Elita-1 (Cyberworld)
| The name or term "Elita-1" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Elita One (disambiguation). |
- Elita-1 is the Autobot second in command from Cyberworld.
Elita-1 is ferocious and sharp both on and off the battlefield, so it's no wonder that she's managed to survive Cyberworld as long as she has. Although she can occasionally come off as rude, she only acts that way because she genuinely cares about the people in her life, and doesn't want to lose them like others before.
Fiction
Cyberworld cartoon
- Voice actor: Jessica Carroll (English), Amandine Longeac (French), Betzabé Jara (Latin-American Spanish)
At some unknown point in time, Elita-1 was transported to Cyberworld. There, she gathered up a handful of bots and formed a team that helped each other survive, with Wheeljack among them. All was going well until Sky-Byte eliminated them, leaving Elita emotionally scarred. Later, Elita was racing Sky-Byte inside an energy tube. She was in the lead, and about to win, when Optimus Prime and Bumblebee broke the aforementioned energy tube in an attempt to assist her, unwittingly granting the victory to Sky-Byte due to Elita's "cheating". Sky-Byte then attempted to finish Elita off for good, but Prime and Bumblebee stepped in to protect her. After a brief tussle, Sky-Byte was forced to flee. Elita wanted to chase after him and avenge her old friends, but Optimus stopped her, explaining that there was an Autobot ship being guarded by Scorponok in the desert that might lead them home and that they should all focus on that. Elita apologized for her behaviour and explained that there was something that might help them deal with the angry scorpion, but she'd only lead Optimus and Bumblebee there if they helped her kill Sky-Byte. Optimus gave a non-committal answer, which Elita didn't like, but went along with anyway. River Race Ruckus
She showed Bumblebee and Optimus a secret way into Cyber City, but they were accosted by a Sky-Byte and his new ally, Mirage, hired by Megatron to stop them. Elita-1 tried to get her revenge on Sky-Byte then-and-there during the ensuing melee, but his new upgrade to a land-based alt-mode let him turn the tables on her, and she had to be rescued by Optimus. The Autobot trio chased the fleeing shark, but were stopped by an injured Mirage, asking to team up. Smoke & Mirrors The group snuck through the city and fought their way into a computer terminal, only to be cut off by the city's ruler, Starscream. They tried to flee, but he cornered them in an alleyway, which spawned a mission. The goal was to be the last bot standing on a large levitating platform. Elita-1 grabbed an upgrade, giving her rocket boosters, which she tried to use to fight Starscream, but they vanished before she could make much use, and she and Mirage were thrown over the edge. After Bumblebee was declared the winner, she was drained of Energon. Screamer City Arena
Tracking down Grimlock via following Snarl, the trio of Autobots were captured in a net. When Optimus freed them and challenged Grimlock to a 1-on-1 mission challenge, Elita-1 joined Bumblebee and Snarl in commenting on the pair's strategies until Optimus Prime won. Hunter vs Hunted With Grimlock recruited, they attempted to find more energon, only to be met by Megatron. Elita-1 was chosen by Prime, along with Grimlock, to compete in the latest mission module - a race to the summit of a series of platforms. While she didn't trust Grimlock at first, especially after hearing he had made a truce with Megatron, they both saved each other from the traps in the challenge, until both were knocked down to the ground by Megatron, eventually losing the challenge. What Goes Up
Elita, Optimus, Bumblebee, and Grimlock went on to fight Scorponok, with her and Bumblebee attempting to locate his weak spot while the others distracted him. Bumblebee found Scorponok's weak spot but was soon pined to the ground by him, forcing Elita and Grimlock to try and lift Scorponok's hand off of Bee while Optimus fought him. Eventually, Prime gave up on fighting Scorponok and joined the rest in their effort to save Bumblebee. After successfully unpining Bumblebee from the sand, him and Elita escaped using Grimlock's detachable dino head. Elita watched as Snarl saved Optimus and Grimlock, who had yet to escape Scorponok's wrath and tended to Bumblebee while the two of argued over whether Prime should have retreated. Storm the Desert
Toys
Cyberworld
- Elita-1 (Cyber Changer, 2025)
- Environment: Ocean
- Part of the second wave of Cyberworld basic Cyber Changers, Elita-1 is a four-inch tall figure that can convert into a futuristic speedboat in three steps. Like all standard Cyberworld figures, she only has articulation at the shoulders, hips, and knees. She also features 5 mm connection points on her forearms, fists, and the top of her boat mode. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she lacks a flight stand port. The hinge that the prow of her boat mode is attached to is designed to be a winch reel with hook to better incorporate it into her design. Her vehicle mode is fairly inaccurate compared to her animation model compared to other Cyberworld toys; see the Notes section below.
- When transforming her into speedboat mode, a small plastic panel slides up to cover her face. Despite her instructions showing to flip over the prow of her boat mode as the last step of her transformation, it is easier to do this before pushing her legs up to activate the sliding mechanism for transformation; the pegs that hold the front panel in place are large enough that it requires pulling her arms far enough apart to partially transform her back into robot mode anyway. She also features several tabs, pegs, and notches to secure her vehicle mode together, which may snag on each other it her arms and legs aren't perfectly straight.
- She appears to be shortpacked in her assortment case, with only one or two copies being included per box.
Notes
- Curiously, Elita-1's body is based on Alex Milne's design for Riptide in IDW's More than Meets the Eye series. While her robot mode appears to be largely copied directly with few changes, her vehicle mode's animation model has a number of differences. Despite this, her Cyber Changer figure appears to copy Riptide's altmode extremely faithfully in all but color.
- This isn't the first time Elita-1 has had a boat for an alternate form—her G1 counterpart's first transforming toy was a speedboat, a BotCon 2009-exclusive redeco of Cybertron Thunderblast, chosen simply because it was one of the only molds designed to be a female Transformer at the time.
