Noble (BM)
- Savage/Noble is a Maximal/Vehicon from the Beast Machines portion of the Generation 1 continuity family. He is also known as Beast Changer.
Savage/Noble is the only known purely-organic Transformer. His "robot" form resembles a werewolf (referred to as Noble), and his alt-mode is a dragon-creature (known as Savage). He is close friends with Nightscream.
Fiction
Animated continuity
Beast Machines
- Voice actor: David Kaye (US), Yūichi Nagashima (Japan)
Upon Savage/Noble's debut, it is unclear whether his seemingly random violent rages were genuine or if it was a deliberate ruse by Megatron. Once he seemed to gain more self-control and began speaking, he claimed to be a survivor of the transformation lock virus in need of help, and so he was quickly accepted into the Maximal fold and befriended by Nightscream. After the Maximals led him to Megatron's Citadel, Megs made his move, and downloaded his spark into a Giant Warship. The discarded Savage/Noble entity was left a pure beast with an instinctual mind and no spark. Noble continued to follow Nightscream, helping where he could but also at times jeopardizing the team. The first time Megatron consumed all the sparks on Cybertron, he gained new powers with which he killed Noble.
Toys
Beast Machines
- Beast Changer (2001)
The Beast Changer toy was originally released in the West in 2001 as part of the Beast Machines toyline. In 2005, the mold was later recolored to appear somewhat more show-accurate and released in Japan as part of the Beast Wars Returns toyline, exclusive to Toys R' Us.
Trivia
- Given the Beast era's focus on a Transformer's lifeforce and personality being bound up in its spark, it is questionable whether Savage/Noble, after losing its spark, was technically still a Transformer.
- Although Savage/Noble's "Beast Changer" toy was not a part of it, a subline of other beast-to-beast Transformers was later released with the title Beast Wars Mutants.
- Mainframe would later borrow the "Noble" character model as a werewolf for the begining of "Casper's Haunted Christmas."
