Arcee (WFC)
| The name or term "Arcee" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Arcee (disambiguation). |
- Arcee is a female Autobot from the Transformers Prime continuity family.
Arcee started off as a scout on Cybertron during the Autobot/Decepticon war there, and has gone on to become one of the best soldiers the Autobots have! As one of the least "flawed" agents and someone with a special bond with Optimus Prime, she's the go-to gal when they need someone they can count on. And it turns out they need someone they can count on to look after a small child. She's not too thrilled about that.[1]
She used to be pink and a car, but changed for some reason in later life.
Fiction
Prime comics
Before the war, Arcee had been spying in Kaon, and sometime during it she had been rescued by Cliffjumper. When Optimus ordered the Autobots to Earth, her ship had been destroyed, and she was willing to wait as she detected the Decepticons had returned to Cybertron and they were planning something big. There, she entered a base and annihilated the Vehicons there, inadvertently returning Cliffjumper's favor. She hacked into the Decepticons's communications signal there, and found their weapons lab in Kaon. Arcee found Cliffjumper a brash soldier inappropriate for her stealthy mission, but he convinced her Kaon was too dangerous and that she could use his ship to go to Earth.
The duo entered the city through the maintenance tunnels Arcee had once explored, and she found a secret staircase by activating an Autobot symbol on the wall. There they discovered Starscream had rebuilt a space bridge to travel to Earth. Concerned by the repercussions of the Decepticons's discovery of how to build space bridges, Arcee wanted to destroy it, but Cliffjumper convinced her it was their way off Cybertron. Distracting Starscream with a ruse, Arcee activated the space bridge and overloaded its systems, jumping through it with him before it blew up.
Landing on Earth, the duo scanned their alternate modes and traveled to find a population center where they could build a scanner and find Optimus. Starscream attacked, having also jumped through the space bridge, blasting Arcee's arm off. Cliffjumper fought him and tried to get Arcee to safety, but she refused, telling him to leave her and find Optimus. Optimus and Bumblebee appeared, fending off Starscream and Breakdown. Optimus carried Arcee through a ground bridge to base, where Ratchet reattached her arm. Transformers: Prime (comic)
Prime cartoon
- Voice actor: Sumalee Montano (English)
Old friends with Cliffjumper and a long-term agent on Earth, Arcee was engaged in casual banter with her friend when Cliffjumper was ambushed by Decepticons: by the time Arcee and the others got there, his body was missing and his lifesigns had ceased. While Optimus Prime said they should not dwell on negative emotions, Arcee claimed she'd go back on duty protecting humans; but when targeted by a Vehicon duo and forced to rescue human youth Jack Darby, she showed an irritable, seething nature, attacking the Vehicons with angry cries of vengeance for Cliffjumper.
She ignored most of Jack's questions, initially threatened him to forget what he'd seen, and wasn't that concerned with humans witnessing the battle afterwards. To her annoyance, Optimus then ordered her to bring in Jack and the other human witnesses to Autobot Central Command, so the Decepticons couldn't target them. Darkness Rising, Part 1
When the Autobots headed to the Decepticon Energon mines to locate Cliffjumper, Arcee found the broken and Dark Energon-corrupted body of Cliffjumper moving, and tried to save him. She grabbed his hand, but was horrified when the body turned out to be a mutated thing bent on attacking, and dropped him. When Starscream arrived to drop a bomb into the area to destroy the mines, the Autobots were forced to retreat without Cliffjumper through the Ground bridge. Once inside their base, Arcee began to feel dizzy, much to the surprise of Jack, Miko and Raf. It was due to contact with a miniscule amount of the Dark Energon that had corrupted Cliffjumper.
Arcee, despite her "illness", was given the task of taking Jack Darby home, and angrily snapped at him when he said he was sorry for her loss, demanding to know what he'd know about such losses; the argument was interrupted when Jack's mother arrived and promptly began questioning him about the mysterious blue bike. The next morning, Arcee snappily woke Jack up and dragged him to Central Command... but demanded he write a note so his mother wouldn't worry. Darkness Rising, Part 2
On the way back, Arcee showed off some motorcycling tricks. They reached the base, only for Optimus to leave her in charge and go off on a mission with Ratchet. Arcee was disgruntled and, leaving Bulkhead in charge, immediately went out on patrol with Bumblebee. The pair patrolled the nearby Nevada desert until they got a call from Bulkhead to say Fowler had been kidnapped, and he'd gone to the Decepticon ship to mount a rescue. Arcee tried to contact base to get bridged back, but no one was there, and she and Bumblebee had to put "the metal to the pedal". Darkness Rising, Part 3
They arrived at the Decepticon ship to find Bulkhead had already dealt with the guards. Within, they rescued Jack and Raf from a pair of Decepticons, and quickly caught up with Bulkhead and Miko. The three kids being a liability in a fight, the Autobots cleared out a room for them to shelter in. A short time later, they found the brig. Arcee slipped in through a shaft in the ceiling to get the drop on Starscream, but he threatened to shoot the prisoner. Fowler caused a distraction and the Autobots opened fire. Starscream inconsiderately blasted Arcee with his jet exhaust as he fled. With Fowler rescued, the Autobots picked up the kids and returned back to base, where they faced some pointed questions from Optimus. Jack, however, was sick of the constant danger and decided he wanted no more to do with the Autobot/Decepticon conflict. Arcee reminded him to keep the conflict secret, and as he left by ground bridge, she was sad to see him go. Darkness Rising, Part 4
She later paid Jack a visit and managed to talk him into returning to the Autobot base. When they did so, it was to find that Ratchet had discovered the location of the space bridge, and Arcee and the other Autobots headed up into orbit to try and prevent Megatron from sending the Dark Energon through. They reached the space bridge terminal, but came under attack from flying Decepticons. Ultimately they were unable to prevent Megatron's plan from going ahead, and the only way to prevent the zombies coming through from Cybertron was to destroy the space bridge itself. Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee followed Ratchet's instructions, feeding the space bridge's power back on itself, but were attacked by Megatron just as they completed the job. Arcee was hit and knocked off into space. Luckily Bumblebee had the presence of mind to grab her as the Autobots retreated through the ground bridge just before everything exploded. Back at base, Arcee seemed in a bad way, but after some concern from Jack, she was able to stand up again. She, Bulkhead and Bumblebee could later be seen hanging out with the three kids. Darkness Rising, Part 5
Arcee attempted to help Jack with his science project, a motorcycle engine, despite not knowing anything about Earth auto-mechanics. Her role was usurped by Ratchet anyway. Masters & Students
After Bulkhead and Bumblebee found a pod in the Arctic and brought it back to base, Optimus and Arcee went back to the Arctic to check for clues as to the pod's origin. After some time searching, the temperature sensors Ratchet had given them went off, but they were unable to raise base so they could ground bridge back. The pair sought shelter, but as their temperatures slowly dropped, things looked grim. Arcee decided to keep warm by blaming Bulkhead for their predicament. Just as they were losing hope, the ground bridge opened and ejected Bulkhead and the swarm of Scraplets that had been causing havoc at base. The Scraplets froze in the cold air and the three Autobots were subsequently able to return home. Scrapheap
Games
Transformers: War for Cybertron (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
- Voice actor: Kari Wahlgren (English)
Arcee was one of the many Autobots who were captured and placed in Kaon's prisons complex. She was freed from her imprisonment when Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Sideswipe allowed themselves to be captured in order to rescue Zeta Prime. During their rescue attempt, they opened all of the Kaon cells, allowing the prisoners, Arcee included, to escape. The freed prisoners were all led to transport ships, overseen by Air Raid, in which they used to escape the complex. Arcee herself helped direct her fellow prisoners to the ships, whilst Optimus's team kept the Decepticons busy. Transformers: War for Cybertron
Toys
Prime
- Arcee (Deluxe Class, 2011)
- Deluxe Class Arcee transforms from motorcycle to robot and back! She and the rest of her wave are due October 11, 2011.
Notes
- In Alex Irvine's apocryphal Bumblebee at Tyger Pax short story Arcee launched the AllSpark into space.
- In the Prime cartoon, Arcee's holographic driver is named "Sadie".[2]
- All of the Autobots in Prime sizechange between altmodes, but it's way more noticeable with Arcee's transformation from a vehicle the size of a human to a robot the same general size as the rest of the Autobots.
