Sam Witwicky: Hero or Colossal Douche?

[Data Holmes]

The second movie suggested they operated in secret. Sam's roommate ran some-sort-of operation in their dorm room (with a Mt. Dew machine in it) that dealt in trying to reveal these things happening.

Things that at that point in the movie involved a battle between two factions of stories high robots in downtown L.A. (the first movie) and a very high-profile "covert" operation in a foreign country.

I'm guessing that by the end of the second movie the existence of the Transformers was much more established fact and thus a bit more debatable topic. You could probably argue that that universe's President Obama revealed it to everyone, but in-movie dialogue tells us that the government even had equipment set-up to thwart the Decepticons. Perhaps the measure that needed to be taken to curb the Decepticon activity became more than the government could conceal and thus they went public with everything.

It was all covered up under the guise of the "war on terror".

 

[MNM]

and in the IDW G1 based ongoing he's a badass Army Major who killed a Constructicon ON FOOT!

and in that comic he is defiantely a douche.

 

[God Magnus]

and in the IDW G1 based ongoing he's a badass Army Major who killed a Constructicon ON FOOT!

and in that comic he is defiantely a douche.

In that comic series almost EVERY character is a douche.

 

[Trekker4747]

Okay, I'm in the process of watching TF3 on BD, with the Rifftrax, and really it's hard for me to see Shia LeBouf as any kind of likable character on any level whatsoever.

A large percentage of his lines are just him screaming or stammering like a coked-up howler monkey. The rest of the time he's an asshole to his parents, to his girlfriend, to the military or to his cars.

Ugh.