Striker
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- Striker is a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dinobot_%28BM%29" title="Dinobot (BM)">Dinobot</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot">Autobot</a> from the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beast_Machines_%28franchise%29" title="Beast Machines (franchise)">Beast Machines</a> portion of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1_%28franchise%29" title="Generation 1 (franchise)">Generation 1</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family" title="Continuity family">continuity family</a>.
[[Image:|right|250px|thumb|Striking a pose.]] Striker is extremely dedicated to the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Maximal" title="Maximal">Maximal</a> cause. Methodical and deliberate in combat, Striker doesn't need <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/T-Wrecks" title="T-Wrecks">T-Wrecks</a> and his Dinobot allies to send scores of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Vehicon_%28BM%29" title="Vehicon (BM)">Vehicons</a> to the scrapyard. Rumor has it that he's actually one of the first generation of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dinobot_%28G1%29" title="Dinobot (G1)">Dinobots</a>.
Striker's <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Oracle" class="mw-redirect" title="Oracle">Oracle</a>-given <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Technorganic" title="Technorganic">technorganic</a> body is able to gather and store electric energy with his spinal plates and release it in powerful long- or short-range attacks. His tail can also create ground tremors that send land-bound Vehicons tumbling. In robot mode, his tail becomes a powerful grappling rocket that draws hapless Vehicons into its crushing jaws!
<a name="Fiction"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Striker&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: Fiction">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Fiction</span></h2> <a name="3H_comics"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Striker&action=edit§ion=2" title="Edit section: 3H comics">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">3H comics</span></h3> The Dinobots were sent to an unnamed planet by the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Oracle" class="mw-redirect" title="Oracle">Oracle</a> in order to awaken the "sleeping giant" for a mysterious purpose. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Departure" title="Departure">Departure</a></span> However, the mission was a fool's errand, arranged by the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Quintesson" title="Quintesson">Quintessons</a> and designed to destroy the Dinobots; the planet was the world where one of their most dangerous creations ever remained a prisoner, the energy-draining <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Trans-Organic" title="Trans-Organic">Trans-Organic</a> creature known as the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dweller" title="Dweller">Dweller</a>. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Betrayal" title="Betrayal">Betrayal</a></span>
In the midst of the battle, Striker mysteriously disappeared into thin air, pulled across time and space by Unicron. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wreckers:_Finale_Part_I" title="Wreckers: Finale Part I">Wreckers: Finale Part I</a></span>
Striker was one of several brainwashed minions of Unicron who greeted the captured <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot">Autobots</a> and Maximals in the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cauldron" title="Cauldron">Cauldron</a>. However, when he attempted to take on gate-crashers <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Primal_%28BW%29" class="mw-redirect" title="Optimus Primal (BW)">Optimus Primal</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Grimlock_%28G1%29" title="Grimlock (G1)">Grimlock</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28Armada%29" title="Megatron (Armada)">Megatron</a>, he was subdued. Primal used his Oracle-enhanced (but now Unicron-limited) <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spark" title="Spark">spark</a> telepathy to reach Striker's inner being, freeing him from Unicron's control. He and many others escaped from the Cauldron and returned to their proper dimensions—in Striker's case, the technorganic Cybertron Primal called home. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Escape_%28Universe_comic%29" title="Escape (Universe comic)">Escape (Universe comic)</a></span>
Once on Cybertron, Striker assisted <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ratchet_%28Universe%29" title="Ratchet (Universe)">Ratchet</a> in trying to remove the Unicron virus from <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sideswipe_%28G1%29" title="Sideswipe (G1)">Sideswipe</a>. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Homecoming_%28issue%29" title="Homecoming (issue)">Homecoming</a></span>
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Striker followed Optimus Primal in battle against <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Reptilion" title="Reptilion">Reptilion</a> and his Decepticons. He was ganged up on by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blackarachnia_%28BW%29" title="Blackarachnia (BW)">Blackarachnia</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Razorclaw_%28Universe%29" title="Razorclaw (Universe)">Razorclaw</a>. Following the Decepticons' abduction, Striker looked on in confusion. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Universe_CD-ROM" title="Universe CD-ROM">Universe CD-ROM</a></span>
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[[Image:|right|225px|thumb|Solar Beam takes one turn to charge.]]
- Striker (Deluxe, 2000)
- Accessories: Tail-weapon
- Striker is a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Redeco" title="Redeco">redeco</a> of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beast_Wars_Neo_%28toyline%29" title="Beast Wars Neo (toyline)">Beast Wars Neo</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Predacon_%28BW%29" title="Predacon (BW)">Destron</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Saberback" title="Saberback">Saberback</a>.
He transforms into a stegosaur and has a third mode that's supposed to look like a dead stegosaur with a giant carnivorous flower growing out of it. No, really. The three "petals" of the flower are spring-loaded and open by pulling on the spinal plate at the tail's base. This gimmick also becomes his hand-held weapon for robot mode. His helmet is evocative of a Native American feather headdress.
- This mold was redecoed to make as <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dinobots_%28toyline%29" title="Dinobots (toyline)">Dinobots</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Snarl_%28Dinobots%29" title="Snarl (Dinobots)">Snarl</a>.
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- Dinobot Striker (Deluxe, 2003)
- Accessories: Tail-weapon
- Striker was redecoed as an <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot">Autobot</a> for the original <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Universe_%282003_franchise%29" title="Universe (2003 franchise)">Universe</a> line, given the modified name Dinobot Striker for stronger trademark protection.
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- If the rumors of Striker being one of the original Generation
1 Dinobots are true, his stegosaur mode and energy absorbing spinal plates strongly point towards his being <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Snarl_%28G1%29" title="Snarl (G1)">Snarl</a>.
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