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** The name *might* have been tolerable... if they didn't use it at every single opportunity! Seriously, the name comes up over a dozen times in a twenty two minute episode.
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'':
** It has taken a Unicron-sized step back when it comes to the role of women. The major female bots roles ''all'' revolve around [[
** Exhibit A: Arcee. Ratchet's failure to save her, resulting in her being mindwiped to prevent her data, which turned out to be the codes to control Omega Supreme, falling into the wrong hands, was his tragic backstory. She returns in the present ''offline'' most of the time (why is never stated - it's [admittedly logical] fan speculation that the Autobot bigwigs' attempts to restore that data damaged her further) and is pretty much a plot device until restored midway through the last episode.
** Exhibit B: Blackarachnia. The [[Dark Action Girl]] from ''[[Beast Wars]]'' is back! [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|How awesome is that?]] The answer: Not as awesome as you'd hoped. This Blackarachnia is driven by her hatred of her beast-bot status, which she tries to cure. ''All'' of her episodes revolve around this, with her never getting in on other Decepticon plots that might've brought out any ''[[Beast Wars]]'' Blackarachnia-esque moments. Self-hatred drives everything she does. Also, she invariably becomes a [[
** Exhibit C: Elita 1. While ''Animated'' Blackarachnia used to ''be'' Elita One, she still counts as separate because ''that'' form has its own name and history too. Unfortunately, she doesn't live up to it any better than she went on to live up to Blackarachnia's. Like the horror movie victim who trips or hurts her ankle for no good reason on flat ground, Elita's [[Powers as Programs|power-stealing]] ability cuts out ''much'' faster than it'll be shown to at other times, causing her to fall back into the clutches of the alien spiders. (Her attempt to use her absorbing power on the organic spider creatures results in her becoming Blackarachnia.) This makes being ''Optimus''' tragic backstory failure her major role, as Arcee is for Ratchet. <ref> Elita has only been in one episode before this, waaay back in G1's first season, but she really made use of her screen time. G1 Elita's martial arts was enough to bring down airborne Decepticons with her bare hands, and for an encore, she saved Optimus Prime's aft from being melted down with her [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]. She fit more [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] material into one episode than some male characters fit in a whole season.</ref>
** Exhibit D: The others. Other female bots exist, but their roles are very brief. Slipstream gets to be snarky but not play a major role, and is the least-seen of the Starscream clones. She reappears near the end of the series out of ''freaking nowhere'' to try to kill what she thinks to be Starscream for no discernible reason and then flies away when it turns out to not be him, making her return a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] that added little to the proceedings except to prove Optimus' flying needs work - something we'd figured out already. Red Alert's a girl, and gets pounded on, but then, so do the rest of her team. Mind you, each of the males got to ''attack'' Strika and company, while Red only got to ''get attacked'' while tending to a wounded Hot Shot. Strika herself was a Decepticon team leader and quite [[Badass]], but again, only in that one scene. Flareup gets to join the rest of the civilian robots in being grossed out by an organic. Oh, and one bot seen briefly and none too clearly in that episode is [[All There in the Manual|apparently]] Glyph, a character from a rather obscure comic. The ''prominent'' females of ''TFA'' have one role and one role only: that of a victim for a male to either [[
* ''[[Starchaser: The Legend of Orin]]'':
** Animated B-grade [[Space Opera]] has, as a subplot, a [[Ridiculously Human Robot|a secretarial android in a very female chassis]] being captured by [[Loveable Rogue|the local Han Solo]] [[Expy]]. Initially, she is quite combative, until he locates her personality circuits ''inside her posterior'' and reprograms her to be arm-drapingly infatuated with him (that's gotta be a trope, in itself). [[Moral Dissonance|He then sells her to a slave auctioneer at the next civilized port]], and only grudgingly buys her back when the [[No Social Skills]] hero manages to get himself put up on the block, too. Also, after the hero's initial girlfriend is {{spoiler|rather shockingly killed}}, the hero finds a new chick to fall in pretty-much-instant love with, and the new girl uses the same voice actress. Women are completely interchangeable!
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