Tigatron's History
Tigatron was a warrior for the Maximals during the Beast Wars. He was later fused together with his lover, Airazor, to create Tigerhawk by the Vok.
Tigatron's stasis pod was the first to fall onto the mysterious world which would later be revealed as prehistory Earth. Born in the far, frozen north, heavily damaged in his identity circuits and unable to remember friend from foe, Tigatron took to his beast mode. He patiently watched the Predacon and Maximal forces duke it out over the empty stasis pod, finally realising that he was a Maximal when Megatron threatened him and the white tiger he had scanned. Transforming, he quickly dispatched the Predacons, but told Optimus Primal that he preferred to remain in the wilds.
From the northern territories, he would send weekly updates to the Axalon through communication towers. He teamed up with Primal to investigate why Waspinator was buzzing around in Maximal territory, and was able to track the Predacon back to a cave where Terrorsaur and Blackarachnia were attempting to use a sonic emitter to break into the Maximal base. After he stole the device, it exploded, and Tigatron rejoined the other Maximals to mourn Rattrap, although the latter was fine.
When a temporal probe sent by the Maximal High Council neared the planet, Tigatron defended the Maximals while they tried to build a transmission tower on Predacon soil. He became the first victim of Tarantulas's Transformation Lock Lens and ended up in a cage next to Cheetor in the Predacon base. Cheetor fouled up and clued Megatron in as to what was going on, but Tigatron led an escape, and the pair were able to destroy Tarantulas's weapon, though too late to contact the probe.
Tigatron returned to the Axalon when the Maximals were preparing to leave the planet, remarking that it felt strange to be inside an artificial structure. After it turned out that the Predacons weren't as dead as had been thought, Tigatron attempted to leave to help Primal and Cheetor rescue Dinobot, but was told to sit down by Rhinox. No sooner was takeoff underway than the ship was damaged by Megatron and crashed once again. Alerted to the landing of another stasis pod, Tigatron headed for it, only to run into Scorponok. He was swiftly able to freeze the scorpion, only to be taken out by Blackarachnia's cyber venom. He was later around in the Axalon to welcome Airazor to the team.
During one of his weekly reports, Tigatron was attacked by Terrorsaur and Waspinator and found himself on a strange flying island. He explored the natural beauty of the island and believed this area, with its powerful death ray and many horrible death-traps, to be a land of peace. When Scorponok and Blackarachnia arrived on the island and shot down Airazor, Tigatron used one of Scorponok's cyberbees to send a warning message back to base.The duo received reinforcements in the form of Optimus and Rattrap, and they attempted to beat the Predacons to the obelisk in the center of the island. They failed, and to Tigatron's distress, he was forced to destroy the island's power source after Blackarachnia took control of it. The island crashed, leaving Tigatron with profound regret.
Tigatron was the first Maximal to spot Inferno's stasis pod crashing, but was prevented from getting there by Waspinator. Airazor lent a hand, and he sent her ahead to secure the pod, but arrived to find she'd failed—the new protoform was a Predacon, and Tarantulas had made off with the empty pod. Tigatron pursued Tarantulas and managed to destroy the pod so that the Predacons couldn't learn anything from it, before he was attacked in retaliation by the Predacons. He would almost certainly have been destroyed if it wasn't for the timely arrival of Optimus and Airazor.
Being more at home with his beast mode than his robot mode, he was invaluable help when the Maximals were left stuck in beast mode and overpowered by animal instincts. He helped them learn to work with these instincts instead of struggling for dominance. After a group of the Maximals went missing, Tigatron and Primal hunted for them. Tigatron eventually heard their weapons fire and was able to alert Optimus. It turned out that the four Maximals had become blinded by an energon explosion and had been making their way back to base.
After the other Maximals were expelled from their base by the Predacons with the aid of a Starscream-possessed Waspinator, Airazor alerted Tigatron. Tigatron joined the other Maximals in a ploy to take back their base, which apparently involved helping Starscream to mount an assault on the Darksyde. He also helped provide reinforcements for Dinobot and Rattrap, as the pair tried to find a cure for the energon discharge virus with which Rhinox had been afflicted.
While providing aid for Cheetor and Dinobot, Tigatron easily trounced Waspinator and Inferno, but a stray shot from his weapon caused an avalanche, killing his tiger friend Snowstalker. Anguished, Tigatron quit the Beast Wars, refusing to fight any longer, despite several of the Maximals trying to persuade him otherwise. In the end, it was the Predacons' act of taking out Dinobot and Primal which made Tigatron realize that he had to do everything he could to protect the land.
Not much later, Tigatron was the first to detect a pulsing alien energy source. When Megatron initiated a somewhat suspicious truce shortly afterward, Optimus Primal ordered a covert infiltration of the Predacon base. Rattrap and Airazor made enough of a distraction to allow Tigatron inside the Predacon base.
Inside, he accessed the ship's computer systems and found out what had Megatron so worried: The Vok were coming back, and they weren't happy. Tigatron returned to the Axalon to monitor the alien Planet Buster which threatened the world. He and the other Maximals were saved when Optimus Primal destroyed the weapon. He and Airazor somehow escaped being Transmetalized by the quantum surge, but were knocked offline by Megatron while they were trying to recapture Blackarachnia. After repairs, they left the base to search the planet for the stasis pods which had been knocked out of orbit by the explosion.
Tigatron and Airazor formed a very powerful relationship during this time. Unfortunately, before they could discover any still-functional pods, they found a valley untouched by the Planet Buster which also contained alien technology. The pair were soon abducted by a bizarre alien plant.
The two were not seen again until much later, when their inert bodies were revealed to be the captives of the Vok, floating somewhere in a deep-space nebula. The Vok removed their sparks from their bodies, created a third spark, and then fused the new spark and the bodies into the awesomely powerful Vok emissary Tigerhawk.
