Coelagon

Coelagon is a Predacon from the Beast Era of the Generation 1 continuity family.

"Darn whippersnappers won't stay off my lawn!"

At a ripe 80,000 Stellar Cycles and counting, the curmudgeonly Coelagon (シーラゴン Shīragon) is a fount of tall tales and fabulous fables for the younger Seacons (so basically all the Seacons). When he isn't napping (which is most of the time), Coelagon acts as adviser to the Space Pirates and his wisdom goes unquestioned... at least to his face. However, a disturbingly high percentage of what he recollects winds up either exaggerated or blatantly false; whether or not this is due to faulty memory circuits or simply getting the wrong information in the first place is unknown.

Coelagon combines with his fellow Seacon Space Pirates to form God Neptune.

Fiction

Beast Wars II cartoon

Voice actor: Tadashi Miyazawa (Japanese)

"I will get you, Mega Man!"

IDW Beast Wars comics

Coelagon aided Galvatron in his quest for the Angolmois on Gaea, in the hopes that the Predacons would overthrow the Maximals and create a new empire. Beast Wars Sourcebook 1

Toys

Beast Wars

• God Neptune (Ultra, 1998)
  • Japanese ID number: D-21

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"The piranha have not yet arrived… But I assure you, the koi are ravenous."

A redeco of the Generation 1 Seacon Skalor, Coelagon transforms into a robotic four-legged fish monster, with many features suggestive of a coelacanth. However, he lacks the rifles and stand-pieces of the original version of the mold. He was available only as part of the God Neptune gift set with his teammates. Since he uses the Scramble City-style of combination, he can form the arm or leg to any combined orbot of similar construction, but his nominal place is as the left arm of God Neptune.

For unknown reasons, a great number of unboxed God Neptune sets—lacking all of their accessories, including combiner parts—ended up available on the secondary market. These went for considerably less than the "complete" releases, naturally.

This mold was also used to make Gulf.

• More information on Coelagon at TFU.info

Notes

• Coelagon's name is perhaps a pun on both "sea" and "Coelacanth", as a Japanese trading card Romanizes his name as "Sealagon". Shī (シー) is used to transliterate "sea" and the "coe" in "coelacanth" so the wordplay is either intentional or the katakana usage confused the person who made the card. The "lagon" portion may come from the French word for "lagoon", but this is far from certain.
• Coelacanths are an ancient (and long-lived) species of fish, which is likely the inspiration to make the character elderly.