Sideways (Movie)


 * Sideways is a Decepticon from the live-action movie continuity family.



Back on Cybertron, Sideways was a simple courier who avoided combat at all costs. He tried to always remain in the shadow of larger Decepticons, where the Autobots might not notice him.On Earth, he's keeping much the same practice. He teamed up with Demolishor early on, and hopes that if the Autobots find them, the big Decepticon can keep him safe.

Revenge of the Fallen film


N.E.S.T. and the Autobots pursue Sideways and Demolishor through Shanghai. While Optimus Prime and Ironhide are busy dealing with Demolishor, Sideways figures that he can escape now that they are sidetracked. But Arcee, Skids, Mudflap, and Sideswipe realize that he's going to get out of the toxic spill cover zone and they go after him. Sideways manages to evade all of them except Sideswipe, who leaps above him, fires his sword into the hood of the fleeing Decepticon, and slices the 'Con in half while he's in altmode, killing him.

Video Game
Sideways is part of a group of Decepticons sent to Shanghai. Ironhide arrives and fights through all the Decepticons until only Sideways is left. Ironhide fights Sideways in a short battle in which he kills Sideways and blows him off a building. Hey, it's better than being sliced in half.
 * Voice Actor: John DiMaggio
 * Autobot Campaign

Sideways is dispatched to Shanghai to take out a group of Autobots disrupting Decepticon operations in the area. Later, when Grindor has gone missing, he is sent to find and reactivate him.
 * Decepticon Campaign

Toys

 * Sideways (Deluxe, 2009)
 * Sideways transforms into a Audi R8. His mech-alive gimmick is a saw-cutter on his arm, where a wheel should be. Sideways' windows are tinted purple. His conversion starts by pressing the front grill.
 * There are two versions of the Sideways toy available. The one pictured, and a rarer version which has a darker silver color, almost gunmetal. This version is believed to be a Chase figure.
 * This mold was also used to make Dead End.


 * Magna Missile Sideways (Fast Action Battlers, 2009)


 * Sideways (Legends, 2009)

Trivia

 * Just like Bonecrusher or Demolishor, he was used in a lot of movie promotions, but his overall screen time was very short compared to what we might expect. The poor guy didn't get any lines, just the satisfaction of making an old Chinese guy turn around. However, Sideways has a much bigger role in the games. He even survives Shanghai!


 * Of all the Transformers featured in both films, he is possibly the only one who died without putting up much of a fight.
 * Also, of all the Transformers who are killed in both films, Sideways is the only one who dies while in his alt-mode. All of the visible deads were killed while in their robot modes.


 * When Audi was looking to win screen time for one of its cars in the summer films during 2009, Ruben Igielko-Herrlich, a marketing consultant from Propaganda Global Entertainment Marketing, helped the company to find an opportunity in the film Revenge of the Fallen. Ruben talked the staff from the film into finding a role for the Audi R8. Ultimately, an Audi R8 appears in the film as Sideways, the villain. Thus, Sideways became the only car Transformer in the movie whose alternate mode is not manufactured by General Motors.