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* Tropers/{{Supreme-X15}}: The way Optimus was handled in this film was insanely bad. At the beginning of the movie, he's seen floating lifeless in space, implying that he's either dead or in some form of status. This would have been an interesting way to focus on the other characters while Prime is out of the spotlight until the end. However, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot that plotline is wasted]] by having Optimus land on Cybertron, only to immediately get brainwashed by [[BigBad Quintessa]], by way of bitch slap to the face. Like what?! From then on, he calls himself Nemesis Prime and spouts cliché villain one liners while he's heading back to Earth, and then gets into his death match with Bumblebee. A fight to the death that ends as abruptly as it started. I was expecting it to be like the trailer, where Optimus shows up at the end, but being forced to fight and possibly kill Bumblebee and Cade, and then end on a cliffhanger. But, no. The final film had to use the brainwashed "Nemesis Prime" for one short fight scene, and then scurry off to the final battle like nothing had happened. Not a fan!
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* Tropers/{{Supreme-X15}}: The way Optimus was handled in this film was insanely bad. At the beginning of the movie, he's seen floating lifeless in space, implying that he's either dead or in some form of status.stasis. This would have been an interesting way to focus on the other characters while Prime is out of the spotlight until the end. However, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot that plotline is wasted]] by having Optimus land on Cybertron, only to immediately get brainwashed by [[BigBad Quintessa]], by way of bitch slap to the face. Like what?! From then on, he calls himself Nemesis Prime and spouts cliché villain one liners one-liners while he's heading back to Earth, and then gets into his death match with Bumblebee. A fight to the death that ends as abruptly as it started. I was expecting it to be like the trailer, where Optimus shows up at the end, but being is forced to fight and possibly kill Bumblebee and Cade, and then end the film on a cliffhanger. But, no. The final film had to use the brainwashed "Nemesis Prime" for one short fight scene, and then scurry off to the final battle like nothing had happened. Not a fan!
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* CapriciousSalmon: I honestly didn't know what to add as my DMOS. I was gonna include Alice, but I like the concept of human Transformers. Truth be told, this is probably my favorite of the Bayverse films, even if it's littered with Retcon after Retcon and I wish the human-Decepticon moles showed up earlier. But there's one DMOS I have with it: the Autobots coming back. Near the middle of the movie, the Autobots are sent away by the Earth officials because we need more conflict. They're sent away in a rocket, and then Starscream shoots it and it explodes, certainly killing them. With their enemy gone, the Decepticons show up and absolutely wreck Chicago. Until it's revealed the Autobots were alive all along, despite this being physically impossible. We saw it: they went inside the rocket and it blew up, there's no surviving that. We saw the whole scene of the rocket taking off, how did they get away with this?! There's no way they teleported! At least show us how they did it, that way it looks like less of an AssPull. Next, the reasoning they give for why they hid until that one badass moment is so terrible, it borders on hypocritical: they wanted to show the Earth governments why they were wrong. One of the beliefs of the Autobots is not to harm defenseless lifeforms. It's why Optimus didn't let them go rescue Bumblebee. So to teach us a lesson, they're willing to let millions die! That's like teaching your son it's wrong to be a distracted driver by cutting his breaks. Look, I love Optimus Prime as much as the next guy, but this is littered with too many UnfortunateImplications, I can't believe he's the one who sanctioned it. I can see why so many people love Transformers: Prime, that was the movies done right.
