Galloway: Purposeful?

[Professor Fate]

I liked the Galloway character in ROTF, and personally, I saw an edge there that may pop up in the next film. Here's how I see it:

Let's say Galloway cozies up to the president somehow, and gets some kind of act passed that forces the Autobots to leave the planet. They go, but it's only so Galloway's men won't be stopped from rounding up fallen Decepticons, near dead, to experiment on. They hope to extract the secret to their weapons (like D 9) and secretly operate their experiments toward creating a superweapon under the codename Project: Unicron.

Unconventional, but that's how much potential I see in that character.

[Bot Girl]

A good plan, Professor, but only 1 problem. The president would only be able to ban them from the US, he doesn't run the entire world. Galloway would have to have cozied up with NATO or the UN.

[Trailbreaker]

Considering that they were proven wrong about the Decepticons coming to Earth solely for getting revenge on the Autobots, I think the president would change his mind about NEST.

[Professor Fate]

A good plan, Professor, but only 1 problem. The president would only be able to ban them from the US, he doesn't run the entire world. Galloway would have to have cozied up with NATO or the UN.

That is a good point, but for some reason, most of the Autobots do operate in America, though NEST is a global operation. Also, I got a large part of this idea from the following quote:

Galloway (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382632/): So let me ask: If we ultimately conclude that our national security is best served by denying you further asylum on our planet, will you leave peacefully?
Optimus Prime (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0191520/): Freedom is your right. If you make that request, we will honour it. But before your President decides, please ask him this: What if we leave, and you're wrong?

[CesarCardoso]

i like the idea of the humans turning on the autobots out of fear and making the autobots go into hiding.

[Bot Girl]

i like the idea of the humans turning on the autobots out of fear and making the autobots go into hiding.

Oh but that's been done in sooooooo many movies already! (XMen, etc)

[Trailbreaker]

Oh but that's been done in sooooooo many movies already! (XMen, etc)
But we can push it to the next level by making people afraid of technology in general.

[Ed Fuego]

While I agree that idea has been done before, I think after the last movie, when so much of the transformers was revealed to the world (the fallen's transmission), I think it's the only way to get the Transformers world back into the realm of "hiding in plain sight", "more than meets the eye", "robots in disguise", etc., which I think should be the major theme of a Transformers movie. To me, that is a core element of Transformers.

So if people become scared (and they should be, given an alien race shows up, and the alien race has the ability to hide themselves as cars, planes, microwaves, even people), it could set up an interesting story of how they exist on this planet in the face of the fear they cause. Obviously, the autobots are not interested in hurting people, but the decepticons are, and their infiltration could be very interesting. Both sides would face challenges, and although I wouldn't be interested in an "X-Men: United" story of the two sides teaming up, having the autobots facing the challenge of both the decepticons and humans would be cool.

Ed Fuego

[Professor Fate]

That's similar to what I was thinking. The Autobots could be hunted for a change, which would give the story an edge, and make Sam, Michaela, Leo, and Simmons more of outcasts. They could leave the planet, then find some reason to return to save the Earth even though they've been scorned.

I like the Autobots as the underdogs simply because in ROTF, they just seemed ahead from the beginning, like they could kill any Decepticon they found, and though they lost their leader, I still did not question that they would succeed. It would be nice to have some doubts, a reason to say "Oh, sh#t! What're we gonna do now?!"

[CesarCardoso]

While I agree that idea has been done before, I think after the last movie, when so much of the transformers was revealed to the world (the fallen's transmission), I think it's the only way to get the Transformers world back into the realm of "hiding in plain sight", "more than meets the eye", "robots in disguise", etc., which I think should be the major theme of a Transformers movie. To me, that is a core element of Transformers.

So if people become scared (and they should be, given an alien race shows up, and the alien race has the ability to hide themselves as cars, planes, microwaves, even people), it could set up an interesting story of how they exist on this planet in the face of the fear they cause. Obviously, the autobots are not interested in hurting people, but the decepticons are, and their infiltration could be very interesting. Both sides would face challenges, and although I wouldn't be interested in an "X-Men: United" story of the two sides teaming up, having the autobots facing the challenge of both the decepticons and humans would be cool.

Ed Fuego

I second that...

[diaboli666]

the idea is pretty good, i can see that in the third film

[the_almighty_moo]

i could imagine people looking at thier cars abd even thier basic of electrical appliances and wonder if they would suddenly turn into a robot and kill them.

galloway could use that fear against them to remove them or make them go on the run

[CesarCardoso]

I would also like to see a group o Bots and Cons get tired of fighting and leave earth. Specially some autobots who get fed up with being mistaken for the enemy and attacked by the humans.