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Transformers

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137 feature instances
84 referencing feature instances

Transformers	type	TVTItem
Transformers	label	Transformers
Transformers	page	Transformers
Transformers	comment	Note: This is about the 2007 live action Transformers film. For the 1986 animated Generation One film, see The Transformers: The Movie.The first in the Transformers Film Series, live-action films based on the long-running Transformers toyline and television series. Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Michael Bay.Our protagonist is teenager Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf). He wants his first car to impress "evil jock concubine" Mikaela (Megan Fox), who turns out to be rather talented with cars. He ends up getting a beat-up yellow Camaro. But it turns out the car chose him; it's one of many sentient alien robots who can "transform" and disguise themselves as human vehicles. His name's Bumblebee, an advance scout for the Autobots, a noble faction from the planet Cybertron whose mission is to protect Sam from another faction, the evil Decepticons.On another front, a US military base is attacked by agents of the Decepticons, with the sole survivors handling valuable information on whom they are fighting and how they can stand a chance at fighting back. At the same time, a Pentagon analyst finds evidence that there is a Government Conspiracy that knows more of what is going on than anyone else. These plotlines converge as Autobot reinforcements led by Optimus Prime arrive on Earth and tell Sam his family heirloom holds answers to the location of the AllSpark, a powerful artifact responsible for the Transformers' existence and lost for thousands of years. The two factions battle over it: the Autobots want to return life to their dying world, while the Decepticons seek to exterminate their enemies.The film was announced as a co-production of DreamWorks and Paramount. During pre-production, the latter acquired the former, thus when the third film in the franchise was released in 2011, it was solely a Paramount presentation, a result of DreamWorks being reformed as an independent entity in 2008, with Paramount keeping its library up to that point. Paramount's involvement came in part because they had recently made a deal with Hasbro to distribute home video releases of several animated films and TV series based on Hasbro properties, including Transformers: Energon and Transformers: Cybertron (these rights are now held by Shout! Factory).
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Transformers / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Transformers / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Unlike most Transformers media, named major characters do die (Jazz and Megatron, mainly). We also see humans getting wounded or killed by the robots.
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Transformers / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
Transformers / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: One of Lennox’s team claims there’s no such thing as invisible force fields except in comic books, even though they had survived an attack by a shapeshifting robot the night before.
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Transformers / int_171b1206	type	Men Can't Keep House
Transformers / int_171b1206	comment	Men Can't Keep House: Sam's room, with his suggested Porn Stash.
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Transformers / int_1b395eea	type	Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure
Transformers / int_1b395eea	comment	Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure: The A-10's that attack Scorponok are shown shredding the ground in plenty of space before and after his spot.
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Transformers / int_1d8fa74d	type	Chase-Scene Obstacle Course
Transformers / int_1d8fa74d	comment	Chase-Scene Obstacle Course: During the Car Chase with Barricade the heroes end up in an Abandoned Warehouse crashing into a stack of what looks like cardboard boxes for effect.
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Transformers / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Transformers / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Ron tells Simmons this when he comes for Sam: "You're not taking my son." Optimus as well: "Taking the children was a bad move."
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Transformers / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Transformers / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: Captain Witwicky's glasses. Sam first tries to sell them on eBay, and Barricade implies their importance when he demands to know where they are. Optimus confirms this by revealing the coordinates to the AllSpark's location on Earth is imprinted on the lenses. Optimus then uses the glasses to determine the AllSpark's location. It's the Hoover Dam, which, ironically, was built around it to prevent it from being found.
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Transformers / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
Transformers / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: The Autobots are heroic good guys, but are not afraid of intimidation tactics against Sector Seven or brutal violence against the Decepticons. Optimus in particular is quite stern with Simmons, ripping the roof off their van and barking orders.
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Transformers / int_2205aff0	type	Multi-Track Drifting
Transformers / int_2205aff0	comment	Multi-Track Drifting: When the Autobots meet up with the Sector Seven convoy heading to Mission City, Optimus pulls a pretty impressive 180. The skidmarks are still at the filming location over a decade later.
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Transformers / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Transformers / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Optimus outlines a plan that the only way to destroy the AllSpark is by merging it with his own spark in his chest. The idea was that eliminating the AllSpark and Optimus along with it is preferable to Megatron getting it. Sam managing to execute that plan on Megatron was definitely seen as a Million to One Chance.
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Transformers / int_2557e3a9	type	Palette Swap
Transformers / int_2557e3a9	comment	Palette Swap: When the Autobots arrive on Earth we see Ironhide, Optimus and Jazz in their "protoforms," silvery skeletal modes they transform into after crashing in their comet re-entry modes. Because of how briefly each one is seen they are the exact same model, just resized (and different body movement) according to the character.
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Transformers / int_2943de8d	type	Bros Before Hoes
Transformers / int_2943de8d	comment	Bros Before Hoes: Inverted; Sam's friend reminds him of the trope, but he's kicked to the curb so Sam can go after Mikaela.
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Transformers / int_2b32a3a1	type	Under the Truck
Transformers / int_2b32a3a1	comment	Under the Truck: Captain Lennox grabs an abandoned motorcycle, drives it straight at Blackout, and puts it in a powerslide right between Blackout's legs, firing his assault rifle and Grenade Launcher straight into him (while at the same time, F-22's are shooting him with missiles), apparently killing him.
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Transformers / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Transformers / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: The entirety of the slightly-less-than-awesome "signal processing" subplot.
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Transformers / int_32cb267a	type	Magical Negro
Transformers / int_32cb267a	comment	Magical Negro: Used car salesman Bobby Bolivia attempts to act like this as a sales pitch.
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Transformers / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Transformers / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Bobby Bolivia's mammy does it to him. Frenzy flips off security forces, after Air Force One lands and he “covertly” sneaks past all the guards where he rendezvous with Barricade.
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Transformers / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Transformers / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Giant robots... Giant robots. The advertising campaign amounted to, "Look at all the cool shit they can do!"
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Transformers / int_36ec2454	type	Rule of Pool
Transformers / int_36ec2454	comment	Rule of Pool: Omar, Glenn's cousin, is tackled into the pool when the FBI break in to take Glenn and Maggie into custody.
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Transformers / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
Transformers / int_374c339d	comment	I'll Kill You!:
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Transformers / int_3936d715	type	Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry
Transformers / int_3936d715	comment	Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Mojo's collar.
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Transformers / int_3ab3dbb	type	Adaptational Protagonist
Transformers / int_3ab3dbb	comment	Adaptational Protagonist: The first three films (Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen and Transformers: Dark of the Moon) have Sam Witwicky as the protagonist. He stumbles upon and befriends the Autobots and then gets help from the human government when they are to face the Decepticons. Sam is a version of Spike Witwicky, who in The Transformers was the primary human ally of the Autobots and a significant supporting character (even getting a few A Day in the Limelight episodes), while his The Transformers (Marvel) self would become the Headmaster partner of Fortress Maximus. An offhand comment in Transformers: The Last Knight suggest that Sam died or was killed in the intervening years.
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Transformers / int_3bf7904f	type	Vengeful Vending Machine
Transformers / int_3bf7904f	comment	Vengeful Vending Machine: The power of the Cube animates a soda machine, which sprouts limbs and goes berserk.
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Transformers / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Transformers / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: The driver of the Cadillac Escalade in the climax is more concerned with Sam hitting her car that the battle unfolding before her eyes that involve giant alien robots. Then the car's steering wheel (brought to life by the Cube and Sam's impact with the vehicle) starts attacking her.
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Transformers / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Transformers / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: The capture of Bumblebee by Sector 7, which, coupled with them repeatedly blasting him with freezing chemical during and after the capture, has a definite feeling of torture. When Bumblebee almost shoots the engineers after they release him, it's hard to blame him. Some of this is even intercut with the rest of the Autobots questioning Optimus over why they should save us from the Decepticons, given how primitive and violent we are as a race. Optimus Prime reminds them that at one time, Cybertronians were not so different from us.
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Transformers / int_3ec468b8	type	Online Alias
Transformers / int_3ec468b8	comment	Online Alias: When Barricade asks, "Are you username ladiesman217?”
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Transformers / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Transformers / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Pinned down, Lennox tells Sam to take the cube to the roof of an abandoned building nearby and wait for a chopper to extract them both. The already desperate plan utterly falls apart, as the building is old enough that Megatron can tear through it like tissue paper, three of the Decepticons can fly and Starscream has absolutely no problems taking out the chopper before Sam can drop off his cargonote In fact, he shows up early and seems to actually be waiting for the thing to arrive, before shooting it down just as Sam tries to complete his mission - it's completely possible he was waiting for him to climb in before simply taking out both Sam and the heli with one hit and in the end Sam ends up being trapped between an angry giant robot and a massive, obviously lethal fall to the street. Sure, if the opponents were humans the plan probably would have worked, but with giant robots who can turn into military vehicles it's not quite as effective.
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Transformers / int_402a598d	type	Standard Police Motto
Transformers / int_402a598d	comment	Standard Police Motto: Parodied. Barricade's alt-mode is a police car mode with the phrase "To punish and enslave."
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Transformers / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Transformers / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Autobots technically win the battle as in they vanquished Megatron and his sternest soldiers minus Starscream and Barricade, but Jazz is dead, and the AllSpark is destroyed, meaning the Autobots are now stuck on Earth.
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Transformers / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Transformers / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: Parodied when Sam asked the Autobots to back off from the house while he searched for the glasses. The Autobots transform into their vehicle modes... and sit right there in the back yard. Sam screams at them that it's not a truck-stop, and they have to actually go somewhere else and hide. Optimus later invokes the trope in his message before the credits.
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Transformers / int_41f3b3a2	type	Generic Cop Badges
Transformers / int_41f3b3a2	comment	Generic Cop Badges: In a clever usage and in keeping with series tradition, the department emblem on Barricade's police car form is actually a Decepticon crest. Also, the motto on his side reads "To punish and enslave".
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Transformers / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Transformers / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Sgt. Donnelly, a major supporting character in Lennox's storyline up to this point, is abruptly impaled by Scorponok and dragged under the sand, never to be mentioned again.
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Transformers / int_450b6024	type	Operator from India
Transformers / int_450b6024	comment	Operator from India: Lennox attempts to call Pentagon in Qatar when his squad is attacked by Scorponok, but his call is redirected to a disinterested Indian operator. According to Michael Bay, this was based on a true story, presumably minus the giant robot attack.
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Transformers / int_45eed9a5	type	Not This One, That One
Transformers / int_45eed9a5	comment	Not This One, That One: Invoked by Sam's dad. When taking him to get his new car, he drives Sam through the parking lot of a Porsche dealer, waiting until Sam says in disbelief and excitement, "You are not getting me a Porsche!" to which Dad replies, "You're right. You're not getting a Porsche," and drives into a used car lot.
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Transformers / int_45f63263	type	Mistaken for Quake
Transformers / int_45f63263	comment	Mistaken for Quake: When Ratchet walks into power lines and crashes to the ground hard enough to incite a tremor, Ron Witwicky runs under the table screaming that it's an earthquake. And later when the Autobots hiding in Ron's own backyard cause another tremor, Ron assumes it's an aftershock.
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Transformers / int_46e53efd	type	Screams Like a Little Girl
Transformers / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: Glenn during his Oh, Crap! moment.
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Transformers / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Transformers / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Bumblebee seems to get the short end of the stick of being with humans, such as when he's captured by Sector Seven and chained up in their secret base under the Hoover Dam. Sam does not get off easily, either. The majority of the film’s humor revolves around humiliating him or getting hurt.
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Transformers / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
Transformers / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: A slow-motion shot of one in Mission City as Ironhide leaps over her to avoid missiles fired by Devastator/Brawl. The scream is partly muted, but the effect is much the same.
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Transformers / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Transformers / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Megatron is kept on ice inside the Hoover Dam, and is pretty angry upon thawing out.
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Transformers / int_4d7c61df	type	Explosion Propulsion
Transformers / int_4d7c61df	comment	Explosion Propulsion: Ironhide uses his cannons to blast himself into a vault to dodge Brawl's missiles.
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Transformers / int_4d97e2b9	type	Urine Trouble
Transformers / int_4d97e2b9	comment	Urine Trouble: Mojo urinates on Ironhide's foot during the backyard scene. Also Bumblebee lubricating on Simmons is very reminiscent of this.
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Transformers / int_50f50a5e	type	Donut Mess with a Cop
Transformers / int_50f50a5e	comment	Donut Mess with a Cop: The FBI agents bring some donuts in for interrogating Maggie and Glen. Subverted, as Glen starts eating the donuts, then tells Maggie that the donuts are the tactic being used for interrogation, the assumption being that not touching them would make the agents assume the interrogation subjects were guilty.
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Transformers / int_5290d19e	type	Faking Engine Trouble
Transformers / int_5290d19e	comment	Faking Engine Trouble: Bumblebee (who is the car) fakes engine problems to try and bring Sam and Mikaela together.
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Transformers / int_52b36340	type	What Measure Is a Mook?
Transformers / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: While he probably expected to die in the process, Jazz's attempt to slow down Megatron ends up just like you expect the fight between a tiny Autobot and the three-times-as-large Decepticon leader to go - a Curb-Stomp Battle where Jazz is literally torn into pieces, followed by Megatron noticing Optimus, off-handedly tossing away the remains of now-dead Autobot, and resuming the battle with no worse for wear.
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Transformers / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Transformers / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The film starts and ends with a voiceover by Optimus Prime. Also, Lennox remarks in his first scene that he wants to get home so he can hold his baby girl for the first time. At the end of the film we see him doing just that, in silhouette.
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Transformers / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Transformers / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Sam and Mikaela. Until Took a Level in Badass kicks in. Also Maggie and Glenn, to an extent.
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Transformers / int_595a20c9	type	Chest Blaster
Transformers / int_595a20c9	comment	Chest Blaster: Blackout's chest cannon, Frenzy's CD blade launcher.
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Transformers / int_5d397b9c	type	The Mountains of Illinois
Transformers / int_5d397b9c	comment	The Mountains of Illinois: It seems Michael Bay mistook Qatar for Afghanistan since you can clearly see hills and even mountains in some background shots.The highest point in Qatar is only 338 ft(103 m) above sea level.
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Transformers / int_5f611b7e	type	Good All Along
Transformers / int_5f611b7e	comment	Good All Along: Simmons. He seemed like a bad guy when he took Sam and Mikaela away and when Bumblebee got captured, but is still on the side of the good guys and does yield Sam's demands at the Hoover Dam, namely that Sector 7 release Bumblebee and erase Mikaela's juvie record.
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Transformers / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Transformers / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: When he tries to attack Sam, Barricade disguises itself as a police car, with "To Punish And Enslave" written at the side (instead of "To Protect And Serve"). During the climactic fight in the city, after Blackout transforms and begins walking toward the battle, he starts spinning his tail rotor in his right hand, which chops a "No Parking" sign to pieces as it spins up.
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Transformers / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Transformers / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Optimus is willing to attempt one in the climax. He tells the other Autobots that he would unite the AllSpark with the spark in his chest to destroy it. Ratchet tells him it would be suicide to do so. In the climax, Optimus tells Sam to do this if he cannot defeat Megatron. Luckily, Sam unites the AllSpark with Megatron's spark, killing him.
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Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_6439de78
Transformers / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
Transformers / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Averted with Lennox, his wife calls him Will at the beginning before the connection between them freezes. Epps's first name is revealed to be Robert, as Fig calls him Bobby in their opening scene.
Transformers / int_663f35c0	featureApplicability	-1.0
Transformers / int_663f35c0	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_663f35c0
Transformers / int_67f3ff98	type	Brake Angrily
Transformers / int_67f3ff98	comment	Brake Angrily: When Mikaela asks why Bumblebee turns back into a "Piece of crap Camaro." It seems that Bumblebee does this in retaliation with Sam thinking it's this trope. However it becomes subverted when he was just leaving them so he could find a better form to turn into.
Transformers / int_67f3ff98	featureApplicability	-0.3
Transformers / int_67f3ff98	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_67f3ff98
Transformers / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Transformers / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "No sacrifice, no victory."
Transformers / int_6bd689ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_6bd689ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_6bd689ca
Transformers / int_6d2c31e0	type	Car Skiing
Transformers / int_6d2c31e0	comment	Car Skiing: Bumblebee does this to scan and transform into the 2007 version of the Camaro.
Transformers / int_6d2c31e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_6d2c31e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_6d2c31e0
Transformers / int_6dd49338	type	Invisible President
Transformers / int_6dd49338	comment	Invisible President: Played with. We get an out-of-focus blink-and-miss-it glimpse of the President's face on Air Force One, then a shot where his face is hidden by his big red socks.
Transformers / int_6dd49338	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_6dd49338	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_6dd49338
Transformers / int_72757e0d	type	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
Transformers / int_72757e0d	comment	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Michael Bay mentioned in the DVD Commentary that the sequence where Lennox had to deal with an obnoxious telephone operator to get a call transferred to the Pentagon while under fire was taken from a Real Life incident he heard about while talking with some military personnel.
Transformers / int_72757e0d	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_72757e0d	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_72757e0d
Transformers / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Transformers / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: The military plan to hide the AllSpark in Mission City.
Transformers / int_72856b70	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_72856b70	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_72856b70
Transformers / int_74150406	type	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells
Transformers / int_74150406	comment	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: The entire role of Lennox and Epps in the story was figuring out the most effective way of fighting against the Decepticons. They come to the conclusion that high heat sabot rounds do the most damage (besides heavy artillery from a gunship), although it's still Death of a Thousand Cuts from regular infantry.
Transformers / int_74150406	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_74150406	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_74150406
Transformers / int_746569a5	type	Embarrassing Cover-Up
Transformers / int_746569a5	comment	Embarrassing Cover Up: When the Autobots are hiding in the Witwickys' back yard and Sam's parent barge into his bedroom, with his mom assuming he was jerking off, Mikaela emerges from her hiding spot to give the impression that he had brought a girl home. Subverted when the parents are impressed by this.
Transformers / int_746569a5	featureApplicability	-0.3
Transformers / int_746569a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_746569a5
Transformers / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Transformers / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: When Sam first encounters Barricade, Barricade's door flies open and hits Sam, knocking him on his face.
Transformers / int_78c895c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_78c895c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_78c895c8
Transformers / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Transformers / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Megatron to Optimus:
Transformers / int_7d89315b	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_7d89315b	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_7d89315b
Transformers / int_81414673	type	AM/FM Characterization
Transformers / int_81414673	comment	AM/FM Characterization: Bumblebee, the first Transformer our protagonist meets, actually has no real voice capabilities (this was caused by battle damage affecting his vocal processors), and instead does all of his vocalizations through playing songs on his stereo. At the end of the film, his voice is restored.
Transformers / int_81414673	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_81414673	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_81414673
Transformers / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Transformers / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Glenn and Agent Simmons are extremely dramatic in their actions and dialogue.
Transformers / int_823c6e3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_823c6e3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_823c6e3e
Transformers / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
Transformers / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Trent, especially towards Sam.
Transformers / int_863fac26	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_863fac26	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_863fac26
Transformers / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
Transformers / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed: The Witwicky Family Motto: "No sacrifice, no victory."
Transformers / int_86c192f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_86c192f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_86c192f4
Transformers / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
Transformers / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Simmons is suited when we first see him.
Transformers / int_87ab7f69	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_87ab7f69	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_87ab7f69
Transformers / int_8941750b	type	Willfully Weak
Transformers / int_8941750b	comment	Willfully Weak: Deconstructed. Optimus Prime deliberately holds himself back in his Final Battle with Megatron to avoid collateral damage, which leads to Megatron quickly curb-stomping the Prime and nearly claiming the AllSpark. It takes an airstrike and quick thinking on Sam Witwicky's part to kill Megatron and save Optimus's life.
Transformers / int_8941750b	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_8941750b	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_8941750b
Transformers / int_89937faf	type	Watching the Sunset
Transformers / int_89937faf	comment	Watching the Sunset: The film ends with Optimus staring at a sunset.
Transformers / int_89937faf	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_89937faf	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_89937faf
Transformers / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Transformers / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: The car forms of Barricade (a Saleen S281, a variant of the Mustang), Bumblebee (his 2009 Camaro form, which was custom-built for the film two years before its official debut), and Jazz (a Pontiac Solstice).
Transformers / int_8a295a46	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_8a295a46	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_8a295a46
Transformers / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Transformers / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: Ratchet is one of the physically strongest Autobots. He's also one of the slowest. Ironhide even more so.
Transformers / int_933576c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_933576c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_933576c8
Transformers / int_947bf915	type	Last Day of Normalcy
Transformers / int_947bf915	comment	Last Day of Normalcy: In the Mid-East, William Lenox and his Special forces squad enjoy some time off on their base, and on the other side of Earth, Sam Withwicky worked hard to get good grades so his dad could help buy him a car. They're then thrown into the middle of an interplanetary war between the Autobots and the Decepticons when Lenox's base is leveled by the Decepticon Blackout, while Sam discovers his new car is the Autobot Bumblebee, who was sent to protect him.
Transformers / int_947bf915	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_947bf915	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_947bf915
Transformers / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Transformers / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The discussion between the Autobots at the Griffith Observatory.
Transformers / int_967edd3a	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_967edd3a	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_967edd3a
Transformers / int_970ccfec	type	Big "YES!"
Transformers / int_970ccfec	comment	Big "YES!": Two. Sam at the beginning after he successfully convinces Hosney to up his grade. Glenn lets out a quiet one (but with the same impact) when Maggie tells him the information she's about to show him is so classified she would go to prison for life for showing him.
Transformers / int_970ccfec	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_970ccfec	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_970ccfec
Transformers / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Transformers / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Ironhide complains to Optimus Prime for his affinity for humans and insists that humans are violent, primitive brutes. Optimus asks, "Were we so different?"
Transformers / int_984ef9ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_984ef9ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_984ef9ef
Transformers / int_995ad130	type	Meta Origin
Transformers / int_995ad130	comment	Meta Origin: The AllSpark is written to be described enough to explain their origins but vague enough to not answer everything.
Transformers / int_995ad130	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_995ad130	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_995ad130
Transformers / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
Transformers / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: The film had its fair share of gruesome deaths. Bonecrusher and Frenzy both getting beheaded (in Frenzy's case, by his own weapon), and just look at the mess of what was formerly Megatron's chest after the AllSpark is rammed directly into his spark. How 'bout that soldier in Lennox's squad who got impaled in his chest by Scorponok? And Jazz's death.
Transformers / int_9afa05c7	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_9afa05c7	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_9afa05c7
Transformers / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Transformers / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Sam and Mikaela. Both start out as just Ordinary High School Students, then end up actively taking part in the climax with the Autobots and soldiers against the Decepticons.
Transformers / int_9bcd82c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_9bcd82c0	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_9bcd82c0
Transformers / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Transformers / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Agent Simmons tries to kill Frenzy this way. It doesn't work.
Transformers / int_9c1f758a	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_9c1f758a	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_9c1f758a
Transformers / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Transformers / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Captain Witwicky, according to Sam in his genealogy report, kept babbling, in his last years of life, about a "giant iceman" he thought he'd discovered. Said "giant iceman" turned out to be Megatron embedded in the ice after a crash landing. The final line of Optimus Prime's opening monologue: "But we were already too late." This is because the Decepticons are already on Earth and the Autobots (save for Bumblebee)don't make it there until later. Barricade demands to know from Sam where Captain Witwicky's glasses are. This is because, as Optimus Prime reveals later, the coordinates to the Cube's location on Earth are imprinted on the lenses. Ratchet says in the alleyway scene that the Cube's power could be used to transform Earth's machines. In the climax, Sam, while running with the Cube, runs into a Cadillac Escalade and its power brings the steering wheel to life, as well as doing the same to an Xbox and a vending machine.
Transformers / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_9d12bbc1
Transformers / int_9e6221b0	type	E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi
Transformers / int_9e6221b0	comment	E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi: The Decepticons' ability to infiltrate Earth technology is Hand Waved by stating that all modern tech was reverse-engineered from the captured Megatron, which would also explain why the AllSpark could be used to transform Earth's tech.
Transformers / int_9e6221b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_9e6221b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_9e6221b0
Transformers / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Transformers / int_9fde2eb1	comment	Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "Join them in EXTINCTION!" blam
Transformers / int_9fde2eb1	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_9fde2eb1	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_9fde2eb1
Transformers / int_a04fe73e	type	Imposter Forgot One Detail
Transformers / int_a04fe73e	comment	Imposter Forgot One Detail: While the transformers can fool normal people with their disguises, the U.S Army base in Qatar is immediately suspicious of an unmarked chopper arriving into their base, and that is before they realize the same chopper was destroyed some months earlier.
Transformers / int_a04fe73e	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_a04fe73e	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_a04fe73e
Transformers / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Transformers / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: While fending off Bonecrusher, Optimus Prime punches him hard enough to cause one of his eyes to pop out of its socket.
Transformers / int_a2b38d3b	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_a2b38d3b	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_a2b38d3b
Transformers / int_a31b47ae	type	Rapid-Fire "No!"
Transformers / int_a31b47ae	comment	Rapid-Fire "No!": Sam, multiple times. Also Simmons, after being told they can't contact the Air Force without mics.
Transformers / int_a31b47ae	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_a31b47ae	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_a31b47ae
Transformers / int_a64d51d8	type	Adaptational Achilles Heel
Transformers / int_a64d51d8	comment	Adaptational Achilles Heel: While Transformers are shown to have various weaknesses that vary depending on the universe, vulnerability to cold is one of the less common ones. Megatron being frozen in the Arctic is in line with prior stories (Skyfire had a similar fate), but more unique to this film is the depiction of cold as one of the main weaknesses of Transformers, with Sector Seven disabling Bumblebee by freezing him.
Transformers / int_a64d51d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_a64d51d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_a64d51d8
Transformers / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Transformers / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The AllSpark.
Transformers / int_a6c69bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_a6c69bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_a6c69bd
Transformers / int_a8896b94	type	Leave No Witnesses
Transformers / int_a8896b94	comment	Leave No Witnesses: Blackout goes to great effort to invoke this with his attack on the military base, taking great care to not just attack the humans, but also destroy as many vehicles (especially planes) that he can to prevent anyone from escaping to warn the military and sending out Scorponok to hunt down anyone who actually got away. It works in that at first the US couldn't find anyone alive at the base, and it's only through luck that Lennox's squad survives the attack by Scorponok long enough to make contact with the military.
Transformers / int_a8896b94	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_a8896b94	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_a8896b94
Transformers / int_ac33492	type	Destroy the Product Placement
Transformers / int_ac33492	comment	Destroy the Product Placement: Zigzagged with the licensed vehicle modes never getting destroyed (with the exception of Sideways in the second movie), with the destruction/killing occurring only when they're in robot mode; Inverted with the AllSpark animating a Mountain Dew vending machine and an Xbox, both of which start attacking passersby.
Transformers / int_ac33492	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_ac33492	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_ac33492
Transformers / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
Transformers / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: Right after it is revealed that Mikaela's father committed grand theft auto, she mentions that sometimes she would come along too. Simmons then states that Mikaela has her own juvenile record. Any car-theft delinquent would most likely know how to break into a parked car AND hot-wire it, which is exactly Mikaela does to a tow truck in the climax.
Transformers / int_ac5364fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_ac5364fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_ac5364fe
Transformers / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Transformers / int_ad1db87c	comment	All the fleeing soldiers have an Oh, Crap! as Scorponok bursts out of the sand behind them. Those were real reactions to the explosion effects caused by Enforced Method Acting.
Transformers / int_ad1db87c	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_ad1db87c	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_ad1db87c
Transformers / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Transformers / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: The Autobots win the battle of Mission City, but they don't celebrate due to the heavy losses. Jazz was sacrificed and the AllSpark is destroyed so they can't return to Cybertron.
Transformers / int_ad9fbc1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_ad9fbc1e	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_ad9fbc1e
Transformers / int_af50dc0b	type	Animating Artifact
Transformers / int_af50dc0b	comment	Animating Artifact: The AllSpark gave life and sapience to both the Autobots and the Decepticons, but was lost during a battle between the two factions. It just happens to be on Earth, where efforts to keep it away from Megatron inadvertently bring the AllSpark near a vending machine, then an Xbox game console. Both inert devices suddenly sprout limbs and blades and start attacking people.
Transformers / int_af50dc0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_af50dc0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_af50dc0b
Transformers / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Transformers / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Mikaela and Simmons each get Sam's surname wrong when they try to say it. Mikaela says it as "Wilkicky" and Simmons says it as "Wickity", even after Ron corrects him.
Transformers / int_af616e40	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_af616e40	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_af616e40
Transformers / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Transformers / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Was there really a need for the scene where Mikeala checks on Bumblebee's engine besides giving the audience a long view of Megan Fox's midsection? Not that this is a complaint.
Transformers / int_b032e4ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_b032e4ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_b032e4ed
Transformers / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Transformers / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The Invisible President (meant to be Old Dubya) is portrayed as an oblivious moron who sits around and asks for snack cakes while alien robots hack the US Military.
Transformers / int_b53077b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_b53077b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_b53077b3
Transformers / int_b6844837	type	Evil Is Bigger
Transformers / int_b6844837	comment	Evil Is Bigger: The realistic outcome happens as most of the Decepticons have alternate modes that include fighter jets, mass loading helicopters, a battle tank, and a dump truck; which are vastly larger than any car. Aside from Barricade, they often tower over the Autobots with the exception of Optimus Prime.
Transformers / int_b6844837	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_b6844837	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_b6844837
Transformers / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Transformers / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Frenzy's demise when his head is sliced in half with his own weapon.
Transformers / int_bc00493f	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_bc00493f	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_bc00493f
Transformers / int_bc708f73	type	Mistaken for Masturbating
Transformers / int_bc708f73	comment	Mistaken for Masturbating: Sam Witwicky's parents notice that he's hiding something from them. Sam's mother outright asks if he's masturbating, and his parents proceed to try to give him space.
Transformers / int_bc708f73	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_bc708f73	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_bc708f73
Transformers / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Transformers / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Three. Bobby Bolivia, Maggie Madsen and Seymour Simmons.
Transformers / int_be009bbc	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_be009bbc	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_be009bbc
Transformers / int_c250c2cb	type	Midair Collision
Transformers / int_c250c2cb	comment	Midair Collision: Starscream shoots up a squadron of F-22's, causing one of them to spin out of control and crash into another one.
Transformers / int_c250c2cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_c250c2cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_c250c2cb
Transformers / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Transformers / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: A rather different case than usual — most of the Autobots turn into cars, who apparently know Kung Fu. For the first movie, in fact, Michael Bay instructed the animators to watch Kung Fu movies to get a feel for how they should move. According to the DVD extras, he even had martial artists on wire rigs filmed to visualize the combat movements of the Transformers in hand-to-hand combat. A more traditional case was Bumblebee's slide/drift in vehicle mode to knock down Barricade while rescuing Sam and Mikaela.
Transformers / int_c2d978fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_c2d978fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_c2d978fe
Transformers / int_c37a7fd9	type	No, You
Transformers / int_c37a7fd9	comment	No, You: When Maggie and Glen are arguing while in FBI custody:
Transformers / int_c37a7fd9	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_c37a7fd9	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_c37a7fd9
Transformers / int_c3b760ed	type	ZigZaggedTrope
Transformers / int_c3b760ed	comment	Zigzagged with the licensed vehicle modes never getting destroyed (with the exception of Sideways in the second movie), with the destruction/killing occurring only when they're in robot mode;
Transformers / int_c3b760ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_c3b760ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_c3b760ed
Transformers / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Transformers / int_c4db6423	comment	Pinned down, Lennox tells Sam to take the cube to the roof of an abandoned building nearby and wait for a chopper to extract them both. The already desperate plan utterly falls apart, as the building is old enough that Megatron can tear through it like tissue paper, three of the Decepticons can fly and Starscream has absolutely no problems taking out the chopper before Sam can drop off his cargonote In fact, he shows up early and seems to actually be waiting for the thing to arrive, before shooting it down just as Sam tries to complete his mission - it's completely possible he was waiting for him to climb in before simply taking out both Sam and the heli with one hit and in the end Sam ends up being trapped between an angry giant robot and a massive, obviously lethal fall to the street. Sure, if the opponents were humans the plan probably would have worked, but with giant robots who can turn into military vehicles it's not quite as effective.
Transformers / int_c4db6423	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_c4db6423	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_c4db6423
Transformers / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Transformers / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: At the site where one of the Autobots crashed, we see a nerdy guy screaming "This is a hundred times cooler than Armageddon!" The scene where Captain Lennox and his team are pinned down, need to call the Pentagon over a phone and need a credit card to pay for the call is almost identical to a scene in the film Heartbreak Ridge.
Transformers / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_c75df49a
Transformers / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Transformers / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: On the part of director Michael Bay: And the very famous commercial where he goes around blowing stuff up demanding that everything be awesome, including a to-scale Bumblebee statue behind him. The human that Megatron flicked was... Michael Bay himself.
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Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_c9597a03
Transformers / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Transformers / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: Sam has this reaction to Ron driving him to a Porsche dealership, only to tell him he's not getting one. We even hear him say, "It's not a funny joke."
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Transformers / int_cdd835ce	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_cdd835ce
Transformers / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Transformers / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: During the battle in Qatar, one of the government officials states that they're tracking an AWAC. As the name of the aeroplane in question is an acronym (for "Airborne Weapon And Control System"), the "s" is not there to pluralise it.
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Transformers / int_ce1c73e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_ce1c73e2
Transformers / int_cfbbd075	type	Porn Stash
Transformers / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: Sam is implied to have one in his room when Mikaela almost comes across it. His copy of Busty Beauties that he got from his Uncle Charles is likely part of it.
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Transformers / int_cfbbd075	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_cfbbd075
Transformers / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
Transformers / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": Glenn tries to tell his grandmother to shut up while trying to welcome Maggie to his house to discuss the situation with the information concerning Cybertronian language. Maggie tells Glenn to "SHUT UP" in the interrogation room when Glenn protests his innocence and blames Maggie for their arrest. Glenn responds by also saying "SHUT UP!", before realising his mistake moments later.
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Transformers / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Transformers / int_d397657d	comment	Frenzy, moments before his death. Understandable, considering he'd just lost most of his head.
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Transformers / int_d397657d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Transformers / int_d49291cd	type	Over-the-Top Secret
Transformers / int_d49291cd	comment	Over-the-Top Secret: Sector 7 classified footage obtained from Beagle 2 landing as "Above Top Secret", as well as the existence of Megatron and the AllSpark.
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Transformers / int_d49291cd	featureConfidence	1.0
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Transformers / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Transformers / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Sam's body reads on a Geiger counter at 14 rads when Simmons scans him. In the few days that he's spent with Bumblebee, Sam has incurred a minimum of 47 times his annual dose of naturally occurring radiation, enough to measurably increase his lifetime cancer risk if this wasn't a silly movie about giant robots trying to kill each other.
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Transformers / int_d525f857	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_d525f857
Transformers / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Transformers / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Starscream ups and flees the battle at the end, and a mid-credits scene shows him flying off into space.
Transformers / int_d9cf40fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_d9cf40fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_d9cf40fa
Transformers / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Transformers / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: At the very end after Sam rams the AllSpark right into Megatron's chest thus killing the tyrant for good and leaving the Decepticons without a reason to continue the war anymore, Optimus plucks the last remaining shard of the cube out of Megatron's corpse and holds it in despair. They needed the cube to restore their home planet Cybertron. The Autobots are left stranded on Earth for the remainder of the film series.
Transformers / int_da12bcfb	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_da12bcfb	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_da12bcfb
Transformers / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Transformers / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Mikaela, who even gets to help in the climax.
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Transformers / int_dae5c997	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_dae5c997
Transformers / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Transformers / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: As Blackout is attacking the SOCCENT airbase at the start of the film, a second robot is shown being released down into the sand. This turns out to be Scorponok, who later goes after Lennox's small band of survivors. Glenn. He appears early on as a guy whose computer skills are important to Maggie to interpret the intrusion signal. Then, towards the climax, his computer skills come in very handy when the global power cut/power outage means computer skills are needed to contact the Air Force.
Transformers / int_dcbe8a6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_dcbe8a6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_dcbe8a6e
Transformers / int_de19df2b	type	The Matchmaker
Transformers / int_de19df2b	comment	The Matchmaker: Bumblebee.
Transformers / int_de19df2b	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_de19df2b	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_de19df2b
Transformers / int_e305ffa8	type	Expositing the Masquerade
Transformers / int_e305ffa8	comment	Expositing the Masquerade: It turns out that the government has been studying Transformers for decades in a secret base under the Hoover Dam, and that most modern technology is actually the product of their reverse-engineering efforts.
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Transformers / int_e305ffa8	featureConfidence	1.0
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Transformers / int_e316fa51	type	Magnetism Manipulation
Transformers / int_e316fa51	comment	Magnetism Manipulation: Jazz seems to have magnetic powers, pulling the firearms of soldiers away from them. Blackout also has an EMP weapon.
Transformers / int_e316fa51	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_e316fa51	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_e316fa51
Transformers / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Transformers / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Bumblebee has the friendliness of the classic G1 Bumblebee but combines the visual "door wings" of Prowl and the frontline soldier role of Sideswipe.
Transformers / int_e4965307	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_e4965307	featureConfidence	1.0
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Transformers / int_e51d31f0	type	Giant Robot Hands Save Lives
Transformers / int_e51d31f0	comment	Giant Robot Hands Save Lives: When Optimus catches Sam as he's falling from the skyscraper.
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Transformers / int_e51d31f0	featureConfidence	1.0
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Transformers / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Transformers / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Sgt. Donnelly is an Expy of Private Hudson. Both of them are experienced, wisecracking soldiers who panic after encountering and being repeatedly attacked by an alien enemy that ultimately kills them while they fight back.
Transformers / int_e5421161	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_e5421161	featureConfidence	1.0
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Transformers / int_e68b72	type	The Load
Transformers / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: Attempted aversion with Sam Witwicky, with the location of the AllSpark imprinted on his great-grandfather's glasses, and the fact that he is ultimately the one to kill Megatron.
Transformers / int_e68b72	featureApplicability	-1.0
Transformers / int_e68b72	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_e68b72
Transformers / int_e784bb8c	type	Accidental Truth
Transformers / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: When Bobby Bolivia says that at his shop, the car picks the driver and not the other way.
Transformers / int_e784bb8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_e784bb8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_e784bb8c
Transformers / int_e7f5713a	type	Ominous Cube
Transformers / int_e7f5713a	comment	Ominous Cube: The AllSpark, the source of all life on Cybertron, instantly transforms any mechanical device that it comes into direct contact with into a sapient entity with its own transforming abilities. The AllSpark itself is also a Sizeshifter, starting off larger than Bumblebee, who is already enormous, then compacting itself to be small enough for a human to carry.
Transformers / int_e7f5713a	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_e7f5713a	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_e7f5713a
Transformers / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
Transformers / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: When Sam is offering to drive Mikaela home, he initially asks if he could 'ride [her] home' instead of 'drive [her] home'. 'Ride' sometimes has sexual implications, which might have been what some girls would have interpreted the words as meaning.
Transformers / int_e8ca5cb3	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_e8ca5cb3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Transformers / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Transformers / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Sam instructs Mikaela to look over a section of his bedroom for the glasses that carry the coordinates for the MacGuffin, but quickly states that he means anywhere but his 'treasure chest' after he thinks she's going to look in the said container.
Transformers / int_e9e35e8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_e9e35e8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_e9e35e8f
Transformers / int_eb0d7317	type	Men of Sherwood
Transformers / int_eb0d7317	comment	Men of Sherwood: Lennox and his band of soldiers, who are the only survivors of the airbase attack by Blackout. Donnelly is killed by Scorponok and when that battle is over, Fig needs medical attention after being wounded, but Lennox, Epps and the rest of them fit the trope pretty well.
Transformers / int_eb0d7317	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_eb0d7317	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_eb0d7317
Transformers / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Transformers / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: Invoked by Mikaela. Sam's parents were questioning Sam's nervous and twitchy behavior (due to the Autobots hanging out in the backyard) after coming into his room, with her trying to hide. To end the conversation Mikaela presents herself, making it seem that Sam was acting that way because they interrupted an intimate moment. Rather than being upset, Mom and Dad Witwicky are thrilled for Sam.
Transformers / int_ece6f910	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_ece6f910	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_ece6f910
Transformers / int_ecfe441	type	My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That
Transformers / int_ecfe441	comment	My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: Ratchet's introductory comment: "The boy's pheromone levels suggest that he wants to mate with the female." Earlier, when Bumblebee pretends to cut out at a local make-out point, his radio starts playing Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing".
Transformers / int_ecfe441	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_ecfe441	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_ecfe441
Transformers / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Transformers / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted, with Robert Epps and Bobby Bolivia.
Transformers / int_ee7a60e9	featureApplicability	-1.0
Transformers / int_ee7a60e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_ee7a60e9
Transformers / int_eea06f9a	type	Artistic License â€“ Cars
Transformers / int_eea06f9a	comment	Artistic License – Cars: Simmons claims that most of the technological advancements of the 20th century came from reverse-engineering Megatron. He includes cars on the list. The first internal combustion engine was patented by Karl Benz in 1879, a full eighteen years before Megatron was discovered in the Arctic.
Transformers / int_eea06f9a	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_eea06f9a	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_eea06f9a
Transformers / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
Transformers / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: The role of Soundwave as the Hypercompetent Sidekick to Megatron was split between Barricade (the cop car) and especially Blackout (the helicopter), including their use of deployable minions of Scorponok and Frenzy. He was in earlier scripts, but the demands against Mass Shifting led to the role being split up and, eventually, leaving him out altogether because it wouldn't have done the character justice.
Transformers / int_f0508c08	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_f0508c08	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_f0508c08
Transformers / int_f945dff4	type	Facepalm
Transformers / int_f945dff4	comment	Facepalm: Optimus Prime does this at one point while convening with Sam in his house.
Transformers / int_f945dff4	featureApplicability	1.0
Transformers / int_f945dff4	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers	hasFeature	Transformers / int_f945dff4
Transformers / int_fccde3fb	type	Staring Kid
Transformers / int_fccde3fb	comment	Staring Kid: Several, one notable one is the girl who has a transformer land in her pool.
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Transformers / int_fccde3fb	featureConfidence	1.0
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Willbyr	seeAlso	Transformers
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