Arcee (Energon)

Arcee is an Autobot from the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

Although there might be several of every other kind of Omnicon, there is only one Arcee. What’s the difference, though? Arcee has the strength of one hundred soldiers all by herself. A powerful Autobot archer who’s as quick with her bow as she is headstrong, Optimus Prime sees the unquestionable value of having Arcee on his side. It makes sense, too–aside from her nigh legendary mastery of the quiver, she also functions as a leader of sorts for the Omnicon race. She and Kicker Jones are often partnered together, and she’s also been known to work with Misha Miramond as well.

She may one day assume the identities of E5 and later Elita Seven (エリータセブン Erīta Sebun).

Fiction

Cartoon continuity

Energon cartoon

Voice actor: Sharon Alexander (English), Masumi Asano (Japanese), Cecilia Lundh (Swedish), Saara Ruokonen (Finnish), Carolina Tak (Castilian Spanish), Rebeca Aponte (Latin-American Spanish), Krystyna Kozanecka (Polish)

After spending years mining energon in the desolate depths of space, the Omnicon race needed a rallying point to keep them motivated and focused on their work. Through the power of energon, one Omnicon evolved into the feminine Arcee to serve as an icon and idol for the Omnicons to which they could dedicate themselves.^[1]

Breastforce Arcee.

In 2020, when an energon-deprived Unicron began attacking all the intruders that were currently occupying his dormant body, Primus summoned Arcee and sent her to reinforce the Autobots. She served to rally the Omnicon forces and provide Kicker Jones with rapid, agile transportation through the dangerous interiors of Unicron. After she and Kicker managed to breach his defenses, the Omnicons provided Unicron's core with Energon stars, calming down the dormant Chaos Bringer's violent tendencies. Survival Instincts

Soon after, Arcee and the other Omnicons provided the Autobots with energon stars for their defense of Cybertron's energon grid. Each One Fights... They returned with more energon supplies during the next battle, but it had already concluded by the time they arrived. Unicron Unleashed

When Unicron fell into the rift in space, Arcee led a large group of Omnicons to back up the main Autobot force. Ripped Up Space They traveled through the rift in the Miranda II, and eventually emerged from the other side. Team Optimus Prime Arcee and the crew of the Miranda II arrived on the other side of the rift and made contact with Optimus Prime and his people. She then allowed Kicker to ride her around on Iron Planet while fighting Decepticons. Protection

As the Autobots prepped for an energon tower being delivered from Cybertron, Arcee supervised the Omnicons in clearing a landing spot on Jungle Planet for the tower to touch down. When the Terrorcons staged an assault, she defended the energon in order to buy time. Eventually the energon tower landed and powered up, sending out a destructive wave that cleared the Terrorcons from the planet. Bulkhead

Sadie, is that other-me?

When Alpha Q engineered a large supply of energon on the reconstructed Planet Q, Arcee went with the Autobots to protect it from the Decepticons. Kicker rode her into battle. Return! Our Scorponok Later, irritated to discover she and Misha Miramond had been left in the dark about the Autobot Grand Prix, Arcee entered with Misha as her "mysterious" rider. Together, they won the whole she-bang while Optimus and Hot Shot fooled around with trying to teach Ironhide some greater life lesson about hitting stuff. Crash Course

Arcee supervised activities aboard the Miranda II with Kicker and Misha during the big confrontation with Unicron. Omega Supreme They brought the energon grid on line in a vain attempt to prevent Unicron from reclaiming his head from Alpha Q's Energon Orb. A Heroic Battle Arcee accompanied Kicker inside Unicron's head to recover Alpha Q's body. The Power of Unicron They laid Alpha Q to rest on Grass Planet beneath a simple headstone before returning to the conflict. Optimus Supreme Arcee and Misha coordinated with the Omnicons on all of Alpha Q's worlds, and brought the energon towers together for an offensive strike against Unicron. Unicron Perishes

Arcee was on board the Miranda II when the Autobots returned to Cybertron to fight off a Decepticon invasion. Wishes The Autobots could not return home, however, because the Decepticons had unleashed an energon gas in the atmosphere that was lethal to Autobot circuitry. Arcee and the Omnicons were immune to the gas's effects, and so Optimus planned to drop a team of Omnicons with Kicker down on Cybertron to locate the gas pumps and turn them off. Arcee was forced to launch from high atmosphere in the middle of a battle with Kicker on her back in vehicle mode. Unable to use her energon powers to slow her descent while in vehicle mode, Arcee instead performed some daredevil maneuvers by bouncing off the side of an energon tower on her way down. Galvatron!

Once they got down to the planet's surface, Arcee and Kicker worked with the Omnicons to seal off the gas pipes with some hardening gel. This created a small window in the atmosphere for Prime and the Autobots to drop down to the surface below. Break Through After meeting up with some reinforcements, Optimus Prime assigned Arcee to work with Kicker, Hot Shot, Kicker and Omega Supreme in penetrating the Decepticon defenses around Central City. Their goal was to find Kicker's family and retake control of the command center and the energon towers. The Omega Train

Although Omega Supreme left to provide reinforcements for Optimus, Arcee and Hot Shot managed to reunite Kicker with his family. Decepticon Army Down in the core of Cybertron, Arcee and the other Omnicons provided energon stars for Primus, bringing him out of his hibernation state. Ironhide Team They remained with Primus as he provided Optimus Supreme with the necessary power to stop Cybertron's forward momentum. Formidable

Arcee next joined Kicker, Ironhide and the Omnicons in racing to the Super Energon pool. They were blocked by Battle Ravage drones, however, and could not claim control of the pool before Galvatron arrived to power up further. Galvatron Terror Arcee held off a swarm of Super Insecticons while Kicker and the rest of the Omnicons severed the Super Energon tether that tied Galvatron to his new power source. Destructive Power

As the Autobots chased Galvatron out into space, Arcee and the Omnicons remained behind. They used the purified Super Energon pool as a means of fully recharging Primus for the first time since Unicron was destroyed. Spark Arcee was briefly seen on Cybertron as Primus merged with the Super Energon pool and transported its power deep into space, to serve as the new sun for Alpha Q's planets. The Sun

Force of Habit

Ten years later, when the Unicron Singularity forced the evacuation of Cybertron, Arcee and a number of Autobot leaders were summoned to the Iron Hope, where Ultra Magnus dispatched them across the galaxy to locate the lost Autobot colony worlds. Arcee was given command of the Azusa and sent to Gamma Serpentis. Force of Habit

Japanese cartoon continuity

Controverse

At some point in the following years, the Arcee of Aurex 103.10 Alpha joined the transdimensional guardians known as the Protectors, changing her body-design several different times in the process. In her fifth body as "Elita Five", she attended Primacron's trial at Millaath in the G1 World with fellow Protector Optimus Primal. Controverse

Legends comic

In her original body, Arcee was among the heroic female Transformers who appeared in one of Tigatron's dreams to protect him from the evil female Transformers. Bonus Edition Vol. 11

Elita Five was among the Kre-O Autobots who accompanied Kre-O Optimus Prime to the Legends World to stop Megatron. Transformers Legends Special Chapter

Alternity

Her new look is truly truly truly outrageous

For her seventh body, she chose a synthoid form, and took the name Elita Seven. By the time she had taken on this form, she had been inducted into the ranks of the Protectors, the elite team of agents who travel space and time in service of the hyper-dimensional race of evolved Autobots known as the Alternity.

While observing a battle between the black Convoy and one of Megatron's auto-avatars, Elita Seven waited for the aftermath and chastised the bad boy of the Convoy Aggregate for fighting dirty. Convoy took exception to her calling him a "deity" and insisted she call him "Knight of Darkness." She retorted that even if he was a deity she wasn't going to pander to him like that. Arch-Nemesis!

As time progressed, the Alternity realized that Megatron's forces had been repeatedly focusing their attacks on the year 2009, and Elita Seven was teamed with Bumblebee to search the timelines for clues as to why. While investigating universal stream Primax 905.0 Beta, they came to the conclusion that a new type of dimensional flux would come into existence there, and that Megatron was searching for its source that he might use it for his own ends. The flux soon struck, causing a particularly bizarre effect: printed media worldwide began to warp and distort! Moving quickly, Elita and Bumblebee tracked the source of the distortion to a tablet in the Otsuka Museum of Art, which was in the process of being stolen for Megatron by Reflector. Bumblebee bested the Decepticon trio, but Megatron then struck from across the dimensions, wounding the little Autobot and destroying both the museum and the tablet. When Bumblebee awoke, Elita requested that he explain just what the heck had happened; Bumblebee explained that the tablet was a device invented by beings from a two-dimensional universe that converted artworks into trans-dimensional gateways they could have passed through. As Bumblebee began steeling himself for the next dimensional incursion, Elita reminded him they needed to clean up the mess they had made in this world first. The World Is Flat!

While Elita Seven helped provide cover fire for a cross-universal battle, the higher-dimensional beings in her squad suddenly all seized up. They returned to normal momentarily, but had dreadful news for their Protector allies: the Alternity's aggregate had been sundered by Megatron! Though all individuals in the aggregate had survived, taking refuge in their respective Auto-Avatars, Elita Seven was left deeply concerned; they no longer had access to the Alternity's god-like abilities. One of the Optimuses in her company told Elita Seven to continue fighting, as transpiring events were still within the parameters of what the collective had planed for. The battle soon turned to the Autobots' favor when Thundercracker, disgusted by the senseless loss of life the Planicrons suffered due to Megatron's exploitation of their power, released the lower dimensional beings from his leader's control.

But to assure themselves a total victory, the Autobots still needed to find the correct spatial doorway for the Planicrons to emerge into three-dimensional space, so that they could supersede the now destroyed aggregate as multiversal defenders. Elita Seven's team quickly deduced that the correct path for the Planicrons' evolution was through the BT World, and she set out with Bumblebee and Nemesis Prime to guide the Planicrons there. Upon their arrival to the target world, they were greeted by Grimlock and Optimus Primal. With their help, the group soon tracked down the schematics for the unfinished critias Gate; a two-dimensional doorway for two-dimensional beings. Together, they then witnessed the Planicrons come forth through the gate. The whole process was rather cacophonous though, and Elita Seven had to cover her ears to behold the spectacle. Though Megatron, barely holding on to a cohesive form as other agents were destroying his Auto-Avatars elsewhere, tried to abort the Planicrons' ascension, he was soundly defeated by his target. The Autobots cheered at the obliteration of their foe.

Afterwards, the former Alternity met on planet Athenia. There, Elita Seven teased Cliffjumper over never having gotten around to upgrade himself to a godlike super-being when he had the chance. She was rather heartbroken over the Alternity's dissolution though. Noticing she had been crying, Bumblebee tried to cheer her up. He explained that as a higher-dimensional being, he had only been able to see her akin to an anatomical chart, but now she appeared as an individual standing before him. Optimus then gave his troops a parting speech, and they each headed back to their proper places in the multiverse. Alternation

Energon comic

Ultimate Bullseye! RISING ARROW!

Arcee and her fellow Omnicons were upgraded Mini-Cons. After Unicron's Four Horsemen attacked Cyber City, Arcee was sent by Over-Run to assist Optimus Prime in repelling them. What Lies Beneath, Part Two They later helped Optimus Prime stop Scorponok and his Terrorcons in Australia by providing cover-fire. What Lies Beneath, Part Four

Proving to be a bit too out of control to base near human cities, the Omnicons were sent to the site of a new energon well in the Yukon. While blowing off some steam, they were captured by Snow Cat who attempted to rewrite their programming to turn them into Decepticons. Subconsciously guided by the snarky, floating, advice-giving head of Over-Run, they managed to break free from the Spark Rewriter. Arcee and her teammates were still left at a disadvantage, being in an unfamiliar territory, ill-equipped for its snowy conditions. But by slowing down and taking in information about their whereabouts, the Omnicons were able to defeat Snow Cat and gain better understanding of their abilities. Omni-Potent

On a mission with Kicker to the Black Sea in Turkey to locate a new energon well underwater, they were attacked by Mirage (who had previously butted heads with them as Tidal Wave), Slugslinger and Sharkticon, who were attempting to capture the energon-empathic human. Multiplicity Arcee stood little chance against Mirage, even when both she and Skyblast teamed up against the Decepticon; she wound up serving as little more than a punching bag for her opponent. Multiplicity, Pt. 2 Arcee was left in an unconscious heap on the ground as Mirage boasted about his victory to the last Omnicon standing, Strongarm. Though the Decepticon believed his victory complete, at that moment Kicker emerged from the nearby body of water, aglow with the power of energon! Multiplicity, Pt. 3 Using his supernatural abilities, Kicker revitalized Arcee and the rest of the team, allowing them to force the Decepticons into a retreat. Multiplicity, Pt. 4

When Over-Run learned he was the next target for the energon vampire Starscream, he summoned Arcee and the Omnicons to aid him. Armageddon Part 1 Too late to stop Over-Run's demise, the Omnicons lashed out at Starscream, but his energon-absorbing abilities made their standard attacks useless. They eventually defeated Starscream by allowing him to drain all their energies at once, creating a two-way link that the combined Omnicons used to reverse the process and drained Starscream instead. Armageddon Part 2

During the Quintesson invasion that followed, Arcee and the Omnicons received a pre-recorded message from Over-Run. He had foreseen the attack, and prepared the Hub mainframe to provide the Omnicons with the energon resources necessary to overcome it. Once Optimus Prime returned from Unicron and unlocked the Hub, the Omnicons supercharged themselves on energon, bringing energon stars to the Autobot populace so that they were strong enough to weather the Quintesson assault. Armageddon Part 5

Toys

Energon

Hasbro version pictured

Takara version pictured

• Arcee (Energon Class, 2004)

• Takara name: Ariel
• Takara ID number: SC-16
• Takara release date: June 10, 2004
• Accessories: "Hunter Bazooka" scope, "Gaia Launcher" missile launcher, missile, 2 tailpipes, Autobot energon chip
• Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro), Shogo Hasui (TakaraTomy)

Released in the third wave of Hasbro Energon "Energon Class" toys (basically "Basics"), Arcee transforms into a "superbike"-type racing motorcycle of made-up model. Though she lacks a kickstand to stay upright in bike mode, her robot-mode toes can be lowered to serve that purpose.

She comes with multiple clear-plastic "energon" parts that form side-mounted rocket thrusters for her bike mode; the launcher and scope pieces have Mini-Con-style Powerlinx ports, letting them activate Armada-mold Powerlinx gimmicks. These pieces can be combined into the massive, spring-loaded, missile-launching "Energy Arrow" ultimate energon weapon compound bow (only named in the Takara release). Unusually for a Transformers toy of the time, Arcee does not actually hold accessories in her hands, as they are tiny little paddles, instead having a 5 mm post-hole close to the hand to make it "look" like she's holding it. She also comes with an Autobot-style energon chip that can be attached to the spark crystal on most Energon-series toys.

The Takara "Ariel" version of this toy, sold in the ninth wave of Super Link toys, is almost identical to the Hasbro release, but uses a much brighter, more saturated pink paint, and paints her face light gray instead of metallic silver. She is the only normal-retail Takara Omnicon with a different shade of red for her clear-red parts, being lightly brighter than the other three Takara Omnicons' clear-red parts.

This mold was also used to make Timelines Flamewar, and the live-action-movie-universe versions of Arcee and Elita-One (the latter also being repurposed as Shattered Glass Arcee). The toy was retooled to make Timelines Chromia and Flareup.

• More information on Arcee at TFU.info

Ariel Paradron Type only exists as long as she is in mint condition.

• Ariel Paradron Type (Energon Class, 2004)

• ID number: EX-02
• Accessories: "Hunter Bazooka" scope, "Gaia Launcher" missile launcher, missile, 2 tailpipes, Autobot energon chip

A Takara "Toy's Dream Project" exclusive limited to 3000 pieces,^[2] Ariel Paradron Type changes up her color scheme from white-and-pinks to white-and-greens. This color scheme was inspired by the Paradron Medic from the original Transformers cartoon episode "Fight or Flee".

She came on a normal "Ariel" cardback with the artwork depicting the pink version, but a few extra stickers and bubble inserts were added to mark the special version.

• More information on Ariel Paradron Type at TFU.info

Universe (2003)

Don't think too hard about the branding. It's for the best.

• Omnicon Arcee (Basic Class, 2005)

• Accessories: 2 tailpipes, scope, launcher, missile, Autobot energon chip

Arcee (along with many other Energon and Cybertron Basic-sized toys) was repackaged without alteration onto Universe-branded cards and sold at American heavy-discount chains like Family Dollar and Big Lots!.

Merchandise

Attacktix

Did she have to remove one of her... um...

• Arcee (Booster, 2007)

Part of the (permanently "on-hiatus") second series of Transformers Attacktix, Arcee is a "Rare" 20-point "Leader"-class piece. Arcee fires a standard Attacktix missile. She has a surprisingly high speed for a "blaster" type unit. Her Special Power, "Rescue", does something, but we don't know what yet, and at this rate, probably never will.

Game over. This Attacktix item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Notes

• Arcee's Energon show model is the base for the Autobot nurse model as well as a couple of other generic female Autobots.
• The French version of Arcee is dubbed by a man. Nobody could tell the difference, and it's not like it's the first time they've got genders wrong.
• In her Elita Seven body, Arcee's jumpsuit and the three shades of pink it uses match Generation 1 Elita One's body almost exactly, just as the odd shape of her pink hair and the position of her white barette emulate the shape of Elita's helmet. The Rodimus face on the back of her suit is the insignia of the Protectors (an apparent homage to Rodimus Prime's original function being "Protector"). Additionally, the motorcycle she rides strongly resembles movie Elita-One, albeit with a brighter red-and-pink color scheme. Oddly, since Elita-One shares a mold with Arcee, she's essentially riding... herself?!
• Using Ariel, the Japanese name for Energon Arcee, the connection of Energon Arcee to Elita Seven becomes more clear. Generation 1 Ariel became Elita One, so Super Link Ariel became Elita Seven in reference to her namesake.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Ariel (エリアル Eriaru)
• Hungarian: Szélvész ("Windstorm")

References