Arcee (Animated)
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- Arcee is an Autobot from the Transformers Animated continuity family.
Before the Great War Teaching Unit R-C-687-040 - Arcee for short - was a teacher, giving young Autobots the knowledge to make their own decisions and spurring them to think for themselves. Once the conflict erupted, she became an intelligence officer for the Autobot war effort, serving under Highbrow in such risky endeavors as Project Omega.
Fiction
Animated cartoon
- Voice actor: Susan Blu (English), Silvia Mißbach (German)
Arcee was a teacher on Cybertron and an Autobot intelligence officer during the War. Originally intended to be the commander of Omega Supreme, she carried crucial access codes for his activation. TransWarped
At one point, Arcee was damaged in the line of duty. Ratchet repaired her and tried to take her to safety, but the two were attacked by Lockdown, who had been hired by the Decepticons to bring her in.
Held prisoner within Lockdown's ship, Arcee insisted that Ratchet use his electromagnetic pulse tool to wipe the codes from her head. Lockdown overheard this and tried to stop the pair, but in the struggle the device overloaded and sent out a powerful burst. In the confusion, Ratchet and Arcee were somehow able to escape... but Arcee no longer knew who or where she was. The EMP blast had wiped her memory clean. The Thrill of the Hunt
Arcee was later taken to Cybertron, where Ultra Magnus made Ratchet perform open-processor surgery on her vivisected head in an attempt to obtain the access codes for Omega Supreme's activation. This triggered a failsafe which copied the codes to Ratchet's memory. TransWarped
Arcee never awoke from the open-processor surgery, and was stored for the subsequent four-million-plus years in the Cybertron Central Infirmary in a comatose state. When the Decepticons needed to acquire the command codes to "restart" Omega Supreme into a dreadnought loyal to them, both Shockwave and Ratchet reasoned that their best chance for this would be from Arcee herself. The two of them battled over Arcee and, thanks to the blundering interference of Sentinel Prime, Shockwave won—abducting Arcee and escaping with her onto Omega Supreme, which Megatron then commanded to transwarp back to Earth's solar system. Perceptor was certain that the damage to Arcee's circuitry was totally irreversible, and there was thus no way for the Decepticons to get the codes from her... but apparently he forgot to tell Arcee herself, who soon woke up on the Decepticon-controlled Omega Supreme, calling for Ratchet. This Is Why I Hate Machines
Toys
Animated
- Arcee (Deluxe, 2009)
- Arcee transforms into a Cybertronian car and includes two energy sword accessories.
