Maggie Madsen

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:''Maggie Madsen is a [[an alien with super power to find intrusion is to said in transformers 3]] from the [[Movie (franchise)|live-action movie]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:MaggieMadsen 1.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Maggie has a really clear Mirage toy.]]
'''Maggie Madsen''' isn't very good at handling people. Her superiors think it's downright unfair that someone that young and that ''hot'' can also be ''that good''. She hasn't yet figured out how to be ''tactful'' when she tells people who outrank her that they're completely wrong.

Maggie is a former analyst for the [[wikipedia:National_Security_Agency|NSA]] who was fired for twice rewriting her supervisor's conclusions in reports. [[John Keller]] is aware of this, not because he knows everything, but because it's ''hilarious''—she was ''right'' both times. That kind of brilliance buys her a little slack in his book...but only a little.

Maggie now works for the [[wikipedia:RAND|Rand Corporation]] with [[Glen Whitmann]]. She has a strong [[Australia|Australian]] accent.

She is quite possibly the only computer nerd in the world that goes to work in a miniskirt and high heels and is able to pull it off.

{{note|Most of Maggie's "too brash for her own good" sub-plot was cut from the movie... because it's not very interesting. Her backstory comes from ''[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]''. In ''[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]'' the character is named "Maggie Marconi," probably an early development name.}}

==Fiction==
===''Transformers'' (2007 film)===
:''Actor'': [[Rachael Taylor]] (English) [[Marika Hayashi]] (Japanese-language dub voice)

[[Image:Movie2007 Maggieandnerds.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Maggie began to regret going to the Energon advance screening.]]
Maggie and her fellow analysts were present at an emergency briefing held at the Pentagon when Secretary of Defence [[John Keller|Keller]] revealed that [[SOCCENT Forward Operations Base]] in [[Qatar]] had been attacked by a [[Blackout (Movie)|mysterious and unidentified force]], leaving no survivors. Pressing the point home to the young computer experts, Keller said that their [[Decepticon|enemy]] had attempted to hack into the base's mainframe but failed, leading the government to the conclusion that they would try again. Catching Maggie's attention was the only clue left at the base, a mysterious frequency encountered during the hack, one unlike any seen before.

While analyzing the frequency for its origin, Maggie and her team discovered a [[Frenzy (Movie)|hostile agent]] hacking into the mainframe of [[Air Force One]], accessing almost the entire US Military defense grid. With no way to stop the enemy, Maggie suggested disconnecting all their servers, which proved to be successful. Later, Maggie snuck into a confidential briefing between Keller and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. When one high-ranking officer commented that the attack might have come from North Korea or Russia, she interrupted, explaining that the capabilities of this enemy were far in advance of anything they'd ever seen. She theorized the possibility of a living organism being the culprit, but Keller was unwilling to listen unless she provided evidence to back up her claims.

[[Image:Movie2007 Maggie&Glen placeofZen.jpg|right|250px|thumb|"Jesus, Maggie, if Michael Bay finds out you hacked the Revenge of the Fallen script..."]]
Frustrated at being stonewalled by the government and the military, Maggie copied the contents of the frequency data onto an SD memory card and left the Pentagon. Arriving at her friend Glen's house, she explained to him the dire consequences she would face if she was discovered with this information, and that he was the only hacker with the skills to access the secrets embedded within. His curiosity piqued, Glen proceeded to hack into the data, discovering images and files about something called [[Megatron (Movie)|Project: Iceman]] and an organization named [[Sector Seven]]. Within the signal itself, she and Glen discovered [[Cybertronian languages|strange symbols]]. Before they could view any more information, an FBI assault team crashed through the front door and arrested everybody in his house.

Detained in a holding room at the Pentagon, Maggie observed Glen eat an entire plate of donuts while he pontificated his theory that the food was a test in character and guilt: If one did not eat the donuts, one was guilty, and he, for one, had a totally clear conscience. When Federal agents entered the room, Glen immediately cracked and accused Maggie of all the wrongdoing while casting himself in a sympathetic (if somewhat pathetic) light. Maggie told him to shut up as she explained she needed to speak to Keller and that they needed to go about this crisis in a different direction before the United States went to war with the wrong country.

[[Image:Movie2007 Maggie%26Glen PeptoBismo.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"Of course we're drunk. You think we could do this film sober?"]]
Much later, as Glen was recovering from his donut binge with a bottle of ''Pepto Bismol'', Keller suddenly entered the holding room, telling Maggie to come with him as an advisor. He allowed Maggie to bring Glen along as her advisor. Soon, on a Army Blackhawk helicopter bound for [[Hoover Dam]], she and Glen found themselves with two teenagers, [[Sam Witwicky]] and [[Mikaela Banes]]. Attempting to break the ice, Sam initiated conversation, prompting Maggie to ask him why the government got them. To Glen's astonishment, he replied that he had bought [[Bumblebee (Movie)|a car]] that turned out to be an alien robot.

Landing, the group joined up with Keller, Captain [[William Lennox]], Sergeant [[Robert Epps]] and their men, escorted by Sector Seven director [[Seymour Simmons]] and [[Tom Banachek]]. The two spooks explained that they were all here because they'd been exposed to the [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|N.B.E.s]], a.k.a. the alien robots. Brought to a large, top-secret chamber, the group saw [[Megatron (Movie)|N.B.E.-1]], whom Sam identified as [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], leader of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]. When he explained that Megatron was after the [[AllSpark|All Spark]] cube to transform all of Earth's technology into an army, Simmons brought the group to a viewing room looking over an even larger chamber encasing the massive All Spark.

[[Image:Maggie-and-Glen.jpg|right|250px|thumb|This is giving me such a crick in the neck right now.]]
To demonstrate the All Spark's power, the group was then herded into a containment room where experiments using the radiation of the All Spark were conducted. Asking for phones and electronic devices, Simmons took Glen's proffered ''Nokia'' cell phone, commenting that they were nasty stuff, yet the Japanese know the way of the samurai. Maggie incredulously (but quietly) noted that ''Nokia'' is from Finland, to which Keller responded (also quietly) that while that was true, if she hadn't noticed, Simmons was a rather strange man. Exposed to the All Spark's power, Glen's cell phone was transformed into a small, spider-like mechanical beast with a tiny machine gun and rocket launcher, which jumped at Maggie as she looked on in astonishment. Griping that the beast was breaking its containment case, Simmons sent an enormous electrical shock into the creature, killing it. Soon after, Hoover Dam came under attack by the Decepticons, intent on freeing Megatron.

Needing to get word out to the US Air Force while traditional communications were down, Keller, Simmons, Glen and Maggie rushed to an archive storage room where there was an old radio. However, they soon discovered that while the radio worked, it had no microphone. Maggie suggested to Glen that they hotwire a computer into the radio to send out a tone that they could use as Morse code to contact the military. As Glen did so, [[Frenzy (Movie)|a Decepticon]] attacked, forcing Maggie to help barricade the door and load shells into antique shotguns for Keller. Simmons passed her a shotgun as he blasted the Decepticon with a flamethrower. The small enemy sneaked in via the air ducts and attacked the group with machine guns as Maggie, Keller and Simmons fought back. Eventually, Glen successfully managed to contact the Air Force just as an errant CD-razor projectile fired by the Decepticon destroyed its own head, (presumably) killing it. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|Transformers (2007)}}

===Titan Magazines===
{{Note|The following is in Law and Disorder letters page continuity.}}

Barricade has no idea who Maggie is, though Ironhide does. Ironhide believes that she's "undoubtedly" running her own department at the Rand Corporation. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.15|#15's Law and Disorder}}

===Transformers Mix & Match book===
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==Notes==
* The [[Transformers (novel)|film novelization]] provides a glimpse of an earlier version of her character: a rebel with green streaks in her hair and a diamond-stud nose ring. This look was apparently discarded in favor of a more telegenic backstory: People are prejudiced against her because she is too hot. '''Awesome.'''
* Maggie's name is just ''Maggie'':
{{quote|Actually, it's not ''Margaret''. I ''hate'' that. It says ''Maggie'' on my birth certificate...|Maggie Madsen, [[Transformers (novel)|''Transformers'' novelization]].}}
* In the official movie novelization she mentions she put herself through college by modeling.
* In [[IDW Publishing]]'s [[Movie Adaptation]] comic, Maggie only appears in two scenes in [[Movie Adaptation Issue Number Three|issues 3]] and [[Movie Adaptation Issue Number Four|4]], with Glen missing entirely. Additionally, the lack of appearances causes a weird discrepancy between issues 1 and 3—in issue 1, operators on board ''[[Air Force One]]'' detect Frenzy's intrusion into their network on their own; yet in issue 3, Maggie tells Sam that she "caught an alien hacking into ''Air Force One''" (like she did in the movie).

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