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Arcee (WFC)

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:''Arcee is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Arcee Prime stockimage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Now where is that mouse?]]

A former scout on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] before the [[Great Exodus]], '''Arcee''' is the least physically-imposing of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s crew, but she's also Optimus's most reliable soldier, his go-to [[Female Transformer|gal]] when he needs someone he can count on.<ref>[http://www.hubworld.com/transformers/shows/prime/cast-gallery/arcee The Hub's profile page for Arcee]</ref> Whatever she lacks in physical form she more than makes up for it in force of personality. She is tough as nails at all times, always ready with a snarky quip even in the face of deactivation, not afraid to bend the rules every now and then, and seemingly never, ever scared.

And while that is largely true, and makes her an incredibly dangerous opponent (especially in melee combat, her specialty), that force of will ''is'' also a bit of a front. The loss of [[Tailgate (Prime)|a partner]] back on Cybertron rattled her, leading her towards a path of going it alone. And when she finally started opening up to [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|another partner]] on [[Earth]], losing ''him'' shook her to her core. To then be immediately saddled with the task of being the "guardian" for [[Jack Darby]], one of the locals accidentally caught up in the struggle on Earth, well, let's just say she was less than thrilled about that.

Okay, she was openly verbally hostile to Jack over the whole thing, but her loyalty to Optimus kept her from refusing the task. Like it or not, she's his guardian, and she's going to protect that boy's life... with her own, if she has to.

Slowly, but surely, Arcee is coming around again and facing her past demons. Jack's bravery and ingenuity even when in mortal peril is growing on her. Who knows. He might make a good partner.

{{quote|It is the external wounds which heal the quickest.|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]|"[[Partners]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Uniend 610.23 Zeta]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} Arcee was among to Autobots that participated in the Battle at [[Tyger Pax]], and joined [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]], [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] in their plan to launch the [[AllSpark]] into space to keep it from [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]].

With Ironhide and Jazz on lookout up at the [[Well of All Sparks]]'s rim, it fell upon Arcee to launch the AllSpark into space under Optimus's instructions, since Primes were forbidden to interfere with the AllSpark as a failsafe. {{storylink|Bumblebee at Tyger Pax}}

===IDW ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:PrimeComicArcee.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|"Well I can tell ''''arth'''' is 'Earth' but ''''age'''' is really throwing me."]]
Before the war, Arcee had been spying in [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], and sometime during it she had been rescued by [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]. When Optimus ordered the Autobots to [[Earth]], her ship had been destroyed, and she was willing to wait as she detected the Decepticons had returned to Cybertron and they were planning something ''big''. There, she entered a base and annihilated the [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] there, inadvertently returning Cliffjumper's favor. She hacked into the Decepticons's communications signal there, and found their weapons lab in Kaon. Arcee found Cliffjumper a brash soldier inappropriate for her stealthy mission, but he convinced her Kaon was too dangerous and that she could use his ship to go to Earth.

[[File:Arceeprimecomictransform.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|Arcee, transform and—geeeaaaheeeewwww!!]]

The duo entered the city through the maintenance tunnels Arcee had once explored, and she found a secret staircase by activating an Autobot symbol on the wall. There they discovered [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] had rebuilt a [[space bridge]] to travel to Earth. Concerned by the repercussions of the Decepticons's discovery of how to build space bridges, Arcee wanted to destroy it, but Cliffjumper convinced her it was their way off Cybertron. Distracting Starscream with a ruse, Arcee activated the space bridge and overloaded its systems, jumping through it with him before it blew up.

Landing on Earth, the duo scanned their alternate modes and traveled to find a population center where they could build a scanner and find Optimus. Starscream attacked, having also jumped through the space bridge, blasting Arcee's arm off. Cliffjumper fought him and tried to get Arcee to safety, but she refused, telling him to leave her and find Optimus. Thankfully, Optimus and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] came to them instead, and fended off both Starscream and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]]. Optimus carried Arcee through a [[GroundBridge]] to base, where [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] reattached her arm. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|Transformers: Prime}}

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===''Prime'' cartoon===
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[[File:Predatory-Airachnidscratch.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|Pull my finger.]]
During the Great War, Arcee was partnered with [[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]]. After one mission, she was talking to Tailgate over the comm when she was captured by [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] and taken for interrogation. She refused to talk, but when Airachnid revealed she had also captured Tailgate, she revealed she knew nothing, and Tailgate was killed by the Decepticon. Arcee was subsequently rescued by Bumblebee and Cliffjumper, though Airachnid herself escaped. {{Storylink|Predatory}}

[[File:OutofthePast-CliffArcee.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|"Did it have anything to do with those sirens around noon?" "I said I ''don't'' want to talk about it!"]]
Following the exodus from Cybertron, Arcee was investigating talk of a Decepticon operation on the deserted planet. Both she and Cliffjumper were captured by [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] who needed them to decode a transmission. The pair were taken to [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]], who used a [[cortical psychic patch]] on Arcee, revealing the transmission was [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s call to bring other Autobots to Earth. Learning that Shockwave had developed a [[space bridge]] that the 'Cons intended to use to invade Earth, Arcee and Cliffjumper teamed up to sabotage it, using it to land up on Earth just before it exploded. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} Soon after she arrived on Earth, Bulkhead accidentally stepped into some power lines. Arcee was impressed with the dance he did as a consequence. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}}

[[File:DarknessRising1-thisisjasper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|He's gonna ride her like a Harley on a bad stretch of road.]]
Arcee was engaged in casual banter with Cliffjumper when her friend was ambushed by Decepticons: by the time Arcee and the others got there, his body was missing and his lifesigns had ceased. While Optimus Prime said they should not dwell on negative emotions, Arcee claimed she'd go back on duty protecting humans; but when targeted by a [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]] duo and forced to rescue [[Jack Darby|human youth Jack Darby]], she showed an irritable, seething nature, attacking the Vehicons with angry cries of vengeance for Cliffjumper.

She ignored most of Jack's questions, initially threatened him to forget what he'd seen, and wasn't that concerned with humans witnessing the battle afterwards. To her annoyance, Optimus then ordered her to bring in Jack and the other human witnesses to [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]], so the Decepticons couldn't target them. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}}

[[File:DarknessRising2-girltrouble.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|She transforms into the world's largest motorcycle.]]
When the Autobots headed to the Decepticon Energon mines to locate Cliffjumper, Arcee found the broken and [[Dark Energon| Dark Energon-corrupted]] body of Cliffjumper moving, and tried to save him. She grabbed his hand, but was horrified when the body turned out to be a [[zombie|mutated ''thing'']] bent on attacking, and dropped him. When [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] arrived to drop a bomb into the area to destroy the mines, the Autobots were forced to retreat without Cliffjumper through the [[GroundBridge]]. Once inside their base, Arcee began to feel dizzy, much to the surprise of Jack, [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] and Raf. It was due to contact with a miniscule amount of the Dark Energon that had corrupted Cliffjumper.

Arcee, despite her "illness", was given the task of taking Jack Darby home, and angrily snapped at him when he said he was sorry for her loss, demanding to know what he'd know about such losses; the argument was interrupted when [[June Darby|Jack's mother]] arrived and promptly began questioning him about the mysterious blue bike. The next morning, Arcee snappily woke Jack up and dragged him to Central Command... but demanded he write a note so his mother wouldn't worry. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

On the way back, Arcee showed off some motorcycling tricks. They reached the base, only for Optimus to leave her in charge and go off on a mission with [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]. Arcee was disgruntled and, leaving [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] in charge, immediately went out on patrol with Bumblebee. The pair patrolled the nearby Nevada desert until they got a call from Bulkhead to say Fowler had been kidnapped, and he'd gone to the Decepticon ship to mount a rescue. Arcee tried to contact base to get bridged back, but no one was there, and she and Bumblebee had to put "the metal to the pedal". {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}}

[[File:DarknessRising4-Arceestandoff.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|"No, ''I'm'' ****ing Blue Death from above."]]
They arrived at the Decepticon ship to find Bulkhead had already dealt with the guards. Within, they rescued Jack and Raf from a pair of Decepticons, and quickly caught up with Bulkhead and Miko. The three kids being a liability in a fight, the Autobots cleared out a room for them to shelter in. A short time later, they found the brig. Arcee slipped in through a shaft in the ceiling to get the drop on Starscream, but he threatened to shoot the prisoner. Fowler caused a distraction and the Autobots opened fire. Starscream inconsiderately blasted Arcee with his jet exhaust as he fled. With Fowler rescued, the Autobots picked up the kids and returned back to base, where they faced some pointed questions from Optimus. Jack, however, was sick of the constant danger and decided he wanted no more to do with the Autobot/Decepticon conflict. Arcee reminded him to keep the conflict secret, and as he left by GroundBridge, she was sad to see him go. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}}

She later paid Jack a visit and managed to talk him into returning to the Autobot base. When they did so, it was to find that Ratchet had discovered the location of the space bridge, and Arcee and the other Autobots headed up into orbit to try and prevent Megatron from sending the Dark Energon through. They reached the space bridge terminal, but came under attack from flying Decepticons. Ultimately they were unable to prevent Megatron's plan from going ahead, and the only way to prevent the zombies coming through from Cybertron was to destroy the space bridge itself. Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee followed Ratchet's instructions, feeding the space bridge's power back on itself, but were attacked by Megatron just as they completed the job. Arcee was hit and knocked off into space. Luckily Bumblebee had the presence of mind to grab her as the Autobots retreated through the GroundBridge just before everything exploded. Back at base, Arcee seemed in a bad way, but after some concern from Jack, she was able to stand up again. She, Bulkhead and Bumblebee could later be seen hanging out with the three kids. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

Arcee attempted to help Jack with his science project, a motorcycle engine, despite not knowing anything about Earth auto-mechanics. Her role was usurped by Ratchet anyway. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

[[File:Scrapheap-huddleforwarmth.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|left|"I wish we'd chosen the sauna."]]
After Bulkhead and Bumblebee found a pod in the [[Arctic]] and brought it back to base, Optimus and Arcee went back to the Arctic to check for clues as to the pod's origin. After some time searching, the temperature sensors Ratchet had given them went off, but they were unable to raise base so they could GroundBridge back. The pair sought shelter, but as their temperatures slowly dropped, things looked grim. Arcee decided to keep warm by blaming Bulkhead for their predicament. Just as they were losing hope, the GroundBridge opened and ejected Bulkhead and the swarm of [[Scraplet]]s that had been causing havoc at base. The Scraplets froze in the cold air and the three Autobots were subsequently able to return home. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}}

Arcee was amused by Bulkhead's exuberant job when they were contacted by [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]], one of Bulkhead's old friends, though she was initially worried the signal could be a 'Con trap. She, Bulkhead and Bumblebee GroundBridged out to Wheeljack's landing site in time to see him take out a bunch of Vehicons. They returned to base where the Autobots celebrated, though Arcee mainly sat on the sidelines with Jack. When Bulkhead began to grow suspicious that Wheeljack wasn't all he seemed, Arcee tried to allay his fears, and when he directly confronted Wheeljack, Arcee urged him to keep calm. He turned out to be right. After everything was resolved, Arcee again took part in the partying, mostly by standing around watching the others dance. She also turned out to see the real Wheeljack off when he returned to space. {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:Convoy-kablooie.jpg|thumb|upright|upright=1.4|"My bad" won't cut it with Optimus this time.]]
When Fowler asked for help transporting the [[Dynamic Nuclear Generation System]], Arcee took part in the Autobot convoy, concealed in Prime's trailer along with the D.N.G.S. When [[MECH]] goons broke the back of the trailer open, she zoomed out in her cycle mode and blew up one of the MECH cars. She helped pass the D.N.G.S. over to a train, but a short time later the Autobots were attacked by Vehicons, and she, Bumblebee and Bulkhead spent the rest of the whole affair fighting them. {{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}}

When an [[Energon Harvester]] was located in a museum, the Autobots surrounded the building while the kids went in to steal it. [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] appeared at the front of the museum to attack Optimus, and as Breakdown charged at the museum, Bumblebee and Arcee attempted to stop him. A missile from Breakdown sent Arcee skidding into Bumblebee. After the Decepticons obtained the Harvester, Arcee made a token effort to chase them. She, Bumblebee and Prime later attempted to track down the Decepticons before the Harvester could be used, but they ended up coming to Bulkhead's rescue after he found and stopped the Decepticons himself. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}}

[[File:ArceeThey'reRacing.jpg|upright=1.4|left|thumb]]
As Arcee and Jack were leaving school, they encountered Sierra, who asked if she could take Jack up on his offer of a ride. They were interrupted by [[Vince]], who challenged Jack to a race. Arcee reminded her companion of the rules, however when Vince made disparaging remarks about her motorcycle mode, she decided that he needed to be taught a lesson. Arcee and Jack completely smoked Vince at racing, though she made Jack swear not to tell any of the other Autobots. When Jack agreed to another race, Arcee flatly refused to take part, and later found out he'd talked Bumblebee into helping him instead. Furious, she dragged Bulkhead out to help her find Jack and Bumblebee, only to reach them just as Knock Out was abducting Vince. The three Autobots tracked the Decepticons to a storage facility, where Arcee attempted unsuccessfully to retrieve Vince from Knock Out, and ended up chasing the 'Con. She was unable to catch him, but Optimus turned up to lend a hand and rescue the human, and he demanded an explanation from his ashamed soldiers. Afterward, Arcee was willing to allow Jack to give Sierra a ride, but just once. {{storylink|Speed Metal}}

[[File:AirachnidUpsideDown.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"Your breath stinks.]]"]]
On a routine energon scouting mission, Arcee and Jack stumbled on a crashed spaceship in the wilderness. Arcee recognized it as belonging to [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] and found she was unable to contact base. After dropping Jack a safe distance away, she hunted Airachnid, interrupting her foe's attack on a lone camper. They fought, but Jack's reappearance distracted Arcee long enough for Airachnid to get the upper hand and stick the Autobot to a nearby rock with webbing. Airachnid played on how Arcee had a habit of losing partners before starting to chase Jack. Haunted by her previous meeting with Airachnid, Arcee eventually managed to break free using her motorcycle mode, and caught up with Jack in time to save him by delivering a brutal pounding to Airachnid, who managed to flee underground. Arcee was left with a new respect for how Jack had handled the situation, and was happy to call him her partner. {{Storylink|Predatory}}

[[File:Arceeandherblaster.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left|That'll cost extra]]
After Optimus was infected by [[Cybonic plague]], Arcee and Bumblebee GroundBridged aboard the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]''. They found Megatron's body in stasis lock, and Arcee formed a [[cortical psychic patch]] so Bumblebee could find the cure in the Decepticon leader's mind. She hid with Bumblebee's unconscious body in a vent, but time began to run out when [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] entered the room and discussed pulling the plug on their commander. Soundwave noticed the cortical link and Starscream began following it to the vent, but Bumblebee had located the cure and the two GroundBridged off the ship. Arcee sent a parting gift by shooting at Megatron, and the Decepticons found Megatron's mind was blank... {{storylink|Sick Mind}}

Arcee was unsure if she'd successfully offlined Megatron. She was unenthusiastic when it turned out they had to return to the Arctic after the Decepticons stole a telescope lens. There, she and Bulkhead fought Breakdown as a diversion while Optimus snuck on board the Decepticon ship to destroy the heat ray they'd built the lens into. Her success in fighting breakdown was limited, but they kept him busy for long enough, and were knocked flying by the shockwave from the heat ray exploding. They were surprised when Megatron subsequently turned up alive and well to stop Starscream from finishing off Optimus. {{Storylink|Out of His Head}}

[[File:ArceeFailstonoticekidsenteringSpacebridge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Arcee's such a great babysitter.]]
When a Dark Energon signature was detected, Arcee was left at base on GroundBridge duty because Optimus wanted Ratchet's Dark Energon knowledge handy. She failed to notice the three kids sneaking after Optimus's team, and only later spotted that they were gone. She attempted to GroundBridge them back, but interference resulted in an explosion and the kids vanished en route. After Bulkhead's attempt to phone Miko failed, Arcee tried to ring Jack, but there was too much interference for them to talk. They eventually discovered the kids were trapped in an alternate dimension, and when Ratchet used the GroundBridge to rescue them, Optimus, Arcee and Bulkhead went to make sure they were safe from Starscream. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

When Breakdown was captured by MECH, Arcee and the others were surprised when Optimus insisted that they rescue the Decepticon, though it turned out he was concerned that Cybertronian technology would fall into MECH hands. The team arrived in [[Kamchatka Peninsula]] and followed an energon signal Ratchet had detected. The trace led them to find Breakdown's eye and a MECH bomb. After they avoided being blown up by the bomb, the team tracked down Bulkhead in time to chase off Starscream and some Vehicons. {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}}

[[File:Crisscross-callmeArcee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Hey, I'm your son's motorcycle.]]
Jack's alter-school activities resulted in his mom forbidding him from using his motorcycle. Jack pointed out to Arcee that this would mean she would have to stay in the garage for several weeks, but she instead promised that she would try to be back before Jack's mom got home at night. The next day Arcee and Bumblebee were fighting some Vehicons when Jack called her to warn her that mom was on her way home early. Arcee failed to get back in time, and had to sneak in via GroundBridge. Later on that evening, she managed to get back before June Darby did, but it turned out that was because mom had been abducted by MECH. Arcee and Jack followed Silas's instructions, proceeding to a deserted factory, and were shocked to find that Airachnid was involved. Arcee was webbed and rendered unconscious, but while MECH was preparing her for "surgery", she recovered and escaped. She managed to catch up with Airachnid before the 'Con could do anything to Jack or his mother, and the pair fought at length around the building. She eventually succeeded in knocking Airachnid into a container and pouring concrete on top, but as she was moving to rescue June, was webbed to the ground by the still active Decepticon. Relief came in the form of Agent Fowler and three helicopters, which forced Airachnid to retreat. Arcee and Jack subsequently took June to the Autobot base to meet the team. {{storylink|Crisscross}}

[[File:TFP ep18 tag team.jpg‎|thumb|upright=1.67|"We'll do fine as long as you don't need the bathroom anytime soon." "Um Arcee..."]]
Arcee was scheduled to do some routine maintenance with Jack, but June's well-meaning questions drove Arcee batty, and she instead opted to accompany Bulkhead on a mission to find a magnetic anomaly. Miko managed to sneak along on the mission, and Arcee again found herself as the third wheel, but when they reached the source of the magnetic disturbance, it turned out to be Airachnid and Breakdown fighting over a magnetic weapon. During the ensuing fight, Breakdown used the weapon, a [[polarity gauntlet]], to magnetize the two Autobots, and Arcee became stuck to Bulkhead's back. With the only choice to retrieve the gauntlet, Arcee ordered Miko to return to base, and she and Bulkhead tracked the 'Cons to an old gas station. After some more fighting, Arcee managed to become unstuck from Bulkhead, and briefly used the gauntlet to polarize everyone. In the end, the Autobots triumphed and returned to base with the gauntlet, where Arcee received an apology from June for the earlier questioning. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}}

Bulkhead and Arcee were assigned to check out an [[Stripped energon mine|old energon mine]]. When Miko ran into the mine, Jack persuaded Arcee to let him take a look inside too. She and Jack stumbled on Megatron and Starscream, and during the firefight that ensued, she shot Megatron's arm, causing him to blast the ceiling and causing a cave in. After the floor fell away, she lost track of the others, but eventually found the kids, and was able to rescue Bulkhead from Starscream. The two Autobots and the kids escaped the mine and briefly considered ending the Decepticons then and there before deciding it wasn't what Optimus would have done. Though Arcee still looked tempted. {{storylink|Rock Bottom}}

[[File:Partners2 Arcee talk to rock.jpg‎|upright=1.4|thumb|left|I can't believe we actually had to bury a horn.]]
Standing at Cliffjumper's graveside, Arcee pledged she would find the 'Con who killed him. When the Autobots were on their next mission to check out a signal from a buried Decepticon wreck, they ran into Airachnid, and Arcee attempted to take the opportunity to settle the score for Tailgate, only for Airachnid to get the better of her. After coming to her rescue, Optimus reminded her that revenge was never profitable. When their captive, Starscream, claimed to want to switch sides, Arcee spoke out to say they should take him with them. Arcee was left guarding the prisoner, however when he inadvertently revealed that it was he who had killed Cliffjumper, she became enraged and attacked him. Though she eventually got the upper hand and was about to finish him off, she realized that Bumblebee was watching the fight, and reluctantly let Starscream limp away. Later at base, her injuries were healed, but she blamed herself for ruining their chance to gain access to Starscream's knowledge. {{storylink|Partners}}

Arcee accompanied Prime and Bumblebee as they tried to retrieve a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]] before the Decepticons did. During the fight she was tackled by Knock Out. Ultimately the Decepticons made off with the cylinder, and later Arcee listened as Ratchet told them the cylinder's contents had ended up in Bulkhead's brain, and wondered aloud what the formula Bulkhead was writing was—the Autobots were excited to find it was a set of equations for synthetic energon. Arcee found it weird when Bulkhead was in "brainiac mode", and as it turned out the data was eating Bulkhead's mind. Bumblebee and Arcee accompanied Optimus on an unsuccessful attempt to get the cylinder back from Megatron, and they ended up fighting a bunch of Vehicons. Later they came to Miko and Bulkhead's aid to save the pair from Knock Out and Breakdown, and Arcee was present when Miko managed to rouse the comatose Bulkhead. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

[[File:RatchetflirtingwithArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|(clicks as he walks by) How's it hummin'?
Ratchet flirting with Arcee]]
During a mission to intercept Knock Out and Breakdown, Arcee sped over a roadblock caused by Vehicons, separating herself from the other Autobots despite Prime's orders. She soon found herself surrounded by Vehicons, but was surprised when Ratchet came through the GroundBridge and single-handedly bashed the lot of them, saving her. Ratchet later revealed that he had injected himself with the synthetic energon he'd been working on, and Arcee was keen for them all to try it, however, Ratchet began exhibiting personality changes that disturbed her: The effects of the Synthetic Energon made him act on impulse without thinking-he even started to flirt with Arcee, clicking and winking at her as he walked past with a "How's it hummin?", leaving her surprised. During their next mission, Ratchet accused Optimus of not being pro-active enough, bringing up Cliffjumper's death which was a a sensitive topic to Arcee, upsetting her. When Ratchet took off to tackle Megatron on his own, Arcee and the other Autobots were forced to come to his aid. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}

When an ancient prophecy looked like it was imminent, Arcee and Bulkhead wonder how seriously they should take it. They accompanied Optimus to a military base to stop the Decepticons attacking it, but when they were faced with Raf being gravely injured, Optimus ordered Arcee to accompany him and Bumblebee back to base. While Ratchet fought to save the boy's life, Arcee had to keep Bumblebee calm. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}}

Arcee accompanied Bulkhead and Ratchet on a mission to rescue Prime from an area rich in Dark Energon, though at one point she appeared to become mesmerized by the sight of a volcano spewing Dark Energon. Once they got Optimus back to base, they set about investigating the cause of the natural disasters that had begun plaguing the planet, and realized that [[Unicron]] lay at the center of the Earth. Arcee and the other Autobots began checking out the sites of the tremors. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

Though Optimus ordered the other Autobots to remain at base, Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee joined him anyway. They fought increasingly larger stone Unicrons, until they encountered a colossal one that knocked Bulkhead and Bumblebee aside, then sent Arcee likewise tumbling along the ground. As it moved to crush Optimus underfoot, help came in the unlikely form of Megatron, who offered to help them fight Unicron. After they returned to base, Optimus gave the trio the choice of whether to accompany him and Megatron to [[Earth's core]], and Arcee opted to go for Jack's sake. She, Bumblebee and Bulkhead greeted Megatron to the Autobot base by aiming their guns at him, and when they were ready to GroundBridge to their new destination, she insisted Megatron go first. Before long, they were standing within Earth's core. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}}

As the Autobots battled [[Unicron's antibodies|anti-bots]], Arcee was briefly separated from the others, and had to ride one of the anti-bots to catch up with them again. She, Bulkhead and Bumblebee remained outside Unicron's spark chamber to fight off the anti-bots. After Unicron's defeat, they entered the chamber only to discover that Optimus had lost his memory and was leaving with Megatron. They subsequently had to GroundBridge back to base minus their leader and explain what had happened to the others. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

The Autobots tried fruitlessly to find a way to get Optimus back. Arcee even managed to get on board the ''Nemesis'' by slipping through the Decepticon GroundBridge after Knock Out and Breakdown. She searched through the ship, fighting Vehicons, only to be expelled from the ''Nemesis'' by Soundwave. It didn't help matters that she didn't even manage to determine if Optimus was on board, let alone where the ship was. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Arcee and the others scoured the globe fruitlessly for the space bridge until they got information on its whereabouts from an undisclosed source which Arcee immediately figured out was Starscream. The Autobots stormed the energon mine housing the bridge before sending Jack and Arcee through to Cybertron, where they began using Jack's [[Key to Vector Sigma|key]] to search for [[Vector Sigma]]. {{Storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} On their arrival at [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], they were attacked by an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] which Arcee attempted to keep busy while Jack headed onwards. She was rendered unconscious for a time, but came around and retrieved Jack from the Vector Sigma chamber. On their return to Earth, she was forced to fight Megatron to distract him while Jack uploaded the Matrix information into Optimus. Mission successful, they returned to base for the big reunion. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

Arcee was impressed by Bumblebee's retrieval of the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]], and when his [[transformation cog|T-cog]] was later stolen, knew immediately it was MECH. Unfortunately her racing around in vehicle mode didn't do much to make Bumblebee feel better about his lack of a cog. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} She was unhappy about being asked to do the transplant between Ratchet and Bumblebee, but luckily didn't get the chance, as she had to rush off with Optimus and Bulkhead to try and secure an artifact. She and Prime proved unable to penetrate Knock Out's force field, and as a result, Megatron got away with the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

[[File:Crossfire Airachnid captures Arcee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|One day, she'll learn not to run off after Airachnid on her own. This is not that day.]]
Arcee and the others came to Wheeljack's aid when he returned to Earth to battle [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}} Arcee was part of an Optimus-led mission to an abandoned energon mine in [[South America]], where they found Megatron fighting an Insecticon. Arcee was more interested in the fight's observer, Airachnid, and immediately attacked her old foe. After chasing her through tunnels, Arcee stumbled into a web trap and ended up dangling cocooned from a tree. Her life was only saved by Starscream, who chased Airachnid off and cut Arcee down, though she still had to ask the other Autobots for help. {{storylink|Crossfire}}

When Fowler was attacked by a truck resembling Optimus, Arcee chased the interloper and was run down by him. She recovered at base, and they discovered that the truck was a MECH-built clone of Optimus. The Autobots located the MECH base, but as they explored it, [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] took them out one by one. After Optimus prevailed, the Autobots returned to base for repairs. {{storylink|Nemesis Prime (episode)|Nemesis Prime}} Optimus, Bumblebee and Arcee responded to strange activity and found Airachnid in the process of unleashing a swarm of Insecticons. Leaving the others to fight the Insecticons, Arcee chased Airachnid, eventually reaching the Insecticon hive. Though she was tempted to finish off Airachnid, Arcee tricked her foe into stepping onto one of the Insecticon pods, resulting in Airachnid being put in stasis lock so she could be safely taken back to base. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

[[File:TunnelVisionArceeRelic.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Stay away from the cookie jar.]]
After the ''Nemesis'' crashed, Arcee took part in an attack on it with the spark extractor, only to be put into stasis by its weapons. She recovered back at base when the kids disabled the ship. {{storylink|Flying Mind}} Arcee was sent with Bumblebee, Jack and Miko to retrieve a relic located in the [[New York City|Manhattan]] subways. {{storylink|Toxicity}} {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} The two Autobots found Knock Out with the artifact, but as Arcee tried to seize it, the Decepticon stunned her with his prod. After the party was interrupted by a sweeper train carrying Miko and Jack, Arcee pursued the train while being chased by Knock Out's Insecticon. She managed to both save the train from crashing and get rid of the Insecticon by getting it to touch a third rail. After Bumblebee got hold of the relic, he and Arcee were introduced to [[Vogel]], who'd helped Jack and Miko. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}}

They returned to base to find Bulkhead critically injured after his mission, and Arcee and Bumblebee helped get the Wrecker to the medical bay. {{storylink|Hurt}} Attempting to comfort Miko, who was upset by the slowness of Bulkhead's recovery, Arcee told her about the time she and Cliffjumper were interrogated by Shockwave and arrived on Earth. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} When new Autobot [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] appeared while the Autobots were investigating a crashed escape pod, Arcee was initially suspicious of him, recalling Makeshift. She was eventually convinced of the veracity of his story and after he helped during a mission to recover [[Red Energon]], she joined the others in welcoming him to the team. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

When Fowler notified them that a [[Project Damocles]] satellite had been stolen by Breakdown and Silas, Optimus took a team including Arcee to a military base in the hope of securing the satellite control codes before the Decepticons could get them. Instead they found themselves facing both Decepticon troopers and the orbital death ray itself, controlled by Soundwave. {{storylink|The Human Factor}} Arcee was unconvinced that it would be a good thing when Jack was assigned to help Smokescreen adapt to life on Earth, and the fact that the pair pulled a prank on Vince during their first mission did nothing to help. While Arcee was on a mission to find an Iacon relic, Smokescreen endangered Jack by taking him into combat, and though Arcee and the rest of the team rescued the boy, she was not pleased with either of them. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

With the news they might soon be able to restore Cybertron, Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee were unsure whether they wanted to leave Earth and their friends. She volunteered to accompany Smokescreen to [[Egypt]] to find the first [[Omega Key]] but, though they found the key, Smokescreen was apparently destroyed by Megatron. Arcee returned to base despondent at losing another partner, but it later turned out Smokescreen was still alive. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}} Smokescreen's exuberance got on her nerves. After she and Bumblebee failed to secure a key, Smokescreen and Bulkhead likewise failed in their mission, and Arcee ended up lecturing the rookie on being a team player, causing him to leave the Autobot base upset. When Smokescreen later turned out to be the final relic they were after, the Autobots located him too late to prevent him being captured by Soundwave. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}}

After Smokescreen escaped the ''Nemesis'' with two of the keys, the Autobots received a message from Starscream offering a trade for the final key. Arcee operated the GroundBridge and guarded the base with Smokescreen and Bumblebee, but Starscream was able to steal their three keys anyway, thanks to his Red Energon. {{storylink|Inside Job}} As the Autobots equipped themselves to go to Cybertron, Arcee availed herself of the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]], which proved very useful during their battle against the Decepticons. Having obtained the Omega Keys, the Autobots found the [[Omega Lock]], only for the Decepticons to unveil their trump card in the form of the three kids as hostages. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} Arcee was forced to hand over her key in exchange for Jack. After Optimus destroyed the Omega Lock to prevent Megatron destroying Earth, Arcee returned with the others to base, only to find that the Decepticons were attacking it. The Autobots were forced to abandon base, and Arcee and Jack bridged to a point somewhere in the US. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

Arcee and Jack paused in their travels so Arcee could scout out a helicopter, which turned out to be civilian. In the meantime, Jack came under attack by Decepticons but he and Arcee managed to blow them up with a gas station. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} After they took a rest stop at an abandoned farm house, the pair were cruising down a road when [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus's]] spacecraft set down in front of them. {{storylink|Scattered}}
Introductions were made, and the pair accompanied Ultra Magnus as he collected up the rest of Team Prime, finally arriving at the ''[[Harbinger]]''. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}} Bumblebee and Arcee joined the attack on [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]], acting as a "stealth team" and infiltrating the citadel under cover of a diversion. Unfortunately they ran into heavy resistance and were taken captive, but when Optimus Prime arrived to join the assault, they renewed their attack on the Decepticons. Following the destruction of Darkmount, the Autobots assembled at a human military base. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

[[File:PlusOneArceeAwesomePose.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Such a basic hero pose. But it ''just works for her.'']]
Arcee reflected that without Smokescreen's inability to follow orders, they might not still have Optimus Prime. The Autobots soon discovered that the Predacons were working on cloning more Predacons. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} When Decepticon activity was detected in [[New Mexico]], Arcee talked Wheeljack into going with her and the pair immediately ran into trouble in the form of a squad of Vehicons. After dispatching the Decepticons, Arcee and Wheeljack proceeded to retrieve the bone they'd been after, and Arcee managed to talk her companion into not abandoning his place in the Autobot team. While they were still hauling the bone away, news came that Fowler and June had gotten into trouble, and the two Autobots had to go and rescue the pair from Knock Out. They succeeded, though Knock Out got away with another Predacon fossil. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}}

[[File:PrimePersuasionArceeShocked.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Arcee read her "test results."]]
Arcee and the others took time out from hunting for Predacon fossils to secure some energon supplies, unaware it was part of a Decepticon plan to deceive the newly-intelligent [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]]. {{storylink|Evolution}} When the Decepticons began stealing technology to repair the Omega Lock, Arcee and the other Autobots attempted to stop them. They traveled to the [[Solaris particle collider]] in Antarctica, where they found the Decepticons already in the process of raiding the place. {{storylink|Minus One}} Though they fought their way through the Decepticons, they were ultimately unable to stop the Decepticons stealing the needed technology, and on top of this, when they returned to base it was to find Ratchet had been abducted by Soundwave. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

They launched the probe and monitored it and Optimus's progress from the base. Though the probe was destroyed, Ratchet was able to send them the coordinates to the Decepticon warship, and Arcee and the others geared up in preparation to assault the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|Synthesis}} Arcee attempted to lead her team to join Ratchet, only for Smokescreen to abandon them along the way, and for them to be confronted by Starscream. They managed to fight their way through to the Omega Lock control room, where Arcee watched Bumblebee kill Megatron with the Star Saber. With the ''Nemesis'' secured, the Autobots were able to take the ship to Cybertron, where they used the Omega Lock to restore their home world. Arcee told Jack to stay in touch, before she and the other Autobots returned home. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

In the aftermath of Cybertron's rebirth, Arcee patrolled in an attempt to find Starscream and Shockwave. With the discovery that there were two new Predacons on the loose, she and the other Autobots attempted to persuade Predaking to help them, but were unsuccessful. After encountering Unicron, in possession of Megatron's rebuilt form, the Autobots realized that the dark god intended to destroy their world. After foiling an attempt by Starscream to retake the warship, the Autobots attempted to defend the Well of All Sparks from Unicron's onslaught. It was only when Optimus returned that Unicron was defeated, and Arcee was later present when Optimus sacrificed himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

===Titan ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:Titan4.3 Arcee is melodramatic.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|And what happened, then? Well, in Whoville they say - that Arcee shot Christmas in the face.]]
Arcee took part in the testing of Ratchet's newly-developed [[Safe]] training room, though she was amused by the medic's interest in making things explode. After Bulkhead broke through a wall, Arcee alerted the others to the rather large nuclear missile he'd accidentally uncovered and activated. A Vehicon scouting party showed up looking for the source of the energy signature the bomb was giving off, so Optimus, Arcee and Bumblebee went out to trash them. The trio returned to base a short time later to find Fowler had arrived to deal with the bomb. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|The Safe and the Failsafe}}

During some downtime, Optimus took the other Autobots, including Arcee, on a trip to [[Valley of Fire State Park]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.2|War Story}}

During the holidays, Arcee roundly mocked Bulkhead as he attempted to decorate a [[Christmas]] tree. Unfortunately for her, after Fowler reported that the Decepticons had taken over a [[Yamal|nuclear-powered ship]], she found herself left at base with Bulkhead. The kids suggested she and Bulkhead try to find something they both liked, but progress was slow until they discovered their mutual love of ice skating. They subsequently turned the base into an ice rink and skated around it until the other Autobots came back. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.3|Ice Breaker}}

[[File:Titan4.5 Arcee threatens MECH.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Our coverage of "Convoy" says different, Arcee!]]
She and Jack scouted out [[Franklin High School]] when schools in the region began unexpectedly exploding. It paid off when [[MECH]] turned up, however while Arcee was on the comm to Optimus, Jack sneaked inside the school. Arcee crashed inside to rescue him from MECH, though he insisted on following the baddies up to the roof. Silas got away anyway, and Arcee had to get Jack off the burning building. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.5|School Is... Out!}} After the [[President of the United States]] was kidnapped, the Autobots traced the culprit, Starscream, to the [[Grand Canyon]]. Bumblebee and Arcee teamed up to take out the cannons manned by Vehicons that Starscream had brought along. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

Arcee and Bulkhead headed to [[Zhejiang Province]], [[China]] after the Autobots lost contact with Optimus Prime. They found [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and a bunch of Vehicons feeding Optimus's body into a crusher but were overcome by the Decepticons before they could rescue him. Luckily Optimus came to his senses in time. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|The Mind Trap!}} After Miko was kidnapped by [[MECH]] agent [[Novo]], Arcee joined the hunt to find her. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.9|The Novo Incident}}

Arcee was bemused by Jack's demonstration of bobbing for apples. She was on the team which visited the [[Deep Driller]] oil platform and encountered [[Rufus Madison|General Madison]] and his men. After ending up underneath Bulkhead, she managed to trick two of the soldiers in [[robotic battle suit]]s into shooting each other. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.10|Mad Dogs & Autobots}} When Bulkhead went missing, Arcee searched in vain until Miko managed to work out he was on the Decepticon ship. Arcee was subsequently part of the mission to rescue their friend. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}} Arcee took part in a battle against the Decepticons in [[The Wave]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.12|The Evil Shred}}

Following a TV studio takeover by Knock Out and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]], Arcee came along on the mission as backup. She took to the shadows, and once Optimus had rescued the other hostages, Arcee rescued [[Chuck Chuckles]] and took down the two Decepticons herself. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.14|It's a Knock-Out}}
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Arcee occasionally takes time out from defending the universe and protecting the planet Earth in disguise to... answer fan mail? {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|Mega-Mouth}}

===Eaglemoss ''Prime'' comic===
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===''Tales of the Beast Hunters'' comic===
Arcee tracked [[Ripclaw]] to the [[Canadian Rockies]]. Rather than attack directly, she leaked the coordinates to the Decepticons in the hope they would deal with the problem. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 19}}

===''Beast Hunters'' comic===
Following Optimus's sacrifice, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead encountered [[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]] in a tunnel. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 7|Beast Hunters #7}} They emerged on the surface in time to help [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] and the other Dinobots fight a squad of [[Forged]]. Arcee was shocked to hear they'd been created by Shockwave. After dealing with that threat, Arcee starting filling the Dinobots in on recent events, only for them to be promptly attacked by a new Predacon. The Autobots split into groups to head to [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], with Arcee and Swoop taking one group of survivors. [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] drew off the Predacon when it attacked, allowing Arcee and the other to reach Kaon while the Predacon was dealt with. There, Arcee explained that the Dinobots would always be welcome in the Autobot ranks. Grimlock, however, said the Dinobots would be unable to help with the reconstruction of Kaon, since they'd be building a new home for the survivors. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 8|Beast Hunters #8}}

===''Transformers Legends'' comic===
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Arcee was among the heroic female Transformers who appeared in one of [[Tigatron]]'s dreams, in which she spotted the approaching evil female Transformers seeking to kidnap Tigatron. She may have subsequently engaged [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]] in battle, or might have just been in the latter's line of sight. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11|Bonus Edition Vol. 11}}

===IDW ''Robots in Disguise'' comic===
Arcee, Ultra Magnus, and Bulkhead spied on Bumblebee's team from their spaceship. {{storylink|Fire, When Ready!}} While struggling to get his team to work together, Bumblebee recalled happier times when he was part of Team Prime with Arcee. She and Bulkhead were sent by Magnus to question [[Spinhead]], but arrived after the Decepticon had been captured. They returned to the ship, unaware that Bumblebee had spotted them. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

The trio visited Bumblebee so they could question some of the ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'' prisoners over the whereabouts of [[Clipshade]], and Arcee discovered she had a fan in [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]]. Arcee took part in the capture of the Decepticon, though she was prevented from speaking further with Bumblebee when Magnus ordered them back to the ship with Clipshade. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 2|Robots in Disguise #2}}

Arcee accompanied Ultra Magnus and Bulkhead on another visit to Team Bee following an operation that ended with [[Overhead]] escaping. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 3|Robots in Disguise #3}} After Ultra Magnus filled the other Autobot team in on the fact that Clipshade was an Autobot spy, Arcee and the rest of the team launched an operation to arrest the leader of the [[Cybercomrade Sect]], [[Overhead]]. Arcee and Strongarm got to tagteam Overhead, though when the Sect leader turned the space bridge she was working on into a black hole, Grimlock saved Arcee from being sucked in. In the aftermath of the fight, Overhead and her hench-[[Croctobot]]s were taken into custody, and Ultra Magnus, Arcee and Bulkhead returned to Cybertron with them. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 4|Robots in Disguise #4}}

===''Kre-O'' bios===
Arcee was once webbed to the ground by Airachnid and tickled mercilessly by [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]. {{storylink|Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid's bio}}

===''Kre-O'' online comic===
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Arcee was one of the [[Autobot]]s who left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in the ''[[Ark (Kre-O)|Ark]]'' in search for energy blocks to alleviate their hunger. Thanks to the boarding of the ''Ark'' by [[Decepticon]]s, the ''Ark'' crashed and the [[Transformer]]s fell into a four million year-long sleep. They woke up to a world filled with blocks. {{storylink|Kreon Story}}
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===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Arcee was deployed on Earth alongside [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] and [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[File:EnemyOfMyEnemy-Arcee.jpg|right|thumb|150px|This High Council don't want none unless your helmet's got buns, hon.]]
Following the restoration of Cybertron from the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]], Arcee was one of the many Autobots blacklisted by the new [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] for being a supporter of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]. {{Storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}}

{{note|Arcee's body as shown appears to be a blend of her ''Prime'' form and the original [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], what with the divided backpack and Princess Leia "buns" on her helmet.}}

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==Commercial appearances==
Arcee was weirded out by [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]], [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]], [[My Little Pony|ponies]], and an {{w|Strawberry Shortcake|underage baker}} singing Christmas carols. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers1|The Hub Carolers}}

==Games==
===''Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense''===
Arcee fought off Starscream as he led Vehicon troops to the town of [[Jasper]] to collect Dark Energon from a nearby mine. She then teamed up with Bumblebee to stop Soundwave and more Vehicons from reaching an abandonned military base. She then helped Optimus Prime destroy whatever Vehicons managed to infiltrate the outpost on their way out. Upon Megatron's arrival to the battlefield, she aided Optimus Prime defend Autobot headquarters.

Arcee could deploy "Cannon Turrets," "Anti Air Turrets," and "Sniper Turrets" through the Ground Bridge to aid her in destroying Vehicons. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense}}
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===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
[[File:WFCArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|Four wheels good, two wheels ''better!'' Four wheels good, two wheels ''better!'']]
:''Voice actor'': [[Kari Wahlgren]] (English)
{{Note|Arcee is not a playable character in the storyline campaign. However, she can be unlocked for Escalation mode and for customization in online multiplayer as an Autobot scout. Her chassis type is listed as "Sprinter".}}

Arcee was one of the many Autobots who were captured and placed in [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]]'s prisons complex. She was freed from her imprisonment when [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] allowed themselves to be captured in order to rescue [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]]. During their rescue attempt, they opened all of the Kaon cells, allowing the prisoners, Arcee included, to escape. The freed prisoners were all led to transport ships, overseen by [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]], in which they used to escape the complex. Arcee herself helped direct her fellow prisoners to the ships, whilst Optimus's team kept the Decepticons busy.
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===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
[[File:Arcee-foc-pinup-Crop.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|left|link=File:Arcee-foc-pinup.jpg|Click for full version]]
Deep in the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]], a Decepticon facility housed a room containing not only a number of weapons but also a [[:File:arcee-foc-pinup.jpg|pin-up poster]] of Arcee. Sketchy. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron}}
{{Note|Arcee is one of three characters (with [[Barricade (WFC)|Barricade]] and [[Slipstream (WFC)|Slipstream]]) from ''War for Cybertron'' whose parts are not available in the multiplayer character designer, ostensibly because the designers couldn't make female parts work with the system.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7dBQA-OJR0 Comic-Con: Transformers: Fall of Cybertron panel at YouTube (50:00 mark)]</ref>}}
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=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game arcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Say goodnight, Jak! (3DS version pictured)]]
{{voiceactor|[[Sumalee Montano]] (English)}}

The Autobots detected a massive asteroid of Dark Energon headed toward Earth, and intercepted the ''Nemesis'' crew attempting to retrieve the asteroid when bridging to the location. At the climax of the battle, the asteroid began to split apart and exploded. Team Prime fell to Earth and scattered across the country.

Arcee landed back in Jasper, and was met by a horde of Insecticons upon waking up. Arcee proceeded to defeat them and was alarmed when Jack, who had come to her aid when her life signal was detected on Earth, contacted her and opened up a ground bridge for her. However, Arcee was met by Airachnid, and the latter ended up kidnapping Jack. Arcee pursued her and managed to release Jack from her possession.

Arcee & Bumblebee went to investigate a part of the asteroid that landed on Earth, though Bumblebee scouted ahead. She assisted Bumblebee in grounding Dreadwing, but that was about it. Later, Arcee joined Bumblebee in bridging to the Nemesis to save Ratchet and the children, who had been captured by the Decepticons over this period of time. She was met yet again by Airachnid, though this time coming rather close to defeating her. Unfortunately, Airachnid had escaped. The team regrouped, though missing Optimus, and Ratchet dispatched Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and Arcee to chase Thunderwing in order to give him time to create a device to corrupt his Dark Energon core. Arcee was knocked into stasis by Megatron, just in time for Optimus to arrive. Arcee was taken by Bulkhead for medical care. Arcee then assisted Jack, after much hesitation from her and Optimus, in planting Ratchet's disruption device inside of Thunderwing's core. The dynamic duo were successful in carrying out the task.

Arcee later joined the rest of the team in watching the sun set after a day's hard work. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}

===''Transformers Prime: Relic Hunter''===
Arcee was once sent to [[Antarctica]] to find and retrieve an Ionian{{sic}} relic. She fell in a lot of Dark Energon pits along the way. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Relic Hunter|Relic Hunter}}
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===Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)===
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Arcee with [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Hound (Prime)|Hound]] were assigned a mission to capture the [[Dark Spark]], but were confronted by [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] and [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]. After fighting them, the Autobots continued on their way. At the railway station, they joined the waiting Optimus, Bumblebee and Jazz. Together, the Autobots dealt with a group of Insecticons, and then loaded on a train. When the train was blown up by the Decepticons, Arcee was at the head of a detachment of the Autobots, who tried to prevent the escape of the Decepticons with the Dark spark. This attempt was unsuccessful. Then the female followed the enemies to Kaon, where she headed one of the groups that attacked Bruticus and also confronted numerous Decepticon drones. Bruticus returned, leading Arcee and the others to attack him, forcing him to retreat due to his injuries. The Autobots eventually caught up with him and caused him to fall apart.{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}

===''Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense''===
When the Decepticons constructed an [[Energon Drain]] in an asteroid field, Arcee and the Autobots countered it by building a [[Pulsar Dish]] from debris. While the dish was under construction, Arcee and Jack could help out by scanning the nearby debris for the necessary components. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense}}
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===''Transformers Universe''===
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{{Note|Arcee is seen for a brief moment in the 2014 trailer, furthermore her portrait can be found in the game files. She was intended to be the mentor for the training room, however the game was shut down before the training section was produced.}}
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==Toys==
===Prime===
====First Edition====
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[[File:Primetoy-ArceeNYCC.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Arcee went back in time and had a little one with herself.]]
*'''Bumblebee and Arcee, Includes Raf Esquivel and Jack Darby''' (NYCC 2011 exclusive)
**''Accessories:'' Two arm blades/motorcycle panels

:Arcee is a [[redeco]] of Deluxe Class Arcee (see below) in pink and white [[Arcee (G1)|Generation 1 Arcee colors]] and comes with a New York taxicab [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Prime: First Edition|Bumblebee]] and NY-themed [[Jack Darby#Prime|Jack Darby]] and [[Raf Esquivel#Prime|Raf Esquivel]] figurines. They were sold exclusively at [[New York Comic Con|New York Comic Con 2011]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2011/Autobot/NYCCArcee/arcee.htm More information on NYCC Arcee at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Primetoy-ArceeDeluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Gimmicks include: plug-in arm blades, conservation of mass between modes.]]
*'''Arcee''' ("First Edition" Deluxe Class, 2011)
**''Number:'' '''002'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''2011-[[December 28|12-28]]
**''Accessories:'' Two arm blades/motorcycle panels, stand

: Part of the first wave of ''First Edition'' Deluxe Class toys, Arcee transforms from a blue motorcycle to a robot and back. Arm blades stow in vehicle mode and can be plugged under Arcee's forearms in [[robot mode]]. Like all "First Edition" toys, a cardboard display stand comes assembled within the packaging.

: After exceptionally spotty distribution in the original release, Arcee and many of the other ''First Edition'' toys were re-released as part of a big batch of [[Toys"R"Us|ToysЯUs]] exclusives in late 2012. They later made their way to closeout chains like Ross and Marshall's.

: This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[Transmutate (character)#Timelines|Trans-Mutate]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2011/Autobot/PrimeArcee/arcee.htm More information on First Edition Arcee at TFU.info]''

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*'''Arcee ~Blue Plated Ver~''' ("First Edition" Deluxe Class, 2013)
**''Accessories:'' Two arm blades/motorcycle panels, stand

:A chrome redeco of the First Edition Arcee figure is released as a lucky draw prize, by spending 3,000 yen or more on Transformers products at Edion or Bic Camera while the entry for the draw is obtained. The figure was limited to 40 pieces.

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====Cyberverse====
[[File:Cyberverse legion arcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Arcee''' (Cyberverse Legion, 2012)
**''Series/Number:'' '''2 / 003'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''2012-[[April 28|04-28]]'''
**''Japanese Number:'' '''EZ-09'''
**''Accessories:'' Blaster

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' [[Cyberverse (toyline)#Series 2|Series 2 Cyberverse]] Legion Class toys, this smaller-scale Arcee comes with a rubbery translucent-pink blaster which has numerous [[C joint|3mm peg]]s and a single peg-hole, allowing it to be held or mount onto any of her numerous ports. She has permanently-deployed battle blades on her arms in robot mode, and is largely [[scale]]-accurate with the Deluxe and Voyager toys in vehicle mode.

: This sculpt was also used to make [[Flamewar (Prime)|Flamewar]] and [[Transformers (2014 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2014)]] [[Groove (G1)#Transformers (2014)|Protectobot Groove]]. Her blaster, in various colors, was also used by ''Cyberverse'' [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Cyberverse|Bumblebee]], [[Evac (Ride)#Cyberverse|Evac]], [[Wheeljack (Prime)#Hyperspeed|Hyperspeed Wheeljack]], [[Tailgate (Prime)|Autobot Tailgate]], the [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#CyberverseBattlesuit|redeco]] of Bumblebee that comes with the [[Bumblebee Battle Suit]], and the ''Transformers'' (2014) Groove figure, which he comes with ''2'' of them.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2012/Autobot/LegArcee/arcee.htm More information on Cyberverse Legion Arcee at TFU.info]''

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*'''Autobot Set''' (EZ Collection 6-pack, 2012-[[November 24|11-24]])
**''ID number'': '''EZ-SP1'''
**''Accessories'': Blaster

:Available for this set, this version of Arcee replaces her blue plastic with a darker shade of blue. She was released as a six-pack along with [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#EZ6pack|Bumblebee]], [[Bulkhead (Prime)#EZ6pack|Bulkhead]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#EZ6pack|Optimus Prime]], [[Ratchet (WFC)#EZ6pack|Ratchet]], and [[Wheeljack (Prime)#EZ6pack|Wheeljack]].

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====Robots in Disguise====
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[[File:PrimeRID-ArceeDeluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
[[File:Prime-toy ArceeTakTomDx.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The PRID version is the more show accurate one?!?! Impossibru...]]
*'''Arcee''' (Deluxe Class, 2012)
**''Series/Number:'' '''1 / 005'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''2012-[[May 28|05-28]]'''
**''Japanese Number:'' '''AM-11'''
**''Accessories:'' Blaster & blade (Hasbro only), "Arc" Arms Micron (Takara only)

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise (2012)|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' Deluxe Class toys, this smaller, new-mold Deluxe Class Arcee figure features a transformation that relies slightly more on fake kibble than the earlier Deluxe toy. The entire front of the bike now stores on her back, though the rest of the toy transforms very similarly (but not identically). She comes with a large blaster and one of her arm blades, both of which can mount onto her hands, forearms, and front wheel via [[5mm post]], as well as combine with each other. Additionally, the blades from the "First Edition" figure can mount onto thin pegs on either side of her vehicle mode.

: The Japanese release has new 5mm post attachments added to her wings, to go along with the [[Arms Micron]] system. As such, she loses the blaster and blade combo, and instead has her own Arms Micron, [[Arc]], who transforms into a weapon somewhat resembling her arm-blade. Most of her [[paint operation]]s also have been removed, replaced with customer-applied foil [[sticker]]s.

: This mold was also used for [[BotCon 2014]] [[Flareup (G1)#BotCon2014|Flareup]] and was heavily retooled into ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Chromia (G1)#Generations|Chromia]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2012/Autobot/Arcee/arcee.htm More information on ''Robots in Disguise'' Arcee at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://higekumatoytoy.blog60.fc2.com/blog-entry-1541.html Arms Micron Arcee at Alfes's toy blog]''
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====Beast Hunters====
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[[File:Beast hunters arcee deluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Batgiiirl! Batgiiiirl! Where do you come from? Where do you go?]]
*'''Arcee''' (Deluxe Class, 2013)
**''Series/Number:'' '''2 / 012'''
**''Accessories:'' Echohawk Bow, two [[missile]]s

: Part of the fourth wave of ''Prime: [[Beast Hunters (toyline)|Beast Hunters]]'' Deluxe Class toys, Arcee is a redeco and extensive [[retool]] of ''Prime: Robots in Disguise'' Arcee, and comes with the massive spring-loaded "[[Echohawk Bow]]", which can fire its two missiles. It can be held via its two jointed 5mm handles, as well as attach to her front wheel in vehicle mode.

:Her instructions include the [[Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 19|nineteenth chapter]] of the ''[[Tales of the Beast Hunters]]'' series.

: This version of the mold was also used for [[BotCon 2014]] [[Flamewar (G1)#BotCon2014|Flamewar]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2013/Autobot/Arcee/arcee.htm More information on ''Beast Hunters'' Arcee at TFU.info]''
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===Kre-O===
[[File:Kre-O-Autobot-Command-Center.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Command Center''' (Playset, 2013)
**''Set number'': '''A5412'''
**''Pieces'': '''461'''
**''Kreons'': Arcee, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Ratchet, Shockwave

: The Command Center playset includes a Kreon of Arcee based on her ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)| Prime]]'' incarnation. She uses the [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] style helmet. There's also a blue [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Wheeljack]] backpack-wing in the set that is not technically hers, but can be added to her to make her just that little bit more like the show model.

: The set also comes with ''Prime''-style Kreons of [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)#CommandCenter|Bumblebee]], [[Ratchet (Kre-O)#CommandCenter|Ratchet]], [[Shockwave (Kre-O)#CommandCenter|Shockwave]], and [[Knock Out (Prime)#CommandCenter|Knock Out]], and a brick-built [[Rippersnapper (Prime)#CommandCenter|Rippersnapper]] beast and [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)#CommandCenter|Optimus Prime]] truck.

===Go!===
[[File:Gotoy-HunterArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"... ''Bullseye.''"]]
*'''Hunter Arcee''' (Deluxe Class, 2013-[[October 26|10-26]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''G22'''
**''Accessories:'' Arc Bowgun, two missiles

:Part of the sixth wave of [[TakaraTomy]] ''[[Triple Combination: Transformers Go! (toyline)|Go!]]'' toys, Hunter Arcee is a [[redeco]] of the ''Beast Hunters'' Deluxe Class Arcee toy, and features a predominantly blue and black color scheme with silver and pink highlights, similar to her ''Prime'' cartoon appearance.
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==Merchandise==
===Kinder Surprise===
*'''Transformers: Prime''' (2014)
:Only available inside a blindpacked chocolate egg as part of Kinder's ''Transformers: Prime'' series, this buildable Arcee mini-figure consists of a generic "cog" onto which her limbs and armor can be clipped to construct her. She has articulation on her shoulders and upper legs.
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===Eaglemoss cards===
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==Notes==
[[File:DarknessRising3-Arceesizechange.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The motorcycle transforms into her leg and then the rest of her robot mode hops over and attaches to it.]]
[[File:VectorSigmaBotBuilderArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Basically destined to be [[Pinkie Pie]] at some point.]]
*In the ''Prime'' cartoon, Arcee's [[hologram|holographic]] driver is named "[[Sadie]]".<ref>[[Darkness Rising, Part 1]]
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* All of the Autobots in ''Prime'' [[size changing|change size]] between [[alternate mode]]s, but it's way more noticeable with Arcee's transformation from a vehicle roughly the size of Jack to a robot just a little shorter than Bumblebee. Her tires do not change size when she transforms. One can see a little regular-sized tire in her back, and small half-tires on her calves.
*Arcee's chest panels [[:File:PrimeArcee PinkParts.jpg|fluctuate]] in color from episode to episode. Sometimes, they're pink; other times, they're clear. They seem to be clear more often than pink, though.
*Arcee's blue color scheme is due to the writers not wanting to make Jack look silly by putting him on a pink motorcycle.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-prime-39/nycc-2011-transformers-prime-panel-tony-todd-is-dreadwing-nathan-fillion-to-voice-a-transformer-173567/ NYCC 2011 Transformers: Prime Panel at TFW2005]</ref>
*Arcee's show model is the basis for the non-toy character [[Akiba Prime]].
*In the Japanese dub of ''Transformers: Prime'', Arcee's catchphrase of "scrap" was rendered "saiaku" (最悪), a phrase that literally translates to "the worst". It is often used by young women as an expression of frustration or irritation.
*Arcee's body parts are available to use in the Hub website's [[Vector Sigma Bot Builder]] online game. Normally, you cannot configure a generic 'bot using all Arcee parts, but you can see what one would look like at right through the magic of Photoshop.
*In the [[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|3DS version of ''Rise of the Dark Spark'']], there are obvious hints at a relationship between Cliffjumper and Arcee. Cliffjumper refers to Arcee as, "Darling," and Hound flat out says to Arcee, "I see why Cliffjumper likes you, boss."
*A proposed [[Fun Publications]] [[BotCon]] [[exclusive]] was a redeco of [[#Prime|''Prime: Robots in Disguise'' Arcee]] into a "Femme Fatale" version of [[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|''GoBots'' Cy-Kill]].<ref>[http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc14/bc14br.html BotCon 2014 attendee report]</ref>

===Arms Up Modes===
In the Japanese ''Prime'' toyline, Arcee has named powered-up modes when given various [[Arms Micron]]s in certain configurations:

*'''Slasher Mode''' (スラッシャーモード ''Surasshā Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.2, B.H., C.L., O.P., R.A.
: Seen on her box-back photo, in this mode Arcee uses the [[Slash Cannon α]] on her right arm, [[Slash Cannon β]] on the other, with [[C.L.]] on her right wing and [[B.H.]] on her left.

*'''Crushgize Nebula Scythe''' (クラッシュジアイズネビュラーサイズ ''Kurasshujiaizu Nebyurā Saizu'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.H., Balo, Gora, O.P., R.A., Zori
: This rather overblown mode, revealed in the ''[[From the Cybertron Satellite, Transformers Division|Cybertron Satellite]]'' portion of "[[Scrapheap (episode)|Freezing Transformation!? Terror of the Minicons]]", starts with Arcee holding the [[Nebula Scythe]] Combo Weapon. Add [[Gora]] to her right wing, [[R.A.]] to her left, [[Zori]] to her back and [[Balo]] in drill mode to the end of Zori's tail, and boom! The "gize" part of the name seems to be from the word "energize".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Arcee''' (アーシー ''Āshī'')

==References==
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Ratchet (WFC)

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:''Ratchet is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:PrimeRatcht.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|If we don't get Jeffrey Combs versus [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lance Henriksen]] before this series ends, there will be much, much sobbing.]]
The [[Autobot]]s' medical officer, '''Ratchet''' has a dry wit, often giving his wounded comrades a hard time for taking hits he somehow avoids. With the Energon supplies becoming less and less, he works to find new ways to make do, and he'd ''really'' prefer if the Autobots didn't risk injury (or worse) to protect [[human]]s. He'd also prefer the humans weren't brought back to [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]] but since ''he'' is unfamiliar with human tech, he needs [[Raf Esquivel]] to help him out. However, for all his views on humans, deep down Ratchet ''admires'' what the tiny fleshies bring to the fight. Maybe he'll even warm up to them.

[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s best friend, and ''de facto'' second-in-command, you'd be hard-pressed to find another Autobot who loves his leader as much as he does. Yet this is not to say Ratchet has blind faith in him; Ratchet resents Optimus' lack of action over the years regarding ending the war and many missed chances to kill [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]. He's as flawed as any normal being would be, and a huge vice is his Cybertronian pride. At least once, it's nearly cost him the life of a friend. Furthermore, his grief for his destroyed [[Cybertron (planet)|home world]] is what drives him. He didn't take the loss of Cybertron very well, and would do almost anything to get it back some day.

He works with the [[Mini-Con]] [[R.A.]], and has recently struck up a partnership with the taciturn [[Undertone]].

{{quote|In a contest between resources and ingenuity, never underestimate ingenuity.|Ratchet, [[Transformers: Exodus|Exodus]]}}

==Fiction==
===''The Covenant of Primus''===
Ratchet emerged from the [[Well of All Sparks]] before the [[Age of Wrath]]. In his youth, Ratchet left his primitive village behind, and embarked on a pilgrimage to the newly-founded city of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. There, he applied as a student to Iacon's medical units, and learned medical science from the then-current chief of surgery [[Remedy (COP)|Remedy]]. Over time, Ratchet slowly climbed the ranks, and eventually became a junior medic in one of Iacon's many medical clinics.

One day, Ratchet was interrupted from his studies by the arrival of [[Coldwelder]], a working-class [[Energon]] miner who claimed to have been abducted and experimented on by [[Quintesson|aliens]]. Ratchet was skeptical of his claims, but ordered his intern [[Crankhandle]] to help run a diagnostic on the frightened victim. While examining his patient with his colleague [[Cogwheel]], Ratchet discovered a probe of unknown origin had indeed been planted in Coldwelder's cranium. Ratchet was more than happy to let Cogwheel deal with the fallout of this strange discovery but felt guilty afterwords for passing the matter off to her to deal with.

Much later, the outbreak of the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]], Ratchet chose to join the Autobots under Optimus Prime. After the Autobot scout [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] was grievously wounded by Megatron, Ratchet attempted to patch up Bumblebee. Although the medic was able to repair Bumblebee's leg, he was unable to save his voice box, rendering Bumblebee mute.

After the great exodus from Cybertron, Ratchet was one of the handful of Autobots who travelled to [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus}}

===Aligned novels===
Ratchet made his name during the [[Praxus|Praxian]] stalemate. He and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] fought in a few battles together, during which he taught the younger Autobot how to apply first aid. He repaired his throat after [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] destroyed it in revenge for ejecting the [[AllSpark]] into space, enabling Bumblebee to speak from time to time.

After Megatron invaded [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and took the [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]], Ratchet welded [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]]'s face and stabilized [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]]'s condition. When [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] asked Ratchet if Omega was ready to fight again, the offended medic responded that if Optimus wanted Omega to fight after the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] blew him out of the sky, [[Dark Energon]]-infused gladiators attacked him and Megatron tore out the Chamber out of his chest, then he wanted another surgeon. Optimus knew he had to apologize but was too preoccupied with rescuing [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel Prime]].

When the Autobots left Cybertron on the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'', Ratchet informed Optimus and [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] that Omega was repaired and ready to distract [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

Onboard the ''Ark'', Ratchet figured out that the hologram projected by the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] was a star map, and pointed out the "you are here" symbol. He then wondered why it was in the Matrix in the first place, thus getting into a minor skirmish with [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]] about whether or not the Matrix was sentient/magical. When the Autobots figured out where exactly they were, Ratchet marvelled at the fact that anyone came that far.

Ratchet was on the second landing party to [[Velocitron]] with "[[Makeshift (Prime)|Hound]]", [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe,]] and [[Prowl (WFC)|Prowl]]. He commented that a Velocitronian's only limit to racing a million times was how often they could be put back together. He "answered" Optimus' question about whether the Velocitronians would surrender their identity to survivve by saying it was a gloomy question. He was participant in meetings with Optimus, [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]], and [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]], and later Hound. He was also working on repairing the [[Space bridge]] near Velocitron, and acting as Bumblebee's translator.

Ratchet was the first to leap into action and ask what happened when 777 sabotaged the ''Ark'', and the engines exploded. But they got it repaired, and left Velocitron. Ratchet wanted to just hurry up and go through the Space Bridge, since he didn't fix it for nothing. When they went through, they were at [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]]. Ratchet commented that another Space Bridge in the area hadn't been used since before its records began. But it was working. Apparently, he never would have guessed that Bots built the Space Bridge. He, not unlike [[Perceptor (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Perceptor]], suggested that they make additional repairs on the planet.

Ratchet was on the first landing team to Junkion, with Optimus, Hound, and Ironhide. They all died. Or at least, they would have, if Optimus hadn't shown off the Matrix to the Junkions who were scavenging them, starting with Ratchet. He was the one who figured out that [[Wreck-Gar (Prime)|Wreck-Gar]] wanted to know what the Matrix was. He noticed that Hound was gone. Hmm... but he was distracted when he had to tell a random Junkion that it couldn't have his leg.

Optimus noted to himself that even though Ratchet had [[Corrostop]], he didn't want an outbreak of [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust.]]

Ratchet correctly assumed that Wreck-Gar thought Optimus was making up the stuff about the Matrix and the AllSpark so that he'd feel bad and help them.

Once more, when 777's second bomb exploded, Ratchet was the first to give a verbal reaction. He scanned for [[Spark|Sparks]] on the Ark, but had too much interference to get an accurate reading. The best he could come up with was "Lots of survivors." He, Jazz, [[Clocker (Prime)|Clocker]], and [[Mainspring]] were the damage assessment team. He and Ironhide were also put in charge for when Optimus went to the tomb of [[Solus Prime]]. Before that, though, he examined Optimus after the Matrix told him to jump into a furnace (seriously).

He analyzed the body of the [[Junkion (species)|Junkion]] named [[Shearbolt]] to determine that he died before Prowl talked to him, leading to the realization that their traitor was a [[Shifter]]. He then had the unpleasant task of explaining to Wreck-Gar that a Shifter was responsible.

Ratchet told Optimus about the distress signal from [[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]] about how Velocitron was now at full-out war.

When the Decepticons arrived on Junkion, Ratchet helped his colleagues give Optimus a status report. But that was overshadowed by the [[Blades of Time]] all coming together. Ratchet and Optimus simultaneously realized that it was a gateway. He escaped what was left of Junkion with the rest of the Autobots on the ''Ark''. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

Ratchet was one of Optimus Prime's senior advisors on the Ark when the Matrix led them to [[Aquatron]]. Although the planet seemed like a godsend, Optimus confided in his old friend and physician that he felt adrift from the Matrix, a deep disconnect down to his spark that told him something was wrong with him or the Matrix. Ratchet joined the main Autobot force when it touched down on the planet, making contact with the [[Inquirata (Prime)|Curator]] and his Aquatronians. When Optimus experienced an unexplained seizure, the Autobots were forced to bring him to Doctor [[Xeros]] at an Aquatronian medical facility. Although Ratchet monitored the doctor's treatment, he failed to recognize the deep scans their hosts were performing on the Prime and his Matrix.

The Curator was revealed as a [[Quintesson]] with a grudge millions of years old against the Cybertronians, and Ratchet was among the Autobots who were captured and forced to face trial on ridiculous trumped up charges. The Autobots and Decepticons escaped during the trial and met up with their comrades aboard the Ark and Nemesis to fend off the [[Sharkticon (COP)|Sharkticon]] hordes and ultimately escape the planet. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Uniend 610.23 Zeta]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} Ratchet was present for a meeting amongst [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s most trusted lieutenants about [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]]'s plan to launch the [[AllSpark]] into space to keep it from [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]], and then took part in the Battle at [[Tyger Pax]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee at Tyger Pax}}

===IDW ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:PrimeComicRatchet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Don't worry, you won't see me as dirty later. Except [[Stronger, Faster|that one time]]...]]
Ratchet was stationed at the Autobot base on [[Earth]], opening the [[GroundBridge]] for Optimus to retrieve [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]. He reattached her arm after [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] had blown it off. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|Transformers: Prime}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jeffrey Combs]] (English), [[Nobuo Tobita]] (Japanese)|[[Sun Ye]] (Chinese, Season 1), [[Shen Lei]] (Chinese, Season 2 & 3), [[José María Carrero]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Seong-yong Ha]] (Korean), [[Claudio Moneta]] (Italian), [[Jan Spitzer]] (German), [[Mario Arvizu]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Jarosław Boberek]] (Polish), [[Luiz Antônio Lobue]] (Brazilian Portuguse), [[Jari Salo]] (Finnish)}}

Ratchet served during the war for Cybertron, where he "proved [his] mettle". {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}} After Bumblebee was captured at [[Tyger Pax]], Ratchet was the field medic who put him back together, but was unable to repair his voice box. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} At some point after Team Prime arrived on Earth, Ratchet modified [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]]'s jet, allowing him to fly without a flight suit. {{storylink|Grill (episode)|Grill}}

[[File:DarknessRising1-Ratchettragedy.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|You're drawn to his eccentric charm.]]
Ratchet was on patrol in a snowy region when news came in that [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] was battling a platoon of Decepticons solo. Ratchet and the other Autobots returned to base to [[GroundBridge]] to his location, but they were too late: Cliffjumper was nowhere to be found, and Ratchet confirmed that his lifesigns had ceased. It was Ratchet's belief that continuing to operate on Earth and aid humans would only result in more tragedy, and as such, it was no surprise that he vehemently objected to the Autobots becoming protectors for [[Jack Darby]], [[Miko Nakadai]] and [[Raf Esquivel]] soon after—though the kids' incessant questions didn't help their case, either. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} Ratchet's mood was not improved when [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] accidentally crushed an important piece of lab equipment, and things got even worse when he was instructed to stay at base and watch the children while the other Autobots investigated the reappearance of Cliffjumper's lifesign. He did, however, start to see the value in the kids' presence when Raf helped him in his continuing struggle to master the inferior human computer systems the Autobot base ran on. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

[[File:Optimus Prime Ratchet Zombies Darkness Rising 4.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|He performs surgery with these. Carefully.]]

The other Autobots returned from their mission with the news that Cliffjumper had been revived by the Decepticons as a [[zombie]], and when [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] began feeling dizzy, Ratchet examined her and discovered a trace of the mysterious substance that had reanimated Cliffjumper. While examining it, Ratchet inadvertently dripped some on the equipment Bulkhead had broken, transforming it into a vicious little monster. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} Optimus Prime helped him destroy it, and both realized that they were dealing with [[Dark Energon]]. Realizing that [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] planned to raise an undead army, Optimus took Ratchet to the site of an ancient Transformer battle on Earth, but they arrived too late to prevent Megatron from using Dark Energon to raise the buried corpses of the warriors as a legion of [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcons]]. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}} Ratchet quickly deduced that the best way to stop them was dismemberment, and he and Prime managed to cut down the entire army despite the debilitating effects of the Dark Energon. Ratchet sustained a wounded arm in the battle, and Megatron was able to escape. Returning to base, Ratchet examined some plans that Miko had obtained from the Decepticons in his absence, and speculated that the villains were building a [[space bridge]] so they could use Dark Energon to raise a zombie army on Cybertron and bring them to Earth. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}} Given his injuries, Ratchet stayed behind at the base to man the GroundBridge, sending the other Autobots to the orbiting space bridge for battle, and the kids to the [[Giant Sized Array]] radio telescope in [[Texas]] to cut off the Decepticons' targeting systems. While the kids failed in their endeavour, they did succeed in obtaining schematics for the space bridge, which Ratchet used to determine a means of destroying it. He instructed Arcee's team on sabotaging the space bridge, and bridged everyone back to base before the inevitable explosion. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

[[File:Masters&Students-Ratch-animator.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|I was busy pushing bodies around as you well know and what would a note say, Dan? "Cat dead, details later"?]]
Ratchet was initially dismayed to learn that the kids were working on their school science projects in the Autobot base, but changed his tune in short order and actually turned down combat duty to stay and help them. Unfortunately for the kids, he completely took over their projects, building a large volcano for Raf, a model of Cybertron for Miko, and an advanced engine for Jack. None of the projects went down well at school, much to Ratchet's disappointment. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

[[File:Scrapheap-Ratchetinfected.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|My kingdom for a [[Charlie Fong]]!]]
Ratchet found another reason to be grateful to have the kids around when a [[Scraplet]] infestation in the base left the GroundBridge disabled, and Ratchet at the mercy of the metal-eating monsters. Jack used a fire extinguisher to freeze the creatures, saving Ratchet's life, but the medic remained too badly wounded to effect repairs to the GroundBridge, and had to entrust the job to the humans. They succeeded, and Ratchet was able to patch up himself and his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}} Problems with the GroundBridge lingered, however, and Ratchet continued working on it during a visit by Bulkhead's old buddy [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]], while trying to ignore the distractions caused by the other Autobots partying and Wheeljack and Bulkhead [[Cybertronian sport#Lobbing|Lobbing]]. The delays caused by Ratchet's repairs resulted in "Wheeljack" being exposed as [[Makeshift (Prime)|a Decepticon imposter]]. Unfortunately this also meant that when the real Wheeljack turned up, Ratchet was subjected to another round of partying. {{storylink|Con Job}}

Ratchet continued to play the role of tech support over the Autobots next few missions. He remained in the base to monitor the Autobot convoy as they transported the [[Dynamic Nuclear Generation System]] across country, alerting them to an incoming Decepticon attack and—under protest—working with Raf to GroundBride Miko and Jack onto a moving track so they could stop the forces of [[MECH]] from stealing the device. [[File:SickMind-RatchetOP.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"I've heard that humans quite often wake up late with black eyes. They call the condition 'a hangover'."]]{{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}} The episode burnt Raf's laptop out, but Ratchet later helped fix it. {{storylink|Raf's Notes|Raf's Notes #5}} When the Decepticons stole an [[Energon Harvester]] from a human museum, Ratchet manufactured a replica to replace it, despite Bulkhead breaking his frame welder. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}}

When Ratchet and Optimus Prime investigated a [[Autobot plague ship|crashed Autobot vessel]], they discovered that it was a plague ship carrying deceased victims of [[Cybonic plague]], a pathogen created by Megatron himself. Optimus contracted the disease, which was beyond even Ratchet's ability to cure. In search of a treatment, he GroundBridged Arcee and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] to the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' so they could obtain the cure from Megatron's mind via [[cortical psychic patch]], a controversial procedure banned by Autobots but in which Ratchet was well-versed. While watching the link, Ratchet recorded the hologram of the plague antidote Megatron showed to Bumblebee, and was able later to produce a cure for Optimus. {{storylink|Sick Mind}}

[[File:OutHead-RatchetMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I hope you've been practicing "The Man Who Sold the World", Megatron, because you're about to be ''unplugged!'']] While Optimus was given a clean bill of health, Ratchet was more concerned about Bumblebee; learning that the scout was seeing visions of Megatron following their psychic link-up, Ratchet induced a shutdown to give his systems time to recover. The other Autobots soon left the base on a mission, and Ratchet was left with Raf, who was sitting by the unconscious Bumblebee's beside. Trying to explain to the boy that this was unnecessary only resulted in Ratchet being subjected to pictures of Raf's family. The discussion was cut off when Bumblebee suddenly reactivated, leading Ratchet to realize that Megatron had taken over his comrade's body. Unable to stop the Decepticon leader from escaped through the GroundBridge, Ratchet and Raf followed Bumblebee to the Decepticon ship. There, they tried fruitlessly to stop Bumblebee from restoring Megatron to life, and had to retreat under Vehicon fire after Megatron's resurrection. They found Optimus's team on the ground below and returned to base where Ratchet checked over Bumblebee's processor for any lingering traces of Megatron's influence. {{Storylink|Out of His Head}}

Due to his experience with Dark Energon, Ratchet—much to his own surprise—was tapped to take Arcee's place when the Autobots deployed to confront [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. He was attempting to use the evil substance to revive [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]. Discovering that the kids had followed them through the GroundBridge, Ratchet ordered them to head back through to base, only for a Decepticon GroundBridge to manifest at the same time, causing a disruption that hurled the children into a parallel dimension. Deducing what had happened, Ratchet was able to recreate the original feedback loop and create a portal the kids could escape through. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}} Ratchet also went into the field on the Autobots' next mission: After patching up Bulkhead following a skirmish with Breakdown in which the 'Con was captured by MECH, Ratchet joined the effort to rescue the Decepticon. Following an Energon signature but finding only Breakdown's plucked-out eye, Ratchet attempted to extract images from the eye to help in the Autobots' search, but it turned out to be a MECH booby-trap, and the team only narrowly avoided the bomb explosion that resulted. They later tracked down Bulkhead in time to rescue him from Starscream and Breakdown. {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}}

[[File:StrongerFaster-Ratchetvehicle.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|A rare sighting.]]

Ratchet was at the Autobot base when Jack and Arcee brought Jack's mother [[June Darby]] in to introduce her to everyone. {{storylink|Crisscross}} When June next visited the base, the on-edge medic assumed her car was a Decepticon, though he didn't object to June, a nurse, respectfully calling him "doctor". While in conversation with June, Ratchet detected a magnetic anomaly and dispatched Bulkhead and Arcee to find it; when they returned magnetically stuck together, he realized they were dealing with a [[polarity gauntlet]]. Bulkhead and Arcee were eventually able to retrieve the device and present it to Ratchet back at base. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}} Ratchet's tech expertise came to the fore again when he detected the activation of a crashed [[Harbinger|Decepticon ship's]] computer system: when Bumblebee and Arcee returned from investigating with two frozen comrades and the pieces of the [[immobilizer|Decepticon weapon]] responsible, Ratchet was able to repair the weapon and use it to restore Prime and Bulkhead. {{storylink|Partners}}

[[File:RatchetflirtingwithArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|*clicks* "How's it hummin?"
Ratchet flirting with Arcee]]

While most of the other Autobots went out to retrieve a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]], Ratchet stayed at base to monitor them and annoy Bulkhead and Miko by interrupting their monster truck footage. After Bulkhead was called out to the field, Ratchet assigned Miko cleaning duties, only for her to rush off to the battlefield and inadvertently cause the contents of the cylinder to be downloaded into Bulkhead's brain. Ratchet initially gave Bulkhead a clean bill of health, but when Bulkhead started painting complex formulae, Ratchet made two discoveries: one, that the formulae were for [[Synthetic Energon]], and two, that the data was slowly destroying Bulkhead's mind. After much of the formula had been transcribed, the data was beamed out of Bulkhead into space, leaving him comatose. Ratchet's suggestion that a familiar sound might rouse the Autobot led Miko to wake Bulkhead with her guitar playing. {{storylink|T.M.I.}} Working from Bulkhead's incomplete formula, Ratchet appeared to succeed in synthesizing a batch of the Synthetic Energon, and used himself as a guinea pig. Supercharged by the new substance at the expense of his mental stability, Ratchet was made strong enough to trash an entire squad of Vehicons on his own and to throw Bulkhead through a wall while sparring.The effects of the Synthetic Energon made him act on impulse without thinking-he even started to flirt with Arcee, clicking and winking at her as he walked past with a "How's it hummin?", leaving her surprised. When he went too far in interrogating a [[Decepticon Miner]] under the auspices of being more "proactive", Optimus was forced to confine him to base. Escaping, Ratchet went to confront Megatron on his own, infiltrating the Decepticons' Energon mine and making short work of Breakdown. Unfortunately, Megatron proved more formidable than expected, and Ratchet was seriously injured and left for Knock Out to extract a sample of Synthetic Energon from. Drained of the SynthEn and its effects, Ratchet managed to raise enough strength to fight back and destroy the sample, and was then rescued by the other Autobots and taken back to base for treatment. Ratchet apologized for his behavior, though at least they'd gained a supply of real energon from the mine out of it. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}

[[File:OneShallRise2-Ratchethumans.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|Professionals never look directly into the camera, Ratchet]]

When Optimus became interested in a prophecy from the [[Covenant of Primus]], Ratchet worked out that the planetary alignment mentioned was mere days away. Shortly after, Raf was injured during a mission to stop the Decepticons from gathering space bridge components. Ratchet's lack of knowledge of human physiology left him unable to treat the boy, so June Darby was called in to help. Ratchet refused to allow Raf to be taken to a hospital, as human doctors wouldn't have any experience with Energon contamination, but it became apparent that this wasn't what was ailing Raf. He had been infected with ''Dark'' Energon. Ratchet took the risk of applying an infusion of regular Energon to neutralize the Dark, and Raf recovered. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} Immediately thereafter, Ratchet joined Arcee and Bulkhead in rescuing Optimus from a battle with Megatron, then set about analyzing a series of natural disasters that began across the Earth, deducing that the tremors were the heartbeat of [[Unicron]], slumbering within the Earth and threatening to destroy it with his awakening. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} When Megatron approached the Autobots with the proposition of an alliance to stop Unicron from destroying the planet, Ratchet scoffed at the notion. He grew increasing incredulous to the idea that he would GroundBridge the others into the Earth's very core, following co-ordinates provided by Megatron, so the Optimus could use the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to deactivate Unicron, but was nonetheless forced to go along with the plan when Optimus accepted Megatron's offer. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}}

Remaining behind in the base with the kids and unable to contact the Autobots in the planet's depths, Ratchet passed the time telling the humans about the old days when Optimus was known as Orion Pax, and was shocked to discover that Optimus had entrusted Jack with the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] before departing. A final tremor that Ratchet shielded the kids from heralded Autobot victory within the planet, but when Ratchet GroundBridged the others back, they reported that Optimus had lost his memories and left with Megatron. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Ratchet reasoned that Optimus's amnesia must have been a result of emptying the Matrix, and that the solution involved the Key to Vector Sigma. He started tinkering with the GroundBridge to try and find a way to reach Cybertron, though when frustrations boiled over at their lack of success in getting Optimus back, Jack suggested they might use the Decepticon space bridge instead. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Thought he continued his tinkering with the GroundBridge, Ratchet was demoralized after the first test with Raf's radio-controlled car resulted in the destruction of the toy. The real breakthrough came when Ratchet was able to trade Starscream medical attention for information on the location of the space bridge. Once Ratchet and the others secured the bridge, they sent Jack and Arcee through. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bumblebee monitored Jack's progress from the Earth end of the space bridge. When Megatron arrived to take back control, Ratchet and the others were tossed around like rag dolls by the Decepticon leader. Luckily for them their plan worked out, and Ratchet and the others returned to base with Optimus Prime restored. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

[[File:OperationBumblebee2 delirious Ratchet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"And if you think that's bad, you should see what I did to Injector!"]]
Optimus and Ratchet followed an ancient signal and tangled with Megatron in the process of retrieving the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]]. After another altercation, Ratchet discovered that Bumblebee's [[transformation cog|T-cog]] was missing. Ratchet was therefore forced to pick Raf up after school, and told the boy the story of how Bumblebee's voice box was damaged. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} Guilty at his inability to do anything, Ratchet offered his own T-cog and, after talking Optimus into letting him do it, selected Arcee to perform the procedure. When he woke up, it was to find that the operation had been aborted, and Bumblebee had gone after MECH. Bumblebee returned with his lost cog, though in a damaged state, and Ratchet was able to repair it enough to restore Bumblebee's ability to transform. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

Ratchet patched up Wheeljack after the Wrecker returned to Earth and was involved in a scrap with [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}} Receiving another coded signal, Ratchet and Bulkhead again found Starscream in need of medical attention. They were able to get information from him about Airachnid's status and the presence of an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] on Earth. {{storylink|Crossfire}} When Fowler was attacked by a truck that resembled Optimus, Ratchet tracked Optimus's signal to confirm the offender wasn't their leader. They soon established that the truck in question was a MECH-created clone of Optimus, and Ratchet patched up the Autobots after they defeated Silas and [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]]. {{storylink|Nemesis Prime (episode)|Nemesis Prime}} Ratchet dispatched Optimus, Bumblebee and Arcee to investigate underground activity, and they returned with Airachnid in stasis lock. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

Optimus's attempt to attack the ''Nemesis'' with the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]] failed, Ratchet returned the stasis-locked team to base and GroundBridged Fowler and the kids aboard the ship. With his guidance, they were able to shut down the intelligence guiding the ship, and he even stepped aboard himself to retrieve Jack and the [[transfer drive]] full of [[Project Iacon]] data. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

[[File:Prime-TriageRatchet&Wheeljack.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"Hey Wheeljack, do you think it looks weird when I cross my legs? I mean, I can't help if I have such girly legs."]]
When Optimus decided they would need to secure all four relics at once, Ratchet pointed out that they were short-manned as it was. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} He was unimpressed when Optimus decided that Wheeljack would be called in to help him on his part of the mission since he was a capable warrior. {{storylink|Triangulation}} Ratchet disapproved of Wheeljack's behavior as they set off in the ''[[Jackhammer (Prime)|Jackhammer]]'', particularly being called "Doc". He also was far from impressed with his methods when attacking Soundwave and Laserbeak before they crashed landed. When they noticed the downed Laserbeak nearby, he struck on the idea of implanting a virus into the disabled Laserbeak, which would upload the Iacon database to the Autobots. With Raf's help, Ratchet managed to do so while Wheeljack kept Soundwave occupied, and managed to keep out of sight when Soundwave arrived to retrieve his pet. He attempted to convince Wheeljack to return to base for repairs, and thanked him for his back-up. When he returned to base, he found the virus was downloading the Iacon database into the Autobots' mainframe, but his joy was short-lived, as Bulkhead came flying through the GroundBridge with a smoking back {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}} after being shot by [[Hardshell]] {{storylink|Toxicity}}

Ratchet worked frantically to stabilize Bulkhead and, with the help of the other Autobots, managed to succeed, though Bulkhead remained comatose. {{storylink|Hurt}} He continued to oversee Bulkhead's recovery, though when Miko started getting too rough with the patient, he insisted on Bulkhead taking a break. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} When Raf found a report of a Cybertronian escape pod, Optimus took a team including Ratchet to investigate. Ratchet was almost slagged by an Insecticon, but newcomer [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] arrived and helped them win. Back at base, Ratchet was left in charge when Optimus went out to retrieve some [[Red Energon]], and Smokescreen talked him into letting the new Autobot go to Optimus's aid with the [[phase shifter]]. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

Bulkhead continued to try to pressure Ratchet into letting him go back out on missions. Ratchet finally gave in during a mission to protect a military base, though rather than sending him to the base, Ratchet sent him to protect Raf, who was hacking into a [[Project Damocles]] satellite. {{storylink|The Human Factor}}

Ratchet chastised Smokescreen when the latter broke cover to scare a human driver. After Optimus Prime opined that Smokescreen needed a human to teach him local customs and rules, Ratchet grumbled in disgust at the idea of ''yet another'' human being included in their ranks, to the uncomfortable silence of the other Autobots. Shortly thereafter, Ratchet detected a homing beacon from an Iacon relic and a team led by Optimus was sent to investigate in [[China]]. However, a second signal was then detected elsewhere, and with Optimus's team unreachable, Smokescreen was sent in their steed. After discovering that the Decepticons have found the legendary [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]], Smokescreen was captured and Jack was pursued by Insecticons, but not before he managed to notify Ratchet of their findings, who GroundBridges to Optimus' position to fill him in. After the Autobots returned to base with their new prize, Ratchet sent Jack home at the request of a very angry Arcee and witnessed Optimus Prime enter a trance while communing through the Star Saber with [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]]. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

Ratchet was happy at the news they would soon be able to return home to Cybertron, and when the other Autobots realized they would have to leave their human friends behind, Ratchet suggested they could sent texts. While he worked on a way for Optimus to properly wield the Star Saber, the weapon was later destroyed in battle against Megatron, though Ratchet reminded the other Autobots that Optimus didn't need a sword to be a great warrior. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}} Ratchet found himself busy repairing the other Autobots after a number of failed missions to retrieve Omega Keys and monitored Optimus's work decoding coordinates, though it turned out that the final set were a picture of Smokescreen. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}}

With Smokescreen a prisoner on the Decepticon warship, Ratchet was unable to track him, but once he freed himself, Ratchet provided a GroundBridge back to base. A short time later they were contacted by Starscream, who offered the final key they needed in exchange for the replacement of his T-Cog. Unfortunately it was a trap, and while Optimus, Ratchet and Bulkhead were examining the corpse of one of [[Starscream clone (Prime)|Starscream's clones]], the real Starscream made off with the Omega Keys. {{storylink|Inside Job}}

[[File:DarkestHour-Ratchetleaves.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"And Optimus, before you come back to life, be sure to tell Cliffjumper he still needs to pay his medical bills!"]]

Ratchet was surprised to learn that Optimus had kept the existence of the [[Omega Lock]] a secret from everyone. After Optimus modified the GroundBridge into a space bridge, he sent the other Autobots to Cybertron and monitored their progress, though he had to field a phone call from Jack asking why no one had picked the kids up. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} He had to field a further call from June Darby, and a power surge that disrupted the base computers. When the Autobots finally returned, it was with the news that the Omega Lock had been destroyed, much to Ratchet's shock. When the Decepticons attacked the base, the Autobots were forced to abandon it, and Ratchet GroundBridged to a location elsewhere in the US. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

[[File:Scattered-Bigfoot.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"If I have to kill humans for beef jerky one more time..."]]
Despondent, Ratchet hid in a scrap yard outside Woodland Park. He was caught on camera, enabling Bumblebee and Raf to track him down, but they were at first unable to convince him to help them fight back. After experiencing a change of heart, he followed them to the ''Harbinger'' to help get the ship working. {{storylink|Scattered}}
He was able to get the ship's GroundBridge working and used the Decepticon frequencies to contact Fowler. The trio were shortly after joined by most of the other surviving Autobots, accompanied by the newly arrived [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}}

Ratchet utilized the GroundBridge and communications systems to lure the Decepticons away from [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]], with the help of the kids. He monitored the Autobot attack on the fortress from the ''Harbinger'', and was thus able to detect the incoming Optimus Prime, shortly before their leader turned up to save the day. The Autobots later assembled at a human military base, and Ratchet assured Smokescreen that he'd made the right choice in repairing Optimus with the Forge. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}} As the others salvaged technology from their old base, Ratchet set about getting it working in their new one and was able to make the GroundBridge functional again. He also restarted his work on Synthetic Energon, though he warned Optimus not to expect too much. {{storylink|Project Predacon}}

Upon Wheeljack’s return to base after a failed mission, Ratchet asked him to accompany Arcee on another errand, lest Ratchet be forced to abandon his work and venture out of his comfort zone. Though Ratchet was later willing to go out to fetch yet another Predacon bone from a museum (albeit grudgingly), agent Fowler informed him that this was unnecessary, as he was more than capable of retrieving it himself. Things went wrong once more, unfortunately, and the Decepticons acquired the fossil once more. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}}

[[File:PersuasionFaceoff.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Look, if you've kidnapped me to ask about Char Gar Gothikon, let me tell you, this is not the craziest thing the fandom has done!]]
While he continued his work, he also had to take time out to repair the other Autobots, such as when Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack came off second-best against [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]]. {{storylink|Evolution}} He did his best to replace Magnus's hand, but was only able to manage a claw. When the Decepticons began stealing technology, the Autobots captured Soundwave, but were unable to make him talk. Ratchet decided he would have to open the Decepticon up to examine his hard drives directly, but Soundwave merely erased the drives and crashed himself. A Decepticon attack on the [[Solaris particle collider]] led Ratchet to believe that the Decepticons intended to repair the Omega Lock, but while the ramifications were still sinking in, Laserbeak reactivated Soundwave with new orders to capture Ratchet. {{storylink|Minus One}} Ratchet awoke on the ''Nemesis'' and was subjected to a cortical psychic patch. Once the Decepticons realized that he had not completed the Synthetic Energon formula, Megatron revealed to him the reason why he had been captured. The threat of harm to the other Autobots was not enough, but when Megatron explained that the Synth-En was needed to restore Cybertron, and showed off the Omega Lock they'd restored, he reluctantly agreed to help. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

[[File:TFP-Synthesis-PredakingandRatchet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|Ratchet: "Sean Connery called, he wants his title back." Predaking: "But I ''am'' the last dragon!"]]
With the help of Decepticon engineering, Ratchet completed the formula, but rather than hand Megatron the power to recreate Cybertron, he attempted to destroy it and escape. Unfortunately he was stopped by Megatron, who handed him over to Predaking as a plaything. Though Predaking was keen to avenge his lost species, Ratchet revealed what he'd overheard—that Megatron had allowed the Autobots to find Shockwave's lab. During Predaking's resulting rampage, Ratchet dropped the warship's shields and made contact with the other Autobots to let them know Megatron was planning to cyberform Earth. {{storylink|Synthesis}} Ratchet made his way to the Omega Lock control room, where he did his best to keep Shockwave occupied. He and the others present witnessed Bumblebee kill Megatron, and he was overjoyed to discover that Bumblebee's voice box had been restored as the result of exposure to the Omega Lock. The Autobot took control of the warship and used the Omega Lock to restore Cybertron, however Ratchet opted to remain on Earth to help the humans. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

Ratchet was called to Cybertron to tend to Ultra Magnus, after the Wrecker was wrecked by some new Predacons. When Unicron arrived on the planet using Megatron's body, Ratchet was able to use the ship's sensors to pinpoint Unicron's location, and reveal that the dark god was raising an army of undead Predacons with which to destroy Primus. He was kept out of the battle to save Cybertron, but was present when Optimus sacrificed himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

===Titan ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:Titan4.1 Ratchet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Optimus! Check out my giant shoulder pads!!!]]
In the lower levels of Outpost Omega One, Ratchet constructed a training room he dubbed the [[Safe]], though the inferior Earth materials he was forced to use meant it wasn't as good as it could be. Indeed, Bulkhead began tearing his way merrily through it, only to uncover something Ratchet hadn't found—a nuclear missile which promptly activated. Ratchet and Raf were assigned to deal with the bomb, however as Raf was the expert on Earth technology, Ratchet deferred to him. Luckily Raf managed to reverse the bomb's timer, and Fowler arrived with some scientists to take care of the rest. After Bulkhead apologized to Ratchet for smashing up the room, Ratchet suggested he and Raf design a new Safe. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|The Safe and the Failsafe}}

Optimus took the Autobots and the kids on a trip to [[Valley of Fire State Park]]. When Raf impressed the others with his knowledge and worried it made himself sound geeky, Ratchet proclaimed himself Autobot geek and proud. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.2|War Story}}

Ratchet alerted the others to the fact that Fowler was about to arrive at the base, and indeed, Fowler walked in moments later with the news that the Decepticons had hijacked [[Yamal|a nuclear ship]] near [[Antarctica]]. When Optimus, Bumblebee and Ratchet arrived at the ship, they found the crew were unconscious. Ratchet wondered what could have done that, but he was answered moments later by [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], who knocked him out with a [[sonic lance]]. By the time Ratchet recovered, the fight was over, and as they returned to the base, he said he'd be fine so long as he stayed away from any ice. Unfortunately in their absence, the others had turned the base into an ice skating ring, and as soon as he stepped through the GroundBridge, Ratchet ended up flat on his back. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.3|Ice Breaker}}

[[File:Titan4.4 Ratchet.jpg|thumb|270px]]
As Raf was playing ''[[Invasionauts II]]'' at the base, Ratchet observed that the alien robots he was fighting in the game looked a lot like Autobots. After the game hypnotised Raf into operating the GroundBridge and letting in Vehicons, Ratchet initially blamed Bulkhead, but helped hold off the Decepticons until Raf recovered and reconfigured the bridge to suck the Vehicons back in. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.4|Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!}}

Upon hearing that several schools in Jasper County had mysteriously exploded, Jack came to suspect something was afoot. Ratchet approved of the way Jack was starting to sound as paranoid as him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.5|School Is... Out!}}

After the [[President of the United States]] was kidnapped by Starscream, Ratchet and the Autobots tracked the Decepticon to the [[Grand Canyon]]. Ratchet and Bulkhead protected [[Air Force One]] while the others rescued the President. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

When he lost contact with Optimus Prime while their leader was exploring a scrap-metal facility in [[Zhejiang Province]], [[China]], Ratchet dispatched Bulkhead and Arcee to help, but was forced to drop them ten kilometers from the target due to interference. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|The Mind Trap!}} Ratchet was forced to GroundBridge [[Novo|Agent Novo]] to China after the MECH operative took Miko hostage. To make up for it, he discovered a way to track [[Miko's phone]], pointing the other Autobots to the location of MECH's base. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.9|The Novo Incident}}

After deploying Optimus's team to the [[Deep Driller]] oil platform, Ratchet monitored the situation from base, and was amused by the sight of Prime and the others being defeated by a bunch of humans in [[robotic battle suit]]s. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.10|Mad Dogs & Autobots}} Ratchet operated the GroundBridge so the other Autobots could take the kids onto the ''Nemesis'' to search for Bulkhead, who had been abducted after a solo mission. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}} During a battle in [[The Wave]], Bumblebee was injured by a sniper, so Ratchet patched him up and sent him back to base with Raf. When the Autobots later returned to base, Ratchet was surprised to find the pair had trashed the place. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.12|The Evil Shred}}

Agent Fowler managed to intercept a Decepticon broadcast, which alerted Ratchet and the rest of the Autobots to the Decepticons' next plot; the desecration of the [[Statue of Liberty]]. But as Liberty Island, now occupied by the Decepticons, was too small to launch a full frontal assault against, Ratchet stayed behind while Optimus and Bumblebee led a stealth operation against Megatron's troops. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.13|Protecting the Lady}}

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====Ratchet's Joke Page====
At some point Ratchet got a medical degree and began treating human patients. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|Issue 4.8}}

===Eaglemoss ''Prime'' comic===
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===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
When three of the [[Rescue Bot]]s were stricken down with a mysterious virus, Optimus consulted Ratchet, who suggested that one of the antidotes from the Rescue Bots' ship would cure it. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (RB)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}} Ratchet later gave the Rescue Bots energon transfusions after they used up their own supply powering the [[Mayor Luskey Dome]]. {{storylink|Today and Forever}}

===''Tales of the Beast Hunters''===
After [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] ran into trouble in the [[asteroid belt]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] had Ratchet overload the GroundBridge so that he could come to their aid. Despite protesting, Ratchet succeeded in bridging Optimus to the derelict ship the others were on. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 5}} Once the team successfully returned with mysterious Cybertronian weapons, Ratchet was put to work in his lab trying to make them function. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 7}} [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] managed to retrieve some [[data disc]]s from [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]'s lab, which Ratchet found contained information on Shockwave's cloning process and the weapons Bumblebee had retrieved. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 13}} He eventually managed to unlock the secrets of the weapons and power them up. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 17}} When Bumblebee recovered from the earlier mission, Ratchet assigned him to light duties patrolling with [[Prowl (WFC)|Prowl]]. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 23}}

===''Full of Fire!''===
Ratchet constructed a number of new Beast Hunters weapons for Team Prime, including a [[Dragonshredder Drill]] for himself. He, Bumblebee and Bulkhead went out into a [[New Mexico]] desert with Optimus Prime to test the weapons, and were attacked there by no less than six Predacons. Ratchet quickly brought all of the weapons online, and they proved capable of making the Autobots more than a match for the Predacons. {{storylink|Full of Fire!}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Pursuing the AllSpark after it had been launched into space, Ratchet was one of the many Autobots that found their way to Earth. There, he participated in a great battle within a human settlement against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}
===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jeffrey Combs]] (English), [[Takehito Koyasu]] (Japanese)|[[Shen Lei]] (Chinese), [[Claudio Moneta]] (Italian)}}

[[File:RIDBeePrimeRatchet.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Ah, the years! So many memories, so many strange fluids gushing out of patients' bodies."]]
Ratchet remained on Cybertron after Prime's sacrifice and the rebirth of Cybertron, {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}} with a statue of him built in his honor. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} However, Ratchet was blacklisted by the new [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] for being a supporter of Optimus Prime, {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}} and was assigned the job of hunting down any remaining war criminals. Knowing that this was effectively a banishment, and that protesting would only land him in prison, Ratchet reluctantly accepted. Partnered with the [[Mini-Con]] [[Undertone]], he tracked down and captured rogue Decepticons.

[[File:DecepticonIsland2 Ratchet.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Back in action!"]]

Ratchet eventually tracked a Decepticon to Earth, where he ran across [[Clampdown (RID)|Clampdown]]. Shortly afterwards, he encountered Bumblebee and the rest of the [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]], including a reborn Optimus Prime. Making his way back to the scrapyard base, he explained the circumstances of his mission to the team, only to be interrupted by the arrival of [[Toolbox]], an escaped Mini-Con. Along with the other Autobots, he decided to take part in the raid on the Decepticon base. He also privately counseled Optimus about whether or not the former Autobot leader should re-take command. The team slipped into the base by masquerading as [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]]'s captives, although they were eventually spotted and surrounded by [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]]'s new army of Decepticon fugitives. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}}

Thanks to Windblade providing the team with a distraction, the Autobots were able to make a break for it and slip away from Steeljaw's troops. They then split up into smaller teams, and Ratchet found himself fighting alongside [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] and his Mini-Con students against [[Overload (RID)|Overload]] to free [[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]] from a stasis pod. Ratchet was overpowered by the hulking Decepticon and thrown into another nearby pod, although [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] and [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] managed to escape when Drift was similarly imprisoned. [[File:FreedomFighters Ratchet vehicle mode.jpg|thumb|left|250px|MEDIC!]]The Mini-Cons released the medic and Windblade, giving them another shot at defeating their opponent. Drift escaped from his pod in due course as well, and together the Autobots were able to put Overlord in stasis, after deliver a decisive blow to the narcissist's face.
Ratchet and Undertone then escaped with the other Autobots after Bumblebee and Optimus detonated a [[stasis bomb]] inside the ship, freezing all those still within. In the aftermath, Ratchet and Undertone decided to return to Cybertron with Windblade to help Optimus investigate Cybertron's government. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 2)}}

During a visit to the remains of Outpost Omega One, Grimlock stepped on an old armor buffer discarded by Ratchet, and mistook it for a mine. {{storylink|History Lessons}}

While investigating the High Council, Ratchet was also studying ShadowZone particles. After one of the particles registered on Earth, indicating something traveled from the ShadowZone to Earth. He informed Optimus of his discovery, who promptly headed to Earth to investigate.{{storylink|Collateral Damage}}

Ratchet was able to fit ''[[Prime Force One]]'' with a more advanced cloaking device, shortly before he accompanied Optimus and the rest of the team to Earth to recruit Bumblebee's team. While the Bee Team traveled to Cybertron, Optimus, Jazz, Ratchet, Windblade and Bulkhead remained on Earth temporarily. They soon found action when a signal led them to the steel mill that had just been burgled by a Cybertronian advance force. Within, they found a list of items pointing to the fact the advance force was building a space bridge receiver, and also a bomb which promptly exploded. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}} [[File:RIDAllStarsNewHighCouncil.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|So thas it? What? We some kinda...Suicide Squad?]]The group was saved by Ratchet's [[Triage Shield]]. They continued to follow the trail to the [[Crown City]] docks, where Ratchet again deployed the Triage Shield in order to conceal the ensuing battle from any human eyes. Following the destruction of the space bridge portal that had been opened, the team returned to Cybertron where Optimus nominated the rest of the group as a provisional council. {{storylink|Freedom Fighters}}
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===IDW ''Robots in Disguise'' comic===
While struggling to get his team to work together, Bumblebee recalled happier times when he was part of Team Prime with Ratchet. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

==Commercial appearances==
*After having already been weirded out after Bulkhead broke into a scat in the middle of a carol, {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers1|The Hub Carolers (First spot)}}Ratchet was dismayed as the [[Joker]], a criminal, stole the chorus of "{{w|Jingle Bells}}" as it was being performed by a group of carolers. This group included [[Bulkhead (Prime)|other]] [[Megatron (WFC)|Transformers]], [[My Little Pony|ponies]], and an {{w|Strawberry Shortcake|underage baker}}. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers2|The Hub Carolers (Second spot)}}

*Fowler summoned the Autobots for a vague special mission. When Ratchet inquired if they were to receive back-up, Fowler informed them that [[Batman]] had agreed to team up with them. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Impossibly Awesome|Mission: Impossibly Awesome Marathon}}

*Ratchet presented Bumblebee and Optimus with new secret weapons that the two of them used to mow down legions of Vehicons. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Weaponizers|Weaponizers Commercial}}

*Ratchet took Bumblebee through a tour of the Autobots' armory which culminated in Ratchet presenting [[Optimus Maximus (Prime)|Optimus Maximus]]. The two of them then rode the mech into battle, plowing through ranks of Vehicons. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Optimus Maximus|Optimus Maximus commercial}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)|[[Vladimir Antonik]] (Russian), [[Stefano Albertini]] (Italian)}}
[[File:RatchetWFCScreenshotAttack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Just let me patch you up with my [[Energon repair ray|ENORMOUS HEALING CANNON]]!"]]
During the [[Decepticon]]s' siege of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Ratchet was assigned to Optimus, and helped him rescue a courier named [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], who informed Optimus that with the presumed death of [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]], the Council was putting him in command. The three of them headed back to the command center, receiving a message from [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]] that the [[Aerialbot (WFC)|Aerialbots]] were being overwhelmed and needed support. It was decided that the planetary guns, disabled earlier by [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron's]] forces, needed to be brought back online. Informing Jetfire that he was taking temporary command, Optimus took Ratchet and Bumblebee with him on the mission, though when Ratchet questioned the "temporary" part, Optimus brushed it aside.

When that mission was completed, they decided their next stop was the [[Decagon]], in order to re-establish communications and coordinate Iacon's defense. Hitting serious resistance, including several [[Decepticon war machine]]s and more than a few damaged lifts which Ratchet puzzled out a way around, they nonetheless prevailed with help from Jetfire and [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]], before reaching the Decagon itself, where they encountered the former Autobot [[Air Commander|Sky Commander]], [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. They managed to defeat him as well and retook the Decagon. He boosted the signal of a message from the captive Zeta Prime and cautioned Optimus not to act as it was clearly a trap.

After Optimus was named the new [[Prime (rank)|Prime]], he went on a mission to free [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s core of Megatron's [[Dark Energon]] corruption. In order to do so, however, he needed to open the [[Omega Gate]], which would require freeing [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] from Decepticon captivity. Omega was still badly damaged from his battle with Megatron's forces, so Optimus called in Ratchet, whom Prime, [[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]], and Ironhide protected during his operation to repair Omega Supreme. After the Omega Gate was opened, Ratchet returned to base with Omega, as field repairs could only do so much.

When [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] began destroying fleeing Autobot ships on Megatron's order, Ratchet declared the Decepticon leader completely insane. Once Trypticon fell to the surface from orbit, Ratchet organized the rescue effort. After Trypticon was defeated, he praised Optimus on his success, but the price paid was costly - many Autobots were lost, and those remaining were now forced to abandon Cybertron while the planetary [[Primus|Core]] repaired the damage. Ratchet was one of those who stayed behind with Optimus to resist Megatron's schemes, and to build an ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' to carry them from their home when the time came. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

[[File:WFC Ratchet.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|"Standing ''near'' ze point does nothing! Get ''on'' ze point, dummkopf!"]]

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron — Autobots''===
[[File:WFCDS Ratchet.jpg|thumb|124px|"Doctor, are you sure this will work?" 
"I HAVE NO IDEA!"]]
When the Decepticons started poking around an Autobot base, Ratchet tracked their search patterns and instructed a [[Autobot rookie|rookie]] on where to go to find whatever it was they were looking for. Ratchet was in the control room to greet the rookie on arrival, and hand him over to [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]] for basic training. Unfortunately the Decepticons destroyed the rookie and found the intel they were after. Following Zeta Prime's capture, the Autobot leader managed to contact Ironhide and Ratchet, but the data links powering the communications grid were severed. Ratchet greeted another rookie, who managed to repair the data links.

Ratchet would go on to become a member of Optimus' inner circle. Following the retaking of Iacon, he reported that the Data-net was back online and Zeta Prime could contact them again. He later worked with Jetfire to analyse core samples, and discovered that the core would be healing itself if it weren't for the influence of the Dark Energon corruptors. Optimus's team successfully freed the core, but the planet was no longer able to sustain them. When Ratchet asked what they'd do, Optimus responded that their new mission was to leave the planet. Ratchet was among the Autobots who defeated Megatron's secret weapon, the monstrous titan Trypticon. Upon Trypticon's defeat, Ratchet left the planet along with Optimus's team. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|War for Cybertron - Autobots/Decepticons}}

===''Transformers: Cybertron Adventures''===
Ratchet attempted to aid and evacuate survivors from an orbital blast form Megatron's new weapon, [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]], when the Decepticon leader tracked him down. After exchanging gunfire, Ratchet was forced onto a ledge, and Megatron tauntingly kicked him off. The Autobot survived the fall, but was pinned down by debris. Fortunately [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] was in the area and came to the rescue. As the two made their trek back to [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Ratchet informed Sideswipe that he had information about the Decepticon superweapon that needed to get to Optimus right away... {{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures}}
{{note|Ratchet is not a playable character; he appears as a boss in the Decepticon campaign, and only in a single cutscene in the Autobot campaign.}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)}}
Ratchet was deeply hurt by the torment of having to watch his home planet power down around him. He recorded several audio logs in order to acknowledge and reflect on the cause of the planet's slow demise, hoping that a future generation would never have to endure such a sight. Ratchet came to fear the very likely reality that the Transformers' war would not end when "all were one" - but rather, due to their own extinction from lack of Energon. It was this need for Energon that forced the Autobots to begin to siphon power from [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]'s inert, but still alive body; a gruesome last resort that shook Ratchet to his core, praying that there was some justification to be found for the Autobots' desperate act.

During the preparations for the Ark's launch, Ratchet worked with Optimus Prime, [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]], and the other Autobots to recover the energon necessary for lift-off. Grimlock later identified a space bridge for the Autobots to use to escape Cybertron, but upon its' destruction, Ratchet reported that it was becoming unstable and they needed to launch as soon as possible. Thanks to the sacrifice of [[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]], they were able to do so immediately, but they came under attack by the ''Nemesis''. When cornered while trying to treat Bumblebee during the initial assault, Ratchet slyly used a flashing beacon to disorient the Decepticons while feigning submission. Ratchet guided Bumblebee through the ''Ark'' until he found the dueling Optimus and Megatron.
{{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

{{note|Ratchet also appears as a playable character in the game's 'Escalation' mode, on the 'Ignition' map. Ratchet fights alongside [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], and [[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]]. He is the team's [[Medic (FOC)|medic]].}}

=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game ratchet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
{{voiceactor|[[Jeffrey Combs]] (English)}}

When Team Prime mobilized to untether the [[Dark Energon]] meteor that the Decepticons were towing into orbit via the ''Nemesis'', Ratchet per usual stayed behind to run the GroundBridge. When the meteor fell to Earth, taking Team Prime with it, Ratchet left the human allies to man the Bridge in order to retrieve [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], who was the only Autobot whose energy signature they were able to locate... ''before'' Ratchet teleported out, at least.

Ratchet found Prime next to the largest surviving chunk of the meteorite, which also contained the colossus [[Thunderwing (Prime)|Thunderwing]]. The giant awoke, and quickly swatted Ratchet away with its one free arm. Ratchet made his way bac kto the ruins where Optimus and Thunderwing had landed, but the ''Nemesis'' had also arrived and began raining plasma fire into the area to subdue Thunderwing. Optimus and Ratchet bolted for a GroundBridge portal opened by Arcee (as she had luckily fallen close to [[Jasper]] and was able to make it back to the base on-wheel), but stray cannon-fire sent Ratchet flying away once again. The timed portal closed without him, and left Ratchet to be captured by the Decepticons.

On board the ''Nemesis'', Ratchet was forced to repair the giant Thunderwing, as the Decepticons had also kidnapped Miko and Raf and used them as hostages. Ratchet, indignant as always, performed just enough work to look like he was doing what he was told, but spent more time seeking out a weak point in the monster. When Megatron returned with the final major component to bringing Thunderwing back to full power, Ratchet looked to be out of options... until the Decepticon leader was momentarily distracted by the return of Starscream, who himself was being held hostage by Bulkhead. Ratchet took the chance to bolt from his cell and lock Megatron in, making his way through the security system and hordes of Vehicons to free Miko and Raf.

Once the humans were free, they took a service elevator up to the main communications hub of the ''Nemesis'' in order to get word out to the other Autobots, and hopefully use the Decepticon SpaceBridge to escape. After taking out numerous Vehicons, the three made it to the main comm hub, only to find Soundwave at the controls. Raf patched into the room's defense systems to briefly drop energy shielding on four computer towers, allowing Ratchet to destroy them and drop the force field that surrounded the main comm console. Forced to fight one-on-one, Soundwave made clever use of the Space bridge to warp in and out of the control room, but eventually found himself bested by the veteran Autobot and was forced to retreat. Now in control, Ratchet was able to communicate with the other Autobots who had infiltrated the ''Nemesis'', and successfully warped them off the ship as it collapsed due to the damage Thunderwing had caused in his escape.

Back at the base, Ratchet informed the others that he could develop a siphon that could drain at least some of Thunderwing's Dark Energon, hopefully weakening the beast enough to allow them to destroy him. He stayed behind to work on the device as Bumblebee, Arcee and Bulkhead mobilized near a Dark Energon volcano that Thunderwing was headed towards. Ratchet was forced to bring the incomplete device with him to the volcano upon Thunderwing's arrival. He informed the other Autobots that due to the short amount of time he had to work on it, the siphon would only be truly effective if it was practically ''inside'' Thunderwing. Things looked hopeless until stowaways Miko and Jack piped up, Miko showing the Autobots a [[Miko's phone|cell phone picture]] of a break in Thunderwing's chest armor that Ratchet had never repaired... a break just big enough for a human to fit into. Though reluctant to put the humans at risk, Ratchet handed over the siphon to Jack, who rode Arcee to the beast, and successfully installed the siphon, allowing Optimus Prime to finish Thunderwing once and for all. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}

{{note|Ratchet is only playable in a single stage of Story Mode: "The Escape!". He is available as a playable character in the game's multi-player battle modes from the start, however. 
In this game, Ratchet oddly does not have his blades. Instead, when he enters his "upgrade" mode, he deploys a massive wrench from his left wrist socket (seriously, it's as big as his forearm!) which he uses to clobber opponents. This is also the only time we see Prime-cartoon-era Ratchet employ a blaster for combat.}}
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===''Hunt the Beasts'' online game===
Ratchet enlisted [[you]] for a top secret mission; you were to infiltrate Shockwave's lab and retrieve data on Shockwave's experiments, the Predacons. Ratchet instructed you to scour the lab for the data, and report back to him immediately upon its discovery. Throughout your investigation, Ratchet would aid you to overcome many obstacles with his instructions, such as how to rewire the controls to a busted lift, or turn on the Energon stabilization protocols. Once the data on the Predacons has been gathered, Ratchet informed you that the Autobots would prepare for the looming threat of the Predacons with new weapons called "[[Beast Gear]]." He then uploaded data on the Autobots to keep you informed on their Predacon-battling capabilities, and thanked you for your service. {{storylink|Hunt the Beasts}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense''===
Ratchet discovered a way to send Autonomous Defense Turrets through the Ground Bridge. He shipped these out to the battle whenever other Autobots in combat situations requested them. He also walked through the other Autobots through their missions while he stayed behind at Autobot headquarters, coordinating their efforts. He would also occasionally send Energon to the Autobots in the field when he detected an incoming threat that was particularly imposing. {{Storylink|Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense|Terrorcon Defense}}

===''Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense''===
When the Decepticons constructed an [[Energon Drain]] in an asteroid field, Ratchet and the Autobots countered it by building a [[Pulsar Dish]] from debris. While the dish was under construction, Ratchet could help out by repairing damage dealt to the dish by the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense}}
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===''Transformers Universe''===
[[File:Tu-character-art ratchet.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|left|Either he has an identity crisis, or he still doesn't know which medical center this vehicle form belongs to!]]
Prowl revealed that Ratchet built the groundbridge in [[High Grand]]. {{storylink|Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe Autobot tutorial}}
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===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
====Console====
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{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark (console)}}

===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' mobile game===
{{note|Ratchet is one of the few bots not to have his own Starter character.}}
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When Crown City was overrun by Decepticons as a result of a stasis pod modified to clone an army, the Autobots were forced to battle them throughout the city and surrounding landscape. They eventually found that Steeljaw and another Decepticon had constructed a [[space bridge]] and defeated the pair. {{storylink|Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game}}

==Toys==
===Cyberverse===
[[File:Cyberverse legion ratchet.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Let's go practice medicine.]]
*'''Autobot Ratchet''' (Cyberverse Legion, 2012)
**''Series / Number:'' '''2 / 004'''
**''Japanese Number:'' '''EZ-06'''
**''Accessories:'' Battle blade

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' [[Cyberverse (toyline)#Series 2|Cyberverse]] Legion Class toys, "Autobot Ratchet" transforms into an emergency vehicle, and comes with a translucent battle blade weapon. It can peg via its numerous [[C joint|3mm post]]s onto his robot hands, arms/vehicle sides, and robot back/vehicle roof. Early versions of the mold oddly lacked an actual face but a [http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/cyberverse-prime-ratchet-receives-an-update-aka-hasbro-i-needed-that-t86206s400.php running change] finally gave him one.

:His blade, in the same color, is also used by Cyberverse [[Cliffjumper (WFC)#Cyberverse|Cliffjumper]] and ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (toyline)|Dark of the Moon]]'' [[Mirage (Movie)#Cyberverse|Mirage]], while a green version is used by [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#CyberverseQuickblade|Quickblade Bumblebee]], and a purple version is used by [[Knock Out (Prime)#CyberverseSingle|Knock Out]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/LegRatchet/ratchet.htm More information on Cyberverse Legion Ratchet at TFU.info]''

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[[File:PrimeEZCollectionAutobotSet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Doctor is credit to team!]]
*'''Autobot Set''' (EZ Collection 6-pack, 2012-[[November 24|11-24]])
**''ID number'': '''EZ-SP1'''
**''Accessories'': Battle blade

: This version of Ratchet was only available in a TakaraTomy ''[[EZ Collection]]'' six-pack with [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#EZ6pack|Bumblebee]], [[Bulkhead (Prime)#EZ6pack|Bulkhead]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#EZ6pack|Optimus Prime]], [[Arcee (WFC)#EZ6pack|Arcee]], and [[Wheeljack (Prime)#EZ6pack|Wheeljack]].

: This release utilizes the version of the mold with a face.

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===Prime===
{{anchor|Deluxe}}
[[File:PrimeRID-RatchetDeluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|And that's how he lost his medical license.]]
[[File:Prime-toy RatchetTakTom.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|With all those craters on him, he'll probably need to see a dermatologist.]]
*'''Autobot Ratchet''' (Deluxe, 2012)
**''Series / Number'': '''1 / 006'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''2012-[[March 31|03-31]]'''
**''Japanese number:'' '''AM-04'''
**''Accessories:'' Dual Battle Blades (Hasbro only), "R.A." Arms Micron (TakaraTomy only)

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise (2012)|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' Deluxe Class toys, this larger-scale version of Ratchet has a "dramatic head reveal" [[gimmick]], with his [[robot mode]] head being spring-loaded to pop up once his "backpack" is pulled down. He features [[5mm post|5mm peg-holes]] for his hands, a pair on his front bumpers/shins, and a pair on his vehicle roof.

:He comes with a pair of battle blades that can mount/be held via 5mm post, and his hands can be swung down at the wrist to give the appearance of the blades sprouting out of his wrists, as seen in the cartoon. The blades can mount into the peg-holes on his front bumper, creating a battle mode, and the blades can store on tabs underneath his vehicle.

:His [[instructions]] depict an alternate head apparently intended for an as-yet-unreleased Gears. The sculpt was used as the basis for ''Prime'' [[Swerve (Prime)|Swerve]].

: The Japanese release of Ratchet, part of the very first assortment of [[TakaraTomy]] ''Prime'' toys, omits an incredible number of [[paint operation]]s, replacing them with customer-applied foil [[sticker]]s. (On the other hand, this ''does'' give him his "lifeline" decoration missing from the [[Hasbro]] version.) As part of the "[[Arms Micron]]" gimmick, six 5mm peg-hole attachment points have been glued onto him (as opposed to having existing parts specifically [[retool]]ed to include them like many other toys in the line) on his [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] roof, doors, and side-panels, which respectively end up on his legs, forearms, and shoulders. The Hasbro version's twin blades have been replaced by the Arms Micron, [[R.A.#Toys|R.A.]], who transforms into a considerably larger version of one of the blades, and can still work as a "wrist-mounted" weapon.

: Ratchet was redecoed into [[Transformers (2014 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2014)]] [[First Aid (G1)#Transformers (2014)|Protectobot First Aid]] and retooled into [[BotCon 2014]] [[Cannonball (G1)#Timelines|Cannonball]], and he would've been made into [[Gears (ROTDS)|Gears]] with a new head.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/Ratchet/ratchet.htm More information on ''Robots in Disguise'' Ratchet at TFU.info]''

::*''[http://higekumatoytoy.blog60.fc2.com/blog-entry-1464.html Arms Micron Ratchet at Alfes's blog]''

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===Kre-O===
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[[File:Kre-O-Autobot-Command-Center.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Command Center''' (2013)
**''Set number'': '''A5412'''
**''Pieces'': '''461'''
**''Kreons'': [[Arcee (WFC)#AutobotHQ|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)#AutobotHQ|Bumblebee]], Ratchet, [[Shockwave (Kre-O)#AutobotHQ|Shockwave]], [[Knock Out (Prime)#Autobot HQ|Knock Out]] mystery figure

:The ''[[Kre-O]]'' [[Autobot Command Center]] set comes with a Ratchet [[Kreon]] with paint details based on ''Prime'' Ratchet.

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[[File:KreO-toy RatchetKW Gladiator.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Yeah, I time-travelled to the Roman Empire, killed a lion or two in the arena, good times.]]
*'''Gladiator Ratchet''' (Kreon Warrior, 2015)
**''Set number'': '''B0945'''
**''Collection'': '''1'''
**''Accessories'': Stand-plate, tech sword, tower shield

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Kre-O]]'' [[Kreon]] Warriors, Ratchet has been re-imagined as a Roman-style Gladiator. His legs feature peg-on non-spinning wheels resembling wooden chariot wheels.

: Like all the Kreons released that year (at normal retail at least), he uses the new 2015-tooling Kreon body, which basically involves small construction changes on every part below the head, making them largely incompatible with the prior Kreon parts (heads still work fine), but the new tooling adds some extra functionality and structural support.

: The Kreon Warriors were only released in Canada, Australia, and various Asian markets. The individual bags had also abandoned any kind of coding that identified the contents. This means getting the one you want from an unopened bag involves either trying to feel out the unique parts, or just buying the whole dang case.

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[[File:KreO-toy RatchetKW Pirate.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Blades (RB)|Blades']] new hero.]]
*'''Pirate Ratchet''' (Kreon Warrior, 2015)
**''Set number'': '''B0945'''
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Accessories'': Stand-plate, clip-on cannon, flag

: Also part of the first wave of Kreon Warriors, Pirate Ratchet is a bit more of a commandant-style bot, with his chest-windshield replaced by a sailing ship's captain's cabin window. His flag is ''supposed'' to peg onto the top of his hat, but wow is that silly. The "flame" on his clip-on old-timey cannon piece serves double-duty as a hat-plume.

: All the aggravation of the blind-bagged, non-US distribution above applies to this one as well.

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===Beast Hunters===
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[[File:BHtoy Deluxe Ratchet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Alright, who's ready for some <s>precision</s> surgery?"]]
*'''Autobot Ratchet''' (Deluxe, 2013)
**''Series / Number'': '''2 / 010'''
**''Accessories:'' Dragonshredder Drill

: Part of the third wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime:]] [[Beast Hunters (toyline)|Beast Hunters]]'' Deluxe Class toys, "Autobot Ratchet" is a [[redeco]] and extensive retool of the ''Robots in Disguise'' Deluxe Class Autobot Ratchet toy, transforming into a heavily modified rescue vehicle that's covered with spikes, features an exposed engine block on its hood, and has a sculpted rocket booster at the back. He retains the peg-holes at the usual places, and gains additional peg-holes at the back and near the rear wheels. He now comes with the "[[Dragonshredder Drill]]", which spins when the plunger to the side is pushed, and mounts via 5mm post. The halves of the drill can be pulled open to reveal a quad-barreled cannon inside. His head and chest greatly resemble ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' [[Dinobot II]], while his "Dragonshredder Drill" is reminiscent of the [[Dinobot (BW)#Beast Wars|original Dinobot toy's]] [[Cyber-slash tail weapon]].

: His instructions include the [[Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 13|thirteenth chapter]] of the ''[[Tales of the Beast Hunters]]'' series.

: This toy is also the basis for the fiction-only "[[Alone Together]]" version of [[Jawbreaker]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/Ratchet/ratchet.htm More information on ''Beast Hunters'' Ratchet at TFU.info]''
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===Go!===
[[File:Transformers-Go-G09-Hunter-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I healed ze man who vill kill you!]]
*'''Hunter Ratchet''' (2013-[[August 31|08-31]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''G19'''
**''Accessories:'' Drill

:Part of the fourth wave of TakaraTomy ''[[Triple Combination: Transformers Go! (toyline)|Go!]]'' toys, Hunter Ratchet is a green, black, and translucent-red redeco of the ''Beast Hunters'' Deluxe Class Ratchet toy. Unusually, he's identified as a Decepticon, complete with [[insignia]]! According to a translated version of the bio, Ratchet was captured by the Decepticons, and forcibly exposed to Dark Energon thus mutating him into a Decepticon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/HunterRatchet/ratchet.htm More information on Hunter Ratchet at TFU.info]''

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===Robots in Disguise (2015)===
{{note|Virtually every ''Robots in Disguise (2015)'' toy in this list has a scannable [[insignia]] sticker on it. For [[Hasbro]] releases, it temporarily unlocks that toy as a playable character in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game]], and can only be scanned once per day. It's honestly quicker and less redundant to say which toys '''don't''' have this feature.}}
[[File:RID2015-Legion-Class-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Guess they didn't teach you to duck in Doctor school!]]
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*'''Ratchet''' (Legion, 2016)
:Legion Class Ratchet is a retool of [[Strongarm (RID)#Legion Class|Legion Class Strongarm]], sporting a new head and torso. Curiously, these new parts are based on his ''Prime'' character model, rather than his new on-screen ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' design.

:His scannable Autobot insignia is on his drivers-side door in vehicle mode, becoming his left arm in robot mode. As of the figure's release, the insignia when scanned incorrectly unlocks a randomised power-up or amount of currency rather than the playable Legion Ratchet. Unlike Strongarm, Ratchet has no retooled indent on his left arm.

:His included instructions are different from Strongarm's; The instructions depict that you should fold the legs first before rearranging the arms while converting to vehicle mode.

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[[File:TF-RID2015-One-Step-Changer-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Ratchet''' (One-Step Changer, 2016)

:Part of the eighth wave of One-Step Changers toys and wave 2 of "Mini-Con Weaponizers" product, Ratchet changes from ambulance to robot in a single step...and then a few smaller ones. Like all of his other ''Robots in Disguise'' toys, this figure is heavy retool of [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]]. Due to how the legs are molded, Ratchet cannot ride on [[Grimlock_(RID_2015)#Stomp_.26_Chomp|Stomp & Chomp Grimlock]].

:Ratchet's scannable Autobot insignia is centered on his vehicle front, accessible while still in-package.

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[[File:RID2015-Warrior-Class-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I'm the first of the new RID do-it-yourself customization kits! ''(Hasbro version pictured)'']]
[[File:TF-Adventure-TAV59-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''(TakaraTomy version pictured)'']]
*'''Ratchet''' (Warrior, 2016)
**''Japanese release date'': [[2016]]-[[October 29|10-29]]
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''TAV59'''
**''Accessories'': 2 pistols
:Warrior Class Ratchet is a retool of [[Strongarm (RID)#Warrior_Class|Warrior Class Strongarm]], giving him an entirely new ambulance alternate mode and a significantly altered robot mode. He includes a pair of [[5mm post|5mm]] pistol accessories. Ratchet also features a faux front window on his robot mode chest.

:His scannable Autobot insignia is on his robot-mode chestplate, accessible while still in-package.

:The ''Adventure'' release of Ratchet features additional show-accurate details, and features a different insignia sticker compatible to the ''Transformers Chronicle'' app.

:Ratchet was only ever available in one wave of Warrior Class figures. For unknown reasons, this wave apparently only saw release in the United States and Canada.

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[[File:TF-Adventure-TAV49-Legion-Class-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Autobots vs Clampdown''' (EZ Collection 4-pack, 2016-[[May 31|05-31]])
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''TAV49'''

:A redeco of the Legion Class figure above. Ratchet features a deco somehow closer to his animation appearances.

:Ratchet was released along with Drift, Optimus Prime, and Clampdown. Like the rest of the ''Adventure'' EZ Collection sets, some online retailers like Amazon Japan were still selling it 2 years later at greatly reduced prices (70% off).

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==Merchandise==
===Mcdonald's===
[[File:Primetoy-RatchetHappyMeal.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The stickers are good practice for the Arms Micron version.]]
*'''Ratchet''' (Happy Meal, 2012)
:*''McNumber:'' '''7'''
:Happy Meal Ratchet is a non-transformable emergency vehicle! Pushing on the back of his roof reveals the base of a cannon, and pressing the Autobot symbol on the roof causes the short barrel of the cannon to pop out. Ratchet (not "Autobot Ratchet", despite claim of trademark!) also comes with a sheet of stickers to complete his deco. Since the cannon gimmick and the "mCODE" coupon use up both sides of the usual instructions sheet, the sticker placement instructions are printed on the back of the sticker sheet itself. Efficient, but not terribly user-friendly!
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===Kinder Surprise===
*'''Transformers: Prime''' (2014)
:Only available inside a blindpacked chocolate egg as part of Kinder's ''Transformers: Prime'' series, this buildable Ratchet mini-figure consists of a generic "cog" onto which his limbs and armor can be clipped to construct him. He has articulation on his shoulders and upper legs.

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===Thrilling 30===
*'''Ratchet''' (Collectible Figurine, 2014)
**''Series / Number:'' '''1 / #8'''
**''Accessories:'' Collector's base
:A super-deformed Ratchet was released among the blindpacked [[Thrilling 30#Collectible Figurines|''Thrilling 30'' Collectible Figurines]] by [[Goldie Marketing]]. He comes with a base to help him stand, a collector's card that doubles as a puzzle piece, and a checklist.

*'''Collectible Figurines''' (5-pack, 2014)
**''Series:'' '''1'''
**''Accessories:'' 5 collector's bases
:The same Ratchet figurine was also available in a 5-pack alongside [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Thrilling 30|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (WFC)/toys#Thrilling 30|Megatron]], [[Starscream (WFC)#Thrilling 30|Starscream]] and [[Bulkhead (Prime)#Thrilling 30|Bulkhead]].
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===Eaglemoss cards===
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==Notes==
[[File:VectorSigmaBotBuilderRatchet.jpg|thumb|I'm feeling sad and blue.]]
*Ratchet's model is usable in ''War for Cybertron'' multiplayer as the Medic Rig-type chassis for [[Leader (WFC)|Leader]]-class characters. His parts are also available in ''Fall of Cybertron'', now classified as Mercenary-type components for [[Destroyer (FOC)|Destroyer]]-class characters.
*''Transformers'' alumnus [[Michael Bell]] originally auditioned for the part of Ratchet in ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'', but ultimately lost the role to [[Jeffrey Combs]].
*In a number of episodes, mostly written by [[Nicole Dubuc]], Ratchet's equipment gets damaged by a fellow Autobot, prompting him to utter ''"I NEEDED THAT!"'' each time.
*His license plate number in "[[Stronger, Faster]]" is '''449 EPQ'''.
*Ratchet's body parts are available to use in the Hub website's [[Vector Sigma Bot Builder]] online game. Normally, you cannot configure a generic 'bot using all Ratchet parts, but you can see what one would look like at right through the magic of Photoshop.
*With the exceptions of Optimus and Bumblebee, Ratchet and Bulkhead were the only Autobots from ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' to have speaking roles on ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]].
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===Arms Up Modes===
In the Japanese ''Prime'' toyline, Ratchet has several powered-up modes when given various [[Arms Micron]]s in certain configurations:

[[File:DarknessRising4 CybSat-RatchetAntiTerror.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"I am ze ÜBERMENSCH!"]]

*'''Destroy Mode''' (デストロイモード ''Desutoroi Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': B.2, C.L., O.P., R.A.
: Ratchet's rather uncharacteristically-named "Destroy Mode", as seen on his box-back photo, uses a combined-weapon made up of [[R.A.]] and [[B.2]] in his right hand, [[O.P.]] on his left arm, and [[C.L.]] on his left leg.

*'''''Sekkensenrenzan'' Mode''' (接近戦連斬モード ''Sekkensenrenzan Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': C.L., Gora, O.P. (x2), R.A. (x2)
:Meaning "Close-combat Multi-slash Mode", and revealed in the "[[From the Cybertron Satellite, Transformers Division|Cybertron Satellite]]" segment from "[[Darkness Rising, Part 4|Infiltration Transformation! Battleship Nemesis]]", this "Anti-Terrorcon" mode is... just ''brutal''. He's got an R.A. on each forearm, with an O.P. attached to the back of each, with [[Gora]] (?) on his right leg, and C.L. on his left.

*'''Stealth Mode''' (ステルスモード ''Sterusu Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': R.A. (x4!), Zori (x2)
:''Four'' R.A.s are joined to create a super-large [[shuriken]]-like weapon that stores on Ratchet's back. A pair of [[Zori]]s hang from Ratchet's shoulders, with the claw-tails hanging down to create a "cloak of invisibility". This mode is for "stealthily backing up Optimus Prime and the others", according to the [http://youtu.be/QJUMhgggH-Q TakaraTomy developer video where it premiered], hosted by TakaraTomy designer [[Hironori Kobayashi]].
:There is also a variant configuration, '''Defense Mode''', which opens up the panels on Ratchet's arms and moves the Zoris to the "wrist-mounted blade" positions, which cross in an "X" in front of Ratchet as a stealth shield.
:Kobayashi also made custom carbon-black stickers for Ratchet's shoulders and chest, and in the video shows viewers how to customize their own stickers.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ratchet''' (ラチェット ''Rachetto'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Jiùhùchē''' (救护车, "Ambulance")
*''Russian:'' '''Khrapovik''' (Храповик, "Ratchet")

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Arcee (WFC)

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:''Arcee is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Arcee Prime stockimage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Now where is that mouse?]]

A former scout on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] before the [[Great Exodus]], '''Arcee''' is the least physically-imposing of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s crew, but she's also Optimus's most reliable soldier, his go-to [[Female Transformer|gal]] when he needs someone he can count on.<ref>[http://www.hubworld.com/transformers/shows/prime/cast-gallery/arcee The Hub's profile page for Arcee]</ref> Whatever she lacks in physical form she more than makes up for it in force of personality. She is tough as nails at all times, always ready with a snarky quip even in the face of deactivation, not afraid to bend the rules every now and then, and seemingly never, ever scared.

And while that is largely true, and makes her an incredibly dangerous opponent (especially in melee combat, her specialty), that force of will ''is'' also a bit of a front. The loss of [[Tailgate (Prime)|a partner]] back on Cybertron rattled her, leading her towards a path of going it alone. And when she finally started opening up to [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|another partner]] on [[Earth]], losing ''him'' shook her to her core. To then be immediately saddled with the task of being the "guardian" for [[Jack Darby]], one of the locals accidentally caught up in the struggle on Earth, well, let's just say she was less than thrilled about that.

Okay, she was openly verbally hostile to Jack over the whole thing, but her loyalty to Optimus kept her from refusing the task. Like it or not, she's his guardian, and she's going to protect that boy's life... with her own, if she has to.

Slowly, but surely, Arcee is coming around again and facing her past demons. Jack's bravery and ingenuity even when in mortal peril is growing on her. Who knows. He might make a good partner.

{{quote|It is the external wounds which heal the quickest.|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]|"[[Partners]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Uniend 610.23 Zeta]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} Arcee was among to Autobots that participated in the Battle at [[Tyger Pax]], and joined [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]], [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] in their plan to launch the [[AllSpark]] into space to keep it from [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]].

With Ironhide and Jazz on lookout up at the [[Well of All Sparks]]'s rim, it fell upon Arcee to launch the AllSpark into space under Optimus's instructions, since Primes were forbidden to interfere with the AllSpark as a failsafe. {{storylink|Bumblebee at Tyger Pax}}

===IDW ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:PrimeComicArcee.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|"Well I can tell ''''arth'''' is 'Earth' but ''''age'''' is really throwing me."]]
Before the war, Arcee had been spying in [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], and sometime during it she had been rescued by [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]. When Optimus ordered the Autobots to [[Earth]], her ship had been destroyed, and she was willing to wait as she detected the Decepticons had returned to Cybertron and they were planning something ''big''. There, she entered a base and annihilated the [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] there, inadvertently returning Cliffjumper's favor. She hacked into the Decepticons's communications signal there, and found their weapons lab in Kaon. Arcee found Cliffjumper a brash soldier inappropriate for her stealthy mission, but he convinced her Kaon was too dangerous and that she could use his ship to go to Earth.

[[File:Arceeprimecomictransform.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|Arcee, transform and—geeeaaaheeeewwww!!]]

The duo entered the city through the maintenance tunnels Arcee had once explored, and she found a secret staircase by activating an Autobot symbol on the wall. There they discovered [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] had rebuilt a [[space bridge]] to travel to Earth. Concerned by the repercussions of the Decepticons's discovery of how to build space bridges, Arcee wanted to destroy it, but Cliffjumper convinced her it was their way off Cybertron. Distracting Starscream with a ruse, Arcee activated the space bridge and overloaded its systems, jumping through it with him before it blew up.

Landing on Earth, the duo scanned their alternate modes and traveled to find a population center where they could build a scanner and find Optimus. Starscream attacked, having also jumped through the space bridge, blasting Arcee's arm off. Cliffjumper fought him and tried to get Arcee to safety, but she refused, telling him to leave her and find Optimus. Thankfully, Optimus and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] came to them instead, and fended off both Starscream and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]]. Optimus carried Arcee through a [[GroundBridge]] to base, where [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] reattached her arm. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|Transformers: Prime}}

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===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Sumalee Montano]] (English), [[Markie Post]] ([[BotCon 2011]]), [[Shizuka Itō]] (Japanese)|[[Fan Churong]] (Chinese), [[Rosa Campillo]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Seon Lee]] (Korean), [[Sonia Mazza]] (Italian), [[Martina Treger]] (German), [[Rosalba Sotelo]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Márcia Regina]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Anneli Heed]] (Swedish), [[Susa Saukko]] (Finnish)}}
[[File:Predatory-Airachnidscratch.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|Pull my finger.]]
During the Great War, Arcee was partnered with [[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]]. After one mission, she was talking to Tailgate over the comm when she was captured by [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] and taken for interrogation. She refused to talk, but when Airachnid revealed she had also captured Tailgate, she revealed she knew nothing, and Tailgate was killed by the Decepticon. Arcee was subsequently rescued by Bumblebee and Cliffjumper, though Airachnid herself escaped. {{Storylink|Predatory}}

[[File:OutofthePast-CliffArcee.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|"Did it have anything to do with those sirens around noon?" "I said I ''don't'' want to talk about it!"]]
Following the exodus from Cybertron, Arcee was investigating talk of a Decepticon operation on the deserted planet. Both she and Cliffjumper were captured by [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] who needed them to decode a transmission. The pair were taken to [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]], who used a [[cortical psychic patch]] on Arcee, revealing the transmission was [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s call to bring other Autobots to Earth. Learning that Shockwave had developed a [[space bridge]] that the 'Cons intended to use to invade Earth, Arcee and Cliffjumper teamed up to sabotage it, using it to land up on Earth just before it exploded. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} Soon after she arrived on Earth, Bulkhead accidentally stepped into some power lines. Arcee was impressed with the dance he did as a consequence. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}}

[[File:DarknessRising1-thisisjasper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|He's gonna ride her like a Harley on a bad stretch of road.]]
Arcee was engaged in casual banter with Cliffjumper when her friend was ambushed by Decepticons: by the time Arcee and the others got there, his body was missing and his lifesigns had ceased. While Optimus Prime said they should not dwell on negative emotions, Arcee claimed she'd go back on duty protecting humans; but when targeted by a [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]] duo and forced to rescue [[Jack Darby|human youth Jack Darby]], she showed an irritable, seething nature, attacking the Vehicons with angry cries of vengeance for Cliffjumper.

She ignored most of Jack's questions, initially threatened him to forget what he'd seen, and wasn't that concerned with humans witnessing the battle afterwards. To her annoyance, Optimus then ordered her to bring in Jack and the other human witnesses to [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]], so the Decepticons couldn't target them. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}}

[[File:DarknessRising2-girltrouble.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|She transforms into the world's largest motorcycle.]]
When the Autobots headed to the Decepticon Energon mines to locate Cliffjumper, Arcee found the broken and [[Dark Energon| Dark Energon-corrupted]] body of Cliffjumper moving, and tried to save him. She grabbed his hand, but was horrified when the body turned out to be a [[zombie|mutated ''thing'']] bent on attacking, and dropped him. When [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] arrived to drop a bomb into the area to destroy the mines, the Autobots were forced to retreat without Cliffjumper through the [[GroundBridge]]. Once inside their base, Arcee began to feel dizzy, much to the surprise of Jack, [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] and Raf. It was due to contact with a miniscule amount of the Dark Energon that had corrupted Cliffjumper.

Arcee, despite her "illness", was given the task of taking Jack Darby home, and angrily snapped at him when he said he was sorry for her loss, demanding to know what he'd know about such losses; the argument was interrupted when [[June Darby|Jack's mother]] arrived and promptly began questioning him about the mysterious blue bike. The next morning, Arcee snappily woke Jack up and dragged him to Central Command... but demanded he write a note so his mother wouldn't worry. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

On the way back, Arcee showed off some motorcycling tricks. They reached the base, only for Optimus to leave her in charge and go off on a mission with [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]. Arcee was disgruntled and, leaving [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] in charge, immediately went out on patrol with Bumblebee. The pair patrolled the nearby Nevada desert until they got a call from Bulkhead to say Fowler had been kidnapped, and he'd gone to the Decepticon ship to mount a rescue. Arcee tried to contact base to get bridged back, but no one was there, and she and Bumblebee had to put "the metal to the pedal". {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}}

[[File:DarknessRising4-Arceestandoff.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|"No, ''I'm'' ****ing Blue Death from above."]]
They arrived at the Decepticon ship to find Bulkhead had already dealt with the guards. Within, they rescued Jack and Raf from a pair of Decepticons, and quickly caught up with Bulkhead and Miko. The three kids being a liability in a fight, the Autobots cleared out a room for them to shelter in. A short time later, they found the brig. Arcee slipped in through a shaft in the ceiling to get the drop on Starscream, but he threatened to shoot the prisoner. Fowler caused a distraction and the Autobots opened fire. Starscream inconsiderately blasted Arcee with his jet exhaust as he fled. With Fowler rescued, the Autobots picked up the kids and returned back to base, where they faced some pointed questions from Optimus. Jack, however, was sick of the constant danger and decided he wanted no more to do with the Autobot/Decepticon conflict. Arcee reminded him to keep the conflict secret, and as he left by GroundBridge, she was sad to see him go. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}}

She later paid Jack a visit and managed to talk him into returning to the Autobot base. When they did so, it was to find that Ratchet had discovered the location of the space bridge, and Arcee and the other Autobots headed up into orbit to try and prevent Megatron from sending the Dark Energon through. They reached the space bridge terminal, but came under attack from flying Decepticons. Ultimately they were unable to prevent Megatron's plan from going ahead, and the only way to prevent the zombies coming through from Cybertron was to destroy the space bridge itself. Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee followed Ratchet's instructions, feeding the space bridge's power back on itself, but were attacked by Megatron just as they completed the job. Arcee was hit and knocked off into space. Luckily Bumblebee had the presence of mind to grab her as the Autobots retreated through the GroundBridge just before everything exploded. Back at base, Arcee seemed in a bad way, but after some concern from Jack, she was able to stand up again. She, Bulkhead and Bumblebee could later be seen hanging out with the three kids. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

Arcee attempted to help Jack with his science project, a motorcycle engine, despite not knowing anything about Earth auto-mechanics. Her role was usurped by Ratchet anyway. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

[[File:Scrapheap-huddleforwarmth.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|left|"I wish we'd chosen the sauna."]]
After Bulkhead and Bumblebee found a pod in the [[Arctic]] and brought it back to base, Optimus and Arcee went back to the Arctic to check for clues as to the pod's origin. After some time searching, the temperature sensors Ratchet had given them went off, but they were unable to raise base so they could GroundBridge back. The pair sought shelter, but as their temperatures slowly dropped, things looked grim. Arcee decided to keep warm by blaming Bulkhead for their predicament. Just as they were losing hope, the GroundBridge opened and ejected Bulkhead and the swarm of [[Scraplet]]s that had been causing havoc at base. The Scraplets froze in the cold air and the three Autobots were subsequently able to return home. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}}

Arcee was amused by Bulkhead's exuberant job when they were contacted by [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]], one of Bulkhead's old friends, though she was initially worried the signal could be a 'Con trap. She, Bulkhead and Bumblebee GroundBridged out to Wheeljack's landing site in time to see him take out a bunch of Vehicons. They returned to base where the Autobots celebrated, though Arcee mainly sat on the sidelines with Jack. When Bulkhead began to grow suspicious that Wheeljack wasn't all he seemed, Arcee tried to allay his fears, and when he directly confronted Wheeljack, Arcee urged him to keep calm. He turned out to be right. After everything was resolved, Arcee again took part in the partying, mostly by standing around watching the others dance. She also turned out to see the real Wheeljack off when he returned to space. {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:Convoy-kablooie.jpg|thumb|upright|upright=1.4|"My bad" won't cut it with Optimus this time.]]
When Fowler asked for help transporting the [[Dynamic Nuclear Generation System]], Arcee took part in the Autobot convoy, concealed in Prime's trailer along with the D.N.G.S. When [[MECH]] goons broke the back of the trailer open, she zoomed out in her cycle mode and blew up one of the MECH cars. She helped pass the D.N.G.S. over to a train, but a short time later the Autobots were attacked by Vehicons, and she, Bumblebee and Bulkhead spent the rest of the whole affair fighting them. {{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}}

When an [[Energon Harvester]] was located in a museum, the Autobots surrounded the building while the kids went in to steal it. [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] appeared at the front of the museum to attack Optimus, and as Breakdown charged at the museum, Bumblebee and Arcee attempted to stop him. A missile from Breakdown sent Arcee skidding into Bumblebee. After the Decepticons obtained the Harvester, Arcee made a token effort to chase them. She, Bumblebee and Prime later attempted to track down the Decepticons before the Harvester could be used, but they ended up coming to Bulkhead's rescue after he found and stopped the Decepticons himself. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}}

[[File:ArceeThey'reRacing.jpg|upright=1.4|left|thumb]]
As Arcee and Jack were leaving school, they encountered Sierra, who asked if she could take Jack up on his offer of a ride. They were interrupted by [[Vince]], who challenged Jack to a race. Arcee reminded her companion of the rules, however when Vince made disparaging remarks about her motorcycle mode, she decided that he needed to be taught a lesson. Arcee and Jack completely smoked Vince at racing, though she made Jack swear not to tell any of the other Autobots. When Jack agreed to another race, Arcee flatly refused to take part, and later found out he'd talked Bumblebee into helping him instead. Furious, she dragged Bulkhead out to help her find Jack and Bumblebee, only to reach them just as Knock Out was abducting Vince. The three Autobots tracked the Decepticons to a storage facility, where Arcee attempted unsuccessfully to retrieve Vince from Knock Out, and ended up chasing the 'Con. She was unable to catch him, but Optimus turned up to lend a hand and rescue the human, and he demanded an explanation from his ashamed soldiers. Afterward, Arcee was willing to allow Jack to give Sierra a ride, but just once. {{storylink|Speed Metal}}

[[File:AirachnidUpsideDown.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"Your breath stinks.]]"]]
On a routine energon scouting mission, Arcee and Jack stumbled on a crashed spaceship in the wilderness. Arcee recognized it as belonging to [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] and found she was unable to contact base. After dropping Jack a safe distance away, she hunted Airachnid, interrupting her foe's attack on a lone camper. They fought, but Jack's reappearance distracted Arcee long enough for Airachnid to get the upper hand and stick the Autobot to a nearby rock with webbing. Airachnid played on how Arcee had a habit of losing partners before starting to chase Jack. Haunted by her previous meeting with Airachnid, Arcee eventually managed to break free using her motorcycle mode, and caught up with Jack in time to save him by delivering a brutal pounding to Airachnid, who managed to flee underground. Arcee was left with a new respect for how Jack had handled the situation, and was happy to call him her partner. {{Storylink|Predatory}}

[[File:Arceeandherblaster.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left|That'll cost extra]]
After Optimus was infected by [[Cybonic plague]], Arcee and Bumblebee GroundBridged aboard the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]''. They found Megatron's body in stasis lock, and Arcee formed a [[cortical psychic patch]] so Bumblebee could find the cure in the Decepticon leader's mind. She hid with Bumblebee's unconscious body in a vent, but time began to run out when [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] entered the room and discussed pulling the plug on their commander. Soundwave noticed the cortical link and Starscream began following it to the vent, but Bumblebee had located the cure and the two GroundBridged off the ship. Arcee sent a parting gift by shooting at Megatron, and the Decepticons found Megatron's mind was blank... {{storylink|Sick Mind}}

Arcee was unsure if she'd successfully offlined Megatron. She was unenthusiastic when it turned out they had to return to the Arctic after the Decepticons stole a telescope lens. There, she and Bulkhead fought Breakdown as a diversion while Optimus snuck on board the Decepticon ship to destroy the heat ray they'd built the lens into. Her success in fighting breakdown was limited, but they kept him busy for long enough, and were knocked flying by the shockwave from the heat ray exploding. They were surprised when Megatron subsequently turned up alive and well to stop Starscream from finishing off Optimus. {{Storylink|Out of His Head}}

[[File:ArceeFailstonoticekidsenteringSpacebridge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Arcee's such a great babysitter.]]
When a Dark Energon signature was detected, Arcee was left at base on GroundBridge duty because Optimus wanted Ratchet's Dark Energon knowledge handy. She failed to notice the three kids sneaking after Optimus's team, and only later spotted that they were gone. She attempted to GroundBridge them back, but interference resulted in an explosion and the kids vanished en route. After Bulkhead's attempt to phone Miko failed, Arcee tried to ring Jack, but there was too much interference for them to talk. They eventually discovered the kids were trapped in an alternate dimension, and when Ratchet used the GroundBridge to rescue them, Optimus, Arcee and Bulkhead went to make sure they were safe from Starscream. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

When Breakdown was captured by MECH, Arcee and the others were surprised when Optimus insisted that they rescue the Decepticon, though it turned out he was concerned that Cybertronian technology would fall into MECH hands. The team arrived in [[Kamchatka Peninsula]] and followed an energon signal Ratchet had detected. The trace led them to find Breakdown's eye and a MECH bomb. After they avoided being blown up by the bomb, the team tracked down Bulkhead in time to chase off Starscream and some Vehicons. {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}}

[[File:Crisscross-callmeArcee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Hey, I'm your son's motorcycle.]]
Jack's alter-school activities resulted in his mom forbidding him from using his motorcycle. Jack pointed out to Arcee that this would mean she would have to stay in the garage for several weeks, but she instead promised that she would try to be back before Jack's mom got home at night. The next day Arcee and Bumblebee were fighting some Vehicons when Jack called her to warn her that mom was on her way home early. Arcee failed to get back in time, and had to sneak in via GroundBridge. Later on that evening, she managed to get back before June Darby did, but it turned out that was because mom had been abducted by MECH. Arcee and Jack followed Silas's instructions, proceeding to a deserted factory, and were shocked to find that Airachnid was involved. Arcee was webbed and rendered unconscious, but while MECH was preparing her for "surgery", she recovered and escaped. She managed to catch up with Airachnid before the 'Con could do anything to Jack or his mother, and the pair fought at length around the building. She eventually succeeded in knocking Airachnid into a container and pouring concrete on top, but as she was moving to rescue June, was webbed to the ground by the still active Decepticon. Relief came in the form of Agent Fowler and three helicopters, which forced Airachnid to retreat. Arcee and Jack subsequently took June to the Autobot base to meet the team. {{storylink|Crisscross}}

[[File:TFP ep18 tag team.jpg‎|thumb|upright=1.67|"We'll do fine as long as you don't need the bathroom anytime soon." "Um Arcee..."]]
Arcee was scheduled to do some routine maintenance with Jack, but June's well-meaning questions drove Arcee batty, and she instead opted to accompany Bulkhead on a mission to find a magnetic anomaly. Miko managed to sneak along on the mission, and Arcee again found herself as the third wheel, but when they reached the source of the magnetic disturbance, it turned out to be Airachnid and Breakdown fighting over a magnetic weapon. During the ensuing fight, Breakdown used the weapon, a [[polarity gauntlet]], to magnetize the two Autobots, and Arcee became stuck to Bulkhead's back. With the only choice to retrieve the gauntlet, Arcee ordered Miko to return to base, and she and Bulkhead tracked the 'Cons to an old gas station. After some more fighting, Arcee managed to become unstuck from Bulkhead, and briefly used the gauntlet to polarize everyone. In the end, the Autobots triumphed and returned to base with the gauntlet, where Arcee received an apology from June for the earlier questioning. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}}

Bulkhead and Arcee were assigned to check out an [[Stripped energon mine|old energon mine]]. When Miko ran into the mine, Jack persuaded Arcee to let him take a look inside too. She and Jack stumbled on Megatron and Starscream, and during the firefight that ensued, she shot Megatron's arm, causing him to blast the ceiling and causing a cave in. After the floor fell away, she lost track of the others, but eventually found the kids, and was able to rescue Bulkhead from Starscream. The two Autobots and the kids escaped the mine and briefly considered ending the Decepticons then and there before deciding it wasn't what Optimus would have done. Though Arcee still looked tempted. {{storylink|Rock Bottom}}

[[File:Partners2 Arcee talk to rock.jpg‎|upright=1.4|thumb|left|I can't believe we actually had to bury a horn.]]
Standing at Cliffjumper's graveside, Arcee pledged she would find the 'Con who killed him. When the Autobots were on their next mission to check out a signal from a buried Decepticon wreck, they ran into Airachnid, and Arcee attempted to take the opportunity to settle the score for Tailgate, only for Airachnid to get the better of her. After coming to her rescue, Optimus reminded her that revenge was never profitable. When their captive, Starscream, claimed to want to switch sides, Arcee spoke out to say they should take him with them. Arcee was left guarding the prisoner, however when he inadvertently revealed that it was he who had killed Cliffjumper, she became enraged and attacked him. Though she eventually got the upper hand and was about to finish him off, she realized that Bumblebee was watching the fight, and reluctantly let Starscream limp away. Later at base, her injuries were healed, but she blamed herself for ruining their chance to gain access to Starscream's knowledge. {{storylink|Partners}}

Arcee accompanied Prime and Bumblebee as they tried to retrieve a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]] before the Decepticons did. During the fight she was tackled by Knock Out. Ultimately the Decepticons made off with the cylinder, and later Arcee listened as Ratchet told them the cylinder's contents had ended up in Bulkhead's brain, and wondered aloud what the formula Bulkhead was writing was—the Autobots were excited to find it was a set of equations for synthetic energon. Arcee found it weird when Bulkhead was in "brainiac mode", and as it turned out the data was eating Bulkhead's mind. Bumblebee and Arcee accompanied Optimus on an unsuccessful attempt to get the cylinder back from Megatron, and they ended up fighting a bunch of Vehicons. Later they came to Miko and Bulkhead's aid to save the pair from Knock Out and Breakdown, and Arcee was present when Miko managed to rouse the comatose Bulkhead. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

[[File:RatchetflirtingwithArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|*clicks* "How's it hummin?"
Ratchet flirting with Arcee]]
During a mission to intercept Knock Out and Breakdown, Arcee sped over a roadblock caused by Vehicons, separating herself from the other Autobots despite Prime's orders. She soon found herself surrounded by Vehicons, but was surprised when Ratchet came through the GroundBridge and single-handedly bashed the lot of them, saving her. Ratchet later revealed that he had injected himself with the synthetic energon he'd been working on, and Arcee was keen for them all to try it, however, Ratchet began exhibiting personality changes that disturbed her: The effects of the Synthetic Energon made him act on impulse without thinking-he even started to flirt with Arcee, clicking and winking at her as he walked past with a "How's it hummin?", leaving her surprised. During their next mission, Ratchet accused Optimus of not being pro-active enough, bringing up Cliffjumper's death which was a a sensitive topic to Arcee, upsetting her. When Ratchet took off to tackle Megatron on his own, Arcee and the other Autobots were forced to come to his aid. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}

When an ancient prophecy looked like it was imminent, Arcee and Bulkhead wonder how seriously they should take it. They accompanied Optimus to a military base to stop the Decepticons attacking it, but when they were faced with Raf being gravely injured, Optimus ordered Arcee to accompany him and Bumblebee back to base. While Ratchet fought to save the boy's life, Arcee had to keep Bumblebee calm. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}}

Arcee accompanied Bulkhead and Ratchet on a mission to rescue Prime from an area rich in Dark Energon, though at one point she appeared to become mesmerized by the sight of a volcano spewing Dark Energon. Once they got Optimus back to base, they set about investigating the cause of the natural disasters that had begun plaguing the planet, and realized that [[Unicron]] lay at the center of the Earth. Arcee and the other Autobots began checking out the sites of the tremors. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

Though Optimus ordered the other Autobots to remain at base, Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee joined him anyway. They fought increasingly larger stone Unicrons, until they encountered a colossal one that knocked Bulkhead and Bumblebee aside, then sent Arcee likewise tumbling along the ground. As it moved to crush Optimus underfoot, help came in the unlikely form of Megatron, who offered to help them fight Unicron. After they returned to base, Optimus gave the trio the choice of whether to accompany him and Megatron to [[Earth's core]], and Arcee opted to go for Jack's sake. She, Bumblebee and Bulkhead greeted Megatron to the Autobot base by aiming their guns at him, and when they were ready to GroundBridge to their new destination, she insisted Megatron go first. Before long, they were standing within Earth's core. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}}

As the Autobots battled [[Unicron's antibodies|anti-bots]], Arcee was briefly separated from the others, and had to ride one of the anti-bots to catch up with them again. She, Bulkhead and Bumblebee remained outside Unicron's spark chamber to fight off the anti-bots. After Unicron's defeat, they entered the chamber only to discover that Optimus had lost his memory and was leaving with Megatron. They subsequently had to GroundBridge back to base minus their leader and explain what had happened to the others. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

The Autobots tried fruitlessly to find a way to get Optimus back. Arcee even managed to get on board the ''Nemesis'' by slipping through the Decepticon GroundBridge after Knock Out and Breakdown. She searched through the ship, fighting Vehicons, only to be expelled from the ''Nemesis'' by Soundwave. It didn't help matters that she didn't even manage to determine if Optimus was on board, let alone where the ship was. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Arcee and the others scoured the globe fruitlessly for the space bridge until they got information on its whereabouts from an undisclosed source which Arcee immediately figured out was Starscream. The Autobots stormed the energon mine housing the bridge before sending Jack and Arcee through to Cybertron, where they began using Jack's [[Key to Vector Sigma|key]] to search for [[Vector Sigma]]. {{Storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} On their arrival at [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], they were attacked by an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] which Arcee attempted to keep busy while Jack headed onwards. She was rendered unconscious for a time, but came around and retrieved Jack from the Vector Sigma chamber. On their return to Earth, she was forced to fight Megatron to distract him while Jack uploaded the Matrix information into Optimus. Mission successful, they returned to base for the big reunion. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

Arcee was impressed by Bumblebee's retrieval of the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]], and when his [[transformation cog|T-cog]] was later stolen, knew immediately it was MECH. Unfortunately her racing around in vehicle mode didn't do much to make Bumblebee feel better about his lack of a cog. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} She was unhappy about being asked to do the transplant between Ratchet and Bumblebee, but luckily didn't get the chance, as she had to rush off with Optimus and Bulkhead to try and secure an artifact. She and Prime proved unable to penetrate Knock Out's force field, and as a result, Megatron got away with the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

[[File:Crossfire Airachnid captures Arcee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|One day, she'll learn not to run off after Airachnid on her own. This is not that day.]]
Arcee and the others came to Wheeljack's aid when he returned to Earth to battle [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}} Arcee was part of an Optimus-led mission to an abandoned energon mine in [[South America]], where they found Megatron fighting an Insecticon. Arcee was more interested in the fight's observer, Airachnid, and immediately attacked her old foe. After chasing her through tunnels, Arcee stumbled into a web trap and ended up dangling cocooned from a tree. Her life was only saved by Starscream, who chased Airachnid off and cut Arcee down, though she still had to ask the other Autobots for help. {{storylink|Crossfire}}

When Fowler was attacked by a truck resembling Optimus, Arcee chased the interloper and was run down by him. She recovered at base, and they discovered that the truck was a MECH-built clone of Optimus. The Autobots located the MECH base, but as they explored it, [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] took them out one by one. After Optimus prevailed, the Autobots returned to base for repairs. {{storylink|Nemesis Prime (episode)|Nemesis Prime}} Optimus, Bumblebee and Arcee responded to strange activity and found Airachnid in the process of unleashing a swarm of Insecticons. Leaving the others to fight the Insecticons, Arcee chased Airachnid, eventually reaching the Insecticon hive. Though she was tempted to finish off Airachnid, Arcee tricked her foe into stepping onto one of the Insecticon pods, resulting in Airachnid being put in stasis lock so she could be safely taken back to base. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

[[File:TunnelVisionArceeRelic.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Stay away from the cookie jar.]]
After the ''Nemesis'' crashed, Arcee took part in an attack on it with the spark extractor, only to be put into stasis by its weapons. She recovered back at base when the kids disabled the ship. {{storylink|Flying Mind}} Arcee was sent with Bumblebee, Jack and Miko to retrieve a relic located in the [[New York City|Manhattan]] subways. {{storylink|Toxicity}} {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} The two Autobots found Knock Out with the artifact, but as Arcee tried to seize it, the Decepticon stunned her with his prod. After the party was interrupted by a sweeper train carrying Miko and Jack, Arcee pursued the train while being chased by Knock Out's Insecticon. She managed to both save the train from crashing and get rid of the Insecticon by getting it to touch a third rail. After Bumblebee got hold of the relic, he and Arcee were introduced to [[Vogel]], who'd helped Jack and Miko. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}}

They returned to base to find Bulkhead critically injured after his mission, and Arcee and Bumblebee helped get the Wrecker to the medical bay. {{storylink|Hurt}} Attempting to comfort Miko, who was upset by the slowness of Bulkhead's recovery, Arcee told her about the time she and Cliffjumper were interrogated by Shockwave and arrived on Earth. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} When new Autobot [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] appeared while the Autobots were investigating a crashed escape pod, Arcee was initially suspicious of him, recalling Makeshift. She was eventually convinced of the veracity of his story and after he helped during a mission to recover [[Red Energon]], she joined the others in welcoming him to the team. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

When Fowler notified them that a [[Project Damocles]] satellite had been stolen by Breakdown and Silas, Optimus took a team including Arcee to a military base in the hope of securing the satellite control codes before the Decepticons could get them. Instead they found themselves facing both Decepticon troopers and the orbital death ray itself, controlled by Soundwave. {{storylink|The Human Factor}} Arcee was unconvinced that it would be a good thing when Jack was assigned to help Smokescreen adapt to life on Earth, and the fact that the pair pulled a prank on Vince during their first mission did nothing to help. While Arcee was on a mission to find an Iacon relic, Smokescreen endangered Jack by taking him into combat, and though Arcee and the rest of the team rescued the boy, she was not pleased with either of them. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

With the news they might soon be able to restore Cybertron, Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee were unsure whether they wanted to leave Earth and their friends. She volunteered to accompany Smokescreen to [[Egypt]] to find the first [[Omega Key]] but, though they found the key, Smokescreen was apparently destroyed by Megatron. Arcee returned to base despondent at losing another partner, but it later turned out Smokescreen was still alive. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}} Smokescreen's exuberance got on her nerves. After she and Bumblebee failed to secure a key, Smokescreen and Bulkhead likewise failed in their mission, and Arcee ended up lecturing the rookie on being a team player, causing him to leave the Autobot base upset. When Smokescreen later turned out to be the final relic they were after, the Autobots located him too late to prevent him being captured by Soundwave. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}}

After Smokescreen escaped the ''Nemesis'' with two of the keys, the Autobots received a message from Starscream offering a trade for the final key. Arcee operated the GroundBridge and guarded the base with Smokescreen and Bumblebee, but Starscream was able to steal their three keys anyway, thanks to his Red Energon. {{storylink|Inside Job}} As the Autobots equipped themselves to go to Cybertron, Arcee availed herself of the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]], which proved very useful during their battle against the Decepticons. Having obtained the Omega Keys, the Autobots found the [[Omega Lock]], only for the Decepticons to unveil their trump card in the form of the three kids as hostages. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} Arcee was forced to hand over her key in exchange for Jack. After Optimus destroyed the Omega Lock to prevent Megatron destroying Earth, Arcee returned with the others to base, only to find that the Decepticons were attacking it. The Autobots were forced to abandon base, and Arcee and Jack bridged to a point somewhere in the US. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

Arcee and Jack paused in their travels so Arcee could scout out a helicopter, which turned out to be civilian. In the meantime, Jack came under attack by Decepticons but he and Arcee managed to blow them up with a gas station. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} After they took a rest stop at an abandoned farm house, the pair were cruising down a road when [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus's]] spacecraft set down in front of them. {{storylink|Scattered}}
Introductions were made, and the pair accompanied Ultra Magnus as he collected up the rest of Team Prime, finally arriving at the ''[[Harbinger]]''. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}} Bumblebee and Arcee joined the attack on [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]], acting as a "stealth team" and infiltrating the citadel under cover of a diversion. Unfortunately they ran into heavy resistance and were taken captive, but when Optimus Prime arrived to join the assault, they renewed their attack on the Decepticons. Following the destruction of Darkmount, the Autobots assembled at a human military base. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

[[File:PlusOneArceeAwesomePose.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Such a basic hero pose. But it ''just works for her.'']]
Arcee reflected that without Smokescreen's inability to follow orders, they might not still have Optimus Prime. The Autobots soon discovered that the Predacons were working on cloning more Predacons. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} When Decepticon activity was detected in [[New Mexico]], Arcee talked Wheeljack into going with her and the pair immediately ran into trouble in the form of a squad of Vehicons. After dispatching the Decepticons, Arcee and Wheeljack proceeded to retrieve the bone they'd been after, and Arcee managed to talk her companion into not abandoning his place in the Autobot team. While they were still hauling the bone away, news came that Fowler and June had gotten into trouble, and the two Autobots had to go and rescue the pair from Knock Out. They succeeded, though Knock Out got away with another Predacon fossil. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}}

[[File:PrimePersuasionArceeShocked.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Arcee read her "test results."]]
Arcee and the others took time out from hunting for Predacon fossils to secure some energon supplies, unaware it was part of a Decepticon plan to deceive the newly-intelligent [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]]. {{storylink|Evolution}} When the Decepticons began stealing technology to repair the Omega Lock, Arcee and the other Autobots attempted to stop them. They traveled to the [[Solaris particle collider]] in Antarctica, where they found the Decepticons already in the process of raiding the place. {{storylink|Minus One}} Though they fought their way through the Decepticons, they were ultimately unable to stop the Decepticons stealing the needed technology, and on top of this, when they returned to base it was to find Ratchet had been abducted by Soundwave. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

They launched the probe and monitored it and Optimus's progress from the base. Though the probe was destroyed, Ratchet was able to send them the coordinates to the Decepticon warship, and Arcee and the others geared up in preparation to assault the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|Synthesis}} Arcee attempted to lead her team to join Ratchet, only for Smokescreen to abandon them along the way, and for them to be confronted by Starscream. They managed to fight their way through to the Omega Lock control room, where Arcee watched Bumblebee kill Megatron with the Star Saber. With the ''Nemesis'' secured, the Autobots were able to take the ship to Cybertron, where they used the Omega Lock to restore their home world. Arcee told Jack to stay in touch, before she and the other Autobots returned home. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

In the aftermath of Cybertron's rebirth, Arcee patrolled in an attempt to find Starscream and Shockwave. With the discovery that there were two new Predacons on the loose, she and the other Autobots attempted to persuade Predaking to help them, but were unsuccessful. After encountering Unicron, in possession of Megatron's rebuilt form, the Autobots realized that the dark god intended to destroy their world. After foiling an attempt by Starscream to retake the warship, the Autobots attempted to defend the Well of All Sparks from Unicron's onslaught. It was only when Optimus returned that Unicron was defeated, and Arcee was later present when Optimus sacrificed himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

===Titan ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:Titan4.3 Arcee is melodramatic.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|And what happened, then? Well, in Whoville they say - that Arcee shot Christmas in the face.]]
Arcee took part in the testing of Ratchet's newly-developed [[Safe]] training room, though she was amused by the medic's interest in making things explode. After Bulkhead broke through a wall, Arcee alerted the others to the rather large nuclear missile he'd accidentally uncovered and activated. A Vehicon scouting party showed up looking for the source of the energy signature the bomb was giving off, so Optimus, Arcee and Bumblebee went out to trash them. The trio returned to base a short time later to find Fowler had arrived to deal with the bomb. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|The Safe and the Failsafe}}

During some downtime, Optimus took the other Autobots, including Arcee, on a trip to [[Valley of Fire State Park]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.2|War Story}}

During the holidays, Arcee roundly mocked Bulkhead as he attempted to decorate a [[Christmas]] tree. Unfortunately for her, after Fowler reported that the Decepticons had taken over a [[Yamal|nuclear-powered ship]], she found herself left at base with Bulkhead. The kids suggested she and Bulkhead try to find something they both liked, but progress was slow until they discovered their mutual love of ice skating. They subsequently turned the base into an ice rink and skated around it until the other Autobots came back. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.3|Ice Breaker}}

[[File:Titan4.5 Arcee threatens MECH.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Our coverage of "Convoy" says different, Arcee!]]
She and Jack scouted out [[Franklin High School]] when schools in the region began unexpectedly exploding. It paid off when [[MECH]] turned up, however while Arcee was on the comm to Optimus, Jack sneaked inside the school. Arcee crashed inside to rescue him from MECH, though he insisted on following the baddies up to the roof. Silas got away anyway, and Arcee had to get Jack off the burning building. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.5|School Is... Out!}} After the [[President of the United States]] was kidnapped, the Autobots traced the culprit, Starscream, to the [[Grand Canyon]]. Bumblebee and Arcee teamed up to take out the cannons manned by Vehicons that Starscream had brought along. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

Arcee and Bulkhead headed to [[Zhejiang Province]], [[China]] after the Autobots lost contact with Optimus Prime. They found [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and a bunch of Vehicons feeding Optimus's body into a crusher but were overcome by the Decepticons before they could rescue him. Luckily Optimus came to his senses in time. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|The Mind Trap!}} After Miko was kidnapped by [[MECH]] agent [[Novo]], Arcee joined the hunt to find her. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.9|The Novo Incident}}

Arcee was bemused by Jack's demonstration of bobbing for apples. She was on the team which visited the [[Deep Driller]] oil platform and encountered [[Rufus Madison|General Madison]] and his men. After ending up underneath Bulkhead, she managed to trick two of the soldiers in [[robotic battle suit]]s into shooting each other. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.10|Mad Dogs & Autobots}} When Bulkhead went missing, Arcee searched in vain until Miko managed to work out he was on the Decepticon ship. Arcee was subsequently part of the mission to rescue their friend. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}} Arcee took part in a battle against the Decepticons in [[The Wave]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.12|The Evil Shred}}

Following a TV studio takeover by Knock Out and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]], Arcee came along on the mission as backup. She took to the shadows, and once Optimus had rescued the other hostages, Arcee rescued [[Chuck Chuckles]] and took down the two Decepticons herself. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.14|It's a Knock-Out}}
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====Mega-Mouth====
Arcee occasionally takes time out from defending the universe and protecting the planet Earth in disguise to... answer fan mail? {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|Mega-Mouth}}

===Eaglemoss ''Prime'' comic===
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===''Tales of the Beast Hunters'' comic===
Arcee tracked [[Ripclaw]] to the [[Canadian Rockies]]. Rather than attack directly, she leaked the coordinates to the Decepticons in the hope they would deal with the problem. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 19}}

===''Beast Hunters'' comic===
Following Optimus's sacrifice, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead encountered [[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]] in a tunnel. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 7|Beast Hunters #7}} They emerged on the surface in time to help [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] and the other Dinobots fight a squad of [[Forged]]. Arcee was shocked to hear they'd been created by Shockwave. After dealing with that threat, Arcee starting filling the Dinobots in on recent events, only for them to be promptly attacked by a new Predacon. The Autobots split into groups to head to [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], with Arcee and Swoop taking one group of survivors. [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] drew off the Predacon when it attacked, allowing Arcee and the other to reach Kaon while the Predacon was dealt with. There, Arcee explained that the Dinobots would always be welcome in the Autobot ranks. Grimlock, however, said the Dinobots would be unable to help with the reconstruction of Kaon, since they'd be building a new home for the survivors. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 8|Beast Hunters #8}}

===''Transformers Legends'' comic===
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Arcee was among the heroic female Transformers who appeared in one of [[Tigatron]]'s dreams, in which she spotted the approaching evil female Transformers seeking to kidnap Tigatron. She may have subsequently engaged [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]] in battle, or might have just been in the latter's line of sight. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11|Bonus Edition Vol. 11}}

===IDW ''Robots in Disguise'' comic===
Arcee, Ultra Magnus, and Bulkhead spied on Bumblebee's team from their spaceship. {{storylink|Fire, When Ready!}} While struggling to get his team to work together, Bumblebee recalled happier times when he was part of Team Prime with Arcee. She and Bulkhead were sent by Magnus to question [[Spinhead]], but arrived after the Decepticon had been captured. They returned to the ship, unaware that Bumblebee had spotted them. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

The trio visited Bumblebee so they could question some of the ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'' prisoners over the whereabouts of [[Clipshade]], and Arcee discovered she had a fan in [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]]. Arcee took part in the capture of the Decepticon, though she was prevented from speaking further with Bumblebee when Magnus ordered them back to the ship with Clipshade. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 2|Robots in Disguise #2}}

Arcee accompanied Ultra Magnus and Bulkhead on another visit to Team Bee following an operation that ended with [[Overhead]] escaping. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 3|Robots in Disguise #3}} After Ultra Magnus filled the other Autobot team in on the fact that Clipshade was an Autobot spy, Arcee and the rest of the team launched an operation to arrest the leader of the [[Cybercomrade Sect]], [[Overhead]]. Arcee and Strongarm got to tagteam Overhead, though when the Sect leader turned the space bridge she was working on into a black hole, Grimlock saved Arcee from being sucked in. In the aftermath of the fight, Overhead and her hench-[[Croctobot]]s were taken into custody, and Ultra Magnus, Arcee and Bulkhead returned to Cybertron with them. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 4|Robots in Disguise #4}}

===''Kre-O'' bios===
Arcee was once webbed to the ground by Airachnid and tickled mercilessly by [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]. {{storylink|Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid's bio}}

===''Kre-O'' online comic===
[[File:KreO Arcee.jpg|thumb|]]
Arcee was one of the [[Autobot]]s who left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in the ''[[Ark (Kre-O)|Ark]]'' in search for energy blocks to alleviate their hunger. Thanks to the boarding of the ''Ark'' by [[Decepticon]]s, the ''Ark'' crashed and the [[Transformer]]s fell into a four million year-long sleep. They woke up to a world filled with blocks. {{storylink|Kreon Story}}
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===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Arcee was deployed on Earth alongside [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] and [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[File:EnemyOfMyEnemy-Arcee.jpg|right|thumb|150px|This High Council don't want none unless your helmet's got buns, hon.]]
Following the restoration of Cybertron from the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]], Arcee was one of the many Autobots blacklisted by the new [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] for being a supporter of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]. {{Storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}}

{{note|Arcee's body as shown appears to be a blend of her ''Prime'' form and the original [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], what with the divided backpack and Princess Leia "buns" on her helmet.}}

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==Commercial appearances==
Arcee was weirded out by [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]], [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]], [[My Little Pony|ponies]], and an {{w|Strawberry Shortcake|underage baker}} singing Christmas carols. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers1|The Hub Carolers}}

==Games==
===''Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense''===
Arcee fought off Starscream as he led Vehicon troops to the town of [[Jasper]] to collect Dark Energon from a nearby mine. She then teamed up with Bumblebee to stop Soundwave and more Vehicons from reaching an abandonned military base. She then helped Optimus Prime destroy whatever Vehicons managed to infiltrate the outpost on their way out. Upon Megatron's arrival to the battlefield, she aided Optimus Prime defend Autobot headquarters.

Arcee could deploy "Cannon Turrets," "Anti Air Turrets," and "Sniper Turrets" through the Ground Bridge to aid her in destroying Vehicons. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense}}
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===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
[[File:WFCArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|Four wheels good, two wheels ''better!'' Four wheels good, two wheels ''better!'']]
:''Voice actor'': [[Kari Wahlgren]] (English)
{{Note|Arcee is not a playable character in the storyline campaign. However, she can be unlocked for Escalation mode and for customization in online multiplayer as an Autobot scout. Her chassis type is listed as "Sprinter".}}

Arcee was one of the many Autobots who were captured and placed in [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]]'s prisons complex. She was freed from her imprisonment when [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] allowed themselves to be captured in order to rescue [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]]. During their rescue attempt, they opened all of the Kaon cells, allowing the prisoners, Arcee included, to escape. The freed prisoners were all led to transport ships, overseen by [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]], in which they used to escape the complex. Arcee herself helped direct her fellow prisoners to the ships, whilst Optimus's team kept the Decepticons busy.
{{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}
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===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
[[File:Arcee-foc-pinup-Crop.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|left|link=File:Arcee-foc-pinup.jpg|Click for full version]]
Deep in the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]], a Decepticon facility housed a room containing not only a number of weapons but also a [[:File:arcee-foc-pinup.jpg|pin-up poster]] of Arcee. Sketchy. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron}}
{{Note|Arcee is one of three characters (with [[Barricade (WFC)|Barricade]] and [[Slipstream (WFC)|Slipstream]]) from ''War for Cybertron'' whose parts are not available in the multiplayer character designer, ostensibly because the designers couldn't make female parts work with the system.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7dBQA-OJR0 Comic-Con: Transformers: Fall of Cybertron panel at YouTube (50:00 mark)]</ref>}}
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=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game arcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Say goodnight, Jak! (3DS version pictured)]]
{{voiceactor|[[Sumalee Montano]] (English)}}

The Autobots detected a massive asteroid of Dark Energon headed toward Earth, and intercepted the ''Nemesis'' crew attempting to retrieve the asteroid when bridging to the location. At the climax of the battle, the asteroid began to split apart and exploded. Team Prime fell to Earth and scattered across the country.

Arcee landed back in Jasper, and was met by a horde of Insecticons upon waking up. Arcee proceeded to defeat them and was alarmed when Jack, who had come to her aid when her life signal was detected on Earth, contacted her and opened up a ground bridge for her. However, Arcee was met by Airachnid, and the latter ended up kidnapping Jack. Arcee pursued her and managed to release Jack from her possession.

Arcee & Bumblebee went to investigate a part of the asteroid that landed on Earth, though Bumblebee scouted ahead. She assisted Bumblebee in grounding Dreadwing, but that was about it. Later, Arcee joined Bumblebee in bridging to the Nemesis to save Ratchet and the children, who had been captured by the Decepticons over this period of time. She was met yet again by Airachnid, though this time coming rather close to defeating her. Unfortunately, Airachnid had escaped. The team regrouped, though missing Optimus, and Ratchet dispatched Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and Arcee to chase Thunderwing in order to give him time to create a device to corrupt his Dark Energon core. Arcee was knocked into stasis by Megatron, just in time for Optimus to arrive. Arcee was taken by Bulkhead for medical care. Arcee then assisted Jack, after much hesitation from her and Optimus, in planting Ratchet's disruption device inside of Thunderwing's core. The dynamic duo were successful in carrying out the task.

Arcee later joined the rest of the team in watching the sun set after a day's hard work. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}

===''Transformers Prime: Relic Hunter''===
Arcee was once sent to [[Antarctica]] to find and retrieve an Ionian{{sic}} relic. She fell in a lot of Dark Energon pits along the way. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Relic Hunter|Relic Hunter}}
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===Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)===
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Arcee with [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Hound (Prime)|Hound]] were assigned a mission to capture the [[Dark Spark]], but were confronted by [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] and [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]. After fighting them, the Autobots continued on their way. At the railway station, they joined the waiting Optimus, Bumblebee and Jazz. Together, the Autobots dealt with a group of Insecticons, and then loaded on a train. When the train was blown up by the Decepticons, Arcee was at the head of a detachment of the Autobots, who tried to prevent the escape of the Decepticons with the Dark spark. This attempt was unsuccessful. Then the female followed the enemies to Kaon, where she headed one of the groups that attacked Bruticus and also confronted numerous Decepticon drones. Bruticus returned, leading Arcee and the others to attack him, forcing him to retreat due to his injuries. The Autobots eventually caught up with him and caused him to fall apart.{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}

===''Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense''===
When the Decepticons constructed an [[Energon Drain]] in an asteroid field, Arcee and the Autobots countered it by building a [[Pulsar Dish]] from debris. While the dish was under construction, Arcee and Jack could help out by scanning the nearby debris for the necessary components. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense}}
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===''Transformers Universe''===
[[File:Tom-stockwell-arcee-small.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|right]]
{{Note|Arcee is seen for a brief moment in the 2014 trailer, furthermore her portrait can be found in the game files. She was intended to be the mentor for the training room, however the game was shut down before the training section was produced.}}
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==Toys==
===Prime===
====First Edition====
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[[File:Primetoy-ArceeNYCC.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Arcee went back in time and had a little one with herself.]]
*'''Bumblebee and Arcee, Includes Raf Esquivel and Jack Darby''' (NYCC 2011 exclusive)
**''Accessories:'' Two arm blades/motorcycle panels

:Arcee is a [[redeco]] of Deluxe Class Arcee (see below) in pink and white [[Arcee (G1)|Generation 1 Arcee colors]] and comes with a New York taxicab [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Prime: First Edition|Bumblebee]] and NY-themed [[Jack Darby#Prime|Jack Darby]] and [[Raf Esquivel#Prime|Raf Esquivel]] figurines. They were sold exclusively at [[New York Comic Con|New York Comic Con 2011]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2011/Autobot/NYCCArcee/arcee.htm More information on NYCC Arcee at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Primetoy-ArceeDeluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Gimmicks include: plug-in arm blades, conservation of mass between modes.]]
*'''Arcee''' ("First Edition" Deluxe Class, 2011)
**''Number:'' '''002'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''2011-[[December 28|12-28]]
**''Accessories:'' Two arm blades/motorcycle panels, stand

: Part of the first wave of ''First Edition'' Deluxe Class toys, Arcee transforms from a blue motorcycle to a robot and back. Arm blades stow in vehicle mode and can be plugged under Arcee's forearms in [[robot mode]]. Like all "First Edition" toys, a cardboard display stand comes assembled within the packaging.

: After exceptionally spotty distribution in the original release, Arcee and many of the other ''First Edition'' toys were re-released as part of a big batch of [[Toys"R"Us|ToysЯUs]] exclusives in late 2012. They later made their way to closeout chains like Ross and Marshall's.

: This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[Transmutate (character)#Timelines|Trans-Mutate]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2011/Autobot/PrimeArcee/arcee.htm More information on First Edition Arcee at TFU.info]''

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[[File:TFP-FE-Arcee-Blue-Plated-Version.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Arcee ~Blue Plated Ver~''' ("First Edition" Deluxe Class, 2013)
**''Accessories:'' Two arm blades/motorcycle panels, stand

:A chrome redeco of the First Edition Arcee figure is released as a lucky draw prize, by spending 3,000 yen or more on Transformers products at Edion or Bic Camera while the entry for the draw is obtained. The figure was limited to 40 pieces.

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====Cyberverse====
[[File:Cyberverse legion arcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Arcee''' (Cyberverse Legion, 2012)
**''Series/Number:'' '''2 / 003'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''2012-[[April 28|04-28]]'''
**''Japanese Number:'' '''EZ-09'''
**''Accessories:'' Blaster

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' [[Cyberverse (toyline)#Series 2|Series 2 Cyberverse]] Legion Class toys, this smaller-scale Arcee comes with a rubbery translucent-pink blaster which has numerous [[C joint|3mm peg]]s and a single peg-hole, allowing it to be held or mount onto any of her numerous ports. She has permanently-deployed battle blades on her arms in robot mode, and is largely [[scale]]-accurate with the Deluxe and Voyager toys in vehicle mode.

: This sculpt was also used to make [[Flamewar (Prime)|Flamewar]] and [[Transformers (2014 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2014)]] [[Groove (G1)#Transformers (2014)|Protectobot Groove]]. Her blaster, in various colors, was also used by ''Cyberverse'' [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Cyberverse|Bumblebee]], [[Evac (Ride)#Cyberverse|Evac]], [[Wheeljack (Prime)#Hyperspeed|Hyperspeed Wheeljack]], [[Tailgate (Prime)|Autobot Tailgate]], the [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#CyberverseBattlesuit|redeco]] of Bumblebee that comes with the [[Bumblebee Battle Suit]], and the ''Transformers'' (2014) Groove figure, which he comes with ''2'' of them.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2012/Autobot/LegArcee/arcee.htm More information on Cyberverse Legion Arcee at TFU.info]''

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[[File:PrimeEZCollectionAutobotSet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Autobot Set''' (EZ Collection 6-pack, 2012-[[November 24|11-24]])
**''ID number'': '''EZ-SP1'''
**''Accessories'': Blaster

:Available for this set, this version of Arcee replaces her blue plastic with a darker shade of blue. She was released as a six-pack along with [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#EZ6pack|Bumblebee]], [[Bulkhead (Prime)#EZ6pack|Bulkhead]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#EZ6pack|Optimus Prime]], [[Ratchet (WFC)#EZ6pack|Ratchet]], and [[Wheeljack (Prime)#EZ6pack|Wheeljack]].

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====Robots in Disguise====
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[[File:PrimeRID-ArceeDeluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
[[File:Prime-toy ArceeTakTomDx.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The PRID version is the more show accurate one?!?! Impossibru...]]
*'''Arcee''' (Deluxe Class, 2012)
**''Series/Number:'' '''1 / 005'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''2012-[[May 28|05-28]]'''
**''Japanese Number:'' '''AM-11'''
**''Accessories:'' Blaster & blade (Hasbro only), "Arc" Arms Micron (Takara only)

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise (2012)|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' Deluxe Class toys, this smaller, new-mold Deluxe Class Arcee figure features a transformation that relies slightly more on fake kibble than the earlier Deluxe toy. The entire front of the bike now stores on her back, though the rest of the toy transforms very similarly (but not identically). She comes with a large blaster and one of her arm blades, both of which can mount onto her hands, forearms, and front wheel via [[5mm post]], as well as combine with each other. Additionally, the blades from the "First Edition" figure can mount onto thin pegs on either side of her vehicle mode.

: The Japanese release has new 5mm post attachments added to her wings, to go along with the [[Arms Micron]] system. As such, she loses the blaster and blade combo, and instead has her own Arms Micron, [[Arc]], who transforms into a weapon somewhat resembling her arm-blade. Most of her [[paint operation]]s also have been removed, replaced with customer-applied foil [[sticker]]s.

: This mold was also used for [[BotCon 2014]] [[Flareup (G1)#BotCon2014|Flareup]] and was heavily retooled into ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Chromia (G1)#Generations|Chromia]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2012/Autobot/Arcee/arcee.htm More information on ''Robots in Disguise'' Arcee at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://higekumatoytoy.blog60.fc2.com/blog-entry-1541.html Arms Micron Arcee at Alfes's toy blog]''
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====Beast Hunters====
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[[File:Beast hunters arcee deluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Batgiiirl! Batgiiiirl! Where do you come from? Where do you go?]]
*'''Arcee''' (Deluxe Class, 2013)
**''Series/Number:'' '''2 / 012'''
**''Accessories:'' Echohawk Bow, two [[missile]]s

: Part of the fourth wave of ''Prime: [[Beast Hunters (toyline)|Beast Hunters]]'' Deluxe Class toys, Arcee is a redeco and extensive [[retool]] of ''Prime: Robots in Disguise'' Arcee, and comes with the massive spring-loaded "[[Echohawk Bow]]", which can fire its two missiles. It can be held via its two jointed 5mm handles, as well as attach to her front wheel in vehicle mode.

:Her instructions include the [[Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 19|nineteenth chapter]] of the ''[[Tales of the Beast Hunters]]'' series.

: This version of the mold was also used for [[BotCon 2014]] [[Flamewar (G1)#BotCon2014|Flamewar]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2013/Autobot/Arcee/arcee.htm More information on ''Beast Hunters'' Arcee at TFU.info]''
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===Kre-O===
[[File:Kre-O-Autobot-Command-Center.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Command Center''' (Playset, 2013)
**''Set number'': '''A5412'''
**''Pieces'': '''461'''
**''Kreons'': Arcee, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Ratchet, Shockwave

: The Command Center playset includes a Kreon of Arcee based on her ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)| Prime]]'' incarnation. She uses the [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] style helmet. There's also a blue [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Wheeljack]] backpack-wing in the set that is not technically hers, but can be added to her to make her just that little bit more like the show model.

: The set also comes with ''Prime''-style Kreons of [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)#CommandCenter|Bumblebee]], [[Ratchet (Kre-O)#CommandCenter|Ratchet]], [[Shockwave (Kre-O)#CommandCenter|Shockwave]], and [[Knock Out (Prime)#CommandCenter|Knock Out]], and a brick-built [[Rippersnapper (Prime)#CommandCenter|Rippersnapper]] beast and [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)#CommandCenter|Optimus Prime]] truck.

===Go!===
[[File:Gotoy-HunterArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"... ''Bullseye.''"]]
*'''Hunter Arcee''' (Deluxe Class, 2013-[[October 26|10-26]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''G22'''
**''Accessories:'' Arc Bowgun, two missiles

:Part of the sixth wave of [[TakaraTomy]] ''[[Triple Combination: Transformers Go! (toyline)|Go!]]'' toys, Hunter Arcee is a [[redeco]] of the ''Beast Hunters'' Deluxe Class Arcee toy, and features a predominantly blue and black color scheme with silver and pink highlights, similar to her ''Prime'' cartoon appearance.
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==Merchandise==
===Kinder Surprise===
*'''Transformers: Prime''' (2014)
:Only available inside a blindpacked chocolate egg as part of Kinder's ''Transformers: Prime'' series, this buildable Arcee mini-figure consists of a generic "cog" onto which her limbs and armor can be clipped to construct her. She has articulation on her shoulders and upper legs.
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===Eaglemoss cards===
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==Notes==
[[File:DarknessRising3-Arceesizechange.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The motorcycle transforms into her leg and then the rest of her robot mode hops over and attaches to it.]]
[[File:VectorSigmaBotBuilderArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Basically destined to be [[Pinkie Pie]] at some point.]]
*In the ''Prime'' cartoon, Arcee's [[hologram|holographic]] driver is named "[[Sadie]]".<ref>[[Darkness Rising, Part 1]]
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* All of the Autobots in ''Prime'' [[size changing|change size]] between [[alternate mode]]s, but it's way more noticeable with Arcee's transformation from a vehicle roughly the size of Jack to a robot just a little shorter than Bumblebee. Her tires do not change size when she transforms. One can see a little regular-sized tire in her back, and small half-tires on her calves.
*Arcee's chest panels [[:File:PrimeArcee PinkParts.jpg|fluctuate]] in color from episode to episode. Sometimes, they're pink; other times, they're clear. They seem to be clear more often than pink, though.
*Arcee's blue color scheme is due to the writers not wanting to make Jack look silly by putting him on a pink motorcycle.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-prime-39/nycc-2011-transformers-prime-panel-tony-todd-is-dreadwing-nathan-fillion-to-voice-a-transformer-173567/ NYCC 2011 Transformers: Prime Panel at TFW2005]</ref>
*Arcee's show model is the basis for the non-toy character [[Akiba Prime]].
*In the Japanese dub of ''Transformers: Prime'', Arcee's catchphrase of "scrap" was rendered "saiaku" (最悪), a phrase that literally translates to "the worst". It is often used by young women as an expression of frustration or irritation.
*Arcee's body parts are available to use in the Hub website's [[Vector Sigma Bot Builder]] online game. Normally, you cannot configure a generic 'bot using all Arcee parts, but you can see what one would look like at right through the magic of Photoshop.
*In the [[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|3DS version of ''Rise of the Dark Spark'']], there are obvious hints at a relationship between Cliffjumper and Arcee. Cliffjumper refers to Arcee as, "Darling," and Hound flat out says to Arcee, "I see why Cliffjumper likes you, boss."
*A proposed [[Fun Publications]] [[BotCon]] [[exclusive]] was a redeco of [[#Prime|''Prime: Robots in Disguise'' Arcee]] into a "Femme Fatale" version of [[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|''GoBots'' Cy-Kill]].<ref>[http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc14/bc14br.html BotCon 2014 attendee report]</ref>

===Arms Up Modes===
In the Japanese ''Prime'' toyline, Arcee has named powered-up modes when given various [[Arms Micron]]s in certain configurations:

*'''Slasher Mode''' (スラッシャーモード ''Surasshā Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.2, B.H., C.L., O.P., R.A.
: Seen on her box-back photo, in this mode Arcee uses the [[Slash Cannon α]] on her right arm, [[Slash Cannon β]] on the other, with [[C.L.]] on her right wing and [[B.H.]] on her left.

*'''Crushgize Nebula Scythe''' (クラッシュジアイズネビュラーサイズ ''Kurasshujiaizu Nebyurā Saizu'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.H., Balo, Gora, O.P., R.A., Zori
: This rather overblown mode, revealed in the ''[[From the Cybertron Satellite, Transformers Division|Cybertron Satellite]]'' portion of "[[Scrapheap (episode)|Freezing Transformation!? Terror of the Minicons]]", starts with Arcee holding the [[Nebula Scythe]] Combo Weapon. Add [[Gora]] to her right wing, [[R.A.]] to her left, [[Zori]] to her back and [[Balo]] in drill mode to the end of Zori's tail, and boom! The "gize" part of the name seems to be from the word "energize".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Arcee''' (アーシー ''Āshī'')

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Ratchet (WFC)

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:''Ratchet is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:PrimeRatcht.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|If we don't get Jeffrey Combs versus [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lance Henriksen]] before this series ends, there will be much, much sobbing.]]
The [[Autobot]]s' medical officer, '''Ratchet''' has a dry wit, often giving his wounded comrades a hard time for taking hits he somehow avoids. With the Energon supplies becoming less and less, he works to find new ways to make do, and he'd ''really'' prefer if the Autobots didn't risk injury (or worse) to protect [[human]]s. He'd also prefer the humans weren't brought back to [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]] but since ''he'' is unfamiliar with human tech, he needs [[Raf Esquivel]] to help him out. However, for all his views on humans, deep down Ratchet ''admires'' what the tiny fleshies bring to the fight. Maybe he'll even warm up to them.

[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s best friend, and ''de facto'' second-in-command, you'd be hard-pressed to find another Autobot who loves his leader as much as he does. Yet this is not to say Ratchet has blind faith in him; Ratchet resents Optimus' lack of action over the years regarding ending the war and many missed chances to kill [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]. He's as flawed as any normal being would be, and a huge vice is his Cybertronian pride. At least once, it's nearly cost him the life of a friend. Furthermore, his grief for his destroyed [[Cybertron (planet)|home world]] is what drives him. He didn't take the loss of Cybertron very well, and would do almost anything to get it back some day.

He works with the [[Mini-Con]] [[R.A.]], and has recently struck up a partnership with the taciturn [[Undertone]].

{{quote|In a contest between resources and ingenuity, never underestimate ingenuity.|Ratchet, [[Transformers: Exodus|Exodus]]}}

==Fiction==
===''The Covenant of Primus''===
Ratchet emerged from the [[Well of All Sparks]] before the [[Age of Wrath]]. In his youth, Ratchet left his primitive village behind, and embarked on a pilgrimage to the newly-founded city of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. There, he applied as a student to Iacon's medical units, and learned medical science from the then-current chief of surgery [[Remedy (COP)|Remedy]]. Over time, Ratchet slowly climbed the ranks, and eventually became a junior medic in one of Iacon's many medical clinics.

One day, Ratchet was interrupted from his studies by the arrival of [[Coldwelder]], a working-class [[Energon]] miner who claimed to have been abducted and experimented on by [[Quintesson|aliens]]. Ratchet was skeptical of his claims, but ordered his intern [[Crankhandle]] to help run a diagnostic on the frightened victim. While examining his patient with his colleague [[Cogwheel]], Ratchet discovered a probe of unknown origin had indeed been planted in Coldwelder's cranium. Ratchet was more than happy to let Cogwheel deal with the fallout of this strange discovery but felt guilty afterwords for passing the matter off to her to deal with.

Much later, the outbreak of the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]], Ratchet chose to join the Autobots under Optimus Prime. After the Autobot scout [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] was grievously wounded by Megatron, Ratchet attempted to patch up Bumblebee. Although the medic was able to repair Bumblebee's leg, he was unable to save his voice box, rendering Bumblebee mute.

After the great exodus from Cybertron, Ratchet was one of the handful of Autobots who travelled to [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus}}

===Aligned novels===
Ratchet made his name during the [[Praxus|Praxian]] stalemate. He and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] fought in a few battles together, during which he taught the younger Autobot how to apply first aid. He repaired his throat after [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] destroyed it in revenge for ejecting the [[AllSpark]] into space, enabling Bumblebee to speak from time to time.

After Megatron invaded [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and took the [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]], Ratchet welded [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]]'s face and stabilized [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]]'s condition. When [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] asked Ratchet if Omega was ready to fight again, the offended medic responded that if Optimus wanted Omega to fight after the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] blew him out of the sky, [[Dark Energon]]-infused gladiators attacked him and Megatron tore out the Chamber out of his chest, then he wanted another surgeon. Optimus knew he had to apologize but was too preoccupied with rescuing [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel Prime]].

When the Autobots left Cybertron on the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'', Ratchet informed Optimus and [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] that Omega was repaired and ready to distract [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

Onboard the ''Ark'', Ratchet figured out that the hologram projected by the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] was a star map, and pointed out the "you are here" symbol. He then wondered why it was in the Matrix in the first place, thus getting into a minor skirmish with [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]] about whether or not the Matrix was sentient/magical. When the Autobots figured out where exactly they were, Ratchet marvelled at the fact that anyone came that far.

Ratchet was on the second landing party to [[Velocitron]] with "[[Makeshift (Prime)|Hound]]", [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe,]] and [[Prowl (WFC)|Prowl]]. He commented that a Velocitronian's only limit to racing a million times was how often they could be put back together. He "answered" Optimus' question about whether the Velocitronians would surrender their identity to survivve by saying it was a gloomy question. He was participant in meetings with Optimus, [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]], and [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]], and later Hound. He was also working on repairing the [[Space bridge]] near Velocitron, and acting as Bumblebee's translator.

Ratchet was the first to leap into action and ask what happened when 777 sabotaged the ''Ark'', and the engines exploded. But they got it repaired, and left Velocitron. Ratchet wanted to just hurry up and go through the Space Bridge, since he didn't fix it for nothing. When they went through, they were at [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]]. Ratchet commented that another Space Bridge in the area hadn't been used since before its records began. But it was working. Apparently, he never would have guessed that Bots built the Space Bridge. He, not unlike [[Perceptor (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Perceptor]], suggested that they make additional repairs on the planet.

Ratchet was on the first landing team to Junkion, with Optimus, Hound, and Ironhide. They all died. Or at least, they would have, if Optimus hadn't shown off the Matrix to the Junkions who were scavenging them, starting with Ratchet. He was the one who figured out that [[Wreck-Gar (Prime)|Wreck-Gar]] wanted to know what the Matrix was. He noticed that Hound was gone. Hmm... but he was distracted when he had to tell a random Junkion that it couldn't have his leg.

Optimus noted to himself that even though Ratchet had [[Corrostop]], he didn't want an outbreak of [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust.]]

Ratchet correctly assumed that Wreck-Gar thought Optimus was making up the stuff about the Matrix and the AllSpark so that he'd feel bad and help them.

Once more, when 777's second bomb exploded, Ratchet was the first to give a verbal reaction. He scanned for [[Spark|Sparks]] on the Ark, but had too much interference to get an accurate reading. The best he could come up with was "Lots of survivors." He, Jazz, [[Clocker (Prime)|Clocker]], and [[Mainspring]] were the damage assessment team. He and Ironhide were also put in charge for when Optimus went to the tomb of [[Solus Prime]]. Before that, though, he examined Optimus after the Matrix told him to jump into a furnace (seriously).

He analyzed the body of the [[Junkion (species)|Junkion]] named [[Shearbolt]] to determine that he died before Prowl talked to him, leading to the realization that their traitor was a [[Shifter]]. He then had the unpleasant task of explaining to Wreck-Gar that a Shifter was responsible.

Ratchet told Optimus about the distress signal from [[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]] about how Velocitron was now at full-out war.

When the Decepticons arrived on Junkion, Ratchet helped his colleagues give Optimus a status report. But that was overshadowed by the [[Blades of Time]] all coming together. Ratchet and Optimus simultaneously realized that it was a gateway. He escaped what was left of Junkion with the rest of the Autobots on the ''Ark''. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

Ratchet was one of Optimus Prime's senior advisors on the Ark when the Matrix led them to [[Aquatron]]. Although the planet seemed like a godsend, Optimus confided in his old friend and physician that he felt adrift from the Matrix, a deep disconnect down to his spark that told him something was wrong with him or the Matrix. Ratchet joined the main Autobot force when it touched down on the planet, making contact with the [[Inquirata (Prime)|Curator]] and his Aquatronians. When Optimus experienced an unexplained seizure, the Autobots were forced to bring him to Doctor [[Xeros]] at an Aquatronian medical facility. Although Ratchet monitored the doctor's treatment, he failed to recognize the deep scans their hosts were performing on the Prime and his Matrix.

The Curator was revealed as a [[Quintesson]] with a grudge millions of years old against the Cybertronians, and Ratchet was among the Autobots who were captured and forced to face trial on ridiculous trumped up charges. The Autobots and Decepticons escaped during the trial and met up with their comrades aboard the Ark and Nemesis to fend off the [[Sharkticon (COP)|Sharkticon]] hordes and ultimately escape the planet. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Uniend 610.23 Zeta]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} Ratchet was present for a meeting amongst [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s most trusted lieutenants about [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]]'s plan to launch the [[AllSpark]] into space to keep it from [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]], and then took part in the Battle at [[Tyger Pax]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee at Tyger Pax}}

===IDW ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:PrimeComicRatchet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Don't worry, you won't see me as dirty later. Except [[Stronger, Faster|that one time]]...]]
Ratchet was stationed at the Autobot base on [[Earth]], opening the [[GroundBridge]] for Optimus to retrieve [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]. He reattached her arm after [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] had blown it off. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|Transformers: Prime}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jeffrey Combs]] (English), [[Nobuo Tobita]] (Japanese)|[[Sun Ye]] (Chinese, Season 1), [[Shen Lei]] (Chinese, Season 2 & 3), [[José María Carrero]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Seong-yong Ha]] (Korean), [[Claudio Moneta]] (Italian), [[Jan Spitzer]] (German), [[Mario Arvizu]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Jarosław Boberek]] (Polish), [[Luiz Antônio Lobue]] (Brazilian Portuguse), [[Jari Salo]] (Finnish)}}

Ratchet served during the war for Cybertron, where he "proved [his] mettle". {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}} After Bumblebee was captured at [[Tyger Pax]], Ratchet was the field medic who put him back together, but was unable to repair his voice box. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} At some point after Team Prime arrived on Earth, Ratchet modified [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]]'s jet, allowing him to fly without a flight suit. {{storylink|Grill (episode)|Grill}}

[[File:DarknessRising1-Ratchettragedy.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|You're drawn to his eccentric charm.]]
Ratchet was on patrol in a snowy region when news came in that [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] was battling a platoon of Decepticons solo. Ratchet and the other Autobots returned to base to [[GroundBridge]] to his location, but they were too late: Cliffjumper was nowhere to be found, and Ratchet confirmed that his lifesigns had ceased. It was Ratchet's belief that continuing to operate on Earth and aid humans would only result in more tragedy, and as such, it was no surprise that he vehemently objected to the Autobots becoming protectors for [[Jack Darby]], [[Miko Nakadai]] and [[Raf Esquivel]] soon after—though the kids' incessant questions didn't help their case, either. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} Ratchet's mood was not improved when [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] accidentally crushed an important piece of lab equipment, and things got even worse when he was instructed to stay at base and watch the children while the other Autobots investigated the reappearance of Cliffjumper's lifesign. He did, however, start to see the value in the kids' presence when Raf helped him in his continuing struggle to master the inferior human computer systems the Autobot base ran on. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

[[File:Optimus Prime Ratchet Zombies Darkness Rising 4.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|He performs surgery with these. Carefully.]]

The other Autobots returned from their mission with the news that Cliffjumper had been revived by the Decepticons as a [[zombie]], and when [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] began feeling dizzy, Ratchet examined her and discovered a trace of the mysterious substance that had reanimated Cliffjumper. While examining it, Ratchet inadvertently dripped some on the equipment Bulkhead had broken, transforming it into a vicious little monster. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} Optimus Prime helped him destroy it, and both realized that they were dealing with [[Dark Energon]]. Realizing that [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] planned to raise an undead army, Optimus took Ratchet to the site of an ancient Transformer battle on Earth, but they arrived too late to prevent Megatron from using Dark Energon to raise the buried corpses of the warriors as a legion of [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcons]]. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}} Ratchet quickly deduced that the best way to stop them was dismemberment, and he and Prime managed to cut down the entire army despite the debilitating effects of the Dark Energon. Ratchet sustained a wounded arm in the battle, and Megatron was able to escape. Returning to base, Ratchet examined some plans that Miko had obtained from the Decepticons in his absence, and speculated that the villains were building a [[space bridge]] so they could use Dark Energon to raise a zombie army on Cybertron and bring them to Earth. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}} Given his injuries, Ratchet stayed behind at the base to man the GroundBridge, sending the other Autobots to the orbiting space bridge for battle, and the kids to the [[Giant Sized Array]] radio telescope in [[Texas]] to cut off the Decepticons' targeting systems. While the kids failed in their endeavour, they did succeed in obtaining schematics for the space bridge, which Ratchet used to determine a means of destroying it. He instructed Arcee's team on sabotaging the space bridge, and bridged everyone back to base before the inevitable explosion. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

[[File:Masters&Students-Ratch-animator.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|I was busy pushing bodies around as you well know and what would a note say, Dan? "Cat dead, details later"?]]
Ratchet was initially dismayed to learn that the kids were working on their school science projects in the Autobot base, but changed his tune in short order and actually turned down combat duty to stay and help them. Unfortunately for the kids, he completely took over their projects, building a large volcano for Raf, a model of Cybertron for Miko, and an advanced engine for Jack. None of the projects went down well at school, much to Ratchet's disappointment. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

[[File:Scrapheap-Ratchetinfected.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|My kingdom for a [[Charlie Fong]]!]]
Ratchet found another reason to be grateful to have the kids around when a [[Scraplet]] infestation in the base left the GroundBridge disabled, and Ratchet at the mercy of the metal-eating monsters. Jack used a fire extinguisher to freeze the creatures, saving Ratchet's life, but the medic remained too badly wounded to effect repairs to the GroundBridge, and had to entrust the job to the humans. They succeeded, and Ratchet was able to patch up himself and his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}} Problems with the GroundBridge lingered, however, and Ratchet continued working on it during a visit by Bulkhead's old buddy [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]], while trying to ignore the distractions caused by the other Autobots partying and Wheeljack and Bulkhead [[Cybertronian sport#Lobbing|Lobbing]]. The delays caused by Ratchet's repairs resulted in "Wheeljack" being exposed as [[Makeshift (Prime)|a Decepticon imposter]]. Unfortunately this also meant that when the real Wheeljack turned up, Ratchet was subjected to another round of partying. {{storylink|Con Job}}

Ratchet continued to play the role of tech support over the Autobots next few missions. He remained in the base to monitor the Autobot convoy as they transported the [[Dynamic Nuclear Generation System]] across country, alerting them to an incoming Decepticon attack and—under protest—working with Raf to GroundBride Miko and Jack onto a moving track so they could stop the forces of [[MECH]] from stealing the device. [[File:SickMind-RatchetOP.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"I've heard that humans quite often wake up late with black eyes. They call the condition 'a hangover'."]]{{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}} The episode burnt Raf's laptop out, but Ratchet later helped fix it. {{storylink|Raf's Notes|Raf's Notes #5}} When the Decepticons stole an [[Energon Harvester]] from a human museum, Ratchet manufactured a replica to replace it, despite Bulkhead breaking his frame welder. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}}

When Ratchet and Optimus Prime investigated a [[Autobot plague ship|crashed Autobot vessel]], they discovered that it was a plague ship carrying deceased victims of [[Cybonic plague]], a pathogen created by Megatron himself. Optimus contracted the disease, which was beyond even Ratchet's ability to cure. In search of a treatment, he GroundBridged Arcee and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] to the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' so they could obtain the cure from Megatron's mind via [[cortical psychic patch]], a controversial procedure banned by Autobots but in which Ratchet was well-versed. While watching the link, Ratchet recorded the hologram of the plague antidote Megatron showed to Bumblebee, and was able later to produce a cure for Optimus. {{storylink|Sick Mind}}

[[File:OutHead-RatchetMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I hope you've been practicing "The Man Who Sold the World", Megatron, because you're about to be ''unplugged!'']] While Optimus was given a clean bill of health, Ratchet was more concerned about Bumblebee; learning that the scout was seeing visions of Megatron following their psychic link-up, Ratchet induced a shutdown to give his systems time to recover. The other Autobots soon left the base on a mission, and Ratchet was left with Raf, who was sitting by the unconscious Bumblebee's beside. Trying to explain to the boy that this was unnecessary only resulted in Ratchet being subjected to pictures of Raf's family. The discussion was cut off when Bumblebee suddenly reactivated, leading Ratchet to realize that Megatron had taken over his comrade's body. Unable to stop the Decepticon leader from escaped through the GroundBridge, Ratchet and Raf followed Bumblebee to the Decepticon ship. There, they tried fruitlessly to stop Bumblebee from restoring Megatron to life, and had to retreat under Vehicon fire after Megatron's resurrection. They found Optimus's team on the ground below and returned to base where Ratchet checked over Bumblebee's processor for any lingering traces of Megatron's influence. {{Storylink|Out of His Head}}

Due to his experience with Dark Energon, Ratchet—much to his own surprise—was tapped to take Arcee's place when the Autobots deployed to confront [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. He was attempting to use the evil substance to revive [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]. Discovering that the kids had followed them through the GroundBridge, Ratchet ordered them to head back through to base, only for a Decepticon GroundBridge to manifest at the same time, causing a disruption that hurled the children into a parallel dimension. Deducing what had happened, Ratchet was able to recreate the original feedback loop and create a portal the kids could escape through. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}} Ratchet also went into the field on the Autobots' next mission: After patching up Bulkhead following a skirmish with Breakdown in which the 'Con was captured by MECH, Ratchet joined the effort to rescue the Decepticon. Following an Energon signature but finding only Breakdown's plucked-out eye, Ratchet attempted to extract images from the eye to help in the Autobots' search, but it turned out to be a MECH booby-trap, and the team only narrowly avoided the bomb explosion that resulted. They later tracked down Bulkhead in time to rescue him from Starscream and Breakdown. {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}}

[[File:StrongerFaster-Ratchetvehicle.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|A rare sighting.]]

Ratchet was at the Autobot base when Jack and Arcee brought Jack's mother [[June Darby]] in to introduce her to everyone. {{storylink|Crisscross}} When June next visited the base, the on-edge medic assumed her car was a Decepticon, though he didn't object to June, a nurse, respectfully calling him "doctor". While in conversation with June, Ratchet detected a magnetic anomaly and dispatched Bulkhead and Arcee to find it; when they returned magnetically stuck together, he realized they were dealing with a [[polarity gauntlet]]. Bulkhead and Arcee were eventually able to retrieve the device and present it to Ratchet back at base. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}} Ratchet's tech expertise came to the fore again when he detected the activation of a crashed [[Harbinger|Decepticon ship's]] computer system: when Bumblebee and Arcee returned from investigating with two frozen comrades and the pieces of the [[immobilizer|Decepticon weapon]] responsible, Ratchet was able to repair the weapon and use it to restore Prime and Bulkhead. {{storylink|Partners}}

[[File:RatchetflirtingwithArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|*clicks* "How's it hummin?" Ratchet flirting with Arcee]]

While most of the other Autobots went out to retrieve a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]], Ratchet stayed at base to monitor them and annoy Bulkhead and Miko by interrupting their monster truck footage. After Bulkhead was called out to the field, Ratchet assigned Miko cleaning duties, only for her to rush off to the battlefield and inadvertently cause the contents of the cylinder to be downloaded into Bulkhead's brain. Ratchet initially gave Bulkhead a clean bill of health, but when Bulkhead started painting complex formulae, Ratchet made two discoveries: one, that the formulae were for [[Synthetic Energon]], and two, that the data was slowly destroying Bulkhead's mind. After much of the formula had been transcribed, the data was beamed out of Bulkhead into space, leaving him comatose. Ratchet's suggestion that a familiar sound might rouse the Autobot led Miko to wake Bulkhead with her guitar playing. {{storylink|T.M.I.}} Working from Bulkhead's incomplete formula, Ratchet appeared to succeed in synthesizing a batch of the Synthetic Energon, and used himself as a guinea pig. Supercharged by the new substance at the expense of his mental stability, Ratchet was made strong enough to trash an entire squad of Vehicons on his own and to throw Bulkhead through a wall while sparring.The effects of the Synthetic Energon made him act on impulse without thinking-he even started to flirt with Arcee, clicking and winking at her as he walked past with a "How's it hummin?", leaving her surprised. When he went too far in interrogating a [[Decepticon Miner]] under the auspices of being more "proactive", Optimus was forced to confine him to base. Escaping, Ratchet went to confront Megatron on his own, infiltrating the Decepticons' Energon mine and making short work of Breakdown. Unfortunately, Megatron proved more formidable than expected, and Ratchet was seriously injured and left for Knock Out to extract a sample of Synthetic Energon from. Drained of the SynthEn and its effects, Ratchet managed to raise enough strength to fight back and destroy the sample, and was then rescued by the other Autobots and taken back to base for treatment. Ratchet apologized for his behavior, though at least they'd gained a supply of real energon from the mine out of it. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}

[[File:OneShallRise2-Ratchethumans.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|Professionals never look directly into the camera, Ratchet]]

When Optimus became interested in a prophecy from the [[Covenant of Primus]], Ratchet worked out that the planetary alignment mentioned was mere days away. Shortly after, Raf was injured during a mission to stop the Decepticons from gathering space bridge components. Ratchet's lack of knowledge of human physiology left him unable to treat the boy, so June Darby was called in to help. Ratchet refused to allow Raf to be taken to a hospital, as human doctors wouldn't have any experience with Energon contamination, but it became apparent that this wasn't what was ailing Raf. He had been infected with ''Dark'' Energon. Ratchet took the risk of applying an infusion of regular Energon to neutralize the Dark, and Raf recovered. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} Immediately thereafter, Ratchet joined Arcee and Bulkhead in rescuing Optimus from a battle with Megatron, then set about analyzing a series of natural disasters that began across the Earth, deducing that the tremors were the heartbeat of [[Unicron]], slumbering within the Earth and threatening to destroy it with his awakening. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} When Megatron approached the Autobots with the proposition of an alliance to stop Unicron from destroying the planet, Ratchet scoffed at the notion. He grew increasing incredulous to the idea that he would GroundBridge the others into the Earth's very core, following co-ordinates provided by Megatron, so the Optimus could use the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to deactivate Unicron, but was nonetheless forced to go along with the plan when Optimus accepted Megatron's offer. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}}

Remaining behind in the base with the kids and unable to contact the Autobots in the planet's depths, Ratchet passed the time telling the humans about the old days when Optimus was known as Orion Pax, and was shocked to discover that Optimus had entrusted Jack with the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] before departing. A final tremor that Ratchet shielded the kids from heralded Autobot victory within the planet, but when Ratchet GroundBridged the others back, they reported that Optimus had lost his memories and left with Megatron. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Ratchet reasoned that Optimus's amnesia must have been a result of emptying the Matrix, and that the solution involved the Key to Vector Sigma. He started tinkering with the GroundBridge to try and find a way to reach Cybertron, though when frustrations boiled over at their lack of success in getting Optimus back, Jack suggested they might use the Decepticon space bridge instead. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Thought he continued his tinkering with the GroundBridge, Ratchet was demoralized after the first test with Raf's radio-controlled car resulted in the destruction of the toy. The real breakthrough came when Ratchet was able to trade Starscream medical attention for information on the location of the space bridge. Once Ratchet and the others secured the bridge, they sent Jack and Arcee through. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bumblebee monitored Jack's progress from the Earth end of the space bridge. When Megatron arrived to take back control, Ratchet and the others were tossed around like rag dolls by the Decepticon leader. Luckily for them their plan worked out, and Ratchet and the others returned to base with Optimus Prime restored. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

[[File:OperationBumblebee2 delirious Ratchet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"And if you think that's bad, you should see what I did to Injector!"]]
Optimus and Ratchet followed an ancient signal and tangled with Megatron in the process of retrieving the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]]. After another altercation, Ratchet discovered that Bumblebee's [[transformation cog|T-cog]] was missing. Ratchet was therefore forced to pick Raf up after school, and told the boy the story of how Bumblebee's voice box was damaged. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} Guilty at his inability to do anything, Ratchet offered his own T-cog and, after talking Optimus into letting him do it, selected Arcee to perform the procedure. When he woke up, it was to find that the operation had been aborted, and Bumblebee had gone after MECH. Bumblebee returned with his lost cog, though in a damaged state, and Ratchet was able to repair it enough to restore Bumblebee's ability to transform. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

Ratchet patched up Wheeljack after the Wrecker returned to Earth and was involved in a scrap with [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}} Receiving another coded signal, Ratchet and Bulkhead again found Starscream in need of medical attention. They were able to get information from him about Airachnid's status and the presence of an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] on Earth. {{storylink|Crossfire}} When Fowler was attacked by a truck that resembled Optimus, Ratchet tracked Optimus's signal to confirm the offender wasn't their leader. They soon established that the truck in question was a MECH-created clone of Optimus, and Ratchet patched up the Autobots after they defeated Silas and [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]]. {{storylink|Nemesis Prime (episode)|Nemesis Prime}} Ratchet dispatched Optimus, Bumblebee and Arcee to investigate underground activity, and they returned with Airachnid in stasis lock. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

Optimus's attempt to attack the ''Nemesis'' with the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]] failed, Ratchet returned the stasis-locked team to base and GroundBridged Fowler and the kids aboard the ship. With his guidance, they were able to shut down the intelligence guiding the ship, and he even stepped aboard himself to retrieve Jack and the [[transfer drive]] full of [[Project Iacon]] data. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

[[File:Prime-TriageRatchet&Wheeljack.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"Hey Wheeljack, do you think it looks weird when I cross my legs? I mean, I can't help if I have such girly legs."]]
When Optimus decided they would need to secure all four relics at once, Ratchet pointed out that they were short-manned as it was. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} He was unimpressed when Optimus decided that Wheeljack would be called in to help him on his part of the mission since he was a capable warrior. {{storylink|Triangulation}} Ratchet disapproved of Wheeljack's behavior as they set off in the ''[[Jackhammer (Prime)|Jackhammer]]'', particularly being called "Doc". He also was far from impressed with his methods when attacking Soundwave and Laserbeak before they crashed landed. When they noticed the downed Laserbeak nearby, he struck on the idea of implanting a virus into the disabled Laserbeak, which would upload the Iacon database to the Autobots. With Raf's help, Ratchet managed to do so while Wheeljack kept Soundwave occupied, and managed to keep out of sight when Soundwave arrived to retrieve his pet. He attempted to convince Wheeljack to return to base for repairs, and thanked him for his back-up. When he returned to base, he found the virus was downloading the Iacon database into the Autobots' mainframe, but his joy was short-lived, as Bulkhead came flying through the GroundBridge with a smoking back {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}} after being shot by [[Hardshell]] {{storylink|Toxicity}}

Ratchet worked frantically to stabilize Bulkhead and, with the help of the other Autobots, managed to succeed, though Bulkhead remained comatose. {{storylink|Hurt}} He continued to oversee Bulkhead's recovery, though when Miko started getting too rough with the patient, he insisted on Bulkhead taking a break. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} When Raf found a report of a Cybertronian escape pod, Optimus took a team including Ratchet to investigate. Ratchet was almost slagged by an Insecticon, but newcomer [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] arrived and helped them win. Back at base, Ratchet was left in charge when Optimus went out to retrieve some [[Red Energon]], and Smokescreen talked him into letting the new Autobot go to Optimus's aid with the [[phase shifter]]. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

Bulkhead continued to try to pressure Ratchet into letting him go back out on missions. Ratchet finally gave in during a mission to protect a military base, though rather than sending him to the base, Ratchet sent him to protect Raf, who was hacking into a [[Project Damocles]] satellite. {{storylink|The Human Factor}}

Ratchet chastised Smokescreen when the latter broke cover to scare a human driver. After Optimus Prime opined that Smokescreen needed a human to teach him local customs and rules, Ratchet grumbled in disgust at the idea of ''yet another'' human being included in their ranks, to the uncomfortable silence of the other Autobots. Shortly thereafter, Ratchet detected a homing beacon from an Iacon relic and a team led by Optimus was sent to investigate in [[China]]. However, a second signal was then detected elsewhere, and with Optimus's team unreachable, Smokescreen was sent in their steed. After discovering that the Decepticons have found the legendary [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]], Smokescreen was captured and Jack was pursued by Insecticons, but not before he managed to notify Ratchet of their findings, who GroundBridges to Optimus' position to fill him in. After the Autobots returned to base with their new prize, Ratchet sent Jack home at the request of a very angry Arcee and witnessed Optimus Prime enter a trance while communing through the Star Saber with [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]]. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

Ratchet was happy at the news they would soon be able to return home to Cybertron, and when the other Autobots realized they would have to leave their human friends behind, Ratchet suggested they could sent texts. While he worked on a way for Optimus to properly wield the Star Saber, the weapon was later destroyed in battle against Megatron, though Ratchet reminded the other Autobots that Optimus didn't need a sword to be a great warrior. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}} Ratchet found himself busy repairing the other Autobots after a number of failed missions to retrieve Omega Keys and monitored Optimus's work decoding coordinates, though it turned out that the final set were a picture of Smokescreen. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}}

With Smokescreen a prisoner on the Decepticon warship, Ratchet was unable to track him, but once he freed himself, Ratchet provided a GroundBridge back to base. A short time later they were contacted by Starscream, who offered the final key they needed in exchange for the replacement of his T-Cog. Unfortunately it was a trap, and while Optimus, Ratchet and Bulkhead were examining the corpse of one of [[Starscream clone (Prime)|Starscream's clones]], the real Starscream made off with the Omega Keys. {{storylink|Inside Job}}

[[File:DarkestHour-Ratchetleaves.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"And Optimus, before you come back to life, be sure to tell Cliffjumper he still needs to pay his medical bills!"]]

Ratchet was surprised to learn that Optimus had kept the existence of the [[Omega Lock]] a secret from everyone. After Optimus modified the GroundBridge into a space bridge, he sent the other Autobots to Cybertron and monitored their progress, though he had to field a phone call from Jack asking why no one had picked the kids up. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} He had to field a further call from June Darby, and a power surge that disrupted the base computers. When the Autobots finally returned, it was with the news that the Omega Lock had been destroyed, much to Ratchet's shock. When the Decepticons attacked the base, the Autobots were forced to abandon it, and Ratchet GroundBridged to a location elsewhere in the US. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

[[File:Scattered-Bigfoot.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"If I have to kill humans for beef jerky one more time..."]]
Despondent, Ratchet hid in a scrap yard outside Woodland Park. He was caught on camera, enabling Bumblebee and Raf to track him down, but they were at first unable to convince him to help them fight back. After experiencing a change of heart, he followed them to the ''Harbinger'' to help get the ship working. {{storylink|Scattered}}
He was able to get the ship's GroundBridge working and used the Decepticon frequencies to contact Fowler. The trio were shortly after joined by most of the other surviving Autobots, accompanied by the newly arrived [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}}

Ratchet utilized the GroundBridge and communications systems to lure the Decepticons away from [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]], with the help of the kids. He monitored the Autobot attack on the fortress from the ''Harbinger'', and was thus able to detect the incoming Optimus Prime, shortly before their leader turned up to save the day. The Autobots later assembled at a human military base, and Ratchet assured Smokescreen that he'd made the right choice in repairing Optimus with the Forge. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}} As the others salvaged technology from their old base, Ratchet set about getting it working in their new one and was able to make the GroundBridge functional again. He also restarted his work on Synthetic Energon, though he warned Optimus not to expect too much. {{storylink|Project Predacon}}

Upon Wheeljack’s return to base after a failed mission, Ratchet asked him to accompany Arcee on another errand, lest Ratchet be forced to abandon his work and venture out of his comfort zone. Though Ratchet was later willing to go out to fetch yet another Predacon bone from a museum (albeit grudgingly), agent Fowler informed him that this was unnecessary, as he was more than capable of retrieving it himself. Things went wrong once more, unfortunately, and the Decepticons acquired the fossil once more. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}}

[[File:PersuasionFaceoff.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Look, if you've kidnapped me to ask about Char Gar Gothikon, let me tell you, this is not the craziest thing the fandom has done!]]
While he continued his work, he also had to take time out to repair the other Autobots, such as when Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack came off second-best against [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]]. {{storylink|Evolution}} He did his best to replace Magnus's hand, but was only able to manage a claw. When the Decepticons began stealing technology, the Autobots captured Soundwave, but were unable to make him talk. Ratchet decided he would have to open the Decepticon up to examine his hard drives directly, but Soundwave merely erased the drives and crashed himself. A Decepticon attack on the [[Solaris particle collider]] led Ratchet to believe that the Decepticons intended to repair the Omega Lock, but while the ramifications were still sinking in, Laserbeak reactivated Soundwave with new orders to capture Ratchet. {{storylink|Minus One}} Ratchet awoke on the ''Nemesis'' and was subjected to a cortical psychic patch. Once the Decepticons realized that he had not completed the Synthetic Energon formula, Megatron revealed to him the reason why he had been captured. The threat of harm to the other Autobots was not enough, but when Megatron explained that the Synth-En was needed to restore Cybertron, and showed off the Omega Lock they'd restored, he reluctantly agreed to help. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

[[File:TFP-Synthesis-PredakingandRatchet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|Ratchet: "Sean Connery called, he wants his title back." Predaking: "But I ''am'' the last dragon!"]]
With the help of Decepticon engineering, Ratchet completed the formula, but rather than hand Megatron the power to recreate Cybertron, he attempted to destroy it and escape. Unfortunately he was stopped by Megatron, who handed him over to Predaking as a plaything. Though Predaking was keen to avenge his lost species, Ratchet revealed what he'd overheard—that Megatron had allowed the Autobots to find Shockwave's lab. During Predaking's resulting rampage, Ratchet dropped the warship's shields and made contact with the other Autobots to let them know Megatron was planning to cyberform Earth. {{storylink|Synthesis}} Ratchet made his way to the Omega Lock control room, where he did his best to keep Shockwave occupied. He and the others present witnessed Bumblebee kill Megatron, and he was overjoyed to discover that Bumblebee's voice box had been restored as the result of exposure to the Omega Lock. The Autobot took control of the warship and used the Omega Lock to restore Cybertron, however Ratchet opted to remain on Earth to help the humans. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

Ratchet was called to Cybertron to tend to Ultra Magnus, after the Wrecker was wrecked by some new Predacons. When Unicron arrived on the planet using Megatron's body, Ratchet was able to use the ship's sensors to pinpoint Unicron's location, and reveal that the dark god was raising an army of undead Predacons with which to destroy Primus. He was kept out of the battle to save Cybertron, but was present when Optimus sacrificed himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

===Titan ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:Titan4.1 Ratchet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Optimus! Check out my giant shoulder pads!!!]]
In the lower levels of Outpost Omega One, Ratchet constructed a training room he dubbed the [[Safe]], though the inferior Earth materials he was forced to use meant it wasn't as good as it could be. Indeed, Bulkhead began tearing his way merrily through it, only to uncover something Ratchet hadn't found—a nuclear missile which promptly activated. Ratchet and Raf were assigned to deal with the bomb, however as Raf was the expert on Earth technology, Ratchet deferred to him. Luckily Raf managed to reverse the bomb's timer, and Fowler arrived with some scientists to take care of the rest. After Bulkhead apologized to Ratchet for smashing up the room, Ratchet suggested he and Raf design a new Safe. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|The Safe and the Failsafe}}

Optimus took the Autobots and the kids on a trip to [[Valley of Fire State Park]]. When Raf impressed the others with his knowledge and worried it made himself sound geeky, Ratchet proclaimed himself Autobot geek and proud. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.2|War Story}}

Ratchet alerted the others to the fact that Fowler was about to arrive at the base, and indeed, Fowler walked in moments later with the news that the Decepticons had hijacked [[Yamal|a nuclear ship]] near [[Antarctica]]. When Optimus, Bumblebee and Ratchet arrived at the ship, they found the crew were unconscious. Ratchet wondered what could have done that, but he was answered moments later by [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], who knocked him out with a [[sonic lance]]. By the time Ratchet recovered, the fight was over, and as they returned to the base, he said he'd be fine so long as he stayed away from any ice. Unfortunately in their absence, the others had turned the base into an ice skating ring, and as soon as he stepped through the GroundBridge, Ratchet ended up flat on his back. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.3|Ice Breaker}}

[[File:Titan4.4 Ratchet.jpg|thumb|270px]]
As Raf was playing ''[[Invasionauts II]]'' at the base, Ratchet observed that the alien robots he was fighting in the game looked a lot like Autobots. After the game hypnotised Raf into operating the GroundBridge and letting in Vehicons, Ratchet initially blamed Bulkhead, but helped hold off the Decepticons until Raf recovered and reconfigured the bridge to suck the Vehicons back in. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.4|Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!}}

Upon hearing that several schools in Jasper County had mysteriously exploded, Jack came to suspect something was afoot. Ratchet approved of the way Jack was starting to sound as paranoid as him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.5|School Is... Out!}}

After the [[President of the United States]] was kidnapped by Starscream, Ratchet and the Autobots tracked the Decepticon to the [[Grand Canyon]]. Ratchet and Bulkhead protected [[Air Force One]] while the others rescued the President. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

When he lost contact with Optimus Prime while their leader was exploring a scrap-metal facility in [[Zhejiang Province]], [[China]], Ratchet dispatched Bulkhead and Arcee to help, but was forced to drop them ten kilometers from the target due to interference. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|The Mind Trap!}} Ratchet was forced to GroundBridge [[Novo|Agent Novo]] to China after the MECH operative took Miko hostage. To make up for it, he discovered a way to track [[Miko's phone]], pointing the other Autobots to the location of MECH's base. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.9|The Novo Incident}}

After deploying Optimus's team to the [[Deep Driller]] oil platform, Ratchet monitored the situation from base, and was amused by the sight of Prime and the others being defeated by a bunch of humans in [[robotic battle suit]]s. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.10|Mad Dogs & Autobots}} Ratchet operated the GroundBridge so the other Autobots could take the kids onto the ''Nemesis'' to search for Bulkhead, who had been abducted after a solo mission. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}} During a battle in [[The Wave]], Bumblebee was injured by a sniper, so Ratchet patched him up and sent him back to base with Raf. When the Autobots later returned to base, Ratchet was surprised to find the pair had trashed the place. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.12|The Evil Shred}}

Agent Fowler managed to intercept a Decepticon broadcast, which alerted Ratchet and the rest of the Autobots to the Decepticons' next plot; the desecration of the [[Statue of Liberty]]. But as Liberty Island, now occupied by the Decepticons, was too small to launch a full frontal assault against, Ratchet stayed behind while Optimus and Bumblebee led a stealth operation against Megatron's troops. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.13|Protecting the Lady}}

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====Ratchet's Joke Page====
At some point Ratchet got a medical degree and began treating human patients. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|Issue 4.8}}

===Eaglemoss ''Prime'' comic===
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===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
When three of the [[Rescue Bot]]s were stricken down with a mysterious virus, Optimus consulted Ratchet, who suggested that one of the antidotes from the Rescue Bots' ship would cure it. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (RB)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}} Ratchet later gave the Rescue Bots energon transfusions after they used up their own supply powering the [[Mayor Luskey Dome]]. {{storylink|Today and Forever}}

===''Tales of the Beast Hunters''===
After [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] ran into trouble in the [[asteroid belt]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] had Ratchet overload the GroundBridge so that he could come to their aid. Despite protesting, Ratchet succeeded in bridging Optimus to the derelict ship the others were on. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 5}} Once the team successfully returned with mysterious Cybertronian weapons, Ratchet was put to work in his lab trying to make them function. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 7}} [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] managed to retrieve some [[data disc]]s from [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]'s lab, which Ratchet found contained information on Shockwave's cloning process and the weapons Bumblebee had retrieved. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 13}} He eventually managed to unlock the secrets of the weapons and power them up. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 17}} When Bumblebee recovered from the earlier mission, Ratchet assigned him to light duties patrolling with [[Prowl (WFC)|Prowl]]. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 23}}

===''Full of Fire!''===
Ratchet constructed a number of new Beast Hunters weapons for Team Prime, including a [[Dragonshredder Drill]] for himself. He, Bumblebee and Bulkhead went out into a [[New Mexico]] desert with Optimus Prime to test the weapons, and were attacked there by no less than six Predacons. Ratchet quickly brought all of the weapons online, and they proved capable of making the Autobots more than a match for the Predacons. {{storylink|Full of Fire!}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Pursuing the AllSpark after it had been launched into space, Ratchet was one of the many Autobots that found their way to Earth. There, he participated in a great battle within a human settlement against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}
===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jeffrey Combs]] (English), [[Takehito Koyasu]] (Japanese)|[[Shen Lei]] (Chinese), [[Claudio Moneta]] (Italian)}}

[[File:RIDBeePrimeRatchet.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Ah, the years! So many memories, so many strange fluids gushing out of patients' bodies."]]
Ratchet remained on Cybertron after Prime's sacrifice and the rebirth of Cybertron, {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}} with a statue of him built in his honor. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} However, Ratchet was blacklisted by the new [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] for being a supporter of Optimus Prime, {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}} and was assigned the job of hunting down any remaining war criminals. Knowing that this was effectively a banishment, and that protesting would only land him in prison, Ratchet reluctantly accepted. Partnered with the [[Mini-Con]] [[Undertone]], he tracked down and captured rogue Decepticons.

[[File:DecepticonIsland2 Ratchet.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Back in action!"]]

Ratchet eventually tracked a Decepticon to Earth, where he ran across [[Clampdown (RID)|Clampdown]]. Shortly afterwards, he encountered Bumblebee and the rest of the [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]], including a reborn Optimus Prime. Making his way back to the scrapyard base, he explained the circumstances of his mission to the team, only to be interrupted by the arrival of [[Toolbox]], an escaped Mini-Con. Along with the other Autobots, he decided to take part in the raid on the Decepticon base. He also privately counseled Optimus about whether or not the former Autobot leader should re-take command. The team slipped into the base by masquerading as [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]]'s captives, although they were eventually spotted and surrounded by [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]]'s new army of Decepticon fugitives. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}}

Thanks to Windblade providing the team with a distraction, the Autobots were able to make a break for it and slip away from Steeljaw's troops. They then split up into smaller teams, and Ratchet found himself fighting alongside [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] and his Mini-Con students against [[Overload (RID)|Overload]] to free [[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]] from a stasis pod. Ratchet was overpowered by the hulking Decepticon and thrown into another nearby pod, although [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] and [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] managed to escape when Drift was similarly imprisoned. [[File:FreedomFighters Ratchet vehicle mode.jpg|thumb|left|250px|MEDIC!]]The Mini-Cons released the medic and Windblade, giving them another shot at defeating their opponent. Drift escaped from his pod in due course as well, and together the Autobots were able to put Overlord in stasis, after deliver a decisive blow to the narcissist's face.
Ratchet and Undertone then escaped with the other Autobots after Bumblebee and Optimus detonated a [[stasis bomb]] inside the ship, freezing all those still within. In the aftermath, Ratchet and Undertone decided to return to Cybertron with Windblade to help Optimus investigate Cybertron's government. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 2)}}

During a visit to the remains of Outpost Omega One, Grimlock stepped on an old armor buffer discarded by Ratchet, and mistook it for a mine. {{storylink|History Lessons}}

While investigating the High Council, Ratchet was also studying ShadowZone particles. After one of the particles registered on Earth, indicating something traveled from the ShadowZone to Earth. He informed Optimus of his discovery, who promptly headed to Earth to investigate.{{storylink|Collateral Damage}}

Ratchet was able to fit ''[[Prime Force One]]'' with a more advanced cloaking device, shortly before he accompanied Optimus and the rest of the team to Earth to recruit Bumblebee's team. While the Bee Team traveled to Cybertron, Optimus, Jazz, Ratchet, Windblade and Bulkhead remained on Earth temporarily. They soon found action when a signal led them to the steel mill that had just been burgled by a Cybertronian advance force. Within, they found a list of items pointing to the fact the advance force was building a space bridge receiver, and also a bomb which promptly exploded. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}} [[File:RIDAllStarsNewHighCouncil.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|So thas it? What? We some kinda...Suicide Squad?]]The group was saved by Ratchet's [[Triage Shield]]. They continued to follow the trail to the [[Crown City]] docks, where Ratchet again deployed the Triage Shield in order to conceal the ensuing battle from any human eyes. Following the destruction of the space bridge portal that had been opened, the team returned to Cybertron where Optimus nominated the rest of the group as a provisional council. {{storylink|Freedom Fighters}}
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===IDW ''Robots in Disguise'' comic===
While struggling to get his team to work together, Bumblebee recalled happier times when he was part of Team Prime with Ratchet. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

==Commercial appearances==
*After having already been weirded out after Bulkhead broke into a scat in the middle of a carol, {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers1|The Hub Carolers (First spot)}}Ratchet was dismayed as the [[Joker]], a criminal, stole the chorus of "{{w|Jingle Bells}}" as it was being performed by a group of carolers. This group included [[Bulkhead (Prime)|other]] [[Megatron (WFC)|Transformers]], [[My Little Pony|ponies]], and an {{w|Strawberry Shortcake|underage baker}}. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers2|The Hub Carolers (Second spot)}}

*Fowler summoned the Autobots for a vague special mission. When Ratchet inquired if they were to receive back-up, Fowler informed them that [[Batman]] had agreed to team up with them. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Impossibly Awesome|Mission: Impossibly Awesome Marathon}}

*Ratchet presented Bumblebee and Optimus with new secret weapons that the two of them used to mow down legions of Vehicons. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Weaponizers|Weaponizers Commercial}}

*Ratchet took Bumblebee through a tour of the Autobots' armory which culminated in Ratchet presenting [[Optimus Maximus (Prime)|Optimus Maximus]]. The two of them then rode the mech into battle, plowing through ranks of Vehicons. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Optimus Maximus|Optimus Maximus commercial}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)|[[Vladimir Antonik]] (Russian), [[Stefano Albertini]] (Italian)}}
[[File:RatchetWFCScreenshotAttack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Just let me patch you up with my [[Energon repair ray|ENORMOUS HEALING CANNON]]!"]]
During the [[Decepticon]]s' siege of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Ratchet was assigned to Optimus, and helped him rescue a courier named [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], who informed Optimus that with the presumed death of [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]], the Council was putting him in command. The three of them headed back to the command center, receiving a message from [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]] that the [[Aerialbot (WFC)|Aerialbots]] were being overwhelmed and needed support. It was decided that the planetary guns, disabled earlier by [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron's]] forces, needed to be brought back online. Informing Jetfire that he was taking temporary command, Optimus took Ratchet and Bumblebee with him on the mission, though when Ratchet questioned the "temporary" part, Optimus brushed it aside.

When that mission was completed, they decided their next stop was the [[Decagon]], in order to re-establish communications and coordinate Iacon's defense. Hitting serious resistance, including several [[Decepticon war machine]]s and more than a few damaged lifts which Ratchet puzzled out a way around, they nonetheless prevailed with help from Jetfire and [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]], before reaching the Decagon itself, where they encountered the former Autobot [[Air Commander|Sky Commander]], [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. They managed to defeat him as well and retook the Decagon. He boosted the signal of a message from the captive Zeta Prime and cautioned Optimus not to act as it was clearly a trap.

After Optimus was named the new [[Prime (rank)|Prime]], he went on a mission to free [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s core of Megatron's [[Dark Energon]] corruption. In order to do so, however, he needed to open the [[Omega Gate]], which would require freeing [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] from Decepticon captivity. Omega was still badly damaged from his battle with Megatron's forces, so Optimus called in Ratchet, whom Prime, [[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]], and Ironhide protected during his operation to repair Omega Supreme. After the Omega Gate was opened, Ratchet returned to base with Omega, as field repairs could only do so much.

When [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] began destroying fleeing Autobot ships on Megatron's order, Ratchet declared the Decepticon leader completely insane. Once Trypticon fell to the surface from orbit, Ratchet organized the rescue effort. After Trypticon was defeated, he praised Optimus on his success, but the price paid was costly - many Autobots were lost, and those remaining were now forced to abandon Cybertron while the planetary [[Primus|Core]] repaired the damage. Ratchet was one of those who stayed behind with Optimus to resist Megatron's schemes, and to build an ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' to carry them from their home when the time came. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

[[File:WFC Ratchet.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|"Standing ''near'' ze point does nothing! Get ''on'' ze point, dummkopf!"]]

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron — Autobots''===
[[File:WFCDS Ratchet.jpg|thumb|124px|"Doctor, are you sure this will work?" 
"I HAVE NO IDEA!"]]
When the Decepticons started poking around an Autobot base, Ratchet tracked their search patterns and instructed a [[Autobot rookie|rookie]] on where to go to find whatever it was they were looking for. Ratchet was in the control room to greet the rookie on arrival, and hand him over to [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]] for basic training. Unfortunately the Decepticons destroyed the rookie and found the intel they were after. Following Zeta Prime's capture, the Autobot leader managed to contact Ironhide and Ratchet, but the data links powering the communications grid were severed. Ratchet greeted another rookie, who managed to repair the data links.

Ratchet would go on to become a member of Optimus' inner circle. Following the retaking of Iacon, he reported that the Data-net was back online and Zeta Prime could contact them again. He later worked with Jetfire to analyse core samples, and discovered that the core would be healing itself if it weren't for the influence of the Dark Energon corruptors. Optimus's team successfully freed the core, but the planet was no longer able to sustain them. When Ratchet asked what they'd do, Optimus responded that their new mission was to leave the planet. Ratchet was among the Autobots who defeated Megatron's secret weapon, the monstrous titan Trypticon. Upon Trypticon's defeat, Ratchet left the planet along with Optimus's team. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|War for Cybertron - Autobots/Decepticons}}

===''Transformers: Cybertron Adventures''===
Ratchet attempted to aid and evacuate survivors from an orbital blast form Megatron's new weapon, [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]], when the Decepticon leader tracked him down. After exchanging gunfire, Ratchet was forced onto a ledge, and Megatron tauntingly kicked him off. The Autobot survived the fall, but was pinned down by debris. Fortunately [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] was in the area and came to the rescue. As the two made their trek back to [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Ratchet informed Sideswipe that he had information about the Decepticon superweapon that needed to get to Optimus right away... {{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures}}
{{note|Ratchet is not a playable character; he appears as a boss in the Decepticon campaign, and only in a single cutscene in the Autobot campaign.}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)}}
Ratchet was deeply hurt by the torment of having to watch his home planet power down around him. He recorded several audio logs in order to acknowledge and reflect on the cause of the planet's slow demise, hoping that a future generation would never have to endure such a sight. Ratchet came to fear the very likely reality that the Transformers' war would not end when "all were one" - but rather, due to their own extinction from lack of Energon. It was this need for Energon that forced the Autobots to begin to siphon power from [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]'s inert, but still alive body; a gruesome last resort that shook Ratchet to his core, praying that there was some justification to be found for the Autobots' desperate act.

During the preparations for the Ark's launch, Ratchet worked with Optimus Prime, [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]], and the other Autobots to recover the energon necessary for lift-off. Grimlock later identified a space bridge for the Autobots to use to escape Cybertron, but upon its' destruction, Ratchet reported that it was becoming unstable and they needed to launch as soon as possible. Thanks to the sacrifice of [[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]], they were able to do so immediately, but they came under attack by the ''Nemesis''. When cornered while trying to treat Bumblebee during the initial assault, Ratchet slyly used a flashing beacon to disorient the Decepticons while feigning submission. Ratchet guided Bumblebee through the ''Ark'' until he found the dueling Optimus and Megatron.
{{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

{{note|Ratchet also appears as a playable character in the game's 'Escalation' mode, on the 'Ignition' map. Ratchet fights alongside [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], and [[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]]. He is the team's [[Medic (FOC)|medic]].}}

=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game ratchet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
{{voiceactor|[[Jeffrey Combs]] (English)}}

When Team Prime mobilized to untether the [[Dark Energon]] meteor that the Decepticons were towing into orbit via the ''Nemesis'', Ratchet per usual stayed behind to run the GroundBridge. When the meteor fell to Earth, taking Team Prime with it, Ratchet left the human allies to man the Bridge in order to retrieve [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], who was the only Autobot whose energy signature they were able to locate... ''before'' Ratchet teleported out, at least.

Ratchet found Prime next to the largest surviving chunk of the meteorite, which also contained the colossus [[Thunderwing (Prime)|Thunderwing]]. The giant awoke, and quickly swatted Ratchet away with its one free arm. Ratchet made his way bac kto the ruins where Optimus and Thunderwing had landed, but the ''Nemesis'' had also arrived and began raining plasma fire into the area to subdue Thunderwing. Optimus and Ratchet bolted for a GroundBridge portal opened by Arcee (as she had luckily fallen close to [[Jasper]] and was able to make it back to the base on-wheel), but stray cannon-fire sent Ratchet flying away once again. The timed portal closed without him, and left Ratchet to be captured by the Decepticons.

On board the ''Nemesis'', Ratchet was forced to repair the giant Thunderwing, as the Decepticons had also kidnapped Miko and Raf and used them as hostages. Ratchet, indignant as always, performed just enough work to look like he was doing what he was told, but spent more time seeking out a weak point in the monster. When Megatron returned with the final major component to bringing Thunderwing back to full power, Ratchet looked to be out of options... until the Decepticon leader was momentarily distracted by the return of Starscream, who himself was being held hostage by Bulkhead. Ratchet took the chance to bolt from his cell and lock Megatron in, making his way through the security system and hordes of Vehicons to free Miko and Raf.

Once the humans were free, they took a service elevator up to the main communications hub of the ''Nemesis'' in order to get word out to the other Autobots, and hopefully use the Decepticon SpaceBridge to escape. After taking out numerous Vehicons, the three made it to the main comm hub, only to find Soundwave at the controls. Raf patched into the room's defense systems to briefly drop energy shielding on four computer towers, allowing Ratchet to destroy them and drop the force field that surrounded the main comm console. Forced to fight one-on-one, Soundwave made clever use of the Space bridge to warp in and out of the control room, but eventually found himself bested by the veteran Autobot and was forced to retreat. Now in control, Ratchet was able to communicate with the other Autobots who had infiltrated the ''Nemesis'', and successfully warped them off the ship as it collapsed due to the damage Thunderwing had caused in his escape.

Back at the base, Ratchet informed the others that he could develop a siphon that could drain at least some of Thunderwing's Dark Energon, hopefully weakening the beast enough to allow them to destroy him. He stayed behind to work on the device as Bumblebee, Arcee and Bulkhead mobilized near a Dark Energon volcano that Thunderwing was headed towards. Ratchet was forced to bring the incomplete device with him to the volcano upon Thunderwing's arrival. He informed the other Autobots that due to the short amount of time he had to work on it, the siphon would only be truly effective if it was practically ''inside'' Thunderwing. Things looked hopeless until stowaways Miko and Jack piped up, Miko showing the Autobots a [[Miko's phone|cell phone picture]] of a break in Thunderwing's chest armor that Ratchet had never repaired... a break just big enough for a human to fit into. Though reluctant to put the humans at risk, Ratchet handed over the siphon to Jack, who rode Arcee to the beast, and successfully installed the siphon, allowing Optimus Prime to finish Thunderwing once and for all. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}

{{note|Ratchet is only playable in a single stage of Story Mode: "The Escape!". He is available as a playable character in the game's multi-player battle modes from the start, however. 
In this game, Ratchet oddly does not have his blades. Instead, when he enters his "upgrade" mode, he deploys a massive wrench from his left wrist socket (seriously, it's as big as his forearm!) which he uses to clobber opponents. This is also the only time we see Prime-cartoon-era Ratchet employ a blaster for combat.}}
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===''Hunt the Beasts'' online game===
Ratchet enlisted [[you]] for a top secret mission; you were to infiltrate Shockwave's lab and retrieve data on Shockwave's experiments, the Predacons. Ratchet instructed you to scour the lab for the data, and report back to him immediately upon its discovery. Throughout your investigation, Ratchet would aid you to overcome many obstacles with his instructions, such as how to rewire the controls to a busted lift, or turn on the Energon stabilization protocols. Once the data on the Predacons has been gathered, Ratchet informed you that the Autobots would prepare for the looming threat of the Predacons with new weapons called "[[Beast Gear]]." He then uploaded data on the Autobots to keep you informed on their Predacon-battling capabilities, and thanked you for your service. {{storylink|Hunt the Beasts}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense''===
Ratchet discovered a way to send Autonomous Defense Turrets through the Ground Bridge. He shipped these out to the battle whenever other Autobots in combat situations requested them. He also walked through the other Autobots through their missions while he stayed behind at Autobot headquarters, coordinating their efforts. He would also occasionally send Energon to the Autobots in the field when he detected an incoming threat that was particularly imposing. {{Storylink|Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense|Terrorcon Defense}}

===''Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense''===
When the Decepticons constructed an [[Energon Drain]] in an asteroid field, Ratchet and the Autobots countered it by building a [[Pulsar Dish]] from debris. While the dish was under construction, Ratchet could help out by repairing damage dealt to the dish by the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense}}
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===''Transformers Universe''===
[[File:Tu-character-art ratchet.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|left|Either he has an identity crisis, or he still doesn't know which medical center this vehicle form belongs to!]]
Prowl revealed that Ratchet built the groundbridge in [[High Grand]]. {{storylink|Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe Autobot tutorial}}
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===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
====Console====
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{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark (console)}}

===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' mobile game===
{{note|Ratchet is one of the few bots not to have his own Starter character.}}
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When Crown City was overrun by Decepticons as a result of a stasis pod modified to clone an army, the Autobots were forced to battle them throughout the city and surrounding landscape. They eventually found that Steeljaw and another Decepticon had constructed a [[space bridge]] and defeated the pair. {{storylink|Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game}}

==Toys==
===Cyberverse===
[[File:Cyberverse legion ratchet.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Let's go practice medicine.]]
*'''Autobot Ratchet''' (Cyberverse Legion, 2012)
**''Series / Number:'' '''2 / 004'''
**''Japanese Number:'' '''EZ-06'''
**''Accessories:'' Battle blade

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' [[Cyberverse (toyline)#Series 2|Cyberverse]] Legion Class toys, "Autobot Ratchet" transforms into an emergency vehicle, and comes with a translucent battle blade weapon. It can peg via its numerous [[C joint|3mm post]]s onto his robot hands, arms/vehicle sides, and robot back/vehicle roof. Early versions of the mold oddly lacked an actual face but a [http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/cyberverse-prime-ratchet-receives-an-update-aka-hasbro-i-needed-that-t86206s400.php running change] finally gave him one.

:His blade, in the same color, is also used by Cyberverse [[Cliffjumper (WFC)#Cyberverse|Cliffjumper]] and ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (toyline)|Dark of the Moon]]'' [[Mirage (Movie)#Cyberverse|Mirage]], while a green version is used by [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#CyberverseQuickblade|Quickblade Bumblebee]], and a purple version is used by [[Knock Out (Prime)#CyberverseSingle|Knock Out]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/LegRatchet/ratchet.htm More information on Cyberverse Legion Ratchet at TFU.info]''

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[[File:PrimeEZCollectionAutobotSet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Doctor is credit to team!]]
*'''Autobot Set''' (EZ Collection 6-pack, 2012-[[November 24|11-24]])
**''ID number'': '''EZ-SP1'''
**''Accessories'': Battle blade

: This version of Ratchet was only available in a TakaraTomy ''[[EZ Collection]]'' six-pack with [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#EZ6pack|Bumblebee]], [[Bulkhead (Prime)#EZ6pack|Bulkhead]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#EZ6pack|Optimus Prime]], [[Arcee (WFC)#EZ6pack|Arcee]], and [[Wheeljack (Prime)#EZ6pack|Wheeljack]].

: This release utilizes the version of the mold with a face.

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===Prime===
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[[File:PrimeRID-RatchetDeluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|And that's how he lost his medical license.]]
[[File:Prime-toy RatchetTakTom.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|With all those craters on him, he'll probably need to see a dermatologist.]]
*'''Autobot Ratchet''' (Deluxe, 2012)
**''Series / Number'': '''1 / 006'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''2012-[[March 31|03-31]]'''
**''Japanese number:'' '''AM-04'''
**''Accessories:'' Dual Battle Blades (Hasbro only), "R.A." Arms Micron (TakaraTomy only)

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise (2012)|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' Deluxe Class toys, this larger-scale version of Ratchet has a "dramatic head reveal" [[gimmick]], with his [[robot mode]] head being spring-loaded to pop up once his "backpack" is pulled down. He features [[5mm post|5mm peg-holes]] for his hands, a pair on his front bumpers/shins, and a pair on his vehicle roof.

:He comes with a pair of battle blades that can mount/be held via 5mm post, and his hands can be swung down at the wrist to give the appearance of the blades sprouting out of his wrists, as seen in the cartoon. The blades can mount into the peg-holes on his front bumper, creating a battle mode, and the blades can store on tabs underneath his vehicle.

:His [[instructions]] depict an alternate head apparently intended for an as-yet-unreleased Gears. The sculpt was used as the basis for ''Prime'' [[Swerve (Prime)|Swerve]].

: The Japanese release of Ratchet, part of the very first assortment of [[TakaraTomy]] ''Prime'' toys, omits an incredible number of [[paint operation]]s, replacing them with customer-applied foil [[sticker]]s. (On the other hand, this ''does'' give him his "lifeline" decoration missing from the [[Hasbro]] version.) As part of the "[[Arms Micron]]" gimmick, six 5mm peg-hole attachment points have been glued onto him (as opposed to having existing parts specifically [[retool]]ed to include them like many other toys in the line) on his [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] roof, doors, and side-panels, which respectively end up on his legs, forearms, and shoulders. The Hasbro version's twin blades have been replaced by the Arms Micron, [[R.A.#Toys|R.A.]], who transforms into a considerably larger version of one of the blades, and can still work as a "wrist-mounted" weapon.

: Ratchet was redecoed into [[Transformers (2014 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2014)]] [[First Aid (G1)#Transformers (2014)|Protectobot First Aid]] and retooled into [[BotCon 2014]] [[Cannonball (G1)#Timelines|Cannonball]], and he would've been made into [[Gears (ROTDS)|Gears]] with a new head.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/Ratchet/ratchet.htm More information on ''Robots in Disguise'' Ratchet at TFU.info]''

::*''[http://higekumatoytoy.blog60.fc2.com/blog-entry-1464.html Arms Micron Ratchet at Alfes's blog]''

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===Kre-O===
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[[File:Kre-O-Autobot-Command-Center.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Command Center''' (2013)
**''Set number'': '''A5412'''
**''Pieces'': '''461'''
**''Kreons'': [[Arcee (WFC)#AutobotHQ|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)#AutobotHQ|Bumblebee]], Ratchet, [[Shockwave (Kre-O)#AutobotHQ|Shockwave]], [[Knock Out (Prime)#Autobot HQ|Knock Out]] mystery figure

:The ''[[Kre-O]]'' [[Autobot Command Center]] set comes with a Ratchet [[Kreon]] with paint details based on ''Prime'' Ratchet.

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[[File:KreO-toy RatchetKW Gladiator.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Yeah, I time-travelled to the Roman Empire, killed a lion or two in the arena, good times.]]
*'''Gladiator Ratchet''' (Kreon Warrior, 2015)
**''Set number'': '''B0945'''
**''Collection'': '''1'''
**''Accessories'': Stand-plate, tech sword, tower shield

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Kre-O]]'' [[Kreon]] Warriors, Ratchet has been re-imagined as a Roman-style Gladiator. His legs feature peg-on non-spinning wheels resembling wooden chariot wheels.

: Like all the Kreons released that year (at normal retail at least), he uses the new 2015-tooling Kreon body, which basically involves small construction changes on every part below the head, making them largely incompatible with the prior Kreon parts (heads still work fine), but the new tooling adds some extra functionality and structural support.

: The Kreon Warriors were only released in Canada, Australia, and various Asian markets. The individual bags had also abandoned any kind of coding that identified the contents. This means getting the one you want from an unopened bag involves either trying to feel out the unique parts, or just buying the whole dang case.

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[[File:KreO-toy RatchetKW Pirate.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Blades (RB)|Blades']] new hero.]]
*'''Pirate Ratchet''' (Kreon Warrior, 2015)
**''Set number'': '''B0945'''
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Accessories'': Stand-plate, clip-on cannon, flag

: Also part of the first wave of Kreon Warriors, Pirate Ratchet is a bit more of a commandant-style bot, with his chest-windshield replaced by a sailing ship's captain's cabin window. His flag is ''supposed'' to peg onto the top of his hat, but wow is that silly. The "flame" on his clip-on old-timey cannon piece serves double-duty as a hat-plume.

: All the aggravation of the blind-bagged, non-US distribution above applies to this one as well.

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===Beast Hunters===
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[[File:BHtoy Deluxe Ratchet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Alright, who's ready for some <s>precision</s> surgery?"]]
*'''Autobot Ratchet''' (Deluxe, 2013)
**''Series / Number'': '''2 / 010'''
**''Accessories:'' Dragonshredder Drill

: Part of the third wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime:]] [[Beast Hunters (toyline)|Beast Hunters]]'' Deluxe Class toys, "Autobot Ratchet" is a [[redeco]] and extensive retool of the ''Robots in Disguise'' Deluxe Class Autobot Ratchet toy, transforming into a heavily modified rescue vehicle that's covered with spikes, features an exposed engine block on its hood, and has a sculpted rocket booster at the back. He retains the peg-holes at the usual places, and gains additional peg-holes at the back and near the rear wheels. He now comes with the "[[Dragonshredder Drill]]", which spins when the plunger to the side is pushed, and mounts via 5mm post. The halves of the drill can be pulled open to reveal a quad-barreled cannon inside. His head and chest greatly resemble ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' [[Dinobot II]], while his "Dragonshredder Drill" is reminiscent of the [[Dinobot (BW)#Beast Wars|original Dinobot toy's]] [[Cyber-slash tail weapon]].

: His instructions include the [[Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 13|thirteenth chapter]] of the ''[[Tales of the Beast Hunters]]'' series.

: This toy is also the basis for the fiction-only "[[Alone Together]]" version of [[Jawbreaker]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/Ratchet/ratchet.htm More information on ''Beast Hunters'' Ratchet at TFU.info]''
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===Go!===
[[File:Transformers-Go-G09-Hunter-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I healed ze man who vill kill you!]]
*'''Hunter Ratchet''' (2013-[[August 31|08-31]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''G19'''
**''Accessories:'' Drill

:Part of the fourth wave of TakaraTomy ''[[Triple Combination: Transformers Go! (toyline)|Go!]]'' toys, Hunter Ratchet is a green, black, and translucent-red redeco of the ''Beast Hunters'' Deluxe Class Ratchet toy. Unusually, he's identified as a Decepticon, complete with [[insignia]]! According to a translated version of the bio, Ratchet was captured by the Decepticons, and forcibly exposed to Dark Energon thus mutating him into a Decepticon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/HunterRatchet/ratchet.htm More information on Hunter Ratchet at TFU.info]''

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===Robots in Disguise (2015)===
{{note|Virtually every ''Robots in Disguise (2015)'' toy in this list has a scannable [[insignia]] sticker on it. For [[Hasbro]] releases, it temporarily unlocks that toy as a playable character in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game]], and can only be scanned once per day. It's honestly quicker and less redundant to say which toys '''don't''' have this feature.}}
[[File:RID2015-Legion-Class-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Guess they didn't teach you to duck in Doctor school!]]
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*'''Ratchet''' (Legion, 2016)
:Legion Class Ratchet is a retool of [[Strongarm (RID)#Legion Class|Legion Class Strongarm]], sporting a new head and torso. Curiously, these new parts are based on his ''Prime'' character model, rather than his new on-screen ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' design.

:His scannable Autobot insignia is on his drivers-side door in vehicle mode, becoming his left arm in robot mode. As of the figure's release, the insignia when scanned incorrectly unlocks a randomised power-up or amount of currency rather than the playable Legion Ratchet. Unlike Strongarm, Ratchet has no retooled indent on his left arm.

:His included instructions are different from Strongarm's; The instructions depict that you should fold the legs first before rearranging the arms while converting to vehicle mode.

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[[File:TF-RID2015-One-Step-Changer-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Ratchet''' (One-Step Changer, 2016)

:Part of the eighth wave of One-Step Changers toys and wave 2 of "Mini-Con Weaponizers" product, Ratchet changes from ambulance to robot in a single step...and then a few smaller ones. Like all of his other ''Robots in Disguise'' toys, this figure is heavy retool of [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]]. Due to how the legs are molded, Ratchet cannot ride on [[Grimlock_(RID_2015)#Stomp_.26_Chomp|Stomp & Chomp Grimlock]].

:Ratchet's scannable Autobot insignia is centered on his vehicle front, accessible while still in-package.

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[[File:RID2015-Warrior-Class-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I'm the first of the new RID do-it-yourself customization kits! ''(Hasbro version pictured)'']]
[[File:TF-Adventure-TAV59-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''(TakaraTomy version pictured)'']]
*'''Ratchet''' (Warrior, 2016)
**''Japanese release date'': [[2016]]-[[October 29|10-29]]
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''TAV59'''
**''Accessories'': 2 pistols
:Warrior Class Ratchet is a retool of [[Strongarm (RID)#Warrior_Class|Warrior Class Strongarm]], giving him an entirely new ambulance alternate mode and a significantly altered robot mode. He includes a pair of [[5mm post|5mm]] pistol accessories. Ratchet also features a faux front window on his robot mode chest.

:His scannable Autobot insignia is on his robot-mode chestplate, accessible while still in-package.

:The ''Adventure'' release of Ratchet features additional show-accurate details, and features a different insignia sticker compatible to the ''Transformers Chronicle'' app.

:Ratchet was only ever available in one wave of Warrior Class figures. For unknown reasons, this wave apparently only saw release in the United States and Canada.

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[[File:TF-Adventure-TAV49-Legion-Class-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Autobots vs Clampdown''' (EZ Collection 4-pack, 2016-[[May 31|05-31]])
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''TAV49'''

:A redeco of the Legion Class figure above. Ratchet features a deco somehow closer to his animation appearances.

:Ratchet was released along with Drift, Optimus Prime, and Clampdown. Like the rest of the ''Adventure'' EZ Collection sets, some online retailers like Amazon Japan were still selling it 2 years later at greatly reduced prices (70% off).

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==Merchandise==
===Mcdonald's===
[[File:Primetoy-RatchetHappyMeal.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The stickers are good practice for the Arms Micron version.]]
*'''Ratchet''' (Happy Meal, 2012)
:*''McNumber:'' '''7'''
:Happy Meal Ratchet is a non-transformable emergency vehicle! Pushing on the back of his roof reveals the base of a cannon, and pressing the Autobot symbol on the roof causes the short barrel of the cannon to pop out. Ratchet (not "Autobot Ratchet", despite claim of trademark!) also comes with a sheet of stickers to complete his deco. Since the cannon gimmick and the "mCODE" coupon use up both sides of the usual instructions sheet, the sticker placement instructions are printed on the back of the sticker sheet itself. Efficient, but not terribly user-friendly!
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===Kinder Surprise===
*'''Transformers: Prime''' (2014)
:Only available inside a blindpacked chocolate egg as part of Kinder's ''Transformers: Prime'' series, this buildable Ratchet mini-figure consists of a generic "cog" onto which his limbs and armor can be clipped to construct him. He has articulation on his shoulders and upper legs.

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===Thrilling 30===
*'''Ratchet''' (Collectible Figurine, 2014)
**''Series / Number:'' '''1 / #8'''
**''Accessories:'' Collector's base
:A super-deformed Ratchet was released among the blindpacked [[Thrilling 30#Collectible Figurines|''Thrilling 30'' Collectible Figurines]] by [[Goldie Marketing]]. He comes with a base to help him stand, a collector's card that doubles as a puzzle piece, and a checklist.

*'''Collectible Figurines''' (5-pack, 2014)
**''Series:'' '''1'''
**''Accessories:'' 5 collector's bases
:The same Ratchet figurine was also available in a 5-pack alongside [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Thrilling 30|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (WFC)/toys#Thrilling 30|Megatron]], [[Starscream (WFC)#Thrilling 30|Starscream]] and [[Bulkhead (Prime)#Thrilling 30|Bulkhead]].
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===Eaglemoss cards===
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==Notes==
[[File:VectorSigmaBotBuilderRatchet.jpg|thumb|I'm feeling sad and blue.]]
*Ratchet's model is usable in ''War for Cybertron'' multiplayer as the Medic Rig-type chassis for [[Leader (WFC)|Leader]]-class characters. His parts are also available in ''Fall of Cybertron'', now classified as Mercenary-type components for [[Destroyer (FOC)|Destroyer]]-class characters.
*''Transformers'' alumnus [[Michael Bell]] originally auditioned for the part of Ratchet in ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'', but ultimately lost the role to [[Jeffrey Combs]].
*In a number of episodes, mostly written by [[Nicole Dubuc]], Ratchet's equipment gets damaged by a fellow Autobot, prompting him to utter ''"I NEEDED THAT!"'' each time.
*His license plate number in "[[Stronger, Faster]]" is '''449 EPQ'''.
*Ratchet's body parts are available to use in the Hub website's [[Vector Sigma Bot Builder]] online game. Normally, you cannot configure a generic 'bot using all Ratchet parts, but you can see what one would look like at right through the magic of Photoshop.
*With the exceptions of Optimus and Bumblebee, Ratchet and Bulkhead were the only Autobots from ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' to have speaking roles on ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]].
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===Arms Up Modes===
In the Japanese ''Prime'' toyline, Ratchet has several powered-up modes when given various [[Arms Micron]]s in certain configurations:

[[File:DarknessRising4 CybSat-RatchetAntiTerror.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"I am ze ÜBERMENSCH!"]]

*'''Destroy Mode''' (デストロイモード ''Desutoroi Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': B.2, C.L., O.P., R.A.
: Ratchet's rather uncharacteristically-named "Destroy Mode", as seen on his box-back photo, uses a combined-weapon made up of [[R.A.]] and [[B.2]] in his right hand, [[O.P.]] on his left arm, and [[C.L.]] on his left leg.

*'''''Sekkensenrenzan'' Mode''' (接近戦連斬モード ''Sekkensenrenzan Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': C.L., Gora, O.P. (x2), R.A. (x2)
:Meaning "Close-combat Multi-slash Mode", and revealed in the "[[From the Cybertron Satellite, Transformers Division|Cybertron Satellite]]" segment from "[[Darkness Rising, Part 4|Infiltration Transformation! Battleship Nemesis]]", this "Anti-Terrorcon" mode is... just ''brutal''. He's got an R.A. on each forearm, with an O.P. attached to the back of each, with [[Gora]] (?) on his right leg, and C.L. on his left.

*'''Stealth Mode''' (ステルスモード ''Sterusu Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': R.A. (x4!), Zori (x2)
:''Four'' R.A.s are joined to create a super-large [[shuriken]]-like weapon that stores on Ratchet's back. A pair of [[Zori]]s hang from Ratchet's shoulders, with the claw-tails hanging down to create a "cloak of invisibility". This mode is for "stealthily backing up Optimus Prime and the others", according to the [http://youtu.be/QJUMhgggH-Q TakaraTomy developer video where it premiered], hosted by TakaraTomy designer [[Hironori Kobayashi]].
:There is also a variant configuration, '''Defense Mode''', which opens up the panels on Ratchet's arms and moves the Zoris to the "wrist-mounted blade" positions, which cross in an "X" in front of Ratchet as a stealth shield.
:Kobayashi also made custom carbon-black stickers for Ratchet's shoulders and chest, and in the video shows viewers how to customize their own stickers.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ratchet''' (ラチェット ''Rachetto'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Jiùhùchē''' (救护车, "Ambulance")
*''Russian:'' '''Khrapovik''' (Храповик, "Ratchet")

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Arcee (WFC)

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:''Arcee is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Arcee Prime stockimage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Now where is that mouse?]]

A former scout on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] before the [[Great Exodus]], '''Arcee''' is the least physically-imposing of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s crew, but she's also Optimus's most reliable soldier, his go-to [[Female Transformer|gal]] when he needs someone he can count on.<ref>[http://www.hubworld.com/transformers/shows/prime/cast-gallery/arcee The Hub's profile page for Arcee]</ref> Whatever she lacks in physical form she more than makes up for it in force of personality. She is tough as nails at all times, always ready with a snarky quip even in the face of deactivation, not afraid to bend the rules every now and then, and seemingly never, ever scared.

And while that is largely true, and makes her an incredibly dangerous opponent (especially in melee combat, her specialty), that force of will ''is'' also a bit of a front. The loss of [[Tailgate (Prime)|a partner]] back on Cybertron rattled her, leading her towards a path of going it alone. And when she finally started opening up to [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|another partner]] on [[Earth]], losing ''him'' shook her to her core. To then be immediately saddled with the task of being the "guardian" for [[Jack Darby]], one of the locals accidentally caught up in the struggle on Earth, well, let's just say she was less than thrilled about that.

Okay, she was openly verbally hostile to Jack over the whole thing, but her loyalty to Optimus kept her from refusing the task. Like it or not, she's his guardian, and she's going to protect that boy's life... with her own, if she has to.

Slowly, but surely, Arcee is coming around again and facing her past demons. Jack's bravery and ingenuity even when in mortal peril is growing on her. Who knows. He might make a good partner.

{{quote|It is the external wounds which heal the quickest.|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]|"[[Partners]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Uniend 610.23 Zeta]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} Arcee was among to Autobots that participated in the Battle at [[Tyger Pax]], and joined [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]], [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] in their plan to launch the [[AllSpark]] into space to keep it from [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]].

With Ironhide and Jazz on lookout up at the [[Well of All Sparks]]'s rim, it fell upon Arcee to launch the AllSpark into space under Optimus's instructions, since Primes were forbidden to interfere with the AllSpark as a failsafe. {{storylink|Bumblebee at Tyger Pax}}

===IDW ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:PrimeComicArcee.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|"Well I can tell ''''arth'''' is 'Earth' but ''''age'''' is really throwing me."]]
Before the war, Arcee had been spying in [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], and sometime during it she had been rescued by [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]. When Optimus ordered the Autobots to [[Earth]], her ship had been destroyed, and she was willing to wait as she detected the Decepticons had returned to Cybertron and they were planning something ''big''. There, she entered a base and annihilated the [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] there, inadvertently returning Cliffjumper's favor. She hacked into the Decepticons's communications signal there, and found their weapons lab in Kaon. Arcee found Cliffjumper a brash soldier inappropriate for her stealthy mission, but he convinced her Kaon was too dangerous and that she could use his ship to go to Earth.

[[File:Arceeprimecomictransform.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|Arcee, transform and—geeeaaaheeeewwww!!]]

The duo entered the city through the maintenance tunnels Arcee had once explored, and she found a secret staircase by activating an Autobot symbol on the wall. There they discovered [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] had rebuilt a [[space bridge]] to travel to Earth. Concerned by the repercussions of the Decepticons's discovery of how to build space bridges, Arcee wanted to destroy it, but Cliffjumper convinced her it was their way off Cybertron. Distracting Starscream with a ruse, Arcee activated the space bridge and overloaded its systems, jumping through it with him before it blew up.

Landing on Earth, the duo scanned their alternate modes and traveled to find a population center where they could build a scanner and find Optimus. Starscream attacked, having also jumped through the space bridge, blasting Arcee's arm off. Cliffjumper fought him and tried to get Arcee to safety, but she refused, telling him to leave her and find Optimus. Thankfully, Optimus and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] came to them instead, and fended off both Starscream and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]]. Optimus carried Arcee through a [[GroundBridge]] to base, where [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] reattached her arm. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|Transformers: Prime}}

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===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Sumalee Montano]] (English), [[Markie Post]] ([[BotCon 2011]]), [[Shizuka Itō]] (Japanese)|[[Fan Churong]] (Chinese), [[Rosa Campillo]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Seon Lee]] (Korean), [[Sonia Mazza]] (Italian), [[Martina Treger]] (German), [[Rosalba Sotelo]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Márcia Regina]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Anneli Heed]] (Swedish), [[Susa Saukko]] (Finnish)}}
[[File:Predatory-Airachnidscratch.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|Pull my finger.]]
During the Great War, Arcee was partnered with [[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]]. After one mission, she was talking to Tailgate over the comm when she was captured by [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] and taken for interrogation. She refused to talk, but when Airachnid revealed she had also captured Tailgate, she revealed she knew nothing, and Tailgate was killed by the Decepticon. Arcee was subsequently rescued by Bumblebee and Cliffjumper, though Airachnid herself escaped. {{Storylink|Predatory}}

[[File:OutofthePast-CliffArcee.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|"Did it have anything to do with those sirens around noon?" "I said I ''don't'' want to talk about it!"]]
Following the exodus from Cybertron, Arcee was investigating talk of a Decepticon operation on the deserted planet. Both she and Cliffjumper were captured by [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] who needed them to decode a transmission. The pair were taken to [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]], who used a [[cortical psychic patch]] on Arcee, revealing the transmission was [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s call to bring other Autobots to Earth. Learning that Shockwave had developed a [[space bridge]] that the 'Cons intended to use to invade Earth, Arcee and Cliffjumper teamed up to sabotage it, using it to land up on Earth just before it exploded. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} Soon after she arrived on Earth, Bulkhead accidentally stepped into some power lines. Arcee was impressed with the dance he did as a consequence. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}}

[[File:DarknessRising1-thisisjasper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|He's gonna ride her like a Harley on a bad stretch of road.]]
Arcee was engaged in casual banter with Cliffjumper when her friend was ambushed by Decepticons: by the time Arcee and the others got there, his body was missing and his lifesigns had ceased. While Optimus Prime said they should not dwell on negative emotions, Arcee claimed she'd go back on duty protecting humans; but when targeted by a [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]] duo and forced to rescue [[Jack Darby|human youth Jack Darby]], she showed an irritable, seething nature, attacking the Vehicons with angry cries of vengeance for Cliffjumper.

She ignored most of Jack's questions, initially threatened him to forget what he'd seen, and wasn't that concerned with humans witnessing the battle afterwards. To her annoyance, Optimus then ordered her to bring in Jack and the other human witnesses to [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]], so the Decepticons couldn't target them. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}}

[[File:DarknessRising2-girltrouble.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|She transforms into the world's largest motorcycle.]]
When the Autobots headed to the Decepticon Energon mines to locate Cliffjumper, Arcee found the broken and [[Dark Energon| Dark Energon-corrupted]] body of Cliffjumper moving, and tried to save him. She grabbed his hand, but was horrified when the body turned out to be a [[zombie|mutated ''thing'']] bent on attacking, and dropped him. When [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] arrived to drop a bomb into the area to destroy the mines, the Autobots were forced to retreat without Cliffjumper through the [[GroundBridge]]. Once inside their base, Arcee began to feel dizzy, much to the surprise of Jack, [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] and Raf. It was due to contact with a miniscule amount of the Dark Energon that had corrupted Cliffjumper.

Arcee, despite her "illness", was given the task of taking Jack Darby home, and angrily snapped at him when he said he was sorry for her loss, demanding to know what he'd know about such losses; the argument was interrupted when [[June Darby|Jack's mother]] arrived and promptly began questioning him about the mysterious blue bike. The next morning, Arcee snappily woke Jack up and dragged him to Central Command... but demanded he write a note so his mother wouldn't worry. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

On the way back, Arcee showed off some motorcycling tricks. They reached the base, only for Optimus to leave her in charge and go off on a mission with [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]. Arcee was disgruntled and, leaving [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] in charge, immediately went out on patrol with Bumblebee. The pair patrolled the nearby Nevada desert until they got a call from Bulkhead to say Fowler had been kidnapped, and he'd gone to the Decepticon ship to mount a rescue. Arcee tried to contact base to get bridged back, but no one was there, and she and Bumblebee had to put "the metal to the pedal". {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}}

[[File:DarknessRising4-Arceestandoff.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|"No, ''I'm'' ****ing Blue Death from above."]]
They arrived at the Decepticon ship to find Bulkhead had already dealt with the guards. Within, they rescued Jack and Raf from a pair of Decepticons, and quickly caught up with Bulkhead and Miko. The three kids being a liability in a fight, the Autobots cleared out a room for them to shelter in. A short time later, they found the brig. Arcee slipped in through a shaft in the ceiling to get the drop on Starscream, but he threatened to shoot the prisoner. Fowler caused a distraction and the Autobots opened fire. Starscream inconsiderately blasted Arcee with his jet exhaust as he fled. With Fowler rescued, the Autobots picked up the kids and returned back to base, where they faced some pointed questions from Optimus. Jack, however, was sick of the constant danger and decided he wanted no more to do with the Autobot/Decepticon conflict. Arcee reminded him to keep the conflict secret, and as he left by GroundBridge, she was sad to see him go. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}}

She later paid Jack a visit and managed to talk him into returning to the Autobot base. When they did so, it was to find that Ratchet had discovered the location of the space bridge, and Arcee and the other Autobots headed up into orbit to try and prevent Megatron from sending the Dark Energon through. They reached the space bridge terminal, but came under attack from flying Decepticons. Ultimately they were unable to prevent Megatron's plan from going ahead, and the only way to prevent the zombies coming through from Cybertron was to destroy the space bridge itself. Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee followed Ratchet's instructions, feeding the space bridge's power back on itself, but were attacked by Megatron just as they completed the job. Arcee was hit and knocked off into space. Luckily Bumblebee had the presence of mind to grab her as the Autobots retreated through the GroundBridge just before everything exploded. Back at base, Arcee seemed in a bad way, but after some concern from Jack, she was able to stand up again. She, Bulkhead and Bumblebee could later be seen hanging out with the three kids. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

Arcee attempted to help Jack with his science project, a motorcycle engine, despite not knowing anything about Earth auto-mechanics. Her role was usurped by Ratchet anyway. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

[[File:Scrapheap-huddleforwarmth.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|left|"I wish we'd chosen the sauna."]]
After Bulkhead and Bumblebee found a pod in the [[Arctic]] and brought it back to base, Optimus and Arcee went back to the Arctic to check for clues as to the pod's origin. After some time searching, the temperature sensors Ratchet had given them went off, but they were unable to raise base so they could GroundBridge back. The pair sought shelter, but as their temperatures slowly dropped, things looked grim. Arcee decided to keep warm by blaming Bulkhead for their predicament. Just as they were losing hope, the GroundBridge opened and ejected Bulkhead and the swarm of [[Scraplet]]s that had been causing havoc at base. The Scraplets froze in the cold air and the three Autobots were subsequently able to return home. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}}

Arcee was amused by Bulkhead's exuberant job when they were contacted by [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]], one of Bulkhead's old friends, though she was initially worried the signal could be a 'Con trap. She, Bulkhead and Bumblebee GroundBridged out to Wheeljack's landing site in time to see him take out a bunch of Vehicons. They returned to base where the Autobots celebrated, though Arcee mainly sat on the sidelines with Jack. When Bulkhead began to grow suspicious that Wheeljack wasn't all he seemed, Arcee tried to allay his fears, and when he directly confronted Wheeljack, Arcee urged him to keep calm. He turned out to be right. After everything was resolved, Arcee again took part in the partying, mostly by standing around watching the others dance. She also turned out to see the real Wheeljack off when he returned to space. {{storylink|Con Job}}

[[File:Convoy-kablooie.jpg|thumb|upright|upright=1.4|"My bad" won't cut it with Optimus this time.]]
When Fowler asked for help transporting the [[Dynamic Nuclear Generation System]], Arcee took part in the Autobot convoy, concealed in Prime's trailer along with the D.N.G.S. When [[MECH]] goons broke the back of the trailer open, she zoomed out in her cycle mode and blew up one of the MECH cars. She helped pass the D.N.G.S. over to a train, but a short time later the Autobots were attacked by Vehicons, and she, Bumblebee and Bulkhead spent the rest of the whole affair fighting them. {{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}}

When an [[Energon Harvester]] was located in a museum, the Autobots surrounded the building while the kids went in to steal it. [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] appeared at the front of the museum to attack Optimus, and as Breakdown charged at the museum, Bumblebee and Arcee attempted to stop him. A missile from Breakdown sent Arcee skidding into Bumblebee. After the Decepticons obtained the Harvester, Arcee made a token effort to chase them. She, Bumblebee and Prime later attempted to track down the Decepticons before the Harvester could be used, but they ended up coming to Bulkhead's rescue after he found and stopped the Decepticons himself. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}}

[[File:ArceeThey'reRacing.jpg|upright=1.4|left|thumb]]
As Arcee and Jack were leaving school, they encountered Sierra, who asked if she could take Jack up on his offer of a ride. They were interrupted by [[Vince]], who challenged Jack to a race. Arcee reminded her companion of the rules, however when Vince made disparaging remarks about her motorcycle mode, she decided that he needed to be taught a lesson. Arcee and Jack completely smoked Vince at racing, though she made Jack swear not to tell any of the other Autobots. When Jack agreed to another race, Arcee flatly refused to take part, and later found out he'd talked Bumblebee into helping him instead. Furious, she dragged Bulkhead out to help her find Jack and Bumblebee, only to reach them just as Knock Out was abducting Vince. The three Autobots tracked the Decepticons to a storage facility, where Arcee attempted unsuccessfully to retrieve Vince from Knock Out, and ended up chasing the 'Con. She was unable to catch him, but Optimus turned up to lend a hand and rescue the human, and he demanded an explanation from his ashamed soldiers. Afterward, Arcee was willing to allow Jack to give Sierra a ride, but just once. {{storylink|Speed Metal}}

[[File:AirachnidUpsideDown.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"So... Is this the part where we [[Spider-Man|kiss?]]"]]
On a routine energon scouting mission, Arcee and Jack stumbled on a crashed spaceship in the wilderness. Arcee recognized it as belonging to [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] and found she was unable to contact base. After dropping Jack a safe distance away, she hunted Airachnid, interrupting her foe's attack on a lone camper. They fought, but Jack's reappearance distracted Arcee long enough for Airachnid to get the upper hand and stick the Autobot to a nearby rock with webbing. Airachnid played on how Arcee had a habit of losing partners before starting to chase Jack. Haunted by her previous meeting with Airachnid, Arcee eventually managed to break free using her motorcycle mode, and caught up with Jack in time to save him by delivering a brutal pounding to Airachnid, who managed to flee underground. Arcee was left with a new respect for how Jack had handled the situation, and was happy to call him her partner. {{Storylink|Predatory}}

[[File:Arceeandherblaster.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left|That'll cost extra]]
After Optimus was infected by [[Cybonic plague]], Arcee and Bumblebee GroundBridged aboard the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]''. They found Megatron's body in stasis lock, and Arcee formed a [[cortical psychic patch]] so Bumblebee could find the cure in the Decepticon leader's mind. She hid with Bumblebee's unconscious body in a vent, but time began to run out when [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] entered the room and discussed pulling the plug on their commander. Soundwave noticed the cortical link and Starscream began following it to the vent, but Bumblebee had located the cure and the two GroundBridged off the ship. Arcee sent a parting gift by shooting at Megatron, and the Decepticons found Megatron's mind was blank... {{storylink|Sick Mind}}

Arcee was unsure if she'd successfully offlined Megatron. She was unenthusiastic when it turned out they had to return to the Arctic after the Decepticons stole a telescope lens. There, she and Bulkhead fought Breakdown as a diversion while Optimus snuck on board the Decepticon ship to destroy the heat ray they'd built the lens into. Her success in fighting breakdown was limited, but they kept him busy for long enough, and were knocked flying by the shockwave from the heat ray exploding. They were surprised when Megatron subsequently turned up alive and well to stop Starscream from finishing off Optimus. {{Storylink|Out of His Head}}

[[File:ArceeFailstonoticekidsenteringSpacebridge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Arcee's such a great babysitter.]]
When a Dark Energon signature was detected, Arcee was left at base on GroundBridge duty because Optimus wanted Ratchet's Dark Energon knowledge handy. She failed to notice the three kids sneaking after Optimus's team, and only later spotted that they were gone. She attempted to GroundBridge them back, but interference resulted in an explosion and the kids vanished en route. After Bulkhead's attempt to phone Miko failed, Arcee tried to ring Jack, but there was too much interference for them to talk. They eventually discovered the kids were trapped in an alternate dimension, and when Ratchet used the GroundBridge to rescue them, Optimus, Arcee and Bulkhead went to make sure they were safe from Starscream. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}}

When Breakdown was captured by MECH, Arcee and the others were surprised when Optimus insisted that they rescue the Decepticon, though it turned out he was concerned that Cybertronian technology would fall into MECH hands. The team arrived in [[Kamchatka Peninsula]] and followed an energon signal Ratchet had detected. The trace led them to find Breakdown's eye and a MECH bomb. After they avoided being blown up by the bomb, the team tracked down Bulkhead in time to chase off Starscream and some Vehicons. {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}}

[[File:Crisscross-callmeArcee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Hey, I'm your son's motorcycle.]]
Jack's alter-school activities resulted in his mom forbidding him from using his motorcycle. Jack pointed out to Arcee that this would mean she would have to stay in the garage for several weeks, but she instead promised that she would try to be back before Jack's mom got home at night. The next day Arcee and Bumblebee were fighting some Vehicons when Jack called her to warn her that mom was on her way home early. Arcee failed to get back in time, and had to sneak in via GroundBridge. Later on that evening, she managed to get back before June Darby did, but it turned out that was because mom had been abducted by MECH. Arcee and Jack followed Silas's instructions, proceeding to a deserted factory, and were shocked to find that Airachnid was involved. Arcee was webbed and rendered unconscious, but while MECH was preparing her for "surgery", she recovered and escaped. She managed to catch up with Airachnid before the 'Con could do anything to Jack or his mother, and the pair fought at length around the building. She eventually succeeded in knocking Airachnid into a container and pouring concrete on top, but as she was moving to rescue June, was webbed to the ground by the still active Decepticon. Relief came in the form of Agent Fowler and three helicopters, which forced Airachnid to retreat. Arcee and Jack subsequently took June to the Autobot base to meet the team. {{storylink|Crisscross}}

[[File:TFP ep18 tag team.jpg‎|thumb|upright=1.67|"We'll do fine as long as you don't need the bathroom anytime soon." "Um Arcee..."]]
Arcee was scheduled to do some routine maintenance with Jack, but June's well-meaning questions drove Arcee batty, and she instead opted to accompany Bulkhead on a mission to find a magnetic anomaly. Miko managed to sneak along on the mission, and Arcee again found herself as the third wheel, but when they reached the source of the magnetic disturbance, it turned out to be Airachnid and Breakdown fighting over a magnetic weapon. During the ensuing fight, Breakdown used the weapon, a [[polarity gauntlet]], to magnetize the two Autobots, and Arcee became stuck to Bulkhead's back. With the only choice to retrieve the gauntlet, Arcee ordered Miko to return to base, and she and Bulkhead tracked the 'Cons to an old gas station. After some more fighting, Arcee managed to become unstuck from Bulkhead, and briefly used the gauntlet to polarize everyone. In the end, the Autobots triumphed and returned to base with the gauntlet, where Arcee received an apology from June for the earlier questioning. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}}

Bulkhead and Arcee were assigned to check out an [[Stripped energon mine|old energon mine]]. When Miko ran into the mine, Jack persuaded Arcee to let him take a look inside too. She and Jack stumbled on Megatron and Starscream, and during the firefight that ensued, she shot Megatron's arm, causing him to blast the ceiling and causing a cave in. After the floor fell away, she lost track of the others, but eventually found the kids, and was able to rescue Bulkhead from Starscream. The two Autobots and the kids escaped the mine and briefly considered ending the Decepticons then and there before deciding it wasn't what Optimus would have done. Though Arcee still looked tempted. {{storylink|Rock Bottom}}

[[File:Partners2 Arcee talk to rock.jpg‎|upright=1.4|thumb|left|I can't believe we actually had to bury a horn.]]
Standing at Cliffjumper's graveside, Arcee pledged she would find the 'Con who killed him. When the Autobots were on their next mission to check out a signal from a buried Decepticon wreck, they ran into Airachnid, and Arcee attempted to take the opportunity to settle the score for Tailgate, only for Airachnid to get the better of her. After coming to her rescue, Optimus reminded her that revenge was never profitable. When their captive, Starscream, claimed to want to switch sides, Arcee spoke out to say they should take him with them. Arcee was left guarding the prisoner, however when he inadvertently revealed that it was he who had killed Cliffjumper, she became enraged and attacked him. Though she eventually got the upper hand and was about to finish him off, she realized that Bumblebee was watching the fight, and reluctantly let Starscream limp away. Later at base, her injuries were healed, but she blamed herself for ruining their chance to gain access to Starscream's knowledge. {{storylink|Partners}}

Arcee accompanied Prime and Bumblebee as they tried to retrieve a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]] before the Decepticons did. During the fight she was tackled by Knock Out. Ultimately the Decepticons made off with the cylinder, and later Arcee listened as Ratchet told them the cylinder's contents had ended up in Bulkhead's brain, and wondered aloud what the formula Bulkhead was writing was—the Autobots were excited to find it was a set of equations for synthetic energon. Arcee found it weird when Bulkhead was in "brainiac mode", and as it turned out the data was eating Bulkhead's mind. Bumblebee and Arcee accompanied Optimus on an unsuccessful attempt to get the cylinder back from Megatron, and they ended up fighting a bunch of Vehicons. Later they came to Miko and Bulkhead's aid to save the pair from Knock Out and Breakdown, and Arcee was present when Miko managed to rouse the comatose Bulkhead. {{storylink|T.M.I.}}

[[File:StrongerFaster-surrounded.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|The Steves are gonna have a field day with this.]]
During a mission to intercept Knock Out and Breakdown, Arcee sped over a roadblock caused by Vehicons, separating herself from the other Autobots despite Prime's orders. She soon found herself surrounded by Vehicons, but was surprised when Ratchet came through the GroundBridge and single-handedly bashed the lot of them, saving her. Ratchet later revealed that he had injected himself with the synthetic energon he'd been working on, and Arcee was keen for them all to try it, however, Ratchet began exhibiting personality changes that disturbed her: The effects of the Synthetic Energon made him act on impulse without thinking-he even started to flirt with Arcee, clicking and winking at her as he walked past with a "How's it hummin?", leaving her surprised. During their next mission, Ratchet accused Optimus of not being pro-active enough, bringing up Cliffjumper's death which was a a sensitive topic to Arcee, upsetting her. When Ratchet took off to tackle Megatron on his own, Arcee and the other Autobots were forced to come to his aid. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}

When an ancient prophecy looked like it was imminent, Arcee and Bulkhead wonder how seriously they should take it. They accompanied Optimus to a military base to stop the Decepticons attacking it, but when they were faced with Raf being gravely injured, Optimus ordered Arcee to accompany him and Bumblebee back to base. While Ratchet fought to save the boy's life, Arcee had to keep Bumblebee calm. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}}

Arcee accompanied Bulkhead and Ratchet on a mission to rescue Prime from an area rich in Dark Energon, though at one point she appeared to become mesmerized by the sight of a volcano spewing Dark Energon. Once they got Optimus back to base, they set about investigating the cause of the natural disasters that had begun plaguing the planet, and realized that [[Unicron]] lay at the center of the Earth. Arcee and the other Autobots began checking out the sites of the tremors. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}}

Though Optimus ordered the other Autobots to remain at base, Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee joined him anyway. They fought increasingly larger stone Unicrons, until they encountered a colossal one that knocked Bulkhead and Bumblebee aside, then sent Arcee likewise tumbling along the ground. As it moved to crush Optimus underfoot, help came in the unlikely form of Megatron, who offered to help them fight Unicron. After they returned to base, Optimus gave the trio the choice of whether to accompany him and Megatron to [[Earth's core]], and Arcee opted to go for Jack's sake. She, Bumblebee and Bulkhead greeted Megatron to the Autobot base by aiming their guns at him, and when they were ready to GroundBridge to their new destination, she insisted Megatron go first. Before long, they were standing within Earth's core. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}}

As the Autobots battled [[Unicron's antibodies|anti-bots]], Arcee was briefly separated from the others, and had to ride one of the anti-bots to catch up with them again. She, Bulkhead and Bumblebee remained outside Unicron's spark chamber to fight off the anti-bots. After Unicron's defeat, they entered the chamber only to discover that Optimus had lost his memory and was leaving with Megatron. They subsequently had to GroundBridge back to base minus their leader and explain what had happened to the others. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

The Autobots tried fruitlessly to find a way to get Optimus back. Arcee even managed to get on board the ''Nemesis'' by slipping through the Decepticon GroundBridge after Knock Out and Breakdown. She searched through the ship, fighting Vehicons, only to be expelled from the ''Nemesis'' by Soundwave. It didn't help matters that she didn't even manage to determine if Optimus was on board, let alone where the ship was. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Arcee and the others scoured the globe fruitlessly for the space bridge until they got information on its whereabouts from an undisclosed source which Arcee immediately figured out was Starscream. The Autobots stormed the energon mine housing the bridge before sending Jack and Arcee through to Cybertron, where they began using Jack's [[Key to Vector Sigma|key]] to search for [[Vector Sigma]]. {{Storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} On their arrival at [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], they were attacked by an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] which Arcee attempted to keep busy while Jack headed onwards. She was rendered unconscious for a time, but came around and retrieved Jack from the Vector Sigma chamber. On their return to Earth, she was forced to fight Megatron to distract him while Jack uploaded the Matrix information into Optimus. Mission successful, they returned to base for the big reunion. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

Arcee was impressed by Bumblebee's retrieval of the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]], and when his [[transformation cog|T-cog]] was later stolen, knew immediately it was MECH. Unfortunately her racing around in vehicle mode didn't do much to make Bumblebee feel better about his lack of a cog. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} She was unhappy about being asked to do the transplant between Ratchet and Bumblebee, but luckily didn't get the chance, as she had to rush off with Optimus and Bulkhead to try and secure an artifact. She and Prime proved unable to penetrate Knock Out's force field, and as a result, Megatron got away with the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

[[File:Crossfire Airachnid captures Arcee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|One day, she'll learn not to run off after Airachnid on her own. This is not that day.]]
Arcee and the others came to Wheeljack's aid when he returned to Earth to battle [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}} Arcee was part of an Optimus-led mission to an abandoned energon mine in [[South America]], where they found Megatron fighting an Insecticon. Arcee was more interested in the fight's observer, Airachnid, and immediately attacked her old foe. After chasing her through tunnels, Arcee stumbled into a web trap and ended up dangling cocooned from a tree. Her life was only saved by Starscream, who chased Airachnid off and cut Arcee down, though she still had to ask the other Autobots for help. {{storylink|Crossfire}}

When Fowler was attacked by a truck resembling Optimus, Arcee chased the interloper and was run down by him. She recovered at base, and they discovered that the truck was a MECH-built clone of Optimus. The Autobots located the MECH base, but as they explored it, [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]] took them out one by one. After Optimus prevailed, the Autobots returned to base for repairs. {{storylink|Nemesis Prime (episode)|Nemesis Prime}} Optimus, Bumblebee and Arcee responded to strange activity and found Airachnid in the process of unleashing a swarm of Insecticons. Leaving the others to fight the Insecticons, Arcee chased Airachnid, eventually reaching the Insecticon hive. Though she was tempted to finish off Airachnid, Arcee tricked her foe into stepping onto one of the Insecticon pods, resulting in Airachnid being put in stasis lock so she could be safely taken back to base. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

[[File:TunnelVisionArceeRelic.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Stay away from the cookie jar.]]
After the ''Nemesis'' crashed, Arcee took part in an attack on it with the spark extractor, only to be put into stasis by its weapons. She recovered back at base when the kids disabled the ship. {{storylink|Flying Mind}} Arcee was sent with Bumblebee, Jack and Miko to retrieve a relic located in the [[New York City|Manhattan]] subways. {{storylink|Toxicity}} {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} The two Autobots found Knock Out with the artifact, but as Arcee tried to seize it, the Decepticon stunned her with his prod. After the party was interrupted by a sweeper train carrying Miko and Jack, Arcee pursued the train while being chased by Knock Out's Insecticon. She managed to both save the train from crashing and get rid of the Insecticon by getting it to touch a third rail. After Bumblebee got hold of the relic, he and Arcee were introduced to [[Vogel]], who'd helped Jack and Miko. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}}

They returned to base to find Bulkhead critically injured after his mission, and Arcee and Bumblebee helped get the Wrecker to the medical bay. {{storylink|Hurt}} Attempting to comfort Miko, who was upset by the slowness of Bulkhead's recovery, Arcee told her about the time she and Cliffjumper were interrogated by Shockwave and arrived on Earth. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} When new Autobot [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] appeared while the Autobots were investigating a crashed escape pod, Arcee was initially suspicious of him, recalling Makeshift. She was eventually convinced of the veracity of his story and after he helped during a mission to recover [[Red Energon]], she joined the others in welcoming him to the team. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

When Fowler notified them that a [[Project Damocles]] satellite had been stolen by Breakdown and Silas, Optimus took a team including Arcee to a military base in the hope of securing the satellite control codes before the Decepticons could get them. Instead they found themselves facing both Decepticon troopers and the orbital death ray itself, controlled by Soundwave. {{storylink|The Human Factor}} Arcee was unconvinced that it would be a good thing when Jack was assigned to help Smokescreen adapt to life on Earth, and the fact that the pair pulled a prank on Vince during their first mission did nothing to help. While Arcee was on a mission to find an Iacon relic, Smokescreen endangered Jack by taking him into combat, and though Arcee and the rest of the team rescued the boy, she was not pleased with either of them. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

With the news they might soon be able to restore Cybertron, Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee were unsure whether they wanted to leave Earth and their friends. She volunteered to accompany Smokescreen to [[Egypt]] to find the first [[Omega Key]] but, though they found the key, Smokescreen was apparently destroyed by Megatron. Arcee returned to base despondent at losing another partner, but it later turned out Smokescreen was still alive. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}} Smokescreen's exuberance got on her nerves. After she and Bumblebee failed to secure a key, Smokescreen and Bulkhead likewise failed in their mission, and Arcee ended up lecturing the rookie on being a team player, causing him to leave the Autobot base upset. When Smokescreen later turned out to be the final relic they were after, the Autobots located him too late to prevent him being captured by Soundwave. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}}

After Smokescreen escaped the ''Nemesis'' with two of the keys, the Autobots received a message from Starscream offering a trade for the final key. Arcee operated the GroundBridge and guarded the base with Smokescreen and Bumblebee, but Starscream was able to steal their three keys anyway, thanks to his Red Energon. {{storylink|Inside Job}} As the Autobots equipped themselves to go to Cybertron, Arcee availed herself of the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]], which proved very useful during their battle against the Decepticons. Having obtained the Omega Keys, the Autobots found the [[Omega Lock]], only for the Decepticons to unveil their trump card in the form of the three kids as hostages. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} Arcee was forced to hand over her key in exchange for Jack. After Optimus destroyed the Omega Lock to prevent Megatron destroying Earth, Arcee returned with the others to base, only to find that the Decepticons were attacking it. The Autobots were forced to abandon base, and Arcee and Jack bridged to a point somewhere in the US. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

Arcee and Jack paused in their travels so Arcee could scout out a helicopter, which turned out to be civilian. In the meantime, Jack came under attack by Decepticons but he and Arcee managed to blow them up with a gas station. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} After they took a rest stop at an abandoned farm house, the pair were cruising down a road when [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus's]] spacecraft set down in front of them. {{storylink|Scattered}}
Introductions were made, and the pair accompanied Ultra Magnus as he collected up the rest of Team Prime, finally arriving at the ''[[Harbinger]]''. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}} Bumblebee and Arcee joined the attack on [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]], acting as a "stealth team" and infiltrating the citadel under cover of a diversion. Unfortunately they ran into heavy resistance and were taken captive, but when Optimus Prime arrived to join the assault, they renewed their attack on the Decepticons. Following the destruction of Darkmount, the Autobots assembled at a human military base. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

[[File:PlusOneArceeAwesomePose.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Such a basic hero pose. But it ''just works for her.'']]
Arcee reflected that without Smokescreen's inability to follow orders, they might not still have Optimus Prime. The Autobots soon discovered that the Predacons were working on cloning more Predacons. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} When Decepticon activity was detected in [[New Mexico]], Arcee talked Wheeljack into going with her and the pair immediately ran into trouble in the form of a squad of Vehicons. After dispatching the Decepticons, Arcee and Wheeljack proceeded to retrieve the bone they'd been after, and Arcee managed to talk her companion into not abandoning his place in the Autobot team. While they were still hauling the bone away, news came that Fowler and June had gotten into trouble, and the two Autobots had to go and rescue the pair from Knock Out. They succeeded, though Knock Out got away with another Predacon fossil. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}}

[[File:PrimePersuasionArceeShocked.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Arcee read her "test results."]]
Arcee and the others took time out from hunting for Predacon fossils to secure some energon supplies, unaware it was part of a Decepticon plan to deceive the newly-intelligent [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]]. {{storylink|Evolution}} When the Decepticons began stealing technology to repair the Omega Lock, Arcee and the other Autobots attempted to stop them. They traveled to the [[Solaris particle collider]] in Antarctica, where they found the Decepticons already in the process of raiding the place. {{storylink|Minus One}} Though they fought their way through the Decepticons, they were ultimately unable to stop the Decepticons stealing the needed technology, and on top of this, when they returned to base it was to find Ratchet had been abducted by Soundwave. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

They launched the probe and monitored it and Optimus's progress from the base. Though the probe was destroyed, Ratchet was able to send them the coordinates to the Decepticon warship, and Arcee and the others geared up in preparation to assault the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|Synthesis}} Arcee attempted to lead her team to join Ratchet, only for Smokescreen to abandon them along the way, and for them to be confronted by Starscream. They managed to fight their way through to the Omega Lock control room, where Arcee watched Bumblebee kill Megatron with the Star Saber. With the ''Nemesis'' secured, the Autobots were able to take the ship to Cybertron, where they used the Omega Lock to restore their home world. Arcee told Jack to stay in touch, before she and the other Autobots returned home. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

In the aftermath of Cybertron's rebirth, Arcee patrolled in an attempt to find Starscream and Shockwave. With the discovery that there were two new Predacons on the loose, she and the other Autobots attempted to persuade Predaking to help them, but were unsuccessful. After encountering Unicron, in possession of Megatron's rebuilt form, the Autobots realized that the dark god intended to destroy their world. After foiling an attempt by Starscream to retake the warship, the Autobots attempted to defend the Well of All Sparks from Unicron's onslaught. It was only when Optimus returned that Unicron was defeated, and Arcee was later present when Optimus sacrificed himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

===Titan ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:Titan4.3 Arcee is melodramatic.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|And what happened, then? Well, in Whoville they say - that Arcee shot Christmas in the face.]]
Arcee took part in the testing of Ratchet's newly-developed [[Safe]] training room, though she was amused by the medic's interest in making things explode. After Bulkhead broke through a wall, Arcee alerted the others to the rather large nuclear missile he'd accidentally uncovered and activated. A Vehicon scouting party showed up looking for the source of the energy signature the bomb was giving off, so Optimus, Arcee and Bumblebee went out to trash them. The trio returned to base a short time later to find Fowler had arrived to deal with the bomb. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|The Safe and the Failsafe}}

During some downtime, Optimus took the other Autobots, including Arcee, on a trip to [[Valley of Fire State Park]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.2|War Story}}

During the holidays, Arcee roundly mocked Bulkhead as he attempted to decorate a [[Christmas]] tree. Unfortunately for her, after Fowler reported that the Decepticons had taken over a [[Yamal|nuclear-powered ship]], she found herself left at base with Bulkhead. The kids suggested she and Bulkhead try to find something they both liked, but progress was slow until they discovered their mutual love of ice skating. They subsequently turned the base into an ice rink and skated around it until the other Autobots came back. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.3|Ice Breaker}}

[[File:Titan4.5 Arcee threatens MECH.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Our coverage of "Convoy" says different, Arcee!]]
She and Jack scouted out [[Franklin High School]] when schools in the region began unexpectedly exploding. It paid off when [[MECH]] turned up, however while Arcee was on the comm to Optimus, Jack sneaked inside the school. Arcee crashed inside to rescue him from MECH, though he insisted on following the baddies up to the roof. Silas got away anyway, and Arcee had to get Jack off the burning building. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.5|School Is... Out!}} After the [[President of the United States]] was kidnapped, the Autobots traced the culprit, Starscream, to the [[Grand Canyon]]. Bumblebee and Arcee teamed up to take out the cannons manned by Vehicons that Starscream had brought along. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

Arcee and Bulkhead headed to [[Zhejiang Province]], [[China]] after the Autobots lost contact with Optimus Prime. They found [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and a bunch of Vehicons feeding Optimus's body into a crusher but were overcome by the Decepticons before they could rescue him. Luckily Optimus came to his senses in time. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|The Mind Trap!}} After Miko was kidnapped by [[MECH]] agent [[Novo]], Arcee joined the hunt to find her. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.9|The Novo Incident}}

Arcee was bemused by Jack's demonstration of bobbing for apples. She was on the team which visited the [[Deep Driller]] oil platform and encountered [[Rufus Madison|General Madison]] and his men. After ending up underneath Bulkhead, she managed to trick two of the soldiers in [[robotic battle suit]]s into shooting each other. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.10|Mad Dogs & Autobots}} When Bulkhead went missing, Arcee searched in vain until Miko managed to work out he was on the Decepticon ship. Arcee was subsequently part of the mission to rescue their friend. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}} Arcee took part in a battle against the Decepticons in [[The Wave]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.12|The Evil Shred}}

Following a TV studio takeover by Knock Out and [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]], Arcee came along on the mission as backup. She took to the shadows, and once Optimus had rescued the other hostages, Arcee rescued [[Chuck Chuckles]] and took down the two Decepticons herself. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.14|It's a Knock-Out}}
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====Mega-Mouth====
Arcee occasionally takes time out from defending the universe and protecting the planet Earth in disguise to... answer fan mail? {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|Mega-Mouth}}

===Eaglemoss ''Prime'' comic===
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===''Tales of the Beast Hunters'' comic===
Arcee tracked [[Ripclaw]] to the [[Canadian Rockies]]. Rather than attack directly, she leaked the coordinates to the Decepticons in the hope they would deal with the problem. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 19}}

===''Beast Hunters'' comic===
Following Optimus's sacrifice, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead encountered [[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]] in a tunnel. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 7|Beast Hunters #7}} They emerged on the surface in time to help [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] and the other Dinobots fight a squad of [[Forged]]. Arcee was shocked to hear they'd been created by Shockwave. After dealing with that threat, Arcee starting filling the Dinobots in on recent events, only for them to be promptly attacked by a new Predacon. The Autobots split into groups to head to [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], with Arcee and Swoop taking one group of survivors. [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] drew off the Predacon when it attacked, allowing Arcee and the other to reach Kaon while the Predacon was dealt with. There, Arcee explained that the Dinobots would always be welcome in the Autobot ranks. Grimlock, however, said the Dinobots would be unable to help with the reconstruction of Kaon, since they'd be building a new home for the survivors. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 8|Beast Hunters #8}}

===''Transformers Legends'' comic===
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Arcee was among the heroic female Transformers who appeared in one of [[Tigatron]]'s dreams, in which she spotted the approaching evil female Transformers seeking to kidnap Tigatron. She may have subsequently engaged [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]] in battle, or might have just been in the latter's line of sight. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11|Bonus Edition Vol. 11}}

===IDW ''Robots in Disguise'' comic===
Arcee, Ultra Magnus, and Bulkhead spied on Bumblebee's team from their spaceship. {{storylink|Fire, When Ready!}} While struggling to get his team to work together, Bumblebee recalled happier times when he was part of Team Prime with Arcee. She and Bulkhead were sent by Magnus to question [[Spinhead]], but arrived after the Decepticon had been captured. They returned to the ship, unaware that Bumblebee had spotted them. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

The trio visited Bumblebee so they could question some of the ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'' prisoners over the whereabouts of [[Clipshade]], and Arcee discovered she had a fan in [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]]. Arcee took part in the capture of the Decepticon, though she was prevented from speaking further with Bumblebee when Magnus ordered them back to the ship with Clipshade. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 2|Robots in Disguise #2}}

Arcee accompanied Ultra Magnus and Bulkhead on another visit to Team Bee following an operation that ended with [[Overhead]] escaping. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 3|Robots in Disguise #3}} After Ultra Magnus filled the other Autobot team in on the fact that Clipshade was an Autobot spy, Arcee and the rest of the team launched an operation to arrest the leader of the [[Cybercomrade Sect]], [[Overhead]]. Arcee and Strongarm got to tagteam Overhead, though when the Sect leader turned the space bridge she was working on into a black hole, Grimlock saved Arcee from being sucked in. In the aftermath of the fight, Overhead and her hench-[[Croctobot]]s were taken into custody, and Ultra Magnus, Arcee and Bulkhead returned to Cybertron with them. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 4|Robots in Disguise #4}}

===''Kre-O'' bios===
Arcee was once webbed to the ground by Airachnid and tickled mercilessly by [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]. {{storylink|Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid's bio}}

===''Kre-O'' online comic===
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Arcee was one of the [[Autobot]]s who left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in the ''[[Ark (Kre-O)|Ark]]'' in search for energy blocks to alleviate their hunger. Thanks to the boarding of the ''Ark'' by [[Decepticon]]s, the ''Ark'' crashed and the [[Transformer]]s fell into a four million year-long sleep. They woke up to a world filled with blocks. {{storylink|Kreon Story}}
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===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Arcee was deployed on Earth alongside [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] and [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[File:EnemyOfMyEnemy-Arcee.jpg|right|thumb|150px|This High Council don't want none unless your helmet's got buns, hon.]]
Following the restoration of Cybertron from the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]], Arcee was one of the many Autobots blacklisted by the new [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] for being a supporter of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]. {{Storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}}

{{note|Arcee's body as shown appears to be a blend of her ''Prime'' form and the original [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], what with the divided backpack and Princess Leia "buns" on her helmet.}}

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==Commercial appearances==
Arcee was weirded out by [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]], [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]], [[My Little Pony|ponies]], and an {{w|Strawberry Shortcake|underage baker}} singing Christmas carols. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers1|The Hub Carolers}}

==Games==
===''Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense''===
Arcee fought off Starscream as he led Vehicon troops to the town of [[Jasper]] to collect Dark Energon from a nearby mine. She then teamed up with Bumblebee to stop Soundwave and more Vehicons from reaching an abandonned military base. She then helped Optimus Prime destroy whatever Vehicons managed to infiltrate the outpost on their way out. Upon Megatron's arrival to the battlefield, she aided Optimus Prime defend Autobot headquarters.

Arcee could deploy "Cannon Turrets," "Anti Air Turrets," and "Sniper Turrets" through the Ground Bridge to aid her in destroying Vehicons. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense}}
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===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
[[File:WFCArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|Four wheels good, two wheels ''better!'' Four wheels good, two wheels ''better!'']]
:''Voice actor'': [[Kari Wahlgren]] (English)
{{Note|Arcee is not a playable character in the storyline campaign. However, she can be unlocked for Escalation mode and for customization in online multiplayer as an Autobot scout. Her chassis type is listed as "Sprinter".}}

Arcee was one of the many Autobots who were captured and placed in [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]]'s prisons complex. She was freed from her imprisonment when [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] allowed themselves to be captured in order to rescue [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]]. During their rescue attempt, they opened all of the Kaon cells, allowing the prisoners, Arcee included, to escape. The freed prisoners were all led to transport ships, overseen by [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]], in which they used to escape the complex. Arcee herself helped direct her fellow prisoners to the ships, whilst Optimus's team kept the Decepticons busy.
{{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}
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===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
[[File:Arcee-foc-pinup-Crop.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|left|link=File:Arcee-foc-pinup.jpg|Click for full version]]
Deep in the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]], a Decepticon facility housed a room containing not only a number of weapons but also a [[:File:arcee-foc-pinup.jpg|pin-up poster]] of Arcee. Sketchy. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron}}
{{Note|Arcee is one of three characters (with [[Barricade (WFC)|Barricade]] and [[Slipstream (WFC)|Slipstream]]) from ''War for Cybertron'' whose parts are not available in the multiplayer character designer, ostensibly because the designers couldn't make female parts work with the system.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7dBQA-OJR0 Comic-Con: Transformers: Fall of Cybertron panel at YouTube (50:00 mark)]</ref>}}
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=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game arcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Say goodnight, Jak! (3DS version pictured)]]
{{voiceactor|[[Sumalee Montano]] (English)}}

The Autobots detected a massive asteroid of Dark Energon headed toward Earth, and intercepted the ''Nemesis'' crew attempting to retrieve the asteroid when bridging to the location. At the climax of the battle, the asteroid began to split apart and exploded. Team Prime fell to Earth and scattered across the country.

Arcee landed back in Jasper, and was met by a horde of Insecticons upon waking up. Arcee proceeded to defeat them and was alarmed when Jack, who had come to her aid when her life signal was detected on Earth, contacted her and opened up a ground bridge for her. However, Arcee was met by Airachnid, and the latter ended up kidnapping Jack. Arcee pursued her and managed to release Jack from her possession.

Arcee & Bumblebee went to investigate a part of the asteroid that landed on Earth, though Bumblebee scouted ahead. She assisted Bumblebee in grounding Dreadwing, but that was about it. Later, Arcee joined Bumblebee in bridging to the Nemesis to save Ratchet and the children, who had been captured by the Decepticons over this period of time. She was met yet again by Airachnid, though this time coming rather close to defeating her. Unfortunately, Airachnid had escaped. The team regrouped, though missing Optimus, and Ratchet dispatched Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and Arcee to chase Thunderwing in order to give him time to create a device to corrupt his Dark Energon core. Arcee was knocked into stasis by Megatron, just in time for Optimus to arrive. Arcee was taken by Bulkhead for medical care. Arcee then assisted Jack, after much hesitation from her and Optimus, in planting Ratchet's disruption device inside of Thunderwing's core. The dynamic duo were successful in carrying out the task.

Arcee later joined the rest of the team in watching the sun set after a day's hard work. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}

===''Transformers Prime: Relic Hunter''===
Arcee was once sent to [[Antarctica]] to find and retrieve an Ionian{{sic}} relic. She fell in a lot of Dark Energon pits along the way. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Relic Hunter|Relic Hunter}}
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===Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)===
{{voiceactor| ?}}
Arcee with [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Hound (Prime)|Hound]] were assigned a mission to capture the [[Dark Spark]], but were confronted by [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] and [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]. After fighting them, the Autobots continued on their way. At the railway station, they joined the waiting Optimus, Bumblebee and Jazz. Together, the Autobots dealt with a group of Insecticons, and then loaded on a train. When the train was blown up by the Decepticons, Arcee was at the head of a detachment of the Autobots, who tried to prevent the escape of the Decepticons with the Dark spark. This attempt was unsuccessful. Then the female followed the enemies to Kaon, where she headed one of the groups that attacked Bruticus and also confronted numerous Decepticon drones. Bruticus returned, leading Arcee and the others to attack him, forcing him to retreat due to his injuries. The Autobots eventually caught up with him and caused him to fall apart.{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}

===''Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense''===
When the Decepticons constructed an [[Energon Drain]] in an asteroid field, Arcee and the Autobots countered it by building a [[Pulsar Dish]] from debris. While the dish was under construction, Arcee and Jack could help out by scanning the nearby debris for the necessary components. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense}}
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===''Transformers Universe''===
[[File:Tom-stockwell-arcee-small.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|right]]
{{Note|Arcee is seen for a brief moment in the 2014 trailer, furthermore her portrait can be found in the game files. She was intended to be the mentor for the training room, however the game was shut down before the training section was produced.}}
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==Toys==
===Prime===
====First Edition====
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[[File:Primetoy-ArceeNYCC.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Arcee went back in time and had a little one with herself.]]
*'''Bumblebee and Arcee, Includes Raf Esquivel and Jack Darby''' (NYCC 2011 exclusive)
**''Accessories:'' Two arm blades/motorcycle panels

:Arcee is a [[redeco]] of Deluxe Class Arcee (see below) in pink and white [[Arcee (G1)|Generation 1 Arcee colors]] and comes with a New York taxicab [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Prime: First Edition|Bumblebee]] and NY-themed [[Jack Darby#Prime|Jack Darby]] and [[Raf Esquivel#Prime|Raf Esquivel]] figurines. They were sold exclusively at [[New York Comic Con|New York Comic Con 2011]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2011/Autobot/NYCCArcee/arcee.htm More information on NYCC Arcee at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Primetoy-ArceeDeluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Gimmicks include: plug-in arm blades, conservation of mass between modes.]]
*'''Arcee''' ("First Edition" Deluxe Class, 2011)
**''Number:'' '''002'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''2011-[[December 28|12-28]]
**''Accessories:'' Two arm blades/motorcycle panels, stand

: Part of the first wave of ''First Edition'' Deluxe Class toys, Arcee transforms from a blue motorcycle to a robot and back. Arm blades stow in vehicle mode and can be plugged under Arcee's forearms in [[robot mode]]. Like all "First Edition" toys, a cardboard display stand comes assembled within the packaging.

: After exceptionally spotty distribution in the original release, Arcee and many of the other ''First Edition'' toys were re-released as part of a big batch of [[Toys"R"Us|ToysЯUs]] exclusives in late 2012. They later made their way to closeout chains like Ross and Marshall's.

: This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[Transmutate (character)#Timelines|Trans-Mutate]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2011/Autobot/PrimeArcee/arcee.htm More information on First Edition Arcee at TFU.info]''

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[[File:TFP-FE-Arcee-Blue-Plated-Version.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Arcee ~Blue Plated Ver~''' ("First Edition" Deluxe Class, 2013)
**''Accessories:'' Two arm blades/motorcycle panels, stand

:A chrome redeco of the First Edition Arcee figure is released as a lucky draw prize, by spending 3,000 yen or more on Transformers products at Edion or Bic Camera while the entry for the draw is obtained. The figure was limited to 40 pieces.

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====Cyberverse====
[[File:Cyberverse legion arcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Arcee''' (Cyberverse Legion, 2012)
**''Series/Number:'' '''2 / 003'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''2012-[[April 28|04-28]]'''
**''Japanese Number:'' '''EZ-09'''
**''Accessories:'' Blaster

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' [[Cyberverse (toyline)#Series 2|Series 2 Cyberverse]] Legion Class toys, this smaller-scale Arcee comes with a rubbery translucent-pink blaster which has numerous [[C joint|3mm peg]]s and a single peg-hole, allowing it to be held or mount onto any of her numerous ports. She has permanently-deployed battle blades on her arms in robot mode, and is largely [[scale]]-accurate with the Deluxe and Voyager toys in vehicle mode.

: This sculpt was also used to make [[Flamewar (Prime)|Flamewar]] and [[Transformers (2014 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2014)]] [[Groove (G1)#Transformers (2014)|Protectobot Groove]]. Her blaster, in various colors, was also used by ''Cyberverse'' [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Cyberverse|Bumblebee]], [[Evac (Ride)#Cyberverse|Evac]], [[Wheeljack (Prime)#Hyperspeed|Hyperspeed Wheeljack]], [[Tailgate (Prime)|Autobot Tailgate]], the [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#CyberverseBattlesuit|redeco]] of Bumblebee that comes with the [[Bumblebee Battle Suit]], and the ''Transformers'' (2014) Groove figure, which he comes with ''2'' of them.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2012/Autobot/LegArcee/arcee.htm More information on Cyberverse Legion Arcee at TFU.info]''

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[[File:PrimeEZCollectionAutobotSet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Autobot Set''' (EZ Collection 6-pack, 2012-[[November 24|11-24]])
**''ID number'': '''EZ-SP1'''
**''Accessories'': Blaster

:Available for this set, this version of Arcee replaces her blue plastic with a darker shade of blue. She was released as a six-pack along with [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#EZ6pack|Bumblebee]], [[Bulkhead (Prime)#EZ6pack|Bulkhead]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#EZ6pack|Optimus Prime]], [[Ratchet (WFC)#EZ6pack|Ratchet]], and [[Wheeljack (Prime)#EZ6pack|Wheeljack]].

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====Robots in Disguise====
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[[File:PrimeRID-ArceeDeluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
[[File:Prime-toy ArceeTakTomDx.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The PRID version is the more show accurate one?!?! Impossibru...]]
*'''Arcee''' (Deluxe Class, 2012)
**''Series/Number:'' '''1 / 005'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''2012-[[May 28|05-28]]'''
**''Japanese Number:'' '''AM-11'''
**''Accessories:'' Blaster & blade (Hasbro only), "Arc" Arms Micron (Takara only)

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise (2012)|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' Deluxe Class toys, this smaller, new-mold Deluxe Class Arcee figure features a transformation that relies slightly more on fake kibble than the earlier Deluxe toy. The entire front of the bike now stores on her back, though the rest of the toy transforms very similarly (but not identically). She comes with a large blaster and one of her arm blades, both of which can mount onto her hands, forearms, and front wheel via [[5mm post]], as well as combine with each other. Additionally, the blades from the "First Edition" figure can mount onto thin pegs on either side of her vehicle mode.

: The Japanese release has new 5mm post attachments added to her wings, to go along with the [[Arms Micron]] system. As such, she loses the blaster and blade combo, and instead has her own Arms Micron, [[Arc]], who transforms into a weapon somewhat resembling her arm-blade. Most of her [[paint operation]]s also have been removed, replaced with customer-applied foil [[sticker]]s.

: This mold was also used for [[BotCon 2014]] [[Flareup (G1)#BotCon2014|Flareup]] and was heavily retooled into ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Chromia (G1)#Generations|Chromia]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2012/Autobot/Arcee/arcee.htm More information on ''Robots in Disguise'' Arcee at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://higekumatoytoy.blog60.fc2.com/blog-entry-1541.html Arms Micron Arcee at Alfes's toy blog]''
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====Beast Hunters====
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[[File:Beast hunters arcee deluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Batgiiirl! Batgiiiirl! Where do you come from? Where do you go?]]
*'''Arcee''' (Deluxe Class, 2013)
**''Series/Number:'' '''2 / 012'''
**''Accessories:'' Echohawk Bow, two [[missile]]s

: Part of the fourth wave of ''Prime: [[Beast Hunters (toyline)|Beast Hunters]]'' Deluxe Class toys, Arcee is a redeco and extensive [[retool]] of ''Prime: Robots in Disguise'' Arcee, and comes with the massive spring-loaded "[[Echohawk Bow]]", which can fire its two missiles. It can be held via its two jointed 5mm handles, as well as attach to her front wheel in vehicle mode.

:Her instructions include the [[Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 19|nineteenth chapter]] of the ''[[Tales of the Beast Hunters]]'' series.

: This version of the mold was also used for [[BotCon 2014]] [[Flamewar (G1)#BotCon2014|Flamewar]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2013/Autobot/Arcee/arcee.htm More information on ''Beast Hunters'' Arcee at TFU.info]''
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===Kre-O===
[[File:Kre-O-Autobot-Command-Center.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Command Center''' (Playset, 2013)
**''Set number'': '''A5412'''
**''Pieces'': '''461'''
**''Kreons'': Arcee, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Ratchet, Shockwave

: The Command Center playset includes a Kreon of Arcee based on her ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)| Prime]]'' incarnation. She uses the [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] style helmet. There's also a blue [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Wheeljack]] backpack-wing in the set that is not technically hers, but can be added to her to make her just that little bit more like the show model.

: The set also comes with ''Prime''-style Kreons of [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)#CommandCenter|Bumblebee]], [[Ratchet (Kre-O)#CommandCenter|Ratchet]], [[Shockwave (Kre-O)#CommandCenter|Shockwave]], and [[Knock Out (Prime)#CommandCenter|Knock Out]], and a brick-built [[Rippersnapper (Prime)#CommandCenter|Rippersnapper]] beast and [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)#CommandCenter|Optimus Prime]] truck.

===Go!===
[[File:Gotoy-HunterArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"... ''Bullseye.''"]]
*'''Hunter Arcee''' (Deluxe Class, 2013-[[October 26|10-26]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''G22'''
**''Accessories:'' Arc Bowgun, two missiles

:Part of the sixth wave of [[TakaraTomy]] ''[[Triple Combination: Transformers Go! (toyline)|Go!]]'' toys, Hunter Arcee is a [[redeco]] of the ''Beast Hunters'' Deluxe Class Arcee toy, and features a predominantly blue and black color scheme with silver and pink highlights, similar to her ''Prime'' cartoon appearance.
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==Merchandise==
===Kinder Surprise===
*'''Transformers: Prime''' (2014)
:Only available inside a blindpacked chocolate egg as part of Kinder's ''Transformers: Prime'' series, this buildable Arcee mini-figure consists of a generic "cog" onto which her limbs and armor can be clipped to construct her. She has articulation on her shoulders and upper legs.
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===Eaglemoss cards===
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==Notes==
[[File:DarknessRising3-Arceesizechange.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The motorcycle transforms into her leg and then the rest of her robot mode hops over and attaches to it.]]
[[File:VectorSigmaBotBuilderArcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Basically destined to be [[Pinkie Pie]] at some point.]]
*In the ''Prime'' cartoon, Arcee's [[hologram|holographic]] driver is named "[[Sadie]]".<ref>[[Darkness Rising, Part 1]]
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* All of the Autobots in ''Prime'' [[size changing|change size]] between [[alternate mode]]s, but it's way more noticeable with Arcee's transformation from a vehicle roughly the size of Jack to a robot just a little shorter than Bumblebee. Her tires do not change size when she transforms. One can see a little regular-sized tire in her back, and small half-tires on her calves.
*Arcee's chest panels [[:File:PrimeArcee PinkParts.jpg|fluctuate]] in color from episode to episode. Sometimes, they're pink; other times, they're clear. They seem to be clear more often than pink, though.
*Arcee's blue color scheme is due to the writers not wanting to make Jack look silly by putting him on a pink motorcycle.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-prime-39/nycc-2011-transformers-prime-panel-tony-todd-is-dreadwing-nathan-fillion-to-voice-a-transformer-173567/ NYCC 2011 Transformers: Prime Panel at TFW2005]</ref>
*Arcee's show model is the basis for the non-toy character [[Akiba Prime]].
*In the Japanese dub of ''Transformers: Prime'', Arcee's catchphrase of "scrap" was rendered "saiaku" (最悪), a phrase that literally translates to "the worst". It is often used by young women as an expression of frustration or irritation.
*Arcee's body parts are available to use in the Hub website's [[Vector Sigma Bot Builder]] online game. Normally, you cannot configure a generic 'bot using all Arcee parts, but you can see what one would look like at right through the magic of Photoshop.
*In the [[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|3DS version of ''Rise of the Dark Spark'']], there are obvious hints at a relationship between Cliffjumper and Arcee. Cliffjumper refers to Arcee as, "Darling," and Hound flat out says to Arcee, "I see why Cliffjumper likes you, boss."
*A proposed [[Fun Publications]] [[BotCon]] [[exclusive]] was a redeco of [[#Prime|''Prime: Robots in Disguise'' Arcee]] into a "Femme Fatale" version of [[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|''GoBots'' Cy-Kill]].<ref>[http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc14/bc14br.html BotCon 2014 attendee report]</ref>

===Arms Up Modes===
In the Japanese ''Prime'' toyline, Arcee has named powered-up modes when given various [[Arms Micron]]s in certain configurations:

*'''Slasher Mode''' (スラッシャーモード ''Surasshā Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.2, B.H., C.L., O.P., R.A.
: Seen on her box-back photo, in this mode Arcee uses the [[Slash Cannon α]] on her right arm, [[Slash Cannon β]] on the other, with [[C.L.]] on her right wing and [[B.H.]] on her left.

*'''Crushgize Nebula Scythe''' (クラッシュジアイズネビュラーサイズ ''Kurasshujiaizu Nebyurā Saizu'')
**''Arms Microns'': Arc, B.H., Balo, Gora, O.P., R.A., Zori
: This rather overblown mode, revealed in the ''[[From the Cybertron Satellite, Transformers Division|Cybertron Satellite]]'' portion of "[[Scrapheap (episode)|Freezing Transformation!? Terror of the Minicons]]", starts with Arcee holding the [[Nebula Scythe]] Combo Weapon. Add [[Gora]] to her right wing, [[R.A.]] to her left, [[Zori]] to her back and [[Balo]] in drill mode to the end of Zori's tail, and boom! The "gize" part of the name seems to be from the word "energize".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Arcee''' (アーシー ''Āshī'')

==References==
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[[Category:Fall of Cybertron Autobots]]
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Ratchet (WFC)

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:''Ratchet is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:PrimeRatcht.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|If we don't get Jeffrey Combs versus [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lance Henriksen]] before this series ends, there will be much, much sobbing.]]
The [[Autobot]]s' medical officer, '''Ratchet''' has a dry wit, often giving his wounded comrades a hard time for taking hits he somehow avoids. With the Energon supplies becoming less and less, he works to find new ways to make do, and he'd ''really'' prefer if the Autobots didn't risk injury (or worse) to protect [[human]]s. He'd also prefer the humans weren't brought back to [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]] but since ''he'' is unfamiliar with human tech, he needs [[Raf Esquivel]] to help him out. However, for all his views on humans, deep down Ratchet ''admires'' what the tiny fleshies bring to the fight. Maybe he'll even warm up to them.

[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s best friend, and ''de facto'' second-in-command, you'd be hard-pressed to find another Autobot who loves his leader as much as he does. Yet this is not to say Ratchet has blind faith in him; Ratchet resents Optimus' lack of action over the years regarding ending the war and many missed chances to kill [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]. He's as flawed as any normal being would be, and a huge vice is his Cybertronian pride. At least once, it's nearly cost him the life of a friend. Furthermore, his grief for his destroyed [[Cybertron (planet)|home world]] is what drives him. He didn't take the loss of Cybertron very well, and would do almost anything to get it back some day.

He works with the [[Mini-Con]] [[R.A.]], and has recently struck up a partnership with the taciturn [[Undertone]].

{{quote|In a contest between resources and ingenuity, never underestimate ingenuity.|Ratchet, [[Transformers: Exodus|Exodus]]}}

==Fiction==
===''The Covenant of Primus''===
Ratchet emerged from the [[Well of All Sparks]] before the [[Age of Wrath]]. In his youth, Ratchet left his primitive village behind, and embarked on a pilgrimage to the newly-founded city of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. There, he applied as a student to Iacon's medical units, and learned medical science from the then-current chief of surgery [[Remedy (COP)|Remedy]]. Over time, Ratchet slowly climbed the ranks, and eventually became a junior medic in one of Iacon's many medical clinics.

One day, Ratchet was interrupted from his studies by the arrival of [[Coldwelder]], a working-class [[Energon]] miner who claimed to have been abducted and experimented on by [[Quintesson|aliens]]. Ratchet was skeptical of his claims, but ordered his intern [[Crankhandle]] to help run a diagnostic on the frightened victim. While examining his patient with his colleague [[Cogwheel]], Ratchet discovered a probe of unknown origin had indeed been planted in Coldwelder's cranium. Ratchet was more than happy to let Cogwheel deal with the fallout of this strange discovery but felt guilty afterwords for passing the matter off to her to deal with.

Much later, the outbreak of the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]], Ratchet chose to join the Autobots under Optimus Prime. After the Autobot scout [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] was grievously wounded by Megatron, Ratchet attempted to patch up Bumblebee. Although the medic was able to repair Bumblebee's leg, he was unable to save his voice box, rendering Bumblebee mute.

After the great exodus from Cybertron, Ratchet was one of the handful of Autobots who travelled to [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus}}

===Aligned novels===
Ratchet made his name during the [[Praxus|Praxian]] stalemate. He and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] fought in a few battles together, during which he taught the younger Autobot how to apply first aid. He repaired his throat after [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] destroyed it in revenge for ejecting the [[AllSpark]] into space, enabling Bumblebee to speak from time to time.

After Megatron invaded [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and took the [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]], Ratchet welded [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]]'s face and stabilized [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]]'s condition. When [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] asked Ratchet if Omega was ready to fight again, the offended medic responded that if Optimus wanted Omega to fight after the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] blew him out of the sky, [[Dark Energon]]-infused gladiators attacked him and Megatron tore out the Chamber out of his chest, then he wanted another surgeon. Optimus knew he had to apologize but was too preoccupied with rescuing [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel Prime]].

When the Autobots left Cybertron on the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'', Ratchet informed Optimus and [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] that Omega was repaired and ready to distract [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

Onboard the ''Ark'', Ratchet figured out that the hologram projected by the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] was a star map, and pointed out the "you are here" symbol. He then wondered why it was in the Matrix in the first place, thus getting into a minor skirmish with [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]] about whether or not the Matrix was sentient/magical. When the Autobots figured out where exactly they were, Ratchet marvelled at the fact that anyone came that far.

Ratchet was on the second landing party to [[Velocitron]] with "[[Makeshift (Prime)|Hound]]", [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe,]] and [[Prowl (WFC)|Prowl]]. He commented that a Velocitronian's only limit to racing a million times was how often they could be put back together. He "answered" Optimus' question about whether the Velocitronians would surrender their identity to survivve by saying it was a gloomy question. He was participant in meetings with Optimus, [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]], and [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]], and later Hound. He was also working on repairing the [[Space bridge]] near Velocitron, and acting as Bumblebee's translator.

Ratchet was the first to leap into action and ask what happened when 777 sabotaged the ''Ark'', and the engines exploded. But they got it repaired, and left Velocitron. Ratchet wanted to just hurry up and go through the Space Bridge, since he didn't fix it for nothing. When they went through, they were at [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]]. Ratchet commented that another Space Bridge in the area hadn't been used since before its records began. But it was working. Apparently, he never would have guessed that Bots built the Space Bridge. He, not unlike [[Perceptor (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Perceptor]], suggested that they make additional repairs on the planet.

Ratchet was on the first landing team to Junkion, with Optimus, Hound, and Ironhide. They all died. Or at least, they would have, if Optimus hadn't shown off the Matrix to the Junkions who were scavenging them, starting with Ratchet. He was the one who figured out that [[Wreck-Gar (Prime)|Wreck-Gar]] wanted to know what the Matrix was. He noticed that Hound was gone. Hmm... but he was distracted when he had to tell a random Junkion that it couldn't have his leg.

Optimus noted to himself that even though Ratchet had [[Corrostop]], he didn't want an outbreak of [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust.]]

Ratchet correctly assumed that Wreck-Gar thought Optimus was making up the stuff about the Matrix and the AllSpark so that he'd feel bad and help them.

Once more, when 777's second bomb exploded, Ratchet was the first to give a verbal reaction. He scanned for [[Spark|Sparks]] on the Ark, but had too much interference to get an accurate reading. The best he could come up with was "Lots of survivors." He, Jazz, [[Clocker (Prime)|Clocker]], and [[Mainspring]] were the damage assessment team. He and Ironhide were also put in charge for when Optimus went to the tomb of [[Solus Prime]]. Before that, though, he examined Optimus after the Matrix told him to jump into a furnace (seriously).

He analyzed the body of the [[Junkion (species)|Junkion]] named [[Shearbolt]] to determine that he died before Prowl talked to him, leading to the realization that their traitor was a [[Shifter]]. He then had the unpleasant task of explaining to Wreck-Gar that a Shifter was responsible.

Ratchet told Optimus about the distress signal from [[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]] about how Velocitron was now at full-out war.

When the Decepticons arrived on Junkion, Ratchet helped his colleagues give Optimus a status report. But that was overshadowed by the [[Blades of Time]] all coming together. Ratchet and Optimus simultaneously realized that it was a gateway. He escaped what was left of Junkion with the rest of the Autobots on the ''Ark''. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

Ratchet was one of Optimus Prime's senior advisors on the Ark when the Matrix led them to [[Aquatron]]. Although the planet seemed like a godsend, Optimus confided in his old friend and physician that he felt adrift from the Matrix, a deep disconnect down to his spark that told him something was wrong with him or the Matrix. Ratchet joined the main Autobot force when it touched down on the planet, making contact with the [[Inquirata (Prime)|Curator]] and his Aquatronians. When Optimus experienced an unexplained seizure, the Autobots were forced to bring him to Doctor [[Xeros]] at an Aquatronian medical facility. Although Ratchet monitored the doctor's treatment, he failed to recognize the deep scans their hosts were performing on the Prime and his Matrix.

The Curator was revealed as a [[Quintesson]] with a grudge millions of years old against the Cybertronians, and Ratchet was among the Autobots who were captured and forced to face trial on ridiculous trumped up charges. The Autobots and Decepticons escaped during the trial and met up with their comrades aboard the Ark and Nemesis to fend off the [[Sharkticon (COP)|Sharkticon]] hordes and ultimately escape the planet. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Uniend 610.23 Zeta]], {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} Ratchet was present for a meeting amongst [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]'s most trusted lieutenants about [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]]'s plan to launch the [[AllSpark]] into space to keep it from [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]], and then took part in the Battle at [[Tyger Pax]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee at Tyger Pax}}

===IDW ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:PrimeComicRatchet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Don't worry, you won't see me as dirty later. Except [[Stronger, Faster|that one time]]...]]
Ratchet was stationed at the Autobot base on [[Earth]], opening the [[GroundBridge]] for Optimus to retrieve [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]. He reattached her arm after [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] had blown it off. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|Transformers: Prime}}

===''Prime'' cartoon===
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Ratchet served during the war for Cybertron, where he "proved [his] mettle". {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}} After Bumblebee was captured at [[Tyger Pax]], Ratchet was the field medic who put him back together, but was unable to repair his voice box. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} At some point after Team Prime arrived on Earth, Ratchet modified [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]]'s jet, allowing him to fly without a flight suit. {{storylink|Grill (episode)|Grill}}

[[File:DarknessRising1-Ratchettragedy.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|You're drawn to his eccentric charm.]]
Ratchet was on patrol in a snowy region when news came in that [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] was battling a platoon of Decepticons solo. Ratchet and the other Autobots returned to base to [[GroundBridge]] to his location, but they were too late: Cliffjumper was nowhere to be found, and Ratchet confirmed that his lifesigns had ceased. It was Ratchet's belief that continuing to operate on Earth and aid humans would only result in more tragedy, and as such, it was no surprise that he vehemently objected to the Autobots becoming protectors for [[Jack Darby]], [[Miko Nakadai]] and [[Raf Esquivel]] soon after—though the kids' incessant questions didn't help their case, either. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 1}} Ratchet's mood was not improved when [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] accidentally crushed an important piece of lab equipment, and things got even worse when he was instructed to stay at base and watch the children while the other Autobots investigated the reappearance of Cliffjumper's lifesign. He did, however, start to see the value in the kids' presence when Raf helped him in his continuing struggle to master the inferior human computer systems the Autobot base ran on. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}}

[[File:Optimus Prime Ratchet Zombies Darkness Rising 4.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|He performs surgery with these. Carefully.]]

The other Autobots returned from their mission with the news that Cliffjumper had been revived by the Decepticons as a [[zombie]], and when [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] began feeling dizzy, Ratchet examined her and discovered a trace of the mysterious substance that had reanimated Cliffjumper. While examining it, Ratchet inadvertently dripped some on the equipment Bulkhead had broken, transforming it into a vicious little monster. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} Optimus Prime helped him destroy it, and both realized that they were dealing with [[Dark Energon]]. Realizing that [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] planned to raise an undead army, Optimus took Ratchet to the site of an ancient Transformer battle on Earth, but they arrived too late to prevent Megatron from using Dark Energon to raise the buried corpses of the warriors as a legion of [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcons]]. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}} Ratchet quickly deduced that the best way to stop them was dismemberment, and he and Prime managed to cut down the entire army despite the debilitating effects of the Dark Energon. Ratchet sustained a wounded arm in the battle, and Megatron was able to escape. Returning to base, Ratchet examined some plans that Miko had obtained from the Decepticons in his absence, and speculated that the villains were building a [[space bridge]] so they could use Dark Energon to raise a zombie army on Cybertron and bring them to Earth. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 4}} Given his injuries, Ratchet stayed behind at the base to man the GroundBridge, sending the other Autobots to the orbiting space bridge for battle, and the kids to the [[Giant Sized Array]] radio telescope in [[Texas]] to cut off the Decepticons' targeting systems. While the kids failed in their endeavour, they did succeed in obtaining schematics for the space bridge, which Ratchet used to determine a means of destroying it. He instructed Arcee's team on sabotaging the space bridge, and bridged everyone back to base before the inevitable explosion. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

[[File:Masters&Students-Ratch-animator.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|I was busy pushing bodies around as you well know and what would a note say, Dan? "Cat dead, details later"?]]
Ratchet was initially dismayed to learn that the kids were working on their school science projects in the Autobot base, but changed his tune in short order and actually turned down combat duty to stay and help them. Unfortunately for the kids, he completely took over their projects, building a large volcano for Raf, a model of Cybertron for Miko, and an advanced engine for Jack. None of the projects went down well at school, much to Ratchet's disappointment. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

[[File:Scrapheap-Ratchetinfected.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|My kingdom for a [[Charlie Fong]]!]]
Ratchet found another reason to be grateful to have the kids around when a [[Scraplet]] infestation in the base left the GroundBridge disabled, and Ratchet at the mercy of the metal-eating monsters. Jack used a fire extinguisher to freeze the creatures, saving Ratchet's life, but the medic remained too badly wounded to effect repairs to the GroundBridge, and had to entrust the job to the humans. They succeeded, and Ratchet was able to patch up himself and his fellow Autobots. {{storylink|Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap}} Problems with the GroundBridge lingered, however, and Ratchet continued working on it during a visit by Bulkhead's old buddy [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]], while trying to ignore the distractions caused by the other Autobots partying and Wheeljack and Bulkhead [[Cybertronian sport#Lobbing|Lobbing]]. The delays caused by Ratchet's repairs resulted in "Wheeljack" being exposed as [[Makeshift (Prime)|a Decepticon imposter]]. Unfortunately this also meant that when the real Wheeljack turned up, Ratchet was subjected to another round of partying. {{storylink|Con Job}}

Ratchet continued to play the role of tech support over the Autobots next few missions. He remained in the base to monitor the Autobot convoy as they transported the [[Dynamic Nuclear Generation System]] across country, alerting them to an incoming Decepticon attack and—under protest—working with Raf to GroundBride Miko and Jack onto a moving track so they could stop the forces of [[MECH]] from stealing the device. [[File:SickMind-RatchetOP.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"I've heard that humans quite often wake up late with black eyes. They call the condition 'a hangover'."]]{{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}} The episode burnt Raf's laptop out, but Ratchet later helped fix it. {{storylink|Raf's Notes|Raf's Notes #5}} When the Decepticons stole an [[Energon Harvester]] from a human museum, Ratchet manufactured a replica to replace it, despite Bulkhead breaking his frame welder. {{storylink|Deus ex Machina}}

When Ratchet and Optimus Prime investigated a [[Autobot plague ship|crashed Autobot vessel]], they discovered that it was a plague ship carrying deceased victims of [[Cybonic plague]], a pathogen created by Megatron himself. Optimus contracted the disease, which was beyond even Ratchet's ability to cure. In search of a treatment, he GroundBridged Arcee and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] to the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' so they could obtain the cure from Megatron's mind via [[cortical psychic patch]], a controversial procedure banned by Autobots but in which Ratchet was well-versed. While watching the link, Ratchet recorded the hologram of the plague antidote Megatron showed to Bumblebee, and was able later to produce a cure for Optimus. {{storylink|Sick Mind}}

[[File:OutHead-RatchetMegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I hope you've been practicing "The Man Who Sold the World", Megatron, because you're about to be ''unplugged!'']] While Optimus was given a clean bill of health, Ratchet was more concerned about Bumblebee; learning that the scout was seeing visions of Megatron following their psychic link-up, Ratchet induced a shutdown to give his systems time to recover. The other Autobots soon left the base on a mission, and Ratchet was left with Raf, who was sitting by the unconscious Bumblebee's beside. Trying to explain to the boy that this was unnecessary only resulted in Ratchet being subjected to pictures of Raf's family. The discussion was cut off when Bumblebee suddenly reactivated, leading Ratchet to realize that Megatron had taken over his comrade's body. Unable to stop the Decepticon leader from escaped through the GroundBridge, Ratchet and Raf followed Bumblebee to the Decepticon ship. There, they tried fruitlessly to stop Bumblebee from restoring Megatron to life, and had to retreat under Vehicon fire after Megatron's resurrection. They found Optimus's team on the ground below and returned to base where Ratchet checked over Bumblebee's processor for any lingering traces of Megatron's influence. {{Storylink|Out of His Head}}

Due to his experience with Dark Energon, Ratchet—much to his own surprise—was tapped to take Arcee's place when the Autobots deployed to confront [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. He was attempting to use the evil substance to revive [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]. Discovering that the kids had followed them through the GroundBridge, Ratchet ordered them to head back through to base, only for a Decepticon GroundBridge to manifest at the same time, causing a disruption that hurled the children into a parallel dimension. Deducing what had happened, Ratchet was able to recreate the original feedback loop and create a portal the kids could escape through. {{storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}} Ratchet also went into the field on the Autobots' next mission: After patching up Bulkhead following a skirmish with Breakdown in which the 'Con was captured by MECH, Ratchet joined the effort to rescue the Decepticon. Following an Energon signature but finding only Breakdown's plucked-out eye, Ratchet attempted to extract images from the eye to help in the Autobots' search, but it turned out to be a MECH booby-trap, and the team only narrowly avoided the bomb explosion that resulted. They later tracked down Bulkhead in time to rescue him from Starscream and Breakdown. {{storylink|Operation: Breakdown}}

[[File:StrongerFaster-Ratchetvehicle.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|A rare sighting.]]

Ratchet was at the Autobot base when Jack and Arcee brought Jack's mother [[June Darby]] in to introduce her to everyone. {{storylink|Crisscross}} When June next visited the base, the on-edge medic assumed her car was a Decepticon, though he didn't object to June, a nurse, respectfully calling him "doctor". While in conversation with June, Ratchet detected a magnetic anomaly and dispatched Bulkhead and Arcee to find it; when they returned magnetically stuck together, he realized they were dealing with a [[polarity gauntlet]]. Bulkhead and Arcee were eventually able to retrieve the device and present it to Ratchet back at base. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}} Ratchet's tech expertise came to the fore again when he detected the activation of a crashed [[Harbinger|Decepticon ship's]] computer system: when Bumblebee and Arcee returned from investigating with two frozen comrades and the pieces of the [[immobilizer|Decepticon weapon]] responsible, Ratchet was able to repair the weapon and use it to restore Prime and Bulkhead. {{storylink|Partners}}

[[File:StrongerFaster-crouchbehindrock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Stronger, faster, squatter]]

While most of the other Autobots went out to retrieve a [[Cybertronian data cylinder]], Ratchet stayed at base to monitor them and annoy Bulkhead and Miko by interrupting their monster truck footage. After Bulkhead was called out to the field, Ratchet assigned Miko cleaning duties, only for her to rush off to the battlefield and inadvertently cause the contents of the cylinder to be downloaded into Bulkhead's brain. Ratchet initially gave Bulkhead a clean bill of health, but when Bulkhead started painting complex formulae, Ratchet made two discoveries: one, that the formulae were for [[Synthetic Energon]], and two, that the data was slowly destroying Bulkhead's mind. After much of the formula had been transcribed, the data was beamed out of Bulkhead into space, leaving him comatose. Ratchet's suggestion that a familiar sound might rouse the Autobot led Miko to wake Bulkhead with her guitar playing. {{storylink|T.M.I.}} Working from Bulkhead's incomplete formula, Ratchet appeared to succeed in synthesizing a batch of the Synthetic Energon, and used himself as a guinea pig. Supercharged by the new substance at the expense of his mental stability, Ratchet was made strong enough to trash an entire squad of Vehicons on his own and to throw Bulkhead through a wall while sparring.The effects of the Synthetic Energon made him act on impulse without thinking-he even started to flirt with Arcee, clicking and winking at her as he walked past with a "How's it hummin?", leaving her surprised. When he went too far in interrogating a [[Decepticon Miner]] under the auspices of being more "proactive", Optimus was forced to confine him to base. Escaping, Ratchet went to confront Megatron on his own, infiltrating the Decepticons' Energon mine and making short work of Breakdown. Unfortunately, Megatron proved more formidable than expected, and Ratchet was seriously injured and left for Knock Out to extract a sample of Synthetic Energon from. Drained of the SynthEn and its effects, Ratchet managed to raise enough strength to fight back and destroy the sample, and was then rescued by the other Autobots and taken back to base for treatment. Ratchet apologized for his behavior, though at least they'd gained a supply of real energon from the mine out of it. {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}}

[[File:OneShallRise2-Ratchethumans.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|Professionals never look directly into the camera, Ratchet]]

When Optimus became interested in a prophecy from the [[Covenant of Primus]], Ratchet worked out that the planetary alignment mentioned was mere days away. Shortly after, Raf was injured during a mission to stop the Decepticons from gathering space bridge components. Ratchet's lack of knowledge of human physiology left him unable to treat the boy, so June Darby was called in to help. Ratchet refused to allow Raf to be taken to a hospital, as human doctors wouldn't have any experience with Energon contamination, but it became apparent that this wasn't what was ailing Raf. He had been infected with ''Dark'' Energon. Ratchet took the risk of applying an infusion of regular Energon to neutralize the Dark, and Raf recovered. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} Immediately thereafter, Ratchet joined Arcee and Bulkhead in rescuing Optimus from a battle with Megatron, then set about analyzing a series of natural disasters that began across the Earth, deducing that the tremors were the heartbeat of [[Unicron]], slumbering within the Earth and threatening to destroy it with his awakening. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} When Megatron approached the Autobots with the proposition of an alliance to stop Unicron from destroying the planet, Ratchet scoffed at the notion. He grew increasing incredulous to the idea that he would GroundBridge the others into the Earth's very core, following co-ordinates provided by Megatron, so the Optimus could use the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to deactivate Unicron, but was nonetheless forced to go along with the plan when Optimus accepted Megatron's offer. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}}

Remaining behind in the base with the kids and unable to contact the Autobots in the planet's depths, Ratchet passed the time telling the humans about the old days when Optimus was known as Orion Pax, and was shocked to discover that Optimus had entrusted Jack with the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] before departing. A final tremor that Ratchet shielded the kids from heralded Autobot victory within the planet, but when Ratchet GroundBridged the others back, they reported that Optimus had lost his memories and left with Megatron. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Ratchet reasoned that Optimus's amnesia must have been a result of emptying the Matrix, and that the solution involved the Key to Vector Sigma. He started tinkering with the GroundBridge to try and find a way to reach Cybertron, though when frustrations boiled over at their lack of success in getting Optimus back, Jack suggested they might use the Decepticon space bridge instead. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}} Thought he continued his tinkering with the GroundBridge, Ratchet was demoralized after the first test with Raf's radio-controlled car resulted in the destruction of the toy. The real breakthrough came when Ratchet was able to trade Starscream medical attention for information on the location of the space bridge. Once Ratchet and the others secured the bridge, they sent Jack and Arcee through. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 2}} Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bumblebee monitored Jack's progress from the Earth end of the space bridge. When Megatron arrived to take back control, Ratchet and the others were tossed around like rag dolls by the Decepticon leader. Luckily for them their plan worked out, and Ratchet and the others returned to base with Optimus Prime restored. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 3}}

[[File:OperationBumblebee2 delirious Ratchet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"And if you think that's bad, you should see what I did to Injector!"]]
Optimus and Ratchet followed an ancient signal and tangled with Megatron in the process of retrieving the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]]. After another altercation, Ratchet discovered that Bumblebee's [[transformation cog|T-cog]] was missing. Ratchet was therefore forced to pick Raf up after school, and told the boy the story of how Bumblebee's voice box was damaged. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}} Guilty at his inability to do anything, Ratchet offered his own T-cog and, after talking Optimus into letting him do it, selected Arcee to perform the procedure. When he woke up, it was to find that the operation had been aborted, and Bumblebee had gone after MECH. Bumblebee returned with his lost cog, though in a damaged state, and Ratchet was able to repair it enough to restore Bumblebee's ability to transform. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

Ratchet patched up Wheeljack after the Wrecker returned to Earth and was involved in a scrap with [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}} Receiving another coded signal, Ratchet and Bulkhead again found Starscream in need of medical attention. They were able to get information from him about Airachnid's status and the presence of an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] on Earth. {{storylink|Crossfire}} When Fowler was attacked by a truck that resembled Optimus, Ratchet tracked Optimus's signal to confirm the offender wasn't their leader. They soon established that the truck in question was a MECH-created clone of Optimus, and Ratchet patched up the Autobots after they defeated Silas and [[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]]. {{storylink|Nemesis Prime (episode)|Nemesis Prime}} Ratchet dispatched Optimus, Bumblebee and Arcee to investigate underground activity, and they returned with Airachnid in stasis lock. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

Optimus's attempt to attack the ''Nemesis'' with the [[spark extractor|Spark Extractor]] failed, Ratchet returned the stasis-locked team to base and GroundBridged Fowler and the kids aboard the ship. With his guidance, they were able to shut down the intelligence guiding the ship, and he even stepped aboard himself to retrieve Jack and the [[transfer drive]] full of [[Project Iacon]] data. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

[[File:Prime-TriageRatchet&Wheeljack.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"Hey Wheeljack, do you think it looks weird when I cross my legs? I mean, I can't help if I have such girly legs."]]
When Optimus decided they would need to secure all four relics at once, Ratchet pointed out that they were short-manned as it was. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} He was unimpressed when Optimus decided that Wheeljack would be called in to help him on his part of the mission since he was a capable warrior. {{storylink|Triangulation}} Ratchet disapproved of Wheeljack's behavior as they set off in the ''[[Jackhammer (Prime)|Jackhammer]]'', particularly being called "Doc". He also was far from impressed with his methods when attacking Soundwave and Laserbeak before they crashed landed. When they noticed the downed Laserbeak nearby, he struck on the idea of implanting a virus into the disabled Laserbeak, which would upload the Iacon database to the Autobots. With Raf's help, Ratchet managed to do so while Wheeljack kept Soundwave occupied, and managed to keep out of sight when Soundwave arrived to retrieve his pet. He attempted to convince Wheeljack to return to base for repairs, and thanked him for his back-up. When he returned to base, he found the virus was downloading the Iacon database into the Autobots' mainframe, but his joy was short-lived, as Bulkhead came flying through the GroundBridge with a smoking back {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}} after being shot by [[Hardshell]] {{storylink|Toxicity}}

Ratchet worked frantically to stabilize Bulkhead and, with the help of the other Autobots, managed to succeed, though Bulkhead remained comatose. {{storylink|Hurt}} He continued to oversee Bulkhead's recovery, though when Miko started getting too rough with the patient, he insisted on Bulkhead taking a break. {{storylink|Out of the Past}} When Raf found a report of a Cybertronian escape pod, Optimus took a team including Ratchet to investigate. Ratchet was almost slagged by an Insecticon, but newcomer [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] arrived and helped them win. Back at base, Ratchet was left in charge when Optimus went out to retrieve some [[Red Energon]], and Smokescreen talked him into letting the new Autobot go to Optimus's aid with the [[phase shifter]]. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

Bulkhead continued to try to pressure Ratchet into letting him go back out on missions. Ratchet finally gave in during a mission to protect a military base, though rather than sending him to the base, Ratchet sent him to protect Raf, who was hacking into a [[Project Damocles]] satellite. {{storylink|The Human Factor}}

Ratchet chastised Smokescreen when the latter broke cover to scare a human driver. After Optimus Prime opined that Smokescreen needed a human to teach him local customs and rules, Ratchet grumbled in disgust at the idea of ''yet another'' human being included in their ranks, to the uncomfortable silence of the other Autobots. Shortly thereafter, Ratchet detected a homing beacon from an Iacon relic and a team led by Optimus was sent to investigate in [[China]]. However, a second signal was then detected elsewhere, and with Optimus's team unreachable, Smokescreen was sent in their steed. After discovering that the Decepticons have found the legendary [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]], Smokescreen was captured and Jack was pursued by Insecticons, but not before he managed to notify Ratchet of their findings, who GroundBridges to Optimus' position to fill him in. After the Autobots returned to base with their new prize, Ratchet sent Jack home at the request of a very angry Arcee and witnessed Optimus Prime enter a trance while communing through the Star Saber with [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]]. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

Ratchet was happy at the news they would soon be able to return home to Cybertron, and when the other Autobots realized they would have to leave their human friends behind, Ratchet suggested they could sent texts. While he worked on a way for Optimus to properly wield the Star Saber, the weapon was later destroyed in battle against Megatron, though Ratchet reminded the other Autobots that Optimus didn't need a sword to be a great warrior. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}} Ratchet found himself busy repairing the other Autobots after a number of failed missions to retrieve Omega Keys and monitored Optimus's work decoding coordinates, though it turned out that the final set were a picture of Smokescreen. {{storylink|Hard Knocks}}

With Smokescreen a prisoner on the Decepticon warship, Ratchet was unable to track him, but once he freed himself, Ratchet provided a GroundBridge back to base. A short time later they were contacted by Starscream, who offered the final key they needed in exchange for the replacement of his T-Cog. Unfortunately it was a trap, and while Optimus, Ratchet and Bulkhead were examining the corpse of one of [[Starscream clone (Prime)|Starscream's clones]], the real Starscream made off with the Omega Keys. {{storylink|Inside Job}}

[[File:DarkestHour-Ratchetleaves.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"And Optimus, before you come back to life, be sure to tell Cliffjumper he still needs to pay his medical bills!"]]

Ratchet was surprised to learn that Optimus had kept the existence of the [[Omega Lock]] a secret from everyone. After Optimus modified the GroundBridge into a space bridge, he sent the other Autobots to Cybertron and monitored their progress, though he had to field a phone call from Jack asking why no one had picked the kids up. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} He had to field a further call from June Darby, and a power surge that disrupted the base computers. When the Autobots finally returned, it was with the news that the Omega Lock had been destroyed, much to Ratchet's shock. When the Decepticons attacked the base, the Autobots were forced to abandon it, and Ratchet GroundBridged to a location elsewhere in the US. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

[[File:Scattered-Bigfoot.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"If I have to kill humans for beef jerky one more time..."]]
Despondent, Ratchet hid in a scrap yard outside Woodland Park. He was caught on camera, enabling Bumblebee and Raf to track him down, but they were at first unable to convince him to help them fight back. After experiencing a change of heart, he followed them to the ''Harbinger'' to help get the ship working. {{storylink|Scattered}}
He was able to get the ship's GroundBridge working and used the Decepticon frequencies to contact Fowler. The trio were shortly after joined by most of the other surviving Autobots, accompanied by the newly arrived [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}}

Ratchet utilized the GroundBridge and communications systems to lure the Decepticons away from [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]], with the help of the kids. He monitored the Autobot attack on the fortress from the ''Harbinger'', and was thus able to detect the incoming Optimus Prime, shortly before their leader turned up to save the day. The Autobots later assembled at a human military base, and Ratchet assured Smokescreen that he'd made the right choice in repairing Optimus with the Forge. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}} As the others salvaged technology from their old base, Ratchet set about getting it working in their new one and was able to make the GroundBridge functional again. He also restarted his work on Synthetic Energon, though he warned Optimus not to expect too much. {{storylink|Project Predacon}}

Upon Wheeljack’s return to base after a failed mission, Ratchet asked him to accompany Arcee on another errand, lest Ratchet be forced to abandon his work and venture out of his comfort zone. Though Ratchet was later willing to go out to fetch yet another Predacon bone from a museum (albeit grudgingly), agent Fowler informed him that this was unnecessary, as he was more than capable of retrieving it himself. Things went wrong once more, unfortunately, and the Decepticons acquired the fossil once more. {{storylink|Plus One (Prime)|Plus One}}

[[File:PersuasionFaceoff.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Look, if you've kidnapped me to ask about Char Gar Gothikon, let me tell you, this is not the craziest thing the fandom has done!]]
While he continued his work, he also had to take time out to repair the other Autobots, such as when Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack came off second-best against [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]]. {{storylink|Evolution}} He did his best to replace Magnus's hand, but was only able to manage a claw. When the Decepticons began stealing technology, the Autobots captured Soundwave, but were unable to make him talk. Ratchet decided he would have to open the Decepticon up to examine his hard drives directly, but Soundwave merely erased the drives and crashed himself. A Decepticon attack on the [[Solaris particle collider]] led Ratchet to believe that the Decepticons intended to repair the Omega Lock, but while the ramifications were still sinking in, Laserbeak reactivated Soundwave with new orders to capture Ratchet. {{storylink|Minus One}} Ratchet awoke on the ''Nemesis'' and was subjected to a cortical psychic patch. Once the Decepticons realized that he had not completed the Synthetic Energon formula, Megatron revealed to him the reason why he had been captured. The threat of harm to the other Autobots was not enough, but when Megatron explained that the Synth-En was needed to restore Cybertron, and showed off the Omega Lock they'd restored, he reluctantly agreed to help. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

[[File:TFP-Synthesis-PredakingandRatchet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|Ratchet: "Sean Connery called, he wants his title back." Predaking: "But I ''am'' the last dragon!"]]
With the help of Decepticon engineering, Ratchet completed the formula, but rather than hand Megatron the power to recreate Cybertron, he attempted to destroy it and escape. Unfortunately he was stopped by Megatron, who handed him over to Predaking as a plaything. Though Predaking was keen to avenge his lost species, Ratchet revealed what he'd overheard—that Megatron had allowed the Autobots to find Shockwave's lab. During Predaking's resulting rampage, Ratchet dropped the warship's shields and made contact with the other Autobots to let them know Megatron was planning to cyberform Earth. {{storylink|Synthesis}} Ratchet made his way to the Omega Lock control room, where he did his best to keep Shockwave occupied. He and the others present witnessed Bumblebee kill Megatron, and he was overjoyed to discover that Bumblebee's voice box had been restored as the result of exposure to the Omega Lock. The Autobot took control of the warship and used the Omega Lock to restore Cybertron, however Ratchet opted to remain on Earth to help the humans. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

Ratchet was called to Cybertron to tend to Ultra Magnus, after the Wrecker was wrecked by some new Predacons. When Unicron arrived on the planet using Megatron's body, Ratchet was able to use the ship's sensors to pinpoint Unicron's location, and reveal that the dark god was raising an army of undead Predacons with which to destroy Primus. He was kept out of the battle to save Cybertron, but was present when Optimus sacrificed himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

===Titan ''Prime'' comic===
[[File:Titan4.1 Ratchet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Optimus! Check out my giant shoulder pads!!!]]
In the lower levels of Outpost Omega One, Ratchet constructed a training room he dubbed the [[Safe]], though the inferior Earth materials he was forced to use meant it wasn't as good as it could be. Indeed, Bulkhead began tearing his way merrily through it, only to uncover something Ratchet hadn't found—a nuclear missile which promptly activated. Ratchet and Raf were assigned to deal with the bomb, however as Raf was the expert on Earth technology, Ratchet deferred to him. Luckily Raf managed to reverse the bomb's timer, and Fowler arrived with some scientists to take care of the rest. After Bulkhead apologized to Ratchet for smashing up the room, Ratchet suggested he and Raf design a new Safe. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1|The Safe and the Failsafe}}

Optimus took the Autobots and the kids on a trip to [[Valley of Fire State Park]]. When Raf impressed the others with his knowledge and worried it made himself sound geeky, Ratchet proclaimed himself Autobot geek and proud. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.2|War Story}}

Ratchet alerted the others to the fact that Fowler was about to arrive at the base, and indeed, Fowler walked in moments later with the news that the Decepticons had hijacked [[Yamal|a nuclear ship]] near [[Antarctica]]. When Optimus, Bumblebee and Ratchet arrived at the ship, they found the crew were unconscious. Ratchet wondered what could have done that, but he was answered moments later by [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], who knocked him out with a [[sonic lance]]. By the time Ratchet recovered, the fight was over, and as they returned to the base, he said he'd be fine so long as he stayed away from any ice. Unfortunately in their absence, the others had turned the base into an ice skating ring, and as soon as he stepped through the GroundBridge, Ratchet ended up flat on his back. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.3|Ice Breaker}}

[[File:Titan4.4 Ratchet.jpg|thumb|270px]]
As Raf was playing ''[[Invasionauts II]]'' at the base, Ratchet observed that the alien robots he was fighting in the game looked a lot like Autobots. After the game hypnotised Raf into operating the GroundBridge and letting in Vehicons, Ratchet initially blamed Bulkhead, but helped hold off the Decepticons until Raf recovered and reconfigured the bridge to suck the Vehicons back in. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.4|Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!}}

Upon hearing that several schools in Jasper County had mysteriously exploded, Jack came to suspect something was afoot. Ratchet approved of the way Jack was starting to sound as paranoid as him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.5|School Is... Out!}}

After the [[President of the United States]] was kidnapped by Starscream, Ratchet and the Autobots tracked the Decepticon to the [[Grand Canyon]]. Ratchet and Bulkhead protected [[Air Force One]] while the others rescued the President. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.6|All the President's 'Bots!}}

When he lost contact with Optimus Prime while their leader was exploring a scrap-metal facility in [[Zhejiang Province]], [[China]], Ratchet dispatched Bulkhead and Arcee to help, but was forced to drop them ten kilometers from the target due to interference. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|The Mind Trap!}} Ratchet was forced to GroundBridge [[Novo|Agent Novo]] to China after the MECH operative took Miko hostage. To make up for it, he discovered a way to track [[Miko's phone]], pointing the other Autobots to the location of MECH's base. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.9|The Novo Incident}}

After deploying Optimus's team to the [[Deep Driller]] oil platform, Ratchet monitored the situation from base, and was amused by the sight of Prime and the others being defeated by a bunch of humans in [[robotic battle suit]]s. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.10|Mad Dogs & Autobots}} Ratchet operated the GroundBridge so the other Autobots could take the kids onto the ''Nemesis'' to search for Bulkhead, who had been abducted after a solo mission. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.11|The Battle for Bulkhead}} During a battle in [[The Wave]], Bumblebee was injured by a sniper, so Ratchet patched him up and sent him back to base with Raf. When the Autobots later returned to base, Ratchet was surprised to find the pair had trashed the place. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.12|The Evil Shred}}

Agent Fowler managed to intercept a Decepticon broadcast, which alerted Ratchet and the rest of the Autobots to the Decepticons' next plot; the desecration of the [[Statue of Liberty]]. But as Liberty Island, now occupied by the Decepticons, was too small to launch a full frontal assault against, Ratchet stayed behind while Optimus and Bumblebee led a stealth operation against Megatron's troops. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.13|Protecting the Lady}}

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====Ratchet's Joke Page====
At some point Ratchet got a medical degree and began treating human patients. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.8|Issue 4.8}}

===Eaglemoss ''Prime'' comic===
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===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon===
When three of the [[Rescue Bot]]s were stricken down with a mysterious virus, Optimus consulted Ratchet, who suggested that one of the antidotes from the Rescue Bots' ship would cure it. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (RB)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}} Ratchet later gave the Rescue Bots energon transfusions after they used up their own supply powering the [[Mayor Luskey Dome]]. {{storylink|Today and Forever}}

===''Tales of the Beast Hunters''===
After [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] ran into trouble in the [[asteroid belt]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] had Ratchet overload the GroundBridge so that he could come to their aid. Despite protesting, Ratchet succeeded in bridging Optimus to the derelict ship the others were on. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 5}} Once the team successfully returned with mysterious Cybertronian weapons, Ratchet was put to work in his lab trying to make them function. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 7}} [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] managed to retrieve some [[data disc]]s from [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]'s lab, which Ratchet found contained information on Shockwave's cloning process and the weapons Bumblebee had retrieved. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 13}} He eventually managed to unlock the secrets of the weapons and power them up. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 17}} When Bumblebee recovered from the earlier mission, Ratchet assigned him to light duties patrolling with [[Prowl (WFC)|Prowl]]. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 23}}

===''Full of Fire!''===
Ratchet constructed a number of new Beast Hunters weapons for Team Prime, including a [[Dragonshredder Drill]] for himself. He, Bumblebee and Bulkhead went out into a [[New Mexico]] desert with Optimus Prime to test the weapons, and were attacked there by no less than six Predacons. Ratchet quickly brought all of the weapons online, and they proved capable of making the Autobots more than a match for the Predacons. {{storylink|Full of Fire!}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Pursuing the AllSpark after it had been launched into space, Ratchet was one of the many Autobots that found their way to Earth. There, he participated in a great battle within a human settlement against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}
===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jeffrey Combs]] (English), [[Takehito Koyasu]] (Japanese)|[[Shen Lei]] (Chinese), [[Claudio Moneta]] (Italian)}}

[[File:RIDBeePrimeRatchet.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Ah, the years! So many memories, so many strange fluids gushing out of patients' bodies."]]
Ratchet remained on Cybertron after Prime's sacrifice and the rebirth of Cybertron, {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}} with a statue of him built in his honor. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} However, Ratchet was blacklisted by the new [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] for being a supporter of Optimus Prime, {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}} and was assigned the job of hunting down any remaining war criminals. Knowing that this was effectively a banishment, and that protesting would only land him in prison, Ratchet reluctantly accepted. Partnered with the [[Mini-Con]] [[Undertone]], he tracked down and captured rogue Decepticons.

[[File:DecepticonIsland2 Ratchet.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Back in action!"]]

Ratchet eventually tracked a Decepticon to Earth, where he ran across [[Clampdown (RID)|Clampdown]]. Shortly afterwards, he encountered Bumblebee and the rest of the [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]], including a reborn Optimus Prime. Making his way back to the scrapyard base, he explained the circumstances of his mission to the team, only to be interrupted by the arrival of [[Toolbox]], an escaped Mini-Con. Along with the other Autobots, he decided to take part in the raid on the Decepticon base. He also privately counseled Optimus about whether or not the former Autobot leader should re-take command. The team slipped into the base by masquerading as [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]]'s captives, although they were eventually spotted and surrounded by [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]]'s new army of Decepticon fugitives. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}}

Thanks to Windblade providing the team with a distraction, the Autobots were able to make a break for it and slip away from Steeljaw's troops. They then split up into smaller teams, and Ratchet found himself fighting alongside [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] and his Mini-Con students against [[Overload (RID)|Overload]] to free [[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]] from a stasis pod. Ratchet was overpowered by the hulking Decepticon and thrown into another nearby pod, although [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] and [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] managed to escape when Drift was similarly imprisoned. [[File:FreedomFighters Ratchet vehicle mode.jpg|thumb|left|250px|MEDIC!]]The Mini-Cons released the medic and Windblade, giving them another shot at defeating their opponent. Drift escaped from his pod in due course as well, and together the Autobots were able to put Overlord in stasis, after deliver a decisive blow to the narcissist's face.
Ratchet and Undertone then escaped with the other Autobots after Bumblebee and Optimus detonated a [[stasis bomb]] inside the ship, freezing all those still within. In the aftermath, Ratchet and Undertone decided to return to Cybertron with Windblade to help Optimus investigate Cybertron's government. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 2)}}

During a visit to the remains of Outpost Omega One, Grimlock stepped on an old armor buffer discarded by Ratchet, and mistook it for a mine. {{storylink|History Lessons}}

While investigating the High Council, Ratchet was also studying ShadowZone particles. After one of the particles registered on Earth, indicating something traveled from the ShadowZone to Earth. He informed Optimus of his discovery, who promptly headed to Earth to investigate.{{storylink|Collateral Damage}}

Ratchet was able to fit ''[[Prime Force One]]'' with a more advanced cloaking device, shortly before he accompanied Optimus and the rest of the team to Earth to recruit Bumblebee's team. While the Bee Team traveled to Cybertron, Optimus, Jazz, Ratchet, Windblade and Bulkhead remained on Earth temporarily. They soon found action when a signal led them to the steel mill that had just been burgled by a Cybertronian advance force. Within, they found a list of items pointing to the fact the advance force was building a space bridge receiver, and also a bomb which promptly exploded. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy (RID)|Enemy of My Enemy}} [[File:RIDAllStarsNewHighCouncil.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|So thas it? What? We some kinda...Suicide Squad?]]The group was saved by Ratchet's [[Triage Shield]]. They continued to follow the trail to the [[Crown City]] docks, where Ratchet again deployed the Triage Shield in order to conceal the ensuing battle from any human eyes. Following the destruction of the space bridge portal that had been opened, the team returned to Cybertron where Optimus nominated the rest of the group as a provisional council. {{storylink|Freedom Fighters}}
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===IDW ''Robots in Disguise'' comic===
While struggling to get his team to work together, Bumblebee recalled happier times when he was part of Team Prime with Ratchet. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

==Commercial appearances==
*After having already been weirded out after Bulkhead broke into a scat in the middle of a carol, {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers1|The Hub Carolers (First spot)}}Ratchet was dismayed as the [[Joker]], a criminal, stole the chorus of "{{w|Jingle Bells}}" as it was being performed by a group of carolers. This group included [[Bulkhead (Prime)|other]] [[Megatron (WFC)|Transformers]], [[My Little Pony|ponies]], and an {{w|Strawberry Shortcake|underage baker}}. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Carolers2|The Hub Carolers (Second spot)}}

*Fowler summoned the Autobots for a vague special mission. When Ratchet inquired if they were to receive back-up, Fowler informed them that [[Batman]] had agreed to team up with them. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Impossibly Awesome|Mission: Impossibly Awesome Marathon}}

*Ratchet presented Bumblebee and Optimus with new secret weapons that the two of them used to mow down legions of Vehicons. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Weaponizers|Weaponizers Commercial}}

*Ratchet took Bumblebee through a tour of the Autobots' armory which culminated in Ratchet presenting [[Optimus Maximus (Prime)|Optimus Maximus]]. The two of them then rode the mech into battle, plowing through ranks of Vehicons. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Optimus Maximus|Optimus Maximus commercial}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)|[[Vladimir Antonik]] (Russian), [[Stefano Albertini]] (Italian)}}
[[File:RatchetWFCScreenshotAttack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Just let me patch you up with my [[Energon repair ray|ENORMOUS HEALING CANNON]]!"]]
During the [[Decepticon]]s' siege of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Ratchet was assigned to Optimus, and helped him rescue a courier named [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], who informed Optimus that with the presumed death of [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Zeta Prime]], the Council was putting him in command. The three of them headed back to the command center, receiving a message from [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]] that the [[Aerialbot (WFC)|Aerialbots]] were being overwhelmed and needed support. It was decided that the planetary guns, disabled earlier by [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron's]] forces, needed to be brought back online. Informing Jetfire that he was taking temporary command, Optimus took Ratchet and Bumblebee with him on the mission, though when Ratchet questioned the "temporary" part, Optimus brushed it aside.

When that mission was completed, they decided their next stop was the [[Decagon]], in order to re-establish communications and coordinate Iacon's defense. Hitting serious resistance, including several [[Decepticon war machine]]s and more than a few damaged lifts which Ratchet puzzled out a way around, they nonetheless prevailed with help from Jetfire and [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]], before reaching the Decagon itself, where they encountered the former Autobot [[Air Commander|Sky Commander]], [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. They managed to defeat him as well and retook the Decagon. He boosted the signal of a message from the captive Zeta Prime and cautioned Optimus not to act as it was clearly a trap.

After Optimus was named the new [[Prime (rank)|Prime]], he went on a mission to free [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s core of Megatron's [[Dark Energon]] corruption. In order to do so, however, he needed to open the [[Omega Gate]], which would require freeing [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] from Decepticon captivity. Omega was still badly damaged from his battle with Megatron's forces, so Optimus called in Ratchet, whom Prime, [[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]], and Ironhide protected during his operation to repair Omega Supreme. After the Omega Gate was opened, Ratchet returned to base with Omega, as field repairs could only do so much.

When [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] began destroying fleeing Autobot ships on Megatron's order, Ratchet declared the Decepticon leader completely insane. Once Trypticon fell to the surface from orbit, Ratchet organized the rescue effort. After Trypticon was defeated, he praised Optimus on his success, but the price paid was costly - many Autobots were lost, and those remaining were now forced to abandon Cybertron while the planetary [[Primus|Core]] repaired the damage. Ratchet was one of those who stayed behind with Optimus to resist Megatron's schemes, and to build an ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' to carry them from their home when the time came. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

[[File:WFC Ratchet.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|"Standing ''near'' ze point does nothing! Get ''on'' ze point, dummkopf!"]]

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron — Autobots''===
[[File:WFCDS Ratchet.jpg|thumb|124px|"Doctor, are you sure this will work?" 
"I HAVE NO IDEA!"]]
When the Decepticons started poking around an Autobot base, Ratchet tracked their search patterns and instructed a [[Autobot rookie|rookie]] on where to go to find whatever it was they were looking for. Ratchet was in the control room to greet the rookie on arrival, and hand him over to [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]] for basic training. Unfortunately the Decepticons destroyed the rookie and found the intel they were after. Following Zeta Prime's capture, the Autobot leader managed to contact Ironhide and Ratchet, but the data links powering the communications grid were severed. Ratchet greeted another rookie, who managed to repair the data links.

Ratchet would go on to become a member of Optimus' inner circle. Following the retaking of Iacon, he reported that the Data-net was back online and Zeta Prime could contact them again. He later worked with Jetfire to analyse core samples, and discovered that the core would be healing itself if it weren't for the influence of the Dark Energon corruptors. Optimus's team successfully freed the core, but the planet was no longer able to sustain them. When Ratchet asked what they'd do, Optimus responded that their new mission was to leave the planet. Ratchet was among the Autobots who defeated Megatron's secret weapon, the monstrous titan Trypticon. Upon Trypticon's defeat, Ratchet left the planet along with Optimus's team. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|War for Cybertron - Autobots/Decepticons}}

===''Transformers: Cybertron Adventures''===
Ratchet attempted to aid and evacuate survivors from an orbital blast form Megatron's new weapon, [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]], when the Decepticon leader tracked him down. After exchanging gunfire, Ratchet was forced onto a ledge, and Megatron tauntingly kicked him off. The Autobot survived the fall, but was pinned down by debris. Fortunately [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] was in the area and came to the rescue. As the two made their trek back to [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Ratchet informed Sideswipe that he had information about the Decepticon superweapon that needed to get to Optimus right away... {{storylink|Transformers: Cybertron Adventures}}
{{note|Ratchet is not a playable character; he appears as a boss in the Decepticon campaign, and only in a single cutscene in the Autobot campaign.}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
{{voiceactor|[[Fred Tatasciore]] (English)}}
Ratchet was deeply hurt by the torment of having to watch his home planet power down around him. He recorded several audio logs in order to acknowledge and reflect on the cause of the planet's slow demise, hoping that a future generation would never have to endure such a sight. Ratchet came to fear the very likely reality that the Transformers' war would not end when "all were one" - but rather, due to their own extinction from lack of Energon. It was this need for Energon that forced the Autobots to begin to siphon power from [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]'s inert, but still alive body; a gruesome last resort that shook Ratchet to his core, praying that there was some justification to be found for the Autobots' desperate act.

During the preparations for the Ark's launch, Ratchet worked with Optimus Prime, [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]], and the other Autobots to recover the energon necessary for lift-off. Grimlock later identified a space bridge for the Autobots to use to escape Cybertron, but upon its' destruction, Ratchet reported that it was becoming unstable and they needed to launch as soon as possible. Thanks to the sacrifice of [[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]], they were able to do so immediately, but they came under attack by the ''Nemesis''. When cornered while trying to treat Bumblebee during the initial assault, Ratchet slyly used a flashing beacon to disorient the Decepticons while feigning submission. Ratchet guided Bumblebee through the ''Ark'' until he found the dueling Optimus and Megatron.
{{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

{{note|Ratchet also appears as a playable character in the game's 'Escalation' mode, on the 'Ignition' map. Ratchet fights alongside [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], and [[Warpath (WFC)|Warpath]]. He is the team's [[Medic (FOC)|medic]].}}

=== ''Transformers: Prime - The Game'' ===
[[File:Transformers prime the game ratchet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
{{voiceactor|[[Jeffrey Combs]] (English)}}

When Team Prime mobilized to untether the [[Dark Energon]] meteor that the Decepticons were towing into orbit via the ''Nemesis'', Ratchet per usual stayed behind to run the GroundBridge. When the meteor fell to Earth, taking Team Prime with it, Ratchet left the human allies to man the Bridge in order to retrieve [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], who was the only Autobot whose energy signature they were able to locate... ''before'' Ratchet teleported out, at least.

Ratchet found Prime next to the largest surviving chunk of the meteorite, which also contained the colossus [[Thunderwing (Prime)|Thunderwing]]. The giant awoke, and quickly swatted Ratchet away with its one free arm. Ratchet made his way bac kto the ruins where Optimus and Thunderwing had landed, but the ''Nemesis'' had also arrived and began raining plasma fire into the area to subdue Thunderwing. Optimus and Ratchet bolted for a GroundBridge portal opened by Arcee (as she had luckily fallen close to [[Jasper]] and was able to make it back to the base on-wheel), but stray cannon-fire sent Ratchet flying away once again. The timed portal closed without him, and left Ratchet to be captured by the Decepticons.

On board the ''Nemesis'', Ratchet was forced to repair the giant Thunderwing, as the Decepticons had also kidnapped Miko and Raf and used them as hostages. Ratchet, indignant as always, performed just enough work to look like he was doing what he was told, but spent more time seeking out a weak point in the monster. When Megatron returned with the final major component to bringing Thunderwing back to full power, Ratchet looked to be out of options... until the Decepticon leader was momentarily distracted by the return of Starscream, who himself was being held hostage by Bulkhead. Ratchet took the chance to bolt from his cell and lock Megatron in, making his way through the security system and hordes of Vehicons to free Miko and Raf.

Once the humans were free, they took a service elevator up to the main communications hub of the ''Nemesis'' in order to get word out to the other Autobots, and hopefully use the Decepticon SpaceBridge to escape. After taking out numerous Vehicons, the three made it to the main comm hub, only to find Soundwave at the controls. Raf patched into the room's defense systems to briefly drop energy shielding on four computer towers, allowing Ratchet to destroy them and drop the force field that surrounded the main comm console. Forced to fight one-on-one, Soundwave made clever use of the Space bridge to warp in and out of the control room, but eventually found himself bested by the veteran Autobot and was forced to retreat. Now in control, Ratchet was able to communicate with the other Autobots who had infiltrated the ''Nemesis'', and successfully warped them off the ship as it collapsed due to the damage Thunderwing had caused in his escape.

Back at the base, Ratchet informed the others that he could develop a siphon that could drain at least some of Thunderwing's Dark Energon, hopefully weakening the beast enough to allow them to destroy him. He stayed behind to work on the device as Bumblebee, Arcee and Bulkhead mobilized near a Dark Energon volcano that Thunderwing was headed towards. Ratchet was forced to bring the incomplete device with him to the volcano upon Thunderwing's arrival. He informed the other Autobots that due to the short amount of time he had to work on it, the siphon would only be truly effective if it was practically ''inside'' Thunderwing. Things looked hopeless until stowaways Miko and Jack piped up, Miko showing the Autobots a [[Miko's phone|cell phone picture]] of a break in Thunderwing's chest armor that Ratchet had never repaired... a break just big enough for a human to fit into. Though reluctant to put the humans at risk, Ratchet handed over the siphon to Jack, who rode Arcee to the beast, and successfully installed the siphon, allowing Optimus Prime to finish Thunderwing once and for all. {{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}

{{note|Ratchet is only playable in a single stage of Story Mode: "The Escape!". He is available as a playable character in the game's multi-player battle modes from the start, however. 
In this game, Ratchet oddly does not have his blades. Instead, when he enters his "upgrade" mode, he deploys a massive wrench from his left wrist socket (seriously, it's as big as his forearm!) which he uses to clobber opponents. This is also the only time we see Prime-cartoon-era Ratchet employ a blaster for combat.}}
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===''Hunt the Beasts'' online game===
Ratchet enlisted [[you]] for a top secret mission; you were to infiltrate Shockwave's lab and retrieve data on Shockwave's experiments, the Predacons. Ratchet instructed you to scour the lab for the data, and report back to him immediately upon its discovery. Throughout your investigation, Ratchet would aid you to overcome many obstacles with his instructions, such as how to rewire the controls to a busted lift, or turn on the Energon stabilization protocols. Once the data on the Predacons has been gathered, Ratchet informed you that the Autobots would prepare for the looming threat of the Predacons with new weapons called "[[Beast Gear]]." He then uploaded data on the Autobots to keep you informed on their Predacon-battling capabilities, and thanked you for your service. {{storylink|Hunt the Beasts}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense''===
Ratchet discovered a way to send Autonomous Defense Turrets through the Ground Bridge. He shipped these out to the battle whenever other Autobots in combat situations requested them. He also walked through the other Autobots through their missions while he stayed behind at Autobot headquarters, coordinating their efforts. He would also occasionally send Energon to the Autobots in the field when he detected an incoming threat that was particularly imposing. {{Storylink|Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense|Terrorcon Defense}}

===''Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense''===
When the Decepticons constructed an [[Energon Drain]] in an asteroid field, Ratchet and the Autobots countered it by building a [[Pulsar Dish]] from debris. While the dish was under construction, Ratchet could help out by repairing damage dealt to the dish by the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Pulsar Defense}}
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===''Transformers Universe''===
[[File:Tu-character-art ratchet.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|left|Either he has an identity crisis, or he still doesn't know which medical center this vehicle form belongs to!]]
Prowl revealed that Ratchet built the groundbridge in [[High Grand]]. {{storylink|Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe Autobot tutorial}}
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===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''===
====Console====
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{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark (console)}}

===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' mobile game===
{{note|Ratchet is one of the few bots not to have his own Starter character.}}
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When Crown City was overrun by Decepticons as a result of a stasis pod modified to clone an army, the Autobots were forced to battle them throughout the city and surrounding landscape. They eventually found that Steeljaw and another Decepticon had constructed a [[space bridge]] and defeated the pair. {{storylink|Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game}}

==Toys==
===Cyberverse===
[[File:Cyberverse legion ratchet.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Let's go practice medicine.]]
*'''Autobot Ratchet''' (Cyberverse Legion, 2012)
**''Series / Number:'' '''2 / 004'''
**''Japanese Number:'' '''EZ-06'''
**''Accessories:'' Battle blade

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' [[Cyberverse (toyline)#Series 2|Cyberverse]] Legion Class toys, "Autobot Ratchet" transforms into an emergency vehicle, and comes with a translucent battle blade weapon. It can peg via its numerous [[C joint|3mm post]]s onto his robot hands, arms/vehicle sides, and robot back/vehicle roof. Early versions of the mold oddly lacked an actual face but a [http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/cyberverse-prime-ratchet-receives-an-update-aka-hasbro-i-needed-that-t86206s400.php running change] finally gave him one.

:His blade, in the same color, is also used by Cyberverse [[Cliffjumper (WFC)#Cyberverse|Cliffjumper]] and ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (toyline)|Dark of the Moon]]'' [[Mirage (Movie)#Cyberverse|Mirage]], while a green version is used by [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#CyberverseQuickblade|Quickblade Bumblebee]], and a purple version is used by [[Knock Out (Prime)#CyberverseSingle|Knock Out]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/LegRatchet/ratchet.htm More information on Cyberverse Legion Ratchet at TFU.info]''

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[[File:PrimeEZCollectionAutobotSet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Doctor is credit to team!]]
*'''Autobot Set''' (EZ Collection 6-pack, 2012-[[November 24|11-24]])
**''ID number'': '''EZ-SP1'''
**''Accessories'': Battle blade

: This version of Ratchet was only available in a TakaraTomy ''[[EZ Collection]]'' six-pack with [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#EZ6pack|Bumblebee]], [[Bulkhead (Prime)#EZ6pack|Bulkhead]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#EZ6pack|Optimus Prime]], [[Arcee (WFC)#EZ6pack|Arcee]], and [[Wheeljack (Prime)#EZ6pack|Wheeljack]].

: This release utilizes the version of the mold with a face.

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===Prime===
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[[File:PrimeRID-RatchetDeluxe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|And that's how he lost his medical license.]]
[[File:Prime-toy RatchetTakTom.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|With all those craters on him, he'll probably need to see a dermatologist.]]
*'''Autobot Ratchet''' (Deluxe, 2012)
**''Series / Number'': '''1 / 006'''
**''Japanese release date:'' '''2012-[[March 31|03-31]]'''
**''Japanese number:'' '''AM-04'''
**''Accessories:'' Dual Battle Blades (Hasbro only), "R.A." Arms Micron (TakaraTomy only)

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise (2012)|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' Deluxe Class toys, this larger-scale version of Ratchet has a "dramatic head reveal" [[gimmick]], with his [[robot mode]] head being spring-loaded to pop up once his "backpack" is pulled down. He features [[5mm post|5mm peg-holes]] for his hands, a pair on his front bumpers/shins, and a pair on his vehicle roof.

:He comes with a pair of battle blades that can mount/be held via 5mm post, and his hands can be swung down at the wrist to give the appearance of the blades sprouting out of his wrists, as seen in the cartoon. The blades can mount into the peg-holes on his front bumper, creating a battle mode, and the blades can store on tabs underneath his vehicle.

:His [[instructions]] depict an alternate head apparently intended for an as-yet-unreleased Gears. The sculpt was used as the basis for ''Prime'' [[Swerve (Prime)|Swerve]].

: The Japanese release of Ratchet, part of the very first assortment of [[TakaraTomy]] ''Prime'' toys, omits an incredible number of [[paint operation]]s, replacing them with customer-applied foil [[sticker]]s. (On the other hand, this ''does'' give him his "lifeline" decoration missing from the [[Hasbro]] version.) As part of the "[[Arms Micron]]" gimmick, six 5mm peg-hole attachment points have been glued onto him (as opposed to having existing parts specifically [[retool]]ed to include them like many other toys in the line) on his [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] roof, doors, and side-panels, which respectively end up on his legs, forearms, and shoulders. The Hasbro version's twin blades have been replaced by the Arms Micron, [[R.A.#Toys|R.A.]], who transforms into a considerably larger version of one of the blades, and can still work as a "wrist-mounted" weapon.

: Ratchet was redecoed into [[Transformers (2014 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2014)]] [[First Aid (G1)#Transformers (2014)|Protectobot First Aid]] and retooled into [[BotCon 2014]] [[Cannonball (G1)#Timelines|Cannonball]], and he would've been made into [[Gears (ROTDS)|Gears]] with a new head.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/Ratchet/ratchet.htm More information on ''Robots in Disguise'' Ratchet at TFU.info]''

::*''[http://higekumatoytoy.blog60.fc2.com/blog-entry-1464.html Arms Micron Ratchet at Alfes's blog]''

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===Kre-O===
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[[File:Kre-O-Autobot-Command-Center.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Command Center''' (2013)
**''Set number'': '''A5412'''
**''Pieces'': '''461'''
**''Kreons'': [[Arcee (WFC)#AutobotHQ|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)#AutobotHQ|Bumblebee]], Ratchet, [[Shockwave (Kre-O)#AutobotHQ|Shockwave]], [[Knock Out (Prime)#Autobot HQ|Knock Out]] mystery figure

:The ''[[Kre-O]]'' [[Autobot Command Center]] set comes with a Ratchet [[Kreon]] with paint details based on ''Prime'' Ratchet.

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[[File:KreO-toy RatchetKW Gladiator.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Yeah, I time-travelled to the Roman Empire, killed a lion or two in the arena, good times.]]
*'''Gladiator Ratchet''' (Kreon Warrior, 2015)
**''Set number'': '''B0945'''
**''Collection'': '''1'''
**''Accessories'': Stand-plate, tech sword, tower shield

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Kre-O]]'' [[Kreon]] Warriors, Ratchet has been re-imagined as a Roman-style Gladiator. His legs feature peg-on non-spinning wheels resembling wooden chariot wheels.

: Like all the Kreons released that year (at normal retail at least), he uses the new 2015-tooling Kreon body, which basically involves small construction changes on every part below the head, making them largely incompatible with the prior Kreon parts (heads still work fine), but the new tooling adds some extra functionality and structural support.

: The Kreon Warriors were only released in Canada, Australia, and various Asian markets. The individual bags had also abandoned any kind of coding that identified the contents. This means getting the one you want from an unopened bag involves either trying to feel out the unique parts, or just buying the whole dang case.

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[[File:KreO-toy RatchetKW Pirate.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Blades (RB)|Blades']] new hero.]]
*'''Pirate Ratchet''' (Kreon Warrior, 2015)
**''Set number'': '''B0945'''
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Accessories'': Stand-plate, clip-on cannon, flag

: Also part of the first wave of Kreon Warriors, Pirate Ratchet is a bit more of a commandant-style bot, with his chest-windshield replaced by a sailing ship's captain's cabin window. His flag is ''supposed'' to peg onto the top of his hat, but wow is that silly. The "flame" on his clip-on old-timey cannon piece serves double-duty as a hat-plume.

: All the aggravation of the blind-bagged, non-US distribution above applies to this one as well.

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===Beast Hunters===
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[[File:BHtoy Deluxe Ratchet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Alright, who's ready for some <s>precision</s> surgery?"]]
*'''Autobot Ratchet''' (Deluxe, 2013)
**''Series / Number'': '''2 / 010'''
**''Accessories:'' Dragonshredder Drill

: Part of the third wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime:]] [[Beast Hunters (toyline)|Beast Hunters]]'' Deluxe Class toys, "Autobot Ratchet" is a [[redeco]] and extensive retool of the ''Robots in Disguise'' Deluxe Class Autobot Ratchet toy, transforming into a heavily modified rescue vehicle that's covered with spikes, features an exposed engine block on its hood, and has a sculpted rocket booster at the back. He retains the peg-holes at the usual places, and gains additional peg-holes at the back and near the rear wheels. He now comes with the "[[Dragonshredder Drill]]", which spins when the plunger to the side is pushed, and mounts via 5mm post. The halves of the drill can be pulled open to reveal a quad-barreled cannon inside. His head and chest greatly resemble ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' [[Dinobot II]], while his "Dragonshredder Drill" is reminiscent of the [[Dinobot (BW)#Beast Wars|original Dinobot toy's]] [[Cyber-slash tail weapon]].

: His instructions include the [[Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 13|thirteenth chapter]] of the ''[[Tales of the Beast Hunters]]'' series.

: This toy is also the basis for the fiction-only "[[Alone Together]]" version of [[Jawbreaker]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/Ratchet/ratchet.htm More information on ''Beast Hunters'' Ratchet at TFU.info]''
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===Go!===
[[File:Transformers-Go-G09-Hunter-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I healed ze man who vill kill you!]]
*'''Hunter Ratchet''' (2013-[[August 31|08-31]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''G19'''
**''Accessories:'' Drill

:Part of the fourth wave of TakaraTomy ''[[Triple Combination: Transformers Go! (toyline)|Go!]]'' toys, Hunter Ratchet is a green, black, and translucent-red redeco of the ''Beast Hunters'' Deluxe Class Ratchet toy. Unusually, he's identified as a Decepticon, complete with [[insignia]]! According to a translated version of the bio, Ratchet was captured by the Decepticons, and forcibly exposed to Dark Energon thus mutating him into a Decepticon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/HunterRatchet/ratchet.htm More information on Hunter Ratchet at TFU.info]''

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===Robots in Disguise (2015)===
{{note|Virtually every ''Robots in Disguise (2015)'' toy in this list has a scannable [[insignia]] sticker on it. For [[Hasbro]] releases, it temporarily unlocks that toy as a playable character in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game]], and can only be scanned once per day. It's honestly quicker and less redundant to say which toys '''don't''' have this feature.}}
[[File:RID2015-Legion-Class-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Guess they didn't teach you to duck in Doctor school!]]
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*'''Ratchet''' (Legion, 2016)
:Legion Class Ratchet is a retool of [[Strongarm (RID)#Legion Class|Legion Class Strongarm]], sporting a new head and torso. Curiously, these new parts are based on his ''Prime'' character model, rather than his new on-screen ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' design.

:His scannable Autobot insignia is on his drivers-side door in vehicle mode, becoming his left arm in robot mode. As of the figure's release, the insignia when scanned incorrectly unlocks a randomised power-up or amount of currency rather than the playable Legion Ratchet. Unlike Strongarm, Ratchet has no retooled indent on his left arm.

:His included instructions are different from Strongarm's; The instructions depict that you should fold the legs first before rearranging the arms while converting to vehicle mode.

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[[File:TF-RID2015-One-Step-Changer-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Ratchet''' (One-Step Changer, 2016)

:Part of the eighth wave of One-Step Changers toys and wave 2 of "Mini-Con Weaponizers" product, Ratchet changes from ambulance to robot in a single step...and then a few smaller ones. Like all of his other ''Robots in Disguise'' toys, this figure is heavy retool of [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]]. Due to how the legs are molded, Ratchet cannot ride on [[Grimlock_(RID_2015)#Stomp_.26_Chomp|Stomp & Chomp Grimlock]].

:Ratchet's scannable Autobot insignia is centered on his vehicle front, accessible while still in-package.

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[[File:RID2015-Warrior-Class-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I'm the first of the new RID do-it-yourself customization kits! ''(Hasbro version pictured)'']]
[[File:TF-Adventure-TAV59-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''(TakaraTomy version pictured)'']]
*'''Ratchet''' (Warrior, 2016)
**''Japanese release date'': [[2016]]-[[October 29|10-29]]
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''TAV59'''
**''Accessories'': 2 pistols
:Warrior Class Ratchet is a retool of [[Strongarm (RID)#Warrior_Class|Warrior Class Strongarm]], giving him an entirely new ambulance alternate mode and a significantly altered robot mode. He includes a pair of [[5mm post|5mm]] pistol accessories. Ratchet also features a faux front window on his robot mode chest.

:His scannable Autobot insignia is on his robot-mode chestplate, accessible while still in-package.

:The ''Adventure'' release of Ratchet features additional show-accurate details, and features a different insignia sticker compatible to the ''Transformers Chronicle'' app.

:Ratchet was only ever available in one wave of Warrior Class figures. For unknown reasons, this wave apparently only saw release in the United States and Canada.

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[[File:TF-Adventure-TAV49-Legion-Class-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Autobots vs Clampdown''' (EZ Collection 4-pack, 2016-[[May 31|05-31]])
**''Japanese ID Number'': '''TAV49'''

:A redeco of the Legion Class figure above. Ratchet features a deco somehow closer to his animation appearances.

:Ratchet was released along with Drift, Optimus Prime, and Clampdown. Like the rest of the ''Adventure'' EZ Collection sets, some online retailers like Amazon Japan were still selling it 2 years later at greatly reduced prices (70% off).

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==Merchandise==
===Mcdonald's===
[[File:Primetoy-RatchetHappyMeal.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The stickers are good practice for the Arms Micron version.]]
*'''Ratchet''' (Happy Meal, 2012)
:*''McNumber:'' '''7'''
:Happy Meal Ratchet is a non-transformable emergency vehicle! Pushing on the back of his roof reveals the base of a cannon, and pressing the Autobot symbol on the roof causes the short barrel of the cannon to pop out. Ratchet (not "Autobot Ratchet", despite claim of trademark!) also comes with a sheet of stickers to complete his deco. Since the cannon gimmick and the "mCODE" coupon use up both sides of the usual instructions sheet, the sticker placement instructions are printed on the back of the sticker sheet itself. Efficient, but not terribly user-friendly!
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===Kinder Surprise===
*'''Transformers: Prime''' (2014)
:Only available inside a blindpacked chocolate egg as part of Kinder's ''Transformers: Prime'' series, this buildable Ratchet mini-figure consists of a generic "cog" onto which his limbs and armor can be clipped to construct him. He has articulation on his shoulders and upper legs.

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===Thrilling 30===
*'''Ratchet''' (Collectible Figurine, 2014)
**''Series / Number:'' '''1 / #8'''
**''Accessories:'' Collector's base
:A super-deformed Ratchet was released among the blindpacked [[Thrilling 30#Collectible Figurines|''Thrilling 30'' Collectible Figurines]] by [[Goldie Marketing]]. He comes with a base to help him stand, a collector's card that doubles as a puzzle piece, and a checklist.

*'''Collectible Figurines''' (5-pack, 2014)
**''Series:'' '''1'''
**''Accessories:'' 5 collector's bases
:The same Ratchet figurine was also available in a 5-pack alongside [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Thrilling 30|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (WFC)/toys#Thrilling 30|Megatron]], [[Starscream (WFC)#Thrilling 30|Starscream]] and [[Bulkhead (Prime)#Thrilling 30|Bulkhead]].
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===Eaglemoss cards===
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==Notes==
[[File:VectorSigmaBotBuilderRatchet.jpg|thumb|I'm feeling sad and blue.]]
*Ratchet's model is usable in ''War for Cybertron'' multiplayer as the Medic Rig-type chassis for [[Leader (WFC)|Leader]]-class characters. His parts are also available in ''Fall of Cybertron'', now classified as Mercenary-type components for [[Destroyer (FOC)|Destroyer]]-class characters.
*''Transformers'' alumnus [[Michael Bell]] originally auditioned for the part of Ratchet in ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'', but ultimately lost the role to [[Jeffrey Combs]].
*In a number of episodes, mostly written by [[Nicole Dubuc]], Ratchet's equipment gets damaged by a fellow Autobot, prompting him to utter ''"I NEEDED THAT!"'' each time.
*His license plate number in "[[Stronger, Faster]]" is '''449 EPQ'''.
*Ratchet's body parts are available to use in the Hub website's [[Vector Sigma Bot Builder]] online game. Normally, you cannot configure a generic 'bot using all Ratchet parts, but you can see what one would look like at right through the magic of Photoshop.
*With the exceptions of Optimus and Bumblebee, Ratchet and Bulkhead were the only Autobots from ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' to have speaking roles on ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]].
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===Arms Up Modes===
In the Japanese ''Prime'' toyline, Ratchet has several powered-up modes when given various [[Arms Micron]]s in certain configurations:

[[File:DarknessRising4 CybSat-RatchetAntiTerror.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"I am ze ÜBERMENSCH!"]]

*'''Destroy Mode''' (デストロイモード ''Desutoroi Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': B.2, C.L., O.P., R.A.
: Ratchet's rather uncharacteristically-named "Destroy Mode", as seen on his box-back photo, uses a combined-weapon made up of [[R.A.]] and [[B.2]] in his right hand, [[O.P.]] on his left arm, and [[C.L.]] on his left leg.

*'''''Sekkensenrenzan'' Mode''' (接近戦連斬モード ''Sekkensenrenzan Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': C.L., Gora, O.P. (x2), R.A. (x2)
:Meaning "Close-combat Multi-slash Mode", and revealed in the "[[From the Cybertron Satellite, Transformers Division|Cybertron Satellite]]" segment from "[[Darkness Rising, Part 4|Infiltration Transformation! Battleship Nemesis]]", this "Anti-Terrorcon" mode is... just ''brutal''. He's got an R.A. on each forearm, with an O.P. attached to the back of each, with [[Gora]] (?) on his right leg, and C.L. on his left.

*'''Stealth Mode''' (ステルスモード ''Sterusu Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': R.A. (x4!), Zori (x2)
:''Four'' R.A.s are joined to create a super-large [[shuriken]]-like weapon that stores on Ratchet's back. A pair of [[Zori]]s hang from Ratchet's shoulders, with the claw-tails hanging down to create a "cloak of invisibility". This mode is for "stealthily backing up Optimus Prime and the others", according to the [http://youtu.be/QJUMhgggH-Q TakaraTomy developer video where it premiered], hosted by TakaraTomy designer [[Hironori Kobayashi]].
:There is also a variant configuration, '''Defense Mode''', which opens up the panels on Ratchet's arms and moves the Zoris to the "wrist-mounted blade" positions, which cross in an "X" in front of Ratchet as a stealth shield.
:Kobayashi also made custom carbon-black stickers for Ratchet's shoulders and chest, and in the video shows viewers how to customize their own stickers.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ratchet''' (ラチェット ''Rachetto'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Jiùhùchē''' (救护车, "Ambulance")
*''Russian:'' '''Khrapovik''' (Храповик, "Ratchet")

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