Heinrad (BW)
- Heinrad is a Maximal from the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation 1 continuity family's Beast Era.
Heinrad (ハインラッド Hainraddo) possesses the unique ability to stop time for a short while. One would expect someone with such power to be... well, not someone like Heinrad. He is a lovable, drunken goofball, often showing a lazy and relaxed personality. Despite this, he knows how to use his time-altering powers to great effect. His favorite tactic is to freeze time then re-arrange battle scenes so Predacons are hit with their own laser blasts. Nice.
Fiction
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
- Voice actor: Yōji Ietomi (Japanese)
Beast Wars Neo comic
Heinrad was one of the five rookies among the crew of the Gung Ho, or so everyone believed. In fact, he manipulated Vector Sigma in order to allow him to infiltrate Big Convoy's crew so he can keep an eye on the things around the Angolmois capsules. Double Cross
At a certain point on the planet Gaea, Heinrad joined the rookies in a training mission to infiltrate the abandoned Galvaburg II without their instructor Big Convoy's permission. They were later confronted by two Predacons: Guiledart and Saberback. When the rest of the rookies were helpless and acted like sitting ducks, Heinrad's clock ringed. He said it was "dinner time" and he is hungry, so he were going back for dinning. Cohrada agreed with him, stating if they wanted to dine, they had to survive the situation. His words encouraged the rest of the rookies, so they decided to charge at the enemies. Fortunately, Big Convoy suddenly showed up and defeated the Predacons, saving the rookies. The 5 Rookies
The rookies' first mission was travelling to the planet Luxor to retrieve an Angolmois capsule. Things didn't go well because their ship, Gung Ho, encountered and was attacked by the Predacon flagship Dinosaur. After landing on the planet, Break, Longrack, and Stampy find Cohrada is missing and feel very depressed because of Big Convoy's death. Heinrad tells them Big Convoy had already ordered them, so it is now their mission to investigate the planet. Longrack then becomes high-spirited and aggressive, acting like a leader before setting out. Before leaving for the search, Heinrad wondered if Big Convoy was really dead. Upon finding the Angolmois capsule in the desert, Heinrad was the only one who didn't see a mirage creating by the Angolmois energy. Later, the rookie was beaten by Dead End, except for Cohrada. Cohrada told others to save the capsule while he stayed to fight Dead End. Heinrad and his teammates were confronted by Sling shortly after, while Cohrada was defeated by Dead End. Fortunately, once again they were saved by Big Convoy at last. There Are 7 Capsules
When Big Convoy went to Jörmungandr with Break, Stampy and Cohrada, he left Longrack in charge of the Gung Ho along with Heinrad.
After a while, two Predacons, Hydra and Hardhead, broke into the Gung Ho, claiming they had placed a time bomb somewhere on the ship. After finding the bomb, Longrack tried to defuse it with a manual to guide him, but because of an omission in the manual and the misinterpretation of his vision, he cut the wrong wire. As the bomb started to detonate, Heinrad showed a different facial expression and froze time, reversing it back to the moment when Longrack tried to cut the wrong wire. Heinrad placed Longrack's hand on the correct wire and started time again. Thus, the bomb was successfully defused. Longrack was so happy that his tear started to burst out. NAVI was wondering why the white wire was cut because she remembered Longrack was originally going to cut the black one. No one noticed the poker-faced Heinrad, who stood aside with his eyes wide open as usual.
Later on that day, Stampy walked by Heinrad's room and heard something. He peeped in on Heinrad out of curiosity and saw him looking serious, talking to someone mysterious on his communication screen. Heinrad told his master he'd used his power due to the emergency, but stated there was no possibility that his identity had been blown. Stampy was frightened upon seeing the scene. A Battle Fought Alone
Heinrad later used his power to save Big Convoy from being eaten by Unicron along with Magmatron. He then revealed to Big Convoy his true identity as an undercover agent of the "Ruler of Time and Space". Before he was forced to leave due to his interference, he asked Big Convoy to help saving the world by destroying "the cron of the universe"—Unicron.Double Cross
After the rookies' graduation, Heinrad showed up in front of Break, Longrack, Stampy, and Cohrada while they mourned for Big Convoy at the cemetery. He took them on a journey to a snowy planet to say goodbye to Big Convoy, who had been reborn as a mammoth named "Big". Return to Zero
Later, Heinrad still occupied his time with tasks from the Ruler of Time and Space. What Became of the Five....
IDW Beast Wars comics
Heinrad was a member of the Bi-Partate Committee for State Affairs, alongside Big Convoy and Magmatron. The Gathering #1
None of his fellow Maximals are sure if he's from the past, present or future. However, they believe he might not have full control over his chronal phase abilities, as sometimes he just blinks out of the timeline. Beast Wars SourcebookTransformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|
Toys
Beast Wars Neo
- Heinrad (Ultra, 1999)
- Japanese ID number: S-3
- Accessories: Notebook, sake bottle, 2 missiles
- Heinrad transforms into a tanuki. Tanuki in folklore are usually depicted with massive testicles which they can drum on. Heinrad's testicles are rather large for a Transformer (i.e. he has some), but quite small for a tanuki. His articulation, while good, does not allow him to drum on his testicles. In tanuki mode he can also hold a bottle of sake (tanuki are drunks) labeled with the kanji 酒 and a book of IOUs (used to trick people into giving him money) labeled with the kanji 通.
- In robot mode, Heinrad can combine his folklore accessories to make a gun which can be held in his right hand. His missiles can be mounted on his calves, or fired with the gun. In this mode his testicles hang from his hips and his spark crystal is located in his right ball. Heinrad's weakness is clear.
- In both modes, Heinrad has a working analogue clock in his chest that is powered by a single AAA battery and actually keeps good time. He functions as an alarm clock: pull up on his robot head to activate him, then push down to turn off the alarm. He's very shrill. The alarm cannot be activated when Heinrad is in tanuki mode, as the activation switch (the robot head) is concealed.
Notes
- Heinrad's room on Gung Ho in both the Beast Wars Neo cartoon and manga is a washitsu.
- In both the Beast Wars Neo manga and cartoon, Heinrad's transformation sometimes doesn't visually come off as physical shifting, but more like a tanuki magically taking on other form, as in Japanese lore.
- As shown in "100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!", Heinrad's sake bottle can be used as a ball-and-chain flail.
- A clock in the shape of Heinrad appears in Koji's bedroom in the Robots in Disguise episode "Battle Protocol!".
External links
- Script consultant's notes on Heinrad's appearance The Gathering #1.
- Wikipedia articles about Raccoon Dogs and their position in folklore.
