Tripredacus
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In the world of the animated television series Beast Wars, the Tripredacus Council serves as the ruling body of the Predacon Alliance in this time. They also have some sway over the remaining Decepticons, including Ravage, who is an agent for them. The Tripredacus council consists of Ramhorn, Cicadacon, and Seaclamp. The Tripredacus council were modeled after the members of one of the only two Beast Wars Gestalts (though time and production limitations prevented their likenesses or individual names from being used).
They were seen in Beast Wars in the episode "The Agenda, Pt 1", where they disrupted the transwarp surge that would have alerted the Maximals to the location of Megatron. Though somewhat agreeing with Megatron's displeasure in the truce between Maximals and Predacons, they are surprisingly uninvolved with his plot, labeling him and his crew traitors both on and off the record. Because of this, they send Tarantulas in as a spy amongst Megatron's crew, and later on send Ravage to Earth to take care of Megatron. Later in the series, they are revealed to be, like Tarantulas, unaffiliated with the Transformers on the Ark, and have some knowledge of and hatred for the alien Vok, though their origins are not elaborated on further. However, due to Tarantulas being referred to as "Unicron's spawn" and the fact that he shares origins with the Council, it is possible that they are in fact the descendants of Unicron.
Beast Wars the 2nd
In Beast Wars the 2nd, Tripledacus is a gestalt team. Its component parts, the Jointron Brothers, disguise themselves as a Mexican mariachi band.
IDW Comics
With the failure of Agent Ravage to return after being sent to eliminate the threat of Megatron, the Tripredacus Council sent Magmatron after him.