Brains
- Brains is a drone from the Dark of the Moon portion of the live-action film series continuity family.
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
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 Spencer 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), Andrés García (Latin American Spanish)
Brains, along with his new friend, Wheelie, moved in with Sam and Carly. Wheelie and Brains had a deep friendship, as shown by their constantly being together and their agreement on the last girl being mean.
They went with their human housemates to the NEST base to reveal information to the Autobots. Once the Autobots were forced to go back into space, both Wheelie and Brains were shoved into a small cage and begged for help from Sam. The duo, along with the other Autobots, were presumed to be killed when Starscream destroyed Xantium. Thankfully, Brains and Wheelie, along with the rest of the Autobots, escaped the ship's destruction and came to the aid of Sam and the human race in Chicago.
Wheelie noted that he and the other Autobots would always help humanity and soon marched off to battle. Unfortunately, Wheelie and Brains were left behind due to their diminutive size, causing them to mumble about their lack of support. However, upon finding a destroyed Decepticon ship, they rode it up to the massive Decepticon "mother ship" hovering over Chicago that was controlling several smaller ships like the one they hijacked. This action caused a distraction just at the right moment for Barricade and Bumblebee, preventing Bumblebee's execution. Wheelie and Brains overrode the mother ship's controls and crashed it into a large body of water below. The crashing of the ship helped the Autobots gain an essential lead in the battle, proving the duo's worth in the end. Dark of the Moon (film)
