Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)

This article is about the evil character from the mirror universe. For the good character from the Animated television show, see Sari Sumdac (Animated). For a list of other meanings, see Sari Sumdac (disambiguation).

Sari Sumdac is a technorganic humanoid from the Shattered Glass Animated continuity family.

She's the cool Sari.

In another universe, Sari Sumdac could have been a sweet little girl. Unfortunately for this Sari, she fell into the hands of Isaac Sumdac, who caged her like an animal and experimented on her unique techno-biology. She now serves alongside her father's enslaved Autobots, standing toe-to-toe with them with a powerful battle mode courtesy of the AllSpark fragments embedded in her skin.

Though a force of nature when it comes to destruction, Sari's commitment to maintaining her father's rule over Michigan is far from absolute. She'd rather push her duties onto the Autobots, or set up macabre pranks. But there is one thing to which she is completely dedicated: losing the control collar that keeps her in line and finishing the job she started when she took out her daddy dearest's eye.

Fiction

Shattered Glass Animated

Sari found her way to Earth when she was just a protoform. Transformers I.Q. #16 When she first encountered ruthless technocrat Isaac Sumdac, she instinctively attacked him and ripped out his eye. Her subsequent assimilation of his DNA The 'Cons would lead her to consider him her creator Transformers I.Q. #16 or, more colloquially, "Daddy". The AllSpark Almanac Addendum The Complete AllSpark Almanac

Despite thinking of her as a daughter, Sumdac kept Sari caged up like an animal and experimented on her unique techno-organic nature. It was Sumdac's forcible implantation of AllSpark fragments that unlocked Sari's true power and granted her a battle mode. When Sumdac revived the Autobots, who had crashed on the planet years ago, he fitted them and Sari with control collars to serve as enforcers for his totalitarian regime. None of them were particularly happy about this. The 'Cons

Sari was determined to free herself from her control and finally finish off her father. The 'Cons Her working relationship with the Autobots was also strained; she was wary of Prowl, disturbed by Ratchet, thought Bulkhead was a moron, and at least once doodled Optimus Prime's severed head with the words "DIE DIE DIE". The only one she was comfortable around was Bumblebee, since she thought the little freak was too cowardly to try to stab her in the back. Despite kind of liking him, his giggles made her skin crawl.

The enforcers' nominal mission was tracking down Megatron and his Decepticons and capturing the AllSpark. On one occasion, Megatron stole Sumdac's sonic attack robot and turned it into Soundwave, for which Isaac blamed his daughter. A year or so later, Soundwave returned, having gathered Detroit's superheroes together to form the Heroic Youths Battling Robots Infesting Detroit. HYBRID knocked out the Autobots, and Soundwave trapped them in a virtual reality world in which they were subjected to nicey-nicey friendship songs in an attempt to turn them good. Sari, determined not to be her father's only agent for "enforcery stuff", coerced some local hobobots to beat the stupid out of the Autobots. Back to normal, the Autobots chased off her "dork armada" and defeated Soundwave.

Some time later, Sari journaled her adventure with Soundwave and HYBRID in a letter addressed to her dearest daddy. She opened the letter by admitting she was probably going to tear it up anyway; which was fortunate, since she closed it by threatening to take the professor's other eye and take over the Terrordrome. To be fair, he probably knew how she felt already. The AllSpark Almanac Addendum The Complete AllSpark Almanac

Legends comic

In one of Tigatron's dreams, Sari was among the evil female Transformers who sought to kidnap him and fought the heroic female Transformers guarding him. Bonus Edition Vol. 11

SD SG

While on a pleasant death march with their tutor, Arcee, Sari and her class met the sorrowful Kremzeek, who had a tale of woe. Preferring a tale of no, Sari refused to listen, and reconfigured her foot into a huge boot to punt away some cube thing that Kremzeek seemed to think was significant. The Re-Burn of Blurr

Notes

Shattered Glass Sari, I choose you, OHHHH YEEAH!

• Sari was initially doodled up by Derrick J. Wyatt for inclusion in an unmade Animated episode set in a mirror universe. After the character concept was developed with Heather Morgan and others on Wyatt's Formspring account, Sari made a more public debut on Wyatt's blog in 2010. She was made an official part of the brand when Wyatt provided an illustration including her for Transformers Generations 2011 Vol. 1, and was first characterised by "The 'Cons", a lithograph exclusive to BotCon 2011.
• Concepts cooked up by Wyatt for Sari that didn't make it into official fiction include her building her own Bumblebee inspired by the friendship between the positive universe Sari and Bee, being brainwashed by an emotionally manipulative Tutor Bot, and cooperating with Isaac on the pretence that he was keeping her mother figure hostage.