Agent Jack Burns

Jack Burns is the secondary antagonist (later anti-hero) of the 2018 science fiction film Bumblebee. He was the head of Sector 7 during 1987, who plotted to hunt down the Autobot scout Bumblebee.

He was portrayed by the professional wrestler John Cena, who also played Baron Draxum in TMNT 2018.

Biography
Burns was first seen witnessing Bumblebee crashing down to Earth in California. Believing him to be a hostile invader, Burns orders his men to track down Bumblebee, who forces himself into hiding after losing his voicebox to Blitzwing.

Taking refuge in a home owned by a teenager named Charlie Watson, Bumblebee's homing beacon was accidentally activated by Charlie, which incited two Decepticon spies Shatter and Dropkick to head over to Earth. Upon meeting the two Decepticons (who posed themselves as peacekeepers), Burns was told by them to find and hand over Bumblebee to them as soon as possible.

Burns was able to track down Bumblebee after the latter accidentally caused an energy spike around Charlie's neighborhood, and has him captured before furiously silencing Charlie and her friend Memo from speaking of the event again. Despite having captured Bumblebee and turning him over to Shatter and Dropkick as agreed, Burns learned a horrible truth: Shatter and Dropkick were never peacekeepers and that they are planning to use Bumblebee to summon more Decepticons to Earth with their own beacon.

Realizing the horrible truth, Burns orders his men to stop Shatter and Dropkick at once while Charlie frees Bumblebee from captivity. However, Dropkick kills many of Burns' men (including Doctor Powell), though Burns is saved by Bumblebee. Following the deaths of Shatter and Dropkick at the hands of Bumblebee, Burns (seeing that Bumblebee is not the hostile alien as he thought to be) allows Bumblebee and Charlie to go free before the army arrives to detain them. He is last seen saluting to the yellow Autobot for saving his life.

Personality
"He is million times more human than you!"

- Charlie Watson to Burns about Bumblebee.

Burns was at first cruel, cunning and manipulative as he is determined to detain and/or wipe out any extraterrestrial aliens. However, despite his flaws, Jack is shown that he is only doing this to protect his country, even realizing that he was wrong about Bumblebee.