Preditron
| This article is about the Generation 1 character. For the Go-Bots character sometimes named Preditron, see Beast-Bot. |
- Preditron is a Decepticon or Predacon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Preditron's nature varies. In some universes, he's a Decepticon Warlord who leads the Destrongers based in Kaon. He is known to be very loud when arguing, but isn't all that ferocious and is quite moderate. His mood even verges on the childish at points.
In others, he's the first Predacon, who wrote the Predacon Manifesto, and is big on honor and loyalty and dying in glorious combat. He even thinks well of Maximals, which probably has something to do with why the other members of the Tripredacus Council hate his circuits. Not that there's any love lost there, Preditron disliking them for taking his words and twisting them to their own purposes.
Fiction
Wings Universe
Faced with an increasing threat from the Elite Guard, the warlords began organizing into a war council to pool their resources. During one meeting, they reviewed footage of the Elite Guard wiping out some of Megatron's men. Straxus and Shockwave noted that the Guard would hound the Decepticons to the last man, Preditron demanded to know if the pair thought the Decepticons should cower from their foe. Straxus responded by making veiled threats. At the next meeting of the council, Deathsaurus sent along his lieutenant, Falcon, with a box containing an important message. The message turned out to be a bomb, which killed the council members present. A Team Effort
INSIRT continuity
Preditron's memories were stored at the Vestigial Cortical Complex alongside those of Bloodron, Ragnarok, and Verminator. Timeless
Beast Wars: Uprising
Preditron was the first Predacon, and the one who wrote the Predacon Manifesto. He knew Maxima, the first Maximal, and ascribed her as his inspiration to write the manifesto in the first place, and eventually regretted being forced into being her enemy. The Predacon Manifesto He also knew Silver Bolt, and Tigatron, the former since they were practically forged together, the later when he founded the Tripredacus Council, Derailment and was later usurped. He was kept prisoner within Fortress Maximus till he was freed by Lio Convoy's forces. Head Games Over the next two stellar cycles, he became close comrades with Cheetor, and came to find Lio Convoy a stuffed shirt. When the Beast Upgrade spread over Cybertron, Preditron adopted a jurassanoid alternate mode. When the news came out about the Tripedacus Council forming the Independent Predacus States, Preditron was ambivalent, not feeling the council were up to the task of leadership.
While Preditron and Cheetor were on assignment near Valvolux, Preditron grumbled about not being able to take part in the actual fighting. Following that, the two travelled to Safe Zone Alpha Two, a Resistance base in Protihex, where they met up with the local commander, a Maximal named Ikard. The meeting didn't go too well, as Ikard revealed they'd been forcing captive Micromasters to fight in their own version of the Games, something that both of them took exception to. Once left alone, Cheetor vowed to stop it, with Preditron advising him to contact Resistance High Command, while he approached it from a different angle.
Said angle was the Predacon Ser-Ket. After tracking her down to her quarters, he had a spark-to-spark about her, having determined she was what he felt was a true Predacon. He pressed her, inquiring about her history, telling her she reminded him of Maxima herself, and told her they had the chance to set things right. As he left to meet up with Cheetor, he came under attack from Gaidora. The two fought claw-to-claw, only to be ambushed by the Predacon's superior, Ikard, who made note to put him with the POWs for the next day's game. When he came to, it was in a cell, near ones filled with bickering Micromasters. Not exactly welcomed warmly by his fellow inmates, he determined he had become inconvenient to the Resistance. He managed to convince the groups to listen to him and go along with a plan of his, to refuse to fight when the time came, make the crowd try to kill them and realize what they'd become.
The next day, things didn't go well, some of the Decepticon prisoners not trusting the plan. So Preditron reassured them by saying he had people on the outside. Fifteen cycles into the game, he stumbled upon Roadhandler's corpse. As he did, he also found Torque, in much worse shape than the night before and muttering about a new upgrade, as his body forcibly altered itself, followed by Roadhandler's body reviving and altering itself too. He managed to destroy what had once been Roadhandler, but Torque overpowered him, and nearly killed him before the timely arrival of Ser-Ket. She informed him there were more of the creatures, and by the time they'd gotten to the edge of the arena, the creatures were spreading among the crowd. Preditron volunteered to form a perimeter between the creatures and the crowds, but it swiftly turned out to be a moot point, as hundreds more burst into the arena. Fortunately, the three were able to buy enough time for everyone not infected to get free. Once done, Cheetor mentioned Lio Convoy was apparently behind Preditron's attempted assassination. Preditron just retorted that Lio's priorities were about to change. Safe Spaces
As the Vehicon Apocalypse unfolded, Preditron, Cheetor and Ser-Ket fled on the Star Dasher. Cheetor's suggestion was to head to the Maximal Nation, over Ser-Ket's decision for them to go to "their own kind". Preditron felt going near the 'bots who wanted him dead wasn't practical. Despite some fire as they entered Tyrest, they managed to get in safely after proving they weren't Vehicons. On arrival they made their way to the Maximal High Council to inform them of what was happening, Preditron defending Cheetor's character in his own unique way, as well as pointing out neither the Resistance or the IPS wanted him, so he spoke for neither faction. Afterward, he took a shuttle back to the Predacus States with Sky Shadow.
He wound up at Nova Cronum, as the Predacon advance on the Grand Mal, the heart of the Vehicon machine, was going badly. Taking command, he gave a stirring speech that roused the battered soldiers back into action. Unfortunately, this drew the attention of the Tripredacus Council, who came out from their secure bunker to meet with Preditron personally in their combined form. They demanded he surrender to them, and Preditron refused. He tried to fight combiner, but his raw strength was no match for Tripredacus, and he was beaten to death.
On the upside, Cicadacon and Sea Clamp didn't last long enough to enjoy what they'd done, since the former was killed by a vengeful Ser-Ket, and latter by a disgruntled Ram Horn. He was used as an example to rally the remnants of the Predacon troops in the violent battle that followed. Derailment
Preditron was eventually honored by the Preditron-class space ships, one of which was the Rusty Mace. The Inexorable March
Toys
Armada
- Predacon with Side Burn and Skid-Z (Max-Con, 2003)
- Accessories: Tail/whip
- Predacon is a retool of the Beast Wars Transmetal Megatron mold, transforming from a metallic T. rex to a robot mode with organic-looking parts; his T. rex mode has a third "flight" configuration. Two Mini-Con Powerlinx plugs were also added at the hubs of his turbine fans, as well as the parts that become his robot-mode shoulder-armor. He is one of only two Armada toys to be released with two Mini-Con partners (the other being Sideways); he came with Side Burn and Skid-Z.
- In an undocumented bit of extra play value, Predacon can attach energon stars to the outside of his legs (though the original Megatron toy cannot, as the corresponding part is too small on that version of the mold).
- Predacon was released in Japan as a "USA Edition" exclusively through ToysЯUs's web site.
Notes
- The original Wings Universe incarnation of Preditron was written with the intent as the Go-Bots character imported into G1.[1]
- The artwork seen at the top of this article depicts Preditron in a color scheme based more closely on the unfinished deco seen in Armada Predacon's stock photography instead of the finalized deco of the actual toy (though the two aren't terribly different). This was very probably a result of TFWiki, for the longest time, using said stock photography instead of in-hand photos of the real toy to visually represent the Armada Predacon toy. Whoops.
