#Transformers: Age of Extinction

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Optimus Prime as a Father Figure Hcs

(A/N- You can imagine any version of Optimus Prime like the g1 series, movies, etc. I hope y’all enjoy this wholesome post)

(Warning: Random platonic and wholesome hcs)

- He’s good at giving advice, though it honestly depends on what you need advice about. He’s always there to listen if you ever need to talk.

- He always lets you know that you can count on him for anything.

- The other Autobots are like brothers to you, especially Bumblebee. Sometimes you all will be hanging out, having fun, and Prime will watch over y’all with a smile on his face.

- Speaking of the other Autobots, they are protective of you. Not overly protective but like in a big brother way, y’know?

- Optimus will take extra precautions to ensure your safety. Since you’re close to the Autobots, the Decepticon’s might plan to capture you as bait or some other heinous plan. He’ll be damned if he lets Megatron hurt you.

- Sometimes when the both of you have free time to spare, y’all and some of the others will watch the sunset together or stargaze. Sharing stories and hanging out.

- Speaking of sharing stories, Optimus has some interesting stories. They’re mainly about Cybertron and fighting but still entertaining. He also tells you what it’s like back on his planet.

- A good listener. He’ll listen to you ramble and talk about your interests/hobbies. Even though he may not completely understand it.

- Doesn’t know slang at all so when he hears you say any type of slang he’ll be confused. He’ll ask you what it means and will sound like a grandpa too.

- If you’re ever going through some mental health issues, he’ll ask about your symptoms and what you’re diagnosed with. So that he can do some research on how to help and support you.

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Which Transformers movie do you like/love most?

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Anybody who does, is an entitled, GeeWun gatekeeper, who treats change & originality as 2 of The 7 Deadly Sins.

Transformers was, & is, not a perfect franchise, not everything can be liked by everybody.

If you are a fan of the Bayverse Transformers films, follow me.

You will be welcomed with open arms. 🤗

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Return of the Autobots

Part One

After the devastating battle in Chicago almost 18 years ago, the world was left in ruins, and the Autobots were hunted down by humanity, who feared their power. The government had declared war on the Transformers, believing that all alien robots were a threat to Earth’s survival. But a new and even greater danger is rising.

When the daughter of a struggling inventor, Zayla Yeager, discovers an ancient Transformer buried beneath the wreckage of a long-forgotten city, she unwittingly awakens an unstoppable force. The Transformer, known as Optimus Prime, along with his Autobot allies, must now face a terrifying new enemy: a powerful alien race led by the ruthless Lockdown, and a secret government programme determined to eliminate all Transformers.

As the fate of both the Autobots and humanity hangs in the balance, Zayla must face her fears and help Optimus and the Autobots protect Earth from extinction.

This story takes place 18 years after the Chicago incident. Zayla Yeager, the reader's perspective character, will replace Cade Yeager's daughter in the film. Still, you can adjust the details I will be using for Zayla's character to suit yourself or however you think this character should be portrayed. (Zayla is going to be half Indian, half American, as I always imagine myself as the characters in my favourite films. So Zayla's mum and Cade Yeager’s wife is Indian, and obviously Cade is American.) Also note that this story of mine will focus more on the relationship between Bee and Zayla, instead of Cade and Optimus, as in the original film.

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"Omg, I cannot believe him. I'll call you later, babe." I cut the video call on my laptop with my boyfriend immediately, not waiting for a reply as I saw my dad directing a tow truck to place a broken and wrecked-looking truck down on our driveway.

Groaning on my way downstairs, I think to myself, How can he be so inconsiderate!? Bringing another piece of junk home to tear it apart in hopes he can sell the scrap for some money?

"Dad!? Are you serious right now?! Please tell me you didn’t spend our money on this crap truck." I can barely control my anger as I stomp my way in front of my dad and our friend Lucas.

"Hey! Language! Watch it, young lady." Of course, that’s the first thing my dad chooses to pick up on from what I just said. But I didn’t get to question it before Lucas cuts in.

"Actually, he spent my money. A hundred and fifty bucks of it."

"As an advance on your regular pay, which you will get back."

"When?"

"Never, Lucas, if you haven’t noticed, we’re broke." I can't help but snap back, ending their useless discussion on something that literally doesn’t exist.

To which my dad grumbles at me about driving a wedge between employer and employee, words which Lucas finds conflicting. But that conversation doesn’t last long either as my dad decides he wants to pick on me and my clothing choices.

"Can you two get off my case? You just don’t get how much I can get out of this truck and its engine. I can break it down and strip it for parts. And sweetheart, your shorts are shrinking by the second, okay? Cold water, air dry, please."

Not able to stand the sight of my dad at the moment, I roll my eyes and walk off before I say something I don’t mean.

"I think she looks hot." Lucas casually throws the remark at Cade, catching him off guard. "What did you just say?" Cade tilts his head at Lucas, thinking he heard him wrong, his protective dad instincts firing up. "Like a hot teenager." "Yeah, like the teenager part makes that any better," Cade grumbles back, clearly taken aback by his friend's weird comments about his daughter.

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I walked into the barn later that afternoon to give Dad my papers on all my denied and late notices for financial aid for my college. Lucas is over on the recliner, trying to get one of Dad's contraptions to deliver him a beer from the fridge, while I am still trying to get Dad to realize that he needs to stop turning junk into more junk. But I’m not allowed to call it that because the "J" word isn’t allowed in this household.

But before anything else can be said, once again, I’m cut off as the ‘purple people eater’s back, and she looks hungry’ – his words. My dad grabs a baseball bat and rushes outside. And oh! Look at that! He’s scaring them off again. But she doesn’t leave quietly, she drives right onto our grass and through our fence! Which makes my dad just love them even more!

"We’re stealing power now? Just awesome, Dad. Once I’m gone after graduating, who’s going to take care of you, huh?" Clearly, that was shocking because he doesn’t think I take care of him, as he lists the small things he’s taught me to do. "Well, who taught you to cook without using ketchup or how to balance your checkbook? Who always has to be the grown-up around here?" Now that that’s clear and I’ve said my piece, he reassures me and reminds me that my mum would be so proud of me before he walks off back into the barn. All I can do is look up at the sky and smile bitterly, happy at what my dad said but also sad that my mum can’t be here to witness it for herself in person.

After eating dinner alone once again, I make my way back into the barn with dinner, where my dad is trying to fix one of his robots. "You see now why I worry. How about you eat your dinner and take a break?"

After convincing Cade to take a rest and eat his dinner, Zayla goes off for a drive with her friends, but not before Cade gives her a "be responsible" and "no boys" talk.

After eating his dinner, Cade stands outside their family home, looking up at the stars, having a short-lasting conversation with his wife before a ruckus in the barn has Cade running over. One of his robots started malfunctioning and created a fire, which, after promptly putting out, Cade decided to turn his attention towards the truck that sits in his barn.

"Something in here needs to make this family some money. Come on, now you old wreck, judgement day." Cade speaks to himself, standing in front of the wrecked truck.

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"Where is he?" Lucas asks me from the driveway below.

"I don’t know!" I yell back, throwing my hands out in equal frustration as Lucas before heading downstairs to the patio.

"Zayla, I’m basically your uncle. Su casa es mi casa. And we’re going to lose the casa," Lucas says, holding up the eviction notice that was stuck to our front door.

Getting fed up with this, I make my way over to the barn, where I know for a fact my dad is fussing about with one of his junk pieces.

"Guys, you have never seen a truck like this before. Get in here. Lock that door," my dad says, grabbing my hand instantly and dragging me and Lucas into the barn.

"It doesn’t have a lock," Lucas responds, confused but still complies as much as he’s able before coming inside.

"Look! Look at the hole in the radiator! Look at the size of it! Something blew a hole in it!" Dad says excitedly before he runs up the ladder of his moving scaffold or whatever you call it.

"It’s not normal steel! The shrapnel in its engine, it ripped all the connections apart. And watch. This took some Cade genius. You’re going to love this! When I hook this back to a working battery..."

"Calling all... calling all Autobots."

"Oh yeah. I don’t think it’s a truck at all. I think we just found a Transformer."

"Run! Evacuate!" Lucas yells, dragging me out of the barn with him, Dad following closely behind.

"Dad, that’s impossible. A Transformer hasn’t been seen in almost 18 years! The only Transformer the government has found these days is whatever's left under the destruction in Chicago!"

"You know what? That’s not a truck, okay? You’re right. It’s an alien killing machine. Jesus." Lucas says.

"Dude, it’s DOA. It’s been recalled, totalled, done." Dad says to Lucas.

"There’s a number you’re supposed to call. You’re supposed to call the government. It’s the American thing to do. And if you call and it ends up being an alien, then you win $25,000." Lucas says to dad but he just walks back into the barn, me and Lucas follow behind.

"Twenty-five grand! It pays for my college. Hell, it will pay for the house!" I yell after dad.

"This is crazy, Dad, and you know it," I say, shaking my head at my dad, disappointed.

"Alright. Bring the torch over and help me with the pulley arm. I think the shrapnel took out its power core. Oh, and Zayla, you see this!" Dad hits the truck with his hammer.

"Would an alien killing machine let me do that? Look, we’ll make the call. Just let me see if I’m right, then we can get the money."

Going back to the house, I decide to get myself a drink to cool down while Dad and Lucas figure that crap out. I mean, it’s been almost 18 years since Chicago! What’s the bet that a truck my dad finds in a junkyard is this supposed Transformer!? Too busy yelling to myself, I fail to notice the very much active missile flying right towards me. Yelling, I hide in our laundry room as I hear it fly around the house, bumping into countless pieces of furniture.

"DAD!! THERE’S A MISSILE IN THE FAMILY ROOM!" I yell, running into the barn. But that’s not the end of my surprise, because as soon as I’m standing between Dad and the truck, the said truck decides to transform into whatever robot alien thing it is.

The thing is yelling in what sounds like pain, but all I can focus on right now is making myself as small as I can and protecting my head from the things the alien is knocking around.

"I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you!!" It screams, getting up to its full height before pointing its gun at me on the ground in front of it.

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This is Part One of Return of the Autobots.

I hope you liked it! Feedback is always welcome! :)

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The Transformers Films Ranked (2024 Edition)

The Transformers films began with the animated feature, Transformers: The Movie, released in 1986. Set in the same universe as the Saturday morning animated TV series and Marvel comics, the film was produced by Toy company Hasbro and based on their toy line. The story continues the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons, introducing new characters and killing off several fan-favourites,…

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The Glitch: Optimus Prime x Tessa Yeager

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Movie Review | Transformers: Age of Extinction (Bay, 2014)

It’s pretty funny how this sets up Mark Wahlberg, inexplicably cast as a genius inventor, as some kind of heartland hero and lays on the Americana real thick during the first few minutes, only to have him turn whiny and insecure for the rest of the movie. I remember hoping that the change from Shia to Marky Mark might mean that we would get a conventionally appealing protagonist in one of these, but nope. I will say that both actors do exasperation well. 

While the second movie was pretty unambiguously pro robot death squad, this one is bold enough to suggest that death squads might actually be a bad thing. Actually, the fact that the villains here are basically Robot ICE and speak of the Autobots in othered, demonized terms means that it hits differently watching it now. 

I’ve found the robots pretty charmless on the whole, exact except for maybe Bumblebee, who has cute ears if you look for them. But this entry throws in a few cool ones, like Samurai Bot and Cigar Chomping John Goodman Bot. There are also the Dinobots, which the trailer hyped heavily, but don’t show up until after the two hour mark. 

Like other blockbusters at the time, this was clearly trying to tap into the Chinese box office, and like a lot of those, it makes the mistake of casting stars from Chinese cinema and giving them nothing interesting to do. But Bay does have fun tearing apart Hong Kong, both its modern side and its more rustic side. 

Watching these movies one after the other helps to appreciate the differences in Bay’s style as they progress. This one has a good deal more lens flare than the previous entries, and less grain, as more of it is shot digitally, although Bay retains a healthy sense of colour and contrast and avoids the pitfalls of much of digital cinematography. 

He also retains the longer shot lengths and more intuitive shot sequencing of the previous movie, but the set pieces are less organized and devoted to a consistent vantage point. What’s here is impressive in isolation, but especially in the context of a lumpy, almost 3-hour movie which veers into the action at odd intervals, I did not find myself as thrilled as I’d like.

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Groundrunner100’s Ranking Of Optimus Prime Designs

Bayformers (2007-2011)

2. Robots In Disguise 2015 (Phase 2)

3. Prime (2.0)

4. Fall of Cybertron

5. Covenant Of Primus

6. War For Cybertron

7. Universe

8. Prime (1.0)

9. Reactivate

10. Bayformers (2014-2017)

11. Knightformers

12. IDW (2019)

13. Energon

14. Armada

15. Cyberverse

16. Animated

17. Cybertron

18. Evergreen

19. Generation 1

20. One

21. Netflix

22. EarthSpark

23. Robots In Disguise 2015 (Phase 1)

24. Robots In Disguise 2001

This is my opinion as a Transformers fan, & I’m sticking with it.

[rye-views]

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) dir. Michael Bay. 7.5/10

I wouldn't recommend this movie to my friends. I wouldn't rewatch this movie.

omg these poor dinosaurs. Lucas's death really just happened. That missile through Optimus hurt me.

I truly don't think I care for the plot as much, but just seeing all these Transformers are so cool. Lockdown's spacecraft is so cool. The weaponry area and the weapons are cool. I like how brave Cade is. Transforming dinosaurs are hella cool.

I don't think the new transformers transforming is as cool as the og ones doing so. But, it does help me understand how they can change into anything better. I truly am uninvested in Tessa and her boyfriend.

[thecinemacritic]

REVIEW: While perhaps a bit too long, Transformers: Age of Extinction is very entertaining, stylish and well directed, with giant and epic action set pieces.

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The Union (Official Trailer).

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