Striker
Striker is a Dinobot from the Beast Machines era of Generation 1.
Striker is extremely dedicated to the Maximal cause. Methodical and deliberate in combat, Striker doesn't need T-Wrecks and his Dinobot allies to send scores of Vehicons to the scrapyard. Rumor has it that he's actually one of the first generation of Dinbots .
Striker's Oracle given technorganic body is able to gather and store electric energy with his spinal plates and release it in powerful long or short range attacks. His tail can effect the gravitation field and smash Vehicons to the ground. In robot mode, his tail becomes a powerful grappling rocket that draws hapless Vehicons into its crushing jaws!
(His form and energy gathering plates suggest that if he truely is a G1 Dinobot then Snarl is the most likely cannidate, and indeed the same mold was latter used as Snarl.)
Fiction
Beast Machines
Striker was one of the survivors of Megatron's virus and Vehicon invasion. Together with a group of like survivors he was reformated by the Oracle, using DNA information from the fallen Beast Wars Maximal Dinobot, into new technorganic dinosaur forms, to help in the battle against Megatron's vehicons. Thus, the new Dinobots were born.
3H Wreckers Comics
The Dinobots were sent to an unnamed planet by the Oracle, in order to awaken the "sleeping giant" for a mysterious purpose. However, the mission was a fool's errand, arranged by the Quintessons and designed to destroy the Dinobots; the planet was the world where one of their most dangerous creations ever remained a prisoner, the energy-draining Trans-Organic creature known as the Dweller.
(Note: Striker was not visible among the Dinobot survivors at Spaceport CSSB-16. However, according to 3H writers, a future -ultimately unpublished- issue of Wreckers would show that Striker was in fact pulled from the battle with the Dweller by agents of Unicron.)
3H Universe Comics
Striker was one of several brainwashed minions of Unicron who greeted the captured Autobots and Maximals in the Cauldron. However, when he attempted to take on gate-crashers Optimus Primal, Grimlock and Megatron, he was subdued. Primal used his Oracle-enhanced (but limited by the powers of Unicron) spark telepathy to reach Striker's inner being, freeing him from Unicron's control. He and many others escaped form the Cauldron and returned to his proper dimension... in Striker's case, the technorganic Cybertron Primal called home.
Once on Cybertron, Striker assisted Ratchet in trying to remove the Unicron virus from Sideswipe.
Toys
Beast Machines
Striker is a redeco of the Beast Wars Neo Destron Saberback. Despite the toys not looking it, all the BM dinbots are intended to be technorganics story wise. He transforms into a stegosaur, and has a third mode that's supposed to look like a dead stegosaur with a giant carnivorous flower growing out of it. His helmet is evocative of a Native American feather headdress.
The same mold is used for Dinobots Snarl.
Universe
Striker was redecoed as an Autobot for the Universe line, given the modified name Dinobot Striker for stronger trademark protection.
External Links
(origial BM release)
(TF:U release with extended tech-spec bio)
