Coelagon
- Coelagon is a Predacon from the Beast Era of the Generation 1 continuity family.
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 factful 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. In reality, a disproportionately high percentage of what he recollects inevitably winds up either exaggerated or blatantly untrue. Whether Coelagon's memory circuits are nearing the end of their shelf life or he just received the wrong information several centuries ago is yet to be determined, but the Seacons treat him with respect regardless.
Coelagon combines with his fellow Seacon Space Pirates to form God Neptune.
Fiction
Beast Wars II cartoon
- Voice actor: Tadashi Miyazawa (Japanese)
Beast Wars II comic
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
- 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.
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,[1] which is likely the inspiration to make the character elderly.
