Dylan Gould

Dylan Gould is a human from the live-action film continuity family.

McCreepy

Dylan Gould is the CEO of Hotchkiss Gould Investments.^[1] He managed to snag the young Carly Spencer to help run his collection of exotic cars, a hobby which helps "keep him sane". He's inordinately fond of his new recruit, calling her "my duchess", giving her cars, and hooking up her boyfriend with career opportunities using his amazing connections because he's so hot and rich. That's not threatening to said boyfriend at all, no.

Fiction

Dark of the Moon film

Actor: Patrick Dempsey

Voice actor: Yasuhiko Nemoto (Japanese dub), Li Zhiwei (Mandarin dub), Sergio Gutiérrez Coto (Latin-American Spanish dub), Daniel García (Spain-Spanish dub), Boris Tessmann (German dub), Vikrant Chaturvedi (Hindi dub), Stefano Benassi (Italian dub), Damien Boisseau (European French dub), Gilbert Lachance (Canadian French dub), Nizo Neto (Portuguese dub), Rıza Karaağaçlı (Turkish dub)

"Can't you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times sake?"

Seeking to exploit Carly's boyfriend Sam Witwicky's connection to the Autobots for the Decepticons' own evil ends, Gould arranged a job interview for him at Accuretta Systems, on whose board of directors he had a seat. Visiting Carly at work to tell her the good news, Sam took an immediate dislike to the smarmy Gould and the closeness he and Carly displayed, feeling further emasculated when he discovered Gould had set up the interview for him. Gould even gave Carly a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, and invited the young couple to a party at his estate, but Sam refused to go as he had begun to unravel the lunar conspiracy, though he had no idea Gould was at the heart of it.

Soon after, when the recently revived Autobot leader Sentinel Prime revealed his treachery and joined with the Decepticons in using his space bridge to attack Washington, D.C., Sam raced to Gould's estate to get Carly to safety. There, Gould finally showed his true colors: The "Mercedes" was revealed to be a disguised Soundwave, who held Carly hostage while Gould attached a Decepticon watch to Sam's arm, instructing him to learn all he could about the Autobots' plans to fight back. With Carly being Gould's hostage and his nervous system tortured by the watch, Sam was forced to comply. But before leaving, he vowed to kill Gould. Sam learned that the Autobots were planning to leave Earth with no retaliation due to being exiled at the demands of Sentinel Prime. Content with this information, Dylan gave the signal to Starscream, who blew the Autobots' spacecraft out of the sky, apparently destroying them. Gould then declared "We all work for the Decepticons now".

As the Decepticons set about razing Chicago, turning the city into a fortress, Gould took Carly to his penthouse in Trump Tower and explained that the evil robots were planning to teleport Cybertron into the solar system, and put humanity to work rebuilding the planet: he had secured his and Carly's freedom by selling out his own race. When he tried to watch he was ordered to leave by Megatron ("I hate that guy, he's such a dick"). Gould was visibly disturbed by the Decepticons' invasion and massacre of Chicago, but when questioned by Carly, all the traitor had to say was that everything was alright, as long as he was safe.

Chicago soon became a battleground, however, when the Autobots' seeming deaths were revealed as a deception, and they helped Sam break into Gould's penthouse. Sam had Gould at gunpoint, but Laserbeak entered the room, grabbed Sam and threw him off the side, but he was saved by Bumblebee's commandeered fighter and saved Carly. Gould later reported the Autobots survival to Megatron himself. As the fighting grew more intense, several Autobots were captured by the Decepticons; formerly having viewed everything as "just business", Gould urged Soundwave to execute them all for making things personal. Fortunately, the intervention of Brains and Wheelie saved most of the Autobots, and in the renewed fighting that followed, the control pillar for Sentinel's space bridge was shot from its perch and knocked offline.

SAM USED ELECTRICAL SHOCK! IT WAS SUPER-EFFECTIVE!

With the Decepticon ships firing on Optimus, the Autobots battling Sentinel, and the Wreckers handling all ground-bound Decepticons, despite Sentinel's orders, the task fell to Gould to reactivate the Control Pillar. Gould made his way to the pillar but Sam tried to interfere, but Gould pointed Sam's own gun at him. Sam tried to plead with Gould to not go through with the Decepticons, but Gould disagreed, stating that now there was no turning back from the future he had helped prepare for himself for years. However a piece of newspaper was caught on his face, providing a distraction and Gould was forced to fight off Sam to reactivate the pillar. Gould mockingly asked Sam if he thought he was a hero compared to himself, who had saved all of Cybertron. Sam denied, stating he was just a messenger, and struck him with a rebar. Toppling backward into the reactivated pillar, Dylan was fatally electrocuted by its energies.

It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Dark of the Moon

IDW movie comics

Dylan's father was a NASA accountant, who was approached by Soundwave in the early 1970s to manipulate the NASA budget and make further moon landings financially infeasible, thereby preventing humanity from discovering the wreck of the Ark on the lunar surface. Soundwave provided the money Gould desired by tapping the stock market, and so the man went to work, ensuring that the 1972 landing would be the last. Years later, in 1979, believing matters on Earth to be secure for the time being, Soundwave called another meeting with Gould to announce that he would be leaving the planet for a time. Gould brought Dylan to this meeting, as he intended for his son to take over his position as Decepticon liaison in the future. Soundwave was impressed with the child's tenacity, and could see in him greater desires than the base riches sought by his father.

Dylan had inherited his father's responsibilities when Soundwave return to Earth in 2007, now running the family company and continuing to maintain the veil of secrecy around the moon, with the help of Soundwave's numerous other human pawns. Summoning Gould upon his return, Soundwave could see that his desires had blossomed: not content purely with money as his father had been, Gould wanted power. Convergence chapter 4

Gould poached administrative assistant Carly Spencer from the British Embassy some time after 2009 to serve as his personal assistant. According to her, fighting robots was kids' stuff compared to working for him. Rising Storm #4

Ask Vector Prime

In a version of Tyran 609.23-PX Kappa where Megatron killed The Fallen, the Decepticons successfully brought Cybertron into Earth's orbit. Under Gould's leadership, humanity was forced to rebuild Cybertron by strip-mining Earth. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/22

Toys

Dark of the Moon

The Laserbeak Cycle not being in Dark of the Moon is perhaps Michael Bay's greatest crime.

• Soundwave / Mr. Gould with Laserbeak (Human Alliance, 2011)

• Japanese ID number: DD09
• Known designers: Shogo Hasui (TakaraTomy)

Dark of the Moon Human Alliance Dylan Gould is partnered with Soundwave and Laserbeak. Like other Human Alliance humans, he can fit inside the drivers compartment of Soundwave or other Human Alliance vehicle. He can also ride Laserbeak in his transformed mode, either separately or plugged into Soundwave's shoulder.

As with many late-wave Dark of the Moon products, this toy had no US release, causing fans to import him from online stores instead.

• More information on Mr. Gould at TFU.info

Asia Premium Series

• Barricade & Soundwave (Human Alliance 2-pack, 2015)

• Asia ID number:: APS-03
• Accessories: Decepticon Frenzy figure, Laserbeak figure, Mr. Gould figure, Soundwave's missile

Asia Premium Series Mr. Gould is a rerelease of the Dark of the Moon Human Alliance figure above and retains all of the features of the original. He is packed with his unchanged partners Soundwave and Laserbeak, a redeco of Revenge of the Fallen Human Alliance Barricade and, by extension, an unchanged Frenzy.

Buying this pack from certain retailers will include a die-cast Frenzy in his boombox mode.

Notes

• Dylan Gould is likely loosely based on Shawn Berger, as the latter also fills the role of a Decepticon human ally in The Transformers episodes Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1 and 2, which the plot of Dark of the Moon film appears partially based on.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Dylan Gould (ディラン・グールド Diran Gūrudo)

References