Female Autobots

The Female Autobots are a team with a rather self-explanatory designation from thecartoon portionof theGeneration 1 continuity family.

Amazon Autobots on Beta Moon?

TheFemale Autobots^[1],also known as theShield ofSolus^[2]or simplyElita One's Squadron^[3],are a team offemaleAutobotsunder the command ofElita One.

The group's members include:

• Elita One(the leader)
• Chromia(the tough one)
• Firestar(the charismatic one)
• Greenlight(the romantic)
• Lancer(the smart one)
• Moonracer(theprecocious youngscoutsharpshooter)
• Arcee^[4](the special guest star)

In some universes, five of them have the ability to form the divinely appointed combinerOrthia.

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformerscartoon

The Female Autobots were destroyed by a missile strike during theArk's launch. Or so everyone thought...

Four million years later, in1985,they had formed a resistance group on Cybertron, operating in secret.Shockwavediscovered their continued existence (thanks to Moonracer) and tracked them back to their underground headquarters. A subsequent attempt by theDecepticonsto capture Elita One resulted in the destruction of said headquarters, but also a reunion with the Autobots stationed onEarth.

Once the Decepticons were dealt with, the Female Autobots relocated to a new secret headquarters provided by Alpha Trion and chose to remain on Cybertron to continue the fight there.The Search for Alpha Trion

Unite Warriors

Megaempress's band of Decepticons were recognized as the "Woman Destrons" (ウーマンデストロンŪman Desutoton), a counterpart group to the Woman Cybertrons.Megatronia Chapter

MC Axis mini-comics

When the team took out a humongous Decepticon, Moonracer began boasting about their success, claiming that they alone could retake Cybertron. Only Elita One failed to share in her team's exultation, as she knew they were only hiding and that the war was wearing them out. She prayed that her beloved Optimus Prime would return soon to save the day.The Transformers: Elita One

At another time, Arcee showed off to Firestar and Moonracer how "badass" she was by taking out a Decepticon the other two hadn't even noticed. She then continued to berate them that war seemed to be too tough for females in particular. Firestar was horrified at realizing that three beautiful women were at three times as much risk.The Transformers: Arcee

Generations Selects Special Comic

The Female Autobots were among the forces of the secondCybertron Alliancebrought to bear against theDinobotsin the battle forSelectoremancipation inNeo Scramble City.Having apparently picked up the ability to combine at some point, they formed Orthia on Alliance leaderOptimus Prime'scommand in preparation as aQuintessonassault interrupted the battle.Volcanicus comic 2The Female Autobots fared poorly against the Quintessons' ultimate champions, theAngolmois-superchargedTerrorcons,as a blast fromBlot'sslime gunforcibly decombined Orthia and began to dissolve them and the surrounding Alliance forces alive.Abominus comic 1

TV Magazinecomic continuity

"I'm just the chaperone."

By the year2010,the Autobot ranks were subjected to a new chain of command. The Female Autobots joined other subgroups, such as theDinobots,theJunkionsand theAutobot Cars,as now being under the command ofJazz.This is the Latest Autobot/Decepticon Chain of Command!

DreamwaveGeneration Onecontinuity

Hey, watch where you point that thing.

The "Female Autobots" were an elite squad of warriors under the command of theQuintessons.Arcee functioned as a sleeper agent of theirs.Generation One #11

War for Cybertron Trilogymarketing material

Solus Primeof theThirteenplanted her godly power within five chosen warriors: the Shield of Solus. This quintet, led by Elita-1, were gifted the power to combine into the mighty Orthia, a giant inheriting Solus's ability to forge weapons of immense power to lightCybertron'sdarkest hour.SiegeTeletraan-1 Data Files

Legacymarketing material

Elita-1 led the resistance forces backed by her Special Unit, known as the Shield of Solus.Elita-1'sLegacybio

Games

Transformers Legends

Featuring tasteful underboob.

Hunting parties led bySlipstreamandFlamewarmanaged to stop Elita One's Squadron.Fatal Furies

Toys

• Elita One (G1)#Toys
• Chromia (G1)#Toys
• Firestar (G1)#Toys
• Greenlight#Toys
• Lancer#Toys
• Moonracer (G1)#Toys
• Arcee (G1)/toys#Toys

Notes

Heck yes.

• In terms of real world history, the Female Autobots are thebrand's firstproperfemale Transformersto appear in published media. They were predated by:Aunty,a female Cybertronian, but not Transformer;Nightbird,a female robot who might have become a Transformer; andAlana,a female Tlalakan who got turned into a Transformer for a short while.Arcee,an Autobot warrior, was created prior to the Female Autobots, but "The Search for Alpha Trion" was broadcast first before her debut inThe Transformers: The Movie.
• After spending many years as namelessbackground characters,Greenlight and Lancer were finallygivennames in theTimelinesstory "Flames of Yesterday".
• The Club Udon special edition cover toG.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of Warissue 2,which is dedicated to the ladies of the two brands, surprisingly features what appears to be Lancer with Greenlight's colors. This is the only instance during the 25 years between the airing of "The Search for Alpha Trion" and the publication of "Flames of Yesterday" that these characters have been referenced.
• HadDreamwavenot gone bankrupt, the Female Autobots (i.e. the main four) would have receivedMore than Meets the Eyeprofilesin theGeneration One2004 Datatracks Annual.^[5]

Foreign names

• Japanese:Woman Cybertron(ウーマン・サイバトロンŪman Saibatoron)

References