Master Renegade
- The Master Renegade is a GoBeing from the GoBots continuity family.
The Master Renegade founded the Renegade movement.
Fiction
Renegade Rhetoric
The Master Renegade was the ancient leader of the Renegades. According to Cy-Kill, he attempted to overthrow the oppressive Guardian regime. His crusade would have succeeded but for the treachery of the Last Engineer, who arranged for an asteroid to hit their planet and then transferred the minds of the Guardians into robotic bodies called GoBots. The Master Renegade designed several Monster GoBots to fight for his cause. When the Last Engineer went into hiding rather than face war crimes, and the Master Renegade relocated in secret to Antares III to await his return.
Much later, he was but a shell of his former self. Two of his Monster Gobots, Vamp and Scorp were swayed to Cy-Kill's side by Pincher. Two more, Creepy and Bladez, remained loyal to him. Ask Vector Prime
He menaced Guardian and Renegade alike, notably introducing the concept of combiner technology to the Renegades,Ask Vector Prime joining forces with the traitor Zero, tricking the Guardians and Renegades into smashing their entire space fleets into each other, and using a ray to turn GoBots into humans on the colony of New Earth. Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric
Ask Vector Prime
The Master Renegade officiated at twisted trials held in a fortress on Antares III, sentencing Kup and Hot Rod to death in the Dactyl pit before the Dinobots showed up and rescued their friends. Echoes and Fragments
Beast Wars Uprising
Bladez swore by "the Master" when startled by Grimlock Micro-Aggressions
Notes
- The Master Renegade's tale was told in the Challenge of the Gobots five-parter, The Gobotron Saga.
