Scorponok (BW)
| The name or term "Scorponok" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Scorponok (disambiguation). |
- Scorponok is a Predacon from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Scorponok's personality seems to have two main features: he's dumb and he's loyal to Megatron (surprisingly so, considering Megatron's other crew members), and among those two features only the loyalty seems to be consistent. He tries to serve Megatron to the best of his abilities, but when Waspinator is able to outwit you there's only so much you have to offer.
Scorponok was Megatron's second-in-command on the Darksyde, though he is insecure about the title and constantly tries to assert himself among the other Predacons who, aware of his shortcomings, generally dismiss or ignore him.
Scorponok's only other real contribution to Megatron's cause is in developing cyber-viruses that he delivers with his cyberbee drone. (Impressive actually, given his otherwise limited mentality.) Generally these don't work out as he hoped however, and so they've done little to increase his standing in the eyes of the other Predacons.
- Italian name: Scorpionok
- Japanese name: Scorpos
Fiction
Animated continuity
Timelines: Dawn of Future's Past
The Predacon that would be called Scorponok, his commander Megatron, and his commander's lieutenant stole the sacred Maximal relic, the Golden Disk. After battling through the relic's guards, the thieves were picked up by their other comrades in a stolen ship newly-dubbed the Darksyde. After a space battle with the Axalon, the Chromia 10, and an unidentified Predacon ship, only the Axalon and the Darksyde survived to pass through a transwarp portal to an unknown destination. Dawn of Future's Past
Beast Wars
- Voice actor: Don Brown (US) Masashi Endo (Japan)
Crash-landing on an unknown planet, Scorponok and his peers were forced to take on organic beast modes to shield themselves from the planet's dangerous levels of raw energon. Scorponok now transformed into an organic scorpion.
Scorponok died along with Terrorsaur when the two, affected by the transwarp wave that turned Megatron into Transmetal tumbled into the lava beneath the Predacon base during the explosion of the Vok's artificial moon. No one much noticed.
Toys
Beast Wars
- Scorponok (1996)
- Japanese ID number: D-2
Scorponok transforms into a fairly organic but highly inaccurate black scorpion. The right claw contains a small bee drone type gimmick which could be launched. It also features exactly the same transformation as pretty much every Scorponok toy ever.
- Scorponok (Transmetal, Happy Meal, 1998)
Since Scorponok got killed off in order to introduce new prod... er, CHARACTERS, he was granted a "Transmetal" toy as a Happy Meal premium. He transforms like every other Scorponok, except his shoulders could never go lower than a few degrees from pointing up, meaning all he could do is "raise the roof". It's cast mostly in gauche magenta and "metallic" gold.
Trivia
- Scorponok was first advertised on the back of the Optimus Primal versus Megatron two-pack at the start of the Beast Wars line with a completely different color scheme. The toy itself was cast completely in transparent orange and blue plastic, which would have made it remarkably fragile at the joints. Another version cast in pink translucent plastic and having the final claw coloration surfaced in 2006, although this could likely be explained by the random plastics used in test shots.
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