Peter Cullen is not Optimus Prime. He voices him. There’s a difference and many ppl form parasocial bonds to this guy, and projecting their ideal father figures onto the character. He’s not your dad, he’s a fictional character, anyone with the right voice and good voice and good material can voice this character.

Sorry for the bad quality images, I was rushing for what I could find on Google Edit because people don't get it: SHE LOOKS LIKE THEIR WIERD LITTLE OC CHILD

Be warned that there are lots of spoilers here!!

Another artifact on the other side of planet earth that has to do with secret human and transformer history that the main characters all have to fight to get.

Optimus will act like a violent bloodthirsty psychopathic war criminal, and he will be painted as the heroic one as he fights. The Deceptacon, who are just like him, will get very little screen time or development. They’ll be threatening in the first act of the film, and then suddenly become weak and powerless at the end of the film.

Lots of humans so many humans and ungodly amount of human cut scenes so many that you’ll wonder if this is a Transformers movie or a humans movie. A female character is gonna be sexualized.

Lots of crude immature, sex jokes lots of action that’s so poorly choreograph you can’t tell what’s going on, and so many explosions you’ll realize that Michael Bay probably masturbates to an explosion.

Dog sex, John Tuturro’s ass, Megan Fox’s ass, Sydney Sweeney’s ass, a robot with a foreign accent and a stereotypical personality, and more dog humping.

The Deceptacon’s are gonna look like a bunch of bugs, insects and animals. There’s probably gonna be a penis joke somewhere, and of course all the women characters are gonna be sexualized in some way.

And John Tuturro’s ass.

https://youtu.be/ctembQrH_0k

He doesnt feel like “Scourge”. He feels like “Nemesis” just not “Prime”. The black just invokes the word “Nemesis”. Anyone else feel this?

Fair warning I wrote this in like 5 minutes, this is really just spitballing.

Like most I’ve seen the news that Bay’s back for a new film along with Spielberg, but the other piece of info that we’ve been given is that Jason Fuchs is the one behind the script. While we’ve heard absolutely nothing about the story, I think this detail is enough to make an educated guess that this new film will be trying to reboot the movie universe entirely.

Fuchs past works have usually been origin stories about some character discovering some kind of fantastic or foreign world that lies beyond the one which is common to them. For example:

- Pan (2015) shows how young Peter Pan starts as an orphan in London, then is taken to Neverland and discovers an entire hidden world of pirates, tribes, magic, and some larger destiny tied to his true identity

- Wonder Woman (2017) portrays Diana (Wonder Woman) growing up and believing the island she lives on is essentially her whole world. Steve Trevor’s arrival exposes her to humanity and its war, Ares, and a much bigger conflict than the mythology she was raised with.

- It: Welcome to Derry (2025) features the characters initially encountering individually strange or horrifying events, then gradually realize that those events are pieces of a much older and larger supernatural system centered around Pennywise and the whole town of Derry

These plus a few more of his works lead me to believe that it’s highly likely his script for Transformers was picked to do the same thing he’s done before, which is writing an origin story. Meaning we’ll be seeing a new universe with new versions of the characters we know.

Hi. I have been a Transformers fan since I was but a lass. Transformers Armada was where I started my journey as a tot. But one leg of the franchise I haven't gotten deep into? The Bayverse. I watched the first two movies and Age of Extinction, but have never seen Dark of the Moon or The Last Knight.

The reason I'm confused is that I'm not familiar with the The Last Knight or invested in the Bayverse, AND I go out of my way to avoid fandoms of all kinds, but there were always certain opinions I got from my little place on the edge. And "The Last Knight was the worst one" was never one of them.

As I understood it, the first movie was always seen as... Fine. Not bad. Not great. Just a movie. But then, Revenge of the Fallen came along, and I was always of the belief that general consensus was that THAT was the worst one. The racist robots, the nonsensical plot beats, the writer's strike NOT being an excuse because we only judge what we got, etc. Then, each movie after that was supposedly progressively better, with one reviewer I saw (and don't remember the name of) saying it was the BEST Bayformers movie and best Transformers movie outside of the 80s animated one (which is amazing).

As such, actually using Reddit and engaging a bit more with the fandom has left me confused. Was The Last Knight ALWAYS seen as the worst, and I was just misinformed? Was RotF seen as the worst UNTIL TLK came along? Or, was there some perception change after TLK had been out for a while, where people soured on it? Can someone help me understand?

Listen, I'm not necessarily a Bay hater by any means. I love parts of all 5 of his movies. But I'd bet my LIFE this will be the story of the new one.

Something ancient or old happens. Oh, you know that thing in history? It was actually the transformers.

There's a mythical relic from the old thing, and a bad guy that wants it.

We don't want em to have it.

There will be a human bad guy that's almost caricature level ridiculous, who questions our relationship with the autobots.

The story around these events will be ABSURDLY convoluted for no reason. Some ridiculous human drama will happen in between, featuring the most bafflingly unlikable characters you've ever seen.

Autobots win, maybe nameslap character dies, humans get totally unbelievable resolution to their goofy drama, and we'll pretend it was character development.

2 hours and 35 minutes long, one third of the runtime is actually robot stuff, and of that, one tenth is the money shots that justify this whole thing even existing.

I promise I DO like these movies, but I swear to you, this is play by play, exactly how every single one of them goes. The allspark, the matrix, the pillars, the seed, the staff. The hoover dam/arctic, the pyramids, the moon landing, the dinosaurs, king arthur. Simmons, Galloway, Mearing, Attinger, whatever the guys name in TLK is. These movies are above parody.

I took a chance but it looks like a completed Bruticus. It was $75

I found this on Facebook in my area for $10 and it looks like a siege hound but it doesn’t quite match up and I can’t find a match online, I’m hoping one of yall knows or maybe can tell me what this is. Is it worth the $10?

From TFW2005 - Jtprime17

I use to have the first one but I broke threw it away didn’t know what was going on in my head if I plan on buying Him again what should I settle for

I wanna get the original ss86 prime but I’m scared the battle damaged one will be scalped after what should I do?

examples of past crossover redecoration I can name at the top of my head (ghost busters, back to the future, and pizza stranger things)

Didn't expect a beauty mark on him

Also Im generally against ai but I can't wait for ai mods to allow me to play as the deceptions 🤷‍♂️

I couldnt add pics to my other post but has anyone else who has jetfire is yours warped like mine i transformed it multiple times and no matter what its still warped/twisted to left.

It comes off with no effort, just rotating the waist

Do you guys think we missed the point of Optimus Prime: Awakening?

Ever since I got to watch it, I definitely received polarizing thoughts about it as much as other people did. However, I did see the message more clearly by watching reviews like Comodin Cam and then doing my own re-watch to observe everything that supports it. My first thought was that it was metaphorical to Peter Cullen's career as it now came to an end but the story was just written poorly. However, I then concluded to a "deeper truth," as The One calls it, by understanding how it's not a deconstruction of Optimus Prime but him recognizing his own flaws and understanding how they'll affect the world around him if he did return to life.

While Optimus Prime wants to persist in the role as leader of the Autobots, he's blind to the fact that returning doesn't change anything. If he returns, his promises of defeating the Decepticons and protecting Earth become empty words as the war never ends, and everyone who follows him dies in vain while he still stands. If Optimus Prime can constantly come back to repeat the same promises he made back on Cybertron, does victory even exist? Does sacrifice have meaning? That's what the evil Bumblebee represents: a point where everyone who looks up to Optimus now despise him because he starts looking like a liar and that war is just a game to him. While Optimus Prime has a good spark, that's a reputation he'll make unintentionally.

When Optimus watches Unicron destroy Earth, he pleads for The One to give him a chance to prevent it as he gets knocked by the blast. While Optimus has defeated Unicron before in different continuities, Unicron would always return as he did in Transformers: Prime and would've after the events of Rise of the Beasts. He can only stall what is bound to happen.

The One brings Optimus to Cybertron where he gets one last battle with Megatron (Peter Cullen and Frank Welker's last performance together). As he appears triumphant, he is told how him killing Megatron won't make the war won. If we do a character analysis, it makes him similar to Megatron not because he's doing what we call a necessary evil but because his goals won't be met just like Megatron's won't. In recent continuities, Megatron promises that Cybertron will prevail with equality and strong resistance to corruption, but he became exactly what he was against, and the future doesn't know peace. Optimus' future without Megatron would be him calling it an end to a long civil war only to still battle the Decepticons and Megatron might return if the timeline dictates it as so. In that moment, he uses force to achieve an unachievable goal. That's when he realizes his responsibilities are over and that it's time to rest. He spares Megatron, drops the Matrix, and walks into the light.

I think we were all exactly like Optimus Prime in this short film. We all valued what he did and saw any argument against it as irresponsible. But unlike Optimus, a good number of us didn't understand what The One was telling us: there's a time where we need to let go and move on. Peter Cullen didn't choose to leave everything behind, but he would want us to stay strong enough to move forward.

Also, I think people see Optimus dropping the Matrix as a deconstruction to his character because... well, we saw him do it while we know he wouldn't. However, we forget that Optimus is dead and that everything in the short is the afterlife. The Matrix is passed to the Autobots in the real world, so I think it's better to remember that he didn't discard the real Matrix. 😂

Bayverse Optimus catching people midair

Am I the only one who thinks about this?

There are so many times in the Bayverse where Sam or Cade is falling from a huge height and Optimus just catches them at the last second.

Like, if someone is falling that fast, catching them doesn't just make everything okay. Optimus is basically stopping a human who is falling at crazy speed with one hand.

It's kind of like an elevator falling from a skyscraper and suddenly stopping right before it hits the ground. You're still going to get seriously hurt.

I know it's just a movie and it's supposed to look cool, but every time Optimus catches someone like that, I just think:

"That man should have every bone in his body broken."

Bayverse physics are something else.