I’d blame the Writer’s Strike. DOTM was pretty much what ROTF could’ve been if the strike never happened.

Still not great, but still more bearable to watch.

 

Adding to the list up top:

1. When Megatron thaws and instantly resumes his mission.
2. When the Fallen lifts everything off the ground.
3. When Sentinel Prime says, "We were never going to win the war."
4. When that long-ass gun comes out of Lockdown.
5. When Dragonstorm attacks the Saxtons.

 

Blackout's first introduction in the 2007 movie

Devastator's transformation, even that alone in ROTF was amazing. (props to the CGI crew for doing it all)

The ROTF comic too is what ROTF was going to be: (it even has Megatron as a triple-changer) but I agree.

 

It might have been said already, but there's a real sense of dread when Megatron's sword gun thing goes through Prime's chest in ROTF.

 

When Lockdown walks towards the camera and the knight ship is emerging from the fog

 

I can't believe no one has mentioned Cybertron engulfing the ISS (good luck and godspeed) and then LITERALLY SCRAPING NATIONS AWAY.

That was nuts .

 

When the box office totals came in for TLK.

 

Lennox in TLK: "Yea, it's all bad news."

 

We ended tlk with a cooled earth core and a planet on our planet. Doesn't get much more fucked than that.

 

And that is my headcanon why we never get a sequel. Earth loses it's atmosphere, and Unicron goes offline permanently.

 

True, thanks to Unicron litterly being Earth's core, we depend on him being alive for us to be alive as he's the source of our magnetic field. No magnetic field, no atmosphere.

Though the creditscene showed him still waking up.

 

But the credits scene also showed magic power god shit thingo telling some poor science man how to kill unicorn boy

 

 

And that was most likely what they intended for the sequel; To prevent Quintessa The Great Deceiver, who wants you to think she's a god when she's not, from destroying Unicron and Earth.

 

We could’ve still gotten a Cybertron adventure story with the Autobots..

But nice idea

 

Also Cybertron is sat on earth. Even with Unicron alive, the gravity of earth is now screwed up. The cooled core will cause a slowly day rotation so our climate and gravity is extra screwed. So whatever happens, no sequel. No humans.