June Darby

June Darby is a human from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.

She wants to know how you got the beans above the franks.

Ever since her husband left her, June Darby has been raising her sixteen-year-old son alone. When she's not spending time as a nurse at the local hospital, June's spending time being overprotective towards her son, who hangs out with warring robots from outer space. Who can blame her?

Fiction

Transformers: Prime cartoon

Voice actor: Markie Post (English), Carolina Tak (Spain-Spanish), Katrin Zimmermann (German)

June called her son, Jack, after his shift at work finished. She asked if he was going to the dance, but he said no. She told him to be careful, but Jack had to go, as he had something on his mind. Darkness Rising, Part 1

June returned home from work late in the evening to find Jack standing with a motorcycle in their garage. She wondered how he had paid for the motorcycle and expressed her concern for his safety, but Jack was able to convince her that he was old enough and responsible enough to operate the vehicle. She made it very clear that he always had to wear his helmet.

Early the next morning, the motorcycle told Jack to leave a note for his mom when he left the house, to keep her from worrying. Darkness Rising, Part 2

Love at first sight?

Hearing rumors that Jack had been racing his motorcycle and complaints that he'd been neglecting his work and school, June confronted him after curfew and grounded him from using the motorcycle. The next day, she took a break from the hospital to go home and make Jack some dinner, but found the garage empty. She blew up at Jack, even though the motorcycle had somehow reappeared in the garage, and he spun some wild story about robots from space. Refusing to believe him, June returned to the hospital. Later that night, as she was leaving work, she was grabbed and bundled into a vehicle by some masked goons. She recovered consciousness to find herself in a cocoon dangling from a building, while Jack tried to rescue her from a menacing robot. Then Jack's motorcycle turned up in robot form and fought the other robot. After Agent Fowler came to their rescue, he tried to explain that Jack was interning for him, but June didn't buy it. Jack introduced her to Arcee, and they all went to base to meet the rest of the Autobots. Crisscross

June began regularly dropping by the Autobot base to check up on the kids, much to their regret. When Jack and Arcee were preparing for a routine maintenance check, June's overprotective questioning drove Arcee batty, and the Autobot instead opted to go out on a mission with Bulkhead. June stayed at the base, and when Arcee told an errant Miko to return there, Miko's loud comment that Arcee was as bad as Jack's mom could be clearly heard over the comm link. Taken aback, June asked if she was really that bad, and Jack declined to comment. On Arcee's return, June felt compelled to apologize for her earlier behavior. Metal Attraction

After Raf was injured in a Decepticon attack, Jack called in his mom to try and help. June did her best to stabilize the boy, but said that they'd need to get him to the hospital. Ratchet pointed out that the doctors there wouldn't know how to treat Dark Energon contamination, but he quickly came up with a treatment of his own. After Ratchet infused Raf with energon, June checked his pulse and confirmed that it was stabilizing. One Shall Fall

Following the rescue of Optimus, June informed him that she was taking Raf to the hospital, and also taking Jack and Miko with her, as the Autobots' war was no place for children. To her disappointment, both Jack and Miko refused to leave with her, so she departed in her car with Raf. They hadn't gone far when the car was almost struck by lightning and then almost pulled into a tornado, but Bumblebee managed a last-minute save and took them back to base. June was glad to see Jack again, but told him he was grounded. She stuck around while the Autobots realized that the chaos god Unicron was at the center of the Earth, but realized that no one had any idea what Unicron would do next. One Shall Rise, Part 1

The humans listened as the Autobots battled giant stone Unicrons, and as Megatron arrived to offer to help the Autobots defeat the Chaos Bringer himself. June was horrified that Optimus was even considering letting Megatron near the children, but Prime assured her they would keep everyone as safe as possible from him. The humans hid as Megatron arrived, but after Raf ran out to try to confront the Decepticon leader, June had to lead him back to safety. The humans all watched the Autobots and Megatron step through the GroundBridge into Earth's core. One Shall Rise, Part 2

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After the TV went dead, June tried to distract the kids from the impending end of the world by suggesting they play a game. She took cover underneath Ratchet as the ground shook, and when it turned out that Prime's team were all OK, she found herself being hugged by Fowler. She and Fowler stood by with the kids as the Autobots returned through the GroundBridge with the news that Optimus had become amnesiac. One Shall Rise, Part 3

Notes

• She was to appear in a brief scene in "Shadowzone", but the scene was cut. It was later included in the script reading at BotCon 2011.
• June Darby's license plate is "RPI-437".
• It seems that her idea of a good, wholesome meal includes organic tofu.
• Whilst it did not seem likely, up until "Metal Attraction" it was not particularly clear whether there was a Mr. Darby around. This is made somewhat confusing by Silas referring to June as "Miss Darby", but with Agent Fowler calling her "Mrs. Darby" in "Crisscross". The former-mentioned episode confirms that June's husband/Jack's father had left them.