Beastformer (species)
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The Beastformers (ビーストフォーマー Bīsutofōmā) are a species of anthropomorphic animals that reside on the planet Beast. Vast numbers of them have been cybernetically enhanced, a seemingly normal process for the species.
They are also known as Battle Beasts.
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Fiction
Japanese cartoon continuity
The Headmasters cartoon
The Autobots came into contact with two refugee Beastformers who were seeking help. They said that their world, planet Beast, was a happy and peaceful one ruled by a just hereditary monarchy of lions (what else?) until the Decepticons invaded and helped the enemy forces of Alligatron take control. The Autobots traveled to Beast inside of Fortress Maximus and helped the good Beastformers free planet Beast from Decepticon tyranny. Rodimus Prime left the Monsterbots behind to protect the planet from any future Decepticon incursions. Rebellion on Planet Beast
Despite that victory, Scorponok took many Beastformers hostage. Transplanting them to the planet Zarak as slaves, they were forced to build him a giant transtector. The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts
The Headmasters comic
Once again, the Decepticons teamed up with Alligatron to take over planet Beast. The good Beastformers under the command of White Leo (with help from human-turned-Beastformer, Kane) sent for assistance from the Autobots, who arrived to help defeat the Decepticons and Alligatron. The Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!
Beastformers comic
The Beastformers were an offshoot race of the Laser Beasts, who had been created by the Three Wise Ones to carry on their work. When the Laser Beast society became too cold and unfeeling, a small group who remained faithful to the Three Wise Ones' ideals left their underground civilization and traveled to the surface long ago. This group would in time become the Beastformers. Legend of the Three Wise Ones
In the modern day, a party of Beastformers led by White Leo searched for the Three Wise Ones' Water Gem of Stillness when it was preventing rain from falling in North Snarl. They may have encountered the Laser Beast Sur. The Water Gem of Stillness
After millions of years of isolation, the Laser Beasts were forced to the surface as the imbalance of the six elemental gems caused natural disasters that devastated their kingdom. Unknown to the Laser Beasts, the surface of Beast was already inhabited: by the Beastformers! The Laser Beasts and the Beastformers then clashed in a massive battle, deciding which Beast lifeform would rule the surface of Planet Beast! Beastformers VS Laser Beasts
Legends comic
Defeated by the Laser Beast Tigerburn, White Leo fled to the Legends World to build a new civilization for his Beastformer subjects. Tigerburn followed him along with a mind-controlled Doublecross, but the evil Laser Beast was himself followed by White Leo's sister, White Lune. White Leo became Doublecross's Headmaster, restoring the Autobot's mind, and White Lune became Doublecross's Targetmaster, increasing the Autobot's power. Together, they forced Tigerburn out of the Legends World. Deciding it was better to fight for their homeworld than to run, White Leo and White Lune returned to planet Beast to defeat the Laser Beasts once and for all. Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 51
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
While hunting down the rogue Predacons, Megatron's search brought him to planet Beest during the middle of a battle amongst the Beastformers. Welcome to the Jungle
G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers
In order to keep the planet-devouring chaos god Unicron from munching Earth, Flint and Cosmos traveled within the giant's body in order to deliver a devastating payload of metal-eating spores to his brain. Flint and Cosmos were stalled by Unicron's antibodies, in the form of mind-controlled Beastformers. Flint and Cosmos fought past the Beastformers and defeated Unicron with the fungus. Whether this freed the enslaved Beastformers or not remains unclear. However, Joe Colton was charged with leading a mission to Unicron's dead body in order to bring assistance to its residents (presumably the Beastformers). Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2
Ask Vector Prime
The Maximals and Predacons of Aurex 615.03 Epsilon adopted Battle Beast alternate modes during the "Elemental War" on Jungle Planet. Ask Vector Prime, 03/06/2015
Other media
Blackthorne Battle Beasts comics
The Battle Beasts did get some fiction in the U.S., in the form of a short-lived (four issues) Blackthorne black-and-white comic book. Good luck finding it.
The comic is set on an unnamed planet inhabited by sentient, armored animals, each imbued with the power of one of the three elements: water, fire, and wood. Their powers and the health of their world are maintained by the Soulspirit, a ghostly figure that—strangely for a planet of talking animals—appears to be human. By keeping her animal charges and their nature totems in harmony, the Soulspirit helps maintain a balance that prevents the return of her ancient enemy—Ruhin, the sludgy lord of chaos. An evil plot by the totem-switching, mind-controlling crime lord Chameleon, and his minions Blitzkrieg Bat, Rocky Rhino, and Cutthroat Cuttlefish, disrupts the Soulspirit's planetary totem renewal ritual: the subsequent psychic totem disruption drives every creature on the planet insane and makes them start viciously attacking each other. The only beasts spared from this madness are Chameleon's forces and a small group of heroes (Horny Toad, Knight Owl, and Gargantuan Gorilla) who had already tried and failed to stop him. With their world now plunged into madness and nonstop war, the heroic faction must journey to find the one being on the planet—the near-mythical Sunburst Warrior—who can restore the harmony and sanity of the Battle Beasts. But they must hurry, because the disruption of the balance of nature has also revived the evil Ruhin!
Notes
- In the world of Beast Wars: Uprising, several Beastformers were recast as Maximals and Predacons, using names based on their Hasbro Battle Beasts counterparts where available (such as with Panzer and Sledgehammer) and their Takara names otherwise (as with Fennec and Sea Panic).
