In Age of Extinction, he is hunted by Harold Attinger, Cemetery Wind, and Lockdown, who is working for the Creators to bring him to Cybertron and kill any Autobots who refuse to give up his location.
Escaping the eyes of Cemetery Wind, Optimus leads the Autobots once again, taming the Dinobots and rides Grimlock to fight Galvatron and his new army of man-made Transformers.
Bumblebee, who would be revived by an infusion of raw Energon, would be avenged as Optimus disarms Scourge and rips out his head, destroying the Transwarp Key to stop Unicron's advance.
Flashbacks reveal that he and Hot Rod were the first Autobots to arrive on Earth and fought alongside the Allied forces to fight the Nazi Party during World War II, and transformed to a 1937 Mercedes-Benz Typ 320.
Jazz (voiced by Darius McCrary in the first film, Andrew Kishino in Transformers: The Game, Troy Baker in Rise of the Dark Spark) is the first lieutenant of the Autobots and Optimus Prime's second-in-command.
Arcee (voiced by Liza Koshy in Rise of the Beasts, Grey DeLisle in Bumblebee and Revenge of the Fallen) is an Autobot sharpshooter who transforms into a red and white Ducati 848.
Mirage[N 1] (voiced by Pete Davidson in Rise of the Beasts, Francesco Quinn in Dark of the Moon) is an Autobot spy who has wrist blades and transforms into a red 2011 Ferrari 458 Italia.
Wheeljack[N 2] (voiced by Steve Blum in Bumblebee, Cristo Fernández in Rise of the Beasts, George Coe in Dark of the Moon, Jamie Alcroft in the third video game) is an eccentric Autobot scientist who speaks with an Irish accent, whose head design resembles Albert Einstein in reference to his genius and he transforms into a blue 2011 Mercedes-Benz E550.
Drift (voiced by Ken Watanabe) is an Autobot tactician, a former Decepticon[7][6] and a Triple Changer who transforms into a black and blue 2013 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse and a Sikorsky S-97 Raider.
Wheelie (voiced by Tom Kenny) is a Decepticon spy-turned-Autobot and a partner of Brains who transforms into a blue radio-controlled Ford F-Series monster truck and speaks with a Brooklyn accent.
Brains (voiced by Reno Wilson) is a small and intelligent Decepticon drone turned Autobot and a partner of Wheelie who transforms into a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge laptop computer.
Grimlock (voiced by Gregg Berger in Rise of the Dark Spark) is the leader of the Dinobots who transforms into a horned mechanical fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus, and formerly partnered with Optimus to ride on him.
Leadfoot (voiced by John DiMaggio) is the Wreckers' leader who transforms into an armored version of the #42 Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Target car driven at the time by Juan Pablo Montoya.
Roadbuster (voiced by Ron Bottitta) is the second-in-command of the Wreckers who transforms into an armored version of the #88 Hendrick Motorsports AMP Energy/National Guard driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr. and speaks with a Scottish accent.
He has a similar appearance to Optimus Primal, but with a different color scheme involving bronze and silver, owns bigger fangs on the higher mandible, a left shoulder that seems to be asymmetrical to the right (being slightly more bulked up), and wields retractable axe blades on his forearms.
Megatron makes a secret deal with former Autobot leader Sentinel Prime to invade the Earth with an army using Space Bridge pillars and use humanity to rebuild their damaged planet together.
Frenzy (voiced by Reno Wilson) is a small Decepticon spy and a minion of Barricade who transforms into a silver PGX Boombox and later in his head mode, a black Nokia 8800 without his body.
A male Decepticon Triple Changer and Shatter's partner transforms into a blue and black 1973 AMC Javelin muscle car and a Bell AH-1 SuperCobra attack helicopter.
Devastator (vocal effects provided by Frank Welker in the film, Fred Tatasciore in the video game) is a 108-foot (33 m) tall robot formed by several combining construction vehicles, who walks in a four-legged fashion resembling a gorilla.
Demolishor (voiced by Calvin Wimmer in the film, Fred Tatasciore in the video game) is a large Constructicon that transforms into a white with red stripes Terex O&K RH 400 hydraulic mining excavator.
Long Haul's robot mode was designed by freelance artist Josh Nizzi as fan art of the original character, by the time Revenge of the Fallen had just been greenlit.
Soon enough, the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, arrive on the scene and a grueling battle ensues, with the Terrorcons proving resistant to damage due to being infused with Unicron's dark energy.
[49] William "Demented Spanner" Lennox (portrayed by Josh Duhamel in the films, voiced by John DiMaggio in the Revenge of the Fallen video game) is a good and dedicated, persevered Army Rangers officer and later a member of NEST aiding the Autobots.
Cody Benjamin of Intelligencer Journal found Rosie Huntington-Whiteley a "visually attractive replacement for Megan Fox and [she] does a decent job playing Witwicky's new girlfriend".
[52] In a positive review, Drew McWeeny of HitFix said, "She reminds me of Cameron Diaz in The Mask, an actress who doesn't really show off any range, but who gives a natural, winning performance and who is up to the challenge of this particular picture.
Robert Epps (portrayed by Tyrese Gibson in the films, voiced by Avery Kidd Waddell in the Revenge of the Fallen video game) is a United States Air Force Combat Controller Technical Sergeant and a friend of Lennox.
Cade Yeager (portrayed by Mark Wahlberg) is a single father and an inventor who builds robots for money for his daughter, Tessa, to keep her safe after he made a promise to his wife before she died.
Viviane Wembly (portrayed by Laura Haddock as an adult, Minti Gorne as a young girl) is a professor of English literature at the University of Oxford and the last descendant of Merlin.
Besides Seymour Simmons, the following are the known members of Sector 7: The Non-biological Extraterrestrial Species Treaty (or NEST for short) is a team of soldiers led by Lennox and Epps who help Sam in Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon.
They are asked to hunt down the Decepticons only, but without the President and their own agency's knowledge, Cemetery Wind also tries eliminating the Autobots due to Attinger's belief that all Transformers were menaces to humanity, no matter their faction.