Night Viper
- Night Viper is a Maximal from the Beast Machines portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Night Viper is the stealthiest Maximal on Cybertron. His abilities include supersonic speed and plasma venom blasts that short-circuit Vehicon circuitry, and if you cook him, he can emerge unscathed after shedding his damage like discarded skin.
| “ | Desssign flaw? No, no, no… It’sss a feature, ssstupid. | ” |
—Night Viper on technorganics, "Wreckers: Finale Part II" | ||
Fiction
3H comics
Shortly after Cybertron's Great Reformatting, the Quintessons orchestrated a planet-wide invasion. While Judge Brinn led a team of Sharkticons through the lush, technorganic wilderness of Ankmor Park, Night Viper attacked, strangled, and killed the accompanying scientist Extempaxia with his deadly fangs. The Sharkticons retaliated by charbroiling Night Viper with their flamethrowers.
The remaining Quintessons laughed at how easy it was to burn these reformatted Transformers in their semi-organic state, but their glee was short-lived. Night Viper shed his burnt outer layer like a skin and assassinated the remaining Quintesson judge, verbally mocking them for their hubris. Wreckers: Finale Part II
Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Wings Universe
Night Viper joined Primal Prime's Wreckers, dealing with navigation and repairs. Tornado's Personal Journal
Beast Wars: Uprising
Night Viper was on the Predacon team in a momentual match of the Games, which was interrupted by Lio Convoy's assassination of Supersonic and call for an uprising against the Builders. Broken Windshields He remained behind with some teammates, declaring a victory for the Predacons. Head Games
Toys
Beast Machines
- Night Viper (Basic, 2000)
- Part of the third wave of Beast Machines Basics, Night Viper transforms into a midnight blue, blue-gray, red, and yellow technorganic cobra. His snake-mode head is spring-loaded; pressing on the clear-yellow part of the hood directly behind it launches it forward slightly, opening his jaws to bite. The sides of his hood form arm-mounted shields in robot mode, the right shield being armed with a flip-out scythe blade. His left shield contains his spark crystal.
Notes
- Night Viper's control art depicts him as having a melee weapon hidden in each shield. The right contains a scythe as in the finished product, while the left was designed to have an anchor-shaped blade. The reasons for the omission are purely conjecture; possibly it was cut to make room for the hidden spark crystal, or for simple budgetary concerns.
- Cobras are not vipers, being in entirely separate taxonomic families. It would be like calling Tigatron "Striped Dog".
- Night Viper shares his name with the Cobra Night Fighter, codenamed Night-Viper, which was released in the G.I Joe toyline in 1989.
