Quickstrike (BW)


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



Quickstrike is a spastic, violent, trigger-happy 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 consider 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.

"Call me...Quickstrike! And good's got nuthin' to do with it."

- Quickstrike


 * French-Canadian name: Clingant
 * Alternate European-market name: Serpex
 * Chinese name: Hsiang Wei She (Rattle Snake)
 * Spanish name: Sorpreviso
 * Polish name: Szybki Cios (literal translation of "Quickstrike")

Beast Wars

 * Voice Actor: Colin Murdoch (English), Nobuo Tobita (Japanese), Fabio Tomasini (Portuguese)

Relishing his role as a Predacon from the moment he stepped out of his stasis pod, Quickstrike fit right into Megatron's band. Though he contained no traces of the Predacon shell program like Blackarachnia, his rowdy nature and love of violence made the actual facts irrelevant. Quickstrike generally filled an infantry/trooper role and followed the orders he was given. However, there are two notable instances when he was manipulated into betraying Megatron.

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. 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 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: The Gathering comic
When Quickstrike and Inferno heard what sounded like a fight involving Megatron, they rushed over to find out what was happening. When they arrived, they saw that there was no one there. Megatron had actually been taken prisoner by Magmatron.

Beast Wars: Transmetals (PSX)

 * Voice Actor: Ian Corlett (English), ? (Japanese)

Beast Wars

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


 * Quickstrike transforms into a scorpion with a cobra's head on his tail rather than a stinger. The cobra head has a soft-plastic bladder than can be used to store and squirt water. Most of his orange parts are translucent plastic, and makes extensive use of ball joints, particularly in his tail. While this provides excellent articulation, care should be taken as the joints loosen rather quickly with play.


 * Takara's version of the toy has extra paint applications on his face, most notably the eyes.


 * Metals Airazor vs Quickstrike (Multi-pack, 1999)
 * Japanese ID number: VS-45


 * The Japanese release of Quickstrike was available individually or packaged together with Transmetal Airazor.

3D Battle-Card Game

 * Quickstrike (2007)


 * A 33-point "rare" character in the 3D Battle-Card Game's "Energon Wars" expansion, Quickstrike "transforms" from a gold and green scorpion to a gold and green scorpion standing on its hind legs. He uses the same parts layout as Movie Scorponok.

Trivia

 * Like Rampage, Quickstrike did not have a Predacon shell program installed in his Maximal protoform state to turn him bad. It's possible the damage done to his stasis pod warped his personality. More unsettling is the theory that this IS his true, spark-given personality, and the Maximal programming knocked off-line by his crash would have been just as distortive on his mind as the Predacon shell program was on Blackarachnia. Another logical explanation of this could be the natures of his beast form(s) which led (or at the very least increased) his aggressiveness factor.