Klaws
- Klaws is a Renegade from the GoBots continuity family.
This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.
Klaws is a Monster GoBot, with ties to the Master Renegade.
Fiction
Renegade Rhetoric
Klaws, along with Bugsie and Hornet, was active early on during the conflict between the Renegades and the Guardians. They abandoned the cause shortly after Cy-Kill took command to search for the Master Renegade, rejoining the Renegades much later after he resurfaced and proved to be less than impressive.
Klaws led a squad of Renegades on an attack against one of UNECOM's Space Hawk production facilities. His mission was a success, and the base and its fighters destroyed. Renegade Rhetoric (1)
Beast Wars: Uprising
When a Cataclysm threatened their home universe, most of the Monster GoBots fled their native reality as part of the great GoBot Diaspora. They wound up on the dystopian Cybertron of Primax 209.0 Gamma: a world where the Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons had evolved into a series of ritualized Games fought between their successors, the Maximals and Predacons. The GoBots adopted new Predacon bodies, and gained infamy as a street gang known as the "Antares Eight". Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14
As they settled in, the Renegades built up a secret base called the Erebos equipped with a Modifier and databanks charting the activities of other GoBots in the multiverse. At some point, they welcomed in a second group of GoBotic refugees: the Monsterous combiner team, and their handler Oddball. Unhappy with the stagnant Cybertronian social order, the Renegades began their own plan to overthrow the dominant "Builders" and rule in their place.
Klaws and the Eight gathered information about the Human Confederacy and learned of an ancient Terran artifact the Rosetta Stone (renamed "The Stone of Sky Warp") held in the Museum of Decepticon Heritage. They arranged to appropriate the stone, and use it to lure the Terrans to Cybertron. Faking as if they were a Resistance team, the Antares Eight seized control of a trans-hyperwave caster in Proximax. Holding the Builder in charge hostage, they beamed demands for all Builders to leave Proximax in the name of the Resistance. In fact, the transmission was a trap to entice the humans, who monitored all Cybertronian transmissions, with a clear view of the Rosetta Stone in the background. The GoBots intended to use quantumite (a Gargent cluster substance unknown to the Transformers) to weaponized the caster, snare the unsuspecting humans when they arrived, and take their greater technology.
Klaws and the Monster Gobots faced unexpected resistance, however, from a multi-factional group called the Ex-Bots. As they battled for control of the tower, Klaws was knocked off the summit by Snapper, and faced the rage of Rampage down below. He ultimately fled, the only member of the Antares Eight to survive the mission. Cultural Appropriation
How unfortunate for him. Klaws as captured by the Darksyders, and was used by Leatherhide in his various experiments to create new and different cybernetic, bio-mechanical, and techno-organic innovations. Derailment
