Elita-One (Movie)

The name or term "Elita One" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Elita One (disambiguation).

Elita-One is an Autobot from the 2007 movie franchise of the live-action film continuity family. Her name is also rendered Elita-1.

Hey kids, it's your teacher, Mrs. Garrison.

Elita-One is the first of the female Transformer robots. Naturally, she receives a lot of attention, which by no means displeases her, but she's more than a pretty face. She's a cunning fighter and an excellent marksman, capable of hitting a target from at least four miles away. When it comes time to rely on more than her gun, she's able to emit an "attraction field" that can cause those without protection to overheat without warning.

Sister to Arcee and Chromia and one of Optimus Prime's closest and longest-serving officers, Elita-One shares the Autobot commander's compassion and dedication for protecting the innocent and downtrodden. Every bit as skilled as she is compassionate, Elita-One is one of the Autobots' strongest leaders. Determined to protect the weaker from the ruthless Decepticons to the bitter end, she's a living definition of an Autobot.

Fiction

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IDW pre-movie comics

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Thousands of years ago on Cybertron, Elita-One was one of Sentinel Prime's followers, alongside Optimus, Megatron, Shockwave, and others, who believed in his teachings of the Dynasty of Primes and the AllSpark. When Sentinel Prime proved the truth of his claims by unearthing the lost AllSpark from beneath the surface of Cybertron at Simfur, Elita helped defend it against an attack by the non-believing Thetacons until Wheeljack was able to warp time and space and bring a sun into Cybertronic space, thereby repowering the AllSpark and the plant. With this, the Thetacons accepted that Sentinel Prime had been right all along, and an end was called to hostilities. In the wake of the conflict, as new life began to spring on Cybertron, Elita told Optimus of her two sisters in Metrotitan and her desire to see them again, and Optimus decided to go with her. Foundation #1

Elita-One can't get enough of Optimus's eye tits.

Years later, when the balance of power on the planet had shifted to an uneasy joint leadership between Optimus and Megatron, Elita was part of Optimus's Science Division. Shortly after the discovery of a strange ancient relic and an attack on Cybertron from the aliens of the Eshems Nebula, Megatron changed his military's mission to one of peaceful defense to aggressive offense, taking the fight to the aliens, but Elita stayed behind on Cybertron, remaining true to Optimus's belief in the peaceful core values of their planet's society. Defiance issue 2 Studying the relic fragments they had uncovered alongside Arcee and Ratchet, Elita discovered that they all bore the same symbol in the same area: a symbol was also on Optimus's head. Drawing a correlation between the symbol and the Dynasty of Primes, Ratchet theorised that Optimus was involved with it somehow, redubbing him "Optimus Prime". Defiance issue 3

Later, after Megatron's military had refashioned itself as the Decepticons and war had broken out between them and Optimus's Autobots, Elita-One joined Optimus Prime in a charge toward Decepticon headquarters. Shocked at the coldness and violence her old friend was displaying on the battlefield, Elita entreated him to stand down, telling him that such actions were not who he was, but he retorted that Megatron's death was all that mattered. Foundation #1

Titan Magazines post-movie comics

The following events occur in a splinter timeline where Megatron won the battle of Mission City.

Strike a pose.

Following the Decepticon victory in Mission City, Elita-One was part of a small team of Autobot reinforcements summoned to Earth by the surviving Autobots on the planet. Touching down on Earth's moon, Elita-One reminded Strongarm that they were to wait until they heard from Ironhide and Bumblebee, as to act without the Earth-based Autobots' intel would be as good as just shooting themselves in the head there and then. Unfortunately, the Decepticons had detected the arrival, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1 and Starscream arrived to attack them, ironically just as Elita was expressing her desire for a fight. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2 Starscream's appearance led Elita to mistakenly conclude that the Autobots on Earth must have been destroyed, meaning the mission was a bust, so they team decided to go to Earth themselves—just as Starscream wanted. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 3

Once on Earth, Elita-One's group unsuccessfully helped Bumblebee in battle against Megatron. The tables turned when the captive Optimus Prime was freed and joined the fight, so Elita hung back and warned Strongarm to keep out of the leaders' battle. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5

After the Decepticons were beaten, she was on sentry duty with Armorhide. She was too busy swearing to look in more than one direction, causing the Decepticon attack force to reach Savannah without warning simply because they were approaching from behind her. Aftermath Part 1 Somehow this didn't get her banned from further sentry duty. Dark Spark

She later piloted the Straxus on its return flight to Earth, and was ordered to fly on to Washington, D.C. when it was discovered the Decepticons had taken over the Savannah base. Insert "women drivers" joke here. Hard Target

IDW post-movie comics

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After the Autobots claimed victory in their first great battle with the Decepticons on Earth in 2007, Starscream began a plan of his own to create an artificial Replica AllSpark, and had Elita-One, Grindcore, Signal Flare, and Warpath captured and put to work constructing it at Simfur. When Starscream arrived to inspect the cube, Elita pled with him for mercy, but none was dispensed. Upon the AllSpark's completion, she was strapped to it, with the intention of draining her life-force to power the cube. The Reign of Starscream #4 Arcee arrived too late to stop her sister's death, but blew up the generators used to store the life energy in revenge, throwing the Decepticons into disarray. The Reign of Starscream #5

Not long after, Elita-One's remains were acquired by the deranged Decepticon experimentalist Flatline, along with those of her sister Chromia, who had also died under as-yet unrevealed circumstances, and taken to his lab at an outpost on an unknown planet to use in his attempts to create a new breed of tripartate soldier, three bodies fuelled by a single spark. After several failures, whether by coincidence or design, Flatline was presented by Thundercracker with a new test subject: Elita and Chromia's sister, Arcee. Through the use of Arcee's spark, implanted in a new body, Flatline reignited the life-forces of Elita and Chromia in new shells, albeit not as they had truly had been before: now, they were at one with their sister, a singular entity at the spark, each feeling the sensations and emotions of the other, yet retaining some degree of autonomy and memory of their own identity. "One as three, and three as one". Grappling with their new forms, the sisters broke free, liberating Flatline's other victims, the twins Skids and Mudflap, in the process. Tales of the Fallen #6 Rising Storm #1

A short time later, the sisters, the twins and Sideswipe arrived on Earth in response to a summons beamed into space by Optimus Prime. Joining the allied Autobot-human strikeforce NEST, the new recruits received some training, and were soon called upon to put it into use: the Decepticon Demolishor had been sighted in Shanghai, China. Alliance #4

Revenge of the Fallen film

Voice actor: Grey DeLisle (English), Masako Katsuki (Japanese), Martina Treger (German), Chiara Colizzi (Italian), Gabriela Bicalho (Brazil)

Holographic rider: Erin Naas

Internal to the film itself, both Elita-1 and Chromia are simply treated as components of Arcee. We list her exploits here for completeness.

Elita-1? Flareup? Call me anything but Sweetie.

Elita-1 and her sisters were held in reserve as NEST entered Shanghai to deal with Demolishor, only being called into action when the presence of a second Decepticon, Sideways, was detected. Together with the twins, the sisters pursued the sneaky speedster through the streets of Shanghai, smashing through buildings and everything else in their way, but they were ultimately unable to do little damage, so Sideswipe was brought up to bat, and proceeded to make short work of Sideways.

When The Fallen issued an ultimatum to Earth, the US government decided that the Autobots would be shipped back to Diego Garcia, but NEST disobeyed the orders, instead shipping Elita and the others to Egypt on the advice of Sam Witwicky, who had the means to resurrect the recently-deceased Optimus Prime. During the climactic battle between NEST and The Fallen's Decepticons, the sisters arrived with Ironhide to help escort Sam and Mikaela through the warzone, but Elita-1 was one of the first Autobot casualties of the battle, being shot down from behind as she called for Sam and Mikaela to follow them. Revenge of the Fallen

While the film is wholly apathetic on whether or not the shot that takes down Elita is fatal, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman would claim that all three Arcee components were killed at the behest of director Michael Bay. As we're about to see, IDW Publishing would proceed to stick a big middle finger up to that idea and continued to present all three components as still living.

Transformers (2010) toy bios

Elita-1 came to find she had a lot in common with Sideswipe, and would team up to go Decepticon hunting with the Autobot swordsman whenever possible. In particular, the Decepticon bounty hunter Axor made an interesting challenge for the pair. Elita-1's bio Together with her sisters, Elita also got another shot at bringing Sideways down after they begged Optimus Prime to allow them the chance. Sideways Sneak Attack

IDW post-Revenge of the Fallen comics

When NEST discovered that Starscream was selling Transformer weaponry to humans, a sting operation was staged in which Theodore Galloway would pose as a buyer to lure the Decepticons in. When Skystalker, Divebomb and Fearswoop took the bait, Elita and her sisters joined the twins and the human forces of NEST in tackling them. The sisters did not take kindly to his misogynistic rantings about the Autobots "sending their women" to do their fighting for them, and killed him with practised ease. The violent nature his old friend was now displaying gave Optimus Prime pause, reminding him of the time in the past when he too had sunk into the depths of rage, and how Elita had disapproved of it then.

Returning to base after the mission, Elita shared a quiet moment with Optimus, losing herself in the sensations she could feel from the sisters' whose spark she shared: the pain of Arcee's wounds, and the feel of Chromia's sword blade as she tested it against her fingertip. Prime quietly told her that she had never told him these things before, and she simply replied that he had never asked. Rising Storm #1

Toys

Transformers (2007)

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Would a "town bicycle" remark be too crude?

• Elita-One (Scout, 2007)
  • Accessories: 1 missile, 2 tailpipes, scope, projectile launcher, energon chip

A pinkish-copper and silver redeco of the Energon Arcee toy, Elita-One transforms into a "superbike"-type racing motorcycle of undetermined and probably made-up model. Like previous versions of the mold, she comes with several separate weapon pieces that combine into her Energon bow, which pegs into a hole just above her hand, and an Autobot-style energon chip. These items are cast in black plastic. One must take care when removing her black chip, as the star fits so tightly that careless removal can break her torso. Her deco meticulously matches that of Generation 1 Arcee.

Elita-One is part of the third wave of Target-exclusive Scout toys, but is not marked as part of the Robo-Vision promotion.

This mold also was used to make Superlink Ariel Paradron Type, as well as the BotCon 2005 Descent into Evil set's Chromia, Flamewar and Flareup, and Elita-One's fellow Target exclusive, Arcee. This exact toy was repurposed as Shattered Glass Arcee.

• More information on Elita-One at TFU.info

Transformers (2010)

Clear a path, Prime. Your girl's just been swiped!

• Elita-1 (Deluxe, 2010)
  • Japanese ID number: AA-08
  • Accessories: Missile, display stand

Elita-1 is a black, white and pink redeco of Chromia, transforming from a unicycle-robot into a Suzuki B-King motorcycle. Her vehicle mode weapon can attach as a display stand for either mode, ironically making a unicyclebot one of the most stable robot-modes. In robot mode, there is a spring-loaded missile between the tailpipes on Chromia's left hand in addition to the aforementioned non-firing blaster-stand. She is slightly retooled from the original Chromia figure, sporting an extra tab that allows her chest to lock together more securely. She was released as part of the Hunt for the Decepticons promotion.

Elita-1 features a small Mech Alive gimmick: swinging her left forearm towards and away from her body makes a blue piston slide back and forth inside the large gun. Her stand has sculpted tank threads on the bottom, most likely to make it look that she's still mobile while using it. Her license plate has 3L 174 written on it as an stylish way of spelling her own name. A certain fellow would approve of that.

TakaraTomy initially mistakenly solicited their release of Elita-1 using the purple Arcee redeco from the "Rotorwash Rumble" pack. The actual released toy uses the Chromia mold just like Hasbro, with a more screen accurate deco that uses more purple paint.

More information on Elita-1 at TFU.info

• Sideways Sneak Attack (Multi-pack, 2011)

This Target-exclusive multi-pack contains redecos of the Revenge of the Fallen Legends class Arcee mold as Chromia and Elita-1, plus an Arcee who may or may not be different from the single ROTF release. The set furthermore includes a redeco of Deluxe class Sideways, whose painted battle damage evokes the scene in the film where he's been cut in half. Ouchies.

Dark of the Moon

• Elita-1

(Human Alliance Basic, 2011)

This toy is a redeco of Human Alliance Chromia in purple. She comes with a small figure of Robert Epps.

Notes

• In both IDW Publishing's comics and Titan's Transformers magazine, Elita's head (her original body's head, that is) was redesigned to resemble that of her Generation 1 counterpart. As far as Titan goes, however, apparent lack of communication between artists has meant that this was not consistent across various issues, and that she is sometimes drawn with her toy-based head instead. And there's about a million different versions of her G1-ised head, one for each Titan artist...

~"Wheeere did he go? / That Invisi-bo! / He's a menace to the town and to property / He wants to be in charge of you and me!"

• For her Revenge of the Fallen incarnation, Elita-1's name was originally announced as "Flareup" at Hasbro's panel during San Diego Comic-Con 2009.
  • Not long after, at BotCon 2009, it was claimed that she was going to be a redeco of Revenge of the Fallen Arcee. .
  • The three bike girls were originally going to combine into a larger robot-form, but this was cut from the final movie. A vestigal reference to this can be found in fold-out tabs attached to their action figures, but with Elita's relegation to a redeco, no real combination appears possible with the toys.
  • Yeah, plans changed a lot with Elita.
• In pre-production artwork, the non-pink components of the proposed combined Arcee were variously shown to be gold, green or silver. Which portions of these monstrosities may have originally been Elita-1 is anyone's guess. Meanwhile, in the "Lamborghini Jump" animatic featured on the "Deconstructing Visual Bayhem" segment of the ROTF special features disk, the third member of the Arcee combiner is yellow.
• A piece of (adorable!) TakaraTomy website art shows Chromia with her finalized design, but the other two bike girls as pink and red versions of Arcee. As Arcee's toy is red, this would ostensibly make the pink one Elita-1... despite her film design being entirely different and her toy being a redeco of Chromia.
• Robot Heroes Chromia is actually Elita-1's model in Chromia's colors.