Bantor (BW)
| This article is about the Maximal mandrill/tiger Fuzor from the Generation 1 continuity family. For the mandrill/tiger Fuzor from the Aligned continuity family, see Bantor (Prime). |
- Bantor is a Maximal of the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Bantor is a strange robot. Most of the time he's meticulous, patient and stealthy. He's a mêlée-warrior by preference, quite adept at carefully planned ambushes and stalking his prey slowly and silently through the jungle. Yet occasionally and without warning his careful stony patience just shatters and he bursts into a loud, uncontrolled, wild frenzy, becoming a berserker who'll attack anything in reach until he can regain control.
Other than mêlée-combat, his specialties are demolitions, explosive traps, and snares.
Fiction
Toy Bio
Bantor serves under Optimal Optimus, and is his leader's first choice for recon and demolition missions.Bantor bio
Universe comics
After the Maximal High Council returned to power following the Great Reformatting, Bantor was shown to be one of its members. It is unknown whether he served on the Council prior to this. Homecoming
IDW Beast Wars comics
Bantor was one of the protoforms jettisoned from the Axalon on prehistoric Earth. He was activated and put in chronal phase by Razorbeast at Magmatron's request, but was protected from Magmatron's Predacon shell-program by Razorbeast's viral code. The Gathering #1
Soon after awakening, he joined up with K-9, Noctorro, Stinkbomb, Armordillo, and Torca. During their journey to meet up with Razorbeast, Torca got stuck in some mud, and Bantor and the others helped free him. The Gathering #2 After following Razorbeast's signal for days, and picking up more Maximals along the way, Bantor and the rest rushed into battle against Magmatron's Predacons, where he plucked the wings of Scourge. The Maximals won that altercation, and awaited rescue from Cybertron. The Gathering #4
Subsequent battles were not favorable for Bantor. A later Predacon assault led by Ravage left many Maximals and Predacons injured. The Ascending #1 When Lio Convoy arrived to take as many soldiers as possible back to Cybertron, Ravage discovered the threat of Shokaract, and there wasn't enough room on Lio's ship to take everyone back. The Ascending #2 Bantor was one of the Transformers who had to stay behind. The arrival of the Blendtrons only made things worse. After Cybershark convinced everyone to help Razorbeast, everyone entered the fray. It appears that Bantor and Manta Ray were crushed to death by Drancron. They would not go unavenged. Lazorbeak and Spittor saw to that. The Ascending #4
Aligned continuity
Ratchet mentions Bantor (presumably an Autobot, and also apparently a Fuzor in this universe)in a rambling, stasis-induced high, that he was, "aLl MaNdRiLl" until he "pUt A tIgEr iN'iS TANK!..." whatever that means.
Toys
Beast Wars
- Bantor (Basic Fuzor, 1998)
- Bantor's beast mode is a combination of mandrill and tiger. He has a spring-loaded punching gimmick in his right arm in robot mode, and as such has a spring-loaded sorta-biting-sorta-ramming gimmick in beast mode.
