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** The trailers for the second film showed Starscream looming over Sam in an abandoned factory, then cutting to a shot of him being pinned down by a mechanical hand. Some assumed the hand belonged to Starscream. It didn't. It was Megatron's.
*** Though this was probably because this is back when they were still trying to cover up that Megatron was coming back (which later trailers didn't bother with).
** One particular trailer also showed the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|epic]] forest fight between Optimus Prime against Megatron, Starscream and Grindor. A clip of Megatron kicking Optimus in the face (and shattering his faceplate) was shown and then it cut to Optimus being launched halfway across the forest floor. Some thought that Megatron's kick was so powerful, that it was what caused this to happen (which would have been pretty [[Badass]]). In the film itself, the kick merely [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|shatters his faceplate]]. His brief aerial trip was caused by Megatron shooting him point-blank with his [[
*** The appearance of Grindor in that shot in the trailer also misled many fans to believe that Blackout (who had a very similar physical appearance and had died during the first film) had also returned. Unfortunately, the actual film made no effort to specify that they are separate characters.
** The trailers for both of the first two films also featured shots of Decepticons causing gratuitous property damage (Bonecrusher ripping a bus in half, Sideways crashing through a building, Demolisher running through a bridge) in a way that made it seem like these guys would be major participants in the films. In the films, all three of them were relatively minor characters who showed up and [[Curb Stomp Battle|were almost immediately killed by the nearest Autobot]] without doing anything notable beyond their one shot from the trailer.
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