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Airachnid (Prime)

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:''Airachnid is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[File:Airachnid-HowToDraw.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|There once was a spider who knew how to fly / I don't know why the spider could fly / Perhaps you'll die]]

Long ago, '''Airachnid''' was with the [[Decepticon]]s, where her cruel, cold-sparked, murderous demeanor served her well. After the [[Great Exodus]] of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], however, she decided to go solo. These days, Airachnid spends her time engaging in her new hobby: collecting [[Airachnid's specimens|endangered species]]... well, parts of endangered species, mostly the heads. Now, if a species ''isn't'' endangered? Oh, they will be. She'll make ''sure'' of that, and she'll make sure it's a slow, painful process.

Less trustworthy than even [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], she is more than willing to kill her own [[Breakdown (WFC)|men]] or leave her [[Megatron (WFC)|commanding officers]] behind if it means getting what she wants. The pain and trauma she had inflicted on [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]], from said [[Autobot]]'s torture to the brutal execution of [[Tailgate (Prime)|her partner]], have given them a vicious, bitter history, and both will stop at nothing to kill each other. She also has the ability to control [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]].

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====''Prime'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Gina Torres]] (English), [[Ryōka Yuzuki]] (Japanese)|[[Li Ye]] (Chinese), [[Erica Edwards]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Heide Domanowski]] (German), [[So-yeong Lee]] (Korean), [[Julia Martínez]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Marina Thovez]] (Italian), [[Ella Pyhältö]] (Finnish), [[Denise Reis]] (Portuguese, season 1), [[Denise Simonetto]] (Portuguese, season 2 onwards), [[France Bastoen]] (French)}}

[[File:Airachnid.jpg|left|upright=1.67|thumb|Shelob gave dieting a go after seeing how much weight her director lost.]]

During the war for Cybertron, Airachnid managed to capture [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and her partner [[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]]. Quickly realizing that Arcee would resist the physical torture she used, Airachnid decided to employ a simpler threat: Tell her the attack coordinates of an impeding attack, or Tailgate dies. Arcee insisted she didn't know the coordinates, but Airachnid didn't believe her and killed Tailgate. Moments later, [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] burst into the holding room, killing the two [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s and rescuing Arcee. Airachnid, however, escaped. {{storylink|Predatory}} Arcee later recalled Tailgate's death while on a mission with Cliffjumper. {{storylink|Out of the Past}}

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

[[File:Crisscross-helicopter.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Finally a use for those helicopter cockpit halves on her shoulders!]]
Learning of [[MECH]]'s treatment of [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]], Airachnid engineered a distress call which lured [[Silas]] to the forest. She made a deal with the MECH agent to give him Arcee – at least, what would be ''left'' of her – if he could deliver Jack to her. Silas used the [[Internet]] to track down information on Jack and have [[June Darby]] kidnapped so Airachnid cocooned her and dangled her from a building in the disused [[Jasper]] factory MECH was occupying. When Jack arrived, Airacnid gave him six minutes to rescue his mother. She followed Jack around the factory and, when he eventually found June and claimed victory, she pointed out the task was to ''rescue'' mom, not just find her. Before Airachnid could start with the dismemberment, Arcee arrived to attack her and the two enemies fought at length around the building's structure. During the fight, Airachnid was thrown into a container and coated with concrete, but managed to get free and web Arcee to the ground. She was about to finish off Arcee when she was attacked by [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]]'s helicopters, and was forced to [[scanning|scan]] one so she could escape. {{storylink|Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross}}

[[File:MetalAttraction-Airachnidcaptured.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"Breakdown, you have a bug on your... um... windshield?"]]
Airachnid followed a magnetic signal and found [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] with a [[polarity gauntlet]]. Seeking to obtain the weapon, she buried him underground, but he escaped and she was forced to fight him. Then Arcee turned up with a [[Bulkhead (Prime)|new partner for her to snuff]] and she had to fight them as well. When Breakdown activated the gauntlet, she fled in alarm. She later ambushed the 'Con on his way back to the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', taking the gauntlet from him and reacting with disdain to his suggestion they could take it back to [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] together. The Autobots caught up with them, and Airachnid used the gauntlet to draw Arcee to her for a little one-on-one fighting. When the battle started to turn sour, however, she grabbed the gauntlet and attempted to flee in her helicopter form. Unfortunately, Bulkhead grabbed her and threw her into Breakdown. Fused magnetically to the 'Con, she was carried back to the ''Nemesis'', where she had no choice but to rejoin the Decepticons. {{storylink|Metal Attraction}}

[[File:Partners-Immobilizer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"Even shinier than the [[Polarity gauntlet]]!"]]
Immediately ingratiating herself with Megatron, Airachnid told the Decepticon leader that [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] had been keeping information to himself, such as the location of the crashed Decepticon ship, the ''[[Harbinger]]''. Megatron ordered Starscream to take Airachnid to the ship's crash site and secure the experimental weapon it contained. Once there, Airachnid discovered that the half of the ship containing the [[Immobilizer]] had broken off before impact. She webbed up Starscream and forced him to tell her the location of the aft section, but was attacked by the Autobots while leaving. After a brief fight with Arcee, Airachnid was chased off by [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], and instead went to find the ''Harbinger''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> aft. She quickly located it and retrieved the Immobilizer, then lay in wait as Optimus's team approached the ship. She was able to freeze Bulkhead and Optimus, but some deft trickery by Bumblebee allowed him to sneak up on her and destroy the Immobilizer. She retreated back to the ''Nemesis'' where she tried to blame the loss of the Immobilizer on Starscream as well as explain why she left him behind. Unluckily for her, an enraged Megatron roared that by allowing the Decepticon second-in-command to be taken prisoner, she'd just put all Decepticon intelligence at the fingertips of the Autobots. {{storylink|Partners (Prime)|Partners}} Despite this, she was promoted to Second in Command during Starscream's absence. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}}

[[File:Tfprime Airachnid thoughts of betrayal.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|Who needs Starscream?]]
When the Decepticons located the last part they needed for their space bridge in a human installation, Airachnid suggested she could burrow up under it, but Megatron announced that the time for stealth was past, so she didn't. Once they secured the power source they needed, Airachnid and [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] observed Megatron acting strangely and wondered if their leader was losing it. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} While the [[Decepticon Miner|miners]] gathered up [[Dark Energon]], Airachnid hung out on the bridge and watched as [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] played back [[Unicron]]'s pulse. She reported to Megatron that the hold was full, and they should think about retreating. He responded by leaving her in charge while he went to go and talk to Unicron. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} Airachnid returned the ''Nemesis'' to orbit to wait. When no further word came from Megatron, she told Soundwave that Megatron might not be coming back. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}}

[[File:OneShallRise3-SoundwaveAirachnid.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|''Round One. FIGHT!!!'']]
When she called the ''Nemesis''<nowiki>'</nowiki> crew to the bridge, she had deduced that Megatron, either deceased or deep within Unicron, had abandoned them, and with Earth falling into chaos, decided that they should relocate to [[Regulon Four]]. As none of the other Decepticons spoke out against her, Airachnid ordered Soundwave to set the ''Nemesis'' on course, however the silent Decepticon refused to comply. She attempted to assert her leadership by attacking him, only to discover that she was no match for Soundwave and his Minicon [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]]. The pair double-teamed her, and she was forced to yield when held underfoot. She subsequently decided to be elsewhere when Megatron did return. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

Airachnid was soon back as Megatron's subordinate, though she expressed her concern about the amnesiac Optimus Prime being allowed full run of the ship. When Arcee sneaked on board The Nemesis to find Optimus, Airachnid readily volunteered to go and deal with her, even offering to offline the Autobot. However, Megatron felt that the situation needed to be dealt with more subtly, so he sent Soundwave instead. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}}

[[File:Crossfire Airachnid captures Arcee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Let the shipping commence!]]
Airachnid offered to employ her tracking skills in finding more artifacts, and Megatron sent her, [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] and Breakdown on a search mission. However, the whole mission was a ploy; her partners were under orders to terminate her for her attempts to wrest command of the Decepticons during Megatron's brief absence. Her relentless needling of Breakdown made the 'Con lose his cool and try and kill her before Dreadwing gave the order. She quickly webbed Dreadwing to a tree, leading Breakdown on a chase through the woods. Though she was damaged in the chase, she eventually caught Breakdown in a webbing trap, and promptly dismantled him. Limping away, she ran across an [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] which she was able to control. Starscream, missing his [[Transformation cog (biology)|transformation cog]], happened upon the pairing and offered a partnership. Airachnid instead sicced the Insecticon on him, hoping for another kill, but the weaselly Decepticon managed to escape. Airachnid then lured Megatron to an abandoned energon mine and set the Insecticon on him, watching the fight until she was attacked by Arcee. The Autobot pursued her as she burrowed away, but Airachnid managed to ambush her foe. She was prevented from terminating the helpless Arcee by Starscream, and instead had to flee yet again, but this fortuitously led her to stumble on a whole Insecticon hive. {{storylink|Crossfire (Prime)|Crossfire}}

Detecting a beacon transmitting from the ''Nemesis'', Airachnid woke the Insecticon army to go eliminate Megatron. Their activity drew the attention of the Autobots, and though Airachnid sent Insecticons after them, Arcee broke away from the swarm and relentlessly pursued her nemesis into the Insecticon hive. As the two fought, Arcee managed to maneuver Airachnid onto one of the Insecticon's open stasis pods, which quickly snapped closed around her, breaking off one of her spider-legs in the process. The stasis-locked Airachnid was taken back to [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|the Autobot base]]... leaving Megatron suddenly in control of Airachnid's former army. {{storylink|Armada (episode)|Armada}}

The Autobots stashed her in the same place they kept the Iacon relics. When new recruit [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] was given a tour of the base by Jack, they walked past the spider bot's pod, and Jack warned him that she was not the kind they wanted to mess with. {{storylink|New Recruit}} Later, when Starscream used his [[Red Energon]] to infiltrate the Autobot base and steal the [[Omega Key]]s, he came across Airachnid. Seeing her predicament answered a few of Starscream's questions about her whereabouts. {{storylink|Inside Job}} Following the destruction of the Autobot base, {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}} Airachnid's stasis pod was pulled from the wreckage by the Decepticons. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} Rather than free her, they placed her stasis pod in storage on the ''Nemesis'', where Smokescreen later stumbled on it while looking for the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}}

[[File:Thirst-Airachnidzombie.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|If you thought she was a [[Britt|vamp]] before...]]

Airachnid was finally freed when Cylas, having been infused with a mixture of Dark and [[Synthetic Energon]], ripped open her stasis pod in an attempt to drink her energon. She managed to fight him off, terminating him in the process, and promptly retook control of the Insecticons on board the ''Nemesis''. She instructed them to destroy all of the Decepticons, however the group first encountered Soundwave, who used the space bridge to transport them all to one of Cybertron's moons. Having been infected by Cylas while fighting him (via a small scratch on her neck), Airachnid soon became an Energon-vampire herself. She then ordered the Insecticons to approach and serve their queen, as she drained their Energon. {{storylink|Thirst}}

====Eaglemoss ''Prime'' comic====
Airachnid encountered Optimus in an Amazonian jungle and webbed him to a tree. She was ready to add his head to her collection, but a Vehicon sympathetic to Optimus knocked her aside, allowing Optimus to free himself and uppercut her into some nearby quicksand. {{storylink|Friend or Foe?}}
{{Charstubfiction|{{storylink|Deadly Alliance}}}}
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====''Legends'' comic====
[[File:Legends Airachnid.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.4]]
Airachnid was among a group of evil female Transformers in one of [[Tigatron]]'s dreams who attempted to kidnap him, fighting the heroic female Transformers guarding him in the process. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11|Bonus Edition Vol. 11}}

===''Kre-O'' bios===
Airachnid once webbed Arcee to the floor so that [[Insecticon (WFC)#Kre-O bios|Insecticon]] could tickle her.

===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
Airachnid was goalie for the Decepticons in a game of soccer. She prepared to block [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]]'s penalty kick, but it turned out to be unnecessary as [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] blocked the shot first. {{storylink|Ultimate Defender}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
[[File:Airachnid Kreo Comic.jpg|thumb]]

Once when Megatron was defeated in battle with [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]], Airachnid took it as a chance to try to charm Prime into letting her join the winning team. Her disparaging remarks about Megatron enraged the downed Decepticon leader who fired on her, only to blast Prime instead. Faced with her angry leader, Airachnid convinced him that her attempted betrayal was all an act meant to distract Prime.

Later, while bored of cleaning the Decepticon base, Airachnid showered [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]] with compliments to manipulate him into doing her job for her. [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] tried to put a stop to it by telling Starscream the story of the spider's history of lying, to no avail. {{storylink|The Beautiful Flower Has Thorns? Temptation of the Female Soldier, Airachnid!|Temptation of the Female Soldier, Airachnid!}} Airachnid later attended Megatron's flower-viewing party together with Starscream. {{storylink|Soundwave's Trap? Stop Operation Brainwash Humanity!|Stop Operation Brainwash Humanity!}}
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==Commercial appearances==
*Airachnid reacted with confusion to several of Megatron's answers as he took questions from his adoring public. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime#Ask Megatron|Ask Megatron}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Prime - The Game''===
[[File:PrimeTheGameAirachnid.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.85|You've faced my Insecticons and lived, but will you survive my tinier, weaker Insecticons?]]
{{voiceactor|[[Gina Torres]] (English)}}
Airachnid, ordered by Starscream to locate the Autobots who had fallen to Earth, found Arcee near a factory outside Jasper, Nevada. Her Insecticon troops were easily dispatched by Arcee. Airachnid then engaged Arcee herself. As Arcee prepared to terminate Airachnid, Jack arrived on the scene. Airachnid took advantage of Arcee's distraction, capturing Jack and flying away with him. Arcee pursued her, managing to free Jack before Airachnid escaped.

Later, Airachnid set a trap for Arcee when the latter infiltrated the ''Nemesis''. Airachnid took Arcee to the top of the ship to fight her once again. As before, Arcee emerged victorious. But before Arcee could finish Airachnid off, two Insecticons attacked. Airachnid fled while Arcee blasted the Insecticons.
{{storylink|Transformers: Prime - The Game}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Decepticon Strike''===
Airachnid dueled Optimus in the skies over a desert. She boasted that she would "add [him] to the endangered species list" but her helicopter mode proved to be no match for the Autobot leader. She flew off, but returned later to aid Megatron in his own battle against Optimus. The Decepticons were trounced once more by the Autobot and fled. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Decepticon Strike|Decepticon Strike}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Stella (AB)#As Airachnid}}
Airachnid appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events and through Special Missions. She is portrayed by Stella. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

==Toys==
===''Prime''===
[[File:Primetoy-AirachnidRID.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Quite possibly does the meanest {{w|Robot (dance)|robot}} this side of the Milky Way.]]
[[File:Prime-toy Airachnid TakTom.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Seems like quite a bit of effort and money just for a single, primitively-engineered chunk of plastic. And the Micron.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Airachnid''' (Deluxe Class, [[2012]])}}</ul>
:*''Series / number:'' '''1 / 012'''
:*''Takara release date'': [[August 25]], 2012
:*''Takara ID number'': '''AM-18'''
:*''Accessories'': Rotor/triple-bladed sword, two "electro-stingers" (Hasbro only), "Ida" Arms Micron (TakaraTomy only)

: Part of the fourth wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise (2012)|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' Deluxe Class toys, Airachnid transforms into a stealth helicopter with an opening canopy. She comes with two "electro-stingers", while her rotors can detach from the base and be used as a sword. All three weapons can mount via [[5 mm post]] onto her open palms or helicopter sides/her upper arms, and the stingers each feature two pegs and a peg-hole, allowing them to peg/be pegged in different ways.

: In [[robot mode]], Airachnid has a ''severely'' limited range of [[articulation]]. Her head is unable to turn or tilt in any significant way due to her [[light-piping]] plastic being molded as the helicopter seat and being blocked by the surrounding cockpit, her hands cannot be swung down parallel to her panel arms due to a bit of the panel getting in the way, and while her legs ''were'' designed to have thigh [[Swivel joint|swivel]]s, her thigh panels and the helicopter kibble behind it block ''much'' of her leg articulation.

: Her [[stock photography]] depicts paint details on her legs and toes that were omitted on the final product.

: The [[TakaraTomy]] release, part of the sixth wave of Japanese ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Super Robot Lifeform Transformers Prime (Arms Micron)|Super Robot Lifeform Transformers Prime]]'' toys, omits some of her detail-based [[paint operation]]s, replacing them with customer-applied foil [[sticker]]s. (She even comes with an extra "spiderweb" sticker for you to stick wherever it amuses you to.) She has also been slightly [[retool]]ed, giving her a pair of rocket-thrusters just under her rotor blades. Each thruster has a 5 mm post and hole as part of the line-wide [[Arms Micron]] [[gimmick]]. These additional post-holes actually make it pretty easy to [http://higekumatoytoy.blog60.fc2.com/blog-entry-1652.html re-create her "spider-lady" robot mode with an extra set of rotors], though the TakaraTomy version uses a darker purple plastic than the [[Hasbro]] version, meaning you need to buy two of ''either'' version unless you don't care about mismatched rotor colors. Instead of her electro-stingers, she comes with an [[Arms Micron]], [[Ida#Toys|Ida]], a spider that transforms into a bladed shield-weapon-thing.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/Airachnid/airachnid.htm More information on ''Robots in Disguise'' Airachnid at TFU.info]''

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[[File:PrimeBeastHunterstoy-CyberverseAirachnid.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Surprisingly better articulated than her larger toy.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Airachnid''' (Cyberverse Legion Class, [[2013]])}}</ul>
:*''Series / number'': '''3 / 003'''
:*''Accessories'': Rotor, "Nova Stinger Bow"
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] (Hasbro)}}

: Part of the first wave of ''Prime: [[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#BH|Beast Hunters]]'' [[Cyberverse (toyline)#Series 3|Series 3 ''Cyberverse'']] Legion Class toys, this version of Airachnid is a simpler, smaller-scale toy. She features [[C joint|3 mm port]]s for her hands, on her helicopter sides/robot shoulders, and underneath her cockpit, which ends up behind her robot head. Her instructions omit or gloss over ''several'' steps (mostly involving her legs), but they're fairly obvious.

: Her rotors can also detach from the base/her robot back, revealing another port, and allowing the rotors to mount elsewhere via 3 mm post. She also comes with the "Nova Stinger Bow", a crossbow which has two 3 mm ports and three posts, allowing it to be mounted in different ways. This bow, in varying colors, was also used by [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#BHCyberverse|Bumblebee]], [[Rippersnapper (Prime)|Rippersnapper]], [[Windrazor (Prime)|Windrazor]], and [[Cindersaur (Prime)|Cindersaur]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/CybLegAirachnid/airachnid.htm More information on Cyberverse Airachnid at TFU.info]''
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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreO-Toy AirachnidKreon.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Airachnid''' (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2012)}}</ul>
:*''Bag number'': '''22851 49'''
:*''Accessories'': Stand-block, 2 clip-on rifles
{{toydesigner|[[Ed Masiello]] (Hasbro)}}

: As part of the first normal wave of ''[[Kre-O]]'' [[Micro-Changer]] [[Kreon]]s, Airachnid is a [[blindpacking|blindpacked]]-bagged mini-figure with extra parts, which enables you to rebuild her into a spider mode.

: If you like, you can try and turn her into a helicopter with some other parts.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/Kre-OAirachnid/airachnid.htm More information on Airachnid at TFU.info]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Airachnid''' (Kreon Micro-Changer, [[2016]])}}</ul>
:*''Collection'': '''1'''
:*''Accessories'': Logo plate, 2 clip-on rifles

: In 2016, Collection 1 was re-released in a whole new production run for Dollar General stores in the US as part of a large collection of re-released ''Kre-O'' sets. But where most of these releases are nigh-identical to the originals, the re-released Micro-Changer blind-bags use the almost-entirely-retooled 2015 Kreon, with slightly-differently-hued plastics than the originals. (It is possible for some of the add-on pieces to be in the older hues.)

: Airachnid's torso [[tampograph]] has also been reworked to be slightly more detailed, and the formerly-bare legs now have extra detail tampographing on them.

: Sadly, this release has no individual-identification code on the bag, requiring you to use the feel-through-the-bag method or just buy blind and hope.
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===''EZ Collection''===
[[File:TF-EZ-Collection-2014-EG08-Airachnid-packaging.jpg|upright=0.66|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Airachnid''' (EZ Collection, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''EG08'''
:*''Release date'': [[April 27]], 2013
:*''Accessories'': Bowgun, rotor

: ''Cyberverse'' Airachnid was rereleased in Japan in the first wave of the mixed-theme ''[[EZ Collection#Transformers: EZ Collection|EZ Collection]]'' line that ran during ''[[Triple Combination: Transformers Go! (toyline)|Transformers Go!]]''. There appear to be no notable differences between the two releases.
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==Notes==
*Airachnid's colors, design, and spider-like qualities are inspired by several previous characters named [[Blackarachnia (disambiguation)|Blackarachnia]].
*Airachnid's [[alternate mode]] doesn't really make sense: Airachnid scanned Agent Fowler's {{w|Bell 212|Bell 212 Huey}} helicopter, but she somehow ended up with a stylized {{w|Boeing–Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche|RAH-66 Comanche}} alternate mode.
*The existence of the name "Airachnid" was first revealed when Hasbro filed an intent-to-use [http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=77892423 trademark application] for the term with the US Trademark and Patent Office. However, the application was eventually denied for registration.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/beast-wars-2/case-closed---goodbye-airachnid-170451/ "Case Closed – Goodbye Airachnid"]</ref>
*Deluxe Airachnid's electro-stingers are modeled after the [[Null-ray#Prime cartoon|null-ray]] Knock Out offered Starscream in "[[Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone]]".
*In the Japanese dub of ''Prime'', Airachnid's personality is completely different from her original interpretation. In the dub, she is a bubbly, giggling, high-strung chatterbox that is obsessed with collecting the heads of "handsome boys" as trophies rather than endangered creatures. Played up as something of a female {{w|Pepé Le Pew}}, she constantly swoons over Jack, calling him her "hunk", her "darling", her "cutie Jack-chan", and various other lovey-dovey remarks as she amorously pursues him (even going so far as to sing love songs to him, mid-chase). When she finally catches Jack near the end of "[[Predatory#Foreign localization|Mystery Insect Transformation! Forest of the Spider Woman!]]", she even proposes marriage to him. This behaviour is probably based off the Japanese ''yandere'' trope.
** Also regarding the Japanese dub, Airachnid is played by [[Ryōka Yuzuki]], the actress who dubbed ''Beast Wars'' [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackwidow]] and ''Animated'' [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]]. As such, many of the quirks she conceived for those characters (such as a habit of making a hissing ''tshaaa—'' noise) are present. Whenever Airachnid fires her webbing, she shouts "Sticky-Sticky Attack!" (粘粘攻撃 ''Nebaneba Kōgeki'').
*''[[Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus]]'' strongly implies that Airachnid is a member of a sub-type of Transformers known as [[Arachnicon]]s.
*''Kre-O'' Airachnid's [[instructions]] label her as a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]], using the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' symbol.
* An orange and blue look-alike of Airachnid lacking spider legs appears in the ''Robots in Disguise'' episode "[[Metal Meltdown]]".

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

*'''Hunter Mode''' (ハンターモード ''Hantā Mōdo'')
**''Arms Microns'': Ida, Jida, Noji
: Seen in her box-back photo, this mode is simply Airachnid brandishing the [[Lunatic Chainsaw]] Super Combo Weapon. Wheeeeeeeeeee.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Airachnid''' (エアラクニッド ''Earakuniddo'')
*''Korean:'' '''Airachnid''' (에어라크니드 ''Eeolakeunideu'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hēiguăfù''' (黑寡妇, "Black Widow")
*''Russian:'' '''Airachnida''' (Эйрахнида ''Eyrakhnida'')

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Cyberverse]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]
[[Category:Kre-O Predacons]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Legends Decepticons]]
[[Category:Prime Decepticons]]
[[Category:Transformers with three modes]]
[[Category:Vampires]]

Talk:KSI Sentry

2025-07-19T19:53:51Z

Morvigo: /* KSI Sentry ≠ Trax */ new section

== Name ==

Reading te source given for using Trax as the character name, it seems more like the reporter made a lazy assumption than that this is any sort of official name. I suggest moving to KSI Sentry. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 11:52, 29 July 2018 (EDT)
:I agree. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 11:52, 29 July 2018 (EDT)

== A Stinger-like KSI Sentry ==

When Optimus arrives with the Dinobots and screams, "Attack!", who is punching Bumblebee? If there is ''only one'' fully operational Stinger, could the editors accidentally given Stinger's model to a Sentry? - [[User:EternalGalvatron|EternalGalvatron]] ([[User talk:EternalGalvatron|talk]]) 20:23, 7 December 2019 (EST)
:It's... just Stinger. Why wouldn't it be? Stinger gets knocked aside by the Dinobots' arrival, then in the next shot, a Sentry goes for Bumblebee and he blasts it, after which Stinger gets back on his feet and grabs Bumblebee just as Strafe lifts him away. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] ([[User talk:Chris McFeely|talk]]) 21:08, 7 December 2019 (EST)

== KSI Sentry ≠ Trax ==

Here are my arguments:
1) Trax transforms into Chevrolet Trax SUV. It is a compact crossover car, and both toy KSI Sentries transform into sports cars.
2) Most of Traxes are red, one KSI Sentry is blue and another one is white.
3) The weapon of 2018 KSI Sentry looks like neither Trax's blade weapon nor Trax's gun.
I think the article should be split.
[[User:Morvigo|Morvigo]] ([[User talk:Morvigo|talk]]) 15:53, 19 July 2025 (EDT)

Alexander Kovrizhnykh

2023-06-22T15:49:31Z

Morvigo: /* Voice Roles */

'''Alexander Kovriznyh''' (born [[June 21]], [[1971]]) is a Russian actor,voice actor and poet. You can hear him in lots of Russian dubs. Best known for Khan in "Fast and Furious" and [[C-3PO]] from "Star Wars".

==Voice Roles==
===Transformers===
*[[Trent DeMarco]]

===Transformers: Animated===
*[[Starscream (Animated)#Animated cartoon|Starscream]]
*[[Lugnut (Animated)#Animated cartoon|Lugnut]]
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)#Animated cartoon|Bulkhead]]
*[[Grimlock (Animated)#Animated cartoon|Grimlock]]
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)#Animated cartoon|Sentinel Prime]]
*[[Blitzwing (Animated)#Animated cartoon|Blitzwing (Hothead)]]
*[[Skywarp (Animated)#Animated cartoon|Skywarp]]
*[[Sunstorm (Animated)#The excellent Animated cartoon|Sunstorm]]
*[[Thundercracker (Animated)#Animated cartoon|Thundercracker]]
*[[Ramjet (Animated)#NOT the Animated cartoon|Ramjet]]
*[[Clone number 3370318#Animated cartoon|#3370318]]
*[[Clone number 2716057#Animated cartoon|#716057]]

===Transformers: Prime===
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]]
*[[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] (Season 1)
*[[Unicron/Aligned#Prime cartoon|Unicron]]
*[[Silas]] (Seasons 1 & 2)
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]]

===Transformers: Prime - Predacons Rising===
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]]

===Transformers: Robots in Disguise===
*[[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]]
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]]
*[[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]]

===Transformers: Combiner Wars===
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]

===Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy===
*[[Wedge (RBA)|Wedge]]
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]

==External links==
*[https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/1656504/ Kinopoisk entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kovriznyh, Alexander}}
[[Category:Russian voice actors]]

Wedge (RBA)

2023-06-22T15:43:28Z

Morvigo: Adding information about Russian voice actor and Russian name of character. Source: kinopoisk.ru/film/1235666/cast/who_is/voice/

{{faction|decepticon|rescuebot|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Wedge}}
:''Wedge the Construction-Bot is an [[Autobot]] and former [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (franchise)|Rescue Bots Academy]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[File:RBA Wedge.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|"Cut the chatter, Red Two!"]]

'''Wedge''' is pretty sure he's the best of the new [[Rescue Bot]] recruits and will jump at the chance to prove it. This has resulted in something of a rivalry stewing between him and [[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]], and if there's any criticism to be made of his fellow recruits, Wedge will be the one to make it, though he'll usually regret it soon after. Despite being an arrogant member of his class, Wedge shares Blades' fanboy attitude towards Autobot legend [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], and perhaps in a few attempts to follow in the former scout's footsteps, he shares Bee's sense of responsibility, such as properly recycling trash instead of careless disposal.

==Fiction==
===''Rescue Bots Academy'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Mason Hensley]] (English)|[[Jacopo Calatroni]] (Italian), [[David Manet]] (French), [[Juan Carlos Rodríguez Chávez]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Alexander Kovriznyh]] (Russian)}}

[[File:IfAtFirst Wedge power fist.jpg|thumb|left|290px| "Look at the size of that thing!"]]

Wedge was originally created as a Decepticon, but [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] found him, and believed that he had so much potential as an Autobot. His kindness is what inspired Wedge to switch sides. {{storylink|More Than Meets The Eye (RBA)|More Than Meets The Eye}}

Wedge won a rescue competition to earn himself a spot studying at the [[Rescue Bot Training Center]] on [[Earth]]. He started an instant rivalry with Hot Shot when the latter was assigned to the team of new recruits by Optimus Prime. Once [[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]] screwed up the first rescue drill, Wedge challenged him to a simple stacking contest and easily won. {{storylink|Recruits Part I}} Hot Shot went on to win an obstacle course race against Wedge and revealed that Optimus had given him the ability to use three alternate modes, though Wedge was still unimpressed, beliving it was the bot and not their abilities that made for a good rescuer. Nonetheless when Hot Shot later realized that the jet mode he was stuck with for the day was useless for the cave rescue exercise they'd been assigned, Wedge joined the others in encouraging him not to give up. {{storylink|Recruits Part II}} Wedge and the other recruits got to meet Blades when the copter-bot was brought in to help tutor Hot Shot in the art of flying, and later took part in a forest fire rescue. {{storylink|The Secret of Flight}}

Following a particularly tricky rescue, [[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]] constructed new tools for everyone, including power drivers for Wedge. The first test didn't go well, but Wedge and the others enlisted [[Boulder (RB)|Boulder]] to give Hoist some encouragement and help perfect the tools. {{storylink|If at First...}} After Hot Shot was assigned to look after [[Tough Luck Chuck]] when the test robot was damaged, Wedge and [[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]] found Chuck roaming the training center. He slipped through their fingers as well and got through the [[GroundBridge]], forcing the recruits to search for him in [[Milford]]. {{storylink|Tough Luck Chuck (episode)|Tough Luck Chuck}} Bored by Chase's class on police codes, Wedge and the other recruits persuaded Chase to let them try to do a practice rescue, and ended up being rescued themselves by [[Whirl (RBA)|Whirl]] when they got stuck in the snow. {{storylink|Whirl'd View}} When the recruits didn't understand why Boulder was having them plant flowers, the Rescue Bot set them a task which taught them that all parts of nature are important. {{storylink|Plan Bee}}

[[File:MissionInaudible Wedge rides on Hot Shot.jpg|thumb|right|310px| "That's it! No more droids! I'm flying solo!"]]
Aiming to get the response time of the group down, Wedge borrowed the trigger for the rescue alarm and ran a series of drills, annoying his fellow recruits and eventually resulting in him ending up trapped in one of the launch tubes. He returned the alarm to Heatwave. {{storylink|The Bot Who Cried Rescue}} The recruits had to contend with a runaway rock sculpture of Hot Shot's head when he decided to carve it into a mountain alongside the likenesses of the Rescue Bots. {{storylink|Mount Botmore}} Hot Shot and Wedge ended up disregarding Hoist when their fellow recruit was put in charge of a rescue mission, and as a result, their own efforts almost ended up in disaster. {{storylink|Mission Inaudible}} After completing a simulated rescue, despite a glitch occurring, the recruits took part in a real rescue in Griffin Rock which was only successful because the glitch gave [[Medix (RB)|Medix]] an idea to complete it safely. {{storylink|Glitch (episode)|Glitch}}

During a ride on the ''[[Sigma]]'', Wedge realized there were only four command chairs and told the others that meant that one of the five recruits wouldn't graduate. The team went on to botch a volcano rescue drill after staying up all night worrying, until Heatwave told them they'd assumed wrong. {{storylink|Five into Four}} When Whirl was filming footage for a recruitment video, Wedge attempted to give a demonstration of Hero Hall, only to be swamped by a tidal wave. He and the others later helped whip the footage into a usable state. {{storylink|Rescue Promo}} After a botched rescue had the recruits blaming each other, Heatwave assigned them to cleaning duties. Hot Shot sneaked out to do a rescue, and as a result, the rest of the recruits had to go help him when he hit trouble. {{storylink|Blame Game}} Wedge and the other recruits set up a surprise rescue mission for Medix, who didn't get the appeal of surprises. Unfortunately the mission did not go well, and the other recruits promised to stop with the surprises. {{storylink|Medix Surprise}}

The recruits got to try out some [[TX3000]]s on loan to the rescue center, and even used them during an actual rescue. {{storylink|The TX3000}} They had to round up a lost flock of sheep, but were hampered by Hoist malfunctioning. {{storylink|Little Bot Peep}} When there was a rumour there would be a guest at the academy, Wedge assumed it would be [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], however it turned out to be [[Wes]], a [[Lad Pioneer|Teen Pioneer]]. Wedge avoided spending time with Wes, believing he didn't have much to offer as a rescuer, until he discovered he was Wes's favorite Rescue Bot. {{storylink|Driving a Wedge}} Boulder accompanied the recruits to the planet [[Parvus]] where they rescued the last surviving [[Galax]]. {{storylink|The Big, Small Rescue}}

[[File:BattleOfTheBots Wedge vehicle mode.jpg|thumb|left|300px|“That’s the sun, Wedge. It’s after dawn.” “Well, it offends me. Turn it off.”]]
Wedge challenged Hot Shot to a competition, putting his [[Heroes of Cybertron (cards)|Heroes of Cybertron]] cards on the line as a prize. When Hot Shot won the construction challenge, Wedge was demoralized, believing there was no way he'd win the [[Cube (sport)|Cube]] challenge, however his friends encouraged him to try, and he indeed won. The two bots decided to keep it as a tie, and Hoist presented them with custom cards. {{storylink|Battle of the Bots}} When an alien rock went missing, Wedge cast suspicion on Hot Shot, but the rock turned out to be a small alien, which the recruits then had to round up so it could be sent home. {{storylink|About a Rock}} The recruits tried to keep secret the fact a dog had followed them home after the last rescue, only to discover that the dog was actually trying to alert them to the fact they'd missed someone who needed rescuing. {{storylink|Dog Stray Afternoon}} Wedge took part in the rescue of [[Dr. Hart]] from a rogue iceberg. After Hot Shot realized that he didn't need the [[Rubber Ducky|Rubber Duck]] Cody had loaned him, Wedge still thought it prudent to bring the duck with them on the next rescue. {{storylink|Lucky Ducky}}

Whirl tried to get Wedge and the other recruits into cheerleading, but it wasn't until they employed the skills they'd learned during a rescue that they were enthusiastic about it. {{storylink|Go Team, Go!}} When Boulder assigned the recruits the task of familiarizing themselves with smartphones, they became addicted to the devices and began neglecting their chores and rescue work. {{storylink|Screen Time}} During a field trip to the museum in Milford, Wedge and the other bots helped Whirl apprehend a thief who'd turned up to burgle the place. {{storylink|Fright at the Museum}}

[[File:AllAtSea Wedge facepalm.jpg|thumb|right|280px | When your teammates are being ridiculous.]]
When the ''Sigma'' returned to base without the teachers, the recruits had to take the ship and go to their rescue, though not without Hot Shot and Wedge fighting over who was temporary captain. {{storylink|Space Case (episode)|Space Case}} Wedge excelled at collecting trash, resulting in Boulder placing him in charge for an undersea trash collection mission, during which the recruits had to rescue Medix from a shark. {{storylink|All at Sea}} Wedge and the other recruits had to deal with an out-of-control [[Scrub-A-Dubber]] after inserting too many power cells into it. {{storylink|All Washed Up}} When Heatwave suggested the recruits try their hands at teaching, Wedge attempted to demonstrate first aid on Chuck, only for Chuck to run off. {{storylink|Who's Teaching Who?}}

An attempt to rescue a balloon from a tree turned into a major disaster when the recruits went in without a plan. {{storylink|Balloon Up A Tree}} A fantasy simulation saw the recruits trying to corral a dragon, until they worked out that the dragon was actually trying to help. {{storylink|The Mystery of Dragon Mountain}} Yet another sim turned into chaos thanks to Hot Shot combining it with his game, forcing the recruits to deal with giant hedgehogs. {{storylink|Hack Attack}} Wedge and the other recruits found their rescues complicated by Medix's attempts to loosen up after they suggested he was a stick in the mud. {{storylink|Life of the Party}}

The recruits were keen to be taught by new teacher [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] but discovered Hoist was afraid of Dinobots. {{storylink|Tyrannosaurus Wrecked}} A trip to Dino Island hit a snag when a [[dinosaur (dinosaur)|dinosaur]] escaped back through the GroundBridge, disabling it in the process so Grimlock and the recruits had to make their own way back to the academy. {{storylink|Dino Hard}} Chase assigned the recruits a stealth mission and Wedge and Medix paired up to hunt through Griffin Rock for Chuck. Unfortunately before they could find him, they were caught by Chase. {{storylink|Buddy Cop}} Another mission saw the recruits having to rescue penguins from an island the hard way after an electrical storm knocked out their tools and even their ability to transform. {{storylink|Escape from Penguin Island}}

[[File:TrickOrTreat Wedgeblebee.jpg|thumb|left|250px | "You knew, when I said we needed four sets of women's clothing, that we were going to end up in them. You knew. So any hopes you had to the contrary were just self-delusion."]]
During a series of search and rescue missions, Wedge and the others were surprised to learn Hoist had cheated on one of the tests. {{storylink|All that Glitters}} During a mission to retrieve a downed satellite, Wedge had to interfere with [[Dig Fest (event)|Dig Fest]] to stop an out of control vehicle. Though the other recruits thought he'd succumbed to lure of fame when he agreed to take part in the show, in reality he'd spotted the satellite in the middle of the arena and used the show as a way to get close enough to grab it. {{storylink|Dig Fest (episode)|Dig Fest}} Wedge's attempts to duplicate Bumblebee's heroic rescue feats in the simulator were less than successful. When Cody introduced the recruits to the concept of [[Halloween]], Wedge donned a Bumblebee costume to go trick or treating, however after realizing that he couldn't do things the same way Bumblebee did, he took part in a rescue using his own skills. {{storylink|Trick or Treat}}

Medix's confusion over a television commercial meant that the recruits had to mount a hasty coverup so he wouldn't blow their secret to all of Milford. {{Storylink|Monster Savings}} Wedge and the others got a tune stuck in their heads, impairing their performance on a training exercise. They managed to forget the tune, but this caused problems on a mission to the planet [[Herboo]], as it was the code needed for the [[Virtual Sonic Fence]] Hoist needed to use to stop the [[karknoid beetle]]. {{storylink|Tune Out}} A trip to survey a geyser field saw the recruits having to deal with a swarm of [[Scraplet]]s. {{storylink|Metal Munchers}}

[[File:FlyingHunkAJunk Wedge wedged.jpg|thumb|right|240px | "What you're saying is, unless a transport is leaving a thin stream of pieces behind, like a trail of bread crumbs, during atmospheric entry, it doesn't match up to the Millennium Falcon standard."]]
Wedge was equal parts thrilled and flustered when Bumblebee visited the academy for a teaching session. Determined to impress his hero, Wedge skipped out on the maintenance work Bumblebee was having them do and followed Bumblebee to Griffin Rock where he completely failed to achieve anything heroic. What's worse, without maintenance he suffered major failures during a later sim exercise and had to do the maintenance anyway. {{storylink|Bee Prepared}} When Whirl's failed attempts to do a maneuver led her to try to seek out the Wise One, the other recruits went after her and became trapped in a ravine, requiring her to rescue them using the maneuver she had been trying to perfect. {{storylink|Whirl's Wise-Bot Quest}} Wedge's conscientious recycling efforts were not duplicated by the other recruits, who simply threw all their recycling out. This resulted in a giant ball of junk threatening the satellite they were trying to fix and Wedge had to alter its course. He later enthusiastically joined his fellow recruits in sorting the trash. {{storylink|Flying Hunk-A-Junk}}

Wedge and Medix were unsuccessful in directing a blindfolded Hot Shot through an obstacle course. A subsequent mission deep undersea forced the recruits to rely on each other as they rescued an automated drone from deep sea wildlife. {{storylink|Into the Depths}} Wedge was repairing roads with Hot Shot when the latter was distracted by dogs at a nearby farm. The pair were forced to mount a search when the dogs ran off as a result of Hoist's new comm system. {{storylink|Milford Goes To The Dogs}} The recruits struggled to complete a rescue sim until Hot Shot realized they'd been trying to stop the disaster instead of saving the people. {{storylink|The Ice Wave}}

As graduation drew closer, the recruits successful competed against their teachers in a relay race carrying a pretend rescue victim. When Hot Shot opted to abandon his Rescue Bot training and return to Cybertron to compete in the Cube finals, Wedge slipped a group picture of the recruits into his luggage. {{storylink|Best Bots Forever Part 1}} The remaining recruits decided to tune in to the final using the space bridge to boost the holo-emitter screen. Unfortunately this led to the creation of a slowly growing energon bubble which engulfed the academy. It was only when Hot Shot returned that the recruits were able to burst the bubble. {{storylink|Best Bots Forever Part 2}}

[[File:ActingOut Wedge goose.jpg|thumb|left|260px|"But what's my motivation?" "It's a beautiful day in Griffin Rock and you are a horrible goose." "Oh, right."]]
At the start of year two, the recruits returned to the Academy to find they'd been given personal spaces—Wedge got the outdoors gym—and were to be put through a series of tests so [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]'s [[Aptitude Analyzer]] could assign them an appropriate mentor. Wedge got his hoped-for mentor when he was assigned Bumblebee. {{storylink|Back to School}} He and the other recruits got some new training simulations courtesy of Ratchet. {{Storylink|Mission Dinobot}} Wedge enjoyed his time adventure training with Bumblebee very much. He and the other recruits later rescued some foxes from a tree in a forest fire. {{storylink|In Training}} The recruits went on a trip to Cybertron to visit Ratchet's lab, which ended up being disrupted by Medix's bat [[Mister Flappy]]. {{Storylink|Medix Steps Up To The Bat}} When the recruits thought Cody was unhappy because he wasn't a giant robot like them, they built him a robotic suit which caused chaos during their mission to rescue a rogue bull. Cody later clarified that he was just missing hanging out with the recruits. {{storylink|Robo-Cody}}

When Heatwave tasked the recruits with acting in the play [[Jack and the Beanstalk]], Wedge was less than enthusiastic, especially when he was assigned the role of the goose. After being mocked by a squirrel and missing out out on a Cube match thanks to the play, Wedge faked an injury to get out of it, but later realized the squirrel had actually been trying to warn him about the unstable stage. He was thus able to warn the others about the stage's imminent collapse in time. {{storylink|Acting Out}} Wedge was bored with studying math and science, and so was glad for the opportunity to go on a space mission with Bumblebee to rescue some rock creatures from a meteor storm. After discovering that they needed [[Perceptor (Prime)|Perceptor]]'s help with mathematics to shift the ice chunks that the creatures were living on, Wedge had a newfound enthusiasm for studying. {{storylink|Need to Know}}

[[File:MyFavoriteRescue Wedge up mast.jpg|thumb|right|240px]]
After Hot Shot and Hoist turned Grimlock's Cube into an unstoppable escaping machine, the other three recruits attempted to help them recapture it but eventually had to call on Grimlock's help. {{storylink|Trouble Cubed}} When Heatwave let the recruits pick their favorite rescue to do, Wedge favored a mission on Parvus with a crashed flying saucer he could dig out. The disagreement over which simulation to run resulted in the recruits accidentally breaking the control unit and plunging the sim into chaos until they worked together to fix the unit. {{storylink|My Favorite Rescue}}

After Ratchet got trapped in an ancient sim, the five recruits entered the sim as well. They successfully negotiated their way through a tower full of traps and rescued their teacher, completing the sim and opening the vault to find four Mul-T-Cogs and an ancient artifact. {{storylink|The Vault Of The Primes}} Following a soil-sampling mission on some dwarf planets, Wedge and the others found Medix had replanted the Galax in the academy garden, which it had promptly taken over, forcing them to relocate it to a more suitable home. {{storylink|Little Plot of Horrors}} Wedge attended the opening of the [[Museum of Future Tech Art]]. {{storylink|Museum Mystery}}

Wedge and Bumblebee took part in the rescue of Doc Greene and [[Frankie Greene|Frankie]] when a force field dome trapped the two humans in the lab, though Wedge's brute force approach was unsuccessful. {{storylink|Partners (RBA)|Partners}} Medix's overly-harsh criticism of the other recruits made them upset at him, however his overcompensation then led them to believe they had mastered a rescue technique when they had not. {{storylink|Critical Condition}} During a visit to [[Mechapark]], Wedge got stuck on a malfunctioning drop tower and had to be rescued by Whirl. {{storylink|Fun Droids}}

[[File:PowerUp Wedge auger.jpg|thumb|left|320px]]
Though Wedge was given an auger by the [[Sparksayer]], he agreed to swap it for Hot Shot's combicannon, only for the pair to discover that the tools would only activate for their original users. {{storylink|Power Up And Energize}} Cody had the five recruits learn some ballet to improve their poise and balance during rescues. {{storylink|Shall We Dance?}} Wedge and the others helped Hot Shot overcome his one-alternate-mode-per-day limitation by tricking him into thinking a sim rescue was real. {{storylink|Mul-T-Change of Pace}} During a camping trip on [[Natura Island]], Wedge and the others were transported to a junkyard by the island's security system, necessitating a rescue by Whirl and Chase. {{storylink|Five Little Rescue Bots}}

Wedge's attempt to short cut his cleanup of the living quarters resulted in him getting advice from Medix. He later fell afoul of the malfunctioning launch tubes when a diagnostic tool unleashed by Medix tampered with them. {{storylink|Good Advice}} After a campout, the recruits noticed Hot Shot was acting oddly and eventually worked out his comm transmitter had fallen out, resulting in them having to go back for it and rescuing a bear cub in the process. {{storylink|Campfire Fright}} Hot Shot persuaded the other recruits to test out the new Mul-T-Cogs from the vault, only for them to discover that the cogs weren't charged enough and they could no longer transform. Hot Shot successfully fully activated them at the cost of his own ability to transform, at least until Wedge and the others found they could return the favor and use their cogs to reactivate his. {{storylink|Small Cogs}} Reasoning that the one thing he lacked was speed, Wedge scanned a sports car for his new alternate mode. {{storylink|Big Wheels}}

[[File:FirstResponder Wedge Wes hi-five.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
The recruits' first solo off-world mission took them to a deserted city, where they rescued Scorch and his Cube team from an arena and discovered the whole place was a long-lost [[Titan (group)|Titan]], [[Citadel Secundus]]. {{storylink|The Empty City}} Wedge and Bumblebee performed a mountain-climbing rescue for Mentor Training Day, after which Wedge was faced with either helping Wes with his senior first responder exam, or joining Bumblebee for a "rescue-athon". Wedge picked the latter despite his promise to Wes, but then realized his mistake and instead helped Wes with the exam. The pair broke the course record, and Wedge invited Wes to be Bumblebee's partner for the rescue-athon. {{storylink|First Responder}}

Boulder assigned the recruits the task of training Scraplets, which they attempted unsuccessfully for a while before giving up. During a subsequent mission to prevent a power plant from exploding down, it turned out Medix had managed to train the Scraplets after all, saving the day. {{storylink|How To Train Your Scraplet}} Wedge took part in a window washing rescue sim, and helped extinguish fires in [[Crook's Canyon]]. {{storylink|Helicopter Heroes}} He and the other recruits were dispatched to [[Australia]] to help [[Brushfire (RB)|Brushfire]] with some [[kangaroo]]s, and ended up fighting fires. {{storylink|Brushfire (episode)|Brushfire}} He was present when Whirl arrived back at base with the stasis locked Scorch. {{storylink|The Ties That Bind (episode)|The Ties That Bind}}

[[File:IceBotCometh Wedge car mode.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Wedge took part in a bus rescue exercise, and later helped save a tree on Dino Island from a falling butte. {{Storylink|Bot Blog}} He found himself using excuses to use his new sports car mode, however after he and Bumblebee saved a train carrying blocks of ice for a contest, he found transporting the ice back to town using his car mode was less than practical. {{storylink|The Icebot Cometh}} During a space mission, the recruits recovered what turned out to be the Decepticon [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]]. Wedge was disturbed by Hot Shot's dismissal of the group as inherently evil, and when Laserbeak fled the Academy, Wedge revealed to the other recruits that he had been created as a Decepticon. He left to recover the injured Con on his own, but moved by his words, the other recruits turned up to help him. {{storylink|More Than Meets The Eye (RBA)|More Than Meets The Eye}} Wedge took part in a volcano rescue sim. {{storylink|Things That Go Bot In The Night}}

During some lessons by Perceptor, Wedge was given the opportunity to save a dog on a runaway skateboard by using his knowledge of physics. He and the other recruits later had to rescue Medix when their fellow recruit ran into trouble trying to impress the teacher. {{Storylink|Medix Gets Schooled}} He and the other recruits experienced jealousy when a group of teens began carrying out rescues in Milford and getting press. {{storylink|Rescue Teens}}

[[File:LonelyTitan Wedge works on model.jpg|thumb|right|290px]]
Perceptor sent the recruits to [[Sifrolicous-5]] to discover why the planet changed color, and they found [[mudlubber]]s, who turned out to be exactly suited to the environment. {{storylink|Enter The Flood}} Wedge took part in a cow rescue, during which Whirl was injured and had to spend time recovering in a stasis pod. {{storylink|Wizard Of Botz}} Heatwave assigned the recruits the task of doing maintenance on the academy. Wedge and the others later had to cover up a holographic dragon when Hot Shot and Hoist let it escape Hero Hall and menace Milford. {{storylink|One Of Our Dragons Is Missing}}

Wedge and the other recruits were taken on a field trip by Perceptor to a tropical island to study volcanoes. {{storylink|Dino-mite Duo}} Wedge was frustrated that the other recruits wouldn't leave him in peace so he could work on his scale model of the academy, so when he has the opportunity for some alone time, he jumped at the chance. However it turned out the alone time was actually keeping Citadel Secundus company as the Titan searched for his kin. After helping Secundus, Wedge let the other recruits help with his model. {{storylink|The Lonely Titan}}

[[File:SpaceParty Wedge emergency call.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
The recruits teamed up with [[Finn O'Reilly]] to follow the clues on a [[Holokey]]. They expected treasure, but instead found a hidden cache of [[Tox-En]]. {{Storylink|X Marks The Bot}} Wedge was having trouble getting used to traveling at speed in his new vehicle mode, so Hot Shot tried ineptly to tutor him. They had little success until Bumblebee helped Hot Shot straighten out his teaching style. {{Storylink|Making Tracks (RBA)|Making Tracks}} When Grimlock tried to get the recruits to be louder, Wedge acted on Hot Shot's idea and build himself a new siren. During a mission to the planet [[Krimol]], the recruits found that their loud noise was aggravating the local wildlife. {{storylink|Don't Be Alarmed}} Heatwave had Wedge and the other recruits retrieve toxic barrels from the seabed and rescue Jerry in order to teach them to exercise more restraint in using their power up tools. {{storylink|Powerless}}

After discovering that Medix was into DJ Mechmaster's electronic music, the recruits joined him in rescuing the DJ during a charity concert in Griffin Rock, and even took part in the show masquerading as stage props. {{storylink|Griffin Rock Rocks!}} Wedge and the other recruits watched from the Academy as Chuck and Hot Shot entered the Bot Battle event at Dig Fest. {{storylink|Bot Battle}} Following the recruits' final test, they were thrown a party aboard Citadel Secundus. Wedge tried unsuccessfully to convince Laserbeak to attend, and during the party was trying to think of a way to change the Decepticon's mind when he spotted an asteroid about to hit the Titan. He was able to grab a shield emitter and as a result was the only one left online when an anti-energon wave swept the ship. {{storylink|Space Party}} He sent a distress call to Earth before scrounging up two more emitters which he used to revive Medix and Hoist. The trio were able to switch Secundus into receive mode, so the Titan could safely be landed on Earth. Following the recruits' graduation ceremony, the teachers revealed that Secundus was now part of the Academy, matching Wedge's design for an expansion. {{storylink|Crash Of The Titan}}
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==Toys==
===''Rescue Bots Academy''===
[[File:RBA-Wedge-snowplow.jpg|thumb|upright=1.60|Unsuited for Hoth]]
*'''Wedge the Construction-Bot''' (2018)

: The first toy of Wedge is a redeco and slight retool of [[Boulder#Arctic|Arctic Rescue Boulder]] with a new head. He also omits the [[Graham Burns]] and [[Windchill]] accessories.

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[[File:RBA-Wedge-Payloader.jpg|thumb|upright=1.60]]
*'''Wedge the Construction-Bot''' (2019)

: Previewed at Toy Fair 2019<ref name="RBToyFair2019">[https://www.seibertron.com/events/gallery.php?event_id=621 Seibertron.com - Toy Fair 2019: Transformers Rescue Bots Academy Photogallery]</ref>, Wedge is sized similarly to the previous Megabots line, and at about 11 inches tall is in scale with the previously released [[Whirl (RBA)#Rescue Bots Academy|helicopter-mode Whirl]] and [[Medix (RB)#Rescue Bots Academy|car-mode Medix]], transforming into a payloader in a couple of "Easy 2 Do Conversion" steps. He features a "punching" gimmick in his left arm.

:Like the other 11-inch ''Academy'' toys, Wedge's transformation pattern appears to be functionally an up-sized version of a previous figure: in this case, Boulder's [[Boulder#Rescue Bots|bulldozer]][[Boulder#RescanShow|-mode toys]].
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[[File:RBA-AcademyRescueTeam-boxed.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|Rogue Squadron]]
*'''Academy Rescue Team''' (2019)

: First revealed at Toy Fair 2019<ref name="RBToyFair2019" />, "Academy Rescue Team" Wedge is a redeco of the [[Salvage (RB)#CementMixer|cement mixer version of Salvage]], sporting a new head. He comes in a set of four, similar to the previous "[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (toyline)#Rescan Series|Griffin Rock Rescue Team]]", with [[Whirl (RBA)#AcadRescTeam|Whirl]] (retool of VTOL jet version of Blades), [[Hot Shot (Prime)#AcadRescTeam|Hot Shot]] (retool of Rock Rescue Team Bumblebee) and [[Hoist (RB)#AcadRescTeam|Hoist]] (retool of ''Rescan'' Hoist). This version of Wedge is capable of towing the trailer of his Command Center toy listed below.
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[[File:RBA Wedge CommandCenter Stock.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.60]]
*'''Command Center Wedge''' (2019)
**''Accessories'': Command Center/ trailer

: First revealed via online listings, this version of Wedge comes with a tow-along trailer that turns into a training center with a light-up robotic drilling arm and a holographic target practice system and "hologram" mountain, complete with monitor. Wedge himself is rescan sized and turns into a payloader, which is functionally a downsized version of his 11-inch toy listed above.

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==Notes==
[[File:RescueBotsAcademyWedge.jpg|thumb]]
*''Rescue Bots Academy'' Wedge is heavily based off [[Wedge (RID)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' Wedge]].
* Wedge's prototype model had headlights on the cab and no Rescue Bot insignia.
* If the recruits were to have an official age order, [[Pete Slattery]] would write Wedge as the oldest.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Okay, a few questions! The Bots are mid teens if they were human-like. Say 14 in year 1,15 year 2. We never got into who's older but if I were to write it, I'd say Wedge oldest, then Whirl, Hot Shot, Hoist and Medix the youngest!|link=https://twitter.com/PeteSlatteryIE/status/1276778456659918848|name=Pete Slattery|site=Twitter|month=06|day=27|year=2020}}</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Cantonese:'' '''Teoi1 tou2 gei1''' (推土機, "Bulldozer")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Hasító'''
*''Russian:'' '''Wedge''' (Уэдж ''Uedzh'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Aligned Decepticons]]
[[Category:Rescue Bots Academy Autobots]]
[[Category:Turncoats]]

Sawback

2023-06-02T20:37:42Z

Morvigo: /* Notes */

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{{disambig2|the ''Robots in Disguise'' Mini-Con|the ''Titans Return'' Titan Master "Sawback"|Lione}}
:''Sawback is an [[Autobot]] [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:Sawback package art.jpg|right|thumb|350px|His feelings toward [[Fetch]] are unknown.]]

'''Sawback''' absolutely loves the game of fetch. It doesn't matter if it's a thrown stick or a fleeing [[Decepticon]], this canine crook-catcher will give chase, relentlessly, for ''miles'' if need be. Once he's got a whiff of his quarry, he's unshakable. As tenacious as he is, once his target is acquired, this noble beast sometimes lets them go, trusting that their brush with justice will set them back on the straight and narrow. And if it doesn't, well, the chase is on again, and there's nowhere they can hide.

Some of the above does not apply when the target is a stick.

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==Games==
===''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game===
{{charstubgames|{{storylink|Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|Robots in Disguise}}}}

==Toys==
===''Robots in Disguise'' (2015)===
[[File:RID15-toy Sawback.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|It's a dog that turns into a frisbee.]]
*'''Sawback''' (Mini-Con, 2015)
**''Accessories'': Armor sprue (muzzle-guard, left & right shoulder-blades, left & right axe/cannons, tail-flame effect)
{{toydesigner|[[Hisao Nishimoto]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)| Robots in Disguise]]'' single-pack Mini-Cons, Sawback transforms from a robotic wolf into a Cybertronian buzzsaw in a single step. He is designed to attach to and launch from [[Deployer (WFC)|Deployer]] [[Drift (RID)#Deployer|Drift]]'s grill-mounted launcher. He comes with a number of clear-plastic accessories attached to an Autobot-[[insignia]]-shaped sprue, which can be attached to him in both beast and buzzsaw modes (though the muzzle-guard really doesn't want to allow him to close all the way into buzzsaw mode).

: His leg-mounted axes/cannons can combine with armor parts from his wavemates [[Divebomb (RID)#Toys|Divebomb]], [[Dragonus#Toys|Dragonus]], and [[Slipstream (RID)#Toys|Slipstream]] to form a [[Mini-Con armor lion|robotic lion]].

: Sawback was later released by [[TakaraTomy]] in November of 2015, as part of the [http://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/toy/event/2015/10/11.html ''Transformers Adventure'' Limited Micron Gift Campaign]. He was given away free with the purchase of 3000 yen worth of ''Transformers Adventure'' products at Yamada Denki and Yodobashi Camera stores, plus AEON "[[Cybertron Satellite]]" stores in Lake Town, Mito Uchihara, and Sapporo Hiraokanishi. This release of Sawback has a ''Transformers Chronicle'' mobile app-compatible scan-badge, but is otherwise identical to the [[Hasbro]] release.

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[[File:RID15_Mini-Con_Mega-pack_Sawback.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|Put a chain on him and he can be a pocketwatchdog.]]
*'''Mini-Con Mega Pack''' (2016)

:This version of Sawback, available in a massive fifteen-pack of Mini-Cons released exclusively in some Asian and European markets, adds some silver paint on the part of his disc-border at his shoulders, and lacks his armor sprue.

: All of the Mini-Cons in this set have similar minor deco differences from their individual releases, and all lack armor parts. This set also includes [[Anvil (RID)#MegaPack|Anvil]], [[Back#MegaPack|Back]], [[Bashbreaker#MegaPack|Bashbreaker]], [[Beastbox (RID)#MegaPack|Beastbox]], [[Divebomb (RID)#MegaPack|Divebomb]], [[Hammer (RID)#MegaPack|Hammer]], [[Lord Doomitron#MegaPack|Lord Doomitron]], [[Ratbat (WFC)#MegaPack|Ratbat]], [[Sandsting#MegaPack|Sandsting]], [[Swelter#MegaPack|Swelter]], [[Tricerashot#MegaPack|Tricerashot]], [[Undertone#MegaPack|Undertone]], [[Velocirazor#MegaPack|Velocirazor]], and [[Windstrike#MegaPack|Windstrike]].

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==Merchandise==
===McDonald's===
*'''Bumblebee''' (Happy Meal toy, 2016)
**''McNumber'': '''5'''

: As part of the 2016 ''Robots In Disguise/[[My Little Pony]]'' [[McDonald's]] Happy Meal promotion, the [[Bumblebee (WFC)#RIDMc2Robot|robot-mode Bumblebee toy]] comes with a blue disc-projectile adorned with a sticker of Sawback's stock character art. This disc can be launched from Bumblebee's back, or stored on either of Bee's legs by the central post.
===Dickie Toys===
*'''Optimus Prime Battle Truck''' (2016)
**''Accessories'': Slipstream figure, Sawback figure, 2 Slipstream discs, 2 Sawback discs

:A Non-transforming Sawback figurine (and the disc) is available with the similarly non-transforming Optimus Prime truck. His disc counterpart can be launched on Optimus Prime's truck front or both sides of the built-in pressure-firing launchers. The Sawback figurine can be attached on both of the truck top and the launchers, but since it does not really activate any gimmicks, so why bother?

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*'''Bumblebee''' (Mini-Con Deployer, 2016)
*'''Sideswipe''' (Mini-Con Deployer, 2016)
:The Sawback disc, along with Slipstream's, is also available with either Mini-Con Deployer Bumblebee or Sideswipe, which can be launched from his vehicle front.
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==Notes==
*Sawback had the working name '''Wolfwire''', used by a presenter at [[Toy Fair 2015]] for the "wave 1 Mini-Con wolf". This name was later used for the [[Weirdwolf (G1)#Generations|''Titans Return'' incarnation of Weirdwolf]].
*It's reasonable to assume that Sawback's name refers to the Russian word "собака" ("''sobaka''", which means "dog").

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Sawback''' (ソウバック ''Sōbakku'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Jùquǎn''' (Taiwan, 鉅犬, "Giant Dog")
*''Russian:'' '''Sawback''' (Собэк ''Sobek'')

[[Category:Buzzsaw Mini-Cons]]
[[Category:Japanese promotion exclusives]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) Autobots]]

Star Saber (Thirteen)

2023-02-17T18:15:22Z

Morvigo:

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{{disambig3|Star Saber}}
[[File:Star Saber(Prime).jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|''There's a Star Saaaaber putting out the Sun...'']]
Wielded by [[Prima]], one of the [[Thirteen|original thirteen Transformers]] at the dawn of time, the '''Star Saber''' (sometimes spelled '''Star Sabre''') sword was a weapon unlike any other. Though several other swords throughout the [[multiverse]] share its name, only one could snuff out stars and crumble the stuff of planets into dust. Many legends swirl around this blade of blades, from its origin to its precise nature to the circumstances surrounding its disappearance into the annals of history, but somewhere between fiction and fact, the Star Saber waits to be discovered again by one worthy enough to wield its power...

==Fiction==
===Fun Publications comics===
Long before recorded time began, [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] turned towards evil and began acting against his fellow siblings. To keep the all-powerful Star Saber from falling into evil hands, [[Nexus Prime]] decided to use his very body to conceal it. His fellow original Transformers [[Vector Prime]], [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]], and [[Solus Prime]] agreed, and Solus Prime used her [[Forge of Solus Prime|forge]] to smash the blade into five pieces. They then used the quantum edge of the blade (still functioning despite the sword's sad state), to carve Nexus himself into five pieces, each of which became an individual: [[Heatwave (Timelines)|Heatwave]], [[Skyfall (Cybertron)|Skyfall]], [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], [[Topspin (Classics)|Topspin]], and [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]]. The five pieces of the Star Saber were then scattered across the [[multiverse]], followed soon by the five components of Nexus Prime, their knowledge of the pieces' locations and of their own previous lives suppressed until such time as the sword was needed again. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 30|Nexus Prime profile}} {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} The blade's fragmented hilt, the [[Origin Matrix]], was hidden on prehistoric Earth of [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon]]. Vector Prime then sealed the local spacetime in a time-lock so that no one could enter or exit. The [[Vok]], already present to conduct one of their experiments, were entrusted with guarding the Matrix. {{storylink|Shattered Balance}} {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}

Uncounted aeons later, the components of Nexus Prime found each other once again, and the titan was re-formed. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 6}} He proceeded to embark on a multiversal journey with the [[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|negative-polarity]] [[Quintesson]] [[Aquarius (SG)|Aquarius]] in order to recover the sword fragments, but one major obstacle stood in their way: Nexus Prime's memories had not returned entirely. He knew that he was searching for an artifact powerful enough to collapse the entire multiversal stack, but could no longer remember what the artifact was, what its pieces looked like, or where exactly they were. When the pair made a stop on the Cybertron of [[Primax 509.28 Epsilon]], however, Nexus felt that the [[Elite Guard|Cybertron Elite Guard]] symbol he spotted on a box was somehow a clue, one that finally got him started on the right track. {{storylink|The Coming Storm: Part 1}}

After unknown further adventures, Aquarius and Nexus succeeded in tracking down four of the five Star Saber fragments, with Aquarius picking up the fourth from a [[Chifumi Takahashi|courier]] in [[Axiom Nexus]]. {{storylink|Transformers I.Q.#issue 48|Transformers I.Q. last issue review #6}} As payment, Aquarius then took the courier through a portal to her home dimension, but the pair were transferred by Nexus in-transit to [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon]] so that they could collect the fifth and final piece—the [[Origin Matrix]], the gem from the blade's hilt—which had just been retrieved from its hiding place on the prehistoric [[Earth]] of that universe by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Mammoth]]. {{storylink|Transformers I.Q.#issue 54|Transformers I.Q. trivia bonus #12}} Mammoth, however, asserted that he would personally hold onto the Matrix until Nexus Prime could come to collect it. {{storylink|Falling into Place}}

[[File:AnotherLight-choppitychop.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]

Later, as the [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|negative polarity Ultra Magnus]] was about to kill his positive polarity counterpart, Nexus Prime arrived, reformed the Star Saber with the Origin Matrix, and used it to slice Magnus's [[Terminus Blade]]-wielding arm cleanly off. The odds against him, Magnus attempted to escape, but Nexus simply used the Terminus Blade to open an interdimensional portal, exiling Magnus through it. Resolving to prevent multiversal crises such as that of Magnus's doing from ever happening again, Nexus Prime departed, {{storylink|Restoration}} traveling to a key point in interdimensional space. He then combined the powers of the Star Saber and the Terminus Blade together, strengthening the barriers between universes, rendering interdimensional travel nigh-impossible, and nullifying [[Multiversal singularity|multiversal singularities]]. {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}}
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===Aligned continuity family===
====Aligned novels====
[[File:TransformersVault-Prima.jpg|right|thumb]]
The Star Saber was one of the greatest weapons created by [[Solus Prime]]. To hide the full truth of its nature from any single Cybertronian, many myths existed about it; some claimed that it was created out of three bots and wielded itself, others that it was integrated into the chassis of one of the [[Thirteen]], and others still that Solus forged it from the core of a star, using its own heat as her furnace. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}} More concretely, it is known that the [[Matrix of Leadership]] once adorned the sword's hilt. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

According to [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]], the Star Saber was shattered into five pieces after the defeat of [[Liege Maximo]]. Per Trion's story, [[Nexus Prime]] gathered the pieces, broke himself into five bots—[[Clocker (Prime)|Clocker]], [[Mainspring]], [[Chaindrive]], [[Pinion]], and [[Cannonspring]]—hid a piece inside each bot, and spread his component bots across the universe in order to keep the Star Saber away from [[The Fallen|Megatronus]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

Following the [[Great Exodus]] of Cybertronians from Cybertron, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] was led across the galaxy by the Matrix of Leadership that he now bore, discovering on each stop blade-like fragments of Cybertronian metal. Optimus presumed them to be pieces of the Star Saber, but they were in actuality the [[Blades of Time]], another artifact entrusted to Nexus. However, Prime's journey had also led to the discovery of the five components of Nexus Prime, who reformed during a battle with the Decepticons on [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]]. The sword he proceeded to summon was, contrary to legend, named the "[[Cyber Caliber]]", calling into question whether or not the story about him being guardian of the Star Saber was true. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}
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====''Prime'' cartoon====
[[File:Legacy-PrimeStarSaber.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67| I have the power!!]]

The Star Saber was held in the [[Vaults|Iacon vaults]] near the end of the war, and ejected into space with the rest of the items stored there. It found its way to [[Earth]] where it became entombed in rock. The sword's protective shield rendered the rock around it indestructible with only a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] being able to extract it. When [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] uncovered it, he found the Star Saber's defences. Desperate to keep the sword away from Optimus Prime, Megatron ordered the rock it was embedded in towed away by the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]''. Despite the Decepticons' best efforts, Optimus Prime was able to claim the Star Saber. With it, he split the boulder that had once held it when it was dropped atop him before using the sword to unleash a wave of energy on the ''Nemesis''. Upon returning to [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]], the Star Saber activated, relaying to Optimus a message from [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]]. {{storylink|Legacy (episode)|Legacy}}

[[File:Prime-AlpgaOmegabrokensabre.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Just two days past the warranty, too...]]
Desperate to match Optimus' newfound power, Megatron transplanted the arm of a [[Liege Maximo|dead Prime]] onto himself, which allowed him to use the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] to forge the [[Dark Star Saber]]. He challenged Optimus to a battle for the latest relic, and though their swords seemed to be equal when it came to flinging energy waves around, the original Star Saber proved to be less durable when Megatron managed to shatter it with his own blade. The shards from the blade dissolved into dust, and Optimus took the hilt back to base with him. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

After being given the [[Forge of Solus Prime]], Optimus used it to reforge the Star Saber and took it with him to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. He used it in battle with Megatron, matching the Dark Star Saber, and keeping his opposite busy while the other Autobots reclaimed the [[Omega Key]]s. Once they'd succeeded, he used the sword to knock Megatron flying so the Autobots could retreat. When the Autobots found the [[Omega Lock]], Optimus unsheathed the Star Saber for another battle with Megatron before the Decepticons revealed that they had taken the Autobots' human allies as hostages. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}}

[[File:Tfp megatron impaled.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Shish-ka-Bee!]]
Unwilling to forsake his allies, Optimus threw down the Star Saber. When the Decepticons began using the Omega Lock to [[cyberforming|cyberform]] Earth, Optimus claimed the Star Saber again, first using it to slice off Megatron's stolen arm before destroying the Omega Lock. When the Autobots retreated back to Earth, they found that Megatron had managed to cyberform a new [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]] from which they launched an attack on the Autobot base. Optimus used the Star Saber to destroy a wave of [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]] before the Autobots were forced to retreat. When the other Autobots had retreated, Optimus used the Star Saber to destroy Omega One's [[GroundBridge]] before the ''Nemesis'' destroyed the base, rendering the act moot. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}} The Star Saber was pulled from the remains of the base by the Decepticons, and it was stored aboard the ''Nemesis''. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}}

When the Autobots assaulted the ''Nemesis'', [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] took the opportunity to retrieve the Star Saber. [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] attempted to pass the weapon to Optimus, only to be blasted and killed by Megatron. The scout was subsequently restored by the power of the Omega Lock which the Decepticons had built into the starship, and he ran Megatron through with the Star Saber, ending the tyrant's life. {{storylink|Deadlock (episode)|Deadlock}}

Optimus Prime used the Star Saber during the ceremony to promote Bumblebee to warrior class in a fashion {{w|Knight#Notes|similar to human knighting}}. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:OP18-SolusPrimeStarSaber.jpg|thumb|300px|right|It slices, it dices, it makes julienne Prime.]]
According to the [[Way of Flame]], the Star Saber was forged by [[Solus Prime]] during the era of the [[Thirteen]] and wielded by their leader, [[Prima]], with the [[photonic crystal]] that would become the Matrix of Leadership adorning its hilt. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}} [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] regarded the sword as a 'metaphor made real,' considering it unbeatable by 'ordinary' Cybertronians. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}}

The day that Solus first created the Star Saber was the day that [[Onyx Prime]] realized that he would need to set in motion the events that would eventually lead to the [[First Cybertronian Civil War]]—as the bestial Prime was, in reality, a convenient identity assumed by a temporally-displaced [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]], who knew that the Matrix embedded in the sword's hilt would one day find its way into the care of Prima's follower [[Nova Prime|Nova]].

Shockwave thus engineered a situation that led to Onyx's follower [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] attempting to overthrow Prima. Solus Prime wielded the Star Saber to defend her leader's life, but Megatronus was able to seize the sword and fatally impale her. Seeking to bring Megatronus to justice, Prima brought his weapon with him when he, Trion, and "Onyx Prime" set off to search for Megatronus among the stars. When they found him on the planet [[Tsiehshi]], Megatronus was once again able to turn the sword back on its wielder and easily bisected Prima. His usefulness at an end, "Onyx" subsequently killed Megatronus and lied to Alpha Trion that Prima had heroically slain Megatronus in a duel at the cost of his own life.

It is not known what became of the Star Saber following the deaths of both its wielders, {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}} but, at the dawn of Cybertron's subsequent [[Golden Age]], possession of the Matrix did indeed fall to Nova, now Nova ''Prime''—just as Shockwave had intended, and history had foretold. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}}

A statue of Prima within the [[Grand Imperium]] depicted him with the blade, {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 2}} as did another adorning the [[Primal Basilica]]. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
The Star Saber was one of the fourteen [[Artifacts of the Primes]]. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust I|Sea of Rust I}}

==Video games==
===''Transformers: Devastation''===
The Star Saber was one of the melee weapons that the Autobots could find in their quest to stop Megatron. It was usable by any of the Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers: Devastation}}

==Toys==
===''Prime''===
====''Robots in Disguise''====
{{anchor|Voyager}}
[[File:PrimeRIDtoy-PrimeVoyager.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Few people realise that mystical swords are dry clean only.]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Voyager Class, [[2012]])
**''Series / Number'': '''01 / 001'''
**''Accessories'': Battle blaster/Cannon & battle sword
:''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise (2012)|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Voyager|Optimus Prime]] includes a sword which, although not acknowledged on the packaging as such, is based on the Star Saber's show model. The hilt is slightly modified from the original design, losing the hand guard and gaining a wider pommel, whilst the blade has accurate detailing but is vastly scaled down from its gargantuan show proportions. The Saber has a [[5 mm post|5 mm]] handle, with an additional post and post hole on opposite sides of the hilt.

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[[File:Primetoy-TakaraTomy-BattleShieldOptimus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Battle Shield Optimus''' ([[August 12]], 2012)
**''Accessories'': "[[O.P.#Gray|O.P. A]]", "[[Pral#Gold|Pral G]]", "[[Sise#Gold|Sise G]]", "[[Jaze#Gold|Jaze G]]" Arms Microns, sword, trailer
:[[Exclusive]] to Japanese [[Toys"R"Us]] stores, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#BattleShield|Optimus Prime]] is a [[redeco]] of the [[Arms Micron]] version of the Voyager figure and includes a recolored version of the Star Saber, cast in a darker, warmer shade of gray.

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[[File:Primetoy-TakaraTomy-ArmsMasterOptimus-Matrix.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Arms Master Optimus''' ([[September 29]], 2012)
**''ID Number:'' '''AM-21'''
**''Accessories'': "R.A." Arms Micron & Matrix Blade
:Part of the seventh wave of [[TakaraTomy]] ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' toys, the [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Weaponizer|Japanese release of Weaponizer Class Optimus Prime]] comes with a very large [[Matrix of Leadership/toys#ArmsMaster|Matrix]] which can tab onto his chest as armor or mount onto the back of the truck cab, with the Matrix also being covered in 5mm posts and holes so that [[Arms Micron]]s can be attached to it. He additionally comes with a clear-blue "Shining" version of the Arms Micron, [[R.A.#ArmsMaster|R.A.]], who can combine with the Matrix to form the colossal Matrix Saber.

:Note that the clear-plastic-on-clear-plastic hinge in the middle of the blade stresses rapidly with repeated transformation due to the pressure leveraged onto the free-standing side of the clip when traveling from Matrix mode to Saber mode. As such, the user is advised to pick one mode and keep the Matrix there.

:This toy was used as the [[White Matrix]] in ''[[Generations Selects Special Comic]]''.

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*'''Optimus Prime''' (Dark Energon Voyager Class, 2012)
**''Number'': '''002'''
**''Accessories'': Battle blaster/Cannon, battle sword
:''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Dark Energon Series|Prime: Dark Energon]]'' [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#DarkEnergon|Optimus Prime]] is a [[BigBadToyStore]]-exclusive redeco/retool of ''Robots in Disguise'' Voyager Class Optimus Prime, and includes the Star Saber, colored a pale blue.
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====''Cyberverse''====
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*'''Optimus Prime''' (Cyberverse Commander Class, [[2013]])
**''Series / Number'': '''3 / 001'''
**''Accessories'': Launcher & missile (combine to form Thunder Lance), Star Saber
:Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#BH|Prime: Beast Hunters]]'' [[Cyberverse (toyline)#Series 3|Series 3 ''Cyberverse'']] Commander Class toys, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#BHCyberverse|Optimus Prime]] is an all-new mold, and comes with the Star Saber. The Star Saber features [[C joint|3mm post]]s for its handle and on its hilt, allowing it to be held by his hands, or mount onto one of the two ports on the rear sides of his vehicle mode.

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*'''Optimus Prime vs Predaking''' (Cyberverse Commander 2-pack, 2013)
**''Accessories'': Launcher & missile (combine to form Thunder Lance), Star Saber
:Part of the [[Target]]-exclusive "[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Exclusives 2|Predacons Rising]]" subline, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Target2pack|Optimus Prime]] is a redeco of his Series 3 ''Cyberverse'' Commander Class toy. He still comes with the Star Saber.

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*'''Beast Blade Optimus Prime''' (Cyberverse Commander Class, 2013)
**''Series / Number'': '''3 / 008'''
**''Accessories'': Launcher & missile (combine to form Thunder Lance), Star Saber, Battlewing Shield
:Part of the fourth wave of ''Prime: Beast Hunters Cyberverse'' Commander Class toys, Beast Blade [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#BBladeCyberverse|Optimus Prime]] is a jungle-themed green and blue redeco of his Series 3 ''Cyberverse'' Commander Class toy. The Star Saber is still included, and is unchanged from the original release.
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*'''Optimus Prime''' (Voyager Class, 2013)
**''Series / Number'': '''2 / 001'''
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''G11'''
**''Accessories:'' Two "Ionic pulse launchers"/"Eaglefire missile launchers", two missiles, Star Saber
:Part of the first wave of ''Prime: Beast Hunters'' Voyager Class toys, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#BHVoyager|Optimus Prime]] is a larger, all-new mold, and comes with a larger version of the Star Saber. The Star Saber features 5mm posts for its handle and on its hilt, allowing it to be held by his hands, or mount onto various ports on his backpack, front wheel panels, or upper wings.
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===''Go!''===
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*'''Hunter Optimus Prime''' ([[April 27]], 2013)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''G11'''
**''Accessories:'' Two missile launchers, two missiles, Matrix Saber
:Part of the first wave of TakaraTomy ''[[Triple Combination: Transformers Go! (toyline)|Go!]]'' toys, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Go!|Hunter Optimus Prime]] is a redeco of the Voyager Class ''Beast Hunters'' Optimus Prime toy. His "Matrix Saber" has been redecoed with a translucent blue blade, and uses a bluer shade of gunmetal paint for its hilt and handle, accurate to the Saber's depiction and color in the cartoon.
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==Notes==
*At [[BotCon 2010]], Fun Publications said that Hasbro had, in effect, taken custody of the character of Nexus Prime due to their plans for the Thirteen. Because of this, Fun Pub was unable to directly continue the story of Nexus Prime for a long time, only able to make small nods in magazine issues [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 48|#48]] and [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 54|#54]] before somewhat abruptly resolving the quest in 2015 in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 65|issue #65]].
*The exact connection between Nexus Prime and the Star Saber in the Aligned novels is a bit of a mess, simply because ''Exiles'' is so riddled with plotting and continuity errors that it's hard to tell if the "Cyber Caliber" is actually a different sword from the Star Saber, or if the book just used the wrong name for a few pages. While continuity between the ''Prime'' cartoon and the novels is decidedly wobbly, the sword's later appearance in the cartoon—while probably not ''intended'' to solve the novel's errors—can be seen to suggest that Nexus never had the Star Saber, that just being another of the many myths surrounding the blade.
*The Star Saber was taken out of action almost immediately after its introduction in the ''Prime'' cartoon, presumably to keep a weapon so powerful that Megatron feared it from destroying the show's status quo. Even when it was reconstructed in the second-season finale, it played absolutely no role in the story until the series finale, and even then, it was in the hands of non-Primes, rendering it an ordinary but giant sword.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Matrix Saber''' (マトリクスセイバー ''Matorikusu Seibā'')
*''French:'' '''Sabre des Étoiles''' ("Star Saber")
*''German:'' '''Sternensäbel''' ("Starsaber")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Xīngchén Jiàn''' (China, 星辰剑, "Star Sword")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Sabre da Estrela''' (Brazil, "Star Saber")
*''Spanish:'' '''Sable Estrella''' ("Star Saber")
*''Russian:'' '''Zviozdnyi mech''' (Звёздный меч, "Star Sword")

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