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Bumblebee (film)/home video

2026-01-31T04:15:36Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Blu-Ray 3D */

{{Nav-Bumblebee}}
''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' was released on digital HD on [[March 19]], [[2019]] and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-Ray, and DVD on [[April 2]] the same year by [[Paramount Pictures]], following... a surprisingly successful theatrical run, given its lower budget than the previous films. A 3D Blu-Ray edition was eventually released on [[December 19]], [[2024]], exclusively in Germany.

==Standard retail releases==
Please note that UK and Australia get a censored cut to comply with censorship policies and adhere more to 'their' definition of a family-friendly film, while the rest of the world gets the original uncensored version. Also note that when a digital code is given with a home video release, such as in North America, the UK, and France, it expires on April 2, [[2021]].

===DVD===
[[Image:BB DVD.jpg|thumb|upright|The closest, most accessible retro vibe experience.]]
* '''''Bumblebee'''''
** North America
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada)
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada)
** UK / Australia
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH
** Brazil / Asia
*** Audio: English, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Thai
*** Subtitles: English, Malay, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Traditional), Portuguese (Brazil), Thai
** Western Europe
*** Audio: English, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian
*** Subtitles: English, Danish, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
** Germany / Russia / Turkey
*** Audio: English, German, Russian, Turkish
*** Subtitles: English, German, Russian, Turkish
** Eastern Europe / India
*** Audio: English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish
*** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Czech, Greek, Hindi, Icelandic, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Slovak
{{-}}

===Blu-Ray===
[[Image:BB BD.jpg|thumb|upright|This is the one that's selling like Popeyes spicy chicken sandwiches. Fortunately, no one's gotten into fights or been stabbed over this. ''Yet.'']]
* '''''Bumblebee'''''
** the Americas and most of Western Europe
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), French (Canada), Italian, Portuguese (Brazil)
*** Subtitles: English, English Audio Description, Danish, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), French (Canada), Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Finnish, Swedish
** UK / Australia
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH
** Germany / Asia / Eastern Europe
*** Audio: English, Czech, German, Japanese, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Thai
*** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Malay, Cantonese, Czech, German, Greek, Hindi, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Chinese (Traditional), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Romanian, Chinese (Simplified), Slovak, Thai, Turkish
** Special bonus features only on this format:
*** Sector 7 Archive
*** Deleted and Extended Scenes
*** Outtakes
*** Bee Vision: The Transformers Robots of Cybertron (compare to the "Detective Mode" of ''Pokémon: Detective Pikachu'')
*** Bringing Bumblebee To The Big Screen
*** [[Sector 7 Adventures: The Battle at Half Dome]] (also included as a pack-in physical comic book)
** North American retailers sell the Blu-Ray with the DVD, a digital code, and the comic book as a combo pack.
** The UK also gives a digital code with every Blu-Ray copy.
** The Russian edition contains the same freebies as the aforementioned 4K.
{{-}}

===Blu-Ray 3D===
{{multiple image|align= right|direction= horizontal
|footer= I bought a vinyl album of wasp sounds the other day. Played it, didn't sound anything like wasps! Then I realized I was playing the Bee side.
|image1= 4260669613096 1920x1920.jpg|width1=120
|image2= 6961309 Bumblebee-3DBD Cover WC 1920x1920.jpg|width2=120}}
* '''''Bumblebee (Turbine Collector Series #07)'''''
** Audio: English, German
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, German, German SDH
*** The 3D Blu-ray is a 2D/3D hybrid disc and comes with a double-sided cover with reversible cover art, as pictured above.
{{-}}

===4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray===
[[Image:BB 4K.jpg|thumb|upright|'''OH YEAH.''' Your parents' young adult years have never looked ''this'' good.]]
* '''''Bumblebee'''''
** most of the world
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Czech, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), French (Canada), Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Thai, Turkish
*** Subtitles: English, English Audio Description, Arabic, Malay, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Greek, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), French (Canada), Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Dutch, Korean, Hungarian, Chinese (Traditional), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Romanian, Slovak, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
** UK / Australia
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH
** Germany / Japan / China
*** Audio: English, German, Japanese, Mandarin (China)
*** Subtitles: English, German, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified)
*** Most 4K releases also include the Blu-Ray (except Greece and Russia), some even selling the North American 4K with the German Blu-Ray (but never the other way around).
*** North America also includes the Blu-Ray's pack-in comic book as well as a digital code.
*** The UK also gives a digital code.
*** Russia sells the 4K as a gift set with an art book, the comic translated into Russian, and a set of six art cards.
{{-}}
===Digital HD (iTunes, Amazon Prime, Paramount Movies, Vudu, Fandango, Google Play / YouTube)===
[[Image:BB Digital.jpg|thumb|upright|For easier portability and compatibility across... anywhere!]]
* '''''Bumblebee'''''
** Special features available depending on whether the consumer purchased them or not
** Language selection dependent on country
{{-}}

===''Bumblebee'' + ''Transformers'' 6-Film Collection===
<center><gallery>
Image:BB 4K Bundle.jpg|'''4K Ultra HD Bundle (France only)'''
Image:BB BD Bundle.jpg|'''Blu-ray Bundle (North America [also contains digital codes], Nordic countries, France, Russia, and India)'''
Image:BB Digital Bundle.jpg|'''Digital HD'''
</gallery></center>

==SteelBooks==

===Type A===
[[Image:BB SB A.jpg|thumb|250px|Yeah, uh-huh, you know what it is!]]
* Outside art: yellow background with title logo a black paint outline of Bumblebee and his Beetle mode, along with company logos and copyright information on the back
* Inside art: Bumblebee and Charlie, with their backs at the viewers, staring into the sunset
* Exclusive 4K Ultra HD combo pack editions:
** Best Buy (North America)
** Zavvi (UK)
** JB Hi-Fi (Australia)
** Fnac (France)
** Amazon (Japan, Spain)
** NOTE: Taiwan and Korea sell this in general retail and the Japanese SteelBook comes with 2 folders as gifts with purchase.
* General retail Blu-Ray editions
** Germany
** Italy
** Greece
** Nordic countries
** Latin America

===Type B===
[[Image:BB SB B.jpg|thumb|150px|Really does put the "bright" in [[Brighton Falls]].]]
* Outside art: white background with title logo Bumblebee breaking through a wall, the sky visible around him and on the back, an outline of his helm.
* Inside art: Charlie standing right outside of Bumblebee's Beetle mode on a sandy patch with one door open.
* 4K Ultra HD combo packs:
** France (Fnac exclusive)
** Germany (general retail)
** Italy (general retail)
** India (general retail)
** Hungary (general retail)
* Standalone Blu-Ray releases:
** UK (Zavvi exclusive)
** France (Fnac exclusive)
** Korea (general retail)
** Taiwan (general retail)
** NOTE: Spain sells this as an Amazon-exclusive Blu-Ray + DVD combo pack.

==Paramount x TFW2005 Sweepstakes-exclusive VHS==
[[Image:BB VHS.jpg|thumb|200px|The most authentic retro experience possible. Now invite your grandparents, grab some pizza and cola, and get ready to viewing party like it's '87!]]
As a contest prize, Paramount gave the movie on VHS to some lucky winners. Only the movie in its original English version and some screenshots of the movie printed in the style of Polaroids. And no, it's not an April Fool's Day prank. In fact, there's even a sticker of Bumblebee on the tape that says "Bee Kind, Please Rewind."

[[Category:Exclusives]]
[[Category:Home video]]
[[Category:Bumblebee media]]

Bumblebee (film)/home video

2026-01-31T04:15:10Z

ABYouKnowMe: Streamlined language distribution lists

{{Nav-Bumblebee}}
''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' was released on digital HD on [[March 19]], [[2019]] and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-Ray, and DVD on [[April 2]] the same year by [[Paramount Pictures]], following... a surprisingly successful theatrical run, given its lower budget than the previous films. A 3D Blu-Ray edition was eventually released on [[December 19]], [[2024]], exclusively in Germany.

==Standard retail releases==
Please note that UK and Australia get a censored cut to comply with censorship policies and adhere more to 'their' definition of a family-friendly film, while the rest of the world gets the original uncensored version. Also note that when a digital code is given with a home video release, such as in North America, the UK, and France, it expires on April 2, [[2021]].

===DVD===
[[Image:BB DVD.jpg|thumb|upright|The closest, most accessible retro vibe experience.]]
* '''''Bumblebee'''''
** North America
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada)
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada)
** UK / Australia
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH
** Brazil / Asia
*** Audio: English, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Thai
*** Subtitles: English, Malay, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Traditional), Portuguese (Brazil), Thai
** Western Europe
*** Audio: English, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian
*** Subtitles: English, Danish, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
** Germany / Russia / Turkey
*** Audio: English, German, Russian, Turkish
*** Subtitles: English, German, Russian, Turkish
** Eastern Europe / India
*** Audio: English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish
*** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Czech, Greek, Hindi, Icelandic, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Slovak
{{-}}

===Blu-Ray===
[[Image:BB BD.jpg|thumb|upright|This is the one that's selling like Popeyes spicy chicken sandwiches. Fortunately, no one's gotten into fights or been stabbed over this. ''Yet.'']]
* '''''Bumblebee'''''
** the Americas and most of Western Europe
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), French (Canada), Italian, Portuguese (Brazil)
*** Subtitles: English, English Audio Description, Danish, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), French (Canada), Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Finnish, Swedish
** UK / Australia
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH
** Germany / Asia / Eastern Europe
*** Audio: English, Czech, German, Japanese, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Thai
*** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Malay, Cantonese, Czech, German, Greek, Hindi, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Chinese (Traditional), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Romanian, Chinese (Simplified), Slovak, Thai, Turkish
** Special bonus features only on this format:
*** Sector 7 Archive
*** Deleted and Extended Scenes
*** Outtakes
*** Bee Vision: The Transformers Robots of Cybertron (compare to the "Detective Mode" of ''Pokémon: Detective Pikachu'')
*** Bringing Bumblebee To The Big Screen
*** [[Sector 7 Adventures: The Battle at Half Dome]] (also included as a pack-in physical comic book)
** North American retailers sell the Blu-Ray with the DVD, a digital code, and the comic book as a combo pack.
** The UK also gives a digital code with every Blu-Ray copy.
** The Russian edition contains the same freebies as the aforementioned 4K.
{{-}}

===Blu-Ray 3D===
{{multiple image|align= right|direction= horizontal
|footer= I bought a vinyl album of wasp sounds the other day. Played it, didn't sound anything like wasps! Then I realized I was playing the Bee side.
|image1= 4260669613096 1920x1920.jpg|width1=120
|image2= 6961309 Bumblebee-3DBD Cover WC 1920x1920.jpg|width2=120}}
* '''''Bumblebee (Turbine Collector Series #07)'''''
** English and German audio and subtitles
*** NOTE: Unlike other releases, the 3D edition comes with closed captions for the German dub, in addition to German translation subtitles for the English audio.
*** The 3D Blu-ray is a 2D/3D hybrid disc and comes with a double-sided cover with reversible cover art, as pictured above.
{{-}}

===4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray===
[[Image:BB 4K.jpg|thumb|upright|'''OH YEAH.''' Your parents' young adult years have never looked ''this'' good.]]
* '''''Bumblebee'''''
** most of the world
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Czech, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), French (Canada), Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Thai, Turkish
*** Subtitles: English, English Audio Description, Arabic, Malay, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Greek, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), French (Canada), Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Dutch, Korean, Hungarian, Chinese (Traditional), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Romanian, Slovak, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
** UK / Australia
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH
** Germany / Japan / China
*** Audio: English, German, Japanese, Mandarin (China)
*** Subtitles: English, German, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified)
*** Most 4K releases also include the Blu-Ray (except Greece and Russia), some even selling the North American 4K with the German Blu-Ray (but never the other way around).
*** North America also includes the Blu-Ray's pack-in comic book as well as a digital code.
*** The UK also gives a digital code.
*** Russia sells the 4K as a gift set with an art book, the comic translated into Russian, and a set of six art cards.
{{-}}
===Digital HD (iTunes, Amazon Prime, Paramount Movies, Vudu, Fandango, Google Play / YouTube)===
[[Image:BB Digital.jpg|thumb|upright|For easier portability and compatibility across... anywhere!]]
* '''''Bumblebee'''''
** Special features available depending on whether the consumer purchased them or not
** Language selection dependent on country
{{-}}

===''Bumblebee'' + ''Transformers'' 6-Film Collection===
<center><gallery>
Image:BB 4K Bundle.jpg|'''4K Ultra HD Bundle (France only)'''
Image:BB BD Bundle.jpg|'''Blu-ray Bundle (North America [also contains digital codes], Nordic countries, France, Russia, and India)'''
Image:BB Digital Bundle.jpg|'''Digital HD'''
</gallery></center>

==SteelBooks==

===Type A===
[[Image:BB SB A.jpg|thumb|250px|Yeah, uh-huh, you know what it is!]]
* Outside art: yellow background with title logo a black paint outline of Bumblebee and his Beetle mode, along with company logos and copyright information on the back
* Inside art: Bumblebee and Charlie, with their backs at the viewers, staring into the sunset
* Exclusive 4K Ultra HD combo pack editions:
** Best Buy (North America)
** Zavvi (UK)
** JB Hi-Fi (Australia)
** Fnac (France)
** Amazon (Japan, Spain)
** NOTE: Taiwan and Korea sell this in general retail and the Japanese SteelBook comes with 2 folders as gifts with purchase.
* General retail Blu-Ray editions
** Germany
** Italy
** Greece
** Nordic countries
** Latin America

===Type B===
[[Image:BB SB B.jpg|thumb|150px|Really does put the "bright" in [[Brighton Falls]].]]
* Outside art: white background with title logo Bumblebee breaking through a wall, the sky visible around him and on the back, an outline of his helm.
* Inside art: Charlie standing right outside of Bumblebee's Beetle mode on a sandy patch with one door open.
* 4K Ultra HD combo packs:
** France (Fnac exclusive)
** Germany (general retail)
** Italy (general retail)
** India (general retail)
** Hungary (general retail)
* Standalone Blu-Ray releases:
** UK (Zavvi exclusive)
** France (Fnac exclusive)
** Korea (general retail)
** Taiwan (general retail)
** NOTE: Spain sells this as an Amazon-exclusive Blu-Ray + DVD combo pack.

==Paramount x TFW2005 Sweepstakes-exclusive VHS==
[[Image:BB VHS.jpg|thumb|200px|The most authentic retro experience possible. Now invite your grandparents, grab some pizza and cola, and get ready to viewing party like it's '87!]]
As a contest prize, Paramount gave the movie on VHS to some lucky winners. Only the movie in its original English version and some screenshots of the movie printed in the style of Polaroids. And no, it's not an April Fool's Day prank. In fact, there's even a sticker of Bumblebee on the tape that says "Bee Kind, Please Rewind."

[[Category:Exclusives]]
[[Category:Home video]]
[[Category:Bumblebee media]]

Transformers: The Last Knight (film)/home video

2026-01-31T04:05:37Z

ABYouKnowMe: Streamlined language distribution lists

{{factions|dvd|blu-ray}}
{{Nav-tlk}}
'''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''' was released in Digital HD on [[September 12]], [[2017]], and on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD in the US on [[September 26]], [[2017]] by [[Paramount Pictures]]. And if you were disappointed with the lack of bonus features in the original release of ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)/home video|Dark of the Moon]]'', then strap in, there's plenty in TLK. Also, all releases of the film were formatted IMAX-style. Yes, ''even the DVD''.

==Standard retail releases==
;Single disc DVD
*Includes the movie in IMAX format and Digital HD code
**The Americas
***Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada)
***Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada)
**UK, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia
***Audio: English, English Audio Description
***Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
*** NOTE: Only these two editions have the English closed captions and audio descriptive service.
**Western Europe
***Audio: English, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian
***Subtitles: English, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Dutch
**Japan, Brazil
***Audio: English, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil)
***Subtitles: English, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil)
**Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey
***Audio: English, German, Turkish
***Subtitles: English, German, Turkish
**India, Russia, Ukraine
***Audio: English, Hindi, Russian, Ukrainian
***Subtitles: English, Hindi, Russian, Ukrainian
**Eastern Europe
***Audio: English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish
***Subtitles: English, Arabic, Czech, Greek, Estonian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Slovak
**Asia
***Audio: English, Thai
***Subtitles: English, Malay, Cantonese, Korean, Chinese (Traditional), Thai
;Blu-ray Combo Pack (standalone everywhere except USA, Canada, and Japan)
*Includes Blu-ray Disc in HD, along with aforementioned DVD, Digital HD, and Blu-ray Special Features
**The Americas, Australia, New Zealand
***Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
***Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada)
**Western Europe, Japan
***Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Japanese
***Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
*** NOTE: Only these two editions have the English closed captions and audio descriptive service.
**Germany, Austria, Switzerland
***Audio: English, German
***Subtitles: English, German
**Eastern Europe, Asia
***Audio: English, Czech, Hindi, Polish, Russian, Thai, Turkish
***Subtitles: English, Arabic, Malay, Cantonese, Czech, Greek, Estonian, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Chinese (Traditional), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
**A load of bonus features fit for [[Daytrader|Daytrader's]] sack:
***Merging Mythologies
***Climbing the Ranks
***The Royal Treatment: Transformers in the UK
***Motors and Magic
***Alien Landscape: [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]
***One More Giant Effin' Movie
*A TLK drawstring bag saw limited release with the Blu-ray Combo Pack while supplies lasted
;3D Blu-ray Combo Pack (standalone in Greece, India, Portugal, Russia, and Spain)
*Includes Blu-ray disc in IMAX 3D, along with the contents of Blu-ray combo pack
**The Americas, Australia, New Zealand
***Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
***Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada)
**Europe, Asia
***Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Japanese, Russian
***Subtitles: English, Arabic, Malay, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Greek, Estonian, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Romanian, Slovak, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
**Germany, Austria, Switzerland
***Audio: English, German
***Subtitles: English, German
;4K UHD Combo Pack (standalone in Greece, India, and Russia)
*Includes the movie in 4K resolution (Ultra-HD), along with Blu-ray feature film and bonus features
**Each 4K edition has the same specs as the Blu-ray edition for the corresponding country it is sold in.

==US retailer exclusives==
===Best Buy Exclusive Blu-ray Steelbook===
*Includes the contents of the Blu-ray Combo Pack in an aluminum casing featuring exclusive artwork
**''[https://www.bestbuy.com/site/transformers-the-last-knight-steelbook-includes-digital-copy-blu-ray-dvd-only--best-buy-2017/5901133.p?skuId=5901133]''

===Best Buy Exclusive 4K Steelbook===
*Includes the contents of the 4K UHD Combo Pack in an aluminum casing featuring exclusive artwork
**''[https://www.bestbuy.com/site/transformers-the-last-knight-steelbook-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray-blu-ray-only--best-buy-2017/5901134.p?skuId=5901134]''

===Best Buy Exclusive 5-Movie Blu-ray Steelbook===
*Includes all 5 films on Blu-ray in an aluminum case with exclusive artwork and Digital HD codes for all 5 films
**''[https://www.bestbuy.com/site/transformers-5-movie-collection-steelbook-blu-ray-includes-digital-copy-only--best-buy/5966000.p?skuId=5966000]''

===ToysRUs Exclusive Blu-ray/DVD with Transformers comic book===
*Includes the contents of either Blu-ray Combo Pack or single disc DVD with exclusive comic prequel to ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'', "[[Mission to Cybertron]]".
**''[https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=137052776]''
**''[https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=137052786]''

===Target Exclusive Blu-ray Combo Pack===
*Includes the contents of the Blu-ray Combo Pack with a new slipcover and an extra bonus feature: the entire ''[[Transformers: Combiner Wars (cartoon)|Combiner Wars]]'' cartoon
**''[https://www.target.com/p/transformers-the-last-knight-target-exclusive-blu-ray-dvd-digital/-/A-52722600#lnk=sametab]''

===Walmart Exclusive Blu-ray Gift Set===
*Includes the contents of the Blu-ray Combo Pack alongside two die-cast vehicle models of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]].
**''[https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-The-Last-Knight-Walmart-Exclusive-Blu-ray-DVD-Digital-2-Die-Cast-Metal-Vehicles/432981545]''

===Walmart Exclusive 4K Gift Set===
*Includes the contents of the 4K UHD Combo Pack alongside an "immersive 360° video experience" and limited edition viewing goggles
**''[https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-The-Last-Knight-Walmart-Exclusive-4K-Ultra-HD-Blu-ray-Digital/55893546]''

[[Category:Exclusives]]
[[Category:Home video]]
[[Category: The Last Knight media]]

Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)/home video

2026-01-31T03:52:12Z

ABYouKnowMe: Streamlined language distribution lists

{{factions|dvd|blu-ray}}
{{Nav-aoe}}
'''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)| Age of Extinction]]''' was released on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download in the US on [[September 30]], [[2014]] by [[Paramount Pictures]].

==Standard retail releases==
;Single disc DVD
* Includes the movie in widescreen format
** The Americas
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
** UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, Scandinavia
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Hindi, Tamil
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, Hindi, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Tamil
** China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore
*** Audio: English, Mandarin (China)
*** Subtitles: English, Cantonese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified)
** non-Chinese Asian markets
*** Audio: English, Japanese, Thai
*** Subtitles: English, Indonesian, Malay, Japanese, Korean, Thai
** France, Netherlands, Belgium
*** Audio: English, French (France)
*** Subtitles: English, French (France), Dutch
** Spain
*** Audio: English, Spanish (Spain)
*** Subtitles: English, Spanish (Spain)
** Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey
*** Audio: English, German, Turkish
*** Subtitles: English, German, Turkish
** Italy
*** Audio: English, Italian
*** Subtitles: English, Italian
** Eastern Europe
*** Audio: English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish
*** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Greek, Estonian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Slovak
** Russia, Ukraine
*** Audio: English, Russian, Ukrainian
*** Subtitles: English, Russian, Ukrainian
*** Audio Description in English [https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00L4K450G/audiodescriin-20|Audio Description]
;Blu-Ray Combo Pack
* Includes a Blu-Ray with the movie in HD format, as well as a the above DVD
** The Americas
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
** Western Europe
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, German, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, German, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
** China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore
*** Audio: English, Mandarin (China)
*** Subtitles: English, Cantonese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified)
** non-Chinese Asian markets
*** Audio: English, Hindi, Japanese, Tamil, Thai
*** Subtitles: English, Indonesian, Malay, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Tamil, Thai
** Eastern Europe
*** Audio: English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Turkish
*** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Greek, Estonian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Romanian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian
** A [[Hound (Movie)|Hound]]-load of documentaries:
***Bay On Action – An interview with [[Michael Bay]]
***Evolution Within Extinction
***Just Another Giant Effin’ Movie
***A Spark of Design – designing the toy line
***[[T. J. Miller]]: Farm Hippie
**[[Kre-O|KRE-O Transformers]]: Take Us Through the Movies!
**The [[Angry Birds Transformers]]: Origin Story
;3D Blu-Ray Combo Pack
* Includes a Blu-Ray with the movie in IMAX 3D, as well as the contents of the Blu-Ray Combo Pack.
** The Americas
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
** Western Europe
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
** China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore
*** Audio: English, Mandarin (China)
*** Subtitles: English, Cantonese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified)
** non-Chinese Asian markets
*** Audio: English, Hindi, Japanese, Tamil, Thai
*** Subtitles: English, Indonesian, Malay, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Tamil, Thai
** Germany
*** Audio: English, Czech, German, Hungarian, Turkish
*** Subtitles: English, Czech, German, Greek, Icelandic, Hungarian, Portuguese (Portugal), Slovak, Turkish
** Eastern Europe
*** Audio: English, Polish, Russian
*** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Estonian, Hebrew, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Romanian, Ukrainian
;4K Ultra HD Combo Pack
** The Americas
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
** China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore
*** Audio: English, Mandarin (China)
*** Subtitles: English, Cantonese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified)
** Europe/non-Chinese-speaking Asia
*** Audio: English, English Audio Description, German, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Japanese
*** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Slovak, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

==US retailer exclusives==
===Best Buy Exclusive Blu-ray Steelbook===
*Includes the contents of the Blu-Ray Combo Pack in an aluminium case.
**''[https://www.bestbuy.com/site/transformers-age-of-extinction-steelbook-only--best-buy-blu-ray-disc/6760435.p?id=3242154&skuId=6760435 Age of Extinction Steelbook at bestbuy.com]''

[[File:AOE-transformers4dvdbl.jpg|thumb|300px]]
===Amazon Exclusive Blu-ray/Statue Set===
*Includes the contents of the Blu-Ray Combo Pack.
*Also a 7¼ inch statue of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] riding [[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]] and waving his sword.
**''[https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Extinction-Limited-Grimlock-Collectible/dp/B00L4IDS4W Exclusive Blu-ray/Statue Set at amazon.com]

===Walmart.com Exclusive Blu-ray Bumblebee Head Packaging===
*Includes the movie on Blu-Ray and DVD in a case shaped like [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]'s head.
**''[https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-Age-Of-Extinction-Blu-ray-DVD-Digital-HD-Bumblebee-Mask-Packaging-Walmart-Exclusive-Widescreen/37420418 Exclusive Blu-ray Bumblebee Head Packaging at walmart.com]''

===Walmart Exclusive Blu-ray Combo Pack Gift Set===
*Includes the contents of the Blu-Ray Combo Pack.
*Also figurines of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and [[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]] and a fridge magnet.
**''[https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-Age-Of-Extinction-Blu-ray-DVD-Digital-HD-3-Figurines-Magnet-Walmart-Exclusive-Widescreen/37420419 Walmart Exclusive Blu-ray Combo Pack Gift Set at Walmart.com]''

===Walmart Transformers 4-Movie Blu-ray Collection===
*Includes ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'', ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)| Revenge of the Fallen]]'', ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)| Dark of the Moon]]'' and ''Age of Extinction'' on Blu-ray.
**''[https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-Age-Of-Extinction-4-Movie-Blu-ray-Collection-4-Disc-Blu-ray-Digital-HD-Walmart-Exclusive-Widescreen/37420421 4-Movie Blu-ray Collection on Walmart.com]''

===ToysRUs Exclusive Blu-ray and KRE-O pack===
*Includes the contents of the Blu-Ray Combo Pack.
*Also exclusive [[Kreon]]s of Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (Movie)|Galvatron]].
**''[https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=46575126 Exclusive Blu-ray and KRE-O pack on toysrus.com]''

===Target Exclusive Blu-ray Combo Pack===
*Includes the contents of the Blu-Ray Combo Pack in a transforming Optimus Prime shaped plastic case.
**''[https://www.target.com/p/transformers-age-of-extinction-optimus-prime-packaging-blu-ray-dvd-digital-target-exclusive/-/A-15813578 Age of Extinction (Optimus Prime Packaging) at target.com]''

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)/home video

2026-01-26T01:40:12Z

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{{Nav-dotm}}

'''''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''''' was first released on DVD and Blu-Ray on [[September 30]], [[2011]] by [[Paramount Pictures]]. Re-release dates down below and all release dates are for the United States and Canada. We hope you don't care about special features, because ''damn''. But if you do, please snag the 3D or 4K.

==Releases==
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''''' (DVD) - September 30, 2011
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''''' (Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital Copy) - September 30, 2011
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon Limited Edition Steelbook''''' (Blu-Ray) - [[September 9]], [[2014]]
*'''''Transformers 3-Movie Set''''' (Blu-Ray) - [[December 13]], 2011
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon Limited 3D Edition''''' (Blu-Ray 3D + Blu-ray + Bonus Disc + DVD + Digital) - [[January 31]], [[2012]]
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''''' (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray [not in Greece or India] + Bonus Disc [only in US and France] + Digital) - [[December 5]], [[2017]]
*'''''Transformers: The Ultimate 5-Movie Collection''''' (4K Ultra HD + Bonus Discs) - [[November 5]], [[2018]]

<center><gallery>
File:DOTM DVD cover.jpg
File:DOTM Blu-Ray cover.jpg
File:DOTM steelbook cover.jpg
File:DOTM Blu-Ray 3D cover.jpg
File:Transformers 3-Movie Set cover.jpg
File:DOTM 4K cover.jpg
File:Transformers 5 Movie Collection 4K US.jpg
</gallery></center>

==Language distributions==
As is the norm, depending on which country you purchased your copy in or from, the audio and subtitle selections may vary. The original English audio (presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 on DVD, Dolby TrueHD 7.1 on Blu-ray and 3D, and Dolby Atmos on 4K) as well as English subtitles are mainstays across every edition. Foreign dubs and the English audio description are always presented in Dolby Digital 5.1, while the American editions contain 5.1 and stereo compatibility backups for the English version.

===DVD===
* The Americas
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada)
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada)
* UK, Australia, India, Scandinavia
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Hindi
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, Hindi, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
* Brazil
** Audio: English, Portuguese (Brazil)
** Subtitles: English, Portuguese (Brazil)
* Eastern Europe
** Audio: English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish
** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Greek, Estonian, Hebrew, Croatian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Serbian
* France, Netherlands, Belgium
** Audio: English, French (France)
** Subtitles: English, French (France), Dutch
* Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey
** Audio: English, German, Turkish
** Subtitles: English, German, Turkish
* Italy
** Audio: English, Italian
** Subtitles: English, Italian
* Japan
** Audio: English, Japanese
** Subtitles: English, Japanese
* Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
** Audio: English, Russian, Ukrainian
** Subtitles: English, Russian, Ukrainian
* Spain
** Audio: English, Spanish (Spain)
** Subtitles: English, Spanish (Spain)
* Asia (except Japan)
** Audio: English, Thai
** Subtitles: English, Indonesian, Malay, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin, Simplified Chinese, Thai

===Blu-ray===
* The Americas
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
* Western Europe, Australia
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, German, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, German, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
* Eastern Europe, Asia (except Japan)
** Audio: English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Thai, Turkish
** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Indonesian, Malay, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Czech, Greek, Estonian, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Icelandic, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Slovak, Serbian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
* Japan
** Audio: English, Japanese
** Subtitles: English, Japanese
===Blu-ray 3D===
* The Americas
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
* UK, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Scandinavia
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, German, Spanish (Spain)
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, German, Spanish (Spain), Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
* France, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Asia (except Japan)
** Audio: English, French (France), Italian, Thai
** Subtitles: English, Cantonese, French (France), Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Thai
* Eastern Europe, Japan
** Audio: English, Czech, Japanese, Russian
** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Czech, Greek, Japanese, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Turkish

===4K Ultra HD===
* The Americas
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
* The rest of the world
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, German, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Japanese
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Slovak, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

===Bonus disc (3D and 4K exclusive)===
* The Americas
** Audio: English
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
* The rest of the world
** Audio: English
** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Indonesian, Malay, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Estonian, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Mandarin, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Slovak, Serbian, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

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[[Category:Dark of the Moon media]]

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)/home video

2026-01-26T01:39:57Z

ABYouKnowMe: specified audio and subtitle selections

{{Nav-dotm}}

'''''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''''' was first released on DVD and Blu-Ray on [[September 30]], [[2011]] by [[Paramount Pictures]]. Re-release dates down below and all release dates are for the United States and Canada. We hope you don't care about special features, because ''damn''. But if you do, please snag the 3D or 4K.

==Releases==
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''''' (DVD) - September 30, 2011
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''''' (Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital Copy) - September 30, 2011
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon Limited Edition Steelbook''''' (Blu-Ray) - [[September 9]], [[2014]]
*'''''Transformers 3-Movie Set''''' (Blu-Ray) - [[December 13]], 2011
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon Limited 3D Edition''''' (Blu-Ray 3D + Blu-ray + Bonus Disc + DVD + Digital) - [[January 31]], [[2012]]
*'''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''''' (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray [not in Greece or India] + Bonus Disc [only in US and France] + Digital) - [[December 5]], [[2017]]
*'''''Transformers: The Ultimate 5-Movie Collection''''' (4K Ultra HD + Bonus Discs) - [[November 5]], [[2018]]

<center><gallery>
File:DOTM DVD cover.jpg
File:DOTM Blu-Ray cover.jpg
File:DOTM steelbook cover.jpg
File:DOTM Blu-Ray 3D cover.jpg
File:Transformers 3-Movie Set cover.jpg
File:DOTM 4K cover.jpg
File:Transformers 5 Movie Collection 4K US.jpg
</gallery></center>

==Language distributions==
As is the norm, depending on which country you purchased your copy in or from, the audio and subtitle selections may vary. The original English audio (presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 on DVD, Dolby TrueHD 7.1 on Blu-ray and 3D, and Dolby Atmos on 4K) as well as English subtitles are mainstays across every edition. Foreign dubs and the English audio description are always presented in Dolby Digital 5.1, while the American editions contain 5.1 and stereo compatibility backups for the English version.

===DVD===
* The Americas
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada)
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada)
* UK, Australia, India, Scandinavia
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Hindi
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, Hindi, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
* Brazil
** Audio: English, Portuguese (Brazil)
** Subtitles: English, Portuguese (Brazil)
* Eastern Europe
** Audio: English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish
** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Greek, Estonian, Hebrew, Croatian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Serbian
* France, Netherlands, Belgium
** Audio: English, French (France)
** Subtitles: English, French (France), Dutch
* Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey
** Audio: English, German, Turkish
** Subtitles: English, German, Turkish
* Italy
** Audio: English, Italian
** Subtitles: English, Italian
* Japan
** Audio: English, Japanese
** Subtitles: English, Japanese
* Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
** Audio: English, Russian, Ukrainian
** Subtitles: English, Russian, Ukrainian
* Spain
** Audio: English, Spanish (Spain)
** Subtitles: English, Spanish (Spain)
* Asia (except Japan)
** Audio: English, Thai
** Subtitles: English, Indonesian, Malay, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin, Simplified Chinese, Thai

===Blu-ray===
* The Americas
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
* Western Europe, Australia
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, German, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, German, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
* Eastern Europe, Asia (except Japan)
** Audio: English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Thai, Turkish
** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Indonesian, Malay, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Czech, Greek, Estonian, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Icelandic, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Slovak, Serbian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
* Japan
** Audio: English, Japanese
** Subtitles: English, Japanese
===Blu-ray 3D===
* The Americas
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
* UK, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Scandinavia
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, German, Spanish (Spain)
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, German, Spanish (Spain), Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
* France, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Asia (except Japan)
* Audio: English, French (France), Italian, Thai
* Subtitles: English, Cantonese, French (France), Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Thai
* Eastern Europe, Japan
** Audio: English, Czech, Japanese, Russian
** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Czech, Greek, Japanese, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Turkish

===4K Ultra HD===
* The Americas
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
* The rest of the world
** Audio: English, English Audio Description, German, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Italian, Japanese
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Slovak, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

===Bonus disc (3D and 4K exclusive)===
* The Americas
** Audio: English
** Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish (Latin America), French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil)
* The rest of the world
** Audio: English
** Subtitles: English, Arabic, Indonesian, Malay, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Estonian, Spanish (Spain), French (France), Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Mandarin, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Slovak, Serbian, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

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[[Category:Dark of the Moon media]]

Akira Ishida

2026-01-15T03:50:51Z

ABYouKnowMe:

[[File:IshidaAkira.jpg|right|thumb|250px|"Technique Development: Destructive Death, Compass Needle!"]]
'''Akira Ishida''' (石田彰 ''Ishida Akira'', born [[November 2]], [[1967]]) is a Japanese voice actor. Several of his Anime roles consist of Gaara in ''Naruto'', Wizardmon in ''Digimon Adventure'', Shinichi "Shin" Okazaki in ''NANA'', Athrun Zala in ''Gundam SEED'' and ''Gundam SEED Destiny'', Alus in ''Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE'', Coud Van Giruet in ''Elemental Gelade'', Satoshi Hiwatari in ''D.N.Angel'', Kaworu Nagisa in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Hajime Mizuki in ''The Prince of Tennis'', Aster Phoenix in ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX'', FishEye in ''Sailor Moon Super S'', a younger Shinobu Sensui in ''Yu Yu Hakusho'', and Akaza in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba".

In the world of dubbing, he can also be heard as [[Michael Benyaer|Guardian Bob]] in the [[Cartoon Network]] dub of ''Reboot'', [[Wil Wheaton|Wesley Crusher]] in ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and later Jake Sisko in ''Star Trek Deep Space Nine'', the Tornado Tyrant/Tornado Champion in ''Batman: The Brave & The Bold'', Tom Riddle in ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'', Harry Osborn in ''[[Spider-Man|The Amazing Spider-Man 2]]'', Riddler in ''[[Batman|The Batman]]'', [[Richard Ian Cox|Snails]] in ''[[My Little Pony|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', Pete Campbell on ''Mad Men'', Jack Dawson in the [[NTV]] dub of ''[[Titanic]]'' and [[Luke Skywalker]] in the NTV dub of the original ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' trilogy. Ishida is also the regular dub voice of Lee Jun-gi and one of the voices of Elijah Wood.

==Roles==
===''Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns''===
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]

==External links==
*[http://www.mausu.net/talent/tpdb_view.cgi?UID=76 Mausu Promotion Profile]
*[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=443 ANN Profile]

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[[Category:Japanese voice actors]]

Gianluca Iacono

2026-01-15T03:46:22Z

ABYouKnowMe:

'''Gianluca Iacono''' (born [[March 14]], [[1970]]) is an Italian voice actor, known for roles like Vegeta in ''Dragon Ball Z'', Kakashi in ''Naruto'' (succeeding [[Claudio Moneta]] in the role), [[Junichi Suwabe|Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez in ''Bleach'', and Shota Aizawa in ''My Hero Academia'']].

==Voice roles==
===''Beast Wars: Transformers''===
* [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]]

===''Transformers: Animated''===
* [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (video game)===
* [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]

===''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' (video game)===
* [[Dino|Mirage]]
* [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]

===''Transformers: Prime''===
* Starscream

===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' (2015)===
* [[Larry LaRue]]
* Starscream

===''Transformers: Cyberverse''===
* [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]

===''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''===
* [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]]

===''Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition''===
* [[Alex Malto]]

==Notes==
* Along with [[Marco Balzarotti]] as Optimus Prime, Gianluca Iacono is the only voice actor who did the same character both in ''War for Cybertron'' and ''Prime''.

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)

2026-01-10T17:59:41Z

ABYouKnowMe: Listed Czech, Hungarian, Slovak, and Turkish titles

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|caption=So for now, let the battle be here, on this strange, primitive world. And let it be called... Beast Wars!
|production companies=[[Skydance Media]] [[Entertainment One]] [[Lorenzo di Bonaventura|di Bonaventura Pictures]] [[New Republic Pictures]] [[Michael Bay|Bay Films]]
|distributor=[[Paramount Pictures]]
|executive producer=[[Steven Spielberg]] [[Brian Goldner]] [[Brian Oliver]] [[Bradley J. Fischer]] [[Valerii An]] [[David Ellison]] [[Dana Goldberg]] [[Don Granger]]
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|story by=[[Joby Harold]]
|screenplay by=[[Joby Harold]] [[Darnell Metayer]] [[Josh Peters]] [[Erich Hoeber]] [[Jon Hoeber]]
|directed by=[[Steven Caple Jr.]]
|cinematography by=[[Enrique Chediak]]
|edited by=[[Stuart Levy]] [[Brett M. Reed]]
|music by=[[Jongnic Bontemps]]
|release date=[[June 9]], [[2023]]
|continuity=[[Live-action film series]]
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'''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''''' is the seventh film in the [[live-action film series]], serving both as a sequel to ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' and a tribute to ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''. The film is directed by [[Steven Caple Jr.]] and written by [[Joby Harold]], [[Darnell Metayer]], [[Josh Peters]], [[Erich Hoeber]], and [[Jon Hoeber]]. Originally expected to be released on [[June 28]], [[2019]],<ref name="toyfairreveal">[http://news.tfw2005.com/2016/02/12/transformers-5-transformers-6-bumblebee-spin-off-movie-revealed-309503 Transformers 5, Transformers 6 And Bumblebee Spin-Off Movie Revealed] ToyFair news at TFW2005</ref> the film was delayed multiple times until finally being released on [[June 9]], [[2023]].<ref name="2023release"/>

When [[Noah Díaz]], a struggling young man trying to provide for his family, is roped into a conflict between the marooned [[Autobot]]s and the recently arrived [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcons]], he must learn to work with weary Autobot leader [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] so they, with the help of the wise [[Maximal]]s and the unadventurous researcher [[Elena Wallace]], can stop the arrival of the planet-eater [[Unicron]].

{{bigquote|Maximals...!}}
{{bigquote|Autobots...!}}
{{bigquote|Roll out!|[[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]] and [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]}}

==Synopsis==
[[File:ROTBcap-Unicronringedplanet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|This is one unusual planet... whatever it is.]]

Somewhere in time and space, the dark god [[Unicron]] and his minions invade a [[Jungle Planet (colony)|jungle world]] populated by [[Maximal]]s. Unicron, seeking a way to cross galaxies, sends his [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]] herald [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]] to retrieve the [[Transwarp Key]], an advanced device that can open portals in space-time. Although the Maximals attempt to fight back, their leader [[Apelinq (ROTB)|Apelinq]] entrusts [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]] with the Transwarp Key and orders him to keep the artifact from Unicron. As Primal and his followers—including [[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]], [[Cheetor (ROTB)|Cheetor]], and [[Rhinox (ROTB)|Rhinox]]—use the key to escape their doomed planet and flee to prehistoric [[Earth]], Scourge kills Apelinq after a brief fight and takes his [[insignia]] as a trophy.

Thousands of years later, in June [[1994]], ex-military electronics expert [[Noah Díaz]] attempts to find a job to support his sick brother [[Kris Díaz|Kris]]. However, after another failed interview, his friend [[Reek]] convinces him to steal an expensive car from a nearby hotel. However, the "car" turns out to be the Autobot [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] in disguise, who takes the terrified Noah on a joyride through the streets of [[New York City]]. At the same time, a museum on Ellis Island comes into possession of an unusual stone falcon with a Maximal insignia. After closing hours, museum intern [[Elena Wallace]] investigates the statue and accidentally breaks it open to reveal half of the Transwarp Key. The artifact releases an energy pulse that attracts the attention of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots, who have been stranded on Earth since their evacuation of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] [[Bumblebee (film)|seven years prior]]. Prime summons the nearest Autobots—[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], and Mirage, who arrives at the meeting spot with Noah in tow. Although Optimus distrusts humans, he believes that they can use the Transwarp Key to return home and liberate their homeworld; eventually, Mirage hatches a scheme to sneak into the museum and have Noah steal the key for them.

[[File:Scourge about to blast bee.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|A treacherous, underhanded sneak attack! I like you, pussycat, yes.]]

Unbeknownst to the Autobots, the accidental activation of the Transwarp Key summons the Terrorcons to Earth. Noah meets Elena inside the museum, but cannot convince her to turn over the relic before the Terrorcons attack; despite Prime's best efforts, Scourge successfully overpowers the Autobot leader, steals the Transwarp Key, and mortally injures Bumblebee before Airazor arrives to help drive the villains away. Airazor explains that the Maximals have been on Earth for millennia, and deliberately split the Transwarp Key in half to prevent Unicron or his followers from using it; she is the only survivor of the group watching over one half. The loss of Bumblebee only further galvanizes Optimus's resolve that they must reassemble the key and return home; Noah, fearful of Unicron's arrival, tells Elena that they must destroy the key to protect their own homeworld.

[[File:ROTB-Maximalstandoff.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|Moderate your conflict circuits, Maximals.]]

Elena deduces that the other half of the key is located in a hidden temple in [[Peru]], and Prime recruits the airborne Autobot [[Stratosphere]] to take them there. Near the city of [[Cusco]], the Autobot [[Wheeljack (ROTB)|Wheeljack]] guides them to the temple, located beneath a [[Convent of Santo Domingo|local monastery]]. A festival prevents the Autobots from moving through the city inconspicuously; as a result, Noah and Elena must make the journey on foot. The pair discover a hidden mechanism that leads to a hidden temple with a stone sarcophogus but find that the other half of the key is no longer inside it. The Terrorcons attack again, and although the Autobots are able to evade the villains, the conflict ends with Scourge infecting Airazor with a portion of Unicron's dark energy. On the other side of the temple, Noah and Elena encounter Optimus Primal, Cheetor, and Rhinox, who, after a brief standoff that is defused by Airazor, agree to join forces with the Autobots. Optimus Primal explains that they entrusted their half of the Transwarp Key to a tribe of humans who live near the [[energon]]-rich valley that Primal and his followers inhabit—while Optimus Prime distrusts humanity, Primal has lived among them for millennia, and has come to view them as friends and even allies.

The next morning, however, Scourge's corruption finally overtakes Airazor; in the ensuing battle, Primal is forced to crush her spark to save Elena, while Noah makes an attempt to destroy their half of the Transwarp Key until Optimus convinces him to stand down. However, Scourge and the Terrorcons take advantage of the chaos to steal the other half of the key and relocate to a nearby volcano, which they reshape into a massive portal that will summon Unicron to Earth.

[[File:RotB-Optimusvsscourge.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|Across the galaxy, it has come to this, Optimus Primal. Face to face, tooth to claw, yes... have you anything to say?]]

Having found some common ground between their two races, Optimus Prime and Noah agree to work together; while the Autobot-Maximal alliance battle Unicron's minions, Noah and Elena attempt to sneak into the Terrorcon base and deactivate the [[Unspace|transwarp]] device with a manual shutdown code based on Elena's studies of the Maximal language. Mirage attempts to distract Scourge so that the humans can complete their mission, but the Terrorcon leader gravely injures him; with the last of his strength, Mirage reshapes his body into an [[exosuit]] for Noah. As Unicron begins pushing his way through the portal to Earth and sending down reinforcements in the form of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Scorponok (ROTB)|Scorponok]]s, the energy pulses released by the key ignite the nearby energon deposits and restore Bumblebee to life. As Bumblebee joins the fight, Optimus Prime gains the upper hand and finally kills Scourge, but not before the Terrorcon damages the console and leaves the heroes unable to close the portal. With no other options, Prime destroys the key and triggers a devastating implosion, but Noah and Primal successfully rescue the Autobot leader from falling into the collapsing vortex.

In the aftermath, the surviving Maximals remain in Peru, while the Autobots return to America. Elena is recognized for her archeological discovery, while Noah applies for another security job—but discovers that the job opportunity is actually a front for a clandestine government organization codenamed "[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]," who promise to cover his brother's treatment going forward.

Some time later, Noah has used spare Porsche parts to cobble together a new body for Mirage, and reveals his existence to a bewildered Reek.

==Cast==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Autobot]]s / [[Maximal]]s|c1=
;Autobots
* [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Peter Cullen]])
* [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] ([[Pete Davidson]])
* [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
* [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] ([[Liza Koshy]])
* [[Wheeljack (ROTB)|Wheeljack]] ([[Cristo Fernández]])
* [[Stratosphere]] ([[John DiMaggio]])

;Maximals
* [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]] ([[Ron Perlman]])
* [[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]] ([[Michelle Yeoh]])
* [[Cheetor (ROTB)|Cheetor]] ([[Tongayi Chirisa]])
* [[Rhinox (ROTB)|Rhinox]] ([[David Sobolov]])
* [[Apelinq (ROTB)|Apelinq]] (David Sobolov)

|h2=[[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]]s / [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s|c2=
;Terrorcons
* [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]] ([[Peter Dinklage]])
* [[Nightbird (ROTB)|Nightbird]] ([[Michaela Jaé Rodriguez]])
* [[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]] (David Sobolov)
* [[Sweep (ROTB)|Sweep]]s
** [[Freezer]]
** [[Novakane]]

;Predacons
* [[Double Punch (ROTB)#Studio Series|Double Punch]]es
* [[Scorponok (ROTB)|Scorponok]]s

|h3=[[Human]]s|c3=
* [[Noah Díaz]] ([[Anthony Ramos]])
* [[Elena Wallace]] ([[Dominique Fishback]])
* [[Breanna Díaz]] ([[Luna Lauren Velez]])
* [[Kris Díaz]] ([[Dean Scott Vasquez]])
* [[Reek]] ([[Tobe Nwigwe]])
* [[Jillian Robinson]] ([[Sarah Stiles]])
* [[Bishop (ROTB)|Bishop]] ([[Aidan Devine]])
* [[D. Greene]] ([[Leni Parker]])
* [[Amaru]] ([[Lucas Huarancca]])
;[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]
* [[Agent Burke]] ([[Michael Kelly (actor)|Michael Kelly]])

|h4=Others|c4=
* [[Unicron]] ([[Colman Domingo]])
|nonumbering=true
}}

==Quotes==
"There’s a legend that precedes the dawn of our civilization: a vile god so large, so powerful, that it consumed entire planets as fuel. Few believed such a thing could be true, until the day we saw Unicron with our own eyes…"
:—'''Optimus Primal's''' opening narration.

"I'll hold him off, buy you some time." 
"Then I'm staying with you." 
"This is my fight. Listen, if Unicron were to get the key, he could open a portal through [[Transwarp Drive|time and space]], with no end to the worlds he could destroy. It is now your time to lead the [[Maximal]]s... Optimus Primal."
:—'''Apelinq''' passing the torch to '''Optimus Primal'''.

"So you're this planet's... ''great'' warrior. You have such a beautiful world, filled with an abundance of life. Savory."
:—'''Scourge''' waxes poetic to Apelinq.

"Okay, what are the rules?" 
"Bros before hoes." 
''[Noah glares at Kris]'' 
''(sigh)'' "Don't be a problem. Don't go looking for a problem—" 
"Or else we're gonna have a problem."
:—'''Noah''' and '''Kris''' clarify the rules.

"I ain't breaking into a museum for some space robots." 
"But what about for friendship?" 
''[Noah stares at Mirage incredulously]'' 
"Uh, uh—or or ''or'', what about for cash?"
:—'''Noah''' wants out. '''Mirage''' wants him in.

''"You can't handle the truth!"'' 
"I do not want you going to that drive-in theater anymore."
:— '''Bumblebee's''' references grate on '''Optimus Prime'''.

"Stop following me!" 
"I'm not following you, I'm just escaping in the same direction!"
:—'''Elena''' and '''Noah''' run from the pursuing Sweeps.

"And you call yourself a Prime...Primus would be ''ashamed.''"
:—'''Scourge''' isn't too impressed with Optimus Prime.

"I'm going to take back Scourge's key, and then...''take off his head.''"
:—The origins of '''Optimus Prime's''' "GIVE ME YOUR FACE" phase.

"I love your fire, Prime, but you're going to die on this speck of dust." 
"I can think of no better place to bury you!"
:—'''Scourge''' has gotten on '''Optimus Prime's''' last nerve

"He is not ''the'' Optimus Prime I imagined." 
"Well, he has lost so much." 
"Many more will perish if the key falls into the wrong hands." 
"If you had another chance to save our home, would you act any differently?"
:—'''Optimus Primal''' and '''Airazor'''

"I am sorry, Noah." 
"You were looking out for your own. I can't even be angry at you for that." 
"On my homeworld, we believe that the battle with darkness will continue [['Til all are one|'til all are one]]. I lost sight of that. You fought for yours as I fought for mine, when we should've been fighting the darkness together." 
"Well, I ain't done fighting yet."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Noah''' have a moment as Unicron approaches.

"''I have come here to kick ass!''"
:—'''Bumblebee''' announces his return with a clear message.

"Time to show you the real power of a Prime!"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' lays the smackdown on Scourge. An ass kicker cometh.

"Don't, Prime. I can give you everything you want." 
"Then DIE!"
:—'''Unicron's''' temptation falls flat in '''Optimus Prime's''' face.

"I am Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. We have lost the Transwarp Key, and with it, our ability to go home. But we have gained an ally in our battle against the forces of evil. Forces too powerful for any of us to defeat on our own, but together, we might just have a chance."
:—'''Optimus Prime's''' closing narration. We missed them.

"I am Noah Díaz. What is there to know about me? I was raised out in Brooklyn. I got a little bro who calls me Sonic, and if I gotta help save the universe in order to help save the people I love, well then that's what I'm gonna do."
:—'''Noah''' does his own closing narration.

==Continuity notes==
''Rise of the Beasts'' is a direct sequel to 2018's ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' film, taking place seven years after its events, in 1994. The plot of the film has little impact on this one, beyond it being established that the Autobots have been stranded on Earth since arriving at its end. While waiting for Noah to infiltrate the museum, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee have a conversation that alludes to Bee's time with [[Charlie Watson]].

More notably, ''Rise of the Beasts'' serves to continue the heated debate among fans over whether or not the ''Transformers'' live-action film series has been rebooted, after reshoots to ''Bumblebee'' that served to distance it from the earlier films directed by [[Michael Bay]] introduced some significant discontinuities with Bay's films (2017's ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'' in particular). Though fans were quick to jump on the idea that this meant the film was a total, hard reboot of the movie universe, Paramount has not committed to that idea; ''Rise of the Beasts'' was not promoted as a reboot any more than ''Bumblebee'' was, and many reviews of and articles about the film have casually referred to it as a prequel. Some web outlets would even run articles commenting on Paramount's hazy stance on the movie's (and ''Bumblebee'''s) place in continuity.<ref>[https://www.cbr.com/transformers-7-bumblebee-reboot-mistake "Rise of the Beasts Is Repeating Bumblebee's Worst Mistake" on CBR.com]</ref><ref>[https://movieweb.com/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-is-a-reboot/ "Why Does Paramount Keep Pretending Rise of the Beasts Is Not a Reboot?" on MovieWeb.com]</ref>

In-keeping with this, in the run-up to the film's release, like [[Travis Knight]] before him, director Steven Caple Jr. was reluctant to declare the film a full and total continuity reboot; notably, in one particular interview, he called the film "a reboot for sure," only to walk the statement back ten seconds later, instead saying that one "could call it a reboot" in terms of starting point, reframing it instead as a "refresher" and a "new direction," that nonetheless preserved many elements of the earlier films.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=It's a reboot for sure. The Bayverse... you can still watch the Bayverse and be on your own verse, so to speak. With us, we're definitely like, we want this to work, you know? We want people to... it's a refresher, so we can call reboot in terms of like, where we were starting. But yeah so definitely a new direction for sure. There's some things you could probably connect to it, clearly Bee is like a huge connection to all the movies, you know what I mean? In terms of his car, his design, a Camaro, and things like that, but... it's a very small one, in terms of the big ideas that we have. And so you guys will see definitely where we're going at the end of this film, which is crazy.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MfMFxvT_-Q&t=2452s|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=The Alfonso Nation|title="BAYVERSE vs REBOOT" & Wheeljacks Design | ROTB DIRECTOR STEVEN CAPLE JR Interview!|year=2023|month=05|day=27}}</ref> Longtime producer [[Lorenzo di Bonaventura]] has taken a more explicit stance, repeatedly denying that the film is a reboot and stating that it is a prequel that shows how Optimus Prime grows to become the character seen in the Bay films.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Hey you know if you look at it from a timeline point of view, it follows ''Bumblebee''... but it is a prequel, in that it's before all the previous movies. So it sort of exists in its own way. What I don't think it is, is a reboot, because it's still our characters. One of the things that Steven brought to the table right from the beginning, which was so great, was the idea that when we meet Optimus Prime, he's different than what we think of him, and we're watching him grow up—if you would—as a leader. And for me that was one of the most exciting parts of the movie, and what was interesting was watching it with audiences, and at first they were uncomfortable a little bit, like, "wait, that's not exactly the Optimus... he should like humans!" You know? So I think it gives the movie a really interesting point of view, and that therefore it stands alone in that way.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11sKGYcq9k&t=871s|name=Lorenzo di Bonaventura|site=a panel at the premiere of ''Rise of the Beasts''|year=2023|month=05|day=26}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|quote=But what's interesting is, and you will appreciate this as a fan, at the end of ''Bumblebee'', Optimus comes to Earth. What he's experienced is failure, probably for the first time in his life, right? He's had to retreat, he's leaving the planet Cybertron. What's happened to him from that experience? When we meet him in 2007, he's a particular person, if you would. In 1994, he's not the same person. He still has growth to do between ‘94 and 2007. So the character arc for Optimus in this, and the fun for the audience is, when you first meet Optimus – and we've had this experience because we've watched it with audiences and we've heard them talk about it – they're like, “It's definitely Optimus, but there's something a little different…” At first, they're like, “Wait, what, who… what Optimus is this?” And by the end of the movie, Optimus has become the guy that you've recognized from the Bay movies. Emotional.|link=https://collider.com/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-michael-bay-movies-producer-comments/|name=Lorenzo di Bonaventura|site=Collider|title='Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' Producer on How It Differs From Michael Bay's Movies|year=2023|month=05|day=24}}</ref> At the same time, di Bonaventura has also conceded that they were "kicking the can down the road" when it came to continuity concerns, preferring to worry about it in the future, and that the films "maybe have" contradicted Bay's movies despite efforts not to.<ref>[https://www.fandom.com/articles/transformers-rise-beast-wars-optimus-prime Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Shows a Different Side of Optimus Prime" on Fandom.com]</ref> These particular claims line up with statements made by Caple after the film's release, in which he stated he is "not worried" about continuity, and is just focused on making the best choices for each individual movie's story. He cites 2007's ''Transformers'' and ''Dark of the Moon'' as "his classics," and says he would "love to stay within that line," but does not feel compelled to adhere much to ''Age of Extinction'' and ''The Last Knight,'' since he views their stories as the result of creators "freestyling," and doubts that "anyone knew exactly where they were going with [them]."<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/rise-of-the-beasts-director-confirms-that-continuity-is-not-a-concern-within-the-transformers-film-franchise/47813/ Extract from an interview with Caple Jr. on the ''Empire Spoiler Specials'' podcast, via Seibertron.com]</ref> And that's... probably about as good an answer as we're going to get right now.

Whichever approach you subscribe to, it's pretty clear the decision to set the film in 1994 was one primarily made to avoid having to directly deal with the timeframe of the Bay movies in any capacity, and tell a new story free of their immediate baggage — the "can-kicking" Lorenzo spoke of. For what it's worth, the film takes some steps to preserve the broad continuity of at least the first Bay film; the Transwarp Key's energy is explicitly stated to operate on a frequency that humans cannot perceive, meaning that they literally cannot ''see'' the huge sky-beam, while massive storm clouds appear to hide the appearance of Unicron from public view. As such, the film ends with the general population of Earth (beyond secret forces within the US government) still entirely unaware of the Transformers' existence, as was the case when the 2007 film began. As the time-gap between these "prequels" and the first movie narrows, though, it becomes increasingly difficult to imagine them fitting together without a lot of hand-waving away of specific details, unless future movies actually start making active attempts to address this.

In terms of active contradictions to established continuity, ''Rise of the Beasts'' appears to take the same approach as ''Bumblebee'' and ignores the events of ''The Last Knight'' by depicting Unicron as a separate planet, rather than the Earth itself, as he appeared in that film. However, it's probably important to note that the film lightly implies that the Maximals are time-travellers from the future (see "Transformers references" for more details), which would mean that the Unicron who appears in this film is also from the future. Thus it ''could'' be argued that his appearance here doesn't technically contradict ''The Last Knight''—but of course, that would mean he was trying to eat his own past self.

==Transformers references==
* The Maximals are broadly depicted the same as they were in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon: as a "highly-advanced race" of beast-mode Transformers who use transwarp technology to travel to other planets and interact with their native species, whose travels bring them to ancient Earth. Steven Caple Jr. has noted that earlier drafts of the screenplay explicitly depicted the Maximals as time-travellers from the future, as they were in the cartoon, and while the concept is so toned down for the finished movie that it probably won't even occur to general audiences, several references to the idea are still made on-screen. Transwarp technology is stated to open portals in time as well as space; Airazor states that the Maximals are "from both [the Autobots'] past and future"; and Optimus Primal says that he is named after the "legendary" Optimus Prime, which all combine to suggest that the Maximals originate from the future.
* The idea of the Maximals hailing from a [[Jungle Planet (colony)|jungle planet]] originates in [[IDW Publishing]]'s comic books, which depicted many ''Beast Wars'' characters as the residents of the planet Eukaris. The planet is implied to be one of many colonised by Transformers in ages past using space bridges generated by the Transwarp Key, before the planets became separated and the key "lost." This concept of a great era of Cybertronian expansion that led to the foundation of lost colonies on other planets where Cybertronian life evolved in new and different directions dates back to 2005's [[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|''Cybertron'' cartoon]], and became a recurring element in ''Transformers'' series in the 2010s and beyond after it was incorporated into the lore of the [[Aligned continuity family|Aligned continuity]].
* Unicron's armies being named the "Terrorcons" hearkens back to both 2004's ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' and 2010's ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'', which both featured the power of Unicron being used to create armies of warriors known as Terrorcons. In particular, the corrupted Airazor's rusted appearance resembles the ''Prime'' Terrorcons, which were also rusted, dilapidated, shambling bots controlled by the will of another.
* Though not identified by name onscreen, Unicron's army includes multiple duplicates of a robotic scorpion identified by the movie's toyline as "Predacon Scorponok." The idea of "Scorponok" being a mass-produced "species" of robots has recently been seen in the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''War for Cybertron'' cartoon]], where both [[Scorponok (G1)|Generation 1 Scorponok]] ''and'' [[Scorponok (BW)|''Beast Wars'' Scorponok]] were treated this way.
* The Maximals vow to keep the Transwarp Key hidden and safeguard life "no matter the cost," evoking Optimus Prime's iconic line from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'': "Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost."
* Optimus Prime's design features alterations from his earlier ''Bumblebee'' appearance that are influenced by his appearance in the first three Bay films; he has silver hands, feet, sun visors, angled chest windows, retractable orange [[Dual Energon Swords|Energon swords]], a handheld orange [[Energon-axe]] (which transforms out of his arm, coincidentally similar to the [[Optimus Prime (ES)|''Earthspark'' version]]), and a mask-less face sporting similar details.
* Arcee transforms into a {{w|Ducati}} motorcycle, like her ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' incarnation, and the design of her arms and deployable cannons seem to be directly inspired by her [[Arcee (WFC)|''Prime'' counterpart]].
* Scourge combines aspects of his [[Scourge (G1)|Generation 1]], [[Scourge (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'']] and [[Scourge (Cybertron)|''Cybertron'']] namesakes; he's a herald of Unicron and has an army of [[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]] like G1 Scourge, transforms into a black Optimus Prime-like truck like ''RID'' Scourge and hails from a colony world like ''Cybertron'' Scourge. The various insignias he wears as trophies include the symbols of the [[Decepticon]]s, [[Autobot]]s, [[Maximal]]s, [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s, [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]]s, [[Mercenary|Mercenaries]] and [[Wreckers]]. His designer Eddie Del Rio also admitted on his Instagram to pulling inspiration from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] for his robot mode (and stealing insignias like trophies is well in character for the old bounty hunter as well).
* More obscure characters appear such as Apelinq, who originates from a [[Apelinq (BM)#Beast Machines|BotCon 2000 toy]] and tie-in [[3H Productions]] comics, and Stratosphere, returning from the ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' toyline and last seen in the ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (franchise)|Dark of the Moon]]'' [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)|console video game]], albeit with a new, original design and characterization.
* When [[Nightbird (ROTB)|Nightbird]] lands at the Museum following the carnage, she makes some [[Starscream (Movie)|very familiar warbling noises]] when she moves.
* The two music tracks used in Unicron's scenes feature segments taken from [[Vince DiCola]]'s "Unicron's Theme" in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.
* Scourge stands and talks to Unicron's face from inside his body, similar to a scene with their characters from the Generation 1 episode, "[[Ghost in the Machine (G1)|Ghost in the Machine]]".
* The symbols Elena studies are Maximal [[Cybertronix]], from the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon. The access code Elena assembles doesn't translate to anything, and simply reads "XQB," but the text on the side of the Transwarp Key (written in a combination of mirrored and upside-down symbols) reads: "He Who Opens The Door."
* The authors of the paper Elena reads about Peru's unexplained glyphs are Asahi Takara and Daniel H. Tomy, a reference to [[TakaraTomy]], Hasbro's longtime business partner in Transformers toys.
* After meeting Optimus Prime for the first time, Noah incorrectly calls him "Optimal". "Optimal Optimus" is the name of the original [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#OptimalOptimus|Optimus Primal's Transmetal 2 body]].
* When proposing different alternate modes to Noah, Mirage briefly turns into a F1 car, a reference to [[Mirage (G1)|his Generation 1 counterpart]]'s alternate mode. He also turns into a Lamborghini Countach, which wasn't just a really cool car, but also famous in ''Transformers'' lore for being the alternate mode of [[Sideswipe (G1)|Generation 1 Sideswipe]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], as well as [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]], in the same colors no less. He then turns into a Ferrari off-screen, the alternate mode of ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' [[Dino]], whose name in media outside of that movie was "Mirage". Doing so off-screen could be a poke at the difficulty Ferrari caused in getting their car on screen for ''Dark Of The Moon''.
* Mirage is incredulous over the news that musician [[Mark Wahlberg]] is leaving his band, the Funky Bunch, and going into acting—a good-natured jab at the actor's [[Cade Yeager|leading role]] in the earlier ''Transformers'' movies, ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'' and ''The Last Knight''.
* Scourge name-drops [[Primus]] as he taunts Optimus Prime, the first reference to the Transformers' creator god in any of the live-action movies.
* Scourge injures Prime's left flank in the museum battle, which mirrors the injuries [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] gave to the original [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in ''The Transformers: The Movie.'' Prime even grasps the wound in the same way his predecessor did.
* Airazor explains that Unicron imbues his heralds with a "dark energy," which increases their power, but also has a corrupting effect—almost certainly a reference to [[Dark Energon]], the life-energy of Unicron introduced in the Aligned continuity. This was confirmed on the special features for the blu-ray of the movie.
* Unicron psychically tortures Scourge from afar in the same way he did [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] in ''The Transformers: The Movie''.
* When Optimus Primal talks to Optimus Prime about how the Maximals trust the humans, he says there's "[[More than Meets the Eye (disambiguation)|more to them than meets the eye]]".
* Optimus states the Cybertronian belief that "the battle with darkness" will continue: "[['Til all are one]]." This phrase, and the idea of a day prophesied in Cybertron legend when it will come to pass, originates with ''The Transformers: The Movie,'' and is here used to thematically connect with the shared struggle of the Autobots, Maximals, and humans.
* When the heroes are lining up for the final battle, brown fins briefly pop out of the sides of Wheeljack's head, evoking his [[Wheeljack (G1)|Generation 1 design]].
* As the heroes charge towards the Terrorcon army, Optimus Primal commands Rhinox and Cheetor to "Maximize!", which was the Maximal [[activation code]] from the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon.
* Optimus Primal briefly fights with his double bladed scimitar from his [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#Beast Wars|original toy]].
* In the final battle, when Unicron sends an army of Sweeps to reinforce his minions on Earth, they make their descent in the form of yellow-and-black orbs, which appears to be a nod to Unicron's [[Mini-Con]] from ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'', the yellow-and-black sphere, [[Dead End (Armada)|Dead End]].
* The armored suit Mirage forms over Noah is conceptually an homage to the Generation 1 [[exosuit]]s, while its overall design hews closer to [[Kicker Jones]]' battlesuit from ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]''.
* In a glorious homage to [[Transformers (film)|the 2007 movie]], the musical highlight of [[Steve Jablonsky]]'s "Arrival to Earth" plays as Optimus, Noah, and Primal escape the collapsing transwarp portal's suction.
* Optimus Prime's final speech is set to a remixed version of the track "No Sacrifice, No Victory" from the 2007 movie's score, which was also reprised for the endings of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' and ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''.
* [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and Transformers have frequently crossed over in comics and the occasional toyline over the years, though this marks the first time the two have co-existed in a feature film. Notably, the G.I. Joe insignia on Burke's business card is the version introduced in the film ''G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra''.

==Real-life references==
* When Noah is getting a cable box working, he tunes in to the 1992 film ''{{w|Juice (1992 film)|Juice}}''.
* A TV screen briefly shows news coverage of the {{w|Murder trial of O. J. Simpson#Bronco chase|O. J. Simpson white Ford Bronco car chase}}, which places the events of the film near [[June 17]], 1994.
* Throughout the film, Noah and Kris use the codenames "[[Sonic the Hedgehog (character)|Sonic]]" and "[[Tails]]" (and in one instance, Mirage is referred to as "{{w|Knuckles the Echidna|Knuckles}}"), a nod to the characters from the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' videogame series.
* Kris wears a shirt of the ''Mighty Morphin' [[Power Rangers]]'', another property owned by Hasbro. A poster of said series also appears on his wall.
* Kris is heard playing ''Super Mario Bros.'' on his [[Game Boy]]. However, see "Anachronisms".
* Noah gives their address as 974 Wilson Avenue in Brooklyn. While the avenue in question exists in reality, the street numbers only reach the 600s.
* Kris attempts to comfort Noah after his unsuccessful interview by relating his struggle to [[Superman]]'s difficulty finding a job before being hired by the {{w|Daily Planet}}.
* When Mirage compliments Noah after the car chase, he quotes the line "I like it a lot" from ''Dumb and Dumber''. However, see "Anachronisms".
* Also in the aftermath of the chase, he refers to the 1988 movie ''{{w|Big (film)|Big}}'' during his impression of Optimus Prime.
* Noah calls Mirage {{w|E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.}} for obvious reasons. He also makes a reference to [[Indiana Jones]] when discovering the hidden temple in Peru.
* Bumblebee drops various voice lines from famous real-life films throughout the whole movie, including ''{{w|Die Hard}}'', ''[[Spaceballs]]'', ''{{w|Dead Poets Society}}'',''{{w|They Live}}'', ''{{w|A Few Good Men}}'' and ''{{w|Scarface (1983 film)|Scarface}}.''
* While fleeing in the museum, Elena sings Zhané's song "{{w|Groove Thang}}" to try to calm herself down.
* As they rendezvous with the other Autobots for the trip to Peru, Mirage announces that "[[Wu-Tang Clan|Wu-Tang]] is in the building."
* Elena sings the TLC song "{{w|Waterfalls (TLC song)|Waterfalls}}" to herself during the flight to Peru. However, see "Anachronisms".
* The {{w|Inti Raymi}} festival taking place when the Autobots arrive in Peru is a real festival that takes place on [[June 24]], further tying the film's events to that month.
* During the mountain road car chase at Peru, the shot of Scourge's insignia-covered grille reflected in Prime's rearview mirror homages a famous shot from [[Steven Spielberg]]'s 1971 film ''{{w|Duel (1971 film)|Duel}}.''
* When meeting Primal, Elena brings up the {{w|Nazca Lines}} and the archeological site at {{w|Tikal}}, asking if the Maximals were responsible for creating them. [[Order of the Witwiccans|In this case]], however, Primal takes no credit for human ingenuity.
* Mirage calls Optimus Primal "{{w|Donkey Kong (character)|Donkey Kong}}".
* At the end of the film, Elena appears on the [[CBS]] news program ''[[60 Minutes]]''; host [[Lesley Stahl]] makes a cameo appearance as herself during the segment.
* The award on the wall that serves as the hidden switch to access the G.I. Joe base reads "Real Hero Award" with the image of an American flag, referencing the subtitle of the 1980s ''G.I. Joe'' franchise: "A Real American Hero".

==Errors==
===Filming, animation, and technical errors===
* When Scourge kills Apelinq, he welds his Maximal insignia to his right shoulder, but throughout the rest of the film, Apelinq's insignia is gone. In the same scene, Scourge says "They never learn...", but his mouth is not moving.
* A recurring error sees the CGI models for Freezer and Novakane, which were supposed to have unique head injuries for each character, being switched around at random at various points in the movie. A very noticeable example of this happens when Scourge deploys a single Sweep in Peru whose model has an intact head with just a pair of scars on its forehead, but is moments later replaced by the model with a much bigger wound and a missing left antenna. Several other Sweeps of varying sizes also reuse these models during the final battle, completely taking away the intended uniqueness of each head design.
* When Reek yells down the street as Noah and Kris depart, his dialogue does not match his lips.
*There are quite a few distance shenanigans in the fight at the museum:
** When Optimus Prime is about to throw his axe at Scourge, there is some distance between the two. However, in the next shot they are within just meters of each other.
** As Bumblebee powers down, Battletrap goes from standing on Optimus to right behind Scourge.
** Despite being close enough to drop Bumblebee's body in front of Optimus, when the shot cuts back to him Scourge is far back enough to take 4 steps closer to Optimus, and there is still enough space between him and Optimus for Airazor to safely separate the two with a wall of fire.
** When Airazor interrupts the fight, Battletrap and Nightbird are even further behind Scourge in the aerial shot, then are back to being right behind him when the shot changes.
* When Scourge says "Now, to add a Prime to my collection", his claw is both folded in on his arm and deployed at the same time.
* When Mirage attempts to eavesdrop on Noah and Kris' conversation, he is barely tall enough peer into the balcony while standing on a car. However, a minute later when Kris promises him to keep Noah safe he is somehow tall enough to comfortably look into the balcony without anything to stand on.
* The doors that go onto Wheeljack's back are unmarked brown in the scene of him transforming from van mode, but feature text on them in the very next cut where he is in robot mode.
* When Wheeljack audibly gasps at Noah assuming he can speak Spanish, his mouth is not moving.
* When Mirage and Optimus Prime turn into a street in Cusco, there is another Optimus Prime truck in the background. This can only be seen if you pause at the right moment.
* As Optimus decks Scourge during the Peru chase, Scourge seems to suffer a wardrobe malfunction as a wheel, meant to be inside his torso, springs out of his right armpit.
* Additionally, there are times when vehicles just disappear during the Switchback chase;
** Scourge's truck conveniently takes a lot of time to round a corner Optimus has just turned, despite being only feet behind him
** Mirage is no longer visible next to Nightbird when Battletrap pulls his 180 turn stunt.
* When Wheeljack is recovering from being attacked by Rhinox, his mouth is not moving as he says "Ay-ay-ay."
* As the heroes are walking through the jungle, the scene cuts to Elena while she is saying "So, what are you?", which does not match her lips.
* When Cheetor transforms, his spear tip floats for a few frames before reconnecting to the shaft.
* During the final battle, the line where Primal declares "We'll clear the way!" accidentally uses the scratch track recorded by David Sobolov rather than Ron Perlman's final VO. This led to some confusion among fans, who thought the line might have been spoken by Rhinox (who, despite Sobolov being credited for the role, is silent in the finished film), but Sobolov himself clarified the mix-up at a later convention panel.
* As Optimus Prime looks up at Unicron arriving at the mouth of the portal, Arcee can be seen scuttling about blasting Sweeps; except her blasters produce no laser effects.
* From the time Bumblebee acquires his offroad Camaro, his wheels are inconsistent between his robot and vehicle modes, with some shots showing his normal Camaro's wheels instead of the offroad ones. It is most visible for the wheels on his shoulders.
* Scourge's mouth is not moving as he proclaims "Unicron will prevail!" before shooting the transwarp control panel.
* Elena audibly whimpering in Bumblebee as he drives through hoards of Sweeps does not match her lips.

===Continuity errors===
* When Scourge slams Optimus against a nearby obelisk, the impact (followed by Scourge punching Prime in the face) somehow doesn't damage the structure, at least until Scourge breaks it with his hands. It also disappears in the next shot of Optimus.
* After Scourge incapacitates Bumblebee, he plucks his Autobot badge off with a normal left hand. In the following shot, however, his left hand is transformed into his giant claw and he is no longer holding the badge.
* During the chase out of Cusco, when Optimus Prime reaches the bend, the Terrorcons are very close behind him. However, when he transforms into robot mode, they are suddenly much further back.
* Nightbird and Battletrap, who were behind Scourge, are suddenly right behind Mirage after Optimus and Scourge begin fighting.
* When Stratosphere transforms in Peru, it starts with him facing away from Optimus Prime. However, in the next shot he's now facing towards him.
* When Scourge walks away with the second half of the key, his left arm switches from the claw to the cannon between shots.

===Geographic discontinuities===
* There ''is'' a museum on Ellis Island... however, it's a [https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/national-immigration-museum/ museum that documents the turn-of-the-century immigrant experience], and not the generalized natural history museum shown in the film. Notably, the actual museum is composited out of the movie's establishing shots so that the made-up museum setpiece can replace it.
* Elena states that she has never left New York. Ellis Island, her place of work, is almost completely owned by the state of New Jersey, discounting a small portion that was the island's original size that is still a part of New York. Even discounting that, the waters surrounding the island are wholly owned by the Garden State.
* When the Autobots arrive at Cusco, they land at the citadel of [[Sacsayhuamán]], an Inca fortress on the northern outskirts of the city, and the site is deserted. Even on a normal day, it should be crawling with tourists, but the Autobots are specifically said to arrive during the [[Inti Raymi]] festival... whose central activity is a recreation of an Inca ceremony ''at'' Sacsayhuamán.
* The fight with the corrupted Airazor takes place at Machu Picchu, which nobody is witness to, as again it is completely deserted. It should be crawling with tourists, the staff that works at the site, the guests and staff of the lodge located right next to the complex, or the population of the town of Aguas Calientes at the base of the mountain.

===Anachronisms===
* Though the "you died!" music and mention of Bowser imply Kris is playing ''Super Mario Bros.'' on his Game Boy, that game wouldn't see a release on the system until 1999's ''[https://www.mariowiki.com/Super_Mario_Bros._Deluxe Super Mario Bros. Deluxe]'' on the Game Boy Color (which was incompatible with the original monochrome model anyway). The only ''Mario'' platformers released for Game Boy by 1994 were the ''Super Mario Land'' games, which featured different antagonists and music.
* The F1 car which Mirage briefly turns into is based on a design chassis that would be introduced at the very end of the 90s (at least [[1998]]/[[1999]]).
* Elena sings "Waterfalls" by TLC to calm herself down. Assuming the film takes place in June, it would still be a few months until the November 1994 release of the album ''CrazySexyCool'', which the song first appeared on.
* Similarly, Mirage quotes a line from ''Dumb and Dumber'', a film that would not release until December 1994.
* [[Nightbird (ROTB)|Nightbird]] transforms into a Nissan Skyline GT-R (R33), a vehicle that wouldn't be introduced until January 1995. However, it could be possible she scanned a modified R33 coupe, given non GT-R models had already been released at this point.
* A green car that was smashed and thrown in the Museum scene was a B5.5 Volkswagen Passat which would not be released until 2001.
* The promo for ''60 Minutes'' uses the program's contemporary imaging, including the use of the current CBS News logotype above that of the show.

==Music==
During the runup to the movie's theatrical release, star [[Tobe Nwigwe]], who portrays [[Reek]] in the film, collaborated with hip-hop mainstay Nas and Nigerian R&B artist Jacob Banks on the single "[[On My Soul]]", and released on [[May 19]], 2023. A remix of the song is featured during the climactic battle, though this particular mix has (sadly) not been released officially. Paramount also released a [[Transformers Rise of the Beats|Spotify-exclusive playlist]] featuring most of the 90s rap needle drops, including [[Wu-Tang Clan]], [[The Notorious B.I.G.]], and once again Nas, to name a few.

A score album, ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Music from the Motion Picture)]]'', was released to music streaming services on June 9, the same day as the film. An expanded vinyl edition of the score was later released on [[December 15]], featuring five bonus cues. Then, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of ''Rise of the Beasts'', a collection of pre-production music suites was compiled onto an album entitled ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Music That Inspired the Score)]]'', which was released on June 9th, [[2024]].

==Home video releases==
{{main|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)/home video}}
Just a month after its theatrical release, Paramount released ''Rise of the Beasts'' to digital storefronts on [[July 11]], with the DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray releases following a few months later on [[October 10]]. Bonus features include cast and crew featurettes and deleted/extended scenes.

==Reception==
{{quote|Thanks to some genuine human drama between the set pieces and palpable affection for the title characters, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is one of the franchise's more enjoyable outings.|Critics Consensus|[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_rise_of_the_beasts Rotten Tomatoes]}}

Coming off the back of the generally well-received ''Bumblebee'', ''Rise of the Beasts'' received mixed reviews. While critics largely praised the old-school adventure film sequences and the performances of the human leads, most criticism was directed at the film's protracted final battle scene and its overuse of computer-generated imagery—in particular, some critics juxtaposed the film's tamer action scenes against the madcap, sometimes over-the-top practical effect-based destruction employed by [[Michael Bay]] during his time in the director's chair. As of writing, the film holds a 51% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, although the audience score sits at a much higher 91%.

In the US and Canada, ''Rise of the Beasts'' opened to a strong $60.5 million start—higher than both ''The Last Knight'' and ''Bumblebee'' <ref>[https://deadline.com/2023/06/box-office-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-spider-man-spiderverse-1235412771/ "'Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts' Conquers 'Spider-Verse' With $60M+ Opening, But Animated Pic's Second Weekend Hold Strong -- Box Office"]</ref>—but suffered a brutal 66.1 percent drop in its second weekend, where it lost out to other June releases; ''{{w|The Flash (film)|The Flash}}'', ''{{w|Elemental (2023 film)|Elemental}}'', and ''{{w|Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse|Across the Spider-Verse}}''.<ref>[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/the-flash-box-office-disappoint-pixar-elemental-flop-1235647927/ "'The Flash' Disappoints With $55 Million Debut, Pixar's 'Elemental' Flops With $29.5 Million in Battle of Box Office Lightweights"]</ref><ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2023W24/?ref_=bo_we_nav Domestic 2023 Weekend 24]</ref> A week later, the film took in a comparatively dismal $11 million.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2023/06/box-office-the-flash-no-hard-feelings-jennifer-lawrence-1235422274/ 'Spider-Verse' Swinging Ahead Of 'Elemental' After Game Of Chicken; 'Flash' Edging Out 'No Hard Feelings' -- Saturday PM Box Office]</ref> The film's domestic theatrical run came to a close in August 2023 with approximately a $439 million worldwide gross, marking the lowest-grossing instalment in the franchise.<ref>[https://comicbook.com/movies/news/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-franchise-box-office-low/ Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Breaks Unfortunate Franchise Record - ComicBook]</ref>

Despite the lower-than-expected box office performance, Hasbro seems to regard the film as an overall success and noted it as one of the top box office performers of the year in a subsequent investor presentation.<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/08/03/tfw2005-coverage-of-hasbro-2023-q2-earnings-conference-call-492111 TFW2005 Coverage Of Hasbro 2023 Q2 Earnings Conference Call]</ref> This optimism might come down to the fact that the summer 2023 movie slate was ''particularly'' packed; this, combined with a post-COVID shift in media demographics, means that pretty much every summer movie that wasn't ''{{w|Barbie (film)|Barbie}}'' or ''{{w|Oppenheimer (film)|Oppenheimer}}'' underperformed to some degree. Paramount Pictures CEO Brian Robbins described the film's performance as "not great, but good" and blamed its financial woes on an increasingly fractured global box office less receptive to American movies—especially in China, the franchise's biggest overseas market, where ''Rise of the Beasts''' gross of $90 million was only half of what Paramount had projected it to earn.<ref>[https://variety.com/2023/film/features/brian-robbins-paramount-pictures-tmnt-mutant-mayhem-tom-cruise-1235679142/ After a Decade in Limbo, Brian Robbins Is Giving Paramount a Makeover With ‘Ninja Turtles,’ Tom Cruise and ‘Gladiator 2’]</ref> It should be noted that ''Rise of the Beasts'' was a huge hit in [[Peru]], where the film's third act is set; it surpassed ''{{w|Avengers: Endgame}}'' as the highest-grossing movie ever in the country,<ref>[https://larepublica.pe/cine-series/2023/08/02/transformers-el-despertar-de-las-bestias-es-la-pelicula-mas-taquillera-de-la-historia-en-peru-transformers-7-machu-picchu-103204 'Transformers: el despertar de las bestias' es la película más taquillera de la historia en Perú]</ref> and Peru ranks as the fourth highest-grossing territory for the film, behind only the United States, China and Mexico.<ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2443334149/ Rise of the Beasts International Numbers]</ref>

In 2024, ''Rise of the Beasts'' received no nominations for a {{w|Golden Raspberry Awards|Golden Raspberry Award}}. None whatsoever, including a {{w|Razzie Redeemer Award}}.<ref>[https://variety.com/2024/film/news/razzie-nominations-2024-chris-evans-jennifer-lopez-1235879949/ Razzie Noms 2024: Chris Evans and Jennifer Lopez Up for Worst Actors; ‘Shazam 2’ and ‘Ant-Man 3’ Tie With 4 Nods - Variety]</ref> Although {{w|Jimmy Kimmel}} wasn't too fond of the movie as he even poked fun at its questionable state during the opening monologue at the {{w|96th Academy Awards}}.<ref>[https://lamag.com/awards-watch/jimmy-kimmel-oscars-monologue-best-and-worst-jokes Viewers Pan Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscars Monologue: Best and Worst Jokes - LA Magazine]</ref>

==Development details==

[[File:TRANSFORMERS-2022.jpg|thumb|250px|This guy's got bearings of chrome steel.]]

* March 27, 2015 — [[Paramount Pictures]] negotiates with [[Akiva Goldsman]], hiring him to create a "writer's room" with the intention of building a cinematic universe.<ref name="goldsman">[http://deadline.com/2015/03/transformers-akiva-goldsman-paramount-sequels-spinoffs-1201400027/ Paramount Enlisting Akiva Goldsman To Ramp Up 'Transformers' Output] on deadline.com</ref> Goldsman goes on to hire a number of writers over the next few months: [[Steven DeKnight]] (''Daredevil''),<ref>[http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/transformers-cinematic-universe/35696/transformers-cinematic-details-more-writers-over-10-films Transformers cinematic details]</ref> [[Robert Kirkman]] (''The Walking Dead''),<ref name="deadlinewritersroom">[http://deadline.com/2015/05/transformers-writers-robert-kirkman-zak-penn-art-marcum-matt-holloway-jeff-pinkner-1201430601/ 'Transformers' Spinoff & Sequel Scribes Set] on Deadline.com</ref> [[Art Marcum]] and [[Matt Holloway]] (''Iron Man''),<ref name="deadlinewritersroom" /> [[Christina Hodson]] (''Shut In'', ''The Fugitive''),<ref name="hodsonbeer">[http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/446175-christina-hodson-and-lindsey-beer-join-transformers-writing-team Christina Hodson and Lindsey Beer Join the Transformers Writing Team]</ref> [[Lindsey Beer]] (''Dig''),<ref name="hodsonbeer" /> [[Zak Penn]] (''Pacific Rim 2''),<ref name="deadlinewritersroom" /> [[Jeff Pinkner]] (''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'', ''Lost''),<ref name="deadlinewritersroom" /> [[Andrew Barrer]] and [[Gabriel Ferrari]] (''Ant-Man''),<ref name="barrerferrari">[http://deadline.com/2015/05/transformers-ant-man-andrew-barrer-gabriel-ferrari-cybertron-1201433402/ 'Ant-Man' Scribes Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari Join 'Transformers' Writers Room] on Deadline</ref> [[Ken Nolan]] (''Black Hawk Down''), and [[Geneva Robertson-Dworet]].<ref name="nolandworet">[http://www.slashfilm.com/transformers-writers-room/ Akiva Goldsman Teases 'Transformers' Franchise Plans]</ref> Involved in the pitching process are [[Steven Spielberg]], [[Michael Bay]], [[Brian Goldner]], [[Lorenzo di Bonaventura]], [[Mark Vahradian]], and [[Don Murphy]].<ref name="deadlinereveal">[http://deadline.com/2015/09/transformers-writers-room-akiva-goldsman-transformers-5-1201531918/ 'Transformers' Writers Room Wraps] on Deadline</ref>
* October 3, 2015 — During his keynote speech at the MIP Junior Conference, [[Allspark (company)|Allspark]]'s [[Stephen J. Davis]] notes that the writing team has come up with film concepts for Transformers 5, 6, 7, and 8.<ref name="stephendaviskeynote">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_P2fw_DlS4&t=812 Stephen Davis's keynote speech] at MIPJunior.</ref>
* February 12, 2016 — At [[Toy Fair 2016]], Hasbro reveals the projected release date of Transformers 7, along with the dates for the two preceding films.<ref name="toyfairreveal" />
* September 23, 2017 — At Licensing Europe 2017, Hasbro announces Transformers 7 will have an "entirely new, exciting storyline".<ref>[http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/09/23/2019-transformers-movie-feature-entirely-new-storyline-349463 2019 Transformers Movie To Feature An Entirely New Storyline] on TFW2005</ref>
* February 16, 2018 — Hasbro clarifies at [[Toy Fair 2018]] that the film will be a reset of the franchise and has been delayed indefinitely until a new creative team is in place.<ref>[http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/02/16/transformers-cinematic-universe-current-movie-series-rebooted-358641 Transformers Cinematic Universe Is Over: Current Movie Series To Be Rebooted] on TFW2005</ref>
* May 24, 2018 — Paramount drops the film from their release schedule.<ref>[http://collider.com/transformers-7-cancelled/amp/ Paramount Officially Pulls the Next 'Transformers' Sequel from Their Release Date Schedule] on Collider</ref>
* March 15, 2019 — di Bonaventura states a sequel to ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' is in development.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/two-sequels-in-transformers-live-action-franchise-confirmed-in-development/43083/ Two Sequels in Transformers Live Action Franchise Confirmed in Development] on Seibertron</ref>
* March 18, 2019 — di Bonaventura claims that the next main ''Transformers'' film will be a reboot closely tied to the ''Bumblebee'' sequel, rather than a direct sequel to ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''. Either way, Paramount will pick the best script for ''Transformers 7'' and release that first.<ref>[https://www.gamespot.com/articles/bumblebee-producer-says-next-transformers-movie-wi/1100-6465652/ Bumblebee Producer Says Next Transformers Movie Will Be A Reboot] on GameSpot</ref>
[[File:Stevencaplejr autobot cast.jpg|thumb|250px|Hey, you think ''that's'' speed? You ain't seen the Golden Rocket.]]
[[File:Stevencaplejr terrorcon cast.jpg|thumb|250px|Then we will create ''alternate forms'', based on the most powerful local creatures!]]
* January 27, 2020 — Variety reports two ''Transformers'' films are being penned, to be produced simultaneously: one written by [[James Vanderbilt]], another to be written by [[Joby Harold]].<ref>[https://variety.com/2020/film/news/transformers-franchise-revamp-bumblebee-james-vanderbilt-joby-harold-1203482496/ ‘Transformers’ Franchise Gets a Revamp With Two Separate Films in the Works] on Variety</ref> Deadline reports that Vanderbilt's script is for a spin-off film based on ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'', while Harold's script continues the story from the ''Bumblebee'' film.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2020/01/transformers-movies-paramount-1202843234/ Dual ‘Transformers’ Movies In The Works At Paramount] on Deadline</ref>
* May 2, 2020 — [[Hasbro]] CEO [[Brian Goldner]] confirms that a new Transformers live-action movie is slated for release on [[June 24]], 2022. However, only one between Harold's ''Bumblebee'' sequel and Vanderbilt's ''Beast Wars'' film will make it to production first.
* August 21, 2020 — New Republic Pictures is announced as a new co-financier for Paramount in a ten-picture deal in the wake of the success of 2019's ''Rocketman''.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2020/08/paramount-pictures-new-republic-pictures-10-picture-cofinancing-deal-top-gun-maverick-1203018250/ New Republic Pictures Signs 10-Pic Co-Fi Deal With Paramount Pictures; ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Among Films] on Deadline</ref>
* November 16, 2020 — [[Steven Caple Jr.]] is announced as the director.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2020/11/transformers-director-steven-caple-jr-1234613830/ Transformers’: ‘Creed 2’ Director Steven Caple Jr. Tapped To Direct Next Installment In Paramount And Hasbro Franchise] on Deadline</ref>
* April 1, 2021 — [[Anthony Ramos]] is in talks for a starring role.<ref>[https://collider.com/transformers-7-cast-anthony-ramos/ Exclusive: Anthony Ramos in Talks to Star in New 'Transformers' Movie] at Collider</ref>
* April 29, 2021 — [[Dominique Fishback]] is in final negotiations to star in the film.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2021/04/transformers-dominique-fishback-anthony-ramos-paramount-eone-and-hasbro-franchise-1234746855/ 'Transformers': Dominique Fishback Lands Lead Role Opposite Anthony Ramos In Next Installment For The Paramount Franchise] on Deadline</ref>
* June 13, 2021 — A casting call sheet for filming in Montreal reveals that the film is set in [[1992]].<ref>[https://www.transformersfr.com/t5190p250-parlons-des-films-transformers-a-venir#190206 Rumeur ― le "7ème Film Transformers en prise de vue réelle" se déroulerait en 1992] on transformersfr.com</ref>
* June 22, 2021 — A Paramount virtual event is held in which the movie's title, premise, and few of the characters and cast are unveiled (revealing it to be both the ''Bumblebee'' and ''Beast Wars'' films in one).<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Currently attending a Paramount virtual event about the next #Transformers film. Report to follow!|link=https://twitter.com/search?q=(from%3ABWTF_Ben)%20until%3A2021-06-23%20since%3A2021-06-22|name=Ben Yee|site=Twitter|year=2021|month=06|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|link=https://bwtf.com/news/rise-of-the-beasts-character-descriptions|name=Ben Yee|site=BWTF|title=Movie News: "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" Character Descriptions|year=2021|month=06|day=22}}</ref> The film's logo and official premise are also unveiled on official Transformers social media accounts.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The battle on Earth is no longer just between Autobots and Decepticons… Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons join Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, in theatres June 24, 2022.|link=https://twitter.com/transformers/status/1407422768602181632|name=@transformers|site=Twitter|year=2021|month=06|day=22}}</ref>
* June 28, 2021 — [[Ron Perlman]] is announced to be reprising his role as Optimus Primal from ''[[Transformers: Power of the Primes (cartoon)|Power of the Primes]]''. [[Darnell Metayer]] and [[Josh Peters]] are confirmed as writers, inspired by Joby Harold's earlier draft.<ref>{{citesocial|quote='''Ron Perlman''' has been tapped to voice Optimus Primal in '''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''''', Collider has exclusively learned. [...] ''Rise of the Beasts'' will be led by rising stars '''Anthony Ramos''' (''In the Heights'') and '''Dominique Fishback''' (''Judas and the Black Messiah''), and '''Steven Caple Jr.''' (''Creed II'') is directing from a script by '''Darnell Metayer''' and '''Josh Peters''', who worked off an earlier draft by '''Joby Harold'''.|link=https://collider.com/ron-perlman-optimus-primal-voice-transformers-7-rise-of-the-beasts/|name=Jeff Sneider|site=Collider|title=Exclusive: 'Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' Adds Ron Perlman as Voice of Optimus Primal|year=2021|month=06|day=28}}</ref>
* July 11, 2021 — Rapper [[Tobe Nwigwe]] announces on Instagram that he's been cast in the movie.<ref>[https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/music/houston-s-tobe-nwigwe-earns-emmy-nom-16317174 Houston’s Tobe Nwigwe earns Emmy nom, 'Transformers' role] from the Houston Chronicle</ref>
* October 6, 2021 — Caple Jr. reveals the vehicle modes for the Autobot and Terrorcon cast through his Instagram account.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The squad is out…|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CUsm_wyLory/|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Instagram|year=2021|month=10|day=06}}</ref>
* October 20, 2021 — Filming is completed.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=That’s a wrap 🎬|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CVOw5z2r9TP/|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Instagram|year=2021|month=10|day=20}}</ref>
* October 21, 2021 — Cuscopolita reports on the vehicles with the film's Peru crew, confirming the unidentified vehicles as [[Wheeljack (ROTB)|Wheeljack]] and [[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]].<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.facebook.com/cuscopolitamagazine/videos/1941112319403899|name=Cuscopolita|site=Facebook|title=Exclusiva con los Transformers|year=2021|month=10|day=20}}</ref>
* October 22, 2021 — Ramos makes a guest appearance on [[Hasbro Pulse Con 2021]], confirming Cheetor, his favorite ''Beast Wars'' character, will be in the film.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I am a ''Transformers'' fan, ''Beast Wars'' fan, Cheetor is my #1 favorite of all time, so it's dope to have Cheetor, to be in this movie with Cheetor, it's gonna be crazy.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjtxJqrv-bI&t=6051s|name=Anthony Ramos|site=YouTube|title=Hasbro PulseCon 2021 - DAY ONE|year=2021|month=10|day=22}}</ref>
* November 10, 2021 — Paramount announces the film has been delayed to [[June 9]], [[2023]].<ref name="2023release">{{citesocial|quote=Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has moved back a year and will now bow June 9, 2023. It previously was slated for June 24, 2022.|link=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/star-trek-transformers-movie-release-date-1235045937/|name=Aaron Couch|site=The Hollywood Reporter|title=‘Star Trek,’ ‘Transformers’ Movies Pushed Back at Paramount|year=2021|month=11|day=10}}</ref>
* February 15, 2022 — Paramount confirms that ''Rise of the Beasts'' will be the first entry in a trilogy of films.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will be released theatrically in 2023 and is the first of three new installments. A new animated series from @Nickelodeon arrives this fall. And in 2024, the franchise expands further with a CG animated Transformers theatrical film. #ParamountPlus|link=https://twitter.com/paramountplus/status/1493706271207292928|name=Paramount+|site=Twitter|year=2022|month=02|day=15}}</ref>
* October 11, 2022 — Caple Jr. reveals through Instagram that [[Pete Davidson]] is the voice of Mirage, and [[Michelle Yeoh]] is the voice of Airazor.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Sneak peek of Pete voicing Mirage & @michelleyeoh_official blessing us as the voice of Air Razor|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjlx3PPPC_J/|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=10|day=11}}</ref>
* October 21, 2022 — [[Tobe Nwigwe]] states on an Instagram post that they are doing some re-shoots for ''Rise of the Beasts'', including featuring his character in additional scenes.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The head people from ''Transformers'' said I did so good in my part they wanna add me to some more scenes. So I gotta go shoot some more stuff for ''Transformers''.|link=https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cj9PnevsVb1/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY|name=Tobe Nwigwe|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=10|day=21}}</ref>
[[File:ROTBTeaserPoster.jpg|thumb|250px|right|I'd say that's PRIME! Let's do it!]]
* December 1, 2022 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWWDskI46Js official teaser trailer] is released by Paramount Pictures in conjunction with São Paulo's CCXP convention, giving audiences a first glimpse of the film and its various characters, including Mirage, Arcee, Scourge and the Maximals. Multiple voice cast members are also announced.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2022/12/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-peter-dinklage-liza-koshy-john-dimaggio-cast-1235186104/]</ref>
* December 2, 2022 — [[Jongnic Bontemps]] is announced as the film's score composer.<ref>[http://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/12/02/jongnic-bontemps-to-compose-music-for-steven-caple-jr-s-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts/]</ref>
* December 16, 2022 — Caple Jr. shares a clip of Peter Cullen performing on his Instagram account.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=🐐|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPM80yPcsP/|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Instagram|year=2022|month=12|day=16}}</ref>
* December 26, 2022 — Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal make a "guest" appearance on the 2022 [[Nickelodeon]] Nickmas NFL game, showcasing both modes and their transformations.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5X0F_AvY8Q YouTube upload] of a recording for Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal on the 2022 Nickmas NFL game</ref>
* January 31, 2023 — [[Sam Smith]] reveals toy concept art for a new character from the film, [[Freezer]].<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CoFlXXNOly1/</ref>
* February 12, 2023 — Paramount airs a 30-second TV spot detailing Mirage's Porsche 911 vehicle mode for Super Bowl LVII in collaboration with Porsche.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2023/02/2023-super-bowl-movie-trailers-the-flash-fast-x-transformers-ant-man-expected-1235247160/ Super Bowl Movie Trailer Spots Will Include ‘The Flash’, ‘Fast X’, ‘Transformers’ & ‘Ant-Man’ — Deadline]</ref>
* April 2, 2023 — During the 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Final Four on CBS, Paramount aired a first-of-its-kind mixed reality TV spot that showed off Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal appearing on a 90s basketball court that transformed from the court the actual basketball match was being played on. A few brief clips from the first trailer were also shown.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeeIfpbUAHg]</ref>
* April 6, 2023 — Actor [[Tongayi Chirisa]] announces on Instagram that he is the voice of Cheetor.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=So there is a story to this!!! Per the usual standard .. I had to sign an NDA, so I had NO IDEA what I was reading for.. it was only when I was in the booth to do my voice over that it dawned on me that I was reading for TRANSFORMERS Like what!!!🤯🤯🤯🤯 I totally geeked out in the moment.. Man, to say this is mad exciting is an understatement... So thankful. So honored, so blessed!!!! Massive shout out and THANK YOU to @stevencaplejr for putting your boi on! Appreciate you, fam!!! @transformersmovie..🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 IT WAS ALL A DREAM!!!! Welcome, y'all. I am your transformer #CHEETOR!!!! Let's goooo!!!!!! #NdezvaMwari #Yeshua #smallbeginnings #ontherise|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqs_PQ1J_s6/|name=Tongayi Chirisa|site=Instagram|year=2023|month=04|day=06}}</ref>
* April 14, 2023 — To promote the film, Optimus Prime introduces Tobe Nwigwe's performance of "[[On My Soul]]" at {{w|Coachella}}.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Calling all Autobots. @TobeNwigwe and #OptimusPrime have rolled out to #Coachella. #Transformers #RiseOfTheBeasts|link=https://twitter.com/transformers/status/1647069845731803136|name=Transformers|site=Twitter|year=2022|month=04|day=14}}</ref>
* April 27, 2023 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itnqEauWQZM official trailer] is released by Paramount Pictures, revealing more of the movie and Unicron's role in the plot, as well as delivering a first, brief look at the Predacons.
* May 6, 2023 — The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxore0Gxwpc first clip] is showcased at the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards, showing the Autobots' first interaction with the Maximals.
* May 12, 2023 — The website Puliwood reveals the film's Hungarian dub cast...including the voice of [[Apelinq (ROTB)|Apelinq]], a character that had not yet been announced to be appearing in the film.<ref>[https://www.puliwood.hu/ismertetok/exkluziv-ilyen-szinkronhangokkal-jon-a-transformers-a-fenevadak-kora-325900.html EXKLUZÍV: ilyen szinkronhangokkal jön a Transformers: A fenevadak kora]</ref>
* May 27, 2023 — The film's world premiere is held at Marina Bay Sands in [[Singapore]].
* June 5, 2023 — David Sobolov confirms on Instagram that he is also voicing Apelinq in the film.<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CtIhCcwu4Ld/|quote=#transformers #riseofthebeasts fans… I just saw our epic premiere in Brooklyn! Tonight, I’m excited to reveal that I am the voice… of Apelinq!|name=David Sobolov|site=Twitter|year=2023|month=06|day=05}}</ref>
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===Changes before, during, and after production===
[[File:ROTB-concept-Rampage.jpg|thumb|250px|I prefer to beat my enemies the old-fashioned way: brutally!]]
* An early cut of the film opened with a different prologue, in which a Decepticon named [[Transit (ROTB)|Transit]], dispatched from a Decepticon-controlled Cybertron to hunt down Optimus Prime, battles and is killed by Optimus, who dumps his body in the Hudson River alongside numerous other Decepticons who have tried to do the same in the past few years. The scene was dropped due to test audiences finding it too dark, but [[John DiMaggio]] remains credited as the voice of Transit even in the finished film. Most of the visual effects for the scene were completed, and it was included (sans the river-dumping part) as a bonus feature with the movie's home media release.
** The scene was replaced for the finished film with Unicron's attack on the Maximal homeworld, which in the earlier cut was recounted by Airazor with hologram visual-aids during the scene when she meets the Autobots mid-movie.
* A scene was filmed of (in their truck modes) Optimus intercepting and ramming Scourge through a wall in Cuzco.<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2021/10/15/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-action-scene-between-autobots-terrocons-in-cuzco-explosions-443003 "Transformers Rise Of The Beasts – Action Scene Between Autobots & Terrocons In Cuzco & Explosions!"—TFW2005]</ref> No such sequence appeared in the final film, though a similar visual was used in one of [https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/05/08/even-more-new-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-character-posters-482376 Optimus Prime's character posters], set on the mountain road instead.
* Cheetor and Rhinox were initially intended to be introduced slightly earlier, encountering Elena and Noah in the underground cavern. In scenes interspersed with the Autobots' and Terrorcons' running battle on the hilltop road, Cheetor was to be the one who took down Freezer as he menaced the two humans, after which Noah's gauntlet would accidentally fire a shot at the Maximal, causing him and Rhinox to chase them through the cave. Cut in favor of making the Autobot/Terrorcon battle one unbroken scene, the alternate version was included as a bonus on the home media release.
*According to concept artists [[Eddie Del Rio]] and [[Shane Baxley]] more [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] other than Scorponok were considered to have a role in the movie; known characters include: [[Waspinator (ROTB)|Waspinator]], [[:File:ROTBRamhorn.jpg|Ram]][[:File:15-Rise-Of-The-Beasts-Ramhorn-Concept-Art.jpg|horn]], [[:File:Snapper.jpg|Snapper]], [[:File:Retrax2.jpg|Retrax]], [[:File:Rise-Of-The-Beasts-Blackaracnia-Concept-Art.jpg|Blackarachnia]], [[:File:ROTB Tarantulas concept.jpg|Tarantulas]], [[:File:ROTBSpittor.jpg|Spit]][[:File:14-Rise-Of-The-Beasts-Spittor-Concept-Art.jpg|tor]] and [[:File:Rampage-face.jpg|Rampage]].
** Development on most of these characters got as far as rough sketches, with one notable exception: Rampage. It appears in fact this character went pretty far into production before being scrapped, to the point where he was originally supposed to appear as [[:File:ROTB-Rampage-concept.jpg|a deceased corpse]] during the underground cavern sequence of the movie and [https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu44E6aoECC/ a full 360° CGI model] was even animated for the character.
* Multiple changes were made to the film's ending, which originally had a much darker tone like the scrapped opening. Originally, Mirage wasn't planned to survive the final battle, and Optimus would have been sucked into the portal after destroying the Transwarp Key and wind up floating in space before Unicron in the post-credits scene. Reactions by the audience in test screenings convinced Caple to change the ending to something a bit more hopeful, wanting to let the good guys get a solid win.<ref name=AltEnding>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-ending-1235512382/ ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Director Steven Caple Jr. Talks That Ending, Hailee Steinfeld and Test Screening Changes — The Hollywood Reporter]</ref> The scene of Prime and Unicron was included as an extra with the home media release.
* Two versions of the final scene were filmed: one in which Agent Burke's business card reveals him to be part of [[Sector Seven]], and the version used in the film, in which he's part of G.I. Joe. According to Caple, the Sector Seven version was filmed only as misdirection, and the G.I. Joe version was always the one he intended to use.<ref name=Joe/>
* Other deleted/extended scenes included on the home media release include: Elena's moment of panicked disbelief (prominently showcased in the movie's trailer) shortly after the museum battle; Noah speaking with his mother when he returns home after the museum battle; a wholesomely cute moment between Elena and Airazor before Mirage and Noah join the group to depart for Peru, in which Airazor explains the Maximal insignia; and a short scene of Optimus Primal about to hand the Transwarp Key over to Optimus Prime, before they are interrupted by Airazor's rampage.
* Additional cuts not represented in the extras from throughout the film included: a scene of Bumblebee showing a polaroid of himself and [[Charlie Watson]] to Optimus Prime as they wait outside the museum, to emphasise that some humans are trustworthy; innuendos between Arcee and Wheeljack that hint at a romantic attraction between the two; some dialogue from Scourge emphasising that (not unlike Galvatron in the original animated movie) he is an unwilling servant of Unicron; a scene of Wheeljack lending his glasses to Optimus Prime to use like a telescope; and an alternate plan to destroy the Transwarp Key in the final act that involves using the deceased Airazor's spark as a bomb, only for the bomb to be lost, leaving Elena to figure out the codes.
* During production, the Scorponok drones initially had a troll-like robot mode, and dozens of them would have merged into a massive Scorponok [[combiner]] that towered over the Autobots and Maximals in the final battle. Although their [https://www.eddiedelrio.com 3D models] were made, they were ultimately cut out.
* Concept art was created for a fourth Terrorcon who ultimately never made it to the final film. This character was referred to with the working name “[[:File:Bloodhound.jpeg|'''Bloodhound''']]” <ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CuheJkfxGeW/|quote=Early ideas for #bloodhound. He was my first task so I mostly carried over the process used on #bumblebee back in 2017. Swipe and you can see the rough sculpts I did in VR to capture attitude/proportion/etc. Then I would paint in details with photoshop. By the end of the show I was blocking in VR then jumped straight to zbrush/maya as it took roughly the same amount of time to sculpt everything.|name=Shane Baxley|site=Instagram|year=2023|month=07|day=10}}</ref> and would have transformed into a demonic-looking Oldsmobile 442. <ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CuPeUkzROiu/|quote=BLOODHOUND! This was the first #terracon Haworth had me do using an #oldsmobile442 which I think @stevencaplejr has in his garage? Unfortunately the scenes with this guy got cut - but he still got #imdb credit 🤣🤙🏻 #transformers #riseofthebeasts|name=Shane Baxley|site=Instagram|year=2023|month=07|day=03}}</ref>
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==Notes==
* In a first for the franchise, the lead human actors, multiple writers, the composer, and the director are all people of color.
* This is the first movie in the series not to be worked on by [[Industrial Light & Magic]]; this time around the CG effects were done by [[Moving Picture Company]] and [[WetaFX]].
* Steven Caple Jr. was initially sceptical of working on a ''Transformers'' movie, which at that point in development was being called ''Bumblebee 2'', because he was uncertain about jumping right into another sequel after directing ''{{w|Creed II}}''—however, the incorporation of elements inspired by ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', which Caple Jr. had been a fan of, helped sway him. Upon joining the project, he pitched several revisions, drawing from his enthusiasm for ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' by adding [[Unicron]] (and the [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]]s) and Noah's exosuit, along with a prologue on the [[Maximal]]s' homeworld and a new arc for [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] centred around his initial misanthropy.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The first time that- I did ''Creed 2'', and the first time the studio ever knocked on my door, it was for ''Bumblebee 2''. And I was like, "I don't want to do- I just came out from ''Creed 2'', I don't want to do a sequel..." you know? And so a year had gone by—or maybe two, right before COVID—and they said, "we found out the story we want to tackle: we want to bring in ''Beast Wars''." I was like, "I know all about ''Beast Wars'', I'm down for ''Beast Wars''." And so they developed a script on their own, they passed it to me—2020, October 5th, I remember the date—and I jumped right in and I kind of did my own version of the pitch, I said: "I love where you guys are going, you guys want to do New York, you guys want to do the 90s, you want to do Peru, but here's what I'll do, with the characters..." So I changed up Optimus Prime, I gave him a whole pitch on how I would start him with like, not loving humans at first, and not besiding Noah right off the rip, they're gonna have friction between the two... Gave 'em a pitch for Optimus Primal, where they start off in the top of the movie, and I gave them a new Unicron- I mean a new villain, which was Unicron and the Terrorcon squad. I just felt like, as a fan, we've been tiptoeing around Unicron, and all the other films kind of like hinted towards him towards the end, and I just really want to expand the universe and I felt like he was that perfect source to do so, because he tells us there's another world out there, there's more Transformers out there, it's not just Autobots and Decepticons. And then of course the [[exosuit]], that was my idea, it was homage to the 80s cartoon, so... It was a bit of that, pitched it to 'em and they loved the heart, they love where I was going with the direction of the characters, and yeah, they kind of gave me the key to play!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxUukVwKLCc|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=Collider|title=Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Interview: Director Reveals Big Change to Film|year=2023|month=06|day=06}}</ref>
* [[Tobe Nwigwe]]'s character of [[Reek]] was based Steven Caple Jr.'s friend Tarik Jackson, who passed away before shooting began in 2021.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The way I got the ''Transformers'' role was insane. [...] One of [Steven Caple Jr.'s] best friends was a fan of the music, and his best friend, right, like, as they was getting ready to start shooting the movie... passed. Passed, yeah. And he had Paramount Studios reach out to me to try to play a specific- the best friend role in ''Transformers''. They kind of emulated who his best friend was in real life. He told Paramount [...] "reach out to Tobe and if he send anything back that's even ''halfway'' decent... I want to use him." But because I had never done no acting ever in my life, I just had this script right here, and just read it like I was acting, and just recorded myself on the iPhone and I was like, "yo there's no way in hell..." [...] I did that, sent that in, and they liked it!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfAoWTKh3R8&t=2638s|name=Tobe Nwigwe|site=Sway's Universe|year=2023|month=01|day=23}}</ref>
* The fourth-wall-breaking [[Mark Wahlberg]] namedrop was ad-libbed by [[Pete Davidson]].<ref>{{citesocial|quote=We wanted to break the fourth wall. In all fairness, Pete Davidson made that up in the booth, and we laughed so hard, we're like in tears, and we're like there's no way we could not use this. We had ad-libbed a whole bunch of stuff. One was on, "Beanie Babies was weird", and he was like, what about Marky Mark leaving the Funky Bunch? And we were just in tears. And then we showed the studio and everybody loved it and was like, "let's just break the fourth wall. Do it."|link=https://gizmodo.com/breaking-the-fourth-wall-in-transformers-rise-of-the-b-1850514340|name=Steven Caple Jr.|site=io9|title=Breaking the Fourth Wall in ''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''|year=2023|month=06|day=09}}</ref>
* During the production of the film, Ramos had to acquire a driver's license at Caple Jr.'s behest.<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://open.spotify.com/episode/4DDi5f1SL4oESslcZLjhhG|name=Anthony Ramos|site=the Spout Podcast|year=2021}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|quote=I had a two-week window to get an appointment at the DMV, and the DMV was initially uncooperative. Finally, after much haggling, I was able to secure an appointment. I took the test in my mother's car after a few months of practice with an instructor. Fortunately, I was able to pass.|link=https://theplaylist.net/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-anthony-ramos-talks-representation-in-franchises-getting-his-drivers-license-for-the-film-interview-20230607/|name=Anthony Ramos|site=The Playlist|title='Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts': Anthony Ramos Talks Representation In Franchises & Getting His Driver's License For The Film [Interview]|year=2023|month=06|day=07}}</ref>
* During an interview with a fan, voice actor David Sobolov revealed that Caple Jr. would create storyboards using Transformers toys. Awesome!<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdsfclO5etE&t=1106 "ROTB UNICRON IS THRILLING!" | Interview with DAVID SOBOLOV (Rhinox + Battletrap)! - YouTube]</ref>
* According to Caple Jr., Optimus's unmasked face was modeled after Peter Cullen's.
* As a result of Transit's removal, this is the first live-action film to not feature the Decepticons in any capacity.
* To keep the secret of the ''G.I. Joe'' tease at the end of the movie, most copies of the script and the version of the scene shot for test screenings all used [[Sector Seven]] instead. Michael Kelly also didn't know the big twist with his character until he arrived on set. Caple Jr. even had only a single ''G.I. Joe'' business card printed, on the day of filming, and took it from the set himself afterwards for safekeeping!<ref name=Joe>{{citesocial|quote=There was one version of the script that mentioned the G.I. Joe reveal. All other copies, including the one in the studio's possession, described the military organization as Sector 7. "That way no one could leak the script," Caple notes. [...] Caple says they shot two versions of Kelly's scene, one where Burke's business card reads Sector 7 and one where the card reads G.I. Joe, so audiences in test screenings wouldn't know the true reveal. There was only one copy of the G.I. Joe business card, and Caple took that himself from set for safe keeping. "I was like, 'I'm taking this. I don't want this to be found on the floor,'" he says. "I actually didn't have them printed out until that day [on set]. We were very cautious of it, man. We were really trying to be as secretive as possible."|link=https://ew.com/movies/transformers-g-i-joe-crossover-plans/|name=Nick Romano|site=Entertainment Weekly|title=Inside the top-secret plans for Transformers and G.I. Joe|year=2023|month=06|day=12}}</ref>
* This is the first live-action Transformers movie where the Japanese dub wasn't sound directed by [[Keiichirō Miyoshi]]. Instead it is directed by [[Yoshikazu Iwanami]], who had been responsible for the dub of the original ''Beast Wars'' cartoon.

===Foreign names===
* ''Japanese:'' '''''Transformers/Beast Kakusei''''' (トランスフォーマー/ビースト覚醒 ''Toransufōmā Bīsuto Kakusei'', "Transformers: Beast Awakening")
* ''Cantonese:'' '''''Bin3jing4 Gam1gong1: Kwong4sau3 Gwat6hei2''''' (變形金剛：狂獸崛起, "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts")
* ''French:'' '''''Transformers : Le Réveil des Bêtes''''' (Canada, "Transformers: The Awakening of the Beasts")
* ''German:'' '''''Transformers: Aufstieg der Bestien''''' ("Transformers: Rise of the Beasts")
* ''Hungarian:'' '''''Transformers: A fenevadak kora''''' ("Transformers: The Age of the Beasts")
* ''Italian: '' '''''Transformers: Il Risveglio''''' ("Transformers: The Awakening")
* ''Mandarin:'' '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng: Wàn Shòu Juéqǐ''''' (Taiwan, 變形金剛：萬獸崛起, "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts"), '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng: Chāonéng Yǒngshì Juéqǐ''''' (China, 变形金刚：超能勇士崛起, "Transformers: Rise of the Beast Wars")
* ''Portuguese:'' '''''Transformers: O Despertar das Feras''''' (Brazil, "Transformers: The Awakening of the Beasts")
* ''Spanish:'' '''''Transformers: El Despertar de las Bestias''''' ("Transformers: The Awakening of the Beasts")
* ''Russian:'' '''''Transformery: Voskhozhdeniye Zverobotov''''' (Трансформеры: Восхождение Звероботов, "Transformers: Rise of the Beastbots")
* ''Ukrainian:'' '''''Transformery: Chas Zvirobotiv''''' (Трансформери: Час Звіроботів, "Transformers: Time of the Beastbots")
* ''Polish:'' '''''Transformers. Przebudzenie bestii''''' ("Transformers Beasts Awakening")
* ''Czech:'' '''''Transformers: Probuzení monster''''' ("Transformers: Awakening the Monsters")
* ''Hungarian:'' '''''Transformers: A fenevadak kora''''' ("Transformers: Age of Beasts")
* ''Slovak:'' '''''Transformers: Monštrá sa prebúdzajú''''' ("Transformers: The Monsters are Awakening")
* ''Turkish:'' '''''Transformers: Canavarların Yükselişi''''' ("Transformers: Rise of the Monsters")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 9]], 2023

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)/home video

2025-12-22T02:02:16Z

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[[Image:ROTF-DVDSingleDisc.jpg|thumb|250px|You can probably buy this at the liquor store.]]

The [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|biggest movie of summer 2009]] was released to DVD and Blu-ray in North America on [[October 20]]th, 2009. Are you prepared? Do you know your exclusive transforming case from your extra seconds of metal smashy-smashy? Here's what you need to know:

==General retail releases==
Hundreds of retail chains across the United States are offering ''ROTF'' for sale, from grocery stores to pharmacies to gas stations. There are essentially four versions of ''ROTF'' available for Region 1 purchase - the single-disc DVD, the two-disc "special edition" available on Blu-Ray or DVD, and the Walmart-exclusive "Big Screen Edition" which is the only version containing the IMAX-exclusive footage (but is otherwise identical to the Special Edition).

Here's everything you could ever want to know about the different releases:

===Single-disc release===
;DVD approximately $15 US / £10 UK
* All editions of ''ROTF'' include the following:
** ''Revenge of the Fallen'' in widescreen format
** English, French and Spanish language tracks and subtitles (the Americas)
** English language tracks and subtitles plus additional subtitles in Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish (UK / Scandinavia)
** English and Italian language tracks and subtitles (Italy / Australia)
*** NOTE: These three editions also contain English closed captions and an audio descriptive service.
** English and Chinese language tracks and subtitles (China / Hong Kong / Taiwan / Singapore)
** English and Japanese language tracks and subtitles (Japan)
** English and Thai language tracks and subtitles plus additional subtitles in Malay, Indonesian, and Korean (Thailand / Malaysia / Indonesia / South Korea)
** English and French language tracks and subtitles plus additional subtitles in Dutch (France / the Netherlands)
** English and Spanish language tracks and subtitles (Spain)
** English and Portuguese language tracks and subtitles (Brazil)
** English, German, and Turkish language tracks and subtitles (Germany / Austria / Turkey)
** English, Russian, and Ukrainian language tracks and subtitles (Russia / Ukraine)
** English, Czech, Hungarian, and Polish language tracks and subtitles plus additional subtitles in Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, and Slovenian (India / Eastern Europe)
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===Two-Disc Special Edition===
[[Image:ROTF-DVD-2disc.jpg|thumb|150px|You can probably buy this at the nicer, larger, liquor store.]]
;DVD approx. $22 / £15
;Blu-ray approx. $25 / £17
* This version includes all the features above, a [[Michael Bay]], [[Alex Kurtzman]] and [[Roberto Orci]] commentary track (with subtitles in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Korean) plus a second disc containing:
** Extended scenes
** [[Linkin Park]] music video for "New Divide"
** A ton of documentaries, as follows:
*** The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
*** Seeds of Vengeance - Development and Design
*** Domestic Destruction - Production: United States
*** Joint Operations - Production: Military
*** Wonders of the World - Production: Middle East
*** Start Making Sense - Editing
*** Under the Gun - Visual Effects
*** Running the Gauntlet - Post-Production and Release
*** A Day With Bay - [[Tokyo]]
*** 25 Years of Transformers
*** Deconstructing Visual Bayhem
** [[NEST]] Transformers Data Hub; a collection of concept art
** Easter eggs:
*** Extended footage of [[Mojo]] "dominating" [[Frankie]]
*** [[Josh Duhamel]] tripping over while doing a stunt

* The Blu-ray version adds the following:
** The Allspark Experiment mini-game
** 3-D turnaround galleries of the robot designs
** A Transformers timeline
** Some more documentaries:
*** Giant Effing Movie
*** The Matrix of Marketing

* The Blu-ray's language division is far less spread out than the DVD's.
** English, French, and Spanish language tracks and subtitles plus additional subtitles in Portuguese (the Americas)
** English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian language tracks and subtitles plus additional subtitles in Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish (Western Europe / Australia)
*** NOTE: These two editions also contain English closed captions and an audio descriptive service.
** English and Chinese language tracks and subtitles (China / Hong Kong / Taiwan / Singapore)
** English, Japanese, and Thai language tracks and subtitles plus additional subtitles in Malay, Hindi, Indonesian, and Korean (Asia)
** English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, and Turkish language tracks and subtitles plus additional subtitles in Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Ukrainian (Eastern Europe)

*The UK Blu-ray version also adds a third disc containing a "Digital Copy" of the movie, meaning a file on a DVD-ROM, for copying to your computer, etc.

For a limited time, copies of the DVD were available for preorder on [[Michael Bay]]'s website, to be signed by Bay himself. Maybe you can find one on [[eBay]] if you're lucky.
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===Two-Movie Mega Collection===
;DVD approx. $30 / £15
* Contains the single-disc edition DVDs of both ''Transformers'' and ''ROTF''
;Blu-ray approx. $45 / £35
* Contains the Two-Disc Special Edition Blu-rays of both ''Transformers'' and ''ROTF''
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The first two are also available in future compilations to come, each adding one more subsequent movie.

===4K Ultra HD===
[[Image:ROTF 4K.jpg|thumb|150px|You can probably buy this at the liquor factory.]]
;approx. $25
* Contains the movie on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray.
* NOTE: Greece and India sell only a single-disc 4K package, the US and France carry over the two-disc special edition, while the rest of the world get only the movie on both 4K and Blu-ray.
* English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese audio tracks and subtitles (the Americas/Australia)
* English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese audio tracks and subtitles plus additional subtitles in Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Greek, Icelandic, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Romanian, Portuguese, Slovak, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian (Europe/Asia)
* Commentary by director Michael Bay (both editions)
** Subtitles:
*** the Americas/Australia: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese
*** Europe/Asia: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and Korean
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==US retailer exclusives==
===Best Buy Limited Edition Blu-Ray Giftset - $44.99===
* Includes the Blu-Ray version of the 2-disc Special Edition, as well as the following:
* Miniature [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] bust
* $50 Sideshow Collectibles gift certificate
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20091021093610/http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9426882&st=Transformers_Experience&lp=3&type=product&cp=1&id=2011873 ''ROTF'' giftset at BestBuy.com]
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===F.Y.E. Exclusive Steelbook Packaging - $25.99===
[[Image:FYE ROTF DVD Steelbook.jpg|thumb|150px|]]
* Includes the DVD version of the 2-disc Special Edition, in a special metal case
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20091015094429/http://www.fye.com/Transformers--Revenge-of-the-Fallen--Special-Edition---Steelbook-packaging---f-y-e--Exclusive--Front-Page_stcVVproductId84987344VVcatId455366VVviewprod.htm ''ROTF'' Steelbook edition at FYE.com]
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===Target Exclusive Transforming Bumblebee Case===
* Available with either the DVD ($26.99) or Blu-Ray ($29.99) versions of the 2-disc Special Edition, in a "transforming" [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] case
* [http://www.target.com/Transformers-Revenge-Fallen-Blu-ray-Target/dp/B002PZ1FWK/ref=br_1_8?ie=UTF8&frombrowse=1&searchView=grid5&searchNodeID=2055001011&node=2055001011&searchRank=pmrank&searchPage=1&searchSize=30&id=Transformers%20Revenge%20Fallen%20Blu-ray%20Target Transforming Bumblebee Case (Blu-Ray version) at Target.com]
* [http://www.target.com/Transformers-Revenge-Fallen-Only-Target/dp/B002PZ1FRA/ref=br_1_12?ie=UTF8&frombrowse=1&searchView=grid5&searchNodeID=2055001011&node=2055001011&searchRank=pmrank&searchPage=1&searchSize=30&id=Transformers%20Revenge%20Fallen%20Only%20Target Transforming Bumblebee Case (DVD version) at Target.com]
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===Walmart Exclusive Big Screen Edition===
[[Image:Tf2009 bluray bigscreenedition case.jpg|thumb|150px|We're not playing favorites... but let's face it; ''this'' is the one you want.]]
* Available with either the DVD ($20.86) or Blu-Ray ($23.32) versions of the 2-disc Special Edition. NOT the single disc version. Don't cheap out.
* This is the only home video release to include the IMAX-exclusive ''ROTF'' footage, so if you want to see faces ripped off in glorious über-detail, this is the one to go for.
* [http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=12534009 ''ROTF'' Big Screen Edition (Blu-Ray) at Walmart.com]
* [http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=12534010 ''ROTF'' Big Screen Edition (DVD) at Walmart.com]

*On a funny sidenote to the Wal-Mart edition, a home office error caused the Blu-Ray version to be priced at $13 at release. Unfortunately, due to a decree by the [[Georgia]] governor during the flooding that occurred in the Fall, no retailers were allowed to initiate price increases until the end of October. Not even to fix a pricing error.
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==Canadian retailer exclusives==
===Best Buy Exclusive Blu-Ray Special Edition ($27.99 sale)===
* Contains the Blu-Ray 2-disc Special Edition and an exclusive t-shirt
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===Future Shop Exclusive Steelbook Edition ($27.99 sale)===
[[Image:Futureshop_ROTF_Bluray_steelbook.jpg|thumb|150px|]]
* Contains the Blu-Ray 2-disc Special Edition and an exclusive steel packaging case
* The case is different from F.Y.E.'s and is exclusive to Canada.
*[http://www.futureshopforums.ca/futureshop/board/message?board.id=movies&thread.id=2198 Future Shop forum post with images of the Steelbook edition.]
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===Zellers $10 Toy Coupon ($13.49 limited-time offer)===
* Includes an unspecified DVD edition of ''ROTF'' and a coupon for $10 off a future toy purchase.
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==UK retailer exclusives==
===HMV===
*Both the two-disc DVD (£17.99) and Blu-Ray (£22.99) versions are available with Target's Transforming Bumblebee Case.
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==German retailer exclusives==
===Müller===
*The two-disc DVD is exclusively available at Müller stores in a Steelbook case (€19.99).

===Amazon===
*The Blu-ray edition with the transforming Bumblebee case is exclusively available via the Amazon.de website (€29,97).
[http://www.amazon.de/dp/B002NX0MGY Amazon.de link]

==Japanese retailer exclusives==
These are all totally awesome and totally expensive, but you're going to have to wait until [[December 18]] to get them.
* '''Black Bumblebee Edition''' - ¥4,536
** DVD or Blu-Ray only, includes a black redeco of Legends-class Bumblebee for preorders only. Available at multiple retailers, also in combination with additional exclusives as listed below.
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===Amazon Japan===
[[Image:ROTF Leader OptimusPrime BlackVersion.jpg|thumb|200px|You can probably buy a liquor store with this.]]
* Available on DVD (¥12,640) or Blu-Ray (¥13,220) and includes a [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]]-inspired [[redeco]] of ''ROTF'' Leader-class [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]].
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===Lawson===
* Available on DVD (¥9,890) or Blu-Ray (¥10,640), includes desert-themed redecos of Deluxe-class [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]]
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===Tsutaya===
[[Image:ROTFDVD__Tsutaya_clearBumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|]]
* '''Clear Bumblebee Edition''' - ¥5,191
** DVD or Blu-Ray only, includes a clear redeco of Legends-class Bumblebee as well as the transforming Bumblebee case found in the U.S. Target exclusive
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{{stub|Are there any exclusive releases for other markets? Europe? Australasia? We need pics of everything, too.}}

==Taiwanese retailer exclusives==
''Revenge of the Fallen'' DVDs and Blu-ray Discs are officially available in Taiwan on [[November 20]], but actually on the market around [[November 18]].

===Single-disc release===
[[Image:ROTFDVD_universe_se_pack.jpg|thumb|right|150px|This is how they always deal with the [[shelfwarmer]]s. Seriously.]]
* '''''Transformers: The War of Revenge''''' (550 NTD)
: Standard version DVD with a paper shellcase printed with introduction in Traditional Chinese.
* '''''Transformers: The War of Revenge'' Transformable Figure Giftbox''' (850 NTD)
: The special set is the item above attached with one of the [[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)#Hasbro Toy Shop exclusives|Deluxe class Special Edition]] from ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' franchise: [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|Megatron]], [[:Image:Universeoverkill.jpg|Overkill]], or [[:Image:Universe2008 DragStrip.jpg|Drag Strip]]. All of them are actually [[shelfwarmer]]s in Taiwanese market.

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===Two-Disc Special Edition===
[[Image:ROTFDVD_MOVDVD_valuepack.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Much better.]]
* '''''Transformers: The War of Revenge'' Iron Case Two-Disc Special Edition''' (698 NTD)
:As same as the Steelbook Edition with an extra metallic paper cap printed with introduction in Traditional Chinese.
* '''''Transformers: The War of Revenge'' Transforming Case Two-Disc Special Edition''' (798 NTD)
:As same as the transforming Bumblebee case found in the U.S. Target exclusive.
* '''''Transformers'' 1 + 2 Cool & Shining Pack''' (799 NTD)
:Featuring the DVD of ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' and ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' with an exclusive Autobot mousepad.

===Special items===
[[Image:ROTFDVD_variations_coasterset_Taiwan.jpg|thumb|right|200px|]]
If the customer orders a DVD in a [[7-Eleven]] convenience store or Books.com.tw, there will be an extra exclusive coaster set, featuring four circle-shaped coasters. The diameter of each coaster is around 9 cm (3.5 in). The pictures on the coasters are the [[:Image:Movie_Autobot.JPG|Autobot insignia]], [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], the [[:Image:Movie_Decepticon.JPG|Decepticon insignia]], and [[:Image:ROTF_bumblebee_poster.jpg|Bumblebee]].

In fact, the customer will receive not only the exclusive coaster set, but also a notepad of ''{{w|Shrek the Third}}'', another film from [[DreamWorks]], as an extra gift.

===Miscellaneous===
Early-pressed DVD features two extra cards:

*Activation card of [[The Optimus Experience]] (Due date: [[October 19]], 2010)
*Special card
** Lucky draw card
*** First prize: [[:Image:ROTF_UltimateBumblebee.jpg|Ultimate Bumblebee Battle Charged]]
*** Second prize A: [[:Image:ROTF_Leader_OptimusPrime.jpg|Optimus Prime (Leader class)]]
*** Second prize B: [[:Image:ROTF_Leader_Megatron.jpg|Megatron (Leader class)]]
*** Third prize: [[:Image:ROTF_HumanAlliance_Bumblebee%26Sam.jpg|Bumblebee / Sam Witwicky]]
*** Special prize A: [[:Image:MickeyMouse-ColorToy.jpg|Mickey Mouse Trailer]]
*** Special prize B: [[:Image:Donald_duck_transformer.jpg|Donald Duck]]
** Catalog for ''Revenge of the Fallen'' products in January, 2010
** Coupon for 100 NTD (Due date: [[January 31]], 2010)



==External links==
*[http://www.transformersmovie.com Dreamworks/Paramount's ''Transformers'' Movie website]
*[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/ Hasbro's ''Transformers'' homepage]

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[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen media]]

December 19

2025-12-21T00:40:24Z

ABYouKnowMe: Bumblebee and ROTB's DE-only 3D BD releases in 2024

<noinclude>{{cal-date|12|19}}</noinclude>

* '''???? —''' [[Claudia Contreras]] (Mexican voice of [[Darcy Tirrel]]) is born.
* '''[[1954]] —''' [[Marvel Comics]] artist [[Eliot Brown]] is born.
* '''[[1957]] —''' [[Jūrōta Kosugi]] (Japanese voice of [[Master Disaster (Animated)|Master Disaster]]) is born.
* '''1957 —''' [[Rafael Calvo]] (Castilian Spanish voice of [[Glen Whitmann]], [[Daytrader]] and [[Silas]]) is also born.
* '''[[1967]] —''' Comic editor [[Dan Taylor (IDW)|Dan Taylor]] is born.
* '''[[1968]] —''' [[David García Vázquez]] (Castilian Spanish voice of [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] in ''[[Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game]]'' and [[Barricade (WFC)|another Barricade]] in the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron]]'' game) is born.
* '''[[1975]] —''' [[Tian Bo]] (Chinese voice of [[Glen Whitmann]]) is born.
* '''[[1985]] —''' [[Marios Gavrilis]] (German voice of [[Heatseeker]]) is born.
* '''[[1986]] —''' The ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010]]'' episode "[[Thief in the Night|Metroflex VS Dinosaurer]]" airs in Japan.
* '''[[1989]] —''' The ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (cartoon)|Victory]]'' run in Japan ends with the episode "[[Autobots Forever]]".
* '''[[1991]] —''' [[Sumire Uesaka]] (Voice of [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] in [[Q-Transformers (cartoon)|Q-Transformers]]) is born.
* '''[[1998]] —''' The ''[[Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers]]'' feature film is released theatrically in Japan.
* '''1998 —''' The ''[[Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers|Beast Wars Special]] — [[Strongest Music Collection]]'' and ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]] — [[Best Songs Special|BEST SONGS SPECIAL]]'' soundtrack albums are released in Japan by [[Columbia Music Entertainment]].
* '''[[1999]] —''' The [[Beast Wars Transformer Songs Best]] album is released in Japan by [[Columbia Music Entertainment]].
* '''[[2000]] —''' The [[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|''Beast Machines'']] episode "[[A Wolf in the Fold]]" premieres in [[Germany]].
* '''[[2003]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Legends of the Microns]]'' episode "[[Origin|終結 (けっせん) - origin]]" premieres in Japan.
* '''2003 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]'' episode "[[Portent]]" premieres in [[Germany]].
* '''2003 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Showdown]]'' HC is released by [[Titan Books]].
* '''[[2004]] —''' The ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars Returns]]'' episode "[[Fallout (episode)|The Cost of Victory]]" premieres in Japan.
* '''[[2006]] —''' The 37th show in the [[Transformers: Kiss Players (radio drama)|''Kiss Players'' radio drama series]] airs in Japan on the "Transformers Kiss Play: Transformers News Center" program.
* '''[[2007]] —''' The first live-action ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' film is released in Japan on DVD and HD-DVD. As part of the promotion for its release, a [[redeco]] of the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 toyline)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' toyline]] [[Spychanger]]-scale [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] as "movieverse" [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] is given out at many stores.
* '''[[2009]] —''' [[Sebastian Evans II]], music composer for the [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|''Animated'' cartoon]], takes down the score for all three seasons on his website after people have the gall to download for free the free content he made freely available.
* '''[[2011]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' episode "[[Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross]]" premieres in [[France]].
* '''[[2012]] —''' ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye]]'' [[Before & After|#12]] is released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''[[2015]]''' — [[TakaraTomy]] releases ''Q-Collaboration'' [[Snoopy|QTC05 Snoopy]].
* '''[[2016]]''' — [[e-HOBBY]] releases ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' LGEX [[Convobat#Legends|Convobat]] as well as the tie in comic [[Cybertron Convobat]].
* '''2016 —''' "[[Safe Spaces]]" and "[[The Predacon Manifesto]]" are released by [[Fun Publications]].
* '''2016''' — The ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' episode "[[Mighty Big Trouble]]" premieres in [[Hungary]].
* '''[[2017]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Titans Return (cartoon)|Titans Return]]'' episode "[[Run for Our Lives]]" premieres on [[go90]].
* '''[[2018]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Bumblebee - Go For the Gold]]'' is released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''2018 —''' The ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' movie is released in [[Indonesia]] and [[Mexico]].
* '''[[2019]] —''' [[IDW Publishing]] announces the ''[[Transformers vs. The Terminator]]'' crossover miniseries.
* '''[[2020]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron Trilogy|WFC-07 Megatron]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron Trilogy|WFC-08 Ultra Magnus]] and ''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Earthrise]]'' [[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|ER-11 Sunstreaker]], plus [[Runamuck (G1)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|ER EX-14 Runamuck]] is released as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive.
* '''2020 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Transformers: Cyberverse]]'' episode "[[The Judge (episode)|The Judge]]" premieres in [[Germany]].
* '''[[2021]] —''' [[Herman López]] (Mexican voice of [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] and [[Kenneth Onishi]]) dies at age 60.
* '''[[2022]] —''' ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' premieres in [[India]] on [[Nickelodeon]] HD+ India.
* '''2022 —''' [[New Zealand]] MINT announces the Transformers G1 Grimlock 1oz silver coin.
* '''[[2023]] —''' Japanese publisher [[Fukkan Dot Com]] releases the manga ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (Comic BunBun)|Henkei! Henkei! Transformers]]'' containing all 12 chapters that was originally published in [[Poplar]]'s defunct ''[[Comic BunBun]]'' magazine.
* '''[[2024]] —''' [[The Transformers Classics|The Transformers Classics Vol.9]] is released by [[Hero-X]].
* '''2024 —''' ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts]]'' are released on 3D Blu-Ray exclusively in Germany by [[Turbine Medien]].

Ramjet (Animated)

2025-12-01T00:58:27Z

ABYouKnowMe: Did not format non-Korean VA listing to be wildly inconsistent from none of the other cast listings

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|''The name or term Ramjet does not refer to any other characters or ideas. You certainly can't read more about them by seeing [[Ramjet (disambiguation)]].''
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:''Ramjet is'' not ''a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]]''.

[[File:LiarStarscreamConehead.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Derrick J. Wyatt|"No clone army..."]] [[Sam Register|"...definitely no clone army..."]] [[Marty Isenberg|"...absolutely no clone army in this show!"]]]]

'''Ramjet''', certainly not the '''Liar Starscream''', is the [[Starscream (Animated)|original Starscream]], and not a [[Starscream clone (Animated)|clone]].

What? We never said he was the original Starscream.

He does not have a problem with telling the truth. Not every single thing he ever says is a complete lie. Just because what he just said completely contradicts everything he said previously, this doesn't make him an irredeemable bold-faced liar.

{{bigquote|I'm not down! I can escape any time I want to! I... just don't want to.|Ramjet after not getting stasis cuffed by [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]|"[[A Bridge Too Close, Part II]]"}}

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==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor| Not [[Tom Kenny]] (Not English), [[Jin Yamanoi]] ja nai (Not Japanese)| Ne [[Alexander Kovrizhnykh]] (Not Russian), Nicht [[Stefan Staudinger]] (Not German), Non [[Daniele Demma]] (Not Italian), No [[Alexis Quiroz]] (Not Latin American Spanish, and certainly not seasons 1 and 2), No [[Leonardo Salas]] (Not Latin-American Spanish, and in no way season 3), Ei [[Kari Tamminen]] (Not Finnish), Pas [[Sylvain Lemarié]] (Not French), Não [[Ricardo Sawaya]] (Not Portuguese, and none of seasons 1 and 2), Não [[Armando Tiraboschi]], (Not Portuguese, and surely not season 3), [[Lee Sang-heon]]-i anida (Not Korean)}}

[[Image:Starscream with Liarscream.jpg|thumb|left|"Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes." "No it isn't." "It is." "Not at all."]]

Ramjet did not first try to assert that he was the original Starscream, then deny he said that, then deny that he was a liar when [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]] called him a liar. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}}

[[Image:LiarStarscreamABTCpt2.jpg|thumb|200px|He isn't angry at Hasbro, he is not about to fire at them.]]
Ramjet managed to do fairly well in the [[space bridge]] battle. He never told his Autobot targets that he wasn't about to shoot them. He was not trapped by [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] in a pair of [[stasis cuffs]], and after that didn't happen, he wasn't helped to escape by the [[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sycophant]], and he never denied that any of this occurred. When [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] came on the scene, Ramjet did not try to tell the giant his stabilizing servo was unbolted. Had he done so, Omega would have fallen for it and not just promptly kicked the clone a few miles away. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}}

At some point after the battle, a stasis-cuffed [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] wasn't helped at all out of his plight by Ramjet. And even if that ''had'' happened, the clone was being completely honest when he promised not to tell Megatron about Lugnut's humiliating failure. But none of that happened so it doesn't matter. Yeah, that's the ticket. {{storylink|Three's a Crowd (episode)|Three's a Crowd}}

[[Image:TFAni 5ServosofDoom LiarScream Helpless.jpg|thumb|left|"Your middle name's Judas, but you tell everyone that it's Jonathan."]]
Long after that, [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] didn't capture the disarmed and helpless Ramjet for [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] in exchange for a gyro-stabilizer. However, Lockdown didn't double-cross Sentinel when Ramjet didn't offer the bounty hunter a better deal earlier. Ramjet didn't break free and stasis cuff the alert Autobot on the spot. As Ramjet didn't try to get away with the armed and dangerous Sentinel, he wasn't knocked out of the sky by [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] and [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]], who weren't accompanied by [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]].

Even if they did, the battle didn't go in Ramjet's favor and he didn't use Sentinel as a shield against their attacks. Ramjet didn't try to escape again, but Optimus didn't cover his face with foam. Had that happened, he wouldn't have dropped Sentinel head-first into the ground. After [[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]] didn't blast him out of the sky with a fireball, Optimus and Jazz didn't push a scoreboard on top of him. If they did, it wouldn't have hurt one bit, and he wouldn't have been stasis cuffed and hauled into custody. {{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}} Unlike the other captured Decepticons, Ramjet was not transported back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising}}

[[Image:TFAni_Decepticon_Air_BoxScream_ConeScream.jpg|thumb|200px|New helmet? What are you talking about?]]
Later, Sentinel Prime didn't steer his ship through a stormy nebula. Nor did it revive [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]], who wasn't still immobilized from his own slow-down ray. From there, Swindle didn't free and re-arm Ramjet along with the other captured Decepticons. Swindle also didn't give [[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]] and Ramjet strangely familiar helmets to tell them apart. Afterwards, Ramjet and the Decepticons didn't manhandle the Elite Guard. And if they did, they would've captured them before Sentinel sent a coded SOS to Optimus Prime. Fortunately, Optimus didn't appear out of Swindle's chest, and didn't send Ramjet and the other Decepticons into chaos. The battle didn't spill out of the ship, where [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] didn't somehow bombard him with a tornado. Ramjet also wasn't present when [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] didn't capture the Autobots and didn't try to freeze them in the decontamination unit. If he was, he certainly wasn't frozen when Jazz didn't booby-trap the decontamination unit. He ultimately wasn't re-captured and sent to Cybertron, where he wasn't paraded around with the jubilant Sentinel. That's [[Thundercracker (Animated)|Thundercracker]] you're thinking of! {{storylink|Decepticon Air}}

{{--}}

===''The Cool'' comic===
[[Image:StarscreamCloneArmyAttack01.jpg|thumb|left|200px|I've never been in any fancy Japanese comic books! What ''are'' [[you]] talking about!?]]

Ramjet did not join the rest of the [[Starscream clone (Animated)|Clone Army]] in battle for the Decepticon [[space bridge]]. And he was most certainly ''not'' shocked when Optimus Prime and Megatron joined forces to stop him! {{storylink|The Cool Episode 7}}

Ramjet certainly did not get wiped out by Omega Supreme, because he wasn't following Megatron's orders and he wasn't afraid of being destroyed by said warlord. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 8}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===''Animated''===
[[Image:AnimatedLegendsRamjetClearWhite.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|This is always how I envisioned what my first toy would be like.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Ramjet Clear White Version''' (EZ Collection, 2010)}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[July 24]], 2010

: ''[[EZ Collection]]'' Ramjet is ''not'' a redeco of a [[Starscream (Animated)#Legends Class|Legends-class Starscream]] in mostly colorful clear (with ''no'' opaque white nylon parts), whose vehicle mode looks nothing like a futuristic, forward-swept wing fighter jet mashup of the [http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/s37/ Su-47 (S-37) Berkut Experimental Fighter] and the [http://macross2.net/m3/macrossplus/yf-19.htm YF-19 "Alpha One] from the series ''{{w|Macross Plus}}.'' Never heard of either of 'em.

: He was available everywhere ''except'' [[Ito Yokado]] stores in Japan, and very definitely ''not'' [[campaign item|given away for free]] to customers there who purchased ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Transformers Animated]]'' merchandise totaling at least 3,000 yen on [[July 24]]th.

: Whoever told you this mold was also used to make [[Starscream (Animated)#ClearPurple|Starscream Clear Purple Version]], [[Skywarp (Animated)#ClearEZCollection|Skywarp Clear Purple Version]], [[Sunstorm (Animated)#ClearEZCollection|Sunstorm Clear Orange Version]], [[Thundercracker (Animated)#ClearEZCollection|Thundercracker Clear Blue Version]], and [[Starscream Clone Black Version]] is spreading falsehoods. That last one definitely sounds like a guy who doesn't exist.

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[[File:Ani-toy Ramjet Activator.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|At long last! [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]] finally has a toy!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Ramjet''' (Activator, 2010)}}</ul>

: Whatever you might have heard, Ramjet is not a redeco of [[Activators]] [[Starscream (Animated)#Activators|Starscream]], and completely lacks the ability to transform into a futuristic jet with an [[autotransformation]] gimmick, which certainly wouldn't let him transform from vehicle to robot at the mere press of a button. Unthinkable. His arm-mounted blasters are totally immobile so don't even think about needing to swing them around manually between modes. Because you don't even have hands.

: Nobody was ever able to obtain him, since he wasn't an [[exclusive]] "second chance" prize in a ''Transformers''-themed raffle held by Family Mart stores across Japan. He couldn't have been purchased through the mail with a combination of winning E, F, and G prize tickets and 2,500 yen. It was the grand prize for eleventy billion yen and an R ticket. Yeah, that's the ticket.

: This mold could not have been used to make [[Dirge (Animated)#Toys|Dirge]], [[Thundercracker (Animated)#Toys|Thundercracker]], or [[Skywarp (Animated)#Activator|Skywarp]] even if anyone wanted to (they didn't), because it was stolen by gnomes before anyone was able to do so even if they wanted to, which, as we noted before, nobody did. So there.
{{-}}

==Notes==
[[Image:AnimatedRamjetModel.jpg|thumb|150px|I did not look like this when I was born.]]
*Ramjet's colors are completely original. They have nothing to do with [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] whatsoever, no sir. It's just a coincidence that he has burgundy wings and a white helmet. He certainly wasn't finally called "Ramjet" in ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac]],'' which is a terrible book nobody enjoys. Also, the name "Liar Starscream" was definitely not on his character model sheet.
*Ramjet was not given his Generation 1 counterpart's [[Conehead|cone-shaped helmet]] in "[[Decepticon Air]]". He didn't get it from anybody, especially not [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]]. Absolutely not. And even if he had, it certainly wouldn't have been drill-tipped, because that wouldn't have been awesome at all.
*Ramjet's nosecone is extremely brittle. It hasn't been reinforced at all. There's no way it can survive any midair collisions.
*He doesn't like toast.
*This entire article is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The fact that it's about Ramjet (who ''isn't'' a big fat liar) has nothing to do with anything. So there.
*We never said that this article spoke truth. You can't prove anything!

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' Not '''Ramjet''' (ラムジェット ''Ramujetto'')

[[Category:Starscream clones]]

Jun-seok Song

2025-10-31T03:11:45Z

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[[File:Song Junseok.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
'''Jun-seok Song''' (송준석 ''Song Junseok'') is a South Korean voice actor born ([[January 18]], [[1969]]), and is part of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation's voice acting division. Aside from ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'', his other voice roles have included Dr. Blowhole in ''Penguins of Madagascar'', Warrick Brown on ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', [[Kenyū Horiuchi|Pain]] in ''Naruto Shippuden'', [[Clancy Brown|Red]] [[Hulk]] in ''Hulk and the Agents of SMASH'', [[Scott McNeil|Chief Thunderhooves]] in ''[[My Little Pony]]: Friendship Is Magic'', Voldemort in the ''Harry Potter'' films, [[Tetsu Inada|Ende]][[Patrick Seitz|avor]] in ''My Hero Academia'', and Sakonji Urokodaki in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba''.

==Voice roles==
===''Beast Wars''===
*[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]

===''Animated''===
*[[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Carmine Fanzone]]
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]
*[[Meltdown (Animated)|Meltdown]]
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]

===''Cyberverse''===
*[[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]]
*[[Maccadam]]
*[[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]]

===''Transformers One''===
*[[Alpha Trion]]

==External links==
*{{w|Song Joon-seok}} on Wikipedia
*[http://rigvedawiki.net/r1/wiki.php/%EC%86%A1%EC%A4%80%EC%84%9D Song Junseok] on Rigveda Wiki (Korean)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Song, Jun-seok}}
[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Yong-wu Sin

2025-10-31T03:08:59Z

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'''Yong-wu Sin''' (신용우 ''Sin Yong-u'') (born [[March 19]], [[1976]]) is a Korean voice actor. As an anime dubbing voice, he has an extensive resume that includes several characters in the ''[[Zoids]]'' franchise, [[Johnny Yong Bosch|Ichigo Kurosaki]] in ''Bleach'', Shoto Todoroki in ''My Hero Academia'', and [[Toshiyuki Morikawa|Kagaya Ubuyashiki]] in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba''.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Cybertron''===
*[[Coby Hansen]]
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]]
*[[Signal Lancer (Cybertron)|Signal Lancer]]
*[[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]]
===''Transformers: Animated''===
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]]
*Narrator ("[[Transform and Roll Out]]")
===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)''===
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]
===''Bumblebee''===
*[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5183820/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 IMDB entry]
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=90685 Anime News Network entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sin, Yong-wu}}
[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Do-hyeong Nam

2025-10-31T03:06:48Z

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[[File:Doh-Hyeong Nam.jpg|thumb|]]
'''Do-hyeong Nam''' (남도형 ''Nam Do-hyeong'') (b. [[March 12]], [[1983]]) is a prolific Korean voice actor who has done work dubbing television animation, theatrical films, and television dramas. Among his many roles are [[Spider-Man]] himself in ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' and ''Spider-Man: Homecoming'', Teru Saotome and Zeo Abyss in the ''Metal'' series of the [[Beyblade]] franchise, Cilan in [[Pokeformers|Pokémon: Black & White]], Madeleine Cookie in the ''Cookie Run'' franchise, and [[Akira Ishida|Akaza]] in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba''.

==Voice roles==
===Transformers: Prime===
*[[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]]
*[[Raf Esquivel]]
*[[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]

==External links==
*{{w|Nam_Doh-hyeong|Wikipedia entry}}
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=116354 Anime News Network entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nam, Do-hyeong}}
[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Su-jin Gang

2025-10-31T03:05:08Z

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'''Su-jin Gang''' (강수진 ''Gang Sujin'') (b. [[October 19]], [[1965]]) is a South Korean voice actor. He frequently ends up playing the male lead in whatever work he's involved with, whether it's anime or [[Disney]]. This includes Son Goku in the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise, [[Mayumi Tanaka|Monkey D. Luffy]] in ''One Piece'', [[Johnny Yong Bosch|Vash]] [[Masaya Onosaka|The Stampede]] in ''Trigun'', and the [[Richard Ian Cox|titular character]] in the ''[[Kappei Yamaguchi|Inuyasha]]'' franchise for the former, and [[Mickey Mouse]], Peter Pan, Aladdin, and Roger Rabbit for the latter. He has also occasionally voiced antagonists such as Mysterio in ''[[Spider-Man]]: Far From Home'' and Zohakuten in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba''.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Prime''===
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)#Prime cartoon|Bumblebee]]

==External links==
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=96418 Anime News Network entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gang, Su-jin}}
[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Su-jin Gang

2025-10-28T01:54:21Z

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'''Su-jin Gang''' (강수진 ''Gang Sujin'') (b. [[October 19]], [[1965]]) is a South Korean voice actor. He frequently ends up playing the male lead in whatever work he's involved with, whether it's anime or [[Disney]]. This includes Son Goku in the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise, [[Mayumi Tanaka|Monkey D. Luffy]] in ''One Piece'', [[Johnny Yong Bosch|Vash]] [[Masaya Onosaka|The Stampede]] in ''Trigun'', and the [[Richard Ian Cox|titular character]] in the ''[[Kappei Yamaguchi|Inuyasha]]'' franchise for the former, and Mickey Mouse, Peter Pan, Aladdin, and Roger Rabbit for the latter.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Prime''===
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)#Prime cartoon|Bumblebee]]

==External links==
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=96418 Anime News Network entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gang, Su-jin}}
[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Seok-jeong Yang

2025-10-28T01:48:22Z

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[[Image:Seok Jeong Yang.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
'''Seok-jeong Yang''' (양석정 ''Yang Seok-jeong''; born [[January 18]], [[1970]]) is a South Korean voice actor. He has voiced on many dubs for films, TV and anime, including [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] in the ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' prequels, Sayid in ''Lost'', Shinsuke Takasugi in ''Gintama'', Fenix in ''StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void'', and Kokushibo in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba''. He is a member of the Korea Broadcasting Voice Acting Division since 1999.

==Voice roles==
===''Car Robots''===
*[[Side Burn (RID)|Speedbreaker]]

===''Transformers Animated''===
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]

===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]]

==External links==
*{{w|lang=ko|양석정|Seok-jeong Yang}} on the Korean Wikipedia
*[http://www.kbs.co.kr/voiceactor/profile/14.html Profile on KBS site]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yang, Seok-jeong}}
[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Jun-seok Song

2025-10-28T01:47:38Z

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[[File:Song Junseok.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
'''Jun-seok Song''' (송준석 ''Song Junseok'') is a South Korean voice actor born ([[January 18]], [[1969]]), and is part of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation's voice acting division. Aside from ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'', his other voice roles have included Dr. Blowhole in ''Penguins of Madagascar'', Warrick Brown on ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', [[Kenyū Horiuchi|Pain]] in ''Naruto Shippuden'', [[Clancy Brown|Red]] [[Hulk]] in ''Hulk and the Agents of SMASH'', [[Scott McNeil|Chief Thunderhooves]] in ''[[My Little Pony]]: Friendship Is Magic'', Voldemort in the ''Harry Potter'' films, and Sakonji Urokodaki in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba''.

==Voice roles==
===''Beast Wars''===
*[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]

===''Animated''===
*[[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Carmine Fanzone]]
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]
*[[Meltdown (Animated)|Meltdown]]
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]

===''Cyberverse''===
*[[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]]
*[[Maccadam]]
*[[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]]

===''Transformers One''===
*[[Alpha Trion]]

==External links==
*{{w|Song Joon-seok}} on Wikipedia
*[http://rigvedawiki.net/r1/wiki.php/%EC%86%A1%EC%A4%80%EC%84%9D Song Junseok] on Rigveda Wiki (Korean)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Song, Jun-seok}}
[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Do-hyeong Nam

2025-10-28T01:46:28Z

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[[File:Doh-Hyeong Nam.jpg|thumb|]]
'''Do-hyeong Nam''' (남도형 ''Nam Do-hyeong'') (b. [[March 12]], [[1983]]) is a prolific Korean voice actor who has done work dubbing television animation, theatrical films, and television dramas. Among his many roles are [[Spider-Man]] himself in ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' and ''Spider-Man: Homecoming'', Teru Saotome and Zeo Abyss in the ''Metal'' series of the [[Beyblade]] franchise, Cilan in [[Pokeformers|Pokémon: Black & White]], Madeleine Cookie in the ''Cookie Run'' franchise, and [[Akira Ishida|Akaza]] in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle''.

==Voice roles==
===Transformers: Prime===
*[[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]]
*[[Raf Esquivel]]
*[[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]

==External links==
*{{w|Nam_Doh-hyeong|Wikipedia entry}}
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=116354 Anime News Network entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nam, Do-hyeong}}
[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Sang-hyeon Eom

2025-10-28T01:44:06Z

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[[File:Sang-Hyeon Eom.jpg|thumb|Skadoosh!]]
'''Sang-hyeon Eom''' (엄상현 ''Eom Sang-hyeon'') is a South Korean voice actor born [[December 29]], [[1971]]. His dubbing roles have included [[Matt Hill|Kira]] [[Sōichirō Hoshi|Yamato]] in ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'', [[Alessandro Juliani|L]] in ''Death Note'', Po in the ''Kung Fu Panda'' films, Kevin Levin in ''[[Ben 10]]'', Calcifer in ''Howl's Moving Castle'', [[Todd Haberkorn|Hikaru Hitachiin]] in ''Ouran High School Host Club'', and the eponymous hero of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' in the games ''and'' movies. He won a [[Nickelodeon]] Korea Kids' Choice Award for his ''Kung Fu Panda'' role.

==Roles==
===''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]''===
{{collist|2|
*[[Alpha Trion]]
*[[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]]
*[[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]
*[[Jack Darby]]
*[[Hardshell]]
*[[Silas]]
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]
*[[Nemesis Prime (Prime)|Nemesis Prime]]
}}

===''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''===
*[[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]]
*[[Colan|Professor Colan]]

===''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight]]''===
*Wheelie

==External links==
*{{w|Um Sang-hyun}} on Wikipedia
*[http://voice.ebs.co.kr/voice/search_view.php?idx=56 Profile on EBS]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eom, Sang-hyeon}}
[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Yeong-seon Kim

2025-10-28T01:42:23Z

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'''Yeong-seon Kim''' (김영선 ''Kim Yeong-seon'') ([[December 17]], [[1968]] - ) is a prolific Korean voice actor. Among his many roles are Shirou in the ''Fate / Stay Night'' franchise, Van in ''[[Zoids]]'', Kai and Kyouya in the ''[[Beyblade]]'' franchise, [[Noriaki Sugiyama|Sasuke]] [[Yuri Lowenthal|Uchiha]] in the ''Naruto'' franchise, [[Brad Swaile|Light Yagami]] in ''Death Note'', the eponymous hero of ''[[Ben 10]]'', and [[Max Mittelman|Saitama]] in ''One-Punch Man''.

==Voice roles==
===''Beast Wars II''===
*[[BB (BW)|BB]]

===''Beast Wars Neo''===
*[[Colada]]

==External links==
*{{w|Kim_Yeong-seon|Wikipedia entry}}
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=96381 Anime News Network entry]
*[http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Yeong-Seon-Kim/ Behind The Voice Actors entry]
*[http://myanimelist.net/people/6499/Yeong_Seon_Kim My Anime List entry]

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[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Ja-hyeong Gu

2025-10-28T01:40:20Z

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'''Ja-hyeong Gu''' (구자형 ''Gu Jahyeong'') is a South Korean voice actor born [[April 22]], [[1965]]. Among his other dubbing roles are [[Steve Blum|Spike Spiegel]] in ''Cowboy Bebop'', [[Crispin Freeman|Itachi]] [[Hideo Ishikawa|Uchiha]] in ''[[Junko Takeuchi|Naruto]]'', [[Show Hayami|Sosuke Aizen]] in ''Bleach'', Mrieuk ([[Kirby Morrow|Miroku]]) in ''[[Richard Ian Cox|Inu]][[Kappei Yamaguchi|yasha]]'', [[Liam O'Brien|Dr. Kenzo Tenma]] in ''Monster'', [[Tomokazu Sugita|Gintoki]] [[Michael Daingerfield|Sakata]] in ''Gintama'', [[Tomokazu Sugita|Gyomei]] [[Crispin Freeman|Himejima]] in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', Kenshin Himura in ''Rurouni Kenshin'', Yasushi "Yasu" Takagi in ''NANA'', [[Brian Drummond|Zechs Marquise]]/[[Takehito Koyasu|Milliardo Peacecraft]] in ''Mobile Suit Gundam Wing'', Abel Nightroad in ''Trinity Blood'', [[Michael Adamthwaite|Raye Penber]] in ''Death Note'', John Pandragon/Granduke of Beaumont in ''The War of Genesis III'', Char Aznable in ''Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles'', a number of roles in ''Sailor Moon'', the narrator on ''Teletubbies'' and is the Korean dub over voice of Denzel Washington, John Cusack and Keanu Reeves.

==Dubbing roles==
===''Transformers Prime''===
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]]

==External links==
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=96187 Ja-Hyeong Gu] on Anime News Network
*{{w|lang=ko|구자형}} on the Korean Wikipedia
*[https://namu.wiki/w/구자형 Gu Ja Hyeong] on Namu Wiki

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gu, Ja-hyeong}}
[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Ja-hyeong Gu

2025-10-28T01:40:08Z

ABYouKnowMe:

'''Ja-hyeong Gu''' (구자형 ''Gu Jahyeong'') is a South Korean voice actor born [[April 22]], [[1965]]. Among his other dubbing roles are [[Steve Blum|Spike Spiegel]] in ''Cowboy Bebop'', [[Crispin Freeman|Itachi]] [[Hideo Ishikawa|Uchiha]] in ''[[Junko Takeuchi|Naruto]]'', [[Show Hayami|Sosuke Aizen]] in ''Bleach'', Mrieuk ([[Kirby Morrow|Miroku]]) in ''[[Richard Ian Cox|Inu]][[Kappei Yamaguchi|yasha]]'', [[Liam O'Brien|Dr. Kenzo Tenma]] in ''Monster'', [[Gintoki|Tomokazu Sugita]] [[Michael Daingerfield|Sakata]] in ''Gintama'', [[Tomokazu Sugita|Gyomei]] [[Crispin Freeman|Himejima]] in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', Kenshin Himura in ''Rurouni Kenshin'', Yasushi "Yasu" Takagi in ''NANA'', [[Brian Drummond|Zechs Marquise]]/[[Takehito Koyasu|Milliardo Peacecraft]] in ''Mobile Suit Gundam Wing'', Abel Nightroad in ''Trinity Blood'', [[Michael Adamthwaite|Raye Penber]] in ''Death Note'', John Pandragon/Granduke of Beaumont in ''The War of Genesis III'', Char Aznable in ''Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles'', a number of roles in ''Sailor Moon'', the narrator on ''Teletubbies'' and is the Korean dub over voice of Denzel Washington, John Cusack and Keanu Reeves.

==Dubbing roles==
===''Transformers Prime''===
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]]

==External links==
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=96187 Ja-Hyeong Gu] on Anime News Network
*{{w|lang=ko|구자형}} on the Korean Wikipedia
*[https://namu.wiki/w/구자형 Gu Ja Hyeong] on Namu Wiki

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gu, Ja-hyeong}}
[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Ja-hyeong Gu

2025-10-28T01:39:36Z

ABYouKnowMe: Credited Gyomei

'''Ja-hyeong Gu''' (구자형 ''Gu Jahyeong'') is a South Korean voice actor born [[April 22]], [[1965]]. Among his other dubbing roles are [[Steve Blum|Spike Spiegel]] in ''Cowboy Bebop'', [[Crispin Freeman|Itachi]] [[Hideo Ishikawa|Uchiha]] in ''[[Junko Takeuchi|Naruto]]'', [[Show Hayami|Sosuke Aizen]] in ''Bleach'', Mrieuk ([[Kirby Morrow|Miroku]]) in ''[[Richard Ian Cox|Inu]][[Kappei Yamaguchi|yasha]]'', [[Liam O'Brien|Dr. Kenzo Tenma]] in ''Monster'', [[Gintoki|Tomokazu Sugita]] [[Sakata|Michael Daingerfield]] in ''Gintama'', [[Gyomei|Tomokazu Sugita]] [[Himejima|Crispin Freeman]] in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', Kenshin Himura in ''Rurouni Kenshin'', Yasushi "Yasu" Takagi in ''NANA'', [[Brian Drummond|Zechs Marquise]]/[[Takehito Koyasu|Milliardo Peacecraft]] in ''Mobile Suit Gundam Wing'', Abel Nightroad in ''Trinity Blood'', [[Michael Adamthwaite|Raye Penber]] in ''Death Note'', John Pandragon/Granduke of Beaumont in ''The War of Genesis III'', Char Aznable in ''Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles'', a number of roles in ''Sailor Moon'', the narrator on ''Teletubbies'' and is the Korean dub over voice of Denzel Washington, John Cusack and Keanu Reeves.

==Dubbing roles==
===''Transformers Prime''===
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]]

==External links==
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=96187 Ja-Hyeong Gu] on Anime News Network
*{{w|lang=ko|구자형}} on the Korean Wikipedia
*[https://namu.wiki/w/구자형 Gu Ja Hyeong] on Namu Wiki

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gu, Ja-hyeong}}
[[Category:Korean voice actors]]

Michael Daingerfield

2025-10-28T01:39:06Z

ABYouKnowMe:

{{disambig3|Michael}}
[[Image:MichaelDaingerfield.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a [[Ejector|toaster]] and a [[Soundwave (G1)|radio]]."]]
'''Michael Daingerfield''' (Born, [[October 29]], [[1970]]) is a Canadian actor and voice actor. His well-known voice roles include Ace Ventura in the ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' cartoon, [[Superman]] in ''Krypto the Superdog'', Johann Trinity in ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00'', Sesshoumaru in ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'' (succeeding [[David Kaye]]), Braeburn in ''[[My Little Pony|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.]]'' and [[Gintoki Sakata|Tomokazu Sugita]] in ''Gintama''. One presumes he receives limited if any, amounts of respect.

==Roles==
===''Armada''===
*Astronaut #1 ("[[Tactician]]")
*Game Show Host ("[[Threaten]]")
*[[Wheeljack (Armada)|Wheeljack]]

===''Energon''===
*[[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno/Roadblock]]

===''Cybertron''===
*[[Quickmix (Cybertron)|Quickmix]]

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197405/ Michael Daingerfield at the Internet Movie Database]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Daingerfield, Michael}}
[[Category:English voice actors]]

Patrick Messe

2025-10-28T01:07:01Z

ABYouKnowMe:

{{disambig3|Patrick}}
[[File:Patrick Messe.jpg|220px|thumb|"Tu es un sorcier, Harry."]]
'''Patrick Messe''' ([[August 12]], [[1945]]) is a French actor who played in several films and in various theater plays, but who has also been very active in dubbing.

He dubbed Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid in the first five films of the ''Harry Potter'' saga (the role was then taken over by [[Achille Orsoni]] for the last films), but he is also the regular voice of Miguel Ferrer, [[John Noble]] and Gerald McRaney. He dubbed a few times Bob Hoskins, Robert De Niro and John Pankow.

In animation, he is the French voice of Koichi Zenigata in the ''Lupin III'' universe, Billy Bones in ''Treasure Planet'', Siege in ''Mighty Ducks'' and has been one of the voices of [[Batman|Bruce Wayne/Batman]] in some of his appearances, notably ''Batman Beyond'' and ''Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker''.

His few roles in video games include the propaganda officer in the ''Dishonored'' games and Carlo Varese and Aldert Geert in ''The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt''.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''===
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]

===''Fortnite''===
*Optimus Prime

==Notes==
* Patrick Messe took over the role of Optimus Prime following the passing of [[Jacques Frantz]], who had dubbed the character in all the other live-action films.

==External links==
*{{w|lang=fr|Patrick Messe|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Patrick_Messe Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582010/ IMDb entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Messe, Patrick}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]

Patrick Messe

2025-10-28T01:06:54Z

ABYouKnowMe: Added French translation of "You're a wizard, Harry." as caption

{{disambig3|Patrick}}
[[File:Patrick Messe.jpg|220px|thumb|*"Tu es un sorcier, Harry."*]]
'''Patrick Messe''' ([[August 12]], [[1945]]) is a French actor who played in several films and in various theater plays, but who has also been very active in dubbing.

He dubbed Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid in the first five films of the ''Harry Potter'' saga (the role was then taken over by [[Achille Orsoni]] for the last films), but he is also the regular voice of Miguel Ferrer, [[John Noble]] and Gerald McRaney. He dubbed a few times Bob Hoskins, Robert De Niro and John Pankow.

In animation, he is the French voice of Koichi Zenigata in the ''Lupin III'' universe, Billy Bones in ''Treasure Planet'', Siege in ''Mighty Ducks'' and has been one of the voices of [[Batman|Bruce Wayne/Batman]] in some of his appearances, notably ''Batman Beyond'' and ''Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker''.

His few roles in video games include the propaganda officer in the ''Dishonored'' games and Carlo Varese and Aldert Geert in ''The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt''.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''===
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]

===''Fortnite''===
*Optimus Prime

==Notes==
* Patrick Messe took over the role of Optimus Prime following the passing of [[Jacques Frantz]], who had dubbed the character in all the other live-action films.

==External links==
*{{w|lang=fr|Patrick Messe|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Patrick_Messe Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582010/ IMDb entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Messe, Patrick}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]

Kenta Miyake

2025-10-14T19:52:27Z

ABYouKnowMe: Japanese voice of Bowser/Koopa

[[Image:Miyake Headshot.jpg|thumb|Not really as big as Omega Supreme, but comes close.]]
'''Kenta Miyake''' (三宅健太, born [[August 23]], [[1977]]) is a Japanese voice actor. He is well known for playing [[Keith Silverstein|Vector the Crocodile]] in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series, Zangief in the ''Street Fighter'' series, Klaus in ''Hayate the Combat Butler'', Muhammad Avdol in ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', Cyrus and Giovanni in ''Pokémon'' (taking over the latter role from [[Hirotaka Suzuoki]]), Scar in ''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood'' and All Might in ''My Hero Academia''.

In the world of dubbing, he has played the Grim Reaper in ''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'', Lord Hater in ''Wander Over Yonder'', John Diggle in ''Arrow'', [[Thor]] in the ''Marvel Cinematic Universe'', Silver Sentry in the 2003 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' series, the Arbiter in the ''Halo'' series and Fido the Diamond Dog in ''[[My Little Pony|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', Bowser (or rather, "Koopa" as he's known as in Japan) in ''The Super Mario Bros. Movie'', also succeeding the late [[Kenji Utsumi]] in his ''Thomas & Friends'' role as Gordon the Big Engine.

==Roles==
===''Super Link''===
*[[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]]
*[[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]]

===''Animated''===
*[[Alpha Trion]]
*[[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]]
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Ironhide]]

===''Prime''===
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]

===''Transformers GO!''===
*[[Musashibō Benkei]]

===''Transformers Adventure -Prime of Micron-''===
*[[Razorpaw]]

===''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Transformers: Beast Awakening]]''===
*[[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]]

==Notes==
*He also supplied voice clips for the Leader Class Animated [[Bulkhead (Animated)#Leader Class|Ironhide]] figure.
*He has dubbed over two of [[David Sobolov]]'s roles (Shockwave and Battletrap)
==External links==
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=10398 Kenta Miyake] at the Anime News Network

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miyake, Kenta}}
[[Category:Japanese voice actors]]

Yoshimasa Hosoya

2025-10-08T19:53:14Z

ABYouKnowMe:

[[File:YoshimasaHosoya.jpg|right|thumb|250px|"Long time no see, Zenitsu."]]
'''Yoshimasa Hosoya''' (細谷佳正 Hosoya Yoshimasa, born [[February 10]], [[1982]]) is a Japanese voice actor. Among many of his credits include Tetsuya Yūki in ''Ace of Diamond'', Alveric Gilette in ''Chaika: The Coffin Princess'', Yūsuke Asahina in ''Brothers Conflict'', Reiner Braun in ''Attack on Titan'', Iairon in ''One-Punch Man'', Fumikage Tokoyami and Dark Shadow in ''My Hero Academia'', Kaigaku in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', Junpei Hyūga in ''Kuroko's Basketball'', Matt Ishida in ''Digimon Adventure tri'', Ginti in ''Death Parade'', Kuranosuke Shiraishi in ''The Prince of Tennis II'', Arata Wataya in ''Chihayafuru'', two of four possible voices for the male Robin in ''Fire Emblem: Awakening'' and the sole voice for the same character in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series, and the LQ-84i/Bladewolf in ''[[Solid Snake|Metal Gear]] Rising: Revengeance''.

As dubbing would go, he's one of the dub-over voices for Taylor Lautner, Eddie Redmayne, and [[Shia LaBeouf]]. He has also dubbed over Sokka (Jackson Rathbone) in ''The Last Airbender'', Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) in ''Terminator: Genisys'', Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) in ''The Lucky One'', Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) in ''Now You See Me'' and its sequel, the Flash/Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) in [[Zack Snyder]]'s ''Justice League'' film, and Bill Denbrough in ''IT Chapter Two''.

==Roles==
===[[Transformers (film)|''Transformers'' (2007)]]===
*[[Miles Lancaster]]

===''[[Q-Transformers (cartoon)|Q-Transformers]]''===
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]

==External links==
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=53773 ANN Profile]
*[http://www.yoshimasa-hosoya.com/ Website] (Japanese)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hosoya, Yoshimasa}}
[[Category:Japanese voice actors]]

David Jenner

2025-10-08T19:51:50Z

ABYouKnowMe: Spanish voice of Kaneki and Rengoku

[[File:David Jenner.jpg|260px|thumb]]
'''David Jenner''' (b. [[December 12]], [[1982]]) is a Spanish voice actor. He started voice actor thanks to his father [[Miguel Ángel Jenner]], voicing children since he was 10.

He is the regular voice of Sean Austin, Jamie Bell and Kevin Zeger. He is known for dubbing Samwise Gamgee in ''The Lord of the Rings'' and Bucky Barnes in the ''Marvel Cinematic Universe''.

In animation, he dubbed Ken Kaneki in ''Tokyo Ghoul'', Katsuki Bakugo in ''My Hero Academia'', Kyojuro Rengoku in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', Sid in ''Toy Story'' and Son Gohan in several ''Dragon Ball'' projects. Regarding games, he followed Sam Gamgee in various ''The Lord of the Rings'' games, Nathan Swift in the ''Inazuma Eleven'' games, and dubbed Boba Fett in ''LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga''.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
*[[Miles Lancaster]]

===''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''===
*[[Jerry Wang]]

===''Transformers: Age of Extinction''===
*[[Shane Dyson]]

===''Transformers One''===
*[[Bumblebee (One)|B-127/Bumblebee]]

==Notes==
*Jenner shares the roles of Miles Lancaster and Shane Dyson with [[Arturo Castañeda]] in their respective dubs.

==External links==
*[https://www.eldoblaje.com/datos/FichaActorDoblaje.asp?id=119 ElDoblaje page] ''(Spanish)''
*[https://x.com/gnx_13 David Jenner on Twitter]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenner, David}}
[[Category:Spanish voice actors]]

Tina Lark

2025-10-08T16:56:24Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Bumblebee film */ Credited Russian VA

:''Tina Lark is a [[human]] from the [[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:Bumblebee Tina.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Cold, Shiny, Hard, PLASTIC. ]]
'''Tina Lark''' is one of [[Brighton Falls]]'s "Pretty Mean Girls". Spoiled and rich, she does not get on well with people outside her circle of friends. She is typically accompanied by [[Tina's girlfriends|two other girls]] who are as mean as she is.

==Fiction==
===''Bumblebee'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Gracie Dzienny]]
{{voiceactor|[[Hiroko Watanabe]] (Japanese dub)|[[Runa Aléon]] (German dub), [[Veronica Puccio]] (Italian dub), [[Nerea Alfonso]] (Spain Spanish dub), [[Jessica Ángeles]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[Ana Elena Bittencourt]] (Brazilian Portuguese dub), [[Yulia Gorokhova]] (Russian dub)}}
Tina was hanging out at [[Brighton Falls Boardwalk]], when [[Charlie Watson]] spilled drinks all over [[Tripp Summers]]. After she made a disparaging comment about the uniform Charlie was wearing, Tina got to see Tripp take his shirt off. She and her group departed the boardwalk shortly after.

Tina was later present at a gathering on a seaside clifftop when Tripp challenged Charlie to dive into the ocean. Charlie was unable to dive and returned to [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], leading Tina to mock the car and suggest she get [[Charlie's dad|her father]] to buy her a better one. This prompted [[Memo]] to suggest that Charlie should get some revenge, something Bumblebee agreed on. That night, Tina heard loud noises outside her house and emerged to find her prized BMW had somehow been completely wrecked in the driveway. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
{{note|Tina Lark's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, was also chronicled in the novel "[[Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel]]".}}

==Notes==
*Tina's last name isn't mentioned in the finished film, but is used in a deleted scene, and in the movie's junior novel adaptation.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lark, Tina}}
[[Category:Bumblebee humans]]
[[Category:Live-action-only characters]]

Uncle Hank

2025-10-08T16:55:58Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Bumblebee film */ Credited Russian VA

{{disambig2|the ''Bumblebee'' man|the ''Robots in Disguise'' girl|Hank}}
:''Uncle Hank is a [[human]] from the [[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:Bumblebee Hank.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Discount Sparkplug]]

'''"Uncle" Hank''' is the cranky proprietor of [[Hank's Marine Repair and Parts]].

==Fiction==
===''Bumblebee'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Len Cariou]]
{{voiceactor|[[Katsuhisa Hōki]] (Japanese dub)|[[Yan Brian]] (European French dub), [[Yves Massicotte]] (Canadian French dub), [[Jürgen Kluckert]] (German dub), [[Bruno Alessandro]] (Italian dub), [[Carles Sales]] (Spain Spanish dub), [[Armando Rendiz]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[André Belizar]] (Brazilian Portuguese dub), [[Vladimir Levashev]] (Russian dub)}}
When [[Charlie Watson]] visited to see what new items had come in, Hank asserted that the [[Soviet Union|Russians]] were going to blow everything up anyway. After she retrieved some parts and offered him thirty dollars for them, Hank objected, but as ''[[ALF]]'' was about to start, he accepted her argument that he didn't have any customers, and began complaining about the new communication tower interfering with the reception on his handheld [[television]].

A day later she returned to try to persuade him to give her the [[Bumblebee (Movie)|derelict Volkswagen]] he had out back. He turned down her suggestion she could work for him for free for a year and instead gave her the car. She managed to get the heap of junk working, and as she drove off, [[Bill (BB)|Bill]] pointed out the car was a death trap, but Hank was just happy that Charlie was finally happy. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
{{note|Uncle Hank's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, was also chronicled in the novel "[[Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel]]".}}

[[Category:Bumblebee humans]]
[[Category:Live-action-only characters]]
[[Category:Mechanics]]

General Whalen

2025-10-08T16:55:29Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Bumblebee film */ Credited Russian VA

{{factions|sector7}}
:''General Whalen is a [[human]] from the [[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:Bumblebee General Whalen.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
'''General Whalen''' heads [[Sector Seven]]. He may be slightly overconfident of his organization's ability to handle giant robots from space.

==Fiction==
===''Bumblebee'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Glynn Turman]]
{{voiceactor|[[Naoki Tamanoi]] (Japanese dub)|[[Thierry Desroses]] (European French dub), [[Sylvain Hétu]] (Canadian French dub), [[Sven Brieger]] (German dub), [[Angelo Nicotra]] (Italian dub), [[Xavier Fernández Ruiz]] (Spain Spanish dub), [[Jesús Cortez]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[Ricardo Rossatto]] (Brazilian Portuguese dub), [[Sergey Ponomarev]] (Russian dub)}}
After Sector Seven made contact with [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]], General Whalen presided over a meeting to decide the best way to proceed. Though [[Jack Burns|Agent Burns]] argued that the [[Decepticon]]s could not be trusted, [[Dr. Powell]]'s argument that they would just take their technology to the [[Soviet Union|Russians]] persuaded the General to let the Cons have access to Sector Seven's equipment. As the Decepticons upgraded Sector Seven's tech to create [[Internet|a global computer network]] to aid them in their search for [[Bumblebee (Movie)|B-127]], Whalen grew tired of Powell's overeager narration and switched off the radio. Burns again expressed his concerns, but Whalen was pleased at the technology they'd already been given and told him once the mission was complete, Burns could scrap the lot of them. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whalen}}
[[Category:Bumblebee humans]]
[[Category:Live-action-only characters]]
[[Category:Sector Seven]]

Dr. Powell

2025-10-08T16:54:58Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Bumblebee film */ Credited Russian VA

{{factions|sector7}}
:''Dr. Powell is a [[human]] from the [[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:Bumblebee Dr Powell.jpg|thumb|right|300px|We have to be kind to the aliens. Maybe kiss them. For science.]]
'''Dr. Powell''' is really enthusiastic about getting the chance to work with honest-to-god aliens. So enthusiastic, in fact, that he doesn't stop to consider that the aliens in question might not have [[Earth]]'s best interests in mind.

{{quote|He's a weird guy, you ever notice that about Powell?|[[Jack Burns]]}}

==Fiction==
===''Bumblebee'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[John Ortiz]]
{{voiceactor|[[Atsushi Gotō]] (Japanese dub)|[[Alex Meseguer]] (Spain Spanish dub), [[Jorge Roig Jr.]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[Jérôme Wiggins]] (European French dub), [[Manuel Tadros]] (Canadian French dub), [[Michael Pan]] (German dub), [[Massimo De Ambrosis]] (Italian dub), [[Ádel Mercadante]] (Brazilian Portuguese dub), [[Diomid Vinogradov]] (Russian dub), [[Fatih Özacun]] (Turkish dub)}}
Dr. Powell was part of [[Jack Burns|Agent Burns]]'s [[Sector Seven]] force which intercepted [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] in [[Texas]]. Despite Burns not trusting the [[Decepticon]]s' story that they were peacekeepers tracking down a dangerous criminal, Powell invited them back to Sector Seven's [[Hoover Dam]] base. There, he managed to persuade [[General Whalen]] to allow the pair access to Sector Seven's equipment, which they promised to upgrade with their own tech in order to track down [[Bumblebee (Movie)|B-127]]. Powell narrated in awe as Shatter and Dropkick used the telephone network to create an interconnected global network.

The new network eventually hit paydirt, locating Bumblebee's [[Energon]] signature, and Powell accompanied Agent Burns on a trip to [[Brighton Falls]]. He was present at [[McKinnon Air Base]], and as Shatter and Dropkick interrogated the captive Bumblebee, it slowly dawned on him that the Decepticons were not the benevolent peacekeepers they claimed to be. He used his radio to successfully warn Agent Burns that the Decepticons intended to bring an army to Earth, moments before Dropkick killed him. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Powell}}
[[Category:Bumblebee humans]]
[[Category:Live-action-only characters]]
[[Category:Sector Seven]]

Tripp Summers

2025-10-08T16:54:28Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Bumblebee film */ Credited Russian VA

:''Tripp Summers is a [[human]] from the [[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:Bumblebee Tripp Summers.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Jack Tripper - Three's Company too!]]
'''Tripp Summers''' knows how to impress the ladies, and that's by taking his shirt off and jumping off of cliffs.

==Fiction==
===''Bumblebee'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Ricardo Hoyos]]
{{voiceactor|[[Shinba Tsuchiya]] (Japanese dub)|[[Sebastian Fitzner]] (German dub), [[Marcel Navarro]] (Spain Spanish dub), [[Tommy Rojas]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[Amit Diondyi]] (Hindi dub), [[Petr Neskusil]] (Czech dub), [[Eduardo Drummond]] (Portuguese dub), [[Mikhail Danilyuk]] (Russian dub)}}
Tripp was hanging out with his girlfriend [[Tina Lark]] and [[Tina's girlfriends|her friends]] at the [[Brighton Falls Boardwalk]] when [[Charlie Watson]] accidentally walked into him, covering him with a drink. Not one to squander an opportunity, he stripped off his shirt and suggested the group head off.

Sometime later, Tripp was at a party on a beach-side clifftop and challenged the crowd present to jump into the sea with him. He got only one taker, Charlie, whom he quickly recognized as someone who'd been in the school dive team with his sister. Tripp jumped off first, ending up safely in the water and shouted up for Charlie to dive in too. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
{{note|Tripp Summers's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, was also chronicled in the novel "[[Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel]]".}}

==Notes==
*According to Hoyos, there is a deleted scene where Tripp would have called out Tina and her friends for bullying Charlie. Other deleted scenes involving Tripp had him with the girls at a bowling alley and a bonfire.<ref>[https://www.tribute.ca/news/ricardo-hoyos-on-bumblebee-plus-autographed-blu-ray-toy/2019/04/02/ Ricardo Hoyos on Bumblebee – plus autographed Blu-ray/toy!]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Tripp Summers''' (トリップ・サマーズ ''Torippu Samāzu'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Bumblebee humans]]
[[Category:Live-action-only characters]]

Ron (BB)

2025-10-08T16:53:46Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Bumblebee film */ Credited Russian VA

{{disambig3.5|the embarrassing stepfather from ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''|the embarrassing father from ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]''|Ron Witwicky|Ron}}
:''Ron is a [[human]] from the [[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:Bumblebee Ron.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Mallomars. Oh, that's going in the act."]]
'''Ron''' is so outstandingly inoffensive, he still carries guilt over the fact he stole a box of Mallomars when he was going through puberty. Recently he has begun a relationship with [[Sally Watson]], though to his frustration, he hasn't yet been accepted by Sally's daughter [[Charlie Watson|Charlie]], who still isn't over the death of [[Charlie's dad|her father]]. Ron can, however, drive a station wagon like no other.

==Fiction==
===''Bumblebee'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Stephen Schneider]]
{{voiceactor|[[Kunihiro Kawamoto]] (Japanese dub)|[[Carlos Vicente]] (Spain Spanish dub), [[Daniel del Roble]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[Jérôme Pauwels]] (European French dub), [[Pierre-Étienne Rouillard]] (Canadian French dub), [[Jaron Löwenberg]] (German dub), [[Gianfranco Miranda]] (Italian dub), [[Hercules Fernando]] (Portuguese dub), [[Daniil Eldarov]] (Russian dub)}}
At breakfast, Ron engaged in a public display of affection with Sally for good luck before his latest job interview, to the discomfort of Charlie. That evening, he, Sally, and Otis watched ''[[ALF]]'' while eating dinner. On Charlie's birthday, he gave her a copy of the book ''[[Smile for a Change]]''. Charlie was not enthused. Ron subsequently went to a job interview. The next morning, Ron had breakfast with Otis and the pair were nonplussed by Charlie's new cheery attitude. Soon after, Ron left the house in the station wagon.

After the interior of the house was [[Bumblebee (Movie)|somehow]] trashed, Charlie was brought home by government forces under the command of [[Jack Burns|Agent Burns]], who briefed Sally and Ron that Charlie had stolen a government war machine. Ron confessed his theft of a box of Mallomars. After Burns and his men had gone, Sally and Ron picked over the devastation and Ron was happy to find the reel-to-reel still worked. Otis confessed that Charlie had gone to [[McKinnon Air Base]] to rescue Bumblebee, and the family set out in the station wagon with Ron driving. Thanks to a radio report, they were able to join Charlie and Bumblebee who were being pursued by [[Sector Seven]], and with some deft driving on the part of Ron, they succeeded in bringing Sector Seven to a halt, though there was almost a major accident.

Charlie later reunited with them at home, after the Earth had been saved. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
{{note|Ron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, was also chronicled in the novel "[[Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel]]".}}

==Notes==
*The junior novel adaptation has Ron elaborate more on his early days, mentioning that he used to have long hair and ride a motorcycle.

[[Category:Bumblebee humans]]
[[Category:Live-action-only characters]]

Sally Watson

2025-10-08T16:53:18Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Bumblebee film */ Credited Russian VA

{{disambig3|Sally}}
:''Sally Watson is a [[human]] from the [[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:BB Sally.jpg|thumb|right|250px|THAT'S MY RON, I DON'T KNOW YOU]]
'''Sally Watson''' is a nurse, and mother to [[Charlie Watson|Charlie]] and [[Otis Watson|Otis]]. Though she recently lost her [[Charlie's dad|first husband]] to a heart attack, she has a new boyfriend in the form of [[Ron (BB)|Ron]], a fact which is the subject of conflict between her and Charlie.

==Fiction==
===''Bumblebee'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Pamela Adlon]]
{{voiceactor|[[Masumi Tsuda]] (Japanese dub)|[[Esther Solans]] (Spain Spanish dub), [[Laura Ayala]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[Marie Vincent]] (European French dub), [[Anne Bédard]] (Canadian French dub), [[Vera Teltz]] (German dub), [[Alessandra Cassioli]] (Italian dub), [[Izabel Lira]] (Brazilian Portuguese dub), [[Anastasia Lapina]] (Russian dub)}}
At breakfast, Sally was dismayed at Charlie disposing of her diving trophies. She asked Charlie to make sure Otis got to karate training safely. That evening, she, Ron and Otis watched ''[[ALF]]'' while eating dinner. On Charlie's birthday, Sally presented her daughter with a helmet, which she insisted Charlie wear while riding her moped. Hearing a noise from the garage that night, Sally was surprised to find Charlie had been given a Volkswagen by [[Uncle Hank]]. The next day, Sally borrowed the Volkswagen to take [[Conan]] to the vet, unaware that the car was actually [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], and Charlie was forced to chase her down and reclaim Bee before his secret was revealed.

Sally and Otis returned home from karate practice to find the house trashed and Charlie claiming it was her fault, which sparked an argument between her and Sally, which ended when Charlie stormed out and went for a drive in Bumblebee. Charlie was later delivered back home by [[Sector Seven]] forces led by [[Jack Burns|Agent Burns]], who claimed Charlie had stolen a government war machine. Sally banished Charlie to her room, and after Burns left, resumed picking over the devastation with Ron. Otis confessed that Charlie had gone to [[McKinnon Air Base]] to rescue Bumblebee, and the family set out in the station wagon to find her. Thanks to a radio report, they were able to join Charlie and Bumblebee who were being pursued by Sector Seven, and with some deft driving on the part of Ron, they succeeded in bringing Sector Seven to a halt, though there was almost a major accident.

Charlie later reunited with them at home, after the Earth had been saved. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
{{note|Sally Watson's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, was also chronicled in the novel "[[Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel]]".}}

==Notes==

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Sally Watson''' (サリー・ワトソン ''Sarī Watoson'')

{{DEFAULTSORT:Watson, Sally}}
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[[Category:Live-action-only characters]]

Otis Watson

2025-10-08T16:52:42Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Bumblebee film */ Credited Russian VA

:''Otis Watson is a [[human]] from the [[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:Bumblebee Otis Watson.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
'''Otis Watson''' is [[Charlie Watson|Charlie]]'s younger brother. His main pursuits in life are being a student of karate, in which he has reached the rank of yellow belt under [[Master Larry]], and maintaining an ongoing sibling rivalry with his sister. Unlike her, he has largely gotten over the death of [[Charlie's dad|their father]] and accepted [[Sally Watson|their mother]]'s new boyfriend [[Ron (BB)|Ron]]. He also has a pet dog named [[Conan]].

{{quote|Shut up, Otis.|Sally Watson}}

==Fiction==
===''Bumblebee'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Jason Drucker]]
{{voiceactor|[[Natsumi Fujiwara]] (Japanese dub)|[[Jaume Solá]] (Spain Spanish dub), [[Álvaro Salarich]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[Andrea Santamaria]] (European French dub), [[Mathéo Savard-Piccinin]] (Canadian French dub), [[Elias Kunze]] (German dub), [[Luca Tesei]] (Italian dub), [[Sonal Kaushal]] (Hindi dub), [[Victor Hugo Fernandes]] (Brazilian Portuguese dub), [[Stepan Studilov]] (Russian dub), [[Leni M. Tarra]] (Indonesian dub)}}
The day before Charlie's eighteenth birthday, Sally noted that Otis looked grown up in his karate ''gi'' and asked Charlie to make sure he didn't get abducted on his way to karate practice. Otis later watched ''[[ALF]]'' with Sally and [[Ron (BB)|Ron]]. The day after Charlie got a new car, Otis and Ron were eating breakfast together and discussing how long it would be before Otis would get to learn about nunchucks when they were surprised by Charlie's positive mood as she left for work. Moments later Charlie interrogated Otis about the whereabouts of her car, and he was able to tell her their mother had taken Conan to the vet in it.

A day later, Sally drove Otis home from karate practice to find the house had been trashed, including his [[television|TV]]. As it turned out, the government thought Charlie had stolen some of their equipment, and Otis later caught Charlie sneaking out of the house after being sent to her room. Charlie managed to persuade him not to alert their mother, and filled him in on the fact her new car was a transforming space robot. She tasked him with keeping their mother in the dark while she and her friend [[Memo]] went to [[McKinnon Air Base]] to rescue [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]].

Otis's attempt at subterfuge lasted about thirty seconds before Sally made him spill everything, and the pair, along with Ron, went in search of Charlie in the station wagon. When Charlie and Bumblebee were racing to the port to prevent the [[Decepticon]]s from calling in an army, the Watsons heard a radio report and joined in as [[Sector Seven]] pursued the [[Autobot]]. Some deft driving by Ron resulted in a near accident, which Otis labeled "radical" before throwing up. After the world was saved, Otis apologized for telling on Charlie, but she forgave and thanked him, as his doing so had ultimately saved her. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
{{note|Otis Watson's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, was also chronicled in the novel "[[Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel]]".}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Watson, Otis}}
[[Category:Bumblebee humans]]
[[Category:Live-action-only characters]]

Jack Burns

2025-10-08T16:50:58Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Bumblebee film */ Credited Russian VA

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{{disambigm|Jack (disambiguation)|Burns (disambiguation)}}
:''Jack Burns is a [[human]] from the [[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:Bumblebee Jack Burns.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Fun fact: His [[Charlie Burns|cousin]] was also involved with giant robots.]]
'''Jack Burns''' is a high ranking agent in [[Sector Seven]]. He trusts giant alien robots about as far as he can throw them, so it's a source of frustration for him when [[Dr. Powell|others]] in Sector Seven don't share his misgivings about giving them access to their resources.

==Fiction==
===''Bumblebee'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[John Cena]]
{{voiceactor|[[Taitem Kusunoki]] (Japanese dub)| [[Zdeněk Podhůrský]] (Czech dub), [[David Krüger]] (European French dub), [[Frédérik Zacharek]] (Canadian French dub), [[Martin Kautz]] (German dub), [[Pawan Kalra]] (Hindi dub), [[Tamás Bognár]] (Hungarian dub), [[Stefano Alessandroni]] (Italian dub), [[Toni Mora]] (Spain Spanish dub), [[Jorge Badillo]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[Reginaldo Primo]] (Portuguese dub), [[Tomasz Błasiak]] (Polish dub), [[Denis Bgavin]] (Russian dub), [[Mutlu Albayram]] (Turkish dub)}}
Jack Burns and [[Danny Bell]] served together in Grenada.

During an exercise in some woods, Burns had his squad ambush Danny’s squad, however a short time later, they were almost flattened by the arrival of [[Bumblebee (Movie)|B-127]], and Burns had to call for back up. The Sector Seven forces he led managed to corner B-127, only to be all but wiped out when [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]] arrived. Burns survived the attack, but was badly scarred by the incident.

Sometime later, Sector Seven intelligence picked up the arrival of [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] and [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]] relayed the discovery to Burns. Burns took a sizable force, including [[Dr. Powell]], to [[Texas]] and intercepted the two Decepticons, who claimed they were on [[Earth]] to find B-127, who they claimed was a dangerous criminal. Despite Burns's mistrust of the newcomers, Powell invited them back to Sector Seven's [[Hoover Dam]] base. A meeting ensued with [[General Whalen]], during which Powell's argument prevailed, and Burns grudgingly agreed to allow the Decepticons to use their technology to track down Bumblebee. He was really disturbed by Powell's enthusiasm for what the Decepticons were doing.

An [[Energon]] signal was eventually detected in [[Brighton Falls]], and Burns took a squad there along with the Decepticons. They managed to corner B-127, now calling himself "Bumblebee", on a road only for the Autobot to escape with [[Charlie Watson]], requiring the two Decepticons to capture him. While Bumblebee was taken to [[McKinnon Air Base]], Burns returned Charlie to [[Sally Watson|her]] [[Ron (BB)|family]] and told them a cover story that Bumblebee was a war machine created by the government that Charlie had stolen.

Burns was later alerted by Powell that the Decepticons had revealed their true colors and intended to call an army to Earth to destroy everything. Burns and his team returned to the air base and blasted their way in, but only found Bumblebee, who'd begun to regain his memory, as well as Charlie and Memo. Burns personally held Charlie while ordering his troops to secure and dismantle Bumblebee. He finally grew tired of the girl's struggles and protests and angrily threw her to the ground, only to look up in horror as he realized he'd incurred the Autobots' wrath. He was hardly smacked away and could only watch helplessly as the restored Bumblebee effortlessly freed himself and dispatched the S7 troops, forcing Burns to call a retreat.

Regrouping, Burns and his men returned and ended up pursuing Bumblebee through the streets of Brighton Falls until Ron bought them to a halt. Taking a helicopter, Burns finally reached the port, where Shatter was modifying the radio tower to send a signal to call in the Decepticon army. During the ensuing battle, he attempted to engage Shatter only for her to shoot down his helicopter, which was prevented from crashing by Bumblebee, saving Burns's life. After Charlie and Bumblebee destroyed the Decepticons, preventing a world-ending catastrophe, Burns opted to let them get away before the rest of Sector Seven turned up. The human also chose to swallow his pride and forget the past, offering the Autobot a respectful salute. When [[Memo]] arrived moments after Bumblebee and Charlie left, Burns assured him that the world was already saved before being asked by the boy to call his mother. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
{{note|Jack Burns's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, was also chronicled in the novel "[[Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel]]".}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burns, Jack}}
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[[Category:Live-action-only characters]]
[[Category:Sector Seven]]

Memo

2025-10-08T16:50:17Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Bumblebee film */ Credited Russian VA

:''Memo is a [[human]] from the [[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:Bumblebee Memo.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Uh, sorry to break this to you, [[Jess Harnell|Wakko]], but if I'm not mistaken, "Bumblebee" is [[Steven Spielberg|Steven's]] favorite movie. ''We'' got a Memo.]]
''' Guillermo Gutierrez''', better known by his nickname '''Memo''', works at the Quique's Churros stand at [[Brighton Falls Boardwalk]]. He is a bit of a science fiction fan, which is probably just as well, as his interest in his neighbor, [[Charlie Watson]], is about to involve him in a fight to save the entire planet from giant killer robots from space.

{{quote|You're not a nerd, you're not a nerd, you're not a nerd, you're not a nerd, you're not a nerd, you're not a nerd. Just, okay, you're a nerd but just don't let her see you're a nerd.|Memo tries to psyche himself up to ask Charlie on a date}}

==Fiction==
===''Bumblebee'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Jorge Lendeborg Jr.]]
{{voiceactor|[[Jun Shison]] (Japanese dub)|[[David García Llop]] (Spain Spanish dub), [[Alan Fernando Velázquez]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[João Cappelli]] (Portuguese dub), [[Gabriel Bismuth-Bienaimé]] (European French dub), [[Alexandre Bacon]] (Canadian French dub), [[Vaibhav Thakkar]] (Hindi dub), [[Alex Polidori]] (Italian dub), [[Kaze Uzumaki]] (German dub), [[Anton Kolesnikov]] (Russian dub)}}
Spying Charlie working at her job at the hot dog stand, Guillermo attempted to approach her, only to be brushed off as she took a tray of food to some customers. A couple of days later, he emerged from his house reading an issue of ''[[GoBots]] {{gb|Official GoBots Magazine|Magazine}}'' when he spied Charlie and again unsuccessfully attempted to introduce himself. Finally, he resolved to ask her on a date and barged in, only to find her hanging out in her garage with a giant robot that turned into a Volkswagen. After mishearing his name as "Memo" and swearing him to secrecy, Charlie introduced him to [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]].

The pair went driving in Bumblebee, and Charlie temporarily borrowed Memo's shirt to demonstrate Bumblebee's ability to self-drive. They eventually ended up on a cliff at the sea edge where [[Tripp Summers]] challenged Charlie to jump off. After Charlie suffered the scorn of her schoolmates, particularly [[Tina Lark]], because she couldn't dive, Memo suggested they get revenge on Tina. The pair took Bumblebee to Tina's house after dark and attempted to instruct him in the art of TPing the house and egging Tina's car, however, the Autobot went overboard and ended up enthusiastically destroying the car. After a getaway that included a brief police chase, Memo and Charlie said their goodnights and parted ways.

The following day, Memo heard crashes coming from Charlie's house and rang her at her work. The pair investigated and found that Bumblebee had managed to trash much of the house's interior. He set about helping Charlie tidy up, but had to hide when Charlie's [[Sally Watson|mother]] came home and accompanied Charlie as she took a drive in Bee to cool off after the ensuing argument. They encountered a [[Sector Seven]] roadblock, at which point Memo became separated from Charlie and Bumblebee, and was returned home. After Charlie escaped from her own house, she visited Memo and they determined that Bumblebee, who'd been taken by Sector Seven, was likely at [[McKinnon Air Base]].

Charlie and Memo headed to the air force base on Charlie's bike, where they witnessed [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] interrogating and then terminating Bee. With Memo's help, Charlie was able to restore Bumblebee to life, however, Sector Seven forces arrived and blew up the door, injuring Memo. Bumblebee managed to initially fight off Sector Seven, and as they returned, Memo opted to stay behind, unsuccessfully trying to delay them while Charlie and Bumblebee headed to the dock to foil the Decepticons' plans. Memo later arrived at the dock to find the world had already been saved and asked [[Jack Burns|Agent Burns]] to call his mom. Memo was later reunited with Charlie when she returned home after parting ways with Bumblebee, though they mutually agreed they weren't at the "holding hands" stage yet. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
{{note|Memo's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, was also chronicled in the novel ''[[Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel]]''.}}

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Memo''' (メモ)

[[Category:Bumblebee humans]]
[[Category:Live-action-only characters]]

Charlie Watson

2025-10-08T16:48:17Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Bumblebee film */ Credited Russian VA

{{disambig3|Charles|Charlie}}
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[[File:CharlieWatsonBumblebeemovie.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.0|I am not going down there again. If you want any more water you can fetch it yourself.]]
:''Charlie Watson is an [[Autobot]]-allied [[human]] from the [[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''

'''Charlie Watson''' is your average teenager going through some things — she's still recovering from the loss of [[Charlie's dad|her father]], and the fact that [[Sally Watson|her mother]] already has a [[Ron (BB)|new boyfriend]] isn't helping matters. She tends to bury herself in her two main passions in life: music, particularly the music of [[The Smiths]], and her attempts to finish restoring a Corvette that she and her father had been working on before he died.

==Fiction==
===Movies===
====''Bumblebee'' film====
:''Actor:'' [[Hailee Steinfeld]]
{{voiceactor|[[Tao Tsuchiya]] (Japanese dub)|[[Zhu Rongrong]] (Chinese dub), [[Anna Theimerová]] (Czech, trailers), [[Barbora Šedivá]] (Czech, movie dub), [[Camille Timmerman]] (European French dub), [[Célia Gouin-Arsenault]] (Canadian French dub), [[Victoria Frenz]] (German dub), [[Sumriddhi Shukla]] (Hindi dub), [[Szonja Rudolf]] (Hungarian dub), [[Siti Balqis]] (Indonesian dub), [[Emanuela Ionica]] (Italian dub), [[Moon Nam-sook]] (Korean dub), [[Weronika Humaj]] (Polish dub), [[Amanda Manso]] (Portuguese dub), [[Lina Ivanova]] (Russian dub), [[Irene Miras]] (Spain Spanish dub), [[Alicia Vélez]] (Latin-American Spanish, movie dub), [[Lupita Leal]] (Latin-American Spanish, trailers), [[Punsikorn Tiyakorn]] (Thai dub), [[Zeynep Er]] (Turkish dub)}}

In her younger days, Charlie was a member of her school's dive team, until the death of her father turned the group into an unpleasant association and she gave it up. To honor her father, Charlie dedicated herself to finish restoring an old Corvette the two had been working on, using money from a job selling hot dogs at [[Brighton Falls Boardwalk|the local fairground]] in [[Brighton Falls]] to buy parts from [[Uncle Hank]]'s auto repair.

The day before her eighteenth birthday, she started off by throwing out her old diving trophies. During her working day at the fairground, she accidentally spilled drinks all over [[Tripp Summers]], earning her a mocking from Tripp's girlfriend [[Tina Lark|Tina]] and her friends. While searching for spare parts at Uncle Hank's, she stumbled on a derelict Volkswagen Beetle. Though intrigued by the vehicle, she was unable to get it started. Upon returning home, Charlie found her latest haul of spare parts were insufficient to finish fixing the Corvette and, despairing, she went to bed.
[[File:BBfilm-Charlie-finds-bee.jpg|300px|thumb|left|They tell me you are a car with true grit.]]
Though Charlie had hoped for some good hard cash as her birthday gift so she could put the funds towards restoring the Corvette, on the morning of her birthday she was presented with a pair of disappointing gifts: a flower-patterned helmet (her mother had heard that riding mopeds without one was unsafe) and a book on smiling more from Ron. After stewing in her room for a while, she headed to Uncle Hank's, prepared to make a deal for the Volkswagen, only for him to simply gave it to her. After spending hours on the Beetle, she was able to get it running, bringing it back to her garage. As she tided up, a piece of machinery fell out from under the car's undercarriage prompting her to investigate, where she found an inert mechanical face. Shining her light on the face caused it to activate and the Beetle transformed into a robot. Though initially afraid, Charlie quickly realized the robot was just as afraid of her, as well as suffering from muteness and amnesia. With him unable to tell her anything, Charlie dubbed him "[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]".
The next morning, Bumblebee had gone missing, taken by Charlie's mother so she could get their dog, [[Conan]], to the vet. Charlie was forced to chase them down on her moped where she insisted on driving Bumblebee herself. She later took Bee to a beach so he could practice disguising himself to keep himself a secret. When she noticed Bumblebee's chest sparking, she tried to fix it only to wind up activating a holographic recording of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|another of Bumblebee's kind]], the message letting Charlie know Bumblebee was hiding from a war. Back in the garage, Charlie transplanted the Corvette's radio into Bumblebee, allowing him to use music as a way to express himself (being offended at his dislike of The Smiths). During the ensuing celebrations, however, [[Memo]] burst in, intending to ask Charlie on a date and seeing Bumblebee. Charlie quickly swore the boy to secrecy before taking him on a drive in Bumblebee the next day, where Bumblebee showed off his new form of radio communication. The trio ended up on a cliff at the sea edge where Tripp was intending to dive in and daring anyone to join him. Despite Bumblebee volunteering her, Charlie was unable to bring herself to dive, earning scorn from her peers, especially Tina. Memo and Bumblebee convinced Charlie to get revenge on Tina, the trio TPing Tina's house and egging her car, only for the tomfoolery to go pear-shaped due to Bumblebee's inexperience with human pranks and underestimation of his own strength, eventually resulting in Bumblebee taking Charlie and Memo on a police chase.

Figuring it would be safer, Charlie left Bumblebee at home the following day while she went to work only for Memo to call her to come home. When she arrived, she found Bumblebee had accidentally trashed the house after venturing in from the garage. Though trying to repair the damage, and prevent her mother from seeing it, the house's wrecked state was soon found out which led to an argument with her mother, and her and Memo leaving in Bumblebee to cool off. As the trio raced through the countryside, they were surrounded by [[Sector Seven]]. Though the human teenagers were initially willing to make peace, Sector Seven's rough treatment of them convinced Bumblebee to grab Charlie and run off. As the two began escaping, the [[Decepticon]]s [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] arrived and began attacking Bumblebee, who, still suffering from amnesia, was unable to fight back. As Charlie tried to help her friend, Bumblebee was stunned by Sector Seven's electrical weapons, with Charlie's proximity to him meaning she too was affected. Unconscious, Charlie was taken back to her house where she awoke to find [[Jack Burns|Agent Burns]] telling her parents that Bumblebee was a government weapon that Charlie had unwittingly come across. Though she tried to defend herself and tell the truth, Charlie's mother sent her to room. Determined, Charlie snuck out, collecting Memo and enlisting her brother [[Otis Watson|Otis]] to cover her escape so she could go and find Bumblebee.

[[File:BBfilm-Bumblebee-pat-pat.jpg|thumb|300px|Time just gets away from us.]]With Memo, Charlie managed to infiltrate [[McKinnon Air Base]] where she watched the Decepticons interrogate and seemingly kill Bumblebee before the invaders took their leave to summon the [[Decepticon fleet]] and bait a trap for the coming Autobot resistance. Using Sector Seven's electrical guns, Charlie managed to revive Bumblebee, the shock to his system causing his memories to reboot. Burns then seized Charlie causing the scout to go a rampage until Charlie calmed him down. With the government seemingly dealt with, Charlie asserted that they all flee only for Bumblebee to insist on stopping the Decepticons. Leaving Memo behind to stall Sector Seven (however briefly), Bumblebee took Charlie to a nearby dock where the [[Triple Changer]]s were modifying a radio tower into an interstellar transmitter.

Though Bumblebee attempted to keep Charlie away from the fight, his battle with Dropkick soon soon spilled over to her hiding spot. As she ran for cover, Charlie noticed Shatter had nearly finished the transmitter. Commandeering a crane, Charlie climbed onto the tower where she began prying out its power cell only for Shatter to target her. The Decepticon's attention was soon drawn by Agent Burns in a helicopter and Bumblebee himself allowing Charlie to stop the transmission while Bumblebee killed Shatter by flooding the dry dock, only for he himself to be caught in the current. Overcoming her doubts, Charlie dove in after him, managing to wake Bumblebee who carried her to safety. At Agent Burns's urging, the two fled the scene before more Sector Seven forces arrived.

On a hill overlooking the [[Golden Gate Bridge]], Charlie and Bumblebee said a tearful goodbye where the scout revealed his [[Scanning|trans-scan]]ning abilities and adopted a Camaro [[alternate mode]], driving off to meet his fellow [[Autobot]]s. Returning home, Charlie reunited with her family and Memo (though they weren't at holding hands level just yet). Inspired by her experience with Bumblebee, Charlie threw herself into working on the Corvette, eventually managing to restore it completely. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
{{note|Charlie Watson's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, was also chronicled in the novel "[[Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel]]".}}

====''Rise of the Beasts'' film====
Seven years after parting ways with Charlie, Bumblebee reminded [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] of his friendship with the human to ease his leader's distrust on humanity. Optimus believed in Bee's testimony but remained skeptical that [[Noah Díaz|other humans]] could do any good for them. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts}}

===Bumblebee Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway figure online description===
{{bigquote|Perfect soundtrack for cruisin' down the open road in my VW Beetle|Charlie|''Human Ally Magazine''}}

Charlie's positive opinion on the [[Bumblebee Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway]] cassette mixtape was published on the ''[[Human Ally Magazine]]''.<ref>[https://shop.hasbro.com/en-sg/product/transformers-studio-series-20-bumblebee-vol-2-retro-pop-highway:6EB03BBE-F290-4C15-9249-CC395A992232 Studio Series 20 Bumblebee Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway product page on the official Hasbro Shop site]
</ref>

===''Bumblebee's First Life On Earth''===
{{voiceactor|[[Ryōhei Kimura]] (Japanese)}}
[[File:TF-BB-Movie-Bumblebee's-First-Life-Episode-2.jpg|thumb|240px]]
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Picked Up from the Junkyard}}{{storylink|Hiding in the Park!}}{{storylink|Cooking!}}}}

==Toys==
===''Studio Series''===
[[File:TF-BB-Movie-Studio-Series-15-Charlie-figurine.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Bumblebee''' (Multipack, [[2018]])}}</ul>
:*''Movie'': '''''Bumblebee'''''
:*''ID number'': '''15'''
:A [[Slug figure|static figurine]] of Charlie wearing a shirt with the ''Bumblebee'' logo is included in a two-pack with ''[[Studio Series]]'' [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS15|15 Bumblebee]]. Unlike the movie, Charlie features a short haircut.

===''Buzzworthy Bumblebee''===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Bumblebee''' (Deluxe Class, [[2020]])}}</ul>
:*''Series'': '''''Studio Series'''''
:*''Movie'': '''''Bumblebee'''''
:*''ID number'': '''15BB'''
:The same figurine was re-released with ''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'' [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW15|Bumblebee]], with no discernable changes.
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==Merchandise==
===''Hollywood Rides''===
[[File:Jada-Bumblebee-and-Charlie.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Volkswagen Beetle Bumblebee & Charlie''' (Scale 1/24 Die Cast Vehicle, 2018)}}</ul>
: A figurine of Charlie is included with the non-transforming 1/24 scaled die-cast replica of Bumblebee's VW Beetle mode released by [[Jada Toys]]. It hews closer to Charlie's movie appearance than the ''Studio Series'' version, featuring longer hair and more accurate clothes.
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==Notes==
*The first ''Studio Series'' multi-pack containing Bumblebee and Charlie had the working name "Rebekah's Garage". Whether this means that Charlie was named "Rebekah" earlier in development, or if "Rebekah" is one of Hasbro's [[Studio Series#Notes|internal code names]], is unknown.
*In the finalized cut of ''Rise of the Beasts'', Charlie is only alluded to in a brief conversation between Optimus Prime and Bumblebee. An additional scene would have featured Bumblebee showing Prime a polaroid picture of him and Charlie together, but this moment was deleted during production. The Latin American Spanish dub of the film, meanwhile, actually has Optimus mention Charlie by name during their conversation.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Charlie Watson''' (チャーリー・ワトソン ''Chārī Watoson'')

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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Bumblebee (Movie)

2025-10-08T16:47:28Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Bumblebee film */ Credited Russian VA

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{{disambig3.5|the Autobot lieutenant|the movie named after him|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
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:''Bumblebee is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Movie continuity family]].''

[[File:TF-Alliance03 Cover Nizzi.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb| Hi, kids! I'm the new face of Transformers! Hope you enjoy!]]
'''Bumblebee''' is one of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]'s most trusted lieutenants. Although he is not the strongest or most powerful of the Autobots, Bumblebee more than makes up for this with a bottomless well of luck, determination and bravery. He would gladly give his life to protect others and stop the [[Decepticon]]s.

Badly damaged in battle, Bumblebee lost the ability to speak verbally, though he can still communicate over [[Inter-Autobot radio|inter-Autobot frequencies]] (in a fashion that seems somewhat akin to instant messaging, a usable but more distant and less personal means of interaction). He can also communicate with the Autobots' human allies and his friend, [[Sam Witwicky]], by playing audio clips from popular media on his radio. Though he has these stable forms of communication, Bumblebee would love nothing more than to finally get his voice back someday.

As the battles on Earth have raged on and more of their old friends have perished in the fighting, Bumblebee has found himself forced to step up as acting Autobot leader whenever Optimus isn't around. This stint at leadership isn't exactly going that well, as not only are there barely any surviving Autobots around to lead, not many of them respect his authority. Bumblebee's trying his best, but he shows all the signs of a young 'bot forced to grow up too fast, with his impulsiveness sometimes giving the Autobots as much trouble as their adversaries.

He is also known as '''N.B.E.-02''', '''ZB-7''', '''B-127''', and has operated under the codename '''Goldwheels'''. He is also partnered with the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]] [[Strafe (AOE)|Strafe]], and is brothers-in-arms with fellow Autobot [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]].

{{quote|If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.|Bumblebee quoting ''{{w|Forrest Gump}}'' to Sam|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Movies===
{{note|The seven movies are the primary component of the live-action movie continuity family. Their events should be taken as canon for all other pieces of fiction listed below, unless otherwise specified.}}

====''Transformers'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Mark Ryan]] (English), [[Hiroshi Iwasaki]] (Japan radio voice), [[Akio Kato]] (Japan normal voice)|[[Bohdan Tůma]] (Czech), [[Lu Kui]] (Chinese), [[Patrick Béthune]] (European French), [[Helmut Gauß]] (German), [[Eduardo Borgerth]] (Portuguese), [[Omar Soto]], [[Marisol Romero]] (Latin American-Spanish Radio voices), [[Alfredo Gabriel Basurto]] (Latin American-Spanish normal voice), [[Paco Gázquez]] (Castilian Spanish), [[János Bácskai]] (Hungarian), [[Vilmos Papucsek]] (Hungarian radio voice), [[Saverio Indrio]] (Italian), [[Shanu Dev]] (Hindi), [[Altuğ Yücel]] (Turkish), [[Choi Jeong-ho]] (Korean), [[Kim Ki-heung]] (Korean)}}
[[File:Movie2007 Bumblebee dealership.jpg|left|upright=1.8|thumb|Out with the old, and in with the new.]]
When the Autobots scattered to the stars in search of the lost [[AllSpark]], Bumblebee made his way to the planet [[Earth]], where he connected the trail of the lost relic to the [[Witwicky (surname)|Witwicky]] family line. In 2007, disguised as a battered 1970s Camaro, Bumblebee followed [[Ron Witwicky]] and his son [[Sam Witwicky|Sam]] to [[Bolivia's Finest Quality Used Cars and Petting Zoo|a second rate car dealership]] and slipped himself amongst the vehicles, intending to have the boy purchase him so that he could get close to the family. When proprietor [[Bobby Bolivia]] couldn't agree on a price, however, it looked like Sam would wind up buying another car, so Bumblebee used a high-frequency sound wave to blow out the windows of every other vehicle in the lot, leaving Bolivia with no choice but to sell him.

[[File:Movie Bumblebee winner.jpg|upright=1.8|thumb|YOU BIG WINNER, HAHAHA.]]

The next day, Sam and his friend [[Miles Lancaster]] drove Bumblebee down to a party at the lake, where the disguised Autobot decided to do the boy a favor, playing "Drive" on his radio to subtly convince Sam to kick Miles out and offer his crush [[Mikaela Banes]] a ride home. When he neared a romantic spot overlooking the city, Bumblebee turned off his engine and began playing romantically suggestive songs; this didn't have the intended effect, and Bumblebee had to abruptly turn himself back on again when Mikaela started to walk off. After they returned Mikaela home, Bumblebee drove off during the night; Sam, believing it to be a car theft, followed him to a junkyard and witnessed the robot-mode Bumblebee sending a beacon into space to summon his fellow Autobots. Apparently unaware that he had been spotted, Bumblebee then scared off the junkyard's two guard dogs when they menaced Sam.

[[File:TF2007 bumblebee 2009 camaro.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Out with the new, and in with the newer.]]

When Bumblebee returned to the Witwicky home the next day, a terrified Sam fled from what he dubbed "Satan's Camaro", only to wind up being attacked by the Decepticon [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], who was also on the trail of the AllSpark. While fleeing this new threat, Sam ran into Mikaela, and Bumblebee then snatched the pair up and drove them away, with Barricade in hot pursuit. Taking refuge at a deserted chemical plant, Bumblebee revealed his robot form to the two humans so he could engage Barricade in combat, eventually knocked the Decepticon out after a brawl. Afterward, Bumblebee—able only to communicate in sound bites broadcast over his radio—properly introduced himself to Sam and Mikaela, and drove them to nearby [[Griffith Observatory]] to watch as the other Autobots he had called upon arrived in the sky overhead. Along the way, when Mikaela wondered aloud why a super-advanced robot turned into a "piece of crap Camaro", a mildly insulted Bumblebee scanned a passing 2009 Camaro, taking on its sleek and shiny form himself.

[[File:Movie BumblebeeCC guardian.jpg|upright=1.8|thumb|I may be your guardian, but I will not carry you through a crowd to the music of Whitney Houston.]]

Bumblebee took his friends to a secluded alleyway, where Sam and Mikaela met the other Autobots, including their leader, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]. Medical officer [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] explained that Bumblebee's inability to speak was a result of an old injury to his [[processor|vocal processor]], which Ratchet then treated with a regenerative plasma beam.<ref name="Orci">[http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showthread.php?t=12054 Post-movie Q&A with screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman]</ref> Prime explained that Sam had been targeted because he owned [[Archibald Witwicky's glasses|a set]] of [[glasses]] belonging to his grandfather, [[Archibald Witwicky]], which had the location on the AllSpark inscribed on their lenses, and the entire group returned to the Witwicky home so they could obtain them.

[[File:Movie2007 Bumblebee lubricates Simmons.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.8|"They should change my name to Bumble-PEE!!!" Ba Dum Tss! I'll be here all night!]]

Though the glasses were soon found, the forces of [[Sector Seven]] soon descended upon the house and apprehended Sam and Mikaela. The Autobots wasted no time in rescuing them, but when the interrogation of [[Seymour Simmons]] went nowhere, Bumblebee became so annoyed with his attitude that he released lubricant onto the agent. When Sector Seven reinforcements arrived, the Autobots were forced to hide; unfortunately, Sam and Mikaela fell from their hiding place beneath a bridge, and Bumblebee had to reveal himself to save them. Harpooned and frozen by Sector Seven agents, he was captured by the organization, with Optimus Prime regrettably unable to intercede as he knew the Autobots could not do so without harming the humans.

[[File:TF2007 bumblebee captured.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|"I WAS FROZEN TODAY!"]]
Taken to Sector Seven's base at [[Hoover Dam]], Bumblebee was continually doused with cryoblasts to keep him subdued while experiments were performed on him, until Sam and Mikaela (with some armed persuasion from [[William Lennox|Captain Lennox]]) convinced S7 to let him go. Upon his release, Bumblebee almost lashed out at his human oppressors until Sam calmed him down, informing him of the presence of the AllSpark and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] in the facility, and that the Decepticons were coming for both. Following the humans to the AllSpark's chamber, Bumblebee hesitantly reached out to the life source of his people and reformatted it, shrinking the cube until it was a size that the humans could manipulate. Cube in hand, Bumblebee and a military escort fled to [[Mission City]], meeting the Autobots en route.

[[File:TF2007 bumblebee gives sam allspark.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|"I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you!"]]
Soon after Bumblebee and the Autobots arrived in the city, the Decepticons descended in force, with a missile attack from Starscream blowing off Bumblebee's legs. To get him to safety, Mikaela and Sam hoisted Bumblebee onto an abandoned tow truck, but Bumblebee pushed the AllSpark into Sam's hands, urging him to run while he still could. As Sam reluctantly left, Mikaela drove Bumblebee away from the fighting to relative safety, but she was soon overcome with guilt for leaving Sam and the battle. With Bumblebee's assent, she turned headed back in, driving the truck in reverse so that Bumblebee could fire his weapons at [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]], helping take the tank Decepticon out. Subsequently, Sam used the AllSpark to destroy Megatron, and in the aftermath, Bumblebee found that his voice had returned,<ref name="Orci"/> and he used it to request permission to remain with Sam. Optimus and Sam agreed, and after his legs were repaired, Bumblebee allowed Sam and Mikaela to make out on top of him as Optimus sent his message to space calling other Autobots to Earth. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

{{note|Bumblebee's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels "[[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]]," "[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]" and "[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]"; the "[[Transformers: Movie Adaptation]]" and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; the activity book "[[Look and Find Transformers]]"; and the storybooks "[[Bumblebee Rumble]]," "[[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron]]," "[[Sam's New Car]]," "[[Transformers (interactive Play-a-Sound Storybook)|Transformers Play-a-Sound]]," "[[Transformers Mix & Match]]," "[[Meet the Autobots]]," "[[Meet the Decepticons]]," and "[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]." In several, Bumblebee has his own [[Moustache Man]] hologram driver, which does not appear in the finished film.}}

====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Mark Ryan]] (English, promo video)|[[Lu Kui]] (Chinese), [[Bohdan Tůma]] (Czech), [[Jean-Philippe Puymartin]] (European French radio voice), [[Eduardo Borgerth]] (Portuguese), [[Omar Soto]] (Latin American-Spanish Radio voice), [[Enrique Cervantes]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Arturo Acosta]] (Latin American-Spanish radio voice), [[Alfredo Gabriel Basurto]] (Latin American-Spanish normal voice), [[Kim Ki-heung]] (Korean)}}
[[File:ROTF bumblebee opens fire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Fixing [[Appliancebot|broken appliances]] the most effective way.]]
Two years after the battle of Mission City, his voice still not properly repaired, Bumblebee was dozing in the Witwicky garage the day Sam was packing for [[Princeton University]] when a scream from Sam saw him called into action to blast the [[AllSpark Mutation]]s a surviving sliver of the AllSpark had made of the Witwicky kitchen appliances. Shrugging off [[Judy Witwicky]]'s complaints that he had blown up much of their house, 'Bee returned to the garage, where he was dismayed to learn that Sam was not planning on taking him to college with him, as just he wanted a normal life.

[[File:ROTF bee makes trouble.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Phew, turned the alarm off before it started playing "Imma Be".]]
Hoping that Sam could serve as an ambassador of sorts to help convince the [[President of the United States]] that it was important the Autobots stay on Earth to fight off the Decepticons, Optimus Prime had Bumblebee pick up Sam from college so he could talk to him. 'Bee caused trouble for Sam right away, disrupting a frat party he was attending, then wound up with an unwanted passenger in [[Alice (ROTF)|Alice]], about whom he could tell something wasn't right. Bonking her head off his dashboard and spraying her in liquid to get rid of her, he then took Sam to meet Optimus, but the boy turned down the Autobot leader's offer. Unfortunately, Sam soon proved to have little choice in whether or not he would be involved in the Transformers' war, when a resurrected Megatron captured him, and Bumblebee and Prime had to come to his rescue. 'Bee took Mikaela and Sam's roommate [[Leo Spitz]], to safety, but Optimus died protecting the boy.

[[File:ROTF bumblebee puppdogeyes.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|''You tell me that you open your eyes...'']]

Bumblebee, together with [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]], took the three humans to an abandoned prison where they would be safe, but soon, the Decepticons' master [[The Fallen]] struck across Earth, demanding Sam he turned over to them. Bearing Sam no grudge for Optimus's death, Bumblebee promised to help his fugitive friend in any way, though he advised against Sam turning himself in. At Leo's suggestion, the group went to [[New York City]] to meet his internet rival, the Robo-Warrior—in actuality, Bumblebee's old lubrication post Seymour Simmons, who provided evidence that [[Seeker (ROTF)|a group of Decepticons]] had been on Earth thousands of years ago. Following this information, the group located and reactivated the ancient [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]], who teleported them to [[Egypt]] to search for the [[Matrix of Leadership]], which Sam hoped could be used to revive Optimus.

[[File:ROTF Bumblebee twin bash.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6|Respect my authoritah!]]

Bumblebee transported the humans to [[Petra]], the supposed location of the [[Tomb of the Primes]], but when it appeared to be a dead end, the Twins got into an argument over why they were following Sam around. The argument turned into a brawl which threatened to crush the humans in the close quarters, so Bumblebee picked his two subordinates, slammed them together, and threw them out of the temple. However, the Twins' brawl had managed to unearth the Tomb of the Primes, and Bumblebee further opened the hole with his plasma cannon, where they found the Matrix...which instantly turned to dust. Gathering up the dust in hopes it would still work, the team headed back to Egypt, but were [[Operation: Firestorm|assaulted]] by Starscream on the way. 'Bee, Simmons, Leo, and the Twins led Starscream and the Decepticons away while Sam and Mikaela went on ahead, and when it became apparent that Starscream was no longer pursuing them, Bumblebee left to rejoin the pair.

[[File:ROTF movie BumblebeevsRampage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Move your body Rampage! Yeah, like that, gymnastics are really easy when you have two legs. Oh wait...]]

Arriving in the abandoned town Sam and Mikaela were hiding from the Decepticons in, Bumblebee found that Sam's parents were being held captive by [[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]]. Sam distracted the [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]] long enough for Bumblebee to jump him, but while they were grappling, [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] ambushed Bumblebee. The plucky Autobot managed to fight off Ravage and ''rip out his spine'', then overpowered and killed Rampage. At Sam's instruction, Bumblebee took the boy's parents to safety, returning in time to see Sam apparently be killed by a blast from Megatron, upon which he broke down in grief. However, Sam miraculously survived the attack, and with the reformed Matrix of Leadership, resurrected Optimus Prime. Together, the assembled Autobots and humans watched as Optimus combined with the remains of Jetfire, destroyed the harvester and killed The Fallen. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|Bumblebee’s involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]," "[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]" and "[[The Last Prime]]"; the comic mini-series "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation]]"; and the storybooks "[[I Am Optimus Prime (ROTF)|I Am Optimus Prime]]," "[[When Robots Attack!]]," "[[Rise of the Decepticons]]," "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Electronic Voice Changer]]" and "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Mix & Match]]." In the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|novelization]] of the film, Bumblebee speaks—with difficulty—in his own voice several times, a story element that was cut from the finished film.}}

====''Dark of the Moon'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Lu Kui]] (Chinese)|[[Eduardo Borgerth]] (Portuguese), [[Bohdan Tůma]] (Czech), [[Omar Soto]] (Latin American-Spanish Radio voice), [[Enrique Cervantes]], [[Arturo Acosta]] (Latin American-Spanish radio voice; ''Revenge of the Fallen''), [[Alfredo Gabriel Basurto]] (Latin American-Spanish normal voice), [[Ferso Velázquez]] (Latin American-Spanish radio voice), [[Paco Gázquez]] (Castilian Spanish)}}
[[File:DOTFfilm-BumblebeeStealthForce.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|''Stealth'' Force? Right...]]
Three years after the defeat of the Fallen, Bumblebee no longer lived with Sam, having been put back on active NEST duty now regularly engaged in top secret missions with the rest of the Autobots, mostly to prevent human conflict. Alongside [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]], [[Dino]] and [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Que]], Bumblebee investigated an illegal nuclear facility, employing his [[Stealth Force]] mode to destroy it. Upon returning to the [[NEST]] base, he assisted in teaching soldiers how to fight Decepticons.

[[File:DOTM bumblebee vs brazos.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Grumpy Bee is not impressed.]]

Having received information from his co-worker [[Jerry Wang]] that suggested a conspiracy of humans collaborating with the Decepticons, Sam and his new girlfriend [[Carly Spencer]] went to NEST headquarters to share what Sam had learned, but when the guards would not let him enter, he grabbed a radio and called for Bumblebee to "convince" them. The guards quickly backed off when Bumblebee burst out of the building, but the reunion wasn't an entirely happy one, as Sam made clear to his big 'bot buddy that he was upset that he wasn't around much any more. National Intelligence Director [[Charlotte Mearing]] had no interest in Sam's conspiracy theories, so Sam left with Bumblebee to investigate the matter himself. To "repay" Sam's boss eccentric [[Bruce Brazos]] for a few leads he was able to provide them, Bumblebee play-fought with the man, who tried some karate moves on him.

[[File:Dotm-sam&bumblebee-ahhh!-1-.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Here comes another Flight of the Bumblebee joke...]]
After Sam, [[Seymour Simmons|Simmons]] and [[Dutch (DOTM)|Dutch]] learned that the Autobots' recent actions—recovering their lost former leader [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] and his [[space bridge]] [[pillar]]s from the wreck of the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]'' they had discovered on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]]—had actually been orchestrated by the Decepticons, Bumblebee, Sideswipe and Dino escorted the humans and Sentinel back to the NEST base. En route, they were attacked by the [[Dread (DOTM)|Dreads]], and Bumblebee was forced to execute an impressive mid-air transformation to avoid a crashed truck, tossing Sam into the air as he switched modes, before transforming back to vehicle mode around the boy. When the group arrived back at NEST, Sentinel revealed he was in league with Megatron, and Bumblebee was unable to prevent [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] from being killed and the base from being destroyed as Sentinel retrieved his pillars.

[[File:DOTM-bumblebeesamsfriend.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Bee good.]]
Sentinel used his pillars to open a space bridge in the heart of Washington, and Bumblebee and the Autobots were vastly outnumbered by the Decepticon forces that poured through and had to retreat. When Sentinel forced the humans to exile the Autobots on their ship, the ''[[Xantium (DOTM)|Xantium]]'', Bumblebee was allowed a short time to say goodbye to Sam, and assured him he was always going to be his friend, before helping the others prepare the ship for launch. However shortly after lift-off, the ''Xantium'' was destroyed by [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots were presumed dead.

[[File:DOTM bee and carly in ship.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Carly is not liking the in-flight movie.]]
In actuality, the Autobots had hidden in a rocket booster that was jettisoned before the Xantium's destruction, and arrived in the Decepticon-occupied [[Chicago]] in time to help Sam, [[Robert Epps|Epps]] and a team of soldiers in finding the kidnapped Carly. Bumblebee piloted one of the downed Decepticon fighters to get Sam into the building in which Decepticon conspirator [[Dylan Gould]] was holding Carly, and used it to both rescue the pair and blast off [[Laserbeak (DOTM)|Laserbeak]]'s head. He rejoined his fellow Autobots in attacking the Decepticon forces, and arrived in time to save Sam and Lennox from falling to their deaths after Sam managed to kill Starscream.

[[File:830px-Dotm-helluvarun-1-.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|He's right behind me, isn't he?]]
Unfortunately, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, Dino, Ratchet and Que were soon captured by [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] and his troops, and Bumblebee could only watch as Que was executed. He had barely a moment to mourn before he was pulled forward, sharing what seemed to be a final, heartfelt look with Sam... before [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] and [[Brains]] suddenly started dropping Decepticon fighters from a Decepticon warship above. With Soundwave distracted, Bumblebee attacked his would-be executioner, and after a short but intense battle, killed the Decepticon spy-master by punching straight through his chest and blasting his head to bits. Subsequently, Bumblebee joined the final battle, and with Ratchet's help, he tackled and destroyed the space bridge's control pillar, shutting the bridge down. After the defeat of the Decepticons and Sentinel Prime, Bumblebee produced a selection of gears and washers from inside his body so that Sam could use one as a ring to propose to Carly with, but Sam just told him that he needed to slow it down. He was then commended for his bravery in battle by Ratchet.{{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}
{{note|Bumblebee's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (novel)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]" and "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel]]," the "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation]] and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics," and the storybooks "[[Autobots Versus Decepticons]]," "[[The Lost Autobot]]," "[[Optimus Prime's Friends and Foes]]," "[[Bumblebee's Best Friend]]," "[[Dark of the Moon: Action Pop-ups!]]" and "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Mix & Match]]."}}

====''Age of Extinction'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Ben Schwartz]] (English radio voice, see notes), [[Kōichi Yamadera]] (Japanese radio voice)|[[Lu Kui]] (Chinese), [[Bohdan Tůma]] (Czech), [[Vincent Ribeiro]], [[Tristan Petitgirard]], [[Frédéric Souterelle]], [[Cédric Dumond]], others (European French radio voices), [[Marc-André Bélanger]], [[François L'Écuyer]] and [[Frédéric Zouvi]] (Canadian French radio voices), [[Eduardo Borgerth]] (Portuguese), [[Ferso Velázquez]] (Latin American-Spanish radio voice), [[Gerardo Alonso]] (Latin American Spanish radio voice), [[Moisés Ivan Mora]] (Latin American Spanish radio voice)}}
[[File:AOEBumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|After a wild bender, Bumblebee woke up in the desert, stripped of his 2011 Camaro kibble.]]
At some point in the past, Bumblebee had a phase where he became extremely insubordinate and disrespectful to Optimus Prime.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Chicago, Bumblebee remained on Earth with the other Autobots, but they were all soon forced to go on the run when the U.S. government disbanded [[NEST]], and [[Harold Attinger]]'s [[Cemetery Wind]] taskforce began hunting down Transformers. Disguised as a beat-up 1967 Camaro, Bumblebee even found himself having to take command of the remaining Autobot refugees when Optimus Prime disappeared, even though the others saw him as brash and inexperienced.

[[File:AOE bee and stinger.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Bumblebee shares the same feeling with [[Stephanie Sheh|Usagi Tsukino]] when it comes to clones.]]

Five years after Chicago, Optimus returned and Bumblebee relinquished command, but this did not stop [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] from complaining about Bumblebee's leadership skills. Indignant at being called a "child" by the Autobot samurai, Bumblebee briefly brawled with Drift, but greater matters soon demanded the Autobots' attention. Following information provided by Optimus's new human ally [[Cade Yeager]] that revealed Cemetery Wind was delivering the bodies of the Transformers they captured to [[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated]], the Autobots prepared to infiltrate the company's Chicago headquarters; Bumblebee falsified ID cards to get Cade and [[Shane Dyson]] into the building, then drove them to the site, masquerading as a non-sentient vehicle being brought in for [[scanning]]. Upon seeing the company's display of [[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]], a drone based on his own design, as well as several videos and posters claiming that he was inferior to the human-made Transformer, Bumblebee flipped out and knocked over the prototype, then left Shane to take the blame for the accident.

[[File:AOE bumblebee missiles.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Hi Tom!]]

The information Cade brought out of KSI revealed to the Autobots that the captured Transformers were being melted down for their raw [[Living metal#Live-action film series|transformium]] metal. Learning that Ratchet had suffered this grisly fate, Bumblebee joined the Autobots in attacking the building, though not before scanning a newer 2014 Camaro along the way, as well as taking on a sleek new appearance based on Stinger. He got a lift from Drift's helicopter mode to the building's upper levels and was able to rescue Cade from Attinger's clutches, having no regard for damaging the building to avenge Ratchet. The Autobots then withdrew, but were pursued by Stinger and KSI's premiere creation, Galvatron; 'Bee attempted to cover Optimus and the humans by blasting Galvatron with a cluster of missiles, but was left in utter shock when the drone disintegrated and reassembled himself to avoid the attack.

[[File:AOE-BeeIsTheBest.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Never mind the fact we should be ripped to shreds by the shattered glass from this skyscraper, you're the best, Bee!]]
When Optimus was captured by [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]], Bumblebee and the Autobots infiltrated the [[Knight Ship|bounty hunter's ship]]. Bumblebee helped their human allies escape from several [[Steeljaw (AOE)|Steeljaw]]s, and though he could not stop the ship's anchors from being detached, causing the humans to fall towards Chicago, he still managed to save them by swinging down on the cables and grabbing them out of the air. Given a lift by [[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]] in a stolen gunship, 'Bee had to take over piloting the craft while Crosshairs engaged Lockdown's pursuing henchmen, and although he managed to lose the ships chasing them by diving into an underground roadway, he then promptly crashed the gunship into the city streets.

Bumblebee and the humans regrouped with the other Autobots at a disused train yard, where they learned from Brains that Galvatron was, in actuality, a reborn Megatron, and was planning to detonate a cyberforming [[seed]]—given to KSI head [[Joshua Joyce]] by Lockdown—in [[Hong Kong]]. The team immediately headed for China, but upon arrival, their ship was shot down, and Bumblebee, [[Hound (Movie)|Hound]] and the humans fell out and had to escort the seed out of the city. [[File:CheapKnockOffs.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|But how does he feel about the length of his toy page?]] Bumblebee and Hound acted as a defensive line against Galvatron's forces, and though they destroyed many drones, they slowly became overwhelmed by the onslaught. Salvation came in the form of Optimus Prime and the newly recruited [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobots]]; their airborne member [[Strafe (AOE)|Strafe]] partnered himself up with Bumblebee, and together, they took out Stinger, who 'Bee "eulogized" by calling him a "cheap knockoff" and let Strafe gnaw on his head. With the battle reaching fever pitch, Bumblebee was tasked by Cade with taking his daughter [[Tessa Yeager|Tessa]] and Shane out of the city, but the pair soon convinced him to turn around and help Optimus and Cade fight the returned Lockdown. Bumblebee quickly found he was no match for Lockdown, but his intervention gave Tessa and Shane enough time to help Optimus recover, and the Autobot leader slew the bounty hunter. Bumblebee, alongside the other Autobots, was tasked with protecting the Yeager family from any threats when Optimus left Earth to confront Lockdown's employers, the mysterious [[Creator]]s. With Optimus off-world, Bumblebee was left in charge of the Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
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====''The Last Knight'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Erik Aadahl]] (English), [[Masato Obara]] (Japanese)|[[Atsuo Hasegawa]] (Japanese, radio voice), [[Lu Kui]] (Chinese), [[Bohdan Tůma]] (Czech), [[Boris Tessmann]] (German), [[Eduardo Borgerth]] (Portuguese), [[Omar Soto]] (Latin American-Spanish Radio voice), [[Alfredo Gabriel Basurto]] (Latin American-Spanish normal voice), [[Raúl Anaya]] (Latin American-Spanish, radio voice), [[José Luis Miranda]] (Latin American-Spanish, radio voice), [[Paco Gázquez]] (Castilian Spanish), [[János Bácskai]] (Hungarian)}}
[[File:TLK Bumblebee versus Nazis.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|left|He shot fifty men.]]
During [[World War II]], Bumblebee, then known as ZB-7, and [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]] fought alongside Allies, during which the two met and befriended a young [[Edmund Burton]]. After the war however, Bumblebee resumed his search while Hot Rod remained behind. As the decades passed, Bumblebee would not come to remember World War II as a particularly noteworthy conflict.

[[File:TLK Bumblebee snags Santos.jpg|thumb|300px|If it's a Super Saiyan you're looking for, I can fill the part.]]
In the years since Optimus Prime's departure into space in search of the Creators, Bumblebee retook command of the remaining team of Autobots on Earth. He accompanied Cade and Hound to the Chicago No Go-Zone: a hotspot of Cybertronian artifacts that landed on Earth since the Battle of Chicago. He and Cade came to the aid of [[Izabella]] after her Autobot companion [[Canopy]] was killed with Bumblebee himself destroying one of the attacking Sentinels. When Cade was held up by the [[Transformers Reaction Force|TRF]], Bumblebee came to his assistance, albeit in an unorthodox manner. He blew himself apart, only for his individual pieces to piece back together and reassemble himself in order to dispose of the TRF forces, giving their side the advantage. If it weren't for Lennox's intervention, Bumblebee would very likely have killed TRF Commander [[Santos]]. With Cade easing the standoff to prevent any collateral damage and Hound arriving at the scene, he urged the TRF to lower their weapons and allow them to leave, but not without the TRF tagging Bumblebee with a tracker.

Back at the [[Junkyard (TLK)|junkyard]] where the other Autobots camped, he struggled to keep the team in order, with Grimlock stealing the local sheriff's cruiser and Crosshairs questioning his leadership skills, with whom he engaged in a small brawl. It wasn't helped by the arrival of the unscrupulous [[Daytrader]], who brought with him more of his shady trinkets, which included a [[Vatti Bot]] (which Bumblebee angrily crushed) and the deceased Starscream's head. The next morning, however, a convoy of Decepticons were heading towards at the junkyard. While Hound and [[Trench]] held the line, Bumblebee and others fled to a nearby town where Drift discovered and disabled the tracker the TRF had placed on Bumblebee. After the Decepticons had been lured into a trap, Bumblebee personally slew [[Mohawk]] before a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] by the name of [[Cogman]] arrived on the scene to escort Cade to England to meet Sir Edmund Burton. Bumblebee accompanied Cade as extra muscle.

[[File:TLKOptimusVsBumblebee.jpg|left|upright=1.6|thumb|Ah, I was wondering what would break first! Your spirit -- ''or your body!'']]
At the castle, they were initially greeted by [[Bulldog (TLK)|a tank Transformer suffering from "robot-dimentia"]] attacking them before Sir Edmund scolded him for firing at guests. Burton then expressed joy at seeing Bumblebee despite the Autobot not remembering him. It was then that Bumblebee was reunited with Hot Rod, who had sort of kidnapped a woman named [[Viviane Wembly]]. When the TRF arrived, Bumblebee served as a getaway car for Cade and Vivian, depositing them at her flat before he took the two to the [[HMS Alliance|HMS ''Alliance'']], during which he managed to get his Decepticon nemesis Barricade off his tail by blasting him aside. Leaving Hot Rod behind, Bumblebee took hold of the massive femme as she submerged and took the humans to a [[Guardian Knights' ship|submerged Cybertronian ship]]. Inside the ship, however, the group was forced to split as ocean debris had made the path accessible to humans but inaccessible to Bumblebee. He caught up with the two soon after Viviane had found the [[Staff of Merlin]] and seconds before [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Nemesis Prime]] arrived to demand the staff. After threatening Viviane's life for it, Nemesis walked out and Bumblebee, spurred on by Cade, followed Nemesis to try and reawaken his true personality.

On the deck of the ship, Nemesis promptly beat Bumblebee into submission only for the sound of Bumblebee's true voice to reawaken Optimus Prime. Allying with the [[Guardian Knight]]s, the Autobots flew to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to confront and destroy [[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]] while Viviane removed the staff from the [[ignition chamber]] to halt her plan. Though Cybertron's reconnecting and shifting geology proved an obstacle, the Autobots made it to the area of the ignition chamber only to be faced by a Decepticon army backed up by a gun emplacement and [[Infernocus]]; they were eventually destroy by Optimus and [[Sqweeks]]. Salvation came when the [[British Armed Forces|British military]] caused a nearby chunk of Cybertron to swing and impact the ignition chamber. In the temporary state of zero gravity, Bumblebee took the opportunity to kill [[Nitro Zeus]] by blowing up his head. Optimus then distracted Quintessa allowing Bumblebee to blast her from behind (with a quippy one liner) and Viviane to remove the staff saving Earth. on the surface of Earth, Optimus had felt that Cybertron had healed enough that the Autobots could return home and Bumblebee, after thanking the humans for saving Optimus, boarded the [[Knight Ship]] as it blasted off for Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

====''Bumblebee'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Dylan O'Brien]] (English), [[Ryōhei Kimura]] (Japanese)|[[Lu Kui]] (Chinese), [[Bohdan Tůma]] (Czech), [[Julien Allouf]] (European French), [[Louis-Philippe Berthiaume]] (Canadian French), [[Boris Tessmann]] (German), [[Rajesh Kava]] (Hindi), [[János Bácskai]] (Hungarian), [[Ivan Zaytsev]] (Italian), [[Shin Yong-woo]] (Korean), [[Paco Gázquez]] (Spain Spanish), [[Emilio Treviño]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Eduardo Borgerth]] (Portuguese), [[Levan Gorozia]] (Russian), [[Altuğ Yücel]] (Turkish)}}

[[File:Bumblejeep.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|"Maybe if I look like this, [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] will think I'm [[Swindle (G1)|a part]] of [[Combaticon (G1)|his brigade]]!"]]

A scout under the command of Optimus Prime, B-127 was part of the final battle for Cybertron — a battle that ended with the Autobot position overrun by the Decepticons and necessitating a full-scale Autobot evacuation of Cybertron. As part of this evacuation, Prime tasked him with a reconnaissance mission to the distant planet of [[Earth]]—its location hidden from the Decepticons—in the hopes that the scout could establish a base for the Autobots to regroup and strike back. Launched off-planet aboard an [[Autobot escape pod|escape pod]], B-127 crash-landed in [[California]] in the year [[1987]], having the bad fortune to land in the woods where [[Sector Seven]] agent [[Jack Burns]] had been conducting a training exercise.

Trying to flee the hostile humans, B-127 quickly [[scanning|scanned]] a jeep alternate mode to make his escape and fled through the woods until he was cornered outside of an abandoned mineshaft. Despite his best intentions to assure the humans of his good intentions, the Autobot scout found himself attacked by the Decepticon [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]]. Believing that B-127 knew the whereabouts of Optimus Prime and his forces, the Decepticon grappled with the little Autobot in an attempt to get him to speak; when his foe retorted that he would never disclose Prime's location, Blitzwing "made it official" by ripping out B-127's voice box and grievously injuring him by hurling him off a cliff. Before the Decepticon could execute him, however, B-127 emerged triumphant by jamming one of Blitzwing's missiles into the Decepticon's superstructure, blowing Blitzwing to smithereens.

His [[voice box]] damaged, his memory cells offline, and his body failing, the critically wounded B-127 was able to limp to a nearby riverbank, and before entering stasis he was able to scan a new disguise: a Volkswagen Beetle. It was in this form that B-127 remained for some time while he recovered, and at some point the derelict car found its way to a run-down [[Hank's Marine Repair and Parts|salvage yard]] in [[Brighton Falls]], where it was sheeted and left to rust.

[[File:VWBumblebee.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.8|"Do [[Sam Witwicky|you]] have your [[Archibald Witwicky|grandfather]]'s [[Archibald Witwicky's glasses|glasses]]- wait, sorry, [[Charlie Watson|wrong human]]."]]

In August of that year, B-127's derelict form caught the attention of [[Charlie Watson]], and while trying to start the car she triggered the Autobot's radio, broadcasting a signal that inadvertently reached the Decepticons [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] on [[Saturn]]. Several days later, on her eighteenth birthday, yard owner [[Uncle Hank|Hank]] allowed Charlie the car as a birthday present if she could get it to start. After fixing the engine, Charlie drove her new car home, and while repairing the car her investigations inadvertently revealed B-127, still wounded, mute, and amnesiac from his battle on Earth. Inspired by the buzzing noises of his broken voice box, Charlie named him "Bumblebee."

The next morning, [[Sally Watson]] used her daughter's car to drive [[Conan|the family dog]] to the vet, with Bumblebee almost revealing himself to a panicked Charlie as she tried to catch up with him. That afternoon, Charlie took him to a nearby beach to teach the Autobot that he couldn't reveal himself to other [[humans]], and during a subsequent walk in the woods Charlie wound up activating a garbled hologram of Optimus Prime, jolting Bumblebee's memory and reminding him of Prime's final battle on Cybertron. His continual attempts to communicate with his broken radio inspired Charlie to replace it with the radio from her late father's Chevrolet, and Bumblebee's curiosity about her old diving tapes and records prompted Charlie to open up about the passing of her father and her difficulty coping with his death.

[[File:Bumblebee vs sofa.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Bumblebee's first (and last) couch gag.]]
As Bumblebee played with his radio, the noise attracted the attention of Charlie's neighbor [[Memo]], and after swearing him to secrecy the pair went for a drive in Bumblebee, with the two humans realizing that Bumblebee was trying to use the radio to communicate. Following an antagonistic encounter with [[Tina Lark]] at a cliff-diving party hosted by [[Tripp Summers]], the trio decided to get revenge by pranking her house; Bumblebee got carried away while egging her car, however, and wound up destroying it entirely. Their hasty escape caught the attention of [[Sheriff Lock]], and Bumblebee was able to easily evade the sheriff's police cruiser during the subsequent police chase.

Realizing that she couldn't drive Bumblebee the next morning, Charlie left him in the garage while she went to work, though Bumblebee's curiosity soon got the better of him, and his clumsy exploration of the Watson home had him inadvertently destroy the house's interior in the process, while his experiments with an electrical outlet led to a massive [[energon]] surge. His destruction of the house caught the attention of Memo, who called Charlie home from work to deal with the problem. Though Memo was able to coax Bumblebee back to the garage to lie low, they were unable to clean up the house before Charlie's parents arrived, and the ensuing argument led to Charlie leaving home in Bumblebee... running into a Sector Seven ambush in the process, the agency having tracked Bumblebee thanks to his energon surge.

[[File:BBfilm-interrogation.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Bee finds himself in [[Megatron (Movie)#Alternate timeline|yet another]] Decepticon BDSM dungeon.]]
Bumblebee transformed to robot mode to carry Charlie to safety, and although he was able to outmaneuver the humans he was ambushed by Shatter and Dropkick, who took the little Autobot prisoner. Their interrogation revealed Prime's hologram; armed with the knowledge that the Autobots were on their way to Earth, the two Decepticons left to call in their army to finish off their foes—but not before blasting their prisoner.

Thanks to Charlie and Memo jury-rigging one of Sector Seven's electrical guns, the two were able to blast enough electricity into Bumblebee's systems to bring him back online, the reboot restoring his memory cells in the process. Cornered by Sector Seven agents, a weakened Bumblebee only found the strength to fight back after watching Agent Burns manhandle Charlie, blasting the humans until Charlie was able to talk him down; despite his human friend's belief that they needed to hide, Bumblebee set out to stop the Decepticons, bringing Charlie with him.

[[File:BBfilm-Charlie-Bee-underwater.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|''[[W:The Shape of Water|The Shape of Metal]]'']]
The pair raced through the streets of Brighton Falls, accompanied by Charlie's family and pursued by more Sector Seven agents, until they reached the radio antennae that Shatter and Dropkick had repurposed into a makeshift Cybertronian relay to contact the Decepticon fleet. Bumblebee leapt into action immediately, killing Dropkick by tearing him apart with a chain and rescuing Agent Burns's disabled helicopter from crashing. As Charlie tried to manually disable the Decepticon relay, Bumblebee was able to narrowly prevent Shatter from taking her down, and as the pair battled in the dry dock below Bumblebee was able to blast the dam holding back the ocean, allowing the rush of water to fatally crush Shatter against a ship. With the Decepticons vanquished, Charlie dove into the water to guide Bumblebee back to shore, and as the pair recovered from their ordeal Agent Burns, having realized the error of his ways, allowed them to leave before his reinforcements arrived.

His memories restored and his body healed, Bumblebee drove Charlie to the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] to say his goodbyes so that he could reunite with the other Autobots and continue his mission on Earth. After thanking his human friend for helping him find his voice, Bumblebee scanned a passing Camaro and drove off, meeting up with Optimus Prime on the bridge and driving away. In the woods that night, Prime commended the scout for his bravery as the pair watched more Autobots arrive on Earth. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
{{note|Bumblebee's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novel "[[Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel]]".}}

====''Rise of the Beasts'' film====
Seven years after Optimus Prime and the other Autobots had arrived on Earth, Bumblebee was laying low in New York, maintaining a low profile until the Autobot leader sent an order for Bumblebee and all of the other Autobots to meet up at their base of operations. Bumblebee arrived at the same time that Arcee had arrived, seeing that fellow Autobot [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] had in fact taken a human, [[Noah Díaz]], to their location and revealed himself to the human. Optimus Prime arrived shortly thereafter and made the plan for the Autobots to rely on Noah and Mirage to get the [[Transwarp Key]] in order to head home to Cybertron, the young Autobot was placed in the same position as Optimus and Arcee to wait around the mainland to the Museum on Ellis Island.

While waiting for Noah to retrieve the Transwarp Key, Bumblebee spoke to Optimus on the matter of humans, the young Autobot in belief that not all humans are bad. While Optimus would agree that [[Charlie Watson|one human]] had treated Bumblebee well, Optimus stood firm on his belief and added he did not want Bumblebee going to drive-in theaters anymore after the young Autobot said that Optimus "{{w|A Few Good Men|can't handle the truth}}."

Bumblebee's wait was cut short when the [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcons]] arrived on the scene, and he rushed into battle alongside the other Autobots to face the threat. When Optimus was overpowered by the Terrorcon leader, [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]] and [[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]], Bumblebee rushed in with Optimus's battle axe, but the young Autobot was impaled on Scourge's arm blade, and soon was blasted by Scourge's cannon, the Terrorcon leader shortly ripping Bumblebee's insignia off his head.

Bumblebee's body was carried away from the Museum by the other Autobots, and was kept hidden until the Autobots would enlist the help of [[Stratosphere]] to get to their next location, Peru. Arcee looked over the body alongside Optimus, suggesting an Energon transfusion could revive the young Autobot. Bumblebee's lifeless body was kept in the care of Stratosphere for the time being, eventually being placed in a village nearby the city of Cusco with the [[Maximal]]s.

The leader of the Maximals, [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]], revealed that there was Energon in the area, but it was currently inert and would not be of use to revive Bumblebee .The Autobot remained lifeless until the arrival of [[Unicron]] through a transwarp gate. The activation of the gate caused the Energon in the area to ignite and flow, reviving Bumblebee in time for his arrival to the final battle.

[[File:Bumblebee Comeback ROTB.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.8|"He's still alive?!" "Well, he's not as dead as we would've hoped.."]]
Bumblebee arrived in time to reinforce the Autobots, skydiving out of Stratosphere as he would shoot at the multiple Terrorcon pods containing [[Scorponok (ROTB)|Scorponoks]] as well as the multiple [[Sweep (ROTB)|Sweeps]] that had pinned Optimus to the bridge. His fall was intercepted by the Terrorcon [[Nightbird (ROTB)|Nightbird]], but he overpowered her, initially using the Terrorcon as a shield against Scourge's shots before the young Autobot impaled Nightbird's spark with one of her own wings, destroying her as he landed.

Bumblebee assisted Noah in the final battle, and upon the defeat of Scourge, Bumblebee's insignia was returned to him by Optimus, though Optimus soon ordered Bumblebee and all the others to escape as the Autobot leader prepared to destroy the Transwarp Key. Bumblebee drove off in his upgraded off-road Camaro alternate mode, carrying [[Elena Wallace]] in him as he and the other Autobots and Maximals escaped.

Bumblebee then returned to America alongside the other Autobots via Stratosphere.
{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts}}
{{note|Bumblebee's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the book "[[Mission at the Museum]]".}}

===Novels===
====''Ghosts of Yesterday''====
Before coming to Earth, Bumblebee was part of the crew of the [[Ark (Movie)|''Ark'']], searching through space for the lost AllSpark. In 1969, Earth-time, the crew encountered an alien ship, the ''[[Ghost 1]]'', in an abandoned solar system. After the ship turned tail and headed for one of the local planets, Optimus Prime sent Bumblebee down after it. Bumblebee located the ship, and was about to approach it when [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] arrived, and he was forced to retreat under the Decepticon's superior firepower. Shortly after Bumblebee discovered some apparently artificial pillars, the ground gave way beneath him, and 'Bee found himself plunged into a cave system. With his radio damaged, he explored the caves, and was attacked by giant, monstrous worm creatures, whose organic nature did not make them any less challenging as opponents. Fortunately, Optimus arrived in time to save him.

Prime and Bumblebee had a brief encounter with Starscream and the ''Ghost 1'', the crew of which had been persuaded by the Decepticon that the Autobots were the aggressors in the Transformer war. The pair retreated back below ground, and later found the ''Ghost 1'' in a battered state, having been abandoned by Starscream. Bumblebee made contact with its crew, a species known as "humans", and the earlier misunderstanding was soon cleared up. When more of the worm creatures turned up, Bumblebee acted as a diversion so Optimus could blast a way out of the caves, and everyone escaped intact. They returned to the ''Ark'' in time to fight the Decepticons once more. Bumblebee joined Ratchet in attacking Barricade, though the Decepticon gave them more than enough trouble. When the ''Ghost-1'' and its crew were lost during the battle, the Autobots turned their attention toward the planet from which it had hailed... Earth. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

====''The Veiled Threat''====
Following the battle of Mission City and the destruction of the AllSpark, Bumblebee's guardianship of Sam Witwicky meant that he was not an activate participant in any missions carried out by the forces of NEST. {{storylink|Transformers: The Veiled Threat|The Veiled Threat}}

====''Classified'' novels====
[[File:Tfc-switchinggears.jpg|right|thumb|Psst, down here!]]
After the defeat of The Fallen, NEST resumed their regular business of hunting down rogue Decepticons. Bumblebee was at [[Edwards Air Force Base]] with Ratchet when they received word that two Cybertronians in transition forms had landed near [[Hurley's Crossing]]. The pair went there by helicopter and encountered [[Reverb (ROTF)|Reverb]], who claimed to be a Decepticon defector hunting down another Decepticon who was after the technology at [[Hawthorne Army Depot]]. Though Bumblebee was highly skeptical, he followed Ratchet's lead, and they took Reverb to the depot. When they reached it, [[Kevin Bowman]] let them know that [[Gears (ROTF)|Gears]] was an Autobot and in reality trying to protect an ancient weapons cache. The warning came too late, as Reverb turned the weapons on Bumblebee and Ratchet, who were unable to penetrate the personal forcefield Reverb had acquired. Despite this, Bumblebee lasted out Reverb's defeat with minimal damage. {{storylink|Transformers Classified: Switching Gears|Switching Gears}}

When Bumblebee and Gears were left at base, they received word from [[Douglas Porter]] that the Decepticon [[Blowback (Classified)|Blowback]] was heading up to [[Battle Mountain]] where a storehouse of Cybertronian artifacts had been discovered. The pair were compelled to travel to Battle Mountain with Kevin and Douglas, though Bumblebee made a detour to a [[Kwiki-Burger]] on the way. On arrival, they were attacked by Blowback and his men, and by the time they'd dispatched the four Decepticons, Kevin and Douglas had found the storehouse. They were subsequently picked up by Ironhide and taken back to face Optimus Prime's anger at them having gone off on their own. {{storylink|Transformers Classified: Battle Mountain|Battle Mountain}}

When the Battle Mountain cylinder was in danger of activating, Bumblebee and Gears took part in a convoy to transport the device to a NEST vault near [[Yucca Mountain]]. The trip was cut short when the convoy was ambushed outside [[Beatty]] by Reverb and some stolen [[Hyperdynamix]] autonomous tanks. They caught a break when Reverb was called away to the nearby Hyperdynamix Aerospace facility, and while Gears and Kevin followed the Decepticon, Bumblebee remained to protect the remains of the convoy. {{storylink|Transformers Classified: Satellite of Doom|Satellite of Doom}}
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===IDW movie comics===
[[File:Defiance1 Cliffjumper Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|"Tell Hasbro that [[Cliffjumper (disambiguation)|I]] don't want to be a [[repaint]] of [[Bumblebee (disambiguation)|you]] anymore!"]]

Bumblebee was born over 10,000 years ago, one of the second generation of Cybertronians spawned by the [[AllSpark]] since its rediscovery and the revitalization of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} He and [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] were guardians of the AllSpark at the [[Simfur Temple|Temple]] of [[Simfur]]. One day, when the AllSpark suddenly began giving off energy spikes, a nervous Bumblebee was troubled by the fact that planetary leaders Optimus and [[Lord High Protector]] Megatron were more concerned with a nearby archaeological excavation than with the source of the spikes, but Cliffjumper reassured him that they could handle whatever came their way. He would soon regret those words when [[Ejoornian|aliens]] from the nearby [[Eshems Nebula]] attacked Simfur. The pair were seeking cover inside the temple when Lord Megatron swooped in, berated them for not taking the fight to the enemy, and destroyed their opponent. {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}} Instructed to stay out of the military's way, Bumblebee was concerned that the attack signalled the start of something ''big'', but Cliffjumper was unconcerned on the basis that two lowly guards wouldn't be part of whatever it was. [[Prowl (Movie)|Prowl]] agreed, ordering them to stay at their posts, after which he quizzed them on how the AllSpark had reacted during the battle. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}}

[[File:Defiance3 Optimus Bumblebee orders.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Well, that's one way to make a first impression.]]

His ambition ignited by the [[The Fallen|mysterious relic]] discovered at the archaeological dig, a power-hungry Megatron sought to have Optimus disposed of, and sent a team led by Prowl—including Bumblebee—to apprehend him on charges of treason. When Optimus angrily demanded to know what he had done, Bumblebee pointed his weapon at the science leader and said they were just following orders, which seemed to satisfy Optimus. What 'Bee and the other security officers didn't know, however, was they were being led into a trap; on the way to the city of [[Metrotitan (ROTF)|Metrotitan]], they were ambushed by a soldiers loyal to Megatron, who had been ordered to kill them all, save Optimus. Bumblebee helped haul [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] to safety after the group was hit by an explosive round, and Optimus ordered them all to withdraw to [[Burthov]] while he took care of their attackers personally. {{storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}} {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}}

[[File:Defiance Bumblebee vehiclemodes.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|My alt mode is Pac-Man!]]

After it was learned that Megatron had rebuilt his Defense Force as an army known as the "Decepticons", Optimus—now Optimus ''Prime'', embracing his destiny—organized Bumblebee and the others loyal to him to stand against Megatron's forces as the "Autobots". While on an apparent scouting mission, Bumblebee and Arcee discovered the Decepticon starship ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]'' while it was under construction; some time later, when the vessel was complete, they also observed as the majority of the Decepticon forces boarded. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} Returning to the camp at Burthov, they and all the assembled Autobots watched at the ''Nemesis'' took off. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} With the bulk of the Decepticons gone, the Autobots launched their first strike against the Decepticons, and the war between the two factions truly began. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

[[File:MovieMegatron Bumblebee torture comic.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Megatron's attempt at a "Give me your arm!" meme didn't really take off...]]

After years of war, with no end in sight, Bumblebee participated in an assault on Simfur Temple to activate the "[[pillar|torch]]" [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] had created, which Sentinel had promised would end the conflict. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} Alas, Starscream blew up Sentinel's [[Ark (DOTM)|ship]], and Bumblebee retreated with the rest of the Autobots. However, the battle had weakened Decepticon forces to the extent that the Autobots were soon able to steal the AllSpark. {{storylink|Foundation issue 4|Foundation #4}} After moving the relic around the planet, Optimus Prime finally made the desperate decision to launch the AllSpark into space to put it beyond Megatron's reach. This decision took Bumblebee by surprise, but he supported Optimus. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} Bumblebee was placed in command of a small Autobot unit at the AllSpark's hiding place in [[Tyger Pax]], on the assumption that the Decepticon would focus their attention on Simfur; unfortunately, Megatron sensed the AllSpark's true location, and Bumblebee and his men found themselves under attack by the Decepticon leader and his troops. [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]] tried and failed to torture the AllSpark's precise hiding spot out of Bumblebee, forcing Megatron to take up the task, but even 'Bee did not know ''exactly'' where it was—moments later, both he and Megatron could only watch as the cube was blasted into space from a launch site nearby. A furious Megatron crushed Bumblebee's voice capacitor beyond repair in a petty act of revenge and took off after the AllSpark; although the young bot survived and was dubbed a hero for his actions, he feared that all the Autobots had done was potentially spread their war to other worlds. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}}

[[File:MoviePrequel Interlude bee vs barricade.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.6]]

In time, the Autobots left Cybertron aboard the ''Ark'' in search of the AllSpark. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 1|The Reign of Starscream #1}} After years of questing, in 2003, Bumblebee traced the AllSpark to Earth's [[Solar System]], first touching down on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], where his image was captured by the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] and passed to human organization [[Sector Seven]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} Landing on Earth in the state of [[Virginia (state)|Virginia]], 'Bee quickly evaded S7 by scanning a battered old Camaro and making for [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]]. There, he used a remote link to a coffee shop computer to search [[Shwiggle]] for any signs of extraterrestrial sightings, and discovered the story of Captain [[Archibald Witwicky]], who claimed to have seen an "Ice Man" that Bumblebee recognized as a frozen Megatron. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3|Movie Prequel #3}} Bumblebee's followed Witwicky's trail to an [[Psychopathic Institute for the Long-Term Insane|asylum]] in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], where the late captain had been committed, {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4|Movie Prequel #4}} then headed downtown to [[asylum|another asylum]] that had computerized records he could scan. Having thus obtained a list of Witwicky's descendants, Bumblebee set course for [[Springfield]], Missouri, in search of his son [[Clarence Witwicky|Clarence]], evading an attack by Sector Seven along the way. In Springfield, he found records of Clarence's children and started out to track them down, starting with his eldest son [[Ben Witwicky|Ben]] in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]]. Ben proved a dead end, so 'Bee took off for [[Tucson]], only to be again attacked by Sector Seven, evading their helicopters by blinding them and rocketing off at high speed. Not long after, he learned the Decepticons had followed him to Earth when he was attacked by Barricade in the desert. {{storylink|Planetfall (Movie)|Planetfall}} {{storylink|Interlude (Movie Prequel)|Interlude}}

[[File:Prequel3 bumblebee altmode.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.8]]

Escaping his various pursuers, a damaged and smoking Bumblebee stopped by the roadside on the way out of Colorado to rest and recover. Suddenly detecting a burst of AllSpark energy, he trace the source to [[New Mexico]], where Barricade tracked him down and attacked once again. Other Decepticons, meanwhile, attacked the energy source and found it to be a Sector Seven ruse; consequently, assuming Bumblebee would have further leads they could exploit, Barricade let 'Bee escape so that they would be able to covertly track his movements. Eventually, Bumblebee's search took him to [[Tranquility]], [[Nevada]], {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4|Movie Prequel #4}} where he would soon encounter Sam Witwicky, whom he befriended and allied with during the subsequent battle for the AllSpark. {{storylink|Transformers: Movie Adaptation}}

[[File:Alliance2 Bumblebee takecove-rrk.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|"Why do they always aim for the throat!?"]]

Immediately following the battle in [[Mission City]], Bumblebee had his legs reattached by Ratchet, then he and the other Autobots rolled out to avoid Sector Seven's inquiries. 'Bee remained behind to guard Sam when the other Autobots were summoned to a meeting with Lennox a month later, {{storylink|Alliance issue 1|Alliance #1}} but then took part in the mission Lennox requested their help with: transporting the dead Decepticons' body to a navy base in [[San Diego]], [[California]] for disposal at sea. Before departing Sector Seven's [[Nevada]] base with the convoy, Optimus Prime gave the surviving AllSpark sliver to [[Vine|Professor Vine]] for safekeeping, but had second thoughts about his decision partway into the mission and sent Ironhide and Bumblebee back to the facility to retrieve it. Racing ahead, Bumblebee was greeted with an unexpected sight: the base aflame, and Decepticons [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]] and Starscream brawling in the midst of it all. 'Bee disarmed Wreckage with a well-aimed blast and Starscream finished him off, then turned his firepower on the humans; Bumblebee dived in front of them and took the blast, damaging his vocal processor once again. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2|Alliance #2}} {{storylink|Convergence chapter 4}} Ironhide praised him for his bravery and selflessness, Bumblebee regretted not being able to save everybody. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3|Alliance #3}}

[[File:Alliance3 Ironhide Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|"I see dead people, I mean it, look there's one right over there."]]

Two weeks later, Bumblebee was present for the burial at sea of [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] and the Decepticons, following which it was announced that the Autobots and Lennox's team would be working together as a new special unit, dedicated to protecting the Earth from threats posed by the remaining Decepticons. They began training on the island of Diego Garcia, but it took time for the humans and Autobots to learn to work together; during a training exercise on a shooting range, when Bumblebee instinctively fired on a target, he only narrowly avoiding blasting Epps in the process. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3|Alliance #3}} For their first mission, NEST was deployed to [[San Francisco]] to take out the Decepticons [[Jolt (Movie)|Deadend]] and 'Bee's old opponent Swindle. Bumblebee and Lennox chased Swindle onto the deserted [[Golden Gate Bridge]], where the Decepticon was amused upon realizing who it was he was facing once again. When Swindle turned on Lennox, however, he learned the folly of underestimating Bumblebee, who blasted his one-time torturer through the back, killing him. {{storylink|Alliance issue 4|Alliance #4}}

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Concerned that Sam Witwicky would become the target of the Decepticons again, Optimus selected Bumblebee to act as Sam's guardian again and sent him to live with the boy. {{storylink|Alliance issue 4|Alliance #4}} However, Bumblebee's attempts to integrate himself into Sam's life were not as smooth as he had hoped. Without the team structure of the Autobots, Bumblebee tended to act upon instinct, taking revenge on Mikaela's ex-boyfriend [[Trent DeMarco]] for his previous humiliations of Sam by wrecking his truck, smashing a would-be car thief with the door he was attempting to unlock, and inadvertently giving Sam traffic tickets by not observing the rules of the road. When Bumblebee was alone, he attempted to learn as much as he could about human culture, feeling that he owed it to his friend. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 1|Tales of the Fallen #1}} Though no longer on active NEST duty, Bumblebee very occasionally helped his Autobot allies out; in November 2008, he came on-scene to assist his team-mates after [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] had... demolished a sizeable amount of human property in [[Uruguay]]. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 2|Tales of the Fallen #2}}

Soon, the problem of Sam's impending departure for college arose: 'Bee intended to follow Sam wherever he went, but Sam feared that he might not be able to bring his car along with him. Not thrilled the prospect of Bumblebee continuing to live with them, Sam's father Ron decreed that once Sam had gone to school, Bumblebee would have to leave. However, unexpectedly, Ron came to Bumblebee seeking aid when Mikaela reported that Sam had never made a rendezvous with her. Speeding out of the garage without Ron (and without waiting for the garage door to open), Bumblebee searched for clues to Sam's whereabouts and eventually found a message from his old foe Barricade, who demanded the AllSpark in exchange for the boy. Finding the pair at an car wrecking yard, Bumblebee attacked Barricade, but was considerably outmatched, with the Decepticon gloating that Earth had made the Autobot soft, and their last encounter was down to pure luck. Eventually, with a distraction from Sam, Bumblebee was able to force Barricade into a pool of gasoline. With the Decepticon hardly down for the count, Bumblebee told Sam to run and ignited the gasoline, causing a tremendous explosion that sent both Transformers flying. In the aftermath, Bumblebee told Sam he had a feeling they hadn't seen the last of Barricade. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 1|Tales of the Fallen #1}}

[[File:After fight with Soundwave Nefarious 1.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|If you have a problem... if no one else can help... and if you can find them... maybe you can hire... The Bee Team.]]

In the wake of the Autobots' battle with The Fallen, {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation|Revenge of the Fallen movie adaptation}} with more new Autobots arriving on Earth regularly, Bumblebee was brought back onto active duty and placed in charge of a team made up of rookies [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]], [[Knock Out (ROTF)|Knock Out]], [[Dune Runner (ROTF)|Dune Runner]] and [[Breakaway (ROTF)|Breakaway]]. Bumblebee's team responded to Decepticon activity at [[Kingdom Petrochemicals]] in [[Florida]], but 'Bee and the other ground-based team-members arrived too late to save Breakaway from dying at Soundwave's hands. The Decepticons soon fled, as did a mysterious group of humans also active at the sight, leaving Bumblebee mystified as to what was going on. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 1|Nefarious #1}} He and his team returned to [[Edwards Air Force Base]], where Galloway was annoyed that he hadn't been notified about the arrival on Earth of some of the members of Bumblebee's team. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 2|Nefarious #2}}

After Optimus managed to capture Soundwave in [[Utah]], Bumblebee's team was assigned to escort the captive Decepticon to a NEST base in [[Odessa]], [[Texas]]. Decepticon. En route, their transport plane was shot down by [[Buzzsaw (ROTF)|Buzzsaw]], and when they attempt to continue the mission on the ground, they were soon obstructed by Soundwave's "mini-militia". Bumblebee tussled with [[Rumble (ROTF)|Rumble]], but quickly realized that his team was outmatched. Rather than a repeat of the loss of Breakaway, Bumblebee opted to release Soundwave. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 3|Nefarious #3}} Subsequently, Soundwave chose to ally himself with the Autobots to bring down the [[Initiative]], the human organization who had also been at Kingdom Petrochemicals, who were conspiring against the Transformers. Bumblebee's team were part of the NEST unit that follow Soundwave to the supposed location of the [[Initiative base|Initiative's base]] in [[Inyokern]], but the mobile facility had already relocated to [[Crater Lake]], [[Oregon]], by the time they got there. Pursuing it, 'Bee's team was sent to assault the base from the north, but when Bumblebee broke through the base wall, he was confronted by a most unexpected set of opponents: Initiative-controlled Transformers! {{storylink|Nefarious issue 5|Nefarious #5}} The damage he took from the initial blast knocked him out of the fight, but he had recovered in time to help during the clean-up. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 6|Nefarious #6}}

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While Bumblebee was picnicking with Sam and Arcee, a small earthquake, followed by the emergence of a Transformer energy signature, prompted the trio to investigate. Tracing the signal to a nearby cave, they were attacked by [[Space Case (DOTM)|Space Case]], who had been freed from his subterranean prison by the 'quake, and who promptly brought the cave down on top of the threesome. {{storylink|Transformers: Space Case}} Separated from Arcee in the cave-in, Bumblebee managed to hold up the collapsed ceiling, but could not get any transmissions out through the rocks, and found his strength slowly ebbing as the weight pressed down. 'Bee's mind drifted back to a recent encounter he and Sam had with Starscream, and remembered how the boy had aided him by using downed power lines to electrocute the Decepticon. Reminded that friendship meant trying your hardest and not letting your friends down, Bumblebee dug deep, and when a crack of light appeared overhead, managed to wrench the rocks clear. The pair were lifted to safety by Ratchet, who had been digging for them, and who was amazed that Bumblebee had had the strength to carry the weight for as long as he had. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee}}

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While visiting Sam at college in [[Philadelphia]], Bumblebee was parked at the roadside waiting for him while he grabbed lunch when he was approached by "[[Brains]]", a Decepticon brain unit who had just recently come online and escaped from [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] and [[Astrotrain (DOTM)|Astrotrain]]. Believing him to be an ordinary Earth vehicle, but not understanding that said vehicles were not alive, Brains tried asking Bumblebee for help; naturally, Bee did not break cover by replying, but when an angry Brains then kicked him, 'Bee's temper got the better of him and he transformed. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 1|Rising Storm #1}} Sam and Bumblebee brought Brains back to his college, but this only made them targets for a force of Decepticons heralded by 'Bee's recurring opponent, Barricade. Vastly outnumbered, Bumblebee nearly met his maker at the end of [[Sonar (ROTF)|Sonar]]'s blaster, but was saved when NEST reinforcements [[Dino|Mirage]] and [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]] arrived. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} As the battle intensified, Bumblebee and Barricade squared off once more, {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 3|Rising Storm #3}} but as more Autobot backup came to join the fight, Bumblebee got the better of his old enemy and defeated him yet again. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}}

Concurrently with the battle in Philadelphia, Shockwave had staged a devastating attack on NEST's Diego Garcia base, necessitating a restructuring of the organization. NEST's [[Charlotte Mearing|new director]] removed Bumblebee from his position as Sam's guardian, and placed him on full-time NEST activity. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}} Some time later, the Autobots faced the return of Sentinel Prime and Bumblebee and Sam were reunited to thwart his space bridge plot. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation|Dark of the Moon movie adaptation}}
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====''Transformers: Beginnings''====
[[File:MoviePrequel bumblebee seeks allspark.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.8|It's a great big universe, and we're all really puny We're just tiny little specs about the size of Mickey Rooney]]
{{voiceactor|[[Mark Ryan]]}}

[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] entrusted Bumblebee with the secret that the AllSpark would be sent into deep space to prevent Lord Megatron from possessing and corrupting it. Just after the launch, Megatron attacked Bumblebee in rage at losing the AllSpark and shattered the Autobot's voice capacitor beyond repair.

Bumblebee arrived on Earth and, sensing the AllSpark was near, took on local camouflage to search for the artifact. He immediately attracted the attention of Sector Seven agents and the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Transformers: Beginnings}}

{{note|Transformers: Beginnings is a condensed, flash-animated retelling of the events of the [[Transformers: Movie Prequel|Movie Prequel]], described in the above section.}}
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====''Schick Hydrobot and the Transformers''====
While searching for Decepticons, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Hound came across [[Hydrobot (TLK)|Hydrobot]] and mistook him for a [[Decepticon]]. Before they could catch him, Hydrobot escaped from the Autobots' clutches. The trio started to realize that they might have judged the small 'bot wrongly when Hound found out that the [[H-Boostium|substance]] Hydrobot left behind was nothing like something a Decepticon would use. They traced its source to a [[Schick]] R&D department and gained access into it in vehicle mode by fooling the guard into believing that the vehicles modes they were using was ordered by the scientist Dr. [[Hiroshi Benson]] himself. Upon gaining access to the laboratory, they confronted Hiroshi in robot mode, which left the human scientist baffled.

Shortly after the scientist finished explaining the origin of the substance and Hydrobot, a squadron of Decepticons led by Megatron suddenly bursted through the wall, explaining their intent to use the devices inside Hiroshi's laboratory to build the Energon converter. Luckily, Hydrobot arrived at the scene to help the Autobots by knocking over [[Onslaught (ROTF)|Onslaught]]. With help from Hiroshi's [[Energy-field razor|control set]], Bumblebee released a shock burst towards the Decepticons, prompting them to retreat. After all was said and done, the Autobots gave Hydrobot a lift and bid their farewells, but Bumblebee knew that he would return one day. {{storylink|A New Friend|A New Friend}}
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====''Bumblebee Movie Prequel''====
{{note|Bumblebee Movie Prequel follows along with the continuity twist regarding Bumblebee's arrival on Earth that was established in [[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]], yet is incompatible with the Bumblebee film itself.}}
During the war for Cybertron, Bumblebee was friends with the Autobot [[Diabla (BB)|Diabla]], at one point battling alongside her in the [[smelting pool]]s of [[Polyhex]]. {{storylink|From Cybertron with Love}} Unbeknownst to Bumblebee, Diabla was a Decepticon mole who had infiltrated the Autobots to destabilize them from within; when Diabla's treachery was revealed, Bumblebee maintained that Diabla had ''always'' been an Autobot, albeit one who had gone bad and joined the Decepticons.

After arriving on Earth and serving in World War II, Bumblebee — prior to the loss of his voicebox — fell in with [[Sector Seven]] at some point after the end of the war. At some point during the early 1960s the organization traded him to [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]], Bumblebee joining the ranks of Britain's elite counterintelligence agency [[P.R.O.G.R.A.M.M.E.]] Partnered with the not-so-suave superspy [[David Reeve]], {{storylink|The Man with the Golden Car}} and taking pointers from intelligence specialist [[Diana Lux]], {{storylink|The Living Headlights}} Bumblebee and Reeve embarked on a series of globetrotting adventures, battling against the forces of [[Konrad Gotell]]'s [[E.I.D.O.L.O.N.]] crime syndicate. In [[1964]], the duo tracked Gottell to [[Germany|East Berlin]]. Though Reeve discovered that Gotell had already been killed, and his office booby-trapped rigged to blow, Bumblebee was forced to evade the German police before he could rescue his partner from [[Wild Rider|Wildrider]], killing him by throwing him into the [[Berlin Wall]] and crushing him with a chunk of rubble.

Some time later, the duo returned to the United Kingdom to rendezvous with their handlers at [[Maundy Gregory Studio]]; though initially put out about being left in the rain, his position allowed him to realize that [[Pelham|the agency's director]] had been killed, his car coopted as a disguise for the Decepticon [[Runabout (BB)|Runabout]]. Bee was barely able to warn Reeve and Lux before the blast from Pelham's explosive-rigged body took out the studio, shielding his human friends from Runabout and Diabla's attacks. At Reeve's suggestion, Bumblebee fell back, deploying an oil slick to trip up the Decepticons while he made his escape. Regrouping on [[Victoria Embankment]], Reeve was barely able to recontact [[B.A.S.E.S.T.A.T.I.O.N.]] on a secure line: learning that P.R.O.G.R.A.M.M.E. had been potentially compromised by a human collaborator, the trio were sanctioned to do whatever it took to eliminate the compromised agent. {{storylink|The Man with the Golden Car}} Reeve was unaware that Bee and Lux had tapped the call, and though Lux briefly wondered if Reeve would kill ''them'' based on that suspicions, the sight of his partner raising his gun caused the Autobot to flee... until it became clear that Reeve was aiming at the Decepticon duo who had tailed them, and the subsequent chase took them across London until Bumblebee transformed to tangle with Diabla atop [[Tower Bridge]]. When it became clear that Diabla wouldn't listen to her old comrade, and that the Decepticon had him phsycially outmatched, Bumblebee escaped death by diving into the [[Thames]] so that he could meet up with his human contacts at a secret P.R.O.G.R.A.M.M.E. safehouse.

To meet with Gottell's old contact [[Vladimir Vladek]], the two humans disguised themselves as a photographer and a model, staking out [[Carnaby Street]] in the process and using Bumblebee's vehicle mode to block the road from Diabla so that the two humans could break into Vladek's headquarters. In the ensuing battle, Bumblebee attempted to talk down his old friend; this time, the Decepticon agreed, and the pair retreated to the roof to converse. Despite his best efforts, Bumblebee was unable to convince Diabla to reveal any information about her human connections, and the entire conversation was quickly revealed to be a distraction, so that [[Dead End (ROTF)|Dead End]] could tie up another loose end by killing Vladek while [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]] eliminated the Autobot. {{storylink|The Living Headlights}}

Left to the mercy of Diabla and Blitzwing, Diabla's brief moment of mercy — when she briefly considered giving Bumblebee a quick and painless death — allowed Bumblebee to take on Blitzwing, though it quickly became clear that the Autobot was outmatched. Instead, Bee fired at a nearby gas main, using the explosion as cover to scoop up his human allies before transforming and fleeing into the [[London Underground]]. Pursued by Diabla, Bumblebee was able to outmaneuver his Decepticon foe by deploying his meager rear-mounted weaponry, baiting her into getting hit by an oncoming train while he re-emerged in south London.

Having eluded their pursuers, Reeve made contact with an "old friend" who promised more news regarding the activities of their foes. That evening, the group headed to [[Hyde Park]] to meet up with Reeve's ally; though momentarily surprised by a Decepticon ambush, their opponents were taken offline by [[Heath Donovan]], a Sector Seven agent in charge of keeping tabs on Bumblebee. New information revealed the full extent of the Decepticon's plans, including the extinction of humanity by turning the [[Cold War (history)|Cold War]] hot, but thanks to the homing device he'd tagged Diabla with in the Underground Bumblebee revealed that he was able to take them to their base of operations. Hitching a ride aboard a [[Jetfire (Movie)|stealth jet]], the trio parachuted into an abandoned castle, with Bumblebee dropping [[Darksteel (DOTM)|a guard]] before fighting their way into the complex... and discovered the diminutive Decepticon [[Malignus (BB)|Malignus]] as the mastermind behind the conflict. {{storylink|Energon Is Forever}}

Having revealed his role in recent events, gloating about his plans to push the nations of Earth into a nuclear war, Bumblebee begged Diabla for help one last time — only for Lux to reveal that she had previously turned Bumblebee's homing rounds into explosive devices, and detonated Diabla's, causing a momentary distraction that allowed the three heroes to slip their bonds. Deploying an underwater mode, Bumblebee was able to dive into the castle waterways, using his oil slick to blind the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]]s that pursued him. When it seemed like his luck had run out, however, he was unexpectedly rescued... by ''Diabla'', who assured him that she had saved him only so that ''she'' could kill him, as revenge for his killing of the humans of E.I.D.O.L.O.N., siccing Dead End on the yellow Autobot. Though Reeve was able to kill Malignus, his missile had already launched, and the three spies were unable to do anything about it — only becoming aware that the conflicted Diabla had already climbed aboard to defuse it too late to stop her. Momentarily throwing Dead End off balance by using a falling Sharkticon to crush the red Decepticon, Bumblebee was too focused on preventing Diabla from killing herself to notice the arrival of Blitzwing and Dead End, but a shout from Reeve caused Bee to duck, and Blitzwing's shot to blow Dead End apart. Grabbing his two-human allies, Bumblebee leapt into the ocean as the disabled missile plummeted back into the castle, destroying it and all of its occupants.

In the aftermath, Bumblebee and his two-human allies survived, but were unable to determine if Diabla had done the same. Bumblebee spied one of her tires, which led her to believe that his old friend had survived the battle. Ferrying his partners back to shore, the Autobot vowed to find her... and, if he couldn't find her, than to kill Blitzwing. Over the next twenty years, Bumblebee left his human friends behind to pursue his new mission, travelling across the globe and eventually dedicating himself to eliminating Blitzwing instead. Eventually, Bumblebee tracked Blitzwing down, and the pair prepared to do battle once more... {{storylink|From Cybertron with Love}}

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===Titan movie comics===
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Bumblebee was part of a mission to trick Megatron into looking in the wrong place for the AllSpark{{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Reprint of Prequel #1}}, in which he was the only one who knew the truth (not even team leader [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] knew!) {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Recap in #2}} He lost his voice when Megatron crushed his vocal processor upon witnessing the launch of the AllSpark. The Decepticon leader immediately discarded his body and took off after the cube {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Prelude: Megatron}} and it was a long while before he was recovered. {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_3#Items of note|Prelude: Ratchet}}

Rendered voiceless, he continued to fight on Cybertron and would encounter [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] when the two were about to be thrown into a Decepticon smelting pool. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.2|Dogfight!}} In 2003, he travelled to Earth while tracing the AllSpark and would spend years evading Decepticons and Sector 7 alike. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3|Reprint of Prequel #3}} {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4|Reprint of Prequel #4}}

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Bumblebee and his fellow Autobots would ultimately follow the AllSpark to the planet Earth, where Bumblebee befriended the human Sam Witwicky. Some time after the battle of Mission City, Bumblebee was driven by the Witwickys to [[Princeton University|Sam's college]], where he quietly endured their bickering while scanning everything around him for potential threats. When he picked up radio transmissions from two new Autobots, he drove off into battle, and saved [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] from being slaughtered by [[Ransack (ROTF)|the Decepticon Ransack]]. But with the villain threatening a long game, Bumblebee knew that trouble was on the horizon. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.2|Dogfight!}} 'Bee brought Skids and Mudflap to meet with the other Autobots at [[Edwards Air Force Base]] in California, but no sooner had he turned his back than the pair snuck off to find Optimus Prime on their own, insisting they had a message for his ears only. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|Learning Curve}}

[[File:Titan2-6 aimedatyourheart.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.8|There's only room for ''one'' kid-appeal character...]]

Some time later, Bumblebee was hanging out in Sam's garage when he received an emergency call from NEST: the twins, having apparently fallen in with the Decepticons, had abducted Sam! 'Bee tore out of the garage, tracked down the twins, and demanded they stop immediately. When they didn't, he launched suppressive fire and began ramming Skids, which soon convinced them to release Sam. As Bumblebee held the twins at gunpoint, ready to eliminate if necessary, Mudflap's tried to explain that they hadd been framed and there was a bigger threat coming... but before 'Bee could hear any more, he was gunned down in a surprise attack from Soundwave. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.6|Outlaw Blues}} The "bigger threat" the twins had warned of soon arrived, in the form of The Fallen, but the Autobots were able to defeat the ancient Decepticon. Afterwards, back in the field in [[Beverly Hills]], Bumblebee was part of a unit assigned to captured [[Reverb (ROTF)|Reverb]]; Jolt messed the mission up, but Bumblebee saved the day by ''ramming'' the bike head-on. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.9|Culture Shock}}

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Later, with Lennox and his crew searching for [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seekers]], Bumblebee was left with only [[Robert Epps]] to investigate an attack on Malmstrom Air Force Base and the disappearance of Optimus Prime. Epps worked out that Optimus had been victim of an electromagnetic bomb, and Bumblebee tracked his leader to where he was being held (Poor Epps had to ride in Bumblebee jumping a ravine, and almost spewed up his breakfast). After locating Prime, they found he was a captive of the [[Free Men]] militia. At Epps command, Bumblebee hit the Free Men compound with his full firepower, swiftly defeating the militia. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.10| Bring Me the Head of Optimus Prime}}

[[File:Titan18 Bumblethumbsup.jpg|thumb|upright=1|It's true!]]

Bumblebee selected [[Death Valley]] as the site for a survival exercise for raw recruits Jolt, Dune Runner, and [[Rollbar (ROTF)|Rollbar]].{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.11|Spare Parts!}} Later, he was summoned as back-up by NEST [[South Africa]] alongside [[Springer (ROTF)|Springer]] and Gears due to a Decepticon jailbreak led by [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]], but Optimus ordered him to let the Decepticons leave to prevent civilian casualties. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}}

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Ultimately, this failure left the Autobots' reputations in the toilet, and with concerns that public fights risked alienating humans, Bumblebee was tasked to head a covert unit with [[Slap Dash (ROTF)|Slap Dash]] and [[Hubcap (TF 2010)|Hubcap]]. They were charged with operating under NEST's radar, monitoring Decepticons and waiting for windows of opportunity out of the public eye, before hitting hard and fast. In practice, this meant allowing Decepticons like [[Crankstart]], [[Brimstone (TF 2010)|Brimstone]], and [[Trenchmouth]] to run amok in cities, with Bumblebee restraining his desire to stop them and keeping his men from taking action. After an uncomfortable period of hoping nobody would be killed, the Decepticons went to an isolated stretch of road: now free to act, Bumblebee led his men in a vicious ambush and personally drove ''through'' Crankshaft. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.18|Shadow War}}

Information obtained from the Decepticon unit Bumblebee's covert squad had brought in allowed the Autobots to trace the location of Bludgeon's Decepticons' base to [[Arkhangelskaya Oblast]] in [[Russia]]. Regrettably, while strategizing together, Bumblebee and Ironhide made the mistake of dismissing Wheelie when he offered to help; insulted and angry, the little scrap drone sold the Autobots out to Bludgeon's Decepticons, who were able to ambush 'Bee and the Autobots when they moved to attacked their base, with Springer being shot out of the sky following an air strike by [[Skywarp (Movie)|Skywarp]] and [[Thrust (Movie)|Thrust]], Slap Dash being killed by Bludgeon, and Hubcap being subsequently killed/wounded as well. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}} Fortunately for the Autobots, Megatron himself soon arrived and slew Bludgeon for his transgressions, meaning Bumblebee and the others did not have to battle the rogue Decepticon at all. In the wake of the two Decepticons' brawl, Bumblebee discovered the shattered remains of Wheelie, who had been torn to bits. Unaware of his treachery, 'Bee gathered up his parts to take back to Ratchet for repair... unaware that the cannibalistic Decepticon [[Dead End (ROTF)|Dead End]] was on his trail! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.21|A Short, Sharp Lesson!}}

Intrigued by the human ritual of "[[Christmas]]", Bumblebee convinced Sam to let him secretly observe the Witwicky family during the festive proceedings. Unfortunately, Dead End tracked the Autobot to the Witwickys' house and attacked on Christmas Eve, tearing bits of Bumblebee's mechanisms out to integrate into his own body. Luckily, 'Bee managed to shock the zombie-con into submission before their fight awoke Sam's parents, and he was even able to get into the gift-giving on Christmas morning, buying Judy Witwicky car wax. Sam's present was particularly timely: a new traction bearing to replace the one Dead End had torn out! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.19|The Nightmare Bee-4 Christmas}}

{{note|"The Nightmare Bee-4 Christmas" reads like it was meant to go '''after''' "Divided Loyalties" and "A Short, Sharp Lesson!" despite that story being released '''before''' the other two: it's the Russian battle that turns Dead End back into a monster, and he turns up at the Witwickys' because he's following Bumblebee.}}

When the Autobots were summoned to [[Fiesole Cathedral]] in [[Fiesole]], [[Italy]] to examine a mysterious object discovered there by an archaeology professor, Bumblebee accidentally smashed the cathedrals shrine to Saint Donatus. Determined to prevent the Autobots from getting ahold of the object—actually a piece of Sentinel Prime's ''Ark''—Starscream attacked the cathedral, blasting Bumblebee through a wall with a volley of missiles. Recovering, 'Bee joined Optimus Prime in pursuing Starscream to the cathedral's belltower, but the Decepticon then brought the tower down on top of them and escaped with the ''Ark'' component. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.1|Fight for Fiesole}}

At some point, Bumblebee uncovered some intel, pointing towards Soundwave working in conjunction with the [[Tanto Gang]], and passed on the information to Lennox. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.2|Gold And Blood}}

[[File:AcceptNoSubstitutes bumblebee vs stinger.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|Can ''you'' tell which is the real Bumblebee out of the guy who can talk and the one who can't?]]

Bumblebee was later teamed with Robert Epps to hunt down Soundwave in the Spanish [[Sierra Nevada]] mountain range, but NEST's intelligence regarding the Decepticons' operational status was flawed: Soundwave's weapons systems were in perfect working order, and Bumblebee was badly damaged by his attacks. Luckily, Optimus Prime arrived to save them. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.3|Dealing with the Devil}}

After the return of Sentinel Prime and the battle of Chicago, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and [[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]] tracked three Decepticon survivors of the conflict to [[Jakarta]], [[Indonesia]]. When the Decepticons retreated and Crosshairs tracked them to [[Pulau Bidadari]], Bumblebee monitored the ranger and relayed the events to Optimus. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.2|Thousand Island Fight}}

Not long after, Bumblebee was shocked to see a news report claiming that he had attacked a human power plant. Though 'Bee was eager to hunt down his mysterious doppelgänger, Optimus Prime encouraged him to wait until he had the Autobot leader to back him up. The choice was soon taken out of Bumblebee's hands, however: responding to a fire at a remote human homestead, he was attacked by his mysterious duplicate, who introduced himself as "[[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]]", and promptly welded 'Bee's battle mask shut so they would be totally indistinguishable from one another. Optimus Prime soon arrived and had to train his guns on the two identical Bumblebees... but the standoff was brief, as the real 'Bee revealed himself when he dived to save a human who had fallen from the burning building. Prime quickly sent Stinger packing, and he and Bumblebee rolled out together, wondering where Stinger had come from... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.3|Accept No Substitutes!}}
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====Alternate timeline====

[[File:Titan MikaelaBumblebee.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Why is he apologizing, you ask? Look where his left hand is.]]

In an [[Tyran 208.28 Gamma|alternate timeline]], the battle of Mission City turned out very differently—Megatron killed Sam, captured Optimus, and obtained the AllSpark. The Decepticons proceeded to conquer North America, and by the start of 2008, had begun a plan to cyberform the Earth using the AllSpark's energies. Bumblebee—his voice still functional—and Mikaela Banes went underground, working with [[Tom Banachek]] to fight a guerilla war against the Decepticons.

Considering Optimus their last, best hope for victory, Bumblebee and Mikaela went on a mission to rescue him from the old Sector Seven base in Hoover Dam, which the Decepticons were now using as their headquarters. Mikaela quickly shot down Bumblebee's concerns about her safety, though she ''did'' almost get squished when 'Bee took out the bunker guard Swindle. Entering, the pair quickly located Optimus, but in a most unexpected condition: frozen solid in the old cryo-system previously used to contain Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}} Stalked by Megatron, Bumblebee kept the Decepticon leader busy while Mikaela attempt to deactivate the freezing system, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2}} but was baited into revealing himself when the tyrant threatened to kill Mikaela. Bumblebee made a desperate attack, only to be beaten aside with ease, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 11|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 3}} but he remained defiant to the end and refused to beg for mercy. Luckily, Autobot reinforcements arrived; although even they were no match for Megatron, their added distraction provided Mikaela time to thaw out Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}} While Prime and Megatron battled, Mikaela arrived with Phase Two of their plan: a Sector Seven nanovirus that targeted AllSpark energy. Loading the virus into himself, Bumblebee charged Megatron, forcibly transmitting the nano-virus into him via a light-beam from his headlights. The virus killed Megatron once and for all, but Bumblebee did not celebrate too loudly, as he knew too well that this just left a [[Starscream (Movie)|power vacuum]]... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}}

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Bumblebee and the Autobots [[Savannah]], [[Georgia]], to survey the damage done by the Decepticons' AllSpark cyberforming project. He took Mikaela to a nearby refugee camp, but as Optimus Prime had feared, the humans the were fearful of him, viewing all Cybertronians as an unwanted presence. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 14|Aftermath, Part 1}} In apparent further validation of this fear, the Autobots soon came under attack from a [[NATO]] unit while attempting to defend the camp from a Decepticon attack, but intel from Banachek suggested something was not right. Spotting the human in charge of the unit, Bumblebee and Mikaela ran a gauntlet of human and Decepticon firepower, blinding the former with his headlights and roasting the latter with his fiery exhaust, in order to get to the man. Having got in close enough, Bumblebee was able to detect a mind-controlling Decepticon [[cerebro-strip]] on the man, and Mikaela freed him from its effects, ending the conflict. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 15|Aftermath Part 2}} Following this battle, the Decepticons continued their attacks on human infrastructure; Bumblebee was part of a unit defending an oil pipeline in [[Crooked Creek]], [[Alaska]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 16|Dark Spark}}

[[File:ReturntoCybertronpt2 ironhide restrained.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Leave it, mate, 'e's not worf it!]]

Bumblebee was part of a unit under Ironhide's command that was sent back to Cybertron in order to retrieve [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] in hopes it could be used to repair the damage inflicted upon the Earth by the AllSpark. Touching down on their homeworld, Bumblebee was sent on recon and discovered a strange satellite dish, but when the team investigated it, they were jumped by a team of Decepticons led by [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]]. The revelation that Stockade's "New Decepticons" were in control of the planet's Nucleon supply, followed by the appearance of a strange energy anomaly in Cybertron's orbit, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|Return to Cybertron: Part 1}} convinced Bumblebee to try talking, rather than fighting; after convincing Ironhide to stop throwing his face at Stockade's fists, he learned from Stockade that the anomaly was a living entity the Decepticons had deliberately summoned, believing it would rejuvenate Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 18|Return to Cybertron: Part 2}}

Not trusting this entity and wanting to stop all the Nucleon being used up, Bumblebee had the Autobots create a distraction while he turned the Nucleon transfer off, and sent a distress call to Optimus Prime on Earth. His efforts to prevent the arrival of the entity failed, and it revealed itself to be [[Unicron|Unicron, the Anti-Life]], as it began to possess Cybertron itself. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 18|Return to Cybertron: Part 2}} In the resulting chaos, Bumblebee had to rescue Ironhide when the satellite dish collapsed on him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 19|Return to Cybertron: Part 3}} Optimus soon arrived in response to Bumblebee's summons, brokered an alliance with Stockade, and came up with a plan: Cut off the Nucleon that Unicron's body was using for power. Bumblebee and Armorhide were dispatched to drain the Nucleon seam, but were not able to siphon all of the fuel off fast enough, so Ratchet came up with a quicker alternative: blowing it up. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 20|Return to Cybertron: Part 4}}

[[File:Titan MikaelaBumblebeereunion.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|OTP!]]

Upon returning to Earth, the Autobots found the Decepticons had pinched their base and all 600 square miles around it. They retreated, leaving Mikaela in Decepticon hands; Bumblebee was distraught over this. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|Hard Target}} He would be part of the raid to get her back, perfectly aware it was an obvious trap, but not caring due to how much they owed Mikaela. The raid was successful and the two were reunited, awwww! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}}

The pair's time together was short, as soon, the Decepticon-blackmailed American government ordering the Autobots off the planet. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution, Part 1}} Knowing that the Decepticons were behind, Optimus Prime had Bumblebee and Ironhide prepare a decoy ship; {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part 3}} the following day, after Bumblebee said his farewells to Mikaela (and beat up the Decepticon [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] as an "up yours" gesture), the Decepticons had the ship blown up shortly after takeoff. [[File:Revolutionpt3 the end.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8]] {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution, Part 1}} Believed dead, Bumblebee and the Autobots hid themselves on Cybertron, where they readied their final weapon against the Decepticons: a teleportation system that would trap the Decepticons on the dead planet, then teleport ''it'' off to the far reaches of the universe. When all was in readiness, the Autobots returned to Earth; Mikaela was ''not'' happy to find out they had not told her of their plan, but Bumblebee denied that it was because they didn't trust her—they had simply had to minimize any possible exposure. In the final battle that followed, Bumblebee tagged Megatron with the teleport tech, and the Decepticon leaders and his followers were soon exiled forever.

In the aftermath, after it became clear the Autobots had just exiled ''themselves'' to Earth forever—"Hey, there are worse fates," said Bumblebee—Mikaela forgave Bumblebee. Both had a lot of clean-up work to do, but also a brave new world to explore together...! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution, Part 3}}
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===Toy bios===
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Bumblebee learned hand-to-hand combat at the most prestigious combat training center on Cybertron, where he received his converting energon blade as a reward for his skills. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#WalmartRace|''Dark of the Moon'' Walmart-exclusive Bumblebee}} It was on the battlefields of Cybertron that Bumblebee first met the Decepticon Starscream, who he would meet again and again in combat. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BeeStarscream|Bumblebee/Starscream}}

Bumblebee repeatedly crossed paths with fellow elite spy Decepticon [[Hardtop (Movie)|Hardtop]]; initially a professional rivalry, the relationship between the two 'bots slowly evolved into a personal vendetta that saw the pair battle across the galaxy. It was a crack shot by Hardtop that damaged Bumblebee's vocal processors, causing the Autobot pain when he tries to speak. {{storylink|Hardtop (Movie)#Transformers (2007)|Hardtop}}

Bumblebee was sent to Earth ahead of the other Autobot by Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#TF2007_76deluxe|Deluxe Bumblebee ('76 Camaro)}} During [[World War II]], Bumblebee teamed up with [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]] to provide serious firepower during an assault on an enemy stronghold they infiltrated, during which they unleashed the war machines within. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS26|''Studio Series'' WWII Bumblebee}} {{storylink|Hot Rod (DOTM)#Studio Series|WWII Hot Rod}}

Prior to his arrival on Earth, Bumblebee cared little for the appearance of his alternate mode, simply scanning the first vehicle he saw, {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#evoofhero|Evolution of a Hero}} but that changed upon befriending Sam Witwicky. At the boy's urging, Bumblebee scanned a new Concept Camaro form, and came to appreciate how stylish he looked. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#TF2007ConceptCamaro|Deluxe Bumblebee (Concept Camaro)}} His shiny new form was soon badly damaged, however, during the battle of Mission City—with his legs blown off, Bumblebee had to be towed to safety by the newborn [[Longarm (Movie)|Longarm]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#TowedToSafety|Towed to Safety}}

When the AllSpark was destroyed, Bumblebee was briefly empowered by its radiation, and put the new power to use hunting down the straggling Decepticons. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#AllSparkPower|AllSpark Power Bumblebee}} One such Decepticon was [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]], who he hunted across the [[Middle East]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Allspark2pack|Bumblebee vs. Scorponok}} Then, with the initial threat over, Bumblebee decided to kick back and relax. Transcanning a rally car, he began hanging around at race tracks, pitting himself against the human racers. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Fast Action Battlers|Rally Rocket Bumblebee}}

Following this, Bumblebee volunteered to be Sam's guardian. It was a pretty swank deal: he got to hang with Sam and Mikaela all the time, got lots of [[oil]], and could join Ironhide in killing Decepticons whenever he wanted. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#ROTFdeluxe|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Bumblebee}} Peacetime afforded him the luxury of becoming meticulous about his alternate mode; he even had Ratchet learn a little about the cosmetic side of repair work. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Premium|Premium Series Bumblebee}}

In time, Bumblebee came to realize that with pictures of him all over the internet, ''everyone'' recognized him... including newly arriving Decepticons, which put Sam and others in danger! With Mikaela's help, Bumblebee recolored himself to help restore his disguise and make it easier to sneak up on the enemy. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#TF2007Stealth|Stealth Bumblebee}} With the Decepticon forces constantly growing, he also decided to upgrade his arsenal and modified his vehicle mode so he could use weaponry in it, deciding he'd been caught off guard too many times before. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Cannon|Cannon Bumblebee}} When the battle shifted to the deserts, he threw himself into the fray, upgrading himself for desert combat and wielding the mighty ''sand blast''! {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SandAttack|Sand Attack Bumblebee}}

Following the defeat of The Fallen, Bumblebee returned to active NEST duty, hunting down the Decepticons hiding across Earth; Sam even began joining him in the field. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#ROTFHumanAlliance|Human Alliance Bumblebee}} Discovering that [[Dirge (Movie)|Dirge]] had secreted himself inside NEST itself, Bumblebee teamed with [[Armorhide (Movie)|Armorhide]] and [[Evac (Movie)|Evac]] to ferret him out. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Alliance|Alliance Bumblebee}} {{storylink|Evac (Movie)#Revenge of the Fallen|Evac (Deluxe)}} He had a particular dislike for [[Shadow Striker (ROTF)|Shadow Striker]], who really got under his metal skin. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#LegendsVsShadowStriker|Bumblebee vs Shadow Striker}}

At some point, Bumblebee took on Soundwave, {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#VsSoundwave|Battlefield Bumblebee vs Infiltration Soundwave}} and brought his battle blade to bear in combat with Ravage and [[Insecticon (Movie)|Insecticon]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BattleBlade|Battle Blade Bumblebee}} His experience fighting fliers also meant that he was fully equipped to deal with [[Thrust (Movie)|Thrust]] {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#CrashLandingAttack|Crash Landing Attack}} and [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BombingRunBattle|Bombing Run Battle}}

Bumblebee was the first Autobot try out the new [[MechTech]] weapons developed by NEST, {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#DOTM|''Dark of the Moon'' Leader Bumblebee}} and also began toting a Mobile Battle Bunker around. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#CyberverseActionSet|Bumblebee Mobile Battle Bunker}} Like several other Transformers, he took to inscribing [[Cyberglyphics]] on his armor before significant battles, out of a superstitious racial belief that they granted good luck. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Cyberglyph|"Cyberglyph" Bumblebee}}

Hating how Soundwave always seemed to track his movements, Bumblebee put together a plan to take care of him once and for all. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BeeSoundwaveRodimus|Bumblebee / Soundwave with Rodimus}} He also found time to form the Autobot Daredevil Squad together with Sam and [[Backfire (TF 2010)|Backfire]], {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Daredevil|Autobot Daredevil Squad}} and battle Shockwave alongside Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#StreetsideBotBrawl|Streetside Bot Brawl}}

Following the battle of Chicago, Bumblebee had to disguise himself as a super-charged muscle car to avoid detection in a world where all Transformers are in danger of being hunted. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#HighOctaneDeluxe|High Octane Bumblebee}} When his allies were in danger, he dropped his disguise and charged into battle. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#2014Deluxe|''Age of Extinction'' Bumblebee}}

===''Mini Mayhem!''===
In a celebration of the Transformers brand, Bumblebee showed up as the representative for the "Movie" era of the franchise. {{storylink|Mini Mayhem!}}
===Cyber Missions===
{{voiceactor|[[Tom Anderson]], [[David Kledzik]], [[Tony Gialluca II]], [[Bronco D. Jackson]] (English)|[[José Antonio Macías]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Alexandre Moreno]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}

[[File:CyberMissions1 bumblebee datatrax lockdown.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5]]

Some time after the defeat of The Fallen, Bumblebee and Ironhide were reviewing some [[datatrax]] that Optimus Prime had made for preservation in [[Vector Sigma]] when they detected an explosion outside their base. Bumblebee remained to lock down the most important data tracks while Ironhide went to investigate [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|the cause]] of the explosion. However, that turned out to be just what the Decepticons wanted, as moments later, Soundwave burst into the base, overwhelming Bumblebee with a sonic attack. Bumblebee attempted to counter with a shot from his shoulder cannon, but Soundwave absorbed the sonic boom and sent the acoustic energy back at him, bragging about his mastery of sound. Bumblebee decided to put his sonic skills to the absolute test, and unleashed a barrage of automatic weaponsfire at the Decepticon. At ten thousand rounds per minute, Soundwave was faced with too many sonic booms to absorb, and was soon flat on his back. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 1}} [[File:CyberMissions8 bumblebee in the arctic.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5]] Bumblebee enclosed the defeated Soundwave in an electromagnetically sealed bubble, cut off from all sound. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 2}}

Ironhide, meanwhile, had gone missing in the jungle; Bumblebee reported the problem to Optimus, who had 'Bee perform a scan of the area. Bumblebee discovered several rich deposits of [[energon]] ore, which Prime pinpoint Ironhide's location. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 5}} Reunited, Bumblebee and Ironhide went on a training exercise in the Arctic, where the bigger 'bot put 'Bee through his paces. As Bumblebee was frequently singled out as a target by the Decepticons because of his small size, Ironhide taught him the importance of staying on guard and being mindful of his surroundings. As the pair sparred, Bumblebee learned another benefit of being aware of everything around him when Ironhide stopped their fight after they nearly crushed a strange little plant growing through the ice... a plant, Ironhide implied, that could well be sentient. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 8}}

[[File:CyberMissions9 Bumblebee.JPG|upright=1.5|thumb|BUUU!]]

When Decepticons [[Smolder (PCC)|Smolder]] and [[Chopster]] set fire to a building [[Scramble City (city)|Scramble City]], Bumblebee and Ratchet were dispatched to the scene by Optimus Prime. A menacing look from Bumblebee sent the diminutive Chopster running off in terror; 'Bee called after him to tell Smolder they would "like a word", hoping they could perhaps talk the situation out rather than fight, but Smolder wasn't interested. Bumblebee grappled with the pyromaniac Decepticon while Ratchet powered up his EMP blaster, which he then used to knock Smolder offline. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 9}}

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Optimus reported finding Megatron and Starscream in the Arctic regions of Earth, and Bumblebee was summoned to aid his leader in battle alongside Ironhide, Ratchet and Sideswipe. Leaving Megatron to handle Prime, Starscream attacked all the Autobots at once, but the combined fire of the four heroes was enough to ground the Decepticon. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 12}}

Optimus later laid a trap to lure the Decepticons to a final confrontation with a hologram of Soundwave, and Megatron indeed walked right into it. Bumblebee, Ironhide, and Ratchet arrived to join the battle, and in the ensuing fight, Bumblebee took on Mindwipe. The Decepticon tried to hypnotize Bumblebee into not fighting, but Bumblebee blocked out his voice and kept up the attack. An army of humans soon arrived and surrounded the combatants, and the day went to the Autobots. Optimus instructed the Decepticons to leave Earth to be destroyed, and after they had fled, Bumblebee stamped a huge Autobot symbol in the dirt, a marker visible from far away that let all Decepticons who saw it know that the Autobots protected the planet. {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}
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===Transformers Annual 2011===
Bumblebee charged to Sam's defense when Starscream tried to abduct the boy, but proved no match for the Decepticon, and was flung around the yard. As Starscream started making off with Sam, Bumblebee made another attempt to stop him, and was brushed aside. Luckily Optimus arrived to help, and Starscream soon fled, but the Witwicky's yard was in ruins. {{storylink|Sam in Danger}}

===''Unite for the Universe''===
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During NEST's ongoing worldwide hunt for the Decepticons after the defeat of The Fallen, Bumblebee paid a visit to NEST's regional headquarters in [[Bloemfontein]], [[South Africa]]. As he entered the facility, Decepticon spy Ravage was able to quickly sneak through the closing door behind him, but Bumblebee spotted him in his rear-view mirror and quickly went on the attack. When Ravage pounced on him, Bumblebee triggered his headlights, blinding the feline Decepticon and sending him fleeing, leaving Bumblebee confused as to the point of the infiltration... unaware that an airborne nano-virus Ravage had carried with him had already picked NEST's computers clean of information regarding [[Project Unite|Project: Unite]]. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|Ambition Instigated}}
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===''I Can Read!'' books===
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Bumblebee met up with Optimus, Ironhide and Sideswipe in a desert to train. He raced Sideswipe, only for their training to be interrupted by a large boulder tumbling towards a nearby town. The two Autobots destroyed the boulder before resuming their race. They met back up with Optimus and Ironhide afterwards, and Optimus revealed the they had encountered a "natural disaster" as well. The source of the disturbances soon revealed itself to be Megatron and Starscream tunneling underground. Though the two Decepticons attempted to ambush the Autobots, Bumblebee and the others were able to send them running thanks to the training they had gone through that day. {{storylink|Training Day (book)|Training Day}}

Bumblebee and Sideswipe had a nasty run-in with the Decepticons, leaving Bumblebee pinned under a massive metal bar. Thankfully, Ratchet came to their rescue, and repaired them both. Bumblebee later helped the Autobots defeat the Decepticons in Egypt. {{storylink|Ratchet to the Rescue}}

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Bumblebee was out for a drive with Wheelie, Sam and Mikaela one day when Starscream swooped down and began to attack them! Bumblebee suggested to Wheelie that they gun for Starscream's wings to defeat the Decepticon. Wheelie disagreed, saying that they had to outsmart Starscream to defeat him. The two Autobots began to argue, becoming oblivious to Starscream attacking their human companions. Thankfully, Optimus Prime showed up to knock out Starscream. Optimus then chastised Bumblebee and Wheelie for allowing their feelings get in the way of protecting Sam and Mikaela. Bumblebee realized he was in the wrong, but was still too worked up to make his apologies to Wheelie. Instead, he stormed off. But he didn't get far before Starscream regained consciousness and resumed his attack. Optimus ordered Bumblebee to work with Wheelie to stop Starscream. The pair managed to do so by outwitting Starscream and destroying his wings, making the Decepticon crash into a nearby tunnel and crippling his flying abilities. With Starscream down, Bumblebee and the rest of the group celebrated another victory over the Decepticons. {{storylink|Buddy Brawl}}
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===''Hunt for the Decepticons'' storybooks===
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Sam witnessed the Decepticons [[Buzzsaw (ROTF)|Buzzsaw]] and [[Ratbat (ROTF)|Ratbat]] tear up a human city, while Soundwave declared that the Autobots had abandoned the humans. Refusing to believe the Decepticon's lies, Sam and Bumblebee set out to find Optimus Prime and the rest of the Autobots. It turned out that the Autobots had been tricked by Soundwave to go to the wrong location when they rolled out to engage the Decepticons. Sam and Bumblebee led Optimus and his troops to the scene of the conflict, where Optimus quickly dispatched the Decepticons. Afterwards, Optimus thanked for Sam's part in the day's events, while Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots cheered. {{storylink|Satellite Meltdown}}

===''Spot the 'Bots''===
Bumblebee helped Optimus chase down Megatron to an old warehouse. There, Bumblebee duked it out with Starscream. The battle between the Autobots and Decepticons that ensued would decide the fate of the Earth! {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Spot the 'Bots}}
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===''How to Ride your Dinobot''===
====Cartoon====
[[File:Htryd-chapter-1-bumblebee-yikes.jpg|left|upright=1.6|thumb|I'VE CHANGED INTO WILE E. COYOTE.]]
Bumblebee had never ridden a [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]] before, and decided to start by trying to mount [[Strafe (AOE)|Strafe]]. Guided by a kind but astonishingly unhelpful narrator, Bumblebee's attempts to mount Strafe left something to be desired. After many failed efforts, Bumblebee simply destroyed the instruction manual to riding Dinobots before storming off in annoyance, much to the narrator's surprise.
{{storylink|How to Ride Your Dinobot Chapter 1: Getting on a Dinobot|Getting on a Dinobot}}
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====Comic====

When Optimus Prime asked the Autobots to accompany him into the depths of a Chinese forest, Bumblebee was sure that their objective was important... but he never expected that the Autobot leader was taking them to learn the fine art of Dinobot riding! When Hound's tough-talking approach failed to win the Dinobots' hearts, 'Bee tried a kinder, gentler method, offering the Dinos a little snack. This worked a bit ''too'' well, and he would have been crushed when the Dinobots mobbed him to get the goodies had Strafe not lifted him into the air. Bumblebee pushed his luck when he climbed onto the flying Dinobot's back, however, and Strafe promptly threw him back to the ground. Subsequently, when Grimlock caught the scent of Decepticons nearby, Strafe and the other Dinobots relented and allowed Bumblebee and the Autobots to saddle up so they could all ride out to face the villains together. {{Storylink|How to Ride a Dinobot!}}
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===Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base===

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Bumblebee was hanging out at the [[Transformers Expo]] in [[Yokohama]] when [[Yokohama Convoy|Nemesis Prime]] came crashing into the building. The evil Prime initially mistook Bumblebee for a cosplayer, only to realize that the little yellow Autobot was the real deal when he attacked him alongside the two versions of Optimus Prime also visiting the show. Nemesis soon got himself some backup in the form of a ''second'' [[Nemesis Prime (AOE)|Nemesis Prime]] and [[Nemesis Grimlock]], but before they could all do much more than glare at each other, the combined energies of the AllSpark, the Matrix of Leadership and the [[seed]]—all on display at the Expo, because why not—suddenly began reacting with the [[Dark Energon]] within the first Nemesis Prime. This was all part of a complicated plot by [[Unicron]], but fortunately, Nemesis resisted the dark urges within himself, and channeled all the Dark Energon into the stickers his creator [[Doctor Arkeville]] had used to make him evil. Nemesis ripped the stickers off and hurled them into the air, where all the Autobots and Decepticons—and even the Expo's human attendees, using their cell phones—blasted them and stopped the chain reaction.

All together, pretty odd. {{storylink|Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base}}
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===''Cheetos/Age of Extinction'' comic===
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Discovering that the Decepticons were increasing their strength through artifacts from the [[Cheetos (galaxy)|Cheetos galaxy]], Bumblebee and the Autobots recruited [[you]]r help to acquire the power-enhancing objects. {{storylink|Cheetos/Transformers: Age of Extinction}}
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===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Ryōhei Kimura]] (Japanese)}}
[[File:QTransformers the cast.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]]
In this world, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and Lockdown were aware that they were toys: specifically, ''Q-Transformers'', a new line of cute-looking ''Transformers'' merchandise produced to tie-in with the 30th anniversary of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]]. Bumblebee occasionally changed his look to one more reminiscent of [[Bumblebee (G1)|his Generation 1 counterpart]], but his "default" form was that of a toy based on his ''Age of Extinction'' look. They hung out at different famous service areas on Japanese expressways, and talked about the ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Mystery of Convoy]]'' video game, and the remake produced as a tie-in with their toyline, ''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns|Mystery of Convoy Returns]]''.

[[File:QTransformers1 Lockdown's bishonen fantasy.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.8|Bumblebee suddenly realized, much to his horror, that he was trapped in an anime high school AU.]]

Discussing the ins and outs of their cute designs, Optimus and his pals explained that they were created for the purpose of appealing to non-Transformers fans. Bumblebee suggested that another way to tap that market would be to create "Zodiac Transformers", based on all the different animals of the Chinese zodiac, but Lockdown had a different idea: a humanized Transformers "Boys Love" romance, where he and Optimus competed for Bumblebee's affection. Bumblebee was not impressed. {{storylink|Mystery of the 30th Anniversary Merchandise}} The trio went on to talk about the original ''Mystery of Convoy'', and Bumblebee got a telling-off from Optimus when he pointed out that it was a famously terribly game. Discussing traits that they thought made games bad, Bumblebee suggested that an RPG already completed when you started would be pretty awful. {{storylink|Mystery of Reliably Crappy Games}} When Lockdown suggested that re-releasing such a terrible game was like rubbing salt in a wound, Bumblebee didn't understand the expression. Optimus explained, and they all tried to come up with situations the phrase was applicable to; taking it a bit too far, Bumblebee suggested getting pooped on by bird, then looking up to discover that a meteor was about to crash into the Earth. {{storylink|Mystery of Smearing Salt in the Open Wound}} The group then talked about the rubbish stage bosses in ''Mystery of Convoy'', particularly the [[Destron Mark|floating Decepticon insignia]], and wondered what sort of fictional scenarios it could be used in. {{storylink|Mystery of the Stage Bosses}}

[[File:QTF bumblebee explorer.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8]]

Prime and company began being joined by their friends to discuss facets of the game. [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] participated in a talk about the differences between the original and the remake, {{storylink|Mystery of the Wittily Similar Circumstances}} while [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] highlighted the tonal "gap" between the cute character designs and the very ''un''-cute action in the game. Everyone tried to think of examples of similar "gaps": Bumblebee suggested a handsome young man cooking a nice meal... for his mother. {{storylink|Mystery of the Gap of Unpopular Men}} [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] joined them to talk about classic terrible games, which turned into a discussion about adventure and exploring, and the comforts an explorer might like to have with them on such a journey—Bumblebee thought a nice pillow would be just the thing. {{storylink|Mystery of a Certain Explorer}} [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] also talked about some famously awful old games, segueing into a discussion about psychokinetic powers; Bumblebee was concerned about the potential of such powers to interfere with television. {{storylink|Mystery of a Certain Psychic}}

When [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] came along to share his thoughts on points of commonality among famously awful games, the group talked about the technical advancements of video games, with Bumblebee mentioning motion-control. {{storylink|Mystery of Game Balance}} [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] also had some opinions on the common themes of bad games, but Bumblebee and Optimus's willingness to settle for less frustrated Lockdown. {{storylink|Mystery of the Lowest Possible Standards}}

[[File:Qtransformers gtoptimus copenbee.jpg|right|thumb|upright=2]]

Bumblebee had changed his look when [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] dropped in, to one resembling his Generation 1 self but with a Daihatsu Copen alternate mode. They talked about the constantly changing looks of Transformers through history, and how Bumblebee used to be called "Bumble" in Japan. {{storylink|Mystery of Convoy}} Still sporting his Daihatsu Copen form, Bumblebee dropped in on a conversation between [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], the star of ''Mystery of Convoy''. He told them how Optimus and Lockdown would argue over the crappy's games merits—but to be reminded of the games shortcomings only sent Magnus into floods of shameful tears. {{storylink|Mystery of Mystery of Convoy}}

When [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] turned up to join the argument over just how bad ''Mystery of Convoy'' was, Optimus quickly switched bodies, taking on the form of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|his Generation 1 self]]; seeing this, Bumblebee also switched from his ''Age of Extinction'' form to his Daihatsu Copen body. They argued back and forth for a bit, discussing other ways the game could have been remade using staples of Japanese media, and Bumblebee proposed a "sports day"-style version. {{storylink|Mystery of Return of Convoy}}

[[File:QTransformers15-Bumblebee's sports uniforms.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.7]]
Bumblebee had to reveal that the show's budget had been slashed for the second season and that they were going to find ways to make Q-Transformers more popular. Optimus's suggestion that they turn the franchise into a Transformers version of [[Mito Kōmon]] led Bumblebee to dub him "Mito Convoy". {{storylink|The Road to Winning a New Fanbase}} While they were discussing ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]'', Lockdown complained that it was too hard to tell who was an Autobot and who was a Decepticon, to which Bumblebee suggested they could wear sports uniforms. {{storylink|The Road to Easy Identification}}

For the first installment of Q-Transformers Radio, Optimus and Bumblebee brought in guest star [[Yukimura Sanada]] for an interview, during which Bumblebee suggested that Transformers could guest star in the ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' game series. {{storylink|The Road to Borrowing Popularity from Sengoku Basara}} When Lockdown was confused by the jump from ''Transformers'' to ''Transformers 2010'' due to ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' not being released at the time, the group decided to brainstorm ways to better explain the changes. Bumblebee and the others were mostly just confused by the concept for an abridged movie that Optimus came up with. {{storylink|The Road to Smoothly Conveying the Content of the Movie}}

[[File:QTransformers19-Bumblebee Inner Self.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.8]]
Optimus next brought in [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] to cover the later Japanese Generation 1 series, only for him and Bumblebee to have to field a series of complaints from Lockdown. During the ensuing discussion of potential new types of Transformers, Lockdown came up with pop idol Transformers, which Bumblebee seized on and suggested that the singing could transform their inner selves. His demonstration of the idea startled Optimus. {{storylink|The Road to Newer Transformers}} When they had [[Kazumi Araiwa]] on Q-Transformers Radio, Bumblebee asked their guest for advice on the fact that Optimus was very unreliable, and asked him to say "roll out". {{storylink|The Road to Borrowing Popularity from Cooking Papa}}

For the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' and associated cartoons, Optimus brought [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] in to provide explanations, with him and Bumblebee providing context. This led to a discussion about ideas for a dark but funny ''Transformers'' show. {{storylink|The Road to Dark and Comical Transformers}} While [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] described more ''Transformers'' cartoons, Optimus and Bumblebee found themselves defending the changes in the various shows to Lockdown. {{storylink|The Road to These Definitely Failed Sequels}}

Still seeking ways to increase their popularity, Optimus dragged Bumblebee along to [[Sanrio Puroland]] to get ideas, only to run into [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] and have an enlightening discussion about the Decepticons' idea of a theme park. {{storylink|The Road to Q-Transformers Land Which Won't Lose to Puroland}} After Bumblebee announced that the second season was coming to an end, he and Optimus reflected that they had not actually learned much. They decided making ''Q-Transformers: The Movie'' would be a good idea, though discussion of what should be in it meandered.
{{storylink|The Road to Q-Transformers: The Movie}}
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===Legends World===
In the [[Legends World]], Bumblebee was just a fictional character featured in a series of popular movies and toylines. When [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] turned into [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] and tried to revert the world back to how it was in the '80s, Rattrap attempted to stop him by singing the praises of modern-day Transformers, including the ''Q-Transformers'' incarnation of Bumblebee. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 5|Bonus Edition Vol. 5}}

Bumblebee had a big presence at the ''Q-Transformers'' event held at the Decks Tokyo Beach shopping center which Rattrap, [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] and [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] attended, including a standee, a statue, an exclusive sticker, and even a themed "Bumblebee Mango" drink. At the neighboring Joypolis amusement park, his voice actor Ryōhei Kimura attended a Q&A! {{storylink|Deckss × Q-Transformers Collaboration Event Report|Deckss × Q-Transformers}}
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===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Tyran 511.0 Kappa]], Bumblebee survived [[Cemetery Wind]]'s massacre and joined Optimus Prime along with fellow Autobot survivors [[Bulkhead (DOTM)|Bulkhead]] and [[Backtrack (Movie)|Backtrack]] as well as the desperate Decepticons [[Axor|Axel]] and [[Wild Rider]]. Initially skeptical of the Decepticons, the Autobots learned to appreciate Wild Rider, but Axel tried and failed to betray them to Lockdown. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/16}}

===Bee's Backtalk===
[[File:Ask Vector Prime Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left]]

With [[Vector Prime]] still missing in action, Bumblebee became the fourth guest contributor to Vector Prime's [[Ask Vector Prime|column]]. He renamed the column to "Bee's Backtalk", answering questions from readers through patched-together audioclips.

Bumblebee gave us some more details about the state of the Autobots and their allies following the Chicago crisis. When asked about the fate of Sam following the rise of Cemetery Wind, Bumblebee became upset, and declined to comment. He noted that the Autobots were still searching for any more survivors of Cemetery Wind. A comment about the workmanship of KSI's Stinger units was enough to make him hopping mad, although he immediately apologized for his behavior. When someone asked Bumblebee why things in the [[Tyran|Tyran Cluster]] are prone to exploding, he suddenly found himself in the middle of a battleground as everything around him exploded. The Axiom Nexus News team lost contact with him (disappointing the editor, who was pleased that Bumblebee was able to stabilize ratings). As Andromeda was the one who found Bumblebee, she was tasked with finding his replacement: someone who, in contrast to Bumblebee's cryptic radio answers, could speak their mind in a straightforward manner.

[[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|And look how ''that'' turned out]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Bee's Backtalk|Bee's Backtalk}}

===''TV Magazine stories''===
As Megatron fought against several Autobots including Drift and Hot Rod, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee arrived in the battlefield, only to be shocked by Megatron's towering size. However, Optimus immediately though of a plan: transferring his Energon (along with Drift and Hot Rod's) to Bumblebee, giving the yellow scout a new ability called "Energon Charge", and defeats Megatron with a single punch. While victorious, Bumblebee is still considered as problematic for the napping Autobots as the glowing Energon effect is still on. {{storylink|The Explosive Birth of Energon Charge Bumblebee}}
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===''Mission to Cybertron'' comic===
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===''Sector 7 Adventures''===
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===''Bumblebee's First Life on Earth''===
{{voiceactor|[[Ryōhei Kimura]] (Japanese)}}
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==Commercial appearances==
*Both Optimus and Bumblebee could be seen driving around the [[Speed Stars]] logo in vehicle mode. {{storylink|Commercial#Speed Stars|Speed Stars commercials}}
*Bumblebee was resting in vehicle mode in Al's Chevrolet car dealership, getting caught on tape while the dealership's owner filmed a commercial. The place's squirrel mascot playfully bashed Bumblebee's hood with a foam hammer, provoking Bumblebee into transforming and tossing him away. Bumblebee then sped away in a huff. {{storylink|Commercial/Dark of the Moon#Chevy|Dark of the Moon Super Bowl XLV Chevrolet Camaro TV Spot}}
*Bumblebee joined Optimus Prime on the road as part of the "[[Win A Ride To School With The Autobots]]" contest. {{storylink|Commercial/Dark of the Moon#Win A Ride|Win A Ride To School With The Autobots contest and commercial}}
*Bumblebee dazzled a group of Valero patrons by showing up at the gas station in his vehicle mode and... popping his fuel filler flap. {{storylink|Commercial/Age of Extinction#Valero|Age of Extinction Valero tie-in commercial}}
*While driving about town, Bumblebee crossed paths with a little boy in possession of a Mega 1-Step Bumblebee toy. Impressed by his miniature likeness, he paused to admire it, then gave the boy a fist bump. {{storylink|Commercial/Age of Extinction#Flip and Change|1-Step Optimus Prime & Flip and Change Grimlock toy commercial}}
*Bumblebee was one of many pop culture icons who were hanging out at Paramount Mountain and saw the arrival of the water bucket from ''{{w|Flashdance}}''. Once they finished reenacting the movie's famous scene, [[Kenny McCormick|Kenny]] got crushed to death by the giant bucket.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWRkBv4zJpU A Mountain of Entertainment | Storm l Paramount+]</ref>
*Bumblebee was one of [[Keegan-Michael Key|Mr. Garvey]]'s students during a roll call at Paramount Mountain. With his classmates being various cartoon characters from different [[Nickelodeon|Nick]] shows.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEdNAzv1LD8 A Mountain of Entertainment | Mr. Garvey's Mountain Survival Skills | Paramount+]</ref>

==Games==
{{main|Bumblebee (Movie)/games}}

==Toys==
{{main|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise}}

==Notes==
===Classic Camaro===
*According to an article on [http://web.archive.org/web/20071013122820/http://edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=121138?imw=Y Edmunds.com], the film makers wanted Bumblebee's original Earth form to be the 1976 iteration of the Camaro because it was the worst Camaro possible that also had chrome bumpers.
*The same article indicates that the 1976 Camaros used in the film were all purchased via online auction for under $6000 each, one for less than $2000. That one didn't run.
*One of the 1976 Camaros was sold on eBay. The bidding ended on July 18, 2007; the final price was $40,100.01.

===Modern Camaro===
*The 2008 Concept Camaro used for Bumblebee in the first movie was built by Saleen in 30 days, using a heavily modified 2006 Holden Monaro chassis as the basis. The '08 Camaro was not in production at the time that the first film was being made, hence an identical mock-up was needed to fill the role.<ref>[http://www.saleen.com/transformers.htm Saleen article about the construction of the Barricade and Bumblebee vehicles]</ref>
*In ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'', Bumblebee scans a working, driveable new generation Camaro — conveniently with the same paint job as his classic Camaro disguise at that time — that wouldn't be released until some time in the year 2009. However, it is possible that the Camaro in question was being road-tested by GM engineers, like they were doing in the real world.
*Although unexplained in the films, Bumblebee's vehicle mode changes appearance subtly between ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''. This is probably because of product placement: Bumblebee's old [[alternate mode]] was an unavailable concept Camaro, while in ''Revenge'' he uses what seems to be the new Z/28 Camaro... whose mass production was later canceled. Oops. However, it is perfectly reasonable to assume that it is the Camaro ZL1 that uses the same design.
*He changes models again between ''Revenge of the Fallen'' and ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' and becomes a production Camaro SS (rather than the previous two movies GTO-Based mock-ups); the movie prop car changes include the addition of a rear spoiler, the black racing stripes now being further apart while at the same time losing the outer pinstripes, the racing stripes now also covering the roof and Autobot badges in the front fenders.
*After the end of production of their respective films, the Camaros from ''Revenge of the Fallen'' through to ''The Last Knight'' were simultaneously sold for $500,000.

===Robot mode and CG model(s)===
[[File:MovieBBearlyconcept.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*An early concept art featuring a significantly different looking, more G1 inspired Bumblebee sporting his classic Camaro kibble was drawn by [[Don Figueroa]], as revealed through the artist's Twitter account.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=A VERY early character study of BB for the first #Transformers movie.|link=https://twitter.com/SketchyFig/status/1524542496847458304|name=Don Figueroa|site:Twitter|year=2022|month=May|day=12}}</ref> This or a related concept art most likely served as a basis for Bumblebee's [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Deluxe Class toys|Deluxe Class 1976 Camaro figure]] from the [[Transformers (2007 toyline)|2007 movie toyline]]. The two designs have noticeable similarities in their forearms and feet.
*The Bumblebee computer-generated model consisted of 7608 individual parts, 1,511,727 polygons, 19,722 rig nodes, and 8094 texture maps. The volume of all the pieces came to 1069.01 cubic feet.<ref>Robertson, Barbara (2007). Heavy Metal. ''Computer Graphics, 30''(7), 12-17.</ref>
*Bumblebee's character animation is based on the performance of {{w|Michael J. Fox}} in the ''[[Back to the Future]]'' movies.<ref>From ''Cinefex'' magazine, issue number 111, published October 2007.</ref>
[[File:MovieBumblebeeStinger.jpg|thumb|He uses it once, then dies.]]
*Bumblebee is equipped with a pair of arm-mounted electrical "[[Stinger (weapon)|stingers]]."<ref>Bumblebee's [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/Battle-Bios.cfm Battle Bio] at Hasbro.com</ref> While designed, the stingers were ultimately not featured in the movies, though they may have influenced [[Bumblebee (Animated)|other]] [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|media]].
*Speaking of weapons, for someone whose main job is being subtle, Bumblebee is quite well armed, with a [[plasma cannon]] powerful enough to rattle [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]], [[Mohawk]], and [[Nitro Zeus]], a blade capable of disabling [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]]'s jet thrusters, and a ring-shaped light missile launcher in each shoulder. He is also a capable close-combat fighter, as seen in his fights against [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], [[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]], [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], [[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]], and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]].
**Despite this, he has a [[Fireblast]] rating of ''three''. Also, he lost his blade while fighting [[Shatter]], requiring him to use his environment to his advantage.
[[File:ROTFBumblebeeAltColorsConcept.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|But will we ever '''get''' an orange Bumblebee? No, we'll just keep getting slightly different yellow ones.]]
*According to designer [[Paul Ozzimo]] on his website, at one point there were plans to make Bumblebee into a Z/28 convertible for ''Revenge of the Fallen'', and the possibility of changing his color to orange or black with yellow was also discussed. While none of these alterations happened, concept art for both appeared on the "25 Years of Transformers" feature on the ''Revenge'' DVD... though the black version is only seen from behind.
*Bumblebee stands approximately 16 feet tall, according to the [[Transformers The Game|official game]] strategy guide.
*In 2011, Bumblebee appeared in a Super Bowl XLV-related commercial, parodying car dealers by tossing a squirrel mascot knocking his hood to literally hammer the point of low prices. The TV spot also revealed ILM's modifications to his design for ''Dark of the Moon'', namely more pronounced shoulders and ribs ala his [[Bumblebee (WFC)|''Prime'' counterpart]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RttT4jC7_10 Chevrolet Super Bowl spot]</ref>
*Despite his Camaro alternate mode used for ''Dark of the Moon'' no longer sporting the outer pinstripes bordering his black racing stripes, the CG robot model still has them. Whoops.
*Similarly, in the first movie, after he gains the modern Camaro alt mode, Bumblebee's robot mode still features the scratches and dirt on his paint job of his original 1976 Camaro alt mode.
*In ''Age of Extinction'', Bumblebee's concept Camaro robot model sports a [[death-lock pincer]] similar to that of Megatron's ''Revenge of the Fallen'' body.
*Bumblebee's arm cannon in ''The Last Knight'' undergoes a slight visual tweak. Using his original trilogy's cannon design, the main barrel has a narrow barrel as the main firearm.
*In a profile image posted by the Movie series' Facebook page, Bumblebee is depicted to retain his battle mask from his ''Age of Extinction'' body, while the final cut features a variant of his original battle mask seen in the first 3 films.
*Meanwhile, although Bumblebee transforms into a regular, unarmored Mercedes-Benz 770 cabriolet in ''The Last Knight''{{'}}s World War II flashback sequence, his robot-mode kibble is that of a {{w|Humber Scout Car|Humber Scout Car}}, and his ''[[Studio Series]]'' toy based on the scene is yet ''another'' Humber model, specifically a {{w|Humber Light Reconnaissance Car}}.
*The design for Bumblebee's Cybertronian and Volkswagen bodies in ''Bumblebee'' draws heavy influence from his Generation 1 [[Bumblebee (G1)|namesake]].
*While on Cybertron, Bumblebee does not have the black 'wings' on his back as Cliffjumper does. However, when he lands on Earth they can clearly be seen on him.

===License plates===
Bumblebee sported several different [[license plate]]s between the movies, the video games and the toys:

*'''489 PCE''', registered in [[California]], was the 1976 Camaro's license plate in the first movie, which was kept consistent between the car prop and the CG model for the robot mode. The license plate was later auctioned off in 2008.<ref name="plate1">[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/movie-bumblebees-license-plate-for-sale/12255/ Movie Bumblebee (1976 Camaro edition) license plate for sale], Seibertron.com, January 2008.</ref> The same license plate was later used again in ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' when Bumblebee upgraded from a Volkswagen Beetle to a 1977 Chevrolet Camaro. Of note, "PCE" is frequently used for license plates in film and TV productions because the California DMV does not issue that combination to the public. For example, another [[fandom:lostpedia:Hurley's Camaro Camaro|camaro]] seen several times in the television show ''[[Wikipedia:Lost (TV series)|Lost]]'' had the license plate "429 PCE", Phil Coulson's 1962 Chevrolet Corvette "[[fandom:marvelcinematicuniverse:Lola|LO.L.A.]]" in the TV show ''[[Wikipedia:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.|Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]'' had the license plate "381 PCE" (or "681 PCE" in early epiodes), and [[fandom:strangerthings:Billy Hargrove|Billy Hargrove]]'s Camaro from the TV show ''[[wikipedia:Stranger Things|Stranger Things]]'' had the license plate "PCE 235".
*'''900 STRA''', without a state-specific registration, was the new license plate for the Concept Camaro car prop, which was kept for the production models used for all three subsequent movies. It was also used when the modern Camaro prop cars from the movies were on display at car shows and other events. Finally achieving consistency between both modes, Bumblebee also sported this plate in robot mode in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''. Furthermore, Hasbro started to use this license plate number with the Leader Class Bumblebee and Deluxe Class Nitro Bumblebee toys from the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (toyline)|''Dark of the Moon'' toy line]] (both sporting ''sculpted'' license plate inscriptions in both modes), and the [[Activision]] [[Dark of the Moon (video games)|''Dark of the Moon'' video game]] also uses it for the vehicle mode. The license plate used in ''Revenge of the Fallen'' was auctioned off in October 2009.<ref name="2009auct">[http://www.icollector.com/Hero-Bumblebee-license-plate-from-Transformers-Revenge-of-the-Fallen_i8633011 ''Revenge of the Fallen'' Bumblebee license plate auction], icollector.com</ref> In ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'', he even uses this license plate in his 1967 Camaro disguise, and still keeps it when he upgrades to his new 2014 Camaro concept form.
*'''4NZZ454''', registered in California, is probably the most well-known license plate number due to being used on the CG model for the robot mode in the 2007 movie and ''Revenge of the Fallen''.<ref name="proctercg">[http://www.benprocter.com/storage/oldersites/sitev2/html/PROJPAGE_Trans_06.html Official Hasbro promo shots of the finalized CG model for Bumblebee] on Ben Procter's portfolio</ref> This number was also used for a lot of Hasbro's toys from the first two movies' toy lines (in robot mode and often also in vehicle mode), including the Deluxe Class Classic Camaro.
*'''4NZZZ454''', with a red line indicative of a California registration, was an erroneous version of the above number with an extra "Z", used on some of Hasbro's toys, namely the Deluxe Class Concept Camaro Bumblebee toy from the [[Transformers (2007 toyline)|first movie's toy line]] (including several [[redeco]]s and [[retool]]s) and ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' [[Human Alliance]] Bumblebee.
*'''5LKZ213''' can be spotted on some photos of the life-sized robot prop from the Hoover Dam set from the first movie.<ref name="procterprop">[http://www.benprocter.com/storage/oldersites/sitev2/html/ZOOM_Trans/ZOOM_24.html Life-sized Bumblebee prop] on Ben Procter's portfolio</ref><ref name="unicubb">[http://www.unicron.us/tf2007/toypix/ultimate_bumblebee.html Review of Ultimate Bumblebee] at Unicron.com, including a set photo of the life-sized Bumblebee prop used for the movies.</ref>
*'''BUMBLBE''', registered in California, was used for the life-sized robot prop on various exhibits in 2007.<ref name="premiere">[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bob_karol/archives/date-taken/2007/06/27/ Transformers Movie premiere in Westwood Village, California], Flickr photostream of Candid Photos</ref><ref name="18foot">[http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/pictures-18-foot-bumblebee-transformer-invades-la "18 Foot Bumblebee Transformers invade LA"] at Techeblog</ref>
*'''FXPERTS''' (registered in California), a reference to the special effects company that built the life-sized robot prop,<ref name="fxperts">[http://www.fxpertsinc.com/trans.html Building the life-sized Bumblebee prop] at Fxperts</ref> was used on various exhibits in 2008.<ref name="dolby">[http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/ces-2008-giant-bumblebee-transformer-invades-the-dolby-booth "CES 2008: Giant BumbleBee Transformer Invades the Dolby Booth"] at Techeblog</ref><ref name="holloman08">[http://www.flickr.com/photos/61043118@N00/archives/date-taken/2008/09/22/ Transformers on display at Holloman Air Force Base in September 2008], Flickr photostream of snakebite000.</ref>
*'''KDM 0814''', registered in California, was used for the life-sized robot prop on various exhibits from 2009 to at least 2011.<ref name="sydney">[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/movie-bumblebee-prop-appears-in-sydney-australia/17305/ Life-sized Bumblebee prop in Sydney, Australia] at Seibertron.com</ref><ref name="vegas">[http://www.flickr.com/photos/deltamike/archives/date-taken/2009/03/30/ Transformers on display at the Las Vegas Strip], Flickr photostream of Mike Renlund</ref><ref name="childmuseum">[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=77515 "Bumblebee coming to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis"] at The Allspark, March 2011</ref> A variant of this, "KDM 814" minus the "0", had been previously used as the license plate of [[Twins (ROTF)|the Twins]]' combined ice cream truck mode in ''Revenge of the Fallen''.
*'''5BBM2''' (registered in California), mirrored on the other side, is used by Activision for the robot models used in the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (video games)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' and ''[[Dark of the Moon (video games)|Dark of the Moon]]'' video games.<ref name="nextgen">[http://www.nextgn.com/2009/05/15/transformers-2-playable-characters-and-soundtrack-revealed/ ''Revenge of the Fallen'' video game models] at Next Gen News</ref><ref name="actidotm">[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/video-games-17/transformers-dark-of-the-moon-the-game-hands-on-171673/ Activision trailer and promo stills for Dark of the Moon video game] at TFW2005.</ref> Due to its partially mirrored nature, this plate wouldn't actually be legal.
*'''4N7 454''' (registered in California), another erroneous variant of the robot mode license plate from the first two films, was seen on a hand-painted prototype used for early official stock photos of the ''Masterpiece Movie Series'' Bumblebee figure.<ref name="mpmsbb">[http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/01/10/shadow-spark-optimus-masterpiece-movie-bumblebee-official-images-330837 "Shadow Spark Optimus and Masterpiece Movie Bumblebee Official Images"] at TFW2005.com.</ref> Samples on display at both Hong Kong Toys & Games Fair 2017 and [[Toy Fair|New York Toy Fair]] 2017, on the other hand, sported a regular "900 STRA" license plate.
*'''ANZZ454''', ''another'' erroneous variant of the robot mode license plate from the first two films that mistakes the first "4" for the letter "A", was used for the redeco of ''Transformers'' (2007) Deluxe Class Classic Camaro Bumblebee from the ''[[Transformers Tribute]]'' [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Tribute|Bumblebee Evolution 3-Pack]].
*'''MM''', an easter egg put on the [[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#Robot Heroes|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Robot Heroes figure]] by its designer, [[Marcelo Matere]].
*'''WH 218 371''', a license plate used by Bumblebee in ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'' in a flashback set during [[World War II]] that showed him infiltrating the Nazis in the disguise of a Mercedes-Benz 770.
*'''RWM4V15''', registered in California, the license plate used by Bumblebee in his disguise as a Volkswagen Beetle in ''Bumblebee''.

===Lack of voice===
*For [[Transformers (film)|the first movie]], [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] had originally preferred the Transformers not to talk ''at all'' throughout the movie, a notion Hasbro heavily contested.<ref name="tfwtour">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/139273-botcon-2007-botcon-2007-hasbro-tour-updated-friday-12-45pm.html BotCon 2007 Hasbro tour report.]</ref> Bumblebee still ended up being mute throughout most of the movie, which, according to Orci and Kurtzman, was inspired by [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''{{w|E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.}}'' and is supposed to signify that his friendship with Sam transcends words.<ref name="mtv">[http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1554426/20070312/story.jhtml MTV.com interview with Kurtzman and Orci.]</ref>
*According to the [[Movie Prequel issue 1|prequel comic]] by IDW Publishing, Megatron ripped out and crushed Bumblebee's voice capacitor during the battle at [[Tyger Pax]] back on Cybertron. [[Hardtop (Movie)|Hardtop]]'s toy bio claims the damage came from a shot fired by Hardtop. In the film itself, Ratchet only states to Sam that Bumblebee's "vocal processors were damaged in battle" and he was "still working on them". Ultimately, the most canon explanation of his loss of voice occurs during the events of ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'', when his voice box is ripped out by [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]].
*By the end of all the conflict (the climax of the first film proper), Bumblebee has regained his ability to speak. Although it was not confirmed on-screen, screenwriter [[Roberto Orci]] did confirm ''off''-screen<ref name="Orci"/> that Ratchet's (regenerative) beam fired at Bee's throat was indeed the reason. Just as well, Roberto Orci ''also'' admitted that Bumblebee's brief contact with the AllSpark would be an equally valid (and even more "in-continuity") explanation.<ref name="Orci"/>
*The first known mention of Bumblebee losing his voice in Tyger Pax is from an early draft of the [[Transformers (film)|2007 movie]] called the ''Prime Directive'', where Ratchet reveals this information to Sam and Mikaela.
*When asked, Orci admitted there had been plans to have Bumblebee speak in ''Revenge of the Fallen''; however, ultimately they liked his "musical ability" too much, and [[Michael Bay]] wanted to focus more on [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]], since he thought kids would like the two characters.<ref name="orci">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-movie-discussion/180451-welcome-mr-roberto-orci-you-may-ask-him-questions-283.html#post3785383 Q&A with Roberto Orci at TFW2005]</ref>
*In the ''Dark of the Moon'' novel adaptation, it is stated that Bumblebee never fully recovered from the damage to his voice box, implying that the injury wasn't fully healed even back at the end of the first movie. It is further explained that while Bumblebee can indeed talk, it takes a great amount of effort for him to do so while talking through the radio takes no effort at all.
**In the same novel, according to Bumblebee's inner thoughts, there is seemingly always something on the radio available for him to use to be able to communicate his mind. This appears to imply that Bumblebee uses live broadcasts while talking through the radio and not broadcasts he recorded beforehand.
*When Bumblebee finally did speak in the first movie, he had a slightly British accent. However, in ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'', it appears he in fact has an ''American'' accent. This was carried over to ''Bumblebee'' as well, albeit with a younger-sounding voice to reflect the film's status as a prequel. As of yet, no explanation for this discrepancy has been made.
*In several foreign-language dubs, namely Japanese and Spanish, Bumblebee is dubbed over by only one voice actor. This choice has been criticized for creating an obvious contradiction ("If his voice box was damaged, how can he talk perfectly?"). However, in others, such as French, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, Bee is voiced by multiple uncredited voice actors, and all of their voices have certain audio effects. That's some good respect for the source material.

===Arrival on Earth===
*While the 2007 movie never states how long Bumblebee has been on Earth, all the prequel materials (in particular IDW's comic books) establish that he arrived only a few years prior to the movie's present-day events. For many years, this was never explicitly contradicted by any other media...
*However, ''The Last Knight'' suddenly established that Bumblebee had been active on Earth as early as [[World War II]], fighting on the side of the Allies alongside [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]] and several other Autobots. The [[Transformers: Bumblebee Movie Prequel|''Bumblebee'' prequel comic]] follows along with this backstory, chronicling Bumblebee's adventures during the [[Cold War (history)|Cold War]].
*However, the events of ''Bumblebee'' depict Bumblebee arriving on Earth in 1987, rendering both the WWII flashback and ''Bumblebee Movie Prequel'' inconsistent with the films themselves.
*Therefore, we can either assume that all prequel materials are considered null and void at this point, or there is a live-action counterpart to [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]] running around. The latter would likely explain how Bumblebee has no recollection of being a WWII veteran or knowing Sir Burton, as well as where his big hammer came from.

===Other===
[[File:BumblebeePrequelSketches.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Bumblebee: Year One"]]
*Bumblebee is a big fan of Earth cartoons! Some of his favorites include ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', ''{{w|Ren and Stimpy}}'', ''{{w|Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law}}'', ''{{w|Futurama}}'', ''{{w|Voltron}}'', and ''{{w|Rick and Morty}}'', as noted in [[Ask Vector Prime]].
*Bumblebee's ability in ''The Last Knight'' to blow himself apart and magnetically reassemble himself came seemingly out of nowhere; with no explanation, having never demonstrated this ability before, and with no mention of this ability at any point in any other media whatsoever. The closest thing to an in-universe explanation for this ability would be that he was somehow able to mimic (for repairs and as a battle strategy) a similar ability shown by the man-made KSI drones in ''Age of Extinction'' to disintegrate and re-materialize for repairs and transformation (but even that's a ''huge'' stretch).
*Bumblebee's alternate mode in the [[Transformers: Bumblebee Movie Prequel|''Bumblebee'' prequel comic]] is a mixture of an {{w|Aston Martin}} and a {{w|Volkswagen Karmann Ghia|Karmann Ghia}}.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=It's actually sort of a blend of that with an Aston Martin.|link=https://twitter.com/glovestudios/status/1014997829775917059|name=Andrew Griffith|site=Twitter|year=2018|month=07|day=05|(defunct=)}}</ref>
*Bumblebee attended ''The Voice'' to watch [[Hailee Steinfeld]]'s performance of "Back To Life", the single from their movie.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJveg86lUWE Hailee Steinfeld - Back To Life (Live from The Voice / 2018) via YouTube]</ref>
*Almost nine years since the release of ''Age of Extinction'' in May 2023, comedian [[Ben Schwartz]] revealed on the ''{{w|Game Grumps}}'' web series that he provided lines for Bumblebee's radio voice in the film. Schwartz was hired by Bay to create original dialogue for the character's radio communication. While most of his work was in the finished movie, a portion of his radio voice was omitted and replaced by lines from various media.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQwL2b4UEGU&t=8349s Ben Schwartz OBLITERATES Super Castlevania IV - Youtube]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Czech:'' '''Čmelák''' (first movie's first dub only) (Bumblebee)
*''Japanese:'' '''Bumblebee''' (バンブルビー ''Banburubī'')
*''Korean:'' '''Bumblebee''' (범블비 ''Beombeulbi'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''Daai Wong Fung''' (大黃蜂, "Bumblebee")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Űrdongó''' ("Space Bumblebee"), '''Dongó''' ("Bumblebee", ''Rise of the Beasts'' dub only)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Dàhuángfēng''' (Taiwan, 大黃蜂, "Bumblebee"), '''Dàhuángfēng''' (China, 大黄蜂, "Bumblebee")
*''Spanish:'' '''Abejorro''' ("Bumblebee")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Bdzhilka''' (Бджілка, "Bee")

==See also==
{{OtherVersions
|charname=Bumblebee
|disambig=Bumblebee (disambiguation)
|body=
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], the plucky yellow [[kid-appeal character]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], the hothead yellow kid-appeal character from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]].''
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], the yellow kid-appeal character turned leader from the [[Aligned continuity family]].
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]], the amnesiac yellow kid-appeal character from ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Transformers: Cyberverse]].''}}

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Autobot/Bumblebee/bumblebee.htm Bumblebee at TFU.info]
*[http://www.seibertron.com/toys/index.php?f_series=40&f_name=bumblebee&f_type=exact&Submit=Search Galleries of various different Bumblebee toys from the Movie]
*[https://www.instagram.com/p/BXNxtLPBtnK/], [https://www.instagram.com/p/BYYQ1Rej_e8/] Concept art for Bumblebee's World War II body by Josh Nizzi on Instagram

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Sebastian Fitzner

2025-09-27T06:08:53Z

ABYouKnowMe: Also the German voice of Deku and Ned

'''Sebastian Fitzner''' (born [[February 27]], [[1994]]) is a German actor and voice actor. Outside of ''Transformers'', he is best known as Ciel Phantomhive from ''Black Butler'', Izuku Midoriya from ''My Hero Academia'', and Ned Leeds from the ''[[Spider-Man]]: Home'' trilogy.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
*[[Cody Burns]]

===''Bumblebee''===
*[[Tripp Summers]]

===''Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition''===
*[[Robby Malto]]

==External Links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6445791/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 IMDB entry]
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=72629 Anime News Network entry]

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[[Category:German voice actors]]

Toshihiko Seki

2025-06-22T23:13:57Z

ABYouKnowMe:

[[Image:Toshihiko Seki.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Secret Finishing Line Technique! ...Part 2.]]
'''Toshihiko Seki''' (関俊彦 ''Seki Toshihiko'') is a Japanese voice actor and singer born [[June 11]], [[1962]] in Tochigi, Japan. He's done '''''numerous''''' roles in the world of voice acting in anime, video games, and TV roles since the 1980s, plus drama CDs and dubbing. To name some of his more notable roles: Duo Maxwell in ''New Report Mobile Suit Gundam Wing'', Legato Bluesummers in ''Trigun'', Senketsu in ''Kill la Kill'', Iruka Umino in ''Naruto'', Muzan Kibutsuji in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', the Warrior of Light from ''Dissidia: Final Fantasy'', dubbing voice of the Tenth [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|Doctor]] in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow in ''[[Batman|Batman Begins]]'', and most famously, Momotaros from ''{{w|Kamen Rider Den-O}}'' (and its various crossovers). No, not that [[Titan Hunter#Lockdown's team|Den-O]].

He also holds 2nd Dan (rank) in {{w|kendo}}, which while it might not seem much, he can still kick your aft.

==Roles==
===''Transformers Go!''===
*[[Gekisoumaru]]

==External links==
*[http://www.81produce.co.jp/list.cgi?man+2412352252150 Official 81 Produce profile] ''(Japanese)''
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0782841/ Toshihiko Seki at the Internet Movie Database]
*{{w|lang=ja|関俊彦|Toshihiko Seki at Japanese Wikipedia}}
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=693 Toshihiko Seki at Anime News Network]

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[[Category:Japanese voice actors]]

Peter von Gomm

2025-03-22T16:19:02Z

ABYouKnowMe:

{{disambig3|Peter}}
[[Image:PeterVonGomm.jpg|thumb|right|180px|BURN TO THE GROUND!!]]
'''Peter von Gomm''' (born [[August 23]], [[1968]]) is an American-born voice actor who resides in Japan. He has narrated lots of commercials in both English and Japanese, and has done voice work for anime and video games as well, playing X and Flame Hyenard in ''Mega Man X7'', Kyo Kusanagi in ''The King of Fighters XII'', Frank West in ''Tatsunoko vs. Capcom'', Spring Man in ''ARMS'', and [[Bomberman|White Bomber]] in ''Super Bomberman R''.

==Voice roles==
===''The Transformers'' (PS2 game)===
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime]]
*[[Dark Hot Rod]]
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
*[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]
*[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]]

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1477034/ Peter von Gomm at the IMDB]
*[http://www.petervongomm.com/ His official website]
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[[Category:English voice actors]]

Wataru Takagi

2025-03-22T16:18:43Z

ABYouKnowMe: slightly altered caption to reference not only American Psycho but also JoJo and Mega Man X7; credited all Mega Man roles under gaming section

[[Image:Takagi.jpg‎|right|250x|thumb|Oi Paul! BURN TO THE GROUND!]]
'''Wataru Takagi''' (高木渉 ''Takagi Wataru'', born [[July 25]], [[1966]]) is a Japanese voice actor . He works for the talent agency Arts Vision, and in terms of anime, he has played various roles such as Garrod Ran in ''Mobile Suit Gundam X'', Rikdo Koshi in ''Excel Saga'', Crimson Rubeus in ''[[Stephanie Sheh|Sailor Moon R]]'', Eikichi Onidzuka in ''GTO'', Valgaav in ''Slayers Try'', Okuyasu Nijimura in ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' and Genta Kojima (and himself) in ''Case Closed''/''Detective Conan''. In video games, he was formerly the voice of Zangief and [[Ryu]] (among others) and is currently the voice of Hugo in Capcom's ''Street Fighter'' franchise, reprised his role as Garrod Ran for the ''Super Robot Wars'' franchise, and voiced various ''Mega Man'' characters including Rush in ''Upon a Star'', Frost Man and Sword Man in ''8'', Douglas, Commander Yammark, and Infinity Mijinion in ''X6'', as well as [[Jack Merluzzi|Tornado Tonion]] and [[Peter von Gomm|Flame Hyenard]] in ''X7''.

He is ''very'' popular when it comes to dubbing American films and TV shows, primarily because of he can pull off an American accent. Takagi is the official dub voice for Chris Rock, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Jack Black (the ''American Pie'' series, ''Goosebumps'', etc.), and he's also played Dobby in the ''Harry Potter'' film series and Paul Allen in ''American Psycho''.

So far as cartoons go, he has played Flim in ''[[My Little Pony|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', Eddy in ''Ed, Edd & Eddy'', Zach in ''Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?'', Dr. Blowhole in ''The Penguins of Madagascar'', Iceman in ''[[Spider-Man]] & his Amazing Friends'' and the Toon Disney dub of [[Saban]]'s ''[[X-Men]]'' as well Henry Peter Gyrich in the [[TV Tokyo]] version and is the current voice of Daffy Duck in all ''Looney Tunes'' media.

==Roles==
===''Beast Wars''===
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetus]]

===''Beast Wars Metals''===
*Cheetus
*[[Teletraan I|Cyberguard]] ([[Proving Grounds|#45]], only)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron (Generation 1)]]

===''Beast Wars Metals 64''===
*Cheetus

===''Beast Wars Metals: Clash! Intense Battle''===
*Cheetus

===''Beast Wars Returns''===
*Cheetus

===''Transformers'' (2007)===
*[[Glen Whitmann]]

===''Transformers Animated''===
*[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]]
*[[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]]

===''Transformers Adventure''===
*[[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]]

===''Transformers Cyberverse''===
*[[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetus]]

===''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Transformers: Beast Awakening]]''===
*[[Cheetor (ROTB)|Cheetor]]

===''Transformers: EarthSpark''===
*[[Laserbeak (ES)|Laserbeak]]

==External links==
* [http://www.artsvision.co.jp/data.php?id=601 Official profile] at Arts Vision (Japanese)
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847085/ Wataru Takagi] at the Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1307 Wataru Takagi] at Anime News Network

[[Category:Japanese voice actors|Takagi, Wataru]]

Ayhan Kahya

2025-01-16T02:23:12Z

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[[File:Ayhan_kahya.png|216px|thumb|His voice SNAPS!]]
'''Ayhan Kahya''' ([[September 8]], [[1958]]–[[October 10]], [[2022]]) was a Turkish voice actor and an opera singer. He was best known as the voice of Thanos in the ''[[Avengers]]'' films, Morpheus in ''[[The Matrix]]'' franchise, and [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] in the [[live-action film series]]. Prior to retiring, he also worked as a chorus artist at Turkish State Opera and Ballet for many years.

==Voice Roles==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]

===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''===
*Optimus Prime

===''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''===
*Optimus Prime

===''Transformers: Age of Extinction''===
*Optimus Prime

===''Transformers: The Last Knight''===
*Optimus Prime

===''Bumblebee''===
*Optimus Prime

==Trivia==
*Due to his passing in 2022, fellow MCU Turkish dub alum [[Zeki Atli]] succeeded him as Optimus Prime in ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts|Rise of the Beasts]]''.

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6677054/ Ayhan Kahya at the Internet Movie Database]

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[[Category:Turkish voice actors]]

Optimus Prime (Movie)

2025-01-16T02:20:09Z

ABYouKnowMe: /* Rise of the Beasts film */ Credited Czech, Thai, and Turkish VAs

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:''Optimus Prime is the [[Autobot]] leader from the [[Movie continuity family]].''
[[File:Movieprime meettheautobots.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hello, pretty bird. GIVE ME YOUR FACE.]]
'''Optimus Prime''' is the leader of the [[Autobot]]s. Long ago, he was the humble leader of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s science division, which studied the [[AllSpark]], and were protected by [[Lord High Protector]] [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]'s military. When Megatron was corrupted by [[The Fallen]], Optimus discovered that he was the last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], hidden away when The Fallen destroyed their lineage. In response to Megatron's attempts to seize the AllSpark and conquer other worlds, Optimus assumed his proper [[Prime (rank)|title]] and rallied the Autobots to stand against the [[Decepticon]]s.

As obsessively as Megatron strives to achieve his objective, Optimus is equally as dedicated to stopping him, even at the cost of his life, his world, and—if necessary—his own people. It was on his order that the AllSpark was jettisoned into space, dooming Cybertron to a slow death and his people to a nomadic life. The sacrifices he has made weigh heavily on his [[spark]], but they must be done, for there is no other choice. He knows the ambitions that lurk in Megatron's spark, and they must never see the light of day. Lives must be kept free from the threat of Megatron's tyranny, no matter the cost. This obsession with the defeat of Megatron has robbed Optimus of some of his early idealism. This has created a certain ruthlessness beneath his otherwise honest and caring personality. Prime is not one for second chances and is willing to consider any action that might lead to victory, short of directly sacrificing those he cares about.

{{bigquote|You just wanna die for the guy! That's leadership… or brainwashin', or somethin'.}}
{{bigquote|No… that's ''Optimus Prime.''|[[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]] and [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] on their leader|''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Movies===
{{note|The seven movies are the primary component of the live-action movie continuity family. Their events should be taken as canon for all other pieces of fiction listed below, unless otherwise specified.}}
====''Transformers'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[David Kaye]] (English, ABC Television Broadcast Promo), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese)|[[Wang Kai]] (Chinese), [[Andrei Yaroslavtsev]] (Russian), [[Guilherme Briggs]] (Portuguese), [[Jacques Frantz]] (European French), [[Guy Nadon]] (Canadian French), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German), [[Alessandro Rossi]] (Italian), [[Jung Goo Lee]] (Korean), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Jordi Boixaderas]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Zdeněk Maryška]] (Czech), [[Shailendra Pandey]] (Hindi), [[Tibor Kristóf]] (Hungarian), [[Thongchai Chanchamni]] (Thai), [[Ayhan Kahya]] (Turkish, theatrical and home media), [[Payidar Tüfekçioğlu]] (Turkish, VOD)}}

[[File:TF2007 optimus meets sam.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.85|"I will peer into your spark..." Wait wait wrong line. CUT, TAKE 4, ACTION... 
"I will peer into your aplahds" sorry sorry. CUT, read the script, you're supposed to say "I am Optimus Prime" "Okay okay I got it"...]]
Optimus Prime and his Autobots were forced to depart their homeworld of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] thousands of years ago, after the life-giving [[AllSpark]] was lost to the far reaches of space. In the year 2007, having received word from [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] that the AllSpark was on the planet [[Earth]], Optimus brought his troops to the small, blue world. After descending through Earth's atmosphere in his [[transition form]], Optimus [[Trans-scan|scanned]] a passing truck, then quickly learned the planet's languages via the [[internet]]. Meeting up with Bumblebee, Prime and his men were introduced to [[Sam Witwicky]] and [[Mikaela Banes]], with whom Prime shared their history and their reason for being on Earth.

[[File:TF2007 optimus truckmode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Like a Boss.]]
Prime and the Autobots returned with Sam to his house, so that he could obtain for them [[Archibald Witwicky's glasses|a family heirloom]]: a pair of [[glasses]] belonging to his ancestor [[Archibald Witwicky]], which contained the location of the AllSpark encoded across its lenses. Prime had his troops wait outside while Sam and Mikaela searched for the glasses, but the Autobot leader's thunderous footsteps, clumsy attempts to hide, and general impatience made the whole experience quite a trial. Nevertheless, the Autobots managed to keep themselves hidden from Sam's parents long enough for Sam to find the glasses—at which point, the forces of [[Sector Seven]] arrived to take Sam and Mikaela into custody. Prime intercepted the S7 convoy, tearing the roof off the SUV containing the two kids and demanding that the organization's director [[Seymour Simmons]] release them. Sector Seven back-up soon arrived, however, forcing Prime to hide beneath a bridge, carrying Sam and Mikaela on his shoulders. When the humans slipped, Bumblebee was forced to break cover to rescue them, which resulted in all three of them being captured by S7. Now in possession of the glasses which could tell him the location of the AllSpark, Optimus remorsefully left Bumblebee in Sector Seven's hands despite protestations from [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] and [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]; Prime was unwilling to employ the deadly force he knew would be required to save their teammate, as he knew humanity held the potential to be something great.

[[File:Movie2007 Prime sword.jpg|left|upright=1.85|thumb|Swiss army Prime.]]
Using the glasses to trace the AllSpark to the [[Hoover Dam]], Prime led his men there, but while they were en route, the [[Decepticon]]s who were also in hiding on the planet launched an attack on the facility. Sam, Mikaela, Bumblebee and the forces of Sector Seven met up with Prime and his team on the road, and they all headed for nearby [[Mission City]] to hide the AllSpark. On the way, Prime was attacked by [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]; a brief but brutal struggle followed, concluding when Prime succeeded in decapitating the hate-filled Decepticon. Joining his men in the streets of Mission City, Prime was met in battle by his ancient enemy Megatron, who quickly proved to be superior both in physical strength and in terms of firepower. [[File:TF2007 optimus vs megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.85|"You, Kakarot. I choose you to be the first of my victims."]] Realizing that there was only one way to end the fighting, Optimus instructed Sam to push the AllSpark into his chest if all hope seemed lost, which would merge the cube with his own [[spark]], destroying both it and himself. As it turned out, Sam did just the opposite, instead thrusting it into ''Megatron's'' chest, killing the Decepticon leader and destroying the AllSpark. Prime regretted the necessity of the action, but knew there had been no other choice.

Though the Decepticons were defeated and their bodies dumped in the [[Laurentian Abyss]] by the military, the loss of the AllSpark meant the Autobots were unable to use its power to restore their homeworld. Electing to remain on Earth, Prime sent a message into deep space to any surviving Autobots in the galaxy to come to join them there. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

{{note|Optimus Prime's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels "[[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]]," "[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]" and "[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]";
the "[[Transformers: Movie Adaptation]]" and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; the activity book "[[Look and Find Transformers]]"; and the storybooks "[[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron]]," "[[Sam's New Car]]," "[[Transformers (interactive Play-a-Sound Storybook)|Transformers Play-a-Sound]]," "[[Transformers Mix & Match]]," "[[Meet the Autobots]]," "[[Meet the Decepticons]]," and "[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]." In the comic book and novel adaptations of the film, Prime also kills [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] after his altercation with Bonecrusher.}}
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====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese)|[[Wang Kai]] (Chinese), [[Guilherme Briggs]] (Portuguese), [[Jacques Frantz]] (European French), [[Guy Nadon]] (Canadian French), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German), [[Alessandro Rossi]] (Italian), [[Jung Goo Lee]] (Korean), [[Andrei Yaroslavtsev]] (Russian), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Jordi Boixaderas]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Zdeněk Maryška]] (Czech), [[Shailendra Pandey]] (Hindi), [[Imre Szélyes]] (Hungarian), [[Thongchai Chanchamni]] (Thai), [[Ayhan Kahya]] (Turkish, theatrical and home media), [[Volkan Ateş Akyılmaz]] (Turkish, VOD)}}

[[File:ROTF optimus takes aim.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|''My OptiPrime don't want none Unless he's got GUNS Hun'']]
In the two years which followed the events in Mission City, Optimus Prime and the Autobots—including a group of new arrivals who had responded to Prime's message—became part of a Transformer/human military group called [[NEST]]. Together, they hunted down the remaining Decepticons in hiding across Earth. After a destructive clash with [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] in [[Shanghai]] went awry, Optimus was air-dropped onto a highway and crippled the Decepticon. Demolishor taunted Optimus about the mysterious force known as "[[The Fallen]]", who would rise again. Prime ensured that Demolishor would not be around to see it, as he unceremoniously executed him.

Optimus returned with NEST to [[Diego Garcia]], where he then took part in an a emergency debriefing with [[Morshower|General Morshower]] regarding last night's warning in Shanghai. [[Theodore Galloway]], who had recently been appointed NEST liaison, interjected himself to air the [[Barack Obama|President]]'s concerns, while also airing his own complaints over the Autobots' refusal to share weapons technology. Optimus explained that sharing their weapons with humanity would bring more harm than good, given what they've witnessed of humanity's capitacy to wage war. Galloway countered this, by coldly stating that the Autobots were in no place to determine what was best for humanity given what happened to their own planet. Galloway then boldy claimed that since no one could determine why there was continued Decepticon activity on earth, there was one clear conclusion: the Decepticons were on Earth to hunt the Autobots. He asked if the Autobots would leave peacefully if they were requested to. Optimus said that they would, but Optimus posed a question of his own that he requested Galloway ask the President before he decides: what if they leave, and Galloway was wrong?

[[File:ROTF Prime blades.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Optimus' rampage through the Hundred Acre Wood left no survivors.]]
When the Decepticon [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] stole the remaining shard of the AllSpark from NEST's Diego Garcia base, Optimus Prime arranged a meeting with Sam Witwicky, who had since left home to go to college, hoping for the boy's help. Sam, unfortunately, was presently focused on having some semblance of a normal life, and was not receptive Optimus's pleas, but Optimus feared that the choice to be involved would soon be taken out of Sam's hands. This soon proved true when Megatron—resurrected by the AllSpark shard—abducted Sam to draw out the wisdom of the AllSpark that was hidden within the human's mind. Optimus and Bumblebee ambushed the Decepticons in the [[Broadwater Metal Works|abandoned industrial complex]] where Sam was being held and managed to whisk the boy away, but Megatron, [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]] gave chase, resulting in a ferocious three-on-one battle between Prime and the Decepticons in the depths of the nearby forest. Prime held his own, even managing to kill Grindor, but the underhanded Megatron was able to impale him on his pincer-blade and blast him open with point-blank shot. Although the rest of the Autobots soon arrived and drove off Megatron and Starscream, Optimus Prime was [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|dead]].

[[File:ROTF optimus dead body.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|This is what happens when you get close to [[Stephanie Sheh|Nui Harime]].]]
Prime's body was ordered to be brought back to Diego Garcia, but was soon covertly transported to [[Egypt]] by [[William Lennox]] and [[Robert Epps]] when they got word from Sam that he had discovered a possible means of restoring the Autobot leader to life: the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. In the midst of a battle between the Autobots and The Fallen's Decepticons in the Egyptian desert, Sam plunged the Matrix into Optimus's chest, and his gamble proved successful, as Optimus Prime lived again. To help Prime defeat The Fallen and destroy his [[Star Harvester|sun-harvesting weapon]] hidden within the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]], the turncoat Decepticon [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] sacrificed his life, entreating Prime to use his parts to gain "a power he had never known". [[File:ROTF movie Powered-Up Optimus Prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|I'm bringing sexy back.]] [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] and [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]] transplanted Jetfire's remains onto Prime's body, upgrading him into a heavily armed, flight-capable powerhouse. Prime immediately took flight and disabled the harvester, after which he engaged The Fallen in battle. Megatron attempted to intervene, but Optimus overpowered his old enemy and used his own fusion cannon to shoot half his face off. Resuming his fight with The Fallen, Optimus tore the ancient Decepticon's face off, and when the villain attempted to flee, Prime punched through his abdomen and crushed his spark, finally killing him.

On the return voyage home, Optimus thanked Sam for saving his life, as the boy thanked the Autobot leader for believing in him. Following this, Optimus Prime sent another transmission into space, detailing recent events so that the pasts of both races would be remembered, and also declaring that Humanity and the Autobots would face the future together. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|Optimus Prime's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]," "[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]" and "[[The Last Prime]]"; the "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation]]" and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks "[[I Am Optimus Prime (ROTF)|I Am Optimus Prime]]," "[[Operation Autobot]]," "[[Rise of the Decepticons]]," "[[When Robots Attack!]]," "[[Ratchet to the Rescue]]," "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Electronic Voice Changer]]" and "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Mix & Match]]." The publications targeted at younger readers tending to downplay Optimus's ferocity—in several, he defeats The Fallen not by killing him, but by [[:File:TheFallen-thrownintospace.jpg|hurling him into space]]. In the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|novelization]] of the film, Prime is not killed by Megatron's attack, but rather sent into [[stasis lock]], and would have stayed that way for years if not for Sam's intervention.}}

====''Dark of the Moon'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese)|[[Wang Kai]] (Chinese), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German), [[Alessandro Rossi]] (Italian), [[Jacques Frantz]] (European French), [[Guy Nadon]] (Canadian French), [[Andrei Yaroslavtsev]] (Russian), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Arturo Casanova]] (Latin American-Spanish, one line error), [[Jordi Boixaderas]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Zdeněk Maryška]] (Czech), [[Akshay Kumar]] (Hindi), [[Imre Szélyes]] (Hungarian), [[Guilherme Briggs]] (Portuguese), [[Srinivasa Moorthy]] (Telugu), [[Thongchai Chanchamni]] (Thai), [[Ayhan Kahya]] (Turkish, theatrical and home media), [[Volkan Ateş Akyılmaz]] (Turkish, VOD)}}
[[File:DOTM optimus armored weapons platform.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Chevron seven locked.]]
Three years after the defeat of The Fallen, the Autobots and NEST took to dealing with human conflicts in the absence of the Decepticons. Optimus's vehicle mode was now complemented by a [[Armored Weapons Platform|large transformable trailer]], containing an armory of various weapons and flight equipment. While investigating a tip that a piece of Cybertronian technology could be found in the ruins of the [[Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]], Optimus and his NEST allies were attacked by [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] and his pet [[Driller]], who attempted to steal the component. Optimus drove off Shockwave and his monstrous "pet", but was perturbed to discover that the recovered Cybertronian tech was a piece of the ancient Autobot spacecraft known as the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]''—flagship of his mentor and predecessor, [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]], and believed destroyed during the war on Cybertron millennia beforehand.
[[File:DOTM optimus with trailer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|"Callin' all trucks, this here's the duck. We're about to go a-huntin' bear."]]
Demanding an explanation from National Intelligence Director [[Charlotte Mearing]], Prime learned from both her and astronaut [[Buzz Aldrin]] that humanity had discovered the ruins of the ''Ark'' on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]] in the 1960s. Travelling to the moon with Ratchet aboard the ''[[Xantium (DOTM)|Xantium]]'', Prime discovered the comatose form of Sentinel within the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crash vault, along with a small fraction of the special cargo the ''Ark'' had been carrying—five [[pillar]]s capable of opening a [[space bridge]]. Optimus brought his old mentor back to Earth and used the Matrix of Leadership to reactivate him; showing him the peace and beauty of Earth, Optimus expressed his willingness to cede leadership back to Sentinel once more, but Sentinel refused.

[[File:DOTMSentinelOptimus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Sentinel, can you put that sword somewhere else so we can talk?]]
Unfortunately, it would soon transpire that Sentinel was in league with Megatron, when he murdered Ironhide and brought the pillars to [[Washington, D.C.]]. A shocked Optimus confronted his mentor at the National Mall reflecting pool, pleading with him to stop, but Sentinel was unmoved, and opened a space bridge through which at 200 Decepticon troops launched a vicious assault on the city. In the chaos that followed, Optimus tried to fight Sentinel; Sentinel defeated him, but spared his life in the belief he would come around to his side eventually. Naturally, Optimus refused, which led to Sentinel publicly denouncing him and his Autobots as rebels, falsely leading humanity to believe that their planet would be spared if they exiled Optimus's team into space aboard the ''Xantium''. Appearing to willingly comply, Optimus suspected Decepticon treachery—and he was right, as Starscream fired upon the ''Xantium'' soon after launch, destroying it. To all watching, it appeared Optimus and the Autobots had been destroyed, but in actuality, Prime had had his men hide within one of the ship's booster rockets, which had detached before the vessel's destruction.
[[File:DOTM optimus with flight tech.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|"That's my secret, Captain. I ''always'' want faces."]]
Optimus's team headed for [[Chicago]], which had been conquered by the Decepticons in their absence, and arrived just in time to rescue Sam, Epps and a team of former NEST soldiers from a Decepticon [[Orbital Assault Carrier|fighter ship]]. Venturing into the heart of the city, the Autobots were ambushed by Shockwave and the Driller, and Prime was separated from his trailer in the brawl. Leaving his Autobots to battle on without him, Prime quickly recovered the trailer and donned the flight tech within, which he used to slay the Driller. Unfortunately, he was then blasted by Shockwave and wound up tangled in the cables of a construction crane, temporarily taking him out of the fight.

By the time the [[Wreckers]] cut Optimus free, Sentinel had activated his space bridge and begun teleporting Cybertron itself into Earth's [[Solar System]]. Prime went on a rampage, scything through the Decepticons on the main battlefield on his way to a final confrontation with Shockwave; after killing the cyclopean Decepticon, he used Shockwave's own cannon to blast the space bridge's control pillar, stalling Cybertron's transportation. [[File:DOTM optimus executes sentinel.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Hey, you guys remember when Optimus Prime used to crack jokes and play basketball? Good times.]] Optimus then demanded that Sentinel face him; his one-time mentor complied, and the pair engaged one another in a battle which Optimus initially dominated, but in which Sentinel eventually got the upper hand when he sliced off Prime's right arm. Before Sentinel could deliver a killing blow, however, Megatron himself intervened, attacking the elder Prime from behind and heavily damaging him. Megatron proposed a truce to Optimus, wishing only to be in charge of the Decepticons again; Optimus's response was to plunge his energon axe into Megatron's head and tear it from his shoulders, killing his eternal foe once more. The damaged and helpless Sentinel begged for mercy, claiming that all he ever wanted was their race's survival, but Optimus refused, claiming Sentinel didn't betray the Autobots, but rather ''himself.'' With bitter regret, Optimus executed his treacherous master with Megatron's shotgun. With Cybertron now apparently destroyed by the deactivation of the space bridge, Prime and the Autobots accepted Earth as their new home, and Optimus declared that the Autobots would never forsake the defense of the planet or its people. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

{{note|Optimus Prime's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (novel)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]" and "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel]]"; the "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation]]" and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks "[[Autobots Versus Decepticons]]," "[[The Lost Autobot]]," "[[Optimus Prime's Friends and Foes]]," "[[Bumblebee's Best Friend]]," "[[Dark of the Moon: Action Pop-ups!]]" and "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Mix & Match]]." Numerous adaptations targeted at younger readers scaled back the film's violence. In the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation|comic book]] and [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (novel)|novel]] adaptations of the film, Optimus accepts Megatron's truce and allows him to leave, and he kills Sentinel not with Megatron's gun, but with Sentinel's own [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]] cannon.}}
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====''Age of Extinction'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese)|[[Wang Kai]] (Chinese), [[Andrei Yaroslavtsev]] (Russian), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German), [[Alessandro Rossi]] (Italian), [[Jacques Frantz]] (European French), [[Guy Nadon]] (Canadian French), [[Alfonso Ramírez]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Jordi Boixaderas]] (Spain - Spanish), [[Zdeněk Maryška]] (Czech), [[Shailendra Pandey]] (Hindi), [[Imre Szélyes]] (Hungarian), [[Bebi Romeo]] (Indonesian), [[Sławomir Pacek]] (Polish), [[Guilherme Briggs]] (Portuguese), [[Arun Alexander]] (Tamil), [[Srinivasa Moorthy]] (Telugu), [[Thongchai Chanchamni]] (Thai), [[Ayhan Kahya]] (Turkish)}}
[[File:AoE-junkeroptimus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Optimus' years of hard drinking and wild partying had finally caught up with him.]]
At some point in the distant past, Optimus was a member of an order of Cybertronian knights dedicated to exploring the universe. When he left the order to focus on becoming a Prime, he left his [[Sword_of_Judgement|sword]] and shield in the Knights' Temenos.

Following the battle in Chicago and the dissolution of NEST, the US government continued granting Optimus and the other Autobots asylum on Earth, in spite of the negative reputation the Autobots had gained. The White House believed that [[Harold Attinger]] was working alongside Optimus Prime to hunt down the last of the Decepticon fugitives; what the President didn't know was that Attinger's [[Cemetery Wind]] taskforce had began hunting down Autobots and terminating them. Learning of the betrayal, Optimus broadcast an urgent message to the Autobots on Earth, ordering his troops to cut off all contact with humans and go into hiding. Optimus successfully evaded Cemetery Wind for several years, but was eventually pinned down in [[Mexico]], caught in an ambush set by Attinger's lieutenant [[James Savoy]] and their Cybertronian ally, the bounty hunter [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]. Though badly wounded, Prime threw off his pursuers by scanning a dilapidated cab-over truck, and fled north to Paris, [[Texas]], where he hid in an abandoned movie theater and succumbed to stasis lock induced by his grievous injuries.

[[File:AOE-injuredoptimus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Cade Yeager was able to rebuild Optimus in a BARN! [[Iron Man|With a BOX OF SCRAPS!]]]]
Prime remained inert until aspiring roboticist [[Cade Yeager]] visited the theater for salvage. Hoping to strip the seemingly ordinary truck and sell the parts, he purchased Optimus and towed him home to his workshop, whereupon his examination of the truck's unusual inner workings led him to realize he had discovered a Transformer. Though Cade's daughter [[Tessa Yeager|Tessa]] and partner [[Lucas Flannery|Lucas]] wanted to turn Optimus in for a cash reward, Cade argued against it, wanting to increase his technical expertise by studying Optimus's systems further. To prove that the Transformer was "dead" and unable to retaliate, Cade opened the truck up and discovered a live missile from the truck's inner workings. When the missile was removed, Optimus suddenly awoke and transformed into robot mode. Confused and disoriented, Optimus threatened the humans, but Cade was able to calm him down, and offered to help repair him as best he could. Before he could get very far, Savoy's forces stormed the farm, forcing Optimus to hide underneath the barn, but when Savoy threatened Tessa's life, Optimus burst from concealment to aid his new human friends. A running battle with Lockdown ensued, culminating in an abandoned factory, where Prime regrouped with the Yeagers and Tessa's boyfriend [[Shane Dyson]] and escaped.

[[File:AOE optimus new altmode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Cemetery Wind would never think to go after a red and blue truck covered in flames!]]
After confirming that they had shaken their pursuers, Optimus summoned the surviving Autobots to a rendezvous point in the desert, scanning a passing truck on the way to adopt a new alternate mode and repair his injuries. Reuniting with Bumblebee, [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]], [[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]], and [[Hound (Movie)|Hound]], an angry and embittered Prime announced his intent to break his long-held vow and kill the humans responsible for the Autobots' suffering. With Cade's help, the Autobots learned that the bodies of their fallen comrades were being taken to [[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated]] in [[Chicago]], where they were being melted down for [[Living metal|raw material]] to produce KSI's own Transformers. Enraged to learn that Ratchet had recently suffered this gruesome fate, Optimus led the Autobots in a furious attack on KSI, but stopped short of killing company head [[Joshua Joyce]] when the human shamed him by declaring that mankind had advanced past the Transformers. [[File:AOE optimus reformatted.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.6|I need a face. '''AND I'M LOOKIN' AT YOURS!''']] The Autobots pulled out, but Attinger ordered KSI creations "Galvatron" and [[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]] to be sent after them; Optimus faced off against Galvatron, but before the battle could conclude, Lockdown shot down Optimus and dragged him away.

Imprisoned aboard Lockdown's ship, the very same one once used by the order of knights Optimus had been a part of, Optimus learned that the bounty hunter had been hired by the Transformers' mysterious [[Creator]]s to round up their renegade creations, starting with the ancient knights to whom the ship had once belonged. Optimus was soon rescued by his fellow Autobots, and they escaped by detaching the section of the ship they were in from the main body without Lockdown's notice. After the team regrouped, [[Brains]] revealed that Galvatron was, in fact, a rebuilt Megatron, and was planning to detonate a cyberforming [[seed]]—given to Attinger by Lockdown—in [[Hong Kong]]. Though Prime lacked a strong reason to defend humankind after his recent experiences, Cade petitioned him to have faith, in if not humanity itself, then in their potential to be better.

[[File:AOEOptimusRidingGrimlock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|I have a giant robot dinosaur. Your argument is invalid.]]
Arriving in Hong Kong, the Autobots' stolen ship was shot down by Galvatron's forces and crashed in the Wulong Valley. In need of reinforcements, Optimus reclaimed his sword and shield from the ship's armory and freed the other captive knights aboard the ship, the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobots]], and proposed that they let him lead them into battle. Their leader [[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]] was not receptive to this idea, and challenged Optimus, but the Autobot leader triumphed over him, and offered Grimlock freedom under his leadership, or death under his foot. Grimlock conceded defeat, and allowed Optimus to ride him into battle in his massive ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' mode. The Autobot-Dinobot alliance decimated Galvatron's army, forcing the Decepticon to retreat, but just when it seemed the day was won, Lockdown returned. Optimus disabled Lockdown's ship's tractor beam in order to allow his comrades to pull back while he faced the bounty hunter alone; during the course of their one-on-one fight, Optimus was forced to briefly break away to save Cade's life by shooting Attinger. [[File:OptimusPrimeleavesAOE.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8| ''So if you care to find me'' ''Look to the western sky!'' ''As someone told me lately'' ''Everyone deserves a chance to fly!'']] Unfortunately, this distraction allowed Lockdown to impale Optimus on his own sword, immobilizing him, but Bumblebee and Cade intervened to hold off Lockdown while Shane and Tessa freed Optimus, enabling him to finally kill Lockdown. Optimus set off one of Lockdown's grenades to finish off Galvatron's remaining drones, and flew the humans to safety as it detonated.

After releasing the Dinobots from his command, Optimus prepared to depart into space, to both remove the seed from Earth, and to investigate the mystery of his creators, who still had a price on his head. His innate faith in humanity reignited by Cade and his family and friends, Optimus entreated the humans to think of one of the stars as his soul, and instructed the Autobots to guard the Yeagers, their allies, and all the humans they could.

As he left the planet, Optimus sent a message to the creators: leave Earth alone, because he was coming for them... {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
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====''The Last Knight'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese)|[[Wang Kai]] (Chinese), [[Andrei Yaroslavtsev]] (Russian), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German), [[Alessandro Rossi]] (Italian), [[Jacques Frantz]] (European French), [[Guy Nadon]] (Canadian French), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Jordi Boixaderas]] (Spain - Spanish), [[Zdeněk Maryška]] (Czech), [[Shailendra Pandey]] (Hindi), [[Imre Szélyes]] (Hungarian), [[Sławomir Pacek]] (Polish), [[Guilherme Briggs]] (Portuguese), [[Thongchai Chanchamni]] (Thai), [[Ayhan Kahya]] (Turkish)}}

[[File:TLK-history-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|If Prime was a redcoat in 1815, he probably didn't like Americans very much...]]
In 1815, Optimus Prime participated in the {{w|Battle of Waterloo}} during the {{w|Napoleonic Wars}}. His early presence on Earth was covered up by the [[Order of the Witwiccans]].

After the battle of Hong Kong, Optimus exhausted his Energon in the vicinity of [[Jupiter]] and fell into [[stasis lock]], drifting through space. When [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] entered the Sol system, its gravitational pull affected Optimus and caused him to crash land on his homeworld, its atmosphere reviving him. Optimus awoke and despaired at the state of Cybertron. It was at this point that [[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]] made herself known to Optimus, claiming to be his creator. Optimus cared very little for that and demanded to know what she'd done to Cybertron, trying to attack her when she refused to answer him, only to be overwhelmed by her powers and her [[Infernocon]]s. Quintessa accused Optimus of destroying Cybertron, but Optimus protested that Megatron had started the Great War. Quintessa however, retorted Optimus was responsible for Cybertron's state as he had been the one to launch the [[AllSpark]].

[[File:TLK Optimus chained.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Such folly and futility in the grand design.]]
With the Prime in chains, Quintessa explained her plan to him and why she needed him. She revealed to him that the Earth had formed around the body of [[Unicron]] and that she wanted Optimus to retrieve [[Staff of Merlin|her staff]] from the [[Guardian Knight|Knights of Iacon]] on Earth. With the staff, Quintessa would drain the life out of Unicron and use his energy to revive Cybertron. Brainwashing Optimus into "'''Nemesis Prime'''", she sent him back to Earth to complete the task.

[[File:TLK Optimus confronts Viviane.jpg|thumb|300px|Happy birthday, Kryptonian. I give you oblivion.]]
Nemesis Prime arrived back on Earth in the Knights' ship and slew two of their number before demanding that [[Viviane Wembly]] hand over the staff. His former ally Cade Yeager tried to reason with Optimus but Nemesis Prime reasserted his identity and claimed to fight only for Cybertron and its people. Once Viviane had handed over the staff, [[Santos]] (futilely) opened fire on Nemesis, who swatted the [[Transformers Reaction Force|TRF]] aside with his [[Quad Barrel Shotgun|shotgun]] and exited the ship. On the surface, Nemesis was assaulted by Bumblebee, whom the Prime easily bested in combat before the sound of Bumblebee's true voice allowed Optimus Prime to return.

[[File:TLKOptimusVsBumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|It was at this point that Optimus' obsession with faces went too far.]]
The moment was short lived, as [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] flew in to steal the staff and the Knights arrived to slay Optimus for serving "Quintessa the Deceiver". While Optimus offered no resistance, viewing his execution as proper atonement, Cade managed to activate the [[Talisman (TLK)|Talisman]] and call off the Knights. Optimus then allied with the Knights and they flew off in the [[Knight Ship]] to confront Megatron and Quintessa on Cybertron. Arriving on [[Dragonstorm]], Optimus finally destroyed Infernocus by [[decapitation|decapitating]] all six Infernocons in a single mighty swing of his sword, reminding them that he is Optimus Prime. [[File:TLK Optimus decapitates Infernocons.jpg|thumb|300px|"Yeeart!"]]

In the [[ignition chamber]], Optimus engaged his old foe once again who tried to reignite their old friendship and offered Optimus the chance to stand beside them as they restored Cybertron. Optimus rebuked him, and was forced on the defensive before his fellow Autobots intervened and the Prime kicked Megatron out the side of the chamber.. Optimus then distracted Quintessa so Bumblebee could slay her when her defences were down as Vivian removed the staff, stopping Cybertron's destruction of Earth but leaving the two planets connected to one another. Optimus saved Cade and Vivian from falling to their death and, to the relief of their human allies, emerged from the destruction of the ignition chamber in his alternate mode with the two humans in his cab.

Despite the destruction of Earth being stopped, enough of Unicron's life force had been transmitted to Cybertron that it could again support its people. Optimus reflected that both humans and Cybertronians would have to work together to rebuild both their worlds before he sent out a call for all Autobots across the galaxy to return to Cybertron so they could begin rebuilding.
{{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}
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====''Bumblebee'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Jon Bailey]] (English international trailers), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese)|[[Wang Kai]] (Chinese), [[Jacques Frantz]] (European French), [[Guy Nadon]] (Canadian French), [[Alessandro Rossi]] (Italian), [[Jordi Boixaderas]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German), [[Zdeněk Maryška]] (Czech), [[Shailendra Pandey]] (Hindi), [[Imre Szélyes]] (Hungarian), [[Sławomir Pacek]] (Polish), [[Guilherme Briggs]] (Portuguese), [[Andrei Yaroslavtsev]] (Russian), [[Thongchai Chanchamni]] (Thai), [[Ahyan Kahya]] (Turkish)}}
[[File:BBfilm-Optimus-Bumblebee-Earth.jpg|left|thumb|300px|"Wanna take our war here? Seems like it'd be fun."]]
Leader of the Autobot rebels during the war for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Optimus Prime took part in the final battle for Cybertron against the Decepticons. Though he dispatched numerous [[Seeker (Movie)|Seeker]]s in the fight, he soon concluded that the Autobots were on the brink of being overrun by the Decepticon advance. As the Autobot rearguard battled [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]], Optimus explained to his troops that they would need to abandon Cybertron and regroup elsewhere in the galaxy, and as they headed to a nearby launchpad. Prime explained to his scout, [[Bumblebee (Movie)|B-127]], that he had selected [[Earth]] as the site of a new Autobot base, instructing him to reconnoiter the planet while he and the other refugees gathered Autobots throughout the galaxy to rendezvous at Earth.

As the other Autobots evacuated via escape pods, Optimus Prime stayed behind to delay any pursuit, leaping from the launchpad just as the Decepticons brought it down and fighting on alone. Soundwave confronted him, forcing Optimus to struggle briefly against Ravage. Though Optimus fought Ravage off, the distraction cost him his gun and allowed the Decepticons to surround him. Together, they advanced on the outnumbered and defenseless Autobot leader.

[[File:TF-BB-Optimus-Prime-and-Bumblebee-Earth-modes.jpg|thumb|300px|"Good work Bumblebee, I'm sure this mission won't result in a continuity nightmare."]]
Prime was somehow able to escape the Decepticons and leave Cybertron; at some point afterward, the Decepticons [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] fruitlessly attempted to interrogate [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] about Prime's whereabouts. A memory-hazy B-127, while being repaired by [[Charlie Watson]] in a forest, unintentionally played a glitched hologram message from Optimus Prime, triggering a memory in the yellow soldier. Later the message played clearly, once again unintentionally by B-127 when he was beaten by Dropkick at [[Sector Seven]]. The message revealed to Shatter and Dropkick that Optimus and the Autobots were coming to join B-127 on Earth, prompting them to attempt to summon the larger Decepticon armada to Earth and destroy the planet before Optimus could arrive.

Prime arrived on Earth and adopted a cab-over truck mode as a terrestrial disguise, then met up with B-127—now calling himself "Bumblebee"—on the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] after Bumblebee and [[Charlie Watson]] parted ways. That night, Prime and Bumblebee took refuge in a nearby forest, with Optimus thanking the scout for his efforts and commending his bravery as they watched more Autobot escape crafts descend to Earth. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
{{note|Optimus Prime's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novel "[[Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel]]".}}

====''Rise of the Beasts'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese)|[[Patrick Messe]] (European French), [[Guy Nadon]] (Canadian French), [[Reiner Schöne]] (German, Main Voice), [[Klaus-Dieter Klebsch]] (German, Second Trailer), [[Zdeněk Maryška]] (Czech), [[László Horányi]] (Hungarian), [[Blas Garcia]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Jordi Boixaderas]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Víctor Hugo Aguilar]] (Latin American Spanish, Second Trailer), [[Guilherme Briggs]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Sławomir Pacek]] (Polish), [[Thongchai Chanchamni]] (Thai), [[Zeki Atli]] (Turkish)}}

[[File:TF-ROTB-Optimus-Sees-Transwarp-Signal.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Is this for that ''{{w|Stargate (film)|Stargate}}'' movie I heard Bumblebee was excited to see?"]]
Seven years after his arrival on Earth, Optimus Prime, stranded on Earth after his arrival, updated his alternate mode to have a bulbar and sun visors. He became mentally worn down from being unable to leave and laid low in New York for the time being, up until the [[Transwarp Key]] activated, sending a transmission into the sky. Optimus Prime immediately signaled for Bumblebee, [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]], and [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] to rendezvous at a warehouse to make plans to retrieve the key and finally return home to Cybertron. Arriving last at the location, he noticed that Mirage had brought a human, revealed by Arcee to be [[Noah Díaz]], to their location. Optimus initially dismissed Noah and talked with the other Autobots to come up with a plan in order to retrieve the Transwarp Key. Mirage offered the idea of Noah to retrieve the key for them, as he was the ideal size in order for them to be able to sneak around into the location. Initially against the idea, Optimus eventually agreed to the plan.

[[File:TF-ROTB-Optimus-Prime-Confronts-Noah.jpg|thumb|300px|"Are you John Laurens in the place to be, two pints of Sam Adams, but working on three?"]]
Optimus waited on standby alongside Bumblebee and Arcee, the Autobot Leader still untrusting of Noah's capability to assist them. Bumblebee tried to say that the human race was not that bad, and while Optimus acknowledged that Bumblebee was treated kindly by [[Charlie Watson|another human]], he stood firm with his belief, and grew annoyed while waiting. The wait was shortened, however, as the [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcons]] arrived on the scene, and Optimus headed into the battlefield with the other Autobots by his side. Optimus was overpowered by the Terrorcon leader, [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]], and pinned to the floor via [[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]]. Before Scourge could deal the finishing blow to Optimus, Scourge redirected his attack towards Bumblebee, and Optimus had to watch his old friend be blasted by the Terrorcon leader, and was forced to retreat with Noah and another human, [[Elena Wallace]], after being rescued by the [[Maximal]] [[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]].

Wounded emotionally by the loss of Bumblebee, Optimus tried to pin the blame of the situation onto Noah, with the human placing the blame back on Optimus. Initially believing for all hope to be lost with Scourge holding the Transwarp Key and being able to summon [[Unicron]], Airazor clarified that Scourge had only half of the Transwarp Key, with Elena stating that the remaining half is in Peru. Optimus then changed their objective to getting both halves of the Transwarp Key and to kill Scourge. Realizing that the entire Autobot Team and the humans would need a means to travel to Peru, Optimus enlisted the help of [[Stratosphere]] to fly the team, remaining mostly silent in the flight to Peru, while hoping that Bumblebee could be revived with an Energon transfusion.

Upon arrival in Peru, Optimus and his team were guided by [[Wheeljack (ROTB)|Wheeljack]] to the city of [[Cusco]] in order to reach the location of the remaining half of the Transwarp Key, though they would not be able to traverse due to there being a festival held in the city at the time. Optimus reluctantly accepted the assistance of Noah and Elena to reach the temple while he and the other Autobots laid low in vehicle mode throughout the city for reinforcement. Upon the transmission received by Noah, Optimus and the other Autobots moved out towards their location to the jungle, with Scourge and the other Terrorcons following suit. Optimus transformed once out the city, telling Mirage he would get the half of the key from Scourge, as well as remove his head. Optimus shot at the Terrorcon leader, but Scourge tackled Optimus down the cliffside. Their fight was cut short by Airazor, Optimus then moved ahead towards the other Autobots and humans. Optimus then jumped into a standoff between the Autobots and humans against the other Maximals in the area. Airazor broke the tension between him and [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]], the latter revealing to Optimus he was his namesake.

Resting in a nearby village that was aware of the existence of the Maximals, Optimus looked over the lifeless body of Bumblebee once more, with Primal stating that there was raw Energon in the area, but it was inert and would not be able to restore Bumblebee in the state it was in. Optimus then discussed the matter of the humans with Optimus Primal, the Maximal leader stating that all life mattered to them, while also finding that the humans are able to be trusted.

The day after this conversation, however, Airazor, corrupted by an attack from Scourge, stole both the Transwarp Key and Elena, and while ready to shoot down the infected Maximal, Primal stopped him from doing so. Optimus arrived to the location of both Elena and Noah, and noticed the latter was ready to destroy the half of the Transwarp Key with his blaster, but Optimus pleaded with Noah to not destroy it, the Key being his only way to get himself and the Autobots home. The Transwarp Key however was stolen once more and placed into the hand of Scourge, Optimus coming in shortly after Primal was forced to kill Airazor.

Left with little options, but also weighing Primal's belief in the humans alongside the efforts of Elena and Noah willing to not destroy the Key, Optimus made a plan to directly go after Scourge with the Maximals and Autobots, deciding to fight for Earth, and if necessary, die fighting to protect the planet no matter the cost. He joined in the plan to get the attention of the Terrorcons and Scourge while Elena and Noah sneaked up to the control panel of the Transwarp Drive and Elena could use the shutdown code in order to prevent Unicron's arrival. Optimus then partook in the final battle, taking on the Terrorcon [[Sweep (ROTB)|Sweep]]s as well as Battletrap, both him and Primal working together to dismantle the Terrorcon, with Optimus expressing annoyance with Primal doing the finishing blow.

Optimus soon made his way to the bridge in order to take on Scourge and assisted in the effort to stop the arrival of Unicron and protect Noah, but Optimus was soon be overwhelmed by the Terrorcon leader once more as well as an army of Sweeps. Optimus was saved however, by Bumblebee, who was revived via the Energon pulse given off by the Energon being ignited through the Transwarp Tower's activation. Upon being freed, Optimus gained the upper hand against Scourge. Though Scourge ended up destroying the control panel to the Transwarp Drive, Optimus emerged victorious in their final fight, removing Scourge's head from his body, and took back the Autobot insignia Scourge had taken from Bumblebee in their first encounter.

Left with no options to stop Unicron, Optimus was forced to take another action and planned to destroy the Transwarp Key. Optimus ordered the other Autobots to leave immediately, giving Bumblebee his insignia back, before readying himself. Unicron tried to bargain with the Autobot leader in order to preserve the Key, but Optimus refused to listen, destroying the Key and causing the platform to explode. Optimus tried to save himself from the transwarp vortex sucking him into the closing portal, only to be helped by Noah grabbing his axe. The human refused to let Optimus die, and then they were rescued by Optimus Primal, the Maximal Leader throwing him towards a road for him to drive both himself and Noah to safety, the latter giving him a boost while in vehicle mode.

Optimus then returned to America in Stratosphere with the other Autobots and the humans, having found the ability to trust in them should they face any future threats.
{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts}}
{{note|Optimus Prime's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the books "[[Mission at the Museum]]" and "[[The Search Is On]]".}}

===Novels===
====''Ghosts of Yesterday''====
Before coming to Earth, Optimus Prime led the search for the AllSpark in the transport vessel, the ''[[Ark (Movie)|Ark]]''. In 1969, Earth-time, in an abandoned solar system, Prime and the crew discovered [[Ghost 1|a vessel]] of strangely Cybertronian design, which they pursued to a nearby planet. Prime dispatched Bumblebee to the surface to investigate the ship while he and the other Autobots battled Decepticons from the ''[[Nemesis (Movie)|Nemesis]]''; Prime personally took on and defeated [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]], and [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]. Contact having been lost with Bumblebee during the fight, Prime headed down to the planet to join him, where a joint attack by Starscream and the alien ship sent the two Autobots tumbling into a subterranean cavern network.

Fleeing an attack by [[Worm-thing|indigenous worm-creatures]], Optimus Prime and Bumblebee came across the alien vessel, which Prime deduced was trying to surrender. Lines of communication were opened, and Prime realized that Starscream had duped the little aliens into attacking him. However, the creatures, who called themselves "[[human]]s", explained that they held Megatron, whom they called the Ice Man, on their home world, [[Earth]]. Realizing the destruction Megatron would wreak upon the defenseless humans if he escaped, Prime vowed to see them return to their world to warn it.

Prime blasted a way out of the caverns, but on the way back to the ''Ark'', the Decepticons attacked again, and Prime found himself in the difficult position of fighting Starscream and protecting the human ship. Speared by Bonecrusher's tail, Optimus seemed doomed to perish at Starscream's hand until the humans interceded, opening fire on Starscream. The Decepticon destroyed the humans and their ship in retaliation, but Optimus Prime, inspired by their courage and sacrifice, resolved to locate Earth—and the AllSpark which he speculated had come to rest there—before the Decepticons did... and hopefully before Megatron came back online. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

====''The Veiled Threat''====
{{bigquote|I know Megatron. I know all of you. You would not have taken the AllSpark and left this world in peace. You would have subdued it and made slaves of its people. Even in the absence of the AllSpark, my conscience and that of my friends could not have allowed that.|Optimus Prime to [[Macerator (ROTF)|Macerator]]}}
Following the battle for the AllSpark in Mission City and the formation of NEST, Optimus and Lennox led a team of Autobots to investigate a Decepticon sighting in [[Zambia]]. They found a trap waiting for them, which resulted in Optimus being dragged over [[Victoria Falls]] by the Decepticon [[Macerator (ROTF)|Macerator]]; Prime saved himself by grabbing an outcropping and was hauled to safety by rookie Autobot [[Beachbreak]]'s tow line, but Starscream then killed Beachbreak in retaliation. Prime took the Autobot's death personally, regarding it as a failure of his leadership. The team proceeded to hunt down their Decepticons prey, and after a lengthy fight at the [[Kariba dam]], Optimus decapitated Macerator. The other Decepticons escaped however, and Optimus prevented Ironhide from firing after [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] for fear of harming nearby humans.

Another mission to [[Australia]] saw Optimus and his team spend days searching the outback for Decepticons, during which they discussed the possibility that the Decepticons might be hunting for energy to resurrect Megatron. Optimus doubted there was an energy source on the planet that could do so. They eventually encountered [[Kickback (ROTF)|Kickback]], [[Trample]] and [[Tread]], three [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]]s mining for minerals. Optimus found Kickback's sonic charge weapon to be a challenge, but with some help from Lennox, killed the Decepticon.

The narrow streets of [[Rome]] proved a challenge for Optimus's truck mode to navigate when NEST travelled there to hunt down [[Jolt (Movie)|Deadend]] and [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]]. After [[Knock Out (ROTF)|Knockout]] dealt to the two Decepticons, a furious Starscream challenged Optimus to one-on-one combat in the nearby [[Colosseum]]. Naturally it was a trap — Starscream had allied himself with a human, [[Bruno Carrera]], and together they trapped Optimus in a pit and set Barricade on him. With the help of four humans, Optimus broke free, threw Barricade into the pit and sealed him there. He then had only to show his face outside to where Starscream was fighting Ironhide, Ratchet and [[Salvage (Movie)|Salvage]], and the would-be Decepticon leader fled. {{storylink|Transformers: The Veiled Threat|The Veiled Threat}}

====''Classified''====
[[File:Tfc-battlemountain.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
After the massive battle in Egypt and the defeat of The Fallen, NEST continued to hunt Decepticons around the Earth. When a trio of Decepticons
attacked the [[United States Air Force]] [[Nevada Test and Training Range]], Optimus Prime and Ironhide responded; Optimus attempted to talk [[Dropshot (Classified)|Dropshot]] into abandoning the Decepticon cause, but was forced to kill him when he attempted to kill some human soldiers. Likewise, when [[Bombshock (PCC)|Bombshock]] threatened to blow up some humans, Optimus and Ironhide took him down with a pincer movement they had practised during the war back on Cybertron, in the [[Battle of Polyhex]]. Returning to base, Optimus took part in a meeting of some generals, though he had to talk his way into doing so, as they were initially reluctant to include the aliens. Optimus disagreed that the Decepticons' target was [[Area 51]] and correctly deduced it to be [[Hawthorne Army Depot]]. When he arrived there with Ironhide, Bumblebee and Ratchet were already engaged in a battle with [[Reverb (ROTF)|Reverb]], however the Decepticon's personal [[force field]] made him impossible to hit and he did substantial damage to Prime. Once the shield was eliminated, Optimus defeated Reverb. Though Reverb asked Optimus to finish him off, Optimus instead took him prisoner. He also talked [[Marcus|General Marcus]] into allowing [[Kevin Bowman]] to join NEST. {{storylink|Transformers Classified: Switching Gears|Switching Gears}}

After supervising a test of a prototype [[Hyperdynamix]] tank, Optimus returned to the [[NEST Rapid Response Base]] for a briefing on a new Cybertronian storehouse detected at [[Battle Mountain]]. Before they had a chance to investigate, Optimus was forced to go defend Hyperdynamix against Decepticon attackers and was kept busy there trying to find the three aggressors. {{storylink|Transformers Classified: Battle Mountain|Battle Mountain}}

During a visit to Hyperdynamix Aerospace to learn about the [[Hyperdynamix Orbital Debris Disposal Initiative Station|HODDIS]] station intended to track incoming Cybertronians, and the satellite with which [[Alexander Porter|Dr. Porter]] intended to wipe out the Decepticons, incoming meteoroids were detected. Optimus and his team went to the crash site in [[Idaho]], and found themselves having to fight the giant [[robo-pede|robot centipedes]] which came out of the meteoroids. Despite suffering major damage, Optimus was able to dispatch two of them on his own. {{storylink|Transformers Classified: Satellite of Doom|Satellite of Doom}}
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===IDW movie comics===
[[File:Foundation1 optimus and sentinel.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5|'''Optimus:''' Hey Sentinel! Wouldn't it be funny if you died on a ship, came back to life using the Matrix, betrayed your own kin, aided Megatron and killed my right-hand man? '''Sentinel:''' Heh, heh, heh. That'll never happen!]]
Optimus Prime was the last surviving descendant of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], orphaned and hidden away to protect him from the evil of The Fallen. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen issue 3|Revenge of the Fallen #3}} Optimus grew up with no knowledge of who he was, and was eventually found by Sentinel Prime, who claimed to be descended from [[Primus]] himself. Joining Sentinel's tribe of "Autobots", Optimus worked with his teacher and other pupils Megatron and [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]] to restore order to an energy-starved Cybertron by helping to locate the lost AllSpark, buried far beneath Cybertron's surface. Re-energized by a star harnessed by the science of [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]], the AllSpark restored life and energy to Cybertron, unifying the planet once more, but the old and weary Sentinel Prime had no desire to lead this new, united populace. At last, he revealed to Optimus the secret of his heritage, and that he, as "Optimus Prime", ought to succeed him as leader. {{storylink|Foundation issue 1|Foundation #1}} Unable to believe that he was a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]], Optimus turned the role down, proposing instead that he investigate Cybertron's history, in an attempt to bring some of the good the Primes created back to the world. Accordingly, Sentinel redrew his plans for Cybertron, having Optimus lead the archaeological [[Science Division]], while placing Megatron in charge of Cybertron's [[Defense Force]]. {{storylink|Foundation issue 2|Foundation #2}} Alas, neither Sentinel nor Optimus realized that Megatron had eavesdropped on their conversation. {{storylink|Foundation issue 1|Foundation #1}} Megatron was consumed with anger and jealousy at the knowledge that he was Sentinel's second choice, and further lost all respect for Prime because he had turned down an incredible birthright. {{storylink|Foundation issue 2|Foundation #2}} Nevertheless, the pair were able to govern Cybertron together for two generations, their two personalities creating a balance; Prime was fair while Megatron was firm. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} When [[Malcontent]] activity opposing Sentinel's order began escalating, however, Megatron intimidated Optimus into giving him supreme power in defense of the planet. {{storylink|Foundation issue 2|Foundation #2}}

[[File:Defiance1 Megs Prime argument.jpg|upright=2|thumb|"Hey, I wanted a mouthplate!"]]
When ''Lord'' High Protector Megatron toured a Science Division excavation site near the AllSpark [[Simfur Temple|temple]] at [[Simfur]], he and Optimus clashed over several issues; all Megatron cared about was whether the site contained power similar to the AllSpark, while Optimus insisted on taking things slowly with the reminder that it was ''his'' division was in charge of the proceedings. Subsequently, after the dig uncovered a mysterious [[sarcophagus|relic]], Optimus and Megatron's argument over what should be done with it was interrupted by an attack from [[Ejoornian|aliens]] from the neighbouring [[Eshems Nebula]]. Megatron ordered that the relic be taken to his personal quarters for protection during the battle, and Optimus could not argue. {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}} After the aliens were repelled, Optimus ordered his science teams to help the survivors of the attack while he went to confer with Megatron, only to nearly come to blows with the High Protector when he demanded that Optimus marshal the Science Division for war against the aliens. Fear that Megatron sought to divide Cybertron, Optimus called a meeting of the Science Division and appealed to all those who served under him not to join Megatron on his crusade, asking them instead to stay by his side and continue on with their mission of peaceful research. {{storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}} With help from closest confidants [[Prowl (Movie)|Prowl]] and [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], Optimus broke into Megatron's quarters in search of some clue to his brother-in-arms' sudden compulsion towards war, but only had time to observe that the enigmatic relic had somehow been restored to pristine condition before he was forced to leave to avoid detection. {{storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}}

[[File:Defiance3 optimus cybertron alt mode.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|Guys, stop look'n at me! I'm transforming here!]]
Returning to Science Division headquarters, Optimus was greeted with a stunning discovery: Ratchet, Elita-One and Arcee had uncovered other ancient artefacts, each of which bore a symbol that matched one on Optimus's helmet: a symbol that proved Optimus was indeed a descendant of the Dynasty of Primes. Prime went with Arcee and Ratchet to the excavation site, where they discussed the ramifications of this new information, only for the group to be apprehended for treason by an unwilling Prowl, forced to do so on the orders of Megatron. This turned out to be a trap, however: while they were being escorted to the city of [[Metrotitan (ROTF)|Metrotitan]], Megatron's forces ambushed them with intent to kill. Optimus bested Starscream and collapsed [[Metrotitan (ROTF)|Metrotitan]] on top of the attackers, {{storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}} then raced back to the embattled excavation site to usher Elita-One, Sentinel Prime and Wheeljack to safety, with a little help from Elita's sister [[Chromia (ROTF)|Chromia]]. Optimus informed Sentinel of the marking on his head that proved his mentor had been right all along: now, he was Optimus ''Prime''. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} All those loyal to Optimus regrouped at [[Burthov]], where Optimus was recognized as the leader of the group, with Prowl serving as his lieutenant. [[File:Foundation1 optimus is mad.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3| If I had a face everytime I got angry, I'd be rich.]] Captain Ironhide—a former member of Megatron's Defense Force, who had now christened themselves the "Decepticons"—informed Optimus of the huge starship ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]'' that Megatron was building, and the newly christened Prime began working toward equipping his own side with similar vessels. Though the Autobots found themselves at an advantage when the ''Nemesis'' left Cybertron with the balance of the Decepticon forces, it was then that ''true'' war finally broke out between Optimus's and Megatron's forces. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

The war raged for thousands of years, with no end in sight until Sentinel came up with a solution: a "torch" that could bring the conflict to an end without the mass murder of the Decepticons. Contact with the AllSpark was required to activate it, so the Autobots made for Simfur Temple, {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} where Optimus held off Megatron so that Elita-One could activate the torch and deliver it to Sentinel. Sentinel loaded the torch aboard the Autobots' ship, the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]'', but to Optimus and Megatron's disbelief, Starscream blew the ship out of the air. Consumed with grief and rage at the apparent death of his mentor, Optimus ordered Wheeljack to use the second, remaining ''[[Ark (Movie)|Ark]]'' to transport the AllSpark away Simfur, then declared he would be going on a suicide mission to kill Megatron. {{storylink|Foundation issue 4|Foundation #4}} Concerned for their friend, Ironhide and Elita-One stayed by Prime's side as he made his way through the soldiers guarding Megatron's [[Lord High Protector citadel|citadel]]. {{storylink|Foundation issue 1|Foundation #1}} {{storylink|Foundation issue 2|Foundation #2}} Optimus demanded Megatron face him, but the Decepticon leader responded by dropping the [[smelting pool]] on him. Ironhide saved Prime from the fiery rain, and Optimus then entered Megatron's chamber alone, to discover his former ally surrounded by hungry [[hatchling]]s, confident that the "weak" Optimus would not harm the infants to get to him. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} At that point, Wheeljack's team removed the AllSpark from its temple, plunging Cybertron into darkness. Optimus escaped, leaving Megatron to fend off his ravenous hatchlings, and joined Ironhide in fending off Starscream and Shockwave. Returning to oversee the AllSpark's transportation, Optimus recognized that the drastic actions he had taken had forever fractured his relationship with Elita-One, and observed he still had a long way to go to being a great leader. {{storylink|Foundation issue 4|Foundation #4}}

[[File:Ark Bridge Defiance4.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5|"Who ''are'' all you people?"]]
To put the AllSpark's power beyond Megatron's reach, Optimus Prime made preparations to send it off-planet. Allowing word to reach the Decepticons that the cube was being held at Simfur, Prime and the main force of his Autobots occupied their enemies in battle there, while a small team led by Bumblebee guarded the AllSpark's true hiding place, [[Tyger Pax]]. The cube was launched into space, and Megatron immediately gave chase. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} Optimus was immediately regretful of his decision, feeling that in buying the Autobots some time in the war, he had sentenced their world to death, but Prowl insisted he had made the right choice, and that he had turned death into a fighting chance to live. Bolstered by Prowl's words, Prime and his Autobots took off after the AllSpark and Megatron aboard the ''Ark'', hopeful that they could defeat the Decepticon leader while he was alone, and bring the cube back to heal their homeworld. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 1|The Reign of Starscream #1}}

[[File:AllianceOptimusHoloDriver.jpg|upright=1.8|thumb|[[Peter Cullen|Optimus Prime]] driving Optimus Prime! Sheer awesomeness!]]
Following Optimus and the Autobots' arrival on Earth, and the subsequent battle of [[Mission City]] and the destruction of Megatron and the AllSpark, {{storylink|Transformers: Movie Adaptation}} Optimus Prime helped eliminate the remaining [[AllSpark Mutation]]s skittering around the city, then requested the help of William Lennox and his men in getting the Autobots out of the city before other, less trustworthy humans could arrive. They located a trailer that Prime could use to transport the deceased body of his first lieutenant [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], and, equipped with a hologrammatic driver to avoid suspicion on the road, Prime led his Autobots in rolling out. Sector Seven's Seymour Simmons would later exploit this friendship between Prime and Lennox when, a month later, he convinced Lennox to request assistance from Prime and the Autobots in transporting the Decepticons' remains. {{storylink|Alliance issue 1|Alliance #1}} Prime's team was to escort a Sector Seven convoy from their Nevada base to a naval base at [[California|San Diego, California]], from whence the Decepticons and Jazz's remains would be buried at sea. Before departing Nevada, he entrusted the remaining AllSpark fragment to [[Vine|Professor Vine]] for safekeeping, but had second thoughts soon after leaving, and ordered Bumblebee and Ironhide to turn around and retrieve it. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2|Alliance #2}} The two returned to discover that the base had been attacked in their absence by Decepticons [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]] and Starscream; Prime soon arrived back to retake ownership of the shard. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3|Alliance #3}}

[[File:Alliance4 angryLennox Prime.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8| Did I ever tell you about my unhealthy addiction?]]
Weeks later, following the aquatic interment of Jazz and the Decepticons, Optimus and Lennox agreed to a formal [[NEST|alliance between the Autobots and humans]] as the first line of offense and defense against the Decepticons. The team trained on the island of Diego Garcia, their mutual respect for one another growing, and soon word came in of new Decepticon sightings around Earth. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3|Alliance #3}} For their first mission, NEST was deployed to [[San Francisco]] to take out the Decepticons Deadend and Swindle, the former of whom was quickly dispatched by Prime via a head-on collision. Swindle's last words caused Prime concern, as they suggested more Decepticons would soon be coming to search the Earth for something; Lennox feared it might be Sam Witwicky, and Prime, sadly convinced the boy was destined to be a part of the conflict, decided to send Bumblebee to resume his role as Sam's guardian. {{storylink|Alliance issue 4|Alliance #4}}

[[File:Alliance4 Prime killingspree.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Freedom is the right of all '''non-Decepticon''' sentient beings.]]
Knowing that Lennox's superiors held little trust in the Autobots, Optimus Prime dedicated himself and his Autobots to working harder to prove their goodwill through continued success. NEST proceeded to hunt for Decepticons around the world over the next year, with Optimus Prime personally destroying [[Jetstorm (Movie)|Jetstorm]], [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] and [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]]. NEST's ranks continued to grow, with Autobot refugees even arriving on Earth in response to the message Optimus had sent into space, including Prime's old friend Elita-One. {{storylink|Alliance issue 4|Alliance #4}} One particular new arrival proved a little troublesome, however: in November 2008, [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] caused chaos in [[Uruguay]] when he recklessly pursued his old Decepticon foe [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] towards [[Buenos Aires]]. Prime assured [[Morshower|Admiral Morshower]] that they would forcibly bring Sideswipe in if necessary, but fortunately, Ironhide was able to calm the rampaging Autobot down. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 2|Tales of the Fallen #2}} Demolishor escaped, but was tracked to Shanghai by NEST the following year, and Prime's team headed out to finally take the giant Decepticon down. {{storylink|Alliance issue 4|Alliance #4}}

[[File:Nefarious2 Prime on Soundwave.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.95|Ass-whooping. Noun. To have your posterior presented to you with overwhelming force.]]
After Optimus's death and rebirth during the conflict with The Fallen, {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation|Revenge of the Fallen movie adaptation}} NEST resumed its day-to-day business of hunting down rogue Decepticons. Optimus was dissatisfied with their present reactive state, however, insisting that they begin proactively rooting out Decepticons before they struck. With NEST low on resources, Optimus deployed several new Autobot arrivals to deal with a Decepticon attack on [[Kingdom Petrochemicals]]. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 1|Nefarious #1}} The presence of [[Initiative|unknown humans]] at the petrochemical plant gave Prime and Lennox something to puzzle over, and soon after, when NEST was tipped off to Decepticon activity in [[Utah]], the pair believed things to be connected. Optimus went to Ironhide and Sideswipe's aid in Utah, besting [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] and taking him into Autobot custody in order to learn everything he knew about the enigmatic human organization. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 2|Nefarious #2}} Optimus oversaw the preparations of the facilities for holding Soundwave, rather than face having to tell Major Lennox what they'd done, but this proved the wrong choice: when the plane carrying Soundwave was shot down by [[Buzzsaw (ROTF)|Buzzsaw]], Prime's off-the-record actions meant that Lennox was unable to call in any help. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 3|Nefarious #3}}

[[File:Nefarious6 Optimus must feed allspark.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|I hope [[Rubik's Cube#Revenge of the Fallen|this cube]] isn't like the ones you find in [[Walgreens]].]]
When [[Theodore Galloway]] got too close to discovering the actions of the [[Initiative]], the mysterious human group, they sent the mind-controlled Decepticon [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransack]] to eliminate him. Optimus sent [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] to help him, after which Soundwave returned and proposed an alliance between himself and the Autobots to stop the Initiative for good. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 4|Nefarious #4}} Soundwave led the Autobots to the location of the [[Initiative base]] in [[California]], but the mobile headquarters had moved on by the time they arrived. Following its trail to Utah, Optimus sensed the power of something very like the [[AllSpark]] upon approach, and began to realize what they were up against—though he did not expect that the Autobots would then find themselves facing brainwashed Transformers, including [[Armorhide (Movie)|some]] [[Blazemaster|of]] [[Brawn (ROTF)|their]] [[Smokescreen (Movie)|own]] comrades! {{storylink|Nefarious issue 5|Nefarious #5}}

During the battle, Optimus demanded their foe surrender the [[Project Nefarious|artificial AllSpark]] they possessed, but [[Carter Newell]], head of the Initiative, responded by trying to use the artifact to terminate all Cybertronian life. An injury courtesy of [[Reedman]] aborted the attempt, and Newell tried to flee, forcing Optimus to ram the truck he was in. From the wreck, Optimus pulled the rapidly-destabilizing faux-AllSpark, and was ready to feed it his own [[spark]] to stop the deadly chain reaction building within it. Luckily that turned out to be unnecessary, as [[Fortress (ROTF)|Fortress]]—a [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]] who had long been the Initiative's captive—took the AllSpark from him and carried it into space, where it exploded safely. In the aftermath, Optimus noted that the Initiative databanks had been picked clean by Soundwave, and feared the possibility that anyone else might attempt to recreate the AllSpark. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 6|Nefarious #6}}

[[File:RisingStorm1 ElitaandOptimus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5|Optimus, you don't wanna know.]]
The Autobot refugees rescued from the Initiative were eager to get back in the field, but Optimus encouraged them to take more time to recuperate, as they were clearly not fully healed. The havoc the Initiative wrought had convinced Optimus that the Autobots had to refocus their efforts on a new objective: ensuring that no other humans could exploit Cybertronian technology. A team inducing Elita-One and her sisters was deployed to recover Cybertronian weapons from an arms dealer; upon their return to Diego Garcia, Prime shared a quiet moment with Elita, learning more about the new symbiotic bond that had recently been forged between her and her sisters, and growing fearful of the violent streak she had developed. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 1|Rising Storm #1}}

When word reached NEST that Sam Witwicky had come under attack from Decepticons in [[Philadelphia]], Optimus mobilized the Autobots to respond. With Arcee having been injured on the previous mission, he initially wanted her and her sisters to stay behind, but they insisted on going. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}}

During the flight to Philadelphia, Optimus tried once more to have Arcee sit out of the mission, but Elita reinforced her need for revenge—a sentiment that only opened old wounds between her and Prime, reminding both of the time in the past when Prime let his rage get the better of him. Elita's anger over Prime's abandonment of her on Cybertron, and the fact that her death and reunion with him had only led to more fighting and killing, boiled over, and she and her sisters angrily departed on their own mission: to infiltrate what the Autobots believe to be the Decepticons' base of operations in upstate New York. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 3|Rising Storm #3}}

[[File:RisingStorm4 shockers vs prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Shockwave threatens his face collection.]]
Optimus and the rest of the team proceeded on to Philadelphia, where they engaged and contained the Decepticons, but after a while, Elita reappeared, attempting to warn them that the whole thing was a trap laid by Shockwave. No sooner had she spoken his name, the cyclopean Decepticon himself rocketed down out of the air and crushed the life out of her. Driven into a rage by her death, Optimus Prime took Shockwave on one-on-one, and would have killed him had Shockwave's pet [[Driller]] not came to save his master. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}}

Shockwave had also ravaged the Diego Garcia base and killed all the Autobots stationed there, requiring it to be shut down and NEST operations moved to Washington, D.C. Optimus oversaw the decommissioning of the facility, {{storylink|Dark of the Moon issue 1|Dark of the Moon #1}} which was soon followed by the return and betrayal of Sentinel Prime. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation|Dark of the Moon adaptation}}
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====''Transformers: Beginnings''====
[[File:Optimusprimemovieprequel.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Black and white is edgy and cool, so we use it Bumbles.]]
{{voiceactor|[[Peter Cullen]] (English)}}
Bumblebee remembered Optimus Prime's orders that they must launch the AllSpark into space, for it was better to lose it to the depths of space than allow Lord Megatron to corrupt it with his evil. For wherever there is hope, there is life. {{storylink|Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Transformers: Beginnings}}

{{note|Transformers: Beginnings is a condensed, flash-animated retelling of the events of the [[Transformers: Movie Prequel|Movie Prequel]], described in the above section.}}
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====''Schick Hydrobot and the Transformers''====
[[File:OptimusMegatronSchickComic.jpeg|thumb|300px|No Megatron! '''THAT FACE IS MINE!''']]
While searching for Decepticons, who had plans to build an Energon converter to create a massive army and enslave the Earth, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Hound came across [[Hydrobot (TLK)|Hydrobot]] and mistook him for a [[Decepticon]]. Before they could catch him, Hydrobot escaped from the Autobots' clutches. The trio started to realize that they might have judged the small 'bot wrongly when Hound found out that the [[H-Boostium|substance]] Hydrobot left behind was nothing like something a Decepticon would use. Optimus requested Hound to trace its source, which led the Autobots to a [[Schick]] R&D department. They gained access into it in vehicle mode by fooling the guard into believing that the vehicles modes they were using was ordered by the scientist Dr. [[Hiroshi Benson]] himself. Upon gaining access to the laboratory, they confronted Hiroshi in robot mode, which left the human scientist baffled.

Shortly after the scientist finished explaining the origin of the substance and Hydrobot, a squadron of Decepticons led by Megatron suddenly bursted through the wall, explaining their intent to use the devices inside Hiroshi's laboratory to build the Energon converter. Luckily, Hydrobot arrived at the scene to help the Autobots. Just before Megatron and Optimus could dish it out, Megatron grabbed a hold of Hiroshi but failed to stop the human from explaining how to use the [[Energy-field razor|control set]] against Decepticons. A surprise punch from Optimus staggered Megatron and gave Hydrobot enough time to snitch the device away and use it to release a shock burst through Bumblebee towards the Decepticons, prompting them to retreat. After all was said and done, Optimus apologised to Hydrobot for the misunderstanding. The trio and Hiroshi later realised that Hydrobot had forged a new life for himself. The trio then gave Hydrobot a lift and bid their farewells. {{storylink|A New Friend|A New Friend}}
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===Titan movie comics===
[[File:OptimusMovie GeoffSenior.JPG|upright=1.4|left|thumb|Starting as he means to go on.]]
When war broke out, Optimus Prime studied the entire history of intergalactic warfare from any datatrack he could find—he studied whole campaigns to desperate last stands, gaining a focused "playbook" of warfare strategy. He understands warfare on a practical and psychological level, and in desperate battles knows to show no mercy to opponents beyond a swift death. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4|Autobot VS Decepticon Smackdown!}}

While preparing to launch the AllSpark into space, Optimus hesitated before pressing the fateful button, fearful that he was condemning his world to a slow death. Before he could reach a conclusion, Prime came under attack from a drone sent by Megatron to kill him, and instructed his assistant [[Arctus]] to launch the AllSpark if he had not returned from the fight within ten cycles. When Prime's battle with the drone carried them both into the AllSpark chamber, the drone attempted to alert Megatron to the cube's location, forcing a desperate Prime to transform into his cometary protoform and cannonball directly into his opponent. The drone was successfully blown it pieces, but Prime was knocked out by the impact, and experienced a prophetic vision of [[Mission City|a battle on another world]]. Realizing that the AllSpark's ejection could spread the Transformers' war to other planets, Prime awoke too late to change the course of fate, and could only watch as the AllSpark rocketed off into the sky... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 1|Prelude: Optimus Prime}}

Prime and his Autobots pursued the AllSpark to Earth and battled the Decepticons for it. Almost immediately after triumphing over their foes, however, Optimus and his men had to face them ''again'' when they somehow rose as [[zombie]]s. Despite having no idea how they could be stopped and having had his power drained by fighting Megatron, Optimus continued to fight the monsters rather than let them run amok. Fortunately, Ratchet deduced that they had been reanimated by energies scavenged from the AllSpark by Starscream, enabling the Autobots to target their power sources and slay them once more. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 7|Starscream's Militia}}

[[File:Titan5 Optimustwins.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|"Your slang is bad and you should ''feel'' bad!"]]
With the formation of NEST, Optimus found he had to strive daily to gain credibility with the human powers-that-be. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.5|Reversal of Fortune}} Working diligently to root out Decepticon threats around the globe, Prime was too busy to meet with new Autobot arrivals Skids and Mudflap, who claimed to have important information for him, though Ironhide noted that the twins had cried wolf so many times, even Optimus had trouble believing their stories these days. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|Learning Curve}} While in [[Australia]] on NEST business, Prime went into action alongside Arcee to apprehend [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]]; the two Autobots found the terrain down under to be a challenge, while Sideways was in his element, so Prime elect to just ''blow up'' the terrain instead. Taking the captive Sideways back to Diego Garcia, Prime was greeted on arrival with the sight of Skids and Mudflap brawling on the runway. He bawled them out over improper conduct, but before he could go further, Scorponok made an attack. In the firefight that followed, Optimus tripped over Skids, and by the time he had righted himself, Scorponok and Sideways had both escaped. Knowing that the enemy could ''not'' have got this close without NEST security being compromised, Optimus was convinced by Sideswipe's argument that the twins had turned traitor and had them taken away for questioning. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.5|Reversal of Fortune}}

When the twins were sprung by Decepticons, Prime agreed with Theodore Galloway that the Autobots would make finding the twins a number one priority. However, Optimus was left suspicious when a [[Soundwave (ROTF)|mysterious "friend"]] tipped the Autobots off about the twins. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.6|Outlaw Blues}} [[File:Titan10 Optimusgetsout.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Never had a human face before. GIVE ME IT ANYWAY!]] Soon, it came out that the twins were being framed and by tracking the two, Optimus and his men found out about a Decepticon base near [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. Optimus led a raid on it, taking down the [[Purple generic drone|drone army]] stationed there. But he never did get to hear Skids and Mudflap's intel, about a mysterious threat known as The Fallen... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.8|Back-to-Back}}

Following The Fallen's attack on Earth, Optimus continued operations against the Decepticons. [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt's]] over-enthusiasm began to muck that up, causing damage and getting NEST into trouble, despite Optimus's attempts to point this out to him. Optimus had to confine him to base. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.9|Culture Shock}} Soon after that, he was drawn out into a trap by [[Trophy White]] and the [[Free Men]], who wanted to take his head as a trophy. Optimus worked out their plan and allowed himself to be captured by the deranged hunter, in order to keep the fight away from civilians. He pretended to be securely chained down and listened to White's sociopathic ravings, before (at the moment he considered funniest) breaking free and taking White prisoner. Shockingly, he found keeping the severed heads of animals as trophies to be ''bad'', and destroyed Trophy's trophies. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.10| Bring Me the Head of Optimus Prime}}

[[File:DividedLoyalties prime striketeam.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8]]
When several Decepticons escaped from NEST's [[Bloemfontein]], [[South Africa]] holding facility, Optimus ordered his men to let the prisoners flee: a battle outside [[World Cup|a major sports event]] would cause unacceptable civilian casualties. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}} This led to a major collapse in Autobot popularity, and open battles with Decepticons in cities were just risking further alienation. In response, Prime created a secret covert unit (even under NEST's radar) that would monitor the Decepticons, wait for windows of opportunity out of the public eye, and then hit hard and fast. While this worked, Optimus was left disquieted: the tactics he was using were too akin to the Decepticons, and a fine line was being walked. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.18|Shadow War}} Tracking the Decepticons, led by [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]], to a base in [[Russia]], Optimus led a strike team in, unaware that [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] had sold them all out to Bludgeon and that they were walking into an ambush. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}} "Luckily," Megatron arrived to destroy Bludgeon in punishment for running a rival faction; rather than engage Optimus, Megatron departed with the ominous warning that a day of reckoning was coming soon. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.21|A Short, Sharp Lesson!}}

[[File:Titan3-3 OpSoundwavefaceoff.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|"Sorry Soundwave, you're going to need braces."]]
When a relic of [[Ark (DOTM)|an unknown UFO]] was discovered in Fiesole, [[Italy]], Optimus led a NEST team to secure the find. Starscream launched a surprise attack to claim it: Optimus ordered the human archaeologist to keep digging and fought the Decepticon, taking two blows before overpowering and thrashing him. But Starscream kept fighting, asking Optimus if there were things worth dying for. Optimus agreed and said he was willing to die to save Earth from Decepticons... at which point Starscream suckerpunched him and stole the artifact. Optimus was left concerned about what the 'cons were up to {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.1|Fight for Fiesole}} but found himself distract by other plots hatched by Soundwave. After intel from Bumblebee led NEST to the Laguna De Guatavita, Optimus and Ratchet tracked down Soundwave working alongside the [[Tanto Gang]]. After the Decepticon and his allies had uncovered [[El Dorado]], Soundwave turned on the Tanto Gang, and the Autobots swooped in the middle of the carnage. Optimus beat down the Decepticon, and forced him to explain his motives: using El Dorado's gold, Soundwave planned on crashing the Earth's economy. Though the Autobots foiled the plot, both Soundwave and the Tanto Gang escaped when the latter triggered a bomb to cover their retreat. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.2|Blood And Gold}} Optimus then encountered Soundwave in [[Spain]] after he'd drawn [[Robert Epps]] and Bumblebee into an ambush. With Bumblebee near death, Optimus agreed to fight Soundwave without weapons if it would mean his comrade's survived, and he was nearly sent plummeting off the mountaintop in the resulting fight. However, he managed to use Soundwave's sonic blasts and the local environment against his foe; by locating a fissure, he snuck behind Soundwave, and shoved him into an avalanche triggered by the Decepticon's attacks. Soundwave was swept away and Optimus emerged victorious. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.3|Dealing with the Devil}}

When Ratchet contacted NEST to let them know there was trouble at the [[Tech Museum of Innovation]], Optimus himself turned out to help chase off Starscream and Barricade. He later tried to convince the anti-[[Transformer|Cybertronian]] protesters that the Autobots were here to help, but Ratchet and Ironhide's actions during the fight had already convinced them of that, and their leader, [[Marcus Castor]], was already producing anti-Decepticon T-shirts. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.4|Automatic for the People}}

[[File:ThousandIslandFight prime shield.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]
In the aftermath of the battle for Chicago, Optimus and Decepticon defector [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] were cleaning up ''Ark'' debris on the Moon. Optimus was bemused that Drift would rather be hunting down Decepticons instead, asking if he really wanted to fight his former allies, and pointing out this was necessary work. Soon after, Drift was horrified to find the corpse of his old comrade [[Knucklehead]]. He recounted a story involving them and the murderer, [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]], and Prime said he was sorry for the loss. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.1|Adrift in Space and Time}}

A while later, Optimus, Bumblebee, and [[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]] engaged a trio of Decepticon survivors in [[Jakarta]], [[Indonesia]]. When their charges retreated, Optimus suggested that the three Autobots follow together, but Crosshairs insisted that he go it alone. After giving permission for this action, Prime commanded Bumblebee to keep a watchful eye on the new arrival and relay any findings back to him. With the three Decepticons located and single-handedly defeated by Crosshairs on the island of [[Pulau Bidadari]], Optimus informed Crosshairs that he was more than combat ready, but he had the feeling that they may have missed [[Lockdown (ROTF)|something...]] {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.2|Thousand Island Fight}}

[[File:AcceptNoSubstitute prime vs stinger.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2]]
When [[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]] impersonated Bumblebee, Optimus found himself training his weapons on both of the 'bots, confident that the true Bumblebee would be able to prove his identity. He did not have long to wait, as Bumblebee saved a human who had fallen from a nearby burning building, and Optimus quickly overpowered Stinger and ordered him to get out of his sight, repulsed by his artificial nature. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.3|Accept No Substitutes!}}

Hearing a news report suggesting a potential Transformer threat in the town of [[Cullum]], Optimus Prime investigated alongside Crosshairs, and discovered that the area was being menaced by a powerful [[turbofox]]. Crosshairs had once lost an entire platoon to a pack of turbofoxes and struggled to overcome his fears in order to help Prime battle the creature, but fortunately, just as Prime was about to become fox-food, Crosshairs got his head in order and blasted the beast. Optimus congratulated him on conquering his fear, and hoped that humankind would be able to do the same and become allies of the Autobots' once again. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.5|Creature of Chaos}}
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====Alternate timeline====
[[File:TitanUK9 frozen prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|The Prime Who Came In From The Cold]]
In a parallel universe, the battle of Mission City turned out very differently—Optimus was defeated and captured by Megatron, and the AllSpark fell into Decepticon hands. The Decepticons proceeded to conquer North America, and by the start of 2008, had begun a plan to cyberform the Earth using the AllSpark's energies. Working with Mikaela Banes and [[Tom Banachek]], the Autobots staged a plan to rescue Prime, who they knew was being held in Sector Seven's old Hoover Dam base, repurposed by the Decepticons as their new headquarters... but when Bumblebee and Mikaela infiltrated the base, they did not expect to find Prime frozen solid by the liquid nitrogen cooling system previously used to imprison Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}} While Bumblebee distracted Megatron, Mikaela began her attempt to deactivate the system, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2}} but soon came under attack herself by [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 3}} Fortunately, she was able to dupe Frenzy into rupturing the liquid nitrogen tanks with his blades, damaging the system to the point where Prime began to thaw out. The revived Prime challenged Megatron to a duel, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}} but as they fought, Optimus learned that Megatron's link to the AllSpark allowed his old enemy to instantly heal any damage Prime managed to inflict. Luckily, Bumblebee and Mikaela saved the day, hitting the distracted Megatron with an old [[Sector Seven]] nanovirus, which destroyed him from within. Simultaneously, Autobots elsewhere destroyed the AllSpark to halt its cyberforming of Earth, but despite this success and the death of Megatron, Prime could take no satisfaction in victory: this battle was won, but the war remained... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}}

[[File:Aftermathpt2 prime attacked by NATO.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5|Proportions? Never heard of it!]]
Surveying the damage done to Earth, Prime became resigned to the fact that Humanity, battered by Decepticon occupation, would view both Autobot and Decepticon as hostile invaders. Worse yet, although a fragment of the AllSpark had survived the cube's destruction, Optimus feared its contact with Megatron had corrupted it beyond all hope. In spite of these concerns, Prime was quick to order his men to protect a human shelter against Decepticon attack, but the Autobots' defense was misinterpreted as hostile action, and they came under attack from a [[NATO]] unit. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 14|Aftermath, Part 1}} Optimus refused to allow his men to return fire, but fortunately, the crisis soon passed when the human who had ordered the attack was freed from the Decepticon mind-control that had guided his actions. Optimus surrendered to the humans, beginning an alliance between the Autobots and the United States government. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 15|Aftermath Part 2}}

After examining a particularly volatile spot of geological flux brought on by the AllSpark's energy in [[Okeechobee]], [[Florida]] alongside Tom Banachek and recently appointed [[Theodore Allen|President Theodore Allen]], Optimus Prime returned to the Autobots' base in [[Savannah]], [[Georgia]], where he was shocked to discover that Ratchet had used the AllSpark fragment that Prime had entrusted to him to resurrect Jazz. Prime assigned Ratchet and Jazz to monitor the Okeechobee situation, but warned Ratchet to keep a close eye on Jazz, fearing what the potentially-tainted AllSpark had done to him. Unfortunately, Prime's fears proved true, and Jazz soon revealed himself to have been left corrupted and amoral by the shard's power. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 16|Dark Spark}}

[[File:ReturntoCybertron optimus allies with stockade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|"Don't worry, readers, I'll just leave him to starve to death in #25." "What was that?" "I SAID I'M GONNA KILL YA"]]
Optimus Prime soon worked out that while the AllSpark's transformation of Earth had been halted, the damage had been done: the infection had reached [[Earth's core|the planet's core]], and the organic Earth and the technological transformation were now fighting for supremacy, killing the planet in the process. While he arranged for a specialist team to investigate and limit the damage, Prime reported his findings to President Allen, but refrained from telling him of the back-up plan he was putting into action lest humanity's hopes be unduly raised: a team led by Ironhide was to retrieve [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] from the dead Cybertron in the hope it could be used to save Earth. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|Return to Cybertron, Part 1}} Planetary surveyor [[Camshaft (Movie)|Camshaft]] was appalled when Prime revealed the plan to him, knowing how unstable Nucleon could be, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 18|Return to Cybertron, Part 2}} and the bad news continued to pour in when a distress call from Ironhide's team reported that a band of Decepticons led by [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade's]] already had control of Cybertron's Nucleon. Optimus led the entirety of the Earth-bound Autobots (save Camshaft's team) to Cybertron as back-up, but was surprised to see Cybertron coming to ''them'', possessed by the evil entity [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 19|Return to Cybertron, Part 3}} Shot down by Unicron, Prime's team abandoned ship and made it to Cybertron using their cometary protoforms. Forming an alliance with Stockade, Prime formed a plan to drain off the Nucleon so Unicron couldn't use it as a power source, while the bulk of the Transformers provided a distraction by going underground and shooting up Unicron's body. The plan worked, Nucleon was secured for Earth, and Optimus extended an offer for Stockade to join them on Earth whenever he wished. Optimus was left optimistic that Autobots and Decepticons had come together in a common cause. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 20|Return to Cybertron: Part 4}}

[[File:Optimus Titan22.JPG|upright=1.6|left|thumb|Freedom is not dispensed here, sentient fools, only DEATH!]]
On returning to Earth, Prime found the Decepticons had seized the Autobot base and surrounding area; he made the decision to withdraw to [[Washington, D.C.]], knowing that this meant leaving Mikaela in Decepticon hands. Upon landing at an air base, the Decepticon-controlled President Allen lured him into a trap, and he found himself fighting Jazz, now a Decepticon hired gun. Optimus lured him away from humans and prepared to engage him, but when a second assassin named [[Kullt]] turned up, Jazz gunned it down out of annoyance. Optimus had viewed Jazz as a lost cause but now stated there was still some Autobot in him: he ''could'' have let Kullt do the work for him and then killed him, but he saved Prime instead. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|Hard Target}} Prime then took the Autobots to rescue Mikaela; he himself went first, launching himself in protoform mode to land in Savannah like a bomb and tearing his way through [[Swindle (Movie)|drone hordes]]. He was quickly gunned down by aerial units and about to be killed by Starscream, but this whole flashy attack had been a diversion—allowing other Autobots a chance to hit the distracted air forces and nab Mikaela. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}}

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Optimus seemed to quickly bond with [[Seward|General Seward]], his military liaison at Andrews Air Base, but that didn't help when the mind-controlled President Allen had the government order the Autobots out of America. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution, Part One}} However, having deduced that Allen was under Decepticon control following his clash with Jazz, Prime had anticipated this. As expected, Allen attempted to [[Nuclear weapon|nuke]] the Autobots' ship as it departed, but he only succeeded in blowing up a decoy ship Prime had had Ironhide and Bumblebee prepare. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution, Part Three}} Believed dead, the Autobots went undercover on Cybertron, making another deal with Stockade to have his team protect Earth in their absence, kicking off a [[Decepticon Civil War]]. Optimus didn't trust Stockade to not renege on the deal and just take control of Earth for himself, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 24|Revolution, Part Two}} but he ensured the Decepticons were set up for the Autobot's final strike: forcibly teleporting all of the enemy to Cybertron via Unicron's leftover teleportational engines, then stranding Cybertron in a remote solar system. Optimus led the troops to Earth and witnessed Megatron's return from the dead, but this proved no impediment to the Autobots' plan: Prime briefly distracted Megatron so he could be tagged with a teleporter like the other Decepticons, and the next minute, both Megatron, Stockade, and their entire armies were all teleported away. This left the Autobots stranded on Earth and with a lot of clean-up to do... but at long last, Optimus Prime had finally brought the war to an end. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution, Part Three}}

===Toy bios===
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Orion Pax used to be a humble data scientist, however, he would eventually receive the Matrix of Leadership and become the universe's greatest protector Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Tribute|Evolution Pack Optimus Prime & Orion Pax}}

The truck Optimus Prime [[trans-scan]]ned upon arrival on Earth was ''the coolest thing he ever saw''. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Robo-Vision Optimus Prime}}

When the AllSpark was destroyed in Mission City, Optimus was bathed in its power and became a living receptacle: he could destroy or heal with the merest thought. He still remained dedicated to peace and altered his exterior decorations to match the ones he bore as a young leader, before the beginning of the war. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|First Strike Optimus Prime}} When Starscream came out of hiding, Prime teamed with Arcee to hunt him down. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Arcee, Starscream & Optimus Prime}}

However, as more Decepticons under Starscream's command began appearing on Earth, Prime had to use the AllSpark power within him to alter his body into a new sensor-transparent, super-silent form for stealth missions. Prime considered it dishonorable but knew had to be done. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Leader Class toys|Nightwatch Optimus Prime}} Unfortunately, Starscream followed his lead and also modified himself for stealth so he could target Prime personally. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Legends Class toys|Nightwatch Optimus Prime vs. Stealth Starscream}}

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Once the Decepticons were beaten on Earth, Optimus was provided with intelligence by [[Sector Seven]] about Decepticon bases on Mars. After assuming new colors, he headed to the red planet. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Fast Action Battlers|Fire Blast Optimus Prime}} As it turned out, though, the Decepticons would soon strike at Earth again; Prime upgraded his sensor suite and trained with Ironhide to better track their enemies. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#ROTFvoyager|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Voyager Optimus Prime}}

Following the battle with The Fallen in Egypt, Optimus made a particular point of tracking down Starscream, {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#HFTDleader|''Hunt for the Decepticons'' Leader Optimus Prime}} and enhanced his arsenal with weapons designed to take on airborne Decepticons. Unfortunately, these new weapons were not a great help in battling hypnotic Decepticon [[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]], who prevented Prime from opening fire by attacking him with mind-controlled humans. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#VoyagerDefender|Defender Optimus Prime}}

Prime had more luck against [[Banzaitron (TF 2010)|Banzaitron]], who mistakenly believed that Optimus won his fights through raw power. In actuality, Prime's decades of training made him one of Cybertron's most skilled fighters, and Banzaitron held little of a challenge for him. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#BattleBlades|Battle Blades Optimus Prime}}

Optimus was known to team up with [[Comettor (DOTM)|Comettor]] for lunar missions. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#OptimusComettor|Optimus Prime & Comettor}} It was on the lunar surface that lost Autobot leader Sentinel Prime was found, and the team-up of these two Primes meant the Decepticons didn't stand a chance! {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#walmartdlx|Walmart Deluxe Optimus Prime}}

Optimus continued to combat threats to the Autobots with various new upgrades like armor reinforced with [[Cybertanium]] {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Lunarfire|Lunarfire Optimus Prime}} and [[Tritanium]]. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#TritaniumPrime|Tritanium Optimus Prime}} He also got to use a variety of [[MechTech]] weapons, including a powerful Cybertanium battle axe {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#DOTMVoyFireburst|Fireburst Optimus Prime}} and the combining [[Mega Striker]] cannon, {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#StrikerOptimus|Striker Optimus}} and the incredible [[Omega Combat Armor]]. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#UltimatePrime|Ultimate Optimus Prime}}

Following the battle of Chicago, Optimus Prime was faced with a new kind of war, as once-strong alliances now stand in doubt. As Earth still needed him, Optimus altered his form so he could move around unrecognized and commit covert strikes on Decepticons. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys 5|Evasion Mode Optimus Prime}}

As the sense of justice within Optimus Prime grew stronger, "Black Knight Optimus Prime", the reversed being that lived deep within him, also grew stronger. Optimus Prime was forced to face this being, whenever he tried to have a dialogue with his inner self. With the Nemesis Sword that could reverse time of substances with it's antimatter energy and the Sphere Shield, a transfer device, Black Knight Optimus Prime revealed itself as darkness in a world filled with light. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#BlackKnightLeader|Black Knight Optimus Prime}}

===''Beast Wars Diorama Story''===
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Under mysterious circumstances, Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Jazz, Ratchet, and Starscream were transported through a warp in space and time and deposited on the prehistoric Earth of another universe, smack into the middle of the [[Beast Wars (event)|"Beast Wars"]] between [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]'s [[Maximal]]s and [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]. Prime made fast friends with Primal; they joined their forces and double-teamed the injured [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], who had just taken a blast to the face from [[Tigatron]]. The two Optimuses commemorated their accomplishment of teamwork by shaking hands, while the Maximals and Ratchet looked on in approval. {{storylink|Tigatron Chapter}}

Starscream allied with the Predacons, and was soon joined by Blackout, his own Megatron, {{storylink|Gimlet Chapter}} and [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]] who all also travelled through the warp. The two Megatrons combined their troops into a fearsome force against the Autobots and Maximals. Fortunately for the Autobots and Maximals, [[Motorarm (BW)|Motorarm]] arrived to assist. The two factions then took formation against each other with the intention of combining their energies to attack the opposing side. With [[Motorarm (BW)|Motorarm]] leading the charge, the Maximals and the Autobots attacked first. {{storylink|Motorarm Chapter}}
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===''The Real Effing Deal'' website===
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During the Mission City "incident", a huge robot with flames on it was photographed by an anonymous person, and the photograph was sent to the [[The Real Effing Deal]] website by a mysterious [[Agent X|X]] with a short message stating that the photo was taken on [[July]], [[2007]] and that it was legitimate.

On [[July 4]], [[2008]], [[Leo Spitz]] made a post on it titled "''PROOF!!!! EXCLUSIVE IMAGE EXPOSES THE LIES OF MISSION CITY!!!!''" proclaiming that it was indeed legit and that this was the proof for the alien robots' existence on Earth. He concluded that the robot was an intelligent being based on its position and/or motion in the picture (especially noting that "the ball thing" on top of the robot's head was looking right at the camera person) and held its flame deco as proof that it was alien instead of manmade, saying that the government wouldn't put flames on a robot. [http://web.archive.org/web/20111019021624/http://www.therealeffingdeal.com/blog/proof/] {{storylink|The Real Effing Deal}}

===''Cyber Missions''===
{{voiceactor|[[Eric Edwards]] (English)|[[Blas Garcia]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Sérgio Fortuna]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
[[File:CyberMissions1 Optimus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|Yes, I know, I'm scary.]]
During NEST's ongoing hunt for the Decepticons after the death of The Fallen, Optimus Prime recorded some information on the Autobot-Decepticon war for preservation in [[Vector Sigma]]. Bumblebee and Ironhide were reviewing the data when Bludgeon and Soundwave launched an attack on NEST command. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 1}} The next morning, Optimus had been informed of the attack and Soundwave's capture, and he ordered Ironhide to wait for reinforcements to assist in pursuing Bludgeon. Bludgeon made that difficult for Ironhide. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 2}} Later, Optimus contacted Ratchet to inform him that [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] was causing chaos in [[Mission City]], and he reminded the Autobot medic to be careful. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 3}}

Optimus and Sideswipe tracked Megatron to a disused factory, but the Decepticon leader eluded them by cloaking his spark signature. The hidden Megatron ambushed the two Autobots, and Optimus brought his swords to bear in battle, though he tried appealing to Megatron to surrender. Megatron's response came in the form of a blast that brought the fatory's roof down on the two Autobots, and though Megatron escaped, Optimus promised that he would no longer be able to hide. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 4}}

When Ironhide went missing after the incident with Bludgeon, Optimus searched for him, following directions from Bumblebee to a cave loaded with [[Energon]]. That cave turned out to be the hiding place of Decepticon hypnotist Mindwipe, who had Ironhide in his thrall, and tried to do the same to Optimus. The Autobot leader was able to resist Mindwipe's mesmerizing powers with a little help from his blaring truck horns, and defeated him, leaving a confused Ironhide to wonder what was going on. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 5}}

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Reports of [[Smolder (PCC)|Smolder]] attacking a building in [[Scramble City (city)|Scramble City]] resulted in Optimus dispatching Bumblebee and Ratchet to investigate. He filled them in on the situation en route. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 9}} During another mission, Optimus warned Sideswipe and Ratchet that they were being tracked, moments before the pair were attacked by Starscream and Mindwipe. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 10}}

Bumblebee reported to Optimus that he'd managed to pinpoint the location where Megatron and Starscream were meeting, leading Optimus to confront the two Decepticons in an Arctic region. When Megatron expressed surprise that he'd come to fight them without backup, Optimus assured him that the Autobots were never far from their leader's side. While Starscream went to attack the others, Optimus and Megatron continued to fight, with Optimus emerging the eventual victor. As Megatron tried to goad him into finishing the fight, Optimus announced that the Autobots protected all sentient life, and that included the Decepticons. He subsequently allowed Megatron to flee. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 12}}

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{{quote|By showing even one such as him the power of mercy, Megatron might realize that we'll never give up, no matter the cost.|Optimus Prime|''Cyber Missions'' #12}}

Prime set up an elaborate trap involving a hologram of Soundwave to lure the Decepticons to a spot in the wilderness. The ploy worked, and Optimus attacked Megatron while his men attacked Megatron's troops. At one point during the battle, Megatron threw a train car at him, and he simply somersaulted along its length. Though Megatron boasted that the Decepticons would win through sheer determination, Optimus knocked him to the ground and gave a speech about building alliances, which was the cue for the [[human]]s to turn up in force and surround the Decepticons. Optimus informed Megatron that he could either leave the planet peacefully or be destroyed. Once the rest of the Decepticons fled, Megatron delivered a final threat before taking off. Prime celebrated with another speech, before admiring the huge Autobot [[insignia]] Bumblebee had stomped into the ground. {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}
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===Transformers Annual 2011===
During NEST's global hunt for Decepticons in the time period between the battle of Mission City and The Fallen's attack on Earth, an alert of Decepticon activity in [[Tokyo]] sent Optimus, Ironhide, Ratchet and Sideswipe to investigate. Prime intervened in Sideswipe and Barricade's battle to lift the Decepticon into the air, only to find himself under attack by Grindor. Ordering Sideswipe and Ratchet to cover him, Optimus scaled the side of a nearby office block so he could punch the helicopter out of the air. Standing over the two Decepticons, Optimus was surprised when they informed him that they were simply providing a diversion. Optimus realised that Sam was in danger, and rushed back to America in time to find Starscream attempting to abduct the boy. He jumped on Starscream's back, causing the Decepticon to flee and saving Sam from a kidnapping. {{storylink|Sam in Danger}}

===''I Can Read!'' books===
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Optimus met up with Ironhide, Sideswipe and Bumblebee in a desert to train. He and Ironhide tackled a rough off-road trail, only for their training to be interrupted by a nearby dam bursting open. The two Autobots sealed up the dam using rocks from a nearby quarry. They met back up with Bumblebee and Sideswipe afterwards, who admitted to have encountered their own "natural disaster." The source of the disturbances soon revealed itself to be Megatron and Starscream tunneling underground. Though the two Decepticons attempted to ambush the Autobots, Optimus and the others were able to send them running thanks to the training they had gone through that day. {{storylink|Training Day (book)|Training Day}}

[[File:OptimusKOsStarscream-BuddyBrawl.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|And that's terrible]]
Optimus came upon Starscream attacking Sam and Mikaela, while Bumblebee and Wheelie argued with one another nearby on how to defeat the Decepticon. Optimus knocked out Starscream with a single punch before chastising both his subordinates for allowing their feelings get in the way of their mission to protect the humans. Sam and Mikaela attempted to have Wheelie and Bumblebee reconcile, but the two Autobots were too stubborn to apologize to one another. Optimus suggested that the humans give Bumblebee and Wheelie time to work things out. But Starscream suddenly regained consciousness, prompting Optimus to order Wheelie and Bumblebee to work together to defeat him while he protected the humans. The two Autobots managed to put their differences aside and accomplished their task. Optimus looked on with pride as the two friends thanked each other afterwards. {{storylink|Buddy Brawl}}
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===''Hunt for the Decepticons'' storybooks===
[[File:OptimusgetsSamsmessage-PrimeTarget.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Optimus "likes" Sam's status before going back to looking at cat videos.]]
Optimus had assigned Skids and Mudflap to watch over Sam while Bumblebee was away on a mission. When he asked the Twins for their report on the situation, they informed him that they suspected the [[new lab assistant]] working at Sam's university to be a Decepticon spy. Optimus ordered the two Autobots to continue their vigil over Sam. The Twins' hunch turned out to be correct, and the Decepticon spy sent Optimus a false distress signal through Sam's computer. Optimus sped to meet Sam at his university, where he encountered Megatron. Using a supermagnet within the university lab, Megatron was able to lock Optimus in his vehicle mode. Megatron would have destroyed Optimus if not for Sam's timely intervention. Sam used the supermagnet on Megatron, allowing Optimus to escape, and get repaired by Ratchet. {{storylink|Prime Target (book)|Prime Target}}

[[File:AutobotsthankSam-SatelliteMeltdown.jpeg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|May I ''please'' take your face?]]
Optimus received word from human authorities that [[Buzzsaw (ROTF)|Buzzsaw]] and [[Ratbat (ROTF)|Ratbat]] were causing trouble. But thanks to Soundwave's tampering with communications, he and his Autobots wound up driving to an empty warehouse miles away instead of the location of the conflict. Upon arriving at the warehouse, Optimus and his troops quickly realized that they had been tricked. Thankfully, Sam and Bumblebee met them there, and led them to the correct location. Optimus took care of both Decepticons by himself, sending them fleeing. Optimus then met with the human military, and informed them of Soundwave in Earth orbit. Together, they managed to have the satellite to which Soundwave was attached to self-destruct, sending the Decepticon tumbling off into outer space. Sam later thanked Sam for his help in the mission. {{storylink|Satellite Meltdown}}
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===''Spot the 'Bots''===
While on a mission to find Decepticons, Optimus found Megatron hiding behind a tree. Megatron tried to scamper away, but Optimus and his Autobots gave chase. A small group of both factions then met at an old warehouse, and they began to duke it out for the fate of the Earth! {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Spot the 'Bots}}
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===''Unite for the Universe''===
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In the wake of The Fallen's defeat, NEST initiated [[Project Unite]] to find a way of modifying Jetfire's parts so that Optimus could use them again. Unaware of the project's objective, but knowing that it held a great power, Starscream attacked the Unite facility to try stealing its fruits for himself, only to find a successfully powered-up Optimus Prime ready and waiting to take him on. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|The Secret of Project: Unite}} Starscream fled, but immediately began plotting on how he could take Optimus's new power for himself. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|Ambition Instigated}}

When word came in of another Starscream sighting on the [[Greece|Greek]] island of Delos, Optimus used his new abilities to fly there personally, where Sideswipe briefed him on what the Autobots had deduced: Starscream had managed to replicate the Unite process using the bodies of dead Decepticons, and was making a play for power. Knowing that Starscream did not have the necessary neural interface protocols to handle the Unite upgrade and would soon be driven mad, Optimus led the Autobots in tracking him to [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]] for a confrontation... only for Megatron himself to show up, also dedicated to bring Starscream to heel! {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|On the Road of Destruction}} Tempting as it was to stand back and watch Megatron and Starscream duke it out, Optimus could not risk the Unite technology falling into Megatron's hands, and soon interceded in the Decepticons' battle. While Optimus kept Megatron busy, Ratchet hit Starscream with a scrambler weapon that burned out Starscream's new cyber-genetic sequencing, rending the Unite tech useless; Megatron departed, vowing vengeance. Optimus sadly reflected that in striving to create new and better weapons, the Autobots had almost handed the Decepticons victory, and swore that fortitude and valour would be the only weapons he relied on henceforth. {{storylink|The Strongest Weapon}}
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===The Creation Revoltech!===
[[File:The Creation Revoltech.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|From about this point on, things get progressively sillier. You've been warned.]]
At the mercy of Megatron and the powerful [[Revocube]], Optimus Prime, at Ratchet's urging, called upon the power of the [[Revoltech]] universal joint. As the Wreckers watched, Prime surged with energy—and guns!—and prepared to renew the fight. {{storylink|The Creation Revoltech!}}
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===''How to Ride Your Dinobot''===
====Cartoon====
[[File:Htryd-chapter-2-optimus-grimlock.jpg|upright=1.8|thumb|We all did this with our toys as kids. Now Optimus hates us for it.]]
Optimus found trying to ride [[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]] was far from an easy task, which wasn't helped by his notably impatient attitude. First, Grimlock flung him into a wall when he first tried to get him to move. After [[Humanization|receiving a cast on his leg]] following the incident, he again lost his patience when trying to get his steed to move. However, it was all for naught, as now it was time for Grimlock to ride on Optimus's shoulders. Optimus could only groan in pain as he carried the massive Dinobot around, who was having a much better day than he was. {{storylink|How to Ride Your Dinobot Chapter 2: How to Ride|How to Ride}}

====Comic====
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Intending to teach his Autobots the fine art of Dinobot-riding, Optimus Prime led his men through a Chinese forest to the Dinobots' stomping ground—though he refrained from ''telling'' the Autobots where he was taking them, so they couldn't say no! Hound and Bumblebee had little luck taming [[Slash (AOE)|Slash]] and [[Strafe (AOE)|Strafe]], but when Drift and Crosshairs managed to saddle up atop [[Slug (AOE)|Slug]] and [[Scorn]], Optimus cautioned them against overconfidence, but suggested they try practising combat scenario. It did not go well. Bruised and tired, Hound pointed out that Optimus hadn't done any riding, but Optimus professed that he didn't ''need'' to, since he was already an expert. Grimlock evidently didn't get the message, as he flipped the unsuspecting Optimus onto his back, then took off running. Optimus called to the Autobots that Grimlock had picked up the scent of Decepticons, and instructed them all to RIDE OUT! {{storylink|How to Ride a Dinobot!}}
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===Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base===
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''Two'' versions of Optimus Prime were hanging out at the [[Transformers Expo]] in [[Yokohama]] at the same time—one in his original Earth body, the other in his ''Age of Extinction'' form—when the evil clone of a ''different'' Optimus Prime, [[Yokohama Convoy|Nemesis Prime]], came crashing into the building. The Primes attacked him alongside Bumblebee, at which point Nemesis was backed up by some of the other Expo attendees: a ''second'' [[Nemesis Prime (AOE)|Nemesis Prime]] (this one Optimus's ''own'' evil duplicate) and [[Nemesis Grimlock]]! They glared at each other a bit, until suddenly, the combined energies of the AllSpark, the Matrix of Leadership and the [[seed]]—all on display at the Expo, naturally—began reacting with the [[Dark Energon]] within the first Nemesis Prime. This was all part of a complicated plot by [[Unicron]], but fortunately, Nemesis resisted the dark urges within himself, and channelled all the Dark Energon into the stickers his creator [[Doctor Arkeville]] had used to make him evil. Nemesis ripped the stickers off and hurled them into the air, where all the Autobots and Decepticons—and even the Expo's human attendees, using their cell phones—blasted them and stopped the chain reaction.

It was a ''super'' weird day. {{storylink|Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base}}
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===''Cheetos/Age of Extinction'' comic===
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Discovering that the Decepticons were increasing their strength through artifacts from the [[Cheetos (galaxy)|Cheetos galaxy]], Optimus Prime and the Autobots recruited [[you]]r help to acquire the power-enhancing objects. {{storylink|Cheetos/Transformers: Age of Extinction}}
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===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Yoshimasa Hosoya]] (Japanese)}}
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In this world, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Lockdown were aware that they were toys: specifically, ''Q-Transformers'', a new line of cute-looking ''Transformers'' merchandise produced to tie-in with the 30th anniversary of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]]. Optimus sometimes changed his look to match other Optimus Prime toys, but his "default" form was that of a toy based on his ''Age of Extinction'' look. They hanged out at different famous service areas on Japanese expressways, and talked about the ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Mystery of Convoy]]'' video game, and the remake produced as a tie-in with their toyline, ''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns (mobile game)|Mystery of Convoy Returns]]''.

Discussing the ins and outs of their cute designs, Optimus and his pals explained that they were created for the purpose of appealing to non-Transformers fans; Optimus suggested plush Transformers could be another way of tapping that market. {{storylink|Mystery of the 30th Anniversary Merchandise}} When the trio talked about and how terrible ''Mystery of Convoy'' was, Optimus huffed, insisting that, at the very least, it wasn't ''unbeatable''. Discussing traits that they thought made games bad, Optimus voiced a dislike for games without different difficulty settings. {{storylink|Mystery of Reliably Crappy Games}}

[[File:Qtransformers optimus on underwear.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|See? We weren't lying.]]
Lockdown suggested that re-releasing such a terrible game was like rubbing salt in a wound; Bumblebee didn't understand the expression, since, as Optimus pointed out, they were robots, and it didn't mean anything to them. While trying to come up with situations the phrase was applicable to, Lockdown suggested "accidentally sending your father an "I love you" text instead of your boyfriend or girlfriend"; the trio joked about what sort of response the father would send, and Optimus silenced everyone with the thoughtful answer: "I know". {{storylink|Mystery of Smearing Salt in the Open Wound}} The group then talked about the rubbish stage bosses in ''Mystery of Convoy'', particularly the [[Destron Mark|floating Decepticon insignia]], and wondered what sort of fictional scenarios it could be used in. {{storylink|Mystery of the Stage Bosses}}

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Prime and company began being joined by their friends to discuss facets of the game. [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] participated in a talk about the differences between the original and the remake, {{storylink|Mystery of the Wittily Similar Circumstances}} while [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] highlighted the tonal "gap" between the cute character designs and the very ''un''-cute action in the game. Everyone tried to think of examples of similar "gaps": Optimus suggested a stylish young dude wearing unfashionable underwear, and started sweating when everyone laughed. {{storylink|Mystery of the Gap of Unpopular Men}} [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] joined them to talk about classic terrible games, which turned into a discussion about adventure and exploring, and the comforts an explorer might like to have with them on such a journey. {{storylink|Mystery of a Certain Explorer}} [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] also talked about some famously awful old games, seguing into a discussion about psychokinetic powers; Optimus remembered seeing a guy on TV who had the power to magnetize cutlery to his body. {{storylink|Mystery of a Certain Psychic}}

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When [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] came along to share his thoughts on points of commonality among famously awful games, the group talked about the technical advancements of video games, but when Optimus wanted to talk about motion capture technology, he got confused and mixed it up with a CAT scan! {{storylink|Mystery of Game Balance}} [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] also had some opinions on the common themes of bad games, but Bumblebee and Optimus's willingness to settle for less frustrated Lockdown. {{storylink|Mystery of the Lowest Possible Standards}}

[[File:Qtransformers g1 convoy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Only you, could prevent wild fires.]]
Optimus had changed his look to match that of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#GTR|his ''Transformers GT'' incarnation]] when [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] dropped in. They talked about the changing faces of Optimus Prime through history, and how he used to be called "Convoy" in Japan, then Lockdown compared "Optimus Prime" and "Convoy" to the Mario Brothers. Everyone had a good chuckle when Jazz specified that Optimus would be the "Luigi" of the pair. {{storylink|Mystery of Convoy}} Bumblebee later told [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] about Optimus's fondness for ''Mystery of Convoy''. {{storylink|Mystery of Mystery of Convoy}}

When [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] turned up to join the argument over just how bad ''Mystery of Convoy'' was, the shocked Optimus quickly switched bodies, taking on the form of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|his Generation 1 self]]. They argued back and forth for a bit, discussing other ways the game could have been remade, until Optimus proposed the most drastic rebranding he could think of: calling it "Mysteryvoy of Con". {{storylink|Mystery of Return of Convoy}}

Tiring of talking about ''Mystery of Convoy'', Optimus noted the unexpected popularity of ''Q-Transformers'' itself and steered the towards other ways to reach a wider audience for ''Transformers''. His own suggestion was to make the franchise more like ''[[w:Mito Kōmon|Mito Kōmon]]''. {{storylink|The Road to Winning a New Fanbase}} The three decided to go over previous ''Transformers'' series to make sure they'd stay within established rules, but Optimus and Bumblebee immediately ran into an argument with Lockdown when they refused to acknowledge anything bad about [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original cartoon]]. Lockdown argued that it was hard to tell the difference between Autobots and Decepticons, so the three discussed ways of making it more obvious. {{storylink|The Road to Easy Identification}}

Introducing a new "Q-Transformers Radio" segment, the trio invited Tracks to talk about popularity, and he brought along [[Yukimura Sanada]] from ''[[w:Sengoku Basara|Sengoku Basara]]''. After interviewing their guest on his franchise of origin, they struck upon the idea of having Transformers appear in ''Basara'' games, and Optimus failed to impress by imagining his in-game super move would be a car horn. {{storylink|The Road to Borrowing Popularity from Sengoku Basara}}
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===Legends World===
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In the [[Legends World]], Optimus Prime was just a fictional character featured in a series of popular movies and toylines. When the newest film, ''Age of Extinction'' came out, [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] and the other employees of the [[Axalon Trading Company]] went crazy for the new toys. [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] got the Leader-class figure, {{storylink|TF4 Toy Party#Part 1|TF4 Toy Party Part 1}} while [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], being more of a fan of the Generation 1 series, instead opted for the "Evasion Mode" figure, with its Generation 1-inspired alternate mode. He was disgusted to discover that such a classic, '80s-looking toy transformed into Optimus's movie-based robot mode design, and was even more put out when Silverbolt had the figure ride the new Grimlock toy. {{storylink|TF4 Toy Party#Part 2|TF4 Toy Party Part 2}}

A new Optimus Prime toy was on show when the Axalon gang went to the 2014 Tokyo Toy Show during the summer. {{storylink|Tokyo Toy Show 2014 Report#Part 2|Tokyo Toy Show 2014 Report Part 2}} Six months later, [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] spent [[Christmas]] enjoying Prime's exploits in the new ''Age of Extinction'' DVD. {{storylink|Merry X'mas!!}} When Rhinox turned into [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] and tried to revert the world back to how it was in the '80s, Rattrap attempted to stop him by singing the praises of modern-day Transformers, including the movie incarnation of Optimus. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 5|Bonus Edition Vol. 5}}

When [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Gelshark]] arrived in the Legends World and found that "Optimus Prime" was the English name of his enemy, [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Fire Convoy]], he sought to ruin his reputation by dressing up as the ''Age of Extinction'' version of the character. The masses of adoring young fans that showed up made Gelshark unable to bring himself to crush their dreams. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 6|Bonus Edition Vol. 6}}

At [[Tokyo Toy Show|Tokyo Toy Show 2015]], [[Scourge (RID)|Black Convoy]] appeared and took down somebody in an Optimus Prime costume. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Black Convoy)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}
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===Bot on the Street===
Optimus was asked if Frenzy was red or blue, but as far as he was concerned, [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] was silver. {{storylink|Bot on the Street}}

===''Timelines''===
In one reality, Megatron suddenly shifted position during the Battle of Chicago and thus took advantage of his mysteriously good luck to kill both Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime. Eventually, though, a new Prime arose, [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Rodimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Timelines|BotCon 2015 Megatron profile card}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Tyran 609.23-PX Kappa]], Megatron defeated [[The Fallen]] and returned to space to gather the Decepticon army, beginning new engagements which sent the Autobots on the defensive. Optimus Prime rose to the bait planted by Soundwave for Sam Witwicky and took the ''[[Xantium (DOTM)|Xantium]]'' to the Moon to revive [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]. Backed into a corner by the Decepticon offensive, Optimus revived Sentinel on the lunar surface, and Sentinel helped Megatron capture Optimus. The Decepticons gained control of Earth and brought Cybertron to Earth orbit. Sentinel spent time unsuccessfully trying to turn Optimus over to his way of thinking.

Everything changed with the arrival of [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] to Decepticon-controlled Earth. The bounty hunter demanded that Optimus be handed over to him; Megatron refused out of pride while Sentinel refused out of loyalty. While Sentinel debated over Lockdown's offer of a protomatter [[seed]], Optimus used the opportunity to reignite Sentinel's cold spark. Sentinel thus tricked Lockdown to seize control of [[Knight Ship|Lockdown's ship]]. Allying themselves with the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]]s, Optimus and Sentinel waged a long guerrilla war against the Decepticons. After the long struggle, they managed to liberate Earth and revitalize Cybertron with the seed. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/22}}

In [[Tyran 511.0 Kappa]], once [[Cade Yeager]] had revived Optimus Prime, Optimus put out the call to all surviving Autobots. Bumblebee, [[Bulkhead (DOTM)|Bulkhead]], and [[Backtrack (Movie)|Backtrack]] joined...and so did the desperate Decepticons [[Axor|Axel]] and [[Wild Rider]]! The Autobots were initially skeptical of them but learned to appreciate Wild Rider, who remained loyal even in the face of Megatron's return as Galvatron. Axel on the other hand attempted to sell out the Autobots to Lockdown only to be killed by Lockdown. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/16}}

===''Age of Time''===
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Like at least some of the other Transformers of his dimension, Optimus Prime was somehow amalgamated with his [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Age of Time|counterpart]] from an [[The Transformers (franchise)|alternate dimension]], who came to this dimension through a wormhole; together, they formed a superior version of themselves.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1395741837139121.1073741971.371066602939988 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF TIME - SUPERIOR OPTIMUS PRIME] by [[Prime 1 Studio]] on Facebook: "The story began when the Ark carrying G1 Optimus Prime and his fellow Autobots was attacked on their route to Earth from Cybertron by Megatron and his evil Decepticons. Both spaceships were sucked into a wormhole and ended up in an alternate dimension. This dimension is the cinematic Transformers universe. Different yet the same, both transformers from the different dimension amalgamated and formed the Superior version of their old self. Hence the New Generation Transformers was formed. To be continued..."</ref> {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#Prime 1 Studio|Transformers: Age of Time statue bios}}

===''Mission to Cybertron'' comic===
While searching for the Creator, Optimus arrived on [[Paradron]] to refuel on Energon, but was denied by a [[Gyronian Sentry]] and his pet Guard Cats. Optimus explained his past to the Sentry, who was not impressed, demanding a passcode. The passcode was written in Old Cybertronian, but the gate didn't open even with a decoder. Prime and Sentry's egos clashed, causing a fight to break out. Optimus tried directly inserting the decoder into the door, with the passcode: "In Primus We Trust". The door opened, allowing Optimus to drink half of the Energon, giving the other half to Sentry. Optimus told Sentry he did a good job, relieved him of his guard duties, and flew off into space.
{{storylink|Mission to Cybertron}}
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===Gathering of the Strongest Robots DVD===
{{storylink|Gathering of the Strongest Robots}}

===''Bumblebee's First Life on Earth''===
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A hologram of Optimus Prime made a brief appearance when [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] was learning how to transform, prompting Bumblebee's human friend [[Charlie Watson|Charlie]] to wonder who he was. {{storylink|Hiding in the Park!}}
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==Games==
{{main|Optimus Prime (Movie)/games}}

==Commercial appearances==
*As part of the hype buildup to the first movie's release, Optimus Prime made a brief cameo at the {{w|2007 MTV Movie Awards}}, interacting with host Sarah Silverman. The scene spliced Silverman into pre-existing movie footage, but featured new dialogue recorded for the event by Peter Cullen. Prime heavily hinted that he wanted to present an award, but was rejected for a regular MTV fan.
*According to a tie-in advertisement for [[Burger King]], Prime likes his Whoppers with no onions, no cheese, extra pickles, with a side of ????. However, due to a cruel twist of fate, he can never enjoy the sweet taste of beefy victory (and all because he needed a driver for him to receive his order). He saved the world from the Decepticons, and still he can't even have it his way? Where's the justice? {{storylink|Commercial/Transformers (2007)#Burger King|Transformers Burger King tie-in commercial}}
*Optimus fell on some guy's car, smashing it to scrap. The car's owner was rather upset about this development, but Optimus could only respond with "My bad..." {{storylink|Commercial/Transformers (2007)#General Motors|Transformers Chevy tie-in commercial}}
*Optimus Prime (in truck mode) made an appearance at [[BotCon 2007]], alongside the [[Sector Seven Mobile Command Unit]]. He was available for pictures all weekend. He made a second appearance at [[BotCon 2009]].
*Optimus was convinced that a man's new LG Versa was really a Decepticon in disguise. The phone's owner vehemently denied this, despite the phone demonstrating transformation capabilities. He laughed off Optimus's apparent fixation with Decepticons...until one dropped down behind him, sending him running. {{storylink|Commercial/Revenge of the Fallen#LG Versa|Revenge of the Fallen LG Versa tie-in commercial}}
*Optimus was tasked with delivering trailers of Strawberry and Peanut Butter [[M&M's]]. Instead of hauling them in his truck mode, he picked one up and threw it into the distance, clipping some power lines in the process. This earned him some sarcastic clapping from [[Red (M&M)|Red]]. {{storylink|Commercial/Revenge of the Fallen#M&Ms|Revenge of the Fallen M&Ms tie-in commercial}}
*Optimus was seen sporting an [[Robot Powered Machines|RPMs]] logo as a grill ornament. {{storylink|Commercial/Revenge of the Fallen#RPMs|Robot Powered Machines toy commercial}}
*During the 2009 NBA Finals, a commercial aired where [[The Master Builders (episode)|Optimus made a slam dunk]] and shattered the backboard.
*On [[July 6]], 2009, Optimus appeared on ''The {{w|Late Show With David Letterman}}'' to declare the "Top Ten Things That Sound Cool When Said By A Giant Robot". Optimus said it was nice to be there, although David was ''clearly'' concerned with having a 28-foot tall robot in the studio because of a bad history of robots messing up the place, and during the presentation Letterman decided there was something about Prime he didn't like. Anyway, the top ten was:
<ol>
<li value="10">"Jergens lotion leaves my hands silky smooth."</li>
<li value="9">"Do you have these khakis in a Size 114?"</li>
<li value="8">"My perfect night involves a pint of Häagen-Dazs and season three of ''Sex and the City''."</li>
<li value="7">"Man, do I love me some 'taters."</li>
<li value="6">"It was so hot in Central Park today, I saw a squirrel rubbing sunblock on his nuts."</li>
<li value="5">"You seemed a little pitchy, dawg."</li>
<li value="4">"Brody Jenner has added you as a friend on Facebook."</li>
<li value="3">"Live from New York...it's Saturday night!"</li>
<li value="2">"My parents wanted me to be a Rabbi."</li>
<li value="1">"All the slammin' shorties in the house say 'Yeah'!"<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v-P5x1Mp00 Archive video of Optimus's guest spot.]</ref></li>
</ol>
*To promote the DVD and Blu-ray release of ''Revenge of the Fallen'', Paramount set up a website where US fans could request Optimus call up their friends, warning them of Starscream's attempts to recruit human civilian allies.
*In the Discovery Channel promo, "The World Is Just Awesome," Optimus made a brief cameo, singing the words "boom-de-ya-da, boom-de-ya-da."<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0jZzBEKIMc Discovery commercial] on YouTube.</ref>
*Prime (voiced by Cullen, but not animated by ILM) appeared to promote a NASA competition to vote for videos made by children about NASA's impact on commonplace technology.<ref>[http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/optimus/ NASA Optimus Prime]</ref>
*Optimus appeared in truck mode at [[Toy Fair 2011]]. He got a $115 parking ticket.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357327/Transformers-truck-gets-parking-ticket-toy-fair.html ''Daily Mail'' article on Prime's fine.]</ref>
*Optimus duked it out with [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] in front of a [[Burger King]] restaurant, while some of the patrons inside were too enraptured with savoring their Bacon Cheddar Ranch Tendercrisp sandwiches to notice. {{storylink|Commercial/Dark of the Moon#Burger King|Dark of the Moon Burger King tie-in commercial}}
*Optimus was seen firing a [[basketball]] from his blaster in an ESPN commercial with [[Mark Cuban]]. {{storylink|Commercial/Dark of the Moon#Burger King|Dark of the Moon ESPN commercial}}
*Optimus Prime joined Bumblebee on the road as part of the "[[Win A Ride To School With The Autobots]]" contest. He also delivered $1000 worth of Transformers toys to a lucky winner. {{storylink|Commercial/Dark of the Moon#Win A Ride|Win A Ride To School With The Autobots contest and commercial}}
*To promote Age Of Extinction, Optimus appeared on screen during the 2014 [[Nickelodeon]] Kids Choice Awards to warn Mark Wahlberg that he was in danger of being slimed.
*Both Optimus and Bumblebee could be seen driving around the [[Speed Stars]] logo in vehicle mode. {{storylink|Commercial#Speed Stars|Speed Stars commercials}}
*Optimus acted as goalkeeper as Diego Poyet, Gor Grigoryan and Patrick Otte practiced for the World Cup. After stopping a goal, he deflated the ball with his hand and commented that Diego was "Not bad... for a human." {{storylink|Commercial/Age of Extinction#ESPN|"The Future of Soccer" Age of Extinction tie-in commercial}}
*After Optimus was injured by a shot, a little boy come over to him and offered him an Oreo cookie. The generous act somehow gave Optimus the strength to go on, and he thanked the child before running off to do whatever heroic thing he was in the middle of. {{storylink|Commercial/Age of Extinction#Oreo|Age of Extinction Oreo tie-in commercial}}
*Optimus happened upon an excavation site, where several children were unearthing Grimlock. Soon after his arrival, Grimlock awakened, prompting Prime to hop on his back and order his mount to "Roll Out!" {{storylink|Commercial/Age of Extinction#Mega|Mega 1-Step Bumblebee toy commercial}}
*After helping some guy shave, Hydrobot immediately transformed to robot mode to fist bump Optimus, who destroyed the wall of the man's bathroom while trying to do so. Optimus then accidentally destroyed the man's daughter's personal playground, trying to use it as a stand. {{storylink|Commercial/The Last Knight#Schick|The Last Knight Schick commercial}}
*Optimus Prime's voice also narrated some commercials:
**A Revenge of the Fallen toy commercial for the figures of the main cast. {{storylink|Commercial/Revenge of the Fallen#Movie Characters|Revenge of the Fallen movie characters toy commercial}}
**A [[Power Bots]] and [[Gravity Bot]]s toy commercial. {{storylink|Commercial/Revenge of the Fallen#Power Bots and Gravity Bots|Power Bots and Gravity Bots toy commercial}}
**The Bumblebee Voice Mixer and Plasma Cannon toy commercial. {{storylink|Commercial/Revenge of the Fallen#Voice Mixer and Plasma Cannon|Bumblebee Voice Mixer and Plasma Cannon commercial}}
**An ad for the Supreme [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] set. {{storylink|Commercial/Revenge of the Fallen#Supreme Devastator|Supreme Devastator commercial}}
**The N.E.S.T. Global Alliance figures. {{storylink|Commercial/Revenge of the Fallen#Global Alliance|N.E.S.T. Global Alliance toy commercial}}
**The Double Your Action Giveaway ad. {{storylink|Commercial/Revenge of the Fallen#Double|Double Your Action Giveaway commercial}}
*During his time off, Optimus went on a road trip across the UK with a hitchhiker. {{storylink|Commercial/International#Live Action Movie Era|Direct Line commercial}}

==Toys==
{{main|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{Main|Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise}}

==Notes==
===''Transformers''===
[[File:Movie Primetruck before.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|8:30 pm: "Trick My Truck". Tonight's guest: [[Alpha Trion (disambiguation)|Alpha Trion]].]]
[[File:Movie OptimusPrime truckrear.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb]]
[[File:Movie Prime Trucklogomistake.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|In the darkness, a PA will misread "Truck A" as "Truck B", and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth — Revelation 11:7.]]
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*When Optimus's design was first revealed, [[GEEWUN|many fans of the Generation 1 series objected to the flames seen on Prime's body]]. When asked in an interview why he put the flames on, [[Michael Bay]] claimed he liked them because it was "cool". It was later revealed on a special featurette on the DVD that the flames were added because, apparently, red is not very good to film on camera, so Bay chose a blue truck but used the flames so that when Optimus transformed, the layout would result in maintaining his iconic red chest.
*In the director's commentary of the 2007 Transformers DVD, Michael Bay said that he had told the animators to seek inspiration from Liam Neeson in creating Optimus Prime's body language. ''Awesome.''
*Optimus Prime's truck mode is apparently intended to haul a flatbed trailer, based on the presence of the large silver "headache rack", a piece of optional equipment that protects the driver in case a flatbed load breaks free during braking. It is generally not installed on trucks hauling enclosed container trailers.
*[[TakaraTomy]] officially recognizes Optimus Prime's [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] as a Kenworth W900 truck, even though the vehicle used for filming was a modified Peterbilt 379, a different model from a different brand, although both are made by the PACCAR company.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070809065140/http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=121424 Article at Edmunds.com on some of the vehicles used in the movie]</ref>
*When Optimus Prime scans a truck for his new body, the passing truck has what appears to be an Autobot sigil on its grill, but the actual truck that Prime turns into at the end of the scene has a much wider, flatter symbol on the grill, which looks rather more like that of Peterbilt. Then, Prime has an Autobot sigil on his grill while driving to meet the other Autobots.
*According to the free trading cards from the Boston Globe, Optimus is 28 feet tall, weighs 4.3 metric tons, and his primary weapon is an [[ion blaster]]. (Considering Optimus's height, however, this weight would seem implausible. It's also roughly half of the actual weight of the truck he's based on.)
*The [[Milton Bradley]] [[Transformers Battling Card Game]] depicts Prime with a unique magnetic grapple attack, fired from the side of his arm. It also declares his forearm gun to be a chain gun (it's an ion blaster in other sources), and has him using a "judo kick", which... while it may not be out of the realm of plausibility for Prime to have learned an Earth martial art, judo does not actually '''use''' kicks, being focused on throwing moves. Oops.
*The Optimus Prime computer generated model consisted of 10,108 individual parts, 1,830,898 polygons, 27,744 rig nodes, and 2336 texture maps. The volume of all pieces combined came to 5445 cubic feet.<ref>Robertson, Barbara (2007). Heavy Metal. ''Computer Graphics, 30''(7), 12-17.</ref>
*The [[Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|''Autobots'' DS game]] notes that Megatron killed Optimus's father. Considering several pieces of movie tie-in fiction treat Optimus and Megatron as brothers, it's entirely possible that he killed his ''own'' father too. ''Dark of the Moon'' may have unintentionally (given the obscurity of the four-year-old tie-in game) retconned this, as Optimus believed [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]], the mentor figure to both of them, had perished during a Decepticon attack as he tried to escape from Cybertron.
*During Optimus Prime's transformation from vehicle into robot in Mission City, a piece of Chevrolet intake manifold can be seen on Optimus Prime's left collar.
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===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
[[File:ROTF Optimus trailer super mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"One shall be scrawny...One shall be brawny"]]
*Optimus was supposed to combine with a trailer for ''Revenge of the Fallen'', something for which [[Ben Procter]] and [[Josh Nizzi]] drew up designs. In the end, Nizzi designed the combination with Jetfire. However, the idea of Optimus combining with his trailer was not forgotten, and showed up on screen in ''Dark of the Moon''.
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===''Dark of the Moon''===
*In ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'', Optimus has ''[[Kibble#.22Faux-parts.22|Faux-parts]]'', when he transforms inside of the NEST base facing [[Charlotte Mearing|Mearing]] and [[William Lennox|Lennox]]. It is noticeable that the Optimus robot truck parts are not the same as that of the actual truck mode body parts (or at least not all of them). Notice the red chest panels are in fact hidden under the truck nose panels and his arm appears (God knows from where) already with its red/blue flames parts; meanwhile the rest of the front of the vehicle fragments and hides into the robot. This is the only Optimus transformation that occurs this way. In the other in-movie conversions some of his alternate mode's appearances seem to be absorbed into his body or outright disappear.
* After he left the screen following ''Dark of the Moon'' and returned with a new form, the truck was sold at the Barret Jackson Auction in 2016 for $110,000. Another prop was kept around for attraction purposes, while another sold prop was converted into a tow truck.
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===''Age of Extinction''===
[[File:AOEOptimusComparison.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! Those are the facts of this world, and you will all surrender to them. You pigs in human clothing!|left]]
*The overwhelming majority of ''Age of Extinction'' toys and promotional images for Optimus, not to mention his RotDS in-game model, are based on a preliminary design for the character, not used in the final film. The differences are most noticeable on the chest, although there are minor design variations across pretty much the entire body. [[TakaraTomy]]'s later release schedule for their version of the line allowed them to somewhat remedy this situation – their Battle Command Optimus Prime toy appears to have had its chest and feet retooled before release to match the newer design, and their 'Armor Knight' re-release of the Leader Class toy features extensive retooling to similar effect.
*Optimus's "evasion mode" body possesses one of the more cheatsy transformation schemes in the series. Not only does Optimus manage to turn into a fairly small truck while retaining his normal [[robot mode]] height and mass, his windows and grille rather conspicuously change size whenever he transforms. The paint job is still Optimus Prime as in the first three films, but heavily saturated in brown rust.
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===''The Last Knight''===
*The red "scar" on Optimus/Nemesis Prime's face in ''The Last Knight'' came about one day when Michael Bay went into [[Industrial Light & Magic|ILM]] and asked the animators to add red markings to Optimus Prime and Megatron's faces and come up with an explanation for them. Visual effects artist Chris Zammit came up with the idea that the markings were the use of [[Dark Energon]] due to its mind-control abilities and the presence of Unicron in the film.<ref name="MegatronScar">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mke7biooPA4&ab_channel=TFcon The Explanation for Megatron's Red Face Paint in Transformers The Last Knight Discussion at TFcon]</ref>
**In an early version of the fight between Nemesis Prime and Bumblebee, a canister filled with normal [[Energon]] (much like the jars Izabella used on the TRF Sentinels) could have been tossed onto Nemesis Prime to release him from Quintessa's control.<ref name="MegatronScar" /> The idea was scrapped, leaving the red markings as some kind of "paint" and Bumblebee's voice used as the device to restore Optimus Prime.
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===''Bumblebee''===
[[File:BBfilm-Optimus-Prime-model.jpg|thumb|200px|Boxy and blocky is the new sexy.]]
*Optimus Prime's design in ''Bumblebee'' is heavily influenced by his Generation 1 [[Optimus Prime (G1)|namesake]], which is especially seen with his Earth-mode body. The truck used as Prime was actually a rental, but given a new coat of G1-influenced paint for the role.
*Optimus Prime was to have an extended role in the opening scene of ''Bumblebee'', having a Cybertronian vehicle mode, though it was cut for time. Concept art for a more Cybertronian robot mode and vehicle mode was created by [[Alex Jaeger]], though the film ultimately uses a model closer to his Earthen robot form.<ref>[https://www.ilm.com/art-department/bumblebee-developing-an-epic-set-piece/ BUMBLEBEE: DEVELOPING AN EPIC SET PIECE] at ILM</ref>
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===''Rise of the Beasts''===
*Optimus Prime's right leg from the then yet-to-be-released ''Rise of the Beasts'' was featured in a Hasbro-sanctioned cameo in the 2022 direct-to-streaming film ''{{w|Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (film)|Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers}}''.<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/05/20/possible-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-cameo-on-the-new-chip-n-dale-rescue-rangers-movie-456697]</ref>
*According to VFX artist Rassoul Edji, Optimus Prime's head was redesigned to look like a cross between his appearance in ''Bumblebee'' and the 2007 film. In particular, he keeps the helmet design from ''Bumblebee'' while retaining the same facial features from the original Michael Bay trilogy, albeit widened to fit the newer helmet. His eyes were also simplified to evoke his 2007 look.
**Prime's mouthplate was modeled after a Roman centurion's helmet when retracted.<ref>[https://x.com/rassouledji/status/1857438415303639337?s=46&t=Z53-MsE7UPjp0Qubcz70NQ]</ref>
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===Other notes===
*According to [[TakaraTomy]] marketing director [[Masahiko Yamazaki]], for the Japanese dub of ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'', the [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]] featured in that show would become a young version of this one. Ultimately, this didn't make it into the end product as the show went largely unchanged.
*On [[September 30]], [[2014]], Optimus Prime was immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a cement printing ceremony outside [[Grauman's Chinese Theatre]]. In lieu of hand prints, Optimus provided tire prints. [[Peter Cullen]] was also in attendance and provided handprints alongside his alter ego.
*Despite [[Steven Caple Jr.]] stating that Optimus' face was modeled to look like [[Peter Cullen]], [[Rassoul Edji]] the VFX lead on the film and CG modeler for Optimus confirmed this was not the case.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CrneeTgsvb4/]</ref> <ref>[https://x.com/RassoulEdji/status/1857521990535717212]</ref>
*Japanese Transformers fans refer to this Optimus with the title "Emperor of Face Destruction" (顔面破壊大帝), in reference to the Japanese Decepticon leader title [[Emperor of Destruction]], and Optimus' penchant for beheading and maiming the faces of other Transformers. <ref>[https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E9%A1%94%E9%9D%A2%E7%A0%B4%E5%A3%8A%E5%A4%A7%E5%B8%9D Emperor of Face Destruction]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Optimus Prime''' (オプティマスプライム ''Oputimasu Puraimu''), '''Nemesis Prime''' (ネメシスプライム ''Nemeshisu Puraimu''), '''Orion Pax''' (''Tribute'', オライオンパックス ''Oraion Pakkusu'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''O Baak Man''' (Hong Kong, 柯柏文)
*''Hungarian:'' '''Optimusz Fővezér''' ("Prime Leader Optimus"), '''Nemezis Fővezér'''
*''Indonesian:'' '''Optimus Prime''', '''Sang Ketujuh''' ("The Seventh", since in Indonesian Optimus is known as the seventh Prime) or '''Pemimpin Para Autobot''' ("The Leader of the Autobots")
*''Korean:'' '''Optimus Prime''' (옵티머스 프라임 ''Obtimeoseu Peulaim''), '''Nemesis Prime''' (네메시스프라임 ''Nemesisu Peulaim'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Kēbówén''' (Taiwan, 柯博文), '''Qíngtīanzhù''' (China, 擎天柱, "Pillar that Supports the Sky")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Optimus Naikrashchiy''' (Оптимус Найкращий, "Optimus the Best")
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Peter Dinklage

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ABYouKnowMe: credited Doctor Dillamond

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[[File:DinklageTrask.jpg‎|right|thumb|300px|Gaze upon, [[Mighty Eagle]]!!]]
'''Peter Dinklage''' (born [[June 11]], [[1969]]) is an American actor. He is best known for his on-screen roles as Tyrion Lannister on ''Game of Thrones'', Miles Finch in ''Elf'', Dr. Bolivar Trask in ''X-Men: Days of Future Past'', Eitri in ''Avengers: Infinity War'', Eddie Plant in ''Pixels'', Simon Bar Sinister in ''Underdog'' and the titular roles of ''My Dinner with Hervé'' and ''The Toxic Avenger'' reboot.

In the realm of voice work, he voiced the [[Mighty Eagle]] in ''The Angry Birds Movie'' and its sequel, Captain Gutt in ''Ice Age: Continental Drift'', Phil Betterman in ''The Croods: A New Age'', Doctor Dillamond in the 2024 film adaptation of ''Wicked'', and the original voice of Ghost in ''Destiny''.

==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts]]''===
*[[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]]

==External links==
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227759/ Peter Dinklage on IMDB]

===Interviews===
*June 2023—[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEP8RdGmnqA Collider] ([https://collider.com/peter-dinklage-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-interview/ transcript])
*June 2023—[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvh_GopDig8 Screen Rant Plus] ([https://screenrant.com/transformers-rise-beasts-peter-dinklage-interview/ transcript])

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