Rhinox (Armada)
| This article is about the Armada Autobot. For the Beast Wars Maximal, see Rhinox (BW). |
- Rhinox is an Autobot from the Armada portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Rhinox is a dedicated member of the Autobot cause, except when he's not. Sometimes he flies things.
Fiction
Dreamwave comics continuity
Armada
Rhinox was an Autobot warrior, serving under Jetfire against the Decepticon occupation. Specifics of his service and abilities are unknown, except that he has headlights in beast mode. He was later shown as the main operator for the spacebridge to Cybertron.
During the battle with Unicron, Rhinox was abducted along with Cheetor, Airazor, and Terrorsaur so that the Chaos Bringer could cull their memories and learn what preceded his arrival.The End
Energon
Consumed by the will of Unicron, Rhinox went from being a dependable warrior to one of the Chaos Bringer's Four Horsemen - complete with a horse. He was sent to stall the Autobots on Cybertron, but was repelled by the Omnicons and Optimus Prime after using the Spark of Combination. What Lies Beneath, Part 2
Animated continuity
Armada
Rhinox was seen piloting a starfighter in defense of Cybertron against Unicron.
IDW
It was hinted in Beast Wars Sourcebook that Rhinox is a reborn, multiverse-hopping Beast Wars Rhinox - an explanation for their similar bodies and identical names. (Transformers with similar bodies or identical names to other Transformers are a strange concept that need explanation. It certainly never happened in Armada.)
Toys
Armada
- Rhinox w/ Armorhide (Super-Con, 2003)
- Rhinox is a redeco and retooling of the Beast Wars Transmetal Rhinox figure, converting from an organic-ish robot to mechanical rhinoceros. He has a third transformation that flips ski-boards beneath his beast-mode forefeet and turns the hind-legs into tread assemblies. He was retooled not only to have Powerlinx plugs on the flanks of each rear beast-mode leg (which do not activate any gimmicks), but also to have a molded Autobot sigil in the space originally meant for an Energon chip within his chest.
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