Vietnam

Vietnam (Việt Nam) is a country in Asia bordered by China, Laos, and Cambodia. The country's largest city is Ho Chi Minh City, previously and still sometimes known as Saigon.

In real-life, Vietnam is a country experiencing rapid economic growth with a rich and interesting history... Although, according to Transformers media, the only thing that seems to have ever happened in it is the Vietnam War.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

"What they don't prepare you for is the incessant use of Fortunate Son."

The Action Force member Wild Bill was a pilot in Vietnam during the war. One mission had him sent in to rescue seven soldiers, but once six had been picked up, his commanding officer told him to forget about the seventh and get those in the chopper to safety. Wild Bill complied but never truly stopped thinking about the seventh man. Ancient Relics!

Armada

The parents of Alexis fled Vietnam after the war and settled in the United States of America. The Transformers Legends of the Microns: Sound of Evolution Vol. 2

Ghosts of Yesterday

Thomas Kinnear and Philip Nolan both fought in the Vietnam war, serving, respectively; as a a lieutenant colonel and a major. At one point, after an assassination gone wrong in Saigon, Philip carried Thomas to safety. Ghosts of Yesterday

Transformers in Vietnam

One notable aspect about the Transformers brand in Vietnam is the presence of several Hasbro factories across the country: according to a 2024 list ^[1], they host a whole fifteen "third party" facilities that produce goods for the American company, making them the country with the second largest Hasbro manufacturing presence only behind China. This means that a lot of modern Transformers figures are Vietnamese-made... And, as a result, whenever figures are leaked before their official release dates, it is also not too uncommon that they first pop up in Vietnam.

Notable people

• Yūki Tai, a Vietnamese-Japanese voice actor

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Notes

The fact that he's being shot at by Americans implies that Comrade B-127 "Ho Chi Minh's Strongest Soldier" Bumblebee actually fought on the side of North Vietnam. This is now canon and you cannot change it.

• Concept art for the 2018 Bumblebee movie from artist Thomas Pringle features a scene in Vietnam (presumably, yet again, set during the war), where Bumblebee is chased by Bell AH-1 Cobra helicopters. This ended up being cut out of the final movie.

References

External links

• Vietnam at Wikipedia