Flamewar (G1)

Flamewar is a Decepticon from a Timelines addition to the Generation 1 continuity family.

She sings from somewhere you can't see.

Flamewar is one of the last of the original Decepticon army, having served during the rule of the original Megatron in as many ways as her body and mind will let her (insert lewd joke here). She has a wide variety of skills, from spy and saboteur to scientist, which kept her quite busy in the Decepticon ranks.

She longs for the return to those days of glory and conquest, but she has little hope of such a thing happening. She finds the remaining Decepticon "generals" pale imitations and short-sighted power-mongers, so she has hitched her wagon onto that of the emerging Tripredacus Council.

Fiction

Descent into Evil

Seen here trolling Bumblebee on the internet.

Voice actor: Brandie Tarvin (English)

Flamewar was assigned by the Tripredacus Council to observe Deathsaurus' efforts on Ceti Alpha Seven. When the Autobots sent a strike force to destroy his Insecticon cloning facility, Flamewar ambushed and disabled Ironhide and Ratchet, leaving them to Deathsaurus to eliminate. (He failed, of course.)

Although all of the Autobots eventually escaped, Flamewar reported to the Council that Deathsaurus' experiments had been a success. Suddenly, Bumblebee broke into her transmission, revealing that Ricochet had introduced a virus into the clones, and that they had finally tracked her down. With her exposure, Flamewar was deemed useless as an agent by the Council, and they remotely destroyed her ship. Descent into Evil

When Flamewar regained consciousness from that whole explodey-ship deal, she found herself the prisoner of Ricochet, Obsidian and K-9. They demanded that she work as a double-agent for them against the Decepticon/Predacon Alliance, but she refused. "Ricochet" and the others then dropped their disguises and revealed themselves as Predacons, and offered Flamewar a place in the organization of the Predacon criminal Megatron. Not really having much else to do, Flamewar accepted. Intimidation Game

The Razor's Edge

There is no possible way that this is not ridiculous.

Shortly before the signing of the Pax Cybertronia, Flamewar posed as a revenant Megatron and used a pliable intermediary to recruit an army of dissatisfied Predacons. Together they conquered a string of planets in the J'Kozian Sector, stealing resources to build a drone army that could re-ignite the Great War.

Her plans were derailed by a team of Maximals on an intelligence-gathering mission. They sabotaged the drone-production facility on Nibari, reprogramming the drones to obey the native rebels. Most of Flamewar's army was killed by the drones while she was tied up by a challenge of personal combat the Maximals goaded her into. Defeated and utterly humiliated, Flamewar was sent back to Cybertron for trial. The Razor's Edge

According to Pete Sinclair, Flamewar's "Descent into Evil" and "The Razor's Edge" appearances are not actually from the same continuous timeline, despite both stories taking place between the end of Generation 1 and the beginning of Beast Wars. Neither are there any inconsistencies between the two stories. What's the deal? And considering none of this information is in the stories themselves, should we care?

Animated cartoon

Readers of Venus, a trans-dimensional magazine for Decepti-femmes, are invited to decide who is deadlier, Flamewar or Nightracer.The AllSpark Almanac

Toys

Timelines

Decepticon fangirl in Arcee's body. She seems confused.

• Flamewar (Basic, 2005)
  • Accessories: Projectile launcher, missile, scope, 2 tailpipes, energon chip

Flamewar is a black and red redeco of Energon Arcee, transforming into a Cybertronic racing motorcycle. She has several clear-plastic "energon" parts that can be combined to for a large bow weapon with a spring-loaded launching missile. She was available only as a "freebie" gift to attendees at BotCon 2005 and then again at BotCon 2006 after Fun Publications ran out of Tigatron.

This mold was retooled to make her fellow BotCon 2005 exclusives Chromia and Flareup. This mold was also used to make the Target-exclusive live-action-movie-verse Arcee and Elita-One.

• More information on Flamewar at TFU.info

Notes

• Early in development, there were supposed to be three Decepticon biker chicks, but the idea was dropped to keep the focus on the Insecticons.

• Flamewar's creator, Ben Yee, insists that Flamewar is absolutely not Raksha, despite all appearances.

• According to the April/May 2006 issue of the Fun Publications Transformers Collectors' Club Newsletter, the first samples of Flamewar came back with an Autobot sigil rather than Decepticon, requiring a quick fix before she was "mass"-produced for the convention.

• She collects Hasbro memorabilia. How shameless of them.

• Her "Razor's Edge" body, or rather the one under the Megatron costume, appears to be based on Alternators Windcharger/Decepticharge, incidentally also Alternators Arcee's body.