Velgrox

"Captain's log, stardate 2016."

The Velgrox are a violent alien race who place great value on the importance of a good meal. This wouldn't be so bad if their favourite dish didn't consist of other sentient organisms. Velgrox hunters wield web-based weaponry, snaring their targets and bringing them back to their ship. There, the prey is held, sometimes for days, until the Velgrox consume it.

While Transformers and their metallic physiology have little to fear from a Velgrox raiding party, squishier organic beings such as humans aren't quite as lucky...

Fiction

Rescue Bots cartoon

Voice actor: Jeff Bennett (English)

The Velgrox and Cybertronians had come into conflict with one another in the past.

Passing through the Solar System, a ship of Velgrox intercepted a transmission from Cody Burns and Frankie Greene, alerting them to the presence of food on Earth. The aliens landed their ship on Griffin Rock and set about capturing as many humans as possible. Meanwhile, the rest of the Velgrox crew set their ship down at Griffin Rock's power plant, intending to refuel their ship and conquer the rest of the planet.

The Velgrox abducted a good deal of the island's population until the Rescue Bots intervened. Believing that Earth was controlled by Cybertronians, the leader of the Velgrox immediately surrendered. Denied the opportunity to refuel or take their captives along, the Velgrox departed, and Boulder sabotaged their guidance system so that the aliens would never be able to find Earth again. New Normal

Among the technology they left behind were some metal which could be made to become invisible. Vanishing Returns

Cyberverse cartoon

Voice actor: Ryan Nicolls (English)

A Velgrox had been abducted by the Quintessons, being incorporated into their new Judge, its voracious appetite and overwhelming desire to eat the Cybertronian race earning the ire of Starscream, the Judge's dominant personality. The Velgrox was later destroyed when Optimus Prime and Megatron combined the power of their Matrcies of Leadership to overwhelm Starscream and destroy him. The End Of The Universe I The End Of The Universe IV

Trivia

• The Velgrox have their own alien language and need to use translators to be able to speak English... which is pretty weird; usually in Transformers fiction, all aliens just conveniently happen to speak English.
  • They also appear to make guinea pig-like noises when speaking casually.
• For some reason, these guys know what ketchup is.