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Magmatron is a Transformers character who first appeared in the Japanese Beast Wars Neo series, was later released in the American Beast Machines Dinobots toy line, and most recently in official Beast Wars comic continuity. Magmatron is one of the only two known reverse-combiners (the other being Tidal Wave in Transformers: Armada series) Three beasts, a Giganotosaurus, Elasmosaurus and a Quetzalcoatlus, can combine into a humanoid robot form, or that of a giant Fuzor with attributes of all three beasts. While in his beast modes he is able to maintain a singular consciousness/personality. Sometimes he is referred to as a Triocon, a being with technological relations to the Decepticon Duocons, with three split forms (relating to land, sea & air, respectively) instead of two.

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An all around warrior more wildly evil than even Galvatron (not the original); on the one hand, Magmatron is violently enthusiastic and hotheaded, while on the other he can judge situations quite logically. He is also charismatic enough that most other Predacons acknowledge his superiority.

Magmatron became the "Predacon Emperor of Destruction" after Galvatron's defeat, establishing a rivalry and mutual respect with Maximal commander Big Convoy. Tracking his rival's forces, he became aware of the Angolmois Energy pods released by the Nemesis and managed to gather many of them. However they were then stolen from him by the Blendtrons. He then discovered the truth - that the Angolmois Energy was really the lifeforce of Unicron himself.

As the Chaos-Bringer took Galvatron's corpse as a new body, Magmatron realised the disaster he had unleashed and his forces challenged Unicron. They were defeated, and Magmatron was left trapped in a wormhole. Eventually escaping he teamed up with his rival Big Convoy to stop the Unicron possessed Vector Sigma. After Unicron's defeat the two worked together to rebuild Cybertron.

In a desperate attempt to combat Megatron's techno-organic virus on Cybertron, the Oracle Supercomputer reformats a group of surviving Transformers, rendering them immune to the plague and extremely powerful. Using the DNA schematics of former Maximal Dinobot, each warrior emerges as a hybrid of savage prehistoric power and advanced Cybertronian robotics...the result, the fearsome Dinobots are born!

Following an interplanetary quest for mysterious energy capsules, Magmatron has returned to Cybertron to find it overrun with mindless Vehicon drones. Revered by his peers and feared by his enemies, Magmatron is known by as the “Emperor of Destruction”, a testament to his powerhouse presence on the battle field. His determination to succeed is unshakable and he accepts nothing less than total victory. Mitotic spark allows for separation into three aggressive dinosaur modes identified as: Landsaur, Seasaur, Skysaur which then recombines into an unstoppable tri-dinosaur Fuzor!

Hasbro released Magmatron as a Beast Machines The Magmatron toy was part of the Dinobots faction of Beast Machines which featured no new molds but did release molds previously unseen in America. Unlike all the others however, Magmatron was neither repainted nor renamed and his bio even suggested that he may be the same Magmatron of Beast Wars Neo. In line with this release, he later appeared in the Botcon Exclusive Transformers: Universe - Wreckers Comic; however he was misinterpreted as the factions’ leader. In actuality the Dinobot T-Wrecks was the Dinobot leader.

Although the Dinobots' intro states that the Dinobots received their beast modes through the slicing of Dinobot's DNA, it is likely that the Oracle also used the fossil chamber (seen in the Beast Machine TV series) to utilize Giganotosaurus, Elasmosaurus and Quetzalcoatlus DNA.

Magmatron does not appear to be a homage to any of the original Dinobots team in name or form. He appears instead to be a direct homage to himself from Beast Wars Neo.

Magmatron was also set to appear in Dreamwave Productions' unpublished Beast Wars comic. Although the company's bankruptcy meant that no issues were released, released art and information have revealed that Magmatron would have been the overall villain of the series, even presiding over Megatron's trial on Cybertron.[1]. This indicates that the Dreamwave tales would have followed a different continuity from Beast Machines.

When the licence to produce Transformers comics passed to IDW Publishing they produced their own Beast Wars comic, featuring yet another version of Magmatron, this one appearntly unconnected to the previous two. In this telling, during the Beast Wars (as the Predacons are installing Sentinel, which would place the events described here around those of the third season episode: Changing of the Guard), Magmatron and his troops arrived on Earth on a mission following up Ravage's failure. Magmatron had his own agenda to convert many of the unused protoforms in stasis pods into Predacon soldiers under his command, but the Maximal undercover agent Razorbeast sabotaged him, resulting in many of the protoforms emerging as Maximals. Hunting down and battling Razorbeast, even Magmatron's three modes were unable to prevent Razorbeast's escape. Magmatron also recovered the remains of Ravage and used a blank protoform to bring him back in a stronger TransMetal II form. Being displaced slightly chronogically Magmatron and Razorbeast's troops battled without the regular cast of Beast Wars noticing. Despite having ambitions to stage a coup like Megatron, Magmatron did not want to reveal his intentions to the Tripredacus Council yet, and aimed to capture Megatron for them as his mission required to divert suspicion. Revealing himself to Megatron, the two would-be tyrants battled, but after Megatron gained the upper hand he was captured when Magmatron's lackeys managed to put a restraining collar on Megatron. Magmatron aimed to send him back to Cybertron, but was interrupted by Grimlock. As the two battled, Razorbeast and Optimus Minor sabotaged Magmatron's transport machine and used his own time displacement band to send him back to Cybertron empty handed.

The sketch gallery at the back of the TPB edition of the Gathering indicates that Magmatron had his "split" Tricon technology before he received his beast mode. His Cybertronian modes were a tentacled submarine, a hovercraft and a tank.

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