List of female Transformers

This is a list of the known female Transformers in the Transformers franchise. Despite being robotic lifeforms with generally non-sexual methods of reproduction, the Transformer species has almost always been shown to include both male and female gender analogues, at least mentally if not physically. Female Transformers were originally depicted as an anomaly, specifically called out as either a thought-to-be-extinct subgroup or simply never existing in the first place. But over the course of decades, while they are still comparatively rare, they have increased greatly in numbers, prominence and overall fairness of representation, and are considered an official part of the Transformers brand in pretty much every continuity. Female Transformers are basically considered a normal part of the Cybertronian population.
Autobots
The Female Autobots (known in Japan as the Woman Cybertrons and alternately known as the Fatal Furies and Elita One's Squadron) were seen in the 1985 animated television series, in which they were indicated to be rare, and believed extinct by most other Transformers. They did not appear in the American Marvel comic book series, where it was specifically stated that Transformers do not have genders. It is very clear that the difference between male and female Transformers is much more than the shape of their bodies, it is a sociocultural difference, with each "gender" possessing—in a general sense—the traits usually associated, at least partially stereotypically, with the human genders. This list also includes females of the Maximals, the Mini-Cons and other heroic factions similar to the Autobots to give a better summary of the topic.
Transformers: Generation 1
*Female Autobots - The team as it originally appeared consisted of six members, Elita One, Chromia, Firestar, Moonracer, Greenlight and Lancer. Elita One was voiced by Marlene Aragon, Firestar and Moonracer are voiced by Morgan Lofting, Chromia is voiced by Linda Gary, and Greenlight and Lancer went unnamed and had no dialogue. In the Dreamwave Productions comic books, the "Female Autobots" were an elite squad of warriors under the command of the Quintessons, while Arcee functioned as a sleeper agent of theirs in this continuity. Arcee was voiced by Susan Blu. In IDW Publishing's comic book series, the "Female Autobots" consisted of new fan-made character Windblade, along with another new character named Nautica, and a new version of Chromia. In most versions are the Transformers storyline (such as the cartoon, Dreamwave, etc.), the original and main line up consisted of:
*Elita One - Originally, Elita One was Ariel, girlfriend of dockworker robot Orion Pax, but when the two were fatally wounded during one of Megatron's first attacks, the ancient Autobot, Alpha Trion, rebuilt them as Optimus Prime and Elita One, using the same set of schematics. Elita desired to accompany Prime on the Ark's mission, but he refused, saying it was too dangerous. When a Decepticon ambush struck the Ark launch site shortly before the craft took off, Elita disappeared in an explosion, and Prime believed she had died. However, this was not the case, and in the following four million years, she led her troops in a guerrilla war against the remaining Decepticon forces on Cybertron, advised and aided by Alpha Trion himself, unaware of her connection to him. In 1985, Shockwave uncovered the location of the Female Autobots' base and the Decepticons were able to capture Elita One, using her as bait to lure Optimus Prime to Cybertron. Prime almost met his end in an acid bath, but Elita used her hidden secret weapon - a stasis field which effectively froze time, allowing her to pull Prime from the path of the acid. However, the ability was a sacrificial one, as it drained almost all of Elita's energy. With Elita now hovering on the brink of death, Prime took her to Alpha Trion, where Trion revealed that only Prime's power supply could properly interface with hers (as a result of their shared schematics). Still unaware of Trion's hand in his creation, Prime re-energized Elita, and the two helped rescue their comrades from a Decepticon attack. Elita and her forces elected to remain on Cybertron and fight the battle there, while Prime returned to Earth.
* Chromia - Chromia was one of Elita One's top agents and the friend/romantic interest of Ironhide. When Moonracer was caught in a booby-trap during one of the Autobots raids on Shockwave's energy stockpile, the continued existence of the Female Autobots was finally revealed to the Decepticons, and Shockwave was able to trail them back to their base and capture Elita One. When Optimus Prime was then lured to Cybertron, Ironhide, Inferno and Powerglide followed and Ironhide was reunited with her. In IDW Publishings' comic book series, Chromia was born from the hot spot contained in the Metrotitan Caminus, a distant colony was cut off from Cybertron long before the war and whose citizens had adapted to their new life with by developing differentiated genders. Her people's isolation ended with the arrival of Thunderclash, who had come seeking help from a Cityspeaker in order to aid Metroplex. However, the chosen Cityspeaker, Windblade, needed a bodyguard, and so Chromia (and Nautica) were enlisted. A Bot and Her City The three joined the crew of the Vis Vitalis shortly before it crossed paths with Alpha Trion. The legendary Autobot was preoccupied with an important quest, so the three volunteered to watch after Metroplex for him and keep him alive. Burning Bright Under their watch, Metroplex's insides were besieged with invaders, so Chromia and Nautica hunted them down to confront them and fight them off, if necessary. They found a small group of robots and Chromia threatened to put the hurt down on them.
* Firestar - Firestar was one of Elita One's top agents and the friend/romantic interest of Inferno. When Moonracer was caught in a booby-trap during one of the Autobots raids on Shockwave's energy stockpile, the continued existence of the Female Autobots was finally revealed to the Decepticons, and Shockwave was able to trail them back to their base and capture Elita One. When Optimus Prime was then lured to Cybertron, Ironhide, Inferno and Powerglide followed and Inferno was reunited with her.
* Moonracer - Moonracer was one of Elita One's top agents and the friend/romantic interest of Powerglide. When Moonracer was caught in a booby-trap during one of the Autobots raids on Shockwave's energy stockpile, the continued existence of the Female Autobots was finally revealed to the Decepticons, and Shockwave was able to trail them back to their base and capture Elita One. When Optimus Prime was then lured to Cybertron, Ironhide, Inferno and Powerglide followed and was reunited with her. At BotCon 2005, the Transformers: Energon Arcee figure was remoulded and repainted to resemble Moonracer, but the name could not be legally acquired for the toy, and so she was dubbed Chromia.
*Flareup - Flareup was a student of the Autobot Firestar. According to the toy designers they originally planned for this character to be a new version of Generation 1 Firestar, but when that name was unavailable they called her Flareup and made her Firestar's student.
*Greenlight and Lancer - Greenlight is mostly green colored, while Lancer is mostly orange. Both are members of Elita One's team and were present when the team's headquarters were severely damaged by Starscream's squad in the episode "The Search for Alpha Trion". Upon the team's escape from the damaged structure, they, Chromia, Moonracer and Firestar helped Ironhide, Powerglide and Inferno fend off the Decepticons. Greenlight and Lancer have no dialogue in the episode, nor do any of the other characters refer to them by name. Their identities were not revealed until 2010, in the story "Flames of Yesterday" published by the Transformers Collectors' Club.
*Arcee - The best known of all female Autobots, Arcee was introduced in The Transformers: The Movie and remained a main character in the subsequent television series. In the Dreamwave Productions comic books, Arcee functioned as a sleeper agent of the Female Autobots in that continuity. In the IDW Publishing comics, Arcee was made into a female by Jhiaxus in an attempt to introduce gender to the Transformers, an idea conceived by Scott Furman. Arcee was voiced by Susan Blu.
*Windblade - Autobot who turns into a VTOL jet. Windblade is the first "fan-built bot" ever — the result of various polls on Hasbro's official website to determine most of her character and physical traits. She was officially revealed as a female Autobot at SDCC 2013. In addition to getting a toy, she'll also get a special IDW mini-series written by Mairghread Scott and illustrated by Sarah Stone. Scott did not give details on Windblade's backstory, but she did say that she has "no intention of presenting her in any sort of stereotypical geisha or hand-over-her-mouth-anime-girl role." Another version was later released as an exclusive of the Transformers Figure Subscription Service.
* Flamewar is a female Decepticon who in most incarnations transforms into a motorcycle. In addition to the other Energon Arcee repainted versions available at BotCon 2005 mentioned above was Flamewar, a red, black and blue coloured agent of the Tripredacus Council. Another version of the toy was featured in Botcon's 2014 "Pirates vs. Knights" series, this time as a repaint/remold of Prime Arcee.
* Nickel is a member of the Decepticon Justice Division in the IDW Publishing Transformers comics, serving as their medic. Originating from the colony titan Prion, she is rescued by Tarn following the decimation of the rest of her people by an organic species, joining the Decepticons because of their views on organic races.
* Swift is a native of Caminus and girlfriend of the Decepticon Barricade; transforms into a helicopter.
* Megatronia is a Decepticon Combiner made up of five female Decepticons, four of whom are themed after card suits; her toy form is a recolor of Victorion with the omission of Rust Dust.
** Megaempress is the leader of Megatronia's components with a color scheme that greatly resembles that of Megatron. She transforms into a fire truck, due to being a recolor of Pyra Magna.
** Lunaclub is a recolor of Skyburst and thus transforms into a helicopter.
** Moonheart is a recolor of Stormclash and also transforms into a helicopter.
** Flowspade is a recolor of Dust Up and thus transforms into a sports car.
** Trickdiamond is a recolor of Jumpstream and also transforms into a sports car.
Beast Era
* Scylla is a female Seacon Pirate from Beast Wars the Second who transforms into a squid. Pronounced "S-Kyu-Leh", she was available in Japan in 1998. While a Predacon, she is in love with the Maximal Scuba. She is armed with a blowing kiss of death. Her toy form was a repainting of 1988 Seacon Tentakil. The name Scylla, is a reference to one of two monsters situated on either side of the Strait of Messina in Greek mythology.
* Antagony is a mysterious Predacon from the future. She is the herald of the warlord Shockaract in the original Botcon storyline, and later serves as one of his minions in Beast Wars: The Ascending. Her toy was an exclusive black and lavender recolor of Predacon Inferno from the 1998 Botcon convention.
*Manta Ray is one of the best energy scouts the Predacons have. Her toy was one of four McDonald's Happy Meal boys toys in 1996 during the first Beast Wars promotion. Her gender was established by the Beast Wars Sourcebook published by IDW.
* Strika/Nemesis Strika - a Vehicon general from Beast Machines. Alternately a Decepticon in Transformers: Universe, she turns into a Cybertronian 6-wheeled combat vehicle.
* Blackarachnia - Predacon who turns into a technorganic black widow spider.
* Shadow Striker - Decepticon who turns into a car.
* Spacewarp - turns into a space shuttle. Originally an unreleased repaint of Armada Jetfire as a female.
Unicron Trilogy
* Thunderblast (Chromia) - Thunderblast is a female Transformer who initially served Starscream, but turned to Megatron's side based on how hunky he was. She has a flighty, fun-loving, girlish personality, but ultimately, her only loyalty is to herself, and she will join whomever is most powerful. She transforms into a speedboat, and her Cyber Key transforms her missile launcher weapon into an even larger rocket launcher (Phantom Wave). She is also lava impervious as she once swam on it, and she is a master of water travel. Her Japanese name was later given to an Autobot doppelganger of her.
* Ironhide is a female Mini-Con who transforms into a Dune Runner.
* Offshoot, one of four Mini-Cons available with Primus as a Wal-mart exclusive. Although Offshoot did not come with a personal biography, she was given characterization on the Transformers Collectors Club web site.
* Sunburn of the Aqua Raider Team is a female Mini-Con who sides with Unicron. These toys came with DVDs of the Japanese version of Transformers: Armada, and were featured in its accompanying mini-comic book, by Hirofumi Ichikawa.
* Dark Nitro Convoy - A Japanese exclusive evil clone of Override, and dreams to someday beat her in a race and kill her.
Shattered Glass
* Crasher - Heroic Decepticon who turns into a race car.
Live action Transformers films
* Alice is a Decepticon pretender in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen who earned an unusual nickname in the fan community for her sexually aggressive actions around Sam Witwicky.
* Fracture a Decepticon based on the Gobots character Crasher. In fact, that was Fracture's originally intended name but was changed for trademark purposes.
* Shadow Striker is a black and red redeco of Legends Class Wheelie.
* Shatter
Transformers: Animated
* Elita-1/Blackarachnia - In flashbacks it is revealed she was originally Elita-1, a young Autobot Academy recruit. After being bit in the arms, legs, and stomach, she went haywire and turned into a techno being. She has a deep-seated hatred for Optimus Prime (who she blames for her condition) and desires to return to her original form by any means.
* Strika - Leader of the Decepticon strike force, Team Charr.
* Slipstream - A character in the Animated series, this transformer was unintentionally created by Starscream in his image with an aspect of his personality she advises him not to figure out. Like her creator, she is short-tempered and snippy as well as merciless when she targets a weak spot in her opponent. Her color scheme is a homage to the Generation 1 Overlord. Although not named in the show, the Hasbro panel at BotCon 2009 confirmed her name. Amazingly enough, Starscream himself was made into a woman in the French dub of The Transformers: The Movie.
* Flip-Sides- Originally seen on Derrick Wyatt's blog, she has the same appearance as Rosanna, but is a Decepticon, much like their previous incarnations. She has been briefly seen a number of times in some of the crowd scenes in the series.
* Drag Strip is a female Stunticon featured in Transformers: Timelines.
Aligned Continuity
* Airachnid (voiced by Gina Torres) - A twisted, spider-like Decepticon who traumatized Arcee by killing her partner Tailgate in front of her very eyes. An homage to Blackarachnia. She left the Decepticons and became a collector of trophies from the heads of various species, and became stranded on Earth after an encounter with Arcee and Jack. She later collaborated with Silas and M.E.C.H. in a plot to take revenge on Arcee and Jack by using Jack's mother June as bait. She scanned a helicopter alternate mode in order to escape from Agent Fowler. Upon being forced to rejoin Megatron after being inadvertently captured by Breakdown, she quickly found herself in Megatron's favor for her intelligence and skill, and conspired to discredit Starscream. In the three-part season final "One Shall Rise", Airachnid believes Megatron has abandoned them (and possibly been driven insane by his Dark Energon shard), and suggests they may need to consider in continuing on without him. Airachnid claims to the other Decepticons present that they have had to prepare an exodus, much to the objection of Soundwave who manages to defeat Airachnid. Following this attempt at mutiny, Megatron orders her assassination, only for her to escape and retaliate with an Insecticon army that she found, and for whom she holds some strange power of control over. She is eventually trapped in a stasis pod and held at the Autobot base until its destruction, at which point she is discovered by Megatron and relocated to the Nemesis. She later escapes, only to be banished with her Insecticon army to one of Cybertron's moons and become a vampiric Terrorcon (after she was infected by a Terrorcon Breakdown) who drains the Energon from Transformers. Her "beast mode" is actually her second robot mode in which the rotors can be unfolded and extended to be used as spider limbs for crawling.
* - Unconfirmed in the animated series, confirmed in the prequel comic. She is based on the in that she is seemingly a female counterpart to Starscream. Also appears in Transformers: Exiles, in which she is a female Seeker under Starscream's command who is eventually left behind on Junkion.
* Ripclaw - A female Predacon who transforms into a dragon with a claw tail; described in her bio as a mother figure to the other Predacons.
* Ser-Ket - A female Decepticon modified into Predacon form exclusive to the Prime comics. A member of the Forged, a Decepticon faction created by Shockwave, she attempts to bring the Dinobots back into Shockwave's fold, but is killed by them.
* Flamewar is a female Decepticon. A homage to how the original Flamewar was Energon Arcee repainted black, this version is also a black Decepticon version of Arcee.
* Filch - One of the many prisoners aboard the Alchemor, Filch was freed from her stasis pod when the ship crashed on Earth but was captured by Team Bumblebee. She possesses a crow alternate mode, and is known as a Corvicon, after the genus Corvus. She also has a kleptomaniac tendency centered on collecting shiny objects.
* Zizza - A female Decepticon with a bee theme and the ability to take control of the minds of humans and Cybertronians. She intended to take over the planet Earth by spreading her mind control abilities to the entire human race, but was thwarted by Team Bumblebee during their first team up with Windblade. Like a queen bee, Zizza was large and awkward in movement and preferred a warm environment.
* Slink - A catlike Decepticon featured in the Robots in Disguise junior novel Sideswipe vs. Thunderhoof. She was part of a trio that also included the rat-based Snitch and the weasel-like Sneak, who worked together in an operation to steal pet food. Thunderhoof briefly attempted to take over their operations, but was thwarted by the efforts of the Autobots, who took Slink and her comrades into custody.
* Overhead - A Buffaloid (similar to Terrashock) featured in the Robots in Disguise comics series as the leader of the Cybercomrade Sect crime syndicate. She and her cohorts were among the inmates of the Alchemor freed when the ship crashed, and their efforts to restart their criminal enterprises brought them into conflict with both Bumblebee's new team and his former teammates under Ultra Magnus.
* Retrofit - A low-ranking member of the Cybercomrade Sect.
* Glowstrike - A female insectoid Decepticon who with leads a small group of escaped Decepticons.
* An unnamed female Decepticon resembling Airachnid who is part of Glowstrike and Scorponok's crew.
Transformers Universe
* Astraea - A Decepticon with a talent for explosives who turns into an off-road truck.
* Diabla - A small female Decepticon similar to Prime Arcee, she turns into a Gatling gun-equipped Japanese superbike. Her weaponry includes a missile launcher and blades that deliver devastating venom to her opponents.
* Duststorm - A female Decepticon who turns into a dune buggy and attacks her enemies from long distances.
Transformers: Timelines
*Blackarachnia - A female Cybertronian who plays a role in Lio Convoy becoming the leader of the Maximal/Predacon resistance in Beast Wars: Uprising.
*Stiletto - A female Decepticon modeled after Windblade who is an expert in martial arts and, as her name suggests, a deadly shot with a knife. She killed her own partner after he went on a rampage due to an overdose of Nucleon, and had her memories altered which resulted in her believing that she had killed a civilian instead until she learned the truth. She later sided with the Autobot/Decepticon "Builders" against the Maximal/Predacon resistance.
*Ser-Ket - A female Predacon based on the Transformers: Prime comics character who appears as a member of the Beast Wars: Uprising resistance and a friend of former gladiator Buzzclaw, whose trust in the resistance is shaken when her friend is used in a ploy to cripple and destroy Fortress Maximus.
*Aura - A security officer in Beast Wars: Uprising and a former colleague of Stiletto's who took part in a cover up after Stiletto killed her own partner.
*Scylla - An alternate version of the Beast Wars II character who appears in Beast Wars: Uprising as a recolor/remold of Cybertron Thunderblast with an eye-patch over her left eye.
*Nightracer - A Decepticon sharpshooter who was among the Decepticons cloned by Jhiaxus.
*Crash Test - A female Decepticon with a racecar alt-mode, part of Counterpunch's Decepticon unit; killed by Punch. Another version of her would also appear in fiction posted on the "Renegade Rhetoric" Facebook page.
*Raptoricons - A four-bot team of female Transformers who adopted raptor-based alternate modes:
**Thrashclaw/Thrash - Team leader, appears as a blue-colored raptor.
**Slice - Sniper, appears as a black-colored raptor.
**Shred - Junior member, white-feathered raptor.
**Gnash - Mutated member, appears as a green raptor with mechanical parts exposed; was experimented on to give her the ability to process a different strain of Energon.

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