CatSCAN

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CatSCAN is an Autobot or Maximal from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Please state the nature of the medical emergency.

Formerly a medical computer's artificial intelligence program, CatSCAN was given a corporeal form by Apelinq and his Transfer Interlink. Compassionate, gentle and childlike, he struggles to understand his new existence and the universe around him. His speech and mannerisms are odd and stilted, but he's slowly learning to be an individual, with respect for all life.

Hurt one of his charges, however, and he'll demonstrate that he might not like to hurt people, but he's learned how to "wreck and rule" pretty damn quick when the situation demands it.

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“ I will ensure no harm comes to these beings. Or I will initiate 'Wreck and Rule' procedures. ”
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Fiction

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3H comics

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"All of us have violent instincts. We have evolved from predators... Well, not me, of course. I've just been programmed by you predators."

With Fractyl severely damaged by a spark core misalignment, the Wreckers took their injured comrade to the repair bay on their ship. Unfortunately, the repair equipment was so old that it could only diagnose–not treat–damages alone. Needing a medic, Apelinq used his Transfer Interlink and the chassis template of one of his former research associates to create CatSCAN, a sparkless medic to help repair Fractyl.

Landing on Archa Nine, CatSCAN joined Primal Prime, Apelinq, and Ramulus on a reconnaissance mission into a nearby jungle. Encountering the native Akalouthans, CatSCAN was attacked and later fought the stranded Tap-Out in a battle that was halted by Glyph. Cyclonus stole the Divine Light from Archa Nine, so Devcon had CatSCAN retrofit him into his old space-faring body. Betrayal

CatSCAN stabilized both Fractyl and Rotorbolt, the latter put into stasis lock by the treacherous Cyclonus. When the Wreckers prepared to depart the planet, Glyph decided to remain behind, knowing her place was not with the war-like Wreckers. When they expressed concern that she would be there alone, CatSCAN countered that he would remain behind as well, to "facilitate and assist". Disclosure

CatSCAN was apparently a Child of Primus, though it is unknown if or when he participated in the Universe War. CatSCAN's Universe profile

Beast Wars: Uprising

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CatSCAN saw a lot of bad injuries in the Games. Derailment He was on the Maximal team in a fateful match of the Games, which was interrupted by Lio Convoy's assassination of Supersonic and call for an uprising against the Builders Broken Windshields and he duly joined the Resistance.

Six years later, the first wave of Vehicons attacked Harmonex, and CatSCAN deemed the infected Stockade could not be saved. Instead he began to callously extract her spark while she still lived, hoping to use that to develop a cure for the virus. He later theorized that cyber venom could impede the transformation into a Vehicon. Derailment

2005 IDW continuity

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CatSCAN was one of Onyx Prime's Maximals. When the Maximals invaded Cybertron, he was one of the many warriors who wound up battling Arcee and fell to his death when Arcee disrupted the gravity generator aboard Nemesis. Unforgivable

2021 Beast Wars comic

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The doctor will see you meow.

Before Cheetor joined the crew of the Axalon, he visited CatSCAN, who administered a routine preflight diagnostic. Much later, while tampering with Cheetor's mind, the Vok Pakak created a virtual world based upon Cheetor's memories, in which he masqueraded as CatSCAN in an attempt to pull useful information out of his unwitting victim. The Speedway of Central Consciousness

Toys

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Expanded Universe

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"Should I do something rude, or not do something rude?"
  • CatSCAN (Deluxe, 2002)
Expanded Universe CatSCAN is a redeco of the Beast Machines Deluxe Class "Night Slash" Cheetor mold, transforming into a robotic tiger with flip-up rocket boosters on its back. Each bicep contains a spring-loaded electron scimitar that slips into his open hands upon release. Pressing down on the spark crystal on his back causes his forelimbs to swing back and forth in a slashy-slashy action, as well as rotating a spinner hidden in his chest under a flip-down chestplate. This gimmick is available in both modes, though the looseness needed for the limbs to move this way tends to make his beast mode a little unstable and prone to faceplanting.
CatSCAN also has glow-in-the-dark paint - the only toy with such a feature in the forty-year history of the Transformers brand until EarthSpark Cyberglow Megatron, a whole twenty-three years later. (Glow-in-the-dark plastic is only slightly more common, having been used a whole three times instead of two!)
He was only available as a BotCon 2002 exclusive, limited to 1500 pieces. He came in a thick box featuring a flip-up lid, revealing a lenticular panel that showed a Mainframe-created render of CatSCAN (well, of show-model Cheetor in CatSCAN deco) that faded into green wireframe or a silhouette as it moved.


Notes

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  • The "SCAN" part of "CatSCAN" doesn't actually stand for anything, although it was originally supposed to. When asked about the issue at BotCon 2002, Glen Hallit struggled to remember what it might have stood for at one point in development, and eventually recalled that it was something along the lines of "computer simulated corporeal autonomous neomaximal"—which is CSCAN. It's possible that the "at" was added to make the name pronounceable, or Glen simply neglected to remember what those letters stood for.
  • CatSCAN was originally going to be called Lifeline, a name that was preferred by Wreckers co-writer Rob Gerbracht. A remnant of this exists on the final packaging, which states that "the Lifeline Cybernetic Diagnostic Module has been activated".
  • The CatSCAN toy's glow-in-the-dark tampograph details were an experiment of sorts, as the Transformers team engineer had never requested glow-in-the-dark paint with a tampograph before. The tampograph's "circuitry pattern" design was doodled out (and later finalized) by Aaron Archer during a meeting with BotCon representatives.
  • According to his profile in The Wreckers #2 (2nd edition) CatSCAN transforms into a tiger rather than a cheetah.
  • In IDW's Beast Wars comic, CatSCAN uses a newly designed body (at right) loosely based on early concept art of Cheetor's unproduced Transtech toy.
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