Waspinator

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Waspinator (Punginator in some European countries) was one of the original members of Megatron's Darkside crew who stole the Golden Disk from the Cybertron archives.

Transformers character
Waspinator
Allegiance	Predacon (Destron)
Sub-Group	Deluxe Beasts
Function	Aerial Attack
Motto	None officially, but he has said "Why Universe hate Waspinator?"
Alternate mode	Giant Wasp
Fiction Appearances	Transformers: Beast Wars cartoon
Voiced by	Scott McNeil (English), Kenzo Kato (Japan)

Waspinator is most remembered for being the comedic relief: getting destroyed or demolished in almost every episode of "Beast Wars," yet returning in almost perfect condition in the very next episode. He is also dim-witted, talks in a broken third-person speech pattern, and spent most of the series as an underdog, making him one of the more fan-favourite characters on the show.

Waspinator's toy was recolored as the Predacon Buzzsaw, a character who only appeared in the comic series. Although a transmetal version of Waspinator was made in the toy line, Waspinator remained in his original form in the television series through all three seasons. There was also a "Fox Kids" repaint of his original form, which was in new colors, and one of his transmetal form which had the colors of Buzzsaw.

In 2005 the original Waspinator toy was one of the toys selected for the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary toyline, repainted in more show-accurate colors. He came packaged with one of the six pieces used to make the Transmutate toy and a DVD with the episode Possession on it.

Original Tech Spec: Like a rattlesnake's tail before an attack, a chilling sound buzzes in the distance as if to forecast approaching danger. Suddenly from the sky the giant wasp appears, revealing its monstrous face and bulging eyes as it streaks down for an aerial attack! The Waspinator launches its secret wing missiles, striking the helpless victims below with the poisonous power of a robotic cyber-sting!

10th Anniversary Tech Spec: Waspinator not know why he even here! Megatron boss Waspinator around, and all Waspinator ever get for it is blown to pieces! Waspinator sick of being stockpile of parts for Maximal rat-bot's collection! Waspinator has big plans! Big plans that don't concern stupid Beast Wars! From now on, Waspinator is on his own!

Season 1

Waspinator was a follower of the Predacon criminal Megatron, joining him on his raid of the Golden Disk from the Maximals and being on the Darkside warcraft when it was chased through transwarp space by the Axalon & crashed on prehistoric Earth. High energon levels threatened to destroy the crew unless they adopted organic alternate modes, and Waspinator took the form of a wasp (Beast Wars Part 1).

Waspinator's body was blasted apart, crushed or dissembled numerous times throughout the series ("Oh sure...don't mind Waspinator; Waspinator just lie here and suffer...drag himself to CR tank..."). Even his fellow Predacons had little respect for Waspinator, often letting him take the shots in battles. Despite the fact that Waspinator never actually led or participated in a rebellion against Megatron, he was not loyal to the Predacon Tyrant but merely too cowed and frightened of Megatron to overthrow him, a sentiment which only got worse as Megatron grew more powerful during the series. This can be best observed during the First Season when Waspinator was shown in a private conversation to himself reveals his desire to, like most Predacons, overthrow Megatron and establish himself as leader.

Outside of Optimus Primal and Megatron, he had a tendency to address his comrades and enemies by nicknames that vaguely described their personas or transformation modes, such as calling Dinobot "Lizard-Bot" and Inferno "Ant-Bot".

In Season One, he was often partnered with Terrorsaur and proved himself to be a capable aerial combatant; he would be increasingly less dangerous as time went on.

During the episode Possession, Waspinator was possessed by the ghost of the Decepticon Air Commander Starscream. Starscream betrayed Megatron with the help of Blackarachnia and managed to capture the Axalon from the Maximals, but his own ego and a betrayal in turn by Blackarachnia saw him defeated.

Season 2

When the Earth was hit by a quantum wave from the Vok's destroyed planet-buster weapon, it reformatted several Maximals and Predacons into Transmetal forms. However Waspinator was unaltered because he fell into a cryo-chamber as the wave passed, shielding him from its effects.

In a bold and surprising move, he attempted to steal the Golden Disks from Megatron, only to be beaten to it and subsequently scrapped by Dinobot. This was his second moment of hidden disloyalty. In the same episode, it was revealed that he had realised the Predacons were really stranded on Earth.

Season 3

Waspinator spent much of the season partnered with Inferno and Quickstrike ("Ant-Bot and Two-Head"). After the destruction of the Predacon base, the three of them were sent to establish a new base for the Predacons and discovered caves that were inhabited by a tribe of early humans. Just as the Predacons were about to engage the early humans in battle, Waspinator decided he was sick of the constant physical abuse of being a Predacon and quit in a furious rant. After Waspinator's tirade, Inferno and Quickstrike shot him and proceeded to fight the pre-humans.

"I said, no! Dragon-Bot command you sub-commander Kiss-butt. Dragon-Bot not command Waspinator! Not any more! Waspinator sick of being evil! Sick of being Predacon! and Waspinator sick especially of being blown to scrap all the time! Soooooo, Waspinator quits! As of now, which means Ant-Bot and Two-Head just can pucker up their mandibles and plant big wet juicy one right here on Waspinator's big, fat, stripy..." - Waspinator, prior to being blown to scrap (again) by Inferno and Quickstrike.

As the Beast Wars came to an end and the Maximals left for Cybertron, it was revealed that Waspinator stayed behind on Earth, living amongst a tribe of early humans and being worshipped as a god. He got the last line of the series - "Waspinator happy at last!".

Throughout the Beast Wars series, Waspinator was one of only three characters to last the entire series without receiving some type of upgrade (the other two being Rhinox and Inferno) - although in the toy line he did become a Transmetal with the third mode of a jet.

Waspinator was captured by Megatron's Vehicon drones and his spark was transferred into the Vehicon General Thrust. During the series, it was revealed that, following the conclusion of the Beast Wars, Waspinator was worshipped as a deity by the early humans, but they eventually got tired of him, and forced him to leave (although he claimed he was tired of them and left because he missed Cybertron). Although it seemed that Inferno and Quickstrike had died on Earth when Waspinator was last seen there, their fates were unclear because they had only taken similar dismembering damage to that Waspinator had taken in many episodes. It is theorized that Beast Machines Quickstrike and Universe Inferno were later incarnations of these other two Predcons who may have returned with Waspinator from Earth.

Despite being under the service of Megatron once again, Waspinator actually liked being Thrust because "chicks dig brooding loner bit", as he put it, and he wasn't scrapped nearly as much in his new body. Presumably as a result of Vehicon personality programming, as Thrust his previous pesonality and speech quirks were eliminated.

Following Cybertron's reformatting at the end of the series, Waspinator was reformatted back into a techno-organic wasp, but with the head of Thrust. Waspinator's final quote from the series was- "Waspinator want power, Waspinator want glory but what Waspinator get? Waspinator never gets what Waspinator wants!" then he was stepped on.

In the Transformers: Universe storyline Thrust would return in his Vehicon form as one of the many Transformers kidnapped by Unicron.

There were plans to release a Transformers: Universe toy of Waspinator, a repaint of the transmetal Waspinator, but the toy would never be released.

Waspinator did appear in the 2004 Botcon voice actor play.

Waspinator Toys

In the toyline, Waspinator was a deadly and efficient aerial warrior, who ended up becoming a Transmetal with a tertiary mode of a fighter-jet. His jet mode slightly resembled an F-15 - the same jet that Starscream originally transformed into.

The original Waspinator toy was recolored as Buzz Saw, then remolded into Dirgegun.

In 2005 the original Waspinator toy was repainted in more show accurate colors and re-released for the 10th anniversary of Beast Wars.

A toy of Waspinator in his pre-Beast War vehicle mode was released as a Botcon 2006 exclusive toy. This toy was a reomold of Machine Wars Skywarp. He turned into a Saab Gripen jet.

 

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