Editing Cy-Kill (GoBots)

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:''Cy-Kill is the [[Renegade]] leader from the [[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 led 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. 


{{quote|If it takes a thousand years... if it take a million... the Renegade cause will rise again!|Cy-Kill|"[[Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric]]" (2), 5 February 2016}}

==Fiction==
===''Timelines''===
A different universe began colliding with Cy-Kill's [[Gargent 984.08 Alpha|home reality]], but it wasn't very fun. The [[Zebediah Braxis|Doctor]] reported that to cosmological interference from [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|the other universe]], a great [[Cataclysm (GoBots)|Cataclysm]] was destroying their own. This other universe was populated by [[Transformer|strange, robot creatures]], struggling through a similar galaxy-spanning civil war. 


An entity known as the "[[Lio Convoy|Beast Sage]]" provided the Gobotronians and their universe some time, but eventually the effects of the Cataclysm began to spread once more. Although the Dimensional Interfacer still functioned, they were no longer able to contact their exploration teams due to [[Shroud|unforeseen changes in dimensional space]]. Cy-Kill championed inter-dimensional evacuation, or even outright invasion, but Leader-1 and Zeemon rejected the idea, considering blind dimensional transport tantamount to suicide. {{storylink|Sunrise}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
[[File:Echoes and Fragments Renegade meeting.jpg|thumb|upright=2.0|Let's do the show right here!]]
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)#The Battle for Planet Earth|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#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/30}}

One time, {{gb|Gong}} and [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] smooshed two universes together for a laugh, creating a world where the ''Renegades'' ruled [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in 2005! After {{gb|Snoop}} returned with surveillance data, Cy-Kill praised her as a reliable trooper as opposed to [[Zero]]. Subsequently, Cy-Kill duly led the takeover of an Autobot [[Command Center (GoBots)|Command Center]] but, unlike [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|some]] would have, he left [[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] alive as a hostage. Reality then blipped again and put [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] in charge. {{storylink|Echoes and Fragments}}
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===Renegade Rhetoric===
====AVP incarnation====
[[File:Renegade Rhetoric Cy-Kill minus lawsuit.jpg|thumb|upright=2.0|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 instead of copying the Gobots franchise.}}

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]] 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.
*{{gb|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 [[Von Joy|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, he probably could.....)
*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 {{gb|Alienapolis Five Million}}. They were disqualified when they got caught cheating.
**They stole a {{gb|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 {{gb|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 {{gb|brainstormer}}.)
**A group of Guardians and Renegades were kidnapped by {{gb|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 {{gb|RoGun|RoGuns}}, 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 {{gb|Secret Rider|Secret Riders}}.
**He was briefly deposed by the [[Master Renegade]], who created {{gb|Power Suit|Power Suits}} to enable the Renegades to battle {{gb|Courageous}} with their own combiner, {{gb|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 {{gb|Gong}}. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (1)}} 

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

You rock, Cy-Kill. 

{{--}}

====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! Over the course of this column, Cy-Kill continued to answer questions about his native dimension, and used them as opportunities to recount his many adventures. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric}} 

[[File:ProcessingRR.jpg|thumb|250px|left|''Where in the crowd scene is''<br>''Cy-Kill Sandiego'']]

One of these stories included how he ended up in Axiom Nexus in the first place, which he attributed to an accident with the experimental Anti-Phase-Displacer Blaster. His first thought upon ending up in a sea of unfamiliar mechanoids was "I can totally exploit this". He had also obtained [[Spark|"six strange positronic energy matrices"]] that were capable of "providing an animating essence to crude machine life" while in old A-N, later used on [[Puzzler]]. 

Female Transformers? Too often used as "window dressing" in his opinion and not as cool as female GoBots! {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (2)}}

Cy-Kill's forces are constantly monitoring Axiom Nexus. In January 2016, his minions Crasher and Cop-Tur hacked into Vector Prime's column to reveal secrets of the [[Convoy (group)|Convoy]] and thus further destabilise the city-state for the Renegade cause. [[Universal stream]] names confused them. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime}} 

After attempting a "{{gb|Combiner Wars, Part 2|Combiner Wars}}" on [[Quartex (planet)|Quartex]], Cy-Kill limped away and we didn't hear from him for a while. We ''did'' hear the dimension-hopping Spy Changers and [[Waspinator (BW)|"Thrustinator"]] were tracking a Megatron before he linked up with two villains in another reality, ones we learned later was Cy-Kill and Magmar. {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/07/14}} On New Year's Eve for 2016, Cy-Kill sent us one last message about how in the last year he and the Two M's had come up with <strike>enough stories for a third season</strike> 64 plots against those dastardly GoBots and Spy Changers and the last one would ''surely'' succeed. He left us a heartwarming message that the future belonged to us and all we needed to do "when faced with a dilemma, ask yourself, “what would Cy-Kill” do and you will not go far wrong." {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/12/31}}

{{note|We at TFWiki.net have opted not to cover ''Renegade Rhetoric'' in full as we would with other sources of Facebook fiction; as ''GoBots'' fiction dealing exclusively with ''GoBots'' characters we feel that the column and its concepts falls outside the purview of ''Transformers'' archival.}}

{{quote|For those of you enjoying Cy-Kill's tales, you can learn more about the adventures of the GoBots by watching the ''Challenge of the GoBots'' cartoon, available on DVD.|Vector Prime, {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade_Rhetoric/src#December_15.2C_2015|"Ask Vector Prime" 15 December 2015}}.}}

==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]]. 
*[[Slave Cy-Kill|A generic Transformer]] resembling the silver, black, and green redecoed Cy-Kill toy appeared in a few IDW stories, where he was, you guessed it, killed! (Very unfairly because the writers probably dont know that the Gobots are the stronger ones) 
*''A'' Cy-Kill was seen in the processing center of [[Axiom Nexus]] in "[[Transcendent: Part 1]]", not far from the interdimensional GoBot exploration team. Up until 2015's "Ask Vector Prime" and "Renegade Rhetoric" columns, stories said it was essential for the GoBot explorers to adopt a Transformer disguise so who was this guy? The Q&A column Cy-Kill broke that rule by just wandering around as his usual self and in January 2016 it was established that the Cy-Kill in "Transcendent" was the Q&A Cy-Kill from an unrelated GoBot universe. (This raises the possibility that the doomed GoBots reality from "[[Games of Deception]]" onwards was ''not'' the original cartoon as [[authorial intent|implied]].) 
*According to the ''{{gb|Challenge of the GoBots (cartoon)|Challenge of the GoBots}}'' episode, {{gb|"Et Tu, Cy-Kill"|"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 the almost-identical [[Cy-Kill (TransTech)|''TransTech'' Cy-Kill]], [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as ''GoBots'' Cy-Kill, by [[Evan Gauntt]]. Given that later Renegade Rhetoric entries would include other screenshots from ''Challenge of the GoBots'', FP's concern may in fact be cartoon Cy-Kill's ties to a Bandai-owned mold.
*A proposed [[Fun Publications]] [[BotCon]] [[exclusive]] was a redeco of one of the [[Arcee (WFC)#Prime|''Prime'' Arcee]] Deluxe class molds into a "Femme Fatale Cykill".{{sic}}<ref>[http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc14/bc14br.html BotCon 2014 attendee report]</ref>
*In late 2016 & 2017, after months of Cy-Kill stories in ''Transformers'' media, {{gb|Action Toys}} just ''happened'' to do ''two'' gloriously cartoon-accurate collectibles of {{gb|Bike Robo}}. (The DX version even comes with three faceplates based on Cy-Kill's faces!) <ref>[http://the-night-cruiser.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/toy-review-machine-robo-series-01-bike.html The Night Cruiser: "Toy Review: Machine Robo Series 01 - Bike Robo / Gobots Masterpiece Cy-Kill" 31st Jan 2017]</ref>
* An unrealized ''[[SD SG]]'' idea of [[Josh Perez]] was a ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' incarnation of Cy-Kill, utilizing Cy-Kill's "Series 2" toy coloration.<ref>[https://twitter.com/dyemooch/status/1007241173809942530 Tweet by Josh Perez (@dyemooch), 2018/06/14]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Cy-Kill''' (サイキル ''Saikiru'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Salmoore''' (萨尔魔, ''Saermo'')

==Footnotes==
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==External links==
{{GBwiki|Cy-Kill}}
*[http://tfu.info/Gobots/Renegades/Cy-Kill/cy-kill.htm GoBots Cy-Kill at TFU.info]
*[http://tfu.info/Gobots/Renegades/BlackCy-Kill/cy-kill.htm Black deco GoBots Cy-Kill at TFU.info]
*[http://counter-x.net/gobots/challenge/profiles/renegades/cy-kill.html Cy-Kill profile at Counter-X.net]
*[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=XNg9AAAAEBAJ&dq=convertible+Robot+toy Cy-Kill's patent]
*[https://www.facebook.com/Renegade-Rhetoric-959112720811889 Renegade Rhetoric on Facebook]

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