Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric
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| First published | November 5, 2015– February 5, 2016 | ||||||||||||
Cy-Kill returns to spread more terrorist propaganda the good word of the righteous Renegades.
Synopsis
2015
- November 5 — Cy-Kill announces that the Transcendent Technomorphs can't keep him off their airwaves and that he has returned to spread Renegade gospel to his loyal vassals.
- November 10 — Cy-Kill talks about his return home and his first battle against the Guardians, halting Leader-1's big push. He masterfully dodges a question about the universal stream designation of his home universe.
- November 17 — Cy-Kill tells us about the time he tried to temporarily clone himself and some of his troops. Things quickly went wrong when 'Cy-Kill Prime' decided to usurp the original Cy-Kill, forcing the Renegade leader to team up with the Guardians.
- November 24 — In response to a question, we learn that Cy-Kill has a low opinion of brainwashing thanks to an earlier scheme of his.
- December 1 — Cy-Kill regales us with a story about the Master Renegade and Zero and how the duo conspired to conquer Earth for themselves with the help of GoBot-destroying algae.
- December 4 — Cy-Kill is not pleased to learn that there are other Leader-1s running around out there in the multiverse.
- December 8 — Getting his hands on combiner technology has been a long-term goal for Cy-Kill. He tells us about an earlier attempt to parley favor with a tribe of combining Rock Lords. Although his gambit ended in failure, the tale seems to have given Cy-Kill a new idea...
- December 15 — Cy-Kill recounts a time where he very nearly defeated Leader-1; after the Guardian leader was critically wounded rescuing some aliens from a Renegade attack, he fell into a coma and dreamed about some of his earlier adventures.
- December 17 — Cy-Kill describes his newest plan: rebuilding Puzzler with the help of some purloined Cybertronian technology. Unfortunately, both Puzzler and Monsterous were defeated by Courageous and the other Guardians.
- December 25 — Cy-Kill remembers a Yuletide scheme where he attempted to build an anti-Guardian field around Earth. His endeavor was ultimately foiled after Good Knight convinced Cop-Tur that this plan would upset Santa Claus.
- December 28- January 1, 2016 — Cy-Kill tells us about Bladez and the escapades of the Robo Rebels, a dysfunctional squadron of rookie Guardians.
2016
- January 4 — Cy-Kill describes another encounter with the rogue Dr. Braxis.
- January 5-6 — Cy-Kill's spy Snoop has intercepted some Guardian documents regarding the further adventures of the RoGuns on the planet Quartex, including their encounters with the Jewel Lords and the shocking origin story of the Rock Lords!
- January 7 — Cy-Kill recounts the time when his Zod superweapon temporarily developed super-intelligence, necessitating another Renegade-Guardian teamup.
- January 8 — The Renegade leader doesn't like children, especially not after the time that he and his troops had to care for an extradimensional baby.
- January 11 — Humans aren't a threat individually, according to Cy-Kill, but there was a time when multiple human baddies teamed up to menace the GoBots.
- January 12 — Cy-Kill tells us a bit about his opinions of female GoBots, and how they compare to Cybertronian females. Female Renegades like Crasher have proved invaluable in many operations, such as a contest on Amazonia VI.
- January 13 — When asked if the Renegades have ever fought real monsters, Cy-Kill tells about a time when Scooter thought he was turning into a WereGoBot.
- January 13 — Cy-Kill believes in magic, partially because of a run-in with the magic-wielding twins Mumbo and Jumbo. Cy-Kill used their magic to claim Gobotron for himself, turning the Guardians into animals and Leader-1 into a jester, but his reign of terror was ultimately undone by a pair of Guardian-allied wizards.
- January 15 — Cy-Kill tells us how he arrived in Axiom Nexus in the first place, thanks to a freak accident with the experimental Anti-Phase-Displacer Blaster.
- January 18-19 — Cy-Kill recounts yet another of Braxis's schemes: this time, the Doctor attempted to take over UNECOM by feigning a change of heart.
Mentioned characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Guardians | Renegades |
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Notes
- Renegade Rhetoric came about because you voted Cy-Kill as the most popular guest columnist for Ask Vector Prime. Congratulations. You have successfully aided a professed terrorist. What kind of Transformers fan do you think you are?
- Most of the longer stories in the column are (affectionate) spoofs of '80s stock cartoon plots. These are sometimes accompanied by fake 'character models' drawn to represent key characters or costume changes.
References
- When asked what universe he's in, Cy-Kill says "Level 1": the GoBots' own way of naming their home dimension, rather than ours.
- The November 10 post describes a battle wherein all the Wendy's GoBots toys meet and fight.
- Cy-Kill brings the components of Puzzler to true life utilizing Cybertronian sparks as power sources similarly to how Beast Era Megatron created his shell program-based Vehicon generals in Beast Machines.
See also
- The Renegade Rhetoric portion of the Ask Vector Prime archive
- Renegade Rhetoric archive at the Transformers Wiki
