Minerva (Transformers)
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Minerva is the name of a fictional character from the various Transformers universes.
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[edit] Transformers: Generation 1
| Transformers Character | |
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| Minerva | |
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| Affiliation | Cybertrons/Autobot |
| Sub-Group | Headmaster Juniors |
| Function | Medic |
| Alternate mode(s) | Porsche 959 |
| Series | Transformers: Generation 1 |
| Voiced by | Yuriko Yamamoto (Japanese) |
In Transformers: Super-God Masterforce, Minerva was a 15 year old girl from France.
A human character from Transformers Masterforce, Minerva was one of three human children to use the Transtectors to become Cybertron Headmasters, serving as the team's medic. Her Transtector was a Porsche 959. She is non-violent by nature so she never uses her weapons to take another's life.
[edit] Animated series
She first appeared in the third episode of the Masterforce series. Minerva was a passenger on a jet from the Republic of Mont Porte which crashed in Corsica because of the Destron Pretender Blood (known as Bomb-Burst in America). The Cybertron Pretenders managed to get her and her parents to Japan.
Minerva volunteered to become a Cybertron Headmaster Junior along with Shuta and Cab in episode 4 of the series.
She carries a Shock Blaster and Shock Gun.
During a desert battle with Overlord, God Bomber revealed an unexpected ability by reconfiguring his components into a robot mode in response to Ginrai's threat. Later, the Headmaster Juniors discovered that they could control Godbomber in both of his modes by uniting their own Chokon Power, together matching the level used by Ginrai to control him.
With BlackZarak's return to Earth and subsequent merging with Devil Z, God Ginrai was forced into a final battle with the hybrid entity. He succeeded in decapitating the villain, but BlackZarak then assumed a new hydra alternate mode, which God Ginrai destroyed with his God Fire Guts attack. With the added power of the Headmaster Juniors from within his God Bomber components, God Ginrai then executed the almighty Final Fire Guts attack, destroying Devil Z. With the energy-being's destruction, Ginrai and the other humans were separated from their Transtectors, who continued to exist as true robot lifeforms, having evolved real personalities through their partnership with humans. The newly-born Transformers then departed Earth to pursue the surviving Decepticons back into space. Minerva last appeared in episode 42 of the Masterforce series.
After gaining sentience, the pure Transformer Minerva along with Wheeljack and Perceptor (although none of these characters are called by name and all feature different voice actors from their original Japanese versions) helped to treat God Ginrai and give him new life as Victory Leo after he was fatally injured in Transformers: Victory.
[edit] Nightbeat
In the US, the character Minerva was never sold. However, the Minerva toy was recolored, with white pieces recolored light blue and red parts recolored yellow. The resulting character was a male Autobot named Nightbeat.
[edit] Transformers: Galaxy Force
In Transformers: Galaxy Force, the Thunderblast toy was recolored and released in limited numbers, painted as a homage to Minerva. However, this recolored GD-11 Chromia remained a Destron/Decepticon. This Transformer was sold with the Galaxy Force T/F/G/F vol. 09 DVD that contains episodes 33-36.
