Michael Bay gave TJ Miller one of the most brutal deaths in film history after getting annoyed by him

Transformers fans have long been confused by the 'brutal' way TJ Miller's character is killed, and some viewers reckon they know the reason behind it.

If you've seen Transformers: Age of Extinction, you might remember the hilariously OTT way Miller's Lucas Flannery bites the dust.

If you need a reminder, you can watch him meet his maker below:

Now, a lot of people thought Flannery getting completely obliterated in this explosion and turned into a metallic corpse was a bit much.

One fan wrote: "God it’s so funny how weirdly brutal that death is. I love it."

Another said: "It's visceral too like they linger on it."

Some Transformers fans reckon they know why director Michael Bay devised such a brutal end for Miller - simply because he didn't like him very much.

Back in 2014, the actor - who's also fallen out with Ryan Reynolds - opened up about his 'bipolar experience' working with director Michael Bay on the Doug Loves Movies podcast.

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Miller said Bay threatened to cut him from the film for 'not being funny enough' on set, explaining: "Once he said to me, 'Nothing that you've said is funny T.J.! Not one thing all day! We hired you to be funny! There's 300 people here! None of them are laughing at you! Say something funny! I can still cut you out of the movie!'

"And I said, 'Michael, I would love that because then I would be able to leave right this instant!'"

Seems like tensions were high on set, then.

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He continued, sharing the unpredictable ways of the director, he said: "And he said, 'Say something funny! You haven't even made the Make-a-Wish kids laugh!'

"To be fair to him, I hadn't, and they were standing there like, 'This ... was not our wish.'

"Then the second the cameras stopped rolling, he would say, 'Hey, do you wanna get sushi and grab drinks?' It was a very bipolar experience."

While Miller tells the anecdote as a funny personality quirk from Michael Bay, fans took to Reddit to share their belief on why this is the real reason Miller's character was incinerated in an explosion.

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One Redditer wrote: "Micheal Bay just hated TJ Miller on the set of one Transformers movie and apparently said 'You're not funny TJ! I'll kill you off if I have to.'

"Then the movie came out and people noticed Miller's character is killed oddly quickly and in a very brutal way that looks really expensive.

"So Bay hated this dude so much he might have spent $30,000+ on statues of his metallic corpse just so they could get him off stage."

Another said: "It brutally murders TJ Miller because Bay hated him on a personal level and I find that funny."

A third added: "It focuses on it for so long, that's such a blatant f**k you to TJ lmao."

Well, brutally killing someone in a $210 million movie is certainly one way to get revenge.

UNILAD has contacted a representative for Michale Bay for a comment.