Surumerang

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The Surumerang (スルメラン) is Scuba's signature weapon and Ikard is no slouch with it either. Most of the times, it is one regular boomerang that fits Scuba's color scheme, but sometimes, there are many single-use Surumerangs that are made from varying materials to achieve different effects. No matter which version it is, though, Scuba throws it with efficiency.

The single-use Surumerangs are known to come in the following types and are used in the following techniques:

• Surumerang Signal (スルメランシグナル): Scuba throws Surumerang-shaped fireworks up into the sky where it explodes into a signal. This particular type of Surumerang has 五連発 (Gorenpatsu, "Quintuple Burst") written on it, suggesting that the fireworks display consists of five sequential bursts.
• Squid Ink-Made Surumerang (イカスミ製スルメラン Ika Sumi Sei Surumerang): This type of Surumerang is made from ink, presumably the same that Scuba excretes himself. When it breaks open, it unleashes a cloud of ink that takes away the sight of everyone near.
• Surumerang Copy Shot (スルメラン分身撃ち Surumerang Bunshin Uchi): Scuba first performs a ninja duplication technique and then all copies throw Surumerangs made of dynamite with the goal of hitting one target with multiple explosions that jointly form one big explosion.
• Dynamite Surumerang: Wild Shot (ダイナマイトスルメラン乱れ撃ち Dynamite Surumerang Midare Uchi): Scuba throws multiple Surumerangs made of dynamite in rapid succession.
• Surumerang Asteroid Shot (スルメランアステロイド撃ち Surumerang Asteroid Uchi): Scuba finds higher ground and jumps down on his opponent, throwing Surumerangs as he falls.

Fiction

Beast Wars II toy bios

Ikard taught Scuba the Surumerang attack that is Scuba's specialty. Ikard's Beast Wars II toy bio

Beast Wars II cartoon

A little vengeful for the earlier treatment at their hands, Scuba threw his Surumerang after Dirge and Thrust when they tried to escape. The impact pushed them to fall down into a hole. The New Forces Arrive! Scuba wielded his Surumerang against Autojetter, knocking him down. Danger! Scissor Boy After injuring BB with Scuba Stomach, Scuba threw his Surumerang to cut the rope with which the Combatron held Motorarm captive. Who Is the Leader!? Scylla threw a love letter stored on a chip to Scuba, the recipient of her affections, but because she was a space pirate he thought it was a bomb and destroyed it midair with his Surumerang. The Tentacular Scuba

Beast Wars II comic

Scuba and Captain America go way back.

Scuba and a badly injured Tasmania Kid had to find a way to help Lio Convoy, who was infused with Angolmois Energy, giant, not all there, and in a fight with Galvatron. They couldn't do this alone, so Scuba threw Surumerang-shaped fireworks into the sky, which exploded into a gigantic SOS firework bearing the likeness of a squid. This was, as intended, visible from the Maximal Gaia base and the other half of the team swiftly came to their location. Free the Captured Matrix!

Despite Scuba's insistence that he had no feelings for Scylla, Bighorn fought him for her love. Scuba was therefore forced to fight back and opened by throwing a Surumerang made from ink. It exploded in a thick black cloud when Bighorn confidently blocked it and this temporarily blinded him. Scuba made good use of the clear shot at his colleague by firing several missiles. A little further into the battle, Scuba performed a ninja duplication technique around Bighorn and all copies simultaneously threw their Surumerangs, culminating in one giant explosion with Bighorn at the center. Bighorn fought back with his own talents, though, and the battle could've gone on for much longer if the Predacons hadn't decided to attack. Scuba and Bighorn joined forces against them by simultaneously unleashing Scuba's rapid fire Dynamite Surumerang: Wild Shot and Bighorn's powerful Buffalo Missile. The two made peace thereafter. Realize the Forbidden Love!

Scuba fought Thrustor and Dirgegun on Nemesis. With his ninja duplication technique, he distracted the Cyborg Beasts long enough to climb up on a natural pillar and unleash a Surumerang Asteroid Shot on his confused opponents. All Hands, Make a Special Attack on the Evil Planet!

2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity

Ikard taught Scuba the Surumerang attack, a technique that involved throwing his claw-weapon to disable several opponents at once. Beast Wars Sourcebook

Toys

Beast Wars

That reverse dowsing rod he's holding is the Surumerang.

• Scuba (スクーバ, 1998)

• ID number: C-15
• Release date: 1998 March
• Accessories: "Surumerang"
• Known designers: Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist){{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}

Beast Wars II Scuba features an integrated orange plunger. In beast mode, pushing this plunger on his back opens his beast mode jaws; a gimmick that works in both modes. In robot mode, this piece of the plunger can be removed to become his hand-held Surumerang.

• Suihei-sen no Taiketsu: Scuba vs Thrust (水平線の対決 スクーバVSスラスト, 1998)

• ID number: VS-15
• Release date: 1998 March
• Accessories: "Surumerang"

The versus pack version of Beast Wars II Scuba is unchanged from the original, and retains the plunger-jaw gimmick, as well as the hand-held Surumerang weapon.

• Ikard & Tako Tank (イカード&タコタンク, 1998)

• ID number: X-5
• Release date: 1998 October
• Accessories: "Surumerang"
• Known designers: Takio Ejima and Takashi Kunihiro (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist){{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}

Beast Wars II Ikard features an integrated blue plunger. In beast mode, pushing this plunger on his back opens his beast mode jaws; a gimmick that works in both modes. In robot mode, this piece of the plunger can be removed to become his hand-held Surumerang.

• Telemaga Special Cybertron 6-piece Set (Multi-pack, 1999)

• Accessories: "Surumerang"

A white, blue and pink version of Scuba was part of a six-piece set of unique redecoes of the main Cybertron cast of Beast Wars II, the grand prize in the "New Beast Warriors Contest" in the February 1999 issue of TV Magazine. The details of this contest are currently unknown. This Scuba features an integrated plunger of a yet unknown color. In beast mode, pushing this plunger on his back opens his beast mode jaws; a gimmick that works in both modes. In robot mode, this piece of the plunger can be removed to become his hand-held Surumerang.

Notes

• "Surumerang" (スルメラン) is a portmanteau of [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Dried shredded squid|{{#if:surume|surume|Dried shredded squid}}]] (スルメ) and "boomerang" (ブーメラン).
• The idea that Scuba has an assortment of Surumerangs seems to be an invention of the comic, if only because boomerangs that don't come back are pretty shitty boomerangs, so if this was a leftover idea from early in development, the weapon would probably not have been called "Surumerang". In the comic, Scuba, who is a ninja, wields his Surumerangs more like they are explosive shuriken. The two times a Surumerang is clearly visible, it does not have two ends like a boomerang, but three like a simple star. It might be the post on the toy version of the Surumerang was reinterpreted as a third prong.