Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)
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| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Del Rey Books | ||||||||||||
| First published | May 19, 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Screenplay | Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, & Ehren Kruger | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Alan Dean Foster | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Movie continuity | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | 978-0345515933 | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 336 | ||||||||||||
Synopsis
On ancient Earth, early human hunters are stalking a tiger when they find what they believe to be a god. Said being briefly examines one, then lets it drop and walks off. The hunters follow the god when they find smaller gods building something....
In the present, the city of Shanghai is being evacuated due to a major chemical spill. However, the team sent in are not hazmat teams, they're NEST, special force of soldiers from multiple Earth governments working with the Autobots to locate and eliminate Decepticons still on Earth. Ironhide, Arcee, Sideswipe, and the Twins are deployed to locate a Decepticon in an industrial sector. When Major Lennox discovers two children who were not evacuated, the Decepticon Demolishor strikes. As Demolishor attacks, his partner Sideways tries to escape, and is forced to fight Arcee and the Twins. He fights them off but is killed by Sideswipe. Demolishor continues his attempts to escape, but is intercepted by Optimus Prime. He and Ironhide fatally damage Demolishor, but the dying Decepticon relays a warning: "The Fallen shall rise again."
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
Starscream: Forgive me, Lord Megatron, but in your absence, someone had to take command. I have deployed spy drones to the insect planet. They have already located the child who—bested you.
[Megatron rises and smacks Starscream into a wall]
Megatron: Even in death, there is no command but mine. My words ring truer in my absence than yours when you are present!
- —Megatron and Starscream reunite, but without the slashy subtext.
"Anyone else get the feeling we got the dregs of the Cybertronian gene pool?"
- —Seymour Simmons on Skids and Mudflap.
"Everyone's after me because of what I know? Well, I know that this is gonna work."
"How"?
"Because I believe it."
- —Sam lets Mikaela know that he'll raise Optimus through Burning Justice if necessary.
"You dare challenge me?! I am a Prime!"
"You abandoned that name when you slaughtered your brothers. There is only one Prime now, and my ancestry will be avenged."
- —The Fallen and Optimus Prime settle their family feud.
Errors
Items of note
- Devastator is formed from a green hauler, a dump truck, a front loader, a construction crane, and three other unidentified Constructicons.
- The appliances in the Witwicky kitchen that are brought to life include a cappuccino maker, a toaster, a garbage disposal, a cell phone, a microwave, a blender, and an electric mixer. They are called "appliancebots."
- Rampage (here unnamed) chases after Sam and Mikaela by bouncing like a pogo-stick.
- In Defiance issue 4, The Fallen claimed he would be imprisoned in his sarcophagus until the star harvester is rediscovered. This is apparently literally true. It seems the act of finding the harvester somehow freed him from prison.
Differences with the movie
- In the film, six Primes killed themselves to create the Tomb of the Primes. Here, eleven Primes have already been killed by The Fallen, and the twelfth creates the tomb from their bodies, only killing himself to seal it up.
- Wheels talks in a very Dinobot-like fashion, but is normal, albeit pretty rude, in the movie.
- More information is given as to how Mikaela gets Wheels through airport security. She told the young male ticket agent that the case contained expensive mechanic's tools an therefore may look strange on the X-ray. That explanation along with her good looks and cleavage distracted the ticket agent enough that he failed to notice anything wrong.
- The Fallen is not present on the Nemesis when Megatron visits it. Megatron instead speaks with The Fallen by means of an odd communications device which consisted of millions of tiny mechanisms which rose from the deck and formed a likeness of The Fallen's head.
- Optimus does not die, but instead goes into a form of stasis lock.
- Instead of the Fallen, Megatron is the one who hijacks the news broadcasts.
- Epps and Lennox receive their coordinates via a roundabout conversation from Epps' wife Monique, with some input from Sarah. Simmons is the one who directly tells them where to go in the film.
- Only Skids talks in jive, while Mudflap merely has a severe lisp.
- Bumblebee speaks with his own voice several times throughout the novel.
- There a lot of differences in deaths. Mixmaster (who is unidentified in the novel), is blown up by Jetfire instead of being bisected and crushed, and then Jetfire rips Scorponok's head off instead of smashing his head. Ravage's death is not mentioned. And finally, like in almost every piece of media, The Fallen is killed by being stabbed through the head with the top of the Solar Harvester.
- Optimus' final words in the novel are different. They are the same that were in the comic adaptation.
- Another similarity with the comic adaptation is that Megatron is shown raising his army on the Nemesis.
International printings
Japan
- ISBN 4150117152
- ISBN 978-4150117153
- Date published: June 10, 2009
- Publisher: Hayakawa Publishing Corp.
- Translator: Naoya Nakahara
- Pagecount: 416
