| “ | KEEP EARTH HUMAN. | „ |
| ~ Cemetery Wind's motto. |
Cemetery Wind are the main antagonists of the 2014 film Transformers: Age of Extinction.
It is a secret black ops unit of the Central Intelligence Agency created by Harold Attinger, a corrupt government official who was also a highly decorated CIA representative at the time. Among the members of Cemetery Wind was the organization's field commander and Attinger's personal enforcer James Savoy. Although it seemed that they were hunting down the remaining Decepticons only, they had delusions of protecting the Earth by also eliminating the Autobots without the US government's knowledge or consent.
History[]
Origins[]
Cemetery Wind was formed after the Battle of Chicago and the disbandment of NEST, as the human alliance with the Autobots had been terminated. They were tasked to eliminate any remaining Decepticons on Earth while working alongside Optimus Prime and the Autobots when they were still allies with the government and president. They ordered Cemetery Wind to leave the Autobots alone. But Attinger secretly disobeyed the President; he decided to launch an Anti-Autobot operation. He soon took advantage of his authority by making a deal with Lockdown, a non-aligned Cybertronian bounty hunter who was seeking to capture Optimus Prime and bring him to The Creators. In exchange for Lockdown's collaboration with Attinger's ambitions, Cemetery Wind would help Lockdown capture Optimus for him. Attinger's plan involved killing countless Autobots and Deceptions before delivering their remains to KSI to melt them down for materials - specifically to rebuild them as artificial, remote-controlled Transformers that would make them serve a better place for the world. Cemetery Wind also decided to go as far as to have anyone killed for discovering his illicit operations. Furthermore, they fabricated themselves as a functioning state police force that offered financial rewards to ordinary civilians who would report alien activity towards them.
Targeting the Autobots[]
Soon enough, Cemetery Wind successfully killed off Leadfoot before shipping his remains into KSI. They later locate Ratchet and mortally wounded him shortly before Lockdown, then execute Ratchet after the latter refuses to reveal Optimus' whereabouts. Afterward, Lockdown began reconsidering his contract with Cemetery Wind as their attempts to find Optimus grew futile. When Attinger meets up with Lockdown at one point, it is explained by Lockdown that he and Cemetery Wind did find Optimus in Mexico City; they fought him to the point where Lockdown managed to shoot Optimus three times, but in the end, Optimus still managed to escape and flee from his pursuers. Because of this, Lockdown angrily blamed Cemetery Wind for the complications they had to go through in hunting down Optimus.
Confronting the Yeager family and their car chase in Texas[]
Eventually, Cemetery Wind tracked down Optimus at a barn owned by ambitious inventor Cade Yeager. The discovery was made when Cade's friend, Lucas Flannery, decided to contact Cemetery Wind about Optimus' whereabouts to receive a substantial paycheck; when Savoy and his unit arrived, however, they instead pointed guns at Lucas after being unable to find Optimus. Under Attinger's orders, Savoy has the unit apprehend Cade and his daughter Tessa upon suspecting them and Lucas of hiding the Autobot leader. Attinger decided to have them killed, but Savoy never got the chance when Optimus emerged and attacked Cemetery Wind - refusing to sacrifice Cade and Tessa's lives to further ensure his own safety. Optimus' interference allowed the Yeagers and Lucas to escape, but he was forced to flee as well when Lockdown started pursuing him on his own. A chase erupted in the city with Cemetery Wind pursuing the Yeagers and Lucas, who moments ago were rescued by Tessa's boyfriend Shane in his rally car. The humans successfully escaped by driving off a ramp. However, the car broke down, and Lockdown thereupon grew a grenade at them just as Optimus arrived to collect the humans; although the Yeagers and Shane managed to escape with Optimus just in time, Lucas was killed by Lockdown's grenade.
Following Optimus' escape once more, Attinger scolds and demerits his men for their failure to capture him, not taking into account that Optimus was too biologically powerful to be captured by humans.
The Hong Kong Battle[]
As time went on, Cemetery Wind continued to face complications when the other surviving Autobots regrouped with Optimus, and their efforts to investigate KSI subsequently resulted in their leader, Joshua Joyce, betraying Attinger upon discovering his true intentions. Moreover, one of KSI's prototype drones called Galvatron - who in reality was Megatron, the Decepticon's leader - ended up rebelling against KSI before setting off the drones to invade Hong Kong.
When all parties came together in Hong Kong, Attinger and Savoy resolved to kill Joshua alongside both the Yeagers and Shane to cover up their illicit activities. However, Cemetery Wind fails to apprehend Joshua, and later on, Savoy is killed by Cade in a brawl between them. Afterward, the Autobots won the battle against the Decepticons shortly before Lockdown intervened. Optimus then battles Lockdown, during which Attinger himself confronts Cade at gunpoint and prepares to kill him; however, Optimus saves Cade by killing Attinger with a single blast and then goes on to proceed to kill Lockdown after a lengthy battle.
Conclusion and Disbandment[]
Following the deaths of both Attinger and Savoy, as well as Lockdown's death and the end of the Hong Kong battle, Cemetery Wind's illicit activities against hunting and killing Autobots were finally exposed to the point where the CIA had terminated the black ops unit before labeling Cemetery Wind as a terrorist organization. It was presumed that the other Cemetery Wind agents either have been killed or arrested for their crimes, as they are now No. 1 on the NSA, CIA, Interpol, and FBI's most wanted list.
Legacy[]
However, the dissolved remnants of Cemetery Wind were reformed into a new military organization called the TRF - known as Transformers Reaction Force. At first, the TRF was created with the same intentions as Cemetery Wind: to destroy the entire factions of Transformers, both Autobots and Decepticons, hiding on Earth. This is because most of the world's governments, with the exception of Cuba and a few others, began to brand all Transformers illegal following the events of Chicago, as well as that most waves of them were arriving on Earth. However, unlike Cemetery Wind, the TRF redeemed themselves when they united with the Autobots to save the world from the Decepticons and Quintessa. Afterward, the TRF was disbanded, and henceforth, Cemetery Wind's legacy was officially no more. This is because without the Autobots, then Earth would've been destroyed if the TRF had faced Quintessa and Megatron to the point they would have been no match for them if the Autobots were gone.
Powers and Abilities[]
Cemetery Wind mostly uses a variety of arsenal and vehicles that were possibly funded by the CIA. Their primary weapons are mostly assault rifles and pistols such as the AR-15, the M26 MASS, HK416, as well as the Glock 34. Their primary vehicles are mostly Cadillac Escalade SUVs and Chevrolet Suburbans that they use to chase down their targets and hunt down Autobots, though their second primary vehicles are Rally Fighters and the Hummer XL, that mostly act as the brutes of most of Cemetery Wind's ground fleet. They also use man made drones built by KSI to hunt and track their targets.
While mostly operating on grounds with those vehicles, they also utilize air support of a modified Bell 407 helicopter to hunt down the Autobots and their targets, as well as providing the operatives cover.
Members[]
- Lockdown - Ally of Cemetery Wind, deceased
- Harold Attinger - Leader, deceased
- James Savoy - Enforcer/Field Commander, deceased
- Master Disaster
- Sergeant Chaos (Former NEST Member)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Known Transformers labeled on Attinger's cards are Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Sentinel Prime, Starscream, Ironhide, Shockwave, Wheeljack/Que, Mirage/Dino, Arcee (misspelled as "Acree,") Skids, Mudflap, Driller, Garbagebot (misspelled as "Garagebot") and Loader.
- The latter two were retroactively established to be the identity two incidental Decepticons featured in Dark of the Moon Loader, which is stated to be the Superfund truck Decepticon by Ask Vector Prime. Meanwhile, Garbagebot is the identity of a garbage truck Decepticon resembling Long Haul
- Aside from Ratchet and Leadfoot, Cemetery Wind also killed Sideswipe, according to the Transformers: Age of Extinction Topps Europe collector cards but in the Movie, Sideswipe wasn't shown being killed; possibly the latter might still be alive.
- However, it is unknown if they killed Mirage or Roadbuster as neither of them returned in subsequent films after Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
- Fortunately, Mirage's card does not have a red square, possibly indicating that he is still alive. Meanwhile, Topspin is shown to be alive in Transformers: The Last Knight.
- James Savoy is the only member to be devoured by Transformers as his corpse was sucked by Lockdown’s ship when using the giant magnet and devoured by his henchman in the end.
- The scene where one of the members was hit by Shane’s car in the head was similar to Kickback being crushed by Kup in The Transformers: The Movie.
External Links[]
- Cemetery Wind on the Transformers Wiki
