Terrorcon (Energon)

The name or term "Terrorcon" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Terrorcon (disambiguation).

The Terrorcons are a Decepticon subgroup from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

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The Terrorcons are a special class of Decepticons. Though some are fully sentient Transformers, the majority are little more than expendable, mass-produced drones. Terrorcon altmodes generally take the form of robotic beasts.

The Terrorcons of the Energon Battles have an unusual ability, shared with the Omnicons, to handle and process raw energon, from which they can create energon weapons or power-booster cells known as Energon stars.

The Terrorcon breeds include:

• Scorponok (leader)
• Battle Ravage
• Blackout
• Command Ravage
• "Command Jaguar Cosmo Type"
• Divebomb
• "Shadowhawk Desert Type"
• Cruellock
• Dinobot Magma Type
• Doom-Lock
• Insecticon
• Chromhorn Forest Type

Fiction

Energon comic

Following the end of the Autobot/Decepticon war, Scorponok organized the Terrorcons as a neo-Decepticon faction bent on restarting the great war. Scorponok made a deal with Alpha Quintesson, in which the group would help the Quintesson to achieve its ends in exchange for Hyper Power abilities drawn from Unicron himself. Through unknown means, the Terrorcons Battle Ravage, Cruellock, Divebomb, and Insecticon were later granted the ability to create mass-produced duplicates of themselves, which could be employed as combat drones.

Known Members:

• Scorponok (leader)
• Battle Ravage
• Cruellock
• Divebomb
• Insecticon
• Tidal Wave

Cartoon continuity

Energon cartoon

The Terrorcons were created out of Unicron's body by Alpha Q; they were the reconstituted form of Planet Q's soldier army, consumed by Unicron. They served as his near-mindless agents of energon collection, gathering more of the magical substance to help repair Unicron. Their natural instinct was to rush headlong, en masse, toward any source of the substance (the human Kicker once used the Terrorcons' energon-sensing capabilities to help locate an energon vein in a mine.) In the early stages of the energon war, the Terrorcons consisted of bird and puma types. Alpha Q eventually devised two additional breeds, the dinosaur and beetle versions.

Scorponok displayed an unusual affinity for the Terrorcons, and generally served as their leader. When he was reprogrammed to serve Megatron, many of the Terrorcons likewise came with him. On at least one occasion, they displayed their loyalty by defending and healing their injured leader.

A handful of Terrorcons displayed the ability to speak. Energon cartoon

Ask Vector Prime

Vector Prime noted that the Terrorcons of Aurex 802.23 Alpha were semi-sparked minions of Quintessons, similar to the Sharkticons and Allicons of the Primax cluster. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/04

Toy bios

Scrapmetal were born from Terrorcon vermin in the depths of Cybertron that were mutated by the black hole threatening the planet. Scrapmetal bio

Toy pack-in comics

The end result of Predacon's experiments with merging techno-organic matter with Mini-Cons, the animalistic Terrorcons broke free from their creator and escaped into the wild. Armada Volume 5

Toys

Energon

Battle Ravage

Scorponok

• Terrorcons (2003-2004)
  • Battle Ravage
  • Command Ravage (Battle Ravage redeco)
  • Divebomb
  • Shadowhawk Cosmo Type (Divebomb redeco)
  • Cruellock
  • Doom-Lock (Cruellock redeco)
  • Dinobot Magma Type (Cruellock redeco)
  • Insecticon
  • Chromhorn Forest Type (Insecticon redeco)

Like their counterparts the Omnicons, the Terrorcons were sold carded at the $7 price point. They transform into mechanical beasts, following an angular, blocky aesthetic more rooted in the style of Generation 1's beasts than the organic styles of more recent toylines. Each comes with an "Energon weapon" made of colored translucent plastic, which uses a standardized peg and hole system to allow multiple attachments and configurations.

• Scorponok (2003)

A much larger toy than the other Terrorcons, sold boxed.

Built to Rule!

• Scorponok

Cybertron

• Dark Scorponok

A redeco of the Scorponok mold.

Merchandise

Attacktix

Dark Scorponok

• Battle Ravage (Booster, 2006)
• Scorponok (Booster, 2006)
• Dark Scorponok (Boooster, 2007) - unreleased

Titaniums

• Scorponok (Robot Master, 2006)

3-D Battle Card Game

• Cruellock (2007)

Notes

• According to Hirofumi Ichikawa, the original idea for the Omnicons and Terrorcons by the design departments of both Hasbro and Takara was for them to be evolved Mini-Cons. This was completely ignored by Takara's marketing department, who were the only people from Takara ever directly talking to We've, so this idea never made it into the Super Link/Energon cartoon, and when Ichikawa found out about that, he never bothered trying to link his Linkage comic and the Super Link cartoon.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Terrorcon (テラーコン Terākon)
• French: Terromodus (Canada)
• Spanish: Terromodus