The Transformers have a complex and inconsistent history,, but they remain both alien and robot throughout.

“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” introduces some 40 new mechanized characters of all shapes, sizes and even sexes — but it’s a pair of jive-talking ’bots that critics are singling ...

He's felt a supernatural kinship with the giant alien robots since they came to Earth in 1984, but Optimus Prime waited for a special occasion to officially complete his transformation. "I changed … ...

A website hints at events between 2011's "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" and this summer's "Age of Extinction," setting up the new status quo for Michael Bay's toy franchise.

But if they're alien robots, she continued, "why do they talk like bad black stereotypes?" Bay brushes off any whiff of controversy. "Listen, you're going to have your naysayers on anything," he said.