Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a large (even by Transformer standards) hollow statue depicting a crowned human female holding a torch and a stone tablet. It is located on Liberty Island off the coast of New York City, and serves as an icon for both the city and the entire United States of America.
Fiction
Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Various humans strolling around the Statue of Liberty reacted in terror and fled as earth tremors shook the ground, the result of Megatron's Solar Needle piercing Earth's sun. Changing Gears
When the Autobots developed the anti-rust chemical corrostop, they planned to cover all of Earth's monuments with it, starting with the Statue of Liberty. One of the Aerialbots initially mistook Lady Liberty for a "non-functioning old robot", but was quickly corrected.
The Autobots later needed some corrostop to halt an outbreak of Cosmic Rust in their ranks, so they went to scrape some off the Statue of Liberty. Megatron didn't take kindly to hearing about this, and sent Menasor to destroy the entire statue with the Lightning Bug. A battle broke out around the Statue of Liberty, which ended with the Autobots saving it, and by extension, themselves. Cosmic Rust
The Headmasters cartoon
When New York was blackmailed by Sixshot in 2011, the Autobot Headmasters staked out the city from a vantage point atop the Statue of Liberty. They thought it looked a bit like Arcee. Terror! The Six Shadows
Marvel Comics continuity
Inspired by a vandalizing youth, the Battlechargers started spraying graffiti all over America's various landmarks. Their final target was the Statue of Liberty, which the two covered in the badly written message "HUMANS ARE WIMPS" before almost knocking the torch out of the statue's hand. The Battlechargers were taken out of action soon afterwards, but the cost of cleaning the statue was estimated to 50,000 dollars. Luckily, Donny Finkleberg had recently acquired such an amount of money, and donated it towards the restoration fund. Decepticon Graffiti!
IDW comics continuity
During the devastating battle in New York that saw the end of the short-lived Decepticon occupation, Omega Supreme blew a hole straight through both Devastator and the Statue of Liberty. All Hail Megatron #12
During the years of recovery, Lady Liberty was rebuilt, and it served to inspire Optimus Prime that perhaps the Autobots should become more democratic rather than operating under a military jurisdiction. Spotlight: Prowl
Then, the Statue of Liberty was the last monument that Galvatron's ship hit before it crash-landed in Las Vegas. The Transformers: Infestation issue 1
Shattered Glass
After hijacking Earth's Global Orbital Defense Satellite, Rodimus demonstrated what would happen if the world didn't accept the Autobots as their new overlords by destroying the sword-holding robed statue with the satellite's beam. Eye in the Sky
