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Arcee (G1)

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:''Arcee is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[Image:ArceeG1-2010storypage.jpg|right|300px|thumb|These aren't high heels, they just forgot to finish building my feet.]]

Most make the mistake of noticing only '''Arcee'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Female Transformer|gender]], but these first impressions are quickly expanded upon. Arcee is a merciless and deadly warrior who's an expert in hand-to-hand combat and one of the best sharpshooters on record. The reason for her ferocity is how much she cares for her fellow Autobots and especially the [[human]]s they protect. She knows how fragile her organic companions are, and she's equally aware of the evils the [[Decepticon]]s are capable of. Peers such as [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] may be more durable than the humans, but she no less fights to defend them as well. They get in plenty of trouble, so someone has to be the level-headed one. (Some believe Arcee has a [[Transformer romance|romantic]] attraction to either of those two, but that depends on who and when you ask.)

If concern for her friends is her strength, it's regrettably also her weakness. If anything would happen to, say, [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]], she might just completely lose it. And she may be quick, but she's not very strong.

She's also [[Rattrap]]'s "[[Relatives|great-aunt]]".

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
:''Voice actress:'' [[Susan Blu]] (English), [[Masako Katsuki]] (Japanese, ''The Movie''), [[Yōko Kawanami]] (Japanese, ''Transformers 2010''), [[Atsuko Yuya]] (Japanese, ''The Rebirth''), [[Carmen Sheila]] (Portuguese), [[Christine Stichler]] (German, ''The Movie TV Dub''), [[Irene Oberrauch]] (German, Season 3 & 4)
[[Image:Springerarceecmonwoman.jpg|left|thumb|200px|"I bet you Hot Rod is the Chosen One." "What? He's cute, but ''please''." "Okay, if I'm right, you have to date me instead." "You're on!"]]

During the assault on [[Autobot City]] Arcee was instrumental in helping [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] transform the fortress to repel the [[Decepticon]] invaders, buying precious time for reinforcements and likely saving many lives. She was among the few Autobots to survive [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s savage blitz on the city and to form the small army sent to engage the planet eater, [[Unicron]], who was threatening [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] at the time. Although she was nearly left behind when Unicron's minion [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] attacked, she, along with Autobot leader [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]], and his small attack force managed to hold their own against the villain long enough to befriend the citizens of the planet [[Junkion (planet)|Junk]], reunite with their lost Autobot comrades, and fight their way into the depths of Unicron where [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] was finally able to open the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] and kill the giant foe.

[[Image:ArceeTFMovie.jpg|right|200px|thumb|She, uh, meant to flood the tunnel.]]

Throughout the entire affair, one of Arcee's top priorities was the protection and care of young [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]], a human friend of Hot Rod who had wound up on the adventure with her. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

After the Matrix chose Hot Rod to become the new leader of the Autobots, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]], Arcee remained as one of his closest soldiers. She helped fight a surprise attack on the first [[Galactic Olympics]]. When Ultra Magnus, [[Kup (G1)|Kup]], and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] were discovered missing, she and Springer took off after the perceived kidnapper. Although they were successful in capturing their quarry, the [[Skuxxoid]], and taking his ship, he deceived them about the identity of his employer. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}} This still turned out to be beneficial as they arrived in time to save Rodimus Prime and [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]] from being pummeled by a mob of Decepticons. When Rodimus learned that the [[Quintesson]]s were the real ones behind the kidnapping, she partook in the rescue mission on [[Quintessa]], saving Magnus, Kup and Spike seconds before the planet was detonated. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2}}

She, along with the others, was sent by the explosion to the planet of [[Goo 8739B]] where they were stranded until the Junkions were called in to salvage them. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3}} Although she was only briefly seen in the aftermath, it was assumed she returned to Cybertron with the others, and fought when Galvatron waged a full scale assault on the planet. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}}

Arcee was among the small group of Autobots that managed to stop a Quintesson plot to use the resurrected body of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] as a sort of sleeper agent to lure the rest of the Autobots into a trap. {{storylink|Dark Awakening}} She was also seen among the other Autobots cheering when Unicron's plan to connect himself to Cybertron failed. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine}}

[[Image:ArceeDepth.jpg|left|thumb|250px|With this, she won't ''need'' to be a sharpshooter!]]
Later she accompanied a squad sent after Galvatron and his troops who had broken into a secret chamber on Cybertron. This too would turn out to be a Quintesson trap. This time, the Decepticons were fooled into releasing the Quintessons’ dangerous experiments, the [[Trans-Organic]]s, and their most powerful member The [[Dweller]], a giant energy leech that turned all Transformers into energy vampires. After trying to fight off both Galvatron and the Dweller in the dark tunnels, only she and Ultra Magnus were able to escape and warn Rodimus Prime and [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] in time to stop the Dweller and turn the other Transformers back to normal. {{storylink|The Dweller in the Depths}}
[[Image:OnlyHumanlineup.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The color scheme isn't flattering on a jumpsuit, either.]]

She, along with Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, and Springer became the targets of crime lord [[Victor Drath]] after busting one too many of his operations. With the help of [[Cobra Commander| Old Snake]], the four Autobots were captured. Their minds were transferred from their bodies into the forms of [[synthoid]] humans. They managed to escape disposal by Drath’s men, and Arcee eventually made it back to Autobot City in an attempt to warn their comrades that their former bodies were going to be used to blow up the city. Being an unrecognizable human, no one believed her, and she was locked in a detention cell instead. Luckily when Ultra Magnus and Springer managed to foil Drath's plan all four Autobots were subsequently returned to their rightful bodies. {{storylink|Only Human}}

[[Image:HeadmasterDanielRebirth1.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Daniel has two mommies.]]
The almost maternal connection between Daniel and Arcee was a powerful one, which was only strengthened some time later when Galvatron tried his most ambitious plan. Using the [[Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber|Key]] to the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], Galvatron tried to release its destructive power. Arcee, along with Hot Rod, Kup, and a large Autobot crew, managed to snatch the key away and escaped to the far off planet of [[Nebulos]]. There, they became embroiled in the Nebulons' struggle for freedom against their own oppressors, the [[Hive (G1)|Hive]]. In an effort to combat both the Hive and the Decepticons that had tracked them down, the Autobots and the Nebulons agreed to become partners and developed the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] and [[Targetmaster]] processes. Having been critically injured trying to save her from [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]], Arcee chose Daniel to partner with as he now needed an [[exosuit]] to survive and was her ”dearest friend”. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 1}}

[[Binary bonding|Binary bonded]], the two proved quite effective in combat as did all the Autobots and, later, Decepticons who became Headmasters and Targetmasters. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 2}} Trying to escape with the key, Arcee and Daniel were captured by [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] and held prisoner until Spike and [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] were able to break them out of the Decepticon City just before it was blown out into the deep reaches of space by a blast of energy from the Plasma Energy Chamber. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 3}}

====Japanese cartoon continuity====
{{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in the Japanese timeline as detailed above, except the events of season 3 are pushed back to 2010, and "The Rebirth" does not occur. Japanese continuity inserts several new stories into the timeline.}}

=====MC Axis comic=====
[[Image:Arcee-modelkit.jpg|right|thumb|150px|"My hair! He shot my hair! Son of a bitch..."]]

On [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], following a devastating battle, [[Firestar]] and [[Moonracer]] observed their enemies retreating and presumed that things would be quiet for a while. Suddenly, they were attacked from behind by a massive [[Decepticon]]. Arcee immediately saved them by killing the villain with a single shot. Arcee reminded the two Female Autobots that war is especially tough on females. They then pondered whether danger is tripled when three beautiful women are involved. {{storylink|The Transformers (MC Axis manga)|The Transformers: Arcee}}

=====''Story of Binaltech''=====
In the divergent [[universal stream]] of Primax 903.0 Beta, splintered off from the mainstream timeline when the time-tossed Decepticon [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] altered history, Arcee was selected to participate in the [[Timaeus Project]], an Autobot experiment to breach super-dimensional space being carried out on the urging of the mysterious [[Optimus Primal|Protector]], a disembodied spark from the future. Arcee's consciousness was transferred into a [[Binaltech]] body, and after saying goodbye to the Protector, she began her objective: driving in around an accelerator track while a chip in her cerebro-circuitry helped focus her thoughts towards breaching "superspace". Just as she succeeded in opening a rift into higher-dimensional space, however, a Decepticon attack led by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] struck Autobot City. Fearing for the safety of the Protector and the future he represented, Arcee recklessly attempted to go to his rescue, leaping off the track without taking the proper slowdown procedures. Arcee's body was crushed by undissipated kinetic energy, but in her unconscious state, the Protector's spark contacted her, and told her that he was unimportant: it was the Timaeus Project and its researchers who had to be saved. 38 seconds later, Arcee awoke, her spark having been automatically transferred to a spare S-2000 Binaltech unit, and she fulfilled the Protector's wishes, saving the project's human workforce and the [[Alternium|strange object]] that had passed through the rift she had opened. Alas, this allowed Shockwave's agents to capture the Proctor's spark, and bring it to Decepticon leader [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 3}}

When Nemesis Prime resurfaced in Australia, the Autobots confronted him. As Ultra Magnus and the others assaulted the Decepticons directly, Arcee managed to free the Protector from the villains' clutches. The liberated Protector then merged with Optimus Prime, giving him the strength to defeat his evil counterpart. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 4}}

=====''The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms'' comic=====
[[Image:Arcee2010MangaBoogie01.jpg|thumb|200px|left|She's supposed to be ''running''. Seriously.]]

After receiving an SOS signal, Arcee and the Autobots responded to aid the humans. Their rescue efforts were interrupted by Galvatron and the Decepticons, but Rodimus Prime managed to defeat their enemies, and the Autobots flew the refugees to safety. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 1|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #1}}

On another occasion, Arcee and her friends were confronted with five copies of the lost Decepticon leader [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. They eventually uncovered Galvatron directing the "[[Megatron Corps]]", and destroyed his drones. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 2|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #2}}

Arcee was also present when Ultra Magnus gave a tour of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] to a group of human children. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 3|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #3}}

She was present on the planet [[Feminia]] during the Decepticon invasion of the world, as well. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 5|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #5}}
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=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Yōko Kawanami]] (Japanese)
[[Image:Hmep3_arcee_cries.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Blurr cares not for your pain, woman!]]
In 2011, Arcee was stationed at the Autobots' secondary command post on the planet [[Athenia]] when Cybertron's mega-computer [[Vector Sigma]] began to destabilize, threatening the planet and opening it up to an attack by Decepticons and their new "Headmaster" warriors. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}} She remained there with Hot Rod, Kup, Blurr and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Carly]] to hold down the fort while the other Autobots joined the battle on Cybertron, and watched from afar as an object that they believed to be a star also headed for the planet. The "star" was in actuality the colossal spaceship the Maximus, carrying the Autobot Headmasters from their homeworld of planet [[Master (planet)|Master]], and with their added strength, the Autobot forces were able to rout the Decepticons. While Optimus Prime headed into Cybertron's depths to try and stabilize the computer, Arcee helped welcome the Autobot Headmasters to Athenia, and again remained on the planet with Kup and Blurr while most of the other Autobots began searching for the missing Matrix of Leadership on Earth, required to bring Vector Sigma under control. Arcee wept when news of [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]'s death during the quest reached Athenia. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} Lack of any further news put Blurr on edge, and Arcee was trying to get him calm down before he drove her nuts when Autobot Headmaster commander [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]] announced that he was going to Cybertron to try to help Optimus Prime. Arcee and the others went with him, helping to monitor Vector Sigma while he followed Prime into Cybertron's catacombs. Ultimately, the Matrix was recovered and used to stabilize Vector Sigma, but not before Optimus Prime perished once more, leaving Hot Rod—now Rodimus Prime again—as leader. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

[[Image:Headmasters threestooges.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

Arcee, Kup and Blurr counselled Rodimus Prime on how to deal with the Decepticons' newest weapon, the [[Madmachine]]; Arcee put both Blurr and [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] in their place for underestimating the threat. She then watched as Fortress used the technology of Master to resurrect Blaster as Twincast. {{storylink|The Great Cassette Operation}} A little later, Arcee relayed a report from Fortress about the Decepticon conquest of planet [[Beast (planet)|Beast]] to Rodimus. {{storylink|Rebellion on Planet Beast}} Later still, she helped track the trajectory of the Decepticons' newest space-borne weapon, the meteorite [[Metamorphose]], and assured Daniel that Fortress's battleship would be able to deal with it before it posed any thread to Athenia. {{storylink|Approach of the Demon Meteorite}}

Receiving a distress call from the planet [[Praum]], Arcee conferred with Kup and Blurr on what to do, since Rodimus himself was on Earth checking up on a report of a new energy discovery. While the Autobot Headmasters went to investigate Praum, Rodimus radioed in that the energy report was a fake, prompting Arcee to re-examine the report and discover it had been given by hypnotised victim of the Decepticon Headmaster [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]]. Realising the energy report was a distraction, Rodimus headed for Praum and saved the Autobot Headmasters from the ambush waiting for them there. {{storylink|The Four-Million-Year-Old Veil of Mystery}} Chromedome started to develop a crush on Arcee, and the other Headmasters made fun of him by comparing Arcee's looks to the [[Statue of Liberty]]'s. {{storylink|Terror! The Six Shadows}}

[[Image:Hm11 arcee handsonhips.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Yeah, you'll be seeing this a lot if you get married, and it'll always be while you're trying to watch football.]]

When the Decepticons launched another major attack on Cybertron in order to seize control of the new alloy [[cybertonuron]] that Vector Sigma had created, Arcee rushed to the planet to join the battle, though she and Kup were held up by having to stop and pull Blurr out of a chair he'd gotten stuck in. The trio watched as Rodimus and Galvatron battled. {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1}} Unfortunately, the Autobots did not reckon with Decepticon Headmaster leader [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], who used [[plasma energy]] bombs to destroy Cybertron, rather than allow Galvatron to obtain the cybertonuron. Rodimus Prime decided to leave leadership to Fortress while he departed to search space for a new homeworld for the Transformers, and Kup and Blurr volunteered to go along with him; Arcee expressed her desire to join them, but Rodimus instructed her to stay behind to look after Daniel and Wheelie. {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2}}

[[Image:Hm11 chromedome arcee dance.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

Arcee was downcast by these turns of events, but tried to encourage Wheelie and Daniel to keep their spirits up. They all attended a party to commemorate the completion of the joint Autobot-human project, the [[Sol 1]] satellite, at which Arcee slow-danced with Chromedome, surprised at his skill. {{storylink|The Shadow Emperor, Scorponok}} Arcee later helped to monitor the mysterious Decepticon-controlled planet [[Zarak (planet)|Zarak]] {{storylink|The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts}} and alerted Fortress to the appearance on Athenia of [[buridanka|a carnivorous plant]]. {{storylink|Head On!! Fortress Maximus}}

When Fortress departed Athenia to join a battle on Mars, Carly worried for the safety on Daniel, and Arcee assured her he would be fine. {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! Maximus Is in Danger}} During the fight on Mars, Fortress was hit by a blast of energy by the Decepticons that drained all his power, and Arcee desperately tried to raise him on the communications channel. She analyzed the energy that had struck him, identifying it as plasma energy, and realized that the Decepticons planned to destroy Mars in order to generate more of it. {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! MegaZarak Appears}} Unbelievably, the villains succeeded in the goal, and Arcee joined with Spike and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] in scanning the planetary debris to assess the damage the planet's destruction had caused to the solar system. After they reported their findings to Fortress, a strange new phenomenon appeared on Athenia: Daniel and Wheelie saw a UFO! Arcee filled Fortress in on the mystery sighting, and travelled with the Autobot Headmasters to watch as Daniel tried communicating with the strange visitor via music. Chromedome was particularly honored to drive alongside Arcee, and got a thrill out of seeing her transform. {{storylink|Return of the Immortal Emperor}}

[[Image:Hm18_arcee_memo.jpg|right|thumb|225px|"So, yeah, this is basically all I do now."]]

Arcee was the first to speak out in favour of offering aid to the energy-depleted planet [[Sandra (planet)|Sandra]], and gathered information on the Autobots' energon stockpiles in order to verify the energy could be spared. {{storylink|SOS from Planet Sandra}} Soon after, Arcee used [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] to send a request from Spike to Galvatron about the unlikely possibility of the two factions uniting in a new energy research programme... and received a surprised response in the positive! Unfortunately, the negotiations proved to be a Decepticon distraction, granting the rest of the villains time to depart on an interplanetary energy-plundering quest. Once the Autobots discovered they had been duped, they set off in pursuit of their foes across space; Arcee accompanied them, helping to look after Daniel and Wheelie on the trip. {{storylink|Daniel Faces His Biggest Crisis Ever!!}}

[[Image:Hm19_nurse_arcee.jpg|left|thumb|225px|"Hey you look a lot like..." "Riderman? Yeah, I get that a lot."]]

The Autobots discovered that the Decepticons' first target was the planet [[Hive (planet)|Hive]] when they found a damaged ship and an injured soldier from the planet floating in space. Arcee did her best to save the soldier's life with the Maximus's medical equipment, but his wounds were to severe. {{storylink|Fight to the Death on Planet Hive!!}} Next, the Decepticons went after the planet [[Twin Star|Sperity]]; Fortress instructed [[Brainstorm]] to take Arcee, Daniel and Wheelie to Sperity's barren twin [[Twin Star|Toruin]] where they could be safe until the fighting was over. However, the quartet discovered that most of Sperity's population had evacuated to a subterranean city on Toruin, and Arcee was forced to volunteer herself as a "hostage", remaining on Toruin as a show of good faith while Brainstorm went to pass this important information on to the Autobots on Sperity. {{storylink|Battle for Defense of the False Planet}}

Arcee's image was programmed into one of Daniel's video games as a hapless damsel who had to be saved from sprites of the Decepticon Headmasters. Fortunately, she didn't take any offense at this, and happily watched Daniel play the game, complimenting him on his marksmanship. Soon after, the Autobots saved the injured [[Beastformer]] [[Tekna]] from the planet Darhos, and Arcee monitored his vitals as Chromedome tried and failed to save his life. {{storylink|Find MegaZarak's Weak Spot!!}} Arcee then joined the Autobots in traveling to planet [[Paradise]], {{storylink|Head Formation of Friendship}} and [[Pirate Planet]], but just really stood around on the Maximus and didn't do much. {{storylink|Mystery of the Space Pirate Ship}} She carried on doing nothing after the Autobots returned to Athenia {{storylink|Ultra Magnus Dies!!}} and even took the time to advocate that ''others'' do nothing as well, such as when she had Spike refrain from contacting Fortress in the face of a diversionary Decepticon attack. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg}} She spent most of the time that immediately followed sitting at a monitor, either sending communications or overseeing Fortress's telekinetic surgery on an injured Spike. She finally got off her butt to tell a benched Chromedome that Fortress was in trouble in a battle on Earth, but fortunately, Chromedome had just deduced the location of Scorponok's weak spot and left Arcee in charge on Athenia while he headed off to pass the info on. {{storylink|I Risk My Life for Earth}}

[[Image:Hm27 ambassador arcee.jpg|right|thumb|"Weren't you a little taller the last time we met?" "Shut up."]]

Fortress's victory over Scorponok forced the Decepticons off of Earth, leaving the Autobots to begin clean-up operations and restore the damage done to the planet. Arcee was appointed Spike's aide in his meeting with the [[United Nations]], working to help co-ordinate the relief effort; their first endeavour was the destruction of the Decepticons' abandoned Earth headquarters. {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1)}} Despite these new duties, however, Arcee still joined with the other Autobots in travelling to the planet Master when word reached them that Scorponok had withdrawn there and was causing chaos. She put her medical knowledge to work again treating the wounds of Chromedome's old friend [[Jack (Headmasters)|Jack]]. {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 2)}} She proceeded to do absolutely nothing for the entirety of the remainder of the Autobots' time on the planet, but she sure did a good job of sitting silently in a chair. {{storylink|Operation: Destroy the Decepticons}}

Arcee's massively importantly contribution to the Autobots' return flight to Earth was reminding Daniel and Wheelie to wear their seatbelts. Soon after touching down on the planet, Arcee received a report that an airliner carrying Spike and Carly had crashed in the Andes, prompting Daniel and the Headmasters to head to the rescue. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 1)}} She then ''finally'' stepped back on to the battlefield for the first time in ages when she joined all the other Autobots in a climactic final battle with the Decepticons at the North Pole. She united her energies with her team-mates, funnelling them through the Headmasters' [[Head Formation]], super-charging Fortress Maximus and giving him the strength to destroy Scorponok's [[transtector]]. This victory finally led the Decepticons to flee Earth for good, and Arcee stood stoically by Fortress and the other Headmasters as they bid Spike, Carly and Daniel goodbye, before heading into space to carry on the fight. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}

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===Marvel UK comics future timelines===
[[Image:Arceeprimesrib.jpg|left|300px|thumb|They're not men, Arcee. Transformers have no gender. We've been over this!]]
Arcee was constructed by the Autobots in an alternate future 1995 as a good-will attempt to placate [[Feminist mob|angry feminists]] who thought that they were "sexist" for having no women in their group. After trying multiple times to explain that Autobots, being robots, had no gender, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] surrendered and ordered [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] to make a new Autobot who would meet the humans' demands for sexual equality. However, when Arcee was unveiled at a public ceremony, her pink, skinny and curvaceous form enraged the very audience Prime intended to placate. [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], [[Horri-Bull]], [[Fangry]] and [[Squeezeplay]] who immediately attacked, looking to crush the "secret weapon" that was promised. Prime warned Arcee to stay back, lest she get hurt in battle, but the female Autobot, rightfully annoyed at the Autobots' lack of faith in her equal ability, singlehandedly forced the Decepticons into a retreat. [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] thought that was pretty hot. The feminists were enraged beyond words. {{storylink|Prime's Rib!}}

[[Image:Arceehotrodspacepirates.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Y'know, Arcee, if you'd stop running pidgeon-toed, maybe we'd be out of here by now.]]
Arcee and Hot Rod became quite friendly, but with his ascension to Prime status in 2006, they began to drift apart. She was stationed at [[Autobot City]] on Earth and got bored by her duties. The [[Quintesson]]s attacked in 2008, stringing out the city's population to the wall and using a wounded Arcee as bait to attract Rodimus; when he tried to use the Matrix to heal her, they stole it and he reverted to Hot Rod. Despite her injuries, she assisted him in awakening [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] and devastating the Quintesson fleet. {{storylink|Space Pirates!}}

In 2009, Arcee tracked down [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] on Earth, where they were planning to use a laser bore to leech energy right from the planet's core. Joining a small Autobot detachment, they destroyed the drill and returned to Autobot City to face the greater threat: a timestorm that threatened 20 years of history with destruction. As Galvatron had spent months back in the 20th century, the universe was unraveling from the anomaly.

[[Image:TimeWars3-ArceeDinobots.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Dinobots 1, Chivalry 0]]

Arcee, Rodimus and several other Autobots traveled back in time to 1989 in order to retrieve the Decepticon villain. Unfortunately, the Autobots of that day mistook them for imposters and tried to kill them. Arcee was nearly mauled to death by the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] before [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]] explained that they were actually travelers from the future. Even more unfortunately, Galvatron had acquired some allies in the past: Scourge, [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], and the mighty [[Straxus (G1)|Megatron]]. She joined Kup and Ultra Magnus in trying to triple-team Megatron, but was only swatted aside like a bothersome insect. Arcee survived, however, and managed to take a few cheap shots at Galvatron later on in the fight. Eventually, the timestorm asserted itself on the battle, and consumed Galvatron utterly, ending the temporal distortion. {{storylink|Time Wars}}

Arcee and the Autobots returned to their time only to find it had reset so Galvatron never time-jumped and had instead conquered Cybertron. Their resistance movement was quickly crushed, and the Autobots were forced to leave their homeworld. {{storylink|Aspects of Evil!}} Arcee joined a hundreds-strong Autobot team in fleeing to Earth to regroup. When the Matrix-imprisoned [[Unicron]] possessed Rodimus, Arcee showed a more ruthless side in being the only one of the Autobots to advocate using lethal force on him. {{storylink|The Void! (UK)|The Void}} {{storylink|White Fire}} As Unicron would go on to possess Rodimus again and devastate Cybertron in 2010—an event she witnessed—her ruthless attitude appears to have been the right one all along. Yes, Rodimus Prime managed to contain Unicron again, but at what price...? {{storylink|Aspects of Evil!}}

{{note|Her only appearances in the Marvel U.S. comics were in their [[Transformers: The Movie (Marvel comic)|Transformers: The Movie]] adaptation ("[[The Planet-Eater!]]", "[[Judgment Day!]]", and "[[The Final Battle!]]"), and a profile in issue #4 of their [[Transformers Universe (Marvel comic)|Transformers Universe]]. All stuff out-of-continuity with the US storyline.}}

===''Big Looker Storybook'' continuity===
[[Image:Wildboyofquintessonbattle.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Look, Dinobots, do you get along with Arcee or not?]]
Kup led Hot Rod, Arcee, and the Dinobots on a special mission to take supplies from Earth to a space station on Cybertron's second moon. Despite Kup's warnings, the Dinobots loaded too many supplies onto the ship, and the ship crashed on a planet. Everyone landed safely, but Kup recognized the place. It was the planet [[Quintessa|Quintesson]]! They were interrupted by a tribal scream and a flurry of firestones. However, the boy who made his presence known was not aiming at them, but at the Quintessons behind them. The boy's name was [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], and he had been abandoned on the planet when his ship crashed there earlier.

Wheelie led them through the jungle, battling Quintessons along the way, until they reached Wheelie's crashed ship. Hot Rod was able to fix it, and everyone left the planet Quintesson, Wheelie included! {{storylink|The Story of Wheelie, the Wild Boy of Quintesson}}

===Coloring books===
Arcee didn't get a seat during a meeting and later shot at Decepticons. {{storylink|The Lost Treasure of Cybertron}}

===Beast Era===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
After digging his way out from underneath a sudden rockslide caused by an unexpected energy surge from a damaged [[stasis pod]], Rattrap demanded to know what in the name of his [[Relatives|great aunt]] Arcee was going on. {{storylink|Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate}}

====''Universe: Featuring the Wreckers''====
{{note|The following takes place during the [[Beast Era]], specifically its cartoon continuity, which took from both the original cartoon and the Marvel Comics. However, these stories seem to be written to be specifically taking place solely after the events of the original cartoon.}}

{{bigquote|I liked her better when she had that kid in her head.|[[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]]|"[[Betrayal]]"}}

[[Image:Arceedeparturemourns.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Gothy 'cuz all her toys get canceled.]]
During a battle against a horde of killer [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbirds]], [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] and [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] (now an adult) sacrificed their lives to end the threat. The death of Daniel took a serious toll on Arcee, who became reclusive, preferring to sit alone with images of her former [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster partner]]. Over time, she slipped away from her friends entirely, disappearing within [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. After an unspecified event, she took on the form of a techno-organic spider, and learned the skills of both [[Crystalocution]] and the previously lost art of [[Tekkaido]]. She strongly believed that she had premonitions of her friends' deaths before they would happen, and this knowledge had driven her insane. She hid herself away, hoping to spare herself the pain of experiencing this phenomenon.

[[Image:Arceedeparturespider.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Don't underestimate me, I'm more than just a pretty fa— well, just don't underestimate me, okay?]]
Hundreds of [[Stellar cycle|stellar cycles]] later, when [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] returned from [[Earth]]'s past and conquered Cybertron with his army of [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]], Arcee's solitude spared her from the onslaught. [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], now known as simply Rodimus, had helped form a new team of [[Wrecker|Wreckers]] and wished to enlist Arcee. But Arcee rejected his offer as she was still too embittered by her experience, though she was touched by the Wrecker [[Fractyl]]'s words. Rodimus's Wreckers were followed by Megatron's new Vehicon generals, [[Quake (G1)|Quake]] and [[Blastcharge (BM)|Blastcharge]], causing a battle that resulted in Fractyl's near-death. Refusing to lose another, Arcee used her spark to save Fractyl, also reformatting him into a Transmetal body. Arcee agreed to depart with the rest of the Wreckers, and she and Fractyl assisted them in defeating a vast Vehicon army in order to reach an old [[Autobot shuttle]]. {{storylink|Departure}}

But the Autobot bounty hunter [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] had snuck aboard their ship and attacked some of their group. Arcee and the others raced to the rescue, and Arcee was quickly felled by Devcon, despite his new, smaller Vehicon body. After things were sorted out, Arcee tended to Fractyl, whose new Transmetal form was wildly unstable. At Arcee's insistence, [[Apelinq]] created a crude medical bot, [[CatSCAN]], to assist Fractyl's recovery. Arcee was oddly unable to foresee the deaths of [[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]] and [[Sonar (BW)|Sonar]], a result of a yet-unknown saboteur amongst their ranks, as she happily watched CatSCAN discover himself while working on Fractyl. Their ship set down on their [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]]-given destination, the remote planet of [[Akalo|Archa Nine]]. Arcee stayed behind with a few others to repair damage to their ship by their mysterious saboteur, who turned out to be fellow Wrecker [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]. Cyclonus stole the [[Divine Light]], the artifact the Wreckers were searching for, and returned to his true master, [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]]. {{storylink|Betrayal}}

[[Image:Arceedisclosure.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Just like old times, but smaller.]]
Arcee blamed herself, as she hadn't been able to foresee death since she saved Fractyl. Demoralized, Arcee and the Wreckers left Archa Nine and headed to another planet at the insistence of their divinely-inspired leader, [[Primal Prime]]. They landed on a small icy planet, and a small scout team, including Arcee, was sent to investigate. After searching for hours, they stumbled upon [[Al-Badur]], a [[Quintesson]] scientist. Arcee immediately readied her weapon, as she and Rodimus had had enough of the Quintessons for several lifetimes, but Primal Prime asked her to lower them. Al-Badur was a somewhat welcome source of information regarding their quest, and before they could leave the planet with him, they were under attack by a horde of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] sent by Cryotek. Arcee and Rodimus quietly bonded as they battled the Sharkticons; it was just like old times. Slowly but surely, Arcee's demeanor had lightened. After the Sharkticons were defeated, Al-Badur explained their problem. The Divine Light was an ancient Quintesson piece of technology that allowed them to tap directly into the power of [[Primus]], and now Cryotek had it! {{storylink|Disclosure}}

But when they returned to Cybertron, it had changed during their absence into a [[technorganic]] paradise by the [[Great Reformatting]]. Quintessons had seized the opportunity to invade the planet, but Primal Prime assured Arcee and the others that Cryotek was their only concern. Primal Prime, Apelinq, [[Ramulus]] and [[Tigatron]] left them to find Cryotek, leaving Arcee and the others to take their injured to safety before joining the counterattack forces on the ground. Instead, their shuttle took heavy damage and was descending in a ball of fire and smoke. Arcee, grabbing Fractyl's body and what life support she could, abandoned ship with the rest. Disregarding Primal Prime's orders, Arcee suggested they find Cryotek and help the other Wreckers defeat him. Descending into the layers of Cybertron, they met [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]], who joined them on their journey.

Finding the battleground between Cryotek and [[Sentinel Maximus]] (the combined form of Apelinq and Primal Prime, newly merged by Primus), Arcee reluctantly set aside Fractyl and his life support to join the fight. She helped Devcon defeat Cryotek's mutated pet [[Chro]], using her weblines to hold the monster still so the bounty hunter could shoot at it. But Cyclonus and Rodimus had disappeared beneath some rubble, so Arcee, Fractyl (who had been magically repaired by Tigatron expending all of his [[Vok]] powers) and the others went digging for him... and instead found [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]], [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]]... and Arcee's nephew, [[Rattrap]]. They avoided each other's glance awkwardly.

They found Rodimus, but he was in rough shape, having fought nearly to the death with Cyclonus. Arcee and the others agreed to follow Al-Badur's instruction in defeating Cryotek, and helped direct the battle between Sentinel Maximus and Cryotek to a chamber deep within Cybertron. Arcee asked Fractyl to keep on Rodimus, who was extremely weak. Their group arrived in the desired chamber, but Arcee had a bad feeling about the place. It seemed familiar. She recognized it too late. It was a Quintesson banishment chamber, and Al-Badur had activated the containment shield within, locking Sentinel Maximus, Cryotek, and himself inside a forcefield bubble that fed into a strongly gravitational portal into nothingness. To Arcee's initial horror, despite her pleas, Rodimus stood up to deal with the situation. She knew that his next action would kill him in his weakened state, but after his assurances, she resigned herself to the outcome. Rodimus and Cheetor, both [[Matrix Templar]]s, used their skills to drain Cryotek of his Primus-stolen powers. As expected, this was too much for Arcee's long-time friend, and though they succeeded in saving Cybertron, Rodimus was dead.

But death isn't an ending, she realized. It was just another change. "And change is what we do." Arcee and Fractyl gathered his body to take it to a secret burial ground that Arcee knew of. She promised that this time, she wouldn't disappear forever. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}
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===Dreamwave comics continuity===
Before the war, Arcee worked in a hazardous materials treatment plant. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Guide}} She was a member of Hot Rod's underground rebellion team on Cybertron, battling the forces of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} Both Hot Rod and Springer appeared to be in love with her, though she seemed rather uninterested in both of them. In reality, Arcee was a sleeper agent for the [[Quintesson]]s.

{{note|Due to [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s bankruptcy, this story was never concluded.}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[Image:TheArtofWar1 girltalk.jpg|left|200px|thumb|]]
In order to oversee the decommissioning of all Cybertronian technology on Earth, Arcee was sent to the planet alongside [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], the last of which whom she had a mutual attraction to. Shortly after the group arrived at [[Area 52 (G1)|Area 52]], the facility came under attack by [[Cobra]], and Arcee helped fight them off alongside [[Scarlett]], who was surprised over the existence of "girl robots". {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1|The Art of War #1}} Upon hearing about a security breach in the lower levels of Area 52, the group headed there and, to Arcee's horror, found Bumblebee injured and low on energy. Before much could be done about him, the group was attacked by [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]], who took control of [[G.I. Joe battle mech|G.I. Joes' mechs]] and forced them to fight the Autobots before bringing the roof down on everyone. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 2|The Art of War #2}}

The Autobots and Joes survived, and quickly followed Serpent O.R. through a warpgate to Cybertron, where they were attacked by [[cannibalizer]]s. Arcee didn't think they were very threatening, but suggested that they retreat to protect the humans. During their escape, she promised that she'd rotate Bumblebee's tires if he could outrace her... only to run straight into Serpent O.R. and his new army, who remorselessly killed Bumblebee and captured the others. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} They eventually managed to escape thanks to their G.I. Joe friends. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}}

[[Image:GIJoevsTFArtofwar5_Arceecrys.jpg|right|180px|thumb|]]
After hearing that Serpent O.R. had captured [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Arcee and the others made their way to his chambers, only to find that [[Cobra Commander]] had taken control of Serpent O.R.'s body after he had seized the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. "Serpentor Prime" effortlessly defeated most of the Autobots and Joes, but Arcee dodged his tentacles and managed to rip his chestplate off, allowing [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] to take the Matrix's power and defeat him. Some time later, Arcee cried for Bumblebee during a memorial service for him. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}
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===IDW comics continuity===
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[[Image:Spotlight Arcee traumatic flashback.jpg|right|220px|thumb|]]
Arcee was an early test subject of the mad genius [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], after he decided to introduce gender into the Transformers just to see the results. Her fundamental [[CNA]] was altered, giving her a "maddening maelstrom of contradictory sensory input" and causing all other Transformers to sense a fundamental difference about her and inadvertently use feminine pronouns around her, something that she loathes. (It also gave her fangs and permanent lipstick for some unknown reason.)

[[Image:IDW Arcee mad.jpg|left|180px|thumb|The writers of the Headmasters cartoon now fear for their lives...]]
She didn't meet Jhiaxus' standards and was dumped. Dangerously unstable and driven by an implacable homing instinct towards her creator's experiments, Arcee cut a mech-fluid swath of carnage across several planets in her obsession with destroying everything Jhiaxus created. She was eventually taken down by [[Tyrest Accord]] enforcer [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and incarcerated on the Autobot penitentiary on [[Garrus-9]].

Her [[spark]] was kept separate from her body within the penitentiary, as were those of all prisoners. In this limbo, she found a kind of peace. Unfortunately, when the Decepticons attacked to seize the new inmate [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]] (another Jhiaxus experiment), warden [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] freed her as a last resort to stop the attack. She was able to carve her way through the invaders, but not before they left with their target. She headed off to intercept them, with [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] convincing Maximus to allow this. Arcee apparently knows of the [[Expansion]] and Jhiaxus's part in it, and refers to herself as the "servo-wrench in the works". {{storylink|Spotlight: Arcee}}

Later, on the [[Decepticon Battle Platform Zuska]], Arcee tortured a Decepticon until he agreed to tell her where [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzaitron]] had taken the [[Combiner|gestalts]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Cyclonus}} She tracked them down, only to find the [[Dead Universe]] Transformers had activated Monstructor and taken him to places unknown, decimating the Decepticons in the process. She agreed to assist the wounded Banzaitron in getting to the Monstructor-Six, reasoning it would lead to Jhiaxus... {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}}

[[Image:SpotlightSideswipe Jhiaxus deathbecomeshim.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Those were the best days of our lives.]]
As Arcee assisted Banzaitron and his team in trying to recapture Monstructor, [[Skram (G2)|Skram]] arrived through a space bridge portal with the means to go to where Jhiaxus was. Slicing off his arm and murdering her way through [[Micromaster]]s, she finally cornered him and was surprised to find he wouldn't die—thanks to coming from the [[Dead Universe]], he was effectively immortal. Which meant she could kill him over and over. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}

Arcee spent several years gleefully murdering Jhiaxus, but her revenge was cut short one day when the nearby portal to the Dead Universe suddenly began to lure all life on Gorlam Prime into it. She was hypnotically drawn towards it, but [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] held her back until the allure of the portal went away. Though the two Autobots were safe, the entire population of the planet had mysteriously vanished into the portal, and they decided to investigate. {{storylink|Heart of Darkness issue 2}} A while later, they detected [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and his minions in the vicinity and attacked them. {{storylink|Heart of Darkness issue 1}}

Though Arcee easily defeated Jhiaxus, brought back to life by Galvatron's [[Darkness (G1)|Heart of Darkness]], she was overpowered by Galvatron himself and his Dead Universe powers. Hardhead urged her to return to the Autobot army and warn them of Galvatron's return, and despite Cyclonus and Scourge following her and blowing her into an abyss, she survived and got away. {{storylink|Heart of Darkness issue 2}}

Arcee later came to the rescue for an Autobot escape pod full of survivors from [[Kimia Facility]]. {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings}} After rescuing the survivors, she and Hardhead explained five times to them all about the Dead Universe, Heart of Darkness, D-Void and Galvatrons plan and what they had to do to save the universe. They made it to Cybertron by the time Galvatron infected [[Vector Sigma]] with the Heart of Darkness, which caused a storm to break out, so Arcee suggested on landing the ship in a nearby tunnel and told anyone who would like to bail out to do it now. Fortunately they conveniently crashed right on top of Galvatron himself. She and Hardhead continued to shoot Galvatron who somehow survived the crash. They were defeated. {{storylink|Chaos Part Four: Genesis}}
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==Games==
===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
:''Voice actor'': [[Lenne Hardt]]

In 2010, the Decepticon military commander [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] acquired a source of infinite power called [[Zel Quartz]]. It drove him to madness, and he destroyed Cybertron while threatening to lay waste to the rest of the galaxy. Rodimus Prime and the Autobots desperately coordinated with the [[Quintesson]]s to use a timeslip device and travel back in time, preventing Shockwave from ever getting his hand on Zel Quartz. Unfortunately, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and the remaining Decepticons learned of the mission, and intercepted the Autobots on the way through the timeslip.

Crashing in 2003 on [[Zel Samine]], where the quartz originated, Arcee awoke with Kup and Rodimus Prime. Separated from the rest of their team, they sent out an SOS and were met by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and the present day Autobots. After explaining the situation, Arcee and her allies joined up with Optimus to search for the Zel Quartz before the Decepticons could find it.

Wheeljack searched the planet for any records or power signatures that might be Zel Quartz. After three false leads, they finally located Zel Quartz at the [[Enormous Laser Transmission Array]]. After fighting through numerous Decepticon lieutenants, and facing the might of Megatron and Galvatron united, Arcee and the Autobots secured the Zel Quartz and ultimately disposed of it so that it could do no further harm. With the rock no longer a threat, the Autobots of 2010 vanished and returned to their home timeline. {{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1ArceeProto.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Orange? Where'd that come from?]]
[[Image:Concept-HeadmasterArcee.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Pinkdome.]]
*'''Arcee'''
: Despite that she was a major character in [[The Transformers: The Movie|the movie]], no transforming toy of Arcee was made during the [[The Transformers (toyline)|original toyline]]'s run. Images of a hand-sculpted [[prototype]] based on Arcee's original character design ([[#Notes|see below]]) have appeared in several Japanese publications, but it appears the toy never progressed beyond that stage.

: The Japanese ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' book shows a piece of concept artwork of the Headmaster [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] car in pink and white labeled "Arcee", a proposal for a redeco of the toy as Headmaster Arcee from "[[The Rebirth]]". (Presumably, then, this was a Hasbro-initiated idea.) The idea does not appear to have gone any farther.

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[[Image:Botconarceetoy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Don't underestimate me, I'm more than just a pretty face. Arcee, MAXIMIZE! Don't underestimate me, I'm more than just a pretty face. Arcee, MAXIMIZE! Don't underestimate me, I'm more than just a pretty face. Arcee, MAXIMIZE! Don't underestimate me, I'm more than just a pretty face. Arcee, MAXIMIZE!]]
*'''Arcee''' (Mega, 2001)
: The very first true transforming Arcee toy is a [[redeco]] and minor [[Retool|retooling]] of the ''[[Beast Wars (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' [[Transmetal 2]] [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], transforming into a malformed mish-mash of machine and organic parts in the form of a large spider. The spider-mode fangs become a grappling weapon for her robot mode which extend on a [[Retractable string gimmick|retractable string]]. She has a special [[spark crystal]] that changes her [[Insignia|faction symbol]] from [[Autobot]] to [[Maximal]] when rotated. The robot mode also features a spring-powered waist-swivel for "power kick" action. Arcee lacks the [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] toy's additional chest armor, and thus has oddly-placed holes in her... well, chest, that keep the armor in place.

: Arcee was available only as an [[exclusive]] to [[BotCon 2001]], and along with [[Tigatron]] was the first time since the inception of [[3H Productions|3H]] that they were allowed to use pre-existing characters for convention exclusives. Arcee is also the first convention toy to feature retooling. Preorders received their Arcees with a bonus; the box contained a light-sensitive sound chip featuring voice actress [[Susan Blu]]'s voice saying "Don't underestimate me, I'm more than just a pretty face. Arcee, MAXIMIZE!". These chips are VERY light-sensitive. Many won't shut up to this day.

:Both Arcee and Tigatron were limited to 1200 pieces.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Autobot/Arcee/arcee.htm More information on Generation 1 Arcee at TFU.info]''

===Titanium Series===
[[Image:Arceetitanium.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Seems like a mercy killing, really.]]
*'''Arcee'''
: A 6" transforming Arcee toy was designed and displayed at [[BotCon]] 2007, but the [[Titanium Series]] was canceled before its tooling could be completed.

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===Binaltech===
[[Image:Binaltech arcee toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Well, it's progress.]]
*'''Arcee''' (2008)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''BT-21'''
**''Accessories:'' Engine/gun

:Arcee is a [[redeco]] of ''[[Alternators]]'' [[Decepticharge]] (himself a [[retool]] of [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]/[[Overdrive]]), using Honda's "Pearl White" for the car bodywork. The figure transforms into a "street performance" Honda S2000. Her hardtop roof can be removed for an open-top vehicle mode and used as a shield in robot mode. The engine and driveshaft may be removed and used as a long-barreled rifle (as the toy is Japanese issue and not subject to the same issues that removed the long barrel from the [[Hasbro]] versions of the mold).

: In spite of fan speculation, no retooling has been applied to the mold to enhance character resemblance or make her look less butch.

: A redeco of this toy as [[Paradron Medic]] was originally planned to be released simultaneously (but was canceled), a fate that also befell a redeco meant to be Arcee's occasional mold-mate [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Binaltech|Blackarachnia]]. The robot mode was used as the base model for the non-toy car-form [[Legion]].

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==Merchandise==
===MC Axis===
[[Image:Hybrid_model_arcee.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
*'''Arcee''' (Super Hybrid Model, 1987)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''H-03'''

:Arcee was one of three non-transforming ''[[Super Hybrid Model]]'' vinyl figurines created in 1987 by Japanese collectables company [[MC Axis]]. Standing at about eight inches tall and featuring articulation in the head and neck, Arcee and her fellows (Rodimus Prime and Galvatron) were based on their [[Studio OX]] character models, featuring much more anime-styled proportions and detailing.

:For reasons unknown, the retail release of Arcee and the other ''Super Hybrid Model'' figures was canceled. While Galvatron was eventually released as an exclusive at [[BotCon Japan 1997]], Arcee and Rodimus have never been officially released, though they do occasionally pop up on the secondary market, commanding prices in excess of $600.
 
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[[Image:Mcaxis_arcee.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
*'''Arcee''' (1996)

:This Japanese "garage kit", an unpainted resin model, was made by [[MC Axis]] and was also the first official product of Arcee that got a retail release. Included among its paperwork is a [[The Transformers (MC Axis manga)|comic strip]] starring Arcee. It is not known for its exceptional quality control - numerous unsightly air bubbles in the plastic are not an uncommon thing to encounter.

::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/1492/Axis-Model+Kit/Arcee.html Gallery of an assembled and painted Arcee at Transformers @ The Moon]
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===Super Collection Figure===
[[Image:Hoc_arcee_and_daniel.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Arcee should maybe reconsider something that big transforming into her head.]]
* '''Arcee''' (2000)
: A three-inch tall [[plastic|PVC]] figurine of Arcee was available in the first wave of Takara's ''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]]'' line. In a nice spot of attention to detail, she is holding the unremarkable small grey pistol she wielded in the Generation 1 cartoon episode, "[[The Dweller in the Depths]]". Like all the figures in the "act", it was available as both a standard full color figure and a colorless translucent version, one of each of which was available in a standard case of twelve [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] figures.

:Arcee was redecoed to create the chase figure for the eighth wave of the series, the [[Paradron Medic]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Autobot/HoCArcee/arcee.htm More information on Super Collection Figure Arcee at TFU.info]''

* '''Arcee and Daniel''' (2001)
:The Arcee figurine was re-released as part of the fourth wave of the ''Super Collection Figure'' series, now packaged with a figure of Daniel Witwicky in his exo-suit. The pair were available in both full color and metallic "pewter" versions; in eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of the set came with the body of the line's collectable [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] "build-a-figure".

===Heroes of Cybertron===
* '''Arcee''' (2002)
:When Hasbro released the ''Super Collection Figure'' line as ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', the Arcee figure was released as part of the first wave, now featuring a [[light-piping]] gimmick in the character's eyes, accomplished by casting the figure in translucent blue plastic and then painting over it. Rather than come blindpacked like the ''SCF'' figure, Arcee came on a blister card with a profile card included. The mold would later be redecoed in this fashion into the ''Heroes of Cybertron'' Paradron Medic.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Autobot/HoCArcee/arcee.htm More information on Heroes of Cybertron Arcee at TFU.info]''
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===MyClone===
[[Image:Myclone_arcee.jpg|right|thumb]]
* '''Arcee''' (2003)
**''ID number:'' '''MTF005'''
**''Accessories:'' White display base

:Released in the first wave of the ''[[MyClone]]'' line of Transformers PVC figures, this [[super deformed]] Arcee comes with a hexagonal white display stand, which can link up with the identical stands included with other ''MyClone'' figures. Her modular design allows her parts to be mixed and matched with those of any other MyClone figure, to hilariously hermaphroditic effect.
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===Palisades statues===
[[Image:Palisades_arcee.jpg|right|thumb]]
*'''Arcee''' (2004)

:Inspired by a [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] pin-up lithograph/poster by [[Rob Armstrong]],<ref>[http://www.dreadforce.com/creators.html The creators list for Jaran Studios' ''Dread Force'' includes this information in Rob's profile.]</ref> (itself based on Arcee's Studio OX character model, complete with obnoxious shoulder-armor rig) this statue features looks-right-at-only-one-angle perspective and a face so flat you'd swear she'd flown into a window. Standing around 6" tall, Arcee was limited to 2000 pieces worldwide.

:The Arcee statue was later repainted into that old standby, the [[Paradron Medic]].
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===Robot Heroes===
[[Image:Robotheroesrumblearcee.jpg|right|300px|thumb|She's actually running after Robot Heroes Cheetor. (Or her [[Rattrap|nephew)]]]]
* '''Arcee vs. Rumble''' (2008)

:Part of the second wave of [[Universe (2008 franchise)|''Universe]] [[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'', Arcee is packaged with [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] as part of the "Generation 1 Series." She is sculpted as running across a patch of mechanical flooring, and she has articulation at the head and shoulders.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/RHArcee/arcee.htm More information on Robot Heroes Arcee at TFU.info]''

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===Transformers - Mini Bust===
[[Image:Arcee statue.jpg|right|thumb|Not pictured: Springer and Weirdwolf.]]
* '''Arcee''' (Diamond Select, 2009)

:Released by [[Diamond Select Toys]] in 2009, Arcee was sculpted by [[Mark Wong]] of [[Art Asylum]] and limited to 1000 pieces. She is featured packing two of the style of pistol she is commonly seen with and looking off to one side. As is the case in certain [[Continuity|continuities]], she is listed as a member of [[Elita One]]'s [[Female Autobots|resistance group]]. Arcee's tech specs give her the following classifications: STR 5.5, INT 8, SPD 8, END 5, RNK 6, CRG 9, FBL 6, SKL 10.

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==Notes==
[[Image:G1ArceeModelComp.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Extreme Makeover: Arcee Edition.]]
* Arcee had two different [[Character model|character models]] in 1980s ''Transformers'' media. An earlier model served as the basis for her original unproduced toy (seen above), which was also the model used for most of her Marvel Comics appearances and for parts of the episode "[[Only Human]]". Her final model, meanwhile, was used for her appearances in ''The Transformers: The Movie'', the rest of her season 3 appearances, and her Japanese ''Headmasters'' appearances.

* When asked about Arcee's design in an interview, [[Floro Dery]]'s reply was, "Arcee is the naked mechanical equivalent of Princess Leia of ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]''."<ref>[http://transformersph.blogspot.com/2007/06/interview-with-floro-dery.html TransFormers Philippines: Interview With Floro Dery]</ref> Well, that answers that question... while raising a whole bunch of others! Perverts!!!

* Arcee has the most romantic attachments of any Transformers character: Hot Rod in the movie, Marvel Comics and Dreamwave continuities, Springer after the movie, Chromedome in ''The Headmasters'', and Bumblebee in [[Devil's Due Press|Devil's Due]] continuity. And then there is the weird affection shown toward Daniel in "[[The Rebirth, Part 3]]", but most fans won't read too much into it, for their own sanity. But damn she got around.

* Arcee's finalized character model was used to make a lot of the background female characters during the movie and season 3. Various Junkion ladies and the [[Paradron Medic]]s share her design, only without the shoulder-thingies, and a [[Cheesecake robot|more "shaped" version of her earlier model]] appeared in "[[Starscream's Ghost]]".

* The extras in "[[Spotlight: Arcee]]" reveal a few alternative color schemes [[Alex Milne]] and [[Simon Furman]] tried to get approved for IDW's version of Arcee, one blue, two red. [[Hasbro]] nixed all three, insisting on Arcee's usual coloration. Apparent reasons given were that "they didn't want her to be like the other female bots[,] so they wanted the pink look" and that "they wanted her different from <nowiki> </nowiki>[[Elita One]] <nowiki></nowiki>".<ref>[http://markerguru.deviantart.com/art/arcee-cover-colors-70762649 Alex Milne's comments on IDW Arcee's colors at deviantART]</ref> If there's actually any plans on Hasbro's part to start promoting female characters other than Arcee so that these arguments make sense, as of 2011, that'd still be news.

* Around 1999, [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] released a special version of the Replica (reissue) [[Microman]] Lady Command figure as part of a [[Lucky Draw figure|lucky draw]] for "The Official Guide to Takara SF Land" book in white and gold chrome named Arcee. The regular versions of the Lady Command figure all had names starting with "A" (Ann, Alice, Annie and Ai<ref>[http://microforever.com/replicam18X.htm Replica Microman Series; Reissued Lady Command M181 Ann, M182 Alice, M183 Annie & M184 Ai (11/1999) at Microman Forever]</ref>), so Arcee makes sense by that logic - but whether this is an incarnation of "our" G1 character is currently not known. Only 5 Lady Command Arcee figures were released.<ref>[http://microforever.com/sflandprize.htm Replica Microman Series; Kodashan Takara SF Land Book Prize - Microman Lady Command Arcee (?/00) at Microman Forever]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Arcee''' (アーシー ''Āshī'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Arszi''', '''RC''' (''The Movie'')
*''Italian:'' '''Saturnia''' (''The Headmasters'')
*''Russian:'' '''Arcee''' (Арки ''Arki'')
*''Spanish:'' '''Silvia''' (America ''The Headmasters'')

==References==
<references />

==External links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Arcee Arcee's Universe profile at NTFA.net]

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Bludgeon (ROTF)

2012-01-11T02:42:16Z

98.117.27.89: /* Titan Magazines Revenge of the Fallen comics */

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:''Bludgeon is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Movie continuity|live-action movie continuity]].''

[[Image:ROTFBludgeonTRUArt.jpg|thumb|300px|Foolish Whirl! To a master of Metallikato, your moves are like— ''grhk'']]

'''Bludgeon''' is a [[Metallikato]] martial-artist, loyal to the Decepticon cause and armed with an ancient blade handed down from ancient times. Underneath the samurai trappings though, he's a pretty straightforward 'con: he loves giving people a kicking, he's willing to fight dirty, and he doesn't give a fig about your complaints of immorality. Things like that, and his willingness to use a [[high-voltage electric cannon]] when fights go against him, are why other Metallikato users believe he's not a true master. <ref> [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=841165f8-19b9-f369-1057-0b57c1e069b6 Hasbro Battle Bio]</ref> But what does he care, he just shot you with a cannon!

One thing he does care about: he really, ''really'' gets focused on rivals and proving he's the best of them. If the rival defeats him, hey, he'll just find a new one to obsess over, no matter how much damage he took from the last.

He likes how [[Earth]] is full of innocent victims to use against Autobots, but he could do without all that disgusting greenery and [[water]] (urg!). It has other possibilities too: a smart, canny, dirty-fighting 'Con could [[Decepticon leader|lead his ''own'' faction]] if they played their cards right...

{{quote|I am a warrior born! It is ''you'', Megatron, who should fear ''me!''|Bludgeon has ''balls'', [[Transformers Comic issue 2.21|"A Short, Sharp Lesson!"]]}}

==Fiction==
===Toy bios===
Bludgeon and [[Whirl (ROTF)|Whirl]] were rivals in Metallikato, and when they ran into each other on Earth a battle ensued, a fight to the finish that would take only microseconds. And, well, Bludgeon lost. He was almost killed and retreated.

He reemerged in the jungles of Southeast Asia, having scanned a new tank mode and brandishing a frightening new skeleton-like robot mode. He lies in wait for [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], who was drawn to Bludgeon's location by his acts of mayhem. Unfortunately for Ironhide, Bludgeon is eager to prove his mettle against an Autobot in battle and restore his honor...

===Cyber Missions===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Bronco D. Jackson]] (English), [[Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza]] (Latin American-Spanish)
[[Image:CyberMission1-Bludgeon.jpg|left|thumb|300px|The one fiction in which his toy actually has swords, he uses a tree. Go figure.]]

{{quote|Ironhide! I will extinguish your spark beneath my treads!}}

When Bludgeon and [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] descended on [[Diego Garcia]], they interrupted an Autobot mission briefing. While Bumblebee stayed inside to guard its precious [[Datatrax|data tracks]] from Soundwave, Ironhide headed outside, where he was happy to face Bludgeon in battle, ramming him off the road. Bludgeon was able to temporarily thwart Ironhide when he snuck up behind the Autobot and hit him with a tree. The Decepticon wondered if he'd be as smart without that ugly head of his. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 1}}

[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] radioed Ironhide to hold off fighting Bludgeon until reinforcements arrived, but Ironhide didn't have the option. Bludgeon cursed the organic environment in which he was staged, and drew his weapon. When the fight reached an apparent stalemate, Ironhide offered Bludgeon amnesty if he joined the Autobots. Bludgeon refused, citing the wrath of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], and dove backwards off a waterfall. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 2}}

Megatron led the Decepticons on a mission to free the captured Soundwave. It was an Autobot trap. Bludgeon fought with [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] until an army of the Autobots' human allies surrounded the battlefield. Optimus Prime gave each Decepticon a choice: Leave Earth or be destroyed. Bludgeon and the other Decepticons chose to leave Earth. {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}

===Titan Magazines ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===

[[Image:Bludgeon_uk2.9.jpg|right|thumb|275px|Ah, that's much better.]]

One fine day, Bludgeon said to himself that he'd quite like to run his own group of Decepticons. But where could he find recruits? Well, there sure are a lot of them in [[NEST]]'s prison... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}} And so, pretending to be after an unspecified goal, Bludgeon entered the city of [[Las Vegas]] and waited for the Autobots to notice. The Autobots' plan was to allow the Decepticon to leave the city and safely attack him in the empty desert, but the impulsive [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]] couldn't hold himself back, and leapt into battle before Bludgeon had departed. The mighty martial artist shrugged off a blow from Jolt's electro-whip and severed the weapon with a slash of his sword, before hurling the Autobot through the wall of a nearby casino.

Bludgeon taunted Jolt by commenting on the proliferation of [[human]]s and how little the Decepticons cared for them, as a precursor to transforming into a tank mode and taking aim at some hapless gamblers. Jolt hurled himself into the path of Bludgeon's blast, and as he lay wounded, Bludgeon rubbed salt into his wound by reminding him that none of this would have happened if he had just followed his orders. Bludgeon attempted to deliver a killing strike with his sword, but Jolt rolled away at the last second, causing Bludgeon to embed his blade in the ground instead. In that moment, Jolt seized the immobilized sword and used his electrical powers to channel the entire output of the Las Vegas power grid through the blade, straight into Bludgeon himself! Bludgeon was knocked offline by the massive power surge, and taken into Autobot custody. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.9|Culture Shock}}

[[Image:Titan13_BrawnVersusBludgeon.jpg|left|thumb|250px|"I'll hit his shoulder at ''some'' point!"]]

Later, in NEST's [[South Africa]] maximum security prison, Bludgeon decided to make his bid for freedom. Halfway through [[Brakedown (ROTF)|Brakedown]] taunting him over his easy defeat, Bludgeon released [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]] from a hidden compartment to remove his restraints. Now armed and dangerous, he freed all the other prisoners, murdered Brakedown to encourage discipline, and led a vicious attack on the few, helpless Autobot guards. Reinforcements eventually arrived, just in time to stop him from murdering a beaten [[Brawn (ROTF)|Brawn]], but had to let the Decepticons leave to avoid civilian casualties, and Bludgeon had his little army... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}} [[Image:Titan18_Bludgeoncallsit.jpg|right|thumb|220px|"When we last met, Obi-wan, I was but the Learner, Now, I am... The Master!]]

Bludgeon kept out of the spotlight, but his unit would attempt to reconstruct the monstrous [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.14|Head in the Clouds}} and recruit the Autobot beserker [[Blazemaster]] into their ranks. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.16|Turn and Burn}} Finally, after three Decepticons were neutralised in [[Utah]], he decided to declare open war {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.18|Shadow War}}, with a scheme to wear down and destroy NEST to cut off the Autobot's support before he came for them.

However, NEST worked out his base was in [[Russia]]... but [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] turned traitor and informed Bludgeon in advance of the NEST/Autobot raid. Bludgeon, an adaptable sort, abandoned his previous plan and quickly organised an all-out assault: the enemy were ambushed, boxedthe enemy in, and worn down them down, and he personally murdered [[Slap Dash]] and wounded/killed [[Hubcap (TF 2010)|Hubcap]]. However, that's when the person Wheelie was ''really'' working for arrived: Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}} While his men wet themselves, Bludgeon wasn't impressed and fought Megatron to keep control of his faction, but after a brief fight the "pretender" (gettit? gettit?!) was beaten down, spared from death only because Megatron might have use for him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.21|A Short, Sharp Lesson}}

===''Unite for the Universe''===
{{quote|Alas, poor Bludgeon... I knew him. A fellow of limited ambition, non-existent social skills, and zero sense of humor.|Starscream gets all Shakespearian with a hologram of Bludgeon's head|"[[Unite for the Universe issue 1|Ambition Instigated]]"}}

Megatron offered Bludgeon, one of the Decepticons' most dependable and calculating warriors, control of the Decepticon forces on [[Earth]] if he could deliver to Megatron the "[[Unite]]" technology that [[N.E.S.T.]] had been developing. Bludgeon assured Megatron that he would not fail him. [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], a spectator to this conversation, unwittingly expressed his displeasure—Earth was his, not Bludgeon's! When Megatron chastised Starscream for his outburst, Starscream made secret plans to sabotage Bludgeon's efforts.

Bludgeon led a team consisting of [[Dirge (ROTF)|Dirge]], [[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]], and [[Brakedown (ROTF)|Brakedown]] to the [[N.E.S.T. Advanced Research Facility]] in [[Japan]]. Dirge and Mindwipe complained that they had sneaked into N.E.S.T.'s proximity on foot, since the two could have easily arrived much faster in their flight modes, but Bludgeon reminded them that their plan would succeed only via stealth. Unfortunately for Bludgeon, the element of surprise would not be his, as a team of Autobots was waiting for him there, as their mission had been tipped off by an anonymous source. Bludgeon immediately suspected Starscream of being behind this treachery, and, sure enough, Starscream made this quickly apparent. Compromised, Bludgeon called for a retreat, but he and his troops were buried under ice by Autobot firepower. {{Storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|The Secret of Project: Unite}}

Some time later, Bludgeon violently emerged from his would-be icy tomb, swearing vengeance against Starscream. Though Starscream believed Bludgeon destroyed, Bludgeon instead viewed Starscream's efforts to retrieve "Unite" technology from afar. After [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] returned successful from one of Starscream's missions, Bludgeon planned to follow the cat back to his master so he could at last enact his revenge. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|Ambition Instigated}}

Bludgeon located Starscream's secret base just as [[Sea Spray]], [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] and [[Breacher]] engaged the Decepticons. He used their distraction to infiltrate the base, but was overpowered by Starscream moments after he entered. {{Storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|Bludgeon's Revenge}} Bludgeon was recovered from the wreckage of Starscream's base by NEST. {{Storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|On the Road of Destruction}}

===IDW movie comics===
After Megatron's defeat at the [[Star harvester|Star Harvester]] in Egypt, Starscream gathered his own followers and hatched his own plans for conquest. To this end, Starscream sent Bludgeon and several other Decepticons under his command after a small Transformer named [[Brains]] who had fallen under the protection of [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Sam Witwicky]]. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2}} In addition to Bumblebee, [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]] and [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] opposed the Decepticons, and in the chaos of battle, Bludgeon accidentally killed [[Storm Surge (Movie)|Storm Surge]] while trying to shoot the invisible Mirage. He wasn't all that remorseful about his mistake. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 3|Rising Storm #3}} Once the Decepticons learned that [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] had arranged their mission in order to divert attention away from his own activities, they lost interest in fighting and attempted to retreat, but the Autobots wouldn't let them. Bludgeon was last seen laying defeated on the ground with a wound to his chest. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}}

==Toys==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
[[Image:RotF Bludgeon Master of Metallikato vs pack toy.jpg|thumb|300px|I'm just feeling a little ''naked'', alright?]]
*'''Master of Metallikato''' (Figure Multi-pack 2009)
**''Accessories:'' Two blades

:Bludgeon is a [[redeco]] of Deluxe Class [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]] from the [[Movie (toyline)|2007 live-action movie toyline]]. The figure transforms into an [[wikipedia:Stryker|M1126 Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle]] in green and brown, armed with a M2 .50 cal machine gun and two other machine guns mounted extending out of the troop compartment. In vehicle mode, he sports "KN-2764" markings, a reference to "[[Joe Kyde#SAGE2764|SAGE2764]]", the name of a user at the Hong Kong discussion group talk.transformers used by deco designer [[Joe Kyde]] several years arlier to disseminate [http://tformers.com/Unknown-Megatron-Drawing-Possible-Movie-Design/6030/news.html hoax information] for his senior capstone project. ("SAGE2764" had previously also been featured on the license plate of [[Barricade_(Movie)#Deluxe Class toys|Recon Barricade]] from the first [[Movie (toyline)|movie toy line]].) His [[Automorph Technology|Automorphing]] feature is activated during transformation by swinging his machine gun down, pushing it against a translucent purple panel, which simultaneously raises his shoulders, lowers his torso, raises his head and extends his stomach-mounted cannon all in one movement.

:The smaller machine gun weapons feature flip-out energy blades that can be held in his hands, mounted under his forearms or on any of the wheels. They can also connect together to form an undocumented but certainly intended double-bladed weapon; mounting this on his forearm wheels gives him an awesome spinning blade weapon.

:This figure was only available as part of the "Master of Metallikato" two-pack with [[Whirl (ROTF)|Autobot Whirl]], which was nominally [[exclusive]] to [[Toys"R"Us]], but was also found at Winners stores in Canada. Also, this toy was [[repurposing|repurposed]] by [[IDW Publishing]] as an upgraded form for [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/Bludgeon/bludgeon.htm More information on Bludgeon at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:ROTFtoy-BludgeonVoyager.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The most metal toy '''''ever'''''.]]
*'''Decepticon Bludgeon''' (Voyager, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RD-20'''
**''Accessories:'' [[Wikipedia:Katana|katana]], [[Wikipedia:Tant%C5%8D|tantō]] (see notes below)

:[[size class|Voyager class]] Bludgeon transforms from a green and orange Japanese [[Wikipedia:Type 90 Kyū-maru|Type 90]] tank into a skeletal samurai robot mode which homages the Generation 1 [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s [[Pretender]] shell, in colors that homage both the shell and the original inner robot. Bludgeon features a flexible plastic sword which is made out of a portion of the barrel of the tank's main gun as well as a smaller dagger. The dagger can be stored in a sheath which is revealed from inside the tank turret, and both blades can be slotted in holes provided on the robot mode's left hip guard. Additionally, the dagger's handle can fit in the base of the sword's handle, forming a double-bladed weapon.

:The vehicle mode is one of the very few Transformer tank toys with rubber components to its treads. Portions of the tread links can unlock, allowing them to hang from the robot mode, while the wheels of the treads are integrated separately into the robot mode form itself. The treads still do not function realistically; small plastic wheels on the underside of the treads help the tank mode roll, as is standard with nearly all Transformer tank toys.

[[Image:ROTFBludgeon_japanese_instructions.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Japanklok, making toys '''METAL''' since 1984.]]

:There is a paint application error on Bludgeon that keeps his painted wheels out of sight in vehicle mode. The ratcheting hip joint is also flipped 180 degrees from what it should be, with two further ratchet divots on top of the hip than inside of it, meaning the mechanism in the upper leg is trying to click into a smooth surface. The toy seems to have been originally designed to feature light-piping in the head, though this feature is however rendered useless with it being cast in the same solid gray plastic used for his arms, weapons, shoulders and mech-alive features.

:The Japanese [[TakaraTomy]] release of Bludgeon has a different [[instructions|instruction sheet]] that actually labels the weapons as a [[wikipedia:katana|katana]] and [[wikipedia:tantou|tantou]], whereas the Hasbro release doesn't label them at all.

:This mold was [[redeco]]ed into [[Banzaitron]] and [[retool]]ed into [[BotCon 2012]] [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Gigatron]].
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==Notes==

* The Deluxe class Bludgeon's color scheme was used as a disguise by Wreckage in [[IDW Publishing]]'s [[Alliance issue 2|''Alliance'' #2]] comic, before the identity of the toy as Bludgeon was publicly confirmed.
* The origin of Voyager class Bludgeon is older than one may expect. Artist [[Don Figueroa]] submitted a concept for a [[Unicron Trilogy]] Bludgeon toy that looked ''very similar'' to the final product way back during the development of the ''[[Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' or ''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' toylines. Obviously, the concept wasn't put into production as a toy at the time, so Figueroa used it as inspiration for his [[IDW Publishing]] ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer |Stormbringer]]'' [[Bludgeon (G1)#IDW comics continuity|rendition of Generation 1 Bludgeon]]. However, Hasbro evidently resurrected the concept for the ''Universe'' (as mentioned by Hasbro at [[BotCon 2009]]) and then the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' lines. Figueroa notes that his contribution on this toy is very small, as his work on it ended when he submitted the concept to Hasbro way back when.

[[Image:Titan_bludgeonexesslapdash.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Smile for the camera!]]

*Although the Japanese instruction sheet of the Voyager class toy states that the shorter sword is a [[Wikipedia:Tant%C5%8D|短刀 (''tantō'')]], its shape resembles a [[Wikipedia:Wakizashi|wakizashi (脇差)]]. Similarly, the longer blade that is referred to as a [[Wikipedia:Katana|刀 (katana)]] is too long, and thus more better resembles an [[Wikipedia:Ōdachi|ōdachi (大太刀)]].

*Bludgeon is one of only two Decepticons in Titan's stories that has explicitly been shown [[death|killing]] someone on panel, and twice (''three'' times if Hubcap is dead).
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Bludgeon (ROTF)

2012-01-11T02:41:24Z

98.117.27.89: /* Titan Magazines Revenge of the Fallen comics */

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{{disambig3|Bludgeon}}
:''Bludgeon is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Movie continuity|live-action movie continuity]].''

[[Image:ROTFBludgeonTRUArt.jpg|thumb|300px|Foolish Whirl! To a master of Metallikato, your moves are like— ''grhk'']]

'''Bludgeon''' is a [[Metallikato]] martial-artist, loyal to the Decepticon cause and armed with an ancient blade handed down from ancient times. Underneath the samurai trappings though, he's a pretty straightforward 'con: he loves giving people a kicking, he's willing to fight dirty, and he doesn't give a fig about your complaints of immorality. Things like that, and his willingness to use a [[high-voltage electric cannon]] when fights go against him, are why other Metallikato users believe he's not a true master. <ref> [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=841165f8-19b9-f369-1057-0b57c1e069b6 Hasbro Battle Bio]</ref> But what does he care, he just shot you with a cannon!

One thing he does care about: he really, ''really'' gets focused on rivals and proving he's the best of them. If the rival defeats him, hey, he'll just find a new one to obsess over, no matter how much damage he took from the last.

He likes how [[Earth]] is full of innocent victims to use against Autobots, but he could do without all that disgusting greenery and [[water]] (urg!). It has other possibilities too: a smart, canny, dirty-fighting 'Con could [[Decepticon leader|lead his ''own'' faction]] if they played their cards right...

{{quote|I am a warrior born! It is ''you'', Megatron, who should fear ''me!''|Bludgeon has ''balls'', [[Transformers Comic issue 2.21|"A Short, Sharp Lesson!"]]}}

==Fiction==
===Toy bios===
Bludgeon and [[Whirl (ROTF)|Whirl]] were rivals in Metallikato, and when they ran into each other on Earth a battle ensued, a fight to the finish that would take only microseconds. And, well, Bludgeon lost. He was almost killed and retreated.

He reemerged in the jungles of Southeast Asia, having scanned a new tank mode and brandishing a frightening new skeleton-like robot mode. He lies in wait for [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], who was drawn to Bludgeon's location by his acts of mayhem. Unfortunately for Ironhide, Bludgeon is eager to prove his mettle against an Autobot in battle and restore his honor...

===Cyber Missions===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Bronco D. Jackson]] (English), [[Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza]] (Latin American-Spanish)
[[Image:CyberMission1-Bludgeon.jpg|left|thumb|300px|The one fiction in which his toy actually has swords, he uses a tree. Go figure.]]

{{quote|Ironhide! I will extinguish your spark beneath my treads!}}

When Bludgeon and [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] descended on [[Diego Garcia]], they interrupted an Autobot mission briefing. While Bumblebee stayed inside to guard its precious [[Datatrax|data tracks]] from Soundwave, Ironhide headed outside, where he was happy to face Bludgeon in battle, ramming him off the road. Bludgeon was able to temporarily thwart Ironhide when he snuck up behind the Autobot and hit him with a tree. The Decepticon wondered if he'd be as smart without that ugly head of his. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 1}}

[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] radioed Ironhide to hold off fighting Bludgeon until reinforcements arrived, but Ironhide didn't have the option. Bludgeon cursed the organic environment in which he was staged, and drew his weapon. When the fight reached an apparent stalemate, Ironhide offered Bludgeon amnesty if he joined the Autobots. Bludgeon refused, citing the wrath of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], and dove backwards off a waterfall. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 2}}

Megatron led the Decepticons on a mission to free the captured Soundwave. It was an Autobot trap. Bludgeon fought with [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] until an army of the Autobots' human allies surrounded the battlefield. Optimus Prime gave each Decepticon a choice: Leave Earth or be destroyed. Bludgeon and the other Decepticons chose to leave Earth. {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}

===Titan Magazines ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===

[[Image:Bludgeon_uk2.9.jpg|right|thumb|275px|Ah, that's much better.]]

One fine day, Bludgeon said to himself that he'd quite like to run his own group of Decepticons. But where could he find recruits? Well, there sure are a lot of them in [[NEST]]'s prison... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}} And so, pretending to be after an unspecified goal, Bludgeon entered the city of [[Las Vegas]] and waited for the Autobots to notice. The Autobots' plan was to allow the Decepticon to leave the city and safely attack him in the empty desert, but the impulsive [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]] couldn't hold himself back, and leapt into battle before Bludgeon had departed. The mighty martial artist shrugged off a blow from Jolt's electro-whip and severed the weapon with a slash of his sword, before hurling the Autobot through the wall of a nearby casino.

Bludgeon taunted Jolt by commenting on the proliferation of [[human]]s and how little the Decepticons cared for them, as a precursor to transforming into a tank mode and taking aim at some hapless gamblers. Jolt hurled himself into the path of Bludgeon's blast, and as he lay wounded, Bludgeon rubbed salt into his wound by reminding him that none of this would have happened if he had just followed his orders. Bludgeon attempted to deliver a killing strike with his sword, but Jolt rolled away at the last second, causing Bludgeon to embed his blade in the ground instead. In that moment, Jolt seized the immobilized sword and used his electrical powers to channel the entire output of the Las Vegas power grid through the blade, straight into Bludgeon himself! Bludgeon was knocked offline by the massive power surge, and taken into Autobot custody. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.9|Culture Shock}}

[[Image:Titan13_BrawnVersusBludgeon.jpg|left|thumb|250px|"I'll hit his shoulder at ''some'' point!"]]

Later, in NEST's [[South Africa]] maximum security prison, Bludgeon decided to make his bid for freedom. Halfway through [[Brakedown (ROTF)|Brakedown]] taunting him over his easy defeat, Bludgeon released [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]] from a hidden compartment to remove his restraints. Now armed and dangerous, he freed all the other prisoners, murdered Brakedown to encourage discipline, and led a vicious attack on the few, helpless Autobot guards. Reinforcements eventually arrived, just in time to stop him from murdering a beaten [[Brawn (ROTF)|Brawn]], but had to let the Decepticons leave to avoid civilian casualties, and Bludgeon had his little army... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}} [[Image:Titan18_Bludgeoncallsit.jpg|right|thumb|220px|"When we last met, Obi-wan, I was but the Learner, Now, I am... The Master]]!]]

Bludgeon kept out of the spotlight, but his unit would attempt to reconstruct the monstrous [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.14|Head in the Clouds}} and recruit the Autobot beserker [[Blazemaster]] into their ranks. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.16|Turn and Burn}} Finally, after three Decepticons were neutralised in [[Utah]], he decided to declare open war {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.18|Shadow War}}, with a scheme to wear down and destroy NEST to cut off the Autobot's support before he came for them.

However, NEST worked out his base was in [[Russia]]... but [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] turned traitor and informed Bludgeon in advance of the NEST/Autobot raid. Bludgeon, an adaptable sort, abandoned his previous plan and quickly organised an all-out assault: the enemy were ambushed, boxedthe enemy in, and worn down them down, and he personally murdered [[Slap Dash]] and wounded/killed [[Hubcap (TF 2010)|Hubcap]]. However, that's when the person Wheelie was ''really'' working for arrived: Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}} While his men wet themselves, Bludgeon wasn't impressed and fought Megatron to keep control of his faction, but after a brief fight the "pretender" (gettit? gettit?!) was beaten down, spared from death only because Megatron might have use for him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.21|A Short, Sharp Lesson}}

===''Unite for the Universe''===
{{quote|Alas, poor Bludgeon... I knew him. A fellow of limited ambition, non-existent social skills, and zero sense of humor.|Starscream gets all Shakespearian with a hologram of Bludgeon's head|"[[Unite for the Universe issue 1|Ambition Instigated]]"}}

Megatron offered Bludgeon, one of the Decepticons' most dependable and calculating warriors, control of the Decepticon forces on [[Earth]] if he could deliver to Megatron the "[[Unite]]" technology that [[N.E.S.T.]] had been developing. Bludgeon assured Megatron that he would not fail him. [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], a spectator to this conversation, unwittingly expressed his displeasure—Earth was his, not Bludgeon's! When Megatron chastised Starscream for his outburst, Starscream made secret plans to sabotage Bludgeon's efforts.

Bludgeon led a team consisting of [[Dirge (ROTF)|Dirge]], [[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]], and [[Brakedown (ROTF)|Brakedown]] to the [[N.E.S.T. Advanced Research Facility]] in [[Japan]]. Dirge and Mindwipe complained that they had sneaked into N.E.S.T.'s proximity on foot, since the two could have easily arrived much faster in their flight modes, but Bludgeon reminded them that their plan would succeed only via stealth. Unfortunately for Bludgeon, the element of surprise would not be his, as a team of Autobots was waiting for him there, as their mission had been tipped off by an anonymous source. Bludgeon immediately suspected Starscream of being behind this treachery, and, sure enough, Starscream made this quickly apparent. Compromised, Bludgeon called for a retreat, but he and his troops were buried under ice by Autobot firepower. {{Storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|The Secret of Project: Unite}}

Some time later, Bludgeon violently emerged from his would-be icy tomb, swearing vengeance against Starscream. Though Starscream believed Bludgeon destroyed, Bludgeon instead viewed Starscream's efforts to retrieve "Unite" technology from afar. After [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] returned successful from one of Starscream's missions, Bludgeon planned to follow the cat back to his master so he could at last enact his revenge. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|Ambition Instigated}}

Bludgeon located Starscream's secret base just as [[Sea Spray]], [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] and [[Breacher]] engaged the Decepticons. He used their distraction to infiltrate the base, but was overpowered by Starscream moments after he entered. {{Storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|Bludgeon's Revenge}} Bludgeon was recovered from the wreckage of Starscream's base by NEST. {{Storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|On the Road of Destruction}}

===IDW movie comics===
After Megatron's defeat at the [[Star harvester|Star Harvester]] in Egypt, Starscream gathered his own followers and hatched his own plans for conquest. To this end, Starscream sent Bludgeon and several other Decepticons under his command after a small Transformer named [[Brains]] who had fallen under the protection of [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Sam Witwicky]]. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2}} In addition to Bumblebee, [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]] and [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] opposed the Decepticons, and in the chaos of battle, Bludgeon accidentally killed [[Storm Surge (Movie)|Storm Surge]] while trying to shoot the invisible Mirage. He wasn't all that remorseful about his mistake. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 3|Rising Storm #3}} Once the Decepticons learned that [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] had arranged their mission in order to divert attention away from his own activities, they lost interest in fighting and attempted to retreat, but the Autobots wouldn't let them. Bludgeon was last seen laying defeated on the ground with a wound to his chest. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}}

==Toys==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
[[Image:RotF Bludgeon Master of Metallikato vs pack toy.jpg|thumb|300px|I'm just feeling a little ''naked'', alright?]]
*'''Master of Metallikato''' (Figure Multi-pack 2009)
**''Accessories:'' Two blades

:Bludgeon is a [[redeco]] of Deluxe Class [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]] from the [[Movie (toyline)|2007 live-action movie toyline]]. The figure transforms into an [[wikipedia:Stryker|M1126 Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle]] in green and brown, armed with a M2 .50 cal machine gun and two other machine guns mounted extending out of the troop compartment. In vehicle mode, he sports "KN-2764" markings, a reference to "[[Joe Kyde#SAGE2764|SAGE2764]]", the name of a user at the Hong Kong discussion group talk.transformers used by deco designer [[Joe Kyde]] several years arlier to disseminate [http://tformers.com/Unknown-Megatron-Drawing-Possible-Movie-Design/6030/news.html hoax information] for his senior capstone project. ("SAGE2764" had previously also been featured on the license plate of [[Barricade_(Movie)#Deluxe Class toys|Recon Barricade]] from the first [[Movie (toyline)|movie toy line]].) His [[Automorph Technology|Automorphing]] feature is activated during transformation by swinging his machine gun down, pushing it against a translucent purple panel, which simultaneously raises his shoulders, lowers his torso, raises his head and extends his stomach-mounted cannon all in one movement.

:The smaller machine gun weapons feature flip-out energy blades that can be held in his hands, mounted under his forearms or on any of the wheels. They can also connect together to form an undocumented but certainly intended double-bladed weapon; mounting this on his forearm wheels gives him an awesome spinning blade weapon.

:This figure was only available as part of the "Master of Metallikato" two-pack with [[Whirl (ROTF)|Autobot Whirl]], which was nominally [[exclusive]] to [[Toys"R"Us]], but was also found at Winners stores in Canada. Also, this toy was [[repurposing|repurposed]] by [[IDW Publishing]] as an upgraded form for [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/Bludgeon/bludgeon.htm More information on Bludgeon at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:ROTFtoy-BludgeonVoyager.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The most metal toy '''''ever'''''.]]
*'''Decepticon Bludgeon''' (Voyager, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RD-20'''
**''Accessories:'' [[Wikipedia:Katana|katana]], [[Wikipedia:Tant%C5%8D|tantō]] (see notes below)

:[[size class|Voyager class]] Bludgeon transforms from a green and orange Japanese [[Wikipedia:Type 90 Kyū-maru|Type 90]] tank into a skeletal samurai robot mode which homages the Generation 1 [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s [[Pretender]] shell, in colors that homage both the shell and the original inner robot. Bludgeon features a flexible plastic sword which is made out of a portion of the barrel of the tank's main gun as well as a smaller dagger. The dagger can be stored in a sheath which is revealed from inside the tank turret, and both blades can be slotted in holes provided on the robot mode's left hip guard. Additionally, the dagger's handle can fit in the base of the sword's handle, forming a double-bladed weapon.

:The vehicle mode is one of the very few Transformer tank toys with rubber components to its treads. Portions of the tread links can unlock, allowing them to hang from the robot mode, while the wheels of the treads are integrated separately into the robot mode form itself. The treads still do not function realistically; small plastic wheels on the underside of the treads help the tank mode roll, as is standard with nearly all Transformer tank toys.

[[Image:ROTFBludgeon_japanese_instructions.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Japanklok, making toys '''METAL''' since 1984.]]

:There is a paint application error on Bludgeon that keeps his painted wheels out of sight in vehicle mode. The ratcheting hip joint is also flipped 180 degrees from what it should be, with two further ratchet divots on top of the hip than inside of it, meaning the mechanism in the upper leg is trying to click into a smooth surface. The toy seems to have been originally designed to feature light-piping in the head, though this feature is however rendered useless with it being cast in the same solid gray plastic used for his arms, weapons, shoulders and mech-alive features.

:The Japanese [[TakaraTomy]] release of Bludgeon has a different [[instructions|instruction sheet]] that actually labels the weapons as a [[wikipedia:katana|katana]] and [[wikipedia:tantou|tantou]], whereas the Hasbro release doesn't label them at all.

:This mold was [[redeco]]ed into [[Banzaitron]] and [[retool]]ed into [[BotCon 2012]] [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Gigatron]].
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==Notes==

* The Deluxe class Bludgeon's color scheme was used as a disguise by Wreckage in [[IDW Publishing]]'s [[Alliance issue 2|''Alliance'' #2]] comic, before the identity of the toy as Bludgeon was publicly confirmed.
* The origin of Voyager class Bludgeon is older than one may expect. Artist [[Don Figueroa]] submitted a concept for a [[Unicron Trilogy]] Bludgeon toy that looked ''very similar'' to the final product way back during the development of the ''[[Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' or ''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' toylines. Obviously, the concept wasn't put into production as a toy at the time, so Figueroa used it as inspiration for his [[IDW Publishing]] ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer |Stormbringer]]'' [[Bludgeon (G1)#IDW comics continuity|rendition of Generation 1 Bludgeon]]. However, Hasbro evidently resurrected the concept for the ''Universe'' (as mentioned by Hasbro at [[BotCon 2009]]) and then the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' lines. Figueroa notes that his contribution on this toy is very small, as his work on it ended when he submitted the concept to Hasbro way back when.

[[Image:Titan_bludgeonexesslapdash.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Smile for the camera!]]

*Although the Japanese instruction sheet of the Voyager class toy states that the shorter sword is a [[Wikipedia:Tant%C5%8D|短刀 (''tantō'')]], its shape resembles a [[Wikipedia:Wakizashi|wakizashi (脇差)]]. Similarly, the longer blade that is referred to as a [[Wikipedia:Katana|刀 (katana)]] is too long, and thus more better resembles an [[Wikipedia:Ōdachi|ōdachi (大太刀)]].

*Bludgeon is one of only two Decepticons in Titan's stories that has explicitly been shown [[death|killing]] someone on panel, and twice (''three'' times if Hubcap is dead).
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==References==
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Bludgeon (ROTF)

2012-01-11T02:39:12Z

98.117.27.89: /* Titan Magazines Revenge of the Fallen comics */

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:''Bludgeon is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Movie continuity|live-action movie continuity]].''

[[Image:ROTFBludgeonTRUArt.jpg|thumb|300px|Foolish Whirl! To a master of Metallikato, your moves are like— ''grhk'']]

'''Bludgeon''' is a [[Metallikato]] martial-artist, loyal to the Decepticon cause and armed with an ancient blade handed down from ancient times. Underneath the samurai trappings though, he's a pretty straightforward 'con: he loves giving people a kicking, he's willing to fight dirty, and he doesn't give a fig about your complaints of immorality. Things like that, and his willingness to use a [[high-voltage electric cannon]] when fights go against him, are why other Metallikato users believe he's not a true master. <ref> [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=841165f8-19b9-f369-1057-0b57c1e069b6 Hasbro Battle Bio]</ref> But what does he care, he just shot you with a cannon!

One thing he does care about: he really, ''really'' gets focused on rivals and proving he's the best of them. If the rival defeats him, hey, he'll just find a new one to obsess over, no matter how much damage he took from the last.

He likes how [[Earth]] is full of innocent victims to use against Autobots, but he could do without all that disgusting greenery and [[water]] (urg!). It has other possibilities too: a smart, canny, dirty-fighting 'Con could [[Decepticon leader|lead his ''own'' faction]] if they played their cards right...

{{quote|I am a warrior born! It is ''you'', Megatron, who should fear ''me!''|Bludgeon has ''balls'', [[Transformers Comic issue 2.21|"A Short, Sharp Lesson!"]]}}

==Fiction==
===Toy bios===
Bludgeon and [[Whirl (ROTF)|Whirl]] were rivals in Metallikato, and when they ran into each other on Earth a battle ensued, a fight to the finish that would take only microseconds. And, well, Bludgeon lost. He was almost killed and retreated.

He reemerged in the jungles of Southeast Asia, having scanned a new tank mode and brandishing a frightening new skeleton-like robot mode. He lies in wait for [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], who was drawn to Bludgeon's location by his acts of mayhem. Unfortunately for Ironhide, Bludgeon is eager to prove his mettle against an Autobot in battle and restore his honor...

===Cyber Missions===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Bronco D. Jackson]] (English), [[Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza]] (Latin American-Spanish)
[[Image:CyberMission1-Bludgeon.jpg|left|thumb|300px|The one fiction in which his toy actually has swords, he uses a tree. Go figure.]]

{{quote|Ironhide! I will extinguish your spark beneath my treads!}}

When Bludgeon and [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] descended on [[Diego Garcia]], they interrupted an Autobot mission briefing. While Bumblebee stayed inside to guard its precious [[Datatrax|data tracks]] from Soundwave, Ironhide headed outside, where he was happy to face Bludgeon in battle, ramming him off the road. Bludgeon was able to temporarily thwart Ironhide when he snuck up behind the Autobot and hit him with a tree. The Decepticon wondered if he'd be as smart without that ugly head of his. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 1}}

[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] radioed Ironhide to hold off fighting Bludgeon until reinforcements arrived, but Ironhide didn't have the option. Bludgeon cursed the organic environment in which he was staged, and drew his weapon. When the fight reached an apparent stalemate, Ironhide offered Bludgeon amnesty if he joined the Autobots. Bludgeon refused, citing the wrath of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], and dove backwards off a waterfall. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 2}}

Megatron led the Decepticons on a mission to free the captured Soundwave. It was an Autobot trap. Bludgeon fought with [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] until an army of the Autobots' human allies surrounded the battlefield. Optimus Prime gave each Decepticon a choice: Leave Earth or be destroyed. Bludgeon and the other Decepticons chose to leave Earth. {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}

===Titan Magazines ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===

[[Image:Bludgeon_uk2.9.jpg|right|thumb|275px|Ah, that's much better.]]

One fine day, Bludgeon said to himself that he'd quite like to run his own group of Decepticons. But where could he find recruits? Well, there sure are a lot of them in [[NEST]]'s prison... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}} And so, pretending to be after an unspecified goal, Bludgeon entered the city of [[Las Vegas]] and waited for the Autobots to notice. The Autobots' plan was to allow the Decepticon to leave the city and safely attack him in the empty desert, but the impulsive [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]] couldn't hold himself back, and leapt into battle before Bludgeon had departed. The mighty martial artist shrugged off a blow from Jolt's electro-whip and severed the weapon with a slash of his sword, before hurling the Autobot through the wall of a nearby casino.

Bludgeon taunted Jolt by commenting on the proliferation of [[human]]s and how little the Decepticons cared for them, as a precursor to transforming into a tank mode and taking aim at some hapless gamblers. Jolt hurled himself into the path of Bludgeon's blast, and as he lay wounded, Bludgeon rubbed salt into his wound by reminding him that none of this would have happened if he had just followed his orders. Bludgeon attempted to deliver a killing strike with his sword, but Jolt rolled away at the last second, causing Bludgeon to embed his blade in the ground instead. In that moment, Jolt seized the immobilized sword and used his electrical powers to channel the entire output of the Las Vegas power grid through the blade, straight into Bludgeon himself! Bludgeon was knocked offline by the massive power surge, and taken into Autobot custody. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.9|Culture Shock}}

[[Image:Titan13_BrawnVersusBludgeon.jpg|left|thumb|250px|"I'll hit his shoulder at ''some'' point!"]]

Later, in NEST's [[South Africa]] maximum security prison, Bludgeon decided to make his bid for freedom. Halfway through [[Brakedown (ROTF)|Brakedown]] taunting him over his easy defeat, Bludgeon released [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]] from a hidden compartment to remove his restraints. Now armed and dangerous, he freed all the other prisoners, murdered Brakedown to encourage discipline, and led a vicious attack on the few, helpless Autobot guards. Reinforcements eventually arrived, just in time to stop him from murdering a beaten [[Brawn (ROTF)|Brawn]], but had to let the Decepticons leave to avoid civilian casualties, and Bludgeon had his little army... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}} [[Image:Titan18_Bludgeoncallsit.jpg|right|thumb|220px|"When we last met, Obi-wan, I was but the Learner, Now, I am... The Master[[[[Link title]]]]!]]

Bludgeon kept out of the spotlight, but his unit would attempt to reconstruct the monstrous [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.14|Head in the Clouds}} and recruit the Autobot beserker [[Blazemaster]] into their ranks. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.16|Turn and Burn}} Finally, after three Decepticons were neutralised in [[Utah]], he decided to declare open war {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.18|Shadow War}}, with a scheme to wear down and destroy NEST to cut off the Autobot's support before he came for them.

However, NEST worked out his base was in [[Russia]]... but [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] turned traitor and informed Bludgeon in advance of the NEST/Autobot raid. Bludgeon, an adaptable sort, abandoned his previous plan and quickly organised an all-out assault: the enemy were ambushed, boxedthe enemy in, and worn down them down, and he personally murdered [[Slap Dash]] and wounded/killed [[Hubcap (TF 2010)|Hubcap]]. However, that's when the person Wheelie was ''really'' working for arrived: Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}} While his men wet themselves, Bludgeon wasn't impressed and fought Megatron to keep control of his faction, but after a brief fight the "pretender" (gettit? gettit?!) was beaten down, spared from death only because Megatron might have use for him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.21|A Short, Sharp Lesson}}

===''Unite for the Universe''===
{{quote|Alas, poor Bludgeon... I knew him. A fellow of limited ambition, non-existent social skills, and zero sense of humor.|Starscream gets all Shakespearian with a hologram of Bludgeon's head|"[[Unite for the Universe issue 1|Ambition Instigated]]"}}

Megatron offered Bludgeon, one of the Decepticons' most dependable and calculating warriors, control of the Decepticon forces on [[Earth]] if he could deliver to Megatron the "[[Unite]]" technology that [[N.E.S.T.]] had been developing. Bludgeon assured Megatron that he would not fail him. [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], a spectator to this conversation, unwittingly expressed his displeasure—Earth was his, not Bludgeon's! When Megatron chastised Starscream for his outburst, Starscream made secret plans to sabotage Bludgeon's efforts.

Bludgeon led a team consisting of [[Dirge (ROTF)|Dirge]], [[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]], and [[Brakedown (ROTF)|Brakedown]] to the [[N.E.S.T. Advanced Research Facility]] in [[Japan]]. Dirge and Mindwipe complained that they had sneaked into N.E.S.T.'s proximity on foot, since the two could have easily arrived much faster in their flight modes, but Bludgeon reminded them that their plan would succeed only via stealth. Unfortunately for Bludgeon, the element of surprise would not be his, as a team of Autobots was waiting for him there, as their mission had been tipped off by an anonymous source. Bludgeon immediately suspected Starscream of being behind this treachery, and, sure enough, Starscream made this quickly apparent. Compromised, Bludgeon called for a retreat, but he and his troops were buried under ice by Autobot firepower. {{Storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|The Secret of Project: Unite}}

Some time later, Bludgeon violently emerged from his would-be icy tomb, swearing vengeance against Starscream. Though Starscream believed Bludgeon destroyed, Bludgeon instead viewed Starscream's efforts to retrieve "Unite" technology from afar. After [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] returned successful from one of Starscream's missions, Bludgeon planned to follow the cat back to his master so he could at last enact his revenge. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|Ambition Instigated}}

Bludgeon located Starscream's secret base just as [[Sea Spray]], [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] and [[Breacher]] engaged the Decepticons. He used their distraction to infiltrate the base, but was overpowered by Starscream moments after he entered. {{Storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|Bludgeon's Revenge}} Bludgeon was recovered from the wreckage of Starscream's base by NEST. {{Storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|On the Road of Destruction}}

===IDW movie comics===
After Megatron's defeat at the [[Star harvester|Star Harvester]] in Egypt, Starscream gathered his own followers and hatched his own plans for conquest. To this end, Starscream sent Bludgeon and several other Decepticons under his command after a small Transformer named [[Brains]] who had fallen under the protection of [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Sam Witwicky]]. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2}} In addition to Bumblebee, [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]] and [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] opposed the Decepticons, and in the chaos of battle, Bludgeon accidentally killed [[Storm Surge (Movie)|Storm Surge]] while trying to shoot the invisible Mirage. He wasn't all that remorseful about his mistake. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 3|Rising Storm #3}} Once the Decepticons learned that [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] had arranged their mission in order to divert attention away from his own activities, they lost interest in fighting and attempted to retreat, but the Autobots wouldn't let them. Bludgeon was last seen laying defeated on the ground with a wound to his chest. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}}

==Toys==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
[[Image:RotF Bludgeon Master of Metallikato vs pack toy.jpg|thumb|300px|I'm just feeling a little ''naked'', alright?]]
*'''Master of Metallikato''' (Figure Multi-pack 2009)
**''Accessories:'' Two blades

:Bludgeon is a [[redeco]] of Deluxe Class [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]] from the [[Movie (toyline)|2007 live-action movie toyline]]. The figure transforms into an [[wikipedia:Stryker|M1126 Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle]] in green and brown, armed with a M2 .50 cal machine gun and two other machine guns mounted extending out of the troop compartment. In vehicle mode, he sports "KN-2764" markings, a reference to "[[Joe Kyde#SAGE2764|SAGE2764]]", the name of a user at the Hong Kong discussion group talk.transformers used by deco designer [[Joe Kyde]] several years arlier to disseminate [http://tformers.com/Unknown-Megatron-Drawing-Possible-Movie-Design/6030/news.html hoax information] for his senior capstone project. ("SAGE2764" had previously also been featured on the license plate of [[Barricade_(Movie)#Deluxe Class toys|Recon Barricade]] from the first [[Movie (toyline)|movie toy line]].) His [[Automorph Technology|Automorphing]] feature is activated during transformation by swinging his machine gun down, pushing it against a translucent purple panel, which simultaneously raises his shoulders, lowers his torso, raises his head and extends his stomach-mounted cannon all in one movement.

:The smaller machine gun weapons feature flip-out energy blades that can be held in his hands, mounted under his forearms or on any of the wheels. They can also connect together to form an undocumented but certainly intended double-bladed weapon; mounting this on his forearm wheels gives him an awesome spinning blade weapon.

:This figure was only available as part of the "Master of Metallikato" two-pack with [[Whirl (ROTF)|Autobot Whirl]], which was nominally [[exclusive]] to [[Toys"R"Us]], but was also found at Winners stores in Canada. Also, this toy was [[repurposing|repurposed]] by [[IDW Publishing]] as an upgraded form for [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/Bludgeon/bludgeon.htm More information on Bludgeon at TFU.info]''

{{-}}{{anchor|Voyager}}
[[Image:ROTFtoy-BludgeonVoyager.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The most metal toy '''''ever'''''.]]
*'''Decepticon Bludgeon''' (Voyager, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RD-20'''
**''Accessories:'' [[Wikipedia:Katana|katana]], [[Wikipedia:Tant%C5%8D|tantō]] (see notes below)

:[[size class|Voyager class]] Bludgeon transforms from a green and orange Japanese [[Wikipedia:Type 90 Kyū-maru|Type 90]] tank into a skeletal samurai robot mode which homages the Generation 1 [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s [[Pretender]] shell, in colors that homage both the shell and the original inner robot. Bludgeon features a flexible plastic sword which is made out of a portion of the barrel of the tank's main gun as well as a smaller dagger. The dagger can be stored in a sheath which is revealed from inside the tank turret, and both blades can be slotted in holes provided on the robot mode's left hip guard. Additionally, the dagger's handle can fit in the base of the sword's handle, forming a double-bladed weapon.

:The vehicle mode is one of the very few Transformer tank toys with rubber components to its treads. Portions of the tread links can unlock, allowing them to hang from the robot mode, while the wheels of the treads are integrated separately into the robot mode form itself. The treads still do not function realistically; small plastic wheels on the underside of the treads help the tank mode roll, as is standard with nearly all Transformer tank toys.

[[Image:ROTFBludgeon_japanese_instructions.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Japanklok, making toys '''METAL''' since 1984.]]

:There is a paint application error on Bludgeon that keeps his painted wheels out of sight in vehicle mode. The ratcheting hip joint is also flipped 180 degrees from what it should be, with two further ratchet divots on top of the hip than inside of it, meaning the mechanism in the upper leg is trying to click into a smooth surface. The toy seems to have been originally designed to feature light-piping in the head, though this feature is however rendered useless with it being cast in the same solid gray plastic used for his arms, weapons, shoulders and mech-alive features.

:The Japanese [[TakaraTomy]] release of Bludgeon has a different [[instructions|instruction sheet]] that actually labels the weapons as a [[wikipedia:katana|katana]] and [[wikipedia:tantou|tantou]], whereas the Hasbro release doesn't label them at all.

:This mold was [[redeco]]ed into [[Banzaitron]] and [[retool]]ed into [[BotCon 2012]] [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Gigatron]].
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==Notes==

* The Deluxe class Bludgeon's color scheme was used as a disguise by Wreckage in [[IDW Publishing]]'s [[Alliance issue 2|''Alliance'' #2]] comic, before the identity of the toy as Bludgeon was publicly confirmed.
* The origin of Voyager class Bludgeon is older than one may expect. Artist [[Don Figueroa]] submitted a concept for a [[Unicron Trilogy]] Bludgeon toy that looked ''very similar'' to the final product way back during the development of the ''[[Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' or ''[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' toylines. Obviously, the concept wasn't put into production as a toy at the time, so Figueroa used it as inspiration for his [[IDW Publishing]] ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer |Stormbringer]]'' [[Bludgeon (G1)#IDW comics continuity|rendition of Generation 1 Bludgeon]]. However, Hasbro evidently resurrected the concept for the ''Universe'' (as mentioned by Hasbro at [[BotCon 2009]]) and then the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' lines. Figueroa notes that his contribution on this toy is very small, as his work on it ended when he submitted the concept to Hasbro way back when.

[[Image:Titan_bludgeonexesslapdash.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Smile for the camera!]]

*Although the Japanese instruction sheet of the Voyager class toy states that the shorter sword is a [[Wikipedia:Tant%C5%8D|短刀 (''tantō'')]], its shape resembles a [[Wikipedia:Wakizashi|wakizashi (脇差)]]. Similarly, the longer blade that is referred to as a [[Wikipedia:Katana|刀 (katana)]] is too long, and thus more better resembles an [[Wikipedia:Ōdachi|ōdachi (大太刀)]].

*Bludgeon is one of only two Decepticons in Titan's stories that has explicitly been shown [[death|killing]] someone on panel, and twice (''three'' times if Hubcap is dead).
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==References==
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Stella Holley

2012-01-01T07:13:28Z

98.117.27.89: /* Linkage */

{{disambig2|the redhead from the Unicron Trilogy|the kickboxer|Stiletto (Animated)}}
:''Stella Holley is a [[human]] from the [[Armada (franchise)|Armada]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:StellaHolley.png|right|250px|thumb|Stella Holley, legal-age total hottie.]]
'''Stella Holley''' (ステラ・ホリー ''Sutera Horī'') is a 26-year-old employee of a paperware manufacturer in or around [[Seattle]], [[Washington]]. Like most humans, she is drawn into the [[Transformer]]s' war by coincidence, but unlike most she does not expressly ally herself with or against the [[Autobot]]s. Instead, she does what she can to help the [[Mini-Con]]s establish a home on [[Earth]], away from the Autobot-[[Decepticon]] war, despite any dangers put in her path. She is compassionate, brave and proud, and endlessly impressed at how alike humans and Mini-Cons are, despite their physical differences. She can understand the Mini-Cons' standard binary language thanks to a mental link of the sort formed when a Mini-Con bonds with a "[[Bulk]]".

Of all the Mini-Cons, she is the closest emotionally to the [[Super Stunt Team]], especially its leader [[Redline]].

She mentions having a cheerleader outfit, though we never see her in it.

Damn.<ref>The bikini makes up for it, though.</ref>

==Fiction==
===Linkage===
[[Image:StellaCar.jpg|left|200px|thumb|The flinker doesn't always work.]]
Stella first encountered the Transformers as she entered her company's parking garage after work. The [[Super Stunt Team]] of [[Redline]], [[Flat-Out]] and [[Servo]] had just turned her car into a turbo cannon via [[Powerlinx]] in order to destroy a pair of pursuing [[Fixer Bug]]s. {{storylink|Linkage Part 1}} After Redline formed a mental link with her and explained their plight, she hid the Mini-Cons in her home and helped them in their plans to build a Mini-Con haven on Earth. {{storylink|Linkage Part 2}}

She accompanied the Team and the newly-awakened [[Rollbar (Armada)|Rollbar]] to the [[Deccan Plateau]] in [[India]], where a shuttle from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] had landed. Stella was to act as the interpreter for the Mini-Cons to negotiate for technology from the shuttle, should the shuttle pilot be an Autobot. (In the event it was a Decepticon, they had jury-rigged a portable warp-gate small enough for only their use to escape through.) {{storylink|Linkage Part 4}} When the [[Speed Chaser Team]] of [[Unicron]]-aligned Mini-Cons attacked, Stella managed to defend a mode-locked and upended Servo from a Fixer Bug, but it was the intervention of [[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]] that saved Stella and the Super Stunt Mini-Cons in the end. Stella talked with Scavenger, and he let the Mini-Cons have his ship on the grounds that they forget they ever saw him. However, she began to suffer the effects of heatstroke shortly after, and the Team quickly got her home with their new shuttle. {{storylink|Linkage Part 5}}

[[Image:FixerBug Stella.jpg|right|200px|thumb|... ... ... ... ... I'm sorry, were you saying something?]]
After the [[Sonic Assault Team]] joined up with Redline and crew, Stella went with the Mini-Cons to one of the [[Hawaii]]an Islands, where Redline set up a device that would unlock the [[Master Key]] program that would give all Mini-Cons unrestricted access to a vast power well, enabling them to break their programming blocks and Powerlinx-activated servility programs. Redline entrusted Stella with the protection of the last two [[Mini-Con storage panel]]s he kept inside him while he underwent the upgrade process. {{storylink|Linkage Part 9}}

[[Image:StellaMech.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Does Stella's insurance provider cover this? Seriously, though, is it THAT hard to find pants in this comic??]]
When the monstrous [[Ravenus]] ensnared Servo and [[Twirl]], Stella fought back to save them in a battle mech made from her car, transformed by Powerlinx energy provided by Flat-Out and [[Falcia]]. She was able to knock Servo free from his link-port, but Ravenus escaped with Twirl. {{storylink|Linkage Part 10}} Realizing they needed more backup, Stella released the two Mini-Cons [[Impulsor]] and [[Quench]] from the storage panels, and the two called their team leader, [[Kingbolt]], in to assist. {{storylink|Linkage Part 11}}

With Ravenus restored to his original, uncorrupted Autobot state and the [[Doomstone]] he held within him contained, all of the "free" Mini-Cons that had awakened when Redline activated the upgrade gathered on the island in order to return to Cybertron with the Autobots so they could protect the planet from Unicron. {{storylink|Linkage Part 12}} After a tearful goodbye, Stella returned to her job, taking up drawing as a hobby and a way of remembering her friends. A year after the Mini-Cons left, her red hair spontaneously began to turn platinum blonde—a sign from her friends they had returned, as Stella had made a passing remark to them about wishing she could change her hair color as easily as they upgraded their systems. {{storylink|Linkage Part 13}}

She looks totally better as a redhead, but hey.

It is assumed that she and her Mini-con friends reunited shortly thereafter at the new Mini-Con city on Earth that Redline and his friends created.

==References==
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Infestation 2

2011-12-18T04:57:00Z

98.117.27.89:

{{disambig3|Infestation}}

[[Image:Idw2012 - Infestaion2promo.jpg|thumb|250px|Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Ninja Turtles?-? TOGETHER?-? I sense an awesome spinoff here!]]

'''''Infestation 2''''' is a [[2012]] multi-property crossover event that includes most of [[IDW Publishing]]'s licensed properties at time of publishing, except ''[[Doctor|Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Godzilla]]''. Seriously, guys, get on the ball!

The ''Transformers'' installment is set in the continuity of the [[2005]] steampunk ''[[Hearts of Steel]]'' miniseries.

{{chapters|title=''Infestation 2'' issues:|prev=Infestation (IDW)|content=
*[[Infestation 2 issue 1|#1]]
*[[Infestation 2 issue 2|#2]]
}}

{{chapters|title=''The Transformers: Infestation 2'' issues:|prev=Hearts of Steel|content=
*[[The Transformers: Infestation 2 issue 1|#1]]
*[[The Transformers: Infestation 2 issue 2|#2]]
}}

==Overview==
{{issuestub}}

==External links==
*[http://www.idwpublishing.com/news/article/2046/ "The Infestation Spreads Again" press release @ idwpublishing.com]

[[Category:Generation 1 comic series]]
[[Category: IDW titles]]

Reverb (Movie)

2011-12-14T02:51:11Z

98.117.27.89:

{{factions|decepticonfilm}}
{{disambig3|Reverb}}
:''Reverb is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Movie (franchise)|2007 movie franchise]] portion of the [[live-action film series]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Alliance3_Reverb.jpg|thumb|250px|Wait- My name was used in Accelaracers AND Battl Force 5? I look like Shockwave, for crying out loud! Not Hot Wheels material!]]

Whenever '''Reverb''' goes into battle, he goes with a grin on his face, singing a song that he knew back in the old days. He brings doom to many Autobots by creating a thudding sonic cyclone from the wash on his rotors, twisting metal, destroying their audio sensors, and shattering glass.

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===
Sent to [[Earth]] by [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], Reverb (along with [[Gunbarrel (Movie)|Gunbarrel]]) is one of the Decepticons working under [[Fracture (Movie)|Fracture]], who was nice enough to find an [[Alternate mode|alternate mode]] for him at an [[Italy|Italian]] military base. After scanning, the Decepticons destroyed the installation. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3}}

Reverb and Gunbarrel were eventually hunted down and destroyed by the [[Autobot|Autobots]] and their [[human]] allies. {{storylink|Alliance issue 4}}

{{Note|Due to space constraints, Reverb and Gunbarrel do not actually appear in Alliance issue 4, but their deaths are reported by [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]].}}

==Toys==
===Transformers (2007)===
[[Image:MovieReverbToy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|It's not easy being green. Also, having your toy canceled out from under you.]]
*'''Decepticon Reverb''' (Scout, <s>2009</s>)
**''Accessories'': Quintuple-barreled [[Energon weapon]] cannon, Decepticon-style [[Energon star]]

:Part of the canceled<ref>[[Hasbro Q&A/March 2009: Answers]]</ref> fifth [[wave]] of [[Target]] [[exclusive]] [[Movie (toyline)|''Movie'' series]] Scouts along with [[Backtrack (Movie)|Backtrack]] and [[Gunbarrel (Movie)|Gunbarrel]], Decepticon Reverb is a [[redeco]] of the ''[[Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' [[Stormcloud (Energon)|Stormcloud]]/[[Blackout (combiner)|Blackout]] sculpt, transforming into an assault helicopter similar to an Apache. He could also have formed an leg or arm to any Energon-series "Powerlinx Combiner" super robot — though no super robot torsos actually came out during the original live-action movie toyline, and his packaging makes no mention of the toy's ability to combine.

:He includes a quintuple-barreled cannon that formed a hand or footplate for his non-advertised limb-modes, plus a Decepticon-style Energon star.

: In early 2010, about two years after the first samples had surfaced, considerable quantities of the three unreleased Scouts were sold on [[eBay]]. Each of them came packaged with two [[instructions|instruction sheets]], one in English and one in Spanish, suggesting that the batch was initially intended for the Mexican market. However, based on information from Mexican fans, the toys never actually made it to retail there.

: This sculpt was also used to make the [[Fun Publications]] [[Transformers Collectors' Club]]-[[exclusive]] toy [[Topspin (Classics)|Topspin]] and ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' (2008) [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus Maximus]] team members [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] and [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], who double as ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' [[Vortex (ROTF)|Vortex]] and [[Swindle (ROTF)|Swindle]].

{{canceledtoy}}

==Notes==
* Reverb's toy was first acknowledged on Hasbro's Transformers Action Figure [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/default.cfm?page=Collectors/Checklist Checklist].
* Reverb's deco was thought by many to homage an earlier character ([[Deathcobra (Victory)|Deathcobra]] and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] were popular choices), but his colors were in fact based on ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Cloudraker (Universe)|Cloudraker]], as [[Joe Kyde]] was particularly pleased by Cloudraker's colors and wanted to re-use them on something bigger.

==References==
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Glen Whitmann

2011-11-17T16:59:54Z

98.117.27.89:

:''Glen Whitmann is a [[human]] from the [[Movie (franchise)|2007 movie]] portion of the [[live-action film series]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:GlenWhitmann freakout.JPG|right|300px|thumb|OH NOES!It's Freddy Krueger!]]
'''Glen Whitmann''' is an expert hacker and computer hardware technician.... who lives with his grandma. Unsurprisingly, he's a virgin.

A colossal dork, he spends his days playing ''Dance Dance Revolution'' with his [[Glen's cousin|cousin]], living under the shouty regime of his mother and [[Glen's grandmama|grandmother]], and can tell quickly the difference between an attack by Freddy Krueger and one by [[Wolverine (superhero)|Wolverine]]. He breaks almost instantly under pressure, but when he's ''really'' scared, is still capable of working his technological magic.

His biggest piece of advice: Eat ''all'' the donuts. If you don't touch them, they think you're guilty.

How in the hell he knows a hottie like [[Maggie Madsen]] is anyone's guess. Maybe they met at computer camp?

{{quote|Okay, so what? I've download a couple of thousand songs off the internet. Who hasn't? ''Who hasn't?!''|Glen Whitmann, RIAA's public enemy number 1|''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''Transformers'' (2007) film===
:''Actor'': [[Anthony Anderson]] (English), [[Wataru Takagi]] (Japanese-language dub voice), [[Mario Castañeda]] (Latin American Spanish-language dub voice)

[[Image:Movie2007 Glen DanceDanceRevolution.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Vrei sa pleci dar nu ma, nu ma iei.]]
It was the beginning of a bad day for Glen when his game of ''Dance Dance Revolution'' was interrupted by his improbably attractive friend [[Maggie Madsen|Maggie]]. Just her walking into his 'private area of zen and peace' without any advanced notice was enough trouble for poor Glen, but adding more pressure to it with his foul-tempered grandmother's meddling, which only made his day even worse (So much for zen and peace). At first, he was reluctant to end the game session with his cousin until Maggie told him she possessed highly classified data that would land her in jail for the rest of her life if the authorities found out. His curiosity piqued, Glen proceeded to hack into the data, discovering images and files about something called [[Megatron (Movie)|Project: Iceman]] and an organization named [[Sector Seven]]. In the code itself, he discovered [[Cybertronian languages|strange symbols]]. Before they could view any more information, an FBI assault team crashed through the front door, prompting Glen's cousin to break out of the back door in a bid to escape, but was tackled into the swimming pool by an FBI agent. As he and Maggie were handcuffed, Glen cried out that ''nobody'' treads on his grandma's carpet, especially the po-lice.

[[Image:Movie2007 SHEDIDIT.jpg|right|250px|thumb|SHE DID IT! She beats the President's high score on Space Invaders!]]
While in an FBI holding room, Glen ate a plate of donuts, telling Maggie that she shouldn't worry, the FBI were going to play 'Good cop/Bad cop', and the donuts were a test. He theorized that a guilty person would not touch the donuts, while an innocent man would eat them, and he'd eaten the entire plate. He concluded that all they needed to do is stick up for each other and they'd be fine. As soon as the interrogation agents arrived, making it wordlessly clear that the pair were both in a ''lot'' of trouble by placing a folder of information on the table, Glen suddenly cried out that it was all Maggie's fault, she was the one who brought him the data, and that he was just playing video games with his cousin. He further revealed that he was a virgin, and that the worst he had done was download a few thousand songs off the internet, but who hasn't? After being told to shut up by Maggie, he exclaimed that a criminal such as herself shouldn't talk to him, then quickly sat down to recover from the sugar rush while Maggie explained what she was trying to accomplish.

[[Image:Movie2007 that'sWolverine%21.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"So that's RID Megatron's third mode..."]]
Later, Secretary of Defense [[John Keller|Keller]] barged into the room, announcing that Maggie was coming with him as an adviser. Glen inquired about himself, prompting the confused Keller to ask who he was. Maggie replied that Glen was ''her'' adviser. Keller allowed him to come along. Soon, they were in a helicopter with [[Sam Witwicky|two]] [[Mikaela Banes|teenagers]] who were also on board for some reason. The boy broke the awkward silence, prompting Maggie to ask what did the government get them in for. To Glen's astonishment, the boy, Sam, replied that he bought a car that turned out to be [[Bumblebee (Movie)|an alien robot]].

When pressed on the nature of the [[AllSpark (Movie)|All Spark]]'s radiation, [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]] and [[Tom Banachek]] took them into a sealed room. When [[Robert Epps|Sergeant Epps]] noticed claw marks and inquired if [[Freddy Krueger]] had been in the room, Glen corrected the sergeant by reminding him that Krueger only had four claws, while the three on the wall indicated that it was [[Wolverine (superhero)|Wolverine]], which he found amusing. Agent Simmons replied that his joke was very funny, without a trace of humor. Possibly as a way of apologizing, Glen offered up his Nokia cel phone as a demonstration piece, turning it into a [[Nokia-bot|vicious little death machine]]. During the big Mexican stand-off between the United States Military Special Ops Team, and the Sector Seven Guards, Glen stood by fearfully with his hands in the air, as though he was being held hostage.

When the Iceman thawed, Secretary Keller, [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]], and Maggie managed to get an old radio, unfortunately, it had no microphones. Maggie suggested that Glen wire a computer to the radio and use that as an interface, using Keller's authorization codes as confirmation. Despite an attack by [[Frenzy (Movie)|a tiny killer robot]], Glen was able to link up with the military. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|Transformers (2007)}}

===Transformers Mix & Match book===
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===Top Trumps Specials: Transformers===
Glen Whitman honed his hacking skills working for the [[Rand Corporation|RAND Corporation]] think tank. He has even hacked into the Government once or twice! {{storylink|Top Trumps}}

===Titan Magazines===
{{Note|The following is in Law and Disorder letters page continuity.}}

Barricade has no idea who Glen is; Ironhide does know but can't remember how to spell his name. Ironhide believes Glen is still living in the same place and eating lots of doughnuts, and responds "Oh dear" at the concept. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.15|#15's Law and Disorder}}

==Notes==
[[Image:StorybookGlen.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"Soon, the Rainbow of Light will be mine! AHAHAHAHA - uh. *whinny*"]]
* Glen Whitmann's pre-production name was Glenn Ross Dygert.
* In ''[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]'', Glen is inexplicably white. Also, he has a [[My Little Pony]]. This is a leftover element from when artist [[Marcelo Matere]], working with early and sparse information, thought Glen was a ''female'' character.
* The role of Glen was initially offered to [[Patton Oswalt]], but he had already committed to another film. He hasn't said what movie it was. If it was ''Balls of Fury'', he's probably kicking himself.
* Glen's intelligence must be higher than anyone else's on Earth, given that he has a computer that can decypher the cybertronian language, let alone hack government code. Either that or he bought it from HP.
* A part of the scene where Glen is trying to contact the military for help while Frenzy is attacking was apparently cut out of the film. Footage from this part can be seen in trailers and TV spots when Glen is shown yelling, "The killer robot is really distracting!"

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