Latolata
- Rartorata is a Blendtron from the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Rartorata (ラートラータ Rātorāta, also spelled Rartorarta, Rartalarta, Roto-Rooter, Ratatouille, and Nancy) is a cruel servitor of Unicron with an impossibly goofy name that basically fails to make sense in any language, be it human or Cybertronian. Rartorata is easily the most vicious of the Blendtron trio, ready to sacrifice anything, even his team-mates Elephorca and Drancron, to accomplish his mission.
Besides transforming into a hideous fish/bee monster, Rattata carries a "ceremonial rapid-fire poison arrow launcher", which may in fact make him some kind of ninja. Sometimes there are lots of him.
You go, Lartarartolarltorartlroar.
Fiction
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
- Voice actor: Nobuyuki Saitō (Japanese)
Beast Wars Neo manga
Rat Tortilla, like the other Blendtrons, was produced in mass numbers by Unicron in his "Black Ball" form, and were sent out to seek Angolmois capsules. One of the planets they attacked was Jörmungandr, where they exterminated most of the population but were unable to find the Angolmois capsule there.
When Magmatron's troops dwindled, the Black Ball, who was manipulating the Maximals and the Predacons to gather the Angolmois, offered its Blendtrons as replacements. A Battle Fought Alone With the Blendtrons, Magmatron set up a trap at an amphitheater floating in Cybertron orbit for the Maximals. When the trap was sprung and Big Convoy was forced to give up the Angolmois capusles to save his underlings, a Tartarot subsequently backstabbed Magmatron, revealing the Blendtrons' true allegiance to Unicron! When six capsules were consumed by the Black Ball, Unicron revealed himself, but admitted that he was incomplete without the Angolmois energy found in both Magmatron and Big Convoy. The Blendtrons were sicced on the two, but were all defeated by Big Convoy and Magmatron on their way to attack Unicron himself. Double Cross
After Unicron acquired the Angolmois he needed from Magmatron and obtained Cybertron as a new body, he was lured to the Georgian system by the Maximals. There, Unicron was trapped by crowded and exploding planets. The Maximals picked the opportunity to attack, but Unicron spat out another Blendtron army to confront the Maximals. They were held at bay by the Maximals, allowing Big Convoy to make the final strike on Unicron. Return to Zero
IDW Beast Wars comics
In the wake of Unicron's last attempt at eating Cybertron, the hidden cells of cultists continued to operate in secret. As the dead god's consciousness called out to his scattered followers, Larrylatta was chosen to be reformatted into a Blendtron. Joining with former construction bot Elephorca and ex-gladiator Drancron, he was instructed by the Chaos Bringer to help gather malcontents to the warlord Shokaract. Beast Wars Sourcebook #3
Flattering their "leader" and offering him capsules of Angolmois, the Blendtrons convinced Shokaract they were facilitating his ascension to the pantheon of Dark Gods that spawned Unicron himself. As his Anti-Matrix filled, he would be transfigured and Cybertron would be remade in his image. The Ascending #1 However, they were in secret agents of Unicron, seeking only to use Shokaract as a "vessel" for the resurrection of their true patron.
Raratartarsauce was dispatched by Unicron to Earth to deal with the possible threat of the gathered Maximal and Predacon troops, and upon arriving immediately stung Razorbeast, turning him into a raging feral animal. The Ascending #2 Subdued by the combined Maximal and Predacon forces, Rakorata was freed when his fellow Blendtrons arrived. Razorbeast told his allies to flee as he charged in to take on the immense Blendtron. The Ascending #3 Ralorata was ultimately destroyed when Lazorbeak and Spittor impaled Drancron on his stinger, causing a volatile Angolmois reaction that eradicated them all. The Ascending #4
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Toys
Beast Wars Neo
- Rātorāta (Deluxe Blentron, 1999)
- Japanese ID number: X-6
- Accessories: Spring-loaded "ceremonial rapid-fire poison arrow launcher", "poison arrow"
- Lertlerta is a barely-altered redeco of the Beast Wars Deluxe Fuzor Injector, transforming into a hornet-lionfish fusion. Pressing down on a plate on the back of his head in either mode tilts it forward and deploys spring-loaded spines on his skull. His beast mode stinger detaches to form a spring loaded missile launcher (the aforementioned "ceremonial rapid-fire poison arrow launcher").
- Basically, the only differences between Rappakaffalatta and Injector are that Throatwarbler Mangrove has a lighter, charcoal gray plastic instead of Injector's black, plus his rubsign uses the Blentron insignia rather than the Predacon one.
Notes
- Many attempts were made to romanize the character's nonsense name until finally, in 2007, the IDW Beast Wars comics set down a canonical English name for the little fella. Which still doesn't make any goddamn sense. It's like the whole Deathsaurus thing all over again, only there wasn't an option that looked like it meant anything. You'd think they could have just called him "Dave" or something.
- One explanation for the name of this character is that the scientific name for a species of lionfish is Pterois lunulata. In Japanese, the sound for the hiragana / katakana characters of "ら/ラ" are more of a cross between the English R and L, thus this points to the reason for possibly using Rartorata rather than Rartolata.
