Brains is Wheelie's Autobot friend who appears in the 3rd and 4th movie. Brains can transform into a laptop and he has access to a vast amount of knowledge about a huge array topics but this seems to be attributed to his laptop form.
History[]
Transformers: Dark of the Moon[]
Brains and Wheelie moved in with Sam Witwicky and Carly Spencer. Brains and Wheelie had a deep friendship, as shown by their constant companionship and their agreement on the last girl being mean. However, Brains was a complete pervert, going through Carly's underwear drawer and watching Sam and Carly kiss. Brains, not exactly happy with the living arrangements, complained that Carly was treating them like toys or pets rather than the super-advanced alien refugees he claimed they were.
The duo went with their human housemates to the NEST base to reveal information to the Autobots, however their offer of help was turned down by Charlotte Mearing. During the meeting with Mearing, Brains found himself briefly tied to Wheelie's vehicle mode, and his attempts to establish a bond with Mearing earned him the threat of gunfire. Brains later did research with Sam, Seymour Simmons and Dutch, and learned that two Russian cosmonauts in hiding after a canceled mission to the moon. However, when the Autobots were forced to leave Earth by the human authorities, both Brains and Wheelie were captured and shoved into a small cage. They begged for help from Sam, warning him the whole thing was a Decepticons trap. The duo, along with the other Autobots, were presumed to be killed when Starscream destroyed the Xantium shortly after take-off.
Thankfully, Brains and Wheelie survived along with the rest of the Autobots by hiding in one of the booster rockets, and came to the aid of Sam, Epps and the human race in Chicago. Brains declared to them that no one was going to exile the Autobots, and they soon marched off to battle, riding Leadfoot into the city. Unfortunately, Brains and Wheelie were left behind by the Wreckers when they were done distracting Shockwave, having fallen off while they were firing.
As they wandered through the streets hopelessly, mumbling about the lack of support, they happened upon a crashed Decepticon ship. They rode it up to one of the massive Decepticon "mother ships" hovering over Chicago that was controlling several smaller ships like the one they hijacked. Brains and Wheelie sabotaged and overrode the ship's controls, dropping several of the small fighters onto the battlefield, causing a distraction just at the right second for Soundwave, preventing Bumblebee from being executed after Que. This also allowed the Autobots to gain an essential lead in the battle, proving the duo's worth in the end as the massive ship crashed into a large body of water below.
Transformers: Age of Extinction[]
Having survived the battle of Chicago (albeit losing a leg in the process), Brains found himself captured and forced into slavery by Joshua Joyce and KSI. He now sported a makeshift crutch made of pieces of his destroyed leg and a neck brace. Brains was put to work to help KSI engineer their own Transformers, performing mental "autopsy" on the fallen Decepticons gathered from Chicago. It was Brains who made the startling discovery that Megatron lived, and was manipulating KSI to build him a new body as Galvatron. However, Brains found his captors too unwilling to listen to him anyway, as they regularly tortured him whenever he spoke out, not exactly giving him encouragement to warn them. While Joyce was showing Darcy Tirrel the full extent of KSI's work with Transformium, Brains attempted to reveal the true nature of KSI's atrocities to her, but all he earned was an electrocution from Joyce himself.
Brains' predicament finally came to an end when the Autobots stormed the KSI headquarters to avenge the recently slain Ratchet. Brains was freed by Hound, and was pleased to see Joyce silenced by the Autobots. However, Joyce informed Optimus Prime that they had technologically advanced past the Transformers, demoralizing the Autobot leader, who called a retreat. Brains was more than a little bit disappointed, as he was looking forward to getting retribution on his former captors. Brains later regrouped with the Autobots and their new human allies at a train yard after their rescue of Optimus from Lockdown's ship. He then shared the truth about Megatron/Galvatron and his plot to overthrow KSI. Tessa bitterly questioned why he never told Joshua the truth about Galvatron (apparently having ignored the whole slavery-torture thing he just told them about) and Brains mocked humanity for essentially causing their own extinction with little care for the situation. He then left to enjoy his new freedom—by happily sniffing some flowers.
Weapons[]
Gun (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)
Trivia[]
- He is very brainy which is why he was named 'Brains' because he’s alternate mode was a laptop.
- In Dark of the Moon movie novelization, Brains along with Wheelie jump and swim at the edge of the water when Mothership was crashed. Thus would explained why both of them managed to survived.
- It was unknown where Brains went in TLK, since he was last seen in AOE and disappeared. Its theorized that Brains might have hiding from TRF after AOE, and later reunited with Wheelie following TRF disbanded aftermath final battle.
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