Tarantulas (BW)
- Tarantulas is a Predacon from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1/Beast Era continuity family.
- His name is also officially spelled "Tarantulus".
Tarantulas was one of the Predacons to join Megatron during his theft of the Golden Disc and the search for Earth. In addition to being an utterly insane, sadistic sociopath (even by Predacon standards), Tarantulas has a record for treachery rivaled by few other Transformers. Tarantulas is actually an agent of the Tripredacus Council who is trying to coax the Beast Wars toward an unspecified goal, where neither Autobot or Decepticon won the Great War.
Tarantulas has a particularly notable hatred of the Vok aliens, a hatred strong enough to make him work to eliminate them by any means.
Japanse name: Tarans
Fiction
Animated continuity
Timelines: Dawn of Future's Past
As Megatron and his rogue band of Predacons escaped Cybertron in their stolen ship, the Darksyde, Tarantulas was in charge of scanning the disk for a desired set of coordinates. While Megatron was not watching, he was in secret communications with a member of the Tripredacus Council. (The reflections in his helmet show the silhouette of General Ram Horn.)
Using the decoded coordinates, the Darksyde opened a transwarp portal, which it and the Axalon passed through.
Beast Wars
- Voice actor: Alec Willows (US), Yūichi Nagashima (Japan)
3H Primeval Dawn Comics
3H Universe Comics
Toys
Beast Wars
- Tarantulas (Deluxe, 1996)
- Japanese ID number: D-4
- Tarantulas (Deluxe Transmetal, 1998)
- Japanese ID number: D-44
- Tarantulas (Deluxe "Fox Kids" Transmetal, 1999)
- This toy is a redeco of the Transmetal Tarantulas toy. A "FoxKids!" sticker on the packaging promoted the cartoon, which was playing on Fox at the time.
- Predacon Tarantulus (Tenth Anniversary, 2006)
- This toy is a slight redeco of the original Tarantulas toy. The toy more closely resembles Tarantulas' appearance int he cartoon.
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