Greenlight is a female Autobot who is part of Elita One's secret resistance cell. In the IDW comics, Greenlight was romantically involved with Lancer in the 2005 comics and with Arcee in the 2019 comics.
History
Generation 1 cartoon
In "The Search for Alpha Trion", Greenlight is a member of the Female Autobots, an underground resistance movement on Cybertron.
Greenlight usually works together with Lancer. The both of them are manning a series of monitors in the team's secret underground headquarters when Chromia and her team returned from their energy-stealing mission. When their base was located and destroyed, she and Lancer free Moonracer from the debris. Sticking with the rest of the team, she does her share in the fight against the Decepticons and later again mans a series of monitors in the team's new base.
Wings Universe
In "Flames of Yesterday", Greenlight and Lancer are amateur historians and the assistants of the archaeometrist Glyph. They were assigned to Flip Sides's excavation site in Median, where they uncovered a mysterious artifact known as the Heart of the Dragon. Unfortunately, Decepticon raiders from Quarex also learned of their discovery. They requested aid from the Autobot Elite Guard to defend themselves and their find. Greenlight helped Strika, Lancer and the Elite Guard fortify Median against Rage's Stormtroopers. Unlike her fellow neophyte Lancer, however, Greenlight showed no interest in engaging the enemy. She remained in hiding near the dig with Glyph and Flip Sides while the others fought off the Decepticons. Rage and Aquablast managed to infiltrate the defenses and reach the chamber where the historians were hiding, though, and Aquablast killed Glyph before Greenlight's optics. They were only saved by the last minute arrival of Lancer, wielding a borrowed laser weapon.
IDW Comics
In 2005 IDW, Greenlight is a member of Elita One's team aboard the spacefaring Titan Carcer. She and her girlfriend Lancer are assigned to guard a space bridge, as there had been recent violent activity from Cybertronians using it. When the Autobots' energy reserves became dangerously low, Greenlight joined her comrades on Cybertron in stasis hibernation to conserve power.
In 2019 IDW, Greenlight is a xenobiologist who fell in love with Arcee after the War of the Threefold Spark, and with her partner, becomes the mentors and guardians of a young Cybertronian named Gauge. She assists with investigations into mysterious murders, using her biological expertise to help Ratchet with a forensic autopsy of the deceased Cybertronian Rubble, which reveals a common perpetrator in both cases and leaves her worried about Gauge's safety.
Other Media
War for Cybertron Trilogy marketing material
Greenlight is depicted in Trilogy marketing as a retool of the Siege Moonracer and Novastar figures. The marketing materials highlight her as an excellent addition to collections, especially for those building the "Orthia" combiner.
Transformers One
A female green bot could be seen among the generic, unnamed miners watching the broadcast revealing Sentinel Prime's crimes. She wasn't given a specific name in the film's production, but her appearance is based on that of a generic miner asset, and for the color, fans have identified this specific instance as the character of Greenlight.
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Trivia
- Greenlight originally was nameless. She was not named in the cartoon nor ever spoke and as per the model sheets was only designated "Female Autobot #1". She was given a name in the comic story "Flames of Yesterday", which was published in 2010. This is 25 years after her debut in 1985.
- Greenlight and Lancer are a couple in the IDW1 comics. They are the first officially confirmed and on-screen female-female couple in the Transformers franchise.
- Greenlight does transform in "The Search for Alpha Trion", but she's out-of-frame and the model sheet for her alternate mode has not yet been recovered, if it ever will.
