Nightscream (BM)
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Nightscream is a Maximal character from Beast Machines.
When armies of Vehicons seiged Cybertron, young Nightscream was cast into the darkness below the surface of the planet, and he was alone. His traumatizing solitude influences much of his behavior. He's always on the defensive. He lashes out. He's afraid. There are times he says mean things, or brings up the hurtful past when he should be courteously silent.
But he's just a kid, and he's been through a lot. Inside, he's got a good heart. He's just got to learn to stop fighting friends and enemies alike. He seems to have found a kindred spirit in the wild Noble/Savage creature.
Fiction
Animated continuity
The usual story: Boy hides behind Soundwave imitator. Boy runs like a powerdasher and falls down a hole. Boy wakes up as bat. Boy decides to use this to fight the cowardly and supersti... um, I mean finds a strange fruit tree and lives off it. Other Maximals arive, kill tree, and reformat bat into Bat-boy from Weekly World News (with added boy-band hair). Bat-boy mopes around and cops annoying Annikin-esque attitude with everyone.
Season 2: Bat-boy makes a friend. Friend turns out to be evil villian. Bat-boy mopes around and cop annoying Annakin-esque attitude with everyone again. Bat-boys friend returns as a dragon/puppy dog. Evil villian kills dragon/puppydog. Bat-boy unleashes mary-sue level powers and avenges dragon/puppy dog. Everyone (except Waspinator) lives happily ever after.
Beast Machines
Voice Actor: Alessandro Juliani (US), Nobutoshi Canna (Japan)
Universe: The Wreckers comics
Toys
Beast Machines
- Nightscream (Ultra, 2000)
- Nightscream (Happy Meal toy, 2000)
Beast Wars Returns
- Nightscream (Ultra, 2005)
- Japanese ID number: BR-09
Trivia
Story editor Bob Skir originaly wanted the character of Nightscream to be a young female Transformer, patterned after the girl "Newt" from the movie Aliens. When the powers that be nixed that he instead pattered him after the rebelous young John Conner in Terminator 2.
