#Carnivac

[decepti-thots]

Carnivac is great in no small part because literally The Second he shows up he starts a moderately condescending monologue explaining his niche political ideology, which like, we all know a guy, don't we. Bless.

[snowiiarts]

✨ TCG Commission ✨

My first art works for TCG! This means so much for me!!

Meet Carnivac!!

-2021

[askvectorprime]

Hi Vector Prime,

Were there any Transformers in the Beast Wars that had a werewolf as their beast mode?

Dear Listless Lycanthrope,

As the Beast Era dawned, Carnivac refused to undergo any upgrades into a more modern Predacon form, greatly preferring his wolf Pretender shell. However, it came as a surprise to him that after long periods of time, the synthetic Pretender shell material tends to become more unstable and malleable. And so on nights on Cybertron when the moons are both full, radiation from any nearby energon—including his own internal supply—degrades the integrity of his shell so much that it prevents him from exiting it. This fills him with unspeakable frustration and rage, and through great pain and sheer force of will, he transforms into a robot form while still inside his wolf shell. The result is a bipedal lupine lifeform, and reader, I must say, I shudder when I remember the time I saw it. Woe betide any robots near him in this state of lunacy.

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Mosaic #617 - "The Story Of Drift"

Originally posted on August 29th, 2011

Story, Art - Matt Marshall

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wada sez: Shane McCarthy’s pet OC, Drift, had a rocky history with the fandom until James Roberts did the magic trick of convincing everyone to like him. The Empty who Drift is speaking to loosely resembles Wheezel, but it isn’t an exact match; his pet is Howlback. Drift buys his katana on eBay. He’s next seen waiting in a queue to join the Autobots, alongside two characters with more impactful defection arcs from previous stories: Armada Starscream and G1 Carnivac. The use of a wonton font in the strip’s title can be assumed to be satirical of the orientalism riddled throughout McCarthy’s writing of the character, and we can probably also assume that this strip’s hateful attitude towards homeless people is similarly meant to parody McCarthy’s undercooked writing in Drift’s backstory—but I will say I’m really not sure what purpose it serves to frame Drift as a bratty teenage girl in the first panel. This strip was translated into Italian, German, and Spanish; see below for all of those, along with Matt Marshall’s remastered version of the strip from his Tales From The Matrix Keeper zine.

[transingthoseformers]

If we're going for Decepticons allegedly still alive by Age of Extinction:

Cyclonus, mysterious and unseen, Lockdown had him on his list to hunt down for info, nothing known about him so up in the air, I feel like most Cyclonus's would be good with kids

Loader, killed sometime in between the movies but masquerading as Superfund truck, mostly unknown but could be useful for another secret identity sneak in

Carnivac, looks like Steeljaw, a wolf altmode, only exists as a toy, maybe a cryptid in some woods getting by living in the woods

We also don't know when the others are caught so we could have like Onslaught or Berserker.

Maybe some comic characters:

Flatline, a little more mad science-y than most but its known he escaped and disappeared alive snuck away from Decepticons and Autobors alike

Like have Barricade grab the D Listers and shady guys maybe?

Yeah!!

I feel like with bayverse Cyc here we can lean a lot into some of his other iterations, plus his theoretical bayverse design just has to be pretty. Just. It's gotta be pretty.

Loader would be good for more disguise work, yes yes

Carnivac sounds cOOL AS FUCK

It was mecha like Onslaught I was thinking of, because there was a lot of time in between the end of DSotM and TLK so they very well could've not been caught yet

We shall always have the comics to borrow from🥰🥰🥰

[aviatrix-ash]

Kinda want a G1 Carnivac cause he’s just a lil puppy

plus his robot mode looks like he’s wearing an oversized hoodie

but complete Pretenders seem to have doubled and tripled in price recently, so I think I’ll wait and maybe piece one together over time :o

[orionsbelt929]

Carnivac's weapon of choice is an anti thermal cannon, a weapon designed to slow down the molecular motion of its target, thereby freezing them

[hasbr0mniverse]

Rodimus Prime’s Corner - Carnivac is a growling, howling, mad dog destroyer. He commits abominable acts with unrelenting glee and is always smiling, even in battle.

[solarzilla]

Some Carnivac i recently finished. Did the first one a few months ago for a short BW story but didn't get around to it until yesterday. Finding good refs for him was hard as he didn't appear in any Takara series, short toy limbs, & various models used for the comics weren't accurate

The pretender shell based on a realistic gray timber wolf while keeping the toy features on, along with the cannon originally being shown on his back in the commercial. The werewolf design was based on a Ask Vector Prime entry

[rinovarka]

A trio of sketches! 1 Posca for a OC trade, 2 Transformers Crayon commissions: Carnivac eating some ribs + steak after a long day, and Magical Girl-esque Swoop!

If interested in such artistic liberty commission (15USD) lmk :]!

[gayrobos]

oops. knew we were forgetting something.

[ID: The Stunticons in: "No-one Told Drag Strip." The Autobot ship is burning in the field where it landed. It's charred, ruined, bleeding black smoke into the sky; Rung's scorched hand is visible in the wreckage. Drag Strip sprints through the forest away from the wreck, unable to drive and aware how loud she is. She looks nervously over her shoulder. Then clawed feet hit her in the back, knocking her down. Back in the field we see her arm lying on the ground spotted with energon at someone's feet; that someone is holding her in the air while she screams: "No no no please!" A Decepticon whose torso is a wolf's mouth stands in front of her. "We're not going to kill you here," she says, "where no-one would ever know. The point is to show everyone what happens to deserters." Drag Strip, armless, bleeding, expressionless with terror, hangs by the spoiler in the grasp of another Decepticon. The margins are blank. end ID]

[decepti-thots]

Carnivac acquired!!! A good doggy.

[theneptuneflytrap]

The Mayhem Attack Squad survivors join the Wreckers survivors in The Transformers (UK) #222; from left to right (bottom panel): Inferno, Broadside, Springer, Catilla, Carnivac, and Skids.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, besides the trio of Blood, Dauros and Gilmer was ancient Earth plagued by any other Decepticon Pretenders?

Dear Pretender Peeved,

Oh, certainly—the Autobots spent centuries trying to corral them. You may already be aware of Bludgeon and his fellow Pretenders’ rampage through ancient Japan; these Pretenders ranged across the entire world, so you may be interested to learn about their feats and fates.

Bludgeon likes to claim to have taught humanity the art of war, providing weapons and armor to various groups, relishing in the bloodshed and chaos he caused. The Autobots sealed him away on many occasions, but his final sealing took place in the 10th century. He had teamed up with a sorceress who sought revenge on the slayers of her father, and her magical manipulations multiplied the mystic Metallikato might of Bludgeon's Pretender shell. He was eventually sealed away under what would eventually become the city of Tokyo.

Iguanus rampaged across early Europe, seizing whatever he could from the tribes who lived there. He was finally sealed away under Stonehenge by Metalhawk and the other Autobot Pretenders, although they never discovered Iguanus' treasure hoard—not that they made any particular attempt to reclaim his collection of trinkets, busy as they were keeping humanity safe.

Stranglehold maintained a petty kingdom in Northern Africa, using his impressive physical might and near-invulnerability to maintain control over those nearby. He especially enjoyed wrestling with humans, viewing them as pitiful challengers. In the end, one such pitiful challenger managed to defeat Stranglehold by getting him in a Cobra clutch. In shame, Strangehold abandoned his kingdom, and wound up in the crosshairs of the Autobots, who sealed him beneath the Atlas Mountains.

Carnivac and Snarler terrorized the lands of Arcadia, causing havoc and famine as they destroyed whatever civilizations tried to intrude into their wilderness domain. Their teamwork kept them undefeated until the Autobot Pretenders teamed up as well, separating and binding them between a pair of mountains.

Octopunch was the least active of the Decepticon Pretenders, preferring to keep watch over the slumbering form of his master, Devil Z. To avoid the Autobots, he ventured out only when he was in dire need of resources, raiding ships while proclaiming the might of the Decepticon god he served. In the end, the Autobots managed to lure him into a trap off the Ryukyu Islands, sealed beneath a collection of sandstones.

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Mosaic #414 - "The Way It Goes"

Originally posted on September 14th, 2009

Story, Art - Ed Pirrie Letters - Dave Reynolds

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wada sez: This strip acknowledges Marvel UK artist Lee Sullivan, who worked on bits of “Time Wars”, which the strip references. Pirrie explained the premise of “Time Wars” in the deviantART comments: “Ultra Magnus and Galvatron have quite a history in that continuity. The fire effects are actually the sky as reality is being rent asunder due to the time-lost Galvatron being in the same time and place as Megatron. Galvatron spends the story remembering the events as he witnessed them as Megatron twenty years ago/at the same time. Galvatron and Megatron have teamed up and are taking out both the Autobot's AND Decepticons.” Now, in Marvel UK continuity, Ultra Magnus and Galvatron were planned to receive a final climactic face-off, after multiple confrontations in earlier storylines, but editorial changes meant this didn’t pan out. The gimmick of the strip is that you’re led to think the internal narration is that of Ultra Magnus regarding Galvatron, when in fact it’s the other way around! Inks of a preview panel below.

[transingthoseformers]

Forced Redemption Arc au: In Marvel G1 (UK), Catilla and Carnivac are Decepticon pretenders who defect to the Autobots at some point. So perhaps Ratchet isn't completely alone the whole time? There was also a guy named Warmonger who was a deep-cover Autobot infiltrating the Decepticons.

(Not sure about the timeline here)

Ooo?? That'd be interesting