Waspinator (BW)
- Waspinator is a Predacon in the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Waspinator is the universe's chewtoy. If something goes wrong, it happens to him. If something blows up, he'll be blasted into his component parts. He also doesn't talk very well (he has a problem with pronouns), so he's easy to make fun of. Megatron has classified the hairbrained Predacon as expendable, much to Waspinator's dismay. Waspinator's not stupid, and has caught on to his lot in life, and tries to avoid his fate as often as possible, but fate always finds him. Thankfully, Waspinator is almost supernaturally durable, and has survived the most devastating and humiliating of defeats. Whether this is a boon or a curse is anyone's guess.
Spanish name: Avispón
French name: Bourdon, Bizznator
Italian name: Punginator
Japanese name: Waspitar
Fiction
Animated continuity
Timelines: Dawn of Future's Past
While Megatron, his lieutenant, and another underling stole a Maximal relic, the Golden Disk, the Predacon who would later name himself Waspinator stole a ship along with an accomplice he nicknamed "Beakbot." The two had a contest to name the ship, but "Waspinator" lost, and thus the stolen ship was dubbed Darksyde. "Waspinator" believed Buzzerbot would have been a better name.
After escaping Cybertron, the Darksyde was intercepted by the Axalon and the Chromia 10, but after an intense space battle, only the Darksyde and the Axalon remained. Megatron ordered "Waspinator" to execute their planned transwarp jump, opening up a portal which both ships entered.
Beast Wars
- Voice Actor: Scott McNeil (US), Kensō Katō (Japan)
Waspinator, part of Megatron's rogue band of Predacons, landed on an unknown planet with dangerous levels of unstable energon. To protect themselves from the energon, the Predacons took organic beast modes. In Waspinator's case, he now transformed into a large green wasp. The first conflict between the stranded Predacons and their Maximal pursuers came when the Maximal Cheetor stumbled across Waspinator.
Dark DesignsOptimus Primal, victim of a virus that turned him into a berserker, stormed through the Predacon base. Waspinator received a concussion, and he flew around in a daze, claiming to be the Insecticon Shrapnel.
PossessionThe Ghost of Starscream travelled through time and possessed his body.
Coming of the Fuzors, part 1After the aliens detonate the unstable energon using the second moon, Waspinator is the first to realize that this seemingly unknown planet is, in fact, Earth. Dinobot has made the same realization and steals into the Darksyde to retrieve both of Megatron's disks. In the process, Waspinator is crushed into a cube by the disks' security contraption.
Tired of being the butt of everyones jokes, Waspinator rips off his Predacon symbol and leaves the Predacons and remains on Earth while all the other surviving Transformers set off for Cybertron.
Tales of the Beast Wars comics
Beast Machines
Sadly, for Waspinator, the Protohumans he had ruled over grew tired of his presence and forced him to leave the planet and return to Cybertron under his own power. There his spark was removed and used to power the Vehicon general, Thrust. He was discovered by Blackarachnia after she thought he was Silverbolt. Waspinator returned in the finale as in his beast mode with Thrust's head, and the size of a standard wasp. He complains to Rattrap about how much he wanted glory and power, but Rattrap simply swats him away.
Beast Wars: Transmetals (N64 & PSX)
- Voice Actor: Scott McNeil (US), ??? (Japan)
In an alternate timeline, Transmetal Waspinator joins his fellow Predacons in distributing various one-on-one beat downs to the Maximals.
Legends anthology
Toys
Beast Wars
- Waspinator
- Japanese ID number: D-03
- Waspinator (Transmetal)
- Japanese ID number: D-42
- Waspinator (Fox Kids)
- Waspinator (Fox Kids Transmetal)
- Waspinator (Tenth Anniversary)
Timelines
- Darksyde Megatron and Darksyde Waspinator (Bagged souvenir set, BotCon 2006)
