Funny / Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

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• The scene where Mirage makes holographic doubles of himself includes doubles of Noah. And one is flipping off the cops.
• A scene at the Autobots’ base depicts Noah reacting violently to Mirage kidnapping him by threatening him with a bent pipe, to Mirage’s confusion. Then, Optimus Prime walks in, ticked off. He immediately throws away the pipe upon seeing him.
  Optimus: You brought a human here?!
  Mirage: Optimus, heeey! Lookin' good, man! Wait a second, are those new rims?
  Optimus: You were told to stay hidden!
  Mirage: Right, right. Crazy coincidence: When you called all Optimus-like, "Autobots, Roll Out!", this guy was already in the car! But he's cool, so it's cool, cool?
  Optimus: Not "cool". (Grabs Noah and lifts him) Who are you, human?
  Noah: ... I'm nobody. I didn’t even see nothing. I'm not seeing anything right now.
• When Optimus expresses his distrust in humans before the Autobots try to follow the energy pulse emitted by the key.
  Bumblebee: "You can't handle the truth!"
  Optimus: I do not want you going to that drive-in theater anymore.
  Bumblebee: (chirps sadly)
  • Later, when he comes back, he says "I have come here to kick ass!" after killing Nightbird and then "SAY 'HELLO' TO MY LITTLE FRIEND", while fighting the Sweeps with Noah.
• Mirage tells Noah that they should trust each other because Noah has "been inside him".
• The simple fact that Mirage, a giant robot, still isn't tall enough to look into Chris' room. He has to stand on a car, which crumples under his weight.
• When Mirage and Noah rendezvous with the others for the flight to Peru, Mirage spouts a one-liner about "Wutang is in the building". Optimus's response?
  Optimus: Way to be incognito.
• Mirage's reaction upon realizing that the Autobots are flying to Peru via Stratosphere, a Scottish-accented bot who turns into a rickety C-119 Flying Boxcar on the verge of falling apart:
  Mirage: Alright, so what kinda jet we takin' to Peru? Or is it a plane? Either one's fine, I just need first-class okay, cuz I got long ass legs.
  Arcee: Uhhh, well he is a plane.
  Mirage: No. No no, don't tell me we're flying on— oh no...
  (Stratosphere flies overhead, transforms, and rolls in front of them)
  Stratosphere: Haha! My lads, I am Stratosphere! Lord of the skies! (starts coughing and hocks up an engine part)
  (Beat)
  Mirage: ... Yeah, I'm walking to Peru.
• There's something darkly humorous about the Autobots awkwardly sitting in Stratosphere's cargo hold with Bumblebee's fresh corpse beside them. No wonder they weren't talking...
• Wheeljack's first scene, which involves a discussion with Noah about the former's Spanish accent:
  Wheeljack: Sorry I was late. I was taking in a harmonious moment between a serene butterfly and an unruffled caterpillar. Such tranquility.
  Noah: Yooo, oye, papo! Where you from?
  Wheeljack: Cybertron.
  Noah: So where’d you get that accent?
  Wheeljack: Accent? What accent?
  Noah: You know what I’m saying? I’m saying it’s cool. Like, I was about to be like "Yo! Mira papi! De donde eres perro a—" I didn’t want to assume that you speak Spanish, too, because then… right?
  Wheeljack: Hmm, a little racist, hermano.
  Noah: Not trying to be, you know— yo.
  Wheeljack: (Signaling to the other Autobots) But anyway, the mission. Follow me.
  Noah: But he's a robot, like so... how is that racist?
• Arcee is so tiny she's able to sit in Wheeljack's backseat while he's in vehicle mode.
• The scene where the Autobots and Maximals have their first tense meeting is worth a few laughs:
  • The scene goes on for a minute as another member of each faction keeps arriving just as it seems like one side has the advantage, until Airazor finally arrives and informs everybody that they're on the same side.
  • First, Mirage confronting Optimus Primal and later getting pounced by Cheetor:
    Mirage: (Activates his arm cannon) Yo Donkey Kong! Stay away from my friends!
    Noah: Uh, Mirage!?
    Mirage: Don't worry, ya boy's got this.
    (Cheetor suddenly emerges from the greenery and pounces Mirage from behind)
    Mirage: (Yelps) Stranger danger! STRANGER DANGER!
  • As Wheeljack tries to defuse the situation, he gets gored from behind by an oncoming Rhinox, sending the poor Autobot flying.
    Wheeljack: (slowly getting up) Ay-yi-yi...
• When Noah tries to give Mirage back the wrist gadget he gave him, the latter tells him to keep it, on one condition:
  Mirage: Just don't ask what part of my body it came from.
  (Noah does a Double Take and glances at the gadget)
• After Optimus and Primal tear Battletrap apart, Primal delivers the killing blow to his head. Repeatedly. And with Battletrap's own flail, just to add insult to injury.
  Optimus: He was mine...
  Primal: (chuckles)
• A bit of a meta one; when fighting Scourge for the last time Optimus tells him "Time to show you the real power of a Prime." He then stabs his opponent in the face and rips the head out of the body. We finally have an answer for why Bayverse Prime wants to take people's faces; it's not an Optimus thing, it's a Prime thing.
  • Within this same vein, there's more than a bit of Crosses the Line Twice Irony to the fact that, even in what's supposed to be a rebooted continuity that gives the movie universe and its characters a clean slate after the widely-detested Bayverse movies, Movie!Optimus Prime is still taking faces (that, and ripping people's heads off with their spines still attached).