Lithone (species)

This article is about the aliens. For their home planet, see Lithone (planet).

Lithone babies make your dreams come true.

The Lithones, sometimes known as Lithonians, are a race of robots from the planet Lithone. They possess a very high percentage of "emotional circuits" in their computer brains, which affects their individual personalities in different ways. By nature, they are not vengeful, making them lenient towards troublemakers. Their race appears to feature not only male and female members, but robotic "children". Technology-wise, the Lithones have spaceships capable of interstellar travel. They also may or may not have their own superhero.

Known Lithones include:

• Arblus
• Kranix
• The Lithone scientist

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Generations Selects Special Comic

Among other robotic races, the Lithone were created by Primacron. He used the lifeforce of the previous universe via the Oracle to grant them life. Finale

The Transformers cartoon

In the year 2005, the Lithone race was thought to be practically exterminated with the destruction of their homeworld by Unicron. The Transformers: The Movie

Victory cartoon

Years later, however, at least two Lithones were seen among the inhabitants of Iron Town on an unnamed planet. The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber

TransTech

An unnamed Lithonian served as a tour guide for non-Cybertronian newcomers to Axiom Nexus. She was assigned to a team of GoBots due to their shared non-Cybertronian mechanical nature. Withered Hope

Animated cartoon

During the Great War, the Lithons sent medical supplies to both sides. The AllSpark Almanac II

Games

Transformers: Devastation

While the planet Lithone was at one point completely uninhabited, a faction of Cybertronians emigrated there and established a colony after it was cyberformed during the Mission of Cybertronian Expansion, becoming the first Lithones. As he prepared to sabotage the Proudstar, Kranix made plans to return to Lithone, the last place he had felt genuine pride in their mission. Transformers: Devastation

Notes

GENERIC METAL HERO: SAVIOR OF LITHONE! He kind of sucks at his job.

• In a very early draft of The Transformers: The Movie, Lithone was a planet of living rock creatures (explaining its name, from the Ancient Greek for stone, lithos). Sounds familiar!
• Lithones are shown to be capable of transformation in the first issue of the Marvel comic adaptation of The Transformers: The Movie and the accompanying bios from the Transformers Universe books. This concept came from an earlier draft of the film script; the final film doesn't show them having any transformational abilities.
• Whether any relationship exists between the Lithones and the Transformers is uncertain, but as the aspect of the Lithones transforming was dropped from the final film, it strongly suggests against the idea. Season 3 of the cartoon would furthermore go on to establish additional non-Transformer robot races, such as the Xetaxxis and the Lanarq from "The Quintesson Journal". Conversely, some later fiction, such as Transformers: Devastation, suggested that the Lithones were descendants of Cybertronian colonists who relocated to the previously uninhabited planet.
• Despite being robots, tiny childlike Lithones are seen scampering about in a crowd scene. This only raises questions.
• While the planet Lithone is being eaten by Unicron, a brief sequence features a generic Lithone who looks extremely different from the standard model, somewhere between a Metal Hero and a Knight Saber from Bubblegum Crisis.
• The Lithone models got recycled a few times for presumably non-Lithones. The Junkions Nancy and "short Junkion" use Lithonian female and child models, and several members of the Hive from "The Rebirth" use the models before they enter their new Headmaster suits. There are also Lithones visible in Iron Town in the Victory cartoon, but it's more likely given the context of Iron Town that these are indeed from Lithone.
• "Space Pirates!" recycled the model for the Lithone escape craft seen in The Transformers: The Movie, using it as a Quintesson Trident Attack Craft.