Popular beast alternate modes

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Earth is a planet literally teeming with organic life forms. Millions of genera, of all shapes and sizes, inhabit the planet, and a Cybertronian might scan any of them for a potential alternate mode. Some genera, however, are extremely popular with Cybertronians.

MediaWiki has certain requirements for an animal to be listed here. There must be at least three unique toy molds (or in-fiction appearances, in the case of non-toy bodies/characters) that share the beast mode. There must also be at least one unique character per mold—a single character getting numerous revamps in similar bodies over the years would not count as a "popular mode."

Each mold is listed on its own line, with all different-character decoes/retools on the same line. The list is (more or less) organized in chronological order of toy release or fictional appearance.

See also: Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes, Non-vehicle non-beast alternate modes, General Motors

Arthropods

Arachnids

Spiders

Black Widow Spiders (Latrodectus mactans)

Scorpions

Willing to trade his bee for a city mode.

Crustaceans

Crabs

When all the world is metrosexual, the Crab People will finally reign supreme!

Insects

Stag beetles (family Lucanidae)

Not Pinsir.

Scarabs and rhinoceros beetles (family Scarabaeidae)

Grasshoppers and locusts (order Caelifera)

Wasps and ants (order Hymenoptera)

A rare shot of Waspinator not getting blown up.

Mantises (order Mantodea)

Dragonflies (order Odonata)

Mythical creatures

Moonlights as a Yu-Gi-Oh! card.

Fishes

Chondrichthyes

Rays

Manta Ray (Manta birostris)

Starring in the next Shark Attack movie.

Sharks

Hammerhead shark (genus Sphyrna and others)

Reptiles

Crocodylians

Don't flush him down the toilet.

American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

Lizards

Snakes

Cobras (genus Naja and others)

Turtles

Snapping turtles (genera Chelydra and Macroclemmys)

Dinosaurs

Ankylosaurs

Brontosaurus[1]

Stegosaurus

"Slag stole my name." :'(

Styracosaurus

Triceratops

Tyrannosaurus

"Down, Dino. Down, boy! Down, boy! Down!!"

Velociraptor

Pterosaurs

Pteranodon

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Won't you, take me, on your mighty wings...

Birds

Condors (genera Vultur and Gymnogyps)

Eagles (order Accipitriformes)

Hawks and falcons (order Falconiformes)

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's both!

Owls (order Strigiformes)

Synapsids

Dimetrodon

Mammals

Bats

He tried to get a recurring role in Batman Beyond.

Rabbits

Bovids

Not a Terror dog, we swear.

Canines

Wolves / Dogs (Canis lupus)

Timber from G.I. Joe Crossovers...if such a toyline existed.

Elephants/Mammoths

Equines

Felines

Jaguars (Panthera onca)

Tigers (Panthera tigris)

Tigertron after visiting a tanning salon.

Lions (Panthera leo)

Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)

Primates

Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla)

Humans (Homo sapiens)

"I'm not an animal! I'm a human being Pretender shell!"

Rhinos

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Just when you thought a rhino's skin couldn't get any tougher,...

Ursines

Bears (genus Ursus)

Whales

References

  1. Due to the changing classification status of various fossils, these molds may have been described as either Brontosaurus or Apatosaurus at the time of release.