Hound

Hound (AOE)

TLK
AOE

Character Information

Alias

Sucky pilot
Itchy fingers
Chunky Autobot
Fat Ballerina

Race

Cybertronian

Height

24'

Residence

Cybertron

Earth (facade).

Faction

Autobots

Affiliation

Autobots

Rank

Autobot Commando
Weapon Expert
Weapon Specialist
Medical Officer
Second in command/Lieutenant.

Alt Mode

Customized Oshkosh Defense Medium Tactical Vehicle (AOE)
Customized Medical 2016 Mercedes-Benz Unimog (TLK)

Status

Alive

Movie Material

"Hound loves to start the day with a gunfight" -Hound

Hound is an Autobot Commando and is Optimus Prime's new second in command in Transformers: Age of Extinction, after Sideswipe's disappearance. In Transformers: The Last Knight he also became the new Medical Officer after Ratchet's death in Transformers: Age of Extinction.

History[]

Past[]

Hound was active on Earth as early as the 1700s, as he fought alongside General Washington before he was made the President of the United States. He later participated in the Second World War under the Medical Services Corps in the United States Army. Both of these historical events were covered up by the Order of the Witwiccans.

Transformers: Age of Extinction[]

Hound was among the Autobots who went into hiding on Earth after Cemetery Wind began hunting down the Autobots. Hound was overjoyed when Optimus Prime returned to the surviving Autobots. Though delighted that the Autobots were a team again, Hound expressed his immense distaste of humans following their betrayal. He didn't take kindly to Drift's haikus defending humanity, and nearly came to blows with him before trying to open fire on Cade Yeager, his daughter Tessa, and her boyfriend Shane. That night, Hound was sobered when Optimus asked if there were signs of any other surviving Autobots, and thanks to Cade's tinkering with Cemetery Wind's drones, the Autobots learned of an attack on Ratchet, as well as Leadfoot's demise. Hound was saddened to learn of his friend's fate, and saluted his fallen comrade, bitterly cursing his assailants as "savages". The loss of Leadfoot helped convince Hound to join in Cade's mission to infiltrate KSI.

However, the Autobots suffered another blow when they learned of Ratchet's death and subsequent melting down for raw material. Hound gladly joined in the enraged Optimus' attack on KSI. After fighting their way through several rooms and facilities, the Autobots came upon the imprisoned Brains, who Hound took the time to free from his predicament. Hound was eager to kill Joshua Joyce for the atrocities he'd committed, but after a lecture on how the Autobots now meant nothing to humanity, Optimus quietly ordered a retreat, to Hound and Brains' disappointment. The Autobots fled KSI, only to be pursued by Galvatron and Stinger. The Autobots were subsequently separated from their leader and thus unable to save Optimus and Tessa from Lockdown.

The Autobots, Cade and Shane ventured to Chicago, and covertly stowed away on Lockdown's Ship (though Hound admitted it was probably a bad idea). After warning the group about Lockdown's inevitable booby-traps, Hound had to aggressively prod Crosshairs into helping rescue Optimus and Tessa. Hound took charge of the Autobots and led them in the search for Optimus, assigning Cade to search the cell block for Optimus and Tessa. Eventually, the group found Lockdown's high-security vault, where Hound had a disgusting encounter with an alien life-form. Despite the creature's relative harmlessness, Hound couldn't find it in him to let it survive, and quickly destroyed it. It was at that moment Optimus made his presence in a cell known, and ordered Hound to commandeer the separate ship docked with Lockdown's the cell block was in, though he confessed to Optimus he was a "sucky" pilot. Indeed, when the team regrouped, the ship was found to have made an extremely rough landing. Hey, at least the big guy was honest.

Optimus ordered the Autobots to abandon humanity forever and flee to the stars aboard the stolen ship, a plan Hound was soundly with. After Optimus and Hound revealed the Creators' hand in Earth's past and their race's origins, Brains revealed Galvatron's nature as a reincarnated Megatron. Optimus ultimately decided to stop Galvatron, retrieve the Seed, and subsequently leave Earth for good. Hound piloted the ship to China, and left the pilot's seat in order to help retrieve the Seed from Joyce. However, incoming fire from Galvatron's army knocked him and Bumblebee into the streets of Hong Kong.

Although he ended up briefly stuck in a building thanks to his plump shape, and did not appreciate Joyce calling him fat (the inventor earned one of Hound's cigars being flicked at him in retaliation), Hound fought tooth and nail to protect the humans and the Seed from Galvatron's forces with Bumblebee's support. When Hound found himself running out of ammo and weaponry, he convinced Cade to join the battle with him. Despite overwhelming odds and an enormous amount of enemy fire whittling him down, Hound fought on as long as he could, also utilizing his skills as a "fat ballerina" to his advantage. After taking out a group of KSI Transformers with a grenade, Hound finally ran out of ammo, but fought on using his hat, belt, and even his cigar. Hound finally collapsed, exhausted from the battle, but was reinvigorated when Optimus joined the battle with the Dinobots. Hound soon joined in attempting to escort the Seed to safety, but when Lockdown arrived and unleashed his ship's tractor beam, Hound escaped its influence and helped escort the seed across a nearby bridge to safety. Soon, Lockdown was defeated, and after regrouping, Optimus assigned Hound and the Autobots to protect the Yeager family before departing into space with the Seed.

Transformers: The Last Knight[]

In the years since Optimus Prime's departure from Earth, Hound had taken refuge at Cade Yeager's junkyard with the other Autobots. He had taken on a new vehicle mode. Hound regularly helped set up one-way phone calls between Cade and Tessa, who was away at college. One day, when Cade and Bumblebee were caught in a stand-off with the Transformers Reaction Force, Hound arrived to provide his friends with extra firepower. Cade was able to defuse the stand-off, though Hound egged on the TRF to shoot him as he departed. Hound unknowingly had two stowaways in the form of the young Izabella and her companion Sqweeks, who hitched a ride back to the junkyard with him.

They were soon visited by Daytrader, who Hound considered the "most irritating, annoying Transformer" and threatened the rogue with violence the entire time, especially since he'd been slacking off on his promise of getting them a ship. Later, after trying to explain his weight to the newly arrived Izabella, he set up another call between Cade and Tessa. However, the call went on for too long, and knowing they were risking detection, Hound was forced to cut the call short. Hound apologized and reassured Cade that he was a good father before bemoaning how his own father never called him, and later explained to Izzy the extent of Cade's situation. The next day, the Decepticons, assisted by the TRF, found and attacked the junkyard. While Cade led the others away to set up a trap in a nearby town, Hound stayed behind to buy them some time, despite Cade's protests not to be a hero (Hound contended he was born a hero). Hound faced off with Megatron but was quickly taken out of the fight by a blast from his fusion cannon.

Much later, after recovering, when Cybertron had made its way to Earth and loomed in the skies overhead, Hound joined the other Autobots in heading for Stonehenge to partake in the forthcoming battle, as Daytrader finally delivered Lockdown's former ship to them. Hound warned Izabella that things were going to get ugly, but she easily convinced him to let her join them. Hound agreed she could use the "field trip to the front lines" to get some battle experience, and the Autobots met up with the returned Optimus, though Hound complained that he didn't get a chance to say hello before Optimus flew off to lead the attack. En route, he and the other Autobots observed the Guardian Knights with mixed feeling, with Hound declaring that they "looked like wusses".

Hound and Bumblebee shared an Orbital Assault Carrier to tangle with some airborne Decepticon forces, but he soon hopped off to provide some aid on the ground to their human friends. Even with their combined firepower, Hound was unable to push forward thanks to the presence of a gun emplacement and the Infernocons, Hound knowing he didn't have enough ammunition to take on Infernocus. Eventually Sqweeks cleared a path, and Hound joined Optimus, Bumblebee, Hot Rod, Cade, and Viviane Wembly in charging forward, though he mocked the other humans for abandoning the fight. Within the control center, he once again took on Megatron, this time alongside his fellow Autobots; however, Hound's lack of speed and cumbersome weapon made him yet again an ill-matched opponent against their much faster opponent.

Hound was almost killed by the Decepticon leader had it not been for Hot Rod's (literally) timely aid. With Megatron briefly frozen in a time bubble, Hound vowed to blow his head off and let loose a rain of gunfire that managed to knock Megatron back for a moment while Hound recovered his momentum. Though Hound was further plagued by the weightlessness of the falling ignition chamber, Viviane ultimately saved the day, and Hound returned to Cybertron with his fellow Autobots.

Abilities[]

Skilled Gunman: Hound is skilled with most type of ranged weaponry and guns.
Excellent Medic: He has good "doctor skills" and can help other Autobots in an emergency. Because he participated in the Second World War under the Medical Service Corps in the United States Army.
Weapon storage: He has just about any type of gun or weapon.