Red Alert (Animated)
| The name or term "Red Alert" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Red Alert (disambiguation). |
- Red Alert is an Autobot from the Transformers Animated continuity family.
Some wish Red Alert's bedside manner were as delicate as her surgical abilities. However, the enviable level of her skill more than compensates for her gruff demeanor. After losing her left arm to a Decepticon boobytrap, she's replaced it with a Transfer Interlink apparatus that can scan patients and emit various hard-light surgical tools.
Though she started out at the top of the class of Protihex Medical Mechanical, these days she serves as a field medic under Rodimus Prime's command. Sounds exciting, but this just means she spends most of her time patching up her fellow teammate Hot Shot.
Fiction
Animated cartoon
- Voice actor: Tara Strong (English), Rikako Aikawa (Japanese)
During the Great War, Red Alert developed a cure for Gold Plastic Syndrome. It's something she's rather famous for. The AllSpark Almanac II
Millions of years later, long after the war had ended, Red Alert helped create the data merge that infused Decepticon flight technology into the rehabilitated bodies of Jetstorm and Jetfire. First (and Second) in Flight
Later, she was seen alongside her fellow Autobots Ironhide, Brawn, Hot Shot, and Rodimus Prime near a Space Bridge node fighting Decepticons. Her services were called into action when Hot Shot was hit by Strika—his leg was badly damaged and she told him it would have to be amputated, despite his protests. Her bedside manner didn't help when she told Hot Shot that a new one would be delivered in six to eight deca-cycles. Before the leg could be amputated, she was captured, swallowed, coated in explosive goo, and spit back out by Spittor. Hurled at Brawn and Ironhide, the resulting blast took all three out of commission. TransWarped
She apparently got better because she was later seen in a crowd cheering for Sentinel Prime when he paraded his captured Decepticons on Cybertron. Decepticon Air Later still, she was also seen cheering for Optimus Prime and his crew when they returned to the planet after finally defeating Megatron. Endgame, Part II
Notes
- Red Alert was originally intended to be part of the core cast in the early development of Animated. For reasons unknown, her character was later changed to be male. For reasons known, what with that whole giant live-action movie thing having an Autobot medic too, he was replaced with Ratchet in the end.[1] Female Red Alert's final design was based in part on a preliminary design by Eric Canete from that phase of development, as was the choice of her gender.[2]
- Red Alert's body is an homage to the Unicron Trilogy Red Alert, specifically his Armada body.
- Red Alert has developed a cure for Gold Plastic Syndrome, an infamous toy degeneration "disease".
Foreign names
- Japanese: Red Alert (レッドアラート Reddo Arāto)
