The Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!
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| "The Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!" ビースト星の大決定戦
(Beast-sei no Daiketteisen) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | TV Magazine | ||||||||||||
| First published | August 1987 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Masumi Kaneda | ||||||||||||
| Penciler | Ban Magami | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | TV Magazine continuity | ||||||||||||
With White Leo and Rodimus Prime away, the Decepticons and their Beastformer allies make another attempt to conquer planet Beast.
Synopsis
[edit]With White Leo away on some business, the Decepticons and their unit of evil Beastformers seize the opportunity to launch a second assault on Planet Beast. Responding to an SOS from the Autobot Beastformers, Rodimus Prime deploys Fortress and his team of Headmasters to investigate.
Highbrow and Brainstorm discover Alligatron and Predaking attacking a unit of Autobot Beastformers and quickly swoop in. Allowing themselves to be captured, they give the Autobot Beastformers enough time to escape. Elsewhere, Hardhead and Chromedome are being attacked by the "Heat-sucking Vegetation", Reprogamma; spikey flora that suck energy out of robots somehow. At the last minute, however, they are rescued by Kane and the other Autobot Beastformers that sent the distress signal. After telling his life story, Kane, the Autobot Beastformers, Chromedome and Hardhead sneak over to the Decepticon camp.
There, Galvatron chuckles over his capture of Highbrow and Brainstorm. Alligatron wishes to use them as bait to lure White Leo into a trap, while Weirdwolf, Skullcruncher and Mindwipe simply ask that they be given the Autobots' transtectors after they're done with them. With no time left to wait for White Leo to arrive, Kane distracts the Decepticon Headmasters, giving Highbrow and Brainstorm the chance to break free. The Decepticon Beastformers ready themselves to attack, only to quickly be massacred by a storm of arrows. White Leo has returned!
White Leo, along with his back-up unit of Autobot Beastformers, waste no time in chopping several Decepticon Beastformers in half. Meanwhile, the Trainbots arrive and quickly transform into Raiden. Defeating Predaking with a mighty "J.R. Kick", they free the Autobot Beastformers still being held captive. Elsewhere, Kane is about to be eaten alive by the Decepticon Headmasters when the Autobot Headmasters show up to his rescue. Combining their firepower into the "Headmaster Grand Laser", they defeat the Decepticon Headmasters. Galvatron orders all Decepticons to return to Chaar, save for Alligatron and the Decepticon Beastformers, whom he leaves to fend for themselves.
The Autobots savor their victory, relieved that White Leo and the Trainbots returned from Athenia just in the nick of time.
Featured characters
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Notes
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- This issue takes place some time after the Headmasters episode "Rebellion on Planet Beast", when the Transformers first met the Beastformers, but before "Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1", which begins the story which writes Rodimus Prime out of the series.
- This is Kane's only appearance in fiction. He is never mentioned in any of the pack-in and tie-in stories for the Beastformers line going forward, which admittedly makes sense as he was likely entirely the brainchild of manga author Masumi Kaneda, who loved adding orphaned kids adopted by Transformers to the stories. But even when the story of the Beastformers was eventually picked up again decades later in the Transformers Legends comic, a piece of media not shy about bringing back obscure characters, Kane was nowhere to be found in it.
- Hordes of Sharkticons are shown alongside Predaking, which makes no sense from a Western perspective, as the Sharkticons were allies of the Quintessons and not the Decepticons. However, this is consistent with the story told in the pack-in catalog from the first series of Beastformers toys; "real-world toy marketing " plays a heavy role here. In Japan, the Sharkticon toy was never sold at normal retail, and initially was only available as a mail-away lottery prize by sending in five filled-out questionnaires that were packed in with the first assortment of Beastformers toys. On top of that, in the Japanese canon, the Sharkticons were labeled as "Animatrons", the Japanese name for the Predacons, thus their appearance alongside Predaking.
- The Monsterbots were left behind on planet Beast in "Rebellion on Planet Beast" for the sole purpose of protecting it from further Decepticon activity, yet no mention of them is made whatsoever. They'll later be shown amongst the Autobot forces in outer space in "Head Formation of Friendship", so perhaps they were called away from Beast sometime prior to this adventure.
