Roulette (Universe)
| This article is about the female Autobot from Universe. For the male Autobot from the IDW comics, see Roulette (G1). |
- Roulette is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
At an early age, Roulette and her sister Shadow Striker watched as their sister was destroyed at the hands of Maraudicons. Though this traumatic event drove her sister to crime, it gave Roulette her passion for law enforcement, in the hopes that she could prevent such tragedies from happening to others.
She placed second in the IntraFormers Sharpshooting Competition behind Sureshot, but she was forgotten amongst the cheers for the winner. She later enrolled in the Academy of Cybertronian Law Enforcement, rising through the ranks quicker than any previous recruit. Her incredible marksmanship remains dismissed even by her fellow Autobots though, mostly because the more pigheaded of them could never believe a fembot could out-shoot them. She doesn't mind; she knows they're jealous.
Her shoulder-mounted deflecto-shield can absorb and redirect the energy of her enemy's attacks. However, not much can deflect the distrust her colleagues give her due to the criminal actions of her sister.
Fiction
3H comics
Roulette, her sister, and fellow Autobots Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, and Trailbreaker returned to Cybertron after a long absence. The planet's Maximals welcomed them home, but the celebration was interrupted by Unicron, who abducted all five Autobots, as well as the Maximals Silverbolt and Blackarachnia. Abduction After she and many other prisoners were freed by Optimus Primal, Roulette was turned on by Shadow Striker, who had become corrupted by the influence of Unicron. She was forced to leave her sister behind when Primal led the escapees back to Cybertron. Escape
The end of the conflict was told by an Optimus Prime, who described the defeat of Unicron and his Minions. As Unicron folded in on himself, Optimus Primal led the survivors through a portal presumably leading back to their native technorganic Cybertron. Roulette was carried away to safety by King Atlas, though her downcast expression may hint at her turncoat sister's fate. Revelations Part 2
TransTech
Roulette was a croupier at The Blue Deployer, Cryotek's bar of ill repute in the trans-dimension hub city of Axiom Nexus. Jackpot attempted to hit on her and apparently failed to impress.[1] Gone Too Far
Wings Universe
Roulette was hanging out at the Galadria Space Bridge Outpost in the Delta Prysmos Sector when a pirate ship appeared overhead and dropped a bomb on her and several other passersby. Hoist the Flag
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Roulette was a young Velocitronian born from the hot spot in the Titan Navitas. After Optimus Prime ended up annexing Earth, and a situation involving Ore-13 had stabilized, Roulette and several other Prime-worshipping colonists chose to join Prime on Earth to help further his cause of bringing Earth into the Council of Worlds. Under the command of Aileron, she helped quell a riot in Mexico City while searching for Cybertronian tech.
Back in Autobot City, she and the other colonists talked about their reasons for coming to Earth. Roulette's always-forward thinking culture on Velocitron and the excitement of the "lost" Cybertronian colony being discovered, and the chance to help that colony come out of "the Dark Ages", convinced her to follow Prime. She also admired that, given his bulky altmode, Optimus was still fairly fast. To Walk Among the Chosen
Following the arrival of the Junkions on Earth, Roulette and the colonists watched Prime return to Metrotitan, and bombarded him with questions about the aliens. A Lonely Pillar on the Plain She and the other colonists knelt as Optimus Prime returned to Earth from Cybertron, and later watched on as Pyra Magna and Optimus Prime had a heated argument about the use of the Matrix to manipulate the faith of the devout. Roulette was present when Optimus Prime organized a summit with several human governments, which was interrupted when the Junkions sicced a horde of Sharkticons on the event. Dance Among the Shadows
Toys
Universe (2003)
- Roulette & Shadow Striker (Multi-pack, 2003)
- Accessories: Spring-loaded missile launcher/bumper, tailpipe/missile, blaster.
- Roulette is a retool of the 2001 Robots in Disguise Deluxe Side Burn toy with a new head, transforming into a Dodge Viper with exposed engine block. Her rear bumper becomes a spring-loaded missile launcher.
- She was available only in an OTFCC 2003 exclusive two-pack with her sister Shadow Striker. The two are cast in the same plastic colors, but have different paint operations to give them very different decos. This makes them one of the few examples of true repaints in the entire history of Transformers.
Notes
- Convention organizer Glen Hallit said that Roulette's color scheme was based on the Digimon character Sakuyamon, as he was also a big Digimon fan.
- Roulette and Shadow Striker are the first convention-exclusive toys to have parts made from entirely new tooling. Previously, the only one to have any alterations to their mold was BotCon 2001's Arcee, which removed some peg-holes in her chest. Marcelo Matere designed the head.
- Roulette is one of the few non-Alternators, non-live-action-movie Transformers toys to be an officially-licensed vehicle. Each iteration of the Side Burn toy since the Hasbro U.S. "super" version has had Dodge's "Viper" logo on the hood and trademark information on the packaging.
References
- ↑ Roulette is not explicitly named in this story, but Jackpot's description of the croupier is a dead match... plus she's running the roulette table.
