History Film / TransformersFilmSeries

** With Megatron; it's a little more iffy however, given he woke up in present day after being frozen for centuries and started speaking English right away with seemingly no other source... or so it would seem. The creators say that Megatron was not only [[AndIMustScream still conscious when he was frozen]], but that he could also see and hear everything going on around him; meaning he could hear the engineers and scientists examining his body whilst they were talking and so he picked up English from them. This would provide an explanation for why the first thing he did upon awakening was declare his true name to the "insects" that were referring to him as "N. B. E.-01", "Ice-Man" or even (believe it or not) ''VideoGame/MegaMan''.

''The Last Knight'' was intended to be the launchpad for a SharedUniverse set in the film universe; however, following the underperformance of the film, plans changed and the sixth film in the series was removed from Paramount's release schedule. ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'', already well into development, was retooled into a reboot, and its warm reception convinced Hasbro and Paramount to proceed with a new film continuity. Bay did not return to direct the rebooted films, although he remains attached as executive producer.

* ''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' (2023): Five years after ''Bumblebee'', two humans (Creator/AnthonyRamos and Creator/DominiqueFishback) are caught up in a conflict between the Autobots, Decepticons, [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Maximals, Predacons]], and Terrorcons.\\\

''The Last Knight'' was intended to be the launchpad for a SharedUniverse set in the film universe; however, following the underperformance of the film, plans changed and the sixth film in the series was removed from Paramount's release schedule. ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'', already well into development, was retooled into a reboot, and its warm reception convinced Hasbro and Paramount to proceed with a new film continuity. Bay remains on as an executive producer, while Travis Knight (director of ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'') helmed ''Bumblebee'', and Stephen Caple, Jr. (''Film/CreedII'') helms ''Rise of the Beasts''.

In addition to Ramos and Fishback, the film will star Luna Lauren Valez and Tobe Nwigwe, and feature Creator/RonPerlman as the voice of Optimus Primal. Creator/PeterCullen will also return to voice Optimus Prime. Directed by Matt Shakman, it is slated to be released on June 9, 2023.

* ''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' (2022): Five years after ''Bumblebee'', two humans (Creator/AnthonyRamos and Dominique Fishback) are caught up in a conflict between the Autobots, Decepticons, [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Maximals, Predacons]], and Terrorcons.

* TokenRomance: Sam amd Mikaela[=/=]Carly. Their relationship could be removed and it wouldn't affect the story at all.

''The Last Knight'' was intended to be the launchpad for a SharedUniverse set in the film universe; however, following the underperformance of the film, plans changed and the sixth film in the series was removed from Paramount's release schedule. ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'', already well into development, was retooled into a reboot, and it's warm reception convinced Hasbro and Paramount to proceed with a new film continuity. Bay remains on as an executive producer, while Travis Knight (director of ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'') helmed ''Bumblebee'', and Stephen Caple, Jr. (''Film/CreedII'') helms ''Rise of the Beasts''.

* ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' (2018): In the 1980's, young Charlie Watson (Creator/HaileeSteinfeld) befriends the lost Autobot Bumblebee, and their friendship breathes new life into her as they become targets of a pair of Decepticon hunters.

Creator/MichaelBay has been the director for each main film installment, with Travis Knight (director of ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'') helming ''Bumblebee''.

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' (2007)
* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' (2009)
* ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' (2011)
* ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'' (2014)
* ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'' (2017)

The following video games tied into the movies have received their own pages.

* ''VideoGame/TransformersTheGameConsole'' (2007): A game for Sixth and Seventh-generation consoles and PC based on the premise of the 2007 film, but the campaigns tell two stories about the Autobots and Decepticons set in an AlternateContinuity of one another.
** ''VideoGame/TransformersTheGameDS'' (2007): [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo two games]] for the Nintendo DS based on the premise of the 2007 film. Like the console version, the campaigns tell two stories about the Autobots and Decepticons that are set in AlternateContinuities, but this time they diverge more from the film than the console version.
* ''[[VideoGame/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'' (2011): A tie-in prequel to ''Dark of the Moon'', developed by Creator/HighMoonStudios.
* ''VideoGame/TransformersRiseOfTheDarkSpark'' (2014): A tie-in to ''Age of Extinction'', once again taking place in an AlternateContinuity from the film; though the ''Age of Extinction'' story runs parallel to a story set between ''VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron'' and ''VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron'', set in the [[Franchise/TransformersAlignedUniverse Aligned continuity]].
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The ''Toys/TransformersStudioSeries'' toyline, beginning in 2018, acts as a celebration of the film series with movie-accurate toys of most of the cast of the films.

In March 2015, it was announced that the future of the franchise will see it [[FollowTheLeader follow the examples of]] [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Marvel]], [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse DC]], and ''Franchise/StarWars'' in that an entire ''[[SharedUniverse Transformers Cinematic Universe]]'' will be forged, overseen by Bay, Spielberg, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, and writer Akiva Goldsman. However, following the underperformance of ''The Last Knight'', plans changed and the sixth film in the series was removed from Paramount's release schedule. In February 2018, it was rumored that while the ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' film will be released as planned, the 6th film has been cancelled and the franchise will be "reset", supposedly without Bay's involvement. After some speculation caused by the film's various continuity errors to it's precedessors, ''Bumblebee'''s positive reception led Hasbro to reboot the film franchise, so future films will continue its storyline instead of the ones set up in these films and will not be part of this same universe; as such, ''The Last Knight'' is the final film of this film series.

In 2020, Paramount announced a live-action ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' film set for June 2022 and an animated prequel taking place on Cybertron.

[[Characters/TransformersFilmSeries There is a character sheet with more details.]] '''Please''' put character-specific tropes there instead of adding them here.

** ''TransformersAnimated'' was produced in anticipation of the movie's popularity, but the story is a whole other AlternateContinuity line. As such, there are several direct nods to these films: Megatron's Cybertronian form looks like a simplified version of his movie incarnation, Bumblebee having a racing stripe and Blackout shows up in season three. The Japanese translation was initially announced to turn this series into a direct adaptation, but so far the only real difference is that Bulkhead's name was changed to Ironhide. The canceled fourth season was supposed to come even closer, with Ironhide and Jazz replacing Bulkhead and Prowl on the Earth team and the remaining Autobots using new color schemes more reminiscent of the movie - yes, including flame decals on Optimus.

In March 2015, it was announced that the future of the franchise will see it [[FollowTheLeader follow the examples of]] [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Marvel]], [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse DC]], and ''Franchise/StarWars'' in that an entire ''[[SharedUniverse Transformers Cinematic Universe]]'' will be forged, overseen by Bay, Spielberg, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, and writer Akiva Goldsman. However, following the underperformance of ''The Last Knight'', plans changed and the sixth film in the series was removed from Paramount's release schedule. In February 2018, it was rumored that while the ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' film will be released as planned, the 6th film has been cancelled and the franchise will be "reset", supposedly without Bay's involvement. After some speculation caused by the film's various continuity errors to it's precedessors, ''Bumblebee'''s positive reception led Hasbro to reboot the film franchise, and future films will continue it's storyline instead if the ones set up in these films, and will not be part of the same universe as these films; as such, ''The Last Knight'' is the final film of this film series.

* ThemeTuneCameo:
** The Twins' first altmode plays an ice-cream truck version of the ''Transformers'' theme song. No, really.
** In DOTM the black copier in Sam's office [[spoiler:AKA Laserbeak]] plays a snippet of the "Transformers" theme when one of the office guys tries to use it.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: One of the most notable (and criticized) things about the films is the surpring amount of {{Gorn}} present - some wouldn't feel out of place in a ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' game.

The future of the film series was left uncertain due to ''The Last Knight'''s box office failure until in 2020, Paramount confirmed they will reboot with a live-action ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' film set for June 2022 and an animated prequel taking place on Cybertron. But it appears that there won't be a sequel to ''The Last Knight'' and so the 2007 to 2017 film series has been concluded.

** Megatron tells Sam that in exchange for the [=AllSpark=], Megatron will make Sam his pet.

The future of the film series was left uncertain due to ''The Last Knight'''s box office failure until in 2020, Paramount confirmed they will reboot with a live-action ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' film set for June 2022 and an animated prequel taking place on Cybertron. But it appears that there won't be a sequel to ''The Last Knight'' and that the 2007 to 2017 film series has been concluded.

* ContinuitySnarl: Not too bad at first. Working out how Megatron's many different plans and alleigances line up takes some mental arithmetic, and the films chronology will induce headaches. Then ''Last Knight'' and ''Bumblebee'' came along, and even IDW's works, which actually made a damn good attempt at trying to glue everything together, threw up its hands and went "screw it!"

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Bonecrusher and Jazz's deaths in the first film, and The Fallen, Rampage, Ravage, and Grindor in the second. Every death in the third.

* SequelEscalation: The filmmakers openly admitted that the first film had the robots kept in the background solely because of cost and as an experiment if the SFX would work. As a result it was mostly a small skirmish between 5 Autobots and 8 Decepticons. With the FX worked out, ROTF had at least 30 named robots (some only in supplemental materials) and another 10-15 generic unnamed robots. ''Dark of the Moon'' goes to the logical breaking point, an all out AlienInvasion and RobotWar.

* SymbolicBlood: If the Transformers were organic, it would be very, very messy - like the deaths of some Decepticons weren't in NightmareFuel territory already. I mean not only when Optimus Prime [[spoiler:WANTS YOUR FACE]], look also at Bumblebee [[spoiler:tearing Ravage apart, spinal cord with some green goo attached. Ouch!]]
** Not only those, but when [[spoiler:Optimus tears Grindor's head in two with his hooks.]]
** [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath The fall of The Fallen.]]
** And [[spoiler:Megatron's face getting cleaved in two, and getting his spine ripped out.]]
** In a more literal vein, when some Transformers receive enough damage you can see them "bleeding" this thick blue liquid, which is theorized to be energon. You can see it more often in the first film, such as the battle damage received [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/a/a4/Blackout_movie_dead.JPG by Blackout.]]
*** DOTM takes this UpToEleven with the deaths of several Decepticon Mooks.

* CarPorn: Justified in a film series where the protagonists are disguised as cars.

* EverythingIsBetterWithSpinning:
** The first two movies each have a 360 degree spin scene of Optimus transforming,
** DOTM has Optimus spinning while taking down multiple Decepticons.

* OffWithHisHead[=/=]BoomHeadshot[=/=]YourHeadAsplode: Given how tough a lot of Transformers are in the series, damage to the cranial area is analogous to DeaderThanDead.

* OrbitalShot: It's a Creator/MichaelBay movie, after all.

In March 2015, it was announced that the future of the franchise will see it [[FollowTheLeader follow the examples of]] [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Marvel]], [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse DC]], and ''Franchise/StarWars'' in that an entire ''[[SharedUniverse Transformers Cinematic Universe]]'' will be forged, overseen by Bay, Spielberg, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, and writer Akiva Goldsman. However, following the underperformance of ''The Last Knight'', plans changed and the sixth film in the series was removed from Paramount's release schedule. In February 2018, it was rumored that while the ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' film will be released as planned, the 6th film has been cancelled and the franchise will be "reset", supposedly without Bay's involvement. It's been speculated that this "reset" will be in-line with Paramount's other Hasbro adaptations, which are believed to be the start of a new shared universe that can take advantage of using the other Hasbro properties. Nothing has been confirmed nor denied about this yet, and Bumblebee's less-than-stellar box office revenue which was even lower than ''The Last Knight'' could mean that it'll be some time before the next Transformers movie comes out. It's been officially confirmed that diminishing global box office returns since 2014 have put the Transformers movies series on hold, ''both'' Bay-verse and Knight-verse.

After some speculation caused by the film's various continuity errors to it's precedessors, ''Bumblebee'''s positive reception led Hasbro to reboot the film franchise, and future films will continue it's storyline instead if the ones set up in these films, and will not be part of the same universe as these films; as such, ''The Last Knight'' is the final film of this film series, leaving its {{Cliffhanger}} ending unresolved about Unicron waking up and starting global cataclysms such as earthquakes, tsunamis and tornadoes before he emerges to eat Cybertron.

In March 2015, it was announced that the future of the franchise will see it [[FollowTheLeader follow the examples of]] [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Marvel]], [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse DC]], and ''Franchise/StarWars'' in that an entire ''[[SharedUniverse Transformers Cinematic Universe]]'' will be forged, overseen by Bay, Spielberg, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, and writer Akiva Goldsman. However, following the underperformance of ''The Last Knight'', plans changed and the sixth film in the series was removed from Paramount's release schedule. In February 2018, it was rumored that while the ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' film will be released as planned, the 6th film has been cancelled and the franchise will be "reset", supposedly without Bay's involvement. It's been speculated that this "reset" will be in-line with Paramount's other Hasbro adaptations, which are believed to be the start of a new shared universe that can take advantage of using the other Hasbro properties. Nothing has been confirmed nor denied about this yet, and Bumblebee's less-than-stellar box office revenue which was even lower than ''The Last Knight'' could mean that it'll be some time before the next Transformers movie comes out.

After some speculation caused by the film's various continuity errors to it's precedessors, ''Bumblebee'''s positive reception led Hasbro to reboot the film franchise, and future films will continue it's storyline instead if the ones set up in these films, and will not be part of the same universe as these films; as such, ''The Last Knight'' is the final film of this film series, leaving its CliffhangerEnding unresolved about Unicron waking up.