Five Ways For Michael Bay To Kill Megan Fox in 'Transformers 3'
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Michael Bay has a lot to atone for. He's become the cinematic whipping boy of bad, over the top, explosion-filled movies, which are of course also his forte. But he could rectify most of that in one fell swoop, and it's by doing something that he's already considering: killing off Megan Fox. Okay, to be fair, we mean killing off her annoying character Mikaela in Transformers. It might not make us forgive everything, but it's huge step in the right direction.
There's no love lost between Bay and Fox. She called him "Hitler" and said you had to be a genius to understand Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (was she watching an unseen Criterion cut of the film?). He had his own words to say, and had several cast members rally to his defense in a letter-writing flurry that detailed how bitchy and hard to work with Ms. Fox was. Things have escalated to a level where he's reportedly considering killing her off in the next Transformers film. At this point we're surprised he'd be bringing her back at all, because a simple "Ever since Mikaela left for that mechanics study course in Germany" line and she's out of the film.
But the fact that he's considering killing her off is deliciously evil, because it means he wants to bring her back just to kill her off onscreen. Not since Paris Hilton got waxed in the House of Wax remake have people been anticipating the demise of a celebutart. We're ready to get Halloween rolling by including Michael Bay among our best villains and suggesting some creative ways he might take care of the problem. Read on after the break and find out how Megan Fox might bite it in Transformers 3.
She's a Robot
The most obvious way for Bay to kill Fox was mapped out for us in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me: make Mikaela a femmebot. Remember that thanks to Revenge of the Fallen, the Transformers can look just like humans now. In fact, they can look so human that they can get Sam's hormones pumping ... something Mikaela seems to excel at. Couple this with the fact that she's extremely good with machines, has a flimsy background (no mom, dad in jail, etc), and signs point to oil in her veins. In Transformers 3 it's found out that she's a Deceptibot, and is either called on the carpet for failing so many times that they terminate her, or she dies in Sam's arms in the middle of a ginormo robo-battle, just after confessing what she is. A single, oily tear slides down her cheek as Shia screams "NO NO NO NO NO!"
Megatron Gets Even
Sam and Bumblebee race off with Ron and Judy in the backseat on a wedding planning trip. Yes, that's right, Sam and Mikaela are engaged now, and she's wearing a ring made out of some piece of the Allspark that somehow still exists. However, the romantic comedy hijinks between both couples come to a halt when Decepticons attack and take Sam's woman. He easily abandoned her for college in Revenge, but apparently he still moans for her pheromones and goes after her. Even though he's warned it might be a trap set by Megatron, who is now Megapissed. Sam calls in the troops, since Optimus owes him a favor or two, and when the ensuing battles busts out, Mikaela dies in the crossfire to provide an emotional arc. But as the end credits roll, the ring sparkles on her finger. Oh, crap.
Roadkill
Let's face it, the Transformers are bigass, giant chrome robots. They aren't dainty gadgets you'd see on a shelf at a Japanese fanboy shop in Tokyo. These things breathe death. They're huge killing machines when they're in robo-mode, and when they're transformed they still look like deathmobiles. Either way you slice it (and I'm deliberately ignoring the moron twins from Revenge here), they just exist to splatter anything made out of meat. In a variation on Megatron Gets Even, Mikaela is captured ... but instead of holding her hostage, Megatron decides to pull a Hitcher on her. He sticks her inside a vehicle, and tells Sam he has to give up the [insert plot point secret] or she dies. Sam hems and haws and finally confesses, but Megatron has other plans. The vehicle she's in slowly transforms with Fox still inside, and Sam is treat to a front-row seat gorefest.
That's a Wrap on Megan Fox
The best way to deal with this problem? Just take care of it offscreen. Sure, you won't make the scads of Foxfans very happy, but you'll take care of your problem and save a bundle in the process. Unless she has some sort of guaranteed screen time in her contract, with a quota of at least 12 moist lip-parting, teeth-baring, open mouth shots. Barring that, Bay should just write her out. We don't even need to justify it with screen time. Sam's in mourning, since Mikaela died between Revenge and the next movie. Maybe he's joined a monastery, started living with the Autobots, or become the mainstay at sorority parties, depending on how he's dealing with it, but the main thing is that she died, tragically, before the movie opens. Thus saving both the crew, and the audience, the pain.
Mojo Goes Cujo
Mojo had settled into his life of being Sam's bitch just before Mikaela came along, and he's never been happy about it. Not only did she usurp his position, but she also took Sam out of the house, leaving him stranded with the wacky adventures of the Ron and Judy Show. He's also going through the throes of canine painkiller addiction, and this does not make him a pleasant puppy. When he digs up one of his bones from the yard, he doesn't notice strange symbols on it while he gnaws away his troubles, and accidentally ingests some sort of crazy alien plot point. It turns him into a rabid, miniature, transforming version of Cujo who has one thing on the brain: death to pouty-lipped, doey-eyed, owner-stealing women. It's a short list, and Mojo finally gets his.










Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
10-13-2009 @ 9:26PM
Ben said...
This was pretty freakin' entertaining. Nice work.
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10-16-2009 @ 2:32PM
Noreen said...
Agreed, agreed....Now, I'm going to be thinking about ways to kill off Megan Fox...
10-13-2009 @ 10:00PM
Alex said...
When did Transformers 2 come out? Did I miss that?
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10-16-2009 @ 10:34AM
philip said...
its been out awhile, it goes DVD and Blu Ray this tues the 20th of oct
10-16-2009 @ 11:35AM
Aubrey J. Young said...
It came out several months ago and a lot of fun to watch. Taking my daughter this Tuesday at the discount show to see it.
Aubrey
10-13-2009 @ 10:39PM
donny said...
My preference:
The subtle but completely surprising stomping. Autobots and Decepticons are in the middle of a huge battle in the mayan riviera (because the witwiki found a relationship between the allspark and the ancient mayans while on spring break in Mexico). With so much action and confusion on screen, Sam and Mikaela are running away from the action - with at least 50% of the getaway in slo-mo. As can be expected Mikaela falls in the background of an intense Bay-induced scene. Just as Sam returns to help her up, Megatron steps on her. The squishing sound she makes to be forever applauded in Hollywood.
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10-13-2009 @ 10:52PM
MDR said...
Or how about a new cast of humans? It's not like the humans are relevent to the story anyway (Story? Ha!). Did anyone actually go just to see Shia or Megan? Cast some cheap unknowns and let the CGI slugfest commence.
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10-15-2009 @ 5:29PM
tony said...
I like Sam..Sam is a very funny and cute character
10-14-2009 @ 2:10AM
Garrett said...
This was a really clever article, that if nothing else shows what little expectations everyone (myself included) has for Michael Bay films. He'll stick to every cliche known to man. The only surprise is which cliche he doesn't use.
I would vote for "She's a Robot" if I thought she was going to be killed of, but not a chance. She's in the role too perfectly for Bay not to copy a hybrid of Mary Jane and Lois Lane.
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10-14-2009 @ 5:12AM
BarkingGhost said...
I think Mr. Bay is just upset that he ain't getting any of that Megan Fox booty. Why else would he stoop to such childish response to match [dim]wits with her?
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10-16-2009 @ 1:21PM
Juliane said...
why don't you try working with a dumb actress? just because she advertises it doesn't mean she's all that great to get along with. sometimes you get so annoyed by someone you just can't help but to stoop down.
10-14-2009 @ 8:31AM
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10-14-2009 @ 7:50AM
morphs said...
I think that if he does kill her off it will show how unprofessional he is. It would ruin the movie for me is she wasn't there. Hell, I still don't like that Rachel got killed off in The Dark Knight.
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10-14-2009 @ 9:34AM
filmsuki said...
Despite my not liking Megan Fox, I don't have a problem with the character she's playing. If you want to kill off an annoying character, how about the incessantly complaining hacker roommate and the two ghetto Autobot twins?
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10-14-2009 @ 9:39AM
Drewbacca said...
I would like to see her taken out by Bumblebee "accidentally" stepping on her, and awkwardly apologizing to Sam while trying in vain to scrape her off the bottom of his foot.
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10-14-2009 @ 10:58AM
Petro1734 said...
Yeah, good idea....get rid of the ONE good thing in those movies.
I got a better idea....kill off Michael Bay : )
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10-14-2009 @ 11:05AM
J. Bryant said...
Considering no actual human deaths have occurred in the first two Transfomers flicks, if they decide to kill off Fox in part 3, that'll be the end of the series. If they don't want her back (or want to kill her), they should just write her out of the series. Go with option #4 and just not bring her back. Killing her onscreen won't be dramatic, it'll be a nasty edge to a series that doesn't need it.
I'm not a huge fan of the series so far, but I've appreciated it for the lack of human casualties and the light tone the filmmakers have taken. Killing off any of the major human players on-screen seems like a big step in the wrong direction.
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10-14-2009 @ 12:03PM
Jake said...
How do you figure that no humans were killed? Maybe they didn't linger on or show the casualties, but folks sure died. In the opening scene of the first movie, an entire US Army military base gets leveled, and Josh Duhamel and his unit unit are the only survivors. When they get attacked by that burrowing scorpion Decepticon, its very first act is to impale a dude on its tail. Later, that little boombox bot wastes four or five Secret Service guys on Airforce One. After he wakes us, Megatron takes out a bunch of technicians. In the final battle, Starscream takes out 5 or 6 fighter jets. And it is apparent from the wide-shots during the Megatron/Optimus fight that dozens of humans were injured or killed in the carnage (they are lying all around Megatron in the street -- he flicks that one poor dude into a taxi). Not to mention all the blood that had to have been let off-screen by all the kill-bots born of our harmless tech. I don't think things ended well for that chick whose SUV steering wheel turned into a CuisinArt.
And that's just stuff I remember off the top of my head from the first flick -- which I haven't seen in 2 years.
So yeah, its mostly bloodless, but its hardly "zero body count." These guys ain't Arnie in T2.
10-14-2009 @ 1:04PM
Batzarro said...
Off the top of my head the second film's sinking of the U.S. Navy ships went out of it's way to show the drowned sailors as their bodies sank into the deep. It was...kind of dark.
10-14-2009 @ 2:29PM
J. Bryant said...
Yeah, you're right on with the soldiers and the ships sinking. Forgot about those. But, even though those are casualties, they are bit parts, extras, and quick. No lingering demises there, no drawn out death scenes.
I was more going along the lines of main characters. Obviously if they killed Fox off it wouldn't be some quick kill or something like that. It would be a major moment (being that she's a main character and all) and that just seems like it would be a movie killer to me. All I keep having is flashbacks of Xavier and Cyclops biting the dust for no good reason in X3 and how that pretty much ruined the movie for me.