Arcee

Arcee
Transformers character
Dreamwave Arcee
Voiced by	English Susan Blu (The Transformers and Transformers: Animated)1 Sharon Alexander (Transformers: Energon) Kari Wahlgren (Transformers: War for Cybertron) Sumalee Montano (Transformers: Prime) Grey DeLisle (Bumblebee (film)) Liza Koshy (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) Martha Marion (Transformers: Earthspark) Jinny Chung (Transformers One) Japanese Masako Katsuki (The Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) Yōko Kawanami (The Headmasters) Atsuko Yuya (The Rebirth) Sumire Uesaka (Q Transformers: Mystery of Convoy) Shizuka Itō (Transformers: Prime) Fairouz Ai (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts)
In-universe information
Affiliation	Autobot/Maximal
Sub-group	Female Autobots, Omnicons, Team Prime
Function	Warrior, Intelligence Agent
Partner	Daniel Witwicky, Springer, Hot Rod, Cliffjumper, Tailgate, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee
Motto	"Looks are always deceiving." (Generation 1) "I know only two speeds... fast and faster." (Energon) "Underestimate me at your own risk." (Transformers)
Alternate modes	Cybertronian convertible hover car, Transmetal spider, Honda S2000, motorcycle

Arcee is a robot character in the Transformers franchise, an Autobot usually pink or blue in color. She is the franchise's main female Transformer, having made more appearances than any other. Arcee's design, alternate mode, and personality vary depending on continuity.

Arcee is a female Autobot warrior who turns into a pink convertible.² She was voiced by Susan Blu.

In the first year of the Transformers brand, Hasbro rejected the notion of female Transformers. While working on the script for The Transformers: The Movie in late 1984, Ron Friedman successfully insisted on the inclusion of at least one female Transformer, which resulted in Arcee.³

Arcee was a gunner and was depicted as an excellent marksman. Arcee sporadically appeared over the course of the third and fourth seasons.

In the episode "Only Human", Ultra Magnus, Springer, Rodimus Prime, and Arcee found their minds transferred into human-mimicking synthoid bodies by the human crime lord Victor Drath.

In the fourth season, when the Decepticons successfully stole the key to the Plasma Energy Chamber and opened the ancient device, a group of Autobots and humans - including Arcee and Daniel Witwicky - were blasted across the galaxy by the energy release, crash-landing on the planet Nebulos. Quickly siding with a group of rebels engaged in a war against the planet's evil rulers, the Hive, they deduced a process by which they could combine the best of their minds and bodies together, becoming Headmasters. While the other Autobot Headmasters combined with Nebulons, Daniel became Arcee's Headmaster partner.

In Transformers: The Headmasters, the Japanese alternative to the fourth season, Arcee did not become a Headmaster, but was a regular on this series, appearing in most of the episodes.

In the Beast Wars: Transformers episode "Transmutate", Rattrap referred to Arcee as his great-aunt.

Arcee appeared in the 1986 story and coloring book The Lost Treasure of Cybertron by Marvel Books.

Transformers: Universe Wreckers #1 starts with a flashback to late in the original cartoon series, where Daniel Witwicky and Wheelie are killed. This puts Daniel's friend Arcee into a sad state. The main story is set in the later episodes of Beast Machines. Arcee, now a Maximal Valkyrie with a spider beast mode, joins the Wreckers, though initially she proves unwilling. The Predacon Fractyl speaks with her after the rest of the group leaves, but is then almost killed by the Vehicons, and Arcee saves his life by sharing her Spark with him, converting him into a new body in the process. The two then rejoin the rest of the team and flee Cybertron in an Autobot shuttle, which unbeknownst to them has been boarded by Devcon. A confrontation with him leaves Fractyl dangerously wounded, and Arcee takes him to receive medical care. She and the other Wreckers are then betrayed by Cyclonus, who had infiltrated the team in service to the Predacon criminal Cryotek.

According to the script for the unreleased issue #4 of Transformers: Universe - The Wreckers the Wreckers returned to Cybertron where they helped repel an invasion by the Quintessons.

Arcee appeared in the Devil's Due third series of G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers. Grimlock, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Perceptor were sent to Earth to aid G.I. Joe in removing the influence of Cybertronian technology on Earth. When Cobra attacked the base, the Autobots helped repel the Cobra Battle Android Trooper armies. However, Cobra Commander was able to infiltrate the base and awaken the special project the government was working on - SerpentO.R, a cyborg created using DNA from many great warleaders and parts from Megatron. SerpentO.R. promptly turned on him and escaped to Cybertron via Spacebridge. The Autobots and a team of G.I. Joes led by Hawk pursued him. During this an attraction had been growing between Arcee and Bumblebee. This led to Bumblebee's death at the hands of SerpentO.R as well as the capture of the group. Freed by Snake Eyes, Arcee was part of the assault to rescue Prime and proved instrumental in SerpentO.R's (now controlled by Cobra Commander) defeat, ripping his chest piece off and allowing Hawk to reach the Matrix, opening it and putting Cobra Commander in a coma. Arcee was seen mourning Bumblebee at the end.

During the years when Shockwave united most of Cybertron, Arcee was in a resistance group to his rule along with Kup, Blaster, Hot Rod, and Wheelie. After Shockwave's defeat, Arcee joined Ultra Magnus in trying to fortify one of Cybertron's moons – but her affections were the subject of a feud between Hot Rod and Springer.

It is revealed in IDW Publishing's Spotlight issue that Arcee was a part of Jhiaxus's experiments to introduce gender into the Cybertronian species. Arcee was his first test-subject and her creation was due to Jhiaxus altering with her CNA. According to Arcee she did not measure up to Jhiaxus's ideals and was abandoned.

This version of Arcee is a violent, antisocial killer who is imprisoned by the other Autobots at Garrus 9 for her actions. Released by a reluctant Fortress Maximus during a Decepticon attack to buy time for Jetfire's team to get rid of the Monstructor components, her power level appears much higher than a normal Autobot, as she is seen taking on all of the Combaticons single handed and winning, although unable to stop their kidnapping of the Monstructor components due to a teleporter based escape plan. She is classified as a "level 9" threat, the only Autobot of that power level present in the prison during the assault. Realizing there is a link between her and the Monstructor Transformers, as they were all created by Jhiaxus, Maximus and Jetfire release her to track them down.

Throughout the Revelations arc, Arcee hunts for Jhiaxus to get her revenge, finally confronting him in Spotlight: Sideswipe. She is informed by Hardhead that Jhiaxus cannot be destroyed forever as he is bound to the Dead Universe; she is pleased by this, as it means she has the chance to kill him, over and over, forever.

In Heart of Darkness, it is revealed that she and Hardhead remained on Garrus Prime to guard the portal to the Dead Universe and continue torturing Jhiaxus. When the D-Void called the entire population of the planet into the portal to feed on, Arcee was overwhelmed, but Hardhead, vaccinated against the call by his exposure to dead universe energy during revelations, held her back until the portal closed. Since then, they had been exploring the remains of a mysterious dead civilization uncovered by the portal closing. When Galvatron and the seekers arrived to investigate, Arcee and Hardhead engaged them and despite initial success including the severe wounding of Galvatron, became outmatched when Galvatron used the Heart of Darkness to heal himself and attack them, and Hardhead told her to run and get help. Cyclonus blasted a bridge out from under her, and left her for dead, but she was later seen pulling herself back out of the pit.

Later on, Arcee joins with Prowl, becoming his personal assassin whom he deploys to murder Ratbat in order to keep peace on a post-war Cybertron. Prowl dispatches her to kill several more Decepticons, however some of these deaths are faked as a part of a conspiracy to rile up the many Decepticons on Cybertron into a frenzy against the provisional Autobot government. It is later revealed that Prowl has been under mind control by the Insecticon Bombshell since shortly after having Ratbat killed. Prowl is subsequently forced to become a part of a new Devastator under Bombshell's control. During this, Arcee appears to be loyal to the Decepticons, but once Devastator is unleashed on Cybertron, she kills Bombshell to sever his link with Prowl, enabling the newly formed Autobot combiner Superion to temporally overpower him.

Following the Decepticons' defeat, Starscream takes command of the neutral population of Cybertron, and banishes Autobot and Decepticon alike from the small city built in the aftermath of the war. Arcee leaves with Prowl and the Autobots, eventually joining them officially by carving their insignia into her shoulder.

A later retcon in the series revealed that Arcee's memory of her forced gender transition by Jhiaxus was "a lie [she] told [herself]." In Optimus Prime #25, Arcee admits that she is transgender, and sought out Jhiaxus to restore gender to Cybertronian society, after it was suppressed in ancient times. Her rage was explained as self-loathing, disgust for who Jhiaxus truly was, and fear that her old friends would reject her if they knew she wanted to be female.

Barring the adaptation of the movie, Arcee did not appear in The Transformers comic series by Marvel Comics in the United States. She did appear in the UK Marvel comic issue #234, "Prime's Rib!" This story is set in 1995, where Optimus Prime introduces the latest Autobot, Arcee, in an attempt to please humans angry that there were no female Transformers.

The Space Pirates arc saw Arcee skip guard duty at Autobot City; her dereliction of duty led directly the fall of Autobot City to the Quintessons. She was then used as bait in a Quintesson trap to claim the Creation Matrix from Rodimus Prime. Arcee achieved some measure of redemption by aiding Rodimus Prime, now reduced in power to his Hot Rod form, in his bid to reclaim Autobot City by activating Metroplex.

Arcee later joined Rodimus Prime's time-travelling party, helping in the fight against Galvatron during the Time Wars. Arcee and the other future Autobots returned to find their own time-stream changed to a different, darker future, where Galvatron was alive and ruling most of Cybertron.

Arcee appeared among the Autobots under the command of Rodimus Prime in the alternate future story "Aspects of Evil 2" from Marvel UK Transformers #224. In this story, Rodimus Prime remembered how Galvatron, Crankcase, Ruckus and Windsweeper killed Blurr and then attacked Rodimus Prime, Kup, Arcee and the Battle Patrol. Enraged, Rodimus nearly killed Galvatron, but to keep the Matrix from being contaminated by hatred he relented.

Arcee appeared in Marvel UK Transformers #251 "The Void!" where she was among the Autobot crew of a ship commanded by Rodimus Prime which was retreating from Cybertron.

The first reuse of the name Arcee was in Japan. In 2003, the name Arcee was given to the Mini-Con known in America as Sureshock (leading to some debate on the Mini-Con's gender - the Dreamwave Comics identified Sureshock as female, but the tech specs for Transformers: Cybertron refer to Sureshock as male). Sureshock was even repainted in pink and white colors in Japan as X-Dimension Arcee.

In Transformers: Energon, Arcee had a wide-release original mold made in homage to the original character. In the Energon storyline, the character Arcee was a female Omnicon who transformed into a motorcycle and used an energon crossbow. She was created to be a leader for the Omnicons and, as such, was the only Omnicon to have a unique name and body-type. In Japan the toy and character were named Ariel.

This incarnation of Arcee was a member of the Omnicons, a race and faction of robots exclusive to this fictional universe of Transformers. Larger than Mini-Cons, they can carry passengers and process raw energon to create tools, weapons, or energon stars. Omnicons were a main group of characters Transformers: Energon series allied with the Autobots. They were opposition of to the Decepticon allied Terrorcons.

While Omnicons were formerly Autobots and Decepticons, these two sides set aside their differences and left Cybertron with Team Rodimus. The Omnicons eventually began working together to mine Energon, the energy-rich mineral needed to power Transformers and their technology. Invaluable to the Transformers because of their unique ability to handle, shape and process raw energon, which is damaging to normal Transformers, the Omnicons created the Cybertron cities as only they can. There are three distinct body types shared among the Omnicon ranks, but unlike the Terrorcons, each Omnicon possesses an individual mind of his own.

Additionally, there is one other Omnicon body-type - that of the unique Omnicon leader, Arcee. Transforming into a motorcycle and wielding an Energon crossbow, she arrived in the middle of Megatron's attack on Cybertron, guiding the Omnicon forces into subduing Unicron's hunger. She was soon frequently partnered with Kicker on the battlefield.

All of the Omnicon toys, including Arcee, were redecoed and released as Target store exclusives for the 2007 Transformers movie. The new colors are designed to look more like a real vehicle would be painted, in keeping with the theme of the movie.

Arcee also appeared in the Dreamwave Productions Transformers: Energon comics, as one of the four Omnicons watched over by the Mini-Con Over-Run.

Arcee would first appear in issue #19, being introduced to Optimus Prime by Over-Run as the first of the new species—the Omnicons. Subsequently, assigned to Earth for training, they managed to annoy their commander Hot Shot beyond reason but subsequently apprehended Snow Cat. Arcee would have further adventures battling Mirage, Sharkticon and Slugslinger to protect Kicker, eventually defeating them with Kicker's help.

Arcee was initially set to be in the 2007 Transformers film and had a very positive fan reaction, but because there was not enough time in the movie to explain the presence of a "female" in a robotic race,⁴ she was dropped from the script and replaced with Ironhide. Before she was dropped, her alternate mode was stated to be a Buell Firebolt motorcycle; concept art by Ben Procter can be seen on his website.⁵⁶ Even though Arcee was not in the movie, a motorcycle was used by Captain William Lennox to attack Blackout (although the bike was an Aprilia RSV 1000 R rather than a Buell). Arcee was also initially set to battle Blackout in the movie. According to the Hasbro 2007 movie toy's tech spec for Arcee, she received combat training from Ironhide. Arcee is armed with a machine gun.

According to the biography printed in the collected Reign of Starscream books, Arcee was once a member of the Autobot science team who had to adapt her skills when the war broke out.

According to the biography for the Revenge of the Fallen Chromia toy, she is a sister to Chromia and Elita One. She is an unusual Cybertronian as she and her sisters are controlled by one mind, allowing them to attack with extremely precise timing. According to the biography for her 2009 movie toy she commands her team. Writer Roberto Orci has stated he intended the three motorcycles to be a single mind, but Michael Bay portrayed them as individuals just like the Hasbro bios. According to Hasbro, Arcee is only about 7 feet tall but on the scale for the first film it was stated she was 9 feet tall.

In Transformers: Defiance #1, back on ancient Cybertron, Arcee was among Optimus Prime's crew at an excavation site near the temple at Simfur where an artifact was uncovered. In issue #2, Arcee helped in the recovery effort after the attack on Cybertron. She later sided with Optimus Prime against Megatron's orders to counter-attack their invaders. In issue #4, Arcee, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Jazz and Smokescreen ambushed Ironhide, who they believed worked for Megatron, but Ironhide instead joined Optimus Prime's Autobots. Arcee and Bumblebee later spied on the building of the Decepticon starship Nemesis.

Although Arcee was not in the film, the character still appeared in the comic book Transformers: Movie Prequel where she fights as part of Bumblebee's squad. She realized that Bumblebee knew more than he was revealing, but likewise said nothing when their squad was captured and tortured by the Decepticons.

In Reign of Starscream the Decepticon Starscream barely made it to the Nemesis on Mars before he ran out of power. His return was noted by the Autobot Cosmos, who alerted Arcee, Cliffjumper, Smokescreen, Camshaft and Air Raid. Aided by Thundercracker on the Nemesis Starscream recovered and sent the information Frenzy had gathered back to Cybertron just as Hardtop spotted the Autobots closing on the Nemesis. Arcee appears on the cover of issue #3. In issue #4, Arcee returned to Cybertron from Mars by hiding in the landing gear of Starscream's ship. Once on the planet she was discovered by a Dreadwing and Payload drone, who she deactivated. Returning to an Autobot training facility she discovered Clocker, who took her to Crosshairs who was planning an attack to free the Autobots at Simfur, which they attempted with the aid of Wingblade, Skyblast, Breakaway and Strongarm.

In Tales of the Fallen #6 Arcee is taken by Thundercracker and given to the Decepticon medic Flatline, who experiments on her. Upon waking up she discovers Skids and Mudflap are also captives of the Decepticons. After she discovers her spark has been merged with that of Chromia and Elita One, they have a mental link, and use this to lead an escape.⁷ Arcee, Chromia and Elita One subsequently were among the Autobots to come to Earth in response to Optimus Prime's signal inviting all of his kind to come there. She joined with the Earth-based Autobots in Transformers: Alliance #4.

In Rising Storm #1, it is revealed that Arcee, Chromia, and Elita One survived the events in Egypt and with the Autobots when they set a trap for Starscream's minions Divebomb, Fearswoop, and Skystalker by having Theodore Galloway pose as an arms dealer attempting to purchase Cybertronian technology. The trap is uncovered and the Autobots send in Arcee, Chromia, Elita One, Ironhide, Mudflap and Skids. Divebomb and Skystalker are killed while Fearswoop is captured by the Autobots and taken back to the NEST base on Diego Garcia.⁸ In issue #3, she, Chromia, and Elita One are sent to New York City hoping to get information from Starscream who was sending information to humans, but instead found Astrotrain and a monster, then they realized Shockwave is on Earth. They tried to contact Optimus and warn him, but Soundwave jammed their communications and were attack by his minions. Elita One went to go warn Optimus. In issue #4, Elita One is killed by Shockwave, Arcee and Chromia felt her death, they sent off the explosives which possibility killed Soundwave's minions, but Arcee and Chromia survived.

Note - The appearance of Arcee is modified in some of the IDW Publishing stories, she has a Cybertronian alternate mode.

Note: Information in italics occurs in the alternate storyline where Megatron won the battle for the Allspark.

In "Twilight's Last Gleaming" part 1, Skyblast lead the Autobots Arcee, Armorhide, Elita One, Longarm, and Strongarm who in resisting the Decepticons who had conquered Earth. In part 3 Starscream and Scorponok attack the Autobots Arcee, Armorhide, Elita One, Longarm, Skyblast, and Strongarm on the moon. The Autobots flee to Earth, which is exactly what Starscream hoped they'd do. In part 4 Ratchet and Ironhide continued fighting Bonecrusher in Savannah, but did not stand much of a chance until they were joined by Arcee, Armoride, and Longarm, arriving from the moon. In this story, Arcee resembles a pink version of her scout class toy in robot mode, but assumes a Cybertronian "protoform entry mode" for her vehicle mode. Arcee appeared in issue #17 of the Titan Transformers Magazine, in a story called "Return to Cybertron Part 1". In this story, she is among the Autobots that go to Cybertron. Arcee would return in issue #22 of the Titan Transformers Magazine series in a story called "The Decepticon who Haunted Himself."

In Revenge of the Fallen, Arcee was accompanied by two similar Transformers, Chromia and Elita One, sharing similar robot and vehicle forms, as well as the same holographic driver. They chased the Decepticon Sideways in an alley in Shanghai, but lost track of him. They were later present when the Autobots faced off with the Decepticons in Egypt, and were sent with Ironhide as an advance team to recover Sam. Upon finding Sam and Mikaela, several Decepticons attacked, and Arcee and Elita One were shot and killed while Chromia was last seen taking cover.

In Age of Extinction, a card with her picture on it was seen with a Red 'X' through it, confirming her death. Though it's actually Elita One's face on the card.

In Bumblebee, Arcee makes a small talking cameo at the beginning of the film with her original G1 appearance. It is strongly implied that she survived the onslaught of Cybertron and made it to Earth at the end of the film.

In Rise of the Beasts, Arcee appears on Earth as a white and red Ducati 916 motorcycle, being called out by Optimus seeing a pulse of energy, saying that it is the way home. Reuniting with Optimus, Bumblebee and Mirage bring a human named Noah Diaz, who decides to help them find the Transwap key, with the help of the Maximals, before the appearance of the Terrorcons and their master Unicron.

In the 2024 animated film Transformers One Arcee reveals her origin story, voiced by Jinny Chung. She is a mining robot without a cog, and works in the Energon mines. She forms an alliance with the other miners by Orion Pax, who tells them that the leader Sentinel Prime betrayed the Primes and has secretly been working for the Quintessons, giving them regular Energon supplies in exchange for letting him rule Cybertron while removing the miners' cogs to keep them subservient. In the end, after Sentinel's death, the exile of Megatron and the Cybertronian High Guard, and by Orion Pax now being called Optimus Prime, Arcee receives her cog, and joins Optimus' allies being named Autobots.

Arcee was originally a teacher before the war began, her full name being Teaching Unit RC-687040.

Arcee makes an appearance in the "Transformers: Animated" episode "Thrill of the Hunt". Ratchet recalls coming across Arcee after she had been injured in a fight. They were captured by Lockdown, who divulged that Arcee was carrying vital information that he wanted to sell. Arcee instructed Ratchet to use his EMP device on her to erase her data core to keep the information out of Lockdown's reach. Ratchet reluctantly did so, wiping Arcee's memory, including all knowledge of herself.

It was revealed in "Transwarped" that due to a special fail-safe program after being placed in stasis, Arcee uploaded the data into Ratchet, allowing him to continue her mission of activating Omega Supreme.

Long after the Great War has ended, a now-older Ratchet honors her by keeping the painful memory of her intact in his own mind. However, by the events of "This is Why I Hate Machines", when Megatron arrives to Cybertron in Omega Supreme, the exposed Shockwave begins setting up a scheme to track down Arcee and acquire the access code to Omega Supreme from her. His plans are delayed when Ratchet and Captain Fanzone arrive on Cybertron and made an attempt protect to Arcee before Shockwave escapes with her. However, it turned out her memory may not be as lost as previously believed. Though at first only her pre-war memories were available, Shockwave manages to recover her war-time ones before forcefully extracting the activation codes when she refused to give them willingly. This action resulted with Arcee relapsing until Sari's new-found ability allows Ratchet to use his EMP generator to restore Arcee's memories before she uses her codes to regain control of Omega Supreme. In the aftermath of the final battle on Earth, Arcee returns home to Cyberton with the Autobots, Omega Supreme, and the captured Megatron.

Arcee is one of the main group of Autobots in Transformers: Prime. She transforms into a blue motorcycle, inspired by her appearance in the live film series, but with a more humanoid robot form. As a motorcycle, she is capable of producing a humanoid female hologram driver who she refers to as "Sadie" to help disguise her identity. She can form bladed weapons or blasters from her hands. She holds a grudge against Starscream and Airachnid, creating a three-way rivalry, for killing her former partners, Cliffjumper and Tailgate, respectively.

Arcee appears in the short story Bumblebee at Tyger Pax By Alex Irvine.⁹

Before the war, Arcee had been spying in Kaon, and sometime during it she had been rescued by Cliffjumper. When Optimus ordered the Autobots to Earth, her ship had been destroyed, and she was willing to wait as she detected the Decepticons had returned to Cybertron and they were planning something big. There, she entered a base and annihilated the Vehicons there, inadvertently returning Cliffjumper's favor. She hacked into the Decepticons' communications signal there, and found their weapons lab in Kaon. Arcee found Cliffjumper a brash soldier inappropriate for her stealthy mission, but he convinced her Kaon was too dangerous and that she could use his ship to go to Earth.

The duo entered the city through the maintenance tunnels Arcee had once explored, and she found a secret staircase by activating an Autobot symbol on the wall. There they discovered Starscream had rebuilt a space bridge to travel to Earth. Concerned by the repercussions of the Decepticons's discovery of how to build space bridges, Arcee wanted to destroy it, but Cliffjumper convinced her it was their way off Cybertron. Distracting Starscream with a ruse, Arcee activated the space bridge and overloaded its systems, jumping through it with him before it blew up.

Landing on Earth, the duo scanned their alternate modes and traveled to find a population center where they could build a scanner and find Optimus. Starscream attacked, having also jumped through the space bridge, blasting Arcee's arm off. Cliffjumper fought him and tried to get Arcee to safety, but she refused, telling him to leave her and find Optimus. Optimus and Bumblebee appeared, fending off Starscream and Breakdown. Optimus carried Arcee through a Ground Bridge to base, where Ratchet reattached her arm.

Following Optimus's sacrifice, Arcee, Bumblebee and Bulkhead encountered Sludge in a tunnel. They emerged on the surface in time to help Grimlock and the other Dinobots fight a squad of Forged. Arcee was shocked to hear they'd been created by Shockwave. After dealing with that threat, Arcee starting filling the Dinobots in on recent events, only for them to be promptly attacked by a new Predacon. The Autobots split into groups to head to Kaon, with Arcee and Swoop taking one group of survivors. Swoop drew off the Predacon when it attacked, allowing Arcee and the other to reach Kaon while the Predacon was dealt with. There, Arcee explained that the Dinobots would always be welcome in the Autobot ranks. Grimlock, however, said the Dinobots would be unable to help with the reconstruction of Kaon, since they'd be building a new home for the survivors.

Arcee took part in the testing of Ratchet's newly developed Safe training room, though she was amused by the medic's interest in making things explode. After Bulkhead broke through a wall, Arcee alerted the others to the rather large nuclear missile he'd accidentally uncovered and activated. A Vehicon scouting party showed up looking for the source of the energy signature the bomb was giving off, so Optimus, Arcee and Bumblebee went out to trash them. The trio returned to base a short time later to find Fowler had arrived to deal with the bomb. Optimus took the other Autobots, including Arcee, on a trip to Valley of Fire State Park.

Arcee roundly mocked Bulkhead as he attempted to decorate a Christmas tree. Unfortunately for her, after Fowler reported that the Decepticons had taken over a nuclear-powered ship, she found herself left at base with Bulkhead. The kids suggested she and Bulkhead try to find something they both liked, but progress was slow until they discovered their mutual love of ice skating. They subsequently turned the base into an ice rink and skated around it until the other Autobots came back.

She and Jack scouted out Franklin High School when schools in the region began unexpectedly exploding. It paid off when MECH turned up, however while Arcee was on the comm to Optimus, Jack sneaked inside the school. Arcee crashed inside to rescue him from MECH, though he insisted on following the baddies up to the roof. Silas got away anyway, and Arcee had to get Jack off the burning building. After the President of the United States was kidnapped, the Autobots traced the culprit, Starscream, to the Grand Canyon. Bumblebee and Arcee teamed up to take out the cannons manned by Vehicons that Starscream had brought along.

Arcee and Bulkhead headed to Zhejiang Province, China after the Autobots lost contact with Optimus Prime. They found Knock Out and a bunch of Vehicons feeding Optimus's body into a crusher but were overcome by the Decepticons before they could rescue him. Luckily Optimus came to his senses in time. After Miko was kidnapped by MECH agent Novo, Arcee joined the hunt to find her.

Arcee was bemused by Jack's demonstration of bobbing for apples. She was on the team which visited the Deep Driller oil platform and encountered General Madison and his men. After ending up underneath Bulkhead, she managed to trick two of the soldiers in robotic battle suits into shooting each other. When Bulkhead went missing, Arcee searched in vain until Miko managed to work out he was on the Decepticon ship. Arcee was subsequently part of the mission to rescue their friend. Arcee took part in a battle against the Decepticons in The Wave.

Following a TV studio takeover by Knock Out and Breakdown, Arcee came along on the mission as backup. She took to the shadows, and once Optimus had rescued the other hostages, Arcee rescued Chuck Chuckles and took down the two Decepticons herself.

Arcee occasionally takes time out from defending the universe and protecting the planet Earth in disguise to answer fan mail. In every issue, Arcee gets her own segment (sometimes with Megatron) to comment on the readers' fan mail and/or fan-art they sent them.

Arcee tracked Ripclaw to the Canadian Rockies. Rather than attack directly, she leaked the coordinates to the Decepticons in the hope they would deal with the problem.

In the Transformers: Prime animated series, Arcee was a participant in the Great War and originally was partnered with Tailgate. During one mission, she talked to Tailgate on comm before being captured by Airachnid for interrogation. Arcee was tied up and refused to talk. To try to make her talk, Airachnid captured Tailgate and threatened to kill him. When she still didn't talk, Airachnid slaughtered him before her very eyes. After Tailgate was killed, Arcee was saved by Bumblebee and Cliffjumper. She began working alone and distancing herself from others to cope with her grief.

Arcee was captured by Starscream and taken captive alongside fellow Autobot Cliffjumper. She claimed to have never met him before and when Starscream said he would kill Cliffjumper if she did not cooperate, Arcee showed little to no concern about him. Starscream took the two Autobots to Shockwave, who was on Cybertron. Shockwave used a cortical psychic patch to get the Intel, but the two managed to escape before he could kill them. They raced into a Space Bridge and teamed up with Optimus Prime. Cliffjumper and Arcee became partners at this time.

Although she doesn't appeared in the series, a picture of her shown and was along with the list of Autobots who were backlisted by the Decepticons disguised as the new High Council for being a supporter of Optimus Prime following the restoration of Cybertron after the Great War. In her picture, she resembles her G1 Counterpart but is still colored blue.

• Cliffjumper - Arcee and Cliffjumper bonded partner while they were captives of the Decepticons. This was a major step for Arcee, who hadn't let anyone close after the death of Tailgate. Cliffjumper's death at the hands of Starscream therefore reopened old wounds. When Arcee trying to rescue Cliffjumper, she found out that decepticons had turned his body into terrorcon, Arcee dropped him into the mine shafts, then pointing return to the base. Arcee continued to grieve for him throughout the first season, as she is shown talking to his grave site and then promising to avenge his death.
• Optimus Prime - Arcee was one of Optimus' right hand soldiers. She's his best fighter, his "go to gal" whenever he needed someone to talk with. Arcee saw Optimus Prime as a great leader and friend, even stating to Ratchet once that she would give her life for him.
• Bumblebee - Arcee was looked up to by Bumblebee and appeared to regard him as something of a younger brother. In Predacons Rising, Arcee told Bumblebee that he has proved his mettle in battle and on the team. He replied by saying it did not hurt to watch and learn from the best as he referred to her as a powerful little two wheeler.
• Wheeljack - Wheeljack and Arcee were two opposites of the same warrior. When Wheeljack almost abandoned the team, Arcee stepped in to help Wheeljack. Wheeljack was feeling a little better, thanks to Arcee's pep talk. After that, Wheeljack started to become a team player.
• Starscream - As the one who murdered Cliffjumper, Arcee despised Starscream, but did spare his life the one occasion she could've killed him.
• Airachnid - Arcee was trapped by Airachnid during the Great War on Cybertron, alongside her partner Tailgate. Tailgate's death at Airachnid's hands cemented the two as bitter enemies.

Arcee participated in the final battle of the Transformers War, helping clear the way for Bumblebee to rush the AllSpark to the spacebridge.

Fifteen years later, Arcee heard Bumblebee had come out of hiding and went to the Malto family farm in Witwicky to check up on him. Seeing an opportunity, Bumblebee decided she would be the Malto kids' substitute teacher for the day, allowing him to slip away and assist Optimus Prime and Megatron on a mission. Though confused by the sudden turn of events, Arcee took it in stride and told the young humans and Terrans that their first lesson would be on digging trenches. After the students had followed instructions, she congratulated them on their progress...then ordered the trenches filled back in. This escalated as Arcee continued to assign them increasingly grueling and mundane chores until Twitch finally snapped and refused to continue, with her siblings backing her. Surprisingly, Arcee applauded them, saying this was the actual lesson: speaking up when something doesn't seem right. She then took the kids with her to assist on Bumblebee's mission, and she helped the other bots take down Soundwave. In the aftermath, Arcee eagerly discussed all the other lessons she planned to teach the kids, but Bumblebee reasserted his position as their teacher—just as Arcee hoped he would.

Arcee joined Optimus and other Autobots in answering Hashtag's distress call, arriving at the Malto farm to battle the Ghoid soldiers. Though they were victorious, Croft activated a Mandroid-supplied device that shut down Arcee and the other Autobots present. They were still unconscious when Mandroid arrived back from space in a new semi-robotic form. Mandroid remotely reactivated Arcee and the others, placing them under his control and sending them to intercept the Maltobots who were heading to thwart his plans. Grimlock, Arcee and Wheeljack attempted to trap the group on a bridge, resulting in Bumblebee and Schloder battling them to allow the others to go ahead. Ultimately Mandroid was able to activate the superweapon he'd created, deactivating Arcee until Robby and Mo successfully used their cyber-sleeves to revive the Autobots.

A year after Mandroid's defeat, Arcee was one of the Autobots who stormed the Decepticon base to recover the remaining Ember-shards. She was frozen in place with the other Autobots by the power of the corrupted Emberstone. She was returned to normal when the Emberstone was destroyed.

In Season 3, Arcee greeted Prowl with an arm wrestle when he arrived on Earth. Arcee was one of the Autobots infected with the Hate Plague because of Bumblebee, and it resulted in both Arcee and Elita-1 fighting with each other as well as with the other Autobots until Hashtag successfully cured the Autobots by hacking the base's systems to drop the temperature to freezing. Arcee turned out for the arrival of the Quintessons on Earth and had to help the Autobots evacuate Witwicky when the Quintessons destroyed the Chaos Dome, unleashing a storm of chaos energy. She was present for the revival of the Chaos Terrans and the escape of Robby, Mo, Twitch and Thrash from the Quintesson ship, subsequently taking part in a diversionary battle while Mo restored Terratronus to life so that the Titan could successfully destroy the Quintessons.

• Arcee appears as a playable character in the 2003 video game The Transformers, voiced by Lenne Hardt.
• Arcee appears as an unlockable character in the 2010 video game Transformers: War for Cybertron.
• Arcee appears as an unlockable character in the 2014 mobile video game Angry Birds Transformers.
• Arcee appears as an unlockable character in the 2010 video game Transformers: War for Cybertron and on a poster in its 2012 sequel Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.
• Arcee appears as a playable character in the 2012 video game Transformers: Prime – The Game.
• Arcee as the Overwatch character Illari in an unlockable cosmetic.

Despite Arcee's status as the main female Transformer, she has long been omitted from the toy line. In the DVD commentary, released on March 28, 2006, for the segment "Cut Down in His Optimus Prime" from Robot Chicken 2005 episode "Junk in the Trunk", Seth Green noted that "Nobody makes an Arcee, so we had to make one ourselves." A prototype for inclusion in the 1986 line-up was made, but it did not lead to a toy on shelves.¹⁰ For the 1987 line-up, Hasbro considered an iteration of the Chromedome toy in pink to represent Arcee as a Headmaster as per her role in The Rebirth, but this did not materialize either.¹¹ That same year, Takara intended for Arcee to be part of their Super High-Breed Model line of non-transforming figures, but the line was cancelled.

The first figure of Arcee released was a model kit by MC Axis in 1996, followed by another non-transforming figure as part of the Super Collection Figure line-up in 2000. It would take until the Generations Thrilling 30 series in 2014 before a toy of Arcee that resembled the original incarnation would be released, although in the years between 2000 and 2014 other incarnations of Arcee did receive matching toys. The first of these was the 2004 release of Transformers: Energon Arcee, although this figure originated as Ariel in Japan and consequently sports Ariel's characteristic ponytail.¹² For the 2007 film Transformers, an Arcee was modeled but not included in the film. This model did materialize as a toy that same year, sporting a license plate that reads, "TF 70407", which is the film's original release date of July 4, 2007.¹³ A significant step towards the eventual release of Generations Thrilling 30 Arcee was made with the release of Transformers: Animated Arcee in 2010, as the model and the toy hewed close to the original Arcee's design.