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Allegiance: Decepticon
Sub-Group: Function: "Kindness is no virtue... and cruelty is no vice." First Cartoon Appearance: First Comics Appearance: |
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Character Bio/Profile: Scorponok seems to exist solely to terrorize
the innocent and cause devastation in the name of teh Decepticon cause and
his own gain. If his personality seems almsot stereotypically evil and
unrealistically one-dimensional, that's because he wants it to appear that
way. Being a leader int the Decepticon army requires a transformer to
be constantly on guard, physically and emotionally, while radiating an aura
of fear and power. Thus, Scorpo9nok actively works to hide a second
secret side of himself: the noble warrior who hopes the conflict will
eventually be resolved to the benefit of all Transformers. Ages of
projecting a violent, uncaring image would have completely relegated this
side of Scorponok to being hidden had he not binary-bonded with Lord Zarak.
Zarak was a corrupt right-wing politian on Nebulon who saw joining with the
Decepticons as a way to further his own agenda. No being, mechanoid,
or humanoid truly views himself as evil, so when Zarak saw the effect the
conflict had on his people and the Transformers, some small part of him
started to question the morality of what he had done. This has
prompted Scorponok to wonder very much the same.
Weapons/Abilities: Scorponok is immensly powerful, highly intelligent, and virtually impervious to most armaments. He is a skilled commander and a fearless warrior. In scorpion mode, his tail fires 100,000-volt blasts of electricity. He is also armed with twin pulse blasters (usable in both modes.) His base mode has a full compement of scanners, communications equipment, offensive weapons batteries, and repair bays. Fasttrack is a remote controlled drone that jubject uses to guard his back in combat. In robot mode, Scorpobnok wields a fusion-powered anti-gravity gun. His headmaster partner is a skilled and very capable politician and speaker who is also becoming a skilled military leader Weaknesses: Scorponok exhibits no know physical weaknesses, but his subconscious self-doubt -magnified by Zarak's own could be his undoing. |
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Other Appearances: Scorponok made no re-appearances in the G1 series
besides his Headmaster commander self. Years later in 1995,
there was a Scorponok
character in Beast Wars. At the time, there had been speculation that
after the G1 battles subsided, Scorponok could have rid himself of his
Headmaster form and underwent a significant downsizing, and underwent the
more fuel efficient "Predacon upgrade." However,
considering the G1 Scorponok's leadership skills and battle prowess versus
personality of the Beast Wars character, he would've had to have had
significant damage to his personality and memory circuits! I,
therefore, would theorize that the Beast Wars Scorponok was a different
character with the same name.
A far more likely possibility is that after the G1 Scorponok could have been damaged while on Cybertron during the "Unicron Battles" in TF: Armada. And later rebuilt by the Quintesson Alpha-Q, into the new Scorponok from Transformers Energon. |
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Shown to the left in bot mode & below in vehicle form, is
Fasttrack. Described as being a drone controlled by Scorponok while in
City mode.
Lord Zarak, who forms the head of Scorponok in Robot mode is shown below; as seen in the cartoon and the toy. HERE's another screen capture of Lord Zarak |
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| The text shown in character's "Bio, Weapons/ Abilities
& Weaknesses" text has been <ahem> borrowed from the
awesome Dreamwave comic series: TF MTMTE, More Than Meets the Eye #5.
Along w/ many other characters & outstanding artwork, we highly
recommend you go buy yourself a copy today!
More screen captures: |
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