K-9

K-9 is a Maximal in the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Not pictured: old guy with time-travelling phone booth.

K-9's alternate form, a German Shepherd, is befitting of his function as a guard. (Albeit rather out-of-place, timeline-wise.) His canine senses keep him aware of his surroundings at all times. His doggie agility and strength give K-9 the edge against any intruding Predacons. If that fails, he can always trying leaking lubricant on his opponents as a last-ditch effort -- it might cause them to rust.

Fiction

Timelines: Intimidation Game script reading

Voice Actor: Brian Dobson

The Tripredacus agent Flamewar was held prisoner and interrogated by a group of Autobots and Maximals which included K-9. However, the interrogation was a facade, and the entity appearing to be K-9 was in fact a disguised Max B.

IDW Beast Wars comics

K-9 was one of the protoforms jettisoned from the Axalon on prehistoric Earth. He was activated and put in chronal phase by Razorbeast at Magmatron's request, but was protected from Magmatron's Predacon shell-program by Razorbeast's viral code.

Soon after awakening, he joined up with Torca's militia along with Bantor, Noctorro, Stinkbomb and Armordillo. During their journey to meet up with Razorbeast, Torca got stuck in some mud, and K-9 and the other helped free him. After following Razorbeast's signal for days, and picking up more Maximals along the way, K-9 and the rest rushed into battle against Magmatron's Predacons. The Maximals won that altercation, and awaited rescue from Cybertron.

Toys

Beast Wars

• K-9 (Deluxe, 1997)

K-9 transforms into a German Shepherd, and features a missile launcher concealed in his tail. This missiles store in his robot abdomen. His beast-mode back also forms a riot shield.

This toy is an extensive --if not complete-- retooling of Wolfang. The only part of his body not changed is his head sculpt. K-9 was then used as the basis for a second retooling, into the Beast Wars II toy Max B. Despite the extensive changes, K-9 retains the "mutant mask" gimmick (even going so far as to retool the mask itself), even though by the time of his release, that feature had been dropped from new-mold toys.

Trivia

• In the comic, K-9 gained his beast mode on ancient earth... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before the German Shepherd breed came into existance. (Though his beast mode's depiction in the comic is a fairly poor representation of a Shepherd, so make of that what you will.)

Is that you back there?

• Trent Troop, who designed the Maximal Command Security Force, based the colors of one member (the one with the axe and sheild) on K-9 (privately dubbing him "9K"). Whether any official material ever picks up on this remains to be seen.

External links

• K-9 at tfu.info
  
  
  From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.