Manterror

Manterror is a Predacon from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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"More like preying mantis. Get it?"

Manterror uses his sharp claws, stealth silencers, and ion disks to swiftly strike out at his Maximal adversaries. He is also somewhat punny.

Fiction

IDW Beast Wars comics continuity

Magmatron recruited Manterror, along with Transquito, Drill Bit, Spittor, Iguanus, and Razorbeast, on Cybertron. Magmatron's plan was to use the abandoned stasis pods on prehistoric Earth to build an army and take over Cybertron. Upon arrival, Magmatron sent Manterror and the others to watch over the stasis pods as they were activated. Manterror witnessed the birth of Snapper.

As it turned out, Razorbeast was a Maximal spy. Magmatron sent his new Predacon army to hunt down the Maximal and his band. During the conflict that followed, Manterror got his face smashed by Wolfang. The Gathering

Toys

Beast Wars

• Manterror (Deluxe Predacon, 1997)

Japanese ID number: C-20

Manterror transforms from a robot into an organic mantis. Its claw-things each fire a disk.

Trivia

• Buzzclaw's function is "Quick Attack Specialist", and his toy bio states that he uses "ion disks", suggesting that he is Manterror reborn as a Fuzor. Either way, Manterror and Buzzclaw appear side-by-side in the IDW comics.
• Sketches in "The Gathering" TPB indicate show that Manterror's Cybertronian mode was a dragster-type car.

External links

• Manterror at tfu.com
  
  
  From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.