Dead End (BW)

The name or term "Dead End" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Dead End (disambiguation).

Dead End is a Predacon from the Beast Era of the Generation 1 continuity family.

DAMN YOU, JACK SPARROW!

In many ways, Dead End (デッドエンド Deddo Endo) is the ideal Predacon soldier. Content in his rank amongst the troops on the frontline, he never makes any trouble for his superior officers nor partakes in any schemes for advancement. True to his solitary temperament, he dislikes working with others in operations. See, he prefers to express his cruelty unencumbered by throwing his Maximal enemies off balance with his Spiral Bomb, launching the shell half off his shoulder, and cackling as he finishes them off with his Dead Gun.

Fiction

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

Release the kraken!

Voice actor: Seiji Mizutani (Japanese), Won-Jun Lee (Korean)

2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity

Frisbeetron. Future Shellformer.

Once, Dead End was as sullen and fatalistic as his namesake. It was only when Magmatron recruited him into the Predacons' rigorous military training that he found his true calling as a soldier. The drills he endured were etched into his being to the point that he practiced them after every recharge period even long after his training was finished. Beast Wars Sourcebook #1 As such, Dead End was among the Predacon crowd gathered to hear Magmatron speak of his secret rebellion against the Tripredacus Council. The Gathering #1

Beast Wars: Uprising

The female Dead-End was a junior engineer working under Chief Magmatron on board the Dinosaur. Prickly and anti-social, Dead-End intentionally had few friends among the crew, despite attempts by Hydra and others to include her. Still, she was very attached to her pet Sharkticon, Gnaw, who she secretly picked up during shore leave on Arkus and kept in the ship's cooling systems.

During a mission over the planet LGC-8803, the Dinosaur came under attack from outside parties while an away team was on the planet below. Dead-End worked to assist Magmatron in repairing the massive damage the ship took. After returning from repair work in the pipes, however, she learned from Magmatron that the crew faced a different threat. The proto-formers had begun an insurrection against the Builders back home, and their Micromaster political officer Synapse had killed Hydra and Killer Punch to keep the secret. Dead-End and Magmatron agreed that mutiny was their only option. While Magmatron attempted to gather the rest of the crew to their side, Dead-End was assaulted by Synapse and then Medusa, one of their Destructon attackers who slipped aboard during the attack. Medusa drove off Synapse but then caused more damage to the ship's engines, making a planet-crash all but inevitable.

Meanwhile, Magmatron had learned the Dinosaur was actually the old Decepticon war criminal Trypticon, and was actively working against them and the captain, Full-Tilt. While the chief tried to stabilize the ship, Dead-End tried to infiltrate the computer core and shut down Trypticon's higher reasoning to reclaim control of the vessel. Trypticon defended himself with internal defenses and his Brunt drone, but Dead-End had the advantage of surprise when she sicc'ed Gnaw on the tank. Dead-End was able to breach Trypticon's brain and shut him down.

The ship was unable to remain in the air, but Full-Tilt managed to guide it down to LGC-8803 and unfold it into a new colony, Dinosaur City. Dead-End and Gnaw chose to remain behind on Dinosaur City with other members of the crew and related associates while Magmatron took others back to join the uprising. Intersectionality

Fifteen years later, Dead-End was noted as still a resident of Dinosaur City. The Inexorable March

2005 IDW continuity

Dead End was one of Onyx Prime's Maximals. When this bestial horde invaded Cybertron, he was one of the many warriors who wound up battling Arcee. Endless Forever

Toys

Beast Wars

Shell-forming never got so literal.

• Dead End (January 1999)
  • ID number: D-32
  • Accessories: Left shell-half, right "Spiral Bomb" shell-half, "Dead Gun"

Part of the first wave of Beast Wars Neo products in the Japanese Beast Wars toyline, Dead End is a Basic-sized figure that transforms into an ammonite. In beast mode, Dead End's "head" can articluate and he can launch his spring-loaded "Spiral Bomb" projectile (the right half of his shell).

In robot mode, his main grasper tentacles separate to form his hand-held, non-firing "Dead Gun". His Spiral Bomb ends up located on his right shoulder and can also be launched in this mode. The launcher itself, also houses his Predacon spark crystal. His Spiral Bomb can also double as a hover board—though, there are no tabs or slots to hold the figure onto the shell piece, as this was a feature that was invented entirely by the animators for the cartoon and was merely an afterthought.

Dead End is considered one of the most notorious shellformers, as the entirety of his beast mode is made up of the two shell-halves on his shoulders and without them, he can no longer function as a Transformer.

• More information on Dead End at TFU.info

 

Left: Takara packaging pictured
Right: Sonokong packaging pictured

• Undersea Showdown: Break VS Dead End (VS pack, January 1999)
  • Takara ID number: VS-32
  • Sonokong ID number: DX-04
  • Accessories: Left shell half, right "Spiral Bomb" shell half, "Dead Gun"

Dead End was also available in the "Undersea Showdown" (海中の対決 kaichū no taiketsu) two-pack with the Maximal Break. Both toys are identical to their individual releases.

Sonokong also released this vs-pack in Korean Beast-War Neo markets. "Ammonat" features no differences with the Takara releases of Dead End, other than the packaging and Tech Spec cards.

Notes

• The Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation of Dead-End is a "virtual redeco" of Power Core Combiners Undertow.

Foreign names

• Korean: Ammonat (암모나트 Ammonateu)