Survive

Survive is a Maximal from the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

As long as I know how to love, I'll always be alive.

When you're a Maximal soldier under the instruction of Survive (サバイブ Sabaibu), you don't just drop and give him twenty, you drop and give him twenty-thousand. In the rain. While he kicks you in the ribs. Then you get up, thank him and ask for another. The most notorious drill instructor in the Maximal Military Academy, the mere utterance of his name is enough to send tremors of awe and terror through any new recruit who hears it. Survive firmly believes that a military unit lives and dies by the quality of its teamwork, and the best way to bond a team of misfits is by making them trudge through Hell together. So give 'em Hell is exactly what Survive does. And he's very good at it.

Naturally, Survive despises Big Convoy, the self-proclaimed "One-Man Army" who eschews teamwork and camaraderie. The two don't get along in the slightest and Survive's animosity toward the solitary Supreme Commander often extends to Big Convoy's recruits, whom he views as the weak result of poor leadership and discipline.

Basically, he's robot bear Sgt. Slaughter. His drone partner in combat is True One.

Fiction

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

Voice actor: Yoshikazu Nagano (Japanese)

Dare! Dare to believe you can be me!

After the defeat of Unicron, Survive returned to Cybertron. There, he fought with Killer Punch. Graduation Ceremony!!

2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity

And you see me, somebody new.

Survive usually took on the rejects of the Maximal Military Academy and whipped them up to shape. Beast Wars Sourcebook #4

Alongside Tasmania Kid and Cohrada, Survive came with Big Convoy to investigate Shokaract's tower after various Angolmois-related murders. When Shokaract himself soon emerged from the tower and attacked them, Survive fought back, but was quickly killed along with his teammates. The Ascending #3

Fortunately, the Pack managed to use the magic of time travel to interrupt Shokaract before Survive and the others met their end at his hands (except Tasmania Kid, who died regardless). In this new timeline, Big Convoy's team traveled to the Pack's crashed starship and had the situation explained to them. With the Pack and several other Maximals and Predacons on their side, Survive and the others ultimately managed to foil Shokaract's plans. The Ascending #4

Beast Wars: Uprising

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!" Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. Then he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth. And then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one. And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a zoo! Unless it's a farm!

Survive was a battle strategist associated with Lio Convoy's Resistance. He organized the third strike on Fortress Maximus, working on a need-to-know basis with Bighorn and Cybershark on using Buzzclaw as their stalking horse to locate Maximus's control chamber. Once Buzzclaw (the obvious choice for Maximus's telepathy to manipulate) was under the influence, a prepared neural spike killed him and sent feedback into Fortress Maximus's cyberdroids, incapacitating the Builder so the Resistance could destroy him. Head Games

Survive remained a general in the Resistance, and led the strike on Fort Myvh to capture the Yuss Naval Batteries on the way to Iacon. His team, the Fighting Quasars, worked with Lio Convoy to secure Goldbug's control chamber as well. At the High Pavilion of Iacon, he helped coordinate the siege on the Builder Assembly. As the Vehicon Apocalypse began, Survive and Direwolf maintained troop discipline and commanding the rear guard during their arrival. Derailment

Toys

Beast Wars

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart.

• Survive (May 2000)
  • ID number: C-39

Part of the fourth wave of Beast Wars Neo toys, Survive is a redeco of Beast Wars Mega Class Polar Claw, transforming into a black bear. Rearing him up on his hind legs in beast mode exposes a pair of nasty-looking fangs.

In robot mode, his beast mode forelegs become shoulder-mounted weapons. His left leg has a spring-loaded attack claw, while his right launches from the shoulder stub and transforms into his bat-partner True One, who can also be used as a hand-held blaster. Survive's robot head has a face on both sides; a normal robot mode one, and a "mutant" face.

This mold was also used to make Grizzly-1/Barbearian.

• More information on Survive at TFU.info

But will I crumble? Will I lay down and die? Oh no not I!

• Roaring Showdown: Survive VS Killer Punch (Mega, 2000)
  • ID number: VS-39

Survive was also available in a "Roaring Showdown" (絶叫の対決 zekkyō no taiketsu) two-pack with the Predacon Killer Punch. Both toys are identical to their individual releases.