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Cade Yeager

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Cade Yeager is a human who appears in Transformers: Age of Extinction as one of the main protagonists. He is a single father to Tessa Yeager, and husband of Emily Yeager. Before his wife passed away, Cade made a promise to keep Tessa safe at all times, showing that he loves Tessa and will always be there to protect her.

He is portrayed by Mark Wahlberg, who was the host of the 2014 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

History[]

Transformers: Age of Extinction[]

One fateful day, Cade came across an old dilapidated truck rusting inside an old movie theater. Thinking he could buy it and strip it for parts to send his young daughter to college, he jumped at the opportunity to purchase it....with his friend Lucas's money. Upon closer inspection of the truck, it was discovered to be full of artillery shells. Cade had the truck, along with other broken theater equipment, brought back to his farm and puts it in his garage. Tessa, Cade's daughter, observed this while video-chatting with her boyfriend and criticized her dad for buying the heap of junk. While attempting to salvage the truck's engine to sell, Cade realized it's actually a badly-damaged Transformer. After calling Lucas and Tessa, he connected jumper cables to its engine, only for it to begin replaying a distress message to the Autobots. Lucas and Tessa advocated calling the government, claiming that there was a huge reward for turning in Transformers. Cade convinced them not to call the authorities until he could spend more time working on the truck, as he could stumble on a technological breakthrough if he could figure out how the Transformers work. When Cade removed a live missile from the truck's "power core," it transformed into the Autobot leader Optimus Prime. The badly damaged Autobot roared in a fit of rage while waving a shotgun but Cade managed to calm the disoriented Transformer. Cade questioned why Optimus was so badly damaged, to which he replied that he was ambushed and that the Autobots are being hunted and he must help them. Cade began to repair him, and sent Lucas to buy the parts that would help him fix Optimus. The Autobot wondered why Cade would help him, to which Cade responded because he trusts him to. The two began to bond as they discussed the similarities between a Transformer's Spark and a human's soul. Soon afterwards, Cemetery Wind, the group hunting the Autobots, came to the farm looking for Optimus Prime. Cade almost convinced them to leave until he accidentally referred to the truck as "He" rather than "it". James Savoy, the violent leader of the group, had the agents turn their guns on the Yeagers and threatened to shoot Tessa. Cade watched in horror as Savoy threatened her until they were saved by Optimus, who burst from the barn and attacked the soldiers. Cade, Tessa, and Lucas made their escape with the aid of Tessa's secret boyfriend, Shane Dyson, whom Cade took an instant dislike to. During their escape, their house was destroyed by Lockdown, an assassin and bounty hunter Transformer who was after Optimus. Cade, Tessa, and Shane managed to escape in Optimus while Lucas was killed by one of Lockdowns grenades.

The newly formed team took shelter in an abandoned gas station, shaken by the recent events. While Optimus scouted, Cade and Shane discussed the latter's relationship with Tessa, which Cade was strongly against due to the circumstances of Cade and Tessa's mothers relationship. After they spent the rest of the day and night there, Optimus returned to collect the trio, and began to assemble the rest of the remaining Autobots. Before that could be done, Cade made a pit stop to see if he could access his credit card account using a modified Cemetery Wind drone he had captured, only to find his account had been locked. As the scattered Autobot forces reassembled, Cade, Shane and Tessa initially found themselves having guns drawn on them by Hound and Crosshairs, before Optimus ordered them to stand down. Later that night, Cade took note of how disorganized and chaotic the Autobots were without their leader. Afterwards, Cade was able to access the Cemetery Wind drone's memory, revealing an attack on Ratchet and Leadfoot's death. Intending to gain more information on the fate of the Autobots, the group traveled to Chicago where Cade, Shane and Bumblebee infiltrated KSI. As soon as they made it safely inside the building, Cade found his way to where they were melting down severed Ratchet's head, and used the drone to transmit footage back to the Autobots. Cade was discovered, captured and taken into custody by Harold Attinger, who began to question him. The two icily faced off as Cade realized that it was Attinger who ordered the attack on his home and threatened his daughter. The building soon came under attack by the enraged Autobots, looking to avenge their friends, and Bumblebee rescued Cade.

Once out of KSI, the Autobots were pursued by the KSI-built Transformers Galvatron and Stinger, along with Lockdown. When Tessa was scooped up by Lockdown's ship along with Optimus, Cade was unable to rescue her. He joined the Autobots in stowing away on Lockdown's ship to search for Optimus and Tessa and ended up roaming the ship with Shane. The pair came across a large armory, from which Cade took an extremely powerful gun, which allowed him to take out a number of Lockdown's minions. After some searching, he and Shane finally found Tessa, who was more thankful of Shane than her father, frustrating him. Unfortunately, the only way off the ship for them was the tow cables launched by the Autobots, which were connected to nearby skyscrapers. The trio then began to make their way down the cables to the tops of the buildings, until Lockdowns Steeljaw beasts began to pursue them, destroyed all but one cable. Bumblebee came to the rescue, killing much of the enemy forces and saving the three humans when the cables released. They were soon picked up by Crosshairs who had commandeered an Orbital Assault Carrier, and they soon took flight with the enemy close behind them. After a lengthy aerial battle with Cade and Shane operating the rear-mounted guns, Bumblebee lost control of the ship and crashed. The humans miraculously survived, though Cade had to deal with the issue of automotive insurance.

After meeting up with the Autobots and learning about the Seed and Galvatron's true nature, Cade contacted Joshua Joyce to plead with the man to keep an eye on his creation. Before he and the Autobots departed to Hong Kong to prevent the detonation of the Seed, Optimus declared that the Autobots would leave Earth forever. During the flight, the two debated the matter, with Cade attempting to reignite Prime's faith in humanity, with mixed success. Arriving in Hong Kong, Cade joined Joyce who was trying to keep the Seed from Galvatron, leading to a chase through the city. Savoy found the Yeager's and Joyce on the rooftop and opened fire on them, but Cade led him away from the others. The two jumped across rooftops, eventually crashing into a house and getting into a fist fight which ended with Cade pushing Savoy through a window to his death. Cade reunited with the other Autobots and joined the battle, despite overwhelming odds, but thankfully, Optimus arrived with the invaluable aid of the Dinobots and turned the tide. As Optimus went to face Lockdown, Cade followed him to help, but ended up held at gunpoint by Attinger, who berated Cade for choosing to side with the Autobots. Optimus killed Attinger before Attinger could shoot Cade, though it resulted in Lockdown impaling Optimus. Cade kept the bounty hunter distracted while Tessa and Shane freed Optimus, allowing him to deliver the final blow to Lockdown. Once the remainder of Galvatron's forces were dealt with, the Yeagers, Autobots, and Joshua regrouped on a waterfront. Cade and Tessa happily reconciled, and he finally accepted Shane. Joshua also promised to help the Yeager family with finding a new home. Optimus then chose to leave Earth with the Seed, instructing the Autobots to defend Cade's family. Cade asked if they will ever meet again, to which Prime was unsure, but informed them to consider one of the stars above to be his soul. Cade, saddened by Optimus' choice to leave, watched with the others as the Prime blasts off into space to confront his mysterious Creators.

Transformers: The Last Knight[]

Cade Yeager returns a few years later he organized the Autobots asylum in South Dakota and now he is again a fugitive, after Optimus Prime left the earth most of the governments of countries declared the Transformers race outlawed, and an international military organization TRF was established. He, along with Bumblebee and Hound, went to Chicago to find at least one surviving Transformer here. Arriving in the restricted area of ​​Chicago Cade together Bumblebee save curious children from walking drones TRF, Cade approaches the fallen spacecraft inside of him is a Knight, he tried to help him but it was too late but before he died gives him a talisman but he refuses. Cade tells Bumblebee that he is dead and the talisman went to his car and then was detained by a TRF detachment led by Santos. Santos begins to interrogate him to find out where he hides the Autobots, but then Bumblebee hurries to his aid to split up and then begins to assemble and attack, Cade beats Santos at the entrance of the situation. Bumblebee takes him hostage, and Santos opens his fire and Cade directs his barrel and I'll have time to kill you first. Then William Lennox, the former ally of the Autobots, intervenes, and demands to drop the gun, but Yeager refuses and says that they need a house and you all run into them and they give change, then comes Hound asks to recall all the soldiers and let go, Cade and the Autobots go and go to their shelters. Returning to the dump saw a girl Izabella, who survived after the Battle for Chicago, got bogged down. Cade finds out that they were found by Decepticons and TRF. Yeager, along with the Autobots, disappeared into the abandoned city, where they intended to lure the Decepticons into an ambush.

The Autobots killed several Decepticons and retreated. Cade began to hide from the mini-drones TRF then meets an unknown transformer named Cogman and demands that he flew to England. Fought off the mini-drones TRF he and Bumblebee went to England. Arriving in England, Yeager meets with the British lord, Sir Edmund Burton at the castle of Alnick. There Yeager meets Viviane Wembly Burton explains to them that he is the last surviving member of the Order of the Whitwickans of the ancient brotherhood dedicated to protecting the secret history of transformers on Earth.

Burton talks about the prophecy about the "last knight" and explains to them that Viviane is a direct descendant of Merlin, and only she is able to control the staff of Quintessa to save the Earth from destruction. MI6 and TRF found their Hot Rod detained them Yeager and Wembly are looking for clues left by her father of the latter, leading them, Bumblebee and Cogman, to the submarine HMS Alliance, which turns out to be a huge transformer. On it, they sink into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to ship of the Guardians Knights.

Cade and Viviane get to the ship, in which they discover the tomb of Merlin and the staff, but the Marines overtake them. Wembly activates the ship's personnel, Several knights attack them. The attack was interrupted by the arrival of Optimus, who Viviane gave him the staff otherwise she would kill her. Cade asks her to give it to him. Cade asks Bumblebee to follow Optimus to stop him. Cade followed him, Lennox joins him to help. Yeager and Lennox got to the surface and went to Bumblebee and Optimus.

Cade tries to reach Optimus but fails in his turn and Bumblebee speaks to him in his own voice and Optimus returns. Then they attack Megatron and pick up the staff. The Guardians Knights attack Optimus accusing him of treachery and are going to kill him. But the talisman of Cade turns into a sword and stops the execution. Guardian Knights understand that he is the last knight and prostrate before him. Optimus tells Cade that he let them down Yeager says he can fix everything and calls Optimus to help him save the Earth. Cade, Viviane, Lennox, and Santos are going to go to Cybertron with the help of the ship Autobots. Cade writes to his daughter about what he does for her, Cade and the military get to the ignition chamber. But Lennox says to fold the operation because they can not get inside. Cade doubts that a nuclear strike will save the earth, he along with Viviane went inside the cell. Yeager wants to help Viviane pick up the staff, she succeeds and saves the world. Cade and Viviane are falling but Hot Rod slows down time and Optimus Prime saves them. After landing Viviane tomorrow has already come telling him, Yeager looks at Bumblebee himself and says “you saved Prime”. Cade says goodbye to the Autobots and watches with Viviane together as they return to Cybertron. It is implied that after successfully saving Earth he would be removed from the governments wanted list and could possibly shame the United Nations and the whole world for losing faith on the Autobots after the Battle of Chicago along with their persecution acts that nearly destroyed Earth and almost cost the live of humanity so do the Autobots because of the foolish things they did in the past such as making a deal with Sentinel Prime on a vote to exile the Autobots from Earth which backfired and led to the Battle of Chicago that led to the dissolution of NEST and the formation of Cemetery Wind by Attinger and allying with Lockdown to hunt down every Transformer, and declaring Transformers illegal and creating the TRF along with allowing the TRF to form an alliance with Megatron and a group Decepticons to hunt down Cade and the Autobots which also backfired horribly and nearly led to Quintessa achieving her victory in the first place.

Family[]

Friends[]

Autobots

Transformers Reaction Force

Enemies[]

Cemetery Wind

Decepticons

Non-Aligned

Transformers Reaction Force (former enemies)

  • William Lennox (former enemy)
  • Santos (former enemy)

Trivia[]

  • His fight with James Savoy is similar to Optimus Prime fighting Megatron and Hot Rod fighting Galvatron as both engaged in a fight and threw them out to their doom. (Cade threw Savoy out of the window and Hot Rod threw Galvatron out of Unicron.)
  • If Bumblebee had arrived earlier to save Cade by distracting Attinger, Cade would have engaged Attinger in a fight, just like Optimus Prime fighting Lockdown.
  • Wahlberg hated working with Kelsey Grammer and Titus Welliver on the film. Because of this, Grammer and Welliver are the most hated actors by fans.
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