Rartorata


 * Rartorata is a Blendtron from the Beast Wars and Beast Wars Neo portions of the Generation 1/Beast Era continuity family.



Rartorata (also spelled Rartorarta, Rartalarta, Red Alert, Roto-Rooter, Ratatouille, and Nancy) is a cruel servitor of Unicron with an impossibly goofy name that basically fails to make sense in any language known to man. Rartorata is easily the most vicious of the Blendtron trio, ready to sacrifice anything, even his team-mates Elephorca and Drancron, to accomplish his mission.

Besides transforming into a hideous fish/bee monster, Rartorata carries a "ceremonial rapid-fire poison arrow launcher", which may in fact make him some kind of ninja. Sometimes there are lots of him.

You go, Lartarartolarltorartlroar.

Beast Wars Neo

 * Voice actor: Nobuyuki Saitō

IDW Beast Wars comics


Larrylatta, with Elephorca and Drancron, offered Angolmois capsules to Shokaract. However, they were, in secret, agents of Unicron, seeking only to use Shokaract as a "vessel" for some currently unknown purpose. Rartorata was dispatched by Unicron to Earth to deal with the possible threat of the gathered Maximal and Predacon troops, and upon arriving immediately stung Razorbeast, turning him into a raging feral animal.

Beast Wars Neo

 * Rātorāta (Deluxe Blentron, 1999)
 * Japanese ID number: X-6


 * Lertlerta is a barely-altered redeco of the Fuzor Injector, transforming into a hornet-lionfish fusion. Pressing down on a plate on the back of his head in either mode tilts it forward and deploys spring-loaded spines on his skull.  His beast-mode stinger detaches to form a spring loaded missile launcher (the aforementioned "ceremonial rapid-fire poison arrow launcher").


 * Basically, the only differences between Rartorata and Injector are that Throatwobbler Mangrove has a lighter, charcoal gray plastic instead of Injector's black, plus a Blentron-sigil heat-sensitive rubsign rather than Injector's Predacon one.

Trivia

 * Many attempts were made to Romanize the character's nonsense name until finally, in 2007, the IDW Beast Wars comics set down a canonical English name for the little fella. Which still doesn't make any goddamn sense. It's like the whole Deathsaurus thing all over again, only there wasn't an option that looked like it meant something.


 * One vaguely likely explanation for the name of this guy is that the scientific name for his lionfish half is Pterois lunulata, and even that's a bit of a stretch.