Blentron
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- The Blentrons are a race of Transformers from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Blentrons (ブレントロン Burentoron) are freakish Transformers devoted to the evil Unicron. They are ridiculously powerful, able to take down the likes of Big Convoy or Magmatron with little effort, and shrug off or regenerate immediately from nearly any damage.
The Blentrons consist of:
- Elphaorpha, the elephant/killer whale serving as brute force and the team's galactic transport due to his ability to literally punch a hole through space.
- Latolata, the lionfish/hornet whose brutality surpasses even that of his teammates. He often serves as de facto team leader, insofar as the Blentrons even have one.
- Drancron, the lizard/dragonfly assassin capable of slicing opponents to shreds with little effort.
Another known group consists of:
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Fiction
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Legends comic
A mysterious pack of enemies seeking Angolmois Energy attacked Blue Big Convoy and Big Junior. The elder Convoy was fatally wounded in the ensuing battle. Bonus Edition Vol. EX
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
After Big Convoy's Maximals and Magmatron's Predacons had gathered many Angolmois Capsules, the Blentrons made their move. While Elphaorpha created an hole into the Gung Ho's cargo bay, Drancron and Latolata observed Big Convoy tricking some of the Predacons into a trap using empty Angolmois Capsules as bait. The two soon travelled via wormhole to join Elphaorpha just as the cargo bay was penetrated and the Capsules sucked into space (along with Break). The Maximals attempted to stop the Blentrons from consuming the Capsules, but their attacks couldn't even scratch the trio, and the Blentrons transformed into robot mode and struck back out of annoyance, putting the Maximal rookies out of commission.
When Big Convoy finally arrived at the Gung Ho, he found his downed crew and the Blentrons inside the cargo bay. The three unleashed their attacks on the Maximal commander, easily taking him down, and took their leave through a wormhole. Mysterious Beast Warriors!?
Planning to take the Predacons' Capsules as well, the Blentrons left a stock at Milton to lure in the Dinosaur. While Drancron and Latolata kept an eye on the Predacon scouting teams, Elphaorpha sneaked aboard the Dinosaur and came face-to-face with Magmatron. The Angolmois Capsules also attracted the attention of the Maximals, so Drancron and Latolata decided to set them against the Predacons to buy Elphaorpha time. Gathering all of the Capsules they stole on Milton, the Blentrons were confronted by the Maximals, but the trio nevertheless made quick escape with their spoils through a wormhole. The Stolen Capsules
Having stolen both stockpiles of Angolmois Capsules, the Blentrons ventured to different planets to find still wayward Capsules. Their pattern of travel was eventually realized by the Maximals, and, intercepting the Blentrons just as they emerged from a wormhole, the Gung Ho attempted to capture them with an electric net before unloading the ship's full firepower, but it proved futile. Undaunted, the trio simply warped away to Porcupine, where they had detected a Capsule. Magmatron, knowing the Blentrons' true goal of reviving Unicron, attempted to get the edge on them with the planet's defenses and the Predacons' personal weapons, neither of which could muster any damage. The Maximals soon arrived. Fearing for his master's life, Hydra ejected the Angolmois Capsule from the planet, prompting the Blentrons to chase after it. Once they acquired it, they unleashed their power on Porcupine, destroying it, but not before both forces left the planet. Pursue the Blentrons!
Finding three Angolmois Capsules on Jion, Magmatron set up a trap using the Capsules as bait. Once the Blentrons arrived, Magmatron's troops activated an electric field that immobilized the trio while the Predacons unleashed their firepower on them. Once again, it had little effect as Latolata used his Lato Thrasher to destroy the field's emitters and the Blentrons wailed on the hapless Predacons. Pushed to his final trump card, Magmatron ordered the Dinosaur to emerge from its hiding spot in the planet's surface and had the ship unleash its full armory on the Blentrons. With the powerful Transformers finally too weakened to fight back, Magmatron attempted to detonate the Angolmois Capsules, fully willing to end his and his soldier's lives to ensure that Unicron would not be revived. He was stopped in the nick of time by Big Convoy, whose Maximals had been trapped by the Predacons previously and who was unwilling to let their lives end as well. Taking the opportunity, the Blentrons warped away to recover and reach their next destination. Angry Magmatron
Figuring out to navigate the Blentrons' warp holes, the Maximals arrived at the villains' hideout, an asteroid within a cloud of dark gas and which they attempted to defend, but fell back after a bit of a tussle. Illusion? Lio Convoy Inside the asteroid, they watched as Unicron's resurrection proceeded along inside a container sucking energy from the Angolmois Capsules they collected. They detected the presence of Predacon intruders, and so the Blentrons went to the surface to attack them. Unicron's awakening and subsequent battle with Magmatron eventually attracted their attention, and they watched as their master, in the form of Galvatron, banished the current Emperor of Destruction to another dimension. Unicron Revived!? The Blentrons wanted to strike back against the Maximals when Big Convoy attacked Unicron, but their master simply entreated them to ignore their enemies and focus on gathering more Angolmois Capsules to further strengthen himself. They ended up at Advance Base 889T9, where Unicron absorbed their stock of Angolmois Energy. When Big Convoy and Longrack arrived to investigate, the Blentrons attacked the two and were held back by Big Convoy while Longrack fled to activate the base's self-destruct protocol. With Heinrad immobilizing Unicron and the Blentrons with his Time Freeze, the Maximals fled the base while Unicron and his minions were engulfed in the explosion. However, as Unicron was an energy being, he simply absorbed the explosion, which spared the Blentrons as well, and the four soon warped away. Unicron's Ambition
Unicron and the Blentrons took frequent stops on their way to Cybertron, where they destroyed Maximal advance bases. They eventually met with the Magmatron Unit, now led by Archadis, who attempted to offer their allegiance to the god. Despite the Blentrons simply wanting to scrap them, Unicron was more receptive, ordering the Predacons to bring him the head of Big Convoy. (They failed.) The Maximals, thinking that Unicron wanted to reunite with his body, warped to the Triple Z Point, where it was located. There, they were ambushed by the Blentrons, who were trying to give their master time before the Maximals realized his true goal of merging with Vector Sigma and Cybertron. With Heinrad's Time Freeze, the Maximal was able to get the three to attack each other and squsequent sustained fire from the Maximals forced the Blentrons into retreat. They returned to Unicron, who was waiting in Cybertron's orbit and watched as the Maximal Grand Fleet assembled for the final battle. Fight! Maximals The minions offered to take care of the armada for the master, but Unicron simply growled at them to back off and converted the fleet's firepower into his own energy and used it to annihilate the fleet before making touchdown on Cybertron. Running low on energy, Unicron was struck by Big Convoy's Mammoth Dynamite attack, which threatened to dissipate him. The Blentrons rushed to their master's side, and Unicron simply thanked his servants' devotion by absorbing them to sustain his own existence. End of the Maximals!?
Cloud
The Blentrons were some of the many threats to spacetime that Cloud World's Wreckers battled. TFC-A04
Beast Wars Neo comic
The Blentrons were produced in mass numbers by Unicron in the form of the "Black Ball" to hunt down the Angolmois capsules after the explosion of Nemesis. One of their target was the planet Jörmungandr, where they killed most of the cobra-Transformer denizens, but were unable to find the Angolmois capsules.
After the failure of the Blentrons to find the Angolmois capsules, the Black Ball manipulated both Big Convoy's Maximals and Magmatron's Predacons to find the capsules. When Magmatron lost his troops, the Black Ball appeared and offered replacements: the Blentrons! The Blentron army was birthed out of the Black Ball itself and they woke with a roar. A Battle Fought Alone
With the Blentron army behind him, Magmatron lured the Maximals to an orbiting amphitheater, where the Blentrons were used to ransom the lives of Big Convoy's subordinates for the Angolmois capsules they had collected. With their goal in sight, a Latolata attacked Magmatron from behind, throwing him in with the Maximals and revealing their true master, Unicron. After Unicron shed the identity of the Black Ball, he revealed that he still needed the Angolmois Energy within Big Convoy and Magmatron. To facilitate its return, the Blentrons were sicced on the two, but they were fought off as Magmatron and Big Convoy flew in to attack Unicron directly. Double Cross
After Unicron acquired the Angolmois Energy he needed from Magmatron and obtained Cybertron as a new body, he was lured to the Georgian system by the Maximals. There, Unicron was trapped by crowded and exploding planets. The Maximals picked the opportunity to attack, but Unicron spat out another Blentron army to confront the Maximals. They were held at bay by the Maximals, allowing Big Convoy to make the final strike on Unicron. Return to Zero
2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity
After his defeat while attempting to devour Cybertron, Unicron slowly gathered his consciousness. Unable to physically intervene without a body, he anointed agents within the Cybertronian population to do his bidding. In the era after the Great War, he chose a pit-fighter, a construction bot, and a cultist to be reborn as the Blendtrons.[1] Beast Wars Sourcebook
Prior to the return of Megatron to conquer the planet, Unicron directed the Blendtrons to the rising star of the warlord Shokaract, who had been exposed to Angolmois during a Predacon survey mission and remade himself into a titanic warrior. The Blendtrons gathered capsules of the potent energy and used it to facilitate the warlord's "ascension", which was in fact the rebirth of the Chaos-Bringer himself. This led to the devastation of Cybertron. Magmatron's astral self, able to traverse time and space but not affect it, witnessed this horrible event many times and hoped to somehow stop it. The Ascending #1 Magmatron allowed a message from the Earth-bound Maximals to get through to present-day Cybertron and Lio Convoy led a team to Earth. When Unicron got wind that his plans might be in jeopardy, he had Shokaract send the Blendtrons to Earth. Rartorata injected Razorbeast with Angolmois, turning him mad. The Ascending #2 A combined Maximal-Predacon force eventually destroyed the Blendtrons. The Ascending #4
Toys
Beast Wars
- Elphaorpha (Deluxe, 1999)
- Latolata (Deluxe, 1999)
- Drancron (Deluxe, 1999)
- Unicron
(???, 1999)
- Known designers: Hisashi Yuki (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)
Notes
- Each original Blentron's name consists of six morae (Japanese syllables) as a rhyming pair. The rhyme scheme theme carries into the faction name itself.
- The insignia introduced with the Blentrons has since become the sigil for Unicron-aligned characters. It was first officially used as such with the Overcharge toy, and has since been used to represent Unicron in Transformers: The Ark, and appeared on the Kiss Players Sparkbots when their true allegiance was revealed. The Blentron figures themselves have no insignia rubsigns, unlike their Fuzor counterparts, but the Unicron symbol is shown on their boxes and accompanying paperwork.
- In the Beast Wars Neo cartoon, the Blentrons are consistently shown as being filled with some kind of sparking, organic... goo, as opposed to machinery or distinguishable organs.
See also
References
- ↑ The Beast Wars Sourcebook went with "Blendtron" despite there being no "d" sound in the Japanese spelling. This spelling likely came from Ben Yee's own website.
