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Barack Obama

2010-06-13T16:59:58Z

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:''Barack Obama is a [[human]] from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]] [[live-action film series]].''

[[Image:Obama_interview.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Mr. President, with an alien invasion upon us, the American people want to know: ''Where is [[Wikipedia:Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]]?"'']]

'''Barack "Barry"<ref name="joke">[http://www.therealeffingdeal.com/blog/obamania-but-will-he-elect-to-take-the-search-seriously/#more-109 "OBAMAMANIA!" blog post] by Sharkatron3000 on TheRealEffingDeal.com</ref> Obama''' was elected [[President of the United States]] in a time of national and global peril. While [[President of the United States#Transformers (2007)|his predecessor]] was incumbent, a crisis had exploded with [[Megatron (Movie)|N.B.E. 01]]'s, the loss of the [[AllSpark (Movie)|All Spark]], and a swarm of [[Transformer|alien combatants]] waging a clandestine, highly unconventional war in hotspots across the [[Earth|world]].

When he was running for election, Obama had blown off a question about alien visitors with a joke.<ref name="joke" /> But as President, his fear that the [[Autobot]]s' presence attracted the [[Decepticon]]s led him to appoint a [[Theodore Galloway|National Security Advisor]] that was a constant thorn in the side of the [[NEST|joint human/Autobot military force]], which found itself increasingly hamstrung in direct proportion to the gravity of the Decepticon threat.

{{quote|...we aren’t sure Barry is so ready to tackle the real issues of EXTRATERRESTRIAL life, especially when it involves an INVASION FORCE!|[[Sharsky|Sharkatron3000]]|[[The Real Effing Deal|The Real Effing Deal.com]]}}

==Fiction==
===''Revenge of the Fallen'' (franchise)===
[[Sharsky|Sharkatron3000]] posted a clip on [[The Real Effing Deal]] from an interview of Obama when he was still running for president.
{{quote|If you are elected and you learned that the government knew aliens had visited Earth, and the public didn't know...would you be sure the public found out?|Channel 2 reporter}}
{{quote|It depends on what these aliens were like, and whether they were Democrats or Republicans.|Barack Obama}}
Sharkatron3000 took the interview as evidence that the President is completely unprepared for the prospect of alien visitors, because he treated the question as a joke.

Later, Leo Spitz cited the President's actions as a justification for his own video-blogging.{{storylink|The Real Effing Deal}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie===

After coming to power, Obama [[Tales of the Fallen issue 2|retained]] General [[Morshower]] as the [[:wikipedia:Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff|Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]].

Even though [[NEST]] had successfully destroyed the Decepticon infiltrators in [[Shanghai]], [[China]], the new President of the United States was horrified by the destruction caused during the operation. President Obama sent Director [[Theodore Galloway]] to [[Diego Garcia]] to outline the White House's criticisms of NEST's operations and their alliance with the alien Autobots, in particular [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]'s open invitation for Autobot refugees to come to [[Earth]]. They feared that reason the Decepticons being on Earth was to seek vengeance upon the Autobots and their allies, and when General Morshower attempted to defend [[William Lennox|Major Lennox]] and his men's judgement by stating they were above reproach, Galloway stated that as far as the President was concerned, ''nobody'' was above reproach. He directly asked Optimus Prime that if the President felt that the United States' national security was better served by having the Autobots leave Earth, would they do so peacefully? Optimus Prime agreed, but bluntly told Galloway to pass along a message to the President: What if the Autobots leave, and the humans are ''wrong?''

Soon afterwards, Optimus Prime was killed in battle defending [[Sam Witwicky]], and [[The Fallen]] began his invasion of Earth. Among the casualties were [[Paris]], [[France]], and the aircraft carrier [[United States Navy#U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)|U.S.S. ''Theodore Roosevelt'']]. Appalled with the loss of several thousand lives, the President ordered the deactivation of NEST and the immediate transportation of the Autobots back to Diego Garcia. Galloway also revealed Obama was even being forced to consider The Fallen's demands that Sam Witwicky be turned over to the Decepticons, as a "diplomatic" solution to the war. Lennox played along until he found an opportunity: While NEST and the corpse of Prime were being flown back to base, Lennox used an apparent emergency to trick Galloway into parachuting out. Lennox then took his team rogue, flying to [[Egypt]] to meet with Sam and [[Seymour Simmons]], who found a way to resurrect Prime and defeat The Fallen. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

===IDW ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===
[[Image:TalesoftheFallen5_BarackObama.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Look, hurry up, I've got three more comics to cameo in before lunch. (Oh god, Youngblood's next isn't it?)"]]

When military forces failed to restrain a resurrected [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]], [[NEST]] recommended an [[United States Air Force|air strike]] on Ravage's bolthole. Barack Obama was asked to authorize the air strike, and did. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 5}}
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==Notes==
* While on the campaign trail, the [[Wikipedia:Barack Obama|real-life Barack Obama]] met [[Michael Bay]] by chance in an airport, and the two had a mutually-complimentary conversation. Inspired by this encounter, Bay made a late-stage decision to add Obama's name and image to a brief scene in ''Revenge of the Fallen''.<ref>[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a160272/michael-bay-obama-likes-my-movies.html Michael Bay: 'Obama likes my movies'] at Digital Spy, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfT7ZF_AUk8 Bay telling the story at a press conference.]</ref> It is unknown whether it occurred to Bay, or whether it was planned or not, that the movie's otherwise-unnamed President is essentially a villain (or perhaps a well-meaning bureaucrat) whose concerns almost doom Earth. Whatever the case, some conservative movie critics rejoiced over Obama's (possibly accidental) negative portrayal in the movie.{{fact}}

* In an [[Transformers_(Titan_Magazine)#Alternate_universe|alternate timeline]] presented in the UK Titan comics, in which the Decepticons were victorious in the battle of [[Mission City]], Obama did not become the next President of the United States. Instead, when the previous President was killed, fictional Vice President [[Theodore Allen]] succeeded him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 14}}

* The real-life Obama was the inspiration for much of [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] [[Optimus Prime (TransTech)|Optimus Prime]]'s [[bio]].

* Obama took a notably more dismissive view of the Autobots than his ally [[United Kingdom#Notes|Gordon Brown]].

* Obama [[Cheetor (BW)|likes pie]]. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100424/ap_en_tv/us_leno_axelrod]

==Footnotes==
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Graham

2010-06-13T16:57:18Z

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:''Graham is a [[human]] from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]] portion of the [[Movie continuity|live-action movie continuity]].''

[[Image:SASF Agent Graham ROTF film.jpg|thumb|right|Nice beret. Be a shame if something ''happened'' to it...]]

'''Graham''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Special Air Service Forces]] agent, seconded to [[NEST]].

{{quote|Whatever the Decepticons are after, this is just the start.|Graham|''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie===
:''Actor:'' [[Matthew Marsden]]

Graham, the most senior British soldier taking part in NEST's [[Shanghai]] operation, rode in field commander [[William Lennox|Major Lennox]]'s helicopter on the way to the site where the [[Decepticon]] [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] had been detected. He listened as Lennox emphasized to the team the need to maintain secrecy and keep the Decepticons out of the public eye. Once on the ground, Graham and [[Robert Epps|Sergeant Epps]] led the NEST troopers in on Demolishor's signal with their scanners, only to have the Decepticon emerge from his vehicle mode disguise and attack, injuring many soldiers. As Demolishor and [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] fled, forcing NEST to give chase, but eventually [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Autobot]]s destroyed the Decepticons.

Though the operation had been a victory, it had been costly for the humans. Upon returning to NEST's base at [[Diego Garcia]], Lennox, Epps and Graham took part in honouring the bodies of their fallen comrades{{fact|this needs to be rewritten with the correct military term}}, before returning to the command hub to give their report to [[Morshower|General Morshower]], overall commander of NEST. Unfortunately, NSA director and government pitbull [[Theodore Galloway]] interrupted, airing his and [[Barack Obama|President Obama's]] skepticism that NEST was achieving its goals of protecting [[Earth]] in light of the damage that had resulted from their operations.

Things soon came to a head when the Decepticon leader [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] was reactivated and the Decepticons came to Earth, seeking [[Sam Witwicky]]. Though NEST rolled out to assist the Autobots, they arrived too late to prevent the death of Optimus Prime, a major blow to NEST's morale. With Prime's death, Megatron's master [[The Fallen]] launched his attack on Earth, causing thousands of deaths among military personnel and civilians alike. As NEST and the Autobots were grappling with these events and the death of Optimus, the odious Galloway turned up with soldiers to strip Lennox of his command and cease NEST's anti-Decepticon operations. Evidently, the President was willing to seek out a diplomatic solution (including handing over Sam Witwicky) to end the Decepticon attacks on Earth. Graham pointed out that giving concessions to the Decepticons would give their enemies an excuse to demand more from humanity, something Galloway briefly considered before dismissing, ordering NEST back to Diego Garcia.

After former [[Sector Seven]] agent [[Seymour Simmons]] contacted Lennox and asked him to bring the body of Optimus Prime to [[Egypt]] (where the Autobot leader could be revived), Graham feigned ignorance when Galloway became suspicious of what Lennox and Epps were discussing with their [[United States Air Force#C-17 Globemaster III|C-17]] transport pilots. Evidently he was successful, as Galloway believed Lennox when the NEST pilot faked engine trouble to force the NSA director to parachute from the plane.

After landing in a village, Graham ordered the others to cover Optimus's body while they took positions around the town. After a few minutes of waiting, Graham had a visual of [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Yellow]] team about four kilometers out, and fired a flare to guide them to the landing site. Unfortunately, the flare attracted the attention of [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and he began strafing the incoming Autobots while also releasing an [[electromagnetic pulse]] to disable NEST's communications. After Megatron arrived, he ordered the Decepticons to begin their [[Operation: Firestorm|assault]], with Graham spotting thirteen Decepticon [[transition form|comet]]s landing a distance from NEST's position.

Graham survived the battle to witness [[Sam Witwicky]] and Optimus Prime's resurrection as well as The Fallen's theft of the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. When the Fallen placed the Matrix in the [[solar harvester]] and activated the machine, Graham began ''running toward the pyramid'' and ordered others to begin opening fire. Despite the questionable tactical thinking of this plan, it didn't matter, as The Fallen raised the heavy weaponry of the [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] with [[telekinesis]] and destroyed it. Fortunately, Optimus Prime, with the parts of the deceased Decepticon defector [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]], managed to destroy the machine and kill The Fallen. After this, Graham and Lennox were seen congratulating Simmons for his help during the battle. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

==Notes==
*This character is credited as "SASF Agent Graham" on the [http://www.transformersmovie.com/ official movie website]. The full name of the SASF is given on [[Matthew Marsden]]'s interview on the DVD's ''Domestic Destruction'' featurette, as well as in the film credits.

*There's no such UK military unit as the "SASF" in the real-life continuity family. It is likely a fictionalized version of the "[[Wikipedia:Special_Air_Service|SAS]]" (given the colour of and insignia on his beret), except the SAS is a regiment of the British Army and, as such, doesn't have "agents" at all; rather their soldiers are known as "troopers". In addition, his uniform carries the insignia of a British Army captain (three "pips", look on the slide on his chest).

*Graham was identified as part of the British military in numerous pre-release press reports on ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''.

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