Elita One hearkens back to the second season of Gen 1. There’s actually more than just two female autobots. There’s also Chromia, Firestar and Moonracer who show heavily in this episode. My guess is it served as a story plot to precede Arcee’s involvement. Supposedly, Megatron obliterated all the female autobots prior to the Ark’s departure from Cybertron.

On a side note of today’s episode of ‘Did You Know’, (I can’t resist mentioning this, sorry, LOL) Frank Welker who voiced Megatron also voiced Soundwave and Rumble. Perhaps more surprising is Welker’s reprisal of his main role in ‘Transformers: Prime’. I nearly shyt myself when I found that one out, because he doesn’t sound like Megatron from the original series. He sounds like he’s impersonating Hugo Weaving who sounded like he tried impersonating Frank Welker on Transformers: The Movie and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. And as an original TF diehard, I throw serious props to Weaving’s voice acting in those movies. Pretty damn cool, I says.