Beast Wars Transformers Ends by Giving Dinobot A Fate Worse Than Death
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Transformers: Beast Wars #17!
The evil Predacon Transformers might not have had the pleasure of killing Dinobot in IDW Publishing's adaptation of the Beast Wars TV show, but the Predacon defector faces a fate worse than death by the series' premature end.
Although based on his TV counterpart, IDW's rendition of Dinobot is much more honorable than even his honor-bound inspiration. Both of them eventually join the Maximals, but the new Dinobot defects for a much less selfish reason. The comic version is driven more by a distaste of torture, as opposed to defecting as a way to compensate for a failed coup attempt. There's also no inkling that IDW's Dinobot would have ever questioned his loyalty to the Maximals, unlike in the TV show.
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By the end of the series the Maximals are forced to hunt for Megatron, which is made all the more important because of how Cybertron will likely view a still very much alive Dinobot in Transformers: Beast Wars #17 by writer Erik Burnham, artist Josh Bucham and letterer Jake M. Wood. After Rattrap zaps Megatron through time, the Maximals who now have a full-functioning ship at their disposal decide to leave the accursed planet they crash-landed on for Cybertron. But then Dinobot points out that even though Optimus Primal intends on telling Cybertron about Dinobot's defection from the Predacons, it's unlikely that Cybertron will listen to Primal's pleas if they come back without Megatron on a silver platter. Otherwise, Cybertron will need to punish someone else for the slew of crimes that Megatron and his subordinates committed before the events of Beast Wars.
Even though Dinobot is
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