Bighorn (BW)

Bighorn is a Maximal from the Beast Wars II portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Any Predacon who has ever encountered Bighorn (ビッグホーン Bigguhōn) on the battlefield will tell you that he's a violent, furious, rampaging brute who will positively demolish any foe foolish enough to get caught in his path of destruction. Bighorn has a short temper and can be easily goaded into a fight, be it against the Predacons or against any Maximal who mouths off to him. His special attacks, including the ability to summon lightning from the sky and the ability to launch a devastating missile from his mouth, lay waste to all those around him... including his friends. This blind fury in battle often makes Bighorn as much a liability as an asset to the Maximal cause.

And yet, there's more to Bighorn than just the unstoppable killing machine. So much more. Beneath the slobbering exterior beats the spark of a poet, a naturalist, a lover. Though not a fan of downtime, when a little RnR does come his way, Bighorn is likely to spend it sniffing flowers, contemplating verse or penning love letters to the Seacon Scylla (who finds his unrefined exterior a major turnoff).

Fiction

Cartoon continuity

Beast Wars II cartoon

Voice actor: Masami Iwasaki (Japanese)

It's some kind of land cow!

I see a red flower and I want it painted black.

During a lull in fighting between the Maximals and the Predacons, Tasmania Kid showed Bighorn a red flower. Having a bunch of pent up anger over not being able to fight anything, Bighorn snapped and went on a rampage. It all ended okay for the Maximals. The Predacons? Not so much. Fortunately, the event managed to calm Bighorn down...until he saw another red flower. Bighorn's Rage

Comic continuity

Beast Wars Neo comic

There is a statue of Bighorn dressed like a monk in a (probably) Japanese-styled temple on Break's home planet. Bighorn is the one who evolved the native residents (penguins) to become Transformers, thus making him be worshiped as a god of the planet. A Battle Fought Alone

Toys

Beast Wars

• Bighorn (Deluxe, 1997)
  • Japanese ID number: C-13
  • Accessories: Missile

A redeco of the Hasbro Bonecrusher toy, Bighorn transforms into a black organic bison with red robot parts. In both beast and robot modes, pulling back on his beast-mode tail causes his robot-mode head to launch forward in a headbutt attack. This attack also launches a spring-loaded missile from his mouth at the end of his lunge.

• Bighorn vs Starscream & BB (Vs pack, 1997)
  • Japanese ID number: VS-13

Bighorn was also available in a multi-pack with the Predacon pairing of Starscream and BB.

• Bighorn (Contest prize, 1997)

A blue, light-blue, cream and black redeco of Bighorn was made available as a prize in a Comic Bom Bom design contest, along with other oddly decoed versions of the five principal good guys from Beast Wars II. It is unknown how many of these were awarded.

External links

Bighorn at TFU.info.