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Since no one can seem to tell me what the enemy is now after, well, there's only one clear conclusion... YOU! The Autobots! They're here to hunt you!
~ Theodore Galloway arguing with Optimus Prime.
"The Fallen shall rise again"? Sounds to me like something's coming. So let me ask: If we ultimately conclude that our national security is best served by denying you further asylum on our planet, will you leave peacefully?
~ Galloway to Optimus Prime.

Theodore Galloway is a major antagonist in the 2009 film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. He is the senior US National Security advisor, who had been desired to send the Autobots far away from Earth for the "good" of mankind.

He was portrayed by John Benjamin Hickey.

Biography[]

Revenge of the Fallen (2009)[]

Galloway was extremely critical and ungrateful to Optimus Prime. He believed that not even the Autobots' victories over stopping the Decepticons can make up for the damage done to cities, such as in Shanghai, China. Galloway believes he knows what he should do, but is clearly just an idiot and a dumb fool. Galloway believes that the Decepticons are still on Earth to get revenge on the Autobots, but the main reason was they want to destroy the Sun for Energon because Cairo, Egypt is home of the Sun Harvester. The Fallen was stated to rise by the enormous Decepticon Demolishor who is responsible for major destruction in Shanghai, China, who said The Fallen shall rise again.

Later on, after Optimus is killed by Megatron during a battle between them, Galloway reemerges to confront the NEST team and the Autobots over the incident. He is cynical over Optimus death by merely responding "Take that pile of scrap metal back to Diego Garcia". It is then Galloway calls off Major Lennox's ranks, forcing the NEST team to obey whatever Galloway says while bossing around Autobots Ironhide, Ratchet, Sideswipe, Arcee, Chromia, Elita and Jolt miserably. Autobot Ratchet lamented that Galloway was terribly misinformed. Because of Galloway's abrasive authority, Ratchet insisted that the Autobots leave Earth, but Ironhide stated that before Optimus died, he stated that he wants the Autobots to remain on Earth during the conversation between Galloway and Optimus. Epps admits how much he hates Galloway, calling him an asshole.

Galloway is seen afterwards when he was extremely nervous when being forced out of the plane. Because he never experienced an aerial parachute drop before, he was clueless on how to do so. Despite Major Lennox's clear instructions, Galloway pulled his blue cord right away and Lennox shouted, "NOT NOW! We're on the plane, you dumbass!", before Galloway is thrown violently by the airplane-propelled air pressure into the ground in Egypt.

After hitting the ground and ending up in a village, Galloway borrowed a civilian's phone to contact Morshower. When he asked the civilian where he was, the civilian perhaps not knowing English just replied, "United States", agitating Galloway cause that can't be it. General Morshower, knowing that Galloway is an obstacle to both Autobots and humans in fighting the war, goes to ensure he remain stranded in Cairo by simply hanging up the call. While this is tragic for him, the Autobots and NEST team were relieved that he can't control them anymore; it is unknown what happened to him after that, but it can be assumed that he was fired for abuse of office.

IDW Comics[]

In the prequel comics for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Galloway was killed by Shockwave after trying to show his authority.

Legacy[]

Theodore Galloway’s hatred towards Transformers seemingly impacted most of the community, especially Sam Witwicky, William Lennox, Robert Epps, alongside the United States Government due to his corrupt acts and not even caring about the Autobots victories and alliance with NEST. However, during and after the Battle of Chicago, Galloway’s hatred towards Autobots would posthumously come to fruition when the damage during the battle would cause public opinion to turn against Transformers and the government terminating joint operations between them. This resulted the CIA into forming Cemetery Wind, a black ops division, to hunt down any surviving Decepticons remaining on Earth, but it’s leader, Harold Attinger, decided to act behind the organization’s back by secretly wanting the Autobots to be hunted down as well, believing that they are a public threat to mankind and wanted all of them to be eliminated regardless of faction. He had also teamed up with bounty hunter, Lockdown, to capture Autobot leader Optimus Prime and bring him to the Creators. Attinger also joined forces with KSI and its leader, Joshua Joyce, to create artificial Transformers for government use. However, this was all just a plan for Megatron, now reborn as Galvatron, to use the artificial robots for sinister motives. However, Cade Yeager, who teamed up with Optimus Prime and the rest of the surviving Autobots, would eventually foil the plot and team up with a redeemed Joshua, even killing off James Savoy and Harold Attinger as well with help from Optimus. As a result, Cemetery Wind was terminated and officially no more.

However, as more continuous waves of Transformers began arriving on Earth, most of the worlds governments began to declare all of them illegal regardless of faction, and began formation of the Transformers Reaction Force, a worldwide paramilitary unit that has preceded Cemetery Wind’s anti Cybertronian legacy. Santos served as one of its team leaders, alongside former NEST commander and Autobot ally William Lennox, though he was reluctant to follow their orders due to his past loyalty with the Autobots, especially Bumblebee. Despite this, they would rejoin the Autobots once more into helping them defeat Quintessa from merging Cybertron with Earth, and resulting in the abolition of the TRF. Thus, leaving Theodore Galloway’s actions in vain.

Personality[]

Galloway was nothing more or less than a xenophobe. Much like the majority of the human population on Earth, also Galloway developed endless hatred and rage towards the Transformers community, and desired to send them away from Earth for the good of mankind.

He was just down-right xenophobic and nigh-racist in his approach with Autobots, and sought nothing more than sending them away from Earth and even shown none of mercy or tip of remorse by doing it. Yet, he was cowardly, for example, when Optimus Prime argued with him and passed a glance over him, Galloway was terrified of Prime's tremendous size, and moments before his arschute deployed, he was also really terrified on what would happen to him on the airplane.

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Trivia[]

  • Galloway is the first antagonist in the Transformers movie franchise to be a human. Simmons from the first film was at first similar to Galloway since he antagonized Sam and imprisoned Bumblebee but he redeemed himself and allied with the Autobots.
  • Director Galloway is also one of the first human villains in the Transformers movieverse before Dylan Gould and Harold Attinger. It could be implied that Galloway was mostly one of the first humans to have a hatred with Transformers, which resulted humans losing trust in the Autobots during Age of Extinction and The Last Knight.

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Human Collaborators
Dylan Gould | Gould

Cemetery Wind
Harold Attinger | James Savoy

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Lockdown | Steeljaws | Shadow Raiders

Kinetic Solutions Incorporated
Joshua Joyce | KSI Drones (Galvatron | Stinger)

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TRF Group Leader | Commander Santos | TRF Lieutenant | Colonel William Lennox | General Morshower

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