Arcee
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Arcee is a fictional character in the Transformers universe.
Although a group of Female Autobots had already been featured in one episode of the cartoon series, Arcee quickly became the most famous due to her position as a recurring cast member following her introduction in Transformers: The Movie. In the movie it was implied that Arcee might have had feelings for Hot Rod, but since his transformation to Rodimus Prime she seemed to grow closer to Springer. In the U.S. continuity of the cartoon, she later became a Headmaster by binary-bonding to her friend Daniel Witwicky.
Like all the new characters in the movie (with the exception of Ultra Magnus), Arcee was designed for animation first, but while the other new characters inspired toys that saw final release, Arcee's design never passed early prototype stages. When she became a Headmaster, the Japanese dallied with the idea of repainting the Chromedome toy to represent her, but the suggestion was abandoned.
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In 2001, Arcee finally received a toy in the form of an exclusive for the 2001 Botcon convention. The toy itself was a recolored version of the previous year's TM2 Blackarachnia toy, and the packaging featured a new sound clip recorded by Arcee's original voice actress, Susan Blu. In 2003, in the original Japanese version of "Transformers: Armada," Arcee was the name given to the prominent Mini-Con known in America as Sureshock (leading to some debate on the mini-con's gender - the Dreamwave Comics would later identify Sureshock as female).
Transformers Energon/Super Link
In 2004 Arcee finally had a wide-release original mold made in homage to the original form. In the Energon storyline, the character Arcee was a female Omnicon who transformed into a motorcyle and used an energon crossbow. She was created to be a leader for the Omnicons-and, as such, was the only Omnicon who was not mass-produced. In Japan the toy/character was named Ariel.