Other: Scorponok’s alt is that of a scorpion. As such, his exterior texture varies between that of smooth metal and pseodochitin.
His Cyberbee is hosted in one of the hookup links in either of his claws, while the other one hosts his missiles. These are interchangeable.
He has been able to shoot a toxin from his tail, although, as it was only the once, it evidently is a difficult feat, and most likely uses up much of his fuel, as well as the neurotoxin being slow to accumulate.
His opticband is yellow, except when it isn’t. When it isn’t. it has been either red or purple. It is unclear as to why it changes, although red seems to be the color for when he uses infrared vision.
His Predacon insignia is on the circular bit of decoration on his chest.
When he’s under a lot of stress, he falls into third person. This level of stress is fairly well defined as ‘being trapped in a half collapsed ship without protection against a cannibal who would love nothing more than to eat him’.
When he does remember to refuel, he claims to prefer energon, but he secretly enjoys the hunt for live prey, and he has nothing against using his fuel converter to eat the meat he catches. In fact, he takes no small amount of joy in taking out his buried anger on something that can’t fight back.
* Protoformed: When a mech is ‘protoformed’ it means that a blank protoform, a non-sentient or sapient robot is implanted with a spark** and the files needed for the job they were protoformed to do. In this case, he had the basic knowledge files as well as basic maintenance files, such as how to clean and repair the grounds and machines in the particular factory. There are other methods of creating a Cybertronian, such as ‘sparking’ one, but this is the most common method, as this one creates a fully grown mech, rather than one that needs to grow mentally and emotionally, as sparking would.
**Spark: The ‘soul’ of the Cybertronians. Resides in the spark chamber in the middle of the Cybertronian chest, takes the form of a glowing ball of energy.
Additional Links:
Picspam of Scorponok photos (”http://technokalissues.livejournal.com/1697.html”) Animation of a Spark (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Spark.gif”) Beast Wars Wikipedia page (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beast_Wars_%28cartoon%29”) Predacon Wikipedia page (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Predacon_%28BW%29”) Scorponok Wikipedia page (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scorponok_%28BW%29”) - This page addresses all of the medias that Scorponok appears in, while I’m only using the cartoon. As thus, some of the characterizations mentioned there may not be accurate. Units of time as used by the Beast Wars continuity (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Units_of_time/Continuity#Beast_Wars_.26_Beast_Machines_cartoon”) A description of the type of manipulation used by Megatron on his subordinants (”http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html”)
Video of Megatron clips, showing his charisma and god complex (”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWWXw5SMIP0”) Clip of Scorponok being… wibbly, I suppose. (”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP9lTo7ahSs”) More clips of Scorponok (”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGVyRiMyL_0&NR=1”)
Scorponok 3/4 Out of order for... some reason.
Scorponok’s alt is that of a scorpion. As such, his exterior texture varies between that of smooth metal and pseodochitin.
His Cyberbee is hosted in one of the hookup links in either of his claws, while the other one hosts his missiles. These are interchangeable.
He has been able to shoot a toxin from his tail, although, as it was only the once, it evidently is a difficult feat, and most likely uses up much of his fuel, as well as the neurotoxin being slow to accumulate.
His opticband is yellow, except when it isn’t. When it isn’t. it has been either red or purple. It is unclear as to why it changes, although red seems to be the color for when he uses infrared vision.
His Predacon insignia is on the circular bit of decoration on his chest.
When he’s under a lot of stress, he falls into third person. This level of stress is fairly well defined as ‘being trapped in a half collapsed ship without protection against a cannibal who would love nothing more than to eat him’.
When he does remember to refuel, he claims to prefer energon, but he secretly enjoys the hunt for live prey, and he has nothing against using his fuel converter to eat the meat he catches. In fact, he takes no small amount of joy in taking out his buried anger on something that can’t fight back.
* Protoformed: When a mech is ‘protoformed’ it means that a blank protoform, a non-sentient or sapient robot is implanted with a spark** and the files needed for the job they were protoformed to do. In this case, he had the basic knowledge files as well as basic maintenance files, such as how to clean and repair the grounds and machines in the particular factory. There are other methods of creating a Cybertronian, such as ‘sparking’ one, but this is the most common method, as this one creates a fully grown mech, rather than one that needs to grow mentally and emotionally, as sparking would.
**Spark: The ‘soul’ of the Cybertronians. Resides in the spark chamber in the middle of the Cybertronian chest, takes the form of a glowing ball of energy.
Additional Links:
Picspam of Scorponok photos (”http://technokalissues.livejournal.com/1697.html”)
Animation of a Spark (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Spark.gif”)
Beast Wars Wikipedia page (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beast_Wars_%28cartoon%29”)
Predacon Wikipedia page (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Predacon_%28BW%29”)
Scorponok Wikipedia page (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scorponok_%28BW%29”) - This page addresses all of the medias that Scorponok appears in, while I’m only using the cartoon. As thus, some of the characterizations mentioned there may not be accurate.
Units of time as used by the Beast Wars continuity (”http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Units_of_time/Continuity#Beast_Wars_.26_Beast_Machines_cartoon”)
A description of the type of manipulation used by Megatron on his subordinants (”http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html”)
Video of Megatron clips, showing his charisma and god complex (”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWWXw5SMIP0”)
Clip of Scorponok being… wibbly, I suppose. (”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP9lTo7ahSs”)
More clips of Scorponok (”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGVyRiMyL_0&NR=1”)