Iaconus

Iaconus is an Autobot Titan from the Cyberverse continuity family

One of the Titans, Iaconus (nicknamed "The Star Savior" and "The Moon Puncher") is a literal giant of legend. Unfortunately, Iaconus is also a War Titan. Conflict is a need for him, and it doesn't matter who it's with. Innocents and even his allies will find themselves becoming targets once this Titan has run out of enemies. Combine that with his massive arsenal of weapons, including a sword almost as big as he is, a shield that also serves as a blaster, and many, many, many missile arrays, Iaconus is a berserker who should best be left to slumber.

Fiction

Cyberverse cartoon

Voice actor: Ryan Andes (English), Marko Bräutigam (German)

During the Age of Expansion, Iaconus, like many other Titans, left Cybertron. Counting Maccadam among his crew, Iaconus waged wars on several alien worlds before the Age of Expansion came to an end. The only War Titan to survive the violent epoch, Iaconus found himself unable to adjust to the peace and waged a war on his own kind upon his return to Cybertron. Iaconus' own crew managed to defeat him, though with tremendous casualties. Maccadam, the only survivor, buried Iaconus under what would one day become Iacon, using the Titan's cloaking device to keep him hidden away. Maccadam would pass the topmost level of Iaconus's inert form as Maccadam's Old Oil House, using the Titan's internal facilities as a means of generating endless fuel for customers. The Citizen As an extra precaution, in case a cityspeaker ever tried to wake him, Maccadam left a special trap within the Titan's mind. The End Of The Universe III

The memory of Iaconus survived, with some postulating that Iacon had been named after him while others doubted that he had ever existed. Some cycles before the Autobots and Decepticons returned to Cybertron, Skullcruncher found his way into the depths of Iaconus. Maccadam let him stay to keep out the "riff-raff". The Citizen

After the Quintessons invaded Cybertron, Iaconus' cloaking device prevented the invaders' scanners from locating him. The Dead End Maccadam invited the Autobots and Decepticons that remained safe haven within. Confused by this, Perceptor used his scanners to eventually locate Iaconus' mass beneath the city. The Sleeper

Intending to salvage and replicate Iaconus' cloaking module, the Autobots and Decepticons made their way deep into the Titan's bowels, where they found Maccadam waiting for them. Though Maccadam confirmed that Iaconus would eagerly take the fight to the Quintessons, he feared the damage that the giant's bloodlust would bring to Cybertron. Despite this, Hot Rod made plans to awaken Iaconus. The Citizen

Aw man, I love Pacific Rim!

After Windblade had been freed from the Loop, Hot Rod and Soundwave tried to have her awaken Iaconus to no avail. After the Cybertronians' plan to detonate a warhead by the Quintesson flagship failed, Windblade returned to the Titan's brain and tried again, managing to rouse the Titan's gargantuan arm, its size, and the quakes it caused, scaring away the Quintesson forces, only for Maccadam to extract her before the strain became too much for her to bear. The Alliance

Oh no! It's a... um, what is it?

After Starscream revealed himself to be the new Quintesson Judge and recaptured the resistance, Windblade again tried to reawaken Iaconus, this time with Maccadam's full support. Managing to navigate around the traps, Windblade successfully roused the Titan from his slumber. The End Of The Universe II Reveling in causing random destruction, the War Titan only took to the fight when Windblade showed him Starscream. Before Iaconus reached the traitor, he was intercepted by a brainwashed Croaton. The two Titans came to blows with Iaconus' fighting experience quickly granting him the upper hand. Pressing his edge, Iaconus fired a sustained blast only for Croaton to deflect it, the beam atomizing Maccadam. Overcome with grief, Iaconus was briefly taken unawares by Croaton but quickly regained his footing and downed his foe. Before he could sever the Quintesson technology controlling his fellow Titan, Starscream doused Iaconus' head with unspace goo, killing the War Titan. Bereft of the head, the Titan's body reverted to city mode. The End Of The Universe III

After the Quintessons had been expelled from Cybertron and an uneasy truce was drawn between the Autobots and the Decepticons, the Autobots set up their capital in Iaconus' city mode. Enemy Line When Thunderhowl, himself another time-lost refugee from the Age of Expansion, was freed from Crystal City, he questioned Bumblebee and Chromia about whether Iaconus was continuing his campaigns against alien worlds. Awkwardly, Bumblebee said that the Titan was now taking a break from such things. Thunderhowl

Toys

Cyberverse

one of those fancy cities with the buildings poking sideways out the front

• Iaconus (Ultimate Class, 2020)

• Accessories: Sword, shield, wing pack

Released as part of the second wave of Ultimate Class Bumblebee Cyberverse Adventures figures, this large-sized Iaconus transforms from a very green robot into some sort of city structure with small wings, turbines, and thrusters. The wing/turbine assembly comes detached in box and must be attached to the figure before it can transform. In city mode, when the sword is inserted into the base, the toy auto-transforms (with a torso swirl) into the upright robot mode, with only the fists needing to be transformed further.

Believe it or not, according to both the instructions and one of the insets on the back of the box, this toy is a triple changer. The only difference between the two alternate modes is what you do with the arms. Leaving the fists out and putting the forearms vertical makes for a crab walker sort of deal with the robot chest at the front, while swapping fists for thrusters and rearranging the arms makes a flying fortress with the shins in front.

Like the fourth wave Ultimate class figures, Iaconus has limited articulation, with only elbow and shoulder movement. He features an "Energon armor" gimmick which is activated by a small switch on his back or by rotating his right shoulder forward. The toy itself is modeled after Iaconus without his equipment, while his Energon armor is modeled after his in-show battle gear.

The box art renders do not include the crab walker mode, and show the city ship mode backwards with the thrusters facing forwards, but you try and make sense of that thing. It also shows him wielding his sword and shield in a right-handed manner, while he is depicted in the show using a left-handed style. This is due to having a peg hole only on his left arm, preventing him from mounting his shield on his right.