The animated film horrified children, with toy executives not realizing what they had done: "We just thought we were killing off the old product line to replace it with new products." By Phil Pirrello ...

While often advertised for children, the Transformers franchise is, at its heart, a story about war and death. As an ...

Celebrating 125 issues of IDW's Transformers! After Chaos, Optimus Prime's fate was shrouded in mystery. Was he truly gone or could there be a way he had emerged unscathed?

The new war between Autobots and Decepticons has finally reached its climax, with the death of Optimus Prime uniting the heroes like never before... and setting up the best hand-to-hand fight between ...

Just to make things more confusing, the Transformers movies sometimes play character deaths for big drama and pathos. At other times, the robot characters are so casual about their companions’ ...