Transformers mythos questions

[tecnowraith]

For those of you who are knowledgeable in Transformers mythology I have some questions. First one is where there any animal/bestial pre-earth cybertronian forms in the mythos? Or were they all vehicles? What would be a good transformer vehicle mode that does parkour? I know it sounds odd (like all my questions) but it's for a character idea. The info can from the animated shows, toyline or comics. I tried looking in the TFWiki but no such luck.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any Cybertronian beast-types. The pre-Earth Dinobots (referencing The War Within), for example, apparently resembled tanks in their vehicle modes.

I'm not aware of any other Cybertronian pre-Earth references for any of the Transformers that have beast modes. Sorry.

Brad

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Laserbeak's alternate mode in the first episode of the original animated series wasn't exactly a "beast" but it was essentially a flying disk with a bird-like camera head.

The sharkticons from Transformers: The Movie were never confirmed as originating on Cybertron, but they were transformers and the original animated series later established that Cybertron was originally inhabited by the Quintessons, so, it's a stretch, but there's a connection at least.

 

[Klaus]

In the comics, the Predacons came straight from Cybertron to hunt down an insane Megatron at Shockwave's behest.

Laserbeak, Ravage, Ratbat all had "animal" modes (instead of humanoid ones) and turned into Earth-objects.

A "parkour" Transformer? It could turn into a motorcycle, and have a monkey-like mode, maybe? Transformers 2 had Sideswipe (a car) turn into a humanoid form with wheels for feet, which made him very acrobatic.

 

[Dragonwriter]

While not pre-Earth (as Earth was a focus), the Beast Wars TV series utilized Animal and Robot forms, no vehicles (until Season 2 brought in quasi-vehicle modes).

Technically, Beast Wars was set on Earth, though it was in a prehistoric time.

 

[tecnowraith]

Yeah I know about Beast Wars, watched it but not exactly what I am looking for. Looking for more Cybertorian ecosystem of fauna and flora.

Finally awake enough to read this info: If the assorted colourful exclamations made by numerous Transformers are anything to go by, Cybertron also played host to a vast array of fauna, including but not limited to: ant-droids, bolt-bats, cyber-ducks, dynametal ducks, electro-toads, glitch mice, guineapigatrons, helio-hamsters, hydro-weasels, photovoltaic pussycats, retrorats, robo-rats, sheepacrons, titanium moosebots, turbofoxes, zap-mice robotopossums.

From Cybertron (planet) - Transformers Wiki

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Judging from G1 Kup's war stories, many of those critters are likely to be from different planets. The Ickyack, for example, was encountered on a planet called Beta 4.