Magmatron (BW)
- Magmatron is a Predacon and a Dinobot in the Beast Wars and Beast Machines portions of the Generation 1 continuity
As befits a decorated Warrior-General Magmatron is capable of both elegant, reasoned judgement and wild, vicious action. Once he has set his sights on a goal his drive to achieve it is unwavering and he will accept nothing less than total victory. Despite these atributes, and prodigious physical power, Magmatron's greatest advantage often lies in his charismatic leadership. Reveared and admired by his soldiers, Magmatron fits the title "Emperor of Destruction" better than most.
On the surface Magmatron seems to have much in common with Megatron. Both are schemers and planners, willing to subvert the established Predacon power structure to suit their plans and ultimate ambition for power. Their key difference lies in their relationships to that power structure. Megatron is at heart a rebel, working outside existing society. Magmatron, on the other hand, values his position of power and eminence in the current Predacon hierarchy, and though he schemes to someday stand at the top of that body, he is unwilling to risk his current high-standings any more than he must even to achieve those future goals.
Magmatron possesses a mitotic spark which allows him to seperate into three dinosaur forms called Landsaur, Seasaur, and Skysaur.
Fiction
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
Voice actor: Show Ryuzanji (Japan)
After the defeat of Galvatron, Magmatron became the new Predacon Emperor of Destruction. A loyal and effective servent to the cause of Predacon equality on Cybertron, Magmatron was perfectly suited for the job. He had a long-standing rivalry with Big Convoy, though there was a mutual respect between the two enemies.
On board his ship the Dinosaur, he tracked Big Convoy and his Maximal recruits to the planet Gaia where he learned of the Angolmois capsules that had been launched from the self-destructing Nemesis. Magmatron immediately set a course to track them down, desiring their incredible power. Competing with Big Convoy, Magmatron secured numerous capsules for the Predacons.
However, he did not keep them long. The Blentrons, a trio of super-powerful and freakish Transformers, stole the capsules from both factions. As it turned out, the Angolmois energy was really the lifeforce of Unicron. Offering up Galvatron's corpse as a new body, the Blentrons released the Angolmois energy and Unicron was reborn.
Magmatron immediately challenged the Chaos Bringer but was quickly vanquished into a wormhole, leaving his crew of Predacons leaderless and rather ineffective. Magmatron escaped the wormhole toward the end of the Unicron battle, after Unicron had possessed Vector Sigma, and willingly fought side-by-side with Big Convoy and the Maximals to stop their mutual enemy.
After a lengthy battle, Unicron was defeated and driven from Vector Sigma by Big Convoy's Matrix Buster. Putting aside their rivalry, Big Convoy and Magmatron formed an alliance. The Maximals and Predacons then worked side-by-side and hand-in-hand to rebuild their ravaged planet.
Beast Wars Neo manga
Magmatron and all his forces were changed into Transformers from actual animals by the power of the Angolmois capsules. Magmatron and Big Convoy battled across the cosmos, until Magmatron was finally felled by the might of Unicron. In his dying moments, he repented of his wrong-doings, and indeed, Big Convoy struck the blow that finished Unicron once and for all with Magmatron's own sword.
Universe: The Wreckers comics
Magmatron had become the leader of the new Dinobots, and led them to a mission given to them by the Oracle. The mission was a trap, and Magmatron and his Dinobots were attacked by the Trans-Organics.
IDW Beast Wars comics
Magmatron is a schemer, and forms an elegant and tightly-knit plan to travel backwards in time to prehistoric Earth and reprogram all of the remaining protoform Maximals into Predacons.
Tired of waiting for the Tripredacus Council to act, Magmatron recruited a small band of disenchanted warriors. Keeping his plans secret until the last moment, he revealed that the Council has ordered him to pick up where their previous agent failed: capture the rogue Megatron.
Chronally displacing his crew, so that they cannot be detected by the beast warriors who are already there, they set to work. He ordered Razorbeast to begin activating the stasis pods while Spittor, Manterror, Transquito, and Iguanus reported on their progress. They witnessed the birth of three Predacons, but Spittor was greeted by the Maximal Polar Claw. More Maximals were spotted, revealing Razorbeast as a spy. The red warthog escaped into the wilderness. The Gathering, Part 1
Once his new army was assembled, Magmatron ordered them to hunt down the Maximals. Drill Bit and Spittor, however, accompanied Magmatron on his personal quest to find Razobeast. He located the spy and quickly gained the upper hand with his three dinosaur modes. But Razorbeast pulled a fast one, and buried the Predacon leader beneath a mountainside. Magmatron soon recouped his losses though, by recovering the spark of Tripredacus agent, Ravage. The Gathering, Part 2
Iguanus, having located a blank protoform, assisted Magmatron with rebirthing Ravage in a new, Transmetal 2 body. After issuing seek-and-destroy orders to his new lieutenant, Magmatron set forth on his next mission. He located Megatron, and the two engaged. Megatron insisted that Magmatron was foolish for coming after him alone, like Ravage, but Magmatron was not alone. Iguanus and Drill Bit ambushed Megatron.
With the transwarp shunt set up and ready to send Megatron into the hands of the Council, it was with reluctance that Mamatron again did battle. This time, an intruding Grimlock challenged the Predacon schemer. A tough fight, Magmatron's triple beast modes eventually won out. Grimlock was enough of a distraction, however, to let Razorbeast and Optimus Minor enter his camp. Magmatron was thwarted by Razorbeast in hand-to-hand combat. As the Predacon lunged toward Minor, who is sitting upon the unconscious Megatron, the monkey activated a chronal displacement device. This sent Megatron back into his own chronal place, making Magmatron stumble onto the transwarp shunt. Razorbeast activated it, sending the warlord back to Cyberton, unaccomplished. The Gathering, Part 4
Toys
Beast Wars Neo
- Magmatron (Ultra, 1999)
- Japanese ID number: D-35
- Magmatron was first available in Japan, both individually and in a two-pack with Big Convoy. He transforms into three dinosaurs - a terradon, a Tyrannosaurus, and a plesiasaur. The three can combine into some horrible, chimeric dragon-like creature, though it's somewhat disturbing.
Beast Machines
- Magmatron (Ultra, 2000)
- For Beast Machines, Magmatron was brought over in a box that reflected his Japanese origin. He was only slightly changed from his original release, with his missiles and sword "rounded off" in order to better conform with US safety laws. He was available as an exclusive to Target stores.
