Alexis Thi Dang

Alexis is a human character from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

Future hot government diplomat or future hot hippie protester?

Alexis wants to be President when she grows up. Why does she think she's qualified? Running the free world has got to be less troublesome than keeping her friends Carlos and Rad from killing themselves every day.

Japanese name: Alexa

Fiction

Cartoon continuity

Voice actor: Tabitha St. Germain (English), Akira Tomisaka (Japanese), Anke Kortemeier (German), Mia Kihl (Swedish)

Armada

Get used to this, girlfriend.

When the Decepticon turncoat Starscream joined the ranks of the Autobots, Alexis took a shine to him. However, Starscream dismissed her and the other human children, as he was only concerned with defeating Megatron. Despite this, the kids asked Starscream to bring them back a souvenir when the former Decepticon and Jetfire travelled to Mars in search of a Mini-Con panel. In spite of his rude, lone-wolf demeanor, Starscream brought back a mysterious green rock for the kids, thus earning him a place in their hearts, in particular Alexis. Mars

In return for his kindness, the kids threw him a surprise party, sewing a large Chamois of Friendship out of several smaller rags. Starscream was touched by this, but unfortunately abandoned the gift ten minutes later when he was duped into returning to the Decepticons by Thrust, ostensibly so as to destroy Megatron. What a jerk. Crack

Why Starscream? WHHHHHYYYY?!?

Much later, she revealed to Starscream that she had fashioned a necklace (that was somehow tied to his very spark) out of the rock he had procured for her. When Starscream was destroyed by Unicron, her amulet cracked symbolically, alerting her to the fact something was very wrong. Cramp

Alexis was hit hardest when Optimus Prime reported Starscream's noble death. At the time, she didn't understand why he did what he did, and sought comfort with Rad. However, when the Autobots and Decepticons forged their new alliance, she was comforted by the fact that Starscream's sacrifice did not go in vain, and felt that he would have loved to see the day the three Transformers factions joined together. Alliance

Energon

Saturn Queen.

Soon after the defeat of Unicron and the reunification of the Cybertronians under the Autobot flag, Alexis travelled to Cybertron as part of the human delegation. Cybertron City

Ten years later, Alexis worked as a diplomat on behalf of the Earth Federation, usually as a liaison between the nations of Earth and the Cybertronian Autobot-Decepticon alliance. Alexis traveled to Ocean City to tell the human crew and their Cybertronian allies about the Federation's decision to declare a position of neutrality in the latest Transformers conflict. While Alexis now represented the interests of Earth, she still had faith in Optimus Prime and trusted his decisions in the Energon war, just as she trusted him during the Unicron Battles. Energon Stars

Cybertron

Psst... pssst... over here!

The seeds of the future lie buried in the past. Or something.

Alexis continued on in her governmental job, and by 2030 had apparently come to work quite closely with the President in some way, given that she was the only other person present on stage when the President appointed Colonel Franklin Earth's ambassador to Cybertron. Subsequently, she, Rad and Carlos were among the humans who bid farewell to the Autobots as they departed Earth to begin a new space bridge construction program. Beginning

The images of Alexis, Rad, Carlos and Kicker with spectral characters from prior series did not appear in the Galaxy Force version of the show, as at the time Takara had taken the position of the show being a continuity reboot... a position they later retconned, placing it as the direct sequel to Super Link as was originally planned. Confused yet? Interestingly, the shot of Alexis on-stage was in the original...

Dreamwave comics continuity

Armada

She hung out with Rad and Carlos some more. Unlike Rad, she was never strapped to an explosive asteroid. She was present when the Autobots, Decepticons, and Mini-Cons left Earth to defend Cybertron from Unicron.

Some time after the conflict on Earth had ended, Alexis began to compile a comprehensive database of information on several Transformers. She was unaware that this information (which, in several cases, contradicted actual events) was planted into her mind by Over-Run. More Than Meets The Eye

Energon

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Wow. I think we all just became Democrats.

In the years that followed the Transformers' departure from Earth, Alexis became an activist, traveling around the world with other like-minded individuals to (violently) protest the misuse of Earth's natural resources.

One such trip found her in Australia, protesting Alterenergy's 01 Source research. Her group's protest was interrupted by a Terrorcon attack, from which she ended up saving the life of a young teenager named Kicker. What Lies Beneath Twice. She also saved the life of Rad when he came to rescue her. What Lies Beneath, Part Three

Though Rad, now an adult, was now smitten with the equally-adult Alexis, she was not happy to learn about his involvement with Alterenergy. In turn, Rad was annoyed with her drive to change the world, as it meant she wouldn't be sticking around. Later, after a Battle Ravage attacked the city, and Alexis disappeared in an explosion, Rad believed her to be dead. When she popped up alive and fine, they hugged.

The end.

And then Dreamwave folded.

Panini Armada comics

When Rad and Carlos went spelunking, Alexis followed them to make sure they didn't get themselves killed. She was shocked to see them emerge from the cave with the alien robot High Wire, but didn't have much time come to terms with the situation before Megatron attacked them and tried to capture the smaller robot. High Wire transformed into a bike and took Alexis and the others to safety, where they met several other robots. Sureshock explained that they were Mini-Cons who had ended up on Earth after fleeing from the eternal war on Cybertron. First Encounter! When the Mini-Cons refused to save Optimus Prime, who was getting his aft handed to him by Megatron, Rad decided to do it himself. Alexis protested, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. In the end, Rad taking action caused Megatron to flee and the humans to befriend the Autobots, but Alexis still told him not to let it go to his head. Friends and Foes!

After playing with their new friends on the Street Action Mini-Con Team, Alexis, Rad and Carlos were tasked with finding the locator log onboard the crashed Mini-Con ship. When they were attacked by Demolishor, Alexis again took on the role of warning Rad against taking stupid risks, only for his crazy ideas to work yet again. Deep Trouble! Going back to her daily life, Alexis later visited the local observatory, but was followed by Sureshock. After Sureshock's attempts to "help" the observatory crashed their mainframe, Alexis made a run for it and told the story to her friends. Just a Memory! When the Autobots decided to send the Mini-Cons back to Cybertron, she figured they had no other choice, and told Rad not to get all emotional about it. In the end, the plans fell through and the Mini-Cons remained on Earth. No Way Back!

Alexis and her friends were racing with the Street Action Team again when they were suddenly attacked by Starscream, out to steal their Mini-Con friends. While the Street Action Team held the Decepticon back in the form of Perceptor, Alexis and the others fetched Optimus Prime to help them. The Two-Edged Sword Shortly afterward, they met Amos Hume and helped him save the Land Military Mini-Con Team from the Extra-Terrestrial Response Division. Sale of the Century!

Legends anthology

One Halloween night, Alexis went Trick-or-Treating with Carlos, Rad and their three Mini-Cons. Because she was the mature one, she collected donations for UNICEF instead of candy, though she did dress as a princess. Something Robotic This Way Comes

After Alexis talked Doctor Jessica Theist into letting her niece Kelly come along an archeological dig, she also lent Kelly a computer. And Laserbeak. And Ransack and Dune Runner. Clearly it pays to be connected. Fire in the Dark

Trivia

Alexis's original character model.

• According to the now-defunct TV Tokyo Micron Legend website, Alexis was 11 years old at the start of Armada. The page also stated she was Asian, and that her Japanese name, Alexa, was short for Alexandra.

• Meanwhile, according to the liner notes of The Transformers: Legends of the Microns Sound of Evolution Vol. 2 (the second series soundtrack), there were difficulties coming up with character designs for the kids, as the producers had been given three mandated races: white, Hispanic, and Asian. The notes go on to further confirm Alexis as being Asian by specifying that she was the daughter of "Vietnamese boat people". The character was named after the daughter of one of the American staff.

• The Reader's Digest Transformers Armada Official Guidebook backs up the fact that Alexis was 11 years old at the start of Armada. It also specified that she always got great grades and that she was a computer whiz.

• Hot government worker Alexis and hot hippie Alexis never traveled to the other's universe so they could make out. Worlds Collide has failed us for the last time... AGAIN.

• The implied relationship between Alexis and Starscream caused some fan girls to write romantic fan fiction about them. This is very... okay, there is something a lot more horrible.