Bantor (BW)
- Bantor is a Maximal in the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity.
Bantor is a strange robot. Most of the time he's meticulous, patient and stealthy. He's a mele-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 stoney 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 mele-combat, his specialties are demolitions, explosive traps, and snares.
Fiction
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.
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. 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 (see picture above). The Maximals won that altercation, and awaited rescue from Cybertron.
3H 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
Toys
Beast Wars
- Bantor (Basic Fuzor, 1998)
- Bantor's beast mode is a combination of baboon and tiger.
