Inferno (BW)
| The name or term "Inferno" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Inferno (disambiguation). |
- Inferno is a Predacon in the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Inferno wholeheartedly believes that he is an ant and that Megatron is his queen. Unlike many Predacons, he has no personal ambitions or future plans; everything he does is for the good of the colony and his queen. Luckily for Inferno, many of the tasks his queen assigns him involve burning things - and he likes burning things.
Keeping with his ant mentality, Inferno has absolutely no regard for his own personal safety whatsoever. He is fanatically loyal to Megatron, and as such will use his heavy firepower and incredible strength full-on and take any task given of him, no matter how suicidal. And he'll do it laughing maniacally the entire time, for the glory of the colony.
Spanish name: Infierno
Fiction
Animated continuity
Beast Wars
- Voice Actor: Jim Byrnes (US), Shinichiro Miki (Japan)
When Inferno's stasis pod crashed to prehistoric Earth, Tarantulas and Blackarachnia immediately set out to claim him as their own. Unfortunantly, Inferno had been awakened automatically, having scanned the form of a fire ant. Moreover, due to the damage his pod received entering the atmosphere, Inferno was wholly convinced that he was an actual fire ant and that his stasis pod was his "colony". Airazor arrived at the scene and is immediately attacked by Inferno and Blackarachnia. Durring the fight Tarantulas escaped with the stasis pod, which was his real goal, and an enraged Inferno followed. Persuing the Predacons, Tigatron was able to destroy the stasis pod before Tarantulas was able to get it to his lab. This act put Inferno completely over the edge and he (if possible) went even crazier. Before he could finish Tigatron off however, Optimus and Airazor showed up and blew him to bits. However, Megatron took an immediate shine to the brutish psychopath and had him restored, possibly with some mental improvements, and thereafter Inferno was fanatically loyal to Megatron (thinking of him as his "Queen"). A few death threats changed Inferno's words to calling Megatron "The Royalty."
In subsequent skirmishes, he killed Tigatron's mate, discovered and recovered the Alien Disk, and was sent to assassinate the treacherous Tarantulas, though the latter ended in temporary defeat while the Vok's Planet Buster ravaged the planet's surface.
When Ravage arrived in the Beast Wars and Megatron's troops were scattered, Inferno sacrificed himself by detonating a huge cache of Energon in a failed attempt to defeat the Maximals. Despite his apparent vaporization, he revived yet again, though with several holes in his chassis.
As the Beast Wars conflict escalated, Inferno's importance and intimidation factor declined. When he was sent (alongside Quickstrike and Waspinator) to destroy a protohuman settlement, not only was he beaten severly by the cavemen, he was also accidently killed when he was caught in the Nemesis' firing range.
His head was used thereafter by the protohumans as a drum.
Tales of the Beast Wars: Critical Mass
IDW Beast Wars comics
Toys
Beast Wars
- Inferno
- Japanese ID number: D-11
Beast Wars Metals
- Metals Inferno
- Japanese ID number: D-46
Trivia
- No one knows exactly how Inferno's beast mode became so dominant; his stasis pod was perfectly intact upon landing, thus ruling out any problems due to damaged circuitry, and Tarantulas' other attempts at reprogramming Maximals caused no such glitch in personality. The primary theory given is that - as Inferno's pod was already in the midsts of a scan for an altmode when Tarantulas administered the shell program - the interruption caused by this interference created the glitch.
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