Claw Jaw
- Claw Jaw is a Maximal from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Like Tigatron before him, when Claw Jaw first emerged from his stasis pod his beast instincts overwhelmed his Cybertronian personality. Though eventually restored to himself, his squid instincts still form a huge portion of his psychology, motivating much of the way he acts, fights, and hunts. He even keeps an undersea lair in the deepest and coldest part of Earth's seas. Claw Jaw gives a lot of attention to protecting it when Predacons stray too near. It is a job for which he is well suited: The suckers on his eight arms can drain the energon right out of a robot and into Claw Jaw. Combine that with a crushing grip, razor-sharp fangs, and robotic claw weapon, and few Predacons escape to inform on the refuge he so fiercely protects. He is an orange,red,and purple squid with 10 tentacles and huge yellow eyes. His head sculpt resembles a trident like face plate with a squid face underneath.
Claw Jaw is a rather simple bot without great endurance, firepower, or intelligence, but he makes up for that with courage and impressive undersea speed, even if his ingrained "squiddy-ness" sometimes weirds out his fellow Maximals.
Fiction
IDW Beast Wars comics
Claw Jaw was one of the protoform stasis pods jettisoned from the Maximal survey vessel Axalon when it was forced to crash-land on prehistoric Earth. The Predacon general Magmatron led a small group (that included the Maximal agent Razorbeast) back in time to place these protoforms into chronal phase and reprogram them into Predacons, and lead this army against the Maximals in the present. However, Razorbeast placed a viral code in Magmatron's Predacon shell program, allowing a number of the protoforms to retain their Maximal identity. The Gathering issue 1
Accompanied by Cybershark, Claw Jaw sped towards Razorbeast and the small group of new Maximals accompanying him. The Gathering issue 2 He and a phalanx of other Maximals finally reached them, just in time to fight off an army of Predacons. In the subsequent battle, Claw Jaw used his tentacles to ensnare Jetstorm. The Gathering issue 4
Sometime later, when Ravage's Predacons hit the Maximals again, Claw Jaw was among the ground forces defending their base, The Ascending issue 1 given some respite by the arrival of Grimlock, and then The Pack. The Ascending issue 2 However, when the Unicron servant Blendtrons arrived to attack both sides, those Maximals and Predacons fighting fit escaped onboard the Pack's transwarp cruiser and returned to the present in the hopes of saving Cybertron. Claw Jaw was among the unfortunates left behind to hold off the Blendtrons and was one of the survivors in the end. The Ascending issue 4
Toys
Beast Wars
- Claw Jaw (Basic, 1997)
- Accessories: Claw-blade
- Part of the first wave of second-year Beast Wars Basics, Claw Jaw transforms into a maroon and orange squid. Pushing a trigger on his back opens his beast-mode jaws. This also works in robot mode, where his mandibles are mounted on his chest. The small removable double-blade on the plunger can be held in his... uh... sucker on his robot mode arms/tentacles.
- Claw Jaw was released in Japan as Beast Wars II Scuba and redecoed into Ikard.
- Claw Jaw (VHS pack-in, 1998)
- Accessories: Claw-blade
- A redecoed green and blue Claw Jaw was sold with a VHS tape in the European market. Despite the lack of a third, vehicular mode, this version of Claw Jaw was still sold as a Transmetal. The tape contains the Beast Wars episode "Aftermath".
- Together with the equally Europe-only "Transmetal" redeco of Spittor he was released alongside with, this version of Claw Jaw came in unique trilingual packaging that sported texts in English, German and Italian (regular European Beast Wars packaging came in the combinations French/Dutch/German and English/Spanish/Italian).
Notes
Foreign names
- French: Octopince (Canada, "Octoclaw")
- Italian: Octopus
- Spanish: Atrapador
