Monsterous
- [deep breath] Monsterous is a Renegade combiner who was first formed in the TransTech continuity out of Predacons from yet a second continuity.
This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.
The monstrous Monsterous is not just a typo waiting to happen, he’s Cy-Kill’s newest trump card! This combiner is formed from a Predacons-turned-Renegades street gang, all with fearsome visages. Their members are:
- Fright Face, the cold calculating leader
- Heart Attack, armed with a cycloptic infarction beam
- South Claw, armed with a freeze ray
- Gore Jaw, armed with gruesome mandables
- Fangs, coward capable of bypassing any security system
- Weird Wing, a creep who claims to have limited precognition allowing him to foresee the deaths of enemies
Fiction
Ask Vector Prime
Fright Face and his gang of Predacons were a known quanity in the lawless Heap region of Axiom Nexus. They bit off more than they could chew when they attacked Cy-Kill and Warpath as the Renegades went about their illicit business; Cy-Kill dodged South Claw’s freeze ray, clogged up Gore Jaw’s maw, and dodged Heart Attack’s fire while deducing his weak spot, while Warpath took out Weird Wing in a brutal dogfight (and found where Fang was hiding).
Though Warpath wanted to destroy them, Cy-Kill had another idea. He challenged Fright Face to single combat, with the winner to pledge allegiance to the loser. Cy-Kill prevailed, and Fright Face honored the terms of the deal. Over time, Fight Face embraced the Renegade philosophy so much so that Cy-Kill gave his band the Puzzler upgrade to allow them to combine to form a new combiner: Monsterous!
Monsterous wielded a vast array of firepower, as while Cy-Kill preferred more subtle means it was always handy to have a big stick. Even so, he kept an eye on the Monsterous crew as their specific skills and temperament could easily prove a threat. He admitted to us that he was worried that Vamp and Scorp could be a bad influence on Monsterous if he got back home, creating “ a Monster GoBot block beyond my control”.
Another time, we annoyed him so much he threatened to feed us to Gore Jaw.
Cy-Kill was eventually outed as the terrorist he never really denied being, prompting Cheetor and his security forces to attack. Cy-Kill counterattacked and sicced Monsterous on them, driving the OZSA back. The Renegades fled the current time period with the help of Gong, going to a time and place unknown to menace Guardians and Cybertronians alike! Renegade Rhetoric
Notes
- Monsterous, like all of Cy-Kill's Axiom Nexus recruits, are ’’GoBots’’ toys that never made an appearance in the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon.
- The crew all sold together as the Monsterous gift-pack. The individual Monsterous components were among the few GoBots to have on-package bios, which Ask Vector Prime nods to in their characterization.
- We don't know if these are Beast Era Predacons, RID Predacons, or Transformers: Prime Predacons. Cy-Kill probably doesn't care which.
