Cy-Kill (GoBots)
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- Cy-Kill is an evil Renegade from the GoBots continuity family.
Cy-Kill is a cyborg alien from the planet Gobotron. Once, long ago, he was one of the greatest of the heroic Guardians. Along with his partner 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 theatrical.
Fiction
Timelines
The Doctor's report was clear. Due to cosmological interference from another universe, a great Cataclysm was destroying their own. This other universe was populated by 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 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. Withered Hope
Ask Vector Prime
In Gargent 087.0 Kappa, Cy-Kill received word that 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 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. Cy-Kill was furious, but the combined might of the Guardians and the Autobots drove the Renegades off. Ask Vector Prime
Renegade Rhetoric
Seriously, what's with the five o'clock shadow?
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 and 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.
- 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 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!
- If your employer forces extra night shifts on you, and their reason is not just, it is right and just to take armed action. Bosses only understand force!
- He had many other adventures after the battle on Quartex, although all of his schemes were ultimately foiled by the Guardians. These have included:
- 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".
Notes
- 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 egged" in 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!
- 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 a 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 and leading the Renegade faction was High Protector, much like somebody else we know.
- The original image used for 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 owned by Hanna-Barbera/Time-Warner. Before the end of the day, the Renegade Rhetoric image was changed to an original, less lawsuity drawing of Cy-Kill by Evan Gauntt.
