Cheetor (BW)
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- Cheetor is a Maximal from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Cheetor is full of youthful overconfidence. He's also the fastest Maximal on four legs which, combined with his impulsive nature, often gets him into more trouble than he can handle. It's needless to say that Cheetor's overbearing enthusiasm gets on the nerves of some of his teammates, Rattrap in particular. He's in those awkward formative years. Thankfully, Optimus Primal keeps a steady eye on the young Maximal. In return, Cheetor has grown to idolize Primal, whom he calls "Big Bot". Optimus Primal knows the inexperienced Cheetor needs a good role model, so he doesn't mind too much. And, hey, at spark he's a good kid. Just... keep him away from Dinobot, okay? Impressionable minds, and all. And Matrix help us when Cheetor gets past his "cooties" stage and notices Blackarachnia.
Cheetor also appears to have vague precognitive skills, sensing important events before they actually happen — usually in the form of ominous dreams. With such power and potential, who knows—maybe the lad is destined for great things someday.
Fiction
Toy bios
Cheetor was a quiet and confident warrior, who constantly stalked jungles in his search for Predacons. He was efficient, striking hard and fast with incredible reflexes in either mode. He was known to openly dare Predacons to challenge him and his laser-powered quasar cannon. Cheetor Bio
In a swamp outside the Fusion Building genetics lab, a fleet of ferocious animals has gathered. Suddenly, the cheetah and his wild comrades are under attack by a massive alligator! Surprise! This is a battle between Optimus Primal and his Maximals and Megatron's Predacons! Cheetor quickly transforms to attack Waspinator, and the Beast Wars have begun! Optimus Primal vs Megatron!
After the quantum surge, Cheetor acquired a Transmetal form that gave his robot mode the organic attributes that his beast mode once possessed. The upgrade gave Cheetor more power and agility than ever before, and this new body had flip-out cyber-thrust wings that gave him additional speed and limited flight. Transmetals Cheetor bio
Cheetor would later receive another upgrade from Megatron's cloning experiments, becoming a Transmetal 2. With this, he gained even more power and speed, but at the cost of bestial urges that he had to learn to control. With his new missile launcher and leap-thruster, Cheetor stirred fear in the Predacons he fought against. Transmetals 2 Cheetor bio
At some point, Cheetor acquired a highly advanced stealth armor and dubbed himself Night Slash Cheetor. This new armor granted Cheetor all sort of new abilities, including being undetectable to every known Vehicon radar and tracking systems and creating a negative psychological effects on Vehicon generals, rendering their drones useless in combat. Considering the armor was never mentioned elsewhere, it would seem to have been a short-lived upgrade. Night Slash Cheetor bio
Beast Wars cartoon continuity
Beast Wars cartoon
- Voice actor: Ian James Corlett (English), Wataru Takagi (Japanese), Yao Jude (Chinese), Mikhail Tihonov (Russian, 2nd dub), Cássius Romero (Portuguese, Season 1), Tatá Guarnieri (Portuguese, Season 2 onwards), Bernard Métraux (French), Eberhard Haar (German), Mario Scarabelli (Italian), Alejandro Illescas (Latin American Spanish), Eduardo Jover (Casilian Spanish)
After the Axalon crash-landed on a mysterious planet, the most youthful crew member of the disabled ship chose a cheetah as his new beast form. After admiring his new appearance, he renamed himself Cheetor. While the other Maximals were unpacking, Cheetor decided to show off, racing after some cheetahs. He soon encountered Waspinator, and opened fire, but found himself outclassed(!). The rest of the Maximals and Predacons turned up, and Cheetor cut off Megatron's speech with a "treacherous underhanded sneak attack". A full battle ensued, during which Cheetor's foot became caught in some rocks, and he had to be rescued by Optimus. Beast Wars (Part 1)
When Dinobot challenged Optimus to a duel, Cheetor was keen to take out the Predacon himself, and had to be restrained from joining the fight. After the battle was interrupted by the other Predacons, a huge energon crystal was revealed in a nearby mountain, and the Maximals rushed there to try to prevent the Predacons claiming it for themselves. With the massive amount of energy there, they were forced to fight in their beast modes, though it did give Cheetor the opportunity to try to settle the score with Waspinator. Ultimately, the energon was all destroyed. Beast Wars (Part 2)
Cheetor enthusiastically volunteered to check out a new experimental comlink. Despite being under orders not to get into any combat situations, he unsuccessfully attempted to attack Scorponok and was left heavily damaged. After a strange precognitive dream, he awoke back on the Axalon, whether the other Maximals expressed their disappointment in his actions. Given a hard time by Rattrap, Cheetor rushed out to make another attempt to capture the cannon that Scorponok was recovering, and was captured by Tarantulas. Luckily for him, he was soon rescued by Rattrap, who also lied to Optimus to cover the young bot's hide. The Web
Though Cheetor was looking forward to another mission to install energon monitoring devices, Optimus delayed the mission due to the heavy storm raging. Dinobot managed to goad Cheetor into going out anyway, and, while placing one of the devices, a lightning bolt hit it, resulting in a bizarre two-way teleportation effect between the Maximal and Predacon bases. Cheetor himself found himself in the Darksyde, where he was able to hack the Predacon data files and discover that the two crashed ships lay on a common energon vein, meaning that an explosion at one base would destroy both. He managed to get the information back to Optimus, but Dinobot had already sent through a bomb — Cheetor was able to detach it from the console it was fixed to in time. He returned to the Axalon, where he promised Optimus that he would pay more attention to orders... until the next time. Equal Measures
After a decisive Maximal victory at the Standing Stones, an alien probe swallowed Optimus Primal. The argument over who would lead turned into a secret ballot, during which, from Rhinox's reaction, Cheetor voted for Dinobot, suggesting he trusted the Predacon's leadership skills over those of Rattrap. As it turned out, the exercise was rendered pointless by the revelation that Optimus wasn't dead after all. Chain of Command
Terrorsaur discovered a flying mountain with a cache of super-powerful energon at the top, but he was spotted by Cheetor, who immediately dashed back to the Axalon to inform the other Maximals. Power Surge When one of the stasis pods crashed to the ground and Optimus was damaged by a Predacon sneak attack, Cheetor, Rhinox and Rattrap set out to try to get to the pod, but were delayed by Waspinator and Terrorsaur. They were beaten to the pod by the Predacons, but a last-minute gambit by Dinobot and Optimus meant that the protoform inside had already been reformatted into Tigatron. Fallen Comrades Like the other Maximals, Cheetor couldn't believe that Rattrap had defected to the Predacons. Of course, it turned out to be simply a ploy to determine how the Predacons had been spying on the Maximals. Double Jeopardy
Cheetor, Rattrap, Dinobot and Rhinox were forced to evacuate the Axalon when a fight caused Rhinox's new defense system to go out of control. A Better Mousetrap Infected by a Predacon virus which caused uncontrollable rage, Optimus managed to persuade Cheetor to release him from his confinement, only for the Maximal leader to head off on a one-bot mission against the Predacons. After Primal had slagged most of the Predacons, Cheetor managed to get hold of the antivirus and administer it to Optimus. Gorilla Warfare
When a temporal probe sent from Cybertron came into range of the planet, the Maximals tried to set up a signal array to contact it. The Predacons had other idea though, and Tarantulas's transformation lock lens locked both Cheetor and Tigatron in their beast modes. The pair were captured and put in cages in the Darksyde, but soon escaped and used the Predacon repair pools to fix themselves. They rejoined the fight in time to save Optimus and Rhinox from Megatron, but the Predacons had prevented the signal from being sent. The Probe
After the apparent destruction of the Predacons, Cheetor and Rattrap mocked Dinobot's sorrow at the passing of his ex-comrades. It was, of course, a ruse, and the Predacons revealed themselves once the Maximals had repaired their ship. Cheetor accompanied Optimus into battle to retrieve the injured Dinobot, providing cover fire for his leader. When Terrorsaur hit a retreating Optimus from behind, Cheetor flew into a rage, firing wildly (and downing the flier) before getting shot by Megatron. He managed to drag himself to the Axalon as it took off, and would've pulled Optimus onboard if not for Scorponok's parting shot. As he broke the sad news to his allies, he was ambushed by their stowaway—Megatron himself—and awoke to find the Axalon grounded...permanently this time. Victory
When Rhinox was twisted into a Predacon by Megatron's Transmuter, Cheetor was keen to rescue their friend, Optimus ordered everyone to hold back, while the evil Rhinox wreaked havoc in the Predacon base. Dark Designs On another occasion when Rattrap went missing, Cheetor and Optimus looked for the ratbot, only to discover that the Dinobot who had sent them on the hunt was a clone controlled by Megatron. By the time they got back to base, the clone had already been defeated—and devoured—by the real Dinobot. Double Dinobot
Rhinox and Cheetor got to another crashed stasis pod before anyone else, however the ambient energon was endangering the protoform inside. Cheetor shut himself down to allow Rhinox to extract his locking chip to use in place of the damaged pod's one, and dreamed that Rhinox was telling him about sparks. After reawakening, Cheetor was forced to try to defend the pod against Blackarachnia, Waspinator and Terrorsaur, while only having limited use of his robot mode. Though he managed to defeat the first two, Terrorsaur prevailed... only to be defeated by the newly online Airazor. The Spark
During Tigatron's disappearance, Cheetor spotted Blackarachnia and Scorponok leaving the Predacon base on a mission. As it turned out, they were heading towards a flying island which Tigatron had crashed on. Tigatron sent a Cyberbee containing footage of the island, which the Maximals were able to recover, despite Cheetor firing on it. The Trigger, Part 1 Cheetor and Rhinox were forced to evacuate the Axalon after Blackarachnia took control of the island, intending to destroy the Maximal base with it. The spider's scheme was thwarted, but Cheetor bore witness to the island's final action: a beacon sent to its creators, who would most likely be very displeased with the island's demise. The Trigger, Part 2
Another Predacon gambit saw them stealing the rectifier coil from the Maximal base, effectively trapping the Maximals in their beast modes. Overcome by bestial instincts, the Maximals wandered off into the jungle, and it was only through Tigatron's intervention that they were able to delete the blocks separating their robot and beast psyches. Call of the Wild During a routine energy-harvesting run, an energon explosion caused a group of Maximals, of which Cheetor was a part, to be blinded far from base. As they attempted to journey home, Cheetor was attacked and severely damaged by a huge snake. He spent most of the rest of the journey on Rhinox's back, until they came under attack by Terrorsaur and Waspinator. Rhinox was able to guide everyone in fending off the attack without the use of their sight, and they were soon found by Optimus. Dark Voyage
After a violent storm damaged the Maximal base, making it vulnerable, Cheetor shot down a cyberbee which was spying on them. Unfortunately the Predacons had gained enough information and the help of Starscream, who had possessed Waspinator's body, enabling them to easily take over the Axalon. The Predacon occupation didn't last long, as internal conflict in their ranks allowed the Maximals to retake their base. Possession After Rattrap and Dinobot's bickering caused Rhinox to beome infected by a Predacon energon discharge virus, Optimus insisted the pair go out alone to find the cure. Cheetor was part of the party which went to back them up when they located Tarantulas's lair. The Low Road
"No."
"Are we there yet?"
"NO!"
"Are we there yet?"
After Snowstalker was killed by incidental fire during a battle, Cheetor tried unsuccessfully to comfort Tigatron, but the other Maximal announced he would no longer be a part of the Beast Wars. Law of the Jungle After Megatron called a truce and the Maximals needed to find out what he was up to, Cheetor suggested that Rattrap infiltrate the Predacon base unarmed, so as to not violate the truce. Rattrap was less than impressed with the suggestion. In the end, Tigatron did the infiltrating, and the other Maximals covered his escape. Rhinox and Cheetor "intercepted" Terrorsaur with a sheet of metal. Before the Storm
Tigatron and Cheetor observed the moon splitting open, but were called back to base by Optimus. They got back as the alien weapon began super-heating the planet's surface, and helped the damaged Dinobot and Rhinox into CR chambers. Optimus intended to use a stasis pod Tarantulas had been working on to attack the Planet Buster, despite Cheetor, Tigatron and Airazor all volunteering to go in his stead. As the pod lifted off, Cheetor managed to tune the sensors in to follow its path until it destroyed the Planet Buster—and thanks to Megatron's meddling, Optimus Primal as well. Other Voices, Part 2
When the quantum surge from the explosion engulfed the planet, Cheetor's exostructure was mutated into a shiny new Transmetal body. Along with a tougher metal hide and built-in weaponry, his beast mode gained the ability to fly via two powerful thrusters in his torso. Unfortunately, his first attempt at flying led him on a one-way trip into a bulkhead. His new flight mode allowed him to be particularly effective against Waspinator in a subsequent battle, however he was then blasted off a cliff by Megatron, and crashed into Rattrap while trying to fly to safety. Rhinox fortunately interceded before the pair could be slagged. Aftermath
While Rhinox set up some equipment to send his core consciousness on a jaunt, Cheetor left the Axalon to look for Dinobot. Instead he found the Predacons and was attacked by a new addition to their forces, Silverbolt. He radio'd base to warn Rattrap. Rattrap and Dinobot soon joined him and prepared for a showdown with the Predacons. Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1) Though outnumbered, the trio persisted in defending the Axalon, eventually capturing Silverbolt and taking him back to the ship for repairs. As the Predacons pressed on with their attack, the Maximals found themselves out of ammo, but were saved at the eleventh hour by the resurrection of Optimus Primal in a new Transmetal body. Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)
Despite his new form, Cheetor was still assigned to monitor the sensor grid, reporting on strange signals. Tangled Web When Rhinox worked out that there was an alien site in Grid Zeiram, the area Tigatron and Airazor were patrolling, Cheetor was sent to warn them. He was moments too late to prevent them from being shot into space by the alien plants there, much to his anguish. Though Cheetor wanted to rescue Tigatron and Airazor, the priority was on stopping Megatron, and the Maximals returned to Grid Zeiram, where a spaceship grew from the plant life and released an energy surge which blasted everyone present. Other Visits (Part 1) As the Transmetals and Fuzors recovered quickly from the blast, Cheetor and Silverbolt took Dinobot and Rhinox back to base for repairs. After Megatron took control of the alien craft, the Maximals launched an attack on it, distracting Megatron long enough for Rattrap to undertake some sabotage. Other Visits (Part 2)
Out flying on patrol, Cheetor spotted a crashed stasis pod marked with an X, which Optimus explained contained Protoform X, a Maximal experiment. Of course, the Predacons arrived to try to take control of the pod, and weapons fire caused energon beneath the pod to explode. Damaged, Optimus and Cheetor returned to base, but were repaired in time to help Silverbolt and Blackarachnia defeat Protoform X. The Maximals left to consult Rhinox on the abomination, but that gave Megatron time to conscript X into the Predacons as Rampage. Bad Spark On another patrol, Cheetor encountered the Predacon forces, again, and communicated their position to Dinobot. After Dinobot died defending a valley of early anthropoids from the Predacons, Cheetor extinguished the flames in the valley and joined the other Maximals in mourning his loss. Code of Hero
While out hunting for yet another Predacon jamming tower, Rattrap and Cheetor stumbled on a stasis pod containing a strangely mutated Transformer, which became known as Transmutate. Unfortunately the first thing it did was break up their fight with the Predacons using its sonic attack. As Rattrap later joked about the creature's appearance, Cheetor pointed out Transmutate was standing right behind him. Transmutate
The Maximals were overjoyed when Rhinox revealed that the transwarp wavefront from the Planet Buster explosion would soon be detected by Cybertron and a rescue mission sent. Cheetor was looking forward to going to Six Lasers Over Cybertron, much to Rattrap's embarrassment. Instead of the expected rescue mission, they got Ravage, a Predacon operative sent to apprehend Megatron. Joining forces, they mounted an attack on the Darksyde. Cheetor was blasted by the defense systems. Twice. Unsurprisingly, he wasn't present when Megatron was finally captured. The Agenda (Part 1) With the Maximals in control, Optimus order Cheetor to go out and look for Blackarachnia, whom Silverbolt had allowed to escape. Cheetor assured Silverbolt, who had developed feelings for the Predacon, that he would bring her in in one piece, only for Silverbolt to punch him out, leaving to find Blackarachnia himself. Cheetor wasn't happy.
He and Optimus instead went to fetch some energon crystals stashed by Tarantulas, only to run into Inferno and were forced to retreat when the crazed Predacon blew up the energon. The pair headed back for the Axalon, only to be informed by Rattrap over the commlink that Ravage had switched sides — a fact made obvious by the transwarp cruiser bearing down on them with Megatron riding atop. The Agenda (Part 2) Pinned down on the battlefield, Optimus and Cheetor were blasted flat by Megatron (although Cheetor managed to deal with Quickstrike first), but fortunately survived without too much damage. After Rattrap took out the transwarp cruiser, the Maximals set out in pursuit of the retreating Megatron.
As it turned out, the Predacon leader had found the Ark buried in Mount St. Hilary. The Maximals worked frantically to dig out the cave in he'd created to block their passage, and then to evade the Ark's defenses, but were too late to prevent Megatron from shooting a stasis-locked Optimus Prime in the head. The Agenda (Part III)
The timestorm abated once the Maximals stabilized Optimus Prime's condition. Cheetor and the newly "optimised" Optimus Primal attempted to stop the Predacons from attacking the Axalon, with Cheetor taking out both Waspinator and Inferno, but the pair were helpless to stop the ship plunging off the cliff and being lost. The Maximals subsequently took up residence in the cavern housing the Ark. Optimal Situation Some time later, Cheetor was out on patrol when he saw a spaceship entering Earth's atmosphere. He was in the middle of a radio report when Rampage shot him down, and he was rescued by new arrival Depth Charge, who left him on a small rock. Without his flight capability, Cheetor had to wait to be rescued by Optimus. The pair picked up Depth Charge, who'd lost his fight with Rampage, and took him back to base for repairs. Cheetor's attempt to thank the new Maximal resulted in Depth Charge insulting him and swatting him aside. Deep Metal
When Rattrap was assigned to recover Sentinel from the underwater remains of the Axalon, Cheetor was highly amused at the wee ship that would be used, imagining it would make a swell kitty toy. Changing of the Guard While looking after Chak and Una, after the pair had become separated from their tribe, Cheetor displayed the first hints of a crush on Blackarachnia, much to Silverbolt's displeasure. He volunteered to accompany her on a mission to return the children to their people. And gave Chak rides. As soon as they were attacked by a Cyber raptor, he was blasted off a cliff and his jets damaged. Then during another battle with Tarantulas and a pack of Cyber raptors, he was blasted from behind by Waspinator. Primal and Silverbolt soon joined the battle, but Optimus was quickly incapacitated by a new cyber venom. They were all saved by the anthropoid leader, who attacked the raptors with his club. Afterwards, Blackarachnia rebuffed his thanks, walking off with Silverbolt. Cheetor muttered that he was "not a kid... and maybe I'm not so nice either". Cutting Edge
Optimus and Cheetor were unsuccessful in preventing the Predacons stealing another stasis pod — in fact Cheetor's missile accidentally took out Optimus, much to his dismay and embarrassment. After scolding Cheetor, Optimus told him to get some backup and assist Depth Charge, however Cheetor opted to go on alone. As he assisted Depth Charge in battling the Predacons, Cheetor was able to steal the Transmetal driver which Megatron was using in an experiment to create a Transmetal 2 clone of Dinobot. No sooner had he thrown the artifact to Depth Charge, than Cheetor was knocked into the cloning machine's electrical arc and apparently destroyed. Depth Charge returned to Maximal HQ with a piece of Cheetor's exo-shell as proof.
Cheetor, however, was alive, though badly damaged. After Depth Charge was captured by the Predacons, who were after the Transmetal driver, the group was attacked by a strange feline creature. A short time later, Cheetor himself collapsed on the Maximals' doorstep. Feral Scream Part 1 Refusing use of the CR chamber, Cheetor had troubled dreams as he slept in his own quarters. On waking up, he was enveloped by a strange green glow from his spark. Rattrap, investigating the noise, was knocked down by the strange feline creature bursting out of Cheetor's quarters. Cheetor awoke in a cave, back in his Transmetal form and totally repaired, but with confused memories of what had happened. He returned to base, claiming to have taken care of the "cyber creature", but naturally Optimus insisted on seeing the remains in an attempt to get the young bot to tell him the truth.
Finally, during a fight with Dinobot and Waspinator, Cheetor mutated permanently into his new Transmetal 2 form. He made short work of the two Predacons, however as Optimus observed, his beast mode was "still feral", and he had to be coaxed into returning to robot mode. As Optimus picked him up joyfully, Cheetor asked to be put down, as Optimus was embarrassing him. "Oh, joy", Rattrap remarked on this. "Cyber-puberty". He did seem happier when Blackarachnia admired his new form. Feral Scream Part 2
Cheetor returned the favor by drooling over scans of Blackarachnia's internal structure. She later pulled her gun on him and told him to back off, being sick of his stupid crush. Optimus broke up the conflict, sending Cheetor out on patrol. Proving Grounds He spent some time with Chak and Una, attempting to teach the pair about defending themselves against Predacons and basic engineering principles, such as levers. The class was interrupted when the Predacons abducted Una, however the girl was able to put Cheetor's teachings to the test, with favorable results. Go with the Flow
After Blackarachnia made an aborted attempt to upgrade herself with the Transmetal driver, Cheetor was concerned for her safety. He assisted in defending the base against a Predacon attack while Rhinox worked on removing the Predcaon shell program from Blackarachnia. As the Predacons retreated, their jubilation was cut short by the news that Blackarachnia didn't make it. As the Maximals eulogized her, Cheetor said she was "something special". Fortunately, she wasn't that dead. Crossing the Rubicon Megatron's new plan saw Quickstrike taking control of Optimus Primal. The first thing he did was punch out Cheetor and lock the young Maximal in a cage. All of the Maximals were released in time to fight off a newly upgraded Megatron. Master Blaster
Cheetor was sent to stop Tigerhawk from destroying Megatron, an act which would also destroy the original Megatron's spark, but he was quickly incapacitated by Tarantulas, who had plans of his own. Cheetor dreamed of Tigatron, Airazor and the Vok, before waking and breaking free of his bonds. The fused spark from his dream guided him to Tarantulas's lair, where he was able to pull Tigerhawk clear before the lair exploded. Other Victories Depth Charge soon spotted the fugitive Predacons, and Cheetor was part of the group that went after them, though he just ended up escorting Blackarachnia and a badly damaged Silverbolt back to base. Nemesis Part 1
With Megatron on the way in the Nemesis, the Maximals hurried to try to get the Ark ready to be moved, but were unable to get the ship moving. Fortunately a last minute schematic download pointed them to a shuttle stored in the Ark, and, after Rhinox used it to assault the Nemesis, the Maximals watched the warship crash in the distance. The Beast Wars over, the Maximals headed back for Cybertron in the shuttle. Nemesis Part 2
Beast Machines cartoon
- Voice actor: Ian Corlett (English), Wataru Takagi (Japanese), Yao Jude (Chinese), Hercules Fernando (Portuguese), Victor Covarrubias (Latin American Spanish), Julio Lorenzo (Castilian Spanish), Björn Schalla (German), Massimo De Ambrosis (Italian), Marc Weiss (French)
During the journey back to Cybertron, Megatron broke free from the Autobot shuttle and somehow reached the planet before the Maximals. By the time the Maximals got there, Megatron had taken control of the planet with an army of Vehicon drones. They were hit with a transformation virus which reverted them to their original beast forms. Descent Unable to transform, Cheetor searched for a CR chamber with which to repair himself, and ended up saving Primal and Rattrap from a Tank Drone. The trio were unable to remember what had happened to them since arriving on Cybertron. They located Blackarachnia and descended into the planet to find the Oracle. Primal communed with the Oracle, which reformatted the four Maximals into new Technorganic bodies. Faced with more Vehicons in the form of Cycle Drones, the Maximals found themselves unable to transform out of beast mode, and were forced to deal with the drones as is. When Optimus finally worked out how to transform, Cheetor admired his new robot mode. The Reformatting
With Optimus's guidance, Cheetor and Blackarachnia were able to remaster the art of transformation, regaining their robot modes. However, on the first attack by a Mole Drone, they spontaneously reverted to their beast modes through lack of focus. Despite the pair believing that they should find more survivors, Primal insisted that they concentrate on their training, and the group split up to find a new base. Blackarachnia persuaded Cheetor to accompany her to the surface to find more information, only to find the city deserted and the Cybertron InfoCore erased. Attacked by Aero Drones, the pair were helped by Primal, and the Maximals proceeded to the Council Citadel, where Optimus went in and encountered Megatron. As the Maximals battled against the Vehicon drones, Cheetor discovered that, though he no longer possessed a flight mode, he could glide by holding his swords together. Master of the House
An attempt to access the Cybertron Archives didn't go much better, ending with Cheetor carrying Blackarachnia on his shoulders. Later on, he and Optimus had to save Rattrap and Blackarachnia again after the pair accessed the computer on the Autobot shuttle and alerted the Vehicons to their position. Fires of the Past After being captured by Megatron, the Maximals were able to turn Tankor, one of the Vehicon generals to their side for a brief period. Mercenary Pursuits
Cheetor and Blackarachnia sparred with encouragement from Optimus, though Cheetor he preferred to rely on instinct not "blind faith". Realizing they were being watched, the Maximals chased down the spy with Cheetor finally catching Nightscream, a young Maximal who survived Megatron's planetwide purging. Though Nightscream led the Maximals to a fruit tree which he had been living off, Cheetor refused Optimus's suggestion that the other Maximals do the same, stating bluntly that they processed energon, not fruit. As it turned out, the fruit caused the Maximals' beast sides to take over, endangering their lives when Jetstorm attacked with a squad of Aero drones, until Cheetor felled the tree. Optimus was left weakened after reformatting Nightscream, and put Cheetor in command. Forbidden Fruit
On a recon mission in a tank drone factory, Cheetor's orders went unheeded by Rattrap, who ended up wrecking the whole plan. Understandably angry at his comrade, Cheetor would subsequently brush off Rattrap's suggestions that they should attack Megatron while the Vehicon leader was weak. He did stick up for Rattrap when Blackarachnia and Nightscream suggested getting rid of the rat, however his suggestion that they cover for Rattrap until Optimus recovered did not go down well when it was overheard by Rattrap himself. In fact, it drove Rattrap to Megatron's side. After the situation was resolved, Optimus reminded the others not to underestimate their fellow Maximal. The Weak Component
Cheetor was glad for Optimus to be back in command, bluntly rebuking Nightscream's suggestion that Primal was still too weak to lead. Nonetheless, when Cheetor had to save Optimus's life during a battle in a factory, and Optimus became lost in his own regrets at what Megatron had done, Cheetor was forced to take command to force a Maximal withdrawal. Discovery With the revelation that the Vehicon generals housed the sparks of their friends, Cheetor's plan was for Nightscream and Blackarachnia to distract Thrust and Jetstorm while he and Rattrap attempted to convert Tankor back into a Maximal. Cheetor was able to distract the Tank Drones while Rattrap hacked into Tankor, discovering that the Vehicon was their old friend Rhinox. Descent
Though Cheetor primarily disbelieved Rattrap, the pair decided to try to reawaken their friend, but ended up fleeing from the enraged Vehicon. Optimus, via directly contacting Rhinox's spark, was able to restore his personality, but Rhinox announced he was siding with Megatron's plan for a technological Cybertron. Optimus confided to the other Maximals that he believed the Oracle's plan was to restore the organic element to Cybertron, something that Cheetor wasn't convinced the planet ever had. Apocalypse While trying to find Nightscream's tree again, the Maximals were ambushed by Vehicons, who abducted Nightscream. The Maximals were able to rescue him, leading them to discover a cavern full of the remains of organic life. Survivor
The Maximals set about trying to find water, though Cheetor thought they should instead be attacking Megatron. They soon struck gold, or at least an organic goop which sprouted plants. Their victory was interrupted by an attack by Tankor, who used the Key to Vector Sigma to turn Nightscream into technomatter. Despite Cheetor's attempts to save it, the drill was damaged by the drones extracting Tankor. Cheetor and Optimus disagreed over their next course of action, but Cheetor finally came up with a plan to use a Mole Drone to drill to the organic core, to get more goo to cure Nightscream. During the battle to get control of a factory, Rattrap again found himself in the middle of a leadership tug-of-war between Optimus and Cheetor. The Maximals succeeded in getting control of a Mole Drone, only for Megatron to take control of it back as soon as they reached the orchard, and Cheetor reluctantly followed Optimus's lead and fortunately the plan succeeded. Cheetor, however, told Optimus he demanded more respect, and wasn't a kid anymore. The Key
The Maximals held a memorial service for Rhinox, before concentrating on trying to make their orchard succeed. A catalyst Rattrap found caused the plants to grow too well, forcing the other Maximals to rescue him from the rapidly growing vines. Cheetor was keep to use the fast-growing vines as a weapon against Megatron, but Optimus claimed the Oracle had other plans. When it turned out that Blackarachnia had gone trying to turn Thrust back into Silverbolt, Cheetor took the opportunity to prove that his plan would work, by rescuing her with a giant vine. Unfortunately it backfired, as the Vehicons zapped it into technomatter, and only swift work by Optimus saved the rest of the orchard. Optimus was not pleased, but he knew that the Maximals had much bigger concerns. The Catalyst
In search of information on who had tampered with the Oracle, Cheetor and Rattrap hacked into the central computer, but were forced to retreat before learning anything. They returned to the other Maximals, and Optimus led them to the Plasma Energy Chamber which, if opened, would destroy technological life on the planet, leaving only the organic. Shocked, Cheetor talked him out of opening the chamber and came up with an alternate plan to get Rattrap to find a way to disable the duplicate Keys. The operation was curtailed when Rattrap was zapped into technomatter by Tankor, leading Optimus to confront Megatron in person. Cheetor and the other Maximals continued fighting, but were overcome by Vehicons and turned into technomatter. End of the Line
Restored to health by Optimus Primal's sacrifice, the Maximals were shocked to find their leader dead. Cheetor reacted violently to Nightscream's assertion that Cheetor wanted Optimus gone, but took a leadership position anyway. When the surviving Vehicon generals attacked, Cheetor called timeout, and unsuccessfully attempted to get them to join the Maximals. He believed they should continue with Optimus's mission, and led the other Maximals down to the Oracle chamber, where they discovered Primal was floating within the Oracle. Cheetor gave an impassioned speech to Big Bot, which helped him realize what his real mission for Cybertron was, and to choose life over joining the Matrix.
Together again, Cheetor suggested the next step should be to find the missing sparks, but when they approached the Council Citadel, a giant floating head hovered into view. Fallout While Optimus tried to contact Megatron's spark, Cheetor led the other Maximals in attempting to find Jetstorm and Thrust, and they encountered Noble, a completely organic Transformer, whose transformation into Savage was uncontrollable. Savage Noble Cheetor favored leniency in dealing with Noble, but the creature was soon revealed to be Megatron, who transferred himself into the Grand Mal and reactivated the Vehicon drones, forcing the Maximals to flee underground once again. Prometheus Unbound
While trying to save Nightscream from a pack of drones, Optimus and Cheetor were drawn aboard the Grand Mal via a tractor beam and interrogated for information. They were soon rescued by Silverbolt, who Blackarachnia had resurrected from Jetstorm. In Darkest Knight A Hate Plague virus created by Megatron infected the Maximal ranks, giving Cheetor a rather more forceful leadership style and causing the Maximals to fight among themselves. Though Cheetor seemed to fight it for a short period, he soon succumbed again, even taking his frustrations out on Optimus physically. Finally, they realized what was happening and managed to work together. A Wolf in the Fold
With the technorganic crops failing, Cheetor tried to console Optimus. The news of a crashing ship led the Maximals to encounter Botanica, a Maximal formatted as a plant-based life form, who was able to lend a hand with the crops. Home Soil They would later encounter two new Vehicon generals created by Megatron — Obsidian and Strika. The Strike The Maximals split up in their search for the missing sparks. Silverbolt revealed he still regarded Cheetor as a child, calling him "kid", much to Cheetor's annoyance, though Cheetor's inability to come up with a plan to shake the drones pursuing them doubtless didn't help. Once Cheetor saved their lives by getting rid of the drones, Silverbolt developed a smidgen more respect for him. The Search
The reappearance of Noble caused problems for the Maximals, leading Cheetor to suggest that Nightscream get rid of the creature before it got them all killed. Noble, however, did help them as Cheetor, Silverbolt and Nightscream distracted the drones so that Optimus could sneak into the Grand Mal. The action cost Noble his life, and all of the Maximals mourned him. The Siege With the Grand Mal down, the Maximals celebrated. However, Megatron's spark lived on, albeit in a disembodied state, and Cheetor tangled with it when it possessed the corpse of an Aero drone. Eventually Rattrap trapped it in a Diagnostic Drone. Spark of Darkness
The Maximals were under siege within the Grand Mal, trapped with the sparks they had searched for. Cheetor worked unsuccessfully to bring the weapons systems online. Rattrap's act of saving Botanica accidentally left them wide open to attack, and Optimus had to stop Cheetor telling off the rodent. Fortunately the three of them survived the Grand Mal crashing. The Downward Spiral Down, but not out, the Maximals began preparing their defenses for the impending Vehicon assault. The shields did not hold long, and the Maximals found themselves fighting against hordes of drones. Outnumbered, the Maximals used spark power bestowed on them by the Oracle to decimate the drones, until Megatron took the Oracle from them.
Cheetor found himself facing the three Vehicon Generals on his own, but was able to use the anti-gravity generators to fire Obsidian and Strika into orbit. Cheetor struggled with Thrust, finally using a spark extractor to rip out the Vehicon's spark. He was unprepared to face his next foe — Megatron, newly installed into a duplicate of Primal's old "optimal" body — and had his own spark torn out by a Cycle Drone. When Legends Fall
After a city-spanning battle, Optimus sacrificed himself to destroy Megatron and reformat Cybertron into a technorganic paradise. Cheetor and the other Maximals were restored to their bodies and, as the sparks were reborn into new bodies, Cheetor had a final vision from the Oracle and told the other Maximals that Optimus would always be with them. Seeds of the Future
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Cloud
Beast Wars Diorama Story
At some point after Starscream left the Beast Wars, the Maximals and Predacons fought. During a battle against Waspinator, Cheetor used his speed to avoid the bug's Beebee Shot attack and nailed him in the face with his own Laser Shot. Cheetor Chapter The Laser Shot wasn't enough, though, and Waspinator countered with another round of his Beebee Shot. Waspinator Chapter
Later, after several Autobots and Decepticons from another dimension showed up, Tigatron Chapter the appropriate factions teamed up and charged one another in a massive clash of warriors. Motorarm Chapter
Legends comic
Following the Great Transformation, Cheetor recalled learning from Optimus Primal that Rhinox was not gone for good, as his spark had gone adrift and ended up in an alternate world known as the Legends Universe. When he shared this information with his friends, Rattrap and the wayward Waspinator volunteered to find Rhinox, prompting Cheetor to reformat them into their original Earth modes and send them through a portal to the Legends world. Bonus Edition Vol. EX He was elated to see the two return with Rhinox accompanying. Bonus Edition Vol. EX
3H comics
On a particularly beautiful day, Airazor and Rhinox were basking in the glow of a quiet Predacon-less day. In contrast, Cheetor was bored. Fortunately for Cheetor, he got his wish, and the sound of explosions alerted the three to a battle over the horizon. Unfortunately for Cheetor, he was quickly blasted into inaction by Packrat, who had become unstable after an encounter with Furmanite. Later, he was okay, and he accompanied his fellow Maximals home. Ground Zero
Later, at a point after Cheetor had acquired his Transmetal 2 form, he and the other Maximals set out to investigate a temporal anomaly detected by Rhinox. They encountered the Predacons en route. The two factions were locked in a firefight, though the advantage lay with the Predacons. After Megatron took off to reach the time-traveler that both teams had previously detected, Optimus was forced to pursue him, leaving his troops against insurmountable odds. The Predacons eventually began to push the Maximals back towards a cliffside. As they encroached, an explosion hit Rhinox, knocking him offline. Then, suddenly, Predacon fire ceased entirely. Cheetor was the first to check over their cover, his concern for Rhinox overriding his sense of self-preservation. Cheetor looked on to see Windrazor, the aforementioned time-traveler, flying above the disabled Predacons, and encircled with Unicron's dark essence. The possessed 'bot swooped down and seized Cheetor in his talons, causing excruciating pain to shoot through the young Maximal. Just as Cheetor began to wish for oblivion to escape the torture, Windrazor was able to expunge Unicron's essence from himself, and set Cheetor down. Then, Shokaract appeared... Paradox
Cheetor and the other Maximals faced the time-traveling warlord. Unfortunately, they were no match for the Unicron-powered juggernaut and Cheetor was crushed in Shokaract's claws. This battle, as well as Shokaract's existence itself, would soon be retroactively erased from Cheetor's timeline with the efforts of the legendary Covenant. Terminus
Shortly after Cybertron underwent the Great Transformation, the Quintessons seized the opportunity to attack, believing that the revolutionary change would have rendered the planets' inhabitants confused and docile. Suffice to say, the Transformers were greatly underestimated. Cheetor was revealed as a Matrix Templar, as he and Rodimus (another templar) along with the Wreckers battled Cryotek deep underground. It also seemed that Cheetor was one of Rodimus's biggest fans, so much so that Cheetor based his first changeform on Rodimus's design.
Unfortunately, though Cheetor and Rodimus were able to use their powers to help defeat Cryotek, Rodimus perished in the incident. Wreckers: Finale Part II
A year later, Cheetor and the rest of Cybertron eagerly awaited at Memorial Spaceport for the return of five Autobot heroes from the Great War: Trailbreaker, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Roulette, and Shadow Striker. The event was covered by the famous journalist Rook, and when Cheetor had trouble communicating in front of a camera, Rattrap happily took over for him. Quickly thereafter, the Autobots' ship arrived, and its occupants were shocked at the changes Cybertron had gone through. Cheetor demonstrated to the older warriors that the planet's inhabitants had also gone through a metamorphosis by transforming into his technorganic cheetah mode.
Unfortunately, the event's pleasantries were interrupted when the five Autobots and Blackarachnia and Silverbolt were abducted by Unicron right before the gathered crowd's optics. Abduction A short time later, however, Cheetor bore witness as the resurrected Optimus Primal returned with ten abducted Autobots and Maximals (though not Blackarachnia and Shadow Striker) plus a handful of other Transformers stranded in their universe. Escape Cybertron had become engulfed in the Universe War, in which the Minions of Unicron battled the Children of Primus, the latter led by Optimus Primal, chosen by Primus himself. Cheetor accompanied the returnees to the Oasis Research and Development Facility. As Ratchet and Striker began research on Sideswipe to see if they could cure the Unicron contamination they had all suffered while in the Pit, Cheetor expressed his doubts about Optimus Primal's return. Cheetor reasoned that being dead may have changed Primal, and Silverbolt added that it could all be a Unicron trick. Rattrap, surprisingly, was the one who reminded the two that this was Optimus-friggin'-Primal they were talking about. Homecoming
The war continued, and Optimus Primal led Cheetor and several other Children of Primus against the forces of Unicron on countless occasions across several universes, but eventually, these interactions took a toll on Cheetor and the others. Contaminated by constant exposure to Unicron, Cheetor was afflicted with the nanotech "Unicron virus", which worsened with time. To keep from descending into madness or deactivation, Cheetor was rebuilt and purified by Primal's Matrix of Purification. Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal profile
This conflict with Unicron went on for an unspecified amount of time, until one raid on the Chaos Bringer, which included Primal, Cheetor, and several others, when Unicron suddenly began to dissolve beneath them. The Universe conflict finally resolved, Cheetor, Longhorn, and Rhinox were carried away by Optimus Primal through a portal to (presumably) their home. Revelations Part 2
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
Cheetor was snoozing on the floor of the shuttle back to Cybertron when Rattrap fell asleep and dreamed about encountering other Maximals on Earth. Ain't No Rat
He awoke, affected by a Transwarp agitator planted on the shuttle by a new team of Predacons hiding on Earth. This device caused Cheetor and the other Maximals aboard to act aggressively towards one-another, and they tried to force Rattrap into the ship's C.R. Chamber due to its influence. Rattrap resisted, managed to get away, and deactivated the ship's Transwarp drive. Though this restored the Maximals to their senses, it also returned them to prehistoric Earth. Shell Game #1
Transformers Legends anthology (1)
Near the end of the Beast Wars, shortly after Megatron combined his spark with that of the original Megatron's, the newly reconfigured Predacon leader hatched a new plan. Quickstrike was ordered to sneak into the Maximal base and place a transmitter which would increase the aggression of Cheetor and the other Maximals. Quickstrike was successful, and soon Cheetor was fighting that annoying little jerk, Rattrap. Fortunately, Optimus Primal was able to detect something was wrong, despite the transmitter's effects on himself, and the Maximals deactivated the transmitter and defeated Quickstrike. Cheetor and the others raced into the Ark, where they found Megatron, confused after a mental battle with his namesake, attempting to control the lifeless body of Starscream. Megatron fled. A Meeting of Minds
Later on Cybertron, just before the Battle for the Spark was over, Megatron's spark polarity had been inverted, and his tortured life force traveled all over Cybertropolis. As Megatron's spark approached Cheetor and Nightscream, he was consumed with hatred for the both of them: for Nightscream because his actions recently had put him in this very predicament, and for Cheetor "because... well, because he's Cheetor". Singularity Ablyss
2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity
As Magmatron observed the timeline wherein the Beast Wars were taking place, he witnessed Cheetor being blown away by Terrorsaur's projectiles. The Gathering #1
Cheetor appeared outside the Ark alongside Optimus Primal and Rhinox. Showing concern for Optimus, as the big monkey seemed to sense a presence that Cheetor pointed out to be seemingly non-existent. Somewhat freaked-out by Optimus's odd behavior, both Cheetor and Rhinox convinced Optimus that he was simply "chasing ghosts". The Gathering #3
Timelines
A former cadet of the Maximal Command Security Force, a Maximal who would later call himself Cheetor left the organization young after being recruited by Optimus Primal based on his leadership potential. "Cheetor" enthusiastically joined the crew of the Axalon, hoping to see the furthest reaches of space. His vehicle mode could reach 550 mph, making him the fastest Maximal aboard the Axalon even before landing on prehistoric Earth. Cheetor served as the ship's communications officer.
Cheetor and the rest of the Axalon crew were waylaid on a Maximal space station for weeks, waiting for their exploration mission to begin. Finally, after leaving the space station, Optimus Primal explained the reason for their delay: they were ordered by the Maximal High Council to deposit a precious cargo on a barren moon. But before this could be achieved, the Axalon was contacted by the Maximal High Council again. The Golden Disk, a treasured Maximal artifact, was stolen by the Predacon Megatron, and he and a band of Predacon criminals left Cybertron in a stolen ship. Since the Axalon was the closest ship, they were ordered to intercept.
But there were other ships en route. An unknown Predacon ship appeared and attacked them. Their mysterious attacker was countered by another strange ship, the Chromia 10. Ultimately, the Axalon was able to destroy the Predacon ship but not before serious damage was dealt the Chromia 10. The sparks of the two Maximals on board were beamed aboard the Axalon and placed inside blank protoforms to save their lives.
Just as the battle seemed to be over, Cheetor received an incoming transmission from Megatron's stolen ship. Megatron introduced himself and disappeared through a transwarp portal. Cheetor and the rest of the Axalon crew followed blindly. Dawn of Future's Past
After Airazor was reborn on Earth, Cheetor fought the Predacons during a plot to launch an orbital weapon. The launching pad was destroyed by Airazor. The Razor's Edge
Wings Universe
His impetuous streak tamed by his time under Optimus Primal's leadership, Cheetor was able to use his departed teacher's lessons to interface with the Oracle, and this act allowed him to become the living embodiment of the ancient wisdom it contained. Alpha Trizer's profile He would subsequently take the name of "Alpha Trizer", becoming the spiritual leader of Cybertron. With his political power, he reinstated the Wreckers to defend Cybertron's interests in the galaxy and appointed Primal Prime as leader, in part to separate him from Ginrai. To this end, Trizer recruited troublesome Cybertronians unable to deal with a peaceful Cybertron, especially from those who frequented the Cybertropolis Detention Center. Trizer also reinstated the Knights of Cybertron as the new Cybertronian Knights and placed Ginrai as Knight Commander. Apelinq's personal logs
When the Knights lost contact with the Galadria Space Bridge Outpost in the Delta Prysmos Sector and received a scrambled warning from Devcon, Ginrai insisted that the Knights take action, but Knight Grand Master Alpha Trizer countered with waiting for further word from Devcon, doubting that Cybertron was in danger after being at peace for so long. Soon after, Devcon called for help against the Star Seekers: the pirates were inside Unicron's head, trying to reactivate it in order to drain all of Cybertron's energon. Ginrai's team, including Alpha Trizer, space bridged straight there and promptly engaged the Star Seekers. The Dread Pirate Crewmen tried to fight Trizer, but the ancient Maximal finally lost his cool and transformed into beast mode to deal with his attackers. Star Seeker Captain Cannonball then fought Alpha Trizer to buy time for Ferak to activate Unicron's energon draining systems, but the sage easily overpowered Cannonball and gave him a crushing a revelation: his scheme was doomed to fail from the start because Cybertron in 2984 C.E. was techno-organic and no longer ran on energon. Trizer simply grinned at the pirate captain's misfortune while Ginrai grumbled about being left out of the loop. Thereafter, the Knights arrested the pirates and led them away. Hoist the Flag
Razorclaw continuity
In one splinter timeline of Primax 496.22 Alpha, minor atmospheric perturbations caused Silverbolt's stasis pod to crash on the far side of Earth, and due to his absence, Megatron slaughtered all the remaining Maximals except Tigatron and Airazor. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/07
Story of Binaltech
Due to the temporal machinations of Ravage in Primax 785.06 Alpha, a quantum duplicate of the Autobot shuttle carrying the victorious Maximals home from the end of the Beast Wars in Primax 496.22 Alpha was spawned. The shuttle was shunted to Primax 903.0 Beta, where Unicron destroyed it, scattering its crew into transwarp space. Outlier Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/30
TransTech
The Megatron of Cheetor's native time and universe accidentally referred to Bumblebee as "Cheetor". Bee in the City
A Change to the Agenda
After Megatron attacked Optimus Prime and was thrown out of the Ark when Blackarachnia activated the ship's defense systems, Cheetor and the other Maximals attempted to heal the wounded Autobot. However, Megatron was not thrown far enough and the Predacon managed to reenter the Ark and blast the Autobot leader, decisively erasing the Maximals from the timeline. A Change to the Agenda In the wildly different timeline that followed, Cheetor's life would take a very different track.
Beast Wars Metals manga
Following the Quantum surge, Cheetor was upgraded into a Transmetal but left stranded on Energoa far, far away from the other Maximals and believed dead by Rattrap. Following Optimus Primal's return to life, Cheetor could be seen staring poetically at the Moon from his distant location. Beast Wars Metals #1
After Megatron blasted Optimus Prime in an attempt to kill the slumbering Autobot, Beast Wars Metals #5 Cheetor would eventually find his way back to his comrades. There, he saved Optimus Prime's spark and fed it to Optimus Primal, turning him into Optimal Optimus. Beast Wars Metals #6
Transformers Legends anthology (2)
Cheetor was involved in a conflict against the Predacons that affected the Natiltec tribe, who later immortalized him in cave inscriptions. The inscriptions were found several thousand years later by an archaeological team. Fire in the Dark
Henkei! Henkei! pack-in manga
After Starscream and Ravage stole energon cubes from Hound, Cheetor appeared on the scene, defeated both of them and got the cubes back, getting the adoration of Hound and random fauna. Cheetor then went to live in a safari park. Henkei! Henkei! volume 8
Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-
The AllSpark Almanac
Cheetor liked pie. The AllSpark Almanac II
Device Label
Under the command of Blaster, Cheetor's mission was to search the network he was plugged into, and destroy the Decepticons' viral programs. Cheetor's Device Label Bio
Classics
Cheetor was among Blaster's minions when they teamed up with negative polarity Ravage. Recordicons #12
Beast Wars: Uprising
As one of the Maximals forced to continue the war which the Autobots were no longer able to fight, Cheetor was part of a small team under the command of Optimus Primal that went up against the Darksyders. Following the deaths of Rhinox and Silverbolt, and the apparent death of Rattrap after an explosion, Cheetor teamed up with Blackarachnia and Nightscream and some Predacons to take out the boss monkey. Prologue As like-minded Predacon dissidents joined with his comrades, Cheetor became the leader of the rebels and took part in a costly uprising against their oppressors, one that eventually rendered him badly damaged and close to stasis lock. With few other options, four of Cheetor's allies—Blackarachnia, Nightscream, Scavenger, and Immorticon—fled for their lives via transwarp to another world, leaving Cheetor behind. "TransTech" Blackarachnia's profile in Club magazine #25
He was believed dead, but was truly taken prisoner and interred within Fortress Maximus. Lio Convoy's forces eventually freed him and he was more than welcomed into their ranks as the "first resistor". Head Games Cheetor wanted nothing more than to march into the front lines, but Lio Convoy felt he served better as a propaganda hero, and over the next five years, he and Preditron were shuttled about the planet doing just that, hardly ever being told the reason for their going, just being sent where they were sent. By the time the Beast Upgrade appeared, Cheetor figured he'd missed any chance to fight the good fight.
That changed on a visit to Safe Zone Alpha Two, a Resistance base outside Protihex. There, the two discovered captive Micromasters being forced to fight to the death in a new version of the Games, and they were expected to open them. Cheetor and Preditron refused, threatening to inform Lio Convoy, until the base's manager Ikard informed them Lio knew all about what was going on. Outraged, Cheetor and Preditron made plans to stop the Games anyway, with Preditron telling Cheetor to get on the horn to Resistance command. Cheetor's efforts proved difficult, with nearly everyone being busy fighting the war, until he got through to Blackarachnia. However, the spider-bot was dismissive of Cheetor's ethical concerns, told him to suck it up, and then hung up on him. Reluctantly, Cheetor went back to Ikard and told him he was on-board for the moment, but only if Preditron was as well, and that after everything cooled down, there would be a full inquiry.
The next day, with no sign of Preditron, Cheetor gave the Buzzsaw Memorial Games a half-sparked introduction. Then he learned where Preditron had gotten to, as he saw the Predacon founder being forced into the Games. Cheetor went looking for the Game's organiser, Ser-Ket, finding her nursing an engex. He told her about Preditron's predicament, and the two went to confront Ikard. When they did, he revealed why Preditron had been dragged into the Games; The Resistance were courting the Tripredacus Alliance, and they wanted the living legend to be a loss less alive. Then he set Gaidora on them, knocking Ser-Ket and Cheetor into the arena. Once there, they found bigger problems than dealing with realpolitik, in the form of strange drones and dead Micromasters. The two found Preditron as he was being attacked by one such drone, and after defeating it realized they were some kind of Builder weapon, troops infected by their superiors as a trojan horse. By the time the trio reached the arena's walls, the drones had managed to break into the crowd, infecting the Maximals and Predacons there and turning them into more drones. The trio desperately led an evacuation of the arena, and managed to get most of the civilians to safety. It was only then Cheetor remembered to tell Preditron the news Lio Convoy wanted him dead. Safe Spaces
Legends World
Cheetor was a salaryman at Axalon Trading Company, where he greeted the newbie Rattrap. While Rattrap introduced himself in an unorthodox way by naming his favorite cartoon, Beast Wars, Cheetor responded that he didn't watch cartoons. The Generation Gap Part 1 He later happily informed President Optimus Primal that he was leaving on time and not working overtime. The Bathroom Gap When Primal went out for a bit, warning his employees not to touch his bananas, Cheetor and the others were so tempted by the forbidden fruit that they immediately began eating them. Even Though I Told You Not To...
Cheetor loved to party and have fun all night, and as a result was often exhausted at work in the morning. Though the Axalon employees were expected to work in robot mode, he at one point was so tired that he forgot how to transform, turning into a mess of cheetah parts. Head of Partying, Cheetor Another time, he got so drunk he fell asleep on the train and ended up on the final station of the line in the middle of night. On returning to work, he joked to Primal about paying for his travel expenses and room charges, to his boss's annoyance. Cheetor at Night One day, having overslept, Cheetor decided that since he was already late to begin with, he might as well take his time and have a long shower and breakfast before heading to work. Optimus Primal didn't agree with his thinking. Cheetor in the Morning
Cheetor listened to Rattrap deliver a report while stuck in the mouth of Dinobot, The Two's Recent Encounter was confused when he arrived at work in the form of a real Transformer after being inflicted with Transformers sickness, Bonus Edition Vol. 1 and hung around when Optimus Primal was thinking about said sickness. Bonus Edition Vol. 2 Transformers sickness later turned Cheetor into a tall and slender version of himself, which he didn't enjoy, LG03 Tankor Prologue and he was present when Rhinox was getting jealous of everyone turning into Transformers. Bonus Edition Vol. 3 During Rhinox-turned-Tankor's rampage, Cheetor was hit by his '80s Transformation Beam and turned into a classic delinquent. Bonus Edition Vol. 5
During Christmas, the Axalon employees threw a party during Cheetor he got drunk and sang karaoke. Merry X'mas!! The height of Cheetor and everyone else at the company bothered Rattrap, who wanted to be big too. Bonus Edition Vol. 8 While returning home one morning after a night of partying, he ran into Rattrap, who was jogging in order to grow stronger. Bonus Edition Vol. 9 Another morning, after yet another party, he found Tigatron praying at a shrine. Bonus Edition Vol. 11 Cheetor was present when Windblade attempted to destroy their world and was defeated by Metroplex, and afterwards told Rattrap that Metroplex had transformed into city mode on top of the Axalon office building, destroying it. Bonus Edition Vol. 12
Cheetor was around when Arcee decided not to fight her Transformers sickness but remain a giant robot. Arcee Chapter After the Axalon employees accepted that Metroplex was their new office, Cheetor had some fun with the gun turrets on the city-bot's head. He was freaked out when their mysterious janitor claimed to know about Metroplex because he was from "the other world", thinking he'd meant the world of the dead. The Mysterious Knowledgeable Grandpa Chapter Cheetor was caught up in a Nightbird clone rampage, Bonus Edition Vol. 15 and was around the office when Rattrap and Tigatron tried to justify their lateness to Optimus Primal. Go! Adventure When Deadlock appeared in their universe, Cheetor didn't recognize him and had to have his identity explained to him by Waspinator. He and the others were then temporarily sent to Deadlock's home dimension, Cloud World, when SARA messed up. Bonus Edition Vol. EX
Grand showed the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors an image of Cheetor and his friends as an example of what to expect from the Legends Universe. LG24 Shockwave & Cancer Prologue During a partnership between Axalon and the Autobot Headmasters, Cheetor was annoyed by Blaster's music, Bonus Edition Vol. 27 briefly became a Nightbeat-type Headmaster himself using mass-produced Master-Braces, Bonus Edition Vol. 28 went to work with a hangover together with Hardhead, Bonus Edition Vol. 30 and applauded the completion of their new headquarters, Maximus. Bonus Edition Vol. 31 He then fled from an attacking Mindwipe, Bonus Edition Vol. 34 played Straxus in the Transformers: Convobat Amazon Showdown movie but got the line "Transform!" wrong, Bonus Edition Vol. EX fled again from Mindwipe, Weirdwolf and Skullcruncher, Bonus Edition Vol. 35 and took up riding Astrotrain's commuter train to work. Bonus Edition Vol. 40
Cheetor was among the victims gobbled up by Trypticon during his rampage, Bonus Edition Vol. 43 but was fine and continued to inhabit the rebuilt Neo Akihabara City. Targetmaster Chapter Prologue He then went on to witness Hot Rod battle Scourge, Bonus Edition Vol. 45 get turned into a Beastformer by White Leo, Bonus Edition Vol. 51 and watch as Broadside arrived in the Legends World. Bonus Edition Vol. 53 Cheetor had fallen asleep on the train again when he was awoken by the smell of silvervine. Late Xmas Present Chapter
2005 IDW continuity
- First appearance: The Transformers: Windblade vol. 2 #6
Cheetor of the Fur Walkers was forged on the colony world of Eukaris, emerging from the hot spot of his world's Titan, Chela. As the "Talon of Onyx Prime", Chela championed his Prime's love of beast-formers over standard-formers, likely influencing the beast modes of his people. By modern times, the people of Eukaris had divided into four major tribes. Cheetor was representative of the Fur Walkers on the rare occasion the tribes met under a white flag for talks.
The arrival of "standard-formers" from Cybertron was a major development on Eukaris, and the Four Tribes met with both outsiders and the Fateweaver to understand the ramifications. Cheetor and the tribes met with Chancellor Starscream of Cybertron and Windblade of Caminus when they exited from the spacebridge. Initially reluctant to form relations with Cybertron, whose people persecuted the children of Onyx Prime, Cheetor opened to the idea when he learned that other colony worlds were involved as well. Windblade vol. 2 #6
Despite their differences, Cheetor and Dinobot grudgingly exchanged gifts on Chosen One Day. Choose Me
When Unicron arrived to consume Eukaris, Manta Ray and Cheetor watched in horror as the planet-eater began devouring their homeworld, and were themselves presumably destroyed shortly thereafter. Our Darkest
War for Cybertron Trilogy continuity
War for Cybertron Trilogy marketing material
The Maximals traveled across time to find the AllSpark and change the fate of Cybertron. While battling the Predacons on pre-Ice Age Earth, both sides were joined by the Autobots and Decepticons, their epic battle changing their combined destinies forever.
Cheetor's function was a warrior, and he trans-scanned into a cheetah. His extreme speed and cheetah-like reflexes were his powers and weapons, and his core traits were him eagerness, hopefulness, and idealism. Cheetor's message from the future was that his idealism will pave the way for a valuable alliance. Kingdom webpage[1]
In a possible destiny recorded on the Voyager Golden Disk, Cheetor was part of the united Maximal-Predacon faction lead by Dinobot. Kingdom Golden Disk cards
War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon
- Voice actor: Joe Hernandez (English), Sascha Oliver Bauer (German), Loïc Hourcastagnou (French), Pablo Rafael Moreno (Latin-American Spanish), Vishal Menon (Hindi)
2021 Beast Wars comic
Cheetor served aboard the Maximal research vessel Axalon as the ship's gunner under the auspices of his captain Optimus Primal. While on a routine protoform delivery mission to the planet H'nkshanaar-4, the Axalon was diverted off-course to pursue a group of Predacon separatists who had stolen a golden disk and hijacked the Maximal warship Darksyde. Despite his protests that the Axalon's weapons were for defensive purposes only, Cheetor did his best to shoot out the purloined starship's engines in the ensuing dogfight but was unable to stop their foes from spooling their transwarp drive and jumping across time and space. The Axalon pursued the Darksyde to an unknown time period and took the Predacons down with them in a last-ditch maneuver, stranding both ships on a primitive, energon-rich planet. Savage Landing Part 1
After reactivating in his new beast mode, Cheetor helped Nyx repair their damaged ship before the high-flying pilot took off to explore the planet with her new wings. Cheetor was upset by this, as it meant that he'd have to turn to the notoriously unhygenic Rattrap to reach into narrow components. Savage Landing Part 2 When night fell and Nyx still didn't return, Cheetor grew restless and considered striking out on his own to find her before Optimus shot down the idea. Savage Landing Part 3
Cheetor, Rattrap, and Rhinox worked through the night to rewire the ship's computer to better locate Nyx, and discovered a mysterious coded message to a Predacon laboratory dated to just before the Axalon departed Cybertron, just before Optimus announced that he'd tapped into the orbital stasis pod network to find her. As the Maximals waited for her to return, they saw Dinobot carrying her unconscious body and immediately assumed that he was the one responsible for harming her. When Cheetor lunged to attack, however, Dinobot transformed and easily outpowered his attacker before telling them that he wanted to join the Maximals. Savage Landing Part 4
While Optimus and Nyx interrogated Dinobot in a bid to gauge whether he'd truly had a change of heart, Cheetor stumbled across Rattrap spying on the group using the Axalon's security camera network. When the ship's systems picked up more Predacons, Cheetor, Rhinox, and Primal were forced to buy time while Rattrap did what he could to get the starship's defenses back online. When the Predacons refused to come quietly and launched a full-scale attack, Cheetor battled Scorponok and Terrorsaur before Dinobot joined the fray on the side of the Maximals. Savage Landing Part 5 Cheetor punched out Scorponok and held out long enough for Rattrap to reactivate the ship's shields—however, this also meant stranding Dinobot, whose spark signature prohibited from retreating to safety, outside with the Predacons. Fortunately, the Maximals were able to turn the ship's guns on the Predacons, provoke them into making a full retreat, and rescue a critically injured Dinobot. Savage Landing Part 6
Some time later, Cheetor was playing cards with the other Maximals when he heard a noise in a nearby corridor. When he investigated, he found Blackarachnia, a newly-programmed Predacon, who quickly paralyzed him with her cyber venom and got to work sabotaging the Maximal vessel. Pod Part 1 After Optimus and the others freed him from a web cocoon, Cheetor, Rattrap, Dinobot, and Nyx worked together to search the ship and nearly blundered into a grenade booby trap before Blackarachnia, having sabotaged more than half of the Axalon's orbital stasis pods, blew a hole in the ship's hull to escape. Cheetor chased her out into the jungle, but when she lied that she'd set a second booby trap, Cheetor made the mistake of returning to the ship to save his comrades while Blackarachnia retreated to the Darksyde. Pod Part 2
After Razorbeast joined their team, Cheetor, eager for a rematch with Blackarachnia, joined in a preemptive strike on the Darksyde to retrieve the Golden Disk, using a jury-rigged escape pod as an improvised shuttlecraft before launching a bombing run against the Darksyde. Maximals Strike Back, Part 1
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Beast Wars: Transformers video game continuity
Beast Wars: Transformers video game comic
Upon arriving on prehistoric Earth, the dangers of Energon radiation forced the Maximals and Predacons to take on beast alternate forms. "Cheetor" promptly grabbed a cheetah by its underbelly, hoisted it up to his optics, and scanned the creature's molecular structure. The indignant cheetah could do nothing but silently ask the robot "Do you mind?" Cheetor transformed into his new organic cheetah mode and darted into Predacon territory. Unfortunately, Cheetor was spotted by Tarantulas, and the two battled until they were forced to return to their beast modes to avoid Energon radiation damage. Beast Wars: Transformers video game advertising comic
Beast Wars:Transformers video game
Many Beast Wars combatants had managed to construct personal bases, customized to their personal tastes, due to the extended duration of the war. Cheetor's own base was an Energon mining operation, located in a desert area. It featured sphinx-like statues bearing Cheetor's likeness and colour scheme. Cheetor joined his fellow Maximals in battling not only an entrenched Predacon threat, but the interdimensional monsters known as the Skriix.
Maximal Campaign
Upon having eliminated the Predacon threat, Cheetor was part of Optimus Primal's roll call when he announced that the galaxy was now at peace.
Predacon Campaign
Cheetor's mining operation was deemed a threat to the Predacon agenda, and a Predacon was dispatched to eliminate him. In order to systematically dismantle Cheetor's mining operation, the Predacons first targeted his "Rock Blaster" drone unit for destruction. Subsequently, they planted a bomb within Cheetor's mining plant, and annexed the territory. In order to ensure that their new conquest would be firmly under their control, the Predacons killed Cheetor himself, sending a lone Predacon agent to neutralize him in a firefight. Beast Wars: Transformers
Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)
- Voice actor: Ian James Corlett (English), Wataru Takagi (Japanese)
During a decisive battle, Cheetor witnessed Optimus being badly injured. Cheetor's reaction was to charge into battle with unmatched fury, turning the tide of the war in favor of the Maximals. Thanks to this victory, the Maximals eventually overpowered the Predacons, and established peace on the planet. Following the battle, Optimus and Cheetor had this heartwarming exchange;
Optimus: "You showed a lot of potential out there. Someday you might make one prime leader." Cheetor replied: "Sorry Bigbot, but that's your department... But who knows? Maybe in another universe!" Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)
Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)
- Voice actor: Ian James Corlett (English), Wataru Takagi (Japanese)
Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)
Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars
Cheetor became involved in a series of one-on-one battles when the discovery of the super-powerful Energon Quartz on Earth led several Maximals and Predacons to attempt obtaining the Quartz's powers for their own gain.
Cheetor could also partake in various other tasks, such as a mission to break a boulder to reveal an energon crystal hidden within before sundown, using a block in a mission to defend himself against various incoming projectiles, and missions to run across a pit-riddled field, sometimes involving hideously large bacteria he had to fend off.
Cheetor eventually defeated Megatron, the last bot standing between the Quartz and himself. Once the crystal was in his possession, Cheetor absorbed its power, becoming the most powerful of the Maximals. This allowed him to soar through the ranks and become Supreme Commander. This position was more than he could handle, however, and he abandoned his post after only three days. Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars
3D Battle-Card Game
Cheetor, in his Transmetal 2 body, was one of Optimus's many allies in a fight against Megatron's own army, in what might possibly have been an inter-universe battle. Energon Wars Expansion Set
Transformers Legends
During a tectonic upshift, a huge amount of Energon was exposed. Cheetor and the other Maximals found themselves the victims of a Predacon ambush as they tried to secure the Energon themselves, and the cache ultimately fell into Predacon hands. Beast Wars On their return to Cybertron, the Maximals discovered that Megatron had conquered the planet, and they were forced to face his Vehicon generals. Beast Machines
Transformers: Battle Tactics
Cheetor participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He appeared in three different bodies:
- Cheetor — This Rare character was available as a reward in the "Beast Wars: Episode 1" event.
- Cheetor Transmetal II — This Super Rare character was first available as a reward to 2500 players in the "Transmetals: Episode 3" mini events.
- Cheetor Transmetal — This Epic character was first available as a reward to 2500 players in the third "Transmetals 2: Episode 1" mini event, and could be recruited by collecting 650 units of Cybermetal, 350 units of Transmetal, 150 exclusive cores, and 50 cores of this character.
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Transformers: Earth Wars
- Class: Special
- Lowest Star Rating: 2 star
- Ability: Bestial Fury - For 15 seconds, use melee attacks dealing 37.8 damage. Destroy buildings to increase your attack and movement speeds by 25% - the buff lasts 90 seconds and can stack 5 times.
- Cost: 4 ability points +2 for reuses.
Cheetor at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki
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- Cheetor was initially developed as a cougar with the name of "Prowl", indicating that he was likely meant to be the Generation 1 character in a new form and providing the genesis of Cheetor's head design. A retool of the toy into a lion form of Optimus Prime (alternately an unrelated character) with a flocked mane was also planned, but ultimately dropped.[2][3]
- Mainframe Entertainment's original plan for Transmetal Cheetor was to have his face mature over the course of the season, from a big-eared, wide-eyed, rounded face into one close to the toy. Also, he would have had a "Hero's Heart" which glowed after completing brave or heroic feats, somewhat akin to the classic anime character Astro Boy. Due to time and financial restrictions, none of these concepts panned out.
- Transmetal 2 Cheetor's upper arms in both the cartoon and his card art have the shoulders swapped when compared to the toy due to a misassembled prototype of the toy being used as reference. In the art and his model, his left arm features a metallic shoulder and an organic forearm, while the right has an organic shoulder and a metallic forearm. This prototype can be found on the back of Deluxe Transmetal 2 packaging in the cross-sell section (image at right), and also features brown stripes, much like the card art. Evidence suggesting that this prototype was misassembled and that a last minute change didn't occur last-second before the toy's release comes from original toy concept art from Takara which has the arms in the exact same orientation as the final toy.[4] If one really feels that strongly about having the arms on their toy in the same orientation as the prototype, both of the shoulders and the elbows are on ball joints and can easily be swapped to match.
- Comic Bom Bom advertisements for the Game Boy Color's Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars feature Cheetor with a slightly different (and much happier) head than the version which appeared in the game's instruction manual. Both are sickeningly cute, though.
- Though most early artwork for Beast Machines character designs were very different from the final product, Cheetor's design seems to have changed very little, with only the green being downplayed in his color scheme.
- In Japanese media, Cheetor has the quirk of ending sentences in a long, stressed "Jān", like a cute kitty growl. Cheetor also has the tendency to say "Woooow!" and speak English phrases (such as "beast mode") in a pronounced American accent to emphasize his cool, carefree attitude. In addition to all that, whenever firing his weapon, he would always shout "utsumashi!" ("fire!").
- A series of unusual decisions was made regarding Cheetor and Tigatron in the Beast Wars: Transmetals game's localization. In the Japanese version of the game, Cheetor has a red-tinged set of "Player 2" colors and an unlockable "Player 3" color scheme obviously based on Tigatron. The North American version of the game adds Tigatron as a playable character; instead of reassigning the pre-existing "Player 3" colors to him, a new color scheme that looked less like Tigatron was created for him. Furthermore, Cheetor's Japanese "Player 2" colors were eliminated entirely and his original Tigatron-themed colors were kept.
- According to Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II, Cheetor likes pie.
- In the 2021 Beast Wars comic, Cheetor's Cybertronian body incorporates traits from his 2006 Timelines toy with the inclusion of the hooped wheels, visor, and vehicle mode from his canceled Transtech toy. Of course, the latter characteristics would eventually serve as the basis for Animated Cheetor.[5]
Foreign names
- Japanese: Cheetus[6] (チータス Chītasu), Cheetor (チーター Chītā)
- French: Vélocitor (cartoon, "Speedor")
- Italian: Ghepard ("Cheet"), Metal Ghepard (Transmetal toy)
- Korean: Cheeto (치토 Chito)
- Indonesian: Sidor
- Polish: Gepardon ("Cheetodon")
- Mandarin: Bàozi (Taiwan, 豹子, "Leopard"), Huābào (Taiwan Beast Machines, 花豹, "Leopard"), Huáng Bào (China Beast Wars, 黄豹, "Yellow Leopard"), Bào Sīlìng (China Beast Machines, 豹司令, "Commander Leopard")
- Russian: Geptor
- Spanish: Chitor (Spain), Chitah (America, "Cheetah")
References
- ↑ Kingdom webpage
- ↑ Hasbro concept presentation for McDonald's collaboration
- ↑ Beast Generations
- ↑ Transmetal 2 Cheetor concept art - on TFRAW.com
- ↑ Josh Burcham on twitter
- ↑ The "Cheetus" Romanization is consistently used in Japanese media. An exception would be the Complete Manual, the official strategy guide for the Strongest Decisive Battle video game, which used "Cheetas".
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