Airazor (Transformers Reboot Films)

Airazor is one of the two overarching protagonists of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (alongside Apelinq). She is a member of the Maximals who can transform herself into a peregrine falcon. She was infected by Scourge (who used Unicron's dark energy) and was killed by Optimus Primal (unintentionally).
She was voiced by Michelle Yeoh, who also played Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies, Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Discovery, Soothsayer in Kung Fu Panda 2, Ying Nan in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Yuki in Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank and Evelyn Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Master Chow in Minions: The Rise of Gru. 
==Biography==
=== Background===
When Unicron sent Scourge, his most powerful emissary, to the Maximals' homeworld, Airazor attacked one of the Scorponoks. There, she witnessed Apelinq give the Transwarp key and pass on leadership to Optimus Primal. Fortunately Airazor and her team were able to escape the planet before Unicron consumed it. Airazor proclaimed that his sacrifice was their oath. 
When they got to Earth, the Maximals split the key in two. While one was hidden within a Peruvian temple, the other was hidden in Airazor's statue with a code that would shut down the key and the space bridge. Eventually, Airazor was separated from her fellow Maximals and believed herself to be the last of her kind. 
=== Transformers: Rise of the Beasts===
In 1994, the statue was unearthed and brought to a museum on Ellis Island in New York City. Elena Wallace quickly determined that the statue was not of any known human civilization and snuck into a lab after work to conduct her own research on it, which led to the statue crumbling to reveal the key fragment and unwittingly summon the Terrorcons. Scourge soon arrived with Battletrap and Nightbird to claim the key fragment, and though they were successful, they decided to flee when Airazor arrived to reinforce the Autobots led by Optimus Prime. In the aftermath of the fight, Airazor gave the Autobots her condolences for the loss of Bumblebee and explained the nature of the Terrorcons to Elena and Noah Diaz, and that Scourge only had half of the key thanks to the Maximals splitting it. Airazor gently asked Elena to lead them to the site of the second key fragment once she realized the young woman had deciphered clues to it.
The next day, Airazor flew to Peru alongside the Autobots and humans who rode aboard Stratosphere. She helped monitor Noah and Elena’s infiltration of the nearby city to get to the second key fragment only for the Terrorcons to attack. As the battle went poorly for the Autobots once again, Airazor used her fire breath to destroy a bridge and forcibly stopped a further duel between Prime and Scourge. However, the Terrorcon leader thought fast and successfully shot Airazor with a bit of Unicron’s dark energy, which slowly rotted her body and began to corrupt her. Airazor nonetheless arrived in time to defuse a standoff between the Autobots and her old Maximal comrades, who she was delighted to see again, but grimly reported she was all that was left of her detachment of Maximals. Elena noticed the growing corruption on her wing, but Airazor insisted she would be okay despite the corruption beginning to affect her mind. After the group made camp as a human village allied with Primal, Airazor spoke to him privately. Primal admitted that Prime wasn’t who he expected, but Airazor pointed out that they both had lost so much, and that Primal likely would act the same if he had another chance to save their planet from Unicron.
By morning, unfortunately, Airazor finally succumbed to Scourge’s corruption and attacked the humans. She kidnapped Elena in order to deliver the last key fragment to Scourge, who then set her after her comrades. Airazor violently engaged Primal, who was able to use his bulk and strength to grab her in a crushing embrace. Though Primal was distressed at what needed to be done, Airazor assured him it was okay and ordered him to do it. Primal reluctantly complied, crushing Airazor to death and finally giving her peace again. As the others arrived, and Cheetor and Rhinox grieved the loss of their friend, Primal morosely stood over his friend’s corpse, resolutely repeating their oath, "no matter the cost." 
Airazor would later be avenged when Prime defeated Scourge in battle, and prevented Unicron from claiming another world and with it the Transwarp key.
==Personality==
Airazor was considered benevolent, wise and caring. Out of all the Maximals, she was closest with Optimus Primal. She has also very wise, as Airazor advised Primal that Optimus Prime was not like the legendary warrior they heard about because of everything Prime has lost. 
After being marked by Scourge, Airazor's mind was corrupted and coerced her to attack her own allies. She initially tries to dismiss Scourge's corruption as nothing, but eventually succumbs to it. In her final moments, Airazor also took the Maximals' oath to protecting others. For example, she told Optimus Primal to end her life in order to protect Elena Wallace when Airazor could not fight Scourge's influence. 
==Trivia==
*Airazor is the only Maximal who never transforms in her robot mode. She was killed before the final battle when the Maximals transformed. However, in the toyline and concept art for the film, she had a robot form planned.
*According to official sources, Airazor is a peregrine falcon. However, fans have noticed that her beast mode resembles more like a hawk or an eagle. 
*The real reason why Airazor was not revived was due to her original spark had been destroyed, and had to be replaced it with similar sentient device related to the spark like Allspark. Meanwhile, Bumblebee was able to revived as he only energon blood loss issues.
*Airazor is the third heroes who died in Transformers Reboot Films. The first two being Cliftjumper and Apelinq.
==Gallery==
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Airazor destroyed bridge.png|Airazor destroys the bridge between Prime and the Terrorcons.
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