Clio - Revision history

TheLastGherkin at 19:17, 16 July 2023

2023-07-16T19:17:58Z

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	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===Marvel Comics continuity===		===Marvel Comics continuity===
	~~Eagle~~-eyed humans spotted Clio hawking Renault cars ~~back in 1991~~ and alerted the Autobots. [[Blaster (G1)\|Blaster]] lamented that they had ~~too learned of Clio but when they~~ contacted Renault to recruit her, ~~they learned~~ she ~~was already a Decepticon Powermaster. Her~~ partner Patra ~~is a Nebulon ophiologist~~. ~~{{storylink\|Out of Time!\|~~#315 Darn 'n' Blast ~~It}}~~		In 1991, eagle-eyed humans spotted Clio hawking Renault cars and alerted the Autobots. [[Blaster (G1)\|Blaster]] lamented that they had already contacted Renault to recruit her, but found she and her partner Patra were already allied with the Decepticons.<ref>[[Source:Darn 'n' Blast#Issue 315\|Darn 'n' Blast, issue 315]]</ref>

	===''The AllSpark Almanac''===		===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
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	* While the blown kiss and girlish giggle at the end of the ad suggests the persona of the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into has a masculine build; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on {{w\|Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)\|Gort}} from the ''{{w\|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}''.		* While the blown kiss and girlish giggle at the end of the ad suggests the persona of the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into has a masculine build; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on {{w\|Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)\|Gort}} from the ''{{w\|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}''.
	* ...Oh! "{{w\|Cleopatra VII\|Clio-Patra}}"! I just got it!		* ...Oh! "{{w\|Cleopatra VII\|Clio-Patra}}"! I just got it!

			==References==
			{{reflist}}

	==External links==		==External links==
	*[http://www.transfans.co.uk/media/2KX/media/comics/the_transformers_uk/darnnblast/Issue315.jpg Letters Page to Marvel UK 315 at Transfans.co.uk]
	*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJWgZa3N80o French version of the Clio ad in question]		*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJWgZa3N80o French version of the Clio ad in question]

Broadside at 23:20, 12 December 2022

2022-12-12T23:20:27Z

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	===Ask Sideways===		===Ask Sideways===
	Known liar [[Sideways (~~Armada~~)\|Sideways]] claimed to have met Clio. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Ask Sideways\|Ask Sideways, 2015/07/02}}		Known liar [[Sideways (AVP)\|Sideways]] claimed to have met Clio. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Ask Sideways\|Ask Sideways, 2015/07/02}}
	{{--}}		{{--}}

Flicky1991: /* Notes */

2022-05-21T15:26:54Z

Notes

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	[[File:RenaultClio1990Advert.jpg\|thumb\|upright=2.2\|Internets, we had to resort to [[User:Monzo\|Monzo]] finding these images. We hope you're suitably ashamed.]]		[[File:RenaultClio1990Advert.jpg\|thumb\|upright=2.2\|Internets, we had to resort to [[User:Monzo\|Monzo]] finding these images. We hope you're suitably ashamed.]]
	*The letter to Blaster was talking about a contemporary {{w\|Renault Clio}} car that had the vehicle transform into a robot. Pre-''Almanac'', whether this was a 'real' Transformer was questionable: while the Marvel UK's [[letters page (Marvel UK)\|letters pages]] were written 'by' Transformers and telling the 'real story', by this point they were often jokesters (or inaccurate).		*The letter to Blaster was talking about a contemporary {{w\|Renault Clio}} car commercial that had the vehicle transform into a robot. Pre-''Almanac'', whether this was a 'real' Transformer was questionable: while the Marvel UK's [[letters page (Marvel UK)\|letters pages]] were written 'by' Transformers and telling the 'real story', by this point they were often jokesters (or inaccurate).
	* If the original Renault commercial is taken at face value, Clio can also turn herself into a red orb and a horseshoe magnet, plus generate a giant pair of kissy lips from thin air.		* If the original Renault commercial is taken at face value, Clio can also turn herself into a red orb and a horseshoe magnet, plus generate a giant pair of kissy lips from thin air.
	* While the blown kiss and girlish giggle at the end of the ad suggests the persona of the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into has a masculine build; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on {{w\|Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)\|Gort}} from the ''{{w\|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}''.		* While the blown kiss and girlish giggle at the end of the ad suggests the persona of the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into has a masculine build; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on {{w\|Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)\|Gort}} from the ''{{w\|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}''.
	* ...Oh! "{{w\|Cleopatra VII\|Clio-Patra}}"! I just got it!		* ...Oh! "{{w\|Cleopatra VII\|Clio-Patra}}"! I just got it!


	==External links==		==External links==

Saix: /* ''The AllSpark Almanac'' */clean up, replaced: Lyzack (Victory) → Lyzack (G1)

2021-09-19T23:31:57Z

''The AllSpark Almanac'': clean up, replaced: Lyzack (Victory) → Lyzack (G1)

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	===''The AllSpark Almanac''===		===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
	The cover of ''[[Venus (magazine)\|Venus]]'', a trans-dimensional magazine for [[female Transformer\|Decepti-femmes]], invited its readers to decide who was deadlier: Clio or [[Lyzack (~~Victory~~)\|Lyzak]]. {{storylink\|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac\|The AllSpark Almanac}}		The cover of ''[[Venus (magazine)\|Venus]]'', a trans-dimensional magazine for [[female Transformer\|Decepti-femmes]], invited its readers to decide who was deadlier: Clio or [[Lyzack (G1)\|Lyzak]]. {{storylink\|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac\|The AllSpark Almanac}}

	===Ask Sideways===		===Ask Sideways===

Cyberlink420 at 14:01, 10 July 2018

2018-07-10T14:01:03Z

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	* If the original Renault commercial is taken at face value, Clio can also turn herself into a red orb and a horseshoe magnet, plus generate a giant pair of kissy lips from thin air.		* If the original Renault commercial is taken at face value, Clio can also turn herself into a red orb and a horseshoe magnet, plus generate a giant pair of kissy lips from thin air.
	* While the blown kiss and girlish giggle at the end of the ad suggests the persona of the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into has a masculine build; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on {{w\|Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)\|Gort}} from the ''{{w\|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}''.		* While the blown kiss and girlish giggle at the end of the ad suggests the persona of the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into has a masculine build; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on {{w\|Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)\|Gort}} from the ''{{w\|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}''.
	* ...Oh! "~~[[wikipedia:~~Cleopatra VII\|Clio-Patra]]"! I just got it!		* ...Oh! "{{w\|Cleopatra VII\|Clio-Patra}}"! I just got it!

Cyberlink420 at 19:29, 4 April 2018

2018-04-04T19:29:24Z

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	[[File:RenaultClio1990Advert.jpg\|thumb\|upright=2.2\|Internets, we had to resort to [[User:Monzo\|Monzo]] finding these images. We hope you're suitably ashamed.]]		[[File:RenaultClio1990Advert.jpg\|thumb\|upright=2.2\|Internets, we had to resort to [[User:Monzo\|Monzo]] finding these images. We hope you're suitably ashamed.]]
	*The letter to Blaster was talking about a contemporary ~~[[wikipedia:Renault Clio~~\|Renault Clio]] car that had the vehicle transform into a robot. Pre-''Almanac'', whether this was a 'real' Transformer was questionable: while the Marvel UK's [[letters page (Marvel UK)\|letters pages]] were written 'by' Transformers and telling the 'real story', by this point they were often jokesters (or inaccurate).		*The letter to Blaster was talking about a contemporary {{w\|Renault Clio}} car that had the vehicle transform into a robot. Pre-''Almanac'', whether this was a 'real' Transformer was questionable: while the Marvel UK's [[letters page (Marvel UK)\|letters pages]] were written 'by' Transformers and telling the 'real story', by this point they were often jokesters (or inaccurate).
	* If the original Renault commercial is taken at face value, Clio can also turn herself into a red orb and a horseshoe magnet, plus generate a giant pair of kissy lips from thin air.		* If the original Renault commercial is taken at face value, Clio can also turn herself into a red orb and a horseshoe magnet, plus generate a giant pair of kissy lips from thin air.
	* While the blown kiss and girlish giggle at the end of the ad suggests the persona of the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into has a masculine build; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on ~~[[wikipedia:~~Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)\|Gort]] from the ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''.		* While the blown kiss and girlish giggle at the end of the ad suggests the persona of the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into has a masculine build; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on {{w\|Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)\|Gort}} from the ''{{w\|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}''.
			* ...Oh! "[[wikipedia:Cleopatra VII\|Clio-Patra]]"! I just got it!


	==External links==		==External links==

TBR: /* External links */

2017-06-14T22:05:44Z

External links

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	==External links==		==External links==
	*[http://www.transfans.co.uk/media/2KX/media/comics/the_transformers_uk/darnnblast/Issue315.jpg Letters Page to Marvel UK 315 at Transfans.co.uk]		*[http://www.transfans.co.uk/media/2KX/media/comics/the_transformers_uk/darnnblast/Issue315.jpg Letters Page to Marvel UK 315 at Transfans.co.uk]
	*[~~http~~://~~blogopub~~.tv/~~ancienne+pub+clio~~ French version of the Clio ad in question]		*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJWgZa3N80o French version of the Clio ad in question]

	[[Category:European-original Transformers]]		[[Category:European-original Transformers]]

S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 at 17:36, 23 July 2016

2016-07-23T17:36:18Z

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	===Ask Sideways===		===Ask Sideways===
	Known liar [[Sideways (Armada)\|Sideways]] claimed to have met Clio. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Ask Sideways\|Ask Sideways, 2/7/~~2015~~}}		Known liar [[Sideways (Armada)\|Sideways]] claimed to have met Clio. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Ask Sideways\|Ask Sideways, 2015/07/02}}
	{{--}}		{{--}}

Charles RB at 17:22, 23 July 2016

2016-07-23T17:22:09Z

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	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
			===Marvel Comics continuity===
			Eagle-eyed humans spotted Clio hawking Renault cars back in 1991 and alerted the Autobots. [[Blaster (G1)\|Blaster]] lamented that they had too learned of Clio but when they contacted Renault to recruit her, they learned she was already a Decepticon Powermaster. Her partner Patra is a Nebulon ophiologist. {{storylink\|Out of Time!\|#315 Darn 'n' Blast It}}

	===''The AllSpark Almanac''===		===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
	The cover of ''[[Venus (magazine)\|Venus]]'', a trans-dimensional magazine for [[female Transformer\|Decepti-femmes]], invited its readers to decide who was deadlier: Clio or [[Lyzack (Victory)\|Lyzak]]. {{storylink\|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac\|The AllSpark Almanac}}		The cover of ''[[Venus (magazine)\|Venus]]'', a trans-dimensional magazine for [[female Transformer\|Decepti-femmes]], invited its readers to decide who was deadlier: Clio or [[Lyzack (Victory)\|Lyzak]]. {{storylink\|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac\|The AllSpark Almanac}}
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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	[[File:RenaultClio1990Advert.jpg\|thumb\|upright=2.2\|Internets, we had to resort to [[User:Monzo\|Monzo]] finding these images. We hope you're suitably ashamed.]]		[[File:RenaultClio1990Advert.jpg\|thumb\|upright=2.2\|Internets, we had to resort to [[User:Monzo\|Monzo]] finding these images. We hope you're suitably ashamed.]]
	* The ~~state of Clio's actual existence was originally rather questionable. The only pre-''Almanac'' mention of Clio and Patra had come from [[Blaster (G1)\|Blaster]]'s~~ letter ~~column in the UK comic book (which told the "true" tale of the Transformers), replying~~ to a ~~letter from a [[human]] comic-reader who had seen a TV commercial for the~~ [[wikipedia:Renault Clio\|Renault Clio]] car that had the vehicle transform into a robot. ~~When the reader suggested the [[Autobot]]s recruit it~~, ~~Blaster lamented they~~'~~d been beaten to that punch.~~		*The letter to Blaster was talking about a contemporary [[wikipedia:Renault Clio\|Renault Clio]] car that had the vehicle transform into a robot. Pre-''Almanac'', whether this was a 'real' Transformer was questionable: while the Marvel UK's [[letters page (Marvel UK)\|letters pages]] were written 'by' Transformers and telling the 'real story', by this point they were often jokesters (or inaccurate).
	** Blaster could very well have been making it all up as a joke; the ~~Transformers who have answered human mail tend to be jokesters or~~ [[~~Starscream~~ (~~Armada~~)\|~~flat-out~~]] ~~[[Starscream (Movie)\|insulting]] towards their readership. Regardless, the existence of a female Decepticon character named Clio was cemented~~ by the '~~'AllSpark Almanac'~~', ~~with Occam's Razor making it a reference to~~ this ~~one~~.
	* If the original Renault commercial is taken at face value, Clio can also turn herself into a red orb and a horseshoe magnet, plus generate a giant pair of kissy lips from thin air.		* If the original Renault commercial is taken at face value, Clio can also turn herself into a red orb and a horseshoe magnet, plus generate a giant pair of kissy lips from thin air.
	* While the blown kiss and girlish giggle at the end of the ad suggests the persona of the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into has a masculine build; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on [[wikipedia:Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)\|Gort]] from the ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''.		* While the blown kiss and girlish giggle at the end of the ad suggests the persona of the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into has a masculine build; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on [[wikipedia:Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)\|Gort]] from the ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''.

	==External links==		==External links==
	*[http://www.transfans.co.uk/~~comics_guide_detail~~.~~php?id=468&page=22~~ Letters Page to Marvel UK 315 at Transfans.co.uk]		*[http://www.transfans.co.uk/media/2KX/media/comics/the_transformers_uk/darnnblast/Issue315.jpg Letters Page to Marvel UK 315 at Transfans.co.uk]
	*[http://blogopub.tv/ancienne+pub+clio French version of the Clio ad in question]		*[http://blogopub.tv/ancienne+pub+clio French version of the Clio ad in question]

S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 at 14:19, 15 February 2016

2016-02-15T14:19:57Z

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	===Ask Sideways===		===Ask Sideways===
	Known liar [[Sideways (Armada)\|Sideways]] claimed to have met Clio. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime}}		Known liar [[Sideways (Armada)\|Sideways]] claimed to have met Clio. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Ask Sideways\|Ask Sideways, 2/7/2015}}
	{{--}}		{{--}}

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	* While the blown kiss and girlish giggle at the end of the ad suggests the persona of the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into has a masculine build; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on [[wikipedia:Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)\|Gort]] from the ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''.		* While the blown kiss and girlish giggle at the end of the ad suggests the persona of the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into has a masculine build; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on [[wikipedia:Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)\|Gort]] from the ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''.

	==External ~~link~~==		==External links==
	*[http://www.transfans.co.uk/comics_guide_detail.php?id=468&page=22 Letters Page to Marvel UK 315 at Transfans.co.uk]		*[http://www.transfans.co.uk/comics_guide_detail.php?id=468&page=22 Letters Page to Marvel UK 315 at Transfans.co.uk]
	*[http://blogopub.tv/ancienne+pub+clio French version of the Clio ad in question]		*[http://blogopub.tv/ancienne+pub+clio French version of the Clio ad in question]