Catilla (DOTM)

Catilla is an Autobot-allied Mini-Con or Maximal from the Generation 1 and Unicron Trilogy continuity families (via the Dark of the Moon toyline).

Don't you want a little Catilla you can call your own? A Catilla who'll be with you when you're all alone?

As a warrior, Catilla (aka Katilla) is no pretender: he's strong, fast, smart, tough and very, very skilled. Perhaps these abilities explain why he doesn't tend to carry all that much in the way of firepower. If he has any flaw as a soldier it's that he's only indifferently brave, it might be best not to depend on him sticking his neck out in a daring reckless bid to save the day.^[1]

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

In Aurex 1104.30-JH Zeta, Catilla was one of the Mini-Cons gathered by Optimus Primal's Maximals during the Beast Wars on prehistoric Earth. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/13

Beast Wars: Uprising

Katilla was a member of the Resistance during the Grand Uprising. By his own admission, he was a middle-of-the-pack cybercat, content to let other people take the risks. He didn't like or trust Predacons, despite the Resistance supposedly being pan-factional, noting that once the Builders were dealt with, it'd be the Preds next. Funnily enough, most of his Predacon commanders tended to leave quickly, clearly a conspiracy (and not because of Katilla's attitude, no sir!)

Katilla was part of the Resistance fleet who fought at the Yuss Straits, and would'cha know it, Scylla put him up-front on the Drydock, the uppity Predacon. In fact, she had left him there as a patsy, to draw their opponent Banzai-Tron in. On attack, Katilla panicked, not sure whether to fight back, defend his ship, or just run for it.

A Builder torpedo took care of the problem for him, by turning Katilla's ship into a fireball big enough to be seen from the shores of Iacon. Derailment

Toys

Dark of the Moon

• Catilla (Mini-Con, 2011)

• Known designers: Andrew Scribner (deco artist)

Dark of the Moon Catilla is a redeco of Classics Snarl, transforming into a robotic tiger. He has a molded "blaster" barrel on the inside of his kitty-mode mouth, revealed by opening his jaw. He was only available individually as a shared "exclusive" between online retailers Big Bad Toy Store and Entertainment Earth and "market six" retailers. He was sold individually alongside Triceradon, Dualor, and Rav.

This mold was also used to make Micron Booster Apexus, 2008 Universe Snow Cat, and Timelines/Shattered Glass Rampage.

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