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Sari Sumdac (UNMARKED SEASON 3 SPOILERS!)
Sari Sumdac
Click to see her after her upgrade.
Voiced by: Tara Strong / Satomi Akesaka
"Listen up, oil brain! My family needs your help, and you are going to help, get me?"
The young daughter of Issac Sumdac, Sari is what anyone her age is; precocious and spunky. She is immediately drawn to the Autobots (especially Bumblebee) and serves as their representative and educator of Planet Earth. When she comes in contact with the AllSpark, Sari's access key turns into a literal key that can fix damaged Autobots and allow her to manipulate nearly any type of machinery.
We later find out why the AllSpark chose her: Sari is really a Cybertronian protoform turned half-human, half-robot after Issac accidentally input his DNA into said protoform. Naturally, she doesn't take this well at first. Sari then gets a system upgrade that ages her up to a sixteen-year-old to make her more powerful. She continuously uses her skills in battle and later helps out during the final battle.
- Action Girl: She's as useful in combat as the Autobots.
- All of the Other Reindeer: It’s revealed in "Sound and Fury" that other children shun her due to her quirky personality. They only came to her birthday party because their parents work for her dad, and even then, they would’ve left immediately if the Autobots hadn’t been at her party.
- Alliterative Name: Her first and last names both begin with S.
- Ambiguous Situation:
- It is unknown how her protoform got into Sumdac Towers. The "The Trial of Megatron" reading reveals that she isn't a protoform and no one is sure of what she is. Not even
Word of God came up with an explanation on what she was, although they also state that this would have been answered by the Season 5 finale. - According to Vector Prime in All There in the Manual, he says that something feels familiar about her.
- It is unknown how her protoform got into Sumdac Towers. The "The Trial of Megatron" reading reveals that she isn't a protoform and no one is sure of what she is. Not even
- Arbitrary Skepticism: She initially refuses to believe her dad's story about her being created from a liquid metal sphere he found in his lab. She voices this while riding inside and talking with a transforming, 20-foot tall, immortal alien robot from another planet whose heart is a magical crystal shard.
- Badass Adorable: She's a very cute child and is also a useful ally to the Autobots.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: Post-upgrade, switching to her robot alt-mode is sufficient to protect her from the vacuum of space. Notable because Blackarachina, also a techno-organic, threw a fit about her own organic parts not being able to survive underwater long enough to reach the Autobots' sunken spaceship. Then again, maybe Sari's version is just better given its source.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Her upgrade activated a pair of pop-out arm tonfa that can do some serious damage, as poor Bumblebee found out the hard way. Ratchet apparently had to shut most of her weapons down after she nearly overloaded.
- Curtains Match the Window: Until her upgrade, when she gets Autobot-style eyes.
- Damsel in Distress: Before her upgrade, Sari tends to be targeted by enemies and has to be rescued by the Autobots. It's even how she first met Bumblebee. The beginning of "Survival of the Fittest" even has Prowl try to teach her self-defense in case they're not around to protect her.
- Deadpan Snarker: Oftentimes is one, especially whenever Bumblebee (or any of the other Autobots, really) regards humans as weird. Significantly more so in Season 3 due to her adopting a Let's Get Dangerous! attitude.
- Expressive Hair: Her pigtails sometimes droop down or stand on end to reflect her emotions.
- Fiery Redhead: She's a pretty passionate young girl.
- Friendless Background: Because she's been homeschooled her whole life (and the other kids think she’s a weirdo), she didn’t have any friends before meeting the Autobots.
- Genki Girl: She's very chipper and energetic.
- Girlish Pigtails: She has pigtails. Even in her robot mode.
- Half-Human Hybrid: She is eventually revealed to be half-Cybertronian and born from a protoform copying her father's DNA.
- Hand Blast: After discovering that she’s a cyborg, she discovers she has the power to fire blue energy balls from her hands.
- I Got Bigger: Sari's first transformation into her robot mode significantly increased her height and made her curvier. Compared to the kid she was before, Sari is actually pretty lanky in Season 3, outgrowing her father. It's possible that her new height reaches Statuesque Stunner levels, but the artstyle of the show doesn't really allow an ideal comparison and there haven't been any official height measurements either, so that makes that rather difficult to pin down.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Sari's light blue eye color matches that of the other Autobots and she's a very kind and caring teenage girl. For the Decepticons, however, Sari's eyes become Icy Blue Eyes, when she actually gets serious the few times she comes into contact with them in Season 3.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With the Autobots.
- Jet Pack: In season 3, her dad gives her one that turns into a scooter.
- Jumped at the Call: She eagerly wanted to help the Autobots in their adventures from day one.
- Kid-Appeal Character: She's the only kid in the main cast and provides some comic relief.
- Killer Rabbit: Just ask Mixmaster and Scrapper.
- The Load: Averted, as she is somewhat of a liaison between humans and the Autobots, as well as having a key empowered by the AllSpark.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Her father is very rich, and she had no friends before meeting the Autobots.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: A weapon that never made it to air.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Inverted and otherwise played with with Isaac Sumdac.
- Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Isaac Sumdac is a chubby, old roboticist while Sari is an adorable little kid, who later becomes a cute teenage girl. One could justify this by saying she's not human, but they share the same DNA.
- Magic Skirt:
- Her skirt usually keeps covering her pelvic area in spite of how short it is. At one point, her leg goes right through it.
- Subverted in "TransWarped" when she is upgraded. While we see up her skirt in some scenes, it's the standard Cybertronian armor there, so it's okay.
- Magical Girl Warrior: Her transformation into robot mode is an homage to these, and she boasts a plethora of weapons inside her. You could argue Sari is a borderline example of this as her powers are purely technological in nature.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: In the most literal sense. Being a Robot Girl, the Key allows her to give herself a Plot-Relevant Age-Up.
- Missing Mom: Averted - she never had one due to her 'birth'.
- Although, since the AllSpark is the source of life for all Cybertronians that would technically make the AllSpark Sari's "mother".
- Mundane Utility: There is virtually no situation in which she wouldn't use the AllSpark key to make things easier.
- Nice Girl: She’s a sweet, friendly kid.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Sari starts the overall story of the series by accidentally reactivating Megatron.
- Puberty Superpower: Inverted in that making herself stronger has accelerated her growth.
- Raised by Robots: She has a robotic tutor educate her, and the Autobots pretty much serve as guardians whenever her father is missing or busy.
- Robot Girl: Before the upgrade, she could eat, sleep, cry, and catch colds, but just happened to have metal under her skin and hidden palm blasters. Post-upgrade, she's still at least partly human, but has a lot more tricks up her Cybertronian sleeves.
- Robotic Reveal: It is eventually revealed that she's a techno-organic Cybertronian.
- Sixth Ranger: At least, she was by the time of the finale. She grew into the role over the course of Season 3.
- Socially Awkward Hero: Has a much better time getting along with giant robots than kids her age. Justified, as she was home-educated, and spent most of her time around robots, anyway.
- Spoiled Sweet: Having a rich scientist dad who can buy her expensive things and build her robots as birthday presents and a jetpack as a Christmas present hasn’t done anything to corrupt her sweet attitude.
- Super-Scream: As Bumblebee quickly learned, the sound of her shrieking is very, very painful to Cybertronians. She's weaponized it against the Decepticons on a few occasions.
- Super-Strength: After her AllSpark upgrade, she can effortlessly lift a full oil drum with each hand, even in her human form.
- Tagalong Kid: She used to be this to the Autobots before she Took a Level in Badass.
- Technopath: She gains control over machines after her upgrade.
- Tinman Typist: After her upgrade, her fingers interface with whatever computer system she hacks into.
- Took a Level in Badass: She becomes a more capable ally to the Autobots than ever after her upgrade, thanks to gaining some new abilities. Subverted, however, as Sari's first official fight actually has her overload due to the AllSpark energy flowing within her, and later episodes show that, while still far more badass than before, Sari still doesn't reach quite the same level of badass and has far less weapons at her disposal. Word of God explained that Sari's weapons have been mostly disabled by Ratchet and that she needs to be able to control energy consumption first in order to truly master them, something that would have likely happened in Season 4 had it not been cancelled.
- Twofer Token Minority: Female, Indian, cyborg.
- Two Guys and a Girl: Out of the Autobots, she tends to hang out with Bumblebee and Bulkhead the most.
- The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: In her teenage form. Sari did not get her looks from Issac.
- Undead Tax Exemption: Averted. When she takes over her father's company in season 2, she's quickly ousted because there are no documents proving she legally exists. This also serves to explain why she was so sheltered. It's not that he didn't want to send her to regular schools, he simply couldn't.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It was Sari using her key to enter her dad's lab that caused Megatron to reawaken.
Isaac Sumdac
Professor Isaac Sumdac
Voiced by: Tom Kenny / Takashi Nagasako
Isaac Sumdac is the head of Sumdac Systems, the business at the heart of 22nd-century Detroit, which relies heavily on his "tireless mechanical helpers". He managed to create these elusive robots by reverse-engineering technology from Megatron, whose head he discovered as a teenager. When Megatron reactivated, he convinced Isaac, who had no idea he was talking to a Decepticon, to keep him a secret from the Autobots. When they found out, they weren't pleased. Megatron later kidnapped Isaac to work on his space bridge, leaving Sari to take over Sumdac Systems briefly before Porter C. Powell kicked her out. He is eventually freed - just in time for Sari to learn the truth about herself.
He is the classic absent-minded professor, forgetting to eat in order to get his robotics in tune. He is well-meaning despite it and remains a loving father to Sari.
- Accent Adaptation: In the German dub, he is given a Chinese accent.
- Absent-Minded Professor: He runs his own company, but sometimes forgets to feed himself and... isn't that great at judging how trustworthy someone is.
- Anime Hair: His hair naturally grows into tall, curvy spikes.
- Bollywood Nerd: He's a genius inventor and Indian.
- Broken Pedestal: He becomes one to the Headmaster, who used to idolize him, after he fires him. He also becomes a broken pedestal to Sari, after she realizes he never told her she’s a cyborg, though she soon forgives him.
- Ditzy Genius: He's a brilliant inventor, but unfortunately he's also forgetful and has poor judgment of the people who try to deceive him.
- Everyone Has Standards: He's insistent that Sumdac Systems employees do not under any circumstances design or build robots with a military purpose. It's grounds for immediate termination of your employment for him.
- Famed In-Story: He’s famous for revolutionizing human civilization with his robots.
- Fiction 500: His inventions have made him very rich.
- Forgets to Eat: "When was the last time you ate?" "What is today?"
- Gadgeteer Genius: He gained great mechanical expertise by studying Megatron’s body parts. He can build all kinds of robots, a suit that gives a person Super-Speed, a scooter that turns into a jetpack, etc.
- Geek Physiques: He’s a short, chubby scientist.
- Honest Corporate Executive: His only real "crime" is withholding his knowledge of Megatron and designing his tech around him. Even then, he had no knowledge of what Megs was upon finding him, the legality of salvaging alien robots is probably not well established, and the only reason he didn't tell Prime decades later is out of shame.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Despite Megatron's menacing nature, aggressive tone, and fairly obvious choice of words, Isaac trusts him entirely and believes every word he says right up until it's too late.
- Manly Tears: He cries at the end of the Season 1 finale when Megatron takes him captive, especially given what he had learned earlier that day.
- My God, What Have I Done?: At the end of "Megatron Rising", having realized that the robot he was helping this whole time was actually the Big Bad.
- Nice Guy: He’s a loving father to Sari, he gives the Autobots a place to stay while they’re living on Earth, and he’s an Honest Corporate Executive.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Helping Megatron rebuild himself and not telling the Autobots he had his head in his lab was a huge mistake.
- Older Than They Look: Since he saw Megatron fall to Earth 50 years ago, he's at least 60 years old. He looks 20 years younger than that.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Helping Megatron rebuild himself, which Bulkhead often brings up.
- Open-Minded Parent: He loves his daughter just the same after unlocking her Cybertronian powers and aging her up into adolescence.
- Robot Master: He creates and controls a lot of robots.
- Rebuilt Pedestal: Although Sari disowns Professor Sumdac as her father after realizing that she’s a cyborg and he never told her, she forgives him when he stands up to the Headmaster to protect her.
- Retcon: He has a white, S-shaped stripe on his hair. We see him with it during flashbacks in Season 1, but in Season 3 it's revealed he got it when he touched the protoform that became Sari.
- Sdrawkcab Name: His last name is "Cadmus
" backwards. - Spiky Hair: His hair grows into a bunch of spikes.
- Technological Pacifist: He refuses to sell weapons and forbids his employees from building any military-related projects.
- Truly Single Parent: Professor Sumdac was never married and after The Reveal that Sari is a cyborg shows that he did not create her with a woman.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Twice over, in that he was not only helping Megatron due to his Horrible Judge of Character, but never got around to making any sort of legal citizenship for Sari. The net result was the former coming back to terrorize the world and the latter being kicked out of her own home and life by Powell because she didn't legally exist in any capacity.
Captain Fanzone
Captain Carmine Fanzone
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett / Nobuo Tobita
"A technophobe is someone who fears technology. Does this! Look! Like! FEAR TO YOU?! *smashes a phone*"
The loud-mouthed captain of the Detroit Police Department (and master of yelling into megaphones), Fanzone dislikes one thing and one thing only: machines. This hits him over the head when Detroit's heroes turn out to be giant robots. Still, for the sake of peace, he tries and learns to live with it, relying on them when he has to. Ironically, Fanzone is also the first human to visit Cybertron and most of the residents fear him because of his organic nature.
- Acrofatic: He's a Big Eater, but he can kick some serious ass.
- A Day in the Limelight: The episode featuring him and Ratchet (hilariously, named after his Catchphrase) being sent to Cybertron. He is not a fan of the locals, nor are the resident Autobots happy about him being there.
- Badass Normal: He's a useful ally to the Autobots even though he's just a normal man.
- Born in the Wrong Century: He doesn't really approve of the inconveniences of modern tech.
- Butt-Monkey: He has a lot of bad luck. Namely, he suffers from a Running Gag of constantly getting annoyed, and sometimes endangered, by malfunctioning machines, and another running gag of his car getting destroyed over and over.
- Character Catchphrase: "This is why I hate machines!" He also hates kids and lawyers, but above all else, he hates tech support.
- Child Hater: Admits to being one in "Mission Accomplished", though in his defense, he said so after Sari was making a list of extensive demands while the Autobots suggested that he be Sari's legal guardian.
- Chronically Crashed Car: His car gets wrecked three times throughout the show.
- The Commissioner Gordon: He's the main authority figure the Autobots work with.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite being a bit bumbling, he actually fights competently alongside the Autobots on several occasions.
- Da Chief: He often gets angry at the Autobots whenever they mess up or inadvertently inconvenience him.
- Depending on the Artist: Episodes animated by The Answer Studio portray him with his Eyes Always Shut, but episodes animated by Mook DLE give him squinting, narrow eyes.
- Eyes Always Shut: Though it appears to vary by episode (and animation studio)
- Failed a Spot Check: By the time he arrives at a military base to investigate the ruckus caused by Blitzwing and Lugnut, the two Decepticons have scanned plane modes for themselves and hid among the jets present. Captain Fanzone angrily asks how the Decepticons could simply disappear into thin air, seemingly forgetting that Transformers can disguise themselves as vehicles and not noticing that the Decepticons' plane modes sport bizarre purple paint jobs that are hugely out of place among the normal military vehicles. Even more incongruously, due to his status as a Triple-Changer, Blitzwing's plane mode has tank treads under its wings in place of landing gear.
- Fantastic Racism: He has plenty of disdain for machines. Especially since a lot of times he's at the expense of gags involving them. However, he's always willing to help the Autobots in times of need and his disdain never veers into outright hatred like it does with Meltdown.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's often very grumpy, but he's an honest police officer and helps the Autobots whenever they need it.
- Noble Bigot with a Badge: He repeatedly states "This is why I hate machines." That doesn't stop him from working with the Autobots, helping them, or saving them.
- He also recognizes the good bots from the bad ones."This is why I hate machines." (looks at Sentinel) "Certain machines more than others."
- He also recognizes the good bots from the bad ones.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He accepts that the Autobots have noble intentions.
- In Black Friday he dismisses Powell's claim that Bumblebee and Sari sprung Prometheus Black out of prison (since they were seen visiting his cell minutes before the Dinobots broke him out), calling it circumstantial evidence at best as it was the Autobots who helped apprehend Black to begin with. He then turns it around on Powell and makes him back down by asking how was he able to obtain a prison's security camera footage without proper authorization.
- Running Gag:
- Every time he tries to use a machine, it malfunctions.
- His car is regularly crushed and was once blown up by Blitzwing, but it keeps coming back, complete with its characteristic rust. Is it possible for a non-sentient object to be The Chew Toy?
- Technophobia: Defied. He's accused of being this by Prowl, but in his own words-
- "A technophobe is someone who fears technology. Does this look like fear to you?!"(Smashes Cellphone)
- Tuckerization: According to Marty Isenberg, he's named after Detroit native Carmen Fanzone, a former neighbour of his who used to play for the Chicago Cubs.
- Walking Techbane: This is why he hates machines. They seldom work for him the way they’re supposed to.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Parodied when the Elite Guard make a public arrival in Detroit."Robots. Why did it have to be robots?"
Porter C. Powell
Porter C. Powell
A shrewd businessman who uses every dirty trick in the book to gain power and money. He works in Sumdac Systems, but briefly takes over it when Isaac "mysteriously disappears".
- Ascended Extra: He originally appeared as one of Prometheus Black's investors in "Total Meltdown." He wasn't going to appear afterwards, but the crew were taken by his design and wanted to see more of him.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's very sleazy and often does immoral things with his businesses. One of his most heinous violations, however, would be in the tie-in comic story "The Insincerest Form of Flattery", where he tried to sell a bunch of SWAT Vehicles named after Bulkhead without the Autobot's permission, used Manipulative Editing to make it look like the vehicles' namesake approved of them, and was later made to confess that he sold the vehicles even though he was completely aware that they were very dangerous.
- Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He has these as a sign that he’s a creep.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He doesn’t understand why Sumdac would choose not to make money by selling weapons, and calls him “shortsighted” for it.
- Greed: His top priority is to make as much money as possible.
- Hate Sink: Aside from cutting funding to Promethus Black in "Total Meltdown", everything Powell does just makes him more and more of a hateable Jerkass, the biggest offense being when he kicked Sari Sumdac out of her home and usurped ownership of Sumdac Systems all the while smugly reminding her that she can't prove she’s Professor Sumdac’s daughter.
- Jerkass: Big time, especially when he took sadistic glee in kicking Sari out of her home after exposing there was no legal proof she exists.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- Downplayed. His defunding of Prometheus Black was a sound business decision as Black had not only failed to deliver a product but had also brought legal action down on himself. Since this was before Powell's characterization as a money-grubbing asshole the scene frames his actions as sympathetic and logical. With Powell's later characterization as a Corrupt Corporate Executive this action stands out as one of the more sensible and less assholish things he'd done. Even if he helped kickstart Black's Start of Darkness, Black wasn't the most sympathetic of characters.
- For all his scummy actions in "The Insincerest Form of Flattery", he's correct in his point that Bulkhead's altmode was taken from a vehicle Powell Motorworks made and he has every legal right to use his patent on it.
- Similarly, while he was being an absolute jerk about it, he is right that a child shouldn't be running a massive, multi-billion dollar robotics company.
- Karma Houdini: He gets away with all the shit he pulls... well, until things start going pear-shaped for him starting with "Black Friday".
- Karma Houdini Warranty: His luck starts slowly running out as the season progresses. First, Ratchet threatens to throw him and the mayor into the river if they don't settle a contract dispute over malfunctioning garbage bots. Then, when Prometheus Black is busted out of jail, not only do his attempts to make it seem that Sari did it fail miserably, but his lab is broken into, he's tossed around and frightened by Grimlock (who also gets oil all over him and his suit), and Fanzone threatens to arrest him for causing a public disturbance leaves him completely stunned. Then, when Professor Sumdac comes back, he's not only fired, but Sari angrily blasts him with her newly discovered Cybertronian abilities. And to put the cherry on top, he tries selling his own brand of Soundwave toys, but when said toys end up nearly enslaving all of Detroit under the real Soundwave's thrall, he's left in ruin by the mass demand of refunds.
- Kick the Dog: He throws Sari out of Sumdac Tower and continuously gloats to her about how she can't prove that she’s Sumdac’s daughter.
- Laser-Guided Karma/Break the Haughty: After being a Karma Houdini throughout Season 2, in "Black Friday", he gets tormented by Grimlock, loses a valuable piece of equipment, and Fanzone threatens to arrest him for being a "public nuisance". The third season begins with him being fired by Professor Sumdac and blasted out of Sumdac Tower by Sari when Professor Sumdac regains control of his company. Much later in "Human Error," he sells Soundwave toys based on Sumdac's original design. After the real Soundwave's villainous actions, however, Powell is financially ruined by the refunds.
- Making a Spectacle of Yourself: He wears big pink-lensed glasses.
- Mysterious Middle Initial: It's never been revealed what the initial "C" stands for.
- No Sympathy: He throws a little girl, whose only parent had been kidnapped, out on the streets and never shows any remorse for doing so.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: In his first scene, he cuts off his funding to Prometheus Black. Given what an asshole Black already was, it's not hard to see what Powell did as karmic.
- Slimeball: He’s a smug, greedy, heartless crook of a businessman who does a lot of sleazy things to make himself richer. Meltdown outright calls him a double-dealing slimeball.
- Smug Snake: He's not very respectful or humble towards anyone.
- What, Exactly, Is His Job?: He's... he's definitely a businessman. Yeah. But he's been seen as the CEO of a car company, breaking deals with gene-splicers, usurping a robotics company from an 8-year-old girl, and selling knockoffs of the original Soundwave toy. His main area of expertise remains a mystery.
Mayor Edsel
Mayor Edsel
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A silent mayor who lets his secretary do all the talking.
- Silent Bob: Even though he never speaks, no one has trouble understanding him.
- Silent Partner: Flipped around from what you'd expect.
- The Voiceless: He needs his assistant to interpret him.
The Witwicky Family
The Witwicky Family
Voiced by: Corey Burton (Spike), Tara Strong (Carly and Daniel) / Katsuyuki Konishi (Spike)
A family of in-jokes, the Witwickys are generally somewhere in the background, although they briefly join the main plot in "Garbage In, Garbage Out", during which Carly is giving birth and is unlucky enough to be picked up by Ratchet in ambulance mode. Spike and/or Carly work for Isaac, since Daniel is one of the few kids at Sari's birthday party.
- All There in the Manual: The AllSpark Almanac books reveal that the family's infant daughter is named Nancy.
- Ambiguously Related: Spike Witwicky's father Sparkplug Witwicky is also present in this continuity, but he is never seen with the rest of the Witwicky family and is never confirmed to be a Witwicky, which makes it unclear whether he is still Spike's father.
- Canon Foreigner: Baby Nancy originates in this continuity, as Daniel was an only child in the Sunbow cartoon.
- Constantly Curious: Daniel Witwicky in the short "Career Day". Optimus Prime introduces himself to Daniel's school, but Daniel won't stop asking Optimus questions about how he transforms.
- Continuity Cameo: They are based on the characters of the same names from the Generation 1 cartoon.
- Panicky Expectant Father: Spike Witwicky is visibly nervous when he is seen with a pregnant Carly in "Garbage In, Garbage Out", and he doesn't get any calmer when Ratchet's attempt to drive them to the hospital goes awry.
- Recurring Extras: Their appearances are generally limited to background cameos.
Supervillains
Prometheus Black/Meltdown
Prometheus Black/Meltdown
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An expert biologist, Prometheus Black used his talents to manufacture "biochemical makeovers", but lost his funding when a PR stunt involving Bumblebee and Colossus Rhodes went badly wrong. Angry that he has to compete with the likes of Sumdac and his machinery (which he hates), Prometheus vows vengeance. He gets it when he's accidentally turned into essentially walking acid. He's one of the few who can melt Cybertronians without even trying, making him a deadly foe.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Fanzone ties him up with one of his own acid-proof suits and Prowl threatens to let the Dinobots attack him, he begs Prowl to keep them away from him.
- Bad Powers, Bad People: His body is made of acid corrosive enough to melt through Autobots, and he's also a depraved Mad Scientist willing to perform experiments on people against their will, even children.
- Bald of Evil: The bald part is subverted in his human form, which had a full head of hair, but after he gets mutated, he’s completely bald.
- The Beastmaster: His two mutant monsters obey him and serve as his henchmen.
- Beware the Silly Ones: His outfits and Disco Dan-nature aside, Meltdown is the only human villain who poses a real threat to the Autobots one-on-one and his experiments are about as depraved as anything the Decepticons do.
- Big "NO!": In "Black Friday", he lets out one of these when he starts melting into a puddle.
- Body Horror: Himself obviously. But those two monsters working for him in two episodes? The bat one used to be his lawyer.
- Card-Carrying Villain: When Captain Fanzone calls him a seriously twisted fruitcake, Meltdown takes it as a compliment.
- Coat Cape: He wore a coat like this at the wrestling match between Bumblebee and Colossus Rhodes.
- Cool Shades: He wears sunglasses as a human, and switches to a different pair after his mutation.
- Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He has these in both his human form and his mutant form.
- Disco Dan: Dresses like he should be at a 70's disco club.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": In "Survival of the Fittest", when Captain Fanzone calls him by his real name, he gets mad and says that his name is Meltdown.
- Driven by Envy: He’s extremely jealous of Sumdac’s fame and success, and determined to outshine him.
- Dub Name Change: He's called Dr. Fusion in the French dub.
- Evil Counterpart: To Isaac Sumdac. Both are scientific geniuses. But whereas Sumdac's specialty is robotics, Black's is bio-technology. While Sumdac uses his robots to benefit mankind, Black uses his biotech for his agenda about organic material being better than machines.
- Come Season 3, he also counts as one to Sari herself. Both are humans affiliated with a revolutionary tech company who are granted inhuman powers by their encounters with the Transformers, and while Sari fights alongside the Autobots and embraces who she is, Prometheus resents his transformation and seeks to exploit them for his twisted experiments.
- Evil Is Petty: He tries to murder Sumdac just because he's jealous of him. He also chooses to kidnap his daughter, Sari, and use her as a test subject for his genetic experiments just to spite her father. He also thinks one of the reasons why he’s more deserving of success than Sumdac is because he is (or used to be) better-looking.
- Eviler than Thou: He proves to be more evil and cunning than Blackarachnia.
- Evilutionary Biologist: He's a biochemist who creates bio-augmentations for humans, and for his own nefarious schemes.
- Expy: As Circuit-Breaker shows, this isn't the first time a human scientist has been mangled in a Transformer-related accident that gave them a touch lethal to Cybertronians, a ravenous hatred of robots, and gaudy fashion sense out of the '70s. His status as a depraved, poisonous Mad Scientist with a creepy fixation on Blackarachnia who isn't really a Cybertronian also brings to mind Tarantulas.
- Fantastic Racism: Against machines, to a FAR more vicious extent than Captain Fanzone.
- Faux Affably Evil: He will sometimes put up a polite facade, such as complimenting Prowl on figuring out he was behind Sari’s kidnapping, or addressing Optimus and Grimlock as “Gentlemen”, but he’s a heartless, depraved psychopath.
- Freak Lab Accident: Autobot fluid + his special steroids = ouch.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He tries to kill Sumdac and use his daughter as a guinea pig for his genetic experiments because he’s jealous of Sumdac for being rich and famous.
- Hate Sink: He’s a petty, spiteful, egotistical creep who tries to murder Sumdac for no other reason than jealousy, and is perfectly willing to kidnap people and perform genetic experiments on them against their will, even planning on doing it to a little girl. He is also racist against robots.
- High Collar of Doom: His acid-proof suit has one.
- Hollywood Acid: Outside of some specific things that can apparently resist acid, he can melt through anything he touches, including the Autobots.
- Hypocrite:
- He constantly states that humans are superior to machines, and uses science to try and better humanity to outclass robots. However, he uses cybernetic implants on Colossus Rhodes, and uses a sample of Bumblebee's fluid to create his acid.
- He claims that one of the reasons why he’s better than Sumdac is because he’s better-looking than him. He says this after he gets mutated into a freakish monster made of acid.
- I Am a Monster: After getting mutated, he laments that he’s become a freak.
- I'm Melting!: His own genetic modifier liquefies him in Black Friday. The end of the episode reveals he's still alive, but he never shows up again.
- Insult Backfire: When Fanzone calls him a seriously twisted fruitcake, Meltdown replies “Flattery will get you nowhere, Captain.”
- Kick the Dog: Having Sari kidnapped and planning to mutate her, just to spite her dad.
- Knight of Cerebus: Of the show's human villains: he's the only one who isn't played for laughs and poses a genuine threat to the Autobots.
- Mad Scientist: He performs genetic experiments that turn people into deformed monsters and superpowered beings, and he’s perfectly willing to kidnap people and experiment on them against their will.
- Maker of Monsters: By his second appearance, he’s used his lawyer and stockbroker as test subjects for his genetic experiments and turned them both into hideous monsters who are fusions of different animals.
- Never My Fault: Prometheus blames Issac Sumdac for his fall from grace and mutation, but completely ignores the fact that he brought legal action on himself when Colossus Rhodes goes on a rampage as a result of the energized super steroids making him extremely aggressive, and he also ignores the fact that he chose to experiment on Bumblebee's internal fluid and it was his chemicals in his lab that he carelessly mishandled that caused his mutation.
- Pick on Someone Your Own Size: He blames the Sumdacs for his company's failure and kidnaps Sari when he decides he needs a child for an experiment.
- Playing with Syringes: He'll perform experiments on people regardless of how they are affected.
- Poisonous Person: Meltdown is a walking acid creature that can melt Transformers with a touch.
- Revenge by Proxy: When he gets the idea to use a child for his mutation experiments, he decides to kidnap Sari and use her as a guinea pig just to spite her father, who he hates.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: He once said Isaac Sumdac merely got lucky with his success in robotics; if only Prometheus knew the half of it...
- Sesquipedalian Smith: His first name Prometheus is rather sophisticated when compared to his mundane surname of Black.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Black never appears again after his supposed "death", but Blackarachnia is still using his lab and resources in "Predacons Rising." And as it turns out, creating a "Transforming organic" isn't entirely impossible...
- Squishy Wizard: His acid, which he can also fire from his hands, will burn through anything, but he's helpless if faced by something that's resistant to it, notably shown when Fanzone grabbed one of his protective suits and overpowered him.
- The Resenter: He absolutely loathes Isaac Sumdac, viewing him as being inferior to him in every way, and a fraud who’s completely undeserving of his fame and riches.
- Token Super: He's the only human villain with superpowers.
- Unknown Rival: Sumdac knew about him and his company, but he had no idea how much Prometheus outright hated him.
- Unskilled, but Strong: His acidic powers make him a huge threat, but beyond that, he's not very combat-capable. When Fanzone neutralizes his powers using a backup acid-proof suit, he takes Black down easily.
- Villain Respect: In "Survival of the Fittest", he congratulates Prowl for figuring out the whole situation after spotting the acid burns on Swoop's leg.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After he's melted into a puddle in Season 2, he never appeared in the show again.
- Would Hit a Girl: He tries to use Sari and Blackarachnia as guinea pigs against their will.
- Would Hurt a Child: When his experiments don't get the results he wants, he decides to try the procedures out on child test subjects. And then he decides to get even with Sumdac at the same time by abducting Sari and using her as a test subject. As Fanzone put it, he's a seriously twisted fruitcake.
Cyrus "The Colossus" Rhodes
Cyrus "The Colossus" Rhodes
His bulked-up form
Voiced by: Corey Burton / Nobuo Tobita
"Who's the little guy now?"
Cyrus "The Colossus" Rhodes is a biotech-enhanced human who works for Prometheus Black. His enhancements allow him to energize super steroids from the pistons and turn him from a frail old man into a muscular brute.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: For some reason, he has light green skin. In his muscular form, his skin also has some dark green patches.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Colossus Rhodes' biotech-enhancements allow him to grow muscular and powerful enough to fight the Autobots. While it seems impressive, there are several drawbacks that far outweigh the benefits.
- The more he uses his super steroids, the more aggressive he becomes, which leads him to go on a destructive rampage after throwing Bumblebee out of the wrestling ring and the building itself. It's because of this that Captain Fanzone refuses to buy the product and denies Prometheus Black the police contract.
- The pistons that energize the steroids serve as an obvious weak spot that Prowl managed to hit and end the fight with Colossus Rhodes instantly. Meltdown fixes this issue by reinforcing the pistons, thus ensuring the Autobots can't exploit this again.
- The enhancements can be disrupted by high-frequency sounds, as shown when Colossus Rhodes gets disoriented by the loud noise of a car horn or a church bell and the enhancements start to malfunction. Whether or not Meltdown managed to fix that problem is never shown or elaborated on.
- And finally, the pistons can be temporarily shorted out when exposed to water.
- Bald of Evil: He has no hair on his head and he’s a ruthless henchman of Prometheus Black.
- The Berserker: His steroids give him super-strength, but have the side-effect of making him extremely aggressive.
- Depraved Dwarf: He’s a supervillain, and in his weak form, he’s the size of a little kid.
- The Dragon: He primarily serves as Meltdown's right-hand man.
- Dumb Muscle: He serves as this to Meltdown. He’s pretty tough, but in his second appearance, he’s outwitted by Sari, who was eight years old.
- Evil Old Folks: He’s an elderly supervillain.
- Expy: His ability to grow muscular through steroids makes him quite similar to Bane.
- Growing Muscles Sequence: The pistons on his back allow him to charge up super steroids to turn him from a frail old man to a muscular brute.
- Super-Strength: His steroids make him as strong as an Autobot.
Nanosec
Nino Sexton/Nanosec
Voiced by: Brian Posehn / Takehito Koyasu
Nino was once a common thief until he was given a speed suit secretly by Megatron, causing him to create wanton havoc until the suit aged him up. He is eventually restored to his youth by Slo-Mo, whom he falls for.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: “I ain’t nobody’s errand boy!…Unless the price is right.”
- Chest Insignia: His suit has one with an N in it.
- Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He’s got these.
- Dub Name Change: In the Japanese dub, he goes by "Speed King".
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He cares about his girlfriend, Slo-Mo.
- Evil Redhead: He has red hair.
- Expy: The Japanese dub turns him into one of Lupin III.
- Gonk: He has a goblin-like face.
- Greed: He uses his Super-Speed to rob people, and when Megatron requests his services, Nanosec tells him he’s nobody’s errand boy…unless the price is right.
- Line-of-Sight Name: Despite his name, he didn't get the idea for his supervillain moniker until one of his victims claimed his money "disappeared in a nanosec!"
- Opposites Attract: The man with Super-Speed gets interested in a woman who can slow down time.
- Outlaw Couple: With Slo-Mo.
- Rapid Aging: A side-effect of the suit was that he'd grow older the more he used it. Slo-Mo fixed him up in Season 2.
- Smug Super: He’s very cocky once he gets Super-Speed.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: Nino Sexton, Nanosec. Oddly enough, he didn't come up with it himself.
- Super-Speed: His suit lets him move superhumanly fast.
- Thin Chin of Sin: Look how long and pointy it is!
- Troll: He’s very smug and constantly mocks people.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Subverted. He’s grateful to Slo-Mo for making him young again and he serves her loyally.
- Villain Team-Up: He teams up with Slo-Mo, Angry Archer, and Professor Princess to form the Society of Ultimate Villainy.
Angry Archer
A. A. Archer/Angry Archer
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett / Katsuyuki Konishi
"An Autobot! Verily the arrows of outrageous misfortune seek to pierce me to the quick - exeunt!"
A Robin Hood-ish figure who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, namely himself. The Angry Archer also has a habit of speaking in quasi-Shakespearean diction.
- Alliterative Name: His first, middle, and last name all begin with the letter A.
- Artificial Limbs: He has a robotic three-armed gauntlet on his left hand which presumably helps with his archery.
- Corrupted Character Copy: To Green Arrow, they're both modeled after Robin Hood and posses an arsenal of Trick Arrows, but green arrow is a superhero while Angry Archer is a (wannabe) supervillain.
- Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He has these.
- Domino Mask: wears a green domino-style mask.
- Gag Nose: He has a huge, pointy nose.
- Gonk: He’s got tiny eyes, buckteeth, and a giant, pointy nose.
- Greed: As he tells Wreck-Gar, he steals from the rich and gives to the needy, namely himself.
- Just Like Robin Hood: Parodied. In his case, when he claims to give the spoils he stole from the rich to the poor, by "the poor" he really means himself or his cohorts. Basically just being a villainous parody of Robin Hood and his ideals.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Jeff Bennett uses his John Cleese impression.
- No-Neck Chump: He oddly doesn’t seem to have a neck.
- Non-Indicative Name: For someone called the Angry Archer, he's actually not that angry.
- Robin Hoodlum: Just highlighting the obvious: he's a criminal who modeled himself after Robin Hood.
- A Sinister Clue: After learning about the character, the real Aaron Archer requested that the cartoon Archer be left-handed like him, although the Angry Archer at times appears to be ambidextrous.
- Trick Arrow: Magnets, armoured fists, grenades, lasers, and grappling lines among others.
- Tuckerization: After character designer Aaron Archer (he was even originally supposed to be named "Aaron the Angry Archer").
- Villain Team-Up: He teams up with Slo-Mo, Nanosec, and Professor Princess to form the Society of Ultimate Villainy.
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: He talks as if he's from one of Shakespeare's plays.
Professor Princess
Penny Princess, Ph.D./Professor Princess
Voiced by: Kath Soucie / Megumi Toyoguchi
"Explosions aren't nice... EXCEPT WHEN THEY LOOK LIKE BEAUTIFUL RAINBOWS!!"
A bratty "princess" whose goal in life is to destroy anything "boyish" so the world can be a happier, pinker place.
- Alliterative Name: Her surname, her given name, and her title all begin with P.
- Bratty Half-Pint: She's a bratty little girl who’s also a supervillain.
- Chest Insignia: Her costume has one that looks like a broken heart.
- Child Prodigy: She's a real professor and presumably built her own weapons, including the flying plush unicorn. Too bad she doesn't have the maturity to go with it.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Per the comics: despite being a joke villain, she manages to humble Starscream. Granted, this was mostly thanks to Starscream being paralyzed when she found him.
- Enfant Terrible: Fans weren't certain, but Word of God says she's really a kid.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In her debut episode, she bursts into tears when her robot unicorn, Powdered Sugar, gets blown up.
- Gadgeteer Genius: She made a flying robot unicorn that can fire energy bolts from its horn, and all sorts of girly, high-tech weapons.
- Giggling Villain: She constantly laughs.
- Hypocrite: A big one. She hates “violent” toys and games, yet her preferred method of getting rid of them is to blow them up. She also says explosions aren’t nice, unless they’re rainbow-colored. And she protests that she isn’t a criminal, but still joins three other supervillains in going on a crime spree, stealing a large sack of dolls for herself.
- My Little Phony: Her robot unicorn companion bears a strong resemblance to Hasbro's other famous property.
- Pink Is Feminine: She has pink hair, a mostly pink outfit, and a mostly pink, wand-shaped weapon, and she likes things that little girls typically like, such as unicorns and dolls.
- Shout-Out: She rides around on a flying unicorn plush toy.
- Villain Team-Up: She teams up with Slo-Mo, Nanosec, and Angry Archer to form the Society of Ultimate Villainy.
Henry Masterson/Headmaster
Henry Masterson/Headmaster
Voiced by: Alexander Polinsky / Kōsuke Okano
"Get ready for T.O.T.: Total Ownage Time!"
A young scientist who has created a robotic head that can take over any other living robot's body (he's kind of a control freak that way), controlling them under his will. Headmaster speaks in computer leet speak (retro leet speak, considering this is the 22nd century).
- Adaptational Villainy: Headmasters are normally supposed to enable a cybernetic partnership, with the bot gaining an extra perspective from his new partner. Here they're the creation of an unstable, angry manchild with emphasis on forceful control, and no consent from the disembodied bot.
- Awesome, but Impractical:
- The Headmaster Units are very powerful and very dangerous machines, especially to Transformers, granting the pilot control of a powerful alien war machine. If the Transformers weren't there, however, their flaws would outweigh their benefits. The Headmaster Units are far too heavy for conventional Earth robots, and even when he takes over Transformer bodies, the size of the Headmaster Unit prevents actual transformation (due to being a few times bigger than an average Transformer’s head). What the units boil down to are very expensive upgrades to already functional robots that are more likely to compromise the robot's infrastructure than provide any major benefits.
- The Headmaster Units' Mini-Mecha mode is similarly redundant. While the humanoid form does allow the ability to operate other devices from within the Unit, Masterson has been shown doing so in head mode. On top of that, Optimus at one point thwarts Masterson's getaway by knocking the tiny robot on its back, whereupon it immediately got stuck.
- Ax-Crazy: He just loves to destroy things.
- Berserk Button: He’s got a few of them.
- Getting fired sends him into a vengeful rage.
- He says nobody insults his Headmaster unit.
- Nobody calls him a noob.
- Beware the Silly Ones: This guy might be an immature geek, but aside from Meltdown, he's the only human who manages to actually pose a danger to the Autobots without any help from the Decepticons.
- Broken Pedestal: When he first meets Professor Sumdac, he gushes on how he's always admired his work and how he grew up tinkering with his robots. He loses his respect for Sumdac when he gets fired because of his dangerous Headmaster unit demonstration and is chewed out for attempting to make weapons for the company.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: His ludicrous tendency to speak in outdated Internet slang aside, he's still very dangerous to the Autobots and he made the Headmaster unit himself.
- Catchphrase Insult: He constantly calls people noobs. His second most-used insult is lame-o/lamer.
- Character Catchphrase: As a part of his Leet Lingo vocabulary a common phrase he drops is "Total ownage, noob/noobs!", he says it so much that other characters have used it against him.
- Chest Insignia: His suit has one with an H in it.
- Color Motif: Magenta. His suit, his helmet, the Headmaster Unit, and the helmets he made for Sparkplug and Tutor-Bot are all mostly magenta.
- Combining Mecha: The Headmaster unit will make any other robot one against their will.
- Disco Dan: He talks like an early 2000s online game nerd in the 22nd century when "l33tsp33k" was already on its way out when the show premiered.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He doesn’t understand why Professor Sumdac refuses to build weapons, and calls Sumdac a wuss for it.
- Evil Is Hammy: He yells a lot of his lines and has a loud Evil Laugh.
- Evil Laugh: He often lets out an evil laugh, usually a loud, hammy one.
- Expressive Mask: It's subtle, but despite being a piece of technology with no mind of its own, the Headmaster Unit’s face sometimes changes to match the presumed expressions of its owner.
- Expy: He's essentially the same guy as Control Freak, since he's a hammy geek armed with highly dangerous technology who has an ego the size of a planet. Hell, he even has the same voice actor.
- Fanboy: He was one for Sumdac, until Sumdac fired him.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He invents his own equipment.
- Grand Theft Me: His modus operandi is using his tech to steal Cybertronians' bodies.
- Hate Sink: It's blatantly obvious Masterson isn't meant to be likable or "cool". He's an obnoxious tool who hijacks Cybertronians' bodies to wreak petty havoc, behaves like the most insufferable internet trolls, and is supremely incompetent despite his threat level. On top of that, he was a Karma Houdini until Season 3, which no doubt came as a relief.
- Laughably Evil: He’s a geeky, immature supervillain who uses outdated internet slang and pilots a robot that looks like a giant head.
- I Lied: Masterson holds the city of Detroit hostage by threatening to overload the solar fusion reactor unless he is given $700,000,000,000 by Professor Sumdac within one hour. When Professor Sumdac seemingly comes with the money, he decides to overload the reactor anyway so he can use the ensuing destruction to convince the military to buy his Headmaster Units.
- Karma Houdini: Twice he's able to scoot out of legal punishment. First, Porter C. Powell is able to keep him from being charged with nearly destroying all of Detroit. Then, in the same episode, Powell gets him off charges of destruction of property and assault through legal loopholes. Fortunately, karma catches up with him.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: His third attack on Sumdac in the third season's "TransWarped" three-part premiere ends with his arrest.
- Leet Lingo: He speaks in outdated Internet slang.
- Mad Scientist: He uses technology of his own creation in his crimes and is not exactly mentally stable.
- Mythology Gag: His Headmaster suit is one for the entire "Headmasters" concept in the Generation 1 comics, albeit as a weapon that takes control of an unwilling bot, rather than a symbiotic partnership. Later iterations of the unit even go as far as to give it a Mini-Mecha form.
- Never My Fault: Masterson resents Professor Sumdac for rejecting his Headmaster Unit and firing him but pays no mind to the fact that he should have thought twice before trying to introduce weapons of war to a Technological Pacifist and completely ignores the fact that he carelessly launched a rocket at the city and endangered lives.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He tries attacking Sumdac just around the same time Sari had angrily disowned him for refusing to tell her about her robotic origins. Doing so leads Sumdac to throw his life on the line for his daughter, causing Sari to forgive him for the whole thing in the end.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Masterson acts more like an immature teenager than a grown man, considering his speech patterns, his demonstration of the Headmaster Unit to Professor Sumdac, and also carelessly endangering lives while acting like his technology is the coolest thing ever. He gets angry when Professor Sumdac rejects his ideas and fires him, leading him to hold the city of Detroit hostage to get the money needed to make his own company, only to decide to blow up the city anyway. Getting fired again leads him to try and kill Sumdac and his daughter personally. It's no wonder Professor Sumdac doesn't want him working for his company.Henry Masterson: The only thing better than getting toys is breaking toys!
- Real Men Wear Pink: When he moves into Sari's room in "The Return of the Headmaster", he is quite ecstatic about it and doesn't appear to mind that everything in it is pink and frilly.
- Revenge: He wants to destroy Professor Sumdac, as well as his daughter and his company, as revenge for firing him.
- Revenge by Proxy: In his final appearance, he tries to get revenge on Sumdac by destroying him and his daughter, Sari.
- Right Behind Me: In the first part of the third season's three-part premiere episode "TransWarped", he insults and threatens the Autobots while talking to Sari, only to be startled when Optimus Prime, who was standing behind him the whole time, grabs him and picks him up.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: His first name begins with H, his surname contains "master", and he calls himself Headmaster.
- Too Dumb to Live: Yes, overload the solar fusion reactor after you've requested $7 billion, and think the government will want your war bots. That will look good on your resume. It really begs the question as to how Powell managed to get him off the hook the first time and convince the public his act of terrorism was a "misunderstanding".
- Totally Radical: A somewhat updated example in that his slang is based on Internet lingo.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: His debut episode ends with him getting away.
- Would Hit a Girl / Would Hurt a Child: In his last appearance, he tries to destroy Sari.
Master Disaster
Voiced by: Bill Fagerbakke / Jurota Kosugi
An evil Australian-accented man who also is the host of an illegal street-racing broadcast.
- Awesome Aussie: Averted with the awesome part, he's an antagonist.
- Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He has these.
- Dub Name Change: He's called Captain Chaos in the Finnish dub.
- Monster of the Week: His only significant role in the show is as an antagonist in "Velocity". He is arrested by Fanzone in his debut episode.
- People Puppets: His AllSpark-amplified remote allows one to control vehicles, which presumably allows him to rig the races. He also used it to control Blurr.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: He’s a villain who wears an entirely red-and-black outfit.
Slo-Mo
Samantha Lomow/Slo-Mo
Voiced by: Tara Strong / Takako Honda
"I'm the leader of this syndicate. The head honcho, the big cheese, see?"
Speaking in 1930s moxie speak, Slo-Mo is a woman with the ability to slow down time, thanks to a watch embedded with an AllSpark fragment. She rounds up all the other human villains and forms the S.U.V (Society of Ultimate Villainy). She also has a thing for Nanosec.
- Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: She has these.
- Disco Dan: Like a lot of the other human villains; in this case, she's a fast-talking 1930s Screwball Comedy protagonist, albeit an evil one.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She cares about her boyfriend, Nanosec.
- Greed: Her goal is to become rich.
- The Leader: She’s the leader of the Society of Ultimate Villainy.
- Mistaken for Badass: Slo Mo seriously overestimates her comrades, as she claims they're the best criminals in Detroit when they're all at best a nuisance to the Autobots. In fact, the only human villains shown powerful enough to compete with Cybertronians are Meltdown, Cyrus Rhodes, and Headmaster, yet Slo Mo calls her teammates "the best of the best". Then again, they are far less evil than the former three and probably easier to work with.
- Monster of the Week: Her first and only appearance is in "SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy".
- Motor Mouth: In stark contrast to her power, she speaks very rapidly.
- One-Shot Character: Only appears in "SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy", and then never again.
- Opposites Attract: The woman with the power to slow down time gets interested in the man with Super-Speed.
- Outlaw Couple: With Nanosec.
- Time Stands Still: Thanks to her AllSpark amplified timepiece.
- Tuckerization: Named and designed after Hasbro exec Samantha Lomow. S. Lomow, get it?
- Unwitting Pawn: To Swindle. True to the Decepticons' name, he turns out to be playing her and the other human villains for chumps and was only interested in obtaining her AllSpark-empowered watch.
- Villain Team-Up: She forms the Society of Ultimate Villainy, which consist of her, Nanosec, Angry Archer, and Professor Princess.
