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gotta love how Anthony Hopkins whips this thing out like a live grenade to blackmail people
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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a public appeal for Optimus Prime to come and solve the country's problems, to which the Conservative Party responded Brown had "more in common with the Decepticons" (2009)
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in Dark Of The Moon, Carly was held hostage in Trump Tower. (2011)
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almost all G1 media ignores Ultra Magnus' "white Optimus" inner robot form, instead presenting his full combined robot form as his only robot form.
Dreamwave's comics broke the trend, showing Magnus' inner robot form for the first time. (2004)
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the Marvel UK Annual text story 'State Games' depicted Megatron's past as a gladiator, and his eventual rise to power. (1986)
Despite the relative obscurity of this story, it has since become THE definitive modern backstory for Megatron that almost all new media has used.
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Dreamwave held a fan poll to let fans determine if they wanted a new comic series based on Beast Wars or RID 2001, with Beast Wars ultimately winning by a large margin.
Dreamwave went out of business before anything was published, rendering the whole thing pointless. (2004)
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the mural on the Bumblebee movie Soundwave toy. (2018)
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Shattered Glass Windblade is done up in the same color palette as Stocking from Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. (2016)
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Silas' death in the Prime episode "Thirst" has the distinction of being the the first full "watch the light die from his eye" death, not only in Prime, but in western Transformers animation. (2013)
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very early concept art for Movie Megatron. (2006)
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Megatron was to have been in the Bumblebee movie with a G1-inspired design.
While the concept art of that design has never been released, it's likely very similiar this Josh Nizzi concept art for Prime 1 Studio's statue Superior Megatron. (2018)
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The red scars on Optimus and Megatron's faces in The Last Knight came about when Michael Bay asked ILM's animators to add them to their faces and come up with an explanation for them, with one of the artists suggesting that it was due to the influence of Dark Energon. (2017)
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the ROTF Movie Universe guidebook and the comic adaptation state that Megatron is a Triple Changer that alternates between his robot, jet, and tank modes, but there is nothing to support this in the movie, where he simply turns into a flying tank. (2009)
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in Energon, Demolishor's character arc revolving around his uncertainty with the Decepticon cause gets resolved by having him sacrifice himself for Megatron and resurrected without memories.
He spends the rest of the show doing nothing but beating his chest and smashing things.
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After his complex character arc in Armada, Starscream is resurrected first as an amnesiac ghost, then as a mindlessly loyal follower of Megatron's in Energon, with absolutely no mention or connections of his past development or relationships from Armada. (2004)
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the Michael Bay movies are so ludicrously popular in China that they've been almost singlehandedly responsible for all of Hollywood changing their business strategies to court Chinese markets for as much money as possible. (2007- )
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"The Touch" was originally inspired by a line from Louis Gossett Jr. in Iron Eagle, and written for the 1986 Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra, but the record company decided to switch it to the Transformers movie instead.
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Among the crowd of Decepticons on Chaar cheering for the imminent rescue of Galvatron is... Galvatron. (1986)
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For an interview in Madman Entertainment's Beast Wars DVDs, Scott McNeil came dressed in a foam Megatron costume. (2006)
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this line from G1 Weirdwolf's instructions. (1987)
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the official "transformerstlk" Spotify account that made playlists for all the characters as apart of the marketing for The Last Knight, with hundreds of songs each. (2017)
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sorry babe, the Officially Licensed Dark Of The Moon Megatron Voice Changer Mask stays on during sex twitter.com/tfw2005/status…
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Diego Garcia, whose native inhabitants were forcibly expelled by the British military, is used as the Autobot base. (2009)
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