Clio
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- Clio is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
You can't see me!
This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.
Clio, according to reports, is a Decepticon Powermaster who transforms into a car. Her Powermaster partner is called Patra.
Fiction
Animated cartoon
Readers of Venus, a trans-dimensional magazine for Decepti-femmes, are invited to decide who is deadlier, Clio or Lyzak. Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac
Notes
- The state of Clio's actual existence was originally rather questionable. The only pre-Almanac mention of Clio and Patra had come from Blaster's letter column in the UK comic book (which told the "true" tale of the Transformers), replying to a letter from a human comic-reader who had seen a TV commercial for the Renault Clio car that had the vehicle transform into a robot. When the reader suggested the Autobots recruit it, Blaster lamented they'd been beaten to that punch.
- Blaster could very well have been making it all up as a joke; the Transformers who have answered human mail tend to be jokesters or flat-out insulting towards their readership. Regardless, the existence of a female Decepticon character named Clio was cemented by the Allspark Allmanac, with Occam's Razor making it a reference to this one.
- If the original Renault commercial is taken at face value, Clio can also turn herself into a red orb and a horseshoe magnet, plus generate a giant pair of kissy lips from thin air.
- While the blown kiss at the end of the ad suggests the Clio car is meant to be female, the robot the Clio turns into seems to be male; in fact, it appears to be modeled more-or-less directly on Gort from the The Day the Earth Stood Still.
