Officially, the
Beast Wars and
Beast Machines series exist as the future of
Transformers: Generation 1 universe, and not specifically of the original cartoon series or
Marvel Comics series. The writers of the series adopted this position in order to pick and choose the best elements of the discrete Generation 1 continuities.
BotCon comics In the
BotCon comics, two particular
Beast Wars storylines are tapped. In the
Omega Point storyline, several events lead up to a tremendous battle against
Shokaract, a Predacon fueled by the Dark Essence of
Unicron himself. This also serves as an introduction for
Apelinq and features the only appearances of
Windrazor, Sandstorm, Antagony, and Cataclysm. In the
Primeval Dawn story,
Tarantulas returns from the dead alongside Ravage,
Spittor,
Iguanus, and
Razorclaw to complete the mission he set out to do. Meanwhile, the Vok create
Primal Prime, who teams up with
Airazor,
Tigatron, and
Ramulus as an opposing team that has also returned from the dead as well.
Dreamwave Productions Dreamwave Productions released a Summer Special which contained a
Beast Wars story. It introduced three new characters,
Optimus Minor,
Bonecrusher, and
Wolfang. The comic had a survey as to whether Dreamwave's new comic would be
Robots In Disguise or
Beast Wars.
Beast Wars won. Dreamwave Productions had plans to release a
Beast Wars comic in early 2005, which would have been done by the
War Within creative team of
Simon Furman and
Don Figueroa. Brad Mick and Adam Patyk were originally planned to write the series until they left Dreamwave after not being paid for several projects. However, Dreamwave entered
bankruptcy before one issue could be published, although some cover art did appear on the internet.
IDW Publishing A mini-series takes place parallel to the third season of
Beast Wars and introduces characters who are not shown in the original series such as
Magmatron,
Razorbeast, and
Injector. Other characters who appear are
Grimlock in his
Beast Wars body (a recolored Dinobot toy) and Ravage in his Transmetal II "Tripredacus Agent"
incarnation. The mini-series focuses on Magmatron, sent by the
Tripredacus Council to capture Megatron after Ravage's failure. However, Magmatron has his own agenda: to create his own army from the stasis pods the
Axalon ejected in the pilot episode of
Beast Wars. His scheme is partially thwarted by the Maximal
double-agent Razorbeast, who ensures the
shell program used reconfigures many of the protoforms as Maximals rather than Predacons. The two sides clash in an attempt to stop Magmatron from returning to Cybertron with a captured Megatron, with some unexpected aid from Grimlock ensuring Magmatron is sent back to Cybertron empty handed. However, Razorbeast's Maximals and many Predacons (led by Ravage, resurrected in a Transmetal II body) are left on Earth, opening the way for future series. ==Media==