Galvatron (BW)
| The name or term "Galvatron" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Galvatron (disambiguation). |
- Galvatron is a Predacon Emperor of Destruction during the Beast Wars era of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Predacon New Emperor of Destruction, Galvatron journeyed to Gaea in search of a powerful energy source. He is a strong and cunning warrior, though a little on the crazy and suicidal side. His younger brother, Megastorm, secretly desires to overthrow his brother and take his place as Emperor. Galvatron is well-aware of this, however, and lets it slide out of love for his li'l bro.
He is incapable of not grimacing like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, even during one of his narcolepsy attacks, unless it is... The Final Battle.
Fiction
Beast Wars II catalog
On planet Cybertron, Megatron once disagreed with Galvatron over opinions on galactic conquest, and engaged him in battle over it. At the time, Megatron momentarily let his guard down, and was defeated by Galvatron!
Later, Megatron noted that while Galvatron was ambitious, he cared for his underlings - and although he he was loathe to admit it, he acknowledged that Galvatron probably had all the regal bearing of a new Emperor of Destruction.
In the seventh month of the Space Year 1999, Galvatron's plans would bloom...
Beast Wars II cartoon
Voice Actor: Tetsuo Komura (Japan)
While battling Lio Convoy in space, Galvatron and his Predacon forces went through transwarp space and arrived on Gaea. The Angolmois energy riddled throughout the planet proved to be a powerful energy source which Galvatron desired to possess. Galvatron downloaded a drill-mode and a dragon-mode from information stored in a computer which was left behind by the planet's extinct inhabitants. The new transformation modes proved powerful but left Galvatron with an awful side-effect; without warning he'd slip into Angolmois energy-induced comas.
When he wasn't sleeping, Galvatron fought Lio Convoy and his Maximals on numerous occassions. At the same time, he fought off ambitious Predacons such as the treacherous Starscream, BB and even his own little brother, Megastorm, the Duke of Destruction.
He also briefly gained control of the legendary "God of Destruction" Majin Zarak, although this would be only temporary.
Galvatron eventually set his final plan into motion, summoning his battleship, the "artificial planet" Nemesis, into Gaea's orbit. The ship then proceeded to suck all the Angolmois energy out of the planet and stored it within. The Maximals followed Galvatron and his Predacons to the Nemesis to stop him. Lio Convoy and Lio Junior merged into the Great Green Lion and narrowly defeated Galvatron in battle, thwarting his plans by ejecting the Angolmois energy from the Nemesis in capsules.
Defeated but not willing to surrender, Galvatron activated his Galva-Matrix, which set off a self-destruction sequence in the Nemesis. The explosion killed Galvatron, sent the Predacons drifting helplessly through outer space and trapped all the Maximals within a wormhole.
Beast Wars II manga
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
After stealing all the Angolmois capsules from Magmatron and Big Convoy, the Blendtrons released the energy into the corpse of Galvatron. Galvatron's body then served as the vessel of the reborn Unicron.
Toys
Beast Wars II
- Galvatron (Ultra, 1998)
- Japanese ID number: D-16
- A triple-changer, Galvatron can transform between robot, dragon and drill-tank modes. In this as well as in the sculpt style he is quite similar to a Transmetal albeit lacking the traditional chromed parts and with a more convincing vehicle mode than most of that line. While in vehicle mode, the golden color of the drill bit and the purple tank body's shape make him a fairly direct homage to his Generation 1 namesake. In robot-mode his chest features a clear plastic ball with chromed designs inside that is slightly larger than a spark crystal and represents the Galva-Matrix.
Trivia
- According to the first Beast Wars II catalog, Galvatron's battles with Lio Convoy took place at roughly the same time as Optimus Primal's battles with Megatron, possibly indicating that the original Beast Wars crew also originated from "Space Year 1999". However, this seems highly inconsistent with even the notoriously vague progress of the G1-to-Beast Era timeline.
- For unknown reasons, while Galvatron's toy was purple in color (similar to his namesake's animation model), he was primarily colored pink in the Beast Wars II and Neo cartoons.
