Poison Bite
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- Poison Bite is a Mutant from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Poison Bite is not a happy camper. Few Transformers would be pleased to learn that they've lost their robot mode for good, but Poison Bite has taken the loss harder than anyone else. He broods silently and mopes endlessly about the fate of the Mutants–believing that their cause is doomed to fail–and even though his comrades try to cheer him up, it rarely does him any good. Although he's fiercely loyal to Icebird, Poison Bite doesn't even like his leader's mission of ascending to a purely organic existence, but he does it anyway because he rationalizes that there had to be some higher power responsible for his mutation.
Poison Bite rarely sticks out his neck for anyone besides his fellow Mutants–not out of malice, but because he doesn't see any point to helping the Maximals win what he perceives as a futile war. When his comrades can talk him out of his sulk, he's a capable special operative: his scorpion venom can deliver paralyzing neurotoxins, and in both modes he can teleport up to 30 meters and shatter metal at will.
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Fiction
3H comics
The Mutants reported along with the Dinobots and the Wreckers to the Oracle, and were given a vague mission to fulfill: to save Cybertron's future by journeying to the Outer Orion Cluster, and restore their "true forms". Departure
However, the mission was nothing but a fools' errand, a set-up engineered by Cryotek and the Quintessons, who were using the Oracle to send false messages to eliminate any resistance to their forthcoming invasion. The Mutants were lured to New Quintessa, taken prisoner, and briefly put on trial. Poison Bite was immediately suspicious, and had no qualms about voicing them. His fears were proven right when the Quintesson leader Derodomontatus sentenced the Mutants to death (big surprise), and unleashed a horde of Sharkticons upon them. Cryotek felt the whole display was a bit much. Betrayal
Poison Bite and Icebird managed to survive the execution attempt and escaped the pit. When the bulk of the Quintesson forces left to invade the supposedly-defenseless Cybertron, the two Mutants struck, attacking Judge Heirodyus in the Quintessons' technorganic greenhouse. Using a powerful connection to Primus, the Mutants turned the plants against the Quintesson guards. Poison Bite blocked Heirodyus' attempt to reach an escape pod, and Icebird pounced on the Judge.
Once the Quintessons were defeated and the technorganic plants had begun to spread across the planet, the two Mutants spared the lives of the remaining Sharkticons, and began to teach them a new life in the light. Wreckers: Finale Part II
2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity
Poison Bite was one of the many protoforms from the remaining Axalon stasis pods to be reactivated by Razorbeast. He and his fellow Mutants took up residence in a swamp. When a Predacon scouting party intruded on their home, the Mutants defended their home vigorously—in the course of the slaughter, Poison Bite stung Retrax into submission. The Gathering #3
2005 IDW continuity
Poison Bite was one of Onyx Prime's Maximals. During Onyx's invasion of Cybertron, he was one of the many Maximals who battled Arcee and lost; Jetfire and Aileron came across his remains shortly afterwards. Endless Forever
Toys
Mutant Beast Wars
- Poison Bite (Deluxe, 2000)
- Known designers: Yuichiro Hira (TakaraTomy), Tim Bradley and Masakatsu Saito (concept art)
- Poison Bite was part of the first wave of Mutants, the only new molds in the fifth and final year of normal retail Beast Wars releases. He transforms between two organic beast modes: a scorpion and a barracuda. He has a small panel on his right scorpion claw that can be lifted to reveal mechanical parts. The robot face is revealed by pressing and holding down the stinger tip on the scorpion's tail.
Notes
- Poison Bite, like all of the Mutants, was a mold originally slated to be part of the Animorphs line, but was retooled to become a robot in disguise when that toy series was canceled. Design sketches from Transformers Generations 2017 indicates that Poison Bite was meant to be Rachel.
- Poison Bite appeared in Walmart's inventory system as "Scorpinox", likely an early development name.
Foreign names
- French: Venimax (Canada)
- Spanish: Ponzoñac (Latin America)
