| “ | The question that has haunted my being has been answered: The future is not fixed. My choices are my own. And yet, how ironic, for I now find I have no choice at all! I am a warrior... let the battle be joined. | „ |
| ~ Dinobot's code. |
| “ | Tell my tale to those who asks. Tell it truly. My ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence. | „ |
| ~ Dinobot's final words before peacefully succumbing to his energy depletion |
Dinobot is one of the two deuteragonists (Alongside Cheetor) of the Beast Wars era of the Transformers franchise, serving as a supporting protagonist of Seasons 1 & 2 of Beast Wars: Transformers and a minor character in its Season 3 finale. He was one of the 5 Predacon renegades lead by Megatron who stole the Maximal relic, the Golden Disk. He eventually defected tot he Maximals after finding Megatron to be an incompetent leader (until he was alter proven wrong) and then grew much more disgusted by Megatron's dishonorable conduct. He is also the friendly rival with Rattrap, who ironically, becomes the Maximal closest to Dinobot.
He was voiced by Scott McNeil.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
- Even when villainous, he was still a warrior who fought with honor. Showing that while he may be a bad guy, this does not mean he has to stay as such.
- While basically admitting he detests Tarantulas for being a vile spider-robot, when he presumed he killed him, he still gives him a respectable eulogy to him. When Optimus died, he was willing to honor the man and objected Rattrap into moving his stuff into his quarters as he deemed it disrespectful.
- In "Fallen Comrades", he stays with Primal when he was critically injured and then sent a signal to the Maximal stasis pod that would eventually form Tigatron to save the protoform from being brainwashed into a Predacon by Tarantulas' shell programming to expand Megatron's troops.
- Even while he would be considered a criminal back on Cybertron having been not only just a Predacon, who were generally villainous, but a Predacon rogue too and had no intentions of going back home, he still helps the Maximals get back to Cybertron by contacting the probe.
- Even upon becoming a Predacon again and beating Quickstrike, Dinobot convinces Megatron to have him spared as he is a useful warrior, which was a pragmatic reason he used for Megatron as to cover up the real reason Dinobot spared him, for honor's sake which Megatron refuses to take as a reason.
- Spares Rattrap when tasked to kill him by Megatron upon realizing the gravity of his betrayal and of Megatron's vile plans.
- In "Code of Hero" Dinobot, all on his own, gives up his own life battling the Predacon army and thwarting their genocide on the anthropoids and to wipe out their descendants, the human race, from existence and rewrite history, not only saving humanity from extinction, but saving time itself, only because he believed it was the only right and honorable thing to do.
- Upon Rampage's death, Dinobot manages to take control over the clone Megatron created and helps the Maximals stop Megatron from destroying the Ark which would've wiped out most of Cybertron's life from existence. To give further credence, it was only due to him and his second sacrifice was Cybertron saved from another mad grasp of power form Megatron by giving Rhinox the access to the shuttle.
- Tie-in material revealed he possessed the clone upon Rampage's death backing up this statement.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He was an anti-hero. Dinobot joined the Maximals in the first place because he found Megatron as an incompetent leader and got kicked out of a result and to exact his revenge on Megatron, he joined the Maximals.
- To top it off, in "Bad Spark", Dinobot suggests Optimus to leave Silverbolt to die in the Energon storm out of pragmatism, and they are only sacrificing one men. This did angered Optimus who retorts that he will remember this when Dinobot was lost in an energon storm.
- Just before "Code of Hero" in "Maximal no More", upon realizing they were on Earth unlike what he taught (which was why he challenged Megatron's leadership) just in a different time period, Dinobot betrays the Maximals and gives the Cybertronian Golden Disk to Megatron though he did switch back realizing what he did wrong and felt remorse for it.
- To say he's lethal would be an understatement. Dinobot's first option is to try giving a warrior's death to his enemies, having even pressured Optimus to destroy the Predacon base and kill all the Predacons inside, in which he agreed when it was presumed Cheetor was dead and there was no other option, but Dinobot wants to kill when he had every other option.
- That too, while it is understandable that the first clone that was fully organic Megatron created needs to be gone, eating it like it was dinner was also too sadistic a way to do so.
- He also forms a partnership with Terrorsaur to create a teleportation link between the Maximal and Predacon bases and then ruthlessly betrays Terrorsaur, having intended to betray him from the start. While Terrorsaur himself is a Predacon, this is still pretty questionable.
- He is pretty much a jerk, having always been hostile with Rattrap and argues with him and has occasionally been pretty rude to the other Maximals.
Trivia[]
- So far, he and Rhinox are the only heroes from the Beast era to be Inconsistently Admirable.
External Links[]
- Dinobot on the Heroes Wiki.
- Dinobot on the TFwiki.net
- Dinobot on the Transformers Wiki.
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