Thunderhoof (BWU)

This article is about the Beast Wars: Uprising Maximal. For the Robots in Disguise Decepticon, see Thunderhoof (RID).

Thunderhoof is a Maximal from the Beast Wars: Uprising portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Thunderhoof is the leader of the Kospegos. He thinks very highly of himself and doesn't take kindly to anyone doing anything without his approval.

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

In Iacon on a post-war Cybertron, Thunderhoof was a Maximal crime boss who headed the infamous gang known as the Kospegos. He and his enforcer Terrorsaur met with Gnashteeth and Scorponok to discuss selling off a shipment of black-market Energon cubes—Thunderhoof's first two attempts to undersell Gnashteeth's goods were refused, so in return Thunderhoof beat Gnashteeth senseless and blew off his leg, warning him that he had a solar cycle to rethink the offer. It looked like Thunderhoof had the upper hand... until Gnashteeth got his own back by framing the crime boss for burglary and murder of a Builder.

A deca-cycle after being declared Cybertron's most wanted criminal, Thunderhoof was lying low when Gnashteeth sent out another invitation for the disgraced mobster-bot. Hoping to bring this usurper to heel, Thunderhoof and some of his henchmen attended the meeting at the Rust Sea; once there, Gnashteeth mocked the poor treatment of his underlings. Offended, Thunderhoof ordered Terrorsaur and Scavenger to kill the Predacon—only to realize that Gnashteeth had bought their loyalty with a warehouse full of energon. Moments later, Thunderhoof's goons turned on their boss and killed him instead. Identity Politics

2005 IDW continuity

Thunderhoof was one of Onyx Prime's Maximals. When this bestial horde invaded Cybertron, he was one of the many warriors who wound up battling Arcee. Endless Forever

Toys

For further information, see: Thunderhoof (RID)#Toys

Notes

• As opposed to being a Predacon to match his original counterpart's villainous Decepticon faction, the Uprising version of Thunderhoof is a Maximal per the (loose) Beast Wars tradition of mammalian alt-modes being Maximals.