Novakane

Novakane is a Terrorcon from the Rise of the Beasts portion of the Movie continuity family.

Give me a long kiss goodnight, and everything'll be alright. Tell me that I won't feel a thing, so give me Novakane.

Novakane is one of Scourge's Sweeps, often partnered with Freezer to cause chaos.

Fiction

Rise of the Beasts film

Scourge deployed Freezer and Novakane to retrieve the Transwarp Key and kill the two humans aware of its existence, Elena Wallace and Noah Díaz. They pursued them through the museum, having the brute strength to smash through doors, but also moving stealthily with their ability to cling to walls. When one of them was about to get to Elena, Noah momentarily stopped him by hitting his head with a relic, and the humans managed to run out the exit, where a heated battle between the Autobots and the Terrorcons was taking place. Both Freezer and Novakane followed the humans outside, where they attacked and fought against Mirage until the battle was over.

During the final battle for the Transwarp Key in Peru, Novakane was dispatched alone—as his partner had already been killed off—to hunt Elena through the access tunnel, and cornered her over a pool of lava before she impaled him in the head and sent him falling into the magma. Rise of the Beasts

The preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the book "Mission at the Museum".

Toys

Studio Series

No, look again—that's actually my arm.

• Terrorcon Novakane (Core Class, 2023)

• Movie: Rise of the Beasts

Part of the eighth wave of Studio Series Core Class figures, Terrorcon Novakane is a redeco and head retool of fellow Terrorcon Freezer's figure, based on the character's appearance in Rise of the Beasts. Compared to Freezer, Novakane has lighter beige plastic with the orange/bronze paint apps changed to yellow/gold, and his headsculpt features a damaged left side. He converts from a Frenzy-esque four-armed robot into three Cybertronian weapon modes: a handheld blaster, a free-standing gun emplacement, and a configuration designed to attach to Studio Series Scourge's truck bed.

Notes

• Novakane is, for some inscrutable reason, named after the anaesthetic drug Novocaine. A set of licensed Chinese trading cards actually spelled the name "Novocaine", but both production staff and the Studio Series toy use the "Novakane" spelling.
• The CGI models used for Freezer and Novakane suggest they were supposed to have distinct characteristics on their faces to make it easier to tell them apart, with promotional material suggesting Freezer is the one with two scars on his forehead and Novakane is the one that had his left antenna cut off. However, a gaffe by the animators led to both designs being used interchangeably in the film itself, not only between the two Sweeps that follow Scourge around but also between multiple larger-sized Sweeps that share their body-type during the final battle.
  • Despite the difficulty of telling the Sweeps apart, "The Search Is On", the book that follows "Mission at the Museum", namedrops Freezer as the Sweep that hunts down the humans in the Peruvian cave, leaving Novakane to be the one seen in the final battle before perishing in the lava.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Novakane (ノヴァケイン Novakein)
• Mandarin: Cuīmián Yāo (催眠妖, "Hypnosis Demon")