Sling (BW)

This article is about the Beast Wars Neo Predacon. For the Age of Extinction Mini-Con, see Sling (AOE).

Sling is a Predacon from the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

For crying out loud! I'm not a dinosaur! I'm not even an actual reptile! I'm a mammal ancestor. Damn it, why does no one read the literature!?

Nobody likes Sling (スリング Suringu). Nobody. Sling is what you would call a dork or a geek or a spaz or a loser. Take your pick; he's all that and more. His high-pitched, cackling voice is often cited as a reason so many Predacons find him painfully obnoxious to be around, but the well runs deeper than that. Sling can't do anything right and he's utilized in the most limited capacity by his commanding officers. The other Predacons take any opportunity they can get to mock and deride the scrawny dimetrodon, especially Saberback (who bullies him relentlessly) and DNAVI (who tries repeatedly to abandon him on alien planets).

Sling takes all this abuse like a whiney middle schooler. "Come on, guys!" "Stop it!" "That isn't funny!" "I'm telling Guiledart!" There's a chance Sling may snap someday, but considering his ultimate special attack involves disguising himself as a flower in an attempt to ambush anybody who comes along to sniff him... Yeah, nobody's very concerned about that.

Fiction

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

See? I look like a chimpanzee.

Voice actor: Monster Maezuka (Japanese)

TransTech

Sling was killed with a pipe in a skirmish with Bulletbike after the latter woke up in an Offworld zone. I, Lowtech

Beast Wars: Uprising

Sling was a member of the Resistance assigned to work with Magmatron and the crew of the Dinosaur after they returned from space and declared for the Resistance. He and the new second-in-command Archadis still remained outsiders among Magmatron's close knit unit, however. When Magmatron and the others chose to abandon the Resistance and join the Ex-Bots in Proximax, Sling and Archadis returned to the Resistance. Cultural Appropriation

Transformers Legends comic

A host at a show, Sling saw a familiar truck appear announced to the audience that Optimus Prime had come to visit, unaware that it was actually Ginrai. Bonus Edition Vol. 35

Toys

Beast Wars Neo

I am a pretty pretty flower.

• Sling (Basic, 1999)
  • Japanese ID number: D-31

Sling transforms into an organic Dimetrodon. His back-sail can open up to form a spring-loaded bear-trap-like "flower", for what is ostensibly a distinct disguise mode. This assembly becomes a shield in robot mode.

This mold was later used to make the Walmart-exclusive Dinobots Sludge.

• More information on Sling at TFU.info

You could call this set "Coward vs Loser", and no-one would disagree with you.

• Grasslands Showdown: Stampy VS Sling (Multi-pack, 1999)
  • Japanese ID number: VS-31

Sling was also available in a two-pack with the Maximal Stampy. Both toys are identical to their single-pack releases.

Notes

Foreign names

• Korean: Dimetron (디메트론 Dimeteuron)