Scorponok is one of the Predacons who work for Megatron and a major antagonist in Transformers: Beast Wars. He is one of the original six Predacons to appear. Although loyal to Megatron (often being subjected to Black Arachnia's sarcasm) and genuinely believes in his cause, his ability to accomplish tasks the way Megatron demands him to do leaves him a lot to be desired, though he lacks the competence to carry out Megatron's will. Because of this and other factors, no one seems to take Scorponok seriously. He is also Megatron's second-in-command.
He was voiced by Don Brown, who is best known for voicing Emperor Pilaf, King Kai, Shenron, Mr. Satan, Burter, and Kibito in Dragon Ball Ocean Dub.
Biography[]
Background[]
Scorponok, along with Megatron and his crews, was instructed by Cryotek to infiltrate B4-Y, a Maximal facility and steal Golden Disks hidden in there. His task was to install explosive devices in the facility. Although he was spotted by a Maximal security guard, his comrade Backslash, saved him and allowed him to accomplish his task successfully. As soon as he accomplished his task, this time Backslash was spotted by another Maximal security guard and was put in danger. Scorponok's response? Pushing the detonator, blowing up both Backslash (Backslash was loyal to Cryotek) and the Maximal guard along with the B4-Y. After paving the entrance for the rest of Predacons, Scorponok and the rest of Megatron's crew stole Golden Disk, purging Predacons who are not sided with Megatron, stole Darksyde and fled Cybertron.
During this time Scorponok's alternate mode was a hovercraft.
Transformers: Beast Wars[]
Scorponok is Megatron's second in command, following Dinobot's betrayal. The first thing we see him do is launch Dinobot when he challenged Megatron to a battle for leadership of the Predacons. However, throughout the show, while Scorponok is loyal and devoted to his leader, Megatron, he is noted by Dinobot himself to be "notoriously incompetent". He ambushed Optimus Primal and Dinobot in a mission to revert the former's personality from a brave to a coward via a viromine, but the attempt backfired when the mine altered Primal's personality into a berserker instead. He tried ambushing the Maximals with Waspinator but did not provide proof to Megatron of their supposed demise. In one occassion, he tried catching Tigatron in the Darksyde for trespassing Predacon territory but instead crashed into Terrorsaur who was ordered by Megatron to also catch Tigatron. While a seemingly capable scientist and spy at first, he is poor at it as Tarantulas himself.
In the second episode, he fought Dinobot (who was now a Maximal) at a mountain full of Energon. In the episode "Dark Voyage", he blinded the maximals by blowing up some Energon. Despite his attempts to stop Maximals from reaching Axelon, Maximals managed to make it back to their base.
Scorponok is the rival of Terrorsaur, whom he disagrees with whenever Terrorsaur tries to take over as leader of the Predacons. He also has a rivalry with Inferno, a Maximal turned Predacon with fire ant form whose fanatical loyalty towards Megatron combined with superior fighting skills might have had jeopardized Scorponok's position as second-in-command had Scorponok lived longer.
In Episode 27, the Season 2 premier, "Aftermath", the quantum surge caused Scorponok to collide with Terrorsaur on his hover platform, and they both fell into the lava pit to their deaths.
Personality[]
Scorponok is very loyal to his leader to a fault. He often hates Dinobot, because Dinobot has betrayed the Predacons group. Tragic end, he was manipulated and betrayed by Megatron.
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Trivia[]
- This Scorponok was marked being first incarnation featuring his alt mode being ordinary scorpion, without having hybrid between arachnid and vehicle.
- Though in IDW Transformers comic series, this Scorponok does have an alternate upgrade form resembles a hybrid between his normal form and his unicron trilogy counterpart.
- There is a theory and implies that the swarm of mass product Scorponoks that appear in Transformers Rise Of The Beasts, were created from the DNA of the original Predacon Scorponok.
- Its possible that Scourge murdering him at some point when he refused tells the location of Predacon Megatron's hideout to Scourge, after his death his DNA was used by Unicron to create modified mass product clones of him.
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