Blentron

The Blendtrons are a race of Transformers from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Ia! Ia! Unicron fhtagn!

The Blendtrons are freakish Transformers created by the evil Unicron. They are ridiculously powerful; able to take down the likes of Big Convoy and Magmatron with little effort.

The Blendtrons consist of:

• Elephorca (leader)
• Rartorata
• Drancron

Fiction

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

After the destruction of Unicron in 2005, his lifeforce raced through time and space where it riddled itself into Gaea and became known as Angolmois energy. After a botched attempt by Galvatron to steal all the Angolmois, the energy was sealed into capsules and scattered across the galaxy.

Big Convoy, leader of the Maximal new recruits, and Magmatron, the Predacon Emperor of Destruction, raced across the galaxy collecting the Angolmois capsules. Eventually, after numerous rascally hijinks, the two factions recovered all the capsules.

Then the Blendtrons came out of nowhere and beat the ever living CRAP out of both teams and stole the capsules. The Blendtrons, absurdly powerful and able to bend time and space at their leisure, had no trouble stealing all the capsules and trapping the Maximals and Magmatron in a wormhole, leaving the Predacons to bicker over leadership. Mysterious Beast Warriors!? The Stolen Capsules

As it turns out, the Blendtrons were created by Unicron. Loyal to their god, they released all the Angolmois into the corpse of Galvatron, reviving Unicron. Unicron then absorbed the last remaining bit of loose Angolmois, and the Blendtrons themselves. That's what you get for worshiping a god who wants to eat the universe! Unicron Revived!?

Beast Wars Neo comics

Who wants some fresh meat?

The Blendtrons were produced in mass numbers by Unicron in the form of the "Black Ball" to hunt down the Angolmois capsules after the explosion of Nemesis. One of their target was the planet Jörmungandr, where they killed most of the cobra-Transformer denizens, but were unable to find the Angolmois.

After the failure of the Blendtrons to find the Angolmois, the Black Ball manipulated both Big Convoy's Maximals and Magmatron's Predacons to find the capsules. When Magmatron lost his troops, the Black Ball appeared and offered replacements: the Blendtrons! The Blendtron army was birthed out of the Black Ball itself and they woke with a roar. A Battle Fought Alone

With the Blendtron army behind him, Magmatron lured the Maximals to an orbiting amphitheater, where the Blendtrons were used to ransom the lives of Big Convoy's subordinates for the Angolmois capsules they collected. With their goal in sight, a Rartorata attacked Magmatron from behind, throwing him in with the Maximals and revealing their true master, Unicron. After Unicron shed the identity of the Black Ball, he revealed that he still needed the Angolmois within Big Convoy and Magmatron. To facilitate its return, the Blendtrons were sicced on the two, but they were fought off as Magmatron and Big Convoy flew in to attack Unicron directly. Double Cross

After Unicron acquired the Angolmois he needed from Magmatron and obtained Cybertron as a new body, he was lured to the Georgian system by the Maximals. There, Unicron was trapped by crowded and exploding planets. The Maximals picked the opportunity to attack, but Unicron spat out another Blendtron army to confront the Maximals. They were held at bay by the Maximals, allowing Big Convoy to make the final strike on Unicron. Return to Zero

IDW Beast Wars comics

After his defeat while attempting to devour Cybertron, Unicron slowly gathered his consciousness. Unable to physically intervene without a body, he anointed agents within the Cybertronian population to do his bidding. In the era after the Great War, he chose a pit-fighter, a construction bot, and a cultist to be reborn as the Blendtrons. Beast Wars Sourcebook

Prior to the return of Megatron to conquer the planet, Unicron directed the Blendtrons to the rising star of the warlord Shokaract, who had been exposed to Angolmois during a Predacon survey mission and remade himself into a titanic warrior. The Blendtrons gathered capsules of the potent energy and used it to facilitate the warlord's "ascension", which was in fact the rebirth of the Chaos-Bringer himself. This led to the devastation of Cybertron. Magmatron's astral self, able to traverse time and space but not affect it, witnessed this horrible event many times and hoped to somehow stop it. The Ascending #1 Magmatron allowed a message from the Earth-bound Maximals to get through to present-day Cybertron and Lio Convoy led a team to Earth. When Unicron got wind that his plans might be in jeopardy, he had Shokaract send the Blendtrons to Earth. Rartorata injected Razorbeast with Angolmois, turning him mad. The Ascending #2 A combined Maximal-Predacon force eventually destroyed the Blendtrons. The Ascending #4

Notes

• The Blendtrons are heavily influenced by Lovecraftian mythology. They are a cult of grotesque freaks of nature who are capable of bending reality itself and are determined to resurrect a primordial God. Read "The Call of Cthulhu" one of these days; you'll catch the similarities.

• The insignia introduced with the Blendtron since become the sigil for the Heralds of Unicron. It was first officially used as such with the Overcharge toy, and has since been used to represent Unicron in Transformers: The Ark, and appeared on the Kiss Players Sparkbots when their true allegiance was revealed.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Blentron (ブレントロン Burentoron)