Creature from the Black Lagoon

The Creature from the Black Lagoon is an Earth robot or an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Despite having no visible genitalia, he will make off with your women.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon is a monstrous transforming robot who probably lives in a black lagoon somewhere. He transforms into a giant coelacanth. Some know him as the Gill-man.

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

When asked why Transformers based on the Creature from the Black Lagoon and other classic monsters exist, Vector Prime replied that they were seen as fearsome and potent alternate forms. Evidently, robot-Gill-man is actually the alternate form of an unknown Cybertronian, not the real Gill-man. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/10

2005 IDW continuity

The "Creature" was one of many Autobots at Grindcore prison. He was executed with many other Autobot prisoners in a smelting chamber falsely claimed by the commandant to be a teleporting platform. Speak, Memory! (Part 2)

Toys

Generation 1

A transforming Creature from the Black Lagoon toy was proposed in the 1980s to be part of a "Vintage Horror Movie Series". The series never made it past production art, unfortunately, though said art could be found in the Deluxe edition of Transformers Generations.

Your bargaining posture is highly dubious. Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Notes

• The Creature's alternate mode appears as a mechanimal in the Beast Wars: Uprising story "Not All Megatrons".

Foreign names

Japanese: 大アマゾンの半魚人 (Dai Amazon no Hangyojin, "Merman from the Great Amazon")

External links

• Gill-man at Wikipedia