Female Autobots

This article is about the Autobot resistance group led by Elita One. For information on female Transformers in general, see Female Transformer.

The Female Autobots are a team with a rather self-explanatory designation from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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The Female Autobots are a team of female Transformers that made its debut in the Generation 1 episode "The Search for Alpha Trion". In that appearance, it was an Autobot resistance group stationed on Cybertron under the command of Elita One. In its canceled return to fiction in the Dreamwave comics however, the team was working for the Quintessons.

Female Autobots? I thought they were extinct.The ever-observant Shockwave, "The Search for Alpha Trion"

Japanese name: Woman Cybertrons

Members

The team as it originally appeared consisted of six members, two of which (Greenlight and Lancer) initially went without name. Most fiction since has omitted those two and oftentimes placed Arcee among the group's ranks instead. Let's see what the future has in store for the team now that the namelessness has been cured.

"I'm just the chaperon."

• Elita One
• Chromia
• Firestar
• Greenlight
• Lancer
• Moonracer
• Arcee (Dreamwave comics, Diamond Select profile, MC Axis comics, TV Magazine story pages)

Given his supportive role to the team in the cartoon, Alpha Trion might be considered a member in that continuity as well.

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon

The Female Autobots were destroyed by a missile strike during the Ark's launch. Or so everyone thought...

Skip four million years into the future. By 1985, they have formed a resistance group on Cybertron, operating in secret. Shockwave discovered their continued existence (thanks to Moonracer) and tracked them back to their underground headquarters. A subsequent attempt by the Decepticons to capture Elita One resulted in the destruction of said headquarters, but also a reunion with the Autobots stationed on Earth.

Once the Decepticons were dealt with, the Female Autobots relocated to a new secret headquarters provided by Alpha Trion and chose to remain on Cybertron to continue the fight there. The Search for Alpha Trion

MC Axis mini-comics

The team had taken out a humongous Decepticon and Moonracer boasted about their success, claiming that they alone could retake Cybertron. Only Elita One didn't share in her team's exultation, as she knew they were only hiding and that the war was wearing them out.

At another time, Arcee showed off to Firestar and Moonracer how "badass" she is by taking out a Decepticon the other two hadn't even noticed yet. She then continued to berate them that war seemed to be too tough for females in particular. Firestar was horrified at realizing that three beautiful women were at three times as much risk. Just... what? MC Axis pack-in comic

Dreamwave Comics continuity

Hey, watch where you point that thing.

The "Female Autobots" were an elite squad of warriors under the command of the Quintessons. Arcee functioned as a sleeper agent of theirs. Generation One issue 11

Dreamwave filed for bankruptcy and stopped producing Transformers books right as the Female Autobots arc was beginning.

Trivia

Lady Jaye's riding Arcee. So wrong and yet so right.

• The Female Autobots are the brand's first real female Transformers. Predecessing them are: a female Cybertronian, but not Transformer, a female robot who might have become a Transformer and a female Tlalakan who got turned into a Transformer for a short while.
• Greenlight's and Lancer's names were revealed in the Timelines story "Flames of Yesterday".
• 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.
• The Female Autobots were present in the season 3 chain of command chart published in TV Magazine's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 story pages. Part 3
• Had Dreamwave not gone bankrupt, the Female Autobots (i.e. the main four) would have received MTMTE profiles in the Generation One 2004 Datatracks Annual.