Colada (BW)

This article is about the Beast Wars Neo Maximal. For the Kre-O Predacon, see Corhada.

Cohrada is a Maximal from the Beast Era of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Quando este colpe a ferido Colada la preçiada. / Vio Diego Gonçalez que no escaparie con el alma.

While Cohrada (コラーダ Korāda) may be at the top of his class in the Maximal Military Academy, he could stand to take some summer courses in Remedial Humility. Quick-tempered and full of himself, Cohrada's manners are as cold-blooded as his beast mode and he'll rarely give anyone he deems inferior the time of day. He has a considerable rivalry with his teammate Break, who also has a bit of an ego, but whereas Break ultimately understands the qualities of teamwork and friendship, Cohrada could do without any of that tripe.

Much to the frustration of those he bullies or dismisses, Cohrada's skills in combat often back up his attitude. A natural warrior, he strikes fast and ferociously, with a slippery defense that makes him a hard target, too. But Cohrada's proclivity toward going it alone, as well as his pathological inability to make friends, is often his undoing on the battlefield. When he desperately needs help, he's too proud to admit it, and when he does concede to request support, his spurned comrades never let him live it down.

Fiction

Cartoon continuity

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

Voice actor: Makoto Ueki (Japanese), Kim Yeong Seon (Korean)

Who needs fingers when you have a gun and a whip?

Big Convoy, Move Out Chase the Mysterious Capsule Burning Heart Below Freezing Hang in There, Stampy Mirage of the Sand Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron Duel in the Labyrinth The Black Hole Crisis Sub-Commander Longrack Waa! They Got Eaten Planet of Time Lonely Hydra Break Is a Predacon? Ship's Log Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!? Planet of the Ultimate Weapon Troubled DNAVI Attack! Randy Bump the Physicist Hardhead Is Hardheaded Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!! The Stolen Gung Ho Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor Assemble! New Warriors Mysterious Beast Warriors!? The Stolen Capsules Pursue the Blendtrons! Angry Magmatron Illusion? Lio Convoy Unicron Revived!? Unicron's Ambition Fight! Maximals End of the Maximals!? The Final Battle Graduation Ceremony!!

Beast Wars Diorama Story

At some point, Cohrada was transported back in time to the planet Energoa, during the original Beast Wars between the Maximals and the Predacons. Optimus Primal Chapter There, he met up with several Autobots and Decepticons from another dimension. A battle broke out between the Maximals, Predacons, Autobots and Decepticons. Tigatron Chapter The other-dimensional Transformers eventually returned to their place of origin and the Beast Wars continued as they were. Motorarm Chapter

Bom Bom manga continuity

Beast Wars Neo comic

The 5 Rookies There Are 7 Capsules 100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!! Cohrada was born and lived on the planet Jörmungandr before the other inhabitants were massacred by the Blendtrons. From then on, he joined the Maximals, swearing for revenge. A Battle Fought Alone Double Cross To Jellyfish with Love! Cry Out, Stampy Blade Return to Zero What Became of the Five....

3H comics

Cohrada was a member of the Maximal High Council after the Great Reformatting. He, along with his fellow council members, disbelieved Optimus Primal when he warned them of the threat of Unicron. Homecoming

IDW Beast Wars comics

Cohrada was part of the Gung Ho crew under Big Convoy that defeated Magmatron. After Magmatron's defeat, Cohrada left the official Maximal army to work as an independent agent, since he had little patience for the rules and laws of peacetime. Beast Wars Sourcebook 1

Serving as part of Big Convoy's task force on the trail of Cybertron's illicit trade in Angolmois, Cohrada was present when the Maximal leader located the newly risen tower headquarters of Shokaract. He speculated that this was in fact a structure from an older era of Cybertron, thrust to the surface of the planet by an unknown force. Of course then Shokaract decided that he and the other members of the task force had to die. The Ascending #3 While Cohrada did in fact die originally, this was undone thanks to the Pack using time travel to show up just as Shokaract began massacring the task force. With Shokaract distracted, Big Convoy's team traveled to the Pack's crashed ship, where a suspicious Cohrada stuck a gun in Bump's face. After the situation was made clear to them, the Maximals teamed up with the Pack and the reinforcements there had brought to defeat Shokaract once and for all. The Ascending #4

TransTech

Weaving through the streets like a... a...

Cohrada was among the inhabitants of the multiversal hub city of Axiom Nexus. Transcendent: Part 4

Toys

Beast Wars Neo

Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAAAKE!

• Colada (Deluxe, 1999)
  • Japanese ID number: C-30
  • Accessories: Water-squirting gun

Cohrada transforms into an organic cobra. His tail is segmented to "whip" freely (like a great many plastic snake toys), plus he has a soft-plastic "bladder" in his mouth that squirts water by pressing on the panel at the top of the snake-mode's hood. Both gimmicks are available in his robot mode; the whip-tail forming his right arm while the bladder-blaster mounts on his left wrist. He also has a third "Gun Mode" that is best left forgotten.

• More information on Cohrada at TFU.info

• Showdown in the Desert: Colada VS Saberback (Deluxe VS set, 1999)
  • Japanese ID number: VS-30
  • Accessories: Water-squirting gun

Cohrada was also available in a two-pack with the "Destoron" Saberback. The two toys were identical to their individual releases.

Beast Wars Telemocha Series

• Colada (2007)
  • Japanese ID number: TM-07
  • Accessories: Water squirting gun

As part of the Transformers: Beast Wars Telemocha Series, Cohrada was extensively repainted so as to blend in with the other toys in the line, which got paint jobs hewing very closely to the Mainframe models of the CGI show's cast. He came with a DVD of the Beast Wars episode "A Better Mousetrap"... which he was not in. Oh well.

More information on Telemocha Cohrada at TFU.info

Notes

• Cohrada's name is likely taken from either the drink piña colada, which is represented in Katakana as ピニャ・コラーダ (pinya korāda), or the sword Colada. Nevertheless, we're stuck with "Cohrada", since Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook is the only English fiction with the character in it, and it uses that spelling (likely thanks to that being the spelling Ben Yee used on his website).

Foreign names

• Korean: Cobrio (코브리오 Kobeurio)