Maggie Madsen

Maggie Madsen is a human in the Movie continuity family.

Maggie has a really clear Mirage toy.

Maggie Madsen isn't very good at handling people. Her superiors think it's downright unfair that someone that young and that hot also be that good. She hasn't yet figured out how to tactfully tell people who outrank her that they're completely wrong.

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

Maggie now works for the Rand Corporation with Glen Whitmann. She has a strong Australian accent.

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

Fiction

Transformers (2007 film)

Actor: Rachael Taylor (English) Marika Hayashi (Japan)

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Maggie and her fellow analysts were present at an emergency briefing held at the Pentagon when Secretary of Defence Keller revealed that SOCCENT Forward Operations Base in Qatar was attacked by a mysterious and unidentified force, leaving no survivors. Pressing the point home to the young computer experts, Keller said that their enemy attempted to hack into the base's mainframe but failed, leaving them to the conclusion that they will try again. Catching's Maggie's attention was the only clue left at the base, a mysterious frequency encountered during the hack, one unlike any seen before.

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

This is giving me such a crik in the neck right now

Frustrated at being stonewalled by the government and the military, Maggie copied the contents of the frequency data onto an SD memory card and left the Pentagon. Arriving at her friend Glen's house, she explained to him the dire consequences she would face if she was discovered with this information, and that he was the only hacker with the skills to access the information embedded within. His curiosity piqued, Glen proceeded to hack into the data, discovering images and files about something called Project: Iceman and an organisation named Sector Seven. Within the signal itself, she and Glen discovered strange symbols. Before they could view any more information, an FBI assault team crashed through the front door and arrested everybody in his house.

Held in a holding room at the Pentagon, Maggie observed Glen eat an entire plate of donuts while he pontificated his theory that the donuts were a test in character and guilt, for if one does not eat the donuts, one is guilty, and he for one has a totally clear conscience. When federal agents enter the room, Glen immediately cracks and accuses Maggie of all the wrong doing while casting himself in a sympathetic (if somewhat pathetic) light. Maggie told him to shut up as she explained she needed to speak to Keller and that they need to go about this crisis in a different direction before the United States goes to war with the wrong country.

Much later, as Glen is recovering from his donut binge with a bottle of Pepto Bismo, Keller suddenly enters the holding room, telling Maggie to come with him as an advisor, and allows Maggie to bring Glen along as her advisor. Soon on a Army Blackhawk helicopter bound for Hoover Dam, She and Glen find themselves with two teenagers, Sam and Mikaela. Attempting to break the ice, Sam initiates conversation, prompting her to ask him what did the government get them in for, and to Glen's astonishment, he replied that he had bought a car that turned out to be an alien robot.

Landing, the group joined up with Keller, Captain William Lennox, Sergeant Robert Epps and their men, escorted by Sector Seven director Reggie Simmons and Tom Banachek. The two spooks explained that they were all here because they were exposed to the N.B.E.s, aka the alien robots. Bringing them to a large, top-secret chamber, the group saw N.B.E.-1, called Megatron, leader of the Decepticons by Sam. When he explained that Megatron was after the All Spark cube to transform all of Earth's technology into an army, Simmons brought the group to a viewing room looking over an even larger chamber encasing the massive All Spark.

To demonstrate the All Spark's power, the group was herded into a containment room where experiments using the radiation of the All Spark were conducted. Asking for phones and electronic devices, Simmons took Glen's proffered Nokia cell phone, commenting that they were nasty stuff, yet the Japanese know the way of the samurai. Maggie incredulously replied that Nokia is from Finland, to which Keller responded that while that's true, if she hadn't noticed, Simmons was a rather strange man. Turning on the All Spark's power, Glen's cell phone was transformed into a small spider-like mechanical beast with a tiny machine gun and rocket launcher, which jumped at Maggie as she looked on in astonishment. Griping that the beast was breaking the case, Simmons sent an enormous electrical shock into the creature, killing it. Soon after, Hoover Dam was under attack by the Decepticons, intent on freeing Megatron.

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

Footnotes

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.