Seacon (G1)
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- The Seacons are a Decepticon subgroup from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The six Seacons are the Decepticons' undersea combat specialists. They all transform into mechanical beasts resembling (more or less) aquatic life forms from Earth. The six combine into the super warrior Piranacon (also spelled 'Piranhacon').
The team consists of:
- The cruel and calculating Snaptrap, their team leader. He transforms into a snapping turtle (sort of).
- The clumsy and insecure Nautilator, who transforms into a lobster-monster.
- The vicious Overbite. He becomes a shark with extra limbs. Truly.
- The sneaky Seawing, a manta ray. With legs.
- The unhygienic and polluting Skalor, a coelacanth with arms and legs.
- The sadistic and strong Tentakil, an upright walking squid. Walking with... yep, you've got it.
- The lovesick squid of pristine beauty Scylla, has been known to replace Nautilator and Tentakil when they aren't available, allowing the team to combine into a new form, God Neptune.
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Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel The Transformers comics
The Seacons were created primarily for off-world combat on planets with water-based oceans. #163's Grim Grams
The Seacons were summoned to Earth by Shockwave, who had them put their undersea abilities to use fortifying the Decepticons' sub-aquatic island headquarters. Outfitted with Earth modes by Shockwave, the Seacons were going about their task when they met with their first challenge, which also proved to be one of their greatest—they were ordered to defend the island against the insane, time travelling future Decepticon, Galvatron. The Seacons gave a good account of themselves, merging into Piranacon for extra power, but ultimately, the team was defeated by their stronger adversary, only for Galvatron to reveal that he had not planned an attack at all, merely wishing to talk. Now, however, he claimed that Shockwave had made an enemy of him—although it was all part of a plan to destabilise his leadership. Enemy Action!
Seeking a weapon that could truly combat Galvatron, Shockwave sought out the former Decepticon leader, Megatron, who had been missing in action for some time. When what was believed to be his body (but was, in actuality, a clone of him) was located in the River Thames by entrepreneur Richard Branson (or Mister Johnson), Overbite (operating under his original name of "Jawbreaker") was dispatched with some of the Decepticon jets to bring the body to Shockwave. Snaptrap subsequently repaired the clone’s physical damage, and aided Shockwave in using the psycho-probe to brainwash it into his service. Salvage!
Following this, the Seacons departed Shockwave's service and joined with Ratbat, the leader of the primary Earth-based Decepticon force. Ratbat had relocated the Decepticons’ island base to the Florida Keys, disguising it as a holiday resort named "Club Con" to allow the Seacons to search the seabed for a sunken pirate ship, the treasure chest of which contained two Autobot tapes, Grand Slam and Raindance. The recovery mission was successful, but the tapes were then stolen by the Autobot Blaster, and the holidaymakers on the island had their peace and quiet rudely interrupted as the Seacons erupted from the ocean and attacked, searching for Blaster. In the ensuing battle, Blaster sent the tapes back to the depths of the oceans, encouraging the Seacons to call off the attack and head after them. Club Con!
The tapes, it was revealed, were sent to Earth centuries ago to warn the Autobots there of the approaching threat posed by the Underbase, a massive space-born information storehouse that could convey infinite power. Unfortunately, it was the Decepticon, Starscream, who managed to attain the Underbase's power, turning on Autobot and Decepticon alike and attempting to conquer Earth. The Seacons were part of the attempted defence of New York City, striking at Starscream from the East River, but were all deactivated by the cosmically powered villain. Dark Star
Earthforce
A few years later, in the Earthforce era, Megatron found himself lacking in troops during the Decepticon Civil War. Seeking to acquire more warriors, he projected his mind back in time to Starscream's attack on New York, taking possession of Snaptrap in hopes of saving the Seacons from destruction so that they might serve him in the future. He was pursued by Prowl, who prevented his scheme. Flashback!
Classics
After their destruction fighting the Underbase-empowered Starscream, Snaptrap and the Seacons were eventually reconstructed and came under the command of Bludgeon. In the years that followed, Snaptrap rose in the ranks of the Decepticons and eventually became one of Bludgeon's right-hand 'Cons. As Snaptrap took on greater responsibilities, Overbite was named Seacon sub-commander to oversee the group in his absence.
Despite his newfound position of power in Bludgeon's organization, Snaptrap and the Seacons betrayed their leader when Megatron returned to lay claim to his throne. Acting in secret, Snaptrap fed information to Megatron's forces about Bludgeon's defenses. When Darkwing uncovered the leak, Snaptrap arranged for the trail to lead the Hun-Gurrr and the Terrorcons instead of his men. On Bludgeon's orders, Snaptrap and the Seacons formed Piranacon and battled the Terrorcons as they formed Abominus. Piranacon dismantled Abominus without revealing his secret. As Bludgeon prepared for Megatron's forces to attack, the Seacons formed Piranacon again and destroyed their leader with a mass compression cannon. With that, the Seacons and Bludgeon's Decepticons came back under the command of Megatron. At Fight's End
The Seacons were aboard the Talon when the universe was destroyed and the ship was pulled into a nearby parallel reality. Following the ship's crash on prehistoric Earth, Nautilator and Tentakil were trampled into pieces by a herd of buffalo while the rest adopted experimental energon-absorbing armor to cope with the ambient energon radiation. Shattered Time The two lost Seacons were replaced by Scylla Shattered Expectations and the team's combined form became God Neptune. Shattered Hope Following a battle with the Maximals, the Seacons were sucked through a dimensional rift created by Ultra Mammoth. Shattered Destiny
Regeneration One
Left alone on Earth, in 1994 Megatron retrieved and reanimated the bodies of the Decepticons that had fallen in the Underbase battles and lobotomised them so that they would unquestioningly follow orders. Among this zombie army in 2012 were Tentakil, who fought Kup and the Wreckers, Loose Ends, Part 2 Overbite, who fought the Autobots freshly arrived from Cybertron with Optimus Prime, Loose Ends, Part 5 and Snaptrap, whose body was dropped into a large pit along with all of the other deactivated zombies and obliterated from orbit by Ultra Magnus aboard the Valiant. Natural Selection, Part One
G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers
Some time after the Decepticons were driven back to Cybertron's Gladiator Zone, Nautilator got into trouble with the Predacons. The other Seacons helped him out by forming Piranacon, but the giant was defeated by Predaking and would have been killed if not for Serpent O.R. interrupting the battle. The Art of War #2 The Seacons had no problem with Serpent O.R. taking control of the Decepticon army, and helped capture a number of Autobots and Joes who were after their new leader. The Art of War #3 Nautilator later guarded some of the captured humans, but being Nautilator, he failed miserably with this task. The Art of War #4
2005 IDW continuity
Before the Great War, Seawing was amongst the crowd at Megatron's first pit fight in the Forge. Megatron Origin #2
After the war ended, a crew of Decepticons led by Snap Trap and including Seawing, Nautilator and Tentakil joined forces with Hun-Gar's band and invaded the city of Sensensica, capital of Temptoria. They established a base called the Battery, where they turned the local population into energon through a process known as pink alchemy until the Lost Light's crew arrived and put an end to their operation with extreme prejudice. Before & After
Tentakil and Snap Trap both survived the battle, as they were later seen incarcerated in the Lost Light's brig. Under Cold Blue Stars The Gloaming They were released by Ravage and attempted to disrupt Megatron's trial at the Raskol Arena on Luna 2, but their former leader refused to co-operate and they were quickly recaptured by the Autobots. Predestination: A Beginner's Guide
Hearts of Steel
The Seacons were awoken from their slumber on the bottom of the ocean by an Elder God's servants and were brought to their underground city. Infestation 2: The Transformers #1
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe
A proliferation of Seacons and Sharkticons on Neptune forced the human-Autobot colony of New Atlantis to relocate to Triton. The War Never Ends
Games
Transformers: Earth Wars
Transformers Roleplaying Game
The Seacons were a team of underwater specialists who transformed into vicious aquatic creatures. Together, they were responsible for establishing New Cybertron IV beneath the Arctic Circle.
Toys
The Transformers
- The Seacons are a Scramble City-style combiner, combining to form Piranacon, but with a twist. The leader, Snaptrap, was sold boxed at the $12 price point, along with the combiner kibble. Instead of the usual four smaller carded $5-price point robots, however, the Seacons feature five smaller bots.
- The smaller Seacons can become not only one of Piranacon's limbs, but also a hand weapon for the giant. It is for this reason that the five smaller toys also have a free-standing "weapon mode" (essentially their sea-creature mode on a stand with a gun clicked on). This makes Piranacon not only a combiner, but a Targetmaster.
- Much like the Terrorcons before them, the Seacons are extraordinarily chunky in both modes. The team is unified by its color scheme of aqua, fuchsia, lavender, purple and blue, with grey, black and chromed highlights. Eh, what can we tell ya, it was 1988.
Beast Wars
Four of the five Beast Wars Seacons (Sea Phantom, Terrormander, Coelagon and Halfshell) were repurposed as their G1 predecessors (Overbite, Seawing, Skalor and Snaptrap, respectively) in Beast Wars Shattered Glass. Scylla was still portrayed as a separate character and new team member, replacing the deceased Nautilator and Tentakil, while Beast Wars God Neptune, as a whole, was repurposed as Classics God Neptune.
Timelines
- This set was first revealed at OTFCC 2004, as the original character "Piranhacons", a proposed redeco of the Generation 1 Seacon team. They were to be available in a Wal-Mart exclusive Piranhaking set for the Energon line. (At the time, Wal-Mart had recently had almost a half-dozen different Universe exclusive toys come out in the span of a month, and so they wanted the Piranhacon set to be in the mainline at the time instead of Universe.) The toys were not taken by Wal-Mart and eventually made their way to the Transformers Collectors' Club, who released the toys as the original characters in a giftset in 2008.
- Mold degradation is in evidence in this release.
Transformers (2010)
- Decepticon Piranacon (Seacon giftset, 2010)
- All six Seacons were reissued as a BigBadToyStore exclusive set. The set came with collector cards of each individual Seacon as well as their combined form along with five of the original weapon bases for the Targetmaster modes. This release saw some minor changes from the original in terms of plastic color used, namely Snaptrap's robot mode head being teal instead of black and Overbite's main body being magenta rather than purple. Snaptrap's sword has also been chromed out.
- Mold degradation from the TFCC release was still present, with Overbite suffering particularly badly (good luck trying to mount his weapon in shark mode or keeping his shark arms on). However, it seems some joints and pegs have been remolded to provide a better grip than the previous release, reducing but not eliminating the problem.
Generations Selects
Notes
- Although the sub-group's name is pronounced "see-cons" in commercials for the toys, some fans occasionally (incorrectly) opt to pronounce it "see-a-cons", in keeping with the "three-or-more-syllables" naming convention of the "-con" subgroups before them.
- In addition to the fairly well-known renaming of Overbite to 'Jawbreaker' in "Enemy Action!", the UK comic stories also give all six Seacons, and Piranacon, an early, abandoned color scheme (blue, orange, and silver) versus the final teal, purple, and pink of the final production version. This color scheme was also seen in the first commercial featuring the Seacons, in both animation and the physical toys advertised. [1]
- In addition to the different colors, the UK art also sometimes omitted extraneous and intrusive arms and legs added to Seawing, Skalor, and Overbite/Jawbreaker's toy designs. The result is that the fairly toy-accurate Seacons who turn up in "Club Con!" look markedly different from their UK predecessors... but since everyone's fantasizing over Jessie in a bikini and trying to ignore the plot in that issue anyway, who cares?
- In US continuity, the Seacons were introduced in the first issue of the Underbase Saga, and killed off in its last issue. Yes, it only took three months to go from "hot new toy" to "last year's product".
- The rocket platforms which appear in a Cybertronian club in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron are based on the Seacon's stabilizer boards.[1]
