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** Frank Welker replaces [[spoiler:Hugo Weaving]] as Galvatron's voice. It's unknown whether this is intended to be an in-universe result of [[spoiler: the new body]] or just a plain old case of TheOtherDarrin.
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** Frank Welker replaces [[spoiler:Hugo Weaving]] as Galvatron's voice. It's unknown whether this is intended to be an in-universe result of [[spoiler: the new body]] or just a plain old case of TheOtherDarrin. The fact that he is back as Megatron in the fifth film implies the latter.
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** The video games based upon the films often have different voice actors for several characters for cost reasons or due to the movie's casting of a character for the movie proper not being revealed until it's close to release or already released.
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** The video games based upon the films often have different voice actors for several characters for cost reasons or due to the movie's casting of a character for the movie proper not being revealed until it's close to release or already released. However, it seems that if Optimus is in some tie-in material, you can expect that Peter Cullen will voice him.
*** In a [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zag]] of this trope where the original actor replaces the replacement, Frank Welker fills in as Megatron for most tie-in games, and [[VocalDissonance makes it clear why his voice wasn't considered to fit this version of Megatron.]]
*** In a [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zag]] of this trope where the original actor replaces the replacement, Frank Welker fills in as Megatron for most tie-in games, and [[VocalDissonance makes it clear why his voice wasn't considered to fit this version of Megatron.]]
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* ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy: One of the eternal demands of the fans. Despite the LoveItOrHateIt of the films, the toys are of an unbelievable high quality. This is especially surprising given the ''thousands of parts'' that make the movies' CG models, yet they were still able to create [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/c/ce/ROTF_Leader_OptimusPrime.jpg this Optimus Prime toy]].
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* ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy: One of the eternal demands of the fans. Despite the LoveItOrHateIt divisiveness of the films, the toys are of an unbelievable high quality. This is especially surprising given the ''thousands of parts'' that make the movies' CG models, yet they were still able to create [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/c/ce/ROTF_Leader_OptimusPrime.jpg this Optimus Prime toy]].
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** Many of the major players of the film series have expressed regrets towards ''Revenge of the Fallen''.
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** Many of the major players of the film series have expressed regrets towards ''Revenge of the Fallen''. Creator/MichaelBay in particular apologized for ''Revenge of the Fallen,'' and promised better results for ''Dark of the Moon.''
** Eventually the franchise became this for Bay. He was essentially forced to keep making sequels like clockwork, and being unable to make [[Film/PainAndGain a more personal movie]] until the franchise took a three-year hiatus. Ironically and hypocritically, executive producer Creator/StevenSpielberg, who bemoans the lack of originality in Hollywood, pressured Bay to keep making more sequels.
** Eventually the franchise became this for Bay. He was essentially forced to keep making sequels like clockwork, and being unable to make [[Film/PainAndGain a more personal movie]] until the franchise took a three-year hiatus. Ironically and hypocritically, executive producer Creator/StevenSpielberg, who bemoans the lack of originality in Hollywood, pressured Bay to keep making more sequels.
* FanNickname: "Bayformers," while starting as a pejorative (and to some still is) has gone on to be an affectionate name for the series and the robot designs in general.
* HeAlsoDid: Mark Ryan, the voice of Bumblebee, Jetfire and Lockdown, is best known for playing Nasir in the 1980s series ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'' (the first ever Middle Eastern Merry Man who became a FountainOfExpies, inspiring most famously Morgan Freeman's character in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' but also several other Sherwood bandits).
* HeAlsoDid: Mark Ryan, the voice of Bumblebee, Jetfire and Lockdown, is best known for playing Nasir in the 1980s series ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'' (the first ever Middle Eastern Merry Man who became a FountainOfExpies, inspiring most famously Morgan Freeman's character in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' but also several other Sherwood bandits).
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** A silver-toned upgrade for Optimus was planned and heavily featured in the toy line but was ultimately cut.
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* 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. Though he ''would'' get to voice Galvatron in AOE, and ultimately reclaimed the role of Megatron in TLK.
** Amusingly, Frank Welker's brief lines for Shockwave in DOTM sound an awful lot like his G1 Megatron voice. Fans have also noted (often derisively) Soundwave sounding similar to [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Doctor Claw]]... which, amusingly is because Soundwave's voice ''is'' the same as Claw's; the vocoder effect from G1 was what made them different.
* 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. Though he ''would'' get to voice Galvatron in AOE, and ultimately reclaimed the role of Megatron in TLK.
** Amusingly, Frank Welker's brief lines for Shockwave in DOTM sound an awful lot like his G1 Megatron voice. Fans have also noted (often derisively) Soundwave sounding similar to [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Doctor Claw]]... which, amusingly is because Soundwave's voice ''is'' the same as Claw's; the vocoder effect from G1 was what made them different.
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* MythologyGag: [[Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction An Average Joe buys a flip-top heavy truck with borrowed money]], fixes it up, and then discovers that it's Optimus Prime. He eventually joins the fight himself with the help of some kids that are actually (for the most part) more emotionally mature than he is. Hmm..., [[Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce where have we seen this before?]]
* ShoutOut: Probably unintentional but ''DOTM'' has [[Series/ICarly ''Sam'' and ''Carly'' ''Spencer'']] living in an uptown apartment.
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** In ''Dark of The Moon'', Sideswipe is voiced by [[Series/{{Dexter}} James Remar]] instead of André Sogliuzzo. In a confusing audio mix-up[[note]] and if one pays attention, [[OffModel was clearly animated to say it]][[/note]] Barricade spoke with Soundwaves' voice, thus technically Jess Harnell was replaced by Creator/FrankWelker.
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** In ''Dark of The Moon'', Sideswipe is voiced by [[Series/{{Dexter}} James Remar]] Creator/JamesRemar instead of André Sogliuzzo. In a confusing audio mix-up[[note]] and if one pays attention, [[OffModel was clearly animated to say it]][[/note]] Barricade spoke with Soundwaves' voice, thus technically Jess Harnell was replaced by Creator/FrankWelker.
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** Also, counting as {{foreshadowing}} as well, Wheelie watches on episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' in Sam and Carly's apartment and says; "I've seen this one. This is the one where Spock goes nuts". [[spoiler: Hinting at Sentinel Prime's later betrayal]].
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** Also, counting as {{foreshadowing}} as well, Wheelie watches on an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' in Sam and Carly's apartment and says; "I've seen this one. This is the one where Spock goes nuts". [[spoiler: Hinting at Sentinel Prime's later betrayal]].
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** In ''Dark of The Moon'', Sideswipe is voiced by [[Series/{{Dexter}} James Remar]] instead of André Sogliuzzo. In a confusing audio mix-up[[note]] and if one pays attention, [[OffModel was clearly animated to say it]][[/note]] Barricade spoke with Soundwaves' voice, thus technically Jess Harnell was replaced by FrankWelker.
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** In ''Dark of The Moon'', Sideswipe is voiced by [[Series/{{Dexter}} James Remar]] instead of André Sogliuzzo. In a confusing audio mix-up[[note]] and if one pays attention, [[OffModel was clearly animated to say it]][[/note]] Barricade spoke with Soundwaves' voice, thus technically Jess Harnell was replaced by FrankWelker.Creator/FrankWelker.
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* CreatorBacklash: Michael Bay has gone on record to say he hates Arcee, and [[spoiler: happily killed her off, without much of a sendoff. Though IDW stuck a big middle finger up to that a few years later...]]
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** Michael Bay has gone on record to say he hates Arcee, and [[spoiler: happily killed her off, without much of a sendoff.Though He even openly said so in an interview prior to ''Revenge of the Fallen''. IDW stuck a big middle finger up to that a few years later...]]later in their ''Dark of the Moon'' prequel comics by having all three sisters as alive.]]
** Creator/PeterCullen has expressed dismay at some of the more aggressive lines he is given as Optimus, and particularly singled out the line in ''Age of Extinction'' where Optimus vows to kill Harold Attinger as the line he felt was the most out of character. Peter has remained a trooper and does as asked, but he's expressed sadness at the more aggressive Optimus we see in the sequels.
** Many of the major players of the film series have expressed regrets towards ''Revenge of the Fallen''.
** Downplayed with Hugo Weaving. After the films were done, Weaving said that he wasn't invested in his role as Megatron, but expressed genuine regret that he didn't care too much for the role that is so beloved by fans. Michael Bay was offended and sniped at him for the backlash.
** Michael Bay has gone on record to say he hates Arcee, and [[spoiler: happily killed her off, without much of a sendoff.
** Creator/PeterCullen has expressed dismay at some of the more aggressive lines he is given as Optimus, and particularly singled out the line in ''Age of Extinction'' where Optimus vows to kill Harold Attinger as the line he felt was the most out of character. Peter has remained a trooper and does as asked, but he's expressed sadness at the more aggressive Optimus we see in the sequels.
** Many of the major players of the film series have expressed regrets towards ''Revenge of the Fallen''.
** Downplayed with Hugo Weaving. After the films were done, Weaving said that he wasn't invested in his role as Megatron, but expressed genuine regret that he didn't care too much for the role that is so beloved by fans. Michael Bay was offended and sniped at him for the backlash.
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** Wheeljack/Que in DOTM has a face that resembles AlbertEinstein. His voice actor, George Coe, once voiced Einstein in ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch''.
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** Wheeljack/Que in DOTM has a face that resembles AlbertEinstein.UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein. His voice actor, George Coe, once voiced Einstein in ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch''.
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* FranchiseZombie: Allegedly, the reason the series keeps going despite critical disfavor is because Creator/{{Hasbro}} [[MoneyDearBoy profits so much from the films' merchandise]] that they don't want Paramount to drop the film license.
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* [[spoiler:TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Dino indirectly qualifies as he likely died in ThePurge between ''DOTM'' and ''AOE''; Francesco Quinn passed away months after ''DOTM'' came out, and no voice actor replaced Quinn.]]
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* ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy: One of the eternal demands of the fans. Despite the LoveItOrHateIt of the films, the toys are of an unbelievable high quality. This is especially surprising given the ''thousands of parts'' that make the movies' CG models, yet they were still able to create [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/c/ce/ROTF_Leader_OptimusPrime.jpg this Optimus Prime toy]].
** Takara's gone a step further with [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/8/89/ROTF_Leader_BusterOptimusPrime.jpg Buster Optimus Prime.]]
** [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/0/01/ROTF-toy_leader_Starscream.jpg Leader Class Starscream also leads to rejoicing.]]
** Takara's gone a step further with [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/8/89/ROTF_Leader_BusterOptimusPrime.jpg Buster Optimus Prime.]]
** [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/0/01/ROTF-toy_leader_Starscream.jpg Leader Class Starscream also leads to rejoicing.]]
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* ShoutOut: Probably unintentional but ''DOTM'' has [[ICarly ''Sam'' and ''Carly'' ''Spencer'']] living in an uptown apartment.
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** Most of the military extras that shows up are ''actual'' military personnel. Most of the time, they don't even have a script beyond director Creator/MichaelBay telling them to say and do what they'd do in the situation.
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** Most of the military extras that shows up are ''actual'' military personnel. Most of the time, they don't even have a script beyond director Creator/MichaelBay telling them to say and do what they'd do in the situation. situation.
* [[spoiler:TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Dino ndirectly qualifies as he likely died in ThePurge between ''DOTM'' and ''AOE''; Francesco Quinn passed away months after ''DOTM'' came out, and no voice actor replaced Quinn.]]
* [[spoiler:TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Dino ndirectly qualifies as he likely died in ThePurge between ''DOTM'' and ''AOE''; Francesco Quinn passed away months after ''DOTM'' came out, and no voice actor replaced Quinn.]]
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* ShoutOut: Probably unintentional but ''DOTM'' has [[ICarly ''Sam'' and ''Carly Spencer'']] living in an uptown apartment
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* ShoutOut: Probably unintentional but ''DOTM'' has [[iCarly ''Sam'' and ''Carly Spencer'']] living in an uptown apartment
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** A scene from ''Age of Extinction'' featuring Tessa dancing with Bumblebee and Hound was shown in the TV spot trailer but ultimately cut from the final film.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sam would've originally had the nickname of "Spike", and while the door was open for him to gain it in the sequels, it never happened.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sam would've originally had the nickname of "Spike", and while the door was open for him to gain it in the sequels, it never happened. "Spike" does eventually get used in the fourth movie...as a nickname for Scorn, the Spino-Bot.
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** DOTM is introducing a "third" form for the Transformers, a battle-ready vehicle mode reminiscent of ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}''. The reason seems to be because Creator/MichaelBay saw the sub-line of the previous movie toy-line called "Stealth Force" that presented a very similar mode and liked the look. The Wreckers' NASCAR altmodes appear to have this form as their only vehicle mode (specifically, armored versions of the #42 of Juan Pablo Montoya, the #48 of Jimmie Johnson, and the #88 of Dale Earnhardt, Jr.).
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** DOTM is introducing a "third" form for the Transformers, a battle-ready vehicle mode reminiscent of ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}''. The reason seems to be because Creator/MichaelBay saw the sub-line of the previous movie toy-line called "Stealth Force" that presented a very similar mode and liked the look. The Wreckers' NASCAR altmodes appear to have this form as their only vehicle mode (specifically, armored versions of the #42 of Juan Pablo Montoya, the #48 of Jimmie Johnson, and the #88 of Dale Earnhardt, Jr.).).
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sam would've originally had the nickname of "Spike", and while the door was open for him to gain it in the sequels, it never happened.
** Soundwave was among the cast of the first film, but the production team couldn't agree on a way to portray him, so they left him for the sequel. Blackout, Barricade and Frenzy became DecompositeCharacter's, all serving roles Soundwave would've in one way or another.
** Arcee was in the initial Autobot line-up, but was replaced by Ironhide when the writers felt it would take too much time to explain a female robot. The issue would go unaddressed in ''Revenge of the Fallen'' when she debuted there.
** Princeton University was going to be named in ''Revenge of the Fallen'' as Sam's university, but Princeton refused to allow it after learning of the pot brownie scene.
** The Fallen would've been sealed in a sarcophagus, something that made it into IDW fiction, but he ended up just sitting in the ''Nemesis'' in the film, something that shocked Chris Mowry (who took pains to write the complicated subplot). Also, Megatron was originally to deliver the global ultimatum, but it ended up going to The Fallen to give him more screen-time.
** Optimus would've been NotQuiteDead, only in stasis lock after the forest battle.
** Ransack, an ancient biplane Seeker was to briefly harass Jetfire before literally being Curbstomped to death.
** A subplot regarding The Fallen falsely promising Megatron Primehood was dropped.
** Sentinel Prime was originally Ultra Magnus; as a DevelopmentGag, the design ILM fashioned for the Magnus character is the face that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong stumble upon (the one the dust collapses onto).
** A scene where Sentinel observes the world's need for more playgrounds was cut, as was a meeting between Optimus and the President (the latter was likely cut to to the [[SarcasmMode total likelihood]] of Obama filming a scene for a movie while, you know, leading the free world).
** Mudflap and Skids would've returned only in a [[DemotedToExtra minor role]], and then getting [[TakeThatScrappy killed off]], but due to the sheer critical backlash against them, Bay excised them from the film almost entirely (they can still be glimpsed in a brief scene at the NEST HQ).
** Que/Wheeljack would've fallen into the Chicago river and have been killed by aquatic Decepticons. Similarly, Dino/Mirage was going to be killed by Starscream, and his corpse would've been used to taunt the hostage Autobots,
** [[spoiler: Megatron and Optimus would've explicitly teamed up against Sentinel, and killed him together with his own cosmic rust gun. Megatron, weary of the war, would've sincerely asked for a truce so he could leave to find and rebuild Cybertron, and Optimus would've allowed it. In the film proper, Megatron is less than sincere (still pointing a gun at Optimus and condescending him), and Optimus tears his head off.]]
** Lockdown would've had a poncho and a design more evocative of his ''Animated'' counterpart.
** Concept art of ''Velociraptor'', ''Apatosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', and ''Parasaurolophus'' Dinobots can be found. The ''Velociraptor'', Slash, was intended to be featured in the film, while the ''Apatosaurus'' Slog and ''Stegosaurus'' Snarl were only featured in the toy line.
** A silver-toned upgrade for Optimus was planned and heavily featured in the toy line but was ultimately cut.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sam would've originally had the nickname of "Spike", and while the door was open for him to gain it in the sequels, it never happened.
** Soundwave was among the cast of the first film, but the production team couldn't agree on a way to portray him, so they left him for the sequel. Blackout, Barricade and Frenzy became DecompositeCharacter's, all serving roles Soundwave would've in one way or another.
** Arcee was in the initial Autobot line-up, but was replaced by Ironhide when the writers felt it would take too much time to explain a female robot. The issue would go unaddressed in ''Revenge of the Fallen'' when she debuted there.
** Princeton University was going to be named in ''Revenge of the Fallen'' as Sam's university, but Princeton refused to allow it after learning of the pot brownie scene.
** The Fallen would've been sealed in a sarcophagus, something that made it into IDW fiction, but he ended up just sitting in the ''Nemesis'' in the film, something that shocked Chris Mowry (who took pains to write the complicated subplot). Also, Megatron was originally to deliver the global ultimatum, but it ended up going to The Fallen to give him more screen-time.
** Optimus would've been NotQuiteDead, only in stasis lock after the forest battle.
** Ransack, an ancient biplane Seeker was to briefly harass Jetfire before literally being Curbstomped to death.
** A subplot regarding The Fallen falsely promising Megatron Primehood was dropped.
** Sentinel Prime was originally Ultra Magnus; as a DevelopmentGag, the design ILM fashioned for the Magnus character is the face that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong stumble upon (the one the dust collapses onto).
** A scene where Sentinel observes the world's need for more playgrounds was cut, as was a meeting between Optimus and the President (the latter was likely cut to to the [[SarcasmMode total likelihood]] of Obama filming a scene for a movie while, you know, leading the free world).
** Mudflap and Skids would've returned only in a [[DemotedToExtra minor role]], and then getting [[TakeThatScrappy killed off]], but due to the sheer critical backlash against them, Bay excised them from the film almost entirely (they can still be glimpsed in a brief scene at the NEST HQ).
** Que/Wheeljack would've fallen into the Chicago river and have been killed by aquatic Decepticons. Similarly, Dino/Mirage was going to be killed by Starscream, and his corpse would've been used to taunt the hostage Autobots,
** [[spoiler: Megatron and Optimus would've explicitly teamed up against Sentinel, and killed him together with his own cosmic rust gun. Megatron, weary of the war, would've sincerely asked for a truce so he could leave to find and rebuild Cybertron, and Optimus would've allowed it. In the film proper, Megatron is less than sincere (still pointing a gun at Optimus and condescending him), and Optimus tears his head off.]]
** Lockdown would've had a poncho and a design more evocative of his ''Animated'' counterpart.
** Concept art of ''Velociraptor'', ''Apatosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', and ''Parasaurolophus'' Dinobots can be found. The ''Velociraptor'', Slash, was intended to be featured in the film, while the ''Apatosaurus'' Slog and ''Stegosaurus'' Snarl were only featured in the toy line.
** A silver-toned upgrade for Optimus was planned and heavily featured in the toy line but was ultimately cut.
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* CastTheExpert: In a directing version, Michael Bay has directed many car commercials in his time. His base understanding of how to film and light cars on camera made him, incidentally, ideal to teach CG animators how they would look.
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* BackedByThePentagon: Somewhat odd, considering almost every Decepticon from the first film was a military machine, and the Pentagon typically doesn't support scripts that make the military look bad. The fact that the US Armed Forces kick a considerable amount of ass in all three movies, and the movie producers pointing out that the Decepticons picked US military machinery because it kicked the most ass, is what convinced them to sign on.
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** In a directing version, Michael Bay has directed many car commercials in his time. His base understanding of how to film and light cars on camera made him, incidentally, ideal to teach CG animators how they wouldlook.look.
** Most of the military extras that shows up are ''actual'' military personnel. Most of the time, they don't even have a script beyond director Creator/MichaelBay telling them to say and do what they'd do in the situation.
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** In a directing version, Michael Bay has directed many car commercials in his time. His base understanding of how to film and light cars on camera made him, incidentally, ideal to teach CG animators how they would
** Most of the military extras that shows up are ''actual'' military personnel. Most of the time, they don't even have a script beyond director Creator/MichaelBay telling them to say and do what they'd do in the situation.
* TheDanza: Glenn Morshower as General Morshower in ROTF and DOTM.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Mark Ryan previously voiced the heroic Bumblebee and Jetfire. Now he voices Lockdown, a cold, fierce bounty hunter.
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* TheOtherDarrin: DoingItForTheArt: The movies exist [[MerchandiseDriven to sell toys]], [[ProductPlacement GM vehicles, and many other products]], but Creator/MichaelBay didn't want to do it at first. Yes, Mr. Flash Cuts & Explosions had to be talked into doing this. Bay explained that the only thing that made him even bother to consider the job is that you don't just ignore an offer from Creator/StevenSpielberg. Once he went through "Transformers School" at Hasbro, he had a wave of inspiration that was about showing something no one has ever attempted to do before. Once convinced, he made sure the CGI was some of the most detailed ever made. Industrial Light & Magic actually said they hadn't done work this groundbreaking since ''Franchise/JurassicPark''.
** Devastator is likely ILM's greatest accomplishment to date. The scenes with him had such a massive level of detail that rendering him took the ILM equipment to its limits. "Took the ILM equipment to its limits" as in smoking and melting one of the motherboards. Also prior series just made a blur of motion between the transformations, sort of "cheating" the process. Here no two transformations are identical (same basic components go to the right place but how it does that changes) and each one is appropriate to the scene, sometimes done in slow motion for dramatic effect.
** Bay insists on doing as many shots for real as possible, instead of doing everything in CGI. He rarely uses a blue screen. That really was the Hoover Dam, that was a real bus splitting in half, those are the real pyramids, that was a real sand explosion, there is a real life-size Bumblebee prop, the entire city of Chicago represents itself, etc.
** All of this can be evident in the scene in the first film where Sam is searching for his glasses and the robots are in the backyard. The visual effects were not cheap and that entire sequence was comedic in tone (Creator/StevenSpielberg even mentioned, while laughing, that he had never seen something like that before). But it also provided some of the most characterization for the robot heroes and helped to make them more than the killer robots everyone were afraid of, so that when they come to Sam's rescue we are rooting for them.
** Bay had to be coaxed into making the third one in 3D, because he said it was "gimmicky". ''Seriously''.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Most of the stunts were performed live, with no CGI. While safety measures were put in place, Shia [=LaBeouf=] was really holding onto a statue 20 stories up and the actors were fully briefed on what kind of explosives were used to create the Scorponok sand explosion.
* MoneyDearBoy:
** Apparently, the only reason Megan Fox didn't quit after the ''first'' movie.
** Similarly, Hugo Weaving freely admits to phoning in his performance, a comment that Bay evidently took personally.
* MoneyMakingShot: The know how to make a BigDamnMovie, with appropriately big trailer scenes
** Bonecrusher splitting a bus in half, then tackling Optimus in the first scene.
** Devastator simply forming itself together in the second.
** The Driller splitting a high rise in half in the third.
** Multiple scenes between Optimus and Grimlock in the fourth.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** Frank Welker replaces [[spoiler:Hugo Weaving]] as Galvatron's voice. It's unknown whether this is intended to be an in-universe result of [[spoiler: the new body]] or just a plain old case of TheOtherDarrin.
** In ''Dark of The Moon'', Sideswipe is voiced by [[Series/{{Dexter}} James Remar]] instead of André Sogliuzzo. In a confusing audio mix-up[[note]] and if one pays attention, [[OffModel was clearly animated to say it]][[/note]] Barricade spoke with Soundwaves' voice, thus technically Jess Harnell was replaced by FrankWelker.
** The video games based upon the films often have different voice actors for several characters for cost reasons or due to the movie's casting of a character for the movie proper not being revealed until it's close to release or already released.
* PlayingAgainstType: Mark Ryan previously voiced the heroic Bumblebee and Jetfire. Now he voices Lockdown, a cold, fierce bountyhunter.hunter.
* TheRedStapler: There has been an increase in the popularity of twin black racing stripes for custom paint jobs, whether or not they are yellow, Camaro's or even sports cars.
* ThrowItIn: Creator/MichaelBay is a fan of playing around with the script. Shia was hired based on how well he could improv. Also, the reason Sam's friend Miles starts climbing a tree at the lake party is because the actor started doing it in between takes and Bay thought it was a goofy thing the character would do.
** DOTM is introducing a "third" form for the Transformers, a battle-ready vehicle mode reminiscent of ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}''. The reason seems to be because Creator/MichaelBay saw the sub-line of the previous movie toy-line called "Stealth Force" that presented a very similar mode and liked the look. The Wreckers' NASCAR altmodes appear to have this form as their only vehicle mode (specifically, armored versions of the #42 of Juan Pablo Montoya, the #48 of Jimmie Johnson, and the #88 of Dale Earnhardt, Jr.).
** Devastator is likely ILM's greatest accomplishment to date. The scenes with him had such a massive level of detail that rendering him took the ILM equipment to its limits. "Took the ILM equipment to its limits" as in smoking and melting one of the motherboards. Also prior series just made a blur of motion between the transformations, sort of "cheating" the process. Here no two transformations are identical (same basic components go to the right place but how it does that changes) and each one is appropriate to the scene, sometimes done in slow motion for dramatic effect.
** Bay insists on doing as many shots for real as possible, instead of doing everything in CGI. He rarely uses a blue screen. That really was the Hoover Dam, that was a real bus splitting in half, those are the real pyramids, that was a real sand explosion, there is a real life-size Bumblebee prop, the entire city of Chicago represents itself, etc.
** All of this can be evident in the scene in the first film where Sam is searching for his glasses and the robots are in the backyard. The visual effects were not cheap and that entire sequence was comedic in tone (Creator/StevenSpielberg even mentioned, while laughing, that he had never seen something like that before). But it also provided some of the most characterization for the robot heroes and helped to make them more than the killer robots everyone were afraid of, so that when they come to Sam's rescue we are rooting for them.
** Bay had to be coaxed into making the third one in 3D, because he said it was "gimmicky". ''Seriously''.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Most of the stunts were performed live, with no CGI. While safety measures were put in place, Shia [=LaBeouf=] was really holding onto a statue 20 stories up and the actors were fully briefed on what kind of explosives were used to create the Scorponok sand explosion.
* MoneyDearBoy:
** Apparently, the only reason Megan Fox didn't quit after the ''first'' movie.
** Similarly, Hugo Weaving freely admits to phoning in his performance, a comment that Bay evidently took personally.
* MoneyMakingShot: The know how to make a BigDamnMovie, with appropriately big trailer scenes
** Bonecrusher splitting a bus in half, then tackling Optimus in the first scene.
** Devastator simply forming itself together in the second.
** The Driller splitting a high rise in half in the third.
** Multiple scenes between Optimus and Grimlock in the fourth.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** Frank Welker replaces [[spoiler:Hugo Weaving]] as Galvatron's voice. It's unknown whether this is intended to be an in-universe result of [[spoiler: the new body]] or just a plain old case of TheOtherDarrin.
** In ''Dark of The Moon'', Sideswipe is voiced by [[Series/{{Dexter}} James Remar]] instead of André Sogliuzzo. In a confusing audio mix-up[[note]] and if one pays attention, [[OffModel was clearly animated to say it]][[/note]] Barricade spoke with Soundwaves' voice, thus technically Jess Harnell was replaced by FrankWelker.
** The video games based upon the films often have different voice actors for several characters for cost reasons or due to the movie's casting of a character for the movie proper not being revealed until it's close to release or already released.
* PlayingAgainstType: Mark Ryan previously voiced the heroic Bumblebee and Jetfire. Now he voices Lockdown, a cold, fierce bounty
* TheRedStapler: There has been an increase in the popularity of twin black racing stripes for custom paint jobs, whether or not they are yellow, Camaro's or even sports cars.
* ThrowItIn: Creator/MichaelBay is a fan of playing around with the script. Shia was hired based on how well he could improv. Also, the reason Sam's friend Miles starts climbing a tree at the lake party is because the actor started doing it in between takes and Bay thought it was a goofy thing the character would do.
** DOTM is introducing a "third" form for the Transformers, a battle-ready vehicle mode reminiscent of ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}''. The reason seems to be because Creator/MichaelBay saw the sub-line of the previous movie toy-line called "Stealth Force" that presented a very similar mode and liked the look. The Wreckers' NASCAR altmodes appear to have this form as their only vehicle mode (specifically, armored versions of the #42 of Juan Pablo Montoya, the #48 of Jimmie Johnson, and the #88 of Dale Earnhardt, Jr.).
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* TheOtherDarrin: Frank Welker replaces [[spoiler:Hugo Weaving]] as Galvatron's voice. It's unknown whether this is intended to be an in-universe result of [[spoiler: the new body]] or just a plain old case of TheOtherDarrin.
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** In DOTM, [[spoiler:[[Creator/LeonardNimoy Sentinel Prime]]]] states [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.]]
*** Also, counting as {{foreshadowing}} as well, Wheelie watches on episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' in Sam and Carly's apartment and says; "I've seen this one. This is the one where Spock goes nuts". [[spoiler: Hinting at Sentinel Prime's later betrayal]].
*** Also, counting as {{foreshadowing}} as well, Wheelie watches on episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' in Sam and Carly's apartment and says; "I've seen this one. This is the one where Spock goes nuts". [[spoiler: Hinting at Sentinel Prime's later betrayal]].
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** In DOTM, [[spoiler:[[Creator/LeonardNimoy Sentinel Prime]]]] states [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.]]
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** Also, counting as {{foreshadowing}} as well, Wheelie watches on episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' in Sam and Carly's apartment and says; "I've seen this one. This is the one where Spock goes nuts". [[spoiler: Hinting at Sentinel Prime's later betrayal]].
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** Also, counting as {{foreshadowing}} as well, Wheelie watches on episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' in Sam and Carly's apartment and says; "I've seen this one. This is the one where Spock goes nuts". [[spoiler: Hinting at Sentinel Prime's later betrayal]].
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* CastTheExpert: In a directing version, Michael Bay has directed many car commercials in his time. His base understanding of how to film and light cars on camera made him, incidentally, ideal to teach CG animators how they would look.
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* CastTheExpert: In a directing version, Michael Bay has directed many car commercials in his time. His base understanding of how to film and light cars on camera made him, incidentally, ideal to teach CG animators how they would look.look.
* CreatorBacklash: Michael Bay has gone on record to say he hates Arcee, and [[spoiler: happily killed her off, without much of a sendoff. Though IDW stuck a big middle finger up to that a few years later...]]
* {{Defictionalization}}: The Wreckers appeared in WeaponizedCar form for the opening pace laps of the 2011 Daytona 500.
* PlayingAgainstType: Mark Ryan previously voiced the heroic Bumblebee and Jetfire. Now he voices Lockdown, a cold, fierce bounty hunter.
* CreatorBacklash: Michael Bay has gone on record to say he hates Arcee, and [[spoiler: happily killed her off, without much of a sendoff. Though IDW stuck a big middle finger up to that a few years later...]]
* {{Defictionalization}}: The Wreckers appeared in WeaponizedCar form for the opening pace laps of the 2011 Daytona 500.
* PlayingAgainstType: Mark Ryan previously voiced the heroic Bumblebee and Jetfire. Now he voices Lockdown, a cold, fierce bounty hunter.
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* ActorAllusion:
** Crosses into YouLookFamiliar in the first movie; Sam meets Bobby Bolivia to buy his first car, and Bobby says "that practically makes us family", alluding to both their previous roles in ''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle''.
** John Turturro's previous role in ''Film/YouDontMessWithTheZohan'' has him owning a restaurant after leaving his previous job (terrorist leader in ''Zohan'' and government agent in ''ROTF'').
** In ''ROTF'' Shia Lebouf is [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull chased through a library, visits important archaeological sites and finds out that aliens were involved in ancient human history.]]
*** This is not the first time Shia has had to [[Film/IRobot battle murderous robots.]]
** Also in ''ROTF'', [[Creator/HugoWeaving Megatron]] [[Film/TheMatrix tortures Sam and has a mechanical bug burrow into Sam's body]]. {{Squick}} ensues.
** In DOTM, [[spoiler:[[Creator/LeonardNimoy Sentinel Prime]]]] states [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.]]
*** Also, counting as {{foreshadowing}} as well, Wheelie watches on episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' in Sam and Carly's apartment and says; "I've seen this one. This is the one where Spock goes nuts". [[spoiler: Hinting at Sentinel Prime's later betrayal]].
** Dutch, played by Alan Tudyk, [[Series/{{Dollhouse}} has a suppressed personality buried within him that has a violent streak.]]
** Wheeljack/Que in DOTM has a face that resembles AlbertEinstein. His voice actor, George Coe, once voiced Einstein in ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch''.
** Sam calls Carly "Angel" as an AffectionateNickname. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley rose to fame as a Victoria's Secret Angel.
* AuthorAppeal: Michael Bay has always been a car aficionado, the TechnologyPorn largely stems from this.
* CastTheExpert: In a directing version, Michael Bay has directed many car commercials in his time. His base understanding of how to film and light cars on camera made him, incidentally, ideal to teach CG animators how they would look.
** Crosses into YouLookFamiliar in the first movie; Sam meets Bobby Bolivia to buy his first car, and Bobby says "that practically makes us family", alluding to both their previous roles in ''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle''.
** John Turturro's previous role in ''Film/YouDontMessWithTheZohan'' has him owning a restaurant after leaving his previous job (terrorist leader in ''Zohan'' and government agent in ''ROTF'').
** In ''ROTF'' Shia Lebouf is [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull chased through a library, visits important archaeological sites and finds out that aliens were involved in ancient human history.]]
*** This is not the first time Shia has had to [[Film/IRobot battle murderous robots.]]
** Also in ''ROTF'', [[Creator/HugoWeaving Megatron]] [[Film/TheMatrix tortures Sam and has a mechanical bug burrow into Sam's body]]. {{Squick}} ensues.
** In DOTM, [[spoiler:[[Creator/LeonardNimoy Sentinel Prime]]]] states [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.]]
*** Also, counting as {{foreshadowing}} as well, Wheelie watches on episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' in Sam and Carly's apartment and says; "I've seen this one. This is the one where Spock goes nuts". [[spoiler: Hinting at Sentinel Prime's later betrayal]].
** Dutch, played by Alan Tudyk, [[Series/{{Dollhouse}} has a suppressed personality buried within him that has a violent streak.]]
** Wheeljack/Que in DOTM has a face that resembles AlbertEinstein. His voice actor, George Coe, once voiced Einstein in ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch''.
** Sam calls Carly "Angel" as an AffectionateNickname. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley rose to fame as a Victoria's Secret Angel.
* AuthorAppeal: Michael Bay has always been a car aficionado, the TechnologyPorn largely stems from this.
* CastTheExpert: In a directing version, Michael Bay has directed many car commercials in his time. His base understanding of how to film and light cars on camera made him, incidentally, ideal to teach CG animators how they would look.
