because Optimus Prime is a Byronic archetype

The third Transformers movie “won’t be as robot-heavy and there will be fewer explosions,” according to the Los Angeles Times blog Hero Complex, which quotes Michael Bay thusly: “It gets much more into the robot character.”

Or perhaps because Megatron secretly longs to dance upon the stage, but fears how this will impact his relationship with Jetfire.

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