Strika is a Vehicon from the Beast Machines portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Toy accuracy? I laugh at toy accuracy.

Many look at Strika and see a lumbering brute with the processing power of a calculator watch. It's a mistake no-one makes twice. A veteran of countless campaigns, Strika has a keen mind for strategy and tactics, including duping her opponents into thinking she's a lumbering brute with the processing power of a calculator watch, leaving them unprepared for the trap she's sprung around them.

Of course, she understands the value of wholesale destruction as well as surgical strikes. She is not reluctant in the slightest to get into the thick of it herself and throw her impressive weight around, or fill the battlefield with volleys of firepower. She's brains and brawn in one monstrous package, and she only becomes more dangerous when paired with her aerial consort Obsidian.

Fiction

Beast Wars cartoon continuity

Beast Machines cartoon

Admiral Ackbar, your line?

Voice actor: Patricia Drake (English), Rikako Aikawa (Japanese), Carla Pompílio (Portuguese from Brazil), Regine Albrecht (German), Stéphane Excoffier (French)

Like Obsidian, Strika wasn't given an alternate personality, as the previous Vehicon generals had. However, her primary directive was to protect Cybertron, but since Megatron was Cybertron now, her loyalty was misplaced. Built at the same time as Obsidian, Strika remained silent as Thrust admired the two new recruits (though she did give him a dirty look). Attacking a topside Silverbolt and Nightscream, she went after the bat when they split up, grounding him with cannon fire. Before she could crush him, though, Cheetor dropped into her party and Blackarachnia trapped her in a web, though it didn't hold for long under her attempts to escape. Cheetor tried to reason with her, but she turned and sped off, reuniting with Obsidian. When the Maximals cornered the two generals, the trap was sprung, as hundreds of drones surrounded the Maximals. Strika expressed smug amazement that the Maximals had fallen for her and Obsidian's "dumb generals" act, complete with faked battle cries/activation codes of "Terminate!" and "Obliterate!"

Old help, meet the new help.

Forced to retreat, the Maximals attempted to escape into the sewers, but Strika's drones popped out from every manhole, cutting them off. After they'd barricaded themselves in the Citadel, Optimus Primal realized they had been herded there, at which point Obsidian contacted them and revealed himself and Strika. Only the timely intervention of Botanica saved the Maximals, her seeds disrupting the drones' targeting systems. Strika was upset to discover her side's scans of Botanica were drastically incomplete. With the Maximals gone, Strika returned with Obsidian to Megatron to accept their punishment for failure, but they were congratulated instead, having given Megatron time to formulate his plan for the sparks. The Strike

Strika? Damn near killed 'a!

When Optimus split his team to investigate a vision from the Oracle, Strika was waiting for Rattrap and Botanica at the Citadel. Ambushing the Maximals, she gave chase but temporarily lost them when they hid in a building. However, it didn't take long to locate them, and she mercilessly attacked Botanica while Rattrap was plugged into a holographic pleasure terminal. Disabling them, Strika prepared to administer the coup de grace to Botanica, but Rattrap intervened and plugged her into the terminal instead, leaving her admiring the beauty of an undamaged Cybertron. The Search

As Megatron prepared to enact his plan, Strika and Obsidian were assigned to guard the Grand Mal's exterior. When the Maximals attempted to enter the Grand Mal, Silverbolt, Cheetor and Nightscream caused some major problems for the two with Rattrap's signature-altering devices—until Strika used one of the devices to send feedback through the other units, allowing the Maximals to be detected. She then got thrown into Obsidian by Noble. The Siege

With Megatron's seeming destruction, Obsidian and Strika were at a loss. Offered a place with the Maximals by Cheetor, Strika was incredulous at the notion, but she and Obsidian accepted after a crazed mutant zombie thing tried to scrap her and everyone else present. Thrust slagged them off for this, pointing out they were loyal to everyone and that meant loyal to no one. When Megatron's crazed spark entered the Grand Mal, Obsidian and Strika moved to intercept. It wasn't too successful. However, when Megatron's spark was repolarized and bonded to a Diagnostic Drone, Strika and Obsidian seized him and vacated the premises, swearing their loyalty to Megatron once more: Thrust's words had made an impact on them. Megatron, however, was infuriated and refused to accept it was tactically necessary to have withdrawn. Spark of Darkness

Gross, Cheetor left a floater!

Along with Obsidian and Thrust, Strika led the final assault on the Grand Mal, though she spent her time chasing Maximals rather than attacking the floating base (and chasing Thrust around for a while after Nightscream planted a device on her that made her see others as Maximals). The Downward Spiral

After making a massive assault on the downed fortress and taking out Blackarachnia personally, Strika, Obsidian, and Thrust cornered Cheetor in the Grand Mal's engine room. However, the crafty cat activated the anti-gravity drive, sending Strika and Obsidian hurtling up into Cybertron's orbit. When Legends Fall

Transformers Legends anthology

As Megatron's polarized spark traveled from body to body near the end of the Spark War, it settled in an Aero Drone body and attacked Strika, Obsidian, Nightscream, and Cheetor. Though it could not communicate in this form, it silently cursed Strika and Obsidian for switching allegiances at the first opportunity. Singularity Ablyss

3H comics

Though marooned in orbit, Strika and Obsidian were otherwise undamaged and were able to serve Cybertron once more. When the Quintessons invaded technorganic Cybertron one week after the Great Transformation, Obsidian rewired an orbiting monitoring station for combat, while Strika used its artillery to take down an impressive target. The Quintesson ship Paradigm was destroyed in low orbit over Polyhex. Strika and Obsidian turned their attentions to the planetary defense grid. Though they had faith in the Maximals below, as they had bested even them, the two still served the lofty goal of protecting Cybertron from invaders. Wreckers: Finale Part II

Legends comic

In one of the Legends World Tigatron's dreams, Strika was among the evil female Transformers who sought to kidnap him and fought the heroic female Transformers guarding him. Bonus Edition Vol. 11

Obsidian and Strika were seen in the skies over techno-organic Cybertron following the end of the war for the sparks. Epiloge

Ask Vector Prime

In Primax 208.06 Zeta, Megatron, unleashed Obsidian against the Predacon resistance in the ongoing Spark War, but without Strika to temper him, Obsidian successfully conspired with Tankor to assassinate Megatron. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16

Cybertron comic

See her way in the back? Falling into the goop?

Hailing from Primax 704.08 Gamma, Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16 "Nemesis" Strika was a Minion of Unicron during the Universe War. At the end of the multiversal conflict, Optimus Primal's Children of Primus fought one last desperate battle within Unicron against the Minions of Unicron. Strika was of these Minions, and she met a gruesome end when Unicron himself vanished beneath them, somehow due to the Unicron Singularity. Though Optimus Primal and his warriors were able to escape through a dimensional portal, Strika and Obsidian fell to their doom in the molten lakes of the Pit. Revelations Part 2 Vector Prime noted a certain symmetry to them dying alongside versions of their consorts. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16

Wings Universe

Strika was a part of an all-female team of archaeologists that had discovered an ancient factory that could be the key to the Transformers' origins. When the Autobots arrived to investigate, Strika let them see for themselves. Flames of Yesterday

At the dawn of the Machine Wars in 2013, Optimus Prime was comatose and years of peace under the second Golden Age had left Cybertron unprepared for outright war. Obsidian took command of Cybertron's military force, with Strika at his side as co-strategist and warrior. Jhiaxus's clone armies swept across Cybertron nonetheless, taking control of its most important polities. But Strika and the other survivors of these attacks struck back; disguising themselves as Empties, they approached the clone Thundercracker and ambushed him while his guard was down. Though the other 'bots fighting alongside them did not have the military experience both Strika and Obsidian shared, Sandstorm and Octane proved themselves to be useful allies. Through expert coordination of their squad in battle, Obsidian and Strika managed to defeat Thundercracker's drones and capture him. Strika forcefully interrogated Thundercracker to give up the location of his commander Megaplex, and Hoist and Sandstorm suggested to the clone that it'd be best if he surrendered the information quickly before Strika actually lost her temper.

Battle Couple

Strika and her compatriots confronted Megaplex in Iacon, and managed to surround his army with their own, thanks to Mirage's holographic abilities. The battle was going in favor of Strika's side, until Sandstorm suddenly turned on them and cut down Obsidian with a laser-blast; the pacifist was in truth a clone and sleeper agent planted in the Autobots' army. Then, Jhiaxus and the greater bulk of his soldiery arrived. Termination

Facing off against a squad of Sandstorm drones, Obsidian and Strika declared to the onlooking Jhiaxus that they would fight him to the bitter end. With Jhiaxus unwilling to let up his invasion, Strika engaged the enemy, blasting a hole in a nearby drone. The whole battlefield then lit up with laser blasts, and Strika and her cohort pressed on in their defending of their homeworld. She rescued Octane from a squad of Thundercracker drones during the battle, only to be rescued right back when Octane shot down one of the drones sneaking up on her.

After the signing of the Pax Cybertronia, Obsidian and Strika quickly vanished from public view, not wanting their faces to remind the public of the recent brutal conflict. A Common Foe

Kre-O comic

Strika was at Metroplex before it was attacked by Earth's worst criminals. The Brick List: Earth's Most Wanted

2005 IDW continuity

First appearance: Windblade vol. 2 #7

Strika was a descendant of the Liege Maximo's tribe–a repentant faction that had turned against their deceitful leader and interred him aboard the Titan Vigilem, which became known as "Carcer". Heavy By the present day, Strika served aboard "Carcer" under the command of Elita One. When Cybertron reestablished contact with the citizens of Carcer, Strika joined the crew as they "greeted" Starscream and Windblade when they arrived, mistakenly believing that they were visiting Tempo, a Titan crewed by peaceful philosophers. Having previously witnesed the brawl between Optimus Maximus and Devastator some weeks previously, Strika and the other members of Carcer's security team cornered the pair and nearly killed them before Elita One appeared and ordered them to stand down.

EX-TER-MIN-ATE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!

Accompanying her commander into the throne room of the ship, Strika stood silent guard, with Obsidian flanking the other side. When Elita One easily saw through Starscream's lies, she ordered Strika to seize him. Easily overpowering the relatively smaller 'bot, Strika held him and was about to execute him for lying to Elita One (a capital offense aboard Carcer) when Windblade intervened and through an impassioned plea, convinced Elita One not only to not execute Starscream, but to join Carcer with the Council of Worlds. Strika escorted the two out of the throne room, and as Starscream and Windblade quickly made their way back to the spacebridge, Starscream remarked that if the rest of the crew was anything like Strika, they'd just found the most powerful group of Transformers in a lost colony yet! The Will of the Few

As ambassadors and members of the Council of Worlds, Strika and Obsidian made an effort to acclimate to life on Cybertron. Choose Me After Optimus Prime announced his intent to annex Earth into the Council, Strika attended the first meeting discussing this sudden change of events. New Worlds Order

When the Council re-convened to discuss a string of mysterious mnemosurgical assaults and the growing distrust of the Badgeless, Strika and Obsidian were both present. The Committee moved to have Ironhide investigate the crime spree; subsequently, Strika went off to go spar with Chromia for fun. 07:00:00 Things turned sour following the death of an inebriated Decepticon, which most chalked up to police brutality. Ultimately, Ironhide stepped up as the new head of Cybertronian security. Applicable Skills At a later meeting, she listened to Ironhide's report on the new recruits. Things We Said We'd Never Do When Bruticus appeared and began laying waste to Iacon, Strika and the other Council delegates were evacuated. The Line Between Us

The Council later met with Optimus to hear his side of the story, with Strika demanding an explanation for Optimus's behaviour. Although Prime insisted that his intentions were pure, its members unanimously voted against allowing Earth a seat on the council. The Medium and the Message When Optimus raised a Titan from on Earth, the Council began re-considering its verdict. No Fair Fights

"Y'know what? Frag power levels! Frag super-robots! AND FRAG! YOU!!!"

Several months later, a wave of undead Titans descended on Cybertron. Knowing what was at stake if the Titans destroyed Carcer, Strika coordinated Carcer's crew as they battled the Titans in the upper atmosphere, destroying them before they could make planetfall. Ping Unfortunately, this wasn't enough to appease Starscream, who demanded that Carcer transform to help Metroplex on the ground. When negotiations broke down, the Cybertronian leader sicced Devastator on the orbiting ship as a distraction while Windblade and her allies infiltrated the Titan's brain chamber. Desperate Times Strika redirected her team to fire on the combiner; effortlessly catching one of Devastator's punches and redirecting it. Desperate Measures Devastator's distraction bought time for Windblade's team; when Windblade engaged a cityspeaker link with Strika's ship, Vigilem awoke and began transforming. Realizing that Vigilem was going to disgorge the Liege Maximo after eons of imprisonment, Strika and her troops rushed to "Sector Zero", ready to blast whatever came through the door. They arrived too late–the energy released as the Prime escaped knocked her team unconscious. Strika managed to stay online just long enough to witness Liege Maximo before she too passed out. Rubicon

Knocking her over is one thing, but did Soundwave shrink her too?

As Iacon struggled to rebuild from this latest attack, the Council reconvened to meet with Optimus Prime once again. Prime suggested sharing Transformer technology with Wreck-Gar's tribe of Junkion nomads, but Starscream shot down the proposal, citing a violation of the Tyrest Accord. Behind My Bleeding Back

When human terrorists began attacking Iacon, Strika halted G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K. before Soundwave intervened. Unwilling to listen, Strika marked all humans for death before engaging Soundwave in melee combat. Before she could unleash the power of her tank mode, Ironhide and Sunstreaker interceded to bring everyone to the Spire to sort everything out much to Strika's disbelief. First Strike #3 Strika later appeared again alongside the rest of the Council of Worlds as they accepted Optimus Prime's first shipment of Ore-13 to Cybertron. Surfeit of Primes

When Unicron began its attack on the Cybertronian colonies, Strika was in the Council war room when Starscream revealed the existence of the Decepticon Vengeance Division, a massive Decepticon fleet that he planned to unleash on the monster. Stranger Eons Starscream's attack ended in miserable failure, resulting in Unicron personally attacking Cybertron. Elita One recalled all the Carcerians to their ship so they could deploy Victorion within the Chaos Bringer's innards only for Bludgeon's Worldsweeper to cripple their craft and kill everyone aboard save Elita. Our Finest Strika's corpse was presumably destroyed when Elita defiantly rammed the totaled ship into Unicron's face. Road's End

TransTech

One version of Strika wound up in Axiom Nexus. There, she befriended Spacewarp and Treadbolt. The three of them were known to sample Cybertron's nightlife together, with Spacewarp noting that there were plenty of 'bots who liked their partners plus-sized. Spacewarp's Log (1), 2015/10/31

2019 IDW continuity

First appearance: Transformers #11

During the War of the Threefold Spark, Strika was one of the four Great Generals who coordinated the war against Exarchon and his forces, Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down and won acclaim for her pragmatic but honorable tactics. Radical Time On the battlefield, Strika commanded an elite heavy artillery unit who found renown as "Strika's Heavies"; during the battle of Yuss, the Heavies took out one of Exarchon's iterations and rescued a young Megatron from the mad warmonger. The Change In Your Nature Part Three

After the end of the war, Strika, dissatisfied with the postwar Autobot government and the Nominus Edict it upheld, retired from active service and found a new career in politics around the same time that Megatron took control of Termagax's Ascenticon party. Alongside Ratbat, Jhiaxus, Soundwave, and Megatron himself, Strika became a Senator representing the Ascenticon movement within the Cybertronian Senate in Iacon. We Have Deceived You

After the insurgent group known as The Rise launched a false-flag attack on Ascenticon Headquarters, Strika and a number of respected Ascenticons stood by Megatron as he rebranded their movement into something more aggressive. The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Five Later, Strika and Jhiaxus were meeting with Megatron when Soundwave silenced a loose end by detonating a Titan in the Cybertronian Mountains, but forced Megatron to accelerate his plans. The Change In Your Nature Part Two After the destruction of Tether that connected the Winged Moon to Cybertron, Megatron decreed that he and Strika would be the public face of the Ascenticons for the foreseeable future, while Soundwave remained in their offices under the protection of the Ascenticon Guard. All Fall Down

As tensions flared across Cybertron, Sentinel Prime sought to crack down on the Ascenticons by convening the Senate without them. In response, Megatron, Ratbat, and Strika barged into the Senate; while Strika restrained Sentinel, Megatron used the pulpit to rebrand his followers as the "Decepticons" and launch an armed takeover of the building. Strika, Apeface and Clench drove Ironhide's Senate Guard from the building before announcing to the stunned onlookers outside that the Decepticons had triumphed. We Have Deceived You

Their takeover of the Senate complete, Strika set about assembling a team of "New Heavies" to enforce the regime that included a mixture of veteran soldiers and new recruits, and later stood by Megatron as he implored the imprisoned Senators to accept his rule before the Autobot resistance attacked. Prime Some time later, after Sentinel Prime's death, Strika defended Megatron's decision to send the Rainmakers to bring in the ex-Autobot leader to Ratbat. While Megatron went off to run the city from Decepticon Headquarters, he ordered Strika to keep the old Senate building locked down until the Senators within bent to their will. Awakenings

Strika and her Heavies later launched a full-scale attack on the Forge Pyramid to recover the Titansparks stored underneath, but didn't make much headway before the building flooded with molten plasma and forced them into a retreat. Titans

When Optimus Prime and Megatron parlayed, Strika met with Pyra Magna and projected Megatron's hologram. When discussions broke down, Strika used her suppressor spear to privately have a political discussion with Pyra before both their forces came to blows. By the time that Strika had returned to Decepticon Headquarters, it was found that the Autobots had already made their way out of Iacon. We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness

After Ultra Magnus was captured by the Decepticons, Strika was there when he was presented to Megatron. Magnus tried to warn them of Exarchon's return, appealing to he and Strika's shared history as Great Generals, but Strika expressed doubt in her former comrade's words. However, once Magnus had been led from the room, she was in favor of some follow-up on his warnings, just to be safe. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two

Strika led a massive attack launched on Crystal City, ordering it razed to the ground and the Autobots within destroyed. After Storm Cloud pinpointed Autobot artillery positions, Strika ordered bombardment of that area. With her Heavies taking the lead and pushing Autobot defenders further and further back, victory seemed assured. Just as Strika and her troops began flooding into the city, their attention was drawn to the sky, where a massive object dropped from orbit. Strika soberly identified it as Lodestar just before the Titan landed on the outskirts of the city. A Dust of Crystals While most of her troops retreated at the sight, Strika merely noted that Lodestar was heavily damaged and rallied her Heavies for a counterattack. After Lodestar disgorged Computron, Strika led the Heavies in an assault on the combiner, managing to knock him off his feet. However, Optimus Prime arrived on the scene with his troops and demanded a ceasefire of Strika, citing the looming existential threats to Cybertron, chief among them the returned Exarchon. With Lodestar still looming over her, Strika acquiesced, putting Optimus in contact with Megatron and the two soon agreed to a temporary truce. The Landscape of Fear

The Autobots abandoned Crystal City to trek across the wilderness and leave Cybertron to Megatron, planning a departure from the last Ark at Darkmount. Strika was recalled from the field and returned to Iacon, with Jhiaxus taking her place at the head of the army. Optimus Prime considered this a bad sign, as Strika had a history of honorable service which Jhiaxus lacked. Radical Time Sure enough, Jhiaxus held to the letter of the truce by bombing the Autobots' vicinity with artillery fire, not hitting them but driving them into the path of the rust worms. It failed as a tactic, and soon Strika, Shockwave, and Megatron himself entered the field of battle again. End of Time

Skywarp took command of the situation with his finger on an imploder trigger, forcing a single confrontation between Megatron and Optimus Prime. After Computron arrived and Jumpstream disposed of Skywarp and the imploder, though, the moment changed. Megatron and his generals allowed the Autobots to proceed on to Darkmount, but only so that Megatron had time to rally his divided forces for a single push against the Autobots before the launch of the Ark. Strika and the Decepticons fought valiantly, but the Computron combiner sacrificed itself to bide time for Optimus and the Autobots to take off. After Scattershot's combined form was brought down and separated, Megatron was furious over his loss. He was prepared to execute the combination initator on the spot, but Strika stayed his hand, instructing him to win honorably. Megatron accepted the rebuke, and ordered the Autobots taken as captives. Fate of Cybertron

Alternate future

When Jumpstream was accidentally transported to an alternate future where Exarchon conquered Cybertron, she stumbled upon Strika and several others' severed heads impaled on pikes in the ground. Test Flight I

Last Bot Standing

Strika was among the many Decepticons who fought against the Autobots as both sides drained the universe of its resources. Last Bot Standing #2

Games

Transformers Roleplaying Game

Obsidian and Strika were some of the greatest generals in Cybertronian history, who'd fought and won a thousand wars over the course of their long careers. In particular, Strika excelled at deceiving enemies into thinking of her as nothing but a dim-witted brute, then springing a trap when they least expected it. Technorganic Secrets

Toys

Beast Machines

You will spend hours activating my addictive gimmickry.

• Strika (Deluxe, 2001)

• Accessories: 2 missiles
• Known designers: Yuichiro Hira (TakaraTomy)

Part of the ninth wave of Beast Machines Deluxes (and the second to feature the "Battle For the Spark" subline branding), Strika transforms into a Cybertronic six-wheeled assault tank. Two pressure-launch missiles are mounted on her tank-mode trunk-like area, and pressing the figure's spark crystal causes them to pom-pom back and forth to simulate firing. Both gimmicks are fully functional in both modes.

• More information on Strika at TFU.info

Universe (2003)

More like Nemesis Reprolabels.com, am I right?

• Nemesis Strika (Deluxe, 2005)

• Accessories: 2 missiles

Released in the sixth wave of 2003's Universe Deluxes, "Nemesis Strika" is a redeco and minor retooling of the original Beast Machines Strika toy. The figure's chest was retooled to accommodate the addition of a Decepticon insignia. Unusually, this insignia is not a tampographed paint application, but a paper sticker (and not the one seen in the Hasbro stock photography of the toy).

• More information on Nemesis Strika at TFU.info

Beast Wars Returns

The show model didn't have one bit of lavender, yet, hey, here we are.

• Vehicon Strika (Deluxe, 2005)

• ID number: BR-13
• Release date: April 14, 2005
• Accessories: 2 missiles

In 2005 the toy was redecoed and released as part of the Japanese Toys"R"Us exclusive Beast Wars Returns series, Takara's take on Beast Machines. Having been produced several years after the cartoon, this version casually attempted a more show-accurate look than the original by swapping out the originally silver plastic for magenta and lavender, but making no other deco changes. The figure retained the mold changes used for the Universe release (see above), and since no actual paint operations were changed from the original Beast Machines version, the part of her chestplate where the Universe faction symbol went just has a gold stripe going up through it, with the sides in silver.

Timelines

• Machine Wars: Termination (BotCon box set, 2013)

• Accessories: Missile

Timelines Strika is a retool of Generations Warpath, transforming into a fictional H-tread tank. A spring-loaded missile launcher is placed on her right shoulder (usable in both modes). There are rods in both her legs and arms that are compatible with c joint accessories. In tank mode, her turret can rotate and the barrel can articulate upwards.

Strika was only available in a BotCon 2013-exclusive boxset with Hoist, Skywarp, Obsidian, and Megaplex.

• More information on Timelines Strika at TFU.info

Kre-O

She's a brick. TAAANK. She's mighty-mighty.

• Machine Wars (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2013)

A Kreon Strika, based on the Timelines toy above, was released in a BotCon 2013-exclusive Machine Wars box-set-themed Kre-O five-pack, limited to 1500 pieces. Unlike most Transformers Kreons, she reuses the diver helmet from the Battleship building sets, with the visor raised up to replicate her helmet "frill".

Though she lacks an alternate vehicle build like the Kreon Micro-Changers, it's not hard to come up with one thanks to the clip-on treads on her arms and the general "looseness" of Kreon-based vehicle builds.

This bagged set also includes Kreons of the BotCon 2013 box-set versions of Hoist, Megaplex, Obsidian, and Skywarp.

• More information on Strika at TFU.info

Notes

• In Bob Skir and Marty Isenberg's season 2 arc notes,^[1] the "Vehicon badgirl" character that would become Strika is described as transforming into a "segmented Humvee" that uses turret weaponry. This description is strikingly reminiscent of Blastcharge's vehicle mode, which has a heavily Humvee-inspired front end and the ability to articulate in the middle, perhaps indicating that Strika shares a design lineage with him. Notably, Strika was the only on-screen Vehicon general to not correspond with a toy in the first year of the Beast Machines toyline, with her first figure, based directly on her final animation model, not appearing until the line's second-year Battle for the Spark refresh.
• The name "Strika" is possibly derived from "Stryker", a type of eight-wheeled all-wheel-drive armored combat vehicle.
• Strika's distinctive scoop-shaped forearms and standard method of attack in her original Beast Machines appearances (physically flinging bombs at her enemies) suggests she was originally modelled after a jai alai player.
• Beast Machines story editor Bob Skir wanted to depict Obsidian and Strika's return to Cybertron after the reformatting wave hit in the last episode, making them the only two purely mechanical beings remaining. However, this never made it into the series.^{[citation needed]}
• In the Chinese dub of Beast Machines, Strika was voiced by a male actor. Obsidian introduced him as his close friend, instead of his consort.
• Strika's appearance in the text story "Flames of Yesterday" is based on a generic crowd-filler character who appeared in the The Transformers episode "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4". However, Strika is not meant to be the generic; she simply shares the design in homage to the infamously shoddy animation work of "Five Faces of Darkness" using models at random.^[2]
• Strika was not originally intended to appear in the 2019 IDW continuity; artist Anna Malkova drew her in a crowd scene in issue #11, and writer Brian Ruckley liked the idea so much that he incorporated her into the plot of future issues.^[3]

Foreign names

• Japanese: Strika (ストライカ Sutoraika)
• Mandarin: Strika (Taiwan, 史翠卡 Shǐcuìkǎ), Dàlì Shén (China, 大力神, "Hercules")

References