Airachnid (Prime)

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:''Airachnid is a Decepticon from the [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)| Prime]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[Image:Airachnid.jpg|thumb|400px|Shelob the Great gave dieting a go after seeing how much weight her director lost.]]

Long ago, '''Airachnid''' was with the [[Decepticon]]s, where her cruel, cold-sparked, murderous demeanor served her well. But after the [[Great Exodus]] of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], she decided to go solo.

These days, Airachnid spends her time engaging in her new hobby: collecting [[Airachnid's specimens|endangered species]]. Well, parts of endangered species. Mostly the heads.

And if a species ''isn't'' endangered? Oh, they will be. She'll make ''sure'' of that. And she'll make sure it's a slow, painful process.

==Fiction==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor'': [[Gina Torres]] (English)
{{spoiler|Predatory|April 30, 2011}}

During the war for Cybertron, Airachnid managed to capture [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] and her partner [[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]]. Quickly realizing that Arcee would resist the physical torture she used, Airachnid decided to employ a simpler threat: Tell her the attack coordinates, or Tailgate dies. Arcee insisted she didn't know the coordinates, but Airachnid didn't believe her and killed Tailgate. Moments later, [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] and [[Cliffjumper (Prime)|Cliffjumper]] burst into the holding room, killing the two [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s and rescuing Arcee. Airachnid, however, fled.

Following the [[Great Exodus]], Airachnid concluded that the war was over, meaning she needed a new way to spend her time. She decided to hunt sentient species, then wipe them out after getting a trophy. Eventually, Airachnid crash-landed [[Airachnid's ship|her ship]] on [[Earth]]. She initially laid her optics on a lone camper, but was ambushed by Arcee. While Arcee gained the upper hand, she was distracted by her human partner, [[Jack Darby]], and Airachnid webbed her to a rock. Having learned of Cliffjumper's recent demise, Airachnid decided that making Jack her next trophy would be a delicious way to hurt Arcee before finally snuffing out her [[spark]]. She chased Jack back to her ship, but discovered too late that the human had snuck out the underside. She spotted Jack ''just'' in time to see him hurl a flaming stick into a pool of [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] that was leaking from her ship. Airachnid barely managed to escape the explosion, but she was wounded and ''really'' pissed. She managed to web the fleeing Jack to a tree, but before Airachnid could deliver the killing blow, Arcee came to the rescue and absolutely wiped the forest floor with the Decepticon. Deciding she had endured enough for one night, Airachnid drilled into the ground and fled. {{storylink|Predatory}}

==Notes==
* Airachnid is in [[Generation 1]] non-Deluxe [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] colors.
* Airachnid went her entire introductory episode without transforming into a true [[alternate mode]], only from biped-mode to spider-legs mode and back.
* Unlike real spiders, Airachnid has [[wikipedia:compound eyes|compound eyes]].
* Hasbro filed an application for the [[trademark]] "Airachnid", but were denied. What name will be used for the toy is unknown.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/beast-wars-2/case-closed---goodbye-airachnid-170451/ "Case Closed - Goodbye Airachnid"]</ref>
* She is not [[Blackarachnia (disambiguation)|Blackarachnia]]. Deal with it.
* Intended or not, her head design seems to have quite a lot of similarities with the Disney's 1959 "Sleeping Beauty" villainess [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleficent Maleficent].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Cartoon-only Transformers]]
[[Category:Prime Decepticons]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]

Thrust (Animated)

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|''The name or term Thrust refers to more than one character or idea, and why did they all get to have pages first anyway? For a list of other meanings, see [[Thrust (disambiguation)]].''
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:''Thrust will totally show up every other [[Decepticon]] in the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:ThrustAnimated.jpg|right|thumb|200px|How come my [[character model]] was so close to the gutter? The other guys must have been so much easier to scan! It's not fair! They always get preferential treatment.]]

'''Thrust''' can't stand how much taller and straighter [[Dirge (Animated)|Dirge]]'s head cone is than his own! And why should [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] be the one with all the best weapons? And why were all the other [[Starscream clone (Animated)|clones]] made first, huh, ''huh?!'' The more he and Dirge travel the universe as Swindle's bodyguard duo, the more Thrust finds to infuriate him in observing all the cool stuff and life advantages everybody else got over him. It's not fair! He didn't ask to be created so late in the game by Swindle reusing some stolen [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] clone parts, and he certainly didn't ask to be the manifestation of Starscream's personality trait of envy—all the really good ones were already taken by then! Like lying—he could SO do a better job of lying if that slaghead [[Ramjet (Animated)|Ramjet]] hadn't hogged it first!

==Notes==
* Thrust's sole, brief appearance is in ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II]]''. He bears the dubious distinction of being the only ''Animated'' Starscream clone to get not only no in-show portrayal but also no toy as well. Makes sense he'd have so much to envy, then!

[[Category:Almanac-only characters]]
[[Category:Starscream clones]]

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