Iguanamonss
- Iguanamonss is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Iguanamonss (イグアナモンス Iguanamonsu) has great confidence in his combat skills. A crafty fighter who uses his speed and stealth to sneak up on his targets, he disorients with lightning-quick motions, luring his opponents into whiffing attacks so he can strike when they leave themselves open. And with his Monsabeler (モンサーベラー Monsāberā) blade capable of cleaving even foot-thick magnum steel plating with a proper charge, he can do some major damage.
But this confidence is also something of a mask, as he is ultimately a very conservative and fearful being, afraid to go outside his "comfort zone" and try new tactics, to put himself out there. It's why his main, if not only tactic is to attack after his opponent, as he's actually not very strong at all, relying on the Monsabeler to do most of the work for him, as well as keeping himself from becoming the one who's left himself open to counterattack. It's worked well so far, why risk things by changing it up?
Following the war, he retreated to his home island of Onomis, where he rules as its King... and his behavior hasn't changed a whole lot. He's still very much a "stick with what you know" type. But now he's got the very crafty Green Chameles backing him up. Chameles is always coming up with new plans, slowly pushing Igunanamonss outside his normal boundaries, slowly crafting him into a more confident fighter.
Toys
Transformers: Beastformers
- Iguanamonss (Beastformer, 1987)
- Beast ID number: 29
- Accessories: Sword
- Part of the second series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Igunamonss is a yellow anthopomorphic iguana in orange robotic armor. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.
- He came in a green-grid generic "Destron Beastformer" box, with a bio card with a painted character image on a jungle backdrop. Re-released in Series 3, the box was unchanged, but the bio card replaced the painted image with a simpler line-art image, first used in Hasbro's Battle Beasts cast poster. In both Series, depending on the "Pack" he came in, there was a chance of his bio card being replaced with a rare "Secret Photo", "Bewitching Serpent Seal", or "VS Holography Mirror" card.
Beastformers
- Iguanamonss (Beastformer, 1988)
- Beast ID number: 29
- Accessories: "Monsabeler" MVP Weapon
- Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Iguanamonss was given a straight re-release with new packaging and a new, more filled-out bio card with corrected coloring. This new card also gave his weapon, now branded an "MVP Weapon", the name "Monsabeler" (モンサーベラー Monsāberā).
- The initial early releases of this series had the chance for any Beastformer to have the rare Burstsun symbol; we'll probably never know if Iguanamonss was ever actually one of them. Later in the run, the "mood ring" styled rubsigns were replaced with new rubsigns that revealed full-color Fire/Wood/Water images on black backdrops. (These rubsign variants also happened at the same time in the Hasbro Battle Beast version of the line.)
- Iguanamonss (Gashapon/candy-toy Beastformer,
1988)- Meiji ID number: 33
- Accessories: ??? weapon
- A small, super-deformed, articulation-free version of Iguanamonss was seemingly intended to be sold as part of the Takara/Meiji candy toy assortment. A bio/data card matching the released candy-toy cards, with its own role-playing rules and using the Transformers-era painted character art, was released in packs of cards with candy, but the actual toy ultimately never saw release.
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Notes
- Igunanamonss's 1987 poster-checklist art gives him a weird tree-branchy-looking weapon that is totally not what the toy comes with. his 1988 art was partially redrawn to correct this.
- His '88 bio card gives him the nickname "Monss" (モンス Monsu).
Foreign names
- English: Icky Iguana
