History Characters / TransformersFilmSeries

* MightyGlacier[=/=]LightningBruiser (blurs the line between the two)

* EthnicScrappy

* TheScrappy: {{YMMV}}, although the Twins appear to be the characters most generally accepted as Scrappies.

* TheScrappy (A given, really. He's a human, what were you expecting for a ''Transformers'' character?)
** YourMileageMayVary

* TheScrappy (in the first film)
** RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap (in the second film. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Oh, is he ever...]])

* TheScrappy (Judy. YMMV)

* TheScrappy (basically Sam's lame buddy and the fat hacker guy from the 1st film rolled into one and given a libido)

* CharacterDerailment: Sam went to [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming "I won't leave you Bumblebee"]] to "F@!K you I'm going off to college ALONE, Bee-atch, HAHAHA."
** {{YMMV}}. These are two wholly different situations. Bumblebee isn't in any immediate danger in the second film, at least at the time. He was missing his legs from a missile attack by Starscream when Sam said the first line. Plus, Sam had good reasons for leaving Bumblebee in the second film.

* TheOtherDarrin -- After MeganFox had a nasty and public falling-out with MichaelBay, Mikaela will be played by another aspiring-actress hottie in ''Dark Side of the Moon.''

* TheOtherDarrin -- After MeganFoxx had a nasty and public falling-out with MichaelBay, Mikaela will be played by another hottie in ''Dark Side of the Moon.''

* MostlyNarmless: Many of Megatron's lines are cheesy enough to normally invoke either {{Narm}} or HoYay, but Hugo Weaving's delivery makes them ''[[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel}} terrifying]]''.

* BewareTheNiceOnes (The greatest living Cybertronian warrior is according to WordOfGod a peace loving and kind-hearted scientist)

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel / DarkerAndEdgier: Definitely the scariest Megatron and one of the scariest characters in the entire Transformers multiverse (at least in the first movie). He makes his G1 counterpart look like a DastardlyWhiplash!

* {{Badass}} ([[spoiler:{{YMMV}} for his appearance in ''ROTF'']])

* BaseBreaker: Either he's one of the most [[{{EvilIsCool}} awesome]], {{badass}}, [[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel}} scary]] giant robot {{Evil Overlord}}s ever or he's a [[{{AdaptationDecay}} poor, flat bastardization]] of the [[{{SarcasmMode}} complex, troubled villain]] that is [[{{TransformersGeneration1}} G1 Megatron]] [[{{FanDumb}} who doesn't even turn into a handgun]]. His apparent BadassDecay in ''ROTF'' didn't help, and is a base breaking topic in itself.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel

* BaseBreaker: Either he's one of the most [[{{EvilIsCool}} awesome]], {{badass}}, [[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel}} scary]] giant robot {{Evil Overlord}}s ever or he's a [[{{AdaptationDecay}} poor, flat bastardization]] of the [[{{SarcasmMode}} complex, troubled villain]] that was [[{{TransformersGeneration1}} G1 Megatron]]. His apparent BadassDecay in ''ROTF'' didn't help, and is a base breaking topic in itself.

!![[spoiler:Silverbolt]]

!!!Autobots

[[WMG:[[color:red:Optimus Prime]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:red:Bumblebee]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:red:Ironhide]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:red:Ratchet]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:red:Jazz]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:red:Sideswipe]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:red:Jetfire]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:red:Arcee, Chromia, & Elita-1]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:red:Skids & Mudflap]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:red:Jolt]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:red:Wheelie]]]]

[[WMG:[[spoiler:Silverbolt]]]]

!!!Decepticons

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Megatron]]]]

** IncomingHam ("'''[[ThisIsSparta I]]''' [[ThisIsSparta AM...]] '''[[ThisIsSparta MEGATRON!!!]]'''")

[[WMG:[[color:purple:The Fallen]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Starscream]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Barricade]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Blackout]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Bonecrusher]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Brawl (sometimes erroneously called "Devastator")]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Frenzy]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Reedman]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Scorponok]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Soundwave]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Sideways]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Grindor]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Demolishor]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Devastator]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:The Constructicons]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Ravage]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Scalpel (the Doctor)]]]]

[[WMG:[[spoiler:Shockwave]]]]

[[WMG:[[color:purple:Alice]]]]

!!!Humans

[[WMG:Sam Witwicky]]

[[WMG:Mikaela Banes]]

[[WMG:William Lennox]]

[[WMG:Robert Epps]]

[[WMG:Simmons]]

[[WMG:Ron & Judy Witwicky]]

[[WMG:Secretary of Defense John Keller]]

[[WMG:Jorge "Fig" Figueroa]]

[[WMG:Leo Spitz]]

[[WMG:Galloway]]

[[WMG:General Morshower]]

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* BadHumorTruck ("Suck my popsicle!")
* BashBrothers (Averted several times early on due to their clumsiness/stupidity, despite their best efforts. Played straight against Devestator, when one of the Twins' life was threatened. [[spoiler:It didn't make a big difference, but that was more because it was against [[GiantMook Devestator]].]])
* BerserkButton (Attempting to harm or kill one of them is going to get you into big trouble with the other...)
* ChildSoldiers (according to ancillary media. Probably would have helped their reception if it was stated outright...)
* CombiningMecha (Sorta-subverted: in the opening chase scene, their combined vehicle mode breaks in half and sends them crashing into a wall.)
* ColossusClimb (they try this on Devastator)

* RoboFamily (They aren't called "The Twins" for nothing)
* TheScrappy ({{YMMV}}, although the Twins appear to be the characters most generally accepted as Scrappies)

* SiblingYinYang (well, Skids ''thinks'' he's the smart one, but to everyone else they're both obviously kinda stupid. Skids is also inwardly fearful that he's ultimately the weaker of the two, and frankly he sort of is.)
** This in spite of the fact that they both process information much more rapidly than any of the other earthbound Autobots...
* TomKenny (Skids)

* UnfortunateImplications (technically supposed to be "wiggers" (white people who try to act black), but the fact that they're ''technicolor robots'' makes it hard to tell)

* CharacterDerailment: Sam went to [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming "I won't leave you Bumblebee"]] to "F@!K you I'm going off to college ALONE, Bee-atch, HAHAHA."

** {{BFG}}s

*{{Badass}} (in the first film, mostly)

*TopHeavyGuy
*WellIntentionedExtremist (according to tie-in comics, his goal is to save his species from extinction)

*LosingYourHead (Twice: one from Mikaela, and one from his own ricocheting shuriken. Simmons still has it in the second movie.)

*MemeticMolester: Watch what he does to that satellite with those tentacles. One of his toy bios even mentions that the ensuing rush of information "fills him with pleasure". {{SoYeah}}.

*VisualInnuendo (he has a pair of... wrecking balls)

*[[spoiler:FamilyUnfriendlyDeath (Bumblebee, the bright yellow kid-appeal guy, literally rips his spine out in one go)]]

*AsYouKnow (This idiot pulling an As You Know is what tips the Decepticons off to the locations of Megatron and the Allspark fragment)

*MemeticMolester: Watch what he does to that satellite with those tentacles. One of his toy bios even mentions that the ensuing rush of information "fills him with pleasure". SoYeah.