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'Arcee' is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers universe.
Transformers: Generation 1 (1986)
Animated series
Although a group of Female Autobots had already been featured in one episode of the original cartoon series, Arcee quickly became the most famous due to her position as a recurring cast member following her introduction in ''. In the movie it was implied that Arcee might have had feelings for Hot Rod, but since his transformation to Rodimus Prime she seemed to grow closer to Springer.
Acree was voiced by Susan Blu, who would go on to be involved in several more ''Transformers''-related shows as voice director, even reprising her role as Arcee in Energon. Acree was a gunner and was depicted as being an excellent marksman. In the Season 3 introduction, "Five Faces of Darkness", she accompanies Springer on a mission to track down a sleezoid ship. The mission eventually reunites them with Grimlock and Rodimus Prime. They also go onto rescue Ultra Magnus, Kup and Spike from the clutches of the Quintessons.
Acree would appear sporadically over the course of the season, and even kept her main character status into the fourth season dubbed "Rebirth". She was a major player in "Dark Awakening", being among the crew zombie Optimus Prime betrayed aboard the mausoleum. And, in "Dweller in the Depths", she is seen fighting back against Springer when he is turned into an energy vampire.
In the episode "Only Human", Ultra Magnus, Springer, Rodimus Prime and Arcee found their minds transferred into human-mimicking "synthoid" bodies by the human crimelord Victor Drath.
In the final three episodes of the US television series, when the Decepticons successfully stole the key to the Plasma Energy Chamber and opened the ancient device, a group of Autobots and humans included Arcee and Daniel Witwicky were blasted across the galaxy by the energy release, crash-landing on the planet Nebulos. Quickly siding with a group of rebels engaged in a war against the planet's evil rulers, the Hive, they deduced a process by which they could combine the best of their minds and bodies together, becoming Headmasters. Daniel became Arcee's Headmaster partner.
Despite being the only female truly present in the cast, she was rarely if ever depicted as the damsel in distress, and was usually put on equal footing in relation to her male compatriots.
Headmasters
In the Japanese television series called ''Transformers: The Headmasters'', the events of the last three episodes of the U.S. series were ignored. Although Headmasters were introduced, they had a vastly different origin. Arcee did not become a Headmaster, but was a regular on this series, appearing in most of the episodes, from Episode 1 "Four Warriors Come Out of The Sky" to Episode 35 "The Final Showdown On Earth (Part 2)".
Marvel Comics
Arcee was absent from the U.S. Marvel Comics (barring the adaptation of the movie), because the comics had established that in their continuity, Transformers did not possess sexes, thus Arcee's presence as a clearly female robot would have defied this. She did, however, feature in the U.K. Comics stories based in the future era, which made use of the movie's cast, supplemented with the tale of her creation to validate her existence - she was the result of an attempt by the Autobots to better understand the human concept of gender, and to appease human protesters.
The U.K. comic also set a number of stories directly after the events of the movie. The ''Space Pirates'' arc saw Arcee skip guard duty at Autobot City; her dereliction of duty led directly the fall of Autobot City to the Quintessons. She was then used as bait in a Quintesson trap to claim the Creation Matrix from Rodimus Prime. Arcee achieved some measure of redemption by aiding Rodimus Prime, now reduced in power to his ''Hot Rod'' form, in his bid to reclaim Autobot City by activating Metroplex.
Arcee later joined Rodimus Prime's time-travelling party, helping in the fight against Galvatron during the ''Time Wars''. Arcee and the other future Autobots returned find to their own time-stream changed to a different, darker future, where Galvatron was alive and ruling most of Cybertron.
Arcee also makes an appearance twice in the American ''Transformers: Headmasters #1'' as a background character in Fortress Maximus's regiment. In order to explain any Autobots introduced during the fourth (then-ongoing) and fifth production years, most of Fortress Maximus's crew on Cybertron and aboard the Steelhaven were unseen, or used generic bodies until readers were "surprised" with them later. (This technique was effectively used when the cast of the Headmasters comic was added to the regular Transformers series).
Books
Arcee appeared in the 1986 story and coloring book ''The Lost Treasure of Cybertron'' by Marvel Books.
Beast Wars
In the ''Beast Wars'' episode "Transmutate", Rattrap (possibly humourously) referred to Arcee as his great aunt; "''What in the name of my great aunt Arcee is going on!?''". Coincidentally, the character Transmutate was voiced by Susan Blu, who also voiced Arcee.
Dreamwave Productions
During the years when Shockwave united most of Cybertron, Arcee was in a resistance group to his rule along with Kup, Blaster, Hot Rod and Wheelie. Later, after Shockwave's defeat, Arcee joined Ultra Magnus in trying to fortify one of Cybertron's moons - but her affections were the subject of a feud between Hot Rod and Springer.
Devil's Due Publishing
Arcee appeared in the Devil's Due third series of ''G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers''. Grimlock, Arcee, Bumblebee and Perceptor were sent to Earth to aid G.I. Joe in removing the influence of Cybertronian technology on Earth. When Cobra attacked the base, the Autobots helped repel the Cobra Battle Android Trooper armies. However, Cobra Commander was able to infiltrate the base and awaken the special project the government was working on - SerpentO.R, a cyborg created using DNA from many great warleaders and parts from Megatron. SerpentO.R promptly turned on him and escaped to Cybertron via Spacebridge. The Autobots and a team of G.I Joes led by Hawk pursued him. During this an attraction had been growing between Arcee and Bumblebee. This led to Bumblebee's tragic death at the hands of SerpentO.R and Arcee and the others were captured. Freed by Snake-Eyes, Arcee was part of the assault to rescue Prime and proved instrumental in SerpentO.R's (now controlled by Cobra Commander) defeat, ripping his chestpiece off and allowing Hawk to reach the Matrix, opening it and putting Cobra Commander in a coma. Arcee was seen mourning Bumblebee at the end.
3H Enterprises
Arcee
''Transformers: Universe Wreckers'' #1 starts with a flashback to late in the original cartoon series, where Daniel Witwicky and Wheelie are killed. This puts Daniel's friend Arcee into a sad state. The main story is set in the later episodes of ''Beast Machines''. Arcee, now a Maximal Valkyrie, joins the Wreckers. Fractyl is almost killed by the Vehicons, and Arcee saves his life by sharing her Spark with him, converting him into a new body in the process.
Toys
Like all the new characters in the movie (with the exception of Ultra Magnus), Arcee was designed for animation first, but while the other new characters inspired toys that saw final release, Arcee's design never passed early prototype stages.
★ 'Headmaster': When she became a Headmaster, Takara dallied with the idea of repainting the Chromedome toy to represent her, but the suggestion was abandoned. A few pictures of prototypes have appeared online.
★ 'Heroes of Cybertron': A non-transforming "Heroes of Cybertron" G1 Arcee was released in 2001. It was later repainted as "Paradron Medic".
★ 'BotCon': In 2001, Arcee finally received a toy in the form of an exclusive for the 2001 BotCon convention. The toy itself was a recolored version of the previous year's Transmetal 2 Blackarachnia toy, and some packaging featured a new sound clip recorded by Susan Blu.
★ 'Titanium': At the 2007 BotCon, a prototype was revealed for a transforming 6" G1 Arcee for the '' line, but since the line has been canceled, it most likely will not be released.
Transformers: Armada
The first reuse of the name Arcee was in Japan. In 2003, the name Arcee was given to the Mini-Con known in America as Sureshock (leading to some debate on the Mini-Con's gender - the Dreamwave Comics would later identify Sureshock as female, but the tech specs for Transformers: Cybertron Sureshock would refer to it as male). Sureshock was even repainted in pink and white colors in Japan as ''X-Dimension Arcee''.
References
★ http://www.seibertron.com/database/character.php?view=&char_id=879 - Fan page about Sureshock/Arcee.
★ http://www.tfu.info/2003/Micron/XArcee/arcee.htm - Pink repaint of Micron Legend Arcee.
Transformers: Energon
In '', Arcee had a wide-release original mold made in homage to the original character. In the ''Energon'' storyline, the character Arcee was a female Omnicon who transformed into a motorcycle and used an energon crossbow. She was created to be a leader for the Omnicons and, as such, was the only Omnicon to have a unique name and body-type. In Japan the toy and character were named 'Ariel', a name used by the female transformer who was the "girlfriend" of Orion Pax in the original series' episode ''War Dawn''; this Ariel would later become Elita One.
In the original Japanese series ''Superlink'', it is said Ariel took the form of a woman as a symbol of care, who protects all soldiers.
Dreamwave Productions
Kicker, Arcee, Strongarm, Signal Flare and Sky Blast
Arcee also appeared in the Dreamwave Productions ''Transformers: Energon'' comics, as one of the four Omnicons watched over by the Mini-Con Over-Run.
Arcee would first appear in issue #19, being introduced to Optimus Prime by Over-Run as the first of the new species — the Omnicons. Subsequently assigned to Earth for training, they managed to annoy their commander Hot Shot beyond reason but subsequently apprehended Snow Cat. Arcee would have further adventures battling Mirage, Sharkticon and Slugslinger to protect Kicker, eventually defeating them with Kicker's help.
Toys
★ 'Energon Arcee'
:In 2005, ''Energon'' Arcee was repackaged for the '' toy line, although the character has not appeared in the ''Universe'' storyline. This toy was identical to the ''Energon'' release, but in ''Universe'' packaging.
:The Arcee/Aerial toy (Arcee's main color was salmon-pink, while Ariel's was Japanese pink) was later repainted green and aqua as the Aerial Paradron Type in Japan, in the colors of Generation 1 Paradron Medic. She was again repainted (black) as '' Flamewar and her head remolded as ''Transformers: Timelines'' Chromia (light blue) and Flare-Up (red).
2007 Transformers film
Arcee was initially set to be in the 2007 ''Transformers'' film, but due to fan complaints was dropped from the script and replaced with Ironhide. Arcee was also left out due to lack of time to explain the presence of a female in a robotic race.[1] Before she was dropped, her alternate mode was slated to be a Buell Firebolt motorcycle.
Even though Arcee wasn't in the movie, this type of motorcycle was the motorcycle that cpt Lennox used to attack Blackout with. Arcee was also initially set to battle Blackout in the movie.According to her tech spec Arcee received combat training from Ironhide.
IDW Publishing
Although Arcee has yet to appear in the IDW core Transformers universe (disregarding variant cover appearances) the character still appeared in the comic book '' where she fights as part of Bumblebee's squad.She realised that Bumblebee knew more than he was revealing, but likewise said nothing when their squad was captured and tortured by the Decepticons.
Movie toys
★ 'Movie Scout Arcee' (2007)
:A Target-exclusive toy of Arcee as a repaint of the Energon mold has been released,[2] as well as a new deluxe toy. The recolor is blue and silver with extremely dark brown Energon parts.
:The box even recycles the text from the Energon Arcee figure, stating that you can combine her "red" plastic pieces to form an ultimate energon weapon, despite that fact that they are no longer red in this version of the figure and are now more of a brown.
★ 'Movie Deluxe Arcee' (2007)
:Unlike the Target exclusive, this figure is fuchsia in color, with a design inspired by concept art/CGI models of the character revealed at BotCon 2007. The deluxe Arcee has a similar bow weapon. An actual Buell Firebolt is 194 centimeters long. With the toy measuring 14 centimeters long it has a scale of about 1/14. Her robot mode would stand about 6'11''.
Other media
Arcee makes an appearance in the ''Robot Chicken'' episode "Junk in the Trunk." She gives Optimus Prime flowers before he dies of prostate cancer.
Arcee is mentioned as Rattrap's great aunt in ''Beast Wars.
References
1. Exclusive interview: Roberto Orci
2. Transformers Movie Basic Arcee Figure to be a Target Exclusive
External links
★ http://seibertron.com/database/character.php?view=&char_id=2817 - Fan made page for Energon Arcee.
★ http://www.oafe.net/yo/tfe_rc.php - Review of the Arcee toy
★ http://razorgolem.myownsites.com/arcee/gallery/arcee.html - Arcee fan page.
★ Beast Wars Arcee, Energon Arcee, and Ariel Paradron Type at TFU.info
★ http://www.cyberfembot.com/ - Unofficial transforming toy of Arcee called A.R.C.
★ http://tfkenkon.com/collection/act200/ - Energon Arcee Gallery
★ http://www.benprocter.com/SITEv2/HTML/PROJPAGE_Trans_15.html - Ben Procter's site showing 2007 movie Arcee
★ [1] [2] [3] [4] Hasbro Tour Photo Gallery pictures of 2007 movie Arcee
★ [5] [6] [7] Arcee at Teletraan-1: The Transformers Wiki
★ Buell Firebolt XB12R - 2007 movie Arcee's vehicular form
★ Botcon Exclusive Arcee Litho
★ Arcee at deviantART
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