Editing Anode

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:''Anode is an unaligned [[Transformer]] from the [[2005 IDW continuity|2005 IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:LL5 subcvrA.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|This snowflake becomes her dead girlfriend and that's hardly the weirdest thing on this wiki.]]
'''Anode''' gets into trouble.  Originally a [[blacksmith]], Anode was a specialist who is able to—with training—sculpt a malfunctioning [[protoform]] into its intended working order. However, for reasons she long refused to disclose, the sharp-tongued and irreverent Anode fled this life and declared herself instead an archaeologist, treasure-hunter, and adventurer. From [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]] and beyond, there's no large, menacing creature she's not willing to tick off (either on purpose or by accident) and no artifact too risky for her to retrieve. Her partner and spouse [[Lug (IDW)|Lug]] can be a calming influence, but, when push inevitably comes to shove, she loves every obnoxious circuit in Anode's body.  

{{quote|Welcome to life with Anode. I defy anyone to spend an afternoon with her and not end up '''dead'''.|[[Lug (IDW)|Lug]]|[[An Axe to Break the Ice]].}}

==Fiction==
===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron|''Lost Light'' #1]]}}

Anode was born assigned male on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. While certain members of the [[Primal Vanguard]] began identifying as "she" after off-world missions and encounters with organic races, Anode became bemused by the very concept of gender, and did not understand the significance of the pronouns until she left Cybertron when the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] broke out. After meeting several organic races, Anode decided she felt more comfortable as a "she" and she had her chassis rebuilt into a more feminine form. {{storylink|An Axe to Break the Ice}}

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Some time in the past, Anode made her way to Caminus, over five hundred years before [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]] reestablished regular interplanetary ties among Cybertronian worlds. A daring risk-taker from an early age, she began honing her natural skills as a [[blacksmith]] in the [[Lighthouse]], helping newborn protoforms by sculpting their [[Living metal|sentio metallico]]. Unfortunately, Anode's brash nature led her into performing a live sculpting on a struggling protoform before she was truly ready, and the protoform subsequently died. Though the other members of the Lighthouse were understanding and forgiving, Anode couldn't bring herself to quit, so instead she fudged the facility's records to make it look like she'd stolen the facility's supplies of sentio metallico, then fled Caminus forever. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 4: Bad Moon Rising|Bad Moon Rising}}

[[File:Anode some other cybertron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|You shall not pass!]]
Five hundred years ago, Anode and Lug travelled to [[Moonbase Two|Luna 2]] at the behest of the mysterious [[Adaptus|Grand Architect]] (who she called "Techy") in search of a piece of rare [[Living metal|widowed metal]]. They found themselves on the wrong side of a [[Decepticon]] [[Cybernought]]; although Anode deployed a forcefield, Lug was convinced that they were going to die. Anode was spared by the machinations of the [[time travel]]ling [[Mortilus|Necrobot]]; as part of his efforts to rescue the "[[Disappeared]]", he took Anode to the future and stored her in a [[stasis pod]] until she could recover from the disorienting effects of the time-skip.

In the present day, Anode woke up on the [[Necroworld]] along with the dozens of other refugees the Necrobot had collected. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron|Some Other Cybertron}} However, her senses were still scrambled by the effects of the time jump, and as a result she began hallucinating that Lug had arrived with her, holding regular conversations between herself and "Lug." {{storylink|Dissolution Part 5: Modes of Production|Modes of Production}}  

Anode attended a debriefing held by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] to help bring the disoriented time-travelers up to speed on recent events. Anode was less than impressed by the Autobot's boring delivery. The two then were accosted by [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]], who annoyed them with some nonsensical questions under the pretense of conducting "background checks." When she told Swerve to leave, the red [[Autobot]] sarcastically mentioned that she should see [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] for "timesickness"—remembering Velocity from their time together on Caminus, Anode tried to leave the Necroworld via [[Teleport chamber|teleporter]] before Velocity could track her down. [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rodimus]] and [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] caught her before they could escape; although she received a reprimand for almost wasting the one-use teleporter, Anode was fascinated to see Drift's [[Great Sword]]. Rodimus and his allies decided to use the teleporter to head back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to pick up another ship, and Anode stayed behind with the other time-displaced Cybertronians. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron|Some Other Cybertron}}

[[File:BadMoonRising-Anodealtmode.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|I see dead people.]]
Anode and "Lug" later reconvened by the Necrobot's monument to the disappeared, where they discussed recent events and what the future held for them. Though Anode professed an aloofness regarding her new friends, she eventually confessed that she was interested in their quest for [[Cyberutopia]], though "Lug" joked that she would be more interested in plundering its treasures than starting a new life there. Her one-sided conversation was interrupted by [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]'s fight with [[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]], and over the course of the battle she was sent flying and impaled on a piece of debris. [[Kaput]] tended to her wounds before Velocity arrived to discuss what had transpired when Anode fled Caminus. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|Anomie}} Anode explained that she'd falsified her records before fleeing; realizing that she'd never heard the story, "Lug" was unable to conceal her sense of betrayal and fled back to the memorial. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 3:  A World Misplaced|A World Misplaced}} Anode caught up with her, where "Lug" revealed that she'd always thought that ''she'' was the reason why Anode had fled her homeworld. Anode revealed her history as a blacksmith and noted that she needed a reason for her coworkers to hate her, unable to live with the guilt. Anode apologized, but realized that her friend had vanished...{{storylink|Dissolution Part 4: Bad Moon Rising|Bad Moon Rising}}

Anode returned to the medibay to search for Lug, only to realize that nobody had any idea who she was talking about. Anode's explanation prompted the staff to reveal security tapes of her emerging alone from her stasis pod; after scanning the list of names on the Necrobot's monument, she realized that Lug hadn't travelled to the future with her, and was merely a timesickness-induced hallucination. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 5: Modes of Production|Modes of Production}} Kaput then took her, Nautica, and Velocity to Lug's flower where he explained how Lug had died. Realizing that the Necrobot had preserved some of Lug's Spark energy inside the flower, Anode had a brainwave and rushed back to the fortress. She explained her plan to resurrect Lug by using the snowflake as a receptacle for Lug's Spark. It was touch and go for a second there but the new protoform stabilized and Anode showed off her "new" backpack to [[Roller (IDW)|Roller]] when the group returned to their own universe. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 6: This Machine Kills Fascists|This Machine Kills Fascists}} After Lug had fully grown, Anode confessed the truth behind the Lighthouse. The two snuggled up afterwards. As Lug played with Roller, Anode questioned Nautica (since they were now besties!) on her eye-patch. Anode boarded the [[Skip|ship]] when the group left Necroworld. {{storylink|After Megatron (A Dissolution Epilogue)|After Megatron}}

[[File:AnAxeToBreakTheIce-survivalpresent.jpg|thumb|upright=2|''Might as well face it/You're addicted to [[Lug (IDW)|Lug]]'']]
When the ladies stopped off at [[Troja Major]]'s [[Howling Town]], Anode asked to borrow money from Nautica only to learn ten thousand [[Shanix|shanix]] was still considered a lot of money so she decided to steal the mood pipes she wanted instead. After fleeing from a displeased (and quite scary looking) [[Rust Giant]], Anode began smelling [[Living metal|sentio metallico]] and followed it to a warehouse where she flung open a coffin to try and find the new body. As it turned out, the coffin ''was'' [[Infinite|a mech]]. The mech tried to attack Anode and Lug only for Anode to realize he was a newborn and reacting on instinct. The three were then ambushed by the [[Black Block Consortia]] who demanded Anode and Lug step aside and hand over the mech. Unwilling to do so, the organics opened fire only for Lug to tackle Anode to safety but allowing the newborn to die. As Anode grieved, [[Wipe-Out]] suddenly made himself known and motioned for the two to follow him. As the three escaped, Wipe-Out revealed that the blacksmiths were under threat and being targeted. At a bar, the three compared notes (namely who the Black Block Consortia was and Anode and Lug's genders) before Techy's troops, led by [[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] teleported into the bar and cornered them. {{storylink|An Axe to Break the Ice}} 

Anode took this in stride and happily greeted Flame...only for Wipe-Out to inform her that Flame ''wasn't'' the Grand Architect. After enduring Flame's annoyingly euphemistic phrases, Anode attempted a heroic punch but soon decided to flee, turning to jet mode while having Lug and Wipe-Out grab her. She flew back to the funeral compound where they'd fist found the coffin mech and procured a leftover sample of his ''sentio metallico'' for Wipe-Out to analyze who found the metal held the blueprints for millions of alternate modes. Suddenly getting a call from Velocity, the trio walked to [[Mengel]]'s compound where Nautica's super-sized alternate mode burst out before the group made a brisk getaway. After said getaway, Anode offered Wipe-Out a place in their adventures but he turned it down. {{storylink|Chasing the Infinite}}

Back on Skip, Anode engaged a prank war with Swerve by having Lug repaint herself and pretend to be Swerve's biggest fan. In retaliation, Swerve had Velocity call in Anode for a medical exam and inform her that she had a "second head" in her rear armature. An enraged Anode decided to take things further by getting [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] to plant a fake bomb in Swerve's head before waking him up to make it seem like she was using [[magnetizing spray]] to fuse him to his recharge slab. However, this only succeeded in causing a fire and triggering the ship's sprinklers, which Swerve had already filled with the magnetizing spray so he could trick her into getting stuck onto Ultra Magnus. While Lug succeeded in pulling Anode off of Magnus, she was thrown into an emotionally devastated [[Cyclonus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Cyclonus]]. Anode was able to avoid the irate Cyclonus' sword thanks to a warning from Swerve, though the blade cut through [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rewind]] instead. As the ship erupted into chaos, Anode revealed her full scheme to Swerve just before [[Ten]] interrupted the squabbling by unexpectedly speaking. {{storylink|Sardines}}

On Ten's instructions, the crew modified the ship so they could jump through "compressed space" and get a [[Mederi]] center so they could save the ailing [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]]. However, as Skip was contracting in on them as his body returned to regular size, Anode and the others were forced to abandon ship and were subsequently exposed to compressed space, seemingly killing them and bringing them to the [[Transformer afterlife|Afterspark]]. {{storylink|The Everlasting Voices (1): Metastasis|Metastasis}} Not entirely concerned or convinced that they were dead, Anode and Lug went straight to stealing soft [[ununtrium]] from a temple, which earned them a scolding from Nautica. The couple then went for the giant [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] floating in the Afterspark's sky to see what they could pillage from it. {{storylink|The Everlasting Voices (2): The God War|The God War}} What they didn't realize however was that the "Afterspark" was in fact the original Mederi center, designed by the [[Omega Guardian]]s to euthanize its patients by generating illusions that made them happy and ready to "ascend". As Anode and Lug gathered under the Matrix so they could "ascend", Rodimus and his group destroyed Mederi's power source, shattering the illusion. Before the team could figure out where to go from there, they were attacked by an army of [[Sparkeater (creature)|sparkeaters]] created from the mutineers of the ''[[Lost Light]]''. {{storylink|The Everlasting Voices (3): You Are Here|You Are Here}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Crucible (Part 1): A Dance Before Dying|A Dance Before Dying}} {{storylink|Crucible (Part 2): Lūstrāre|Lūstrāre}}}}
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====The Functionist Universe====
[[File:AWorldMisplaced-Anode.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
In an [[Functionist Universe|alternate timeline]] where the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] never occurred, Anode was a qualified blacksmith who had abandoned her comfortable life in favor of joining the [[Anti-Vocationist League]] in fighting the totalitarian [[Functionist Council]]. In this capacity she worked alongside rogue Council member [[Nine-of-Twelve]]. Through circumstances untold, she had adopted a feminine identity and chassis like her main timeline counterpart.

When a group of castaways from an alternate universe arrived and immediately ran afoul of the local [[Functionary|Functionaries]], Anode watched as the group returned to their headquarters in [[Kalis|Adaptica]], and later observed a live feed of the Functionist Council revealing the "true purpose" of [[Rung (G1)|Rung]]. The group's musings were interrupted by the sudden return of [[Moonbase Two|Luna 2]]. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 3: A World Misplaced|A World Misplaced}} Anode and Nine-of-Twelve watched in abject horror as the now-weaponized moon began laying waste to their city using tractor beams. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 4: Bad Moon Rising|Bad Moon Rising}}
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===2019 IDW continuity===
Anode was one of many Transformers who watched an illegal [[skitter]] race at [[Swindle's]]. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Swindle's}}

==Notes== 
[[File:Anode-IDW-Jack Lawrence.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|]]
*An {{w|anode}} is a polarized electrical device.
*Anode was originally going to appear by running into [[Getaway]]'s ''Lost Light'' crew. When ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More Than Meets The Eye]]'' became ''[[The Transformers: Lost Light|Lost Light]]'', Roberts changed that to the Necrobot taking her to Necroworld so any new readers could meet the characters and concepts alongside Anode.<ref>[https://boroughcon.com/2017/04/revealing-greatness-with-james-roberts/ Interview with Boroughcon]</ref>
*[[Jack Lawrence]] designed Anode's Cybertronian biplane mode after [[James Roberts]] was inspired by the opening sequence of the 1981 Indiana Jones film ''{{w|Raiders of the Lost Ark}}''.<ref>[https://twitter.com/jroberts332/status/1340725069912416258 Tweet by @jroberts332, 20 December 2020]</ref>
*Anode's [[transformation]] scheme is patterned on ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' [[Mindwipe (G1)#Generations|Mindwipe]].
*Anode appears to have a fear of [[scraplet]]s per her terrified reaction to them in [[Crucible (Part 1): A Dance Before Dying|''Lost Light'' #19]].

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