Strika (BM)
| The name or term "Strika" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Strika (disambiguation). |
- Strika is a Vehicon from the Beast Machines portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Strika is one of the greatest generals in Cybertron's history, and the consort of Obsidian. She had her spark removed by Megatron, only to later have it replaced within a Vehicon body. She joined the ranks of the Vehicon generals, taking the place of Tankor as commander of heavy artillery with, what else, her Artillery Drones.
While she was pretending to have all the brains of a calculator watch, her activation code (and, indeed, her entire vocabulary) was "terminate". She dropped the word when the ruse was over.
| “ | I do not attack. I terminate! | ” |
—Strika, "The Will of the Few" | ||
Fiction
Beast Wars cartoon continuity
Beast Machines cartoon
- Voice actor: Patricia Drake (English), Rikako Aikawa (Japanese), Carla Pompílio (Portuguese from Brazil), Regine Albrecht (German)
Like Obsidian, Strika wasn't given an alternate personality, as the previous Vehicon generals had. However, her primary directive was to protect Cybertron, but since Megatron was Cybertron now, her loyalty was misplaced. Built at the same time as Obsidian, Strika remained silent as Thrust admired the two new recruits (though she did give him a dirty look). Attacking a topside Silverbolt and Nightscream, she went after the bat when they split up, grounding him with cannon fire. Before she could crush him, though, Cheetor dropped into her party and Blackarachnia trapped her in a web, though it didn't hold for long under her attempts to escape. Cheetor tried to reason with her, but she turned and sped off, reuniting with Obsidian. When the Maximals cornered the two generals, the trap was sprung, as hundreds of drones surrounded the Maximals. Strika expressed smug amazement that the Maximals had fallen for her and Obsidian's "dumb generals" act, complete with faked battle cries/activation codes of "Terminate!" and "Obliterate!"
Forced to retreat, the Maximals attempted to escape into the sewers, but Strika's drones popped out from every manhole, cutting them off. After they'd barricaded themselves in the Citadel, Optimus Primal realized they had been herded there, at which point Obsidian contacted them and revealed himself and Strika. Only the timely intervention of Botanica saved the Maximals, her seeds disrupting the drones' targeting systems. Strika was upset to discover her side's scans of Botanica were drastically incomplete. With the Maximals gone, Strika returned with Obsidian to Megatron to accept their punishment for failure, but they were congratulated instead, having given Megatron time to formulate his plan for the sparks. The Strike
When Optimus split his team to investigate a vision from the Oracle, Strika was waiting for Rattrap and Botanica at the Citadel. Ambushing the Maximals, she gave chase but temporarily lost them when they hid in a building. However, it didn't take long to locate them, and she mercilessly attacked Botanica while Rattrap was plugged into a holographic pleasure terminal. Disabling them, Strika prepared to administer the coup de grace to Botanica, but Rattrap intervened and plugged her into the terminal instead, leaving her admiring the beauty of an undamaged Cybertron. The Search
As Megatron prepared to enact his plan, Strika and Obsidian were assigned to guard the Grand Mal's exterior. When the Maximals attempted to enter the Grand Mal, Silverbolt, Cheetor and Nightscream caused some major problems for the two with Rattrap's signature-altering devices—until Strika used one of the devices to send feedback through the other units, allowing the Maximals to be detected. She then got thrown into Obsidian by Noble. The Siege
With Megatron's seeming destruction, Obsidian and Strika were at a loss. Offered a place with the Maximals by Cheetor, Strika was incredulous at the notion, but she and Obsidian accepted after a crazed mutant zombie thing tried to scrap her and everyone else present. Thrust slagged them off for this, pointing out they were loyal to everyone and that meant loyal to no one. When Megatron's crazed spark entered the Grand Mal, Obsidian and Strika moved to intercept. It wasn't too successful. However, when Megatron's spark was repolarized and bonded to a Diagnostic Drone, Strika and Obsidian seized him and vacated the premises, swearing their loyalty to Megatron once more: Thrust's words had made an impact on them. Megatron, however, was infuriated and refused to accept it was tactically necessary to have withdrawn. Spark of Darkness
Along with Obsidian and Thrust, Strika led the final assault on the Grand Mal, though she spent her time chasing Maximals rather than attacking the floating base (and chasing Thrust around for a while after Nightscream planted a device on her that made her see others as Maximals). The Downward Spiral
After making a massive assault on the downed fortress and taking out Blackarachnia personally, Strika, Obsidian, and Thrust cornered Cheetor in the Grand Mal's engine room. However, the crafty cat activated the anti-gravity drive, sending Strika and Obsidian hurtling up into Cybertron's orbit. When Legends Fall
Transformers Legends anthology
As Megatron's polarized spark traveled from body to body near the end of the Spark War, it settled in an Aero Drone body and attacked Strika, Obsidian, Nightscream, and Cheetor. Though it could not communicate in this form, it silently cursed Strika and Obsidian for switching allegiances at the first opportunity. Singularity Ablyss
3H comics
Though marooned in orbit, Strika and Obsidian were otherwise undamaged and were able to serve Cybertron once more. When the Quintessons invaded technorganic Cybertron one week after the Great Reformatting, Obsidian rewired an orbiting monitoring station for combat, while Strika used its artillery to take down an impressive target. The Quintesson ship Paradigm was destroyed in low orbit over Polyhex. Strika and Obsidian turned their attentions to the planetary defense grid. Though they had faith in the Maximals below, as they had bested even them, the two still served the lofty goal of protecting Cybertron from invaders. Wreckers: Finale Part II
Legends comic
In one of the Legends World Tigatron's dreams, Strika was among the evil female Transformers who sought to kidnap him and fought the heroic female Transformers guarding him. Bonus Edition Vol. 11
Obsidian and Strika were seen in the skies over techno-organic Cybertron following the end of the war for the sparks. Epiloge
Ask Vector Prime
In Primax 208.06 Zeta, Megatron, unleashed Obsidian against the Predacon resistance in the ongoing Spark War, but without Strika to temper him, Obsidian successfully conspired with Tankor to assassinate Megatron. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16
Cybertron comic
Hailing from Primax 704.08 Gamma, Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16 "Nemesis" Strika was a Minion of Unicron during the Universe War. At the end of the multiversal conflict, Optimus Primal's Children of Primus fought one last desperate battle within Unicron against the Minions of Unicron. Strika was of these Minions, and she met a gruesome end when Unicron himself vanished beneath them, somehow due to the Unicron Singularity. Though Optimus Primal and his warriors were able to escape through a dimensional portal, Strika and Obsidian fell to their doom in the molten lakes of the Pit. Revelations Part 2 Vector Prime noted a certain symmetry to them dying alongside versions of their consorts. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16
Wings Universe
(No, not the purple one. The pink one!)
Strika was one of the Transformers alive millions of years ago during the Quintessons' enslavement of their people. She and Glyph stood in shock as a peer was destroyed for his insolence. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4
Strika was a part of an all-female team of archaeologists that had discovered an ancient factory that could be the key to the Transformer's origins. When the Autobots arrived to investigate, Strika let them see for themselves. Flames of Yesterday
At the dawn of the Machine Wars in 2013, Optimus Prime was comatose and years of peace under the second Golden Age had left Cybertron unprepared for outright war. Obsidian took command of Cybertron's military force, with Strika at his side as co-strategist and warrior. Jhiaxus's clone armies swept across Cybertron nonetheless, taking control of its most important polities. But Strika and the other survivors of these attacks struck back; disguising themselves as Empties, they approached the clone Thundercracker and ambushed him while his guard was down. Though the other 'bots fighting alongside them did not have the military experience both Strika and Obsidian shared, Sandstorm and Octane proved themselves to be useful allies. Through expert coordination of their squad in battle, Obsidian and Strika managed to defeat Thundercracker's drones and capture him. Strika forcefully interrogated Thundercracker to give up the location of his commander Megaplex, and Hoist and Sandstorm suggested to the clone that it'd be best if he surrendered the information quickly before Strika actually lost her temper.
Strika and her compatriots confronted Megaplex in Iacon, and managed to surround his army with their own, thanks to Mirage's holographic abilities. The battle was going in favor of Strika's side, until Sandstorm suddenly turned on them and cut down Obsidian with a laser-blast; the pacifist was in truth a clone and sleeper agent planted in the Autobots' army. Then, Jhiaxus and the greater bulk of his soldiery arrived. Termination
Facing off against a squad of Sandstorm drones, Obsidian and Strika declared to the onlooking Jhiaxus that they would fight him to the bitter end. With Jhiaxus unwilling to let up his invasion, Strika engaged the enemy, blasting a hole in a nearby drone. The whole battlefield then lit up with laser blasts, and Strika and her cohort pressed on in their defending of their homeworld. She rescued Octane from a squad of Thundercracker drones during the battle, only to be rescued right back when Octane shot down one of the drones sneaking up on her.
After the signing of the Pax Cybertronia, Obsidian and Strika quickly vanished from public view, not wanting their faces to remind the public of the recent brutal conflict. A Common Foe
Kre-O comic
Strika was at Metroplex before it was attacked by Earth's worst criminals. The Brick List: Earth's Most Wanted
2005 IDW continuity
- First Appearance: Transformers: Windblade vol. 2 #7
Strika was a descendant of the Liege Maximo's tribe–a repentant faction that had turned against their deceitful leader and interred him away aboard his Titan Vigilem. Heavy By the present day, Strika served aboard "Carcer" under the command of Elita One. When Cybertron reestablished contact with the citizens of Carcer, Strika joined the crew as they "greeted" Starscream and Windblade upon their arrival through Carcer's spacebridge. Strika, believing that the arriving 'bots were as violent as the two who had fallen through the spacebridge several weeks previously, trained her weapon on the two and told them that if they moved, they would be killed on the spot. Starscream, having believed they were visiting Tempo, a Titan crewed by philosophers, casually advanced towards the crew. Starscream was only saved from a blast by Windblade tackling him. Angrily saying that if they wanted to attack the Lord of Cybertron, Starscream was almost immediately cut off by Strika transforming into her massive mobile artillery altmode and informing Starscream "I do not attack.....I TERMINATE." He was only saved from termination when Elita One appeared and called Strika and the rest of her troops off.
Accompanying her commander into the throne room of the ship, Strika stood silent guard, with Obsidian flanking the other side. When Elita One easily saw through Starscream's lies, she ordered Strika to seize him. Easily overpowering the relatively smaller 'bot, Strika held him and was about to execute him for lying to Elita One (a capital offense aboard Carcer) when Windblade intervened and through an impassioned plea, convinced Elita One not only to not execute Starscream, but to join Carcer with the Council of Worlds. Strika escorted the two out of the throne room, and as Starscream and Windblade quickly made their way back to the spacebridge, Starscream remarked that if the rest of the crew was anything like Strika, they'd just found the most powerful group of Transformers in a lost colony yet! The Will of the Few
As ambassadors and members of the Council of Worlds, Strika and Obsidian made an effort to acclimate to life on Cybertron. Choose Me After Optimus Prime announced his intent to annex Earth into the Council, Strika attended the first meeting discussing this sudden change of events. New Worlds Order
When the Council re-convened to discuss a string of mysterious mnemosurgical assaults and the growing distrust of the Badgeless, Strika and Obsidian were both present. The Committee moved to have Ironhide investigate the crime spree; subsequently, Strika went off to go spar with Chromia for fun. 07:00:00 Things turned sour following the death of an inebriated Decepticon, which most chalked up to police brutality. Ultimately, Ironhide stepped up as the new head of Cybertronian security. Applicable Skills At a later meeting, she listened to Ironhide's report on the new recruits. Things We Said We'd Never Do When Bruticus appeared and began laying waste to Iacon, Strika and the other Council delegates were evacuated. The Line Between Us
The Council later met with Optimus to hear his side of the story, with Strika demanding an explanation for Optimus's behaviour. Although Prime insisted that his intentions were pure, its members unanimously voted against allowing Earth a seat on the council. The Medium and the Message When Optimus raised a Titan from on Earth, the Council began re-considering its verdict. No Fair Fights
Several months later, a wave of undead Titans descended on Cybertron. Knowing what was at stake if the Titans destroyed Carcer, Strika coordinated Carcer's crew as they battled the Titans in the upper atmosphere, destroying them before they could make planetfall. Ping Unfortunately, this wasn't enough to appease Starscream, who demanded that Carcer transform to help Metroplex on the ground. When negotiations broke down, the Cybertronian leader sicced Devastator on the orbiting ship as a distraction while Windblade and her allies infiltrated the Titan's brain chamber. Desperate Times Strika redirected her team to fire on the combiner; effortlessly catching one of Devastator's punches and redirecting it. Desperate Measures Devastator's distraction bought time for Windblade's team; when Windblade engaged a cityspeaker link with Strika's ship, Vigilem awoke and began transforming. Realizing that Vigilem was going to disgorge the Liege Maximo after eons of imprisonment, Strika and her troops rushed to "Sector Zero", ready to blast whatever came through the door. They arrived too late–the energy released as the Prime escaped knocked her team unconscious. Strika managed to stay online just long enough to witness Liege Maximo before she too passed out. Rubicon
As Iacon struggled to rebuild from this latest attack, the Council reconvened to meet with Optimus Prime once again. Prime suggested sharing Transformer technology with Wreck-Gar's tribe of Junkion nomads, but Starscream shot down the proposal, citing a violation of the Tyrest Accord. Behind My Bleeding Back
When human terrorists began attacking Iacon, Strika halted G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K. before Soundwave intervened. Unwilling to listen, Strika marked all humans for death before engaging Soundwave in melee combat. Before she could unleash the power of her tank mode, Ironhide and Sunstreaker interceded to bring everyone to the Spire to sort everything out much to Strika's disbelief. First Strike #3 Strika later appeared again alongside the rest of the Council of Worlds as they accepted Optimus Prime's first shipment of Ore-13 to Cybertron. Surfeit of Primes
When Unicron began its attack on the Cybertronian colonies, Strika was in the Council war room when Starscream revealed the existence of the Decepticon Vengeance Division, a massive Decepticon fleet that he planned to unleash on the monster. Stranger Eons Starscream's attack ended in miserable failure, resulting in Unicron personally attacking Cybertron. Elita One recalled all the Carcerians to their ship so they could deploy Victorion within the Chaos Bringer's innards only for Bludgeon's Worldsweeper to cripple their craft, Strika perishing along with her crew as their ship fell to pieces. Our Finest Her corpse was presumably destroyed when Elita defiantly rammed the totaled ship into Unicron's face. Road's End
TransTech
One version of Strika wound up in Axiom Nexus. There, she befriended Spacewarp and Treadbolt. The three of them were known to sample Cybertron's nightlife together, with Spacewarp noting that there were plenty of 'bots who liked their partners plus-sized. Spacewarp's Log (1), 2015/10/31
2019 IDW continuity
- First appearance: Transformers issue #11
During the War of the Threefold Spark, Strika commanded a heavy artillery unit known as "Strika's Heavies". The unit participated in the battle that razed Yuss, saving Megatron from Exarchon. The Change In Your Nature Part Three She was known as one of the four Great Generals, alongside luminaries such as Ultra Magnus, Pyra Magna, and Dai Atlas. Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down After the war, Strika retired from active service and became a senator. The Change In Your Nature Part Four
Becoming dissatisfied with the Autobot post-war government, Strika joined the ranks of the Ascenticons. Following an attack on Ascenticon Headquarters by the Rise, Strika stood behind Megatron as he rebranded the movement in response. The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Five She and Jhiaxus were with Megatron when he observed the destruction of an immersant Titan by Soundwave, another necessary step in the Ascenticons' secret guidance of the Rise and their message. The Change In Your Nature Part Two With Soundwave implicated in the events at the Titan, Megatron decreed that he and Strika would be the public face of the Ascenticons for the foreseeable future, while Soundwave remained in their offices, under protection and command of the Ascenticon Guard. Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down
Toys
Beast Machines
- Strika (Deluxe, 2001)
- Accessories: 2 missiles
- Part of the first wave of Deluxes in the Beast Machines "Battle For the Spark" subline, Strika transforms into a Cybertronic six-wheeled assault tank. Two pressure-launch missiles are mounted on top, and pressing the figure's spark crystal causes them to pom-pom back and forth to simulate firing. Both gimmicks are fully functional in both modes.
Universe (2003)
- Nemesis Strika (Deluxe, 2005)
- Accessories: 2 missiles
- Nemesis Strika is a redeco and minor retooling of the original Beast Machines Strika toy. The figure's chest was retooled to accommodate the addition of a Decepticon insignia. Unusually, this insignia is not a tampographed paint application, but a paper sticker (and not the one seen in the Hasbro stock photography of the toy).
Beast Wars Returns
- In 2005 the toy was redecoed and released as part of the Japanese ToysЯUs exclusive Beast Wars Returns series, the Japanese name for Beast Machines. Having been produced several years after the cartoon, this version casually attempted a more show-accurate look than the original by swapping out the originally silver plastic for magenta and lavender, but making no other deco changes. The figure retained the mold changes used for the Universe release (see above), and since no actual paint operations were changed, details on the chest plate's sculpt that no longer exist are still painted.
Timelines
- Machine Wars: Termination (BotCon box set, 2013)
- Accessories: Missile
- Timelines Strika is a retool of Generations Warpath, transforming into a tank. She has a spring-loaded missile launcher mounted on her right shoulder, and has 5mm-compatible hands. She comes in a BotCon 2013-exclusive boxset with Hoist, Skywarp, Obsidian, and Megaplex.
- This mold was also used to make the Blastcharge Strika Drone and Timelines Treadshot and served as the basis of the non-toy Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation of Bazooka.
Kre-O
- Machine Wars (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2013)
- The Machine Wars five-pack was exclusive to BotCon 2013, limited to 1500 pieces. It includes Kreons of Hoist, Megaplex, Obsidian, Skywarp and Strika. They have generally more parts than the Kreons packed in with larger Kre-O sets, but do not have alternate vehicle builds like Micro-Changers.
- Unlike most Transformers Kreons, she reuses the diver helmet from the Battleship building sets.
Notes
- Story editor Bob Skir wanted to depict Obsidian and Strika's return to Cybertron after the reformatting wave hit in the last episode, making them the only two purely mechanical beings remaining. However, this never made it into the series.
- The name "Strika" is possibly derived from "Stryker", a type of eight-wheeled all-wheel-drive armored combat vehicle.
- In the Chinese dub of Beast Machines, Strika was voiced by a male actor. Obsidian introduced him as his close friend, instead of his consort.
- Transformers Vault erroneously calls her Strike.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Strika (ストライカ Sutoraika)
- Mandarin: Strika (Taiwan, 史翠卡, Shǐcuìkǎ), Dà Lì Shén (China Beast Machines, 大力神, "Hercules"), Yòujī (China comics, 诱击, "Inveigle")
