What do you all think would have happened for him to be killed off in the first movie and how would that have changed the plot?

 

In addition to Jazz? Pointless edgelord attempt at an emotional impact. The center of the movie is Sam's relationship to Bumblebee and how that friendship leads him to become a better person. Killing him off is tone deaf and pretty much kills any chance to continue the story.

 

Hmm, maybe instead of Jazz? Bumblebee dies the same death as he does.

 

There's always Hot Shot.

Yeah, Sam's story would be over pretty fast.

 

Even then it still doesn't make sense. Bumblebee is supposed to be Sam's guardian. Why would he run off to fight Megatron one-on-one and then stupidly get himself ripped in half? It doesn't fit with his characterization or his job. Ideally Jazz is a character that would have stuck around too, but him dying makes sense in the movie to prove there's actually some stakes for the Autobots. But there is no reason to off Bumblebee, it's like killing Luke, Han, or Leia in A New Hope instead of Obi-Wan.

 

Maybe some alternate scene then. Jazz’s death scene was funny and satisfying.

 

That's an interesting way to look at it.

 

Then he'd be dead.

 

As problematic as the bayverse is, that would definitely defeat the purpose of any more films. . .

 

I would say it depends on exactly when in the story he gets killed. If he dies early on before team Prime arrives then I'd say the cons win. If he dies later on in mission city but after he gives Sam the cube the bots still win.I believe other than killing off Brawl his actions hardly had any meaningful impact on the outcome of the fight. Of course if he died while he was captured by S7 then I think the Decepticons would've still gotten the cube. You see he is a very important character in the first movie.

 

I think for the sake of the story if we want the Autobots to win he'd die later off. Though if the cons win, it would be very interesting to see a movie about the remaining Autobots under the shadows rebelling against them.

 

It'd be pointless and franchise suicide.

And IF they for some reason made that stupid decision, they'd have to correct it by reviving him somehow in the sequel.

 

Bumblebee was more like the main robot character. Killing him off means the new low worse than 15% on rotten tomatoes it be like 6%

 

I think there wouldn't be any surviving Autobots.

 

It would never have happened, Bumblebee was tied to the marketing campaign for the Camaro. You know GM made damn sure that car was in the last shot of the film, looking pristine.

 

Barricade would join the autobots.

 

I think It'd be an interesting approach. However, Sam to me had more relationship with Optimus more than Bumblebee for the most part. However Bee still had an impact on sam, So it may or may not be a wise decision.

 

If they killed Bumblebee off in the first movie, he'd just get replaced by an identical bot named Hot Shot in the very next movie. Back in 2007, Bumblebee hadn't been a major Transformers character in twenty years, so killing him off wouldn't be as unthinkable then as it is today.

 

What if Transformers fans got over their disturbing fixation with killing off kid-appeal characters and human children in TF media?

 

That implies Transformers fans actually get over stuff, which they never do!