Editing Drill Nuts (BW)

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:''Drill Nuts is a [[Maximal]] [[Insectron]] from the [[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars II]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:BWII DrillNuts model.JPG|thumb|upright=1.4|OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW]]
'''Drill Nuts''' (ドリルナッツ ''Doriru Nattsu'') is an inventor, or at least he tries to be. His inventions work, which is great, but the problem is that they tend to serve no useful function whatsoever. From boomerang bombs to solar-powered nightlights, his worthless contraptions are practically an art form. Drill Nuts's passion for invention is indisputable, but the more pressing debate is simply... ''why?''

In battle, Drill Nuts is at his most useful when he burrows underground to set booby-traps to ensnare or explode his unsuspecting foes. In direct combat, he's considerably less effective. Although his drill weapon is dangerous in melee situations, his love of inventing has no "off" switch. Drill Nuts will frequently lose focus in a fight when one of his gadgets malfunctions, stopping everything he's doing to tinker with his work, oblivious to the missiles bombarding him on all sides.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars II'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Yūji Kishi]] (Japanese)}}

[[File:BWIIep8Insectron01.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Good news, everyone! I've taught the toaster to feel love."]]
Drill Nuts and the Insectrons were wanderers of the galaxy in search of peace. During those wanderings, they came into conflict with the [[Autoroller (BWII)|Autoroller]]s. Drill Nuts in particular fell afoul of [[Autojetter]]. {{storylink|Danger! Scissor Boy}} 

Eventually, he and the Insectrons settled on the planet [[Gaia]]. Fiercely territorial, they defended their lands in the [[South America|South Continent]] when the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s arrived. [[Starscream (BWII)|Starscream]] of the Predacons enacted a long-term scheme to manipulate the Insectrons into believing the Maximals were their true foes. Drill Nuts worked on a warning system to detect hostility and identify their opponents. When Starscream and [[BB]] fired upon the Maximals, they lured them into an encounter with the Insectrons. Drill Nuts's scanner detected no hostile intent from the flyers, but the aggressive [[Bighorn]] demonstrated "infinite hostility", prompting a fight between the Maximals and Insectrons.

As they squared off, Drill Nuts confronted [[Diver (BWII)|Diver]]. After launching a series of missiles at his opponent, however, one of Drill Nuts's rounds didn't explode. He became obsessed with finding the flaw in that missile, and absent-mindedly stopped his attack in order to take it apart right there on the ground. A bemused Diver awkwardly came over and started to help Drill Nuts examine the munitions. This encounter and similar ones by his friends led the Maximals to realize the Insectrons weren't inherently their enemies. {{storylink|Friend or Foe? The Insect Robos}}

[[File:BWIIep11Insectron01.jpg|right|thumb|250px|"Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news."]]
Starscream's next plot lured the Insectrons to [[Mikazuki Island]] with the promise of an [[oil]] party. Drill Nuts arrived with [[Powerhug (BWII)|Powerhug]], [[Bigmos]] and [[Tonbot]], and a recording from the Predacon told them to start without him. The super-refined oil quickly put the Insectrons into a drunken state, starting a brawl between them. The Maximals and remaining Insectrons arrived to stop the squabbling, and the two groups joined forces against an equally plastered [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]], who had inadvertently gotten into the same stash of spiked oil. In the aftermath, the Maximals and Insectrons made peace. {{storylink|The Strongest Tag Team?}}

With the Maximals no longer considered a threat, the Insectrons made plans to get the Predacons off their lands. [[Scissor Boy]] decided to give the Maximals a data disc with all their knowledge on the Autorollers from past encounters, while Drill Nuts and Powerhug tested out the new and improved hostility detector. Unfortunately, Drill Nuts's invention still wasn't particularly reliable. Meanwhile, Scissor Boy and [[Tasmania Kid]] got captured by the Autorollers, who wanted the location to the Insectron's lair. Boy and Kid intended to lead them into an ambush at the Maximal base instead. Drill Nuts and Powerhug weren't in on the plan, though, and when they saw their comrades held hostage, they started a landslide. Powerhug was confident Kid and Boy were skilled enough to avoid the rocks. That...was a mistake. The various combatants ended up at the feet of [[Megastorm]] and the ''Galvaburg II'' instead. Fortunately, the other Maximals arrived and together they and the Insectrons overcame the Predacons. Drill Nuts and Powerhug apologized for messing up the ambush plan, but Drill Nuts was content that his detector was now giving an accurate reading...there was no hostility between the Maximals and Insectrons anymore. {{storylink|Danger! Scissor Boy}}

Megastorm soon organized a mass offensive by the Predacons, prompting the Maximals and Insectrons to fight together again. Drill Nuts continued to work on perfecting his hostility detector, much to Scissor Boy's skepticism. {{storylink|Predacon General Offensive!}}

Drill Nuts joined the other Insectrons acting as recon for Lio Convoy. They reported to the Maximals when [[Majin Zarak]] arrived at Point B-2, a narrow box canyon that would put the behemoth Predacon at a strategic disadvantage. {{storylink|Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!}}

Drill Nuts then agreed to work with Lio Convoy in designing several countermeasures to stop the encroaching [[Nemesis (BWII)|Nemesis]] before it could reach Gaia and steal all the [[Angolmois Energy]]. His first design was for a freeze ray that would solidify the Angolmois Energy. Unfortunately, the energy proved too unstable and the plan failed. {{storylink|The Great Angolmois Freezing Tactic}} Drill Nuts next designed a powerful cannon run on Angolmois Energy that could blast the Nemesis, destroying it. After much struggling, [[Lio Junior]] was able to evade Galvatron and fire the cannon. Once again, Drill Nuts' calculations were off and the blast petered out just short of impacting the artificial planet. [[NAVI (Yukikaze)|NAVI]] berated Drill Nuts for his poor math. {{storylink|Knock Out Nemesis}} Following this failure, NAVI took charge as the lead designer on a launching platform, though Drill Nuts still provided input. He and the other Insectrons helped the Maximals complete it in secret so that Lio Convoy could travel to Nemesis and destroy it in space. {{storylink|Fly Out! Planet Gaia}}

===3H comics===
On [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Drill Nuts was present as some wayward Autobots exited their spaceship. All he did, however, was silently stare at [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]. {{storylink|Abduction}}

===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:BWAscendDrillNutsCybertronmode.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"I assure you, a vasectomy is a completely painless procedure."]]
[[File:BWAscendDrill NutsandFriends.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|...doing the hokey pokey!]]
Drill Nuts was part of [[Lio Convoy]]'s elite special operations unit, the [[Pack]]. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}} 

When the Pack arrived on [[Earth]], Drill Nuts found himself helping to restrain an Angolmois-powered [[Razorbeast]], complaining all the way about having to use wooden stakes to do it. Lio Convoy later ordered him to prepare the Pack's transwarp cruiser for a return to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to help combat [[Shokaract]]'s ascension. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}} 

Back on Cybertron, Drill Nuts was blasted when [[Herald of Shokaract|Shokaract's heralds]] arrived on the scene, and it is unknown if he survived the battle. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}} 

{{note|Drill Nuts was constantly mis-colored as his mold-mate, the Predacon [[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]], over the course of this series. Just remember; in issue #4, Drill Nuts is on Cybertron and Drill Bit is on Earth.}}

===''Legends'' comic===
Drill Nuts was a customer at a "little sister cafe". There, he enjoyed the services of [[Windblade (G1)#Legends comic|Windblade]], one of the waitresses. {{storylink|Windblade Sequel}} He was excited by the announcement of [[Tera-Kura Co.]]'s [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird Shadow]], and was quick to pre-order a clone of her. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 15|Bonus Edition Vol. 15}} Drill Nuts later tried to claim [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Armada Megatron]]'s discarded [[Unicron of Light]] toy for himself. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 18|Bonus Edition Vol. 18}} He part of a crowd that cheered [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] on for defeating [[Devil Z]], though they mistook him for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 35|Bonus Edition Vol. 35}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
Drill Nuts was one of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]]'s Maximals. During Onyx's invasion of Cybertron, he was one of the many Maximals who battled  [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] and lost; [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] and [[Aileron]] came across his remains shortly afterwards. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 5: Endless Forever|Endless Forever}}

==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BW2-toy Drillnuts.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Drill Nuts''' (Basic, [[May 25]] 1998)
**''ID number:'' '''C-21'''

: Released in the fifth wave of ''Beast Wars II'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#1998 (Beast Wars II)|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Drill Nuts is a [[redeco]] of the [[Hasbro]] ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' Predacon [[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]] toy, transforming into an organic boll weevil. His drill-arm can be flipped out for use in [[beast mode]] and uses a gear-wheel system to spin the bit, activated by turning the rubber-banded wheel on its underside.

: The Drill Bit mold appears to have an engineering defect; the pegs on the insect-leg parts are pointed in the wrong direction to fit into the holes intended for them. This defect was not fixed for Drill Nuts.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Cybertron/DrillNuts/drillnuts.htm More information on Drill Nuts at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
*Drill Nuts's gray plastic has a ''lot'' more of a brown tinge to it, something that is only noticeable under certain light sources and can't always be picked up correctly to the naked eye or on camera, hence the brown color scheme used in the ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' cartoon and ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending|The Ascending]]'' comics by [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]. Unfortunately, the ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' incorrectly colored him gray.

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