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.
- January 20 — When asked about rock and roll music, Cy-Kill tell us about the time that the Guardians took rock star Ned Dilettante to Quartex, only to be captured by Magmar.
- January 21 — Cy-Kill isn't above using sports and games to further his own agenda, such as the time when he challenged the Renegades to a rigged game of basketball. If it hadn't been for the intervention of those dastardly Harlem Globetrotters, he might've won, too!
- January 25 — Cy-Kill's new Renegade forces are adapting well to service in the ranks. Rube, however, recently played a role in a humiliating defeat, due in part to the UNCEOM traitor Doctor Blanco.
- January 25 — Apparently a race of mole people exist beneath the Earth's surface. Although a chance encounter resulted in a temporary Mole-man/Renegade alliance, the Guardians soon intervened; with the help of the Mole Queen Lady Scaptonyx, Leader-1 dissolved the alliance and returned the mole people to the side of good.
- January 26 — Cy-Kill tells us about Cop-Tur and his savant-esque behavior. On one occasion, the Renegade adopted a dangerous Roto-Imp, which soon fell into Guardian hands and caused all sorts of vaguely-familiar havoc.
- January 26 — Cy-Kill admits that humans can teach him things... such as ninja skills. Awesome. Cy-Kill attacked a Japanese dojo and strongarmed the local sensei into teaching his second-string Renegades ninja moves. After building a reciprocating positronic jammer, capable of erasing any computer, Cy-Kill prepared to attack. The Guardians soon intervened, destroying the device and neutring Cy-Kill's ninja platoon in the process.
- January 27 — Strange as it may seem, Cy-Kill and Leader-1 were once friends. On one occasion, Leader-1 experienced a head injury, erasing his memory. Cy-Kill was quick to recruit his old ally into the Renegade cause, convincing him that the evil Guardians threatened both Earth and Gobotron. At the last moment, Leader-1 realized the deception, rejoining the Guardians.
- January 27 — Cy-Kill tells us about the rivalry between the Secret Riders and the Robo-Rebels, which came to a head during a Renegade attack on Gobotron's scientific moon.
- January 28 — According to Cy-Kill, greed is one of humanity's worst traits. Nowhere was this better seen then the time that Crasher teamed up with the unscrupulous billionare Drake J. Hinkleford IV. The alliance set about crashing the New York Stock Exchange and acquiring UNECOM, only for Hinkleford to doublecross the Renegades and build up an robot army of his own. After defeating him, the Guardians were more than happy to leave Hinkleford to face an irate Cy-Kill.
- January 28 — Cy-Kill cares not for Earth's feeble biosphere. After one vicious underwater fight, the GoBots encountered a group of cetaceans, rendered intelligible by experimental "Scylla-waves". The Renegades convinced their leader Leviathan that the Guardians were responsible for Earth's pollution, prompting the whales to cut off access to the ocean by attacking human shipping lanes. The humans and Scooter were able to force Cy-Kill into revealing the truth, thanks to some tampering with the Scylla-waves.
- January 29 — When Leader-1 invited diplomats from Quartex to formalize a peace treaty, Cy-Kill and the Renegades took every opportunity to undermine the credentials of the ambassadors, even manipulating Turbo into arresting the offworlders. The ruse soon fell through and the treaty was signed, much to Cy-Kill's dismay.
- January 29 — After hijacking the Guardian Time Portal, Cy-Kill tampered with history, travelling back to ancient, pre-cataclysm Gobotron. After kidnapping the humble archivist "Luthur Unum", the Renegades created a present where the Renegades had won the civil war and ruled over both Earth and Gobotron. Only Scooter, Turbo, Vanguard, and Throttle (and Nick and A.J) remembered the original timeline, and immediately set about trying to set history back on its proper course. After springing Luther and inciting a full-scale revolt, the motley crew returned Unum to his original time, restoring the timeline.
- February 1 — Cy-Kill tells us about an encounter with the Last Engineer. After losing contact with the colony world of New Earth, both the Guardians and Renegades investigated. It turned out that the Master Renegade had invaded the world, stealing the Engineer's polymorphic inducer and turning him into a parrot. Unfortunatley, both factions were ambushed and turned into humans.
Mentioned characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Guardians | Renegades |
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Notes
- Transformers: 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
- Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric archive at the Transformers Wiki
