Longhorn

This article is about the Beast Machines Maximal bull. For the Universe Autobot ibex, see Longhorn (Universe).

Longhorn is a Maximal from the Beast Machines portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Highly intelligent, tenacious, and powerful, Longhorn is a "warrior philosopher" among Maximals. With a talent for strategy and the skills of a frontline fighter, he finds war a trying thing but is quite impressive at it. He's well-liked by his fellows, and though he tends to be circumspect and serious by nature he clearly takes great joy in battle, charging into crowds of Vehicons.

Longhorn's greatest ability is being a technorganic "thunderstorm" in robot form. The stamping of his hoofs cause paralyzing thunderclaps and his massive horns release devastating concentrated lightning bolts.

Longhorn is also a vegetarian and dislikes embedded media.

When I see Vehicons, I see red... and when I see red, things get ugly!Longhorn's motto

Fiction

Wreckers comics

Less than three deca-cycles after the reformatting of Cybertron, Longhorn and Snarl registered the unannounced arrival of guests in Cybertronian airspace and went out to investigate. Longhorn's focus on the mission led him to almost "accidentally" run down the embedded media-bot, Rook. Their reconnaissance agent Skydive reported in that the Quintessons had returned en masse. Longhorn and Snarl arranged to rally the troops at Polyhex Seven. Acting as drill sergeant, Longhorn assembled the Battle Unicorn troopers and the civilian volunteers as the battle was joined. Reinforcements from space soon arrived as both the Dinobots and the Wreckers returned to Cybertron. The Wreckers: Finale Part 1 As the fighting continued, Longhorn was forced into a battlefield promotion as his commander, Snarl, vanished in a burst of light, leaving no trace. Despite this loss, the united Cybertronians began to drive back the Quintesson invaders. Longhorn led the charge of Maximal and Predacon alike as the Quintessons were forced to flee. Wreckers: Finale Part II

Toys

Beast Machines

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• Longhorn (Basic, 2000)

Longhorn transforms into a technorganic bull, complete with nose-ring. Pressing down on his "mane" in beast mode raises up his head as a "ramming" attack on a spring-loaded "see-saw" mehcanism. His beast-mode front hooves are sculpted as permanently-attached melee weapons in his robot-mode hands. His spark crystal is hidden under a flip-up panel on his left rear leg.

• More information on Longhorn at TFU