169-675: This is a list of characters in the Beast Wars franchise , which is part of the larger Transformers franchise from Hasbro . This includes characters appearing in an animated series, comics or video games. This does not include characters only appearing in collector's club or convention-related comics (from 3H or Fun Publications ), or toy-only characters. Appearances within the Beast Wars Sourcebook are not counted as appearances within IDW fiction for purposes of this table, as
338-435: A herbivorous diet, small brains 400–600 g (14–21 oz) for mammals of their size, one or two horns, and a thick 1.5–5 cm (0.59–1.97 in), protective skin formed from layers of collagen positioned in a lattice structure. They generally eat leafy material, although their ability to ferment food in their hindgut allows them to subsist on more fibrous plant matter when necessary. Unlike other perissodactyls ,
507-425: A live-action film based on Transformers , with Steven Spielberg serving as executive producer. It stars Shia LaBeouf , Josh Duhamel , Megan Fox , and Tyrese Gibson in the lead human cast while voice actors Peter Cullen and Hugo Weaving voice Optimus Prime and Megatron, respectively. Transformers received mixed to positive reviews and was a box office success. It is the forty-fifth highest-grossing film and
676-677: A tarantula beast mode who is later revealed to be a spy for the Tripedacus Council, thereby making him a descendant of Unicron. He often schemes against Megatron and hatches his own plans to destroy the Ark to erase both the Autobots and Decepticons, and thus the Maximals and Predacons, from existence. Tarantulas despises the extraterrestrial Vok and attempts to eradicate them on numerous occasions. Terrorsaur (voiced by Doug Parker )
845-478: A Transmetal body. Depth Charge often works separately from the other Maximals and clashes with them, instead concentrating on hunting Rampage, though he often does wind up appearing to aid in the middle of a battle. In the series finale, he is sent to stop Megatron from activating the Nemesis . Rampage attacks him, and the two battle; ultimately, Depth Charge impales Rampage's spark with a piece of raw energon, causing
1014-419: A bee drone from one of his claws. Scorponok dies in the season 2 premiere, when the quantum surge causes him and Terrorsaur to fall into a pit of lava. Blackarachnia (voiced by Venus Terzo ) is a female Predacon, who later defects to the Maximals. Her beast mode is a black widow spider . Blackarachnia's selfishness and desire to preserve her own life ironically placed her on the side of the Maximals, as she
1183-506: A being known as the One. Transformers: Micromasters , set after the Ark' s disappearance, was also published. The real life universe was disrupted when Dreamwave went bankrupt in 2005. This left the Generation 1 story hanging and the third volume of The War Within half finished. Plans for a comic book set between Beast Wars and Beast Machines were also left unrealized. Throughout
1352-452: A booby trap rigged by Megatron. However, in "The Coming of the Fuzors", Rhinox implants his spark in a blank protoform, reviving him in a Transmetal body. After Megatron fatally wounded Optimus Prime, threatening to erase the Maximals from existence, Optimus Primal takes his namesake’s spark into his body, transforming him into the highly powerful Optimal Optimus . During the finale, he attacks
1521-413: A capable warrior, aided by his mutations into a Transmetal and then a Transmetal II form granting him greater strength. In Beast Machines , he is promoted to second-in-command after his suspicions about an organic tree being 'dangerous' to the Maximals' techno-organic beast modes prove correct, nearly causing Optimus, Blackarachnia and Rattrap to regress to their beast instincts. For a time Cheetor becomes
1690-589: A capital letter, sometimes not ) is the preferred fuel of the Transformer race. It takes many forms, including ore, crystal, gas, and raw energy, but it is most commonly used by Transformers in its liquid state, which is stored in many different mediums, most famously the energon cube. It is ubiquitous in Cybertronian culture; in addition to being the Transformers' primary "foodstuff", it also serves as
1859-494: A collection of mini-series that re-imagine and reinterpret the G1 characters in various ways. To date, only one miniseries has been published, Hearts of Steel , placing the characters in an Industrial Revolution -era setting. The series was delayed as Hasbro did not want to confuse newcomers with too many fictional universes before the release of the live-action film . However, IDW and the original publisher Marvel Comics announced
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#17327803601782028-685: A comic book series titled The Transformers with a companion series known as The Transformers: Spotlight . The main series was broken up into several story arcs. Eventually, with IDW Publishing losing sales, the series was given a soft reboot. Beginning with All Hail Megatron , the series was set in a new direction, discarding the miniseries and Spotlight format with ongoing comics . By 2012 the series had split into three ongoing series; The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye, The Transformers: Robots in Disguise (which later changed in 2015 to "The Transformers") and The Transformers: Till All Are One. In 2022, it
2197-510: A crossover in Action Force , the UK counterpart to G.I. Joe. The comic book features a resurrected Megatron, whom Furman retconned to be a clone when he took over the U.S. comic book, which depicted Megatron as still dead. The U.S. comic would last for 80 issues until 1991, and the UK comic lasted 332 issues and several annuals , until it was replaced as Dreamwave Productions , later in
2366-541: A crossover storyline with the Avengers to coincide with the film New Avengers/Transformers . The story is set on the borders of Symkaria and Latveria , and its fictional universe is set between the first two New Avengers storylines, as well in between the Infiltration and Escalation phase of IDW's The Transformers . IDW editor-in-chief, Chris Ryall hinted at elements of it being carried over into
2535-647: A distortion of either the Afrikaans word wyd or the Dutch word wijd (or its other possible spellings whyde , weit , etc.,), meaning "wide" and referring to the rhino's square lips, is not supported by linguistic studies. The white rhino has an immense body and large head, a short neck and broad chest. Females weigh 1,600 kg (3,500 lb) and males 2,400 kg (5,300 lb) on average, though exceptional specimens can reportedly weigh up to 4,500 kg (9,900 lb). The head-and-body length
2704-802: A few pairs in Uttar Pradesh ) and Nepal, plus a pair in Lal Suhanra National Park in Pakistan reintroduced there from Nepal. They are confined to the tall grasslands and forests in the foothills of the Himalayas . Two-thirds of the world's Indian rhinoceroses are now confined to the Kaziranga National Park situated in the Golaghat district of Assam , India. The Javan rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros sondaicus )
2873-454: A fight. In the third season, Depth Charge arrives on Earth to hunt down Rampage, who is thrilled by this and the opportunity for revenge. The two fight numerous times over the course of the series, Rampage always narrowly escaping from death. Megatron uses his half of Rampage’s spark to create Dinobot II, who willingly inflicts damage upon the spark to keep Rampage in line. In the series finale, Rampage attacks Depth Charge while he tries to destroy
3042-427: A fire-breathing mutant dragon. It was unintentionally created and possessed by Megatron when he tried to purge his own beast mode. After being abandoned by Megatron's spark, the creature continued to live in an animal-like state, forming a bond with Nightscream, similar to that of a boy and his dog. Noble is killed defending Nightscream from Megatron. Botanica (voiced by Kathleen Barr ) is a scientist and botanist and
3211-566: A follow-up to Armada/Energon . The writers attempted to change certain plot elements from the Japanese version to remedy this, although this largely added up to nothing more than references to Unicron, Primus, Primes and Minicons. Just as Marvel produced a companion comic to Generation 1 , Dreamwave Productions published the comic Transformers Armada set in a different continuity from the cartoon. At #19, it became Transformers Energon . Dreamwave went bankrupt and ceased all publications before
3380-455: A germinative layer. Rhinoceros horns are used in traditional medicines in parts of Asia, and for dagger handles in Yemen and Oman. Esmond Bradley Martin has reported on the trade for dagger handles in Yemen. In Europe, it was historically believed that rhino horns could purify water and could detect poisoned liquids, and likely believed to be an aphrodisiac and an antidote to poison. It
3549-556: A giant red king crab beast mode which also has a tank mode, and goes on a rampage, attacking Maximals and Predacons alike until he is defeated by Silverbolt. Megatron finds his unconscious body and tears out half of his spark, using it to keep him under his control after throwing him in the Restoration Chamber and renames him Rampage. Rampage is clearly angry with this arrangement, frequently expressing his hatred for Megatron and occasionally threatening him. In "Transmutate",
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#17327803601783718-530: A massive explosion that kills them both. The following Maximals have appeared in other media adaptations outside of the toyline: Megatron (voiced by David Kaye ) is the ruthless leader of the Darksyde crew of Predacons and the main antagonist of both Beast Wars and Beast Machines . Megatron's original beast mode is a purple Tyrannosaurus but he later upgrades into a red European dragon after stealing his namesake's spark. He inherited his name from
3887-479: A more sympathetic side of Rampage is shown when he meets the titular character, a deformed and simpleminded Transformer, befriending it and talking Megatron out of executing it and into allowing it to join the Predacons. Ultimately, Transmutate is destroyed while stopping Rampage and Silverbolt, both of whom it had bonded with, from killing each other. Rampage is grief-stricken and allows the Maximals to leave without
4056-612: A new universe of annual comics adapted from Marvel, but also included elements of the animated. The Dreamwave stories followe the concept of the Autobots defeating the Decepticons on Earth, but their 1997 return journey to Cybertron on the Ark II is destroyed by Shockwave , now ruler of the planet. The story follows on from there and was told in two six-issue limited series, then a ten-issue ongoing series . The series also adds extra complexities such as not all Transformers believing in
4225-469: A pair of Vehicon generals who once were Autobots. Obsidian transforms into a tiltrotor while Strika transforms into a six-wheeled assault tank where they lead the Copter Drones and Artillery Drones that are modeled after them. Although reputed and proven to be the most intelligent military tacticians in history, Obsidian and Strika had limited moral judgement and were absolutely obedient to whoever
4394-553: A pit of lava. Megatron survives and attempts to execute Quickstrike, only to pardon him and allow him back into the Predacon forces after Tigerhawk arrives. In the series finale, Quickstrike and Inferno are killed when they are caught in the crossfire of the Nemesis when Megatron has it blast the primitive humans' settlement. Rampage/Protoform X (voiced by Campbell Lane ) was created by a Maximal experiment to recreate Starscream’s immortal spark; while he became nigh invulnerable, he
4563-549: A prequel to the first film, receiving positive reviews from critics. The movie was a box-office success. A sequel to Bumblebee , directed by Steven Caple Jr. and titled Transformers: Rise of the Beasts , was released on June 9, 2023 to mixed reviews from critics. Transformers: Animated is a cartoon that was aired in early 2008 on Cartoon Network in the United States . Originally scheduled for late after 2007 under
4732-528: A public-relations arm of the revitalized organization. Additionally, Ohshima's other major contribution to Transformers at the time, the 1-page Information Administration Teletraan 15 Go! Go! comic published in Dengeki Hobby magazine, also featured several tie-ins to the Kiss Players story. These primarily served to introduce readers to the Kiss Players story and characters when the line
4901-472: A quest to liberate the sparks Megatron had taken. After several failed attempts, he manipulates Megatron into allowing him to learn the location of the sparks. Optimus and the Maximals seemingly defeat Megatron, only for Megatron to return, leading his drones to extract the sparks of all except Optimus. Optimus battles Megatron, who absorbs the sparks of every Cybertronian and attempts to reformat Cybertron's core. Optimus distracts Megatron and knocks them both into
5070-582: A side effect of Megatron's anti-conversion virus that left them unable to have Cybertronian forms. They represent their own side as they are not on the side of the Maximals or the Predacons. Each of the Mutants have appeared in the IDW Publishing comics. Nightscream (voiced by Alessandro Juliani ) is an urban youth who never left Cybertron. He survived on his own during the Vehicon invasion until he
5239-466: A single horn 20 to 60 cm long. It is nearly as large as the African white rhino. Its thick, silver-brown skin folds into the shoulder, back, and rump, giving it an armored appearance. Its upper legs and shoulders are covered in wart -like bumps, and it has very little body hair. Grown males are larger than females in the wild, weighing from 2,500–3,200 kg (5,500–7,100 lb). Shoulder height
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5408-587: A sub-faction of the Predacons on Earth, a potential reference to the return to the vehicle-based characters following the previous dominance of the animal-based characters of the Beast eras. It is a stand-alone universe with no ties to any other Transformers fiction, though some of the characters from Robots in Disguise did eventually make appearances in Transformers: Universe , including Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Side Burn and Prowl . The show
5577-618: A visit to the Savage Land . The Transformers TV series began around the same time. Produced by Sunbow Productions and Marvel Productions , later Hasbro Productions, from the start it contradicted Budiansky's backstories. The TV series shows the Autobots looking for new energy sources, and crash landing as the Decepticons attack. Marvel interpreted the Autobots as destroying a rogue asteroid approaching Cybertron. Shockwave
5746-551: A wave of extinctions in the middle Oligocene wiped out most of the smaller species. Several independent lineages survived. Menoceras , a pig-sized rhinoceros, had two horns side by side. The North American Teleoceras had short legs, a barrel chest and lived until about five million years ago. The last rhinos in the Americas became extinct during the Pliocene . Modern rhinos are thought to have begun dispersal from Asia during
5915-467: Is 1.75–2.0 m (5.7–6.6 ft). Females weigh about 1,900 kg (4,200 lb) and are 3–4 m (9.8–13 ft) long. The record-sized specimen was approximately 4,000 kg (8,800 lb). Indian rhinos once inhabited many areas ranging from Pakistan to Myanmar and maybe even parts of China. Because of humans, they now exist in only several protected areas of India (in Assam , West Bengal, and
6084-448: Is 3.5–4.6 m (11–15 ft) and the shoulder height is 1.8–2 m (5.9–6.6 ft). On its snout it has two horns . The front horn is larger than the other horn and averages 90 cm (35 in) in length and can reach 150 cm (59 in). The white rhinoceros also has a prominent muscular hump that supports its relatively large head. The colour of this animal can range from yellowish brown to slate grey. Most of its body hair
6253-525: Is a condor following his reformatting from his Jetstorm form. Depth Charge (voiced by David Sobolov ) is a former security officer turned vigilante whose beast mode is a manta ray . He operates independently to hunt down and properly execute the criminal turned Predacon, Rampage, who had killed everyone in the colony Depth Charge had been assigned to protect. Depth Charge captured Rampage and brought him in. Believing Optimus would fail at transporting him, he followed them, winding up on prehistoric Earth with
6422-456: Is a media franchise produced by Japanese toy company Takara Tomy and American toy company Hasbro . It primarily follows the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons , two alien robot factions at war that can transform into other forms, such as vehicles and animals. The franchise encompasses toys, animation, comic books, video games and films. As of 2011, it generated more than ¥2 trillion ( $ 25 billion ) in revenue, making it one of
6591-512: Is a common misconception that rhinoceros horn in powdered form is used as an aphrodisiac or a cure for cancer in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as Cornu Rhinoceri Asiatici (犀角, xījiǎo , "rhinoceros horn"); no TCM text in history has ever mentioned such prescriptions. In TCM, rhino horn is sometimes prescribed for fevers and convulsions, a treatment not supported by evidence-based medicine : this treatment has been compared to consuming fingernail clippings in water. In 1993, China signed
6760-439: Is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae ; it can also refer to a member of any of the extinct species of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea . Two of the extant species are native to Africa, and three to South and Southeast Asia. Rhinoceroses are some of the largest remaining megafauna : all weigh at least one tonne in adulthood. They have
6929-401: Is a warrior and former Predacon turned Maximal whose beast mode is a velociraptor . Dinobot joined the Maximals after he attempted a failed coup against Megatron, believing they had crashlanded on a random planet. Dinobot values pride and honor above all else, sticking to a strict code of ethics. Dinobot's abrasive personality often leads to conflict with the other Maximals, particularly Rattrap;
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7098-419: Is an ambitious and power-hungry aerial fighter who openly wishes to usurp Megatron as leader of the Predacons. His beast mode is a pteranodon , which erroneously is toothed. Similar to Starscream , Terrorsaur makes numerous attempts to overthrow Megatron throughout the series, and on two occasions managed to successfully depose Megatron. However, he proved an incompetent leader. During the season 2 premiere, he
7267-522: Is bought by wealthy consumers to use in traditional Chinese medicine , among other uses. Rhino horns are made of keratin , the same material as hair and fingernails , and there is no good evidence of any health benefits. A market also exists for rhino horn dagger handles in Yemen, which was the major source of demand for rhino horn in the 1970s and 1980s. Ceratotherium simum Diceros bicornis Dicerorhinus sumatrensis Rhinoceros sondaicus Rhinoceros unicornis The word rhinoceros
7436-522: Is brought to the forefront by Optimus, but his time as Tankor had corrupted his personality and caused him to embrace Megatron's plan for a purely technological Cybertron. Rhinox decided that Megatron was unfit to carry out this plan and that he instead should be the one to do so. He began plotting against Megatron, intending to betray him. However, when Rhinox makes his final move and attempts to murder him, Megatron reveals he had programmed his generals to be unable to shoot him. Megatron shuts Rhinox off, and he
7605-593: Is derived through Latin from the Ancient Greek : ῥινόκερως , which is composed of ῥινο- ( rhino- , "of the nose") and κέρας ( keras , " horn ") with a horn on the nose. The name has been in use since the 14th century. The family Rhinocerotidae consists of only four extant genera: Ceratotherium (white rhinoceros), Diceros (black rhinoceros), Dicerorhinus (Sumatran rhinoceros), and Rhinoceros (Indian and Javan rhinoceros). The living species fall into three categories. The two African species,
7774-506: Is found on the ear fringes and tail bristles, with the rest distributed rather sparsely over the rest of the body. White rhinos have the distinctive flat broad mouth that is used for grazing. The name "black rhinoceros" ( Diceros bicornis ) was chosen to distinguish this species from the white rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum ). This can be confusing, as the two species are not truly distinguishable by color. There are four subspecies of black rhino: South-central ( Diceros bicornis minor ),
7943-639: Is in power, thus making them allied to Megatron, who had successfully taken over Cybertron at the time. The Mole Drones are drones that are used by the Vehicons for digging purposes and don't have robot modes. The Diagnostic Drones (voiced by Paul Dobson and Christopher Gaze ) appear as servants of Megatron. One Diagnostic Drone serves as Megatron's personal assistant, until Rhinox/Tankor reprograms it to serve him instead. Transformers Transformers (stylised as TRANSFORMERS , alternatively titled as TransFormers , or simply abbreviated TF ),
8112-458: Is killed by plasma energy. Rhinox's spirit later approaches Optimus inside the Matrix, expressing regret for his misguided actions. Rattrap (voiced by Scott McNeil ) is the hacker, saboteur, and demolitions expert whose beast mode is a rat . He is cunning and resourceful, but sarcastic and querulous. Rattrap at first seems to come as a coward, often proclaiming “We’re all gonna die!” whenever he
8281-427: Is killed during the quantum surge where he and Scorponok fall into a pit of lava. Scorponok (voiced by Don Brown ) is Megatron's loyal but unintelligent second-in-command whose beast mode is a scorpion . In spite of his idiocy, Scorponok is actually highly tech-savvy, developing weapons for the Predacons. On occasion, however, these weapons backfire spectacularly. Scorponok possesses a toxic sting attack and can emit
8450-458: Is killed in a battle with Tankor and Megatron when he causes a storm of plasma energy. His spirit comes to the realization that he has become a fanatic and that his true purpose is to create a balance between the technological and the organic. After apologizing to his friends, Optimus chooses to remain on Cybertron rather than pass on, and is revived by the Oracle. Optimus then leads his companions on
8619-438: Is later revealed to be prehistoric Earth with an artificial second moon, taking place sometime during the 4 million year period in which the Autobots and Decepticons were in suspended animation from the first episode of the original Transformers cartoon), which forces them to take organic beast forms in order to function without going into stasis lock. After writing this first episode, Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio learned of
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#17327803601788788-694: Is loyal to Megatron on the TV series, keeping Cybertron in a stalemate during his absence, but in the comic book, he attempts to take command of the Decepticons. The TV series would also differ wildly from the origins Budiansky had created for the Dinobots, the Decepticon turned Autobot Jetfire (known as Skyfire on TV ), the Constructicons (who combine to form Devastator ), and Omega Supreme . The Marvel comic establishes early on that Prime wields
8957-561: Is one of the most endangered large mammals in the world. According to 2015 estimates, only about 60 remain, in Java, Indonesia, all in the wild. It is also the least known rhino species. Like the closely related, and larger, Indian rhinoceros , the Javan rhino has a single horn. Its hairless, hazy gray skin falls into folds into the shoulder, back, and rump, giving it an armored appearance. Its length reaches 3.1–3.2 m (10–10 ft) including
9126-444: Is planet Cybertron and fight his nemesis Unicron . Female Autobot Arcee also appeared, despite the comic book stating the Transformers had no concept of gender, with her backstory of being built by the Autobots to quell human accusations of sexism. Soundwave , Megatron's second-in-command, also breaks the fourth wall in the letters page, criticising the cartoon continuity as an inaccurate representation of history. The UK also had
9295-423: Is put in danger. However, he has proven himself to be quite brave, risking his life multiple times for his teammates. He develops an odd cross between a friendship and a rivalry with Dinobot, the two often bickering with each other, albeit sharing a mutual respect. After Dinobot’s betrayal, Rattrap is enraged and loathes him for it, although he forgives Dinobot as he dies of his injuries. In Beast Machines , Rattrap
9464-742: Is reported of Zimbabwe, while Nepal has largely avoided the crisis. Poachers have become more sophisticated. South African officials have called for urgent action against poaching after poachers killed the last female rhino in the Krugersdorp Game Reserve near Johannesburg . Statistics from South African National Parks show that 333 rhinoceroses were killed in South Africa in 2010, increasing to 668 by 2012, over 1,004 in 2013, and over 1,338 killed in 2015. In some cases rhinos are tranquilized and their horns removed leaving them to bleed to death, while in other instances more than
9633-554: Is set in the year 2005. It introduced the Matrix as the " Autobot Matrix of Leadership ", as a fatally wounded Prime gives it to Ultra Magnus ; however, as Prime dies he drops the matrix, which is then caught by Hot Rod who subsequently becomes Rodimus Prime later on in the film. Unicron , a Transformer who devours planets, fears its power and re-creates a heavily damaged Megatron as Galvatron , as well as Bombshell or Skywarp becoming Cyclonus , Thundercracker becoming Scourge and two other Insecticons becoming Scourge's huntsmen,
9802-623: Is that the heroic Optimus Prime , the villainous Megatron , and their finest soldiers crash-land on prehistoric Earth in the Ark and the Nemesis before awakening in 1985, Cybertron hurtling through the Neutral zone as an effect of the war. The Marvel comic was originally part of the main Marvel Universe , with appearances from Spider-Man and Nick Fury , plus some cameos, as well as
9971-556: Is the smallest extant rhinoceros species, as well as the one with the most hair. It can be found at very high altitudes in Borneo and Sumatra . Because of habitat loss and poaching , their numbers have declined, and it has become the second most threatened rhinoceros. About 275 Sumatran rhinos are believed to remain. There are three subspecies of Sumatran rhinoceros: the Sumatran rhinoceros proper ( Dicerorhinus sumatrensis sumatrensis ),
10140-424: Is unable to transform after being reformatted for several episodes due to his frantic nature; when he does, he finds his body is far weaker, resulting in him developing insecurities over his perceived uselessness and his teammates' anger at him. However, his new body eventually proves useful due to its ability to hack into technology. He later develops a relationship with Botanica. Dinobot (voiced by Scott McNeil)
10309-491: The Generation 2 comic book and Beast Wars TV series, which became its own mini-universe . Generation 1 characters have been rebooted multiple times in the 21st century in comics from Dreamwave Productions (starting 2001), IDW Publishing (starting in 2005 and again in 2019), and Skybound Entertainment (beginning in 2023). There have been other incarnations of the story based on different toy lines during and after
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#173278036017810478-568: The Beast Wars finale, the death of Rampage causes him to retake the personality of the original Dinobot and rebel against Megatron, saving the Maximals and the future. However, he dies in the explosion of the Nemesis after bidding Optimus Primal a final farewell. The following Predacons have appeared in other media adaptations outside of the toyline: The Mutants are Cybertronians that can transform from one animal form to another animal form as
10647-544: The Bornean rhinoceros ( Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni ) and the possibly extinct Northern Sumatran rhinoceros ( Dicerorhinus sumatrensis lasiotis ). A mature rhino typically stands about 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in) high at the shoulder, has a length of 2.4–3.2 m (7 ft 10 in – 10 ft 6 in) and weighs around 700 kg (1,500 lb), though the largest individuals have been known to weigh as much as 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb). Like
10816-682: The CITES treaty and removed rhinoceros horn from the Chinese medicine pharmacopeia , administered by the Ministry of Health. In 2011, the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine in the United Kingdom issued a formal statement condemning the use of rhinoceros horn. A growing number of TCM educators are also speaking out against the practice, although some TCM practitioners still believe that it is
10985-542: The Creation Matrix , which gives life to machines. In the second season, the two-part episode The Key to Vector Sigma introduced the ancient Vector Sigma computer, which served the same original purpose as the Creation Matrix (giving life to Transformers), and its guardian Alpha Trion . Introduced to the franchise during Generation 1 is the energy source known as Energon. Energon (sometimes spelled with
11154-780: The Indian rhinoceros and the Javan rhinoceros , which diverged from one another about 10 million years ago. The Sumatran rhinoceros is the only surviving representative of the Dicerorhinini. A subspecific hybrid white rhino ( Ceratotherium s. simum × C. s. cottoni ) was bred at the Dvůr Králové Zoo (Zoological Garden Dvur Kralove nad Labem) in the Czech Republic in 1977. Interspecific hybridisation of black and white rhinoceroses has also been confirmed. While
11323-529: The Micro Change and Diaclone toys, and partnered with Takara . Marvel Comics was hired by Hasbro to create the backstory ; editor-in-chief Jim Shooter wrote an overall story, and gave the task of creating the characters to writer Dennis O'Neil . Unhappy with O'Neil's work (although O'Neil created the name " Optimus Prime "), Shooter chose Bob Budiansky to create the characters. The Transformers mecha were largely designed by Shōji Kawamori ,
11492-825: The Miocene . Alongside the extant species, four additional species of rhinoceros survived into the Last Glacial Period : the woolly rhinoceros ( Coelodonta antiquitatis ), Elasmotherium sibiricum and two species of Stephanorhinus , Merck's rhinoceros ( Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis ) and the Narrow-nosed rhinoceros ( Stephanorhinus hemitoechus) . The woolly rhinoceros appeared in China around 1 million years ago and first arrived in Europe around 600,000 years ago. It reappeared 200,000 years ago, alongside
11661-625: The Nemesis after it fires on and kills Tigerhawk, before boarding it and battling Megatron. He defeats Megatron, and he and the Maximals tie him to an Autobots shuttle. Before they depart the planet, Optimus memorializes his dead friends and declares the Beast Wars over. In Beast Machines , Optimus becomes a more spiritual character, seeing visions from and communicating with the Oracle. He slowly becomes fanatical, becoming convinced that he must make Cybertron completely organic, resulting in him and Cheetor coming into conflict multiple times. Optimus
11830-537: The Nemesis . The two battle once again; ultimately, a cackling Rampage allows Depth Charge to impale him with a shard of raw energon, causing a massive explosion that kills them both. Dinobot II (voiced by Scott McNeil) is a clone of the original Dinobot in Transmetal 2 form. He possesses half of the spark of Rampage, given by Megatron to make sure Rampage is under control. Unlike the original Dinobot, he blindly follows Megatron, never challenging orders. However, in
11999-622: The Rescue Bots TV series, its sequel Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy , the Go! anime adaptation, and the 2015 series Transformers: Robots in Disguise . The video games that are part of this shared universe are Transformers: War for Cybertron (including its Nintendo DS version and the companion Transformers: Cybertron Adventures ), Transformers: Fall of Cybertron , the Prime video game adaptation , and Transformers: Rise of
12168-591: The Sweeps . Eventually, Rodimus Prime takes out the Matrix and destroys Unicron. In the United Kingdom, the weekly comic book interspliced original material to keep up with U.S. reprints, and The Movie provided much new material. Writer Simon Furman proceeded to expand the continuity with movie spin-offs involving the time travelling Galvatron. The Movie also featured guest voices from Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron , Scatman Crothers as Jazz , Casey Kasem as Cliffjumper, Orson Welles as Unicron and Eric Idle as
12337-636: The Transformers Generations: The Fall of Cybertron line in 2012. Several ideas introduced into the 2007 storyline focusing on the introduction of Primus into the Japanese cartoon's timeline have been revisited and expanded upon, which shares Kiss Players storytelling while attempting to fill in gaps of the timeline in the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity. The Transformers Legends manga, while featuring lewd content and new stories and characters, also has
12506-479: The fifth highest-grossing film of 2007 , grossing approximately $ 709 million worldwide. The film won four awards from the Visual Effects Society and was nominated for three Academy Awards , for Best Sound Editing , Best Sound Mixing , and Best Visual Effects . The performance of Shia LaBeouf was praised by Empire , and Peter Cullen's reprisal of Optimus Prime from the 1980s television series
12675-545: The highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The franchise began in 1984 with the Transformers toy line , comprising transforming mecha toys from Takara 's Diaclone and Micro Change toylines rebranded for Western markets. The term " Generation 1 " (G1) covers both the animated television series The Transformers and the comic book series of the same name , which are further divided into Japanese, British and Canadian spin-offs. Sequels followed, such as
12844-401: The northern white rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum cottoni ). As of 2013, the southern subspecies has a wild population of 20,405—making them the most abundant rhino subspecies in the world. The northern subspecies is critically endangered, with all that is known to remain being two captive females. There is no conclusive explanation of the name "white rhinoceros". A popular idea that "white" is
13013-402: The queen of his colony. Inferno exhibits symptoms of pyromania, taking great joy in using his flamethrower to burn things, and is fanatically loyal to Megatron, willing to lose his own life to aid Megatron and killing anyone Megatron orders him to. This results in him being promoted to Megatron’s second-in-command after the death of Scorponok. Ironically, he is inadvertently killed by Megatron in
13182-476: The white rhinoceros and the black rhinoceros , belong to the tribe Dicerotini, which originated in the middle Miocene , about 14.2 million years ago. The species diverged during the early Pliocene (about 5 million years ago). The main difference between black and white rhinos is the shape of their mouths – white rhinos have broad flat lips for grazing, whereas black rhinos have long pointed lips for eating foliage. There are two living Rhinocerotini species,
13351-431: The woolly mammoth , and became numerous. Elasmotherium was two meters tall, five meters long and weighed around five tons, with a single enormous horn, hypsodont teeth and long legs for running. The latest known well dated bones of Elasmotherium in found in the south of Western Siberia (the area that is today Kazakhstan) date as recently as 39,000 years ago. The origin of the two living African rhinos can be traced to
13520-416: The "Unicron Trilogy". For most of the 2010s, in an attempt to mitigate the wave of reboots, the " Aligned Continuity " was established. In 2018, Transformers: Cyberverse debuted, once again, distinct from the previous incarnations. Although a separate and competing franchise started in 1983, Tonka 's GoBots became the intellectual property of Hasbro after their buyout of Tonka in 1991. Subsequently,
13689-652: The 1930s they were nearly hunted to extinction in Nepal, India, Burma, Peninsular Malaysia , and Sumatra for the supposed medical powers of their horns and blood. As of 2015, only 58–61 individuals remain in Ujung Kulon National Park , Java, Indonesia. The last known Javan rhino in Vietnam was reportedly killed for its horn in 2011 by Vietnamese poachers. Now only Java contains the last Javan rhinos. The Sumatran rhinoceros ( Dicerorhinus sumatrensis )
13858-419: The 20th century, their numbers were severely reduced from an estimated 70,000 in the late 1960s to a record low of 2,410 in 1995. Since then, numbers have been steadily increasing at a continental level with numbers doubling to 4,880 by the end of 2010. As of 2008, the numbers are still 90% lower than three generations ago. The Indian rhinoceros , or greater one-horned rhinoceros, ( Rhinoceros unicornis ) has
14027-429: The 20th century. In 2009, Shout! Factory released the entire G1 series in a 16-DVD box set called the Matrix of Leadership Edition. They also released the same content as individual seasons. It was five issues of the G.I. Joe comic in 1993 that would springboard a return for Marvel's Transformers, with the new twelve-issue series Transformers: Generation 2 , to market a new toy line. This story reveals that
14196-525: The 20th century. The first was the Robots in Disguise series, followed by three shows ( Armada , Energon , and Cybertron ) that constitute a single universe called the "Unicron Trilogy". A live-action film series started in 2007, again distinct from previous incarnations, while the Transformers: Animated series merged concepts from the G1 continuity, the 2007 live-action film and
14365-457: The 354-page brand bible, "The Binder of Revelation". In August 2016, Machinima and Hasbro co-produced an animated series named Combiner Wars , simultaneously published on the website Go90 and YouTube . This was followed by two further installments, Titans Return and Power of the Primes . Eric Calderon was executive producer of the trilogy. The events of the series take place 40 years after
14534-591: The Aero Drones that are modeled after him. He was the brainwashed spark of Silverbolt until Blackarachnia restored him to normal. Tankor (voiced by Paul Dobson as the original voice, Richard Newman in Rhinox' voice) is the brutish Vehicon who turns into a tank and is the general of the Tank Drones that are modeled after him. He was the brainwashed spark of Rhinox. After breaking free from Megatron's control,
14703-477: The African species, it has two horns; the larger is the front (25–79 centimetres (9.8–31.1 in)), with the smaller usually less than 10 centimetres (3.9 in) long. Males have much larger horns than the females. Hair can range from dense (the densest hair in young calves) to sparse. The color of these rhinos is reddish brown. The body is short and has stubby legs. The lip is prehensile . Sumatran rhinoceros once were spread across South-east Asia, but now are on
14872-596: The Autobots and Decepticons discovering the powerful Mini-Cons on Earth, which are revealed by the end to be weapons of Unicron . Energon , set ten years later, followed the Autobots and the Omnicons in their fight to stop the Decepticons and the Terrorcons from resurrecting Unicron with energon. In Japan, the series Transformers: Cybertron showed no ties to the previous two series, telling its own story. This caused continuity problems when Hasbro sold Cybertron as
15041-585: The Beast Wars Sourcebook was an attempt to include all characters from all Beast Wars fiction. A list of characters who appeared in both the Beast Wars and Beast Machines TV series. Optimus Primal (voiced by Garry Chalk ) is the commander of the Axalon crew and the main character of both Beast Wars and Beast Machines whose beast mode is a gorilla . Optimus starts off the series as a charismatic and competent but young and inexperienced leader. As
15210-513: The Dark Spark , that serves as a conclusion of the Cybertron series and crossover with the live-action film video game series. Four novels set within the continuity have been published: Transformers: Exodus , Transformers: Exiles , Transformers: Retribution , and Transformers: The Covenant of Primus . The first three were published by Del Rey Books , while Covenant of Primus
15379-465: The Decepticons. (Note: This appears to contradict background presented in the first two seasons of the series.) It is the Autobots who develop transformation. Due to popular demand, Optimus Prime is resurrected at the conclusion of the third season, and the series ended with a three-episode story arc. However, the Japanese broadcast of the series was supplemented with a newly produced OVA , Scramble City , before creating entirely new series to continue
15548-623: The G1 Transformers and began to use elements of it as a historical backstory to their scripts, establishing Beast Wars as a part of the Generation 1 universe through numerous callbacks to both the cartoon and the Marvel comic. By the end of the first season, the second moon and the Energon are revealed to have been constructed by a mysterious alien race known as the Vok . The destruction of
15717-500: The Hyracodontidae, Amynodontidae, Paraceratheriidae and Rhinocerotidae. Hyracodontidae , also known as "running rhinos", showed adaptations for speed, and would have looked more like horses than modern rhinos. The smallest hyracodontids were dog-sized. Hyracodontids spread across Eurasia from the mid-Eocene to early Oligocene. The Amynodontidae, also known as "aquatic rhinos", dispersed across North America and Eurasia , from
15886-516: The Maximals shortly before the end of Beast Wars , but dies in the finale, killed by Megatron using the Nemesis. Silverbolt (voiced by Scott McNeil) is a knight and has a chivalrous personality to match. His reluctance to ever hurt a female leads him to refuse fighting Blackarachnia; eventually, the two develop a romance and fall in love. He is a Fuzor whose beast mode is a gray wolf / golden eagle hybrid. His beast mode in Beast Machines
16055-435: The Maximals' military leader while Optimus becomes fixated on his new link to the Oracle, but Optimus eventually returns to his role as leader when he gains a better understanding of his mission. In the finale, it is strongly implied that Cheetor will become the new full-time leader after Optimus's death in the final battle. Rhinox (voiced by Richard Newman ) is the tech expert of the Axalon crew, close friend of Optimus, and
16224-467: The Maximals. He almost always refers to himself in the third person and blisters under his bad luck. His beast mode is a wasp . By the end of Beast Wars , Waspinator was the only survivor of the Nemesis' fusion cannon attack. In Beast Machines , Waspinator somehow found his way back to Cybertron where Megatron used his spark to create Thrust. Tarantulas (voiced by Alec Willows) is the treacherous and sadistic Predacon scientist on Megatron's crew with
16393-489: The Plasma Energy Chamber and Key to Vector Sigma. The naming of the Transformer ship, the Ark (and reference to 1984, the year the Transformers on board are revived), the character Ravage being shown as intelligent, and Cybertron having an organic core are elements taken from the comics. In 2011, Shout! Factory released the complete series of Beast Wars on DVD. In 2001, Dreamwave Productions began
16562-587: The Sumatran rhinoceros. To conserve it, they would have to relocate them from small forests to breeding programs that could monitor their breeding success. To boost reproduction, the Malaysian and Indonesian governments could also agree to exchange the gametes of the Sumatran and (smaller) Bornean subspecies. The Indonesian and Malaysian governments have also proposed a single management unit for these two ancient subspecies. Plantations for palm oil have taken out
16731-562: The Transformers originally breed asexually , though it is stopped by Primus because it produced the evil Swarm . A new empire, neither Autobot nor Decepticon, is bringing it back, however. Though the year-long arc wrapped itself up with an alliance between Optimus Prime and Megatron , the final panel introduces the Liege Maximo, ancestor of the Decepticons. This minor cliffhanger was not resolved until 2001 and 2002's Transforce convention when writer Simon Furman concluded his story in
16900-475: The Transformers. Dreamwave's version reimagines the familiar G1 and G.I. Joe characters in a World War II setting, and a second limited series was released set in the present day, though Dreamwave's bankruptcy meant it was cancelled after a single issue. Devil's Due had Cobra re-engineer the Transformers to turn into familiar Cobra vehicles, and released further mini-series that sent the characters travelling through time, battling Serpentor and being faced with
17069-547: The Vehicons. They each appeared in the 3H Comics, the IDW Publishing comics, and the Beast Wars: Uprising comics. The Vehicons are the second group that is led by Megatron. The foot soldiers are just drones that are led by Vehicons who sport the different sparks in Megatron's possession. Jetstorm (voiced by Brian Drummond ) is a psychopathic Vehicon general who transforms into a fighter jet and commands
17238-442: The ability to transform into hybrid beast modes. Quickstrike quickly fell in with the Predacons due to his violent personality, and stuck with them even after Silverbolt defected. Quickstrike is highly impulsive, making him easily manipulated. Blackarachnia and Tarantulas exploit this to convince him to aid in their plans to overthrow Megatron. In the third season, Tarantulas has Quickstrike attempt to murder Megatron by pushing him into
17407-399: The black rhinoceros has 84 chromosomes (diploid number, 2N, per cell), all other rhinoceros species have 82 chromosomes. Chromosomal polymorphism might lead to varying chromosome counts. For instance, in a study there were three northern white rhinoceroses with 81 chromosomes. There are two subspecies of white rhinoceros: the southern white rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum simum ) and
17576-480: The cells and gained Kiss Player fusion abilities to partner with them. The three central characters were a younger version of Marissa Faireborn as a resistance fighter against the EDC partnered with Optimus Prime who while having died in the movie, his body body was recovered and restored to life in a new body resembling that of a Dodge Ram pickup by the same organization. Rodimus devastated by his guilt in his role of
17745-505: The combined menace of Cobra-La and Unicron . During this time, Cobra teams up with the Decepticons . IDW Publishing has expressed interest in their own crossover. The following year, IDW Publishing rebooted the G1 series from scratch within various limited series and one shots . This allowed long-time writer of Marvel and Dreamwave comics, Simon Furman , to create his own universe without continuity hindrance, similar to Ultimate Marvel . This new continuity originally consisted of
17914-398: The conclusion of its first storyline in late 2007, Kiss Players moved into its second (and apparently final) phase, Kiss Players Position , which shifted focus to a distinctly more PG-rated theme, though it was still heavy on the "cute girls" theme. The Kiss Players this time are a pop idol singing group made up of the three girls and three original mini-cassette Transformers Glit, Sundor
18083-407: The core, killing them but restoring the sparks to life. Optimus's spirit speaks to Cheetor one last time, before joining with the Matrix. Cheetor (voiced by Ian James Corlett ) is an impulsive young rookie whose beast mode is a cheetah . He looks up to his elders but doesn't always follow their orders, and he frequently gets into trouble. He matures throughout the series from a typical teenager to
18252-464: The corrupted Rhinox embraced his new name and vehicle form, and planned on usurping Megatron as the ruler of Cybertron. Thrust (voiced by Jim Byrnes) is a suave Vehicon general who transforms into a motorcycle and commands the Cycle Drones that are modeled after him. He was the brainwashed spark of Waspinator. Obsidian (voiced by Paul Dobson ) and Strika (voiced by Patricia Drake ) are
18421-721: The creator of the Japanese mecha anime franchise Macross (which was adapted into the Robotech franchise in North America). Kawamori came up with the idea of transforming mechs while working on the Diaclone and Macross franchises in the early 1980s (such as the VF-1 Valkyrie in Macross and Robotech ), with his Diaclone mechs later providing the basis for Transformers . The primary concept of Generation 1
18590-441: The default power source for their machines and weapons, and is even used as a currency, a catch-all fuel of life, technology, war and commerce on Cybertron and beyond. This widespread use also comes in defiance of its extreme volatility: energon is prone to detonating explosively if mishandled, and is even used as ammunition in order to exploit this attribute. In 1986, the cartoon became the film The Transformers: The Movie , which
18759-399: The destruction of Tokyo stepped down as the then leader of the Autobots reverting to the previous name of Hot Rod in order to return to Earth to atone for his mistake. He's refitted into a vehicle resembling a Ford GT by his headstrong partner Shaoshao Li, a girl of Chinese descent and an estranged friend of Marissa and used to be one of the EDC's top Kiss Players until realizing that the EDC
18928-474: The early humans, Dinobot battles the Predacons to prevent this. Dinobot succeeds, but is mortally wounded in the process, and dies shortly after the other Maximals arrive. Tigerhawk (voiced by Blu Mankuma) is a fusion of Tigatron and Airazor created by the Vok. His beast mode is a white tiger / peregrine falcon hybrid, resembling a white tiger with the wings and front talons of a peregrine falcon. Tigerhawk rejoins
19097-727: The end of the Autobot/Decepticon civil war, with the Transformers having returned to Cybertron and now being threatened by ancient technology. Rhinoceros Ceratotherium Dicerorhinus Diceros Rhinoceros † Coelodonta † Stephanorhinus † Elasmotherium Fossil genera, see text A rhinoceros ( / r aɪ ˈ n ɒ s ər ə s / ry- NOSS -ə-rəss ; from Ancient Greek ῥινόκερως ( rhinókerōs ) 'nose-horned'; from ῥίς ( rhis ) 'nose' and κέρας ( kéras ) 'horn'; pl. : rhinoceros or rhinoceroses ), commonly abbreviated to rhino ,
19266-661: The eponymous "Kiss Players" - who fuse with the robots and share their adventures. The plot starts with the Earth Defense Command being formed in 2003 as part of a cooperative human/Autobot effort. When a virus called the Cosmic Rust critically struck the Autobots later that year, the EDC kicked off the Binaltech Project to shore up its defenses. When Galvatron was hurled out of Unicron by Rodimus Prime in 2005, rather than immediately crashing onto
19435-482: The exclusive novella Alignment . The story focuses on a small group of Maximals (the new Autobots), led by Optimus Primal , and Predacons , led by Megatron , 300 years after the "Great War". After a dangerous pursuit through transwarp space , both the Maximal and Predacon factions end up crash landing on a primitive, uncivilized planet similar to Earth , but with two moons and a dangerous level of Energon (which
19604-491: The existence of Primus, corruption in the Cybertronian government that first led Megatron to begin his war, and Earth having an unknown relevance to Cybertron. Three Transformers: The War Within limited series were also published. These are set at the beginning of the Great War, and identify Prime as once being a clerk named Optronix. Beast Wars was also retroactively stated as the future of this continuity, with
19773-410: The females being smaller than the males. Two horns on the skull are made of keratin with the larger front horn typically 50 cm (20 in) long, exceptionally up to 140 cm (55 in). Sometimes, a third smaller horn may develop. The black rhino is much smaller than the white rhino , and has a pointed mouth, which it uses to grasp leaves and twigs when feeding. During the latter half of
19942-539: The first season of Beast Wars (comprising 26 episodes) aired in Japan, the Japanese were faced with a problem. The second Canadian season was only 13 episodes long, not enough to warrant airing on Japanese TV. While they waited for the third Canadian season to be completed (thereby making 26 episodes in total when added to season 2), they produced two exclusive cel-animated series of their own, Beast Wars II (also called Beast Wars Second ) and Beast Wars Neo , to fill in
20111-478: The former is a spy and the latter shows compassion to both allies and enemies , and Rosanna who's the only heroic one out of the three . The group's purpose is to promote a positive relationship and friendship between humans and Transformers in the wake of the Tokyo disaster of 2005 and the subsequent rise and fall of the E.D.C.. They wear E.D.C. logos on their costumes as a group, appearing to be either sponsored by or
20280-603: The gap. Dreamwave retroactively revealed Beast Wars to be the future of their G1 universe, and the 2006 IDW comic book Beast Wars: The Gathering eventually confirmed the Japanese series to be canon within a story set during Season 3. Beast Wars contained elements from both the G1 cartoon series and comics. Attributes taken from the cartoon include Transformers that were female, the appearance of Starscream (who mentions being killed off by Galvatron in The Transformers: The Movie ), and appearances of
20449-505: The head, and its height 1.5–1.7 m (4 ft 11 in – 5 ft 7 in). Adults are variously reported to weigh 900–1,400 kg (2,000–3,100 lb) or 1,360–2,000 kg (3,000–4,410 lb). Male horns can reach 26 cm (10 in) in length, while in females they are knobs or altogether absent. These animals prefer dense lowland rain forest, tall grass and reed beds that are plentiful with large floodplains and mud wallows. Though once widespread throughout Asia, by
20618-487: The horn is taken. The Namibian government has supported the practice of rhino trophy hunting as a way to raise money for conservation. Hunting licenses for five Namibian Black rhinos are auctioned annually, with the money going to the government's Game Products Trust Fund. Some conservationists and members of the public oppose or question this practice. Rhinoceros horns develop from subcutaneous tissues, and are made of keratinous mineralized compartments. The horns root in
20787-436: The intended target of the planet Thrull, he instead hurtled toward Earth. Landing in Tokyo, Japan, the Decepticon leader's impact decimated the city and scattered his Unicron-mutated cells throughout Earth's atmosphere. Following this catastrophe, the EDC was reborn as an organization dedicated to driving all Transformers off Earth. The organization built an anti-electron field (previously referred to as an Energon field) to make
20956-570: The intent to unify every Transformers media into one continuity. The name of this continuity however, is not official; it was adopted by the fans after Hasbro referred to it as an "Aligned Continuity". The toy lines derived from this continuity are Transformers: Generations , Transformers: Rescue Bots , and Transformers Go! The television series belonging to the Aligned Universe include Transformers: Prime (including its concluding film Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising ),
21125-501: The late Eocene to early Oligocene . The amynodontids were hippopotamus -like in their ecology and appearance, inhabiting rivers and lakes, and sharing many of the same adaptations to aquatic life as hippos. The Paraceratheriidae, also known as paraceratheres or indricotheres, originated in the Eocene epoch and lived until the early Miocene . The first paraceratheres were only about the size of large dogs, growing progressively larger in
21294-1007: The late Miocene ( 6 mya ) species Ceratotherium neumayri . The lineages containing the living species diverged by the early Pliocene , when Diceros praecox , the likely ancestor of the black rhinoceros, appears in the fossil record. The black and white rhinoceros remain so closely related that they can still mate and successfully produce offspring. Cladogram showing the relationships of recent and Late Pleistocene rhinoceros species (minus Stephanorhinus hemitoechus) based on whole nuclear genomes, after Liu et al., 2021: † Elasmotherium sibiricum White Rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum ) Black rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis ) † Woolly rhinoceros ( Coelodonta antiquitatis ) † Merck's rhinoceros ( Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis ) Sumatran rhinoceros ( Dicerorhinus sumatrensis ) Javan rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros sondaicus ) Indian rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros unicornis ) † denotes extinct taxa Adult rhinoceroses have no real predators in
21463-617: The late Eocene and Oligocene. The largest genus of the family was Paraceratherium , which was more than twice as heavy as a bull African elephant, and was one of the largest land mammals that ever lived. The family of all modern rhinoceroses, the Rhinocerotidae, first appeared in the Late Eocene in Eurasia. The earliest members of Rhinocerotidae were small and numerous; at least 26 genera lived in Eurasia and North America until
21632-515: The leader of the Junkions (Wreck-Gar, though unnamed in the movie). The Transformers theme tune for the film was performed by Lion with "Weird Al" Yankovic adding a song to the soundtrack. The third season followed up The Movie , with the revelation of the Quintessons having used Cybertron as a factory. Their robots rebel, and in time the workers become the Autobots and the soldiers become
21801-540: The living areas and led to the eradication of the rhino in Sumatra. Rhinocerotoids diverged from other perissodactyls by the early Eocene . Fossils of Hyrachyus eximus found in North America date to this period. This small hornless ancestor resembled a tapir or small horse more than a rhino. Four families, sometimes grouped together as the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea , evolved in the late Eocene, namely
21970-513: The main continuities, and that a sequel is possible. In June 2018 it was announced there would be Star Trek and Transformers Crossover being released in September 2018. Transformers: Kiss Players [ ja ] (トランスフォーマー キスぷれ, Toransufōmā Kisu Pure ), shortened to Kiss Players (キスぷれ, Kisu Pure ), is a Japanese Transformers franchise which began in 2006 to 2007 as was helmed by artist and writer Yuki Ohshima. By virtue of being
22139-504: The most numerous, which once ranged from central Tanzania south through Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to northern and eastern South Africa; South-western ( Diceros bicornis occidentalis ) which are better adapted to the arid and semi-arid savannas of Namibia, southern Angola, western Botswana and western South Africa; East African ( Diceros bicornis michaeli ), primarily in Tanzania; and West African ( Diceros bicornis longipes ) which
22308-413: The name Ne-04, a Autorooper built in the form resembling a Mazda RX-8 would shared the same feeling as she did though with the time they spend together their way of thinking would change throughout their relationship. While this plotline seems like a shift in demographics to little girls, it is said that this line was aimed at a much older adult male audience. The toys bear an "ages 15 and up" warning, and
22477-545: The only Transformers toyline and fiction released in Japan by Takara between the conclusion of Transformers: Cybertron and the live-action movie , it was also effectively the main Transformers line in the country for that time. It takes place in the Generation 1 cartoon continuity, specifically in the five-year milieu between The Transformers: The Movie and Transformers 2010 . The series derives its name from its controversial gimmick, which involves Transformers getting "power-ups" when they are kissed by human girls -
22646-418: The only survivor of her own exploration crew. She transforms into an alien plant, making her the only Maximal whose beast mode is not actually a beast. Optimus Primal reformats Botanica when her plant mode goes on a rampage and she joins up with the Maximals. The Dinobots were created by the Oracle from information gathered from the late Dinobot's spark and were created to aid the Maximals against Megatron and
22815-400: The original Decepticon leader from Generation 1, and travels back in time after stealing the golden disk in an attempt to rewrite history so that his Decepticon ancestors will win the Great War against the Autobots, thereby ensuring the Predacons' supremacy. Waspinator (voiced by Scott McNeil) is a dim-witted aerial fighter and comic relief who is often abused by both his fellow Predacons and
22984-407: The original Transformers cartoon and 1986 animated movie, as well as characters only seen in comics and such, make special appearances and cameos throughout the show, with various voice actors (including Corey Burton , John Moschitta, Jr. , Susan Blu , and Judd Nelson ) reprising their roles. Hasbro, in an attempt to stop the wave of reboots that started in 2001, created the Aligned Universe, with
23153-494: The planet uninhabitable to Cybertronians, and created a team of 48 transforming robots known as Autoroopers (オートルーパー Ōtorūpā), a Japanese portmanteau of "auto" (オート ōto) and "trooper" (トルーパー torūpā) or Autotroopers (aka Autobot Troopers) in English, are a group of human-created artificial Transformers that serve the Earth Defense Command to combat any other Transformers that remained, recruiting young women who had been infected with
23322-435: The present day. Dinobot leader Grimlock takes over as Autobot leader. There was a G.I. Joe crossover and the limited series The Transformers: Headmasters , which further expanded the scope to the planet Nebulon. It led on to the main title resurrecting Prime as a Powermaster. In the United Kingdom, the mythology continued to grow. Primus is introduced as the creator of the Transformers, to serve his material body that
23491-565: The profile series More than Meets the Eye showing the Predacon Megatron looking at historical files detailing Dreamwave's characters and taking his name from the original Megatron. In 2004, this real life universe also inspired three novels and a Dorling Kindersley guide, which focused on Dreamwave as the "true" continuity when discussing in-universe elements of the characters. In a new twist, Primus and Unicron are siblings, formerly
23660-401: The radio dramas, manga, comic, and other materials) were recovered. This material was remastered and translated into English and released via torrent for download. First broadcast in Japan in 2000, Robots in Disguise was a single animated series consisting of thirty-nine episodes. It was exported to other countries in subsequent years. In this continuity, Megatron re-creates the Decepticons as
23829-491: The radio storyline in its second week and never mentioned again. Reactions ran the gamut from outright disgust to comedic derision, with most fans agreeing that the content such be included a children's toyline was distasteful. The fact that several Japanese fans were themselves openly decrying Kiss Players , fearing that American fans would think that it was somehow accepted as normal in Japan regarding its sexually suggestive material. Oshima himself even admitted that he crafted
23998-467: The second moon releases mysterious energies that make some of the characters " transmetal " and the planet is revealed to be prehistoric Earth, leading to the discovery of the Ark . Megatron attempts to kill the original Optimus Prime , but at the beginning of the third season, Primal manages to preserve his spark. In the two-season follow-up series, Beast Machines , Cybertron is revealed to have organic origins, which Megatron attempts to stamp out. After
24167-475: The second-in-command whose beast mode is a rhinoceros . Rhinox is highly skilled in combat but is highly spiritual and loves nature. He is highly intelligent as well, serving as the Maximal’s resident technician due to his tech-savvy nature. He primarily uses twin chainguns as weapons. In Beast Machines , Rhinox is captured by Megatron and has his spark used to power the Vehicon general Tankor. Rhinox's personality
24336-501: The series finale when he is caught in the crossfire of the Nemesis fusion cannon. Quickstrike (voiced by Colin Murdoch ) is an aggressive and highly violent sociopath who is obsessed with fighting and speaks with a Texan accent. He is a Fuzor and his beast mode is a scorpion with a cobra -headed tail. Quickstrike and Silverbolt were both Maximal protoforms whose stasis pods malfunctioned and turned them into Fuzors, Transformers with
24505-482: The series goes on, he proves to be highly competent with a strict form of honor, though he is somewhat irreverent and is perfectly willing to bend the law. A running gag throughout the series is his penchant for stuffy and long speeches, something that Rattrap and even Megatron mock him for. In “Other Voices”, he goes on a risky mission to destroy the Vok Planet Buster. He succeeds, only to be killed thanks to
24674-553: The series in this manner because he wanted to "make people's jaws drop." Many of its characters and ideas have made appearances in other Transformers media. The Autroopers appeared in Transformers: Animated in 2009 with an official toyline released in Botcon in 2011. The colors of white and blue used for Glit would inspire the Shattered Glass incarnation of Ravage . A new toy figure of Sundor would be released under
24843-636: The storyline could be completed at #30. However, the Transformers Fan Club published a few stories set in the Cybertron era. The storyline of Transformers: Universe , mainly set following Beast Machines , sees characters from many assorted alternate continuities, including existing and new ones, encountering each other. The story was told in an unfinished comic book exclusive to the Official Transformers Collectors' Convention. In 2007, Michael Bay directed
25012-486: The storyline, ignoring the 1987 end of the American series. The extended Japanese run consisted of The Headmasters , Super-God Masterforce , Victory and Zone , then in illustrated magazine form as Battlestars: Return of Convoy and Operation: Combination . Just as the TV series was wrapping up, Marvel continued to expand its continuity. It follows The Movie' s example by killing Prime and Megatron, albeit in
25181-435: The subject matter of the accompanying manga is far from child-friendly. The franchise itself consists of a toyline, a weekly radio drama series (featuring voice acting by Lyrian as Marissa, Yui Kano as Shaoshao, Satomi Akesaka as Atari, and Keiji Hirai as Ne-04 among others), and a three part manga, which together tell the story of the line in which the toys and manga all of which were also created by Ohshima. Following
25350-562: The title of Transformers: Heroes , Transformers Animated is set in 2050 Detroit (after crash landing 50 years earlier), when robots and humans live side by side. The Autobots come to Earth and assume superhero roles, battling evil humans, with the Decepticons having a smaller role until Megatron resurfaces. Main characters include Autobots Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Prowl, and Ratchet; Decepticons Megatron, Starscream, Blitzwing, Lugnut, and Blackarachnia; and humans Professor Sumdac and Sari Sumdac. Several characters that were in
25519-418: The two African species of rhinoceros lack teeth at the front of their mouths; they rely instead on their lips to pluck food. Rhinoceroses are killed by poachers for their horns , which are bought and sold on the black market for high prices, leading to most living rhinoceros species being considered endangered. The contemporary market for rhino horn is overwhelmingly driven by China and Vietnam , where it
25688-551: The two develop a strange cross between a rivalry and a friendship, often arguing with each other. After discovering the Golden Disks, Dinobot begins to wonder if the future can be changed or is set in stone, triggering an existential crisis that leads to him betraying the Maximals to Megatron temporarily. Dinobot discovers that the future can be changed after watching Megatron destroy a mountain, changing an image of it to match its current star; realizing Megatron intends to wipe out
25857-417: The two returning and older characters of Atari and Shaoshao. Possibly as a result of the majority of fans trying to distance themselves from the series combined with the then general inaccessibility of the radio show to an English audience, there was minimal awareness of the specific details of the Kiss Players storyline in the Japanese fandom. However, on July 19, 2022, most of the original media (including
26026-709: The universe depicted in the animated series Challenge of the GoBots and follow-up film GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords was retroactively established as an alternate universe within the Transformers multiverse. Generation 1 is a retroactive term for the Transformers characters that appeared between 1984 and 1993. The Transformers began with the 1980s Japanese toy lines Micro Change and Diaclone . They presented robots able to transform into everyday vehicles, electronic items or weapons. Hasbro bought
26195-526: The verge of extinction, confined to several parts of Indonesia and Malaysia by reproductive isolation. There were 320 D. sumatrensis in 1995, which, by 2011, had dwindled to 216 . It has been found through DNA comparison that the Sumatran rhinoceros is the most ancient extant rhinoceros and related to the extinct Eurasian woolly rhino species, Coelodonta . In 1994 Alan Rabinowitz publicly denounced governments, non-governmental organizations, and other institutions for lacking in their attempts to conserve
26364-516: The wild, other than humans. Young rhinos sometimes fall prey to big cats , crocodiles, African wild dogs , and hyenas . Although rhinos are large and aggressive and have a reputation for being resilient, they are very easily poached; they visit water holes daily and can be easily killed while they drink. As of December 2009, poaching increased globally while efforts to protect the rhino are considered increasingly ineffective. The most serious estimate, that only 3% of poachers are successfully countered,
26533-427: The years, the G1 characters have also starred in crossovers with fellow Hasbro property G.I. Joe , but whereas those crossovers published by Marvel were in continuity with their larger storyline, those released by Dreamwave and G.I. Joe publisher Devil's Due Publishing occupy their own separate real life universes. In Devil's Due, the terrorist organization COBRA Command is responsible for finding and reactivating
26702-409: Was a blank protoform who received damage landing on Earth gaining the beast mode of a fire ant , and went insane, gaining the mentality of the actual animal tied in with his beast mode: aggressive, obedient, and loyal to the colony (his stasis pod), as well as making him violent and homicidal. He was defeated by Tigatron, who destroyed his stasis pod, but Megatron reprogrammed Inferno to view Megatron as
26871-513: Was also left in constant pain, driving him insane and causing him to become a violent serial killer. He went on a killing spree, wiping out multiple colonies before being captured by Depth Charge and put into stasis. He was placed aboard the Axalon , to be dumped on a barren planet, only for Protoform X to be ejected during the fight with the Darksyde at the beginning of the series. He is eventually revives after his stasis pod falls out of orbit, gains
27040-698: Was announced that IDW lost the publishing rights to Transformers. In January 2006, the Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club comic wrote a story based on the Transformers Classics toy line, set in the Marvel Comics universe, but excluding the Generation 2 comic. Fifteen years after Megatron crash-lands in the Ark with Ratchet, the war continues with the characters in their Classics bodies. IDW Publishing introduced The Transformers: Evolutions in 2006,
27209-457: Was conducting experiments behind her back on other girls. She was then rescued by Hot Rod and joins the resistance to combat the EDC and make amends with her former friend. Lastly, Atari Hitotonari of Japanese descent, who "recruited" into the EDC after the death of her parents while suffering from survivor's guilt . She would shortly become depressed and self-destructive. As she spoke aloud about her nihilistic feelings she would meet her partner by
27378-521: Was declared extinct in November 2011. The native Tswanan name keitloa describes a South African variation of the black rhino in which the posterior horn is equal to or longer than the anterior horn. An adult black rhinoceros stands 1.50–1.75 m (59–69 in) high at the shoulder and is 3.5–3.9 m (11–13 ft) in length. An adult weighs from 850 to 1,600 kg (1,870 to 3,530 lb), exceptionally to 1,800 kg (4,000 lb), with
27547-414: Was found by Optimus. His beast mode is a vampire bat when the Maximals first find him and found that he had been eating the strange fruit underground. When Optimus Primal reformats him, Nightscream takes on this name and gains abilities in his transformed state where he can fly and drain energy from Vehicon drones. Noble/Savage (voiced by David Kaye ) is an organism that changes between a werewolf and
27716-585: Was heavily censored in the U.S. due to its content of buildings being destroyed and terrorism references after the September 11 attacks on the United States and three episodes were cut altogether. These three lines, launched in 2002 and dubbed the " Unicron Trilogy " by Transformers designer Aaron Archer , are co-productions between Takara and (lesser extent) Hasbro, simultaneously released in both countries, each lasting 52 episodes. Armada followed
27885-516: Was launched, and then later, to summarize the final few radio dramas when both series were drawing to a close. Information Administration Teletraan 15 Go! Go! also featured the first part of a story in which Starscream 's ghost possessed Atari (which was continued in the radio drama), and in the second year, notably incorporated the further adventures of the Kiss Players Position cassette trio, who were rather confusingly dropped from
28054-434: Was published by 47North . In addition, IDW Publishing has published several comic books, including graphic novels, while Titan Magazines published Transformers Comic UK , a 20-issue series from 2007 to 2014. The video games, novels, and television series contradict each other due to creative differences, miscommunications, constant team changes, and Aaron Archer being replaced with a different person that did not know
28223-401: Was released on June 27, 2014, which also grossed over $ 1 billion, though it received generally negative reviews. A fifth film, Transformers: The Last Knight was released on June 23, 2017 to similarly negative reviews. Unlike its predecessors, the movie failed to recoup its costs for the studio. Bumblebee , directed by Laika 's Travis Knight , was released on December 21, 2018, serving as
28392-436: Was unwilling to sacrifice her existence for Megatron's ambition. She falls in love with Silverbolt, which eventually leads her to fully leave the Predacons to join the Maximals. In Beast Machines, Blackarachnia is a full Maximal, but still retains some bad-girl traits, and spends much of the show trying to find and get Silverbolt back, and then has to help him get over what he did as Jetstorm. Inferno (voiced by Jim Byrnes )
28561-530: Was well received by fans. A sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , was released on June 24, 2009. It received mostly negative reviews, but was a commercial success and grossed more than its predecessor. A third film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon , was released on June 29, 2011, in 3-D and went on to gross over $ 1 billion, despite receiving mixed reviews. A fourth film, Transformers: Age of Extinction ,
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