The Original Ending of Transformers 2 That You Never Knew Existed 

Yeah you can tell Michael Bay was very dissatisfied about the film’s climax. His climax in DotM was his apology to RotF.

I feel like the ROTF ending of the novel would be better because showing some scenes that never appeared in the movie would let us know what happened to our heroes, and what really happened to the soldiers that survived their helicopter crash, but I guess the film ending is ok, it just needed to show the scenes that appeared in the novel and not in the movie.

This ending is great, I wish we would’ve gotten it. However, it’s missing one thing: “Give me your face!”

We were robbed. This ending is MILES better than the one we got. Actually had a stake and more Ironhide and Sideswipe! Damn you strike!

I think in ROTF, Jetfire had a lot of wasted potential, maybe with the new Bumblebee continuity we can see more autobots that were in gen 1 instead of the same cast over and over again.

Its crazy how the novels based on ROTF and DOTM had better endings than the actual movies themselves. Not only are they more character accurate, but they do a better job giving fans a more satisfying conclusion rather than being rushed and confusing.

The forest fight is still one of the best fights ever

"I knew there was greatness within you, Sam" just doesn't vibe as much as "Boi, you returned for me." Aside from that the latter just sounds so memeworthy, it also indicates that at the very least, Sam's got Optimus covered when things get tough.

Definitely *_FAR_* better than the ending we actually got! If I were doing it, it’d probably go quite like this, but with some small changes - like no enemy scrotum, Jolt still being the one to power up Optimus after being given a bigger role and Devastator still fighting after losing his arm to the rail gun, only to get taken down by Optimus like the Driller. The fight then proceeds like normal, but with Optimus and the Fallen engaging in the air Dragon Ball Z style for a bit, Megatron learning that the Fallen’s promise to make him a Prime was false before losing half his face and his arm, the Fallen’s death staying like in the actual movie and Megatron looking empty at the Fallen’s death rather than horrified before leaving with Starscream. Optimus then removes Jetfire’s parts and finds the Matrix amongst the wreckage of the Harvester, placing it in his chest. From there, the film ends like normal until we get a mid-credits scene of Megatron and Starscream planning ahead with “Operation: Pillar” while the former sits on the Fallen’s throne - now his - and gathers what remains of his army, including Soundwave, Barricade and the awakening protoform army.

That ending was really a missed opportunity, we could've seen Soundwave turn into robo form and it builds suspense of what's megatrons next plan

Bro's explaining the entire Bayverse for Paramount 😂

I personally believe that the fallen is the strongest of all of the BAYFORMER villains. He’s stronger than Lockdown, Sentinel Prime, and even strong than Shatter and maybe even Scourge for that matter. I mean the dude literally has the powers of the force and can only be killed by a Prime. No one else can stop him. It just turns out that the prime who did take him out had a crap ton of training during the time in between 07 and rotf.

Optimus prime was a beast in the forest fight

the Forest battle is the best battel in the movie and I like it when Optimus demand the fallen to give him his face

I think the Fallen's death in the movie was cooler and way more deserved. He gets his face peeled off then his spark gets crushed by Optimus' hand.

That moment when you realize that in the junior novel and storybooks Optimus is able to intercept, block and reflect a light speed attack capable of destroying stars and also teleport 💀 bro literally gets Dragon Ball zenkais

it's funny because while most of this ending is more in line with the messages and themes behind Transformers as a franchise, the "primes are born, not made" bit is missing the point so hard it could have stayed in the final movie and not felt out of place

while I like the Michael Bay transformers movies I think the biggest problem with the film's is a lack of narrative cohesion plotlines objects and characters are constantly forgotten throughout the entire series for example The Matrix of leadership and the all Spark are two of the most important religious artifacts but are ignored in aoe and tlk and characters like the twins and sideswipe are completely forgotten along with most of the named Decepticons at least even if the new movies don't do well they'll still be more consistent

AT LEAST WE STILL HAD THE LEGENDARY LINE “I am directly below… enemy scrotum”

18:23 Also worth noting is that Jetfire actually survives in the DS Autobots game

They should have kept in the extra robot scenes, these movies could have really used more of them.

I’m more interested about what Ratchet missed in the alternate one. 😂 Btw your voice acting was really good! ❤

I absolutely love that the enemy scrotum joke was always in the movie lmao

I didn't know that there was a 2009 strike.

Rotf and Dotm were both robbed of good endings. However, in each ending the Fallen is depicted as weak and a coward. And barely puts up a fight, in the movie ending the Fallen fights Optimus and even gained the upper hand (for like 5 seconds) the perfect ending for the Fallen imo would be he's too strong for Optimus, even the other autobots help him but the Fallen fights all of them and even the military off. And another railgun is fired and hits the Fallen, stunning him long enough that they get the drop on him and prime finishes him off.

I’m kinda sad and disappointed that the original ending didn’t make it, cuz at least it wouldn’t be as sloppy and empty as the final ending.

kudos to foster, he managed to write a 400 page book from a 9 minute screenplay

I kinda wanna see the reboot optimus to do a epic battle like forest battle and this movie is overhated only has few problems

Honestly, I prefer the original ending because we get a lot more robot action, and it even fixes a lot of plot holes that were in the final cut of the movie.

Bruh so your telling that the fallen will have more screen time this is much better than fallen asleep in the theaters

Some many ending I can't choose my favourite

Honestly I think a combination of the endings would be cool. Instead of dying, Jetfire decides to merge with Optimus temporarily, with his body broken but his spark still alive, and that for Ratchet to repair him from RotF to DotM. I think I would love to see Optimus face Megatron and the Fallen longer but in a 3 way battle after Megatron finds out he can't become a Prime. I really like the parts where Ironhide and Sideswipe tried to fight, where Devastator tries to throw hands with Optimus, but I wish that Depth Charge was actually the ship as in the concept art and figure, explaining why they have weaponry that strong. I think maybe Optimus should've been the one to fatality wound the Fallen, but Megatron to finish him off and step into the portal. Then Megatron and Optimus fight, Megatron loses but due to Starscream interfering, they both hit the portal and dip. Optimus gets the Matrix, has a conversation with the Primes, see Ratchet and humans fixing, then Sam and Op, and then OP and Sam get to see the Primes together, then Optimus makes his speech. Post credit you see Megatron healing and Starscream asking what now, and Megatron shows Starscream the army, with Soundwave and Shockwave appearing, and telling him, there's always another plan, more than meets the eye. Then cut.

I do enjoy how the alternate endings definitely give better closure to some of the characters, and give the title characters some more much needed screen time. The one thing I kind of like they changed was megatron’s ending. I personally love just how prime obliterates him and seeing him in his camp in dotm is one of my favorite scenes

This feels like a common theme with this movie series

this could had also explain where all of those Decepticon Protoforms that hiding on the moon in transformers dark of the moon came from...

6am upload as i get ready for my first day of school alresdy know it’s gonna be a good year

I like everything except the "primes are born not made" line. Itd be better if he snapped back that Megatron doesn't posses the qualities that make a prime or something

Always a good day when you upload

I wish the battle against Devastator from the Transformers RotF Wii/PS2 game was in the movie, Optimus fighting Devastator in the middle of the city is awesome and the soundtrack is pretty good, but it would probably blow up the special effects team's computers.

This is true the og ending was better that the one we have now

Imagine if they were 3 post credit scenes 2 of them are the Sam scenes that we got and the last one is the megatron one that we all wanted

12:07 that reminds me of the ending of the rotf ps2 game plus I did a stopmotion version of that cutscene

I guess judging by the ending Megatron had on this version , it can be assumed that he would have had a different form in the 3rd movie judging the fact that he actually ended up in a strong position

ILM definitely bit off more than they could chew. Devastator himself blew up several of their computers.

Loved the video, always relaxing to listen too, but man knowing this really makes me sad for the things we never got but that’s life. Good Job 👍

Jetfire was undoubtedly the best thing ever about Revenge of the Fallen

As much as the Bay films were a giant missed opportunity, I'm glad your channel exists to explore 'what could have been' etc. Edit: I hate how much better these special effects look than the work done for Rise of the Beasts... I know it's a different company etc., but MAN this film still looks good.

Man I haven’t commented in a while but ur videos get better and better every time man I have learned so much from ur videos like this great work!

OG ending is better, but I understand that ILM had major constraints. We still need breakaway to be brought back in future movies, his design is awesome and since its a new universe it wouldn't need any explanation aside from "he's a survivor of the war on Cybertron who escaped to earth." Really, I just want a Studio Series figure, cause the original from ROTF is hard to find and expensive. Underrated character.

Hey my birthday was yesterday! Aug 23 🎂🥳🎁

Nice video as always Theorymus!

Always appreciate the content! It ls cool to see someone still talk about those early Transformers films🔥

This was a very interesting video. I do agree that the Novelization ending is the better one. 😊 It’s sad that the filmmakers ran out of time causing them to change the ending. Oh, well. It is what it is. 😔 Wait. Did Optimus have a different speech in the original ending did he not have one at all?

seeing this gives me nostalgia of watching rotf for the first time

This is way better more ending than the movie ending

Dude pls explain how did Hound Crosshairs and Drift appeared in T4 since they werent there in T Movies 1-3

I never actually watched the RoTF movie myself. The only way i truly experienced a full rotf experience was through the game (the port thats on PC/PS3/Xbox. Not the PS2/Wii port). So the endings there were the endings of rotf from my pov.

While I love the ending we got. I still cannot help but this ending would have been awesome to have seen instead. It’s just one of those thoughts you can’t help but wonder👍

As good as the original ending was, it just needed more Jolt and it would be perfection.

I have been waiting for this video for a long time and it paid off

Excellent video, personally I think Michael Bay did a great job with his saga despite the fact that there are things I don't like about his style; I just think he was unlucky after TF1. Without a doubt, to make a sequel to TLK and an end to his saga, I want him as the director; if he is the one who started and carried everything to the "end", he is the one who must finish everything.

I just wish we had more Devastator

Jolt should have had more screen time

I just woke up and this was the first thing to pop up on my recommendations, guess I’m starting the day off with a bang And a Boom 💥

"GIVE ME YOUR FACE"

Honestly, I prefer the Fallen's and Megatron's defeat in the movie over the book

THAT MY PRIME: Optimus: let them come

19:01 megaBlud got replace by his own troop 😭💀

Wow This Is Good If This Rotf Ending Was Real It Would Have Been The Best

Man if only that original post credit scene was in the film, would have made the DOTM army make so much more sense. I always thougt Megatron had it and just never used it lol.

Jetfire's quote makes me laugh so hard man

1:12 ❤❤❤

So optimus prime wasn’t going to be a mortal kombat character during development?

Theorymus Prime, I knew about this original ending even before you made this video, and I can safely say that it's way better than the one we got. My favorite variation of the original ending is definitely the one present in the novelization. One detail you glossed over, is that the ROTF junior novel, 'The Last Prime', 'I Am Optimus Prime' storybook and the ROTF Scholastic book, are targeted for children, so the changes were deliberate to tone down the film's violence for young readers. You also glossed over the ending present in the ROTF game for java mobile devices. In it, the final boss is Megatron and you fight him as Jet Power Optimus Prime. Upon defeating Megatron, Optimus uses the power of the Matrix of Leadership to kill The Fallen and destroy the Star Harvester, and the Autobots and NEST celebrate their lastest victory. It then cuts to Megatron commenting on how his master's title fits his fate and that underestimating Optimus was The Fallen's worst mistake. Now as supreme leader of all Decepticons, Megatron promises not to make the same mistake as he makes preparations for his final endgame (AKA the events of DOTM). When you first revealed tht you would make this video, I thought you would only talk about the endings of the novelization and comic book adaptation, as you never talked about the variations of the original DOTM ending present in it's other adaptation materials on your video about the leak that caused the film's ending to be changed, which is why I planning on making a comment on tht video showing the variations of the DOTM original ending present of the other adaptation materials as an addendum. 2 films had their original ending explained, so only the 2007 film remaind to get that treatment. Good luck!

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Man I had the ps2 game and I have a lot of nostalgia for it. I remember in the ending cutscene you just randomly hear Sam who wasn’t mentioned in the rest of the game at all

This was would have been a Really Great Alternative Ending. I was Fine with Optimus Prime Battling Megatronus Prime/The Fallen and Megatron I still think that’s still one of The Coolest Fights in The Transformers Film Series. If there’s one thing I Would love to see the most is That Post Credit Scene with Megatron on The Nemesis. Hey Theorymus are planning to go over the alternate ending for Transformers 3 Dark of The Moon?

This is a good video 10/10

Hey Theorymus one thing I noticed is when the teleport & knocking everybody over you see the bottom left corner one of the soldiers gets decapitated 😳

I kind of wished this in the film plus i never knew there was an original ending

I wish that Devastator was used more in the film. Just imagine the Autobots going up against him!

I would've loved to have seen like 30 more seconds of Devastator.

Ngl i actually prefer the film ending. It just feels more condensed and less messy, as i think this ending would be too long and clunky on film. Plus the 'primes are born not made' line always felt very un-optimus and just against a whole lot of previous tf media.

I have the Wii version

hey theory did you remember that scene in the bumblebee when the cop is chasing bee in the tunnel and he transforms into this fat bumblebee, it seems to be some refence to the g1 bumblebee design

Amazing Bro :D

If only the writers strike didn’t screw over ROTF.

Honestly I like both this and the ending we got

I love your videos!

I remember seeing in the special features disc about the ending about megatron commanding his new army! Man I wish it was put into the movie ☹️

When you see all the stuff that was supposed to be in Revenge of the Fallen it’s sad we could have seen way more stuff like a water battle when the Fallen first lands and destroys the carrier he was supposed to fight a group of autobots that were cut entirely from the film and story and there was supposed to be like at least 30 autobots in the movie

Well after watching this, I now have gotten a better appreciation for this ending. I'll have to figure out how it will work, but we'll see.

nice thumbnail

I think in the PS2 version Optimus actually just dropped The Fallen into the Harvester. The Star Harvester wouldn’t explode like that if Optimus simply killed the Fallen on the other side of the portal.

16:35 this was before rise of the beasts for scourge death and I wish we did have the original ending but we know why they never add the ending

One thing I find interesting is despite the fucking mess this movie ended up being, Sam (during his Einstein is wrong rant) says something about the “sentinel prime program”

I remember in the PS2 game of transformers 2 U fought as prime against the fallen on top the pyramid and there were a bunch of portals but as you're about to beat him Megatron appeared and the Fallen commanded him to help him fight Prime but he demanded that the fallen make him a prime firstly but when he realize he was lied to megatron attacked prime out of rage and got his ass beaten then Prime came back to the top of the harvester and pushed the fallen into the giant beam of energy

I would love to see the Novel one

I can tell you enjoyed narrating the script😂 I enjoyed it too

I hope we get a re-release with the real and true ending especially with the extra screen time on the robots Paramount please make it happen