History Awesome / TransformersTheLastKnight

* You have to give credit where credit is due to the Osprey pilots in the flight to the Ignition Chamber battleground. The entire plan involves the Autobots' ship ferrying the Ospreys, carrying the joint Autobot-Human task force, up to 20,000 feet and the Ospreys flying in to land the troops. Only problem is, the height of the Chamber is ''8,000 feet'' above the Ospreys' maximum service ceiling; at that altitude, their rotors simply cannot produce enough lift to maintain level flight. What ensues is essentially a massive ''[[ComingInHot controlled crash landing]]'' onto the Ignition Chamber by the pilots, all the while dodging Decepticon gunfire, fighters, and the tendrils dangling from Cybertron.

* The epic shot of Megatron, Nitro Zeus, Barricade, Infernocus, and other Decepticons charging out to meet the Autobots in battle.

* The Human air forces deserve a lot of credit here, back in [[Film/TransformersDarkoftheMoon the third film]], the Decepticon fighters were effortlessly able to swat F-18 and F-22 squadrons out of the sky. Here, the F-35's are able to put up a much better fight as not only are they able to fight on even terms with the Decepticon ships. But the fact that they are later seen bombing the ignition chamber with no opposition gives the impression that they were able to wipe the skies clear of enemy aircraft. Granted they had Dragonstorm to help them out, but still.

** On a meta level, Hot Rod, who is one of the more divisive G1 Transformers (being more or less indirectly responsible for the death of Optimus Prime), is one of the more dependable Autobots throughout the movie. He is less impulsive and reckless than his G1 incarnation and uses his temporal-rift weapon conservatively. In fact, each use of it was to save an ally (human or Autobot) from immediate danger.

* Hot Rod, as an old Citroen DS, forcibly takes Vivian to the party. Along the way, an orange-black Lamborghini Centenario passes him, which Hot Rod scans and voila, he's a Lamborghini Centenario. In case that isn't awesome enough, his WeaponOfChoice is a ''temporal rift'' capable of stopping/slowing time down.

** Cade, early in the movie, is given a mysterious talisman by a cybertronian older than Optimus himself. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a reactive symbiotic machine, shapeshifting into whatever is needed to protect him from harm to the best of its abilities. When a knight prepares to execute Optimus for his betrayal, Cade blindly swings at the oncoming weapon and manifests the talisman into a sword that ''stops the two story tall blade dead'' as if it were a human-sized shortsword.]]

* Bumblebee, Hound, and Cade's stand-off with the TRF. Lennox is able to defuse the situation, but both sides get what they want out of it - the TRF [[spoiler: is able to track Bee back to the junkyard]], while the 'Bots get to go free.
* Megatron almost effortlessly strong-arms the TRF into freeing a bunch of Decepticons to him in exchange for two hostages. They all get their own Tarantino-esque introductions accompanied by some evil-sounding metal, which is saying a lot for the Decepticons in the film series. [[spoiler: Too bad they all die unceremoniously later in the movie, and during their short screentime almost none of them has any memorable personality.]]

* Hot Rod, as an old Citroen DS, [[spoiler: forcibly takes Vivian to the party. Along the way, an orange-black Lamborghini Centenario passes him, which Hot Rod scans and voila, he's a Lamborghini Centenario]]. In case that isn't awesome enough, his WeaponOfChoice is a ''temporal rift'' capable of stopping/slowing time down.

** Drift and Crosshairs face off with the much bigger Onslaught. [[spoiler: Drift chops off one of Onslaught's legs, then Crosshairs does a somersault as he peppers him with gunfire, leaving Drift open to behead him.]]
** Grimlock arrives in the town to help fight the Decepticons, knocking Barricade aside like a toy and [[spoiler: chomping down on an unfortunate Dreadbot]].

* [[spoiler:Sir Edmund Burton firing directly on Megatron with his gun. While such an act gets him killed, there's no denying that it took serious guts on his part.]]
* The epic shot of Megatron, Nitro Zeus, Barricade, [[spoiler: Infernocus]], and other Decepticons charging out to meet the Autobots in battle.

* [[spoiler: Bumblebee ''holding off a brainwashed Optimus Prime'' and getting to, for a while, ''mop the floor with him''. And while Optimus does get the upper hand later, Bumblebee manages to snap him out of his brainwashing]]. If there's any doubt about Bumblebee being a BadassAdorable KidAppealCharacter, there's none now.

* During the final battle, Megatron, who has since the last movie been steadily reestablishing his badassery, takes on Optimus, Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Hound all at once and comes damn near close to killing Hound had Hot Rod not shot him with his time-stopping weapon just as Megatron brought his sword down on Hound. And despite losing his arm later, he pins [[spoiler: Optimus down with his own sword]], leading to this exchange

** [[spoiler: Optimus answers with ''"once"'']], then proceeds to whoop Megatron's metal aft and kick him off the ship.

* [[spoiler: ''"Sting like a bee."'' Bumblebee gets to be the one to defeat Quintessa as Optimus distracts her.]]

* The F-16's and F-35's deserve a lot of credit here, back in [[Film/TransformersDarkoftheMoon the third film]], the Decepticon fighters were effortlessly able to swat F-18 and F-22 squadrons out of the sky. Here, the F-35's are able to put up a much better fight as not only are they able to fight on even terms with the Decepticon ships. But the fact that they are later seen bombing the ignition chamber with no opposition gives the impression that they were able to wipe the skies clear of enemy aircraft. Granted they had Dragonstorm to help them out, but still.

* The F-16's and F-35's deserve a lot of credit here, back in [[Film/TransformersDarkoftheMoon the third film]], the Decepticon fighters were effortlessly able to swat F-18 and F-22 squadrons out of the sky. Here, the F-35's are able to put up a much better fight as not only are they able to fight on even terms with the Decepticon ships. but the fact that they are later seen bombing the ignition chamber with no opposition gives the impression that they were able to wipe the skies clear of enemy aircraft. Granted they had Dragonstorm to help them out, but still.

* The F-16's and F-35's deserve a lot of credit here, back in ''Film/TransformersDarkoftheMoon'', the Decepticon fighters were effortlessly able to swat F-18 and F-22 squadrons out of the sky. Here, the F-35's are able to put up a much better fight as not only are they able to fight on even terms with the Decepticon ships. but the fact that they are later seen bombing the ignition chamber with no opposition gives the impression that they were able to wipe the skies clear of enemy aircraft. Granted they had Dragonstorm to help them out, but still.

* The F-16's and F-35's deserve a lot of credit here, back in ''Film/Transformers:DarkoftheMoon'', the Decepticon fighters were effortlessly able to swat F-18 and F-22 squadrons out of the sky. Here, the F-35's are able to put up a much better fight as not only are they able to fight on even terms with the Decepticon ships. but the fact that they are later seen bombing the ignition chamber with no opposition gives the impression that they were able to wipe the skies clear of enemy aircraft. Granted they had Dragonstorm to help them out, but still.

* The F-16's and F-35's deserve a lot of credit here, back in ''Film/TransformersDark of theMoon'', the Decepticon fighters were effortlessly able to swat F-18 and F-22 squadrons out of the sky. Here, the F-35's are able to put up a much better fight as not only are they able to fight on even terms with the Decepticon ships. but the fact that they are later seen bombing the ignition chamber with no opposition gives the impression that they were able to wipe the skies clear of enemy aircraft. Granted they had Dragonstorm to help them out, but still.

* The F-16's and F-35's deserve a lot of credit here, back in ''Film/TransformersDarkoftheMoon'', the Decepticon fighters were effortlessly able to swat F-18 and F-22 squadrons out of the sky. Here, the F-35's are able to put up a much better fight as not only are they able to fight on even terms with the Decepticon ships. but the fact that they are later seen bombing the ignition chamber with no opposition gives the impression that they were able to wipe the skies clear of enemy aircraft. Granted they had Dragonstorm to help them out, but still.

* The F-16's and F-35's deserve a lot of credit here, back in ''Film/TransformersDark of the Moon'', the Decepticon fighters were effortlessly able to swat F-18 and F-22 squadrons out of the sky. Here, the F-35's are able to put up a much better fight as not only are they able to fight on even terms with the Decepticon ships. but the fact that they are later seen bombing the ignition chamber with no opposition gives the impression that they were able to wipe the skies clear of enemy aircraft. Granted they had Dragonstorm to help them out, but still.

* The F-16's and F-35's deserve a lot of credit here, back in ''Film/Transformers Dark of the Moon'', the Decepticon fighters were effortlessly able to swat F-18 and F-22 squadrons out of the sky. Here, the F-35's are able to put up a much better fight as not only are they able to fight on even terms with the Decepticon ships. but the fact that they are later seen bombing the ignition chamber with no opposition gives the impression that they were able to wipe the skies clear of enemy aircraft. Granted they had Dragonstorm to help them out, but still.

* The F-16's and F-35's deserve a lot of credit here, back in ''Film/TransformersDarkoftheMoon'', the Decepticon fighters were effortlessly able to swat F-18 and F-22 squadrons out of the sky. Here, the F-35's are able to put up a much better fight as not only are they able to fight on even terms with the Decepticon ships. but the fact that they are later seen bombing the ignition chamber with no opposition gives the impression that they were able to wipe the skies clear of enemy aircraft. Granted they had Dragonstorm to help them out, but still.

* The F-16's and F-35's deserve a lot of credit here, back in ''Film/Transformers:DarkoftheMoon'', the Decepticon fighters were effortlessly able to swat F-18 and F-22 squadrons out of the sky. Here, the F-35's are able to put up a much better fight as not only are they able to fight on even terms with the Decepticon ships. but the fact that they are later seen bombing the ignition chamber with no opposition gives the impression that they were able to wipe the skies clear of enemy aircraft. Granted they had Dragonstorm to help them out, but still.

* The F-16's and F-35's deserve a lot of credit here, back in ''[[Transformers:Dark of the Moon]]'', the Decepticon fighters were effortlessly able to swat F-18 and F-22 squadrons out of the sky. Here, the F-35's are able to put up a much better fight as not only are they able to fight on even terms with the Decepticon ships. but the fact that they are later seen bombing the ignition chamber with no opposition gives the impression that they were able to wipe the skies clear of enemy aircraft. Granted they had Dragonstorm to help them out, but still.