Combatron (BW)

The Combatrons are a Predacon subgroup from the Beast Wars II portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

"Hey, I am the leader, not you!"

The Combatrons (コンバットロン Konbattoron) are a group of Predacons who transform into military jet fighters and that's about all they have in common. Rather than act as a team of four who work together, they prefer to operate as two pairs who work separately. Starscream and BB are elitists with exacting standards and ambitious schemes, who can also combine, while Dirge and Thrust are unreliable slackers who can't take anything seriously. Each duo competes to outshine the other in the eyes of their Emperor of Destruction, and as a result, they tend to exert a greater effort in sabotaging each other than in engaging the enemy. As for the Maximals, they're perfectly happy to let the Combatrons cancel each other out in battle.

Exposure to Angolmois Energy reformatted the Combatrons into the Cyborg Beasts, freakish fusions of animal and machine that are more powerful than their former incarnations.

The Combatrons/Cyborg Beasts consist of:

• Starscream/Hellscream, fighter jet/cyborg shark
• BB/Max-B, stealth bomber/cyborg dog
• Dirge/Dirgegun, fighter jet/cyborg bee.
• Thrust/Thrustor, fighter jet/cyborg velociraptor.

Fiction

Beast Wars II cartoon

The Combatrons were under the command of Galvatron and Megastorm as they went to Gaia in order to drain the planet of its energy. The New Forces Arrive! The Predacons soon located a massive Gaian computer, and used its data to scan themselves alternate modes based on weapons from Gaia's past. The Combatrons took the forms of various jet fighters (or in BB's case, a stealth bomber). White Lion, Run!

Eventually, the Combatrons were all upgraded into Cyborg Beasts.

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Beast Wars II comic

This is what happens if you overdose on something, kiddo.

The Combatrons were kicked into a hot spring after they served the wrong drink to Gigastorm, who became furious. After enjoying the hot spring for a while, they found that they were upgraded into the Cyborg Beasts. Hellscream noted a sign from the Autorollers warning that the hot spring was an Angolmois Energy-processing facility. Recover the Bonds Lost!

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Toys

Beast Wars

• Combatrons (1998)
  • Starscream and BB
  • Dirge
  • Thrust

The Combatrons are redecos of Generation 2 and Machine Wars toys. Starscream and BB were sold together as an Ultra Class package, whilst Dirge and Thrust were sold separately as Basics Class toys. The four Combatrons did not share any specific gimmicks, although Starscream and BB could combine while Dirge and Thrust were flipchangers.

Starscream and BB were also released as a two-pack in Korea by Sonokong in their Beast-War line and later re-released in new packaging as Stealth Saber and Victory Bomber, respectively in their Car Bot line.