Transformers' New Faction Makes the Perfect Change to Beast Wars Lore
Warning: spoilers ahead for Transformers: Beast Wars #15!
Fan-favorite Transformers from the Beast Wars TV show Tigatron, Airazor and Inferno finally just debuted in IDW Publishing's comic book series, but their unique roles change everything readers understand about the Beast Wars mythos.
In the television series, Tigatron and Airazor were a couple of the protoforms that the Maximals successfully retrieved from their pods, which had been orbiting the strange planet ever since they were torn from the Maximals' ship during its crash-landing. Inferno was also such a protoform except the Predacons got to him first and, after brainwashing him, reprogrammed him into one of their own. However, something obviously went wrong because after his pod paired him with a fire ant, Inferno actually thought he was a real fire ant, always obsessed with protecting the colony and serving his queen, a role he attributed to the Predacon leader Megatron, much to the latter's annoyance.
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But in the comics, all three of them are not only working together, but are self-proclaimed Children of the Vok, as revealed in Transformers: Beast Wars #15 by writer Erik Burnham, artist Winston Chan, colorist Ellie Wright and letterers Nathan Widick and Jake Wood. Tigatron, Airazor and Inferno are also allied with the two Transformers Saberback and Polar Claw who captured Megatron and Optimus Primal in the previous issue. In issue #15, the five Children of the Vok reveal to their prisoners that they underwent a spiritual awakening and therefore are aligned neither with the Maximals or Predacons, but now protect the planet in service of the Vok, the mysterious alien race that have
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