Transformers 4: 5 Human Characters Who Deserve More Storylines

4. Trenttrent transformers If Sam is the Everyman, Trent is the Everydouche. If youenjoy Transformers, chances are that you got shoved into a locker by a guy like this at some point. I personally got kicked down a flight of stairs by a guy like this in 10th grade. They're everywhere. They swagger, they fart, they move around their schools with their heads up their butts. But because they are good at something like throwing a touchdown or hitting a homer, they're worshipped. They're the guys we grow up to laugh at once we've hit our belated puberty and gotten a degree in something that pays better than his job. Okay, my fantasy is now over. Way before Trent lived a joke of a life in the hypothetical future, he was the guy who was a relatively smart dumb jock. He got Sam's back-handed football player jokes and for the five minutes that he was on-screen, he seemed like someone who could actually attract a girl of Mikaela's...ahem...credentials. And then there comes The Moment. He tells his "little bunny" to get in the back seat so she doesn't mess up his ride. Poof! After we see him drive off, leaving his "little bunny" to walk home from the lake, we never get to see him again. While Sam Witwicky, the guy who sucked at football so memorably, has his moment to step up, Trent simply steps off. So, what happened to him? Did he blow out his knee senior year, ruining his chances to play ball for UCSD? Did he go to college? Did he ever outgrow his sexism and machismo?

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