Lithone (species)

This article is about the aliens. For their home planet, see Lithone (planet).

The Lithones are a group of aliens from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Lithone babies make your dreams come true.

The Lithones are a race of robots from the planet Lithone. They possess a very high percentage of "emotional circuits" in their computer brains, which affects their individual personalities in different ways. By nature, they are not vengeful, making them lenient towards troublemakers. Their race appears to feature not only male and female members, but robotic "children". Technology-wise, the Lithones have spaceships capable of interstellar travel. They also may or may not have their own superhero.

Known Lithones include...

• Arblus
• Kranix
• The Lithone scientist

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

In the year 2005, the Lithone race was thought to be practically exterminated with the destruction of their homeworld. The Transformers: The Movie

Victory cartoon

Years later, however, at least two Lithones were seen among the inhabitants of Iron Town on an unnamed planet. The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber

TransTech

An unnamed Lithone serves as a tour guide for non-Cybertronian newcomers to Axiom Nexus. Withered Hope

Notes

GENERIC METAL HERO: SAVIOR OF LITHONE! He kind of sucks at his job.

• Lithones are shown to be capable of transformation in "The Planet-Eater!", the first issue of the Marvel comic adaptation of The Transformers: The Movie, and the accompanying bios from the Transformers Universe books. This concept came from an earlier draft of the film script; the final film doesn't show them having any transformational abilities.
• Whether any relationship exists between the Lithones and the Transformers race is uncertain, but as the aspect of the Lithones transforming was dropped from the final film, it strongly suggests against the idea. Season 3 of the cartoon would furthermore go on to establish additional non-Transformer robot races, such as the Xetaxxis and the Lanarq from "The Quintesson Journal".
• Despite being robots, tiny childlike Lithones are seen scampering about in a crowd scene. This only raises questions.
• While the planet Lithone is being eaten by Unicron, a brief sequence features a generic Lithone who looks extremely different from the standard model, somewhere between a Metal Hero and a Knight Saber from Bubblegum Crisis.
• The Lithone models got recycled a few times for presumably non-Lithones. The Junkion Lady, Nancy, uses a Lithone female model, and several members of the Hive from "The Rebirth" use the models before they enter their new Headmaster suits. There are also Lithones visible in Iron Town in the Victory cartoon, but it's more likely that these are indeed from Lithone.
• "Space Pirates!" recycled the model for the Lithone escape craft seen in The Transformers: The Movie, using it as a Quintesson Trident Attack Craft.
• In a very early draft of The Transformers: The Movie, Lithone was a planet of living rock creatures (explaining its name, from the Latin for stone, lithos). Sounds familiar!