Cade Yeager
- Cade Yeager is a human from the Age of Extinction portion of the live-action film series continuity family.
All humans make mistakes. Sometimes, what comes from those mistakes comes the best thing that ever happened to them. That's what Cade Yeager believes when he looks at his daughter, to whom he and his girlfriend gave birth at the cost of their high school graduation. While Cade is not the most responsible father in the world, his most redeeming quality is that when it comes to keeping his daughter safe, he does not go back on his word, no matter what; a promise he made to his bride before she passed away. He does have a creative and optimistic mind, lending it to building all kinds of inventions to make a good business out of. Sadly, none of these inventions have brought in much profit for his family. Knowing all of the opportunities he lost, he has sworn not to let history repeat itself, which is probably why he disapproves of Tessa dating boys before she graduates from high school.
Fiction
Age of Extinction film
- Actor: Mark Wahlberg, Hiroshi Tsuchida (Japanese dub), José Gilberto Vilchis (American Spanish dub)
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 friend Lucas's money. As he worked on the truck, it didn't take long for him to discover its true identity, the leader of the heroic Autobots, Optimus Prime. Though Cade promised to repair him, Cemetery Wind came to crash the farm to find and execute Optimus Prime. Cade did his best to protect Tessa until Optimus was forced to intercede and attack the soldiers. Cade, Tessa, and Lucas made their escape with the aid of Tessa's secret boyfriend, Shane Dyson, whom Cade took an instant dislike to.
The newly formed team took shelter in an abandoned gas station, shaken by the death of Lucas at the hands of Lockdown during their escape. While Optimus scouted, Cade and Shane discussed the latter's relationship with Tessa. 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. Defore that could be done, Cade had 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, it only took Optimus intervening to stop the pair from opening fire on the humans. After the potentially volatile situation had calmed down, Cade was able to access the Cemetery Wind drone's memory, revealing the fate of Leadfoot. Intending to gain more information on the fate of the Autobots, they traveled to Chicago where Cade, Shane and Bumblebee infiltrated KSI. As soon as they made it safely inside the building Cade had found his way to where they were melting down 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, when the building came under attack by the enraged Autobots, looking to avenge their friends.
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 storming 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 sentry units. After some searching, he and Shane finally found Tessa, but 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 the beasts held within Lockdown's ship began to pursue them, having destroyed all but one cable, Bumblebee came to the rescue killing much of the enemy forces and saving the three humans when the cables released. They soon met up with Crosshairs who had commandeered an enemy fighter jet to help the humans and bots escape, 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.
Learning about the Seed and Galvatron's true nature, Cade contacted Joshua Joyce to plead with the man not to activate Galvatron, before he and the Autobots headed to [[Hong Kong] to prevent the detonation of the Seed. Arriving in Hong Kong, Cade joined Joyce who was trying to keep the Seed from Galvatron, leading to a chase through the city. Separated from the others, Cade was cornered by Savoy, which ended with the Cemetery Wind squad leader dying after falling from a building. Cade reunited with the other Autobots and joined the battle, despite the fact that he and the bots are largely outnumbered. 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 kept the bounty hunter distracted while Tessa and Shane freed Optimus, allowing him to deliver the final blow to Lockdown. Once the remainder of Lockdown's forces were dealt with, Optimus left the Autobots with instructions to protect the humans and Joshua promised to help the Yeagers with the fact their farm had been destroyed. Age of Extinction
