Apache (BW)
- Apache is a Maximal from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Second-in-command of the Maximals stationed on Gaea, Apache (アパッチ Apatchi) is a grizzled, short-tempered and no-nonsense sort of officer. A perfectionist, he demands nothing but the best from his troops... and especially from himself. Apache takes failure hard and tends to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders; if something goes wrong, it's all his fault. An origin for this shortcoming stems from his deep respect for Lio Convoy, whom he can't stand to lose face in front of.
A rigid old timer, Apache doesn't suffer reckless youths such as Tasmania Kid and Lio Junior particularly well, and he absolutely cannot stand the buffoonish antics of the Jointron brothers. His attempts to suppress his anger have combined with his own self-doubts, creating a subconscious dark side within the Maximal. On occasion, Apache will slip into his special third mode, a sort of artillery platform called "Angry Combat Mode", and explode into a destructive berserker. When he recovers, he has no memory of his third mode or any of the havoc it wrought.
Fiction
Cartoon continuity
Beast Wars II cartoon
- Voice actor: Sanryō Odaka (Japanese)
As a trainee, Apache fell on the battlefield during a live-fire exercise. A fellow trainee, Convoy, ignored their hot-blooded instructor's command to leave behind their fallen comrades, who had washed out of the program and should be left to die. Despite being almost out of fuel himself, Convoy shared what he had with Apache, and the two of them, greatly weakened, supported one another through the final leg of the exercise. Both warriors made it to the checkpoint and neither washed out. Since then, Apache has vowed to protect Convoy as his deputy. Mystery of the Ancient Ruins
Having received a mysterious SOS signal from within an asteroid field, Apache and Convoy went to investigate in small, one-man scout ships. Confident in his ability, Apache split off on his own, only to encounter a massive planetoid-ship on a collision course with his vessel. Convoy opened fire on the planetoid, causing a massive explosion that sent Apache's ship hurling through space while Convoy himself vanished.
Returning to the Maximal Space Station where he and his friends were stationed, Apache blamed himself for their commander's disappearance and drowned his sorrows in cheap oil. When the other Maximals voiced their concerns that Convoy probably wasn't coming back, Apache assured them that he would, then named himself commanding officer in Convoy's absence and passed out. Bighorn took command instead and took the team with him to investigate an abnormal energy reaction on the planet Gaea. They flew off in the Yukikaze before Apache had a chance to wake up, leaving him to freeze in space as he held onto the outside of the vessel.
When the Maximals arrived at Gaea via transwarp, the Yukikaze was shot down by Predacons, so Apache and his team had to flee to Gaea's surface in escape pods. The planet's atmosphere proved lethal to Transformers, however, so Apache scanned a local mandrill to protect himself. After joining up with the rest of the team, Apache went to investigate a mysterious black fog that was killing the flora and fauna around them. They discovered Galvatron and his troops, who had earlier blasted the Yukikaze out of the sky. Unfortunately, the Predacons rather easily paralyzed Apache and his friends, and were prepared to kill them when a white lion came to their rescue. The New Forces Arrive!
The lion led them back to the crashed Yukikaze and revealed itself to be Convoy, now going by the name of "Lio Convoy". While the other Maximals were taken aback by the lion's true identity, Apache had already figured it out. Nevertheless, he was delighted to have his commander back, and he cried tears of happiness when Convoy took back control of the troops. White Lion, Run!
Bighorn's Rage The Lake Trap Galvatron Revived
When the Maximals went to investigate a strange energy reading, Apache rigged a "draw straws" competition so that he could go with Lio Convoy. To his embarrassment, his commander noticed him cheating, and Apache confessed of his private vow to protect Lio Convoy ever since they were trainees together. When BB carpet-bombed the jungle to flush out the Maximals, Apache took a near-hit and collapsed, forcing Lio Convoy to drag him into the nearby ruins for safety. Apache lamented he was nothing but a burden, but Lio Convoy disagreed— pointing to a tunnel leading deeper into the ruins which they otherwise would never have found. Exploring deeper they were separated when Apache triggered a trap and was attacked by the Insectron Mantis, who strung him up as bait for his commander. Mantis attacked Lio Convoy and was about to kill him when Apache called upon previously-undiscovered inner strength to transform into a powerful weapons platform which caused the ruins to collapse. Afterward Apache had no memory of what he had done, but was pleased that Lio Convoy credited his performance. Mystery of the Ancient Ruins
The Insect Corps Arrive Friend or Foe? The Insect Robos The Strongest Tag Team? Autorollers Roll Out! Danger! Scissor Boy Galvatron Rampages Predacon General Offensive! The Combined Giant, Tripledacus The Festive Jointrons A Fearsome Combination Plan? Who Is the Leader!? The Black Lio Convoy The Space Pirate Seacons! Who Is the Strongest Warrior!? The Tentacular Scuba Megastorm's Reckoning Showdown in the Sea Face the Setting Sun The Final Battle Enter Lio Junior Megastorm Reborn The New Weapon, Tako Tank The Artificial Planet Nemesis Gigastorm's Treachery The End of Starscream The Lio Convoy Assassination Plot Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger! The Great Angolmois Freezing Tactic Knock Out Nemesis Lio Junior's Revolt!? Emissary of the Fourth Planet The Crisis of Planet Gaea Fly Out! Planet Gaea Assemble, Thirty-Nine Warriors Revenge of the Space Pirates Breaking into Nemesis Legend! The Green Warrior Farewell! Lio Convoy
The Maximal Brainwashing Operation
The Maximal Brainwashing Operation
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
After the defeat of Unicron, Apache returned to Cybertron, where he slept during a meal hosted by Artemis. Graduation Ceremony!!
Beast Wars II comic
Demolish the Superdreadnought Tank! Infiltrate the Mystery Island! Free the Captured Matrix! Realize the Forbidden Love! Make a Surprise Attack on the Super Weapon Base! Recover the Bonds Lost! All Hands, Make a Special Attack on the Evil Planet! Win the Battle of Light and Darkness! The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!
IDW Beast Wars comics
He looks almost identical to another guy.
Lio Convoy's deputy officer even back before the Pax Cybertronia was signed, Apache continued to serve him as a member of the covert special ops unit known as the Pack. Beast Wars Sourcebook 1 Apache was regaling his fellow Pack members with a tale of his recent encounter with a Predacon when Mach Kick received Razorbeast's distress signal. Lio Convoy ordered Apache and the other Pack members to prepare to travel to Earth in order to rescue their comrade. The Ascending #1
En route to Earth's prehistory, Apache and the rest of the Pack adopted beast modes. Upon arrival, they stumbled upon the Earth-bound Maximals and Predacons fighting it out, and so joined in the brawl. Apache himself grappled with the Predacon Insecticon. The Ascending #2
A greater threat arose, however, when Razorbeast became infected by Angolmois by the recently arrived Blendtrons. Apache helped restrain the crazed Razorbeast before being ordered back to Cybertron to confront the greater threat; Shokaract. The Ascending #3
Though their shuttle was shot down upon travelling back to their homeworld, Apche and the rest of its passengers made it out, and met up with Big Convoy and Cohrada. Engaging their enemy, Apache was able to live to see another day, Shockaracter barely missing the Maximal with a blast from his mechanical claw-cannons. The Ascending #4
Toys
Beast Wars
- Apache (Mega, 1998)
- Japanese ID number: C-12
- Accessories: Spring-loaded missile launcher, 2 missiles
- This toy is identical to B'Boom, transforming into a mandrill. His beast mode face has spring-activated features, with a revealed spring-loaded missile launcher in his mouth. This launcher becomes a hand-held weapon in robot mode. He has a third "artillery station" mode that a Basic-sized toy can pilot.
- Showdown of Artillery: Apache VS Megastorm (Vs pack, 1998)
- Japanese ID number: VS-12
- Accessories: Spring-loaded missile launcher, 2 missiles
- Apache was also available in a two-pack with the Predacon Megastorm. Both toys in this set are identical to their individually-packaged versions.
- Apache (Mega, 1998)
- Accessories: Spring-loaded missile launcher, 2 missiles
- A special contest-prize version of Apache in a kind of camo-green was given away as a prize from Comic Bom Bom magazine, as part of a "design a Cybertron" contest, along with new-color versions of all five main Maximals from the series. How many of these Apaches were awarded is unknown.
Notes
- The notion that Apache is a drunkard as part of a Native American stereotype is untrue. While Beast Wars II is not above having horrible stereotypes, this isn't one of them. Apache does get drunk in the first episode of the cartoon... but that's in grief because he believes his actions have caused the death of Lio Convoy. He never gets drunk again in the cartoon, and never at all in the manga.
- As B'Boom had already been well established in The Gathering, when Apache was set to appear, Don Figueroa drew Apache with the shoulder cannons retracted. Furthermore, he was given a lighter coloration and made less stocky to distinguish him from B'Boom. This is especially apparent in the scene where both have to help secure an Angolmois-infected Razorbeast. This was not the only time a design adjustment was necessary.
Foreign names
- Mandarin: Apache (Taiwan 阿帕契 Ā Phà Ch'ì; China 阿帕奇, Ā Pà Qí)
