The dude is divisive.
To paraphrase Chinatown: Politicians, ugly buildings, and Cybertronians all get respectable if they last long enough.
Now hes part of the family.

And its time for a Hot Rod renaissance.
Does this signal doom for Optimus and the others?
Every time Bay and Paramount Pictures turn on theirTransformersmoviemaking machine, it cranks out a billion dollars.

So why kill off the stars who are laying golden energon cubes?
But that means the franchise to have to shift gears if it wants to stay engaging.
InThe Last Knight, out June 23, theTransformersare about to go medieval.
She has no idea she harbors a genetic secret that could destroy (or save) the world.
Shes freaked out and not planning to go quietly.
Hot Rod has secretly been serving as her protector in the guise of her fathers1963 Citroen DS.
The revelation also reshapes how she viewed her dad.
THE TOUCH
So far, the new robot doesnt have an actor attached.
Its still in the works, di Bonaventura says.
Were trying to make our cast as international as we can, di Bonaventura says.
Theres got to be an homage to this, right?
Hot Rod and Wahlberg in the same movie?
Youve got the pow-ERRRR!