Blentron
- The Blendtrons are a race of Transformers from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Blendtrons are freakish Transformers created by the evil Unicron. They are ridiculously powerful; able to take down the likes of Big Convoy and Magmatron with little effort.
The Blendtrons consist of:
Fiction
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
After the destruction of Unicron in 2005, his lifeforce raced through time and space where it riddled itself into Gaea and became known as Angolmois energy. After a botched attempt by Galvatron to steal all the Angolmois, the energy was sealed into capsules and scattered across the galaxy.
Big Convoy, leader of the Maximal new recruits, and Magmatron, the Predacon Emperor of Destruction, raced across the galaxy collecting the Angolmois capsules. Eventually, after numerous rascally hijinks, the two factions recovered all the capsules.
Then the Blendtrons came out of nowhere and beat the ever living CRAP out of both teams and stole the capsules. The Blendtrons, absurdly powerful and able to bend time and space at their leisure, had no trouble stealing all the capsules and trapping the Maximals and Magmatron in a wormhole, leaving the Predacons to bicker over leadership. Mysterious Beast Warriors!? The Seized Capsules
As it turns out, the Blendtrons were created by Unicron. Loyal to their god, they released all the Angolmois into the corpse of Galvatron, reviving Unicron. Unicron then absorbed the last remaining bit of loose Angolmois, and the Blendtrons themselves. That's what you get for worshiping a god who wants to eat the universe! Unicron Revived!?
Beast Wars Neo comics
When Cohrada was a child, he witnessed his father being brutally killed in a massacre on the planet Jörmungandr by the Blendtrons. Unknown to him, the Blendtrons were ordered to retrieve one of the Angolmois capsules. A Battle Fought Alone
Magmatron, who was in the healing chamber for the wounds he sustained in the last battle with Big Convoy, learned that his second-in-command and the main force were completely destroyed in the battle on the planet Jörmungandr from DNAVI. The Black Ball — which should have been with the Maximals onboard Gung Ho — showed up from nowhere, offering the soldiers that Magmatron needed. Soon, the Blendtrons emerged from the Black Ball with roars. A Battle Fought Alone
Later, the Black Ball tricked Magmatron and Big Convoy's crew into heading for a planet where the last capsule was located. There, Big Convoy met Magmatron, who ordered the Blendtrons to attack the Maximals. During the battle, Magmatron was attacked from behind by a Blendtron. It was revealed that both Magmatron and Big Convoy were the last Angolmois energy capsule, and thus the Black Ball, who was actually Unicron, wanted to eat them in order to absorb the energy. Double Cross
IDW Beast Wars comics
After his defeat while attempting to devour Cybertron, Unicron slowly gathered his consciousness. Unable to physically intervene without a body, he anointed agents within the Cybertronian population to do his bidding. In the Beast Era he chose a pit-fighter, a construction bot, and a cultist to be reborn as the Blendtrons.
Prior to the return of Megatron to conquer the planet, Unicron directed the Blendtrons to the rising star of the warlord Shokaract, who had been exposed to Angolmois during a Predacon survey mission and remade himself into a titanic warrior. The Blendtrons (in pre-beast robotic/Cybertronian forms) gathered capsules of the potent energy and used it to facilitate the warlord's "ascension," which was in fact the rebirth of the Chaos-Bringer himself. This led to the devastation of Cybertron. Bummer. Magmatron's astral self, able to traverse time and space but not affect it, witnessed this horrible event many times and hoped to somehow stop it. The Ascending issue 1 Magmatron allowed a message from the Earth-bound Maximals to get through to present-day Cybertron and Lio Convoy led a team to Earth. When Unicron got wind that his plans might be in jeopardy, he had Shokaract send the Blendtrons (now in their beast modes) to Earth. Rartorata injected Razorbeast with Angolmois, turning him mad. The Ascending issue 2 A combined Maximal-Predacon force eventually destroyed the Blendtrons. The Ascending issue 4
Notes
- The Blendtrons are heavily influenced by Lovecraftian mythology. They are a cult of grotesque freaks of nature who are capable of bending reality itself and are determined to resurrect a primordial God. Read "The Call of Cthulhu" one of these days; you'll catch the similarities.
- The insignia introduced with the Blendtron since become the sigil for the Heralds of Unicron. It was first officially used as such with the Overcharge toy, and has since been used to represent Unicron in Transformers: The Ark, and appeared on the Kiss Players Sparkbots when their true allegiance was revealed.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Blentron (ブレントロン Burentoron)
