Flashpoint

Flashpoint is an Autobot from the Transformers Animated continuity family.

Betcha didn't see that one coming.

Flashpoint is presumably somebody who gets concerned with public accidents.

Fiction

Animated

When Cheetor caught up with the fallen Crumplezone and Ransack after an intense chase, Flashpoint ran to witness the scene. Moving Violations

Notes

• Flashpoint is very roundabout homage to the movie Inferno: a redeco of the original Armada Red Alert toy, movie-Inferno's deco (and a similar helmet/face) was applied to the Animated Red Alert body, which was based on the Armada Red Alert character. Not visible in the story, but included on her character model, is a triple-barrelled extinguisher attachment for her forearm, designed after the tri-barrelled attachment that came with the Red Alert/Inferno mold. We do love a roundabout homage here at TFWiki.
  • Why, the only thing we love more is multiple homages in one, and Flashpoint doesn't disappoint in that area either: she's also sporting Generation 1 Inferno's ear-fins, and Energon Inferno's golden stomach/chest grill.
• She does not have the name "Inferno", though, due to not wanting redundancy with the Decepticon Animated Inferno who was based on Beast Wars Inferno. Unnamed in "Moving Violations", her real name was not revealed until her character model was posted to deviantArt.
• Flashpoint's design keeps both her hands, as Red Alert's was lost in battle.