Megatron Meets Mega-babe
What gets a geek’s heart beating faster than giant, earth-defending robots from outer space? Well, let’s be realistic, almost nothing. But, Optimus Prime’s Transformers co-star comes pretty darn close. When social outcast Sam Witwicky stumbles backwards into a life-changing used car purchase, he’s already years deep in a multi-year mega-crush on classmate Mikaela Banes, portrayed by mega-babe Megan Fox. With a natural aptitude for machinery that would rival that of professional mechanics, Banes isn’t your stereotypical high school “it” girl, even if she does start the movie dating a hot-shot football player. Though Sam believes her to be well out of his league, Banes atypical background, the daughter of a paroled car thief, combined with her automobile obsession, naturally draws close to Sam, whose otherworldly car fascinates her. As Sam displays his predestined heroics, he eventually wins over Banes, helping the Autobots to defeat the Decepticons in a battle for Earth’s fortunes.The first Transformers film launched Megan Fox to a cult status sex symbol in the geek community. Aside from her smokin’ hot figure, Fox’s character Banes captures every geeks fantasy by displaying a natural knowhow and mechanical curiosity that eludes stereotypical girls of her level of attractiveness. Perhaps this phenomenon is even accentuated by Megan Fox’s sultry off-screen persona. Far from the traditional Hollywood starlet, Fox was not always the object of many men’s affections. Bullied in her younger days, Fox developed a bitingly aggressive personality, and much like her most famous character, is considered to be somewhat of a “badass” among her peers. Clad in numerous tattoos and freely speaking out of turn, often in profanity-laced sentences, Fox does little to maintain a squeaky good girl image. If geeks the world over didn’t have it bad enough already, Fox is on record as a confirmed comic book reader, anime fan and even gamer. That’s right, Megan Fox is not only revered by geeks the world over, but is a geek herself, trapped in a supermodel’s body.