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Maximals

Lio Convoy Unit

Lio Convoy (ライオコンボイ raio konboi)

Lio Convoy

Function: Supreme Commander

Beast Mode: White Lion

Voiced by: Hozumi Gouda, Masayuki Katō (Robotmasters), David Kaye (The Hot Rod script reading)

The Maximal Commander of Beast Wars II and the most famous character from the Beast Era's Japanese exclusive media.

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• Back for the Finale: Returns to life at the end of Neo to help Big Convoy stop Unicron.
• BFS: His Legends toy comes with one, called the Ancient Sword. Uprising has it as a remade version of the Solipsistic Staff.
• Big Good: Of Beast Wars II.
• Breakout Character: Easily the most popular and famous character from the Japanese side of the Beast Era.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He beat up a version of Unicron and turned his corpse into a suit.
• Dimensional Traveler: After the end of II, he went on a journey across universes.
• Dub Name Change: Sometimes, he's Leo Prime.
• Expy: He's a physical clone of Optimus Prime. Character-wise, he's a little different.
• Great White Feline: Lio Convoy is the leader of the Maximals and his alt mode is a white lion with a golden mane.
• King of Beasts: Played With. He's the Maximal leader of Beast Wars II, with a lion Beast Mode and at the end of Neo Vector Sigma appoints him as Grand Convoy, one of the supreme leaders of the Maximals.
• Large and in Charge: In the IDW comics, he's huge by Maximal standards, towering over damn near everyone.
• Panthera Awesome: His alt mode is a huge white lion.
• Super Mode: By combining the power of his Energon Matrix with that of Optimus Primal, he becomes the gold and white Flash Lio Convoy.
• Underestimating Badassery: Says Magmatron is the real threat while Beast Megatron is a loose cannon. Justified, he had no idea of the scope of Beast Meg's plans.

Apache (アパッチ apatchi)

Apache

Function: Deputy Commander

Alt/Beast Modes: Mandrill; Artillery Cannon

Voiced by: Sanryo Odaka

"Discipline and loyalty equal strength."

Second-in-command of Lio Convoy's Maximals during the Beast Wars II anime. A short-tempered, no-nonsense sort of officer, Apache demands nothing but the best from his troops... and even more from himself.

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• Butt-Monkey: He almost got himself killed, accidentally caused Lio to go missing after trying to save him, and almost got left behind by his fellow Maximals. And this is in the first episode!
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Despite being Lio Convoy's second-in-command, none of his fellow Maximals pay him any mind, save for Lio himself.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Apache's weakness. He takes failure hard and tends to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders; if something goes wrong, it's all his fault.
• I Owe You My Life: Years ago, before the events of the story, Apache and Lio Convoy were Maximal trainess. During a live-fire exercise, their commander ordered the group to leave behind any fallen comrades who had washed out of the program. Unfortunately, Apache was one of these bots. But rather than leave him behind, Lio Convoy, despite running low on energy himself, shared what he had with Apache. The two of them, weakened, supported one another through the final leg of the exercise. Both warriors made it to the checkpoint, and neither washed out.
• It's All My Fault: As stated above, everytime Apache screws up he takes it hard.
  • One notable screw-up was when Apache was on a collision course with a massive planetoid ship in the first episode. Lio Convoy ended up having to save him, and the resulting explosion caused Apache's ship to hurl through space while Convoy himself vanished. Afterward, Apache drowned his sorrows in cheap oil.
• Maniac Monkeys: Transforms into a baboon.
• Number Two: He's Lio Convoy's second in-command.
• Palette Swap: A very, very slight repaint of B'Boom. IDW's comics give him a slightly different build to distinguish them.
• Secret Weapon: His artillery cannon mode, referred to as his "Angry Combat Mode". Apache first used it in the sixth episode against Mantis, firing a powerful blast of energy that sent the Insectron through walls of stone. The downside is that he can't remember his time as a cannon.
• Undying Loyalty: To Lio Convoy, who saved him when they were trainees in Training from Hell. See I Owe You My Life.

Bighorn (ビッグホーン bigguhōn)

Bighorn

Function: Shock Trooper

Beast Mode: Bison

Voiced by: Masami Iwasaki

"The path to peace is littered with Predacon wreckage."

A powerful and headstrong Maximal, Bighorn is another member of Lio Convoy's crew appearing in the Beast Wars II cartoon. Despite being a bot with a short temper, he's still got a good spark inside him and wishes for a peaceful and free galaxy.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: His Uprising incarnation is unpleasant.
• Artistic License – Biology: The third episode of the cartoon makes reference to the popular myth that bulls charge at the sight of the color red. That's not true, bulls can't distinguish red; they simply charge at the movement. The cape used in a bullfight is actually red in order to mask the blood splatter as the animal is finally killed. Because of this, some could argue that the reason why bulls get so angry isn't due to the color red. Rather it's because people keep aggravating them, such as trying to ride them.
• Berserk Button: Normally, he's a calm, sensitive sort of guy... unless he sees red, at which point he goes into a massive rage.
• Brutish Bulls: He turns into a bull.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: So much so that it became a plot point in the third episode of the Beast Wars II cartoon, fittingly titled Bighorn's Rage.
• Hidden Depths: He's a Blood Knight, but he also likes sitting down in a quiet field and writing poetry.
• Hopeless Suitor: He's got a major crush on Scylla, who couldn't care less about him.
• Palette Swap: He's Bonecrusher, with red replacing the grey parts. His Uprising incarnation is a repaint of Prime Bulkhead.
• Secret Weapon: Bighorn has the ability to launch a devastating missile from his mouth. He used this in the third episode of the cartoon, sending Megastorm in his tank mode flying. The downside is that his tail has to be pulled in order to do so, and he can't pull it himself, requiring someone else to do it.
• Shock and Awe: Bighorn's well... horns can extended and summon lightning from the sky to rain down on enemies.
• Use Your Head: As his alt-mode is a bison, he tends to ram things a lot. His robot mode head's also pretty tough. Most mechs are down for the count after he headbutts them.

Tasmania Kid (タスマニアキッド tasumania kiddo)

Tasmania Kid

Beast Mode: Tasmanian Devil

Voiced by: Katashi Ishizuka

• Half the Man He Used to Be: In The Ascending, Shokaract tears him in half as an introduction. Even time travel doesn't save Kid from this fate.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Tasmania Kid wants to be heroic and important and cool, now, without having to do all that "learning" stuff.
• Kid-Appeal Character: The most youthful and childlike member of Lio Convoy's team. "Kid" is even in the name.
• Those Two Guys: With his teammate Diver.

Diver (ダイバー daibā)

Diver

Function: Field Defense

Beast Mode: Frog

Voiced by: Kenji Nakano

A cowardly Maximal who is more used in non-combat-based tasks.

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• Amphibian at Large: His beast mode is a giant frog.
• Cowardly Lion: Diver is not very brave, and kind of lazy besides.
• Those Two Guys: Tends to hang out most with Tasmania Kid, who drags him into numerous schemes that more often than not, get them into trouble.

Scuba (スクーバ sukūba)

Scuba

Beast Mode: Squid

Voiced by: Yuji Kishi

• The Aloner: Scuba tends to keep to himself a lot of the time.
• Chick Magnet: Both the Seacon Syclla and the android Artemis have crushes on him.
• Palette Swap: Just barely a repaint of Claw Jaw.
• Robo Family: With Ikard, his cousin, and one of the few people he can get along with.

Magnaboss

Lio Junior (ライオジュニア raio junia)

Function: Warrior

Beast Mode: Lion

Voiced by: Yumiko Kobayashi

• Adaptational Name Change: In Uprising, he's called Lio Minor and has no known relationship to Lio Convoy.
• Adaptational Wimp: Lio Junior has all manner of groovy powers. Lio Minor is just a guy.
• Combining Mecha: Forms Magnaboss II with Skywarp and Santon.
• Fusion Dance: He and Lio Convoy merge into a green lion.
• Made of Evil: ... sort of. He's partially made from Angolmois, the life-force of Unicron.
• Oblivious Adoption: Raised by the white lion of Gaea. Lio only realized there was something up when he could transform while his "parent" couldn't.
• Panthera Awesome: He turns into a lion.
• Really Was Born Yesterday: Acts like a stroppy kid, which in fairness he is.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Junior would just like Lio Convoy's approval.

Skywarp (スカイワープ sukaiwāpu)

Function: Sonic Speed Instructor

Beast Mode: Bald Eagle

Voiced by: Mantaro Iwao

• Combining Mecha: He and Santon merge with Lio Junior to form Magnaboss.
• The Mentor: To Lio Junior along with Santon.
• Noble Bird of Prey: His Beast Mode.

Santon (サントン)

Function: Medic

Beast Mode: African Elephant

Voiced by: Hiroaki Harakawa

• Combining Mecha: Forms Magnaboss II with Skywarp and Lio Junior.
• Honorable Elephant: He turns into an elephant.
• Ki Attacks: His “Qidansho” (Ki bullet cannons) on his back seem to fire these.
• The Medic: He studies the work of great medics such as Ratchet and hopes to find a galactic medical corp one day.
• The Mentor: To Lio Junior along with Skywarp.

Magnaboss II (マグナボス magunabosu)

Function: Gestalt Warrior

Voiced by: Yumiko Kobayashi

"Accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope."

• Combining Mecha: Of Lio Junior, Skywarp and Santon, with the later two adding their wisdom and maturity to Junior's raw power.
• One-Steve Limit: In the IDW continuity, this Magnaboss took his name from the original version as inspiration.
• Palette Swap: Averted. Aside from several paint applications, both Magnaboss's are virtually identical.

Insectrons (インセクトロン insekutoron)

Bigmos (ビッグモス biggumosu)

Function: Insectron Commander

Beast Modes: Mosquito; Antlion

Voiced by: Takeshi Watanabe

"Don't do anything I wouldn't."

Leader of the Insectron forces who became sick of the ceaseless wars plaguing Cybertron and encouraged his comrades to find peace by wandering the universe. That is until they landed on Gaia and become involved in the events of Beast Wars II.

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• Achilles' Heel: His wings are pretty sensitive to gunfire.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Bigmos takes the form of an organic mosquito and an antlion. The latter is called "Mode 3".
• Defector from Decadence: Bigmos was once a mercenary who fought for the Maximals. Afterward, he became sick of the wars plaguing Cybertron and encouraged his comrades to find peace by wandering the universe.
• Honor Before Reason: If an enemy spares him, he'll feel honor-bound to repay the obligation.
• The Leader: Bigmos is the war-weary leader of the Insectrons, a group of Maximals with insect beast modes that left Cybertron to pursue a peaceful existence.
• Meaningful Name: The "mos" (モス) in "Bigmos" is likely derived from the English word "mosquito".
• Palette Swap: Of Transquito.
• The Rival: To Autostinger, leader of the Autorollers who became indebted to him after a particularly messy battlefield encounter on the planet Dross.
• Technical Pacifist: True to his philosophy of pacifism, Bigmos prefers to fight with non-lethal methods. He'll deliver warning shots to scare enemies away or punish them without killing them.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Bigmos has a weakness for tomato juice, given he's also part mosquito that's expected.

Powerhug (パワーハッグ pawāhaggu)

Function: Judo Expert

Beast Mode: Pillbug

Voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama

• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The Sourcebook gives him a angsty backstory involving the Autorollers destroying his school and killing his students.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Turns into a giant pillbug.
• Honor Before Reason: In the first fight between the Maximals and the Insectrons, Powerhug faced down Bighorn, but every time he knocked his opponent down, he'd wait for him to get back up rather than press his advantage, one of the clues that something was amiss.
• I Know Kung Fu: Powerhug fights using judo skills.
• Killer Bear Hug: As the name implies, he perform a crushing "hug" on his enemies, based on one of the features from his toy.
• Palette Swap: Of Retrax, in blue.
• The Rival: With Autocrusher.

Tonbot (トンボット tonbotto)

Function: Forced Reconnaissance

Beast Mode: Dragonfly

Voiced by: Kenichiro Tanabe

• Big Creepy-Crawlies: He turns into a dragonfly.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": He baffled Starscream by taking time out mid-fight to beg Lio Convoy to sign his autograph book.
• The Rival: With Autojetter.

Mantis (マンティス mantisu)

Function: Ninja

Beast Mode: Praying Mantis

Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi

• Ax-Crazy: It does not take a lot to set Mantis off, at which point he tries to kill everything in arm's range.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Turns into a man-sized praying mantis.
• Depending on the Writer: Beast Wars Sourcebook gives him a more light-hearted personality closer to the other Insectrons, completely unlike his personality in Beast Wars II.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: His name is a pretty good indicator of what he turns into.
• Jerkass Has a Point: When the Autorollers tried to force Bigmos to assist them by playing on his debts, Mantis said he should ignore it and focus on the here and now. Bigmos eventually used this to work his way out of his predicament.
• Palette Swap: Of Manterror.
• Slaying Mantis: He turns into a mantis, and generally is a crazy maniac. Even his fellow Insectrons aren't necessarily safe.

Drill Nuts (ドリルナッツ doriru nattsu)

Function: Underground Engineer

Beast Mode: Boll Weevil

Voiced by: Yuji Kishi

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• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Like any proper mad scientist, Drill Nuts may get distracted by his inventions, especially if they're malfunctioning.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: He turns into a boll weavil.
• Inventional Wisdom: He likes inventing things, but they're not terribly sensible inventions. Like the boomerang bomb.
• Palette Swap: Of Drill Bit.
• The Rival: Like all the Insectrons, he's got a rivalry with one of the Autorollers, in his case Autojetter.
• This Is a Drill: His right arm is a large drill.

Scissor Boy (シザーボーイ shisā bōi)

Function: Strategist

Beast Mode: Earwig

Voiced by: Norihisa Mori

• The Baby of the Bunch: Scissor Boy is the youngest of the Insectrons.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: His beast mode is an earwig.

Jointrons (ジョイントロン jointoron)

DJ (D·Jディージェイ dī jei)

Function: Jointron Sonic Operative

Beast Mode: Cicada

Voiced by: Ryo Naito

"Let's rock!"

DJ is the eldest of the three Jointron brothers that appear in the Beast Wars II cartoon. He's just as dumb as the rest of his brothers.

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• The Alcoholic: DJ is a big drinker; he has a habit of guzzling too much oil, getting piss drunk, and then literally pissing himself when he tries to fly in cicada mode.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: IDW DJ is apparently easily distracted by music, even in the middle of fights.
• Big Brother Mentor: Hilariously subverted. You would assume that being the oldest member of the Jointrons, DJ would be their most mature member. Nope, he's just as stupid as the rest of them. But that doesn't stop Motorarm and Gimlet from looking to him for guidance.
• Beware the Silly Ones: DJ may be a drunk idiot, but that doesn't mean he can't hold his own in a fight.
• Combining Mecha: He forms Tripledacus with his brothers Gimlet and Motorarm.
• Dual Wielding: DJ's weapons of choice are the sound-emitting swords that he stores in his wings.
• Gale-Force Sound: DJ's particularly fond of sonic attacks, mostly due to his love of music and being a loud individual in general.
• Glory Hound: A problem for all three Jointrons. They really want to beat up Predacons, but their general stupidity means their plans for going about this are terrible.
• Leader Forms the Head: As the leader of the Jointrons, he forms the torso of Tripledacus.
• Named Weapons: DJ's dual sword weapons are called the Seven-Year Swords (dubbed as such because that's how long it took to tune them in-universe).
• Shown Their Work: He urinates while flying. While gross, this is what cicadas actually do.
• The Smart One: The strategist of the Jointrons. This isn't saying much.

Motorarm (モーターアーム mōtāāmu)

Function: Sumo Wrestler

Beast Mode: Rhinoceros Beetle

Voiced by: Daisuke Ishikawa

• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Motorarm turns into a giant rhino beetle.
• Big Eater: Motorarm's goal in life, such as it is, is stuffing his face.
• Combining Mecha: He forms Tripledacus with DJ and Gimlet.
• Idiot Hero: None of the Tripledacus team are renowned for their intellect. Motorarm is no exception.
• Nightmare Face: As a result of being a repaint of Ramhorn, he's got a very unsettling-looking face on him. Beast Wars II doesn't even try making it look less terrifying.

Gimlet (ギムレット gimuretto)

Function: Polar Operative

Beast Mode: Lobster

Voiced by: Takeshi Maeda

Gimlet is the youngest of the Jointrons. He appears in the Beast Wars II cartoon alongside his brothers; he's dumb as the rest of them.

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• The Alcoholic: Gimlet loves to drink, but he's not as bad as DJ.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Gimlet is the youngest of the Jointron trio and the dancing fool of the family.
• Body-Count Competition: Gimlet is surprisingly competitive on the battlefield, keeping track of the Predacons he's taken down and tallying them like points.
• Combining Mecha: He forms Tripledacus with his brothers Gimlet and DJ, specifically the legs.
• Collateral Damage: Due to Gimlet's claws being really big they end up hitting everyone and everything around him, making him a destructive force in confined spaces.
• The Fool: Of the Jointron brothers, which given they're all idiots is saying something.
• Happy Dance: Gimlet loves to dance, and he will be dancing long after his brothers are dead drunk from drinking.
• Mundane Utility: Gimlet loves to shake his lobster claws like maracas.
• Power Pincers: Being a giant lobster, Gimlet can use his giant claws to clobber other bots.
• Verbal Tic: His Beast Wars II tends to repeat lots of Gratuitous Spanish, particularly "mucha" and "muchacho".

Tripledacus (トリプルダクス toripurudakusu)

Function: Combination Giant

Voiced by: Ryo Naito

"Tyranny cannot topple those who stand united against it."

• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: As a combiner, Tripledacus would be a walking juggernaut, an unstoppable force no foe could defeat... if his component parts weren't the Jointron brothers. He's more likely to get distracted by a rhythm than try and stomp anyone.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: Seems to owe his name to Takara's reps misunderstanding how Tripredacus was pronounced.
• Palette Swap: Of Tripredacus.
• Take That!: According to the Beast Wars Sourcebook, the Jointrons chose the name as a jab at the Tripredacus Council. It's never been indicated the Council even know they exist.

Ikard (イカード ikādo)

Ikard October Bacus

Function: Space Recconaissance

Beast Mode: Squid

Voiced by: Ryo Naito

• Palette Swap: Of Scuba.
• Robo Family: He's Scuba's cousin in the Beast War II anime. In IDW's continuity, he's his brother instead.
• Tentacled Terror: He turns into a squid, same as Scuba.

Predacons

Galvatron (ガルバトロン garubatoron)

Galvatron

Function: Emperor of Destruction

Alt/Beast Modes: Dragon, Drill Tank

Voiced by: Tetsuo Komura

• The Alcoholic: Guy likes his booze. Unfortunately, he's also a mean drunk.
• Big Bad: Of Beast Wars II.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Uprising Galvatron. While probably a threat on his own, he never gets to do anything, and is overshadowed by the Vehicons. Even the best he can muster is three washed-up cyberdroids.
• Dragons Are Demonic: His main alternate mode is a salmon-colored dragon.
• Drill Tank: His secondary alternate mode.
• Expy: As the name suggests, he's based on the original purple-people blaster. Averted with Beast Wars: Uprising, where he's a reincarnation of the Big G.
• The Juggernaut: The first time he wakes up, the Maximals are utterly unable to stop him. It's only because of Megastorm's treachery that he's thwarted at all.
• Killed Off for Real: At the end of Beast Wars II. In the IDW comics, apparently something similar happened before the story began.
• Orcus on His Throne: Either due to being stuck in lava, or unconscious, or because he's completely wasted. And, as it turns out, because he's actually playing for time while his ship makes its way to Earth.
• Perpetual Smiler
• Real Men Wear Pink: He's the Big Bad of his series, a terrifying threat, and bright pink.
• Robo Family: His brother is Megastorm.
• Wicked Cultured: He quotes Sun Tzu at one point, in a time where humanity is long missing (presumed alive).
• Worthy Opponent: Feels as much about Lio Convoy and Lio Junior, and is tetchy at Gigastorm when he doesn't show them any respect.

Megastorm (メガストーム megasutōmu)Gigastorm (ギガストーム gigasutōmu)

Megastorm / Gigastorm

Function: Duke of Destruction (Megastorm), Grand Duke of Destruction (Gigastorm)

Alt Mode: Armoured Tank, Giant Tyrannosaurus Rex

Voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama

• Easily Forgiven: Despite the several attempts to remove or just kill his brother, Galvatron keeps him around rather than taking a more permanent solution.
• Evil Gloating: Tries doing this when it looks like the Lios have snuffed it. Galvatron tells him to stop it.
• Kaiju: As Gigastorm, his transformation having been influenced by feelings of envy toward his bro's dragon mode and thoughts about dinosaurs.
• Leeroy Jenkins: On turning into Gigastorm, he becomes prone to trying to rush off into battle against Galvatron's orders.
• Palette Swap: As Megastorm, he's a very mild recolor of G2 Megatron, replacing the purple with olive.
• Robo Family: Galvatron's younger brother.
• The Starscream: When Galvatron's out of action for a while, Megastorm develops a fondness for command, and starts thinking of ways to get rid of his brother. Galvatron knows about this, but keeps him alive out of familial loyalty.
• Tank Goodness: As Megastorm, he turns into a tank.

Combatrons (コンバットロン konbattoron)Cyborg Beasts (サイボーグビースト saibōgu bīsuto)

Starscream (スタースクリーム sutāsukurīmu)
Hellscream (ヘルスクリーム herusukurīmu)

Function: Aerial Commander; General Chief of Staff

Beast Mode: Jet, Shark

Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi

• Co-Dragons: In The Ascending, he's one of Shokaract's four heralds.
• Didn't See That Coming: He tried tricking Megastorm into exposing himself to a massive amount of Angolmois, presuming it'd kill him. He was more than a little surprised when it made him far stronger.
• The Starscream: Well, he does share the name with the Trope Namer. He settles for trying to usurp Megastorm to become Galvatron's new second-in-command.
• Threatening Shark: As Hellscream, he turns into a cybernetic shark.

BB (BBビービー bībī)
Max-B (マックスビー makkusu bī)

Function: Bombardier; Bodyguard Captain

Alt/Beast Mode: Stealth Bomber, Transmetal Dog

Voiced by: Takeshi Watanabe, Brian Dobson (Intimidation Game script reading)

• Beware of Vicious Dog: His Beast Mode as Max-B
• Dark and Troubled Past: His Sourcebook profile claims he can only say "Rodger" thanks to time at a Maximal internment camp.
• Gender Flip: In Uprising, Max-B is female.
• One-Word Vocabulary: "Roger" tends to be all he says.

Dirge (ダージ dāji)
Dirgegun (ダージガン dājigan)

Functions: Aerial Officer; Aerial Captain

Alt/Beast Mode: Dassault Rafale fighter jet; Bee

Voiced by: Eiji Takemoto

• Lazy Bum
• Those Two Guys: With Thrust
• Took a Level in Badass: Subverted, when he becomes Dirgegun and becomes a Cyborg Beast. He's still a hopeless scmhuck.
• Wicked Wasp: As Dirgegun, his alt mode is a partially mechanical giant wasp... but he's still not terribly threatening.

Thrust (スラスト surasuto)
Thrustor (スラストール surasutōru)

Function: Aerial Officer; Survivalist

Alt/Beast Mode: F-22 Raptor Jet, Velociraptor

Voiced by: Junji Sanechika

• Raptor Attack: Once he becomes Thrustor.
• Those Two Guys: With Dirge / Dirgegun.

Autorollers (オートローラーズ ōtorōrāzu)

Autostinger (オートスティンガー ōtosutingā)

Function: Guard Captain

Alt Mode: Dump truck

Voiced by: Tadashi Miyazawa

• Friendly Enemies: Autostinger doesn't even have anything against the Insectrons as such. They just happen to be working on opposing sides.
• The Rival: With Scissor Boy, due to opposing philosophies.
• Work Off the Debt: Why he's with Galvatron in the first place. He owes the big pink his life, and Galvatron's holding him to that.

Autocrusher (オートクラッシャー ōtokurasshā)

Function: Land Guard

Alt Mode: Payloader

Voiced by: Hitoshi Bifu

• The All-Solving Hammer: As the name suggests, Autocrusher tends to solve everything via brute force.
• The Rival: To Power Hug.

Autojetter (オートジェッター ōtojettā)

Function: Aerial Guard

Alt Mode: F/A-18 fighter jet

Voiced by: Kohei Kowada

• The Baby of the Bunch: Autojetter is the youngest of the Rollers, and accordingly loud, brash and stupid.
• Gas Mask Mook: His face, appropriate for a guy who turns into a jet, looks like a pilot's oxygen mask.
• The Rival: All the Autorollers have rivalries with the Insectrons, and Autojetter has ones with Tonbot and Drill Nuts... albeit in his case, the motivations are kind of stupid. With Tonbot, it's just because the guy turns into a dragonfly, and with Drill Nuts, it's because he's a nerd.

Autolauncher (オートランチャー ōtoranchā)

Function: Shock Troop Guard

Alt Mode: Armored personnel carrier

Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi and Masami Iwasaki

• Keet: He's an extremely enthusiastic one, is Autolauncher. The other Rollers like to use this as a distraction.
• More Dakka: His idea on how to outfight Mantis is launch as many discs at the guy's face and hope that'll do it. (And, y'know, that Mantis won't tear him to pieces first.)

Space Pirate Seacons (宇宙海賊シーコンズ uchū kaizoku shīkonzu)

A group of space pirates who cruise across the cosmos in their photon sailer, seeking the Angolmois Energy of the planet Gaia for themselves.

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• Adapted Out: Unlike the previous two iterations of the Seacons, the Space Pirate Seacons consist of five members instead of six, excluding the mold used by Nautilator and Lobclaw. However, this would be rectified in the Generations Selects manga with the inclusion of Lawbhammer.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: The Seacons share bright striking paintjobs of white, gold, and turquoise.

Halfshell (ハーフシェル hāfusheru)

Function: Pirate Chief

Beast Mode: Tortoise

Voiced by: Kazuhiko Nishimatsu

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Like all the Seacons, he ends up brainwashed by the Nemesis, until Magnaboss knocks God Neptune senseless.
• Combining Mecha: With the rest of the Seacon Pirates
• Honor Before Reason: Lio Convoy offered the Pirates the opportunity to leave Gaea peacefully, with all the energy they'd need. Even though the whole reason they were trying to leave was they were just fed up of losing, Halfshell still refused the offer on his honor as a pirate.
• Leader Forms the Head: He's in charge of the Seacons, and forms God Neptune's torso and head.
• Only in It for the Money: Halfshell's driving concern is how he's going to make money.
• Worthy Opponent: Develops a rivalry with Lio Convoy, seeking a chance to face him in a duel.

Sea Phantom (シーファントム shī fantomu)

Function: Pirate Sneak Attacker

Beast Mode: Shark

Voiced by: Hiroaki Ichinowatari

• Brainwashed and Crazy: As with all the other Seacons, he's brainwashed by coming near the Nemesis.
• Combining Mecha: A component of King Poseidon.
• Dumb Muscle: Violent and brutish. He likes nothing more than a good fight.

Terrormander (テラマンダー teramandā)

Function: Pirate Torpedo Bomber

Beast Mode: Manta Ray

Voiced by: Hitoshi Bifu

• The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest of the Seacon Pirates, and therefore the one stuck with the most demeaning tasks. This doesn't do much to fill Terrormander with a sense of pride in his job.
• Lazy Bum: Often found slacking off, which doesn't help his standing with Halfshell.

Coelagon (シーラゴン shīragon)

Function: Pirate Advisor

Beast Mode: Coelecanth

Voiced by: Tadashi Miyazawa

• Brainwashed and Crazy: As with all the Seacons, he ends up brainwashed by the Nemesis.
• Combining Mecha: He combines with the other Seacon Pirates to form God Neptune.

Scylla (Skyulle (スキュウレ sukyūre))

Function: Pirate Scheme Soldier

Beast Mode: Squid

Voiced by: Miwa Matsumoto

• Abhorrent Admirer: A psychopathic sea pirate is not Scuba's idea of a good romantic partner. Doesn't stop Scylla trying to get her tentacles around him.
• Adaptational Badass: Her Uprising version is not a ditz, but a leading and competent member of the Resistance. She also comes with a cool eyepatch, yar!
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Exposure to the Nemesis turns Scylla and all the other Seacons into loyal servants of Galvatron, until Magnaboss knocked them out.
• Breakout Character: She's the most notable of her crewmates, and as one of the few female villains in the franchise at the time, she has more notoriety, appearing apart from her teammates on occassion.
• Combining Mecha: Forms God Neptune with the Seacon Pirates, when she doesn't wander off to do her own thing.
• Pirate Girl: In that she is a pirate who is a girl, but through II she's more interested in chasing after Scuba than assisting her fellows in honest pirating.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only female Predacon in II. Also, for a long while, the only female combiner in Transformers.
• Talk Like a Pirate: Her Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation be possessed of a right piratical accent, yars and all. Hey, she is a Seacon Pirate.
• Tentacled Terror: She turns into a tentacled monster thing.
• Vanity Is Feminine: Scylla will smash anything she thinks is trying to be more beautiful than her.

God Neptune (ゴッドネプチューン goddo nepuchūn)

Function: Sea Pirate

Voiced by: Kazuhiko Nishimatsu

• BFS: The Neptune Sword, which can heat up to five thousand degrees celcius.
• Combining Mecha: The combined form of the m few fen pirates

Majin Zarak (マジンザラック majin zarakku)

Majin Zarak

Function: Destron War Machine

Alt Mode: Amphibious Aircraft Carrier

Majin Zarak is a massive monster of a behemoth pulled from Cybertron's past to aid Galvatron's forces in battle. This titanic killing machine is capable of storming the battlefield from both land and sea, thanks to his amphibious aircraft carrier alt mode.

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Artemis (アルテミス arutemisu)

Artemis

Voiced by: Chieko Higuchi

An android who lives in Gaia's moon and comments on the events of Beast Wars II

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• Back for the Finale: Appears at the party at the end of Neo.
• Greek Chorus: Her role in Beast Wars II along with Moon.
• Meaningful Name: Named after the Greek lunar goddess.
• Robot Girl: Looks mostly human, as a sign she’s not really Cybertronian.
• Token Human: The closest thing to it in the series, though she is a Robot Girl.
• Toyless Toyline Character: Also almost got one in the Masterpiece series.
• The Watcher: This ultimately costs her the ability to see Moon in the IDW series.

Moon (ムーン mūn)

Moon

Function: Celestial Observer

Beast Mode: Rabbit

Voiced by: Junko Takeuchi

"Between peace and chaos lies the courage to act."

A robot rabbit who is meant to be Artemis' assistant but more often annoys her with his antics.

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• Adapted Out: In “Uprising”, he is implied to be fictional.
• Adaptation Species Change: The original Beast Wars II version was a human-made robot. Some versions have their point of origin changed, with his IDW G1 continuity version being a Cybertronian-born.
• Adaptational Villainy: In “Last Bot Standing”, he’s made into a flesh-eating, sadistic monster. He’s also a Predacon in the Game Boy Color fighting game.
• Back for the Finale: Appears at the party at the end of Neo.
• Greek Chorus: Shares this role with Artemis.
• Kid-Appeal Character: Even more than Tasmania Kid
• Moon Rabbit: He is a huge reference to this trope.
• Non-Standard Character Design: His beast mode is far more cartoony than the other characters, and his robot mode is simpler.
• Those Two Guys: Serves as a Greek Chorus for the events of II with Artemis, who usually clobbers him for being an idiot.
• Verbal Tic: Ends his sentances with "Moon".
• The Watcher: Much like the Trope Namer, he did try to intervene and aid the Maximals but they couldn't see or hear him making his efforts moot.

Black Lio Convoy (ブラックライオコンボイ burakku raio konboi)

Black Lio Convoy

Beast Mode: Lion

Voiced by: Hozumi Gouda

A dark clone of Lio Convoy made by an abandoned copying machine found on Gaia.

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• Badass Adorable: Thanks to the art style of the anime, while he is evil and dangerous, in his beast mode he actually looks... well, cute.
• Dark Is Evil: An entirely black clone of Lio, but arrogant and evil.
• I Have Many Names: Copy Convoy, Black Lio Convoy, Lio Convoy Black Version, and Nemesis Leo Prime.
• Insane Troll Logic: Insists he's the real Lio Convoy, while planning to replace him.
• Kill and Replace: Copy Convoy's plan was to do this first to Lio, then to all the other Maximals.
• No Ontological Inertia: The destruction of the machine that made him causes him to fade out of existence.
• Paint It Black: An exact physical copy of the Maximal supreme commander, just entirely in black and very dark grey. Copy Convoy was, in fact, the first entirely black repaint in TF history.