Bugsie

Bugsie is a Renegade from the GoBots continuity family posing as a Predacon from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Bugsie is a Monster GoBot, with ties to the Master Renegade.

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

When a Cataclysm threatened their home universe, most of the Monster GoBots fled their native reality as part of the great GoBot Diaspora. They wound up on the dystopian Cybertron of Primax 215.19 Epsilon: a world where the Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons had evolved into a series of ritualized Games fought between their successors, the Maximals and Predacons. The GoBots adopted new Predacon bodies, and gained infamy as a street gang known as the "Antares Eight". Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14

As they settled in, the Renegades built up a secret base called the Erebos equipped with a Modifier and databanks charting the activities of other GoBots in the multiverse. At some point, they welcomed in a second group of GoBotic refugees: the Monsterous combiner team, and their handler Odd Ball. Unhappy with the stagnant Cybertronian social order, the Renegades began their own plan to overthrow the dominant "Builders" and rule in their place.

Bugsie and the Eight gathered information about the Human Confederacy and learned of an ancient Terran artifact the Rosetta Stone (renamed "The Stone of Sky Warp") held in the Museum of Decepticon Heritage. They arranged to appropriate the stone, and use it to lure the Terrans to Cybertron. Faking as if they were a Resistance team, the Antares Eight seized control of a trans-hyperwave caster in Proximax. Holding the Builder in charge hostage, they beamed demands for all Builders to leave Proximax in the name of the Resistance. In fact, the transmission was a trap to entice the humans, who monitored all Cybertronian transmissions, with a clear view of the Rosetta Stone in the background. The GoBots intended to use quantumite (a Gargent cluster substance unknown to the Transformers) to weaponize the caster, snare the unsuspecting humans when they arrived, and take their greater technology.

Bugsie and the Monster Gobots faced unexpected resistance, however, from a multi-factional group called the Ex-Bots. During the seizing of the tower, Bugsie was injured by the former MCSF officer Stiletto. He returned to the Erebos with Vamp and Scorp for repairs in the Modifier, with Stiletto as a captive. Stiletto antagonized Bugsie into striking her during the interrogation, letting her feign unconsciousness. Bugsie caught her trying to get free, but was too slow to stop her. Once Stiletto got her expert knife-wielding hands on a stylus, she jammed it directly into Bugsie's optic, piercing his cyborg brain and killing him. Cultural Appropriation

Renegade Rhetoric

From Axiom Nexus, Cy-Kill explained how the three Monster GoBots Bugsie, Klaws, and Hornet were Renegades early in the war. They chose to abandon the cause shortly after Cy-Kill became leader of the Renegades, leaving Gobotron to search for their creator the Master Renegade. They resurfaced sometime after the Master Renegade was found on Antares III. Renegade Rhetoric 2015/10/15 Bugsie was working for the Master Renegade when he tricked the Guardian and Renegade fleets into battling each other to the brink of destruction. Once they were weakened, the Master Renegade captured Leader-1 and Cy-Kill's forces and took over Gobotron with his Monster GoBots. The Guardian cadets called the Robo Rebels were still free, however, and sneaked past Bugsie at the Guardian Science Academy to secure an Astrobeam. Countdown to Annihilation

After the Robo Rebels defeated the Master Renegade's plans, Bugsie and the other Monster GoBots returned to the Renegades, and Cy-Kill graciously accepted them. Renegade Rhetoric 2015/10/15 When the Renegades found themselves forced by circumstances to put on a performance of "The Pirates of Penzance", Bugsie was Cy-Kill's second choice to play the Pirate King, for alas, Cy-Kill could not play both the King and the Modern Major General at once. Still, the Renegade leader thought Bugsie brought the appropriate panache to the role. The Show Must Go On Bugsie was one of the Renegades Cy-Kill brought to the Communication Moon of Gobotron when a modified Astro-Beam enabled him to teleport the moon to a site of his convenience. Unfortunately for the Renegades, Leader-1 was also on the moon. The Guardian commander disabled Bugsie and used his communicator to track the other Renegades and slowly take them out one-by-one. The Stolen Moon

Echoes and Fragments

As Sideways and Gong played with mixing universal streams, Bugsie and the Monster GoBots worked for the Master Renegade on Antares III, rounding up travelers and sentencing them to death in the Dactyl pit. Bugsie, Hornet, Scorp, and Bladez captured Hot Rod and Kup after they crashed, bringing them to the pit. Echoes and Fragments

Notes

• The "Cataclysm" version of Bugsie is a "virtual redeco" of Beast Machines Scavenger, with the head of Beast Wars Retrax.

External links

GBwiki has content relating to Bugsie. Mighty robots, mighty wiki!

• Bugsie at TFU.info