something broken here?  Was that whole thing where the site appeared to be working, was that just me hallucinating?&lt;br /&gt;
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Furthermore, if this required taking down the whole site, &#039;&#039;why on god&#039;s green earth was a full backup not made immediately beforehand???&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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Daily outages for 6 months, lost backups, no backups before software updates, and a site that&#039;s now rudderless.  We were supposed to make a clean, sharp, snazzy break from Wikia, show that we&#039;d be better off on our own and didn&#039;t need them.  At the moment, we instead look like &#039;&#039;idiots&#039;&#039; who can&#039;t hack it.  &lt;br /&gt;
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We HAVE advertising money, yes? It is time to find a &#039;&#039;professional&#039;&#039; site host, and PAY THEM for their services so we can in turn get reliable hosting.  The free charity hosting thing was very nice, but it seems we&#039;ve gotten what we paid for. -- repowers, not freakin&#039; signed in.&lt;br /&gt;
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: Yeah, seriously, what was the server guy &#039;&#039;thinking&#039;&#039;? The way this should have been done:&lt;br /&gt;
#Ask us first.&lt;br /&gt;
#Give at least a week&#039;s scheduled warning once we gave permission. (I mean... premiere of the first big TF info in a while kind of is a &#039;&#039;really&#039;&#039; bad time to be doing this sort of thing...)&lt;br /&gt;
#Put the wiki in locked-down Maintenance Mode.&lt;br /&gt;
#Backup the wiki.&lt;br /&gt;
#Upgrade.&lt;br /&gt;
#Test it out.&lt;br /&gt;
#Unlock the wiki.&lt;br /&gt;
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:...I&#039;m with you, there&#039;s gotta be some webhost we can pay that&#039;s better than this silliness. (I&#039;d recommend Dreamhost, but admittedly, while they&#039;re more reliable than these folks, I still wouldn&#039;t offer it up for more than simple hobby sites.) --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.222.241|72.79.222.241]] 23:51, 15 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Yeah, this was the &#039;&#039;one reservation&#039;&#039; I had against ditching Wikia - that entrusting our work to some random host would be riskier than a company that does nothing &#039;&#039;but&#039;&#039; wikis.  Every time I mentioned it, I was either patted on the head or ignored.  Maybe NOW the danger will be taken more seriously. - Jackpot [[Special:Contributions/216.231.37.133|216.231.37.133]] 00:53, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::In all fairness, this wasn&#039;t &amp;quot;some random host.&amp;quot; This would be &amp;quot;the guy Walky pays to host Blank Label, where his livelihood resides.&amp;quot; --Rosicrucian --[[Special:Contributions/67.232.209.132|67.232.209.132]] 01:15, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Not just Walky, but all the other people on BLC. Near as I can tell, this kind of thing has &#039;&#039;never happened&#039;&#039; with the BLC servers before. &#039;&#039;&#039;M Sipher&#039;&#039;&#039;--[[Special:Contributions/75.177.130.173|75.177.130.173]] 05:38, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::And the problem is that Wikia was unreliable too, in entirely different ways. If we&#039;d stayed with them the wiki might be up... but they&#039;d also be randomly breaking things by upgrading without our permission, and screwing around with our content. Personally, I wish we simply had a webhost where we were allowed to do our own backups/upgrades... --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.218.38|72.79.218.38]] 01:21, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Well, we had no real reason to suspect this would happen. Walkypedia has been on this same server, with the same hosting and same maintenance guy for years (albeit it&#039;s not a wiki of anywhere near this scale). Bookworm had, previously, seemed to have his act together. We just have to hope that he gets it back up, and that he&#039;s properly chastised by this.--Rosicrucian, [[Special:Contributions/67.232.209.132|67.232.209.132]] 01:24, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::It&#039;s just that... personally, I&#039;m dismayed we were trusting an &amp;quot;outside&amp;quot; IT person to maintain our site anyway. I had thought Suki and Derik were handling things. I mean, If I&#039;m going to host something on my own webspace from a webhost, I&#039;m of the &amp;quot;Take my money, give me webspace, keep the space online, and let me handle the rest&amp;quot; mentality. Or at the very least, not do anything to my site unless I authorize it and I&#039;m there watching... --Jeysie [[Special:Contributions/72.79.218.38|72.79.218.38]] 01:30, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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I beleve that we must do everything in our power to restore the wiki post-hast. Otherwise we will fall behind so far it may set us back weeks even months just to get caught up again. And if I might add that if anyone copied any of the articales we can use that information help fix the problem. I know it sounds complcated but we have to try. To me this not just a wiki it stands for everything Transfomers are. --D.J.Sky 03:35 15 March (2009)&lt;br /&gt;
:Ruined FOREVER, you mean? - Magnus Maximus 04:39, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Aw, jesus, I was &#039;&#039;really&#039;&#039; hoping that when I woke up, this would all have been a dream or something. - - McFeely [[Special:Contributions/78.32.44.57|78.32.44.57]] 06:27, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:That&#039;s exactly what I was hoping McFreely, but sadly it wasn&#039;t.  I was hoping the site would be back up by now and we&#039;d have four days of work to recreate, but no, it&#039;s still down.  I mean &#039;&#039;come on&#039;&#039;, the half-ass guys over at the wikia have almost everything we&#039;ve put up in the past four days (not to our quality but still).  I don&#039;t know guys... I hope it&#039;ll be back up by the time I get home from work tonight and might pull an all nighter trying to do what I can.--AWT88--[[Special:Contributions/98.19.92.58|98.19.92.58]] 10:53, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::It&#039;s really a bad nightmare. Oww... I have same feeling with Chris. --(TX55) [[Special:Contributions/61.229.26.192|61.229.26.192]] 11:42, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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===Damage control===&lt;br /&gt;
Figured there should be a link here to the discussion Rob started on how to go about fixing all of this: [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Damage Control Central]] - &#039;&#039;&#039;Jackpot&#039;&#039;&#039; [[Special:Contributions/216.231.37.133|216.231.37.133]] 13:52, 16 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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We have had the same thing there for like 50 years{{unsigned|Human in Disguise|02:22, 7 April 2008}}&lt;br /&gt;
:Not really. Jhiaxus was only made a Featured Article on March 2, 2008.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 06:05, 7 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::With 6k articles, maybe we could switch the featured article every month?[[User:Spriteless|Spriteless]] 05:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::We try to when we can, but usually that involves a big push to improve the given article to featured article standards.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 06:30, 9 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::: If someone was just going through the Wikia wikis they might assume that this wiki is a bit quiet.  What about just chosing some of the bigger articles every now and again?  The larger ones tend to the most highly polished, researched and moderated articles. [[User:Drmick|Drmick]] 19:20, 26 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Some of the big articles need work because alot of the stuff in them was written in 2006 before we established standards. For instance, G1 Ratchet&#039;s article was featured last year I believe, but it was really unevenly written in terms of quality. I mean, for some reason half of the article eschewed storylinks in favour of references. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 20:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:We probably should set up some ground rules on what makes a featured article. Right now, it&#039;s pretty much what ever Walky wants. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 20:34, 26 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Thunderwing, Nice. --[[User:Human in Disguise|Human in disguise]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Out of curiosity, how often does it change, or is it just on a whim? [[User:Jeep!|Jeep!]] 14:30, 31 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== front tf page ==&lt;br /&gt;
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i hate april fool pranks on my fave tf front page -dr&lt;br /&gt;
:What? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 23:11, 7 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Funny ==&lt;br /&gt;
I think we should remove the funny nes on the page, If it stays, It will sound like a child has being messing up this place and Other people will think it doesn&#039;t make sense. [[User:Black rhino ranger|Black rhino ranger]] 09:01, 12 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:You&#039;re going to find yourself in the minority regarding this opinion.--[[User:Suzyprime|Suzyprime]] 13:02, 12 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Actually, Ranger, people are more likely to think this wiki &amp;quot;doesn&#039;t make sense&amp;quot; if it&#039;s edited by people who can&#039;t spell, conjugate, or use capital letters correctly.  [[User:JW|JW]] 18:37, 12 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Who made this again. [[User:Black rhino ranger|Black rhino ranger]] 19:55, 12 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:If that&#039;s a question, I don&#039;t understand it.  [[User:JW|JW]] 20:33, 12 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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But we should Make the images Info not funny, Transformers is ment to be serious, not funny. [[Special:Contributions/82.17.140.55|82.17.140.55]] 15:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Bullshit. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 17:46, 15 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Transformers be [[Bee in the City|&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;serious business&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;]] yo. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 18:00, 15 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Sir, your erudite argument has at last shown me the light.  I have been in error all this time, and you have turned the glare of knowledge against the darkness of my ignorance.  Verily, we must all change our ways, and treat the stories about outer space robots that turn into cars as Serious Business. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 18:20, 15 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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But it is unencyclopediac. It looks like a two year old vandalism. [[Special:Contributions/82.17.140.55|82.17.140.55]] 11:33, 18 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Thanks for sharing your viewpoint, but, you are very much in the minority.  If you object that strongly, start your own Transformers wiki and make it boring.  --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 21:41, 18 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:: Or just read the transformers entries on wikipedia. I&#039;m also guessing most people don&#039;t like it when you call our writing &amp;quot;like a two year old vandalism&amp;quot;. [[User:(Undecided)|(Undecided)]] 03:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Face it! Not Everyone likes funny wikis. [[Special:Contributions/82.17.140.55|82.17.140.55]] 15:25, 13 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Since we&#039;re one of the largest, highest-traffic wikis on Wikia, I don&#039;t think the people who object to &amp;quot;the funny&amp;quot; are a significant enough constituency to force us to change.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 15:27, 13 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Not everyone likes peanut butter! Therefore they should stop making peanut butter. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 19:31, 13 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Search==&lt;br /&gt;
So, uh, what happened to the ability to type something into the text box, click &amp;quot;search,&amp;quot; and not have it take me directly to a page, but give me a list of pages the term appears in instead?  There is no search button on the front page!  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 11:37, 15 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:For as long as I&#039;ve used the wiki, the Search function has only done that for me if what I&#039;ve typed didn&#039;t match the title of any article exactly.  As for the front page, I still see the Search box.  I don&#039;t know if it makes a difference, but I&#039;m using the Monaco skin.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 14:12, 15 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::That doesn&#039;t match my experiences.  I could type in &amp;quot;Megatron,&amp;quot; click Search, and then it&#039;d give me a list of pages that mention &amp;quot;Megatron&amp;quot; in the body of the text.  It was very useful.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 14:54, 15 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::On the topic of the Monaco skin, can we get some admin feedback on the Monaco skin discussion, please? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 14:32, 15 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::To be sure, yes, that would be useful.  As it is, now you&#039;d have to type something like &amp;quot;Megatron&#039;s&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Megatron&amp;quot; and another word to get similar results.  And yeah, I&#039;ve seen notices for the admins from [[User:Toughpigs|Toughpigs]] asking for feedback and wondered when that was going to be resolved.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 15:13, 15 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Regarding the search box - typing something into the box and hitting &amp;quot;enter,&amp;quot; or clicking &amp;quot;go,&amp;quot; is the option that takes you directly to the page with the title you&#039;ve typed. Typing something into the box and actually clicking the button marked &amp;quot;search&amp;quot; is the option that brings up a list of stuff containing the term, and that&#039;s the button we appear to have lost here (although on my screen at least, it&#039;s coming and going intermittently, but that&#039;s probably a browser cache thing). I&#039;ve not got the Monaco skin on, but regarding that, I rather like it, and I&#039;d like to see it implimented. There&#039;s something very &amp;quot;bare bones&amp;quot; about our set up here, and of course, I know that we kinda have that as a show of &amp;quot;not taking everything too seriously,&amp;quot; but I&#039;d personally like to see the Monaco skin in use. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 15:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::The same function is in the &amp;quot;Advanced Search&amp;quot; link. Am I the only one who sees it or something? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 18:17, 15 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Cripes, I can&#039;t insert a comment before three more jump in before me.  No, there&#039;s definitely no Search button visible in the Monaco skin as I&#039;m using it, just an arrow with a magnifying glass icon in it (the equivalent of the &amp;quot;Go&amp;quot; button, obviously).  I see the &amp;quot;Advanced search&amp;quot; link too, but it doesn&#039;t offer quite the same function, in that it doesn&#039;t default to the &amp;quot;all text occurrences&amp;quot; option.  Rather, you have to choose settings to get that.  Not a terrible extra step, but still...--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 18:32, 15 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I see the advanced search link. I also &#039;&#039;REALLY LIKE&#039;&#039; the new &#039;random page image link&#039; above the search box. Who do I have to thank for that? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 18:28, 15 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I put it in, but it was Siph&#039;s idea. Breaking the &amp;quot;Search&amp;quot; button under non-Monaco themes was also my doing, I&#039;m afraid; I was a little zealous with putting in a more useful search and it didn&#039;t quite work. It should be back in a day or two. I somehow totally missed any discussion on Monaco coming up; I&#039;ll get to commenting on that. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 19:50, 15 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Primarily Wookieepedia for the idea, Blitz for the implementation, and I suppose me for harraunging her about it. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 19:48, 15 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::A random page on search function is really a good idea because that would make us know about more characters. By the way, I think there still need a normal &#039;&#039;search button&#039;&#039; in the original place &amp;lt;!-- and the Advanced Search function certainly still there along with &amp;quot;go&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;search&amp;quot;--&amp;gt;. :D --[[User:TX55|TX55]] 01:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::Then I thank you guys for it. &#039;&#039;&#039;IF&#039;&#039;&#039; we switch to Monaco, is there any way to do a similar function with that skin? I think the function is very helpful for newcomers to the wiki (and Transformers in general) for they don&#039;t have to look through lists of names or randomly search for things. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 05:17, 16 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::I don&#039;t think it&#039;d be too hard. If we &#039;&#039;do&#039;&#039; switch to Monaco, there&#039;d need to be some changes done to the search box anyway, since under that, there&#039;s no &amp;quot;search&amp;quot; button. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 05:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: Is there a way to make the search image load earlier? Right now it&#039;s the very last thing to load; even the flash ads come up earlier. --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 02:24, 16 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:: The short answer is no, unfortunately. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 05:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Why does the bar show pictures of random characters, but when you go to their pages they have no visual representation? [[User:90.198.228.42|90.198.228.42]] 20:28, 16 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Because... I don&#039;t know really. I don&#039;t know why the powers-at-be chose to create these little search pictures for characters that have no pictures. One would think if they had a reasonably sized image to create the search button picture, they could have uploaded the full size image for the page itself. And/or create searchbox pic-links for characters that DO have decent visual representation AND largely completed articles. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 22:39, 16 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
==Familial relationships==&lt;br /&gt;
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Should we put something up, relating to the idea of siblings or such[[User:GWolfv2]]&lt;br /&gt;
:See [[Relatives]].--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 15:07, 21 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Now that the Monaco skin is the default, and Toughpigs is around to help us out, I suggest we figure out a way to redesign the front page so it isn&#039;t just a columns of text. Is there any reasonable way for us to have the franchises in the By Series (or anywhere else, really) represented by the franchise logos? The logos can be as recognisable as the names alone, and given we&#039;re getting more and more visitors every day, it would be helpful to make the place more visually pleasing and more user-friendly. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 20:30, 27 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I think that&#039;s still a [[Talk:Main_Page/Archive2#Logos_for_.27By_series.27_column|bad idea]].  The logos were never designed to look good together, and some (like the 2007 movie) are anti-informative.  If you can present a design that somehow makes it work, please do.  But I don&#039;t see how the new skin changes the basic problems. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 20:56, 27 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::I tend to think the Main Page and its columns of text are just fine as is. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 21:04, 27 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Also, wouldn&#039;t it perhaps be best to wait a few days for everyone to get home from BotCon before starting a discussion on more major changes like this? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 21:08, 27 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Didn&#039;t stop Toughpigs redesigning the whole Wiki... - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 21:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Toughpigs has been touting the switch to Monaco for quite some time, and he only finally got the nod from an admin just before BotCon.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 23:22, 30 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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===Ad bar issues with Monaco?===&lt;br /&gt;
I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s just me, but trying to load the Wiki in Firefox results in it loading everything up to the adserver stuff, and then Firefox proceeds to hang the fuck up, completely use up all available memory, and force me to kill it through Task Manager.  It&#039;s kind of a pain in the ass.(I&#039;m using explorer right now)  [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 00:22, 3 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I&#039;ve had no troubles with Firefox 2, nor Firefox 3 beta 5.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 00:37, 3 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Improvement Drive ==&lt;br /&gt;
I have no idea how long the &amp;quot;Improvement Drive&amp;quot; column has been there, but it&#039;s a great idea, content-wise.  However, IMO the links it contains should really be a permanent part of the Help/Start Here column. It&#039;s the kind of thing I was talking about [http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal#.22First_go_here.21__Next_go_here..22  a while ago]. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 22:56, 1 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Giving this a bump.  Input, anyone?  Anyone?  If nobody protests, I&#039;d like to merge the contents of the &amp;quot;Improvement drive&amp;quot; section with the &amp;quot;Start here&amp;quot; section.  Perhaps a blurb on a more specialized improvement drive -- say, our long-dormant BW improvement drive -- could take the place of the current one. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 20:20, 15 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Giving this one last bump.  If nobody objects, I&#039;m making the changes. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 00:37, 21 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:One of the reasons the Improvement Drive was disbanded on Wookieepedia was because we instead formed projects such as &amp;quot;Tales of the Jedi project&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The New Essential Chronology project&amp;quot;. This allowed us to focus on groups of articles which were in need of updating instead of simply one article. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 00:42, 21 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I fully support a &amp;quot;Project&amp;quot; initiative. (Cough cough prose stories cough.) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 01:07, 21 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I can definitely live with that - it looks like one of the new users is actually working on RiD stuff, which is an area that I&#039;ve felt could use more coverage - it&#039;s not my area of knowledge, tho.  [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 01:43, 21 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Yeah. I know a lot about the fiction in GENERAL, but when it comes to what happened in what specific episodes and issues? Not so much. Toys are more my forte... --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 01:49, 21 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::It doesn&#039;t help that most of us would need to import the DVDs to write about the fiction. I&#039;ve been thinking of doing that, but I&#039;ve already bought a couple of hundred dollars worth of TF DVDs I don&#039;t really need soley for writing and screen capping articles for the wiki, which upon reflection is a little insane. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 05:03, 22 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Please see [[User:Repowers/Sandbox]] for a test page.  Feel free to tweak and/or comment. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 04:52, 22 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I weaked the disclaimer, added a countdown to TF2 clock (the page de-caches a couple times a day, so it should remain accurate without having to re-edit, I did a sandbox text to verify) and I got rid of the clickable Animated logo, sicne that template still isn&#039;t working right and I haven&#039;t figured out how to make it work right.&lt;br /&gt;
:Re:Improvement Drive... How about we have a &#039;goals&#039; list for the month?  Like, 20 or 30 articles we want to get up to snuff, chosen for balance.  A lot of piddling pages, a few episodes or comics no one&#039;s gonna get around to on their own, and one or two major character pages.  We can track &#039;em at the end of the month and see how successful we were. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 20:47, 30 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Giving this a bump.  &lt;br /&gt;
::About the list of &amp;quot;ways to help&amp;quot;... thing is, those up-front lists should be geared toward attracting new editors -- new editors who by definition aren&#039;t going to know all the million little persnickety formatting things you have to know to set up a new page.  Stuff like &amp;quot;fill in a stub&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;add storylinks&amp;quot; is a lot less intimidating, and a lot easier to slide into, than &amp;quot;here, make this page from scratch.&amp;quot;  I think an expanded list, akin to what&#039;s on my sample sandbox, should be near the top of the page, rather than a bunch of red links. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 22:33, 11 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Main &amp;quot;Transformers Animated&amp;quot; image ==&lt;br /&gt;
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It really ought to be clickable. Unfortunately, [[:Template:Click]] currently doesn&#039;t actually let you center an image-- it probably needs to be rewritten at some point. Unless someone else volunteers, this is mostly just a reminder to myself. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 18:53, 8 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Someone just did that and now the link messes up the main page by covering the links to &amp;quot;Comics&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Generation 1&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;(toyline/cartoon/comic)&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Generation 2&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;Help contents&amp;quot;. Ugh, it was better off the way it was before. Besides, there was a link to the Animated franchise below the giant logo. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 23:27, 8 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::What poor excuse for a browser are you using? The TFA logo is &#039;&#039;above&#039;&#039; all that stuff. --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 23:35, 8 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::The image is, but the link is stretching down over the ones below it. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 23:59, 8 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I&#039;m using Firefox, and the link ends WAY before that.  I have no troubles whatsoever. - [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 00:20, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Sabrblade, to repeat- &amp;quot;What browser are you using?&amp;quot; -[[Special:Contributions/75.168.112.43|75.168.112.43]] 01:35, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Internet Explorer 7 is my browser on this particular computer (I use at least three different ones). --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 20:31, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::Well &#039;&#039;there&#039;s&#039;&#039; your problem. IE doesn&#039;t follow correct HTML protocol, and each version has a different way of not following it. --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 21:19, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::Just realized I&#039;m having the same problem, using Firefox. The link to [[Transformers Animated (franchise)]] from the image is like, bleeding down or something, covering up some of the links below it.  --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 18:43, 11 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::Well, is there any other browser besides Internet Explorer and Firefox that doesn&#039;t have the problem? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 01:31, 12 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::I just went and had a look at [[:Template:Click]] and tried a few things, but it&#039;s beyond me. Can we not just do it in html? It would be a hell of a lot simpler...[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 12:51, 19 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::Well, with the &amp;quot;no TF:A Dubai spoilers&amp;quot; text written by Chris McFeely, the image no longer covers the G1 and G2 links. It still bleeds down, but only over the link-free text. So until that text gets erased, the image bleeding isn&#039;t much of a problem (but it will be again once that text is gone).[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 01:02, 20 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::::Still covers them for me, and I&#039;m using the latest Firefox. I&#039;m going to edit this until someone can come up with a better solution - removing the Dubai text will just make it bleed lower down the page, surely... [[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 16:37, 20 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::::If any one isn&#039;t getting the problem [http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h278/Undecided_tmn/Mainpage_error.jpg here is what it looks like] to me. It&#039;s the blue highlighted box. [http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h278/Undecided_tmn/Mainpage_error_IE-1.jpg Here is what it looks like in Internet Explorer]. Screen resolution is 1280x1024. [[User:(Undecided)|(Undecided)]] 22:15, 21 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I replaced it with an imagemap so it links directly to [[Transformers Animated (franchise)]]. Given that the same image is at the top of that page, I don&#039;t think we need the main page to link to the Image page if the only way of doing so messes up the rest of the page. --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 21:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Imagemap is working on wikia now?  Yay!  IIRC it wasn&#039;t 18 months ago when you originally took a stab at &amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;{{click}}&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt; -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 22:10, 30 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Just to check, can imagemap be set to pave part of the image link to the Image page, or is Click the only thing that can do that. (You&#039;d think a template specificly created for use on the Wikia wiki wouldn&#039;t have these issues) --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 22:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Wikipedia has a template like this that puts a little blue &#039;i&#039; in the corner of an image- you click on that to get info about it.  In this case it&#039;s moot-- a single click takes you to the TFA page that lets you access the image info. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 22:18, 30 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==&amp;quot;TF dates&amp;quot;?==&lt;br /&gt;
Something else Wookiepedia does on its frontpage we... might want to look at stealing... Putting up a &amp;quot;__/__/__: _____ was released&amp;quot; history box. I dunno. It would only be for like comic books, DVDs, TV episodes, street-release-date toys, etc. Though I dunno if TF really has enough... stuff to do that with. I dunno. Idle thought. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 01:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:On paper, that&#039;s a cool idea.  In execution, yeah, I don&#039;t think there&#039;s quite enough stuff to do it with.  We know original episode air dates, and roughly know the street dates of the various comic issues, but we generally have no idea when various and sundry toys hit shelves before, what, &#039;94?  If we had enough stuff that there was something to put up at least twice a week (as a &amp;quot;This Week in TF History&amp;quot; thing) I&#039;d say go for it.  I guess we could stretch it and add birth dates of TF professionals and that sort of thing, but even then, we&#039;re a little sparse, I&#039;d imagine.  [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 10:42, 19 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Front page weirdness==&lt;br /&gt;
When clicking on the link for the Generation 1 (comic) or Generation 2 (comic) on the front page, I get taken to Animated (franchise)...but looking at the code the links appear to be correct, else I&#039;d edit them. I&#039;ve tried refreshing several times but the link is still wrong...anyone else seeing this? [[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 12:11, 19 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
[edit] aha, just seen the discussion above about the link &amp;quot;bleeding down&amp;quot;...that would explain it [[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 12:15, 19 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Search==&lt;br /&gt;
The current search bar only has a &amp;quot;Go&amp;quot; button,we can&#039;t look for articles by using keywords now. How are we supposed to look for things we don&#039;t know the name of now?[[Special:Contributions/86.87.28.191|86.87.28.191]] 20:54, 21 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Isn&#039;t there a &amp;quot;Search&amp;quot; button right next to the &amp;quot;Go&amp;quot; button? -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 20:57, 21 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::I don&#039;t think there is a search button on the new skin but if you log in and set the wiki back to monobook in your preferences then you&#039;ll have a search button [[User:Donutter|Donut]] 21:02, 21 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: Are we talking Monaco skin, the one with the little arrow with the magnifying glass in it at the very top-left? Or the Monobook skin? I just put &amp;quot;thunder&amp;quot; in the former, clicked the arrow, and boom (ha ha), search results. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 21:23, 21 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::But &amp;quot;Thunder&amp;quot; isn&#039;t the name of an article.  If it were, it would just give you the article without any other search results, even if you clicked on the magnifying-glass arrow.  I can&#039;t tell if that&#039;s what the anthropomorphic IP address above was asking, but I do know I dislike the reduced functionality of Monaco&#039;s search box.  As far as I can tell, typing a word and hitting Enter is the same as clicking the arrow.  You CAN still search for all occurrences of a word by going to the &amp;quot;Search&amp;quot; link underneath the sidebar.  But that&#039;s annoying for the need to go to a whole &#039;nother page. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 04:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Nevermind,i figured it out now. Just type &amp;quot;Search:&amp;quot; and then the keywoard before pressing enter. for example,to search for Optimus Prime without annoyingly being redirected,type Search:Optimus Prime .[[Special:Contributions/86.87.28.191|86.87.28.191]] 18:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;ve seen three formats. The general, more common one like the Screamer one, the Prime style one and the BB one. Shouldn&#039;t we just stick with the one?[[User:GWolfv2]] 21.34 May 23rd&lt;br /&gt;
:The Prime page has to be like it is because there are so many things with &amp;quot;Prime&amp;quot; in their name that they need to be split. And why would we have a disambuig page for [[BB]]? If you&#039;re talking about Bumblebee, I don&#039;t think that page should be like that. Pictures do not help when the differences between one character&#039;s different bodies is about the same as the difference between his body and one belonging to another guy with the same name. --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 22:00, 23 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Prime Image==&lt;br /&gt;
Should an image Animated Prime be added to the front page? maybe replace Movie Prime in the picture if it needs to be a particular size? i think it should be updated to reflect the most modern incarnation of the character [[Special:Contributions/78.32.44.57|78.32.44.57]] 16:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Problem is, the front page&#039;s image is all from Takara&#039;s World Of Transformers page. We tried to add AniPrime in there but he didn&#039;t fit one bit, so until something better comes along, I do believe this image is going to stay as is. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 16:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Universe 2008==&lt;br /&gt;
I think you should ad a Universe 2008 link in the &amp;quot;by Series&amp;quot; section.&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 16:46, 29 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Never mind, I got it. I didn&#039;t know I could edit the main page.[[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 17:07, 29 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== The Irony ==&lt;br /&gt;
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:In a wiki about transformers their alt modes aren&#039;t even mentioned ANYWHERE! I find this odd... {{SUBST::User:Crystal lucario/Sig}} 21:06, 4 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::There&#039;s two articles on popular vehicle and animal modes, transformation article etc. You can&#039;t list alt with every character when some don&#039;t stick with the one [[User:GWolfv2]] 22.11 June 4th&lt;br /&gt;
:::You can find the altmodes for characters, usually, on the Toys section of their articles. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 21:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Ok, thanks. {{SUBST::User:Crystal lucario/Sig}} 11:19, 5 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::psst- subst has to be lowercase.   Also- too many colons. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 11:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Just as an example, G1 Optimus is often a semi-cab, but he&#039;s also officially transformed into...&lt;br /&gt;
* Cybertronic Mobile artillery (Marvel comics, pre-Earth)&lt;br /&gt;
* Sportscar (G2)&lt;br /&gt;
* Organic bat (super-early BW)&lt;br /&gt;
* Cybertronic truck-thing (War Within)&lt;br /&gt;
* HISS tank (Devil&#039;s Due G.I. Joe)&lt;br /&gt;
* Cybertronic pickup (e-hobby Orion Pax toy)&lt;br /&gt;
* Some kind of prehistoric animal (Hearts of Steel)&lt;br /&gt;
Plus, there was a canceled dump truck Optimus in G2, and plans to make him into a train for Hearts of Steel as well. I don&#039;t remember what he turned into for DW&#039;s Joe crossover. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 14:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Psst- I come from another wikia so it thought I had a sig. And to M Sipher thank you. I still think that should be somewhere in the artical. Maybe under Forms... {{SUBST::User:Crystal lucario/Sig}} 23:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Y&#039;know, it just recently occurred to me that when we scan characters&#039; profile art, we should probably include more than their robot mode.  For instance, it seemed like [[:Image:Primal_FPUnivBio.jpg|this pic]] was served by including the gorilla mode because it emphasized the fact that it wasn&#039;t his original beast form.  Then I uploaded [[:Image:SoundwaveCyb_FPbio.jpg|this image]] and included the jet because it was a particularly well-drawn alt mode.  And now that I&#039;ve done that... I&#039;m going to make a point of including alt-modes whenever I can. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 02:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:To save on space (tall images are the BANE of the wiki), I placed the smaller images (such as the alt mode) over part of the large images in a picture, such as [[:Image:G1Bomb-Burst_MTMTE1.jpg|what I did for Bomb Burst]]. Of course, I also mostly did it so the uploaded pics would look similar to the original Pretender boxart arrangement (shell behind, robot in the middle, vehicle in the foreground).&lt;br /&gt;
:Little Iron&#039;s Soundwave looks GREAT, btw. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 03:17, 10 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== &#039;Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen&#039; countdown ==&lt;br /&gt;
There&#039;s 381 days (as of June 9th, 2008) until &#039;TF2:ROTF&#039; comes out and already there&#039;s a countdown box? I know it&#039;s too late to remove it, but don&#039;t you think it&#039;s a &#039;&#039;little&#039;&#039; too soon to put one up? It&#039;s like this one &#039;Garfield&#039; comic strip that was printed on December 26th with Garfield shutting off his alarm clock and declaring &amp;quot;365 days until Christmas!&amp;quot;. Well, atleast the box isn&#039;t counting down the hours, minutes, and seconds. -[[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 12:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I started counting down the days in my head as soon as I learned the release date. I think it&#039;s all in good fun, no reason to remove it. [[User:(Undecided)|(Undecided)]] 01:13, 13 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Since no one said anything... ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The last discussion of a &#039;goals&#039; list for the month... somewhere... petered out, so I just threw some on the front page.  (Mostly nonexistant wanted articles.)  They have a &#039;star&#039; rating to show how complete they are which you can easily edit.  Hopefully we can get these to 5 stars by the end of June! -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 02:56, 12 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Stubbed two of them already, hopefully with enough info that people can pick up easily.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 04:09, 12 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:About the list of &amp;quot;ways to help&amp;quot;... thing is, those up-front lists should be geared toward attracting new editors -- new editors who by definition aren&#039;t going to know all the million little persnickety formatting things you have to know to set up a new page.  Stuff like &amp;quot;fill in a stub&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;add storylinks&amp;quot; is a lot less intimidating, and a lot easier to slide into, than &amp;quot;here, make this page from scratch.&amp;quot;  I think an expanded list, akin to what&#039;s on my sample sandbox, should be near the top of the page, rather than a bunch of red links. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 22:33, 11 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::I would be for that.  I wanted a lost of articles that needed to be brought to completion that were already clocked in.  I just didn&#039;t know which to pick!  Sub some out!&lt;br /&gt;
::I just-- I like the list because it gives a visible sense of progress (at the end of the month) on articles that no one would be inclined to work on on their own. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 04:59, 12 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Should we have info boxes==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Transformers character|&lt;br /&gt;
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|affiliation    =Decepticon&lt;br /&gt;
|subgroup       =Voyagers&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;[[Triple Changer]]&lt;br /&gt;
|function       =Berserker&lt;br /&gt;
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|motto          =&#039;&#039;&amp;quot;Whoooo, I&#039;m freaking out!&amp;quot;&#039;&#039; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/animated/default.cfm?page=Bio&amp;amp;character=blitzwing Character bios for Transformers Animated characters&amp;lt;!-- Bot generated title --&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|alternatemodes = Dual-Barreled Assault Tank/Fighter Jet&lt;br /&gt;
|series         =[[Transformers: Animated]]&lt;br /&gt;
|engvoice = [[Bumper Robinson]]&lt;br /&gt;
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It is to include some detail like this for example&lt;br /&gt;
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:It was decided against long ago for many logistical nightmare reasons, the primary ones being that so many characters have very different bodies, affiliations, functions, mottos, jump continuities... --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 19:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:It would be a nightmare. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:32, 13 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Hmmmmm, I see. [[Special:Contributions/82.17.140.55|82.17.140.55]] 09:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:What is Optimsu Prime (G1)&#039;s altmode?  He&#039;s has close to 50.  Even if 50% of them are trucks... the other 25 aren&#039;t.  Character abilities, weapons and allegiance have shifted over ltierally millions of years, as have their bodies, catchphrases, names- and even genders.&lt;br /&gt;
:We&#039;ve taken a serious look at character boxes at least 3 times, and every proposal, no matter comprehensive, it&#039;s easy to find a character for which the box simply... &#039;&#039;breaks&#039;&#039;, being unable to accommodate the diversity of experience the character has had.&lt;br /&gt;
:Character boxes are a good idea, they provide a quick thumbnail overview of a character&#039;s history... but we don&#039;t want thumbnail overviews, we want in-depth infromation.  If you wanted a thumbnail overview, go to Wikipedia, which deletes and trims articles containing &#039;unnecessarily in-depth information.&#039; -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 09:43, 14 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you&#039;ll ever need to know about him, &amp;quot;[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]&amp;quot;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;English-Malay dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsanras&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; cartoon===&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; manga===&lt;br /&gt;
Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s rivalry began 500,000 years ago when they were both children, and according to Star Saber, &amp;quot;argued all the time&amp;quot;. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}} In his &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; years, Deathsaurus took [[Esmeral]] as his wife, and in order to keep both her and the families of his fellow Decepticons safe aboard his &amp;quot;Space Stronghold&amp;quot;, Deathsaurus began attacking Earth, in order to obtain the planet&#039;s energy and use it to keep the stronghold fully powered-up. {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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During one of his early attacks on Earth, Deathsaurus took pity on an infant human named [[Solon Kitakaze]], whose parents had died in the assault. Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; Solon and turned him into a cyborg, raising him as his own son, just as Star Saber did with the human child Jean Minakaze. As Star Saber and Deathsaurus had been rivals in their youth, so too would Solon and Jean become rivals when, in 2025, Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign against Earth intensified. &lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s first major battle in this campaign was a brief one, with Deathsaurus being felled by a single swipe of Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade, Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber! but the Emperor of Destruction had a better showing in their next clash, during which he absorbed enough energy from a forest fire to best Star Saber, Road Caesar and Landcross all together. Deathsaurus&#039;s unusual compassion for children proved to be his downfall in this battle when he was distracted by the sight of Solon, gripping Jean in a hold that threatened the boy&#039;s life. While Deathsaurus&#039;s attention was occupied with striking Solon as punishment, Star Saber blindsided and defeated him with a Super Saber Meteor Spin. Great Turn-Around! Star Saber&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus later sent Solon to study in school on Earth, in order to learn more about humans, thereby making it easier to conquer them. {{storylink|Leozack Rumbles Violently!}} While Solon was on Earth, he and Jean were approached by former Autobot human allies [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Cab]], {{storylink|Warrior of Love, Star Saber!}} and with Jean, they formed the &amp;quot;Autobot Boy Team&amp;quot; known as the [[Victories]]. Seeking to counter this group with a team of his own, Deathsaurus had [[Yokuryū]] capture Jean and bring him to the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, where he attempted to bribe the boy into joining the Decepticons&#039; group with toys, Famicom, candy and cash. When an enraged Star Saber soon came tearing into the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, Deathsaurus crossed swords with the Autobot leader, but was then distracted by Jean distracting who exploited the Decepticon&#039;s bizarre fear of caterpillars by dangling one in his face. The cowering Deathsaurus was promptly bested in dramatically explosive fashion by Star Saber&#039;s &amp;quot;Planetary Impulse Sword&amp;quot; technique, and realised with hindsight that Solon was the only kid he needed. {{storylink|Watch Out, Jean! Hurry, Star Saber!}} Deathsaurus was apparently left so badly injured by this clash that he couldn&#039;t participate in the next battle, given that he was only seen lying in bed, coughing, with Solon resting a giant ice-pack on his head. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Kingsaurus.jpg|right|thumb|The mighty King Zaras.  Mighty.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Rested and healthy again, Deathsaururs joined with [[Dinoking]] and Liokaiser in going up against Star Saber together, and perhaps not entirely surprisingly, the badly outnumbered Autobot was defeated by the three Decepticons. Before they could deliver the killing stroke, however, Star Saber was saved by the sudden arrival of Victory Leo, with whom he combined to form Victory Saber. The merged pair defeated the trio of Decepticons in one blast of their &amp;quot;Flash Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!}} Deathsaurus immediately sought out away to combat Star Saber&#039;s new power, and developed a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named &amp;quot;King Solon,&amp;quot; with which he could combine to form &amp;quot;King Zaras&amp;quot;. In this new form, Deathsaurus battled Victory Saber on the planet [[Guard]], with neither combatant getting the upper hand in other three hours of fighting. When [[Patty Minakaze]]&#039;s mentioned the word &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;, however, something of Solon&#039;s past was stirred in the boy&#039;s mind, and he was distracted long enough for Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mech components with his Victory. The burning Solon tumbled to the ground, where Patty tended his wounds despite his protestations. Perhaps wary of Solon&#039;s confused emotional state, Deathsaurus reminded him that while he was a human child, he was a Decepticon&#039;s son by fate. {{storylink|Mighty! Victory Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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As it turned out, Deathsaurus was right to be wary—in the midst of a later battle with Star Saber and Road Caesar, Solon turned against Deathsaurus and sided with the Victories, opening fire on his &amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and declaring that he would fight to protect the Earth, instead of destroy it. Now with Solon on their side, the Victories were able to channel their power into the Autobots, and the Decepticons were sent fleeing by the &amp;quot;Five Stars of Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|Shine! The Five Stars of Victory}} Deathsaurus led the Decepticons back to the Space Stronghold and began bombarding the Earth with meteor bombs, prompting the Autobots to attack it. Deathsaurus left the Breastforce to man the fortress while he engaged Star Saber in a final battle in the void of space, but had not reckoned with the treachery of Leozack, who fired on his emperor with the fortress&#039;s main cannon. To save himself, Deathsaurus was forced to return fire on the fortress, and Star Saber followed suite, smashing into the fortress&#039;s control chamber and taking Leozack down. As Leozack begged the Autobots not to destroy the fortress, the wounded Deathsaurus arrived and revealed to the Autobots the presence of the Decepticons&#039; families aboard the vessel. Realizing that the Decepticons&#039; had only done what they had in the name of their families&#039; safety, Star Saber decided that it was time for the two leaders to follow the example set by their sons and lay down their arms. Deathsaurus and Star Saber shook hands, and the war came to an end, bringing peace to everyone - the truest victory of all! {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus was an ancient Transformer from Cybertron&#039;s lost past. While searching for clues about the planet&#039;s history, Megatron stumbled across a hidden chamber beneath the planet&#039;s surface containing two massive statues of Deathsaurus and [[Dai Atlas]], holding a [[Golden Disk (Dreamwave)|golden disk]] between them. This chamber apparently told of a vast Cybertronian Empire that ended prior to recorded history. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Years later, towards the end of the Great War, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] worked under Deathsaurus as a supply manager. When the final defeat of the Decepticons at last came, Cryotek led his fellow Predacon workers in a rebellion against Deathsaurus, and used the materials he stole from his depot to begin his own criminal empire. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cryotek&#039;s [[Transformers Collectors&#039; Club]] exclusive profile.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
===Victory===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Japanese ID number&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;D-336&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast &amp;amp; Eaglebreast &amp;quot;Breast Animals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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:Deathsaurus transforms into a blue and grey monster styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaijū&amp;quot;, looking like nothing quite so much as a giant mutant space chicken. Unusual for late Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in beast mode. &lt;br /&gt;
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:Deathsaurus comes packaged with his Breast Animal partners, Tigerbreast and Eaglebreast, which transform from creatures into hand-held weapons for Deathsaurus, and a pair of breastplates which lock into a spring-loaded socket on the toy&#039;s body to form elaborate torso armor for the Deathsaurus&#039;s robot mode. Eaglebreast is inserted first, then Tigerbreast fits on top, concealing it; the figures can also be attached while Deathsaurus is in beast mode, which leaves them on his creature-mode&#039;s back. Deathsaurus comes with armament in addition to his Breast Animals, including a light blue laser rifle—which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does not have a removable flail—that can be wielded by both an ordinary handle, and a second peg on its butt that allows it to be brandished like a staff or blade of some kind, and his &amp;quot;Death Tailer&amp;quot; shield, which mounts on either of his biceps, and transforms into his beast mode tail. &lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: 2 hilts, 2 sword-blade/missiles&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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::*&#039;&#039;[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Decepticon/BCDeathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm More information on BotCon Deathsaurus at TFU.info]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
===Parody Deformed===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (1990) &lt;br /&gt;
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:A small, blue, white and red, non-transforming [[super-deformed]] model kit of Deathsaurus was available as part of [[Kabaya]]&#039;s &amp;quot;[[Parody Deformed]]&amp;quot; line of candy toys. The fourth figure in the series, he came with a &amp;quot;[[Transformer PD Type]]&amp;quot; comic about himself, &amp;quot;Good Job! Deathsaurus!!&amp;quot;, and something that could charitably be described as &amp;quot;gum&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
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:A PVC figurine of Deathsaurus was released in the seventh Victory-centric &amp;quot;act&amp;quot; of Takara&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Super Collection Figure]].&#039;&#039;  Deathsaururs was available in both standard full-color version and metallic silver &amp;quot;pewter&amp;quot; versions; the pewter version came packaged with the wings of Victory Saber, one of several extra pieces packed with the various figures from the wave which could combine with the act&#039;s Star Saber figure to turn it into Victory Saber. The wings were available in both standard full color (at a rate of eight out of every ten cases) and rare pewter (only two in every ten). &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras with Eaglebreast&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002) &lt;br /&gt;
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:Also available in the seventh wave was a rare &amp;quot;chase&amp;quot; version of the Deathsaurus PVC, available at a rate of one in every ten cases, featuring the character with his inner Breast Animal partner, Eaglebreast, on display, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast. &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsauruspin.jpg|thumb|75px|Deathstickus]] &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Anyway, if you plan on insisting his name is &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, please learn to spell it.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;English-Malay dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsanras&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s rivalry began 500,000 years ago when they were both children, and according to Star Saber, &amp;quot;argued all the time&amp;quot;. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}} In his &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; years, Deathsaurus took [[Esmeral]] as his wife, and in order to keep both her and the families of his fellow Decepticons safe aboard his &amp;quot;Space Stronghold&amp;quot;, Deathsaurus began attacking Earth, in order to obtain the planet&#039;s energy and use it to keep the stronghold fully powered-up. {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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During one of his early attacks on Earth, Deathsaurus took pity on an infant human named [[Solon Kitakaze]], whose parents had died in the assault. Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; Solon and turned him into a cyborg, raising him as his own son, just as Star Saber did with the human child Jean Minakaze. As Star Saber and Deathsaurus had been rivals in their youth, so too would Solon and Jean become rivals when, in 2025, Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign against Earth intensified. &lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s first major battle in this campaign was a brief one, with Deathsaurus being felled by a single swipe of Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade, Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber! but the Emperor of Destruction had a better showing in their next clash, during which he absorbed enough energy from a forest fire to best Star Saber, Road Caesar and Landcross all together. Deathsaurus&#039;s unusual compassion for children proved to be his downfall in this battle when he was distracted by the sight of Solon, gripping Jean in a hold that threatened the boy&#039;s life. While Deathsaurus&#039;s attention was occupied with striking Solon as punishment, Star Saber blindsided and defeated him with a Super Saber Meteor Spin. Great Turn-Around! Star Saber&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus later sent Solon to study in school on Earth, in order to learn more about humans, thereby making it easier to conquer them. {{storylink|Leozack Rumbles Violently!}} While Solon was on Earth, he and Jean were approached by former Autobot human allies [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Cab]], {{storylink|Warrior of Love, Star Saber!}} and with Jean, they formed the &amp;quot;Autobot Boy Team&amp;quot; known as the [[Victories]]. Seeking to counter this group with a team of his own, Deathsaurus had [[Yokuryū]] capture Jean and bring him to the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, where he attempted to bribe the boy into joining the Decepticons&#039; group with toys, Famicom, candy and cash. When an enraged Star Saber soon came tearing into the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, Deathsaurus crossed swords with the Autobot leader, but was then distracted by Jean distracting who exploited the Decepticon&#039;s bizarre fear of caterpillars by dangling one in his face. The cowering Deathsaurus was promptly bested in dramatically explosive fashion by Star Saber&#039;s &amp;quot;Planetary Impulse Sword&amp;quot; technique, and realised with hindsight that Solon was the only kid he needed. {{storylink|Watch Out, Jean! Hurry, Star Saber!}} Deathsaurus was apparently left so badly injured by this clash that he couldn&#039;t participate in the next battle, given that he was only seen lying in bed, coughing, with Solon resting a giant ice-pack on his head. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Rested and healthy again, Deathsaururs joined with [[Dinoking]] and Liokaiser in going up against Star Saber together, and perhaps not entirely surprisingly, the badly outnumbered Autobot was defeated by the three Decepticons. Before they could deliver the killing stroke, however, Star Saber was saved by the sudden arrival of Victory Leo, with whom he combined to form Victory Saber. The merged pair defeated the trio of Decepticons in one blast of their &amp;quot;Flash Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!}} Deathsaurus immediately sought out away to combat Star Saber&#039;s new power, and developed a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named &amp;quot;King Solon,&amp;quot; with which he could combine to form &amp;quot;King Zaras&amp;quot;. In this new form, Deathsaurus battled Victory Saber on the planet [[Guard]], with neither combatant getting the upper hand in other three hours of fighting. When [[Patty Minakaze]]&#039;s mentioned the word &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;, however, something of Solon&#039;s past was stirred in the boy&#039;s mind, and he was distracted long enough for Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mech components with his Victory. The burning Solon tumbled to the ground, where Patty tended his wounds despite his protestations. Perhaps wary of Solon&#039;s confused emotional state, Deathsaurus reminded him that while he was a human child, he was a Decepticon&#039;s son by fate. {{storylink|Mighty! Victory Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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As it turned out, Deathsaurus was right to be wary—in the midst of a later battle with Star Saber and Road Caesar, Solon turned against Deathsaurus and sided with the Victories, opening fire on his &amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and declaring that he would fight to protect the Earth, instead of destroy it. Now with Solon on their side, the Victories were able to channel their power into the Autobots, and the Decepticons were sent fleeing by the &amp;quot;Five Stars of Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|Shine! The Five Stars of Victory}} Deathsaurus led the Decepticons back to the Space Stronghold and began bombarding the Earth with meteor bombs, prompting the Autobots to attack it. Deathsaurus left the Breastforce to man the fortress while he engaged Star Saber in a final battle in the void of space, but had not reckoned with the treachery of Leozack, who fired on his emperor with the fortress&#039;s main cannon. To save himself, Deathsaurus was forced to return fire on the fortress, and Star Saber followed suite, smashing into the fortress&#039;s control chamber and taking Leozack down. As Leozack begged the Autobots not to destroy the fortress, the wounded Deathsaurus arrived and revealed to the Autobots the presence of the Decepticons&#039; families aboard the vessel. Realizing that the Decepticons&#039; had only done what they had in the name of their families&#039; safety, Star Saber decided that it was time for the two leaders to follow the example set by their sons and lay down their arms. Deathsaurus and Star Saber shook hands, and the war came to an end, bringing peace to everyone - the truest victory of all! {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus was an ancient Transformer from Cybertron&#039;s lost past. While searching for clues about the planet&#039;s history, Megatron stumbled across a hidden chamber beneath the planet&#039;s surface containing two massive statues of Deathsaurus and [[Dai Atlas]], holding a [[Golden Disk (Dreamwave)|golden disk]] between them. This chamber apparently told of a vast Cybertronian Empire that ended prior to recorded history. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Years later, towards the end of the Great War, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] worked under Deathsaurus as a supply manager. When the final defeat of the Decepticons at last came, Cryotek led his fellow Predacon workers in a rebellion against Deathsaurus, and used the materials he stole from his depot to begin his own criminal empire. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cryotek&#039;s [[Transformers Collectors&#039; Club]] exclusive profile.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Deathsaurus comes packaged with his Breast Animal partners, Tigerbreast and Eaglebreast, which transform from creatures into hand-held weapons for Deathsaurus, and a pair of breastplates which lock into a spring-loaded socket on the toy&#039;s body to form elaborate torso armor for the Deathsaurus&#039;s robot mode. Eaglebreast is inserted first, then Tigerbreast fits on top, concealing it; the figures can also be attached while Deathsaurus is in beast mode, which leaves them on his creature-mode&#039;s back. Deathsaurus comes with armament in addition to his Breast Animals, including a light blue laser rifle—which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does not have a removable flail—that can be wielded by both an ordinary handle, and a second peg on its butt that allows it to be brandished like a staff or blade of some kind, and his &amp;quot;Death Tailer&amp;quot; shield, which mounts on either of his biceps, and transforms into his beast mode tail. &lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
===Parody Deformed===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (1990) &lt;br /&gt;
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:A small, blue, white and red, non-transforming [[super-deformed]] model kit of Deathsaurus was available as part of [[Kabaya]]&#039;s &amp;quot;[[Parody Deformed]]&amp;quot; line of candy toys. The fourth figure in the series, he came with a &amp;quot;[[Transformer PD Type]]&amp;quot; comic about himself, &amp;quot;Good Job! Deathsaurus!!&amp;quot;, and something that could charitably be described as &amp;quot;gum&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
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:A PVC figurine of Deathsaurus was released in the seventh Victory-centric &amp;quot;act&amp;quot; of Takara&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Super Collection Figure]].&#039;&#039;  Deathsaururs was available in both standard full-color version and metallic silver &amp;quot;pewter&amp;quot; versions; the pewter version came packaged with the wings of Victory Saber, one of several extra pieces packed with the various figures from the wave which could combine with the act&#039;s Star Saber figure to turn it into Victory Saber. The wings were available in both standard full color (at a rate of eight out of every ten cases) and rare pewter (only two in every ten). &lt;br /&gt;
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:Also available in the seventh wave was a rare &amp;quot;chase&amp;quot; version of the Deathsaurus PVC, available at a rate of one in every ten cases, featuring the character with his inner Breast Animal partner, Eaglebreast, on display, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast. &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Anyway, if you plan on insisting his name is &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, please learn to spell it.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you&#039;ll ever need to know about him, &amp;quot;[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]&amp;quot;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;English-Malay dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsanras&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; cartoon===&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; manga===&lt;br /&gt;
Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s rivalry began 500,000 years ago when they were both children, and according to Star Saber, &amp;quot;argued all the time&amp;quot;. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}} In his &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; years, Deathsaurus took [[Esmeral]] as his wife, and in order to keep both her and the families of his fellow Decepticons safe aboard his &amp;quot;Space Stronghold&amp;quot;, Deathsaurus began attacking Earth, in order to obtain the planet&#039;s energy and use it to keep the stronghold fully powered-up. {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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During one of his early attacks on Earth, Deathsaurus took pity on an infant human named [[Solon Kitakaze]], whose parents had died in the assault. Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; Solon and turned him into a cyborg, raising him as his own son, just as Star Saber did with the human child Jean Minakaze. As Star Saber and Deathsaurus had been rivals in their youth, so too would Solon and Jean become rivals when, in 2025, Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign against Earth intensified. &lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s first major battle in this campaign was a brief one, with Deathsaurus being felled by a single swipe of Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade, Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber! but the Emperor of Destruction had a better showing in their next clash, during which he absorbed enough energy from a forest fire to best Star Saber, Road Caesar and Landcross all together. Deathsaurus&#039;s unusual compassion for children proved to be his downfall in this battle when he was distracted by the sight of Solon, gripping Jean in a hold that threatened the boy&#039;s life. While Deathsaurus&#039;s attention was occupied with striking Solon as punishment, Star Saber blindsided and defeated him with a Super Saber Meteor Spin. Great Turn-Around! Star Saber&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus later sent Solon to study in school on Earth, in order to learn more about humans, thereby making it easier to conquer them. {{storylink|Leozack Rumbles Violently!}} While Solon was on Earth, he and Jean were approached by former Autobot human allies [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Cab]], {{storylink|Warrior of Love, Star Saber!}} and with Jean, they formed the &amp;quot;Autobot Boy Team&amp;quot; known as the [[Victories]]. Seeking to counter this group with a team of his own, Deathsaurus had [[Yokuryū]] capture Jean and bring him to the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, where he attempted to bribe the boy into joining the Decepticons&#039; group with toys, Famicom, candy and cash. When an enraged Star Saber soon came tearing into the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, Deathsaurus crossed swords with the Autobot leader, but was then distracted by Jean distracting who exploited the Decepticon&#039;s bizarre fear of caterpillars by dangling one in his face. The cowering Deathsaurus was promptly bested in dramatically explosive fashion by Star Saber&#039;s &amp;quot;Planetary Impulse Sword&amp;quot; technique, and realised with hindsight that Solon was the only kid he needed. {{storylink|Watch Out, Jean! Hurry, Star Saber!}} Deathsaurus was apparently left so badly injured by this clash that he couldn&#039;t participate in the next battle, given that he was only seen lying in bed, coughing, with Solon resting a giant ice-pack on his head. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Kingsaurus.jpg|right|thumb|The mighty King Zaras.  Mighty.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Rested and healthy again, Deathsaururs joined with [[Dinoking]] and Liokaiser in going up against Star Saber together, and perhaps not entirely surprisingly, the badly outnumbered Autobot was defeated by the three Decepticons. Before they could deliver the killing stroke, however, Star Saber was saved by the sudden arrival of Victory Leo, with whom he combined to form Victory Saber. The merged pair defeated the trio of Decepticons in one blast of their &amp;quot;Flash Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!}} Deathsaurus immediately sought out away to combat Star Saber&#039;s new power, and developed a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named &amp;quot;King Solon,&amp;quot; with which he could combine to form &amp;quot;King Zaras&amp;quot;. In this new form, Deathsaurus battled Victory Saber on the planet [[Guard]], with neither combatant getting the upper hand in other three hours of fighting. When [[Patty Minakaze]]&#039;s mentioned the word &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;, however, something of Solon&#039;s past was stirred in the boy&#039;s mind, and he was distracted long enough for Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mech components with his Victory. The burning Solon tumbled to the ground, where Patty tended his wounds despite his protestations. Perhaps wary of Solon&#039;s confused emotional state, Deathsaurus reminded him that while he was a human child, he was a Decepticon&#039;s son by fate. {{storylink|Mighty! Victory Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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As it turned out, Deathsaurus was right to be wary—in the midst of a later battle with Star Saber and Road Caesar, Solon turned against Deathsaurus and sided with the Victories, opening fire on his &amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and declaring that he would fight to protect the Earth, instead of destroy it. Now with Solon on their side, the Victories were able to channel their power into the Autobots, and the Decepticons were sent fleeing by the &amp;quot;Five Stars of Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|Shine! The Five Stars of Victory}} Deathsaurus led the Decepticons back to the Space Stronghold and began bombarding the Earth with meteor bombs, prompting the Autobots to attack it. Deathsaurus left the Breastforce to man the fortress while he engaged Star Saber in a final battle in the void of space, but had not reckoned with the treachery of Leozack, who fired on his emperor with the fortress&#039;s main cannon. To save himself, Deathsaurus was forced to return fire on the fortress, and Star Saber followed suite, smashing into the fortress&#039;s control chamber and taking Leozack down. As Leozack begged the Autobots not to destroy the fortress, the wounded Deathsaurus arrived and revealed to the Autobots the presence of the Decepticons&#039; families aboard the vessel. Realizing that the Decepticons&#039; had only done what they had in the name of their families&#039; safety, Star Saber decided that it was time for the two leaders to follow the example set by their sons and lay down their arms. Deathsaurus and Star Saber shook hands, and the war came to an end, bringing peace to everyone - the truest victory of all! {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus was an ancient Transformer from Cybertron&#039;s lost past. While searching for clues about the planet&#039;s history, Megatron stumbled across a hidden chamber beneath the planet&#039;s surface containing two massive statues of Deathsaurus and [[Dai Atlas]], holding a [[Golden Disk (Dreamwave)|golden disk]] between them. This chamber apparently told of a vast Cybertronian Empire that ended prior to recorded history. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Years later, towards the end of the Great War, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] worked under Deathsaurus as a supply manager. When the final defeat of the Decepticons at last came, Cryotek led his fellow Predacon workers in a rebellion against Deathsaurus, and used the materials he stole from his depot to begin his own criminal empire. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cryotek&#039;s [[Transformers Collectors&#039; Club]] exclusive profile.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
===Victory===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
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**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast &amp;amp; Eaglebreast &amp;quot;Breast Animals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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:Deathsaurus transforms into a blue and grey monster styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaijū&amp;quot;, looking like nothing quite so much as a giant mutant space chicken. Unusual for late Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in beast mode. &lt;br /&gt;
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:Deathsaurus comes packaged with his Breast Animal partners, Tigerbreast and Eaglebreast, which transform from creatures into hand-held weapons for Deathsaurus, and a pair of breastplates which lock into a spring-loaded socket on the toy&#039;s body to form elaborate torso armor for the Deathsaurus&#039;s robot mode. Eaglebreast is inserted first, then Tigerbreast fits on top, concealing it; the figures can also be attached while Deathsaurus is in beast mode, which leaves them on his creature-mode&#039;s back. Deathsaurus comes with armament in addition to his Breast Animals, including a light blue laser rifle—which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does not have a removable flail—that can be wielded by both an ordinary handle, and a second peg on its butt that allows it to be brandished like a staff or blade of some kind, and his &amp;quot;Death Tailer&amp;quot; shield, which mounts on either of his biceps, and transforms into his beast mode tail. &lt;br /&gt;
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::*&#039;&#039;[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm More information on Deszaras at TFU.info]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: 2 hilts, 2 sword-blade/missiles&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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::*&#039;&#039;[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Decepticon/BCDeathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm More information on BotCon Deathsaurus at TFU.info]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
===Super Figure Collection===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:SFCAct7Deszaras.jpg|left|thumb|100px|It was cold.  I dressed in layers.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Deathsaurus was released in Act 7 of the Takara [[Super Collection Figure]] line as a non-transforming PVC with a funky pose and limited posability. Two pieces came per case of 12 PVCs, one in full-color and one in pewter-finish. He also came with a clear-plastic stand, and the pewter version came with one piece to add to wave-mate [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] to turn him into [[Victory Saber]]. (This add-on piece could also be either full-color or pewter-finish.)&lt;br /&gt;
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: A limited chase version (shown here) features his inner Breastforce member, Eaglebreast, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsauruspin.jpg|thumb|75px|Deathstickus]] &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Anyway, if you plan on insisting his name is &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, please learn to spell it.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s rivalry began 500,000 years ago when they were both children, and according to Star Saber, &amp;quot;argued all the time&amp;quot;. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}} In his &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; years, Deathsaurus took [[Esmeral]] as his wife, and in order to keep both her and the families of his fellow Decepticons safe aboard his &amp;quot;Space Stronghold&amp;quot;, Deathsaurus began attacking Earth, in order to obtain the planet&#039;s energy and use it to keep the stronghold fully powered-up. {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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During one of his early attacks on Earth, Deathsaurus took pity on an infant human named [[Solon Kitakaze]], whose parents had died in the assault. Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; Solon and turned him into a cyborg, raising him as his own son, just as Star Saber did with the human child Jean Minakaze. As Star Saber and Deathsaurus had been rivals in their youth, so too would Solon and Jean become rivals when, in 2025, Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign against Earth intensified. &lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s first major battle in this campaign was a brief one, with Deathsaurus being felled by a single swipe of Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade, Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber! but the Emperor of Destruction had a better showing in their next clash, during which he absorbed enough energy from a forest fire to best Star Saber, Road Caesar and Landcross all together. Deathsaurus&#039;s unusual compassion for children proved to be his downfall in this battle when he was distracted by the sight of Solon, gripping Jean in a hold that threatened the boy&#039;s life. While Deathsaurus&#039;s attention was occupied with striking Solon as punishment, Star Saber blindsided and defeated him with a Super Saber Meteor Spin. Great Turn-Around! Star Saber&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus later sent Solon to study in school on Earth, in order to learn more about humans, thereby making it easier to conquer them. {{storylink|Leozack Rumbles Violently!}} While Solon was on Earth, he and Jean were approached by former Autobot human allies [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Cab]], {{storylink|Warrior of Love, Star Saber!}} and with Jean, they formed the &amp;quot;Autobot Boy Team&amp;quot; known as the [[Victories]]. Seeking to counter this group with a team of his own, Deathsaurus had [[Yokuryū]] capture Jean and bring him to the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, where he attempted to bribe the boy into joining the Decepticons&#039; group with toys, Famicom, candy and cash. When an enraged Star Saber soon came tearing into the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, Deathsaurus crossed swords with the Autobot leader, but was then distracted by Jean distracting who exploited the Decepticon&#039;s bizarre fear of caterpillars by dangling one in his face. The cowering Deathsaurus was promptly bested in dramatically explosive fashion by Star Saber&#039;s &amp;quot;Planetary Impulse Sword&amp;quot; technique, and realised with hindsight that Solon was the only kid he needed. {{storylink|Watch Out, Jean! Hurry, Star Saber!}} Deathsaurus was apparently left so badly injured by this clash that he couldn&#039;t participate in the next battle, given that he was only seen lying in bed, coughing, with Solon resting a giant ice-pack on his head. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Kingsaurus.jpg|right|thumb|The mighty King Zaras.  Mighty.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Rested and healthy again, Deathsaururs joined with [[Dinoking]] and Liokaiser in going up against Star Saber together, and perhaps not entirely surprisingly, the badly outnumbered Autobot was defeated by the three Decepticons. Before they could deliver the killing stroke, however, Star Saber was saved by the sudden arrival of Victory Leo, with whom he combined to form Victory Saber. The merged pair defeated the trio of Decepticons in one blast of their &amp;quot;Flash Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!}} Deathsaurus immediately sought out away to combat Star Saber&#039;s new power, and developed a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named &amp;quot;King Solon,&amp;quot; with which he could combine to form &amp;quot;King Zaras&amp;quot;. In this new form, Deathsaurus battled Victory Saber on the planet [[Guard]], with neither combatant getting the upper hand in other three hours of fighting. When [[Patty Minakaze]]&#039;s mentioned the word &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;, however, something of Solon&#039;s past was stirred in the boy&#039;s mind, and he was distracted long enough for Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mech components with his Victory. The burning Solon tumbled to the ground, where Patty tended his wounds despite his protestations. Perhaps wary of Solon&#039;s confused emotional state, Deathsaurus reminded him that while he was a human child, he was a Decepticon&#039;s son by fate. {{storylink|Mighty! Victory Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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As it turned out, Deathsaurus was right to be wary—in the midst of a later battle with Star Saber and Road Caesar, Solon turned against Deathsaurus and sided with the Victories, opening fire on his &amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and declaring that he would fight to protect the Earth, instead of destroy it. Now with Solon on their side, the Victories were able to channel their power into the Autobots, and the Decepticons were sent fleeing by the &amp;quot;Five Stars of Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|Shine! The Five Stars of Victory}} Deathsaurus led the Decepticons back to the Space Stronghold and began bombarding the Earth with meteor bombs, prompting the Autobots to attack it. Deathsaurus left the Breastforce to man the fortress while he engaged Star Saber in a final battle in the void of space, but had not reckoned with the treachery of Leozack, who fired on his emperor with the fortress&#039;s main cannon. To save himself, Deathsaurus was forced to return fire on the fortress, and Star Saber followed suite, smashing into the fortress&#039;s control chamber and taking Leozack down. As Leozack begged the Autobots not to destroy the fortress, the wounded Deathsaurus arrived and revealed to the Autobots the presence of the Decepticons&#039; families aboard the vessel. Realizing that the Decepticons&#039; had only done what they had in the name of their families&#039; safety, Star Saber decided that it was time for the two leaders to follow the example set by their sons and lay down their arms. Deathsaurus and Star Saber shook hands, and the war came to an end, bringing peace to everyone - the truest victory of all! {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus was an ancient Transformer from Cybertron&#039;s lost past. While searching for clues about the planet&#039;s history, Megatron stumbled across a hidden chamber beneath the planet&#039;s surface containing two massive statues of Deathsaurus and [[Dai Atlas]], holding a [[Golden Disk (Dreamwave)|golden disk]] between them. This chamber apparently told of a vast Cybertronian Empire that ended prior to recorded history. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Years later, towards the end of the Great War, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] worked under Deathsaurus as a supply manager. When the final defeat of the Decepticons at last came, Cryotek led his fellow Predacon workers in a rebellion against Deathsaurus, and used the materials he stole from his depot to begin his own criminal empire. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cryotek&#039;s [[Transformers Collectors&#039; Club]] exclusive profile.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
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**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast &amp;amp; Eaglebreast &amp;quot;Breast Animals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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:Deathsaurus comes packaged with his Breast Animal partners, Tigerbreast and Eaglebreast, which transform from creatures into hand-held weapons for Deathsaurus, and a pair of breastplates which lock into a spring-loaded socket on the toy&#039;s body to form elaborate torso armor for the Deathsaurus&#039;s robot mode. Eaglebreast is inserted first, then Tigerbreast fits on top, concealing it; the figures can also be attached while Deathsaurus is in beast mode, which leaves them on his creature-mode&#039;s back. Deathsaurus comes with armament in addition to his Breast Animals, including a light blue laser rifle—which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does not have a removable flail—that can be wielded by both an ordinary handle, and a second peg on its butt that allows it to be brandished like a staff or blade of some kind, and his &amp;quot;Death Tailer&amp;quot; shield, which mounts on either of his biceps, and transforms into his beast mode tail. &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
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: Deathsaurus was released in Act 7 of the Takara [[Super Collection Figure]] line as a non-transforming PVC with a funky pose and limited posability. Two pieces came per case of 12 PVCs, one in full-color and one in pewter-finish. He also came with a clear-plastic stand, and the pewter version came with one piece to add to wave-mate [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] to turn him into [[Victory Saber]]. (This add-on piece could also be either full-color or pewter-finish.)&lt;br /&gt;
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: A limited chase version (shown here) features his inner Breastforce member, Eaglebreast, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast.&lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you&#039;ll ever need to know about him, &amp;quot;[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]&amp;quot;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;English-Malay dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsanras&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; cartoon===&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; manga===&lt;br /&gt;
Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s rivalry began 500,000 years ago when they were both children, and according to Star Saber, &amp;quot;argued all the time&amp;quot;. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}} In his &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; years, Deathsaurus took [[Esmeral]] as his wife, and in order to keep both her and the families of his fellow Decepticons safe aboard his &amp;quot;Space Stronghold&amp;quot;, Deathsaurus began attacking Earth, in order to obtain the planet&#039;s energy and use it to keep the stronghold fully powered-up. {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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During one of his early attacks on Earth, Deathsaurus took pity on an infant human named [[Solon Kitakaze]], whose parents had died in the assault. Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; Solon and turned him into a cyborg, raising him as his own son, just as Star Saber did with the human child Jean Minakaze. As Star Saber and Deathsaurus had been rivals in their youth, so too would Solon and Jean become rivals when, in 2025, Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign against Earth intensified. &lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s first major battle in this campaign was a brief one, with Deathsaurus being felled by a single swipe of Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade, Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber! but the Emperor of Destruction had a better showing in their next clash, during which he absorbed enough energy from a forest fire to best Star Saber, Road Caesar and Landcross all together. Deathsaurus&#039;s unusual compassion for children proved to be his downfall in this battle when he was distracted by the sight of Solon, gripping Jean in a hold that threatened the boy&#039;s life. While Deathsaurus&#039;s attention was occupied with striking Solon as punishment, Star Saber blindsided and defeated him with a Super Saber Meteor Spin. Great Turn-Around! Star Saber&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus later sent Solon to study in school on Earth, in order to learn more about humans, thereby making it easier to conquer them. {{storylink|Leozack Rumbles Violently!}} While Solon was on Earth, he and Jean were approached by former Autobot human allies [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Cab]], {{storylink|Warrior of Love, Star Saber!}} and with Jean, they formed the &amp;quot;Autobot Boy Team&amp;quot; known as the [[Victories]]. Seeking to counter this group with a team of his own, Deathsaurus had [[Yokuryū]] capture Jean and bring him to the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, where he attempted to bribe the boy into joining the Decepticons&#039; group with toys, Famicom, candy and cash. When an enraged Star Saber soon came tearing into the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, Deathsaurus crossed swords with the Autobot leader, but was then distracted by Jean distracting who exploited the Decepticon&#039;s bizarre fear of caterpillars by dangling one in his face. The cowering Deathsaurus was promptly bested in dramatically explosive fashion by Star Saber&#039;s &amp;quot;Planetary Impulse Sword&amp;quot; technique, and realised with hindsight that Solon was the only kid he needed. {{storylink|Watch Out, Jean! Hurry, Star Saber!}} Deathsaurus was apparently left so badly injured by this clash that he couldn&#039;t participate in the next battle, given that he was only seen lying in bed, coughing, with Solon resting a giant ice-pack on his head. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Kingsaurus.jpg|right|thumb|The mighty King Zaras.  Mighty.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Rested and healthy again, Deathsaururs joined with [[Dinoking]] and Liokaiser in going up against Star Saber together, and perhaps not entirely surprisingly, the badly outnumbered Autobot was defeated by the three Decepticons. Before they could deliver the killing stroke, however, Star Saber was saved by the sudden arrival of Victory Leo, with whom he combined to form Victory Saber. The merged pair defeated the trio of Decepticons in one blast of their &amp;quot;Flash Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!}} Deathsaurus immediately sought out away to combat Star Saber&#039;s new power, and developed a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named &amp;quot;King Solon,&amp;quot; with which he could combine to form &amp;quot;King Zaras&amp;quot;. In this new form, Deathsaurus battled Victory Saber on the planet [[Guard]], with neither combatant getting the upper hand in other three hours of fighting. When [[Patty Minakaze]]&#039;s mentioned the word &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;, however, something of Solon&#039;s past was stirred in the boy&#039;s mind, and he was distracted long enough for Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mech components with his Victory. The burning Solon tumbled to the ground, where Patty tended his wounds despite his protestations. Perhaps wary of Solon&#039;s confused emotional state, Deathsaurus reminded him that while he was a human child, he was a Decepticon&#039;s son by fate. {{storylink|Mighty! Victory Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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As it turned out, Deathsaurus was right to be wary—in the midst of a later battle with Star Saber and Road Caesar, Solon turned against Deathsaurus and sided with the Victories, opening fire on his &amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and declaring that he would fight to protect the Earth, instead of destroy it. Now with Solon on their side, the Victories were able to channel their power into the Autobots, and the Decepticons were sent fleeing by the &amp;quot;Five Stars of Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|Shine! The Five Stars of Victory}} Deathsaurus led the Decepticons back to the Space Stronghold and began bombarding the Earth with meteor bombs, prompting the Autobots to attack it. Deathsaurus left the Breastforce to man the fortress while he engaged Star Saber in a final battle in the void of space, but had not reckoned with the treachery of Leozack, who fired on his emperor with the fortress&#039;s main cannon. To save himself, Deathsaurus was forced to return fire on the fortress, and Star Saber followed suite, smashing into the fortress&#039;s control chamber and taking Leozack down. As Leozack begged the Autobots not to destroy the fortress, the wounded Deathsaurus arrived and revealed to the Autobots the presence of the Decepticons&#039; families aboard the vessel. Realizing that the Decepticons&#039; had only done what they had in the name of their families&#039; safety, Star Saber decided that it was time for the two leaders to follow the example set by their sons and lay down their arms. Deathsaurus and Star Saber shook hands, and the war came to an end, bringing peace to everyone - the truest victory of all! {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus was an ancient Transformer from Cybertron&#039;s lost past. While searching for clues about the planet&#039;s history, Megatron stumbled across a hidden chamber beneath the planet&#039;s surface containing two massive statues of Deathsaurus and [[Dai Atlas]], holding a [[Golden Disk (Dreamwave)|golden disk]] between them. This chamber apparently told of a vast Cybertronian Empire that ended prior to recorded history. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Years later, towards the end of the Great War, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] worked under Deathsaurus as a supply manager. When the final defeat of the Decepticons at last came, Cryotek led his fellow Predacon workers in a rebellion against Deathsaurus, and used the materials he stole from his depot to begin his own criminal empire. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cryotek&#039;s [[Transformers Collectors&#039; Club]] exclusive profile.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
===Victory===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Japanese ID number&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;D-336&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast &amp;amp; Eaglebreast &amp;quot;Breast Animals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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:Deathsaurus transforms into a blue and grey monster styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaijū&amp;quot;, looking like nothing quite so much as a giant mutant space chicken. Unusual for late Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in beast mode. &lt;br /&gt;
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:Deathsaurus comes packaged with his Breast Animal partners, Tigerbreast and Eaglebreast, which transform from creatures into hand-held weapons for Deathsaurus, and a pair of breastplates which lock into a spring-loaded socket on the toy&#039;s body to form elaborate torso armor for the Deathsaurus&#039;s robot mode. Eaglebreast is inserted first, then Tigerbreast fits on top, concealing it; the figures can also be attached while Deathsaurus is in beast mode, which leaves them on his creature-mode&#039;s back. Deathsaurus comes with armament in addition to his Breast Animals, including a light blue laser rifle—which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does not have a removable flail—that can be wielded by both an ordinary handle, and a second peg on its butt that allows it to be brandished like a staff or blade of some kind, and his &amp;quot;Death Tailer&amp;quot; shield, which mounts on either of his biceps, and transforms into his beast mode tail. &lt;br /&gt;
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::*&#039;&#039;[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm More information on Deszaras at TFU.info]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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*&#039;&#039;[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Decepticon/BCDeathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm More information on BotCon Deathsaurus at TFU.info]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
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: Deathsaurus was released in Act 7 of the Takara [[Super Collection Figure]] line as a non-transforming PVC with a funky pose and limited posability. Two pieces came per case of 12 PVCs, one in full-color and one in pewter-finish. He also came with a clear-plastic stand, and the pewter version came with one piece to add to wave-mate [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] to turn him into [[Victory Saber]]. (This add-on piece could also be either full-color or pewter-finish.)&lt;br /&gt;
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: A limited chase version (shown here) features his inner Breastforce member, Eaglebreast, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast.&lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you&#039;ll ever need to know about him, &amp;quot;[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]&amp;quot;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s rivalry began 500,000 years ago when they were both children, and according to Star Saber, &amp;quot;argued all the time&amp;quot;. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}} In his &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; years, Deathsaurus took [[Esmeral]] as his wife, and in order to keep both her and the families of his fellow Decepticons safe aboard his &amp;quot;Space Stronghold&amp;quot;, Deathsaurus began attacking Earth, in order to obtain the planet&#039;s energy and use it to keep the stronghold fully powered-up. {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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During one of his early attacks on Earth, Deathsaurus took pity on an infant human named [[Solon Kitakaze]], whose parents had died in the assault. Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; Solon and turned him into a cyborg, raising him as his own son, just as Star Saber did with the human child Jean Minakaze. As Star Saber and Deathsaurus had been rivals in their youth, so too would Solon and Jean become rivals when, in 2025, Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign against Earth intensified. &lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s first major battle in this campaign was a brief one, with Deathsaurus being felled by a single swipe of Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade, Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber! but the Emperor of Destruction had a better showing in their next clash, during which he absorbed enough energy from a forest fire to best Star Saber, Road Caesar and Landcross all together. Deathsaurus&#039;s unusual compassion for children proved to be his downfall in this battle when he was distracted by the sight of Solon, gripping Jean in a hold that threatened the boy&#039;s life. While Deathsaurus&#039;s attention was occupied with striking Solon as punishment, Star Saber blindsided and defeated him with a Super Saber Meteor Spin. Great Turn-Around! Star Saber&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus later sent Solon to study in school on Earth, in order to learn more about humans, thereby making it easier to conquer them. {{storylink|Leozack Rumbles Violently!}} While Solon was on Earth, he and Jean were approached by former Autobot human allies [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Cab]], {{storylink|Warrior of Love, Star Saber!}} and with Jean, they formed the &amp;quot;Autobot Boy Team&amp;quot; known as the [[Victories]]. Seeking to counter this group with a team of his own, Deathsaurus had [[Yokuryū]] capture Jean and bring him to the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, where he attempted to bribe the boy into joining the Decepticons&#039; group with toys, Famicom, candy and cash. When an enraged Star Saber soon came tearing into the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, Deathsaurus crossed swords with the Autobot leader, but was then distracted by Jean distracting who exploited the Decepticon&#039;s bizarre fear of caterpillars by dangling one in his face. The cowering Deathsaurus was promptly bested in dramatically explosive fashion by Star Saber&#039;s &amp;quot;Planetary Impulse Sword&amp;quot; technique, and realised with hindsight that Solon was the only kid he needed. {{storylink|Watch Out, Jean! Hurry, Star Saber!}} Deathsaurus was apparently left so badly injured by this clash that he couldn&#039;t participate in the next battle, given that he was only seen lying in bed, coughing, with Solon resting a giant ice-pack on his head. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Rested and healthy again, Deathsaururs joined with [[Dinoking]] and Liokaiser in going up against Star Saber together, and perhaps not entirely surprisingly, the badly outnumbered Autobot was defeated by the three Decepticons. Before they could deliver the killing stroke, however, Star Saber was saved by the sudden arrival of Victory Leo, with whom he combined to form Victory Saber. The merged pair defeated the trio of Decepticons in one blast of their &amp;quot;Flash Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!}} Deathsaurus immediately sought out away to combat Star Saber&#039;s new power, and developed a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named &amp;quot;King Solon,&amp;quot; with which he could combine to form &amp;quot;King Zaras&amp;quot;. In this new form, Deathsaurus battled Victory Saber on the planet [[Guard]], with neither combatant getting the upper hand in other three hours of fighting. When [[Patty Minakaze]]&#039;s mentioned the word &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;, however, something of Solon&#039;s past was stirred in the boy&#039;s mind, and he was distracted long enough for Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mech components with his Victory. The burning Solon tumbled to the ground, where Patty tended his wounds despite his protestations. Perhaps wary of Solon&#039;s confused emotional state, Deathsaurus reminded him that while he was a human child, he was a Decepticon&#039;s son by fate. {{storylink|Mighty! Victory Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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As it turned out, Deathsaurus was right to be wary—in the midst of a later battle with Star Saber and Road Caesar, Solon turned against Deathsaurus and sided with the Victories, opening fire on his &amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and declaring that he would fight to protect the Earth, instead of destroy it. Now with Solon on their side, the Victories were able to channel their power into the Autobots, and the Decepticons were sent fleeing by the &amp;quot;Five Stars of Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|Shine! The Five Stars of Victory}} Deathsaurus led the Decepticons back to the Space Stronghold and began bombarding the Earth with meteor bombs, prompting the Autobots to attack it. Deathsaurus left the Breastforce to man the fortress while he engaged Star Saber in a final battle in the void of space, but had not reckoned with the treachery of Leozack, who fired on his emperor with the fortress&#039;s main cannon. To save himself, Deathsaurus was forced to return fire on the fortress, and Star Saber followed suite, smashing into the fortress&#039;s control chamber and taking Leozack down. As Leozack begged the Autobots not to destroy the fortress, the wounded Deathsaurus arrived and revealed to the Autobots the presence of the Decepticons&#039; families aboard the vessel. Realizing that the Decepticons&#039; had only done what they had in the name of their families&#039; safety, Star Saber decided that it was time for the two leaders to follow the example set by their sons and lay down their arms. Deathsaurus and Star Saber shook hands, and the war came to an end, bringing peace to everyone - the truest victory of all! {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus was an ancient Transformer from Cybertron&#039;s lost past. While searching for clues about the planet&#039;s history, Megatron stumbled across a hidden chamber beneath the planet&#039;s surface containing two massive statues of Deathsaurus and [[Dai Atlas]], holding a [[Golden Disk (Dreamwave)|golden disk]] between them. This chamber apparently told of a vast Cybertronian Empire that ended prior to recorded history. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Years later, towards the end of the Great War, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] worked under Deathsaurus as a supply manager. When the final defeat of the Decepticons at last came, Cryotek led his fellow Predacon workers in a rebellion against Deathsaurus, and used the materials he stole from his depot to begin his own criminal empire. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cryotek&#039;s [[Transformers Collectors&#039; Club]] exclusive profile.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
===Victory===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Japanese ID number&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;D-336&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast &amp;amp; Eaglebreast &amp;quot;Breast Animals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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:Deathsaurus transforms into a blue and grey monster styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaijū&amp;quot;, looking like nothing quite so much as a giant mutant space chicken. Unusual for late Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in beast mode. &lt;br /&gt;
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:Deathsaurus comes packaged with his Breast Animal partners, Tigerbreast and Eaglebreast, which transform from creatures into hand-held weapons for Deathsaurus, and a pair of breastplates which lock into a spring-loaded socket on the toy&#039;s body to form elaborate torso armor for the Deathsaurus&#039;s robot mode. Eaglebreast is inserted first, then Tigerbreast fits on top, concealing it; the figures can also be attached while Deathsaurus is in beast mode, which leaves them on his creature-mode&#039;s back. Deathsaurus comes with armament in addition to his Breast Animals, including a light blue laser rifle—which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does not have a removable flail—that can be wielded by both an ordinary handle, and a second peg on its butt that allows it to be brandished like a staff or blade of some kind, and his &amp;quot;Death Tailer&amp;quot; shield, which mounts on either of his biceps, and transforms into his beast mode tail. &lt;br /&gt;
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::*&#039;&#039;[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm More information on Deszaras at TFU.info]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: 2 hilts, 2 sword-blade/missiles&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|left|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
===Super Figure Collection===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:SFCAct7Deszaras.jpg|left|thumb|100px|It was cold.  I dressed in layers.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Deathsaurus was released in Act 7 of the Takara [[Super Collection Figure]] line as a non-transforming PVC with a funky pose and limited posability. Two pieces came per case of 12 PVCs, one in full-color and one in pewter-finish. He also came with a clear-plastic stand, and the pewter version came with one piece to add to wave-mate [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] to turn him into [[Victory Saber]]. (This add-on piece could also be either full-color or pewter-finish.)&lt;br /&gt;
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: A limited chase version (shown here) features his inner Breastforce member, Eaglebreast, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsauruspin.jpg|thumb|75px|Deathstickus]] &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you&#039;ll ever need to know about him, &amp;quot;[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]&amp;quot;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;English-Malay dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsanras&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; cartoon===&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s rivalry began 500,000 years ago when they were both children, and according to Star Saber, &amp;quot;argued all the time&amp;quot;. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}} In his &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; years, Deathsaurus took [[Esmeral]] as his wife, and in order to keep both her and the families of his fellow Decepticons safe aboard his &amp;quot;Space Stronghold&amp;quot;, Deathsaurus began attacking Earth, in order to obtain the planet&#039;s energy and use it to keep the stronghold fully powered-up. {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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During one of his early attacks on Earth, Deathsaurus took pity on an infant human named [[Solon Kitakaze]], whose parents had died in the assault. Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; Solon and turned him into a cyborg, raising him as his own son, just as Star Saber did with the human child Jean Minakaze. As Star Saber and Deathsaurus had been rivals in their youth, so too would Solon and Jean become rivals when, in 2025, Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign against Earth intensified. &lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s first major battle in this campaign was a brief one, with Deathsaurus being felled by a single swipe of Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade, Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber! but the Emperor of Destruction had a better showing in their next clash, during which he absorbed enough energy from a forest fire to best Star Saber, Road Caesar and Landcross all together. Deathsaurus&#039;s unusual compassion for children proved to be his downfall in this battle when he was distracted by the sight of Solon, gripping Jean in a hold that threatened the boy&#039;s life. While Deathsaurus&#039;s attention was occupied with striking Solon as punishment, Star Saber blindsided and defeated him with a Super Saber Meteor Spin. Great Turn-Around! Star Saber&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus later sent Solon to study in school on Earth, in order to learn more about humans, thereby making it easier to conquer them. {{storylink|Leozack Rumbles Violently!}} While Solon was on Earth, he and Jean were approached by former Autobot human allies [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Cab]], {{storylink|Warrior of Love, Star Saber!}} and with Jean, they formed the &amp;quot;Autobot Boy Team&amp;quot; known as the [[Victories]]. Seeking to counter this group with a team of his own, Deathsaurus had [[Yokuryū]] capture Jean and bring him to the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, where he attempted to bribe the boy into joining the Decepticons&#039; group with toys, Famicom, candy and cash. When an enraged Star Saber soon came tearing into the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, Deathsaurus crossed swords with the Autobot leader, but was then distracted by Jean distracting who exploited the Decepticon&#039;s bizarre fear of caterpillars by dangling one in his face. The cowering Deathsaurus was promptly bested in dramatically explosive fashion by Star Saber&#039;s &amp;quot;Planetary Impulse Sword&amp;quot; technique, and realised with hindsight that Solon was the only kid he needed. {{storylink|Watch Out, Jean! Hurry, Star Saber!}} Deathsaurus was apparently left so badly injured by this clash that he couldn&#039;t participate in the next battle, given that he was only seen lying in bed, coughing, with Solon resting a giant ice-pack on his head. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Kingsaurus.jpg|right|thumb|The mighty King Zaras.  Mighty.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Rested and healthy again, Deathsaururs joined with [[Dinoking]] and Liokaiser in going up against Star Saber together, and perhaps not entirely surprisingly, the badly outnumbered Autobot was defeated by the three Decepticons. Before they could deliver the killing stroke, however, Star Saber was saved by the sudden arrival of Victory Leo, with whom he combined to form Victory Saber. The merged pair defeated the trio of Decepticons in one blast of their &amp;quot;Flash Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!}} Deathsaurus immediately sought out away to combat Star Saber&#039;s new power, and developed a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named &amp;quot;King Solon,&amp;quot; with which he could combine to form &amp;quot;King Zaras&amp;quot;. In this new form, Deathsaurus battled Victory Saber on the planet [[Guard]], with neither combatant getting the upper hand in other three hours of fighting. When [[Patty Minakaze]]&#039;s mentioned the word &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;, however, something of Solon&#039;s past was stirred in the boy&#039;s mind, and he was distracted long enough for Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mech components with his Victory. The burning Solon tumbled to the ground, where Patty tended his wounds despite his protestations. Perhaps wary of Solon&#039;s confused emotional state, Deathsaurus reminded him that while he was a human child, he was a Decepticon&#039;s son by fate. {{storylink|Mighty! Victory Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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As it turned out, Deathsaurus was right to be wary—in the midst of a later battle with Star Saber and Road Caesar, Solon turned against Deathsaurus and sided with the Victories, opening fire on his &amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and declaring that he would fight to protect the Earth, instead of destroy it. Now with Solon on their side, the Victories were able to channel their power into the Autobots, and the Decepticons were sent fleeing by the &amp;quot;Five Stars of Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|Shine! The Five Stars of Victory}} Deathsaurus led the Decepticons back to the Space Stronghold and began bombarding the Earth with meteor bombs, prompting the Autobots to attack it. Deathsaurus left the Breastforce to man the fortress while he engaged Star Saber in a final battle in the void of space, but had not reckoned with the treachery of Leozack, who fired on his emperor with the fortress&#039;s main cannon. To save himself, Deathsaurus was forced to return fire on the fortress, and Star Saber followed suite, smashing into the fortress&#039;s control chamber and taking Leozack down. As Leozack begged the Autobots not to destroy the fortress, the wounded Deathsaurus arrived and revealed to the Autobots the presence of the Decepticons&#039; families aboard the vessel. Realizing that the Decepticons&#039; had only done what they had in the name of their families&#039; safety, Star Saber decided that it was time for the two leaders to follow the example set by their sons and lay down their arms. Deathsaurus and Star Saber shook hands, and the war came to an end, bringing peace to everyone - the truest victory of all! {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus was an ancient Transformer from Cybertron&#039;s lost past. While searching for clues about the planet&#039;s history, Megatron stumbled across a hidden chamber beneath the planet&#039;s surface containing two massive statues of Deathsaurus and [[Dai Atlas]], holding a [[Golden Disk (Dreamwave)|golden disk]] between them. This chamber apparently told of a vast Cybertronian Empire that ended prior to recorded history. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Years later, towards the end of the Great War, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] worked under Deathsaurus as a supply manager. When the final defeat of the Decepticons at last came, Cryotek led his fellow Predacon workers in a rebellion against Deathsaurus, and used the materials he stole from his depot to begin his own criminal empire. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cryotek&#039;s [[Transformers Collectors&#039; Club]] exclusive profile.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
===Victory===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Japanese ID number&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;D-336&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast &amp;amp; Eaglebreast &amp;quot;Breast Animals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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:Deathsaurus transforms into a blue and grey monster styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaijū&amp;quot;, looking like nothing quite so much as a giant mutant space chicken. Unusual for late Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in beast mode. &lt;br /&gt;
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:Deathsaurus comes packaged with his Breast Animal partners, Tigerbreast and Eaglebreast, which transform from creatures into hand-held weapons for Deathsaurus, and a pair of breastplates which lock into a spring-loaded socket on the toy&#039;s body to form elaborate torso armor for the Deathsaurus&#039;s robot mode. Eaglebreast is inserted first, then Tigerbreast fits on top, concealing it; the figures can also be attached while Deathsaurus is in beast mode, which leaves them on his creature-mode&#039;s back. Deathsaurus comes with armament in addition to his Breast Animals, including a light blue laser rifle—which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does not have a removable flail—that can be wielded by both an ordinary handle, and a second peg on its butt that allows it to be brandished like a staff or blade of some kind, and his &amp;quot;Death Tailer&amp;quot; shield, which mounts on either of his biceps, and transforms into his beast mode tail. &lt;br /&gt;
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:*[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm More information on Deszaras at TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: 2 hilts, 2 sword-blade/missiles&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|left|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
===Super Figure Collection===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:SFCAct7Deszaras.jpg|left|thumb|100px|It was cold.  I dressed in layers.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Deathsaurus was released in Act 7 of the Takara [[Super Collection Figure]] line as a non-transforming PVC with a funky pose and limited posability. Two pieces came per case of 12 PVCs, one in full-color and one in pewter-finish. He also came with a clear-plastic stand, and the pewter version came with one piece to add to wave-mate [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] to turn him into [[Victory Saber]]. (This add-on piece could also be either full-color or pewter-finish.)&lt;br /&gt;
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: A limited chase version (shown here) features his inner Breastforce member, Eaglebreast, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsauruspin.jpg|thumb|75px|Deathstickus]] &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Anyway, if you plan on insisting his name is &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, please learn to spell it.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you&#039;ll ever need to know about him, &amp;quot;[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]&amp;quot;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;English-Malay dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsanras&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; cartoon===&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; manga===&lt;br /&gt;
Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s rivalry began 500,000 years ago when they were both children, and according to Star Saber, &amp;quot;argued all the time&amp;quot;. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}} In his &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; years, Deathsaurus took [[Esmeral]] as his wife, and in order to keep both her and the families of his fellow Decepticons safe aboard his &amp;quot;Space Stronghold&amp;quot;, Deathsaurus began attacking Earth, in order to obtain the planet&#039;s energy and use it to keep the stronghold fully powered-up. {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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During one of his early attacks on Earth, Deathsaurus took pity on an infant human named [[Solon Kitakaze]], whose parents had died in the assault. Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; Solon and turned him into a cyborg, raising him as his own son, just as Star Saber did with the human child Jean Minakaze. As Star Saber and Deathsaurus had been rivals in their youth, so too would Solon and Jean become rivals when, in 2025, Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign against Earth intensified. &lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s first major battle in this campaign was a brief one, with Deathsaurus being felled by a single swipe of Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade, Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber! but the Emperor of Destruction had a better showing in their next clash, during which he absorbed enough energy from a forest fire to best Star Saber, Road Caesar and Landcross all together. Deathsaurus&#039;s unusual compassion for children proved to be his downfall in this battle when he was distracted by the sight of Solon, gripping Jean in a hold that threatened the boy&#039;s life. While Deathsaurus&#039;s attention was occupied with striking Solon as punishment, Star Saber blindsided and defeated him with a Super Saber Meteor Spin. Great Turn-Around! Star Saber&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus later sent Solon to study in school on Earth, in order to learn more about humans, thereby making it easier to conquer them. {{storylink|Leozack Rumbles Violently!}} While Solon was on Earth, he and Jean were approached by former Autobot human allies [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Cab]], {{storylink|Warrior of Love, Star Saber!}} and with Jean, they formed the &amp;quot;Autobot Boy Team&amp;quot; known as the [[Victories]]. Seeking to counter this group with a team of his own, Deathsaurus had [[Yokuryū]] capture Jean and bring him to the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, where he attempted to bribe the boy into joining the Decepticons&#039; group with toys, Famicom, candy and cash. When an enraged Star Saber soon came tearing into the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, Deathsaurus crossed swords with the Autobot leader, but was then distracted by Jean distracting who exploited the Decepticon&#039;s bizarre fear of caterpillars by dangling one in his face. The cowering Deathsaurus was promptly bested in dramatically explosive fashion by Star Saber&#039;s &amp;quot;Planetary Impulse Sword&amp;quot; technique, and realised with hindsight that Solon was the only kid he needed. {{storylink|Watch Out, Jean! Hurry, Star Saber!}} Deathsaurus was apparently left so badly injured by this clash that he couldn&#039;t participate in the next battle, given that he was only seen lying in bed, coughing, with Solon resting a giant ice-pack on his head. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Kingsaurus.jpg|right|thumb|The mighty King Zaras.  Mighty.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Rested and healthy again, Deathsaururs joined with [[Dinoking]] and Liokaiser in going up against Star Saber together, and perhaps not entirely surprisingly, the badly outnumbered Autobot was defeated by the three Decepticons. Before they could deliver the killing stroke, however, Star Saber was saved by the sudden arrival of Victory Leo, with whom he combined to form Victory Saber. The merged pair defeated the trio of Decepticons in one blast of their &amp;quot;Flash Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!}} Deathsaurus immediately sought out away to combat Star Saber&#039;s new power, and developed a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named &amp;quot;King Solon,&amp;quot; with which he could combine to form &amp;quot;King Zaras&amp;quot;. In this new form, Deathsaurus battled Victory Saber on the planet [[Guard]], with neither combatant getting the upper hand in other three hours of fighting. When [[Patty Minakaze]]&#039;s mentioned the word &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;, however, something of Solon&#039;s past was stirred in the boy&#039;s mind, and he was distracted long enough for Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mech components with his Victory. The burning Solon tumbled to the ground, where Patty tended his wounds despite his protestations. Perhaps wary of Solon&#039;s confused emotional state, Deathsaurus reminded him that while he was a human child, he was a Decepticon&#039;s son by fate. {{storylink|Mighty! Victory Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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As it turned out, Deathsaurus was right to be wary—in the midst of a later battle with Star Saber and Road Caesar, Solon turned against Deathsaurus and sided with the Victories, opening fire on his &amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and declaring that he would fight to protect the Earth, instead of destroy it. Now with Solon on their side, the Victories were able to channel their power into the Autobots, and the Decepticons were sent fleeing by the &amp;quot;Five Stars of Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|Shine! The Five Stars of Victory}} Deathsaurus led the Decepticons back to the Space Stronghold and began bombarding the Earth with meteor bombs, prompting the Autobots to attack it. Deathsaurus left the Breastforce to man the fortress while he engaged Star Saber in a final battle in the void of space, but had not reckoned with the treachery of Leozack, who fired on his emperor with the fortress&#039;s main cannon. To save himself, Deathsaurus was forced to return fire on the fortress, and Star Saber followed suite, smashing into the fortress&#039;s control chamber and taking Leozack down. As Leozack begged the Autobots not to destroy the fortress, the wounded Deathsaurus arrived and revealed to the Autobots the presence of the Decepticons&#039; families aboard the vessel. Realizing that the Decepticons&#039; had only done what they had in the name of their families&#039; safety, Star Saber decided that it was time for the two leaders to follow the example set by their sons and lay down their arms. Deathsaurus and Star Saber shook hands, and the war came to an end, bringing peace to everyone - the truest victory of all! {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus was an ancient Transformer from Cybertron&#039;s lost past. While searching for clues about the planet&#039;s history, Megatron stumbled across a hidden chamber beneath the planet&#039;s surface containing two massive statues of Deathsaurus and [[Dai Atlas]], holding a [[Golden Disk (Dreamwave)|golden disk]] between them. This chamber apparently told of a vast Cybertronian Empire that ended prior to recorded history. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Years later, towards the end of the Great War, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] worked under Deathsaurus as a supply manager. When the final defeat of the Decepticons at last came, Cryotek led his fellow Predacon workers in a rebellion against Deathsaurus, and used the materials he stole from his depot to begin his own criminal empire. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cryotek&#039;s [[Transformers Collectors&#039; Club]] exclusive profile.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
===Victory===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Japanese ID number&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;D-336&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast &amp;amp; Eaglebreast &amp;quot;Breast Animals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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    Deathsaurus transforms into a blue and grey monster styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaijū&amp;quot;, looking like nothing quite so much as a giant mutant space chicken. Unusual for late Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in beast mode. &lt;br /&gt;
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    Deathsaurus comes packaged with his Breast Animal partners, Tigerbreast and Eaglebreast, which transform from creatures into hand-held weapons for Deathsaurus, and a pair of breastplates which lock into a spring-loaded socket on the toy&#039;s body to form elaborate torso armor for the Deathsaurus&#039;s robot mode. Eaglebreast is inserted first, then Tigerbreast fits on top, concealing it; the figures can also be attached while Deathsaurus is in beast mode, which leaves them on his creature-mode&#039;s back. Deathsaurus comes with armament in addition to his Breast Animals, including a light blue laser rifle—which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does not have a removable flail—that can be wielded by both an ordinary handle, and a second peg on its butt that allows it to be brandished like a staff or blade of some kind, and his &amp;quot;Death Tailer&amp;quot; shield, which mounts on either of his biceps, and transforms into his beast mode tail. &lt;br /&gt;
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:*[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm More information on Deszaras at TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: 2 hilts, 2 sword-blade/missiles&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|left|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
===Super Figure Collection===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:SFCAct7Deszaras.jpg|left|thumb|100px|It was cold.  I dressed in layers.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Deathsaurus was released in Act 7 of the Takara [[Super Collection Figure]] line as a non-transforming PVC with a funky pose and limited posability. Two pieces came per case of 12 PVCs, one in full-color and one in pewter-finish. He also came with a clear-plastic stand, and the pewter version came with one piece to add to wave-mate [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] to turn him into [[Victory Saber]]. (This add-on piece could also be either full-color or pewter-finish.)&lt;br /&gt;
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: A limited chase version (shown here) features his inner Breastforce member, Eaglebreast, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsauruspin.jpg|thumb|75px|Deathstickus]] &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Anyway, if you plan on insisting his name is &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, please learn to spell it.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you&#039;ll ever need to know about him, &amp;quot;[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]&amp;quot;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;English-Malay dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsanras&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; cartoon===&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s rivalry began 500,000 years ago when they were both children, and according to Star Saber, &amp;quot;argued all the time&amp;quot;. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}} In his &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; years, Deathsaurus took [[Esmeral]] as his wife, and in order to keep both her and the families of his fellow Decepticons safe aboard his &amp;quot;Space Stronghold&amp;quot;, Deathsaurus began attacking Earth, in order to obtain the planet&#039;s energy and use it to keep the stronghold fully powered-up. {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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During one of his early attacks on Earth, Deathsaurus took pity on an infant human named [[Solon Kitakaze]], whose parents had died in the assault. Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; Solon and turned him into a cyborg, raising him as his own son, just as Star Saber did with the human child Jean Minakaze. As Star Saber and Deathsaurus had been rivals in their youth, so too would Solon and Jean become rivals when, in 2025, Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign against Earth intensified. &lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s first major battle in this campaign was a brief one, with Deathsaurus being felled by a single swipe of Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade, Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber! but the Emperor of Destruction had a better showing in their next clash, during which he absorbed enough energy from a forest fire to best Star Saber, Road Caesar and Landcross all together. Deathsaurus&#039;s unusual compassion for children proved to be his downfall in this battle when he was distracted by the sight of Solon, gripping Jean in a hold that threatened the boy&#039;s life. While Deathsaurus&#039;s attention was occupied with striking Solon as punishment, Star Saber blindsided and defeated him with a Super Saber Meteor Spin. Great Turn-Around! Star Saber&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus later sent Solon to study in school on Earth, in order to learn more about humans, thereby making it easier to conquer them. {{storylink|Leozack Rumbles Violently!}} While Solon was on Earth, he and Jean were approached by former Autobot human allies [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Cab]], {{storylink|Warrior of Love, Star Saber!}} and with Jean, they formed the &amp;quot;Autobot Boy Team&amp;quot; known as the [[Victories]]. Seeking to counter this group with a team of his own, Deathsaurus had [[Yokuryū]] capture Jean and bring him to the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, where he attempted to bribe the boy into joining the Decepticons&#039; group with toys, Famicom, candy and cash. When an enraged Star Saber soon came tearing into the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, Deathsaurus crossed swords with the Autobot leader, but was then distracted by Jean distracting who exploited the Decepticon&#039;s bizarre fear of caterpillars by dangling one in his face. The cowering Deathsaurus was promptly bested in dramatically explosive fashion by Star Saber&#039;s &amp;quot;Planetary Impulse Sword&amp;quot; technique, and realised with hindsight that Solon was the only kid he needed. {{storylink|Watch Out, Jean! Hurry, Star Saber!}} Deathsaurus was apparently left so badly injured by this clash that he couldn&#039;t participate in the next battle, given that he was only seen lying in bed, coughing, with Solon resting a giant ice-pack on his head. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Kingsaurus.jpg|right|thumb|The mighty King Zaras.  Mighty.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Rested and healthy again, Deathsaururs joined with [[Dinoking]] and Liokaiser in going up against Star Saber together, and perhaps not entirely surprisingly, the badly outnumbered Autobot was defeated by the three Decepticons. Before they could deliver the killing stroke, however, Star Saber was saved by the sudden arrival of Victory Leo, with whom he combined to form Victory Saber. The merged pair defeated the trio of Decepticons in one blast of their &amp;quot;Flash Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!}} Deathsaurus immediately sought out away to combat Star Saber&#039;s new power, and developed a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named &amp;quot;King Solon,&amp;quot; with which he could combine to form &amp;quot;King Zaras&amp;quot;. In this new form, Deathsaurus battled Victory Saber on the planet [[Guard]], with neither combatant getting the upper hand in other three hours of fighting. When [[Patty Minakaze]]&#039;s mentioned the word &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;, however, something of Solon&#039;s past was stirred in the boy&#039;s mind, and he was distracted long enough for Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mech components with his Victory. The burning Solon tumbled to the ground, where Patty tended his wounds despite his protestations. Perhaps wary of Solon&#039;s confused emotional state, Deathsaurus reminded him that while he was a human child, he was a Decepticon&#039;s son by fate. {{storylink|Mighty! Victory Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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As it turned out, Deathsaurus was right to be wary—in the midst of a later battle with Star Saber and Road Caesar, Solon turned against Deathsaurus and sided with the Victories, opening fire on his &amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and declaring that he would fight to protect the Earth, instead of destroy it. Now with Solon on their side, the Victories were able to channel their power into the Autobots, and the Decepticons were sent fleeing by the &amp;quot;Five Stars of Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|Shine! The Five Stars of Victory}} Deathsaurus led the Decepticons back to the Space Stronghold and began bombarding the Earth with meteor bombs, prompting the Autobots to attack it. Deathsaurus left the Breastforce to man the fortress while he engaged Star Saber in a final battle in the void of space, but had not reckoned with the treachery of Leozack, who fired on his emperor with the fortress&#039;s main cannon. To save himself, Deathsaurus was forced to return fire on the fortress, and Star Saber followed suite, smashing into the fortress&#039;s control chamber and taking Leozack down. As Leozack begged the Autobots not to destroy the fortress, the wounded Deathsaurus arrived and revealed to the Autobots the presence of the Decepticons&#039; families aboard the vessel. Realizing that the Decepticons&#039; had only done what they had in the name of their families&#039; safety, Star Saber decided that it was time for the two leaders to follow the example set by their sons and lay down their arms. Deathsaurus and Star Saber shook hands, and the war came to an end, bringing peace to everyone - the truest victory of all! {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus was an ancient Transformer from Cybertron&#039;s lost past. While searching for clues about the planet&#039;s history, Megatron stumbled across a hidden chamber beneath the planet&#039;s surface containing two massive statues of Deathsaurus and [[Dai Atlas]], holding a [[Golden Disk (Dreamwave)|golden disk]] between them. This chamber apparently told of a vast Cybertronian Empire that ended prior to recorded history. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Years later, towards the end of the Great War, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] worked under Deathsaurus as a supply manager. When the final defeat of the Decepticons at last came, Cryotek led his fellow Predacon workers in a rebellion against Deathsaurus, and used the materials he stole from his depot to begin his own criminal empire. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cryotek&#039;s [[Transformers Collectors&#039; Club]] exclusive profile.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The original Deathsaurus toy transformed into a nondescript dragon-lizard thing with wings (or giant mutant space chicken) that doesn&#039;t really look like anything except ugly. Unusually for post-Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in beast mode.&lt;br /&gt;
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: In robot mode, both of his [[Breast Animal]] components can be slotted inside his spring-loaded chest (or &#039;&#039;kaiju&#039;&#039;-mode back) to form his elaborate torso armor; Eaglebreast must go in first, then Tigerbreast added on top. Both Breast Animals can also become hand-held weapons. He is armed with a light blue laser rifle {{m-}} which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; have a removable flail{{m-}} and a large shield constructed out of his tail that can mount on either bicep.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|left|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
===Super Figure Collection===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
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: Deathsaurus was released in Act 7 of the Takara [[Super Collection Figure]] line as a non-transforming PVC with a funky pose and limited posability. Two pieces came per case of 12 PVCs, one in full-color and one in pewter-finish. He also came with a clear-plastic stand, and the pewter version came with one piece to add to wave-mate [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] to turn him into [[Victory Saber]]. (This add-on piece could also be either full-color or pewter-finish.)&lt;br /&gt;
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: A limited chase version (shown here) features his inner Breastforce member, Eaglebreast, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast.&lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Anyway, if you plan on insisting his name is &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, please learn to spell it.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you&#039;ll ever need to know about him, &amp;quot;[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]&amp;quot;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;English-Malay dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsanras&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; cartoon===&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; manga===&lt;br /&gt;
Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s rivalry began 500,000 years ago when they were both children, and according to Star Saber, &amp;quot;argued all the time&amp;quot;. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}} In his &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; years, Deathsaurus took [[Esmeral]] as his wife, and in order to keep both her and the families of his fellow Decepticons safe aboard his &amp;quot;Space Stronghold&amp;quot;, Deathsaurus began attacking Earth, in order to obtain the planet&#039;s energy and use it to keep the stronghold fully powered-up. {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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During one of his early attacks on Earth, Deathsaurus took pity on an infant human named [[Solon Kitakaze]], whose parents had died in the assault. Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; Solon and turned him into a cyborg, raising him as his own son, just as Star Saber did with the human child Jean Minakaze. As Star Saber and Deathsaurus had been rivals in their youth, so too would Solon and Jean become rivals when, in 2025, Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign against Earth intensified. &lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus and Star Saber&#039;s first major battle in this campaign was a brief one, with Deathsaurus being felled by a single swipe of Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade, Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber! but the Emperor of Destruction had a better showing in their next clash, during which he absorbed enough energy from a forest fire to best Star Saber, Road Caesar and Landcross all together. Deathsaurus&#039;s unusual compassion for children proved to be his downfall in this battle when he was distracted by the sight of Solon, gripping Jean in a hold that threatened the boy&#039;s life. While Deathsaurus&#039;s attention was occupied with striking Solon as punishment, Star Saber blindsided and defeated him with a Super Saber Meteor Spin. Great Turn-Around! Star Saber&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus later sent Solon to study in school on Earth, in order to learn more about humans, thereby making it easier to conquer them. {{storylink|Leozack Rumbles Violently!}} While Solon was on Earth, he and Jean were approached by former Autobot human allies [[Shūta Gō]] and [[Cab]], {{storylink|Warrior of Love, Star Saber!}} and with Jean, they formed the &amp;quot;Autobot Boy Team&amp;quot; known as the [[Victories]]. Seeking to counter this group with a team of his own, Deathsaurus had [[Yokuryū]] capture Jean and bring him to the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, where he attempted to bribe the boy into joining the Decepticons&#039; group with toys, Famicom, candy and cash. When an enraged Star Saber soon came tearing into the &#039;&#039;Thunder Arrow&#039;&#039;, Deathsaurus crossed swords with the Autobot leader, but was then distracted by Jean distracting who exploited the Decepticon&#039;s bizarre fear of caterpillars by dangling one in his face. The cowering Deathsaurus was promptly bested in dramatically explosive fashion by Star Saber&#039;s &amp;quot;Planetary Impulse Sword&amp;quot; technique, and realised with hindsight that Solon was the only kid he needed. {{storylink|Watch Out, Jean! Hurry, Star Saber!}} Deathsaurus was apparently left so badly injured by this clash that he couldn&#039;t participate in the next battle, given that he was only seen lying in bed, coughing, with Solon resting a giant ice-pack on his head. {{storylink|The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Kingsaurus.jpg|right|thumb|The mighty King Zaras.  Mighty.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Rested and healthy again, Deathsaururs joined with [[Dinoking]] and Liokaiser in going up against Star Saber together, and perhaps not entirely surprisingly, the badly outnumbered Autobot was defeated by the three Decepticons. Before they could deliver the killing stroke, however, Star Saber was saved by the sudden arrival of Victory Leo, with whom he combined to form Victory Saber. The merged pair defeated the trio of Decepticons in one blast of their &amp;quot;Flash Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!}} Deathsaurus immediately sought out away to combat Star Saber&#039;s new power, and developed a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named &amp;quot;King Solon,&amp;quot; with which he could combine to form &amp;quot;King Zaras&amp;quot;. In this new form, Deathsaurus battled Victory Saber on the planet [[Guard]], with neither combatant getting the upper hand in other three hours of fighting. When [[Patty Minakaze]]&#039;s mentioned the word &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;, however, something of Solon&#039;s past was stirred in the boy&#039;s mind, and he was distracted long enough for Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mech components with his Victory. The burning Solon tumbled to the ground, where Patty tended his wounds despite his protestations. Perhaps wary of Solon&#039;s confused emotional state, Deathsaurus reminded him that while he was a human child, he was a Decepticon&#039;s son by fate. {{storylink|Mighty! Victory Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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As it turned out, Deathsaurus was right to be wary—in the midst of a later battle with Star Saber and Road Caesar, Solon turned against Deathsaurus and sided with the Victories, opening fire on his &amp;quot;father&amp;quot; and declaring that he would fight to protect the Earth, instead of destroy it. Now with Solon on their side, the Victories were able to channel their power into the Autobots, and the Decepticons were sent fleeing by the &amp;quot;Five Stars of Victory&amp;quot; attack. {{storylink|Shine! The Five Stars of Victory}} Deathsaurus led the Decepticons back to the Space Stronghold and began bombarding the Earth with meteor bombs, prompting the Autobots to attack it. Deathsaurus left the Breastforce to man the fortress while he engaged Star Saber in a final battle in the void of space, but had not reckoned with the treachery of Leozack, who fired on his emperor with the fortress&#039;s main cannon. To save himself, Deathsaurus was forced to return fire on the fortress, and Star Saber followed suite, smashing into the fortress&#039;s control chamber and taking Leozack down. As Leozack begged the Autobots not to destroy the fortress, the wounded Deathsaurus arrived and revealed to the Autobots the presence of the Decepticons&#039; families aboard the vessel. Realizing that the Decepticons&#039; had only done what they had in the name of their families&#039; safety, Star Saber decided that it was time for the two leaders to follow the example set by their sons and lay down their arms. Deathsaurus and Star Saber shook hands, and the war came to an end, bringing peace to everyone - the truest victory of all! {{storylink|Heroic! The Victory War}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Years later, towards the end of the Great War, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] worked under Deathsaurus as a supply manager. When the final defeat of the Decepticons at last came, Cryotek led his fellow Predacon workers in a rebellion against Deathsaurus, and used the materials he stole from his depot to begin his own criminal empire. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cryotek&#039;s [[Transformers Collectors&#039; Club]] exclusive profile.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
===Victory===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
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**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast &amp;amp; Eaglebreast &amp;quot;Breast Animals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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: The original Deathsaurus toy transformed into a nondescript dragon-lizard thing with wings (or giant mutant space chicken) that doesn&#039;t really look like anything except ugly. Unusually for post-Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in beast mode.&lt;br /&gt;
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: In robot mode, both of his [[Breast Animal]] components can be slotted inside his spring-loaded chest (or &#039;&#039;kaiju&#039;&#039;-mode back) to form his elaborate torso armor; Eaglebreast must go in first, then Tigerbreast added on top. Both Breast Animals can also become hand-held weapons. He is armed with a light blue laser rifle {{m-}} which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; have a removable flail{{m-}} and a large shield constructed out of his tail that can mount on either bicep.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|left|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
===Super Figure Collection===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:SFCAct7Deszaras.jpg|left|thumb|100px|It was cold.  I dressed in layers.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Deathsaurus was released in Act 7 of the Takara [[Super Collection Figure]] line as a non-transforming PVC with a funky pose and limited posability. Two pieces came per case of 12 PVCs, one in full-color and one in pewter-finish. He also came with a clear-plastic stand, and the pewter version came with one piece to add to wave-mate [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] to turn him into [[Victory Saber]]. (This add-on piece could also be either full-color or pewter-finish.)&lt;br /&gt;
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: A limited chase version (shown here) features his inner Breastforce member, Eaglebreast, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast.&lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Anyway, if you plan on insisting his name is &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, please learn to spell it.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you&#039;ll ever need to know about him, &amp;quot;[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]&amp;quot;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;English-Malay dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsanras&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; cartoon===&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Kingsaurus.jpg|right|thumb|The mighty King Zaras.  Mighty.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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As a parallel to Star Saber&#039;s adoption of [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], Deathsaurus had a &amp;quot;son&amp;quot; of his own, a human boy named [[Solon Kitakaze]]. Solon&#039;s mother was killed during a Decepticon attack on Earth, and Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; the boy, turning him into a cyborg and raising him to believe that he was his son. Solon had frequent clashes with Jean, whose school he began attending, which often degenerated into &amp;quot;my dad can beat up your dad&amp;quot;-style arguments as their &amp;quot;fathers&amp;quot; battled. At one point, Deathsaurus even attempted to bribe Jean into joining the Decepticons with toys, games, candy and cash.&lt;br /&gt;
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Solon had his own battle armour and often rode Deathsaurus&#039;s Breastars as steeds, but when Victory Leo and Star Saber merged into Victory Saber, Deathsaurus sought a way to increase his own power in a similar fashion and crafted a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named [[King Solon]], with which he was able to combine, forming [[King Zaras]]. However, in the midst of this battle, Solon discovered the truth about his mother, and his distraction allowed Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mecha. Deathsaurus fled, abandoning Solon, who accepted his earthly heritage and joined the Autobots.&lt;br /&gt;
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During the final battle, as Deathsaurus&#039;s fortress attacks the Earth, it is he who battles Star Saber in space &#039;&#039;(unlike the animated series, in which Liokaiser takes this role)&#039;&#039;. Leozack, then, is able to take his treachery to the ultimate extreme by turning the fortress&#039;s power on Deathsaurus, and Deathsaurus cripples the craft with his cannon as Star Saber takes Leozack down. Then, the wounded Deathsaurus reveals the true reason he has quested to liberate the fortress from the Dark Nebula{{m-}}it is home to the Decepticons&#039; families and civilians. As the shocked Autobots discover this, they meet Deathsaurus&#039;s wife, [[Esmeryl]] and Deathsaurus and Star Saber then make peace, shaking hands and vowing to work together for the betterment of the Transformer race.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Years later, towards the end of the Great War, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] worked under Deathsaurus as a supply manager. When the final defeat of the Decepticons at last came, Cryotek led his fellow Predacon workers in a rebellion against Deathsaurus, and used the materials he stole from his depot to begin his own criminal empire. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cryotek&#039;s [[Transformers Collectors&#039; Club]] exclusive profile.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
===Victory===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Japanese ID number&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;D-336&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast &amp;amp; Eaglebreast &amp;quot;Breast Animals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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: The original Deathsaurus toy transformed into a nondescript dragon-lizard thing with wings (or giant mutant space chicken) that doesn&#039;t really look like anything except ugly. Unusually for post-Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in beast mode.&lt;br /&gt;
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: In robot mode, both of his [[Breast Animal]] components can be slotted inside his spring-loaded chest (or &#039;&#039;kaiju&#039;&#039;-mode back) to form his elaborate torso armor; Eaglebreast must go in first, then Tigerbreast added on top. Both Breast Animals can also become hand-held weapons. He is armed with a light blue laser rifle {{m-}} which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; have a removable flail{{m-}} and a large shield constructed out of his tail that can mount on either bicep.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: 2 hilts, 2 sword-blade/missiles&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|left|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
===Super Figure Collection===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:SFCAct7Deszaras.jpg|left|thumb|100px|It was cold.  I dressed in layers.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Deathsaurus was released in Act 7 of the Takara [[Super Collection Figure]] line as a non-transforming PVC with a funky pose and limited posability. Two pieces came per case of 12 PVCs, one in full-color and one in pewter-finish. He also came with a clear-plastic stand, and the pewter version came with one piece to add to wave-mate [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] to turn him into [[Victory Saber]]. (This add-on piece could also be either full-color or pewter-finish.)&lt;br /&gt;
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: A limited chase version (shown here) features his inner Breastforce member, Eaglebreast, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsauruspin.jpg|thumb|75px|Deathstickus]] &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Anyway, if you plan on insisting his name is &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, please learn to spell it.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you&#039;ll ever need to know about him, &amp;quot;[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]&amp;quot;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;English-Malay dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsanras&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; cartoon===&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; manga===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Kingsaurus.jpg|right|thumb|The mighty King Zaras.  Mighty.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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As a parallel to Star Saber&#039;s adoption of [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], Deathsaurus had a &amp;quot;son&amp;quot; of his own, a human boy named [[Solon Kitakaze]]. Solon&#039;s mother was killed during a Decepticon attack on Earth, and Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; the boy, turning him into a cyborg and raising him to believe that he was his son. Solon had frequent clashes with Jean, whose school he began attending, which often degenerated into &amp;quot;my dad can beat up your dad&amp;quot;-style arguments as their &amp;quot;fathers&amp;quot; battled. At one point, Deathsaurus even attempted to bribe Jean into joining the Decepticons with toys, games, candy and cash.&lt;br /&gt;
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Solon had his own battle armour and often rode Deathsaurus&#039;s Breastars as steeds, but when Victory Leo and Star Saber merged into Victory Saber, Deathsaurus sought a way to increase his own power in a similar fashion and crafted a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named [[King Solon]], with which he was able to combine, forming [[King Zaras]]. However, in the midst of this battle, Solon discovered the truth about his mother, and his distraction allowed Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mecha. Deathsaurus fled, abandoning Solon, who accepted his earthly heritage and joined the Autobots.&lt;br /&gt;
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During the final battle, as Deathsaurus&#039;s fortress attacks the Earth, it is he who battles Star Saber in space &#039;&#039;(unlike the animated series, in which Liokaiser takes this role)&#039;&#039;. Leozack, then, is able to take his treachery to the ultimate extreme by turning the fortress&#039;s power on Deathsaurus, and Deathsaurus cripples the craft with his cannon as Star Saber takes Leozack down. Then, the wounded Deathsaurus reveals the true reason he has quested to liberate the fortress from the Dark Nebula{{m-}}it is home to the Decepticons&#039; families and civilians. As the shocked Autobots discover this, they meet Deathsaurus&#039;s wife, [[Esmeryl]] and Deathsaurus and Star Saber then make peace, shaking hands and vowing to work together for the betterment of the Transformer race.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Japanese ID number&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;D-336&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast &amp;amp; Eaglebreast &amp;quot;Breast Animals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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: The original Deathsaurus toy transformed into a nondescript dragon-lizard thing with wings (or giant mutant space chicken) that doesn&#039;t really look like anything except ugly. Unusually for post-Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in beast mode.&lt;br /&gt;
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: In robot mode, both of his [[Breast Animal]] components can be slotted inside his spring-loaded chest (or &#039;&#039;kaiju&#039;&#039;-mode back) to form his elaborate torso armor; Eaglebreast must go in first, then Tigerbreast added on top. Both Breast Animals can also become hand-held weapons. He is armed with a light blue laser rifle {{m-}} which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; have a removable flail{{m-}} and a large shield constructed out of his tail that can mount on either bicep.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|left|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
===Super Figure Collection===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:SFCAct7Deszaras.jpg|left|thumb|100px|It was cold.  I dressed in layers.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Deathsaurus was released in Act 7 of the Takara [[Super Collection Figure]] line as a non-transforming PVC with a funky pose and limited posability. Two pieces came per case of 12 PVCs, one in full-color and one in pewter-finish. He also came with a clear-plastic stand, and the pewter version came with one piece to add to wave-mate [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] to turn him into [[Victory Saber]]. (This add-on piece could also be either full-color or pewter-finish.)&lt;br /&gt;
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: A limited chase version (shown here) features his inner Breastforce member, Eaglebreast, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsauruspin.jpg|thumb|75px|Deathstickus]] &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Anyway, if you plan on insisting his name is &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, please learn to spell it.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you&#039;ll ever need to know about him, &amp;quot;[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;English-Malay dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsanras&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; cartoon===&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as [[Dark Nebula]]. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Masterforce]] war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], and struck back at the Decepticons with their [[Galactic Defense Force]]. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s [[Dinoforce]] attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s [[Moon (moon)|moon]], Star Saber raced to aid his fellow [[Brainmaster]]s in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the &#039;&#039;[[Thunder Arrow]],&#039;&#039; and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader [[Leozack]] had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by [[Hellbat]], the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet [[Micro]], Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the [[Rescue Patrol Team]], and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as [[Liokaiser]], had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of [[Greatsho]]t, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and [[Blacker]] badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of [[God Ginrai]], who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating [[Dorya]] insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of [[Atlantis]], which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], who then used his own [[Illumina II|personal mech]] to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; manga===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Kingsaurus.jpg|right|thumb|The mighty King Zaras.  Mighty.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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As a parallel to Star Saber&#039;s adoption of [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], Deathsaurus had a &amp;quot;son&amp;quot; of his own, a human boy named [[Solon Kitakaze]]. Solon&#039;s mother was killed during a Decepticon attack on Earth, and Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; the boy, turning him into a cyborg and raising him to believe that he was his son. Solon had frequent clashes with Jean, whose school he began attending, which often degenerated into &amp;quot;my dad can beat up your dad&amp;quot;-style arguments as their &amp;quot;fathers&amp;quot; battled. At one point, Deathsaurus even attempted to bribe Jean into joining the Decepticons with toys, games, candy and cash.&lt;br /&gt;
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Solon had his own battle armour and often rode Deathsaurus&#039;s Breastars as steeds, but when Victory Leo and Star Saber merged into Victory Saber, Deathsaurus sought a way to increase his own power in a similar fashion and crafted a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named [[King Solon]], with which he was able to combine, forming [[King Zaras]]. However, in the midst of this battle, Solon discovered the truth about his mother, and his distraction allowed Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mecha. Deathsaurus fled, abandoning Solon, who accepted his earthly heritage and joined the Autobots.&lt;br /&gt;
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During the final battle, as Deathsaurus&#039;s fortress attacks the Earth, it is he who battles Star Saber in space &#039;&#039;(unlike the animated series, in which Liokaiser takes this role)&#039;&#039;. Leozack, then, is able to take his treachery to the ultimate extreme by turning the fortress&#039;s power on Deathsaurus, and Deathsaurus cripples the craft with his cannon as Star Saber takes Leozack down. Then, the wounded Deathsaurus reveals the true reason he has quested to liberate the fortress from the Dark Nebula{{m-}}it is home to the Decepticons&#039; families and civilians. As the shocked Autobots discover this, they meet Deathsaurus&#039;s wife, [[Esmeryl]] and Deathsaurus and Star Saber then make peace, shaking hands and vowing to work together for the betterment of the Transformer race.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
===Victory===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Japanese ID number&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;D-336&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast &amp;amp; Eaglebreast &amp;quot;Breast Animals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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: The original Deathsaurus toy transformed into a nondescript dragon-lizard thing with wings (or giant mutant space chicken) that doesn&#039;t really look like anything except ugly. Unusually for post-Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in beast mode.&lt;br /&gt;
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: In robot mode, both of his [[Breast Animal]] components can be slotted inside his spring-loaded chest (or &#039;&#039;kaiju&#039;&#039;-mode back) to form his elaborate torso armor; Eaglebreast must go in first, then Tigerbreast added on top. Both Breast Animals can also become hand-held weapons. He is armed with a light blue laser rifle {{m-}} which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; have a removable flail{{m-}} and a large shield constructed out of his tail that can mount on either bicep.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurusbotcontoy.jpg|left|thumb|If you squint, he could still be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]].]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
===Super Figure Collection===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:SFCAct7Deszaras.jpg|left|thumb|100px|It was cold.  I dressed in layers.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Deathsaurus was released in Act 7 of the Takara [[Super Collection Figure]] line as a non-transforming PVC with a funky pose and limited posability. Two pieces came per case of 12 PVCs, one in full-color and one in pewter-finish. He also came with a clear-plastic stand, and the pewter version came with one piece to add to wave-mate [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] to turn him into [[Victory Saber]]. (This add-on piece could also be either full-color or pewter-finish.)&lt;br /&gt;
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: A limited chase version (shown here) features his inner Breastforce member, Eaglebreast, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsauruspin.jpg|thumb|75px|Deathstickus]] &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Anyway, if you plan on insisting his name is &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, please learn to spell it.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
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* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{disambig2|the evil Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]|the heroic Decepticon Colonel|Colonel Deathsaurus}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Victory]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsaurus1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Spell it right or you&#039;re kickbanned, buster.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus&#039;&#039;&#039; began terrorizing the galaxy long before ascending to the position of Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]]. For thousands of years, this savage and cruel dictator has spread terror throughout the universe, and has now set his sights upon the Earth as a source of energy to power his terrifying superweapon, the [[Planet-Destroying Fortress]]. And if [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] should get in his way, so much the better: Deathsaurus bears the Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] a bitter grudge, and relishes any opportunity to destroy him that presents itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus is a [[Breastforce]] warrior, partnered with two transforming chestplates that become the [[Breast Animal]]s [[Tigerbreast]] and [[Eaglebreast]]. He wields a deadly spiked flail, and the [[Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]], which erodes the living metallic cells of super-robot lifeforms. The bladed wings of his creature mode absorb sunlight, converting it into dark energy, and he can then launch these energized blades at his opponents in an attack known as his &amp;quot;Death Wing&amp;quot;. Despite all of these terrifying powers, however, Deathsaurus is a surprisingly &amp;quot;hands off&amp;quot; leader, who is perfectly happy to allow his subordinates to formulate their own plans and schemes to gather energy for him—but if they should fail, he&#039;ll always be there to berate and brutalize them. Even when the plans are his own, Deathsaurus is content to watch and command from a distance, rather than dirty his own hands—but he&#039;ll rarely waste a chance to engage Star Saber on the battlefield, and if that occurs, woe betide anyone who gets in Deathsaurus&#039;s way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Curiously, Deathsaurus permits himself one distinctive, unusual foible: although he despises most humans, he has a surprising soft spot for children. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{quote|I will not forgive this, Star Saber! I swear! I swear I will crush you with my bare hands! I swear, you worm! With my bare hands!|Deathsaurus tells you all you&#039;ll ever need to know about him, &amp;quot;[[Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress]]&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Japanese name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (デスザラス de-su-za-ra-su)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;English-Malay dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsanras&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Latin American dub name&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;Zan Ráz&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; cartoon===&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Voice actor:&#039;&#039; [[Takeshi Aono]] (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;
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500,000 years ago, striving to become the Decepticons&#039; new Emperor of Destruction, Deathsaurus created a gigantic battle fortress capable of destroying planets, but an attack by the young Autobot commander Star Saber saw the fortress de-powered and trapped in a gravity cell at the heart of the region of space known as Dark Nebula. This began the enmity between Star Saber and Deathsaurus, and as both combatants rose through the ranks of their respective armies, Deathsaurus vowed to eventually liberate his fortress and use it to destroy Star Saber. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Some years prior to 2025, after the conclusion of the Masterforce war on Earth, Deathsaurus succeeded Overlord as Decepticon leader and achieved his dream of becoming Emperor of Destruction. [1] Under his command, the Decepticons began seeking a planet that they could call their own and invaded worlds all across the galaxy. To counteract Deathsaurus&#039;s campaign of terror, the Autobots—now with Star Saber serving as their Supreme Commander—and many other sentient races formed the Galactic Peace Alliance, and struck back at the Decepticons with their Galactic Defense Force. As time passed and this conflict continued, Deathsaurus began focusing his attacks on &amp;quot;Sector One&amp;quot; of the galaxy, containing the planet Earth, until 2025, when the severity and frequency of the attacks forced Star Saber to take command of the Defense Force unit in that area himself. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When Deathsaurus&#039;s Dinoforce attacked the Lunar Base on Earth&#039;s moon, Star Saber raced to aid his fellow Brainmasters in battle there, only to find his way barred by Deathsaurus. Hoping to distract Star Saber long enough for the Dinoforce to finish their job, Deathsaurus engaged his old foe in battle, but Star Saber broke off the fight as quickly as he could and headed on toward the moon with Deathsaurus hot on his heels. After Star Saber defeated the Dinoforce, Deathsaurus caught up to him and unleashed his Breast Animals upon the Autobot in both beast and weapon forms. Star Saber eventually won out, defeating both the creatures and besting Deathsaurus in a swordfight, forcing the Decepticon leader to summon up his craft, the Thunder Arrow, and flee aboard it. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Recognizing the Earth as a rich source of energy that he could use to power up his Planet-Destroying Fortress, Deathsaurus centered most of his subsequent attacks on the planet, summoning the Breastforce to aid in the campaign. {{storylink|Sneak Attack! Dinoking}} {{storylink|Attack! Leozack}} {{storylink|Unite!! Multiforce}} Deathsaurus was entirely aware of the fact that the Breastforce&#039;s leader Leozack had designs on leadership of the Decepticons for himself, Move Out! Rescue Team but he was amused enough by it to let him slide by, allowing Leozack to believe that he was oblivious to his schemes. Residing on the Thunder Arrow as it hopscotched around the planet and solar system, Deathsaurus was content to watch as his troops staged numerous attacks on Earth. {{storylink|Infiltration... The Uranium Mine}} {{storylink|Explosion!! The Energy Base}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus finally decided to join his troops on a mission when the Decepticon began draining electrical energy from an American subway system. While the Breastforce snuck through the subway tunnels, Deathsaurus himself targeted the power distribution center, where he was confronted by Star Saber. The true cunning of Deathsaurus&#039;s scheme was revealed when he let loose his Breast Animals, and Star Saber proved no match for the creatures in the small confines of the underground complex. Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, he had overlooked the fact that with both Breast Animals deployed, his own chest was left unprotected, leaving it open to an attack from Star Saber&#039;s Saber Blade. Wounded, Deathsaurus recalled his Breast Animals and fled, but not without successfully taking the energy he had managed to steal beforehand. {{storylink|Big City - Underground Terror}}&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Breastforce were joined by Hellbat, the newcomer also adopted designs on the Decepticon throne. {{storylink|The New Warrior - Hellbat}} Deathsaurus was even less concerned with Hellbet&#039;s ambitions than he was with Leozack&#039;s, though, since the two would-be traitors were always too busy fighting with each other to pose a serious threat to him. In their constant games of one-upmanship, Leozack and Hellbat crafted numerous failed schemes of their own, eventually forcing Deathsaurus to step in and give his minions a mission of his own devising. Deathsaurus had the Decepticons hide in the asteroid belt and capture human shuttlecraft in order to use drain their energy and use them to create an energy alloy. Star Saber soon got wise to the villains&#039; evildoings and arrived to put a stop to them, but again, Deathsaurus successfully escaped with his amassed energy. {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Asteroid}}&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Breastforce were busy on planet Micro, Deathsaurus and the Dinoforce took the Thunder Arrow into the Dark Nebula, where Deathsaurus emptied his stockpile of energy into his inactive fortress. The giant structure briefly flared back to life, but soon shut down once more; Deathsaurus was unfazed, having only sought to confirm whether or not the fortress could even be reactivated. On the trip back to Earth, the Decepticons crossed paths with Star Saber and the Rescue Patrol Team, and Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in battle with his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. Although Deathsaurus was actually able to pull the trigger on what would have been a fatal blast, he discovered that he had expended too much of his energy supply reactivating his fortress, and his weapons systems shut down before he could end Star Saber&#039;s life, necessitating his tactical withdrawal. {{storylink|Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Deathsaurus next clashed with Star Saber in Antarctica, only stepping onto the battlefield after the Breastforce, combined as Liokaiser, had severely weakened Star Saber. Deathsaurus took over the fight, intent on being the one to deliver the final blow, but Star Saber was able to turn the battle around, and forced Deathsaurus into retreat. {{storylink|Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle}} In a later battle atop the Thunder Arrow, deep in the desert, Star Saber again humbled Deathsaurus, this time with the aid of Greatshot, but the fight left both the Supreme Commander and Blacker badly wounded. {{storylink|Crisis! Ambush in the Desert}} Capitalizing on the Autobots&#039; reduced manpower, Deathsaurus stepped up the Decepticons&#039; attacks across the planet, and removed another annoyance by finally calling Leozack out on his treachery. Easily besting the traitorous Breastforcer in combat, Deathsaurus forced him to swear total loyalty to him, or face death. Leozack made the logical choice, and then, combined with his fellow Breastforcers as Liokaiser, joined with his leader in staging an ambush for Star Saber in a subterranean cave in Asia. Disguising himself as a Terracotta Army-esque statue, Deathsaurus was able to get the drop on Star Saber when Liokaiser lured him into the cave, and again unleashed the Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon on his enemy. Once more, Deathsaurus stood poised to kill Star Saber with the weapon, until the last-minute arrival of God Ginrai, who took the fatal shot. Liokaiser had to persuade the incensed Deathsaurus to retreat as more Autobots arrived, {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} but the Decepticon leader soon clashed with Star Saber once more in a later battle at a solar power station. Deathsaurus emerged victorious in that fight when Star Saber was forced to flee upon receiving news of Ginrai&#039;s deteriorating condition. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Ginrai&#039;s life was saved, however, when he was rebuilt into the powerful new warror, Victory Leo. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, Deathsaurus began bombarding the Earth with missiles from an orbital weapons platform, as a means of staying the Autobots&#039; hands while his forces gathered energy across the planet. Star Saber and Victory Leo were able to thwart his plan by combining into the mighty Victory Saber; Deathsaurus&#039;s missile launch system had been programmed based on Star Saber&#039;s speed, but with the added power of Victory Leo, the Autobot hero was able to outrace the missiles, destroy the launcher and defeat Deathsaurus in an outer space battle. {{storylink|The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Following an attempt to destroy the Autobots with the metal-eating Dorya insects, {{storylink|The Death-Bringing Space Insects!!}} Deathsaurus was informed by Hellbat that he had discovered the location of the sunken continent of Atlantis, which could provide the raw energy to reactivate his fortress. Deathsaurus risked all or nothing to obtain Atlantis&#039;s energy, using up the Thunder Arrow&#039;s entire energy stockpile to raise the continent, but the plan proved a success, as the Autobots were too busy dealing with the devastating tidal waves caused by the rise of Atlantis to stop him from absconding with enough energy to bring his fortress back online. {{storylink|The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves}} Having no further use for the bumbling Dinoforce, Deathsaurus abandoned them on Earth and headed back to the Dark Nebula with the Breastforce, where he successfully re-energized his fortress and began moving it towards Earth. {{storylink|The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress!}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Intent on learning from the failures of all past Decepticon leaders, Deathsaurus chose not to conquer Earth, but to utterly destroy the planet, eradicting from Decepticon history the humiliating stain of defeat the planet represented. As the fortress rained destruction down upon Earth with meteor bombs, even Victory Saber could not stand up to its power. Soon, however, a resentful Dinoforce supplied information on the fortress&#039;s weak spot to Star Saber&#039;s adopted human son, Jean, who then used his own personal mech to enter the fortress and strike at this vulnerability. As he did so, Deathsaurus and Star Saber engaged in a vicious final battle, during which Deathsaurus lost an eye, and was eventually stopped when Star Saber broke his sword off in the villain&#039;s chest. Gushing fuel and fluid, Deathsaurus vowed to have the last laugh as he set the crippled fortress on a collision course with Earth and blew himself out an airlock, vowing to return again and again. But, as his body drifted off into space, no sign of life was visible from the conquered emperor. Victory Saber was able to subsequently destroy the fortress before it collided with Earth, but Deathsaurus was not heard from again. {{storylink|Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===&#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; manga===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Kingsaurus.jpg|right|thumb|The mighty King Zaras.  Mighty.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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As a parallel to Star Saber&#039;s adoption of [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]], Deathsaurus had a &amp;quot;son&amp;quot; of his own, a human boy named [[Solon Kitakaze]]. Solon&#039;s mother was killed during a Decepticon attack on Earth, and Deathsaurus &amp;quot;adopted&amp;quot; the boy, turning him into a cyborg and raising him to believe that he was his son. Solon had frequent clashes with Jean, whose school he began attending, which often degenerated into &amp;quot;my dad can beat up your dad&amp;quot;-style arguments as their &amp;quot;fathers&amp;quot; battled. At one point, Deathsaurus even attempted to bribe Jean into joining the Decepticons with toys, games, candy and cash.&lt;br /&gt;
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Solon had his own battle armour and often rode Deathsaurus&#039;s Breastars as steeds, but when Victory Leo and Star Saber merged into Victory Saber, Deathsaurus sought a way to increase his own power in a similar fashion and crafted a Transformer-sized mech for Solon named [[King Solon]], with which he was able to combine, forming [[King Zaras]]. However, in the midst of this battle, Solon discovered the truth about his mother, and his distraction allowed Victory Saber to destroy the King Solon mecha. Deathsaurus fled, abandoning Solon, who accepted his earthly heritage and joined the Autobots.&lt;br /&gt;
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During the final battle, as Deathsaurus&#039;s fortress attacks the Earth, it is he who battles Star Saber in space &#039;&#039;(unlike the animated series, in which Liokaiser takes this role)&#039;&#039;. Leozack, then, is able to take his treachery to the ultimate extreme by turning the fortress&#039;s power on Deathsaurus, and Deathsaurus cripples the craft with his cannon as Star Saber takes Leozack down. Then, the wounded Deathsaurus reveals the true reason he has quested to liberate the fortress from the Dark Nebula{{m-}}it is home to the Decepticons&#039; families and civilians. As the shocked Autobots discover this, they meet Deathsaurus&#039;s wife, [[Esmeryl]] and Deathsaurus and Star Saber then make peace, shaking hands and vowing to work together for the betterment of the Transformer race.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descent into Evil===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Deathsaurustimelines.jpg|left|thumb|Deathsaurus orchestrates the rise of a New Decepticon Empire, or NAMBLA.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Using a clone lab on [[Ceti Alpha Seven]], Deathsaurus wished to revive the fading [[Decepticon Empire]] with a vast [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] army.  After the first batch of [[Virulent Clone|clones]] was completed, his operation was interrupted by a team of [[Autobot]] commandos under the command of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]].  Deathsaurus overpowered and captured the first wave himself, and soon faced Ironhide one-on-one, while [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] attempted to rescue the fallen Autobots.  Due to the assistance of Tripredacus Agent [[Flamewar]], these two were defeated and captured as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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They woke up bound inside Deathsaurus&#039; clone lab.  The Emperor of Destruction appeared on a television screen, declaring that his use for the lab was completed and was prepared to detonate it remotely with the Autobots inside.  Unfortunately for Deathsaurus, the Autobot espionage agent [[Ricochet (Descent into Evil)|Ricochet]] not only freed the Autobots before the explosion occurred, but also seeded the remaining clones with a virus, leaving Deathsaurus with nothing to show for his work.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (Large Breastforce, 1989)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Japanese ID number&#039;&#039;: &#039;&#039;&#039;D-336&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Accessories&#039;&#039;: Tail/shield, rifle, Tigerbreast &amp;amp; Eaglebreast &amp;quot;Breast Animals&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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: The original Deathsaurus toy transformed into a nondescript dragon-lizard thing with wings (or giant mutant space chicken) that doesn&#039;t really look like anything except ugly. Unusually for post-Generation 1 toys, he has [[die-cast]]-metal feet in beast mode.&lt;br /&gt;
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: In robot mode, both of his [[Breast Animal]] components can be slotted inside his spring-loaded chest (or &#039;&#039;kaiju&#039;&#039;-mode back) to form his elaborate torso armor; Eaglebreast must go in first, then Tigerbreast added on top. Both Breast Animals can also become hand-held weapons. He is armed with a light blue laser rifle {{m-}} which, despite what the boxart and cartoon would have you believe, does &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; have a removable flail{{m-}} and a large shield constructed out of his tail that can mount on either bicep.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Timelines===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Descent into Evil&#039;&#039;&#039; (multi-pack, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: Part of the [[BotCon 2005]] &amp;quot;Descent into Evil&amp;quot; boxset, Deathsaurus is a blue and black [[retool]] of &#039;&#039;[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]&#039;&#039; version of [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron/Galvatron]]. He comes with a pair of swords that can launch their blade-missiles through a pressure-launch mechanism, as well as combine at their bottom ends to form a large double-blade weapon. The blade-missiles are rounded off [[for safety reasons]] like the other [[Hasbro]] uses of the mold.&lt;br /&gt;
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: His head is a new sculpt based on Deathsaurus&#039;s appearance in the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; anime (though Deathsaurus&#039;s face seems to be copied from Megatron&#039;s).  Deathsaurus&#039;s mold was originally a ten-changer, though the &amp;quot;gargoyle&amp;quot;/bat mode was neutered for this release due to the dropping of the bat snout piece, required to give his new head enough space inside his chest cavity for other modes.  He still retains the other nine modes (robot, dragster, jet, two-headed dragon, hand, mammoth, hydrofoil, one-headed dragon, and winged griffin). His tail-piece was removed for in-box storage, but easily popped back on since it&#039;s on a ball-and-socket joint.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Merchandise==&lt;br /&gt;
===Super Figure Collection===&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deszaras&#039;&#039;&#039; (2002)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:SFCAct7Deszaras.jpg|left|thumb|100px|It was cold.  I dressed in layers.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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: Deathsaurus was released in Act 7 of the Takara [[Super Collection Figure]] line as a non-transforming PVC with a funky pose and limited posability. Two pieces came per case of 12 PVCs, one in full-color and one in pewter-finish. He also came with a clear-plastic stand, and the pewter version came with one piece to add to wave-mate [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] to turn him into [[Victory Saber]]. (This add-on piece could also be either full-color or pewter-finish.)&lt;br /&gt;
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: A limited chase version (shown here) features his inner Breastforce member, Eaglebreast, rather than the normal version&#039;s Tigerbreast.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Deathsauruspin.jpg|thumb|75px|Deathstickus]] &lt;br /&gt;
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* &#039;&#039;&#039;Deathsaurus pin&#039;&#039;&#039; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;
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: The first 100 BotCon 2005 Primus-package preregistrants received an exclusive Deathsaurus pin as part of their registration package.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Deathsaurus&#039;s name is the source of a long-lasting argument. The phonetic Japanese reading of the name is: &amp;quot;De-su-za-ra-su&amp;quot;. This is represented in English on his toy packaging and tech specs as &amp;quot;Deszaras.&amp;quot; English-speaking fans would long debate the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; [[romanization]] of the name, interpreting it as Deszaras, Deathzaras, Deathsaurus, Death Czarus, Def Zarce, Deaths &#039;R&#039; Us, Debt Source, Darth Sass, Death&#039;s Arse and god knows what else. &amp;quot;Deathsaurus&amp;quot; had a tendency to be the most popular and well-known (on account of it actually &#039;&#039;meaning&#039;&#039; something), which led to it being used on the character&#039;s first official Western toy, making it his official American name. However, it is unlikely that this was supposed to be the actual name for the character—were his name &amp;quot;saurus&amp;quot;, then it would be rendered as &amp;quot;sa-u-ru-su&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;za-u-ru-su&amp;quot; in Japanese, rather than &amp;quot;za-ra-su&amp;quot;—and that his name was genuinely intended to be the word, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, which resembles the pattern for naming of [[Wikipedia:Kaiju|Kaiju]] monsters (see below). The character appears with the &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot; name on the Region 2 &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039; DVD boxset.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Anyway, if you plan on insisting his name is &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;, please learn to spell it.&lt;br /&gt;
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* While often called a dragon or occasionally a griffin (or a giant chicken), Deathsaurus is most likely styled after traditional Japanese &amp;quot;kaiju&amp;quot;, such as [[Godzilla]] or Rodan.  Hence, the Kaiju-esque name, &amp;quot;Deszaras&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* His Japanese name (Deszaras) is spelled really closely to the Hungarian phrase for &amp;quot;so shitty&amp;quot; and also the equivalent to &amp;quot;bugger me&amp;quot;, which in turn, if taken literally, means &amp;quot;to crap oneself in the pants&amp;quot;. Whichever phrase we look at, the incident nevertheless caused a lot of joy in the Hungarian fan community.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* In Dreamwave&#039;s [[The Route of All Evil|&#039;&#039;Generation One&#039;&#039; #10]], Deathsaurus was seen as a statue representing an ancient transformer, together with [[Dai Atlas]]. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* The original Deathsaurus mold was redecoed into the non-living &amp;quot;Red Geist&amp;quot; mech for [[Takara]]&#039;s &#039;&#039;[[Brave|Brave of Legend Da Garn]]&#039;&#039; toyline, which lacked the Eaglebreast partner. Although the character design in the television show for the line was significantly modified from that of Deathsaurus, including replacing Tigerbreast&#039;s tiger mode with a jet mode, the Red Geist toy itself was not retooled.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Deathsaurus/deathsaurus.htm Deathsaurus on TFU.info]&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Shockwave (Animated)</title>
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:&#039;&#039;Shockwave is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:TFA Shockwave.jpg|thumb|250px|My awesomeness is logical.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Shockwave&#039;&#039;&#039; is a covert agent in service to [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]. A master of disguise, he represents Megatron&#039;s long-term plans, if outright military conquest proves unfeasible. He&#039;s been in deep cover on Cybertron for so long that even &#039;&#039;he&#039;&#039; probably doesn&#039;t know who he really is, but he provides the inside scoop on what the Autobots are doing.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Fiction==&lt;br /&gt;
===&#039;&#039;Animated&#039;&#039; cartoon===&lt;br /&gt;
{{ongoing}}&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;Voice actor&#039;&#039;: [[Corey Burton]] (English)&lt;br /&gt;
Shockwave was recruited by Megatron because his mass-shifting abilities allowed him to effectively impersonate a wide variety of shapes and sizes, making it difficult for Autobots to accurately track him during missions of infiltration and sabotage. It was these traits which led to Megatron sending him to enlist in the Autobot armed services, as a means of climbing the ranks and eventually taking the organization down from within.&lt;br /&gt;
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Disguising himself as &amp;quot;Longarm&amp;quot;, Shockwave enrolled in Autobot boot camp, but slipped up in the early days of training and was overheard reporting to Megatron by the black sheep recruit, [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]. Although Shockwave managed to avoid detection right away, Bumblebee was tipped off to the presence of a traitor in the camp and suspected fellow recruit Wasp, whom he spotted leaving the building shortly afterward. Seeing his fellow recruit [[Wasp]] (probably Shockwave) leaving the building shortly afterwards, Bumblebee was aware there was a traitor in their midst, and suspected Wasp. Bumblebee turned to the espionage-savvy Longarm for advice, and Shockwave used the opportunity to divert attention away from himself by suggesting that the young Autobot refrain from telling their commander, Sentinel Minor, so that &#039;Bee could take all the credit when he exposed the traitor himself as a means to ensuring his career in the [[Cybertron Elite Guard]]. Unfortunately, all of Bumblebee&#039;s efforts only got him in worse trouble, and his fellow recruits began to bully him, with Longarm being the only one to stick up for him. After several failures on Bumblebee&#039;s part, Shockwave had to take matters into his own hands and switched the training equipment to live ammo in an attempt to offline the Autobot and keep the whole matter of a traitor a secret. Luckily for Bumblebee, this plan was foiled by Bulkhead.&lt;br /&gt;
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Eventually, Shockwave found out that Sentinel Minor intended to conduct a surprise inspection, and he contrived to set up Wasp to take the fall himself. After planting a Decepticon communicator in Wasp&#039;s locker, Shockwave, as Longarm, informed Bumblebee of the upcoming inspection, telling him that it was his last chance to find the evidence he needed. Using one of his extensible limbs to trip up Wasp, Shockwave allowed Bumblebee to palm Wasp&#039;s locker key as &#039;Bee helped him up, allowing him to find the communicator and show it to Sentinel. In the end, Wasp was dragged off to prison, and Longarm commended Bumblebee for his deductive work. Subsequently, Shockwave graduated boot camp and became a member of the Cybertron Elite Guard. Now &amp;quot;Longarm Prime&amp;quot;, he became head of [[Cybertron Intelligence]] and remained in this position, hiding in plain sight, for the fifty stellar cycles, even when Megatron was lost on [[Earth]]. After Optimus&#039; ship was lost, Longarm pressed Sentinel to continue the search for the ship&#039;s crew, the AllSpark and Megatron. His pleas fell on deaf ears. {{storylink|The Arrival issue 1}} Years later, After Megatron succeeded in restoring himself and the Decepticons were assembled on Earth, he re-established contact with Shockwave on Cybertron and initiated a plan to construct a space bridge that would allow the Decepticons to conquer the planet from within. {{storylink|Misson Accompolished}} Wasp, now criminally insane, escaped from prison, and Megatron started receiving transmissions from his double agent on Cybertron. When Megatron&#039;s captive, [[Isaac Sumdac]], attempted to alert the Autobots to the existence of the double agent by bouncing a transmission to their base, Bumblebee again suspected Wasp, and informed his old friend Longarm Prime, he expressed his pleasure at hearing from Bumblebee and Bulkhead again, and promised to deal with the matter of the traitor personally, but of course, Very personally, that accomplished nothing. As he reported back to Megatron that the Autobots didn&#039;t suspect a thing and that Wasp&#039;s jailbreak had been the perfect distraction. Megatron&#039;s plan had succeeded, and in the guise of Longarm Prime Shockwave was ready to take the Autobots down from the inside. {{storylink|Autoboot Camp}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When the completed space bridge failed to function, Megatron contacted Shockwave and instructed him to locate the top space bridge specialist on Cybertron to help correct the problem. Shockwave was surprised to discover that the specialist was already on Earth; it was Bulkhead! Bulkhead was subsequently captured by Megatron and forced to perfect the space bridge. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}} The other Autobots arrived too late to stop him, and they were defeated by the Decepticons and strung up to watch as the bridge was activated. Shockwave revealed his alter ego of Longarm Prime to the Autobots, disclosing that he had already given Megatron an appropriate access code and forcing Bumblebee to feel the shame of sending an innocent Wasp to prison. When Megatron tried to test the space bridge by sending Optimus Prime through it, Shockwave assured his master that he awaited the &amp;quot;test subject&amp;quot; on the other side. Unfortunately, an attempt by Megatron to boost power caused the space bridge to overload, deleting the access code and setting the space bridge to random coordinates. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}} &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Megacycles later, Shockwave, as Longarm once more, assures Ultra Magnus that the Decepticons would not be able to reach the Cybertron Space bridge nexus. Shockwave came into contact with [[Team Chaar]] who were assault an Autobot base with a space bridge with the intention of using it to gate to Cybertron. When [[Strika (Animated)|Strika]] asked for permission to begin the assault, Shockwave denys and tells Strika and her team that they had to wait for Megatron to which an annoyed Strika stated that he was supposed to be there megacycles ago. Unexpectively, the Elite Guard increasing security and eventually cutting power to the space bridge nexus when it became clear that the Decepticons were attempting to invade Cybertron. At this point, Agent [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] arrived and attempted to report to Longarm that Wasp was not a traitor and that a double agent was still on Cybertron, stating it is the Decepticon: Shockwave (Blurr was not aware of Shockwave&#039;s shape-shifting abilities. His intention was to consult the Cybertron Intel database to find the real spy. Longarm then inquired from Blurr if he shared his findings with anyone else to which Blurr responded by saying he did not and reported straight to the head of Cybertron Intelligence. Shockwave then attacked Blurr and attempted to eliminate him before his secret was revealed but the fast Autobot escaped. However, Shockwave then activated traps within the facility which cornered and later crushed Blur leading to the Agent into a brick-like material (but it is unknown of Blurr is actually offline of not). {{storylink|TransWarped}} &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Toys==&lt;br /&gt;
===Transformers Animated===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &#039;&#039;&#039;Shockwave&#039;&#039;&#039; (Voyager, 2008) &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:Representing his double nature in the cartoon, Animated Shockwave represents both the Autobot Longarm and Decepticon Shockwave, featuring four distinct modes. In &amp;quot;Infiltration Mode,&amp;quot; the shorter, stockier Autobot Longarm transforms into a four-legged crane platform. If one fancies, you can stretch out his Shockwave&#039;s elbows to emulate his limb stretching ability in Longarm mode (abeit not very well). In &amp;quot;Spy Mode,&amp;quot; he stretches and manipulates himself into the taller, lankier Decepticon Shockwave, as the crane portion of Longarm&#039;s body converts into a hand-held cannon. The symbol on his chest flips between Autobot and Decepticon symbols. Both chest symbols are vacuum metalized, with very shiny silver and gold used. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:Curiously, while the rotating faction symbols on his chest use the usual &amp;quot;classic&amp;quot; designs, the tampographed Decepticon symbol on his cannon/crane is in the movie style. It is also plainly visible in his Autobot modes. Whoops! &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:* &#039;&#039;&#039;Shockwave VS Bumblebee&#039;&#039;&#039; (Multi-pack, 2009) &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:A predominantly purple redeco of the Voyager toy, this version of Shockwave is packaged with an apparently-unaltered Activators-class Bumblebee figure. Shockwave retains his four modes and gimmickry within each. A Target stores exclusive, this set was available simultaneously with the Sunstorm/Ratchet multi-pack. &lt;br /&gt;
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{{comingsoontoy}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
* Shockwave&#039;s body appears to be largely patterned after &#039;&#039;[[Armada]]&#039;&#039; [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]; he transforms into an &amp;quot;H-tank&amp;quot;, the front treads end up on his shoulders, and his helmet features large, serrated blades of the kind found on Megatron&#039;s &#039;&#039;Armada&#039;&#039;-body helmet. However, he retains the [[Shockwave (G1)|classic Shockwave]] window-chest and face that is little more than a single, round optic. It is unknown at this time if one of his hands retracts to reveal a blaster-cannon.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Actor Corey Burton reprises the role of Shockwave from &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Generation One&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Despite having just an eye, Shockwave still manages to have a mouth that dosen&#039;t actually move. Granted, it is not as outlandishly large as [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|some]] [[Starscream (Animated)|others]] [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|are.]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Shockwave has been entrusted to remain on Cybertron with the mission to prepare the place for Megatron&#039;s return. Humm... [[Shockwave_(G1)#Cartoon_continuity|Déjà vu]]!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Also, Shockwave&#039;s disguise as Longarm Prime has some similaries including the red light on his forehead (Shockwave&#039;s eye), a similar color scheme, and the tread arms &amp;amp; legs.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Animated characters]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Decepticons]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Spies]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>File:TFA Shockwave.jpg</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;WikiSysop: uploaded &amp;quot;Image:TFA Shockwave.jpg&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Image taken from [[Autoboot Camp]]&amp;lt;div id=&amp;quot;wikia-credits&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
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		<title>Template:Wheremi</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;WikiSysop: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;{{doc}}[[Category: Templates]]&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!--&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
EXPLICIT SERIES NAMES (only used internally)&lt;br /&gt;
CARTOONS (This will, at some point, be expanded beyond cartoons.)&lt;br /&gt;
G1 Cartoon - 1984toon&lt;br /&gt;
Headmasters Cartoon - HMtoon&lt;br /&gt;
Masterforce Cartoon - MFtoon&lt;br /&gt;
Victory Cartoon - Victoon&lt;br /&gt;
Zone Cartoon - Zonetoon&lt;br /&gt;
G2 Cartoon - G2toon&lt;br /&gt;
Beast Wars - BWtoon&lt;br /&gt;
Beast Wars II - BW2toon&lt;br /&gt;
Beast Wars Neo - BWNeotoon&lt;br /&gt;
  (Would we ever want a separate entry for Metals/BWR I wonder?)&lt;br /&gt;
Beast Machines - BMtoon&lt;br /&gt;
Robots in Disguise - RiDtoon&lt;br /&gt;
Armada Cartoon - Armtoon&lt;br /&gt;
Energon Cartoon - Energontoon&lt;br /&gt;
Superlink Cartoon - SLtoon&lt;br /&gt;
Cybertron Cartoon - Cybtoon&lt;br /&gt;
Animated Cartoon - Anitoon&lt;br /&gt;
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--&amp;gt;{{ #if: {{{getcolloquial|}}}&lt;br /&gt;
| {{ #switch: {{{getcolloquial}}}&lt;br /&gt;
| 1984toon=Generation 1&lt;br /&gt;
| SRLFtoon=Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers&lt;br /&gt;
| 2010=Transformers 2010&lt;br /&gt;
| HMtoon=The Headmasters&lt;br /&gt;
| MFtoon=Super-God Masterforce&lt;br /&gt;
| Victoon=Victory&lt;br /&gt;
| Zonetoon=Zone&lt;br /&gt;
| G2toon=Generation 2&lt;br /&gt;
| BWtoon=Beast Wars&lt;br /&gt;
| BW2toon=Beast Wars II&lt;br /&gt;
| BWNeotoon=Beast Wars Neo&lt;br /&gt;
| BMtoon=Beast Machines&lt;br /&gt;
| RiDtoon=Robots in Disguise&lt;br /&gt;
| Armtoon=Armada&lt;br /&gt;
| Energontoon=Energon&lt;br /&gt;
| SLtoon = Superlink&lt;br /&gt;
| Cybtoon=Cybertron&lt;br /&gt;
| Anitoon=Animated&lt;br /&gt;
| {{{getcolloquial}}}&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
|}}&amp;lt;!--&lt;br /&gt;
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## Get the series link associated with the series&#039; explicit name&lt;br /&gt;
--&amp;gt;{{ #if: {{{getserieslink|}}}&lt;br /&gt;
| {{ #switch: {{{getserieslink}}}&lt;br /&gt;
| 1984toon=Generation 1 (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| SRLFtoon=Generation 1 (cartoon)#Japanese release&lt;br /&gt;
| 2010= Generation 1 (cartoon)#Japanese release&lt;br /&gt;
| HMtoon=The Headmasters (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| MFtoon=Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| Victoon=Victory (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| Zonetoon=Zone&lt;br /&gt;
| G2toon=Generation 2 (cartoon)&lt;br /&gt;
| BWtoon=Beast Wars (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| BW2toon=Beast Wars II (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| BWNeotoon=Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| BMtoon=Beast Machines (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| RiDtoon=Robots in Disguise (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| Armtoon=Armada (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| Energontoon=Energon (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| SLtoon=Energon (cartoon)&lt;br /&gt;
| Cybtoon=Cybertron (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| Anitoon=Transformers Animated (cartoon)#Episodes&lt;br /&gt;
| {{{getserieslink}}}&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
|}}&amp;lt;!--&lt;br /&gt;
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## Get the season link associated with the series&#039; explicit name&lt;br /&gt;
--&amp;gt;{{ #if: {{{getseasonlink|}}}&lt;br /&gt;
| {{ #switch: {{{getseasonlink}}}&lt;br /&gt;
| BWtoon={{ #switch: {{{1}}}&lt;br /&gt;
 |1=List of Beast Wars episodes#Season_1:_1996.E2.80.931997&lt;br /&gt;
 |2=List of Beast Wars episodes#Season_2:_1997.E2.80.931998&lt;br /&gt;
 |3=List of Beast Wars episodes#Season_3:_1998.E2.80.931999&lt;br /&gt;
 |List of Beast Wars episodes&lt;br /&gt;
 }}&lt;br /&gt;
|{{{2}}}#Season {{{1}}}&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
|}}&amp;lt;!--&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## Get the &#039;explicit&#039; internal name of the series being dealt with (matching string shifted to all-lowercase)&lt;br /&gt;
--&amp;gt;{{ #if: {{{getexplicit|}}}&lt;br /&gt;
| {{ #switch: {{lc:{{{getexplicit}}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
| g1toon=1984toon&lt;br /&gt;
| sunbow=1984toon&lt;br /&gt;
| g1=1984toon&lt;br /&gt;
| headmasters=HMtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| head masters=HMtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| masterforce=MFtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| master force=MFtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| victory=Victoon&lt;br /&gt;
| zone=Zonetoon&lt;br /&gt;
| g2=G2toon&lt;br /&gt;
| beastwars=BWtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| beast wars=BWtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| bw=BWtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| beast wars ii=BW2toon&lt;br /&gt;
| beastwars ii=BW2toon&lt;br /&gt;
| beastwarsii=BW2toon&lt;br /&gt;
| beast wars 2=BW2toon&lt;br /&gt;
| beastwars 2=BW2toon&lt;br /&gt;
| beastwars2=BW2toon&lt;br /&gt;
| bwii=BW2toon&lt;br /&gt;
| bw2=BW2toon&lt;br /&gt;
| beast wars neo=BWNeotoon&lt;br /&gt;
| beastwars neo=BWNeotoon&lt;br /&gt;
| beast wars neo=BWNeotoon&lt;br /&gt;
| beastwarsneo=BWNeotoon&lt;br /&gt;
| bw neo=BWNeotoon&lt;br /&gt;
| bwneo=BWNeotoon&lt;br /&gt;
| bwn=BWNeotoon&lt;br /&gt;
| beast machines=BMtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| beastmachines=BMtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| bm=BMtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| robots in disguise=RiDtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| robotsindisguise=RiDtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| rid=RiDtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| armada=Armtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| arm=Armtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| energon=Energontoon&lt;br /&gt;
| cybertron=Cybtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| cyb=Cybtoon&lt;br /&gt;
| animated=Anitoon&lt;br /&gt;
| ani=Anitoon&lt;br /&gt;
| {{{getexplicit}}}&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
|}}&amp;lt;!--&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Construct a series link &#039;Generation One &amp;gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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|[[{{Wheremi_recurse|getserieslink={{Wheremi_recurse|getexplicit={{{serieslink|}}}}} }}|{{Wheremi_recurse|getcolloquial={{Wheremi_recurse|getexplicit={{{serieslink|}}}}} }}]] &amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
|}}&amp;lt;!--&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Construct a season link &#039;Season 2 &amp;gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
--&amp;gt;{{ #if: {{{seasonlink|}}}&lt;br /&gt;
|[[{{Wheremi_recurse|getseasonlink={{Wheremi_recurse|getexplicit={{{series}}}}} |{{{seasonlink}}} |{{Wheremi_recurse|getserieslink={{Wheremi_recurse|getexplicit={{{series}}}}}}}}}|Season {{{seasonlink}}}]] &amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
|}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Template:Wheremi_recurse&amp;diff=197462</id>
		<title>Template:Wheremi recurse</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;WikiSysop: Redirecting to Template:Wheremi&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;#REDIRECT [[Template:Wheremi]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&amp;diff=171728</id>
		<title>Main Page</title>
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