History Film / TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen

* Fingore: [[spoiler: After temporarily killing Sam]], Megatron takes a tank round to the arm that blows off a chunk of his hand. It doesn't really affect him, since he can just have it repaired later, though an onslaught of suppressing fire forces him to retreat.

* PyrrhicVictory: The forest battle ends as one for Megatron. He did succeed in [[spoiler: crippling Optimus bad enough to remain immobile and unconscious]], but the point of the battle was to collect Sam and cut him open. Sam still got away thanks to Autobot reinforcements. Also, Megatron lost Grindor, who was one of his best soldiers on the battlefield. And so he gives [[TheScapegoat Starscream]] [[BadBoss another beating]].

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Starscream, of course. To his credit, Megatron also recognizes that he's lost and takes [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Starscream's advice]] after the Fallen's "face-off" against Optimus.

** Sideswipe's "[[Film/AceVenturaWhenNatureCalls Damn I'm good.]]"

** Sideswipe's "[[VideoGame/DukeNukem3D Damn I'm good.]]"

** 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 this crap.
** Sideswipe's "Damn I'm good."

* DummiedOut: Done indirectly with the Autobot motorcycle figures - leaving out the third one from the toyline resulted in two Autobot sisters with the components intended for a ''three-part'' mecha form.

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** In the video games made based on ROTF, Sideways, Demolishor and Ironhide all do much more than in the movie.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Megatron and The Fallen. Even if The Fallen is emphasized in the movie's title, Megatron himself serves as the bigger threat due to being far more powerful and even successfully extinguishes Optimus's spark midpoint in the movie thus leaving both the Autobots and humans powerless to stop the Decepticon invasion.

* YourCheatingHeart: Bumblebee actually plays the TropeNamer song to remind Sam of the trope when Sam is in the car with Alice.

** And Jetfire crushing Scorponok's head flat with his fist. And Devastator being blown into at least a dozen pieces by [[AssPull the railgun]] before falling down the Giza Pyramid and smashing apart on the ground.

** And Jetfire crushing Scorponok's head flat with his fist. Devastator being blown into at least a dozen pieces by the railgun.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Soundwave hacks a satellite and attempts to spy upon Sam to deduce his location.
* BigShutUp: Megatron's response to Sam pleading that he not harm Mikaela or Leo in the warehouse scene, accompanied by Megatron slamming Sam into a dissection table. He also delivers one to Starscream for talking too much on top of the skyscraper.
* {{Blackmail}}: Megatron and the Fallen send out a worldwide broadcast on all satellite televisions warning them that unless they turn over Sam Witwicky, they'll invade and destroy far more human cities by force. Just to remind the humans they're dead serious, they invade Paris, France and sink various US aircraft carriers. The FBI start working to locate Sam and label him as wanted. Major Lennox however is able to offset this blackmail by taking in Sam the U.S. Army's supervision and instructs them to protect Sam, not hand him over.

* 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.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: The Decepticons in the abyss looking to resurrect Megatron tear apart Scrapmetal to make up for missing parts on Megatron's body. Scrapmetal dies while emitting a BigNo.

** What becomes of Demolishor and Devastator. Optimus also gives Grindor an excruciating variation of this trope with Energon hooks.

* AHouseDivided: After Optimus is crippled (though not necessarily killed) by Megatron, the Autobots are leaderless and tensions rise between them and the human NEST authorities (including Lennox) as now nobody can agree on what to do without Optimus deciding for them. Ironhide and Lennox's armed men get into a scuffle when Ironhide [[BerserkButton sees a gun pointed at him]]. Ratchet even suggests leaving the planet altogether, but Ironhide outright points out Optimus wouldn't want that.

* MacGuffin: The Matrix of Leadership.

* AHouseDivided: After Optimus is crippled (though not necessarily killed) by Megatron, the Autobots are leaderless and tensions rise between them and the human NEST authorities (including Lennox). Ironhide and Lennox's armed men get into a scuffle when Ironhide [[BerserkButton sees a gun pointed at him]]. Ratchet even suggests leaving the planet altogether, but Ironhide outright retorts Optimus wouldn't want that.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Optimus bends Megatron's own fusion cannon to point at his face. Megatron fires anyway, blasting away half his face, before Optimus propels him with his rocket cannons. Megatron calls out for [[TheDragon Starscream]] to join the battle immediately, but Starscream refuses to fight claiming the battle's been lost. When Fallen produces his spear, Optimus immediately grabs it and impales him with it.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Optimus bends Megatron's own fusion cannon to point at his face. Megatron opens fire away, blasting away half his face, before Optimus propels him with his rocket cannons. Megatron calls out for [[TheDragon Starscream]] to join the battle immediately, but Starscream refuses to fight claiming the battle's been lost.

* BigShutUp: Megatron's response to Sam pleading that he not harm Mikaela or Leo in the warehouse scene, accompanied by Megatron slamming Sam into a dissection table.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Megatron and The Fallen. Even if The Fallen is emphasized in the movie's title, Megatron himself is the bigger threat due to being far more powerful.

* BoomHeadshot: How Optimus offs Demolisher.

* LittleNo: Megatron emits this while he's forced to Optimus kill the Fallen.

* OffWithHisHead: What becomes of Demolishor and Devastator. Optimus also gives Grindor an excruciating variation of this trope with Energon hooks.

* PresisionFStrike: When the team are attempting to revive [[spoiler: Sam]].

** 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 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).

** [[spoiler: 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.]]