Transformers Fall of Cybertron Audio Logs
Michael Greer for Ironhide
Ironhide, the Autobots' resident weapons specialist, is one of the oldest and toughest Autobots, and has been on Optimus Prime's team for a long time. "They don't make them like they used to" is an apt description of Ironhide—he's yesterday's model, but he's built to last. He is old because he is hard. He's probably had enough replacement parts to build a small army, but Ironhide doggedly refuses to roll over and die for anyone. He'll fight to the bitter end and take down more than his fair share of Decepticons in the process.
Gruff and ornery, he prefers actions to words, and dislikes talk for talk's sake. He may not always see optic to optic with Prime, despite their friendship. He's perhaps the more practical of the two, and more than a little trigger happy, so he can be more willing to push the Autobot code to the limit if he thinks it will get the job done faster.
But though he may be rough around the edges, he's still somewhat optimistic and upbeat in spite of the toll the War has taken on him. But he always seems to think that the upside to being through more than your share of trouble means trouble ain't so big a scare anymore.
For this role, you will need to refer to both Peter Cullen's performance from G1 and Keith Szarabajka's performances from the War for Cybertron games. The latter of the two is preferrable.
ALSO: Please be aware that these three audition lines are the only audio logs for Ironhide. Whomever I choose will be notified if I want a "callback," or consider the role as complete.
- american (southern)
- voice match
- male adult
- western/cowboy
- texan
Ironhide's log. Been fighting this war for so long, sometimes I forget how it even started. In the early cycles, Cybertronians knew nothing but the job they were born into, the daily grind of an orderly world. Things seemed to change the blink of an optic. We evolved as a society and free thinkers. Many of us wanted to be free to explore the cosmos. Others had more sinister designs.
A young miner named Orion Pax was the first to sense that something was wrong. Often diving into the Hall of Records and getting himself into trouble, he dared to monitor the same transmissions as everyone else. But he heard so much more. Orion was the first to realize that Sentinel Prime was a deceptive traitor as he and fellow miners Elita-1, B-127, and his best friend D-16 journeyed to the surface to find the Matrix of Leadership. From that point on, D-16 began to have ambitions that soon far outreached his success in the mines. After killing Sentinel Prime before everybody's eyes, taking Megatronus Prime's transformation cog for himself, and then being banished from Iacon by Orion, now bearing the Matrix and having been christened as Optimus Prime, D-16 created a new identity, and Megatron and the Decepticons were born.
When the Decepticons came, they came with a ferocity no one had seen before. We Autobots were not fighters. We had no experience in war. We were ill-prepared to face Megatron's legions. Gladiators that made up the Cybertronian High Guard, now thriving under nothing but destruction and mayhem. If we had any advantage, it was the fact that we felt we were fighting for a truer cause… freedom.
