12 Giant Plot-Holes You Didn't Notice In 2014's Biggest Movies

7. Optimus Suddenly Remembers He Can Fly - Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Like in the original Superman movie franchise, the issue of suddenly remembered powers was a distracting point for box office winner Transformers 4. Just as Superman suddenly remembered that he could time travel and make people forget key points and facts by kissing them (never to be redone again), Optimus Prime waited until the end of the fourth movie to remember that he can actually fly. So instead of using what is probably the most valuable combat power available to a robot locked in ground skirmishes with other mostly non-flying robots - which would have been handy in pretty much every one of the Transformers films - Optimus only uses it as the end credits are looming, so he can be a self-propelled spaceship and go and catch some Hell in space. Why didn't he use his power of flight to just take the Seed off into space in the first place without having to go through the entire silly plot?