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+ | [[Image:Ascending shokaract.jpg|thumb|180px|Beetlejuice--Beetlejuice--Beetlejuice!]]At some point in Cybertron's future the [[Blentron]]s gather capsules of [[Angolmois]] energy and use it to create (recreate?) Shokaract. He goes on to slay all the Transformers and summon Unicron to devour the planet. Bummer. [[Magmatron]]'s astral self witnessed this horrible event many times and hopes to somehow stop it.{{storylink|The Ascending, Part 1}} |
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- Shokaract is a Predacon in the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Now you FEAR ME... now you don't!
Once a low-level Predacon Warrior known as the Hunter, Shokaract chanced upon the dark essence of Unicron himself. Recognizing Unicron's unrivaled power, Shokaract used the Chaos God's life force to create the Matrix of Conquest, a twisted version of the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. With Unicron's dark power at his fingertips, Shokaract now pursues only one goal: to become Overlord of the Universe.
Fiction
3H comic continuity
This is gonna hurt...
At the dawn of time, Primus foresaw the eventual rise of Shokaract, and sired the 12 Transformers of the Covenant to lay in wait on distant Protos and hone their skills for the day they would eventually face the tyrant.
Shokaract's reign was to some extent made possible by actions taken by Megatron when he took over and ruled Cybertron. By the 32nd century C.E., Shokaract had completely enslaved Cybertron and most of the known galaxy. From his citadel at Korumcan, he directed his heralds Antagony and Cataclysm to exterminate uncooperative alien races and break and demoralize the few scattered Cybertronian resistance fighters.
The resistance spawned the Predacon/Autobot hybrid warrior Windrazor and sent him back to the ancient past to destroy the dark essence. But Shokaract himself followed his would-be assassin back in time, handily routing Windrazor and the Maximals. As the battle progressed, dozens of Maximals and Predacons from various timelines and realities would materialize on prehistoric Earth and join the fray, only to be more or less instantly and effortlessly disintegrated by Shokaract.
Roused from their seclusion in J'nwan, legendary ancient Transformer heroes and villains would also arrive to fight the dark lord, and they had somewhat better luck. But the battle was finally decided when the Covenant converted themselves into raw energy and entered the Matrix of Conquest. In that alternate plane they were able to sever the link between Earth's ancient past and Unicron's future deposition of the dark essence there--erasing Shokaract's origin and causing his immediate nullification. The surviving Transformers who had fought him managed to teleport back to their dimensions of origin just before that entire reality went *POOF*.
The lowly Predacon grunt who otherwise would have found the Dark Essence and turned into Shokaract was last seen continuing to be a lowly grunt, of no importance whatsoever.
IDW comic continuity
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Beetlejuice--Beetlejuice--Beetlejuice!
At some point in Cybertron's future the Blentrons gather capsules of Angolmois energy and use it to create (recreate?) Shokaract. He goes on to slay all the Transformers and summon Unicron to devour the planet. Bummer. Magmatron's astral self witnessed this horrible event many times and hopes to somehow stop it. The Ascending, Part 1
Toys
Don't even breathe on me.
- Shokaract (Ultra, 2000)
- A BotCon 2000-exclusive, Shokaract is an extensive brown, blue and teal redeco of Beast Wars Rampage. He came in packaging superficially resembling late Japanese Generation 1 toy packaging.
- Shokaract transforms into a Transmetal king crab with a third tank mode. In beast mode Shokaract features fully articulated crab legs and pincers that can open and close and be posed in a variety of angles through the use of ratcheting joints. His tri-barrel gatling missile launcher was stored on the underside of the beast mode, with its barrels flipping to the front during vehicle mode. In this tank mode, the crab legs fit together to form a road wheel network for Shokaract's rubber treads to be fitted over and roll upon. Rolling the tank activates the wheel in the missile launcher, having up to three missiles fire off.
- In robot mode Shokaract is an imposingly large figure, with a decent level of articulation due to his ball joints, but because of the fact he wears most of his beast mode as a sort of backpack, he is quite back-heavy. His (very) small laser rifle and his triple barrel launcher can be held in both of his hands.
- In the years since his release, many fans have grown leery of transforming or even excessively handling Shokaract due to the amount of "chromed" paint that totally covers his crab carapace. This material has proven to be extremely brittle, prone to cracking or chipping, which reveals the underlying plastic colors as a very obvious visual blemish. This is irritating enough on standard retail releases, but on a very limited convention exclusive figure it can make people downright neurotic. Particularly worrisome is that Shokaract's tank mode is held in place by chromed pegs fitted into chromed sockets.