Editing Cy-Kill (GoBots)

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:''Cy-Kill is the [[Renegade]] leader from the [[GoBots (franchise)|GoBots]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Ask Cy-Kill.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|having lovely time @ axiom nexus - thers monument to pointy things to my left (y) #backpacking]]
'''Cy-Kill''' is a [[GoBot|cyborg alien]] from the planet [[Gobotron]]. Once, long ago, he was one of the greatest of the heroic [[Guardian (GoBots)|Guardians]]. Along with his partner [[Leader-1 (GoBots)|Leader-1]] and [[Zeemon]], Cy-Kill was even named one of the three High Protectors of their world. Though originally content to share power with his friend, when Leader-1's fame began to eclipse his own he chaffed at the idea of being "lesser" to anyone. His boundless pride, ego, and ambition to power lead him to rebel and take command of the scattered Renegade forces. If he could not rule Gobotron by popular acclaim he would take it by force! Cy-Kill seems to be quite at home in the role of brutal, ambitious warlord and would be world-conqueror. He was having a good time, fighting those do-gooder Guardians, when suddenly his entire dimension was placed in dire peril. Well, crap.

He's very [[Megatron (BW)|theatrical]].

==Fiction==
===''Timelines''===
The [[Zebediah Braxis|Doctor]]'s report was clear. Due to cosmological interference from [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|another universe]], a great [[Cataclysm (GoBots)|Cataclysm]] was destroying [[Gargent 984.08 Alpha|their own]]. This other universe was populated by [[Transformer|strange, robot creatures]], struggling through a similar galaxy-spanning civil war.  

There was no saving their own universe, and no rational reason to destroy the universe that was removing theirs. Cy-Kill and his rival, [[Leader-1 (GoBots)|Leader-1]] assembled their respective factions, explained their dire situation, and put together a team. This team would reconfigure their bodies to disguise themselves amongst these otherdimensional robots, use the [[Dimensional Interfacer]] to travel to their universe, and seek out help. {{storylink|Withered Hope}}
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Sunrise}}}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Gargent 087.0 Kappa]], Cy-Kill received word that [[Spy Changer|six strangers]] were fighting the Guardians. Assuming any enemy of the Guardians to be an ally of his, Cy-Kill dispatched his elite lieutenants to rescue the strangers and bring them back to his flagship, the ''[[Rogue Star]]''. He tried to court the Spy Changers to his cause, but [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] saw through Cy-Kill's deception. Working in secret with the Guardians, the Spy Changers eventually destroyed the Renegades' bases on the planet [[Moebius]] which were threatening [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Cy-Kill was furious, but the combined might of the Guardians and the Autobots drove the Renegades off. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}

===Renegade Rhetoric===
====AVP incarnation====
[[File:Renegade Rhetoric Cy-Kill minus lawsuit.jpg|thumb|right|The second Facebook photo used for Cy-Kill after someone nixed the screencap.]]

{{quote|Dear Renegade Rhetoric,<br>Seriously, what's with the five o'clock shadow?}}
{{quote|It's called style. Perhaps one day you'll have some of your own.}}

An increasingly desperate [[Axiom Nexus News]] hired a Cy-Kill to run [[Vector Prime]]'s old column. He claimed to be "leader of the Renegades in exile", hoping to one day return home. His take on how he joined the Renegades and his encounters with [[Zero (GoBots)|Zero]] are definitely true.

Among other answers, Cy-Kill said:

* Transformers make a funny noise when transforming because they suck, not like superior designed Renegades! 
* If he conquered [[Earth]], the most loyal and impressive humans would have their brains plonked in GoBot bodies. Say [[you]] want in on Facebook and he'll send a recruiting agent round!
* It was totally the evil Guardians and not the heroic Renegades that messed up Gobotron with a meteor, honest.
* He retains a [[George Washington]] costume (and [[Crasher (GoBots)|Crasher]] and [[Cop-Tur (GoBots)|Cop-Tur]] their own period dress) just in case of another Revolutionary War based strategem.
* [[Gunnyr]], leader of his own Renegade faction, was absorbed after Zero's defection: Cy-Kill appreciates experience ''and'' "ambitious underlings do tend to keep one on one's toes"!
* He believes in keeping a certain distance from his soldiers to be a good leader, rather than making friends.
* His weaponry is a patchwork of his own inventions, Renegade scientist designs, and ones stolen from the Guardian's [[Professor Von Joy]]. 
* The Renegades will change their name once they have taken control, possibly to GoBot Liberation Army or something. (And "Renegade" is a perfectly sound rebel name, not like he calls them "Untrustworthy-cons" or some crap)
* The Renegades have destroyed stuff but so have the Guardians: collateral damage is necessary in war and he refuses to be moralised about it.
* [[Zod]] can beat up [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. Kneeling before Zod? He agrees that would be appropriate. 
* He's recruiting new Renegades in the Offworlder slums.
* Cybertronians may be lamer than GoBots but he's not dumb enough to underestimate any foe in a fight; some Transformers could defeat him and so he'll seize every advantage. And by that he means cheating! ''Losers'' follow rules, ''winners'' cheat and then write the history books!
* He has a fondness for Earth vehicle designs. We got ''style''.
* He can totally impersonate Leader-1! ("Oooooh, I'm Leader-1. I'm a goody two-shoes who doesn't know when to keep my ugly yellow domino mask out of Renegade business. Doop doop doop.") 
* He's confident that he could take [[Beast (G1)|The Beast]] in a fight. Yeeeeah, ok.
* He's read [[C.S. Lewis]]. The man makes good points about the dread tyranny of "goodness" forced upon you, and it all applies to Leader-1 and his Guardians! Other favorite human writings of his include those of [[Machiavelli]], [[Sun Tzu]], [[Marx]], [[Locke]], [[Nietzsche]], and [[Gilbert and Sullivan]].
* If your employer forces extra night shifts on you, and their reason is not just, it is right and just for you to take armed action. Bosses only understand force!
* The [[Rock Lord]]s are pathetic. Stop asking him about them. 
* He had many other adventures after [[w:GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords|the battle on Quartex]], although all of his schemes were ultimately foiled by the Guardians. These have included: 
** He used a [[cyber-mimetic virus]] discovered in an ancient Himalayan temple to attack the Guardians, but was thwarted by [[Rest-Q (GoBots)|Rest-Q]]
** He tried to take control of an alien society obsessed with auto racing by entering three of his Renegades in the [[Alienapolis Five Million]]. They were disqualified when they got caught cheating.
** They stole a [[UNECOM]] device designed to boost intelligence, but it was accidentally used on [[Cop-Tur (GoBots)|Cop-Tur]]. Hilarity ensued.
** He developed a mutating, fast-growing plant he called [[Go-Vines]] and covered all of Earth's monuments with them, but the Guardians stole a sample and reverse-engineered a defoliating agent.
** He trapped Leader-1 in virtual reality to try to trick him into divulging the whereabouts of a secret UNECOM base, but Leader-1 realized the deception and broke free. (Maybe Cy-Kill forgot he had a [[brainstomer]].)
** A group of Guardians and Renegades were kidnapped by [[Guerr-O-Vac]], a super-computer that pitted them against each other in single combat.
** At Crasher's urging, he set a trap for [[Scooter (GoBots)|Scooter]], but a freak lightning strike on the brainstormer (he remembered) resulted in him swapping consciousness with the diminutive guardian. Hilarity ensued.
** He ran for [[President of the United States]] in order to get into the candidate debates (This was in the days before phone cameras so it was easier to intimidate voters).
** When a wealthy theatre fan decided to leave all his goods (including what Cy-Kill wrongly thought was a gem of great power) to whoever put on the best show, the Renegades put on ''[[Pirates of Penzance]]'' in competition with the Guardians' ''Metamorphosis''. Cy-Kill really wanted to play the Pirate King but since nobody else could sing "Modern Major General" the way he liked, "my hands were tied".
** He encountered an ancient Guardian ship returning from deep-space exploration and managed to convince two of the crew to join the Renegades, though the rest escaped with their vessel and the valuable data contained within.
** He created 3 semi-sentient [[RoGun]]s, weapons that could transform, but they resented being pushed around and defected to the Guardians.
** He formed an alliance with the [[Mars (planet)|Martian]] tribe of Bars Barkas, which was disrupted by the RoGuns and the [[Secret Rider]]s.
** He was briefly deposed by the [[Master Renegade]], who created [[Power Suit]]s to enable the Renegades to battle [[Courageous]] with their own combiner, [[Grungy]]
** He infiltrated a science fiction convention in a {{w|Cylon (1978)|Cylon}} costume to kidnap [[Faraji|a scientist]].
** He stole the [[communication moon]] of Gobotron with an oversized [[Astro-Beam]] and moved it outside of the galaxy. Leader-1 came with it and, though damaged, delayed Cy-Kill's troops until the beam wore off and it returned to Gobotron's orbit.

*He is disconcerted with being the only cyborg in a mostly mechanical world. Furthermore, he sees the Transformers as a hybrid of mechanics and [[Spark|energy]], similar to himself.

The authorities eventually caught up with him but not before he'd bombed [[Shockwave (TransTech)|Shockwave]]'s R&D facility as a cover for stealing tech (and cheerfully half-admitted it on his column). When [[Cheetor (TransTech)|Cheetor]]'s team tried to bring him in, Cy-Kill deployed his new [[combiner]] [[Monsterous]], who kept the OZSA at bay long enough for the Renegades to depart Axiom Nexus to a time and place unknown with the aid of [[Gong (GoBots)|Gong]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric}} 

Weeks later, ANN's viewers voted him the best of the guest hosts for AVP. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}

You rock, Cy-Kill. 

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====Second run====
You can't keep a good baddie down, as Cy-Kill hacked into Vector Prime's column to announce he was continuing Renegade Rhetoric as a solo deal! {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}}

{{storylink|Renegade Rhetoric}}

==Notes==
[[Image:Cykillgobots.jpg|right|150px|thumb|"Well, there's nothing you can do about me taking all the free cookies!"]]

* In case you haven't figured it out already, Cy-Kill is totally the guy from ''Challenge of the GoBots''. For real!
* Cy-Kill is constantly "[[easter egg]]ed" in [[Cy-Kill (disambiguation)|various Transformers stories]]. But, like, GoBots were totally ''lame'', so wouldn't it be ''hilarious'' if he was repeatedly killed over and over again because he was ''lame''? Yeah! 
* [[Cy-Kill (TransTech)|A character identical to Cy-Kill]] was seen in the processing center of [[Axiom Nexus]] in "[[Transcendent: Part 1]]", not far from the interdimensional GoBot exploration team. It seems unlikely this could have been the ''actual, in-story'' Cy-Kill, as this individual had not adopted a new disguise which was essential for the GoBot explorers. Complicating matters is the actual Cy-Kill (or ''an'' actual Cy-Kill) wandering around Axiom Nexus undisguised for the "Ask Vector Prime" column. 
* According to the ''Challenge of the Gobots'' episode, "Et tu, Cy-Kill?", Cy-Kill's military title before betraying [[Leader-1 (GoBots)|Leader-1]] and leading the Renegade faction was [[Lord High Protector|High Protector]], much like [[Megatron (Movie)|somebody else we know]].
* The original image used for [[Ask Vector Prime#Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric]] featured a picture of Cy-Kill taken from a screencap of the ''Challenge of the GoBots'' cartoon. As it happens, that cartoon is still controlled by Hanna-Barbera/Time Warner (technically, [[Tonka]] owns the copyright on the show). Before the end of the day, the Renegade Rhetoric image was changed to an original, less lawsuity drawing of [[Cy-Kill (TransTech)|''TransTech'' Cy-Kill]], [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as ''GoBots'' Cy-Kill, by [[Evan Gauntt]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Cy-Kill''' (サイキル ''Saikiru'')

==External links==
* [http://tfu.info/Gobots/Renegades/Cy-Kill/cy-kill.htm GoBots Cy-Kill at TFU.info]
* [http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=XNg9AAAAEBAJ&dq=convertible+Robot+toy Cy-Kill's patent]

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