Flareup (Transformers)

Flareup is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. The name Flareup was adopted by Hasbro's legal department when they were unable to okay the use of Firestar.

Transformers: Timelines

Flareup was a student of the Autobot Firestar.

According to the toy designers they originally planned for this character to be a new version of Generation 1 Firestar, but when that name was unavailable they called her Flareup and made her Firestar's student.

Reception

Flareup was named the 5th top unfortunately named Transformer by Topless Robot.

Fun Publications

Flareup first appears in the 2005 Botcon exclusive story "Descent into Evil". She is part of Ironhide's squad, sent to investigate Deathsaurus's attempts to clone an army of Insecticons. She and the other members of the squad are captured, but are rescued when backup arrives.

Flareup appears as a resident of Axiom Nexus in the 2008 BotCon voice actor play "Bee in the City", voiced by Anastasia Matejka. In this story, Professor Sumdac attempts to create a teleportation system to get the Autobots to Cybertron, but an interaction with Sari Sumdac's key ends up transporting Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Sari to Transtech Cybertron, where they meet Flareup and are detained by Transtech Shockwave. Bumblebee teams up with Beast Wars Megatron to free his comrades but then has to stop Megatron from taking the key for himself. Afterwards the Autobots and Sari return to their own dimension.