Seymour Simmons

Agent Simmons is a human from the live-action film continuity family.

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Agent Seymour Rutherford Simmons is the Chief Agent of Sector Seven's Field Agents. His family has been in Sector Seven since day one, when his great-grandfather helped dig the Ice Man out of the Arctic. He might come off as a jerk sometimes, but he is a patriot who takes his work very personally.

He's just a smidge off his nut—eccentric, weird, crazy, whatever you want to call it. He's strange, and he wears Hawaiian underwear, Sector Seven undershirts, and clip-on ties.

He is the son of Bill Simmons and Tova Anael Fischer.

Fiction

Movies

Transformers film

Actor: John Turturro

Voice actor: Yūichi Nagashima (Japanese dub), Lu Kui (Mandarin dub), Gu-han Gang (Korean), Stefan Fredrich (German dub), Hélio Ribeiro (Portuguese dub), Angelo Maggi (Italian dub), Vincent Violette (European French dub), François L'Écuyer (Canadian French dub), Salvador Delgado (Latin American Spanish dub), Pedro Molina (Castilian Spanish dub), Rajesh Khattar (Hindi dub), T. N. Balu Kadhiravan (Tamil dub), Hakan Vanlı (Turkish dub)

Eat it.

Agent Simmons went to the Witwicky residence when Sector Seven suspected that Sam Witwicky had made contact with an N.B.E. they were tracking. Taking Sam and Mikaela Banes into custody, he got too into the bad cop role, threatening Sam with life imprisonment, threatening Mikaela's father's parole, and revealing Mikaela's own criminal record. This strategy nearly succeeded...until a seriously pissed off Optimus Prime decided to pay Sam and Mikaela's bail—by jumping right in front of their SUV, lifting it off the ground, and tearing the roof off. Although Simmons tried to call for calm, the Autobots easily disarmed the agents. To Simmons's credit, he himself remained calm, while the guy to his left looked like he was going to wet himself.

Dear America. Please Stop. Love, Germany.

Prime attempted to interrogate Simmons, who revealed that the only communication he was authorized to have with the N.B.E.s was to tell them he wasn't authorized to communicate with them. He also refused to answer any questions from Sam and Mikaela about Sector Seven or how they knew of the Autobots. Annoyed by his attitude, Bumblebee released lubricant on him, and then Mikaela had Simmons strip as punishment for threatening her father. Simmons had little to worry about when he was handcuffed to a pole, as a fellow agent had already alerted their confederates. Most of the Autobots managed to elude Sector Seven, but Bumblebee was captured when he saved Sam and Mikaela from a fall.

Hooch is crazy...

After arriving at Hoover Dam (and presumably taking the longest shower of his life), Agent Simmons, in a new, clean, and higher-in-authority uniform, and trying the awkward role of good cop, told Sam and Mikaela that they may have gotten off on the wrong foot. Taking them to see the Mega Man, Simmons was told of Megatron's plans by Sam. Taking the guests to see the Cube, Simmons and Banachek then took their guests to see a demonstration of the Cube's power. Sergeant Epps noticed some claw marks on the walls of the containment room, asking if Freddy Krueger had been here. Glen Whitmann responded that the three claw marks indicated that it was Wolverine, chuckling. Simmons replied that that his comment was very funny, without any humor at all. Glen then donated his Nokia cellphone, and Simmons commented on how the Japanese's knowledge of the Samurai earned respect (Nokia is actually based in Finland). Funneling the Cube radiation into the containment box, the cellphone came to life, but nearly broke the box, forcing Simmons to unleash a massive electrical surge to kill the damn thing. He seemed to enjoy the whole experience.

However, Frenzy had infiltrated the dam and sent a message to the Decepticons, causing Starscream to attack. Sam urged Simmons to release Bumblebee, saying he would help, but Simmons stubbornly refused. Captain Lennox decided to apply some armed persuasion, which Simmons still refused to heed, leading to a standoff between the rangers and Sector Seven agents. Finally, the rangers won when Secretary Keller advised Simmons to comply. After Bumblebee reformatted the Cube, Simmons, Secretary Keller, Maggie Madsen, and Glen Whitmann went to the dam's archives, where they tried to send an S.O.S via an old radio. Unfortunately, while the radio itself was working, someone had stolen the microphones. Glen managed to hotwire a computer to send a signal via Morse code, while Simmons and Keller provided cover fire when Frenzy began attacking. Fortunately, the psychotic robot sliced off his own head. Transformers

Revenge of the Fallen film

Actor: John Turturro

Voice actor: Yūichi Nagashima (Japanese dub), Lu Kui (Mandarin dub), Hélio Ribeiro (Portuguese dub), Angelo Maggi (Italian dub), Vincent Violette (European French dub), François L'Écuyer (Canadian French dub), Salvador Delgado (Latin American Spanish dub), Pedro Molina (Castilian Spanish dub), Rajesh Khattar (Hindi dub), Stefan Fredrich (German dub), T. N. Balu Kadhiravan (Tamil dub), Hakan Vanlı (Turkish dub)

My mother's sandwich recipe is classified. Real effing classified.

Simmons set up a website, GiantEffingRobots.com, under the alias Robo-Warrior, where he developed a rivalry with The Real Effing Deal. One day, after his hometown of New York City had been attacked by Decepticon protoforms and The Fallen had broadcast a threat across the world, The Real Effing Deal's webmaster, Leo Spitz, walked into his deli. Leo tried to be civil about their rivalry, as he recognized he needed Robo-warrior's aid, but Simmons initially feigned ignorance of his site and then began criticizing Leo's work. Then, when Sam Witwicky and Mikaela Banes walked through his door, visibly shocked at whom they were dealing with, Simmons ordered the store closed, then vented further, admonishing Sam over how N.B.E. 01 was still alive and blaming them for the loss of his job.

Once Simmons heard how Sam needed his help, he was prepared to let Sam rot, until Sam mentioned that a crab bot had projected alien symbols from his brain. Realizing what that meant, he opened a hidden stairway in the cold storage room that led to a room filled with classified files (as well as Frenzy's head), which he'd taken for himself before Sector Seven closed its doors. Simmons revealed the Cyberglyphics Sam was hallucinating about could be found all over the globe, a clear sign the Transformers had visited the planet long before the AllSpark and Megatron. Simmons explained he had been keen to investigate evidence of other Transformers lying inert on Earth, but Sector Seven had denied him permission, deeming it an obsession. Mikaela brought Wheelie into the room, and he identified several of the machines in Simmons's photographs as Seekers, who had come to Earth ages ago searching for something.

Journeying to the nearest known Seeker at the Smithsonian, Simmons hatched a plan to get past security after hours that essentially involved him tasing the guards: Simmons was successful in taking down the guard to whom he'd assigned himself, but Leo wound up tasing himself too. Simmons had to drag him to where Sam, Mikaela and Wheelie had detected energon radiation, and they found their Seeker was an SR-71 Blackbird. Sam's AllSpark fragment reactivated the jet, who was actually the former Decepticon Jetfire. The grouchy Seeker used a space bridge to transport them to Egypt, where he told them the story of The Fallen, the Star Harvester, and the Matrix of Leadership needed to power it, which was hidden in the Tomb of the Primes. Jetfire explained the clue they had: "When dawn alights the Dagger's tip, Three Kings will reveal the Doorway". The four humans plus Wheelie, Bumblebee, Skids and Mudflap went searching for the Matrix to resurrect Optimus Prime, the only one who could defeat The Fallen.

Simmons has an odd concept of "alone". He's very strange.

Simmons used his intelligence skills to evade detection, as The Fallen's demand for Sam's capture made Sam a wanted man. His history contact in the CIA informed that the Israelites used to call the Gulf of Aqaba "the Dagger's tip," indicating that it was their next destination. He contacted NEST, telling them to bring Optimus's body to Egypt. Then he got Sam across the Jordanian border, mainly because the border guard liked New York and was amiable enough to let his "family" pass. Sam worked out the only clue to the tomb and uncovered the Matrix in Petra. As Leo complained of the lack of answers, Simmons angrily informed him that real life was heart break. This in turn caused an argument between the Twins, which turned physical, damaging the ancient ruins they were in. However, the fight revealed the Tomb of the Primes behind the wall they cracked, with the Matrix... which crumbled to dust, after Sam tried to gain possession of it. Simmons looked on the bright side: without the Matrix, the Decepticons couldn't activate the machine. As Bumblebee drove them back to Egypt, they were attacked by Starscream. Sam ran off to revive Optimus, who was being protected by NEST in ruins near the pyramids, while Simmons played decoy and drove in Skids to a quarry. Simmons relished his supporting role, proclaiming he was "One man, alone, betrayed by the country he loves," despite the fact that Leo was right next to him, and he was driving Skids.

Simmons and Leo were driven by Skids and Mudflap into a quarry near the pyramids, where they witnessed the Constructicons combine into Devastator. Simmons avoided being sucked into the giant's mouth by running for his legs. As Devastator clambered up the Great Pyramid of Giza, realization struck Simmons: the pyramid was built around the machine Jetfire had told them about. He retrieved a radio from a Jordanian helicopter that Megatron had downed, which he used to contact the United States Navy. Simmons followed Devastator up the pyramid-despite Leo's protests-with the radio in hand, wheedling his way around Captain Wilder's tedious demand as to how he knew of their top secret rail gun that were based on studies of the US military. As he climbed the pyramid, Simmons probably became the only human to acknowledge Devastator had two wrecking balls resembling the male scrotum. After the Navy successfully fired on the behemoth, Simmons gained military backup for NEST, whose phone signals had been jammed by Soundwave. After Optimus was raised from the dead and The Fallen's defeat, Simmons was congratulated by Lennox for his aid in bringing down the Decepticons. Revenge of the Fallen

Dark of the Moon film

Actor: John Turturro

Voice actor: Yūichi Nagashima (Japanese dub), Lu Kui (Mandarin dub), Salvador Delgado (Latin American-Spanish dub), Pedro Molina (Castilian Spanish dub), Vincent Violette (European French dub), François L'Écuyer (Canadian French dub), Rajesh Khattar (Hindi dub), Hélio Ribeiro (Portuguese dub), Stefan Fredrich (German dub), Angelo Maggi (Italian dub), T. N. Balu Kadhiravan (Tamil dub), Hakan Vanlı (Turkish dub)

In the three years since Operation: Firestorm, and with the presence of the Transformers revealed to the public, Simmons had written a book—Code-Name Hero: How Seymour Simmons & the Aliens Saved the World which turned out to be quite the money-spinner. Simmons had gotten enough cash to live in a fancy new house with Dutch as his personal assistant.

Simmons had clearly retained his newfound warmth towards the Autobots by this time, as he publicly defended the controversial allies of the United States when attacked—er, interviewed by Bill O'Reilly. Dutch had just kicked out O'Reilly's goons, when Simmons was called by his old pal Sam Witwicky (who had dubbed Simmons the expert). Sam asked for his assistance in uncovering the secrets of the newest Autobot-Decepticon conflict, and after some careful consideration (and fear of relapse from his "addiction" to Transformers), agreed. Simmons worked with Sam, Dutch, Brains, Wheelie, and the kid's Camaro Bumblebee. Together they deduced that the Decepticons had been killing humans who had been working with them for decades, and Brains and Dutch found two Russian cosmonauts in hiding. Before they could set off, Sam got into an argument with his new girlfriend Carly Spencer. Simmons comforted the young "warrior", and pondered aloud how she afforded her new car.

We're not really buying this latest reboot of The Odd Couple...

The group, now accompanied by Dino and Sideswipe, tracked down the Russians to a seedy bar. Simmons' attempt to get in by speaking Russian was flatly turned down ("Do svidaniya" means goodbye), but giving the bouncer a couple bucks got them in. Negotiations eventually broke down between the group and the Russians, culminating in the group being held at gunpoint. Dutch flipped out, much to Simmons' panic, but luckily he could calm his relapsing assistant down. Now with peace restored, the Russians explained that the last planned Moon mission was cancelled, and they had taken pictures of hundreds of strange rocks being dragged out across the Moon's surface. Sam was able to figure out that the Decepticons were truly after Sentinel Prime, and they quickly took off. However, on the highway, three black Suburbans began pursuing them. Simmons poked out of the sun roof of his car to get a closer look, but one of the Suburbans transformed and threw him out of his ride, injuring him.

Simmons was eventually found and treated, now wheelchair bound, and was disgusted to realize that the United Nations were giving the Autobots the boot. However, he was quite interested that his old "pal" Charlotte Mearing was in a lofty position of authority, and exchanged icy cold banter with his former mistress. Simmons watched Optimus Prime and the kid's Camaro bid farewell to Sam, and afterwards again voiced his disapproval of the exile of their only hope. Simmons sadly watched the Autobots depart Earth, but when it was destroyed by Starscream, Simmons was left distraught.

Sam later came for his aid again, asking him to track the leader of the Decepticon-allied humans. Dutch determined that he was in Chicago, and Sam and Robert Epps set off to rescue the former's girlfriend. As the conflict escalated in a massive battle in Chicago, Simmons aided from behind the scenes... which really consisted of yelling at the military personnel, and watching Dutch do all the work. It looked bad when the robots' planet began to appear in the atmosphere, but when the planet disappeared, it meant victory at least. In celebration, Simmons took the moment to kiss Mearing, professing his love for her, but she had him arrested. Simmons happily complied, saying it was worth it. Dark of the Moon

The Last Knight film

Actor: John Turturro

Voice actor: Yūichi Nagashima (Japanese dub), Lu Kui (Mandarin-language dub), Vincent Violette (European French dub), François L'Écuyer (Canadian French dub), Rajesh Khattar (Hindi dub), Hélio Ribeiro (Portuguese dub), T. N. Balu Kadhiravan (Tamil dub), Hakan Vanlı (Turkish dub)

Hey guys, I'm back! And I'm here to... um, well. I gotta make a scrotum joke and yammer at the phone. But I'm back! ... and I'm gone again.

Following the hunting of the Transformers by the TRF, Simmons relocated to Cuba, where Transformers and human sympathizers were granted asylum. He was friendly with his fellow expat Topspin, who liked to pester him to go to the beach. In exchange for being made a member of the Order of the Witwiccans, he informed Sir Edmund Burton about the Book of Cyber-Kells which contained important information about the alien horns appearing worldwide and told the British lord about the significance of Stonehenge, allowing Burton to lead the Autobots there for the final battle. The Last Knight

Bumblebee film

Actor: Nick Pilla

Voice actor: Shūichi Nishitani (Japanese dub), Hugo Brunswick (European French dub), Cafi Balloussier (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Pascual Meza (Latin-American Spanish dub), Jonas Frenz (German dub)

Excellent plan, sir! Except for...well, all of it.

When Shatter and Dropkick made planetfall in 1987, Simmons eagerly brought the report detailing it to Agent Burns, and then went with him to Texas in order to intercept the two Decepticons. The following day, when Bumblebee caused a power surge in Brighton Falls, Simmons informed the location to his superiors, and later accompanied Burns in his failed attempt to reapprehend Bumblebee. Bumblebee

Sector Seven ARG

Seymour Simmons is a fictional character in a fictional Transformers movie produced by the real Sector Seven, masterminded by Reggie Simmons. Sector Seven

IDW comics

It's not so much a circle as it is a straight line

In 1954, William Simmons found out that Anne Fischer was pregnant. After Bill went missing and was thought dead, Anne took the Simmons name and named the kid Seymour. His great-grandfather Walter Simmons hopes to never meet him and hopes Seymour never finds out about Sector 7 and discovers his legacy. Frozen

Unfortunately, Seymour would find out about Sector 7 nonetheless at age eleven. At the time, Seymour found his everyday life monotonous, and had trouble relating to his schoolmates. He learned how to forge keys through library books, and managed to break into Mr. Cappuccio’s safe just to see if he could. He'd never steal anything, only wanting a place to escape in solitude. One day, he discovered a secret room within the building, and claimed it as his personal space. Within his sanctuary, Seymour fed his fascination with conspiracies, having deduced through his own research that aliens had been hiding on Earth at least since the 1900s.

One night, Seymour heard someone enter the diner as he readied to enter his secret room. After dismissing the idea that it was either his mother or burglars, he concluded that whoever had come was someone behind one of the many conspiracies he had uncovered. Going to spy upon whoever was coming in, he saw a one-armed man sneak into the Deli. The one-armed man quickly spotted Seymour, and grabbed him. Though he struggled at first, Seymour recognized the man from the photograph his mother kept. The man was Bill Simmons. The father-and-son reunion was cut short by the sound of a helicopter approaching outside.

Seymour and his father parted ways, though Bill Simmons left his son the 29-digit phone number needed to contact Sector 7, and instructed him to inform them of what happened. He then left his metal hand behind, and took off. Seymour watched as a robot jumped out of the helicopter outside, disguised itself as a woman, and chased after his father. The two faced-off in a building down the street. Then, the helicopter launched a projectile, which incinerated the building that the woman and his father had run into. The woman exited the inferno, but Seymour's father did not.

As men in black suits rushed onto the scene and covered up the incident, Seymour ran off and made the call his father had instructed him to make. By the next morning, Seymour had told his mother about the incident, and the two waited outside the deli as a black limo pulled up the street. The man who stepped out of the limo introduced himself as Seymour's great-grandfather. Seymour was eventually inducted into Sector 7, and grew up as well-adjusted as one could having witness what Seymour had. Convergence chapter 3

In 2003, he led a team of Sector Seven agents in an attempt to capture Bumblebee, then known as NBE-2. Movie Prequel #3 The attempt involved luring him into a trap using an artificial isotope derived from the sub-atomic matter of the cube, which put out an almost identical energy signature to that of the cube. After the team spent two days waiting in the New Mexico desert, Bumblebee appeared, followed by the Decepticons Barricade, Blackout, and Starscream. Thanks to the Decepticons, who destroyed several Apache helicopters and tried to hack into Sector Seven's network, Simmons's plan to capture Bumblebee failed horribly. Movie Prequel #4

Don't f*** with The Jesus!

Simmons, Banachek and John Keller were on their way to Mission City when Starscream attacked Hoover Dam. The Reign of Starscream #2

Arriving shortly after the battle in Mission City, Simmons asked William Lennox and Robert Epps to join Sector Seven; they agreed after Sam inadvertently called Epps while in conversation with Simmons, which sort of ruined Lennox's excuse. The next day, Simmons informed Professor Vine that he had one month to study the defeated Decepticons before they were dumped in the Laurentian Abyss. He also suggested they wake up "sleeping beauty" to see if he had anything to offer. When the scientist worried that Wreckage couldn't be re-activated, especially not since Salazar was lost, Simmons called Lennox, saying the soldier had friends that could "make him" wake up. Alliance #1

Before the Autobots arrived at the Nevada desert facility to escort the convoy carrying the Decepticon bodies away, Simmons agreed with Vine about having to dump the Decepticons into the sea, grousing that the aliens turned a city into a battleground and now they had to throw a treasure trove of information away. While they reminisced about how Salazar was able to learn from Wreckage and create the L.M.-1 units, Simmons was dismissive and callous about the sentience of the Cybertronians, refusing to refer to Wreckage by his name, preferring to call him N.B.E.-3. At Optimus Prime's behest, Vine took the surviving AllSpark shard for safekeeping, fearing it might reactivate the dead Megatron. Simmons and Salani persuaded Vine to take the fragment underground to hide it from any Decepticons that might still be skulking about, but as soon as they entered the main holding chamber, the fragment flew out of Simmons's hands and revived Wreckage. Wreckage rampaged through the base, destroying the L.M.-1s and fighting Starscream in a struggle leading to numerous deaths. Alliance #2 While secretly taking Frenzy's head, which had fallen out of Starscream's cockpit, Simmons was left to wonder about the Transformers' sense of morality before being relieved of his duties by John Keller. Alliance #3

Transformers: Beginnings

Voice actor: Brian Stepanek (English)

Transformers: Beginnings

The Veiled Threat

After Sector Seven was shut down, Simmons was not invited to join NEST, despite his best efforts. Simmons was convinced that it was because he had been mean to that Witwicky kid and his car stealing girlfriend, even though the official reason was concern that he might be a little unstable (probably the actual reason). Convinced that the Autobots were equally attempting to invade Earth, Simmons managed to save (stealing is so pejorative) documents from Sector Seven, as well as Frenzy's head, in the hopes of learning everything he could to stop both factions and save the planet. Although his pension took care of his needs, he decided to work in his mother's deli, where every day, he would take orders from people with stupid tastes in Italian meat. One night while working, Frenzy began to spazz out of control and nearly fried the building's electrical system, forcing Simmons to shut him down. After a mild complaint by his landlord, Simmons decided to relocate Frenzy and the documents to the basement of his mother's deli, the safest alternative he could think of. The Veiled Threat

Sector 7 Adventures: The Battle at Half Dome comic

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Toy bios

Simmons started buddying up with Mudflap, because his bravery that seems stupid struck a chord with the 'bot! Mudflap / Chromia / Seymour Simmons

Toys

Transformers (2007)

Unposable weirdo.

• Capture of Bumblebee (Screen Battles, 2007)

• Japanese ID number: SB-04

Included in a Screen Battles pack with a redecoed Camaro Concept Deluxe class Bumblebee, Simmons is a non-poseable figurine. He is affixed to a stand which is molded to look like a broken off section of street asphalt and is sculpted holding a pistol and a radiation scanner, the latter of which he used to scan Sam Witwicky in the film.

This set comes in a special window box featuring a diorama background of the scene where Bumblebee is captured by Sector Seven forces.

• More information on Screen Battles Seymour Simmons (with Bumblebee) at TFU.info

Revenge of the Fallen

It's an uncanny likeness... of Michael Meyers.

• Mudflap / Chromia / Agent Simmons (Human Alliance, 2010)

• Japanese ID number: RA-31

Part of the fifth and final Revenge of the Fallen "Human Alliance" set, this 2-inch tall figure of Seymour is designed to work with the larger robot figures in the set (and any other Human Alliance robot). He can ride in/on their vehicle modes, or man the various "battle stations" on their robot modes, secured in seats by the small peg-hole in his upper back. He has multi-swivel shoulders, hips and knees, plus a ball-jointed waist and swiveling neck.

As this set was a tail-ender, it was notoriously impossible to find at US retail. Eventually the set (briefly) filtered out at a discount through TJ Maxx stores.

• More information on Human Alliance Seymour Simmons at TFU.info

Notes

• According to the director's commentary on the Transformers DVD, Turturro based his performance as Simmons on Michael Bay. If this is true, then Mr. Bay is indeed crazier than people think.
• Evidently, Simmons owns toys produced during the Sector Seven misinformation campaign known as Operation: Hungry Dragon. For some reason, the Micromaster Tailwind was included among Simmon's Revenge of the Fallen props during an auction on October 8 & 9, 2009 held by Profiles in History.
• While filming, Turturro apparently started to weep while filming at the Petra (in Jordan). He was apparently overwhelmed with the beautiful structures, and how his career had brought him there. As Mr. Bay said in interview to USAToday: "(Turturro) was looking at Petra, and it was the morning of, just setting up, and he had a tear in his eye. I was like 'What's going on?' He said, 'You never get to do this. I was at the Pyramids just the other day, and now I'm here. You just never get to do this.' "

Foreign names

• Japanese: Seymour Simmons (シーモア・シモンズ Shīmoa Shimonzu)
• Korean: Seymour Simmons (시무어 시먼스 Simueo Simeonseu)
• Mandarin: Seymour Simmons (Taiwan, 西蒙·西門斯 Xīméng Xīménsī)