Discmaster
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- Diskmaster is a martial art from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Diskmaster is a martial combat style using explosive disks in combat, usually in both robot and alternate forms. Disks may be rigged to explode at the time and place of the master's choosing.[1]
The only known Diskmasters are Mantis and Autolauncher.
Notes
- The term "Diskmaster" never existed in the Japanese version of the Beast Wars franchise. The term is derived from a turn of phrase found in Autolauncher's Japanese bio card[2]. 円盤使い, enban tsukai, roughly means "discus user"[3] in English. The term was rendered as "disc master" (in quotes) when the bio card was fan-translated in the late 90s/early 00s, evidently taking a cue from the various *Masters of the original toyline. The term then stuck around in the English-speaking fandom until it was canonized in the Beast Wars Sourcebook.
Reference
- ↑ Beast Wars Sourcebook
- ↑ Autolauncher's Japanese bio card
- ↑ Enban can also be "disc", while tsukai refers to someone who is a "user or manipulator of, wielder, handler" of something.
