Clone One

The name or term Dinobot refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Dinobot (disambiguation).

Clone One is a Predacon creation from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation One continuity family.

Who's my little cuddle-waptor?

Clone One, also known as the Dinobot Clone, is a minor antagonist of Beast Wars: Transformers, he was a clone of the Maximal Dinobot created by Megatron, and serves as the main antagonist of the Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1 episode "Double Dinobot".

Clone One's body was created from Dinobot's DNA and is completely biological; tho unlike his heroic maximal counter-part, he possesses no robot mode. Clone One's intelligence and behavior is largely identical to Dinobot, and he appears to possess a version of his progenitor's memories. Clone One is different from Dinobot in two crucial ways: He is slavishly loyal to Megatron, and he lacks the original's sense of honor.

Clone One has neither a Predacon nor Maximal energy signature, owing to his almost complete lack of technological components. Clone One was aware of the deliberate changes Megatron had made to his personality, but was not the least bit bothered by them.

Fiction

Beast Wars cartoon

Voice actor: Scott McNeil (English), Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese)

They laugh alike, they walk alike / At times they even talk alike / You can lose your mind / When cousins are two of a kind!

Clone One was created by Megatron as part of a multi-phase ploy to destroy the Maximals by luring them into an ambush and using their own base's defenses to finish them off when they retreated to it.

After Terrorsaur removed the real Dinobot by trapping him within a hollow mountain, Clone One replaced him and gave Optimus Primal "news" of a Predacon force massing in Grid Omega. Primal opted to send Rattrap and the clone to get a fix on the force's position rather than stage an immediate assault.

Clone One narrowly avoided being discovered by Rattrap, who wanted to transform and attack the fictitious base, by (uncharacteristically for Dinobot) reminding Rattrap this was supposed to be a recon mission. He subsequently ambushed Rattrap by pushing a log that Rattrap was on into the lavva and returned to the Axalon feigning injury, claiming Rattrap was pinned down by the Predacons. Primal rushed off to save him.

Alone in the unfamiliar Axalon, Clone One was stymied in his attempts to deactivate Sentinel because he didn't know the real Dinobot's password, nor did he possess the Maximal energy signature required to override the security system. When Dinobot (who had merely been disabled, not destroyed) returned to the Axalon, Clone One believed it was he who had finally succeeded in lowering the shields, and summoned Megatron.

Overcoming his initial bafflement, Dinobot agreed to a "fair fight" with Clone One in beast mode, which he lost when Clone One scored a dumb-luck hit. Dinobot feigned unconsciousness and Clone One, rather than double-check his opponent, ran off to meet Megatron, this was a mistake tho, as Dinobot was reviled to have fake his defeat, to which leads to Dinobot ambushing Clone One off-screen and defeating him.

When the Maximals arrived, they found that the real Dinobot had devoured the clone, commenting that he thought the clone was quite tasty. Primal expressed his disgust. Double Dinobot

Dinobot kept Clone One's hide as a trophy and hung it on his wall. Maximal, No More Code of Hero

Notes

• Clone One's unfamiliarity with Maximal hardware implies his memories were based on a backup of Dinobot's datatrax contained within the Predacon ship. The never-produced episode "Dark Glass" also hinged on datatrax backups, though their existence would not be formally established until Beast Machines.
• Clone One is the first villain of Beast Wars: Transformers to be defeated off-screen

• Megatron would clone Dinobot twice more: the Cyber raptors in "Cutting Edge" and Dinobot II in "Feral Scream Part 1".
• As of now, it remains unknown as to the outcome of Clone One and how he was defeated before being eaten by Dinobot.

• The Chamber used to create Clone One appears to be a heavily modified Predacon CR Chamber.

• In the scenes where both Dinobots appear together, the clone's voice is altered to make it easier to tell them apart.