Tyrant Spear

The Tyrant Spear (タイラントスピア Tairanto Supia) is the blade of choice for tyrants. At least some versions come with the ability to zap targets with electricity.

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Legends comic

Constructing a new BlackZarak transtector in the Legends World, Scorponok appropriately outfitted it with a new Tyrant Spear. Bonus Edition Vol. EX

Beast Wars: Uprising

The Tyrant Spear was a pre-Great War dagger that belonged to the former gladiator Double Punch, displayed in the collection of his postwar Builder-era mansion. When Double Punch's Predacon protégé Gnashteeth usurped his Decepticon master, Gnashteeth appropriated the dagger, which functioned as a spear in the smaller proto-former's hands. Firing 50,000 volts from the spear, the newly-renamed "Megatron" completed his coup by executing Double Punch. Identity Politics

Rising to leader of the planet-spanning crime syndicate the Darksyders, Gnashteeth employed his double-bladed spear to good use. In a failed experiment to perfect the Beast Upgrade, Megatron killed a misshapen Overbite by plunging the Tyrant Spear through Overbite's spark. Not All Megatrons

Toys

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

• BlackZarak (Headmaster, 1988)
  • ID number: D-311

Masterforce BlackZarak comes with one major new accessory—his red, two-piece "Tyrant Spear", which he can hold in robot mode.

• More information on BlackZarak at TFU.info

Combiner Wars

"Not sure that is a spear. More of a letter opener, really."

• Megatron (BotCon 2016 souvenir)

Released as a souvenir figure for BotCon 2016, Combiner Wars Megatron is a redeco/retool of the 2001 Robots in Disguise Ultra Class Megatron/Galvatron mold.

The Beast Wars: Uprising prose stories described Megatron's staff as a version of the Tyrant Spear. Said staff is assembled from two missile launchers, which can also be held individually in Megatron's hands.

This mold was also used to make the weapon for Timelines Deathsaurus.

War for Cybertron Trilogy

• Black Roritchi (Deluxe Class, 2020)
  • ID number: WFC-GS22

A Generations Selects add-on to Earthrise, Black Roritchi is a minor retooling of Fasttrack.

As a Weaponizer-styled figure, Black Roritchi transforms via part-forming into a six-wheeled Cybertronian buggy-tank with twin blasters.

Being a Weaponizer, Black Roritchi can become armaments for other figures. The instructions include two official configurations: the first is a massive spear meant to be held by the larger Scorponok, inspired by (though not visually based on) Black Zarak's Tyrant Spear. However, this mode doesn't incorporate Black Roritchi's upper torso piece. The second option configures Black Roritchi into a set of massive over-shoulder cannons meant to attach to smaller figures, with his vehicle cockpit and dagger also combining to form a bladed shield. Both modes are shown in the instructions being used by fellow Selects release Exhaust, which is pretty funny given Roritchi's spear mode is about three times Exhaust's height.

Generations Selects

• Black Zarak (Titan Class, 2021)

Despite the above Black Roritchi toy, Generations Selects Black Zarak, a retool of Earthrise Titan Class Scorponok, comes with a new Tyrant Spear accessory, which can separate into three pieces for scorpion mode storage.

Notes

• If the inclusion of Beast Wars: Uprising Megatron's weapon on this page seems puzzling, remember that Uprising is full of networked homages. The original Double Punch toy was inspired by Generation 1 Scorponok, whose variant form BlackZarak included the original Tyrant Spear. In turn, Uprising Double Punch was the owner of his reality's Tyrant Spear before Megatron the Younger stole it.
• The Tyrant Spear in the Legends manga is a "virtual redeco" of the trident that came with Hunt for the Decepticons Deluxe Class Terradive.