Airachnid (Prime)


 * Airachnid is a Decepticon from the Prime continuity.''

Airachnid is a Decepticon torture expert, assassin, and alien collector. She has a Cold-Sparked, Murderous demeanour. She left Cybertron in the Great Exodus, and went solo. She started visting other planets, when she does, she takes... souvenirs the heads of the dominant species, which she keeps in specimen jars on her ship. She has quite a history with Arcee.

Transformers Prime cartoon

 * Voice actor: Gina Torres (English)

Airachnid's ship crash lands on Earth while Arcee and Jack are on Energon Patrol. She has come to Earth for her next souvenir. As soon as Arcee saw the ship, she new who it was, this led to a flash back to her on Cybertron, in Airachnid's torture chambers.Arcee witnesses her Partner's-Tailgate's-death by Airachnid's hand, Airachnid then proceeds to scour a mark on Arcee's face, with her Acidic touch.Later though, Arcee faces her demons. Arcee arrives just in time to stop Airachnid harming Jack, Airachnid pins her to the wall with her webs. After she gets free, Arcee manages to defeat Airachnid-with a little help from jack-only to see her escape under-ground in her Drill mode.

She later had a "partnership" with M.E.C.H. that went sour, and escaped by scanning a helicopter and flying away.

Trivia

 * Airachnid is the first Transformer with a beast mode in Transformers Prime.


 * Airachnid has multiple modes: robot mode, "beast" mode, a drill mode, and a helicopter mode.
 * Though her beast is quite possibly the saddest example of a beast mode ever consisting of her spider legs extended and her torso hanging beneath with her legs folded into the abdomen.


 * Airachnid's ship is very Predator-esque, with the heads of aliens in tanks and all.


 * Just as Breakdown is Bulkhead's rival, Airachnid is Arcee's rival.


 * Airachnid made mention of Breakdown's capture and their past acquaintance, while striking her deal with M.E.C.H. The voice actors for Airachnid and Breakdown (Gina Torres and Adam Baldwin respectively) previously worked together on the television series Firefly and the movie Serenity''.


 * Her name, spelled with an additional i, is almost certainly a reference to her later choice of altmode.