Leader-1 (GoBots)
| The name or term "Leader-1" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Leader-1 (disambiguation). |
- Leader-1 is the Guardian leader from the GoBots continuity family.
Leader-1 is a GoBot, the leader of the heroic Guardians. Once he was a High Protector of Gobotron with Cy-Kill and Zeemon, but now he and his once-comrade Cy-Kill wage an unending conflict of bizarre schemes from their homeworld to Earth and Quartex, transforming from robot into a F-15 Eagle. Despite this, he still always finds time for that whacky scamp Scooter and his human chums!
I think that Optimus fellow is biting your style, Leader-1.
Fiction
Timelines
Small Foot had made the trip to Gobotolis solely because of Leader-1: his words inspired her to join the war effort in the hope of protecting him. High Noon
Many years later, Leader-1 conferred with Cy-Kill and the doctor about the danger their dimension was in. He reluctantly agreed to reactivate the Dimensional Interfacer to send a team of explorers into the multiverse in order to uncover the cause of the Cataclysm. (Coincidentally, Small Foot was one of them) Withered Hope
A mysterious figure known as the Beast Sage arrived in Leader-1's reality and helped his people forestall the Cataclysm's effects for a time, but even his efforts did not last indefinitely. Leader-1, Cy-Kill, and Zeemon gathered their people to openly reveal the renewed peril. With contact with their scout parties terminated by some sort of dimensional shift, Leader-1 declared it too dangerous to send more through the Dimensional Interfacer. Despite Cy-Kill's objections, their best option now was to wait and hope their explorers found a solution. Sunrise
In a vision, Small Foot was distraught to see Leader-1 falling to a malicious darkness. High Noon
Ask Vector Prime
Leader-1 was the leader of the GoBots when six strange visitors, the Spy Changers of Primax 085.0 Eta, arrived in Gargent 087.0 Kappa and were attacked by the Guardians, who mistakenly presumed them to be Renegades. Later, the Spy Changer Prowl made contact with Leader-1 to explain the truth of the situation, and a secret Spy Changer-Guardian alliance was forged. After Hoist destroyed the Renegade bases which were threatening the Spy Changers' homeworld, the Autobots and Guardians worked together to drive off the Renegades. Optimus Prime and Leader-1 shook hands as a symbol of the transdimensional friendship, and the Spy Changers returned to their home reality. Ask Vector Prime, 30/9/2015
Renegade Rhetoric
To hear Cy-Kill tell it, Leader-1 is a smug, cloying, everybody-get-along jackboot who forces every round peg into a square hole out of goodness. Well, C.S. Lewis had a line about how "omnipotent moral busybodies" are worse than brutish tyranny as they reduce us to infants! Cy-Kill's having none of that! Renegade Rhetoric, 18/10/2015
Cy-Kill admitted that he can see why Leader-1 was made a High Protector, as the bot is almost as good at fighting as he is. He'll grudgingly admit some admiration for the Guardian's tenacity. Renegade Rhetoric, 14/10/2015
Leader-1 has had many adventures as the Guardians' leader. Among ones that specifically involved him, he was trapped in a computer simulation of a post-war world that was designed to make him reveal UNECOM secrets; Renegade Rhetoric, 17/10/2015 teamed up with Cy-Kill to escape the clutches of an ancient supercomputer that forced them into gladiator battles; Renegade Rhetoric, 17/10/2015 single-handedly fighting his way through Renegade forces after they stole a moon he was on; Renegade Rhetoric, 21/10/2015 and playing the lead role in a production of Kafka's Metamorphosis, competing against the Renegades' Pirates of Penzance. Renegade Rhetoric, 19/10/2015
During Cy-Kill's extended absence, during which he was scheming in Axiom Nexus, Leader-1 pressed his advantage. Renegade operations all over the galaxy were rolled up. During what was to be the final assault on Rogue Star, Cy-Kill returned with nearly a dozen new troops, turning the tide of battle. Though injured, Leader-1 was able to cover the Guardian withdrawal and trick Cy-Kill into disabling his own most powerful weapon, Monsterous. Renegade Rhetoric, 10/11/2015
Notes
- Leader-1's Cybertronian-style body in "High Noon" is a "virtual redeco" of Combiner Wars Air Raid with Slingshot/Quickslinger's head.
