Arcee, a single consciousness driving three female Transformers that transform into three motorcycles: a pink Ducati motorcycle, a blue Suzuki motorcycle, and a purple MV Agusta F4. Although this ability was dropped from the movie, the robots that make up Arcee were once meant to be able to combine into a single robot. This ability can still be seen in the movie's novelization and toy line.
Arcee, who initially transformed from a single bike, was dropped from the first film due to concerns of her being too small compared to the other bots, and the fact that the writers felt there was not enough time to explain her "gender", despite her and several other female Transformers appearing in the first film's toy line and tie-in comics. Whether to explain robotic gender or not was something the writers were unsure about, and it remained undecided until post-production, with the issue eventually remaining unaddressed in the finished movie. The modifications to the motorcycles providing the vehicle modes for Arcee were performed by custom sportsbike builder
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While the name "Arcee" is used for the three characters collectively in the film, the accompanying toyline has characterized each bike separately. Thus, the pink bike is called Arcee, and the blue motorcycle is named Chromia. In the 1980s cartoon, Chromia was Ironhide's girlfriend, something reflected by her film version toy's biography, which states Chromia was "friends with Ironhide for centuries, and their reunion on Earth was one of the high points of the war for both of them. Now they work side by side, hunting and destroying Decepticons. Neither of them has ever been happier." The purple third robot has yet to be characterized in any ancillary media.
(no name given)-MV Agusta
Chromia-Suzuki
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