Pupa Beetle

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Pupa Beetle
プーパビートル
Model No. File:Navi pupabeetle.png
KBT-0NF
Motif
Beetle pupa
Parts
Head: Petit Missile
プチミサイル
Right Arm: Petit Rifle
プチライフル
Left Arm: Petit Machinegun
プチマシンガン
Legs: Petit Ochitsuko
プチオチツコー
Game appearances
Medarot Navi
Other appearances
None
Designer


Pupa Beetle is a KBT-model Medarot whose sole appearance is in Medarot Navi.

Description

Unlike every other entry in the KBT series, Pupa Beetle doesn't much resemble a rhinoceros beetle or a Medabot at all; rather, its Head part is a glowing orange bundle of energy. Each Arm appears to be a beetle larva and its Legs are simply more energy. Its attacks are identical to those of others in the KBT series - Missile head, Rifle arm and Gatling arm - but are fairly weak compared to Kantaros or Saikachis.

Things change greatly when Power Medachange enters the picture. Energy becomes matter and weak becomes strong as a miniature Gran Beetle is born. Its Missile is replaced with Scope, passively giving it perfect accuracy while stationary, and its Rifle and Gatling are given much greater strength.

The requirements for Medachange are their weakness - strip them of a part before they can grow into a serious threat.

Appearances

Medarot Navi

Pupa Beetles, along with their Pupa Stag buddies, appear in great numbers in the game's final chapter alongside the five Fossil Medarots: Mono-Cruziana, Di-Tyranno, Tri-Ptera, Quar-Brachio and Zero-Suicide. They also share some of the fossils' aesthetic, particularly the striping on their arm cannons.

Of note is that Pupa Beetle shares the same model number as Gran Beetle. Could this be more than coincidence?

Related Medarots

KWG-0NF Pupa Stag, its Kuwagata-series equivalent


KBT-type Medarots
KBT-0 Metal Beetle KBT-2 Bayonet KBT05C Saikachis C KBT08
(KBT-0NF)
Granbeetle KBT0D
(KBT-1CH)
Dechotom KBT13-M Torito Beetle
KBT00-M Metabee KBT-3
(KBT-2020)
Kantaros KBT-55 Blackbeetle KBT09
(KBT-1NF)
Kaiser Beetle KBT0E
(KBT-0)
Beet KBT14 Musha Beetle
KBT-1 Metabee KBT03R-M Kantaros R KBT05A B Beetle A KBT0A
(KBT-9BX)
Anzudo Beetle KBT10-M Gun-Nose KBT15 Anzwei
KBT01-M Metabee KBT-4 Arcbeetle KBT-6 Arcbeetle-Dash KBT-0NF Pupa Beetle KBT11-M Sägehorn KBT50-M G-Metabee
KBT01A Metabee A KBT-5 Saikachis KBT-7 Kabuto Benimaru KBT0C
(KBT-0CH)
Chrotojil KBT12-M Jhuk