5. Maggie
The
Transformers movies have always been about the Everyman. Sam Witwicky is, according to the
Revenge of the Fallen novelization, "just a kid from Burbank." His parents are disturbingly bourgeois. He sucks at football, gets bullied by the cooler kids, etc. Maggie is a little bit out her element from the start, though. Sam is an Everyman, but by golly, they cast one blonde chick per movie and Maggie is a stellar one. She's an Aussie recruited by the US Government to hack an alien signal. Eventually, this clever girl discreetly slips a memory card into her makeup compact and goes in search of the world's most stereotypical fat kid so she can do said hacking without government approval. To be frank, I wanted to see exactly one thing for our intrepid Aussie: consequences. In
Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Sam is threatened with charges of treason and jail time for interfering with all things governmental. But Maggie actually steals government secrets, lets the poor man's Fat Albert take a peek at them and since it all turns out all right in the end (mostly), that seems to be cool with the government? Heck, no! I want to see her having her clearance pulled, her security badge disabled. I want to see her cleaning out her locker and going back to the smaller pond where she was once just a big fish. Or failing that, I want to see an explanation of how she got off. Did the government cut her a deal? Offer her a job? Deport her for not having a valid worker's visa a few months later because she screwed with the wrong Republicans?