Guiledart (BW)

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

No, despite what some people would tell you, Rhinoceros is not really descended from Triceratops.

Guiledart (ガイルダート Gairudāto) is Magmatron’s right hand man and with good reason: He is of the perpetually loyal variety who violently detests traitors. This doesn't mean that he's a sycophantic dullard, however. On the contrary, Guiledart is a master tactician, a ferocious warrior and a stern field commander. Ambitious, Guiledart is always looking to advance in rank, but only through the proper method of accomplishment and recognition (he eschews the typical Predacon shortcut of killing your superior officer and taking their place).

This sense of honor, duty, and fair play (by Predacon standards) has made Guiledart a target for many lower ranking Predacons, who see such qualities as weakness. Those who challenge him soon learn the error of their ways, the hard way, and most of the veteran Predacons know better than to take any shots at the cunning and powerful Triceratops.

In a bizarre example of "opposites attract", the unruly, bratty and conceited DNAVI has fallen head over heels for him, though Guiledart doesn't exactly return the affection.

Fiction

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

Go home and be a family man.

Voice actor: Holly Kaneko (Japanese), Jong-deok An (Korean)

Guiledart was a Triceratops who greeted the Maximals in battle with Magmatron, Sling, Dead End, and Saberback in battle, where his predacons captured the gutless Stampy. He lost because of Big Convoy's brute force and his Big Cannon. Big Convoy, Move Out

IDW Beast Wars comics

Bison's ass is mine!

He's not loyal, he's a distrustful schemer! Shun him! Beast Wars Sourcebook #2

During one of Magmatron's astral journeys to Cybertron's apocalyptic future, Guiledart was seen crushing Halfshell's eye socket, before being choked by the larger Predacon. The Ascending #1

Beast Wars: Uprising

Guiledart was the weapons and senior security specialist aboard the Dinosaur. Borderline insubordinate at the best of times, Guiledart did not appreciate the Builders' command structure of Maximal officers overseeing enlisted Predacons. He frequently disrespected the first officer, Longrack.

When half the crew was dispatched in a shuttle to recover some missing prisoners from planet LGC-8803, the Dinosaur came under attack from an unknown ship. Guiledart commanded the tactical weapons array long enough to drive the attackers off, but the ship suffered serious damage in the process.

Worse, internal strife overtook the ship as well. Word of the Grand Uprising back home had reached the Dinosaur, and the Builder political officer Synapse killed two of the crew trying to contain the information. When Chief Engineer Magmatron reported the circumstances to the bridge, Guiledart immediately signed up for the mutiny against the Builders. Magmatron and Guiledart made their way to the captain's quarters, hoping to disable the living ship's efforts to fight back.

Once they met the captain, however, the Predacons learned he wasn't the problem. Captain Full-Tilt had refused to kill his crew, and so Synapse severed his link to the Dinosaur, really the war criminal Trypticon, so the Megamaster could eliminate the others without interference. Magmatron hooked Full-Tilt back up to the ship, and left Guiledart to protect the captain while the chief engineer tried to salvage the ship and disable the ship's consciousness at the same time.

Guiledart was confronted by Medusa, one of the Destructons who lured them to the planet in the first place. He killed her, but lost an arm in the process and Full-Tilt's life support tubing was severed in the fight. Guiledart was forced to hook himself into the exchange to get the captain back on line and save the tumbling ship.

The Dinosaur would never fly again, but it managed to land with the best of them. Dinosaur City became a new, stable colony on the planet. Once the troops had settled in, Guiledart chose to accompany Magmatron back to Cybertron aboard the shuttle, in order to lend their arms to the Grand Uprising. Intersectionality

Magmatron was welcomed into the Resistance and given command of his comrades as an independent unit, although Lio Convoy named one of his own troops Archadis as Magmatron's second-in-command over Guiledart. During a mission to eliminate the traitor Snapper in Builder custody, Rampage drew Magmatron's unit into a separate struggle between the Terrans and the alien Antares Eight. Afterwards, both the Builders and Resistance forces involved decided to stay together as the Ex-Bots, protectors of Proximax. Archadis refused to abandon the Resistance and departed, restoring Guiledart as Magmatron's official right hand 'bot. Cultural Appropriation

Legends comic

Guiledart of the Legends World was a teacher at the school where Magmatron was the principal. He attended a staff meeting where Big suggested changing the "HR" for "home room" to "TF" for "Transformers". Very Strange

2005 IDW continuity

Are you 'bot enough to fight with me?

Guiledart was one of Onyx Prime's Maximals who fell under the command of Unicron. When Optimus Prime led a force against Unicron to prevent him from eating Caminus, Guiledart was sent out to attack, engaging Javelin. Last Stand

Games

Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars

When the super-powerful Energon Quartz was discovered on Earth, Guiledart was one of the several combatants to join the brawl to take possession of it.

Guiledart could also partake in various other tasks, such as a mission to break a boulder to reveal an energon crystal hidden within before sundown, using a block in a mission to defend himself against various incoming projectiles, and missions to run across a pit-riddled field, sometimes involving hideously large bacteria he had to fend off.

After defeating every opponent that stood in his way, the last of which being Megatron, Guiledart gained possession of the Quartz. He decided not to use it immediately; such a powerful object could be used later during the war as a trump card. Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars

Each character possessed an alternate ending, displayed if the game was beaten with said character. Each character has only their own ending listed on their pages, see the other characters' pages for Guiledart's fate in those outcomes.

Toys

Beast Wars Neo

I said go home to your wife and daughter!

• Guiledart (Deluxe, 1999)
  • ID number: D-29
  • Accessories: Tail Shooter tail launcher, 2 missiles

Guiledart transforms into a mustard-yellow organic Triceratops. As with most of the Beast Wars Neo Destron dinosaurs, he could assume a "Dead Fake Mode" configuration in which he looks like a dead, decomposing Triceratops, complete with rolled-up eyes and tongue sticking out. Really.

In robot mode he's a stocky yet heavily armed little dude. Guiledart is armed with a spring-loaded missile launcher formed out of his removable tail (which also features his spark crystal), with the ammunition projectiles stored in his giant left shoulderpad. His dinosaur forelegs (also on his left shoulderpad) have flip-out, non-firing lasers.

This mold was redecoed as Beast Machines Dinobot Triceradon, Transformers Universe Dinobot Triceradon Walmart-exclusive Dinobots Triceradon, and Age of Extinction Slug. It was also retooled as the Styracosaurus Killer Punch.

• More information on Guiledart at TFU.info

• Showdown in the Savannah: Longrack VS Guiledart (Vs pack, 1999)
  • ID number: VS-29
  • Accessories: Tail launcher, 2 missiles

Guiledart was also available in a two-pack with his Maximal adversary Longrack.

Both toys are identical to their individual-box releases.

Merchandise

Beast Wars Gum

• Guiledart (candy toy, 1999)

A snap together model kit of Guiledart was available as part of Kabaya's Beast Wars Gum, sculpted from blue and yellow plastic. He could transform from robot to beast mode by being broken down into its component parts, then rebuilt into a new mode. It came with a stick of gum.

Notes

• The Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle Complete Manual, the official strategy guide for the Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle video game, romanizes Guiledart's name as "Gayle Dirt".
• The Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation of Guiledart is a "virtual redeco" of the Generations Roadbuster toy.

Foreign names

• Korean: Trikero (트리케로 Teurikero)