Elita One
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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) |
Elita One is a fictional character in the Transformers universe. Originally, 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.
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.
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.
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. However, it is only hinted that Ariel is to be remade into a "powerful female warrior".) It is not conclusive to assume that she was destroyed because Megatron gained control of Cybertron by the start of Transformers: The Movie (1986). There are many characters that either were not in the movie and yet were still functional such as the Aerialbots, or simply were not written into any episode scripts. Therefore, it is just as possible that she was still a secret resistance leader up to and after Rodimus Prime's Autobots liberated the planet.
[edit] Dreamwave Comics
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] Convention
Ariel appeared in the 2006 Transformerscon voice actor play, where she helped a number of other Cybertronians who were sucked through time defeat Unicron.
[edit] Transformers: Energon
The name Ariel was later used as the Japanese name for the Transformers: Energon character Arcee.
