Patty Minakaze
- Patty Minakaze is an Autobot-allied human from the Victory portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Patty Minakaze (南風パティ Minakaze Pattī), the older sister of Jean Minakaze, is a human girl orphaned after a spacecraft carrying her family (except for Jean, of course) was destroyed by the Dinoforce. While her brother was adopted by Star Saber, she was adopted by Victory Leo.
Despite being cheerful and good-natured to the point of psychosis, she tends to work her fellow members of the Victories way too hard on menial labors, such as scrubbing floors. She is motherly by nature and likes to take care of others, even the enemy.
She also has a ridiculous outfit.
Fiction
Victory comic
When Patty was just a young girl, she, her baby brother Jean and their parents were attacked by the Dinoforce. Patty and Jean escaped with their lives, though the ship their parents were in was destroyed. While Star Saber adopted Jean and raised him as his own, Patty went to go live with Victory Leo. For reasons unknown, she was never able to (or never wanted to) contact Jean to let him know he had a sibling.
Some time later, when Star Saber had fallen to the mercy of Deathsaurus, Liokaiser and Dinoking, Patty arrived with Victory Leo as reinforcements. Victory Leo combined with Star Saber to form Victory Saber and the Decepticons were handily defeated. As Jean began to blush at the rocking hot blonde chick standing before him, Patty snapped him to his senses by informing him she was his sister (though this did not keep Shūta and Cab from remaining smitten with her). Patty told Jean that Victory Leo was built from gurunium ore, a metal which their father had discovered. The gurunium was what made the Victory Combination possible, in fact. As Patty was inaugurated into the Victories, the escaping Decepticon cyborg boy Solon remarked an interest in Patty. The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!
It didn't take Patty long to usurp Jean as leader of the Victories (likely due to her older age) and she began to sweetly, yet demandingly, work her teammates into the ground with menial labors. Patty and Jean were eventually sent to the planet Guard to free the people Deathsaurus had enslaved. Once there, Victory Saber came under attack from King Zaras, the combined form of Deathsaurus and Solon's new giant mech body, King Solon. The two foes were evenly matched and continued battling for some time. However, when Patty yelled to Victory Saber to save Guard because it was a "mother world" like Earth, Solon briefly lost his concentration at the sound of the word "mother". This split second was all Victory Saber needed to defeat King Zaras, destroying the King Solon mech. As Solon's flaming body tumbled to the ground, Patty and Jean attempted to help him and even offered him a place among the Victories. Solon refused, declaring he wouldn't be able to stand having a "sister" as cheerful as Patty. Solon immediately escaped, though he felt that Patty reminded him of his late mother. Mighty! Victory Saber
Victory Saber and the Brainmasters later succumbed to the might of Deathsaurus and Liokaiser in battle, with Patty and the Victories watching on helplessly. Solon eventually arrived and declared his intent to join them, leaving Patty to lead them in the "Five Stars of Victory" attack. The Victories powered up their respective Autobot and the attack was enough to defeat the Decepticons and drive them back to the Space Stronghold. Solon told Jean that the only way he'd officially join the Victories was if he could have Patty as his big sister. Jean was infuriated by this, though Patty blushed. Shine! The Five Stars of Victory
Aboard Galaxy Shuttle, Patty and the Victories stormed the Space Stronghold for the final confrontation with the Decepticons. Their progress was halted by Leozack's traps, unfortunately. Eventually, Victory Saber won the day and the Decepticons conceded defeat. After Deathsaurus revealed what they'd been fighting for all along, the Decepticon civilians, Patty declared that all the Decepticons were invited to live alongside the Autobots in peace on Planet V. With the war over, Star Saber and Deathsaurus shook hands furiously. Heroic! The Victory War
Trivia
- The color Ban Magami-drawn Victory pin-up piece featuring Patty in the Transformers Visualworks guidebook sports a slightly different color arrangement compared to the earlier color image of her in the G1 Transformers Character Encyclopedia guidebook. As well, her hair is colored more reddish brown than blond in the Visualworks image.
- While the Transformers Visualworks pin-up shows Jean wielding a sword and Solon brandishing a gun, Patty has... her fist. Go, gender relations!
