How Michael Bay’s Transformers Redeemed The Franchise’s Weirdest Toyline
With the inclusion of Alice (Isabel Lucas) in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Michael Bay's movies redeemed the franchise's weirdest toyline: the Pretenders. While the movie was not particularly well received and won the Razzie for Worst Picture, Alice's inclusion was a great moment for fans of the series and viewers alike. The result was that it brought a level of modernity to that line of the robots in disguise.
Introduced in 1988 as part of the «G1» line in Marvel Comics UK, and adapted into the IDW and Super-God Masterforce continuities in subsequent years, the Pretenders focused on Transformers that could cover themselves in synthetic organic shells to hide the robot. Thus, they commonly took the form of human beings and would live like regular citizens until they had to attack. The shells on the tie-in action figures were removed from the front and back to reveal the robot within. Unfortunately, this line of Transformers was also met with confusion by many fans who didn't understand the purpose they fulfilled, and so wouldn't hide the real robotic characters within properly. Additionally, the subsequent waves of the Pretenders came with several quality issues, and were quickly written off. Ultimately, it was one of the Transformers' weirdest and least successful subtoylines, but Michael Bay's Transformers movie somewhat redeems it.
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In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Alice plays a Pretender Decepticon who infiltrates the college attended by Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf). Like her comic/action figure counterpart, her robot self is also disguised by a synthetic organic tissue. However, the movie elevates the concept of the Pretenders and redeems their
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