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** To make matters worse, much of the film's first half takes place in New Jersey where Sam's attending college, relatively close to New York City in fact. After killing Optimus, Megatron and Starscream retreat to New York and are seen arguing atop the Gas Company Tower, which is located in Los Angeles. One can clearly make out the Los Angeles skyline as the camera pans around the two, having somehow tried to pass of LA as a stand-in for NYC. Why is anybody's guess.
** Also, the team meets Jetfire who's remained dormant and hidden as an SR-71 Blackbird in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center close to Dulles Airport in Virginia; when he departs the building, he stumbles into an aircraft boneyard where retired planes await disposal; no such airfield exists anywhere on the East Coast, let alone behind the Udvar-Hazy Center.
** Also, the team meets Jetfire who's remained dormant and hidden as an SR-71 Blackbird in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center close to Dulles Airport in Virginia; when he departs the building, he stumbles into an aircraft boneyard where retired planes await disposal; no such airfield exists anywhere on the East Coast, let alone behind the Udvar-Hazy Center.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[spoiler:"Alice" is a Transformer that A) is not giant, and B) [[ParanoiaFuel can literally look like humans]]. Worse yet, she acts in this capacity ''as a Decepticon, [[AdultFear directly luring/pressing Sam into bed so she can attack him]]''. You would think the fact that '''Megatron has shapeshifting Terminators capable of seducing and sexually assaulting human beings on his payroll''' would cause some serious turning of heads as to just how dangerous these robots really are, but she barely gets any mention after Sam and Mikaela kick her ass.]]
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[spoiler:"Alice" is a Transformer that A) is not giant, and B) [[ParanoiaFuel can literally look like humans]]. Worse yet, she acts in this capacity ''as a Decepticon, [[AdultFear directly luring/pressing Sam into bed so she can attack him]]''. You would think the fact that '''Megatron has shapeshifting Terminators capable of seducing and sexually assaulting human beings on his payroll''' would cause some serious turning of heads as to just how dangerous these robots really are, but she barely gets any mention after Sam and Mikaela kick her ass.]] Granted, Pretenders are a thing in the original cartoons, but still…]]
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[spoiler:"Alice" is a Transformer that A) is not giant, and B) [[ParanoiaFuel can literally look like humans]]. Worse yet, she acts in this capacity ''as a Decepticon, directly luring Sam into bed so she can attack him''. You would think the fact that Megatron has '''shapeshifting Terminators capable of seduction and sexual assault of human beings''' on his payroll would cause some serious turning of heads as to just how dangerous these robots really are, but she barely gets any mention after Sam and Mikaela kick her ass.]]
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[spoiler:"Alice" is a Transformer that A) is not giant, and B) [[ParanoiaFuel can literally look like humans]]. Worse yet, she acts in this capacity ''as a Decepticon, [[AdultFear directly luring luring/pressing Sam into bed so she can attack him''. him]]''. You would think the fact that Megatron '''Megatron has '''shapeshifting shapeshifting Terminators capable of seduction seducing and sexual assault of sexually assaulting human beings''' beings on his payroll payroll''' would cause some serious turning of heads as to just how dangerous these robots really are, but she barely gets any mention after Sam and Mikaela kick her ass.]]
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-->'''Robert Epps:''' If God made us in his image, [[Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction who made him?]] (Reffering to Optimus)
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-->'''Robert Epps:''' If God made us in his image, [[Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinctionwho made him?]] (Reffering to Optimus)
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* BrassBalls: Devastator. Clearly we didn't roll our eyes loudly enough when Bay pulled it in the first movie.
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* BrassBalls: Devastator. Clearly we didn't roll our eyes loudly enough Devastator has two giant wrecking balls in a very suspicious area when Bay pulled it in the first movie.combined.
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* NamesTheSame: There is a real government group also called NEST, which stands for Nuclear Emergency Support Team.
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* NamesTheSame: There is a real government group also called NEST, which stands for Nuclear Emergency Support Team.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: According to this film, the Pentagon is in Washington D.C., not Virginia. Egypt and Jordan share a border (there's a little country named Israel), the Pyramids are portrayed as being in walking distance of the Sphinx (close, but not quite), the Valley of the Kings (thousands of miles away) and Petra (in a completely different country).
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: According to this film, the Pentagon is in Washington D.C., not Virginia. Egypt and Jordan share a border (there's a little country named Israel), Israel between them), the Pyramids are portrayed as being in walking distance of the Sphinx (close, but not quite), the Valley of the Kings (thousands of miles away) and Petra (in a completely different country).
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* [[{{MarijuanaIsLSD}} Marijuana Is Meth]]: The mom buys some pot brownies (openly on a crowded college campus in the middle of the day), eats them, and proceeds to run wild, at one point tackling a stranger from behind to the ground and hitting on her husband after he pins her to the ground. Apparently the writers took the movie Film/ReeferMadness as a serious documentary on pot.
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* FandomNod: Leo and co. are basically pitch-perfect parodies of some of the more extreme bloggers any fandom can pick up.
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* PromotedFanboy: Josh Nizzi created a fan design for a movie-based Long Haul, which was so good he was brought to Hasbro and eventually to the actual film production team. In addition to Long Haul being the first new design approved for ''ROTF'', he ended up designing Jetfire, the new Megatron and [[spoiler:Powered-Up Optimus Prime.]]
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* PromotedFanboy: Josh Nizzi created a fan design PostAsskickingOneLiner: After Jetfire takes care of Mixmaster and [[spoiler: Scorponok rips through his torso, he's still able to crush his head.]] he delivers this gem, "I'm too old for a movie-based Long Haul, which was so good he was brought to Hasbro and eventually to the actual film production team. In addition to Long Haul being the first new design approved for ''ROTF'', he ended up designing Jetfire, the new Megatron and [[spoiler:Powered-Up Optimus Prime.]]this crap.
** Also Sideswipe's "Damn I'm good."
** Also Sideswipe's "Damn I'm good."
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* ViralMarketing: Rival conspiracy websites mentioned in the film [[http://www.therealeffingdeal.com really]] [[http://www.gianteffingrobots.com/ exist]].
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Two years after the first movie, more robots on both sides gather to Earth. The Autobots are working alongside Human Special Forces from around the world to deal with the Decepticon arrivals while Sam is heading off to college. Because of leftover elements of the first film, Sam has secrets of Cybertronian history downloaded into his subconscious mind, including the location of an ancient power source left on Earth by a Transformer known as The Fallen.
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Two years after the first movie, more robots on both sides gather to Earth. The the Autobots are working alongside Human Special Forces from around the world to deal with the random Decepticon arrivals while arrivals. Sam is heading off to college. Because of leftover elements college and has to deal with saying goodbye to Mikaela and encourages Bumblebee to return to the Autobots full time. But when Sam uncovers a fragment of the first film, Sam Allspark, he has secrets of Cybertronian history downloaded into his subconscious mind, including the location of an ancient power source energon harvester left on Earth by a Transformer ancient Transformers, the Seven Primes and the founders of their civilization. One of those Primes, known as The Fallen.Fallen, is [[TheManBehindTheMan the secret mentor]] to Megatron.
When another Allspark fragment revives Megatron, Sam becomes a target so that they can locate one of the most sacred of Cybertronian artifacts, and key to the Harvester, the Matrix of Leadership.
When another Allspark fragment revives Megatron, Sam becomes a target so that they can locate one of the most sacred of Cybertronian artifacts, and key to the Harvester, the Matrix of Leadership.
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* ShoutOut: No matter its use, the ammo-less electro magnetic weapon nicknamed a rail gun that resides on an aircraft carrier matches the description, and fires in an almost identical way, to the MacGuffin weapons in ''Film/{{Eraser}}''. Makes it somewhat more acceptable knowing that.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** One to ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', the Decepticon meteorites striking Paris, along with people running from collapsing buildings.
** No matter its use, the ammo-less electro magnetic weapon nicknamed a rail gun that resides on an aircraft carrier matches the description, and fires in an almost identical way, to the MacGuffin weapons in ''Film/{{Eraser}}''. Makes it somewhat more acceptable knowing that.
** One to ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', the Decepticon meteorites striking Paris, along with people running from collapsing buildings.
** No matter its use, the ammo-less electro magnetic weapon nicknamed a rail gun that resides on an aircraft carrier matches the description, and fires in an almost identical way, to the MacGuffin weapons in ''Film/{{Eraser}}''. Makes it somewhat more acceptable knowing that.
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* TheLoad: Sam himself acts very much as The Load to the rest of the Transformers. His only purpose is to have a head (and later, a sock) full of the {{Macguffin}} and to get it where it needs to go, and since that job requires him to run across a battlefield full of giant robots....
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->"Imagine that you went back in time to the late 1960s and found Creator/TerryGilliam, fresh from doing his weird low-fi collage/animations for Monty Python. You proceeded to inject Gilliam with so many steroids his penis shrank to the size of a hair follicle, and you smushed a dozen tabs of LSD under his tongue. And then you gave him the GDP of a few sub-Saharan countries. Gilliam might have made a movie not unlike this one."
-->'''Charlie Jane Anders''', ''[[http://io9.com/5301898/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie Michael Bay Finally Made an Art Movie]]''
-->'''Charlie Jane Anders''', ''[[http://io9.com/5301898/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie Michael Bay Finally Made an Art Movie]]''
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-->'''Charlie Jane Anders''', ''[[http://io9.com/5301898/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie Michael Bay Finally Made an Art Movie]]''
-->-- '''Sgt. Epps''' (musing about Optimus Prime)
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->''"Gotta wonder... if God made us in his image, who made him?"''
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-->'''Charlie Jane Anders''', ''[[http://io9.com/5301898/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie Michael Bay Finally Made an Art Movie]]''
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** The Fallen's only apparent reason for wanting to destroy Earth and starting the war that destroyed his homeworld was a general and strong hatred for humanity. Considering on his first encounter they were as dangerous to him as ants are to humans, one can only wonder.
** Megatron on the other hand, has a more justifiable reason. [[Film/{{Transformers}} He was kept frozen for centuries, and his body was poked, prodded and studied by the guys at Sector 7, in order to help create modern technology, whilst referring to him with the demeaning acronym of "N. B. E.-01"]]. And [[WordOfGod apparently]], he was [[AndIMustScream conscious the entire time this was happening]].
** The Fallen's only apparent reason for wanting to destroy Earth and starting the war that destroyed his homeworld was a general and strong hatred for humanity. Considering on his first encounter they were as dangerous to him as ants are to humans, one can only wonder.
** Megatron on the other hand, has a more justifiable reason. [[Film/{{Transformers}} He was kept frozen for centuries, and his body was poked, prodded and studied by the guys at Sector 7, in order to help create modern technology, whilst referring to him with the demeaning acronym of "N. B. E.-01"]]. And [[WordOfGod apparently]], he was [[AndIMustScream conscious the entire time this was happening]].
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** Optimus Prime tears The Fallen's face off of his robotic skull before punching through his chest and tearing out (and crushing) his spark core. As The Fallen's eyes flicker off, he sags to the ground, [[SymbolicBlood liquid metal dripping out of his mouth]]. As this happens, Optimus proclaims: "[[BondOneLiner I rise, you fall]]." Granted, The Fallen had been trying to use a Solar Harvester to drain the energy of Earth's sun and Optimus [[PapaWolf was defending the world]], but that doesn't change the gruesomeness of The Fallen's death.
** Ravage's death at Bumblebee's hands-in slow motion his SPINE is ripped out, goo hanging off it, then used as a club. Or even Grindor's robo-brains spraying all over the forest when his head is ripped in two by Optimus.
** And Jetfire crushing Scorponok's head flat with his fist. Devastator being blown into at least a dozen pieces by the railgun.
** Optimus Prime tears The Fallen's face off of his robotic skull before punching through his chest and tearing out (and crushing) his spark core. As The Fallen's eyes flicker off, he sags to the ground, [[SymbolicBlood liquid metal dripping out of his mouth]]. As this happens, Optimus proclaims: "[[BondOneLiner I rise, you fall]]." Granted, The Fallen had been trying to use a Solar Harvester to drain the energy of Earth's sun and Optimus [[PapaWolf was defending the world]], but that doesn't change the gruesomeness of The Fallen's death.
** Ravage's death at Bumblebee's hands-in slow motion his SPINE is ripped out, goo hanging off it, then used as a club. Or even Grindor's robo-brains spraying all over the forest when his head is ripped in two by Optimus.
** And Jetfire crushing Scorponok's head flat with his fist. Devastator being blown into at least a dozen pieces by the railgun.
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* DemotedToExtra: [[spoiler: In which Arcee [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/Transformers__Revenge_of_the_Fallen_2009.aspx?Page=6 gets blown up real good]]. This after much expectation that she would actually do something of note.]] Ironhide and the other Autobots from the first movie, except for Bumblebee and Optimus, of course, share something of a total of 10 lines between the lot of them. Meanwhile, these [[OneSceneWonder memorable characters]] were replaced with [[TheScrappy the Twins]].
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* DeusExMachina: The film has a classic example. When Devastator climbs the pyramid, Simmons [[spoiler: manages to somehow contact a nearby warship captain on a hand radio and convinces him to use a "railgun" super weapon. This weapon obliterates Devastator and yet was not mentioned previously in either of the two movies, nor was it used again. It seems like a pretty handy weapon to have and even of a superior technology to that of The Transformers. It also seems odd that it was not used again, since The Fallen stands in the exact same place only a few moments later.]]
** To a lesser extent, The Matrix of Leadership might also be considered a Deus Ex Machina [[spoiler: as near the end it is revealed that this tool which is used to power a super weapon, is also the only thing that can bring Optimus Prime (and Sam) back to life.]]
** An almost literal example of the classic meaning in ''Revenge of the Fallen''. When [[spoiler: Sam dies at the end of the film, he is pretty clearly dead. Resuscitation isn't working, the medic calls it, this is one downer of an ending as our hero is dead and gone. Then, we are suddenly transported to some sort of weird robot FluffyCloudHeaven, where the original Primes tell him he has earned the Matrix of Leadership, and he comes back to life.]]
** To a lesser extent, The Matrix of Leadership might also be considered a Deus Ex Machina [[spoiler: as near the end it is revealed that this tool which is used to power a super weapon, is also the only thing that can bring Optimus Prime (and Sam) back to life.]]
** An almost literal example of the classic meaning in ''Revenge of the Fallen''. When [[spoiler: Sam dies at the end of the film, he is pretty clearly dead. Resuscitation isn't working, the medic calls it, this is one downer of an ending as our hero is dead and gone. Then, we are suddenly transported to some sort of weird robot FluffyCloudHeaven, where the original Primes tell him he has earned the Matrix of Leadership, and he comes back to life.]]
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Really isn\'t the same at all.
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* {{Catapult}}: The missile on Soundwave's toy is actually [[PantheraAwesome Ravage]].
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It\'s not the Great Pyramid (Khufu\'s), but its little brother to the side.
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* SayMyName: In addition to screaming for Optimus, Sam calls out for Bumblebee no less than three times. Advanced alien robots might have superior hearing, but maybe he's trying to be heard over all the explosions (or Sam just has tinnitus).
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* MsFanservice: Mikaela Banes, not surprising considering she's played by Megan Fox, she shows more skin in this movie than in the last film, her clothing mainly in this film consists of sleveeless shirts and dresses
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* SpotlightStealingSquad: Optimus? Megatron? Most of the movie focuses on [[TheScrappy Sam, Mikaela, Leo and the Twins]]. To be fair, Bumblebee gets just as much screen time, but this is [[AccentuateTheNegative often overlooked by the fans]] since he doesn't speak much.
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