Glen Whitmann
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- Glen Whitmann is a human from the 2007 movie portion of the movie continuity family.
Glen Whitmann is an expert hacker and computer hardware technician.... who lives with his grandma. Unsurprisingly, he's a virgin.
A colossal dork, he spends his days playing Dance Dance Revolution with his cousin, living under the shouty regime of his grandmother, and can tell quickly the difference between an attack by Freddy Krueger and one by Wolverine. He breaks almost instantly under pressure, but when he's really scared, is still capable of working his technological magic.
His biggest piece of advice: Eat all the donuts. If you don't touch them, they think you're guilty.
How in the hell he knows a hottie like Maggie Madsen is anyone's guess.
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Fiction
Transformers film
- Actor: Anthony Anderson
- Voice actor: Wataru Takagi (Japanese dub), Tian Bo (Mandarin dub), Mario Castañeda (Latin American Spanish dub), Rafael Calvo (Castilian Spanish dub), Lucien Jean-Baptiste (European French dub), Gilbert Lachance (Canadian French dub), Manolo Rey (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Tobias Müller (German dub), Massimo De Ambrosis (Italian dub), Sefa Zengin (Turkish dub)
It was the beginning of a bad day for Glen when his game of Dance Dance Revolution was interrupted by his improbably attractive friend Maggie. Just her walking into his 'private area of zen and peace' without any advanced notice was enough trouble for poor Glen, but adding more pressure to it with his foul-tempered grandmother's meddling, which only made his day even worse (So much for zen and peace). At first, he was reluctant to end the game session with his cousin until Maggie told him she possessed highly classified data that would land her in jail for the rest of her life if the authorities found out. His curiosity piqued, Glen proceeded to hack into the data, discovering images and files about something called Project: Iceman and an organization named Sector Seven. In the code itself, he discovered strange symbols. Before they could view any more information, an FBI assault team crashed through the front door, prompting Glen's cousin to break out of the back door in a bid to escape, but was tackled into the swimming pool by an FBI agent. As he and Maggie were handcuffed, Glen cried out that nobody treads on his grandma's carpet, especially the po-lice.
While in an FBI holding room, Glen ate a plate of donuts, telling Maggie that she shouldn't worry, the FBI were going to play 'Good cop/Bad cop', and the donuts were a test. He theorized that a guilty person would not touch the donuts, while an innocent man would eat them, and he'd eaten the entire plate. He concluded that all they needed to do is stick up for each other and they'd be fine. As soon as the interrogation agents arrived, making it wordlessly clear that the pair were both in a lot of trouble by placing a folder of information on the table, Glen suddenly cried out that it was all Maggie's fault, she was the one who brought him the data, and that he was just playing video games with his cousin. He further revealed that he was a virgin, and that the worst he had done was download a few thousand songs off the internet, but who hasn't? After being told to shut up by Maggie, he exclaimed that a criminal such as herself shouldn't talk to him, then quickly sat down to recover from the sugar rush while Maggie explained what she was trying to accomplish.
Later, Secretary of Defense Keller barged into the room, announcing that Maggie was coming with him as an adviser. Glen inquired about himself, prompting the confused Keller to ask who he was. Maggie replied that Glen was her adviser. Keller allowed him to come along. Soon, they were in a helicopter with two teenagers who were also on board for some reason. The boy broke the awkward silence, prompting Maggie to ask what did the government get them in for. To Glen's astonishment, the boy, Sam, replied that he bought a car that turned out to be an alien robot.
When pressed on the nature of the All Spark's radiation, Agent Simmons and Tom Banachek took them into a sealed room. When Sergeant Epps noticed claw marks and inquired if Freddy Krueger had been in the room, Glen corrected the sergeant by reminding him that Krueger only had four claws, while the three on the wall indicated that it was Wolverine, which he found amusing. Agent Simmons replied that his joke was very funny, without a trace of humor. Possibly as a way of apologizing, Glen offered up his Nokia cell phone as a demonstration piece, turning it into a vicious little death machine. During the big Mexican stand-off between the United States Military Special Ops Team, and the Sector Seven Guards, Glen stood by fearfully with his hands in the air, as though he was being held hostage.
When the Iceman thawed, Secretary Keller, Agent Simmons, and Maggie managed to get an old radio, unfortunately, it had no microphones. Maggie suggested that Glen wire a computer to the radio and use that as an interface, using Keller's authorization codes as confirmation. Despite an attack by a tiny killer robot, Glen was able to link up with the military. Transformers
Transformers Mix & Match
Glen and Maggie Madsen were inside Sector Seven when they were attacked by Frenzy. The Autobot Drone helped protect them until they could summon help. Transformers Mix & Match
Top Trumps Specials: Transformers
Glen Whitman honed his hacking skills working for the RAND Corporation think tank. He even hacked into the Government once or twice! Top Trumps
Titan movie comics
Barricade had no idea who Glen was. Ironhide did know but couldn't remember how to spell his name. Ironhide believed Glen was still living in the same place and eating lots of doughnuts, and responded "Oh dear" at the concept. #15's Law and Disorder
Notes
- Glen Whitmann's pre-production name was Glenn Ross Dygert.
- In Transformers: The Movie Storybook, Glen is inexplicably white. Also, he has a My Little Pony. This is a leftover element from when artist Marcelo Matere, working with early and sparse information, thought Glen was a female character. (This was before the G4 incarnation of the franchise and the attendant creation of the "Brony" subculture.)
- The role of Glen was initially offered to Patton Oswalt, but he had already committed to another film. He hasn't said what movie it was. If it was Balls of Fury, he's probably kicking himself.
- Glen's intelligence must be higher than anyone else's on Earth, given that he has a computer that can decipher the Cybertronian language, let alone hack government code. Either that or he bought it from HP.
- A part of the scene where Glen is trying to contact the military for help while Frenzy is attacking was apparently cut out of the film. Footage from this part can be seen in trailers and TV spots when Glen is shown yelling, "The killer robot is really distracting!"
- Glen evidently lives far enough away from the Pentagon that Maggie had to take two different taxis to get there.
