Tigerhawk

Tigerhawk is aMaximalfrom theBeast Eraof theGeneration 1continuity family.

800-Ton Jesus.

In the fires of an unknown place between time and space, theVokremoved thesparksofTigatronandAirazorand fused their bodies together to formTigerhawk,a Vok-controlled super warrior intended to bring justice to the time-disrupting Transformers on prehistoricEarth.But when the two extracted sparks united and re-entered Tigerhawk's body, a different personality and purpose emerged.

Tigerhawk is by far the most powerful Transformer in theBeast Wars.His mighty wings grant him flight in either form and can deploy missile launchers, gatling guns or serve as defensive shields. Inbeast mode,he bares razor-sharp claws and teeth, but all of these devastating weapons are nothing compared to his uncanny shamanic abilities to control the weather and terrain of Earth at will.

Fiction

Beast Warscartoon continuity

Beast Warscartoon

Voice actor:Blu Mankuma(English),Kōichi Tōchika(Japanese),Xue Weigang(Chinese),Alvaro Tarcicio(Latin American Spanish),Giorgio Bonino(Italian)

You see, when two Vok love each other very much...

Concerned withMegatron's constant futzing with the timestream, the Vok extracted the Sparks of the inert, captive MaximalsTigatronandAirazor.Their bodies were merged together to form the staggeringly powerful Tigerhawk. Inhabited by two members of the Vok species, Tigerhawk travelled to Earth as a blindingly powerful energy comet.

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Tigerhawk's energy-ball plunged to Earth, impacting and utterly destroying theDarksyde.Declaring himself the emissary of the Vok, he charged Megatron with "the willful disruption of time and space", and demanded Megatron's immediate surrender. Megatron was not so keen on this idea, and ordered a Predacon attack instead. Tigerhawk engaged and defeated the entirePredaconforce, then shot down Megatron.Optimus Primalarrived at that point, concerned that if Megatron was killed, the Spark of the original Megatron would also be destroyed, thus worsening the damage to the time stream. Tigerhawk dismissed Primal's concerns as intolerable interference, and buried him in the ground with a wave of his hand. Tigerhawk was seconds away from executing the unconscious Predacon leader when Tarantulas disabled him with specialized versions of his arachnoid helper-drones.

Tigerhawk awoke to find himself a captive inTarantulas's lair.The spider attempted to destroy Tigerhawk's mind by forcefully removing the Vok presence inhabiting it. Due to a fluke coincidence,Tarantulasonly succeeded in destroying himself, alongside the Vok who had controlled Tigerhawk. The Sparks of Airazor and Tigatron, which followed Tigerhawk to Earth, merged to become one and entered Tigerhawk's body.

Tigerhawk's memories appeared vague—at first he seemed not to remember being Tigatron or Airazor, yet after a moment he recognized Earth as "home". He remembered enough specifics of the Beast Wars to find surprising the appearance ofCheetoras a Transmetal 2 and Optimus Primal in his "Optimal" form.Other Victories

Pretty sure flapping your wings slowly doesn't let you hover in place, Tigerhawk.

The Maximals were pretty impressed to have Tigerhawk around, with Optimus Primal quoting scripture from theCovenant of Primusabout a "mighty warrior" from "the heavens". The Predacons, for their part, were scared oilless and Rampage told Megatron that there was nothing he could find that could work against Tigerhawk. Unfortunately, that wasn't true: Megatron discovered the Decepticon warshipNemesis!Tigerhawk and Optimus raced against time to back upDepth Chargeand stop theNemesisfrom being activated, but to no avail.Nemesis Part 1After a brief fight, Tigerhawk offered to hold the line while Optimus went back and warned the others.

Tigerhawk summoned a tornado and a lightning barrage to pummel theNemesis,holding his own for quite some time against the legendary warship and draining its power cells, though he was eventually killed by its mainfusion cannon.Dinobotrespected his actions as "a brave stand, and noble", while Optimus swore that no more of his friends were going to die because of Megatron's ambitions.Nemesis Part 2

3H comics

Razorclawwas an alternate version of Tigerhawk, among the differences being that he was alive and that he was in league withUnicron.Those who had known Tigerhawk all mistook Razorclaw for him until he cleared up on his identity.AbductionOptimus Primalsarcastically berated himself for the mistake, claiming that even Tigerhawk'snano-fleaswere far above the likes of Razorclaw.Escape

Beast Wars Metalscomic

Four katanas, 'cuz godlike elemental powers just aren't enough.

When the deadTigatronwas resurrected due to the machinations ofMegatron,his lover,Airazorwas also revived, but as a mindless zombie. The zombie Airazor battled Tigatron, although Tigatron could not bring himself to hurt Airazor. Desiring another death over harming her, Tigatron gave her one of his katana and knelt down.

As Airazor struck his neck with the blade, her spark traveled through the katana and into Tigatron's body. Inside cyberspace, the two reunited Maximals embraced, vowing never to be apart again. As their sparks joined, Tigatron and Airazor were reborn as the powerful Tigerhawk!

Tigerhawk used his elemental powers, channeled through his four katana, to dispatch hordes of zombie Predacon troopers with tornadoes and earthquakes. He then gathered up all the Maximals who had been separated from the team and returned them to Optimus Primal.Beast Wars Metals #6

The AllSpark Almanac

ForALTernity Today's crossword puzzle, "Silverboltand Tigerhawk "was the clue to the answer for 145 across:"Fuzor".The AllSpark Almanac II

Ask Vector Prime

Vector Prime stated that the Tigerhawk ofPrimax 496.22 Alphawas a Cybertronian that had "gender that does not conform to a binary male/female state", along with theOverlordofPrimax 488.12 Alpha.Ask Vector Prime, 2015/5/23

Last Bot Standing

Tigerhawk was among the many Autobots who fought against the Decepticons as both sides drained the universe of its resources.Last Bot Standing #2

Games

Transformers: Battle Tactics

Tigerhawk Fuzor participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Epic character who first appeared in the "Transmetals: Episode 3" mini events, and could be recruited by collecting 650 units of Cybermetal, 350 units of Transmetal, 150 exclusive cores, and 50 cores of this character. Transformers: Battle Tactics

Transformers: Earth Wars

• Class:Air
• Lowest Star Rating:2 star
• Ability:Blizzard: Create a blizzard in the area that deals 52.0 damage and slows enemy attacks by 25%, and call lightning strikes up to 8 times for 58.9 damage each.

• Tigerhawk at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki

Toys

Beast Wars

Fly, my kitty! Fly!

• Tigerhawk(Ultra Transmetal 2,1999)

• Takara name:Metals Tigerfalcon(メタルスタイガーファルコン)
• Takara ID number:C-50
• Accessories:2 missiles, 2 wingtip missiles, 2 launchers
• Known designers:Yuichiro Hira(Takara),Masakatsu Saito(concept artist)

Sold in the second wave of fourth-yearBeast WarsUltra toys,Transmetal 2Tigerhawk transforms into a cybernetic tiger-falcon hybrid. Inbeast mode,he is armed with "Hidden wing-tipped missiles", feather projectiles very similar to the FuzorSilverbolt's, with spring-loaded switches to flip the wings forward, and flip-out missile launchers which activate when a lever on Tigerhawk's back is pulled (which also moves the wings). The white launchers on his wings are removable and can be held in his left fist. Under his beast head is a small cockpit with a pilot's chair.

Similar to Transmetal 2Megatron,Tigerhawk features an aborted and undocumented vehicular "third mode", which involves flipping him over to utilize the otherwise unexplained wheels on top of his wings and facing his cannon arm forward. The box and instructions opt to call the deployment of his vacuum-metalized bird helmet (or "Targeting Computer Battle Visor" ) over his beast tiger head a third mode instead.

Originally, Tigerhawk, along withOptimal Optimusand Transmetal 2 Megatron were to have small driver-like figures sitting on control chairs located in cockpits on their bodies. These drivers were meant to represent their sparks. ButHasbrolater realized that kids might confuse these spark representations as drivers controlling the robots,^{[citation needed]}so they were abandoned, but the cockpits remained. The spark pilot was eventually used in the Japanese release ofCryotek.

Judging from his packaging art, it seems that along withOptimus Minor,Sonar,andScarem,Tigerhawk was amongst the few Transmetals 2 that was intended to have the strange feature of having access to multiple limbs in robot mode... In this case, a second pair of arms formed by his rear beast mode legs.

A back-of-the-box graphfor Tigerhawk gives technical designations to some of his robot mode parts. In addition to the already-mentioned "hidden wing-tip missiles" and "targeting computer battle visor," they include "Blast-open thunder torpedoes," "Ion-charged talons," an "Accelerator beam-turret cannon" and "Multi-stage deployment wings."

Know also that this mold was later used to make 2003UniverseRazorclaw.It was alsorepurposedas a future body ofShattered GlassRavageinRecordicons#20.

• More information on Tigerhawk at TFU.info

Legacy

The second coming of Robot Jesus.

• Beast Wars Universe Tigerhawk(Leader Class,2024)

• TakaraTomy name:Tigerhawk(タイガーホーク)
• TakaraTomy ID number:TL-64
• TakaraTomy release date:27 April2024
• Accessories:2 Feather Blades, 2 Blasters, 1 arm-mounted double blaster
• Known designers:Mark Maher(Hasbro),Shuhei Umezu(TakaraTomy),Dennis Chan(sculptor, archival)^[1]

Released in the seventh wave ofLegacyLeader class figures,Legacy: United"Beast Wars Universe Tigerhawk" is based on hisBeast Warsdesign, now featuring show-accurate purple and copper colors. As per his Hasbro designerMark Maher,he also features beast mode sculptwork pulled directly from the previously releasedKingdomTigatronandAirazormolds, carried over for obvious reasons.^[1]The original toy's spring-loaded launching feathers are now hand-wielded feather swords, while the original toy's spring-loaded missile launchers are now merely hand-held 5 mm-compatible nonworking cannons. The double-barreled weapon sculpted into the original toy's right forearm is now a separate 5 mm-compatible accessory. This Tigerhawk lacks the original's falcon mask as it was not shown on the show model, though one was likely planned given the unused slot on the tiger forehead and matching unused storage slot under the tail feathers.

Tigerhawk was revealed at PulseCon 2023, and was first seen at retail in Australia just before the end of the year.

• Designer commentary onLegacyTigerhawk from Mark Maher on Instagram

Notes

• The extremely short duration of Tigerhawk's appearance on the show (a mere three episodes) was the result of a strange confluence of factors. At the time, it was not at all certain that theBeast Warsfranchise would be ending. However, at one point, after Tigerhawk had already been written into the show at Hasbro's explicit request,^[2]the company considered not releasing his toy at all. Thus he was ordered killed off immediately, and was. Hasbro eventually decided to release the toy, but by that point it was too late to change the scripts or animation.^[3]Tigerhawk's toy did not appear on shelves until well after his death on the show.
• Bob ForwardcreditsAsaph Fipkefor coming up with the idea of Tigerhawk.
  • Bob Forward ultimately though is not a fan of Tigerhawk.
• In theBeast Wars Metalscomic, Tigatron was interpreted as a samurai; the katana being their weapon of choice. Hence the whole samurai motif for Tigerhawk.
• His motto is "Violence will not be tolerated--surrender or be destroyed." Poor copy-editing or delicious irony? You be the judge!
• An unrealizedFun PublicationsBotConexclusivewas a redeco of Tigerhawk into a non-combinerBeast Wars-themed version ofGeneration 1 Predaking.^[4]

Foreign names

• Japanese:Tigerfalcon(タイガーファルコンTaigāfarukon),Tigerhawk(タイガーホークTaigāhōku)
• French:Tigre Ailé(Canada toy, "Winged Tiger" )
• Italian:Tigre Alata(toy, "Winged Tiger" )
• Mandarin:Hǔ Yīng( hổ ưng, "Tiger Hawk" )
• Polish:Jastrząb( "Hawk" )
• Spanish:Tigralcón(Latin America toy, "Tigralcon" ),Tigrehalcón(Latin America cartoon, "Tigerfalcon" )

Gallery

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  OriginalBeast Warsconcept art

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  Beast Warscartoon character model

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  Beast Wars Metalsmanga character model

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  Diagram of the sculpting fromKingdomAirazorandTigatronrecycled intoLegacyTigerhawk

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