Minerva (human)
- Minerva is a human and Autobot Headmaster Junior in the Masterforce portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
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)
Hi. I'm Minerva. My daddy is an ambassador to Japan regarding the undead problems. I was the only person not injured during a decepticon attack on my plane. I have two really freaky boys with crushes on me, though not as big as the crushes on eachother, it seems at times. I get to join the Autobots and drive a sports car ambulance (I'm sure it has the capacity for full medical care). I might seem pretty weak but I'm possibly the most butch female Autobot around.
Masterforce manga
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
- 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 straight, Takara.
- Minerva's name is consistently misanglicized as "Minelba" on every English instance of the name on Japanese packaging and tech spec material.
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