Sam Witwicky
- Sam Witwicky is a human from the live-action film continuity family. He is also known as LadiesMan217.
Samuel James "Sam" Witwicky (b. October 10, 1990 [1]) is a typical adolescent human with an atypical destiny.
When he bought a car, it turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew? Also, his pheromone levels suggest that he wants to mate with Mikaela Banes.
Fiction
IDW Transformers movie comics
At age twelve, Sam's father presented him with the heirlooms of his ancestor Archibald Witwicky. At first, thinking they would be priceless artifacts or treasure, Sam was not impressed with what he described as "junk" and made googly eyes with the arctic explorer's glasses. Movie Prequel #3
Years later, Sam discovered the concept of riding around in cars to cruise for chicks. His best friend Miles suggested an online auction, but also convinced him to hold off on it until he was actually old enough to drive, as perhaps by then somebody would be interested in his family's heirlooms. Movie Prequel #4
Transformers: Beginnings
- Voice actor: Unknown
When Sam was presented with Archibald Witwicky's personal effects, at first he was excited at the prospect of becoming rich, but was less than impressed with the "junk" in the box, as well as his flippant remarks about Archibald's eventual fate. This reaction mildly annoyed his father. Transformers: Beginnings
Transformers (2007 film)
- Actor: Shia LaBeouf (English), Fuminori Komatsu (Japanese-language dub voice), Sérgio Cantú (Portuguese-language dub voice), Víctor Ugarte (Latin American-Spanish-language dub voice)
After getting an undeserved A- for his genealogy report, Sam and his father went to buy a car. Though they passed a Porsche car lot, Ron was actually playing a cruel joke on his son (real smart, considering that he'll eventually get power of attorney someday). Going to Bobby Bolivia's car lot, they went shopping for a used car. Sam spotted a Camaro that he liked, but Ron, ever the cheap man, refused to go over four thousand dollars. However, when all the windows in the car lot suddenly exploded, Bolivia agreed to four thousand.
Taking his buddy Miles to the lake, they encountered Mikaela and her boyfriend Trent. Trent pretty much told them to get lost, but Mikaela then dumped Trent. Realizing he had his one shot, Sam abandoned Miles and offered to give Mikaela a ride home. When his car had some engine trouble, Mikaela looked under the hood and was quite impressed with the layout of the Camaro's engine, though Sam was more impressed with the layout of Mikaela. After giving her a ride home, Mikaela asked Sam if he thought she was shallow. Sam awkwardly replied that he thought there was "more than meets the eye...with you". After berating himself for his lame pickup line, Mikaela waved goodbye from her porch, and Sam felt that he had made progress, and said he loved his car.
Later that night, his car suddenly left. Believing it was being stolen, Sam followed it to an abandoned junkyard. To his shock and horror, the car was alive. Sam left his last words to his parents and Mojo, where he acknowledged that he owned Busty Beauties that were given to him by his uncle Charles, then investigated. Some police came and arrested him, and an overzealous cop, believing him to be a junkie, called him "50 Cent". Returning home, Satan's Camaro arrived, and Sam fled ignominiously on his mother's pink bike. He hit the cement hard in front of Mikaela, and soon found a police car. He demanded the officer's help... at which point said police car turned into an even scarier car. After throwing Sam onto a nearby car, the cop car demanded the location of Sam's eBay items, but Sam fled and ran into Mikaela. The Camaro arrived and took them to a power plant, where the two cars fought it out, while Sam was chased by a spastic abomination who pantsed him. Mikaela was able to cut off its head, which Sam punted.
"NO!"
"Oh. Well, then never mind."
"Really?"
"No, I'm still gonna kill you."
Sam and Mikaela approached the Camaro, who could only speak through his radio, and offered a ride. Mikaela was hesitant, but Sam convinced her to get in. While driving, Sam had shotgun, but Mikaela refused to sit in the driver's seat. Sam suggested that she sit in his lap. Safety first, right? She agreed, then admitted to Sam that it was a smooth move on his part. Mikaela then asked if the robot was so advanced, then why did he turn into a piece of crap Camaro? Insulted, the car forced them out. As Sam lamented how four thousand dollars had driven off, the car returned as a 2009 Camaro. Taking the teens to an observatory, they watched as four meteors entered Earth's atmosphere, during which Mikaela instinctively reached out for Sam's hand. They were then escorted to an abandoned alley, where they met the biggest surprises of them all. Four other cars transformed into robots. The lead robot, after inquiring about Sam's identity, introduced himself as Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots, autonomous robotic lifeforms from a planet known as Cybertron. Prime introduced Jazz, his first lieutenant, Ironhide, his weapons expert, Ratchet, their medical officer (who claimed that Sam's pheromone level indicated that he wanted to mate with Mikaela, embarrassing both teens), and identified the Camaro as Bumblebee, Sam's appointed guardian. Optimus explained their mission to locate the AllSpark, the betrayal of Megatron and the Decepticons, and how Archibald Witwicky's glasses played a vital role in finding the AllSpark.
Going to his house, Sam frantically searched for the glasses, but the Autobots were somewhat impatient and totally wrecked his dad's backyard. After finding the glasses, government agents arrived. Their leader, Agent Simmons, took Sam and Mikaela into custody, separating Sam from his parents. Simmons went bad cop on Sam, threatening him with life imprisonment and revealing Mikaela's criminal record. Just as Simmons demanded answers about aliens, Prime intercepted the convoy, and the Autobots totally outclassed the agents. Sam demanded to know what Sector Seven was, but a backup team arrived. Prime took Sam and Mikaela to hide under a bridge, but they nearly fell to their deaths. Bumblebee saved them, but was captured, and Sam and Mikaela recaptured.
Taken to Hoover Dam, Simmons tried the awkward role of good cop, but Sam was uninterested in talking. Tom Banachek tried to bribe him, and Sam demanded the freeing of Bumblebee, his parents, and the expunging of Mikaela's criminal record. Taking them into the Dam, Sector Seven showed them N.B.E.-1, who Sam recognized as Megatron. He explained Megatron's goals, and the purpose of the AllSpark. However, the spastic abomination that pantsed him sent a message to the Decepticons, who attacked. Sam implored Sector Seven to release Bumblebee, saying he could help, which Captain Lennox assisted by putting a gun to Simmons's chest. Bumblebee converted the AllSpark to a smaller form, and the soldiers escorted the two teens and Bumblebee to Mission City, soon augmented by the Autobots.
Upon reaching Mission City, an F-22 Raptor was spotted, which Ironhide recognized as Starscream. Starscream attacked, damaging Bumblebee's legs, and a tank attacked the soldiers. As the Autobots and the soldiers went to deal with the tank, Mikaela arrived with a tow truck to remove Bumblebee from the battle. Megatron soon arrived and killed Jazz, and Lennox ordered Sam to take the AllSpark to a building to be escorted out of the city. Despite his refusal to leave, Bumblebee handed the Cube to Sam, urging him to go. Sam was pursued by Megatron, Starscream, and a helicopter, with Ratchet and Ironhide providing protection, but they were injured by Starscream, and Sam was forced to leave without them. During his flight, Sam dropped the AllSpark, causing some nearby machines to come to life. Reaching the building, Sam ignited a flare, but his ride was destroyed by Starscream.
Cornered on the roof, Megatron demanded the AllSpark, in exchange for living to be his pet, but Sam refused. Megatron used his flail to knock Sam off the roof, but Sam was saved by Optimus Prime. Telling Sam to hold onto the cube, Prime tried to scale down the building, but Megatron knocked them all off. Prime managed to shield Sam from any serious injury, however. Prime expressed admiration for Sam's efforts, and told him that if he couldn't defeat Megatron, Sam was to merge the Cube with his spark, destroying both Prime and the AllSpark. However, Megatron was too powerful for Optimus to defeat alone, and Prime told Sam to push the cube into the Autobot's chest. Instead, Sam merged the AllSpark with Megatron, killing him. Optimus extended his thanks, telling him he owed Sam a debt of gratitude. Bumblebee, who could now speak, requested permission to stay with Sam, to which Sam eagerly agreed. Sam and Mikaela entered into a relationship, and made out on Bumblebee's hood while Ironhide and Ratchet observed.
Sam really loves having a car. Transformers
Titan Magazines Transformers movie comics
Sam held the key to Earth's survival, and his attempt to destroy Megatron with the AllSpark... failed. Sam was killed, and Mikaela and Bumblebee mourn him still. Bumblebee wondered if there was another reality where Sam's attempt succeeded and the Decepticons didn't conquer the United States... Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1
IDW Revenge of The Fallen comics
Shortly after the battle of Mission City, Sam and Mikaela were watching Ratchet reattach Bumblebee's legs when the transformed Mountain Dew machine suddenly attacked Sam. Fortunately, Ratchet crushed the creature before it could cause further havoc. Examining the liquid from its remains, Ratchet warned his human friends about the dangers in weight gain and tooth decay that the substance could cause to them. Amused, Sam and Mikaela promised to be careful. Alliance #1
A few months later, after the Autobots and the United States military had agreed to operation under a formal military alliance as NEST, Major Lennox became concerned over an ominous warning he had received from a Decepticon they had just destroyed. The Decepticons were looking for "it", and both Lennox and Optimus Prime feared they could be after Sam again. Though Lennox refused Prime's suggestion of placing Sam in protective custody at their base on Diego Garcia, believing it was too much for the boy to handle, they agreed that somebody needed to keep an eye on Sam, and so Bumblebee once again assumed the role of his protector. Alliance #4
Sam was delighted to see Bumblebee return, but the delight stopped when Bumblebee "helped" to get a cat out of a tree by shaking the tree until it got off. After learning that Bumblebee had return to watch over him, Sam used the Autobot as his ride to the movies for a double date between him and Mikaela, and Miles with Mikaela's friend Lyndsey. Once there, he saw Trent's truck and hoped not to run into him. The night went without a hitch, and Sam was happy that Bumblebee behaved himself in front of Trent, but Bumblebee explained that he got back at Trent by flipping over his car, which displeased Sam. As the days went by, Bumblebee's attempt to integrate himself into Sam's life weren't go as smoothly as he had hoped. Without the team structure of the Autobots, Bumblebee grew more reckless and impulsive, from smashing a would-be car thief with the door he was attempting to unlock, to inadvertently giving Sam traffic tickets for running red lights. Eventually, Sam discussed his upcoming college plans with Bumblebee, explaining that the yellow guy might not be able to accompany him at school, he then to persuade his parents to let Bumblebee stay in the garage while he's at school, but Ron strenuously said no, stated that he could stay for the summer, but once Sam left for school, the Autobot had to leave too. Frustrated, Sam walked off to Mikaela's to cool off, but twenty minutes in, he was captured by Barricade, who chained him up and hung him from a hook over a junkyard car crusher. The Decepticon demanded that Sam tell him where the location of Bumblebee and the AllSpark fragment was, but Sam had no idea where either one was. As Barricade prepared to drop the young human into the crusher, Bumblebee arrived just in time and Sam safely fell onto a pile of tires while Barricade taunted Bumblebee about how Earth had made the Autobot soft, and that their last encounter was just luck. Barricade easily swat Bumblebee aside and went after Sam, but Bumblebee managed to pull himself out of the scrap and assaulted Barricade once more. Barricade had the upper hand against Bumblebee, so Sam came in to help by operating a crane. However, Sam had trouble controlling the vehicle and Barricade snapped the chain-hook off and tossed the crane aside before charging at the crane's occupant again. Bumblebee then used the abandoned chain-hook to knock Barricade into a pool of gasoline. He sent Sam off to a safer distance and fired his cannon at the gasoline-soaked Decepticon menace, causing a massive explosion. Bumblebee survived the explosion and Sam was happy to see him okay. He then asked what happened to Barricade, and Bumblebee told Sam he had a feeling they haven't seen the last of Barricade. Tales of the Fallen #1
Titan Magazines Revenge of the Fallen comics
Sam's parents took him to college, and god did he regret that when his mother kept holding his hand. He was slightly surprised when Bumblebee drove off without warning. Dogfight!
Weeks later, he went off to meet Mikaela when he was accosted by Skids and Mudflap. Annoyed, he pointed out he'd done his part and just wanted to be left alone, but the twins pushed him into taking a ride in Skids. They explained they'd been framed for a crime they didn't commit, they had vital intelligence of a secret Decepticon army, and they wanted Sam to inform Optimus because he trusted him. Sam, being a smart kid, didn't think much of wild stories by two strangers who'd abducted him, and said he'd think about it. When Bumblebee turned up and the twins accelerated, he stopped thinking and starting banging on Skids window in a desire to GTFO.
Luckily, Skids spat him out. Unluckily, he then saw Bumblebee get gunned down by Soundwave, come to recruit the twins. Outlaw Blues
Revenge of the Fallen (movie)
- Actor: Shia LaBeouf (English), Fuminori Komatsu (Japanese-language dub voice), Sérgio Cantú (Portuguese-language dub voice), Víctor Ugarte (Latin American-Spanish-language dub voice)
About two years later, Sam had graduated from high school and was preparing to go to college. He still found it difficult to say "I love you" to Mikaela.
Sam found a shard of the AllSpark left inside his clothing from the battle in Mission City which a.) brought numerous kitchen devices to life and b.) imprinted a large collection of ancient Cybertronian knowledge onto his brain. After Bumblebee destroyed the kitchen robots (and parts of the Witwickys' house with them), Sam handed the AllSpark shard to Mikaela. In a wrenching heart-to-heart with Bumblebee, he dismissed him from his role as guardian, saying it was time for Bumblebee to rejoin the other Autobots (and Sam wasn't allowed to have a car at college anyway.)
Arriving at college, Sam met his roommate, Leo Spitz, who operated a conspiracy website and was convinced that alien robots were hiding on Earth. At a frat party, Sam also met his fellow student Alice, who immediately and forcefully attempted to seduce Sam. When Bumblebee showed up, Alice invited herself along on a ride with Sam, but Bumblebee did everything he could to convince her to leave. After finally getting rid of her, Bumblebee took Sam to Optimus Prime, who was convinced—for some reason—that Sam was in danger. Even more strangely, Optimus asked Sam to act as a go-between for the Autobots to humanity at large. Sam, wanting to be normal, declined.
Because no good deed goes unpunished, of course, Sam shortly thereafter began to see strange symbols. He also developed a nasty eye tic and decided to assert in front of about three hundred of his colleagues that Einstein was wrong, that the first four dimensions were unfairly in the spotlight, and what about the other thirteen that nobody ever talks about? He began to write out the symbols in support of this theory on a blackboard in front of his class.
After recovering from this outburst, Sam believed it might have something to do with him touching the AllSpark shard, and he contacted his girlfriend to warn her not to touch the shard. Mikaela promptly boarded a plane to see Sam, but when she arrived, she found him in what appeared to be an intimate moment with Alice. Fortunately for Sam's relationship, Alice turned out to be a killer alien robot. Mikaela, Sam and Leo, who stumbled across Alice's robotic self by coincidence, tried to escape, but were captured by the Decepticons. After Sam's failure at relating to a thirty-foot-tall robot, Megatron ordered a small, glasses-wearing robot called The Doctor and his assistants to remove Sam's brain in order to access the information from the AllSpark shard, but Optimus Prime and Bumblebee managed to locate them and free Sam, Mikaela and Leo.
Together, they attempted to flee, but in order for Sam to escape, Optimus Prime had to fight off Megatron, Starscream and Grindor all by himself. After killing Grindor, Optimus was impaled by Megatron and died. Just then, the other Autobots arrived, causing Megatron and Starscream to retreat; Sam was safe, for the moment at least.
In a hijacked TV broadcast, The Fallen revealed his existence to the world public and demanded Sam to be surrendered to him. Decepticons landed around the globe, killing several thousand people. In Paris, one of them tracked down Sam's parents, Ron and Judy Witwicky. A manhunt began for Sam.
Sam hid out with Mikaela, Leo, Bumblebee and the Autobot twins, Skids and Mudflap. Leo eventually suggested they ask his rival, "Robo-Warrior", owner of a competing website, for help. To everyone's surprise, Robo-Warrior turned out to be none other than Seymour Simmons, former agent of Sector Seven. Simmons revealed that symbols similar to those Sam was obsessed with had been found on numerous excavation sites around the world, but in order to read them, they might need a Decepticon. Mikaela just happened to be carrying around a Decepticon, who when interrogated, suggested they track down one of the Seekers, a species of Transformer that had been present on Earth for much of its history.
At the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, they discovered an old Decepticon named Jetfire, disguised as an SR-71 Blackbird. Jetfire claimed to have defected to the Autobots and told them about The Fallen, who betrayed his brothers, the Primes, many millennia ago. The Fallen intended to destroy the Earth's sun in order to create Energon, the Transformers' source of energy. The symbols in Sam's head were a map to the location of the star harvester, the weapon the Fallen intended to use to destroy the sun. Jetfire also revealed that only a Prime could stop The Fallen, and a key was needed to activate the harvester, the Matrix of Leadership. Sam asks Jetfire whether the Matrix would also revive Optimus Prime, to which Jetfire responded that it might be possible given the unusual radiation that the Matrix generates.
Jetfire opened a space bridge and teleported himself as well as Sam, Mikaela, Leo, Simmons, Bumblebee and the Twins to Egypt. Between the Pyramids of Giza, they found the next clue and traveled to Jordan, after a stopover for the night in which Sam totally failed at declaring his love for Mikaela. On the way, Simmons called Lennox and instructed him to get his team, as well as the dead body of Optimus Prime, to Egypt. In Petra, they discovered the tomb of the Primes. Inside, Sam found the Matrix, which crumbled to dust when he touched it. Sam collected the dust regardless, and together, they traveled back to Egypt.
Meanwhile, the NEST team parachuted down and prepared for battle near the pyramids, having realised the Decepticons were on their way. Before Sam and the others could get back to Lennox and his people, the Decepticons commenced their assault. While the Autobots and NEST fought the Decepticons, Megatron used Sam's parents to lure him into a trap. Sam, falling into the trap, stalled for time by offering to hand over the Matrix dust to the Constructicon Rampage, till he was rescued by Bumblebee. Sam ordered Bumblebee to get his parents to safety while he and Mikaela tried to reach Optimus Prime's body.
Sam was mortally wounded by the blast of a shot fired by Megatron. While paramedics tried to reanimate him, the Matrix dust was spilled across his hand, and Sam encountered the dead Primes in a vision. The Primes told him that he was destined to find the Matrix and save the life of the last Prime. Sam returned to life, and the dust in his hand reassembled itself into the Matrix. Sam took the opportunity to tell Mikaela that he loved her. With the Matrix, Sam was able to revive Optimus Prime, who ultimately was able to defeat the Fallen.
With the battle won, the Autobots, NEST, Sam and his friends returned to the USA on board of an aircraft carrier. Sam and Optimus Prime checked out the view from the back. Upon his return, Sam continued to attend college. Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers Annual 2011
Just as Sam was getting bored with doing his homework, he was attacked by Starscream. He dashed out towards the garage, but Bumblebee, already alerted, proved no match for the Decepticon. Starscream was about to make off with Sam, when Optimus arrived and quickly sent Starscream packing. Sam surveyed the effect that the battle had had on his dad's garden and reflected that he was in for trouble when his dad got back. Sam in Danger
IDW Dark of the Moon comics
Sam and Mikaela later broke up, making him somewhat "testy". Rising Storm issue 2 He was also invited to dinner at the White House, having saved the world twice. where he meet Carly Brooks-Spencer. Rising Storm issue 3Dark of the Moon
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Sam was returning from a fast food restaurant in Philadelphia when he found Bumblebee menacing a small robot calling itself "Brains". Rising Storm issue 1 He and Bumblebee brought the renegade Decepticon brain unit to Sam's college, where they met Wheelie, who realized Brains was a scrap drone like him. Sam asked Brains why he was in Philadelphia, and he responded that he was running for his life from a Decepticon trying to kill him. Barricade then smashed through the wall and attempted to reclaim Brains. Sam contacted NEST, and Wheeljack and Mirage arrived to help. Rising Storm issue 2 As the place quickly became a battlefield, and Sam was about to be killed by Space Case, Carly appeared and saved him by using a weapon attached to one of the fallen Transformers around her to fend off the Decepticon. Both of them were saved from subsequent danger by the arrival of the rest of the Autobots. Rising Storm issue 3 later he and Carly began a relationship and moved to Washington DC along Brains and Wheelie. Rising Storm issue 4
Dark of the Moon film
- Actor: Shia LaBeouf (English), Fuminori Komatsu (Japanese-language dub voice), Víctor Ugarte (Latin American-Spanish-language dub voice)
Sometime after Operation: Firestorm, and following being dumped by Mikaela, Sam was awarded a medal for his heroism by Barack Obama, and while at the White House he played it cool he met Carly Spencer. He later went on to move in with his new girlfriend in Washington, D.C.. They took in the small Autobots Wheelie and Brains as 'pets' while Bumblebee also continued to live with Sam, but he would frequently leave to continue his work with NEST, leading him to buy a Bumblebee-like car to fill his place as a car.
Preparing to set out to find a new job, recieving a stuffed rabbit from Carly as a good luck charm, he complained about the government not allowing him to work with the Autobots, having to borrow money from Carly to pay for things, and the fact that his parents were coming to visit in a week's time. As Carly left for work, Sam reminded the small Autobots of their place and left to begin job hunting. Outside his parents had arrived early, and made it clear he had job interviews and not a job, and had to get a ride from them since his car refused to start. After a series of failed job interviews, Sam arrived at a telecommunication company named Accuretta Systems. There his apparently failing attempt to win over Bruce Brazos succeeded, and was given a position as a mail carrier. Sam then went to visit Carly at Hotchkiss Gould Investments with the news that he had a job. He then met Carly's boss, Dylan Gould, and came to find that he seemed to close to his girlfriend. He denied any jealousy as they prepared to leave, and before they did Dylan revealed that he was on the board for Accuretta Systems and had given a letter of recomendation for him, to Sam's confusion.
Almost as soon as he started, Sam found his job to be boring and unfulfilling. Recieving a quick visit from Carly, during which she revealed Dylan had loaned her a Mercedes SLS AMG to his dismay, she apparently helped in boosting Bruce's opinion of Sam. However one of Sam's co-workers, Jerry Wang, confronted Sam and held him down in a toilet stall. There Jerry told the freaked out Sam that the Autobots were in danger and the Decepticons were killing humans. After giving Sam his manifesto, Jerry left and Bruce noticed that the two had been struggling in the stall together. Sam went through Jerry's notes, which contained information regarding the dark side of the moon. He was confused as to what it meant and went to Jerry's office to ask some questions, only for the strangely acting Jerry to pretend it had never happened and demanded he leave. Almost immediately after, Jerry fell out of the window to his death, and Bruce told Sam that he didn't care about what had happened earlier. However a condor-like Decepticon suddenly attacked Sam, who barely managed to get out of the office.
Sam decided to head to the NEST base with Carly, however the guards refused to let him in and pretended he was in the wrong place. After arguing with the guards, Sam called for Bumblebee to help on a radio as the guards restrained him, and Bumblebee arrived and warned them off. Before they went in, Sam told Bumblebee that he was disappointed that he never saw him any more, and reported to Lennox about Jerry's death and his notes of the moon. Incidentally, NEST and the Autobots had discovered the crashed Autobot ship the Ark on the moon, which had been the driving force of the American-Russian space race in the '60s, and had recently returned with the deactivated Sentinel Prime and five pillars that helped form a space bridge. The National Intelligence Director, Charlotte Mearing, was not happy with Sam's presence, and after witnessing Optimus reactivate Sentinel with the Matrix of Leadership, she warned Sam that while she was pleased with the information he had brought, he was nothing but a messenger and that his help wasn't necessary.
But upon arriving back at home with Bumblebee, he decided he wasn't going to let the matter go and called in Simmons and his new assistant Dutch for help. The group went through piles of information and came to the conclusion that humans were working with the Decepticons, and had been doing so since the space race. When Carly got back she wasn't happy with Sam, reminding him they were going to Dylan's and believing that he wanted to put himself in danger. She asked Sam to let the situation go, but he refused, and she left. After tracking down a pair of Russian cosmonauts for more information, they learned that there were once hundreds of pillars but the Decepticons had stolen them before anyone had reached the Ark. Realising that the Decepticons had left Sentinel, being the only one who could control the pillars, so that the Autobots could revive him, Sam called Mearing to warn her, and his group, aided by Bumblebee, Sideswipe and Dino, began escorting Sentinel back to the NEST base. En-route they were attacked by the Dreads, and during the ensuring chase Bumblebee was forced transform over a crashing truck, tossing Sam out above him and catching again as he reverted to vehicle mode. When they arrived back at base, Sentinel revealed that he had made a deal with Megatron to restore Cybertron, killing Ironhide and stealing his pillars before leaving.
Sam rushed back home to find Carly before remembering she was at Dylan's. He went to his parents to tell them about his argument with her, and after an embarassing convsation in which Judy and Ron expressed their opinions of Sam's lovelife, he realised how much he loved Carly and warned his parents to leave the city. Arriving at Dylan's mansion, he convinced Carly to allow them the chance to talk by being rude to Dylan, however Dylan then revealed that his father was once one of the Decepticons allies. Sam and Carly tried to flee in the loaned Mercedes, only for it to reveal itself as Soundwave, who held Carly hostage and threatened while Dylan explained his position. He then demanded that Sam find out what the Autobot's plan to fight back against the hundreds of the Decepticons brought to Earth by the space bridge, forcing him to wear a Watch-bot so that he couldn't warn them. Before he left, Sam promised that he would kill Dylan for threatening Carly. He was taken to Mearing by NEST agents, and after she apologized for not believing him, they discovered that Sentinel had forced the government into exiling the Autobots. Sam was taken to the Autobot's ship, the Xantium, where a group of Autobot's called the Wreckers were preparing the ship for launch. Sam pleaded for Optimus to ignore the governments demand for exile, and asked what their plan was, but Optimus said they had none. After the Autobots farewelled him, Sam watched as the Xantium took off and called Dylan to let him know they were gone, only to learn that the Decepticons had never intended to let the Autobots leave, and watched as the ship was destroyed.
He decided that he would find Dylan and save Carly, and with Simmons and Dutch's help he tracked Dylan's location to Chicago. Epps decided to help Sam, and gathered a group of soldiers to accompany them. However during their trip the Decepticon forces invaded Chicago, and the group arrived on the devastated city outskirts. While the soldiers were reluctant to go in, Sam was determined, and Epps tried to convince him they didn't stand a chance. They were then attacked by a Decepticon fighter, which was brought down by Optimus Prime and the Wreckers, and as the rest of the Autobots arrived, the Autobots revealed that they had known the Decepticons would never let them go or leave Earth alone and hid in a booster rocket that disengaged before the ship was destroyed. With Bumblebee piloting the fighter, Sam infiltrated Dylan's building but was again attacked by Laserbeak, who dropped him over the side. Luckily Bumblebee caught him, and after Carly jumped onto the fighter, Sam held Laserbeak in place as Bumblebee blasted his head off. Once the fighter crash landed, they awaited the arrival of the rest of the Autobots. After Carly explained the Decepticon's plan to bring Cybertron into Earth's solar system, Epps came up with a plan to destroy the control pillar with a rocket shot from a high building, and before Sam and the other humans left, Que handed out grappling hooks and boomsticks.
Sam and the others made it into a tall building, but before the rocket could be launched, Decepticon fighters began firing at the building, causing it to tilt, and a Decepticon protoform came in looking for them. Escaping by jumping out of the window and sliding down to a lower floor, the group's presence was discovered by Shockwave, who sent his Driller to finish the building. After the building slammed into another, Sam and the others escaped while Optimus arrived and killed the Driller. They began rushing toward the building with the pillars, which had started to activate, but Sam and Carly were seperated from Epps and his men. They were found by Starscream, who relished the opportunity to be alone with Sam, and started toying around with him. Sam fired the grappling hook into one of Starscream's eyes, and in his panic Sam was flung around and eventually crashed through a window. Taking advantage of the arrival of Lennox's team, Sam jmped onto Starscream's head and lodged the armed boomstick into his other eye, and was was again flung around while Leenox tried to free him. Starscream flew to the top of a building, and as his head exploded Bumblebee arrived to catch the falling pair.
They met up with Epp's team again and were joined by a larger force of soldiers, but Sam and Carly snuck across the river to find that Bumblebee, Dino, Sideswipe, Que and Ratchet had been captured by Soundwave's forces. As they began executing their prisoners, starting with Que, Sam desperately tried to prepare another boomstick to save Bumblebee when his turn came. Luckily Bumblebee was saved when Wheelie and Brains took control of a Decepticon ship and caused a distraction that allow Byumblebee to kill Soundwave. Sam and Carly ended up in the middle of the battlefield, and Sam called to Optimus to warn him about the pillars, and luckily the process was stalled with the control pillar's fall. Sam insisted on helping and assured Carly she would be alright and he began rushing to the pillar, which Dylan was trying to reactivate. Sam tried to stop him, however he failed and was Dylan kicked him off the collapsed structure. But Sam refused to give up, and when Dylan said that Sam wasn't a hero he agreed, stating he was just the messenger, and knocked Dylan into the active pillar, killing him. Bumblebee and Ratchet arrived and destroyed the pillar, resulting in the partially-formed Cybertron to collapse in on itself.
After Optimus had killed Sentinel Prime and Megatron, Sam arrived with the others and hugged Carly in relief. Sam apologised for putting himself in danger, and that she was all he needed and would do anything to make it up for her. She forgave him, and Bumblebee took the opportunity to pass out rings, and Sam told him that he was going too fast and needed to slow down. Sam then stod among the Autobots and soldiers as they stood as heros for saving the world.
Games
Transformers - The Game
- Voice actor: Shia LaBeouf (English)
Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC/Wii/PS2
Autobot campaign
Transformers The Game (console)
Decepticon campaign
After Bumblebee was defeated by Barricade, Barricade told Sam to give him the glasses, Sam then tossed the glasses away but Barricade got them
Later during the Battle of Mission City after Ironhide, Jazz and Bumblebee we´re killed by the battle, he and Mikaela went to inform this to Optimus, Sam then witness the battle with Optimus and Megatron, what happened to him after the Decepticons won the battle is unknown. Transformers The Game (console)
Transformers: The Game (PSP)
- Voice actor: Shia LaBeouf (English)
Transformers Autobots
Bumblebee was sent to retrive the glasses that Sam have, horever Barricade got there first and got the information. what ever he did to Sam is unknown. Transformers Autobots
Transformers Decepticons
Barricade went to retrive the glasses that Sam have, horever Bumblebee got there first and got the information. Transformers Decepticons
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - The Game
- Voice actor: Shia LaBeouf (English)
Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC
Autobot campaign
The Autobots did their best to keep Sam out of the increasingly intense war with the Decepticons, reassigning Bumblebee to rejoin Optimus Prime's unit. Unfortunately, the Decepticons led by Grindor kidnapped him, intent on extracting information from his brain (no doubt in a most unpleasant and final manner). Fortunately for Sam, a force of Autobots arrived to rescue him. Sam managed to warn them of Grindor's presence before being escorted to safety.
Following this, Sam was escorted by the Autobots to an unassuming deli where former Sector Seven agent Simmons now worked. From there, he led the Autobots to the conveniently close-by museum where he managed to awaken the ancient Transformer Jetfire while the Autobots held off a Decepticon assault outside. Jetfire teleported them to Egypt, where Sam explored a mysterious tomb while Optimus Prime personally battled Megatron and Starscream. Despite Jetfire's death in battle, the Autobots managed to drive off the Decepticons. During the final battle against the Fallen, Sam's only contribution was to beg Optimus not to lose.
He tended to start babbling when panicked and there were times when the Autobots must have surely wanted him to shut up. Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
Decepticon campaign
At first, the human germ was of no further interest to Starscream and his Decepticon forces. However, upon discovering his fellow human Mikaela possessed an Allspark shard, the Decepticons first kidnapped her to seize the shard and then visited his college town. After tearing their way through a unit of Autobots sent to stop them, Starscream managed to capture the boy despite his protests.
Seeing as how he and Mikaela weren't heard from after that, it...er... didn't look too good for them. Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
Wii/PS2
- Voice actor: Shia LaBeouf (English)
After The Fallen's defeat, Mikaela and Sam were heard talking to Optimus Prime. Revenge of the Fallen (Wii/PS2)
Toys
Transformers (2007)
- First Encounter (2007)
- Japanese ID number: SB-01
- This Screen Battles pack features a largely unchanged Deluxe class Barricade figure but the Frenzy accessory has been cast in black plastic to better blend in with Barricade's chest. The pack also comes with unposable figurines of Sam Witwicky in a running pose, Frenzy menacing Sam and Mikaela Banes holding the power saw she uses to attack Frenzy. The set is packaged in a special window box with a diorama depicting the battle between Barricade and Bumblebee.
Revenge of the Fallen
Human Alliance
- Bumblebee / Sam Witwicky (2009)
- Japanese ID number: RA-21
- The first human partner in the Human Alliance subset of the Revenge of the Fallen toyline, Sam is an articulated 2.5 inch tall action figure designed to work with the larger scale, all-new Bumblebee figure and other Human Alliance scale Transformers. He can sit inside Bumblebee's vehicle interior, ride in special seats mounted on Bumblebee's arms or stand on his shoulder behind his head, with each location having a different weapon for Sam or any other Human Alliance human character figure to use. Despite this, he's much closer to being on scale with the Deluxe-class Bumblebee toy.
Transformers (2010)
Human Alliance
- Bumblebee / Sam Witwicky (2010)
- Sam in this release is an all-new mold that matches his appearance during the final battle in Egypt during Revenge of the Fallen. His proportions are... unfortunate.
Dark of the Moon
Human Alliance
- Bumblebee / Sam Witwicky (Human Alliance, 2011)
- Japanese ID number:
- Dark of the Moon Human Alliance Sam is seemingly identical to the Revenge of the Fallen figure, and is included with a primarily black "stealth" redeco of Human Alliance Bumblebee.
- Autobot Daredevil Squad (Multi-pack, 2011)
Merchandise
Robot Heroes
- Battle for the Allspark (multi-pack, 2009)
- The first human Robot Heroes figure, Sam is a small super deformed figure sculpted running with the AllSpark cube while grinning stupidly. He is only available in a multi-pack with Megatron, Starscream, Brawl, Ratchet, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee.
Notes
- Sam was not given the nickname "Spike", nor his father the nickname "Sparkplug" (though his wife does refer to him as "Spark"), because unlike their G1 counterparts the movie characters are not oil rig workers or mechanics. Earlier drafts of the script did have Sam earning the nickname "Spike" another way, but this was dropped before the script was finalized.[2]
- Thanks to his brawl with Frenzy, the back of Sam's shirt is ripped, leaving a hole exposing his back. Interestingly, no one points this out to him or even notices during the time he gets a replacement jacket.
- He's not getting a Porsche. Srsly.
- He doesn't masturbate. Especially not to issues of Busty Beauties, which he doesn't keep in a treasure chest under his bed.
- Sam's eBay username LadiesMan217 is a reference to movie director Michael Bay's birthday, February 17th. If 217 had the same meaning for Sam, that would make his date of birth February 17th, 1990. ladiesman217 is a registered user on eBay, with no items currently for sale.
- Except Sam's birthday, according to the Hasbro.com official timeline that came out with the first movie, is October 10th, 1990.
- Buuuut in Revenge of the Fallen, the shot of Sam's driver's license has the date of birth as September 13th, 1991. Take your pick as to which is right.
- The genealogy chart in the 2007 movie indicates Sam was born in 1990.
- Except Sam's birthday, according to the Hasbro.com official timeline that came out with the first movie, is October 10th, 1990.
- In the Japanese dub of the film, Sam's eBay username is changed from "LadiesMan217" to "playboy217", since "ladies' man" isn't a term the Japanese are familiar with. To better suit this joke in the Spanish version, his username is "DonJuan217", named after the famed Spanish womanizer. In the IDW comics adaptation, his ePay username is "hotstud217". This is even more disturbing.
- In the Latin American dub of Transformers, Sam appears credited under the name of Sam "Spike" Witwicky.
- According to screenwriter Roberto Orci, he and writing partner Alex Kurtzman pitched the character of Sam as "Marty McFly on crack."[3]
- Sam has blue eyes in the Revenge of the Fallen comic adaption.
References
- ↑ http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/Timeline.cfm
- ↑ Roberto Orci on Paramount's official Transformers movie forum explaining why the names Spike and Sparkplug weren't used in the movie.
- ↑ Roberto Orci on Don Murphy's forum responding to criticisms of the human characters.
