Drancron

Drancron is a Blentron from the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The artwork is as muddled as the toy.

The Blentron Execution Ninja Drancron (ドランクロン Dorankuron) uses his deadly arsenal to kill his opponents. First is his Drancutter: He can sneak upon unsuspecting victims and use the sharp edges of his weapon to cleave off body parts, including heads. With the Drancutter and the steel-tearing Lizard Claws on his other hand, nothing can resist Drancron's shearing and ripping prowess.

If his enemy tries to escape, though, they're in for a surprise when Drancron shoots a Clap Missile from his mouth. Upon contact, it explodes into a sticky substance that entraps the target, allowing Drancron the opportunity to ignore the inevitable begging and put an end to the unfortunate victim's life.

Sometimes there are lots of him.

Fiction

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Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

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Beast Wars Neo cartoon

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Voice actor: Shinji Uchida (Japanese){{#if: Byeong-sig Lee (Korean)|, Byeong-sig Lee (Korean)}}

After Big Convoy's Maximals and Magmatron's Predacons had gathered many Angolmois Capsules, Drancron and the other Blentrons made their move. While Elphaorpha created an hole into the Gung Ho's cargo bay, Drancron and Latolata observed Big Convoy tricking some of the Predacons into a trap using empty Angolmois Capsules as bait. The two soon travelled via wormhole to join Elphaorpha just as the cargo bay was penetrated and the Capsules sucked into space (along with Break). The Maximals attempted to stop the Blentrons from consuming the Capsules, but their attacks couldn't even scratch the trio, and the Blentrons transformed into robot mode and struck back out of annoyance, putting the Maximal rookies out of commission.

When Big Convoy finally arrived at the Gung Ho, he found his downed crew and the Blentrons inside the cargo bay. The three unleashed their attacks on the Maximal commander, easily taking him down, and took their leave through a wormhole. Mysterious Beast Warriors!?

Planning to take the Predacons' Capsules as well, the Blentrons left a stock at Milton to lure in the Dinosaur. When the Predacons made their survey, Drancron stalked the team of Archadis and Dead End. However, the Angolmois Capsules also attracted the attention of the Maximals, so Drancron and Latolata decided to set them against the Predacons to buy Elphaorpha time to pilfer the Dinosaur's Angolmois Capsules. Gathering all of the Capsules they stole on Milton, the Blentrons were confronted by the Maximals, but the trio nevertheless made quick escape with their spoils through a wormhole. The Stolen Capsules

Having stolen both stockpiles of Angolmois Capsules, the Blentrons ventured to different planets to find still wayward Capsules. Their pattern of travel was eventually realized by the Maximals, and, intercepting the Blentrons just as they emerged from a wormhole, the Gung Ho attempted to capture them with an electric net before unloading the ship's full firepower, but it proved futile. Undaunted, the trio simply warped away to Porcupine, where they had detected a Capsule. Magmatron, knowing the Blentrons' true goal of reviving Unicron, attempted to get the edge on them with the planet's defenses and the Predacons' personal weapons, neither of which could muster any damage. The Maximals soon arrived and their combined firepower was seemingly enough to down Drancron, but the Blentron simply healed from his wounds. Fearing for his master's life, Hydra ejected the Angolmois Capsule from the planet, prompting the Blentrons to chase after it. Once they acquired it, they unleashed their power on Porcupine, destroying it, but not before both forces left the planet. Pursue the Blentrons!

Finding three Angolmois Capsules on Jion, Magmatron set up a trap using the Capsules as bait. Once the Blentrons arrived, Magmatron's troops activated an electric field that immobilized the trio while the Predacons unleashed their firepower on them. Once again, it had little effect as Latolata used his Lato Thrasher to destroy the field's emitters and the Blentrons wailed on the hapless Predacons. Pushed to his final trump card, Magmatron ordered the Dinosaur to emerge from its hiding spot in the planet's surface and had the ship unleash its full armory on the Blentrons. With the powerful Transformers finally too weakened to fight back, Magmatron attempted to detonate the Angolmois Capsules, fully willing to end his and his soldier's lives to ensure that Unicron would not be revived. He was stopped in the nick of time by Big Convoy, whose Maximals had been trapped by the Predacons previously and who was unwilling to let their lives end as well. Taking the opportunity, the Blentrons warped away to recover and reach their next destination. Angry Magmatron

Figuring out to navigate the Blentrons' warp holes, the Maximals arrived at the villains' hideout, an asteroid within a cloud of dark gas and which they attempted to defend, but fell back after a bit of a tussle. Illusion? Lio Convoy Inside the asteroid, they watched as Unicron's resurrection proceeded along inside a container sucking energy from the Angolmois Capsules they collected. They detected the presence of Predacon intruders, and so the Blentrons went to the surface to attack them. Unicron's awakening and subsequent battle with Magmatron eventually attracted their attention, and they watched as their master, in the form of Galvatron, banished the current Emperor of Destruction to another dimension. Unicron Revived!? The Blentrons wanted to strike back against the Maximals when Big Convoy attacked Unicron, but their master simply entreated them to ignore their enemies and focus on gathering more Angolmois Capsules to further strengthen himself. They ended up at Advance Base 889T9, where Unicron absorbed their stock of Angolmois Energy. When Big Convoy and Longrack arrived to investigate, the Blentrons attacked the two and were held back by Big Convoy while Longrack fled to activate the base's self-destruct protocol. With Heinrad immobilizing Unicron and the Blentrons with his Time Freeze, the Maximals fled the base while Unicron and his minions were engulfed in the explosion. However, as Unicron was an energy being, he simply absorbed the explosion, which spared the Blentrons as well, and the four soon warped away. Unicron's Ambition

Unicron and the Blentrons took frequent stops on their way to Cybertron, where they destroyed Maximal advance bases. They eventually met with the Magmatron Unit, now led by Archadis, who attempted to offer their allegiance to the god. Despite the Blentrons simply wanting to scrap them, Unicron was more receptive, ordering the Predacons to bring him the head of Big Convoy. (They failed.) The Maximals, thinking that Unicron wanted to reunite with his body, warped to the Triple Z Point, where it was located. There, they were ambushed by the Blentrons, who were trying to give their master time before the Maximals realized his true goal of merging with Vector Sigma and Cybertron. With Heinrad's Time Freeze, the Maximal was able to get the three to attack each other and squsequent sustained fire from the Maximals forced the Blentrons into retreat. They returned to Unicron, who was waiting in Cybertron's orbit and watched as the Maximal Grand Fleet assembled for the final battle. Fight! Maximals The minions offered to take care of the armada for the master, but Unicron simply growled at them to back off and converted the fleet's firepower into his own energy and used it to annihilate the fleet before making touchdown on Cybertron. Running low on energy, Unicron was struck by Big Convoy's Mammoth Dynamite attack, which threatened to dissipate him. The Blentrons rushed to their master's side, and Unicron simply thanked his servants' devotion by absorbing them to sustain his own existence. End of the Maximals!?

Cloud

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Drancron and the other Blentrons were some of the many threats to spacetime that Cloud World's Wreckers battled. TFC-A04

Beast Wars Neo comic

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Drancron, like the other Blentrons, was produced in mass numbers by Unicron in his "Black Ball" form, and were sent out to seek Angolmois Capsules. One of the planets they attacked was Jörmungandr, where they exterminated most of the population but were unable to find the Angolmois Capsule there.

When Magmatron's troops dwindled, the Black Ball, who was manipulating the Maximals and the Predacons to gather the Angolmois Energy, offered its Blentrons as replacements. A Battle Fought Alone With the Blentrons, Magmatron set up a trap at an amphitheater floating in Cybertron orbit for the Maximals. When the trap was sprung and Big Convoy was forced to give up the Angolmois Capsules to save his underlings, a Latolata subsequently backstabbed Magmatron, revealing the Blentrons' true allegiance to Unicron! When six capsules were consumed by the Black Ball, Unicron revealed himself, but admitted that he was incomplete without the Angolmois Energy found in both Magmatron and Big Convoy. The Blentrons were sicced on the two, but were all defeated by Big Convoy and Magmatron on their way to attack Unicron himself. Double Cross

After Unicron acquired the Angolmois Energy he needed from Magmatron and obtained Cybertron as a new body, he was lured to the Georgian system by the Maximals. There, Unicron was trapped by crowded and exploding planets. The Maximals picked the opportunity to attack, but Unicron spat out another Blentron army to confront the Maximals. They were held at bay by the Maximals, allowing Big Convoy to make the final strike on Unicron. Return to Zero

2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity

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At the end of the Great War, a disillusioned Decepticon lost himself in the dark underground gladiatorial games beneath Cybertron. He sopped his wounds in honorable mortal combat and forgot the military life that had failed him. His signature move was to decapitate his opponents when they lost, earning him the nickname "the Drancutter". Unsurprisingly, Unicron saw potential there, capturing and transforming Drancron with his dark power. Gone were all thoughts of honor and, in their place, his already great lust for battle was amplified to an immeasurable degree. The Blendtron Drancron lived only for the kill. And for Unicron. Beast Wars Sourcebook #1

Drancron, with Elephorca and Rartorata, brought Angolmois Capsules to Shokaract The Ascending #1 on the orders of Unicron, priming him as a "vessel" for the dark god's return. Soon, the spectral Unicron got wind of a "rogue element" in the timestream that threatened his plans. Rartorata was ordered to go to Earth during the Beast Wars while Drancron and Elephorca were to remain to continue feeding Shokaract while keeping him in the dark. The Ascending #2 Eventually, Shokaract decided to deal with some investigating Maximals nearby, despite Drancron and Elephorca's claims that it was too "soon" and that the energy within him had not stabilized. Their pleas ended up annoying the leaving demigod, who believed the two to be mere imperious servants. The Blendtrons were left to sneer over how the vessel did not truly understand his purpose.

When Rartorata became captured by the Maximals and Predacons, Drancron and Elephorca converted to new forms and warped on Earth 70,000 years prior to assist their comrade. They were quickly confronted by the Angolmois-infected Razorbeast, who broke out of his own restraints The Ascending #3 and clashed with Elephorca in his rage. Drancron attacked the boar, but was kicked away for his trouble. He then tussled with members of the combined Maximal/Predacon force, crushing Bantor and Manta Ray with his gigantic body as he fell over. Spittor managed to kick Drancron into Rartorata's stinger, which caused an explosion that consumed the two Blendtrons, Spittor, and Lazorbeak. The Ascending #4

Beast Wars: Uprising

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Drancron was part of the Games. He died in one fight, where his missile launcher was pilfered by Armordillo to use against Buzzclaw. Head Games

2005 IDW continuity

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Drancron was one of a number of Maximals who attacked the Throttlebots while they were marooned on the backwater planet of Regalis V. The Dead Come Home, Part 1 When Prowl's reinforcements arrived, he battled Stardrive, who demanded to know why the beastformers had attacked the Throttlebots. Drancron merely replied that "they were in the way", to which Stardrive responded by unleashing Dire Wraith powers to blow Drancron to bits. The Dead Come Home, Part 2

Toys

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Beast Wars

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  • Drancron (1999)
  • ID number: X-8
  • Release date: July ??, 1999
  • Accessories: "Clap Missile"
  • Known designers: Masakatsu Saito (concept artist){{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}
Part of the fifth and final wave of Takara's Beast Wars Neo toys, Drancron is a redeco of the Beast Wars Deluxe Fuzor Sky Shadow, transforming into a beast mode that is a combination of lizard and dragonfly parts. He can fire a pressure-launch "Clap Missile" (we don't know either) from his robot mode mouth. This launcher mechanism forms his tail in beast mode, and fires with a pressure-trigger on the beast's back. His right forearm takes the form of an enormous claw known as the "Drancutter" formed by the upper set of beast mode wings, which flap/snap open and closed when you push a small lever back and forth. They can also be locked in the "open wide" position thanks to a catch in the mechanism.

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  • It is often thought that the beast mode head forms Sky Shadow/Drancron's left hand. However, a set of (immobile) claws are molded into the wrist behind the head, giving them a somewhat more "normal" hand. Hiroyuki Taiga's Beast Wars Neo models catch this.

Foreign names

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  • Korean: Drancron (드랜크론 Deulaenkeulon)
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