Cade Yeager

Cade Yeager's History

Cade Yeager is a tragic inventor and one of the two main protagonists (alongside Optimus Prime) of Transformers: Age of Extinction and Transformers: The Last Knight.

He is played by Mark Wahlberg who portrayed Detective Terry Hoitz in The Other Guys, Sean Dignam in The Departed, Bob Swagger in Shooter (2007), Chris Farraday in Contraband (2012), Billy Taggart in Broken City, Max Payne in the film with the same name, John Bennett in Ted and its sequel Ted 2 and the Blue Falcon in Scoob.

Because this is an ongoing trait of actor Mark Wahlberg, Cade Yeager, Dirk Diggler, Terry Hoitz and John Bennett are very identical: being bad-tempered, easily agitated and willing to fight with other heroes but later on improving his attitude and relations with who they have argued with. This is parallel to Mark Wahlberg's real-life experiences, as he had many legal troubles while growing up in Boston, but ever since his jail sentences expired and he started an acting career, Wahlberg claims he regrets and feels guilty over his previous actions, remaining actively persuasive that he has redeemed himself.