Presenting the battling beauty Transformers Generations Windblade.
Admittedly we once again did not understand the hype behind why people were dying for her - other than that it's a female Autobot which is always a plus.
Turns out she has quite a history - and we're not referring to the one created by IDW for her.
The Autobot Windblade is apparently the first officially "fan-created" Transformer.
Between April 18, 2013 and SDCC of 2013, fans voted for the creation of an Autobot; with a Jet alt-mode; whose signature weapon was a sword; with a red & black color scheme; a valiant personality; was named Windblade; was female; hails from the city of Kaon; and was a Telepath. SDCC concept sketches moved her from being a European Knight or a Roman Warrior to the Japanese stylings that she now bears. Designer Lenny Panzica made her hairstyle to match the one commonly used by the upper-class warrior women (Onna Bugeisha) of Feudal Japan.
Lastly her name refers to a variety of things: Windblade is a real variety of industrial fans and she turns into a jet with turbofans; Hasbro thought it would be cool if her sword was powered by the spinning of the turbo blade in the hilt of the sword - Stormfall; she has a
tessen or "
iron fan" in her hair, and; because the fans said so. Do check out her
wiki for more about this.