Depth Charge (BW)
- Depth Charge is a Transmetal Maximal from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1/Beast Era continuity family.
Depth Charge is a powerful but insubordinate Maximal whose singular goal in life is to hunt down and either capture or destroy Protoform X. He has a joyless, insatiable lust for justice.
French name: Torpille
Spanish name: Manta Raya
Italian name: Abyssal
Fiction
Beast Wars
Voice Actor David Sobolov (US), Kiyoyuki Yanada (Japan)
Depth Charge was a security officer on Colony Omicron when Protoform X broke free and went on a rampage. As the colony's sole survivor, Depth Charge made hunting down "X" his only mission in life. Pursuing Protoform X to places throughout the Universe (including Starbase Rugby) Depth Charge successfully captured Protoform X, and turned him over to the Maximal Elders. The Elders decided that Protoform X should be placed in stasis aboard the Axalon and dumped on an uninhabited world.
Knowing that "Primal would screw it up", Depth Charge continued to monitor the Universe for any trace of Protoform X. The sensors on his Starhopper picked up traces of Protoform X just as he was pulled through a temporal anomaly. The resulting crash left him on prehistoric Earth with a transmetal Manta Ray body, and put him right in the middle of the Beast Wars.
Depth Charge became a wild card for the Maximals. They never knew if he could be counted on, as his pursuit of Rampage always took precedent. In the end, Depth Charge and Rampage met in a final battle (ironically, this engagement was the only one that Depth Charge did NOT want, as he was preoccupied with stopping Megatron from claiming the newly-discovered Nemesis), with Depth Charge shoving an energon crystal through Rampage's spark. The resulting explosion killed both combatants.
IDW Beast Wars Comics
Depth Charge was observed emerging from the water by Magmatron and Drill Bit; due to their chronal displacement, they could see him, but he could not see them.
Universe
Toys
Beast Wars
- Depth Charge (Ultra Transmetal, 1998)
- Japanese ID number: C-46
Universe
- Depthcharge (Ultra, 2004)
