Cybershark
- Cybershark is a Maximal from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Cybershark is a skilled tracker and expert in undersea combat. More, he's renowned throughout the galaxy as a swashbuckling hero. Brave, adventurous, kind, and good-humored, he has fought for freedom across a hundred alien seas and left behind stories and legends wherever he passed. Though not particularly bright in a general sense he can be quite calculating when it comes to tracking down his prey, and is a fearless fighter in the cause of good. He honed his skills as a bounty hunter spending centuries tracking down a rogue group of Cybertronian space pirates. Though dedicated to the Maximals, and quite adept at rallying others to join the fight for a good cause, Cybershark is more of a lone adventurer than a team player. Ironically this often puts him at odds with his commander, the likewise independent Depth Charge.
Fiction
3H comics
During the final battle with Shokaract, several realities converged into a single, apocalyptic timestorm. Beast Warriors from alternate realities emerged, including Cybershark, B'Boom, Drill Bit, Transquito, Air Hammer, Polar Claw, and unidentified others, though all of them were summarily defeated. Terminus
IDW Beast Wars comics
Cybershark hunted the Seacons for centuries. Along the way, his underwater activities have spread legends of his heroism to the alien populations on the planets he visited. Beast Wars Sourcebook #1
Cybershark was one of the protoform stasis pods jettisoned from the Maximal survey vessel Axalon when it was forced to crash-land on prehistoric Earth. The Predacon general Magmatron led a small group (that included the Maximal agent Razorbeast) back in time to place these protoforms into chronal phase and reprogram them into Predacons, and lead this army against the Maximals in the present. However, Razorbeast placed a viral code in Magmatron's Predacon shell program, allowing a number of the protoforms to retain their Maximal identity. The Gathering #1
Accompanied by Claw Jaw, Cybershark sped towards Razorbeast and the small group of new Maximals accompanying him. The Gathering #2 He and a phalanx of other Maximals finally reached them, just in time to fight off an army of Predacons. In the subsequent battle, Cybershark tangled with Razorclaw before the united Maximals drove off the Predacons. The Gathering #4
A deca-cycle after the marooned Maximals sent their distress call, help still hadn't shown up. Cybershark was one of those on hand when their makeshift base was attacked by the entire Predacon militia. He was on the front line of the defense and was the first to notice that it was, indeed, an all-out assault. The Ascending #1 Later, Cybershark and the other wounded Beast Warriors remained behind on ancient Earth after Lio Convoy took the rest of their forces into the future to battle Shokaract. He rallied the Maximals and Predacons to stop the threat of the Blendtrons, but the final fate of these lost warriors is unknown. The Ascending #4
He was badly damaged in battle and, in an emergency procedure, his spark was transferred to a blank protoform. This blank had been exposed to the Transmetal driver and so he emerged as a Transmetal 2 great white shark and found himself gifted with more powerful weapons and the limited ability to fly at low altitude. Beast Wars Sourcebook #1
Beast Wars: Uprising
Cybershark was part of Lio Convoy's Resistance, believing that the Builders of Cybertron would only ever respond to violence. He was part of a plot to raid the Fortress Maximus prison. As two previous attempts had been obliterated by Cerebros's psychic attacks, they hit on a plan to send in a patsy who Cerebros would psychically hack; when the patsy was then killed, Cerebros would fall.
Cybershark found such a patsy in one-time game winner Buzzclaw and lied to him and Ser-Ket that the resistance wanted them as leaders. He led a team into Maximus, all of whom knew the real plan except the newbies, and as soon as Buzzclaw was compromised Cybershark took him out. Later, he expressed confusion that Ser-Ket was so angry and didn't understand why they had sacrificed Buzzclaw. Head Games
As the war pressed on, Cybershark remained one of Lio Convoy's chief advisors and coordinators. He retained his cold dedication to winning the war at all costs. When the Vehicon Apocalypse first began and Lio Convoy proposed Operation Amputation to completely wipe out and cauterize the infected cities, Cybershark was the only member of High Command to immediately agree.
With the Vehicons imposing on Resistance territory to an insurmountable degree, Lio Convoy ordered an immediate push towards Iacon itself and the Builder Assembly. Cybershark and Scylla coordinated the Resistance navy in passing the Yuss Straits, in hopes of bringing the fleet up the Great Rust Sea to the shores of Iacon itself. Using the Beast Upgrade to work above and below the waves, they devastated the Builder fleet. A kamikaze strike by the Builder flagship Tidal Wave, however, destroyed Scylla and the flagship Broadside. Scylla handed command of the fleet to Cybershark and charged him with locating any survivors. The fleet provided artillery support to the marching Army of the Resistance as they followed the Trannis Fork River to Iacon. Cybershark was missing and presumed dead when the fleet fell to the Vehicon advance. Derailment
Ten thousand years later, "Ciphershark" was remembered as a ruthless black-ops director with no regard for his enemies or those under his command. Sounds about right. Lio Convoy: Unity Through Tyranny
Commercial appearances
Cybershark emerged from the water, transforming in mid-air to land in robot mode on the shoreline. He then launched his shark head from his chest cannon, before advancing and brandishing his tail/switchblade menacingly. Cybershark and Inferno commercial
Toys
Beast Wars
- Cybershark (Deluxe, 1997)
- Japanese ID number: C-11
- Accessories: Tail-blade, hammerhead-missile, 2 missiles
- Cybershark transforms into a silver-blue and green hammerhead shark and incorporates two spring-loaded gimmicks; the "hammer" portion of the shark head fires like a missile, and the tail includes a spring-loaded switchblade weapon. Both weapons are usable in robot mode; the tail-blade becomes a hand-held weapon, while the missile launcher flips up from his chest. His shark-head missile can be held as a melee weapon. Two "normal" missiles for his launcher are stored in his back behind his head. These projectiles have molded, but unpainted, shark face decoration on their warheads, and can be hand-held like the shark-head missile.
- This mold was retooled to make Hellscream and Universe version of Generation 1 Overbite, and retooled separately to make Sharp Edge.
- Cybershark vs Inferno: Hell Showdown (Vs pack, 1997)
- Japanese ID number: VS-11
- Accessories: Tail-blade, hammerhead-missile, 2 missiles
- In Japan, Cybershark was available both separately and in a "Hell Showdown" vs. pack with Inferno. Both toys are identical to their individual Japanese releases.
- Cybershark (Transmetal 2 Mega, 1999)
- Accessories: Twin launcher, 2 missiles
- Transmetal 2 Cybershark transforms into a silver, grey, chrome turquoise, and moss-green shark. Unlike the rest of the Transmetal 2's whose beast mode species are ambiguous, Cybershark's beast mode is clearly based on the great white shark. Two panels flip out to reveal a "flight mode", and his tail has a gear system that spins the fins like a propeller when a wheel in his side is turned. This system becomes his right arm, forming a spinning claw weapon, named the Spin-Drive Tail by his packaging. He also has a double spring-loaded missile launcher concealed in his shark mouth that doubles as a hand weapon, known as his jaw-mounted Tracer Torpedoes. Many of his ball-jointed parts are prone to popping off, particularly during transformation.
- This toy's packaging featured a character quote in the bio profile — the first time this popular feature had returned to the packaging since the end of the Generation 2 toyline four years earlier.
- This mold was also used to make Sky-Byte.
Notes
- Hammerstrike's Beast Machines bio shares similarities to Cybershark's Beast Wars bio, implying that the two are the same character. Subsequent fiction has not taken this as the case.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Cybershark (サイバーシャーク Saibāshāku)
- French: Cybersquale (Canada, "Cybershark")
- Italian: Squalo Tigre
- Spanish: Ciberón
