Fans of the original live action Transformers movies are more than familiar with Shia LaBeouf’s character, Sam Witwicky, as he was the main hero of the first three installments. However, if one takes a closer look at his character, it becomes apparent that Sam actually wasn’t that great of a hero after all–which is why Transformers’ final hero is Sam’s perfect opposite.

Michael Bay’s 2007 film Transformers took the fan-favorite robots in disguise from the two-dimensional realm of cartoons and comics and brought them to life in spectacular fashion. While the focus of the movie was the ancient, cosmic war between the Autobots and Decepticons over the AllSpark (which is a cube capable of creating life for Transformers), there also had to be a human element as well–someone for the audience to follow and witness events through the eyes of, and that person was Sam Witwicky. Sam first got involved with the Autobots after he accidentally bought one (Bumblebee) at a used car lot. The reason Bumblebee wanted to meet Sam is that Sam unknowingly had the location of the AllSpark, and the Autobots needed to find it before the Decepticons did–and with that, Sam became an ally to the Autobots.

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In Transformers: Lost Bot Standing #1 by Nick Rouche and E.J. Su, readers are thrown into an alien world that seems to operate much like the Wild West, but with the added benefit of some advanced technology. The book initially follows a character named Shib who is working hard to make ends meet for her family as she was put in a position where she had to raise her siblings and be their primary source of income. Then, when Shib finds out that her ‘wagon’ was a Transformer all along–one of the last remaining Transformers in the galaxy by the name of Rodimus–she selflessly helps him on his mission, saying that he was a member of her family too, and she wasn’t going to let anything bad happen to him–and that included standing up to her whole town in Rodimus’ defense when they threatened to shoot him.

Shib is Everything Sam Witwicky Is Not in a Transformers Hero

Transformers last hero is better than Sam Witwicky.

Since Sam’s introduction, there have been many complaints made by fans arguing that he wasn’t a hero, but instead was a selfish, withholding, jealous person who only acted in his own self-interest and whose only contribution was that he simply owned things that were useful. Aside from his final act of heroism in the first movie (which was still not great since he destroyed the one thing that could bring new life to the Transformers’ dying race), Sam only acted in ways that were immediately gratifying to him–which mostly involved trying to look good in front of Megan Fox’s character, Mikaela–and he did very little to actually help or lead others in a meaningful way. In contrast, Shib is someone who’s loyal for the sake of loyalty, who’s willing to stand up against her entire community to do what is right, and who has worked hard for the people she loves her entire life.

It almost seems as though the creators behind this book were deliberately trying to create a character who was the polar opposite of Sam Witwicky. Shib didn’t act like a hero because she was hoping to get some kind of reward or because it was her only option for survival, she did it because it was the right thing to do, and that is why Shib succeeded where Sam Witwicky failed by exemplifying what it means to be a real ‘human’ hero in a Transformers story.

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