Archa Seven arachnid

The giant spiders are organics from the Transformers Animated continuity family.

The giant spiders are some sort of organic alien which live on the Spider planet which Optimus  Sentinel and  Elita-1 all visited. The scientific or regular name for these creatures is unknown. but they are seemingly very dangerous and for some reason, their eggs look like spherical Energon. Even though the species name is unknown, one of them has a name. They are also the cause of Sentinel Prime's Organic-phobia and his hatred for  Optimus Prime.

Animated
When Sentinel,  Optimus and  Elita-1 went to an organic planet in search of a Decepticon ship and Energon, they were quickly spotted by a team of strange spider-like creatures after escaping them Sentinel still refused to leave, until 3 spiders came up and attacked, however they proved to be no match for Sentinel's sheild weapon. When Optimus found the ship he saw some sort of oval shaped energon which was actually giant spider eggs. When the team had found each other again Elita used her downloading power to use Optimus's grapple but it soon wore off and she fell to what seemed to be her doom, Sentinel always blamed Optimus for Elita's death and after what he had seen he believed all organic's (even humans) were as dangerous as them. Though amazingly enough she was not offline but rather mutated into a spider robot hybrid and thus had an organic half which massed her energy signature. Solar cycles later, on Halloween Optimus remembered this and is now afraid of spiders so he has a great fear of spider decorations. When Blackarachnia came to earth she defeated Bumblebee and  Bulkhead, stole the Allspark key from  Sari, used it to age all the organics in Detroit and was defeated by her old friend Optimus.



Blackarachnia made a few other attempts to become all 'bot again including: Getting an angry Sari to show her where the Allspark was but fell of the  Autobot ship



And after almost drowning the Dinobots were kind enough to give her a home which was really  Prometheus Black's old lab. She was treated like a queen which may have been because, like the dinobots, she does not turn into a car or truck which the dinobots were convinced were bad, but she may have been their queen because of Grimlock's crush on her and the fact that he is the leader. To become a robot again she needed: Prometheus Black's genius, Optimus Prime's assistance and A "thingy" as Grimlock called it. However Meltdown is a "2 faced rat" and betrayed Blackarachnia and almost removed the robot half.

animated

 * Blackarachnia (Deluxe, 2008)
 * Accessories: Grapnel-hook


 * Blackarachnia transforms into a mechanical spider with some organic aesthetic. Many of her pointier parts are molded in softer plastic to keep unfortunate children from putting their eyes out. She comes with a grapnel hook accessory, which can fall victim to Clear-Plastic Syndrome. This is spring-loaded, with a jointed claw at the end of it. Pressing a button causes it to retract along the string. It may be mounted under her abdomen in spider mode or on her back in robot mode, via two different sets of pegs. There is also a peg hole in each wrist, for web-slinging action. The spider's head is mis-transformed in the package, making the first step of her instructions initially confusing. Furthermore, the pedipalps will easily come off if manipulated too much, and her transformation requires that they be turned around completely. Because of this, they will often fall off over, and over, and over...