Elphaorpha

blendtron

Elephorca is a Blendtron from the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

I am the one hiding under your BED, teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing RED!

Elephorca is the field commander of the Blendtrons as well as their system of transportation. With a single swipe of his fist he can shatter reality itself and travel through time and space in an artificial black hole. As a warrior of Unicron all senses of justice and sympathy have been drained from his body, leaving him an emotionless killing machine. The tusks on his shoulders are his pride and his symbol. Should anybody even so much as touch them he erupts in a chaotic fury, obliterating the opposition. He is possibly the most powerful Blentron, able to grow to enormous sizes at will, and easily the most feared.

Sometimes there are lots of him. Oh crap.

Japanese name: Elphaorpha (エルファオルファ Erufaorufa)

Fiction

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

Voice actor: Yoshinobu Kaneko (Japanese)

Elephorca is the smartest of all the Blendtrons and constructs their battle plans and calls out the orders during a fight. Elephorca and the other Blendtrons totally made both Big Convoy and Magmatron look like wusses, and stole the Angolmois capsules. Mysterious Beast Warriors!? The Seized Capsules They would then later use these capsules to revive Unicron in the body of Galvatron. As a shoddy consolation gift, Unicron proceeded to absorb the Blendtrons into himself. Unicron Revived!?

IDW Beast Wars comics

Who will be eaten first?

Elephorca is the dimmest of all the Blendtrons and is basically a weapon of mass destruction for Unicron to point and fire. Once he was a loyal, though dimwitted Maximal colony construction bot. Unicron reshaped him into an absolute monster after forseeing a future need for a really big "stick with a nail in it". Beast Wars Sourcebook 2

Elephorca, with Drancron and Rartorata, brought Angolmois capsules to Shokaract on the orders of Unicron, priming him as a "vessel". The Ascending #1 The Ascending #2 Eventually, Shokaract got tired of the Blendtrons and left, prompting Drancron and Elephorca to be baffled about why Shokaract wasn't submissive to the will of Unicron. The Ascending #3

Shortly thereafter, the Blendtrons went to Earth to deal with the Maximals and Predacons there. There, Elephorca was mauled to death by an Angolmois-infected Razorbeast. The Ascending #4

Toys

Beast Wars Neo

An elephant who never forgets... to kill!

• Elphaorpha (Deluxe Blentron, 1999)
  • Japanese ID number: X-7
  • Accessories: Water cannon

Elphaorpha is a redeco of the Beast Wars Deluxe Fuzor Torca. His beast mode is a combination of an orca and an elephant. Moving his dorsal fin back and forth while still plugged into his back makes his tusks pinch in and out a little bit. The dorsal piece also contains a pump-bladder that quirts water out of his blowhole; this piece becomes a hand-held cannon in robot mode.

• More information on Elphaorpha at TFU.info

Notes

• The name "Elephorca" comes from Beast Wars Sourcebook, despite a stated policy to not diverge from the names of Japanese-original characters. Just why he was renamed when far more ridonkulous names like "Scissor Boy" that can't even be written off as "an attempt at cool-sounding nonsense" remained is unknown.