Editing Night Viper

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:''Night Viper is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Machines (franchise)|Beast Machines]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:BM-toy NightViperRobot.jpg|right|300px|thumb|He's coilin' a cobra.]]

'''Night Viper''' is the stealthiest Maximal on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. His abilities include supersonic speed and plasma venom blasts that short-circuit [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] circuitry, and if you cook him, he can emerge unscathed after shedding his damage like discarded skin.  


{{quote|Desssign flaw? No, no, no… It’sss a ''feature,'' ssstupid.|Night Viper on [[technorganic]]s|[[Wreckers: Finale Part II]]}}


==Fiction==
===Universe Featuring the Wreckers===
Shortly after [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[Great Reformatting]], the [[Quintesson]]s orchestrated a planet-wide invasion. While [[Judge Brinn]] led a team of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] through the lush, technorganic wilderness that had been [[Ankmor]], Night Viper attacked, strangled, and killed the accompanying scientist [[Extempaxia]] with his deadly fangs. The Sharkticons retaliated by charbroiling Night Viper with their flamethrowers.

The remaining Quintessons laughed at how easy it was to burn these reformatted Transformers in their semi-organic state, but their glee was short-lived. Night Viper shed his burnt outer layer like a skin and assassinated the remaining [[Judge Brinn|Quintesson judge]], verbally mocking them for their hubris.  {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

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==Toys==
[[Image:BM-toy NightViperBeast.jpg|right|250px|thumb|"Trussst in me, jussst in me..."]]
===Beast Machines===
*'''Night Viper''' (Basic, 2000)

: Night Viper transforms into a midnight blue, blue-gray, red, and yellow [[technorganic]] cobra. His snake-mode head is spring-loaded; pressing on the clear-yellow part of the hood directly behind it launches it forward slightly, opening his jaws to bite. The sides of his hood form arm-mounted shields in robot mode, the right shield being armed with a flip-out scythe blade. His left shield contains his [[spark crystal]].

:He's never been [[redeco]]ed.  ''Dammit.''

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Maximal/Nightviper/nightviper.htm More information on Night Viper at TFU.info]''

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==Notes==
[[Image:Nightviper.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Ironically, not a member of [[Cobra]].]]

* Night Viper's control art depicts him as having a melee weapon hidden in either shield. The right contains a scythe as in the finished product, while the left would have contained an anchor-shaped blade. This was likely cut to make room for the hidden spark crystal.

* Cobras are not vipers.  It would be like calling [[Tigatron]] "Striped Dog".  

* Night Viper shares his name with the [[Cobra]] Night Fighter, codenamed [http://www.yojoe.com/action/89/nightviper.shtml Night-Viper], which was released in the [[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I Joe's]] 1989 toyline. 
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