Sea Phantom

Sea Phantom is a Predacon-allied Seacon from the Beast Wars II portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Of all the Seacon space pirates, Sea Phantom (シーファントム Shī Fantomu) is by far the most rough-and-tumble. A brute above all else, he loves the swashbuckling action of a good fight and the satisfying screams of a surprise raid. Underwater, he's as fast as a torpedo, and loves using both his speed and his "Telephantom" ability to teleport short distances to get the drop on his enemies. He'll chow down on both food and foe alike with his powerful "Phantom Jaws", or slice them up with his "Phantom Fin."

Sea Phantom combines with his fellow Seacons to form God Neptune.

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 continuity family

Beast Wars II cartoon

Voice actor: Hiroaki Ichinowatari (Japanese)

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Sea Phantom was a member of the Space Pirate Seacons, often found in the crow's nest of their ship as lookout and spotter for the pirates. This also meant he was a bit of a backseat driver for Terrormander at the wheel. On the planet Gaia, the Seacons located the amazing power source called Angolmois Energy as their latest treasure. Their excavation was detected by the Maximals, who wished to stop the pirates from pillaging the seas. Sea Phantom and his mateys formed God Neptune to defend their booty, but they were distracted when Diver and Scuba commandeered their vessel and then blew up the Angolmois Energy already on board, greatly damaging the ship. The Space Pirate Seacons!

As the Seacons began repairs on their vessel, Sea Phantom noticed Scylla was avoiding work and later disappeared altogether when they were buzzed by unknown Cybertronians. He found her pining for the Maximal squid, Scuba, and tried to bring her back to the ship. The equally smitten Bighorn mistook his intentions, and started a fight with Sea Phantom. This eventually led into another battle between the Seacons and several Maximals, but also alerted the Space Pirates to the existence of a rival faction on Gaia, the Predacons. The Tentacular Scuba

Halfshell negotiated an Angolmois Energy bounty on the Maximals' heads from Megastorm, and dispatched his team to isolate and defeat the heroes individually. Sea Phantom targeted Diver for underwater combat. Their efforts were undone largely because Megastorm tried to cheat them out of the bounty by destroying the Maximals himself with bombs, only to have each and every bomb explode in his face instead at the battle sites. The final bomb, caught on Sea Phantom's fin, threw both Megastorm and Sea Phantom back into the seas. Megastorm's Reckoning

Galvatron goaded the Seacons into making a second (unpaid) attack on the Maximals. Sea Phantom struck out at Bighorn and Scuba as they were lured out into the waters by Bighorn's crush on Scylla. The Maximals managed to regroup on a rock in the ocean, but that only made them a convenient target for the combined God Neptune. The Seacons were only driven off after the arrival of the Insectrons Bigmos and Tonbot, the Maximals' southern allies. Showdown in the Sea

When Scylla went missing, apparently shirking her duties again, Sea Phantom labored off to find her. While searching, Terrormander came by and alerted him to a transmission he intercepted between the Jointrons and Bighorn about some form of treasure. Sea Phantom and Terrormander decided to investigate and possibly steal the treasure for themselves. In actuality, the Jointrons had kidnapped Scylla as part of a complicated scheme to help Bighorn win her heart by rescuing her. Sea Phantom and Terrormander tried to steal the bagged "treasure" and, when a stray shot revealed Scylla was in the bag, fought back even harder to recover their lost teammate. Complications ensued, leading to a battle between God Neptune and Tripledacus, but ultimately Scylla was rescued and returned to her crew. Face the Setting Sun

Recognizing their poor fortunes on Gaia, Halfshell prepared his crew to depart. Learning of their intentions, Lio Convoy offered to give the Seacons the energy they needed to leave. Halfshell wouldn't take charity from the Maximal, but got Lio Convoy to agree to fight one-on-one for the energy. As Halfshell explained to Sea Phantom and his crew after the Maximal left, the "one" would be God Neptune! The Seacons arrived as God Neptune and battled Lio Convoy for the energy, but their duel was interrupted by Megastorm trying to kill Lio Convoy himself. His blast set off an Angolmois Energy chain reaction on the beach, leading the Seacons to depart, stealing Lio Convoy's energy as they ran. Sea Phantom and the crew readied the mast, and took off back into space. The Final Battle

As the Seacons left Gaia, they were confronted by the artificial planet, Nemesis. Nemesis completely overpowered the Seacons' vessel and brainwashed Sea Phantom and the Seacons into swearing loyalty to Galvatron with its evil energy. The Artificial Planet Nemesis

Sailing through space, the Seacons came across the Jointrons, and both teams fused into their respective combined forms. Their battle was interrupted by a mysterious spaceship that squarely collided with God Neptune and broke him up into the individual Seacons, who were sent flying off. Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!

When the Maximals were on their way to reach the rapidly approaching Nemesis, the Seacons served as its first line of defense and forced the Maximals to crash on a nearby asteroid. There, they fought the confused Maximals. When Lio Junior, Santon, and Skywarp combined to form Magnaboss, the Seacons did their own combination in response and the two combined warriors battled. God Neptune gained the upper hand, but, with the other Maximals' help, Magnaboss was able to strike God Neptune with an Angolmois Ball, which knocked out the Seacons. Coming to, they regained their senses and Halfshell explained that the Nemesis's evil influence had made them aggressive. The Seacons saw the Maximals off and Halfshell declared the asteroid their new spaceship. Revenge of the Space Pirates

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

After the defeat of Unicron, Sea Phantom as part of God Neptune came to Cybertron. There, the combiner surfed on the photon sailer. Graduation Ceremony!!

Generations Selects Special Comic

During a heist with Duncan for proton energy, the Seacons were betrayed and left for dead. Seacons comic 5 An envoy for Primus appeared and made a deal with Halfshell: Play part in Primus's plan in the Precursor World and his crew would be revived. God Neptune comic 2 Joining forces with Turtler and his Seacons, Halfshell used the Angolmois Energy siphoned from Galvatron to revive the other pirates, Seacons comic 3 although the process was interrupted by the evolution of Galvatron into Super Megatron. Seacons comic 5 Nevertheless, their upgrade was completed. Super Megatron comic 2

Fulfilling Primus's plan, the Angolmois-powered Seacons went to the various colored worlds of the Precursor Universe to gather the Matrices of the Primus Vanguard's leaders. Sea Phantom in particular went to the Green Planet to rob Green Tender Convoy of his Creation Matrix, succeeding despite the Green Order's efforts. Gathering in outer space, the Seacons combined into God Neptune, who then possessed the power of five colored Star Powers. God Neptune comic 1 The followed battle faced God Neptune against Megatron Omega, who blasted the combiner apart with his own Angolmois Energy. However, encouraging words from White Gallant Convoy's spirit inspired Halfshell to form the pirate gestalt again with his crew. God Neptune comic 2 After all was said and done, the Seacons were returned to their proper time by Primus. Finale

Beast Wars II comic

While the Seacons were stuck on Gaia thanks to being lost and their photon sailer running out of energy, Sea Phantom and Terrormander were forced to suffer Scylla's love-struck excitement over "Bighorn". Captain Halfshell took more positively to Scylla's love, making the crew put on an elaborate wedding for the squid. After much ado between the real Bighorn and Scuba, Galvatron's Predacons attacked the festivities and the Seacons combined into God Neptune to fight back. He was quickly felled by Predacon firepower, but Bighorn, Scylla, and Scuba were able to send the attackers fleeing. After Scylla gave her goodbyes to her suitors, the Seacons left the planet. Realize the Forbidden Love!

2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity

Sea Phantom was a thrill-seeker, oftentimes participating in dangerous recreational activities, chief among them sky surfing; diving from orbit and "surfing" into a planet's atmosphere before he would be pulled in by the planet's gravitational pull. Beast Wars Sourcebook #3

Games

Transformers: Earth Wars

• Class: Gunner
• Lowest star rating: 2 star
• Abilities: Though he is labeled as a gunner, in practice Sea Phantom functions more like a Triple Changer, with two different abilities for his shark mode.
  • Acid Thrower: Produce a cone of acid dealing 369 acid damage over 6 seconds in a large area.
    • Cost: 3 ability points +3 for reuses.
  • Guided Rocket: Shoots out 4 rockets from long range, delivering 56.3 damage to a single target.
    • Cost: 4 ability points +2 for reuses.

Toys

Beast Wars

His name is totally deserving of its own theme song by the Ventures.

• God Neptune (Multi-pack, 1998)

• ID number: D-21
• Release date: August ??, 1998
• Accessories: Left & right shark-arms

A redeco of the Generation 1 Seacon Overbite, Sea Phantom transforms into a robotic shark with limbs. However, he lacks the rifle and stand-pieces of the original version of the mold. Since he uses the Scramble City-style of combination, he can form the arm or leg to any combined robot of similar construction, but his nominal place is as the right arm of God Neptune.

He was available only as part of the God Neptune gift set with his teammates Coelagon, Halfshell, Skyulle, and Terrormander, sold in the seventh wave of Beast Wars II.

For unknown reasons, a great number of unboxed God Neptune sets—lacking all of their accessories, including combiner parts and Sea Phantom's shark-arms—ended up available on the secondary market. These went for considerably less than the "complete" releases, naturally.

This toy was also repurposed as Generation 1 Overbite in the Collectors' Club magazine comic arc Beast Wars Shattered Glass.

• More information on Sea Phantom at TFU.info

Generations Selects

• Godneptune [sic] (Multi-pack, 2020)

• Hasbro ID number: TT-GS10
• Release date: October 31, 2020
• Accessories: Rifle, sword, combiner hand, combiner hand gap filler

Generations Selects Sea Phantom is a redeco of Overbite from the same line (who himself is an extensive retool of Power of the Primes Deluxe Class Terrorcon Rippersnapper), transforming from a robotic shark monster to a robot.

He is also able to form a limb for God Neptune or any Combiner Wars-style interchangeable combiner, though the instructions that come with the set only detail how to transform him into arm mode. His rifle and sword combine with his teammates' weapons to form God Neptune's "Neptune Cannon" and "Neptune Sword" (respectively).

Sea Phantom can also assume "Targetmaster" mode like Overbite, but this is not mentioned anywhere on the packaging or instructions.

Sea Phantom was released as part of the God Neptune giftset, a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive in Japan. The God Neptune set was also available via Hasbro Pulse and other online retailers in the U.S. and Canada.

Notes

• Mentioned only in profiles and bios published in books and magazines, Sea Phantom's "Telephantom" teleporting ability was not featured in the Beast Wars II anime.