Scylla (BW)
- Scylla is a Predacon Seacon from the Beast Wars II portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Scylla (スキュウレ Sukyūre, pronounced "skyoo-le") is a pirate wench, and proud of it! The second strongest of the Seacon Space Pirate team, Scylla uses her powerful beast mode in battle. Very fast under water, her greatest attack is the "Kiss of Death."
Scylla fell madly in love with the Maximal Scuba at first sight, and pursues him tirelessly... in spite of the fact that the Maximal Bighorn is in love with her, a fact to which she seems quite oblivious.
Put delicately, despite her manifold virtues, Scylla is not the brightest of the Seacons. But they still love her.
Scylla combines with her fellow Seacons to form God Neptune.
Fiction
Beast Wars II cartoon
- Voice actress: Miwa Matsumoto (Japanese)
Scylla arrived on planet Gaea with the rest of the Space Pirate Seacons in search of loot, namely the Angolmois energy. They immediately began pumping Angolmois energy out of the planet, which alerted the Maximals to their presence. Lio Convoy sent Scuba to spy on the Seacons while Halfshell sent Scylla to guard the perimeter. While patrolling around, Scylla laid eyes on Scuba and became madly smitten. Scuba was less than pleased, doing his best to get as far away from her as possible. She instantly earned the scorn of Artemis, who also had a crush on Scuba.
A little while later, Bighorn got a look at Scylla as she was resting off-shore and became infatuated with her. However, his inability to swim made reaching her rather difficult. Scylla ignored Bighorn's advances, as she was more interested in wrapping her tentacles around Scuba. Scylla spent more time chasing Scuba than helping the Seacons secure treasure, which often infuriated Halfshell. This was especially problematic, as she was required to form the leg of God Neptune.
Beast Wars II comic
Scylla fell in love with Scuba rather by accident. Bighorn, after first laying eyes on Scylla, became infatuated with her. However, being so stupid, he could not muster the creativity to craft her a proper love letter. After a bit of coercing, Bighorn convinced his teammate, Scuba (renowned for his poetic skills), to write a magnificent love letter for him.
Bad move. Scylla received the letter, and due to a grievous error, discovered that Scuba wrote it and gained the wrong impression. She then fell madly in love with him, chasing the reluctant bachelor all over Gaea. Bighorn eventually managed to express his feelings to Scylla in his own crude manner, but was shot down in a rather friendly way. Scylla informed him that, were he a squid, he might have had a chance.
IDW Comics
Scylla's most prominent characteristic is her vanity; she goes to great lengths to maintain her appearance, and nothing pleases her more then being told her beauty is unmatched. She regularly targets national monuments and sculptures in her criminal acts, believing she should be the only object of admiration. Beast Wars Sourcebook
Animated cartoon
Readers of Venus, a trans-dimensional magazine for Decepti-femmes, are invited to decide who is deadlier, Scylla or Manta Ray.The AllSpark Almanac
Games
Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle video game
When a super-powerful Energon crystal was discovered on Earth, Scylla was one of the several Predacons involved in the ensuing conflicts. She was not, however, directly involved in combat: instead, sent on missions to traverse pit-riddled fields, occasionally having to fend off enormous bacteria opponents. Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle
Toys
Beast Wars
- God Neptune (Ultra, 1998)
- Japanese ID number: D-21
- Available only in the God Neptune multi-pack, Scylla is a redeco of the Generation 1 Seacon Tentakil, transforming into an ambulatory squid-monster. Like her fellow God Neptune partners, Scylla lacks her individual weapons and "weapon stand" parts from the original version of the mold. Being part of the "Scramble City" design, she can form the arm or leg to any compatible super robot, but her standard placement is as the left leg to God Neptune.
- For unknown reasons, a great number of unboxed God Neptune sets—lacking all of their accessories, including combiner parts—ended up available on the secondary market. These went for considerably less than the "complete" releases, naturally.
- This mold was also used to make the Super-God Masterforce Seacon Tentakil.
Notes
- A Japanese trading card renders Scylla's name in English as "Squlle". This highlights the fact that Scylla's name was not actually rendered with the Katakana used for the mythological monster from The Odyssey—that's スキュラ Sukyura, compared to our pirate wench's スキュウレ Sukyūre. As such, it seems Scylla's name may have originally been a "Rhinoxization" of the creature's, featuring extra nonsense syllables, rather than a straight literary nod.
- The name "Scylla" (this time pronounced "silla") was mentioned in an episode of Beast Wars as a set of coordinates. This was most likely intended to reference a fan who went by the screen name "Scylla", who had named herself after the Beast Wars II character.
- Scylla's name is derived from a mythical Greek monster of varying characteristics, but often similar to a sort of giant squid. Said monster is consistently female throughout the myths. Also, either name pronunciation ("silla" or "skilla") is technically correct, with the latter being the Greek pronunciation.
- Scylla is the only female member of a Scramble City-style Combiner team. This is very creepy.
