Dread Nano

Dread Nano is a boss battle from Technotron:The Mechanical Menace, and originated cronologically as a case of nanites. His character design involves use of spaces, presumably to create the impression of a pile of sandy nanites. His only vulnerability, like all other Nanotrons, is to the De-Nanotizer sword, which in Technotron 2, is the player's main weapon in that game.

## Games

### Canon

#### Technotron: The Mechanical Menace (Scratch)

He appears when the player sees the Diamond of Deprogramming in the courtyard of Terminatron's castle, and is first seen as a giant hand, which upon seeing, Biono remarks "I wouldn't touch that". To any really clever player, they would see this as too easy, though walking up to the diamond triggers this. He then climbs out of the ground, and the boss fight starts. He then has attacks such as a nano hammer, a sword, (like the Nanotrons in the previous 2 levels of the game), and others. Like Nanotrons, he also warps his body to avoid getting blasted, and when he shields, the player must use the biono blast, then the Maximega cannon to attack, the first breaks the shield, then they attack him. After being fought, he comes to aid Terminatron, (who swoops in to take the diamond when it is dropped), when Terminatron is beaten, then he reforms him into Giga Armoured Terminatron, who has his abilities.

#### Technotron 2 (Scratch)

He now has a bigger role, as the final boss. However, he has presumably used microbots to rebuild Terminatron, who shows them off. When fought, after Terminatron, he now is bigger, and more hunched, and like Terminatron, is fought more than once. He is fought first as a humanoid boss, showing similarities to Terminatron in the first game. The second time, he emerges once again from the ground, but forms out of the whole castle. He also has the Control Crown that manipulates Terminatron, and when beaten again, a cutscene plays that depicts the castle collapsing. To strike the final blow, use the Nano sword.

### Non-canon

#### Technotron 4

He appears as a case of Nanites, with the Nano sword shown sealing it shut. This case can be thrown at Terminatron during the battle, which makes him Giga Armoured Terminatron. The sword can then be picked up and equipped as a weapon, to kill him.

#### Technotron: The Mechanical Menace manga

He appears crawling through the agency, and leads Agent Minty to believe that Biono has no heart due to being and old model, and she then becomes heavily depressed. However, he took the form of The Creator to make her think this, then dissapears when she looks away. She then attacks Biono in a fiery rage, and after he tells her that it is not true, she attacks The Creator this way, and when he tells the truth about Dread Nano, she opts to aid Agent X95 (The player), in defeating Dread Nano.

## Trivia

* His appearance in Technotron: The Mechanical Menace (The physical appearance), may be based off the marvel character "The Sandman", an enemy debuting in an early Spider-Man comic.

* Like Fate from the series "Lucky and Sucky", he is a secondary then primary antagonist in his series.
* Also in a similar way, the final boss of both Technotron: The Mechanical Menace and Lucky and Sucky, (both in the 32x32 sprite format), Fate and Dread Nano grant their power to the final boss of the game.
* An early name for Dread Nano was "Nano King". While he did not keep this name in the game, King Nano is written in the data logs in Iron Action's forge in Technotron 4.