Airachnid is a dangerous character who deserved more apparition (even if I don't like her, I think that she was a very good vilain)
Once, with a friend, I did a recap of everything Airachnid had done, and then I was like: "Damn, she's super dangerous and badass in fact… "
Here, the little summary of everything she has done ^^ :
She's a Decepticon, well she was. She's not on either side now. She is Arcee's arch nemesis, guilty of murdering Arcee's former partner: Tailgate. After torturing Arcee for information. She led a rather solitary life until her arrival on Earth. She has a passion for collecting rare species, slaughtering all a species and keeping one of the member in collection. She attempted to do this against Jack.
She later allied with the MECH, and kidnapped Jack's mother, to trick Arcee into falling for the MECH's trap.
She finally returned to the Decepticons, after a run-in with Breakdown and the Autobots. And had to team up with Starscream to retrieve a weapon. But, she imprisoned Starscream in cobwebs, and abandoned him to the Autobots, before going to find the weapon on her own. (The reason why Starscream goes neutral afterwards).
She tries to dethrone Megatron, by fomenting behind his back, but gets screwed by Soundwave who immediately puts her in her place. Megatron subsequently orders Breakdown and Dreadwing to get rid of Airachnid. But she manages to escape. Not without killing Breakdown in the process.
She has the power to control the Insecticons, in a rather unexplained way ^^', but I think they are some kind of clones of her, that she can control. Anyway (I will maybe try to answer this question another day), she met Starscream in a cave, as well as an Insecticon, and orders this Insecticon to kill Starscream (mainly for fun… The heck girl… Anyway, Starscream manages to get away with it). She challenge Megatron for a duel, and leaves the Insecticon to deal with it (Megatron wins).
She captures Arcee in her webs, mostly because Arcee foolishly pursued her on her quest for revenge. She is about to kill her, but Starscream intervenes to save Arcee, firing a missile at Airachnid. Airachnid manages to flee again, hurt and with a painful taste of defeat. She comes across an army of Insecticons in stasis, underground. She subsequently orders this army to attack the Nemesis, to kill Megatron. But, Arcee ends up finding her in a cave while the Insecticons attack the Decepticons. The two engage in battle, and Arcee manages to push her into one of the stasis cells in which the Insecticons were locked up. The Insecticons, no longer under Airachnid's control, once again become loyal to Megatron. And the Autobots are keeping Airachnid in the stasis cell, glad they don't have to deal with her anymore!
Just wow! She is only there for 5 episodes of season 1, and 2 episodes of season 2, that is to say 7 episodes in total, and she just mess up with everything and everybody so easly! Personally, I think she's a good villain, because as soon as you see her, you know that it will be a mess, and that she will f*ck up!
I don't like her, I admit, but I can't take away the fact that she's a dangerous villain, and I think it's a shame that she wasn't exploited to her full potential, because it there was really something to do with her. Just having her appear more often would have been nice.
I mean, if you look closely: It's because of her that Starscream became neutral, and ended up do things on his own side, put a spoke in the wheels of everyone (sorry for the joke). It is because of her that Silas can have Breakdown's body and therefore become CYLAS. It's because of her that the Autobots also find themselves dealing with the Insecticons on the side of the Decepticons, one of whom ended up disabled Bulkhead for a long time (5 episodes in all, it's a lot). And all this she did more or less indirectly! Oh, also, it's because of her that Silas understands how robots transform, so indirectly, it's because of her that Bee's T-cog is stolen… (-_-) Do you realize the impact this character had on the series? I think it's a shame that we don't notice it enough… There was so many things to do with this character…
I mean she would easly be an enemy of the season 3, she's dangereous and deadly alone, but she also have the possibilty to have her own army! Plus, we would have for sure more scene of fight with Arcee, and maybe also with KnockOut (who knows). She also want to kill Megatron. And Starscream too! Because, you know, he shoot a missile on her ^^; (oops)...
I think that she would be easly a main vilain... I don't do it in my novel, but because I didn't want that my characters have to deal with a vilain so dangerous like her... They have enough problems like that... But in the original series, that would have been very interresting and awesome!
