Editing Drill Bit (BW)

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:''Drill Bit is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.
[[Image:Drillbit-packageart.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Drill Bit or [[Drill Nuts]]? Always choose the lesser of two weevils.]]

'''Drill Bit''' is very much a "robot in disguise." If you watched him go about his job, watched him closely even for an extended time, you would be unimpressed. To all observation, he is a grunt. He follows orders as they're given and suffers from little imagination or independent thought. Except you'd miss that below all that, there is a keen and eager mind that knows exactly how to play the game. Drill Bit quietly makes himself indispensable to his commanders without ever showing even the slightest sign of insidiousness. He has become [[Magmatron]]'s good right hand, never revealing the writhing ambition that has him constantly thirsting for more power. He is extremely patient and calculating and is willing to wait as long as it takes to assure his ascension to come.

Drill Bit has a drill for a hand, which makes fighting Maximals that much easier. His preferred strategy is to drill a battlefield to within a hair's breadth of volcanic eruption and then sit back and let his foes trigger their own destruction.

His failures are both numerous and epic.  Almost [[Sentinel Maximus]] level.


:''French-Canadian name:'' '''Forêt'''
:''Italian name:'' '''Vortex'''<ref>This name only seems to have been used on the cross-sell for the English/Spanish/Italian "video-pack" release of [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]]. The name is not used on Drill Bit's own cardback.</ref>
:''Spanish name:'' '''Perforador'''


==Fiction==
===3H ''Tales of the Beast Wars'' comics===
[[Image:Bboomomegapoint.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Who needs a gun when I got lasers coming outta my face?]]
During the final battle with [[Shokaract]], several realities converged into a single, apocalyptic timestorm.  Beast Warriors from alternate realities emerged, including Drill Bit, [[Cybershark]], [[B'Boom]], [[Transquito]], [[Air Hammer]], [[Polar Claw]] and unidentified others, though all of them were summarily defeated.
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=== 3h ''Universe'' comics===
Drill Bit was present as the wayward Autobots exited their spaceship. All he did, however, was silently stare at [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]].

===IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics===
[[Image:IDW Drill Bit.jpg|right|200px|thumb|One day he'll succeed at something.  One day.]]
[[Magmatron]] recruited Drill Bit, along with [[Transquito]], [[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]], [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]], [[Manterror]], and [[Razorbeast]]. Magmatron's plan was to use the abandoned [[Stasis pods|stasis pods]] on prehistoric [[Earth]] to build an army and take over [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Upon arrival, Magmatron sent the others to watch over the stasis pods as they were activated. Drill Bit stayed by commander's side. 

Razorbeast was revealed as a Maximal spy when Maximals started coming out of the pods. On his way out of Predacon camp, Razorbeast smashed through Drill Bit.  {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}

While the rest of the new Predacon army sought to quell the new Maximal army, Drill Bit and Spittor, along with Magmatron, hunted down Razorbeast. Drill Bit got the drop on [[Optimus Minor]], but [[Snarl (BW)|Snarl]] got the drop on Drill Bit. He returned to his master unaccomplished.  {{storylink|The Gathering issue 2|The Gathering #2}}

Later, Drill Bit and Magmatron rendezvoused with Iguanus. Iguanus had located a blank protoform into which [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]'s spark would be inserted. He then accompanied Magmatron and Iguanus to capture [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] and send him back to Cybertron (to appease the [[Tripredacus Council]]). They succeeded in the capture, but failed to prepare the transwarp shunt. [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] intervened and easily defeated Drill Bit.  {{storylink|The Gathering issue 3|The Gathering #3}}  {{storylink|The Gathering issue 4|The Gathering #4}}

Drill Bit was next seen participating in Ravage's all-out assault on the Maximals.  He got tossed into the air when [[Torca]] erupted from the ground underneath him.   {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}}  

Next, he was seen helping pin down a small group of Maximals alongside the Predacon ground forces.  But Grimlock surprise-attacked them from behind and Drill Bit was once again put on the defensive.  

When the [[Pack]] arrived, Drill Bit boldly ordered "drill 'im" when [[Lio Convoy]] confronted him and Iguanus.  Lio responded with a barrage of  point-blank missiles from his hidden mane launchers.  And it looked like Drill Bit was blasting off again.  {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}}

Drill Bit was left behind on Earth when the Pack's transwarp cruiser returned to Cybertron with a sizable contingent of Maximals and Predacons to combat [[Shokaract]]'s ascension.  When it was decided to aid the [[Angolmois]]-infected Razorbeast against the [[Blendtrons]], Drill Bit eagerly joined in on a combined attack against [[Rartorata]] and was later seen helping bring [[Drancron]] to the ground.  However, it is unknown if he survived this battle.   {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}

{{note|From issue # 3 of The Ascending on, [[Drill Nuts]] is often mis-colored as Drill Bit, leading to some minor confusion.  It is simplest to remember that Drill Nuts returned to Cybertron at the end of issue 3, and Drill Bit remained on Earth, so identifying who is who becomes easier.}}

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
*'''Drill Bit''' (Basic, 1997)

: Drill bit transforms 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.

: This mold was used to make [[Drill Nuts]].

: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.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://tfu.info/1997/Predacon/DrillBit/drillbit.htm Drill Bit at TFU.info]

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