Killer Punch

Killer Punch is a Predacon from the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

MIDDLE FINGER STRIKE!!!!

Killer Punch (キラーパンチ Kirā Panchi) is the Intelligence Officer of Magmatron's Predacons and is utterly obsessed with collecting information. His every strategy, his every move, is centered around the ultimate goal of amassing further intel on absolutely everyone and everything. Even his special attack, the "Head Punch", secretly doubles as a homing device which gathers data on those it pulverizes. Oh yes, Killer Punch is a sneaky, deceitful master of setting traps and collecting intel.

And this obsession has promptly driven him bonkers. The sheer volume of data Killer Punch has collected on friend and foe alike has turned him into a paranoid conspiracy theorist who'll believe almost anything. For instance, one of his favorite pet theories is that Ultra Magnus was a Decepticon agent. Oh, yeah. They don't make tinfoil hats big enough for the likes of Killer Punch.

Fiction

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

Voice actor: Yasuhiro Miyata (Japanese), Jang-hyeok An (Korean)

Killer Punk is more like it. Man up!

Granted an audience before Magmatron in the Dinosaur, Intelligence Officer Killer Punch claimed to have come across intelligence that Big Convoy was summoned by the instructor Survive to the planet Stero. In addition, he believed that they had been quarrelling for a long time and that they could be cajoled into a fight, allowing the Predacons the opportunity to take down Big Convoy while he was distracted. Magmatron approved of the plan and sent out Guiledart to lead it, but Archadis had his doubts.

Killer Punch accompanied Guiledart and Sling (and later also Dead End and Saberback) to Stero, where they were detected by True One, who reported to Survive. Seeing a training opportunity for Big Convoy's rookies, Survive tried to teach them how to follow orders to the exact word—this mildly confused the Predacons, who thought Survive and Big Convoy would be tussling. After some fighting, Killer Punch leapt in front of Survive and tried to anger the bear by claiming Big Convoy was gossiping negatively about him throughout the universe. The instructor didn't fall for this lie, as Big Convoy was his student—a surprising revelation to Killer Punch. Making the best of the situation he found himself in, the Predacon overpowered Survive and was about to chop off his head when he was blasted away by Big Convoy's cannon. With Stampy finding Killer Punch's weak point in his right shoulder, the Predacons were forced to flee. On the Dinosaur, an embarrassed Killer Punch was vilified for failing at his job as an Intelligence Officer and the unimpressed Magmatron ordered DNAVI to teleport him to the end of the universe. Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor

After the defeat of Unicron, Killer Punch found his way back to Cybertron. As the Maximals and Predacons united to rebuild their home planet, he had a friendly tussle with Survive. Graduation Ceremony!!

2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity

So you're kicking me? Where's the proof?! WHERE'S THE EVIDE-OW!

Killer Punch spent much time on the Cybertronian Undernet, amassing a sizable breadth of espionage techniques. Beast Wars Sourcebook #2 Before Magmatron left for Earth, Killer Punch was one of several Predacons who listened to him deliver a speech about their rightful place in history and revenge against the Maximal Imperium. The Gathering #1

During Magmatron's astral journey to Cybertron's future, he witnessed his Predacons and the rest of Cybertron descend into chaos and madness. During this carnage, Killer Punch struck Saberback (who himself was attacking Dirgegun) before being punched in the face. The Ascending #1

Beast Wars: Uprising

Killer Punch was a participant in the Maximal/Predacon Games. During one Cull, Killer Punch blindsided Ultra Mammoth with a machete. The machete eventually became part of Eject's collection of artifacts from the Games. Broken Windshields

Later on, Killer Punch became the enlisted intelligence specialist aboard the Dinosaur, a starship with Maximal officers. Despite his diligence, Killer Punch received a reputation as an alarmist and paranoid, especially after the Arkus mission, where Killer Punch had the crew tearing apart the ship looking for a phantom stowaway he was convinced existed on the edge of the sensors. (Killer Punch would never learn that Dead-End had, in fact, brought a Sharkticon on board.)

When the Dinosaur detected a Cybertronian distress signal from planet LGC-8803, a mission team was assembled to assess the situation. While traveling to their destination, comms specialist Hydra detected a second Cybertronian signal coming in, this one from Cybertron but not on any traditional encrypted frequency. First Officer Longrack's complete lack of curiosity almost dismissed the matter entirely, but Killer Punch was interested and spoke up for Hydra. They got Longrack to agree for Hydra to spend the travel to LGC-8803 trying to clean up the second signal.

Almost immediately after the away team's shuttle dropped into atmosphere, however, the Dinosaur was attacked by a foreign starship. Hydra still hadn't returned to his post, and so Killer Punch was forced to perform both intelligence and communications duties during the firefight. After Guiledart chased the threat away, Killer Punch got leave from Longrack to search for Hydra and determine why he wasn't at his post. While looking for Hydra at the science officer's laboratory, though, Killer Punch found himself unusually lost inside the ship. After a series of sensor scans, he concluded the Dinosaur was actually a Transformer...and deliberately rearranging itself to keep him away from the lab.

Seeking help, Killer Punch visited engineering and managed to at least partly convince Magmatron of his suspicions. The chief engineer was willing to shut down all power for one breem to let Killer Punch navigate the corridors unimpeded. He was, unfortunately, successful. Inside the lab, Killer Punch found Hydra dead and his killer, the Builder political officer Synapse, waiting for him. The second signal had been a call-to-arms as the Proto-races back home rose up against the Builder Assembly in revolution, and Synapse couldn't have those ideas spreading on the ship. He revealed the Dinosaur was actually the ancient Builder Megamaster Trypticon moments before the ship executed Killer Punch.

His last act was transmitting these revelations (sans the part about Trypticon) to Magmatron, warning the rest of the crew about their Builder officers. Intersectionality

2005 IDW continuity

Killer Punch appeared in a fictional scenario projected into the mind of a dying Sideswipe through a mnemopathis projector. He and multiple Decepticons were depicted as helping with relief efforts on post-war Cybertron, though Sideswipe initially believed they were smuggling energon and attacked them. The Life of Sideswipe

In the real world, Killer Punch was one of Onyx Prime's Maximals that fell under the command of Unicron. When Optimus Prime led a force against Unicron to prevent him from eating Caminus, Killer Punch was sent out to attack. Last Stand

Toys

Beast Wars

No one ever talks about Styracosaurus, oh NO, it's always Triceratops, Triceratops, Triceratops!

• Killer Punch (Deluxe, 1999)

• ID number: D-39
• Release date: May ??, 1999
• Accessories: "Killer Sword," "Head Punch" missile
• Known designers: Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

Sold in the fourth wave of Beast Wars Neo products in Takara's Beast Wars toyline, Killer Punch is an extensive retooling of Deluxe Class Guiledart, now transforming into an organic Styracosaurus. In beast mode, he has flip down "damage" panels to reveal ribs and torn flesh, though the rest of the "Fake Death Mode" feature from Guiledart is no longer present or no longer painted (e.g. the muscle details on the robot mode feet).

In robot mode, his right arm features a spring-loaded launcher which fires his "Head Punch" missile, aka "nearly his entire dino-mode head". When the missile is not in use, a hole on the tail section on his back allows the head to store, and a flip down robot claw (that looks mostly like a robotic dinosaur skull) replaces it. If one chooses to, the head can also be held in his left fist like a shield. Similar to Guiledart, the tail can be removed, but this time to form his "Killer Sword", which can also be held in his left fist. His dinosaur forelegs (located on his left shoulderpad) feature flip-out, non-firing lasers.

• More information on Killer Punch at TFU.info

Beast Wars mold: Guiledart
Version 1: Takara: Beast Wars D-29 Guiledart Sonokong: Beast War Neo DX-01 Trikero Hasbro: Beast Machines Triceradon Dinobots Triceradon Universe (2003) Triceradon Age of Extinction Dinobot Slug Version 2: Takara: Beast Wars D-39 Killer Punch

• Roaring Showdown: Survive VS Killer Punch (VS pack, 1999)

• ID number: VS-39
• Release date: May ??, 1999
• Accessories: "Killer Sword," "Head Punch" missile

Killer Punch was also available in the "Roaring Showdown" (絶叫の対決 zekkyō no taiketsu) multi-pack with the Maximal Survive (and his mini-partner True One), also released in the fourth wave of Neo toys.

Both toys are identical to their individual releases.

Notes

• Like Guiledart, the Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation of Killer Punch is a "virtual redeco" of the Generations Voyager Class Roadbuster toy.