Nitro Zeus

This article is about the movieverse Decepticon jet. For the alien cat, see Nitro (G1).

Nitro is a Decepticon from The Last Knight portion of the live-action film series continuity family.

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I didn't make the cut for Pacific Rim.

Nitro Zeus is a powerful, merciless hunter, using his vast arsenal and formidable tracking skills to locate and capture whatever targets Megatron demands. Shockwave's death on Earth greatly angered him, and now both humanity and the Autobots are in Nitro's sights.

Unlike Shockwave, who is a hunter and assassin, Nitro is more of a stalker. Even off the battlefield, Nitro makes it his business to know everything he can about where you live and who you associate with, just in case. Ever since Nitro was taken prisoner by humans, he's been passing the time by tracking his captors' families. Fortunately, Nitro is such a braggart that he'll share all his intel before he gets a chance to use it.

Nitro thinks that he's some sort of celebrity among the humans. After all, if they expend so much effort to keep him in his cell, he must be a big deal! As a result, Nitro's taken to wearing a gold chain around his neck, because that's what human celebrities see to do!

Fiction

The Last Knight film

Voice actor: John DiMaggio (English)

The Last Knight

Toys

The Last Knight

• Decepticon Nitro (Voyager Class, 2017)
  • Accessories: ???

Part of the Premier Edition Voyager Class assortment, The Last Knight Nitro transforms from robot into a fighter jet. His head attaches using a standard Titan Master socket, albeit not a Titan Master, allowing it to be removed and replaced with any Titan Master, including The Last Knight Cogman. While Nitro has a an identical head to Shockwave in the film, this toy uses a similar, but distinct head sculpt.

No, he does not come with a gold chain.

Notes

• Nitro Zeus's model is reused from Age of Extinction's KSI Boss robots, with Shockwave's head switched in. His packaging art erroneously sports the KSI Boss's original head.
• He's named after Nitro Zeus, the code-name for a shelved cyberattack plan against Iran, which was presumably shortened to just "Nitro" by Hasbro for trademark and/or marketing reasons.