Rhinox (Armada)

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

Rhinox is an Autobot from the Armada portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

A Rhinox that was eventually turned evil? Never happened.

Rhinox is a dedicated member of the Autobot cause, except when he's not. Sometimes he flies things.

Fiction

Dreamwave comics continuity

Armada comic

Rhinox was an Autobot warrior, serving under Jetfire against the Decepticon occupation. Specifics of his service and abilities are unknown, except that he has headlights in beast mode. He was later shown as the main operator for the spacebridge to Cybertron. Worlds Collide, Part 3

During the battle with Unicron, Rhinox was abducted along with Cheetor, Airazor, and Terrorsaur so that the Chaos Bringer could cull their memories and learn what preceded his arrival. The End

Energon comic

Consumed by the will of Unicron, Rhinox went from being a dependable warrior to one of the Chaos Bringer's Four Horsemen — complete with a horse. They were sent to stall the Autobots on Cybertron, but were repelled by the Omnicons and Optimus Prime after he used the Spark of Combination. What Lies Beneath, Part Two

Armada cartoon

Unfortunately, this time Unicron could not be beaten with pop music.

During preparation for the final assault against Unicron, Rhinox was readying his Autobot fighter for launch. Mortal Combat

IDW Beast Wars comics

Rhinox is a reborn, multiverse-hopping Rhinox. Beast Wars Sourcebook

This is an explanation for their similar bodies and identical names. (Transformers with similar bodies or identical names to other Transformers are a strange concept that need explanation. It certainly never happened in Armada.)

Toys

Armada

Probably related to Backstop.

• Rhinox w/ Armorhide (Super-Con, 2003)
  • Accessories: Tail/blade

Rhinox is a redeco and retooling of the Beast Wars Transmetal Rhinox figure, converting from an organic-ish robot to mechanical rhinoceros. He has a third transformation that flips ski-boards beneath his beast-mode forefeet and turns the hind-legs into tread assemblies. He was retooled not only to have Powerlinx plugs on the flanks of each rear beast-mode leg (which do not activate any gimmicks), but also to have a molded Autobot sigil in the space originally meant for an Energon chip within his chest.

He came with his partner Mini-Con Armorhide.

• More information on Rhinox at TFU.info