Hound (Movie)
| The name or term "Hound" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Hound (disambiguation). |
- Hound is an Autobot from the 2007 movie franchise and Age of Extinction movie in the live-action film continuity family.
Hound is a technical specialist and highly experienced, gutsy Autobot commando. He is a boisterous warrior who throws himself into every mission with no more worries than a duck landing on a pond, and quick to draw any of his many, many guns. And while his tendency to switch from gun to gun in quick succession in a single battle often leaves him bereft of weapons and ammunition, Hound's bravery and resourcefulness is never in doubt. He will take on an entire Decepticon army if he has to, and he would sooner go down swinging then abandon his allies on the battlefield.
He is good friends with the far more relaxed Trailbreaker, although the other Autobot's more relaxed attitude sometimes gets on Hound's nerves.
| “ | I'm like a fat ballerina who takes scalps and slits throats! | ” |
—Hound's the fat badass ballerina., Age of Extinction | ||
Fiction
Age of Extinction film
- Voice actor: John Goodman (English), Juan Carlos Tinoco (Latin American Spanish), Francesco Pannofino (Italian)
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, and nearly came to blows with him before Optimus broke it up. He also had to be stopped from opening fire on Cade Yeager, his daughter Tessa, and her boyfriend Shane. That night, thanks to Cade's tinkering with Cemetery Wind's drones, the Autobots learned of Leadfoot's demise. Hound was saddened to learn of his friend's fate, and saluted his fallen comrade. The loss of Leadfoot no doubt 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). Hound had to aggressively prod Crosshairs into helping rescue Optimus and Tessa, and informed the group they had ten minutes before Lockdown departed Earth. Hound and the others 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. The Autobots soon found their leader, and Hound went to commander a separate ship docked with Lockdown's, 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. However, Optimus ultimately decided to stop Galvatron, and Hound piloted the ship to China. Hound left the pilot's seat in order to help retrieve the Seed from Joyce, but 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, Hound fought tooth and nail to protect Joyce, the humans and the Seed from Galvatron's forces. Encouraging Cade to join the battle with him, Hound found himself running out of ammo and weaponry, but 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 knife, his hat, his belt, and even his cigar. By this point, Hound was exhausted from the battle, but was reinvigorated when Optimus joined the battle with the Dinobots. Hound 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 joined the other Autobots in setting up a perimeter on a nearby bridge. Lockdown was defeated, and after regrouping, Optimus assigned Hound and the Autobots to protect the Yeager family before departing into space with the Seed. Age of Extinction
Games
Transformers The Game (PSP)
- Voice actor: Daniel Ross
Hound was among the Autobots who accompanied Optimus Prime to Earth in response to a signal from Bumblebee alerting them to the presence of the All Spark on the planet. After being informed by Bumblebee's human companion Sam Witwicky that the lost Decepticon leader Megatron was also on Earth, Prime dispatched Hound and his close friend Trailbreaker to investigate the Arctic cavern in which Megatron's body was originally uncovered. Taking some drones with them, Hound and Trailbreaker discovered that the Decepticons Shockwave and Thundercracker had had the same idea. As Megatron's body had already been moved by Sector Seven anyway, Hound and Trailbreaker had nothing to lose by planting bombs in the cavern, hoping to entomb the two Decepticons in ice. Unfortunately, the two villains escaped at the last minute, having discovered that Megatron had brought an army of drones to Earth with him to help search for the All Spark—drones which were currently lying dormant around the Earth.
Shockwave brought Megatron's drone army back on line soon after, and they attacked the Autobots en route to Hoover Dam. Ironhide and Ratchet forced the origin of the drones from a defeated Thundercracker, and Wheeljack quickly concocted a virus that would send them back into sleep mode. Hound and Trailbreaker were charged with getting the virus transmitted into a satellite so that it could be broadcast to all the drones at once, and they broke into a communications center belonging to "The Corporation" (apparently a Sector Seven front company) to use their communications dish. Decepticon drones dogged their every step, blowing up the first dish they found and forcing them to move to the complex's airstrip to find another. Unfortunately, the drones cut off the power supply to this dish, requiring Hound to power it up manually while Trailbreaker uploaded the virus. "Uploading the virus", for some inexplicably bizarre reason, involved Trailbreaker violently attacking the dish control panel, causing both it and the dish to explode, hurling Hound's body across the complex. The virus was successfully transmitted to the drones, knocking them offline, but at the cost of Hound's life. With the last of his strength, Hound asked Trailbreaker if the plan worked, but he died in Trailbreaker's arms before his friend could answer.
It really sucks to be Hound. Transformers The Game (PSP)
Toys
Transformers (2010)
- Tracker Hound (Legends, 2010)
- Transformers (2010) Legends Class Tracker Hound is a redeco of Universe Legends Class Autobot Hound in black, with gold striping, silver details, and metallic-blue eyes. He transforms into a somewhat outdated, old-fashioned army Jeep. For legal reasons, the vehicle mode has been slightly tweaked, such as sporting squared headlights and horizontal vents in the front grille, as compared to the characteristic round headlights/vertical grille vents design of a real-life Jeep.
- The stock photography to the right depicts him as mis-transformed, with his windshield not being flipped up.
- Although the lack of a bio makes the figure's placement difficult, it both featured different Tech Spec numbers from the original Generation 1-themed release of Legends Hound, and was listed as "movie" product in the Japanese Transformers Generations 2011 Vol. 1 guidebook.
Age of Extinction
Robots in Disguise
- Autobot Hound (One Step Changers, 2014)
- Autobot Hound (Power Battlers, 2014)
Generations
- Autobot Hound (Voyager, 2014)
- Series: M4: 003
- Japanese ID number: AD21
- Accessories: 2 shotguns, 2 pistols (A), 2 pistols (B), minigun, knife
- Part of the second of Age of Extinction: Generations Voyager Class toys, Hound transforms into an Oskosh Medium Defense Tactical vehicle. Hound comes with seven weapons that can combine into a larger gun. All of his weapons are capable of being stored in both his vehicle and robot mode. His beard, helmet, and forearm bandoliers are made out of rubber. In robot mode, he sports faux-kibble tires on his feet.
- The TakaraTomy version, part of the second wave of Lost Age: Movie Advanced toys, features black and brown on his vehicle and robot mode. Hound's helmet has a silver stripe running down the middle.
Contruct-Bots
Kre-O
- See: Hound (Kre-O)
