Cybershark

Cybershark is a Maximal from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family. He later took the name Hammerstrike.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into... the clouds?

Cybershark is a skilled tracker and expert in undersea combat. More, he's renowned throughout the galaxy as a swashbuckling hero. Brave, adventurous, kind, and good-humored, he has fought for freedom across a hundred alien seas and left behind stories and legends wherever he passed. Though not particularly bright in a general sense he can be quite calculating when it comes to tracking down his prey, and is a fearless fighter in the cause of good. He honed his skills as a Bounty Hunter spending centuries tracking down a rogue group of Cybertronian Space Pirates. Though dedicated to the Maximals, and quite adept at rallying others to join the fight for a good cause, Cybershark is more of a lone adventurer than a team player. Ironically this often puts him at odds with his commander, the likewise independent Depth Charge.

Hammerstrike's toy bio makes it pretty clear he's a new version of Cybershark. How Cybershark reached Cybertron in time for the Beast Machines story is unknown, but one must assume he was very lucky to find an open waterway there before Megatron's virus transformed him back to a hammerhead and trapped him on land in shark mode.

Spanish name: Ciberón

French-Canadian name: Cybersquale ("Cybershark")

Italian name: Squalo Tigre

Fiction

Tales of the Beast Wars

We're gonna need a bigger apocalypse...

During the final battle with Shokaract, several realities converged into a single, apocalyptic timestorm. Beast Warriors from alternate realities emerged, including Cybershark, B'Boom, Drill Bit, Transquito, Air Hammer, Polar Claw and unidentified others, though all of them were summarily defeated. Terminus

IDW Beast Wars comics

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You yell "Cyberbarracuda," everybody says, "Huh? What?"

Cybershark was one of the protoform stasis pods jettisoned from the Maximal survey vessel Axalon when it was forced to crash-land on prehistoric Earth. The Predacon general Magmatron led a small group (that included the Maximal agent Razorbeast) back in time to place these protoforms into chronal phase and reprogram them into Predacons, and lead this army against the Maximals in the present. However, Razorclaw placed a viral code in Magmatron's Predacon shell program, allowing a number of the protoforms to retain their Maximal identity. The Gathering issue 1

I'm a shaaaaaaaark, I'm a shaaaaaaaaaaaark, suck my diode, I'm a shaaaaaaaaaaaaaark!

Accompanied by Claw Jaw, Cybershark sped towards Razorbeast and the small group of new Maximals accompanying him. The Gathering issue 2 He and a phalanx of other Maximals finally reached them, just in time to fight off an army of Predacons. In the subsequent battle, Cybershark tangled with Razorclaw before the united Maximals drove off the Preds. The Gathering issue 4

A deca-cycle after the marooned Maximals sent their distress call help still hadn't shown up. Cybershark was one of those on hand when their makeshift base was attacked by the entire Predacon militia. He was on the front line of the defense and was the first to notice that it was, indeed, an all-out assault. The Ascending issue 1 Later, Cybershark and the other wounded Beast Warriors remained behind on ancient Earth after Lio Convoy took the rest of their forces into the future to battle Shokaract. He rallied the Maximals and Predacons to stop the threat of the Blendtrons, but the final fate of these lost warriors is unknown. The Ascending issue 4

At some point yet unchronicled he will be badly damaged in battle and in an emergency procedure have his spark transferred to a blank protoform. This blank had been exposed to the Transmetal driver and so he emerges as a Transmetal 2 great white shark and now finds himself gifted with more powerful weapons and the limited ability to fly at low altitude. Beast Wars Sourcebook 1

Beast Machines toy bio

He's not known for his smarts, but he is known for his insatiable desire for combat! He's the best there is at what he does, which is destroy Vehicons in devastating "frenzy" assaults. He knows no fear and feels no pain. Hammerstrike bio

Toys

Beast Wars

• Cybershark (Deluxe, 1996)
  • Japanese ID number: C-11
  • Accessories: Tail-blade, hammerhead-missile, 2 missiles

Cybershark transforms into a silver-blue and green hammerhead shark and incorporates two spring-loaded gimmicks; the "hammer" portion of the shark head fires like a missile, and the tail includes a spring-loaded switchblade weapon. Both weapons are usable in robot mode; the tail-blade becomes a hand-held weapon, while the missile launcher flips up from his chest. His shark-head missile can be held as a melee weapon. Two "normal" missiles for his launcher are stored in his back behind his head.

This mold was retooled to make Hellscream and Universe Overbite, and retooled separately to make Sharp Edge.

• More information on Deluxe Cybershark at TFU.info

• Cybershark vs Inferno: Hell Showdown (Vs pack, 1997)
  • Japanese ID number: VS-11
  • Accessories: Tail-blade, hammerhead-missile, 2 missiles

In Japan, Cybershark was available both separately and in a "Hell Showdown" vs. pack with Inferno. Both toys are identical to their individual Japanese releases.

• Cybershark (Transmetal 2 Mega, 1999)
  • Accessories: Twin launcher, 2 missiles

Transmetal 2 Cybershark transforms into a silver, chrome blue, and sea-green great white shark. Two panels flip out to reveal a "flight mode", and his tail has a gear system that spins the fins like a propeller when a wheel in his side is turned. This system becomes his right arm, forming a spinning claw weapon. He also has a double spring-loaded missile launcher concealed in his shark mouth that doubles as a hand weapon.

This toy's packaging featured a character quote in the bio profile--the first time this popular feature had returned to the packaging since the end of the Generation 2 toyline four years earlier.

This mold was also used to make Sky-Byte.

• More information on Transmetal 2 Cybershark at TFU.info

Beast Machines

Had a bit part in Yellow Submarine.

• Hammerstrike (Basic, 2001)
  • Accessories: Hammerhead/melee weapon

Part of the first wave of the Beast Machines "Battle for the Spark" rebranding, Hammerstrike transforms into a beige, blue, and orange technorganic hammerhead shark with a very odd, alien, spindly looking robot mode. The head of the shark becomes a claw-held weapon that slams forward when triggered by the spark crystal.

• More information on Hammerstrike at TFU.info

Notes

Another redeco opportunity lost.

• While Cybershark/Hammerstrike himself does not appear in 3H's Universe comics, Sharkticons based on Hammerstrike's design appear alongside the traditional Quintesson Sharkticon designs from Generation 1 on New Quintessa. However, these drones were miscolored as Hammerstrike in the initial printing of Betrayal; the "director's cut" reprint fixes this, giving them a black and purple color scheme.
• Cybershark is one of only three non-show Beast Wars characters to get a Transmetal 2 upgrade, the others being Spittor & Iguanus. He and Buzz Saw were also the only non-show characters to return for the Beast Machines toyline.Also,like Megatron,in Transmetal form to change his alt.

mode.