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The character sheet for the Live Action ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' Film Series.

 

<ref>Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots. Long ago, he was the humble leader of Cybertron's science division, which studied the All-Spark, and were protected by Lord High Protector Megatron's military. When Megatron was corrupted by The Fallen, Optimus discovered that he was the last of the Dynasty of Primes, hidden away when The Fallen destroyed their lineage. In response to Megatron's attempts to seize the All-Spark and conquer other worlds, Optimus assumed his proper title and rallied the Autobots to stand against the Decepticons. As obsessively as Megatron strives to achieve his objective, Optimus is equally as dedicated to stopping him, even at the cost of his life, his world, and — if necessary — his own people. It was on his order that the All-Spark was jettisoned into space, dooming Cybertron to a slow death and his people to a nomadic life. The sacrifices he has made weigh heavily on his spark, but they must be done, for there is no other choice. He knows the ambitions that lurk in Megatron's spark, and they must never see the light of day. Lives must be kept free from the threat of Megatron's tyranny, no matter the cost. This obsession with the defeat of Megatron has robbed Optimus of some of his early idealism. This has created a certain ruthlessness beneath his otherwise honest and caring personality. Prime is not one for second chances and is willing to consider any action that might lead to victory, short of directly sacrificing those he cares about.</ref>

 

* {{spoiler|[[Arm Cannon]]: Using Jetfire's parts}}

* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Used in DOTM to devastating effect, and in the end {{spoiler|to kill Megatron}}.

* [[Badass]]: Of course.

** [[Badass Baritone]]: Well, he ''is'' voiced by [[Peter Cullen]].

* [[Berserk Button]]: Enslaving and murdering innocents. Not even {{spoiler|Sentinel Prime, his father figure and teacher}} is spared when he he did just that.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: The greatest living Cybertronian warrior is according to [[Word of God]] a peace loving and kind-hearted scientist, so don't make him pissed or he'll [[Memetic Mutation|take your face]].

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Rescuing Sam and company. from Megatron & Starscream at the warehouse AND {{spoiler|killing the Fallen}} in ROTF.

* [[Big Good]]

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: {{spoiler|After Sentinel Prime goes on a rampage, killing Ironhide and destroy the NEST base, the look on his face as he realizes this is his fault for bringing Sentinel back can only be described as this.}}

* [[Nice Guy]]

* {{spoiler|[[Powered Armor]]: Made from Jetfire's parts}}

* [[Papa Wolf]]: He loves humans like his own children, and would ''literally'' tear you a new one if you harm even ''one'' of them; Starscream, Grindor, {{spoiler|The Fallen}} AND Megatron find this out the '''hard''' way.

*** Since neither Bee nor the other Autobots notice that Frenzy's hitched a ride with them in the first film, the 2nd theory is more likely the case.

* [[Series Mascot]]: Shares this role with Optimus.

* [[The Speechless]]: Due to Megatron ripping out his vocal processors prior to the first film. However, he "speaks" using radio/sound clips.

 

* [[Badass Grandpa]]

* [[Blood Knight]]: Though thankfully much nicer than Sideswipe.

* {{spoiler|[[Famous Last Words]]: "What have you done...?"}}

* [[Sociopathic Hero]] : His [[Trigger Happy]] nature could easily associate him as such.

* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]: Sentinel Prime's coldblooded murder of him shows just how dangerously unstable the old guy has become.}}

* [[Trigger Happy]]: Replying to Optimus scolding him for half-jokingly suggesting they slag Sam's annoying parents: "I'm just sayin' we ''could''. It's an option...". The first movie's Video Game also [[Noodle Incident|implies]] that he's responsible for destroying an ''entire planet''. Though Ironhide claims that "it was gonna blow up anyway".

 

=== {{color|red|Ratchet}} ===

* [[Blade Below the Shoulder]]

** [[Dual-Wielding]]

* [[Cool Car]]: Shiny new Corvette.

* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Tie-in comics establish him to not give a shit about killing innocent people. He mellowed out a bit by the time the appears in the movie though.

* [[Rollerblade Good]]

* [[Shout-Out]] / [[Continuity Nod]]: Sideswipe's backstory appears to be inspired by that of Depth Charge from ''[[Beast Wars]]'', who guarded a Maximal colony until it was destroyed by Rampage.

 

=== {{color|red|Jetfire}} ===

* [[Badass Grandpa]]

* [[Bifurcated Weapon]]: His cane/axe.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Cool Plane]]: His altmode is an SR-71 Blackbird, which for the uninformed holds the still-unbeaten record for fastest military aircraft.

** According to the tie-in comics, she (or at least Elita-1) ran afoul of Shockwave in Philadelphia. It didn't end well for her.

** According to the Revenge of the Fallen film commentary, {{spoiler|they all died in the final battle against the Fallen}}.

* [[Fragile Speedster]]

* [[Hive Mind]]: According to some sources, but not others.

* [[Combining Mecha]]: Sorta-subverted: In the opening chase scene, their combined vehicle mode breaks in half and sends them crashing into a wall.

* [[Colossus Climb]]: Skids tries this on Devastator; Mudflap had the benefit of already being drawn up there when Devastator ate him.

* [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face|I Just Shot Skids In The Face]]: Though lucky for Skids, this only cost him the gold tooth. He was still pretty pissed.

* [[Jive Turkey]]/[[Uncle Tomfoolery]]: The primary reason for the immense backlash from the audience.

** But one way or another, since they're robots who don't actually have ethnicity, all they could ever be is trying to be black, even if they're way off.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]] / [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: Though written out of the film proper, the novel and comic adaptations have Skids taking a fatal shot from Sentinel Prime to protect Bumblebee immediately following Ironhide's death at Sentinel's hands. Mudflap then, in a rage, charges Sentinel and is killed by him, but in doing so gives the others the opportunity to escape}}.

<ref>The Decepticons constructed a "brain unit" drone to receive a very important download, but the drone gained sentience somehow and is now running around Earth calling himself "Brains." Trouble is, the Decepticons want him back. He transforms into a laptop computer. Brains gets along well with Wheelie.</ref>

 

* [[Heel Face Turn]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}

=== {{color|red|Que/Wheeljack}} ===

{{quote|Voiced by George Coe|''"They're great inventions for kicking ass!"''}}

 

<ref>Wheeljack will hook you up with all the latest stuff. He resembles a certain famous scientist too!</ref>

* [[Alien Hair]] / [[Einstein Hair]]: Has glowing, fiber-optic cables on his head that increase his resemblance to [[Albert Einstein]].

* [[Barrier Warrior]]: Makes use of an impenetrable force field during the Philadelphia battle in ''Rising Storm''; Fearswoop learns about the "impenetrable" part the hard way.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* {{spoiler|[[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Executed by Soundwave and Barricade despite being unarmed and pleading for mercy.}}

{{quote|Voiced by [[John Dimaggio]] (Leadfoot) and Ron Bottitta (Roadbuster)|''"This is going to hurt...alot!"''}}

 

 

<ref>Leadfoot is one of the Wreckers, a group of former engineers turned fighters who have turned their talents to kicking Decepticon tail across the galaxy. His specialty is building bigger and better weapons, WITH SCIENCE! Not terribly surprisingly, this vocation has led him to strike up a friendship with the Autobots' resident weapons-hound Ironhide. With the way the two egg each other on towards bigger and better "boom-sticks", the other Autobots fear one day waking up to find a smoking crater where their workshop once stood.</ref>

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Sociopathic Hero]]

** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Despite that, they're all for defending humanity with the other Autobots. Leadfoot even reassures Sam that "We ain't goin nowhere."

* [[The Voiceless]]: Topspin

* [[Weaponised Car]]: Their alternate modes seem to automatically be like this.

* [[Violent Glaswegian]]: Leadfoot and Roadbuster both have Scottish accents, and if you need proof of the "violent" bit {{spoiler|there's how they kill that Decepticon pilot at the beginning of the [[Final Battle]]}}

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Badass]]: Just as powerful as Optimus, but much more ferocious, which often gives him the upper hand. As long as you don't rip his face apart and cripple him, he can also shrug off hits from tanks and other Transformers as if they were nothing.

** [[Badass Decay]]: Becomes less of a threat in each movie, though it could just as well be due to the humans and other Autobots becoming more skilled/advanced. Though in ''ROTF'', Optimus rips his face apart and tears his arm off, causing him to become a...

* [[Batman Gambit]]: In ''DOTM''. {{spoiler|He knew the Autobots would find Sentinel Prime on the moon and reactivate him. Since he and Sentinel had agreed to work together, all Megatron needed was for the Prime to gain the Control Pillar for the Space Bridge from NEST, thus allowing them to carry out their long term plans.}}

* [[The Berserker]]

* [[Big Bad]]: In the first and third films, as part of a [[Big Bad Duumvirate]] with {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn|Sentinel Prime]]}} in the latter.

* [[BFG]]: His fusion cannon

* [[Cain and Abel]]: Arguably, his relationship with Optimus.

* [[Captured Super Entity]]

* [[Human Popsicle|Cybertronian Popsicle]]

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: In ''DOTM'', he spends most of his time commanding [[Mooks]] from the sidelines rather than fighting himself. The fact that this is probably because of his injured state is strongly supported by {{spoiler|the ease with which Optimus kills him once Megs ''does'' fight after Carly makes a huge blow to his ego}}.

* [[The Juggernaut]]

* [[Large Ham]]

** His first lines in DOTM: '''"ALL... HAIL... MEGATRON!"''', said towards a herd of elephants.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]] / [[The Chessmaster]]: Shows shades of this in ''DOTM''.

* {{spoiler|[[Off with His Head]]}}

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Against humans.

* {{spoiler|[[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: Optimus punches his fist through his chest and crushes his Spark to kill him}}

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]

** Possibly inverted. It's implied that {{spoiler|Megatron was using The Fallen for his own ends.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Cruel and Unusual Death]]}}: {{spoiler|Gets a grappling hook jammed into his eye. Then gets a ''bomb'' jammed into his ''other'' eye. Spends his last moments flailing around blindly and screaming.}}

* [[The Dragon]]

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: "I'm gonna kill y--"(BOOM!).}}

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Again by Sam, no less.}}

* [[Genre Savvy]]: "''Sometimes, cowards do survive''"

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

** Then again, the mere fact that he could lead the Decepticons quite effectively in the tens of thousands of years of Megatron's absence would probably have Starscream being justified in feeling that he is the better leader compared to Megatron.

* [[Top-Heavy Guy]]: He's almost triangle-shaped in order to keep him around the same height as the Autobots.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|He completely loses his slag when Sam stabs him in the eyes, flailing and screaming like a madman as he frantically tries to yank the bomb out of his optic.}}

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: According to tie-in comics, he doesn't believe in Optimus or Megatron - his only goal is to save his species from extinction.

 

=== {{color|purple|Barricade}} ===

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

* [[Shoot the Hostage]]: Has no qualms about doing this at all. {{spoiler|Poor Wheeljack...}}

 

=== {{color|purple|Blackout}} ===

* [[Chest Blaster]]

* [[EMP]]

* [[Groin Attack]]: How Lennox takes him down... with a ''[[Grenade Launcher]]''.

* [[Helicopter Blender]]: Sort of, it's the [[Transforming Mecha]] variant.

* [[Shoulder Cannon]]: Two of 'em.

* [[Tank Goodness]]: Subverts this by being a bad guy.

 

=== {{color|purple|Frenzy}} ===

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Becomes one to {{spoiler|Bumblebee}} in ''[[Dark of the Moon]]''.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]

* [[Kill Sat]]

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Both his Satellite form and robot form resemble angels.

* [[Cool Car]]: An Audi.

* [[Continuity Snarl]]: Implied by the [[Transformers Animated|Animated Allspark Almanac]].

* {{spoiler|[[Half the Man He Used To Be]] and [[Single-Stroke Battle]]: How Sideswipe kills him.}}

 

<ref>Whether he's formed from six, seven, or even nine Constructicons, Devastator is a giant among giants. He is, in fact, so huge that his body simply cannot support itself when carrying his weight upright, forcing him to lumber on all fours. Devastator is a tormented being, his very formation wracking his component Constructicons with pain and stressing them to the breaking point both physically and mentally. The imperfect fusion process produces a mind that's very much less than the sum of its parts; rage and pain are all he knows, pushing aside whatever intelligence he might possess. Devastator relies on almost pure instinct in battle. Devastator is named after Cybertron's unwithstandable and terrifyingly destructive Devastator Winds, due to his intimidating strength. Devastator can also create powerful gravity wells by generating an artificial black hole with his Vortex Grinder, located in his mouth. Nearby objects are drawn into his gaping mouth to be crushed.</ref>

 

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Bigger compared to the regular bots than the regular bots are compared to humans.

* [[Weapons That Suck]]

 

* [[Hero-Killer]]: Not in the movie, but in the IDW comics, good ''Lord'', he's killed {{spoiler|Elita-1, Jolt, Knock Out, Dune Runner, Longarm and Salvage, as well as [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Galloway]]}}. In fact, the go-to explanation for why an Autobot from RotF is not present for the third film seems to be "Shockwave did it."

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: In the game. He's got incredible defense and a top damage blaster arm, but he runs like a turtle and is the only character in the game that doesn't have a vehicle form.

* [[The Quiet One]]: Has one, maybe two, lines in the entire film, yet unlike the other characters who get hit with that he is a significant presence.

 

=== {{color|purple|The Driller}} ===

<ref>Decepticon master strategist Hatchet is most famous for formulating devastating counter-attacks against Autobot defenses. Yet as a member of the Dreads infiltration and assassination team, he also plays another role, taking on the dirtiest jobs available personally and exterminating his targets with a brutal and efficient finality.</ref>

 

* [[Alien Hair]]: All three of these have this, but Crowbar's in particular are long, Medusa-like tendrils.

* [[Badass Long Hair]]: Crowbar's dreadlocks are absolutely ''whiplike.''

* [[Elite Mooks]]: Their bios describe the Dreads as an elite infiltration unit, specialising in assassination of high-value Autobot targets and hacking enemy systems to acquire vital data.

* [[Flipping the Bird]]: Crankcase's middle finger is longer than the others. As such, some shipments of his toy came with it snipped, while Takara-Tomy opted to simply remold the hand entirely.

 

* [[Alice Allusion]]

* {{spoiler|[[Deceptively-Human Robots]]}}

* [[Mythology Gag]]: "How about tonight, you [[Transformers Generation 1|pretend]] I'm your girlfriend?"

* [[Uncanny Valley Girl]]

 

 

=== Sam Witwicky ===

Played by [[Shia LaBeouf]] }}

 

* {{spoiler|[[Badass Normal]]}}: As of ''Dark of the Moon''

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Developed it in ''Dark of the Moon''.

* [[Rapid-Fire "No"]]: Loves to use this trope, especially when running from Decepticons.

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: {{spoiler|In his final confrontation with Dylan. The Decepticon-collaborator mocks his attempts to be heroic, telling him that he picked the wrong side (the Autobots). He sums it up with "You think you're a hero!?" Sam's response: "No. I'm just a messenger!" right before he knocks Dylan into the Control Pillar, electrocuting him to death.}}

 

=== Mikaela Banes ===

* [[Fatal Family Photo]]: Subverted, he lives and so do his wife and kid.

* [[Genre Savvy]]

* [[Hot Dad]]

* [[Humans Are Warriors]]

* [[Foreign Queasine]]: Tries to explain the virtues of alligator meat.

* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: Lapses into this when annoyed/stressed

* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''Transformers'' artist and designer Don Figueroa.

 

* [[Action Survivor]]

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Throughout this film, with all the stuff she goes through with Sam, she never has a hair out of place or any scrapes to her flawless skin, whereas Sam looks like he's on the verge of needing to be in the emergency room.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Well ''duh!'' What did you expect? I mean she's a [[Everyone Loves Blondes|blonde]], tall, curvy Victoria's Secret Model, with some [[She's Got Legs|killer legs]] and a [[British Accents|British]] [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|Accent]], in a [[Michael Bay]] [[Male Gaze|summer act]][[Fan Service|ion flick]].

* [[Mythology Gag]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the film, Bumblebee hints at his wanting Sam to propose to Carly. In the original [[Transformers Generation 1|cartoon]], Carly and Spike (the character Sam is based off of) got [[Official Couple|married]] and even in some continuities, [[Babies Ever After|had a son]].}}

 

* [[Asian Rudeness]]

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: He lures Sam into the bathroom to {{spoiler|give him information about Megatron's plan}}. Sam's boss comes into the bathroom, and hears both of them arguing in the bathroom stall.

* [[Properly Paranoid]]: {{spoiler|Due to his association with Laserbeak, he fears every machine near him to be the murderous Decepticon.}}