Fuzor

A Fuzor is a type of Transformer from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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A Fuzor is a Transformer whose alternate mode is a fusion of two or more distinct kinds of beasts. The condition can be brought on by a stasis pod malfunction, which can cause its DNA scanner to choose two native life forms simultaneously and combine them. Such malfunctions happened on prehistoric Earth, in the wake of the quantum surge caused by the destruction of the Vok Planet Buster.

Known Fuzors include:

• Air Hammer
• Bantor
• Buzzclaw
• Injector
• Magmatron
• Noctorro
• Quickstrike
• Silverbolt
• Sky Shadow
• Terragator
• Tigerhawk
• Torca

In addition, the Mutants were previously Fuzors who were affected by Megatron's anti-transformation virus:

• Icebird
• Poison Bite
• Razor Claw
• Soundwave

The earlier, Fuzor forms of these characters have never been seen.

Fiction

Beast Wars cartoon

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The energies of the Planet Buster caused a multitude of orbiting stasis pods to crash to prehistoric Earth during the Beast Wars. Many of these pods were damaged in the process. Replication errors caused at least two such pods to produce Transformers with beast modes that were composed of two different animals mixed together: Silverbolt and Quickstrike.

Each of them had significant data track loss, and had personalities dominated by a single trait (Silverbolt had chivalry, while Quickstrike had cruelty). It is unclear whether these are common traits of Fuzors, or if the stasis pods experienced additional damage beyond the DNA scanners. Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)

These two might have been partially Transmetal; the attack of the Vok Metal Hunter incapacitated the normal Beast Warriors, but the Transmetals and Fuzors quickly recovered from it. Other Visits (Part 2)

The practical upshot of this is that these two may well be very unusual Fuzors.

Prime cartoon

Operation Bumblebee, Part 2

Toys

Beast Wars

But beware, more are coming!

• Fuzors (1998)
• Basic
  • Air Hammer
  • Bantor
  • Buzzclaw
  • Noctorro
  • Terragator
  • Quickstrike
• Deluxe
  • Injector
  • Silverbolt
  • Sky Shadow
  • Torca

Notes

• Magmatron is unique among the Fuzors in that he has three complete beast modes, which can operate separately as well as combined; he is identified as a "Tri-dinosaur Fuzor".
• Tigerhawk, a fusion of two different beasts, was not officially identified as a Fuzor at any point during the Beast Wars line—presumably because the Fuzor subline had been discontinued by the time of his release, in favor of the Transmetal 2 subline. It wasn't until 2010 that Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac Volume 2 declared him to finally be one.
• Evidently, it seemed that someone at Hasbro really liked the concept of mixing together wild animals to create new monstrous beasts: the same premise was used for their Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect sub-line, launched at the same time as the Fuzors were released, and advertised in the same toy catalogues.
• Hasbro reused the term "Fuzor" when launching its Zoids: Fuzors sub-line.