Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Transformers AOE film informatics Part 44B: Minor Decepticons


ALICE
Alice
is the kind of girl you wish you met in college. She's pretty, has... prominent mammalian characteristics, is incredibly forward about what she wants, and lives next door to Leo Spitz and Sam Witwicky in Hamilton Hall. She's really interested in Sam. It's a bit suspicious, really; maybe she's just pretending? Eventually she is revealed to be a Decepticon Pretender sent from the Decepticons to get the information that Sam has when he came in contact with the fragment of the AllSpark, and she is killed by a very jealous Mikaela Banes, who used her car to ram her into a lamp post, and grind what's left of her metal corpse with the car tyres.


IGOR
A deformed Decepticon that scurries about Megatron at his base in Africa, he is actually the modified severed head of Long Haul, who was killed in the previous film. Megatron has a vague recollection of the head having used to belong to one of his soldiers, but the possibility doesn't interest him enough for him to invest much thought into it. He is last seen eating the head of the Abraham Lincoln statue in Lincoln Memorial.


HATCHLINGS
Hatchlings are the first stage of life for Cybertronians. Unprogrammed protoforms held in small sacs, they require regular doses of Energon to survive. If their sac is breached before the end of the gestation process, they will case to exist.


WATCH-BOT
Watch-Bot is a minor Decepticon present in Dark of the Moon. It can affix itself to a host around the wrist and gives the appearance of a regular looking wristwatch. However, once it has tapped into the central nervous system, it can control its host, as well as observe and record any data the host sees and hears. Once it has finished gathering intelligence, it drops off and scurries back to the Decepticon base to report.