Beast Wars: Transformers video game advertising comic
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| "Beast Wars: Transformers" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Hasbro | ||||||||||||
| Art | Geoff Senior | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | PC/PSX video game continuity | ||||||||||||
After a crash-landing, Maximals and Predacons scan Beast Modes and start the Beast Wars.
Synopsis
After a battle above the "Planet Energon" between two warring factions, the Maximals and the Predacons, a pair of scout ships, one from each side, crash-land onto the planet's surface. The maximal ship lands in the jungle area of the planet and six Transformers emerge from the wreckage. Desperate for energy, the Maximals discover energon nearby, which they notice has no effects on the planet's indigenous lifeforms. One Maximal scans the form of a cheetah and becomes "Cheetor".
Elsewhere, the crash-landed Predacons also scan beast forms and one takes the form of a tarantula, becoming "Tarantalus" [sic].
Cheetor orders the other Maximals to find more animals to scan while he goes looking for the Predacons. As he runs off towards the Predacons' ship, Tarantalus lies hidden, waiting to launch a vengeful sneak attack on the hapless Cheetor.
Tarantalus leaps out and transforms, engaging Cheetor from above. However, Cheetor dodges the enemy's missile fire and retaliates, threatening to get "really nasty" with the spider-bot, which Tarantalus scoffs at.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals | Predacons | Other |
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Quotes
"I'm going to pull your legs off one by one, then I'm going to get really nasty."
"I think not... fur-ball!"
- —Cheetor and Tarantalus exchange banter.
Notes
- This comic was released as part of an advertising promotion of the PlayStation/PC Beast Wars video game in the UK.
- This comic presents an alternate telling of the cartoon's early events, specifically from the first episode, though with several notable differences.
- Six Maximals, instead of four, are said to emerge from the wreckage of the Maximal ship.
- The ships are both described as "scout ships". Neither resembles either the Axalon or the Darksyde.
- The planet which the two ships crash is dubbed 'Planet Energon'.
- Aside from Cheetor and Tarantulas, the other Maximals and Predacons appearing in this comic seem to be generics.
- Cheetor also seems to be in command of the Maximals here (or at least high enough in rank to give out orders), as well as being a bit on the psychotic side, threatening to mutilate Tarantulas during their battle (see above quote).
- Cheetor has quite a potty mouth in this comic.
- If you haven't guessed by now, this comic consistently misspells Tarantulas's name as "Tarantalus".
- Energon is depicted not as a fuel which overcharges the Transformers, but as a Kryptonite-like substance which is "lethal to Transformers, as it drains their power", though the result is still to require Beast Modes.
- This comic's depiction of scanning a Beast Mode involves an animal being picked up and firing green energy beams at it from one's optics. The cheetah that Cheetor scans takes offence to this.
