Beetle

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

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together... No, wait, that'd be Beatle. My bad.

Beetle turns into a stag beetle, by gum!

Fiction

Beast Wars Perfect Book

Insecticon was a Predacon insect soldier. Fighting in deep forests was his strong point, and he was a master of surprise attacks. Beast Wars Perfect Book

2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity

The 'bot who would one day call himself "Beetle" served under Megatron at the tail-end of the Great War. He participated in Megatron's attack on Tigatron when he approached the Decepticons to broker peace between the two factions, and in the subsequent assault on the Primal Council's base of operations. They were pushed back by Magnaboss. Afterwards, the Tripredacus Council arrived on the scene, and surrendered to the Autobots on behalf of all Decepticons, ending the war. Dawn of the Predacus

Beetle was a strange, twisted little robot. When other Predacons downsized during the Great Upgrade Beetle took it to the extreme and went micro-sized. Antisocial to his core, anything that set him apart from other Cybertronians was right up his alley. Beetle cared nothing for the Predacons, but loved the arts of torture and interrogation, and since the Maximals were unlikely to sanction his sick passions, he was willing to tolerate the larger Predacons. Beetle was the type of interrogator most to be feared: he didn't care in the least what information his victims might have, he just wanted to find the worst, most painful ways to make them share it all. Beast Wars Sourcebook #1

SD BotCon

After multiple outbursts of maniacal laughter from Ravage and Tarantulas, Beetle was forced to boot both patrons out of his bar, as they were getting on everyone else's nerves. SD BotCon #1

Beast Wars: Uprising

Beetle was working for the Resistance at Harmonex during the Grand Uprising. When the Vehicon Apocalypse began, his unit was among the first to survive and bring actionable intelligence about the infection back to high command. Derailment

Toys

Beast Wars

Megatron, can we please widen some of the doors in the base? Megatron? Hello?

• Beetle (McDonald's Happy Meal toy, 1996)

Part of the first McDonald's Beast Wars promotion, Beetle transforms into a stag beetle. His head bears a distinct likeness to the gator-body version of Megatron. His body and transformation, on the other hand, bear a resemblance to Insecticon, though he's not colored at all like either of them.

He's made of considerably softer plastic than most of the other toys even in the promo, making him nice and safe for little ones to chew on.

• More information on Beetle at TFU.info

Notes

• Beetle is likely the result of a proposed toy of Megatron as a dragonfly. While the alternate mode shifted to a stag beetle, the head design remained, giving both Beetle and the alligator version of Megatron (also known as Megalligator) similar heads.^[1][2]
• In SD BotCon, Beetle's body is modeled on the Combiner Wars Legends Class Rodimus figure.^[3]

Foreign names

• Japanese: Insecticon (インセクティコン Insekutikon)^[4]

References