Snapper

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

Villain in a halfshell!

Everyone knows the tortoise beat the hare, but had that tortoise been Snapper, he'd have beat the hare into a bloody pulp and hid the remains at the bottom of a swamp. A jet-propelled snapping turtle with a vicious attitude, Snapper is proof that not all turtles are slowpokes. But unlike another jet-powered warrior turtle, Snapper is anything but a friend to children everywhere.

According to his comrades, he will not shut his face unless he's in a desperate situation.

Fiction

IDW Beast Wars comics

*Yaaaaawwwwn*

Snapper, as a Maximal, joined the Axalon crew as he wished to get away from war and occupy himself with peaceful exploration. Beast Wars Sourcebook 4

He would not get his wish, as Magmatron came to prehistoric Earth to gather an army using the Axalon's protoforms. Snapper was among the protoforms to be successfully turned into Predacons. The Gathering #1 Magmatron ordered his forces to seek out the double-agent Razorbeast and his crew of Maximals. The Gathering #2 Within a few days, the Predacons had located the Maximal headquarters, and battle ensued. During that battle, Snapper tangled with K-9. The Maximals won that fight, and Snapper and the surviving Predacons retreated into the wilderness. The Gathering #4

He was later seen with Manterror and Retrax spying on the Maximals. That is, until Grimlock decided he'd be better as a footrest. The Ascending #1 He was left behind on Earth to fight the Blendtrons, and managed to survive that battle. The Ascending #4

Toys

Beast Wars

Works for Bowser.

• Snapper (Basic, 1996)
  • Accessories: Twin cannon

Part of the first wave of "smooth bubble" Beast Wars Basics, Snapper transforms into a green organic snapping turtle. Like many Beast Wars Basic figures, his transformation is spring-loaded; pressing down his tail converts him most of the way from turtle to robot. A portion of his shell-back pops free, revealing a flip-out double-barreled blaster weapon that can peg onto his forearms.

• More information on Snapper at TFU.info

• Volcano Showdown (Vs Playset, 1997)
  • Japanese ID number: VS-X1
  • Accessories: Twin cannon

Snapper was available in Japan exclusively in this large set containing not only him and his enemy Armordillo, but also a large battery-operated volcano playset. The playset comes with a number of red plastic balls in some way representing lava, which can either roll down the mountainside in a perpetual cascade, or be fired from the accompanying cannon. It has been hypothesized that this playset was originally slated for an abandoned Microman line, which is made plausible by the scale of various sculpted details.

Merchandise

• Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game (1997)

Snapper was one of the 24 beast warriors to receive a battle card representation for the Beast Wars card game.

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Snapper (スナッパー Sunappā)
• French: Morsure (Canada, "Bite")
• Italian: Snap
• Spanish: Tortugon