Pit (BW)
The Pit, also known as the Inferno, is a place referred to by Transformers in their exclamations.
Fiction
Beast Wars cartoon continuity
Timelines
The Pit was a facility that created Predacon protoforms. The Razor's Edge
Beast Wars cartoon
Prime cartoon
A Vehicon called the Insecticons "Pit-bound scavengers". Hurt
Animated cartoon continuity
Kup referred to "the Pit-damned Fallen" while describing the flames on Rodimus's chest. The AllSpark Almanac II
Behind the scenes
While outlining the Beast Wars cartoon, Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio created the made-up curse "By the Inferno" so the bad guys could swear. This was changed to "By the Pit" to avoid confusion when a Predacon named Inferno was added to the cast. Having made the Matrix dimension an analogue to Heaven, they made the Inferno/Pit their Hell.
The Beast Wars series bible included two facilities that created protoforms, the Matrix for the Maximals and the Pit for the Predacons[1] These were never mentioned in the series, but were mentioned in an offhand line in the Fun Publications story "The Razor's Edge", written more than a decade after the cartoon ended.
