Tracy
- Tracy is a human from the 2007 movie portion of the live-action film series continuity family.
The Staff Sergeant Tracy[1][2] (given name unknown) is a flight attendant presidential aide for Air Force One. Her highest duty after joining the Air Force is, apparently, to bring the President some Ding Dongs. Tracy doesn't seem to consider a random boombox lying around in the plane's elevator as the slightest bit odd or suspicious.
Fiction
Transformers (2007) film
- Actor: Colleen Porch
Staff Sergeant Tracy was at work on Air Force One when the President of the United States was onboard, and she was summoned to his room where he asked her to "wrangle him up" some Ding Dongs, a food product. Annoyed, or possibly disgusted by his request (he had requested "Ho Hos" the day previous[3]), she headed for the storage compartment, using a two-way glass door elevator to reach the floor below. However, inside the elevator, she discovered a large GXP boombox lying in the middle of the floor.
Unconcerned by its presence there, she carried the boombox into the storage compartment, dumping it onto a table before retrieving a packet of Ding Dongs. As she opened the packet, one of the circular cakes fell out and made a bid for freedom by rolling across the floor and stopping under a section of piping, then abruptly emerging again, as if kicked. Staff Sergeant Tracy retrieved it, not noticing that the boombox was absent and a skinny four-foot tall alien robot was hiding amid the conduits of the wall. Oblivious to the robot, Tracy brushed dirt off the cake and took a bite out of it, described it as "gross" and left the compartment to return the half-eaten, dirty product to the President.
Little did she realize what chaos the robot would cause. Transformers
Development and alternate versions
- The Movie Adaptation comic had a male Secret Service officer filling this role, apparently reflecting an earlier version of the movie script.
- The Transformers movie novelization shows a midway state between the two versions; the character had been changed to a female Air Force Staff Sergeant, but still echoes the Secret Service agent's complaint, "I did not survive West Point for this." (West Point is an officer's school for the US Army, not the Air Force.)
Footnotes
- ↑ The character's name-badge reading "Tracy" is visible when going frame-by-frame.
- ↑ Though lacking visible rank insignia in the film, this character is identified as a Staff Sergeant in the official novelization. — Del Rey Books, Transformers, p89, (2007)
- ↑ Movie novelization, p90
