Transformers: Dark of the Moon story
Set three years after Revenge of the Fallen, it follows the warring Autobots and Decepticons' last days of the war as they battle to possess powerful technology from their homeworld crashed on Earth's Moon to restore their home. It is the third installment in the live-action Transformers film series.
15 total · 9 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| attack from outer space by a powerful conquering enemy | major | The Decepticons nearly succeeded in taking over Earth and enslaving its people. |
| betrayal | major | Sentinel Prime betrayed the Autobots by switching allegiances to the Decepticons. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | Sam and his new girlfriend Carly. |
| civil war | major | Earth was the theater for the ongoing civil war between the Autobots and the Deceptions. |
| crackpot theory | major | We learned that the space race of the 1960s was in response to a crashed UFO on the Moon. This turned out to be central to the plot, and also a subject that was returned to again and again. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | The Transformers were explicitly characterized as alien robots. |
| humanoid robot | major | The story follows a conflict between two factions (the Autobots and the Decpticons) of extraterrestrial, sentient self-configuring modular robots. |
| romantic love | major | Sam and his new girlfriend Carly. |
| space portal | major | The Decepticons nearly succeeded in moving the planet Cypertron halfway across the galaxy to be beside Earth by moving the planet through a giant portal in space. |
| father and son | minor | Sam's parents visited him in Washington, D.C. |