Robert Epps


 * Robert Epps is a human in the Movie continuity family.



Robert Epps is a Technical Sergeant in the United States Air Force. He's under the command of Captain William Lennox. He frequently demands the bringing of things, such as "it" and "the rain" (Hell, if you were stationed in the desert, you would want some rain to). He is entitled to wear the scarlet beret of Air Force Combat Control. This means he made it through "Superman School", so he's one of four characters referencing Superman. He keeps a Visa credit card in one of his many (He's got 10) back pockets. The one on his left butt cheek, to be specific.

He is never going to Jorge Figueroa's mamma's house.

Transformers (2007 film)

 * Actor: Tyrese Gibson (English), Jin Yamanoi (Japanese-language dub voice)

Sergeant Epps and the other soldiers under Captain Lennox's command were returning to SOCCENT Forward Operations Base after some hard duty. When Lennox revealed that wanted to go home to see his baby girl more than anything else, Epps joined in with the men in teasing their commander. As night fell, a mysterious MH-53 helicopter arrived at the base, and after being surrounded by dozens of troops, it suddenly transformed into a giant robot which proceeded to attack the base. Epps ran and ordered other soldiers to ready combat stations as they were under attack. The giant robot narrowly missed crushing him as he used his digital recorder to take footage of the strange machine. Fellow soldier Figueroa saved Epps by firing a sabot round at the robot, which allowed Epps to escape. Epps linked up with the rest of Lennox's team and the Captain's little buddy Mahfouz and high-tailed it out of the exploding base.



The next morning, the survivors discussed the previous night's events, with Epps sharing with them the images he captured, as well as theorizing that the weapons platform was generating some sort of force field. Sergeant Donnelly expressed disbelief at this. Epps then shared the unnerving feeling that as he was recording the thing, it stared right back at him, causing an ominous silence to settle among the group. Later that day, as they made their way to local boy Mahfouz's village, Epps spotted a giant metal spike coming out of the sand aimed at Lennox's back and began firing wildly into the sand. After Sergeant Donnelly was impaled and killed by the robotic scorpion, the rest of the men ran for their lives to the cover of the village. Lennox managed to borrow a cell phone from Akram, Mahfouz's father, and asked for Epps's wallet for a credit card to make the call. In between firing rounds from his rifle, Epps barked that it was in his back pocket, prompting Lennox to protest that he had ten back pockets. Epps loudly clarified it was his left-cheek back pocket.



When contact when the Pentagon was established, Epps coordinated with the E-3 Sentry AWACS plane to give orders for the incoming A-10 Thunderbolt IIs of Strike Package Bravo, indicating the target area killbox one-alpha with orange flares and laser guidance markers. As the A-10s arrived to provide air support, he gave them clearance to fire by shouting, "Bring it!" When their weapons completely failed to dent Scorponok, Lennox suggested the biggest barrels the Air Force has: the 105 millimeter cannons of an AC-130 Spectre gunship. This was signaled with a shout of "Bring the rain!" The resulting fusillade pounded Scorponok into the sand. As the dust settled, the scorpion got up and dove underground, but not before leaving part of its damaged tail behind.

In the aftermath of combat with Scorponok, Epps and the rest of Lennox's Spec Ops team were ordered home to American soil by Secretary of Defense John Keller, who had thought everyone at the SOCCENT base was massacred. They took the end of Scorponok's tail with them on the flight. Doing their own analysis of the piece of robot body, they discovered that its Self-regenerating molecular armor didn't regenerate where hit by sabot rounds, which Epps confirmed were "something like" a 6000-degree magnesium burn. They called the Pentagon again, telling them all gunships had to be loaded with sabot rounds to fight these things.

Later, Epps and the team land at Nellis Air Force Base. Instead of them being debriefed on site, a guy from Sector Seven grabbed one of their bags and ordered them to come with him. This was confusing, since Sector Seven didn't exist.

Epps and the team were driven to Hoover Dam, where they stood around looking awesome in their fatigues as other people who knew about the alien robots arrived. Everyone filed inside Hoover Dam, where Sector Seven had been hiding the leader of the evil alien invaders and the All Spark for 80 years. Upon seeing a thick steel door with triple claw marks in it, Epps pondered whether Freddy Krueger had been up in there. A geek pointed out that Freddy Krueger got four claws—that was Wolverine! Shortly thereafter, a kid got in a fight with Seymour Simmons of Sector Seven over whether or not to release the good alien robot who'd been disguised as a Camaro. Lennox attempted to settle the argument by putting his sidearm to Simmons' chest, and Epps backed up his Commanding Officer in the geometrically complex standoff that ensued. When Simmons ordered them to stand down under S7 jurisdiction, Epps pointedly reminded Simmons that S7 didn't exist. They won. Losing wasn't really an option for these guys.

While everyone was still inside Hoover Dam, the Decepticons attacked, knocking out power. All communications were dead as the giant evil robot leader thawed out. After calling the Air Force with Morse code, the only thing left to do was get the All Spark to Mission City, where it could be hidden in the urban jungle until the military arrived to evacuate it by helicopter. Epps complained when handed a couple of very large shortwave radios that they were "Radio Shack dinosaur radios, won't be able to work more than 20 miles." His group then stopped after spotting an F-22 Raptor, which turned out to be alien and unfriendly.

Later, making a stand in Mission City, Lennox and Epps ordered their air support to "bring the rain" again. Stuff got brought. While the Air Force brought it, Epps and the rest of the team fought the Decepticon tank with all five of the good robots, which almost got him killed. Luckily, that robot Camaro zipped in on the back of a tow truck and saved him. Then he helped Lennox kill that helicopter who'd killed their comrades in Qatar.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009 film)
In the two years since the Mission City incident, Epps has been promoted to Master Sergeant and now serves, alongside Major Lennox in the NEST team with the Autobots, fighting Decepticons. Together they've shed "blood, sweat and precious metal". Epps serves with NEST in China against Sideways and Demolishor, where he overhears the latter's cryptic message that 'The Fallen shall rise again.' During the briefing, he tries to help convince Galloway and is told that he's payed to shoot not think to which he mutters "don't tempt me" as he's very tempted to shoot Galloway. This causes Optimus to tell him "easy." He later takes part in the battle in Egypt, nearly killing himself and Lennox when a smoke-grenade he threw didn't go far. It wasn't his best toss.

In Sideswipe's toy bio, it's stated that he became good friends with Epps. Epp's wife (Either called Monique or Theresa) was set to appear in one scene were she and Lennox's wife try to pass an secret message to their husbands under secretary Galloway's radar, ensuing a funny banter between the two of them. It is unknown if the scene was filmed.

Transformers (film)

 * Desert Attack (Screen Battles, 2007)
 * Japanese ID number: SB-03




 * This pack features a Deluxe Scorponok repainted with 'sand' paint applications on his body and comes with non-posable figurines of Sergeant Epps, Jorge Figueroa and Sergeant Donnelly (though he would be dead at this point). They are packaged in a special window box featuring a diorama depicting the battle at Mahfouz's village.