Quickstrike (BW)


 * Quickstrike is a Predacon from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.



Quickstike is a spastic, violent, triggerhappy cowboy who rarely thinks beyond the next keister he's gonna kick. This simple-minded lust for beating people up seems to be his overriding personality trait. While this makes him easy to manipulate, which Megatron finds extremely useful, the problem he has found is that Quickstrike is so easy to manipulate that Megatron's not the only one doing so! Both Tarantulas and Blackarachnia have their hooks in him in some form or another, leading Megatron to perhaps try controlling the vicious little bugger through the good old-fashioned method: fear of death. Quickstrike may be stupidly brave most of the time, but only to a point.

Beast Wars

 * Voice Actor: Colin Murdoch (US), ??? (Japan)

Relishing his role as a Predacon from the moment he stepped out of his stasis pod (and was told he was one; although programming-wise, he's a Maximal), Quickstrike fit right into Megatron's band. Quickstrike generally filled an infantry/trooper role and followed the orders he was given. However, he does have two notable instances when he was manipulated into betraying Megatron.

In the episode "Tangled Web", Tarantulas easily pushed Quickstrike's buttons and the two, along with Blackarachnia, formed an "arachnid alliance" of their own. Their plans never came to fruition, because they were interrupted by the Maximals, and Megatron never found out. The second instance happened in the episode "Master Blaster". After a device of Tarantulas' took over Optimus Primal's body, Quickstrike was put in charge of the golem that controlled it. Once the Maximals were defeated, and the Ark open, Quickstrike (under orders from Tarantulas) used his control over Optimus to toss Megatron into the lava surrounding the Ark. The plan backfired when Megatron rose from the lava more powerful than ever, and Quickstrike was put on "trial" for betraying Megatron. The trial was interrupted, and Quickstrike spared, by the arrival of Tigerhawk.

Quickstrike met his end in the final episode of Beast Wars when Megatron, using the Nemesis, opened fire on a proto-human settlement that Quickstrike and Inferno were inspecting as a possible new base site.

Beast Wars

 * Quickstrike' (BAsic Fuzor, 1998)
 * Japanese ID number: D-45