Terrorcon (Energon)
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- The Terrorcons are a Decepticon subgroup from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
The Terrorcons are a special class of Decepticons. Though some are fully sentient Transformers, the majority are little more than expendable, mass-produced drones. Terrorcon altmodes generally take the form of robotic beasts.
The Terrorcons of the Energon Battles have an unusual ability, shared with the Omnicons, to handle and process raw energon, from which they can create energon weapons or power-booster cells known as Energon stars.
The Terrorcon breeds include:
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Fiction
Energon comic
Following the end of the Autobot/Decepticon war, Scorponok organized the Terrorcons as a neo-Decepticon faction bent on restarting the great war. Scorponok made a deal with Alpha Quintesson, in which the group would help the Quintesson to achieve its ends in exchange for Hyper Power abilities drawn from Unicron himself. This Evil Reborn The Terrorcons were sent to Earth, to plunder its reserves of energon, but Scorponok decided to take the energon for himself and give Unicron the leftovers. What Lies Beneath, Part Two The Terrorcons initially dominated their fight with the Autobots who came to stop them, until sabotage from Rad made Scorponok break off in a panic. What Lies Beneath, Part Three In their second fight, the Terrorcons were overwhelmed by the Omnicons and their energon manipulating powers, only being saved from defeat by Alpha Quintesson and the Four Horsemen forcibly retrieving them. What Lies Beneath, Part Four
After Tidal Wave was sent by Scorponok to retrieve a Seismic-shock warhead and failed, Aftershock he was viciously beaten by the Terrorcon leader and cast out. However, he was approached by Alpha Quintesson, who had already been aware of Scorponok's self-serving nature, and reformatted into Mirage. Multiplicity, Pt. 2
Battle Ravage, Cruellock, Divebomb, and Insecticon were later used as the basis for a massive army of clones, a million strong, which Alpha Quintesson unleashed on Earth as a warning against allying with the Autobots. Multiplicity A small force of Autobots (and Thrust) attempted to fight the clones, but the sheer number began to wear on their fuel reserves. Multiplicity, Pt. 3 Salvation came in the form of a newly restored Megatron, venting his rage at spending ten years imprisoned inside Unicron on the clones. Faced with this, they opted to retreat. Multiplicity, Pt. 4
Known Members:
Cartoon continuity
Energon cartoon
The Terrorcons were created out of Unicron's body by Alpha Q; they were the reconstituted form of Planet Q's soldier army, consumed by Unicron. They served as his near-mindless agents of energon collection, gathering more of the magical substance to help repair Unicron. Their natural instinct was to rush headlong, en masse, toward any source of the substance (the human Kicker once used the Terrorcons' energon-sensing capabilities to help locate an energon vein in a mine.) In the early stages of the energon war, the Terrorcons consisted of bird and puma types. Alpha Q eventually devised two additional breeds, the dinosaur and beetle versions.
Scorponok displayed an unusual affinity for the Terrorcons, and generally served as their leader. When he was reprogrammed to serve Megatron, many of the Terrorcons likewise came with him. On at least one occasion, they displayed their loyalty by defending and healing their injured leader.
A handful of Terrorcons displayed the ability to speak.[1] Energon cartoon
Ask Vector Prime
Vector Prime noted that the Terrorcons of Aurex 802.23 Alpha were semi-sparked minions of Quintessons, similar to the Sharkticons and Allicons of the Primax cluster. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/04
Toy bios
Scrapmetal were born from Terrorcon vermin in the depths of Cybertron that were mutated by the black hole threatening the planet. Scrapmetal bio
Toy pack-in comics
The end result of Predacon's experiments with merging techno-organic matter with Mini-Cons, the animalistic Terrorcons broke free from their creator and escaped into the wild. Armada Volume 5
Toys
Energon
- Terrorcons (2003-2004)
- Battle Ravage
- Command Ravage (Battle Ravage redeco)
- Divebomb
- Shadowhawk Cosmo Type (Divebomb redeco)
- Cruellock
- Doom-Lock (Cruellock redeco)
- Dinobot Magma Type (Cruellock redeco)
- Insecticon
- Chromhorn Forest Type (Insecticon redeco)
- Like their counterparts the Omnicons, the Terrorcons were sold carded at the $7 price point. They transform into mechanical beasts, following an angular, blocky aesthetic more rooted in the style of Generation 1's beasts than the organic styles of more recent toylines. Each comes with an "Energon weapon" made of colored translucent plastic, which uses a standardized peg and hole system to allow multiple attachments and configurations.
- Scorponok (2003)
- A much larger toy than the other Terrorcons, sold boxed.
Built to Rule!
- Scorponok
Cybertron
- Dark Scorponok
- A redeco of the Scorponok mold.
Merchandise
Attacktix
- Battle Ravage (Booster, 2006)
- Insecticon (Booster, 2006)
- Scorponok (Booster, 2006)
- Dark Scorponok (Boooster, 2007) - unreleased
Titaniums
- Scorponok (Robot Master, 2006)
3-D Battle Card Game
- Cruellock (2007)
Notes
- According to Hirofumi Ichikawa, the original idea for the Omnicons and Terrorcons by the design departments of both Hasbro and Takara was for them to be evolved Mini-Cons. This was completely ignored by Takara's marketing department, who were the only people from Takara ever directly talking to We've, so this idea never made it into the Super Link/Energon cartoon, and when Ichikawa found out about that, he never bothered trying to link his Linkage comic and the Super Link cartoon.[2]
Foreign names
- Japanese: Terrorcon (テラーコン Terākon)
- French: Terrican (France, episode 1) and Terrorcon (France, cartoon dub), Terromodus (Canada toys)
- Spanish: Terromodus
References
- ↑ The Terrorcons' speech abilities are a strange artifact of Energon's dubbing. In Super Link, none of them ever speak.
- ↑ "Wing Saber vs. Mega-Dinobot: A Lesson", Hirofumi Ichikawa at alt.toys.transformers