Monsterous

Monsterous is a Renegade combiner from both the GoBots and Aligned continuity families.

He did the mash. He did the Monsterous mash-up.

The monstrous Monsterous is not just a typo waiting to happen, he's Cy-Kill's newest trump card! This combiner is formed from a Predacons-turned-Renegades street gang, all with fearsome visages. Their members are:

• Fright Face, the cold calculating leader
• Heart Attack, armed with a cycloptic infarction beam
• South Claw, armed with a freeze ray
• Gore Jaw, armed with gruesome mandibles
• Fangs, coward capable of bypassing any security system
• Weird Wing, a creep who claims to have limited precognition allowing him to foresee the deaths of enemies

Fiction

Renegade Rhetoric

In Axiom Nexus, Cy-Kill ran into six Predacon criminals from the Uniend Cluster and defeated their leader Fright Face in single combat, earning their loyalty. Impressed by his new troopers, Cy-Kill recreated the combination technology he once used for Puzzler, allowing the Predacons to unite and form Monsterous. Cy-Kill brought Monsterous with him back to Level 1 when he escaped from Axiom Nexus. Renegade Rhetoric, 2015/10/21

Cy-Kill and his new recruits emerged in the midst of an epic battle between the Guardian fleet and the Rogue Star. Monsterous gleefully tore through the surprised Courageous before turning on the Command Centers. Unfortunately, Leader-1 tricked Cy-Kill into firing a killing shot at him, which he dodged so that it hit Monsterous instead. This respite allowed the Guardians to retreat, but the Renegades had clearly won the day. Opportunity Knocks Part 2

Cy-Kill dispatched the creature warriors to Philadelphia as Monsterous to draw Courageous out for another battle, but Monsterous was overwhelmed by a squad of Guardian Boomers. Six Heads are Better than One Cy-Kill brought Monsterous to an ambush to try and seize a matter transmutation ring, but the surprise appearance of Courageous made it a fair fight, and so the Renegades retreated again. One Born Every Minute

When the Guardians and UNECOM came to Quartex to sign a tri-planet alliance treaty with Boulder's Rock Lords, Cy-Kill and Magmar decided to intervene. Monsterous and Puzzler were pitted against Courageous and the Fossil Lords' Fossilsaurus until Cy-Kill tipped his hand and revealed the Renegade Power Suit Warrior, Nemesis. Combiner Wars Part 1 The forces of good rallied, however, and prepared a counter-strike. Monsterous was diverted into battle with the Action Shock Rocks, leaving Courageous and Fossilsaurus evenly pitted against Nemesis and Puzzler in the rematch. Combiner Wars Part 2

Ask Vector Prime

Underneath an ammonia sea on Antares III, Monsterous tore Kup apart before being driven off by Hot Rod. Echoes and Fragments

Beast Wars: Uprising

Vector Prime reported that several GoBots from Gargent 984.08 Alpha escaped the Cataclysm by travelling to Primax 215.19 Epsilon and integrating themselves in with the local Predacons. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14

The GoBots who composed Monsterous arrived on Cybertron some time after the crew calling themselves the "Antares Eight" along with Odd Ball. There was little love between the two groups, but the combiner team's mastery of Rebus technology made them useful to their allies. Cultural Appropriation

As part of the Eight's scheme to steal humanity's advanced technology, Cultural Appropriation Monsterous broke into the Forever Vaults and stole the G-Virus, killing all present except for Cop-Tur, since the GoBots were uncertain whether he was their Cop-Tur or not. Micro-Aggressions

Some years later, as the Eight finally put their scheme into motion, they called in Odd Ball and the combiners, who soon arrived at the hyper-wave caster tower the Eight had seized, and formed Monsterous. The combiner proved easily able to deal with the Predacons who had gathered to stop the GoBots, but found itself opposed by another combiner, Devastator. The two fought, but Monsterous managed to gain an advantage over the Cybertronian, until its Maximal and Predacon allies began attacking as well. This distraction allowed Devastator to recover, hitting Monsterous hard enough to forcibly separate him back into his components, who at Odd Ball's prompting fled. Devastator pursued them, but was unable to catch them. Cultural Appropriation

Notes

• Monsterous, like all of Cy-Kill's Axiom Nexus recruits, are GoBots toys which never made an appearance in the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon.
• The crew were all sold together as the Monsterous gift-pack. The individual Monsterous components were among the few GoBots to have on-package bios, which Ask Vector Prime nods to in their characterization.
• Vector Prime speculated that the Renegade Rhetoric iteration of South Claw originally hailed from the Uniend Cluster, based on a hastily painted-over insignia.
• The "Cataclysm" version of Monsterous is based on the design for Generation 1 Monstructor from IDW Publishing's 2005 comic continuity, with the head of Beast Wars Tripredacus. Christopher Colgin, who came up with the design, specifically noted that he intended to use Tripredacus's head as was drawn in Genesis: The Art of Transformers, and Monsterous is depicted as such on the Renegade Rhetoric mural. However, artist Josh Burcham, who drew the illustration featuring the Renegade combiner in "Cultural Appropriation", depicted him as having a more "robotic" version of Tripredacus's toy head.

External links

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• Monsterous at TFU.info