Full list of Characters for New transformers Movie released

[Crossroads Inc.]

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Did a quick scan and Didn't see this anywhere so Posted it up... Looks like we now have a full and complete list of who is, and is NOT appearing in the next movie... the main thing that seems up is there are lots, LOTS more transformers/... Which has me worries as it may mean even LESS time spent fleshing out their characters... if any...

'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' Robots Revealed
by Matt McDaniel    April 1st, 2009
Excitement around "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," the sequel to the enormously successful 2007 movie, has been building steadily since we got our first glimpse of the action in the ad that played during the Super Bowl. Two weeks later the trailer was released, and it looked like director Michael Bay wasn't lying when he promised bigger and badder robots than in the first flick.

Now, to get the fans even more energized, Paramount Pictures has released to us the full list of all the giant robots that will appear in the new movie. Plus we have new photos with first looks at two of the evil Decepticons that will battle the heroic Autobots when the movie hits theaters this summer.


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AUTOBOTS

OPTIMUS PRIME: The Autobots' leader - alternate form: Peterbilt truck (see photo).
IRONHIDE: Weapons specialist - GMC Topkick.
RATCHET: Medic - Hummer H2.
BUMBLEBEE: Friend and mode of transportation for Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) - 2010 Chevorlet Camaro.
ARCEE: A female Autobot - motorcycle.
SIDESWIPE: A Lamborghini in the toy line, here he transforms into a silver Corvette Stingray concept car.
JETFIRE: An older Decepticon who switches sides - SR71 Blackbird jet.
JOLT: The original toy was a Decepticon, but in the movie he's a good guy - Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid.
SKID & MUDFLAP: a.k.a. "The Twins" - Chevrolet Beat and Trax concept cars.


DECEPTICONS

STARSCREAM: Formerly Megatron's second in command, he escaped at the end of the first movie (see photo); F-22 Raptor jet.
SCORPONOK: The mechanical scorpion that attacked the American troops in the desert.
THE FALLEN: One of the original Transformers, he's called "the most elemental bad guy" by the screenwriters.
SIDEWAYS: The Audi R8 seen crashing through a building in the trailer.
SOUNDWAVE: A cassette player in the original toys; his alternate mode will be a communications satellite.
RAVAGE: A four-legged, cat-like robot (see photo).
THE DOCTOR: A spider-like crawling robot.
WHEELIE: A small, radio-controlled truck.
DEMOLISHER: One of the Constructicons that transform into construction vehicles.
DEVASTATOR: A giant robot formed by the Constructicons joining together; individually, they are: Scavenger, Scrapper, Hightower, Longhaul, Rampage, Overload and Mixmaster.

Noticeably absent from the list is the Decepticon leader, Megatron, who was killed at the end of the previous movie and last seen being dumped in the ocean. Michael Bay denied that Megatron is in the movie, but actor Hugo Weaving said in an interview that he had recorded dialogue for the part. We'll see if and how he returns when "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" opens on June 24th.

[VF5SS]

And most of these characters will have no more than 20 lines of dialog.
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Oh yeah, and there's like hundreds of pictures of the new Megatron model and the toys. He's a face tank thing now. There are no secrets when toy scalpers are involved.

[TheLostVikings]

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Oh yeah, and there's like hundreds of pictures of the new Megatron model and the toys. He's a face tank thing now. There are no secrets when toy scalpers are involved.

Indeed
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While the toy imho looks like utter crap I'm starting to warm up on his new incarnation, now that we can finally see him from a decent angle. The lower pic is a little too blurry to see if the two vehicles he is sucking in are cars or trucks, but it still gives a pretty good impression of how huge he is. I can't wait to see this movie in IMAX

[born in shadow]

I agree with TheLostVikings, I'm digging that picture in the top left. It looks massive, even without much to compare it to.

And most of these characters will have no more than 20 lines of dialog.

At least that's up from the ten they had before

On a side note, wasn't Wheelie an Autobot? Or am I just imagining things?

[General Zod]

Jetfire? Wasn't he created using the Matrix in G1? I don't know how they're going to include him in the story then. . .but considering the way the first movie turned out the list of transformers isn't exactly inspiring me with confidence.

[Magister Militum]

Devastator looks a little too clunky for my tastes, but that's probably on account of how he looks as a toy. I would imagine that he'll look much better once a proper picture comes out.

[xerex]

1. yeah wheelie was an annoying autobot introduced in the animated movie

2. Jetfire/Skyfire (comics have different name for same character) was from the pre movie series. he was a friend of Starscream who switched sides.

[VF5SS]

The basic bio behind Wheelie in this movie is that he's a really cowardly little robot that is coerced into switching sides. Jetfire is an elderly Decepticon who was hiding on Earth as an SR-71 before the first movie. Just like how Sandman was always Uncle Ben's killer.

[Dread Not]

Hopefully I'll be able to tell a few of the bots apart from each other in this film.

[Sriad]

1. yeah wheelie was an annoying autobot introduced in the animated movie

2. Jetfire/Skyfire (comics have different name for same character) was from the pre movie series. he was a friend of Starscream who switched sides.

In Marvel comics continuity, Jetfire was built by Shockwave as the first of many jet-decepticons he would bring to life with the matrix energy in the captured head of Optimus Prime. Prime bequeathed that energy onto Buster Witwicky, briefly giving him Magneto-like powers over non-spark animated metal (anachronism!). Buster hijacked the not-yet-sentient Jetfire, and used him to help free Optimus and defeat Shockwave.

Jetfire was later imbued with sentience and inducted into the Autobots.

[Stark]

And in the not-shit continuity, he's been around for millions of years and Grimlock hates him. So what, it's irrelevant.

[Darth Wong]

Nobody gives a shit about comic or TV cartoon continuity where the live-action movies are concerned. I'm just happy Devastator will be there. Hopefully there's a decent story to go with the popular characters.

[VF5SS]

Nobody gives a shit about comic or TV cartoon continuity where the live-action movies are concerned.

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I hope this movie has more inexplicable dawn-dusk transitions and lots of pointless spinning shots of the various locales. With little titles to tell you were everything is going on of course.

[Zablorg]

Yeah, Bob Orci, one of the writers, said that the editing team had learned "a lot" from its last venture.

[Darth Yoshi]

As long as they don't spend half the movie on teenage romance, it should be better than the last one. Still, I hope the robots will get, y'know, actual development, rather than be introduced and then get torn in half by the Big Bad ten lines later.

[Darth Wong]

As long as they don't spend half the movie on teenage romance, it should be better than the last one.

You have absolutely no idea why the first movie made over $300 million at the box office, do you?

[Sriad]

And in the not-shit continuity, he's been around for millions of years and Grimlock hates him. So what, it's irrelevant.

Tell you what: you rewatch every G1 cartoon while I reread the Marvel comics and we'll see who stabs their eyes out first.

Darth Wong is on the money about movie continuity (trans-series continuity as a whole too), I was just clarifying origin stories history for Zod and xerex.

[Stark]

Thats why I said it's irrelevant, genius. Trivia about comics/tv shows/whatever is worthless when it has no bearing whatever on this movie.

[Darth Wong]

Nobody gives a shit about comic or TV cartoon continuity where the live-action movies are concerned.

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Don't be ridiculous. The producers will obviously have to maintain continuity with the first film, or audiences will be offended. The second movie can't just have Megatron walking around as if nothing happened to him. They'll have to explain.

[Oskuro]

The second movie can't just have Megatron walking around as if nothing happened to him. They'll have to explain.

I have the feeling they might pull an Agent Smith on this one (wich would fit Hugo Weaving doing Megatron's voice).

[VF5SS]

Don't be ridiculous. The producers will obviously have to maintain continuity with the first film, or audiences will be offended. The second movie can't just have Megatron walking around as if nothing happened to him. They'll have to explain.

I was more referring to shot-to-shot continuity, which the first movie had a lot of problems with. Thanks to Michael Bay's insistence of always filming around "the golden hour" it makes night and day pass roughly every 15 minutes. Also I don't think teen romance, which was like fifteen minutes out of the whole movie did much for the audience in terms of profit. This isn't Titanic. It's like Armageddon, which was another terrible movie that made a lot of money. Bay's the kind of guy who makes shitty movies that do well at the box office. Well, except for The Island.

[Darth Wong]

Don't be ridiculous. The producers will obviously have to maintain continuity with the first film, or audiences will be offended. The second movie can't just have Megatron walking around as if nothing happened to him. They'll have to explain.

I was more referring to shot-to-shot continuity, which the first movie had a lot of problems with. Thanks to Michael Bay's insistence of always filming around "the golden hour" it makes night and day pass roughly every 15 minutes. Also I don't think teen romance, which was like fifteen minutes out of the whole movie did much for the audience in terms of profit.

Are you brain-damaged or something? The teen character story and associated humourous scenes took up half the fucking movie. Roger Ebert even said that he only liked those parts of the movie, and found much of the battling-robot portion to be boring.

This isn't Titanic. It's like Armageddon, which was another terrible movie that made a lot of money. Bay's the kind of guy who makes shitty movies that do well at the box office. Well, except for The Island.

Nobody said it was like Titanic. But it's not Armageddon either.

[Crossroads Inc.]

I find it interesting that there is a group of people who seem to think "First movie sucked cause of all the Humans and Love story!" And yet the majority of movie reviewers said it was the "Human Story" that made the first movie worth watching...

I wonder if indeed the next movie might not overcompensate. I am a fan of explosions and giant robots as much as the next person, but if you toss much of the "story" and just have ongoing battles, things would loose interest rapidly I would assume.

In truth, for me at least, I don't think you need more "battles" or what not, just make the more...in depth... Actually HAVE character building of your badguys.. give them decent dialog and personalities, flesh out who is who and why everything is happening. then things might connect a bit more with the audience.

[VF5SS]

Are you brain-damaged or something?

Why you gotta be so mean?

The teen character story and associated humourous scenes took up half the fucking movie. Roger Ebert even said that he only liked those parts of the movie, and found much of the battling-robot portion to be boring.

Really that was half the movie? Most of seemed like it was getting crowded out by Captain Lennox and his awesome squad or John Voight and the hackers. As far as critics go, most of the reviews I had read supported the actions scenes over everything else. Personally I thought the whole movie was pretty weak.

Nobody said it was like Titanic. But it's not Armageddon either.

It's about one Aerosmith song away.

[Oskuro]

Really that was half the movie? Most of seemed like it was getting crowded out by Captain Lennox and his awesome squad or John Voight and the hackers.

Wich helped ease in the human point of view into the story. As a matter of fact, I found it satisfying that the movie had a noticeable lack of incompetent characters all around, from Lennox to the shotgun-wielding-I-can't-belive-a-computer-analist-is-so-hot chick, they all felt like they had more than two functional brain cells (Except maybe the President). And the military action was awesome, also stating that, when properly coordinated, mankind can take on the Transformers (I mean, Megatron was done for at the end, and had the Cube not been there, he would have been killed by the airstrikes anyway), thus avoiding the usual cliché of human technology being useless.

What I found weak in the first movie was the characterization of the Trasnformers. With the exception of Optimus, Megatron and Bumblebee, it was hard at times to tell the others appart. But the first movie was an introduction to the characters, from a human point of view (hence the focus on the impact the Transformers had on the regular lives of the human cast), hopefullly there'll be more development in the sequel.

What will make me call bullshit is if they pull the usual "they've broken up for x reason so they can get back together in this movie" crap with Sam and Mikela.

Also, I so want this to be a trilogy and have Unicron on the third installment!