Flip Sides (G1)

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Flip Sides is an Autobot and a Decepticon Mini-Cassette from the Generation 1 continuity family.
From my video to my radio.

You'd be hard pressed to find a robot more friendly and compassionate than Flip Sides (フリップサイズ Furippu Saizu). A former teacher, she is well-suited to managing data, military history and coordinating, and has been given the task of managing waves of remote-controlled combat drones. She's well-liked and personable, and a valuable Autobot fighter.

And it's all a lie, even to Flip Sides herself.

She is in actuality a sleeper agent placed into the Autobot ranks thousands of years previous. She has no memory of her former self, which has been carefully buried under her Autobot persona, and will not awaken until the intricate timer mechanism also buried inside her programming triggers. What her Decepticon self is like is entirely unknown, but the thousands of years of data she's collected will undoubtedly be used to devastating effect. When this happens... nobody knows, possibly even the mysterious Decepticons who programmed her.

She has a phobia towards mechanoids with more than two legs, which can lock her systems up if she is surprised.<ref>Collector's Edition Flip Sides bio</ref>

Fiction

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Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

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Masterpiece toy bios

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Suspicions arose among the Autobots regarding Flip Sides's true loyalties, causing her and Twincast, unable to defend her innocence, to go on the run as fugitives. They were hunted by Autobot bounty hunter Road Rage. Masterpiece Road Rage bio

Legends comic

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Flip Sides' Decepticon identity appeared in one of Tigatron's dreams as one of the evil female Transformers who tried to kidnap him. LG11 Chromia

The real Flip Sides was eventually captured by Road Rage, and her true Decepticon identity came to light when it activated during her trial. After she was imprisoned, Twincast began working for peace between the two factions in hopes that he could be reunited with her. LG27 Blaster Years later once peace was brokered and the Cybertron Alliance was formed, Flip Sides was released and greeted by Blaster. LG-EX Metroplex

e-HOBBY comics

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To combat the Decepticons' aggressive energy raids, Wheeljack and Ga'mede put their heads together and duplicated Optimus Prime's new Black Body form to create twenty-one battle droids. These "Eldedroids" were placed under the remote control of Flip Sides and sent out onto the battlefield. MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver.

Wings Universe

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Flipsides [sic] was the supervisor of an archeological dig on Cybertron roughly nine million years ago. Working out of the long abandoned territory of Median, she coordinated with security advisor Strika and the archeometrist Glyph, with her assistants Lancer and Greenlight. Flipsides's skill as a coordinator was enhanced by her considerabe knowledge of Decepticon activity in the area. Their research unearthed an exciting find—an ancient factory for the production of Cybertronian body designs, one possible birthplace for their very race. The second discovery was possibly even more critical, an urn labelled as the "Heart of the Dragon". Although couched in flowery language and hieroglyphics, the urn apparently contained the laser-core for a spark of nigh-unlimited personal power. Trouble started to brew when Drench and Hydradread of the Decepticon thugs known as the Stormtroopers came snooping around the dig site. Worried about the Heart falling into the wrong hands, Flipsides reached out to Alpha Trion and the Autobot High Council to send the Elite Guard to their assistance.

The Elite Guard sent out their Strike Team and Special Ops Team to aid Flipsides's team, and they quickly went to work with Strika fortifying the place for an attack. Flipsides and the dig team were relegated to a safehouse while the Elite Guard did their best to keep the Stormtroopers on the outskirts of town. Unfortunately, the group's leader Rage and his engineer, Aquablast, managed to break through the lines and reach the Heart. Not content with the Heart alone, Rage then sought out the dig team to confiscate Glyph's notes on the project for further use. When she refused to turn over her work, Aquablast burned a hole through the archeometrist with his chemical cannon. Flipsides and the others were only saved by the sudden arrival of Lancer, who had been armed and working with the Elite Guard on the front lines. She shot Aquablast and drove off Rage.

Before chasing after him, Lancer tried to shake Flipsides out of her state of shock and told her to activate the auto-turrets. Flipsides seemed to understand, and was making her way towards the controls when Lancer left to check on the situation outside. Nevertheless, the Stormtroopers managed to escape without any further losses, and the auto-turrets never fired a shot. As the Autobots regrouped to figured out what went wrong, Flipsides emerged with a significantly changed attitude. Any horror she had felt over Glyph's death was gone, and she was now cold and nonchalant over the entire matter. She gave a half-hearted explanation about the auto-turrets malfunctioning, and mildly suggested the Elite Guard get going after the Stormtroopers while they still had time.

Indeed, it appeared Flipsides was acting as an informant for the Decepticon Warlord called Deathsaurus, keeping him apprised of matters at Median and the Stormtroopers. The extent of her betrayal was never clarified, but it raised significant concerns about the condition of the auto-turrets, not to mention how Rage learned of the Heart in the first place. Flames of Yesterday

2005 IDW continuity

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Millions of years ago, Flip Sides was a member of the "disposable class" on Cybertron, thanks to the rise of the Functionists and their doctrine of ratioism. Before & After

During the reign of Zeta Prime, Flip Sides and Rosanna participated in a protest over the death of Hefter in police custody. To Walk Among the Chosen

Flip Sides eventually joined the Decepticon movement. In 2018, she was seen among the Decepticons who decided they wanted Starscream in control of the faction. Endless ForeverUnforgivable

Precursor World

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Flip Sides was a creation of the twin Straxuses. With the rest of her "siblings", she watched as their "fathers" announced their intent to conquer the universe by filling the power vacuum the Primus Vanguard's fall had created. Finale

Toys

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Collector's Edition

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It's a great disguise provided you don't look at her ... flip side.
  • Twincast / Flip Sides (2-pack, 2006)
  • ID number: 65
  • Accessories: 2 "Hyper-Directional Acoustic Rifles"
Flip Sides is a redeco of the original Eject/Rewind mold, transforming into a microcassette. Unusual for cassette reissues at this point, she uses stickers for her tape-side detailing rather than paint.Her cassette mode features a "readout" decal that reveals the "weak point" of Scorponok when she is placed behind the clear-red chestplates of Soundblaster or Twincast... and one on the back side of her cassette mode of Fortress Maximus, along with her Decepticon rubsign, so presumably that's her "evil" cassette side. This is also the first time the Scorponok decal has been re-done since the original Twincast release with Steeljaw.
She was only available as a pack-in with the e-HOBBY exclusive Collector's Edition re-release of Twincast. This set shipped out to buyers in April of 2006.
This mold was also used to make Rosanna, Solarbot, and Shattered Glass Rewind.
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