

Afterwards, she hires a mutant person named Meltdown made of toxic melting material to remove her spider parts, with the help of Autobot Dinobots Grimlock, Swoop, and Snarl. But she forgets that spiders are also animal life, which starts to affect Blackarachnia as well, so Optimus quickly removes it. She steals a key that contains the All Spark power from human/robot hybrid Sari Sumdac and uses it to drain organic power. Blackarachnia then tells of how she wishes to be normal again, but then Sari escaped from her with the help of Ratchet piloting the ship Teletraan 1. She came back in the episode "Megatron Rising Part 1" where Decepticons Blitzwing and Lugnut's mission persuades her to catch the All Spark-powered key again from Sari Sumdac. Angered at Optimus for her reasons, she chose to become a Decepticon instead. Optimus chose to leave her behind, and when Elita One tried to use her organic-matter downloading powers on the spider aliens, she infected herself with spider DNA and became Blackarachnia. Optimus and Sentinel in a bad situation try to choose whether to save her or quickly abandon her. Elita One tried to escape the spider cave, but fell back in. However, when searching for a Decepticon warship with Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime, they were attacked by alien spiders. She is based on her counterpart in Beast Wars.īlackarachnia was once an Autobot named Elita One. Despite being a Cartoon Network original series, the show was aired on Nicktoons in the UK, Jetix/Disney XD in the rest of Europe and finally, back in the states on The Hub in high definition.Blackarachnia is a recurring antagonist on the show Transformers: Animated. The show's continuity is separate from any other previous Transformers series, despite using footage from the first series in its first episode as a historical film. The Japanese version of the cartoon was slightly rewritten to tie into Michael Bay's Transformers trilogy. The series began its broadcast in Japan on April 3, 2010, on both TV Aichi and TV Tokyo. The European Jetix began to air the series on September 10, 2008. The series has 42 episodes across three seasons. It is produced by Cartoon Network Studios and animated by The Answer Studio, MOOK DLE., and Studio 4☌. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on December 26, 2007, and has been shown on NickToons in the UK since February 2008. Transformers Animated is an Japanese/American animated television series based on the Transformers toy line.
