Elita-Infin1te

Elita-Infin1te is an Autobot Combiner from the Power of the Primes portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Ceiling Elita is watching you flee.

When Elita One combines with four other of her fellow Autobots, she becomes the mighty Elita-Infin1te! Or maybe four other Decepticons, or a mix, it's not really clear.

Elita One can also form Orthia by combining with a specific few of her Female Autobots.

Toys

Power of the Primes

Look, if Optimus Prime gets to have a bigger version of his own head for his combiner mode, then so do I!

• Elita-1 (Voyager Class, 2018)
• 4 x compatible Deluxe Class figures

• Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro), Emiliano Santalucia and Ken Christiansen (concept art)

Power of the Primes Elita-Infin1te can ostensibly be formed by attaching any four Combiner Wars-style Deluxe Class figures to Power of the Primes Voyager Class Elita-1.

As a Power of the Primes combiner, a Prime Master, Matrix core, or Enigma can be installed within Elita-Infin1te's chest, hands, or feet, such as the "Autobot Enigma" that comes packed with Elita-1.

Power of the Primes was notoriously muddy on information about "intended" layouts for Combiner teams. While the Dinobots and Terrorcons were pre-established teams who received complete coverage, no such luck exists for Elita-Infin1te! The following is a summary of every recorded configuration... though we'll note that while the instructions are largely arbitrary, the packaging art components are all Autobots.

	Elita-1's/Jazz's/Moonracer's/Novastar's packaging art	Elita-1's instructions	Elita-1's TakaraTomy stock images	Moonracer's instructions
Left arm Right arm Left leg Right leg	Moonracer Novastar Jazz Ricochet?	Sludge Snarl Moonracer Jazz	Slug Snarl Moonracer Jazz	Jazz Moonracer Sludge Snarl

Notes

• Elita-Infin1te has the unique honor of being verbally named by Hasbro at their New York Toy Fair 2018 panel (though this name never appeared on any printed material).
• It may be strange for a Combiner who ended up completely fictionless and largely forgotten in favor of another who shares 3/5 components, but context clues suggest that Elita-Infin1te was supposed to be a first-class Combiner in Power of the Primes like Volcanicus and Abominus. She's the only other release to have a name, and like the Dinobots and Terrorcons, every single one of the associated limbs released during that franchise's span has Elita-Infin1te on their packaging. For contrast, both the Starscream and Inferno Combiners only have their images on one Deluxe each (while Blackwing isn't advertised as a limb for anyone else, he instead gets the Dreadwing superjet on the side of his package instead). Why Elita-Infin1te ultimately became a footnote in history and gets categorised with their two nameless companions instead is, frankly, anyone's guess.
• While the Starscream and Inferno Combiners receive (sparse) fiction via their Nexus Prime Master cards, Elita-Infin1te sadly misses out. Instead, "Nexus Elita-1"'s power is to "strip Decepticon Combiners of their ability to combine". It's unclear if Elita-Infin1te therefore possesses this power, or if the Nexus Prime Master and Combiner upgrades to Elita-1 are completely unrelated in the Prime Wars Trilogy marketing material microcontinuity.
• Elita-Infin1te and Orthia being two Combiner Wars-style Combiners with the same torso mirrors both Ultra Prime versus Optimus Maximus and Betatron versus Computron.

External links

• Clearer view of Power of the Primes packaging art by Robby Musso on Facebook