Blackarachnia (TransTech)

The name or term "Blackarachnia" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Blackarachnia (disambiguation).

Blackarachnia is an Autobot Transcendent Technomorph from the TransTech continuity.

(Blackarachnia's second body.)

Blackarachnia fell victim to the schemes of Alpha Trion, her spark replaced with that of a lowtech loyal to him.

Since then, though, her Spark has been rescued from Trion's labs, and—after the construction of a new body and therapy involving footage of Trion on the receiving end of Optimus Prime's vengeance—has been promoted to Vice Directorate of Cybertronian Intelligence by Directorate General Starscream, to help him deal with his responsibilities as head of security on a post-Shroud Axiom Nexus. Her promotion has been found suspicious by some; her selection over Prowl, Starscream's previous second-in-command, has raised accusations of a power grab by the new Directorate General.

Fiction

TransTech

What you get isn't what you see. (Lowtech Blackarachnia in TransTech Blackarachnia's body.)

Notes

She looks most like the doodle on the upper right.

• Blackarachnia's design was originally created when Transtech was a planned sequel to Beast Machines, and as such, it was likely originally intended to be the same character as Beast Wars/Beast Machines Blackarachnia. TransTech stories take place in their own universe, it is likely this Blackarachnia no longer has any overt ties to other Blackarachnias... or any Crystal Widows.
• Artist and Draxhall Jump alumnus Ken Lashley stated in 2018 that the red line on Blackarachnia's centre is because "our scanner was doing weird stuff and created the red haze down the middle...I like it so we kept it."