| “ | Tankor, PULVERIZE!!! | „ |
| ~ Tankor's transformation code. |
| “ | I'm not quite the Maximal I was. Neither am I what Megatron made me. My experiences in both camps made me a greater clarity. I've grown to realize that Megstron's scheme for new order is elegent in its simplicity yet suffering from a single flaw, Megatron. Cybertron requires a leader uncontaminated by a beast mode. Someone like me. | „ |
| ~ Tankor explaining his intentions to the Diagnostic Drone. |
Tankor, who hosts the spark of Rhinox, was the secondary antagonist of Season 1 of Beast Machines, the sequel to Beast Wars.
He was a member of the Vehicon Generals who is the leader of the Tank Drones to find and exterminate the Maximals. After learning that he was the Maximal Rhinox, Tankor turned against both Optimus Primal and Megatron in favor to become the new ruler of Cybertron.
He was voiced by Paul Dobson who voiced Obsidian, D-Structs in Dinotrux, Shuma-Gorath, Doctor Doom / Victor von Doom in Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, Juggernaut / Cain Marko, Sideways in Transformers Armada, General Kozu, Flintlocke and Fenwick in Ninjago.
Voices[]
- Paul Dobson - Tankor
- Richard Newman - Tankor with Rhinox's persona
History[]
After Megatron claimed there would be prizes to be won, for whichever general got the Maximals, Tankor went after them and, after a vicious battle, actually captured them. He then took them to Megatron and demanded his reward which managed to use his affinity with the Allspark to contact Tankor's spark and convince him to do the right thing: the Vehicon helped them escape and went on the run with then, but Megatron was able to remote delete the tank's memories of this so he'd be their enemy again. Primal felt something familiar about that spark though. The Maximals tried to ambush Tankor to see whether drones would stop functioning without their general; the plan would fail.
Events would ultimately reveal that Tankor is the corrupted Rhinox. Rhinox was captured when Maximals, who won the Beast Wars and were returning to Cybertron, Megatron escaped from his imprisonment and used transwarp to arrive on Cybertron before Maximals did. Once arrived, Megatron unleashed viral outbreak that infected all but the extreme few Transformers. Maximals were infected with the virus, lost their transformation capabilities along with their transmetal forms. While Maximals managed to flee, Rhinox, along with Silverbolt, was not so fortunate and got captured by Megatron's Vehicon drone army. He had his spark got extracted from his body, had it corrupted by Megatron, and was placed in a body of a tank drone, becoming Tankor.
Throughout the Season, he joins in with his other fellow generals, Jetstorm and Thrust, who both hold sparks of Silverbolt and Waspinator, in pursuing the Maximals. During their hunt for bounty, Tankor's Spark was sensed by Optimus and after their capture, Optimus was able to convince Tankor to free the Maximals and turn against Megatron. This didn't last long however as Megatron tempered with him and blocked Optimus from trying to reconnect with him.
Eventually as the Maximals manage to hack into Tankor, they discovered that Tankor was indeed Rhinox and were able to help him remember who he was. Instead of happy reunion however, Maximals were shocked to learn that Rhinox has now totally embraced his role as Tankor because of his corruption for staying too long in his body. Bidding his former comrades one final good-bye (making clear to them that should they meet again it won't be as friends), Tankor, now fully aware of who he really is, begins to pursue his own agenda. In needing of some assistance, he reveals his intentions to the Diagonistic Drone who is a right-hand of Megatron and reprograms him to assist him to follow his steps to become Cybertron's new ruler.
Tankor found the Oracle and, using his escalating arms race gambit worked in manipulating Megatron into firing the key on a planetary scale which would have killed all the organics, then he tried to attack Megatron with the Key to Vector Sigma. But Megatron, still a master strategist who already knew who Tankor really was from his unpleasant past encounter each other had (going all the way back to Beast Wars: Dark Designs) and therefore ahead of several steps of Tankor, had a provision on Tankor against harming the tyrant, hard-wired into Tankor's programming, shut him down. Due to Tankor's manipulations, however, Primal opened the Plasma Energy Chamber and Megatron fired the Key. The ensuing clash of energies destroyed Tankor's body, and his spark joined the Matrix. Primal met Rhinox's spark one last time within the Matrix, where Rhinox expressed regret over his recent actions and encouraged Optimus Primal to fix the mistakes he made and save Cybertron.
After Optimus' sacrifice and the destruction of Megatron's technlogical half, the Maximals arrived to see what was left of the throne with Rattrap mistakenly having Tankor's corpse collapss to pieces after making contact with it.
Trivia[]
- Tankor's words, personality, and speech pattern are very similar to that of the Incredible Hulk's, whom his personality is stated to be based upon.
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