Agoraptor

Agoraptor is a Decepticon from the AllSpark Wars game portion of the movie continuity family.

He'll cut his own legs off for the cause. Now that's a fanatic.

Agoraptor is a mean, nasty fanatic who will do anything for his cause. Though his lack of any special charisma, military prowess, or ability to instill loyalty would normally bar him from Decepticon leadership- he believes his mandate confers the position onto him.

Expects the same fanatical devotion from his followers that his mission inspires in himself—but guards knowledge of that mission jealously, issuing orders to his troops in the form of cryptic (and odious) poetry that only the worthy will be able to decipher. Imagines that sole knowledge of this grand design makes him indispensable.

Agoraptor's origins are obscure. He and the Autobot Agoracer both speak a Cybertronian dialect the Earthbound Autobots and Decepticons do not, and both share a design flaw that caused their scanners to melt when entering Earth's atmosphere. Little else is known beyond the obvious- that Agoracer pursued him to Earth, intent on stopping him.

Agoraptor had particular difficulty picking up the English language, and even after his language decoder caught up was prone to chronic misspellings. Homonyms such as "you're" and "your" give him particular trouble.

Though he commands enough hidden knowledge and resources to unite the Decepticon forces under him, Agoraptor is continually frustrated by his inability to command their loyalty.

Do not question what you do not know.Agoraptor, October 25, 2007, "The Rise"

Games

AllSpark Wars

Agoraptor arrived on Earth after the Battle of Mission City and discovered Optimus Prime's Autobots were in stasis lock around the globe. Following rumors that reactivating Prime's forces would somehow lead to Decepticon dominion over Earth, Agoraptor began coordinating troops to reconstruct the fractured AllSpark for the glory of the Decepticons. Agoraptor erected a blocking tower to stop the scattered Autobots and Decepticons from communicating with one another. The tower was eventually destroyed by Agoracer.

Communications unblocked, Agoraptor organized the Decepticons into battles to capture the AllSpark fragments. With both Autobots and Decepticons forced to transmit over open communications lines, Agoracer and Agoraptor began to communicate with their troops in codes and riddles, hoping their people would understand the meaning while the other side would not. While Agoraptor favored cryptic poetry for Decepticon communications, Agoracer tended towards pop-culture references or puns for the Autobots.

Despite such measures, the Autobots were able to decipher a critical Decepticon message—revealing the location of Megatron—before the Decepticons could. The Autobots soon won an unexpectedly overwhelming victory, capturing enough AllSpark fragments to revive Optimus Prime in America. Some time later, Bumblebee was also revived. The Autobots pressed the fight even as Agoraptor attempted a desperate plan to acquire additional, previously unknown AllSpark fragments, and they were able to revive Ratchet.

This was too much for the Decepticons, and Agoraptor fled Earth, promising to try again. AllSpark Wars

Notes

• While the character of Agoraptor (appearing as part of a video game, however tangentially) is undeniably official, the character art (pictured above) is not; all copyrights on the winning Design Contest entries were retained by the artists. Yet the ARG's storyline also included a mention that Agoraptor had adopted this form. So he officially has a character design which Hasbro does not own. Normally, that sort of thing would be undesirable from a legal standpoint, but the game with which Agoraptor is associated features Transformers scanning new vehicle modes like humans change clothes, so it's mostly a non-issue.
• Agoraptor's name, like that of his Autobot counterpart, Agoracer, is a reference to Agora Games, the company which managed the Allspark Wars community.

External links

• Agoracer's post history