Transformers: The Movie/Tear Jerker

• Admit it, you cried when Optimus Prime died.
  • "Until that day...til all...are one." Those last four words would recur in numerous Transformers series, bordering on Arc Words for the whole mythos.
  • Optimus's death actually had kids walking out of theatres crying, refusing food and locking themselves in their rooms. Serious shit.
• Many are likely to disagree, but the truth is, it wasn't Optimus' death in the movie that moved me to tears, it was Megatron's. The first time I watched the show as a kid, Megatron had always seemed so strong and menacing, a Nightmare Fuel character to the hilt. To see him humbled so and then abandoned was expected for the den of evil that is the very definition of the Decepticons in the G1 cartoon. What is truly inspiring is that this powerful figure, reduced to such a pathetic state, has no choice but to plead for help. After which, Soundwave picks him up and carries him, saying, "As you command." Soundwave has never had a better moment.
  • I partially agree, but in a different sense. It's more the way Optimus Prime just calmly picks up his rifle as he's about to do the deed. One of the greatest rivalries in animation, about to be ended in a manner far more reminiscent of someone putting down a rabid dog (which a baby-killer like Megatron actually is, really). Though the way Prime blows off Megatron's pleas for mercy still make it a Crowning Moment of Awesome.
    • Not to mention the music in that scene was AWESOME.
• Seeing the Autobots getting slaughtered on the shuttle, with one of them (Ironhide, if I remember correctly) begging for mercy before getting his head blowed off.
  • Actually, rather than begging for mercy, that might have been something of a Crowning Moment of Awesome for Ironhide, the Autobot in question. His friends have just been killed in front of him, he's barely holding on to life but then Megatron gives his grand villain monologue about how he's going to use the shuttle to destroy the Autobots on Earth. Ironhide then grabs Megatron's leg, giving a weak but defiant "No!", still trying to stop him and save his friends. Which makes Megatron's statement of "Such heroic nonsense", followed by casually killing Ironhide, even more chilling.
• It was Prowl's horrific death that brought me to tears due to two things: One, Prowl was one of my favorites of the Autobots, and two, I was geting back into Transformers and watched the movie with him on tape, and having re-watched a few of the episodes again and seeing my favorite Autobot die... I nearly broke down in tears. Then Prime died a half hour later...
• The final scene of the movie after Hot Rod becomes Rodimus Prime after touching the Matrix. After inadvertantly causing Optimus's death, he fulfils his destiny and finally finds his redepmtion as Optimus says through the matrix: "ARISE, RODIMUS PRIME". Hot Rod can only do nothing but whisper "Optimus". Then proceeds to unload a can of whoopass on Galvatron and destroy Unicron from the inside as well. Tears of awesomeness for sure, especially with the music track which was most appropriate.
• The deleted scene where Ultra Magnus leads most of the characters who didnt show up in the movie (sideswipe,Inferno, Red Alert etc.) to stop Devastator. They blow him up and force him to split into constructicons. The autobots, being outnumbered and having used up their weapons flee, but scavenger (the constructicon who killed Prowl!) shoots Red Alert in the back. Inferno cries out to his best friend, but Ultra Magnus holds him back. Finally Inferno transforms and flees with the others. (this scene was deleted so hey Maybe red's alive)
  • Another storyboard shows that Megatron was laughing at Red Alert's demise. (That's what he was looking at when Optimus comes to fight him. Anyway, the gun Megatron used to kill Prime was Red Alert's!there was a deleted shot that showed red collapsed in front of Optimus and megatron during the fight. You can tell that he dragged himself over there and dropped his gun when his spark gave out.