M1 Abrams Decepticon
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- M1 Abrams Decepticons are Decepticons from the Revenge of the Fallen portion of the live-action film series continuity.
The "M1 Abrams Decepticons" share the same body-type as Brawl.
Fiction
Dark of the Moon film
Two "M1 Abrams Decepticons" took part in the fight against the Autobots in the battle in Chicago. Despite their attempts to kill the Autobots, one was one of the first to be killed when Optimus Prime landed on him and attacked the active Decepticons in an epic frontal attack and the other was one of the last killed before Optimus confronted Shockwave. Dark of the Moon
Games
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PSP)
Transformers: Shadows Rising
Three M1 Abrams Decepticons attack Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, Jay, and Vanessa in Wales, where they were dispatched and killed. A larger group appeared in vehicle mode and were met with the same fate as the first three. Transformers: Shadows Rising
Notes
- The "M1 Abrams Decepticons" featured in Dark of the Moon reuse the CGI model of Brawl from the first live-action movie, but given that Brawl died in that film, it's unlikely that these guys were intended to be him. This also isn't the first time the "reused CGI model for incidental character" phenomenon has cropped up within the movie universe, but at least this time, some differentiation of color is employed: where Brawl was green, these guys are brown, much like Brawl's various "Deep Desert" toys.
- Alternatively, much like fellow first movie Decepticon Bonecrusher, all of the bios released with Brawl's toys from the tail end of the first movie toyline, through to the 2010 toyline state he survived the battle of Mission City, with an overly large majority of them featuring a brown "desert" deco of some kind. While toy bios don't generally hold any bearing over film plots and the coloration is most likely just a coincidence, there is potential there for your imagination to run wild.
- The Super Bowl spot for Dark of the Moon features the "M1 Abrams Decepticon" slightly more prominently than both the regular trailer and the final film. The reason for that is that the locations (and thus, relative sizes) of the CG Decepticons featured in the tracking shot that depict the "M1 Abrams Decepticon" were shuffled around following the release of the Super Bowl spot.
- Since Brawl was not actually an M1 Abrams tank, but a redressed tank prop originally made for the film xXx: State of the Union, and Hasbro's toys of Brawl were not licensed Abrams tanks either, our makeshift name for these guys is somewhat inaccurate.
