Tantrum (G1)
- Tantrum is a Decepticon in the Generation 1 continuity family.
Tantrum is loads of fun. He's all violence and no patience. Give him a can of Kremzeek™ energy drink with the tab pulled off, and he'll quickly devolve through frustration to crazed screaming to smashing the recalcitrant can to a splattered soup of oily drink and metal shavings. Such outbursts are common, and they usually end with a pile of smoking rubble, and Tantrum in the middle, with a happy, smiling face, the calmest and coolest of Decepticons, for a very short while, until next time the fit takes him.
The Decepticon command, in their infinite wisdom, have augmented the swordfighting, electrostatic-discharging, and fuel-carrying abilities of this walking Internet with a catalytic rifle. This can be good for a lot of laughs when it converts the metal in a target to enjoyably dangerous isotopes for Blot to snack on and Mixmaster to play with.
Tantrum and his fellow Predacons can combine to form Predaking.
- French-Canadian name: Coléro
- Italian name: Torox
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
One day, Tantrum was having some harmless fun slaughtering humans and causing massive property damage.
That killjoy Optimus Prime ran full-tilt into him in truck mode, blowing Tantrum to chunks. Some people can't take a joke.
Animated continuity
Dreamwave comics continuity
Devil's Due G.I.Joe Vs. Transformers continuity
IDW comics continuity
Tantrum fought for Megatron in the illegal gladatorial deathmatches held in the Forge.
Beast Wars
A group of five symbols appeared on the walls of a room containing a transwarp shunt device on Cybertron. The five symbols seemed to represent a lion, a bird, a bull, a rhinoceros, and a feline of some variety. The Gathering, Part 2
Toys
Generation 1
- Tantrum (1986)
- Team ID number: 5
- Japanese ID number: D-76
- Predaking (1986)
- Japanese ID number: D-78
Titanium Series
- Predaking (2006?)
- Saw off his leg and you have "Actionmaster Combiner-mode World's Smallest Titanium Tantrum". (No refunds).
