Skalor

Skalor is a Decepticon Seacon from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Steeljaw hates him.

Skalor stinks, and that's not so much an insult as it is a declaration of fact. Skalor suffers from what humans would call a "glandular problem": small amounts of odiferous lubricants and liquids seep out through his joints and pollute the environment with his putrid stench. While his fellow Decepticons have pleaded with him repeatedly to have his noxious ailment looked at by a professional, Skalor just shrugs their gasping cries off with a "Not my problem".

Skalor can combine with his fellow Seacons to form Piranacon.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Generation 1

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

Skalor's so small and cute... for a slob.

When Shockwave's Earthbound Decepticons established their new undersea base, Seawing and the Seacons were summoned from Cybertron to work on the base's fortifications, as they were uniquely suited for underwater activity. They got more than they bargained for when the super-Decepticon Galvatron came a'calling. In the battle, Seawing and Jawbreaker managed to momentarily stun Galvatron, but in the end even the combined might of Piranacon couldn't beat him. Enemy Action!

After Shockwave was deposed, the new commander Ratbat kept the Seacons on retainer for another mission. The Seacons were commissioned to hunt down a sunken shipwreck in the water around the Decepticon undersea base, a wreck which supposedly contained two Autobot cassettes with valuable information encoded on them. They successfully obtained the treasure chest containing the cassettes and, despite a brief theft by the Autobot Blaster, managed to recapture the prize and return it to their leader. Club Con! Unfortunately for them, this led to a sequence of events whereby the treacherous Starscream acquired the power of the Underbase for himself. After the arrival of Scorponok's band of Decepticons, which Skalor and the other Seacons "greeted" as Piranacon, the two bands of Decepticons erupted into Civil War. Cold War!

Aw, Skalor gets his own death panel.

But after the Autobots also arrived, the two Decepticon groups united against them. Ultimately, once all sides realized they had been duped by Starscream, the Autobots and Decepticons were forced to unite in order to stop him from seizing ultimate power. The Seacons attacked Starscream in unison in the waters around Manhattan, but the other five were destroyed in a single energy discharge. Skalor was spared, but only momentarily. Starscream quickly destroyed him as well, while also ending the life of Jetfire. Dark Star

Earthforce

These stories do not fit into the normal Marvel continuity. See Earthforce for details.

Sometime later, Megatron traveled back in time and possessed the body of Seacon leader Snaptrap during the Underbase Saga, in an attempt to save them in the past to bolster his troops in the present. He failed due to the intervention of Prowl, and the Seacons met their fate as before. Flashback!

Classics

Classics continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.

When Bludgeon detected an apparent traitor in his organization, he assembled Snaptrap, Skalor and the Seacons to face the betrayer. Unfortunately, their target was Hun-Grrr, leader of the Terrorcons, and Terrorcons stick together. Literally. As Abominus formed inside the Decepticon armory, Skalor and the others took aim at the giant's weak points, but were unable to break up the combination robot. The Seacons then switched tactics, forming their own giant warrior, Piranacon. Overbite remained separate from his fellows and, after the initial bout of grappling and melee, lept into the fray in his stormsurge cannon mode, blasting Abominus in the face with a foot-wide blast of corrosive fluid.

The enraged behemoth continued fighting back, knocking Piranacon to the floor. Nautilator slipped free from the combination form and joined Overbite behind Abominus. The smaller warriors were beneath Abominus's notice until they concentrated their firepower on his lower leg, bringing him down. As Overbite and Nautilator reconnected with Piranacon, the latter shifted into weapons mode and further disabled Abominus with a blast from his torpedo cannon. One final swipe from Piranacon's coral blade, and Abominus was finished.

Believing the imminent battle with Megatron's Decepticon forces was compromised, Bludgeon summoned the Seacons to his command centre to prep for the attack. Bludgeon was so enthralled with analyzing the attack pattern of Megatron's incoming ships that he failed to notice the Seacons merge once more. The real traitors, they formed Piranacon and obliterated Bludgeon using their mass compression cannon before alerting Megatron's forces that the area was secure. At Fight's End

As the universe was obliterated, Skalor was aboard the Talon which was pulled into an alternate universe. The Talon crashed on prehistoric Earth where the ambient energon radiation required the Seacons to adopt experimental energon-absorbing armor. Shattered Time Skalor was with Megatron when the Decepticon leader activated three new Decepticons from stasis pods. He and the others were blasted by Ultra Magnus after the newcomers failed to terminate the Autobots. Shattered Expectations

The Decepticons pursued the Autobots to a chasm, where they watched Megatron take on Ultra Magnus and be defeated. They climbed to the bottom of the chasm to retrieve their fallen leader and found a giant face hewn into the rock. It cheered Megatron up immensely once they dug him out of the rubble. Shattered Paths Skalor and the others watched Megatron utilize the equipment in the cavern they'd found. The Seacons later attempted to retrieve the "Maximal" energy purifier, and merged into God Neptune so they could fight off Magnaboss. Shattered Hope The Predacons including Skalor accompanied Megatron as he used the giant mech he'd built to try and claim the matrix the Maximals had found. Shattered Balance Combining into God Neptune once more, the Seacons battled the Maximals until they were all sucked into a dimensional rift thanks to Ultra Mammoth. Shattered Destiny

Regeneration One

Template:Noterg1 Following his demise at Starscream's hands during the Underbase Saga, Skalor was reanimated and lobotomised by Megatron to form part of his zombie army. Skalor's unit included Octane, Razorclaw, Bugly, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Thrust and Ratbat and they were ordered to hunt down and exterminate a convoy of escaping humans, including Buster and Jessie. Less Than Zero

In 2012 after Megatron's defeat, all of the deactivated zombies were piled into a large pit by the Autobots and obliterated from orbit. Natural Selection, Part One

G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers

In the form of Piranacon, Skalor and the Seacons battled Predaking in the Gladiator Zone before joining Serpent O.R.'s new army of Decepticons. The Art of War #2 They proceeded to capture a few Autobots and Joes and participate in an attack on an Autobot peace ceremony, during which they helped take out Omega Supreme. The Art of War #3 Piranacon was then defeated when Sixshot was thrown into his face. The Art of War #4

Hearts of Steel

Like his fellow Seacons, Skalor was woke from his slumber on the bottom of the ocean by an Elder God's servants and brought to their underground city. Infestation 2: The Transformers #1

Toys

Generation 1

From robot to fish to fishstick.

• Skalor (Seacon, 1988)
  • Team ID number: SE4
  • Accessories: Left & right "Dual Crustation Rifles", "Tripod Rifle", connector, weapon stand base

Skalor transforms into a coelacanth with arms and legs. His two "dual crustation rifles" can be mounted on his fish-mode back on opposite sides of his dorsal fin. He also has a third "corrosive slime-shooter" Targetmaster mode, which can be mounted on the weapon stand formed from the "Tripod Rifle" and other accessories, or held in the hand of the Seacons' combined robot. As a Scramble City-style combiner, he can form an arm or leg to any compatible robot combination, though his nominal placement is as the right leg to Piranacon (although the toy's instructions had him as the right arm).

This toy was sold in Japan as Gulf. It was also used to make Beast Wars II Coelagon.

• More information on Skalor at TFU.info

• Piranacon (Gift set, 1988)
  • Accessories: Left & right "Dual Crustation Rifles", "Tripod Rifle", connector, weapon stand base

Skalor was also available in the Seacon box set, along with his teammates Snaptrap, Overbite, Seawing, and Tentakil. Nautilator was not included. All of the toys were identical to their individual releases.

Beast Wars

• God Neptune (Ultra, 1998)
  • Japanese ID number: D-21

File:BW2Coelagon toy.jpg

"The piranha have not yet arrived... But I assure you, the koi are ravenous."

Skalor was repurposed from Coelagon.

A redeco of the Generation 1 Seacon Skalor, Coelagon transforms into a robotic four-legged fish monster, with many features suggestive of a coelacanth. However, he lacks the rifles and stand-pieces of the original version of the mold. He was available only as part of the God Neptune gift set with his teammates. Since he uses the Scramble City-style of combination, he can form the arm or leg to any combined orbot of similar construction, but his nominal place is as the left arm of God Neptune.

For unknown reasons, a great number of unboxed God Neptune sets—lacking all of their accessories, including combiner parts—ended up available on the secondary market. These went for considerably less than the "complete" releases, naturally.

This mold was also used to make Gulf.

• More information on Coelagon at TFU.info

Timelines

I was going to be a new guy, but now I'm old me!

• Piranacon (Seacon giftset, 2008)
  • Accessories: Left & right blasters, long rifle, connector, weapon stand base

A redeco of the Generation 1 mold above, Timelines Skalor was available exclusively as part of a Official Transformers Collectors' Club-exclusive giftset containing all six Seacons in new color schemes. He is once again depicted as the right leg of the combined super robot, but his Targetmaster weapon mode is now a slimespray rifle. Noteworthy is that Skalor features a black paint wash which may represent that he is a filthy, filthy man.

This toy was originally intended as an exclusive set of Energon-series Terrorcons, but was shelved due to a lack of retailer interest. The team were called the Piranhacons and their combined form was Piranhaking; Skalor was only ever identified with the tongue-in-cheek placeholder name "Archerbot" (as Hasbro had not yet secured the trademark for "Skalor" at the time of the presentation).

• More information on Timelines Skalor at TFU.info

Transformers (2010)

• Decepticon Piranacon (Seacon giftset, 2010)
  • Accessories:

• More information on 2010 Skalor at TFU.info

Notes

Foreign names

• French: Écailleur (Canada)

External links

• Skalor's Universe entry at NTFA.net