Antagony (BW)
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- Antagony is a Predacon from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The mysterious future-Predacon Antagony is the Herald Maximo of the fearsome Predacon warlord Shokaract, second only to Shokaract himself. She is utterly ruthless and without a shred of pity or mercy, and harbors a secret death-feud against the upstart Predacon Cataclysm who threatens her position. Though utterly loyal to Shokaract, she will do anything short of open revolt to make sure she remains the Herald Maximo. Antagony's armor makes her virtually invulnerable to pain and it has been speculated that she enjoys inflicting it so much just so she can attempt to understand the utterly alien sensation.
Fiction
3H continuity
Beast Wars BotCon Script Reading
- Voice actress: Susan Blu
The time-traveling Antagony described herself as Megatron's doom, his destruction, and his worst enemy. Megatron naturally assumed this meant she was Raksha. Antagony corrected this misunderstanding. Visitations
Tales of the Beast Wars
In the 32nd century, Antagony rose to become one of the elite Heralds of Shokaract. Ambitious and coveting the title of Herald Maximo, Antagony quickly forged a mutual hatred with her rival for the position, Cataclysm. Their private feuding nearly went public during the all-important campaign against Horus, an immensely powerful warlord and self-proclaimed god who drew limitless power from the sun itself, and opposed Shokaract's expansion. Whereas Antagony committed her forces to an elaborate diversion in order to get in close and battle Horus face-to-face, Cataclysm simply blew up the sun. With his power source gone, Horus quickly fell before Antagony, but her personal victory was stolen from her, as Shokaract gave credit to both her and Cataclysm for the win. Antagony and Cataclysm continued their vendetta, with Antagony scoring several minor victories. First, she arranged for Cataclysm's favored fission-brother to be given a nearly impossible assassination before he could prove his worth as a potential Herald. She also exposed Cataclysm's fear of time travel, thus securing a prized mission for herself. Herald
Traveling back in time, Antagony was seeking to preserve the Dark Essence. The Maximals Packrat and Onyx Primal managed to temporarily divert her attention towards Megatron, but Megatron in turn painted the incoming Optimus Primal as his ally, leading Antagony to attack him. She was damaged in battle with Primal, and fell at Megatron's feet. She briefly attempted to take Waspinator hostage in order to make Megatron back off, and it surprisingly worked for a few moments...but then a stray cloud of dust made her sneeze and blow Wazzzzpinator's head clean off. This last energy discharge consumed what was left of her energy, and she went into stasis lock. Visitations
Megatron spent long hours in his torture chamber attempting to break Antagony and uncover her secrets. When conventional methods failed, he turned towards one of Tarantulas's favorite toys—a mind-drill that employed invasive nano-probes. Antagony ultimately succumbed to the nano-invasion, but a failsafe device built into her skull by Shokaract utterly destroyed her mind before Megatron could retrieve any useful information. Herald
Antagony continued to serve Shokaract even after death. Once Shokaract himself traveled back in time to Point Omega in order to protect the Dark Essence, he was assaulted by the united Beast Warriors and Covenant. To clear away the distractions, Shokaract retrieved Antagony and restored her mind. Alongside a similarly-revived Cataclysm, she was sent to destroy her master's foes while Shokaract himself defended the Dark Essence. Both eventually perished in battle, Antagony at the hands of Leonicus and Ariex. Terminus
IDW comics continuity
Antagony was not an agent of Shokaract from the future as she believes at all, but in reality was an experimental creation of the Vok sent through various realities by those enigmatic aliens to cause trouble and test the limits of the Cybertronian organism. Beast Wars Sourcebook #1
Meanwhile, Antagony is a Herald of Shokaract and ultimately, Unicron. When the vessel for Unicron's return engaged the Maximals in battle, Antagony and the other Heralds distributed Angolmois energy capsules amongst Cybertron's population in an effort to sow dissent and chaos. The Heralds were defeated and ultimately fled when Magmatron pulled Shokaract into limbo and convinced him to destroy himself to prevent Unicron's victory. The Ascending #4
Timelines
A statue of Antagony was kept in the Cybertropolis Maximal Data Archive. Theft of the Golden Disk
Toys
Beast Wars
- Antagony (Mega, 1998)
- Accessories: Mandible claw, missile launcher, 2 leg-segment missiles
- Antagony is a black and lavender redeco of the Predacon ant Inferno, one of two exclusive toys from the BotCon 1998 convention in Anaheim, California. Her beast-mode mandibles conceal a missile launcher weapon, plus her abdomen splits open to form spinning blades surrounding a quad-jet thruster. Only 600 pieces were made of her and Vice Grip.
