Combatron (Transformers: Beast Wars)

Combatrons are a subspecies of military fighter jet-themed Cybertronians from the planet Cybertron.

Biology
While also being a subgroup of Predacons, Combatrons consider themselves a species unto themselves.

Anatomy
Combatrons share a similar biology to other Cybertronians, except they transform into military fighter jets. Upon being reformatted into Cyborg Beasts, their alternate modes are changed to cybernetically-enhanced animals.

Powers and abilities
Combatrons share many of the same abilities as other Cybertronians.

As Cyborg Beasts, Combatrons are more powerful than in their former incarnations.

Culture and society
Combatrons are non-beast Predacons who transform into military jet fighters and that is about all they have in common. Rather than act as a team who work together, they prefer to operate as pairs who work separately. For example, Starscream and BB are elitists with exacting standards and ambitious schemes whereas Dirge and Thrust are unreliable slackers who cannot take anything seriously.

Each pair of Combatrons competes to outshine the other in the eyes of their Emperor of Destruction. As a result, they tend to exert a greater effort in sabotaging each other than in engaging the enemy. As for the Maximals, they are perfectly happy to let the Combatrons cancel each other out in battle.

Upon exposure to Angolmois Energy, Combatrons are reformatted into freakish fusions of animal and machine known as Cyborg Beasts.