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== ''Transformers'' (2007) ==
* The montage of the Autobots meeting up on Earth, particularly for the music.
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* Bumblebee's capture, especially when you see him being ''experimented on'', all the while making muffled whines in pain.
** Equally gut-wrenching is Sam trying-- unsuccessfully-- to get Sector Seven to stop attacking Bumblebee.
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* How about the first time Optimus Prime is in robot mode on camera for the first time speaking to Sam and Mikaela? The first line of dialogue that he speaks is so characteristic of him, and with the voice of Peter Cullen to this day will still cause tears of nostalgia fore many.
* Jazz's death.
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* {{spoiler|1=Que/Wheeljack's death. Poor guy, just trying to negotiate...}}
** Worse is, we barely even knew him, since he'd been in a total of two scenes actually doing anything, but his line before it happens.
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* {{spoiler|Sight of Bumblebee about to be executed}}. Made even more dramatic by the fact that {{spoiler|1=there didn't seem to be ''any'' hope of him being rescued and another Autobot was just ruthlessly slaughtered right then and there! What's even worse is Bumblebee reaching out to Que/Wheeljack's corpse, making it clear that he'd just seen his ''friend'' get murdered!}}
** Even worse is when Bumblebee speaks, not via radio, but actually ''speaks'' during the scene. When {{spoiler|Que died, he said "Good bye, old friend." and when he sees Sam, hiding and unable to do anything to help him, "We had a good run."}}
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** It does not help at all that "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3hSouDW1P8 There is No Plan]", which is basically a very mournful version of "Arrival to Earth" plus "Optimus" from the first film's score, plays in the background while all this is going on.
* When Wheelie and Brains {{spoiler|board the Decepticon cruiser and take it down}}, during the crash, one of them says that they're not going to make it. {{spoiler|After the cruiser goes down, they're nowhere to be seen}}, meaning that they were ''right''. What hammers the point even harder is that Wheelie was one of the few people that was genuinely nice to Brains to begin with.
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** Thankfully {{spoiler|the two of them are shown to have [[Spared by the Adaptation|survived in the novel]].}}
* It's subtle, but look at the expression on Optimus' face after he {{spoiler|executes Sentinel Prime}}. It's quite clear that doing that ''deeply'' affected him, as he essentially had to {{spoiler|put a gun to his mentor's head and pull the trigger}}. It's one thing for Optimus to kill {{spoiler|Megatron. Megatron was his avowed enemy and had caused nothing but death and destruction for centuries.}} But {{spoiler|Sentinel was his ''friend'' and Optimus' mentor, the one who taught him the very thing he's now killing him for.}}
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* Seeing {{spoiler|Cybertron dissolve into a black hole. Cybertron, the Autobots' (and Decepticons') ''home'', lost forever.}}
** Worse (or better), remember what Megatron, his authority and power, all we've ever seen him care about all but gone, said:
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*** He's not just a power hungry tyrant: he's a ''living being'' like us, who wants to see his first home made whole again. He actually showed that he cared for something other than himself. In this tropers eyes, he just might have redeemed himself a bit for all he did leading up to that moment. And then... {{spoiler|he and his home are gone. That which he worked for, the cause he championed, such a pure end for such horrific means, he lost it in his final moments.}} Even for Megatron... it just doesn't seem right
* For some, when Sam starts to walk out of his Accureta Systems job interview. He says pretty much what he says there a few times, but that's the first time you see how much he really wants to do something that matters.
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* The deaths of {{spoiler|Skids and Mudflap}} in the comic adaptation. Despite their controversial characterization, it's hard not to feel sad as {{spoiler|Mudflap flies into a grief-striken rage over his brother's death and is himself killed moments later.}}
** The novel arguably makes it worse with {{spoiler|Mudflap's reaction to Skids' death}}:
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** To top it off, {{spoiler|Mudflap's}} last words are [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|"Run, you guys! Leave him to me! This bastard's mine!"]]
* The destruction of {{spoiler|Chicago}}. What makes it a [[Tear Jerker]] is that {{spoiler|those aren't [[Red Shirts]] dying, those are 100% innocent human beings.}}
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