Sharkticon (Energon)

This article is about the Energon Decepticon submarine. For the Generation 1 shark-monster Quintesson soldiers, see Sharkticon (G1).

Sharkticon is a Decepticon from the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

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Sharkticon was recruited to work in space reconnaissance, but he is even more effective in space or underwater combat. His fellow Decepticons don't care what his assignment is, so long as it keeps this reeking, repellent, repulsively cruel degenerate far away from them. He is highly maneuverable and adaptable in his vehicle mode, and a powerful combatant in either mode.

Fiction

Energon comic

More failure

All of Sharkticon's brief appearances have ended in failure. He was assigned by Alpha Quintesson to join Slugslinger and Mirage (who had been recently reformatted from Tidal Wave) on a mission to abduct Kicker Jones and beat up on some Omnicons. The plan literally went belly-up as Sharkticon suffered severe energy damage when the abducted Kicker unleashed his "special gift" of energon manipulation, and was seemingly abandoned by his cohorts. Thanks, guys. Multiplicity, Pt. 2

Later, Sharkticon attempted to infiltrate Ocean City from below. Having blasted his way through the clinging, jellyfish-like security system, Sharkticon ran across Kicker and the Energon Saber Mini-Cons, who knocked him back into the drink. Sharkticon's re-telling of his failure to Megatron was very unconvincing. Perspective

As you can see, Sharkticon had a troubled youth.

Energon pack-in comic

Sharkticon was part of an Eclipse-Team mission to steal refined energon from an Autobot installation on Earth. He and Slugslinger snuck in through the sewers, but fell into an Autobot ambush. Sharkticon tried to flee, leaving the wounded Slugslinger behind, but was shot down by Omega Supreme. To make matters worse, it appears that Sharkticon's out of control flight incapacitated Shockblast. Energon pack-in comic issue 3

Cybertron cartoon continuity

Teamed up with fellow boat Dreadwing, Sharkticon was among the Decepticons who attacked the Autobot ship Iron Hope. Force of Habit

Sharkticon and Dreadwing were merely unnamed "gunboats" in the original text, but were confirmed to be those characters by the authors.

Toys

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• Sharkticon (Deluxe, 2004)
  • Accessories: 2 missiles

Sharkticon transforms into a Cybertronic submarine/battleship with dimly animalistic styling. (He lacks any kind of "jaws", despite what his official bio says.) His small gun turrets are movable, plus his side panels can extend outward to reveal spring-loaded missile launchers for his "Hyper Mode". He has two "dead" Mini-Con ports, one on each forearm.

It has been noted by Aaron Archer that the vehicle mode's stylings were inspired by the Generation 1 Decepticon starship Nemesis.

Sharkticon was redecoed into the Timelines Sharkticons and retooled into Timelines Sky-Byte.

• More information on Sharkticon at TFU.info

Universe (2003)

• Sharkticon (Deluxe class, 2005)
  • Accessories: 2 missiles

Sharkticon was repackaged in Universe packaging and sold at discount chains like Family Dollar and Big Lots!. There are no discernible differences between this version of the toy itself and the original.

Notes

• Sharkticon's alternate mode was meant to resemble the Nemesis. Aaron Archer, at one BotCon panel, even admitted that he still thought of the character as "Nemesis", and had trouble recalling the released toy's final name.