Tranquility
Tranquility is a city possibly located in Nevada (see Trivia) in the United States of America.
Sam lives there.
The Glu Transformers mobile game shows Tranquility's map location in northern California ~500 miles from Hoover Dam.
Fiction
Transformers (2007)
Though never explicitly named, Tranquility is where the Witwickys and Mikaela Banes live. After receiving Bumblebee's call for assistance, the Autobots make a (semi)successful planetfall in Tranquility. Only Optimus Prime manages to land in an uninhabited area.
Transformers: The Game
Tranquility possesses a massive police force which tends to shoot first and not bother asking questions when it comes to giant robots, and an amazing ability to repair itself any time nobody's looking at part of it. They are also firmly in the pocket of Sector Seven. Barricade takes advantage of their mentality by disguising himself as one of their number. Interestingly, the cops seem to consider the Autobots a bigger threat than the Decepticons. Maybe it's something to do with Bumblebee destroying the local power station twice within the space of about an hour.
Transformers: Autobots/Decepticons
See above, but more cops and less Shockwave.
Related characters
Overzealous cop
This overzealous police officer interrogated Sam Witwicky after he was arrested, claiming that his car was alive. The cop was convinced that Sam was a junkie, as he was found with pills on his possession, prescribed for Mojo. Ron Witwicky explained that the pills were for their dog, but the cop was still unconvinced, and when he caught Sam eying his piece, he threatened to "bring it". Sam asked if the cop himself was on drugs.
Despite having a mustache, it is currently presumed that this individual was an actual flesh and blood human, and not a Decepticon hologram.
Locations in Tranquility
- Bay's Demolition
- Tranquility Auto Row
- Porche Dealership
- Cadillac Dealership
- Bolivia's Finest Quality Used Cars and Petting Zoo
- Tranquility Mall (aka the "Metroplex Mall")
- Tranquility Sparks Baseball Field
- Tranquility Estates — future site of (under construction)
Trivia
Geography
It's uncertain in which state Tranquility is actually supposed to be located. An earlier version of the movie's script identified the city as "Tranquility, Nevada", but neither the city nor its state are actually identified by name in the movie itself.
The only official media to explicitly identify the state are Issue 4 of IDW's Movie Prequel mini-series and the Top Trumps Transformers Book. Meanwhile, issue 1 of IDW's Movie Adaptation simply identifies it as "Tranquility, U.S.A.", and Transformers: Beginnings, an "animated" version of the Movie Prequel comic available on a Wal-Mart exclusive bonus DVD explicitly has the name "Nevada" removed from a caption near the end.
This appears to imply that the writers, while originally intending to have Tranquility located in Nevada, later decided to remove all references to the state, either because Bumblebee somehow manages to drive Sam and Mikaela from there to Griffith Observatory (which is located in California), or in an attempt to make its location more ambiguous, similar to the Simpsons' Springfield.
