Sari Sumdac - Transformers Animated - Animated Series

Animated Series

The truth of Sari's origin was revealed in the third season three-part premiere, "Transwarped". Professor Sumdac revealed that one day he discovered a small "being of liquid metal". Sumdac touched it and passed out. When he awoke, he found Sari "just there" and adopted her as his daughter.

In the episode "Transform and Roll Out", Sari meets the Autobots when they save her from a giant bug monster accidentally created by her father's company. When she finds the Allspark, her former key is transformed into one which will cure the Autobots. In effect, Sari is also chosen to keep the key.

In "Home Is Where the Spark Is", Sari finds an abandoned factory owned by her father as an inner-city shelter and base of operations for the Autobots so that they can stay there instead of always being on The Autobot ship beneath Lake Erie. She soon becomes fast and good friends with Bumblebee and Bulkhead.

In the episode "Sound and Fury", Sari's new toy musical robot, Soundwave, seems to have an evil streak – and the ability to control other machines – but Bulkhead is the only one who sees it. Under Megatron's command, Soundwave upgrades himself and kidnaps Sari, but is seemingly destroyed by Bulkhead.

In the episode "Survival of the Fittest", Sari is kidnapped by the Dinobots. Prowl and Bulkhead head to a mysterious island to investigate – with a highly suspicious Captain Fanzone on their tail. The orchestrator of these events is revealed to be Meltdown.

In the episode "Nature Calls", Sari, Prowl and Bumblebee get more than they bargained for when they head out to the remote woods to investigate a mysterious Cybertronian energy signal. The signal comes from some mutant barnacles latched on to Megatron's body. Before the barnacles are defeated, they infect Prowl, turning him into a zombie-like Transformer. Prowl ends up scratching Bumblebee somehow and infects him with the barnacles as well. Sari uses the water hose to save them, but later she catches a cold and she, Prowl and Bumblebee go back to the city.

During the two-part first season finale "Megatron Rising", Optimus Prime deeems that it is too dangerous for Sari to possess the Key anymore, and gives it to Ratchet. Ratchet is then attacked by Blitzwing and Lugnut, who steal the key and use it to revive Megatron. Sari meanwhile is captured by Blackarachnia, who also wants the key. Ratchet saves Sari from Blackarachnia's clutches. When Megatron boards the Autobot's ship and absorbs the Allspark, Sari, who manages to regain the key, convinces Optimus to use it on Megatron. The Allspark energy is dispersed, leaving the key – the most powerful Cybertronian artifact on Earth, and far to valuable for any Autobot to possess – back into custody of Sari.

At the end of the episode "The Elite Guard", when Porter C. Powell takes over Sumdac Industries following Prof. Isaac Sumdac's abduction by Megatron, it is revealed that there is no record of Sari existing – no will, no birth certificate, no adoption papers, social security number or any kind of record, whatsoever. She is cast out of Sumdac tower and is forced to move in with the Autobots.

During the episode "Return Of The Headmaster", Bumblebee and Bulkhead try to figure out why Sari has no documentation of being Professor Sumdac's daughter. Bumblebee suggests Sari is an alien while Bulkhead suspects Sari is a robot created by Sumdac. This leads to wondering who is Sari's mother.

In the episode "Sari, No One's Home", Sari is left alone in the Autobot base when the Constructicons Scrapper and Mixmaster stumble onto it. Initially frightened by their presence, Sari uses her key and the factory's assembly line to attack the two, eventually scaring them off.

In a cliffhanger at the end of the second part of season two finale, "A Bridge Too Close", Sari's arm is injured, with the most of the skin peeled back on her elbow, revealing what appears to be damaged, crackling circuitry.

In the three-part episode "Transwarped", Sari is at first angry at her father for not telling her the truth about her unique origin, but forgives him after he tried to protect her from the Headmaster, who has linked to Starscream's body. After the Headmaster is defeated, Prowl reveals that Prof. Sumdac came into contact with a "liquid metal body", which was a Protoform (the base of all technological life on Cybertron). He then explains that when Prof. Sumdac touched the Protoform, his DNA merged with it, resulting in the birth of Sari, a techno-organic (part-human, part-Cybertronian) being. Sari quickly comes to accept her robotic abilities and powers, but the Autobots suggest she take time to learn what her body is truly capable of.

When the Autobots leave Sari behind to go and save Bumblebee (who had been swallowed by a rock-like alien), she decides to use her Key to upgrade herself. The Key transforms her into a robotic-teenage form with light blue eyes. After saving Bumblebee, however, the key overloads Sari's systems, causing her to go out of control. She loses control of her body, unleashing incredibly strong and powerful energy waves and causing anything she touches to explode. The Autobots try to stop her without hurting her, but she accidentally stabs Bumblebee, critically wounding him. The other Autobots finally manage to remove Sari's key, but discovers that its AllSpark-infused energy had been drained into her. Out of options, Ratchet is forced to use his EMP-Generator on Sari, who pleads with him to stop her no matter what. After he finally manages to stabilize her, she wakes up and apologizes for her recklessness. Her father apologizes for not trusting her to handle the truth.

At the beginning of the episode "Human Error, Part One", Sari is shown to have fully recovered from the EMP blast. She now sports the appearance of a "Techno-organic Teenager" (a permanent result of her recent upgrade), and spent Christmas Eve with her Autobot friends. That morning, her father gives her a Soundwave toy (Powell stole the toy's original design from Sumdac before he was fired in "Transwarped" and marketed them as the must have toy for the holiday season, inadvertently supplying Soundwave with an army of miniature versions of himself) and a scooter which turns into a jet pack (which he likely developed). When she goes to the Autobots to show them her new jetpack, she finds the base empty. She traces their energy signatures to a hidden basement which she was unaware of. Upon further investigation, she finds Soundwave holding the Autobots captive and attempting to reprogram them into Decepticons. After Soundwave is wounded by Sari's beach ball-sized energy orb attack, he uses Laserbeak to force her into a retreat, but she swears that she will return to free the Autobots.

In "Human Error, Part Two", realizing that she is no match for Soundwave on her own, Sari heads to Dinobot Island to recruit the help of the Dinobots. Grimlock and Swoop refuse to assist, though Sari does find Scrapper, who has taken Snarl as a pet. She also reluctantly takes up Wreck-Gar's offer for help. Her ragtag team, now dubbed as the "Substitute Autobots", engage in battle with Optimus and the other Autobots, now under Soundwave's control. Due to some quick thinking on Sari's part, and Prowl's "processor-over-matter" capability, the Autobots are freed and Soundwave is defeated, though he escapes capture.

At the beginning of the episode "Decepticon Air", Sari ends the argument between her father and Bulkhead, by recalibrating the Space Bridge they had been working on. Apparently, due to her upgraded form, she is now able to interface and repair any kind of machinery, without the use of her Allspark Key. She also aids in building Prime's rocket pack in "Endgame, Part 1". In "Endgame, Part 2", Sari accompanies Ratchet, Bumblebee and Bulkhead to the moon in order to rescue Arcee and reactivate Omega Supreme. Her newfound technopathic ability to interface with machinery proves instrumental in restoring Arcee's memories and personality. After the final battle with Megatron and the Omega Supreme clones, Sari accompanies the Autobots to Cybertron, to give the fallen Prowl a proper burial, and to learn of her unique origins.