Editing William Lennox

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:''William Lennox is a [[human]] from the [[live-action film series]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Williamlennox.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|My character archetype is how you know it's a [[Michael Bay]] film!]]

'''William "Wild Bill" Lennox''' is a member of the [[United States Army|United States Army Rangers]].<ref>The nickname "Wild Bill" appears only in the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|novelization]].</ref> A young, yet capable officer, Lennox has the friendship and trust of the men under his command.

He has a [[Sarah Lennox|wife]] and a [[Annabelle Lennox|daughter]] [[United States of America|back home]].

==Fiction==
===Movies===
====''Transformers'' film====
:''Actor:'' [[Josh Duhamel]]
{{voiceactor|[[Fumiya Yazaki]] (Japanese dub), [[Niseem Onorato]] (Italian dub), [[Alexandre Moreno]] (Portuguese dub), [[Arturo Mercado Leonel de Cervantes|Arturo Mercado Jr.]] (Spanish dub), [[José Posada]] (Spanish-Spain dub), [[Dennis Schmidt-Foß]] (German)}}

[[File:Movie Lennox myladies.jpg|left|upright=1.67|thumb|Guys, are we supposed to be getting an episode of the Teletubbies?]]

Returning back to [[SOCCENT Forward Operations Base]] in [[Qatar]] after a mission behind enemy lines, Captain Lennox's men discussed what they were going to do once they got home to the States. As usual, [[Jorge Figueroa|Fig]] talked about his mom's cooking in Spanish, [[Robert Epps|Epps]] commented that he'd never accept a dinner invitation to Fig's house and [[Patrick Donnelly|Donnelly]] reminisced about flat beer, cold hot dogs and baseball on weekends. When asked about what he wanted to do, Lennox replied that he only wanted to hold his baby girl for the first time, to which his men teased him for his sappy sentiment. 

After their CV-22 Ospreys touched down, Lennox was writing a report when local boy [[Mahfouz]] visited him carrying a bag of water. Soon afterwards, he talked to his wife Sarah and their daughter on the satellite video phone. Lennox declared that their daughter was so cute that he just wanted to chew on her cheeks, and that they both made one good looking kid. To his delight, Sarah told him their girl had his laugh, though he wondered if she had merely farted. Around the same time as a [[Blackout (Movie)|mysterious MH-53 Pave Low]] helicopter had landed on the base, his connection to Sarah became distorted, and he tried to tell her that he'd be home soon as the transmission was cut.

Suddenly, the base was under attack as the helicopter somehow transformed into a giant walking weapons platform. Leading his men and the boy Mahfouz, they witnessed Epps nearly being crushed by the weapons platform before Fig saved him by firing a sabot from his grenade launcher into the 'chest' of the weapon. With Epps in tow, Lennox's unit escaped as the robot laid waste to SOCCENT, leaving no survivors.

[[File:Movie Lennox Scorponoktail.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Yeah, real good work watching your commander's back, all you guys standin' in the background.]]

The next morning, after making their way through the desert, the men discussed the past night's events, with Epps expressing his belief that the weapon, whatever it was, looked right back at him as he was taking its photograph. Lennox determined that no matter what, they had to get the information back to the [[Pentagon]], and asked Mahfouz to lead them to his village where they could find a telephone line. Unknown to them, [[Scorponok (Movie)|a second robot]], a mechanical scorpion, was listening to their conversation and stalking them. As they neared the outskirts of the village, a metal spiked tail rose out of the sand and was about to kill Lennox when Epps fired at it, saving his life. Unfortunately, the giant scorpion killed top kick Donnelly and the men ran for their lives to the relative cover of the village.

Ordering the men to form a defensive perimeter, Lennox followed Mahfouz to his father [[Akram]]'s house, the latter of whom provided him with a cell phone. As the others fought off Scorponok, Lennox attempted to call for help from the Pentagon, but had more than a little trouble with the [[Telephone operator|operator]] who demanded a credit card despite the life-and-death situation he was in. After successfully searching for Epps's credit card in one of the latter's many back pockets, Lennox successfully contacted the Pentagon, but not before the operator tried to get him to sign onto a Premium Plus World Service Gold Package. He'll never use that company again.

[[File:Movie LennoxEpps backpockets.jpg|left|upright=1.67|thumb|10: LEFT CHEEK! 20: GOTO 10]]

The Pentagon sent in two A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from Strike Package Bravo. Lennox ordered the men to light up the target for the Air Force' radars to lock onto and fire upon. Unfortunately, the A-10s did no appreciable damage to the metal scorpion, with Epps expressing disbelief that it could still be alive. With the call of [[Bring the rain|"Bring the rain!"]], Lennox suggested the biggest barrels the Air Force had: the 105 millimeter cannons of an AC-130 Spectre gunship. The cannonade pounded Scorponok into the sand. As the dust settled, the scorpion got up and dove into the sand, but not before leaving part of its damaged tail behind. Lennox and Epps ran to check on Fig, who had been struck by one of the scorpion's missiles. 

En-route back to America, the team studied the tail segment they salvaged from the battle scene. An analyst observed that it seemed to be covered in a [[living metal|self-regenerating molecular armor]]. Lennox pointed out where a sabot round had burned right through. Turning to Epps's expertise, he asked if it was correct that sabot rounds had a 6000 degree magnesium burn, which Epps said was true. As Lennox ordered Epps to tell command to load sabot rounds on all their gunships, the tail suddenly came to life and narrowly missed impaling them. Epps angrily berated the analyst for telling them it was dead; Lennox ordered them to strap the tail down, while concluding that the technology behind it was 'wicked'. Touching down at [[United States Air Force#Facilities|Nellis Air Force Base]], Lennox's men had barely walked off the plane when [[Sector Seven|mysterious government agents]] pulled up in black SUVs and ordered the Rangers to come with them.

After arriving at [[Hoover Dam]], Lennox and his unit met with Secretary of Defense [[John Keller (Movie)|John Keller]], and were taken to see [[Megatron (Movie)|N.B.E.-1]]. After the Iceman began to thaw, Lennox and his unit headed for the armory, where they were having a special on forty mm sabot rounds. 

When [[Sam Witwicky]] asked [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]] to free [[Bumblebee (Movie)|a good robot]], Simmons refused to listen, until Lennox got him to cooperate by putting a gun to his chest, resulting in a Mexican standoff between his unit and Sector Seven. Simmons ordered him to release him, but Lennox told Simmons he and his men didn't take orders from people who didn't exist. They won the standoff (losing really isn't an option for those guys). Lennox and his men subsequently escorted Sam and the car to [[Mission City]], meeting [[Autobot|other good robots]] en route.

[[File:Movie Lennox Sam takethecube.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Give me the girl and no one has to die here.]]

After arriving in Mission City, they were attacked by a [[Seeker (Movie)|fighter jet]] which [[Ironhide (Movie)|some truck]] called "[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]". Soon afterwards, [[Brawl (Movie)|a tank]] started shelling them, until the good robots totally triple teamed it. When Megatron arrived, the good robots told the soldiers to fall back, and seeing [[Jazz (Movie)|the Pontiac]] trying to cover the retreat of his men, Lennox tried to tell the good robot to fall back as well, but it was too late. Lennox and his men engaged the tank when it got back up, but it just wouldn't die, and things were complicated further when the helicopter that destroyed SOCCENT Qatar turned up. Telling Sam to take the [[AllSpark]] to a building to be evacuated, Lennox and his team engaged the tank thing, which began to overpower them. It was only with the help of [[Bumblebee (Movie)|the Camaro]] and [[Mikaela Banes|some girl]] that they were able to kill the thing. 

[[File:Lennox-slide-shoot.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|YOU DISHONOR MY FAMILY!]]

Later, Lennox and his men went to assist [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|the big truck]] in his fight with Megatron. During the battle, that helicopter went to help his boss. Lennox, deciding to take matters into his own hands, avenged Figueroa and Donnelly by totally killing it dead with the time-honored method of:

:* Getting on a motorcycle.
:* Jumping off the motorcycle as it slams into the enemy.
:* Sliding under his opponent.
:* Shooting them in the [[Anatomic euphemism#Gearbox|gearbox]] with sabot rounds until they are dead.
:* Going "woo-hoo", "yee-ha", or another exclamation of success.

[[File:Movie LennoxFamily.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|It's the circle of liiiife!]]
His final action in the battle of Mission City was to shoot a sabot round in the chest of Megatron, offering an opening to Sam to ram the All Spark in his chest, thus allowing them victory.

After the deaths of the [[Decepticon]]s, [[Ironhide (Movie)|the Topkick named Ironhide]] gave him a ride home, where he was reunited with his wife and met his newborn daughter. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

{{note|William Lennox's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]],” and “[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]”; and the "[[Transformers: Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics.}}
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====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film====
:''Actor:'' [[Josh Duhamel]]
{{voiceactor|[[Fumiya Yazaki]] (Japanese dub), [[Alexandre Moreno]] (Portuguese dub), [[Arturo Mercado Leonel de Cervantes|Arturo Mercado Jr.]] (Spanish dub), [[Dennis Schmidt-Foß]] (German)}}

[[File:ROTF Lennox EppsNEST.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Look, Epps! If you look in the background - and I mean way, way in the background - sitting idly, you might, might, ''just might'', and I repeat, "might" see a Transformer standing idly in this movie!]]
In the two years following the battle at [[Mission City]], Lennox received a promotion to Major and was made field commander of [[NEST]], an alliance between human governments and the Autobots to track down and eliminate all Decepticons active on Earth. 

In 2009, NEST was deployed to [[Shanghai]] when Decepticons were detected, their sixth operation in eight months. When NEST reached the industrial center they last tracked them to, Lennox told the arriving [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] that they had echoes near the steel stacks, and the Autobots soldier confirmed that there was a Decepticon nearby. Sergeant Epps soon got a thermal ripple from an excavator, and as Lennox ordered NEST to be steady, the Decepticon [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] transformed and struck the stacks sending them and several NEST soldiers flying. As NEST returned fire, the Decepticon [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] made a break for it. Lennox took a group to stop the Decepticon, deploying [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] and [[The Twins]] to intercept him. When [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] made a bad turn and Sideways managed to fight off Arcee, Lennox ordered [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] deployed, and he managed to take out the fleeing Decepticon.

Although [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and Epps' group managed to take out Demolishor, he relayed a cryptic warning before he died: "[[The Fallen]] shall rise again". Upon returning to [[Diego Garcia]], Lennox ordered a video briefing with [[Morshower|General Morshower]] at the [[Pentagon]]. While paying his respects to the three soldiers who were killed at Shanghai, Lennox saw a helicopter land and deposit [[Theodore Galloway]], the National Security Adviser. Lennox told the Director he would need to be on the classified access list to enter, only for Galloway to slap a Presidential authorization on his chest informing them of [[Barack Obama|President Obama]]'s decision to make Galloway his official liaison. As Lennox took Galloway to the Autobots' hangar, the link to the JCS was established. Lennox greeted Chairman Morshower and told them that Optimus Prime needed to debrief him immediately. After Optimus relayed the warning of "The Fallen" to General Morshower, Galloway then interrupted to air the President's concerns, while also airing his complains over the Autobots' refusal to share weapons technology and continued sending of messages to space. Although Lennox and Epps tried to defend the Autobots, Galloway dismissed them and asked if the Autobots would peacefully leave if they were asked to. Optimus said that they would, but posed a question of his own: what if they leave, and Galloway was wrong? Lennox admitted that it was a good question.

That evening, however, the Decepticons located the [[AllSpark]] shard stored on Diego Garcia and stole it, using it to resurrect [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]. The Autobots soon sent word to NEST of multiple incoming Decepticons, but refused to specify where they were heading and would not respond to NEST's calls. Lennox ordered NEST ready for deployment in twenty minutes. By the time they reached the United States, Lennox received a message from the Autobots: the battle with the Decepticons to rescue [[Sam Witwicky]] had not gone well, and Optimus Prime was [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|dead]]. Soon after, the Decepticons launched two attacks at Paris and the [[United States Navy]], destroying the ''U.S.S. Roosevelt'' and killing all hands aboard. Following this, The Fallen made the presence of the [[Transformer]]s known and demanded that humanity turn Sam over to them.

Optimus Prime's body was brought to an Air Force base in New Jersey, and his body had barely hit the ground when the United States military surrounded the Autobots. Lennox ordered the soldiers to lower their weapons, only to learn that Director Galloway had managed to place himself in charge of NEST and order it deactivated, with the Autobots to be placed under guard. Lennox tried to argue the Autobots value, but Galloway dismissed his arguments by saying they would buy time by negotiating with the Decepticons, even if it meant handing Sam over to the Decepticons. As a final insult to injury, Galloway then stripped Lennox's NEST badge off his uniform. 

[[File:ROTF Lennox EppsPlot.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Well, Epps, I didn't want it to have come down to this... but, screw it! We're gonna kill and eat Galloway! Epps, you get that AK! Ironhide, go get the AR-15 in the back!]]
As the Autobots were being "restrained" and loaded onto C-17s for transport back to Diego Garcia, Lennox received a phone call from none other than [[Seymour Simmons]], who said that he was with Sam and needed Optimus brought to the [[Gulf of Aqaba]] in [[Egypt]]. Lennox found it strange, but realized that Sam had a better idea of the stakes and decided to trust him. Lennox had a message with the coordinates sent to General Morshower, including a warning to get ready to [[bring the rain]], while spreading word among the NEST troops to be ready. 

[[File:ROTF LennoxditchesGalloway.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|You're lucky, we were ''this'' close to eating you! *kicks*]]
When they reached the coordinates, the pilot faked engine trouble and ordered an emergency evac. Despite Galloway's threat to end his career, he was able to strap a parachute onto the panicking bureaucrat and trick him into opening the chute while inside the plane. Finally ready, NEST parachuted into the Gulf. Landing in a village on the beach, Lennox ordered NEST ready for combat. Once [[Graham|Agent Graham]] had a visual on [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Yellow]] team, Lennox ordered a flair popped to lead Sam to them. Unfortunately, the flare also got the attention of [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], who began attacking the incoming Autobots and releasing an [[electromagnetic pulse]] to disable NEST's communications. 

When Megatron and thirteen Decepticons arrived, Lennox ordered a group to go with Ironhide and Arcee to find Sam and lead him through the pillars, where NEST would ambush the Decepticons. Once NEST began firing on the Decepticons, Ironhide's team [[roll out|rolled out]]. In the following [[Operation: Firestorm|battle]], NEST was hard pressed to provide proper support to the remaining Autobots. Fortunately, General Morshower eventually discovered what was really happening and sent heavy armor to assist them. Members of Ironhide's team said that they were unable to reach the kid but told him where to go. Unfortunately, Megatron was hot on his trail, and Lennox ordered the tanks to provide cover fire while he and Epps made their way to Sam and [[Mikaela Banes|Mikaela]]. Once they reached him, Sam was insistent on getting to Optimus, despite the incoming air strike. Before they could leave, the group was forced to hide behind the wall they were using for cover, as the Decepticon [[Mixmaster (ROTF)|Mixmaster]] was using it for the same purpose. Salvation arrived in the form of the Decepticon-turned-Autobot [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]], who killed Mixmaster. Unfortunately, Jetfire was then attacked by Lennox and Epps' old "pal" [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]], who in turn was killed. 

With the air strike incoming, Lennox told Sam and Mikaela to stay with him as they ran. Unfortunately, Epps' toss had been less than stellar. Namely, it was a mere feet away from their position. With the F-16s about to fire, Lennox and Epps ordered everyone to run like hell. Barely making away from the blast zone, Lennox ordered Sam to get back when he made a mad dash for Optimus' body. Before he could reach it, Megatron fired, sending Sam hurtling through the air before being forced to retreat. As Lennox started CPR on the boy, medics arrived to try and revive him. It appeared that Sam was dead, but [[Dynasty of Primes|something]] revived him. The dust in his sock turned into some sort of dagger, and Sam used it to revive Optimus Prime.

[[File:ROTF NotBestToss.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Damn it, I knew we should've eaten Galloway.]]
Unfortunately, that wasn't the end, as The Fallen teleported in, killed some soldiers, and stole the dagger. As it turns out, it wasn't some handy Autobot reviver. It was the [[Matrix of Leadership]], an artifact used to activate a [[Star Harvester|weapon]] which would create [[energon]] by destroying stars. The Fallen then raised the heavy weaponry attacking the Decepticons on the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]], compelling the dying Jetfire to give his parts to Optimus. Once Optimus flew off, Lennox ordered NEST to follow him and start ''running toward the pyramid''. As one can assume, Optimus destroyed the machine and killed The Fallen before they arrived. With the battle won, Lennox was seen congratulating Simmons on his role in helping to save the world. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|William Lennox's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]],” “[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]” and “[[The Last Prime]]"; the “[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks “[[Operation Autobot]],” "[[Rise of the Decepticons]]," and "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Mix & Match]]."}}

====''Dark of the Moon'' film====
:''Actor:'' [[Josh Duhamel]]
{{voiceactor|[[Fumiya Yazaki]] (Japanese dub), [[Arturo Mercado Leonel de Cervantes|Arturo Mercado Jr.]] (Spanish dub), [[Dennis Schmidt-Foß]] (German)}}

With the Decepticon threat mostly gone, Colonel Lennox's NEST teams mostly spent their time working on human problems. Lennox traveled to the [[Ukraine]] with the Autobots to secretly meet with Department of Energy General Counsel, [[Alexi Voskhod]], who passed on the information that something alien had been found at [[Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]]. The NEST team proceeded to [[Pripyat]] with Voskhod, though Lennox was surprised at first that Voskhod wasn't wearing protective gear. Lennox and his men were led through a school and to the power plant itself. Within, they located some sort of alien device, however before they could secure it, they were attacked by the [[Driller]] which made off with the device. Lennox and his team evacuated the building and outside joined [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] in fighting off the driller, managing to regain possession of the device, which Optimus told Lennox was a piece from an Autobot ship.

Returning to the US, Lennox got a visit from his new favorite pain-in-the-ass, Director of National Intelligence [[Charlotte Mearing]], who had a bee in her bonnet over certain recent missions NEST had been undertaking in the [[Middle East]]. Lennox claimed that the Autobots sometimes sneaked out without his knowledge. He spectated as Mearing introduced Optimus to [[Buzz Aldrin]], and it was explained that the Autobot ship, the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]'' had crashed on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]. Some time later, [[Sam Witwicky]] turned up at the secret NEST base with information about Decepticon activities he'd gained from a coworker, and got Lennox's attention when the information pertained to the Moon. They watched as Optimus used the Matrix to revive [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]], and Lennox ordered his men not to fire as Sentinel attacked Optimus.

When Sam discovered that the Decepticons were after Sentinel to activate the [[space bridge]] [[Pillar]]s, Lennox deployed NEST teams to track the enemy down. He met Sam at the gate when the boy arrived with Sentinel, however then it turned out Sentinel was on the Decepticon's side. Lennox ordered the NEST teams recalled, but it was too late. Sentinel trashed the NEST base in search of the Pillars, and Lennox had to restrain Mearing from trying to confront the Autobot. The Autobots pursued Sentinel to [[Washington, D.C.]], with Lennox riding in [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], but were unable to prevent Sentinel from bringing masses of Decepticons to Earth. Lennox subsequently met with General Morshower, and reported to Mearing that the Decepticons had gone into hiding, but then they received a recorded message from Sentinel, demanding the exile of Optimus's Autobots from Earth.

Following the attack on [[Chicago]], Lennox went to [[Grissom Air Force Base]] to coordinate a response, networking with Morshower and Mearing by video. They were unable to find out what was happening in Chicago until they got a transmission from Epps, Sam and [[Carly Spencer|Carly]] via a downed military drone. Lennox organized a NEST team to enter the embattled city. They traveled in by [[United States Air Force#CV-22 Osprey|Osprey]] and used a combination of [[wingsuit]]s and parachutes to reach the ground.

[[File:DOTM Lennox and Sam on Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|They're both on Bumblebee's hood, so clearly they're about to make out.]]
They first located Sam Witwicky, who was dangling from [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] via [[grapple glove]]. While Lennox tried to cut him free before the bomb in Starscream's head exploded, the pair were tossed around, and finally caught by Bumblebee. Lennox led his team to the river where they rendezvoused with Epps and his group as well as a team of Navy Seals, but were unable to cross the bridge until [[Dutch (DOTM)|someone]] eventually lowered it remotely. On the other side of the river, they set up an ambush to attack a group of Decepticons including [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]. Lennox and some of the other men parachuted down in an attempt to get on top of the Decepticons and engage them at close range. With Optimus's help, they succeeded in taking out the Decepticons, and in return aided Optimus in his fight against Sentinel by shooting at the other Autobot and helping to take out the control Pillar. Following the battle, Lennox and his men walked out onto the bridge where Optimus had defeated both Megatron and Sentinel. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}
{{note|William Lennox's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (novel)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]” and “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel]]”; the "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation]]" and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks “[[Autobots Versus Decepticons]],” "[[Optimus Prime's Friends and Foes]]," and "[[The Lost Autobot]]."}}

====''The Last Knight'' film====
:''Actor:'' [[Josh Duhamel]]
{{voiceactor|[[Fumiya Yazaki]] (Japanese), [[Dennis Schmidt-Foß]] (German)}}

[[File:TLK Lennox OperationIsOver.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Why am I here? I thought Mark was the main character!]]

{{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}
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===IDW movie comics===
Though the [[Decepticon]]s had been defeated, the job was not yet done in Mission City. Now acquainted with the good robots known as the [[Autobot]]s, Lennox and his team accompanied [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] to seek out and destroy the mutation Transformers created by the [[AllSpark]]'s energy. After the last of the creatures were destroyed, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] requested Lennox's assistance in helping the Autobots escape from less-trustworthy humans such as Sector Seven. Gladly helping, the soldiers found Ironhide a trailer that Prime could use to transport Jazz's remains out of the city. As Ironhide somberly placed his comrade's body into the container, Lennox, Epps and the men lowered their heads in honour of the 'bot who saved their lives. Lennox gave Ironhide his cell phone for Sam Witwicky to call him with once they were safely away (forgetting that his wife would probably call him at some point). As soon as the Autobots left, that jerkface Agent Simmons from Sector Seven turned up, demanding to know what had transpired. To their surprise, Simmons also offered Lennox and Epps positions within Sector Seven to help defend Earth against further Transformer aggression. Initially, they refused, until Sam called Epps's phone right in front of Simmons, blowing Lennox's excuse.

[[File:Eppsandlennoxalliance1.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.65|left]]
A month later, Lennox and Epps have a secret meeting with Optimus Prime, Ratchet and Ironhide. He joked to Ratchet that the Autobots were late to meet them because Ratchet had stopped to take soil samples again, but Optimus mention having been followed by a police car, which Lennox suggests might have been Barricade. Lennox then informed Prime that the Decepticons' remains were about to be dumped into the ocean, and they want the Autobots to help escort the transport to the naval yards. {{storylink|Alliance issue 1|Alliance #1}}

Now members of Sector Seven, Epps and Lennox oversaw the transportation of the Decepticon bodies to the [[San Diego]] [[United States Navy|US Navy]] base where they would be taken to the ocean and dumped. As a gesture of friendship to the Autobots, Lennox also arranged for Jazz to be properly buried at sea, an honour greatly appreciated by Optimus Prime. When the AllSpark fragment seemed to react to the presence of Megatron, Optimus Prime left it in the care of Sector Seven scientist [[Vine|Professor Vine]] while he was away. Lennox ordered [[Salani]] to stay behind and guard the shard with his life. Later, when Optimus Prime had second thoughts, he ordered Bumblebee and Ironhide to return to the Sector Seven [[Nevada]] base to retrieve the fragment, and Lennox sent Epps to accompany them. What they didn't know was Decepticons had leveled the base. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2|Alliance #2}}

[[File:Alliance3 OptimusPrime Lennox.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I went from the height of Prime's ankle to his knee in just 2 panels!]]

The convoy returned after learning of [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]] and [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]'s devastating attacks. Just as Simmons was about to leave to find the All Spark shard, Lennox ordered him to stay where he was, and that Simmons's rank was negated by orders from Secretary of Defense Keller, who had terminated Sector Seven and fired Simmons. Lennox felt some regret in seeing Simmons go, but doubted they had seen the last of the strange man. Two weeks later, Lennox butted heads with unsympathetic, suspicious superiors at the [[Pentagon]], who did not trust the Autobots and were not keen on Lennox's idea of a joint military alliance. At the last they agreed, but made it clear it was the young officer's responsibility. After the disposal of the Decepticons, Lennox assured Optimus Prime that it was highly unlikely anything of Earth or Cybertronian origin could reach the bodies. Below deck, Lennox, revealed more "[[transition form|meteors]] had been seen coming down to Earth, and proposed his militaty alliance idea, with the two leaders agreeing to mutual trust and disclosure. Shortly afterwards, the Autobots and human soldiers in the newly formed [[NEST]] began training on the island of [[Diego Garcia]], though it did not go too well. Both Optimus Prime and the newly promoted '''Major''' Lennox impressed upon the soldiers that teamwork was paramount to their successful defense of their home. After the drill, Lennox expressed admiration for Optimus Prime and the Autobots, though the Autobot leader brushed the compliments off, and stated it was humans such as [[Sam Witwicky]] and Lennox who were the true heroes, and the Autobots were just part of the problem. Soon, the NEST team had to move out—the Decepticon [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]] had been seen in [[San Francisco]]. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3|Alliance #3}}

[[File:Alliance4 angryLennox Prime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|left|What do you mean Self-Destruct? Who was the smart ass that installed this?!]]

In San Francisco, when the Decepticons were spotted, Lennox and Bumblebee went after Swindle, who turned to face his pursuers on the [[Golden Gate Bridge]]. Lennox distracted the Decepticon from Bumblebee, a move that almost cost him his life before the Autobot destroyed Swindle. Before he died, Swindle boasted that none of them were safe, and that they would find "it". This troubled Lennox, and on the plane trip back to Diego Garcia, he confided with Prime his fears about there being more Decepticons and what they were looking for. When Optimus suggested taking Sam, a possible target, to the base on the island, Lennox refused, stating it was too much to place upon the boy, but agreed that they should assign somebody to keep an eye on him. Back at base, Lennox again butted heads with his superiors, who were supremely unhappy that the Autobots transformed into robot mode, pointedly telling Lennox that his team was expected to fix problems, not create new ones. Lennox was frustrated that the pig-headed brass still didn't trust the Autobots. After seeing Bumblebee off, the team discovered that the Decepticons were once again active in force on Earth, and were authorised to hunt down and destroy the invaders. Though their numbers and their experience grew, Lennox's men suffered losses while taking out the Decepticons. A day after destroying [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]] and [[Dropkick]] in [[Florida]], the team returned to [[Mission City]] to greet new Autobot recruits. {{Storylink|Alliance issue 4|Alliance #4}} But one Autobot named [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] was recklessly pursuing a Decepticon named [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] in [[South America]]. Lennox informed Optimus that the two were heading for [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]]. As the teams readied themselves, Lennox asked Optimus if Sideswipe wouldn't stand down and Prime made it clear that if he wouldn't stand down, he'll be... ''dealt'' with, but Ironhide requested to have first crack at trying to bring him into line since he trained Sideswipe, and was once like him. When the Argentine Air Force entered the fray, all ''three'' Transformers were seen as hostiles. Luckily, the NEST team arrived, and Lennox calling in for the Air Force to stand down. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 2|Tales of the Fallen #2}}

Eventually, the greatest test NEST had faced yet appeared when Demolisher reappeared in [[Shanghai]], [[China]] and Lennox ordered everyone to move out. {{Storylink|Alliance issue 4|Alliance #4}}

[[File:Nefarious2 Lennox.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|What? So I'm played by Ben Browder now.]]
Lennox led a NEST mission to stop [[Alice]], after the Decepticon stole an RV. He instructed Epps to tell their sharpshooters to hold fire in case there was anyone else inside. He returned to [[Beale Air Force Base]] and reported the mission's success to Optimus over a video link. Noting the recent reduction in NEST's funding, he blamed Galloway and reflected he should never have thrown Galloway out of that plane. While Lennox watched Sideswipe's display of bigotry, [[Janson]] informed him of spark traces converging on [[Kingdom Petrochemicals]]. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 1|Nefarious #1}} Some time later at [[Edwards Air Force Base]], Lennox found himself being told off by Galloway, who was annoyed at the operation at Kingdom Petrochemicals and the new Autobots who didn't have paperwork, and who informed him that NEST was being stood down. Lennox, for his part, didn't tell Galloway that a mysterious group of humans had been involved in the Kingdom Petrochemicals battle. When three Decepticon contacts conveniently turned up, Lennox and Optimus grew more perplexed. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 2|Nefarious #2}}

Lennox was very annoyed when Optimus took [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] prisoner without consulting him, even more so when the plane transporting Soundwave was shot down. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 3|Nefarious #3}} After Soundwave was freed by the Decepticons, Lennox lamented the position they were in, but then they received a distress call from Galloway. A NEST team led by Lennox rushed to his aid and then they proceeded to [[Hoover Dam]], where they found someone had broken in. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 4|Nefarious #4}} Lennox prepared his troops to assault the [[Initiative]] base, and Galloway agreed to keep the operation off the official channels. As they headed to [[Oregon]], Optimus informed Lennox that the enemy was tapping powers they didn't fully understand. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 5|Nefarious #5}} Following the battle against the Initiative, Lennox and his men rounded up the surviving members and did clean up. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 6|Nefarious #6}}

Lennox accompanied a group of Autobots on a mission to halt Decepticons from trafficking weapons to Earth's human populace. The Decepticons got wise to the ruse quickly and began to attack, prompting Lennox to evac Galloway, all while the Director boasted that the bad guys ''almost'' believed he was a real arms dealer! As they were driving away, their vehicle was caught by Divebomb, who ripped open the roof of their vehicle and held its passengers hostage at gun point. Then Ironhide blew a hole through Divebomb. The remaining Decepticon, Fearswoop, surrendered, prompting Lennox to congratulate Ironhide on a job well done. As they were clearing out, Epps told Lennox that they were both getting too old for this line of work. Lennox was in disagreement, his enthusiasm for field work still burning bright as ever. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 1|Rising Storm #1}} When Sam called in that he was being attacked by a group of Decepticons, after the [[Brains|Brain Unit]] that he had stumbled onto, Lennox was deployed to help with the situation. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} Lennox's group arrived in Philadelphia just in time to rescue Sam from being killed by Starscream's hand. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 3|Rising Storm #3}} However, Lennox noticed something was off as the Autobots began to beat back the Decepticons. The Decepticons weren't fighting back, merely trying to make their getaway. The battle had turned out to be a diversion orchestrated by Shockwave in order to get to several Autobot refugees left behind at the NEST headquarters. Shockwave himself soon joined the battle, turning the tide in the Decepticons' favour. Though the Autobots managed to defeat Shockwave and send him fleeing, the victory was a slim one. Despite Lennox's protests, Epps retired from the force in the battle's aftermath. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}}
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===''The Veiled Threat''===
Lennox and Epps traveled to [[NEST]]'s [[Diego Garcia]] base on the ''[[Pearl of India]]'' and were amused when they were attacked by [[Erasto Khalfani|Somali pirates]], as Ironhide and Ratchet were also with them on the ship. On arrival they met with scientists [[Kaminari Ishihara]] and [[Petr Andronov]]. Decepticon activity resulted in a NEST team co-led by Lennox and Optimus Prime to [[Zambia]], where Lennox began to develop a mutually antagonistic relationship with Ishihara. They encountered [[Macerator (ROTF)|Macerator]], [[Payload (Movie)|Payload]] and [[Dropkick]] at the Zambezi River. While Optimus, Ironhide and Ratchet fought them in the raging river, Lennox and Epps attempted to shoot the Decepticons with a modified stinger missile launcher, but were unable to get a shot off before they realized that it was a trap. Lennox attempted to attract the attention of the Autobots before they plunged off Victoria Falls. After [[Beachbreak]] saved Optimus from a plunge over the falls, even Lennox was moved to tears when the small Autobot was killed by Starscream. The NEST team pursued the Decepticons to a dam downstream, where Lennox, Epps and Andronov tracked down a technician to trigger the emergency release, resulting in Payload being washed away.

Returning to Diego Garcia, they barely had time to rest before there were two contacts in [[Peru]] and [[Australia]]. Lennox and Ishihara accompanied Optimus, Ironhide and [[Salvage (Movie)|Salvage]] to the Australian outback, where they searched until they eventually encountered [[Kickback (ROTF)|Kickback]], [[Trample]] and [[Tread]]. Lennox managed to nail Kickback in the side of the head with a sabot shell, though it mostly made the Decepticon angry, and Lennox might have been killed if Optimus hadn't gotten to the Decepticon first. When Ishihara risked her life to help Ironhide destroy Tread, Lennox gave her a severe talking to. As they packed up, Lennox wished Epps was there so he wouldn't have to listen to Ironhide and Ishihara talking strategy all the way back to Diego Garcia.

During the debrief, Lennox was lost by the talk of volcanoes and other power sources that the Decepticons might be after. The Autobots were lured to [[Rome]], where Starscream challenged Optimus to a one-on-one duel. It turned out to be a trap, of course, and Starscream left Optimus to Barricade's tender mercies. Luckily Epp, Lennox, Ishihara and Andronov were around to distract Barricade by attacking him, allowing Prime to gain the upper hand, and the four humans escaped the Colosseum via a subway. {{storylink|Transformers: The Veiled Threat|The Veiled Threat}}

===Titan movie comics===
[[File:TitanLennox BUDDABUDDA.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|He shoots and asks questions at the same time: multitasking!]]

Lennox's primary mission was to locate all the [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seekers]] on Earth. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.10|Bring Me the Head of Optimus Prime}}

Lennox and Prime oversaw a mission in [[Los Angeles]] that [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]] messed up. Galloway was pleased by this, as he was still angry about Lennox chucking him out of a plane and wanted revenge! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.9|Culture Shock}} Lennox later oversaw a hostage crisis at the Alamo, a secret NEST armoury. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.12|Rules of Engagement}} Later still, he planned and carried out a sting operation against [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] alongside the [[United States Navy]], trying to stop the Decepticon from sinking ships. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.15|Making Waves}} 

A different mission came along when the rainforests in [[Peru]] were devastated by an unknown, possibly alien force. Lennox and [[Redway|Doctor Redway]] of the ecological survey team did ''not'' get on, both seeing the other as getting in their way, but they put their differences aside when it became clear [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] was in the area and manipulating the locals. In the ensuing battle, Lennox and [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] engaged the Decepticon and drove him off, before he ordered [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] to stop a fire that the battle had caused. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.17|The Kingdom of Starscream}}

He went back to South America a year later, going undercover with the [[Tanto Gang]] to confirm they were allied with Soundwave. With Autobots reinforcements (because Lennox found he couldn't do spit to Soundwave), he routed the Gang but NEST failed to stop Soundwave escaping. But at least he got to see the city of [[El Dorado]] before the Tanto Gang blew it up! Man, Lennox has ''no'' luck in South America. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.2|Gold And Blood}}
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===Transformers Annual 2011===
Lennox was at the NEST base when Decepticon activity was detected in [[Tokyo]]. He accompanied the Autobots there, and drove around in his jeep until Optimus had defeated Barricade and Grindor. At that point the Decepticons gloated that they were merely a diversion, and Optimus and Lennox realised that Sam was in danger! {{storylink|Sam in Danger}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game===
{{voiceactor|[[John DiMaggio]] (English)}}

====Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC====
=====Autobot campaign=====

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{{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}

===''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' (mobile game)===
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{{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (mobile game)}}

==Toys==
===Transformers (2010)===
====Human Alliance====
[[File:TF2010 HumanAlliance Jazz&Lennox.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Autobot Jazz with Captain Lennox''' (2010)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RA-32'''

:A posable Captain Lennox figure is included with [[Human Alliance]] [[Jazz (Movie)#Human Alliance|Jazz]], and can interact with him in various ways. He uses a more simplified design than other Human Alliance figures, with the waist and wrist joints omitted, meaning that he is unable to grip the horizontal handles on the shoulder cannon and motorcycle with his vertically-aligned hands.

:This mold was [[retool]]ed into ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (franchise)|Dark of the Moon]]'' [[Major Tungsten]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Autobot/HAWilliamLennox/williamlennox.htm More information on Captain Lennox at TFU.info]''
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==Merchandise==
===Robot Heroes===
*'''Desert Devastation''' (Multi-pack, 2009)

[[File:rotf desertdevastation rh.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I can't stop grinning!]]

:A [[super deformed]] figure with a super deformed gun, ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' Lennox is sculpted grinning wildly and holding a yellow walkie-talkie. He is only available in a multi-pack with [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] and vehicle-mode [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Autobot/RHCaptWilliamLennox/captwilliamlennox.htm More information on ''Robots Heroes'' Lennox at TFU.info]''
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==Notes==
[[File:Movie Figueroa cutscene.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!]]
* A later scene where Lennox comforts the dying Figueroa was cut from the theatrical release of the film, but briefly seen in the December 2006 trailer. The scene survived in both [[Transformers (novel)|the novelization]] and the [[Transformers: The Junior Novel|children's novelization]] where (despite many changes made to tone down descriptions of violence against ''robots'') he still died. Go fig!
* Early scripts give Lennox's rank as Sergeant.
* Lennox is given the nickname "Wild Bill" in the novelization. Whether this was a deliberate reference to the [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] [[Wild Bill|character]] remains unknown.
* Josh Duhamel's left foot was injured by a piece of fake shrapnel during filming.<ref>Duhamel made fun of his minor injury during the Second Life Virtual Press Conference (the shrapnel was made of ''cork'' and it cut his ''pinky'') explaining that he wasn't allowed to do his own stunts.</ref>
[[File:Movie ScreenBattles Sector7figures.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Hey! It's me! Lennox!]]
* The '''Capture of Bumblebee''' set from the "Screen Battles" packs features what appear to be two [[Sector Seven]] soldiers, but one of them is obviously Lennox painted in Sector Seven colors. In fact, the Screen Battles "Desert Attack" set with [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] was originally supposed to come with four instead of three soldiers (with Lennox likely being the fourth), whereas the "Capture of Bumblebee" set was originally supposed to include four figures listed as "S7 Agent, S7 soldier, Ice soldiers". The "ice soldiers" were likely dropped for budget reasons, and Lennox moved to the "Capture of Bumblebee" set for the same reason.<ref name="checklist">[http://web.archive.org/web/20080920112933/http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/default.cfm?page=Collectors/Checklist Hasbro checklist]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''William Lennox''' (ウィリアム・レノックス ''Wiruamu Renokkusu'')
*''Korean:'' '''William Lennox''' (윌리엄 레녹스 ''Willieom Renokseu'')

==Footnotes==
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