Airachnid (Prime)
- Airachnid is a Decepticon from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Long ago, Airachnid was with the Decepticons, where her cruel, cold-sparked, murderous demeanor served her well. But after the Great Exodus of Cybertron, she decided to go solo.
These days, Airachnid spends her time engaging in her new hobby: collecting endangered species. Well, parts of endangered species. Mostly the heads.
And if a species isn't endangered? Oh, they will be. She'll make sure of that. And she'll make sure it's a slow, painful process.
Fiction
Prime cartoon
- Voice actor: Gina Torres (English)
During the war for Cybertron, Airachnid managed to capture Arcee and her partner Tailgate. Quickly realizing that Arcee would resist the physical torture she used, Airachnid decided to employ a simpler threat: Tell her the attack coordinates, or Tailgate dies. Arcee insisted she didn't know the coordinates, but Airachnid didn't believe her and killed Tailgate. Moments later, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper burst into the holding room, killing the two Vehicons and rescuing Arcee. Airachnid, however, escaped.
Following the Great Exodus, Airachnid concluded that the war was over, meaning she needed a new way to spend her time. She decided to hunt sentient species, then wipe them out after getting a trophy. Eventually, Airachnid crash-landed her ship on Earth. She initially laid her optics on a lone camper, but was ambushed by Arcee. While Arcee gained the upper hand, she was distracted by her human partner, Jack Darby, and Airachnid webbed her to a rock. Having learned of Cliffjumper's recent demise, Airachnid decided that making Jack her next trophy would be a delicious way to hurt Arcee before finally snuffing out her spark. She chased Jack back to her ship, but discovered too late that the human had snuck out the underside. She spotted Jack just in time to see him hurl a flaming stick into a pool of energon that was leaking from her ship. Airachnid barely managed to escape the explosion, but she was wounded and really pissed. She managed to web the fleeing Jack to a tree, but before Airachnid could deliver the killing blow, Arcee came to the rescue and absolutely wiped the forest floor with the Decepticon. Deciding she had endured enough for one night, Airachnid drilled into the ground and fled. Predatory
She'll be back! Crisscross
Notes
- Airachnid is in Generation 1 non-Deluxe Insecticon colors.
- Airachnid went her entire introductory episode without transforming into a true alternate mode, only from biped-mode to spider-legs mode and back.
- Unlike real spiders, Airachnid has compound eyes.
- The existence of the name "Airachnid" was first revealed when Hasbro filed an intent-to-use trademark application for the term with the US Trademark and Patent Office. However, the application was eventually denied for registration[1], so whether Hasbro will still use the name for the toy is unknown.
- She is not Blackarachnia. Deal with it.
- Intended or not, her head is reminiscent of Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty villainess Maleficent.
