Discmaster

Diskmaster is a martial art from the Beast Wars era of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Diskmaster is a martial combat style using explosive disks in combat, usually in both robot and alternate forms. Disks may be rigged to explode at the time and place of the master's choosing.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup>

The only known Diskmasters are Mantis and Autolauncher.

Trivia

• the term "Diskmaster" never existed in the Japanese version of the Beast Wars franchise. The term is derived from a turn of phrase found in Autolauncher's Japanese bio card<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup>. 円盤使い, enban tsukai, roughly means "discus user"<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup> in English. The term was rendered as "disc master" (in quotes) when the bio card was fan-translated in the late 90s/early 00s, evidently taking a cue from the various *Masters of the original toyline. The term then stuck around in the English-speaking fandom until it was canonized in the Beast Wars Sourcebook.

Reference

<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> Beast Wars Sourcebook 1 <li id="cite_note-1">[#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://megazarak.hp.infoseek.co.jp/japaspe/second/bd20.html Autolauncher's Japanese bio card] <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> Enban can also be "disc", while tsukai refers to someone who is a "user or manipulator of, wielder, handler" of something.</ol>