Transit (ROTB)
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| The name or term "Transit" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Transit (disambiguation). |
- Transit was to have been a Decepticon from the Rise of the Beasts portion of the movie continuity family.
Transit is one of the many Decepticons sent to Earth in hunt for Optimus Prime and any surviving Autobots who fled Cybertron after the planet fell under their control. True to his name, Transit transforms into a transit bus!
| “ | Y-Y-You'll never see Cybertron again! You will die here on this miserable planet! | ” |
—Transit getting the last laugh, Rise of the Beasts | ||
Notes
[edit]- Transit is a character who was planned to appear early in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, dispatched from a Decepticon-controlled Cybertron to kill Optimus Prime, before himself being killed by Optimus[1] and dumped into the Hudson River alongside numerous other Decepticons who had tried to do the same over the years. The visual effects for much of the sequence were completed prior to its removal—a result of test audiences finding it too dark.[2] Transit was voiced by John DiMaggio for his removed appearance in the scene,[3] something for which he is still credited in the final film. The deleted scene was later included as a bonus feature in the film's home release.
- Likely as a result of the flux his sole scene was in, Transit is absent from all promotional material for the film. The character was "revealed" when people found unused character art among the assets for TakaraTomy's Rise of the Beasts website; the image was subsequently removed from the server. This image labeled Transit as a Terrorcon—given what we know about his role in the film, it seems likely this was an error or deliberate conflation of bad guys on TakaraTomy's part.
Foreign names
[edit]- Japanese: Transit (トランシット Toranshitto)
- Mandarin: Zhōngzhuǎn Zhàn (中转站, "Transfer Station")
References
[edit]- ↑ [1]
- ↑ "One was this Decepticon scene, Transit, that I've been talking about, because Optimus Prime fights Transit at the beginning of the movie—or at least he used to—and you find out that Optimus Prime wants to go home. That's all he wants to do, and Cybertron's in deep trouble, and this guy Transit was telling him that "we're just here to kill you", AKA "Cybertron's already ours." And it was a really epic fight scene, and then you saw Optimus Prime dump his body in the Hudson River, and all these Decepticons are dead, and you see he's been hunting for the last few years."—Steven Caple Jr. via Collider, Twitter, 2023/6/6
- ↑ "Everything we know about Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" on Entertainment Weekly
