Transquito
- Transquito is a Predacon from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Transquito excels at tracking down Maximals. Although he is a great hunter, when he finds his prey he may easily be outsmarted. He compensates for this with his highly effective weaponry, and can keep a group of Maximals occupied, annoyed, or downright demented until more Predacons arrive to back him up. Since Transquito's personality has much the same effect on his comrades as his weapons do on his enemies, though, whether other Predacons will choose to come to his aid at all is a bit of a toss-up.
- French-Canadian name: Dipteron
- Italian name: Zanzara
Fiction
3H Tales of the Beast Wars comics
During the final battle with Shokaract, several realities converged into a single, apocalyptic timestorm. Beast Warriors from alternate realities emerged, including Transquito, Cybershark, B'Boom, Drill Bit, Air Hammer, Polar Claw and unidentified others, though all of them were summarily defeated. Unlike most of the others, Transquito was defeated not by Shokaract, but by Sandstorm, a suppossed ally, who revealed himself to be one of Shokaract's heralds, for the sole purpose of lowering Shokaract's guard, so that he can be hurt now. Transquito was just bait, a sacrificial lamb, and he wasn't even from that reality. Terminus
IDW Beast Wars comics
Magmatron recruited Transquito, along with Drill Bit, Spittor, Iguanus, Manterror, and Razorbeast. Magmatron's plan was to use the abandoned stasis pods on prehistoric Earth to build an army and take over Cybertron. Upon arrival, Magmatron sent Transquito and the others to watch over the stasis pods as they were activated. Transquito witnessed the birth of Jetstorm.
Razorbeast was revealed as a Maximal spy when Maximals started coming out of the pods he had activated. After Spittor was attacked by Polar Claw, Transquito surveyed his own area. From the sky, he saw Insecticon scuffling with Wolfang, and another group of Maximals banding together. The Gathering, Part 1 Magmatron ordered his new army to hunt down the Maximals.
While investigating a swampy area with Powerpinch, Retrax, Scourge, and Insecticon, Transquito is attacked by Icebird. Several other Predacons are taken down by the Mutants, who declare that no Maximal or Predacon is welcome in their home. The Gathering, Part 3
He survived, and later tried to compare Rartorarta to his teammate Injector. He then used his entire supply of nerve weaponry on Rartorarta, enough to kill the average transformer, but just enough to stun a Blendtron. Transquito then had to accompany the best of the best back to Cybertron to battle Shokaract (see a trend here). He was last seen as part of an air attack squadron led by Noctorro. Whether he survived this battle with Shokaract is unknown. At least he wasn't the main sacrificial lamb this time. The Ascending
Toys
Beast Wars
- Transquito (Mega, 1997)
- Accessories: Missile
- Transquito transforms into an organic mosquito. In this mode, a push-switch on his back makes his insect wings slide back and forth. His insect-mode proboscis is actually a spring-loaded missile that fires from his mouth in robot mode.
- He has a third mode, forming kind of an antlion. Its oversized mandibles are formed by unfolding his wings; the "flapping" gimmick from mosquito mode makes the mandibles close down on victims.
- This mold was used to make Bigmos.
Trivia
- Somewhere in the United States, Transquitos are still sitting on shelves.
