Minerva (human)

Minerva is a human and Autobot Headmaster Junior in the Masterforce portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Head Master-Jailbait

Minerva is a calm, easy-going and somewhat motherly young American girl who attends the International High School in Tokyo. Not a big fan of fighting, she prefers to aid those in danger, rescuing civilians caught in the crossfire of the Autobot/Decepticon war. Using her Masterbraces, she can instantly change into her armored form and transform into a head for her transtector. She is also a very talented dancer and medic.

Crackhead English-Maylay dub name: Nightbeat

Fiction

Masterforce cartoon

Voice actress: Yuriko Yamamoto (Japan)

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And once again the Japanese prove their respect for female characters.

Victory cartoon

The now-living transtector of Minerva, along with Wheeljack and Perceptor, aided in the revival of Ginrai as Victory Leo.

Toys

Masterforce

• Minerva (Headmaster Junior, 1988)

Japanese ID number: C-303

A redeco of Nightbeat (though which character came first in the design phase is up for debate), Minerva's transtector body transforms into a Porsche 959 sports car with a medical rescue services deco. (The hinge on the roof even looks like a light-bar.) The Headmaster pilot transforms from an armored human to the head, which then adds the car-seat as an outer helmet.

Merchandise

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I will NOT make the Knee Test!

• Minerva in robot mode was available in the second "Act" of Takara's Super Collection Figure line, a PVC-plastic mini-figure based on her animation model. Both a full-color and colorless-clear version were made, one of each in a case of twelve blind-packed PVCs.

• A second Minerva SCF came out in Act-5 of the line, this time as an unarmored human in her school uniform. Available in both full-color and pewter-finish versions, she was packed in with the Metalhawk PVC, again one each per case of twelve. Interestingly enough, this PVC is about the right size to display with the actual Minerva toy.

Trivia

• Minerva's color scheme was used for the DVD-exclusive "Minerva Type" redeco of Cybertron Thunderblast... who was a Decepticon boat and nothing like Minerva in any way other than "female". She DID, however, look very much like the normal release of Override... who is MALE in Japan. Get it straigh, Takara.

• Minerva's name is consistently misanglicized as "Minelba" on every English instance of the name on Japanese packaging and tech spec material.

External links

• Minerva at TFU.info

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.