Brains

Brains is a drone from the Dark of the Moon portion of the live-action film series continuity family.

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The Decepticons constructed a "brain unit" drone to receive a very important download, but the drone gained sentience somehow and is now running around Earth calling himself "Brains." Trouble is, the Decepticons want him back.

Brains gets along well with Wheelie.

Fiction

IDW Dark of the Moon prequel comics

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When Shockwave was tasked by Megatron to help put his house in order by re-consolidating the scattered Decepticon forces, Shockwave naturally set about it in the most duplicitous manner possible. Tasking his subordinate Astrotrain with the construction of an enclosure for his pet Driller in upstate New York, Shockwave provided him with a brain unit that supposedly contained a data download that was integral to the cage's construction. The unit, however, had deliberately been equipped with a level of independent thought its kind were not normally outfitted with, and when it overheard Shockwave telling Astrotrain to terminate it upon completion of its task, it decided to flee, adopting the name "Brains" and fleeing across the state line to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Failing to understand that the fleshy meat-poles walking around were the dominant lifeform, Brains tried to get some aid from local machines, but after getting no response, he kicked a car in anger. This car, as it turned out, was Bumblebee, whose partner Sam Witwicky was not far away. Rising Storm #1

Sam brought Brains back to his school, where he formed a quick friendship with Sam's live-in Transformer "buddy", his fellow scrap drone Wheelie. Unfortunately, Brains's arrival at Sam's school had all been part of Shockwave's plan: attributing a non-existent significance to the drone, Shockwave had tracked down and forced Starscream and the Decepticons loyal to him to recover Brains, leading a huge Decepticon assault force to strike Sam's school. Rising Storm #2 Brains spent the entire fight trying to avoid getting killed, stumbling across Carly Miller in the midst of the chaos. Rising Storm #3 He was amazed when Optimus Prime's Autobots arrived to join the battle, and was told by Wheelie that he'd be seeing a lot more amazing sights now that he was with the Autobots. Brains teared up a little, deeming that the nicest thing anyone had ever said to him. Rising Storm #4

Brains subsequently took up residence with Wheelie and Sam, and when Sam moved to Washington, D.C. to live with Carly, Brains and Wheelie went with him. Rising Storm #4

Dark of the Moon film

Voice actor: Reno Wilson (English)

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