Lockdown (Transformers Film Series)

"You think you were born? No, you were built, and your Creators want you back!"

- Lockdown to Optimus in the film.

"Autobots, Decepticons like little children, always fighting, making a mess out of the universe, then I've got to clean it up. There is one way you'll survive, tell me where's he's hiding. Where is Optimus Prime?"

- Lockdown to Ratchet before killing him

"Join your fellow rebels, fugitive scum! It's for the rarest of specimens, the worst of the worst. It's taken centuries, but I've collected all the Knights, but you. The Creators want to sweep their chessboard clean."

- Lockdown to Optimus Prime after he captured him and brought him to his ship

Lockdown is the secondary antagonist of Transformers: Age of Extinction. Answering only to his enigmatic "Creators", Lockdown holds himself above the Autobot/Decepticon war and sees both sides as squabbling children that he has to rein in personally. He doesn't think much of other civilized species across the galaxy (particularly humans), though he isn't above working with them if it suits him.

Lockdown is voiced by actor Mark Ryan.

Before Coming to Earth
Little to nothing is known about Lockdown's past before coming to Earth. What is known is that he is a mercenary and was hired by the creators of the Transformers, beings known as the Creators, to hunt down Optimus Prime and bring him back to them. He has also a deadly reputation among Autobots as both Optimus Prime and Ratchet were terrified to see Lockdown on Earth. The Creators must've given him the bomb-like device known as  the Seed  and he teamed up with CIA's Cemetery Wind leader Harold Attinger to hunt down the Autobots being provided unlimited access to Earth's resources. He finds Ratchet, and asks him where is Optimus, and when Ratchet did not tell, Lockdown simply rips out his spark. Afterwards, he transforms into a Aventador and left the scene.

Hunting Optimus Prime
After teaming up with Attinger, he went to Cade Yeager's farm and tried to attack the hidden Autobot leader, who kills the team sent by Attinger and escapes Lockdown's wrath. Lockdown would continue to pursue Optimus, and Lockdown kills Cade's friend, Lucas, during their escape. But in the escape, he loses Optimus, much to his anger. Later on, while Optimus is fighting the man-made Transformer, Galvatron, Optimus did not realize that Lockdown has come to take Optimus. He shoots the Autobot in the back and takes him onto his large prison ship, where he reveals that he is working for the Creators, who want Optimus back for an unknown reason. As a reward for helping him to capture Optimus, he gives the humans the Seed, a bomb that will turn the city into Transformium, the mineral that all Transformers are made of. Lockdown is about to leave for outer space, when Optimus' human allies storm his prison-ship and rescue him.

Final Battle and Death
"You saved a human instead of saving yourself. You bring shame upon us all."

- Lockdown during his final fight with Optimus Prime

Lockdown does not give up. While the Autobots are battling with Galvatron's forces, Lockdown activates a magnetic weapon under his ship and drops many magnetic and metal things onto the battling robots. Optimus destroys the weapon and engages Lockdown in a last battle. During the battle, Optimus gains the upper hand until he notices that Cade is held up at gunpoint by Attinger. Optimus is forced to save Cade by killing Attinger before resuming his fight with Lockdown. Due to the distraction however, Lockdown eventually wins and pins Optimus to a wall with his own sword. Mocking him that he saved a human instead of saving himself and he has brought shame upon us all. Lockdown was about to make a move on Optimus when, Bumblebee shoots Lockdown in his chest and punches him while Cade is able to shoot him with the alien gun and distract him. Shane and Tessa then wrap a hook Optimus's sword and pull it out of him with a truck. During this, Lockdown defeats Bumblebee easily before attacking Cade. Lockdown then prepares to end Cade's life but before he can kill him, Optimus surprises Lockdown by impaling him right through the chest with the sword and drags it upwards through his head, slicing him in half and killing the villainous bounty hunter, and avenging all the Autobots he had killed.

Quotes

 * It's MY fight now, and you're all gonna die! - Lockdown in the final fight says this is his own fight and he going to kill everyone.
 * "You saved the human instead of saving yourself! You bring shame upon us all!" - Lockdown hypocritallyly complaining that Optimus chose to value human life more than robot life.
 * "You see my face your life is done!" - Lockdown complaining to Cade out of pride of being dangerous
 * "You remember this place? Welcome to "The Terminus Knight Ship!" - Lockdown after Optimus was captured by him and Lockdown brought him (Prime) to his (Lockdown) ship.
 * "He's mine now." - Lockdown approaching a badly injured, and possibly dying Ratchet.
 * "Where do you think you came from? You think you were born? No. You were built. And your Creators want you back ,we all work for someone." - Lockdown to Prime after capturing him and Tessa.
 * "Who fired the anchors? Who's on my ship?!" - Lockdown sits in his throne on his ship and feels the Autobots on his ship.
 * "Never is here" - Lockdown after he killed Ratchet.
 * "i also have a saying: I don't care" - Lockdown meeting with Attinger on his spaceship.
 * "Optimus ,come to me!" - Lockdown activates the magnet on his ship.

Trivia

 * He's the only Transformer with green eyes as a sign of not being Autobot nor Decepticon. Although, Devastator has green eyes and he is a Decepticon.
 * Lockdown's robot mode greatly resembles Optimus Primal's robot mode in Beast Machine with his face resembling the Quintessons' s symbol, except with a scar.
 * Lockdown was voiced by Mark Ryan, who ironically voiced Autobots from the previous films such as a talking Bumblebee, Jetfire and Ironhide (in the video games based on the first film).
 * It is unknown how Lockdown discovered the Creators.
 * Ironic to one of Lockdown's final words on calling Optimus a disgrace, Lockdown himself worked with a human to hunt down & kill his own kind.
 * Also ironic that his human partner also thinks that humans should never work with transformers despite working with Lockdown.
 * Despite the fact that he is not a Decepticon, his toys each have a Decepticon symbol, and the Transformers video game Rise of the Dark Spark labels him as a Decepticon as well. He is also portrayed in the prequel comics as a former Decepticon.
 * Originally, it was Cyclonus who was going to take the role as the secondary antagonist, but due to Harold Attinger the element of Cemetery Wind, it was changed to Lockdown in the final draft.
 * Lockdown having the ability to transform his face into a gun is a reference to Devcon, a G1 Autobot bounty hunter who is known for having a gun on his head, who ironically appeared in the previous film as a Decepticon.
 * Lockdown is originally meant to transform into a weatherbeathen bounty hunter's muscle car with an exposed engine block similar to the one his Animated counterpart transformed into but was changed into a Lamborghini Aventador due to Lamborghini's advertising of the said vehicle.
 * Some of Lockdown's characteristics mirrorizes that of Lord Chumley, a minor villain from the original Transformers series.