Sari Sumdac - Transformers Animated

Transformers Animated

The eight-year old daughter of Dr. Isaac Sumdac, Sari lived a sheltered life until she befriends the Autobots after they saved her upon their reawakening.

She is the primary source of information regarding Earth and its cultures and customs. The security key card she carries is a key shaped shard of the allspark and becomes a curative spark key after her encounter with the AllSpark, allowing her to heal Transformers. Her key can also detect Cybertronians. She is an intelligent girl, with a mischievous streak, but she also has a kind heart. She cares about her father, who works really hard. Though like most eight-year-olds, she has a fit when things do not go her way, and freaked out at the first sight of Autobots.

In an extended opening sequence, Sari is shown driving a bike which she uses her key to transform into a flight pack; however it does not make an appearance in the series. In the two-part episode "Human Error, Part 1" a similar jetpack turns out to be a Christmas present from her father, which allows her to fly through the air at high supersonic speeds.

At first Sari's only real ability was her "AllSpark-enhanced Key" which she could use to power-up, repair, modify or upgrade various electronic devices and machines. Sari's Key was extremely useful in repairing injured Autobots (as well as being able to detect AllSpark fragments). However, her reckless and headstrong personality resulted in her using her Key irresponsibly causing all sorts of mishaps. Besides her Key, Sari has shown she is both sly and crafty, allowing her to outsmart both human criminals and even Decepticons. Due to her being the daughter of Professor Sumdac she is in a position to help the Autobots with occasional aid from her father and his company (the Autobots' base is one of her father's abandoned factories).

She also has received some Cybertronian martial arts training from Prowl (in order to better protect herself). She even manages to outsmart and defeat the Constructicons, when they stumbled onto the Autobot's factory home.

After her true nature as a half-human, half-Cybertronian hybrid is first revealed, some of her newfound techno-organic abilities and powers finally awaken. The first is when she angrily "evicts" Porter C. Powell and Henry Masterson from Sumdac Tower, transforming into a semi-robotic state and unleashing an energy shockwave that hurls them into an awaiting elevator. The second time is when she, Professor Sumdac, and Optimus Prime are attacked by the Headmaster (using Starscream's abandoned body); Sari discovers she can channel small white spheres of pure energy into the palms of her hands, allowing her to fire tiny white marble-sized energy spheres. These energy spheres are not very powerful, but can still cause minor damage.

Despite her newfound Cybertronian abilities, the Autobots still feared for her safety and wanted her to remain on the sidelines, mainly due to her inexperience with her new techno-organic abilities. Sari then uses her AllSpark-powered Key to upgrade and modify herself so she could finally fight alongside the Autobots. This causes her to transform and upgrade into a teenage robotic-armored form, also appearing to upgrade her physical appearance, giving her a slightly more teenage body possibly the appearance and exact height of a sixteen-year old girl. In this new form, she gains several new-and much stronger and more powerful Cybertronian energy-based abilities, weapons and equipment - including energy-based roller-blades, tonfa-like energy blades and an energy-based sledgehammer, similar to Optimus' battle ax. Her new form also greatly strengthens and increases her natural abilities to superhuman levels, allowing her to make full use and proficiency of Prowl's Cybertronian martial arts training. In this robotic armored/cybernetic form, she is shown to be extremely fast, speedy, agile, nimble, durable, strong and powerful.

However, due to her inexperience and an overload caused by the energy from her AllSpark-powered Key, she temporarily loses control of her body. During her rampage, she demonstrates much stronger and more powerful energy-based abilities, like firing white energy beams from her tonfa-blades and unleashing massive shockwaves of pure white glowing energy that are quite destructive. Eventually, her body absorbs all of the AllSpark-infused energy from her Key, rendering it completely useless and powerless. Sari's body was unable to contain this energy, forcing her to channel it into anything she touches, causing that object to explode. The Key's energy nearly kills her. However, the Autobots manage to stop her in time. Afterward, it is shown that the physical upgrade appears to be permanent and she now has the physical height and appearance of a sixteen-year old teenage girl.

At this point in time, Sari shows far greater control over her techno-organic form and her white-colored energy orbs are now much, much larger-being the size of beach balls- and can now cause much more substantial damage and destruction. She is also immune to Soundwave's mind-control waves, due to her unique techno-organic nature. As of the end of the third season, most of her weapons appear to be unused or inaccessible other than her energy orbs. However she does acquire a new technology-based ability-Technopathy, the ability to scan any electronic machine and determine what is wrong with them and how to fix the problem in seconds through physical contact with it.

Sari is unusual among Transformers as her alternate form is an organic human (unlike the Decepticon Pretender Alice, who scanned a human-looking automation).