Elita One
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Elita One is a fictional character in the Transformers universe.
| Transformers character | |
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| Elita One | |
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| Affiliation | Autobot  |
| Sub-Group | Female Autobots |
| Function | Female Autobot Commander |
| Motto | "I can deal with Decepticons. Elita One knows no fear." |
| Alternate Modes | Cybertronian Car |
| Series | Transformers: Generation 1 |
| Voiced by | Marlene Aragon (English) |
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[edit] Transformers: Generation 1
Elita One is the leader of the female Autobots and romantic interest of Optimus Prime.
[edit] Animated series
Nine million years ago, she was a civilian robot called Ariel romantically linked with dockworker Orion Pax. When the Aerialbots were transported back in time, they met Orion Pax, Ariel and their friend Dion. As Elita One, she is romantically linked to Optimus Prime, the upgraded form of Orion Pax.
When Megatron attacked the energy storage hangar where Orion worked, he fatally wounded both Ariel and Pax.
The Aerialbots took Orion Pax to Alpha Trion, who reconstructed both Pax and Ariel. Both became important commanders of the Autobots, Optimus Prime and Elita One. They remained romantically linked after their reconfiguration.
Four million years ago Elita One parted ways with Optimus Prime as he lead his ship the Ark on a mission to gather energon. Optimus vowed to return for Elita, but caught in an explosion, Optimus believed Elita to be destroyed.
Elita One is the female Autobot commander on Cybertron trying to liberate the planet from the corrupt grip of the Decepticon guardian of Cybertron, Shockwave. Advised by Alpha Trion, she led a group of female Autobot resistance fighters including Chromia, Firestar, and Moonracer.
When captured by Shockwave, Optimus Prime traveled back to Cybertron to uphold his promise and save his love.
Elita One possesses a rare and powerful weapon built within herself called a temporal disharmonizer, that can temporarily halt the flow of time within its radius of effect. However, the weapon drains her life force, so she only uses it when there is no other hope of victory. When used one of the few things that can save her life is a power transfer from Optimus Prime, who has a compatable power system to hers.
Elita-One only appears in one episode (The Search for Alpha Trion). (Her story as Ariel is told, along with Optimus Prime's [as Orion Pax] in War Dawn. As the newly-built Optimus Prime leaves to fight Megatron with the Aerialbots, Alpha Trion hints that he will rebuild Ariel as Elita-One.
[edit] Dreamwave Productions
Elita-1, Chromia, Firestar and Moonracer appeared briefly in the final issue of Dreamwave Comics Generation One series among the female Transformers sent by the Quintessons to Cybertron. Although they were supposed to character in the next plot arc involving the return of Optimus Prime, the company closing left this story unfinished.
[edit] Voice actor plays
Ariel appeared in the 2006 TransformersCon voice actor play. Voices in the play were performed by a variety of volunteers and the actual voice actors attending the convention. In this play various Transformers from different timelines and realities were swept up in a repeat wave and transported along with Unicron to Earth. The Transformers included Generation 1 Tracks, Ariel, Cosmos and Megatron, Beast Wars Tarantulas, Robots in Disguise Sky-Byte and Beast Machines Tankor.
Ariel found herself initially enamoured with Megatron for his ability to fly, although Tracks tried to convince her such an ability wasn't unique. She also found the concept of organic life fanciful.
Eventually the Transformers were able to learn that the death of Unicron in 2005 was what created the repeat wave. They defeated Unicron by tricking him into Transforming and using up his power, then using the Key to Vector Sigma program (which Tankor had brought with him) to tap into the power of Vector Sigma itself, and through it the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. With Unicron severely drained the various Transformers faded back to their original timelines.
[edit] Transformers: Energon
The name Ariel was later used as the Japanese name for the Transformers: Energon character Arcee.
