Stiletto (Animated)

This article is about the human kickboxing criminal. For the Maximal, see Stiletto (BW).

This article is about Stella Healy. For the surprisingly similarly named individual, see Stella Holley.

Stiletto is a human from the Transformers Animated continuity family.

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Stiletto, alias Stella Healy, is the strong, silent type. She prefers to let her feet do the talking—and what they're saying is "I'm kicking you in the face". The heels of her shoes, augmented with purloined Sumdac Systems technology, can cut through nearly anything. Combined with her kickboxing skills, this has her potential targets trembling in their boots.

Fiction

Animated continuity

When championship kickboxer Stella Healy's career wound down, she pursued another source of revenue: industrial sabotage. She took the name "Stiletto", and her mercenary career soon brought her to the attention of the police. It also brought her to the attention of Megatron, who apparently hired her to steal an experimental laser scalpel and metal alloy from Sumdac Systems. Incorporating the stolen tech into the heels of her boots, she attempted to destroy Detroit's Ambassador Bridge, which brought her to the attention of the Earthbound Autobots. She easily evaded Prowl's attacks and manoeuvered Bumblebee into neutralizing his teammate by blowing up an oil tanker. After hitting Bulkhead with his own wrecking ball and slashing Bumblebee's tires, she attempted to escape on a motorbike, only to have it yanked away by Ratchet. She met her match in Optimus Prime, who pinned her to the bridge with her own boots, leaving her to be arrested by Captain Fanzone and the DPD. Stilleto

Trivia

• Marty Isenberg originally conceived Stiletto as a genetically-enhanced creation of Prometheus Black.