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** Waspinator blows up: Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Animated
** Someone makes a Dark Convoy: G1, Robots in Disguise, Energon, Beast Wars Second
** Unicron Appears: G1, (technically)Beast Wars, Armada, Energon, Prime, Beast Wars Neo
** Transformer with a human for their alternate mode: {{spoiler|Animated}}, Revenge of the Fallen.
* If you were to play every ''[[Transformers]]'' opening theme ever made back to back, it would take just shy of 40 minutes to complete.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:English_voice_actors Here].
* [[Inconsistent Dub]]: The Latin American and ''even the European Spanish'' dubs, ''All the way'': Due to the fact Hasbro wanted to dub the Spanish versions in the U.S. for having more control about the dubbing (This is was during G1, the animated movie and the Japanese Anime versions, mind you) , all the Spanish language versions (including the European one) were sometimes dubbed by a Spanish-language studio in Los Angeles. The main problem with this approach is, due of consideration about the Spaniard viewers, especially in the Anime versions, some series were dubbed using the European Spanish dialect, but keeping the local accents ''intact'': Not only the Latin American viewers had to tolerate a very fake Spaniard accent, but the Spaniards had to tolerate a ridiculous Spaniard dialogue with ''[[Not Even Bothering
** In fact, Mexican voice acting studios only dubbed a very small amount of Transformers stuff: The Beast Wars/Beast Machines series, Prime, Robots in Disguise and the live-action films. Other countries that dubbed the rest of the TF series were: Chile (Animated) and Venezuela (The Unicron Trilogy).
** While the Mexican dub of Beast Wars was pretty good, it was panned for changing the names of all the characters to Spanish equivalents. This was corrected later in Beast Machines' dub.
== G1 ==
* Something interesting of note: While a number people claim to have memories of Optimus crumbling into dust after death in the [[Transformers:
* Megatron almost had a different name. When the writer of the initial Transformers fiction came up with the name, it was shot down by Hasbro, as they felt it conjured up images of nuclear weapons. He then reminded Hasbro Megatron was supposed to be the [[Big Bad]] and the name was approved.
** Similarly, Starscream was originally named Ulchtar in Denny O'Neill's original treatment for the comic book, but Bob Budiansky changed it.
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== [[Transformers Film Series]] ==
* [[Creator Backlash]]: [[Michael Bay]] apologized for the result of ''Revenge of the Fallen,'' and promised better results for ''Dark of the Moon.''
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Tom Kenny]] voices Skids and Wheelie (the latter with a somewhat modified [[
** [[Hugo Weaving|Megatron]] is [[The Matrix|Agent Smith]]. As if he wasn't enough of a badass already...
** Reno Wilson voices Frenzy, Mudflap and Brains. For you gamers out there, that's the [[
** [[
** In the Japanese dub, Skids is [[Tomokazu Seki]] and Mudflap is [[Katsuyuki Konishi]]. That logically amounts to [[G Gundam|Domon Kasshu]] and [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina]] joining forces and becoming wiggers.
** As we noted above, Frank Welker using his unmistakable [[Inspector Gadget|Dr. Claw]] voice for Soundwave once more (He also uses it in the French and Italian dubs of the film, confirmed by [[Word of God|Welker himself]]).
*** Also, as noted above, [[Peter Cullen]] reprised the role of Optimus Prime.
*** Following Cullen, in Japan [[Tessho Genda]] once against voiced Optimus/Convoy.
** Though not as easily recognized as [[Grey
** Ironhide is Wakko Warner AKA Jess Harnell. (though it is kinda hard to tell, and the voice he uses is closer to [[Drawn Together|Captain Hero]]...)
** Italian dub: Sam is [[The Lord of the Rings (
** Brazilian dub: Optimus Prime is [[Superman]] from [[Justice League]] and [[Camp Lazlo|Raj]].
*** In Mexico, Sam is Raj. So this Indian elephant witnessed the Latin American invasion. Mexican Optimus Prime is [[Winnie the Pooh|Eeyore]], like [[Peter Cullen|his English actor]]
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** Another Japanese example: [[Sanae Kobayashi|Carly]] is [[Elfen Lied|Lucy]]!
** Hungarian dub:
*** Optimus (only movie 1) is [[Morgan Freeman]]. Also [[Superman:
*** Megatron is [[
*** Ironhide is [[NCIS
*** Jazz is [[X
*** Starscream is [[Naruto|Orochimaru]] and [[The Lord of the Rings (
*** Soundwave and Bobby Bolivia are [[Transformers Cybertron|Crumplezone]], [[The Boondocks|Uncle Ruckus]] and [[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack|Captain K'nuckles]]. And yes, he was once [[Inspector Gadget|Dr. Claw]], too.
*** Sam is [[
*** Mikaela is [[Star Wars|Padmé]].
*** Ron Witwicky is [[Married...
*** Agent Simmons is both [[The Real Ghostbusters|fellow Ghostbuster Winston]] and [[Superman:
*** Lennox is [[Drawn Together|Xandir]].
*** Que and John Keller are [[Transformers Energon|Optimus]] [[Transformers Cybertron|Prime]]. And [[Family Guy|Carter Pewterschmidt]].
*** Sentinel is [[Men in Black (
*** The Fallen is [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie|King Neptune]].
*** Skids is [[Austin Powers]], also [[Transformers Energon|Cyclonus]].
*** Mudflap is [[Adventure Time
*** Wheelie is [[
*** Brains is [[Top Gear|James May]].
*** Leo is [[The Simpsons (animation)|Bart Simpson]].
*** One of the Primes is [[Transformers Armada|Armada Cyclonus]].
*** Wang is [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Eddy]].
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Danny McCoy from ''[[Las Vegas]]'' is Lennox. [[
** Zach Ward played Sgt. Donolley, who you'd probably recognize from almost anything.
** [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Andrew Wells]] and Sasha Forbes work in the Pentagon as analysts.
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*** [[The Office|Dwight Shrute]] as Professor Colan
*** The guy in Simmons' deli who wanted those new teeth? Dhalsim in ''[[Street Fighter the Later Years|Street Fighter: The Later Years]]''.
*** The [[Charlie and
** ''Dark of the Moon'' currently holds a record number of these:
*** Simmons managed to get [[Firefly|Wash]]/[[Dollhouse|Alpha]] on retainer. And apparently [[Con Air|Cyrus the Virus]] survived to become the (assholish) head of a defense contractor.
*** [[Chuck|Jeff and that one fat pimply Buy More employee]] are two of Sam's coworkers in DOTM.
*** Jerry Wang in DOTM used [[Community|to teach at Greendale!]] (Or was it [[Vampires Suck
*** [[
*** [[Fargo|Frances McDormand]] is the new [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] and one of her assistants was [[Adam Sandler]]'s [[Grown Ups|housekeeper.]]
*** Epps ensures that he and Sam have a smooth ride through Chicago by enlisting the [[Gears of War|Cole Train]] himself for help. Woo~!
*** While it may be a blink and you'll miss it cameo, [[Naruto|Naruto Uzumaki]] appears as an office worker.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: They were going to put a transforming aircraft carrier (which partially inspired the toy-only stealth battleship Depthcharge), but the scale would have been extremely awkward to
** Fan favorite Springer was scheduled to be in the movie as an Osprey twin rotor helicopter, with ''two'' toys released based on the design. The guess is he was dropped because the Osprey design would make him absolutely tower over near every other robot (at about 60 feet tall) and give Devastator a run for his money.
** The very first non-movie character to get a toy was Wreckage - a Decepticon with an APC altmode based on an ILM design that eventually went unused.
** Both the twins and Arcee were apparently supposed to combine into a larger robot form. The cycles' version got far enough to make it into the toyline, the Twins...not so much (though the ice cream truck did).
** The studio initially requested that they try and make it so the robots don't talk at all, fearing it would come across as silly. Both the writers and [[Michael Bay]] knew that despite the requisite [[Ruined FOREVER]] for [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|any changes]], the fans would absolutely crucify them if the robots didn't talk.
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** [[James Arnold Taylor]] was originally cast as the Fallen, but was later replaced by Tony Todd. He did keep the role for the video game though.
* Peter Cullen reprises his role as Optimus Prime for the Michael Bay films, but he does not reprise his role as Ironhide. Frank Welker returns as the voices of Soundwave and Ravage, but his other characters (Megatron, Frenzy and Laserbeak) have new actors. He was going to portray Megatron once more, but Michael Bay decided that Welker's voice didn't match his vision for Megatron.
** Amusingly, Frank Welker's brief lines for Shockwave in DOTM sound an awful lot like his G1 Megatron voice.
* According to the family tree that Sam presents in the first film, the Witwickys are inbred. This might be a case of [[Critical Research Failure]] on Sam's part though.
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