Gaea
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Kin to Primus and Unicron, Gaea (also Gaia) is a goddess contained within a specific universe's Earth. Rarified Energon is her lifeblood.
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Fiction
Classics
In ancient times, the Thirteen predicted that Gaea would one day be needed to combat some threat, and she agreed to be hidden as the core of Earth. The Future Buried...
When Ultra Magnus used the power of the Terminus Blade to destroy the universe of Primax 207.0 Epsilon, Earth was the only thing to survive, having been brought into Magnus's home dimension, along with the entire population, both human and Cybertronian. It remained there when Nexus Prime strengthened the boundaries of the multiverse, which brought a benevolent Unicron and evil Primus into being for the first time. Invasion Out of the One, Many
Upon the dark Primus's transformation into his robot mode and subsequent attack on the displaced Earth, in an attempt to eradicate his former children, the Rarified Energon located in the planet reacted, and Gaea awakened. Transporting the population of humans to another dimension's Earth, she transformed to her robot mode and fought Primus to prevent him from imposing his interpretation of order upon the universe. With the aid of the Knights of Unicron, Gaea defeated him. Reformatting her alternate mode into a new Cybertron, she transformed back, giving a new home to the joint forces of the heroic Decepticons and Autobots. The Future Buried...
Gaea had teleported the humans to another dimension, one where the Cybertronian race was near-extinct, reasoning that this world would be safe and peaceful for the organics, knowing that Thunder Mayhem would fall to the Pretenders she'd sent. She overruled Grimlock's desire to travel to the other reality, reassuring him that the Cybertronian race could govern itself without humanity's influence. Divination
Beast Wars: Uprising
Gaia was a deity of some import in 24th century Cybertronian culture. As Dead-End maneuvered her way through the Dinosaur's coolant systems, she sarcastically speculated that her current predicament was divine punishment for homewrecking Gaia in a previous life. Intersectionality
During the Vehicon Apocalypse, an indignant Rook invoked Gaia's name when he tried to point out to Fever Dream the Vehicons were quite blatantly bad news. Derailment
Notes
- Gaea was first depicted on merchandise made for the unofficial BotCon 2004, such as T-shirts, art prints, and the back cover of the convention's program guide. When she later made her first appearances in official Transformers fiction, her design was slightly modified from its original appearance (such as, um, not having two individual robo-breasts).
- Since Gaea was originally introduced at the unofficial 2004 convention, she is not actually owned by Hasbro, but by the BotCon brand itself. This puts her in a similar situation as Circuit Breaker and Death's Head in regards to legal ownership of the character. As such, the unofficial BotCon fiction published from 2022 onward is free to use her, beginning with her appearance in issue #3 of BotCon Unlimited in 2024.
- Gaea is the first Transformer whose altmode has been shown to be the planet Earth itself, a concept that would later be used by the likes of Unicron from the Aligned continuity family and Atlas from IDW Publishing's Transformers vs. G.I. Joe series (though, both of them appeared in official Transformers fiction before Gaea first did). Appropriately, she is named after the personification of the Earth in Greek Mythology, Gaia. The same mythological reference was also used for the future version of Earth in Beast Wars II.