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You see, it takes patience to make a man, the patience to watch and wait, to protect all of us quietly for God and country, without any recognition at all. There are no good aliens or bad aliens, Yeager. It's just us and them... and you chose them!
~ Harold Attinger's second most famous quote, also his final words before his death.
Autobots at this location... Prime is close. Do whatever you have to do.
~ Attinger permitted Lockdown to attack Hong Kong.

Harold Attinger is the main antagonist of the 2014 film Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the original continuity of the Transformers film series.

He is the founder of the Central Intelligence Agency's black ops unit, Cemetery Wind, who wants to exterminate all Cybertronians, including Autobots and Decepticons, out of xenophobia. He is also the partner of Lockdown, who works with Attinger in exchange of capturing Optimus Prime.

He was portrayed by Kelsey Grammer.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]

  • It was mentioned he has lots of humans and Autobots killed for discovering his true nature.
  • He turns his back on the government and the President of the U.S. by not only having Cemetery Wind hunt down and killing Decepticons, but also Autobots and other humans who he deems as threats to everyone in the aftermath of the Battle of Chicago.
  • He has the corpses of all the Decepticons and Autobots killed by Cemetery Wind to be used to create his own personal army of nightmarish gouls and empty husks.
    • Among them is the head of Sentinel Prime, even in spite that Sentinel and the Decepticons were the sole ones to blame for what happened in Chicago, plus reactivating using Sentinel's body parts for his army could have been a wrong and risky idea.
  • He made a deal with the Cybertronian bounty hunter Lockdown to capture Optimus Prime and bring him to his employer (who might be either the Creators or Quintessa).
  • He unleashes Galvatron (actually a revived Megatron) in a populated area, willing to risk huge amounts of casualties. He even explains this to Joshua Joyce who wanted to get a medical team out to help the innocents who were endangered.
  • Orders Lockdown to go on an all-out rampage to kill Optimus Prime despite very much knowing that hundreds of lives would be lost from their deadly rampage.
  • He plans for Cemetery Wind to execute Cade Yeager's daughter Tessa in front of him if Optimus Prime doesn't show himself.
  • He uses Joshua Joyce, the head of KSI, to send any leftover dead Cybertronians into their own prototype robots, so Attinger himself can profit off of the attempted genocide of both Autobots and Decepticons alike.
  • He tries to kill the Yeager family and Joshua Joyce to prevent being exposed to the world as criminals, but failed.
  • Although he was furious when he saw James Savoy, his right-hand man, falling to his death, he was only angry that his crimes would be exposed so he ordered Lockdown to kill a witness that would expose him as a criminal.
  • Plans to use the Cybertronian Seed to have enough Cyber-Matter (or "Transformium", as KSI calls it) to create a drone army he would enslave as his war machines.
  • Allows Lockdown to attack Hong Kong to kill his enemies, not caring about the many people who would die as collateral damage, due to the attack.
  • He would later pursue Cade Yeager in attempt to kill him in order to cover up his actions from the government. During their conversation he would hypocritically explain him that they are no good or bad aliens but only the Humans and the aliens until Optimus Prime kills Harold in order to save Cade, thus making his death well-deserved for his vile actions against both the Cybertronians and Humankind as well avenging the victims of his crusade.
  • His actions, along with Lockdown's, would cause the relations between humans and Cybertornians to deteriorate even further, as even after his crimes being exposed and Cemetery Wind being shut down for it's crimes, the Battle of Hong Kong led to the world leaders deem all Cybertronians illegal and fund the anti-Cybertronian organization Transformers Reaction Force (or TRF for short) to capture or kill any Cybertronian spotted on Earth and would keep doing it until an alliance with the Autobots to save Earth from Quintessa would make it's field commander Santos realize the error of the organization's ways and amend the relations once and for all.

Trivia[]

  • It's believed by many that Sam Witwicky, the human protagonist of the first three Transformers films, was among the humans Harold Attinger and Cemetery Wind had killed between Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Transformers: Age of Extinction, as Sam is indirectly confirmed to have died before Transformers: The Last Knight, which could also apply to his parents and to his girlfriend Carly Spencer due to Sam's association with Bumblebee. If this were confirmed true, it would make Attinger even worse.
  • Despite being the main antagonist, he is never seen to fight or kill anyone by hand.
  • Originally, it was Cade Yeager who was going to fight and kill Attinger.
  • He and Dr. Meridian are the only human Transformers villains to be Pure Evil.

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Apocalypse | Graydon Creed | Cameron Hodge | D'Ken | Fabian Cortez | Master Mold | Omega Red | Ke-Pa | Mugan | Ryker Grimborn | Krogan | Ethan | Platinum Stevie | Sister Sisto

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Short Features
Piella Bakewell

Scripts
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Literature
Prince Humperdinck | Count Rugen | Bad Blood Predator | Preed | Pope | Kai the Collector

Video Games
Hammond Litte | Rafael Drake | Megatron

Fanon
Emperor Palpatine | Vitiate

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Warren T. Rat | Fleshlumpeater | Steele | General Mandible | Mr. Grasping | Chief McBrusque | Tzekel-Kan | Melisha Tweedy | Antonia Chillingsworth | The Beldam | Chancellor Ferdinand | K'as | Red King | Red Death | Drago Bludvist | Archibald Snatcher | Dr. Nefarious | Grimmel the Grisly | Bellroc | Skrael | Vontra

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Count Orlok | Count Dracula (1931) | General Zaroff | Hjalmar Polezing | Uncle Charlie | Franz Kindler | Tommy Udo | Harry Lime | Great Guidance | Max Cady | Bob Ewell | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | Ramón Rojo | Auric Goldfinger | Emilio Largo | El Indio | Angel Eyes | Dr. Who | Stacey Bridges | Hugo Drax | Michael Myers (Original|H20|2018) | Conal Cochran | Barry Convex | Harlan | Maximillian Largo | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | Thulsa Doom | Baron Vladimir Harkonnen | Max Zorin | Henry | Otis | The Tall Man | Dr. Terence Wynn | Horace Pinker | Robert G. Durant | Chucky | Party Crasher | The Robesons | Evil Ash | Kandarian Demon | Lewis Dodgson | Emil Fouchon | Mona Demarkov | Amon Goeth | Shiwan Khan | Senator Aaron McComb | Samuel Norton | Bogs Diamond | Xenia Onatopp | Joshua Foss | Gaear Grimsrud | David McCall | King Einon | Akivasha | Elliot Carver | Casanova Frankenstein | Marcus Andrews | Satan | William Wharton | General Roth'h'ar Sarris | Patrick Bateman | Commodus | David Griffin | Mason Verger | The Scorpion King | The Killer | Dietrich Banning | Mr. Hyde | Zhylaw | Jackson Rippner | Le Chiffre | Mary Shaw | Robert Turner | Vladis Grutas | Starscream | Assef | Judge Turpin | Emperor Han | General Medrano | Dominic Greene | Johnny Truelove | Warden Hennessey | The Fallen | Lamia | George Harvey | Sir John Talbot | Sir Godfrey | Marissa Wiegler | Shockwave | Sentinel Prime | Jerry Dandridge | Sally | Zack White | Harold Attinger | Lockdown | Mr. Jang | Mehmed II | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | Robert Dewey | The Asset | Ray Marcus | Miles Edwards | Tao Tei Queen | Rose Armitage | Roman Armitage | Dean Armitage | Missy Armitage | Cipher | Ahmanet | John Tombs | Dr. Gregory Butler | KeyFace | Calux | Eli Mills | Selena Izard | Kores Botha | Walker | Thaddeus Valentine | Brixton Lore | The Invisible Man | Blissfield Butcher | Jack | Dracula | Dracula (2023) | William Afton | The Water Creature

Animated Television
Dr. Who | Count Dracula | The Dark Town | Megatron | Oil Slick | Starscream | Lockdown | Prometheus Black | General Grievous | Emperor Palpatine | Dr. Nuvo Vindi | Wat Tambor | Grand Moff Tarkin | Riff Tamson | Pong Krell | Keeper Agruss | Ke-Pa | Mugan | Ryker Grimborn | Krogan | Bloodwolf | Sendak | D-Stroy | Horde Prime | General Morando | White Bone Demon | Jindiao | Dr. Emilia | Kash D. Langford | Lewis Dodgson | Wilma Sledkin | High Priestess | Jörmungandr |

Live-Action Television
Michael Sutton | Alexander Rausch | Mark Bruner | Adam Grafton | Darryl Kern | Larry Moore | William Lewis | Bob Clinton | Johnny D. | Lorne Malvo | Dean Reybold | Franklin Barnes | Chucky | Dr. Mixter

Short Features
General Zaroff

Literature
Sharptooth | David Banner | Abomination | Kai the Collector | Big Jack Horner

Scripts
The Once-Ler | Rose Armitage

Video Games
Hammond Litte | Rafael Drake | Megatron | Glenn Talbot

Fanon
Big Jack Horner

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Live-Action Films
Directed
Captain Darrow | Captain Frye | Fouchet | Starscream | The Fallen | Shockwave | Sentinel Prime | Harold Attinger | Lockdown
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Shredder | Eric Sacks | Krang | Shatter | Dropkick | Scourge | Unicron
Novelizations
Starscream | The Fallen | Shockwave | Sentinel Prime

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Animated Features
Warren T. Rat | Judge Doom | Steele | Red Rackham

Live-Action Features
Eh Tar | Reverend Henry Kane | Judge Doom | Max Cady | Lewis Dodgson | Amon Goeth | Harrison Love | Boris the Animal | Harold Attinger | Lockdown | Cutter | Selena Izard | Jürgen Voller | Klaber

Animated Television
Alpha | Vangus | Kash D. Langford | Lewis Dodgson

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