Cade Yeager

Cade Yeager is a tragic inventor and one of the main protagonists of the Transformers Live-Action film series.
He is played by Mark Wahlberg who portrayed Detective Terry Hoitz in The Other Guys, Sean Dignam in The Departed, Bob Swagger in Shooter (2007), Chris Farraday in Contraband (2012), Billy Taggart in Broken City, Max Payne in the film with the same name, John Bennett in Ted and its sequel Ted 2, the Blue Falcon in Scoob, and Victor Sullivan in Uncharted (2022), Leo Davidson in Planet of the Ape 2001.
==Biography==
===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 longtime 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 was 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 afterward, 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, to whom Cade took an instant dislike. 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 Lockdown's 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 mother's 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. Afterward, Cade was able to access the Cemetery Wind drone's memory, revealing an attack on Ratchet and Leadfoot's deaths. 
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 for 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, destroying all but one cable. Bumblebee came to the rescue, killing much of the enemy forces and saving the three humans when the cables were 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 Yeagers 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 by punching him, leading 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 and Bumblebee kept Lockdown distracted while Tessa and Shane freed Optimus, allowing him to finally kill 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 blasted off into space to confront his mysterious Creators.
===Transformers: The Last Knight===
Cade Yeager returns a few years later he organized the Autobot's 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, with a few minor exceptions such as Cuba. 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, Santos opens his fire and Cade directs his barrel and said, "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 Alnwick. There Yeager meets Viviane Wembly Burton and 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 and detained them Cade and Viviane are looking for clues left by her father 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 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, and 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. On the way, Cade then stands up to Santos for turning his back on the Autobots, and that he was the one who never gave up on them since it was the whole world that turned their backs on them, allowing Santos to admit defeat and realize that hunting down the Autobots was a mistake, resulting him breaking ties with the TRF for good. 
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 saving Earth from Quintessa he would finally get his normal life back as a result of being removed from the wanted list since the world's governments would finally realize the errors of their ways after realizing that without Autobots, Earth would be destroyed, and Cade would no longer be a fugitive and could tell the entire world to leave the Autobots alone because of the fact that the entire world gave up on them. 
==Skills and Abilities==
*Master Inventor: Cade has a creative and optimistic mind, lending it to using all kinds of his knowledge in building/crafting high tech gadgets devices, and item fixing skills. Sadly, none of his earliest inventions have brought much profit for his family but has become impressive in the use of improvements to transformer technology and weapons.
*High Fighting Skills: Yeager is a very skilled brawler when using his fists in hand-to-combat. As he was able to hold his own against Agent Savoy by deflecting a few of strikes, punches and tackles him around until he pulls out a combat knife Cade realized he had to use a football to throw at his before tossing out the window killing him.
*Expert Marksmanship & Alien Weapon Proficiency: During the films, he was shown capable of using weapons made from the transformer technology in battling the wars against enemies. Cade took a dagger gun which was extremely powerful, as it allowed him to take out a number of Lockdown's minions when rescuing his daughter from the ship. Then when the Steeljaw beasts began to pursue them he managed to fire one of them off the cable and shot many overwhelming opponents around him and allies long enough until Optimus arrived with the Dinobots saving them. Cade even kept the bounty hunter distracted while Tessa and Shane freed Optimus, allowing him to deliver the final blow to Lockdown. During the Last Knights, he shoots at a TRF sentry with his modified Glock blaster multiple times and managed to strike at Megatron's left arm with the static rifle.
==Equipment==
*Cybertronian Dagger Gun: During Transformers: Age of Extinction, Cade wielded this cybertronian blade that serves as a projectile weapon and uses it with a rope strap for carrying it behind enemy lines.
*Cybertronian Static Rifle: In the Transformers: The Last Knight, Yeager crafted a rifle from transformer technology and uses it to blast static energy effectively to the Decepticons.
*Cybertronian Talisman: After finding a wounded Autobot knight, Cade was given to him a talisman before he died. Then it attached itself to his skin as it was designed to bond to a bloodline of related Witwicans and materialize as a sword.
*Modified Blaster: He also used his invention skills to modify a Glock 17 pistol into a powerful blaster with transformer technology as a secondary.
==Relationships==
===Family===
*Emily Yeager † - Wife
*Tessa Yeager - Daughter
*Izabella - Adoptive Daughter
===Allies===
*Shane Dyson - Friend
*Lucas Flannery † - Best Friend
*Joshua Joyce - Enemy Turned Ally
*Su Yueming - Enemy turned Ally
*Darcy Tirrel - Enemy Turned Ally
*Viviane Wembly - New Girlfriend
*Jimmy - Friend and Assistant
*Sir Edmund Burton † - Friend
*Agent Simmons
*TRF - Enemies Turned Allies
**Commander Santos - Enemy Turned Ally
**William Lennox - Enemy Turned Ally
*Autobots
**Optimus Prime - Good Friend and Savior
**Bumblebee - Good Friend and Savior
**Hound - Good Friend
**Crosshairs
**Drift
**Hot Rod
**Brains
**Ratchet † - Respected Hero
**Leadfoot † - Respected Hero
===Enemies===
*Cemetery Wind Soldiers
**Harold Attinger † - Attempted Killer
**James Savoy † - Attempted Killer and Victim
*Lockdown † - Attempted Killer
*KSI
*Decepticons
**Megatron/Galvatron
**Stinger †
**Barricade
**Mohawk † 
**Nitro Zeus †
**Dreadbot †
**Onslaught †
*The Creators
**Quintessa
**Infernocons †
*TRF (Formerly)
**Commander Santos (Formerly)
**William Lennox (Formerly)
==Trivia==
*Dwayne Johnson was offered the role of Cade Yeager, but he declined, due to scheduling conflicts with Hercules (2014).
*Cade is considered to be the live-action version of adult Spike Witwicky from Transformers: The Movie.
*He is also considered the human counterpart of Rodimus Prime from the animated movie as well.
*His fight with James Savoy is similar to that of Hot Rod's fight with Galvatron from the animated movie as both threw their enemies out of the place (Cade threw James through the window of the apartment while Hot Rod threw Galvatron out of Unicron).
*Cade Yeager and William Lennox both have biological daughters of their own and are both respectful allies to the Autobots.
*Cade Yeager is a worthy and faithful ally and friend of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Hound.
*His fight with James Savoy is also similar to Optimus Prime fighting Megatron from the animated film. Unlike Megatron, Cade threw the football to Savoy’s face and pushed him through the window falling to his death. 
*He never fought Santos although he hit him in the head by using Bumblebee’s door. 
*And also, if he returned in the sequel, it would also be implied he will together William Lennox and Robert Epps engage former commander of the TRF Santos and became their archenemy in the final battle and was killed by him in the end.
*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 and were expelled from the franchise.
*He is the only human protagonist who never has a toy of himself although the Kre-O Kade Yeager is confirmed to be him. 
*Wahlberg was mentioned by Mirage in Rise of the Beasts which he was referring he became an actor in 1994.
*Originally it was Cade Yeager who was going to fight and kill Harold Attinger instead of Optimus Prime. 
==External Links==
*Cade Yeager on the TFwiki.net
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