Lori Jiménez
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- Lori Jiménez is a human from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Lori Jiménez is an adolescent female human who assists the Autobots during the search for the Cyber Planet Keys. Raised in the city, her family recently moved to Rockville in rural Colorado, a place she hates. While she certainly outshines her friends Bud and Coby in the social arena, she is not perfect, and more often than not, she can be reduced to immature shouting matches with Coby, leading the two to share a very intense... rivalry.
During the battle to save Cybertron from the Unicron Singularity, Lori befriended Override (Override being "Big Sister" and Lori "Little Sister") and Scourge, leaders of Velocitron and the Jungle Planet. She also quickly developed a deep and abiding hatred of the female Decepticon "floozy" Thunderblast.
Lori is a particular influence on the powerful Scourge; a constant and disquieting reminder to the dictator of his onetime desire to protect the weak that lay at the root of his quest for power... and that strength is more than merely physical.
Her parents are Ernesto and Gloria Jiménez.
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Fiction
Cartoon continuity
Cybertron cartoon
- Voice actor: Sarah Edmondson (English), Chiara Zanni (English, "Retreat", "Revelation", and "Inferno"), Rika Morinaga (Japanese), Feng Junhua (Chinese), Melanie Henríquez (Latin American Spanish), Silvia Sarmentera (Castilian Spanish), Anna Rosendahl (Finnish), Naiké Fauveau (French), Saskia Bellahn (German), Mia Kihl (Swedish), Pinky Rebucas (Tagalog, HERO TV dub)
Lori was not happy when her father moved her entire family from the big city to the sleepy rural town of Rockville. Having grown up in the city, Lori was used to its hustle and bustle and found she couldn't stand boring country life, so she took out her frustrations on local boy Coby Hansen, developing quite an antagonistic—at first—relationship with him.
One ordinary, boring day, Lori was trying to complain to a friend of hers back in the city over the phone, when the roar of the Hansens' dirtbikes denied her even that little bitter luxury. She promptly stomped over to the picnicking grounds where most of the town was enjoying themselves to chastise Coby, but Coby's brother Bud temporarily defused the argument by offering Lori a cup of orange soda. Suitably calmed, Lori went walking with the two boys, but it wasn't long before she and Coby started arguing again about the most petty of things: ice-cream flavors. They were stunned into silence, however, when the heavens lit up, and a large object came falling to the ground nearby. Investigating, the shocked kids discovered the body of the Autobot Landmine.
While Coby and Bud made arrangements to haul the damaged robot from his impact crater, Lori quickly ran home to change clothes so that she could help clean and repair him. As the kids worked, Landmine explained that he and his fellow Autobots had come to Earth to escape the threat of a colossal black hole that was threatening their home planet of Cybertron. Once Landmine had been repaired, Lori helped him avoid a search party, who had mistaken the Autobots' footprints for those of bigfoot. But the Autobots' enemies, the Decepticons had followed them to Earth, and one of their number, Thundercracker, soon appeared to attack Landmine and the kids. Fortunately, his attack not only drove away the adults tracking them down, but also drew the attention of the other Autobots, who saw Thundercracker off and introduced themselves to the kids. The Mini-Con Jolt squeaked in shock when he saw the symbol on the shirt Lori had borrowed from her brother; what Lori had thought was merely an image from an album cover, Vector Prime explained, was in fact the symbol of the Omega Lock, the control device for the legendary Cyber Planet Keys, whose power was needed to stop the black hole. Fallen Inferno
The Autobots' first order of business on Earth was setting up a secret headquarters, and Lori presented them with a plot of land that her father had originally intended for a housing development, until the market went bad. During the blasting that preceding construction, Vector Prime discovered that Lori and the boys were able to hear the Omega Frequency, the trans-sonic signal given off by the Omega Lock that was inaudible to the Autobots, which would make them invaluable in the search. Lori subsequently designed their base when Scattorshot's layout proved far too cold for her tastes, and helped apply its stealth beam coating just in time to protect it against detection by Decepticon leader Megatron. Haven The next order of business was helping the civilian Autobot refugees integrate themselves into human society; in addition to teaching the Autobots traffic laws, Lori was responsible for choosing Signal Lancer's unconventional lamp-post alternate mode, and got a ribbing from Coby for the decision. Hidden With these essentials taken care of, the Autobots returned to the mystery of Lori's shirt, and began searching the planet for more example of the strange symbol, which was known as the "Atlantis Pattern". Lori and the boys accompanied the Autobots to Mexico in pursuit of a lead, and were protected from a Decepticon attack by Landmine, who had come to consider Earth just as important as Cybertron, thanks to his friendship with the kids. Landmine
With the location of the first Cyber Planet Key determined to be the planet Velocitron, Lori and the boys were left with little to do on Earth. Their lives were far from monotonous, however. During one of Lori and Coby's visit to the Autobot base, they found an angry Jetfire trying to figure out where Scattorshot had gone off to. The kids were themselves concerned, as Bud was supposed to meet them at the base after school. Coby and Lori briefly interrogated the Mini-Cons, eventually discovering that Bud and Scattorshot had gotten themselves stranded in Earth's orbit. Lori stayed behind at the headquarters while Coby was forced to rescue his brother with Jolt's assistance. Space Later, the children were called to a meeting, where Optimus discussed his next plan: putting an end to the Decepticons' continued attempts at tracking down their base. From the safety of the real base, Lori and the others watched as Thundercracker was lured to a decoy base, which he was allowed to destroy. Rush
After going to a horror movie, the three kids suggested that Jolt would be able to join them next time by passing himself off as a cosplaying fanboy. That night, while staring at the stars with her father, Lori tried to tactfully broach the subject of the Autobots, but was prevented by the sudden appearance of the Atlantis Pattern in the sky. She informed the Autobots of the strange phenomenon, but when they investigated, it turned out to be just a Decepticon trick. Speed Bored over their lack of recent activity, the kids decided to take the Mini-Cons to their homes for a "play date" of sorts. Lori took Six-Speed to her house, where the Mini-Con got emotional reading "The Little Match Girl". That night, the kids and Mini-Cons helped the Autobots save the town when an earthquake threatened to cause the nearby Mount McDermott to collapse. Collapse
Returning to the search for the Omega Lock once again, Lori went with Coby, Bud, the Mini-Cons and Vector Prime to follow a lead on a tropical island, where Lori contentedly sunned herself while the boys frolicked in the surf. When the search turned up nothing, they moved on to the next location in the Sahara Desert, where a brief battle with the Decepticons erupted over what turned out to be nothing more than a duplicate of the Lock. Time A solid lead was finally uncovered when the civilian Autobots were brought in to help search, Search and Lori went with the Autobots to the Bermuda Triangle to investigate the Atlantis Pattern found there. At the bottom of the ocean, they discovered the ancient Cybertronian starship Atlantis, and in order to keep it out of the Decepticons' hands, Vector Prime activated the craft and teleported it away with only himself, the kids and Mini-Cons aboard. Deep With the Atlantis safely hidden in the shadow of the moon, Lori joined the others in searching through its labyrinthine corridors, and eventually discovered the Omega Lock in the bowels of the ship. Though Megatron appeared to claim the artifact, triggering the ship's self-destruct mechanism in the process, Optimus caught up to the Decepticon and fought him for the Omega Lock. Meanwhile, the children escaped the Atlantis. Optimus emerged victorious, and then left for the Speed Planet with Vector Prime and Landmine while Lori, Coby, and Bud were returned to Earth by the other Autobots. Ship
Getting in contact with the team on the Speed Planet, the kids learned that Hot Shot was in critical condition after being attacked by Ransack and Crumplezone, a couple of thugs working for Megatron. They watched over the base's monitor as Red Alert fixed up their wounded comrade, and the rest of the team brought him out of his emotional funk, which Hot Shot had fallen into believing he had failed in his mission. Hero
With most of the team on Velocitron, Lori and Bud were assigned a special mission by Vector Prime: searching out and examining strange archaeological artifacts that appeared to be of Cybertronian origin. Lori was thrilled when their search for one of these objects took them back to the city, but there was no time to take in the sights, as their quest took them to a university. Evading a security guard, the pair encountered ditzy scientist Lucy Suzuki, and managed to fool her into thinking they were doing research for a school paper. The object the kids were searching for, it turned out, was in Suzuki's own collection of strange artifacts, which the doctor herself believed to be of alien origin. After examining it and learning all they could, Lori and Bud quickly departed and head off in pursuit of the next object on Vector Prime's list. Race
Lori spent much of the time that followed watched transmissions from Velocitron, as Hot Shot raced for possession of the world's Cyber Planet Key. Detour On top of keeping a close eye on Hot Shot practicing, Lori also witnessed the Autobots make some new allies on the Jungle Planet. Savage When Hot Shot successfully won the key, Lori watched as it was added to the Omega Lock, causing the release of an energy wave that pointed the way to something hidden in the Arctic Circle. Champion Lori joined the Autobots in traveling to the Arctic to search, but along the way, realized they would be needing some heavy winter clothes. Grudgingly permitting the boys to use her emergency credit card to buy some parkas, Lori had them stop at a store, only to find that it wouldn't take credit. As luck and grand cosmic coincidence would have it, Lucy Suzuki was also in the store, picking up supplies for a government scientific survey she was helping to conduct. She bought the kids the parkas they required, and was convinced to let them accompany her on her survey as "assistants". Lori came to trust Lucy, and ignoring Coby's warnings, ultimately told her all about the Autobots. Ice
While this aspect of the trip went over well, the Autobots failed to uncover the object of their search, and returned to base, where Lori petitioned Jetfire to allow her to go to Jungle Planet, home of the second Cyber Planet Key. Override agreed to take Lori with her, beginning a strong friendship between the pair. Honor With Coby's dirtbike helmet for a good luck charm, Lori proved her bravery on Jungle Planet by stepping forward to challenge the "might makes right" credo of the planet's ruler Scourge. Subsequently defeated in battle by Optimus Prime, Scourge relinquished ownership of the Cyber Planet Key, and departed to ruminate on Lori's words. Primal When the Decepticons attacked soon after, attempting to steal the key, Lori tried to convince Scourge to help the Autobots, but he only heeded her pleas when the battle endangered his temple. Trust
The addition of the second Cyber Planet Key to the Omega Lock once again pointed the way to something in the Arctic, which was at last discovered to be a subterranean chamber holding an army of Ancient Decepticons. Trap Freed by the rebel Decepticon Starscream, these ancient warriors swarmed the globe in search of the third Cyber Planet Key, and Lori, Coby, Bud and the Mini-Cons attempted to help the Autobots in battle as best they could. However, no sooner had they departed the Autobots' base than they were accosted by Colonel Franklin and taken into custody along with their parents. Invasion Franklin attempted to pry information on the Transformers from the kids, but they played dumb, while Lucy Suzuki freed the Mini-Cons, then joined them in rescuing the kids and escaping. They returned to the Autobots' base, where Optimus Prime informed them that the Autobots were going to leave Earth with the third key in order to draw the Decepticons away. Lori sadly accepted this decision, but before the Autobots could leave, Starscream attacked. Unable to defeat Prime in battle, Starscream opened fire on Lori and the other humans, forcing Prime to shoot the projectile to save them, and allowing Starscream to escape with the Omega Lock and all the Cyber Planet Keys. Retreat
Outside my highrise apartment
Exquisite dead guy
Hanging from a skyhook
Both the Autobots and Megatron's Decepticons proceeded to go after Starscream to regain the key, but during a battle at Niagara Falls, Hot Shot, Scattorshot and Red Alert were grievously wounded. Revelation Colonel Franklin (who turned out to be on the Autobots' side) had the injured Autobots brought to a military base for repairs, and Lori, Coby and Bud all pitched in. Red Alert was resigned to his inevitable demise, but Lori refused to take any of his guff, and accusing him to giving up in the face of a challenge. Galvanized by Lori's words, the three Autobots tapped into the power of the Omega Lock, and were reformatted into powerful new bodies as the Cybertron Defense Team. Critical Lori, Coby and Bud then returned to the Autobots' base, and both helped co-ordinate their attack on Starscream's island base, Assault and charted a space bridge course back to Cybertron for the Cybertron Defense Team. Starscream After Optimus Prime finally defeated Starscream United and apparently destroyed Megatron, Lori, Coby and Bud were all brought to Cybertron, where the power of the Lock and Keys was used to transform the planet into the body of Transformers' god, Primus himself. Cybertron
When Megatron reappeared in a mysterious ghostly form, the side-switching Sideways exploited the distraction to capture the Mini-Cons, intending to pry the location of Gigantion, home of the final Cyber Planet Key, from Jolt's memory. Balance Lori and the boys leapt through Sideways's warp field as he teleported away, finding themselves back in the ruined hulk of the Atlantis, which Starscream and Sideways were using as a hideout. Darkness Braving the dangers of the ship's maintenance shafts, the kids were able to get one over on Sideways and free their Mini-Cons friends Memory and then made contact with the other Autobots to arrange a rescue. Unfortunately, while Lori, Coby and Six-Speed made it out, Bud's escape pod did not make it out of range before the Atlantis warped off into the depths of space. Escape
With Bud in danger, Lori and Coby realized that it was finally time to tell their parents about the Transformers. Unsurprisingly, however, the parents didn't believe a word of their story, until the Autobots themselves descended out of the sky and proved the truth of the children's words. With Prime's promise to protect the children, the parents allowed Lori and Coby to go into space with the Autobots, and Lori's mother did her part by providing a bag of food and a change of clothes. Family After helping to make preparations, Titans Lori joined the Autobots in traveling through the rift in time and space that led to the parallel universe where Gigantion rested. Warp Once on the so-called "Giant Planet," Lori and Coby instigated the Autobots' first meeting with the towering locals, albeit by running into the middle of a construction site and having to be saved from a falling i-beam by the planet leader, Metroplex. Giant Lori and Coby almost met their end at the hands of Megatron, who had been powered up by the Gigantion Cyber Planet Key into Galvatron, but were saved at the last minute by Optimus Prime. Fury
After rescuing Bud from the Atlantis, City the Autobots split into four teams to explore below the planet's surface for the Gigantion key; Lori was partnered with Override and Wing Saber. In the middle of their search, the trio were ambushed by Scourge and Thunderblast, and Lori immediately started railing against Scourge for continuing to hang around with the Decepticons after everything she had tried to teach him. When Thunderblast then butted into the argument, Lori went over the edge, and challenged the Decepticon to fight. With Wing Saber's help, Lori lured Thunderblast into a trap at a nearby harbor, where she was surrounded by half a dozen massive claws before being crushed and overpowered by the final one. Override and Scourge had begun battling in Lori's absence, but when the girl returned, she was inadvertently nearly crushed by debris knocked loose by Scourge. Ashamed, Scourge made a "tactical withdrawal", and Lori kicked the wall in anger, only to wind up accidentally hitting a hidden button that activated a holographic replay of Gigantion's history, including its war with Planet X. Ambush
After meeting up with Optimus Prime's team and relaying what she had learned, Challenge Lori accidentally found another hidden button when she leant on a wall, opening up a secret passage that sent Bud and the Mini-Cons tumbling into a hidden Mini-Con city. While enjoying himself in this little city, Bud ran into Scourge, and managed to do what Lori could not by finally convincing him that fighting was not always the way. Lori then watched as the enlightened Scourge allowed himself to be defeated in battle by the Autobots, and hoped that someday, he could join their ranks himself. Scourge
Although the Autobots were able to obtain the Gigantion key, Optimus it was subsequently stolen by Galvatron, and the Autobots were left trapped on Gigantion. Showdown Vector Prime resolved to use his powers over time to reopen the space-time tunnel that would allow the Autobots to return to their home universe, but it was revealed that the exertion would kill him. Bud could not properly comprehend this, so Lori tearfully explained that they would not be able to see him again, but that he would always be watching over them. This explanation seemed enough for Bud, and everyone then watched with heavy hearts as Vector Prime sacrificed himself to give them the chance they needed. Guardian
Back in their universe, the Autobots returned to Cybertron and assembled for the ultimate battle with Galvatron. Homecoming Lori, Coby, Bud and the Mini-Cons accompanied the five planet leaders into the heart of the black hole, and watched as the heroes took Galvatron down. Defeated, Galvatron hurled the Omega Lock and Keys at the core of the black hole, but Lori and the others were able to help the planet leaders track their trajectories, allowing them to reclaim them. With all five divine objects back in Autobot hands, Primus's power was finally restored, and he sealed the black hole, then transformed back into Cybertron. End
After briefly returning to Earth for a reunion with the parents, Lori, Bud and Coby were brought to the new Cybertron, which now incorporated aspects of all the four colony worlds. Lori could tell that Optimus Prime was still worried by Galvatron's continued threat, and before long, his concerns proved genuine: just as the Autobots were moving Jungle Planet back to its rightful place in space, Galvatron attacked. He and Optimus battled on Cybertron's moon, while Lori and the boys helped all the other Transformers repair the damage Galvatron had done to the planetary engines being used to move Jungle Planet, safely returning Jungle Planet home. They then headed to the moon, and watched as Optimus finally destroyed Galvatron once and for all. Unfinished
In the wake of Galvatron's destruction, a peace conference between the five worlds was called, and it was decided that a new space bridge program would be initiated to colonize more planets in the depths of space. Many preparations for the voyage then had to be made, which included the appointing of a new leader for Jungle Planet, if Scourge was to go on the mission. Lori cheered for her friend as he took on all comers to decide who would take his place, but ultimately, no-one could beat him, so he stayed on as leader and designated Leobreaker to go in his place.
A little later, on Earth, Lori was with Coby when he resolved to build a spaceship and join the Autobots in the stars, and she hoped aloud that there would be room for two aboard. Realizing what she had said, Lori immediately tried to backpedal, but with this admission, a long-blooming relationship finally began between the two young people. The following day, Lori and all the Autobots' other human allies gathered to watch as their alien friends departed for the stars, and new adventures.
In the years that followed, Lori and Coby's relationship continued, and they eventually became engaged. Coby accomplished his dream of building a spaceship, and Lori her dream of joining him in space, and while in space together, they watched a television broadcast of Bud winning an Oscar. Eventually, the young lovers were married, in a ceremony attended by their families, their Mini-Con friends, and Optimus Prime himself. Beginning
Cybertron comic
Early in the search for the Cyber Planet Keys, when Vector Prime was returned to Earth following his battle on Cybertron with Ramjet, Over-Run showed an image of the venerable Autobot examining some ruins bearing the Atlantis Pattern with Lori, Bud, and Coby. Revelations Part 2
Several months later after their adventures ended, Lori, Bud and Coby traveled to Cybertron with Optimus Prime and his crew. There, they met up with several Autobots who had been dealing with other problems, such as the revival of Unicron, and Lori shook hands with Anti-Blaze. Revelations Part 6
Legends comic
Lori was one of the many women brought to the Legends World by Tigatron using the ultra-drill in an attempt to get women who liked him better than Springer. It did not work out, as all of the women brought over eventually swooned over Springer. Bonus Edition Vol. 19
Galaxy Force manga
Driving cross-country on an unsupervised roadtrip with Coby and Bud, Lori showed signs of anger when Coby's car broke down and gently kicked the vehicle in the tire. Coby responded by yelling at her, as he felt she was "hurting" his car. Lori sighed and reminded Coby that "there's no such thing as Transformers" and that his car most certainly wasn't one. As the argument progressed, an actual Transformer (Landmine) just happened to fall out of the sky and crash into a smoking crater in the nearby forest.
As Coby made an effort to "heal" the injured robot, he cast Lori in the role of his "nurse". Unfortunately for Lori, she didn't understand such words like "wrench" (as a matter of fact, she was so unfamiliar with Coby's sophisticated technical jargon that it all sounded like incomprehensible gibberish to her ears). Bud helped her out, though.
Landmine was eventually repaired when Vector Prime showed up, but Lori and her friends soon came under fire when Megatron showed up, too. Luckily, Optimus Prime wasn't far behind and punched the Hell out of Megatron until he retreated. Along with her friends, Lori thanked Prime for his bravery. Touchdown! Optimus Prime
Notes
- According to TV Aichi's Galaxy Force webpage, Lori is 13 years old at the start of the cartoon series.
- Early Galaxy Force promotional materials depicted a Lori with short, blonde hair. Her outfit was similar to the final Lori, only without the vest. Lori's final model also appeared with a different, earlier color scheme in a Japanese magazine spread.
- Lori doesn't seem to have been designed or written to be Latina by the Japanese production staff of Galaxy Force, but her ethnicity was established through the Cybertron dub of the series, which named her father "Ernesto" and had him refer to her as "mija", a Spanish term of endearment for a girl.
- Lori was never given a last name during any of her actual fiction appearances. It wasn't until many years after the Cybertron franchise's end that her family name was retroactively established as Jiménez via the Ask Vector Prime Facebook page (during a period when it had been hijacked by Sideways) by way of a question regarding her previously unnamed mother.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Lori (ローリ Rōri)
- Korean: Lori (로리 Loli)
- Mandarin: Lori (萝莉 Luólì)