#BW dinobot ii

[transingthoseformers]

At least Rhinox, Tigatron, Airazor Depthcharge and Dinobot+his clone were mourned.

Inferno and Quickstrike crashed on prehistoric Earth, were manipulated and their deaths for played as comedy complete with the Protohumans turning their skull into drums. Its even worse because basically everyone on Cybertron forgot about they ever existed at all.

Than there's at least twenty other unnamed protoforms that shared their fate of dying forgotten on ancient Earth without even getting a chance to live at all!

Yep.

Yep.

[beeteal]

a tragedy, that’s what we’re meant to be!

alt versions under the cut fr fun

[kupussy]

half finished Dinobot II </3

i love my wife guys but i just dont gyatt any motivation to finish this right neow

[olberic]

redraw of that idw panel bc its all i thought of during this scene LMAO

[0zzysaurus]

Quickstrike is kinda growing on me

[pocoslip]

Would've been Nice to see Thundercracker/Scourge trying to Remember who he was like Dinobot II from Beast Wars

(But that never happens because Nobody Cares about "Blue Starscream" anyway so I'll just pretend Scourge and Thundercracker are Two Different Characters)

[elfdragon12]

So Studio Trigger released their animation for the Transformers 40th anniversary!

Beast Wars fans have been blessed!

First, we get a little Waspinator with the Seekers!

Primal and BW Megatron showing up in the leader group shots!

Of course, what is a death scene montage without revisiting Dinobot's death. (A little odd they went with the less memorable Dinobot II death rather than the Code of Hero death, but it was his final death, so I guess that makes sense.) DON'T TOUCH ME!

Double Optimus!! Combining into Optimal Optimus!

Megatron!! Dragon Megatron!

Face off!

Oh hey! Beast Machines!

And then the ROTB version!

So yeah! Very nice Beast era features!

[chopprface]

ive been playing an absurd amount of risk of rain lately and ive started to wonder about a BW au where they ended up on petrichor V (maybe the preds replacing the contact light and the maximals replacing safe travels?) so heres my altmode ideas for the cast

rattrap: blind vermin > spitter

depth charge: one of the wandering vagrant variants (maybe the juveniles from the first game)

inferno: beetle guard (megatron has the queens gland?)

megatron: scorch wurm > magma worm > gilded wurm

dinobot: elder lemurian (dinobot II can be acrid cause i love acrid)

optimus primal: stone golem > stone titan > aurelionite (he fuses with him instead of prime)

tigatron: mini mushrum

airrazor: swift/alloy vulture

tigerhawk: kur ska the heretic (idk just makes sense to me)

cheetor: wisp > greater wisp > ancient wisp

rampage: void devastator (sand crab could work too but i wanted him to be a boss to point out his power)

blackarachnia and tarantulas: mechanical spiders

waspinator: aspid

terrorsaur: blind pest (different from vermin, pests are fliers)

quickstrike: lemurian calvary

silverbolt: evolved lemurian

scorponok: sand crab

ravage: imp

rhinox: bighorn bison

i mightve forgotten one or two of them.. oops

[homosexualratchet]

Dinobot & rihnox deserved better and to live, also if they did get revived what do you think their beast modes would look like in Beast machines. Also what’s your opinion on beast machines

rubs my little paws together

Im so glad you asked

For Dinobot its interesting because he would have to have his spark in a new body since Megatron took over his corpse in that episode where he made an amalgamation beast mode using the parts of all dead characters from BW.

I don't remember the time period they were in beast machines so I assume he is unable to obtain a beast mode similar to his old one unless he goes fossil mode, and if he does i think he gets mixed up technoorganically so hes a mix organic fossil reptile and machine and wants his beast mode which is like a fuck you to megatron as well

I also think a harpy eagle or a condor would be a good one as well

It would have been interesting considering how he ended a SECOND time saving Primal, his beast mode being much more robotic and asymmetrical than before. Yes, Ik hes technically not fully dinobot but he is enough of him to care for Primal and the others in the end.

I really love Dinobot II's design.

With Rhinox being Tankor, I think Tankors body suits him fine but I think Rhinox would have an updated, more robotic and stylized rhino beast mode if he so wished to get a beast mode again. Perhaps his horns/tusks are larger too.

As for Beast Machines overall, I LOVE how fucked up and insane Megatron becomes post beast wars, I also love that Strika and Obsidian are the greatest power couple of all time, yes I'm biased bc I love Strika. Theres a ton of little things in beast machines that i love, but theres also a lot I could go into that angers me. I wish jetstorm wasn't silverbolt and that they didnt change ba's character to just moping over silverbolt

Jetstorm was much cooler and his design was top tier only to become an Asian stereotype which i CoulD go into but I won't

Also what about Thrust he lost his boy bestie :(

That being said I actually think the take of Rhinox not going back to the maximals was a fun idea lol i think it could have been done so much better but hey, whatever

Btw i love blackarachnias design, creepy asf and i LOVE IT

Ok enough rambling teehee

[idlepollingofcybertron]

Do a beastwars dinobot vs beastwars inferno poll pls

Hi Anon! Unfortunately, I am no longer taking candidates and the future rounds have already been set up.

Dinobot was submitted though and he is in Group C with the other submitted Beast Wars, Beast Wars II, and Beast Wars Neo characters! Inferno wasn't submitted this time.

Maybe next time if I do this poll again. Good matchup though. Or maybe I'll do a minipoll for BW charcters specifically when deciding on the next poll I'll do.

[blueikeproductions]

To add on to this, it gets weirder.

Most of the Beast Wars cast, and that included toy only characters and the anime cast too, were divided into two groups: the acolytes of Onyx-Shockwave/Unicron and denizens of the Beast Planet Eukaris.

Rattrap stands out as the only BW character to be an Autobot on Cybertron working for Starscream during his tenure as ruler, but all in a bid to expose Starscream because he was actually working for Prowl… it’s very messy.

Cheetor & Dinobot were tribal leaders on Eukaris, Cheetor of the Fur-Walkers (yes it’s as stupid as it sounds), and Dinobot of the Scale-Walkers among others. The joke being that despite the Beast Transformers being subject to racism by Vehicle Transformers, apparently the Beasts didn’t care for each other either, segregating each other into clans and largely having nothing to do with each other unless a meeting was called by Black Arachnia. Tigatron and Airazor were written as a Romeo & Juliet type, defying the customs to be together but being banished to Cybertron. It’s all very contrived and forced.

It should be noted that most of the story on how Beasts were treated in IDW was largely handled by John Barber & Mairghread Scott, the later having grown up with and being a fan of Beast Wars, as well as contributing writing to Rescue Bots, Cyberverse, Prime & RiD15. So you’d think she’d know better than to slide into bad fan fic territory for the comics, but here we are.

It largely comes off as a meta gag about how how some G1 fans still talk skrud about Beast Wars to this day, but boy was it handled poorly and if anything made it look like they agreed with the Geewunners.

Cybertron largely hated animal robots to the point they all left Cybertron to found a new colony, then the beast’s apparently didn’t like each other and segregated themselves, & I haven’t even gotten to the best part of this slag fest yet.

So by the end pretty much all the Beast Wars characters die. As @dynared said, most of them worked for Shockwave & Unicron, and they all died for their troubles by a united Transformers & Aliens army. Eukaris and everyone on it meanwhile was eaten by Unicron, as part of his mission to devour all colonies related to Cybertron as vengeance for Antilla.

There’s also this nonsensical gem:

Yes that’s Megatron & Optimus Primal, shedding their skins to turn into… whatever this is supposed to be. They go back to their regular Robot Modes so don’t ask me why this happened to begin with. The wiki claims it was Ore-13 mutation but I think it’s Alex Mline showing off. (As he should, he’s amazing, but still…)

The Beasts have a further thing that’s odd. There’s no Predacons outside of the G1 team, with the Maximals instead referring to the Beast Army Shockwave & Unicron control. The term Maximal comes from Liege Maximo, who was their original boss in ancient times.

It’s not all bad, the Beast Wars comics by Simon Furman & Ben Yee & the Beast Wars reboot by Erik Burnham are both pretty good and superior to the meta nonsense from the mainline G1 book. In fact the Beast Wars reboot outsold IDW2 considerably.

There are catches though: the Furman penned book is a side story focusing on Magmatron & Razorbeast’s teams during the events of the original cartoon. You rarely get anything from Optimus & Megatron’s side. The book is also a reworked and heavily Americanized take on the anime Beast Wars cast, based on biases and misunderstandings because we didn’t have proper fan subs yet of II & Neo yet. So while characters aren’t treated poorly, most of the anime characters aren’t who we’d come to know them as. (Though for Magmatron it’s honestly an improvement since his own show didn’t utilize him super well.)

The Beast Wars reboot made the cardinal sin of assuming it’d have all the time to tell what it wanted to tell, so it took its time, but had to bum rush an ending due to coming out when IDW lost the Transformers license. So it spends too much time setting up what was meant to be a longer story, had a fixation on Dinobot that was more of a detriment, introduces two new female characters that they don’t do anything with, wasting them, among some personal nitpicks. In particular the lack of Transforming, as everyone spends more time OUT of Beast Mode, when it especially doesn’t make sense. There’s a scene where Nyx is working outside on the ship in Robot Mode (which makes sense in context), Optimus comes outside to talk to her and immediately converts to Robot Mode, rather than just stay as a gorilla. Keep in mind the cartoon’s rule of Energon exposure is still at play here, and a plot point for Nyx later on, so why the aversion? I can’t decide if it was a weird Hasbro mandate or an odd creative choice by Erik.

Bottom line, just read the Beast Wars comics by IDW. Those are fine.

As a HUGE fan of Beast Wars, I’m a little scared to ask what happened to those characters in IDW. I’ve heard some things about Rattrap, and just how badly the understood the OG character, but what happened to the others?

Spoiler for a widely loathed series - They were servants of Onyx Prime (later revealed to be Shockwave) because they were discriminated against due to their looks, and were eventually willingly made into Unicron's servants once Shockwave's ruse was discovered. They're also complete mutes for the most part, which is exactly how you want to treat characters from a show best known for its witty dialogue and relatively small, intimate cast.

You can practically hear James Roberts going "TRUKK, NOT MUNKY" when this was being written.

[cybertronian-cupid]

Hmmm...this is for the kink wheel. Which bot would have a (slight) masochistic kink?

THE WHEEL HAS SPOKEN

BW Dinobot II - Not so much a masochist, he's more of a sadist lol

TFA Blitzwing - oh yeah, definitely

TFA Shockwave - also a sadist,,, but he does need a little masochist to experiment on 😏

[trashcanalienist]

[eggsnatcheskneecaps]

Dinobot II is NOT a transmetal???

[minimus-ambus]

Doop Week is here, and so is my first drabble!!! Go read it if you like Dinobot, Dinobot II, flower themes n symbolism, and Being Sad

Day 1: Flowers – Dinobot II doesn’t ask questions.

[kabukiaku]

a very sharp lad 🔪🔪