Tranquility
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| This article is about the location in Nevada or California from the live-action movie. For the location in Kansas from Armada, see Tranquility, Kansas. |
Tranquility is a city possibly located in Nevada or California (see Notes) in the United States of America. Sam lives there.
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Fiction
Transformers film
Though never explicitly named, Tranquility is where the Witwickys and Mikaela Banes live. After receiving Bumblebee's call for assistance, the Autobots made a (semi)successful planetfall in Tranquility. Only Optimus Prime managed to land in an uninhabited area. Transformers
Transformers: The Game
Tranquility possesses a massive police force which tends to shoot first and not bother asking questions when it comes to giant robots, ramps provided by Convenient Ramps Inc., and an amazing ability to repair itself any time nobody's looking at part of it. They are also firmly in the pocket of Sector Seven. Barricade took advantage of their mentality by disguising himself as one of their number. Interestingly, the cops seemed to consider the Autobots a bigger threat than the Decepticons, especially as Shockwave more actively attempted to destroy the city. Maybe it had something to do with Bumblebee destroying the local power station twice within the space of about an hour, or Jazz blowing up their station. Transformers The Game
Transformers: Autobots/Decepticons
See above, but with more cops and less Shockwave.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Game (console)
Sam Witwicky's house is stated to be located in Burbank, California.
Locations in Tranquility
- Bay Demolition
- Tranquility Auto Row
- Porche Dealership
- Cadillac Dealership
- Bolivia's Finest Quality Used Cars and Petting Zoo
- Tranquility Mall (aka the "Metroplex Mall")
- Tranquility Sparks Baseball Field
- Tranquility Estates — future site of (under construction)
- Business Park
Notes
Geography
It's uncertain in which state Tranquility is actually supposed to be located. An earlier version of the movie's script identified the city as "Tranquility, Nevada", but neither the city nor its state are actually identified by name in the movie itself.
The only official media to explicitly identify the state as Nevada Issue 4 of IDW's Movie Prequel mini-series and the Top Trumps Transformers book. Meanwhile, issue 1 of IDW's Movie Adaptation simply identifies it as "Tranquility, U.S.A.", and Transformers: Beginnings, an "animated" version of the Movie Prequel comic available on a Wal-Mart exclusive bonus DVD explicitly has the name "Nevada" removed from a caption near the end.
Meanwhile the Glu Transformers mobile game shows Tranquility location on a map—in northern California. This seems to fit many elements of the movie far better, particularly Ron Witwicky's comments about earthquakes.
It seems the writers, while originally intending to have Tranquility located in Nevada, later decided to remove all references to the state, either because Bumblebee somehow manages to drive Sam and Mikaela from there to Griffith Observatory (which is located in California), or in an attempt to make its location more ambiguous, similar to the Simpsons' Springfield.
Revenge of the Fallen throws an even bigger monkey wrench into the location: In the film itself, when The Fallen makes his demand for Sam, his driver's license is shown to be registered in California. In addition, when he meets Optimus at the graveyard in the novelization, he states that he is from Burbank.
- Store signs in the 2007 Transformers game indicate Tranquility phone numbers have the "460" area code; a (thus far) unallocated region-code in the real world.
- Bumblebee has a California licence plate.
- Ron Witwicky's car has a California licence plate. Duh.
