Zero

The name or term "Zero" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Zero (disambiguation).

Zero is a Renegade from the GoBots continuity family.

Tonka told me you'd be really cool if you bought the big, expensive Zero toy and not the small one.

Zero is a Renegade who turns into a Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen. This plane-transforming high-ranking villain wishes to depose his boss and take control of the Renegades himself, and has big schemes for it that go awry and may threaten the very species in his quest for power...

...hang on, guys, we've done this profile before.

We haven't, he's totally an unrelated character? Huh.

Fiction

Renegade Rhetoric

Cy-Kill says he first began to question Guardian propaganda when Zero showed him mercy in a battle at Parthus. In a burst of propaganda, he implied Zero was totally a goodie and those mean old Guardians were the baddies. Renegade Rhetoric (1), 14/10/2015

Centuries later, Zero was Cy-Kill's deputy sub-commander. This wasn't enough for him and he turned traitor, taking advantage of one of Cy-Kill's rare defeats to convince a few wayward Renegades to defect with him. Bad Boy captured Crasher for him, allowing him to use her as bait to lure Cy-Kill to the boobytrapped Dendron Beta. Unfortunately for him, Cy-Kill was able to not only elude the trap and rescue his officer, but convince Zero's men to rejoin the Renegades proper. Zero was forced into hiding for his crimes.

He was eventually replaced as deputy sub-commander of the Renegades by Gunnyr. Renegade Rhetoric (1), 15/10/2015

Some time later, Zero encountered the Master Renegade at a bar in the Beta Leonis system. Teaming up, they used a genetically-engineered super-algae to neutralize the Guardians in Gobotolis. After seizing control from the Guardian Council, Zero betrayed the Master Renegade and threw his collaborator into prison with the rest of the Guardians. The Master Renegade, however, helped Leader-1 and Scooter counteract the algae. Chased by Leader-1 into Gobotron's orbit, Zero chose to surrender to Cy-Kill's custody rather than be captured by the Guardians. After begging Cy-Kill for forgiveness, Cy-Kill shot Zero and had Cop-Tur and Crasher drag him away to be dealt with in a... more permanent fashion. Renegade Rhetoric (2), 1/12/2015

Timelines

Years later in a divergent timeline, Zero's home universe was on the eve of destruction. Zero grew fed up with the GoBots' response to the Cataclysm and secretly worked with the Buggyman on their own plan: restarting the GoBot race all over again if their universe fell! With a new Super Voyager body constructed, Zero prepared to head for a new reality when the Buggyman told him all was going to plan. High Noon

Ask Vector Prime

What Zero would've looked like if Hanna-Barbara had a budget.

One time, Gong and Sideways smooshed the timelines together for a laugh and created an amalgamated world where GoBots and Transformers co-existed in 2005. Zero was part of a raid on an Autobot shuttle and, after time-space blipped again, a raid on Guardian City. He dumped Megatron out of a shuttle and got blasted by Galvatron a short time later for his trouble. Echoes and Fragments

Animated cartoon continuity

Zero was held at Trypticon Prison. The AllSpark Almanac II

Notes

• Animated Zero has not been definitively confirmed to be GoBots Zero, but the author says so!
• The Guardian propagandists at Hanna-Barbara claim that Zero actually tried to kill Cy-Kill, and getting his butt kicked (and Leader-1 doing better than him) was what made him join the Renegades.
• Zero being a traitor is a reference to the GoBots episode "The Third Column", in which Zero splits from the Renegades.

External links

GBwiki has content relating to Zero. Mighty robots, mighty wiki!

• Zero at TFU.info