Mirage (BM)
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| The name or term "Mirage" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Mirage (disambiguation). |
- Mirage is a Vehicon from the Beast Machines portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Mirage is a joker. This sneaky and elusive Vehicon likes nothing better than to play pranks on those around him—even if it's his fellow Vehicons. Superb speed and the ability to teleport up to 200 yards makes him an ideal quick attack specialist. Unfortunately, he's also very dumb, forcing Megatron to constantly keep an eye on him.
Mirage was created by Megatron to breach the intelligence gap between Vehicon Generals and their drones.[1]
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Fiction
3H comics
Mirage was a Vehicon created by Megatron to bolster his ranks of light infantry in the fight against the Maximals. Mirage was sent to investigate a transwarp anomaly. The anomaly, heralding the arrival of Primal Prime and his crew from ancient Earth, also drew the attention of the Wreckers Rodimus and Apelinq. In the ensuing battle, Mirage and Apelinq plunged into the anomaly moments before it closed. Apelinq ended up on ancient Earth. Mirage, on the other hand, was destroyed either within the anomaly or soon after their arrival. Apelinq's War Journals Last Time on Beast Wars and Beast Machines...
In lieu of their general, his "chase-model drones" would continue to serve under Megatron's command. Departure
Toys
Beast Machines
- Mirage (Basic, 2000)
- Accessories: Left & right tailpipe missiles, "plasma mine blaster"
- Known designers: Takashi Kunihiro (TakaraTomy)
- Part of the first wave of Beast Machines Basics, Mirage transforms into a translucent blue, yellow and silver Cybertronic racer that resembles a heavily modified Formula One car. He includes two pressure-launch missiles that resemble exhaust pipes. In robot mode, the soles of his feet are unfortunately the painted rear wheel covers, and thus are prone to paint chipping. The gun on his head can be removed and held as a pistol.
- This mold was also used to make 2001 Robots in Disguise Mirage GT, and was the model for Devcon's appearance in the Wreckers comics.
Notes
- Mirage went through several pre-release names, including Skidmark, Burnout, and, inexplicably, Insector.[2] Early design art depicted him as a bright red car with blue markings.
- Mirage's on-package bio is very similar to Generation 1 Skywarp's; both are pranksters, have the ability to teleport, and need constant supervision to make sure they don't do something really stupid.
- His bio also initially misspelled the name of his head-gun as "piasma mine biaster".[3] Later production runs of the figure corrected this typo to "plasma mine blaster".[4]