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 plans for the Quintesson Hive Matrix, he stated that the Dinobots would soon be one. Mission Accomplished

Grimlock wanted to form his combiner almost immediately, so he got help from Jetfire to open the Enigma vault, and got his hands on the Enigma. But Swoop noticed a cerebro shell in the back of Jetfire's head. Trying to form Volcanicus, Grimock ordered the dinobots to combine, but nothing happened! As it turns out, the Dinobots didn't know how to work the enigma! Soon, Bruticus and Superion arrive, and the two duke it out while Grimlock desperately tries to figure out how to use the enigma.

• Class: Combiner
• Weapons: Volcanicus jumps onto things and smashes them with his fists and his sword. He also can use Slag / Slug's natural fire ability to set a large area on fire. Volcanicus can also use his sword to send a beam up that rains down as Meteors to heavily damage an area.
• Abilities:
  • Energo-Sword - Jump and strike with the Energo-Sword! Deals damage to the target and anything directly behind it.
  • Fire And Brimstone - Set a wide area on fire dealing an average of 2,280 damage over 8 seconds.
  • Extinction - A shower of meteors bombards a very large area dealing an average damage over 10 seconds. Quadruple damage to walls.

Toys

Generations

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Me Volcanicus have all the candy corn!

• 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).

Foreign names

• Japanese: Volcanicus (ボルカニカス Borukanikasu)

See also

• The Beast
• Mega-Dinobot