Revenge of the Fallen: Spot the References

[Sky Shadow]

No I don't think they were coincidences. Even before the movie's release, we'd heard of specific plot points that were homages to G1 content like pretenders shells, gestalts, matrix of leadership, death of prime, etc.

There might be a few there listed that are a little tenuous, but I think they went to great trouble to purposively include some of these.

Yes, some, or as I said "very few", but there's no way that the film was deliberately referencing Scraplets, Walter Barnett, Beast Machines Megatron's pyramid or Dai Atlas killing Predaking, and many of the others are as likely coincidences as deliberate references.

[GoktimusPrime]

they're "inferences from absolutely coincidental things that just happened to occur while Michael Bay was busy intently raping everyone's childhood TO THE EXTREME!"

Unless someone forced you to watch the movie, you consented. A lousy you-know-what =/= rape (though I enjoyed it. It wasn't the best I've ever had, but I liked it... we're still talking about movies yeah )

Yeah anyway - we're looking for both references and inferences. Outferences too.

Hey, i know this might be a bit 'left field' but did those 'microcons' or whatever they are remind you of those droids in star wars episode either 1 or 2 that role around and open up?

We're looking for references (or inferences) to Transformers.

Characters: Power-Up Optimus Prime
References: Gundams
Details: whoops, wrong franchise/brand name/intellectual property, wrong robot

Wokka wokka wokka! (^_^)

Power up Optimus + Jetfire
- Armada had Prime and Jetfire powerlinx mode

True. I went for God Ginrai as the earliest example of a Transformer merging with another to achieve a powered-up super robot mode - but you're right, Armada Prime/Jetfire was the first example of those two characters/namesakes merging to a super robot mode.

Jetfire get revived after years of slumber/stasis lock?
- Jetfire in G1 toons also gets revived - seems this guy always gets revived.... accident prone mayhaps?

True - although I don't think RotF Jetfire's stasis was accidental. Also similar is that Jetfire in the G1 comics, G1 cartoon _and_ RotF were all initially Decepticons who later became Autobots.

[Tommy K]

waitwaitwait hold on now what about the professors refrencce, "I am ALPHA and OMEGA the BEGINNING and the END"

come on MAJOR beast wars REFRENCE

[GoktimusPrime]

That's actually a biblical reference.

Religious references have been frequently used in Transformers (Judeo-Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism/Buddhism etc etc etc.)

[Gutsman Heavy]

references or coincidences?

[GoktimusPrime]

references or coincidences?

Yeah, Sky Shadow already addressed that back in post #5. I wanna see how many references or inferences we can fish from this movie -- let's start scraping that barrel folks!

[Tober]

Wheelie was the lamest character.

Soundwave was voiced by Welker.

Ravage was awesome.

The matrix saves the day (and everyone else).

TFs mass-shift.

[GoktimusPrime]

Characters: Optimus Prime + Jetfire
Reference: Sacrificial Power-up Combination
Details: In G1 (Victory) God Ginrai was mortally wounded in battle - knowing that he was going to die, he volunteered to allow Wheeljack, Perceptor and Minerva to use his parts to construct Victory Leo in order to merge with Star Sabre and power him up as Victory Sabre. Of course, the key difference is that from Ginrai's remains a new Autobot (Victory Leo) was born, whereas Jetfire just became scrap after Prime shed him off. :/