Botanica (BM)

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:''Botanica is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Machines]] portion of the [[Beast Era]].''

[[Image:Botanica_TechnorganicRobot.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A plant. A robot plant. What's next-a [[freakin rock]]?!!]]

The Transformers have taken on myriad alternate forms over the years, but '''Botanica''' remains [[Botanica#Trivia|unique]]: she transforms into a mobile alien plant creature. She is competent and powerful, as well as a bit mystical, and has a strong connection to the planet and an affinity for growing things. A scientist first and foremost, she can be fastidious and fussy in her dedication to her work—sometimes to the point of overlooking the things that matter most.

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==Fiction==
===''Beast Machines''===

:''Voice actor:'' [[Kathleen Barr]] (English), [[Atsuko Tanaka]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Botanica_OriginalPlantMode.jpg|thumb|left|REFORMAT ME, SEYMOUR.]]

Botanica captained the same sort of exploration mission that the [[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]] originally undertook. Landing on a [[Plantworld|planet]] dominated by plant life, including the mobile variety, her crew adopted forms based upon them to blend in and study them.

[[Image:Botanica5.jpg|thumb|right|"Botanica, [[Wikipedia:Triffid|Triffid]] mode!"]]

When they received [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron's]] fake distress signal, Botanica left the world and her crew behind and returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], where she was shot down. When [[Optimus Primal]] and his [[Maximal]]s investigated her ship, they found her a feral state. In her mobile, possibly carnivorous plant mode, she attacked them and then fled underground, spreading seeds as she went. The seeds immediately sprouted into various plants, the most insidious being rapidly-growing vines. Primal worried that, left unchecked, the plants she was producing would "destroy" the planet. She was somehow drawn to the technorganic orchard (and, Cheetor noted, its pipeline to the planet's organic core). Catching up with her there, Primal noticed that she was sparking the way the Maximals had when they were infected with Megatron's [[Transformation lock virus|virus]]. This gave him the idea to [[reformat]] her, which restored her sanity. She explained, "[Megatron's] attack shorted out my ship, along with my higher reasoning protocols." She had been acting out of pure self-preservation, but once she could think clearly, she became an instant ally. This was lucky for the Maximals, who were immediately set upon by [[Vehicon]]s. Botanica converted to robot mode (notably without any training from Primal) and unleashed a chain-lightning attack that reduced a phalanx of [[Tank Drone]]s to dust. {{storylink|Home Soil}}

[[image:Botanica_LightningWeb.jpg|thumb|left|150px|We'll let you just go and win the war for us, then.]]

However, she seldom used her weaponry, arguing that the more the Maximals fought Megatron, the more they became like him. She instead spent all her time and energy tending to the orchard. Although Cheetor and Blackarachnia resented this, Primal accepted her reasons, and also reminded his team that they were more than enough to fight Megatron and [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]. However, Botanica soon received a vision from the [[Allspark|Matrix]], which showed her how much pain Cybertron was in. Botanica abandoned her pacifism and joined in the fight, saving the Maximals from a trap [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] and [[Strika]] had formed. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike}}

[[Image:Rattrap_bm_treehugger.jpg|thumb|150px|right|If you like to talk to tomatoes, if a squash can make you smile...]]

When Megatron was presumed dead, Botanica returned her focus to the orchard, with the help of a reluctant Rattrap. They began arguing over the other's repsective priorities, but eventually [[kiss]]ed. Despite pledging to delete it from memory, they showed obvious concern for each other. {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} When the still alive Megatron launched an attack on the Maximal held [[Grand Mal]], they were forced to raise the [[shield]]s, which cut Botanica off from the [[organic core]]. Rattrap jettisoned her into an excape pod with a field projecting the same harmonics as the Grand Mal's shields, saving Botanica's life but also allowing Megatron to fire through the shields. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral}}

When Megatron was finally destroyed and Cybertron reformatted, Botanica eventually formed a romantic relationship with [[Rattrap]]. So she likes small rodents. Deal with it. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future}}

===''Universe: Featuring the Wreckers''===
{{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}
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==Trivia==
* Botanica's pre-production name was '''Binary'''.

* Botanica is a rarity, in that she was a major recurring heroic character in a ''Transformers'' television show, but was apparently ''never'' intended to have a toy.

[[Image:Botanica_OriginalBody.jpg|thumb|200px|right|They laughed at the idea of a "ship's gardener." Oh, how they laughed.]]

* Assuming the Transformer seen in silhouette at right is Botanica, she remains the only plant-based Transformer ever seen in the canon. She states the other members of her crew also took plant modes, so she's not unique within the fictional universe. However, judging by the reactions of Optimus Primal and the other Maximals, they had either never heard of "Plantformers" before, or they are extremely rare.

* Yet another point of rarity: In both plant and robot mode, she has four hands (her arms divide at the elbow), and no true legs (she has roots in plant mode, and a sort of "hoverskirt" in robot mode).

* Another oddity: Botanica's technorganic transformation is different from all the others- Instead of being surrounded by coloured lights, a ring of technorganic plants spring up, and shrink down, revealing her robot mode.

* Depite her pacifist ways, Botanica is well-armed, with several weapons at her disposal, including energy projectiles, electrical fields, and a "chain-lightning" attack that leaps from one enemy to another. Huh. [[Mirage (G1)|Surprisingly well-armed for someone who doesn't like to fight]].

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