Filch

Kind of a reverse-Flock-of-Seagulls thing she's got going there.

Filch is a Decepticon from the Robots in Disguise portion of the Aligned continuity family.

Filch is a Decepticon of exceedingly simple tastes. If it's shiny, she wants it. That's the long and short of it. It doesn't matter how worthless an item actually is, this maniacal mechanical magpie will take anything that even momentarily glints in the sunlight. She likes to build nests up high so the sun can make her prized collection of whatever all... shiny.

This wouldn't be so bad if she wasn't a really huge, really strong bird capable of ripping steel beams out of concrete to get whatever's caught her eye this time. Her penchant for pilfering has left a whole lot of collateral damage.

Fiction

2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon

Like some vast, kleptomaniac bird!

Voice actor: Constance Zimmer (English), Yū Kobayashi (Japanese), Simona Biasetti (Italian)

One of the many prisoners aboard the Alchemor, Filch was freed from her stasis pod when the ship crashed on Earth. Pilot (Part 1) She began nesting in the torch atop the Crown City Colossus outside Crown City and collected any shiny objects from the surrounding area that caught her interest. She was eventually detected by the Autobots, resulting in her getting into a scuffle with Bumblebee's team until she spotted a shiny transmission tower insulator and flew off with it. She next attempted to steal a beam from the bridge into Crown City, only to end up in a tug of war with Bumblebee, until she made off with both the beam and Denny Clay (his hat was shiny!), depositing both in her nest. When the Autobots caught up with her and started climbing the statue to rescue Denny, she fought them until they managed to render her unconscious. They took her back to the scrapyard to be placed back in a stasis pod. Collect 'Em All

2015 Robots in Disguise books

Spoiler warning: Plot details for Bumblebee Versus Scuzzard follow. Spoilers expire in 13 days

Thanks to Grimlock's clumsiness, Filch was freed from her stasis pod and took off. She didn't get far, snatching Scuzzard whom Bumblebee's team was in the process of bringing back to the scrapyard, and taking him to the nearby amusement park. When he started eating dodgems and growing larger, she decided he was threatening her territory and fought with him. The pair were found by the Autobots who managed to recapture them. Back in the scrapyard, Filch made another bid for freedom, only to be caught by Denny's electromagnet, and was returned to a stasis pod. Bumblebee Versus Scuzzard

Games

Nestle Arcade

Nestle Arcade

Merchandise

Tiny Titans

• Filch (Tiny Titan, 2015)
  • Series: 3
  • Number : ?/12

Part of the third blind-bagged assortment of Tiny Titans, this is a small, soft-plastic figurine of Filch in her rarely-seen robot mode.

She comes with a trading card with a scan-badge for the Robots in Disguise mobile game, which unlocks a random amount of Energon "currency" and a randomized bonus power-up item.

Notes

• Filch is the second Decepticon in the series whose "bestial" form is her alternate mode rather than her "robot" mode, the first being Chop Shop, who is coincidentally also a thief.
• Her being a Corvicon was not established in her introductory episode. The subgroup was namedropped by a Minitron-controlled Grimlock in "True Colors", noted as being notorious hoarders, plus, you know, "corvid" is the name for the bird family that includes crows and magpies, but still not explicitly tied to Filch. Later, the book Bumblebee Versus Scuzzard would confirm that she is, indeed, a Corvicon.