Rampage (BW)
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- Rampage is a Transmetal Predacon from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Rampage (also known as Protoform X) is the awful result of scientific experimentation gone awry. He is a serial killer and cannibal, with an immortal spark that ensures his twisted brand of horror and misery will live on as long as he does (forever, presumably). Rampage detects and draws strength from the emotions of others, literally feeding on the pain and suffering he causes. As an unwilling conscript to the Predacons he is contemptuous (at best) of the rest of his team, typically bored and uncooperative on missions, and frequently sneaks off for his own purposes to try to relieve his boredom in the most cruel and horrible ways possible.
Spanish name: Rampante
European-market name: Granchior
French name: Furibo
Fiction
Timelines: Dawn of Future's Past
While preparing for a deep-space exploration mission, the Maximal crew of the Axalon stopped for a few weeks at a space station. Here, Rhinox helped acquire a mysterious complement to their cargo, a very large protoform branded with an X. The Axalon was ordered to dispose of "Protoform X" on a barren moon somewhere in the Alpha Quadrant. However, before its captain, Optimus Primal, was able to explain the circumstances fully to his crew, they were suddenly under even newer orders to pursue a stolen Predacon ship, the Darksyde. Subsequently, the Axalon followed the Darksyde through a transwarp portal and crashlanded on a mysterious planet.Dawn of Future's Past
Beast Wars
- Voice Actor: Campbell Lane (English); Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese)
Protoform X was a Maximal experiment to recreate Starscream's mutant, immortal Spark. Though argueably successful in this regard, the creation was unstable. In point of fact, he was criminally insane. He destroyed Colony Omicron, killing all of its inhabitants save a lone security officer, Depth Charge, who would eventually track him down and capture him. Afterwards, the Maximal Elders had him placed into a stasis pod aboard an exploration vessel, the Axalon. They instructed its commander, Optimus Primal, to dump him on some barren world in deep space.
Protoform X was one of the several stasis pods jettisoned by Optimus when the Axalon was damaged by Megatron's Predacons, and only fell out of orbit far into the Beast Wars. Battle near his stasis pod shocked him into activation, and he promptly set out to terrorize all nearby Transformers. (Alright, who's bright idea was it to allow the homicidal maniac to keep his weapons!?) After he was defeated, Megatron discovered him and, using a blade of pure Energon, removed a portion of his indestructible spark. Dubbing him "Rampage," Megatron placed the removed portion of Rampage's spark in a special cage lined with Energon crystals, which allowed him to torture him whenever Megs desired, thereby forcing Rampage to swear fealty.
Though a violent sociopath, Rampage was not without compassion. He found a kindred spirit in the badly damaged Transmutate, and sought to protect it from the other Predacons. When Transmutate was killed, Rampage bellowed in grief. Transmutate
Later, Depth Charge arrived on prehistoric Earth with the single-minded goal of destroying Rampage. Rampage was beside himself in joy, eager for revenge on his old "playmate". Depth Charge's loss had embittered him, and Rampage used this emotional wound to torment the Maximal. They met in battle numerous times, fairly evenly matched. While Megatron was retrieving the submerged Decepticon craft Nemesis, Depth Charge met Rampage in battle one last time. At the battle's climax, Rampage allowed Depth Charge to kill him with a shard of raw Energon, resulting in a fantastic explosion which destroyed both. Rampage won even in death, laughing maniacally in triumph as Depth Charge made the final stabbing blow.
Except that Depth Charge came back to life.
Beast Wars Metals manga
He ate Primal's head.
Beast Wars Transmetals Playstation game
Toys
Beast Wars
- Rampage (Ultra Transmetal, 1998)
- Japanese ID number: D-41
- Rampage transformed into a transmetal king crab with a tank mode, which used rubber treads. In beast mode Rampage features fully articulated crab legs and pincers that could open and close and be posed in a variety of angles through the use of ratcheting joints. His tri-barrel gattling missile launcher was stored on the underside of the beast mode, with its barrels flipping to the front during vehicle mode. In this tank mode, the crab legs fit together to form a road wheel network for Rampage's rubber treads to be fitted over and roll upon. Rolling the tank activated the wheel in the missile launcher, having up to three missiles fire off.
- In robot mode Rampage is an imposingly large figure, with a decent level of articulation due to his ball joints, but because of the fact he wears most of his beast mode as a sort of backpack, he is quite back-heavy. His (very) small laser rifle and his triple barrel launcher can be held in both of his hands.
- The location of four of the crab legs in the show is not accurate to the toy; the show has the legs on the shoulder pads, whereas the toy situates the legs on Rampage's arms.
- This toy was later redecoed into the BotCon 2000-exclusive Shokaract.
Trivia
- According to the series background materials published in the Beast Wars Universe guidebook, Rampage's body was supposed to have been constructed out of leftover G1-era technology seen in the Great War due to the lack of know-how for Protoform technology.
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