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Walter Simmons

2025-07-03T23:22:11Z

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:''Walter Simmons is a [[human]] from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Sector7_5_old_walter_simmons.jpg|right|thumb|300px|No, not that {{w|Iceman (comics)|Iceman}}, this [[Megatron (Movie)|Iceman]]! Guys, man your stations! Oi! Don’t target your director! I am not the Iceman! Are all of ya deaf?!?!?]]

In his younger days, '''Walter Simmons''' filled his life with adventure, exploring the fantastic and the unknown alongside his longtime friend [[Theodore Joseph Wells]]. Although he describes himself as a man of reason, this particular trait only extends as far as preferring to think his way out of situations rather than resort to violence; when it comes to seeking explanations for the mysteries he and Wells encounter in their adventures, "reason" does not often enter into Simmons's thought processes, and he will willingly embrace the supernatural and otherworldly as an answer. Indeed, it is this openness and eagerness that causes Wells to fear for Simmons's well-being, as it seems all too possible for him to be consumed by the terrifying and wonderful worlds and possibilities that their discoveries have opened up to him.

Putting his life of adventure behind him, Simmons became one of the [[First Seven]], the founders of the organization which would become [[Sector Seven]]. He has lived long enough to remain in a position of power with the organization for the majority of its existence, becoming known and feared by many. It is said he knows where most of the skeletons are buried, and how they became skeletons in the first place. Those within Sector Seven refer to him as "The Old Man", but likely never to his face.

After [[Billy North]]’s death, he is more than ever determined to lose or even kill those who matter to him, just to investigate the secret history of transformers. Which he is addicted to.

Walter is the father of [[Margaret Simmons]], grandfather of [[Bill Simmons]], and great-grandfather of [[Seymour Simmons]].
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==Fiction==
===IDW movie comics===
[[Image:Sector71 simmons and wells.jpg|left|thumb|225px|Two-Theories Simmons and the Research Kid.]]
While exploring a cave system beneath the Sierra Nevada mountains on [[January 1|New Year's Day]] [[1898]], Simmons and Wells were attacked by a [[Cave brute|race of inhuman monsters]]. Fleeing to the surface, Simmons opted for reason over firearms, and quickly fashioned a lever from a tree branch to collapse the cliff-face and entomb the creatures. Mere seconds later, the pair found themselves approached by agent [[Billy North]] of the [[United States of America|United States]] Secret Service, who had come to draft the pair on the orders of the [[President of the United States|President]]. {{storylink|Original}}

Simmons and Wells were brought to the [[Boston Secure Hospital]], where they were presented with patient [[Archibald Witwicky]], a ship's captain who had returned from an expedition to the [[Arctic]] Circle blind and mad, claiming to have discovered a giant [[Megatron (Movie)|metal man]] frozen in the ice. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} While Wells was unconvinced by the story, Simmons believed that Witwicky had seen ''something'', and recruited his first mate, [[Reginald Danco]], to lead them, North, and three other men—explosives expert [[Philippe Bowen]], geologist [[Theodore Grant]] and metallurgist [[Jack Arden]]—to the site of the metal man's discovery so he could see for himself. There, in the frozen depths of the Arctic, Witwicky's claims proved true: a fact that so amazed Simmons that Wells was moved to caution his friend against becoming too consumed by the enormity of the discovery.

[[Image:Sector71 simmons wells and jetfire.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

As misfortune would have it, the team's entrance into the cavern stirred the frozen giant, causing it to send out a signal that summoned [[Jetfire (Movie)|another of its kind]] to the Arctic. When Agent North began shooting the newcomer, it responded in kind, but Simmons and Wells were able to distract it long enough for Bowen and Grant to blast the ice out from underneath it, dispatching it to the ocean depths. North, alas, did not survive the ordeal; Simmons was forced to admit to Wells that the guilt he now felt for North's death meant that to be consumed by the endeavour now seemed inevitable. {{storylink|Original}}

Although Simmons was willing to absolve the other members of the group of their duty to the project, they all agreed to stay alongside him and study the "Mega-Man". Excavation of the cave containing the robot began, and construction on an environment dome around the area so the robot itself could be dug out. By the time the dome's construction neared completion in [[1899]], Simmons's obsession with the Mega-Man had grown to the point that he had begun shutting himself off from others, his family included, and talking to the creature. It took the news of a discovery in [[Nevada]] in [[1902]] to draw him away... the discovery of a large [[AllSpark|metal cube]] in the Colorado River, covered in runes matching those on the Mega-Man's hide. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}}

[[Image:Sector72_simmons_and_allspark.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

It took a further eleven years for mining expert [[Herbert Hoover]] to orchestrate the diversion of the river so the cube could be excavated. During this time, Simmons had his wife [[Clara Simmons|Clara]] and daughter [[Margaret Simmons|Margaret]] moved to a dwelling in the Nevada desert close to the work site so they could notionally be closer to him, but the obsession had taken hold of his mind and heart, and he spent no more time with them than he had during his sojourn to the North Pole. When the cube was eventually removed from the earth in [[1913]], a cave system was discovered beneath it containing the same glowing material that Simmons and Wells had found on their 1897 adventure, and Wells believed that he saw a spark of the old Walter when his friend insisted that they explore it. Before going too far into the caves, however, they found themselves attacked by the same robot they had faced in the North Pole: truly, as Simmons had suspected, everything was connected. Scrambling for the surface, Simmons instructed that the cube be dropped on the robot even though Wells had not yet emerged, but thankfully, Wells was able to get clear before this happened. Subsequently, a surge of [[Energon|energy]] from the cube brought [[Four original AllSpark Mutations|several surrounding machines to life]], forcing Herbert and his wife [[Lou Hoover|Lou]] to break open the dam holding the river back to "drown" the automatons. Despite his willingness to leave him behind, Wells dragged the mesmerized Simmons away from the cube. Having seen how far gone his friend now was, Wells abandoned him, and gave into his feelings for Clara, who returned his affections and ran away with him. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}}

In [[1934]], Simmons appointed his now-adult daughter Margaret to a low-level position within his organization, now named "Sector Seven", seeking to give her employment following the recent end of her marriage but wanting to ensure her safety. {{storylink|Together}}

[[Image:Prequel3_simmons_and_allspark.jpg|right|thumb|275px|"In my dreams, I keep seeing a black freighter..."]]

In [[1935]], Simmons, allegedly on the cusp of retirement, visited the [[Hoover Dam]], which had since been constructed under Herbert Hoover's direction to serve as a more permanent housing for the cube. Walking through the station and discussing his history with a younger operative, Simmons watched as cryo-blocks were prepared for the forthcoming arrival of the Mega-Man, soon to be transported the from the North Pole. Gazing at the AllSpark, he mused aloud that it was not a matter of "if" others of the Mega-Man's race would find the cube and the Earth... it was a matter of "[[Transformers (film)|when]]". {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3|Movie Prequel #3}}

Some delays in establishing the cryo-blocks prevented Megatron from being moved by the predicted date, and the subsequent outbreak of [[World War II]] put both his move, and apparently, Simmons's retirement, on permanent hold. In [[1944]], discovering that the [[Nazi]]s had captured an [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|N.B.E.]] of their own, Simmons arranged the temporary transfer of his grandson [[Bill Simmons|Billy]] to Sector Seven, so that he could take part in a mission behind enemy lines to destroy the robot. Simmons walked Billy through the now-completed Hoover Dam base, telling him the history of the organization and briefing him on his task, but Billy had no desire to join up permanently... until he learned a lot more about N.B.E.s and the threat they posed while on the mission. {{storylink|Weapon (issue)|Weapon}}
[[Image:Sector7_5_simmons_and_jetfire.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

In [[1954]], an act of Soviet sabotage sent the heating system at the Arctic base into overdrive, and Walter arrived on the scene with the demand that liquid nitrogen bombs be dropped on the complex to ensure that the Mega-Man did not thaw out, despite the fact that his grandson was among the personnel trapped inside by a security lockdown. As the bombs were dropped, however, one of the Sector Seven spy planes circling overhead suddenly dived, revealing itself to be that same N.B.E. Walter had encountered in the Arctic caves over half a century ago. The robot shielded [[Tova Anael Fischer|Anne Fischer]] and [[Philip Nolan]] from the freezing blast, but was unable to save Simmons's grandson. The crestfallen Simmons could only ask why the robot had acted at all, at which point it told him that it had encountered Billy during the war, and that the human's nobility had driven it to atone for past sins. The robot was no longer the same creature Simmons had met in those caves... and as it flew off, it told Simmons that he did not have to be the same person he was back then either. As Anne—Billy's wife, pregnant with his [[Seymour Simmons|child]]—came to, Simmons told her to take her child and keep it far away from him, that it might never be sucked into the legacy of obsession he had trapped his family in. {{storylink|Frozen}}

Little did Walter realize that his grandson had survived, and been captured by Soviet forces. When Bill was finally able to escape in [[1965]], he returned to America and attempted contact with Sector Seven. Walter was hesitant to believe that his grandson had truly survived, but dispatched a team to investigate; when the report came back that Bill had made contact with his own son, Seymour, and given him the means to contact Sector Seven before disappearing again, Walter met with Seymour for the first time. It was a tearful first encounter: for all Walter had tried to prevent it, the Simmons legacy had consumed another victim. {{storylink|Convergence chapter 3}}

[[Image:DOTM1_walter_simmons.jpg|right|thumb|225px|]]
When an [[Ark (DOTM)|alien object]] crashed on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] in [[1961]], Sector Seven was put on the case by presidential order, and Walter oversaw the drive to place a man on the moon ahead of the Soviet Union to be the first to plunder this alien treasure. Eight years later, in 1969, Walter was busy looking through satellite photos as the [[Apollo 11]] mission successfully touched down on the moon's surface; at the urging of his assistant, he called for a strategic blackout operation to be initiated, breaking [[NASA]]'s contact with the astronauts so that he could personally direct them in their exploration of the alien vessel they found. {{storylink|Dark of the Moon issue 1|Dark of the Moon #1}}

Later that year, Simmons watched solemnly as the Mega-Man was at last transferred from the Arctic to the Hoover Dam headquarters. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}}

{{-}}

====''Transformers: Beginnings''====
{{voiceactor|Unknown}}
{{note|Transformers: Beginnings is a condensed, flash-animated retelling of the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] [[Transformers: Movie Prequel |Movie Prequel]] that is detailed above this section.}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Transformers: Beginnings}}

===''Ghosts of Yesterday''===
During a briefing on [[Vietnam]], Simmons famously called the Vice President a "barely literate peasant". In the buildup to the ''[[Ghost 1]]'' launch, and the relocation of the [[Megatron (Movie)|Ice Man]] from the [[Sector Seven High Arctic Base]], Simmons had a squad of [[Army Rangers]] under [[Martin (Movie)|Staff Sergeant Martin]] assigned to the base for "training exercises", so that they would be around should their services be required.

When ''Ghost 1'' was lost, Colonel [[Thomas Kinnear]] decided not to immediately inform his superior, as there was really nothing substantial to report. Later, when Simmons did hear, he was upset, but not as badly as Kinnear had feared. He also assigned Kinnear to oversee the moving of the Ice Man from the [[Arctic]] base to [[Hoover Dam|a more secure facility]] holding [[AllSpark|another alien device]]. They had received some intelligence that the [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] might know something about the Ice Man, and Simmons wanted Kinnear to ensure everything went smoothly.

Everything didn't go smoothly, and Simmons received the news that the convoy carrying the Ice Man had gone missing. He rang [[Philip Nolan]], who'd been left in charge of the Arctic base and instructed him to put a team together to go and find Kinnear. Nolan put up a token protest as ''Ghost 1'' was still missing, but Simmons asserted that the convoy was more important and ordered him to go. Nolan's mission resulted in the Ice Man successfully reaching Nevada. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

==Notes==
[[Image:Prequel2 wells simmons and witwicky.jpg|right|thumb|300px|In the 19th century, only the upper classes were allowed to wear shirts.]]
*Simmons and Wells first appeared, unnamed, in the second issue of IDW's ''[[Transformers: Movie Prequel |Movie Prequel]]'' comic book (seen at right); in the same month, Simmons also appeared in the ''[[Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday| Ghosts of Yesterday]]'' prequel novel, not intended at the time to be related to the character seen in the comic. The pair were repurposed (and Simmons from the novel retroactively established to be one of them) a few years later for the ''[[Transformers: Sector 7|Sector 7]]'' comic, but some fudging-slash-retconning of the details took place. The second issue of the prequel depicted the dark-haired, bespectacled, mutton-chopped character (Wells) as being the one with the family and the growing obsession with the Mega-Man, but the third then placed the silver-haired, moustachioed character (Simmons) in that role in a scene where he wistfully returned to Hoover Dam. These elements were all united in Simmons for ''Sector 7''.
*According to [[Michael Bay]] in the [[Transformers (film)|first movie]] commentary, Walter was going to be mentioned, but the line was cut.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Simmons, Walter}}
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Walter Simmons

2025-07-03T23:20:52Z

Chenz9001D:

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{{featured}}
:''Walter Simmons is a [[human]] from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Sector7_5_old_walter_simmons.jpg|right|thumb|300px|No, not that {{w|Iceman (comics)|Iceman}}, this [[Megatron (Movie)|Iceman]]!]]

In his younger days, '''Walter Simmons''' filled his life with adventure, exploring the fantastic and the unknown alongside his longtime friend [[Theodore Joseph Wells]]. Although he describes himself as a man of reason, this particular trait only extends as far as preferring to think his way out of situations rather than resort to violence; when it comes to seeking explanations for the mysteries he and Wells encounter in their adventures, "reason" does not often enter into Simmons's thought processes, and he will willingly embrace the supernatural and otherworldly as an answer. Indeed, it is this openness and eagerness that causes Wells to fear for Simmons's well-being, as it seems all too possible for him to be consumed by the terrifying and wonderful worlds and possibilities that their discoveries have opened up to him.

Putting his life of adventure behind him, Simmons became one of the [[First Seven]], the founders of the organization which would become [[Sector Seven]]. He has lived long enough to remain in a position of power with the organization for the majority of its existence, becoming known and feared by many. It is said he knows where most of the skeletons are buried, and how they became skeletons in the first place. Those within Sector Seven refer to him as "The Old Man", but likely never to his face.

After [[Billy North]]’s death, he is more than ever determined to lose or even kill those who matter to him, just to investigate the secret history of transformers. Which he is addicted to.

Walter is the father of [[Margaret Simmons]], grandfather of [[Bill Simmons]], and great-grandfather of [[Seymour Simmons]].
{{TOCclear}}
==Fiction==
===IDW movie comics===
[[Image:Sector71 simmons and wells.jpg|left|thumb|225px|Two-Theories Simmons and the Research Kid.]]
While exploring a cave system beneath the Sierra Nevada mountains on [[January 1|New Year's Day]] [[1898]], Simmons and Wells were attacked by a [[Cave brute|race of inhuman monsters]]. Fleeing to the surface, Simmons opted for reason over firearms, and quickly fashioned a lever from a tree branch to collapse the cliff-face and entomb the creatures. Mere seconds later, the pair found themselves approached by agent [[Billy North]] of the [[United States of America|United States]] Secret Service, who had come to draft the pair on the orders of the [[President of the United States|President]]. {{storylink|Original}}

Simmons and Wells were brought to the [[Boston Secure Hospital]], where they were presented with patient [[Archibald Witwicky]], a ship's captain who had returned from an expedition to the [[Arctic]] Circle blind and mad, claiming to have discovered a giant [[Megatron (Movie)|metal man]] frozen in the ice. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} While Wells was unconvinced by the story, Simmons believed that Witwicky had seen ''something'', and recruited his first mate, [[Reginald Danco]], to lead them, North, and three other men—explosives expert [[Philippe Bowen]], geologist [[Theodore Grant]] and metallurgist [[Jack Arden]]—to the site of the metal man's discovery so he could see for himself. There, in the frozen depths of the Arctic, Witwicky's claims proved true: a fact that so amazed Simmons that Wells was moved to caution his friend against becoming too consumed by the enormity of the discovery.

[[Image:Sector71 simmons wells and jetfire.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

As misfortune would have it, the team's entrance into the cavern stirred the frozen giant, causing it to send out a signal that summoned [[Jetfire (Movie)|another of its kind]] to the Arctic. When Agent North began shooting the newcomer, it responded in kind, but Simmons and Wells were able to distract it long enough for Bowen and Grant to blast the ice out from underneath it, dispatching it to the ocean depths. North, alas, did not survive the ordeal; Simmons was forced to admit to Wells that the guilt he now felt for North's death meant that to be consumed by the endeavour now seemed inevitable. {{storylink|Original}}

Although Simmons was willing to absolve the other members of the group of their duty to the project, they all agreed to stay alongside him and study the "Mega-Man". Excavation of the cave containing the robot began, and construction on an environment dome around the area so the robot itself could be dug out. By the time the dome's construction neared completion in [[1899]], Simmons's obsession with the Mega-Man had grown to the point that he had begun shutting himself off from others, his family included, and talking to the creature. It took the news of a discovery in [[Nevada]] in [[1902]] to draw him away... the discovery of a large [[AllSpark|metal cube]] in the Colorado River, covered in runes matching those on the Mega-Man's hide. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}}

[[Image:Sector72_simmons_and_allspark.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

It took a further eleven years for mining expert [[Herbert Hoover]] to orchestrate the diversion of the river so the cube could be excavated. During this time, Simmons had his wife [[Clara Simmons|Clara]] and daughter [[Margaret Simmons|Margaret]] moved to a dwelling in the Nevada desert close to the work site so they could notionally be closer to him, but the obsession had taken hold of his mind and heart, and he spent no more time with them than he had during his sojourn to the North Pole. When the cube was eventually removed from the earth in [[1913]], a cave system was discovered beneath it containing the same glowing material that Simmons and Wells had found on their 1897 adventure, and Wells believed that he saw a spark of the old Walter when his friend insisted that they explore it. Before going too far into the caves, however, they found themselves attacked by the same robot they had faced in the North Pole: truly, as Simmons had suspected, everything was connected. Scrambling for the surface, Simmons instructed that the cube be dropped on the robot even though Wells had not yet emerged, but thankfully, Wells was able to get clear before this happened. Subsequently, a surge of [[Energon|energy]] from the cube brought [[Four original AllSpark Mutations|several surrounding machines to life]], forcing Herbert and his wife [[Lou Hoover|Lou]] to break open the dam holding the river back to "drown" the automatons. Despite his willingness to leave him behind, Wells dragged the mesmerized Simmons away from the cube. Having seen how far gone his friend now was, Wells abandoned him, and gave into his feelings for Clara, who returned his affections and ran away with him. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}}

In [[1934]], Simmons appointed his now-adult daughter Margaret to a low-level position within his organization, now named "Sector Seven", seeking to give her employment following the recent end of her marriage but wanting to ensure her safety. {{storylink|Together}}

[[Image:Prequel3_simmons_and_allspark.jpg|right|thumb|275px|"In my dreams, I keep seeing a black freighter..."]]

In [[1935]], Simmons, allegedly on the cusp of retirement, visited the [[Hoover Dam]], which had since been constructed under Herbert Hoover's direction to serve as a more permanent housing for the cube. Walking through the station and discussing his history with a younger operative, Simmons watched as cryo-blocks were prepared for the forthcoming arrival of the Mega-Man, soon to be transported the from the North Pole. Gazing at the AllSpark, he mused aloud that it was not a matter of "if" others of the Mega-Man's race would find the cube and the Earth... it was a matter of "[[Transformers (film)|when]]". {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3|Movie Prequel #3}}

Some delays in establishing the cryo-blocks prevented Megatron from being moved by the predicted date, and the subsequent outbreak of [[World War II]] put both his move, and apparently, Simmons's retirement, on permanent hold. In [[1944]], discovering that the [[Nazi]]s had captured an [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|N.B.E.]] of their own, Simmons arranged the temporary transfer of his grandson [[Bill Simmons|Billy]] to Sector Seven, so that he could take part in a mission behind enemy lines to destroy the robot. Simmons walked Billy through the now-completed Hoover Dam base, telling him the history of the organization and briefing him on his task, but Billy had no desire to join up permanently... until he learned a lot more about N.B.E.s and the threat they posed while on the mission. {{storylink|Weapon (issue)|Weapon}}
[[Image:Sector7_5_simmons_and_jetfire.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

In [[1954]], an act of Soviet sabotage sent the heating system at the Arctic base into overdrive, and Walter arrived on the scene with the demand that liquid nitrogen bombs be dropped on the complex to ensure that the Mega-Man did not thaw out, despite the fact that his grandson was among the personnel trapped inside by a security lockdown. As the bombs were dropped, however, one of the Sector Seven spy planes circling overhead suddenly dived, revealing itself to be that same N.B.E. Walter had encountered in the Arctic caves over half a century ago. The robot shielded [[Tova Anael Fischer|Anne Fischer]] and [[Philip Nolan]] from the freezing blast, but was unable to save Simmons's grandson. The crestfallen Simmons could only ask why the robot had acted at all, at which point it told him that it had encountered Billy during the war, and that the human's nobility had driven it to atone for past sins. The robot was no longer the same creature Simmons had met in those caves... and as it flew off, it told Simmons that he did not have to be the same person he was back then either. As Anne—Billy's wife, pregnant with his [[Seymour Simmons|child]]—came to, Simmons told her to take her child and keep it far away from him, that it might never be sucked into the legacy of obsession he had trapped his family in. {{storylink|Frozen}}

Little did Walter realize that his grandson had survived, and been captured by Soviet forces. When Bill was finally able to escape in [[1965]], he returned to America and attempted contact with Sector Seven. Walter was hesitant to believe that his grandson had truly survived, but dispatched a team to investigate; when the report came back that Bill had made contact with his own son, Seymour, and given him the means to contact Sector Seven before disappearing again, Walter met with Seymour for the first time. It was a tearful first encounter: for all Walter had tried to prevent it, the Simmons legacy had consumed another victim. {{storylink|Convergence chapter 3}}

[[Image:DOTM1_walter_simmons.jpg|right|thumb|225px|]]
When an [[Ark (DOTM)|alien object]] crashed on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] in [[1961]], Sector Seven was put on the case by presidential order, and Walter oversaw the drive to place a man on the moon ahead of the Soviet Union to be the first to plunder this alien treasure. Eight years later, in 1969, Walter was busy looking through satellite photos as the [[Apollo 11]] mission successfully touched down on the moon's surface; at the urging of his assistant, he called for a strategic blackout operation to be initiated, breaking [[NASA]]'s contact with the astronauts so that he could personally direct them in their exploration of the alien vessel they found. {{storylink|Dark of the Moon issue 1|Dark of the Moon #1}}

Later that year, Simmons watched solemnly as the Mega-Man was at last transferred from the Arctic to the Hoover Dam headquarters. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}}

{{-}}

====''Transformers: Beginnings''====
{{voiceactor|Unknown}}
{{note|Transformers: Beginnings is a condensed, flash-animated retelling of the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] [[Transformers: Movie Prequel |Movie Prequel]] that is detailed above this section.}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Transformers: Beginnings}}

===''Ghosts of Yesterday''===
During a briefing on [[Vietnam]], Simmons famously called the Vice President a "barely literate peasant". In the buildup to the ''[[Ghost 1]]'' launch, and the relocation of the [[Megatron (Movie)|Ice Man]] from the [[Sector Seven High Arctic Base]], Simmons had a squad of [[Army Rangers]] under [[Martin (Movie)|Staff Sergeant Martin]] assigned to the base for "training exercises", so that they would be around should their services be required.

When ''Ghost 1'' was lost, Colonel [[Thomas Kinnear]] decided not to immediately inform his superior, as there was really nothing substantial to report. Later, when Simmons did hear, he was upset, but not as badly as Kinnear had feared. He also assigned Kinnear to oversee the moving of the Ice Man from the [[Arctic]] base to [[Hoover Dam|a more secure facility]] holding [[AllSpark|another alien device]]. They had received some intelligence that the [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] might know something about the Ice Man, and Simmons wanted Kinnear to ensure everything went smoothly.

Everything didn't go smoothly, and Simmons received the news that the convoy carrying the Ice Man had gone missing. He rang [[Philip Nolan]], who'd been left in charge of the Arctic base and instructed him to put a team together to go and find Kinnear. Nolan put up a token protest as ''Ghost 1'' was still missing, but Simmons asserted that the convoy was more important and ordered him to go. Nolan's mission resulted in the Ice Man successfully reaching Nevada. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

==Notes==
[[Image:Prequel2 wells simmons and witwicky.jpg|right|thumb|300px|In the 19th century, only the upper classes were allowed to wear shirts.]]
*Simmons and Wells first appeared, unnamed, in the second issue of IDW's ''[[Transformers: Movie Prequel |Movie Prequel]]'' comic book (seen at right); in the same month, Simmons also appeared in the ''[[Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday| Ghosts of Yesterday]]'' prequel novel, not intended at the time to be related to the character seen in the comic. The pair were repurposed (and Simmons from the novel retroactively established to be one of them) a few years later for the ''[[Transformers: Sector 7|Sector 7]]'' comic, but some fudging-slash-retconning of the details took place. The second issue of the prequel depicted the dark-haired, bespectacled, mutton-chopped character (Wells) as being the one with the family and the growing obsession with the Mega-Man, but the third then placed the silver-haired, moustachioed character (Simmons) in that role in a scene where he wistfully returned to Hoover Dam. These elements were all united in Simmons for ''Sector 7''.
*According to [[Michael Bay]] in the [[Transformers (film)|first movie]] commentary, Walter was going to be mentioned, but the line was cut.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Simmons, Walter}}
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[[Category:Movie humans]]
[[Category:Sector Seven]]

Edmund Burton

2025-07-03T23:20:22Z

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:''Edmund Burton is an [[Autobot]]-allied [[human]] from [[Transformers: The Last Knight (franchise)|The Last Knight]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:TLK Burton table pose.jpg|thumb|right|400px|This is season 2 of ''West World'', right? And do not smile at me, because it is never funny. ]]

Last of the [[Order of the Witwiccans]] and twelfth Earl of Folgan, Sir '''Edmund Burton''' knows all about the [[Transformer]]s and the history of their kind on [[Earth]]. Using his considerable political and financial influence, he's dedicated to keeping this history a secret and is aided in doing so by a myriad of hidden Cybertronians across the planet.

He is everything you hope to be when you grow old and everything you probably won't be.
At least he’s better than [[Walter Simmons]].
==Fiction==
===''The Last Knight'' film===
:''Actor'': [[Anthony Hopkins]]
{{voiceactor|[[Michihiro Ikemizu]] (Japanese dub)|[[Jean-Pierre Moulin]] (European French dub), [[Jean-Marie Moncelet]] (Canadian French dub), [[Joachim Kerzel]] (German dub), [[Dario Penne]] (Italian dub), [[Li Lihong]] (Mandarin dub), [[Reinaldo Pimenta]] (Portuguese dub), [[Isaac Bardavid]] (Portuguese dub, trailers only), [[Camilo García]] (Castilian Spanish dub), [[Gabriel Pingarrón]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[Mazlum Kiper]] (Turkish dub), [[Seol Yeong-beom]] ((Korean dub)}}

Descended from a long line of complete and utter lunatics who committed suicide in a variety of inventive ways, Edmund Burton was a boy when [[World War II]] broke out where he met [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]] and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]. Though Hot Rod would remain in Europe and become close friends with Burton, Bumblebee left after the War and would not remember the conflict as a particularly noteworthy event decades later. He was partly raised by [[Cogman]], a sociopathic [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] who was in service to the Burton family.

Over the years, Edmund Burton would be inducted into the Order of the Witwiccans, meet (and become greatly annoyed by) [[Seymour Simmons]] and receive a knighthood. He was friends with the father of [[Viviane Wembly]] and watched over her from afar sending Hot Rod to masquerade as her car. He also acquired a Cybertronian firearm which he concealed as a cane.

When [[Unicron|six mysterious horns]] burst out of the crust of the Earth, Sir Edmund realized [[Cybertron (planet)|the apocalypse]] was coming and visited one of the horns in [[Namibia]]. Realizing what he had to do, Sir Edmund sent Cogman to collect [[Cade Yeager]] and had Hot Rod bring him Viviane.

To Sir Edmund's great joy, Cade had been accompanied by Bumblebee. Just as Cade was about to take his leave, Hot Rod bringing a panicking Viviane convinced Yeager to stay and hear out Sir Edmund. After introducing himself and the [[watch that killed Hitler]], he showed the two to the [[Round Table]] (itself a Cybertronian artifact) and explained that the exoplanet approaching Earth was in fact Cybertron itself, that Cade was the foretold "Last Knight" and Viviane the last descendant of [[Merlin]] himself. As such, only together could the two save Earth from destruction at Cybertron's hand.

[[File:TLK EdmundBurton explanation.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Some believe that before the universe, there was nothing. They're wrong. There was darkness…and it has survived.]]

The discussion was halted when the [[Transformers Reaction Force|TRF]] and [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] arrived on the grounds to arrest them. Sending Cade and Viviane to find a clue to the location of the [[Staff of Merlin]], Sir Edmund and Cogman lead the authorities on a supercar chase throughout London. While the two were busy searching for a clue that pointed them to the [[HMS Alliance|HMS ''Alliance'']], Burton was contacted by Simmons, who directed him towards the [[Book of Cyber-Kells]] in the [[Trinity Library]] that told the truth of Earth. After inducting Simmons into the Order of the Witwiccans, Sir Edmund learned from the book that Earth had formed around Unicron and the horns were the Chaos Bringer's reaction to Cybertron's approach. Arriving at the {{w|Royal Navy Submarine Museum|naval museum}}, Sir Edmund slipped a paper to the ticket booth and declared the museum closed "for an eternity". Forcing everyone off, Sir Edmund left the two in Cogman's company and saw them and Bumblebee off while he went to rally a defence.

Arriving at [[10 Downing Street]], Burton asked to see the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] but was turned down by a "dickhead". Undeterred, he used the secret entrance to emerge directly into the Prime Minister's office. When several guards tried to arrest him, Sir Edmund flashed the watch that killed Hitler, threatening to unleash the psychotic Cybertronian who would have little issue killing everyone in the room. After flashing his credentials (and repeatedly telling the Prime Minister to shut up), Sir Edmund ordered him to mobilize all the [[British Armed Forces|British military forces]] to [[Stonehenge]].

Being deposited at Stonehenge by the British military, Sir Edmund witnessed [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], and [[Nitro Zeus]] gloat about killing Unicron and opened fire on the Decepticon leader with his firearm, the signal for the military to open fire. While the three Decepticons were unable to take cover, they still proved able to best the military with Megatron being able to activate Stonehenge to prepare for the energy transference. Megatron then glimpsed Sir Edmund and cursed him before firing a blast from his [[fusion cannon]] that sent the human flying.

Cogman then ran to Sir Edmund, who claimed he'd had his moment by fighting Megatron before dying contentedly. Cogman mourned his master, declaring him the coolest Burton he'd served. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

==Notes==
*The film's 2019 prop auction reveals that a headstone was made for Burton's grave, which is never seen in the movie. It also states that the events of ''The Last Knight'' take place in the year 2017, seemingly at odds with the movie timeline.<ref>https://profilesinhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/101TransformersSs.pdf</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Edmund Burton''' (エドモンド・バートン ''Edomondo Bāton'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Edmund Burton''' (Taiwan, 艾德蒙·柏頓 ''Àidéméng Bǎidùn''), (China, 艾德蒙·伯顿 ''Àidéméng Bódùn'')
*''Korean:'' '''Edmund Burton''' (에드먼드 버턴 ''Edeumeondeu Beoteon'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burton, Edmund}}
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[[Category:Live-action-only characters]]
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Edmund Burton

2025-07-03T23:19:49Z

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:''Edmund Burton is an [[Autobot]]-allied [[human]] from [[Transformers: The Last Knight (franchise)|The Last Knight]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:TLK Burton table pose.jpg|thumb|right|400px|This is season 2 of ''West World'', right? And do not smile at me, because it is never funny. ]]

Last of the [[Order of the Witwiccans]] and twelfth Earl of Folgan, Sir '''Edmund Burton''' knows all about the [[Transformer]]s and the history of their kind on [[Earth]]. Using his considerable political and financial influence, he's dedicated to keeping this history a secret and is aided in doing so by a myriad of hidden Cybertronians across the planet.

He is everything you hope to be when you grow old and everything you probably won't be.

==Fiction==
===''The Last Knight'' film===
:''Actor'': [[Anthony Hopkins]]
{{voiceactor|[[Michihiro Ikemizu]] (Japanese dub)|[[Jean-Pierre Moulin]] (European French dub), [[Jean-Marie Moncelet]] (Canadian French dub), [[Joachim Kerzel]] (German dub), [[Dario Penne]] (Italian dub), [[Li Lihong]] (Mandarin dub), [[Reinaldo Pimenta]] (Portuguese dub), [[Isaac Bardavid]] (Portuguese dub, trailers only), [[Camilo García]] (Castilian Spanish dub), [[Gabriel Pingarrón]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[Mazlum Kiper]] (Turkish dub), [[Seol Yeong-beom]] ((Korean dub)}}

Descended from a long line of complete and utter lunatics who committed suicide in a variety of inventive ways, Edmund Burton was a boy when [[World War II]] broke out where he met [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]] and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]. Though Hot Rod would remain in Europe and become close friends with Burton, Bumblebee left after the War and would not remember the conflict as a particularly noteworthy event decades later. He was partly raised by [[Cogman]], a sociopathic [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] who was in service to the Burton family.

Over the years, Edmund Burton would be inducted into the Order of the Witwiccans, meet (and become greatly annoyed by) [[Seymour Simmons]] and receive a knighthood. He was friends with the father of [[Viviane Wembly]] and watched over her from afar sending Hot Rod to masquerade as her car. He also acquired a Cybertronian firearm which he concealed as a cane.

When [[Unicron|six mysterious horns]] burst out of the crust of the Earth, Sir Edmund realized [[Cybertron (planet)|the apocalypse]] was coming and visited one of the horns in [[Namibia]]. Realizing what he had to do, Sir Edmund sent Cogman to collect [[Cade Yeager]] and had Hot Rod bring him Viviane.

To Sir Edmund's great joy, Cade had been accompanied by Bumblebee. Just as Cade was about to take his leave, Hot Rod bringing a panicking Viviane convinced Yeager to stay and hear out Sir Edmund. After introducing himself and the [[watch that killed Hitler]], he showed the two to the [[Round Table]] (itself a Cybertronian artifact) and explained that the exoplanet approaching Earth was in fact Cybertron itself, that Cade was the foretold "Last Knight" and Viviane the last descendant of [[Merlin]] himself. As such, only together could the two save Earth from destruction at Cybertron's hand.

[[File:TLK EdmundBurton explanation.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Some believe that before the universe, there was nothing. They're wrong. There was darkness…and it has survived.]]

The discussion was halted when the [[Transformers Reaction Force|TRF]] and [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] arrived on the grounds to arrest them. Sending Cade and Viviane to find a clue to the location of the [[Staff of Merlin]], Sir Edmund and Cogman lead the authorities on a supercar chase throughout London. While the two were busy searching for a clue that pointed them to the [[HMS Alliance|HMS ''Alliance'']], Burton was contacted by Simmons, who directed him towards the [[Book of Cyber-Kells]] in the [[Trinity Library]] that told the truth of Earth. After inducting Simmons into the Order of the Witwiccans, Sir Edmund learned from the book that Earth had formed around Unicron and the horns were the Chaos Bringer's reaction to Cybertron's approach. Arriving at the {{w|Royal Navy Submarine Museum|naval museum}}, Sir Edmund slipped a paper to the ticket booth and declared the museum closed "for an eternity". Forcing everyone off, Sir Edmund left the two in Cogman's company and saw them and Bumblebee off while he went to rally a defence.

Arriving at [[10 Downing Street]], Burton asked to see the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] but was turned down by a "dickhead". Undeterred, he used the secret entrance to emerge directly into the Prime Minister's office. When several guards tried to arrest him, Sir Edmund flashed the watch that killed Hitler, threatening to unleash the psychotic Cybertronian who would have little issue killing everyone in the room. After flashing his credentials (and repeatedly telling the Prime Minister to shut up), Sir Edmund ordered him to mobilize all the [[British Armed Forces|British military forces]] to [[Stonehenge]].

Being deposited at Stonehenge by the British military, Sir Edmund witnessed [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], and [[Nitro Zeus]] gloat about killing Unicron and opened fire on the Decepticon leader with his firearm, the signal for the military to open fire. While the three Decepticons were unable to take cover, they still proved able to best the military with Megatron being able to activate Stonehenge to prepare for the energy transference. Megatron then glimpsed Sir Edmund and cursed him before firing a blast from his [[fusion cannon]] that sent the human flying.

Cogman then ran to Sir Edmund, who claimed he'd had his moment by fighting Megatron before dying contentedly. Cogman mourned his master, declaring him the coolest Burton he'd served. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

==Notes==
*The film's 2019 prop auction reveals that a headstone was made for Burton's grave, which is never seen in the movie. It also states that the events of ''The Last Knight'' take place in the year 2017, seemingly at odds with the movie timeline.<ref>https://profilesinhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/101TransformersSs.pdf</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Edmund Burton''' (エドモンド・バートン ''Edomondo Bāton'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Edmund Burton''' (Taiwan, 艾德蒙·柏頓 ''Àidéméng Bǎidùn''), (China, 艾德蒙·伯顿 ''Àidéméng Bódùn'')
*''Korean:'' '''Edmund Burton''' (에드먼드 버턴 ''Edeumeondeu Beoteon'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burton, Edmund}}
[[Category:Knights]]
[[Category:Live-action-only characters]]
[[Category:Order of the Witwiccans]]
[[Category:United Kingdom military personnel]]

Edmund Burton

2025-07-03T23:19:35Z

Chenz9001D:

:''Edmund Burton is an [[Autobot]]-allied [[human]] from [[Transformers: The Last Knight (franchise)|The Last Knight]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:TLK Burton table pose.jpg|thumb|right|400px|This is season 2 of ''West World'', right? And do not smile at me, because it is never funn ]]

Last of the [[Order of the Witwiccans]] and twelfth Earl of Folgan, Sir '''Edmund Burton''' knows all about the [[Transformer]]s and the history of their kind on [[Earth]]. Using his considerable political and financial influence, he's dedicated to keeping this history a secret and is aided in doing so by a myriad of hidden Cybertronians across the planet.

He is everything you hope to be when you grow old and everything you probably won't be.

==Fiction==
===''The Last Knight'' film===
:''Actor'': [[Anthony Hopkins]]
{{voiceactor|[[Michihiro Ikemizu]] (Japanese dub)|[[Jean-Pierre Moulin]] (European French dub), [[Jean-Marie Moncelet]] (Canadian French dub), [[Joachim Kerzel]] (German dub), [[Dario Penne]] (Italian dub), [[Li Lihong]] (Mandarin dub), [[Reinaldo Pimenta]] (Portuguese dub), [[Isaac Bardavid]] (Portuguese dub, trailers only), [[Camilo García]] (Castilian Spanish dub), [[Gabriel Pingarrón]] (Latin-American Spanish dub), [[Mazlum Kiper]] (Turkish dub), [[Seol Yeong-beom]] ((Korean dub)}}

Descended from a long line of complete and utter lunatics who committed suicide in a variety of inventive ways, Edmund Burton was a boy when [[World War II]] broke out where he met [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]] and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]. Though Hot Rod would remain in Europe and become close friends with Burton, Bumblebee left after the War and would not remember the conflict as a particularly noteworthy event decades later. He was partly raised by [[Cogman]], a sociopathic [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] who was in service to the Burton family.

Over the years, Edmund Burton would be inducted into the Order of the Witwiccans, meet (and become greatly annoyed by) [[Seymour Simmons]] and receive a knighthood. He was friends with the father of [[Viviane Wembly]] and watched over her from afar sending Hot Rod to masquerade as her car. He also acquired a Cybertronian firearm which he concealed as a cane.

When [[Unicron|six mysterious horns]] burst out of the crust of the Earth, Sir Edmund realized [[Cybertron (planet)|the apocalypse]] was coming and visited one of the horns in [[Namibia]]. Realizing what he had to do, Sir Edmund sent Cogman to collect [[Cade Yeager]] and had Hot Rod bring him Viviane.

To Sir Edmund's great joy, Cade had been accompanied by Bumblebee. Just as Cade was about to take his leave, Hot Rod bringing a panicking Viviane convinced Yeager to stay and hear out Sir Edmund. After introducing himself and the [[watch that killed Hitler]], he showed the two to the [[Round Table]] (itself a Cybertronian artifact) and explained that the exoplanet approaching Earth was in fact Cybertron itself, that Cade was the foretold "Last Knight" and Viviane the last descendant of [[Merlin]] himself. As such, only together could the two save Earth from destruction at Cybertron's hand.

[[File:TLK EdmundBurton explanation.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Some believe that before the universe, there was nothing. They're wrong. There was darkness…and it has survived.]]

The discussion was halted when the [[Transformers Reaction Force|TRF]] and [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] arrived on the grounds to arrest them. Sending Cade and Viviane to find a clue to the location of the [[Staff of Merlin]], Sir Edmund and Cogman lead the authorities on a supercar chase throughout London. While the two were busy searching for a clue that pointed them to the [[HMS Alliance|HMS ''Alliance'']], Burton was contacted by Simmons, who directed him towards the [[Book of Cyber-Kells]] in the [[Trinity Library]] that told the truth of Earth. After inducting Simmons into the Order of the Witwiccans, Sir Edmund learned from the book that Earth had formed around Unicron and the horns were the Chaos Bringer's reaction to Cybertron's approach. Arriving at the {{w|Royal Navy Submarine Museum|naval museum}}, Sir Edmund slipped a paper to the ticket booth and declared the museum closed "for an eternity". Forcing everyone off, Sir Edmund left the two in Cogman's company and saw them and Bumblebee off while he went to rally a defence.

Arriving at [[10 Downing Street]], Burton asked to see the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] but was turned down by a "dickhead". Undeterred, he used the secret entrance to emerge directly into the Prime Minister's office. When several guards tried to arrest him, Sir Edmund flashed the watch that killed Hitler, threatening to unleash the psychotic Cybertronian who would have little issue killing everyone in the room. After flashing his credentials (and repeatedly telling the Prime Minister to shut up), Sir Edmund ordered him to mobilize all the [[British Armed Forces|British military forces]] to [[Stonehenge]].

Being deposited at Stonehenge by the British military, Sir Edmund witnessed [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], and [[Nitro Zeus]] gloat about killing Unicron and opened fire on the Decepticon leader with his firearm, the signal for the military to open fire. While the three Decepticons were unable to take cover, they still proved able to best the military with Megatron being able to activate Stonehenge to prepare for the energy transference. Megatron then glimpsed Sir Edmund and cursed him before firing a blast from his [[fusion cannon]] that sent the human flying.

Cogman then ran to Sir Edmund, who claimed he'd had his moment by fighting Megatron before dying contentedly. Cogman mourned his master, declaring him the coolest Burton he'd served. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

==Notes==
*The film's 2019 prop auction reveals that a headstone was made for Burton's grave, which is never seen in the movie. It also states that the events of ''The Last Knight'' take place in the year 2017, seemingly at odds with the movie timeline.<ref>https://profilesinhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/101TransformersSs.pdf</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Edmund Burton''' (エドモンド・バートン ''Edomondo Bāton'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Edmund Burton''' (Taiwan, 艾德蒙·柏頓 ''Àidéméng Bǎidùn''), (China, 艾德蒙·伯顿 ''Àidéméng Bódùn'')
*''Korean:'' '''Edmund Burton''' (에드먼드 버턴 ''Edeumeondeu Beoteon'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burton, Edmund}}
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[[Category:United Kingdom military personnel]]

Billy North

2025-07-03T23:18:41Z

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{{disambig3|Bill}}
:''Billy North is a [[human]] from the [[live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Sector71_billy_north.jpg|thumb|325px|Nothing goes down smooth like a [[Exhaust|Marlboor]] brand [[cy-gar]]. I have good looks, haven’t I?]]

With the days of the American Wild West drawing to an end, Agent '''Billy North''' (? - [[February 15]], [[1898]]) keeps the cowboy spirit alive while serving his country as a member of the [[United States of America|United States]] Secret Service. He rides a horse, and is rarely seen without a pair of six-guns at his hips, which he never hesitates to put to use at the slightest provocation.

North is a member of the [[First Seven]], the group who would eventually found the covert government organization [[Sector Seven]].

==Fiction==
===IDW movie comics===
When Captain [[Archibald Witwicky]] returned from a trip to the [[Arctic]] blind and mad, claiming to have discovered a giant [[Megatron (Movie)|metal man]] frozen in the ice, the United States government took an immediate interest. Agent North was sent to Sierra Nevada to draft gentleman adventurers [[Walter Simmons]] and [[Theodore Joseph Wells]], whose experiences with the fantastic and otherworldly made them prime candidates to investigate Witwicky's strange case. North accompanied the two men to the Boston Secure Hospital and waited outside as they questioned Witwicky, but when Wells's dismissive attitude towards Witwicky's claims provoked a fight with the captain's first mate [[Reginald Danco]], North quickly got involved, drawing his guns on Danco. Simmons defused the conflict, and concluded that the thing to do was follow Danco back to the North Pole to see the "metal man" for himself. He requested that North procure them a [[Theodore Grant|geologist]], an [[Philippe Bowen|explosives expert]] and a [[Jack Arden|metallurgist]] for the trip, and North agreed, deciding to accompany them himself to provide protection against whatever they might find.

The journey to the Arctic took two months, but upon arrival, the men discovered Witwicky's claims to be true when they located the robotic beast in an ice cave. As they examined it, however, their presence triggered a signal that summoned [[Jetfire (Movie)|another of the creature's kind]] to the cave. In the ensuing chaos, the new arrival, curious about the presence of humans in so inhospitable an environment, picked up North to get a better look at him, and North responded by opening fire. These "stings" infuriated the robot, and it hurled North over its shoulder, to his death. The remaining six were able to defeat the robot by plunging it into the freezing ocean, but North's death weighed heavily on Simmons's conscience, leading him to eventually sacrifice friends and family as he become obsessed with finding out all he could about the robots and protecting the Earth against them as he had failed to protect North. {{storylink|Original}}

==Notes==
*''[[Transformers: Sector 7|Sector 7]]'' author [[John Barber]] designed the First Seven to represent disparate parts of the era their story takes place in. As a cowboy, Billy represents the American Old West, a time slowly working its way to its end at the time of this story as the industrial East Coast, represented by many of the other members of the group, grew stronger and stronger.

{{DEFAULTSORT:North, Billy}}
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[[Category:Dark of the Moon humans]]
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Walter Simmons

2025-07-03T23:17:56Z

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:''Walter Simmons is a [[human]] from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Sector7_5_old_walter_simmons.jpg|right|thumb|300px|No, not that {{w|Iceman (comics)|Iceman}}, this [[Megatron (Movie)|Iceman]]!]]

In his younger days, '''Walter Simmons''' filled his life with adventure, exploring the fantastic and the unknown alongside his longtime friend [[Theodore Joseph Wells]]. Although he describes himself as a man of reason, this particular trait only extends as far as preferring to think his way out of situations rather than resort to violence; when it comes to seeking explanations for the mysteries he and Wells encounter in their adventures, "reason" does not often enter into Simmons's thought processes, and he will willingly embrace the supernatural and otherworldly as an answer. Indeed, it is this openness and eagerness that causes Wells to fear for Simmons's well-being, as it seems all too possible for him to be consumed by the terrifying and wonderful worlds and possibilities that their discoveries have opened up to him.

Putting his life of adventure behind him, Simmons became one of the [[First Seven]], the founders of the organization which would become [[Sector Seven]]. He has lived long enough to remain in a position of power with the organization for the majority of its existence, becoming known and feared by many. It is said he knows where most of the skeletons are buried, and how they became skeletons in the first place. Those within Sector Seven refer to him as "The Old Man", but likely never to his face.

After [[Billy North]]’s death, he is more than ever determined to lose or even kill those who matter to him, just to investigate the secret history of transformers.

Walter is the father of [[Margaret Simmons]], grandfather of [[Bill Simmons]], and great-grandfather of [[Seymour Simmons]].
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==Fiction==
===IDW movie comics===
[[Image:Sector71 simmons and wells.jpg|left|thumb|225px|Two-Theories Simmons and the Research Kid.]]
While exploring a cave system beneath the Sierra Nevada mountains on [[January 1|New Year's Day]] [[1898]], Simmons and Wells were attacked by a [[Cave brute|race of inhuman monsters]]. Fleeing to the surface, Simmons opted for reason over firearms, and quickly fashioned a lever from a tree branch to collapse the cliff-face and entomb the creatures. Mere seconds later, the pair found themselves approached by agent [[Billy North]] of the [[United States of America|United States]] Secret Service, who had come to draft the pair on the orders of the [[President of the United States|President]]. {{storylink|Original}}

Simmons and Wells were brought to the [[Boston Secure Hospital]], where they were presented with patient [[Archibald Witwicky]], a ship's captain who had returned from an expedition to the [[Arctic]] Circle blind and mad, claiming to have discovered a giant [[Megatron (Movie)|metal man]] frozen in the ice. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} While Wells was unconvinced by the story, Simmons believed that Witwicky had seen ''something'', and recruited his first mate, [[Reginald Danco]], to lead them, North, and three other men—explosives expert [[Philippe Bowen]], geologist [[Theodore Grant]] and metallurgist [[Jack Arden]]—to the site of the metal man's discovery so he could see for himself. There, in the frozen depths of the Arctic, Witwicky's claims proved true: a fact that so amazed Simmons that Wells was moved to caution his friend against becoming too consumed by the enormity of the discovery.

[[Image:Sector71 simmons wells and jetfire.jpg|right|thumb|225px]]

As misfortune would have it, the team's entrance into the cavern stirred the frozen giant, causing it to send out a signal that summoned [[Jetfire (Movie)|another of its kind]] to the Arctic. When Agent North began shooting the newcomer, it responded in kind, but Simmons and Wells were able to distract it long enough for Bowen and Grant to blast the ice out from underneath it, dispatching it to the ocean depths. North, alas, did not survive the ordeal; Simmons was forced to admit to Wells that the guilt he now felt for North's death meant that to be consumed by the endeavour now seemed inevitable. {{storylink|Original}}

Although Simmons was willing to absolve the other members of the group of their duty to the project, they all agreed to stay alongside him and study the "Mega-Man". Excavation of the cave containing the robot began, and construction on an environment dome around the area so the robot itself could be dug out. By the time the dome's construction neared completion in [[1899]], Simmons's obsession with the Mega-Man had grown to the point that he had begun shutting himself off from others, his family included, and talking to the creature. It took the news of a discovery in [[Nevada]] in [[1902]] to draw him away... the discovery of a large [[AllSpark|metal cube]] in the Colorado River, covered in runes matching those on the Mega-Man's hide. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}}

[[Image:Sector72_simmons_and_allspark.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

It took a further eleven years for mining expert [[Herbert Hoover]] to orchestrate the diversion of the river so the cube could be excavated. During this time, Simmons had his wife [[Clara Simmons|Clara]] and daughter [[Margaret Simmons|Margaret]] moved to a dwelling in the Nevada desert close to the work site so they could notionally be closer to him, but the obsession had taken hold of his mind and heart, and he spent no more time with them than he had during his sojourn to the North Pole. When the cube was eventually removed from the earth in [[1913]], a cave system was discovered beneath it containing the same glowing material that Simmons and Wells had found on their 1897 adventure, and Wells believed that he saw a spark of the old Walter when his friend insisted that they explore it. Before going too far into the caves, however, they found themselves attacked by the same robot they had faced in the North Pole: truly, as Simmons had suspected, everything was connected. Scrambling for the surface, Simmons instructed that the cube be dropped on the robot even though Wells had not yet emerged, but thankfully, Wells was able to get clear before this happened. Subsequently, a surge of [[Energon|energy]] from the cube brought [[Four original AllSpark Mutations|several surrounding machines to life]], forcing Herbert and his wife [[Lou Hoover|Lou]] to break open the dam holding the river back to "drown" the automatons. Despite his willingness to leave him behind, Wells dragged the mesmerized Simmons away from the cube. Having seen how far gone his friend now was, Wells abandoned him, and gave into his feelings for Clara, who returned his affections and ran away with him. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}}

In [[1934]], Simmons appointed his now-adult daughter Margaret to a low-level position within his organization, now named "Sector Seven", seeking to give her employment following the recent end of her marriage but wanting to ensure her safety. {{storylink|Together}}

[[Image:Prequel3_simmons_and_allspark.jpg|right|thumb|275px|"In my dreams, I keep seeing a black freighter..."]]

In [[1935]], Simmons, allegedly on the cusp of retirement, visited the [[Hoover Dam]], which had since been constructed under Herbert Hoover's direction to serve as a more permanent housing for the cube. Walking through the station and discussing his history with a younger operative, Simmons watched as cryo-blocks were prepared for the forthcoming arrival of the Mega-Man, soon to be transported the from the North Pole. Gazing at the AllSpark, he mused aloud that it was not a matter of "if" others of the Mega-Man's race would find the cube and the Earth... it was a matter of "[[Transformers (film)|when]]". {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3|Movie Prequel #3}}

Some delays in establishing the cryo-blocks prevented Megatron from being moved by the predicted date, and the subsequent outbreak of [[World War II]] put both his move, and apparently, Simmons's retirement, on permanent hold. In [[1944]], discovering that the [[Nazi]]s had captured an [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|N.B.E.]] of their own, Simmons arranged the temporary transfer of his grandson [[Bill Simmons|Billy]] to Sector Seven, so that he could take part in a mission behind enemy lines to destroy the robot. Simmons walked Billy through the now-completed Hoover Dam base, telling him the history of the organization and briefing him on his task, but Billy had no desire to join up permanently... until he learned a lot more about N.B.E.s and the threat they posed while on the mission. {{storylink|Weapon (issue)|Weapon}}
[[Image:Sector7_5_simmons_and_jetfire.jpg|left|thumb|225px]]

In [[1954]], an act of Soviet sabotage sent the heating system at the Arctic base into overdrive, and Walter arrived on the scene with the demand that liquid nitrogen bombs be dropped on the complex to ensure that the Mega-Man did not thaw out, despite the fact that his grandson was among the personnel trapped inside by a security lockdown. As the bombs were dropped, however, one of the Sector Seven spy planes circling overhead suddenly dived, revealing itself to be that same N.B.E. Walter had encountered in the Arctic caves over half a century ago. The robot shielded [[Tova Anael Fischer|Anne Fischer]] and [[Philip Nolan]] from the freezing blast, but was unable to save Simmons's grandson. The crestfallen Simmons could only ask why the robot had acted at all, at which point it told him that it had encountered Billy during the war, and that the human's nobility had driven it to atone for past sins. The robot was no longer the same creature Simmons had met in those caves... and as it flew off, it told Simmons that he did not have to be the same person he was back then either. As Anne—Billy's wife, pregnant with his [[Seymour Simmons|child]]—came to, Simmons told her to take her child and keep it far away from him, that it might never be sucked into the legacy of obsession he had trapped his family in. {{storylink|Frozen}}

Little did Walter realize that his grandson had survived, and been captured by Soviet forces. When Bill was finally able to escape in [[1965]], he returned to America and attempted contact with Sector Seven. Walter was hesitant to believe that his grandson had truly survived, but dispatched a team to investigate; when the report came back that Bill had made contact with his own son, Seymour, and given him the means to contact Sector Seven before disappearing again, Walter met with Seymour for the first time. It was a tearful first encounter: for all Walter had tried to prevent it, the Simmons legacy had consumed another victim. {{storylink|Convergence chapter 3}}

[[Image:DOTM1_walter_simmons.jpg|right|thumb|225px|]]
When an [[Ark (DOTM)|alien object]] crashed on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] in [[1961]], Sector Seven was put on the case by presidential order, and Walter oversaw the drive to place a man on the moon ahead of the Soviet Union to be the first to plunder this alien treasure. Eight years later, in 1969, Walter was busy looking through satellite photos as the [[Apollo 11]] mission successfully touched down on the moon's surface; at the urging of his assistant, he called for a strategic blackout operation to be initiated, breaking [[NASA]]'s contact with the astronauts so that he could personally direct them in their exploration of the alien vessel they found. {{storylink|Dark of the Moon issue 1|Dark of the Moon #1}}

Later that year, Simmons watched solemnly as the Mega-Man was at last transferred from the Arctic to the Hoover Dam headquarters. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}}

{{-}}

====''Transformers: Beginnings''====
{{voiceactor|Unknown}}
{{note|Transformers: Beginnings is a condensed, flash-animated retelling of the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] [[Transformers: Movie Prequel |Movie Prequel]] that is detailed above this section.}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Transformers: Beginnings}}

===''Ghosts of Yesterday''===
During a briefing on [[Vietnam]], Simmons famously called the Vice President a "barely literate peasant". In the buildup to the ''[[Ghost 1]]'' launch, and the relocation of the [[Megatron (Movie)|Ice Man]] from the [[Sector Seven High Arctic Base]], Simmons had a squad of [[Army Rangers]] under [[Martin (Movie)|Staff Sergeant Martin]] assigned to the base for "training exercises", so that they would be around should their services be required.

When ''Ghost 1'' was lost, Colonel [[Thomas Kinnear]] decided not to immediately inform his superior, as there was really nothing substantial to report. Later, when Simmons did hear, he was upset, but not as badly as Kinnear had feared. He also assigned Kinnear to oversee the moving of the Ice Man from the [[Arctic]] base to [[Hoover Dam|a more secure facility]] holding [[AllSpark|another alien device]]. They had received some intelligence that the [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] might know something about the Ice Man, and Simmons wanted Kinnear to ensure everything went smoothly.

Everything didn't go smoothly, and Simmons received the news that the convoy carrying the Ice Man had gone missing. He rang [[Philip Nolan]], who'd been left in charge of the Arctic base and instructed him to put a team together to go and find Kinnear. Nolan put up a token protest as ''Ghost 1'' was still missing, but Simmons asserted that the convoy was more important and ordered him to go. Nolan's mission resulted in the Ice Man successfully reaching Nevada. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

==Notes==
[[Image:Prequel2 wells simmons and witwicky.jpg|right|thumb|300px|In the 19th century, only the upper classes were allowed to wear shirts.]]
*Simmons and Wells first appeared, unnamed, in the second issue of IDW's ''[[Transformers: Movie Prequel |Movie Prequel]]'' comic book (seen at right); in the same month, Simmons also appeared in the ''[[Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday| Ghosts of Yesterday]]'' prequel novel, not intended at the time to be related to the character seen in the comic. The pair were repurposed (and Simmons from the novel retroactively established to be one of them) a few years later for the ''[[Transformers: Sector 7|Sector 7]]'' comic, but some fudging-slash-retconning of the details took place. The second issue of the prequel depicted the dark-haired, bespectacled, mutton-chopped character (Wells) as being the one with the family and the growing obsession with the Mega-Man, but the third then placed the silver-haired, moustachioed character (Simmons) in that role in a scene where he wistfully returned to Hoover Dam. These elements were all united in Simmons for ''Sector 7''.
*According to [[Michael Bay]] in the [[Transformers (film)|first movie]] commentary, Walter was going to be mentioned, but the line was cut.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Simmons, Walter}}
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Glen Whitmann

2025-07-03T23:15:12Z

Chenz9001D:

:''Glen Whitmann is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers (2007 franchise)|2007 movie]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:GlenWhitmann freakout.JPG|upright=1.67|thumb|OH NOES! It's Freddy Krueger!]]
'''Glen Whitmann''' is an expert hacker and computer hardware technician.... who lives with his grandma. Unsurprisingly, he's a virgin.

A colossal dork, he spends his days playing ''Dance Dance Revolution'' with his [[Glen's cousin|cousin]], living under the shouty regime of his [[Glen's grandmama|grandmother]], and can tell quickly the difference between an attack by [[Freddy Krueger]] and one by [[Wolverine (Marvel)|Wolverine]]. He breaks almost instantly under pressure, but when he's ''really'' scared, is still capable of working his technological magic.

His biggest piece of advice: Eat ''all'' the donuts. If you don't touch them, they think you're guilty.

How in the hell he knows a hottie like [[Maggie Madsen]] is anyone's guess.

And he screams regularly. Trust me, it is not so fun to do that.

{{quote|Okay, so what? I've download a couple of thousand songs off the internet. Who hasn't? ''Who hasn't?!''|Glen Whitmann, RIAA's public enemy number 1|''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''Transformers'' film===
:''Actor'': [[Anthony Anderson]]
{{voiceactor|[[Wataru Takagi]] (Japanese dub)|[[Tian Bo]] (Mandarin dub), [[Mario C. Castañeda Partida|Mario Castañeda]] (Latin American Spanish dub), [[Rafael Calvo]] (Castilian Spanish dub), [[Lucien Jean-Baptiste]] (European French dub), [[Gilbert Lachance]] (Canadian French dub), [[Manolo Rey]] (Brazilian Portuguese dub), [[Tobias Müller]] (German dub), [[Massimo De Ambrosis]] (Italian dub), [[Sefa Zengin]] (Turkish dub), [[Lee Jang-won]] (Korean dub)}}

[[File:Movie2007 Glen DanceDanceRevolution.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Vrei sa pleci dar nu ma, nu ma iei.]]
It was the beginning of a bad day for Glen when his game of ''Dance Dance Revolution'' was interrupted by his improbably attractive friend [[Maggie Madsen|Maggie]]. Just her walking into his 'private area of zen and peace' without any advanced notice was enough trouble for poor Glen, but adding more pressure to it with his foul-tempered grandmother's meddling, which only made his day even worse (So much for zen and peace). At first, he was reluctant to end the game session with his cousin until Maggie told him she possessed highly classified data that would land her in jail for the rest of her life if the authorities found out. His curiosity piqued, Glen proceeded to hack into the data, discovering images and files about something called [[Megatron (Movie)|Project: Iceman]] and an organization named [[Sector Seven]]. In the code itself, he discovered [[Cybertronian language|strange symbols]]. Before they could view any more information, an [[FBI]] assault team crashed through the front door, prompting Glen's cousin to break out of the back door in a bid to escape, but was tackled into the swimming pool by an FBI agent. As he and Maggie were handcuffed, Glen cried out that ''nobody'' treads on his grandma's carpet, especially the po-lice.

[[File:Movie2007 SHEDIDIT.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|SHE DID IT! She beat the President's high score on ''Space Invaders''!]]
While in an FBI holding room, Glen ate a plate of donuts, telling Maggie that she shouldn't worry, the FBI were going to play 'Good cop/Bad cop', and the donuts were a test. He theorized that a guilty person would not touch the donuts, while an innocent man would eat them, and he'd eaten the entire plate. He concluded that all they needed to do is stick up for each other and they'd be fine. As soon as the interrogation agents arrived, making it wordlessly clear that the pair were both in a ''lot'' of trouble by placing a folder of information on the table, Glen suddenly cried out that it was all Maggie's fault, she was the one who brought him the data, and that he was just playing video games with his cousin. He further revealed that he was a virgin, and that the worst he had done was download a few thousand songs off the internet, but who hasn't? After being told to shut up by Maggie, he exclaimed that a criminal such as herself shouldn't talk to him, then quickly sat down to recover from the sugar rush while Maggie explained what she was trying to accomplish.

[[File:Movie2007 that'sWolverine!.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|"I used to scratch as far as I could just like WOLVERINE!]]
Later, Secretary of Defense [[John Keller|Keller]] barged into the room, announcing that Maggie was coming with him as an adviser. Glen inquired about himself, prompting the confused Keller to ask who he was. Maggie replied that Glen was ''her'' adviser. Keller allowed him to come along. Soon, they were in a helicopter with [[Sam Witwicky|two]] [[Mikaela Banes|teenagers]] who were also on board for some reason. The boy broke the awkward silence, prompting Maggie to ask what did the government get them in for. To Glen's astonishment, the boy, Sam, replied that he bought a car that turned out to be [[Bumblebee (Movie)|an alien robot]].

When pressed on the nature of the [[AllSpark|All Spark]]'s radiation, [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]] and [[Tom Banachek]] took them into a sealed room. When [[Robert Epps|Sergeant Epps]] noticed claw marks and inquired if [[Freddy Krueger]] had been in the room, Glen corrected the sergeant by reminding him that Krueger only had four claws, while the three on the wall indicated that it was [[Wolverine (Marvel)|Wolverine]], which he found amusing. Agent Simmons replied that his joke was very funny, without a trace of humor. Possibly as a way of apologizing, Glen offered up his Nokia cell phone as a demonstration piece, turning it into a [[Nokia-bot|vicious little death machine]]. During the big Mexican stand-off between the United States Military Special Ops Team, and the Sector Seven Guards, Glen stood by fearfully with his hands in the air, as though he was being held hostage.

When the Iceman thawed, Secretary Keller, [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]], and Maggie managed to get an old radio, unfortunately, it had no microphones. Maggie suggested that Glen wire a computer to the radio and use that as an interface, using Keller's authorization codes as confirmation. Despite an attack by [[Frenzy (Movie)|a tiny killer robot]], Glen was able to link up with the military. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

{{note|Glen Whitmann’s involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels ''[[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]]'' and ''[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]''; and the storybook "[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]".}}

===''Transformers Mix & Match''===
{{Note|Due to the malleable storytelling format of the Mix & Match book, listed here is Glen's story role if all the segments visually featuring him are lined-up. For all the possible iterations of his role in the story, see the [[Transformers Mix & Match]] page.}}
Glen and Maggie Madsen were inside Sector Seven when they were attacked by Frenzy. [[Swindle (Movie)|The Autobot Drone]] helped protect them until they could summon help. {{storylink|Transformers Mix & Match}}

===Top Trumps Specials: Transformers===
Glen Whitman honed his hacking skills working for the [[Rand Corporation|RAND Corporation]] think tank. He even hacked into the Government once or twice! {{storylink|Top Trumps}}

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

[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] had no idea who Glen was. [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] did know but couldn't remember how to spell his name. Ironhide believed Glen was still living in the same place and eating lots of doughnuts, and responded "Oh dear" at the concept. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.15|#15's Law and Disorder}}

==Notes==
[[File:StorybookGlen.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|"Soon, the Rainbow of Light will be mine! AHAHAHAHA - uh. *whinny*"]]
*Glen Whitmann's pre-production name was '''Glenn Ross Dygert'''.
*In ''[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]'', Glen is inexplicably white. Also, he has a [[My Little Pony]]. This is a leftover element from when artist [[Marcelo Matere]], working with early and sparse information, thought Glen was a ''female'' character. (This was before the G4 incarnation of the franchise and the attendant creation of the "Brony" subculture.)
*The role of Glen was initially offered to [[Patton Oswalt]], but he had already committed to another film. He hasn't said what movie it was. If it was ''Balls of Fury'', he's probably kicking himself.
*Glen's intelligence must be higher than anyone else's on Earth, given that he has a computer that can decipher the Cybertronian language, let alone hack government code. Either that or he bought it from HP.
*A part of the scene where Glen is trying to contact the military for help while Frenzy is attacking was apparently cut out of the film. Footage from this part can be seen in trailers and TV spots when Glen is shown yelling, "The killer robot is really distracting!"
*Glen evidently lives far enough away from the Pentagon that Maggie had to take two different taxis to get there.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitmann, Glen}}
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[[Category:Movie humans]]
[[Category:Pirates]]

Glen Whitmann

2025-07-03T23:13:46Z

Chenz9001D:

:''Glen Whitmann is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers (2007 franchise)|2007 movie]] portion of the [[movie continuity family]].''
[[File:GlenWhitmann freakout.JPG|upright=1.67|thumb|OH NOES! It's Freddy Krueger!]]
'''Glen Whitmann''' is an expert hacker and computer hardware technician.... who lives with his grandma. Unsurprisingly, he's a virgin.

A colossal dork, he spends his days playing ''Dance Dance Revolution'' with his [[Glen's cousin|cousin]], living under the shouty regime of his [[Glen's grandmama|grandmother]], and can tell quickly the difference between an attack by [[Freddy Krueger]] and one by [[Wolverine (Marvel)|Wolverine]]. He breaks almost instantly under pressure, but when he's ''really'' scared, is still capable of working his technological magic.

His biggest piece of advice: Eat ''all'' the donuts. If you don't touch them, they think you're guilty.

How in the hell he knows a hottie like [[Maggie Madsen]] is anyone's guess.

And he screams regularly. Trust me, it is not so fun to do that.

{{quote|Okay, so what? I've download a couple of thousand songs off the internet. Who hasn't? ''Who hasn't?!''|Glen Whitmann, RIAA's public enemy number 1|''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''Transformers'' film===
:''Actor'': [[Anthony Anderson]]
{{voiceactor|[[Wataru Takagi]] (Japanese dub)|[[Tian Bo]] (Mandarin dub), [[Mario C. Castañeda Partida|Mario Castañeda]] (Latin American Spanish dub), [[Rafael Calvo]] (Castilian Spanish dub), [[Lucien Jean-Baptiste]] (European French dub), [[Gilbert Lachance]] (Canadian French dub), [[Manolo Rey]] (Brazilian Portuguese dub), [[Tobias Müller]] (German dub), [[Massimo De Ambrosis]] (Italian dub), [[Sefa Zengin]] (Turkish dub), [[Lee Jang-won]] (Korean dub)}}

[[File:Movie2007 Glen DanceDanceRevolution.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Vrei sa pleci dar nu ma, nu ma iei.]]
It was the beginning of a bad day for Glen when his game of ''Dance Dance Revolution'' was interrupted by his improbably attractive friend [[Maggie Madsen|Maggie]]. Just her walking into his 'private area of zen and peace' without any advanced notice was enough trouble for poor Glen, but adding more pressure to it with his foul-tempered grandmother's meddling, which only made his day even worse (So much for zen and peace). At first, he was reluctant to end the game session with his cousin until Maggie told him she possessed highly classified data that would land her in jail for the rest of her life if the authorities found out. His curiosity piqued, Glen proceeded to hack into the data, discovering images and files about something called [[Megatron (Movie)|Project: Iceman]] and an organization named [[Sector Seven]]. In the code itself, he discovered [[Cybertronian language|strange symbols]]. Before they could view any more information, an [[FBI]] assault team crashed through the front door, prompting Glen's cousin to break out of the back door in a bid to escape, but was tackled into the swimming pool by an FBI agent. As he and Maggie were handcuffed, Glen cried out that ''nobody'' treads on his grandma's carpet, especially the po-lice.

[[File:Movie2007 SHEDIDIT.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|SHE DID IT! She beat the President's high score on ''Space Invaders''!]]
While in an FBI holding room, Glen ate a plate of donuts, telling Maggie that she shouldn't worry, the FBI were going to play 'Good cop/Bad cop', and the donuts were a test. He theorized that a guilty person would not touch the donuts, while an innocent man would eat them, and he'd eaten the entire plate. He concluded that all they needed to do is stick up for each other and they'd be fine. As soon as the interrogation agents arrived, making it wordlessly clear that the pair were both in a ''lot'' of trouble by placing a folder of information on the table, Glen suddenly cried out that it was all Maggie's fault, she was the one who brought him the data, and that he was just playing video games with his cousin. He further revealed that he was a virgin, and that the worst he had done was download a few thousand songs off the internet, but who hasn't? After being told to shut up by Maggie, he exclaimed that a criminal such as herself shouldn't talk to him, then quickly sat down to recover from the sugar rush while Maggie explained what she was trying to accomplish.

[[File:Movie2007 that'sWolverine!.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|"So that's RID Megatron's third mode..."]]
Later, Secretary of Defense [[John Keller|Keller]] barged into the room, announcing that Maggie was coming with him as an adviser. Glen inquired about himself, prompting the confused Keller to ask who he was. Maggie replied that Glen was ''her'' adviser. Keller allowed him to come along. Soon, they were in a helicopter with [[Sam Witwicky|two]] [[Mikaela Banes|teenagers]] who were also on board for some reason. The boy broke the awkward silence, prompting Maggie to ask what did the government get them in for. To Glen's astonishment, the boy, Sam, replied that he bought a car that turned out to be [[Bumblebee (Movie)|an alien robot]].

When pressed on the nature of the [[AllSpark|All Spark]]'s radiation, [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]] and [[Tom Banachek]] took them into a sealed room. When [[Robert Epps|Sergeant Epps]] noticed claw marks and inquired if [[Freddy Krueger]] had been in the room, Glen corrected the sergeant by reminding him that Krueger only had four claws, while the three on the wall indicated that it was [[Wolverine (Marvel)|Wolverine]], which he found amusing. Agent Simmons replied that his joke was very funny, without a trace of humor. Possibly as a way of apologizing, Glen offered up his Nokia cell phone as a demonstration piece, turning it into a [[Nokia-bot|vicious little death machine]]. During the big Mexican stand-off between the United States Military Special Ops Team, and the Sector Seven Guards, Glen stood by fearfully with his hands in the air, as though he was being held hostage.

When the Iceman thawed, Secretary Keller, [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]], and Maggie managed to get an old radio, unfortunately, it had no microphones. Maggie suggested that Glen wire a computer to the radio and use that as an interface, using Keller's authorization codes as confirmation. Despite an attack by [[Frenzy (Movie)|a tiny killer robot]], Glen was able to link up with the military. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

{{note|Glen Whitmann’s involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels ''[[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]]'' and ''[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]''; and the storybook "[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]".}}

===''Transformers Mix & Match''===
{{Note|Due to the malleable storytelling format of the Mix & Match book, listed here is Glen's story role if all the segments visually featuring him are lined-up. For all the possible iterations of his role in the story, see the [[Transformers Mix & Match]] page.}}
Glen and Maggie Madsen were inside Sector Seven when they were attacked by Frenzy. [[Swindle (Movie)|The Autobot Drone]] helped protect them until they could summon help. {{storylink|Transformers Mix & Match}}

===Top Trumps Specials: Transformers===
Glen Whitman honed his hacking skills working for the [[Rand Corporation|RAND Corporation]] think tank. He even hacked into the Government once or twice! {{storylink|Top Trumps}}

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

[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] had no idea who Glen was. [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] did know but couldn't remember how to spell his name. Ironhide believed Glen was still living in the same place and eating lots of doughnuts, and responded "Oh dear" at the concept. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.15|#15's Law and Disorder}}

==Notes==
[[File:StorybookGlen.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|"Soon, the Rainbow of Light will be mine! AHAHAHAHA - uh. *whinny*"]]
*Glen Whitmann's pre-production name was '''Glenn Ross Dygert'''.
*In ''[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]'', Glen is inexplicably white. Also, he has a [[My Little Pony]]. This is a leftover element from when artist [[Marcelo Matere]], working with early and sparse information, thought Glen was a ''female'' character. (This was before the G4 incarnation of the franchise and the attendant creation of the "Brony" subculture.)
*The role of Glen was initially offered to [[Patton Oswalt]], but he had already committed to another film. He hasn't said what movie it was. If it was ''Balls of Fury'', he's probably kicking himself.
*Glen's intelligence must be higher than anyone else's on Earth, given that he has a computer that can decipher the Cybertronian language, let alone hack government code. Either that or he bought it from HP.
*A part of the scene where Glen is trying to contact the military for help while Frenzy is attacking was apparently cut out of the film. Footage from this part can be seen in trailers and TV spots when Glen is shown yelling, "The killer robot is really distracting!"
*Glen evidently lives far enough away from the Pentagon that Maggie had to take two different taxis to get there.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitmann, Glen}}
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[[Category:Movie humans]]
[[Category:Pirates]]

Herbert Hoover

2025-07-03T23:11:58Z

Chenz9001D:

{{faction|usa}}
[[File:HerbertHooverSectorSevenIrreplaceable.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
'''Herbert Clark Hoover''' was the 31st [[President of the United States|President of the]][[ United States of America]]. Two [[AllSpark|strange]] [[Megatron (Movie)|objects]] had been found, and he was the man that had to figure out what to do with them.
He is also handy with a sniper, like that [[John Keller]].
== Fiction ==
=== IDW Transformers movie comics ===
[[File:HerberthooverisworriedSectorSevenIrreplaceable.jpeg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Herbert and his wife [[Lou Hoover|Lou]] were in [[China]] when the [[Boxer Rebellion]] broke out in the final days of the 19th Century. Left unable to escape the country, the pair went underground as intelligence operatives, rescuing gentleman adventurer [[Theodore Joseph Wells]] from some rebels in 1900. Wells worked closely with the Hoovers for the remainder of the rebellion, and the trio was still in China in [[1902]], when word came from [[United States of America|America]] that Wells's [[Sector Seven|organization]] had discovered a [[AllSpark|mysterious metal cube]] in the Colorado River. Wells brought the Hoovers back to the States with him in hopes that Herbert's mining expertise and Lou's metallurgical skill could be put to use analyzing the find.

Herbert formulated a method of diverting the river so the cube could be excavated, but it took nearly a decade for this to be accomplished. In [[1913]], the intervention of [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] foiled the initial extraction of the cube, causing a release of [[Energon radiation|its energy]] that brought several nearby machines [[AllSpark Mutation|to life]]. Herbert and Lou defeated the newborn monsters by breaking open Herbert's floodgates, returning the river to its original course and "drowning" them.

Herbert proceeded to take up a political career over the next decade, using his position to reorganize and formally dub the group [[Sector Seven]] in 1927. He proceeded to run for [[President of the United States|President]] and was successfully elected into office in 1929, after which he orchestrated the construction of the [[Hoover Dam]] to serve as a permanent enclosure for the cube. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}}

== External Links ==
*{{w|Herbert Hoover}} on Wikipedia
*[http://www.hooverassociation.org/ Hoover Presidential Foundation]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoover, Herbert}}
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[[Category:Real people]]

Herbert Hoover

2025-07-03T23:11:41Z

Chenz9001D:

{{faction|usa}}
[[File:HerbertHooverSectorSevenIrreplaceable.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
'''Herbert Clark Hoover''' was the 31st [[President of the United States|President of the]][[ United States of America]]. Two [[AllSpark|strange]] [[Megatron (Movie)|objects]] had been found, and he was the man that had to figure out what to do with them.
He is also handy with a sniper, like that [[John Keller].
== Fiction ==
=== IDW Transformers movie comics ===
[[File:HerberthooverisworriedSectorSevenIrreplaceable.jpeg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Herbert and his wife [[Lou Hoover|Lou]] were in [[China]] when the [[Boxer Rebellion]] broke out in the final days of the 19th Century. Left unable to escape the country, the pair went underground as intelligence operatives, rescuing gentleman adventurer [[Theodore Joseph Wells]] from some rebels in 1900. Wells worked closely with the Hoovers for the remainder of the rebellion, and the trio was still in China in [[1902]], when word came from [[United States of America|America]] that Wells's [[Sector Seven|organization]] had discovered a [[AllSpark|mysterious metal cube]] in the Colorado River. Wells brought the Hoovers back to the States with him in hopes that Herbert's mining expertise and Lou's metallurgical skill could be put to use analyzing the find.

Herbert formulated a method of diverting the river so the cube could be excavated, but it took nearly a decade for this to be accomplished. In [[1913]], the intervention of [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] foiled the initial extraction of the cube, causing a release of [[Energon radiation|its energy]] that brought several nearby machines [[AllSpark Mutation|to life]]. Herbert and Lou defeated the newborn monsters by breaking open Herbert's floodgates, returning the river to its original course and "drowning" them.

Herbert proceeded to take up a political career over the next decade, using his position to reorganize and formally dub the group [[Sector Seven]] in 1927. He proceeded to run for [[President of the United States|President]] and was successfully elected into office in 1929, after which he orchestrated the construction of the [[Hoover Dam]] to serve as a permanent enclosure for the cube. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}}

== External Links ==
*{{w|Herbert Hoover}} on Wikipedia
*[http://www.hooverassociation.org/ Hoover Presidential Foundation]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoover, Herbert}}
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