Elita-One

Elita-One is a female extraterrestrial robotic character who features in Transformers.

Biography

Generation One

Elita-One was a female Autobot (female Cybertron) and leader of an Autobot (Cybertron) resistance cell on Cybertron (Seibertron). Elita-One began her existence as Ariel, a worker Autobot and girlfriend of Orion Pax. Nine million years ago, Megatron attacked the energy depot where she and Pax worked, and she was badly damaged. Saved by a mysterious group of Autobots (the time-displaced Aerialbots), Ariel was rebuilt by Alpha Trion into a warrior robot called Elita-One. While Pax- now Optimus Prime (Convoy)- was given the Autobot Matrix of Leadership (Cybertron Matrix of Leadership), Elita was given an ability just as potent- she could temporarily stop time. However, the ability drained so much of her power that she rarely ever used it.

Elita served a command role in the Autobot military during subsequent years, but few specifics were given. When Optimus Prime and his best troops left Cybertron in the Ark, he believed she had been slain in a missile attack, but in actuality she formed a secret resistance cell of female Autobots. Elita's fellow warriors included Chromia, Firestar and Moonracer, and they occasionally turned to Alpha Trion for aid and information. Their secrecy was so total that both Autobots and Decepticons (Destrons) came to believe that Elita-One and her kind had been destroyed.

In 1985, Elita's cell was rediscovered, leading to Starscream leading a squad to exterminate them. Although they were only able to trap the females in their collapsed base, Starscream did capture Elita. On learning this, a surprised and distressed Prime (with other Autobots tagging along) went to Cybertron to save her. This forced Elita to save a captured Optimus using her time-stopping power. Depleting most of her life-force as a result, Elita was taken by Prime to Alpha Trion. She was repaired in time for both the male and female Autobot leaders to rally their forces against the Decepticons. Afterwards, Elita and Prime parted ways again.

Elita-One's ultimate fate is unknown.

IDW

Elita One was a descendant of Liege Maximo's tribe. This group of Transformers had turned against their evil master following Megatronus's murder of Solus Prime Heavy and sworn an oath to keep their former leader detained aboard his own Titan Vigilem: repurposed into Carcer, a nomadic living prison. Rubicon Elita One became the captain of this prison ship and the "First One", ruling from a throne made of her people's greatest heroes, all of whom had sacrificed their lives and bodies to maintain their ship. Under Elita's command, the straitened Carcerians valued three core tenets that defined their existence: security, efficiency, and truth. Another law she upheld was that Carcer would never again transform, for fear of releasing Liege Maximo. When Elita's second-in-command Obsidian reported to her that combiners from Cybertron had briefly touched their Titan, Elita One took the news with amusement, All That Remains concluding that Cybertron had devolved into a civilization of conquerors looking to enslave her people. When representatives from Cybertron arrived a few weeks later, Elita One posted an armed detachment around her Titan's space bridge, which intercepted Windblade and Starscream as they appeared on her ship. Claiming that her ship was in fact the lost Titan Tempo, Elita led them through her home while explaining her people's straitened lifestyle. Starscream offered Elita an idea of a perfect Cybertron, and tempted her with the ideas of rich resources and land for the Carcer's leader. Like any normal bot, she called Starscream out on his lying by ordering a gun be put to his head to execute him. Windblade salvaged the situation by persuading her that Carcer needed Cybertron; Starscream was a scumbag and that killing him would bring war. Elita One believed Windblade and let Starscream go free, but she gave them a warning about lying on her ship, unaware that Windblade knew that she was lying about the heritage of her vessel. Regardless, Elita One sent representatives to Cybertron to the Council of Worlds signing with Obsidian and Strika as the delegates.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Elita-1 was a female Cybertronian of considerable stature, built with the recognizable sleek-yet-armored frame of an Autobot warrior. In her earliest cartoon appearance, her color scheme consisted primarily of pink and red plating with white accents, distinguishing her visually from her male counterparts while retaining the angular helmet crest and facial features characteristic of Cybertronians. Her optics glowed blue, and she bore a tall, ridged helm. One version of her originally operated under the name Ariel. This was until she was fatally injured and reconstructed by Alpha Trion into a female warrior.

Powers and abilities

Elita-One was a female Cybertronian Transformer that were extraterrestrial robotic beings capable of shifting into an alternate mode.

She remained on Cybertron where she was part of a small band of resistance that opposed the rule of the Decepticons.

Notes

• Elita-One was created by Beth Bornstein where she was voiced by actress Marlene Aragon and made her first appearance in Transformers Generation One.

In other media

Films

• In Transformers One, Elita-One appeared in the setting of the animated film where she was voiced by actress Scarlett Johansson. Elita-1 was introduced as the commander of an Energon mining crew deep within Cybertron’s mines—revered for her spotless record and ambition toward promotion. When a cave-in trapped a fellow miner, Jazz, she ordered an immediate evacuation in line with protocol; however, Orion Pax and D-16 defied her orders to attempt a rescue. Though their actions resulted in success, they caused irreparable equipment damage, leading to Elita’s unjust demotion to waste-management duty by the punitive overseer Darkwing. Shortly afterward, Elita encountered Orion, D-16, and B-127 trespassing to embark on a quest to locate the mythical Matrix of Leadership. Jealous of their breach of rules—and her demotion—she attempted to turn them in, attempting to sabotage their transport to security. But when the train they stowed aboard was derailed by geological shifts, the group was forced to cooperate. During this journey, Elita begrudgingly joined their search, entrusted with carrying the map, and warned them that if nothing came of their expedition, she would hold them accountable to superiors. Elita’s role grew critical when the group discovered Alpha Trion amidst the fallen bodies of the Thirteen Primes. She observed with focused calm as Orion, D-16, B-127, and Trion pieced together the truth behind Sentinel Prime’s betrayal—that he murdered the Primes and removed transformation cogs from other bots to maintain dominance. Faced with this conspiracy, Elita did not succumb to despair; instead, she helped Orion rally the High Guard. She personally defeated Airachnid to seize her memory files, which were then broadcast to expose Sentinel’s duplicity. This decisive act sparked open rebellion against Sentinel’s rule. In the climactic uprising, Elita’s leadership truly shone—she rescued Orion from the rubble following a Death Trackers’ assault, comforting him with a pep talk and reminding him that his hopeful courage had driven them this far. She then commandeered a train with allied High Guard and miners, crashed it into Sentinel’s tower, and freed the prisoners. Rallying the populace, she helped bring down Sentinel’s regime through a meticulously coordinated rebellion based on her tactical acumen. Following the fall of Sentinel, she helped legitimize Orion’s transformation into Optimus Prime, and when he offered her a rank promotion, she modestly requested to be named his second-in-command—posing as Commander of the new Autobot faction. She then watched as the Matrix restored Cybertron’s Energon flow and transformed all bots with new cogs, ushering in a new era for Cybertrontian society.

Appearances

• Transformers:

Links

Internal Links

• Elita

External Links

• TF Wiki.net Entry

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