History Characters / TransformersFilmSeriesHumans

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* TookALevelInJerkass: In the fifth film, after he and Tessa were separated, he becomes hostile and rude to others.

!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' | ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' | ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''

-->'''Mikaela:''' Man, if Trent could see me now...
-->'''Sam:''' ...excuse me, what'd you-- did you say 'Trent'? We literally discovered an alien race together and you still care what he thinks about you?
-->'''Mikaela:''' What are you, my therapist all of a sudden?
-->'''Sam:''' Wait a minute ... I'm having a vision! We're gonna possibly save the world and go back to school Monday morning and nothing's gonna change -- I'll still be the invisible guy with gummy worms in his hair ... and you'll go back to being [[CallBack shallow]].

!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' | ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' | ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''

!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' | ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' | ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' | ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight''

!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' | ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' | ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''

!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Film/{{Transformers}}''

!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Film/{{Transformers}}''

!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnTurturro (''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'', Creator/NickPilla (''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'')

!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Film/{{Transformers}}''

The United States defense secretary.

* PerpetualPoverty: ''Age of Extinction'' ends with Joyce pledging Cade his support (it's implied that the seven figures Attinger has been getting might go to him), but one movie later, he's back in the dumps again. It’s pretty much his own fault since he chose to continue helping the Autobots even when ''all'' transformers were declared illegal in the time gap between [[Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction Age of Extinction]] and [[Film/TransformersTheLastKnight The Last Knight]].

!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' & ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''

-->'''Sam:''' Wow, you must be totally screwed up--
-->'''Mikaela:''' Thanks, how'd you like it if I said you must be a total runt for [[BrutalHonesty not making the football team?!]]

!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Film/{{Transformers}}''

!!!'''Appeared in:''' ''Film/{{Transformers}}''

* {{Expy}}: Of the ''Generation One'' character Shawn Berger. He also counts as a homage to Film/{{Goldfinger}}, a ''Film/JamesBond'' villain working with outsiders for his own gain.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Initially appears to be a somewhat arrogant, but generally friendly guy to Sam and Carly. Then he reveals who his clients are…

* SanitySlippage: He's fairly self-serving and sane about it, but the need for the Decepticons to win so that he stays alive degrades his mind until he's convinced that he's saving the world through enslaving it and that Sam's fighting for the wrong side, never mind that the Decepticons enabled a massacre of their own workforce.

* GuileHeroine: While she lacks the fighting prowess of the Autobots, N.E.S.T., or even Sam, she makes up for it with her smarts. She uses her observational skills to provide intel for the military upon being rescued and, most notably, takes advantage of Megatron's lust for power to trick him into saving Optimus.

* MsFanservice: Her introduction in the movie is a PantyShot that [[ShesGotLegs shows off her legs]]. Other than that, she's made to look as hot and sexy as possible in all other appearances, as expected from a Victoria's Secret model.

* DefiantCaptive: While in captivity, Carly doesn't spend her time whimpering and cowering. She not only manages to learn about the Decepticons' plans from Gould but she also takes numerous jabs at him for siding with the 'cons and being uninformed about parts of their plan like when the Decepticons destroy Chicago.
-->'''Dylan:''' I want to survive, I want forty more years! You think I asked for this? I inherited a client!
-->'''Carly:''' Yeah? Well, when Cybertron's here and we're all enslaved, I guess they'll still need a human leader!
-->'''Dylan:''' Don't jinx me! You want to survive, you listen to me!
* {{Foil}}: To Mikaela, Sam's first LoveInterest. She's a girly girl who doesn't fight physically, prefers dresses and heels, and never gets dirty herself. Mikaela, on the other hand, was a tomboy WrenchWench and an ActionGirl who was never hesitated to get into the action.
* GuileHeroine: While she lacks the fighting prowess of the Autobots, N.E.S.T., or even Sam, she makes up for it with her smarts. She uses her observational skills to provide intel for the military upon being residues and, most notably, takes advantage of Megatron's lust for power to trick him into saving Optimus.

* MsFanservice: Her introduction in the movie is a PantyShot. Other than that, she's made to look as hot and sexy as possible in all other appearances, as expected from a Victoria's Secret model.

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Sam, as MythologyGag above states... It's safe to say they are this in the film series. Sam himself says in ''DOTM''--to his parents--"She's ''the One''"]].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Carly pulls a short one on [[spoiler:Megatron when she sees via telescope how Sentinel Prime pushes him around, telling him how he, as the Decepticon leader, is forced to play second fiddle and will ultimately end up being [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch "Sentinel's bitch"]]. She more or less deduced that his ego wouldn't be able to handle it, which it can't, causing him to go after Sentinel just before he could kill Optimus]].

%%* TheLoad: She spends the second half of the film as this.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: While Sam's love interests never actually interact, Carly in her dresses and heels who fights with words instead of punches is the girly girl to ActionGirl and WrenchWench Mikaela's tomboy.

* TheDragon: To Attinger.

* BigBad: The main villain of Age Of Extinction, as it is his almost successful schemes of committing genocide against the transformers and selling their remains for production into man-made transformers, which drives the plot of the fourth film.

The founder of Cemetary Wind and the main human antagonist of the fourth film. He carries a deep, seething grudge against the Transformers, and is out to wipe them all out, good ''and'' bad, and doesn't care who gets in his way.

* BigBadEnsemble: With Galvatron and Lockdown though technically Attinger and Lockdown work together, they have different goals entirely while Galvatron works independently from either of them.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Dylan reactivating the Pillars rather than running for his life and [[AintTooProudToBeg pleading for the Autobots and humans to protect him]] is him reenforcing his own wholly [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish desire to make himself look good]] and to make his part in the Decepticons' victory highly significant to further feed his [[AGodAmI God Complex]] too.

* AGodAmI: Messed up as it is, Dylan views himself as the messiah to the Decepticons.

* HateSink: His motives are initially sympathetic: he "inherited" a client, the Decepticons, and was forced to work with them for his own survival. However, as the movie goes on, Gould proves to be such a SmugSnake and DirtyCoward who is willing to do ''anything'' for his own survival (including selling out the human race), that any sympathy the viewer may have for him slowly withers away.
** [[spoiler: Solidified in the final act. Rather than simply allow the Autobots to win (this saving humanity from enslavement) and take responsibility for his actions, Gould personally warns the Sentinel and Megatron that the Autobots are still alive, before reactivating the Control Pillar to ensure that their plan follows through. He even has the ''audacity'' to brag to Sam about being a "hero" that "saved an entire civilization". Sam is not amused]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Considering his conscious choice to [[IFightForTheStrongestSide fight for the winning side]] whether or not it's because the Decepticons have him dead to rights, he still could've made a rush to get away from the Decepticons and [[AintTooProudToBeg beg to be protected regardless of what happens after]]--which still would've made him a weasel who [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere ran when the going got tough]], but still gave him a small shred of human decency. Instead, he reactivates the Pillars, [[DefiantToTheEnd doubles down on saying Sam chose the wrong side]] and insists he's "saved a whole other world" while demeaning the idea that Sam in any way is a hero.

* SoreLoser: By the time he's reactivating the Pillars, it's also about making sure Sam and the Autobots lose.

* UngratefulBastard: When the Pillars are initally deactivated, rather than taking the opportunity to defect, Dylan volunteers to go fix them instead--threatening and fighting Sam while doing so.

* CatchPhrase: "Bring the rain!" This is military jargon for "Even though we're at risk of friendly fire, we need you to shoot toward us anyway." When you're fighting Transformers, you find yourself making this call a lot.

* NiceGuy: Overprotective attitude aside, Cade is easy to get along with.

!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/KevinDunn and Julie White

!!!'''Played by:''' Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

!!!'''Played by:''' Zack Ward

!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnTurturro (''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'', Nick Pilla (''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'')

* AntiVillain: Despite being antagonistic towards the heroes [[spoiler:(at least [[HeelFaceTurn until the final act of the film)]]]], he's just trying to protect the world from the Transformers and their war

* BigBadWannabe: He wants to engineer his own drone Transformers from the remains of dead Transformers. He would have succeeded if he had left [[spoiler:Megatron's]] remains alone.

* UnwittingPawn: Becomes one to [[spoiler:Megatron/Galvatron]], since he [[spoiler:unwittingly helps in reviving a vicious Decepticon leader who has no interest in serving humans. His finding out what happened was the start of his VillainousBreakdown]].

* TheHeavy: The big man leading Cemetery Wind's operations in the field.

* UnwittingIntigatorOfDoom: His AsYouKnow ranting allows the Decepticons to know the location of the last Allspark shard and where Megatron's corpse is.