Kaminari Ishihara

Kaminari Ishihara is ahumanfrom thelive-action filmandGeneration 1continuity families.

DoctorKaminari "Kami" Ishiharais a specialist in cybernetic motivation. She has PhDs in both physics and engineering fromMIT.She has black belts in four martial arts and is a former Japanese intelligence agent. Her home isTokyo,Japan.

She is reportedlyveryeasy on the eyes.

Fiction

The Veiled Threat

Kaminari's grandfather had wanted a grandson to join thearmy,so to please him, she studied traditional martial arts, while her father encouraged her to pursue her academic studies. After being recruited byNEST,Ishihara developed a hi-tech weapon which could deliver a directedEMP,which she hoped would be useful in the fight against the Decepticons.

When thePearl of Indiaarrived at the dock atDiego Garcia,Ishihara was there to meetCaptain Lennox,Epps,and fellow scientistPetr Andronov.After the initial briefing, she told Epps about her EMP gun, and he confessed he'd rather stick to sabot rounds. An attack inZambialed the four humans to travel there withOptimus Prime,Ironhide,Ratchet,Salvage,andBeachbreak.While riding in Prime's cab, Ishihara began to find Andronov's sense of humor irritating. They located the DecepticonsMacerator,Dropkick,andPayloadwaiting in the Zambezi River, but the river's speed meant she couldn't swim out to get close enough try out her gun. With the aid of Beachbreak's jet ski mode, she and Andronov did manage to join in, aiding Ironhide in his fight against Payload, before Ishihara warned the Autobot to return to shore as they were approaching Victoria Falls. Though Optimus actually went over the falls, he was saved from plunging too far by Beachbreak's tow line and the other Autobots. WhenStarscream,enraged by the Autobots' escape of their trap, killed Beachbreak, Ishihara was hit particularly hard, as she'd grown fond of the small Autobot. The NEST team tracked the Decepticons to the Kariba dam downstream, but Lennox ordered Ishihara to hang back with Ratchet and Salvage. It was therefore Ishihara who noticed that Payload's attack on the dam was going to succeed, prompting Ratchet to execute a last-minute save. She also tagged Dropkick with her EMP gun as he fled the dam.

Following a return trip to Diego Garcia, Ishihara went toAustraliawith Lennox, Optimus, Ironhide, and Salvage in search of more Decepticons. Lennox was unimpressed with the way she waited until the last moment to deploy her chute when they parachuted in, but their frosty working relationship began to thaw. Ironhide was thankful Ishihara was sleeping in Prime's cab, as he didn't think he'd have been able to stand the J-Pop she was listening to on her music player. While searching, they speculated that the Decepticons were trying to find fissionable materials in an attempt to resurrectMegatron.They encounteredKickback,Trample,andTread.While Ironhide confronted Tread, Ishihara ran up to the Decepticon and allowed herself to be taken hostage so she could shoot the Decepticon in the eye with her gun. The tactic worked well enough that Ironhide was subsequently able to kill Tread, though he told her afterwards she had taken a terrible risk. She merely quotedThe Art of Close-Quarter Fightingat him.

Back at Diego Garcia, Ishihara and Andronov discussed ways the Decepticons might get enough power to revive Megatron. WhenDeadendandSwindlebegan causing trouble inRome,a NEST team including Ishihara traveled there to investigate. Though it turned out to be a trap, drawing Optimus into the Colosseum to faceBarricade,Ishihara, Andronov, Lennox, and Epps provided their own aid to the Autobot leader by attacking Barricade at a crucial moment, before escaping through the subway.

Ishihara later returned to the university at Tsukuba to present an official report.The Veiled Threat

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Doctor Ishihara was one of severalJapanesescientists to contribute to the creation of theTrainbots.She was responsible for creating their neural networks and for the initial specifications of theirpersonality components.As a Tokyo native, she felt a special affinity for the Tōkai-type 153 express train, and named itSuikenafter her favorite style of martial arts.Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/27

Notes

• The word "Kaminari" is usually written as "Tiếng sấm", literally meaning the sound of the roaring thunder. Yep, strange for using as a girl's name.