Graysharp
- Graysharp is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.
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Graysharp (グレイシャープ Gureishāpu) isn't one to look back. Reigning as King of Petra, he's a cheerful, go-getting sort who's always looking to the future, always wanting to keep up with the latest news from across the planet. This can give him a bit of tunnel vision, plus his impulsiveness does sometimes lead him to act without thinking. Thankfully, his ever-patient subordinate Emperor Grayox can reign him in most of the time.
There is one area where Graysharp's always-forward philosophy is definitely not in effect... he's big into disco. No, really. He loves it, and has become quite the dancer, putting his fancy footwork to use tearing up the dance floor.
In battle, he naturally specializes in ramming attacks. Once he gets a good football-style run going, he can move at 10 meters a second, but is still nimble enough to juke to the sides to dodge attacks and obstacles that might trip him up. The end result of this charge is an absolutely devastating collision that can take down opponents many times his size, and if he doubles up with Grayox in a doubled-up ram attack, there's little that can stand in their way. And when he isn't smashing headfirst into things, his Sharpner (シャープナー Shāpunā) blade can create a web of laser beams around it to slice through even the hardest rock.
Fiction
Mini Mayhem!
When Galvatron unleashed Predaking, boasting that the gestalt's combined animal strength was unparalleled, Graysharp and his allies stood united to prove him wrong. Mini Mayhem!
Toys
Transformers: Beastformers
- Graysharp (Beastformer, 1987)
- Beast ID number: 9
- Accessories: Blade-weapon
- Part of the first series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Graysharp is an anthropomorphic black rhinoceros (as in, the species called "black rhinoceros", not a black-colored rhinoceros) with yellow robotic armor. His left arm ends in a spiked mace ball. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.
- He was re-released in the subsequent second and third series; while the toy proper was not changed, the packaging and packed-in bio card was. The Series 1 release comes in a generic red-grid "Cybertron Beastformer" box, with a red-grid bio card with a painted character image on the front, though there was a random chance of his card being replaced by the rare "Holography Mirror" card. Series 2 came in a green-grid generic "Cybertron Beastformer" box, with the bio card putting the painted image on a jungle backdrop. Series 3's box was unchanged, but the bio card replaced the painted image with a simpler line-art image, first used in Hasbro's Battle Beasts cast poster. In the green-box releases, depending on the "Pack" he came in, there was a chance of his bio card being replaced with a rare "Secret Photo", "Bewitching Serpent Seal", or "VS Holography Mirror" card.
Beastformers
- Graysharp (Beastformer, 1988)
- Beast ID number: 9
- Accessories: "Sharpner" MVP Weapon
- Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Graysharp was given a straight re-release with new packaging and a new, more filled-out bio card with corrected coloring. This new card also gave his weapon, now branded an "MVP Weapon", the name "Sharpner".
- The initial early releases of this series had the chance for any Beastformer to have the rare Burstsun symbol; we'll probably never know if Graysharp was ever actually one of them. Later in the run, the "mood ring" styled rubsigns were replaced with new rubsigns that revealed full-color Fire/Wood/Water images on black backdrops. (These rubsign variants also happened at the same time in the Hasbro Battle Beast version of the line.)
Notes
- Graysharp is likely to have also been released as a gashapon toy with accompanying white/cream version, but it has not been confirmed.
- His 1988 bio card gives him the nickname "Sharp" (シャープ Shāpu) and notes he was born on the Petra Peninsula.
Foreign names
- English: Rocky Rhino
