History Characters / Bumblebee

Leader of the Terrorcons. Scourge is the most fearsome hunter in the universe and commands his Terrorcons to pillage and leave chaos in their wake, to continue their mission to conquer thousands of worlds under Unicron's command

The [[BigGood main]] [[TheHero protagonist]] of the film series. The leader of the Autobot Resistance, Optimus Prime is the one to send Bumblebee to earth, while holding off the Decepticon forces as long as he can so that the Autobots can escape. He survives the fall of Cybertron but his location was unknown, forcing the Decepticons to hunt down every Autobot they could find to force them to give him up. [[UndyingLoyalty None of them give in.]]

* BigBad: He is the ultimate main antagonist of the film series (in the rebooted continuity, that is) as he seeks to destroy everything that exists to obtain "peace" in his own twisted way and to become the most omnipotent force in the Multiverse by using the energy from the ecosystems he's ingested throughout the millennia.

The main human lead, Charlie Watson is an ordinary, though withdrawn, 18-year-old girl from Brighton Falls, CA, who after fixing up a run-down Volkswagen Beetle, discovers the car is actually an amnesic alien robot. Immediately she bonds with the scared Autobot, gifting him the name Bumblebee, and together they help one-another heal from their respective traumas. Charlie has recently lost her father, and with her mother having already moved on she feels alone in her grief until Bumblebee arrives, problems accentuated by her difficulty in finishing the corvette her father was restoring, her money troubles thanks to a low-paying dead-end job, and the antagonism she receives from local bullies.

* TheJuggernaut: Scourge was empowered by Unicron to be nearly unstoppable, and true enough he barely takes any damage most of the movie and it ultimately takes [[spoiler:Prime heavily damaging him using the Transwarp Tower's machinery and lava to wear him down enough to kill him. Even then, he doesn't die until Prime tears his head off.]]

* TheSociopath: Start with him being a loyal henchman of the ''Transformers'' franchise-wide equivalent of [[{{Satan}}]] himself, then add him seeing other Cybertronians and all other life forms as [[StrawNihilist meaningless]], follow these up with a serious urge to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy other planets by allowing his master to devour them]], then top it all off with killing his victims, stealing their insignias to keep as his trophies, and attempting to murder those who get in his way all without showing any amounts of remorse by doing so, and you have one of the most irritating and [[BeyondRedemption unredeemable]] villains in the entire live-action film series.

** [[TheFundamentalist Religious Fanaticism]]: The Terrorcon leader sees Unicron as his god, referring to him as 'his lord' and worshipping him as a result, akin to Satanism. To him, Unicron is his patron deity, and he believes that his reprehensible actions through much of ''Rise of The Beasts'' are morally justified. [[spoiler: This is what results in him, despite obviously losing the battle against the combined forces of the Autobots, the Maximals and the humans, destroying the tower's key console, to ensure that Unicron gets to Earth to claim it as his and to fulfill his goal of destroying Earth and exterminating all life on it. In doin so, however, he unwittingly gives Prime an upper hand during his final battle.]] This flaw, along with the aforementioned four flaws as listed above, ultimately results in [[spoiler: his demise and defeat, as well as his efforts falling apart, as Optimus Prime subjects him to a painful and vicious end to his life as he tears off his arms, stabs him through the head and rips it off with the spine, with the Autobot having every reason to be irate towards him.]]