Dylan Gould
- Dylan Gould is a human from the live-action film continuity family.
Dylan Gould is the CEO of Hotchkiss Gould Investments.[1] He managed to snag the young Carly Spencer to help run his collection of exotic cars, a hobby which helps "keep him sane". He's inordinately fond of his new recruit, calling her "my duchess", giving her cars, and hooking up her boyfriend with career opportunities using his amazing connections because he's so hot and rich. That's not threatening to said boyfriend at all, no.
Fiction
IDW Dark of the Moon prequel comics
Dylan's father was a NASA accountant, who was approached by Soundwave in the early 1970s to manipulate the NASA budget and make further moon landings financially infeasible, thereby preventing humanity from discovering the wreck of the Ark on the lunar surface. Soundwave provided the money Gould desired by tapping the stock market, and so the man went to work, ensuring that the 1972 landing would be the last. Years later, in 1979, believing matters on Earth to be secure for the time being, Soundwave called another meeting with Gould to announce that he would be leaving the planet for a time. Gould brought Dylan to this meeting, as he intended for his son to take over his position as Decepticon liaison in the future. Soundwave was impressed with the child's tenacity, and could see in him greater desires that the base riches sought by his father.
Dylan had inherited his father's responsibilities when Soundwave return to Earth in 2007, now running the family company and continuing to maintain the veil of secrecy around the moon, with the help of Soundwave's numerous other human pawns. Summoning Dylan upon his return, Soundwave could see that his desires had blossomed: not content purely with money as his father had been, Dylan wanted power. Convergence chapter 4
Dylan poached administrative assistant Carly Spencer from the British Embassy some time after 2009 to serve as his personal assistant. According to her, fighting robots was kids' stuff compared to working for him. Rising Storm issue 4
Dark of the Moon film
- Actor: Patrick Dempsey, Yasuhiko Nemoto (Japanese dub), Sergio Gutiérrez Coto (Spanish dub)
Seeking to exploit Carly's boyfriend Sam Witwicky's connection to the Autobots for the Decepticons' own evil ends, Dylan arranged a job interview for him at Accuretta Systems, on whose board of directors he had a seat. Visiting Carly at work to tell her the good news, Sam took an immediate dislike to the smarmy Dylan and the closeness he and Carly displayed, feeling further emasculated when he discovered Dylan had set up the interview for him. Dylan even gifted Carly a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, and invited the young couple to a part at his estate, but Sam refused to go as he had begun to unravel the lunar conspiracy, though he had no idea Dylan was at the heart of it.
Soon after, when the recently-revived Autobot leader Sentinel Prime revealed his treachery and joined with the Decepticons in using his space bridge to attack Washington, D.C., Sam raced to Dylan's estate to get Carly to safety. There, Dylan finally showed his true colors: The "Mercedes" was revealed to be a disguised Soundwave, who held Carly hostage while Dylan attached a Decepticon watch to Sam's arm, instructing him to learn all he could about the Autobots' plans to fight back. With Carly Dylan's hostage and his nervous system tortured by the watch, Sam was forced to comply. But before leaving, he vowed to kill Dylan. But Sam learned that the Autobots were planning to leave Earth due to being exiled at the demands of Sentinel Prime. Content with this information, Dylan gave the signal to Starscream, who blew the Autobots' spacecraft out of the sky, apparently destroying them. Dyaln then said "We all work for the Decepticons now".
As the Decepticons set about razing Chicago, turning the city into a fortress, Dylan took Carly to his penthouse and explained that the evil robots were planning to teleport Cybertron into the solar system, and put humanity to work rebuilding the planet: he had secured his and Carly's freedom by selling out his own race. When he tried to watch he was ordered to leave by Megatron, who Dylan said to Carly "Hes such a dick". Chicago soon became a battleground, however, when the Autobots' seeming deaths were revealed as a deception, and they helped Sam break into Dylan's penthouse. Sam pulled out a gun and threaten Dylan with it but Laserbeak entered the room, grabbed Sam and threw him off the side, but he was saved by Bumblebees fighter and saved Carly. Dylan later reported the Autobots survival the Megatron himself. As the fighting grew more intense, several Autobots were captured by the Decepticons; formerly having viewed everything as "just business", Dylan urged Soundwave to execute them all for "making things personal". Fortunately, the intervention of Brains and Wheelie saved most of the Autobots, and in the renewed fighting that followed, the control pillar for Sentinel's space bridge was shot from its perch and knocked offline.
At the orders of Sentinel Prime, Dylan made his way to the pillar but Sam tried to interfere but Dylan pointed Sams own gun at him. However a piece of news paper suck to his face, providing a distraction and Dylan was forced to fight off Sam to reactivate the pillar, but after doing so, was struck by Sam with a rebar. Toppling backward into the reactivated pillar, Dylan was fatally electrocuted by its energies.
Toys
Dark of the Moon
- Soundwave / Mr. Gould with Laserbeak (Human Alliance, 2011)
- Japanese ID number: DD09
- Dark of the Moon Human Alliance Dylan Gould is partnered with Soundwave and Laserbeak. He is compatible with other Human Alliance figures.
- As with many late-wave DOTM products, this toy had no US release.
Notes
Foreign names
- Japanese: Dylan Gould (ディラン・グールド Diran Gūrudo)
Footnotes
- ↑ Dark of the Moon set photo, July 2010
