Killer Punch
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- Killer Punch is aPredaconfrom theBeast Wars Neoportion of theGeneration 1continuity family.
Killer Punch(キラーパンチKirā Panchi) is the Intelligence Officer ofMagmatron's Predacons and is utterlyobsessedwith collecting information. His every strategy, his every move, is centered around the ultimate goal of amassing further intel on absolutely everyone and everything. Even his special attack, the "Head Punch",secretly doubles as a homing device which gathers data on those it pulverizes. Oh yes, Killer Punch is a sneaky, deceitful master of setting traps and collecting intel.
And this obsession has promptly driven him bonkers. The sheer volume of data Killer Punch has collected on friend and foe alike has turned him into a paranoid conspiracy theorist who'll believe almostanything.For instance, one of his favorite pet theories is thatUltra Magnuswas aDecepticonagent.Oh, yeah.They don't make tinfoil hats big enough for the likes of Killer Punch.
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Fiction
Beast Wars Neocartoon
- Voice actor:Yasuhiro Miyata(Japanese)
Granted an audience beforeMagmatronin theDinosaur,Intelligence Officer Killer Punch claimed to have come across intelligence thatBig Convoywas summoned by the instructorSurviveto the planetStero.In addition, he believed that they had been quarrelling for a long time and that they could be cajoled into a fight, allowing thePredaconsthe opportunity to take down Big Convoy while he was distracted. Magmatron approved of the plan and sent outGuiledartto lead it, butArchadishad his doubts.
Killer Punch accompanied Guiledart andSling(and later alsoDead EndandSaberback) to Stero, where they were detected byTrue One,who reported to Survive. Seeing a training opportunity for Big Convoy's rookies, Survive tried to teach them how to follow orders to the exact word—this mildly confused the Predacons, who thought Survive and Big Convoy would be tussling. After some fighting, Killer Punch leapt in front of Survive and tried to anger the bear by claiming Big Convoy was gossiping negatively about him throughout the universe. The instructor didn't fall for this lie, as Big Convoy was hisstudent—a surprising revelation to Killer Punch. Making the best of the situation he found himself in, the Predacon overpowered Survive and was about to chop off his head when he was blasted away by Big Convoy'scannon.WithStampyfinding Killer Punch's weak point in his right shoulder, the Predacons were forced to flee. On theDinosaur,an embarrassed Killer Punch was vilified for failing at his job as an Intelligence Officer and the unimpressed Magmatron orderedDNAVIto teleport him to the end of the universe.Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor
After the defeat ofUnicron,Killer Punch found his way back toCybertron.As the Maximals and Predacons united to rebuild their home planet, he had a friendly tussle with Survive.Graduation Ceremony!!
2006 IDWBeast Warscontinuity
Killer Punch spent much time on theCybertronian Undernet,amassing a sizable breadth of espionage techniques.Beast Wars Sourcebook #2Before Magmatron left forEarth,Killer Punch was one of several Predacons who listened to him deliver a speech about their rightful place in history and revenge against theMaximal Imperium.The Gathering #1
During Magmatron's astral journey to Cybertron's future, he witnessed his Predacons and the rest of Cybertron descend into chaos and madness. During this carnage, Killer Punch struckSaberback(who himself was attackingDirgegun) before being punched in the face.The Ascending #1
Beast Wars: Uprising
Killer Punch was a participant in theMaximal/PredaconGames.During one Cull, Killer Punch blindsidedUltra Mammothwith a machete. The machete eventually became part ofEject's collection of artifacts from the Games.Broken Windshields
Later on, Killer Punch became the enlisted intelligence specialist aboard theDinosaur,a starship with Maximal officers. Despite his diligence, Killer Punch received a reputation as an alarmist and paranoid, especially after theArkusmission, where Killer Punch had the crew tearing apart the ship looking for a phantom stowaway he was convinced existed on the edge of the sensors. (Killer Punch would never learn thatDead-Endhad, in fact, brought aSharkticonon board.)
When theDinosaurdetected a Cybertronian distress signal from planetLGC-8803,a mission team was assembled to assess the situation. While traveling to their destination, comms specialistHydradetected a second Cybertronian signal coming in, this one from Cybertron but not on any traditional encrypted frequency. First OfficerLongrack's complete lack of curiosity almost dismissed the matter entirely, but Killer Punch was interested and spoke up for Hydra. They got Longrack to agree for Hydra to spend the travel to LGC-8803 trying to clean up the second signal.
Almost immediately after the away team's shuttle dropped into atmosphere, however, theDinosaurwas attacked by a foreign starship. Hydra still hadn't returned to his post, and so Killer Punch was forced to perform both intelligence and communications duties during the firefight. AfterGuiledartchased the threat away, Killer Punch got leave from Longrack to search for Hydra and determine why he wasn't at his post. While looking for Hydra at the science officer's laboratory, though, Killer Punch found himself unusually lost inside the ship. After a series of sensor scans, he concluded theDinosaurwas actually a Transformer...and deliberately rearranging itself to keep him away from the lab.
Seeking help, Killer Punch visited engineering and managed to at least partly convinceMagmatronof his suspicions. The chief engineer was willing to shut down all power for one breem to let Killer Punch navigate the corridors unimpeded. He was, unfortunately, successful. Inside the lab, Killer Punch found Hydra dead and his killer, the Builder political officerSynapse,waiting for him. The second signal had been a call-to-arms as the Proto-races back home rose up against the Builder Assembly in revolution, and Synapse couldn't have those ideas spreading on the ship. He revealed theDinosaurwas actually the ancient Builder Megamaster Trypticon moments before the ship executed Killer Punch.
His last act was transmitting these revelations (sans the part about Trypticon) to Magmatron, warning the rest of the crew about their Builder officers.Intersectionality
2005 IDW continuity
Killer Punch appeared in a fictional scenario projected into the mind of a dyingSideswipethrough amnemopathis projector.He and multiple Decepticons were depicted as helping with relief efforts on post-war Cybertron, though Sideswipe initially believed they were smugglingenergonand attacked them.The Life of Sideswipe
In the real world, Killer Punch was one ofOnyx Prime's Maximals that fell under the command ofUnicron.WhenOptimus Primeled a force against Unicron to prevent him from eatingCaminus,Killer Punch was sent out to attack.Last Stand
Toys
Beast Wars
- Killer Punch(Deluxe,1999)
- ID number:D-39
- Release date:May??, 1999
- Accessories:"Killer Sword," "Head Punch" missile
- Known designers:Masakatsu Saito(concept artist)
- Sold in the fourth wave ofBeast Wars Neoproducts in Takara'sBeast Warstoyline, Killer Punch is an extensiveretoolingof Deluxe ClassGuiledart,now transforming into an organicStyracosaurus.Inbeast mode,he has flip down "damage" panels to reveal ribs and torn flesh, though the rest of the "Fake Death Mode" feature from Guiledart is no longer present or no longer painted (e.g. the muscle details on therobot modefeet).
- In robot mode, his right arm features a spring-loaded launcher which fires his "Head Punch" missile, aka "nearly his entire dino-mode head". When the missile is not in use, a hole on the tail section on his back allows the head to store, and a flip down robot claw (that looks mostly like a robotic dinosaur skull) replaces it. If one chooses to, the head can also be held in his left fist like a shield. Similar to Guiledart, the tail can be removed, but this time to form his "Killer Sword", which can also be held in his left fist. His dinosaur forelegs (located on his left shoulderpad) feature flip-out, non-firing lasers.
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- Roaring Showdown: Survive VS Killer Punch(VS pack, 1999)
- ID number:VS-39
- Release date:May??, 1999
- Accessories:"Killer Sword," "Head Punch" missile
- Killer Punch was also available in the "Roaring Showdown" ( tuyệt kêu の đối quyếtzekkyō no taiketsu) multi-pack with theMaximalSurvive(and his mini-partnerTrue One), also released in the fourth wave ofNeotoys.
- Both toys are identical to their individual releases.
Notes
- LikeGuiledart,theBeast Wars: Uprisingincarnation of Killer Punch is a "virtual redeco" of theGenerationsVoyager ClassRoadbustertoy.
