Seacon (G1)
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- The Seacons are aDecepticonsubgroupfrom theGeneration 1 continuity family.
The sixSeaconsare the Decepticons' undersea combat specialists. They all transform into mechanical beasts resembling (more or less) aquatic life forms fromEarth.The six combine into the super warriorPiranacon(also spelled 'Piranhacon').
The team consists of:
- The cruel and calculatingSnaptrap,their team leader. He transforms into a snapping turtle (sort of).
- The clumsy and insecureNautilator,who transforms into a lobster-monster.
- The viciousOverbite.He becomes a shark with extra limbs. Truly.
- The sneakySeawing,a manta ray. With legs.
- The unhygienic and pollutingSkalor,a coelacanth with arms and legs.
- The sadistic and strongTentakil,an upright walking squid. Walking with... yep, you've got it.
- The lovesick squid of pristine beautyScylla,has been known to replace Nautilator and Tentakil when they aren't available, allowing the team to combine into a new form, God Neptune.
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Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
MarvelThe Transformerscomics
The Seacons were created primarily for off-world combat on planets with water-based oceans.#163's Grim Grams
The Seacons were summoned to Earth byShockwave,who had them put their undersea abilities to use fortifying the Decepticons'sub-aquatic island headquarters.Outfitted with Earth modes by Shockwave, the Seacons were going about their task when they met with their first challenge, which also proved to be one of their greatest—they were ordered to defend the island against the insane,time travellingfuture Decepticon,Galvatron.The Seacons gave a good account of themselves, merging into Piranacon for extra power, but ultimately, the team was defeated by their stronger adversary, only for Galvatron to reveal that he had not planned an attack at all, merely wishing to talk. Now, however, he claimed that Shockwave had made an enemy of him—although it was all part of a plan to destabilise his leadership.Enemy Action!
Seeking a weapon that could truly combat Galvatron, Shockwave sought out the former Decepticon leader,Megatron,who had been missing in action for some time. When what was believed to be his body (but was, in actuality, aclone of him) was located in theRiver Thamesby entrepreneurRichard Branson(orMister Johnson), Overbite (operating under his original name of "Jawbreaker" ) was dispatched with some of the Decepticon jets to bring the body to Shockwave. Snaptrap subsequently repaired the clone’s physical damage, and aided Shockwave in using thepsycho-probeto brainwash it into his service.Salvage!
Following this, the Seacons departed Shockwave's service and joined withRatbat,the leader of the primary Earth-based Decepticon force. Ratbat had relocated the Decepticons’ island base to theFlorida Keys,disguising it as a holiday resort named "Club Con" to allow the Seacons to search the seabed for a sunken pirate ship, the treasure chest of which contained two Autobot tapes,Grand SlamandRaindance.The recovery mission was successful, but the tapes were then stolen by the Autobot Blaster, and the holidaymakers on the island had their peace and quiet rudely interrupted as the Seacons erupted from the ocean and attacked, searching for Blaster. In the ensuing battle, Blaster sent the tapes back to the depths of the oceans, encouraging the Seacons to call off the attack and head after them.Club Con!
The tapes, it was revealed, were sent to Earth centuries ago to warn the Autobots there of the approaching threat posed by theUnderbase,a massive space-born information storehouse that could convey infinite power. Unfortunately, it was the Decepticon,Starscream,who managed to attain the Underbase's power, turning on Autobot and Decepticon alike and attempting to conquer Earth. The Seacons were part of the attempted defence ofNew York City,striking at Starscream from the East River, but were all deactivated by the cosmically powered villain.Dark Star
Earthforce
A few years later, in theEarthforceera,Megatronfound himself lacking in troops during theDecepticon Civil War.Seeking to acquire more warriors, he projected his mind back in time to Starscream's attack on New York, taking possession of Snaptrap in hopes of saving the Seacons from destruction so that they might serve him in the future. He was pursued byProwl,who prevented his scheme.Flashback!
Classics
After their destruction fighting theUnderbase-empoweredStarscream,Snaptrap and the Seacons were eventually reconstructed and came under the command ofBludgeon.In the years that followed, Snaptrap rose in the ranks of the Decepticons and eventually became one of Bludgeon's right-hand 'Cons. As Snaptrap took on greater responsibilities, Overbite was named Seacon sub-commander to oversee the group in his absence.
Despite his newfound position of power in Bludgeon's organization, Snaptrap and the Seacons betrayed their leader whenMegatronreturned to lay claim to his throne. Acting in secret, Snaptrap fed information to Megatron's forces about Bludgeon's defenses. WhenDarkwinguncovered the leak, Snaptrap arranged for the trail to lead theHun-Gurrrand theTerrorconsinstead of his men. On Bludgeon's orders, Snaptrap and the Seacons formed Piranacon and battled the Terrorcons as they formedAbominus.Piranacon dismantled Abominus without revealing his secret. As Bludgeon prepared for Megatron's forces to attack, the Seacons formed Piranacon again and destroyed their leader with a mass compression cannon. With that, the Seacons and Bludgeon's Decepticons came back under the command of Megatron.At Fight's End
The Seacons were aboard theTalonwhen the universe was destroyed and the ship was pulled into a nearbyparallel reality.Following the ship's crash on prehistoric Earth, Nautilator and Tentakil were trampled into pieces by a herd of buffalo while the rest adopted experimental energon-absorbing armor to cope with the ambientenergon radiation.Shattered TimeThe two lost Seacons were replaced byScyllaShattered Expectationsand the team's combined form becameGod Neptune.Shattered HopeFollowing a battle with the Maximals, the Seacons were sucked through a dimensional rift created byUltra Mammoth.Shattered Destiny
Regeneration One
Left alone on Earth, in1994Megatron retrieved and reanimated the bodies of the Decepticons that had fallen in theUnderbase battlesand lobotomised them so that they would unquestioningly follow orders. Among thiszombiearmy in2012were Tentakil, who foughtKupand theWreckers,Loose Ends, Part 2Overbite, who fought the Autobots freshly arrived from Cybertron withOptimus Prime,Loose Ends, Part 5and Snaptrap, whose body was dropped into a large pit along with all of the other deactivated zombies and obliterated from orbit byUltra Magnusaboard theValiant.Natural Selection, Part One
G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers
Some time after the Decepticons were driven back toCybertron'sGladiator Zone,Nautilator got into trouble with thePredacons.The other Seacons helped him out by forming Piranacon, but the giant was defeated byPredakingand would have been killed if not forSerpent O.R.interrupting the battle.The Art of War #2The Seacons had no problem with Serpent O.R. taking control of the Decepticon army, and helped capture a number of Autobots andJoeswho were after their new leader.The Art of War #3Nautilator later guarded some of the captured humans, but being Nautilator, he failed miserably with this task.The Art of War #4
2005 IDW continuity
Before theGreat War,Seawingwas amongst the crowd atMegatron's firstpit fightin theForge.Megatron Origin #2
After the war ended, a crew of Decepticons led bySnap Trapand including Seawing,NautilatorandTentakiljoined forces withHun-Gar's band and invaded the city ofSensensica,capital ofTemptoria.They established a base called theBattery,where they turned thelocal populationintoenergonthrough a process known aspink alchemyuntil theLost Light's crew arrived and put an end to their operation with extreme prejudice.Before & After
Tentakil and Snap Trap both survived the battle, as they were later seen incarcerated in theLost Light's brig.Under Cold Blue StarsThe GloamingThey were released byRavageand attempted to disrupt Megatron's trial at theRaskol ArenaonLuna 2,but their former leader refused to co-operate and they were quickly recaptured by the Autobots.Predestination: A Beginner's Guide
Hearts of Steel
The Seacons were awoken from their slumber on the bottom of the ocean by anElder God'sservantsand were brought to their underground city.Infestation 2: The Transformers #1
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe
A proliferation of Seacons andSharkticonsonNeptuneforced the human-Autobot colony ofNew Atlantisto relocate toTriton.The War Never Ends
Games
Transformers: Earth Wars
Transformers Roleplaying Game
The Seacons were a team of underwater specialists who transformed into vicious aquatic creatures. Together, they were responsible for establishingNew Cybertron IVbeneath theArcticCircle.
Toys
The Transformers
- The Seacons are aScramble City-style combiner, combining to formPiranacon,but with a twist. The leader, Snaptrap, was sold boxed at the $12 price point, along with thecombinerkibble.Instead of the usual four smaller carded $5-price point robots, however, the Seacons featurefivesmaller bots.
- The smaller Seacons can become not only one of Piranacon's limbs, but also a hand weapon for the giant. It is for this reason that the five smaller toys also have a free-standing "weapon mode" (essentially their sea-creature mode on a stand with a gun clicked on). This makes Piranacon not only acombiner,but aTargetmaster.
- Much like theTerrorconsbefore them, the Seacons are extraordinarily chunky in both modes. The team is unified by its color scheme of aqua, fuchsia, lavender, purple and blue, with grey, black and chromed highlights. Eh, what can we tell ya, it was 1988.
Beast Wars
Four of the fiveBeast WarsSeacons (Sea Phantom,Terrormander,CoelagonandHalfshell) wererepurposedas their G1 predecessors (Overbite, Seawing, Skalor and Snaptrap, respectively) inBeast Wars Shattered Glass.Scyllawas still portrayed as a separate character and new team member, replacing the deceased Nautilator and Tentakil, whileBeast WarsGod Neptune,as a whole, was repurposed asClassicsGod Neptune.
Timelines
- This set was first revealed atOTFCC 2004,as the original character "Piranhacons", a proposedredecoof the Generation 1 Seacon team. They were to be available in a Wal-MartexclusivePiranhaking set for theEnergonline. (At the time, Wal-Mart had recently had almost a half-dozen differentUniverseexclusive toys come out in the span of a month, and so they wanted the Piranhacon set to be in the mainline at the time instead ofUniverse.) The toys were not taken by Wal-Mart and eventually made their way to theTransformers Collectors' Club,who released the toys as the originalcharactersin a giftset in 2008.
- Mold degradation is in evidence in this release.
Transformers(2010)
- Decepticon Piranacon(Seacon giftset, 2010)
- All six Seacons were reissued as aBigBadToyStoreexclusive set. The set came with collector cards of each individual Seacon as well as their combined form along with five of the original weapon bases for the Targetmaster modes. This release saw some minor changes from the original in terms of plastic color used, namely Snaptrap'srobot modehead being teal instead of black and Overbite's main body being magenta rather than purple. Snaptrap's sword has also been chromed out.
- Mold degradation from the TFCC release was still present, with Overbite suffering particularly badly (good luck trying to mount his weapon in shark mode or keeping his shark arms on). However, it seems some joints and pegs have been remolded to provide a better grip than the previous release, reducing but not eliminating the problem.
Generations Selects
Notes
- Although the sub-group's name is pronounced"see-cons"in commercials for the toys, some fans occasionally (incorrectly) opt to pronounce it"see-a-cons",in keeping with the "three-or-more-syllables" naming convention of the "-con" subgroups before them.
- In addition to the fairly well-known renaming of Overbite to 'Jawbreaker' in "Enemy Action!", the UK comic stories also give all six Seacons, and Piranacon, an early, abandoned color scheme (blue, orange, and silver) versus the final teal, purple, and pink of the final production version. This color scheme was also seen in the first commercial featuring the Seacons, in both animation and the physical toys advertised.[1]
- In addition to the different colors, the UK art also sometimes omitted extraneous and intrusive arms and legs added to Seawing, Skalor, and Overbite/Jawbreaker's toy designs. The result is that the fairly toy-accurate Seacons who turn up in "Club Con!" look markedly different from their UK predecessors... but since everyone's fantasizing overJessiein a bikini and trying to ignore the plot in that issue anyway, who cares?
- In US continuity, the Seacons were introduced in the first issue of theUnderbase Saga,and killed off in its last issue. Yes, it only took three months to go from "hot new toy" to "last year's product".
- The rocket platforms which appear in a Cybertronian club inTransformers: Fall of Cybertronare based on the Seacon's stabilizer boards.[1]
