Flip Sides (G1)
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- Flip Sides is an Autobot and a Decepticon Mini-Cassette from the Generation 1 continuity family.
You'd be hard pressed to find a robot more friendly and compassionate than Flip Sides (フリップサイズ Furippu Saizu). A former teacher, she is well-suited to managing data, military history and coordinating, and has been given the task of managing waves of remote-controlled combat drones. She's well-liked and personable, and a valuable Autobot fighter.
And it's all a lie, even to Flip Sides herself.
She is in actuality a sleeper agent placed into the Autobot ranks thousands of years previous. She has no memory of her former self, which has been carefully buried under her Autobot persona, and will not awaken until the intricate timer mechanism also buried inside her programming triggers. What her Decepticon self is like is entirely unknown, but the thousands of years of data she's collected will undoubtedly be used to devastating effect. When this happens... nobody knows, possibly even the mysterious Decepticons who programmed her.
She has a phobia towards mechanoids with more than two legs, which can lock her systems up if she is surprised.
Fiction
e-Hobby storyline
To combat the Decepticons' aggressive energy raids, Wheeljack and Ga'mede put their heads together and duplicated Optimus Prime's new Black Body form to create twenty-one battle droids. These "Eldedroids" were placed under the remote control of Flip Sides and sent out onto the battlefield. Considering Flip Sides's allegiance issues, this will probably end disastrously. MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver.
Wings Universe
Flipsides was the supervisor of an archeological dig on Cybertron roughly nine million years ago. Working out of the long abandoned territory of Median, she coordinated with security advisor Strika and the archeometrist Glyph, with her assistants Lancer and Greenlight. Flipsides's skill as a coordinator was enhanced by her considerabe knowledge of Decepticon activity in the area. Their research unearthed an exciting find—an ancient factory for the production of Cybertronian body designs, one possible birthplace for their very race. The second discovery was possible even more critical, an urn labelled as the "Heart of the Dragon". Although couched in flowery language and hieroglyphics, the urn apparently contained the laser-core for a spark of nigh-unlimited personal power. Trouble started to brew when Drench and Hydradread of the Decepticon thugs known as the Stormtroopers came snooping around the dig site. Worried about the Heart falling into the wrong hands, Flipsides reached out to Alpha Trion and the Autobot High Council to send the Elite Guard to their assistance.
The Elite Guard sent out their Strike Team and Special Ops Team to aid Flipsides's team, and they quickly went to work with Strika fortifying the place for an attack. Flipsides and the dig team were relegated to a safehouse while the Elite Guard did their best to keep the Stormtroopers on the outskirts of town. Unfortunately, the group's leader Rage and his engineer, Aquablast, managed to break through the lines and reach the Heart. Not content with the Heart alone, Rage then sought out the dig team to confiscate Glyph's notes on the project for further use. When she refused to turn over her work, Aquablast burned a hole through the archeometrist with his chemical cannon. Flipsides and the others were only saved by the sudden arrival of Lancer, who had been armed and working with the Elite Guard on the front lines. She shot Aquablast and drove off Rage.
Before chasing after him, Lancer tried to shake Flipsides out of her state of shock and told her to activate the auto-turrets. Flipsides seemed to understand, and was making her way towards the controls when Lancer left to check on the situation outside. Nevertheless, the Stormtroopers managed to escape without any further losses, and the auto-turrets never fired a shot. As the Autobots regrouped to figured out what went wrong, Flipsides emerged with a significantly changed attitude. Any horror she had felt over Glyph's death was gone, and she was now cold and nonchalant over the entire matter. She gave a half-hearted explanation about the auto-turrets malfunctioning, and mildly suggested the Elite Guard get going after the Stormtroopers while they still had time.
Indeed, it appeared Flipsides was acting as an informant for the Decepticon Warlord called Deathsaurus, keeping him apprised of matters at Median and the Stormtroopers. The extent of her betrayal was never clarified, but it raised significant concerns about the condition of the auto-turrets, not to mention how Rage learned of the Heart in the first place. Flames of Yesterday
Toys
Generation 1
- Twincast with Flip Sides (Autobot/Decepticon, 2006)
- Japanese ID number: 65
- Accessories: 2 guns
- Flip Sides is a redeco of the Eject/Rewind mold, transforming into a microcassette. She uses stickers for her tape-side detailing rather than paint. She also features two different "readout" decals that reveal the "weak point" of both Fortress Maximus and Scorponok when she is placed behind the clear-red chestplates of Soundblaster or Twincast.
- She was only available as a pack-in with the e-HOBBY exclusive re-release of Twincast. This is also the first time the Scorponok decal has been re-done since the original Twincast release with Steeljaw.
- Flip Sides's mold was also used for Rosanna.
