Mo Malto

Mo Malto is a human from the EarthSpark continuity family.

Mo Malto, mo cuteness.

Morgan Violet "Mo" Malto was the youngest of the Malto kids until Twitch and Thrash came into being. Your typical rambunctious 9-year-old, Mo deeply cares for the rest of her family and tries her best to help her brother Robby get used to their rapidly-changing circumstances. Unfortunately, trying to keep her siblings happy has the tendency to get her into trouble with parents Dot and Alex.

Fiction

EarthSpark cartoon

Voice actor: Zion Broadnax (English), Misaki Kuno (Japanese), Clara Soares (French), Tiziana Martello (Italian), Melissa Hernández (Latin American Spanish), Sofia Manso (Brazilian Portuguese)

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Mo once had a bicycle named Rocinante. Secret Legacy, Part 2 After the Maltos moved from Philadelphia to Witwicky, Mo tried to help her brother settle in. When he attempted to cycle back to Philly, she followed him, only for her own bike to break and the pair were caught up in a battle between a G.H.O.S.T. convoy and Arachnamechs. The two kids took shelter in a cave where they found the Emberstone which equipped them with cyber-sleeves and created new Transformers Twitch and Thrash. The four of them soon realized that they were emotionally bonded, and Robby and Mo opted to take them home and keep them hidden. They managed to persuade Alex to retell the story of the Transformers while Twitch and Thrash were in earshot. Secret Legacy, Part 1 Thrash practiced juggling using Mo and some rocks, and observed that Mo seemed a lot happier than she had been before. When they discovered that Twitch had scanned an alternate mode, Mo had the idea they should go into town to look for things to scan. The pair were attacked by Arachnamechs and saved by the arrival of first Robby and Twitch, and then Optimus Prime and Elita-1. Reunited with their mother, they tried unsuccessfully to persuade her not to let G.H.O.S.T. take Twitch and Thrash away. Unfortunately it turned out the two Terrans had actually been abducted by evil scientist Mandroid, and Mo and Robby had to use their emotional link to guide the rescue team to find the pair. In the aftermath of the rescue, the Maltos took the two Terrans home to be part of their family. Secret Legacy, Part 2

Bumblebee's attempts to train the Terrans fell on deaf ears, as they were too busy picking apples and appreciating cute cows with Robby and Mo. Mo took part in Malto Family Game Night, and when Twitch stormed out and caused a herd of cows to stampede, Mo and Thrash worked together to round them up again. Moo-ving In Following damage to the house caused by a game of capture the flag that Robby, Mo and the Terrans were playing, Dot and Alex imposed a new rule that the bots couldn't go in the house. Thrash persuaded Mo to smuggle him in anyway so they could watch wrestling. The pair again managed to damage the house and were grounded by Dot, but Thrash talked Mo into following their mother into town. There they encountered the Decepticon Swindle, who befriended them and duped them into helping him search for his brother Hardtop. When he eventually turned on them when Mo refused to help him break into a G.H.O.S.T. truck, Mo called up her mother, who arrived with Bumblebee and rescued the pair. House Rules

Dot took Mo, Robby, Twitch and Thrash to her ranger station work to show them her workplace, only to discover it was built atop the G.H.O.S.T. HQ. The four kids fell into a Decepticon trap while attempting to avoid detection by Agent Schloder, at which point Mo was angered to find out that Roddy and Twitch had been going out exploring at night without telling her or Thrash. They were found in the pit trap by Optimus, who hid them in his trailer in the G.H.O.S.T. base, however it wasn't long before they went wandering and ended up trapped in one of Megatron's combat simulations. After working together to defeat the simulation, Robby and Mo got over their previous fight. Classified Robby and Mo listened to their father's tale of the Wakwak before heading off to bed. The next day, Mo was too busy teaching Thrash to play the guitar to go on a Wakwak hunt, and later the pair serenaded the rest of the family with their musical abilities. Traditions

When the emotional feedback from their link caused problems for Robby and Mo on their first day of school, they asked the Terrans to stay home. They later found the Terrans had gone missing, and with Bumblebee's help, tracked the pair down and found Twitch and Thrash were critically low on energy. Fortunately they discovered that the Terrans seemed to be powered by water rather than energon. Friends and Family Bumblebee's lesson on using decoys wasn't particularly successful until Mo came up with the idea of turning it into a song. Bee left Mo, Robby, Twitch and Thrash to be trained by Arcee for a while, and she forced them to do work until they eventually rebelled and she revealed the lesson was to not let others order them around. After learning that Bumblebee had ditched them in order to join an in-progress battle, Arcee took the kids to join in, and Mo's song turned out to be effective in combating the cassette Decepticons' sonic attacks. Decoy

Mo and the other Maltos attended a G.H.O.S.T. Autobot Alliance ceremony which came under attack by Nova Storm and Skywarp, resulting in them having to take cover. Optimus later had the kids lead him to the cave where the Terrans were created, where they found the Emberstone. Again attacked by the two Seekers along with a swarm of Arachnamechs, the kids took shelter in the cave where Mo's plea for help resulted in the creation of three more Terrans. Age of Evolution, Part 1 With Dot and Megatron captured by Mandroid, Mo and the others regrouped to come up with a plan. The rescue became dangerous when it turned out Mandroid's base was a giant mech, and Mo joined Robby, Jawbreaker and their father in taking out the mech's external cameras. Once the mech was destroyed, the Malto family was reunited with three new Terran members. Age of Evolution, Part 2

The Malto family got to explore the underground Dugout base that Nightshade had built. Hashtag: Oops Mo borrowed her father's video camera so she and Thrash could create their own kaiju monster movie, inspiring Jawbreaker to use the camera in an attempt to learn more about alternate mode selection. She was part of an attempt in the Dugout as Hashtag tried to help Jawbreaker by filming Twitch and Thrash, and the Malto family was later treated to the end results of the filming. Outtakes The kids' fun on a day off was temporarily interrupted by Nightshade's technology exploding. They attempted to fix up the damaged device for Nightshade and later had to come to their sibling's aid after it turned out the Decepticon Nightshade had befriended had mistaken their parents for their captors. Missed Connection

After helping out Bumblebee with his racing practice, Robby, Mo and the Terrans became trapped in the Dugout for an extended period thanks to its malfunctioning defense system and Agent Schloder turning up at the farm. Security Protocols Mo created a diorama for Dot for Mother's Day. While Dot returned the baby bear Twitch had abducted to the wild, Mo stayed behind with Jawbreaker, Nightshade and Thrash, only for the mother bear to turn up at the farm looking for her cub. The kids had to lead the bear back to the wild, eventually finding Dot and the cub. Bear Necessities Megatron took the kids to Spacebridge Memorial Park to teach the Terrans about the end of the war, however they were attacked by Shockwave, forcing them to stop the rogue Decepticon's scheme. Warzone

Robby and Mo took the Terrans on a clandestine nighttime trip to Philly. Mo, Jawbreaker and Trash ended up invited to Bot Brawl, only for Jawbreaker to be roped in as a combatant. Reunited with Bumblebee, they had to face Grimlock, but were able to release the Dinobot from the device controlling him. Home, Part 1 They later returned to the Bot Brawl arena to look for Grimlock, only to encounter Mandroid and the giant Arachnamech centipede he unleashed on them. Hashtag was temporarily taken over by Mandroid's control device, but Mo and her siblings were able to help Hashtag overcome it. Home, Part 2

The Malto kids were collecting flowers in the woods when they were menaced by Grimlock, still suffering the after-effects of Mandroid's control. After the resulting battle, Robby and Mo consoled Jawbreaker who'd been benched due to not having an alternate mode. Mo was later in the quarry watching Elita-1 help Hashtag train when Jawbreaker inadvertently caused Grimlock to lose control. She gave the unhappy Jawbreaker a pep talk and he was able to talk Grimlock down from the rampage. A Stygi Situation Optimus smuggled the Malto family into G.H.O.S.T. HQ so that the sleeves could be scaned with Teletraan I and left the kids practicing in the rec room simulator. When Mandroid took remote control of the rec room and unleashed a sim Megatron on the kids, they had to work together to regain control. Robby apparently died after empowering himself via the cyber-sleeve and Mo was able to bring him back to life using her own sleeve, though their emotional link with their Terran siblings was gone. Disarmed

Mo and the other kids went in search of the cave in which the Terrans had been born, believing the water might restore the emotional link, however they instead fell into a deeper cave system through which Starscream, Nova Storm and Skywarp were escaping from G.H.O.S.T. They also encountered the Dweller, which fed on energon, and cooperated to overcome the creature. Afterwards, Robby revealed to Mo that his recent brush with death had caused an infection to start spreading through his body. What Dwells Within Finding Robby lapsed into a coma, Mo was upset by her parents' claim that they'd get through it. Mo ran off into the woods and plead with Quintus Prime for help and wishing she'd never touched the Emberstone. She fell into her own dream state where she relived crucial points of the Terran story, but with the difference that she had not touched the stone. Eventually these culminated in her, Robby and their parents facing off against Mandroid, and after they overcame the mad scientist, the four of them woke up in the Dugout with Robby restored to full health. Prime Time

When Bumblebee was given a mission to infiltrate G.H.O.S.T. HQ, the kids resolved to help him as much as they could. Mo remained in the Dugout with Hashtag and Jawbreaker to monitor things from afar while the others sneaked in to the HQ. Stowed Away, Stowaways Mo's group rejoined Robby, Twitch, Thrash and Nightshade when the group of infiltrators was pursued into Witwicky by Shockwave. The group was able to defeat Shockwave only to find themselves surrounded by G.H.O.S.T. until their parents helped them make a getaway. This led to Croft bringing Ghoid troops to the Malto farm, and though the Ghoids were defeated with the help of Autobot reinforcements, Mandroid arrived sporting a new robotic body. The Battle of Witwicky

As the family attempted to flee from Mandroid and his new Sharkticon minions, they were slowly picked off and Mandroid was able to capture Robby and Mo, rendering them unconscious and wiring them to the spacebridge in order to turn it into a superweapon that would wipe out energon-based life across the planet. The Last Hope, Part 1 He was ultimately successful in activating his weapon, wiping out ever Transformer bar Twitch, at which point the Maltos regained consciousness. Robby and Mo were able to use their cyber-sleeves to channel the power of Quintus Prime and reverse the effects of Mandroid's weapon, bringing everyone back to life and reuniting the Malto family as a new insignia appeared in the sky The Last Hope, Part 2

Games

Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition

Voice actor: Tunisia Hardison (English), Lotte Horlings (Dutch), Isabelle Volpe (French), Rieke Werner (German), Giulia Maniglio (Italian), Maja Gadzińska (Polish), Anna Mestre (Spanish)

Sometime after stopping Mandroid's tower, Mo and her family were contacted by Bumblebee, who had encountered some Arachnamechs and now believed Mandroid had somehow returned. To keep her Terran siblings from leaving before Bumblebee got back to the farm, she and Robby recapped their past encounters with Mandroid to try and determine if there really was any chance of the scientist's survival. Not long before Bumblebee arrived, she and Robby left with their mother and Megatron to respond to another call. Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition

Toys

EarthSpark

• Bumblebee & Mo Malto (Spin Changer, 2022)

• Accessories: Vehicle spoiler/Flight unit for Mo

A figurine of Mo Malto comes as an accessory for Spin Changer Bumblebee, able to be mounted on Bumblebee's vehicle and robot modes. When mounted on his shoulders while in robot mode, it activates his spinning gimmick. Bumblebee's spoiler can also be attached to Mo's back to form a flight unit.

• Bumblebee & Mo Malto (Cyber Combiner, 2024)

• Accessories: Cyber-Sword

Released as part of the "Cyber Combiners" assortment, this figure of Mo Malto (in her power armor-like configuration) can combine (inspired by the Powerlinx feature) with her pack-in mate Bumblebee to form a "Super-Powered" combiner, as either the lower or the upper body. Whether by coincidence or by design, the domelike helmet of her armor resembles that of Spike's and Daniel's Exo-Suits, with the triangular panels on the sides.

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Mo Malto (モー・マルト Mō Maruto)