Drill Nuts (BW)
- Drill Nuts is a Maximal Insectron from the Beast Wars II portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Drill Nuts (ドリルナッツ Doriru Nattsu) is a self-proclaimed genius (of the Wheeljack variety) and "Master Inventor of the Insectrons". When he's not making bombs and explosives for use in underground operations, he spends most of his free time building strange and intricate doodads. Most of it is really just junk that doesn't even work that well ("Boomerang Bomb," anyone?) but he enjoys doing it nonetheless. He has a very sarcastic personality that often comes off as rude or insulting, at least to those who fail to appreciate his genius. Drill Nuts is more at home underground than above it and is an expert at laying booby traps or popping up under an unsuspecting foe. His only real flaws are when his inventions backfire (admittedly, a fairly common occurrence) or he gets too paranoid and forgets exactly how many traps he's laid and where.
His name is awesome.
Fiction
Beast Wars II cartoon
- Voice actor: Yūji Kishi (Japanese)
Drill Nuts and the Insectrons were wanderers who came to the planet Gaia to live in peace. Fiercely territorial, they defended their lands in the Southern continent when the Maximals and Predacons arrived. Starscream of the Predacons enacted a long-term scheme to manipulate the Insectrons into believing the Maximals were their true foes. Drill Nuts worked on a warning system to detect hostility and identify their opponents. When Starscream and BB fired upon the Maximals, they lured them into an encounter with the Insectrons. Drill Nuts' scanner detected no hostile intent from the flyers, but the aggressive Bighorn demonstrated "infinite hostility", prompting a fight between the Maximals and Insectrons.
As they squared off, Drill Nuts confronted Diver. After launching a series of missiles at his opponent, however, one of Drill Nuts' rounds didn't explode. He became obsessed with finding the flaw in that missile, and absent-mindedly stopped his attack in order to take it apart right there on the ground. A bemused Diver awkwardly came over and started to help Drill Nuts examine the munitions. This encounter and similar ones by his friends led the Maximals to realize the Insectrons weren't inherently their enemies. Friend or Foe? The Insect Robos
Starscream's next plot lured the Insectrons to Crescent Island with the promise of an oil party. Drill Nuts arrived with Powerhug, Bigmos and Tonbot, and a recording from the Predacon told them to start without him. The super-refined oil quickly put the Insectrons into a drunken state, starting a brawl between them. The Maximals and remaining Insectrons arrived to stop the squabbling, and the two groups joined forces against an equally plastered Galvatron, who had inadvertently gotten into the same stash of spiked oil. In the aftermath, the Maximals and Insectrons made peace. The Strongest Tag Team?
IDW Beast Wars comics
Drill Nuts was part of Lio Convoy's elite special operations unit, the Pack. The Ascending #1
When the Pack arrived on Earth, Drill Nuts found himself helping to restrain an Angolmois-powered Razorbeast, complaining all the way about having to use wooden stakes to do it. Lio Convoy later ordered him to prepare the Pack's transwarp cruiser for a return to Cybertron to help combat Shokaract's ascension. The Ascending #3
Back on Cybertron, Drill Nuts was blasted when Shokaract's heralds arrived on the scene, and it is unknown if he survived the battle. The Ascending #4
Transformers Legends comic
Drill Nuts was a customer at a "little sister cafe". There, he enjoyed the services of Windblade, one of the waitresses. Windblade Sequel He was excited by the announcement of Tera-Kura Co.'s Nightbird Shadow, and was quick to pre-order a clone of her. Bonus Edition Vol. 15
Toys
Beast Wars
- Drill Nuts (Basic, 1998)
- Japanese ID number: C-21
- A redeco of Drill Bit, Drill Nuts transforms into an organic boll weevil. His drill-arm can be flipped out for use in beast mode and uses a gear-wheel system to spin the bit.
- The Drill Bit mold appears to have an engineering defect; the pegs on the insect-leg parts are pointed in the wrong direction to fit into the holes intended for them. This defect was not fixed for Drill Nuts.
