Michael Bay usually tries — and often fails — to keep spoilers from leaking out about his movies, but while talking to MTV at the ShoWest movie convention, he was happy to reveal a death in the upcoming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Who is it?  Why, the girl Transformer of course.

“You know what? I didn’t like Arcee,” the filmmaker revealed exclusively to us Thursday night, “so I kill her later, all right?…

“It’s like actors,” he explained, comparing his Transformers to flesh-and-blood stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox. “There are certain actors that blossom on screen, and there are certain others where you’re like, ‘Yuck, I’m cutting them out of the movie.’ ”

So Bay decided to kill Arcee — a pink motorcycle who can be glimpsed in the movie’s trailer during a chase scene in Japan. As some fans might remember, the death of Jazz in Bay’s first “Transformers” film not only served as a reminder of the severity of the robot war, but also became one of the film’s most touching moments. In the sequel, however, Bay was so eager to kill off Arcee that he had no desire to milk the moment for emotional impact.

“This isn’t sad,” he grinned, discussing Arcee’s sudden death. “This is just ‘get it out and get it over with.’ “

Why doesn’t Michael Bay think it’s sad?  Because Michael Bay doesn’t like women.  He only uses girls who operate as eye candy and can show off mounds of cleavage, and by definition a robot can’t do that (without it being really creepy, at least).

His oblivious chauvinism is too bad, because Arcee has a long and storied history with the Transformers.