List of BotCon characters
This page lists Transformers characters introduced and/or featured exclusively as toys or in storyline for the annual BotCon fan convention. Multiple versions of several of these characters have appeared at different BotCon conventions, and some have even appeared in other Transformers series.
Autobots/Maximals
Apelinq
Autotroopers
CatSCAN
Flareup
Glyph
Packrat
Primal Prime
Tap-Out
Windrazor
Decepticons/Predacons
Antagony
Cataclysm
Cryotek
Flamewar
Fractyl
Onyx Primal
Sandstorm
- See also Covenant of Primus#The Organization
Shokaract
BotCon
Originally a lowly Predacon known only as the Hunter, Shokaract lived in a possible future where Megatron had succeeded in taking over Cybertron. He wandered the galaxy hunting down fugitives, but one day found himself being hunted on Earth. There, he came across a pit containing the Dark Essence-the time displaced lifeforce of Unicron. Accepting it's offer of great power, the Hunter created a container for it that he called the Decepticon Matrix of Conquest, mocking the Autobot Matrix of Leadership that had left Unicron a disembodied energy mass. Now bonded with Unicron, Shokaract returned to Cybertron and quickly established himself as its new ruler. Forming an army led by his Heralds, who included Antagony and Cataclysm, he subjugated most of the planet and began expanding his tyranny to other worlds throughout the CoSMoS. Despite his Immense power and the devastation to the resistance, however, Shokaract's power came under threat due to an instability in the timestream that threatened to draw the Dark Essence away from prehistoric Earth before the Hunter could find it. Fearing this, he sent Antagony back in time to secure it, but she ended up being captured by Megatron's Predacons.
Cataclysm was selected to go back in time next, but suffered destruction at the hands of his brother Windrazor. Shokaract was thus forced to travel back in time himself, and quickly subdued the Maximals under Optimus Primal. However, new opposition arrived in the form of the Covenant of Primus, who challenged Shokaract to battle but found themselves outmatched, especially after he used his vast power to bring Antagony and Cataclysm back to aid him. Much to his surprise, an army of Transformers from across time and space appeared to challenge him, but aid came in the form of his Herald Sandstorm. However, Sandstorm had a surprise of his own: he was in fact Scorpius, a member of the Covenant, and attacked Shokaract with his own Primus-derived life energy. Though Scorpius was swiftly destroyed, his actions inspired the rest of the Covenant, who pooled their lifeforce to attack Shokaract, challenging the Dark Essence with the power of Primus. Thanks to their attack, Shokaract's link with the Dark Essence of the past was broken, and the other Transformers attacked him en masse. This resulted in Shokaract's destruction, as the Dark Essence was drawn back into the timestream and Shokaract's history was erased.
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Toys
- Shokaract (2000)
- A repaint of Transmetal Rampage.
- The Hunter (2014)
- A repaint of the Transformers Collectors Club exclusive Protoform X figure, which was itself a recolor and remold of Transformers Prime First EDition Megatron, in the colors of Shokaract.
Toxitron
A clone of Optimus Prime who is colored green and purple rather than red and blue.
Toys
- Universe Toxitron (unreleased)
- A figure of Toxitron repainted from Robots in Disguise Scourge that was intended to be released as part of the Transformers: Universe line but was never produced.
- Animated Toxitron (2011)
- A repaint of Transformers: Animated Optimus Prime.