The beast wars tv series was the first transformers series to feature computeranimated characters, and was produced by mainframe entertainment of vancouver, canada. Appearing only in this book, he is a side character to the beast machines story and was later written into the toy lines of both beast machines and transformers. The gathering is a comic miniseries published in 2006 by idw publishing featuring characters from beast wars. Beast wars is an american animated television series. A continuity is a fictional universe or timeline that is characterized by recurring characters and settings and an internal consistency with regards to characterization and depicted events. Tailgate beast wars kestreltransforming warrior windblade bw fembot cardinal samurai longarm beast wars builder tapout beast wars polar operative and breaks friend skyhammer beast wars dodotransforming judge superion an eagle combiner silverbolt bw leader of the eaglebots air raid bw aviator. Jul 21, 2015 here the beast wars sourcebook witch has everything characters from tv shows anime toys and botcons and is a pretty good find as well.
Also included in this special collection is the entire beast wars sourcebook, an indepth look at the characters that inhabit the beast wars universebios, weaknesses, abilities and more are presented alongside vibrant renditions by some of transformers most revered artistic talents. Beast wars sports just 25 that come and go throughout the series. Mar 23, 2019 power rangers beast morphers is kicking off the hasbro era in stellar fashion, and a big part of the reason why is the shows delightful cast. The second miniseries, the ascending, was a direct sequel and debuted in october 2007. Beast wars contained elements from both the g1 cartoon series and comics. Feb 21, 2020 beast wars was only ever done well on the cartoon. Beast wars omnibus simon furman, ben yee, don figueroa, nick roche, guido guidi, dan khanna on. May 12, 2014 when you flip through a comic book, youre looking at a medium that has existed for less than a century. Though not a part of their main continuity, idw publishing picked up the ball from dreamwave and has published two beast wars miniseries and a. This does not include characters only appearing in collectors club or conventionrelated comics from 3h or fun publications, or toyonly characters. The end of the inexorable march is one great, big, glorious homage to the opening of beast wars with some beast wars ii and beast wars neo thrown in.
Dreamwave retroactively revealed beast wars to be the future of their g1 universe, and the 2006 idw comic book beast wars. Beast wars is a comic book series by idw publishing, based upon hasbros toy line and the original television series. What you are about to read is the definitive list of the 100 greatest black comic book superheroesvillains of alltimeall ranked. According to new reports from deadline, the reboot is reportedly based upon beast wars, the computeranimated transformers series that ran for three seasons in the late 90s. Beast wars was followed by beast machines season 1 episodes. Top 5 best transformers beast wars characters every two weeks, brings you a top 5 list related to all things transformers written by me, your fellow editor. Other characters who appear are grimlock in his beast wars body a recolored dinobot toy and ravage in his transmetal ii tripredacus agent incarnation. The 50 greatest comicbook characters movies empire. A framing sequence to dreamwaves g1 profile series featuring bw megatron establishes that dreamwaves version of the beast wars has some significant divergences from the. This not a list of the characters in order of favoritude some of my least favorite characters are in the top 10, and some of my favorites are not. Tales of the jedi, abbreviated as totj, is a comic book series covering eight story arcs, all published by dark horse comics. Top 5 beast wars toys of show characters i did a list of non show characters before, and even a list for the best beast machine toys, but there was one list just waiting to happen. Oct 27, 2017 15 worst reinventions of iconic comic book characters. Explore the marvel cinematic and comic universe including all characters, heroes, villains, teams, groups, weapons, items, and more.
The gathering eventually confirmed the japanese series to be canon within a story set during season 3. The first comic book was printed in 1986 by marvel comics as a character guide, while later series printed by 3h enterprises contained fiction for the transformers. In addition to the characters we know and love from the cgi cartoon, we get bios on characters who never went beyond toy form and characters from the japanese cartoons. It is the first major comic to feature beast wars characters. Oct 15, 2017 this is a remastered version of an old video i made with better pictures, audio and some added music. Written into a special edition comic book was a character by the name of primal prime. Beast wars megatron with images transformers artwork.
His beast form is a tyrannosaurus rex, then a transmetal tyrannosaurus rex, and later a transmetal ii dragon. When you flip through a comic book, youre looking at a medium that has existed for less than a century. But really, this isnt actually meant to be a beast wars comic and to take it as a shot against beast wars is like saying airachnid being there was a shot against prime or hot shot being a shot against armada. All songs used in this belong to their respective owners. Top 5 beast wars transformers toys of show characters. Comic book fans can be resistant to change, but when these are the examples of favorite characters being reinvented, its hard to blame them.
Here the beast wars sourcebook witch has everything characters from tv shows anime toys and botcons and is a pretty good find as well. Power rangers jasmeet baduwalia offers future rangers. Also, lio convoys supposed titanmaster partner is apparently called moon usagi, after moon one of the few beast wars ii characters not to show up in the story. He can make rash decisions but is compelled to defeat the predacons. In beast machines, megatron goes through about four different bodies in a single episode. Armada features a cast of dozens of robots in disguise while transformers. The first miniseries, the gathering, was released between february and may 2006. This is a sortable list of characters and toys in the beast wars franchise, part of the larger transformers franchise, from hasbro. See the beast machines character sheet for the characters introduced in that series. The 100 best comic book characters of all time paste. Members of the beast wars incarnation of the predacons. Beast wars follows a much smaller cast of characters than that of other transformers animated series.
Though they share characters and both weave around the beast wars cartoon, the 3h productions and idw publishing comics have shown no indication that they are in continuity with each other. Set during the old republic era, six of the eight tales of the jedi story arcs take place during the time surrounding the events known collectively as the great sith war, a conflict instigated by sith forces aimed at galactic domination. Transformers universe is the title of several comic book series based on the transformers series by hasbro. The planned dreamwave beast wars comic is believed to be very similar to the later idw series, which would be produced by the same writer and artist. A brave and compassionate leader, optimus named himself after a great hero of old.
Every comic remotely touching it does it wrong especially the gathering. Power rangers beast morphers is kicking off the hasbro era in stellar fashion, and a big part of the reason why is the shows delightful cast. Within those approximate 80 years, comic book stories and the avatars within have. Jasmeet baduwalia ravi, jacqueline scislowski zoey. During the beast wars, rhinox was the defensive strategist, and second in command of the maximals.
Power rangers jasmeet baduwalia offers future rangers advice. Appearances within the beast wars sourcebook are not counted as appearances within idw. Throughout the entire series, he occupies his beast wars body, a big giant head, a tank vehicon, a jet vehicon, a random maintenance droid, and optimus primals optimal optimus body minus a beast mode. The gathering and ben yee consultant on the beast wars tv series team up to present an allencompassing, unifying resource book highlighting the characters, worlds and technology from all generations and incarnations of beast wars. Top 25 beast wars characters on a whim i decided to do a little writeup thing for the top 25 beast wars characters, ranked from 25 up until 1. Oct 03, 2007 i picked this book up to see what they did to the beast wars part of the mythos. Transformers beast wars sourcebook 2007 comic books. Contentsshow convention comics 3h botcon comics the first postcartoon beast wars material. The cbc comic book cast is an online geek culture community. The series is set incontinuity with the television series, but also uses characters that were made into toys but not featured in the series.
Worst comic book characters reinventions screenrant. The gathering and ben yee consultant on the beast wars tv series conclude their allencompassing, unifying resource book highlighting the characters, worlds and technology from. Dreamwave productions planned a beast wars comic book series entitled shell game, but the company declared bankruptcy in 2004 with only one sneakpeak story published. New transformers reboot reportedly based on beast wars series. A miniseries takes place parallel to the third season of beast wars and introduces characters who are not shown in the original series such as magmatron, razorbeast, and injector.
Typically, stories that are produced by a particular licensor such as idw or in a particular form of media such as comic books are in continuity with each other, meaning that they are meant to all take. Fandom apps take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. This is a list of characters from the animated television series beast wars. Megatron is the commander of the darksyders, a gang of predacons the descendants of the decepticons, and the main antagonist of two of the transformers tv series, beast wars, and beast machines. Dreamwave productions planned a beast wars comic book series entitled shell game, but the company declared bankruptcy in 2004 with only one sneakpeek story published. A number of comics set in the continuity of the beast wars cartoon have been published since the shows end, most notably two miniseries and a profile book by idw comics. His alternate form was a brown rhinoceros, and he carried two powerful machine guns. Comic book fans can be resistant to change, but when these are the examples of favorite characters being reinvented, its. Contentsshow maximals optimus primaloptimal optimus the commander of the maximals and their ship the axalon. Appropriately the mini comic book was titled optimus primal versus megatron.
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