Greenlight

Greenlight is an Autobot from the cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

THREETWOONE

Greenlight, back when she was impetuous and untested, was once one of Cybertron's most promising young scientists. But then the war came. Unlike before, when she could only abstractly mourn for the lives lost, it took a loss of a friend to make her realize that she, too, had a stake in the outcome.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Pssst, hey, Greenlight, pay attention!

Greenlight was a member of the Female Autobots, an underground resistance movement on Cybertron. Four million years ago, she and the other Female Autobots tried to board the Ark, but they failed and were thought destroyed until they were rediscovered in modern times.

Greenlight was manning a series of monitors in the team's secret underground headquarters when Chromia and her team returned from their energy-stealing mission. Later, when their headquarters was located and destroyed, she and Lancer freed Moonracer from the debris. Sticking with the rest of the team, she did her share in the fight against the Decepticons and could again later be seen manning a series of monitors in the team's new base. The Search for Alpha Trion

Wings Universe

Wings Universe is based on the Generation 1 cartoon, but deviates from it in cosmetic ways and continuity points.

Greenlight and Lancer were amateur historians and the assistants of the archaeometrist named Glyph. They were assigned to Flipsides's excavation site in Median, where they uncovered a mysterious artifact known as the Heart of the Dragon. Unfortunately, Decepticon raiders from Quarex also learned of their discovery. The historians requested aid from the Autobot Elite Guard to defend themselves and their find. Greenlight helped Strika, Lancer and the Elite Guard fortify Median against Rage's Stormtroopers. Unlike her fellow neophyte Lancer, however, Greenlight showed no interest in engaging the enemy. She remained in hiding near the dig with Glyph and Flip Sides while the others fought off the Decepticons. Rage and Aquablast managed to infiltrate the defenses and reach the chamber where the historians were hiding, though, and Aquablast killed Glyph before Greenlight's optics. They were only saved by the last minute arrival of Lancer, wielding a borrowed laser weapon. Flames of Yesterday

When the Autobots' current reserve of energies was dangerously low, Greenlight joined her comrades still on Cybertron in stasis hibernation as an energy-saving measure. Battle Lines, Part 6

Notes

• Greenlight was only known as the "Unnamed Green Female Autobot" for a good 25 years until she was named in the Timelines text story, "Flames of Yesterday", as well as a handful of other previously-unnamed female Autobots.
• The Club Udon special edition cover to G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War issue 2, which is dedicated to the ladies of the two brands, surprisingly features what appears to be Lancer with Greenlight's colors. This is the only instance during the 25 years between the airing of "The Search for Alpha Trion" and the publication of "Flames of Yesterday" that these characters have been referenced.