Volcanicus (POTP)

This article is about the combiner made up of the Autobot Dinobots. For the similarly-named combiner made up of Decepticon dinosaurs, see Volcanicon.

Volcanicus is an Autobot combiner from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Volcanicus is the fearsome combination of the Dinobots, ready to deliver Decepticons 65 million years of pain.

He comprises:

• Grimlock (torso)
• Slug (left arm)
• Swoop (right arm)
• Snarl (left leg)
• Sludge (right leg)

Games

Transformers: Earth Wars

'Monster' is a relative term. To a canary, a cat is a monster. We're just used to being the cat.

After Snarl retrieved the Quintesson Hive Matrix, he stated that the Dinobots would soon be one. Mission Accomplished

• Class - Combiner
• Abilities: ???
• Stats: ???

Toys

Generations

• Grimlock
• Dinobot Slug
• Dinobot Snarl
• Dinobot Sludge
• Dinobot Swoop

Part of the Power of the Primes subline of Generations, Volcanicus is formed from one Voyager Class Dinobot and four Deluxe Class Dinobots. As a Combiner Wars-style combiner, Volcanicus can also utilize any Combiner Wars or Unite Warriors Deluxe as a limb.

Notes

• Volcanicus's sword is based on the one used by Fall of Cybertron Grimlock.
• Four of the original five Dinobot designs served as the templates for the "Geisters", recurring villainous henchmen on the Takara/Sunrise co-production Brave Exkaiser. In what might be called a vision of things to come, the four were once briefly fused into a single robot called "Mad Geister" (マッドガイスター Maddo Gaisutā). However, because each Geister controlled a portion of the combined body—and they had the accumulated brain power of a Froot Loop—this ended rather badly for them. In a more successful (if not also prescient) later development, the Geisters learned to merge in groups of two, with Ptera Geist and Thunder Geist forming the centaur-esque "Pteder" (プテダー Putedā) and Horn Geist and Armor Geist forming "Hormor" (ホーマー Hōmā).

See also

• The Beast