Cheetor

Cheetor is a male robotic extraterrestrial character who features in Transformers.

Biography

Cheetor

The youthful Cybertronian was part of the Maximal exploration ship Axalon who unbeknownst to most members of the crew, its captain Optimus Primal had been secretly tasked with abandoning the murderous Protoform X far from Cybertronian space. However, the Axalon would be diverted off-course to pursue Megatron and a group of rogue Predacons, who had stolen a golden disk and fled Cybertron aboard a transwarp-capable starship.

After pursuing the Predacons across time and space, both sides crash-landed on a mysterious planet with abundant supplies of energon. To protect themselves from high levels of dangerous energon radiation, the crew adopted beast modes based on the native wildlife; upon reactivating in his new form, the youngest member of the crew renamed himself Cheetor. As Optimus, Rhinox, and Rattrap got to grips with their situation, Cheetor showed off his speed by racing some nearby cheetahs, but found himself outclassed when he opened fire on the airborne Predacon Waspinator. When the other Maximals and Predacons turned up, Cheetor shot at Megatron in the middle of his speech, and his 'underhanded sneak attack' sparked a full-fledged shootout. During the ensuing battle, Cheetor caught his foot in some rocks and Optimus had to rescue him.

While returning to their ship, the rogue Predacon Dinobot barred their way and challenged Optimus to a duel. Although Cheetor was keen to fight in Primal's place, Rattrap restrained him; when the other Predacons interrupted the fight, the battle revealed a huge energon crystal in a nearby mountain, and the Maximals rushed to claim the bounty before the Predacons could take it for themselves. High amounts of energon radiation forced both sides to fight in their beast modes, and although Cheetor fared better against Waspinator the second time round the energon was all destroyed.

Some time later, Cheetor enthusiastically volunteered to check out a new experimental comlink. Despite being under orders not to get into any combat situations, he unsuccessfully attempted to attack Scorponok and was left heavily damaged. After a strange precognitive dream, he awoke back on the Axalon, whether the other Maximals expressed their disappointment in his actions. After Rattrap dressed him down, Cheetor rushed out to make another attempt to capture the cannon that Scorponok was recovering, and was incapacitated by Tarantulas. Luckily for him, he was soon rescued by Rattrap, who also lied to Optimus to cover the young bot's hide.

Notes

• Cheetor was created by Larry DiTillio and Bob Forward where he made his first appearance in Transformers: Beast Wars.

References

• Beast Wars: "Beast Wars" (Parts 1 and 2) (1996)
• Beast Machines: "The Reformatting" (1999)

External Links

• TF Wiki.net Entry

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