Young teenager, Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.
This movie contains 27 potentially triggering events.
No. There is about a minute long sequence where Ironhide threatens to kill Sam’s dog for peeing on his foot, but the situation is de-escalated. It’s meant to be comedic.
Technically, Megatron performs a very crude amputation of Jazz's legs and pelvis from his body, and the military attempts to amputate all of Bumblebee from himself via the use of many wires.
Bumblebee is brutalized by Sector Seven agents during his capture. He is kept in a laboratory afterwards. The extent of what happens is unknown and offscreen, but it is distressing enough to cause Bumblebee to enter defense mode and threaten the agents with a blaster once freed.
Bonecrusher's eye comes loose in a slowmo shot during their battle with Optimus. Shown briefly, but if robot/transformer gore counts to you than be wary of Optimus' fight on the freeway with the robot who has a claw on his car form.
It’s mentioned there was an attack on a military base, which also had a local child there doing errands and there where no survivors, this is a fake out though. Other security personnel are shot at and presumably killed
There is an attack on a military base where they think there is no survivors, one of the men being a dad to a baby girl but is revealed to be alive shortly after as well as his team of men
SAFE! the other comment is about how a man kind of stutter-screams because of fear, that is NOT the audio of someone vomiting, the "disgusting" is because megatron expresses that he does not like humans, so dont worry!
No, but there is urine both when Mojo pees on Ironhide’s foot and when Bumblebee “lubricates” the Sector Seven agent in what is visually the same as peeing.
There is military-propaganda set in the Middle East where the US military are known to bomb and shoot brown civilians. There’s also a white saviour trope with a brown boy who is saved by military personnel. A group of black men also get SWATed and pinned to the ground. A cop car Sam thinks is a real cop tries to run him over but it’s revealed it’s a decepticon
An auto boy walks into a power line and is shocked though he seems to not be in pain and enjoyed it? Later bumblebee is tortured and shown being zapped with tasers and blasted with ice
There is a really small B plot about a soldier character wanting to get home to his wife and baby. The baby is shown briefly in both the beginning in a video call with the wife and soldier, and at the end of the movie.
“Psycho ward” A woman mentioned to be deaf for the butt of a joke “Crackhead” A character makes fun of a jock by joking he has brain damage from playing football and infantilising him by saying he’s writing a book that he would like cuz it has coloring in and mazes. “Cripple” used
The mother of a dog owner puts “girl jewlery” on a male dog and the owner, her son, takes issue with it dispite the fact that dogs have no concept of gender stereotypes and most likely doesn’t even care
Transformer with a stereotypical Blaccent, with a quip implying that this is a separate language from English. “Qatar” and “Iran” are mispronounced. Iranian scientists are said to be “not smart” which isn’t challenged or implicitly condemned.
A character mentions his ancestor “went blind” and was put in a “psycho ward” which is really ableist. There’s a mention of Colombus day in a positive light when many Indigenous people see it as a day of mourning the genocide and destruction of their people and land. “Mammy” is used in context to mean mother but can come across offensive due to its use of dehumanizing black women. A man introduces his mother saying he’d bust her head open and then meantions she’s deaf which is somehow funny to him. A Spanish person talks about his mothers cooking and another man remarks that it’s gross to eat alligators which comes off a bit xenophobic. A black man calls another black man a clown which can be taken as offensive considering the history of clowning is rooted in racism, though I’m sure this probably isn’t intentional. “Crackhead” is used which is considered a slur. A Hispanic man also mentions having “the gift” of being able to have premonitions or feel things others can’t, someone calls it “voodoo powers” as a joke which is making a mockery of actual Voodoo and Brujah practitioners. A character makes fun of a jock by joking he has brain damage from playing football and infantilising him by saying he’s writing a book that he would like cuz it has coloring in and mazes. They say Qatar and Iran wrong. They also say that the attack is “way to smart for Iranian scientists” which is… gross. One of the transformers also speaks in Ebonics/AAVE and has a stereotypically black accent which is mentioned as a joke that the auto bots know all of earths languages. Sam calls Mikaela a “female”. There is also colonialism and “first” exploration of the Arctic Circle phrased as if Indigenous people where already exploring and inhabiting the area
Jesus’ name is used to manipulate someone into giving him an A grade which some might take offense to. A Hispanic man also mentions having “the gift” of being able to have premonitions or feel things others can’t, someone calls it “voodoo powers” as a joke
Throughout entire film Mikaela is heavily objectified. One particular scene is overly focused on by the camera and Sam's reaction as she stretches over his car hood in revealing clothes.