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. Upon closer inspection of the truck, it seems to be full of artillery shells. He has the truck, along with other broken theater equipment, brought back to his farm and puts it in his garage. Tessa, Cade's daughter, observes this while video-chatting with her boyfriend and criticizes her dad for buying the heap of junk. While attempting to salvage the truck's engine to sell, Cade realizes it's actually a badly-damaged Transformer. After calling Lucas and Tessa, he connects jumper cables to its engine, only for it to begin replaying a distress to "All Autobots". Lucas and Tessa advocate calling the government, claiming that there is a huge reward for turning in Transformers. Cade convinces them not to call the authorities until he can spend more time working on the truck, as he may be able to stumble on a technological breakthrough if he can figure out how the Transformers work. When Cade removes a live missile from the truck's "power core," it transforms into the Autobot leader Optimus Prime. The badly damaged Autobot roars in a fit of rage while waving a shotgun but Cade manages to calm the disoriented transformer. Cade, Lucas, and Tessa ask why Optimus is so badly damaged, to which he replies that he was ambushed and that the Autobots are being hunted and he must help them.
Cade decides to repair him, and sends Lucas to buy the parts that will enable him to fix Optimus. As Cade begins to repair Optimus, the Autobot wonders why Cade would help him, to which Cade responds because he trusts him to. The two begin to bond as they discuss the similarities between a Transformers Spark and a Human Soul. Soon afterwards, Cemetery Wind, the group hunting the Autobots, came to the farm looking for Optimus Prime. Cade almost convinced them to leave until he referred to the truck as "He" rather than "it". James Savoy, the violent leader of the group, had the agents turn their guns of the Yeagers and threatened to shoot Tessa. Cade watched in horror as Savoy threatened her when they were saved by Optimus bursting from the barn and attacking 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. During their escape, their house was destroyed by Lockdown, a bounty hunter Transformer who was after Optimus. Cade, Tessa, and Shane manged to escape in Optimus while Lucas was killed by one of Lockdowns 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 Tessas mothers 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 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 took Optimus intervening to stop the pair from opening fire on the humans. Later that night, Cade took note of how disorganized and chaotic the Autobots were without their leader. Afterwards, Cade was able to access the Cemetery Wind drone's memory, revealing an attack on Ratchet and Leadfoots death. 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 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 had a battle of wills 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 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 minions. After some searching, he and Shane finally found Tessa, who was more thankful of Shane than her father, frustrating him. Unfortunatly, 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, 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, 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 not to activate Galvatron. Before he and the Autobots head to Hong Kong to prevent the detonation of the Seed, Optimus says that afterwards the Autobots are done protecting humanity. Cade is dismayed to hear this but Prime is non-responsive. During the flight, They debate the matter, with Cade attempting to reignite Primes faith in humanity, with some 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 finds the Yeagers and Joyce on the rooftop and open fires on them but Cade leads him away from the others. The two jump across rooftops, eventually crashing into a house and get in a fist fight which ends with Cade pushing Savoy through a window to his death. Cade reunites 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 and the Humans meet the other Autobots on the water front. Cade and Tessa happily reconcile and he finally accepts Shane. Joshua also promises to help the Yeagers with the fact their farm had been destroyed. Optimus then chooses to leave earth with the seed. He Leaves the Autobots with instructions to protect the Yeager family. Cade asks if they will ever meet again, to which Prime is unsure but tells them to consider one of the stars above to be his soul. Cade, greatly saddened by Optimus' choice to leave, watches with the others as the Prime blasts off into space to confront his mysterious Creators. Age of Extinction
