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Spoilers for this film, as well as all preceding seasons of The Transformers, will be left unmarked. You Have Been Warned!Beyond Good. Beyond Evil. Beyond Your Wildest Imagination.The Transformers: The Movie is a 1986 animated film and the first film in the Transformers franchise, co-produced and directed by Nelson Shin and written by Ron Friedman. It is rooted in the Generation One plot centered on the original animated TV series and associated comics from the mid-1980s, and spawned major continuity changes in that timeline, including major series plot changes. It did not have as big of an impact on the comics, since the additional space-based elements were largely inspired by ideas from the comics that had not made their way into the series, which up until then had been a relatively simple children's TV show.The plot of the film takes us 20 Minutes into the Future to the far-off Year 2005, where the battle between Autobots and Decepticons has moved back to the mechanical world of Cybertron, presumably thanks to the humans apparently wising up and adopting Autobot technology in the interim, allowing regular space travel back and forth to the Transformers' home planet.The animated film introduces, for the first time, the biggest bad in the Transformers multiverse, Unicron (voiced by Orson Welles in his final film), who is en-route to gobbling up Cybertron after stopping off for a snack on the way. In the course of battling him and the Decepticons, a lot of Generation One robots die to make room for a new line-up, traumatizing many youngsters who had gotten used to the lack of permanent death in the TV series.The TV series' voice cast all return here, including Peter Cullen and Frank Welker as Optimus Prime and Megatron respectively; the film also stars Eric Idle as Wreck-Gar, Judd Nelson as Hot Rod, Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron, Robert Stack as Ultra Magnus, Lionel Stander as Kup and John Moschitta as Blurr.Shout! Factory now has the home media rights to the film and released it on DVD and Blu-ray on September 13, 2016, in time for the movie's 30th anniversary.(Note: This is about the Generation One original animated film. For the live-action films, see Film.Transformers Film Series.)Spoiler notice: There are unmarked spoilers in this article. | |
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So Optimus had taken a pretty mad hit following his battle with Megatron but any thought he might be fine gets evicerated by Perceptor saying "I fear the wounds are fatal". | |
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Human Shield: Megatron uses Hot Rod this way in his fight against Optimus, to deadly effect. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: The original trailer proudly boasts, "The final confrontation between Optimus Prime and Megatron." (Of course, given the initial reaction to said confrontation, fans assuredly thought it would play out far differently.) Commercials for the movie had the narrator say "Does Prime die?" over footage of Optimus getting blasted, followed by Megatron's line: "It's over, Prime!" Some viewers may have thought "Like You Would Really Do It",invoked but... The commercials also showed Unicron starting his transformation, with the narrator saying "What is the secret of the monster planet?". Bad enough he's shown transforming at all, but the fact it shows his hands emerging completely gives away the fact that the planet has a robot mode. Admittedly, given the nature of the movie, it's blatantly obvious that the planet would eventually transform, but if you didn't show his hands, you could get away with viewers wondering if maybe it would just be something like a battle station mode. At least they didn't actually show him fully transformed. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Unicron destroys an entire planet with virtually all of its occupants in the opening scene. Ironhide, Prowl, Brawn, and Ratchet are killed a few moments later, and it doesn't exactly end there. And this movie was based on a kid's show. | |
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Evil Sounds Deep: Galvatron's voice is deeper than Megatron's, reflecting his more pure evil, and Unicron's voice is a resonating, almost disinterested bass, reflecting his incredible age and malevolence. | |
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Knew It All Along | |
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Knew It All Along: When Rodimus Prime, f.k.a. Hot Rod, reveals himself and gives his first command, Kup beams and says, "I knew you had potential, lad!" | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain: Even before he becomes Galvatron, Megatron proves he's not incompetent by killing several of the Autobots in the beginning of the movie. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Kup, who shows up out of nowhere, is an ancient Autobot who's Seen It All and is not shy about telling everyone. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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The two other robotsnote named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, appropriately enough in Hot Rod and Kup's jail cell, are actually pieced together◊ from various suits used in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: The original trailer is 4 minutes of footage that was deleted or changed. Nothing in the trailer makes it into the movie without some change made to it. | |
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Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering | |
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Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering: In space, Galvatron propels himself towards his ship with a continuous blast from his Arm Cannon. | |
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Say My Name | |
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Say My Name: Megatron to Starscream when the latter leaves Megatron for scrap. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Several Autobots and Decepticons from the toyline and tv show make a few silent cameos in the film. Huffer, Sunstreaker, Bluestreak, Hound, Gears, and Grapple appear in quick crowd shots. Wheeljack and Windcharger's dead bodies are seen on the ground. Reflector appears in three crowd shots but, due to an animation error, has Ironhide's colour scheme in one of them. The Dinobot Snarl briefly appears in only two group shots, but is otherwise absent from the movie. | |
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The Movie | |
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The Movie: Right there in the title. | |
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership | |
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership: After shoving an injured Megatron into space, the Decepticons promptly have an all-out brawl to determine who gets to be the new leader. Starscream apparently wins, but then Galvatron takes the job by showing up and atomizing him with a single blast. The writers, when asked, explained that Starscream "won" by hiding quietly in a corner while all the other Decepticons fought, then shot the exhausted actual winner in the back. This also appears to be the way of the Sharkticons. When it becomes clear they can't beat the Dinobots, they relent, and obey Grimlock instead of the Quintesson magistrate. | |
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We All Die Someday | |
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We All Die Someday: Galvatron invokes this to try to coerce Hot Rod out of hiding. Hot Rod's response? "Not today, Galvatron!" | |
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I Surrender, Suckers | |
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I Surrender, Suckers: Once his fight with Optimus Prime starts going against him, Megatron infamously pulls this trick, knowing Optimus would hesitate to shoot anyone in cold blood. | |
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Mutual Kill | |
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Mutual Kill: Optimus and Megatron's final battle is essentially this; Prime dies of his wounds soon after, and Megatron would have suffered the same fate had Unicron not rebuilt him into Galvatron. Still, that turn of events means that ''Megatron'' is still technically no more. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Averted in post-production; as originally animated, Ultra Magnus was supposed to have been pulled apart by the Sweeps. The final movie shows them shooting rope-like lasers, cutting to Ultra Magnus being gunned down and exploding into pieces when he falls. The (original) comic adaptation depicts the storyboarded drawn-and-quartered scene. That said, the film does have plenty of these. Prowl and Ironhide in particular stand out, as the former's death is shown in great detail and the latter is straight-up executed. | |
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The Juggernaut | |
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The Juggernaut: Blowing up a moon inside Unicron's maw doesn't even slow him down. He's not lying when he says that only the Matrix can stop him. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Unicron offers to rebuild Megatron in return for servitude; thus is born Galvatron. note To me, my herald! | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: One of Kup's war stories takes on a momentary dark turn... | |
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Cult Soundtrack | |
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Cult Soundtrack: The synthesized score by Vince DiCola, and notable songs such as "Dare To Be Stupid" (by "Weird Al" Yankovic) and "The Touch" (by Stan Bush) have received a certain cult status among pop culture. The resurgence of Transformers popularity in the 1990s helped renew interest in both Vince DiCola and Stan Bush. Both have publicly expressed gratitude to the fans' support and make regular appearances at Transformers conventions. Lion is best known for the movie's theme; though they signed with Scotti Brothers soon after its release, they soon faded into obscurity. And you won't believe where "The Touch" showed up after that... | |
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Radar Is Useless | |
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Radar Is Useless: The Decepticons are able to board an Autobot shuttle going to Earth without being detected, catching all its occupants by surprise. A later comic adaptation justifies it by making the shuttle go through a field of asteroids, which provide good cover for the Decepticons. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: Massive introduction of new backstory, continuity, and other worlds, to a series that had been about 'bots blowing each other up in the US outback. | |
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Mechanical Animals | |
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Mechanical Animals: Besides the Animal Mecha Transformers (Dinobots, Insecticons, Laserbeak, Ravage and Ratbat), there's also the mechanical underwater life of the planet Quintessa, including mechanical fishes that emulate the organic food chain (the bigger fishes eating the smaller ones) and a Giant Squid. | |
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The Antichrist | |
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Megatron is basically this trope's opposite. He begs to be saved, is cast aside by his own followers, and literally makes a deal with the devil to come back and get revenge. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: Grimlock and the Dinobots talk entirely in Hulk Speak. The Junkions talk in nothing but 1970s television cliches and phrases. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: Technically it's in the foreground, but because someone else is the focus of the shot, you might miss the fact that after Starscream shoots the Constructicons' trumpets, Ramjet is aiming his gun at the Constructicons as if he's annoyed with their antics too. During the Dinobots' rescue of Hot Rod and Kup, the Dinobots easily curbstomped the Sharkticon troops. While Grimlock was talking with Hot Rod, the remaining Sharkticons were seen lying down begging Grimlock for mercy. | |
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Life-or-Limb Decision | |
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Life-or-Limb Decision: When Starscream tries to escape Autobot City's transformation, his foot gets stuck in-between the closing doors. As more doors about to crush him, Starscream blasts his foot to escape. | |
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Easter Egg | |
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Easter Egg: Inside Unicron after he eats Lithone, there are frames inside him with a post-apocalyptic backgrounds inside him, which are no doubt from Toei's movie adaptation of Fist of the North Star, as this movie was made after. Pause during the scene in the Quintessons' jail cells and you'll see remains of some destroyed robots. Look closely and you can see that the mangled bodies◊ on the floor are actually miscolored Mobile Suits, mostly from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Unicron. While the Cybertronians have no knowledge of him, he's apparently feared through the rest of the galaxy as his approach to Lithone is met with cries of "It's Unicron!" and Kranix manages to relate the tale of Unicron to Kup and Hot Rod. | |
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World-Wrecking Wave | |
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World-Wrecking Wave: Considering Unicron is a planet (and then a planet sized transformer), the Matrix's energy wave that cripples and ultimately destroys him qualifies as one of the few times this is a good thing. | |
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Autobots, Rock Out! | |
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There's the rousing little number when the Allicons take Kup and Hot Rod into custody, more notably used for their cousins the Sharkticons when they devour those who the Quintessons dump into their pit (and attempt to devour our heroes, only for Autobots, Rock Out! to kick in). | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: Much of the dialogue. "Me Grimlock say you full of cesium salami!" | |
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Little "No" | |
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Little "No": Galvatron gasps "No..." when he realizes that the Matrix has transformed Hot Rod into Rodimus Prime. | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
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Deadly Euphemism: see Not Quite Dead. | |
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Theme Music Power-Up | |
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Theme Music Power-Up: "The Touch" by Stan Bush is played during Optimus' and Rodimus' finest moments. "Dare to Be Stupid" by "Weird Al" Yankovic plays as the Junkions attack and overwhelm the Autobots. "Instruments of Destruction" for the Decepticons, played as Megatron's strike force wipes out Brawn, Ratchet, Prowl and Ironhide in short order with this playing in the background. | |
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work | |
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: When Megatron is reformatted into Galvatron, he disrupts Starscream's coronation, kills him and reclaims leadership of the Decepticons. Although his intent was to destroy the planet in its entirety, Unicron wrecks enough of Decepticon-controlled Cybertron that the Autobots are able to retake the planet once he's defeated. | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_34e3784f | comment |
Please, Don't Leave Me: Megatron is forced to beg Soundwave not to leave him after sustaining heavy injuries in his final battle with Optimus Prime. Soundwave complies. | |
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This Cannot Be! | |
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This Cannot Be!: Unicron's reaction when he's finally beaten. | |
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Agony of the Feet | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_37d94ed9 | comment |
Agony of the Feet: Starscream's foot gets stuck while Autobot City is transforming. In order to free himself, he's forced to shoot his own foot. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death Is Cheap: Mostly averted, to the point where most of the characters who died here don't appear on the third season of the show (on purpose anyway), but there are still some examples. While Megatron himself doesn't quite qualify (he still fuctions, after all), several dead Decepticons are resurrected as Galvatron's allies. Ultra Magnus is shot to hell and eventually explodes into pieces. He's simply rebuilt from his scattered parts some time later. The end of the last line of the European edit of the movie says as much: | |
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Magical Security Cam | |
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Magical Security Cam: Unicron somehow has monitors showing the same footage the audience just saw of the Matrix being handed off. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Cliffjumper provides a countdown for the launch of the Autobot shuttle. His VA, Casey Kasem, was best known for his weekend Top 40 countdown radio show. | |
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The Man Behind the Man | |
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The Man Behind the Man: Unicron is this to Galvatron. From the Autobots' perspective, they only know that Galvatron is a powerful Decepticon and have no idea until the climax that he's in league with the planet-eater that took out both of their moon bases. The Decepticons don't even know the details about Unicron so this trope applies even more directly to them. | |
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Shark Pool | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_3a2c615c | comment |
Shark Pool: In a world with oceans full of robot sharks, the Quintessons also have a more traditional pool filled with those same sharks for dramatic executions. | |
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Untranslated Catchphrase | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_3a730620 | comment |
Untranslated Catchphrase: The universal greeting "Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong", which was never given an English translation in the film. | |
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Flatline | |
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Flatline: There's a monitor displaying 4 sets of readings from Optimus as he lays dying. All 4 of the little squiggly lines go flat at the same time, just before his eyes go dim. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_3d699462 | comment |
Rodimus Prime gets an identical treatment upon his Matrix-fueled promotion, curb stomping Galvatron in the process. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Anyone who knows anything about Unicron will know that his claim of sparing Cybertron is full of shit. | |
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Doomed Hometown | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_4108bb3e | comment |
Doomed Hometown: Any planet that Unicron devours; a survivor of Lithone is encountered (briefly) on Quintessa. | |
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Killed Offscreen | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_423f5a19 | comment |
Many characters, especially Autobots, are never seen again after the Movie, some of them possibly Killed Offscreen. | |
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Heroes Gone Fishing | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_424b665e | comment |
Heroes Gone Fishing: Hot Rod and Daniel are first seen out fishing, before Daniel gets distracted by the arriving shuttle. | |
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Story-Driven Invulnerability | |
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Story-Driven Invulnerability: Galvatron and the dinobots create visible damage to Unicron in two scenes, where the plot doesn't require him to be invincible. Somehow he can tank an exploding moon, yet Galvatron trying to hold on to his surface creates massive scratches. | |
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Taking Up the Mantle | |
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Taking Up the Mantle: Ultra Magnus is given the Autobot Matrix of Leadership upon Prime's death. However, it's Hot Rod who truly winds up taking up the role of Prime. | |
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Agony Beam | |
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Agony Beam: Unicron causes Galvatron unimaginable pain through their link whenever Galvatron fails him or steps out of line. | |
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Boisterous Weakling | |
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Boisterous Weakling: "I will crush you with my bare hands!" *uses a gun* | |
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Bad Vibrations | |
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Bad Vibrations: The glasses in the opening scene drop from the table because of the heavy vibrations coming from the approaching Unicron. | |
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Defeat Equals Explosion | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_471fdb9e | comment |
Defeat Equals Explosion: When Ultra Magnus is killed by the Sweeps, he explodes into pieces. | |
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Let's Fight Like Gentlemen | |
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Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Averted. When Prime corners Megatron for their battle, Megatron restrains himself from using his Fusion Cannon and charges Optimus directly. Megatron has no real issue with using dirty tricks and weapons, he just wanted to tear into Optimus with his own two hands. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: The Insecticons take quite a bit of damage during the Battle of Autobot City, which gets them thrown out into space when the Decepticons need to lighten their load aboard Astrotrain on the way back to Cybertron. | |
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Scenery Gorn | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_49d18492 | comment |
Scenery Gorn: Pretty much any scene involving Unicron eating a planet. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: All of the set pieces in this film are varied, bright, vibrant, and exquisitely detailed. Whether it be in space, The Planet of Junk, the beautiful forest shots seen early in the movie, or the murky yellow and brown underwater segment with Hot Rod and Kup later in the film, your eyes will never get bored. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot: The closest we get to seeing Ironhide's death is a burst of smoke after Megatron shoots him. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_49fb5ccb | comment |
Combat Pragmatist: Hot Rod tries to be. Unfortunately, interfering in the duel between Optimus and Megatron proves to be an extremely unpragmatic choice. And Megatron, of course. He foregoes use of his fusion cannon for the visceral thrill of tearing Optimus apart with his bare hands, but that doesn't mean he's playing fair. He still uses tactics like Attack the Injury and Go for the Eye. | |
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No Power, No Color | |
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No Power, No Color: Optimus Prime turns gray upon death. Interestingly, almost none of the other many characters who die in the first twenty minutes of the film alone change color upon death, indicating that Optimus is a special case. The exception is Starscream, who also takes on a gray color scheme when he is (finally) executed by the rebuilt Galvatron, crumbling to pieces when the blast finishes destroying him. | |
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Villains Want Mercy | |
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Villains Want Mercy: Megatron begs Optimus to spare his life when he's seemingly been cornered and Optimus has a gun trained on him. Subverted, as he was just trying to distract Prime while he reaches for a blaster that is just out of sight... | |
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Wham Line | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: "DIE, AUTOBOTS!!!" So Optimus had taken a pretty mad hit following his battle with Megatron but any thought he might be fine gets evicerated by Perceptor saying "I fear the wounds are fatal". "Behold: GALVATRON." In the time before widespread spoilers, this was a wake-up call to kids who thought Galvatron was just a new character. | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: At first, after Galvatron challenges Unicron, all we see are parts shifting around from his POV: like the landscape rising and falling beneath his feet. It's not immediately clear what is happening at first...until what is unmistakably an enormous hand begins to emerge. Cue an Oh, Crap! reaction from Galvatron. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: An interesting example. The story was written before many characters made their appearances, and such weren't written into it. The most notable example involves Devastator - in the series, he had been shoved to the sidelines to showcase other combiners, yet he is the only combiner to appear here, and the Constructicons even refer to Devastator as "the most powerful robot", even though Bruticus curb stomped him in his first appearance. | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
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"DIE, AUTOBOTS!!!" | |
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Technology Porn | |
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Technology Porn: Unicron's transformation and Autobot City's transformation. | |
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Attack the Injury | |
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And Megatron, of course. He foregoes use of his fusion cannon for the visceral thrill of tearing Optimus apart with his bare hands, but that doesn't mean he's playing fair. He still uses tactics like Attack the Injury and Go for the Eye. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: Stan Bush's "The Touch" plays twice in the film. It first plays during Optimus' fight with Megatron in the beginning of the film and plays again during Rodimus Prime's fight with Galvatron near the end of the film. Hot Rod jumps Megatron, but is easily overpowered and a tragedy (Optimus' death) ensues due to his failure. At the end of the film, both characters, now upgraded to Rodimus Prime and Galvatron, fight again, and this time it is Galvatron who is easily and utterly defeated, and Rodimus succeeds in preventing a tragedy - destroying Unicron and saving the entire planet. The film begins with a sequence of Unicron floating in space having successfully devoured Lithone, which leads into the opening titles. The film ends with the severed head of a defeated Unicron floating helplessly in space as the end credits roll. To top it off, title sequences are set to the band Lion's Cover of the Transformers theme. | |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker: Wreck-Gar and the Junkions speak entirely in 20th century advertising lingo. Wheelie speaks exclusively in rhyme. Though it's sometimes hard to tell with all the post-processing done to his voice. | |
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Asteroid Thicket | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_53e1f74c | comment |
The Decepticons are able to board an Autobot shuttle going to Earth without being detected, catching all its occupants by surprise. A later comic adaptation justifies it by making the shuttle go through a field of asteroids, which provide good cover for the Decepticons. | |
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Combat Breakdown | |
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Combat Breakdown: During Optimus Prime's final battle with Megatron, both combatants take damage and are clearly exhausted by the end of the fight. After knocking Megatron off the battlements Optimus can't even stand due to his (fatal) wounds, while Megatron is forced to beg Soundwave to get him to safety. | |
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Reforged into a Minion | |
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Reforged into a Minion: What Unicron does to Megatron and the deceased Decepticons by turning them into Galvatron, Cyclonus, Scourge, and the Sweeps. | |
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No Honor Among Thieves | |
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No Honor Among Thieves: Had Galvatron just given the Autobot Matrix of Leadership to Unicron as ordered, the story would have ended with the planet eater's victory. Furthermore, as mentioned previously in Badass Boast, had everything gone according to plan, Unicron was planning on giving Cybertron to Galvatron (or at least not making it a meal). The dominoes that brought about their mutual defeat were knocked down by the backstabbing. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: Galvatron briefly attempts one with Hot Rod when he encounters him inside Unicron, but Unicron uses his mental torture to force him to attack the Autobot instead. | |
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Big Ol' Eyebrows | |
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Big Ol' Eyebrows: Unicron's forehead ridge resembles something along these lines.note Him being originally designed by Takehiko Ito helps. | |
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Hulk Speak | |
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Grimlock and the Dinobots talk entirely in Hulk Speak. | |
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Dying to Be Replaced | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_5d19c2f6 | comment |
Dying to Be Replaced: Optimus Prime is yesterday's toy. Arise, Rodimus Prime! Oh, and don't forget Megatron, Starscream, and Ironhide! | |
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Kangaroo Court | |
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Kangaroo Court: Even if you're innocent, the Quintesson magistrate is dropping you in the Sharkticon pit. Primus only knows what they do to the guilty. (It's actually the same thing either way, they just like to taunt the victim first.) As the season three opener "Five Faces of Darkness" revealed, the crime everyone is tried for is being in possession of Cybertron. However, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, the Quintessons will kill you either way. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: Arcee, the only female Autobot, and also the only female character to appear in the film. | |
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You Kill It, You Bought It | |
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You Kill It, You Bought It: Galvatron kills Starscream at his coronation and no one objects to him being the new leader. | |
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Mechanical Lifeforms | |
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Mechanical Lifeforms: Besides Earth, all planets seen in the film have robotic life. | |
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Almost Dead Guy | |
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Almost Dead Guy: Both Megatron and Optimus are left barely alive after their battle. Optimus gasps out a last message before expiring, and Megatron is unceremoniously booted out of Astrotrain by Starscream and left for dead, whereupon Unicron finds him and reformats him into Galvatron. | |
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Demoted to Dragon | |
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Demoted to Dragon: Megatron, the Big Bad of the first two seasons of The Transformers, is left for dead by Starscream in the void of space, only to be found by Unicron. Unicron turns him into his slave, reformatting Megatron into Galvatron and ordering him to destroy the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. Galvatron isn't happy by his new predicament and later attempts to use the Matrix to make Unicron his slave. It ends poorly for him. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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While only visible for a split second, backgrounds from Fist of the North Star can be seen within◊ Unicron after he eats Lithone. | |
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Title: The Adaptation | |
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Title: The Adaptation: The Transformers: The Movie. | |
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Spirit Advisor | |
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Optimus's death serves as a call to heroism for the other Autobots, and in particular Hot Rod. He also manages to stick around in spirit thanks to the Matrix. | |
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Acid Pool | |
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Acid Pool: Unicron's body has giant acid vats that can melt a Transformer down in mere seconds. | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome: Optimus Prime's continuous deaths in every Transformers continuity begins here. After landing on Earth as the Decepticons are laying siege to Autobot City, he utters eight words that sets up what is going to be his most epic outing in Generation One. At which point Prime plows through three or four Decepticons and comes under fire from a host of others. He launches himself into the air and takes them all out with his rifle, and then confronts Megatron, leading to another of his classic lines, as well as a classic exchange with Megs himself. Cue Prime and Megatron having a knock-down drag-out fight where they're throwing everything they have into it because they know it's their final confrontation no matter what. One way or another, this is it. The fight isn't entirely shown on screen, but given what they do show us, this is the most brutal they have ever been in the G1 cartoon continuity, especially given the way we see how badly mangled and damaged they are by the fight's end. Prime ultimately wins, and dies shortly afterwards. What makes this truly badass is that in defeating Megatron, Optimus singlehandedly repels the entire Decepticon invasion of Autobot City. Stan Bush's now cult classic song "The Touch" plays throughout the entire sequence, which just adds to the entire thing. Many fans who've seen the film can't hear this song without thinking of this scene. | |
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Pep-Talk Song | |
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Pep-Talk Song: Stan Bush's uplifting and inspirational theme song "The Touch", which serves as the theme song of the noble and heroic Optimus Prime and later Rodimus Prime. The same can also be said of "Dare," another Stan Bush piece. | |
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Big "NEVER!" | |
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When Galvatron confronts Ultra Magnus, and it is clear that the latter is outnumbered and about to be killed. Ultra Magnus is deliberately echoing Optimus' earlier Big "NEVER!", but since he isn't The Chosen One, it falls short. | |
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Bizarrchitecture | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_67fedd35 | comment |
Bizarrchitecture: Quintessa, both on the warped architecture and monstrous sea life fronts, owes a fair old debt to H. P. Lovecraft. | |
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Evil Laugh | |
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Evil Laugh: The Quintesson judge, after issuing the first verdict we see, laughs with each of his five faces in succession as the hapless "innocent" is fed to the Sharkticons. | |
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Hot-Blooded | |
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Hot-Blooded: Hot Rod, true to his name, gets in a lot of trouble due to his impulsiveness, including being indirectly responsible for Optimus' death (though as the In Spite of a Nail entry shows, it wouldn't have made any difference if he had stayed away). | |
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Sacrificial Planet | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_6846c493 | comment |
Sacrificial Planet: At the beginning of the movie, Unicron devours Lithone, a planet full of robotic lifeforms before threatening to do the same to Cybertron. | |
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That's No Moon | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_68f95429 | comment |
That's No Moon: It's not just a ginormous, weird-looking planet — it's a Transformer! | |
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BullyingTheDragon | |
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Bullying the Dragon: Galvatron gloats right before Unicron that the tables have turned and he will use the Matrix to reduce the Planet Eater to little more than his slave. But, the Matrix doesn't open... Well, this is awkward. | |
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Knight of Cerebus | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_6a47a1e2 | comment |
Knight of Cerebus: Unicron, due to being a planet-devouring colossus bent on destroying everything, brings a much more serious tone to the franchise. Megatron also counts due to being played more seriously than he was in the show. He kills a good deal of the Autobots in the beginning of the film. Things only get worse after he becomes Galvatron. | |
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Meaningful Echo | |
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Meaningful Echo: In the pre-movie episode "War Dawn", the first confrontation between Optimus Prime and Megatron is shown and Optimus shrugs off Megatron's cannon fire. In the climax of this movie, Hot Rod is powered up by the Matrix into Rodimus Prime and immediately shrugs off Galvatron's cannon fire. | |
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Early Draft Tie-In | |
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A later draft had Junkeon turn out to be one with the Autobots flying it to Cybertron rather than finding a ship. This made it into Marvel's Early Draft Tie-In Comic-Book Adaptationnote The original dialogue is still there, as Wreck-Gar refers to "New Improved Junkion planet", probably because they couldn't afford to have Eric Idle come back and redo the line. | |
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Disc-One Final Boss | |
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Disc-One Final Boss: Subverted since Unicron is already set up to be the ultimate villain but Megatron is effectively this for the Autobots, having managed to slaughter roughly half of their number (of the named characters, that is) and being taking out by a mortally-wounded Optimus Prime before anyone is aware of Unicron's existence. | |
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Speaks in Shout-Outs | |
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Speaks in Shout-Outs: Wreck-Gar and the Junkions speak entirely in 20th century Earth advertising lingo. | |
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Disney Death | |
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Ultra Magnus gets blown to pieces (originally was going to be drawn and quartered) by the Sweeps, although put back together shortly after. | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: The Quintessons really have no idea what they're up against when it comes to Hot Rod and Kup. Sure, as long as the two are kept from transforming using those stasis ring things, they can push them around all they like. Their fatal mistake was setting the rings to deactivate once the two were dumped into the Sharkticon pool, because the second the two Autobots can transform, it becomes alarmingly apparent that this execution is not going to go according to plan... | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Galvatron sets a high bar for stupidity by attempting to blackmail a genocidally murderous robotic elder god with a weapon he has no idea how to use (not to mention said god can just destroy his mind at a whim). Unicron, however, immediately raises the bar by swallowing Galvatron whole... in the process ingesting the very weapon and putting it in the perfect place to destroy him. (Possibly he was hoping Galvatron and the Matrix would go down the pipe to his digestive system, and forgot that Decepticons can fly, but still pretty dim. Squishing him between his fingers would have been a lot more sensible than eating him with an added dose of kryptonite.) | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: The poster, as seen above, features Ultra Magnus prominently in the center of the picture as he is flanked by other Autobots. But this is Hot Rod's story, through-and-through (Hot Rod, at least as Hot Rod, isn't even on the poster at all - all that is there is his Rodimus Prime vehicle mode, way off to the side). | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Light Our Darkest Hour", first said by Optimus, is the mantra by which the Matrix is finally opened. More humorously, the 'Universal Greeting' - "Bah Weep Grah Na Weep Ninny Bong", first used by Kup in a failed attempt to befriend the Sharkticons, is later used successfully by Hot Rod to befriend the Junkions. "Till All Are One", also first spoken by Optimus, becomes a mantra for the Autobots during the film at various parts, and is also referenced in parts of the third season afterwards. | |
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Scavenger World | |
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Scavenger World: The Planet of Junk appears to be the trash heap of the universe, where the aptly named Junkions make their home and use all the stuff to build spaceships and such. There is no indication of how all the trash gets there in the first place. | |
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Remember the New Guy? | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_77b03c0a | comment |
Remember the New Guy?: Ultra Magnus is Optimus Prime's old friend, who was never seen or mentioned before. Kup comes off this way too, considering he's supposed to be such an "old-timer." This may be a Justified Trope, as the show does state that several Transformers did go off-planet over the course of the nine-odd million year war that was going on between Autobots and Decepticons prior to the pilot episode of the series and at least one such Autobot was shown during season 2 and an entire planet full of them in Season 3, so it is possible that Magnus and Kup were among those who were elsewhere in space fighting other campaigns during the war before being called to Earth. Conversely, they could also be among those Autobots who remained on Cybertron to try to hold down the fort when the Ark launched, working independently of other groups, such as Elita One's female Autobots. It's also 20 years in universe between B.O.T. (the final episode of the 80s era setting) and the movie which gives plenty of time for newer characters to arrive and integrate into the cast. | |
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Real Men Wear Pink | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_7a3dd888 | comment |
Real Men Wear Pink: Hot Rod, the brash young hero, transforms into a futuristic race car with with flames on the hood, never runs from a fight, and doesn't hesitate to take on Galvatron directly, which no other Autobot (or Decepticon) dares to do. He's also a bright fuchsia (the comic has his Rodimus Prime form be primarily orange and red). | |
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Kick Them While They Are Down | |
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Kick Them While They Are Down: Starscream does this (perfectly literally) to Megatron after his fight with Optimus. | |
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Hover Board | |
The Transformers: The Movie / int_7b0b12af | comment |
Hover Board: Spike's son Daniel is shown having one of these in his debut scene. It doesn't last long, though, as he crashes it into a rock. | |
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Villain Decay | |
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Villain Decay: In the series, the Insecticons were portrayed as powerful wild cards, loyal only to themselves (and even requiring Optimus and Megatron to team up to defeat them at one point). Here, they are full-fledged members of Megatron's forces, and end up suffering crippling injuries during the battle of Autobot City. (Shrapnel gets the worst of it, being brought down hard no less than three times during the conflict.) | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation: Was adapted into comic form twice: The Transformers (Marvel) adapted the film to a three-issue miniseries that was based on a non-final draftnote The major differences are that Unicron absorbs planets with some kind of "mist" rather than physically chowing down, Unicron does not give the Decepticons a ship, so Cyclonus is always Galvatron's transportation, even for interplanetary journeys, Grimlock is with Kup and Hot Rod on Quintessa, rather than with the other Dinobots, Ultra Magnus is not shot to pieces, but drawn and quartered (this is still partly in the film, as in the shot of the Sweeps approaching, they shoot long, constant "beams" at Magnus to "lasso" him with, but when the camera switches to him, they are now short "bolts" that only blast him apart), and the Junkions don't board a ship to fly to Unicron, the planet of Junk is their ship, popping out massive engines to get them going (again, a part of this is still in there - Eric Idle's dialogue as Wreck-Gar states "New improved Junkion planet" rather than "ship"). Perceptor's Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness is also more of a Running Gag, though the films' events were only canon to the UK version of the comic book. In 2006, IDW Publishing would publish a four-part miniseries adaptation of the final version of the film (with some minor changes) in honor of the film's 20th anniversary, which was titled Transformers: The Animated Movie to avoid confusion with the live-action Michael Bay movie. | |
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Expansion Pack World | |
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Expansion Pack World: The show to this point had featured only Cybertron and Earth as significant locations. The film adds Quintessa, Lithone (which is almost immediately devoured moments later by Unicron), and the planet of Junk, and implies that the universe is teeming with robotic lifeforms. | |
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Animation Bump | |
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Animation Bump: The film easily contains the highest quality of animation out of the entire G1 series courtesy of Toei Animation. In fact, the animation is so high quality that it was reused for the commercial for Transformers: Armada Unicron 17 years later, and the scenes from the movie were better looking than the actual footage of Unicron from Armada. Within the movie itself, the opening scene of Unicron destroying Lithone, Unicron's transformation, Starscream's death, and the final battle of Optimus Prime and Megatron are particular highlights. One reason this bump occurred was the $6,000,000 budget (The equivalent budget for three episodes being closer to $750,000 - $1,000,000) - compared to the usual Japanese prices of making anime movies, the budget was absolutely astronomical, allowing some of the greatest mecha animators to be recruited during production*Rather than the usual animators, including Toei's regular contractors Sei Young, Nakamura Productions or Ashi Productions, as they were still doing the TV show. Toei pulled animators from studios they worked with on their other films — Madhouse, Sunrise, Artland, Bebow, Magic Bus, Animal Ya, and Studio Dub — instead. Indeed, the Movie stands as an absolutely exceptional piece of mecha animation in general even to this day. | |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse | |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse: At first, Megatron isn't keen on serving under anyone, despite being rebuilt. Between that and dying ungracefully without a chance to rule Cybertron, he reluctantly accepts Unicron's terms. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Hot Rod's well-intentioned attempt to foil Megatron's Wounded Gazelle Gambit is what gets Optimus Prime mortally wounded. | |
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Amulet of Concentrated Awesome | |
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Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: The Autobot Matrix of Leadership is the receptacle of the power of the Primes and is the one thing in the entire universe that Unicron fears. | |
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Final Battle | |
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Final Battle: While not one between the Autobots and Decepticons, overall, it technically is for Optimus Prime and Megatron. Prime is mortally wounded and dies in the first act of the movie while Megatron is reborn as Galvatron by Unicron. Prime does return near the end the main series, however. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: CinemaSins claimed Galvatron falling into Unicron's mouth was a mistake, since there's "no gravity in space". Actually, Unicron is explicitly stated to be the size of a planet, meaning he would give off the same gravity as a planet and thus anything near by would fall towards him. Unicron, despite being an actual planet is able to sneak up on a defenseless planet at the beginning of the film as well as the Autobot bases on Cybertron's moons and then Cybertron itself and in every instance nobody notices him and no sensors detect him before he reaches nomming distance. Possibly justified due to it eventually being revealed that he's a Physical God rather than simply a giant robot, so maybe he can only be detected when he wishes to be. | |
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Last One’s Ploy | |
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Last One's Ploy: After being sentenced to death by the Quintessons by being thrown to the Sharkticon pit, Kranix tries to invoke this by begging for his life as he is the last survivor of his planet Lithone. Subverted, as it doesn't work. | |
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Lampshaded Double Entendre | |
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Lampshaded Double Entendre: Done when the Autobots at Autobot City start to retreat from the Decepticon attack. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Cyclonus's "Armada" (really just one guy) is only seen being created, and is replaced by another Sweep for the rest of the movie (Fridge Logic suggests that Marvel could have reanimated the scene to remove the "Armada" from the film and used a soundalike for Orson Welles to re-record Galvatron's line). Blaster vanishes after receiving Jazz's transmission, and Ratbat appears in only one scene. What happened to Sunstreaker, Snarl, Hound, and Grapple? (The deaths of Bluestreak and Huffer were retconned in the "Dark Awakening" episode.) A number of characters introduced in Season 2 were nowhere to be found due to the script being written concurrently. The IDW Publishing comic based on the film retconned this◊ with the Combiners on the Autobots' side facing Decepticon combiners. Many characters, especially Autobots, are never seen again after the Movie, some of them possibly Killed Offscreen. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Galvatron, upon first being created from the body of Megatron. Unicron, to Galvatron, when announcing the punishment for attempting to betray him. | |
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The Chosen One | |
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Both Ultra Magnus and Galvatron attempt to open the Matrix at pivotal moments in an attempt to use it against their foes. In both cases, they fail, because they aren't The Chosen One. In Galvatron's case, this prompts Unicron's decision to destroy Cybertron. | |
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Space Opera | |
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Space Opera: Although the premise was always there, this was the first time they extensively used it. | |
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Filling the Silence | |
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Filling the Silence: The Japanese dub adds in vocal noises, grunts, and screams in scenes where they were originally silent. Ironically, this practice is usually towards English dubs in anime and not the other way around for atmospheric reasons. | |
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Out-of-Character Moment | |
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Out-of-Character Moment: No Decepticons, even ones established as blindly loyal to Megatron such as Soundwave, object to having him Thrown Out the Airlock to lose dead weight, and instantly make their claims to his spot afterwards. It's particularly glaring with Soundwave, who went to the trouble of going back for Megatron and carrying him aboard in the first place. That said, per Word of God, Soundwave fought to become the new leader so he could force the others to go back for Megatron. Supposedly there was a cut scene that would have explicitly established it. | |
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Your Size May Vary | |
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Your Size May Vary: Scale and Transformers have never mixed well, but when you bring in a guy the size of a planet... Unicron tears the scale of things asunder; no matter what he is interacting with in planet mode, it's about the same size as his mouth, be it a planet, a moon, a shuttle, or just Megatron on his own. Once he transforms, a spaceship carrying a dozen characters goes through one eye, and just fits. Its dozen crew transform to ride out the other eye one at a time, and they just fit as well. And that's before comparing him to Cybertron. Going from being as big as it in one scene, to being able to stand on top of it in another. Another such example happens when the Dinobots attack him, where they each start off as being about quarter the size of his hip (and being able to cause some serious damage), to becoming incredibly tiny when he tries to crush them. Astrotrain carries the entire lineup of surviving Decepticons (including a fully formed Devastator) comfortably inside his space shuttle alt-modenote This one is at least mostly justified - many Transformers (such as Soundwave) are explicitly shown to change size when transforming to their alt-mode. | |
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Dying Deal Upgrade | |
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Dying Deal Upgrade: As Megatron is dying, planet-eating robot god Unicron offers to save him in return for his service. Megatron actually tries to negotiate the terms until Unicron angrily reminds him that he's not in a position to bargain. After he accepts he is upgraded into Galvatron. | |
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Forced Friendly Fire | |
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Forced Friendly Fire: When Blitzwing (in tank mode) has Hot Rod in his crosshairs, Kup jumps on top of him and pulls up his turret. This causes the shot to fly wild, striking Shrapnel square in the chest. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: The first battle scene shocked an entire generation of moviegoers with the fact that Autobots could die. | |
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The Voiceless | |
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The Voiceless: Prowl, the Seekers (with the exception of Starscream), Bombshell, and Ratchet appear with no lines, and Sludge never speaks at all despite being a major character. | |
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Recycled IN SPACE! | |
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Recycled In Space: Film critics at the time tut-tutted the movie as "Star Wars with Giant Robots", since, although a number of sci-fi, anime and comics had re-introduced Space Opera, planet-eaters and the like into relatively simple stories, Star Wars was basically the Trope Codifier in the 80s. Forgotten somewhat, since now, everybody does it. | |
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Justified Trope | |
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This may be a Justified Trope, as the show does state that several Transformers did go off-planet over the course of the nine-odd million year war that was going on between Autobots and Decepticons prior to the pilot episode of the series and at least one such Autobot was shown during season 2 and an entire planet full of them in Season 3, so it is possible that Magnus and Kup were among those who were elsewhere in space fighting other campaigns during the war before being called to Earth. Conversely, they could also be among those Autobots who remained on Cybertron to try to hold down the fort when the Ark launched, working independently of other groups, such as Elita One's female Autobots. | |
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Art Shift | |
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Art Shift: A fairly minor (and possibly also intentional) one. During Starscream's coronation on Cybertron, he, Astrotrain and Ramjet are drawn in a style not to dissimilar to that of a series like Blue Comet SPT Layzner as opposed to the other Decepticons, who are drawn normally. | |
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Apocalypse Wow | |
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Apocalypse Wow: The opening scene featuring the destruction of an entire planet by Unicron. There are baby robots down there! | |
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Dynamic Entry | |
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Dynamic Entry: Galvatron knows how to do it. Fly in so low that the whole crowd runs for cover. Leap from your insertion aircraft (which conveniently transforms into a buddy your size who can stand behind you menacingly). Throw a Pre-Mortem One-Liner. Blow away the guy you came to blow away. Claim the prize. The Dinobots aren't too bad at it either, busting in to break up Hot Rod and Kup's aborted trial and flattening the bailiff in the process. | |
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Leeroy Jenkins | |
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Leeroy Jenkins: Hot Rod's rash attempt to save Optimus Prime by trying to tackle the much stronger Megatron backfires spectacularly. He could have helped Optimus without exposing himself in such a way, for example by shooting Megatron, or distracting him, or simply by warning Optimus. He does learn from the experience, though, and is much smarter when he fights Galvatron. During the attack on the shuttle, Brawn charges at a whole bunch of Decepticons, completely alone, unarmed and exposed. What was he expecting to do, punch them all back into space? | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: While being blasted apart by the Matrix, it is clear that Unicron does not take his defeat well. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Unicron, best highlighted when he first meets Megatron. He's polite, cordial, and offers Megatron a job all the while speaking of the end and torturing him to make him agree. | |
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Operators Are Standing By | |
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Operators Are Standing By: The Junkions have strange speech patterns, prompting them to blurt nonsequiturs out of the blue. One of them starts yelling at someone to stop but ends up doing an ad for coffee and quoting this trope verbatim. The reason is that they learned about Earth's culture and languages by our broadcasts. Given how advertisement-heavy those are, well... | |
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Defiant to the End | |
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Defiant to the End: When Megatron, standing amidst the corpses of several Autobots, talks of how he is going to wipe out the Autobots on Earth, a nearly dead Ironhide is still trying to stop him. Megatron stands over the fatally wounded Optimus Prime, about to deliver the finishing blow. On Quintessa, when Hot Rod and Kup are facing the Quintessons' Kangaroo Court, and either verdict results in execution. When Galvatron confronts Ultra Magnus, and it is clear that the latter is outnumbered and about to be killed. Ultra Magnus is deliberately echoing Optimus' earlier Big "NEVER!", but since he isn't The Chosen One, it falls short. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Unicron, of course. Aside from the fact he's the biggest villain introduced (literally planet-sized), Unicron sets the main plot in motion by forcibly reformatting a dying Megatron into Galvatron and making him his slave to destroy the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. When Galvatron eventually rebels, Unicron decides to destroy Cybertron for Galvatron's insolence, becoming the final threat of movie. | |
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore | |
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Post-movie episodes of the cartoon feature an almost completely different cast of characters in a vastly different setting. The show doesn't even look the same anymore—pre-movie episodes were usually animated by Toei Animation, while many post-movie episodes are the work of Korean studio AKOM. The Japanese dub branded the post-movie episodes as a sequel series. | |
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The Omniscient | |
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The Omniscient: Unicron seems to know what's happening in all corners of the universe as it happens. Comes with the territory of being a Physical God. | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death: Most of The Transformers first two seasons' cast is killed in graphic ways, not counting those who die offscreen. Unicron eats the planet Lithone on-screen, upon which lived millions of robotic lifeforms. Scavenger shoots Prowl, the blast going inside him and reaching Prowl's insides, causing him to effectively burn from the inside out with fire blazing from his mouth endlessly and his optics glowing with the light of the flames. Directly at the camera. In the Japanese dub, Prowl screams in agony as he is shot. Ironhide has his computer-brains blown out execution-style by Megs. The Japanese dub also has Ironhide screaming when Megatron shoots him. Red Alert was also supposed to die by being shot in the back by Devastator, but that scene was never animated. However, Wheeljack and Windcharger look as though this is what happened to them judging by the damage to vital areas on their chests. Optimus gets blasted and stabbed a dozen times (supposedly the fatal wound was due to Megatron repeatedly shooting him right in the wound on his abdomen) while Hot Rod is held hostage. Megatron is beaten to a pulp by Optimus Prime, takes a fall which shows visible internal damage and then left to die in space by Starscream - and probably would have died if Unicron hadn't found him. Starscream takes a direct hit from Galvatron's cannon mode, burning him to a cinder with a look of agony on his face, before disintegrating. The Japanese dub has him screaming during the entire sequence. Kranix and his friend Arblus are fed to the Sharkticons. Although mostly offscreen, we still get to hear him screaming in agony as he's eaten alive. Ultra Magnus gets blown to pieces (originally was going to be drawn and quartered) by the Sweeps, although put back together shortly after. Shockwave was supposed to literally die by Unicron's hand, but they cut out the shot. The Conehead Seekers get chomped by Uni's robot form. (This one ends up being a continuity error, although it's also possible they were just generic "Seekers") Gears and several other captured Transformers inside Unicron are dissolved in an acid bath. Unicron himself is blown to shreds from the inside by the Matrix's power, until the pressure finally causes him to implode. Since the climax takes place inside the planet eater, we even see his innards being blown apart. | |
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As Lethal as It Needs to Be | |
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As Lethal as It Needs to Be: In some scenes Transformers die from one hit by pistol-sized laser guns, but in other scenes they are just knocked down (like Starscream during the battle for Autobot City) or even simply shrug them off (like Optimus Prime in the same battle). Hand Waved by the fact the Decepticons are fully powered with Energon, and grow progressively weaker as they fight. Played perfectly straight with the small handgun Megatron picks up to shoot Prime. True, he's aiming right for the spot where Optimus was previously damaged in repeatedly, but it is incongruously given the same sound effect as his massive arm-mounted fusion cannon and does damage far beyond what a little gun would ever do in this series. The above could be explained away by Megatron himself (who, as his Tech Specs say) being able to interdimensionally draw upon the energy of a black hole to fuel his blasts. This would give even a smaller laser pistol firepower far beyond its normal. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: When Optimus tries to pass on the Matrix, it drops out of his hand and Hot Rod is the first to grab it. Not only that, but the Matrix glows when he holds it. All this is proof that he was destined to be the new Prime from the get-go. When Ultra Magnus suggests that the Matrix can stop Unicron, Hot Rod agrees. When Kup asks Hot Rod how he can know that, Hot Rod replies "I just got this feeling". | |
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Fridge Logic | |
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Cyclonus's "Armada" (really just one guy) is only seen being created, and is replaced by another Sweep for the rest of the movie (Fridge Logic suggests that Marvel could have reanimated the scene to remove the "Armada" from the film and used a soundalike for Orson Welles to re-record Galvatron's line). Blaster vanishes after receiving Jazz's transmission, and Ratbat appears in only one scene. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Unicron talks very slowly and deliberately, but some of his lines stand out. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: Vince DiCola introduces a few. Unicron's Theme, which kicks off the film, and takes cues from DiCola's earlier Drago theme, turning the ominousness up to eleven. "2005", the first track heard after the opening titles, introduces the leitmotifs of the Autobots (very loosely based on the main theme) and the Decepticons. Variations of these leitmotifs would appear later in Season 3 of the series. The distinct portion of "Escape" that isn't using the aforementioned faction leitmotifs gets reused for Ultra Magnus when the Junkions fix him. There's the rousing little number when the Allicons take Kup and Hot Rod into custody, more notably used for their cousins the Sharkticons when they devour those who the Quintessons dump into their pit (and attempt to devour our heroes, only for Autobots, Rock Out! to kick in). | |
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Dangled by a Giant | |
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Dangled by a Giant: When the monster planet Unicron unveils his robot mode and attacks Cybertron, Galvatron attempts to fight him. Unicron responds by picking up Galvatron in this manner and dropping him in his maw. | |
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She's a Man in Japan | |
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She's a Man in Japan: In the French dub of the movie, which used a very different dub team from any regional French dub of the TV series, both Starscream and Shrapnel were turned into women. | |
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Left the Background Music On | |
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Left the Background Music On: During Starscream's coronation, the trumpet fanfare is cut off when he gets impatient with the ceremony and blasts them. | |
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Merchandise-Driven | |
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Merchandise-Driven: As noted above, in one of the more extreme examples, due to Executive Meddling by Hasbro, a large number of characters are killed off or reformatted for the new assortment of characters and toys.note In one example, Perceptor is the only robot at Prime's funeral who isn't a new character, and even then he's pretty much there because Ratchet and Wheeljack aren't. This is despite a ton of other Autobots such as Blaster and the Dinobots being on Earth. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Hot Rod crashes a spaceship through one of Unicron's eyes; later, the Autobots collectively drive through his other eye. Hot Rod also does this earlier in the movie on Quintessa, while battling the enormous robotic squid. He shoots out the squid's eye and is released from the tentacle, also causing the squid to scream and disperse ink to escape. | |
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"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner | |
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"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: Kranix makes a final defiant gesture before judgement is passed, exclaiming "Spare me this mockery of justice!" Hot Rod, when he and Kup are also on "trial", is threatened with contempt of court, and retorts, "I have nothing but contempt for this court!" | |
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One-Hit Kill | |
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One-Hit Kill: Galvatron reasserts his leadership of the Decepticons by vaporizing Starscream. More generally, Transformers (Autobot and Decepticon alike) die easily from single shots, whereas they had been very resilient in the cartoon. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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There's Mood Whiplash from the very beginning: Unicron shows up and devours Lithone as its inhabitants scream and try vainly to escape... then the camera pans away to the opening titles and the upbeat, over-the-top theme song starts up. Uh... yaaay? | |
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I Want My Jet Pack | |
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I Want My Jetpack: Technology has advanced considerably since the release of this movie, but fans everywhere are still waiting for their jet-powered Hoverboard. | |
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Survived the Beginning | |
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Survived the Beginning: Tons of established characters are killed off in the first battle but from there on out no one can permanently die. | |
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Insert Song | |
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Insert Song: In true mecha anime fashion, a pair of insert songs by Stan Bush play, of which the more famous has to be The Touch, which has been cemented as the "something badass is going to happen" insert song for the entire franchise despite only playing twice in the movie. | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: An unusual inversion. Even though the Autobots killed in the shuttle ambush are given enough time to turn around and start firing, none of them can hit anything. Even more unusual, the Decepticons, who in the previous series were the ones with the really bad target perception... are now able to score direct kills upon Autobots with only a single shot in some instances. | |
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Hanging Judge | |
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The Quintesson Judge runs a Kangaroo Court in which the "trials" serve as amusement before the prisoners are executed by being dropped into a pit full of Sharkticons. His very first scene has him declare the last survivors of planet Lithone's destruction as innocent and then have them executed anyway, laughing as they are eaten. It says a lot that Grimlock can easily sway the Sharkticons to turn on their master simply by stomping his foot and pointing at the Judge, who then sets himself apart from the other major villains in the movie by refusing to fight back and instead running away from the Sharkticons as they happily chase after their next meal. | |
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Combining Mecha | |
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Kup and Daniel when they see the Constructicons merging to form Devastator. | |
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Sole Survivor | |
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Sole Survivor: Soundwave is the only one of the original Decepticons to make it out of the movie alive and in his original form. There's also his original cassettes (Buzzsaw, Frenzy, Laserbeak, Ravage and Rumble), but as they spend most of their time inside his chest compartment, this makes sense. | |
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EvilVsEvil | |
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Evil vs. Evil: The Decepticons (including briefly Galvatron himself) engage and try to fight off Unicron once he begins attacking Cybertron Their success is... limited. | |
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Characters Dropping Like Flies | |
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Characters Dropping Like Flies: Over a dozen bite the dust. One of the most jarring was tough old Ironhide, who gets his head blown off by Megatron. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: "Dare To Be Stupid". While the fight with the Junkions is not played too seriously, this silly song still plays while the Autobots are being attacked by hostile transformers. | |
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Eaten Alive | |
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Eaten Alive: This primal fear of what Unicron can do to your world, along with EVERY man, woman, and child on it, is what makes him so terrifying. The Sharkticons appear to devour Transformers alive. | |
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No-Sell | |
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The movie is particularly infamous for Spike Witwicky blatantly saying "shit" in one scene (albeit a very understandable scene since Unicron just No Selled an exploding moon he was eating to the face) in spite of this being an animated film based on a children's show. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Unicron's retaliation against Galvatron's betrayal is to destroy Cybertron with his own giant mechanical hands. The Decepticons occupying the planet's surface are nearly annihilated by Unicron's attack and when the monster planet is finally destroyed, the Autobot survivors are able to retake the planet with ease. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Both Ultra Magnus and Galvatron attempt to open the Matrix at pivotal moments in an attempt to use it against their foes. In both cases, they fail, because they aren't The Chosen One. In Galvatron's case, this prompts Unicron's decision to destroy Cybertron. Thrust has this expression on his face right before Optimus (in truck mode) runs into him. Spike and Bumblebee when they detonate an entire moon right as Unicron's eating it. At first they celebrate, then the debris clears and they see it didn't even make a dent. Galvatron when Hot Rod transforms into Rodimus Prime and he quickly gets overpowered. Starscream’s last conscious thought once he realizes just who is disrupting his coronation. Kup and Daniel when they see the Constructicons merging to form Devastator. Devastator in turn initially has this look when he sees the Dinobots descending on him. Subverted, though, when he handles them without much trouble. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory: While the Autobots ultimately drive the Decepticons away from Autobot City, they sustain heavy casualties (up to and including Optimus Prime). The Decepticons return a short time later and force the Autobots to abandon the city for the stars. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Unicron is unimpressed with Megatron's boasting, and lets him know this in a disinterested, almost casual way. And of course... | |
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Expository Theme Tune | |
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Expository Theme Tune: Even more so than the cartoon's theme. The extended version of the movie theme over the ending credits pretty much sums up the whole of the movie. Fortunately, the extended version only plays then; a shortened version that really only has the chorus in it is used at the beginning. | |
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Omnicidal Maniac | |
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Omnicidal Maniac: Unicron's purpose is to eat everything in the universe. Depending on which canon continuity you follow, he was either created to fulfill that role in a cosmic duality with Primus (who doesn't appear in this film) or chose it for himself. Or was designed to do it by an egomaniac scientist who wanted to remake the universe from scratch. | |
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Go for the Eye | |
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Go for the Eye: Megatron certainly tries. | |
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Retcon | |
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What happened to Sunstreaker, Snarl, Hound, and Grapple? (The deaths of Bluestreak and Huffer were retconned in the "Dark Awakening" episode.) | |
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Space "X" | |
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Space "X": Take any normal word and add "-bot", "-ion" or "-ticon" to the name, and you've got a Transformer "species". | |
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Transforming Mecha | |
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The early "The Secret of Cybertron" concept, the Transformers' home planet Cybertron was going to turn out to be a giant Transforming Mecha. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: During the argument about new Decepticon leadership, Hook tries to shoot down Soundwave's claim with "No one would follow an uncharismatic bore like you!". If you've read Hook's personality profile, he is infamously snobbish and ... well, uncharismaticnote it's why the personable Scrapper is group leader, rather than Hook, averting Leader Forms the Head. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra: Several characters have this happen to them. Bluestreak, Sunstreaker, Huffer, Thundercracker, Skywarp, and Bombshell appear in cameos with no lines, Shockwave appears in two scenes and is implied to die, Shrapnel and Kickback are reduced to Butt Monkeys and then rebuilt, Mixmaster, Scavenger and Long Haul do not speak, Blitzwing gets one scene for himself, Ironhide, Wheeljack, Prowl, Ratchet and Windcharger are killed off (Brawn's death is debated by fans) and Sludge, despite being a major character, has no lines. Spike and the three major Autobots who survive the movie (Bumblebee, Jazz, and Cliffjumper) have more minor roles. Perceptor and the four other Dinobots (Snarl mysteriously receiving this treatment) are the only pre-movie characters to do much of anything in the post-Autobot City scenes. Even Optimus Prime is only around for the first third of the movie. Plus, some characters don't appear in the movie at all, leaving their fates uncertain. | |
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Transformation Is a Free Action | |
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Transformation Is a Free Action: Unicron is one of the few cases in which this trope is justified; he's so massive, it's not like any of the Transformers could do anything about his Transformation Sequence. Galvatron tried to subvert this after having an Oh, Crap! moment but failed miserably at it. | |
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Literal Ass-Kicking | |
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Literal Ass-Kicking: Grimlock and the Dinobots attack Unicron in the rear immediately after Grimlock declares he'll kick butt. | |
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Color Failure | |
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Color Failure: Upon death, Optimus Prime's body fades to a charcoal gray color —referred to In-Universe as "gunmetal grey"— as does Starscream about a second before he completely disintegrates after being shot by Galvatron. Prowl also suffers this earlier in the film during the shuttle attack, fading to gray as a laser blast from one of the Constructicons melts his insides. | |
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What If? | |
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What If?: IDW Publishing published a one-shot comic titled Transformers: Deviations, which consisted of a retelling of the events of this film where Optimus Prime survived and the story took a different path as a result. | |
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Robot Kid | |
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Robot Kid: New Kid-Appeal Character Wheelie. He looks like a child, speaks in rhyme, and even has a slingshot. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: The movie is particularly infamous for Spike Witwicky blatantly saying "shit" in one scene (albeit a very understandable scene since Unicron just No Selled an exploding moon he was eating to the face) in spite of this being an animated film based on a children's show. Ultra Magnus' "dammit" is also a shock, especially in versions of the film which remove Spike saying "shit". Wreck-Gar uses the word "sexy" at one point. While not a swear like the other examples, it's not usually used in material aimed at the film's target audience. | |
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Slasher Smile | |
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Slasher Smile: Starscream gives one right before throwing Megatron out of Astrotrain into the depths of space. | |
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Large-Ham Announcer | |
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Large-Ham Announcer: The absurdly overenthusiastic announcer for the (barely-seen) trailer. THE MOST INCREDIBLE Rock & Roll ADVEN-TURE IS HERE! To be fair, it was arguably the biggest movie of 1986 as far as kids were concerned, and it was one hell of an adventure. So this may well be a Justified Trope, as the writers clearly went all out for this. | |
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Evil Gloating | |
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Evil Gloating: Galvatron is even better than Megatron in showing pure pleasure over killing Autobots. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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Subverted when Kup and Hot Rod are fed to the Sharkticon pit with the song "Hunger". The song in the context of the film would apply to the Sharkticons, but the scene is of Hot Rod and Kup trashing as many of them as they can before they're overwhelmed, only to be saved in the nick of time by the Dinobots. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Ironhide's reaction to Megatron's declaration of destroying Autobot City and the Autobots. Galvatron's horrified reaction to Unicron declaring that Cybertron is now on the menu. | |
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Affirmative Action Girl | |
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Affirmative Action Girl: Arcee is introduced here as the first prominent female Autobot. Unlike Elita One and the other female Autobots seen in the show's episode "The Search for Alpha Trion", Arcee goes on to become a major character in the cartoon. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: As mentioned under All There in the Manual, the battle between Omega Supreme and the Autobot gestalts versus the Decepticon gestalts is pretty amazing◊. | |
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Big Damn Movie | |
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Big Damn Movie: This film takes the scale of the animated show and cranks it up really high. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: In one scene, Grimlock asks Kup to "tell Grimlock about petro-rabbits!", a clear reference to the classic Of Mice and Men. The two other robotsnote named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, appropriately enough in Hot Rod and Kup's jail cell, are actually pieced together◊ from various suits used in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. While only visible for a split second, backgrounds from Fist of the North Star can be seen within◊ Unicron after he eats Lithone. When Sludge gets hammer punched by Devastator during the battle at Autobot City, his eyes pop out in a similar fashion to the classic Looney Tunes/Tex Avery shorts. | |
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Mentor Archetype | |
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Mentor Archetype: Optimus's death serves as a call to heroism for the other Autobots, and in particular Hot Rod. He also manages to stick around in spirit thanks to the Matrix. Kup, being a mentor of Hot Rod. | |
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Messianic Archetype | |
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Messianic Archetype: Optimus Prime rescues the Autobots from certain death at the hands of the Decepticons, dies for his trouble, then passes on the mantle in the form of the Matrix of Leadership, wherein he resides in spirit. Megatron is basically this trope's opposite. He begs to be saved, is cast aside by his own followers, and literally makes a deal with the devil to come back and get revenge. | |
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This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself | |
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This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: ...because Optimus Prime and Megatron are so powerful and so evenly matched that anyone interfering in their duel can only get themselves killed or get in the way. The latter happens and the former nearly does. | |
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Seen It All | |
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Seen It All: Pretty much any situation they're in reminds Kup of some old war story, much to Hot Rod's continued annoyance. This is Played for Laughs for most of the film, until they see Unicron standing astride Cybertron. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
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Killed Off for Real: Most of the deaths, but especially Starscream's. When Plot Armor goes down the drain, beloved, important characters can die, especially in a war-like conflict. For Starscream, just because he finally achieves his goal of being crowned king of Decepticons, he doesn't magically become immune to a stronger Decepticon killing and usurping him. | |
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Wacky Wayside Tribe | |
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Wacky Wayside Tribe: The encounters with the Quintessons and the Junkions mainly serve to keep the film from being too short. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: Kup loses his left arm and right leg when Hot Rod rescues him from the octopus on Quintessa. Fortunately, Hot Rod reattaches them in the aftermath. | |
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Coming in Hot | |
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Coming in Hot: "Brace for impact!" | |
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Planet Eater | |
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Planet Eater: Unicron is a planet that eats other planets to fuel his cosmic rampage of destruction. | |
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In Spite of a Nail | |
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In Spite of a Nail: In the Marvel Comics adaptation, Hot Rod doesn't interfere in Optimus and Megatron's battle, and it ends the same way it does in the movie. | |
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Opening Scroll | |
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Opening Scroll: The European release of the movie has a Star Wars-esque opening scroll after the intro sequence of Unicron devouring Lithone. | |
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Citadel City | |
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Citadel City: Autobot City transforms into one when the Decepticons launch their surprise attack. Since the 'cons were so close to the city by the time they were detected, the defenses were only partially effective. That said, it did let the Autobots hold out throughout the night, long enough for reinforcements to arrive. | |
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"Will Return" Caption | |
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"Will Return" Caption: European edits have a voiceover at the end proclaiming that Optimus Prime will return. | |
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Psychotic Smirk | |
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Psychotic Smirk: Megatron is seen evilly smirking at something just before Optimus finds him during the Battle of Autobot City. He is actually watching the Constructicons drive the Autobots back further into the city; a scene showing this fight was storyboarded but never made it to the final movie. | |
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The Cavalry | |
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The Cavalry: Who's there to save Hot Rod and Kup on Quintessa? The Dinobots! | |
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Foe-Tossing Charge | |
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Foe-Tossing Charge: Optimus Prime trashes the Decepticons who are attacking Earth, complete with Theme Music Power-Up. He leaves Megatron crippled. Rodimus Prime gets an identical treatment upon his Matrix-fueled promotion, curb stomping Galvatron in the process. | |
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Fake Ultimate Hero | |
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Ultra Magnus is also depicted as a literal Fake Ultimate Hero whom the Autobots and Junkions look up to after Prime's passing (Prime formally designates him Autobot Commander before he himself perishes), and Galvatron sees him as his second greatest foe. He's even front and center on the film's original poster, while Rodimus is in the background with Wheelie. Magnus becomes Rodimus's right-hand man and adviser in season 3. | |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner | |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Rodimus Prime, who had (as Hot Rod) been getting choked to death by Galvatron, tells him in no uncertain terms that the tide has turned before throwing Galvatron out into space. | |
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Eye Lights Out | |
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Eye Lights Out: The concept of a Cybertronians' eye's blinking out as they die was first introduced in the film, along with the idea that they would lose their coloring and become grey (though only Optimus does it here). A non-lethal variation is shown on Quintessa when Kup's eyes are 'off' before he almost literally blinks them back on making it looks like his eyes were closed until that moment when Hot Rod saved him from the giant robo-squid. | |
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Avoid the Dreaded G Rating | |
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Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Despite the relatively high amount of violence and deaths in the film, it was originally going to be rated "G" (as said violence was "merely" robot-on-robot violence), and so the creative team realized that to bump that up to a more preferable "PG" rating, they would have to deliberately cross some lines. The most obvious result of this was the infamous line "Oh shit, what are we gonna do now?" (and "Open, dammit, open!" may have served that purpose too). Hilariously, this one was done so the parents would have to accompany their children to the film and know which toys to buy their kids (as well as buy an extra ticket). Didn't matter in the UK where the film got a U certificate anyway. | |
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Decoy Protagonist | |
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Decoy Protagonist: You wouldn't be faulted for thinking that Optimus Prime would be the protagonist of the story, judging by his status as the Autobot leader. He dies in a tearjerkingly brutal fashion a third of the way into the film, and Hot Rod later takes up the Matrix of Leadership to fill in his place, as Rodimus Prime. Ultra Magnus is also depicted as a literal Fake Ultimate Hero whom the Autobots and Junkions look up to after Prime's passing (Prime formally designates him Autobot Commander before he himself perishes), and Galvatron sees him as his second greatest foe. He's even front and center on the film's original poster, while Rodimus is in the background with Wheelie. Magnus becomes Rodimus's right-hand man and adviser in season 3. | |
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Within Arm's Reach | |
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Within Arm's Reach: Galvatron begins to choke Hot Rod during the climax (don't ask how that works with robots in space), but the Decepticon leader still has the Matrix chained to himself as a necklace, which Hot Rod rips off and uses to turn into Rodimus Prime. | |
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Metal Muncher: Insecticons Shrapnel and Kickback try eating their way through the metallic walls of Autobot City. | |
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Last of His Kind | |
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Last of His Kind: Kranix tells Hot Rod and Kup that he's the last surviving native of the planet Lithone, which Unicron devoured in the opening. He is executed by the Quintessons, reducing that number to zero. | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
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Not Quite Dead: A number of the defeated Decepticons are clinging to the edges of life after they escape in Astrotrain, and are cast adrift to "lighten the load". | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: Toei Animation's finest work in the series after their big break with Fist of the North Star's film adaptation in the same year,note Fist of the North Star was released in Japan on March 8, 1986. This film was released on August 8, 1986 in North America and it shows. Afterwards, Toei worked part-time for this series after the movie, with AKOM animating most of the third seasonnote Sei Young handling the episode "Surprise Party" in both studios' place (infamously so due to the amount of coloration and animation errors, as well as the general cheapness of the production, having already been demonstrated in the three episodes AKOM animated in Season Two), with many of the episodes Toei animated often being cited as some of the best-looking episodes of the series (notably "The Ultimate Weapon", "Call of the Primitives" and "The Return of Optimus Prime"). | |
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Doomed Fellow Prisoner | |
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Doomed Fellow Prisoner: Kup and Hot Rod are imprisoned on the Quintesson planet. Next cell over is Kranix, who gets fed to the Sharkticons in order to show the Quintesson's "justice" system. | |
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11th-Hour Superpower | |
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11th-Hour Superpower: "Arise...Rodimus Prime." The Matrix of Leadership infuses Hot Rod with its power in the final act, turning him into the larger and stronger Rodimus Prime. Rodimus Prime easily overpowers Galvatron and hurls him into space. | |
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Kill Him Already! | |
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Kill Him Already!: Kup yells at Optimus to kill Megatron before Hot Rod intervenes. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Fitting the film's Star Wars-inspired nature, several characters have corresponding roles; Hot Rod is Luke Skywalker, Arcee is Leianote she even has circular modules on the side of her head that look just like Leia's original "cinnamon bun" hairstyle from A New Hope, Springer is Han Solo, Optimus is Obi-Wan Kenobi, Galvatron is Darth Vader, and Unicron is both The Emperor and the Death Star. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Optimus Prime wipes out the remnants of the Decepticon army by taking them out singlehandedly, starting with the line "Megatron must be stopped, no matter what the cost." | |
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Flanderization | |
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Flanderization: The Dinobots begin their change from brutish super-powerful warriors who the Autobots usually had to beg to help them and put the fear of Primus into the Deceptions when they arrived on the battlefield into completely dim-witted oafs played for comedy here. They still have moments of awesome in the movie, but in season three the change is complete. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: The Quintesson Judge runs a Kangaroo Court in which the "trials" serve as amusement before the prisoners are executed by being dropped into a pit full of Sharkticons. His very first scene has him declare the last survivors of planet Lithone's destruction as innocent and then have them executed anyway, laughing as they are eaten. It says a lot that Grimlock can easily sway the Sharkticons to turn on their master simply by stomping his foot and pointing at the Judge, who then sets himself apart from the other major villains in the movie by refusing to fight back and instead running away from the Sharkticons as they happily chase after their next meal. The Quintesson Prosecutor is not much better. It's all but outright said that he knows the trials will always end with the death of the prisoners and doesn't care, telling Hot Rod and Kup they're next after Kranix is dragged off for his ill-fated trial and later telling the duo they can beg for their lives but it probably won't help. In a movie that treats the topic of death and injury very seriously, the Prosecutor's defeat by getting crushed under a door the Dinobots then walk over is played for comedy. | |
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Like You Would Really Do It | |
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Commercials for the movie had the narrator say "Does Prime die?" over footage of Optimus getting blasted, followed by Megatron's line: "It's over, Prime!" Some viewers may have thought "Like You Would Really Do It",invoked but... | |
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Stock Legal Phrases | |
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Hot Rod, when he and Kup are also on "trial", is threatened with contempt of court, and retorts, "I have nothing but contempt for this court!" | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Galvatron is in terrified awe at the sight of Unicron transforming. This exchange as the Autobots approach Unicron destroying Cybertron: | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
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Creepy Monotone: Orson Welles was in poor health (it was a few months before he died) and couldn't really deliver to his full potential (plus, there are those who have claimed he didn't really like the role, though this is largely debatable), resulting in many of his lines sounding borednote Many fans believe this actually works for the character; an incredibly powerful, ancient, planet-sized being like Unicron would be bored when having to deal with lesser beings like Megatron, who spends much of their conversation posturing despite, as Unicron points out, having no leverage to bargain with. However, with a bit of help from the sound engineer, Unicron achieves this effect, and it works. As per tradition, Soundwave also speaks with this. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Grimlock and the Dinobots pull this one off beautifully, during the Autobots assault on Unicron; they jump out of their ship - "Me Grimlock kick butt!" - switch to dino mode and proceeds to crash feet first right on Unicron's ass. | |
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Screw the War, We're Partying | |
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Screw the War, We're Partying: The apparent death of Ultra Magnus and theft of the Matrix doesn't stop the Autobots from having a dance party as soon as they make peace with the Junkions. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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The Dinobots aren't too bad at it either, busting in to break up Hot Rod and Kup's aborted trial and flattening the bailiff in the process. | |
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Sham Ceremony | |
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Sham Ceremony: Galvatron certainly thought this of Starscream's short-lived Awesome Moment of Crowning. | |
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The Starscream | |
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The Starscream: Starscream gets his wish, finally getting rid of Megatron and being crowned Leader of the Decepticons... for about 20 seconds, before Galvatron shows up and vaporizes him. Then Galvatron plays the same role against his new master, Unicron. | |
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Death Is Gray | |
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Death Is Gray: Optimus Prime turns gray upon death. Interestingly, almost none of the other many characters who die in the first twenty minutes of the film alone change color upon death, indicating that Optimus is a special case. The exceptions are Prowl, who turns a smoky gray when he explodes internally (after being shot by Scavenger), and Starscream, who also takes on a gray color scheme when he is (finally) executed by the rebuilt Galvatron, crumbling to pieces when the blast finishes destroying him. | |
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Plot-Irrelevant Villain | |
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Plot-Irrelevant Villain: The Quintessons and their associated goons are just another obstacle to face and do not add much to the story. Their introduction here is just probably meant to set them up for Season 3 of the cartoon. | |
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Aliens Steal Cable | |
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The Junkions talk in nothing but 1970s television cliches and phrases. | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Perceptor, enough that even his fellow robots get fed up with it. If the original comic adaptation is anything to go by, this was intended to be even more of a Running Gag than it ended up being. | |
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War Is Hell | |
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War Is Hell: Almost as if apologizing for trivializing an affair as tragic as battle with the TV series, this movie dragged an entire generation of children kicking-and-screaming by the ears into visceral horror, death and sorrow that is actual warfare. Special mention goes to a scene featuring Arcee pointlessly dragging the blackened corpses of Windcharger and Wheeljack to safety. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: "It is the year 2005." The movie came out in 1986. Interestingly, most of the new Autobots' alt-modes are considered futuristic Earth vehicles, even though they resemble Cybertronian vehicles. note This is actually a bit of Fridge Brilliance. With Transformers being active on earth for 20 years, it would make sense that any with Cybertronian alt modes would influence the design of new vehicles. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: The film opens with the planet Lithone being devoured by Unicron. Then throughout the first 20 minutes, several of the Autobots were violently killed off. Including Optimus Prime. | |
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Laser Blade | |
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Laser Blade: Hot Rod wields one while sparring with an Auto-Combatant. Megatron uses a very similar weapon, that he finds lying on the ground, against Optimus Prime in their duel. | |
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Planet Spaceship | |
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Planet Spaceship: There were two in earlier drafts. The early "The Secret of Cybertron" concept, the Transformers' home planet Cybertron was going to turn out to be a giant Transforming Mecha. A later draft had Junkeon turn out to be one with the Autobots flying it to Cybertron rather than finding a ship. This made it into Marvel's Early Draft Tie-In Comic-Book Adaptationnote The original dialogue is still there, as Wreck-Gar refers to "New Improved Junkion planet", probably because they couldn't afford to have Eric Idle come back and redo the line. | |
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R-Rated Opening | |
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R-Rated Opening: To show this is Darker and Edgier, the opening has a planet (with robotic children, no less) being eaten by Unicron. Shortly thereafter we have the Decepticons boarding the Autobot shuttle, which has the most brutal on-screen deaths in the movie. (The deaths of Prowl and Ironhide in particular are gruesome, as the former's insides seem to explode and smoke pours out of his eyes and mouth, while the latter is mercilessly executed by at point blank range after making a vain attempt to fight back.) | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: Given the utter glee with which the Sharkticons go after the Quintessons when Grimlock tells them to, one gets the idea that the Sharkticons didn't like the Quintessons very much. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: When the Decepticons are retreating after the Battle of Autobot City, Astrotrain says they need to jettison excess weight, there's no gravity in space, weight would not be a problem, this is just an excuse for Megatron and the others to be rebuilt into Galvatron, Cyclonus, Scourge and his armada.note This lampshaded in the DVD commentary It almost becomes Accidentally-Correct Writing: too much mass would have made acceleration difficult. | |
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Lodged Blade Removal | |
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Lodged Blade Removal: During their climatic duel, Megatron hurls a sharp piece of debris at Optimus Prime, impaling him in the left side of his abdomen. Optimus avoids a couple of follow up shots from Megatron's fusion cannon before punching him into a wall, and then takes the time to remove the debris. Unfortunately, Megatron is wily enough to strike at the wound, first with a laser sword and later with several shots from a laser pistol, the combined damage eventually turning out to be fatal. In Optimus' defense, the debris was large enough to clearly be a hindrance in the fight, so leaving it in wasn't an option (and as a robot, he doesn't have to worry about bleeding; at least not as much as a human with a similar wound would). | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: In addition to Soundwave carrying the mortally injured Megatron to Astrotain, several other healthy Decepticons can be seen helping their injured comrades to Astrotrain when the Decepticons evacuate Autobot city (Thrust carries Shrapnel, Long Haul carries Kickback, and Thundercracker carries Bombshell). Kind of gets subverted by what happens to the injured Decepticons later though... | |
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Everything Trying to Kill You | |
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Everything Trying to Kill You: The Quintessons' home planet, Quintessa, is filled with robotic wildlife that attacks anything foreign. | |
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