Terrorsaur
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Terrorsaur is the name of several fictional characters from the world of Transformers.
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[edit] Beast Wars
| Transformers character | |
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| Terrorsaur (Terrorsaurer) | |
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| Affiliation | Predacon  |
| Sub-Group | Basic Beasts |
| Function | Aerial Combat Aerial Attacks |
| Alternate Modes | Pterodactyl Transmetal Pterodactyl |
| Series | Beast Wars |
| Voiced by | Doug Parker (English) Nobuo Tobita (Japanese) |
The original Terrorsaur toy was a flip-changer which came with a gun accessory. It was later recolored as Lazerbeak, Hydra, Fractyl and Swoop.
A transmetal Terrorsaur toy, with the tertiary form of a VTOL jet, was released, although he never had this form in the cartoon (though - as he was being transformed by the wave that created transmetals in the cartoon as he died - it is quite possible that, had he survived, he would have looked very similar to his transmetal toy). The coloration of the transmetal Terrorsaur toy more closely resembled Lazerbeak, and oddly enough the toy was later recolored in Beast Machines as the Dinobot Terranotron, whose colors more closely resembled Terrorsaur. There were plans to make a transmetal Fractyl toy which would have been yet another repaint of this toy, but it was never released.
In the Japanese Beast Wars Metals Manga, Terrorsaur lived after the transmetallization, though he was later killed by a revived Optimus Primal.
[edit] Animated Series
Terrorsaur was one of the original members of Megatron's Darkside crew who stole the Golden Disk from the Cybertron archives.
Cunning and devious, Terrorsaur was almost a direct copy of the Decepticon Starscream (this is actually referred to at one point in the series: when Waspinator was possessed by the ghost of Starscream, Terrorsaur expressed disappointment that he was not "chosen") from his plans to usurp the leadership of Megatron and lead the Predacons to right down to his voice (which sounded disturbingly like that of Starscream's; in another possible in-joke Terrorsaur's voice actor, Doug Parker, was the one who voiced Starscream in his Beast Wars appearance). Terrorsaur's weapons include an energy pistol, eye beams and shoulder-mounted missiles (more than the one or two weapons that the other Predacons have). His alternate mode was that of a Pteranodon.
[edit] Season 1
To this end, Terrosaur challenged Megatron several times, vying for leadership. And, true to Starscream's legacy, he always lost. In the episode "Power Surge" Terrosaur found a large quantity of energon, and used it to augment his power and finally defeat Megatron. But Megatron was rebuilt, and Terrorsaur's reign was short-lived. However, Megatron kept him in service despite knowledge of Terrorsaur's treachery because of the limited number of troops under his command. He did, however, teach him a lesson by forcibly launching him over the horizon at one point. He would soon make another attempt, allying with Rattrap (undercover fron the Maximals to discover how the Predacons were tapping their communications) and having him disable Megatron's servos. Megatron was soon free, but allowed Terrorsaur to lead the Predacons in an attack on the Maximals. Predictably, the attack was a disaster, putting paid to Terrosaur's ambitions for the time being.
In later episodes, he seems to have abandoned his ambition to overthrow Megatron and become at least an obedient, if not loyal, soldier.
[edit] Season 2
He seemingly died in the Season 2 Premiere after colliding with Scorponok and falling into a lava pit while being altered by the quantum surge that created the Transmetals.
[edit] Toy
A transmetal toy of Terrorsaur was made, but never utilized in the show, since he seemingly died just before the quantum wave turned some of the cast into transmetals, though his hand was seen glowing in the same way as the other Transmetals before sinking into the lava. (He returned in the pages of Transformers: Universe. Since Unicron was pulling victims from different times and dimensions, it's possible he pulled Terrorsaur from just before he died in the lava.)
[edit] Beast Machines
The Dinobot Terranotron was a red repaint of transmetal Terrorsaur.
[edit] 3H Comics
Beast Wars Terrorsaur would reappear in the Transformers: Universe comic book series in his original form as one of the Transformers kidnapped by Unicron. No Terrorsaur toy was released in the Transformers: Universe toy line though.
[edit] Transformers: Armada
In Transformers: Armada (a later toyline and separate Transformers Universe) the transmetal Terrorsaur toy was remolded and released as a Decepticon. He was partnered with the Mini-Con Ironhide. In the Dreamwave Productions Armada comic book series, he battled against Unicron's coming, but was absorbed into the Chaos-Bringer himself.
His motto is The strong take, the weak give --to me!"
[edit] Transformers: Energon
Armada Terrorsaur appeared as one of the Four Horsemen of Unicron in the Transformers: Energon comic book series. His mind corrupted and his body enhanced by the Chaos-Bringer's power, Unicron and his servant sent him and his fellow Horsemen - Airazor. Rhinox and Cheetor - to attack Cybertron. They devastated much of the planet, before being stopped by Optimus Prime (now in his Powerlinking Energon body) who drove off all four.
Terrorsaur would appear once more before Dreamwave folded, albeit in flashback, in Transformers: Energon #30. In this flashback we would see Scorponok leading Wheeljack, Predacon, Terrorsaur and Skywarp against the Autobots in an unspecified battle on Cybertron. In Megatron’s battle barge, Starscream warned Megatron to watch out for Scorponok as Thrust, Cyclonus and Demolishor piloted the barge - a warning that would prove prophetic in the future.
Terrorsaur also was set to appear in the unreleased issue 31 of the Transformers: Energon comic series.
[edit] Transformers: Classics (2007)
Terrorsaur appeared in the Transformers: Classics line as a Mini-Con, part of the Dinobots Mini-Con Team. This Terrorsaur seems to have little to do with either of the previous Terrorsaurs, being an Autobot who turns into a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
