Editing Tarantulas (BW)

:''Tarantulas is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1]]/[[Beast Era]] [[continuity family]]. 
:''His name is also officially spelled "'''Tarantulus'''".''

[[Image:Tarantulasbw.jpg|right|thumb|250px|"And fries!  Lots of FRIES!"]]

'''Tarantulas''' is the scheming mad scientist of the Predacon crew. The type of mad scientist who experiments on living beings, cackling all the while, and then if things go wrong happily eats what's left as his midday snack. He was one of the Predacons to join [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] during his theft of the [[Golden Disc]] and the search for [[Earth]]. In addition to being an utterly insane, sadistic sociopath (even by Predacon standards), Tarantulas has a record for treachery rivaled by few other Transformers.  Tarantulas is actually an agent of the [[Tripredacus Council]] who is trying to coax the Beast Wars toward an unspecified goal, where neither Autobot or Decepticon won the Great War.

Tarantulas has a particularly notable hatred of the [[Vok]] aliens, a hatred strong enough to make him work to eliminate them by any means.


''Japanse name: '''Tarans''' ''


==Fiction==

===Toy Bio===

Tarantulas is a sneeky, mysterious Ninja feared across the galaxy. A master of the martial arts, he's suspected in the dissapearence of many [[humans |earthlings]] and rumors swirl of giant cocoons where he stores his prey.

''('''Note:''' The techspec bios of the first wave of Beast Wars toys predate the development of the Beast Wars cartoon and its backstory. Instead they seem to present the characters as a direct continuation of the previous Autobot/Decepticon conflict with their battles taking place on present day, human-inhabited Earth, rather than in the distant past. Once the cartoon launched, the toyline adjusted itself to match that continuity instead.)'' 

===Optimus Primal VS Megatron pack-in comic===

Tarantulas is guarding the Predacon's jungle-based genetics lab along with Megatron and Waspinator. When the Maximals discover them he engages Razorbeast in combat briefly before Megatron calls retreat and destroys the lab. ''(This story predates the Animated continuity and seems to be set on present day earth, see note above.)''

===Animated continuity===
====''Timelines: Dawn of Future's Past''====
[[Image:Tarantulasdawn.jpg|left|thumb|250px|He's using Scandisk, har har har.]]
As [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] and his rogue band of Predacons escaped [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in their stolen ship, the ''[[Darksyde]]'', Tarantulas was in charge of scanning the disk for a desired set of coordinates.  While Megatron was not watching, he was in secret communications with a member of the [[Tripredacus Council]].  (The reflections in his helmet show the silhouette of [[Ram Horn (BW)|General Ram Horn]].)

Using the decoded coordinates, the ''Darksyde'' opened a [[transwarp]] portal, which it and the [[Axalon (BW)|''Axalon'']] passed through.
====''Beast Wars''====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Alec Willows]] (US), [[Yūichi Nagashima]] (Japan)

====3H ''Primeval Dawn'' comics====
[[Image:Primeval Tarantulas.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Tarantulas, like most creepy stalkers, doesn't really hate the Vok so much as he wants to kill them and wear their skin.]]

====3H ''Universe'' comics====

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
*'''Tarantulas''' (Deluxe, 1996)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-4'''

*'''Tarantulas''' (Deluxe Transmetal, 1998)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-44'''

*'''Tarantulas''' (Deluxe "Fox Kids" Transmetal, 1999)
:This toy is a [[redeco]] of the Transmetal Tarantulas toy. A "FoxKids!" sticker on the packaging promoted the cartoon, which was playing on Fox at the time.

*'''Predacon Tarantulus''' (Tenth Anniversary, 2006)
:This toy is a slight [[redeco]] of the original Tarantulas toy. The toy more closely resembles Tarantulas' appearance int he cartoon.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Predacon/Tarantulas/tarantulas.htm Tarantulas at TFU.info]

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