Renegade
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- The Renegades are a faction from the GoBots continuity family.
A terrorist organization on the then-organic world of Gobotron, the Renegades thwarted the peacekeeping efforts of the Guardians, the primary law enforcement on the planet. Under the machinations of the Master Renegade, these insurgent cells eventually committed the act of sabotage that resulted in a meteor rendering Gobotron uninhabitable to organic life.
Long after the population had been converted into cyborg chassis called GoBots to protect their organic brains, and after the original conflict and organic origins of Gobotron had passed into myth, the Guardian Cy-Kill would seek to rule Gobotron. Defecting from the Guardians to lead a reconstituted force of Renegades, war swept over the world once again.
Fiction
Renegade Rhetoric
Cy-Kill claims in propaganda that the Master Renegade wanted to overthrow the nasty Guardians and it was them that made the planet uninhabitable. This is a fib. What is the case is that the Master Renegade fled into hiding and the remaining, mechanical Renegades were constantly pushed back (and some like Gunnyr went literally underground, to the sub-levels of the planet!) However, after almost being killed mopping up Renegade strays, the Guardian Cy-Kill decided he wanted to run the planet and formed a whole new Renegade army to ensure it would happen!
Though hear him tell it and, while he uses violence, he's trying to overthrow a cloyingly moralistic oppressive regime. C.S. Lewis would agree with him! Renegade Rhetoric (1)
Zero tried to create his own Renegade faction, recruiting from people dissenting with Cy-Kill, but his schemes were thwarted. Renegade Rhetoric, 2015/10/15
After multiple clashes, Cy-Kill was lost in Axiom Nexus and the Guardians pressed the advantage. As the Renegades fell on all fronts, Renegade Rhetoric (2) Cy-Kill began to form a whole new Renegade squad out of disgruntled Cybertronians and spread propaganda to the masses when Axiom Nexus News failed to do background checks. He finally escaped back to his universe Renegade Rhetoric (1) and the Renegades fought back once more, until the Combiner Wars on Quartex shattered them. Renegade Rhetoric (2)
Cy-Kill claims he'll rename the Renegades "GoBot Liberation Army" once they've won and says that Renegades is a fine rebel name, not like Decepticons, what the hell's up with that? Renegade Rhetoric (1)
Timelines
Years later in a divergent timeline, much to Cy-Kill's ire, the Renegades had to team up with the Guardians and humans to stop a great Cataclysm from the universe. A cross-factional team was sent into dimensional space to investigate Withered Hope and later a second, even as Cy-Kill championed interdimensional evacuation or even outright invasion. Sunrise
Unknown to anyone else, Zero and BuggyMan had their own plan in mind High Noon and unknown to most, many the Monster Renegades had already evacuated to another reality. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14
Ask Vector Prime
Gong and Sideways once mucked around with a Gargent reality and a Primax reality, tuning the latter into a reality where the Renegades were first existing in place of the Decepticons in 2005, and then had always been allied to the Decepticons. It got weird. Echoes and Fragments
Members
Regular GoBots
| Name | Alternate mode | Profile | Other notes | External links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cy-Kill | Motorcycle | Exceptionally theatrical leader of the Renegades. He was formerly a Guardian who rebelled and took leadership of the scattered Renegade terrorist faction when his comrade Leader-1 was promoted over him. After being stranded in Axiom Nexus, he briefly served as a guest host to replace Vector Prime when he was absent; his column, "Renegade Rhetoric", proved very popular with audiences in the Quadwal Cluster, and when he returned to his home dimension to continue his war against the Guardians, he continued to provide summaries of his plans for his interdimensional audience. | Cy-Kill has inspired a legion of imitators, almost all of whom have a habit of immediately dying horribly. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Crasher | Porsche 956 | One of Cy-Kill's most trusted lieutenants, a cackling Renegade madwoman able to send energy crackling through the ground with her powerful seismic stomps, and is rivals with the Guardian speedster Turbo, but Cy-Kill thinks her obsession with him borders on the unhealthy. After Cy-Kill returned from Axiom Nexus, she and Cop-Tur hacked its airwaves to publicly reveal the final members of the Convoy. | Crasher was the inspiration for Fracture. Vector Prime believed that at some point, a version of Crasher from a Gargent reality was displaced to a Tyran stream and actually became Fracture. It was also implied that she wound up in the Animated universe. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Cop-Tur | Helicopter | Cy-Kill's top hench-thug, not known for his smarts. After Cy-Kill returned from Axiom Nexus, he and Crasher hacked its airwaves to publicly reveal the final members of the Convoy. | Cop-Tur was the inspiration for the Timelines character of the same name. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Bad Boy | A-10 Thunderbolt | A cocky, sarcastic thug with a penchant for violence, the young Bad Boy is purportedly one of Cy-Kill's most loyal Renegades — that is, until something better comes his way. He occasionally acts as a saboteur and spy, and was one of a team of GoBots sent across the dimensions to investigate the origins of a mysterious Cataclysm that threatened to destroy their universe. | One the "G1 GoBots" released by TakaraTomy. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Bug Bite | Volkswagen Beetle | Bug Bite was once a member of a "lost" group of GoBots that dwelled beneath Gobotron's surface, but joined up with Cy-Kill when his leader Gunnyr was deposed. The brilliant but amoral Bug Bite was one of a team of GoBots sent across the dimensions to investigate the origins of a mysterious Cataclysm that threatened to destroy their universe, but once free of his faction leader's supervision, he made a power play and tried mind-controlling Decepticons to overthrow the local Megatron. | One the "G1 GoBots" released by TakaraTomy. Later had an exclusive BotCon 2007 figure. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| BuggyMan | Meyer Manx dune buggy (original) Generic dune buggy (disguise) |
Cy-Kill considers him a competent officer with good judgement and an appropriate level of initiative (and someone who can utilize Clutch's obsessive personality), and often leaves him in charge of Thrusters. Among his escapades includes abducting Anya Turgenova so the Renegades could make their own Space Hawks. In some timelines, he likes to call himself "the Buggyman" and pretend to be a creepy nutjob with a bug obsession because that means you'll underestimate him... | His Cybertronian-style body in Spatiotemporal Challengers is a prototype red version of Beachcomber. | Cartoon profile Toy review BuggyMan profile at Counter-X.net |
| Doctor Go | Porsche 928S | The Renegades' resident mad scientist. Also known as "Herr Fiend". Many a wacky scheme can be attributed to his work, and he's also a talented doctor who doesn't need to turn into an ambulance to show it, unlike some people. When the Cataclysm threatened reality, it was Go/Fiend/Gofiend's science that allowed the GoBots to send a team into interdimensional space to investigate. | "Herr Fiend" was the name of his toy; "Doctor Go" was the name he was given in the GoBots cartoon. A version of Herr Fiend lives at Axiom Nexus. |
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| Puzzler | Combiner | Cy-Kill was fed up of Courageous so he made his own combiner! But his would have stylish components! Puzzler is formed by the merging of Zig Zag the blue Nissan 300ZX, Crossword the orange Porsche 930T, Pocket the yellow Lamborghini Countach, Rube the black Mercedes 300SL, Jigsaw the Toyota Celica XX police car, and Tic Tac the red Chevrolet Corvette. Usually, these are mindless drones but the Puzzler of Gargent 1184.10 Gamma is made of living GoBots fused permanently by Bio Ranger Iga so the horror could serve as one of his Thirteen Great Demon Generals. After his trip to Axiom Nexus, Cy-Kill returned home with six stolen sparks and out them in the Puzzler drones, bringing the 'bot to full life. | Axiom Nexus demands the authorities do something about the missing sparks via the #savethesix campaign. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Stretch | TUX model mega-limo/Rolls-Royce Phantom VI | Originally a Decepticon from the Malgus Cluster, Stretch was a TUX model mega-limo belonging to Porter C. Powell who was brought to life by an AllSpark fragment. Vain and status-obsessed, Stretch nearly bankrupted Powell until his former owner called upon rival Isaac Sumdac to use a space bridge to banish him across the dimensions. Arriving in the Gargent Cluster, Stretch was recruited to the Renegades by Loco. | "Tux" was the name his toy was released under; he was named "Stretch" in the GoBots cartoon. Animated featured a limousine based on his toy, which was brought to life in The AllSpark Almanac and sent into the GoBots dimension to actually become the GoBots character. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Zero | Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen | A powerful Renegade who clashed with Cy-Kill back when the murderous motorcycle was still a Guardian. Years later, when Cy-Kill had taken leadership of the Renegades, Zero, jealous of his authority, staged an attempted coup with the help of a few other disgruntled Renegades. The coup failed, and while his followers returned to Cy-Kill's side, Zero was forced into hiding. He later ran into the Master Renegade and the pair teamed up to conquer Gobotron with a matter-eating super-algae. Fighting between the pair led the Master Renegade to betray Zero, and his schemes were undone. | Zero's treachery was the subject of only one episode of the GoBots cartoon, but it was a memorable enough tale that it set the tone for his return appearances in "Renegade Rhetoric" and Timelines. An Animated incarnation of Zero also exists who may or may not be the GoBot, displaced from his home reality. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Blades | Mil Mi-24 'Hind' helicopter gunship | A stoic, fatalistic Renegade. He once cosplayed as Inuyasha to help Cy-Kill infiltrate a science fiction convention. | Toy was released under the name "Night Fright." "Renegade Rhetoric" retroactively justified this discontinuity by having Cy-Kill note that Blades would have to change his name after Bladez joined the Renegades. The Cybertronix in the story "Cultural Appropriation" indicate that Blades had escaped to Level 44 due to the Cataclysm. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Block Head | Cement Mixer | About as bright as his name suggests. His unquestioning willingness to follow orders and his ability to take a hit make him valuable to Cy-Kill. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Breez | Twin-blade helicopter | Anger management issues. Member of the Instigation Mini-Con Team, a trio of Aurex Cluster Mini-Cons encountered by Cy-Kill during his time in Axiom Nexus. Tired of being treated like second-class citizens by the larger Transformers, they decided to become Renegades and returned to Cy-Kill's home dimension with him when he departed. | Originally a fast-food promotional toy available at Wendy's. He did not appear in the GoBots cartoon, and his new origin was created for "Renegade Rhetoric". | Toy review |
| Chaos | Grumman X-29 experimental aircraft and launching platform | One of the Dread Launchers, able to split into two alternate forms simultaneously. They infiltrated the Guardian Academy to capture Zeemon, but were found out by their Guardian opposite numbers, the Secret Riders. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Clutch | Chevrolet pickup truck | Obsessive former Decepticon encountered by Cy-Kill during his time in Axiom Nexus, who he recruited to the Renegade side and brought with him when he returned to his home dimension. Cy-Kill considered partnering him with Buggyman. | Though he had a toy on shelves while the show was on air, Clutch did not appear in the GoBots cartoon. His new origin was created for "Renegade Rhetoric". | Toy review |
| Crain Brain | Unic K-200B crane | Often partnered with Vain Train, because of course he is. | In "Echoes and Fragments", Crain Brain was reformatted by Unicron into one of Deadlift's huntsmen, the Sweeps. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Decker Decker | Mitsubishi Fuso Aero King double-decker bus | Part of a Guardian expedition that left Gobotron in the distant past, Decker Decker resented his ship's captain Hi-Way. Upon their return to Gobotron in the present day, Cy-Kill used mind-control to exacerbate Hi-Way's worst qualities, thereby convincing Decker Decker to join the Renegades. | Decker Decker is an original character created for "Renegade Rhetoric", based on a Machine Robo toy that never made it into the GoBots toyline. | Toy review |
| Destroyer | Leopard 2A4 tank | An unimaginative but persistent and dependable Renegade, according to Cy-Kill. He's one of the few guys who'll work with Zods. Destroyer's big claim to fame is defeating Defendor in ritual combat when both sides got abducted by a fight-mad supercomputer, Guerr-O-Vac. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Fitor | GoBotic space fighter | Cy-Kill's loyal second-in-command, who defected from the Guardians at the same time as he did. One of the best aerial fighters among the GoBots. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Fly Trap | Garbage truck | A smelly Renegade who Cy-Kill considers a good example of how varied GoBot alternate modes are in comparison to those of the Transformers. While controlling a Power Suit, he forms part of the Renegade combiner Grungy. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Geeper-Creeper | Mitsubushi Jeep | He's got an awesome name! In Gargent 087.0 Kappa, he was one of Cy-Kill's top guys but in another reality, he was seduced by Zero and defected. (He came crawling back) During Cy-Kill's run for President of the United States, Geeper-Creeper made a disastrous campaign visit to Fort Bragg. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Gunnyr | MiG-21 "Fishbed" fighter | Once "Lord High GoBot" of Level 17, an area deep within Gobotron. Imprisoned after being overthrown by the Guardians, he was recruited by Cy-Kill to replace the traitorous Zero, along with his underling Bug Bite. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Loco | JNR D-51 train | One of the short-term turncoats who join with the Master Renegade to form Grungy. Fond of Westerns. Once battled the Guardians for control of the Fountain of Youth. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Pistol | Explosive shell gun | One of the RoGuns, converting hand-held weapons invented by Doctor Go. Initially partnered with Crasher, Pistol and the other RoGuns rebelled against the Renegades, and with the help of the Guardians, struck out on their own. | Pistol had a toy, but did not make it into the GoBots cartoon. He only appears in "Renegade Rhetoric". The Cybertronix in the story "Cultural Appropriation" indicate that Pistol and the other RoGuns escaped to Level 44 due to the Cataclysm. | |
| Pow-Wow | Camper | Utterly fearless member of the Instigation Mini-Con Team, a trio of Aurex Cluster Mini-Cons encountered by Cy-Kill during his time in Axiom Nexus. Tired of being treated like second-class citizens by the larger Transformers, they decided to become Renegades and returned to Cy-Kill's home dimension with him when he departed. | Originally a fast-food promotional toy available at Wendy's. He did not appear in the GoBots cartoon, and his new origin was created for "Renegade Rhetoric". | Toy review |
| Psycho | GoBotic Psychoroid car | Given his name, it's no surprise this GoBot wound up a Renegade. Quite technically talented, to the extent Cy-Kill won't risk him as a racer (which he could easily be). Psycho's not a bad actor either; nobody expected that but when Crasher refused to play Ruth in Pirates of Penzance, Psycho performed admirably. | The "Psychoroid" was a futuristic car briefly used by the protagonist of the Space Adventure Cobra anime. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Rifle | Heat beam gun | Leader of the RoGuns, converting hand-held weapons invented by Doctor Go. Initially partnered with Cy-Kill, Rifle and the other RoGuns rebelled against the Renegades, and with the help of the Guardians, struck out on their own. | Rifle had a toy, but did not make it into the GoBots cartoon. He only appears in "Renegade Rhetoric." The Cybertronix in the story "Cultural Appropriation" indicate that Rifle and the other RoGuns escaped to Level 44 due to the Cataclysm. | |
| Re-Volt | Mechanical hawk and launching platform | One of the Dread Launchers, able to split into two alternate forms simultaneously. They infiltrated the Guardian Academy to capture Zeemon, but were found out by their Guardian opposite numbers, the Secret Riders. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Screw Head | GoBotic drill tank | One of the traitors who helped the Master Renegade form Grungy. Once uncovered an underground race of mole people while drilling. As you do. | In "Echoes and Fragments", Screw Head was reformatted by Unicron into one of Deadlift's huntsmen, the Sweeps. The Cybertronix in the story "Cultural Appropriation" indicate that Screw Head had escaped to Level 44 due to the Cataclysm. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Slicks | Renault RE30 F1 car | Opportunist. And if Cy-Kill thinks you're an opportunist, damn, son. That's probably why Slicks was sent to gather signatures at the Indianapolis racing circuit when Cy-Kill ran for President! Slicks was also one of the GoBots abducted by the ancient Guerr-O-Vac supercomputer and forced to fight in the Arena of Strife; he defeated Van Guard with speed and cunning. | In "Echoes and Fragments", Slicks became Fracture's "armada", based on the white Crasher toy's color scheme. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Sky-Jack | F-14 Tomcat jet fighter | Also called "Spike" in the GoBots cartoon. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Snoop | Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird | Super-sneaky Renegade who once operated undercover within the Guardian ranks. She is so quiet that she can convert from one mode to another without making a sound. | Snoop appeared in the GoBots cartoon despite her toy not being released in the United States. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Spoiler | Lamborghini Countach 500LPS | Boundlessly enthusiastic. He and Stallion raced alongside Crasher in the Alienapolis Five Million, and he was one of four Renegades who temporarily turned against Cy-Kill to form the combiner Grungry with the Master Renegade. | The Cybertronix in the story "Cultural Appropriation" indicate that Spoiler had escaped to Level 44 due to the Cataclysm. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Spoons | Forklift truck | Another of Cy-Kill's shining examples of the fact that GoBots have more variance of alternate mode than Transformers. | Spoons was the inspiration for Deadlift of the live-action movie toy line. In "the 'amalgam' universe", Spoons was transformed by Unicron into a version of Deadlift himself. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Squirt | Liquid chemical gun | One of the RoGuns, converting hand-held weapons invented by Doctor Go. Initially partnered with Cop-Tur, Squirt and the other RoGuns rebelled against the Renegades, and with the help of the Guardians, struck out on their own. | Squirt had a toy, but did not make it into the GoBots cartoon. He only appears in "Renegade Rhetoric". The Cybertronix in the story "Cultural Appropriation" indicate that Squirt and the other RoGuns escaped to Level 44 due to the Cataclysm. | |
| Stallion | Ford Mustang | Has a fiercely independent streak, even by Renegade standards. Often partnered with Stinger by Cy-Kill, due to the healthy rivalry between the two. He raced alongside Crasher and Spoiler in the Alienapolis Five Million, which the Renegades were disqualified from for cheating. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Steamer | Steam roller | A Renegade who abandoned the cause due to what Cy-Kill termed a "weakness of spirit", which means he didn't want to kill a prisoner. Now he's a Guardian! | Steamer was a rare example of an original GoBot character created for the GoBots cartoon, who didn't have a toy. | Cartoon profile |
| Stinger | Chevrolet Stingray | A thug often partnered with Stallion due to the healthy rivalry between the pair. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Tank | GoBotic Pulverizer Mark VII tank | Slow and bad at names, but he has almost impenetrable armor and incredible firepower. In Strata 22, Tank was one of Cy-Kill's elite lieutenants and was part of a plan to recruit the Autobot Spy Changers; this backfired and the Renegades lost. In the main universe, he once guarded a captive Anya Turgenova but was unprepared for a stealth rescue. | The Cybertronix in the story "Cultural Appropriation" indicate that Tank had escaped to Level 44 due to the Cataclysm. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Traitor | Mechanical fly and launching platform | One of the Dread Launchers, able to split into two alternate forms simultaneously. They infiltrated the Guardian Academy to capture Zeemon, but were found out by their Guardian opposite numbers, the Secret Riders. | Cartoon profile | |
| Twin Spin | Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight tandem rotor helicopter. | Twin Spin was one of the Renegades that defected to Zero and then came crawling back to Cy-Kill. More importantly, he played the Police Sergeant in the Renegade production of Pirates of Penzance. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Vain Train | 200 Series Shinkansen | Vain Train was part of a Guardian expedition that left Gobotron in the distant past. When they returned to Gobotron in the present day, Cy-Kill mind-controlled Vain Train's brother Bullet and aggravated Vain Train enough that he abandoned the Guardians and sided with the Renegades. | Vain Train is an original character created for "Renegade Rhetoric", based on a Machine Robo toy that never made it into the GoBots toyline. His sibling rivalry is a nod to the Trainbots Shouki and Yukikaze, with Vain Train as the latter. | Toy review |
| Warpath | AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship | Belligerent former Decepticon encountered by Cy-Kill during his time in Axiom Nexus, who he recruited to the Renegade side and brought with him when he returned to his home dimension. Cy-Kill thought he and Blades / Night Fright would get along famously. | Though he had a toy on shelves while the show was on air, Warpath did not appear in the GoBots cartoon. His new origin was created for "Renegade Rhetoric." The Cybertronix in the story "Cultural Appropriation" indicate that Warpath had escaped to Level 44 due to the Cataclysm. | Toy review |
| Water Walk | Cessna sea plane | Water Walk has been in many escapades like Cy-Kill's run for president, but his biggest one was helping to steal the communications moon of Gobotron! Unfortunately Leader-1 was on the moon and Water Walk was pushed into a communications laser beam at close range and fried. | Cy-Kill cites him as an example of how GoBots have more varied alt modes than Transformers. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
The Monster GoBots are (mostly) creations of the Master Renegade. They are loosely aligned with the Renegades and often come from Antares III. In an 'amalgam' reality, most took the place of Quintesson minions. Many of them seem to have found their way to the Primax 209.0 Gamma after the Cataclysm, where some have been spotted making dirty deals. Trust them at your peril!
| Name | Alternate mode | Profile | Other notes | External links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bladez | Winged crab-vehicle | One of the Monster GoBots created by the Master Renegade as an agent provocateur who infiltrated the Guardian Council and nearly caused the downfall of both the Guardians and Renegades. Wonder if he's related to that monstrous looking guy Bladez from Primax 209.0 Gamma? | Bladez was a GoBots toy that was released too late to appear in the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon. He appears only in stories from "Renegade Rhetoric." | Toy review |
| Bugsie | Monstrous wheeled vehicle | One of the Monster GoBots created by the Master Renegade. Active during the early conflict between the Guardians and Renegades but abandoned the war after Cy-Kill took command, and set out to find their lost creator. | Appeared only briefly in the GoBots cartoon and film. "Renegade Rhetoric" created a retroactive explanation for the cartoon's erroneous depiction of him as an early Renegade. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Creepy | Monstrous crab-vehicle | Creepy is just that. One of the Monster GoBots, created by the Master Renegade to guard his hideout on Antares III. He continued to work for the Master, even as Cy-Kill tried to win him over. In the brief 'amalgam' universe, he and his fellows put Hot Rod and Kup through a sham trial before throwing them to the |
Only appeared in one episode of the GoBots cartoon; implied to be the same Creepy as the one who appeared in Beast Wars: Uprising. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Hornet | Monstrous "flying tank" | Active during the early conflict between the Guardians and Renegades but abandoned the war after Cy-Kill took command, and set out to find their lost creator. | Appeared only briefly in the GoBots cartoon and film. "Renegade Rhetoric" created a retroactive explanation for the cartoon's erroneous depiction of him as an early Renegade. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Klaws | Monstrous hovercraft | Active during the early conflict between the Guardians and Renegades but abandoned the war after Cy-Kill took command, and set out to find their lost creator. | Appeared only briefly in the GoBots cartoon and film. "Renegade Rhetoric" created a retroactive explanation for the cartoon's erroneous depiction of him as an early Renegade. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
| Monsterous | Combiner | The first Monsterous was a Uniend Predacon combiner, formed of the bestial Fangs, Gore Jaw, Heart Attack, South Claw, Weird Wing, and leader Fright Face. They became stranded in Axiom Nexus and made a name for themselves as ruffians in the lawless Heap. Encountering Cy-Kill, Clutch, and Warpath, they briefly did battle, until Cy-Kill proposed an alternative: he would battle their leader, and the winner would submit themselves to the loser. Cy-Kill triumphed, and the gang all joined him as Renegades, proving such faithful adherents that Cy-Kill gave them the ability to combine into Monsterous. After helping him tear through Axiom Nexus' security, they returned with him to his home reality and would eventually lead to the Combiner Wars on Quartex! A second Monsterous (or so it was indicated) committed a murderous robbery of the Forever Vaults in Primax 209.0 Gamma, as part of a Renegade deal with the local Maximal-Predacon Resistance. This one was formed of Gobotronian Monster GoBots. |
Monsterous's toy released too late to appear in the GoBots cartoon. His new origin was created for "Renegade Rhetoric." | Toy review |
| Odd Ball | Monster jet | Unpredictable member of the Instigation Mini-Con Team, a trio of Aurex Cluster Mini-Cons encountered by Cy-Kill during his time in Axiom Nexus. Tired of being treated like second-class citizens by the larger Transformers, they decided to become Renegades and returned to Cy-Kill's home dimension with him when he departed. Has fallen in with the Monster GoBots due to his alt mode. In the Amalgam reality, he menaced Hot Rod under the ammonia seas of Antares III. | Originally a fast-food promotional toy available at Wendy's. He did not appear in the GoBots cartoon, and his new origin was created for "Renegade Rhetoric." | Toy review |
| Pincher | Monstrous flying vehicle | One of the Monster GoBots, but this one was created by Doctor Go to serve as an ambassador who would bring Scorp and Vamp over to the Renegade side. Cy-Kill worried the other Monsters would be bad influences. In the brief 'amalgam' universe, he and his fellows put Hot Rod and Kup through a sham trial before throwing them to the |
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| Scorp | Scorpion-tank | One of the Monster GoBots created by the Master Renegade, created to guard his resting place on Antares III alongside Vamp. In the brief 'amalgam' universe, he and his fellows put Hot Rod and Kup through a sham trial before sentencing them to death. A guy very much like Scorp, called Scorp, hanging with other guys named like Monster GoBots, just happens to be scorping around in the Uprising world. | Cartoon profile Toy review | |
| Vamp | Monstrous car | One of the Monster GoBots created by the Master Renegade, created to guard his resting place on Antares III alongside Scorp. She defected to Cy-Kill's side but he worries she's a-plotting to form a Monster GoBot faction in his faction. | A version of Vamp appears in Beast Wars: Uprising. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
Renegade superweapons and beasts
| Name | Alternate mode | Profile | Other notes | External links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dactyl | n/a | A pterodactyl-like beast, the newest creation of the Master Renegade. When Gong and Sideways briefly mashed the worlds of the Transformers and GoBots together, the Dactyls (a mass body-type instead of an individual) took the place of the Sharkticons in the events of The Transformers: The Movie. |
The Dactyl was an unreleased non-transforming motorized GoBots toy. | |
| Grungy | Combiner | Fed up of losing to the Guardian combiner Courageous, Cy-Kill had the Master Renegade build a ripoff of it! Grungy is not a living GoBot himself, but rather the combined form of a central ship and four Power Suits, piloted by the Master Renegade and four Renegades who briefly turned against Cy-Kill, Loco, Fly Trap, Screw Head, and Spoiler. In the end, Loco and the Master's arguments over who should be running the combiner caused it to fail, and the Guardians derisively called it "Grungy", but Cy-Kill kept working on the thing... leading in the end to the Combiner Wars! | Grungy was a GoBots toy that was released too late to appear in the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon. It appears only in stories from "Renegade Rhetoric." He is indeed an 'evil' repaint of Courageous. | Toy review |
| Nemesis | n/a | The near-success of Grungy made Cy-Kill order "Project: Nemesis" started. The end result was a combiner created by Doctor Go, reverse-engineering Grungy. Like its template, Nemesis is not a living GoBot himself, but rather the combined form of a central tank and four Power Suits. Unveiled in the Combiner Wars on Quartex as Cy-Kill's trump card on an episode cliffhanger! | Nemesis was an unreleased GoBots toy, given life by "Renegade Rhetoric". | STA: GoBots: Nemesis |
| Scales | F-1 race car | A savage, animal-like Renegade. An early prototype created during the development of Zod. | Cartoon profile | |
| Zod | n/a | A bestial, nigh-invulnerable creature that only Cy-Kill can control, Zod is considered by the Renegade leader to be more than a match for the Decepticons' Trypticon. In one of his earliest attempts to conquer Gobotron, Cy-Kill used the hypnotised populace of Earth to mass-produce a fleet of Zods to attack the planet. Once became temporarily super-intelligent and tried to overthrow Cy-Kill as leader of the Renegades before being returned to normal. | Galvatron commanded an army of Zods in universal stream Primax 185.0 Beta. | Cartoon profile Toy review |
Demigod Renegades
| Name | Alternate mode | Profile | Other notes | External links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Evil One | Unknown | An ancient GoBot who once nearly destroyed Gobotron with the Dark Heart. Wound up trapped beneath the Nazca Lines on Earth. | An original character created for the GoBots cartoon. "Ask Vector Prime" retconned him into being a Gargent Cluster incarnation of The Fallen. | |
| Gong | Watch | A time-and-space travelling Renegade mischief-maker who is archrivals with the Guardian temporal enforcer Tic Toc and has battled Vector Prime multiple times. His power to transcend dimensions allowed him to rescue Cy-Kill from his exile in Axiom Nexus. He and Sideways once had some fun by mashing the events of The Transformers: The Movie with the GoBots, and poor, duped Gong thought he'd found a friend, unaware Sideways was manipulating him in the hope of causing omnicide. | He appears only in stories from "Renegade Rhetoric". His status as a super-powerful time guy follows on from the Kronoform watches being turned into time/space travellers. | Toy |
Drones
| Name | Alternate mode | Profile | Other notes | External links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blast | Wheeled ground vehicle | The Renegades' model of automated Boomer drone. It has more firepower but less durability than the Guardians' Rumble model. | Toy | |
| Quick-Step | Watch | The Renegades' model of Power Marcher. It can match the Blasts in speed and exceeds the Blasts in power. | Toy |
Allies
Humanoid
- Master Renegade
The ancient GoBeing leader of the Renegades, who founded the faction to overthrow the Guardians. He almost succeeded when he arranged for an asteroid to collide with the planet, but the Guardians' Last Engineer saved the population by creating the GoBot form, allowing GoBeings to survive the devastation by becoming cyborgs. The Master Renegade went into hiding on Antares III, entering suspended animation. He was revived in the present day, and has allied with Cy-Kill almost as many times as he has worked against and double-crossed him in their various attempts to conquer Gobotron.
- Zebediah Braxis
A human scientist who formerly worked for UNECOM, he allied himself with Cy-Kill when the Renegades originally arrived on Earth. Brilliant but unstable, Braxis fluctuates between being cooly sinister and scheming and a gibbering, genuflecting coward who has put his skills to work aiding Cy-Kill in numerous schemes, though his keenly-honed sense of self-preservation sometimes leads these alliances to break down.
Notes
- The Axiom Nexus crew are all GoBots toys that never made it to the show. The "Mini-Cons" (who Cy-Kill says come from "Aurex something something I think") are small Wendy's exclusives, the "Decepticons" are large Super GoBots toys, and the Predacons who form Monsterous are a combiner pack.
